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Local jobless rate near state’s lowest

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Alcorn County unemployment hit 6.5 percent in January, placing the county in the state’s top 10 for the month.

The rate compares to 6.2 percent in December, 7 percent

a year ago and 9.9 percent in January 2013. Mississippi’s unadjusted rate for the month was 7.8 percent, while the U.S. rate was 6.1 percent in unadjusted figures, down from 7 percent in January.

The Mississippi Department

of Employment Security used revised methods in calculating the January figures, which are not strictly comparable to prior years. Prior year figures are currently being revised with the new methodology.

Alcorn County had 81 ini-

tial claims for unemployment insurance during the month, compared to 88 a year earlier.

Continued claims numbered 476, compared to 711 a year earlier. Benefits paid in Alcorn County during the month totaled $70,529, compared to

$110,908 a year earlier.

The county had 14,330 employed and 1,000 unemployed during the month.

Alcorn County ranked 10th among the state’s 82 counties.

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Group honors Williams Teenager’s legacy for dedication to history lives on through

memorial program

BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com

Presented with the Dubar Rowland Award by the Mississippi Historical Society during their annual meeting, Rosemary Taylor Williams of Corinth was honored for her lifelong contributions to the preservation, study and interpretation of Mississippi history.

The prestigious award memorializes Dunbar Rowland, the first director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

As chair of the Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission since 1993, Williams has served as the community coordinator with the National Park Service and blazed the trail in establishing and funding the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center – a unit of Shiloh National Military Park.

Her preservation work has included the restoration of the historic Oak Home, the Coliseum Civic Center in downtown Corinth, other historic buildings and the Civil War Contraband Camp of which she played a key role.

For eight years, she served on the Civil War Trust board of Please see HISTORY | 2A

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Rosemary Taylor Williams of Corinth received the Dunbar Rowland Prize from Anne Webster, chairwoman of the MHS Awards Committee.

MICHIE, Tenn. — Carson Herrin was a kid with a big heart who loved sports.

The 13-year-old Michie Elementary School student is making an impact in both even after passing away after an ATV accident in late July.

“Sports were everything to him,” said Carson’s father, Kevin as he looked for ways to honor his son.

Kevin Herrin formed the Carson Herrin Athletic Memorial Program (CHAMP) as a way for his son to be remembered. Thus far, just over $30,000 has been raised for CHAMP. “I was trying to do something positive in the situation,” said Kevin. “I didn’t know what we would use the money for.”

Michie coach Michael Cleary came up with the idea for a football field house for the Blue Devils.

“Once the weather breaks, we will start taking bids,” said Herrin.

The field house will bear the name of Carson Herrin.

Carson’s impact doesn’t end there. While participating in the junior pro football league in Adamsville, Carson felt compelled to donate his old cleats to kids who didn’t have any of their own.

Kevin Herrin is set to carry on his son’s goal.

“I noticed while coaching Carson’s team that some of the equipment wasn’t in good shape,” said Kevin. “I want to be able to replace all of the football equipment at the junior pro level.”

Herrin plans to get with the organizers of Tennessee leagues in McNairy and Hardin counties along with Alcorn County officials to see what is needed.

“I want to take care of our local community first,” he said.

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Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Bowler throws first perfect game

BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Collin Dildy had been in the position before.

This time as he stared down 10 pins from 60 feet away, all he was thinking about was hitting his mark.

The 25-year-old Plaza Lanes employee did just that in bagging his his first perfect game.

“It was on my mind a little bit,” said Dildy, who had rolled a 298 two weeks before reaching bowling perfection on March 9. “The

whole bowling alley had stopped to watch.”

Dildy wasn’t about to let another 300 game slip away as he prepared to roll his 12th strike.

“The last time someone was talking to me,” he said.

“This time, I was concentrating on making the shot.”

Perfection isn’t as simple as just throwing a ball down the lane, according to veteran bowler and Plaza Lanes owner David Curry.

“People throw six or seven strikes and they start think-

Collin Dildy joined an illustrious group when he bowled a perfect game at Plaza Lanes.

ing 300,” said Curry. “You don’t come to the bowling alley thinking about a 300 game … it takes 12 really good balls.”

And some breaks.

“It takes a little luck,” added Dildy with a smile.

Dildy, who was bowling in the Monday Night Major League with Wendy’s Baconators teammates Ronnie Smith, Bill Howell and Curry, had to sweat it out around 15 minutes in bePlease see BOWLER | 3A

25 years ago

On this day in history 150 years ago

Terry, Betty and Chris Webb celebrate the opening of Webb’s Seafood Market on Tate Street. The business features the slogan, “Make Webb’s Fish Your Favorite Dish.”

As the war enters its final phase, Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard is assigned second-in-command of Confederate troops in North Carolina. The command structure again places him under Joseph E. Johnston, like in the early days of the war.

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Thomas E. Parson accepted his 2015 Award of Merit from Anne Webster, above.

Jeffery Huff, representing the Alcorn County Genealogical Society, accepted a 2015 Award of Merit from Anne Webster, right.

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directors – a national organization that has paved the way in protecting and preserving Civil War battle fields.

She served on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s board of trustees for twenty years.

In addition to the Dunbar Rowland award, Williams, as chair accepted an Award of Merit along with other members and supporters of the Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission.

The commission was honored for its outstanding efforts in the preservation and interpretation of Civil War sites in Corinth and Alcorn County and its invaluable relationship with the National Park Service.

Awards of Merit were also given to two other Alcorn County citizens and organizations.

Thomas E. Parson and Jeffery Huff also accepted awards during

Rosemary Williams, chairwoman, and other members and supporters of the Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission accepted the award from Anne Webster. Also pictures are Dr. Bill Jackson, Larry Mangus, Anne Thompson and Sandy Williams. the meeting which took place Thursday, March 5 through Saturday, March

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interpretation of the Civil War battles of Shiloh, Corinth and Tupelo, Thomas E. Parson of the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center was presented with the 2015 Award of Merit.

He was also acknowledged for his many newspaper articles, describing in detail the events of the battle of Shiloh and Corinth for their sesquicentennial anniversaries.

His articles are being compiled by the Daily Co-

rinthian and will be available in book form.

Jeffrey Huff, president of the Alcorn County Genealogical Society represented the society, accepting the 2015 Award of Merit on behalf of its members.

The Award of Merit acknowledged the society for its exemplary work in preserving, transcribing and making available to researchers, the old records of Alcorn County and their inventory of all

known cemeteries in the county.

Founded in 1858 and reorganized in 1890 and 1952 through 1953, The Mississippi Historical Society encourages outstanding work in interpreting, teaching and preserving Mississippi History.

It provides annual grants to help support programs of the Junior Historical Society and Mississippi Heritage Trust and publishes books, maps, and other materials aimed toward the education of the general public.

This year’s meeting awarded winners and offered presentations in keeping with the theme of north Mississippi’s role in the Civil War. Topics included the Battle of Corinth, Unionism, life on the homefront and slavery.

“We had a surprising turnout from all over the state and several others on a cold winter weekend,” said Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee Rosemary Taylor Williams. “A couple from Rochester, New York traveled the longest distance in the worst blizzard. They had a great time and many said this was one of the best meetings they had attended.”

“We are very grateful to the Corinth Visitors and Convention Bureau and Director Christy Burns for their contributions with the public Welcome Reception at the Coliseum Civic Center; gift bags for visitors and bus tour,” she added. ”I also appreciate the help from the Local Arrangements Committee in difficult weather conditions.”

(The Mississippi Historical Society is open to everyone. Individual memberships are $25.

For more information on membership, call 601-576-6849 or visit the MHS Web site at www. mdah.state.ms.us/admin/mhistsoc.html.)

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Today in History

Pastor opens Senate session

Today is Sunday, March 15, the 74th day of 2015. There are 291 days left in the year.

The Rev. Kim Ratliff, pastor of St. Mark Baptist Church in Corinth, delivered an opening prayer to the senate on Thursday, March 12, at the invitation of Sen. Rita Parks, who led the Pledge of Allegiance before Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves guided lawmakers into the day’s business.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson, addressing a joint session of Congress, called for new legislation to guarantee every American’s right to vote — the result was passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

On this date: In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.

In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

In 1767, the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, South Carolina.

In 1820, Maine became the 23rd state.

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters for the first formal presidential press conference.

In 1935, the Busby Berkeley movie musical “Gold Diggers of 1935” was released by Warner Bros.

In 1945, “Going My Way” won the Academy Award for best picture of 1944, and its star, Bing Crosby, was named best actor; Ingrid Bergman was named best actress for “Gaslight.”

In 1956, the Lerner and Loewe musical play “My Fair Lady,” based on Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opened on Broadway.

In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second.

In 1975, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis died near Paris at age 69.

In 1985, the first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.

In 1990, Iraq executed London-based journalist Farzad Bazoft, whom it had accused of spying.

Ten years ago: Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted in New York of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. (He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.)

Five years ago: Michael David Barrett, an insurance executive who’d shot surreptitious hotel videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, was sentenced in federal court to 21⁄2 years in prison. (He was released in July 2012.)

One year ago: Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak, said a Malaysian jetliner missing for a week had deliberately diverted and continued flying for more than seven hours after severing contact with the ground, meaning it could have gone as far northwest as Kazakhstan or into the Indian Ocean’s southern reaches.

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Family shooting details emerge Associated Press

BROOKHAVEN — When Donna Davis opened her door shortly after midnight, what she saw reminded her of a scene out of a horror movie. A mother and two children, a boy and a girl, were covered in blood after being shot in their home across the road.

Someone kept saying, “‘We’ve been hit,’” Davis said, awakened by a pounding on the doors.

There was so much blood, she said, that she thought they had been hit by a car early Friday.

“The little boy, he was half under the porch like

he was trying to hide from someone. He was screaming for help,” she said, pointing to wooden steps leading to the door of her trailer home.

At one point, said Davis’ mother-in-law, Linda Davis, the boy reached up to his face and said, “Oh, half my ear is gone.”

Police said a man living in the house owned by the woman, Victoria Sims, and her husband, Jermaine Sims, shot them both and their three children.

Jermaine Sims, 31, and a 9-year-old daughter died. Victoria Sims, 29, and their 6-year-old son

and 14-year-old daughter survived but were in critical condition, Capt.

Clint Earls said. Police did not release the children’s names.

Victoria and the two other children who survived had crossed a usually busy two-lane highway to seek help, Donna Davis said.

“It was like out of a horror movie,” she said.

“I still see that little girl’s face in my mind.”

Jimmy Lyons, 32, is accused of shooting the family, Earls said. He added that Lyons faces two counts of murder and three of aggravated assault.

one year ago but decreased 8,700 over the month. Industry sectors registering the largest monthly employment losses were trade, transportation & utilities; construction; and leisure & hospitality.

The state recorded 4,600 more jobs in the month than in December and 9,000 more

than a year earlier according to a seasonally adjusted survey of Mississippi employers.

Rankin County led the state at 4.6 percent, followed by Lamar and Madison, both at 5.2 percent. Twenty-four counties have doubledigit rates with Issaquena having the highest rate at 24.5 percent.

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In the region, Prentiss County ranked 23rd at 7.4 percent; Tishomingo County ranked 27th at 7.8 percent; and Tippah County ranked 43rd at 8.7 percent.

Mississippi’s not seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment increased 13,200 from

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Proceeds from the Carson Herrin Memorial Golf Tournament will pay for a bulk of the equipment.

“So many parents don’t care if their kids play sports or can’t afford it,” said Herrin.

“I have met and got so close to kids while coaching my own kids that I want to get them headed in the right direction.”

A chance to attend camps is one area in which Herrin said funds will also be used.

The golf tournament is set for May 16 at Shiloh Golf Course in Adamsville. The four-man

(For more information about the golf tournament call Kevin Herrin 662-643-5910 or email herrinfamily3@ gmail.com.)

tween the seventh and eighth frames.

“My ball got stuck and had glue all over it,” he said. “It took a while to get it cleaned off, but I stayed calm.”

“Anyone who says they don’t get nervous is lying,” added Curry.

“Around the seventh frame you start thinking about it.”

City board agenda The Corinth Board of Mayor and Aldermen will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The agenda includes: ■ Public hearing on proposed C-3 zone changes ■ Public hearing on William G. Rogers rezoning request on North Polk Street ■ Request from Brad Essary of Timber Hills for 5K run on April 25 ■ Application for MDOT Youth Corp Grant ■ Continued adjudication hearings for 1509 Washington Street and 1702 Tate Street ■ Reports of the department heads ■ Consider purchase of bulletproof vests ■ Consider surplus of police vehicles ■ Street Department — Accept 1996 Ford truck from Corinth Gas & Water ■ February claims docket ■ Minutes from meetings of Feb. 3, 10, 12 and 17

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The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors will hold a regular meeting at 9 a.m. Monday at the supervisors’ office on Fulton Drive.

The agenda includes: ■ Call to order ■ Prayer by Bro. Willie Walker, pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church ■ Minutes from March 2 ■ Financial report and payment of claims, March 2-16 ■ Bid opening on garbage trucks ■ Appointment to Region IV Mental Health Board of Directors ■ Travel authorization for Bobby Marolt for chancery clerk convention, May 19-22, in Columbus ■ Transfer of equipment ■ Travel authorization for Roger Voyles for constable’s conference, June 1-6, in Gulfport ■ Authorization to pay invoice from Clayton O’Donnell, PLLC ■ Delinquent tax settlement for February ■ Office of State Aid Road Construction regarding Project No. SAP-02(13)M — Final settlement of contract and authorization to publish ■ Copies of letters from Cook Coggin Engineers, Inc., on Local System Bridge Project No. LSBP02(22), County Road 711 ■ Assessment changes ■ Letters from Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality regarding Class I rubbish site operator examination results for Floyd Crum, Jeff Thornton and Ricky Gibens ■ Justice Court Clerk Jone Dixon ■ Reports of the sheriff and county engineer

• Treatment and Management The thought crept into Dildy’s mind in the ninth.

“Hit my mark and play the line was all that was on my mind,” said Dildy, who has been bowling almost nine years.

He did both in collecting magical 300 while bowling the fifth and sixth lanes.

“It was a big relief,” said Dildy, who finished with a 695 series.

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Social host law holds adults accountable for underage drinking Adults who allow house parties and allow minors to possess and consume alcoholic beverages may want to rethink the idea.

It’s a bad idea for many reasons on many levels, but many adults may not know a relatively new state law holds the adults responsible.

A social host law makes it unlawful for an adult to knowingly allow minors to possess and consume alcoholic beverages on their property.

It was enacted in 2011.

All of this was brought to our attention recently by the Mississippi Department of Revenue after an alleged party with underage persons consuming alcohol led to two arrests under the social host law.

One adult is charged with eight counts of violating the social host law, and another is charged with four counts, according to the Mississippi Department of Revenue. The offenses are misdemeanors.

The arrests were made by the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Department and agents of the Mississippi Alcoholic Beverage Control, a division of the Department of Revenue.

The Department of Revenue said about 25 underage persons are suspected to have attended the party, where officers seized alcoholic beverages, beer, alcohol-infused candies, gelatin shots and drugs.

Juveniles between 13 and 17 registered a blood alcohol content level on a breath test and were released to their parents or guardians.

Officials became aware of the alleged gathering after Tishomingo County 911 received a call concerning the welfare of a juvenile. A sheriff’s deputy made contact with an intoxicated 14-year-old male walking on a county road and determined he had been at a house party.

Officials obtained a search warrant after the deputy observed 10 underage persons at the residence.

The social host offense entails a fine of $1,000 or 90 days in the county jail, or both, for each count.

We admit we didn’t know much about the social host law until these recent arrests, but the law is certainly a good one.

Adults who allow this kind of behavior on their property need to be held accountable.

It’s a bad idea — and spending some time behind bars might be the perfect reminder.

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Prayer for today Loving Father, I pray that I may not try to change the standard of love by grafting on my own selfishness and infirmities. May I remember that it is mostly for gratification that love is held to the base in life; may I follow it to the summits, where it is divine. Amen.

A verse to share “He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.” — Proverbs 21:21

Tom Cotton’s truth bomb Republican Sen. Tom Cotton hasn’t been frogmarched from the Russell Senate Office Building – yet.

