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1870: Georgia becomes the last Confederate state to be readmit-ted to the Union. 1910: The term “Alzheimer’s dis-ease” is used in the book “Clinical Psychiatry” by German psychia-trist Emil Kraepelin in honor of his colleague, Alois Alzheimer.1979: President Jimmy Carter

delivers his “malaise” speech in which he laments what he called a “crisis of confidence” in America.1985: A shockingly gaunt-look-ing Rock Hudson appeared at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).

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solar systeminvestigationBy The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — After four years of sailing through space, the Dawn spacecraft was expected to slip into orbit late today around a giant asteroid to begin a yearlong investi-gation into the origins of the solar system.

It is the first of two scheduled tour stops for the NASA probe that almost never made it to the launch pad.

Dawn will spend the next sev-eral weeks spiraling ever closer to the surface of Vesta, a dry and rocky asteroid about the length of Arizona that’s thought to be the source of numer-ous meteorites found on Earth.

Scientists are eagerly awaiting the first close-up shots of Vesta, expected next month. Until now, it has only been photo-graphed from afar.

Residing in a vast field of rubble between Mars and Jupiter, asteroids are like the Peter Pans of the solar system that never quite grew into full-fledged planets. That they remain frozen in time is a boon for researchers attempting to reconstruct how Earth and the other planets formed.

Because of its stunted growth, Vesta holds “a record of the earliest his-tory of the solar system,” said the mission’s lead sci-entist Christopher Russell of the University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles.

After spending a year at Vesta, Dawn will cruise on to an even bigger aster-

shooting leaves man dead, 2 in custodyBy John [email protected]

A Vicksburg man was dead and two men were in police custody for questioning after an early-morning shooting in north Vicksburg.

Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong said Wil-liam J. Jones Jr., 20, 280 Curry St., was shot about 2:15 a.m. in front of the house he shared with his parents. His body was discovered by a family member, Armstrong said. No weapon had been recovered late this morning, but a police dog team was in the area.

Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said Jones was declared dead at the scene from a single wound to the chest. He said an autopsy was to be performed.

Police picked up two people several hours later for question-ing about the shooting, but no charges had been filed, Arm-strong said. They were not identified.

Although police believe the shooting might have been the result of an argument earlier in the evening, he said officers were talking with neighbors and other possible witnesses.

“At this point, we still really don’t know what happened,” he said. “We’re talking with people to find out what they may have seen or heard.

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Nine jailed in citywide drug sweep

By John [email protected]

Nine people, including five with criminal histories, were being held at the Vicks-burg Police Department this morning after being picked up in predawn drug raids across the city.

All were being held with-out bond pending initial appearances in Vicksburg Municipal Court, Police Chief Walter Armstrong said.

“This is the fourth major drug roundup we’ve done this year,” he said. “We’re going to keep doing them to

rid the city of drugs. Our citi-zens have said they’re tired of having that stuff on the streets.”

Armstrong said narcot-ics agents began gather-ing the suspects at about 4 a.m. Some of the nine are accused of selling or possess-ing drugs within 1,500 feet of schools, churches or day cares. Others, he said, were out on probation for other crimes.

Arrested were:• Elliott Reed, 29, and Mea-

geale Bell, 27, both of 147 Hayes St., sale of cocaine and hydrocodone. Both are

accused of selling drugs within 1,500 feet of a school.

Warren County District Attorney’s Office records showed Reed was convicted in 1998 of robbery and later charged but not convicted of possession of a weapon by a felon and aggravated assault. Officers seized a 9mm semi-automatic hand-gun during Reed’s arrest.

• Justin Vinzant, 27, 3067 Redbone Road, sale of mari-juana. Though he had no criminal history, Vinzant had been shot and wounded

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Debt faceoff shifts to CongressBy The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Nego-tiations to increase the nation’s debt ceiling shifted to Congress where Republi-can and Democratic lead-ers were assessing the mood of their members even as an intricate but potentially face-saving deal to avoid an unprecedented government default was taking shape in the Senate.

With an Aug. 2 deadline

looming and no compromise jelling at the White House, President Barack Obama today had to settle for asking congressional leaders to take three deficit reduction options to their members to see which, if any, could win a vote in the House and Senate.

Meanwhile, a proposal the White House has termed a “fallback option” was taking root in the Senate as a likely alternative to the brinkman-

ship that has defined nego-tiations to secure an increase in the government’s borrow-ing authority.

Obama, who had vowed to meet with congressio-nal leaders every day until a debt limit deal was struck, did not schedule a session for today and instead asked lead-ers to gauge the tempera-ment of their caucuses and to report back to him in 24 to 36

Survey finds fewer in statefacing home foreclosuresBy The Associated Press

The number of Mississippi residents threatened by the loss of their homes dropped during the second quar-ter, a national tracking firm said Thursday.

Irvine, Calif.-based Real-tyTrac said that for the three months ending June 30, 840 properties were tar-geted by some foreclosure-related action. But for those

it was largely the end of the line, as 514 were repos-sessed by lenders and the other 326 were scheduled for a foreclosure sale.

The total number of actions fell 22.4 percent from the first quarter of 2011 and 17.8 percent from the second quarter of 2010.

Mississippi ranked 47th in the RealtyTrac count

See Debt, Page A9. See Foreclosure, Page A9.See Asteroid, Page A9.

OnlineDawn mis-sion:dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/in-dex.asp

This image of Vesta was taken this month from 62,000 miles away.

Sgt. Jeff Merritt, left, counts out $852 found on one of the nine suspects arrested early this morning in a drug raid as Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong looks on.

William J. Jones Jr.

BRyAnT HAwKInS•The Vicksburg PosT

Officer Leonce Young and his dog, X-on, search for a weapon near 280 Curry St. today.See Killing, Page A9.

Police chief says arrests follow 3-month investigation

See Drugs, Page A9.

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Buck’s Country Playhouse — Feed in the Chicken Coop with potluck supper at 6:30 tonight; music by Wild Bunch; dona-tions accepted; 601-638-3193.Farmers’ Market — 8-11 a.m. Saturday; WC Master Gar-deners; Mississippi Medallion Plants; Jackson and Washing-ton streets.Coed Softball Tournament — 7 p.m. Saturday; Jim Shiers, 601-831-7000 or 601-638-9341; ladies field at Halls Ferry Park.Levi’s — A Gathering Place; 7-10 p.m. Saturday, music by Danny Scallions, Ted Holman, Bud Shiers and friends; dona-tions appreciated. Healthy Woman Program ‘Back to School’ — Noon-1 p.m. July 28; Drs. Lisa Fair-child, Thomas Moore, Gordon Sluis, Deborah Smith and Geri Weiland, speakers; reserva-tions, 601-883-6118 or visit www.RiverRegion.com; River Region Medical Center confer-ence rooms.Madison Parish Commu-nity Service Kickoff — Aug. 13, Wright Elementary, Tallu-lah; seeking volunteers and school supplies for distribu-tion; hosted by the Jackie

Curtis Barnett Jr. Memorial Foundation; sponsor or ven-dor, contact Bertha or Jackie Barnett at 318-341-7641 or e-mail at [email protected] Anonymous — River City Group, 8 p.m. Sun-day, Tuesday and Saturday; Good Shepherd Community Center, 629 Cherry St.; day-time, Alvin J., 601-661-7646 or 601-415-1742; evening, Jo-seph P., 601-638-4856 or 601-278-1808.Tuesday Vicksburg Al-Anon — Noon Tuesday; sec-ond floor, First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; 601-634-0152.Mississippi Families as Allies — 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday; for parents, grandparents, foster and adoptive families of chil-dren with mental health con-cerns; Jacob’s Ladder, behind First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; Julie Propst, 601-981-1619, or Cheryl Gro-gan, 601-218-0045.

cHurcHeSTaking It Back Outreach Ministry Thrift Store — 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursdays-Fri-days, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays;

school uniforms, shoes, small appliances; freebies; 1314 Fillmore St.; 601-638-0794 or 601-831-2056. Travelers Rest Baptist — Youth Night Explosion, 7 tonight; mime, praise danc-ers and choirs invited; 718 Bowmar Ave.; the Rev. Thomas E. Bernard, pastor; 601-636-3712. New Poplar Grove Indepen-dent Methodist — Revival, 7:30 tonight; the Revs. Tommie L. Moore, Earl Thompson, Sam-uel Jones, Phillip Burks and James O. Bowman Sr. pastor, speakers; Mississippi 27 North, Edwards; 601-885-8226 or 601-529-2044.Pleasant Valley M.B. — Choir practice, 5 tonight; 2585 N. Washington St.Kings Community Center — Indoor garage sale, 6 a.m. until July 23; sponsored by Triumphant Baptist Church; 224 R.L. Chase Circle.Mount Zion No. 1 M.B. — Garage sale and hot dogs, 7 a.m.-noon Saturday; 920 Fifth North St.Mercy Seat M.B. — Chicken or fish dinners with sides and tea, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Satur-day; $6 per person, dine in or carryout; to order, 601-634-9544; 5 Dos Casas Lane.

cluBSAmerican Legion Post 213 — Dance with DJ Jamal Lee, Saturday, 9 p.m. until; admis-sion $5. Letitia Street Reunion — 3 p.m. Sunday, planning meet-ing; Pizza Hut, 2931 Clay St.MSU Alumni Association — Send-off party for new MSU students; 6:30 p.m. July 28; supper will be served; Knights of Columbus, 318 Fisher Ferry Road; Warren County Chapter; RSVP to Tom Kendall, 601-631-3206.

BeneFitSStorehouse Food Commu-nity — Donations are being accepted today through Aug. 12; Springleaf Financial Servic-es, 3046 Indiana Ave., Suite H; 610-638-1350Car Wash — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat-urday, Kings Community Cen-ter; cars, $5; trucks, $6; vans, $7; to benefit Kings intramural sports. Cut For a Cure — 9 a.m.-2 p.m. July 23; in honor of Gra-cie Dennis; silent auction; Becky Dennis, 601-924-7090; Fringe Salon, Clinton.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — A Louisiana woman wanted on various felony charges has been arrested in Bay St. Louis.

Police Chief Mike De Nardo said that 37-year-old Tracy Mayo was arrested Thurs-day when an officer spotted her car.

De Nardo said police seized several items including sav-ings bonds, driver’s licenses, checkbooks and car keys. De Nardo said Mayo also was charged with possession of methamphetamine.

De Nardo said Louisiana authorities in various cities were hunting for Mayo on felony charges of auto theft, auto burglary and credit card fraud.

He said Mayo is expected to face additional felony charges in Harrison County and Waveland because some of the seized items were traced to those jurisdictions.

New info could freesuspect in triple killing

BENTON, La. — New infor-mation could lead to the

release of a man arrested in a Bossier City triple killing.

Thirty-nine-year-old Gerald Needham was arrested after the April killings at an appli-ance store.

However, Bossier Parish sheriff’s deputies investi-gating an armed robbery in Haughton learned that a shell casing recovered from their crime scene matched shell casings from the appliance store killings.

“I’m sure I don’t,” Bossier District Attorney Schuyler Marvin said Thursday when asked if he has the right man in custody. However, Marvin said he is awaiting a crime lab report on shell casings, expected early next week, along with other recently developed information, before deciding whether Needham should be released.

Bossier deputies today arrested 32-year-old Robert L. Clark, of Shreveport, in the Haughton robbery. He has not been charged in the Boss-ier store killings.

Bill Norris, 77, Jesse Burk, 58, and Harold Arnett, 66, were gunned down April 12 in an apparent robbery attempt at Norris’ appliance store.

Suspensions upheldfor Columbus cops

COLUMBUS, Miss. — The Columbus Civil Service Commission has upheld the suspensions of two police officers.

Retired Lt. John Pevey and officer Richard Higgins were suspended 20 workdays by the city council in Febru-ary after Higgins totaled his squad car during a New Year’s Day storm.

The commission voted 2-1 Thursday to uphold the sus-pensions after a hearing for the two officers.

The discipline stemmed from an incident in which Pevey allegedly failed to properly report that Higgins’ squad car had been totaled after it stalled in a deep puddle. Pevey has since left the police department.

Columbus Police Chief Joseph St. John told the com-

mission that he was not noti-fied of the incident until Jan. 4, and the accompanying doc-umentation was not complete.

Five indicted in 2 Terrebonne killings

HOUMA, La. — Five men have been indicted in Terre-bonne Parish in two killings in May.

A parish grand jury on Wednesday returned first-degree murder charges against 20-year-old Adrian Winslow and 18-year-old Terrence Wheaton in the shooting death of 32-year-old Darian Wilson in Houma. Police said they think Wilson was killed during a robbery attempt.

Wilson was shot in the forehead and chest. His 2006 Honda Accord crashed into a fence, where he was later found by investigators.

Bonds for Winslow and Wheaton were set at $2 million.

They could face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted.

City manchargedin check forgery

A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail this morning charged with utter-ing a forgery, Vicksburg police Sgt. Sandra Williams said.

Gregory Ford, 37, 1101 Bowmar Ave. Apartment 2, was arrested Thursday at 3:34 p.m. after attempting to cash a stolen check for $400. Checks had been reported missing at a burglary June 17 on Washington Street.

Police do not believe Ford was involved with the rob-bery, Williams said.

Ford was being held on a $5,000 bond.

crimefrom staff reports

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Springleaf Finance, formerly American General, is open for business at 3046 Indiana Ave. Suite H. Employees are, from left, branch manager Dave Terry, customer account special-ist Jennifer Baker and financial rep-resentative Blake Hynum. Open from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, the business finances mortgages, loans and secured retail sales finance prod-ucts. The phone number is 601-638-1350. Sprin-gleaf evolved this year after American General was pur-chased by Fortress Managed Fund in late 2010.

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Natchez golf course hit by vandals third timeNATCHEZ — The most

recent damage of the Duncan Park golf course has caused many club members and even the City of Natchez to step up and try to find the culprits.

The recent damage of the sixth and 18th holes of the course was not nearly as extensive as the damage caused by last summer’s van-dalism, course superinten-dent Greg Brooking said.

Last August, the green was trenched as deep as 2 feet in some places, Brooking said. The green still has scars from that incident almost a year later.

Brooking said this sum-mer’s damage to the 18th green would probably take three to four weeks to repair.

It was the third time the course has been tampered with in the last three years.

Gulf Coast awardedassault ship contract

PASCAGOULA — Ship-builder Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. has received a $98 million Navy contract modification to obtain mate-rials for the 11th in a series of amphibious assault ships.

The ship will be built at Pascagoula. The con-tract covers main engines, diesel generators and other

equipment.The LPD 17-class ships

have been built at Pascagoula and at the Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Avondale near New Orleans, which is slated for closure in 2013. The ships can carry up to 800 troops and can send landing craft and helicopters into battle.

MSU to launchZipcar program in fall

STARKVILLE — Missis-sippi State University is launching a car-sharing ser-vice in the fall.

Zipcar Inc. will provide four vehicles in a high-pedestrian-traffic area of the campus in Starkville.

Everett Kennard, MSU’s manager of transportation, said the service will be avail-able 24 hours a day, seven days a week to all students ages 18 and older.

Kennard said gas, insur-ance, reserved parking spots, roadside assistance and up to 180 miles per day, are included in the hourly and daily Zipcar rates.

The vehicles will start as low as $8 per hour and $66 per day (24 hours). The annual membership fee is $35.

Jackson launchesCodeRED program

JACKSON — The city of Jackson will offer the CodeRED system to alert local residents by phone of emergency situations such as boil water alerts and inclem-ent weather.

Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. said the system will allow the city to quickly deliver mes-sages to targeted areas or the entire city.

City officials say CodeRED has most residents’ tele-phone numbers in its data-base, but they hope residents will sign up on the city’s web site www.jacksonms.gov.

Suspect arrestedin Columbus killing

COLUMBUS — Columbus police have arrested a man in a Monday home invasion that left one person dead.

Police Lt. Selvain McQueen said that Derrick Bankhead, 33, was charged with the murder.

Police said two people, wearing bandanas over their faces, broke into a house and Eddie Bankhead, 35, was shot twice. He died Tuesday at Baptist Golden Triangle Hospital.

Man gets 15 yearsfor robbing woman, 87

NATCHEZ — An Adams County man has been sen-tenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing an 87-year-old woman in November.

On Thursday, Judge Forest Johnson ordered 39-year-old David L. Coleman to serve a full sentence for the charge of simple robbery.

The robbery took place on Nov. 21 in the parking lot out-side a grocery store.

Forgotten conFederAtes

Civil War markers honor black soldiersDALTON, Ga. (AP) — Badly

outnumbered by Union forces and sensing looming defeat in the Civil War, Confederate Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne made a shocking proposal about a century and a half ago: the Southern government should free black slaves will-ing to fight in rebel ranks.

“As between the loss of inde-pendence and the loss of slav-ery, we assume that every patriot will freely give up the latter — give up the negro slave rather than be a slave himself,” Cleburne wrote in his Jan. 2, 1864, letter, also signed by other officers.

His proposal — sharply rejected by Confederate lead-ers committed to slavery — was commemorated Thursday with the dedication of a new historical marker installed near the Confederate Army headquarters in North Geor-gia where Cleburne publicly floated the idea.

It’s one of roughly a dozen new markers being erected across Georgia for the ses-quicentennial of the Civil War that focus on the often-ignored history of groups such as blacks, women and Union loyalists.

“Our grandparents would have looked at this in a very different way,” said W. Todd Groce, president of the Geor-gia Historical Society, which is leading the effort to erect new markers. “The Civil War meant something different to them than it does to us.”

Contemporary politics have long shaped how Civil War history is interpreted. Dis-cussing racially charged his-tory was unlikely in the Deep South during the war’s cen-tennial in 1961, the same year whites rioted at the University

of Georgia when two black students arrived on campus. The latest plaques attempt to present a more inclusive view of history as the nation com-memorates the 150th anniver-sary of the war.

“Fifty years ago, a biracial gathering like this on a topic like this would have been impossible and unheard of,” Groce told a racially mixed crowd that gathered for the unveiling ceremony in Dalton, a northwest Georgia city.

Other recently installed plaques mark the spot in Columbus, Ga., where women armed with knives and pis-tols rioted over wartime food shortages and a spot near Savannah where hundreds of freed slaves who were follow-

ing the Union Army for pro-tection drowned because the commander removed tem-porary bridges spanning a creek.

Another marker near the boundary with Tennessee points out a battlefield where black soldiers fighting for the Union saw combat in Geor-gia. The fighting occurred near what is now an elemen-tary school.

“A lot of blacks here had gone to that school, they walked through that school on their way downtown never know-ing that black troops fought there,” said Curtis Rivers Jr., director of The Emery Center, a museum in Dalton showcasing African-American history.

