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runoff voting light, smooth across warrenFrom staff and AP reports

Turnout was reported to be light but smooth as voters in Warren County and across the state went to the polls today to choose Democratic and Repub-lican nominees for November’s

general election. The first dozen votes at the

south Vicksburg-based Jett precinct were cast in the air-conditioned comfort of Imman-uel Baptist’s activity center off U.S. 61 South. Poll workers had manned the Aug. 2 primary in

sweltering heat at No. 5 Fire Station at Vicksburg Municipal Airport.

“It’s much better this time,” poll manager Kathryn Osborn said.

Warren County and the church agreed to hold elections

there through 2015. The pre-cinct has about 1,500 voters. A full complement of machines was available at Jett. Osborn said it was likely each elec-tronic ballot card would be

Taxes cuton 7 parcelsin countyBy Danny Barrett [email protected]

Values of seven properties were lowered or leveled out Monday as Warren County supervisors addressed tax protests. Issues remained on values assigned to two large employers.

Owners of homes, businesses and farmland may file formal pro-tests to their land values for 30 days after the county board OKs tax rolls in July. Two of the nine recommendations by Deputy Tax Assessor Jim Agent OK’d were delivered in person earlier this month and, in a break from recent custom, were considered along with written objections.

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Police beg community to aid in crime fightBy John [email protected]

The Vicksburg Police Depart-ment needs help.

That was the message from Chief Walter Armstrong Monday night as he addressed about 15 people gathered for the first in a series of Town Watch Meet-ings the department has planned across the city.

“We need more coopera-

tion between the police depart-ment and the community,” he said at Greater Grove Street M.B. Church. “The police can’t be everywhere at one time, and that’s where you come in.”

The meeting is the first of four planned by the police depart-ment; the other three have not been set.

Armstrong said the city’s big-gest problem is crimes against property, calling home and car

burglaries a plague in the city.Since July 1, police have inves-

tigated about 78 home and auto burglaries in the city. Thirty-six of those break-ins have occurred since Aug. 1.

The biggest contributing factor to auto burglaries and car thefts, he said, is unlocked car doors.

“People don’t lock their cars, and criminals are look-ing for opportunities,” he said. “They’re looking for cars that

are unlocked. If they try to break into a locked car, they have to break a window, and that cre-ates a crime scene or sets off an alarm.”

During his comments, Arm-strong showed security camera photographs from two recent crimes.

One was from the Aug. 4 armed robbery of the Waffle House at

Dance club expected to be shut down

By John [email protected]

A Vicksburg businessman could lose his license to operate in the wake of a shooting Satur-day night at the teenage dance club he operates on Washington Street, officials said.

“I will not tolerate violence, and I especially will not tolerate violence against youth,” Mayor

Paul Winfield said Monday.He said he will recommend

that the Board of Mayor and Aldermen close the club and take the license of Roosevelt Cooper, 1114 Fayette St., the operator of Swag Stars Dance Company at 1925 Washington St. Winfield said the action could come today at a called meeting or during Thursday’s regular meeting.

A 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg during an argument at the club Saturday night, minutes before the midnight curfew for all in the city younger than 18.

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Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong addresses about 15 people at Greater Grove Street M.B. Church Monday during the first of a series of community meetings.

Swag Stars Dance Company, at 1925 Washington St., is at right.

Shooting leftteen injured

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at the pollsPrecincts in Warren County and across the state will be open until 7 tonight

Libyan rebelsstorm gadhafi’smain compoundBy The Associated Press

TRIPOLI, Libya — Hundreds of Libyan rebels have stormed Moam-mar Gadhafi’s main military com-pound in Tripoli.

An Associated Press reporter saw the rebels enter the gates of the Bab al-Aziziya today after hours of fierce gunbattles.

It was not known if Gadhafi was inside.

The assault came hours after the Libyan leader’s son and heir appar-ent turned up free to thwart Libyan rebel claims he had been captured and rally supporters.

The surprise appearance of Seif al-Islam energized regime loyalists and underlined the potential for Gadhafi to strike back even as his grip on power seemed to be slip-ping fast.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Russian head of the World Chess Federa-tion who has known Gadhafi for year, also said he spoke today by telephone with Gadhafi and the Libyan leader remains in Tripoli.

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Vicksburg woman accused of shooting at boyfriendA Vicksburg woman was

in the Warren County Jail today after she attempted to shoot her live-in boyfriend Monday, police Sgt. Sandra Williams said.

Linda Sheppard, 40, 2628 Roosevelt Ave., was charged with attempted domes-tic aggravated assault and shooting into an occupied dwelling, Williams said.

Sheppard was arrested at her home at 11:14 p.m. and is accused of firing a weapon at her boyfriend as he was attempting to leave the resi-dence after a domestic dis-pute, the sergeant said. The bullet traveled into an occu-pied home next door, said Williams.

No one was injured, she added.

Sheppard will have an ini-tial hearing in Vicksburg Municipal Court Wednesday, said Williams.

2 men nabbed nearvacant city home

Two Vicksburg men were in the Warren County Jail after being arrested early this morning by Warren County deputies, Sheriff Martin Pace said.

Deshawn Stewart, 19, 108 Freedom Lane, was charged with possession of a stolen firearm, plus the misde-meanor offenses of resist-ing arrest and disorderly conduct, and Dock Davis Jr., 30, 1310 Bowmar Ave., was charged with possession of a controlled substance, the sheriff said.

Both men were arrested around 1:30 a.m. at 1312 Bowmar Ave., a vacant home that residents in the area had asked deputies “to keep an eye on because of suspicious

activity late at night,” Pace said.

Deputies driving by the house saw a van outside, and when they stopped to inves-tigate, a number of people broke and ran, said the sheriff.

“They located the owner of the property, who was not there and not involved, and obtained permission to search the house,” said Pace.

They found a 9-mm Ruger handgun, previously reported stolen in Vicksburg. The gun is believed to have been in Stewart’s possession, he said.

A search of the van, which was driven by Davis, turned up crack cocaine, Pace said.

“In the home, deputies also found a set of scales and some packaging mate-rial indicative of drug sales, which is consistent with what residents had reported to the sheriff’s office,” he

added.A third man was initially

arrested at the scene but later turned over to Vicks-burg police because of out-standing misdemeanor war-rants, Pace said.

It is not unusual for depu-ties to be involved in arrests inside the city, he added, and sheriff’s department inves-tigators will partner with police as the investigation continues. Additional arrests could be made, he said.

Davis and Stewart were being held without bond pending an initial hearing.

TV, games missingon Berryman Road

A residential burglary was reported in the city Monday at 2:02 p.m., said police Sgt. Sandra Williams.

A 19-inch Toshiba TV valued at $300 and four Play-Station games were reported

stolen from a home in the 200 block of Berryman Road, said Williams.

City man jailedfor drug court

A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail Monday night on a Drug Court sanction, jail records showed.

Jeffery Summerville, 31, 929 Club House Circle, Apt. 6, was being held without bond.

Port Gibson woman killed; husband heldBy John [email protected]

A Port Gibson woman was shot and killed in the front yard of a friend’s home Monday afternoon, and her estranged husband was in the Claiborne County Jail this morning charged with murder.

Luna Marie Hillary, 47, was shot in the head and was pro-

nounced dead at the scene, in the 900 block of Marginal Street, Claiborne County Coro-ner J.W. Mallett said.

Port Gibson police Chief Calvin Jackson said Tommy L. Claiborne Jr., 22, 2015 Pin-ewood Ave., was being held without bond, pending an ini-tial appearance in city court.

Jackson said the shooting was reported at about 1:45 p.m.

outside a home where Hillary was staying. He said Claiborne was arrested about 3 p.m. on Gordon State Road.

The chief said the two were married for just more than a year, and recently separated. He said Hillary had said she was seeing a lawyer today.

Claiborne, Jackson said, went to the house to see Hillary and the two argued. He said Clai-

borne chased her, grabbed her and a struggle ensued. During the struggle, Jackson said, Claiborne grabbed his wife by the neck, put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger.

He said Claiborne ran to an uncle’s house in the 500 block of Walnut Street and got him to drive him to an undisclosed location.

“He told his uncle that some

guys were going to jump him, and he’d pay him $10 to drive him away,” Jackson said.

The chief said the uncle’s girl-friend later found out what had happened and called him.

“They were on Gordon State Road and had a flat, when his girlfriend called him,” Jackson said. “He told her to call the police and give them the loca-tion where they were.”

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Model Brandi Pow-ers, foreground, poses while artists draw her likeness during a fig-ure drawing class led by Mark Bleakley at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center Mon-day. The two-day class gives students the opportunity to draw live models and learn about human anatomy through art. The artists are, from left, Ruth Tol-bert, Karen Magruder and Mary Qasim.

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those we lovedon't go away;

they walk besideus every day,unseen and

unheard, butalways near.So loved, so

missed, and sovery dear.

JACKSON, Miss. — A West Nile virus case in Hinds County brings the total in Mississippi this year to 15, the state health department announced Monday.

One person has died from the virus this year, in Jones County. Cases have been reported in Coahoma, For-rest, Hinds, Jones, Marion, Pearl River, Tallahatchie and Wayne counties.

In 2010, there were eight cases and no deaths.

Margaritaville Casinonames Biloxi leaders

BILOXI, Miss. — Gaming veteran Thomas Brosig was named president and chief executive officer of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Casino today.

Karen Sock was announced as general manager and chief operating officer.

The casino resort is under construction in East Biloxi and is to open next summer.

Brosig co-founded Grand Casinos Inc. with Lyle Berman. Sock is the former

general manager at Grand Casino in Biloxi.

During Brosig’s tenure at Grand, he oversaw the devel-opment of seven casinos, including four Indian casino developments.

The $48 million resort on Biloxi’s Back Bay will have a 68,000-square-foot casino and restaurant, retail stores, an events center and marina.

Clinton man sentencedfor Trustmark fraud

JACKSON, Miss. — A Clin-ton man has been sentenced to two years for bank fraud and ordered to pay about $86,000 in restitution.

U.S. Attorney John Dowdy said 43-year-old William O. Walker was sentenced in U.S. District Court. Walker was ordered to pay $86,588 to Trustmark National Bank.

Walker was the assistant branch manager for Trust-mark in Clinton.

He fraudulently forged cus-

tomer signatures in order to create loans in their names, authorities said.

Vitter backs Caldwellfor re-election as AG

BATON ROUGE — Repub-lican Attorney General Buddy Caldwell’s re-election bid has gotten the backing of U.S. Sen. David Vitter.

Vitter cited Caldwell’s oppo-sition to the new federal health care law and his sup-port for tougher immigration enforcement laws among the reasons for the endorsement.

Former U.S. Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, a Republican

from New Orleans, has said he will challenge Caldwell, of Tallulah, in the Oct. 22 pri-mary. Qualifying is Sept. 6-8.

Caldwell, the former long-time district attorney of Mad-ison Parish, was a Democrat until he switched parties in February.

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U.S. keeps tabs on Irene, first big storm threat in 3 years MIAMI (AP) — Emer-

gency officials from Florida to the Carolinas were closely watching Irene today as the first hurricane to seriously threaten the U.S. in three years churned over energizing tropical waters. The storm has already cut a destructive path through the Caribbean.

Forecasters say the hurri-cane could grow to a mon-strous Category 4 storm with winds of more than 131 mph before it’s predicted to come ashore this weekend on the U.S. mainland. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami expected Irene to reach Category 3 strength today, said spokesman Dennis Feltgen.

Officials could begin issu-ing watches for parts of the U.S. mainland later in the day. Because the storm is so large, Florida could begin feeling some effects from the storm late Wednesday.

Current government models have the storm’s outer bands sweeping Florida late this week before it takes aim at the Carolinas this weekend, though forecasters caution that predictions made days in advance can be off by hun-dreds of miles. Georgia is also likely to be affected.

The last hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. was Ike,

which pounded Texas in 2008. Before that, Hurricane Katrina battered the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf coasts on Aug. 29, 2005.

Early today, the first Atlantic hurricane of the season had maximum sustained winds

around 100 mph and was cen-tered about 55 miles northeast of Puerto Plata in the Domini-can Republic. It was moving west-northwest near 10 mph.

“For residents in states that might be affected later this week, it’s critical that you take

this storm seriously,” said Craig Fugate, administrator at the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency.

Emergency officials in North Carolina were check-ing “pre-landfall operations” to make sure equipment such

as trucks, forklifts, generators and computers were working, said Ernie Seneca, spokes-man for the state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Also, they were taking inventory of food and water.

To the south in Miami, Julio

Gonzalez was heeding the warnings and headed to a hardware store.

“I’m gonna board up,” he said Monday. “It’s best to play it safe.”

Others were stocking up on bottled water and plywood.

“We want to make sure Flo-ridians are paying attention,” said Bryan Koon, director of the Florida Division of Emer-gency Management, who met Monday with the governor. “We are at the height of the hurricane season right now. If it’s not Hurricane Irene, it could be the follow-up storm that impacts us.”

After several active years, Florida has not been struck by a hurricane since Wilma raked across the state’s south in October 2005. That storm was responsible for at least five deaths and came two months after Katrina.

Irene slashed directly across Puerto Rico, tearing up trees and knocking out power to more than a million people. It then headed out to sea, north of the Dominican Republic, where the powerful storm’s outer bands were buffeting the north coast with danger-ous sea surge and downpours. President Barack Obama declared an emergency for Puerto Rico.

Hinds West Nile case brings total in Mississippi to 15the south

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BuddyCaldwell

Sen. DavidVitter

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Jay Coleman fills up gasoline containers Monday in Royal Palm Beach, Fla., in preparation for Irene.

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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891Mr. and Mrs. John T. Wells return from Atlanta. • A.L. Blanks is back from a trip to the North. • Aaron Orbach and Polly Kiersky are betrothed. • The tug Joe Seay beats the O’Brien in a race.

110 YEARS AGO: 1901Harry K. Johnson is in the city. • W.C. Smedes and bride return from Meridian. • Dr. B.B. Martin is home from the Mis-sissippi coast.

100 YEARS AGO: 1911The Wolgast-Moran fight pictures are shown at the Walnut Street Theatre. • John S. Hoggatt and Many L. LeBlanc buy the Gem Cafe.

90 YEARS AGO: 1921Edgar Roberts and son return from a trip to Galveston Beach, Texas. • Little “Wee Wee” Fuller enjoys a birthday party. • Mary Miles Minter is billed at the Alamo Theatre in “Don’t Call Me Little Girl.” • Sarah Crock leaves for Philadelphia.

80 YEARS AGO: 1931Official figures for Warren County in the second primary show Conner, 1,252; White, 2,794. • Mrs. Fannie Griffin dies.

70 YEARS AGO: 1941Mrs. Roger Chatham Jr. is a patient in Vicksburg Hospital. • Ray Lum’s community auction will be broadcast over radio station WQBC.

60 YEARS AGO: 1951Polio continues on the rampage in Mississippi with nine new cases reported. • Sister Mary Sebastian Doyle dies.

50 YEARS AGO: 1961Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Starnes of Port Gibson announce the birth of a son, Randy Neal, on Aug. 25. • Sandra Dee stars in “Tammy Tell Me True” at the Joy Theatre. • Dave Winn dies.

40 YEARS AGO: 1971Annie Laughlin is visiting relatives in Raleigh, N.C. • Mrs. Ethel Bowman dies.

30 YEARS AGO: 1981Steve Kline wins the Carol Guider Award given annually to the swimmer showing outstanding sportsmanship and dedi-cation. • Mr. and Mrs. Belton Dent Sr. are the parents of a daughter, Andrea Donyelle, born Aug. 26.

20 YEARS AGO: 1991The 364th Medical Detachment unit, activated as part of the Desert Storm call-up, returns. • Mildred Westcott dies. • Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Antoine announce the birth of a son, Christopher Thomas, on Aug. 24. • Linda Straughter is pre-sented an award by 1990 United Way campaign chairman Bill Lauderdale.

10 YEARS AGO: 2001U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson tours new construction at Ander-son-Tully Co. • George “Dayo” Williams Sr. dies. • Real estate broker Pam Beard is honored as one of the state’s 50 Leading Business Women by the Mississippi Business Journal.

On the Afghan border with Paki-stan, in Paktika province, is a tiny, isolated and primitive American outpost called Combat Outpost Margah. What happened there last fall never penetrated main-stream consciousness, but on Oct. 30, American forces were surprised by a wee-hours attack by hundreds of unusually sophisticated fight-ers who were “armed to the teeth and shouting ‘Allah Akbar.’” Or so David Axe reported, quite vividly, in Wired magazine, the lone outlet to cover the battle.

It took 12 apocalyptic hours, but the insurgents were successfully repelled. Of course, this wasn’t the first time this outpost in east-ern Afghanistan or its defenders were attacked. Others have even occurred during U.S. missions into town to “show our faces,” as one soldier put it, one of the riskier tac-tics of counterinsurgency.

But on that October night, “one of the biggest localized fights” of the decade-long Afghanistan war took place and no one noticed, not even after Gen. David Petraeus called the outpost’s battle to save itself from being overrun “one for the his-

tory books.”Maybe the omission is connected

to the fact that Petraeus didn’t also speak of the great national pur-pose for which these valorous sol-diers had just risked life and limb. And maybe that omission is con-nected to the fact that there wasn’t any. There weren’t any American deaths at the Battle of Margah, either, and maybe that fact, for the military, is part of what makes it so memorable.

This wasn’t the case at Outpost Keating in October 2009, when 300 Taliban fighters breached a similarly tiny and isolated out-post near Kamdesh, also in eastern Afghanistan. In that earlier battle, eight Americans were killed. The

year before that, in July 2008, nine Americans were killed when 200 insurgents penetrated the tiny and isolated outpost of Wanat, also in eastern Afghanistan. Such casu-alties are the unreckoned costs of counter insurgency, and the top COINdinistas who inserted these mini U.S. outposts like pins in a map deep in hostile territory have never had to answer for them.

What a way to win Afghan “hearts and minds” — or so they thought. These remote outposts, the on-paper theory went, would serve as American welcome wagons among the misogynists, pederasts, polygamists and even secret jihadists who are the relent-less objects of affection in “popu-

lation-centric” COIN. Incredibly, this same, exact COIN mission still holds, nearly a decade after it got its start and long after Keating and Wanat closed down.

Outpost Margah, for one, remains open for battle.

Incoming jihadi fire is increas-ing greatly, at least compared with recent months. Recently, insur-gents tried to breach the perim-eter fence — probing defenses, no doubt. It is now, right now, that Outpost Margah should be on the worry meter for Americans. This U.S outpost in the Wild East of Afghanistan sounds all too much like another Outpost Keating or Wanat just waiting to happen.

And the U.S. military knows it. In April 2011, Long War Jour-nal reported on a visit by David Axe to Outpost Margah, where he learned that insurgents based in Waziristan, Pakistan, “train fight-ers in indirect fire, using the out-post as a target.” If the insurgents use Outpost Margah as a shooting gallery, I conclude this makes our men there sitting ducks.

Army 1st Lt. Jason Wright fur-ther explained: “The Waziristan

Agency (tribal government), they have a handbook ... almost exactly like our Ranger handbook that goes over advanced infantry tactics and small unit ambush raids, that sort of thing. (In a captured copy of the book) they had drawings of the out-post and the measurements, dis-tances, all that sort of thing, and it was pretty high-speed stuff for them. You wouldn’t think they’d have anything like that, but they did.”