To believe the Arkansan’s harshest critics, that’s only because felonious traitors don’t get the punishment they deserve.

Cotton wrote an open letter to the leaders of Iran pointing out true and obvious things about our constitutional system, and the world came crashing down on his head.

Disgracing the Senate, per a hyperventilating Vice President Joe Biden, was the least of his supposed offenses. He was aiding Iranian hard-liners, violating the Logan Act against subverting U.S. foreign policy and committing an act of treason. If there were any doubt about the latter, the New York Daily News ran a picture of him and fellow Republican signatories of the letter on its front page with the subtle headline “TRAITORS.” Cotton’s alleged sedition is hard to fathom. It’s not as though he wrote secret letters to the Iranians (that’s what President Barack Obama has made a practice of doing). It’s not as though

he traveled to a foreign country to glad-hand a foreign thug in an express effort to unRich dermine the Lowry p r e s i d e n t ’ s foreign policy National (that’s what Review then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi did when she went to Damascus and met with Bashar Assad). Cotton wrote a letter and posted it on his website. As Brian Beutler of The New Republic pointed out, the letter is functionally indistinguishable from an op-ed.

It’s a trope among Cotton’s critics that he is allying himself with Iran’s hard-liners. This is a hilarious plaint after Obama went out of his way in 2009 to say nothing when the Iranian regime was crushing the country’s true moderates, out in the streets in the short-lived Green Revolution. It is Obama who has been wooing the most powerful hardliner in Iran, unless we are supposed to believe that Ayatollah Khamenei is now a moderate.

The contents of Cotton’s letter shouldn’t have been

news to anyone. If the mullahs weren’t already aware that there is bipartisan opposition in Congress to any likely deal and the agreement won’t have the force of a treaty, they need to watch more C-SPAN and read up on the U.S. Constitution.

It is inarguable that as a matter of domestic law a subsequent president can get out of the agreement at will and Congress can pass laws in contravention of the agreement, if a president will sign them. If these are things the Iranians don’t know, and John Kerry hasn’t let them in on the joke, shouldn’t someone tell them?

The foreign-policy debate in the Age of Obama is the world turned upside down.

In the president’s transposition of the norms of American foreign policy, inviting the leader of a close ally to address Congress is an affront, and forging a – to put it gently – highly generous deal with an enemy is such an urgent necessity that no one should say a discouraging word.

A more confident administration would have brushed off Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Bibi Netanyahu, as well as the

Cotton letter. The Obama administration is so defensive because it has a lot to be defensive about.

It has been outnegotiated by the Iranians. Once, we wanted to prevent Iran from having a nuclearweapons capability. Once, we wanted zero enrichment, and so did the United Nations. Those goals have long since been abandoned by an Obama administration desperate for any deal so it can include an opening to Iran among the president’s legacy achievements.

So, here is my own seditious foray into interfering with the conduct of U.S. foreign policy: To Whom It May Concern in Tehran, You are unlikely to ever encounter someone this weak and credulous again in the Oval Office.

The president used to say that no deal is better than a bad deal. Now, that line is inoperative. It’s any deal is better than no deal, and woe to anyone who dares say otherwise.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.)

King v. Burwell says a lot about Obamacare On Wednesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the case challenging the IRS’s decision to pay subsidies to lower-income health insurance buyers in states with federal insurance exchanges — even though the Obamacare legislation authorizes subsidies only in states with exchanges “established by the state.”

The Obama administration is thus in the uncomfortable position of arguing that the president’s signature law says what it doesn’t say. Nevertheless, initial analyses of the oral argument suggest the government might win.

The four Democraticappointed judges seemed determined to advance arguments that, if you look at the statute as a whole, Congress wanted to pay subsidies to lots of people, even if it didn’t say so.

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s questions suggested there may be a fifth vote to uphold the administration’s position. Justice Kennedy asked whether the “established by the state” provision might amount to an unconstitutional commandeering of the state governments.

Commandeering is legal shorthand for the widely agreed doctrine that Congress cannot command the states to adopt legislation.

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Instead, Congress typically offers the states money if they accept certain conditions. No Michael highway and Barone transportation money Columnist if you don’t establish a 55 mile-per-hour speed limit, for example, or a minimum drinking age of 21.

Limiting subsidies, as the Obamacare statute does, to states that establish their own exchanges is not unusual; it’s typical of how Congress gets states to do what it wants. But there are limits.

In the June 2012 National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius decision upholding the constitutionality of Obamacare, the Supreme Court also ruled, 7-2, that Obamacare could not compel states to vastly increase Medicaid spending or lose all Medicaid funds. Raising the ante, the court held, amounted to commandeering.

Did Justice Kennedy’s questioning Wednesday indicate that he believes that the disparate treatment of states with and without state health care exchanges amounts to commandeering? Perhaps, though justices’ questions are not always good guides to their ultimate conclusions.

But if it was, does that mean that Justice Kennedy would allow the IRS to read into the statute authorization of subsidies? Or does it mean that he would regard the provisions for subsidies in some states and not in others as null and void? We won’t likely know until the decision comes down, probably in late June.

But beyond the legal issues, the very existence of King v. Burwell is remarkable politically. For the framers of Obamacare certainly did not expect 36 states to reject the blandishment of federal subsidies and refuse to set up state exchanges.

MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber explained why, in a now-famous videotaped talk back in 2012. “If you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits,” he said. “If your governor doesn’t set up an exchange, you’re losing hundreds of millions of dollars of tax credits to be delivered to your citizens.”

When the videotapes surfaced last year, Gruber said that he had misspoken, “like a typo.”

That expectation was based on some knowledge of history. Over the last half-century, states have usually been willing to jump through Congress’s hoops in order to receive supposedly “free” federal money.

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For example, after Medicaid was passed in 1965, 37 states joined the program within two years and by January 1970 only two held out – Alaska, which joined in 1972, and Arizona, which held out until 1982. In the 1980s, as Congress (largely through the backroom work of Henry Waxman) increased the states’ required Medicaid spending, many governors grumbled, but no state dropped out of the program.

In contrast, after the Supreme Court let states reject Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, 22 states did so.

And 36 states refused to set up state health insurance exchanges, despite Obamacare’s “established by the state” language.

Governors and legislators are responsive to public opinion, and their increased willingness to forego federal dollars shows an increasing mistrust of centralized command-and-control government. That’s going to be a continuing factor in politics and government, whichever way King v. Burwell goes.

(Daily Corinthian columnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics.)

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GOP: Obama ignores Iran expansion plans WASHINGTON — Some Republicans say President Barack Obama is so keen for a nuclear deal with Iran that he’s ignoring Tehran’s moves to expand its influence across the Middle East.

GOP hawks believe Obama really wants to burnish his legacy by negotiating an agreement to restrain Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed state.

And they say that’s why he’s not pushing back against Iranian activities in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Bahrain.

Secretary of State John Kerry has defended the administration against lawmakers who insist that the nuclear negotiations have hamstrung U.S. policy decisions in the region.

Kerry says that the administration is deeply concerned about Iran’s influence. But he says critics should think about what would happen if Iran had a nuclear weapon.

U.S. won’t decrease Afghanistan troops WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say the Obama administration is abandoning plans to cut the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 by year’s end.

It’s a bow to military leaders who want to keep more troops, including many into the 2016 fighting season.

No final decision on numbers has been made. But the officials say the administration is poised to slow withdrawal plans and probably will allow many of the 9,800 American troops to remain well into next year.

There also are discussions about keeping a steady number of counterterrorism troops into 2015, including having some remain in the country or be nearby beyond 2016.

Officer kills man on subway tracks WASHINGTON — A transit police officer fatally shot a man officials said was found trespassing in a Washington subway tunnel,

and police were investigating Friday but did not specify what kind of threat the man posed.

The Metrorail Operations Control Center reported an “unauthorized person� on the tracks Thursday night outside of the Potomac Avenue station, about two stops from the U.S. Capitol, just before 9 p.m. A train operator first saw the man in the tunnel, and that track was taken out of service, Metro officials said.

Metro Transit Police officers responded. One officer encountered the man about 400 feet from the station along the westbound tracks between Potomac Avenue and the RFK Stadium stop, Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said. “Shots were fired by the officer using a department-issued service weapon� and the man was pronounced dead at the scene, Stessel said. “It is not yet known how the man entered the tunnel, what he was doing there, why, etc.�

The Metropolitan Police Department identified the man as 35-year-old Bobby Gross.

Officials declined to say Friday whether the man was armed or how he may have threatened the police officer.

No officers were injured in the shooting, said Metro Transit Police spokesman Mike Tolbert. It was not clear whether the officer used any nonlethal force against the man prior to shooting. All Metro police officers carry pepper spray and an impact weapon, such as a baton or nightstick, in addition to a firearm, Stessel said.

The officer involved was a veteran officer, a woman with more than 10 years of service on the force, Metro said.

She was placed on routine paid administrative leave during the investigation.

Study questions heart CT scans SAN DIEGO — A big federal study finds that people who see a doctor for chest pain have no less risk of suffering a heart attack, dying or being hospitalized later if they are checked with a fancy newer type of

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CT scan rather than a simple treadmill test or other older exam.

CT scans, a type of X-ray that gives a very detailed look at heart arteries, have been used for about a decade without evidence they are better or worse than older tests.

The study found them equally effective but also raised concern about how much medical radiation patients are getting.

Few doctors in the study chose tests that did not require radiation.

The study was discussed Saturday at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Diego.

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Ex-3 Doors Down bassist’s trial set D’IBERVILLE — Former 3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell is set to go to trial in D’Iberville Monday on a charge of second-offense driving under the influence of a substance other than alcohol.

The 43-year-old Harrell is under house arrest in Nashville on a charge of vehicular homicide by intoxication.

The Sun Herald reports Municipal Judge Albert Fountain will presided over the trial.

Harrell was arrested on the second-offense DUI charge Feb. 18, 2014, after a caller reported a man slumped over the steering wheel of a sport-utility vehicle.

Harrell was in a family member’s SUV at 7 p.m. at Lamey Bridge Road and Central Avenue and was visibly impaired, D’Iberville police said at the time.

Police called Fountain for a court order to draw Harrell’s blood for a toxicology test and the judge set a cash bond of $1,789. Fountain ordered Harrell’s bond be paid in full before his release, instead of allowing him to pay only 10 percent of the bond.

Monday’s trial is set for 1 p.m.

The Escatawpa native is 43 and was convicted of a first-offense drugrelated DUI in D’Iberville about a month before he was involved the fatal crash in Nashville. Harrell was arrested July 19, 2012, after his car rear-ended a pickup. He appealed that conviction in a bench trial in Harrison County Court on Jan. 8, 2014, and was found guilty again.

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New bird flu strain hits poultry farmers MINNEAPOLIS — A dangerous new bird flu strain has affected turkey flocks in Minnesota, Missouri and Arkansas.

That’s sending experts and farmers scrambling to determine how it arrived — and to stop it from spreading.

Avian influenza is common in wild waterfowl and doesn’t normally hurt them. But this strain, H5N2, is deadly when it spreads to commercial poultry.

Most U.S. turkeys and chickens spend their entire lives indoors to protect them from diseases. But the infections show that those flocks aren’t completely secure, as viruses can be tracked into barns or spread from waterfowl to shore birds that sneak into a barn.

The outbreaks have led dozens of countries to ban poultry imports from affected states.

Producers are tightening biosecurity. But officials say the danger to humans is very low.

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paired-driving conviction and repeat allegations cost him his job as bassist for 3 Doors Down, known for hits such as “Kryptonite.� He was a founding member of the band, formed in Escatawpa in 1996.

Water advisories issued for beach BILOXI — The state Department of Environmental Quality has issued water-contact advisories for two areas along the beach in Harrison County.

The advisories are from Courthouse Road to Tegarden Road in Gulfport and from St. Peter Street to Dukate Street in Biloxi.

The DEQ says water in the area shows high levels of bacteria.

The beach remains open in both locations but there may be a higher risk of illness to anyone who swims in the area.

Gulfport builds new LNG-powered ship GULFPORT — The first liquefied natural gaspowered vessel operating in the United States and built by Gulf Coast Shipyard Group is in service for Shell Upstream America’s deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Sun Herald reports the vessel Harvey Energy is capable of operating on LNG or diesel.

Operator Harvey Gulf International Marine says the vessel is a product of complex engineering and sophisticated building.

It is the first of six LNG vessels being built for Harvey Gulf at GCSG’s Gulfport shipyard.

When operating on LNG, the Harvey Energy meets the new Tier IV

sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions regulations, which is part of the North American Emission Control Area.

The vessel is able to operate on LNG for seven days before refueling.

It will refuel with LNG at Harvey Gulf’s new LNG bunkering facility at Port Fourchon in Louisiana, which provides access to more than 600 oil and gas rigs and platforms within a 40-mile radius.

The vessel is capable of carrying 253,000 gallons of fuel oil, 18,000 barrels of liquid mud, 1,600 barrels of methanol, 10,250 cubic feet of dry cement and 78,000 gallons of LNG fuel.

Regional bank OK’d to buy Georgia bank TUPELO — Officials say Renasant Bank of Tupelo has all the regulatory approvals it needs for its $258 million purchase of HeritageBank of the South, based in Albany, Georgia.

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that sharholders of Renasant Corp. and Heritage Financial Group must still approve the deal, but that’s considered a formality.

Renasant announced the merger agreement in December.

The merger is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year. It would be the largest in Renasant’s 111year history.

Heritage brings about $1.9 billion in assets, bringing Renasant’s total to $7.5 billion. It has offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.

The merger also adds about 600 employees at 36 banking locations, 21 mortgage offices and five investment offices.

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BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Several million people hit with new federal fines for going without health insurance will get a second chance to sign up starting Sunday, and that could ease the sting of rising penalties for being uninsured.

But as the enrollment window reopens, it’s unclear how many know about the time-limited opportunity, let alone will take advantage of it.

Fines payable to the IRS are the stick behind the offer of taxpayer-subsidized private insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Virtually everyone in the country is now required to have coverage through an employer or a government program, or by buying individual policies.

This is the first year fines are being collected from uninsured people the government deems able to afford coverage.

Tax preparation company H&R Block says the penalty averages about $170 among its affected customers. It usually is deducted from a person’s tax refund.

Those penalized are mainly the kind of people the law was intended to

“I may have to see if any of the health care costs have changed, to where I might be able to squeeze it in. But so far, it’s not looking like it.”

Charles Baxter Travel agent in Phoenix help: low- and middleincome workers who do not have coverage on the job or are self-employed.

Roughly 4 million people are expected to pay fines, according to congressional estimates. Many more will qualify for exemptions.

Travel agent Charles Baxter of Phoenix said his tax refund was reduced by $247 for being uninsured in 2014. He had not heard about the second chance to sign up for 2015 coverage.

Baxter says he will take another look now, but is not sure whether he will opt to buy insurance.

Much of his income goes to help take care of his mother, who has health problems.

“I may have to see if any of the health care costs have changed, to where I might be able to squeeze it in,” he said.

“But so far, it’s not looking like it.”

Baxter supports the

overall goals of the health law, but says the government should also look at someone’s expenses — not just income — before assessing the fine.

Penalties for being uninsured are going up this year, to a minimum of $325 for the full 12 months.

That’s a significant increase from the $95 minimum in 2014.

The new sign-up opportunity runs through April 30. To qualify, individuals have to certify to the government that they meet certain conditions, including: ■ They did not know or understand that they were legally required to have coverage until after open enrollment officially ended Feb. 15.

■ They owed a penalty for being uninsured in 2014.

Those requirements are for the 37 states served by the federal HealthCare.gov website.

States running their own insurance exchanges may have different rules and deadlines. Penalties for 2014 are not refundable.

The Obama administration acted after Democratic lawmakers raised concerns. With open enrollment officially over, someone who was uninsured and filed a tax return after Feb. 15 would not have been able to get coverage for 2015.

That person would owe the penalty for 2014 and could get locked into a bigger fine for 2015.

“Most people can assume that whatever they paid this year, next year they will pay twice that much or more,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas.

“Why pay what is in essence a penalty, when you can be applying those dollars to protect your family?”

The administration is publicizing the special sign-up period as tax filing season continues.

