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Corinth to host economic council Highlighting the strengths of regions throughout Mississippi is the goal of the Mississippi Economic Council’s Regional Round-Up meetings. The Corinth stop is set for Thursday, Dec. 4 at Shiloh Ridge Athletic Club, located at

3303 Shiloh Ridge Road. The event, which will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., is co-hosted by The Alliance and North Mississippi Industrial Development Association. Over the next few months, MEC will travel to approximate-

ly 30 communities throughout the state, discussing opportunities for those communities and regions to help grow Mississippi’s economic competitiveness. During the Regional Round-Up meetings, which are sponsored by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of

Mississippi, MEC will focus on how the nine regions across the state can work together to build on their strengthens and how each region is vital in helping Mississippi grow and prosper. For additional information or to register go to www.mec.ms.

“MEC’s mission has long been to build a sense of statewide business community,” MEC President and CEO Blake Wilson said. “There is no better way to do this than to work Please see MEC | 3A

Defendants hear sentences, fines BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

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Harpist Cindy Mathis and singers Tucker Brown and Beth Mitchell rehearse for the 8th Annual Coliseum Christmas Show to be held on Dec. 2.

Holiday show benefits Coliesum BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Corinth’s Coliseum Civic Center has seen its share of shows over its 90 years. The Corinth Area Arts Council wants the downtown land-

mark to continue to be a vital part of the local arts scene. In an effort to do that, the council is putting on the 8th Annual Coliseum Christmas Show at 7 p.m. on Tuesday Dec. 2 to raise money for the venue.

“The concert has become a tradition to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season,” said council member Cindy Mathis. “It is being built up as Please see SHOW | 2A

A number of defendants entered guilty pleas during the last few weeks of Alcorn County Circuit Court. Sentences handed down include: ■ Daneita Hargett, 43, welfare fraud — Suspended three-year sentence, two years probation, $200 fine and pay restitution of $5,499 to the Mississippi Department of Human Services ■ Jonathan Horner, 27, possession of controlled substance (marijuana) with intent — Suspended five-year sentence, four years probation and $1,000 fine ■ Michael Gunn, 27, possession of marijuana — Suspended five-year sentence, four years probation and $1,000 fine ■ Ricky Lynn Stokes, 35, felon in possession of a fiream — Suspended 10-year sentence, five years probation and $1,000 fine ■ Dana Gray, 31, grand larceny — Suspended five-year sentence, four years probation, $1,000 fine and pay restitution totaling $1,648.80. On a separate indictment for credit card fraud, the judge

imposed a suspended threeyear sentence with a $1,000 fine concurrent to the other sentence and ordered payment of restitution in the amount of $1,073.76 with a codefendant. ■ Steven Hicks, grand larceny — Suspended five-year sentence, five years probation,$1,000 fine and pay restitution to Kansas City Southern Railroad ■ April Wade, possession of cocaine with intent enhanced by firearm — Suspended 16year sentence, five years probation and $1,000 fine. The indictment includes a second count, possession of a stolen firearm, which resulted in a suspended five-year sentence. ■ Michael Fowler, 18, burglary of a dwelling — Sentenced to the Regimented Inmate Discipline Program, five years probation, $1,000 fine and pay restitution of $3,347.84 jointly with a codefendant ■ Jeff Gingery, 53, sale of Clonazepam — Suspended eight-year sentence, five years probation and $1,000 fine ■ Tonya Keeton, 51, manufacture of methamphetamine Please see COURT | 6A

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Carnival funds buy uniforms BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Genesis Christian Academy is in the game. The Giants have some snazzy uniforms to prove it. GCA held a fall festival carnival Nov. 22 at the Circle Y Complex help to pay for the academy’s new sports uniforms. “The uniforms are the first for the kids,” said GCA Director Keith Yancey. “They were ecstatic when we gave them out.” GCA, a member of the Tri-State Christian Conference, competes in volleyball and basketball. The Gi-

Genesis Christian Academy recently hosted a fall carnival to help pay for sports uniforms. GCA student MadiBay Whitaker tries out one of the bouncy houses prior to the carnival. Money raised from the event went to pay for the school’s new basketball, volleyball and cheer uniforms.

ants play their home games at the Corinth Sportsplex. Younger girls take part in cheer and also have new uniforms, according to Yancey. “It is a blessing to have them,” said volleyball player Ashli Yancey. “We feel more like a team with the uniforms.” Basketball player Josh Yancey likes the new hoop uniforms. “They really help to represent our school,” he said of the reversible type jerseys. During the carnival, games such Please see UNIFORMS | 3A

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On this day in history 150 years ago Hood’s army is marching fast, approaching Columbia, Tennessee. They hope to cut off the forces of Gen. John Schofield in Pulaski, but the Federals smell the trap and manage to slip by and get between Hood and Nashville.

