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Woman dies after beating; boyfriend jailedBy Pamela [email protected]
A Warren County woman died from beating injuries Monday, and her live-in boy-friend, a convicted drug felon, was charged this morning with her death.
Angela Andrews, 40, 10150 U.S. 61 South, Lot 10, died just after 3:30 p.m. at Uni-versity Medical Center in Jackson from head trauma, said Warren County Coro-ner Doug Huskey. Huskey ordered her body sent to the
state crime lab for an autopsy.Arrested was Lorenzo Hull,
41. Hull initially was charged with aggravated domes-tic violence, but charges were upgraded to murder
today when Hull appeared in county court before Judge Johnny Price. Price ordered Hull held in the Warren County Jail without bond, said Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace.
Hull called 911 about 7:30 Monday morning, saying his girlfriend would not wake up, said Pace.
Deputies and EMTs found Andrews unconscious and unresponsive, he said. She was taken to River Region
Organizersseek delayon decisionfor homeless
Second pilotis contractedfor river ferry
By Danny Barrett [email protected]
A request by a local nonprofit to tweak the city’s zoning laws to allow a transi-tional living facility for homeless people near the former ParkView Regional Medical Center was expected to be tabled when the Vicksburg Board of Zoning Appeals meets today, officials said.
In an e-mail to the board, Mountain of Faith Ministries asked the panel to delay its request at least a month but left no additional instructions, zoning adminis-trator Dalton McCarty said.
“It is still on the agenda, but it will have to be tabled at their request,” McCarty said. The board meets at 5 p.m.
The organization plans an “open-house forum” on transitional housing sometime this month, Mountain of Faith execu-tive director Tina Hayward said when reached Monday. A site had not been chosen, she said.
The Vicksburg-based nonprofit pro-posed a center to help up to 25 people find permanent housing through a two-year program of various life skills and financial counseling. To make it happen, the group had asked the zoning panel
By Danny Barrett [email protected]
A second pilot to keep the Kings Point Ferry run-ning through the busy deer hunting season was signed Monday in a contract that costs $9 more an hour than Warren County pays two pilots currently employed on the vessel.
Warren County supervi-sors OK’d a contract with Paul G. Koestler to serve as a contract pilot for the ferry, on the recommendation of Road Manager Richard Winans.
Koestler, who works with
FRUGAL, FRUGAL
United Way class learninghow to save, spend less
By John [email protected]
In seven weeks, Angela Lyons saw one dollar grow to 224.
Her financial gain began with donations from nurses where she takes dialysis. It continued to increase as she saved money by careful spending and eating at home instead of eating out.
Lyons is disabled and has two daughters, one in high school and one attending Hinds Community College in Raymond. She was one of 17 people who seven weeks ago began a United Way of West Central Mississippi-spon-
sored Financial Education in Your Community program at the Kings Community Empowerment Center. Each received $1 on the first day of class and each was chal-lenged to make it grow.
Monday night, 10 of the members met to tell how they did and receive cer-tificates for completing the class.
Financial education pro-gram Ernestine Bilbrew said the class concentrates on helping people change their ideas and habits about money management.
“We’re changing behavior,”
AngelaAndrews
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WeaTheRtonight:
chance of rain,lows in the mid-30s
Wednesday:chance of rain, highs inthe mid- to upper 40s
Mississippi River:32.5 feet
Rose: 1.2 footFlood stage: 43 feet
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• Dorothy Jean Boyles Brantley• Lamar C. Brown• Rosie L. Coleman• Mary Louise Harris• Lucile Ryan Johnson• Charles H. Thompson Sr.• Ada T. Wallace
a7ToDaY In hISToRY
1889: Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, dies in New Or-leans.
1971: The original Auto-Train, which carried rail pas-sengers and their motor vehicles from Lorton, Va., to Sanford, Fla., goes into op-eration. (Although the pri-vately owned line went out of business in 1981, Amtrak revived the service in 1983.)1989: Fourteen women are shot to death at the Univer-sity of Montreal’s school of engineering by a man who then took his own life.
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Vicksburg Junior High School seventh-grader Renetta Johnson stays warm and dry inside the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library Monday. Johnson said she needed a quiet place to finish
her homework. Light rain was in the forecast for today and Wednesday before clearing out for Thursday and Friday, when temperatures are expected to drop into the mid-20s.
Warm and dry
Cleothi Williams holds dollar bills as he explains to mem-bers of his Financial Education in Your Community class how he took $1 and grew it to $87.
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See Pilot, Page A7.See Money, Page A7.
See Homicide, Page A7.
Teen suspect back in jailBy Pamela [email protected]
A Warren County teen accused of the May shooting death of her stepmother was back in jail today after the com-pany that had put up her bond revoked it, citing contractual violations, Sheriff Martin Pace said.
Tyla D. Vega, 14, who had been staying with family at 1105 Williams St., Tallulah,
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CLUBsLions — Noon Wednesday; speakers: Chancery Clerk Dot McGee; Mark Chaney, Pearl Harbor; and Jim Hess, Christ-mas message; no more De-cember meetings; Toney’s.Military Order of the Purple Heart and Ladies Auxilia-ry — 9 a.m. Thursday; Char-lie Tolliver, 601-636-9487, or Edna Hearn, 601-529-2499; Battlefield Inn.Vicksburg Toastmaster Club 2052 — Thursday meeting canceled; Derek Wilson, 601-634-4174.American Legion Post 3 —
6 p.m. Thursday; food served; 1712 Monroe St.Mu Xi Omega Chapter Of Al-pha Kappa Alpha Sorority — 3 p.m. Sunday; Dr. Casey D. Fisher Multipurpose Building, 2717 Alcorn Drive.
PUBLIC PROGRAMsRiver City Mended Hearts — 5 tonight; chef John Pel-ton, healthy eating; rooms C and D at River Region Medical Center.Senior Center — Wednesday: 10 a.m., chair exercises and watercolor art; 1 p.m., knitting class and Christmas bingo; 2, card games; 6-9, chess.
Grace Group AA — 5:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and 11 a.m. Saturday, 1414 Cherry St. WCHS Presents Poetry Out Loud — Recitation contest, 6-7:15 tonight; Hinds Commu-nity College’s Vicksburg cam-pus, Multipurpose Building, room 50. Serenity Overeaters Anony-mous — 6-7 p.m. Wednes-day, Bowmar Baptist Church, Room 102C; 601-638-0011.Salvation Army Canned Food Drive — 7-10 p.m. Fri-day, Big Wheelie Skating Rink; admission, three canned goods and $2; 1729 N. Front-
age Road, 601-634-0145. Church League Basketball — For males, register 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday-Jan. 7; $150 per team, youths 12-14 and 15-18; adult 19-26; Kings Em-powerment Center; 601-634-4788 or 601-634-4756.North Lion Hospice Care — Volunteers needed; for termi-nally ill patients and their fam-ilies; 135 Bounds St., Jackson; 601-321-8812.
CHURCHEsChrist Episcopal — Quiet and peace during holiday sea-son, morning prayer, 7:30-7:50 a.m. Monday-Thursday; 601-
638-5899; 1115 Main St.First Baptist — Blood drive, 4-7 p.m. Wednesday; donors receive T-shirt; Family Life Center, 1607 Cherry St.Mount Givens M.B. — Choir rehearsal, 6:30 p.m. Friday; 210 Kirkland Road.House of Peace Worship — Singles Christmas party, 7 p.m. Friday; RSVP by Wednesday, 601-529-1232.New Oak Ridge M.B. — Hon-oring church musicians, 6:30 p.m. Saturday; church choirs invited to bring two selec-tions; 601-885-8773; the Rev. K.C. Frazier, pastor; 2875 New-man Road, Edwards.
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Holidayevents
tOdAy• Barbie Bassett book-signing — 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Crown to Heels on Washington Street; “Fore-casts and Faith: Five Keys to Weathering the Storms of Life.”• River Region tree-light-ing — 6 p.m. at hospital atrium; refreshments and music by Mighty Train of Gospel.
WEdnEsdAy• Rolling Fork parade — 4 p.m., through down-town to South Delta High School; theme, I Love Roll-ing Fork; 662-873-6261.• Mississippi Welcome Center — 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Interstate 20 and Washington Street; music by Mississippi Dulcimers, refreshments.
tHURsdAy• Getting Ready for the Holidays —Noon-1 p.m. at Warren County Exten-sion Office, 1100-C Grove St.; Lynette McDougald, instructor and manager, Mississippi State Univer-sity Florist; free; 601-636-5442.• Sid Salter book-sign-ing — 2 to 4 p.m. at Lore-lei Books on Washington Street; “Jack Cristil: Voice of the MSU Bulldogs”; 601-634-8624 or www.lo-releibooks.com.• Mixed Nuts! — 5-8 p.m. at Peterson’s Art and An-tiques on Washington Street; artists, refresh-ments; 601-636-7210.• Confederate Christmas Ball dance lessons — 6 p.m. at Old Court House Museum; free; 601-646-0741.• Jammin’ for the Kids — 6 p.m. at Jaques’ Cafe; drinks will be sold; admis-sion, $5 or new toy.• Warren Central Mad-rigals Singe Feaste — 7 p.m. at Southern Cultural Heritage Center; $25 for dinner theater; 601-631-2916.