For customers who paid a fine, major tax preparation companies are notifying them about the second chance to get coverage.

Tax preparers and some public policy experts have urged the government to move the health care law’s sign-up period so it dovetails with

tax-filing season. People expecting a refund might be willing to spend some of it on health insurance.

Mark Ciaramitaro, vice president of health care services at H&R Block, said the penalty is definitely getting taxpayers’ attention. “It’s a surprise,” he said. “For some people, it’s having significant effects.”

Cari Gerrits of Atlanta was uninsured for part of last year when she was between jobs, and her penalty ended up being $191. She has coverage now through her job in marketing and business development for an engineering company.

“I’m supportive of having a baseline of care for everybody,” she said.

“But the marrying of a very complicated medical law with an already confusing tax law has probably not made it as popular as it could be.”

Jesse Bracewell of Huntsville, Alabama, was uninsured last year because he could not fit premiums into his budget as a college student finishing an engineering degree. He paid a penalty of $95. This year, he signed up to avoid rising fines.

“That penalty set me back about three weeks’ worth of gas,” Bracewell said.

Say what? Social Security data Historians ponder fate says 6.5 million reach age 112 of relic from revolution

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WASHINGTON — Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112.

In reality, only few could possibly be alive.

As of last fall, there were only 42 people known to be that old in the entire world.

But Social Security does not have death records for millions of these people, with the oldest born in 1869, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general.

Only 13 of the people are still getting Social Security benefits, the report said. But for others, their Social Security numbers are still active, so a number could be used to report wages, open bank accounts, obtain credit cards or claim fraudulent tax refunds.

“That is a real problem,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. “When you have a fake Social Security number, that’s what allows you to fraudulently do all kinds

“The records in this review are extremely old, decades-old, and unreliable.”

Sean Brune Senior adviser things, claim things like the earned income tax credit or other tax benefits.”

Johnson is chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which plans a hearing Monday on problems with death records maintained by the Social Security Administration.

The agency said it is working to improve the accuracy of its death records. But it would be costly and time-consuming to update 6.5 million files that were generated decades ago, when the agency used paper records, said Sean Brune, a senior adviser to the agency’s deputy commissioner for budget, finance, quality and management.

“The records in this review are extremely old, decades-old, and unreliable,” Brune said.

The internal watch-

dog’s report does not document any fraudulent or improper payments to people using these Social Security numbers. But it raises red flags that it could be happening.

For example, nearly 67,000 of the Social Security numbers were used to report more than $3 billion in wages, tips and self-employment income from 2006 to 2011, according to the report. One Social Security number was used 613 different times. An additional 194 numbers were used at least 50 times each.

People in the country illegally often use fake or stolen Social Security numbers to get jobs and report wages, as do other people who do not want to be found by the government. Thieves use stolen Social Security numbers to claim fraudulent tax refunds.

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MONTPELIER, Vt. — When it was built late in 1776 the gunboat Spitfire wasn’t meant to be the pride of the American fleet. It was built to fight and fight it did, helping slow down the larger British fleet that sailed south out of Canada onto Lake Champlain as part of an effort to crush the colonial rebellion.

The 54-foot Spitfire sank a day after the critical Oct. 11 Battle of Valcour Island, settling into deep water where it went unseen for more than 200 years.

Now the historian who led the search that found the Spitfire nearly two decades ago is developing a management plan for the future of the boat that today sits on the lake bottom, its mast upright and its bow cannon pointing straight ahead, just as it was when it was abandoned by its crew.

“This is not a sexy boat,” said Art Cohn, the emeritus director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum who is now writing a management plan for the Spitfire that he will submit to the U.S. Navy. “It was relatively small, flat-

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“The principal value, in my opinion, is it connects us to 1776 and the formative years of this country,” he said.

For years, the bottom — Cohn won’t say exactly where the Spitfire rests or how far down — has been thought of as the safest place for the Spitfire, thanks to the protection of the cold, deep water above it. Now the fear is of a looming threat from the invasive species quagga mussels, which could destroy the wreck. They haven’t arrived yet in Lake Champlain, but experts fear it’s only a matter of time.

Cohn’s plan will include recommendations for the future of the Spitfire, including possibly leaving it where it is or raising it, preserving it and then displaying it in a museum. He hasn’t chosen a course yet, but his worry over the mussels is clear.

“Our concern over the length of this study has really been elevated based on what we’re learning about the implications of the mussel invasion. That information is sobering and a concern ...,” Cohn said.

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High fees for records remain big issue

BY JEFF AMY Associated Press

JACKSON — Mississippi’s public records law works pretty well — if you have plenty of money.

Requestors can be required to pay all costs of producing records, and it’s long been clear that one of the biggest barriers to access is paying for staff time to produce and black out information from records.

For example, when The Associated Press requested correspondence and emails relating to cheating on state standardized tests in October 2013, the department demanded about $1,305.04 for staff research and legal review time, plus an undetermined amount more, at 25 cents a page, for copies. The AP didn’t pay the fees. It emerged within months that cheating was widespread at a Clarksdale elementary school, after teachers tipped off The Clarion-Ledger.

To try to improve the situation, lawmakers passed a measure last year intended to drive down the cost of staff time for public records requests.

The new law, which began effective July 1, states that “Any staff time or contractual services included in actual cost shall be at the pay scale of the lowest level employee or contractor competent to respond to the request.”

But big fees can still be an issue.

In September, for example, the Mississippi Department of Education demanded $2,103.93 when The Associated Press requested written documents relating to departmental reorganization efforts that had been discussed at meetings and resulted in layoffs. The department’s reply included hourly rates ranging from $33 an hour up to $143.73.

When asked why it would cost so much, department spokeswoman Patrice Guilfoyle said only senior department officials could search their own emails for documents, so the AP would have to pay hourly rates for those officials, including state Superintendent Carey Wright herself.

In February, the Mississippi Development Authority demanded $1,833.25 to produce 741 pages of records, mainly because the department demanded $1,500 for a second set of lawyers to review its documents, in addition to the three hours of legal review at $50 that the department sought for its own lawyers.

Henry Kinney, a Pass Christian resident, won a landmark 2006 public records ruling from the state Supreme Court, which found the Harrison County Development Commission could not charge a $65 an hour fee for staff time, but only because it wasn’t in their written policy.

Kinney contends that charging attorney review fees isn’t allowed under the new law. In any event, such fees defeat the purpose of the law.

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Community Events Camp Meeting The Colonel William P. Rogers Sons of the Confederate Veterans will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17 at Martha’s Menu, 302 Taylor Street in Corinth. Male descendants of Confederate soldiers may join the SCV, a non-political, educational, historical preservation organization. Visitors are welcome at all meetings.

For more information contact Larry Mangus at 287-0766. The website is www.battleofcorinth. com.

Mission Mississippi Mission Mississippi will meet Thursday, March 19, at 11:30 a.m. in the lower level of Martha’s Menu. Issues facilitated by the Revs. Ann Fraser and Bobby Capps will be discussed.

HS Art Competition Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Art Department will host its annual High School Art Competition now through Monday, March 23. High school students from the 5 county district of Northeast will compete in Drawing, 2D Design, 3D Design/Ceramics, Painting/Mixed Media and Photography/Printmaking/Computer Graphics.

Anderson Hall Art Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Bishop Center Events The Bishop Senior Citizen Activity Center will host the following events this week: Monday, March 16: Legacy Hospice hosts bingo; Tuesday, March 17: exercise at Tate Baptist Church, March doctor day; Wednesday, March 18: Bible study with Jackie Calvart from Oakland Baptist Church; Thursday, March 19: bingo; Friday, March 20: North Mississippi Rural Legal Services offers free legal services by appointment only, grocery shopping at Roger’s Supermarket. Daily activities include open discussion, quilting, jigsaw puzzles, table games, rolo golf and washer games. Senior citizens age 60 and above are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Civil War Show The 6th Annual Corinth Civil War & Military Show and Sale will continue today at the Crossroads Arena, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Admission is $5 with children under 12 free.

Retired Education Personnel Meeting The Alcorn County Retired Education Personnel of Mississippi will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 16 at the Corinth Library. William McMullin from the library will speak.

Audubon Nature Group Those interested in activities involving wild birds or nature are invited to the next meeting of the Corinth Audubon Nature Group at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17 in the Corinth Library Auditorium. Tim Poole, archaeologist and park manager of the Pinson Mounds State Park, will discuss park history. features and activities.

Free Legal Services Free legal services.

Must have an appointment! For age 60+ on Friday, March 20, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Alcorn County Human Resource Agency, 1300 Washington Street, Corinth. Call 1-800-8988731, ext. 2101 for an appointment for wills, powers of attorney, living wills, Medicare, Medicaid. Sponsors: Northeast Mississippi Planning & Development District and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services.

Free Clinic The Living Healthy Free Clinic will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 28. Walk ins are welcome.

Glendale Registration Glendale Elementary School will hold Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten Registration for 2015-2016 on March 18 from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Required documents for enrollment: ORIGINAL UP-TO-DATE MS Immunization Certificate (Form121), Certified Birth Certificate, Social Security card, two proofs of residency with the Alcorn School District. (911 addresses and driver’s license not acceptable proofs of residency). For more information contact Glendale Elementary at 662-286-2734.

Community Cleanup Everyone is invited and encouraged to join in a monthly event aimed at cleaning up the community. Supplies like gloves, litter grabbers, safety vests and garbage bags will be provided.

The next event is set for

March 20. Volunteers will meet at the parking lot of Corinth Pulmonary Clinic on Harper/Proper, starting at noon.

Girl Scout Cookies Area Girl Scout troops will be holding booth sales at Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Gardner’s, and Roger’s Supermarket each weekend through Sunday, March 22.

Days, times, and locations will vary but look for troops to be set up on Friday afternoons, all day on Saturdays, and on Sunday afternoons.

Cookies are $4 per box. Some troops will have Toffee-tastics, a gluten free cookie, available for $5 per box.

For more information about Girl Scouting, contact Rhonda Tennyson at 662-696-2293 or rhonda.tennyson@ girlscoutshs.org.

Gospel Fest The second annual Easom Outreach Foundation Gospel Fest will be Sunday, March 22 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Easom Community Center Auditorium. The event will feature the Celestial Nightingales of Ripley, the Hopewell Men’s Chorus of Rienzi, Gloria & Lee Carswell of Olive Branch, the Mount Olive Men’s Chorus of Baldwyn, the Oak Grove Male Chorus of Rienzi, the “Rightfully His” quartet of First Baptist Church of Corinth, the “Spirtual Travelers” of Booneville and the Community Believers Baptist Church of Olive Branch and more. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door.

For more information call 314-406-3918.

Israel Middle East Conference The Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah and Tishomingo Republican parties will host an Israel and Middle Eastern conference on Thursday, March 26 at 6 p.m. at the Crossroads Arena banquet room. Speakers will be Seth Baron, executive director of Friends of the IDF, Brig. Gen. Robert F. Thomas, director of state resources for the Mississippi National Guard and Ch. Maj. (Rabbi) Joseph Friedman, fulltime support chaplain for the Tennessee National Guard. Admission is free.

For more information call Mike Stewart at 662808-0291.

Green Market The 7th Annual Season

of the Green Market at the Crossroads Museum kicks off Saturday, April 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the C.A.R.E. Garden green space, located at 221 N. Fillmore St. Other season dates include May 2, June 6, July 11, Sept. 5, Oct. 3 and Nov. 21. There will not be a market in August.

A free event to the public, the Green Market offers handmade or homegrown items only including fresh produce, pottery, wood work, repurposed furniture, jams, jellies, honey, food goodies, clothing, soaps, lotions, yard art, bird houses, home décor, jewelry and much more.

Food concessions include hand dipped corn dogs, funnel cakes, fish sandwiches, kettle corn, boiled peanuts and much more. Local entertainment provided, as well.

Enjoy free admission to the Crossroads Museum on Green Market day only.

The Green Market is a nonprofit organization and the banner fundraiser for the Crossroads Museum.

Vendors are needed.

For more information, to download the vendor application and to apply and pay online, visit corinthgreenmarket.com.

Vendor signup and payment must be received by 4 p.m. on the Thursday prior to market.

NAACP 2015 Reunion The Alcorn County branch of the NAACP will host the biennial reunion/homecoming July 3-5. Organizational meetings are held the Tuesday before the second Thursday of each month at the Johns Street Community Center on South Johns Street at 6:30 p.m.

Email naacpreunion@ yahoo.com to receive email updates. For more information contact William Dilworth, branch president, at 662-6034230 or 662-284-0854; Annie Windom, branch secretary and reunion co-coordinator at 662287-8212 or 662-6433592 or Eleanor Benson, reunion co-coordinator at 662-287-2975.

Corinth Head Start Applications are being accepted at the Corinth Head Start Center for the 2015-2016 school year. Eligible children are those who will be 3 or 4 by Sept. 1. The following documentation is required to complete an application: child’s birth certificate, current shot record (121 form),

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Legion Yard Sale Iuka’s American Legion Post 15 will sponsor a yard sale on Friday and Saturday, April 10-11.

Food will also be available at the Post. Legion Post 15 is located at 409 Spring Street across from Iuka’s National Guard Building.

Retired Railroaders There will be a meeting for retired railroaders at 8 a.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at Martha’s Menu Restaurant in downtown Corinth. Active railroaders are welcome.

Alliance Hospice Alliance Hospice is looking for volunteers ages 16 to 85, who would love to interact with local senior citizens. For more information, contact Angel Bradley at Alliance Hospice at 662-286-9833 or by email at angel@alliancehopice.net

at 8 p.m. with music by D.J. Lanny Cox. Lanny Cox also provides music at the VFW on Saturday Dance Night which begins at 8 p.m.

• VFW Post No. 3962 will hold its monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month with brunch at 6 p.m.

VFW ladies and men’s Auxiliary will have a joint meeting at 7 p.m.

• The VFW Post 3962 will hold a Single’s/50’s Dance from 8 p.m. until midnight every Thursday.

Admission is $5.

Checkers Players Checkers players are needed, especially Intex retirees, to play from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays at the American Steel Builders Union building across from Ability Works. For more information, call 662728-5498.

American Legion Post 6 Bingo American Legion Post 6, located on South Tate St. will have Bingo every Friday. Doors will open at 4 p.m. with sales starting at 5:30 p.m. Games will begin at 6:30 p.m. A full concession stand will be available.

Lions Club The Corinth Breakfast Lions Club meets the first and third Monday of each month at 7 a.m. at Martha’s Menu.

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Legacy Hospice is looking for volunteers from the age of 17 and up. Legacy Hospice offers three types of volunteers: Direct patient volunteers do things directly with the patient and caregiver. Indirect volunteers help with clerical work in the office.

Bereavement volunteers help families and loved ones on their journey through the grieving process. For more information contact Sherry Dalton at 662-286-5333 or by email at sherry.dalton@legacyhospice.net.

Just Plain Country performs at the Tishomingo County Fairgrounds in Iuka every Saturday from 7-10 p.m. Good family entertainment.

Food Pantry/Clothes Closet Antioch Baptist Church food pantry and clothes closet is open every 3rd Wednesday of the month from 6 to 6:30 p.m.

VFW Post 3962 • VFW Post No. 3962 hosts a Karaoke Night every Friday at the post on Purdy School Road in Corinth. Karaoke begins

Senior Bingo American Legion Post 6 has Senior Bingo every Monday at 10 a.m.

Cost is $5 for bingo and lunch.

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508.75 502 503.25 512.50 526 538 545

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63.14 63.45 63.48 64.55 64.39 64.33 64.57

60.26 60.95 61.52 62.26 62.50 63.30 63.70

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TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. signed on as a worldwide Olympic sponsor Friday in a landmark deal reportedly worth nearly $1 billion, becoming the first car company to join the IOC’s top-tier marketing program.

The eight-year deal starts globally in 2017 and runs through the 2024 Olympics. It will cover three consecutive Olympics in Asia, including the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

Toyota becomes the first auto manufacturer ever signed up by the International Olympic Committee for its global TOP sponsorship program. It joins as a sponsor in the “mobility category.�

Terms of the deal were not announced, but Japanese media reported Toyota will pay $835 million.

