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Board says no to center’s request Hope Dream Center wanted to delay installation of sprinkler system BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
The Corinth Board of Adjustment on Tuesday voted “no” on the Hope Dream Center of Corinth’s request for time to install sprinklers in its facility. The center, which plans to serve as an emergency shelter for women and their children, requested a variance allowing temporary occupancy with a time frame of 12 to 18 months to install a sprinkler system in the building at 1223 Tate St. while housing clients only on the first floor. The board of adjustment’s decision is a recommendation
to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and can be appealed before the city board. But the group has already made its case before the Board of Aldermen, and Jennifer McCoy, representing the center, said she will not appeal. Members of the board of adjustment offered to help spread the word about the fund-raising effort to purchase and install the sprinkler system. The board of adjustment heard more than an hour of discussion with comments from McCoy, the city building inspector, fire chief and director of community development
and planning. The organization believes the building, which meets fallout shelter requirements, is safe from fire and worthy of the variance, but city officials believe there is potential liability that cannot be overlooked. The building was constructed with non-combustible materials. “That’s our thing is, ‘What’s gonna burn?’” said McCoy. Building Inspector Philip Verdung and Fire Chief Rob Price both recommended denying the variance. City Attorney Wendell Trapp said the request presents “a
great liability issue.” “It’s a human safety issue, too, that requires much more thought,” he said. “You are being asked to vary from something that tells you, ‘Here’s what we think is best from a life safety standpoint,’ and that’s not often the case in the things y’all deal with.” Verdung consulted with the International Code Council, which recommended denying the variance request. He also expressed concern about setting a precedent by granting a variance on a life safety issue. The code council “advised
us against issuing any type of temporary occupancy exceeding two residential units or five people, whichever is greatest,” said Verdung. Price said most people who die in fire situations are killed by smoke inhalation. He said a sprinkler system is the best safety measure to suppress fire and smoke. The state fire marshal’s office also advised against the variance, he said. McCoy said the situation is frustrating because there are women who need shelter now and there is nowhere in Corinth to send them.
Corinth man arrested after pill robbery BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
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The Choice Bus presenter Eryka Perry talks with Corinth Middle School students about the power of education.
A Corinth man has been charged with robbery after taking a bottle of prescription medication from B&R Pharmacy. The Corinth Police Department on Tuesday arrested Jeremy Dale “J.D.” Feazell, 35, of North Parkway, and charged him with robbery. Bond was pending at 3 p.m. Police Chief David Lancaster said a man wearing a camouflage mask entered the Shiloh Road pharmacy on Saturday and told everyone to get on the
floor. He demanded Hydrocodone and, after receiving a bottle of the medication, fled the scene. People in the store did not see a weapon. Employees gave police a description of the vehicle the suspect drove — a 1993 GMC pickup — and were able to provide a possible identification of the man. The information led to Feazell’s arrest on Tuesday. Police recovered all of the pills. Detective Sgt. Pete Smith investigated the case with the assistance of Fred Serio.
Trip aboard this bus delivers School board decides students ‘Right Choice’ options fundraiser guidelines BY STEVE BEAVERS
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Students have a choice. Time on a bus might make those decisions clearer. Corinth Middle School fifth and sixth grade students climbed on The Choice Bus for a 20-minute presentation on the importance of education and the consequences of dropping out of school. “We have been doing the buses since 2008 and have seen well over a million students during that time,” said program manager Lynn Smelley. The Choice Bus — the nation’s first mobile experience dedicated to reducing the dropout rate — was created by The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation of Birmingham, Ala. to increase the graduation rate through the creation of relevant and effective tools and resources. “The response has been absolutely outstanding,” said Smelley. Sponsored by State Farm, the bus will make stops at schools across the state and visit more than 900 students in the process. Fifteen CMS classes took part in the event on Tuesday. “The bus is designed to keep students interested during the
The Alcorn School District Board of Directors has outlined a new set of guidelines for fundraisers in the district. “Basically, what we want to do is have the fundraisers placed on the school calendar so we don’t have one fundraiser overlap with another,” said Assistant Superintendent Wayne Henry. “We want one to end before the other begins.” Also, the board is asking for organizations to be specific on fundraising applications about what the money is being raised for. In light of concerns regarding the number of fundraisers that are held, the new guidelines require the items sold in fundraisers to be useful, to promote school pride and that the items are conservatively priced. “In the present time with the state of the economy it affects everybody — households and businesses — and we want to be mindful of that,” explained Henry. Another recent, unrelated issue with fundraisers is a letter sent to all Mississippi School Districts informing all school fundraising organizations that they must register with the
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Program Manager Lynn Smelley (right) gives Zyon Pollard a pledge card. presentation with a lot of interaction,” said the program director. The Choice Bus stresses the importance of making good decisions and being around the right crowd. The front half of the Blue Bird model bus is a classroom setting with the back portion containing a prison cell replica. “This is a great learning opportunity for the children,” said school principal Brian Knippers. “We focus on integ-
rity as part of the education and this is an added piece of the initiative.” As students enter the bus, a short movie will quiz the audience on the earning potential of a dropout versus a highschool and college graduate. The movie features several testimonials from prison inmates who regret quitting school. Once the movie ends, students are given the chance to experiPlease see CHOICE | 12A
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“Basically, what we want to do is have the fundraisers placed on the school calendar so we don’t have one fundraiser overlap with another.” Wayne Henry Assistant superintendent, Alcorn School District
Secretary of State’s Office. “Over the past few months, it has come to the attention of the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office that several school districts, parent teacher organizations (PTOs), parent teacher associations (PTAs), booster clubs, and other fundraising school related organizations are not registered or exempted with the Securities and Charities Division of our Agency,” the letter stated, saying also that the organizations were possibly not aware of the requirement. It instructs the aforementioned organizations to “follow the law and register” or file an exemption.
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Deaths Marion Mills
Funeral services for Marion E. Mills, 71, of Corinth, are set for 11 a.m. today at the Church of the Crossroads with burial in Forrest Memorial Park Garden of The Good Shepherd. Mr. Mills died Monday, March 26, 2012 at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Born August 1, 1940, he was a 32 degree Mason Shriner and member of the American Legion. The owner of Mills Used Cars since 1968, he was also a veteran with the National Guard. He was a member of the Church of the Crossroads. He was preceded in death by a Mills son, Tyler Mills; his parents, Clayton and Eunice Richardson Mills; nine brothers; three sisters; and his father- and mother-in-law, Almus and Pearlie Rogers. Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Diane Mills of Corinth; a son, Mark Mills (Anita) of Corinth; two grandsons, Bennett Mills and Garrett Mills both of Corinth; two granddaughters, Brooklyn Mills and Molly Lambert both of Corinth; a daughter-in-law, Jerry Ann Lambert; two brothers, Luther Mills (Nancy) of Corinth and Hugh Clayton Mills (Betty) of Corinth; two sisters, Laura Settlemires (W.C.) of Corinth and Evon Phieffer (Chuck) of Memphis, Tn.; and a loving host of nieces, nephews, family and friends. The eulogy will be given by Bro. Terry Harmon and the message by Bro. Nelson Hight. Visitation is 9-10:30 a.m. today at the church. Pallbearers are Tracy Mills, Larry King, Keith Settlemires, John Doles, Joe Doles and Tim Maynard. Honorary pallbearers are Ken Teeter, Robert (Bud) Russell, Wayne Lambert, Eason Gray Jr., Al Newman, Bobby Phillips and the Afternoon Coffee group. Memorials can be sent to the Youth Ministry at The Church of the Crossroads, P.O. Box 464, Corinth, Ms. 38835. Hight Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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A memorial service for Sadie Louise Mathis, 81, is set for 11 a.m. Thursday at McPeters Funeral Directors chapel. Mrs. Mathis died on Sunday, March 25, 2012 at the Magnolia Regional Health Center. Born June 27, 1930, she retired from Sears and loved gardening, spending time with friends and sitting with the sick. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Mathis; her parents, James Hurbert and Sarah Allie Parsons; four brothers, James, Elbert, Burville, and Howard Coker; and two sisters, Montez Moody and Lophez Marlar. Survivors include her daughter, Sarah Tynan and husband James; two granddaughters, Heather and Marisa Tynan; a brother, Charles Coker; a sister, Helen Dexter; and several nieces, nephews and a host of friends. The family will receive friends following the service. In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests that memorials be made to a charity of one’s choice.
