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Fire destroys Liddon Lake structure BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

An abandoned structure, part of the historic Liddon Lake complex, burned to the ground Wednesday afternoon. The former commercial, turned residential building at 1984 U.S. Highway 72 East (Liddon Lake hill area) across from Tractor Supply Co. was fully involved when Corinth firefighters arrived on the scene around 2:15 p.m. “It was a large fire,” said Corinth Deputy Fire Chief James Bryant. “Since we knew it was abandoned, we let it burn and made the decision not to enter. We were just trying to keep the flames from spreading.” Dark clouds of smoke could be seen billowing across busy Highway 72 during the fire. Two Corinth Fire Department units and seven firefighters responded to the blaze, while Corinth Police oﬃcers and Alcorn County Constable John-

ny Bulter assisted with traﬃc control. The structure had no power or utilities active at the time of the fire. “We are unsure what or how the fire started,” added Bryant. “At this time, the fire is under investigation.” A man seen in the area during the fire was questioned by authorities. Some vegetation and several large trees were also damaged in the fire. According to Bryant, the structure was of historical significance. The building was part of the Liddon Lake complex, originally known as Crystal Lake, Please see FIRE | 2

The former commercialturned-residential building on Liddon Lake hill was fully involved when Corinth fire fighters arrived on the scene. Staff photo by Zack Steen

Aldermen to people: Mow Tourism approves sewer, tires and appliances on the property. Those scheduled for hearing at 5 p.m. June 6 are: • 1702 Tate • 1540 Tate • Former Long John Silver building on Highway 72 • 103 Penn • 301 Penn • Martin Luther King (Gates property) • Corner of Droke and Cemetery • Droke Road (Moore) • 1606 Droke • 1609 Droke • 605 Parkway • 1302 Dickey • Horton Street (Neal) • Horton Street (Freed King estate) • Horton Street (Jackson) • 1610 Meigg • 116 Melody Lane • 117 West Melody Lane

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

With warmer weather and quickly growing grass, numerous Corinth properties are getting orders to clean up. The Board of Aldermen on Tuesday scheduled public hearings for 27 properties, many for mowing issues. Owners will get notices in the mail. Scheduled for a hearing during the board’s June 20 meeting is what is left of the old building next to Shirley Dawg’s on Wick Street. Alderman Andrew Labas requested Building Inspector Greg Tyson assess the property because of concerns about the possibility of bricks falling. The board voted to adjudicate one property already in the process — 1619 Bunch Street — which has other issues. The code enforcement oﬃcer has identified problems with open

• 117 East Melody Lane • 1409 Fifth Street • Meigg Street (Elliot, Elliot and Prather) • Corner of Crater and White (Tom Collins estate) • 1006 Meigg • Meigg Street (Mitchell) • Crater Street (Patterson) A property at 3854 Proper Street received an extension to June 6. In other business, the board approved temporary street closures for two events. Jackson Street will close in front of the Verandah-Curlee House from Childs to Bunch on Friday and Saturday for the home and garden tour. The street will close for about two hours at 301 East Waldron beginning at 10 a.m. on May 26 for a Memorial Day activity at Legacy Hospice. The board gave approval for removal of a tree at 1101 Bunch in the tree preservation district.

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convention to be held Oct. 27 through Oct. 29. Wade explained the event is held each year in a city in Mississippi. The convention consists of women from six districts throughout Mississippi. It is a three-day event with meetings, luncheon, workshops and banquets. She said they will be showcasing the city of Corinth on Friday and Saturday with a welcome program, tours and entertainment. She said there is an expected attendance of at least 100 people. The board approved an event-related room usage rate of up to $1,500 for the event.

BY L.A. STORY lastory@dailycorinthian.com

Hotel room incentives can provide up to $6,500 total funding approved by the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Tourism Board for two upcoming events. The reimbursement incentives were approved in two separate actions during the monthly meeting of the CACVB Board — this month held in the meeting room at the Hampton Inn. The first event presenter was Lila Wade, First District President of the Mississippi State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs Inc. and Youth Aﬃliates for the state

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PREPS honors Kossuth School BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

Kossuth Elementary School Principal Charla Essary was presented the PREPS 2017 Value Added Award recently from Patti Permenter with PREPS.

Kossuth Elementary School has been honored as one of the top value added schools in the state. Mississippi Program of Research and Evaluation for Public Schools (PREPS) was at the Alcorn School District Board of Education’s May meeting to present KES Principal Charla Essary with the award. “Kossuth Elementary is being recognized for English language arts growth for the 201516 school year,” said PREPS’ Patti Permenter. “The students at that school showed tremendous growth during the school

ranked fourth best in the state according to Mississippi Department of Education’s Accountability Ratings for 201516 school year. “We have a great school,” said Essary. “We have great students, teachers and parents and a wonderful community.” With Essary in the leadership role, bell-to-bell instruction is one of the keys to the school’s success. “We have started utilizing extra time at the end of class, even if it’s a fun educational activity like flash cards,” added Essary. “This helps us use every minute we have with our students teaching them something.”

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Chancery Judge John C. Ross of Corinth is nominated for volunteer of the year by the Mississippi Development Council.

Mississippi Department of Corrections gives approval for the South Harper Road site for Alcorn County’s planned regional jail and justice center.

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year and deserve the 2017 Value Added Award.” PREPS is Mississippi’s only statewide educational consortium. It’s Value Added Awards recognize schools who have exhibited exemplary growth during the school year. Organized in 1976, the nonprofit organization is governed by a nine-member board of directors made up of superintendents from each of the old congressional districts. Corinth School District Superintendent Lee Childress is the acting president of the PREPS board of directors. Alcorn School District’s only “A” rated school, KES was

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Four receive scholarships from Corinth Civitan Club BY L.A. STORY lastory@dailycorinthian.com

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Four students were presented with the Roscoe Turner Memorial Scholarship. Those students are (seated) Madison Raines of Kossuth High School, Nathan Hodum of Alcorn Central High School, Alexis Shumpert of Biggersville High School and Byron Hastings of Corinth High School. Hastings (not pictured) plays baseball for Corinth High School and was away in Pearl attending the state championship. The students were presented the awards by Civitan Club President Lesley Raines (left, standing) and Civitan Scholarship Committee Chairman Rick Miller.

