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Vet arrested in airport shooting
Deaths Ben Lewis Page, Sr.
Celebration of Life Services for Ben Lewis Page, Sr., 76, will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7 at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in the New Hope Church of Christ Cemetery. Ben was born on July 1, 1940, in Corinth to the late W.L. and Sadie Harville Page. He died Jan. 5, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice in Tupelo. Mr. Page enjoyed spending time with his friends; family, attending church, visiting with his friends at rehab, and having quality time Page with his pride and joy his granddaughter Jenna. He was a member of Foote St. Church of Christ and retired supervisor for Hall Printing Co. He is survived by wife, Readith Page; son, Ben Page Jr.; sister, Faye McAlpin (Wayne); granddaughter, Jenna Page (Zach); niece, Page Brown (Rob) and nephew, Dr. B. Wayne McAlpin (Brenda); great nephew, Tucker Brown; and best friend and cousin, Wade Harville (Cindy). Pallbearers are Zach Hardwick, John Underwood, Dr.B. Wayne McAlpin, Tim Chapman, David Essary, David Tweedle and Dale Jones. Visitation will be held until service time on Saturday. Online condolences may be left at www.memorialcorinth.com
David Demattio
David Demattio died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at his residence. Arrangements are pending with McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors.
Sammy Mathis
Funeral services for Sammy Mathis, 60, of Walnut are set for 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, at Magnolia Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Mr. Mathis died Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.
BY DAVID FISCHER Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An arriving airline passenger with a gun in his checked luggage opened fire in the baggage claim area at the Fort Lauderdale airport Friday, killing five people and wounding eight before throwing his weapon down and lying spread-eagle on the ground, authorities and witnesses said. The gunman — identified by authorities as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, an Army National Guard veteran who served in Iraq but was discharged last year for unsatisfactory performance — was immediately taken into custody. His brother said he had been receiving psychological treatment recently. One witness said the gunman apparently opened fire without a word and kept shooting until he ran out of ammunition, sending panicked travelers running out of the terminal and spilling onto the tarmac, baggage in hand. Others crouched behind cars or anything else they could find to shield
Funeral services for Ruth Sharp, 95, are set for 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan.9 at First Presbyterian Church with burial in the Henry Cemetery. She died Jan. 5, 2017, at her residence. The family will receive friends from 12 p.m. until service time at First Presbyterian Church. McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
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WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hidden campaign to influence America’s presidential election in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies declared Friday in the government’s first formal allegation supporting sensational claims that Trump and his supporters have staunchly resisted. The intelligence report,
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a hard-sided container. Guns must be declared to the airline at check-in. Chip LaMarca, a Broward County commissioner who was briefed on the attack by the sheriff’s office, said the shooter had arrived aboard a Canadian flight with a gun in a checked bag. “After he claimed his bag, he went into the bathroom and loaded the gun and started shooting. We don’t know why,” LaMarca said. However, the Canadian Embassy said the suspect did not arrive from Canada and was not on an Air Canada flight, but instead appeared to have flown from Anchorage, Alaska, where Santiago lived. The attack took place at Terminal 2, which serves Delta Air Lines and Air Canada. The attack exposed another weak point in airport security. While travelers have to take off their shoes, put their carry-on luggage through X-ray machines and pass through metal detectors and full-body scanners to reach the gates, many sections of airports are more lightly secured and more vulnerable to attack.
In the Fort Lauderdale attack, Lea said the gunman said nothing as he “went up and down the carousels of the baggage claim, shooting through luggage to get at people that were hiding.” The killer had a handgun and went through about three magazines before running out of ammunition, Lea said. “He threw the gun down and laid spreadeagle on the ground until the officer came up to him,” Lea said. Sheriff Scott Israel said five people were killed and eight were wounded. Their condition was not disclosed. He said the gunman was arrested unharmed, with no law enforcement officers firing any shots, and was being questioned by the FBI. The airport suspended operations as law enforcement authorities rushed to the scene and emergency medical workers treated the bleeding victims. Fort Lauderdalebound flights already in the air were delayed or diverted, and those that had yet to take off from the airport were held on the ground.
Report: Putin ordered effort to help Trump Associated Press
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themselves as police and paramedics rushed in to help the wounded and establish whether there were any other attackers. The entire airport was shut down. “People started kind of screaming and trying to get out of any door they could or hide under the chairs,” a witness, Mark Lea, told MSNBC. “He just kind of continued coming in, just randomly shooting at people, no rhyme or reason to it.” Authorities said the motive was under investigation. “This could well be someone who is mentally deranged, or in fact it could be someone who had a much more sinister motive that we have to worry about every day, and that is terrorism,” said Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida. “We can’t conclude that.” President Barack Obama was briefed by his Homeland Security adviser, the White House said. It is legal for airline passengers to travel with guns and ammunition as long as the firearms are put in a checked bag — not a carry-on — and are unloaded and locked in
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an unclassified version of a more-detailed classified account given earlier to Trump, the White House and congressional leaders, withheld any evidence to back up its assertions. The president-elect said after his own meeting with the nation’s top intelligence officials that it was clear Russian email hacking did not deliver him the presidency. The unclassified version was the most detailed public account to date of Russian efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process, with actions that included hacking into the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and individual Democrats like Hillary Clinton’s campaign
chairman John Podesta. Russia also used statefunded propaganda and paid “trolls” to make nasty comments on social media services, the report said. There was no suggestion that Russia affected actual vote counting or tampered with ballot machines. The report, for the first time, explicitly tied Putin to the hackings, called it the “boldest effort yet” to influence a U.S. election, and said the Russian government provided emails to WikiLeaks — something the website’s founder, Julian Assange, has repeatedly denied. The intelligence agencies also said Russia will continue to try to influence future events in the U.S. and worldwide, particularly
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among U.S. allies. Since Election Day, the intelligence agencies said, Russia has launched a “spear-fishing” campaign to try to trick people into revealing their email passwords, targeting U.S. government employees and think tanks that specialize in national security, defense and foreign policy. The report lacked details about how the U.S. learned what it said it knows, such as any intercepted conversations or electronic messages among Russian leaders, including Putin, or about specific hacker techniques or digital tools the U.S. may have traced back to Russia in its investigations.
Republicans have Trump’s back on U.S. intelligence Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was among those piling on when President Barack Obama came under fire several years ago for reading some of his daily intelligence briefings, rather than receiving them in-person. “I have a hard time comprehending that, because the primary job of the commander in chief is to keep the country safe ...,” Ryan said in a 2014 interview on Fox News. As President-elect Donald Trump refuses daily intelligence briefings, questions U.S. spy agency conclusions about Russia interfering in the 2016 presidential election, praises Russian President Vladimir Putin and appears to side with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ryan and other Republicans have Trump’s back. They’re siding with the new leader of their party, even when he makes comments or takes stances that would seem anathema to the GOP. It’s a remarkable turnabout for a political party that cheered President Ronald Reagan’s hardline stance against the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union, unfailingly supports the military and joined with European allies in blistering Putin after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.