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IUKA — Graveside services for Bohdan Robert “Bob” Bunda, 86, are set for 1 p.m. today at Oak Grove Cemetery. Mr. Bunda died Monday, March 26, 2012, at Tishomingo Manor Nursing Home. He served 27 years in the United States Army with 19 of those years in Europe. He fought during the Battle of the Bulge and retired with the rank of Master Sergeant. He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers and two sisters. Survivors include his wife, Polly Bunda of Iuka; a step-son, Donny Kent (Katy) of Phenix City, Ala.; a step-daughter, Debbie Sutherland (Mark Stuart) of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; and two step-grandchildren, Bain Hogencamp and Jori Kent. Rev. Ronnie Goodwin will officiate. Visitation is 11 a.m. until service time at Cutshall
Rotary Youth Leadership Conference
The Corinth Rotary Club sponsors two high school juniors every year from each local school to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Conference, hosted by the Rotary Club Memphis Central. This year the conference was held March 22-25 at Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center in Olive Branch. Local students selected to attend include (front row, from left) Whitney Shipman of Kossuth, Keri Crum of Kossuth, Chelsea Caveness of Corinth, Rebecca Lee of Biggersville, (back row, from left) Blake Stacy of Biggersville, Gwyn Foster of Alcorn Central, Kaitlynn Mynatt of Alcorn Central and Isaac Patterson of Corinth.
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State has come far in prosecuting racial crimes If there’s any good to come out of the terrible crime committed by Deryl Dedmon, it’s that his prosecution for a racially motivated murder shows how far Mississippi has come. A half-century ago, the 19-year-old white suburbanite from Rankin County might have gotten away with running down James Craig Anderson in Jackson for no other reason than Anderson was black. Not today. Blacks in law-enforcement positions help ensure that justice is pursued when racebased crimes are committed, and whites in authority are no longer complacent about such crimes or cowed into silence about them. Although Dedmon sounded penitent when he appeared before Hinds County Circuit Judge Jeff Weill Sr., the white jurist cut Dedmon no slack for the crime he committed last year. He gave the teenager two life sentences and a tongue-lashing to boot for the damage inflicted on this state’s image — an image that has been in repair since at least 1964, when three civil rights workers, with the assistance of racist local lawmen, were murdered and buried in an earthen dam. ... There will always be hateful knotheads who mistreat others because their targets are different and because the perpetrators think they can get away with it. The extent of the damage they do to a place’s reputation is determined not as much by their crimes but how the authorities and others in that place respond to them. When those civil rights workers were slain in 1964, the only lawmen interested in pursuing the case were federal authorities, and they met resistance from state officials. This time, Mississippi took the lead in investigating and prosecuting the murder of Anderson. It worked cooperatively with federal authorities to pursue additional charges against Dedmon and some who were with him the night of the murder. A day after Dedmon was sentenced in state court, he and two other white friends pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes for their three-month-long harassment of blacks they thought were drunk or homeless. It’s hard to fathom how young minds can get so twisted that they find sport in terrorizing vulnerable, innocent people. We might not ever be able to purge such meanness out of the human race, but we can at least send the message — through our justice system — that it won’t be tolerated. ... — The Greenwood Commonwealth
Senate bills offer encouraging news for school children Three bills working their way through the Mississippi Senate offer encouraging news for Mississippi schools and school children. The first would allow all school districts to appoint superintendents. Of the state’s 152 school districts, 64 county districts have elected superintendents. All of the city districts in Mississippi have appointed superintendents. While we mean no criticism of incumbent elected superintendents — the system of elected superintendents has in some cases yielded good leadership — an appointed system would broaden the field of choices for school districts and put the responsibility on the backs of school board members. Senate Education Chairman Gray Tollison, R-Oxford, also said some people who would make good superintendents don’t want to run for office and, in some cases, elected superintendents and school boards who don’t get along can end up in a standoff that hurts the district. The bill originally sought to end elections in all districts. An amendment to let voters petition by Jan. 1, 2015, to keep elections was added. We also like a Senate bill that would change the way districts are rated to a system everyone understands. Instead of star, high performing, successful, academic watch, at risk of failing and failing, schools would be graded just as they grade the children they’re responsible for educating. Districts would get one of six letter grades: A, B, C, D, D- and F. Another bill would make it easier for districts not to renew contracts of superintendents. By denying legal hearings for non-renewed superintendents, the bill would spare school districts legal costs associated with such. The bills now move to the House where they may be modified. We urge the House to pass these three bills. They are good for Mississippi schools and school children. — The Sun Herald, Biloxi
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Not all hard lessons learned in classrooms STARKVILLE — This column reflects no one’s view but my own and certainly not the views of Mississippi State University. But for me, the first thing one accepts when given the privilege of working with university students on a daily basis — as I have been here at MSU — is that these students live in that tenuous region between adolescence and adulthood. In great measure, I have been amazed at the difference in student attitudes and behavior since my own college days here in the 1970s. On balance, the current crop of MSU students are bright, focused, self-disciplined and hyper-aware of the fact that they will enter the world with their degrees during a down economy when competition for good jobs is fierce. Even the fraternities that had the rowdiest of reputations during my days at MSU are far less “Animal House” and far more “The Social Network” as students see emerging technologies connecting them to a collective social media universe that my generation had yet to envision or explore. News and their daily lives
unfold for them in real time on Twitter, Facebook and texts. But one thing that has Sid Salter not changed Columnist since my late father’s days at Mississippi State College during the 1930s is that young adults away from home face a plethora of choices that lead to an even larger plethora of consequences. For universities, there is a difficult balancing act between allowing and fostering all the choices students have the legal right to make about their lives and conduct with the responsibility to protect and preserve a safe and nurturing campus environment for the students, faculty and staff with whom the students live and interact. My first experience in dealing with that came during my first month on the job in the MSU Library. Part of the orientation for MSU staff members is a requirement to learn the specific emergency procedures that apply to the staffer’s area of work. On the day of the violent 2011 storms
that leveled Smithville and slammed Tuscaloosa, Ala., those of us in the Mitchell Memorial Library were charged with getting students to the ground floor of the multi-story building and away from the large windows until the tornado warnings had passed. I learned quickly that the students had minds of their own, smart phones of their own, and opinions about the weather’s danger that didn’t always mesh with the “Maroon Alert” system in which the university was urging safety. Most students cooperated, some didn’t. Some chose to walk out of the library into the teeth of the storm despite all urgings from the staff to the contrary. I thought of that stormy day when news of the shooting on the MSU campus Saturday night began to circulate, again with the first hint of possible danger coming from the first of a rapid series of “Maroon Alert” messages. That system automatically generates text messages to students, faculty and staff regarding possible threats to the safety of the university community. When young adults reach
the age in which they are allowed by law or custom to make choices about their lives, their conduct and their safety, universities – very much like parents at home – can do everything reasonable and proper within federal and state laws and university procedures to protect students and still see them tragically fall victim to the consequences of their own choices. Regardless, it is exceedingly difficult to teach and work with college students on a daily basis and not feel the weight of unspeakable sorrow when one of them is lost to illness, to accident, or yes, to crime. The hard fact is that Mississippi universities can do everything right, anticipate every eventuality, take every precaution that the taxpayers will fund and allow, and still experience these awful days when we are left to grieve together at the intersection of choice and consequence. That undeniable truth makes the reality of what happened here and at Jackson State no less difficult to accept. (Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)
Cake on a stick, art on a meter ALEXANDRIA, Va. — We are waiting in a room painted purple with fire-breathing dragons to hear the word that it’s time for a group of 8-year-olds to run through a maze of dark, smoky chambers and shoot one another with lasers. Whatever happened to pin the tail on the donkey? You miss a decade or so hanging out with young kids, and all the rules change. Used to be, in the not-so-distant past, toy guns were frowned upon, and their cowboy holsters had been put on some high shelf called the 1950s with other unenlightened toys. My sister, whose son was born in 1988, wouldn’t allow him to have anything resembling a gun. She also confiscated the shark teeth I bought Ben in Biloxi, for reasons I never quite understood. I was an unintentional maverick aunt, always crossing the lines my parenting siblings drew with invisible
ink in shifting sands. So imagine my surprise to discover it’s now quite Rheta OK, even in politically Johnson acorrect place Columnist like this, to compete for computerized hits in celebration of a birthday. Suits me; this is not a rant. I’m a little relieved to see the rules have relaxed. Maybe soon we can go back to playing cowboys and Indians. Even birthday cakes have morphed. I thought I was on top of this — not the cake, but the trends. I have seen everywhere the bakeries with cupcakes that are not your mama’s, icing piled high as Minnesota snowdrifts. But at this party, at Shadowlands, we have cake pops, which are cakes on a stick, the newest incarnation. The
kids even embellish “Happy Birthday” with a vigorous “cha cha cha” between each stanza. I am learning. I am learning. I don’t have a clue about the presents. They are all full of tiny plastic parts, and it would seem to me an impossible task to keep straight which plastic widgets go with each overpackaged toy. Not a set of shark teeth in the pile. After Shadowlands, to decompress, I guess, we go to a place where you pay to paint a ceramic pot or make a mosaic. The studio is full of kids painting horses, dogs, cats, ice-cream bowls. You not only pay for what you are making but for the time spent sitting at a table using up supplies. It reminds me of Vacation Bible School on an egg timer. The birthday boy chooses a tile the size of Montana to be covered with minuscule glass shards that he pains-
takingly glues to his art piece one by one. I figure we’ll be at the studio when the next presidential inauguration rolls around. The pottery place is much easier on the ears than Shadowlands, however, and it’s possible to think. I keep remembering a surprise birthday party my parents threw for me when I was six, a real doozy of an affair. We lived then in Pensacola, Fla. Daddy took me to a drive-in called the Shrimp Box for a cheeseburger — “Because it’s your birthday!” — while Mother stealthily gathered up urchins and laid the table. When we returned from what I considered a totally satisfactory birthday outing, all these children screamed “Surprise!” and the actual party began. “Surprise” didn’t cover it. (To find out more about Rheta Grimsley Johnson and her books, visit www. rhetagrimsleyjohnsonbooks.com.)