The future looks a little brighter for four area high school seniors who received scholarships awarded by the Corinth Civitan Club. The four students were each awarded a scholarship in the amount of $750 by the Corinth Civitan Club during a luncheon and meeting held at Pizza Grocery Wednesday. Local Civitan President Lesley Raines provided a brief explanation of the Civitan Club and said all the money Civitans raise goes to help children. The presenter of the

Each student was awarded a scholarship in the amount of $750. scholarship awards was Civitan Scholarship Committee Chair Rick Miller. Before presenting, he said the scholarships were named in memory of Roscoe Turner and are given each year to a student from all four area high schools. This yearâ€™s recipients of the Roscoe Turner Memorial Scholarship are Nathan Hodum of Alcorn Central High School, Alexis Shumpert of Biggersville High School, Byron Hastings of Corinth

High School and Madison Raines of Kossuth High School. All students were in attendance except Hastings. He plays baseball for Corinth High School and was away in Pearl attending the state championship game. Hodum said he plans to attend Northeast Mississippi Community College and then Blue Mountain College and study psychology and the ministry. Madison Raines said she intends to study nursing at NEMCC. Shumpertâ€™s plans are to attend Northwest Community College and pursue a degree in elementary education.

Woman denied new trial in officersâ€™ deaths Associated Press

HATTIESBURG â€” A judge denied a request for a new trial of a Mississippi woman convicted in connection with the slaying of two Hattiesburg police oďŹƒcers. Judge Bob Helfrich denied a new trial for 24-year-old Joanie Calloway on Tuesday. Calloway was convicted May 3 on charges of hindering prosecution

and attempted accessory after the fact of capital murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate were shot and killed May 9, 2015, during a traďŹƒc stop. Callowayâ€™s lawyer Andres Wallace argued mistakes during the trial caused her client to receive an unfair trial.

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Dark clouds of smoke billow across busy Highway 72 during the abandoned structure fire.

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built by B.F. Liddon in the 1920s or 1930s.

In its hey day, the complex included several man made lakes, tennis courts, playgrounds, a

State Supreme Court hears appeal over school funding BY JEFF AMY Associated Press

Verandah Curlee House Home and garden Show 705 Jackson Street May 19 & 20 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $15.00 Guided Tours of VCH Pass Along Plant Sale Friday, May 19th, Under the Tent Lunch, 12 p.m. (Tickets Sold Separately, $15) Floral designer, Greg Campbell 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 20th, Under the Tent Beatrix Potter Tea Tarty - 10:30 Tickets $5.00 each Doug Fleury - 1:00 Butterflies In Your garden Garden Tour Dr. Randy and Tammi Frazier 609 East Fourth Street Friday, May 19th 10:00 - 1:00 Saturday, May 20 10:00 - 4:00 Tickets available at Corinth Visitors & Convention Bureau Tickets are also available at the Verandah Curlee House and the Frazier Garden

large swimming pool and a Viking boat structure used as a dance hall and restaurant.

JACKSON â€” The 21 Mississippi school districts suing lawmakers over a 2006 mandate to spend certain amounts on schools each year say their case is simple: The law is nonnegotiable. The state says the school districts are wrong, and for equally simple reasons. Lawmakers from 11 years ago canâ€™t tell todayâ€™s legislators what to do, and courts have no business wading into the subject. Mississippiâ€™s Supreme Court justices were confronted with those op-

posing positions in oral arguments Wednesday. At stake is the demand from the school districts to be paid back $236 million that the 21 districts say the state owes them for the budget years 2010 through 2015, representing their shares of how much the Mississippi Adequate Education Program formula was shorted. But beyond that is another $1.4 billion that other school districts could seek if the plaintiďŹ€s won their case. Plus, the districts want judges to order the Legislature to never underfund the formula again.

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The second event was presented by Crystal Graves, advisor for the Junior Salers Association for their upcoming ASJA Junior National Show and Event to be held June 25 through July 1. Graves said each year the ASJA selects a location throughout the country to host the ASJA Junior National Show. It is a show that will focus on young people making a positive impact in the agricultural industry while preparing them to do so. This year, Corinth was chosen unanimously to unite people from across the country with Salers cattle to broaden the scope of their focus into the Southern region of the country. They will host contests, educational seminars, cattle shows, and family fun for participants and

viewers. They will give their participants and their families a taste of the South by having them enjoy what they feel is a perfect representation of Southern charm and eclectic vibes in Corinth. She explained this is a week-long national event with an expected attendance of 500-plus people. The board approved an event-related room usage rate of up to $5,000 for the event. In other CACVB business: CACVB Executive Director Christy Burns said they are now looking at visuals to use for the Shiloh Kiosk. Contraband Camp â€” The Augmented Reality grant was received and now meetings will begin to discuss production. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 20, at Crossroads Regional Park (City Park.)

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Today in History Today is Thursday, May 18, the 138th day of 2017. There are 227 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History On May 18, 1927, in America’s deadliest school attack, part of a schoolhouse in Bath Township, Michigan, was blown up with explosives planted by local farmer Andrew Kehoe, who then set off a bomb in his truck; the attacks killed 38 children and six adults, including Kehoe, who’d earlier killed his wife. (Authorities said Kehoe, who suffered financial difficulties, was seeking revenge for losing a township clerk election.)

On this date In 1896, the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, endorsed “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept renounced 58 years later in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, California. (McPherson reappeared more than a month later, saying she’d escaped after being kidnapped and held for ransom, an account that was greeted with skepticism.) In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces occupied Monte Cassino in Italy after a fourmonth struggle with Axis troops. In 1967, Tennessee Gov. Buford Ellington signed a measure repealing the law against teaching evolution that was used to prosecute John T. Scopes in 1925. In 1973, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was appointed Watergate special prosecutor by U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson. In 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.