Historians earlier this year marked the spot where Union Maj. Gen. William Sherman’s forces lit fires that burned parts of Atlanta, a symbolic beginning-of-the-end for the Confederacy. Sherman then marched his army from Atlanta to the Georgia sea-coast on a mission that sig-naled the Confederacy was nearing collapse.

The marker program has won an award for merit from The American Association for State and Local History

Bethany Hawkins, the group’s program associate, was unaware of other simi-lar programs, though some states are just beginning projects timed for the war’s sesquicentennial.

Michael thurmond, left, and dr. W. todd groce unveil the Historical Marker at the cook-Huff House in dalton, ga.

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Efforts under way to restorelongleaf pine forests in Miss.

PURVIS, Miss. (AP) — Lon-gleaf pine forests once car-peted the Southeast, cover-ing 90 million acres from east Texas to Virginia.

Now, the forests have dwin-dled in size and scope, with the U.S. Department of Agri-culture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service estimat-ing that about 3 million acres exist nationally.

The NRCS has set in motion a program to restore longleaf stands, preserving the forests’ ecosystems that 20 endan-gered species call home.

“It’s more than just an eco-nomic resource,” said Orby Wright, who has focused on restoring longleaf on his 2,000-acre tree farm, Quail Hollow Ranch, just south of Purvis. “It’s more about restoring the ecosystem in these forests, and longleaf is a key ingredient.”

In Mississippi, Lamar County has been home to the largest reforestation effort of the USDA’s Longleaf Pine Ini-tiative, with about 670 acres of longleaf restored in 2010 under the NRCS’ “Healthy Forests Reserve Program.”

“It takes the right kind of landowner, somebody who is willing to do management, yearly management,” said Lane Kimbrough, NRCS soil conservationist in Lamar County. “Sometimes, it’s your largest landowners, they are already in such a management mode, that they think, ‘Hey,

this is close to what I want to do anyway, there’s benefits for me.’

“But we hope, that as we get into this more, and people get educated, that the guy with 10 acres will want to plant a patch.”

Justin Fritscher, a spokes-man for NRCS in Jackson, said Mississippi has 383,784 acres of longleaf pine, with 116,000 acres on private land.

Many of those landowners follow one of NRCS’ manage-ment programs, which offers financial aid and expertise in the planting, maintenance and harvesting of the trees.

One of the keys to allow lon-gleaf to thrive are prescribed burns, which help control the undergrowth on the forest floor.

The burns help particu-lar undergrowth to flourish, including legumes and forbs, and those plants in turn attract a number of distinct species into the forests.

Kimbrough said three endangered species in partic-ular rely on the specific forage found in the longleaf habitat: the gopher tortoise, black pine snake and gopher frog.

“The gopher tortoise is the main one in Mississippi,” Kim-brough said.

Kimbrough said that during the past few years, NRCS pro-grams have helped restore 1,641 acres of longleaf pines in Mississippi.

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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891Justice of the Peace Murch is a candidate for re-election. • Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Russell entertain in honor of Miss McNair of Memphis, Tenn. • Louis Washington is arrested and charged with shooting into the Curphey Mills.

110 YEARS AGO: 1901Henry Phelps of Nitta Yuma is in the city. • H.C. McCabe leaves for Manitou Springs, Colo. • Judge H.F. Simrall is ill at the Commercial Exchange.

100 YEARS AGO: 1911Regina and Lucille Romano entertain at a lawn party. • Sen. John L. Hebron speaks at the courthouse in behalf of Varda-man’s candidacy.

90 YEARS AGO: 1921Charles Ehibert is home from New Orleans.

80 YEARS AGO: 1931Mr. and Mrs. Al Frank depart for a motor trip to St. Louis, Indianapolis and Detroit.

70 YEARS AGO: 1941Clyde McGehee, state commander of the American Legion, presides over the annual convention in Biloxi. • Postmaster Charles Crook is a patient at Vicksburg Hospital. • Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guion and Mr. and Mrs. Noel Nutt are vacation-ing on the Gulf Coast.

60 YEARS AGO: 1951Under a blistering Mississippi sun, the hottest day of the year, the beautiful $150,000 Alabama State Memorial is dedicated in the National Military Park. • Mrs. Mary D. Vollor dies.

50 YEARS AGO: 1961Mr. and Mrs. Jack Biedenharn and son are visiting with rela-tives in San Francisco. • L.D. Owens dies. • Funeral services are held for Margaret Overstreet, Tallulah resident.

40 YEARS AGO: 1971Curtis J. Turner dies. • George Hamilton stars in “Evel Knievel” at the Joy Theatre. • Dr. and Mrs. John Robert Shell, and children, are vacationing in Virginia.

30 YEARS AGO: 1981Mrs. Clara B. Katzenmeyer dies. • Jim Chaney, president of the Vicksburg Kiwanis Club, presents Capt. N.J. Polk, com-mander of the Vicksburg Salvation Army Post, with a check for $600 for the children’s summer camp program.

20 YEARS AGO: 1991The 111-year-old gazebo at Cedar Grove Estate is undergo-ing its first-ever restoration and will be brought back to its original condition. • Nikki and Mandy McCann present flow-ers to NASCAR driver Davey Allison, who has made a stop in Vicksburg.

10 YEARS AGO: 2001Vicksburg Police patrolman Glen Roe practices for VPD Dive Team certification. • Warren Rost Bennett III graduates cum laude with a doctor of jurisprudence degree from Mississippi College.

HealthHouse Republicans are right to

fight efforts by the White House to force food companies to stop pushing junk food to children — not because it’s wrong to want young people to eat healthier, but because it’s wrong for the gov-ernment to tell them what they can eat.

Opponents of the “nanny state” that threatens to overwhelm numerous aspects of the lives of ordinary Americans have a right to be up in arms over the Obama administration’s latest efforts to control food advertising as it affects children.

While no one suggests that American children presently eat healthy, balanced diets, limit-ing the First Amendment rights of advertisers is not the answer. Supplanting the role of parents

and free choice by limiting what food companies can or can’t say about their products, as long as they tell the truth, is not the answer, either.

There are plenty of healthy food options available on the local economy: farmers’ markets, produce sections of the grocery stores, stands along the sides of the road selling everything from strawberries to tomatoes to those wonderful watermelons.

Children should have access to healthy options. Parents who feed their children solely from boxes and cans need to make an honest effort to up the nutrition ante by adding more fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains to their family’s meals, but that should be something done volun-tarily. The government in no way,

shape or form should be involved with advertising as long as the advertising is not fraudulent.

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the state of Cali-fornia the right to ban sales of violent video games to children, ruling that such a ban is uncon-stitutional. Although children certainly should be supervised in their entertainment choices, the supervision they receive should not be courtesy of any govern-ment entity.

In that same vein, neither should government try to influ-ence, through suppression of First Amendment rights, what a child eats.

When it comes to personal food choices, most of us could stand to make better ones, but they still should remain personal choices.

WASHINGTON — A revolt gath-ers among Republicans against the place of pledges in politics.

First, Sen. Tom Coburn declared his independence from a portion of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Then Mitt Romney and Herman Cain rejected elements of the Susan B. Anthony List’s Pro-Life Presi-dential Leadership Pledge, which Romney found to be “overly broad.” Now Romney, Cain, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty have refused to sign The Family Leader’s 14-point promise in Iowa — a comprehen-sive list of social conservative policy commitments including a personal promise of marital faithfulness.

These disagreements have pro-duced some entertaining moments of the political season. Coburn, one of the original Tea Party conser-vatives, leads the charge against political rigidity. Gingrich bravely opposes a fidelity litmus test. Romney resolutely defends his right to ideological flexibility.

But policy pledges — depending on their content and motivation — can have serious implications for governing.

There is nothing wrong with advocacy groups pressing politi-cians for specificity in a question-naire — which is another way of

saying there is nothing wrong with free association and citizen activ-ism. Attempting to put presidential candidates on the record can have the effect of broadening the policy discussion. Candidates naturally prefer to communicate on the three or four issues they feel to their immediate political advantage. But it also matters what a prospective president believes about cancer research funding, or the Armenian genocide, or the Defense of Mar-riage Act, or the future of the space program. These “special interests” also happen to be legitimate public issues.

Yet, the proliferation of pledges can be traced to another motiva-tion. “There is a declining confi-dence that public officials can be trusted, that they will keep their

word,” former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told me. “Nothing is working very well right now. So people are creating extra-constitutional means to work around dysfunction.”

The process of initiative and ref-erendum is one expression of this distrust — a method to circumvent the political class entirely. Another is the attempt to constrain politi-cians with blood oaths. Particularly among conservative activists, the desire to bind politicians is often the evidence of disdain for politi-cians. Only a signed, airtight con-tract will keep a future president from ideological betrayal. Holding his or her dog hostage might also help. Interaction with a candidate is based not on the identification of common goals, but on the assump-tion of perfidy.

This tone has begun to rankle, at least in Republican ranks. Grover Norquist, the author of the Tax-payer Protection Pledge, responded to Coburn’s heresy by saying that “he lied his way into office” and had “lied” to the citizens of his state. Even the most vigorously anti-tax public official must resent being treated as a wholly owned subsid-iary of Norquist Inc. Most politi-cians will accept reproof. Fewer will accept a leash.

Such high-handedness is said to be necessary because public offi-cials are weak, variable and prone to destructive peer pressure. Para-doxically, the meek submission to such tactics only reinforces the ste-reotype. A little resistance — and a little offended anger — gives evi-dence of a spirit not entirely sapped by the search for political approval.

The imposition of oaths beyond the Constitution also assumes a certain theory of representa-tion — the belief that politicians are merely mechanisms for the expression of public sentiment. They are, in this view, computers to be pre-programmed for desired outcomes. When Edmund Burke was presented with a similar argu-ment, he agreed that the opinions of constituents “ought to have great

weight” with a representative. “But his unbiased opinion,” Burke con-tinued, “his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.”

This exercise of judgment, he argued, is not consistent with “authoritative instructions; man-dates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience.”

Jeb Bush makes this point another way: “I never raised taxes. I’m pro-life. But I don’t recall sign-ing any of those pledges. You don’t hide your beliefs. You persuade people. You win or lose. And if you win, you are not beholden to anyone or anything other than your own beliefs.”

Public officials are accountable to the public through elections — but they are responsible to the Consti-tution and their convictions. While the policy views of an American president matter greatly, his or her mature judgment and enlightened conscience matter more.

•Michael Gerson’s e-mail address is [email protected].

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Candidates naturally prefer to communicate on the three or four issues they feel to their im-

mediate political advantage.

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Challenge to visa lottery dismissed in blow to would-be immigrants

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blow to thousands of hopeful would-be immigrants who had been told they’d won a chance to apply for a green card, a fed-eral judge ruled that the State Department can toss out the results of its May visa lottery, which were deemed invalid because of a computer error.

The State Department said the results of a fresh drawing would be available today.

Members of the group had been seeking class action status in their bid to stop the government from nullifying their selection in the visa lottery.

In early May, about 22,000 people were notified they had won a chance to apply for a visa as part of the Diversity

Visa Lottery Program, which is aimed at increasing the number of immigrants from the developing world and countries with historically low rates of emigration to the U.S.

One of them, 42-year-old French native Armande Gil, who lives in Florida, called Thursday’s decision by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson another disappointment.

“It makes the injustice even bigger and it’s just a sense that there is nobody who hears us and whatever the government wants to do with us they can do and there is nothing we can do about it,” said Gil, who had hoped to preserve her long-shot chance to get a U.S. visa

without the traditional family or employer sponsorship.

From the nearly 15 mil-lion applications submit-ted between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3, 2010, about 90,000 names were supposed to be selected at random by a computer pro-gram. That number was to have been reduced to no more than 55,000 through attrition, interviews and various eligi-bility rules.

A glitch in the system meant that nearly 90 percent of win-ners were people who had applied within the first two days of the application period. Several of the original win-ners filed suit in federal court in Washington last month, weeks after the results were nullified.

Cause of Yellowstone oil spill still unknownWASHINGTON (AP) — It

likely will be months before investigators know what caused an ExxonMobil pipe-line to rupture near Billings, Mont., unleashing crude oil into the Yellowstone River, a federal safety official said Thursday.

Thus far, investigators are unaware of any safety viola-tions by ExxonMobil related to the spill, Cynthia Quarterman, administrator of the Pipeline

and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, told a congressional hearing. The July 1 spill has fouled shore-line and contaminated back-waters along dozens of miles of the scenic river.

Also Thursday, The Associ-ated Press obtained a copy of ExxonMobil’s oil spill response plan through a public records request. In it, the company lays out a worst-case sce-nario in which 2,034 barrels of

crude would spill into the Yel-lowstone if there were a fail-ure in the pipeline along one of the river’s tributaries, Rock Creek. One barrel is equal to 42 gallons.

That worst-case scenario assumed oil flowing through the pipe at 60,000 barrels a day; it took 10 minutes to detect the spill, five minutes to shut down the pumps and an hour to isolate the failed line segment.

Embattled News International CEO Brookssteps down amid phone-hacking scandal

LONDON (AP) — Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s loyal lieutenant, resigned today as chief executive of his embattled British news-papers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone-hacking scandal at a now-de-funct Sunday tabloid.

Murdoch had defended the 43-year-old Brooks in the face of demands from British pol-iticians that she step down, and had previously refused to accept her resignation. He made an abrupt switch, how-ever, as his News Corp. com-pany struggled to contain a U.K. crisis that is threaten-ing his entire global media empire.

Brooks was editor of the News of the World tabloid between 2000 and 2003, when the paper’s employees alleg-edly hacked into the tele-phone of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler when police were searching for her in 2002. That has raised allega-tions of interfering in a police investigation.

That allegation last week provoked outrage far beyond previous revelations of snoop-ing on celebrities, politicians and top athletes, and knocked billions off the value of News Corp. In quick succession, Murdoch closed the 168-year-old News of the World and abandoned his multibillion-pound attempt to take full control of the lucrative Brit-ish Sky Broadcasting, while Prime Minister David Cam-

eron appointed a judge to con-duct a sweeping inquiry into criminal activity at the paper and in the British media.

Brooks said the debate over her position as CEO of News International was now too much of a distraction for parent company News Corp. and she would concentrate on refuting allegations in the scandal.

“I have believed that the

right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate,” Brooks said in an e-mail today to col-leagues that was released by News International. “This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavors to fix the problems of the past.”

Newspaper turmoil

Rebekah Brooks is driven away from offices of News International in London Thursday.


NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI has begun a preliminary inquiry based on concerns in Congress over a report that media mogul Rupert Mur-doch’s News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

The decision to step in was made after U.S. Rep. Peter King and several other mem-bers of Congress wrote to FBI Director Robert Mueller demanding an investigation, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on con-dition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.

The official stressed that the review was in its infancy but declined to discuss the scope of it or say what steps had been taken. The FBI rou-tinely makes preliminary inquiries into issues raised by lawmakers and others

to determine whether a full-blown investigation is needed.

Today, U.S. Attorney Gen-eral Eric Holder confirmed the early stages of an inquiry into the allegations that first surfaced in the U.K.

“There have been members of Congress in the United States who have asked us to investigate those same alle-gations and we are progress-ing in that regard using the appropriate criminal law enforcement agencies in the United States,” Holder said at a press conference in Aus-tralia while attending a meet-ing of the Attorneys-General of the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

News Corp., based in New York, has been in crisis mode because of a scandal that sank its U.K. newspaper the News of the World.

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Consumers paid more for autos, clothes in JuneWASHINGTON (AP) — Con-

sumer prices fell last month for the first time in a year because of a steep drop in gas costs. But Americans paid more for autos, clothes and hotel stays, driving prices outside of vola-tile food and energy costs up.

The Consumer Price Index fell 0.2 percent in June, the Labor Department said today. Gas prices fell 6.8 percent, the steepest decline in 2 1/2 years.

After excluding volatile food and gas costs, core prices rose 0.3 percent. That was the second straight monthly gain and the largest back-to-back increase since the summer of 2008.

Many of the trends driving the increase in the core index are expected to fade later this year. New car prices rose 0.6 in June, after jumping 1.1 per-cent in May. Those increases reflect supply shortages stem-ming from Japan’s earthquake,

which will ease in the fall. “We expect a lot of the pickup

in core inflation to be reversed, but that won’t happen until perhaps early next year,” said Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics.

Rising gas and food prices caused inflation concerns ear-lier this year. In the 12-month period from May 2010 to June 2011, consumer prices rose 3.6

percent. The yearly gain in the index was only 1.1 percent as recently as November.

Core prices have been much tamer. They increased only 1.6 percent in the past year. That’s below the Federal Reserve’s preferred target of 2 percent.

Some inflation can be healthy for the economy because it encourages people to spend and invest rather than sitting

on their cash. More spend-ing drives corporate growth, which makes businesses more likely to hire people.

Low inflation allows the cen-tral bank to keep the short-term interest rate they con-trol at a record low near zero, where it has been since December 2008.

Oil prices have come down from their peak this spring, and gas costs have followed. The average national price per gallon was nearly $4 in early May. Today, a gallon of gas averaged $3.66 nationwide, according to AAA.

Food prices increased 0.2 percent, the smallest gain this year.

Clothing prices, meanwhile, soared 1.4 percent in June, the most since March 1990. That comes after a 1.2 rise in May. The increase likely reflects higher cotton costs and more expensive clothing imports.


Q: My husband and I are retired. We are currently debt-free. Now we would like to begin a college fund for our new grandchild. We have been considering the Oregon 529 College Plan. The bank adviser said that CDs are not a good way to go. Do you have advice for making investments for college? — L.A., via e-mail

A: Congratulations on get-ting yourself debt-free. It

appears that you acted respon-sibly and you’re in somewhat of a minor-ity group. If you’re con-sidering a fair amount

of money either now or install-ments, the 529 plan has a great deal to recommend. If it is a modest amount of money, the 529 may not be worth what

effort is involved to establish it. As you mentioned, there are a lot of 529 plans run by differ-ent states and some are very different from state to state. Some clearly meet the needs of one person and some don’t. CDs right now are a lousy way to go, given the tiny amount of interest that they pay, which also depends on how you set it up. It could have tax conse-quences. Your grandchild is fortunate to have grandpar-ents that are able to do this for them. The only thing that always concerns me is why you are spending money that should be put aside for your twilight years. As long as you are absolutely certain that you provided first for your twilight years then I would say good luck and god speed with your plans for the grandchild.

•Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at [email protected].

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Stocks are opening higher after several big companies reported strong earnings for the second quarter.

Google Inc., Mattel Inc. and Citigroup Inc. all reported higher income. Google jumped 13 percent, the most in the S&P 500 index.

The market is on track for its biggest gain this week, a

reversal after declines in four of the past five days. Indexes are still headed for weekly losses.

Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow Jones indus-trial average is up 56 points, or 0.4 percent, at 12,491. The S&P 500 is up 8, or 0.6 per-cent, at 1,317. The Nasdaq composite index is up 21, or 0.8 percent, at 2,784.

BP adopts new safety standards for Gulf drillingATLANTA — BP says it

has adopted new, safer stan-dards for deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

The announcement comes a year after the company capped its blown-out well about 50 miles off the Louisi-ana coast.

In a letter to U.S. regula-tors, the company said the standards exceed existing federal requirements and demonstrate BP’s commit-ment to safety.

BP said the standards include new requirements for features on and testing of blowout preventers and lab tests of cement used in well casings.

Cracker Barrelcuts 60 jobs

LEBANON, Tenn. — Res-taurant operator Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. said today that it eliminated about 60 jobs as part of a cost-cutting program.

The job cuts included both staff and management posi-tions and most of the people affected worked at the com-pany’s headquarters in Leba-non, Tenn., Cracker Barrel said.

Cracker Barrel said its customers continue to face tough economic conditions and the company expects its commodity costs to continue to rise next year.

The company said it expects to save about $10 mil-lion a year on a pretax basis as a result of the job cuts.

The company owns and operates 603 locations in 42 states.

Vidalia gets nearly$1M more for port

VIDALIA, La. — Vidalia officials scaled down plans for work toward a $15 mil-lion port and got nearly $1 million in grants from the Economic Development Administration.

Heather Malone — head of the Concordia Parish Eco-nomic and Industrial Devel-opment District — said the city cut about $400,000 from a $1.6 million plan, and the agency took on 80 percent of the cost rather than 55 per-cent. That means the city will pay $250,000, instead of $800,000.

Instead of a road from the port to the western side of Louisiana 131 near the Vida-lia Industrial Park, the city will build a short connector road to the east side of 131, Mayor Hyram Copeland said.

Spain to privatizeairport operations

MADRID — Spain hopes to raise at least $7.5 billion by selling the rights to run Madrid and Barcelona inter-national airports.

Infrastructure Minister Jose Blanco announced the auction today. He said the concessions to run the two

busiest airports in one of Europe’s top tourist destina-tions will bring in revenue needed to cut the deficit.

The concessions will be for 20 years, with an option to renew for five more.

The government has agreed to create two companies that will hold the concessions, then sell off about 90 percent of their capital to bidders.

Italy to give finalOK to austerity plan

ROME — The lower house

of Italy’s parliament began discussing a $99 billion aus-terity package ahead of a final vote today on the mea-sures seen as crucial to keep-ing the eurozone’s third largest economy from suc-cumbing to the debt crisis.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s government had fast-tracked approval of the measures and increased their scope after markets plummeted this week on worries over Italy’s financial stability. The mea-sures passed in the Senate on Thursday.

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City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

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sunrIse/sunsetSunset today ....................... 8:10Sunset tomorrow .............. 8:10Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:07

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Current: 34.9 | Change: -0.4Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 15.4 | Change: +0.2

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City

Current: 17.2 | Change: -0.2Flood: 29 feet

Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 15.3 | Change: NC

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West

Current: 3.6 | Change: +1.1Flood: 12 feet

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MemphisSaturday ................................ 19.5Sunday ................................... 19.6Monday ................................. 19.5

GreenvilleSaturday ................................ 37.4Sunday ................................... 37.0Monday ................................. 36.7

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oid, Ceres. Vesta and Ceres are not

your garden-variety aster-oids; if the asteroid belt were a boxing ring, they would be the heavyweights in a sea of lightweights.

Past spacecraft have zipped by, circled around and even landed on much smaller asteroids. Dawn will be the first to orbit two asteroids on the same mission, a feat that is possible because of Dawn’s futuristic ion propul-sion engines, which allow for gentle yet constant acceler-ation. Once the stuff of sci-ence fiction, ion propulsion, which has been tested in space over the years, is far more efficient than conven-tional rocket fuel used by the majority of spacecraft.

Circling an extraterrestrial body is usually a risky, nail-biting business. A speeding spacecraft often has to fire its engines to slow down and be captured into orbit. One wrong move and it can over-shoot its target.

In Dawn’s case, it journeyed slowly on purpose so that it could line up with Vesta’s path around the sun. Dawn was approaching the aster-oid at 60 mph, slower than the speed limit on most U.S. highways, and engineers expected it to enter orbit around midnight.

If a cosmic ray or other unforeseen occurrence inter-rupts Dawn’s flight, engi-neers said they can still get it

back on track. “We never get very far off

the normal course” because Dawn is constantly thrust-ing, said chief engineer Marc Rayman of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $466 mil-lion mission.

Dawn racked up 1.7 billion miles traveling to Vesta and will be about 10,000 miles from the surface at the time of orbit insertion. By the time it reaches Ceres — the larg-est object in the asteroid belt — in 2015, it would have logged 3 billion miles. With the space shuttle program winding down, NASA wants to send astronauts outside Earth’s orbit to an asteroid and eventually Mars. Robotic spacecraft such as Dawn should help future missions.

The spacecraft will begin surveying Vesta next month from 1,700 miles high and will get as close as 110 miles above the surface. Besides a camera, it carries a spec-trometer to map minerals, and a gamma ray and neu-tron detector to measure the chemical composition of the surface.

Of particular interest is a massive crater in the South Pole caused by an ancient collision that hurled chunks of debris into space. Some fragments fell to Earth as meteorites. It’s estimated that 1 out of every 20 mete-orites found on our planet came from Vesta.

hours. White House officials said a meeting could still be scheduled this weekend.

Obama planned a news conference today to discuss the status of debt limit talks, his second this week. House Republicans and House Dem-ocrats planned their own membership meetings ear-lier in the morning.

But attention was focusing on a separate track under discussion by Senate Repub-lican leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. That plan would give Obama greater author-ity to raise the debt ceiling.

The outline of the plan was winning unusual bipartisan support even as some con-

servatives voiced misgivings. But pressure for a solution was mounting with warnings from Federal Reserve Chair-man Ben Bernanke, red flags from credit rating agencies and pressure from the busi-ness and financial sectors.

Several Republicans said little interest was shown by those in the meeting in the plan crafted by McConnell and Reid. “I don’t believe that has any traction at all,” said Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va.

The White House publicly pushed for a “grand bargain” that would increase the debt ceiling while reducing the nation’s long-term deficits by about $4 trillion, but officials conceded that the McConnell

plan had merit as a means of avoiding a potentially disas-trous default on the U.S. debt.

“It’s not the preferred option that we have,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday.

But the proposal is no one’s preferred option, and that’s what might make it the most palatable.

Under the plan, which would require approval by the House and Senate, Obama would have the power to order an increase in the debt limit of up to $2.5 trillion over the coming year unless both House and Senate vote by two-thirds margins to deny him.

among the states and the District of Columbia in foreclosure-related actions during the second quarter.

Over the first half of 2011, Mississippi recorded 1,872 foreclosure-related filings, affecting one in every 685 housing units. That’s down 42 percent from the previous six months and 16.5 percent from the first half of 2010.

Mississippi ranked 46th in foreclosure actions for the first six months of the year.

Nationally, there were 608,235 foreclosure filings during the second quarter,

involving 203,876 reposses-sions and 231,998 final sale notices. That affected one in every 214 U.S. housing units and down 10.7 percent from the first quarter of 2011 and 32 percent from the second quarter of 2010.

RealtyTrac also said that for the first half of 2011, 1.17 million housing units received some sort of foreclo-sure filing, down 25 percent from the previous six months and 29 percent from the first half of 2010.

However, RealtyTrac chief executive James Saccacio

said the decrease shouldn’t be interpreted as any sort of major relief for the down-trodden housing business. He pointed to recent upticks in the unemployment rate, weak consumer confidence numbers and housing prices that continue to languish.

Saccacio said that Real-tyTrac estimates that as many as 1 million foreclo-sure actions that should have taken place this year will be pushed back to 2011 or even later to avoid lenders being stuck with a glut of fore-closed properties.

DEATHSHelen Beatrice CurtisUTICA — Helen Beatrice

Curtis, 84, passed away July 13, 2011, at Brandon Nurs-ing and Rehab. She was a member of Utica Christian Church, she was a retired owner and operator of Hel-en’s Beauty Shoppe in Utica and later worked at the City of Jackson Senior Center. She was a member of the 50+ Club and the Eastern Star Utica chapter No. 223, where she also served as worthy matron and later served in the Clarice chapter in Raymond.

She enjoyed telling jokes, Wii bowling, flower garden-ing and chocolate.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Reginald Curtis; brother, Lenton W. Strong; and parents, Wilmer and Willie Beatrice Strong.

She is survived by her son, Robert Curtis of Gulfport; daughter, Karen Moody and husband Tommy of Clin-ton; sisters, Joyce Vieh-mann and husband Henry of Long Beach, Merle Stef-fen and husband Richard of Long Beach and Lois Conn and husband Luther of Long Beach; two grandchildren, Austin Moody of Flowood and Josh Moody of Hatties-burg; and Rusty (granddog) from Gulfport.

Services will be at noon Sat-urday at the Utica Christian Church with visitation 5-8 tonight at Glenwood Funeral Home in Utica. Visitation will also be on Saturday from 11 a.m. until the hour of service at the church. Burial will be at the Utica Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be David

DuBois, Clay DuBois, David Strong, Steve Strong, Doug Strong, Benny Smith and Lowell Mims.

Memorials can be made to the Utica Christian Church, 316 East Main St., 39175.

Glenwood Funeral Home is handling all the arrangements.

Andrew Robert Holden Infant Andrew Robert

Holden of Vicksburg died Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at UMC in Jackson. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 16, 2011, at Crawford Street United Methodist in Vicksburg. Burial will be at Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery. Visita-tion will be from 5 until 7 tonight.

The Rev. Cary Stockett will officiate.

Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home of Vicksburg is in charge of arrangements.

Survivors include his parents, Russel and Stacy Holden of Vicksburg; brother, Jackson Holden of Vicksburg; grandparents, Ronald and Lorraine Cope-land of Vicksburg and Emma Holden of Caster, Alberta, Canada; great-grandfather, Edwin Copeland of Vicks-burg; aunts and uncles, Chad and Jody Pruitt of Ocean Springs, Ryan and Anna Copeland of Hattiesburg, Tim and Natalie Pals of Ardrossa, Alberta, Canada; Bruce and Louise Holden of Stettler, Alberta, Canada; cousins, Deacon and Grace Pruitt, Emily and Edwin Copeland, Erica Garrett, Ryley, Tanner and Logan Pals and Craig and Brady Holden; and other

family members, Dustin and Ella Garrett and Lenard, Nancy, Jennifer and Joelle Johnson.

He was preceded in death by a grandfather, Eric Holden.

Pallbearers will be Ryan Copeland and Chad Pruitt.

Memorials may be made to Ronald McDonald House of Jackson, 2524 N. State St., Jackson, MS 39216.

doris Ann JacksonANGUILLA — Doris Ann

Jackson died Saturday July, 9, 2011, at her home. She was 56.

Survivors include her mother, Minnie Jackson of Anguilla; her husband, James Studivant of Anguilla; three sons, Jeffery Jackson of Rockford, Ill., Donald D. Jackson and Kentra Jack-son, both of Anguilla; two daughters, Jennifer Jack-son and Arnitric McKnight, both of Anguilla; five broth-ers, Clarence Jackson and Freddie Jackson of Anguilla, C.L. Jackson and Jeromy Jackson, both of Rockford, and Jeremaine Jackson of Phoenix; five sisters, Lesly Jackson, Willie M. Jackson, Betty Jackson, Bobbie Jack-

son and Christine Jackson, all of Anguilla; 22 grand-children; and eight great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Christian Light M.B. Church with the Rev. Lewis Fuller officiating. Burial will follow at Anguilla Cemetery under the direc-tion of Mitchell L. Walker Funeral Home in Rolling Fork.

There are a lot of trailers nearby in that area, and it’s a close community.”

Family members at the crime scene this morning

said they had no idea what happened to Jones.

“He was a good kid,” said Jones’ mother, Claudette King. “Real sweet. Will didn’t

have any trouble.”Besides his parents, Jones

is survived by three brothers, Joseph King, Christopher Newell and Andrew King;

and a sister, Candiss King; and three stepsisters and a stepbrother.

His death was the fifth homicide in the city this

year and the eighth total for Warren County.

W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements.

at his home during a May 2010 argument with four men over the reported pur-chase of a pit bull.

• Tommy Curtis Sr., 47, 1614 South St., sale of cocaine.

• John Fredrick Dolley, 27, 1201 First North, sale of marijuana within 1,500 feet of a day care. Dolley had been convicted in 2004 of

burglary. • Derrick Ramone Hall, 30,

1204 Howard St., sale of marijuana within 1,500 feet of a school. Police said Hall was on probation for aggra-vated assault in 2006. He also had been convicted of felony eluding.

• Oscar McNeil, 24, 514 Field St., three counts sale

of cocaine. McNeil was arrested at the Warren County Jail, where was being held on a related drug charge..

• Jermaine Franklin, 30, 3005 Valley St., two counts pos-session of cocaine. Franklin was on probation for pos-session of a weapon by a convicted felon. He also had

been convicted of accessory after the fact of robbery, possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana. In this morning’s arrest, officers seized a half-ounce of cocaine and $852 during Franklin’s arrest.

• Ferry Wash, 603 N. Poplar St., two counts posses-sion of cocaine within 1,500

feet of a day care and a church. He previously was arrested for sale of cocaine, possession of cocaine and burglary.In the last reported drug

roundup in the city, on Jan. 8, seven people were arrested in what Armstrong called “a major Vicksburg cocaine ring.”


Suspect inboy’s killingclaims hehears voices

NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping, kill-ing and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who asked him for directions was ordered Thursday to undergo a psy-chological evaluation after his lawyer told a judge that his client might be mentally ill.

“He has indicated to me that he hears voices and has had some hallucinations,” said the attorney, Pierre Bazile.

Levi Aron, 35, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and kidnapping as prosecutors said he lured Leiby Kletzky to his home Monday after the little boy got lost while walk-ing home from an Orthodox Jewish day camp.

Video cameras captured the fateful encounter between the two on a Brooklyn street, while Leiby’s mother waited anx-iously just a few blocks away. Detectives later found the boy’s severed feet, wrapped in plastic, in the man’s freezer, as well as a cutting board and three bloody carving knives.

At his arraignment Thurs-day afternoon, Aron appeared disheveled, confused and pale. He stayed quiet during the brief court proceeding. As he was led out of the courthouse holding cells, other inmates screamed obscenities at him. He was held without bail, placed on suicide watch and protective custody after his lawyers said they feared he could do harm to himself.

Police and prosecutors said Aron, a clerk at a hardware supply store, has confessed to suffocating the boy with a bath towel. Aron told police he killed Leiby when he got home after being spooked by a mas-sive search for the boy in Bor-ough Park section of Brook-lyn, home to one of the world’s largest communities of Ortho-dox Jews outside of Israel.

Remains of Vietnam vet flown to Houston for burialHOUSTON — The remains

of a Vietnam war veteran were set to arrive in Hous-ton, 45 years after he was killed in action.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Wil-liam Egan’s remains were to be flown into George Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday afternoon and given a police escort to the Forest Park West Cemetery.

Houston police said they will join U.S. Navy personnel and the Patriot Guard Riders to honor him in a ceremony that includes water cannons.

Eagan had just completed his mission when he was killed in April 1966. Although his remains were recovered in December 2009 they were not positively identified with DNA until February 2011.

2nd failed computerfixed by shuttle crew

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The pilots on NASA’s last space shuttle flight fixed another one of their main computers today after it failed and set off an alarm that awoke the entire crew.

Atlantis’ commander, Chris-topher Ferguson, said the alarm sounded an hour or so after the four astronauts had gone to bed, during the deep-est part of their sleep.

It was the second such fail-ure of their space station delivery mission. Just before docking to the International Space Station on Sunday, another of the five main shut-tle computers conked out. New software loads took care of both problems, although engineers were still trying to figure out why the trouble occurred in the first place.

Los Angeles preparesfor highway shutdown

LOS ANGELES — The City of Angels is on edge as the hours tick off until “Carma-geddon” — the shutdown of a 10-mile stretch of one

of the busiest highways in the United States, on one of the city’s busiest summer weekends.

Nonemergency street main-tenance and repair projects will come to a halt. Police, firefighters, paramedics and traffic engineers will be on standby to respond to any crisis that might arise.

For weeks, officials have issued grim warnings about the closure in the same tones reserved for floods and threatening wildfires.

To prepare the public for the closure, they flashed signs on freeways as far away as San Francisco reminding drivers over and over: Stay off the 405 July 16-17.

Feds to investigateBoston airport crash

BOSTON — Federal inves-

tigators are expected on the scene of an accident involv-ing two jets at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

Federal Aviation Admin-istration investigators are scheduled to start their probe today.

Authorities said the wing of a large moving passenger jet clipped the tail of a smaller stationary aircraft on a taxi-way Thursday. Both aircraft sustained damage and were taken out of service.

An airline spokesman said the incident involved Delta Flight 266 from Boston to Amsterdam which hit the vertical stabilizer of Atlan-tic Southeast Airlines Flight 4904, also on departure from Boston to Raleigh-Durham.

An airport spokesman said one person was treated at a hospital after complaining of neck pain.

Passengers described feel-ing a sharp jolt, followed by crying and screaming.

Syrian security kills 8at protests at capital

BEIRUT — Syrian security forces fired on protesters in the capital and other major cities today, killing at least eight people as tens of thou-sands gathered for some of the largest anti-government rallies since the uprising began in March, witnesses and activists said.

The casualties included three people killed in the cap-ital, Damascus, three in the northwestern city of Idlib, and two people from the same family in the southern city of Daraa, activists said.

U.S. prepares to return 10 detainees to Iraq

BAGHDAD — Officials say the last 10 Iraqi detainees in U.S. military custody are about to be turned over to Iraqi authorities.

Justice Ministry spokesman Haider al-Saadi said today

that nearly 200 inmates were transferred to Iraq’s custody this week. They were among the last inmates to be held by the U.S.

Clinton to talk securityon visit to India

NEW DELHI — An Indian official said security issues and counterterrorism efforts will be discussed with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton when she visits in days.

Vishnu Prakash says Clin-ton and Indian leaders will discuss steps the countries can take to strengthen efforts against terrorism.

Clinton has said she would not be deterred from visiting India after deadly bombings in Mumbai on Wednesday.

She is scheduled to arrive in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Monday.


Houston Police Department, Patriot Guard Riders, U.S. Navy personal and others honor and receive the remains of Viet-

nam War veteran U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Egan at the Forest Park East Cemetery in League City, Texas.