FRIdAy• Confederate Christmas Ball dance lessons — 6 p.m. at Old Court House Museum; free; 601-646-0741.• Warren Central Mad-rigals Singe Feaste — 7 p.m. at Southern Cultural Heritage Center; $25 for dinner theater; 601-631-2916• “It’s a Wonderful Life” — 7:30 p.m. at Vicksburg Theatre Guild’s Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; $12 for adults, $10 for se-niors 55 and older, $7 for students 13 and older and $5 for children 12 and younger; 601-636-0471 or www.vicksburgtheat-reguild.com.
sAtURdAy• Vicksburg National Military Park Holiday Open House — 1-4 p.m. at the Shirley House; park entrance fee waived for open house participants.• Christmas in Port Gib-son — 2-6 p.m.; $20 for one-day pass for tour of homes, $30 for two days; 601-437-5103.• Warren Central Mad-rigals Singe Feaste — 7 p.m. at Southern Cultural Heritage Center; $25 for dinner theater; 601-631-2916• “It’s a Wonderful Life” — 7:30 p.m. at Vicksburg Theatre Guild’s Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; $12 for adults, $10 for se-niors 55 and older, $7 for students 13 and older and $5 for children 12 and younger; 601-636-0471 or www.vicksburgtheat-reguild.com.• Confederate Christmas Ball — 7:30-9 p.m. at Old Court House Museum; period costumes encour-aged; $25; 601-646-0741.
sUndAy• Santa at Openwood Plantation — 2 p.m.; three stops on Newitt Vick Drive in subdivision off Oak Ridge Road.• “It’s a Wonderful Life” — 2 p.m. at Vicksburg Theatre Guild’s Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; $12 for adults, $10 for se-niors 55 and older, $7 for students 13 and older and $5 for children 12 and younger; 601-636-0471 or www.vicksburgtheat-reguild.com.• Saint Joseph Orchestra Christmas Concert — 3 p.m. at Southern Cultural Heritage Center; free, but donations encouraged; 601-631-2997 or [email protected].• Christmas in Port Gib-son — 2-6 p.m.; $20 for one-day pass for tour of homes, $30 for two days; 601-437-5103.
dEC. 13• Senior Circle Christmas Bingo Party — Noon-2 p.m. at River Region Medical Center confer-ence room; lunch; free for members, $5 for non-members; reservations re-quired; Leigh White, 601-883-6118 or [email protected].
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• “1940s Radio Hour” — 7:30 p.m. at Strand The-atre on Clay Street; $12 for adults, $8 for those younger than 12; West-side Theatre Guild, 601-636-8313 or 601-618-9349.9349.
PilotContinued from Page A1.
the Corps of Engineers’ Mat Sinking Unit, will work week-end shifts until a pilot injured off the job returns to work, Winans said. The county’s only other pilot shouldered much the workload in early Novem-ber before service was sus-pended for four days. Trips continued Nov. 21.
Hourly pay was set at $25 in the contract, which passed unanimously. Staff pilots are paid about $16 an hour. The position is treated as an inde-pendent contractor and will not be paid health insurance ben-efits or have taxes withheld, according to the contract.
Koestler, the contract says, will be available to work up to 36 hours a week. The contract may be terminated by either party on two weeks’ notice, it says.
With two pilots, the contract says, the Board of Supervi-sors can maintain a 12-hour daily schedule and comply with Coast Guard regulations. In September, three groups of property owners on Kings Point Island asked the county be found in contempt of a 1997 court order that stipulated ser-vice for 15 hours daily.
County officials contend staff-ing and budget issues have forced them to employ two Coast Guard-certified pilots and offer the service 12 hours daily. The case is before Special Chancery Court Judge Ray H. Montgomery.
On the agenda• Heard a report from board
attorney Randy Sherard that no rush is necessary to send its redistricting plan to the Justice Department.In June, supervisors ap-
proved new maps for their own districts and for the three justice court districts. A legal challenge of maps of districts brought by sev-eral chapters of the NAACP against 10 Mississippi coun-ties, including Warren, was dismissed from federal court but is before the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
When questioned by Dis-trict 3 Supervisor Charles Selmon on the status of the plan, Sherard said he’ll take the advice of counsel to wait until the appellate court rules.
On the maps, Districts 2 and 3 grew geographically to re-flect population shifts away from the City of Vicksburg in the 2010 census.• Took five bids to stabilize
and repair Industrial Drive at the Port of Vicksburg un-der advisement.The job is being funded by
federal highway and port im-provement grants.• Approved invoices totaling
$46,541.44 for engineer-
ing services from county engineer John McKee and $3,105 for legal services from Sherard.
• Awarded contracts to Edko LLC for herbicide servic-es, Grass Masters for lawn maintenance at county buildings and Maynord Landscaping for lawn main-tenance on flood lots.
• Approved a $71,355.34 con-tractor request from Central Asphalt on special assess-ment paving in Amberleaf subdivision.
• Approved travel expenses for any supervisor and the county administrator to attend the Mississippi As-sociation of Supervisors mid-winter conference in Jackson on Jan. 9-12, 2012.
• Approved travel expenses for Coroner Doug Huskey and deputy coroners Ron Regan and Kelda Bailess to attend the state coroner’s association’s midwinter conference in Jackson on Jan. 9-12.
• Approved a $10,672.60 in-voice from ABMB Engineers Inc. on the bayou-cleaning project, pending reimburse-ment from the Mississippi Development Authority.
A Vicksburg man got an unwanted birthday surprise Monday during a traffic stop when he was arrested on a Hinds County warrant charg-ing him with possession of cocaine, Vicksburg police Capt. Bobby Stewart said.
Stewart said officers stopped Lash Rogers, 33, 910 Dewitt St., about 1:53 p.m. at the corner of Spouts Spring Road and North Washington Street for a traffic violation.
Rogers was turned over to Hinds County sheriff’s depu-ties later Monday afternoon, Stewart said.
Car is stolenon Letitia Street
A 1996 Nissan Maxima valued at $5,000 was reported stolen about 12:18 p.m. Monday from a home in the 2500 block of Letitia Street, Vicksburg police Capt. Bobby Stewart said.
He said the car was taken between Saturday and Monday.
Video game, changestolen in 2 burglaries
A video game and change were reported stolen in two Monday burglaries, Vicksburg police Capt. Bobby Stewart said.
He said $4 in change was reported stolen about 3:08 p.m. from an unlocked 2001 Infin-ity parked at the Bienville Apartments, 4223 I-20 Front-age Road.
A Saints Row video game valued at $60 for an Xbox 360 was reported stolen about 3:39 p.m. from a home in the 100 block of Skyline Drive, he said.
Patches for city’s sewer linespromised to save time, moneyBy John [email protected]
Equipment purchased Monday by the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen will save the city time and money repair-ing cracks and breaks in city sewer lines, the city’s interim public works director said.
The board approved paying D&W Systems Sales Inc. of Clin-ton $8,884 for a product called Pipe Patch, a patching system that installs a fiberglass patch to the interior of a damaged sewer line to repair it. City purchas-ing director Tim Smith said the price covers the equipment to position and inflate the patch and two patches to repair 24- and 48-inch pipes.
He said other patches would be bought as needed. He said patches run from 6 inches to 48
inches, and the price depends on the size.
“This means we won’t have to dig up streets and relocate other utility lines to repair sewer line leaks,” interim public works director Garnet Van Norman said. “We have a video camera and a wash truck, so this is something that will work well for us.”
He said the repair process “is like putting a stent in an artery. It has an inflatable ring that you pull through the pipe to the crack. You inflate it inside the pipe and hold it until the patch cures, then deflate it and leave the patch. In the meantime, sewage can continue through the pipe.”
Van Norman said the system reduces the amount of time to repair damaged lines, and could eliminate hiring contractors to
fix deeply buried lines. He said the city contracts work on sewer lines that are 8 feet down or deeper. He said the cost of hiring a contractor to do the work runs about $19,000 to $25,000, depend-ing on the work.
Sewer superintendent Willie McCroy said a test patch was installed last week on a line under Indiana Avenue by sewer department employees and D&W representatives in about two hours without closing the street.
“Ordinarily, we would have had to bring out a backhoe, a work crew and start moving utility poles. It would take most of the day,” he said. “Now we can go to the manhole, pull the patch through and watch it with the video camera. This is going to save the city a lot of money.”