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Across the Region Iuka Suspect in mobile home arson turns himself in IUKA — An Iuka man is in custody after admitting he set fire to a mobile home. The Tishomingo Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to a mobile home fire on County Road 303 in Iuka on May 3. The mobile home was deemed a complete loss. The homeowner told a fire investigator that she had let Jonathan Aldridge out of her vehicle earlier that day while she was in route to work. The following day, Aldridge turned himself into police and admitted to the crime. Aldridge told police he had drug problem and wanted help, according to the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Deparetment. Aldridge, 27, was officially charged with arson and a $50,000 bond was set.

McNairy County Central streams graduation on YouTube SELMER, Tenn. — McNairy Central will broadcast their graduation live for the first time Thursday at 7 p.m. The ceremony will be streamed free on YouTube. MCHS teacher Lisa Forsythe said anyone could watch the commencement exercise by typing in McNairy Central High School on YouTube. She said it would be helpful to subscribe to the channel, but is not mandatory to see graduation. “I have had seniors tell me their grandparents would be able to watch graduation and that has them excited about it,” said Forsythe. The school also has a separate YouTube channel for the McNairy Central Bobcat Band. There is a link to it on the school’s YouTube channel. Forsythe is very active in audio-visual marketing of the high school. She is in charge of the school’s yearbook, Facebook page and website.

Booneville Stevens wins runoff for alderman-at-large BOONEVILLE — Booneville’s newly elected alderman-at-large believes brighter days are ahead for the City of Hospitality. Community college instructor and former economic development coordinator Lisa Garner Stevens defeated three-term incumbent alderman-at-large

Harold Eaton in Tuesday’s Democratic primary runoff with a vote of 618 to 260. With no Republican or other candidate in the race, Stevens wins the office in the primary. The winner came out on top of a five-person race two weeks ago in the first round of the primary but fell just short of passing the 50 percent mark needed to win the race in the first primary, forcing Tuesday’s runoff. Stevens said she feels touched by the show of support shown to her throughout the election. “It really does make me very happy and very humbled at the same time. I’m very humbled and very thankful. I’m excited to be able to do something official and to hopefully be able to move Booneville forward in a big way,” she said. The alderman-elect said the city is blessed with numerous assets which can be tapped to make the community better including Northeast Mississippi Community College, North Mississippi Planning and Development District, Northeast Mississippi Community Services, other agencies and a huge number of highly talented people. “There is no reason why we can’t be a shining star in North Mississippi. We just have to pull everybody together and use our assets and our talents. The sky is the limit in my opinion,” she said. Booneville voters will return to the polls one more time on June 6 for the municipal general election. The ballot will include a referendum on the city’s proposed 2 percent additional tax on lodging and prepared food in restaurants to be used to “promote tourism and parks and recreation in the city”. Sixty percent of those voting must vote in favor of the tax for it to pass. The general election will also include the race for mayor between Democratic nominee Chris Lindley and Republican Larry S. Stevens. Incumbent mayor Derrick Blythe did not seek reelection. Also on the ballot will be Ward 1 Alderman between Democratic incumbent Jason Michael and Republican Joshua Whitson, Ward 3 Alderman between Democratic incumbent Mark McCoy and Libertarian Joel Counce and Ward 4 Alderman between Democratic nominee William Scott and Republican nominee John Caviness. Incumbent Ward 4 Alderman David Bolen did not seek reelection. Voter turnout was 878 (17.93 percent) out of 4,897 registered voters.

Results from the individual wards in Tuesday’s runoff for alderman-at-large were: • Ward 1: Lisa Stevens 247, Harold Eaton 100 • Ward 2: Lisa Stevens 50, Harold Eaton 27 • Ward 3: Lisa Sevens 123, Harold Eaton 59 • Ward 4: Lisa Stevens 198, Harold Eaton 74

Ripley City plans to celebrate 180th anniversary RIPLEY — This year marks the 180th anniversary of the founding of the City of Ripley, reported the Southern Sentinel. Ripley was incorporated on May 9, 1837, and is believed to be named after Congressional Medal holder and War of 1812 hero, General Eleazor Wheelock Ripley from New Hampshire. “This year also marks the bicentennial for the State of Mississippi. To celebrate Mississippi Legislature partnered with the Mississippi Development Authority/Visit Mississippi and the Mississippi Humanities Council to make funding available to allow communities like ours to create programs and events to explore the history and character of our city and state. Ripley Main Street applied for this grant and was awarded $4,500 for this event and one to be held in November,” said Ripley Main Street Director Jessica Jeter. Said Ripley Mayor Chris Marsalis, “I am very proud to be the mayor of our great city. Celebrating 180 years really helps put things into perspective. We are all stewards and we work hard to provide good stewardship.”

Tupelo Cat blamed for city’s mass power outage TUPELO — A cat caused a large power outage in Tupelo earlier this week. According to the Daily Journal, at approximately 9:30 p.m. Monday, a cat hunting a bird ran afoul of what’s called a disconnect switch in a substation located near the Highway 45 interchange at East Main Street. Triggering this disconnect switch caused a chain reaction that took down other substations and plunged nearly all of Tupelo into the dark. Only the southernmost and westernmost edges of the city were unaffected. Areas and significant sites without power included downtown Tupelo, North

Mississippi Medical Center, Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, the crosstown intersection, the Joyner neighborhood and north Tupelo. Crews worked one hour before power was restored.

McNairy County Two high school graduations are set (EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story was compiled by Independent Appeal Assistant Editor Steve Beavers. It is reprinted with permission.) SELMER, Tenn. — McNairy County high school seniors are ready to walk the line. Both Adamsville and McNairy Central commencement exercises are set for this week. MCHS will see around 157 seniors receive their diploma Thursday. McNairy Central’s graduation will be held at 7 p.m on the football field of Don Whitaker Memorial Stadium. “It feels more like a graduation when it is held outside,” said graduation organizer Lisa Forsythe. McNairy moved the ceremony outside three years ago. “I begged for years to have it outside because the gym only holds so many people,” said Forsythe. The valedictorian and salutatorian for MCHS will not be officially announced until the day prior to graduation. The school has a policy of taking grades up until one or two days before graduation. Adamsville High School’s graduation is set for 7 p.m. on Friday at Lendon Martin Memorial Stadium. Natalie Thomas is the AHS valedictorian and Tyler Luna is the salutatorian. The remaining members of AHS Top Ten are 3. Brittany Neill; 4. Mary Madelyn Melton; 5. Brittany Jaggars; 6. Cassidy Burlesci-Niukkanen; 7. Neil Patel; 8. Lauren Foster; 9. Macey Johnson and 10. Laken Smith.

