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Police standoff

Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

The SWAT team closes in to end the three-hour standoff at Checks to Cash Discount Tobacco on U.S. 72 East. Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

An Amory woman was airlifted to Tupelo following a wreck on U.S. 45 near Biggersville.

Woman hurt in 2-vehicle wreck BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

An Amory woman was airlifted to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo following a twovehicle crash on U.S. 45. The accident happened around 12:15 p.m. on Saturday about a quarter-mile south of Biggersville High School. Both vehicles were northbound when the wreck occurred. A white Cadillac Escalade driven by Mary McGaha, 65, of Booneville, had just got back on the highway after stopping

at Tony’s One Stop when it was rear-ended by a 1984 Ford pickup driven by Catherine Mclevain, 51, of Amory, who was traveling at a high rate of speed, according to emergency personnel. Mclevain’s truck rolled in the median after striking the rear end of the Cadillac, and she was ejected from the vehicle. When emergency personnel arrived on the scene, Mclevain was drifting in and out of consciousness and was soon airlifted to Tupelo. McGaha and the passengers in her vehicle — her husband, Mur-

ry and their 1-year-old grandson — were not seriously injured. They were taken to Magnolia Regional Health Center via ambulance for examination. All were wearing seat-belts or child restraint. McGaha’s Escalade was not seriously damaged. Following the wreck, Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Erik Smith discovered a bottle of Jagermeister and a quantity of pills used in the making of methamphetamine in Mclevain’s Please see WRECK | 2A

Corinth Police takes suspect without harm BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

A three-hour standoff ended without bloodshed Saturday as Corinth Police were called to stand between a distraught man and his suicidal intentions. At 4:43 p.m., Corinth Police received a call through the E911 system from a third party stating that Steven Akers, the owner of Checks To Cash Discount Tobacco, had barricaded himself inside the business. The caller said Akers was armed, was threatening to kill himself and possibly burn the

place to the ground. The SWAT team was dispatched, with Capt. Chuck Hinds serving as the incident commander. A large crowd assembled across the street from the standoff. Corinthians of every age and description watched the Saturday night drama unfold. Eventually the police established contact with a member of Akers’ family, who spoke to Akers from outside — via the PA system on a police cruiser. Please see SWAT | 2A

Oakland’s clothes closet brings hope to hundreds BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Oakland Baptist Church spread hope through the community by donating approximately 25,000 items of clothing. The church’s Closet of Hope — a program to give away clothes to those in need — was held on Saturday at the Harper Square Mall. When church volunteers opened the doors at 9 a.m. a

crowd had already formed. “It’s been wonderful. We let in 75 people at a time, let them check out and another group come in,” said church volunteer Diane Whitaker. “It’s been a very spiritual experience, and hopefully we’re meeting both kinds of needs.” Volunteers behind the check-out counter stayed busy throughout the event. Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

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Over 100 volunteers made Closet of Hope a success.

Family returns to Mississippi from Malawi BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com

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LeAnne McDonald joins in a feeding program for local children operating across the street from the school in Malawi.

It’s a long way from Malawi to Corinth, Mississippi. Rev. Sam McDonald believes the journey his family took from the small country in southern Africa where he and his wife taught and ministered for the past decade to the Cross City where he now serves as minister of Trinity Presbyterian Church was one that was meant to be. “It really was something that the Lord orchestrated,” he said. McDonald, his wife LeAnne, and their three children — 7-year-old Sarah Rose, 12-yearold Molly and 14-year-old Amber — have lived in Malawi

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since 2001 when he and his wife felt the call to ministry and missions. A native of Brookhaven, McDonald was teaching high school and his wife was teaching elementary school when they first learned about African Bible College — a school supported by churches in the United States. During a conference on missions he began to see the need for educators who were willing to go and teach in Africa. He had already been considering attending seminary or going into the ministry, and in 2001 they made the decision to uproot their lives and begin a new chapter as educators in one of the poorest countries in

the world. “In the summer of 2001 we got on a plane to Malawi. We had no idea what we were getting into,” he said. As the plane descended from the skies after the final leg of a 27-hour trip, they saw a country of thatch-roofed huts and muddy streets completely foreign to a pair of Mississippians who had never before traveled out of the country or even very far out of the state. “It’s just a completely different place,” he said. Economically, Malawi is one of the world’s most depressed places. A land-locked country Please see MALAWI | 11A

On this day in history 150 years ago Without asking or receiving permission from Richmond, Gen. Beauregard takes a leave of absence to restore his “shattered” health at Bladon Springs, Ala. The unapproved visit restores his health but nearly destroys his military career.