Now remind me again: If jihad-ists use Oupost Margah as a shoot-ing gallery, what does Uncle Sam use it for? For what national pur-pose is the U.S government order-ing troops to risk death to defend a chunk of Afghan terrain near Pakistan? Shouldn’t Afghans be defending their own terrain — if they even want to? Shouldn’t some-one in Congress, or maybe an extra-brave GOP presidential candidate, raise the question? Too bad for the troops, but these leaders seem as disinterested as the rest of us.

•Diana West can be contacted at [email protected]

Afghans using U.S. outposts for target practice

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If the insurgents use Outpost Margah as a shooting gallery, I conclude this makes our men

there sitting ducks.

SwelterA scientific poll shows that 69

percent of Americans believe it is at least “somewhat likely” that scientists falsify data to support their beliefs, of which 40 percent believe it is “very likely.” Only 6 percent believe it’s “not likely at all.”

New hard-science global warm-ing data from NASA may back up the cynics.

If tornadoes ravage the Great Plains, we are told it’s more evi-dence of global warming. When wildfires rip through poorly man-aged forests that are loaded with old fuel, we are told it’s caused by global warming. Too hot? It’s global warming. Too cold? It’s climate change caused by global warming. Too much rain: global warming. A drought: global warming. Imagine how modern alarmists could have used the Dust Bowl.

Don’t believe any of it? Then you are in denial of settled sci-ence — settled by a consen-sus, we are told. Never mind that an impressive list of sci-entists at some of the world’s most respected universities and research institutes dispute the claims. Forget that leading promoters of global warming theory have been caught lying

about their findings. Believe the “experts” who say it is true.

Or you can choose to believe Roy Spencer, the U.S. science team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiome-ter — NASA’s Aqua satellite. The scanning radiometer has been described as a giant thermome-ter in space.

Global warming believers have long relied on computer models of the U.N. Intergovernmen-tal Panel on Climate Change, an organization that has been discredited even by some of the scientists who have served on it. The IPCC’s computer models — which use faulty data, based on the charges of some critics — have predicted heat lost to space by Earth. We are told that global warming results from conditions, exacerbated by humans, that pre-vent enough heat from escaping into space.

With NASA’s satellite thermom-eter, Spencer and his team of sci-entists have been able to measure the heat escaping into space. The IPCC has frightened us with pre-dictions about heat that doesn’t escape; NASA has enlightened us with hard data about the heat escaping Earth’s atmosphere.

Spencer’s team found that data

show more heat escaping into space than the IPCC has pre-dicted, which means less is get-ting trapped to overheat Earth. Reports say the new findings confirm previous heat-loss data recorded by other satellites. Forbes reports that NASA has a 25-year record of real data that contradict IPCC’s dire predic-tions of an atmosphere that won’t let enough heat escape.

Global warming fundamental-ists refuse to believe these incon-venient truths. One critic said we should not blindly accept two decades of “imperfect satellite data.” Yet we are supposed to embrace the IPCC’s predictions as facts.

“What are we supposed to do, pretend that the laws of physics have gone on a 25-year vacation?” wrote James Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News, for Forbes.

It remains possible that humans are causing a catastrophic warm-ing phenomenon that threatens their own existence. Anything is possible. The hypothesis tells us to worry. More and more, empiri-cal data tell us the hypothesis may not hold up.

Yes, it’s hot — but is it warming?

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2455 N. Frontage Road. The robbery was one of three that occurred in a span of about two hours. Also robbed were the KFC, 2915 Clay St., and a man riding his bike near Army Navy Drive and Confederate Avenue.

The chief said investigators believe one man is respon-sible for all three robberies because they found some-thing at the scene of one of the robberies that was stolen in one of the others. They also believe the man is from Vicksburg because of the location of the robberies, Armstrong said, though no arrest has been made.

“This man is still out there

and someone will recognize him,” he said. “You can’t say, ‘It wasn’t me,’ or ‘I can’t get involved,’ because you may be next.”

Armstrong also showed a security camera photograph of a man suspected in auto burglaries at the Grand Sta-tion Hotel and Casino.

“Back in the day, everybody had a nosey neighbor, that person who knew everything that went on in the neigh-borhood,” said Sgt. Beverly Prentiss. “We’re asking you to be nosey neighbors.”

“You can call us or get on our Facebook page,” Arm-strong said. “We are part of CrimeStoppers. You can call

CrimeStoppers and report a crime and you don’t have to give your name. No bit of information is too small.

“I was glad they had this meeting,” Grove Street resi-dent Robyn Gordon said. “It was very informative. I just wish more people were here.”

Armstrong said after the meeting that the department did its best to advertise the meeting.

“This was the first one, and I’m sure we’ll do better with the next one,” he said. “It was a good meeting. The people were receptive to what we had to say.”


Ilyumzhinov, who was received by Gadhafi in Libya in July, said in an inter-view with the Interfax news agency that Gadhafi called him at around 9 this morn-ing and told him that he was “alive and well and still in Tripoli.”

The report couldn’t be inde-pendently confirmed.

Street battles between pro-Gadhafi troops and rebels broke out in several parts of the city, and the mood turned from one of euphoria to con-fusion and fear a day after opposition fighters swept into the capital with relative ease, claiming to have most of it under their control.

Thick clouds of gray and white smoke filled the Trip-oli sky as heavy gunfire and explosions shook several dis-tricts of the city of 2 million people.

NATO warned the situation in Tripoli remains very dan-gerous and promised the alli-ance will continue bombing forces loyal to the 69-year-old Libyan leader if they keep fighting.

“Snipers, shelling, missiles could do much damage, but they can’t change the course of history or the outcome of this campaign,” spokes-man Col. Roland Lavoie told reporters at a news confer-ence in Naples, Italy. He said NATO had to stay vigilant because of fluidity of the situ-ation on the ground.

“Most notably, Tripoli is still the site of numerous clashes between pro- and anti-Qadhafi forces, and the tension is far from being over. The situation in Tripoli is indeed very, very dynamic and complex, even today, and we are closely monitor-ing developments hour after hour,” he said.

Some of the heaviest fight-ing today was around Gad-hafi’s Bab al-Aziziya main compound and military barracks, with both sides battling it out with heavy machine-guns, mortars and anti-aircraft guns. The sprawling complex, heav-ily damaged by NATO air-strikes, emerged as one of the centers of government resistance since tanks rolled out Monday and fired at rebels trying to get in.

Associated Press report-ers at the scene said the two sides were positioned across either end of an empty field outside the complex today. The fighting continued until early evening with columns of smoke rising from the site.

NATO officials in Brussels

said the alliance’s warplanes were flying over Tripoli today, but that there have been no bombing runs.

The ferocity of the fight-ing over the compound led to speculation that Gadhafi or members of his immedi-ate family may be sheltering there. But Gadhafi’s former right-hand man Abdel-Salam Jalloud told Al-Jazeera tele-vision that he thought the Libyan leader was moving around the outskirts of Trip-oli, taking shelter at private homes, small hotels and mosques. Jalloud defected this month.

However, a senior rebel official, Ahmed Jebril, said that Gadhafi was believed to be at Bab al-Aziziya. “He was taken by surprise. He never expected the speed by which fighters have taken over Tripoli or the collapse of his forces. It was too quick. He was not prepared to leave Tripoli,” he told The Associ-ated Press by telephone from Benghazi, the de facto rebels’ capital in eastern Libya.

“We don’t know who is inside Bab al-Aziziya. We believe that there is someone there and that he is leading a fierce battle. It is a symbol. This is the final castle of Gad-hafi,” said Mahmoud Sham-man, a Doha-base spokes-man for the rebels’ interim council.

The standoff over Bab al-Aziziya occurred after Seif al-Islam, with a full beard and wearing an olive-green T-shirt and camouflage trou-sers, took a group of foreign journalists to the area as part of a tour aimed at showing the regime still has support.

At Bab al-Aziziya, at least a hundred men were wait-ing in lines for guns being distributed to volunteers to defend the regime. Seif al-Islam shook hands with sup-porters, beaming and flash-ing the “V” for victory sign.

“We are here. This is our country. This is our people, and we live here, and we die here,” he told AP Television News. “And we are going to win, because the people are with us. That’s why were are going to win. Look at them — look at them, in the streets, everywhere!”

It was not clear whether Gadhafi’s son, who turned up at the Rixos hotel, where about 30 foreign journalists have been staying under the close watch of regime mind-ers, had escaped from rebel custody or never been cap-tured in the first place.

His arrest was announced on Monday by both the rebels and the Netherlands-based International Crimi-nal Court, which has indicted him and his father.

ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah said the court never received official con-firmation from Libya’s rebel authorities about the arrest.

The rebel leadership — which had said Seif al-Islam was captured without giving details on where he was held — seemed stunned. A rebel spokesman, Sadeq al-Kabir, had no explanation and could only say, “This could be all lies.”

He also said another cap-tured Gadhafi son, Moham-med, had escaped house arrest. Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head of the rebel National

Transitional Council, announced the detention of a third Gadhafi son, al-Saadi, on Monday.

Riding in a white limousine amid a convoy of armored SUVs, Seif al-Islam took reporters on a drive through parts of the city still under the regime’s control, includ-ing Bab al-Aziziya, saying,

“We are going to hit the hot-test spots in Tripoli.” AP reporters were on the tour.

The tour also covered the district around the Rixos hotel and streets full of armed Gadhafi backers, con-trolled by roadblocks, and into the Gadhafi stronghold neighborhood Bu Slim.

When asked about the

ICC’s claim that he was arrested by rebels, he told reporters: “The ICC can go to hell,” and added “We are going to break the backbone of the rebels.”

Rebels said Monday that they controlled most of Trip-oli, but they faced pockets of fierce resistance from regime loyalists firing mortars and anti-aircraft guns. Rebel spokesman Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, who was in Tripoli, said the “danger is still there” as long as the longtime Libyan leader remains on the run.

An hourlong battle also erupted close to the Rixos Hotel this morning, accord-ing to AP reporters staying there. The hotel and the area around it are under tight regime control, with scores of heavily armed soldiers sta-tioned just outside it.

A new bout of fighting around the Rixos took place in the afternoon, with the AP reporters saying the sound of explosions and heavy machine-gun fire was much closer than during the morn-ing fighting. A few stray bul-lets hit the hotel, they said.

It was not immediately clear whether the rebel attack was aimed at captur-ing the hotel.

U.S., NATO crucial, unseen hands in LibyaWASHINGTON (AP) —

Through months of military stalemate in Libya it was an open secret among NATO allies that countries inside and outside the alliance were quietly but crucially help-ing rebels gain their footing against the much stronger forces loyal to longtime dicta-tor Moammar Gadhafi.

Covert forces, private con-tractors and U.S. intelligence assets were thrown into the fight in an undercover cam-paign operating separately

from the NATO command structure. Targeted bomb-ings methodically took out Gadhafi’s key communica-tions facilities and weapons caches. And an increasing number of American hunter-killer drones provided round-the-clock surveillance as the rebels advanced.

These largely unseen hands helped to transform the ragtag rebel army into the force storming Tripoli.

Diplomats acknowledge that covert teams from France,

Britain and some East Euro-pean states provided critical assistance, without — they contend — compromising NATO’s mandate from the United Nations to restrict its operations to protecting civilians.

The aid included logisticians, security advisers and forward air controllers for the rebel army, as well as intelligence operatives, damage assess-ment analysts and other experts, according to a dip-lomat based at NATO’s head-

quarters in Brussels. The dip-lomat spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitiv-ity of the issue.

The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have been gathering informa-tion throughout the conflict from contacts they’d devel-oped when they were work-ing closely with Gadhafi’s government on counterterror-ism against al-Qaida-related Islamic militant groups oper-ating in Libya. This thawing of relations between two long-

time adversaries, lasting only a few years, paid unexpected dividends later.

Foreign military advisers on the ground were key to get-ting real-time intelligence to the rebels, helping them accu-rately concentrate their lim-ited firepower on the enemy.

Bolstering the intelligence on the ground was an escalat-ing surveillance and targeting campaign in the skies above. Armed U.S. Predator drones helped to clear a path for the rebels to advance.

The addition of U.S. drone aircraft into the Libyan the-ater was important to the rebels, in giving them access to constant surveillance of the terrain, said Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros, the French Air Force chief of staff.

In recent weeks, as the U.S. added more drones to the fight, they were able to do precision strikes closer to the cities, shadowing the rebels as they advanced through Zawiya and roared into Tripoli.


Smoke rises over buildings in the main compound of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi today.

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LBJ — Lyndon B. Johnson or LeBron JAmes?

College freshmen have different view, list saysMILWAUKEE (AP) — Men-

tion Amazon to the incoming class of college freshmen and they are more likely to think of shopping than the South American river. PC doesn’t stand for political correctness and breaking up on Facebook is more common than any more personal encounter.

These are among the 75 ref-erences on this year’s Beloit College Mindset List, a com-pilation intended to remind teachers that college fresh-men born mostly in 1993 see the world in a much different way: They fancied pogs and Tickle Me Elmo toys as chil-dren, watched televisions that never had dials and their lives have always been like a box of chocolates.

Once upon a time, relatives of the current generation swore never to trust anyone over the age of 30. This group could argue: Never trust anyone older than the Net.

The college’s compilation, released today, is assembled each year by two officials at the private school in south-eastern Wisconsin. It also has evolved into a national phe-nomenon, a cultural touch-stone that entertains even as it makes people wonder where the years have gone.

Remember when the ini-tials LBJ referred to Presi-dent Lyndon B. Johnson? Today, according to the list, they make teenagers think of NBA star LeBron James. And speaking of NBA leg-ends, these kids didn’t want to be like Mike. They fawned over Shaq and Kobe.

In their lifetimes, Major League Baseball has always had three divisions plus wild-card playoff teams, and every state has always observed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The “yadda, yadda, yadda” generation that’s been quot-ing Seinfeld since they were old enough to talk also has always seen women serve as U.S. Supreme Court jus-tices and command U.S. Navy ships.

Then there’s OJ Simpson. These students were still in diapers when the former NFL star began searching for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

“Hmm, I know there was some scandal about him,” said Alex Keesey, 18, an incoming freshman from Beloit. “I think it was robbery or murder, maybe both.”

Comments like that can be a little jarring to older folks who imagine that everyone knows

about the Simpson murder trial and subsequent acquit-tal. But if the generation gap has you down, get used to it. The list’s authors note that technology has only acceler-ated the pace of change and further compressed the gen-erational divide.

Older Americans who read previous Mindset Lists felt that life was moving too quickly, list author Ron Nief said, and now even younger people share that sentiment.

“I talk to people in their early 30s and they’re telling me they can’t keep up with all the advances,” Nief said.

Nief’s co-author, English professor Tom McBride, predicts the trend will only accelerate.

“If you look at the jump from e-mail to texting, or from e-mail to Facebook, it’s been faster than the jump from typing to computers,” McBride said. “These gen-

erational gaps are getting smaller.”

Still not feeling old? Consider this: Andre the Giant, River Phoenix and Frank Zappa all died before these students were born. They don’t know what a Commodore 64 was, and they don’t understand why Boston barflies would ever shout, “Norm!”

Oh, and Ferris Bueller could be their father.

But the list isn’t intended to serve as a cultural tombstone, its authors say, contending that the compilation also serves a practical purpose.

McBride and Nief say the main lesson professors should take from this year’s list is that their incoming stu-dents have never lived in a world without the Internet. From the moment these kids were able to reach a tabletop, their fingertips probably were brushing against computers plugged into the World Wide Web.

And while that was largely true for the last few classes as well, the authors say teachers need to be extra-vigilant about where this year’s students are going for information.

The Internet is great for finding facts, McBride says, but there’s a big difference between facts and the knowl-edge that comes from under-standing context behind the facts. He advises professors to teach how to supplement Internet searches with library research in scholarly journals, and to remind freshmen to dig beyond the first page or two of Google search results.

Seoul mayor urges votersto nix free school lunches

SEOUL, South Korea — Seoul’s mayor is asking voters to reject free lunches for all elementary and middle school students in a referendum Wednesday that has become a test of how far a resurgent South Korea should go in developing a welfare state.

As rising costs batter the U.S. and European govern-ments, the $370-million-a-year proposal has sparked months of heated debate, giving a glimpse of Asia’s fourth largest economy at a crossroads. Having rebuilt after the Korean War and faced down a brutal finan-cial crisis in the late 1990s, the nation is debating the role of government and how much it can afford in social programs.

Seoul provides free lunch to 35 percent of elementary and middle school students, and the city parliament has approved raising that to 100 percent. A referendum is the only way for conservative Mayor Oh Se-hoon to reverse that decision.

Syrian troops kill7 after U.N. visit

BEIRUT — Syrian security forces killed at least seven people in the restive cen-tral city of Homs soon after a United Nations humanitar-ian assessment team left the area because the security situation was deteriorating, activists said today.

Monday’s bloodshed came as the overall death toll from

President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on the 5-month-old uprising in Syria reached 2,200, the U.N. said.

The U.N.’s top human rights body voted over-whelmingly today to demand that Syria end its crackdown and cooperate with an inter-national probe into possible crimes against humanity.

Biden lauds resolvein tsunami zone visit

SENDAI, Japan — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden today praised the resolve of the Japa-nese people in their efforts to recover from the tsu-nami and reaffirmed the two coun-tries’ alli-ance as vital for regional peace and prosperity.

In a speech at Sendai’s air-port, which American mili-tary personnel helped clear of debris after the tsunami, Biden spoke of the U.S. pub-lic’s admiration of Japan after the March 11 disas-ter, which left about 20,000 people dead or missing and ravaged hundreds of miles of coastline.

“The disaster met its match in the legendary industrious-ness and relentless persever-ance of the Japanese people,” he said.

Indiana state fair death toll rises to 7INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An

Ohio cheerleading coach died Monday from head injuries she sustained during a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair, and it wasn’t clear if she had undergone the organ dona-tion surgery family members had planned while she was in a coma.

Meagan Toothman, 24, was confirmed as the seventh person to die from the Aug. 13 stage collapse, said a statement

from the Marion County coro-ner’s office released Monday night by Indiana State Police.

She had been set to undergo the organ donation surgery Monday afternoon, but the statement didn’t say if that had happened. Calls to the coroner and police were not returned.

Toothman’s family said ear-lier in a web journal that organ donation surgery “will provide gifts of sight, health and life to dozens who are in need.” Doc-

tors put Toothman into a coma Aug.15 to try to ease the bruis-ing and swelling on her brain.

“Late last night it became apparent that our Meagan was no longer with us,” the family wrote Monday.

Authorities erroneously reportedshe had died late Sunday, but Marion County coroner’s office spokeswoman Marchele Hall said Toothman remained in a coma at the time.

worldBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Lyndon B. Johnson, left, and miami heat basket-ball star LeBron James


Vice PresidentJoe Biden

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Q: I am 65 years old and work for a national park (seasonal), which pays about $17,000 annually. I am semire-tired from a job in teaching (26 years), which nets me about $1,900 a month. I plan to with-draw Social Security at 66. This should be about $1,400 to $1,500 a month. I am on Medi-

care now with a supple-mentary health insur-ance. I have about $750,400 in IRAs, annui-ties and

CDs, which I hope not to draw upon until I am 70. I hope to keep working part time until then and further my career. I have always lived modestly on $1,200-$1,300 a month, in a small apartment and now in an older mobile home. I am interested in improving my

finances. I might be inherit-ing a farm. I am also helping my 91-year-old mother, who lives on the farm. How much further do I need to go to be in stable financial shape? — S.C., via e-mail

A: You are in a substantial position. Whether you want to continue living in the mobile home or in another apartment is a question I can’t answer. I assume that you own the mobile home. If it is in rea-sonably good condition and either you own the property or the rent is reasonable, why not stay where you are? You say you are helping out your mom. It’s hard to question that decision and, of course, I am making the assumption that when your mom passes away the farm will be passed to you. You ask how much fur-ther you need to go to be in “stable shape.” My answer is, you are there!