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a neat community event.” Members of the arts council have put together an impressive lineup of singers, choirs, instrumentalists and dancers for the event. “The show has gotten better every year,” said Mathis. “Our goal is to bring in new talent every year to go along with some of our returning singers.” Singers such as Tucker Brown, Janet Wallace, Addie Paige Pratt, Chad Dickerson and Beth Mitchell are slated to perform. Rienzi native R.T. Rinehart will be a guest artist appearing at the show. “He has opened many shows for artists like Darryl Worley and Billy Ray Cyrus,” said Mathis. “R.T. is happy to be lending his talents for our charitable event.”

Several choirs and ensembles are scheduled to appear. Those committed to coming are the Alcorn Central 3rd and 4th Grade Choir, Alcorn Central High School Choir, Corinth High School Choir and Men’s Ensemble, Vocal Ensemble from The Studio of Sarah Beth Dotson, Mrs. Woodhouse’s 2nd Grade Challenge Class at Corinth Elementary School and First Baptist Church Men’s Quartet. Mathis will perform on the harp. Sara Ellington and Janet Gray are set to perform a piano duet while the First United Methodist Church and First Baptist Church Handbell Choirs will also perform. The Contemporary Arts Center Dancers are part of the night’s schedule. “We want the whole community to turn out

and enjoy a variety of talent sharing some wonderful Christmas songs and carols,” said Mathis. Admission is $10 with children 12 and under admitted free. Designed and built in 1923-1924 by Benjamin Franklin Liddon, the 999seat palatial coliseum was built for $60,000. Herbert Welch, who bought the coliseum from the Liddon family in 1977, donated the property to Alcorn County in 1981. The Corinth Area Arts Council, Inc. Board of Directors were designated as managers and restorers of the property. The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and was later designated a Mississippi Landmark by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

MAGNOLIA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER would like to thank our community for all of your support over the last year. To show our heartfelt appreciation, please join us at the 2014 WINTER WONDERLAND. We’ll have snacks, goodies, toys, games, and a very special guest. That’s right, Santa will be joining us to check his list twice and find out who’s been naughty and nice! We will also hold a silent auction of beautifully decorated Christmas Trees, Holiday Wreaths and Holiday Decor. All proceeds benefit the Magnolia Foundation.

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The Corinth High School Men’s Ensemble will be among several choirs and ensembles taking part in the 8th Annual Coliseum Christmas Show. CHS students part of the ensemble include Jawon Shields, Sircharles Coffey, Mark Johnson, DeJario Davis, Matthew Louis, Cortez Spence, Chris Kelley and Quajion Spears.

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Firefighters certified Several Alcorn County volunteer firefighers recently completed their Level I certifications. Firefighters participating in the presentation included (front row, from left) Aaron Hughes (Jacinto), Will Spears (Farmington), Brad Kershaw (Biggersville), Thomas Smith (Glen), Bradley Chister (Glen), Rickey Barber (Jacinto); (back row, from left) Christie Hite (Jacinto), Alex Grimes (Glen), Johnny Wilkins (Jacinto), Brandon Stacy (Jacinto), Keith Hughes (Jacinto Deputy Chief), Tim Tyson (Southwest), John Fair (Southwest Fire Chief) and James McAnally (Alcorn County Fire Training Officer and Glen Fire Chief).

Today is Sunday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2014. There are 38 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 23, 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)

On this date: In 1765, Frederick County, Maryland, became the first colonial entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act. In 1804, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce (puhrs), was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. In 1903, Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.” In 1914, the sevenmonth U.S. military occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, ended. In 1936, Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce, was first published. In 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure establishing the U.S. Women’s Coast Guard Reserve, or SPARS (an abbreviation of the U.S. Coast Guard motto “Semper Paratus” — “Always Ready”). In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese. In 1959, the musical “Fiorello!,” starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opened on Broadway. In 1964, TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 707 bound for Athens, crashed during takeoff from Rome, killing 50 of the 73 people on board. In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy. In 1996, a commandeered Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, including all three hijackers.

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as bean bag throw, washer toss, ring toss, duck grab were played to raise funds for GCA. “All proceeds remaining after the uniforms are paid for will go into a fund for extracurricular activities such as a graduation ceremony,” said Yancey. Around 20 kids attend the school located at Circle Y. “Everything has gone well and we are growing,” said the director. “We are seeing where we can do more and more every day.” Genesis Christian Academy began its first full year on Aug. 5 of 2013. The academy – promoted as “The Beginning of a Great Education” by the Yancey family — has a mission to teach students the basics of life. GCA incorporates the Bible-based, nondenominational curriculum called Accelerated Christian Education. The goal of GCA is to educate and train the whole student, according to the academy director. Normal school hours are 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. for the GCA Giants. Sporting events take place from 3-5 p.m.

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GCA students Ashli Yancey and Josh Yancey took part in a fall carnival sponsored by the school. Proceeds from the event went to pay for new volleyball and basketball uniforms. Genesis Christian Academy students recently played their first games in the Tri-State Christian Conference.