CRIMEfrom staff reports
City man arrested for cocaine warrant
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Gov. Barbour backs planto tax online, catalog salesBy Jeff AmyThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is now backing a congressional proposal to allow states to directly collect sales taxes from Internet and catalog merchants.
Barbour expressed sup-port in a letter last week to Republican Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Lamar Alex-ander of Tennessee. He said that he backed a tax exemp-tion for Internet retailers at their births, but they have now matured, and technol-ogy is now available for them to collect sales taxes.
“Today, e-commerce has grown, and there is simply no longer a compelling reason for government to continue giving online retailers special treatment over small busi-nesses who reside on the Main Streets across Missis-sippi and the country,” Bar-bour wrote. “The time to level the playing field is now, as there are no effective bar-riers to complying with the states’ sales tax laws.”
But while Barbour favors a change, soon-to-be governor Phil Bryant is against it. “The federal government prohib-its this practice and the gov-ernor-elect is not in favor of raising anyone’s taxes in
these tough economic times,” said Mick Bullock, spokes-man for Bryant, now lieuten-ant governor.
The National Conference of State Legislatures esti-mates that Mississippi and its local governments will lose more than $300 million in 2012 because such retail-ers do not collect the state’s 7 percent sales tax.
Foreign exchAnge Abuse in mississippi
Clinton orders review of visa programBy Holbrook MohrThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an “extensive and thorough review” of a foreign exchange program that has been used by U.S. businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry.
In the latest debacle for the J-1 Summer Work Travel visa, a federal indictment unsealed l a s t w e e k accuses the mafia of using the cultural exchange pro-gram to bring Eastern Euro-pean women to work in New York strip clubs.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s immigration sub-committee also has been gath-ering information on the J-1 visa, which was created in 1963 to allow college students from other countries to spend their summer breaks living, work-ing and traveling in the U.S.
As the program has grown to bring more than 100,000 young people here annually, it has become as much about money as cultural understanding.
The State Department has made several changes since an Associated Press investiga-tion last year uncovered wide-spread abuses, including living and working conditions that some participants compared to indentured servitude. In one of the worst cases, a woman told the AP she was beaten, raped and forced to work as a stripper in Detroit after being promised a job as a waitress in Virginia.
More common than sex trade abuses is shabby housing, scarce work hours and paltry pay. In August, dozens of work-ers protested conditions at a
candy factory that packs Her-shey chocolates in Hershey, Pa., complaining of hard phys-ical labor and pay deductions for rent that often left them with little money.
A State Department spokes-man said Clinton “has called for an extensive and thorough review of the program.”
“We continue to be commit-ted to working to strengthen the Summer Work Travel Pro-gram to safeguard the health and welfare of the partici-pants,” the official said in an e-mail late Friday. “We have already instituted one set of reforms and are working toward additional ones that take additional measures to
protect participants and pri-oritize the original cultural intent of the program.”
The New York case was made public just days after the State Department opened a period of public comment on proposed changes that would require companies that sponsor the participants to gather more information about employment and living arrangements.
The students sometimes work as maids or groundskeep-ers in high-priced resorts, but they can also be found flipping burgers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast or working at fish factories in Alaska. The State Department says most partic-
ipants enjoy the program and some sign up to participate more than once.
It’s not clear if the proposed changes would have prevented the situation in New York, in which authorities say fraud-ulent offers for jobs as wait-resses were used to help East-ern European women get visas to come to the U.S. Instead of working in restaurants, they allegedly danced in strip clubs. Authorities say members of the Gambino and Bonnano crime families were involved, along with the Russian mob.
The reforms being consid-ered by the State Depart-ment would limit and refine the types of jobs students can have, expand the list of pro-hibited employment catego-ries, and strengthen “the cul-tural aspects of the program to ensure that the objective of the program — positive expo-sure to the United States — is accomplished.”
The agency already prohibits participants from taking jobs “that might bring the Depart-ment of State into notoriety or disrepute” but the AP found that strip clubs and adult entertainment companies openly solicited J-1 workers.
Most of the abuses in the J-1 program over the years have been blamed on unregulated, third-party labor brokers who work with the students. Critics say the students have gotten little help from companies designated as sponsors by the State Department.
The State Department said in November that it has tem-porarily stopped accepting any new sponsors and will limit the number of future par-ticipants to this year’s level, or about 103,000 students. The State Department also revised its rules to require more oversight by its 53 des-ignated sponsors, which help students arrange for visas and find jobs and housing in return for a fee.
BP: Halliburton destroyed key oil spill evidenceNEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP
in a high-stakes court filing Monday accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.
BP accused Halliburton of having intentionally destroyed evidence about possible prob-lems with its cement slurry poured into the deep-sea Macondo well about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. An oil well must be cemented prop-erly to avoid blowouts.
Also in the documents filed in a New Orleans federal court, BP accused Halliburton of fail-ing to produce incriminating
computer modeling evidence. BP accused Halliburton of claiming the modeling is gone.
BP asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to penalize Halli-burton and order a court-spon-sored computer forensic team to recover the missing model-ing results.
Halliburton did not return a call seeking comment but told other media outlets that the accusations were untrue.
The allegations ratcheted up the showdown among BP PLC and contractors, Halliburton and Transocean Ltd. The
three companies have been sparring over blame for the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon blast, which killed 11 work-ers and led to the release of 206 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. So far, BP, the majority owner of the Macondo well, has footed the bill for the emergency response and cleanup.
Also involved are Anadarko Petroleum Co. and Cameron International Corp.
The first trial over the Deepwater Horizon disas-ter is scheduled to start Feb.
27 in New Orleans. The first leg is expected to take about three months and determine the liability of each com-pany involved in drilling the Macondo well.
Federal and independent investigations of the disas-ter have found fault in Halli-burton’s cement job because it failed to properly plug the well. Halliburton used a foamy cement slurry.
In Monday’s court filing, BP accused Halliburton employ-ees of doing an internal investigation of the Macondo disaster of discarding and destroying early test results they performed on the same batch of cement slurry used in the Macondo well.
Jimmy Buffett, sisters donate boat to USMOCEAN SPRINGS (AP) —
Thanks to a donation from entertainer Jimmy Buffett and his sisters, school chil-dren on the Gulf Coast will have a new way to learn about the bays and bayous of South Mississippi.
The Buffetts joined Uni-versity of Southern Missis-sippi officials Monday at the Gulf Coast Research Lab in Ocean Springs to present a new research vessel to the
laboratory.The Miss
Peetsy B is n a m e d i n honor of their late mother, Mary Lor-raine Peetsy Buffett.Peetsy, as
her grandchil-dren called her, grew up on the Gulf Coast and graduated from the Gulf Park College
for Women in 1940. She later received a university degree at the age of 64.
“We’re all here because our mother valued education so much. It was sort of a building block in all of our lives,” said sister Lucy Buffett.
The 33-foot vessel was built in 1973. Buffett said his long-time friend, Jimbo Meador, found the boat and shep-herded the project.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
BP asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to penalize Halliburton and order a court-sponsored computer
forensic team to recover the missing modeling results.
The associaTed press
A check for J-1 visa worker Kateryna Totskaya in Destin, Fla., shows zero pay for the pay period.
‘Today, e-commerce has grown, and there is simply
no longer a compelling
reason for government to continue giving
online retailers special treatment over small
businesses who reside on the Main Streets
across Mississippi and the country. The time to level the playing field is now, as there are no effective
barriers to complying with the states’ sales tax laws.’
Gov. haley BarBour
Ex-lawmaker, 75,dies in New Albany
NEW ALBANY (AP) — Former state Sen. Walter A. “Pud” Graham has died at 75.
Graham died at his home in New Albany Saturday after being in the hospital the pre-vious week for a medical procedure.
United Funeral Service offi-cials said services were to be today at Ingomar Baptist Church in New Albany with burial in Vista Memorial Park.
State’s 1st flu case is in Tate CountyJACKSON (AP) — Missis-
sippi Department of Health officials said Monday that the state’s first reported case of flu has been confirmed in Tate County.
State Health Officer Dr. Mary Currier said the report should serve as a reminder that it is time to get flu shots.
“The flu shot takes one to two weeks to produce immu-nity, and although flu season usually peaks in January
through March, it sometimes reaches high levels as early as December,” Currier said.
Children 6 months through 18 years can receive flu vac-cinations for $10 through the Health Department’s Vac-cines for Children program.
Seasonal flu vaccinations for adults are $25 at health departments.
High-dosage vaccinations for those 65 and older are available for $50.
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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891Frank Womack and Mollie Jennings are married. • George Haver dies.
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10 YEARS AGO: 2001Gregory L. Jenkins Jr. celebrates his first birthday. • The VCVB reports Vicksburg’s tourist visitation dropped after the 9/11 ter-rorist attacks. • Jesse K. Wyatt Sr. dies.