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Oakland Baptist Church members collected approximately 25,000 items of clothing and footwear for Saturday’s Closet of Hope.

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Capt. Mike Shipman, the trained negotiator for the police department, convinced Akers to lie on the floor inside his business. Shortly after 7 p.m., the SWAT team entered the building and took Akers into custody. As the team slowly approached the door and entered the business, dozens of cell-phone cameras were raised high in the crowd across the street. Akers was transported to Magnolia Regional Health Center for evaluation.

CLOTHES Both shifts of Corinth PD participated in the action. Capt. Randy Dickerson and the day-shift team were almost ready to sign out for the night when the call went out. They were joined at the scene by the night-shift officers. Police Chief David Lancaster thanked all of the officers involved for their handling of the situation and expressed his gratitude for the way they averted another potentially deadly scenario. “This was the second one like this in the last few days, and we were lucky that both turned out so

well,” said the chief, referring to a standout at Crossroads Regional Park on Monday night. Hinds, who led the team into the tobacco store, thanked the other agencies involved — the Farmington Police Department, the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office, the Corinth Fire Department and Magnolia EMS personnel — for contributing to a peaceful resolution. “We’re just glad it came to a peaceful resolution,” Hinds said, “because our main function is to protect the public.”

the pills. Emergency personnel from Biggersville Fire & Rescue, the Alcorn Coun-

ty Sheriff’s Office and the Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to the scene.

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“Steady is an understatement,” said one lady working at check-out. “We’re overwhelmed — but in a good way.” People with spiritual and other needs were encouraged to leave notes describing their needs so that members of the church can provide help where it’s needed. By 11 a.m. an estimated 500 people had walked passed through the Closet of Hope, including people whose lives had recently been touched by tragedy. “I talked to one lady whose house had

burned,” said Diane’s husband, church volunteer Jimmy Whitaker. “There are a lot of people we need to pray for. I’ve heard a lot of stories — a lot of sad stories.” Over 100 volunteers from Oakland Baptist Church shared the work during the event on Saturday. Another 100 helped with the preparations leading up to the Closet of Hope over the last three weeks. Children from Oakland’s Vacation Bible School program chipped in by making clothes detergent for donation. People who came through the Closet of Hope

once could come back at 2 p.m. — after everyone had a fair chance at the items — and take as many items as they wanted. “We’ve got not storage. If we have anything left there’s nothing going to be sold,” said Associate Pastor Dyer Harbor. “We’re giving it all away.” Members of Oakland Baptist Church are also working on a Garden of Hope, which will give needy members of the community an opportunity to help themselves to some fresh vegetables. “We’re just happy to meet people’s needs,” said Diane. “That is our goal.”

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Giving out sack lunches Saturday in the Corinth Middle School cafeteria were members of the Class of ‘62 (from left) Sandra Davis Cadle, Nancy McCann Mills, Voncil Brewster Smith, Connie Williams Rogers, Carol Williams Briggs and Joyce Emmons Smith.

CHS Class of ‘62 holds 50th reunion BY MARK BOEHLER editor@dailycorinthian.com

Charm bracelets were the fad. The Twist was the hottest dance. “It’s Now or Never” was the No. 1 song. Elvis was king. And Milo Reed’s pimento cheese or bologna sandwiches from Reed’s Grocery were the No. 1

lunch. And so it was for the Corinth High School Class of 1962, celebrating their 50th reunion this weekend. Classmates gathered in the cafeteria of the former high school — now Corinth Middle School — for a sack lunch on Saturday.

