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Nelson Moore
JACKSON — A federal judge on Friday set a jury trial next spring for a lawsuit filed by Mississippi’s only abortion clinic over a new law that it says would make it shut its doors. Jackson Women’s Health Organization sued the state in 2012 over a law requiring every OB-GYN at the clinic to have privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. In an order published Friday in federal court records, U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III set March 3 as the beginning of jury selection. After the clinic filed suit last summer, Jordan allowed the law to take effect but blocked the state from imposing
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Nelson Moore was born Feb. 12, 1953 in Corinth, the son of Rebecca Sue White and the late J. R. (Bully) Moore. He was united in marriage to Marilyn Hite on Dec. 31, 2009. Mr. Moore was a member of the first graduating class from McNairy Central High School in 1970. He was employed for 38 years with Packaging Corporation of America in Counce, Tenn., retiring in July of 2013 as a crew leader and paper machine operator. Mr. Moore was a member of International Paper Local 992, having formerly served as vice-president, and was a faithful member of Good Hope Baptist Church. He enjoyed working in his yard, and loved his family and Moore life with a passion that touched everyone he knew. Mr. Moore departed this life on Aug. 15, 2013 in Corinth at the age of 60 years, 6 months, 3 days. He is survived by his wife Marilyn (Hite) Moore of Michie, Tenn.; a son, Steven Moore and wife Jennifer of Medina, Tenn.; a daughter, Scarlett Gattis and husband Brian of Tishomingo; a step-son, Josh Hite and wife Christie of Rienzi; a step-daughter, Stacy Cook and husband Kevin of Clarksville, Tenn.; eight grandchildren: Ella, Addison, London, Mahlon, Paytlin, Patience, Pierson, and Alex; his mother, Rebecca Moore of Michie, Tenn.; his step-father, Oma (Pee-Wee) Edmondson of Michie, Tenn.; two sisters, Debi Bertalotto and husband Kevin of Oakdale, Calif. and Belinda Henson and husband Jeff of Purdy, Tenn.; and several nieces, nephews, extended family and friends. Services will be held today at 11 a.m. at Shackelford Funeral Directors in Selmer, Tenn. with Roy Bennett, Steven Moore, Josh Hite, and Danny Paul White officiating. Burial will follow in the Pebble Hill Cemetery at Michie, Tenn. Pallbearers will be Jeff Henson, Kevin Bertalotto, Danny Paul White, Alex Hite, Adam Henson, Joshua Henson, Buddy Moore, and Brian Gattis. Mr. Moore’s PCA Counce Mill family will serve as honorary pallbearers. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or LeBonheur Children’s Hospital.
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Students eye fresh start in new school year MOORE, Okla. — After an anguish-filled summer, students returned to classes Friday at two elementary schools destroyed last spring by a deadly tornado that ripped a 17-mile path of devastation through the suburbs of Oklahoma City. The children of Moore were eager to reunite with classmates, but many were still haunted by fears of the weather and memories of young friends lost to the monstrous EF5 twister that killed 24 people. Zack Lewis, who narrowly escaped the storm that took the lives of seven schoolmates, seemed to express the anxiety on everyone’s mind when he asked his parents a simple, plaintive question: Who will come get him if another tornado approaches? “He’s a little anxious. He didn’t want to eat,” Julie Lewis said, wiping tears from her cheeks after escorting her son to his first day of fourth grade.
Kidnapped teenager receives homecoming LAKESIDE, Calif. — A 16-year-old girl got a warm welcome home reception five days after FBI agents killed a longtime family friend suspected of torturing and killing her mother and brother and escaping with her to the Idaho wilderness. Hannah Anderson was mobbed by reporters as she entered and left a restaurant that hosted an allday fundraiser. News crews were told to wait outside while Hannah and her father stayed for hours. Brett Anderson said his daughter was taking things one day at a time. He said he spoke with the horseback riders who saw the pair in the Idaho wilderness and alerted authorities, thanking them for saving Hannah’s life.