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

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The following quotes on local companies are provided as a service by Smith Barney Citi Group, 112-B Monument Place, 601-636-6914.

Archer-Daniels (ADM)............ 27.27American Fin. (AFG) .................30.97Ameristar (ASCA) .......................17.56Auto Zone (AZO) .................... 295.70Bally Technologies (BYI) ..........28.92BancorpSouth (BXS) ................... 9.94Britton Koontz (BKBK) .............11.18Cracker Barrel (CBRL) ...............39.96Champion Ent. (CHB).....................20Com. Health Svcs. (CYH) ..............18.55Computer Sci. Corp. (CSC) ..........27.72Cooper Industries (CBE) .........41.75CBL and Associates (CBL) ...............14.06CSX Corp. (CSX) ..........................20.19East Group Prprties (EGP)............36.55El Paso Corp. (EP) ......................17.05Entergy Corp. (ETR) ..................61.63

Fastenal (FAST) ...........................30.11Family Dollar (FDO) ..................47.77Fred’s (FRED) ................................10.78Int’l Paper (IP) .............................23.39Janus Capital Group (JNS) .............5.97J.C. Penney (JCP) .......................25.03Kroger Stores (KR) .....................22.72Kan. City So. (KSU) ....................46.23Legg Mason (LM) .................... 25.64Parkway Properties (PKY) ............11.65PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) .....................61.92Regions Financial (RF) ................3.88Rowan (RDC) ............................... 31.71Saks Inc. (SKS) ................................8.08Sears Holdings (SHLD) ............ 52.23Simpson-DuraVent (SSD) ............24.13Sunoco (SUN) .............................. 34.30Trustmark (TRMK) ..................... 19.20Tyco Intn’l (TYC) ......................... 38.01Tyson Foods (TSN) .................... 16.64Viacom (VIA) ................................ 50.59Walgreens (WAG) ...................... 34.90Wal-Mart (WMT) ........................ 52.19

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Stocks see rise led by technology firmsNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks

moved higher early today for the second day in a row, led by technology companies.

Cisco Systems Inc. rose the most of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average, gaining 2 percent. Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. also rose 2 percent.

Bank of America Corp. sank more than 3 percent, the worst in the Dow. Other bank stocks were mixed. Financial stocks have been hit hard in recent weeks over worries about Europe’s debt crisis and the possibility that the U.S. could slip back into recession.

Stocks rose broadly despite another weak report on the U.S. housing market. The Commerce Department said the number of people who bought new homes in July fell 1 percent, the fourth monthly drop. New home sales are on track to have their worst year in half a century.

UBS rose 3 percent in early trading. The Swiss bank said it planned on cutting 3,500 jobs worldwide in the hope of saving $2.5 billion by the end of next year. UBS’s stock has dropped 20 percent this year.

The Dow Jones industrial

average rose 130 points, or 1.2 percent, to 10,985 in morning trading. The Dow also rose sharply in morning trading Monday, but ended with a gain of just 37.

The S&P 500 index rose 14

points, or 1.3 percent, to 1,138. The Nasdaq rose 39 points, or 1.7 percent, to 2,384.

H.J. Heinz Co. fell 3 per-cent after the world’s larg-est ketchup maker said prof-its fell 6 percent in the most

recent quarter. Heinz also lowered its earnings estimate for the year.

Better reports on manufac-turing in Europe and China lifted world markets. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 2 percent and Germany’s DAX rose 0.8 percent. Investors are also hoping Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will announce some kind of assistance Friday for the U.S. economy.

Major indexes eked out minor gains Monday fol-lowing a four-week losing streak. The S&P 500 index has dropped 16 percent since July 22 and 13 percent this month. The broad market measure is on track for its worst August since the Asian financial crisis rattled world markets in 1998.

There’s still fear that the U.S. could slip into another recession. Investors will be watching Bernanke’s speech at the Fed’s annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Friday.

It was at the same con-ference a year ago that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke made the case for buying Treasury bonds to push interest rates lower and spur spending.

NEW YORK (AP) — The president of Standard & Poor’s is stepping down, an announcement coming only weeks after the rating agen-cy’s unprecedented move to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating.

The McGraw-Hill Cos., the parent of S&P, said late Monday that Deven Sharma will be replaced by Douglas Peterson, now the chief oper-ating officer of Citibank N.A., Citigroup Inc.’s chief bank-ing arm.

Sharma, 55, “was ready for new challenges” after help-ing S&P separate its data, pricing and analytics busi-ness from its ratings busi-ness, McGraw-Hill said. The company unveiled that restructuring at S&P late last year.

Peter-son, 53, will take over the helm of S&P start-ing Sept. 12. Sharma will stay on as an adviser

at the parent company

until the end of the year. McGraw-Hill’s statement

did not mention the Aug. 5 downgrade that sent shock waves through global finan-cial markets and was sharply criticized by the Obama administration, which said the agency’s analysis was fundamentally flawed. Other major rating agencies have maintained their AAA rat-ings on the U.S.

Number of Americans at riskof foreclosure is increasing

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans at risk of foreclosure is rising, reflect-ing the U.S. economy’s contin-ued struggles.

The Mortgage Bankers Association said Monday that 8.44 percent of homeowners missed at least one mortgage payment in the April-June quarter. That figure, which is adjusted for seasonal fac-tors, rose 0.12 percentage point from the January-March period.

In a normal market, the per-centage of delinquent bor-rowers is about 1.1 percent, according to the trade group.

Delinquent mortgages have plummeted from a record high of more than 10 percent of res-idential mortgages a year ago. But the decline is due partly to delays in foreclosure filings that are backlogged in several state courts, including Flor-ida, New Jersey, Illinois and New York.

The end of a state and fed-eral investigation into faulty foreclosure paperwork will likely lead to increased fore-closures later this year.

Analysts say the increase is especially worrisome because it’s due mainly to high unemployment.

Head of rating agency S&P quitting

DevenSharma

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TONIGHT

Partly cloudy tonight, lows in the lower 70s; mostly

sunny Wednesday, highs in the upper 90s

73°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSSETTwEdNESdAy

97°

WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information

provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECASTwednesday-thursdayMostly sunny with a slight

chance of showers and thunderstorms on Thurs-day; highs in the 90s, lows

in the 70s

STATE FORECASTtOnIGht

Partly cloudy, lows in the lower 70s

wednesday-thursdayMostly sunny with a slight

chance of showers and thunderstorms on Thurs-day; highs in the 90s, lows

in the 70s

ALmAnAChIGhs and LOws

High/past 24 hours............. 97ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 75ºAverage temperature ........ 86ºNormal this date .................. 81ºRecord low .............62º in 1956Record high ...........99º in 1983

raInfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month .............1.45 inchesTotal/year ............. 23.78 inchesNormal/month .....2.27 inchesNormal/year ....... 35.71 inches

sOLunar tabLeMost active times for fishand wildlife Wednesday:

A.M. Active ........................... 1:25A.M. Most active ................ 7:39P.M. Active ............................ 1:52P.M. Most active ................. 8:06

sunrIse/sunsetSunset today ....................... 7:39Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:38Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:32

RIVER DATAstaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 20.0 | Change: -0.3Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 17.4 | Change: NC

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City


Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 16.3 | Change: +0.1

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West


Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 7.0 | Change: -0.3

Flood: 28 feet

steeLe bayOuLand ...................................69.0River ...................................67.0

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Wednesday .......................... 23.5Thursday ............................... 23.4Friday ...................................... 23.3

MemphisWednesday .............................8.2Thursday ..................................8.1Friday .........................................8.1

GreenvilleWednesday .......................... 26.8Thursday ............................... 26.7Friday ...................................... 26.3

VicksburgWednesday .......................... 20.1Thursday ............................... 20.1Friday ...................................... 20.0

CountyContinued from Page A1.

and east Vicksburg, the sec-tion reappraised by the Tax Assessor’s Office this year. Five were revisited by field appraisers or by Agent after the initial round of reapprais-als this spring.

They included:• Homes at 507 Farmer St.,

815 Belmont St. and 3211 Victory Ave., all owned by De Reul, an indepen-dent candidate for District 2 supervisor. No new value for 2011 was recommended for the Farmer Street house, which totaled $51,850 but was 44.4 percent less than the $93,230 placed on it for 2010. The Belmont Street home, valued at $40,570 for 2011, wasn’t changed but was 7.4 percent lower due to some restoration on the house, Agent said. The Vic-tory Avenue property was valued at $15,400, cut from $38,380, due to its condition, Agent said.

• Rental units anchored at 2135 Cherry St., owned by Patricia Smith, a Warren County Election Commis-sion member and a former member of the Board of Supervisors. The $202,960 value was based on verbal appeal and included a 10 percent cut on the land cal-culation and a .7 percent cut on the structures compared

to 2010.Reul and Smith had filed

verbal appeals on Aug. 2.• Homestead and rentals at

1816 Cherry St. and 1703 Monroe St., owned by John and Sandra Shingler. On the Monroe Street duplex, a final $85,130 value showed a 25 percent reduction on the land and 20 percent on the structure. The Cherry Street duplex was valued at $216,900 and the structure calculation cut 9.1 percent.

• A rental unit at 1315 China St., owned by Alexander and Evan Morales. A final $44,260 value was 5.2 per-cent less than originally rec-ommended and was based on a bottom floor used for storage and not living space.

• Homestead property at 1005 Main St., owned by Mal-colm and Nelda Sampey. A $162,870 value was based in part on a 13 percent reduc-tion in the structure’s value. Values were left alone

for two others, one filed by Ameristar Casino on real and personal property taxes on the main casino and a structure connecting it to the gaming venue’s parking garage and another by River Region Medical Center on personal property taxes on medical equipment. Personal

property refers to assets not built onto land, such as inven-tory held by businesses.

Ameristar has argued its $169 million total assessed market value — agreed upon last year after a yearlong lawsuit over what its tax bill should be — should be low-ered to $94.6 million, based on the number of games, or “gaming positions,” and, thus, align its tax bills more evenly with four competing casinos in Vicksburg.

The value should stay the same, Agent said, calling the casino’s current stance

“an odd way” to have values reduced.

“We couldn’t find any reason to ask for any changes in it,” he said.

On the hospital’s protest, filed by Kansas-based Prop-erty Valuation Services, equipment added in 2010 would pump personal prop-erty values to $21.4 million, up by $2 million from last year.

No changes were recom-mended on the Beechwood, Eastview and Fredella Vil-lage apartment complexes, for which written protests

were filed. Values totaled $2.1 million, $1.3 million and $422,040, respectively. Also, no change was recom-mended for vacant land on South Madison Street and a commercial building at 1700 Monroe St. that houses Mis-sissippi Action for Progress, valued at $139,940. The par-cels are owned by Phillip and George Jabour.

Real and personal property values for homes and busi-nesses fell 1 percent this year on the tax rolls Tax Assessor Richard Holland presented to supervisors in June.

On the agenda• Learned of an October

2012 deadline to complete a third and final phase to the grant-funded push to clear debris from drainage bayous inside Vicksburg.

Areas along Stouts Bayou are in the last phase of the project, which has stretched three years after the county won a $3.9 million Katrina-re-lated disaster recovery grant to do the work. Of 43 parcels where the county needs ac-cess, only 12 have title opin-ions, said Olie Elfer of Jimmy G. Gouras Urban Planning Consultants, administrator of the grant funds.

No money for land acqui-sition was included in the grant, and the county has pursued land donations most

aggressively. Meetings with property owners along the affected area, which runs through Marcus Bottom, have yielded “mixed results,” Elfer told supervisors.

To date, fees paid via reim-bursements from the Missis-sippi Development Authority have totaled $259,941.53 for project engineer ABMB En-gineers Inc. and $54,718.74 for the Gouras firm. A first phase reinforced canal banks along Glass Bayou in Kings last winter. A second phase along Hutson Street earlier this summer was contracted to Vicksburg-based Lampkin Construction for $107,021.20. Through Monday, $96,622.08 has been paid.

• Approved in principle to participate in an interlocal

agreement with the City of Vicksburg to match a grant to resurface Industrial Drive and repair slides below the road, located off Haining Road at the Port of Vicksburg.

A local match would be 20 percent and could come from about $289,000 al-ready in the Warren County Port Commission’s budget for 2012, executive director Wayne Mansfield said.

• Approved the Emergency Management Agency’s ap-plication for a performance grant from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

• Agreed to release informa-tion gleaned from GIS maps on utilities to UC Synergetic, as per a request from the City of Vicksburg.

DEATHSwilliam Earl Bexley Jr.William Earl Bexley Jr. died

in Vicksburg Aug. 22, 2011, after a brief illness. He was 81.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 60 years, Betty Everett Bexley and his son Bill Bexley III of Vicksburg. Bill also leaves six exceptional grandchil-dren: Yancy Porter (Kate) of Oxford, Everett, Elliott and Camille Bexley of Vicksburg and Elizabeth Porter Todd (Adam) and Billy Porter of Hatties-burg. Also, his great-grandchil-dren, Taylor and Olivia Bexley Porter of Oxford, were special bless-ings in his life. He also leaves a brother, James Robert Bexley of Fayetteville, Ark.

Preceding him in death were two daughters, Sarah Jo and Suzanne, who were greatly loved and missed.

Bill was born in McLain, Miss., to Earl and Dennie Bexley. He had lived in Vicks-burg since 1953. He entered the University of Missis-sippi at the age of 17. There he played baseball and was on the Committee of 100. His junior year he met and mar-ried Betty, and they trans-ferred to the University of Southern Mississippi, where they graduated with honors.

He was a longtime member of the Ole Miss Loyalty Foun-dation and Alumni Asso-ciation. For many years, he and Betty attended foot-ball, basketball and baseball games as season ticket-hold-ers. Oxford was truly their second home.

Until the time of his retire-ment in 1994, he was vice president and co-owner of Runyon Construction Com-pany. He was a member of the Mississippi Asphalt Asso-ciation. Bill was appointed by the Warren County Board of Supervisors in 1975 to the Warren County Port Commission.

For over 55 years he was a devoted member of Craw-ford Street United Method-ist Church, where he and his wife were married. He served on the staff-parish committee, finance commit-tee and the administration board. He also had delivered Meals on Wheels from his church since 1994. Bill was also a team member who prepared and served meals to the needy at The Salvation Army.

A memorial service will take place to honor Bill at

Crawford Street United Methodist Church, 900 Craw-ford St. in Vicksburg, on Thursday at 11 a.m. Visita-tion will be at the church from 9:30 until the hour of the service. The Rev. Cary Stockett will officiate.

His desire to help others was reflected in his decision to donate his body to the Uni-versity of Mississippi Medi-cal Center.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to CSUMC or to Vicksburg Catholic School, 1900 Grove St., Vicksburg, MS 39183.

douglas C. LeeDouglas C. Lee died Thurs-

day, Aug. 18, 2011, at Ander-son Regional Medical Center in Meridian. He was 59.

Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Tina May Keyes HullTina May Keyes Hull went

to be with the Lord on Aug. 21, 2011, at Heritage House Nursing Home. She was 94 years old.

Born on Jan. 12, 1917, in D’Lo, Miss., she was the daughter of the late Wil-liam Frank Sr. and Tinie May Phippes Keyes.

She was preceded in death by her hus-band of 72 years, James Redmond Hull who passed away in 2009; an infant daugh-ter, Tina M. Hull; and a brother, Wil-liam Frank Keyes Jr. of New-ellton, La.

She is survived by one daughter, Tina H. Stubbs (Randy); three sons, Gregory R. Hull (Bertha), Glyn Dale Hull (Mary Blair) and James C. Hull (Linda); a sister, Vivian K. Watson (Lyman), all of Vicksburg; nieces and nephews; 12 grandchildren, Donna Ratliff, Lynette Kin-stley, Greg Hull Jr., Denise Thompson, Charlotte Coulter, Billy Hull, Scott Hull, Dale Hull Jr., Jason Hull, Chrissy Bergeron, Ryan Hull, Dustin Hull; and 17 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Tina May was a person who could do anything she set her mind to and made sure it was done well, like laying a brick patio. She was an excellent seamstress and also in uphol-stery. She made ceramics, china painting and beauti-ful porcelain and lace-draped dolls. She was an avid pho-tographer her whole life and traveled numerous places in her lifetime. Her family and

friends will cherish the won-derful memories she has left for all to enjoy. She loved and lived life to the fullest. She was a member of the Baptist faith.

Visitation will be at Riles Funeral Home Wednesday from 9 a.m. until the ser-vice at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Robert Andrews, pastor of Cross Point Church, officiat-ing. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be grandsons.

Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Lee Giffin, Dr. Russell Barnes and Dr. Calvin Mas-terson of Mission Primary Care and employees of Heri-tage House Nursing Home.

The family would like to express appreciation to everyone at Heritage House Nursing Home and, espe-cially, Jackie Wolf, whom Tina loved so dearly, and Ronita and Aleisha for the special loving care given to their mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother.

Memorials may be made to charities of choice.

George Richard SkipperDELHI, La. — George

Richard Skipper, 57, of Delhi went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, after a brief 15-day struggle with his pancreatitis.

Richard was born on Oct. 18, 1953, in Las Vegas.

He was the son of the Rev. George Washington Skip-per and Effie Imogene Kemp Skipper of Epps, La.

Richard and his wife, Paula

Owens Skip-per, have two loving chil-dren, Molly Summer Waters and her hus-band, Toby, of Tendal, La., and John Richard “Beau” Skipper and his wife, Kristie (Hardy), of Delhi; and five grandchildren, Made-lynn Paige Skipper, Richard Kael Skipper, Jackson Seth Skipper, Remington Stone Waters and Kensington Grace Waters.

He also is survived by his mother, Effie Imogene Skip-per of Epps; three broth-ers, David Mark Skipper of Epps, Phillip Neal Skipper of Holly Grove, Ark., and Stacy Skipper of Swartz, La.; two sisters, Jean Annette “Ann” Boykin of Sibley, La., and Christy Joy Evans of Bastrop, La.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Richard was preceded in death by his father and a brother, Robert Dale Skipper.

Those who knew and loved Richard considered him to be a Godly man of strong faith, principles, character and leadership. His passions were: his faith in God, family, occupation and sharing his faith with others. Rich-ard never met a stranger. His quick wit and humor befriended him to all.

He was an active member of the Gideons International of the Madison Richland Camp, Triumph Church of Vicksburg, LA Cattleman’s Association and Brownie Hunting Woods Club. He also

served on the Waverly Water Board and was a former police juryman of Madison Parish.

Richard was a self-employed farmer from the early age of 18. He took tre-mendous pride in his farm-ing and was an avid hunter, fisherman and sportsman. His love for muscle cars, especially his 1970 Chevelle, was known by all.

Richard’s love for his grandchildren was also obvi-ous as he was seen “carting” them to ball games, school events and special times with “Granddaddy,” which included but was not limited to, fishing, drag racing, dirt tracks, racing bicycles and special ice cream trips to any location that served ice cream.

Visitation will be from 6 until 9 tonight at First Bap-tist Church in Delhi. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Triumph Church, 4305 Frontage Road, Vicksburg, with Pastor Mike Fields, Eddie Fuller and Roger Temple officiating. Burial will follow at Epps Cemetery in Epps under the direction of Cox Funeral Home of Delhi.

Pallbearers will be John Laird, Walter Huffman, Wayne McManus, Randy Walters, Don Raley, Walter Scott, Edward Greer and Brad Johnson.

Honorary pallbearers will be Paul Meeks, Ken Gibson and Anthony Moore.

william EarlBexley Jr.