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U.S., others declare Gadhafiregime ‘no longer legitmate’

ISTANBUL (AP) — More than 30 nations, including the United States, today declared that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s regime is no longer legitimate and formally recog-nized Libya’s main opposition group as the legitimate gov-ernment until a new interim authority is created.

The decision will keep up the military pressure on Gadhafi and potentially free up cash that the rebels fighting Libyan forces urgently need. The front lines in the Libyan civil war have largely stagnated since the popular uprising seeking to oust Gadhafi broke out in February. Rebels, backed by NATO air force bombers, con-trol much of the country’s east and pockets in the west. But Gadhafi controls the rest from

his stronghold in Tripoli, the capital.

Following a meeting of the Contact Group on Libya, the nations said: the “Gadhafi regime no longer has any legit-imate authority in Libya,” and Gadhafi and certain members of his family must go.

The group said it would deal with Libya’s main opposition group — the National Tran-sitional Council, or NTC — as “the legitimate governing authority in Libya.”

“The United States views the Gadhafi regime as no longer having any legitimate author-ity in Libya,” said U.S. Secre-tary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Until an interim authority is in place, the United States will recognize the TNC as legitimate.”

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WhO’S hOTKOREY WILLIAMSSouthern Miss defenderwas named to the Butkus Award watch list along with teammate Jamie Collins Thursday.

SIdELINESHarrison apologizes for critical remarks

Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison apolo-gized Thursday for using an anti-gay slur to refer to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in an in-terview with “Men’s Jour-nal,” and says his critical statements about team-mates were taken out of context.

Harrison posted a state-ment on his Twitter ac-count, with the message: “This statement will be my only response to the Men’s Journal article.”

In the article, the Steel-ers’ star criticized Pitts-burgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and run-ning back Rashard Mend-enhall for their play in last season’s Super Bowl loss to Green Bay.

Harrison called Men-denhall a “fumble ma-chine” for his fourth-quar-ter turnover and said Roethlisberger needed to “stop trying to act like Peyton Manning.”

“I did make comments about my teammates when I was talking about the emotional Super Bowl loss, but the hand-ful of words that were used and heavily pub-licized yesterday were pulled out of a long con-versation and the context was lost,” Harrison said in his statement. Obviously, I would never say that it was all Ben’s or Rashard’s fault that we lost the Su-per Bowl.”

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SANDWICH, England — A player from Northern Ireland charged up the leaderboard at the British Open.

Just not the one you might expect.

Darren Clarke shot his second straight 2-under 68 today, taking a lead role heading to the weekend and showing his younger coun-trymen a thing or two at Royal St. George’s.

Once the face of Northern Ireland golf, the 42-year-old Clarke became an after-thought when first Graeme McDowell, then Rory McIl-roy claimed major champion-ships. Maybe it’s time for the old guy to get his title, too.

“It would mean an awful lot,” Clarke said. “But obvi-ously, this is only after two rounds. There’s an awful long way to go yet.”

Clarke rolled in a 90-footer for eagle at the seventh and closed his round with a birdie at the tough 18th, sending him to the club-house tied for the top spot with Lucas Glover, Simon Dyson and 18-hole co-leader Thomas Bjorn.

Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, followed an open-ing 66 with a solid 70 on a warm, sunny day along the English seaside.

“I didn’t hole as many putts as I did yesterday,” the bearded Glover said. “But I’m happy to grind out even par.”

The U.S. has gone five straight majors without a title — its longest drought of the modern Grand Slam era. Glover shrugged off the slump; besides, he could be in line to snap another streak.

“They told me no one has won the Open championship with a beard since the 1890s,” he said.

Also in contention from the other side of the Atlantic: Chad Campbell, who shot 68

Sides clear major hurdle in NFL labor talks

Major expansion lifts leagueJames ‘Fuzzy’ Johnson baseball grows from four to 16 baseball teams

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Signifi-cant progress on a major sticking point in the NFL labor impasse — soaring rookie salaries — during marathon talks Thursday raised hopes that a tenta-tive agreement in principle could perhaps come within 24 hours, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.

They cautioned, how-ever, that other key issues remained for owners and players to resolve, including free agency and new offsea-son workout rules.

The people spoke to The Associated Press on the con-dition of anonymity because the negotiations aimed at ending the NFL’s four-month-long lockout are sup-posed to be confidential.

With time run-ning short to keep the preseason intact, NFL Commis-sioner Roger Goodell, NFL Players Asso-ciation head DeMaurice Smith, eight owners and about a half-dozen current or former players met for a second consecutive day of lengthy negotiations — nearly 15 hours on Thursday alone. They were going to meet again at a Manhattan law firm on Friday as they attempt to end the sport’s first work stoppage since 1987.

When the last of the par-ticipants left after 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Baltimore Ravens

defensive back Domonique Foxworth noted that even after the framework for an agreement is established, “there’s really no deal until our players approve it.”

The NFL locked out play-ers in March, after nego-tiations broke down and the old collective bargain-ing agreement expired, and now the preseason is fast approaching. The need to arrive at a deal becomes greater with each passing day.

The Hall of Fame game that opens the exhibition season is scheduled for Aug. 7 between the St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears, who hope to be able to start training camp at the end of next week. Yet camps will not open without a new CBA in place.

Talks gained steam in

May, overseen by a court-appointed mediator, U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, who is on vacation this week. Boylan ordered both sides to meet with him in Minneapolis early next week, and the owners have a special meeting set for next Thursday in Atlanta, where they potentially could ratify a new deal — if one is reached by then. Any agree-ment also must be voted on by groups of players, includ-ing the named plaintiffs in a class-action antitrust law-suit pending in federal court and the NFLPA’s 32 team representatives.

On rookie salaries, four people familiar with the talks said Thursday that first-round draft picks will sign four-year contracts with a club option for a fifth year.

By Jeff [email protected]

With a year under its belt, the James “Fuzzy” Johnson Park Baseball League has undergone a major expan-sion that extends across the Mississippi River.

When the fledgling league restarted last year with the City of Vicksburg’s help, four teams were able to play baseball at James “Fuzzy” Johnson Park on Mission 66 at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. This year, the league expanded to 16 teams, four in T-ball and 12 teams for Little League play-ers ages 9 to 13. Four of the teams come from Tallulah and the addition of the Loui-siana players has helped lift the league’s quality of play.

“The league has improved a lot this year,” said Hurri-canes’ coach Jermaine Wil-liams. “There are a lot more kids here playing.”

Williams’ Hurricanes team is one of 10 playing in the Johnson Park League post-season tournament. The finals of the double-elimi-nation tournament will be held today at 6. The league

also will hold its Family and Friends Day on Saturday, beginning at 6 p.m.

William Rouster, vice pres-ident of the league, said the

league was able to build off its start last year.

“People know about us now,” Rouster said. “They can see how much better

things are, from the equip-ment to the umpires to the added family involvement.”

Added sponsorships played a big part, said league board member Glenn Palmer.

“If you look out to the outfield fence, you can see the signs of the businesses that helped sponsor us this year,” Palmer said. “They all gave and helped us spon-sor more teams. Because of the community involvement, we were able to do it. The city administration, from Mayor (Paul) Winfield and the aldermen, also did a lot for us. It’s been a beautiful thing.”

The Johnson Park League expanded further by offer-ing an invitation to the Tal-lulah Parks and Recreation Department. TPRD direc-tor Carlos Ford, whose goal since he took over in Janu-ary was to expand partici-pation in the Tallulah and Madison Parish youth base-ball program, was more than happy to team up with the Vicksburg league.

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From staff reports

Vicksburg’s first day at the Mel Kiper 7-on-7 National Championships in Washington, D.C., was a big success, as the Gators won two out of their first three games.

But the Gators fell, 34-26, in the playoffs today to Calvert Hall, Md.

The Gators beat a pair of state champions, taking down Urbana (Md.) 39-29 and Plant City (Fla.) 34-27 in Red Conference pool play on Thursday.

Vicksburg’s only loss was to Robert E. Lee (Va.), 44-27.

The Gators will depart for home on Saturday at 3 p.m. and are scheduled to arrive back in Vicksburg Sunday at 7:30 a.m.

•For updated scores and schedules, go to 7on7u.com

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LJ East of the RCCC team bats against the Hurricanes dur-ing the James “Fuzzy” Johnson Baseball League tourna-ment Thursday.

Derrick Sims of the Hurricanes pitches during the James “Fuzzy” Johnson Baseball League tournament at James “Fuzzy” Johnson Park Thursday.

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3 p.m. Golf - Third roundSunday

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Sunday6 a.m. - 1 p.m. ESPN - Final round2 p.m. ABC - Final round

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East Division W L Pct GBBoston ..........................55 35 .611 —New York ......................53 36 .596 1 1/2Tampa Bay ...................49 41 .544 6Toronto .........................46 47 .495 10 1/2Baltimore ......................36 53 .404 18 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland ......................48 42 .533 —Detroit ...........................49 43 .533 —Chicago ........................44 48 .478 5Minnesota .....................42 48 .467 6Kansas City ..................37 55 .402 12

West Division W L Pct GBTexas ............................52 41 .559 —Los Angeles .................50 42 .543 1 1/2Seattle ..........................43 49 .467 8 1/2Oakland ........................39 53 .424 12 1/2

Thursday’s GamesCleveland 8, Baltimore 4Toronto 16, N.Y. Yankees 7Minnesota 8, Kansas City 4Texas 5, Seattle 0

Today’s GamesChicago White Sox (Floyd 6-9) at Detroit (Ver-lander 12-4), 6:05 p.m.Cleveland (Tomlin 10-4) at Baltimore (Arrieta 9-6), 6:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 7-6) at Toronto (Morrow 5-4), 6:07 p.m.Boston (A.Miller 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Price 8-7), 6:10 p.m.Kansas City (Hochevar 5-8) at Minnesota (Black-burn 7-6), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Haren 10-5) at Oakland (McCarthy 1-5), 9:05 p.m.Texas (C.Lewis 8-7) at Seattle (Fister 3-10), 9:10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 13-4) at Toronto (R.Romero 7-8), 12:07 p.m.Boston (Lackey 6-8) at Tampa Bay (Shields 8-7), 3:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (E.Jackson 5-7) at Detroit (Scherzer 10-4), 3:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Weaver 11-4) at Oakland (Cahill 8-7), 3:10 p.m., 1st gameCleveland (C.Carrasco 8-6) at Baltimore (Simon 1-2), 6:05 p.m.Kansas City (Francis 3-10) at Minnesota (Pavano 6-6), 6:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (E.Santana 4-8) at Oakland (Harden 1-1), 6:35 p.m., 2nd gameTexas (C.Wilson 9-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-7), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesChicago White Sox (Humber 8-5) at Detroit (Penny 6-6), 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 0-2) at Toronto (C.Villanueva 5-1), 12:07 p.m.Cleveland (J.Gomez 0-1) at Baltimore (Undecided), 12:35 p.m.Kansas City (F.Paulino 1-2) at Minnesota (Duen-sing 6-7), 1:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Pineiro 5-3) at Oakland (G.Gonzalez 8-6), 3:05 p.m.Texas (M.Harrison 7-7) at Seattle (Beavan 1-0), 3:10 p.m.Boston (Beckett 8-3) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 4-4), 7:05 p.m.

National leagueEast Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................57 34 .626 —Atlanta ..........................54 38 .587 3 1/2New York ......................46 45 .505 11Washington ...................46 46 .500 11 1/2Florida ...........................44 48 .478 13 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis .......................49 43 .533 —Milwaukee .....................49 44 .527 1/2Pittsburgh .....................47 43 .522 1Cincinnati ......................45 47 .489 4Chicago ........................37 56 .398 12 1/2Houston ........................30 62 .326 19

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco ..............53 40 .570 —Arizona .........................49 43 .533 3 1/2Colorado .......................44 48 .478 8 1/2Los Angeles .................41 51 .446 11 1/2San Diego ....................40 53 .430 13

Thursday’s GamesFlorida 6, Chicago Cubs 3Colorado 12, Milwaukee 3San Francisco 6, San Diego 2, 12 innings

Today’s GamesFlorida (Nolasco 6-5) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 6-6), 1:20 p.m.Philadelphia (Worley 4-1) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 4-7), 6:10 p.m.St. Louis (Westbrook 7-4) at Cincinnati (Cueto 5-3), 6:10 p.m.Washington (L.Hernandez 5-8) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 8-6), 6:35 p.m.Pittsburgh (Karstens 7-4) at Houston (Myers 3-9), 7:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Narveson 6-5) at Colorado (Nicasio 3-2), 7:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-4) at Arizona (J.Saunders 6-7), 8:40 p.m.San Francisco (Lincecum 7-7) at San Diego (Moseley 2-8), 9:05 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesFlorida (Vazquez 5-8) at Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 6-4), 12:05 p.m.Philadelphia (Hamels 11-4) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 8-7), 3:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Maholm 6-9) at Houston (Norris 5-6), 6:05 p.m.St. Louis (C.Carpenter 4-7) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 7-7), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Lannan 5-6) at Atlanta (Hanson 10-4), 6:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 6-10) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 9-3), 7:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Greinke 7-3) at Colorado (Chacin 8-7), 7:10 p.m.San Francisco (Zito 3-1) at San Diego (Luebke 2-3), 7:35 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesPhiladelphia (Undecided) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 5-8), 12:10 p.m.St. Louis (J.Garcia 9-3) at Cincinnati (H.Bailey 3-4), 12:10 p.m.Washington (Gorzelanny 2-6) at Atlanta (Jurrjens 12-3), 12:35 p.m.Pittsburgh (Correia 11-7) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 6-6), 1:05 p.m.Florida (Volstad 5-8) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 1-3), 1:20 p.m.Milwaukee (Marcum 7-3) at Colorado (Cook 0-4), 2:10 p.m.San Francisco (Cain 8-5) at San Diego (Latos 5-10), 3:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 6-9) at Arizona (D.Hudson 9-5), 3:10 p.m.

miNor leAgue bAsebAllsouthern leagueNorth Division

W L Pct. GBChattanooga (Dodgers) 12 8 .600 —Carolina (Reds) ............10 10 .500 2Huntsville (Brewers) .....10 11 .476 2 1/2x-Tennessee (Cubs) .....10 11 .476 2 1/2Jackson (Mariners) .......8 13 .381 4 1/2

South Division W L Pct. GBMobile (Diamondbacks) 16 4 .800 —Montgomery (Rays) ......11 10 .524 5 1/2x-B-ham (White Sox) ...9 12 .429 7 1/2

Mississippi (Braves) ..9 12 .429 7 1/2Jacksonville (Marlins) ...8 12 .400 8x-clinched first half

———Thursday’s Games

Jackson 10, Carolina 7Mobile at Chattanooga, ppd., rainJacksonville 4, Birmingham 2Tennessee 5, Mississippi 4Huntsville 6, Montgomery 3

Today’s GamesMobile at Chattanooga, 4:15 p.m., 1st gameJackson at Carolina, 6:15 p.m.Mobile at Chattanooga, 6:45 p.m., 2nd gameTennessee at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m.Huntsville at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Birmingham, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesJackson at Carolina, 5:15 p.m.Tennessee at Mississippi, 6:05 p.m.Mobile at Chattanooga, 6:15 p.m.Jacksonville at Birmingham, 6:30 p.m.Huntsville at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesJackson at Carolina, 1 p.m.Mobile at Chattanooga, 1:15 p.m.Jacksonville at Birmingham, 5 p.m.Tennessee at Mississippi, 5:05 p.m.Huntsville at Montgomery, 6:05 p.m.

golfViking Classic scoresAt Annandale Golf Club

Madison, Miss.Purse: $3.6 million

Yardage: 7,199; Par 72

First Rounda-denotes amateur

Tim Petrovic 32-33 — 65 -7John Mallinger 34-31 — 65 -7Brendon de Jonge 32-33 — 65 -7Peter Lonard 33-32 — 65 -7Sunghoon Kang 31-34 — 65 -7Bobby Gates 32-33 — 65 -7Michael Connell 32-34 — 66 -6Hunter Haas 33-33 — 66 -6Chez Reavie 33-33 — 66 -6Tom Pernice, Jr. 34-32 — 66 -6Troy Matteson 34-32 — 66 -6Kenny Perry 32-34 — 66 -6Bill Lunde 33-33 — 66 -6Fabian Gomez 32-34 — 66 -6Bio Kim 34-32 — 66 -6Tag Ridings 33-34 — 67 -5Kirk Triplett 34-33 — 67 -5Tom Byrum 33-34 — 67 -5Stephen Ames 34-33 — 67 -5Tommy Gainey 35-32 — 67 -5Rod Pampling 33-34 — 67 -5Billy Mayfair 35-32 — 67 -5Lee Janzen 31-36 — 67 -5Richard S. Johnson 35-32 — 67 -5Josh Teater 35-32 — 67 -5Chris Kirk 34-33 — 67 -5Frank Lickliter II 33-34 — 67 -5George McNeill 32-35 — 67 -5Scott Piercy 36-31 — 67 -5Matt Weibring 32-35 — 67 -5Woody Austin 35-33 — 68 -4Joe Durant 33-35 — 68 -4Rich Beem 34-34 — 68 -4Shane Bertsch 34-34 — 68 -4John Morse 34-34 — 68 -4Cameron Beckman 32-36 — 68 -4D.J. Trahan 35-33 — 68 -4Scott Gutschewski 33-35 — 68 -4Bud Cauley 34-34 — 68 -4D.J. Brigman 35-33 — 68 -4Guy Boros 33-35 — 68 -4Chris Riley 35-33 — 68 -4J.P. Hayes 34-34 — 68 -4Chris DiMarco 36-32 — 68 -4Michael Thompson 34-34 — 68 -4William McGirt 35-33 — 68 -4Kevin Kisner 33-35 — 68 -4Brett Quigley 35-34 — 69 -3Will MacKenzie 35-34 — 69 -3Parker McLachlin 33-36 — 69 -3Omar Uresti 32-37 — 69 -3Kris Blanks 37-32 — 69 -3John Senden 34-35 — 69 -3Skip Kendall 35-34 — 69 -3Nate Smith 34-35 — 69 -3Jim Renner 34-35 — 69 -3Daniel Summerhays 33-36 — 69 -3a-Jonathan Randolph 35-34 — 69 -3Chris Couch 35-34 — 69 -3J.L. Lewis 34-35 — 69 -3Joe Ogilvie 33-36 — 69 -3Ben Martin 36-33 — 69 -3Jarrod Lyle 34-35 — 69 -3James Driscoll 33-37 — 70 -2Craig Barlow 34-36 — 70 -2Steve Elkington 34-36 — 70 -2Grant Waite 33-37 — 70 -2Mark Brooks 36-34 — 70 -2Derek Lamely 34-36 — 70 -2Joseph Bramlett 35-35 — 70 -2Will Strickler 36-34 — 70 -2Jerod Turner 36-34 — 70 -2Andres Gonzales 36-34 — 70 -2Robert Damron 35-35 — 70 -2Mark Hensby 36-34 — 70 -2Heath Slocum 37-33 — 70 -2Andre Stolz 34-36 — 70 -2Alex Prugh 34-36 — 70 -2Steven Bowditch 33-37 — 70 -2Stuart Deane 34-36 — 70 -2Scott Gordon 35-35 — 70 -2Jim Herman 35-35 — 70 -2Ryuji Imada 41-30 — 71 -1Robin Freeman 35-36 — 71 -1Brian Bateman 38-33 — 71 -1Marc Turnesa 36-35 — 71 -1Alexandre Rocha 33-38 — 71 -1Aron Price 37-34 — 71 -1Billy Horschel 36-35 — 71 -1Jeff Quinney 37-34 — 71 -1Michael Clark II 36-35 — 71 -1Johnson Wagner 35-36 — 71 -1Briny Baird 34-38 — 72 EMichael Letzig 36-36 — 72 EBob Burns 36-36 — 72 EDan Forsman 36-36 — 72 EScott McCarron 37-35 — 72 EBlake Adams 37-35 — 72 EDicky Pride 36-36 — 72 EChris Stroud 36-36 — 72 EZack Miller 36-36 — 72 EMatt McQuillan 36-36 — 72 ETed Tryba 34-38 — 72 EDavid Hearn 34-38 — 72 EMartin Piller 36-36 — 72 EMatt Fast 35-37 — 72 EMark Carnevale 38-35 — 73 +1Glen Day 36-37 — 73 +1Greg Huxman 37-36 — 73 +1Jay Williamson 35-38 — 73 +1Jason Bohn 36-37 — 73 +1Justin Hicks 38-35 — 73 +1Willie Wood 38-36 — 74 +2Len Mattiace 38-36 — 74 +2