Tupelo Two killed in wreck TUPELO — A two-vehicle collision Tuesday morning in north Tupelo claimed the life of two people. Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green identified the victims as Martha Smith, 75, of Tupelo, and Donald Watson, 62, of Guntown. The collision occurred around 7:40 a.m. on Highway 45, less than a mile north of the Barnes Crossing exit.

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A little respect PICKWICK LAKE, Tenn. — Brother Dave Haffly is the only man who ever really wanted to dance with me. On long ago weekends the two of us would link arms on the stone hearth at my first old cabin, crank up Aretha’s “Respect” and spend hours in a private line dance, socking it to anyone who’d listen. We were young then. Last night, Dave’s younger brother, Steve, turned 60, and there we were again, Dave and I, on the dance floor, doing what he always called “The Re-Re.” Re, re, re, re — just a little bit. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. We had to bribe the band, who at first protested they couldn’t do Aretha justice. We Rheta also had to have a little liquid Johnson courage ourselves and deal with various body aches to try Columnist to duplicate what I remember as once being physical poetry. At least we tried. I think both of us were a little stunned that Steve was 60. “My little brother,” Dave said with a sigh. It happened so fast. When I first met the Hafflys, Steve and his brother Dave, we all were in our 20s. Steve was living with several of us newspaper reprobates on the wrong side of the tracks in a Jackson, Mississippi, rental, so big it accommodated first four, then five people. Steve was skinny and merrily single and working as a bill collector for a band instrument store. He was so poor that for Christmas the rest of us in the “Smurf House” bought him a warmer jacket than the one he usually wore when tracking those in arrears for a clarinet or trumpet. One weekend on the Gulf Coast, Steve met a much younger woman, and we laughed when, smitten, he brought her home to meet the Smurfs. This was serious. “She’s too mature for you,” we joked. It would never last. That was 33 years ago. Steve and Cindy married, then followed us to Pickwick Lake, where we briefly shared another house, till they bought their own. Both got jobs as band directors. Brother Dave visited every chance. And, then, mostly because of my divorce and their natural preoccupation with a new baby, we went our separate ways. The dancing ended. The Hafflys were on a professional track in education. Degrees and promotions were part of the drill. They gained respect, the kind Brother Dave and I sang about. But they also built a ladder to the stars and climbed on every rung, as Dylan wrote. They spent summers on the water and taught the baby to waterski. Now both Cindy and Steve have retired. Dave sometimes thinks about it. So do I. But, at the party, the music was loud again, and nobody seemed to mind. I almost felt the rhythm of youth, that core of invincibility and unbowed optimism. That time before so much loss. I couldn’t decide if I was deliriously happy to be part of the old crowd again, or devastated at how quickly time had evaporated. It seemed like last week when we needed jobs and rented a dwelling and walked across the street to the Po Folks restaurant and waited for the hostess to call matter-of-factly, “Smurf. Party of five.” This morning I am a little sore from the dancing, and my head hurts a bit. But my heart was joyful, and I feel, well, forever young. Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s most recent book is “Hank Hung the Moon ... And Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts.” Comments are welcomed at rhetagrimsley@aol.com.

Prayer for today Almighty God, help me to aspire, that my life may tend toward the ideal. May I be persuaded that I cannot be that which I do not possess, nor can I live in that which I do not know. Help me to put the best in what I do, that I may not feel I have failed, even though it may not seem to be a success. Amen.

A verse to share But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” — Acts 1:8

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Comey and the Saturday Night Massacre History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, said Marx. On publication day of my memoir of Richard Nixon’s White House, President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Instantly, the media cried “Nixonian,” comparing it to the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre. Yet, the diﬀerences are stark. The resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Bill Ruckelshaus and the firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox came in the middle of an East-West crisis. On Oct. 6, 1973, the high holy day of Yom Kippur, in a surprise attack, Egyptian troops crossed the Suez Canal and breached Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Syria attacked on the Golan Heights. Within days, 1,000 Israeli soldiers were dead, hundreds of tanks destroyed, dozens of planes downed by Soviet surface-to-air missiles. As Egypt’s army broke through in the Sinai, there came reports that Moshe Dayan was arming Israeli F-4s with nuclear weapons. “This is the end of the Third Temple,” Dayan was quoted. Nixon ordered every U.S. transport that could fly to deliver tanks and planes to Israel. Gen. Ariel Sharon crossed the Canal to the west and rolled north to cut

oﬀ and kill the Egyptian 3rd army in Sinai. The Gulf Arabs declared an oil Patrick embargo of Buchanan the United States. Columnist We got reports that nuclear-capable Russian ships were moving through the Dardanelles and Soviet airborne divisions were moving to airfields. U.S. nuclear forces were put on heightened alert. On Oct. 10, another blow had befallen Nixon’s White House. Vice President Agnew pleaded nolo contendere to tax evasion and resigned. Nixon immediately named Gerald Ford to replace him. It was in this environment, with Henry Kissinger in Moscow trying to negotiate a ceasefire in the Mideast, that Cox refused to accept a compromise deal that would give him verified summaries of Nixon’s tapes, but not actual tapes. Democrat Senators Sam Ervin and John Stennis had accepted this compromise, as had Richardson, or so we believed. Nixon had no choice. As he told me, he could not, in this Cold War crisis, have Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev see him back down in the face of defiance