Tina MayKeyes Hull

George RichardSkipper


ShootingContinued from Page A1.

The teen, who was not iden-tified, was released from River Region Medical Center after undergoing surgery to remove a small-caliber bullet from his leg, police said.

A 16-year-old, Albert Buch-anan of 365 Drayton Road, was charged with aggravated assault in the shooting. He appeared Monday in Vicks-burg Municipal Court, where his bond was set at $25,000, but he remained in jail because he was out on bond on a charge of burglary on Aug. 2 at a home on Funches Road.

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said Buchanan was certified last week to be tried as an adult for the bur-glary and had been released on $10,000 bond.

“He had been out a week (at the time of the shooting),” Pace said.

Chief Walter Armstrong said Monday that the shoot-ing was the first violent crime involving a weapon reported at the club on Washington Street just north of Belmont.

He said police have been called to deal with fights between teens, shots fired in the vicinity and adults being at the club. He said police had received six calls in the past four to six months.

Armstrong said officers have found no alcohol in the building, but they have found liquor bottles outside by the door and on the sides of the buildings.

Closing the club requires the board to file a notice in Warren County Chancery Court asking the court to remove a stay imposed in 1995 to prohibit a nightclub from being in the building.

The teen dance club opened in April, Armstrong said, and remained open after discus-sions among city officials and the operator.

In June, the city and Cooper filed a joint motion seeking the stay to allow Cooper to operate the teen club.

Cooper, who rents the building from Sylous Bradley of Vicksburg, would not com-ment on the shooting or his business.

Bradley, who said he has never been to the teen club, said Cooper has rented the building for a “long time.”

In 1995, Bradley and his wife, Addie Louise Bradley, operated a club in the build-ing called Lou’s Place.

The club was declared a public nuisance by Warren County Chancery Judge Vicki Barnes, who issued a

permanent injunction pro-hibiting Bradley or any tenant from having a lounge, nightclub, bar, social club “or establishment which would encourage a public gathering.”

The injunction was ordered at the request of city offi-cials, who complained that the business was a threat to public safety.

In January, a club called Swag Stars Studio, which was operated in the build-ing by Cooper, was closed by police, but no charges were filed.

Cooper appeared before the board in May asking it to lift the injunction and let him open a teen dance club in the building. When the board twice refused him, he filed a motion in chancery court seeking to lift the injunction.

The court order temporar-ily stopped the injunction for up to 90 days to allow Cooper to operate a club under cer-tain conditions proposed by him, according to court records.

The conditions included age-appropriate activities and memberships to par-ticipate in the activities, including Friday and Sat-urday dances, and no adult participants. He also said there would be no alcohol, drugs or loitering outside the building.

If Cooper failed to follow the conditions he set, or the activities created a nui-sance or danger to the people attending the activities or the public, according to the order, “The permanent injunction immediately goes back into effect and the stay is removed.” The city, accord-ing to the order, can remove the stay by filing a notice with the court.

Winfield said the board decided to temporarily lift the injunction and give Cooper a privilege license as part of an effort to encour-age the growth of downtown business.

“This was an unused piece of business property and he wanted to have something for teens where they could have a safe environment,” Winfield said. “I wanted to give him a chance. I saw this proposal as a way to help downtown and provide a place where inner city youth could go where they could be safe and have activities.

“I guess that part of down-town just wasn’t ready at this time for something like that,” he said.

taken to the courthouse to be totaled, which, if other pre-cincts follow suit, could mean a long process after polls close at 7 tonight. Five hours elapsed on primary night between closing and totals.

Temperatures hit 100 in Vicksburg when voters went to the polls Aug. 2, said the National Weather Service. Highs were to hit that mark again by afternoon, with the heat index near 108 and a 30 percent chance of showers.

Winners advance to Nov. 8. People who voted in one

party’s primary Aug. 2 are not allowed to cross over and vote in the other par-ty’s runoff today. Those who didn’t vote Aug. 2 may cast a ballot in either runoff. Missis-sippi does not register voters by party. Turnout in Warren County for the primary was about 30 percent.

Local races include two on the GOP side, for chancery clerk and county supervisor in District 1.

Donna Farris Hardy, a retired health care adminis-trator faces City Accountant Doug Whittington for the clerk post, elected county-wide. Hardy finished 89 votes ahead of Whittington in the 5,312 votes cast in the first segment of the three-way primary. The winner faces

City Clerk Walter Osborne, a Democrat, and independents Alecia Ashley and Gene Thompson Nov. 8.

District 1 Supervisor David McDonald faces John Arnold in the runoff for the north-eastern Warren County seat. On Aug. 2, McDonald fin-ished ahead of Arnold, a real estate broker, by 107 votes out of 2,006 cast in a three-man race. The winner faces independents Jerry Briggs and Reed Birdsong.

Turnout at Culkin, the larg-est precinct, was light and expected to stay that way until midday, poll manager Jan Whatley said.

“There has been no rush this morning,” she said.

Whatley said 70 Republi-cans and 16 Democrats had voted by 7:45 a.m. The pre-cinct has 4,897 voters and is expected to decide the McDonald-Arnold runoff.

New to Culkin is a curb-side voting service for the handicapped. Cars can pull up to the designated voting area and a poll worker will take a paper ballot to the car. Sherman Avenue Elemen-tary principal Ray Hume said traffic “went smoothly.”

“We shifted some person-nel around to give more direction,” he said. “It’s still a little congested. We worry about the safety of the chil-dren and we let the election commission worry about get-ting their people in to vote.”

Jacob Brister voted as polls opened. “This runoff is very important, especially to the county,” he said.

At Vicksburg Junior High, the largest inside the city, the pace was “slow, slow and slow,” poll manager Debo-rah Washington said. Seven-teen people had voted there by 7:45 — 12 Dems and five Republicans. The precinct has 2,389 registered voters.

Seven had voted in the first 30 minutes at Vicksburg Auditorium, three Repub-licans and four Dems, poll manager Carla Jones. “It might pick up a little later on when people get off work, but right now it’s very slow.”

In state races, Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree and Clarksdale attorney and developer Bill Luckett are in the Democratic runoff for governor, and the winner faces Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant of Brandon, and others, in November.

State Personnel Board director Lynn Fitch of Mad-ison and state Sen. Lee Yancey of Brandon are in the GOP runoff for trea-surer. The winner faces Ocean Springs Mayor Connie Moran, a Democrat.

Runoffs also are set in Clai-borne and Sharkey counties.

In Claiborne, Frank Davis, sheriff since 1979, faces Marvin E. Lucas.

In Sharkey County, Dis-trict 2 Supervisor Melvin

Jones faces Leroy Smith Jr. The winner will face inde-pendents Ellis Stuart, Chris-topher Booker and Eugene Lane Jr. in November.

November local races:• Circuit clerk, where

incumbent Shelly Ashley-Palmertree, Democrat, faces Republican David Sharp and independents Jan Hyland Daigre and Robert Terry.

• Sheriff, where incum-bent Martin Pace, indepen-dent, faces Democrat Bubba Comans.

• Tax assessor, where Dem-ocrat Angela Brown faces Republican Mike Caruthers and independents Ben Luck-ett and Doug Tanner.

• Tax collector, where incumbent Antonia Flaggs Jones, a Democrat, faces Republican Patty Mekus.

• District 2 supervisor, where incumbent William Banks, a Democrat, faces Republican Trey Smith and independent De Reul.

• District 3 supervisor, where incumbent Charles Selmon, Democrat, faces independent James Stirgus Jr.

• District 4 supervisor, where incumbent Bill Lau-derdale, an independent, faces Democrat Casey Fisher.

• District 5 supervisor, where incumbent Rich-ard George, an indepen-dent, faces J.W. Carroll, Joe Wooley and Ellis Tillotson, also independents.

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By Brett MartelThe Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU starting quarter-back Jordan Jefferson and three of his teammates have decided to meet with police at an undis-closed time and location today.

Police Sgt. Don Stone announced Monday night that the meeting would take place and said authorities are keep-ing the details secret to ensure “the integrity of the investigation is not hampered or disturbed.”

Police have asked Jeffer-son, along with offensive lineman Chris Davenport, defensive lineman Josh Johns and receiver Jarvis Landry, to offer their rec-ollection of last Thursday night’s fight.

Four people were injured in the scuffle, none of them players, and one person’s injuries were serious enough that two players could face felony battery charges, Stone said. He said two other players could be charged with misdemeanor simple battery. He declined to say which two players could face the more serious charges.

Earlier Monday, defense attorney Nathan Fisher, who is representing the four LSU players, had said he was not aware of an impending meet-ing between his clients and police. However, that changed after authorities agreed to a new meeting location.

Investigators initially asked the players to come to police headquarters on Monday morning, but that was delayed after the players hired Fisher, who is known for representing LSU players in the past.

Stone said such delays are standard when people of interest in investiga-tions hire attorneys.

Stone also stressed that Police Chief Dew-ayne White is not giving LSU players any special treatment and the inves-tigation of the fight will continue with or without players’ cooperation.

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PREP SOFTBALLLady Vikes InvitationalSaturday, 9 a.m., at WC

PREP FOOTBALLPCA hosts Deer CreekFriday, 7 p.m.

WC hosts CallawayFriday, 7:30 p.m.

St. Al at Greenville-St. JoeFriday, 7:30 p.m.

ON TV7 p.m. FSN - The Atlanta Braves take on the Chi-cago Cubs in the friendly confines of aging Wrigley Field.

WhO’S hOTERNESTO MEJIAMississippi Braves first baseman drove in three runs with a RBI single and a two-run home run, his 21st of the season, in an 8-5 win over the Montgomery Biscuits on Monday.

SIdELINESM-Braves keeprolling vs. Biscuits

The Mississippi Braves won their fourth straight and sixth in their last sev-en games with an 8-5 vic-tory over the Montgom-ery Biscuits on Monday.

Zeke Spruill (3-1) earned the victory. He al-lowed only five hits and struck out one.

The M-Braves chased top pitching prospect Chris Archer with a four-run fourth inning. Al-ready leading 1-0 after Ernesto Mejia’s RBI single in the first, Antoan Rich-ardson reached on a two-out walk. Mycal Jones was hit by a pitch and Dan Nelson drove both in with a triple down the right-field line. Two pitch-es later, Mejia homered on a line drive to left — his 21st of the season — to stake the Braves to a 5-0 lead.

Two more runs crossed in the sixth off of Bis-cuits’ reliever Neil Schenk. Nelson walked to lead off the inning. Mejia hit a hard flyball to right, which was dropped by John Matulia. Two bat-ters later, Cory Harrilchak singled to drive in two.

But the Biscuits weren’t completely cooked.

Trailing 7-1, Matulia came up with the bas-es loaded and one out, hitting a 3-1 Kenshin Kawakami fastball over the right-field wall for a grand slam.

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Gator Bait race adds triathlon to lineupBy Ernest [email protected]

The magic number at Eagle Lake this weekend is three.

The Gator Bait at Eagle Lake open water swim will celebrate its third anniver-sary on Saturday by adding, for the first time, a triath-lon to the lineup. It’s Vicks-burg’s first triathlon and is one of only two at Olympic distance — a 1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike ride

and 10-kilometer run — in Mississippi.

The triathlon will begin with the swim at Messina Landing at 7:30 a.m., fol-lowed by the bike and run along Mississippi 465. The open water swim will begin around 8:30 and includes races covering 400, 800 and 1,600 meters.

“A lot of people coming to the swim were bringing their bike or their shoes and doing that after the race. So we fig-

ured why not try this?” race director Matthew Mixon said. “It’s a great venue, and the sport of triathlon is really growing. There’s a great tri-athlon community here. Lots of us do it. I swim, some are bikers, others run. It keeps you from getting monoto-nous with your workouts.”

About 30 people par-ticipated in the first open water swim in 2009, and the number doubled last year. This year, it has dropped

back to about 30, but Mixon said he’s happy with that. Most of the adults who had previously signed up for the swim are instead flocking to the triathlon, which has about 100 people registered.

The total number of roughly 125 is double what participated in the open water swim alone in 2010. There are triathlons and duathlons — races with two of the three events — nearly every weekend in Missis-

sippi from March to Novem-ber. For a first-year race on a crowded schedule, Mixon said organizers have been pleased with the response.

“We feel like 100 is a good number with people not having been here. A lot of these races have been going on for years and have a fol-lowing,” Mixon said. “Every-body has been really pleased with the way things have

Vicksburg aims for improvementBy Steve [email protected]

Vicksburg can take two positives from Friday’s 47-14 loss to Brandon in the Red Carpet Bowl.

One is that the loss will not affect the Gators’ playoff hopes. The second is they have a bye week to fix the mistakes before traveling to Richwood (La.) on Sept. 2.

Despite the stinging defeat, Vicksburg coach Alonzo Ste-vens is still confident that his team will right the ship and a bye week is just what it needs.

“I believe that when it’s all said and done, we’re going to be a playoff team,” Vicks-burg coach Alonzo Stevens said.

Mistakes were myriad Friday night. Penalties — 14 of them — stymied drives and gave Brandon free yardage on offense it really didn’t need. Turn-overs forced a defense playing without lineback-ers Shaquan James and Eli Brown — both out with inju-ries — to play in the shadow of its own goalposts for much of the night.

Much of that had to do with the punting game, as the Gators botched one snap and the Bulldogs got a hand on another. The Bulldogs’ average starting field posi-tion was at the Vicksburg 37-yard line and the score could’ve been a lot worse in the first half as Brandon quarterback Tre Polk threw

a pair of ill-advised inter-ceptions to A.J. Stamps and Clyde Kendrick in the red zone.

Defensively, the Gators (0-1) couldn’t find any con-sistency and made several costly mental miscues. With the Bulldogs in a shotgun formation, the defense didn’t

account for Polk on a quar-terback power play and he raced 46 yards down to the Gator 5, setting up his 1-yard plunge a few plays later. On another running play in the second quarter, the Gators seemed to have running back Davien Tillis stacked up on the sideline, but he

broke three tackles and raced 76 yards to give Bran-don a 23-0 lead at halftime.

Offensively, Brandon ren-dered Vicksburg one-dimen-sional and the Bulldog front seven was able to forget about any running threat and just go after the passer on nearly every down.

While running back Darius Youngblood finished with 60 rushing yards, most of that was gained on the last two Vicksburg drives against Brandon’s second- and third- stringers. In the first half, the Gators couldn’t establish any running game as Youngblood ran into a wall of defenders on nearly every play.

Quarterback Cameron Cooksey completed 20 of 43 passes for 286 yards and two touchdowns, but he threw two interceptions, fumbled twice and was flagged for intentional grounding in the end zone for a safety.

He did a good job spread-ing around the ball, how-ever, as six receivers caught passes. Stamps (seven catches, 132 yards, one TD), Lamar Anthony (two catches, 50 yards), Dillard Reed (four catches, 37 yards, one TD) and Kendrick (four catches, 33 yards) led the way for the Gators. But Ste-vens would like to see the Gators try to take better advantage of Anthony’s elusiveness.

“We’ve got to find a way to get Lamar Anthony some more touches,” Stevens said.

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Vicksburg safety A.J. Stamps (2) intercepts a pass intended for Brandon’s Eliah Parker during Friday’s 49th edition of

the Red Carpet Bowl at Viking Stadium. Brandon won, 47-14. Vicksburg is off this week.

Vicksburg quarterback Cameron Cooksey looks downfield. Cooksey threw two TD passes.

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minor league baseballsouthern leagueNorth Division

W L Pct. GBChattanooga (Dodgers) 34 22 .607 —x-Tennessee (Cubs) .....33 24 .579 1 1/2Carolina (Reds) ............25 31 .446 9Jackson (Mariners) .......24 33 .421 10 1/2Huntsville (Brewers) .....22 34 .393 12

South Division W L Pct. GBMobile (D-backs) ..........38 18 .679 —Jacksonville (Marlins) ...28 29 .491 10 1/2Mississippi (Braves) ..28 29 .491 10 1/2Montgomery (Rays) ......27 30 .474 11 1/2x-B-ham (White Sox) ...24 33 .421 14 1/2x-clinched first half

———Monday’s Games

Tennessee 9, Chattanooga 2Jacksonville 8, Carolina 4Birmingham 3, Huntsville 2Jackson 5, Mobile 4Mississippi 8, Montgomery 5

Today’s GamesChattanooga at Tennessee, 6:15 p.m.Jacksonville at Carolina, 6:15 p.m.Birmingham at Huntsville, 6:43 p.m.Jackson at Mobile, 7:05 p.m.Mississippi at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesChattanooga at Tennessee, 6:15 p.m.Jacksonville at Carolina, 6:15 p.m.Birmingham at Huntsville, 6:43 p.m.Jackson at Mobile, 7:05 p.m.Mississippi at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.

mlbamerican league

East Division W L Pct GBNew York ......................77 48 .616 —Boston ..........................77 50 .606 1Tampa Bay ...................69 57 .548 8 1/2Toronto .........................65 62 .512 13Baltimore ......................48 77 .384 29

Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit ...........................69 58 .543 —Chicago ........................63 63 .500 5 1/2Cleveland ......................62 62 .500 5 1/2Minnesota .....................55 72 .433 14Kansas City ..................52 76 .406 17 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBTexas ............................74 55 .574 —Los Angeles .................69 59 .539 4 1/2Oakland ........................57 70 .449 16Seattle ..........................54 72 .429 18 1/2

Monday’s GamesSeattle 3, Cleveland 2Detroit 5, Tampa Bay 2Texas 4, Boston 0Baltimore 4, Minnesota 1

Today’s GamesSeattle (Beavan 3-4) at Cleveland (Masterson 10-7), 12:05 p.m., 1st gameOakland (McCarthy 6-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Colon 8-7), 6:05 p.m.Seattle (Vasquez 0-0) at Cleveland (McAllister 0-0), 6:05 p.m., 2nd gameKansas City (Chen 8-5) at Toronto (Morrow 9-7), 6:07 p.m.Detroit (Penny 8-9) at Tampa Bay (Price 11-10), 6:10 p.m.Boston (Lackey 11-9) at Texas (C.Lewis 11-8), 7:05 p.m.Baltimore (Simon 3-6) at Minnesota (Duensing 8-12), 7:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Buehrle 10-6) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 9-9), 9:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesSeattle (F.Hernandez 11-11) at Cleveland (Tomlin 12-6), 11:05 a.m.Boston (Beckett 10-5) at Texas (M.Harrison 10-8), 6:05 p.m.Oakland (Cahill 9-12) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 17-7), 6:05 p.m.Kansas City (Hochevar 8-10) at Toronto (R.Romero 12-9), 6:07 p.m.Detroit (Scherzer 13-7) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 8-7), 6:10 p.m.Baltimore (Guthrie 5-16) at Minnesota (Slowey 0-1), 7:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Z.Stewart 1-2) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 14-6), 9:05 p.m.

national leagueEast Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................82 44 .651 —Atlanta ..........................77 52 .597 6 1/2Washington ...................62 64 .492 20New York ......................60 67 .472 22 1/2Florida ...........................57 70 .449 25 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee .....................77 53 .592 —St. Louis .......................67 61 .523 9Cincinnati ......................62 65 .488 13 1/2Pittsburgh .....................60 67 .472 15 1/2Chicago ........................56 72 .438 20Houston ........................42 86 .328 34

West Division W L Pct GBArizona .........................69 59 .539 —San Francisco ..............68 60 .531 1Colorado .......................61 68 .473 8 1/2San Diego ....................59 70 .457 10 1/2Los Angeles .................58 69 .457 10 1/2

Monday’s GamesMilwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 1, 1st gameWashington 4, Arizona 1Philadelphia 10, N.Y. Mets 0Atlanta 3, Chicago Cubs 0L.A. Dodgers 2, St. Louis 1Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee 2, 2nd gameColorado 9, Houston 5

Today’s GamesArizona (I.Kennedy 15-4) at Washington (Zimmer-mann 8-10), 6:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Estrada 3-8) at Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 0-0), 6:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Niese 11-10) at Philadelphia (Worley 8-1), 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Cueto 9-5) at Florida (Nolasco 9-9), 6:10 p.m.Atlanta (Minor 3-2) at Chicago Cubs (C.Coleman 2-5), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 15-5) at St. Louis (Lohse 11-7), 7:15 p.m.Houston (Norris 6-8) at Colorado (White 0-0), 7:40 p.m.San Diego (Latos 6-12) at San Francisco (Cain 10-9), 9:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesMilwaukee (Marcum 11-3) at Pittsburgh (Unde-cided), 12:35 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 6-10) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 7-5), 1:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 9-14) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 10-6), 2:15 p.m.Houston (W.Rodriguez 9-9) at Colorado (A.Cook 3-7), 3:10 p.m.Arizona (D.Hudson 12-9) at Washington (L.Hernandez 7-11), 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Arroyo 7-10) at Florida (Vazquez 7-11), 6:10 p.m.Atlanta (D.Lowe 8-11) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 4-4), 7:05 p.m.San Diego (Stauffer 8-9) at San Francisco (Lince-cum 11-10), 9:15 p.m.

