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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • One section

Corinth man arrested in ricin case Curtis arrested Wednesday in Cornith apartment

BY HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press

OXFORD — The FBI has arrested a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Curtis was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his apartment in Corinth, near the Tennessee state line about

100 miles east of Memphis. Authorities still waited for definitive tests on the letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. An FBI intelligence bulletin obtained by The Associated Press said those two letters were postmarked Memphis, Tenn.

Both letters said: “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance.” Both were signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.” The letters were intercepted before reaching the White House or Senate. The FBI said Wednesday

that more testing was underway. Preliminary field tests can often show false positives for ricin. As authorities scurried to investigate three questionable packages discovered in Senate office buildings, reports of suspicious items also came in from at least three senators’ offices in

their home states. Sen. Carl Levin said a staff member at his Saginaw, Mich., office would spend the night in a hospital as a precaution after discovering a suspicious letter. The staff member had no symptoms, Levin said in a statement. He expected to learn preliminary results of tests on the letter by Please see RICIN | 3

Brother, sister charged in armed home robbery BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Two people threatened a Corinth man with his own gun after knocking on his door and gaining entry to his house Monday night. The Corinth Police Department

charged a brother and sister with armed robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon — Brandon McCollum, 26, and Candice McCollum, 24, both of North Parkway Street, Corinth. Bond was set at $10,000 on the robbery charge and $5,000 on

the possession of a firearm by a convicted felon charge for both suspects. Both were on probation and are being held for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The victim was not hurt in the robbery which happened about 9:15 p.m. at an address on East

Third Street. Detective Capt. Ralph Dance said Candice McCollum knocked on the door of the home and, when the resident answered, asked if she could come inside and use the bathroom. As she went inside, Brandon McCollum appeared and

Senior Sounds

pushed his way inside as well, Dance said. The suspects asked for the man’s medication. At some point, apparently while going through a tote bag looking for the victim’s Please see ROBBERY | 3

Weekend shooting results in charge BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

A Corinth man has been charged with aggravated assault in a Friday shooting, and another is charged with motor vehicle theft.

Terence Alexander, 25, of Waldron Street, was charged with aggravated assault and bond was set at $30,000. Because Alexander was out on Please see SHOOTING | 3

Wheeler Grove students trike for St. Jude hospital BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

WHEELER GROVE — Close to 60 youngsters used their bikes to look for the cure. Students at the Wheeler Grove Learning Center pedaled their way to raise ver $5,000 for the St. Jude Chil-

Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith

dren’s Research Hospital during it the annual trike-a-thon in the church parking lot. “Our motivation has been to raise 5,000 every year,” said center director Donna Chase. The desire to raise the Please see TRIKE | 3

Anna Bowling and Ryan Thompson dance while Adam Price sings “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?”

ACHS presents annual variety show BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Alcorn Central’s class of 2013 will bring their “Senior Sounds” to the stage tonight. The annual Alcorn Central High School “Senior Sounds” musical variety show begins tonight at 7 p.m. at the Corinth Coliseum Civic Center. “This show is a labor of love for these senior students to give them a special memory that will last throughout their lives,” said producer and director Twila

Bridges. “It is a wonderful way of bringing a senior class together, just as their final days of high school are winding down.” Approximately 60 seniors will perform a variety of songs, dances and skits picked from years that are important to their lives — the beginning of school, moving on to middle school and high school all the way to this year. Selections will be the most popular songs from these years. They will also stage a song commemorating the terrorist

attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The 9-11 attacks happened when the class of 2013 was in the first grade. Bridges said the annual show gives students an opportunity to share their talents with their classmates. “What I love is that there is always somebody in the class who everybody didn’t know they could do something and they find out they can sing or Please see VARIETY | 2

Tourism launches new funding form BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Organizations seeking funding from the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau have a new application to fill out. Members of the tourism board elected to discontinue the

old forms and go with the new format on Tuesday during its regular monthly meeting. “Some of the information on the old forms was vague,” said board member Sandy Mitchell who helped design the new forms. “The new ones are more user friendly and easier to un-

derstand.” The updated funding application covers all organizations need to know when requesting funds from the tourism board. “Some organizations didn't understand upfront what was

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Staff photo by Steve Beavers

Maddox Rickman rides his bicycle around the parking lot as part of the Wheeler Grove Learning Center’s annual trike-athon last week.

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