Having written countless columns and blog posts arguing that the see-no-Islam counterinsurgency strat-egy has led to failure in two wars in the umma (Muslim world) and the dhimmification of the U.S. military, it’s almost funny to see the debate more or less officially joined over my recent column on what appears to be simply the gross-out, PG-13 movie topic of peeing toward Mecca. Or, rather, not peeing toward Mecca.
The latter is the lesson that an Afghan Muslim contractor has been teaching Marines before they deploy to Afghanistan, in accordance with an Islamic canonical hadith called “The Prohibition of Facing the Qiblah When Relieving Oneself.” But maybe the debate had to take this excre-tory turn with the Pentagon awash in the phony fundamentals of Greg Mortenson’s discredited “Three Cups of Tea.”
Scatological or not, what we are talking about here is an untenable invasion of privacy of American citi-zens in uniform via religious dictate as taught by the U.S. Marine Corps.
The Nov. 28 print edition of Marine Corps Times carries both an arti-cle and a lead editorial on what
the paper is politely calling “excre-tory etiquette” regarding Marines and Mecca — which, incidentally, is about 2,000 miles from Afghanistan. But this isn’t just about etiquette. Given its Islamic religious derivation, the Marines’ excretory instruction strikes me as a violation of religious freedom. Who is the U.S. Marine Corps to instruct American citizens to bring their personal hygiene prac-tices into accord with Islamic law? The Corps in this case is acting as a vehicle of Islamic law, which compre-hensively rules on all manner of per-sonal habits, as well as on civil and legal affairs.
Needless to say, the Marine Corps doesn’t see it that way. Its spokesmen
have contended narrowly that this lesson taught by a contractor (hired by the Corps) isn’t “formal Marine Corps doctrine,” as the Marine Corps Times editorial puts it. Formal or not, the editors also don’t think this Marine Shariah (Islamic law) is a bad idea. Headlined “Respect differ-ences,” the editorial states: “Thing is, there’s value to this sort of insight.” Perhaps in the name of respecting “differences”?
Heavens, no. This is all about respecting Islam, not “differences.” After all, if it were about “differ-ences,” the respect in question would extend to the non-Islamic belief that not all bodily functions taking place on planet Earth must key off the loca-
tion of a town in Saudi Arabia. To each his own.
That’s not the editorial’s subject. The value, it says, comes “in light of the tense conditions under which both groups must coexist.”
Tense conditions — as in border firefights? Roadside bombs? No, again. The editorial refers to ten-sions between Muslims and infidels inside the wire. “Consider that in the last four years,” the editorial con-tinues, “nearly 60 coalition troops have been killed by their Afghan counterparts.”
So “respecting differences” here means pee straight or die. That’s the lesson the military wants to teach young Americans heading into the war zone — again, inside the wire. The only way it knows to increase their safety while on their own bases or when “partnering” with Afghans is to school them in the practice of Islamic law. In effect, then, collab-oration with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan requires the United States of America to Islamify its infi-del forces, just a little, just to keep those religious crazies in the Afghan ranks from popping off.
More guidelines for U.S. forces: “If
you must pass a man praying, pass at a respectful distance. Do not walk between a man praying and Mecca — always walk behind him. ... Do not touch Qurans or prayer rugs.” To be fair to the Marines, those rules come from the Center for Army Les-sons Learned. But it’s all of a Pen-tagon piece. And guess where such “safety” education — the dhimmi rules of Shariah — will be taught next?
I bet it would surprise the brass at the Pentagon to learn that Islam means “submission,” and that the age-old choice Islam has offered infi-dels is to submit or die. Still, they seem to have learned, as the editorial puts it, that “certain behavior that wouldn’t get a second look stateside could lead to problems at a patrol base in Helmand province.”
“Problems.” What a way to invoke shootings of our people by Afghan forces — the spurting, flaring jihad none dares name. “Counseling Marines to aim east ultimately may head off trouble,” the editorial con-cludes. Submission always does.
•Diana West can be contacted at [email protected]
Latrine directive another step on path to Islamification
PakistanMore blood spilled on wrong mission
What a tragedy. Last weekend, NATO helicopter attacks against sus-pected insurgents in Pakistan inadver-tently killed 28 troops of the Pakistani military. Although the two nations’ relations are strained, Pakistan is a key ally in America’s military opera-tions in both Afghanistan and Paki-stan itself.
Pakistani Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, a military spokesman, said that NATO expressions of regret were not enough. He told BBC Urdu, which broadcasts Pakistan’s national lan-guage of Urdu, “We think this is not enough, and we do not accept it. Such raids have also been conducted in the past. Such attacks are unacceptable.” He lamented that the new deaths bring the number of Pakistani troops killed to 72, with 250 wounded, in such cross-border attacks in the past three years.
The situation is very difficult, Malou Innocent told us; she’s a foreign policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Insti-tute and recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan.
“The U.S.-Pakistani relationship is so complicated,” she said. “It was thrown into disarray earlier, when U.S. troops killed Osama bin Laden,” the terror-ist mastermind behind 9/11. Pakistani authorities remain upset that they were not notified before a Navy SEAL team helicoptered deep into Pakistan to kill the al-Qaida leader in May.
She said that U.S. and other NATO forces have maps showing where Pak-istani military forces are based, and so avoid striking them. “But accord-ing to the United States, unconfirmed reports indicate that attacks on U.S. troops came from the base,” sparking the NATO retaliation.
But the real problem, Innocent said, is the strategy used by the United States and other NATO countries. “We have lost focus of what we’re fighting,” she said. “There are only 150 al-Qaida members” in Afghani-stan and Pakistan, she said. “They can be dealt with through intelligence sharing, not having more than 100,000 troops.” Current NATO troop strength is 140,000, with just less than 100,000
being American.She said it’s a mistake to concentrate
on fighting the Taliban, the indigenous insurgents who are the major focus of the NATO effort. “The question is: Will we start to focus on al-Qaida, or continue to focus on these regional jihadists (the Taliban) that pose no threat to the United States? We killed Osama bin Laden, yet this is the war that never ends.”
Ever since the 9/11 attacks more than 10 years ago, we have favored using U.S. elite troops to go after bin Laden and other al-Qaida members. But we have opposed the sort of “nation build-ing” that ends up being a quagmire. The Afghan war now, at 10 years old, is the longest in America’s history, yet there’s still no exit strategy.
Moreover, it doesn’t make sense to strain relations even more with Pak-istan, long a key ally in the region — despite many problems — and a nuclear power in its own right. With U.S. troops finally heading out of Iraq, it’s also time to wind down the war in Afghanistan.
DIANAWEST
Consider that in the last four years nearly 60 coalition troops have been killed by their Afghan
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Q: I have an opportunity to collect two full pensions on my 55th birthday. I am now 49. 1) What do you think about forgoing the spousal survi-vor benefit and compensat-ing with a term life insurance
policy with my wife as the ben-eficiary? 2) Is there a rule-of-thumb for-m u l a t o determine how much money to insure myself
for? The total pension will be a minimum of $4,200 per month, without the spousal survivor benefit, and the mort-gage will be paid off on the same date. My annuity will provide around $300,000, but we will have to purchase our own health insurance. Thank you. — D.P., via e-mail
A: The proposal that you are making is very common, but it does have one important item that is not unique to all of us, and that is good health and insurability. The idea of forgo-ing the spousal survivor ben-efit — in other words, leaving
your wife with a lower income until her death, is often not the best choice. There is no rule of thumb that I know of. You will have to do the math, look-ing at your income on the two benefits.
The other variable in this situation is that if you die, your wife will have the entire amount that the difference would have purchased, which is often more than would come to her with the survivor ben-efit. Further, if she dies very quickly, that amount of money would be in her estate, which could be passed along to whomever she chooses.
I would elect to go with the insurance. Buying the insur-ance now at age 49 would give you a lower premium, even though the net cost would be higher. You will be developing some cash value in the policy, but more important is that you have no way of knowing whether you will be insurable six years from now. If you are insurable now and you wish to pursue this, consider taking out the insurance and guaran-teeing the availability.
•Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at [email protected].
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Greek lawmakers expected to pass austerity budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Department officials are deciding how to handle Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt’s weekend arrest on charges of drunken driving in suburban northern Virginia.
Babbitt was placed on a leave of absence Monday, and Trans-portation officials are in “dis-cussions with legal counsel” about his employment status, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s office said Monday afternoon.
The Federal Aviation Admin-istration is part of the Trans-portation Department. Bab-bitt is about halfway through a five-year term.
Babbitt, 65, was charged with driving while intoxicated after a patrol officer spotted him driving on the wrong side of the road and pulled him over around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in
Fairfax City, Va., police in the Washing-ton suburb said.
Babbitt, who lives in nearby Reston, Va., was the only occupant,
police said. He cooperated and was released on his own recognizance.
Babbitt apparently delayed telling administration officials about the arrest. White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama and Transportation Department officials learned of the arrest Monday afternoon, about an hour before a 1:30 p.m. state-ment was released saying Babbitt had been placed on leave at his request.