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prep football2011 area schedules

Week 1Aug. 19

Brandon 47, Vicksburg 14Porters Chapel 56, Union Christian 0Park Place 26, Tallulah Academy 20Riverfield 18, Central Hinds 17Madison-St. Joe 37, St. Aloysius 14Port Gibson 20, Hollandale Simmons 12Raymond 36, Hinds AHS 28, 4OTPearl 41, Warren Central 6

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Week 2Thursday

Coahoma County at Port Gibson, 7:30 p.m.Friday

Deer Creek at PCA, 7 p.m.Lee, Ark. at Tallulah Academy, 7 p.m.Central Hinds at Bowling Green, 7 p.m.Callaway at Warren Central, 7:30 p.m.St. Aloysius at Greenville-St. Joe, 7:30 p.m.Hinds AHS at Richland, 7:30 p.m.Open date: Vicksburg

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Week 3Sept. 2

Porters Chapel at Bens Ford, 7 p.m.Vicksburg at Richwood (La.), 7 p.m.Mangham at Madison Parish, 7 p.m.Claiborne Aca. at Tallulah Aca., 7 p.m.Copiah Academy at Central Hinds, 7 p.m.St. Aloysius at Hinds AHS, 7:30 p.m.Warren Central at Hattiesburg, 7:30 p.m.

College footballTop 25 schedule

Sept. 1No. 11 Wisconsin vs. UNLV, 7 p.m.No. 20 Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Sept. 2No. 14 TCU at Baylor, 7 p.m.No. 17 Michigan St. vs. Youngstown St., 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 3No. 1 Oklahoma vs. Tulsa, 7 p.m.No. 2 Alabama vs. Kent St., 11:20 a.m.No. 3 Oregon vs. No 4 LSU, 7 p.m., at Arlington, TexasNo. 5 Boise St. at No. 19 Georgia, 7 p.m.No. 6 Florida St. vs. La.-Monroe, 2:30 p.m.No. 7 Stanford vs. San Jose St., 4 p.m.No. 9 Oklahoma St. vs. La.-Lafayette, 6 p.m.No. 10 Nebraska vs. Chattanooga, 2:30 p.m.No. 12 South Carolina vs. East Carolina, 6 p.m.No. 13 Virginia Tech vs. Appalachian St., 11:30 a.m.No. 15 Arkansas vs. Missouri St., 6 p.m.No. 16 Notre Dame vs. South Florida, 2:30 p.m.No. 18 Ohio St. vs. Akron, 11 a.m.No. 21 Missouri vs. Miami (Ohio), 11 a.m.No. 22 Florida vs. Florida Atlantic, 6 p.m.No. 23 Auburn vs. Utah St., 11 a.m.No. 25 Southern Cal vs. Minnesota, 2:30 p.m.

Sept. 4No. 8 Texas A&M vs. SMU, 6:30 p.m.No. 24 West Virginia vs. Marshall, 2:30 p.m.

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Mississippi college scheduleSaturday

Texas College at Belhaven, 6 p.m.Elizabeth City St. at Delta St., 6 p.m.

Sept. 1Delta St. at Northwestern St., 6 p.m.Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Sept. 3Concordia, Ala. at Jackson St., 1:30 p.m.BYU at Ole Miss, 3:45 p.m.Alabama St. at Miss. Valley St., 5 p.m.Alcorn St. vs. Grambling, at Shreveport, 6 p.m.Millsaps at Mississippi College, 7 p.m.Belhaven at Louisiana College, 7 p.m.Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss, 9 p.m.

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Southeastern Conference scheduleSept. 1

Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.Kentucky at Western Kentucky, 8:15 p.m.

Sept. 3Utah St. at Auburn, 11 a.m.Kent St. at Alabama, 11:15 a.m.BYU at Ole Miss, 3:45 p.m.Oregon at LSU, 4 p.m.Montana at Tennessee, 5 p.m.East Carolina at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Missouri St. at Arkansas, 6 p.m.Florida Atlantic at Florida, 6 p.m.Elon at Vanderbilt, 6:30 p.m.Boise St. at Georgia, 7 p.m.

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Conference USA scheduleSept. 1

Mississippi St. at Memphis, 7 p.m.Sept. 3

Southeastern Louisiana at Tulane, 2:30 p.m.UCLA at Houston, 2:30 p.m.Charleston Southern at Central Florida, 6 p.m.Rice at Texas, 6 p.m.East Carolina at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Tulsa at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.Stony Brook at UTEP, 8:05 p.m.Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss, 9 p.m.

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SWAC scheduleSept. 3

Concordia (Ala.) at Jackson St., 1:30 p.m.c-Alabama A&M vs. Hampton, 4 p.m.

Alabama St. at Mississippi Valley St., 5 p.m.Langston at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 5 p.m.s-Grambling vs. Alcorn St., 6 p.m.Southern at Tennessee St., 6 p.m.

Sept. 4o-Prairie View at Bethune-Cookman, 11 a.m.c-at Chicago; s-at Shreveport, La.; o-at Orlando, Fla.

———The AP Top 25

The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press col-lege football preseason poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2010 records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and 2010 final ranking: Record Pts Pvs1. Oklahoma (36) ......................12-2 1,464 62. Alabama (17) ........................10-3 1,439 103. Oregon (4) ............................12-1 1,330 34. LSU (1) .................................11-2 1,286 85. Boise St. (2) ..........................12-1 1,200 96. Florida St. .............................10-4 1,168 177. Stanford .................................12-1 1,091 48. Texas A&M ............................9-4 965 199. Oklahoma St. ........................11-2 955 1310. Nebraska .............................10-4 910 2011. Wisconsin ............................11-2 900 712. South Carolina .....................9-5 848 2213. Virginia Tech .......................11-3 821 1614. TCU .....................................13-0 690 215. Arkansas .............................10-3 686 1216. Notre Dame .........................8-5 530 NR17. Michigan St. ........................11-2 519 1418. Ohio St. ...............................12-1 443 519. Georgia ................................6-7 369 NR20. Mississippi St. ....................9-4 361 1521. Missouri ...............................10-3 258 1822. Florida ..................................8-5 228 NR23. Auburn .................................14-0 219 124. West Virginia ........................9-4 207 NR25. Southern Cal ........................8-5 160 NROthers receiving votes: Texas 114, Penn St. 75, Arizona St. 67, Miami 32, Utah 25, Southern Miss 20, Iowa 19, BYU 15, NC State 15, Air Force 14, Houston 13, Pittsburgh 9, Michigan 7, Tennessee 5, UCF 5, Hawaii 4, N. Illinois 4, Tulsa 3, Arizona 2, Maryland 2, Nevada 1, Northwestern 1, Wash-ington 1.

USA Today Preseason Top 25 PollThe USA Today preseason Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, final 2010 records, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and 2010 final ranking: Record Pts Pvs1. Oklahoma (42) ......................12-2 1454 62. Alabama (13) ........................10-3 1414 113. Oregon (2) ............................12-1 1309 34. LSU (2) .................................11-2 1296 85. Florida St. .............................10-4 1116 166. Stanford .................................12-1 1101 47. Boise St. ...............................12-1 1065 78. Oklahoma St. ........................11-2 933 109. Texas A&M ............................9-4 885 2110. Wisconsin ............................11-2 829 811. Nebraska .............................10-4 814 1912. South Carolina .....................9-5 779 2213. Virginia Tech .......................11-3 767 1514. Arkansas .............................10-3 750 1215. TCU .....................................13-0 687 216. Ohio St. ...............................12-1 631 517. Michigan St. ........................11-2 536 1418. Notre Dame .........................8-5 440 —19. Auburn .................................14-0 329 120. Mississippi St. ....................9-4 301 1721. Missouri ...............................10-3 266 1822. Georgia ................................6-7 260 —23. Florida ..................................8-5 240 —24. Texas ...................................5-7 162 —25. Penn St. ...............................7-6 161 —Others receiving votes: Arizona St. 158, West Virginia 149, Utah 50, Miami 49, Iowa 41, North-western 30, Arizona 28, UCF 22, Michigan 19, Air Force 15, North Carolina 14, Houston 13, South Florida 9, Hawaii 8, Clemson 7, Tennessee 7, Southern Miss. 6, BYU 5, N.C. St. 4, Northern Illinois 4, Oregon St. 4, Pittsburgh 3, Washington 3, Georgia Tech 1, Nevada 1.

nflNFL Preseason Schedule

Week 2Sunday’s Games

N.Y. Jets 27, Cincinnati 7San Diego 20, Dallas 7

Monday’s GameN.Y. Giants 41, Chicago 13

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Week 3Thursday’s Games

Carolina at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.Cleveland at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.Washington at Baltimore, 7 p.m.

Friday’s GamesSt. Louis at Kansas City, 7 p.m.Green Bay at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesJacksonville at Buffalo, 6 p.m.N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 6 p.m.Miami at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.Houston at San Francisco, 7 p.m.Dallas at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Chicago at Tennessee, 7 p.m.New England at Detroit, 7 p.m.Seattle at Denver, 8 p.m.San Diego at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 28New Orleans at Oakland, 7 p.m.

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giants 41, bears 13Chicago 3 3 0 7 — 13N.Y. Giants 3 17 7 14 — 41

First QuarterNYG—FG Lloyd 25, 3:33.Chi—FG Gould 23, 1:42.

Second QuarterNYG—Jacobs 18 run (Lloyd kick), 14:54.NYG—FG Lloyd 37, 8:55.Chi—FG Gould 42, 4:53.NYG—Hixon 5 pass from Carr (Lloyd kick), :35.

Third QuarterNYG—Ware 1 run (Lloyd kick), 7:19.

Fourth QuarterNYG—Coats 17 pass from Carr (Lloyd kick), 8:10.NYG—D.Scott 97 run (Lloyd kick), 2:46.Chi—Bell 1 run (Gould kick), :24.A—75,166.

——— Chi NYGFirst downs ...............................25 .......................16Total Net Yards ......................414 .....................380Rushes-yards ......................26-81 ................27-218Passing ...................................333 .....................162Punt Returns .........................4-21 ....................5-35Kickoff Returns ....................8-200 ..................3-138Interceptions Ret. ....................0-0 ......................1-3Comp-Att-Int .................... 29-49-1 .............. 17-27-0Sacked-Yards Lost ..................1-4 ......................0-0Punts ..................................6-35.5 .................4-51.8Fumbles-Lost ...........................0-0 ......................1-0Penalties-Yards .....................4-40 ..................10-73

Time of Possession ............33:14 ..................26:46———

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Chicago, Barber 13-49, Bell 4-10, Hanie 2-8, Forte 4-7, Taylor 3-7. N.Y. Giants, D.Scott 1-97, Jacobs 6-48, Ware 6-23, Brown 6-19, Carr 1-17, Bradshaw 5-15, Manningham 1-1, Perrilloux 1-(minus 2).PASSING—Chicago, Cutler 12-21-0-171, Hanie 17-28-1-166. N.Y. Giants, Carr 9-11-0-84, Manning 8-16-0-78.RECEIVING—Chicago, Barber 5-31, Sanzen-bacher 4-34, Bennett 3-58, O.Jones 3-48, Hester 3-46, Knox 2-21, Ky.Adams 2-12, Forte 1-42, Kr.Adams 1-12, Bell 1-9, Clark 1-6, Fantuz 1-6, Spaeth 1-6, Taylor 1-6. N.Y. Giants, Manningham 4-39, Cruz 3-40, D.Thomas 2-20, Bradshaw 2-19, Hixon 2-13, Coats 1-17, Ware 1-9, Brown 1-6, Nicks 1-(minus 1).MISSED FIELD GOALS—Chicago, Gould 55 (WR).

nasCarSprint Cup Schedule

Feb. 20 — Daytona 500 (Trevor Bayne)Feb. 27 — Subway Fresh Fit 500 (Jeff Gordon)March 6 — Kobalt Tools 400 (Carl Edwards)March 20 — Jeff Byrd 500 (Kyle Busch)March 27 — Auto Club 400 (Kevin Harvick)April 3 — Goody’s 500 (Kevin Harvick)April 9 — Samsung Mobile 500 (Matt Kenseth)April 17 — Aaron’s 499 (Jimmie Johnson)April 30 — Crown Royal Presents The Matthew & Daniel Hansen 400 (Kyle Busch)May 7 — Southern 500 (Regan Smith)May 15 — FedEx 400 (Matt Kenseth)May 21 — x-Sprint All-Star Race (Carl Edwards)May 21 — x-Sprint Showdown (David Ragan)May 29 — Coca-Cola 600 (Kevin Harvick)June 5 — STP 400 (Brad Keselowski)June 12 — 5-hour ENERGY 500 (Jeff Gordon)June 19 — Heluva Good! 400 (Denny Hamlin)June 26 — Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Kurt Busch)July 2 — Coke Zero 400 (David Ragan)July 9 — Quaker State 400 (Kyle Busch)July 17 — Lenox Industrial Tools 301 (Ryan New-man)July 31 — Brickyard 400 (Paul Menard)Aug. 7 — Good Sam RV Insurance 500 (Brad Keselowski)Aug. 15 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen (Marcos Ambrose)Aug. 21 — Pure Michigan 400 (Kyle Busch)Aug. 27 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.Sep. 4 — AdvoCare 500, Hampton, Ga.Sep. 10 — Wonderful Pistachios 400, Richmond, Va.Sep. 18 — GEICO 400, Joliet, Ill.Sep. 25 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H.Oct. 2 — AAA 400, Dover, Del.Oct. 9 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan.Oct. 15 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C.Oct. 23 — Talladega 500, Talladega, Ala.Oct. 30 — TUMS Fast Relief 500, Ridgeway, Va.Nov. 6 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, TexasNov. 13 — Kobalt Tools 500, Avondale, Ariz.Nov. 20 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla.

Sprint Cup standings1. Kyle Busch .................................................... 7992. Jimmie Johnson ............................................ 7893. Kevin Harvick ................................................ 7604. Carl Edwards ................................................ 7605. Matt Kenseth ................................................. 7596. Jeff Gordon ................................................... 7397. Ryan Newman .............................................. 7258. Kurt Busch .................................................... 7229. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ........................................ 70010. Tony Stewart ............................................... 69411. Clint Bowyer ................................................ 67012. Brad Keselowski ......................................... 64213. Greg Biffle ................................................... 63614. Denny Hamlin ............................................. 63515. A J Allmendinger ........................................ 632

Sprint Cup winners1. Kyle Busch ........................................................ 42. Kevin Harvick .................................................... 33. Matt Kenseth ..................................................... 23. Brad Keselowski ............................................... 23. Jeff Gordon ....................................................... 26. Kurt Busch ........................................................ 16. Paul Menard ..................................................... 16. Carl Edwards .................................................... 16. Trevor Bayne .................................................... 16. Denny Hamlin ................................................... 16. Ryan Newman .................................................. 16. Regan Smith ..................................................... 16. Marcos Ambrose ............................................... 16. David Ragan ..................................................... 16. Jimmie Johnson ................................................ 1

———Nationwide Series standings

1. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ...................................... 8342. Elliott Sadler .................................................. 8263. Reed Sorenson ............................................. 8254. Justin Allgaier ............................................... 7725. Aric Almirola .................................................. 7706. Jason Leffler ................................................. 7397. Kenny Wallace .............................................. 7148. Steve Wallace ............................................... 676

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3 p.m. Versus - USA Pro Challenge, stage 1LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES

Noon ESPN2 - Rotterdam, Nether-lands vs. Cumberland, R.I.

3 p.m. ESPN - Langley, British Co-lumbia or Kaohsiung, Taiwan vs. Hamamatsu City, Japan or Dhah-ran, Saudi Arabia

7 p.m. ESPN2 - Lafayette, La. or Clin-ton County, Pa. vs. LaGrange, Ky. or Warner Robins, Ga.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL7 p.m. MLB - Boston at Texas or At-

lanta at Chicago Cubs7 p.m. FSN - Atlanta at Chicago Cubs9 p.m. WGN - Chicago White Sox at

L.A. AngelsSOCCER

1:30 p.m. FSN - UEFA Champions League, Odense at Villarreal

7 p.m. FSN - UEFA Champions League, Bayern Munich at Zurich (tape)

WNBA9 p.m. ESPN2 - New York at Phoenix

Aug. 231933 — The first televised boxing

match is an exhibition fight between Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, staged at the Broadcasting House in London.

2001 — Randy Johnson strikes out 16 in seven innings to become the first pitcher to strike out 300 in four straight seasons.

2004 — The U.S. softball team wins its third straight gold medal with a nearly unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory over Australia. Lisa Fer-nandez pitches a four-hitter and Crystl Bustos homers twice in the Americans’ best all-around game of the tournament.

2008 — At the Beijing Games, Angel Matos of Cuba and his coach are banned for life after the tae-kwondo athlete kicks the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification against Kazakhstan’s Arman Chilmanov. Matos is declared the loser for taking too much injury time after hurting his leg. Matos angrily ques-tions the call, pushes a judge, then pushes and kicks referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden.

lotterYSunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-9-9La. Pick 4: 4-8-2-7 Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-3-9 La. Pick 4: 2-2-9-0 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-8-2 La. Pick 4: 3-0-3-2 Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 3-9-8 La. Pick 4: 6-0-1-3 Easy 5: 2-8-17-18-21 La. Lotto: 1-4-6-14-15-17 Powerball: 18-28-31-48-52 Powerball: 37 ; Power play: 4Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-9-0La. Pick 4: 5-3-7-0 Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-9-4La. Pick 4: 5-7-7-5Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-9-8La. Pick 4: 1-7-3-0Easy 5: 11-12-16-21-25La. Lotto: 6-12-15-20-26-35Powerball: 2-17-23-28-47Powerball: 36; Power play: 2

prep footballMandatory Vicksburg football parents’ meeting

Vicksburg High School will host a mandatory meeting for parents of varsity football players in grades 9-12 in the Vicksburg High School auditorium Friday at 6 p.m.

nflRaiders draft Pryorin supplemental draft

NAPA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders always have been seduced by size and speed so it came as little surprise that they used a third-round pick Monday in the NFL’s supplemental draft to select former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor. Pryor’s agent, Drew Rosen-haus, said his client was excited about going in the third round after waiting until last Thursday to find out he’d even be eligible for the sup-plemental draft.