Holiday Garbage Routes The City of Corinth Street and Sanitation Department has announced its Thanksgiving week holiday garbage pickup route changes. During the week of Nov. 2428, Monday and Tuesday garbage routes will be picked up on

Monday; Wednesday garbage routes will be picked on Tuesday; and Thursday and Friday garbage routes will be picked up on Wednesday. ■ Alcorn County garbage pickup service announced its holiday

route schedule for the week of Nov. 24-28. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday routes will not change. The Thursday garbage route will run on Tuesday. The Friday garbage route will run on Wednesday.

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Why Democrats lack working class appeal BY DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN Columnists

After their massive defeats in the midterm elections many Democrats are calling for the party to move away from its emphasis on social issues and embrace a call for higher wages and an end to stagnant working class incomes. But they miss the point. Both in fact and in perception, their pro-immigration stance puts them on the wrong side of the issue. AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka called on Hillary Clinton to “run on a raisingwages agenda and not cater to Wall Street but to everyday people.” The New York Times notes that as Democrats sift through the returns, they see that “lower-income voters either supported Republicans or did not vote.” The paper said that “liberals argue that without a more robust message about economic fairness, the party will continue to suffer among working-class voters, particularly in the South and Midwest.” Under Obama, three out of every four newly created jobs went to people not born in the United States according to the Census Bureau. The resultant downward pressure on wages makes income inequality worse. Proposals to raise the minimum wage are largely beside the point – only 10 percent of those at this wage level are in poverty, the rest are second and third incomes in their families. To raise the wages of the heads of households, the left cannot continue to force them to compete with newly arrived immigrants who are willing to work for next to nothing. The liberal agenda of tougher regulation of banks, student loan forgiveness and even revisions in trade policy simply won’t address the problem sufficiently. In one stroke of the pen, President Obama will justify working class angst about the administration’s economic policy when he ends deportations of illegal immigrants. Message to Obama and the left: Immigration is the economic issue of our time. (Dick Morris, former advisor to the Clinton administration, is a commentator and writer. He is also a columnist for the New York Post and The Hill. His wife, Eileen McGann is an attorney and consultant.)

Letter to the editor

Give thanks to farmers at Thanksgiving Dear Editor, As we approach this Thanksgiving season, it’s important for all to know that American agriculture continues to provide food and nourishment for every family in the USA and exports more than 30% of what is produced in excess of our needs. This is truly a blessing that God has allowed us to enjoy while we work every day as stewards of His domain. As we pause at our Thanksgiving tables to thank our Creator for the abundant food we enjoy, let each of us remember that it was through the efforts of an individual who worked long hours in extreme temperatures that this food was made available to us. Let’s remember that, as Americans, we have the safest, most abundant food supply of any consumer group in the world. While farmers often get the blame for high food prices, the American consumer must remember that the farmer’s take is only about 17 cents out of every dollar. All of us face economic challenges in the capitalistic form of government we have all come to enjoy, but let us never compromise the principles that make our farms such an important part of our economy and national sovereignty. While we remain dependent on foreign governments for our energy needs, we must never allow our public policy to deteriorate to the point that we are dependent on other nations for our food supply. As we say thanks for the abundance we enjoy at this Thanksgiving time, may we also say a special prayer for every farmer who produces in such abundance that we are able to enjoy his bounty all year long. Sincerely, Randy Knight President Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation

Prayer for today Lord Jehovah, judge of all mankind, forbid that I should set myself as a judge of another’s life, and neglect to live for the higher judgment of my own. May I not be absorbed in that which thrives in darkness, but live in the light of honesty and gentleness. Amen.

A verse to share Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. — Psalm 23:6

Obama is going rogue president Asserting a legal and constitutional authority he himself said he did not have, President Obama is going rogue, issuing an executive amnesty to 4 to 5 million illegal aliens. He will order the U.S. government not to enforce the law against these 5 million, and declare that they are to be exempt from deportation and granted green cards. Where did Obama get his 4-5 million figure, not 2-4 million, or 5-7 million? Nowhere in law, but plucked out of his own mind, as to what he can get away with. Barack Obama just felt it was about right. Thus does our constitutional law professor-president “faithfully execute” the laws of the United States he has twice swore to uphold? Our rogue president has crossed an historic line, and so has the republic. We have just taken a monumental step away from republicanism toward Caesarism. For this is rule by diktat, the rejection of which sparked the American Revolution. The political, psychological and moral effects of Obama’s action will be dramatic. Sheriffs, border patrol, and immigration authorities, who have put their lives on the line to secure our broken borders, have been made to look like fools. Resentment and cyni-

cism over Obama’s action will be deeply corrosive to all law enforcement. BusinessPatrick men who Buchanan obeyed the law and reColumnist fused to hire illegals, hiring Americans and legal immigrants instead, and following U.S. and state law on taxes, wages and withholding, also look like fools today. Obama’s action makes winners of the scofflaws and hustlers. Bosses who hired illegals off the books will also receive de facto amnesty. La Raza is celebrating. But, make no mistake, a corrupt corporate crowd is also publicly relieved and privately elated. Immigrants who waited in line for years to come to America, and those waiting still, have egg on their faces. Why, they are saying to themselves, were we so stupid as to obey U.S. laws, when it is the border-jumpers who are now on the way to residency and citizenship? When the world hears of the Obama amnesty, millions more from Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East will be coming. And if they cannot get