That would be a record for any IOC sponsorship deal — by far. Four-year TOP deals are usually worth about $100 million and eight-year agreements $200 million.

IOC President Thomas Bach was in Tokyo to sign the agreement with Toyota president Akio Toyoda. “This is a very symbolic day,� Bach said. “It is the first time in the successful history of the TOP program that we have had a mobility category.�

Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, becomes the third Japanese company to become a worldwide Olympic sponsor after Panasonic and Bridgestone. Toyota also becomes the 12th TOP sponsor overall and third committed through 2024. Other TOP sponsors include Coca-Cola and McDonald’s.

The Toyota deal covers

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the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the 2022 Winter Games and 2024 Summer Olympics. The host cities for the 2022 and 2024 games have not yet been selected.

Two Asian candidates — Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan — are bidding for the 2022 Games, with the IOC vote to be held on July 31.

While Toyota will join the TOP program in 2017, it will have marketing rights in Japan with immediate effect. “From the beginning of 2017, Toyota is our exclusive worldwide partner for the mobility category,�

Bach said. “And exclusivity means no other partner can join the program and can support the national Olympic committees.�

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Photos on the vendor’s page appear to be the real Apple Watch. It says features on the Chinese ver-

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car giant Hyundai out of the 2018 Pyeongchang Games on its home turf.

If Boston wins the right to host the 2024 Olympics, the U.S. car industry would also be shut out.

The IOC said Toyota will work with organizing committees to “provide sustainable mobility solution for the games to help with safer, more efficient mobility, including intelligent transport systems, urban traffic systems and vehicle-to-vehicle communications systems.�

Bach said the deal is in line with the Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms approved by the IOC in December. “We will do everything possible to fulfil our new role in The Olympic Partner Program and to justify the trust that the IOC has placed in us,� Toyoda said.

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sion include text messaging and a music player. It starts at 288 yuan ($45), or one-eighth the $349 price of the cheapest Apple Watch.

Alibaba, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year after a record initial public offering, has faced criticism in the past for hosting the sale of counterfeit goods. It says it has been taking steps to reduce the problem.

The flood of “me too� smartwatches reflects China’s mix of skilled electronics manufacturers and a growing consumer market for bargain-price style.

Most of the world’s personal computers and mobile phones are assembled in China. But this country’s own companies are only starting to develop design skills and the ability to create breakthrough products.

That has led to the rise of an industry known as “shanzhai,� or “mountain forts� — hundreds of small, anonymous manufacturers that quickly copy the design or features of popular foreign mobile phones or other products at a fraction of the price.

At least eight vendors on Taobao advertised watches as “Apple Watch� or “Apple Watch lookalike.� Most said they were compatible with Apple’s iOS or Google Inc.’s rival Android operating system.

One vendor jokingly used Chinese slang for a vulgar rich person, offering an “All-New Apple Tyrant Gold Mobile PhoneSupporting Watch� for 288 yuan ($45).

Eight vendors failed to respond to questions from The Associated Press sent through their Taobao accounts.

Asked whether it had taken action against any sellers, Alibaba said in a statement, “Alibaba Group is dedicated to the fight against counterfeits.

We work closely with our government partners, brands and industry associations to tackle this issue at its source. We also utilize technology like data mining and big data to scrub our platforms of counterfeits.�

In January, a Chinese government agency accused Alibaba of lax oversight and allowing vendors to sell counterfeit goods on Taobao.

The dispute was settled within a few days. The agency said its report had no legal force and Alibaba promised to tighten its oversight of vendors.

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Coming Up In The Daily Corinthian The Daily Corinthian’s quarterly special edition with over three sections and 30 pages full of features and columns will come out on Tuesday, March 24. You don’t want to miss it!

Tall teenager is reluctant to stand over classmates DEAR ABBY: My 13-yearold granddaughter is 5 feet 9 inches tall. She walks hunched over, and when she stands with a group, she keeps her legs 2 feet apart. She’s on a softball team and is always sitting on the ground in the dugout.

She is the tallest one in the seventh grade in her school.

Some of her classmates call her the “giant.” I’ve been with her when Abigail someone apVan Buren proaches her who hasn’t seen her in Dear Abby a while and says, “Wow! You’ve grown really tall.”

She hates school and has no friends. She also happens to be very pretty. She’s taller than anyone in the family. What can we do for her? -- GRANDPA IN INDIANA DEAR GRANDPA: Being perceived as different at your granddaughter’s age can be very painful. The best thing you can do for her right now is to be supportive.

Keep telling her that being tall is not only nothing to be ashamed of, but it can be an asset. Encourage her to find activities she is interested in. In

addition to softball, she might excel at basketball or volleyball.

Remind her that fashion models are tall women, many of whom were teased about their height when they were her age.

Tall women of note: Taylor Swift, Gisele Bundchen, Nicole Kidman, Venus and Serena Williams, Brooke Shields, Geena Davis and Michelle Obama come immediately to mind.

First daughter Malia Obama was 5 feet 9 at 13, like your granddaughter.

None of them is ashamed of their height; they “own” who they are and carry themselves with pride. Research modeling schools in your area because enrolling your granddaughter in some of the classes may help her to feel less awkward about her height.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 33-yearold single woman, a nurse who paid for my own education and am still trying to further it. I work a lot, have a nice car and I am remodeling my house. I make good money, but I have to take certain training, keep my licenses current, etc. I’m serious about my career, and I’m proud of myself.

I was talking to a friend the other day about dating, and I said I wouldn’t date someone who made half or less than what I do.

I was used as a cash cow in

previous relationships and I’m not putting up with it anymore.

This makes dating difficult at times, but I’m sticking to my guns. She said it makes me a snob because not everyone earns what I do.

Abby, I’m not a snob by any means. I’m generous toward my loved ones.

But I feel that in this day and age, people can always better themselves like I have, and I don’t want another man thinking I will support him. It’s not fair to me. Any advice? -- LOOKING FOR MY EQUAL DEAR LOOKING: Your friend was correct when she said not everyone has the earning capacity that you do.

But you are right in your conviction that people can better themselves if they are determined to do it.

Considering your personal history, I don’t think you’re a snob for feeling the way you do. That said, however, I would hate to think you might exclude a great guy who earns less, because he could be helpful in other ways and have qualities the others don’t.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Beauty comes from the inside, but it won’t stay there long.

There’s so much joy that can and will radiate out of you. You have admirers you don’t even know about.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You’ll start out doing it all yourself, and this is a gift. You’ll get a hands-on education in many different areas at once. It’s not about your resources; it’s about your resourcefulness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). All that’s holding you back is a disbelief that you can change. Start by listening to what you say when you talk to yourself. Might a different message be just as true, if not more so?

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Jane Austen said, “We none of us expect to be in smooth water all of our days.” At least you have it for some of the days, like today for instance. This is an easy one, so enjoy!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There

are things that you’d prefer to do that you just can’t seem to make yourself do. This is a sign that you need a new friend who is on your side. The right person on your side can make a remarkable difference.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Pick an entry point to better health and work it. The “what” doesn’t matter so much. It can be kale or Paleo or long-distance walking. The benefit to picking one (any one) and sticking with it for a day will far outweigh the effort.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It’s wonderful when things live up to the hype around them, although the very nature of “hype” suggests it’s also quite rare. Caution: Inflated opinions have a way of popping.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

You may feel as though you’re standing in the way of your love for another. You believe that if you could push yourself aside, you might feel a mightier and

purer love, and there is real truth to this.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). People around you will work with you if they know what you want them to do. Right now, they probably don’t. Model the behavior to give them a clue.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll get a peek into some mind-blowing advances of science or technology. Be careful not to let it limit your thinking. In time, you’ll come to see this as but a crumb of what’s possible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Pleasure and order will go handin-hand, as people will naturally and easily follow the pleasant route. You’ll work this principle, making sure your interactions happen in good cheer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

You’ll demonstrate that you belong with another person through the language you share, the songs you love together and other behaviors that bond you.

Put love in action.

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State Tournament Championships Friday (1A-G) Pelahatchie 54, Ashland 48 (1A-B) Shaw 56, Coffeeville 46 (3A-G) Belmont 41, Booneville 39 (3A-B) Velma Jackson 76, Aberdeen 38 (5A-G) Natchez 74, West Jones 66 (5A-B) Callaway 66, Ridgeland 43

Saturday’s Scores (2A-G) East Webster 68, West Tally 54, OT (2A-B) Bay Springs 74, Okolona 58 (4A-G) Raymond 50, Bay 35 (4A-B) McComb 52, Quitman 40 (6A-G) Horn Lake 52, Olive Branch 42 (6A-B) Madison Central-Starkville, late

Semifinals Monday (1A-G) Ashland 54, West Union 46 (1A-G) Pelahatchie 73, Ingomar 69, OT (3A-G) Booneville 50, Nettleton 36 (3A-G) Belmont 68, Jefferson County 54 (5A-G) West Jones 57, Callaway 45 (5A-G) Natchez 71, Pearl 51

Tuesday (1A-B) Coffeeville 92, Ingomar 69 (1A-B) Shaw 73, Ashland 71, OT (3A-B) Aberdeen 57, Forest 48 (3A-B) Velma Jackson 75, Humphreys Co. 41 (5A-B) Callaway 83, Laurel 73 (5A-B) Ridgeland 29, Wayne Co. 27

Wednesday (2A-G) East Webster 51, Newton 35 (2A-G) West Tallahatchie 58, Amite Co. 53 (4A-G) Bay 49, Quitman 47 (4A-G) Raymond 54, Shannon 44 (6A-G) Olive Branch 81, Harrison Central 72 (6A-G) Horn Lake 60, Starkville 39

Thursday (2A-B) Bay Springs 68, Newton 61, 2OT (2A-B) Okolona 73, West Tallahatchie 67 (4A-B) Quitman 64, Gentry 54 (4A-B) McComb 59, Corinth 49 (6A-B) Madison Central 45, Provine 37 (6A-B) Starkville 53, Meridian 47

Sports

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Struggling Rebels await NCAA fate

BY DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer

Mississippi has done just about everything possible to play its way out of NCAA Tournament consideration.

The Rebels (20-12) appeared to be cruising toward a second trip to the tournament in three years before losing five of their last eight games, including a stunning 60-58 loss to South Carolina on Thursday in the Southeastern Conference tournament.

Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy still believes his team has a decent shot at making the field of 68 teams, but said here will be a lot of uncertainty until the brackets are announced on Sunday.

“We have now taken destiny out of our own hands, and so now we just have to wait

and see what the other teams that are in the equation have done,” Kennedy said.

It’s a familiar spot for a program that has lived on the NCAA Tournament bubble for most of the past decade — and usually on the wrong side of it. The Rebels have been to the National Invitation Tournament five times and the NCAA Tournament just once in Kennedy’s eight seasons.

If Ole Miss has to settle for a sixth NIT in nine seasons, it won’t have anyone to blame but itself. The Rebels had a 58-57 lead over South Carolina on Thursday night with less than a second remaining when LaDarius White fouled Tyrone Johnson on a desperation 3-pointer. Johnson hit all three free throws to give the Gamecocks the win.

Kennedy said nobody felt worse about the play than White — a senior who has had a big role with the team in all four of his seasons — but it was indicative of how the veteran Rebels have surprisingly struggled in crucial situations. “For a team that has as many upperclassmen as we do, as many minutes have been logged, I think our awareness failed us at times and as a result, it’s got us in this precarious situation,” Kennedy said.

White was brutally honest in the minutes following Thursday’s loss when asked about the team’s NCAA Tournament chances.

“I really don’t feel like we’ve done enough,” he said.

That remains to be seen. Ole Miss ended the season poorly,

but also had some good moments earlier in the year. The Rebels beat Arkansas on their home court and pushed No. 1 Kentucky to overtime before losing. There are also solid wins against Oregon, Cincinnati and Texas A&M. But for a program that’s used to being so close to the NCAA Tournament before falling short, the next few days won’t be much fun.

Kennedy said that regardless of what happens on Sunday, he’s proud of how his team competed, even if the last four weeks haven’t gone as planned. “That’s the price of competition,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t want to live in this world, then don’t compete because it’s the price of competition. The highs are high and the lows are low.”

Quarterfinals 1A Boys Ingomar 66, Montgomery Co. 54 Coffeeville 71, Salem 48 Ashland 76, Durant 41 Shaw 78, Pelahatchie 40

1A Girls Ashland 71, McAdams 70 West Union 57, Bogue Chitto 55, OT Ingomar 81, Sebastopol 37 Pelahatchie 61, Ray Brooks 60

2A Boys Newton 53, Baldwyn 41 Bay Springs 77, Calhoun City 66 Okolona 56, Bassfield 49 West Tallahatchie 66, Leake Co. 38

2A Girls Newton 60, New Site 57 East Webster 40, Heidelberg 33 West Tallahatchie 59, Lake 44 Amite Co. 77, Calhoun City 61

3A Boys Forest 63, Mooreville 43 Aberdeen 62, Tylertown 55 Velma Jackson 68, Holly Springs 61 Humphrey’s Co. 51, Crystal Springs 46

3A Girls Booneville 51, Choctaw Central 49 Nettleton 41, Prentiss 37 Belmont 43, Velma Jackson 36 Jefferson Co. 52, Ruleville 49

4A Boys Quitman 71, Byhalia 68 Gentry 61, Lawrence Co. 55 Corinth 78, Newton Co. 32 McComb 66, New Albany 52

4A Girls Quitman 46, Pontotoc 40 Bay 68, New Albany 65, 2OT Shannon 52, South Pike 47 Raymond 47, Itawamba 41

5A Girls West Jones 52, Lewisburg 40 Callaway 51, Stone 32 Natchez 43, Lanier 36 Pearl 64, West Harrison 62

5A Boys Laurel 72, Center Hill 59 Callaway 67, Pascagoula 48 Wayne Co. 57, Oxford 56 Ridgeland 36, West Harrison 27

6A Girls Olive Branch 57, Hancock 34 Harrison Central 58, Murrah 41 Horn Lake 57, Terry 21 Starkville 59, Hattiesburg 52

6A Boys Provine 57, Horn Lake 35 Madison Central 65, St. Martin 38 Meridian 60, Southaven 45 Starkville 62, Hattiesburg 47

Photo by Chris Todd

Community convention

Corinth High School fans came out and showed their support for the Warrior basketball team in their second appearance in the 2015 Class 4A Boys State Tournament on Thursday. Corinth (25-8) opened play in its 17th event with a 78-32 win over Newton County in quarterfinal action at Jackson State University before falling to defending state champion McComb (30-1) in Thursday’s semifinal bout at Mississippi Coliseum.

No. 1 Kentucky steamrolls Auburn

BY GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Willie Cauley-Stein scored 18 points and Andrew Harrison added 15 for No. 1 Kentucky, which routed depleted Auburn 91-67 Saturday to reach the Southeastern Conference Tournament final and run its record to a school-record 330.

The Wildcats had their way against a short-handed opponent. Forward Jordon Granger was suspended for fighting in Friday’s semifinal win over LSU, and just before tipoff Auburn announced the suspension of forward Cinmeon Bowers for a potential rules

violation.

Their presence likely wouldn’t have mattered against Kentucky, which clicked in all areas and will play for the title Sunday against the Arkansas-Georgia winner. The Wildcats shot 56 percent and outrebounded the Tigers 39-25 for the tournament’s most lopsided victory.

Trey Lyles, Aaron Harrison and Devin Booker each added 12 points for the Wildcats, who led by as many 28 in the final minute.

Antoine Mason’s 23 points led Auburn (15-20), which shot 33 percent and had won its previous three games.

Malcolm Canada added 16 points and KT Harrell 13 for the Tigers.

Coming off a 15-point quarterfinal victory, Kentucky started stronger and didn’t let up. More than anything, the Wildcats to quickly deflate an Auburn team that on Friday upset fourth-seeded LSU 7370 in overtime.

Whatever euphoria the Tigers enjoyed from the LSU game faded in a hurry against Kentucky, which drilled them by 35 points last month in Lexington. The challenge was all the more difficult without Granger, who sat several rows behind the Auburn bench with fans dressed in

warmups.

Then came the s pregame announcement of Bowers’ suspension that made Auburn’s task even tougher.

The forward sat on the bench dressed in a warmup, left with the role of playing cheerleader.