College footballShalala said 15 Miami athletes being investigated

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The probe into Miami athletics is grow-ing, with the university looking into the eligibility of 15 athletes who may have accepted improper ben-efits from a rogue booster.

Miami President Donna Shalala did not reveal any names of the players under investigation as she released a video statement Monday. The booster, convicted Ponzi scheme architect Nevin Shapiro, told Yahoo Sports for an article published last week that 12 current football players and one men’s bas-ketball player got money, gifts and other items from him.

The football players who were named by Shapiro in interviews with Yahoo Sports are Jacory Harris, Vaughn Telemaque, Ray Ray Armstrong, Travis Benjamin, Aldarius Johnson, Marcus Forston, Olivier Vernon, Marcus Robinson, Adewale Ojomo, Dyron Dye, JoJo Nicholas and Sean Spence.

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Braves earn fifthstraight victory

CHICAGO (AP) — Jair Jur-rjens needed this one, even if it wasn’t pretty.

Jurrjens pitched in and out of trouble for 61⁄3 innings, Dan Uggla and Freddie Freeman homered and the Atlanta Braves beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 Monday night for their fifth straight win.

Jurrjens (13-5) allowed eight hits and walked five. The Cubs stranded 11 runners in the first six innings and 15 overall.

“My confidence was down, and going deep into the sev-enth inning was a mental boost for me,” Jurrjens said. “It’s going to keep growing from this outing.”

Though the righty allowed two or more baserunners in five different innings, he was able to make big pitches when he needed to.

“I got out of most of my jams with my changeup,” he said. “When I start getting a feel for my changeup, it makes the game a little easier for me. It’s my pitch to go to.”

Uggla’s homer gave him 30 home runs for the fifth straight season. No other second base-man in major league history has reached 30 homers more than three times overall.

“Who’d have thought, right?” said Uggla, who had 15 at the All-Star break, when he was batting just .185.

“I’ve been saying it all year long, that’s why you play the full season, keep working, stay positive. You never know what can happen.”

Uggla leads the majors with 15 bombs in the second half.

“That’s what he came here to do, and he’s done it,” Gonzalez said. “He’s held his end of the bargain.”

The Braves won for the sev-enth time in eight games. They increased their lead in the NL wild-card race to 81⁄2 games over idle San Francisco.

The Cubs played with-out Starlin Castro, who was benched for a “mental day off” by manager Mike Quade after television cameras captured the 21-year-old shortstop not paying attention as a pitch was thrown during Sunday night’s loss to St. Louis.

Castro, who leads the NL with 164 hits, was the only position player not to make an

appearance for the Cubs, who used four pinch-hitters.

With Castro out of the lineup, Darwin Barney moved over from second base and made a couple of sparkling plays at shortstop, including a diving stop on Uggla’s hard-hit ball in the third that saved a run.

“He’s a good little player, isn’t he?” said Cubs manager Mike Quade. “His versatility is huge. He did a real good job tonight.”

Jonny Venters walked the first two batters in the ninth, but got the last three outs for his fifth save.

Rookie closer Craig Kim-brel was unavailable after throwing three of the last four days, including 25 pitches on Sunday.

“That’s not the way you draw it up, but he’s got that compo-sure that he can get out of that jam,” Gonzalez said of Ven-ters. “It was nice to give Kim-brel a day.”

Ryan Dempster (10-9) struck out eight over six innings but fell to 2-10 in his career against the Braves.

Jurrjens made his second start since coming off the dis-abled list because of a strained right knee. He allowed five runs and eight hits over six innings against San Francisco his first time out.

Jurrjens wasn’t much more effective on Monday, but man-aged to escape from a couple of jams. He got Carlos Pena to hit into a double play with the bases loaded in the first and retired Alfonso Soriano on a fly with the bases loaded to end the fifth.

Freeman opened the scor-ing with a solo homer in the second. Uggla led off the sixth by hitting a drive onto Wave-land Avenue, giving the Braves an NL-best 47 home runs since the All-Star break.

Uggla, who recently had a 33-game hitting streak snapped, has now hit safely in 42 of his last 48 games, during which he’s raised his batting average from .175 to .232.

Jose Constanza singled, stole a base and scored in the third. He also singled in the sixth but had to leave the game with a slight right ankle sprain.

mlb

Saints practice for a few days in California

Giants lose another cornerback in win

49ers respond to violence with improved security

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — While the Saints practiced on a postcard-perfect Califor-nia afternoon, New Orleans owner Tom Benson drove his own golf cart around the practice fields.

“I’ve just been showing off this ring,” Benson said, hold-ing up the gaudy NFL cham-pionship ring on his right hand. “I told them, now I need one for the other hand.”

The Saints hope a week on the cool West Coast can heat up their preparation for a run at a little more jewelry.

Following a path blazed by the Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys in recent years, the Saints have moved five days of their preseason workouts to this Ventura County town best known for strawberries and surf-ing. The Saints went through their first practice Monday afternoon in ideal conditions an hour northwest of Los Angeles, avoiding the heat and humidity of Louisiana while isolating themselves from distractions.

“When you’re at home, there’s always a lot going on,” quarterback Drew Brees said. “When we’re here, all you have to do is eat, drink, sleep and breathe football, and that’s what we need to be doing right now.”

The Saints uniformly echoed Brees’ praise of coach Sean Payton’s plan, which was only revealed to the

players a couple of weeks ago. With a preseason game scheduled for Sunday in Oak-land, New Orleans is hoping to bounce back from a disap-pointing 27-14 loss in Hous-ton last weekend in which both first-team units felt they

were outplayed.“We got off the plane, and

instantly the weather was good again,” said defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis, a USC product and Los Angeles-area native. “It’s good to get somewhere away from the

hot weather, get away from Louisiana and all the distrac-tions, and just focus on what we need to do.”

With two practice fields and an entire residence-style hotel available to visiting teams in Oxnard, the Saints are burrowing in for a strong week of work. Coach Sean Payton, a Cowboys assistant coach from 2003-05, estimates New Orleans can get 25 per-cent more work done in the 65-degree cool because the players need fewer water breaks.

After morning meetings in the hotel, Payton scheduled a 21⁄2-hour practice for Monday, among his longest workout plans of the preseason — and the Saints still finished 20 minutes early. Hundreds of fans gathered along a side-line, many wearing Saints jerseys as they cheered Darren Sproles’ breakaway runs and Marques Colston’s big catches during live drills.

“I thought we covered some things that we really needed to address,” Payton said. “(Oxnard) has been battle-tested a little bit. Oak-land was here, and Dallas before that. All the people involved in bringing a team here understand what it is you have to do. A lot of the little things have been ironed out through the experience they’ve got.”

Brees spent Sunday watch-ing a surfing competition.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — With the New York Giants comfortably ahead in the closing seconds of the first half, all cornerback Ter-rell Thomas and the rest of the defense had to do was get through 35 seconds.

What’s that, three plays? Four plays?

Thomas lasted just one, and on a night the New York Giants posted an impressive 41-13 win over the Chicago Bears, the only thing that seemed to matter was that Thomas’ season came to an end after a fluke collision with teammate Jason Pierre-Paul.

Forget that the Giants’ offense woke up or that the defense was solid or the spe-cial teams outstanding.

It wasn’t nearly enough to make up for the season-end-ing knee injury to a starting cornerback and the Giants ‘leading tackler last season.

Thomas tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee with 22 seconds left in the first half, becoming the latest Giants cornerback to go down.

“Any injury, you feel sorry for a fellow teammate,” said vet-eran cornerback Aaron Ross, who will move into the start-ing lineup for Thomas. “ACL, or any injury with the knee, is serious. Terrell is a big part of this defense. Losing him is a big hurt to the team.”

Giants coach Tom Cough-lin was asked about having

Thomas on the field so late in the half, but he insisted his starters were supposed to be on the field for 25 to 30 plays and Thomas was in that range.

The rest of the game was

outstanding as the Giants (1-1) bounced back from a so-so performance against Carolina with a very good effort against the Bears (1-1).

“We were going against a good defense,” said Giants

quarterback Eli Manning, who completed 8 of 16 passes for 78 yards. “I was pleased with a couple of our drives and what we were able to accomplish.”

Special teams played a major role.

Brandon Jacobs scored on an 18-yard run after a 73-yard kickoff return by Devin Thomas, and Domenik Hixon caught a 5-yard touchdown pass after rookie linebacker Greg Jones blocked a punt late in the first half.

“We made a lot of big plays tonight. I was glad to see so many guys make strong con-tributions,” Coughlin said.

David Carr, who is compet-ing with Sage Rosenfels for the backup job behind Man-ning, threw two touchdown passes, with the second cover-ing 17 yards to Daniel Coats in the fourth quarter.

D.J. Ware scored on a 1-yard run early in the third quarter to give New York a 27-6 lead and rookie halfback Da’Rel Scott had a 97-yard run in the closing minutes after cancer survivor Mark Herzlich inter-cepted a pass near the goal line. Robbie Gould had field goals of 23 and 42 yards for the Bears, who struggled again on offense despite having Jay Cutler (12-of-21 for 171 yards) play the entire first half.

Chicago got its only touch-down in the final minute on a 1-yard run by Kahlil Bell, but the Bears’ offensive line showed improvement.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After violence marred a week-end preseason game against the archrival Oakland Raid-ers, the San Francisco 49ers on Monday moved to strengthen security at home games, including banning tailgating after kickoff and warning fans that rowdy behavior won’t be tolerated.

In addition, 49ers CEO Jed York said he will recom-mend that the NFL call off the annual preseason battle between the Niners and Raid-ers indefinitely.

“This is a game where you have a rivalry situation and, unfortunately you have the worst segment from a very small segment of both fan bases that come and brings about this type of event,” York said at a news confer-ence at Candlestick Park. “It’s our belief that we should rec-ommend to the NFL that this game is at least postponed for some period of time.”

York later said, “It’s unfortunate.”

Raiders’ CEO Amy Trask said in response that “we have a terrific working relationship with the 49ers organization, and we look forward to dis-cussing and addressing this issue with them, in the same collaborative and cooperative manner we do all issues.”

The violence overshadowed the 49ers’ 17-3 win over the Raiders.

“This game was like no other that I can remember, and I’ve been a Niner fan my whole life,” Police Chief Greg Suhr said. “Nobody could have been prepared for what happened on Saturday night.”

Suhr, Mayor Ed Lee and 49ers team officials said DUI check-points will be near the sta-dium after games as authori-ties will strictly forbid alcohol consumption at that time.

They also plan to make police and security more vis-ible inside and outside the

stadium and urged fans to be more accountable for their actions.

“To those of you who decide to come to our games, and it really doesn’t matter what jersey you may be wearing, or what hat you may wear, or what team you may support, your behavior on Saturday night is not welcome,” said Jim Mercurio, the 49ers’ vice president of stadium opera-tions and security. “Don’t come here. You’re not welcome.”

Earlier Monday, Lee said he was horrified as he watched violent fan confrontations at the game. Lee attended Sat-urday’s game with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, and both witnessed the brawling first-hand as spectators.

“They were just constantly wailing at each other with-out regard to who was there,” Lee said of the fans. “This is a family outing, for residents and visitors and people who want to see the game, not for

people to look for people they don’t like, then saying bad words, then getting into it.”

Two men who were initially listed as seriously injured in the violence were upgraded to fair condition on Monday.

One of the victims, a 24-year-old man who reportedly was wearing a T-shirt reading “F--- the Niners,” was shot several times in the stomach. Police said he managed to make it to stadium security for help despite the injuries.

The other victim is a 26-year-old man who was beaten unconscious in an upper level stadium restroom during the fourth quarter. Another shoot-ing victim was treated after receiving superficial facial wounds after the game.

Police were seeking motives in the shootings, including whether the attacks were influenced by emotions involv-ing the annual Battle of the Bay exhibition or possibly gang connections.



New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton looks at his playsheet in the third quarter against the Houston Texans Saturday.

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Ryan Dempster reacts after Atlanta Braves second baseman Dan Uggla’s home run dur-ing the sixth inning Monday.


New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning throws a pass dur-ing the first quarter of against the Chicago Bears Monday.


nascar U.S. will not bidon 2020 OlympicsBy Eddie PellsAP national writer

This time around, the United States is saying no to the Olympics.

Locked in a dispute over mil-lions of dollars, the U.S. Olym-pic Committee pulled the plug Monday on a bid for the 2020 Summer Games before the International Olympic Com-mittee could say no to the Americans, as it has the last two times. The two sides have been at odds over a revenue-sharing agreement for years.

By not submitting a bid, the USOC assures at least a 20-year gap between Olympics on American soil for only the fourth time.

Chicago, New York and Dallas were among the cities interested in the 2020 games, but any bid was contingent upon a new deal with the IOC.

Recently, negotiations had picked up in an effort to meet a Sept. 1 deadline for coun-tries to submit a city’s name for consideration. But with so much money and a long-term commitment at stake, the USOC decided not to rush.

“I think it’s one of the smart-est things they could do right now,” said Steve Penny, presi-dent of USA Gymnastics, one of the country’s most impor-tant, and successful, Olympic sports. “It’s very important they get this revenue-shar-ing deal done the right way. Having an Olympic bid hang-ing over your head is going to change the way you think about one of the most impor-tant business decisions you’re going to make for the USOC in the foreseeable future.”

At the heart of the disagree-ment is the USOC’s long-standing 20 percent share of global sponsorship reve-nues and 12.75 percent cut of

U.S. broadcast rights deals. The IOC wants more of that money.

Because of the revenue gen-erated in the United States and the success of its teams, the Olympic movement needs the USOC more than any other national body. It’s a del-icate dance, however, because there are some in the IOC who resent the United States for the power it holds.

There won’t be any deal soon. Publicly, at least, the IOC did not sound distressed.

“The United States and its athletes have made, and con-tinue to make, a huge contri-bution to the Olympic Move-ment,” IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said. “We always welcome a bid from such a key partner and look forward to a bid in the near future.”

The IOC was asking for more than the USOC leader-ship was willing to give. The USOC simply wasn’t willing to slap together a deal to allow a city — many insiders thought it would be Dallas — to start the bid process.

“With such little time left in the process, we don’t believe we could pull together a win-ning bid that could serve the Olympic and Paralympic movement,” USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.

At one time, New York was considered a favorite to host 2012, but it lost in embarrass-ing fashion, finishing fourth of the five finalists. Two years ago, Chicago finished fourth of four finalists for the 2016 Games.

Hamlin tries to rediscover his swaggerBy Jenna Fryer AP auto racing writer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After yet another bad day at work, Denny Hamlin received a pick-me-up via text message from one of his newest friends.

“Tough day my friend,” began the text from Michael Jordan. “Still in this thing. Stay positive!!!”

H a m l i n wa s c l e a r ly impressed by the words, evi-denced by him posting a pic-ture of the text on his Twit-ter page a mere four minutes after the NBA Hall of Famer hit the send button. Prob-lem is, Hamlin has enjoyed the rich-and-famous lifestyle he earned, but has lost his swagger during this sinking season.

Hamlin looks nothing like the driver who nearly dethroned Jimmie Johnson last season, and if things don’t turn around in the next three weeks, he may not even have a shot at competing for the NASCAR championship this season. His 35th-place finish Sunday at Michigan, where he won his only race of 2011 back in June, dropped Hamlin two spots in the Sprint Cup Series stand-ings to 14th.

If the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship began tomorrow, he’d still get a berth in the 12-driver field by virtue

of the new wild card system. But that could easily change i f H a m l i n doesn’t put a string of solid finishes together beginning Sat-urday night at Bristol. Maybe he does pull it together and sneak into the Chase. And then what? He certainly doesn’t look like a legitimate title contender, with a whopping one top-10 finish in the eight races since his Michigan victory.

Even worse, he absolutely did not sound like a title con-tender on Sunday.

Emerging from a 45-minute post-race meeting with frus-trated crew chief Mike Ford, Hamlin told reporters there’s a potential upside to him and his Joe Gibbs Racing team sit-ting out this year’s title race.

“Who knows? Maybe miss-ing the Chase would be the best thing for us for next year,” Hamlin said. “We could spend 10 weeks just screwing around and thinking of different and new ways to make our cars better and not have to points race for 10 weeks.”

It’s highly unlikely that anyone from JGR, spon-sor FedEx or manufacturer Toyota shares that sentiment

with Hamlin. Chances are, they can’t even believe he sug-gested such a thing.

This isn’t the same Denny Hamlin who, following his breakthrough victory at home track Richmond in 2009, devel-oped an overnight swagger that helped him flip a switch and finally start realizing his potential. Solid since his 2005 debut, he made the Chase in 2006 as a rookie and held onto a spot in the championship field every year since.

But come Chase time, he fizzled and never really con-tended for the title. Although he finished third in the final standings that rookie season, he didn’t run at the same pace as the legitimate cham-pionship contenders and he couldn’t figure out how to win more than one or two races a year.

That changed, though, with that win at Richmond. His confidence now soaring, Hamlin won three of the final 11 races of 2009 and made it clear he was coming for John-son the next season. How did he do that? He announced it, of course, over a microphone at a party he threw following the awards ceremony at which Johnson collected his fourth Cup.

Don’t doubt for a minute, though, that Hamlin didn’t live up to his promise. He deliv-

ered despite a bevy of distrac-tions that ranged from early-season surgery on a torn knee ligament to a downtown Char-lotte nightclub that caters to the beautiful people Hamlin has been steadily adding to his phone book.

Hamlin racked up eight wins and took Johnson all the way down to the wire, losing the title over the final two weeks because of one team miscal-culation and one driver error. Up 15 points headed into the finale, he fell 39 points short of taking that title from Johnson.

And he’s not been the same since.

Life’s still been great off the race track for Hamlin, who shot a cameo in the series finale of “Entourage” and has enjoyed all the trappings of his celebrity status.

But on track he has been nothing short of a major let-down. He’s suffered through all of JGR’s engine woes.

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“These guys aren’t going anywhere, they’re not a flight risk. It’s not like we don’t know where they’re at,” Stone said. “It’s not like we’re sitting around wait-ing for them. We still have witnesses to interview. ... And if it reaches the point to where the evidence sup-ports the allegations, we’ll obtain arrest warrants for the persons responsible. And if it’s these four football play-ers, they’ll be arrested and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish jail.”

Witnesses have described one of the victims being kicked in the head while lying on the ground, Stone said. He declined to specify who did the kicking or who got kicked.

LSU practiced Monday evening, but university offi-cials said none of the players who have been named in the investigation would be made available to the media. Play-ers who did talk to report-ers were instructed not to answer any questions about their memories of what hap-pened at the bar not far from campus.

The players were out after a curfew imposed by the coaching staff when the fight took place. However, LSU athletics spokesman Michael Bonnette said players tradi-tionally conclude fall camp, which this year ended last Thursday, by socializing together after curfew. Bon-nette said that tradition has spanned the tenures of a

number of coaches.Nonetheless, coach Les

Miles has said the allega-tions surrounding the fight have made him “miserable,” and the entire team has been punished with additional conditioning during practice, such as running. Miles also said more punishment would be forthcoming.

As of Monday night, though, no players had been suspended.

The fourth-ranked Tigers open the season against No. 3 Oregon on Sept. 3 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Jefferson was expected to be the starting quarterback, but if he cannot play, fellow senior Jarrett Lee would be the likely starter behind center.

been going. Everybody likes the venue. They think Vicks-burg and they think hills, but it’s wide open out there. It should lead to some good times.”

Joe Giambrone, who is in charge of setting up the tri-athlon’s bike course and will race in the event, said Eagle Lake’s setting and facilities enhanced its appeal.