in legally, they will walk in, or fly in, and overstay their visas. Why not? It works. That this action will be as much a part of Obama’s legacy as Obamacare is certain. The unanswered question is how the Obama amnesty will be remembered by history. His aides think that it will be seen as a second Emancipation Proclamation. Perhaps. But with this amnesty Obama takes custody of and responsibility for the entire illegal population. He is the patron saint of illegal aliens. And for what they do, he will be held accountable, as was Jimmy Carter for the Marielitos Castro sent and Carter welcomed. If the amnestied illegals contribute to the drug trade and violent crime, that will be Obama’s legacy to his country. If they turn up disproportionately on the welfare rolls, exploding state and federal deficits, that will be Obama’s legacy. If this amnesty is followed by a new invasion across the border America cannot control, that, too, will be Obama’s gift to his countrymen. In the four decades before JFK, the nation had a pause in legal immigration. During that pause, the Germans, Irish, Italians, Jews, Poles, Greeks and Slav immigrants who had come in

from 1890-1920, and their children and grandchildren, were fully assimilated. They had become not only U.S. citizens, but also identifiably American. Today, in 2014, after an influx of perhaps 50 million in 50 years, legal and illegal, no longer from Northwest Europe, or Europe at all, but Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, of every race, color, creed, culture and language we seem less a nation than some mammoth Mall of America. An economy, but not a country. Running in 2008, Obama said he intended to become a “transformational president.” With this decision, he succeeds. He has accelerated and ensured the remaking of America. Now when the wives and children of the illegals arrive, and their extended families apply for and receive visas, and bring their wives and children, we will become the Third World country of Obama’s dream, no more a Western nation. But then the community organizer did not much like that old America. (Daily Corinthian columnist Pat Buchanan is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster.)

Let’s reform immigration to encourage immigrants “When the facts change, I change my mind,” economist John Maynard Keynes said when charged with inconsistency. “What do you do, sir?” As President Obama threatens to stretch his power to faithfully execute the law to a breaking point by effectively legalizing some 5 million illegal immigrants, perhaps I owe readers an explanation of my own changes of mind on immigration. I tended to support the so-called comprehensive immigration bills passed by the Senate in 2006 and then rejected by the Senate in 2007, due to missteps by new Majority Leader Harry Reid. But I think the similar bill the Senate passed in 2013, which never came forward in the House, is a wrongheaded approach. Why? Because the facts changed. When the 2006-07 bills were drawn up, just about everyone assumed that the surge of both legal and illegal immigration from Latin America, mostly from Mexico, would continue indefinitely. With low unemployment, it seemed there was demand for the mostly lowskill workers that would keep arriving. Economists skeptical of immigration could point to

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only small downward pressure on low-skill wages in the United States as a result. OthMichael erwise, the Barone economy benefited. The Columnist need, then, was to regulate this flow by securing the border and improving workplace enforcement. Technological advances seemed to make this possible. But even as Reid was killing a bill that could have passed the House and was supported by President George W. Bush, the facts started changing. Housing prices peaked and started falling. Mortgage foreclosures climbed, and a vastly disproportionate number of them struck Hispanics. The surge of Latin immigration, which had grown in the 25 years from 1982 to 2007 – the same span of time as the huge surge of internal migration of Southern blacks to the North from 1940 to 1965 — suddenly ended. Net migration from Mexico to the United States between 2007 and 2012 was zero, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States fell.

The economy dived into a recession, followed by years of agonizingly sluggish economic growth. Most Americans think the recession is still on. The demand for low-skill workers has plummeted. The need for high-skill workers with the potential to increase overall productivity has increased. With the midterm elections over, Obama is itching to effectively legalize millions of mostly low-skill illegals – one aspect of the 2006-07 and 2013 bills that the nation clearly doesn’t need in 2014. American immigration law is an accretion of old statutes. Latin and Mexican immigration surged despite low quotas in the 1965 act because of the family reunification provisions carried over from a 1924 law. High-skill immigration is channeled through H-1B visas established in earlier law. These tend to tie high-skill immigrants to particular employers. The high-tech lobby pushed relentlessly for more H-1B’s in the 2006-07 and 2013 legislation. A better idea is to start all over again rather than patching immigration acts that are now 90, 49 and 28 years old. The United States should follow the successful examples of our Anglosphere cousins, Canada