by one of his own Cabinet appointees. By October 1973, with two dozen Nixon White House, Cabinet and campaign oﬃcers convicted or facing indictment and trial, we were steeped in the worst political scandal in U.S. history. Nothing comparable exists today. But if President Trump is enraged, he has every right to be. Since July, the FBI has been investigating alleged Trump campaign collusion with Putin’s Russia to hack the DNC and John Podesta’s email accounts — and produced zilch. As of January, ex-CIA Director Mike Morell and ex-DNI James Clapper said no collusion had been found. Yet every day we hear Democrats and the media bray about a Putin-Trump connection and Russian “control” of the president. Trump has been under a cloud of a “Russian connection” to him and his campaign for nearly a year. Yet no hard evidence of TrumpRussia collusion in the election has been produced. Is not the endless airing of unproven allegations inherently un-American? In 1973, NBC’s John Chancellor suggested the ouster of Richardson, Ruckelshaus and Cox was the “most serious constitutional crisis” in U.S. history, passing over the secession

of 11 Southern states and a Civil War that cost 620,000 lives. One London reporter said that “the whiﬀ of the Gestapo was in the clear October air.” We see a similar hysteria rising today. Yet that was not a constitutional crisis then, and the mandated early retirement of Jim Comey is not a constitutional crisis now. And that the mainstream media are equating “Russia-gate” and Watergate tells you what is afoot. Trump is hated by this city, which gave him 4 percent of its votes, as much as Nixon was. And the deepstate determination to bring him down is as great as it was with Nixon. By 1968, the liberal establishment had lost the mandate it had held since 1933, but not lost its ability to wound and kill presidents. Though Nixon won 49 states, that establishment took him down. Though Ronald Reagan won 49 states, that establishment almost took him down in the Iran-Contra aﬀair. And that is the end they have in mind for President Trump. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of a new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”

Trump should move embassy to Jerusalem This weekend President Donald Trump departs on his first overseas trip, which will include visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican and Europe. Trump’s Israel visit coincides with a very special day -- the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty after 2000 years. Many, including me, hope that President Trump will take this very special occasion to announce that he will fulfill his campaign promise and move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem. It was in the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War, 50 years ago in 1967, defeating the attacking armies of Israel’s three neighboring countries — Egypt, Jordan and Syria — that Israel captured East Jerusalem, held by Jordan, and united it with West Jerusalem, held by Israel. The U.S. Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act in 1995 stating, as a matter of U.S. policy, that Jerusalem should remain an undivided city, that it should be recognized as Israel’s capital city, and that the American embassy should be moved from Tel Aviv to

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Jerusalem no later than 1999. The act included a waiver for the president Star to not impleParker ment the law if he deems Columnist that the action creates a national security problem. All presidents since then — Clinton, Bush and Obama — have exercised this waiver. Now President Trump holds the cards. He promised during the campaign to move the embassy. Will he? When asked about this on “Meet the Press,” Secretary of State Tillerson showed signs that the administration may be going wobbly on the president’s promise. He said that the embassy move would be considered “in the context of a peace initiative.” The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem delivered a strategy paper to President Trump, which includes my organization CURE as a signatory, urging him to move the embassy to Jerusalem. The paper quickly gets to the heart of the matter, saying that hesitance to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s

capital, because of “fear of Islamic backlash,” is not policy “based on principle, fairness and historical right, but it is based solely on weakness and fear.” These Christian Zionists are right. If the United States wants to further peace in the Middle East, and elsewhere, the best start is to demonstrate clear, principled leadership, defined by our free principles and not by intimidation. Israel has been under siege since its founding in 1948. Yet, under the constant shadow of war and terrorism, in just 69 years Israelis have built a modern, industrialized country, with per capita income on par with the industrialized countries of Europe. It is the only free and democratic country in the Middle East. I wrote a column a number of years ago titled “The Simple Path to Middle East Peace.” I quoted the late television personality Art Linkletter, who said, “Things turn out best for the people that make the best of the way things turn out.” I said then, and I say now, that this captures the diﬀerence between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Israelis built a modern thriving nation in the wake

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of a devastating Holocaust. In contrast, the Palestinians have allowed themselves to be immobilized by hatred and denial, insisting that their problems and suﬀering are because of others. I have watched for years how this culture of victimhood has locked low income black Americans in our inner cities in a never-ending cycle of dependency and poverty. Nothing defines the unique relationship between the United States and Israel more than the scripture from the Book of Leviticus in our Bible inscribed on the Liberty Bell -- “Proclaim Liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” With beautiful irony, this scripture is about the jubilee year, which occurs every 50 years. Now President Trump arrives in Israel for the jubilee year of the reunification of Jerusalem. He should take this occasion to announce that the United States will, finally, recognize Israel’s capital and move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org.

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NEMCC Iuka campus has new job training program For the Daily Corinthian

YELLOW CREEK — A partnership of Northeast Mississippi Community College, Mississippi Silicon, Rural Development Partners, Appalachian Regional Commission and Tennessee Valley Authority has committed $237,033 to a new job training program at Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Iuka Campus. The Iuka campus is located in Building 1000 at Tri-State Commerce Park located approximately 10 miles north of Iuka. The funds will be used to provide specialized job training and for gas cards for unemployed and underemployed

persons to attend the training. The job training program is free to qualified learners. “We are pleased to partner with Rural Development Partners, Appalachian Regional Commission, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Northeast Mississippi Community College to help prepare workers for jobs in modern manufacturing. Mississippi Silicon will oﬀer internships and apprenticeships to successful NEMCC program participants,” said Mississippi Silicon Human Resource Director Mark Ivey. Northeast Mississippi Community College President Ricky Ford added, “we are proud to be able to oﬀer enhanced knowl-

edge, skills and expertise to unemployed and underemployed citizens. Our partnership with Mississippi Silicon, Rural Development Partners, Appalachian Regional Commission and Tennessee Valley Authority will open opportunities for workers and their families to improve quality of life.” NEMCC Vice President of Economic Development and Workforce Training Nadara Cole noted that “we will be offering remediation courses, the Smart Start course, and the Manufacturing Skills Basic Certification course combined with a number of testing programs. Training will consist of on-

line, classroom, and hands on learning. Participants may qualify for gas cards to help them pay for transportation to and from Tri-State Commerce Park. Successful participants will be guaranteed an interview at Mississippi Silicon although there is no guarantee that the company will hire the applicant. Participants can also apply for a number of internships at Mississippi Silicon.” Colleen Davis, Asset Management Specialist with Rural Development Partners, said that “one of the goals of the New Markets Tax Credit Program is to encourage the employment of disadvantaged and low in-

come residents. The remarkable partnership between the parties involved in this project will bear fruit for generations.” Tishomingo County guarantees tuition to Northeast Mississippi Community College for qualified graduates of Tishomingo County and Belmont High Schools. Tri-State Educational Foundation also funds college, graduate school and law or medical school for qualified high school graduates in the area. (For more information or to register for the new job training program, call 662-6962352 or email goodskills@ nemcc.edu.)