Ted Purdy 37-37 — 74 +2Carlos Franco 35-39 — 74 +2Colt Knost 37-37 — 74 +2Paul Stankowski 36-38 — 74 +2Dave Rummells 38-36 — 74 +2Chris Baryla 39-35 — 74 +2Matthew Swan 35-39 — 74 +2Dick Mast 36-38 — 74 +2Nolan Henke 36-38 — 74 +2Fulton Allem 37-38 — 75 +3Phil Schmitt 35-40 — 75 +3Phil Tataurangi 39-37 — 76 +4Chris Smith 37-39 — 76 +4Shaun Micheel 35-41 — 76 +4Notah Begay III 37-40 — 77 +5Robert Gamez 39-39 — 78 +6Eric Axley 43-41 — 84 +12Steve Lowery ............................ WD

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At Royal St. George’s Golf ClubSandwich, EnglandPurse: $7.97 million

Yardage: 7,211; Par: 70 (35-35)(a-amateur)

First RoundThomas Bjorn 33-32 — 65 -5a-Tom Lewis 32-33 — 65 -5Miguel Angel Jimenez 33-33 — 66 -4Lucas Glover 35-31 — 66 -4Webb Simpson 35-31 — 66 -4Simon Dyson 34-34 — 68 -2Kyle Stanley 35-33 — 68 -2Pablo Larrazabal 35-33 — 68 -2Darren Clarke 35-33 — 68 -2Graeme McDowell 37-31 — 68 -2Martin Kaymer 35-33 — 68 -2Fredrik Andersson Hed 32-36 — 68 -2Ricky Barnes 33-35 — 68 -2Kurt Barnes 35-33 — 68 -2Jeff Overton 35-33 — 68 -2Ryan Palmer 34-34 — 68 -2Jung-Gon Hwang 34-34 — 68 -2Danny Wilett 35-34 — 69 -1Mark Calcavecchia 33-36 — 69 -1Ryan Moore 34-35 — 69 -1Yuta Ikeda 35-34 — 69 -1Ian Poulter 35-34 — 69 -1Alexander Noren 37-32 — 69 -1Anders Hansen 36-33 — 69 -1Seung-Yul Noh 36-33 — 69 -1Richard McEvoy 36-33 — 69 -1Chad Campbell 34-35 — 69 -1Edoardo Molinari 35-34 — 69 -1Adam Scott 33-36 — 69 -1Bubba Watson 34-35 — 69 -1Steve Stricker 36-33 — 69 -1Robert Allenby 36-33 — 69 -1J.B. Holmes 34-35 — 69 -1Robert Rock 35-34 — 69 -1George Coetzee 35-34 — 69 -1Graeme Storm 35-35 — 70 EFredrik Jacobson 35-35 — 70 EStephen Gallacher 38-32 — 70 EStewart Cink 34-36 — 70 EDustin Johnson 37-33 — 70 ERickie Fowler 33-37 — 70 ESergio Garcia 35-35 — 70 EPeter Whiteford 34-36 — 70 ERichard Green 35-35 — 70 ETrevor Immelman 38-32 — 70 ETadahiro Takayama 36-34 — 70 EPhil Mickelson 35-35 — 70 EDavis Love III 36-34 — 70 EJustin Leonard 33-37 — 70 EFloris De Vries 36-34 — 70 ESimon Khan 35-36 — 71 +1K.J. Choi 35-36 — 71 +1a-Peter Uihlein 38-33 — 71 +1Rory McIlroy 36-35 — 71 +1Luke Donald 34-37 — 71 +1Camilo Villegas 37-34 — 71 +1Ross Fisher 36-35 — 71 +1Matthew Millar 36-35 — 71 +1Kenneth Ferrie 37-34 — 71 +1Rory Sabbatini 37-34 — 71 +1Charles Howell III 36-35 — 71 +1Y.E. Yang 37-34 — 71 +1a-Bryden Macpherson 35-36 — 71 +1Jason Day 37-34 — 71 +1Lee Westwood 38-33 — 71 +1Charl Schwartzel 36-35 — 71 +1Ben Crane 36-35 — 71 +1Tom Lehman 38-33 — 71 +1Adam Wootton 34-37 — 71 +1Gary Boyd 35-36 — 71 +1Gregory Havret 36-36 — 72 +2Charley Hoffman 36-36 — 72 +2Martin Laird 35-37 — 72 +2Bill Haas 38-34 — 72 +2Angel Cabrera 37-35 — 72 +2Ernie Els 38-34 — 72 +2John Daly 35-37 — 72 +2Spencer Levin 37-35 — 72 +2Prom Meesawat 38-34 — 72 +2Harrison Frazar 37-35 — 72 +2Anthony Kim 36-36 — 72 +2Robert Karlsson 36-36 — 72 +2Zach Johnson 39-33 — 72 +2Justin Rose 35-37 — 72 +2Jim Furyk 38-34 — 72 +2Louis Oosthuizen 38-34 — 72 +2Henrik Stenson 36-36 — 72 +2Tom Watson 35-37 — 72 +2S.M. Bae 38-34 — 72 +2Lee Corfield 37-35 — 72 +2Bo Van Pelt 37-36 — 73 +3Francesco Molinari 36-37 — 73 +3Matteo Manassero 35-38 — 73 +3Peter Hanson 36-37 — 73 +3Gregory Bourdy 36-37 — 73 +3Paul Lawrie 36-37 — 73 +3Sean O’Hair 37-36 — 73 +3Thorbjorn Olesen 37-36 — 73 +3Mark Laskey 37-36 — 73 +3Neil Schietekat 39-34 — 73 +3Martin Maritz 37-36 — 73 +3Sandy Lyle 36-37 — 73 +3Joost Luiten 38-35 — 73 +3a-Lucas Bjerregaard 39-34 — 73 +3Padraig Harrington 37-36 — 73 +3Alejandro Canizares 35-38 — 73 +3Jason Duffner 40-34 — 74 +4

Jerry Kelly 40-34 — 74 +4Nathan Green 38-36 — 74 +4Geoff Ogilvy 37-37 — 74 +4Nick Watney 39-35 — 74 +4Paul Casey 38-36 — 74 +4Ryo Ishikawa 41-33 — 74 +4Brian Davis 39-35 — 74 +4Kevin Na 37-37 — 74 +4Bob Estes 40-34 — 74 +4Thomas Shadbolt 38-36 — 74 +4Rick Kulacz 37-37 — 74 +4Simon Lilly 39-35 — 74 +4Thomas Aiken 38-36 — 74 +4Steve Marino 35-39 — 74 +4Raphael Jacquelin 37-37 — 74 +4Mark Wilson 40-34 — 74 +4Matt Kuchar 39-35 — 74 +4Robert Garrigus 37-37 — 74 +4Andrew Johnston 34-40 — 74 +4Thongchai Jaidee 38-37 — 75 +5Rhys Davies 37-38 — 75 +5Gary Woodland 40-35 — 75 +5K.T. Kim 37-38 — 75 +5Alvaro Quiros 35-40 — 75 +5Hiroyuki Fujita 35-40 — 75 +5Tetsuji Hiratsuka 39-36 — 75 +5Hunter Mahan 40-35 — 75 +5Scott Jamieson 36-39 — 75 +5Brandt Snedeker 39-36 — 75 +5Jonathan Byrd 38-37 — 75 +5Hiroo Kawai 38-37 — 75 +5Bernhard Langer 40-35 — 75 +5Jason Knutzon 38-37 — 75 +5Prayad Marksaeng 40-36 — 76 +6Mark O’Meara 38-38 — 76 +6Retief Goosen 37-39 — 76 +6Kevin Streelman 41-35 — 76 +6Chih-Bing Lam 37-39 — 76 +6Markus Brier 36-41 — 77 +7Todd Hamilton 39-38 — 77 +7Ben Curtis 39-38 — 77 +7Aaron Baddeley 37-40 — 77 +7Francis McGuirk 40-37 — 77 +7Chris Tidland 39-38 — 77 +7Brad Kennedy 37-40 — 77 +7David Duval 40-38 — 78 +8Andy Smith 40-41 — 81 +11a-Craig Hinton 43-39 — 82 +12Simon Edwards 44-38 — 82 +12

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Major League BaseballMLB—Suspended Boston DH David Ortiz and Baltimore RHP Kevin Gregg of the Baltimore Orioles four games apiece and fined them an undisclosed amount for their actions in a July 8 game. Suspended Baltimore LHP Mike Gonzalez three games and fined him an undisclosed fine for intentionally throwing at Ortiz during and July 10 game. Suspended Baltimore manager Buck Showalter one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for the intentional actions of Gonzalez. Fined Baltimore RHP Jim Johnson and Boston C Jarrod Saltalamacchia undisclosed amounts for their aggressive actions the July 8 game. Fined Boston RHP John Lackey an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at Baltimore’s Derrek Lee during a July 9 game. Suspended Toronto minor league RHP Aderly De La Cruz and LHP Luillyn Guillen (Dominican Summer League) each for 50 games after testing positive for banned metabolites.

American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX—Signed OF Williams Jerez and assigned him the Gulf Coast League.CLEVELAND INDIANS—Promoted Bob DiBiasio to senior vice president of public affairs and Curtis Danburg to senior director of communications. Recalled OF Ezequiel Carrera from Columbus (IL).DETROIT TIGERS—Reinstated LHP Brad Thomas from the 15-day DL and sent him outright Toledo (IL).MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled INF Trevor Plouffe from Rochester (IL).NEW YORK YANKEES—Placed 3B Alex Rodri-guez on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Greg Golson from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Signed LHP J.C. Romero to a minor league contract and assigned him to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.TAMPA BAY RAYS—Placed C John Jaso on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 10.

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2 p.m. Speed - NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Lenox Industrial Tools 301

BOXING8 p.m. ESPN2 - Junior middle-

weights, Pawel Wolak (29-1-0) vs. Delvin Rodriguez (25-5-2)

GOLF3 p.m. TGC - PGA Tour, Viking Classic

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL6 p.m. MLB - Regional coverage,

Boston at Tampa Bay or N.Y. Yankees at Toronto

July 151912 — Jim Thorpe wins the

decathlon at the Stockholm Olym-pics and, in the closing ceremony, Sweden’s King Gustav proclaims Thorpe the world’s greatest athlete.

1972 — Lee Trevino wins his second consecutive British Open title by beating Jack Nicklaus by one stroke.

2005 — Michelle Wie misses a chance to play in the Masters as BYU junior Clay Ogden birdies four of the first five holes and never lets up in handing the 15-year-old high school junior a 5-and-4 loss in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Public Links. The loss ends Wie’s hopes of winning the men’s Pub-linx, which would have allowed her to become the first woman to get an invitation to the Masters.

2007 — BYU star Daniel Summer-hays becomes the first amateur winner in Nationwide Tour history. Summerhays scores a two-stroke victory over Chad Collins and Chris Nallen in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational.

lotterYSunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-7-2 La. Pick 4: 8-0-2-3 Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 0-1-5 La. Pick 4: 1-5-7-1 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-0-3 La. Pick 4: 2-1-1-2 Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-3-3La. Pick 4: 4-2-8-7Easy 5: 7-15-19-25-32La. Lotto: 2-18-32-33-37-40Powerball: 8-18-19-32-54Powerball: 8 ; Power play: 4Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-2-9 La. Pick 4: 4-4-4-1 Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 2-8-7La. Pick 4: 3-0-8-8Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-2-4La. Pick 4: 1-6-2-4Easy 5: 4-21-34-35-37La. Lotto: 8-23-25-27-30-37Powerball: 1-9-11-23-31Powerball: 6; Power play: 3

College footbAllGeorgia Tech puton NCAA probation

ATLANTA — The NCAA put Georgia Tech on four years of pro-bation, fined the school $100,000 and stripped its ACC title game vic-tory from the 2009 football season for violations that also included problems in the men’s basketball program.

Georgia Tech did not lose schol-arships and was not ruled ineligi-ble for postseason games in either sport, but the basketball team had the number of recruiting days and official visits reduced for the next two seasons.

LSU: NCAA has scouting materials it got from Lyles

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU has given the NCAA copies of material it received from recruiting service owner Willie Lyles and his Com-plete Scouting Services.

The school said in a news release Thursday that it paid $6,000 in December for printed informa-tion and DVDs of game footage and highlights of 32 California and Kansas junior college pros-pects eligible to sign national let-ters of intent in February. LSU also got footage of two players it hadn’t asked about, one from 2008, and 91 pages of largely outdated roster-type material from junior colleges in California and Kansas. LSU is cooperating with the NCAA investigation, and several football coaches met with an NCAA official on campus last week. The NCAA is looking into Oregon’s $25,000 pay-ment to Lyles’ firm and his involve-ment in the recruitment of running back Lache Seastrunk of Temple, Texas. The probe is focused on what exactly Oregon obtained from Lyles. In recent interviews, Lyles has said that he and the Ducks both knew he was selling access and influence with highly recruited players. In March, ESPN.com quoted former Texas A&M corner-backs coach Van Malone as saying Lyles told him the school would have to “beat” an $80,000 payment offered by other schools to get former LSU star cornerback Patrick Peterson to play for the Aggies.

Paralyzed Rutgers player tweets ’standing tall’

WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — Para-lyzed Rutgers University football player Eric LeGrand has posted two photographs of himself standing during physical therapy.

The photos appeared Wednes-day on LeGrand’s Twitter account. LeGrand tweeted that he’s “stand-ing up little by little” and “standing tall, we can’t fall.”

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Prado ends rehabstint with M-BravesBy The Associated Press

PEARL — The Atlanta Braves’ offense could use a lift. Martin Prado says he’s ready to provide it.

Prado went 1-for-5 in the final game of his rehab assignment with Double-A Mississippi and is expected to join the major league club today before a series against the Washington Nationals.

Luis Flores launched two home runs for Tennessee to lead the Smokies to a 5-4 victory in game two of a six-game series at Trustmark Park Thursday.

Prado played eight games in the minors, including six at Triple-A Gwinnett. He was a combined 5-for-26 at the plate.

“One day I’ll feel good and the next day, I’ll be sore,” Prado said. “But I’m making progress.”

Prado has been out of the lineup since June 8 while recovering from a staph infection in his right leg.

His arrival should bolster the Braves’ inconsistent offense, especially after third baseman Chipper Jones was recently put on the 15-day DL

with a tear in the medial menis-cus of his right knee. Prado, a 2010 National League All-Star, was hit-

ting .277 with eight homers

and 33 RBIs.“He’ll be here tomorrow,”

Braves manager Fredi Gon-zalez said during the team’s workout at Turner Field on Thursday. “Great reports. Yesterday, I talked to (Dou-ble-A manager) Rocket Wheeler and he was running good. Just make sure his legs are OK and he’s playing well.”

Prado made an error during Thursday’s night game, bobbling a ground ball, and said the adjustment to third base might take some time. He spent most of the first half of the season playing left field.

“I’m always excited to get Martin back,” Jones said. “He’s one of our intensity guys. Not to mention, he’s an All-Star.”

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Dobbs sinks Cubs with two-run doubleBy The Associated Press

Pinch-hitter Greg Dobbs delivered a two-run double against closer Carlos Marmol walked three straight hitters, and Florida scored six runs in the ninth inning to rally for a 6-3 victory over Chicago on Thursday night, extended its season-high winning streak to six games.

The Marlins trailed 2-0 before sending 11 batters to the plate in their final at-bat.

Matt Garza threw seven scoreless innings for Chicago and Sean Marshall worked the eighth, but Marmol (2-3) picked up his seventh blown save. He walked Mike Stanton, Mike Cameron and John Buck, throwing just one strike in the process, and Dobbs followed with his double that along with a throwing error gave Florida a 3-2 lead. Marmol walked Emilio Bonifacio. Reliever Kerry Wood allowed a sacrifice fly and run-scoring single. Reliever James Rus-sell gave up an RBI single to make it 6-2.

Edward Mujica (7-2) recorded the final out in the eighth.

Rockies 12, Brewers 3Ryan Spilborghs had a home

run among four hits and Ubaldo Jimenez pitched six solid innings for Colorado.

Spilborghs finished a triple shy of the cycle while regis-tering his first four-hit games in more than two seasons. Ty Wigginton and Ian Stew-art had three hits each for the Rockies, who had a season-high 20 hits.

Giants 6, Padres 2Aubrey Huff hit a tying

homer off All-Star closer Heath Bell leading off the ninth inning to tie it and Mike Fontenot brought in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded walk with two outs in the 12th for San Francisco.

Blue Jays 16, Yankees 7Edwin Encarnacion and Eric

Thames had three hits and three RBIs each and Toronto used an eight-run first inning to beat New York.

The Blue Jays set season highs in runs and hits (20) to win their fourth straight game. Toronto lost slugger Jose Bau-tista to a twisted right ankle in the fourth inning.

Bautista, who leads the majors with 31 home runs, limped off after an awkward slide into third base. He is day-to-day.