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Third suspect arrested in Mississippi State shooting Associated Press
STARKVILLE — A third suspect in the shooting death of a Mississippi State University student has been arrested in Florida. Richard Griffin, supervisory inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service, said Trent Crump, 21, was being held in the Alachua County jail near Gainesville, Fla., on Tuesday. Griffin said family members helped convince
Crump to surrender. Investigators with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation developed information that Crump was traveling to the Gainesville area and notified the U. S. Marshals Task Force, said agency spokesman Warren Strain. “Mr. Crump is under lock and key,” Strain said. Crump, of Flowood, along with Duntae Harvey, 21, and Mason Jones,
21, both of Jackson, are charged with capital murder in the death of John Sanderson of Madison. Sanderson was killed outside a dorm room in Evans Hall Saturday night. Jones was arrested Sunday in Memphis, Tenn. Harvey was arrested Monday by marshals in Jackson. The possible motive in the killing “will come once the investigation is com-
plete,” said Bill Kibler, vice president of student affairs. “Police do have some clues but nothing that is releasable information.” MSU spokeswoman Maridith Geuder said the underlying charge that kicks in the capital murder charge is the sale of a controlled substance. She didn’t elaborate on the charges. Sanderson, 21, who had transferred from Holmes
Community College, was shot multiple times outside a dorm room on the first floor of Evans Hall. Kibler said Sanderson lived in Rice Hall, not Evans Hall. When asked why Sanderson was in Evans Hall on the night of the shooting, Kibler said he was “probably visiting.” Geuder has previously said police received a call about the shooting
at Evans Hall around 10 p.m. Saturday and police were on the scene within a minute. Sanderson was taken to Oktibbeha County Hospital, where he died. Three men fled the building in a blue Crown Victoria, officials said. The four-story Evans Hall holds about 300 male students and is located on the north side of campus.
Scruggs seeks dismissal of judicial bribery conviction Associated Press
OXFORD — An ex-lawyer who worked with imprisoned former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs has testified that the friend of a Hinds County judge was recruited to relay information to the jurist who was presiding over a civil lawsuit over legal fees. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that the testimony for Joey Langston came Tuesday in federal court in Oxford. Scruggs is serving a seven-year sentence. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to one count of depriving the citizens of Mississippi of honest services from Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter. Scruggs has argued that the limits imposed by
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Langston, who also was convicted in the DeLaughter case, testified that he and others contacted Ed Peters, a DeLaughter friend and
former district attorney, to communicate with the judge on their behalf. “Certainly our objective was to gain good will ... try to influence the judge
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‘Hamburglar’ strikes at McDonald’s Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Maine — A real-life Hamburglar has struck at a Maine McDonald’s. Police say a young man, seemingly inspired by the pattie purloining character once featured in McDonald’s advertising campaigns, ran
between a car and the takeout window at the Augusta restaurant Sunday night as an employee handed a bag of food to a driver. A witness flagged down an officer leaving a nearby convenience store. Lt. Christopher
Massey, acting on a description of the hungry thief, found him in the parking lot of a rival fast food restaurant diving into a McDonald’s bag. Massey tells the Kennebec Journal the suspect swore and ran into the woods. He was never caught.
Conservative justices question health care law BY MARK SHERMAN AND JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices cast serious doubt Tuesday on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. Arguments at the high court focused on whether the mandate for virtually every American to have insurance “is a step beyond what our cases allow,” in the words of Justice Anthony Kennedy. But Kennedy, who is often the swing vote on cases that divide the justices along ideological lines, also said he recognized the magnitude of the nation’s health care problem and seemed to suggest that it would require a comprehensive solution. He and Chief Justice John Roberts emerged as the seemingly pivotal votes in the court’s decision, due in June in the midst of a presidential election campaign that has focused in part on the new law. Republican candidates are strongly opposed. Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito appeared likely to join with Justice Clarence Thomas to vote to strike down the key provision of the overhaul. The four Democratic appointees seemed ready to vote to uphold it. The congressional requirement to buy health care insurance is the linchpin of the law’s aim to get medical insurance to an additional 30 million people, at a reasonable cost to private insurers and state governments. Virtually every American will be affected by the court’s decision on the law’s constitutionality. The biggest issue, to which the justices returned repeatedly during
two hours of arguments in a packed courtroom, was whether the government can force people to buy insurance. And if so, could other mandates — to buy broccoli, burial insurance and cellphones, for example — be far behind? “Purchase insurance in this case, something else in the next case,” Roberts said. “If the government can do this, what else can it not do?” Scalia asked. Kennedy at one point said that allowing the government mandate would “change the relationship” between the government and U.S. citizens. “Do you not have a heavy burden of justification to show authorization under the Constitution for the individual mandate?” asked Kennedy. At another point, however, he also acknowledged the complexity of resolving the issue of paying for America’s health care needs. “I think it is true that if most questions in life are matters of degree ... the young person who is uninsured is uniquely proximately very close to affecting the rates of insurance and the costs of providing medical care in a way that is not true in other industries. That’s my concern in the case,” Kennedy said. Roberts also spoke about the uniqueness of health care, which almost everyone uses at some point. “Everybody is in this market, so that makes it very different than the market for cars or the other hypotheticals that you came up with, and all they’re regulating is how you pay for it,” Roberts said, paraphrasing the government’s argument. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. sought to assure the court that the insurance mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that
Obama signed into law two years ago is a key part of the law’s goal of reaching many of the more than 40 million people who don’t have health insurance through their employers, don’t qualify for government aid and cannot afford to buy coverage on their own. Indeed, the law envisions that insurers will be able to accommodate older and sicker people without facing financial ruin because the insurance requirement will provide insurance companies with more premiums from healthy people to cover their increased costs of care. Paul Clement, a predecessor of Verrilli’s who is representing Florida and 25 other states in challenging the law, called the mandate “an unprecedented effort by Congress.” He said the requirement would force people, especially those who are young and healthy, to buy a product they don’t want. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she found the debate over health care similar to an earlier age’s debate about the Social Security retirement system. How could Congress be able to compel younger workers to contribute to Social Security, but be limited in its ability to address health care? she wondered. Does it to have to be “a government takeover”? she asked. Clement acknowledged that a system of national health insurance might well be constitutional. Earlier, Scalia repeatedly pointed out that the federal government’s powers are limited by the Constitution, with the rest left to the states and the people. “The argument there is that the people were left to decide whether to buy health insurance,” Scalia said.