Starting in Bowers’ place was 6-foot-5 junior swing man Devin Waddell, who had scored just 14 points this season. The Tigers also used 7-foot-2 reserve Trayvon Reed but still lacked the size and manpower to keep up with the taller, deeper Wildcats.

Please see KENTUCKY | 11A

Arkansas routs Georgia in semifinals

BY TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Michael Qualls scored 15 points and No. 21 Arkansas beat third-seeded Georgia 60-49 on Saturday in the Southeastern Conference semifinals.

The second-seeded Razorbacks (26-7) will play topranked Kentucky on Sunday in their sixth championship game and first time since 2008. Both teams struggled in a sluggish game for teams that played Friday night, with Georgia leaving the arena around midnight.

Bobby Portis scored a season-low four points for Arkansas. The coaches’ pick for the SEC’s best player hit only one of 14 shots, though he grabbed 12 rebounds. Portis looked frustrated as he missed his first eight shots before finally grabbing a rebound and putting it back up for his first bucket with 15:06 left. He made up for that on the boards.

Georgia (21-11) failed for a second straight year to reach

the Bulldogs’ first final since 2008 when they won a tournament rearranged by tornadoes that hit Atlanta.

Marcus Thornton and Cameron Forte each scored 13 points for Georgia, and Taylor Echols had 10.

The Bulldogs, who’ve been banged up most of the SEC season, played without junior guard Kenny Gaines who had his sprained left ankle stepped on in Friday night’s win over South Carolina.

Coach Mark Fox played guard Juwan Parker, who missed 15 games this season with a sore Achilles, but he played six minutes and grabbed two rebounds.

When Thornton went down hard early, Fox even helped his senior forward up off the floor.

That left Georgia turning elsewhere for help, and Forte came off the bench to score 11 of the Bulldogs’ first 15 points topping his season high before halftime.

It wasn’t enough as Georgia managed only to tie up

Arkansas once at 12 late in the first half off a Forte layup.

Qualls answered with a dunk to put the Razorbacks ahead to stay, and they pushed the lead out to 25-17 at halftime.

With Georgia hitting only one of its first eight shots in the second half, Arkansas didn’t need its swarming defense to force the Bulldogs into mistakes and turnovers.

The Razorbacks just kept padding their lead, finally going up by as44-25 on back-toback 3s by Anthlon Bell with 13:08 to go.

Georgia tried to rally with an 11-3 run to get within nine at 56-47 on a 3 by Taylor Echols. About the only thing that didn’t go Arkansas’ way in the second half was when Qualls went flying in for a dunk that smashed off the rim, a miss that left Qualls smiling at himself.

SEC in made free throws, the Bulldogs shot 56.6 percent (13 of 23) at the line. ... They turned it over 11 times in their first game with Arkansas this season but had only 12 for this game.

Arkansas: The Razorbacks have only one tournament title since joining the SEC in 1992, and that was back in 2000.

They now have won five of their last six semifinal appearances, but this was their first since 2008 when they lost the final to Georgia.

They hit 12 of 15 at the line.

Portis’ performance: This was only the second time this season Portis didn’t score in double figures.

He scored six against North Texas on Nov. 28.

Up next Tip-ins

Georgia: Waiting for NCAA Georgia: The Bulldogs lost Tournament berth. in the semifinals for a second Arkansas: Plays Kentucky straight year. Third in the today.

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Corinth HS complex hosting NE twinbill

BY BLAKE D. LONG NEMCC Sports Information

The latest round of inclement weather has forced the Northeast Mississippi Community College softball program to make additional changes to its schedule.

Today’s Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) North Division doubleheader against Mississippi Delta Community College has been moved from Booneville to the Corinth High School Softball Complex.

First pitch is now set for 2 p.m. at the all-turf facility and both games will air on NEMCCTV. com.

The Tigers were

scheduled to host both Arkansas State University and Three Rivers (Mo.) Community College for single games on Saturday.

Those contests are now postponed with no makeup date set at this time.

For up-to-date schedules of each of Northeast’s five spring sports, please visit www.nemccathletics.com.

Shorts Registration for 13-15 boys’ baseball at Crossroads Regional Park will run through May 1. Cost is $45 per child. Proof of residency and birth certificate for new players required.

NE Football Tryout Northeast Mississippi Community College has set its annual open tryout date for March 20 at 1 p.m. This session is open to both on-campus students and high school seniors. All those that attend the audition must pay $10 to cover training costs and bring an updated physical form. Participants are expected to bring their own athletic apparel. For more information about tryouts for the 2015 Northeast football team, please contact head coach Greg Davis at 662-720-7580 or by email at gadavis@nemcc.edu.

KENTUCKY

Andrew Harrison and Lyles combined for 22 first-half points and the Wildcats led 47-29 at the break, shooting 58 percent.

Auburn drew within 55-42 on two free throws

by Harrell early in the second half. But Kentucky built its lead to 27 with 10 1/2 minutes left, with Devin Booker lobbing to Willie CauleyStein for a thunderous dunk . That brought Wildcats fans to their feet again as their team returned to a familiar spot in the tournament.

Cooler heads prevailed Down two players, Auburn couldn’t afford to lose another. So when 7-2 Tigers center Trayvon Reed and 5-9 Kentucky guard Tyler Ulis started jawing early in the first half, teammates quickly stepped in to prevent it from escalat-

Sprint: CampingWorld.com 500 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race today at Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Ariz. Lap length: 1 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 140.751 mph.

2. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 140.543.

3. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 140.422.

4. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 140.072.

5. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 139.833.

6. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 139.817.

7. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 139.779.

8. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 139.665.

9. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 139.643.

10. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 139.535.

11. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 138.969.

12. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 138.755.

13. (18) David Ragan, Toyota, 139.157.

14. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 139.141.

15. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 138.884.

16. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 138.814.

17. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 138.718.

18. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 138.654.

19. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 138.515.

20. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 138.483.

21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 138.478.

22. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 138.43.

23. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 138.297.

24. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 137.862.

25. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 137.562.

26. (7) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 137.363.

27. (9) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 137.211.

28. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 136.674.

29. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 136.586.

30. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 136.55.

31. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 136.467.

32. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 136.405.

33. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 136.266.

34. (98) Josh Wise, Ford, 136.245.

35. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 135.834.

36. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 135.675.

37. (32) Mike Bliss, Ford, Owner Points.

38. (34) Brett Moffitt, Ford, Owner Points.

39. (35) Cole Whitt, Ford, Owner Points.

40. (23) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, Owner Points.

41. (26) Jeb Burton, Toyota, Owner Points.

42. (62) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

43. (33) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

Failed to Qualify 44. (66) Tanner Berryhill, Chevrolet, 132.533.

45. (44) Travis Kvapil, Chevrolet, 132.086.

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ing into another confrontation. Both players were assessed technical fouls but no free throws were taken.

Tip-ins Auburn: Waddell and Reed combined for three points and seven rebounds for the Tigers. ...

Auburn posted just one first-half assist and finished with five.

Kentucky: One of Ulis’ five first-half assists included a drive through several players to the baseline before wrapping a pass around one to Cauley-Stein for a dunk, plus one.

The 7-footer missed the free throw, but Dakari Johnson dunked the rebound for a 20-point lead. ... Kentucky was 7 of 14 from 3-point range.

Up next: Auburn: Season ends.

Kentucky: Faces Arkansas in SEC championship today.

Spring training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct 10 1 .909 5 2 .714 6 3 .667 7 4 .636 8 5 .615 7 5 .583 6 5 .545 6 7 .462 5 6 .455 4 5 .444 6 8 .429 5 7 .417 4 6 .400 3 6 .333 3 10 .231 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Los Angeles 6 2 .750 Miami 7 3 .700 Philadelphia 7 4 .636 Arizona 6 4 .600 Colorado 5 4 .556 San Diego 6 5 .545 Cincinnati 5 5 .500 New York 6 6 .500 Pittsburgh 5 5 .500 St. Louis 5 5 .500 Washington 4 6 .400 Milwaukee 3 6 .333 Atlanta 3 8 .273 Chicago 3 8 .273 San Francisco 3 8 .273 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 5, Detroit (ss) 4 Miami 4, Washington (ss) 0 Minnesota 6, St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 5, Boston 2 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees (ss) 4, Detroit (ss) 1 Toronto 1, N.Y. Yankees (ss) 0 N.Y. Mets 13, Washington (ss) 4 Chicago Cubs (ss) 3, Oakland (ss) 1 Colorado 1, Cincinnati 0 San Diego 2, Texas 0 Oakland (ss) 5, San Francisco 2 Chicago Cubs (ss) 10, Milwaukee 5 L.A. Dodgers 7, Cleveland 2 L.A. Angels (ss) 7, Kansas City 6, 10 innings Seattle 11, Arizona 4 Chicago White Sox 7, L.A. Angels (ss) 6 Houston vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., (n) San Francisco vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., (n) Today’s Games Boston vs. Philadelphia (ss) at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

St. Louis vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (ss) vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Washington vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Milwaukee (ss) at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (ss) vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Kansas City Houston Minnesota Boston New York Oakland Texas Toronto Seattle Los Angeles Detroit Cleveland Tampa Bay Chicago Baltimore

Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Arizona vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 5:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Baltimore vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. Houston (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Houston (ss) vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Texas vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 4:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Basketball NBA standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 39 26 .600 — Boston 29 36 .446 10 Brooklyn 26 38 .406 12½ Philadelphia 15 51 .227 24½ New York 13 51 .203 25½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 51 14 .785 — Washington 38 28 .576 13½ Charlotte 29 35 .453 21½ Miami 29 36 .446 22 Orlando 21 46 .313 31 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 42 25 .627 — Chicago 40 27 .597 2 Milwaukee 34 31 .523 7 Indiana 30 35 .462 11 Detroit 23 42 .354 18 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 45 20 .692 — Houston 43 22 .662 2 Dallas 42 25 .627 4 San Antonio 40 24 .625 4½ New Orleans 36 29 .554 9 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 43 20 .683 — Oklahoma City 36 29 .554 8 Utah 28 36 .438 15½ Denver 25 41 .379 19½ Minnesota 14 50 .219 29½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 51 13 .797 — L.A. Clippers 42 24 .636 10 Phoenix 34 33 .507 18½ Sacramento 22 43 .338 29½ L.A. Lakers 17 47 .266 34 x-clinched playoff spot ––– Thursday’s Games Washington 107, Memphis 87 Indiana 109, Milwaukee 103, OT Utah 109, Houston 91 Cleveland 128, San Antonio 125, OT New York 101, L.A. Lakers 94 Friday’s Games Philadelphia 114, Sacramento 107 Charlotte 101, Chicago 91 Toronto 102, Miami 92 Boston 95, Orlando 88 Oklahoma City 113, Minnesota 99 Dallas 129, L.A. Clippers 99 Denver 114, Golden State 103 Atlanta 96, Phoenix 87 Portland 118, Detroit 99 Saturday’s Games Washington 113, Sacramento 97 Boston 93, Indiana 89 Brooklyn 94, Philadelphia 87 Memphis 96, Milwaukee 83 Detroit at Utah (n) New York at Golden State (n) Today’s Games Chicago at Oklahoma City, 1 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Portland at Toronto, 7 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Portland at Washington, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Miami, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Utah, 8 p.m.

Atlanta at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

SEC tournament At Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tenn.

First Round Wednesday Auburn 74, Mississippi State 68 South Carolina 63, Missouri 54 Second Round Thursday Florida 69, Alabama 61 Auburn 66, Texas A&M 59 Tennessee 67, Vanderbilt 61 South Carolina 60, Mississippi 58 Friday’s quarterfinals Kentucky 64, Florida 49 Auburn 73, LSU 70, OT Arkansas 80, Tennessee 72 Georgia 74, South Carolina 62 Saturday’s semifinals Saturday, March 14 Kentucky 91, Auburn 67 Arkansas 60, Georgia 49 Championship Sunday, March 15 Kentucky vs. Arkansas, Noon

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Golf

Philadelphia at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Boston at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Nashville at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Monday’s Games Washington at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

Arizona at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

PGA: Valspar Championships At Innisbrook Resort, Copperhead Course Palm Harbor, Fla. Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,340; Par 71 Third Round Ryan Moore 69-68-67—204 Jordan Spieth 70-67-68—205 Derek Ernst 67-70-69—206 Sean O’Hair 66-72-69—207 Patrick Reed 72-68-68—208 Matt Kuchar 70-70-68—208 Henrik Stenson 67-70-71—208 Daniel Summerhays 70-72-67—209 Vijay Singh 69-70-70—209 Russell Knox 69-71-70—210 Billy Hurley III 69-71-70—210 Nick Taylor 70-70-70—210 Lucas Glover 69-69-72—210 Sam Saunders 70-72-69—211 Chad Campbell 70-72-69—211 Luke Guthrie 68-73-70—211 Jason Kokrak 68-73-70—211 Brian Davis 65-76-70—211 Shawn Stefani 68-72-71—211 Jason Bohn 70-69-72—211 Kevin Streelman 68-69-74—211 Brendon de Jonge 67-69-75—211 Chesson Hadley 73-69-70—212 Francesco Molinari 70-72-70—212 Danny Lee 72-69-71—212 Jason Dufner 70-71-71—212 Lee Westwood 71-70-71—212 Troy Merritt 72-69-71—212 Kenny Perry 69-72-71—212 Nick Watney 72-69-71—212 Charles Howell III 70-70-72—212 Justin Thomas 67-72-73—212 Ricky Barnes 66-72-74—212 Rafael Cabrera Bello 74-69-70—213 Jim Furyk 69-73-71—213 Will Wilcox 68-73-72—213 John Huh 71-70-72—213 Brendon Todd 70-70-73—213 Alex Cejka 67-73-73—213 Cameron Tringale 71-69-73—213 Luke Donald 72-68-73—213 Michael Putnam 70-69-74—213 Ian Poulter 68-70-75—213 Andres Romero 74-69-71—214 David Hearn 70-73-71—214 Brandt Snedeker 70-73-71—214 S.J. Park 71-71-72—214 John Peterson 68-73-73—214 Kevin Na 71-70-73—214 Will MacKenzie 69-72-73—214 Nicholas Thompson 67-74-73—214 Greg Chalmers 69-72-73—214 Jon Curran 72-71-72—215 Mark Wilson 70-73-72—215 Spencer Levin 71-71-73—215 Martin Laird 69-72-74—215 Harris English 69-72-74—215 Ken Duke 73-67-75—215 Kevin Kisner 71-72-73—216 D.A. Points 73-69-74—216 Freddie Jacobson 72-71-74—217 Stewart Cink 69-73-75—217 Jeff Overton 69-74-75—218 Adam Hadwin 68-75-75—218 Scott Langley 71-72-75—218 Carl Pettersson 71-72-75—218 Robert Garrigus 71-71-76—218 Carlos Ortiz 69-73-76—218 Sangmoon Bae 71-72-76—219

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Hockey NHL standings EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA d-N.Y. Rangers 67 43 17 7 93 205 157 d-Montreal 69 43 19 7 93 182 153 Tampa Bay 70 42 21 7 91 226 182 N.Y. Islanders 71 43 24 4 90 221 199 Pittsburgh 68 39 19 10 88 195 168 Detroit 67 37 19 11 85 195 182 Boston 68 36 22 10 82 184 173 Washington 69 36 23 10 82 203 172 Florida 68 31 23 14 76 169 190 Ottawa 67 32 24 11 75 192 179 Philadelphia 70 29 27 14 72 185 200 New Jersey 68 28 29 11 67 154 178 Columbus 68 30 34 4 64 178 215 Toronto 70 27 37 6 60 187 222 Carolina 67 25 34 8 58 158 185 Buffalo 68 19 43 6 44 129 230 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA d-Anaheim 70 43 20 7 93 204 193 d-St. Louis 67 43 19 5 91 210 167 Nashville 69 42 20 7 91 199 168 Vancouver 68 39 25 4 82 193 184 Chicago 68 41 21 6 88 198 157 Calgary 68 38 25 5 81 203 178 Minnesota 68 37 24 7 81 193 172 Winnipeg 69 34 23 12 80 191 186 Los Angeles 67 33 21 13 79 184 170 San Jose 69 34 27 8 76 193 193 Dallas 69 32 27 10 74 218 226 Colorado 68 31 26 11 73 181 191 Arizona 68 21 39 8 50 144 226 Edmonton 69 18 39 12 48 160 23 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader Friday’s Games Columbus 5, Edmonton 4, SO Ottawa 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Dallas 4, Washington 2 Anaheim 2, Minnesota 1 Calgary 6, Toronto 3 Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 7, Detroit 2 Boston 2, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago 6, San Jose 2 N.Y. Rangers 2, Buffalo 0 Winnipeg 2, Tampa Bay 1 Montreal 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Florida 2, Carolina 0 Vancouver 4, Toronto 1 Minnesota at St. Louis, (n) New Jersey at Arizona, (n) Calgary at Colorado (n) Nashville at Los Angeles (n) Today’s Games Detroit at Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.