Rangers 5, Mariners 0Derek Holland was perfect

through five innings and fin-ished with a five-hitter as Texas won its season-high

eighth straight. Mike Napoli, Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz homered for Texas.

Indians 8, Orioles 4Asdrubal Cabrera and Carlos

Santana homered and Justin Masterson struck out eight in six innings as Cleveland extended Baltimore’s losing streak to eight games.

Twins 8, Royals 4Trevor Plouffe hit a two-run

homer and Delmon Young had three hits in his return to the lineup to lead Minnesota.

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St. Aloysius football players Robert Arledge, 17, front, and Forrest Logue, 17, run drills during St. Aloysius High School’s two-day speed camp at Balzli Field at St. Aloysius on Thursday. The camp had about 25 participants. Robert is the son of Mary Arledge. Forrest is the son of Layne Logue and Lisa Dennis.

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Inadmissible evidence results in Clemens’ mistrialWASHINGTON (AP) —

One minute Roger Clemens was on trial for his freedom. Then, on just the second day of testimony, it was suddenly all over and the former base-ball star was outside signing autographs for fans.

Almost as soon as it began, Clemens’ perjury trial ended Thursday — in a mistrial the judge blamed on prosecutors and said a “first-year law stu-dent” would have known to avoid.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton left the question of a new trial up in the air. But he called a halt to the trial under way after prosecutors showed jurors evidence that he had ruled out — videotaped rev-elations that a teammate had said he’d told his wife Clemens confessed to using a drug.

Walton scolded prosecutors and said he couldn’t let the former All-Star pitcher face

prison if con-victed on such “extremely prejudicial” evidence.

“Mr. Clem-ens has to get a fair trial,” Walton said. “In my view, he can’t get it now.”

Defense attorney Rusty Hardin, who had asked for the mistrial declaration, patted an unsmiling Clemens on the back as the judge announced his decision. As he left the courthouse, Clemens did not comment but accepted hugs from a couple of court workers, shook hands with the secu-rity guards and autographed baseballs for fans waiting out-side.The quick end on only the second day of testimony was the second mistrial involving a former star player accused

in baseball’s steroids scandal. Home run king Barry Bonds was convicted three months ago of obstruction of justice, but a mistrial was called on three more serious false-state-ments charges after jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict.

Walton said he would hold a hearing Sept. 2 to decide whether Clemens should face another trial. Hardin told reporters, “I wouldn’t even hazard a guess” about what Walton will decide.

Walton could end the pros-ecution by declaring that a new trial would run afoul of double jeopardy — the right not to be brought to trial twice on the same charges for the same offense. But experts said it was unlikely that he would go that far, especially since the trial was just under way.

“Generally speaking, mis-trial does not bar a trial of the defendant when the defen-

dant requested the mistrial,” said Harry Sandick, a former prosecutor who now defends white-collar cases. He said a judge may make an exception for misconduct on the part of prosecutors, but this appears to have been a devastating mistake.

“How could the government not have reviewed each piece of evidence after the court’s pretrial rulings?” he said.

New York Yankees star short-stop Derek Jeter, once a team-mate of Clemens’, said after the mistrial was declared: “I’m no legal expert, but you want it to be behind him. Obviously, the more attention that’s paid to that, it’s just negative for the game in general.”

The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, which tried the case, said it would have no comment because of Wal-ton’s gag order. Clemens also stayed mum.

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New York Yankees left fielder Brett Gardner dives unsuccessfully for a double by Toronto Blue Jays’ Eric Thames during the first inning Thursday.

for a 3-under 137 total; Davis Love III, whose 68 left him at 138; and, yes, even Phil Mick-elson, who came to England trying to forget his Open record.

Lefty has only one top-10 finish in 17 previous appear-ances. Despite missing sev-eral short putts over the first two days, a 69 pushed him into contention at 139.

“It was a fun day,” Mick-elson said. “It’s fun to be in contention heading to the weekend of the British Open.”

The forecast looked much worse for the weekend, with both wind and rain expected.

Bring it on, said Mickelson.“One of the things I’m look-

ing forward to is actually the bad weather,” he said. “I hope it comes in and we get faced with that.”

Simon Dyson, an alter-nate from England, got off to a blistering start with three straight birdies in the afternoon to push his score to 5 under, briefly holding the outright lead. A bogey at the fourth stymied his momentum.

Bjorn, playing in the same group as Dyson, was in

danger of falling completely out of the mix when he bogeyed three straight holes starting at No. 2. But the 40-year-old Dane pulled him-self together with birdies on two of the next three holes.

The opening round pro-duced a pair of unlikely lead-ers. Bjorn had missed the cut in four of five events before he got to Royal St. George’s, his game in disarray, his heart heavy after the death of his father, and lugging around plenty of baggage at this place.

Eight years ago, Bjorn squandered a two-stroke lead in the final three holes, allowing Ben Curtis to sneak away with one of golf’s most improbable wins.

Getting into the tourna-ment on Monday as an alternate when Vijay Singh dropped out, Bjorn played only one practice round, then went out and shot a 65.

So did 20-year-old Tom Lewis, who became the first amateur to lead the Open since 1968, the first to pace any major since Mike Reid at the 1976 U.S. Open.

But Reid looked more his age in the second round.

League baseball in Tallulah in 15 years,” Ford said. “To be able to participate in this league was groundbreaking for us. The mayor of Vicks-burg got with our mayor, Eddie Beckwith, and it’s become a win-win situation for both of us.”

Ford said Tallulah was able to form two Little League teams and two T-ball teams to put into the league.

“We were able to put together Doug’s Market and

Christian Life Ministries into the Little League and it’s worked out great,” Ford said. “In fact, Doug’s Market won today and they will now get to play in the finals.”

Rouster said the Johnson Park League is looking ahead to next year.

“We’ve been able to affili-ate with Cal Ripken Baseball and, by this time next year, we should be ready to put together a tournament all-star team,” Rouster said.


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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE“The Taking of Pelham 123” — A subway dispatcher, Denzel Washington, calls on his exten-sive knowledge of the transit system to outwit hijackers who are threatening to kill passen-gers unless a ransom is paid./7 on FXn SPORTSBoxing — Junior middle-weights Pawel Wolak (29-1-0) and Delvin Rodriguez (25-5-2) square off in another edition of Friday Night Fights./8 on ESPN2n PRIMETIME“Flashpoint” — Team One faces a rioting crowd after a cop, who accidentally shot and killed a boy, is found innocent./7 on CBS

THIS WEEK’S LINEUPn EXPANDED LISTINGSTV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost.com

MILESTONESn BIRTHDAYSClive Cussler, author, 80; Ken Kercheval, actor, 76; Jan-Mi-chael Vincent, actor, 67; Millie Jackson, rhythm-and-blues singer, 67; Linda Ronstadt, singer, 65; Artimus Pyle, rock mu-sician, 63; Kim Alexis, model, 51; Willie Aames, actor, 51; For-est Whitaker, actor-director, 50; Lolita Davidovich, actress, 50; Brigitte Nielsen, actress, 48; Eddie Griffin, actor-comedian, 43; Jim Jones, rapper, 35; Tristan Wilds, actor, 22. n DEATHRoberts Blossom — A character actor who played the white-bearded neighbor “old man Marley” in the movie “Home Alone”

has died at age 87 in Southern California. Daughter Deborah Blossom, said that her fa-ther died of natural causes July 8 at a Santa Monica nursing home. Blossom starred on Broadway, as well as in television and movies. He won three Obie Awards for his off-Broad-way work. Movie credits include “The Hospi-tal,” “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Escape

From Alcatraz,” “Resurrection” and “Doc Holly-wood.” Blossom had a starring role in the 1974

cult horror movie “Deranged.” But he may be best-remembered as the neighbor in 1990’s “Home Alone.” Blossom’s TV credits in-clude “Another World,” “Moonlighting,” “Northern Exposure” and “In the Heat of the Night.”

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Baldwin files for divorce, claims violenceActor Daniel Baldwin has filed

for divorce and been granted a restraining order against his wife, claiming she punched him, threatened him with a knife in front of the couple’s children and made threats of violence and death “too numer-ous to list.”

Baldwin, 50, said police told him to take his children out of the couple’s house on Sunday, where he said the children wit-nessed his wife punching him in the face.

Joanne Baldwin, 41, was ar-rested Wednesday night for vio-lating her parole on a drunken driving conviction.

She has been jailed, and the police chief in Lake Oswego, the wealthy suburb where the couple has lived since 2010, said she isn’t expected to be released until a hearing Wednesday.

Jail records do not show whether Joanne Baldwin has hired an attorney, and the jail does not permit phone interviews

Don Forman, the interim police chief in Lake Oswego, said Joanne Baldwin surrendered Wednesday in response to a war-rant alleging she had violated terms of her probation from an earlier conviction for driving under the influence.

Town might name bridge after CobainResidents of Kurt Cobain’s Washington state

hometown will have a chance to weigh in on a proposal to rename a bridge after the late Nir-vana front man.

The Aberdeen City Council will accept public comment on the proposal at its July 27 meeting.

The measure would rename the Young Street Bridge over the Wishkah River after the grun-ge rock musician. It also would call a small park next to the bridge Cobain Landing.

Some council members favor the proposal. But KXRO-AM reports others expect negative comments about memorializing Cobain because of his drug use, suicide and neg-ative comments about his hometown.

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Cops: Workers tried to take Taco Bell artWorkers at an Ohio Taco Bell say four people wanted more

than nachos.Restaurant employees in suburban Cleveland told police that

the group tried to make off with a painting valued at $157 that was hanging on a wall in the fast-food joint.

The Taco Bell manager prevented the culprits from putting the art in their car last Friday. Police said the manager recognized the car’s driver as an 18-year-old former employee at the restau-rant. His three cohorts ranged in age from 17 to 21.

Police were waiting for a prosecutor to decide on charges for the four.


Hard times for Weird Al, musically speakingBy Mesfin FekaduThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Since 1983, “Weird Al” Yankovic has released 13 albums, with six of them going platinum and four reaching gold status. It’s a pretty good batting average for any artist, and an especially great one for a comedian-musician.

Yankovic says he used to think all of his albums would sell well, until now.

“Back in the 90s I was get-ting kind of cocky. I was just assuming that every album that I put out would go gold at least and now it’s a huge goal for anybody to reach that level,” he said. “People just aren’t buying albums the way they used to.”

His latest release, “Alpoca-lypse,” debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 albums chart last month, selling about 44,000 copies in its first week, accord-ing to Nielsen SoundScan.

“It’s still a huge thrill for me to make the Top 10 because that’s all relative ... but sales-wise, it’s not what it used to

be,” Yankovic said.The album’s lead single is

a parody of Lady Gaga’s No. 1 hit “Born This Way.” Yank-ovic says getting his version

— called “Perform This Way” — out to the public wasn’t any easy process.

First, Lady Gaga’s manage-ment wouldn’t allow it, but

once the pop star heard Yank-ovic’s cover, she approved his sample.

“It was a little depress-ing actually,” Yankovic said about waiting to hear back from Lady Gaga. “(I thought) I was never going to be able to release my Lady Gaga parody officially and that my album was postponed indefinitely.”

The new disc from the 51-year-old also features covers of Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA,” Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” and “Nothin’ On You” by B.o.B and Bruno Mars.

The three-time Grammy-winner says though getting approval from Lady Gaga’s team was tough, he usually hasn’t struggled to get clear-ances in the past.

“Most artists look at the Weird Al parody as homage and that’s certainly the way it’s intended,” he said. “You get your platinum album, you get your Grammy and then you get your Weird Al parody. It’s part of the package.”

Film companies snuff on-screen smokingATLANTA (AP) — Three

film companies have drasti-cally reduced smoking in their movies aimed at children and teens, thanks in part to their policies to reduce on-screen tobacco use, a new study says.

Over the past five years, scenes involving tobacco dropped from an average of 23 to one per film for those companies and most of their youth movies had no smok-ing at all, the researchers reported Thursday. At movie makers without such policies, the decline was less — from an average of 18 to 10 incidents per film.

Movies are seen as very influ-ential for kids and teens, and

studies have found that sway extends to early decisions about whether to use tobacco.

“The more you see, the more likely you are to be open to smoking and start smoking,” explained one of the study’s authors, Ursula Bauer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health advocates and some doctors’ groups have been pushing the film industry to reduce smoking in films. They have taken to watching top-grossing films and count-ing the number of scenes in which characters smoke, chew tobacco, hold a pack of ciga-rettes or in which tobacco use is otherwise implied.

An earlier study showed some success, reporting that tobacco use on the silver screen peaked in 2005 and has been on the decline since.

Last year, only about 45 per-cent of top-grossing movies had tobacco scenes, compared to 67 percent in 2005, according to the new research.

The study, which focused on youth-rated films, looked at the three companies with poli-cies to reduce smoking: Time Warner (Warner Bros.); Com-cast (Universal and Focus Fea-tures); and the Walt Disney Company (Walt Disney Pic-tures, Touchstone, Pixar and Buena Vista.)

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celebrates his firstbirthday today, July 15. Morgan is the son of

Marvin and Gayla Sandersof Jackson, Mississippi.Maternal grandparentsare James and GayelordCarpenter of Vicksburg,

Mississippi. Paternalgrandparents are Jeanette

Sanders of Arlington,Virginia and MarvinMason of Leland,

Mississippi. PaternalGreat-Grandmother:Vernice Sanders ofLeland, Mississippi.


Aunt’s worry shouldn’t ruin teen’s big tripDear Abby: My 13-year-old

daughter, “Alisa,” has earned a scholarship to participate in a monthlong summer language program in Turkey. As soon as my sister “June” found out I was allowing Alisa to attend, she called me a moron. She has been giving me the silent treatment for almost a month. June is terrified my daughter will be a victim of terrorists, a plane crash, kidnapping or worse.

Alisa has consistently proved she is trustworthy and respon-sible. After some research I determined the country and the program are safe. Alisa will be traveling with a small group of students and three adult chaperones who are native to the host country.

Our mother was afraid of everything, and I don’t want

to pass that kind of irratio-nal fear on to Alisa after she worked so hard to earn a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that could shape the course of her life. Am I really a poor parent for allowing my child to travel halfway around the world? I feel I made the right decision. — Stunned Sister in Little Rock

Dear Stunned Sister: A poor parent? Not at all. You would be one if you caved in to your sister’s emotional black-mail. Taking this trip is a priv-

ilege your daughter worked hard for, and seeing firsthand that there is a world filled with interesting, good people will open her mind to oppor-tunities and possibilities that few people her age are able to experience.

Dear Abby: My wife uses her hands to push her food around her dinner plate and onto her fork or spoon. I see her do this at almost every meal, and usually say noth-ing. But every once in a while I feel compelled to ask her to stop using her hands to eat. When I do she says I’m “rude” to even take notice of how she eats and mention it.

Am I rude? I was brought up in a blue-collar home, and whenever I touched my food with my hands, or put my elbows on the table, I got a slap

from one of my older brothers or sister. — Minded My Man-ners in New Jersey

Dear Minded Your Man-ners: It appears your wife was raised in a household where good table manners weren’t as important to her family as they were to yours. Accord-ing to Emily Post: “If a piece of food keeps eluding your fork, don’t push it onto the tines with your finger. Instead, USE A PIECE OF BREAD OR YOUR KNIFE AS A PUSHER.” Share this with your wife and the situation might improve.

•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

RSD sufferers findhelp in support groups

Dear Dr. Gott: I have had Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy for going on 30 years. Maybe if it had been diagnosed at the onset of my symptoms, I would not have full-body RSD today, but years ago not many doctors knew about this con-dition. Back then my ortho-pedic doctor suggested I go to a hospital where I was finally diagnosed.

The doctors there tried blocks and various other treat-ments, including an electrical stimulation unit, but nothing worked so I used conventional medications to help my pain. The best therapy was water therapy, which I still do.

Twelve years ago I was asked if I wanted to try a Medtronic pump, which has morphine in it (some have several different meds in them). It worked, and while I do still have to take breakthrough meds, I am able to function normally.

I started a support group at my local hospital for RSD patients. The turnout was wonderful. After meeting a new pain doctor, he suggested I start a second group at a nearby hospital.

Turnout for this group was also wonderful. Although there might only be six people at either meeting, the fact that we can help others with the condition is very rewarding.

Over the years we not only had adults come to our meet-ings but also parents with their daughters, so in June 2010 we decided to start a third RSD support group for children. (It seems to affect females more than males; we have only four men in one group and two in the other.) It is heartbreaking to see and hear the stories of these children and what they go through. Many of them have lost their friends because they didn’t want to be with some-one who has a chronic pain condition and who can’t do many of the normal things kids do. Thankfully, most have adjusted and made new friends.

There is hope. Finding the right doctor and having a system of family, friends and a support group are very important. Many marriages and friendships have fallen apart because the partner or friend doesn’t want or know how to deal with someone with chronic pain.

RSD sufferers, once you’re diagnosed, ask your doctor about local support groups or search online for them. Make contact, talk to others with the condition and share your story.

Dr. Gott, thank you for letting me “talk.” I hope this helps others with RSD/CRPS.

Dear Reader: Reflex Sym-pathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a chronic pain condition. I have written about it in the past (you can find the arti-cles on my website by clicking “Browse by Topic”). Hydro-therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy have been found to be beneficial in the few emails I have received regarding treatment. Some were letters of thanks from

sufferers for simply writing about RSD/CRPS.

Support groups for any con-dition are incredibly valu-able to sufferers, especially those for chronic pain, which can often leave patients feel-ing isolated and depressed. Simply knowing that one isn’t alone can be a great comfort, and being able to share expe-riences, discuss therapies, find further medical help and understanding physicians, clinics and/or hospitals can make the difference between giving up and fighting.

•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016.

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TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

TWEEN 12 & 20BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

Teens: I’ve been extremely fortunate to spend my entire adult life working with young adults, as a high school teacher, coach, administrator and author of a syndicated column to help teens. I’m thrilled when I learn of the multitude of young adults who earn praise for their outstanding contribution in making their community a better place. But I’m saddened to learn that “youthful exuberance” overpowers rational thinking, and the end result can lead to tragedy.

A week ago, I was in one of my favorite cities, Chicago. As usu-al, the Cubs lost another baseball game, but I was going to en-joy the wonderful annual “Taste of Chicago.” This is an outdoor event where the best food in the Windy City is waiting to be sampled by many thousands of visitors, including me.

But this anticipated joy turned to sadness when I read the headline of the local newspaper: “Three teens killed as car hits tree.” The three teens who died were two girls (one was the driv-er) and one boy. All were between 15 and 18 years old. Accord-ing to a police report, the car was speeding at the time of the crash, which occurred at about 3:00 a.m. The impact split the car in half when it hit the tree.