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and Australia. They reserve most immigration slots for high-skill applicants who qualify under their point systems. The result: They have more immigration than we do as a share of their populations, and they also have higher test scores and more economic growth. America always needs high-skill immigrants. And we don’t need to tie them to specific employers. Let them make their way in what is still, despite over-taxation and over-regulation, our free enterprise system. The country will be richer for it. There is something in a high-skill immigration system for both political parties. Republicans could talk about whom they’d let in, not whom they’d keep out. Democrats could finally endorse a policy that would produce economic growth. All high-skill immigration policy lacks is a lobby. Maybe some members of Congress will step forward and fill the gap. (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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Immigration plan good, not great for economy WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s expansive executive action on immigration is good for the U.S. economy — just not as good as partnering with Congress on broader reforms. Announced Thursday, the executive order would prevent the deportation of about 4 million parents and guardians who lack the same legal status as their children. By gaining work permits, they will likely command higher wages, move more easily between jobs and boost government tax revenues, according to multiple economic analyses. “This is focused on people who are already in the economy today, who are contributing mightily but are basically operating in the shadows,” said Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Their economic potential is being held back.” The new order could boost labor income by $6.8 billion, helping to generate 160,000 new jobs and $2.5 billion in additional tax revenues, according to estimates by Hinojosa-Ojeda. The findings dovetail with separate research showing that a 1986 amnesty measure raised incomes for illegal workers in the years that followed. Still, any gains from the executive action would be modest in the $17 trillion U.S. economy. White House officials estimate that the executive order would expand gross domestic product less than 0.1 percent a year over the next decades. Along with the Congressional Budget Office, independent economists say growth would be much stronger with a broader overhaul that would more than double the number of illegal workers eligible for legalized status, in addition to reforms that would attract high-skilled immigrant workers who are more likely to lead and found new companies.

Obama broadens Afghan mission

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WASHINGTON — U.S. troops in Afghanistan may once again engage Taliban fighters, not just al-Qaida terrorists, under new guidelines quietly approved by President Barack Obama, administration officials say. The armed forces were to limit their operations in Afghanistan to counterterrorism missions against al-Qaida after this year, until Obama broadened the guidelines in recent weeks. The plan comes as the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan draws to a close, thousands of troops return home and the military prepares for a narrower counterterrorism and training mission for the next two years. Obama’s decision also means the U.S. can conduct air support when needed. One U.S. official said the military could only go after the Taliban if it posed a threat to American forces or provided direct support to al-Qaida, while the latter could be targeted more indiscriminately. “To the extent that Taliban members directly threaten the United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan or provide direct support to al-Qaida, however, we will take appropriate measures to keep Americans safe,” the official said. The Taliban’s presence in Afghanistan far exceeds that of al-Qaida, adding significance to Obama’s authorization. The president’s decision came in response to requests from military commanders who wanted troops to be allowed to continue to battle the Taliban, the U.S. officials said. The New York Times first reported the new guidelines. Officials confirmed details to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss Obama’s decisions by name.

WASHINGTON — The admiral fired last year as No. 2 commander of U.S. nuclear forces may have made his own counterfeit $500 poker chips with paint and stickers to feed a gambling habit that eventually saw him banned from an entire network of casinos, according to a criminal investigative report obtained by The Associated Press. Although Rear Adm. Timothy M. Giardina’s removal as deputy head of U.S. Strategic Command was announced last year, evidence of his possible role in manufacturing the counterfeit chips has not previously been revealed. Investigators said they found his DNA on the underside of an adhesive sticker used to alter genuine $1 poker chips to make them look like $500 chips. Nor had the Navy disclosed how extensively he gambled. The case is among numerous embarrassing setbacks for the nuclear force. Disciplinary problems, security flaws, weak morale and leadership lapses documented by The Associated Press over the past two years prompted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Nov. 14 to announce top-to-bottom changes in how the nuclear force is managed that will cost up to $10 billion. The records obtained by the AP under the Freedom of Information Act show Giardina was a habitual poker player, spending a total of 1,096 hours — or an average of 15 hours per week — at the tables at the Horseshoe casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in the 18 months before being caught using three phony chips in June 2013. He was such a familiar figure at the casino, across the Missouri River from his office near Omaha, Nebraska, that some there knew him as “Navy Tim.”

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Prison teacher, guard arrested JACKSON — A teacher and a correctional officer at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in Walnut Grove face charges after alleged incidents at the prison. Freda Stuart, 58, of Union, a teacher at the prison, was arrested for allegedly having sex with an inmate in a classroom closet. Police also arrested correctional officer Romelowe T. Lofton, who reportedly tried to smuggle a cellphone and cigarettes into the prison. A deputy warden reportedly found Stuart and the inmate in a classroom closet after a class had ended and other inmates had returned to their housing units. Walnut Grove Police Chief Kevin Polk said Stuart was arrested after police received a call about the incident. Stuart has since been placed on administrative leave pending resolution of the case. When asked whether the inmate was a student of Stuart’s, Polk said he only knew that she had been giving him schoolwork. In the other case, Lofton, 19, and Jatra Brooks, a visitor, each was booked in the Leake County Jail after Brooks allegedly gave Lofton the contraband to bring to an inmate. Lofton reportedly hid the cigarettes in food and the cellphone in his boot. The phone was discovered by a body scanner when he entered the building.