Florida at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Columbus, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Deals BASEBALL National League WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned INF/OF Jeff Kobernus to Syracuse (IL).

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Agreed to terms with DE Jarius Wynn.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released WR Greg Jennings.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Assigned F Luke Adam to Springfield (AHL).

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Recalled D Bobby Shea from Wheeling (ECHL).

COLLEGE BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Suspended Penn State hockey student-athlete Scott Conway one game for receiving a major penalty for contact to the head and a game misconduct in a March 13 game against Minnesota.

AUBURN — Suspended men’s basketball F Cinmeon Bowers one game for a potential rules violation.

Television Today’s lineup AUTO RACING 10:30 a.m. (FS1) – NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for CampingWorld.com 500, at Avondale, Ariz.

11:30 a.m. (FS1) – NASCAR, XFINITY Series, pole qualifying for Faster Tougher Brighter 200, at Avondale, Ariz.

1:30 p.m. (FS1) – NASCAR, Sprint Cup, “Happy Hour Series,” final practice for CampingWorld.com 500, at Avondale, Ariz.

3 p.m. (FOX) – NASCAR, XFINITY Series, Faster Tougher Brighter 200, at Avondale, Ariz.

11:30 p.m. (NBCSN) – Formula One, Australian Grand Prix, at Melbourne 12:30 a.m. (ESPN2) – NHRA, qualifying for Gatornationals, at Gainesville, Fla. (delayed tape) BOXING 8:45 p.m. (HBO) – Light heavyweights, Isaac Chilemba (23-2-2) vs. Vasily Lepikhin (17-0-0); heavyweights, Vyacheslav Glazkov (19-0-1) vs. Steve Cunningham (28-6-0); champion Sergey Kovalev (26-01) vs. Jean Pascal (29-2-1), for WBO/IBF/ WBA light heavyweight titles, at Montreal CYCLING 9 p.m. (NBCSN) – Paris-Nice, stage 6, Vence to Nice, France (same-day tape) GOLF 5:30 a.m. (TGC) – European PGA Tour, Tshwane Open, third round, at Pretoria, South Africa Noon (TGC) – PGA Tour, Valspar Championship, third round, at Palm Harbor, Fla. 2 p.m. (NBC) – PGA Tour, Valspar Championship, third round, at Palm Harbor, Fla. MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 10 a.m. (ESPN2) – America East Conference, championship, Stony Brook at Albany Noon (CBS) – Big Ten Conference, doubleheader, semifinals, WisconsinMichigan winner vs. Purdue-Penn St. winner, at Chicago Noon (ESPN) – Southeastern Conference, semifinal, Kentucky-Florida winner vs. LSU-Auburn winner, at Nashville, Tenn.

Noon (ESPN2) – Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, championship, N.C. CentralDelaware St. winner vs. Norfolk St.-Hampton winner, at Norfolk, Va. 2 p.m. (ESPN) – Southeastern Conference, semifinal, Arkansas-Tennessee winner vs. Georgia-South Carolina winner, at Nashville, Tenn.

2 p.m. (ESPN2) – American Athletic Conference, semifinal, SMU-East Carolina winner vs. Temple-Memphis winner, at Hartford, Conn.

2:30 p.m. (FS1) – Conference USA, championship, UTEP-Middle Tennessee winner vs. UAB-Louisiana Tech winner, at Birmingham, Ala. 4 p.m. (ESPN2) – American Athletic Conference, semifinal, Tulsa-Houston winner vs. Cincinnati-UConn winner, at Hartford, Conn.

5 p.m. (CBS) – Mountain West Conference, championship, Boise St.-Wyoming winner vs. San Diego St.-Colorado St. winner, at Las Vegas 5 p.m. (ESPN) – Big 12 Conference, championship, Baylor-Kansas winner vs. Iowa St.-Oklahoma winner, at Kansas City, Mo. 5:30 p.m. (ESPNU) – Southwestern Athletic Conference, championship, Alabama St.-Southern winner vs. Texas Southern-Prairie View winner, at Houston 6:30 p.m. (ESPN2) – Mid-American Conference, championship, Central Michigan-Toledo winner vs. Buffalo-Akron winner, at Cleveland

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Novel tells story of ill-fated crossing

BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER The Bookworm Sez

“Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson c.2015, Crown $28.00 / $32.50 Canada 431 pages It almost scared you to death.

That’s what it seemed like: heart pounding, palms sweaty, legs weak - but still in one piece, breathing again, thankful that you only had a nearmiss. History, however, is not so benign, as you’ll see in “Dead Wake” by Erik Larson.

William Thomas Turner “excelled” at his job.

Though no one would call him charming – he hated pretending as such – Turner had steadfastly worked through the ranks to become Captain of the Cunard Steam-Ship Company’s Lusitania, a premiere ocean liner. With over 200 successful trips

across the Atlantic Ocean, “The ship endured.”

That record was important to her 1,265 passengers. Each of them appreciated the luxury (lengthy menus, gardens, and “20 cubic feet” of luggage allowed), and speed (up to 25 knots) that the Lusitania promised. And since Germany had issued warnings to all ships entering British waters, passengers appreciated the ships’ safety, and they scoffed. “The Lusitania was simply too big and too fast” for any real threat.

In Washington, D.C., President Woodrow Wilson was doubly-bereft: with his wife Ellen dead not quite a year, he’d fallen in love again. Edith Bolling Galt gently discouraged him as was war waged between Britain and Germany, but Wilson would do “all he could to keep America neutral”… and to get Edith to marry him.

To those who served

with him, Kptlt. Walther Schweiger was a conundrum: known for his sense of humor with those aboard Unterseeboot-20, Schweiger was also renowned for his “callousness.” Life aboard a German U-boat was not pleasant, but Schweiger ensured that his men were happy.

He had much less compassion for anyone on a ship in his sights.

On May 1, 1915, the Lusitania prepared to leave New York City en route to Liverpool but first, it had business to tend to: a nearby British luxury liner had been conscripted and its passengers re-assigned.

Getting them aboard took an extra two hours; the Lusitania, therefore, was late getting out to sea.

Says Larson, “Even the briefest delay could shape history.”

So you think you know what happened nearly a century ago. So did author Erik Larson but as

he researched, he “quickly realized how wrong” he was about the Lusitania.

And so will you, as you immerse yourself inside “Dead Wake.”

This story of a ship, however, wouldn’t be nearly as fascinating without the story of those hating it, in charge of it, on it, and not on it. Indeed, as Larson tells a thousand tiny stories of passengers and foes, bravery and duty, we become wrapped up in each tale, needing to know each individual fate.

It’s also, therefore, easy to become uneasy: menace is like fog here because we know. Larson’s account of this historic event made me want to scream “Watch out!” loud enough to be heard 100 years ago.

While it’s a sure-bet for historians, I also think thriller fans will love this book, too. If your heart doesn’t pound while reading “Dead Wake,” in fact, get it checked. You might be dead, too.

Mississippi stuntmen broke Hollywood color barrier

BY BILLY WATKINS The Clarion-Ledger

JACKSON (AP) — Willie Harris couldn’t have picked a better time to get shot.

On the other end of the .44 magnum stood Clint Eastwood, playing the ultimate cool role of a police detective in the 1971 movie “Dirty Harry.”

Aggravated that his lunch was interrupted by a bank robbery, Eastwood strolls across the street and takes out Harris with one click of the trigger. Still chewing his hot dog. Brushing off a few shotgun pellets to the leg as if they were lint.

And then he delivers the iconic line: “You have to ask yourself one question — Do I feel lucky?

Well, do you, punk?”

“I haven’t found too many people who don’t remember that scene,” says Harris, 73, who grew up in the Holmes County community of Howard.

“When I tell them that was me falling down the steps, they wonder if I’m joking.”

He isn’t. Harris, who stands 6-foot-8 and spent a year playing basketball at Alcorn State, was one of the first black stuntmen in Hollywood.

“In the late 1960s, there was one black movie producer that we knew of — Gordon Parks,” Harris says.

“There were no black people

“It’s nice to hear that people believe we did something worthwhile and made a difference.” in wardrobe or makeup or operating cameras. I don’t like for it to come off as bragging. Young people will just say, ‘Aw, you’re full of it.’ But we changed Hollywood. We busted down the doors for a lot of black people in the movie industry.”

Harris is president of the Black Stuntmen’s Association, which was honored Thursday by the Mississippi Legislature at the Capitol in Jackson. Only 14 of the 22 original members are still alive. Eight of those 14 made the trip.

In addition to Harris, two others are Mississippians: Henry Graddy, who grew up in Meridian but now resides in Gardina, California, and Dewitt Fondren of Walls.

The group has been honored by former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the legislature in Nevada, where Harris resides.

The Smithsonian is planning an exhibit about the group.

But the Mississippi members say Thursday’s tribute meant the most.

“It’s like a dream,” says Graddy, who at age 78

still drives an 18-wheeler from California to Destin, Florida, weekly to deliver produce. His son, Henry, often accompanies him.

“It’s nice to hear that people believe we did something worthwhile and made a difference.”

This may not be the best time to mention actor/comedian Bill Cosby, who has been accused by more than 30 women since November with drugging them, sexually assaulting them or both.

But Cosby deserves credit for demanding that Hollywood hire a black man to perform his stunts in the secret-agent TV series “I Spy” (1965-68).

At a 2008 event in Las Vegas to honor the first black stuntmen, Calvin Brown of Farmersville, Louisiana, Cosby recalled watching a makeup artist paint a white stunt man black and attach a wig to his head. It was known as a “paint down.”

Cosby said in his speech, which can be seen on YouTube, that he told powerful movie producer Sheldon Leonard he “never wanted to see that happen again.”

Leonard conceded, and

Brown performed Cosby’s stunts for most of the show’s four years. Brown also found work on “Mission: Impossible” and “The Wild, Wild West.”

Harris and Fondren landed in California while serving in the military. Graddy went to visit his mother there “and never left.”

Each got into the stunt business through acquaintances.

Harris’ story is perhaps the most bizarre A friend introduced Harris to Brown, which was the first time Harris had heard of a stunt man.

Not long after that, he was driving a friend to north Hollywood, got lost and stopped to ask for directions. Harris didn’t know he had walked on the set where the 1969 blockbuster “Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice” was being filmed. The person volunteering directions was actor Elliott Gould, who was about to make it big. (Young people, he played the father of Monica on “Friends.”)

Gould noticed Harris’ tall stature and asked if he’d ever considered stunt work. Harris was open to the idea. Gould met with him the next day and gave him a letter of recommendation by producer Robert Altman to help him gain membership into the Screen Actors Guild.

When Harris went to apply, they required a $236 membership fee. “I didn’t have 36 cents,” he says.

He went back to where Gould was filming and told him he couldn’t afford to join and thanked him. Gould pulled out his wallet. “Are you married?

Kids?” Gould asked. Yes, and three kids, Harris told him.

“Here’s the money to cover the fee, and here’s another $300 to spend on your kids,” Gould said.

“He was just an incredibly caring man, and I could never repay him for what he did out of the goodness of his heart,” Harris says.

He had the chance to thank Gould last October when they were brought together to film a documentary segment about the Black Stuntmen’s Association.

Harris worked as a stuntman until 1972 when he broke two vertebra and tore up a knee during a barroom brawl in the movie “Top of the Heap.”

“We were a pretty tight-knit group. We had to train ourselves at a park there in Los Angeles, learning how to fall by jumping off a baseball backstop onto cardboard boxes. Renting cars to learn how to do 180’s,” he said. “I told the guys

that even though I couldn’t do stunts anymore, I could go around and promote them,” he says. “So I went from doing stunts to public relations to president of the Black Stuntmen’s Association.”

Graddy did plumbing work off and on for 37 years while also performing stunts for 17 years on numerous TV shows and movies such as “Starsky and Hutch” and “The Hardy Boys.”

“I was able to get out of it before I got bent up and broke up,” he says.

Fondren, 69, worked as a stuntman on the hit TV series “McCloud” in the early 1970s. The show starred Dennis Weaver, who was known for his role as Chester on Gunsmoke. He had served in the Marines with Weaver’s son.

“Dennis was a wonderful man with a huge heart,” says Fondren, who also worked on the pilot for “M*A*S*H,” one of the most popular series in TV history.

The Black Stuntmen’s Association “sorta lay stagnant” during the 1980s, Harris says.

“But in 2005, it hit me that a lot of the members were starting to die off,” he says. “So I picked it back up in 2005, and I’m really glad. I’m happy to know our story won’t die with us.”

Ole Miss profs’ invention offers help for stutterers

BY ERROL CASTENS Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — An estimated 3 million Americans stutter, and three University of Mississippi professors have created a device that might help many of them.

“We call it a stuttering prosthetic,” said Paul Goggans, professor of electrical engineering.

“We call it that because we want to emphasize that it’s not a cure: It’s an aid.”

The device uses an “accelerometer” to pick up vocal vibrations, filter them and amplify them through a tiny vibrator that can be held, put in a pocket or attached to skin such as under a watch band.

“What it does is pretty straightforward.

How it works on the brain

is a complicated question that I’m not sure anybody has the answer to,” Goggans said. “Our idea is that stuttering is caused by a failure of the internal feedback in the body. You say something, and the brain doesn’t get the message that you’ve finished, so it says, ‘Do it again. Do it again. Do it again.’ What this (device) does is to give a different path for the feedback to come so the brain gets the message.”

“The stuttering community is unrecognized and underserved,” said Gregory Snyder, associate professor of communication disorders, who is himself a stutterer.

“We’re not claiming to have a cure, but it’s more or less a prosthetic that makes events of daily living easier (like eyeglasses).”

When Snyder wears

the prototype, his incidence of stuttering is evident almost immediately.

“If you look at these earliest researchers, they had a clearer understanding of what stuttering is than some people in the 20th century,” Snyder said. “One of the realities is that speech feedback in whatever its format reduces stuttering frequency. This was overlooked for decades because, one, its prosthetic implementation was challenging, and two, because it was viewed from the wrong scientific model.

“When I talk, that’ll vibrate,” he said of the tactile end of the device. “That vibration is enough to reduce over stuttering by probably 80 percent.”

When Dwight Waddell came to Ole Miss in

2006, he was doing biomedical research with Parkinson’s patients.

“We saw a lot of similarity between what I was describing and what Greg was describing in totally different populations,” he said.

Parkinson’s patients often use bright colors to “unfreeze” their motor function, and their companions may affect the same change with a light touch on the arm.

That’s much how the tiny vibrations work, giving instantaneous feedback about the user’s verbal cues and miscues.

Ironically, the stutterer himself may not notice the difference as much as those around him.

“I had a student who was graduating, and she said, ‘My dad is a stutterer, and he’s going to visit at Commencement.’

She asked if he could try

a prototype, and I said yes, of course,” Waddell said. “He put it on and was very, very skeptical.

After 20 minutes he said, ‘This just isn’t working.’

I saw his wife and daughter look at each other, turn to the dad and say, ‘Are you kidding?’ They both told him how much more relaxed he was.

“Maybe your fluency doesn’t improve that much, but the effort you have to use to communicate dramatically drops,” Waddell said. “Greg will tell you, at the end of a bad stuttering day, you’re tired.”

Snyder noted that voice-activated technology is a growing problem for stutterers.

“I was talking yesterday with a guy who has a Ford Escape with In Touch (voice-activated technology),” he said.