The ‘62 grads looked over scrapbooks full of black and white photos. “I remember when” was the most often uttered phrase. And there was ole Bill Reed himself under a Yankees baseball cap, ready to hand out sack Please see CHS | 3A

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lunches as if just made from Reed’s Grocery, the place down the street when students went for lunch. “We had open lunch then,” said Voncil Brewster Smith. “We’d walk to Bill Reed’s store for a dill pickle, sandwich and Moon Pie. That was the menu.” Students had an hour to eat, relax and talk, she said, one of 106 members of the Class of ‘62. “It was about getting away from school for an hour, meet and talk.” Reed looked into the lunch sack, stamped with a red Warrior mascot. “That’s not how momma

Bill Reed (Milo) made ‘em,” said Reed, now 82 and sport-

ing a walking cane yet still wearing his trademark smile. “She made a good homemade pimento cheese sandwich. Her secret was -- it had some mustard in it.” Reed said his store made 200 sandwiches a day in the 1950s and 1960s. “Bologna sandwiches were a big seller,” he said, as the business operated from 1937-1985. Class of ‘62 grad and number cruncher Milton Sandy Jr. put the math to the Reed’s sandwiches. “They produced an estimated million sandwiches,” said Sandy. “Mom’s sandwiches were great,” admitted Reed. “The bread had to be fresh.”

A lunch with Bill Reed was just one part of the big class party, in the planning stage for 11⁄2 years. Saturday morning, classmates had a memorial service for the 18 deceased schoolmates. Just over 100 signed up for the activites, which includes spouses. The group attended Pickin’ on the square on Thursday night, then held a social event at a classmate’s Pickwick Lake home on Friday night. Saturday night’s main event was an Elvis concert, complete with the song “It’s Now or Never.” “That’s our theme song,” said classmate Joyce Emmons Smith.

Memorial services set for ‘Mr. Smith’ day evening in his yard on Shiloh Road when a tree fell on him during a severe thunderstorm. The herbivorous ape was an eastern lowland gorilla from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa near the Rwanda border. His parents killed by poachers, he was an orphan at an early age. He was brought to the United States, where he first landed in Marshall County in Mississippi. He was then adopted by the loving James Daniel family of Corinth. He has called Corinth home the past five years. He was a very loving primate who never met a stranger. His smiling eyes greeted everyone daily along Shiloh Road. Mr. Smith’s civic duties included making appearances at Kidnappers Anonymous, a non-profit group reaching out to kidnapping victims. Mr.

BY MARK BOEHLER editor@dailycorinthian.com

Memorial funeral services for Mr. Smith — also know as “Shiloh Joe” and the “Shiloh Road Gorilla,” will be held at 2 p.m. today in the outside work area of SMC Recycling on Harper Road in Corinth. Burial will be in the recycling area, so Mr. Smith’s remains will be spread throughout the region to share his warm and kind-hearted spirit. Bro. Randy Bostick of Oakland Baptist Church will officiate the memorial services. Bill McPeters, Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin, Alcorn County Board of Supervisors President Lowell Hinton and State Rep. Nick Bain will all offer eulogies. Bugle soloist James Embrey will perform taps. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant was invited to attend, but sent his condolences with regrets. Mr. Smith died Mon-

Smith was a victim himself in the winter of 2010, when he was kidnapped by pranksters. He went missing for two months before being returned to his family. A ground dweller, Mr. Smith loved fashion, dressing up for all the holidays. He was also a hefty eater, especially enjoying bananas, Subway salads, fruit flavored Skittles and an occasional termite or caterpillar. His favorite pastime, however, was seeing the smiling faces of all his friends and neighbors who traveled past his beloved home on Shiloh Road. Survivors include the entire James Daniel family, plus a host of friends. Pallbearers will be the Corinth Board of Aldermen and the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors. Honorary pallbearers include officers of the

Corinth Police Department and employees of the Corinth Street and Sanitation Department, who responded to the ape in a time of crisis. Visitation continues at the site where Mr. Smith died until service time today. The Smith family is still accepting memorial wreaths to be placed at his roadside kingdom for those who feel the need to do so. However, in lieu of flowers in the future, the Smith family requests donations be made in memory of Mr. Smith to either the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter or the C.A.R.E. Foundation. Post any condolences on Facebook for all who grieve the tragic loss of Mr. Smith, an enemy to none and a friend to all. (Special thanks to all Daily Corinthian readers who requested an obituary of Mr. Smith to give the “Shiloh Road Gorilla” the respect he is due.)