A man in the house where the crash occurred told police, “I couldn’t believe the horrible noise; it sounded like a bomb went off.” This type of mishap could happen to a driver of any age, but the percentage of teen drivers involved in fatal auto accidents is extremely high.

Teens: I present this tragic event, not to shock you, but to re-mind you that you are not invincible. When driving, be cautious and obey all traffic laws. When being a passenger, insist that the person behind the wheel be a safe and cautious driver.

Parents: It is your responsibility to insist that your teen is a safe driver and always know whom your teen is riding with when a passenger. This crash happened at 3:00 a.m. These three teens should have been soundly sleeping in their beds, so they could enjoy a beautiful morning sunrise!

•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI INTHE MATTER OF: THELAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HERMANJOSEPH SCHULTZ, JR.CAUSE NO. 2011-071PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters Testamentary uponthe Estate of HERMANJOSEPH SCHULTZ, JR.,deceased, having beengranted to the undersignedon the 22 day of June, 2011,by the Chancery Court ofWarren County, Mississippi,notice is hereby given to allperson having claimsagainst said Estate to pres-ent the same to the Clerk ofsaid Court for probate and registration, according tolaw, within three (3) monthsfrom the first publication ofthis notice, or they will be forever barred. this the 23day of June, 2011. /s/ Stacy HartleySTACY HARTLEYEXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF HERMANJOSEPH SCHULTZ, JR.DECEASEDMICHAEL R. BONNERAttorney at Law914 Grove Street Vicksburg, MS 39183MSB NO. 9331Telephone: (601) 636-4191Facsimile: (601) 638-1643Publish: 6/30, 7/7, 7/14(3t)7/15(4t)

01. Legals

Substitute Trustee'sNotice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 4th dayof February, 2005, andacknowledged on the 4thday of February, 2005,Sherlonda Buck, anunmarried person, executedand delivered a certain Deedof Trust unto ReconTrustCompany, N.A., Trustee forMortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc. asnominee for CountrywideHome Loans, Inc.,Beneficiary, to secure anindebtedness thereindescribed, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1517 at Page 1#219561; andWHEREAS, on the 19th dayof October, 2009, MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., assigned saidDeed of Trust unto BACHome Loans Servicing, LPfka Countrywide HomeLoans Servicing, LP, byinstrument recorded in theoffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1502 at Page 341 #273558;andWHEREAS, on the 16th dayof June, 2011, the Holder ofsaid Deed of Trust substitut-ed and appointed MichaelJedynak as Trustee in saidDeed of Trust, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1524 at Page 243#288077; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 29th day of July, 2011, Iwill during the lawful hours ofbetween 11:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., at public outcry, offerfor sale and will sell, at thewest front door of the WarrenCounty Courthouse at Vicks-burg, Mississippi, for cash tothe highest bidder, the fol-lowing described land andproperty situated in WarrenCounty, Mississippi, to-wit:Lot Sixteen (16) and Seven-teen (17) of the resurvey ofand extension to Sky ViewSubdivision, a plat of whichsaid survey is duly recordedin Book 116, at Page 220 ofthe Land Records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, subjectto the Protective Covenantsof January 2, 1954, as sameare duly recorded in DeedBook 290 at Page 527 of theaforesaid Land Records.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me asSubstitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 30th day of June, 2011.Michael JedynakSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020DMM/F11-0935Publish: 7/8, 7/15, 7/22(3t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIORELIA P. CRUMPPETITIONER VS. MICHAELDURDEN, CHRISTINEDURDEN, KIMBLEY C.DURDEN, EVERETTDURDEN, JR., CHARLINEDURDEN ROBINSON,KAROL C. LANKFORD ANDANY AND ALL OTHERKNOWN AND UNKNOWNHEIRS-AT-LAW OF MAMIELOGAN, DECEASEDDEFENDANTS NO.2011-076GN SUMMONSTHE STATE OFMISSISSIPPI TO: MICHAELDURDEN 239 HickoryHollow Place Antioch,Tennessee 37013CHRISTINE DURDEN1126 Benton Mason DriveNashville, Tennessee 37086KIMBLEY C. DURDEN11650 Rosemont Detroit,Michigan 48223 EVERETTA. DURDEN, JR. 11650Rosemont Detroit, Michigan48223 CHARLINE DURDENROBINSON 19821 TiremanDetroit, Michigan 48228KAROL C. LANKFORD4536 Gardiner DriveColumbus, Georgia 31907All other known andunknown heirs of MamieLogan, deceased You havebeen made a Defendant inthe suit filed in this Court byOrelia P. Crump, Plaintiff,seeking a determination ofthe heirs at law of MamieLogan. You are summonedto appear and defend againsthe relief sought in theattached

01. LegalsPetition to DetermineHeirship and for Other Reliefat 10:30 o' clock a.m. on the10th day August, 2011, inthe Chancery Courtroom, 3rdFloor, of the Warren CountyCourthouse at Vicksburg,Mississippi, and in case ofyour failure to appear anddefend, a judgment will beentered against you for therelief sought in the attachedPetition to DetermineHeirship and for Other Relief.You are not required to filean answer to the pleading,but you may do so if youdesire. Issued under myhand and seal of said Court,this the 6 day of July, 2011.DOT McGEE, CHANCERYCLERK OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIBY: /s/ Denise Bailey D.C(SEAL)OF COUNSEL:JERRY W. CAMPBELLAttorney at Law 914 GroveSt. Vicksburg, MS 39183Telephone: 601/638-6812Facsimile: 601/638-1643Publish: 7/8, 7/15, 7/22(3t)

SEALED BIDS forfurnishing Fire DepartmentUniforms; ServiceDepartment Uniforms;Service Department LeaseUniforms will be received inthe office of the City Clerk ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi until 9:00 o'clocka.m., Monday, August 01,2011. They will be publiclyopened and read aloud bythe Mayor and Aldermen ofthe City of Vicksburg in aRegular Board Meeting at10:00 o'clock a.m., Monday,August 01, 2011.Bidders are cautioned thatthe City Clerk does notreceive the daily U.S. Mail onor before 9:00 a.m. Bids willbe time-stamped uponreceipt according to CityClerk's time clock.Specifications andinstructions for bidding areon file in the office of the CityClerk, second floor, City Hall,1401 Walnut Street, cornerCrawford and WalnutStreets, Vicksburg,Mississippi.The Mayor and Aldermen ofthe City of Vicksburgreserve the right to reject anyand all bids and to waiveinformalities./s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr., CityClerkPublish: 7/9, 7/15(2t)

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on June 22,2007, MARVIN REED andFREDDY REED, executed acertain deed of trust toLUCKETT LAND TITLEINC., Trustee for the benefitof MERS, INC. ASNOMINEE FOR TAYLOR,BEAN & WHITAKERMORTGAGE CORP., whichdeed of trust is of record inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of WARREN County,State of Mississippi in Book1663, Page 693; andWHEREAS, said deed oftrust was transferred andassigned to OCWEN LOANSERVICING, LLC andrecorded February 23, 2010in Book 1506, Page 357 asInstrument No. 275877; andWHEREAS, OCWEN LOANSERVICING, LLC hasheretofore substituted KentD. McPhail as Trustee byinstrument dated April 5,2011 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1522, Page220; and WHEREAS, defaulthaving been made in theterms and conditions of saiddeed of trust and the entiredebt secured thereby havingbeen declared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, OCWEN LOANSERVICING, LLC, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested theundersigned SubstitutedTrustee to execute the trustand sell said land andproperty in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust and for the purpose ofraising the sums duethereunder, together withattorney's fees, trustee's feesand expense of sale. NOW,THEREFORE, I, Kent D.McPhail, Substituted Trusteein said deed of trust, will ofJuly 27, 2011 offer for sale atpublic outcry and sell withinlegal hours (being betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m.), at the West Frontdoor of the CountyCourthouse of WARRENCounty, located atVICKSBURG, MS, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated inWARREN County, State ofMississippi, to-wit:All of Lot 6, Block 4 of theresurvey of Blocks 2 and 7 ofthe resurvey of MeadowvaleSubdivision, according to amap or plat thereof which ison file and of record in theoffice of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County,Mississippi in Plat Book 116at Page 225 thereof,reference to which is herebymade in aid of and as a partof this description.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.Kent D. McPhailSUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEDumas & McPhail 126Government Street Mobile,AL 36602 (251) 438-2333Publish: 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22(4t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF HINDSCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPISECOND JUDICIALDISTRICT KATHERINEROSS PETITIONER VS.CHRISTOPHER ROSSRESPONDENT CAUSENO.: G2007-96 0/3SUMMONSTHE STATE OFMISSISSIPPI TO:CHRISTOPHER ROSSFiretower Road Vicksburg,MS (LAST KNOWNADDRESS) Who afterdiligent search and inquirycannot be found. You havebeen made a Defendant inthe suit filed in this Court byKatherine Ross, Petitioner,for the Petition for Contemptand Modification. You aresummoned to appear anddefend against the complaint

01. Legalsor petition filed against you inthis action at 1:30 O' clockP.M. on the 4th day ofAugust 2011, in thecourtroom of the HindsCounty Courthouse atJackson, Mississippi, and incase of your failure to appearand defend a judgment willbe entered against you forthe money or other thingsdemanded in the complaintor petition. You are notrequired to file an answer orother pleading but you maydo so if you desire. Issuedunder my hand and the sealof said Court, this the 28 dayof June 2011.(SEAL)EDDIE JEAN CARR,CHANCERY CLERKBY; /s/ G Mosley D.CCHANCERY CLERK OFHINDS COUNTYMISSISSIPPIPublish: 7/1, 7/8, 7/15(3t)

02. Public Service

1 FREE KITTEN to goodhome. Call 601-529-6828.

FREE PUPPIES TO goodhomes. Chocolate Labradormix, adorable, ready to go.601-618-0632.

FREE PUPPIES TO goodhomes. Curr and Labradormix, great pets, ready to go!601-630-6493.

FREE TO GOOD HOMEPet rabbit and two pet rats.Both with cages. 601-218-5767.

FREE TO GOODHOMES. 6 week old Ger-man Shepherd/ Labradormixed puppies. Call 601-629-4371.

KEEP UP WITH all the lo-cal news and sales...Sub-scribe to The VicksburgPost TODAY!! Call 601-636-4545, Circulation.

05. Notices“Credit problems?

No problem!”No way. The Federal

Trade Commission saysno company can legally

remove accurate and timelyinformation from your creditreport. Learn about manag-

ing credit and debt atftc.gov/credit

A message fromThe Vicksburg Post

and the FTC.

Center ForPregnancy ChoicesFree Pregnancy Tests

(non-medical facility)· Education on All

Options· Confidential Coun-

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Effective March 25,2011 The Horizon

chip’s were discontinued. You may

redeem HorizonCasino chip’s

durning normal business hours at theGrand Station Casinocage through July 25,

2011

ENDING HOMELESS-NESS. WOMEN with chil-dren or without are you inneed of shelter? Mountainof Faith Ministries/ Wom-en's Restoration Shelter.Certain restrictions apply,601-661-8990. Life coach-ing available by appoint-ment.

Is the one youlove

hurting you?Call

Haven House FamilyShelter

601-638-0555 or1-800-898-0860

Services available towomen & children who are

victims ofdomestic violence and/orhomeless: Shelter, coun-seling, group support.(Counseling available by

appt.)

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RunawayAre you 12 to 17?Alone? Scared?

Call 601-634-0640 any-time or 1-800-793-8266

We can help!One child,

one day at a time.

06. Lost & Found

LOST A DOG?Found a cat? Let The

Vicksburg Post help!Run a FREE 3 day ad!

601-636-SELL or e-mailclassifieds@vicksburg

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LOST CAT!MOSTLY WHITE FE-

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LOST CHOCOLATELabrador puppy. 3 monthsold. Wearing blue collar.Hwy 3 area. REWARD!Child's puppy. 601-618-1360.

LOST MINIATURE greySchnauzer. Brookwood/Culkin Road area, wearingMSU collar. 601-218-0169,601-415-9439. REWARD!

07. Help Wanted

“ACE”Truck Driver Training

With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.

Day, Night & RefresherClasses

Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124

07. Help Wanted

AVON. NEED EXTRACASH? Become an AvonRepresentative today. Call601-454-8038.

Earn Extra MoneyDeliver the new AT&TReal Yellow Pages inthe Vicksburg Area.

FT/PT, daily work, quickpay, must be 18 yrs!,have drivers license &

insured vehicle(800)422-1955 Ext. 18:00A-4:30P Mon.-Fri.

DRIVERS NEEDED!!!BUSINESS EXPANDINGCoomes Produce Company.Class D license and health

card required. Apply in person9am-1pm. Bring copy of MVR.

Drug screen required1801 Mulberry Street. No phone calls please!

ESCORT DRIVERNEEDED. Great pay, home

every night. Call 205-826-4699.

EXPERIENCED DOZERAND excavator operator. 3years minimum experience.601-634-8979, leave message.

HEY! NEED CASH NOW?We buy JUNK CARS,

VANS, SUV’S, TRUCKS,SCHOOL BUSES, HEAVY

EQUIPMENT, HEAVY DUTYTRUCKS & TRAILERS.

Whether your junk is run-ning or not, & PAY YOUCASH NOW. Call today,

we'll come pick your junk upwith CASH in hand!1-800-826-8104

INTERCOASTAL WA-TERWAYS!! INTERESTEDin becoming a deckhand inthe Marine Industry? Posi-tions start around $130 perday...that's over $900 perweek! Sign up for trainingtoday! Call 850-243-8966.

LOOKING FOR A Feder-al or Postal Job? Whatlooks like the ticket to a se-cure job might be a scam.For information call TheFederal Trade Commission,toll free 1-877-FTC-HELP,or visit www.ftc.gov. A mes-sage from The VicksburgPost and the FTC.

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NEEDED

Apply in persononly at:

Sheffield Rentals1255 Hwy 61 South

Vicksburg.

NO PHONE CALLS,PLEASE

PART TIME ON-SITEapartment manager neededfor small local apartmentcomplex. Must be honest,dependable, work well withpublic, must have good cler-ical skills, experience aplus. Serious inquiries only,fax resume to: 318-352-1929.

PERSONAL TRAINERPersonal Trainer needed forAnytime Fitness in Tallulah,Louisiana. Must havecertification. Call to discuss.318-308-8666

Warehouse Coordinator Coomes Produce CompanyLooking for person to oversee

receiving, inventory rotation,and shipping. Produce Experi-

ence & Class D license a plus.Email resume to:

[email protected] phone calls please!

12. Schools &Instruction

AIRLINES ARE HIRING-Train for high paying Avia-tion Career. FAA approvedprogram. Financial aid ifqualified – Job placementassistance. CALL AviationInstitute of Maintenance866-455-4317.

ATTEND COLLEGE ON-LINE from home. *Medical,*Business, *Paralegal, *Al-lied Health. Job placementassistance. Computer avail-able. Financial aid if quali-fied. SCHEV certified. Call888-210-5162.

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13. SituationsWanted

EXPERIENCED CARE-GIVER EXCELLENT refer-ences, available 7 days perweek, full time- 12 hour shiftor live in, for your total careplease call 601-497-5144.

NEED A SITTER? Re-tired RN, experienced, willwork any time, dependable,honest, trustworthy. 601-421-1861.

14. Pets &Livestock

Vicksburg WarrenHumane Society& MS - Span

Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631

CATS:Male . .$25 Female ........$35

DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS):Male . .$55 Female ........$65

• For the above category ofanimals, pick up applications at

the Humane Society

DOGS (OVER 40 LBS):Male . .$70 Female ........$80

• For dogs over 40 lbs,call 866-901-7729 for appt.

Low CostSpay & Neuter Program


Dawson Farms LLC, 2305 Hwy 17, Delhi, La71232, located 8 miles south of Interstate 20,

needs 340 temporary agricultural farm workers toharvest sweet potatoes. Workers anticipated dateof need is 08/22/2011 to 11/30/2011, 35 hours perweek @ $8.97 per hour, plus free room and boardif outside local commuting area, tool/ equipment

provided. Transportation & subsistence expenses toworksite provided at completion of 50% of workcontract plus return transportation at completion

of contract, 3/4 work period guaranteed.

Applicants may report and apply at the nearestState Workforce Agency or Dawson Farms

LLC, 2305 Hwy 17, Delhi, La. 71232. JOB # LA 387816

Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900

BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

601-636-4813State Board of Contractors

Approved & Bonded

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand

All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition

Site Development& Preparation Excavation

Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

ROSSCONSTRUCTION

New HomesFraming, Remodeling,

Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding

State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932

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WEACCEPTCASH,

CHECKSAND

MOSTMAJORCREDITCARDS.

To advertise your business herefor as little as $2.83 per day,call our Classified Department

at 601-636-7355.

• Licensed • Insured• Residential • CommercialFUSON ELECTRIC, INC.

25 YRS. EXPERIENCE• Flood Inspections

Matthew - 601-218-5561Amos - 601-831-7605

FLOOD RECOVERYDozer and Trackhoe Work

Debris Hauling &Demolition. Give us a call.

We will take care of everything. Call Dave

601-551-8503

PATRIOTIC• FLAGS

• BANNERS

• BUMPER STICKERS

• YARD SIGNSShow Your Colors!

SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY

• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices

• Work Orders• Invitations

(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711

1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180

A.C.’S FOUNDATIONPP HOUSE LEVELING PPIf your floors are sagging or shaking, WE CAN HELP!

We replace floor joists, seals& pillars. We also install

termite shields.PP Reasonable PP Insured

601-543-7007

Simmons Lawn ServiceProfessional Services &

Competitive Prices• Landscaping • Septic Systems• Irrigation: Install & Repair• Commercial & Residential

Grass CuttingLicensed • Bonded • Insured

12 years experienceRoy Simmons (Owner)

601-218-8341

865-803-8227

•34 years experience•Fully insured

www.mmhousemovers.com

M&M HOUSEMOVING & RAISING

All Business & Service Directory Ads MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE !

BUILDERSSTRAIGHT LINE

Courteous•Competent•Committed•Water Restoration • Remodeling•Sheetrock •Windows •Flooring•General Construction •Decks

•Roofing •Doors •Siding•Fencing •Landscaping

•Over 25 yrs. Exp. •Insured•Local References

No Job Too Big or Too Small!Jeff Beal (Owner)

601•642•[email protected]

Touching Hearts, LLCPrivate Duty Sitting and

Homemaker ServiceCaregivers available

WHEN and WHERE youneed them.

•LPN’s •CNA’s •NURSE ASSISTANTS

601-429-5426

ClassifiedHours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, Closed Saturday & Sunday. Post Plaza, 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • P. O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182.

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We Write Thousands OfBest Sellers Every Year...We’re The Vicksburg PostClassified Advertising Department . . .our job is to help you writeeffective classified ads so you canhave best sellers too! Give us a call . . . we’ll write one for you!Call (601) 636-SELL.