Separately, Fairfax City police issued a statement on
the arrest to the media at about noon Monday, which their policies require in cases where a public official has been arrested. Police refused to disclose the results of Bab-bitt’s blood alcohol test. The legal limit is .08.
LaHood has aggressively campaigned against drunken driving, and is working with police agencies and safety advocates on an annual holi-day crackdown on drinking and driving later this month. Safety advocates credit LaHood with doing more to raise the visibility of human factors in highway safety — including drunken driving, drivers distracted by cell phone use, and parents who fail to buckle in their children — than any previous transpor-tation secretary.
Deputy FAA Administra-tor Michael Huerta will serve
as acting administrator, the Transportation Department statement said. In recent months Huerta has been lead-ing the FAA’s troubled Next-Gen effort to transition from an air traffic control system based on World War II-era radar technology to one based on satellite technology.
Babbitt was a former air-line captain and internation-ally recognized expert in avia-tion and labor relations when Obama tapped him in 2009 to head the FAA. He was a pilot for the now-defunct Eastern Airlines for 25 years, and had served as president of the Air Line Pilots Association. As head of ALPA, he champi-oned the “one level of safety” initiative implemented in 1995 to improve safety standards across the airline industry.
By The Associated Press
Stocks wavered between small gains and losses today after Standard & Poor’s expanded its downgrade threat against Europe to include the region’s bailout fund.
The credit rating agency warned late Monday that it might downgrade 15 countries that use the euro, even Ger-many, which has a perfect AAA rating and Europe’s strongest economy. Today, S&P said it might also cut the AAA rating of Europe’s bailout fund. The fund needs that top rating to cheaply raise money, and losing it would mean it would cost billions more to fund bail-outs. European markets mostly fell on the news.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index edged up a point to 1,256 as of 11:20 a.m. The Nasdaq
composite index fell 6, or 0.2 percent, to 2,650.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 34 points, or 0.3 percent, to 12,132. Among the Dow’s top performers was 3M Co., which rose 2 percent after the maker of Post-It notes fore-cast 2012 earnings that were stronger that many analysts were expecting.
Traders are looking ahead to a crucial summit of European leaders that wraps up Friday. They hope to see more con-crete solutions to restore long-term confidence in the euro
and rescue the region from the sovereign debt crisis that has roiled world markets for months.
“We are coming to a head in Europe, and it’s no longer about the small countries like Greece,” said Paul Zemsky, chief investment officer at ING Investment Management. He said current stock prices reflect traders’ expectations of a rate cut from the European Central Bank Thursday and strong political action Friday. Any less that, he said, and “it’s anyone’s guess show bad things will get,
but they’ll get pretty bad.”The S&P warning left out only
two of 17 countries that use the euro: Cyprus, which already is being reviewed for a down-grade from near-junk status, and Greece, whose low ratings already suggest it is likely to default soon anyway. Skepti-cism over a new plan to pre-vent a breakup of the common currency also dragged markets lower.
S&P’s announcement halted a rally in European markets. It came just hours after the lead-ers of Germany and France unveiled a series of proposals, including punishing govern-ments for overspending, that they hope will persuade the European Central Bank or the International Monetary Fund to lend the euro zone more support.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s lawmakers were set today to pass next year’s budget, one that extends tough austerity measures that have already left Greeks struggling as the country tries to slash its debts and pull itself out of a severe recession.
With three parties, including the country’s majority social-ists and their rival conser-vatives, involved in Greece’s new coalition government, the budget is expected to pass with an overwhelming major-ity in a midnight vote.
It foresees a fourth year of recession in 2012, although it also projects a primary sur-
plus — a surplus excluding interest payments on debt — of 1.1 percent of gross domes-tic product.
On Monday, German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged changes to the EU treaty that would cen-
tralize decision-making on spending and borrowing for the eurozone. Tighter politi-cal and economic coordina-tion among euro countries is seen as a precursor to further financial aid from the Euro-pean Central Bank, the Inter-national Monetary Fund, or some combination.
Greece has been relying for financial survival on billions of euros (dollars) in rescue loans from other eurozone countries and the International Mon-etary Fund since May 2010. In return for the first bailout, the country imposed a series of harsh austerity measures, including salary and pension
cuts and repeated rounds of tax hikes that have left the country mired in a deep recession.
Despite the measures, the government found itself per-sistently missing the fiscal tar-gets set out in its first bail-out. A second rescue package worth $175 billion was put together in October, and includes plans for private cred-itors to write off 50 percent of their Greek bonds, potentially cutting the country’s debt by (euro) 100 billion. Negotiations on the details of the deal are expected to extend into the new year.
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Stocks mixed after S&P’s warning to EuropeTraders are looking ahead to a crucial summit of
European leaders that wraps up Friday. They hope to see more concrete solutions to restore long-term
confidence in the euro and rescue the region from the sovereign debt crisis that has roiled world markets for
months.
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Securing U.S., Mexico border ‘wonderful slogan’ for candidatesAUSTIN, Texas (AP) —
Mitt Romney and Newt Gin-grich have promised to com-plete a nearly 1,950-mile fence. Michele Bachmann wants a double fence. Ron Paul pledges to secure the nation’s southern border by any means neces-sary, and Rick Perry says he can secure it without a fence — and do so within a year of taking office as president.
“Securing the border is a wonderful slogan, but that’s pretty much all it is,” said Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. “Even to come close would require measures that would make legal commerce with Mexico impossible. That’s an enormous price for what would still be a very leaky system.”
Perry, the longest-serving governor of a state that makes up roughly 65 percent of Amer-ica’s border with Mexico, already knows that. What he’s actually pledging, clari-fies spokeswoman Catherine Frazier, is achieving “opera-tional control” of the border — defined by the U.S. Border Patrol as areas where it can detect, respond to and inter-dict illegal activity either at the border or after entry into the U.S.
The U.S. Border Patrol says 873 miles of the border, about 44 percent, have been brought under operational control. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said that “the border is better now than it ever has been.”
Still, that means full control isn’t even half met. And even getting this far required bol-stering the ranks of the Border Patrol to the highest levels ever, from about 9,500 along the border in 2004 to 18,152 today. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement also has a record number of agents on the border, and five Predator drones now patrol strategic parts of it, with a sixth coming by the end of the year. About 650 miles of fencing have been constructed, and 1,200 National Guard soldiers dispatched last year to Texas, California, Ari-zona and New Mexico have had their deployment extended through the end of the year.
Campaigning in Iowa last week, Gingrich signed a pledge to build a fence stretching the length of the border by the end
of 2013. That may help him recover from a recent state-ment that illegal immi-grants who have been established in the U.S. for
years should be allowed to
remain.Perry has steadfastly opposed
the fence, saying it would take 10 years to 15 years to build, cost $30 billion and wouldn’t work anyway. Instead, he wants to flood the border with more National Guard troops until the number of Border Patrol agents necessary to really secure the area are trained and deployed. He also wants to build strategic fenc-ing in high-traffic areas and make better use of airborne surveillance. Perry claims that
would mean full operational control by January 2014.
Romney has publicly agreed with Perry that tackling larger immigration policy reform is impossible without first secur-ing the border.
By some measures, U.S. authorities already have made strides toward that goal. The Pew Hispanic Center says the number of illegal immigrants in the United States peaked at 12 million in 2007, but then dropped by almost 1 million through 2009, and has largely held steady since then at about 11.1 million.
Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants have also fallen sharply.
In fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, the Border Patrol captured 327,577 illegal immigrants on the southwest-ern border — the lowest total in four decades.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann said today she still thinks she has a good chance of winning the Iowa Republi-can caucuses, saying presi-dential campaign rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney “have significant flaws.”
Bachmann said in a nationally broadcast interview t h a t s h e , more than her rivals, personifies the kind of conservative values Iowa Republicans want, and said she believes “we’re going to be shocked on Jan. 3 when we see the results.”
Bachmann commented at a time when polls continue to show her in the lower tier of candidates vying to challenge President Barack Obama next year.
Asked on CBS “The Early Show” about Gingrich’s surge to the top of the polls, Bachmann replied that “two weeks can be an eternity” in a White House campaign. She appeared on the same day that Romney awaited an endorsement from former Vice President Dan Quayle and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman prepared for an appearance in Washington before the Heritage Founda-tion’s Bloggers Briefing.
“I think we’re perfectly sit-
uated to be where we want to be,” Bachmann said. She said the campaign is like a “politi-cal Wall Street,” with candi-dates’ stock rising and falling. And she accused both Gin-grich and Romney of being supporters of “Obamacare,” and said that both backed the government bailout of finan-cial institutions.
The Minnesota Republi-can asserted that Romney had reversed his position on “life” issues and said that both Romney and Gingrich “are flawed candidates.”