D.C. nuke blast wouldn’t destroy city BY ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press
WASHINGTON — This is what the U.S. government imagines would happen if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb just blocks away from the White House: The explosion would destroy everything in every direction within one-half mile. An intense flash would blind drivers on the Beltway miles away. A radioactive cloud would drift toward Baltimore. But the surprising conclusion? Just a bit farther from the epicenter of the blast, such a nuclear explosion would be pretty survivable. A little-noticed U.S. government study explores what would happen if terrorists got their hands on
enough nuclear material to explode a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb, roughly 5,000 times more powerful than the truck bomb that destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. But the city wouldn’t disappear from the map. “It’s not the end of the world,” said Randy Larsen, a retired Air Force colonel and founding director of the Institute for Homeland Security. “It’s not a Cold War scenario.” The biggest difference between the disaster that the government studied and the nightmares of incoming ICBMs from the former Soviet Union is the size of the explosion. Cold War-era fears imagined massive hydrogen bombs
detonated in the sky, not a smaller device — one that might fit inside a parked van — exploding on the street. “Our images of nuclear war are either of Hiroshima or Nagasaki or what we saw in the movies during the Cold War,” said Brian Michael Jenkins, a senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation. “If you are thinking about (a city) being wiped off the face of the earth, that’s not what happens.” The study, “Key Response Planning Factors for the Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism,” was produced in November by the Homeland Security Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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Eric M Rutledge, AAMSÂŽ Financial Advisor 1500 Harper Road Suite 1 Corinth, MS 38834 662-287-1409
Brian S Langley Financial Advisor 605 Foote Street Corinth, MS 38834 662-287-4471
Q-R-S-T ... 25.96 -.05 cc 32.60 +.84 www.edwardjones.com 26 68.49 -.10 15 5.31 -.04 2 4.46 -.12 dd 6.38 +.35 71 51.90 -1.23 53 13.65 -.30 ... 5.50 +.17 dd 2.13 -.01 The stock market is so calm itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to forget the fear gauge, shows the expected 3 13.89 -.15 bumpy ride investors were on just last fall. In movement in the S&P 500 over the next ... 53.75 -.31 October, worries about the economic recovery 30 days. It measures the price of options, dd 1.81 -.02 and the European debt crisis sent the marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or contracts to buy or sell stocks. Options 73 27.82 -.34 volatility index spiking to enable shareholders to lock in a 31 32.81 -.54 early 2009 levels. guaranteed price for their stock. dd 20.29 +.82 The Standard & Poorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s When stocks are volatile, investors 74 13.38 -.08 500 index is up 13 are afraid, and willing to pay more for ... 14.02 -.02 percent this year. options. That raises the VIX. 13 16.02 -.27 Meanwhile, the The VIX is at about 15 q 131.67 -.42 Chicago Board of points, compared with 45 q 163.24 -1.16 Options Exchange Volatility on Oct. 3. Its record high was q 141.17 -.44 Index, the VIX, has dropped to 89.5 in October 2008. q 21.67 +.19 its lowest level since the Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also notable that start of the financial stocks havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been moving q 23.97 -.30 crisis. The VIX, much. Over the past 50 trading sessions, the q 39.73 +.04 known as the difference between the high and low of the S&P 500 q 28.61 -.24 marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has averaged 0.9 percent, according to Birinyi q 62.55 -.29 Associates. Early last fall, the spread was about 3 q 58.38 -.72 percent. q 49.88 -.37 Birinyi found that historically the market reacts 9 8.25 -.34 positively to a narrow high-low spread. It studied a dozen instances 14 20.41 +.14 since 1990 when the 50-day average spread dropped below 1 percent. 15 44.54 +.74 Over the next six months, the S&P 500 climbed an average 4.36 percent. 26 11.78 +.08 12 50.12 -.40 Performance of the S&P 500 The VIX usually ranges between 18 and 30. 62 8.02 -.19 after its 50-day avg. high/low ... 38.80 -.02 spread fell below 1 percent: March 27 Oct. 3 50 54 21.62 +.04 15 45 (1991-2010) points points 19 69.96 -2.44 40 4.36% 21 14.92 -.31 30 72 27.35 -.55 2.00% ... .18 -.01 20 -0.46% ... 9.85 -.25 after 1 after 3 after 6 22 33.57 -.40 10 month months months 2010 2011 2012 dd 68.64 +2.86 Source: Yahoo; Birinyi Associates Mark Jewell; J. Paschke â&#x20AC;˘ AP 24 28.61 +.09 9 22.17 -.55 11 31.70 +.51 32 8.23 -.12 NDEXES 17 31.63 -.61 52-Week Net YTD 52-wk 18 31.92 +.17 High Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg q 37.31 -.08 q 37.33 +.07 13,289.08 10,404.49 Dow Industrials 13,197.73 -43.90 -.33 +8.02 +7.48 q 33.97 -.02 5,627.85 3,950.66 Dow Transportation 5,276.31 -12.71 -.24 +5.11 +.28 q 45.29 -.07 467.64 381.99 Dow Utilities 458.23 +2.13 +.47 -1.39 +11.90 q 72.07 -.73 8,718.25 6,414.89 NYSE Composite 8,239.37 -49.42 -.60 +10.20 -1.27 q 37.59 -.12 2,498.89 1,941.99 Amex Market Value 2,432.73 -15.92 -.65 +6.78 +3.74 q 30.42 -.01 3,122.57 2,298.89 Nasdaq Composite 3,120.35 -2.22 -.07 +19.78 +13.18 q 35.01 +.17 1,416.58 1,074.77 S&P 500 1,412.52 -3.99 -.28 +12.32 +7.05 dd 4.52 +.18 14,864.57 -48.86 -.33 +12.70 +6.15 12 16.62 -.22 14,913.70 11,208.42 Wilshire 5000 868.57 601.71 Russell 2000 839.98 -6.15 -.73 +13.37 +1.26 34 56.26 +.35 16 55.34 -.17 10 33.00 -.41 13,360 Dow Jones industrials 22 23.90 -.10 dd 6.23 +.14 Close: 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Shoppersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; uncertainty over the economy and a focus on saving money would ordinarily hurt a retailerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business. But not Family Dollar Stores. Wall Street is betting the discount store chain will turn in a bigger profit for its fiscal second-quarter today. That would be in line with Family Dollarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results over the past year, thanks to improved customer traffic and spending at its stores.
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AMAT Chip equipment maker Applied $16 $12.82 Materials holds a meeting with Wall Street analysts and institutional 12 investors today in New York. The company plans to give an overview and $15.43 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;12 outlook of its business. The meeting 8 starts at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, and will be Operating est. webcast on Appliedmaterials.com. $0.38 EPS $0.24 The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-quarter profit 2Q â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11 2Q â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12 sank 77 percent, weighed by acquisiPrice-to-earnings ratio: 11 tion costs and lower revenue. based on past 12 monthsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; results Management has said it sees solid Dividend: $0.36 Div. yield: 2.8% order momentum and an improved Source: FactSet
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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RHT Corporate Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zeal to $60 $51.90 $46.34 adopt cloud computing tech50 nologies has been good to Red Hat. 40 The software company has â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;12 been expanding its cloud com- 30 puting service, which refers to Operating est. $0.26 software streamed over the EPS $0.27 Internet. 4Q â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11 4Q â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12 The trend has helped boost Price-to-earnings ratio: 72 Red Hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profit over the past based on past 12 monthsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; results four quarters. Wall Street anticiDividend: None pates Red Hat will report Source: FactSet another quarterly pro fit today.
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Prep Golf Corinth 144, Saltillo 165, Tish County 182, Mooreville 218 @ Shiloh Falls CORINTH (144) — Alex Tull 35, Blake Farris 35, Collin Burns 36, Chase Little 38, Noah McQueen 39, John Mathis 41. TISH COUNTY (182) — Preston Rushing 40, Jonathan Murphy 46, Alex White 47, Ian Thomas 49, Noah Robinson 49. What’s Next?: Corinth will play host to Baldwyn, Booneville and New Albany at Hillandale Country Club on Thursday. (B) Ripley 180, Kossuth 182, Alcorn Central 207 @ Shiloh Ridge KOSSUTH (182) — Logan Parks 41, Zach Cooper 46, Logan Lyles 47, Devin Sowell 48, Austin Emerson 49, Ty Dickson 51, Blake Shipman 63. ALCORN CENTRAL (207) — Issac Byrom 45, Cody Crotts 47, Trevor Godwin 57, J.D. Manahan 58, Katie Hunt 62. Medalist: Jonathan Martin, Ripley, 35 (G) Kossuth-Maroon 113, Kossuth-White 113 KOSSUTH-M (113) — Amanda Essary 49, Raven McCalla 64, Chandler Wilder 68. KOSSUTH-W (113) — Shelbi Barnes 56, Whitney Shipman 57, Shelby Phillips 62. RIPLEY (NS) — Rachel Dees 63 Medalist: Essary
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Aggies pick up big road win BY H. LEE SMITH II lsmith@dailycorinthian.com
BELMONT — Kossuth stayed atop the Division 1-3A standings by stealing one on the road. The defending league champions put up a four-spot in the fifth and hung on to beat Belmont 4-3 in an oldfashioned pitching duel. Kossuth improved to 11-4 overall and remained unbeaten in the five-team division though three games. Belmont suffered its first league setback and dropped to 14-
3-1 and 2-1 with its second straight loss. Belmont had jumped out to an early lead with a three-run third. David Gibson got the win to improve to 4-1 and Tyler Nelms came on to record the save. The front of the Aggie rotation combined to limit the Cardinals to just three hits — all singles. Kossuth managed four hits, all singles by the “Js” — John Mitchell, Jacob Wilcher, Josh Whitaker and Jordan Brawner.