Novel remains an unsettling mystery BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER The Bookworm Sez

“Into the Water” by Paula Hawkins c.2017, Riverhead Books $28, 389 pages Row, row, row your boat. That’s not the only way to get around in the water, but it could be the driest one going gently down the stream. Still, you must do it carefully, carefully, carefully, carefully because, as in the new novel, “Into the Water” by Paula Hawkins, there’s no merrily when someone dies. Danielle “Nel” Abbott didn’t jump. Then again, maybe she did. Or maybe she merely got careless at the top of the cliﬀ overlooking the river that locals called the Drowning Pool, and she slipped. Everybody knew Nel was doing research on the Pool and the women who died there through the centuries, beginning with the teenager accused of witchcraft; Nel’s

own drowning in the Pool would’ve been the last chapter. For the people of Beckford, Nel’s death might’ve been just another unfortunate part of the Drowning Pool legend, just a sad single mother who had too much to drink… except that Katie Whittaker went into the river just weeks before. Poor Katie had loaded her backpack with stones, and drowned herself one summer afternoon. Her family, of course, still grieved – as did her best friend, Lena , Nel’s daughter, who knew exactly why it happened. Jules Abbott hadn’t spoken to her sister in years. She hardly knew Nel anymore, not since they were kids, not since Nel betrayed Jules in the most horrible way. They’d never really been close anyhow, and that estrangement complicated things: as Lena ‘s next of kin, Jules was faced with raising a fifteen-year-old she barely knew, a girl

who seemed to hate her. And so Jules began talking to the ghost of her sister. Nickie Sage, the “psychic” in town, said she couldn’t reach Nel clearly, but Jules could. She felt Nel’s presence in the house, in the town, by the river. She could hear Nel’s voice, and the words Nel wrote in her manuscript: “Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.” For the first many pages, reading “Into the Water” is a lot like looking up toward the surface from the bottom of a lake: everything’s murky and slow and you really can’t quite make out who or what you’re seeing. Slowly, though (ever-so-slowly), author Paula Hawkins pulls readers up through the depths, character by clue, until we’re grounded and panting from the adrenaline rush that is this novel. Indeed, it’s diﬃcult to tell which is more

Champion Hill commemorates 154th anniversary of battle BY REBECCA BLACKWELL DRAKE For the Daily Corinthian

The Champion Heritage Foundation will commemorate the Battle of Champion Hill that took place on May 16, 1863. The commemoration on Saturday, May 20, will not be a re-enactment but a time to gather on the Champion Hill MB Church grounds (the crown jewel of the battlefield) to remember those who fought and died prior to the Siege of Vicksburg. Before and during the war, Sid and Matilda Champion’s plantation house stood on the site where the church is located today. During the war, the house was used as Grant’s headquarters and as a field hospital for soldiers wounded during the battle. The house was burned after the fall of Vicksburg, leaving the once magnificent structure in a heap of smoldering ruins. In 1897, the same year Matilda’s youngest son died of yellow fever, she made the decision to give the old house site to the black community for the building of a church. She made a promise saying, “You may have this land as long as it is used as a place of worship.” The first church was built in 1897 and has now been used as a place for worship for 120 years. In 1905, the Champion Hill church was one of the earliest churches to be photographed in the midst of a battlefield setting. The Champion Foundation, whose board consists of a number of church members, appreciates the church sharing the hallowed grounds with all who come to reminisce and commemorate the

Before and during the war, Sid and Matilda Champion’s plantation house stood on the site where the church is located today. During the war, the house was used as Grant’s headquarters and as a field hospital for soldiers wounded during the battle. The house was burned after the fall of Vicksburg, leaving the once magnificent structure in a heap of smoldering ruins. soldiers who fought. During the anniversary event, the foundation honors not only the soldiers in gray but also the soldiers in blue. An historic marker on the church grounds tells of the Champion Family during the war. Church gates will open at 8 a.m. Admission is free. The opening ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. on church grounds. Bertram Hayes-Davis, great-great grandson of Jeﬀerson and Varina Davis, will return for the third time to serve as event speaker. Other events will include the unveiling of a new historic marker, the Lewis Family Gos-

pel Singers performing Amazing Grace, a battle skit written by Bertha Lewis (born and reared at Champion Hill), artwork presentation by Dr. Lamar McMillin and Jerry McWilliams, book vendors and exhibits, noonday picnic serving grilled hamburgers plate and pound cake dessert, dinner music by Johnny and Kevin Lewis and Friends and a walking tour along the Old Jackson Road that leads through the heart of the battlefield to the Crossroads and Hill of Death.

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Paula Hawkins weaves an intriguing story in her latest novel. heart-pounding: the eerie ghost-filled past that haunts Beckford, or the creepy residents who seem to know a little bit too much about one another. Both, perhaps, added to the universal fear of drowning, make this a novel that will literally keep you guessing (and shivering) until the very last chapter. You may struggle with the beginning of this book, but stick with it. It takes awhile to get settled

but once you do, this is the most unsettling book you’ll read this spring. For you, novel lover, reading “Into the Water”

is a dream. (Terri Schlichenmeyer writes book reviews for the Daily Corinthian.)

