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Obama: Officers must be held accountable BY NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the Baltimore riots show that police departments need to hold officers accountable for wrongdoing “instead of just the closing-ranks approach that all too often we see.” In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning on “The Steve Harvey Morning Show,” Obama said his heart goes out of the Baltimore officers who were injured by rioters. He said there’s no excuse for that kind of violence and Baltimore
police showed “appropriate restraint.” But he said police departments have to build more trust in minority communities by building accountability and transparency. “It’s in their interest to root out folks who aren’t doing the right thing, to hold accountable people when they do something wrong, instead of just the closing-ranks approach that all too often we see that ends up just feeding greater frustration and ultimately, I think, putting more police officers in danger,” Obama said
in the interview taped Tuesday and broadcast on black radio stations nationwide. Obama said Attorney General Loretta Lynch is reaching out to mayors to let them know what resources are available for retraining police and providing body cameras to hold them accountable. But he said solving the problems is going to require a broader political movement that addresses problems like poor education, drugs, absent fathers and limited job opportunities. “If all we’re doing is fo-
cusing on retraining police but not dealing with some of these underlying issues, then these problems are going to crop up again,” Obama said, while acknowledging those problems require sustained focus that might be hard to muster. “People have a tendency once the fires have been put out, the cars aren’t being tipped over, you know, there’s not some media crisis, then folks want go back and focus on whatever reality TV thing is going on.” “Unfortunately we’ve seen these police-related killings or deaths too of-
ten now,” Obama said. “And obviously everybody is starting to recognize that this is not just an isolated incident in Ferguson or New York, but we’ve got some broader issues.” “I’ve seen this movie too many times before,” he added. Asked whether he would visit Baltimore, Obama said he didn’t want to draw resources away from addressing the violence. “Once things have been cleared up, I think there’s going to be a time I go back to Baltimore.”
FAA chief: Gyrocopter ‘indistinguishable’ from birds BY MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A small gyrocopter that flew through miles of the nation’s most restricted airspace before landing at the U.S. Capitol was “indistinguishable” from other non-aircraft such as a flock of birds, a kite or a balloon, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a House committee that the slow-moving gyrocopter appeared as an “irregular symbol” on radar monitored by air traffic controllers. Huerta and other officials said the small, unidentified object did not pose an apparent threat before landing on the Capitol’s West Lawn April 15. Forensic analysis conducted later identified a slow-moving object that
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traveled about 70 miles from Gettysburg, Pa., to the U.S. Capitol. Officials now believe that was the gyrocopter. A dot representing the gyrocopter “appeared only intermittently throughout the flight,” Huerta said. Navy Adm. William Gortney, commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, said small aircraft such as gyrocopters represent a “technical and operational challenge” for the military to detect and defend against. The gyrocopter incident “has further confirmed the need to continue to improve our ability to identify lowaltitude and slow-speed aerial vehicles” operating in the skies above the nation’s capital, Gortney told the House Oversight Committee. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine said police
were contacted just before 1 p.m. EDT by an employee of the Tampa Bay Times, who said a local man was flying a gyrocopter to the Capitol as a form of protest. No time or date information was provided regarding the flight, Dine said. The newspaper employee later identified the pilot as Douglas Hughes and said that Hughes told the newspaper he had received permission for the flight from the U.S. Secret Service and Capitol Police, Dine said. No such permission was granted by either agency, he added. The newspaper employee said Hughes was providing a live feed of the flight on his website, but officials were unable to find the feed if it existed, Dine said. At 1:21 p.m., just before the landing, a reporter approached a Capitol police officer and asked
if he had seen a “helicopter” yet, Dine testified. He was told no. The vehicle landed at 1:23 p.m. “The extremely short time frame” between a lockdown order issued after the gyrocopter was identified and the vehicle’s landing made it impossible to notify members of Congress in advance, Dine said. Paul Irving, the House Sergeant at Arms, said he has ordered Dine to use an official notification system to alert lawmakers, staff and visitors of “events that could potentially be a threat” to the Capitol. Capitol police notified senators but not House members of the lockdown, Irving said. “I have ordered the chief never to allow this to happen again,” he said. Hughes, 61, of Florida, was arrested upon landing and charged with vio-
lating restricted airspace and operating an unregistered aircraft. His next court appearance is May 8. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the Oversight panel, has said that Hughes is “lucky to be alive” and “should have been blown out of the air.” A combination of “lack of communication and some human error” by Capitol police and other officials allowed Hughes to steer his tiny aircraft across 30 miles of restricted airspace to within a few hundred feet of the Capitol before landing on the West Lawn, Chaffetz said after a closed-door briefing last week. Chaffetz and other lawmakers want security officials to explain how they determined that the gyrocopter piloted by Hughes did not pose a threat.
Bobby R. Brawner
Bobby R. Brawner, 56, died Tuesday, April 29, 2015, in Tupelo. McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors will have the arrangements.