Lofton has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, and the inmate — whose name was not released — faces charges of conspiracy to introduce contraband into a prison.

the couple had been drinking and began arguing at Jackson’s home early July 25. Police said during the argument, Jackson grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed McGraw in the left upper chest. McGraw was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Carr’s sentencing moved to December

MANTACHIE — The town of Mantachie has banned e-cigarette and similar inhalers from public places. Under the new ordinance, public e-cigarette and vapor inhaler use is forbidden inside local businesses and in or around town property like city hall and the park. E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that produce an odorless vapor which typically contains nicotine, and sometimes flavorings. E-cigarettes are often described as a less dangerous alternative to regular cigarettes that may help regular smokers quit. However, there hasn’t been much research on them yet.

VICKSBURG — The sentencing of a Vicksburg woman for her role in a prescription drug fraud case has been rescheduled for Dec. 2. Sentencing for Patti Carr had originally been set for this week. Carr pleaded guilty in September to five counts of prescription forgery. Warren County Circuit Judge M. James Chaney rescheduled the sentencing. Prosecutors said Carr is the live-in girlfriend of Dr. Lawrence Francis Chenier III. Chenier has a home in Vicksburg and a medical practice in Tallulah, Louisiana. Prosecutors said Chenier wrote 73 prescriptions for painkillers to Carr under assumed names over a period of months before narcotics agents raided their home in September 2011. Prosecutors said Carr picked up the pills from drug stores around Vicksburg. In October, Chenier was found not guilty of conspiracy but jurors failed to reach a verdict on 73 counts of prescription forgery. Prosecutors have not announced if they will retry Chenier on the forgery counts.

Woman indicted for manslaughter NATCHEZ — A Natchez woman has been indicted for manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend during a domestic dispute in July. An Adams County grand jury indicted 46-year-old LaVonda Darcell Jackson in the death of 30-year-old Tere McGraw. Jackson surrendered to authorities and was released on $45,000 bond. Natchez Police said

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Shifting attitudes rise in Cosby allegations BY JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press

Tamra Wade struggled mightily over whether to go to the police more than a decade ago, when, she says, a trusted professor forced himself on her in an empty classroom. Ultimately she couldn’t bring herself to do it. But if it happened now, she says, she’d be a lot bolder — not just because she’s older, but because she feels there’s less of a stigma connected to being a victim of sexual assault. And this, say advocates for sexual assault victims, may be one reason why the allegations against Bill Cosby have exploded into public consciousness now so much more than they did when they emerged a decade ago: an evolving cultural understanding of the crime of sexual assault, and increased empathy toward those claiming to be victims. “I think our society really has changed,” says Wade, a data analyst who now mentors young assault victims. “Ten years ago, it was much harder for a victim to get an audience listening to her. Now there’s less of a stigma, and that gives people more confidence to come forward.” A key element in the cultural shift, say some advocates, have been a series of high-profile cases like the Penn State molestation scandal, stories of abuse in the military or the Catholic Church, and cases of date rape at university campuses. Particularly when a number of people come forward, it’s

“People may have an easy time rationalizing away only one victim, but not when there are a number of them.” Scott Berkowitz President of Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network in Washington, D.C.

harder for the public to ignore, they say. “People may have an easy time rationalizing away only one victim, but not when there are a number of them,” says Scott Berkowitz, president of Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network in Washington, D.C. In recent weeks, at least seven women have publicly accused the 77-year-old Cosby of sexual assault years ago. Cosby has not been charged in connection with any of the allegations. Only one woman has filed suit — Andrea Constand, who sued in 2005 and settled for an undisclosed amount before the case went to trial. Cosby’s attorney, Martin Singer, has discredited some of the allegations and denied others. He suggested in a Friday statement that Cosby’s accusers may have another agenda. “There has never been a shortage of lawyers willing to represent people with claims against rich, powerful men, so it makes no sense that not one of these new women who just came forward for the first time now ever asserted a legal claim back at the time they allege they had been sexually assaulted.” Berkowitz, of RAINN,

recalls when his organization, back in 1994, approached TV networks to air public service announcements for its sex assault hotline; they resisted, he says, fearing the mere word “rape” would lead to complaints. Finally NBC agreed, and there were no complaints, Berkowitz says — in fact, there were thank-yous. Other networks followed suit. “In the last decade, we’ve all been developing a greater awareness of just how common these crimes are,” says Berkowitz. Recent media coverage of the widening allegations against Cosby led to what RAINN said was a “significant increase” in calls to its National Sexual Assault Hotline — something that also happened after the Penn State case. But there’s been a measurable increase underway for several years, says Jen Marsh, who oversees the hotline, which includes a phone and online version. “Our online hotline has seen a 25 percent increase every year,” says Marsh, vice president of Victims Services at RAINN. “I think it has a lot to do with the dialogue happening around this issue.”

the judge imposed another suspended eightyear sentence. ■ Justin C. Smith, 28, possession of methamphetamine with intent — Intensive Supervision Program (house arrest), five years probation and $1,000 fine