“He tried to use the on-

board voice navigation . and so when he tried to get out the address, it obviously took him to the wrong place. He actually had to stop the car, take out the key, open the door and then close it to get the computer to stop saying the wrong address.

“As we become a more voice-technology society, the stuttering community may actually be left behind, which is a frightening prospect.

That’s a big deal.”

Snyder, Waddell and Goggans together hold the patent on their tactile vocal feedback device.

Ole Miss has licensed the technology to Hyperion Technology Group, and Innovate Mississippi chose it as one of fewer than a dozen ideas to be presented to potential investors in the Mississippi Angel Network.

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Celebrations

Anniversary

50th Wedding Anniversary The family of Judy and Albert Strickland wish to invite friends and family to a 50th wedding anniversary celebration on Sunday, March 22 from 1-3 p.m. at Farmington Baptist Church.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Unique favors make reception memorable Do you have a shelf or cabinet that’s filled to the brim with wedding favors such as engraved ice cream scoopers, cake servers, cheese spreaders or tea light candle holders? If you do, you’re not alone. As couples pore over guest favor options, many select trinkets or knickknacks that, while thoughtful, end up collecting dust in someone’s home. Edible gifts also can be thoughtful -- and flavorful!

Guests may look forward to an edible favor because it’s a memento of the special occasion and it won’t become a permanent fixture in their homes. There are many edible favors from which to choose. They can also be customized according to the theme of the wed-

ding.

Chocolate It’s difficult to find an edible favor more universally beloved than chocolate. Rich and inviting, chocolate has long been given as a symbol of love and devotion. Chocolate candies and baked goods can work well for wedding favors, provided the favors are refrigerated to avoid melting.

Ideas for chocolate favors include individually packaged truffles, gourmet brownie bites, candycovered chocolates with an inscription, chocolate covered apples, chocolate coins, and other similar creations. Chocolate molded designs (much like those chocolate Easter bunnies) are another idea.

Cookies Sweet cookies also

make good edible favors.

Butter cookies are a favorite because they are sturdy enough to cut into different shapes. Professionally iced, these cookies can be a masterpiece to behold. Some couples opt for customized fortune cookies that express personalized sentiments to guests.

Make-your-own Sometimes it’s less expensive to give guests kits that they can take home to create their own edible treasures. Options abound and can include everything from personalized packets of hot chocolate to tea bags.

Other couples choose among mixes for making cookies or cakes.

Candies It has become popular to have a self-serve candy

bar at many weddings.

Guests are invited to step up to the display and serve themselves from a series of different confections.

Autumn weddings could have Halloween-inspired candies or those in fall hues. It’s easy to follow a color theme when you have a bevy of different candies at your disposal.

Many discount stores sell inexpensive jars and candy dishes to house the candy. Designer Chinese takeout-type containers are available from craft stores and can be the perfect way for guests to make that candy portable.

Other edibles From cupcakes to maple syrup to personalized bottles of barbecue sauce, couples have so many options for guest favors at their disposal.

Use cuisine to create a memorable reception instead of being trendy Despite the months of planning and poring over every minute detail of a wedding, it has often been said that what people remember most about wedding receptions is the food and if they had fun. Therefore, instead of worrying about choosing Jordan almonds over chocolate truffles, or whether the cake should have an extra tier, couples may want to pay more attention to selecting their reception menus.

Although certain foods are wedding staples, it could pay for couples to think with their stomachs instead of their heads when selecting wedding

day fare. Having a selection of foods that taste as good as they look is a wise idea over having certain foods simply because they are trendy.

Whether you are cooking yourself, having a family member serve as chef or relying on the menu of the reception hall, think about foods that will please guests and select those items, regardless of them being fancy.

Here are some other tips.

• You want foods to be filling but not so much so that guests have to waddle to the dance floor. If you’re planning on several courses, keep portion sizes small to offer a taste

of the different items offered.

■ Classic foods can work well as wedding fare. Roasts, barbecued meats and favorite pasta dishes can make guests feel like they’re dining at someone’s home and not at a wedding.

■ Choose items people have heard of. Instead of tornadoes of beef, select a hearty prime rib. Just because a dish sounds fancy doesn’t make it taste better. If a guest doesn’t know what he or she is eating, it can be uncomfortable. Now is not the time to experiment with exotic foods, either. Otherwise, some picky eaters

may be left hungry.

■ Think about the foods you love and see if they can be incorporated at the wedding. Although a breakfast bar at an evening event may seem funny, waffles and omelets may appeal to a greater number of guests than a gourmet fish creation.

■ Don’t make vegetarians an afterthought. Too often, vegetarians must eat whatever the kitchen can pull together, which is usually a compilation of the vegetable garnishes from the meat dishes.

Make an effort to have a true vegetarian dish that is intricate and delicious.

• Mashed potatoes are a

crowd pleaser. Serve little portions of mashed potatoes in cocktail glasses and enable guests to top as they see fit with bacon bits, cheese or chives.

■ No idea is silly, and serving any type of food in a hors d’oeuvre style can make it acceptable at a formal affair, whether that food is pizza or caviar-topped crackers.

■ If you have a favorite restaurant that serves delicious food, find out if they will cater your wedding.

■ Just because it isn’t on the menu doesn’t mean it cannot be prepared. Talk to the catering manager and let him or her know

your preferences. Provided you’re willing to pay a little more, there’s a good chance you can have items that aren’t on the standard catering menu.

■ Think outside the box for your cocktail hour “bars.” A bread bar, a dipping station, milk and cookies service, or vegetable bar are options that go against the standard cheese and pasta stations.

Although it’s your wedding, ultimately the goal is to please the guests.

By choosing foods they will love and rave about, you’re guaranteed positive remarks on your wedding.

Daily Corinthian • Sunday, March 15, 2015 • 3B

Assistance Free legal services Free legal services by appointment only for age 60+ on Thursday, March 5, from 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. at the Alcorn County Human Resource Agency, 1300 Washington Street, Corinth, MS. Call 1-800-898-8731, ext. 2101 for an appointment for wills, powers of attorney, living wills, Medicare, Medicaid.

Sponsors: Northeast Mississippi Planning & Development District and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services.

T.O.P.S The Corinth Chapter 0359 of T.O.P.S (Take off Pounds Sensibly) will hold chapter meetings at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays at Waldron Street Christian Church. The local chapter was founded on Jan. 18, 2012. A non-profit weight loss support group, T.O.P.S

has helped millions of people take off weight for over 60 years. Participants will arrive between 10 and 10:30 a.m. for a confidential weigh in by appointed weight recorders. At 10:30 a.m. roll-call will be held. The first meeting is free.

Retiree breakfast

Volunteers needed

The Caterpillar Retiree Breakfast is held the first Monday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at Martha’s Menu in Corinth.

Free Yoga

Mississippi Youth Challenge Academy features a structured environment with a focus on job training, social skills and selfdiscipline. Other academic opportunities include high school diploma, college classes through a local university and nationally certified construction skills. The academy is designed to meet the needs of today’s “at risk” youth. Both males and females, 16-18 years old, can apply.

Applicants can earn their GEDs. Tuition is free. For more information, call 1-800-507-6253 or visit www.msyouthchallenge.org.

Hospice Advantage in Corinth is looking for volunteers in the surrounding area: Corinth, Tippah, Tishomingo and Prentiss County. Volunteering is a wonderful way to give back to your community and lend a helping hand to the elderly.

For more information, call Carla Nelson, volunteer coordinator with Hospice Advantage on becoming a volunteer at 662-665-9185 or 662279-0435. The website is hospiceadvantage. com.

■ Magnolia Regional Hospice is currently seeking individuals or groups to be trained as volunteers. Hospice is a program of caring for individuals who are terminally ill and choose to remain at home with family or a caregiver. Some of the ministry opportunities for volunteers are sitting with the patient in their homes to allow the caregiver a break, grocery shopping, reading to a patient, craft opportunities, bereavement/grief support and in-office work.

For more information, contact Lila Wade, volunteer coordinator at 662-293-1405 or 1-800843-7553.

■ Legacy Hospice is looking for volunteers.

Legacy needs special people with special hearts and volunteers who are wanting to help others. Their duties will be helping with the support of patients and caregivers, writing letters, making phone calls, and community activities. There is a training period involved at no cost. If interested, contact Julie Hutchins, volunteer coordinator at Legacy Hospice, 301 East Waldron St, Corinth or call 662-2865333.

■ Alliance Hospice is looking for volunteers in the area that enjoy visiting and giving back in the community. If interested call 662286-9833 or e-mail sabrina@alliancehospice. net.

Weekly chair yoga classes taught by Certified Yoga Instructor Karen Beth Martin are held every Thursday at 10 a.m., in the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church fellowship hall. Each class is 40-45 minutes in length and are tailored to the abilities and limitations of those attending with the goal of improving strength, flexibility and balance. The class, geared toward seniors, is open to the public.

Class is donationbased. For questions, contact the church office at 662-286-2922.

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Senior activities The First Presbyterian Senior Adult Ministry has two fitness classes available to senior adults. Judy Smelzer leads a stretching/toning class on Mondays at 9 a.m. in the fellowship hall. There is no charge.

FPC is also hosting a Wii sports class for senior adults on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. There is no cost to participate.

Call the church office at 286-6638 to register or Kimberly Grantham at 284-7498.

Al Anon Meeting Al-Anon meetings are held Mondays at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Corinth. Enter on the courtyard side.

The meetings are for all those affected by alcohol. For more information call 662-462-4404 or 662-287-7819.

Red Cross The Northeast Mississippi Chapter of the Red Cross offers a wide variety of assistance and services, including disaster relief.

The Northeast Mississippi Chapter includes 16 counties.

It is headquartered in Tupelo, with offices in Tishomingo, New Albany, Starkville and Columbus. Although Red Cross no longer has a Corinth office, the organization wants to stress it continues to offer services in Alcorn County.

People seeking disaster assistance in Northeast Mississippi can call the Tupelo headquarters during office hours at

662-842-6101. The tollfree after hours phone line is 1-855-891-7325.

The Red Cross’ service line for the armed forces is 877-272-7337. They also offer health and safety training, including first aid, baby-sitting and CPR, as well as disaster training for businesses.

To learn more about the Red Cross health and safety training call 1-800-733-2767.

Genealogy society The Alcorn County Genealogical Society is located at the southeast corner of the Alcorn County Courthouse basement in the old veterans’ services office. It is open Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The Society can be contacted at 662-2860075 or email acgs2@ att.net.

Support groups

Friendship class The Friendship Class meets weekly on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the First Presbyterian Church on Shiloh Road. This group of mentally challenged adults and mentors enjoy sharing time together, games, crafts, singing and refreshments. For more information, call the church office at 286-6638.

Alcoholics Anonymous The Corinth Downtown Group of Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at First Baptist Church at 501 Main Street, Corinth.

Story Hour Pre-school Story Hour is held each Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Corinth Library. Year-round art exhibits are also on display and educational nonprofit groups meet in the auditorium monthly.

The Corinth Friends of the Library hold their ongoing book sale inside the library. Hardback, paperback and audio books, and VHS and DVD donations to the library are always appreciated.

For more information, call 662-287-2441.

Quilt Guild meets The Cross City Piecemakers Quilt Guild meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Homemakers Extension Office (beside the arena) at 1 p.m. Anyone interested in quilting (learning or collecting) is invited to attend. For more information, contact Sharon at 287-0987.

Marine Corps meet The Corinth Marine Corps League meets the first Tuesday of every month at Martha’s Menu, downtown Corinth, at 6 p.m.

Children with disabilities The Alcorn and Corinth School Districts are participating in an ongoing statewide effort to identify, locate and evaluate children birth through the age of 21 who have a physical, mental, communicative and/or emotional disability. Early identification of children in need of special educational experiences is important to each child. The information gathered from contacts with parents other agencies will also be used to help determine present and future program needs as progress is made toward the goal of providing a free, appropriate public education to all children with a disability.

Contact Stephanie Clausel at the Alcorn School District or Linda Phillips at the Corinth School District with information on any children who may have a disability by calling or writing to: Alcorn School District, Special Services, 31 County Road 401, Corinth, MS 38834, 662-286-7734 or Corinth School District Special Services, 1204 North Harper Road, Corinth, MS 38834, 662-2872425.

■ The Crossroads Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon, and at 7 p.m., seven days a week, at 506 Cruise Street in Corinth. All meetings are non-smoking.

The Northeast Mississippi area of Narcotics Anonymous Hotline is 662-841-9998.

■ A Narcotics Anonymous meeting is held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at the Johnson-FordMitchell Community Center, 707 Spring Street in Iuka. Call 662-279-6435 for directions.

■ Narcotics Anonymous “If you want what we have” will meet at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church at 4203 Shiloh Road at 7 p.m. on Mondays, Thursdays and the third Saturday of every month.

■ The “Downtown Corinth” of AA meets Sundays at 8 p.m. for speaker meetings and Tuesdays at 7 p.m. for closed topic discussion meetings at the First Baptist Church (side pavilion) at 501 N. Main Street, Corinth.

For more information for all area AA groups, please call 662-2122235.

■ An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is held in Iuka at the old Chevy dealership building off old Hwy. 25 each Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common welfare is to stay sober and help others achieve sobriety. The Iuka meeting is an open meeting, anyone who has a problem with alcohol or other substances is welcome to attend.

For more information, call 662-660-3150.

■ The Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group in Corinth is partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association Mississippi Chapter. Keri Roaten is the facilitator. The group meets every first Thursday of each month at the Corinth Public Library, from 6-7 p.m.

The group discusses the hardships of those caring for people effected by the disease and offer several different resources as well. For more information, contact k_roaten@hotmail. com or 662-594-5526.

■ The “Good Grief” ministry of the HopewellIndian Springs United Methodist Charge is a collaborative effort of both churches and meets every Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the dining room of the Arby’s Restaurant, 706 Highway 72 East, Corinth.

The ministry was established to support those who have experienced a devastating life event such as the death of a loved one, diagnosis of a terminal illness or condition, the loss of a spouse or parent through divorce, even the loss of a job or home.

The ministry is non-denominational and open to all.

There is no cost to attend and no obligation to continue. For more information, call Bro. Rick Wells, pastor of Hopewell and Indian Springs United Methodist Charge and facilitator at 662-587-9602.

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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

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0955 LEGALS

Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary were duly issued on the 25 day of February, 2015, by the Chancery Court of Alcorn County, Mississippi, to Nenna Counce Stubbs as Executrix of the Estate of Mary Ida Miller Counce, Deceased, late an adult resident of Alcorn County, Mississippi. All persons having a claim against the said decedent are hereby notified to probate and register same with the Clerk of this Court. A failure to so probate and register same within ninety (90) days from the date of the first publication of this notice will forever bar same.

This the 25 day of February, 2015.

NEENA COUNCE STUBBS, EXECUTRIX ATTEST: BOBBY MAROLT, CHANCERY GENERAL HELPCLERK

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PERMENTER & ELLIOTT, P.A. ATTORNEYS AT LAW 105 EAST SPRING STREET RIPLEY, MS 38663 662-837-8175 BY: FRED PERMENTER, JR., ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER

PARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, BY MARGIE NEENA COUNCE STUBBS, SHELTON, AND EXECUTRIX LAMESHA TASHAD IRONS, 0955 LEGALS 0955 LEGALS A MINOR, BY AND ATTEST: BOBBY MAROLT, THROUGH HER NEXT CHANCERY CLERK FRIEND, MARGIE SHELTON, PETITIONERS PERMENTER & ELLIOTT, P.A. VS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW 105 EAST SPRING STREET LATESHA RASHAD JONES RIPLEY, MS 38663 AND ERIC STANLEY 662-837-8175 IRONS, JR, BY: FRED PERMENTER, JR., ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER 3tc: 03/01, 03/08, & 03/15/2015 14762

RESPONDENTS

CIVIL ACTION, FILE NO. 2014-0580-02-L CHANCERY COURT SUMMONS

IN THE CHANCERY COURT THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI OF ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI TO: Eric Stanley Irons, JR., who is not to be found in IN RE: THE ESTATE IF LISA the State of Mississippi on diliJEAN CHRISTENSEN, gent inquiry and whose post DECEASED office address is not known to CAUSE NO. 2015-0085-02 the Petitioners after diligent inquiry made by said Petitioners.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS You have been made a Letters of Administration Respondent in the suit filed in having been granted on the 24 this Court by the Alcorn day of February, 2015, gran- County Department of Huted the undersigned Adminis- man Services by Margie trator of the Estate of Lisa Shelton, Social Services ReJean Christensen, Deceased, gional Director, and, Lameby the Chancery Court of Al- sha Tashad Irons, minor, corn County, Mississippi, and seeking to terminate your all persons having claims parental rights as those rights against said Estate are re- relate to said minor and dequired to have the same pro- manding that the full custody, bated and registered by the control and authority to act Clerk of said Court within on behalf of said minor be ninety (90) days after the first p l a c e d w i t h t h e A l c o r n publication of this Notice, or County Department of Huthe same shall be forever man Services. Respondents other than you in this action barred. are Latesha Rashad Jones.