Manuel Orlich
MICHIE, Tenn. — A memorial service for Manuel Gaylord Orlich, 77, is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at Magnolia Funeral Home. Visitation is Tuesday, May 12, from 4 p.m. until the service. Mr. Orlich died Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at Magnolia Regional Health Center.
Rebecca Sellars MIDDLETON, Tenn. — Rebecca Jule Sellars, 59, died Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at her home. Magnolia Funeral Home will have the arrangements.
Fraud inquiry gets 3rd person Associated Press
GULFPORT — The third of 21 people charged in an international fraud ring has pleaded guilty. Olutoyin Ogunlade of New York pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden in Gulfport. He had faced additional counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud. Prosecutors say that the 41-year-old Ogunlade was part of the Yahoo Boys, a west African gang. Criminal charges say that the gang would buy bank account and personal information from hackers, steal money, and then send cash or goods to Africa.
Daily Corinthian County does booming business in asbestos lawsuits Associated Press
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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Few of the tourists who drive old Route 66 through this rural Illinois town are aware of its true economic engine: a booming business in asbestos lawsuits that attracts law firms from across the country. Since 2005, those lawsuits have generated a $14 million surplus for Edwardsville and solidified Madison County’s place at the center of a long-running national debate over personal-injury claims.
A decade after former President George W. Bush came here to tout classaction lawsuit limits, the number of asbestos suits has reached record levels, with caseloads that surpass specialized courts in far larger cities such as New York, Chicago and Baltimore. Lawsuits have also proliferated in smaller industrial communities such as Beaumont, Texas, and Charleston, West Virginia, but Edwardsville is the smallest and perhaps most unlikely of the bunch, with just 24,000 residents. The
“THE POWER OF THE TONGUE” “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” (Proverbs 25:11) “A word spoken in due season, how good is it!” (Proverbs 15:23) The right word said at just the right time is indeed a blessing isn’t it!? Aren’t we grateful for the kind words of a friend when things go wrong in our life, or words of comfort at the loss of a loved one: the encouragement and confidence instilled in us by the re-assuring words of a faithful brother or sister in Christ when I have failed to be what God would have me be? These are priceless treasures. How often have we given our undivided attention to a speaker who was able to move us to tears or jubilation with just a word or a phrase? The New Testament writer James puts it in perspective for us when he says “the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.” (James 3:5) The tongue can also cause great pain in the lives of others. How often is the harmony and beauty of a marriage damaged or destroyed by the unkind, spiteful, angry words of one spouse to another, or the humiliating, and degrading language used by a parent to a precious child. James says “the tongue is a fire. A world of iniquity,” and that “it defileth the whole body.” (James 3:6) How often is the Christian’s power to influence others in a positive way damaged by the careless use of the tongue, and instead of drawing people to Jesus and his will by the life we live, we cause them to wonder how Christ can live in us if we use filthy words and speech every time we open our mouth. The power of the tongue is seen in the imagery used by James. He likens the tongue to bits placed in a horses mouth, enabling the rider to turn the large animals with the relatively small bit, and the large ships that are turned about by the relatively small rudder. (James 3:3,4) The lesson is magnified by the imagery. The tongue is indeed small but very, very powerful. “The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” (James 3:8) It behooves us then to resolve, as David did in the long ago, to “sin not with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle.” (Psalm 39:1) James says “If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect, (mature) man, and able also to bridle the whole body. (James 3:2) Let us strive to clean up our mouth and use its power for good and not evil!! We invite you to study and worship with us at the Danville church of Christ.
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city 30 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri, is better known for its historic downtown and the scenic drive along the nearby Mississippi River. From 2012 through 2014, an average of 1,500 lawsuits claiming injury or death from asbestos were filed in Madison County — a nearly threefold increase from just five years earlier. By comparison, a Philadelphia court that specializes in personal-injury complaints involving birthcontrol devices, denture creams and other consumer products averaged a little more than 300 asbestos lawsuits over the same time period — in a city nearly 65 times larger than Edwardsville. Madison County has the highest rate of lawsuits filed in Illinois, 8.2 per thousand residents in 2013, according to a report issued this month
by the Illinois Civil Justice League. That’s twice as many as filed in Cook County, home to Chicago. The group Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch rallied Wednesday at the state Capitol to highlight concerns about the legal system, including the asbestos courts. They will find a sympathetic ear in Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who is pushing legislation to make it more difficult for plaintiffs to “venue shop,” saying people should only file lawsuits in the county where a company has an office. Currently, asbestos plaintiffs don’t have to live in the jurisdiction where the suit is filed — or even in the state. They just have to show that the corporation being sued did business in heavily industrial communities that surround Edwardsville and line the Mississippi.
Theo Holiness Church is celebrating 49 years Sunday, May 3rd. Morning Service @ 10:00, Afternoon Service Starting @ 1:30. Featured speaker & guest will be Bro. Scotty Downs preaching along with Spirit-filled singing by the Downs Family. Bro. Ronald Wilbanks and Congregation invites all to join in the “Homecoming” Celebration. Lunch served around 12:30. Church is located approximately 8 miles from Corinth on Hwy. 72 West.
The celebration of a lifetime begins here.
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