■ Shannon Scott, 25, possession of methamphetamine — House arrest, five years probation and $1,000 fine ■ Jackie Vanderford, 58, DUI third offense — House arrest, four years probation and $2,000 fine

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Funeral services for Martha Ann Davis, 81, are set for 2 p.m. today at McPeters Inc. Funeral Chapel with Bro. Mickey Trammel and Bro. Daniel Jones officiating. Burial will be in Henry Cemetery. Mrs. Davis passed away on Thursday, November 20 at the North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born on November 2, 1933 to the late William Rayvaughn Gurley and Tommie Lou Emma Gurley. She was a member of Tate Baptist Church and was in the Faith Sunday Davis School Class. She was a housewife and loved spending time with her family. She had a passion for interior decorating, enjoyed cooking and going to yard sales. Mrs. Davis was preceded in death by her husband, William L. Davis; a son, Steve Crumby; and her first husband. James C. Crumby. She is survived by five sons, Jimmy Dan Crumby (Michele) of South Fulton, Tenn., Tommy Ray Crumby (Sherry) of Selmer, Tenn., Michael David Crumby of Corinth, William R. Crumby of Jackson and Leslie Keith Davis of Corinth; two daughters, Martha Jane Musser (Doug) and Mary Ann Roberts (Fred) both of Corinth; a brother, William Doc “Buddy” (Elizabeth) Gurley; a sister, Mary Katherine (Willie Joe) McCoy both of Corinth; 21 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends. McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.

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Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Lebanon Baptist Church in Tippah County with interment to follow in Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation began at 5 p.m. Saturday, November 22, 2014 and will continue until service time at the church. He is survived by his loving caregiver and sister, Mattie Jane Jones and husband Dwayne of his home in Rien- Michael zi; brothers, Jerry Wayne Michael of Jumpertown and Gene “Smiley” Eaton and wife Sue of Savannah, Tenn.; sisters, Sharon Kay Ross and husband Bobby of Thrasher, Darlene Stokes and husband Donnie of Ripley, Nella Wayne Brumley and husband Billy of Jumpertown; special sister and nurse, Donna McClain and husband David of Ripley; special niece, Libby Michael of Rienzi; sister-in-law, Janis Eaton of Rienzi; brother-in-law, Aaron Davis of Jumpertown: and a host of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his brothers, David “Beaver” Michael, Jimmy Ray Michael, and James Herman Eaton; sisters, Betty Cleo “Balo” Davis and Gladys Shelton and husband John H.; maternal grandparents, Garrett and Clytie Buchanan; and paternal grandparents, Ed and Minnie Michael. Serving as pallbearers will be Dewrell Shelton, Ricky Davis, Faben Cornelius, Buddy Buchanan, Eddie Ray Michael and Twoson Michael. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Todd Michael, Tommy Mask, Shaun Barnes, Kenneth Walthers, David Page, Kirby Carpenter and Bro. Junior Davis. Bro. Lane Finley, Doc Shelton and Teddy Cornelius will officiate the service. Magnolia Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Jimmy Darrell Michael. Online condolences can be left at www.magnoliafuneralhome.com.

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â€œI believe that workforce training should follow them into community college and I believe we should pay for it.â€? Gov. Phil Bryant

Bryant seeks to pay community college expenses for some BY JEFF AMY Associated Press

JACKSON â€” Gov. Phil Bryant is pushing a $3 million plan to pay for community college for students who earn a technical diploma in high school. Bryant first floated the proposal earlier this month while speaking at Nissan Motor Co. in Canton and repeated it Monday when he made his proposal for the 2015 budget. The Republican says Mississippi needs to increase the number of skilled manufacturing workers to fill available jobs and encourage employers to relocate or expand in the state. He said that potential employers he meet with are most worried about who they can hire. â€œToday the first question is â€˜Where is your workforce. Who are they? And are they available for our industry?â€™â€? Bryant said Monday. The proposal looks somewhat like efforts in Mississippi and elsewhere to make community college free for many recent high school graduates. Local governments and private donors are already paying tuition in 26 of Mississippiâ€™s 82 counties. A bill to make that program statewide failed in 2014â€™s Legislature. Estimates predicted it would only cost about $4.5 million to fund a statewide program that would assist almost 7,000 students. The number is so low because students would apply for federal, state and college aid before the state would step in to cover the

remaining bill. Bryant said he wants his program to be open to anyone who graduates from high school with a career-technical certificate and a C average. â€œI believe that workforce training should follow them into community college and I believe we should pay for it,â€? Bryant told reporters at Nissan. Other details are still being worked out. For example, spokesman Knox Graham said the Bryant administration isnâ€™t sure yet whether it would require the graduates to take technical classes in community colleges, or allow them to pursue a traditional academic path as well. Graham said the initial $3 million proposal is based on how many seniors are currently in career-technical programs in high school. There are 7,500 such students in all the high school grades, but Graham couldnâ€™t immediately provide an estimate of how many seniors there were. The proposed $3 million would be enough to pay for a full yearâ€™s tuition for about 1,200 students at the community college average of almost $2,500 a year. The Mississippi Economic Council last year launched a Tech Master award for high school students who take at least four career-tech classes and meet other requirements, including other classes, minimum test scores, 40 hours of community service and a good disciplinary record.