penalties while the clinic seeks admitting privileges. The clinic has remained open, but owner Diane Derzis said months ago that requests for privileges have been denied. Hospitals often won’t give privileges to out-of-state physicians. The OB-GYNs working at the clinic don’t live in Mississippi. Supporters of the law, including Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, say it’s designed to protect women’s health, but opponents say it’s designed to close the clinic and cut off access to abortion. Outside Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday, about a dozen abortion-rights supporters wore fluorescent yellow or pink vests
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Newspaper adds auditor to records lawsuit GULFPORT — The Sun Herald is asking a judge to add state Auditor Stacey Pickering and his office as defendants in a public records lawsuit the newspaper filed against the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. The Sun Herald reported Friday that it requested certain records from DMR in November and December. The auditor’s office subpoenaed the same records about the time the newspaper asked to pick them up. DMR denied the newspaper’s request for records. The newspaper sued DMR in Harrison County Chancery Court, seeking access to the documents under the state Public Records Act. DMR attorneys say they can’t give copies of the records to the newspaper because the auditor has them. Chancery Judge Jennifer Schloegel concluded at the end of a hearing April 23 that the newspaper would need to add the auditor’s office as a defendant to its public records lawsuit against DMR. David Huggins, the auditor’s director of investigations, told The Associated Press on Friday that the records can’t be released now because they’re part of the auditor’s probe. “They’re not entitled to the records of the investigative file,” Huggins said of the newspaper. The Sun Herald on Friday filed a motion asking the court to accept its amended complaint, adding the auditor’s office and Pickering as defendants. The Sun Herald’s amended complaint says, in part, that since the April 23 hearing “decisions have been made and settlements reached by defendants behind closed doors concerning misuse of public funds” at DMR. “Consequently, important public policy is being made by the government as it denies its
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constituents, the public and press, the records which would rightly inform the public about the basis of policy and settlement,” the complaint says. “Denial of access to these records erodes the foundation of our democracy, which is an informed citizenry.”
Man gets 10-plus years for meth-related charges GULFPORT — A 41-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute meth in Harrison County. The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sentenced Vladimir Dedic on Thursday and fined him $5,000. Court papers show Dedic had worked at upscale restaurants on the Pacific Coast before he moved to New York City, where he was working at a hotel when federal drug agents arrested him March 21. A federal grand jury in Gulfport indicted him in February on charges involving the distribution of meth in Biloxi in July 2009.
Biloxi leaders awaiting economic impact results BILOXI — An economic analysis of the potential impact of a downtown minor league baseball stadium is expected to be presented at Tuesday’s Biloxi City Council meeting. The sun Herald reports Ron Peresich, an attorney representing Biloxi, has notified council members Johnson Consulting should have the study ready by Monday and will make a presentation at the meeting, which will begin at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall. The council authorized spending up to $25,000 for the study and the administration hired Johnson Consulting, which is based in Chicago and has advised Jackson and cities in Florida and Missouri about the impact of baseball. The company has also done work for the Biloxi Housing Au-
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when girls said, ‘No.’ They grew up scared of the natural consequences of sexual intercourse,” McMillan said. “They were closer to God.” Andrea Strong, 33, of Seattle is taking part in the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, with more than a dozen people traveling to states that have few clinics or that are enacting laws that would restrict access to the procedure. Wearing a T-shirt with the slogan, “Abortion on Demand Without Apology,” Strong said women should not face shame or social stigma for ending a pregnancy. “Forced motherhood is a form of female enslavement,” Strong said. “This is half of humanity we’re talking about.”
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and carried signs with the slogan “This Clinic Stays Open.” A smaller number of abortion opponents prayed or tried to hand brochures to women who were entering or leaving the clinic, a cherry-pink building in Jackson’s Fondren neighborhood. Roy McMillan stood on a corner across the street from the clinic, as he does several days each month, holding one large poster with a photo of an aborted fetus and another with the slogan “Abortion=Black Genocide.” McMillan, 69, said he believes American society is in sharp decline because of “relativism,” ‘‘materialism” and “hedonism.” “I grew up in a time
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