Zack Carpenter suffered (5-11, 0-3) lone hits. the loss. Justin Payne, Phillip Armstrong and Bryson Cass Kossuth 4, Belmont 3 accounted for Belmont’s hits. Kossuth 000 040 0 — 4 4 1 Kossuth travels to Boonev- Belmont 003 000 0 — 3 3 2 ille on Friday. The Blue Devils WP: David Gibson (4-1). LP: Zack Carpenter. edged Alcorn Central 3-2 on S: Tyler Nelms. Multiple Hits: (K) None. (B) None. Tuesday. Records: Kossuth 11-4, 3-0 Division 1-3A; ■ At Jesse Bynum Field, Belmont 14-3-1, 2-1 Zach Gory tossed a two-hitter Pontotoc 12, Corinth 0 as Pontotoc downed Corinth Pontotoc 322 203 — 12 10 2 12-0 in Division 1-4A action. Corinth 000 000 — 0 2 8 The two will complete the WP: Zach Gory. LP: Brady Allen (1-4). home-and-home series at Multiple Hits: (P) Ryan Watts 3, Hayden Pontotoc on Friday. Cummings 3, Landon Tutor 2, Ethan Gill 2. 2B: Jacob McDuffy and Kaleb (P) Gill. HR: (P) Watts. Records: Pontotoc 14-3, 2-1 Division 1-4A; Byrd had the host Warriors’ Corinth 5-11, 0-3
Prep Tennis Monday (G) Corinth 9, Russellville, Ala., 0 Singles 1: (C) Catherine Coleman def. (R) Molly Gaston 10-0 Singles 2: (C) Annalee Hendrick def. (R) Shelby Hovater 10-2 Singles 3: (C) Shelby McClain def. (R) Briana Glass 10-2 Singles 4: (C) Kelsey Tweedle def. (R) Kelsey Beth Nelms 10-0 Singles 5: (C) Taylor Heavner def. (R) Grace Mitchell 10-7 Singles 6: (C) Madison Mayhall def. (R) Ashleigh Morgan 10-0 Doubles 1: (C) Coleman/Hendrick def. (R) Gaston/Hovater 10-2 Doubles 2: (C) McClain/Tweedle def. (R) Glass/Nelms 10-0 Doubles 3: (C) Heavner/Mayhall def. (R) Mitchell/Morgan 10-5 (B) Corinth 7, Russellville, Ala., 2 Singles 1: (C) Austin McElwain def. (R) John Thomas Jones 10-6 Singles 2: (C) Kyle Smith def. (R) Austin Martindale 10-8 Singles 3: (R) Drew Malone def. (C) Hank Howell 10-8 Singles 4: (C) Austin Martin def. (R) Blake Hovater 10-7 Singles 5: (C) Brandon Nehk def. (R) Dakota Bonn 10-1 Singles 6: (C) Josh Williams def. (R) Levi Hargett 10-7 Doubles 1: (C) McElwain/Smith def. (R) Malone/Martindale 11-10(7-2) Doubles 2: (R) Jones/Hovater def. (C) Howell/Williams 10-3 Doubles 3: (C) Martin/Nehk def. (R) Bonn/Hargett 10-3
Local Schedule Today Baseball McNairy-Haywood @ Jackson, 5:45 McNairy @ South Side, 8
Thursday Baseball McNairy @ Liberty, 6:15 Softball Biggersville @ Thrasher, 5 Tish County @ Corinth, 6 Central @ Ripley South Side Tournament McNairy Track AC @ Braves Invitational
Friday Baseball McNairy @ Montgomery, 5:45 Central @ Biggersville, 7 Corinth @ Pontotoc, 7 Kossuth @ Booneville, 7 Softball New Site @ Biggersville, 5 Southaven Tourament Corinth South Side Tournament McNairy Tennis Belmont @ Central, 4
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Lancaster leading Lions Biggersville’s Brooks Bishop looks for a sign from head coach Eric Lancaster prior to stepping in the batter’s box. The Lions will step out of Division 1-1A play on Friday when they travel to Alcorn Central.
KHS wins without the benefit of a hit BY H. LEE SMITH II lsmith@dailycorinthian.com
BOONEVILLE — The Kossuth Lady Aggies keep finding ways to win. Kossuth failed to get a hit over eight innings, but still pulled out a 2-0 win over Booneville. The Lady Aggies moved over the breakeven mark on the season and more importantly stayed perfect within the division through three games. “You take them however you can get them,” said Lady Aggie Head Coach Steve Lyles. “That’s the third time we’ve
been no-hit and the second in a row.” Kossuth (8-7, 3-0) pushed across a pair of runs in the top of the eighth. Pinch runner McKenzie Holland scored from second after Shelby Stewart’s sacrifice bunt was thrown away. Another Booneville error led to an insurance run. The Lady Devils tried to throw out McKinley Ragan at third following a soft liner to second by Madison Switcher. Ragan dislodged the ball on the tag attempt and then scooted home for a 2-0 advantage.
Carleigh Mills limited Booneville to just three singles over eight innings and set down 13 batters on strikes in running her mark to 5-3. “She was bringing it,” said Lyles. Kossuth returns to action this weekend at the Southaven Tournament. The Lady Aggies will play a pair of games on Friday and Saturday. ■ At the SportsPlex, Corinth remained unbeaten in Division 1-4A play with a 6-1 win over Amory. Stennett Smith needed just 59 pitches to improve to 4-5.
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Suspended Payton reaches out to Parcells Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Sean Payton has planned the New Orleans Saints’ offseason, done some work on the upcoming draft and jotted down ideas for the start of training camp. And now, with his seasonlong suspension set to begin Sunday, he is checking to see if mentor Bill Parcells would run the team while he serves his penalty for allowing a Saints assistant coach and players to operate a crunch-for-cash bounty system. Speaking publicly for the first time since the Saints were sanctioned for targeting specific opponents, Payton said Tuesday he will soon decide whether to appeal his suspension, something Commissioner Roger Goodell said he would allow. Payton also said he was meeting with Parcells, who lives near Palm Beach, site of the NFL meetings, to discuss the plan for the season.
“For me to be down here, if I didn’t call him or try to set up a time to see him, I’d probably get his wrath,” Payton said. Payton said he, general manager Mickey Loomis — who is facing an eight-game suspension — and team owner Tom Benson are weighing a number of scenarios. Among them: Does Parcells want to coach? If he appeals, and he has until Monday, Goodell said he would “probably” allow him to continue working past the intended start of his suspension. Goodell also said he would expedite the appeal process and his decision, meaning Payton might only get a few more days of work before having to step aside. The NFL’s investigation in New Orleans found that Payton initially lied to league investigators about the existence of a bounty and instructed his defensive assistants to do the
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New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton leaves the NFL owners meeting Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla. Facing a season-long suspension for his role in the Saints’ bounties program, Payton met with Bill Parcells, his former boss on Tuesday, a conversation that included who will Please see SAINTS | 9A coach New Orleans this coming season.
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same. Payton twice apologized for his role in an enterprise that offered payouts for knocking out opponents, saying he takes “full responsibility” for a system that operated for three years under his watch. As many as 27 players could also be sanctioned for their role in the scandal. “As the head coach, anything that happens in the framework of your team and your program, you’re responsible for,” Payton said. “And that’s a lesson I’ve learned. And it’s one that it’s easy to get carried away, in regards to a certain side of the ball or more involved offensively or defensively. And that’s something that I regret.” Payton said he was confident he will coach the Saints again in 2013, and that his biggest challenge was realizing that for the first time in 39 years, he may not have an active role in football as a player or coach. “You go through a range of emotions that kind of hit you,” Payton said. “You’re disappointed. You’re disappointed in yourself that it got to this point. I think we’re trained as coaches to begin preparation right away. I find myself reflecting on it, and you go through a lot of emotions.” Asked if he might work in broadcasting this season, Payton said anyone in his position would keep their options open. He said he hasn’t been in touch with Gregg Williams, the former Saints defensive coordinator who ran the bounty system and was suspended indefinitely. Asked if bounties were what he envisioned when he asked Williams to build a defense, he replied, “No, obviously not.” Much of the conversation revolved around Parcells, the two-time Super Bowl winner who hired Payton as an offensive assistant in Dallas in 2003 and was a finalist for the Hall of Fame this season. “He’s a great teacher,” Payton said. “Certainly I’m biased, having worked with him. But he’s a Hall of Fame head coach.”