Bachmann wouldn’t say whether she will partici-pate in a Dec. 27 debate in Des Moines moderated by real estate magnate Donald Trump. She said she likes Trump, but that she’s still weighing whether to appear.
Gingrich has accepted the debate invitation, but the other candidates are still thinking it over.
Huntsman, in an appear-ance this morning on NBC’s “Today” show, accused Romney of being indecisive, and cited the former Massa-chusetts governor’s failure to say whether he would join the Des Moines debate as an example.
“As usual, Mr. Romney can’t make a decision. He’s weigh-ing both sides and may flip-flop on this as well,” Hunts-man said.
He said that “people are giving us a second look, a first look in some cases.”
Blagojevich sentencing hearing starts todayCHICAGO — A federal
judge was to open a two-day sentencing hearing for dis-graced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on 18 cor-ruption counts, including trying to auc-tion off Presi-dent Barack Obama’s old Senate seat.
The impeached state execu-tive-turned-reality TV star faces the prospect of 10 or more years behind bars.
If Judge James Zagel set-tles on a sentence Wednes-day of more than a decade, that would make it one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with
a long history of crooked politics.
Prosecutors will ask Zagel to imprison the twice-elected governor for 15 years to 20 years, arguing he has not only shirked all responsibil-ity for his crimes but repeat-edly thumbed his nose at the U.S. justice system.
German pensions OK’dfor Holocaust victims
NEW YORK — After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide — mostly survi-vors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or
were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.
The agreement announced Monday between the New York-based Claims Confer-ence and the German gov-ernment is “not about money — it’s about Germany’s acknowledgment of these people’s suffering,” said Greg Schneider, the conference’s executive vice president.
“They’re finally getting rec-ognition of the horrors they endured as children,” he told The Associated Press.
Of the new beneficia-ries, 5,000 live in the United States.
FDA revisits safetyof newer birth control
WASHINGTON — Birth control drugs that were
heavily promoted as having fewer side effects and the ability to clear up acne and other hormonal bothers are under new scrutiny from safety regulators.
Research suggesting that newer birth control formula-tions are more likely to cause blood clots than older drugs has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to con-sider new safety measures in meetings later this week. The increased risk is slight but significant because blood clots can cause heart attacks, strokes and blockages in lungs or blood vessels, which can be fatal.
Regulators could order new warning labels on several contraceptives that gained popularity in the last decade, including Bayer’s pill Yaz.
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Andrews had been living with Hull for six or seven months, her sister, Carolyn Andrews, said this morning. She said Angela Andrews told her that Hull often beat her, controlled her phone con-versations and cursed and verbally abused her.
“When she got with him, I told her, I know his wife, he used to beat her,” Carolyn Andrews said. “But it was like he brainwashed her. She would take up for him.”
Pace would not comment on specifics of Angela Andrews’ injuries, stating investigators are awaiting autopsy results.
“It’s still a part of the inves-tigation as to when (she was beaten), but it’s our belief the injuries occurred some-time during (Sunday) night,” he said. “There is no reason
to believe anyone else was present.”
He would not comment on whether any objects were found or believed used in the beating.
Andrews was a disabled veteran of the U.S. Army, said her sister.
“She was a sweet person, a very good person,” said Caro-lyn Andrews. “She was so open-hearted. She would give people her last dollar if they needed it.”
Angela Andrews was a native of Vicksburg and a graduate of Vicksburg High School. She attended Alcorn State University for two years, taking business courses, before enlisting in the U.S. Army. While in Augusta, Ga., while prepar-ing to go to Iraq as part of Operation Desert Storm, she was in an accident, and sub-sequently had brain surgery that left her in a coma for a time, said her sister.
“Even the doctors gave up hope, but she came out of
that coma fighting,” Carolyn Andrews said.
She had struggled with a drug problem and had served time in prison following a September 2008 jury trial conviction for possession of cocaine. She lived with her sister for a time after her release, said Carolyn Andrews, and the two loved to take photographs, cook and spend time together.
She was a member of Faith Christian Church.
In addition to her sister, Angela Andrews left two sons and a daughter, her father, another sister and a brother.
Hull’s convictions are for sale of cocaine in 1993 and possession of cocaine in 2002, said District Attorney Ricky Smith. Information on his sentencing or time in prison was not avaialable.
Funeral arrangements for Andrews are incomplete with Lakeview Funeral Home in charge.
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TONIGHT
Chance of rain tonight, lows in the mid-30s; chance of rain Wednesday, highs in
the mid- to upper 40s
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BARBIE BASSSETTWEDNESDAy
48°
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-THURSDay
Clear Wednesday night, lows in the mid-20s; sunny Thursday, highs in the low-
er to mid-50s
STATE FORECASTTONIGHT
Chance of rain,lows in the mid-30s
WEDNESDay-THURSDayClear Wednesday night,
lows in the mid-20s; sunny Thursday, highs in the low-
er to mid-50s
ALmAnACHIGHS aND LOWS
High/past 24 hours............. 65ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 39ºAverage temperature ........ 52ºNormal this date .................. 50ºRecord low .............21º in 1885Record high ...........82º in 1951
RaINfaLLRecorded at the
Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ............. 0.93 inchThis month .............1.39 inchesTotal/year ............. 38.36 inchesNormal/month .....1.07 inchesNormal/year ....... 47.49 inches
SOLUNaR TabLEMost active times for fishand wildlife Wednesday:
A.M. Active ........................... 1:52A.M. Most active ................ 8:03P.M. Active ............................ 2:15P.M. Most active ................. 8:26
SUNRISE/SUNSETSunset today ....................... 4:57Sunset tomorrow .............. 4:57Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:51
RIVER DATASTaGES
Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg
Current: 32.5 | Change: +1.2Flood: 43 feet
Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 21.2 | Change: +2.1
Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City
Current: 17.5 | Change: +0.5Flood: 29 feet
Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 18.9 | Change: +0.8
Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West
Current: 3.5 | Change: NCFlood: 12 feet
Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 8.4 | Change: +0.6
Flood: 28 feet
STEELE bayOULand ...................................79.7River ...................................79.5
mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST
Cairo, Ill.Wednesday .......................... 43.9Thursday ............................... 44.0Friday ...................................... 43.7
MemphisWednesday .......................... 26.1Thursday ............................... 26.4Friday ...................................... 26.7
GreenvilleWednesday .......................... 39.5Thursday ............................... 40.0Friday ...................................... 40.4
VicksburgWednesday .......................... 33.4Thursday ............................... 34.2Friday ...................................... 35.0
DEATHSThe Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.
Dorothy Jean Boyles Brantley
BRANDON — Dorothy Jean Boyles Brantley, 88, passed away Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, at Crossgates River Oaks Hospital in Brandon.
Funeral services are sched-uled for 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, in the chapel
of Ott and Lee Funeral Home in Brandon. Visitation will be held from 5 until 7 p.m. Tues-day, Dec. 6, 2011, and
from 9:30 a.m. until the
service time on Wednes-day. Interment will follow at Lakewood Memorial Park in Jackson.
Dorothy was a loving wife, mother and grandmother who was an amazing cook and loved to paint. Most of all, she enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Bennie and Mary Alice Boyles; brother, Bennie Boyles Jr.; and sister, Patsy Ann Boyles.
She is survived by her hus-band of 70 years, Calvin Dono Brantley; sons, Terry Keith Brantley (Jodi) of Jackson, Michael Dale Brantley (Tif-fany) of Vicksburg and Kevin Lynn Brantley (Patti) of Brandon; 10 grandchildren, Lauren Ball (Ron), Rollyn Childers (Todd), Keith Brant-ley Jr.,Emily Halbach, Chris Halbach, Rush Halbach, Ryan Brantley, Jenna Brant-ley, Kyle Brantley and Blair Brantley; and four great-grandchildren, Jordan, Julia and Ryne Ball and London Childers.
In lieu of flowers, memo-rial contributions may be made to Alta Woods Baptist Church, 168 Colonial Drive,
Jackson, MS 39204.Please visit www.ottandlee-
funeralhome.com to sign the online guest register.
Lamar C. BrownLamar C.
Brown died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. He was 73.
Dillon-Chis-ley Funeral
Home has charge of arrangements.
Rosie L. ColemanRosie L. Coleman died
Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. She was 60.
Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Mary Louise HarrisMary Louise Harris died
Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, at her residence. She was 93.
Born in Vicksburg, she was the daughter of the late Alex-ander Aloysius Gamble Sr. and Sarah Ernestine Hen-nessy Gamble. Mrs. Harris was a graduate of St. Francis Xavier Academy in the Class of 1935. She was formerly employed as a floral designer with Broome’s Florist and served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II in the Little Rock and Vicksburg offices. She later was a cashier with Sears-Roebuck Company at Battlefield Mall prior to her retirement in 1980.
Mrs. Harris was a life-long communicant of St. Paul Catholic Church and a member of the Altar Society.