Longevity and Social Security According to the 2015 Social Security report, less than 7 percent of people with enough quarters to draw their Social Security benefit died prior to receiving. There are three other groups of individuals who will not receive benefits – infrequent workers who Roy and do not have suﬃcient Diane earnings to qualify for Thompson benefits, non-covered workers such as state Columnists and local government Pillars, LLC employees who did not pay into the program, and immigrants who arrive in the United States at 50 or older and therefore have not worked long enough to qualify for benefits. Benefits are aﬀected by how long you live, which is changing with every new breakthrough in the medical field. Life expectancy data is changing as well – one of every four 65 years olds will live past age 90. The average life expectancy in the U.S. for men is 85 years old and for women it is 88 years old. As we talk to clients, most people are more concerned about dying early,

than living too long. This is a mindset that needs to be discussed. As you get older, the cost of medical expenses increases. That is why it is so important when looking at your Social Security benefit, to have professional present options that will improve your Survivor benefit. When one of the married couple dies, only one check is remaining — the higher of the two. So, it only makes sense to try and improve this benefit. Statistically, women outlive men — so, you are looking at years of additional income needed for the spouse, that is now compromised by receiving only one check, not two. Big diﬀerence! We tell people they need a plan. Social Security should not be taken just because you are entitled to receive it. When, how and why need to be factored into your decision. (Daily Corinthian columnists and Corinth residents Roy and Diane Thompson are both National Social Security Advisors and Roy is a former CPA of 40 years. Contact Pillars LLC on their website at www.pillarsllc. com or email dthompson@pillarsllc. com or call at 601-954-0699.)

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Deaths Gabrielle Nicole ‘Gabby’ Brewer

FALKNER — Funeral services for Gabrielle Nicole “Gabby” Brewer, 18, are set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Indian Springs United Methodist Church in Glen with burial at Falkner Cemetery. Visitation is Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until the service at the church. Miss Brewer died Sunday, May 14, 2017, in Marshall County. Born Aug. 16, 1998, in Memphis, Tenn., she was a graduate of Falkner High School and was an employee of Dirt Cheap in Blue Mountain. Her strong spirit and joy for life was an inspiration to all who knew her, and her passion for living each moment deeply will live on in our hearts. Her boundless enthusiasm for life drew her close to children. She Brewer gave endlessly of her time and attention to the smallest among us. There were no strangers to Gabby, and she made it clear through her actions that each person she met mattered to her. Her love for travel was reflected by her love for capturing the moments on camera, and her pictures and videos showed us the lens through which she viewed the world: full of love, bursting with joy and devoted to others. It is in memory of her that her family will carry on. Those left to honor Gabby’s memory include her mother, Julie Lynn Gravely of Falkner; her father, Gregg Brewer (Aristea) Brewer of Jacksonville, Fla.; brothers Daniel Brewer of Jacksonville, Fla., and Jax Parker Gravely of Falkner; a sister, Aribella Brewer of Jacksonville, Fla.; her grandparents, the Rev. Richard & Charlene Wells of Falkner and Gregg & June Brewer of Millington, Tenn.; her great-grandmother, Charlotte Beck Smith of Falkner; aunts Jackie Allen (Dave) of Ashland, Jennifer Prather (Shane) of Ripley, Jessica Wells Mansell (Justin) of Falkner, and Gail Patterson (Gary) of Munford, Tenn.; an uncle, James B. Wells (USMC); her great uncles, John Ladd (Michelle) of Jacksonville, Fla., John Polya (Kitty Marie) of Chalybeate and Michael Wells of Ripley; a great-aunt, Christine Bach Sanford of Falkner; cousins David Allen of Ashland, Olivia Prather of Ripley, Noah Dale Mansell of Falkner, Charlotte Sophia Mansell of Falkner, Nash Conrad Mansell of Falkner, Tristin Sanford of Falkner, Arieonna Sanford of Falkner, Leila Hohenstein of Chalybeate, Brian Verner of Chalybeate, April Marie Verner of Chalybeate, Jonathan Patterson of Munford, Tenn., Joshua Patterson of Munford, Tenn., Jordan Patterson of Munford, Tenn., Anthony Meadors of Munford, Tenn., David Hinnard of Munford, Tenn., and Kristiona Hinnard of Munford, Tenn.; other relatives; and a host of friends. Sister Dorothy Hough and the Rev. Richard Wells will oﬃciate the service. Online guestbook: magnoliafuneralhome.net

Gilbert Dillingham

Gilbert Dillingham, 83, died Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at Cornerstone Health and Rehab Center. Memorial Funeral Home will have the arrangements.

Obituary Policy The Daily Corinthian include the following information in obituaries: The name, age, city of residence of the deceased; when, where and manner of death of the deceased; time and location of funeral service; name of officiant; time and location of visitation; time and location of memorial services; biographical information can include date of birth, education, place of employment/occupation, military service and church membership; survivors can include spouse, children, parents, grandparents, siblings (step included), and grandchildren, great-grandchildren can be listed by number only; preceded in death can include spouse, children, parents, grandparents, siblings (step included), grandchildren; great-grandchildren can be listed by number only.

“THE NATURE OF TEMPTATION” Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary says to “tempt” is “to entice to do wrong by promise of pleasure or gain: allure into evil: seduce.” The New Testament book of James says, “Man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. “ (emphasis mine TC) In Matthew’s account of the temptation of Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11) we come to understand more about this problem. We learn that Satan, not God, is the source of temptation. (Matthew 4:1) Verse three refers to him as ”the tempter.” Ever since the Garden of Eden, Satan has been busy enticing us to follow him. Jesus identified him in John 8:44 as “a liar and the father of it.” He”deceived Eve by his cunning.” (2 Corinthians 11:3RSV) The apostle Peter warned, “Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary (emphasis mine, TC) the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (I Peter 5:8) James, the brother of our Lord said, “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man, but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” (James 1 :13-15) Thus, Satan and our own illicit desires lead us to sin. John the Apostle identifies these desires as “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.”(I John 2:16) and that they are not of the Father, but are of the world. Jesus was tempted in each of these ways by Satan. When Satan offered Jesus bread, after being without for forty days, he appealed to the Lord’s humanity; the lust of the flesh. In taking him to the pinnacle of the temple and asking him to throw himself down, he appealed to the pride of life, and in the final test Satan showed Jesus “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory”; an appeal to the lust of the eye. In each case the Lord overcame Satan’s efforts. Simply being tempted is not sin, for as we have seen, even Jesus was tempted “in all points like as we are yet without sin.”(Hebrews 4:15) Knowing that Jesus was tempted should give us strength and courage to resist Satan and that our “advocate with the Father” (I John 2:1) is uniquely qualified to mediate in our behalf when we yield to temptation. Next week we will consider ways we can resist Satan’s enticements. We invite you to study and worship with us at the Danville church of Christ WINNING THE BATTLE OVER TEMPTATION