This the 24th day of FebYOU ARE SUMMONED ruary, 2015.

TO APPEAR AND DEFEND GARY CHRISTENSEN AGAINST THE PETITION FILED AGAINST YOU IN THIS ACTION AT 9:30 A.M. 4tc: 03/08, 03/15, 03/22, & ON THE 21ST DAY OF 03/29/2015 APRIL, 2015, IN THE CHAN14773 CERY COURTROOM OF IN THE CHANCERY THE PRENTISS COUNTY COURT OF ALCORN COURTHOUSE AT 101 COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI NORTH MAIN STREET, BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, ALCORN COUNTY DEAND IN CASE OF YOUR PARTMENT OF HUMAN FAILURE TO APPEAR AND SERVICES, BY MARGIE DEFEND, A JUDGEMENT SHELTON, AND WILL BE ENTERED LAMESHA TASHAD IRONS, AGAINST YOU FOR THE A MINOR, BY AND RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE THROUGH HER NEXT PETITION. FRIEND, MARGIE SHELTON, GENERAL HELP PETITIONERS 0232You are not required to file an answer or other pleadVS. ing, but you may do so if you desire.

LATESHA RASHAD JONES AND ERIC STANLEY ISSUED under my hand IRONS, JR, and seal of said Court, this RESPONDENTS 6th day of March, 2015.

TRUCK DRIVERS-OTR/CLASS A CDL CIVIL ACTION, FILE NO. Ashley Distribution 2014-0580-02-L 3tc: 03/01,Services 03/08, & in Ecru,CHANCERY MSSUMMONS seeks:COURT 03/15/2015

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You are not required to file an answer or other pleading, but you may do so if you desire.

ISSUED under my hand and seal of said Court, this 6th day of March, 2015.

BOBBY MAROLT ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI 38835-0069 BY: KAREN DUNCAN, D.C. 3tc: 03/08, 03/15, & 03/22/2015 14774

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AND IN CASE OF YOUR Daily FAILURE TO APPEAR AND DEFEND, A JUDGEMENT W I L L LEGALS BE ENTERED 0955 AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE PETITION.

BY: KAREN DUNCAN, D.C.

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4th District Election Commissioner Bill Gatlin Sandy Coleman Mitchell

Chancery Clerk Karen Burns Duncan Kevin Harvell Greg Younger

Constable Post 1 Scotty L. Bradley Johnny Butler Wayne Maddox Landon Tucker

Constable Post 2 James Bryant Daniel Cooper Wayne Duncan Jason Willis

Coroner Jay Jones

Billy Clyde Burns Ben Caldwell Ned Cregeen David Derrick Mike LaRue David Nunley Keith Settlemires Roger Voyles

Superintendent of Education

ISSUED under my hand and seal of said Court, this 6th day of March, 2015.

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BY: KAREN DUNCAN, D.C.

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BOBBY MAROLT ALCORN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI 38835-0069

Justice Court Post 2

Nick Bain

$105,000

662-808-6670

Larry B. Mitchell Gina Rogers Smith (Inc)

Supervisor District 1 Lowell Hinton Jerry Miller

Supervisor District 2 Rufus “Jaybird” Duncan, JR. Scotty Little Brodie McEwen Jon Newcomb J.C. Parker James Voyles

Supervisor District 3 Tim Mitchell (Inc)

2511 Melody Lane

$86,500 neg.

286-5116

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It has been submitted to and approved and submitted by each political candidate listed below or by the candidate’s campaign manager or assistant manager. This listing is not intended to suggest or imply that these are the only candidates for these offices.

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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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YOU ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR AND DEFEND AGAINST THE PETITION FILED AGAINST YOU IN THIS ACTION AT 9:30 A.M. ON THE 21ST DAY OF APRIL, 2015, IN THE CHANCERY COURTROOM OF THE PRENTISS COUNTY COURTHOUSE AT 101 NORTH MAIN STREET, BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, AND IN CASE OF YOUR FAILURE TO APPEAR AND DEFEND, A JUDGEMENT WILL BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE PETITION.

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Luke Doehner Chris Grisham George Haynie Steve Little

relate to said minor and demanding that the full custody, control and authority to act on behalf of said minor be placed with the Alcorn County Department of Human Services. Respondents other than you in this action are Latesha Rashad Jones.

408 Lilac Street

ATTN: CANDIDATES

Justice Court Post 1

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Requirements:

3tc: 03/08, 03/15, & TO: Eric Stanley Irons, • Over 18 Years Old 03/22/2015 JR., who is not to be found in 14774 • Valid Driver's License the State of Mississippi on dili• 2+ Years Experience with gent inquiry and whose post office address is not known to • Heavy Trucks and Diesel the Petitioners after diligent Engines inquiry made by said Petitioners.

Class A CDL & at least 1 year current OTR exp. Clean MVR/PSP Reports. been made a You have Respondent in the suit filed in Call 1-800-837-2241 this 8AM Court to by 4PM the Alcorn County Department of HuCST for info & app man or email: jobs@ Services by Margie Shelton, Social Services ashleydistributionservices.com or Regional Director, and, Lamesha Tashad Irons, minor, www.ashleydistributionservices.com seeking to terminate your to apply under jobs. parental rights as those rights

Corinthian, Sunday, March 15, 2015 •5B

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52 CR 713

(2 miles from the hospital) Beautiful 4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Custom Built home. Hardwood, Vaulted ceilings, Designer Ceramic tile showers. Lots of high end details in this home. Sitting on 2 acres with 2 additional acres available.

$228,500

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Stunning 3 Bed, 2 Bath on the golf course!

4012 St. Andrews Circle Call April to see-

279-2490

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Tax Collector Jeff Rencher Larry Ross

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868 AUTOMOBILES

2002 Saturn 4Cyl, Automatic Transmission 32 MPG All New Electrical System

$1500.00 662-423-8449

864 TRUCKS/VANS SUV’S

868 AUTOMOBILES

White 2006 Wrangler X

Mint Condition! Straight 6- automatic- with 44,100 miles.

Trail Certified, but never been off-road.

Mickey Thompson wheels with BF Goodrich Tires (35’s)- less than 15K miles on them. Black Hard top currently on it & Bikini top comes with it. Tan Leather Interior, Stereo Sound Bar, Custom Jeep Cover, and Custom Bumpers. Serviced regularly.

4\” lift with 2\” body lift. Title in Hand- $22,000.

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CED U D E R 2013 Nissan Frontier Desert Runner 2x4 4 door, Silver 1350 Miles

$22,000 $26,000

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864 TRUCKS/VANS SUV’S

COMMERCIAL

If no answer, leave a message

Hyster Forklift Narrow Aisle 24 Volt Battery 3650.00 287-1464

L4630 46 HP, 4wd, 295 Hours $13,750

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804 BOATS

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KUBOTA TRACTOR

4.3 V6 – Super Clean, Push Button, 4x4, 150K Miles, New tires, Cold air, Hot heat.

662-665-1781

804 BOATS ALUMINUM BOAT FOR SALE 16FT./5FT. 115 HP. EVINRUDE. NEW TROLLING MOTOR TRAILER NEWLY REWIRED ALL TIRES NEW NEW WINCH

2001 Chevy Blazer

$3,650.00

470 TRACTORS/ FARM EQUIP.

ASKING $7500.00 CALL 662-427-9591 MADE IN LOUISIANA. THIS IS WHAT SWAMP PEOPLE USE.

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816 RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

2007 Dodge Ram

2006 Jeep Liberty

CED U D E R

New Tires 100K Miles Never BeeWrecked

$8200 OBO 662-664-0357

ADVERTISE

!

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Super Black, beige interior, 80,000 miles, Super Clean, Sunroof, loaded, navigation system, blue tooth

$12,900 662-401-2474

2010 Chevy Equinox LS 2006 Hyundai Tuscon Limited Sport Utility Dark Blue with Tan interior 4 Door, V-6, sunroof, power everything!

95,600 Miles Great Condition New Tires, New Battery

$7000 662-286-6301

662-396-1182

73,000 Miles, V-6, Auto, CD Player, New Tires and Battery, Excellent Truck!

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$

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Clark Forklift 8,000 lbs, outside tires Good Condition $15,000

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662-665-1995

!

D L SO BUSH HOG, BACKHOE, FRONT LOADER AND BOX BLADE

$23,500

Antique 1986 FORD F350 XL- Dualley, 7.3 Diesel, new tires, Paint, Lots of Extras, 164,803 Miles, Motor runs well, 2nd Owner, $4000.00 662-287-8894

!

D L O S 95' Chevy C20 Custom Van

87,200 Miles 4 Captains Seats, Rear Couch, Power windows, door locks, mirrors. AM/ FM/CD Player. TV, New Tires, New Water Pump and Hoses, Front & Rear AC

$4250.00 662-284-7110

1993 John Deere 5300 Tractor

Toyota Forklift 5,000 lbs Good Condition

662-287-1464

YOUR VEHICLE HERE

WILL TRADE

2003 FORD VAN

2001 Nissan Xterra FOR SALE Needs a little work.

Good Bargain!

Call: 662-643-3084

ADVERTISE

w/ John Deere loader.

2900 Hours

$10,500

5th Wheel 29.5ft w/ large one side slide out non-smoking owner fully equip.

IUKA 662-423-1727

662-643-3565

2005 Chevy 1997 Van New Holland 15 Passenger 15 Passenger 3930 Tractor 71,000 Miles 41,000 Miles 130K Miles, Excellent 1400 Hours Fully Loaded Excellent Condition Big Boy Forklift GREAT Condition!

Condition $ 1250 $8500.00 $10,000 $8500.00 $10,500 Great for a small $11,500 warehouse 662-415-8343 662-286-6662 662-286-6662 662-287-1464 731-926-0006 or 415-7205

1996 VW Cabrio Convertible 178,000 Approx.

Miles $3000.

1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee 283,000 Approx.

Miles $3000.

YOUR

2011 Nissan Sentra SL

2013 KUBOTA 3800 SERIES TRACTOR

2006 Wilderness Camper

Loweline Boat

14’ flat bottom boat. Includes trailer, motor and all.

Call

662-415-9461 or

662-554-5503

1989 FOXCRAFT

18’ long, 120 HP Johnson mtr., trailer & mtr., new paint, new transel, 2 live wells, hot foot control.

$6500.

662-596-5053

731-926-0006

‘07 Dolphin LX RV, 37’

gas burner, workhorse eng., 2 slideouts, full body paint, walk-in shower, SS sinks & s/s refrig w/im, Onar Marq gold 7000 gen., 3-ton cntrl. unit, back-up camera, auto. leveling, 2-flat screen TVs, Allison 6-spd. A.T., 10 cd stereo w/s.s, 2-leather capt. seats & 1 lthr recliner, auto. awning, qn bed, table & couch (fold into bed), micro/conv oven, less than 5k mi.

ED C U D RE $85,000 662-415-0590

REDUCED

2005 AIRSTREAM LAND YACHT

30 ft., with slide out & built-in TV antenna, 2 TV’s, 7400 miles.

$75,000.

662-287-7734

832 MOTORCYCLES/ ATV’S

2008 2012 Nissan Versa

TAKE OVER PAYMENTS!

662-462-8274

!

D L O S Ford 2013 Explorer 34K Miles $19,750

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE HERE

662-396-1333

1991 CUSTOM FORD VAN 48,000 ONE OWNER MILES POWER EVERYTHING

$4995.

CALL: 662-808-5005

53’ GOOSE NECK TRAILER STEP DECK BOOMS, CHAINS AND LOTS OF ACCESSORIES $12,000/OBO 731-453-5031

Excaliber made

by Georgi Boy 1985 30’ long motor home, new tires, Price negotiable.

662-660-3433

01 JEEP 4.0 New top front & rear bumper Custom Jeep radio and CD player $10,800

662-643-3565

2012 Jeep Wrangler 4WD 9,600 Miles, Red Garage Kept, it has been babied.

All maintenance records available.

Call or Text:

$

5,900.00

662-664-0357

06 Chevy Trailblazer Power everything!

Good heat and Air $3,250 OBO 662-319-7145

YOUR

YOUR

VEHICLE

VEHICLE

HERE

HERE

662-594-5830

1997 Mustang GT Black Like new on the inside and out.

Runs Great, good tires, 114K miles

ADVERTISE

TRACTOR FOR SALE JOHN DEERE 15 FT Grumman Flat 40-20 NEW PUMPS, GOOD TIRES RETIRED FROM FARMING $14,000 662-419-1587

2010 Black Nissan 1989 Mercedes Benz 300 CE Titan Pro4x

VERY SHARP TORCH RED C-4 CORVETTE 1984 MODEL W/ TARGA TOP DAILY DRIVER GOOD TIRES. $6500.

662-462-8391 OR 662-279-1568

91’ Chevy CK1500 4x4 Step Side w/ topper Recently Completed full service.

186,711 Miles

$3500 OBO $3500 731-727-5573

Off Road 5.6 V-8 4 Door 93,000 Miles

$25,000 662-415-8869 or 662-415-8868

145K miles, Rear bucket seats, Champagne color, Excellent Condition.

Diligently maintained. $5000.00 662-415-2657

ADVERTISE 1994 Ford F-150

YOUR

302 Auto 163K Miles $3200 OBO

VEHICLE

SOLD

662-750-0199

HERE

Bass Boat 2005 Yamaha 2005 Nitro 882 V-star 1100 Silverado 18’+ w/ 150 HP Mercury Loaded with Chrome, upgraded electronics, 32,000 Miles, factory cover low hours with extras, new back tire and Nice condition new battery $11,500 $2,700.00 665-0958 662-396-1098 Leave a message

804 BOATS

470 TRACTORS/ FARM EQUIP.

ADVERTISE

REDUCED!

Bottom Boat 25 HP Motor $2700.00 Ask for Brad: 284-4826

2004 F & F 17.5 ft.

2009 TT45A New Holland Tractor 335 Hours 8 x 2 Speed, non-Synchro Mesh Transmission. Roll over protective structure, hydrolic power lift. Like New Condition, owner deceased, Kossuth Area. $12,500- 662-424-3701

!

SOLD

Custom Built Crappie Boat w/ 50hp Honda Motor, Tilt & Trim, completely loaded. $

8500.00

New injectors & Fuel Pump Good Tires

CED U D E R

1996 CROWNLINE CUDY 23’ on trailer & cover 5.7 liter engine runs & works great.

FIRM

$10,000 $6,000.00

662-287-2703 or 662-415-3133

731-607-3172

2012 Tractor For Sale! Banshee John Deere 16-30

2012 Lowe Pontoon 90 H.P. Mercury w/ Trailer Still under warranty.

Includes HUGE tube $19,300 662-427-9063

Bighorn Side-by-Side 4 X 4 w/ Wench AM/FM w/ CD

$7200.00 OBO

$6500.00 662-419-1587 662-664-0357

1996 DUCED REHonda 4 wheeler Red, Good Condition $2095.00 662-415-8731

1500 Goldwing Honda

78,000 original miles,new tires.

$4500

662-284-9487

CEEDD U D E RREDUC 2007 Yamaha 1300 V-Star Bike w/removable (three bolts) trike kit., 6400 miles, excellent condition. $

7500.00

662-808-9662 or 662-808-2020

2006 Kawasaki Vulcan 1600

13,500 Miles, Serviced in November, New Back Tire, Cobra Pipes, Slingshot Windshield

$4295 OBO 662-212-2451