The family would like to extend their thanks to Louise Miller, Glory Griffin, Ellen Carter, Peggy Demeranville and Shantoya Griffin for their love and care of Mrs. Harris.
Mrs. Harris is survived by two sons, Dreher Harris (Peggy) of Oxford and Pres-ton Harris (Paullette) of Mooresville, N.C.; two grand-children, Anna Claire Harris
and John Preston “Pres” Harris Jr., both of Moores-ville; two sisters-in-law, Mary Dudley Harris of Vicksburg and Donna Carter Harris of Jackson; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James “Jim” Harris Sr.; two sisters, Eliza-beth “Betty” Gamble Conway and Anna Claire Gamble; and her brother, A.A. “Bud” Gamble Jr.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Cath-olic Church with Monsi-gnor Patrick Farrell, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Greenlawn Gardens Cem-etery under the direction of Riles Funeral Home. Visita-tion will be at St. Paul Cath-olic Church from 9:30 a.m. Wednesday until the hour of the service. Memorials may be made to St. Paul Catho-lic Church, 713 Crawford St., Vicksburg, MS 39180 or to Vicksburg Catholic School, 1900 Grove St, Vicksburg, MS 39183.
Pallbearers will be Jim Park, Watson Marsalis, Sam Andrews, Jim Conway III,
Johnny Lowery and Pres Harris.
Lucile Ryan JohnsonLucile Ryan Johnson, 92,
died Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, at River Region Medical Center.
Mrs. Johnson was retired after 30-plus years from Waterways Experiment Station.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Glen Peter Johnson Sr.
Survivors include two daughters, Laura McCaskill (J.L.) and Carol Crabtree, all of Vicksburg; two sons, Pete Johnson (Pam) of Crosby, Texas, and Randy Johnson (Donna) of Summerville, S.C.; three sisters, Nell J. Ryan of Vicksburg, Ann Baughman and Dorothy Jean Allen, both of Friendswood, Texas; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Biedenharn offi-ciating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visi-tation will be from 9 a.m. until the service Wednesday
at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Charles H. Thompson Sr.
EDWARDS — Charles H. Thompson Sr. died Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at Clinton Health Care in Clinton. He was 76.
Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Ada T. WallaceEDWARDS — Ada T. Wal-
lace died Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jack-son. She was 86.
Lakeover Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Dorothy JeanBrantley
to change how 16.2 acres of property at the old hospital is zoned.
Currently, structures for-merly home to the hospital, Marian Hill chemical depen-dency center and the Sisters of Mercy convent are zoned CBR-4, for commercial, busi-ness and multifamily resi-dential buildings.
If completed, the old con-vent would house the facil-ity, Hayward told about 50 residents of the neighbor-hood opposed the plan who gathered at Anshe Chesed Temple, the city’s Jewish synagogue, just outside the neighborhood.
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she said. “We’re teaching people about money manage-ment — spending, credit and savings. Showing them how to do a better job with han-dling money. Most people are not taught that when they’re younger.”
“This is not a class. This is an empowerment,” said Dexter Jones, the Warren County inventory control clerk and former City of Vicksburg inventory clerk who taught the class. “I call it empowerment because I want to give you an opportu-nity through United Way to improve your future.”
“It’s not about how much money you have, it’s about how you use the money that you have,” Bilbrew said.
Lyons said the contribu-tions to grow her $1 began after she told the nurses about her class and the project.
“After that, I began cutting out things,” she said. “We love to go to McDonald’s, but we stopped. The money we saved by not eating out, I put aside.”
She added she was more careful shopping, concentrat-ing more on necessities and spending less on such items as soft drinks.
“I learned to plan my spending and how to save,” Lyons said. “It also made me more conscious about eating, because by not eating out, it improved our health,” she said.
Lyons’ story was similar to the accounts of others. They did not match Lyons’ total, but all increased their $1 by cutting back on spending and
developing ways to increase their $1. All of them said they learned the value of saving and carefully spending money and holding money aside for emergencies.
Cleothi Williams, an unem-ployed carpenter, increased his $1 to $87 by eliminating his addiction to snuff. That he said, was the biggest ben-efit he got from the class.
“When I would get stressed, I’d go buy a can of snuff and dip to relax,” he said. “I stopped doing that, and I put the money I saved in the piggy bank.”
He also canceled his debit card, which he said had caused a major financial drain.
“Anytime I wanted to buy something, I’d pull out the card,” he said. “I was get-ting overdrafts ... it was cost-ing me. I called the bank and canceled my card. Now I’m
able to pay my immediate bills and have money left.”
Jones and Bilbrew encour-aged class participants to continue the habits they learned.
“It’s all about discipline,” Jones said. “Don’t think that because you’ve completed this class that you can go back to your old ways. You still need to be good stewards of what you have. Be mindful how you spend your money.”
Bilbrew said she and Jones and others with the program would continued to check on them from time to time to see how they are doing.
Jones also gave them another challenge.
“I want you to take the money you raised from your $1 and double it by next year,” he said. “And I’m going to call you and see how you did.”
was picked up by representa-tives of Warren County Bail Bonding Inc., who took her to the Warren County Jail and surrendered her bond at 6:15 p.m. Monday, Pace said.
In revoking the bond, the company said Vega had failed to meet the condi-tions set when her bond was posted and she was released from the jail on Oct. 26, said Pace.
Reached this morning, a bail agent with the bonding company would not comment on the case or what condi-tions Vega had violated.
Vega will have to return to court for another bond to be set, the sheriff said.
“In order for Miss Vega to have another bond, the circuit court will have to address that issue,” said Pace. “Another bond will be at the discretion of the judge,
whether to set at the same or a different amount or choose not to.”
Vega was indicted in July for murder following the May 2 death of Michelle Vega, who was 32, at the family home at 100 Jones Road. Michelle Vega was shot in the face, officials said.
Vega was arrested in Greenville six days later after fleeing Warren County in the family’s vehicle and eluding authorities from mul-tiple jurisdictions.
She was ordered held with-out bond until a hearing in Warren County Circuit Court Aug. 11, at which time Judge Isadore Patrick ruled she was entitled to bond and set it at $75,000.
District Attorney Ricky Smith could not be reached for comment this morning.
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Earth-like planet in sweet spot for lifeWASHINGTON (AP) — A
newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It’s a bit too big.
The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call the Goldilocks zone, that hard to find place that’s not too hot, not too cold, where water, which is essential for life, doesn’t freeze or boil. And it has a shopping mall-like sur-face temperature of near 72 degrees, scientists say.
The planet’s confirmation was announced Monday by NASA along with other dis-coveries by its Kepler tele-scope, which was launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009.
That’s the first planet con-firmed in the habitable zone for Kepler, which had already found Earth-like rocky plan-ets elsewhere. Twice before astronomers have announced
a planet found in that zone, but neither have been as promising.
“This is a phenomenal dis-covery in the course of human history,” Geoff Marcy of Uni-versity of California, Berke-ley, one of the pioneers of planet-hunting outside our solar system, said in an e-mail. “This discovery shows that we
Homo sapiens are straining our reach into the universe to find planets that remind us of home. We are almost there.”
The new planet — named Kepler-22b — has key aspects it shares with Earth. It circles a star that could be the twin of our sun and at just about the same distance. The planet’s year of 290 days is even close
to ours. It likely has water and rock.
The only trouble is the plan-et’s a bit big for life to exist on the surface. The planet is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. It could be more like the gas-and-liquid Neptune with only a rocky core and mostly ocean.
“It’s so exciting to imagine the possibilities,” said Natalie Batalha, the Kepler deputy sci-ence chief.
The planet is 600 light years away. Each light year is 5.9 trillion miles. It would take a space shuttle about 22 million years to get there.
Kepler spots a planet when it passes in front of its star. NASA requires three of those sightings before it begins to confirm it as a planet. The third sighting for 22b hap-pened a year ago, just before the telescope shut down for a while. It took several months to finish the confirmation.
Syrian violence leavesstreets lined with bodies
BEIRUT — A surge in vio-lence in the restive Syrian city of Homs has killed up to 50 people in the past 24 hours, leaving dozens of bodies in the streets, activ-ists said today.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cited witnesses as saying 34 bodies were dumped in the streets of Homs on Monday night. Homs-based activist Moham-med Saleh said there was a spate of kidnappings and killings in the city earlier Monday.
The activists’ reports could not be independently con-firmed. Syria has banned most foreign journalists and prevents the work of inde-pendent media.
Kuwaiti officialdissolves parliament
KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s ruler has dissolved parlia-ment to set the stage for elec-tions in the politically tense Gulf nation.
Kuwait News Agency said the nation’s emir made the decision today, less than a week after naming a new prime minister.
Elections must now be held within 60 days and the prime minister will remain in a caretaker role.