City of Corinth board agenda A regular meeting of the Corinth Board of Mayor and Aldermen is set for 5 p.m. Tuesday. The agenda includes: ■ Public hearing on Future Fare special election ■ Public hearing for property cleanup on 1407 B Wick Street, 1802 Johns Street, 216

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Rematch about far more than sports STARKVILLE — In the 1950s and 1960s, most of the national headlines being made by Mississippi’s “Big Three” universities were negative and focused on in great measure on either institutional racism, mob violence, or both. In 1962, James Meredith’s integration of Ole Miss led to three days of riots that left two dead and more than 180 injured. The riots and the killSid Salter ings of a Paul Guihard — a British journalist for a French Columnist news agency — and local jukebox repairman Walter Ray Gunter made Meredith’s integration of Ole Miss a matter that required the intervention of President John F. Kennedy and the federalization of the Mississippi National Guard. At Mississippi Southern College, Clyde Kennard was falsely convicted and imprisoned in 1960 on trumped up charges that he stole chicken feed. That atrocity came after Kennard tried unsuccessfully to integrate what would become the University of Southern Mississippi in 1956, 1957, and 1959. USM was integrated without incident in 1965 when the school admitted black students Gwendolyn Elaine Armstrong and Raylawni Branch. The integration of Mississippi State University in 1965 when Richard Holmes was admitted was by comparison to the fate of Kennard and the experiences of Meredith a surprisingly peaceful affair. But other than for the raw courage it took for Holmes to break the color barrier at MSU, his admittance was in truth almost anti-climactic because of a basketball game played more than two years prior. The game was a historic NCAA basketball tournament game between Mississippi State and Loyola University of Chicago on March 23, 1963. That game was only six months removed from the Meredith riots at Ole Miss. Kennard was still languishing in Parchman for daring to try to integrate USM. In 1963, MSU’s players and coaches had to sneak out of the state against a court order prohibiting them from playing against a school with black players. As I noted in the book “Jack Cristil: Voice of the MSU Bulldogs” in 2011: “For many, the courage that (former MSU President Dean W.) Colvard and (legendary MSU head basketball coach Babe) McCarthy showed in defying the Mississippi Legislature and fiery segregationist Gov. Ross Barnett to enable the all-white MSU men’s basketball team to compete against a Loyola team with four African-American starters represented the university’s finest hours. For many, Mississippi State’s 1962-63 basketball team, coach, and the university administration came together to create a defining moment not only for MSU athletics but for American civil rights and universal sportsmanship as well.” A half-century later, Mississippi’s political, social, and racial landscapes are vastly different. While race remains problematic in some corners, the “closed society” that James Silver wrote about at Ole Miss in 1964 has been dramatically expanded and changed. USM’s enrollment is 29 percent African American. MSU has 21 percent African American enrollment (highest among U.S. historically white land grant institutions) and Ole Miss has 16 percent African-American enrollment. Ole Miss hosted a 2008 U.S. presidential debate that featured the Democratic nominee who would become America’s first African-American president. USM hosts one of the nation’s most dynamic civil rights oral history repositories. And MSU is now one of five universities to host a presidential library — the U.S. Grant Presidential Library at that. MSU is working on a rematch basketball game with Loyola University 50 years after that historic 1963 game that has implications far deeper than mere basketball. Loyola won the 1963 game 61-51 and would go on to win the 1963 NCAA national championship. Loyola team captain Jerry Harkness, one of the four black starters for the Ramblers, best summed up the true motivation for MSU before the game was played: “The (MSU) players are all right. I think that Mississippi State wants to play us. If they don’t, they’ll never know how good they are.” Harkness, the Loyola All-American, and State’s All-SEC team captain Joe Dan Gold met at center court in Michigan State’s old Jenison Field House for the opening tip in 1963. Gold extended his hand and Harkness shook it — and Mississippi would never be the same again. (Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

Prayer for today Dear God, help us to be willing to teach others about your son and the salvation he brings. Amen.

A verse to share Nothing in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 8:39 (NRSV)

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Will heads roll for the Stuxnet leak? Within days of SEAL Team Six’s killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama’s national security adviser pungently to “shut the (bleep) up.” Leaked secrets of that raid may have led to the imprisonment for 33 years of a Pakistani doctor who helped us locate bin Laden. Yet, according to Judicial Watch, the White House has been providing Hollywood with details of the raid for a movie that will, we may be sure, heroize our commander in chief. More troubling are two recent stories in The New York Times. One, by Jo Becker and Scott Shane, describes how, at meetings in the Situation Room, Obama examines “baseball cards” of al-Qaida targets in Pakistan and Yemen and decides on the “kill list” for drone strikes. Most explosive was the June 1 story by David Sanger, who wrote of the origins and operation of a secret U.S-Israeli cyberwar strike on Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. The Stuxnet virus we introduced into Natanz put 1,000 centrifuges out of action. These security leaks raise moral, strategic and legal issues.