___ Monday’s Games Boston 102, Charlotte 95 Indiana 105, Miami 90 Orlando 117, Toronto 101 Detroit 79, Washington 77 Utah 105, New Jersey 84 New York 89, Milwaukee 80 Denver 108, Chicago 91 Houston 113, Sacramento 106, OT L.A. Clippers 97, New Orleans 85 Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 103, Cleveland 85 Memphis 93, Minnesota 86 Milwaukee 108, Atlanta 101 Dallas 90, Houston 81 Oklahoma City at Portland, (n) San Antonio at Phoenix, (n) L.A. Lakers at Golden State, (n) Today’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Denver at Toronto, 6 p.m. Orlando at New York, 6 p.m. Chicago at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Utah at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Indiana at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m. San Antonio at Sacramento, 9 p.m. New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
NBA standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Philadelphia 28 22 .560 Boston 27 22 .551 New York 25 25 .500 Toronto 16 34 .320 New Jersey 16 35 .314 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 35 13 .729 Orlando 32 18 .640 Atlanta 30 21 .588 Washington 11 38 .224 Charlotte 7 40 .149 Central Division W L Pct x-Chicago 40 11 .784 Indiana 29 19 .604 Milwaukee 23 27 .460 Cleveland 17 30 .362 Detroit 17 32 .347 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 33 14 .702 Dallas 29 22 .569 Memphis 27 21 .563 Houston 27 24 .529 New Orleans 12 37 .245 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 37 12 .755 Utah 27 23 .540 Denver 27 23 .540 Minnesota 24 27 .471 Portland 23 26 .469 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Lakers 30 19 .612 L.A. Clippers 28 21 .571 Phoenix 25 24 .510 Golden State 20 27 .426 Sacramento 17 32 .347 x-clinched playoff spot
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First Team Brittney Griner, Baylor, 6-8, junior, Houston, 23.4 ppg, 9.2 rpg, 61.7 fg pct., 80.5 ft pct., 5.1 blocks (40 first-team votes, 200 points). Nnemkadi Ogwumike, Stanford, 6-2, senior, Cypress, Texas, 22.3 ppg, 10.3 rpg, 54.9 fg pct., 82.9 ft pct., (40, 200) Elena Delle Donne, Delaware, 6-5, junior, Wilmington, Del., 28.1 ppg, 10.3 rpg, 2.3 apg, 52.0 fg pct., 41.3 3-pt fg pct., 88.9 ft pct., 2.6 blocks (37, 192) Skylar Diggins, Notre Dame, 5-9, junior, South Bend, Ind., 16.6 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 5.7 apg, 50.9 pg
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pct., 2.6 steals (36, 192) Alyssa Thomas, Maryland, 6-2, sophomore, Harrisburg, Pa., 17.2 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 3.2 apg, 1.6 steals (10, 121) Second Team Odyssey Sims, Baylor, 5-9, sophomore, Irving, Texas, 14.5 ppg, 4.4 apg, 81.9 ft pct., 3.0 steals (10, 118) Shenise Johnson, Miami, 5-11, senior, Henrietta, N.Y., 16.9 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 4.5 apg, 87.7 ft pct., 3.5 steals (9, 113) Samantha Prahalis, Ohio State, 5-7, senior, Commack, N.Y., 19.8 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 6.3 apg, 37.7 minutes, 83.8 ft pct., 2.2 steals (8, 100) Chiney Ogwumike, Stanford, 6-3, sophomore, Cypress, Texas, 15.4 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 58.5 fg pct. (2, 85) Julie Wojta, Green Bay, 6-0, senior, Francis Creek, Wis., 19.5 ppg, 9.9 rpg, 3.5 apg, 51.3 fg pct., 40.8 3-pt fg pct., 3.8 steals (4, 84) Third Team Tiffany Hayes, UConn, 5-10, senior, Lakeland, Fla., 14.6 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 3.4 apg, 50.6 fg pct., 41.3 3-pt fg pct., 81.5 ft pct., 2.2 steals (1, 73) A’dia Mathies, Kentucky, 5-9, junior, Louisville, Ky., 15.2 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 2.7 apg, 2.6 steals (2, 67) Elizabeth Williams, Duke, 6-3, freshman, Virginia Beach, Va., 14.0 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 3.6 blocks, 1.6 steals (0, 65) Shekinna Stricklen, Tennessee, 6-2, senior, Morrilton, Ark., 15.2 ppg, 6.5 rpg (1, 54) Riquna Williams, Miami, 5-7, senior, Pahokee, Fla., 16.6 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 2.6 apg, 80.4 ft pct., 2.4 steals (0, 17)
Baseball Spring Training Tuesday’s Games Minnesota 5, Baltimore 0 Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 4 Houston 14, Detroit 7 Miami 3, Washington 1 Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 5 Boston 8, Tampa Bay 0 Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 4 Texas 10, San Diego (ss) 9
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Brittney Griner has dominated women’s basketball all season. Now the 6-foot-8 junior phenom is a unanimous selection to The Associated Press’ All-America team Tuesday, a day after leading the unbeaten Lady Bears to their second Final Four in three seasons. She was joined on the squad by Stanford’s Nnemkadi Ogwumike, Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins, Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne and Maryland’s Alyssa Thomas.
Miscellaneous Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Suspended St. Louis minor league C Cody Stanley (Quad Cities-MWL) 50 games after testing positive for methylhexaneamine and tamoxifen and Minnesota minor league LHP Aaron Thompson (Rochester-IL) 50 games after a second violation for a drug of abuse. American League BOSTON RED SOX—Optioned 1B Lars Anderson and SS Jose Iglesias to Pawtucket (IL). Reassigned RHP Justin Germano, RHP Doug Mathis and OF Josh Kroeger to minor league camp. CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Reassigned OF Jordan Danks, INF Jim Gallagher, INF Dan Johnson, INF Dallas McPherson, C Josh Phegley and INF Tyler Saladino to their minor league camp. CLEVELAND INDIANS—Optioned INF Lonnie Chisenhall and INF Matt Laporta to Columbus (IL). Reassigned OF Chad Huffman to their minor league camp. MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned RHP Jeff Manship and OF Joe Benson to Rochester (IL). Reassigned C Rene Rivera and INF Pedro Florimon to minor league camp. NEW YORK YANKEES—Released 1B-OF Preston Mattingly. National League COLORADO ROCKIES—Released 3B Casey Blake unconditionally. HOUSTON ASTROS—Released 1B-OF Jack Cust unconditionally and LHP Zach Duke from his minor league contract. LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Optioned INF-OF Jerry Sands to their minor league camp. Placed RHP Blake Hawksworth on the 60-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP Jamey Wright. MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Agreed to terms with
C Jonathan Lucroy on a five-year contract. American Association AMARILLO SOX—Signed OF Harrison Kain. GARYSOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Released LHP Shawn Schaefer. LINCOLN SALTDOGS—Signed INF Brad Payne. Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS—Signed LHP Gustavo Chacin. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association SAN ANTONIO SPURS—Signed G Patrick Mills. TORONTO RAPTORS—Signed G Ben Uzoh to a 10-day contract. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS—Agreed to terms with C Todd McClure on a one-year contract. DETROIT LIONS—Agreed to terms with RB Kevin Smith on a one-year contract. MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Re-signed LB Erin Henderson to a one-year contract. Signed CB Zack Bowman to a one-year contract. NEW YORK JETS—Re-signed WR Scotty McKnight. OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed CB Pat Lee. COLLEGE CINCINNATI—Named Shannon Morrison cornerbacks coach. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON—Named Natasha Adair women’s basketball coach. GEORGETOWN—Announced junior F Hollis Thompson will enter the NBA draft. GEORGIA SOUTHERN—Named Chris Vozab women’s basketball coach. MEMPHIS—Signed men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner to a one-year contract extension through the 2017 season and women’s basketball coach Melissa McFerrin to a one-year contract extension. MIAMI—Signed women’s basketball coach Katie Meier to a contract extension through April 30, 2018. NOTRE DAME—Announced sophomore basketball F Alex Dragicevich is transferring. POST—Named Dan Petrosky director of football operations. SOUTH CAROLINA—Named Frank Martin men’s basketball coach.
Jets did not consult Sanchez about Tebow BY BARRY WILNER Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Mark Sanchez found out the New York Jets had acquired Tim Tebow on a conference call with team management. Not at all unusual, coach Rex Ryan says. Nothing to read into it. “Mark’s job is to play quarterback, not be the general manager,” Ryan told reporters Tuesday at the NFL owners meetings. Ryan explained that if a current Jet “has a history” with a player, there might be discussion about adding that player to New York’s roster. That was the case when the Jets drafted running back Joe McKnight, a former teammate of Sanchez at Southern Cal. The closest interaction Sanchez has had with Tebow was when he hosted Tebow on a re-
quarterback as being a different (position), but there are three factors when making any decision: team, team and team.” On Monday, Sanchez also said he had no expectation of being consulted about the move. “It’s not their job to ask me either, or run it by me,” he said. “That’s not my job.” His job is starting quarterback, although the number of snaps he takes from center Nick Mangold will decrease in 2012, perhaps significantly. Ryan’s plan, implemented by former Dolphins coach Tony Sparano — a mastermind of the wildcat offense, Ryan insisted — will call for anywhere up to 20 plays with Tebow at quarAssociated Press New York Jets coach Rex Ryan talks to a reporter during an in- terback. That’s a lot of plays fourthterview at the NFL owners meeting Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla. year QB Sanchez, with his cruiting visit at USC. vidual. That’s not what’s in the three-year contract extension, “You don’t focus on one indi- best interest of the team. I see won’t be handling the ball.