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Vaccine may cut HPV infections BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press

The HPV vaccine that helps prevent cervical cancer in women also might lower the risk in young men of oral infections that can cause mouth and throat cancers, a new study finds. These cancers are rising fast, especially in men, and research suggests that HPV, the human papillomavirus, is spreading through oral sex. The actor Michael Douglas brought attention to this risk several years ago when he blamed his cancer on it. This is the first study of whether the vaccine might prevent oral HPV infections in young men, and the results suggest it can. No men who had received at least one dose were later found to have infections of HPV strains linked to cancer, but more than 2 percent of unvaccinated men had them. “There may be additional benefits to vaccinating your son or daughter” besides the problems the vaccine already is

known to prevent, said Dr. Maura Gillison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Results were released Wednesday by the American Society of Clinical Oncology ahead of presentation at its annual meeting next month.

The virus HPV is very common — most sexually active people have been exposed to it. Some types cause genital warts. Usually, the virus causes no symptoms and goes away, but some people develop long-lasting infections of strains that can cause cancer. The vaccine was approved in 2006 to prevent cervical cancers in women, and later, for some others including anal cancer in men. But acceptance has been slow — only about half of those eligible are getting it now, according to the latest information. Now, awareness is growing of HPV’s other risks — oral infections are blamed for 70 percent of cancers in the mouth and back of the throat. About

11,600 of these occur each year in the U.S. and rates are rising 5 percent per year. They’re four times more common in men than women. There are now more mouth and throat cancers caused by HPV in the U.S. each year than there are cervical cancers. Oral sex is the main risk factor for getting an HPV infection in the mouth or throat, Gillison said. While “oral sex does not give you cancer,” the infection in rare cases can develop into cancer over many years, she explained.

The study She led the study, funded by the National Cancer Institute , while previously at Ohio State University. Researchers interviewed 2,627 men and women ages 18 to 33 years in a national health study from 2011 to 2014 about whether they had been vaccinated, and tested oral rinse samples from them for HPV. Infections with worrisome HPV strains were found in far fewer people

who had received any shots — an 88 percent lower risk. The results in men were striking — no infections in the vaccinated group versus 2.13 percent of the others.

The vaccines The vaccines are recommended mostly for young people, ideally before they’re exposed to HPV. Merck’s Gardasil is approved in the U.S. for females 9 through 26 to prevent cervical, vulvar, vaginal and anal cancers and genital warts. For males ages 9 through 26, it’s approved for preventing anal cancer and genital warts. A newer version of Gardasil that includes more HPV virus types is approved for males 9 through 15. GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix vaccine is approved for females 9 through 25 to prevent cervical cancer. All require two or three shots, depending on age. Other ways to help prevent oral HPV infections are limiting the number of sex partners and not smoking. Condoms or dental dams may help.

Former FBI director Residents taking stock to lead Russia probe after night of tornadoes BY ERIC TUCKER AND SADIE GURMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 presidential election. The appointment gives Mueller, who led the FBI through the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and served under presidential administrations of both parties, sweeping powers to investigate whether Trump campaign associates colluded with the Kremlin to influence the outcome in his behalf, as well as the authority to prosecute any crimes uncovered during the probe. The broad mandate, beyond any specific Trump-Russia connection, also covers “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, facing scathing criticism for authoring a memo that preceded the firing last week of James Comey as FBI Director,

said in a statement that Mueller’s appointment was “necessary in order for the American people to have full confidence in the outcome.” “What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation into the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command,” Rosenstein said in a statement. The appointment came amid a growing Democratic outcry for someone outside the Justice Department to handle the politically charged investigation. It followed the revelation Tuesday that fired FBI Director James Comey had written in a memo that Trump, in a February meeting in the Oval Oﬃce, had asked him to end an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The White House has denied that account. Mueller was appointed FBI director in 2001 by President George W. Bush and stayed on beyond his 10-year term at the request of President Barack Obama, ultimately retiring in 2013.

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ELK CITY, Okla. — Residents of an Oklahoma subdivision and a Wisconsin trailer park that were leveled by deadly tornadoes sifted through what remained of their homes and possessions Wednesday, even as forecasters warned of another round of powerful storms on the horizon. The twisters were among up to 29 that were reportedly spawned by powerful storms that raced through a swath of the central U.S. stretching from Texas to the Great Lakes on Tuesday evening, destroying dozens of homes, killing two people and injuring dozens of others. The tornadoes, some of them still unverified a day later, touched down in five states: Wisconsin and Oklahoma, which each had one death and about 40 homes destroyed, and Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. The tornado that struck Elk City, a community of about 13,000 people, sounded like “constant thunder,” said local Dennis Knight, a retired sheriﬀ’s deputy. Knight said that when the winds died down and he emerged from his cellar, he saw one of his metal barns had been tossed

on top of one of his other barns. His home was fine, but his camper had been hurled across the street and ripped to shreds. One of Knight’s neighbors, 53-year-old Bo Mikles, was killed while he was apparently fleeing his home in his truck, which was thrown several hundred feet, said Danny Ringer, the Elk City Fire Department chaplain. A tornado also ripped through a mobile home park near the northwestern Wisconsin city of Chetek, about 110 miles northeast of Minneapolis. It destroyed dozens of homes, killed a man, 46-year-old Eric Gavin, and injured at least 25 other people, some seriously, authorities said. Dale Daily, 61, said he heard the warning siren about a half-hour before the tornado hit the mobile home park. He said he and his wife drove away to safety and returned just after the twister left the area to find the park in ruins. Daily said he walked among the debris and helped free a man who was buried under a refrigerator and debris. “He had some bad head trauma going on and I didn’t want him to go to sleep,” Daily said.

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