D o e s Obama alone decide in the War on Terror who dies, where and when, Pat whom it is Buchanan permissible to terminate Columnist as collateral damage, who gets a reprieve? What are the criteria that this, our Caesar, has settled upon for who gets whacked? Do we have a right to know? And there is blowback to actions like these. Asked why he would target civilians, the Times Square bomber replied that U.S. drones do not spare civilians in Pakistan. Is it wise to have it leaked that President Obama is routinely ordering assassinations? Have we forgotten our history? After John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, we discovered that the CIA had been plotting to kill Fidel Castro, and Lee Harvey Oswald had visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City. The Kennedys were “running a damned Murder Inc. in the Caribbean,” Lyndon Johnson allegedly said. Men targeted for assassination in their countries may feel justified in reciprocating and assassinating Americans in our country. We may have disrupted Natanz for months, but we

also revealed to Iran and the world our cyberwar capabilities. And we became the first nation to use cyberwar weapons on a country with which we are not at war. If we have a right to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities like Natanz and Bushehr that are under U.N. supervision, does Iran have a right to attack our nuclear plants, like Three Mile Island, with cyberwar viruses they create? We have now alerted technologically advanced nations like Russia and China to our capabilities and impelled them to get cracking on their own cyberwar weapons, both offensive and defensive. Sanger describes how this “highly classified program,” code-named “Olympic Games,” was begun in the Bush years, how the worm was inserted in Natanz, and how it escaped from the centrifuges to outside computers and the world. He quotes the president’s dismayed reaction: “Should we shut this thing down?” Sanger implies that he spoke with “participants in the many Situation Room meetings on Olympic Games.” Obama seems outraged by such a suggestion: “The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive.” Whom did Sanger get all

this from? Who leaked and why? For this is far more serious than the leak that Joe Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA, which triggered a special prosecutor and got Dick Cheney’s top aide, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, indicted and convicted. Pvt. Bradley Manning faces a life sentence for divulging security secrets to Wikileaks. What did he do that the leakers of the Stuxnet secrets did not do? John McCain alleges that the leaking of security secrets — on how SEAL Team Six got Osama, on the Stuxnet virus that ravaged the Natanz plant, on the president ordering up drone strikes on a “kill list” of alQaida operatives — is politically motivated. Purpose: Paint the president as a ruthless and relentless warrior against America’s enemies. Whatever the purpose, the leaks appear to be breaches of national security and violations of federal law, and two U.S. attorneys are investigating. It is not improbable that officials on Obama’s national security team, if not White House aides, will soon be addressing a federal grand jury. (Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”)

Listening to rich liberals, perilous for Obama BY MICHAEL BARONE Who does Barack Obama listen to? Not Republican politicians. Evidently weeks go by between his conversations with Speaker John Boehner, who determines what legislation comes to the House floor. Not Democratic politicians. We have it on good authority that he seldom talks to Democratic members of Congress. But there is one group of people Obama has to listen to: the people who give him large sums of money. He recently attended his 150th fundraiser. That’s more than the number attended by the last four presidents put together. Obama has seen enough Architectural Digest-type interiors in Park Avenue triplexes and Beverly Hills mansions, and on the block in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, where every house is owned by a billionaire, to develop an expertise in Louis XV walnut commodes and Brunschwig & Fils fabrics. He’s also had plenty of chances to absorb the advice of the kind of rich liberals who like to give money to Democratic presidents. And the evidence that he has taken some of that ad-

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vice is his initiatives on three controversial issues, each of which involves serious political risk. The first and least risky of these stands is his endorsement of same-sex marriage. Many Democratic moneygivers, straight as well as gay, have strong convictions on this issue and were probably not appeased by his assurance that he was “evolving” from his opposition to it. Obama’s reversal will likely help him rekindle the enthusiasm that prosame-sex-marriage young voters once felt for him. And there’s some polling evidence suggesting that his new stand has changed the opinion of many previously anti-same-sex marriage black voters. Still, his move probably turned off some older voters and puzzled others who wonder why with a sluggish economy he was spending time on an issue that he said should be handled by the states. The second issue on which Obama seems to have been listening to his money-givers was the health insurance mandate requiring employers to pay for contraceptives and abortifacients. Many rich liberals feel