“We think it’s one of the best venues in the state, and we’ve been all over,” Giam-brone said. “You have a great staging area. Some of these places, you’re out in a pas-ture. Here you’ve got a paved parking lot.”

Although the triathlon

seems to have quickly sur-passed the Gator Bait’s origi-nal open water swim in pop-ularity, there are no plans to drop the swim from the lineup. Mixon said it remains popular with younger swim-mers who aren’t ready to tackle the triathlon.

“Us being the swim team, we like to offer that to our guys that aren’t on the tri-athlon level yet,” said Mixon, who also coaches the Vicks-burg Swim Association youth team. The Gator Bait races are used by the VSA as a fundraiser. “They really like that open water to see what all the time in the pool was for.”

The event itself is also growing. Besides the increased participation, the VSA has lined up River Region Health System as its first primary sponsor. Other companies have donated lesser amounts, and all will help the VSA improve and refine both the triathlon and open water swim in years to come, Mixon said.

“People don’t realize how much it takes to put on a race. It takes money,” Mixon said. “You have to pay for the timing, the T-shirts, the swim caps. It is essential for us to have sponsors to continue to put on a good race.”

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MiLEStonESn BIRTHDAYSBarbara Eden, actress, 77; Patricia McBride, ballet dancer, 69; Linda Thompson, singer, 64; Shelley Long, actress, 62; Rick Springfield, actor-singer, 62; Jay Mohr, actor, 41; Ray Park, ac-tor, 37; Scott Caan, actor, 35; Shelly Fairchild, country singer, 34; Kimberly Matula, actress, 23.

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Brooks, Jackson lauded for songwritingCountry superstars Alan

Jackson and Garth Brooks are among the newest inductees to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

They join Allen Shamblin, John Bettis and Thom Schuyler as the 2011 inductees.

Jackson has written or co-written 24 of his 35 No. 1 sin-gles, including “Chattahoochee” and “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning).” Brooks also penned many of his own hits, like “The Thunder Rolls” and “The River.”

Shamblin’s credits include Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me” and Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” Bettis is known for pop-country crossovers such as “Slow Hand,” sung by The Pointer Sisters and later Conway Twitty.

Schuyler’s resume includes the Kenny Rogers hit “Love Will Turn You Around.”

The induction ceremony will take place October 16th in Nash-ville.

Lil Wayne hurt in skateboard accidentLil Wayne said Monday he is recovering after

gashing his head at a St. Louis-area skateboard park.

The 28-year-old rapper whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. was in suburban St. Louis Sunday for a performance at the outdoor Verizon Amphitheatre. Lil Wayne, accompanied by a large entourage, showed up Sunday at De-Paul Health Center’s emergency room.Hospital spokeswoman Jamie Newell said she

could not confirm Lil Wayne was at the hospital, citing privacy laws. But Lil Wayne wrote about it on his Twitter account.

“The Lou was good but I busted my ... head at the sk8park! 9stitches! Gnarly gash over my left eye! Luv the people,” he wrote.

Messages left with Lil Wayne’s management on Monday were not returned. Details about how he was hurt, and where, were not available.

hatch wants court-appointed lawyerThe jailed winner of the first season of “Survi-

vor” is fighting for a court-appointed lawyer to help him with an appeal on his probation viola-tion.

Filings in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., made public last week show Richard Hatch be-lieves he should be given free legal representa-tion.

The 50-year-old Newport resident is in a fed-eral prison in West Virginia. He was ordered back behind bars in March for nine months for failing to pay taxes on his $1 million winnings from the CBS reality show.

Hatch is appealing that decision to the 1st Circuit Court of Ap-peals in Boston.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Lincoln Almond is recommending Hatch be denied free legal counsel. He says the appeal is not “taken in good faith.”

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City dumps mayor for ditching workA small city in Oregon has kicked out its mayor for not show-

ing up to work.Sodaville replaced 35-year-old Brady Harrington with the city

council’s president.Harrington missed council meetings in June and July, along

with skipping three budget meetings. The new mayor, Nick Heineck, said Harrington was occupied

as a firefighter and student, but would not commit to returning to meetings when council members reached him by phone this week.

Harrington declined to resign. He was elected to his second term as mayor in November.


NEw ALBuM, FAMILIAR SOuND‘O Brother’ set serves up more old-timey music By David GermainAP movie writer

LOS ANGELES — George Clooney isn’t the only one whose singing didn’t make the final cut of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and the film’s best-selling soundtrack, which helped turn old-timey music into hit pop tunes again.

Clooney’s stab at singing the film’s signature song still remains in the vaults, but an expanded version of the sound-track — in stores today — packs 14 extra tracks, includ-ing 12 previously unreleased cuts from music producer T Bone Burnett’s “O Brother” sessions.

The two-CD set, which also includes the 19 tunes from the original soundtrack, helps cel-ebrate the 10th anniversary of the “O Brother” triumph at the 2001 Grammys, where it was picked as album of the year.

The film’s $45 million haul at the domestic box-office was at the time the biggest success yet for filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, but it was a pittance com-pared to Hollywood blockbust-ers. Parts of the movie were filmed in Vicksburg.

The album, though, was a runaway hit, selling 9 million copies, ranking as one of the 10 top-selling soundtracks ever and inspiring renewed interest in long-neglected rootsy music that continues today. As the studio engineer tells Clooney’s gang in the film, “people can’t seem to get enough” of that old-timey stuff.

“That type of music had been around my whole life. There was a period of time in the late 1950s and early ’60s where it was actually popular music, and I knew there hadn’t been a light shone on it for some number of

years,” Burnett said.“We knew we were getting

ready to shine a very bright light on it with a George Cloo-ney movie and a George Cloo-ney video, for that matter. I thought there was a very good chance that it would penetrate the zeitgeist, these singers and musicians; for a lot of people to hear them and think this was good music. The thing I didn’t foresee was all the banjo sales increasing by 7,000 percent.”

The expanded soundtrack fea-tures more songs by perform-ers who were on the original album, among them Norman Blake, the Fairfield Four and the Peasall Sisters, and others who didn’t make it on the ini-tial release, including Van Dyke Parks, Colin Linden and Alan O’Bryant.

The double album features two previously unreleased tracks by the late John Hart-ford, a banjo player and music folklorist who wrote “Gentle on My Mind.” Burnett recalls that Hartford recorded 30 or

40 songs in a single day as they were working on the “O Brother” soundtrack.

Inspired by Homer’s “The Odyssey,” the film follows three Depression-era escaped con-victs (Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) as they encounter seductive sirens, run afoul of a modern Cyclops (John Goodman) and inadver-tently record a hit song with the traditional tune “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow.” The film makes its debut on Blu-ray disc Sept. 13, with extras that include the “Man of Con-stant Sorrow” music video.

Clooney, nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney, recorded a version that “sounded great ... he does have those genes, and he is Irish,” Burnett said. “If George wanted to, he could be a singer.”

But Clooney only had a brief time to prepare for his studio session. Burnett said that for the film to work, the song had to sound timeless, the sort of tune that could sweep the

airwaves and become the sal-vation for Clooney and his “Soggy Bottom Boys.”

The filmmakers went with a version sung by country and bluegrass guitarist Dan Tymin-ski, one of the “O Brother” ses-sion musicians and a longtime member of Alison Krauss’ band Union Station.

Tyminski’s “Man of Constant Sorrow,” which also won a Grammy, has become a stan-dard at Krauss’ shows, and the song gave him such a career boost that he stepped out from sideman duties to record two solo albums.

The music revival that fol-lowed the soundtrack’s release still is going strong, Tymin-ski said.

“It took years before I really started to understand the impact that soundtrack had on the music. It trickled down outside anything connected to the soundtrack,” Tyminski said.


Tim Blake Nelson, from left, George Clooney and John Turturro in “O Brother, where Art Thou?”

Fire damages Kan. house of ‘In Cold Blood’ murders

HOLCOMB, Kan. (AP) — Firefighters have put out a small fire at a rural south-west Kansas farmhouse where four family members were killed in 1959, sparking Truman Capote to write the critically acclaimed novel “In Cold Blood.”

Garden City Fire Chief Allen Shelton said the fire started Sunday night in an upstairs bedroom, most likely after a cigarette was left unattended.

Firefighters were able to con-tain the blaze to a chair in the room, but the rest of the house sustained some smoke and water damage.

The Holcomb home was the scene of the horrific slayings of Herbert Clutter, a promi-nent farmer and community leader, and his wife, Bonnie Mae Fox, along with their children, 15-year-old Kenyon and 16-year-old Nancy.

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‘Jailhouse rock’ songwriter Leiber dead at 78LOS ANGELES (AP) —

Jerry Leiber, who with long-time partner Mike Stoller wrote “Hound Dog,” “Jail-house Rock,” “Yakety Yak” and other hit songs that came to define early rock ’n’ roll, died Monday. He was 78.

He was surrounded by family when he died unexpectedly of cardiopulmonary failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his longtime publicist, Bobbi Marcus.

With Leiber as lyricist and Stoller as composer, the team channeled their blues and jazz backgrounds into pop songs performed by such artists as Elvis Presley, Dion and the Bel-monts, the Coasters, the Drift-ers and Ben E. King in a way

that would help create a joyous new musical style.

From their breakout hit, blues great Big Mama Thornton’s

1953 rendition o f “ H o u n d

Dog,” until their songwriting took a more serious turn in 1969 with Peggy Lee’s record-ing of “Is That All There Is?” the pair remained one of the most successful teams in pop music history.

“He was my friend, my buddy, my writing partner for 61 years,” Stoller said. “We met when we were 17 years

old. He had a way with words. There was nobody better. I am going to miss him.”

The two chronicled their life-long partnership, which Leiber called “the longest running argument in show business,” in their 2009 memoir, “Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography.” The pair’s writing prowess and influence over the recording industry as pioneering independent pro-ducers earned them induction into the non-performer cate-gory of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

“The music world lost today one of its greatest poet laure-ates,” said Terry Stewart, pres-ident of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. “Jerry

not only wrote the words that everyone was singing, he led the way in how we verbalized our feelings about the soci-etal changes we were living with in post-World War II life. Appropriately, his vehicles of choice were the emerging pop-ulist musical genres of rhythm and blues and then rock and roll.”

Recording Academy Presi-dent Neil Portnow said Leiber and Stoller helped shape the music of the 1950s and ’60s.

“Together, they were an extraordinary team that gen-erated a rich and diverse musical catalog that leaves an indelible imprint on our cul-tural history,” he said.

Songwriter Ashford dies at 70 from throat cancerNEW YORK (AP) — Nick

Ashford, one-half of the leg-endary Motown songwrit-ing duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful classics for the likes of Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye and funk hits for Chaka Khan and others, died Monday at age 70, his former publicist said.

Ashford, who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown’s biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital, said publicist Liz Rosenberg, who was Ashford’s longtime friend. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treat-ment, she told The Associated

Press.Though they

had some of their great-est success at Motown with classics l ike “Ain’t No Mountain

High Enough” and “Reach

Out And Touch Somebody’s Hand” by Ross and “You’re All I Need To Get By” by Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Ashford & Simpson also cre-ated anthems for others, like “I’m Every Woman” by Khan (and later remade by Whitney Houston). Ashford & Simpson

also had success writing for themselves: Perhaps the best-known song they sang was the 1980s hit “Solid As A Rock.”

“His music is unmatched in terms of great songwriting,” Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire said after learning of his friend’s death.

“They had magic and that’s what creates those wonder-ful hits, that magic,” White added. “Without those songs, those artists wouldn’t have been able to go to the next level.”

Others in the music indus-try also mourned the loss. On Twitter, Alicia Keys wrote, “I’m so sad that he’s gone.

... So many of the greatests are going to a greater place ... what a legacy of infectious music ... man!”

Ashford and Simpson’s rela-tionship stretched more than four decades. They met in 1964 in a New York City church. Ashford, a South Carolina native, had come to the city to pursue a dance career. Simp-son was a music student, and after connecting with her, they decided to start to write songs together.

Their first major success occurred when they came up with “Let’s Go Get Stoned” for Ray Charles.

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Woman living on her own leans too heavily on friendDear Abby: “Tracy” and I

have been best friends since junior high. (We’re both 31.) A couple of months ago she and her two sons (my “nephews,” ages 9 and 5) moved out of her parents’ home and into their own apartment.

Tracy has never lived on her own before. As a result, she’s constantly asking me to come over, spend the night, keep her company, etc. I’m happy to visit for a couple of hours once a week or so, but feel uncom-fortable and pressured doing it to the extent she’s asking. She didn’t act this way when she lived with her parents.

I am single, childless, have my own place and a full-time job. My home is my sanctu-ary and I value my peace and quiet. The last thing I want at the end of a hectic work-day is to go to her apartment and hang out for hours on end with her and her sweet

(but loud and rambunctious) boys.

Tracy is also single. She works full time and is a devoted mom, but there’s an obvious deficiency in her life. I try to encourage her that she’ll grow accustomed to her new life, but it doesn’t stick. How can I make her under-stand that while I love her dearly, I can’t be her lifelong security blanket? — Smoth-ered in the East

Dear Smothered: Do it by explaining to your friend what you CAN give her, rather than what you can’t. If it’s one afternoon or evening a week,

arrange your get-together for when you’re available.

Let her know you need time to yourself to unwind after a hectic day at work, that you also need to run errands and do housework. You can be her good friend without coming running every time she snaps her fingers. And remember, she can’t “smother” you any more than you allow.

Dear Abby: My niece is get-ting married in two months, and our invitations just arrived. My daughter, who was divorced last month, was invited with no “and guest” after her name. Who knows? In the next two months she might meet someone she’d like to take to the wedding.

Would it be tacky to respond “two” and see what hap-pens? Or should she take her wounded heart and not go at all? The family knows about her divorce but still addressed

her that way. — Keeping Options Open

Dear Keeping Options Open: While it would have been thoughtful to have invited your daughter and an escort, your relatives may have been more preoccu-pied with financial consider-ations than the fact that your daughter wouldn’t have a date sitting with her. And yes, it WOULD be tacky to write “two” on the RSVP and “see what happens.”

Consider this: For your daughter to bring a date might invite suspicions that she was involved with the person before her divorce. And to ask a man you don’t know well and have been seeing only a very short time could be con-strued as rushing things, and might be a turn-off for the man she had her eye on.

Dear Abby: The young lady I have fallen for (and am prob-

ably in love with) is half my age. Is it wrong to like some-one who is almost young enough to be my daughter? — Younger Than Springtime

Dear Younger: No, it’s not wrong — it happens fre-quently. A more pertinent question is could SHE be seri-ously interested in someone who is almost old enough to

be her father? Only she can answer that.

•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.

Tremor must be identifiedto rule out possible diseases

Dear Dr. Gott: My hands shake when I’m trying to use them but are still when in my lap. I am a 74-year-old male and have had this condition all my life, but it is getting worse as I age.

Dear Reader: Because you indicate the condition is long-standing and you fail to report other symptoms, I believe you have an action-postural tremor, the most common of which is benign essential tremor. This condition is a disorder of the nervous system that can affect almost any part of the body, but it occurs most often with involuntary shaking of the hands when a person attempts to perform simple tasks. It can also affect the arms, head and voice.

Symptoms might include head nodding, difficulty writ-ing, drinking from a cup or glass or holding a fork.

The cause for essential tremor is unknown but almost half of all known cases appear to occur because of a genetic mutation. There are two known risks for development. The first is an inherited variety that translates to one parent passing on the defective gene. If you had one parent with this genetic mutation, you have a 50 percent chance of develop-ing essential tremor. The other risk that becomes greater with time is age.

While not dangerous, essen-tial tremor worsens over time and can be more pronounced in some people than in others. It can be aggravated when a person is under stress, has consumed caffeine, is on spe-cific medications, and might be exacerbated by variations in temperature.

Your physician might make a diagnosis through visual and physical examination and by asking specific questions. However, additional testing might be necessary to rule out such disorders as Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, Wilson’s disease, Charcot-Marie Tooth syndrome and other neuro-logical conditions. I strongly urge you to see a neurologist who can put a name to your problem.

Dear Dr. Gott: My dog has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and is requiring insu-lin injections twice a day. She hates these injections, pulls away when the needle is inserted and yelps when the medication is injected. I’m a wreck. She is 10 years old and has had a good life. I don’t want her last years on this earth to be so miserable. Please tell me I have an alternative!

Dear Reader: Well, I have an MD after my name, not a DVM, but I’ll try. Dietary con-trol, along with daily injec-tions, can help most dogs with diabetes, allowing them to lead healthy lives. Speak with your veterinarian regarding your technique to be assured you are injecting the insulin as painlessly as possible. While oral medications are used for people, they aren’t effective in dogs.

Having said that, I note that glipizide in tablet form taken

orally has been known to stim-ulate the pancreas and initi-ate the production of insulin. If things are presently unbear-able, you might wish to speak with your veterinarian about this possibility. Feed your dog canned and dry foods contain-ing higher concentrations of fiber and complex carbohy-drates. Both help slow absorp-tion and minimize fluctuations in sugar levels. If your dog is overweight, attempt to exer-cise her more.

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

If tomorrow is your birthday: It behooves you to put more en-ergy, dedication and imagination into satisfying your personal ambitions during the next solar cycle. All the little extras you put into your efforts will pay off by producing highly successful results.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Because you can’t change a sensi-tive friend into someone a bit tougher, remember to be tactful when around him or her. It’ll be worth not having to cope with wounded feelings.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — If you try to take all of the credit for something that you and several others played a role in accom-plishing, don’t expect your cohorts to have anything favorable to say about you.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Just remember that your friends have a right to express their own opinions, even if their ideas are contrary to yours. You may not like it, but it’s their preroga-tive to think for themselves.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Be both thoughtful and cau-tious in your financial dealings. Unless you take the time to think before you leap, you could make mistakes that would pro-duce lingering, negative results.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Do your best not to get tied down working with someone who doesn’t understand the val-ue of teamwork. The wrong partner could gum up the works for both of you.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Duck! All those distasteful chores you’ve been shoving under the rug might get thrown at you. Organize your affairs so that you can do the most important jobs first.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Avoid groups or cliques that con-tain certain types who think they are better than everybody else. There are plenty of people out there who’ll do their best to make you smile instead.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Allowing outsiders to get in-volved in your family affairs is asking for trouble. Restrict your communications to members of the clan only.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — There is a good chance you could let go and level a few choice words on someone who has been bugging you for far too long. The relief will be welcome, but the hurt may still linger awhile.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — The best way to remain cautious with your financial affairs is not to go window- shopping. How-ever, if you must head to market, stick to stores that carry only necessities.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — If you and your special someone are not satisfied with the way the relationship is going, spend some time together sorting things out. Be willing to do your share and more, if necessary.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — If co-workers are making your day more difficult than need be, you should either speak up or be prepared to cover up their ineptness. Regardless of which you choose, be diplomatic about it.

Dr. Wallace: I’m a 17-year-old young woman who is very con-cerned about my complexion. Until the last few months, I had a perfectly clear complexion. At the beginning of our school summer break, my boyfriend and I began a sexual relation-ship. About three weeks later, I started to notice that my face was breaking out. We have been sexually active for about two months and my complexion is not clearing up. Is it possible that my sexual activity is causing my complexion problem? Our sexual activity hasn’t bothered my boyfriend’s complexion. — Nameless, DeKalb, Ill.

Nameless: I have talked with Dr. Jeffrey Lauber, a Southern California dermatologist, and this is his answer: “There is no evi-dence that sexual activity has any role in causing acne. Sexu-al activity, or the lack of sexual activity, will not influence your acne condition.” He suggested that you visit a dermatologist at your earliest convenience. He said that he was 99% sure your complexion will improve with proper treatment.