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MONTPELIER, Vt. â€” A decadeslong national decline in the number of hunters has prompted states to tap into a new group of hunters â€” people who demand locally produced food, but donâ€™t know the first thing about bagging a deer. Books and blogs on the topic are numerous, and state wildlife departments are offering introductory deer hunting classes in urban areas to recruit newbies who want to kill their own local, sustainable and wild meat in what some say is an ecologically friendly way. â€œItâ€™s not easy and itâ€™s not a surefire way to fill a freezer every year but itâ€™s certainly more rewarding than even raising a cow behind your house and butchering it,â€? said Chris Saunders, hunter education coordinator for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. The department offered an introductory deer hunting course in Burlington this fall to recruit new hunters. The number of people holding hunting licenses nationally had dropped over the last 30 years starting in 1983, mostly because of changes in demographics, such as an aging population and more people moving into urban areas, said Mark Damian Duda, executive director of Virginia-based Responsive Management, which does surveys for federal and state fish and wildlife departments. But hunting participation increased by 9 percent from 2006

to 2011, the latest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serviceâ€™s national fiveyear survey found, and wildlife officials around the country suspect that itâ€™s local food connoisseurs â€” or locavores â€” partly helping to level it off. Reasons for hunting vary â€” recreation, spending time with friends and family, finding a trophy buck. The number of those hunting for meat nearly doubled from 16 percent in 2006 to 35 percent in 2011, according to a national survey of 1,000 hunters published last year by Responsive Management and other outdoors agencies. The survey found that part of the increase was driven by the locavore movement. Thatâ€™s why graduate student Francis Eanes, 27, enrolled in an introductory hunting course this summer and fall in Madison, Wisconsin. â€œThe motivation really was something that I can do for myself as a way of knowing where my food comes from,â€? he said. â€œIâ€™ve worked on farms for a number of years and enjoy picking and helping grow some of my own produce and it seemed like a natural extension to apply that to at least some of the meat that I eat.â€? Heâ€™s slaughtered pasture-raised rabbits and chickens, and said he feels at ease about killing a deer since itâ€™s able to roam free and grow in a natural habitat. With a clean shot, the deer dies quickly, Eanes said.

â€œItâ€™s definitely easier to pull carrots or pick tomatoes, but Iâ€™m fairly confident that if an opportunity were to present itself, Iâ€™d be able to take the shot,â€? said Eanes, who plans to get a deer during the stateâ€™s rifle season, which started Saturday. Success isnâ€™t guaranteed. Saunders told his hunting class â€” where meat was the No. 1 motivation for the attendees â€” that the success rate of hunters is between 15 and 18 percent. But for many new hunters, it goes beyond knowing where your food comes from. They enjoy the outdoors, the skill and the unknown â€” and thereâ€™s no negative ecological footprint, said Tovar Cerulli, author of â€œA Mindful Carnivore.â€? The 34-yearold former vegetarian and vegan turned hunter wrote his masterâ€™s thesis on what he calls adult-onset hunting. Deer are part of the forest where he lives in Marshfield, Vermont, he said, and if he gets one, he shares it with friends and family. The frozen meat tends to last he and his wife an entire year. The experience of taking a piece of venison that he shot and butchered out of the freezer is more satisfying than taking out storebought food out to cook. â€œThereâ€™s such a specific and direct connection to where that came from and I know that individual animal, where it was, exactly when I killed it,â€? he said. â€œItâ€™s all very specific and direct and personal.â€?

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Texas Tennessee $15,000: SRVS (470 likes) $7,500: Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) (377 likes) $2,500: Mid-South Food Bank (203 likes)

Alabama $15,000: Childrenâ€™s Harbor (738 likes) $7,500: St. Maryâ€™s Home (339 likes) $2,500: Montgomery Area Non-Traditional Equestrians (MANE) (223 likes)

Florida $15,000: Emerald Coast Autism Center (839 likes) $7,500: Covenant Hospice of the Emerald Coast (220 likes) $2,500: Food 4 Kids

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Stocks can rise even more The economy is growing, and employers have added more than 200,000 jobs for nine straight months, the longest such streak since 1995. â€œEverything is pointing to companies making more money going forward,â€? says Neil Hennessy, chief investment officer of Hennessy Funds, which manages $5.7 billion in assets. Thatâ€™s key because stock prices, at their heart, are a function of how much profit a company makes and how much investors will pay for it. The stronger job market means consumers will have more money to spend. As will lower gasoline bills, now that the price of crude oil is close

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to a four-year low. The hope is that companies will generate more revenue as a result. Thatâ€™s important because, since the recession, corporate profits have grown largely as a result of cutting expenses. Companies are squeezing more profit from each $1 in revenue than ever before: nearly 10 cents, up from an average of 6.5 cents over the last 20 years, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. That means any increase in sales will quickly boost earnings.

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