strongly that women’s “reproductive rights” (actually, the right not to reproduce) are so vital that government must ensure they have free access to contraception, even though it is widely available and inexpensive. That’s one view. Roman Catholic bishops and leaders of Catholic institutions feel that such services are sinful and refuse to provide them. They cite the Constitution’s guarantee of free exercise of religion, while the other side relies on what courts have called “emanations” and “penumbras” radiating from constitutional texts. The political point is that, as polling suggests, most Americans don’t like government forcing people to violate their religious convictions. That’s in line with tradition in a country that exempted those with religiously based conscientious objections from military service in a war in which more than 400,000 Americans were killed. The third issue is the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil produced from tar sands in Canada to United States refineries and create thousands of jobs in the process. Earlier this year, Susie Buell Tompkins, John Ker-

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ry’s fourth-biggest moneyraiser in 2004, picketed outside an Obama fundraiser at San Francisco’s W Hotel to protest the pipeline. She wanted Obama’s State Department to block it because she thinks tar sands production hurts the environment and the planet. Our neighbors the Canadians, who are not unconcerned about the environment themselves, disagree. The pipeline’s promoters say it would produce 20,000 American jobs and would tend to lower U.S. gas prices. Obama came out on Tompkins’ side and blocked the pipeline. When given a chance to draw new boundaries of his state Senate district in 2002, Obama made sure to include Chicago’s richest lakefront neighborhood. He’s been working hard to court rich liberal contributors ever since. The question is, is he listening to anyone else? (Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, www.washingtonexaminer.com, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.)

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Door-to-doors sales target of ordinance FOREST — The city of Forest is putting limits on peddlers who go door to door selling products. The Scott County Times reports the new ordinance, which will take effect in late July, would require door-to-door salesmen to register with the city before being allowed to operate and $25. Officials said the issue came up recently when a number of individuals were reported circulating in Forest neighborhoods seeking to sell home alarm systems without having contacted city officials first. Forest Fire Chief Jason Tillman said the state fire marshal has specific requirements for such businesses to operate. The ordinance requires the individuals to provide a copy of their identifica-

tion. People representing nonprofit group, a church, children participating in seasonal activities or candidates for office are exempt. Violators face $500 fines.

$27.5 million project parkway opens JACKSON — Several hundred people were on hand for the opening of the Madison Parkway. The $27.5 million dollar project linking Mississippi 463 and U.S. 51 was by local and state officials Friday for its safety, uniqueness and historical preservation. The Clarion-Ledger reports that the final look of the bridge — including the 5-by-5 foot strawberries stamped in the concrete bridge supports — and how the structure works to tie together Madison’s history and future resulted from numerous discussions between the city and the

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State preps Simmons for execution death JACKSON — Mississippi is preparing to execute a grocery store butcher convicted of dismembering a man over a drug debt and raping a woman he locked in a metal box. Gary Carl Simmons Jr. is scheduled for execution Wednesday in the 1996 killing of Jeffery Wolfe, whose body was found in pieces in a south Mississippi bayou in 1996. Simmons also was convicted of kidnapping and raping Wolfe’s female friend, who was 18 at the time, and sentenced to two life terms on those charges. The Associated Press does

not generally identify the victims of sex crimes. If Simmons is executed, he will become the sixth Mississippi inmate put to death this year. The Mississippi Supreme Court declined Thursday to delay the execution in a 6-2 decision. Simmons’ lawyers had requested a two-week delay, saying more time is needed for two mental health evaluations and an appeal based on their results. The court gave no explanation for its ruling. Simmons and his former brother-in-law, Timothy Milano, were both convicted of killing Wolfe, who drove to Mississippi from Houston with the female acquaintance to collect a drug debt, according to court records. This is how court records describe the killing: Wolfe and his friend went to Simmons’ house in Jackson County on Aug. 12, 1996, to collect the debt — estimated

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OXFORD — Authorities say a north Mississippi man has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for making and distributing child pornography. U.S. Attorney Felicia C. Adams says in a news release that 30-year-old Brian Robinson of Potts Camp was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in January to charges related to him making pornographic images with a young boy and then distributing the material on the Internet. At his plea hearing, Robinson admitted to creating various forms of child pornography and distributing both inside and outside the United States.

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