Baylor’s Brittney Griner leads AP All-America team BY DOUG FEINBERG
L.A. Angels 5, San Francisco 3 San Diego (ss) 6, L.A. Dodgers 5 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 1 Kansas City 9, Milwaukee 7 Arizona 7, Colorado 3 Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 3
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“Sometimes you forget what you’ve done. You don’t sit back and enjoy it as you’re so focused on a goal.” Brittney Griner Lady Bears basketball “That would be a very strong team,” Griner said. “I feel sorry for anyone who would have to play us.” Griner, who was on the first team for the second straight year, hasn’t taken pity on her opponents. She has the Lady Bears
two wins away from becoming the first team in NCAA history to go 40-0. “I would never have thought it would be like this. It’s amazing,” Griner said. “Sometimes you forget what you’ve done. You don’t sit back and enjoy it as you’re so focused on a
goal. It definitely has been a great year so far. I hope it finishes the right way, too.” Griner has been incredible all season, but raised her game over the past month. She’s averaging 23.4 points, 9.4 rebounds and 5.2 blocks this season. Throw in two incredible dunks in the NCAA tournament and she’s been unstoppable. Griner and Ogwumike received 200 points and were unanimous choices by the 40-member national media panel that votes in the weekly Top 25.
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Race: Goody’s Fast Relief 500 Where: Martinsville Speedway When: Sunday, 12:30 p.m. (ET) TV: FOX 2011 Winner: Kevin Harvick (right)
Race: O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 Where: Texas Motor Speedway When: April 13, 8:00 p.m. (ET) TV: ESPN2 2011 Winner: Carl Edwards
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Karsyn Elledge, 11-year-old granddaughter of the late Dale Earnhardt Sr., racing in her native North Carolina. (NASCAR Photo)
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f Dale Earnhardt were alive today, he’d be 60 years old and no doubt enjoying watching two of his grandchildren as they try to follow in his racing tire tracks. His 22-year-old grandson Jeffrey Earnhardt, the son of Kerry Earnhardt, is running a mix of Nationwide and Grand-Am races. The Intimidator’s 11-year-old granddaughter Karsyn Elledge, the daughter of Kelley Earnhardt Miller and NASCAR crew chief Jimmy Elledge, races Mini Outlaw karts on dirt tracks in her native North Carolina. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has watched his niece race and is impressed with her ability and her potential as a race driver. “She does really, really good,” he said. “For whatever reason, she’s got the speed to be competitive, and she’s not scared of it at all. I don’t know how she knows how to go around a dirt track and drive sideways and all those things, because she is just a little girl. But, she knows. You know, she just knows.” Earnhardt admits that he wasn’t exactly expecting his little niece to be such a charger on the race track. “I didn’t see it coming,” he said. “But she is a lot of fun to watch, and a lot of fun to listen to.” He said Karsyn’s racing experiences are paying other dividends, too. “It has really changed her as a person, too,” he said. “I think the best thing about it is for her to get in there and do [it], that really matured her as a person.” He said her racing has taught her how to win; to learn how to lose, and to do so with integrity. “At first when she would lose, she wouldn’t do too well with that,” he said. “She has become a much better person for it. “I think it has helped her out tremendously away from the track, in school and everything else. She has done a lot better.” Jeffrey Earnhardt has run 10 Camping World Truck and five Nationwide races in his brief career in NASCAR’s top divisions, with a best finish of seventh in last year’s truck race at Daytona. He races a car numbered 15, as his grandfather did while driving for Hall of Fame car owner Bud Moore. But the younger
Earnhardt’s cars, fielded by Rick Ware, don’t have the winning tradition of Moore’s. Jeffrey Earnhardt also plans to race the full schedule of the GT division of the Grand-Am Rolex Series, and his next race on that circuit is the March 31 Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. But he said on last week’s NASCAR teleconference that his ultimate goal is a Sprint Cup career, and that’s why he’s running both series. “We are looking to doing a handful of Nationwide races,” he said. “We want to do enough where I can still be a rookie next year, because my ultimate goal is to make it to the Cup Series one day.” Like his grandfather and his uncle, he also enjoys road racing. Jeffrey Earnhardt “That’s the rea(NASCAR photo) son we did the Grand-Am,” he said. “But we are definitely going to keep focusing on the NASCAR side of things and try to compete in as many of those events as we can and not go over the rookie status, but also get as much seat time as I can.” Earnhardt seems to fully understand that it’ll take more than a famous last name to get the ride he wants in NASCAR’s elite series, and he appears ready to do what it takes to get there. “Seat time is my biggest thing,” he said. “I feel like with a little more seat time and a little better preparation, it’s just going to continue to better me as a driver and eventually put me in the Cup Series, which is my ultimate goal. “The only way to get there is to take the stepping stones just like everybody else to get there, and Nationwide just has to be one of them.”
Gibbs keeps Fontana streak When it comes to Nationwide Series races at Auto Club Speedway, Joe Gibbs Racing has the field covered. On Saturday, Joey Logano drove the team’s No. 18 Chevrolet to victory, starting on the pole and leading eight times for 92 of the race’s 150 laps. It was his team’s eighth-straight win at the Fontana, Calif., track, dating back to February 2008, when Tony Stewart started the streak. Kyle Busch, who now campaigns his own Toyota, has five of those wins and Logano the other two. Logano now has 10 career Nationwide victories.
Gordon questions car design Jeff Gordon said last week that he wasn’t all that mad at his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. over the contact between the two of them that knocked Gordon out of the race at Bristol Motor Speedway. But he does question the design of the cars that led to the cut tire that sent him into the wall. Gordon said even with slight contact, the tailpipe on Earnhardt’s car Jeff Gordon lined up perfectly (NASCAR photo) with the left-rear tire of his car, slicing the sidewall and deflating the tire. “I don’t understand why the tailpipes are even capable of getting to the left-rear tire,” he said. “If that happens at a big, fast speedway then that’s a much bigger incident than what that was. “I’d like to see that addressed.”
NASCAR’s Helton: ‘We believe in our inspectors’ In the days following the stunning reversal of most of the penalties imposed on the No. 48 Chevrolet team for a rules infraction at Daytona International Speedway, there has been much speculation over how the decision by NASCAR’s chief appellate officer John Middlebrook will affect the inspection process going forward. NASCAR and its inspectors had suspended crew chief Chad Knaus and car chief Ron Malec for six races, docked the team and driver Jimmie Johnson 25 points apiece and fined Knaus $100,000 for improper modifications to the Cpost area of their car. Even after a three-member appeals panel upheld the penalties, Middlebrook, without explanation, wiped out all but the fine against Knaus. NASCAR president Mike Helton, at a press conference at Auto Club Speedway, said the inspection process isn’t flawed and won’t change. “We believe in our inspectors,” he said. “We think that the decision that was made [by Middlebrook] supports the inspection process because the elements of the penalty that were upheld indicate that the inspection process, or the inspectors, did their job correctly … We believe very strongly in our inspec-
Most years, Tony Stewart doesn’t make an appearance in the Sprint Cup win column until the summer months, when the tracks get hot and slick, conditions that play to his driving style. But his win on Sunday in a rain-shortened race at Auto Club Speedway was his second in the first five races of this season and his seventh in the past 15 dating back to Chicagoland last September. Stewart said in his winner’s interview at Auto Club that he, too, is amazed by his earlyseason success. “The history shows in the last 13 years we have not had the strongest starts the first third of the year,” the defending Cup champion said. “I’m really, really excited about the start that we’ve got going. “We’ve been strong everywhere we’ve been. Daytona was probably our weakest race, and I know I made decisions trying to make things happen, and didn’t work out, but it wasn’t because our cars weren’t good. “We’ve had top-10 cars and top-5 cars every race this year after that.” Stewart has been able to continue his winning ways even as he switched crew chiefs, with Steve Addington taking over for Darian Grubb, who led Stewart’s team to the 2011 championship and now works with Denny Hamlin. Addington said he’s joined a group of people that knows what it takes to build winning race cars. “The group of people they have in place there at Stewart-Haas Racing is just unbelievable,” he said. “It’s just racers, guys that want to work. “There are a lot of smart people that give you support. You can ask a question and somebody will have you an answer really fast.” Addington said the addition of Stewart’s old crew chief Greg Zipadelli to the Stewart-Haas team has made a big difference, too. He said Zipadelli sits in on the team meetings with Stewart and Ryan Newman and their crew chiefs at the track and helps both teams find more speed. “With Tony and Ryan in a debrief, he asks the questions and opens your mind up to different things,” Addington said. “That’s really cool that he can sit back and watch the big picture, what’s going on in practice and things, then ask you questions. “You go back and look at different areas of the car and your setups and your notes and stuff. That’s brought a lot to the table. I think that’s helped us a ton, too, both teams.” When Brad Keselowski won the Irwin Tools Night Race last fall at Bristol Motor Speedway, some said it was because he figured out how to beat the system that measured speeds on pit road, a system that has now been changed. On Sunday, after he led four times for 232 laps in winning the Food City 500, there wasn’t much to be said other than that he put an oldfashioned whipping on his peers. “The fall race was a great win, but when you win one and people tell you it was a fluke, you just want to drive that much harder to win the second,” Keselowski said. He said his No. 2 Dodge was a fast one, and his crew made all the right calls. “I told somebody before the race, ‘This is the best race car I’ve ever had in Cup.’ And it showed off [Sunday],” Keselowski said. “Hopefully, we have more cars like this, and we’ll win more races and continue to move the needle forward. “I’ve said in pre-season this year that the goal here at Penske Racing is to win a Sprint Cup championship, and that’s where we’re all pushing. One win certainly doesn’t achieve that, but it’s a great step and we need more of these steps.”