Classified InformationLine Ad DeadlinesAds to appear Deadline

Monday 2 p.m., FridayTuesday 5 p.m., Friday

Wednesday 5 p.m., MondayThursday 5 p.m., Tuesday

Friday 5 p.m., WednesdaySaturday 11 a.m., Thursday

Sunday 11 a.m., Thursday

Classified DisplayDeadlinesAds to appear Deadline

Monday 5 p.m., ThursdayTuesday 3 p.m., Friday




Classified Ad RatesClassified Line Ads:

Starting at 1-4 Lines, 1 Day for $8.28Classified line ads are charged according to the

number of lines. For complete pricinginformation contact a Classified SalesRepresentative today at 601-636-SELL.

Ads cancelled before expiration date ordered arecharged at prevailing rate only for days actually run,

4 line minimum charge. $8.28 minimum charge.

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InternetPlace your classified line ad at

http://www.vicksburgpost.com

ErrorsIn the event of errors, please call the very first dayyour ad appears. The Vicksburg Post will not be

responsible for more than one incorrect insertion.

Mis-ClassificationNo ad will be deliberately mis-classified.

The Vicksburg Post classified department is thesole judge of the proper classification for each ad.

Classified Line DasStarting at 1-4 Lines, 1 Day for $8.32

4 line minimum charge $8.32 minimum charge.

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Classified InformationDeadlinesAds to appear Deadline

Monday 5 p.m., ThursdayTuesday 3 p.m., Friday




14. Pets &Livestock

AKC DOBERMAN PINCH-ERS! 17 weeks old, all shots,tails docked. $350 or best of-fer. 601-870-2903.

HAYSUMRALL 007 Bermudagrass Hay. 2011 cropLimed, fertilized, weed-freehigh quality hay. Storedsquare bales, $4.50. Smallround, $30. Large round $40.601-218-5220.

LIONHEAD RABBITSFOR SALE

Pedigreed Lionheads for $35& Non pedigreed for $25. All rabbits are socialized andloving. Suitable for show,breeding, & pets. 601-456-4220.

littlecreekpuppies.comCKC Tea cup and tiny toyMalti Poos and Yorkies.$300 and up. 318-237-5156.

Foster aHomeless

Pet!

www.pawsrescuepets.org

YORKSHIRE TERRIERPUPPIES

2 male 1 female 7 weeks old.1st shots, CKC registered601-415-3420.

15. AuctionLOOKING FOR A great

value? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

17. Wanted ToBuy






WANTED: ANYTHINGOLD-Money,coins,war relics,

books,photos,documents,etectera.601-618-2727.

WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, etcetera.601-940-5075, if no answer,please leave message.

WE PAY CASH for junk.Cars, trucks. Vans, SUVs,and old dump trucks. 601-638-5946 or 601-529-8249.

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

10 FOOT VENT-A-HOOD, 2 gas fryers, steamtable, food warmer, stove,and more. 601-218-0486.

25 INCH T.V.'S- $49!!Mattress Sets-$125!!Always a store full of

quality used furniture!!All About Bargains,

1420 Washington Street,601-631-0010,

601-529-9895 cell.

6 MONTH OLD electricultra-suede couch withmanual reclining love seat.$1600. 601-529-2211.

COUCH, $150. UTILITYtrailer, $3,000. 601-629-2604.

FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post

delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,

7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,

Circulation Department.






18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

CYPRESS SWINGS.$100 each, while they last!601-638-3197.

HEY! NEED CASHNOW? We buy junk cars,vans, SUVs, heavy equip-ment and more! Call today,we'll come pick them upwith money in hand! 1-800-826-8104.

HOME MADE QUILTS.Many designs to choosefrom. Call for details. 601-619-4981.

LAND FOR SALE – locat-ed just north of InternationalPaper in Redwood, MS.Call 601-634-0161 or 601-618-0002, leave message.

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street

Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish foodaquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads,loads of pet supplies!Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!

SWEET FEED START-ING at $7.15/bag. Up rightFrigidaire freezer 21 cubicfeet $599. 75 foot RubberGarden hose $17.95. Salegoes through the end ofmonth. 601-634-0882.Vicksburg Farm Supply.

USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.

11. BusinessOpportunities

19. Garage &Yard Sales

109 KATHERINE DRIVE,off 61 South in HillcrestSubdivision, Saturday,

7am-2pm, clothing (infant boy's, women's,men's), baby items

(all kinds), shoes (women and baby boy)

household items.

114 JENNIFER DRIVE,off Freetown Road, Saturday, 7am- until, vacuum cleaner, all size clothing, lots of

miscellaneous. 769-203-9366

RAIN OR SHINE.

07. Help Wanted


120 ALFRED DRIVE, Hill-crest Subdivision, Saturday,7am-until, children's cloth-ing, uniform shirts, trumpet,girl's scooter, much more.

2020 WARRIORSTRAIL, Friday, 9am-3pm,clothes, tennis rackets,toys, bike, jewelry, toys,

sleepwear, etcetera.

2409 CHERRY STREET,Saturday, 8am-2pm, scoot-er, armoire (new, still inbox), children's clothing,much more!

4 FAMILIES. 201 PearOrchard Drive. Saturday7am- 12noon. Adult clothingand shoes, cookwarebooks, jewelry, class sup-plies, miscellaneous.

4309 SOUTH GLENDrive, off Fisher Ferry,boy's school uniforms andclothes, home accessories,furniture, HUGE SALE!

4585 HIGHWAY 80. Sat-urday and Sunday 7am-12Noon. Baby items, clothesand more!

Ask us how to “PostSize” your ad with some

great clip art! Call theClassified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355).

07. Help Wanted


492 LAKESIDE DRIVE.Saturday 6am- 11am. Ju-niors- 4x clothes, shoes,furniture, washer, chairs,lots of miscellaneous.

527 Culkin Road. FridaySaturday and Sunday 7am-12noon. Clothes, pictures,full size bed

Formerly OTM Fashions,3101 Valley Street, offDrummond, Friday, Satur-day 7am- 2pm, New ladiesmerchandise. $3, $4, $5nothing over $10.

GARAGE SALE OVER?River City Rescue Missionwill pickup donated left overitems. 601-636-6602.

GARAGE SALESATURDAY 7:00am- 12:00noon. 4714 Hwy 61 S. (oldSatellite Video building)Spring cleaning entire house.

GARAGE SALE!!4824 Nailor Road 6am to

Noon Saturday July 16 rainor shine. Household items,figurines, glass, Computer

desk, ceiling fans. Toomany items to list.

Everything has to go!

GARAGE SALE: HOTDEALS!

99 Sunnybrook Circle, LakePark Estates. HouseholdItems, clothes, toys,etcetera. 8am-until.

MOVING SALE, 105 Cob-blestone, off Oak Ridge, Sat-urday 7am- 12 noon, lots ofmiscellaneous items. Some-thing for everyone!

24. BusinessServices


MT ZION I M.B Churchwill be having a garage saleSaturday 7am- 12noon tobenefit our church fund rais-er. Hotdogs, chips anddrinks will also be sold. 920Fifth North.

MULTI-FAMILYGARAGE SALE

500 block of Oakwood.Furniture, clothes, toys, andmuch more. Saturday 6am -11am. No early birds please

STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale?Donate your items to

The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.

TRUCK LOAD SALE,1109 Third North, Saturday,6am-until, kitchen items,bath accessories, carpet,hair supplies, lots more,Multi families. Don't miss!

What's going on inVicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!

For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask

for circulation.

20. Hunting

RHINO FOR SALE. 2 fullwindshields, Tonneau cover,half doors, 4 rims. Call forpricing. 601-218-3607.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

2 JET SKIS. Double trail-er. Kawasaki 750 3 seater,Polaris 780 2 seater. $3500or best offer. 601-638-5082.

What's going on in Vicks-burg this weekend? ReadThe Vicksburg Post! Forconvenient home delivery,call 601-636-4545, ask forcirculation.


TYLER’S HOUSE LEVELING& MOBILE HOMES

REPLACE ROTTEN WOOD, ADD NEW SEALS,

HEAVY DUTY BLOCKS. SPECIALIZE IN LEVELING

35 YEARS EXPERIENCEFREE ESTIMATES

CALL 601-402-5135

Framing, additions, decks,plumbing, porches & painting.All types remodeling & repairs.

Metal roofs & buildings.Mobile home repairs.

Flood and storm damage. Dewayne Kennedy

601-529-7565


C & M FOUNDATION re-pair and house leveling. Re-place worn or rotten sillsand pillars. Stop shakingfloors. Free estimates, 601-964-8508, 601-689-7362.

FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON

ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair

(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref

Licensed • Insured601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133

D & D TREE CUTTING•Trimming • Lawn Care

• Dirt Hauled• Insured

For FREE EstimatesCall “Big James”

601-218-7782

D.R. PAINTING AND CON-STRUCTION. Painting, roof-ing, carpentry service. Li-censed, bonded. Free esti-mates! Call 601-638-5082.

DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.

I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy,sell and repair. ArcueSanchez - 601-618-9916.

River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-

sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance. Cut, bag, trim, edge.

601-529-6168.


PROFESSIONALPLUMBING WORK at yourconvenience. 601-529-8605.


26. For RentOr Lease

PPPPFOR LEASEPPPP

1911 Mission 66Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft.Suite E-Apprx. 1620 sq. ft.

Office or Retail!Great Location!

BRIAN MOORE REALTY

Connie - Owner/ Agent

318-322-4000

RICHARD M. CALDWELL

BROKER

SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE

APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180

[email protected]

OFFICES FOR LEASE-Mission 66 Suite 4A- Approxi-mately 805 square feet, Suite4B- Approximately 1605square feet. CHEAP RENT!!Greg- 601-291-1148.

READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILREAD THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY!Y!

Classified Advertisingreally brings big results!

READ THE CLASSIFIEDSDAILY!

LLOOOOKKIINNGG FFOORR YYOOUURRDDRREEAAMM HHOOMMEE??

Check the real estate

listings in the

classifieds daily.


MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive

Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625

Equal Housing Opportunity

BienvilleApartments

The ParkResidencesat Bienville

1, 2 & 3 bedroomsand townhomes

available immediately.

VICKSBURGS NEWEST,AND A WELL MAINTAINED

FAVORITE. EACH WITHSPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS ANDSOPHISTICATED AMENITIES.

FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com

and

EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY

FINANCE APPROVAL!!FINANCE APPROVAL!!FINANCE APPROVAL!!

OOKK CCOOKK CC AARRSSAARRSS

SSSSAALLEESS//AALLEESS// RRRREENNTTAALLSSEENNTTAALLSSGet a Late Model Car With a

Low Down PaymentB.K.REPODIVORCELOST JOBMEDICAL

YOU ARE STILL OK!!!NO CREDIT APP REFUSED!!!24 Month Warranties Available

601-636-31472970 Hwy 61 North • VicksburgMonday - Saturday 8am-7pm

www.okcarsandtrucks.webs.com

IF WE DON’T HAVE

WHAT YOU WANT,

WE CAN GET IT!!

Bradford RidgeApartments

Live in a Quality Built Apartmentfor LESS! All brick,

concrete floors and double wallsprovide excellent soundproofing,

security, and safety.601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333

COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd.

COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd

S H A M R O C KA PA RT M E N T S

SUPERIOR QUALITY,CUSTOM CABINETS,

EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM,& WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS.

SAFE!!SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT

601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333

801 Clay Street 601-630-2921www.the-vicksburg.com

UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments

Studios & Efficiencies

NNEEEEDD AANN AAPPAARRTTMMEENNTT??Enjoy the convenience of downtown living at

TThhee VViicckkssbbuurrgg AAppaarrttmmeennttss

26. For RentOr Lease

PROFESSIONALOFFICE SPACE.

Great location. Utilitiesand janitorial service included. $600/ month.

601-638-4050.

28. FurnishedApartments

ABSOLUTELY EVERY-THING FURNISHED. 1 bed-room, $900. Studio, $700.Cable, pool, Wi-Fi, off-streetparking. 601-638-2000.

FURNISHED 1 BEDROOMAPARTMENT. 1415 Washing-ton Street, deposit required.601-638-5943 or 662-873-4236, 662-873-2878.

29. UnfurnishedApartments

1 BEDROOM APART-MENT. With appliances,$300 monthly, $200 deposit(in advance). 801 First East.601-638-8295.

780 Hwy 61 North

ConfederateRidge

2 BEDROOMBLOW OUT SPECIAL!!Call for Details601-638-0102

BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE

LIVING

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community

• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans

601-629-6300www.thelandingsvicksburg.com

501 Fairways DriveVicksburg

COUNTY 2 BEDROOMS,2½ baths. Openwood Town-house. 1,400 plus/ minussquare feet, cheap county cartags. 601-831-8900. Leavemessage.

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

DOWNTOWN APART-MENT FOR rent. Single orcouple. $950, includes allutilities. 806-292-5389.

DOWNTOWN, BRICK,MARIE Apartments. Total

electric, central air/ heat,stove, refrigerator. $520, water

furnished. 601-636-7107, [email protected]

EAGLE LAKECONDO AVAILABLE

Unfurnished,No utilities included,No pets allowed.

2 bedroom, 2 ½ bath. $500 monthly

$200 security deposit Min. 6 mth lease.

Credit/ Backgroundcheck required. Call 601-825-5675or 601-624-7780.

30. HousesFor Rent

3 BEDROOM DUPLEX.Fully furnished, $1050 month,

water, electric, DirectTV included.

3 BEDROOM HOUSE withstorm shelter, partly furnished,

$1,050 monthly. 601-218-5348.

30. HousesFor Rent

LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.Close in, nice. $795 month-ly. 601-831-4506.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.

601-619-9789.


32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

BIG 4 BEDROOM, 2 bathhome. Delivery, set-up andtie down included. Only$22,900. 662-417-2354,601-619-1555.

DOUBLEWIDE MO-BILE HOME. $12,000.

601-218-3847

GOT LAND? USE your Landor family land to get financing onyour new home. Easyfinancing!! Call for approval 1-877-558-6696.

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

2008 LEXINGTON.16X80, 3 bedrooms, 2baths. 601-415-5655.

GREAT DEAL ON doublewide! 2009 Riverbirch, 3bedrooms, 2 baths, like newwith large kitchen, lots ofcabinet space, all black ap-pliances. Financing avail-able for $550 per month.Call 601-421-8727 or 601-619-1555.

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

NEW 16X76. 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, delivery,set-up and tie-down includ-ed. Only $29,987. 662-417-2354, 601-619-1555.

REPOSSESSION LIQUI-DATION SALE! Used dou-ble wide and single widemobile homes, starting at$12,000 for single widesand $25,000 for doublewides. Financing optionsavailable. Call 601-421-8727 or 601-619-1555.

SALE!!!12X60 MOBILEhome, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath,$6,000. Must be moved!!601-702-1805.

SPECIAL GOVERNMENTLOAN program. 0 Down if youown land or family land. Chooseyour custom home 3, 4 or 5 bed-room. 1-877-558-6696.

USED SINGLE WIDE!16X80 Lexington, 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, great condi-tion with open floor plan andbig kitchen. Only $17,900.Call 601-421-8727, 601-619-1555.

33. Commercia lProperty

1814 SKY FARM AVEFor Sale As Is. Leave bestoffer or message at 320-492-3730.


34. HousesFor Sale

115 MAISON RUEExecutive home.

Screened porch overlooks hole#1 of VCC golf course.

Split plan w/ 4BR, 2.5 BA.Large master suite with many

extras. Priced to sell belowappraised value.

Call 601-218-1900 to view.


34. HousesFor Sale

AskUs.

2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.comMember FDIC

! FHA & VA! Conventional! Construction! First -timeHomebuyers

Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator

MortgageLoans601.630.8209

Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

McMillinReal Estate601-636-8193

VicksburgRealEstate.com


34. HousesFor Sale

EAGLE LAKE - Water-front, boat launch, pier, met-al home, deck, 3000 SF,4/4, fireplace, 2 kitchens,recreation room, dbl garage,apartment d/s 5 yrs old.Asking $375,000. McMillinReal Estate. Bette PaulWarner, 601-218-1800.

www.Lakehouse.com

HOUSE FOR SALE,NEW EVERYTHING!Shady Lane, great contemporary color

scheme, 3 bedrooms, 1.5baths. Priced in the $80's.

Must be pre-approved.Call to view, 601-631-0056

or 601-415-5888.

Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

34. HousesFor Sale

UTICA. 3 BEDROOMS, 1bath, updated 1200 squarefeet, 1 acre. $58,000. 601-672-4463, 601-455-0425.

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Bob Gordon........601-831-0135Tony Jordan........601-630-6461Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Kai Mason...........601-218-5623Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549

Sybil Carraway...601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCV

JIM HOBSONREALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502


36. Farms &Acreage

BUYING OR SELLING?LAND IS OUR

BUSINESS"RICEREALTYGROUPINC.COM

601-529-4478 OR601-668-8027

BUYING OR SELLING?Land is our business! RICEREALTYGROUPINC.COM

Call 601-529-4478 or601-668-8027.

38. FarmImple ments/

Heavy Equipment







40. Cars & Trucks

1994 MERCURY. 4 cylin-der, gas saver. Looks good,and runs good. $1000. 601-529-1195.

1998 MAZDA E4000 Pick-up with toolbox, 6 cylinder,good condition. Great worktruck. $2,800. 601-636-5838.


40. Cars & Trucks

1999 ISUZU RODEO.Needs a little work. $2800or best offer. Contact David,601-529-7372.

1999 MERCURY SABLE$2,900 cash. 601-630-0305,678-764-6763.

2006 FORD F-150 FX4,leather interior, 5.4 liter en-gine, auto transmission,4x4, 85,000 miles. Veryclean. $17,500 or best offer.662-907-5662, 662-873-4924.

HOT BUYS! !

Gary’s Cars- Hwy 61S601-883-9995

For pre-approval:www.garyscfl.com

2 0 0 1 D o d g eD u r a n g o

$ 1 , 1 0 0 D o w n1 9 9 7 F o r dE x p l o r e r

$ 9 0 0 D o w nD o n ’ t M i s s O u t

AUTO WORLDFinancing available.

Starting at $800 down!Plenty to choose from!

601-218-2893.

CLOSET PHOBIA?Clear out the skeletons in yours

with an ad in the classifieds. 601-636-SELL

Classified Advertisingreally brings big results!

CALL 601-636-SELLAND PLACE

YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

Classifieds Really Work!

CLOSET PHOBIA?Clear out the skeletons in yours

with an ad in the classifieds. 601-636-SELL

Finding the car you wantin the Classifieds is easy,

but now it’s practicallyautomatic, since we’veput our listings online.


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