Dr. Wallace: My mother found a pack of cigarettes in my room and blew her mind until I convinced her I was only keep-ing them for my best friend, whose father is a minister. This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I thought she’d be cool and tell me she was happy the cigarettes weren’t mine.

But not my mom! She called my best friend’s mother and spilled the beans. Now my girlfriend is grounded for two months and won’t talk to me. Since I really didn’t do anything wrong, I don’t understand why my friend is mad at me. Do you? — Nameless, Tyler, Texas

Nameless: What you did wrong was to hide your friend’s cigarettes. Her problem became yours. Chances are, after your friend serves her “sentence,” she will return. If your friend stops smoking for good, then this story has a happy ending.

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

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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on the 10th dayof July, 2003, Michael A. Mahoney and Peggy Mahoney executed a Deedof Trust to William M. Bost,Jr., Trustee, for the use and benefit of Jeanne MargueriteMahoney, which Deed ofTrust is on file and of recordin the office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of TrustRecord Book 1403 at Page735 thereof, WHEREAS, Jeanne Marguerite Mahoney, is thepresent legal holder and beneficiary of the Deed ofTrust referred to above;WHEREAS, on July 28,2011, the legal holder of thesaid Deed of Trust and thenote secured thereby, substituted Eugene A. Perrier, as Trustee therein,as authorized by the termsthere of, by instrumentrecorded on August 2, 2011,in the office of the aforesaidChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, in Deedof Trust Book 1524 at Page843 thereof; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deeds oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby, havingbeen declared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holder ofsaid indebtedness, JeanneMarguerite Mahoney, havingrequested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee to execute the trust and sellsaid land and property in accordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust for the purpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees,Trustee's fees and expenseof sale;NOW THEREFORE, I, Eugene A. Perrier, Substituted Trustee in saiddeeds of trust, will on the 6thday of September, 2011, offer for sale at public outcryfor cash to the highest bidder, and sell with legalhours (being between thehours of 11:00 A.M. and 4:00P.M.) at the West Front doorof the County Courthouse atVicksburg, County of Warren, State of Mississippi,the following described property situated in theCounty of Warren, State ofMississippi, to-wit:Beginning at a point in theSouth right of way of U.S.Highway 80 which lies 520.5feet from the Northwest corner of a tract of land conveyed to Joe Palermo etux of record in Deed Book189 at Page 558 of the LandRecords of Warren County,Mississippi. Palermo's Northwest corner is 2,137.5feet West of the East line ofSection 24 measured alongHighway 80.Said point being the Northwest corner of that certain tract conveyed by L.E. Mahoney to Colleen Wellsby deed recorded in DeedBook 512 Page 264, thenceat right angles to course ofHighway 80, South 4 degrees East 240.0 feet toSoutheast corner of the C.Wells tract; thence South 86degrees West parallel toHighway 80, 260.0 feet;thence at right angles to thecourse of Highway 80, South4 degrees East 832.0 feet;thence North 86 degreesEast, parallel to Highway 80,for 480.5 feet; thence North 4degrees West, at right angles to Highway 80, 1050feet to a point in the Southright of way, South 86 degrees West 128.5 feet to astone right of way marker,thence North 4 degreesWest 20.0 feet to Stone rightof way Marker; thence South86 degrees West 92.0 feet tothe point of beginning all lying in Section 24, Range16 North, Range 4 East.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as is vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,on this the 10th day of August, 2011._______________________EUGENE A. PERRIERSUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEPREPARED BY: EUGENEA. PERRIER, LLC1001-B ADAMS STREETVICKSBURG, MS 39183-2535TELEPHONE 601-630-9000Publish: 8/16, 8/23, 8/30(3t)

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on April 30,1999, Michael J. Scott andBeverly G. Dent Scott, Husband and Wife, executeda certain deed of trust to Emmett James House andBill R. McLaughlin, Trusteefor the benefit of UnionPlanters Bank, National Association which deed oftrust is of record in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, State of Mississippi in Book 1171 atPage 220 and re-recorded inBook 1709 at Page 489; andWHEREAS, Regions Bankd/b/a Regions Mortgages/b/m to Union PlantersBank, N.A. being one andthe same as Union PlantersBank, National Association,has heretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated April 29,2011 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1524 at Page393; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Regions Bank d/b/aRegions Mortgage, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested the undersigned SubstitutedTrustee to execute the trustand sell said land and property in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust and for the purpose ofraising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees, trustee's feesand expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on September 13, 2011offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours(being between the hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), atthe West Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren County, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit: All of Lot 16 of that certainsurvey in said City known as"Parkside Terraces", a plat ofwhich is recorded in Book258, Page 307 of the LandRecords in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 18th day of August,2011.J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE##Shapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-92993029 Rose LaneVicksburg, MS 3918011-002496GWPublish: 8/23, 8/30, 9/6(3t)

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01. Legals

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on April 30,1999, Michael J. Scott andBeverly G. Dent Scott, Husband and Wife, executeda certain deed of trust to Emmett James House andBill R. McLaughlin, Trusteefor the benefit of UnionPlanters Bank, National Association which deed oftrust is of record in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, State of Mississippi in Book 1171 atPage 220 and re-recorded inBook 1709 at Page 489; andWHEREAS, Regions Bankd/b/a Regions Mortgages/b/m to Union PlantersBank, N.A. being one andthe same as Union PlantersBank, National Association,has heretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated April 29,2011 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1524 at Page393; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Regions Bank d/b/aRegions Mortgage, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested the undersigned SubstitutedTrustee to execute the trustand sell said land and property in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust and for the purpose ofraising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees, trustee's feesand expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on September 13, 2011offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours(being between the hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), atthe West Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren County, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit: All of Lot 16 of that certainsurvey in said City known as"Parkside Terraces", a plat ofwhich is recorded in Book258, Page 307 of the LandRecords in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 18th day of August,2011.J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE##Shapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-92993029 Rose LaneVicksburg, MS 3918011-002496GWPublish: 8/23, 8/30, 9/6(3t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OF ESTATE OF LAWRENCE B.STOREY, JR., DECEASEDPROBATE NO. 2011-096PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters Testamentary uponthe Estate of Lawrence B.Storey, Jr., deceased, havingbeen granted to the undersigned on the 2nd dayof August, 2011, by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, notice ishereby given to all personshaving claims against saidestate to present the same tothe Clerk of said Court forprobate and registration, according to law, within 90days from the first publication of this notice orthey will be forever barred.Dated this the 3rd day of August, 2011.Lawrence B. Storey, III, Executor of the Estate ofLawrence B. Storey, Jr., DeceasedPublish: 8/9, 8/16, 8/23(3t)

UNITED STATES OFAMERICAFEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMIS-SIONFFP Project 121 LLCProject No.14012-000NOTICE OF PRELIMINARYPERMIT APPLICATION ACCEPTED FOR FILINGAND SOLICITING COMMENTS, MOTIONS TOINTERVENE, AND COMPETING APPLICA-TIONS(August 3, 2011)On January 10, 2011, FFPProject 121 LLC filed an application, pursuant to section 4(f) of the FederalPower Act, proposing tostudy the feasibility of hydropower on the Mississippi River, nearVicksburg, in Warren County, Mississippi and nearTallulah in Madison Parish,Louisiana. The sole purposeof a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permitholder priority to file a licenseapplication during the permitterm. A preliminary permitdoes not authorize the permitholder to perform any land-disturbing activities orotherwise enter upon landsor waters owned by otherswithout the owners' expresspermission.The proposed VicksburgBend hydrokinetic projectwould consist of the following: (1) up to 8,340SmarTurbine generatingunits installed in arrays onthe bottom of the river; (2)the total capacity of the installation would be up to333,600 kilowatts; (3) flexiblecables would convey eacharrays power to a meteringstation; and (4) a transmission line would interconnect with the powergrid. The proposed projectwould have an average annual generation of758,681,460 kilowatt-hours(kWh), which would be soldto a local utility.Applicant Contact: RamyaSwaminathan, Free FlowPower Corporation, 239 Causeway Street,Boston, MA 02114; phone(978) 283-2822. FERC Contact: MichaelSpencer, (202) 502-6093.Deadline for filing comments,motions to intervene, competing applications (with-out notices of intent), or notices of intent to file competing applications: 60days from the issuance ofthis notice. Competing applications and notices ofintent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR4.36. Comments, motions tointervene, notices of intent,and competing applicationsmay be filed electronicallyvia the Internet. See 18 CFR385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's websitewww.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efil-ing.asp. Commenters cansubmit brief comments up to6,000 characters, without prior registration, using theeComment system athttp://www.ferc.gov/docs-fil-ing/ecomment.asp. Youmust include your name andcontact information at theend of your comments. Forassistance, please contactFERC Online Support [email protected]; call toll-free at (866)208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the Commissionstrongly encourages electronic filing, documentsmay also be paper-filed. Topaper-file, mail an originaland seven copies to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission, 888 FirstStreet, NE, Washington, DC20426. More information about thisproject, including a copy ofthe application, can beviewed or printed on the "eLibrary" link of the Com-mission's website atwww.ferc.gov/docs-filing/eli-brary.asp. Enter the docketnumber (P-14012-000) in thedocket number field to access the document. Forassistance, contact FERCOnline Support.Kimberly D. Bose,Secretary.Publish: 8/9, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30(4t)

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UNITED STATES OFAMERICAFEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMIS-SIONFFP Project 121 LLCProject No.14012-000NOTICE OF PRELIMINARYPERMIT APPLICATION ACCEPTED FOR FILINGAND SOLICITING COMMENTS, MOTIONS TOINTERVENE, AND COMPETING APPLICA-TIONS(August 3, 2011)On January 10, 2011, FFPProject 121 LLC filed an application, pursuant to section 4(f) of the FederalPower Act, proposing tostudy the feasibility of hydropower on the Mississippi River, nearVicksburg, in Warren County, Mississippi and nearTallulah in Madison Parish,Louisiana. The sole purposeof a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permitholder priority to file a licenseapplication during the permitterm. A preliminary permitdoes not authorize the permitholder to perform any land-disturbing activities orotherwise enter upon landsor waters owned by otherswithout the owners' expresspermission.The proposed VicksburgBend hydrokinetic projectwould consist of the following: (1) up to 8,340SmarTurbine generatingunits installed in arrays onthe bottom of the river; (2)the total capacity of the installation would be up to333,600 kilowatts; (3) flexiblecables would convey eacharrays power to a meteringstation; and (4) a transmission line would interconnect with the powergrid. The proposed projectwould have an average annual generation of758,681,460 kilowatt-hours(kWh), which would be soldto a local utility.Applicant Contact: RamyaSwaminathan, Free FlowPower Corporation, 239 Causeway Street,Boston, MA 02114; phone(978) 283-2822. FERC Contact: MichaelSpencer, (202) 502-6093.Deadline for filing comments,motions to intervene, competing applications (with-out notices of intent), or notices of intent to file competing applications: 60days from the issuance ofthis notice. Competing applications and notices ofintent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR4.36. Comments, motions tointervene, notices of intent,and competing applicationsmay be filed electronicallyvia the Internet. See 18 CFR385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's websitewww.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efil-ing.asp. Commenters cansubmit brief comments up to6,000 characters, without prior registration, using theeComment system athttp://www.ferc.gov/docs-fil-ing/ecomment.asp. Youmust include your name andcontact information at theend of your comments. Forassistance, please contactFERC Online Support [email protected]; call toll-free at (866)208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the Commissionstrongly encourages electronic filing, documentsmay also be paper-filed. Topaper-file, mail an originaland seven copies to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary,Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission, 888 FirstStreet, NE, Washington, DC20426. More information about thisproject, including a copy ofthe application, can beviewed or printed on the "eLibrary" link of the Com-mission's website atwww.ferc.gov/docs-filing/eli-brary.asp. Enter the docketnumber (P-14012-000) in thedocket number field to access the document. Forassistance, contact FERCOnline Support.Kimberly D. Bose,Secretary.Publish: 8/9, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30(4t)

The City of Vicksburg will beaccepting proposals for Insurance coverage prior to September 19, 2011 by 9:00a.m. in the City Clerk's Office, after which they willbe publicly opened by theMayor and Aldermen of theCity of Vicksburg in Boardmeeting at 10:00 a.m.,September 19, 2011. Yourproposal should include thefollowing lines of insurancecoverage. Please submit anexplanation for any deviationfrom the type, amount, andor limits specified. Proposalpackets may be picked up inthe City Clerk's Office on the2nd floor of City Hall.Bidders are cautioned thatthe City Clerk does not receive the daily U.S. Mail onor before 9:00 a.m. Bids willbe time-stamped upon receipt according to CityClerk's time clock.Proposals should include thecost for the following types ofinsurance:Workers Compensation with-0- DeductibleWorkers Compensation with$25,000.00 DeductibleWorkers Compensation with$50,000.00 Deductible/s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr., CityClerkPublish: 8/23, 8/30(2t)

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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

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SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY

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1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180

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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

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Touching Hearts, LLCPrivate Duty Sitting and

Homemaker ServiceCaregivers available

WHEN and WHERE youneed them.

•LPN’s •CNA’s •NURSE ASSISTANTS

601-429-5426

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29. UnfurnishedApartments

17. Wanted ToBuy

$ I BUY JUNK CARS $Highest price paid,

GURANTEED! Cash in your hand today!

Call 601-618-6441.







WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, old batteries, lawnmowers, hot water heaters,junk and abandoned cars,trucks, vans, etcetera. 601-940-5075, if no answer, pleaseleave 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

1949 PARTIALLY RE-STORED Ford tractor. 601-638-5397.

6 FOOT WOODEN tablewith benches- seats 8,$450. 4 foot round tile toptable- seats 4, $225. Queensize bed, $150. Antiquedresser, $175. Call Jennifer,601-218-4538.

82ND VICKSBURG COINShow, August 27-28, Battle-field Inn, Saturday, 9am-6pm, Sunday, 10am-4pm,sponsored by VicksburgCoin Club. Information 601-638-1195.

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.

LIKE NEW. WHIRLPOOLnatural gas range. Maytagelectric range. $150 each.Maytag refrigerator, $125.601-852-8563.

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!

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

PORTABLE GENERA-TOR, air compressor, tablesaw and leaf rake for mow-er. 601-638-2277.

RIDGEWAY GRANDFA-THER clock. 601-638-4003,601-529-8140.

TUBBS BY GRUBBS.1-day bathroom remodeling.1-888-339-5992 Toll Free.

318-324-1232.Financing available. Donniegrubbs.com

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.

19. Garage &Yard Sales

Ask us how to “PostSize” your ad with some

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

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

2001 POLARISSPORTSMAN 500 H.O. 4wheeler. 4X4, one owner.$2500 or best offer. See atAtwood Chevrolet, ask forJustin or call 601-529-2870.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

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



A-1 LAWN SERVICE.Cutting, trimming, edging.Reasonable. 601-218-1448or 601-636-2629.



Chopper’sOlde Tyme Barber Shop

• Hair Cuts • Cut & Style• Hot Towel Shave• Shoe Shine

Dan Davis - Tracie Nevels4407 Halls Ferry Rd.

601-638-2522M-F: 8a-7p Sat: 8a-4p

Discount for Military/Civil Service

• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13

• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce

Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law

601-636-1109

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.

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

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

LAWN SERVICESWE Specialize IN the ap-

pearance of green on yourlawn as well as

saving the green in yourpocket. 601-529-5558.

Roofing • Carpentry•Brick masonry

•Demolition•Plumbing •Electrical

Ready to Work•Bonded

Call Malcolm 601-301-0841

STEELE PAINTINGSERVICE LLC

Specialize in painting/ sheet rock.

All home improvementsFree Estimates 601-634-0948.

Chris Steele/ Owner


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.

26. For RentOr Lease

RICHARD M. CALDWELL

BROKER

SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE

APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180

[email protected]



THE COVETired of high utility bills?

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Paid cable, water & trash!Washer & Dryer,

Microwave included!Ask about our

SPECIAL!

601-415-8735

780 Hwy 61 North

CONFEDERATE RIDGE

APARTMENTS

$200Blow OutSpecial!

Call for details!601-638-0102



2 BEDROOM. ALL elec-tric includes water $450. 4bedroom townhouse allelectric $500. Both are fur-nished with stove and re-frigerator. $200 deposit.601-634-8290.

CANNON GATE APART-MENTS. 2 bedroom, 2 bath,washer/ dryer connections,wood burning fireplace,$805 monthly. Available8/20/2011. 601-634-8422.

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

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

River Oaks2 bedroom 1.5 baths

New just for you!That’s righteverything is

new. Call today!

Only a few left!601-638-2231

Riverbend Apartments2 Bedroom Apartments

Available Rental Assistance

Security Deposit $300 Call today for more information

318-633-9526Office hours:

Monday- Friday 8am-11am.

29. UnfurnishedApartmentsDOWNTOWN, BRICK,

MARIE Apartments. Total electric, central air/ heat,

stove, refrigerator. $520, waterfurnished. 601-636-7107,

[email protected]

30. HousesFor Rent

217 MONTAIGN DRIVE.$1250 monthly plus utilities(water,electric). 3 bedroom,2 bath. 4th bedroom or of-fice. 2,000 square feet withcarport and attached tworoom storage. AvailableSeptember 1. Call for ap-pointment 601-529-6312.

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

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

LAND AND HOME. 5bedrooms, 3 baths on 5acres. Owner financing. Call662-417-2354, 662-417-1209.

OWNER FINANCE. NOCREDIT CHECK! $5000down/ $750 per month. 3bedroom, 2 bath doublewide with land. Others avail-able. 601-941-2952.

TOP DOLLAR PAID forused mobile homes. Call662-417-2354, 662-417-1209.


34. HousesFor Sale

AskUs.

2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.comMember FDIC

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

Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator

MortgageLoans601.630.8209

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

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

34. HousesFor Sale

$675 MONTHLY ANDUP. 2606 Oak Street, 1865Martin Luther King Blvd.Renovated. 732-769-5743.

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

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

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

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

38. FarmImple ments/

Heavy Equipment








40. Cars & Trucks

1990 Ford F150. Clean,air blows cold. 601-218-8185.

1998 ACURA 3.2TL.Loaded, heated seats, sun-roof, AM/FM CD and tapeplayer, low mileage,garaged, uses no oil. $4950firm. 601-636-2731.

2000 LINCOLN NAVIGA-TOR. Red, 4x4, radio, hitch,cold air, 3rd row seats.$3500 1-404-667-8339.

2006 XTERRA S V6.57,000 miles, excellent con-dition. $15,000 or best offer.601-618-1860.

BUY HERE, PAY HERE.Cars start at $500 down.Located: George Carr oldRental Building. Check us

out. 601-218-2893.







GUARANTEED FINANCING

on 1997 to 2006 Models

Starting at $700 Down

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Gary’s Cars - Hwy 61 S

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BACK TO SCHOOLSPECIAL!

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Many colors and styles available.Convert tub to showers.

1-888-339-5992 (Toll Free)318-324-1232

Donniegrubbs.com100% Financing Available

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MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive

Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625

Equal Housing Opportunity801 Clay Street 601-630-2921

www.the-vicksburg.com

UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments

Studios & Efficiencies

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COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

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COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

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601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd

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

BienvilleApartments

The ParkResidencesat Bienville

1, 2 & 3 bedroomsand townhomes

available immediately.

VICKSBURGS NEWEST,AND A WELL MAINTAINED

FAVORITE. EACH WITHSPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS ANDSOPHISTICATED AMENITIES.

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and

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sell your Car or Truck!


CLOSET PHOBIA?Clear out the skeletons in yours

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

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