SPRINT CUP POINTS 1. Greg Biffle 195; Leader
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Jimmie Johnson, left, talks with Chad Knaus while crew members work on the No. 48 Chevrolet during practice for the Daytona 500 on February 22. (NASCAR photo) tion process and are very proud of it. So the inspection process is status quo as we go forward.” Helton was asked whether Middlebrook, a former General Motors executive, should have recused himself because of his close ties with Rick Hendrick, the owner of the No. 48 Chevrolet, and a major Chevrolet car dealer. “Let me answer it this way,” Helton said. “When we chose John Middlebrook as our chief appellate officer, we chose him based on our experiences with him for several years, his pragmatic approach to business, and to his relationship with race teams and with NASCAR. “The reasons that we chose the
current chief appellate officer haven’t changed. Our opinion and our belief in our chief appellate officer haven’t changed.” Helton also said that if the No. 48 shows up at the next restrictorplate race, at Talladega Superspeedway in May, with the same C-posts, that he’d like to see his inspectors react in a similar manner to what they did at Daytona. “I hope so,” he said. With his points restored, and a 10th-place finish at Auto Club Speedway (despite an oil leak just as rain ended the race), Johnson is now ninth in the Cup standings, 39 points behind leader Greg Biffle.
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4. Tony Stewart 177; behind -18 5. Martin Truex Jr. 175; behind -20 6. Matt Kenseth 173; behind -22 7. Denny Hamlin 171; behind -24 8. Clint Bowyer 157; behind -38 9. Jimmie Johnson 156; behind -39 10. Ryan Newman 155; behind -40
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Sprint Cup victories by Jeff Gordon at Martinsville, top among active drivers
lead changes in 31 Most a Sprint Cup race at
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Points separating 54 Nationwide points leader Elliott Sadler and fifthplace Sam Hornish Jr.
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Career Cup victories in rain-shortened races by Tony Stewart (Auto Club Speedway on Sunday, Michigan International Speedway in June 2000, and New Hampshire Motor Speedway in July 2000)
Daily Corinthian • Wednesday, March 28, 2012 • 11A
Home & Garden Choose hardy wisterias for colorful hanging flowers Every spring, I look forward to seeing wisterias bloom. It’s incredible how high these vines can climb into trees. They are a familiar sight along roadsides, and I really enjoy the 55-mileper-hour f l o w e r Gary show I get Bachman as I drive along the Southern Gardening highways in Mississippi. In this setting, these vigorous and aggressive vines seem to be out of reach for the ordinary home landscape. But wisteria vines can actually be used in a more confined space, assuming you are committed to keeping the vine in place through training and pruning. Never allow wisteria vines to grow randomly. Consistent pruning will help control this vine’s vigorous growth and actually promote more flowering each spring. Wisterias make great landscape plants because they are hardy and can be extremely long-lived. If you provide a sturdy trellis or pergola, this climbing vine can provide beneficial summer shade. But be careful where you grow it. The plant climbs using twining stems that grab hold of any structure available. Wisterias can be trained into shrub form using judicious pruning and training of the main stem, much like the training used for grow-
ing grape vines. The older wisteria trunks can be extremely twisted and many inches in diameter. Wisteria’s landscape value is enhanced in the spring by its pendulous flowers. Along the road, we commonly see purple and white colors. For the landscape, the nursery trade has a variety of colorful selections including white, pink and blue. These colors often are grafted plants. Check with your local garden centers for availability. There are two species commonly found for the landscape. The Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda, is perhaps the most common. Its pendulous flower clusters open along with the emerging foliage. The other species is Chinese wisteria, or Wisteria sinensis. The flower clusters of the Chinese wisteria are up to 12 inches long or more. The flowers open before the foliage emerges. The timing of flowering is very close to the flowering dogwood, and these would make a fantastic combination planting in the landscape. Always plant wisterias in full sun to get the most out of their beautiful spring flowers. The soil needs to be consistently moist and fertile. Use quality compost and a controlled-release fertilizer after flowering. Sometimes home gardeners can be frustrated by a lack of flowering. If this is the case with your vine, make sure the wisteria is receiving enough sunlight and use fertilizers that are lower in nitrogen. Also, once
Photo by Gary Bachman
Wisterias can be trained to grow in shrub form, seen here, or in tree form.
Photo by Gary Bachman
Purple and white are the most common wisteria colors but nurseries also offer selections in pink and blue. planted, wisterias do not like to have their roots disturbed. They will not tolerate transplanting,
March is National Kidney Month Are You at Risk For The Silent Disease? You know when you have a headache, sore throat, a cold or the flu. But do you know if you have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), a potentially fatal condition that’s often called “the silent disease” because it frequently isn’t detected until it has reached the later stages? March is National Kidney Month. You could be at risk if any of the statements below apply to you: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
You have diabetes You have high blood pressure or heart disease You have a family history of chronic kidney disease You are 60 years of age or older Your ethnic background is African-American, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander
According to the National Kidney Foundation, 26 million Americans have CKD, but many don’t know it. The leading causes of CKD are diabetes and high blood pressure. Diabetes increases pressure inside the kidney’s filters. Over a period of time, this pressure damages the filters, which then leak protein into the urine. High blood pressure, or hypertension, means that the pressure of your blood against the walls of your blood vessels increases. If left untreated, hypertension can lead to CKD, heart attacks and strokes. More clues as to whether or not you have CKD are the following symptoms: 1. fatigue, a loss of energy 2. poor appetite 3. difficulty sleeping 4. dry, itchy skin 5. muscle cramping at night
6. 7. 8. 9.
swollen feet and ankles puffiness around the eyes, particularly in the morning the need to urinate more often, especially at night unexpected weight loss or gain
If you have any of the risk factors or symptoms here, or don’t know whether or not you have any of the risk factors mentioned, ask your doctor immediately for tests, including blood and urine tests that can determine how your kidneys are functioning. If left unchecked, CKD can lead to cardiovascular disease, among other serious health problems, as well as kidney failure. It can even be fatal.
Ask one of our pharmacists about any concerns you have regarding Chronic Kidney Disease.
James Bennett Apothecary 2409 Shiloh Rd. Corinth, MS 286-6914
especially if transplanted after several years in one location. (A special Home &
Garden columnist for the Daily Corinthian, Dr. Gary Bachman is an assistant Extension re-
search professor of horticulture at the Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi.)
12A • Wednesday, March 28, 2012 • Daily Corinthian
McNairy County jobless rate rises after 8 months BY JEFF YORK For the Daily Corinthian
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Morgan Messer (left) and Holly Ross listen to the 20-minute presentation aboard The Choice Bus.
SELMER, Tenn. — Following three straight months of drops in unemployment, McNairy County saw its jobless total rise in January based on numbers released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The one bit of positive news for the county was it had its highest number of workers in one month since April 2010. McNairy County had over 10,000 workers with a job for the month for only the second time in nearly three years. McNairy County had an unemployment rate of 10 percent in January, a jump of 0.8 percent from their December total of 9.2 percent. January was the first time for the county to reach double-figure unemployment figures since September of last year. The county went 34 straight months with double-digit unemployment before finishing 2011 with three consecutive months under 10 percent. There was a labor force of 11,160 in McNairy County during January and 10,140 had jobs. This left 1,120 potential workers without jobs.
Chester County was the only adjoining Tennessee county to have a lower unemployment rate than McNairy with a rate of 9.6 percent. The January 2012 jobless rate of 10 percent for McNairy County was a marked improvement over the same month’s total of 13.4 percent in 2011. Williamson County had the lowest unemployment rate in the state at 5.6 percent. There was no West Tennessee county in the top 10 in the state among the counties with the lowest numbers. Scott County had the highest unemployment rate in the state at 18.6 percent. Obion County had the highest jobless total in West Tennessee at 16.9 percent. The state had 91 counties show an increase in unemployment in January, decreased in three counties and remained the same in one county. Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January fell to 8.2 percent, down from the December revised rate of 8.5. The national unemployment rate for January 2012 was 8.3 percent, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point from the December rate.
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Presenter Eryka Perry (left) takes Corinth student Keporsha Beene through the replica prison cell on The Choice Bus.
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ence the uncomfortable living conditions of the cell. “I believe if the students can focus on making right choices early, they will be able to move forward
and be productive in high school and later in life,” said Knippers. Each student was handed a pledge card following the presentation and asked to make a commitment to finish school and make good choices.
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