Pakistan pulls troopsfrom NATO posts
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan today temporarily recalled some troops from border posts meant to coordinate activity with international
forces in Afghanistan as rela-tions have been pushed to an all-time low by NATO air-strikes that killed 24 Paki-stani soldiers.
The troops were pulled back for “consultation” on how to improve coordina-tion with NATO and should be back at their posts within the next few days, said Paki-stan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas. He did not specify the number of troops who would be recalled, but said some would remain at the border centers.
The U.S. and Pakistan have offered different accounts of what led to the NATO attacks against two army posts along the Afghan border before dawn on Nov. 26.
Shiites at mosquekilled in rare attack
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers at a mosque in Kabul today, killing at least 55 people in the deadliest of two attacks on a Shiite holy day — the first major sectarian assaults since the fall of the Taliban a decade ago.
Religiously motivated attacks on Shiites are rare in Afghanistan although they are common in neigh-boring Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for today’s blasts, reminiscent of the wave of sectarian attacks that shook Iraq during the height of the war there.
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SIdELINESMizzou: fundingcuts forced move
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A decade of declin-ing state funding for the University of Missouri enhanced the appeal of switching conference alignments from the Big 12 to the more finan-cially stable and lucra-tive Southeastern Con-ference, the university’s chancellor said Monday.
The University of Mis-souri plans to join the SEC in July under an ar-rangement announced with much fanfare last month by university and conference officials. The golden financial opportu-nities associated with the SEC’s powerful football programs were a much-publicized part of the deal. Chancellor Brady Deaton acknowledged Monday that repeated state funding cuts to the university also played a role his decision to make the switch.
“Had state funding stayed up and we were in real solid shape financial-ly, there would still be the issues that we were deal-ing with trying to gain some sense of stability and surety with the Big 12. But the fact that there was pressure financially there, certainly accen-tuated our attention to that set of issues,” Deaton said while answering questions at the annual Missouri-Kansas Associ-ated Press Publishers and Editors Meeting in Kan-sas City.
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Rivers, Chargers toast JagsBy The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Of all the negative numbers over the last six weeks, the only one that mattered to Philip Rivers was the losses.
Sure, the interceptions and fumbles were bothersome. But they didn’t compare to the six-game losing streak, the franchise’s longest in more than eight years.
So Rivers made little of his big night against Jacksonville.
Rivers threw for 294 yards and three touchdowns, burn-ing Jacksonville’s depleted secondary early and often, and the Chargers beat the Jaguars 38-14 Monday night to snap a six-game losing streak.
“There was no magical play or magical scheme,” Rivers said. “We just played better. This doesn’t mean we’ll play better next week. Each game
stands alone. We played good for three and a half hours, won and now let’s go play somebody else next week.”
The Chargers (5-7) had been waiting for the three-time Pro Bowl selection to return to form. Some ques-tioned whether it would happen this season. But Rivers never lost faith even though he leads the NFL in interceptions (17) and turn-overs (21) and was a key part of the team’s disappointing slide.
“It’s been a rough six weeks,” Rivers said. “I haven’t put a complete game together, but I don’t care about the numbers. I just want to win.”
Rivers was nearly perfect against Jacksonville (3-9), adding to the team’s tumultu-ous week.
He completed 22 of 28 passes — hooking up with Vincent Brown, Vincent
Jackson and Malcom Floyd for long scores — before sit-ting out the final few min-utes. Rivers finished with a 146.1 QB rating, by far his highest of the season.
The Chargers scored on five of their first six drives, then sent most of the home crowd scrambling for the exits with Ryan Mathews’ 31-yard TD run in the fourth. Mathews ran 13 times for 112 yards.
“That’s the type of chemis-try coming into this season we knew we had,” tight end Antonio Gates said. “We stayed on course despite what we’ve been through these last six weeks. That we were able to get a win tonight speaks volumes for this team.”
It was a much-needed vic-tory for a team that trails Denver and Oakland by two
ThE ASSoCIATED PrESS
San Diego Chargers tight end Randy McMichael hurdles Jacksonville Jaguars defensive back Kevin Rutland in front of strong safety Dwight Lowery (25) Monday.See Chargers, Page B3.
Tide, TigersmonopolizeAll-SEC teamBy The Associated Press
ATLANTA — LSU and Alabama are the nation’s highest-ranked teams.
Only appropriate they would have the two best players in the Southeast-ern Conference.
Alabama running back Trent Richardson was a unanimous choice for offensive player of the year, while LSU cor-nerback Tyrann Mathieu took the honor as top defen-sive player on The Associ-ated Press All-SEC team released Monday.
LSU’s Les Miles was tabbed as coach of the year after he guided the top-ranked Tigers (13-0) to the conference cham-pionship and a spot in the national title game against No. 2 Alabama, their divi-sion rival. Georgia run-ning back Isaiah Crowell was named freshman of the year despite injuries and disciplinary issues.
Defensive tackle Fletcher Cox of Missis-sippi State was named to the first team defense, while offensive lineman Gabe Jackson was named to the second team. Ole Miss had one player
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LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu returns a fumble against Kentucky. Mathieu is one of five Heisman finalists.
Mathieu makes Heisman finalist fieldBy Ralph D. RussoAP college football writer
NEW YORK — Stanford’s Andrew Luck is returning to New York as a Heisman Trophy finalist, just not as the favorite.
That distinction belongs to Baylor’s Robert Griffin III.
The two star quarterbacks will join fellow finalists Trent Richardson, Tyrann Mathieu and Montee Ball at the Heis-man presentation Saturday night in Manhattan.
Luck is the only repeat finalist this season, while Griffin is the first Baylor player to get an invite to the ceremony. The school that
never has had a player finish better than fourth in the Heisman voting now seems to have the front-runner.
“I’m sure it will be a really close vote,” Griffin told reporters in Waco, Texas, after watching the announce-ment with teammates and coaches on Monday.
Richardson is the second Alabama running back to be a finalist in the past three years. Former teammate Mark Ingram won the Heis-man in 2009.
Ball has scored 38 touch-downs for Wisconsin and needs one more to match Barry Sanders’ NCAA record.
Mathieu, the LSU defen-sive back nicknamed “Honey Badger,” has made numer-ous game-changing plays for the top-ranked Tigers.
The field was deep this season and several deserv-ing players didn’t make the cut. Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore, a finalist last season; Southern California quarterback Matt Barkley; and record-breaking passer Case Keenum of Houston did not receive enough votes to be among the final five.
Ballots from the 926 voters, mostly media members and former winners, were due Monday evening.
See SEC, Page B3.
Freeze ready to lead Ole Miss back to SEC prominenceBy David BrandtThe Associated Press
OXFORD — Hugh Freeze choked up less than a minute after being introduced as the new football coach at Ole Miss, acknowledging his wife and three daughters sitting on the stage behind him.
“I’ve taken them all around the country to bring them back to one place,” an emo-tional Freeze said. “And that’s the University of Mississippi.”
Freeze, 42, was named Ole Miss’ 37th football coach on Monday afternoon at a press conference on the university campus. He takes over for Houston Nutt, who was fired fol-lowing one of the worst seasons in Ole Miss history. The Rebels finished with a 2-10 record, including an 0-8 mark in the South-eastern Conference.
Freeze could be consid-ered a risky hire considering his relative lack of experi-ence. When Ole Miss started its search, names like Rich Rodriguez and Mike Leach were on the market, but the Rebels went with someone who’s coached on the college level for less than a decade.
Freeze, however, has capi-talized on that short window of opportunity.
He comes to the Rebels from Arkansas State, where he led the Red Wolves to the 2011 Sun Belt Confer-ence
championship and 10-2 record in his first season as a coach at the Football Bowl Subdivision level. It was Arkansas State’s first 10-win season since 1986.
Freeze will not coach Arkansas State in the GoDaddy.com Bowl game Jan. 8 against Northern Illi-nois in Mobile, Ala.
Ole Miss Chancellor Dan
Jones said Freeze has a four-year contract that pays a base salary of about $1.5 mil-lion per season. Jones said incentives could raise that salary to as much as $2.5 million per year. The Rebels already owe Nutt a $6 million buyout on top of the $2.7 mil-lion he was paid last season.
Freeze made just $202,160 last season, according to
USA Today, which made him the lowest paid coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Freeze attacked his open-ing press conference like a Baptist preacher, galvaniz-ing the packed Ford Center with an emotional address peppered with jokes and jabs that included the occasional remark about dominating
See Freeze, Page B3.
New Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze speaks at an assembly at the University of Mississippi where he was introduced to team support-ers as the new football coach Monday.
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East W L T Pct PF PANew England .....9 3 0 .750 362 247N.Y. Jets ............7 5 0 .583 290 260Buffalo ...............5 7 0 .417 278 304Miami .................4 8 0 .333 246 220
South W L T Pct PF PAHouston .............9 3 0 .750 310 189Tennessee .........7 5 0 .583 249 229Jacksonville .......3 9 0 .250 152 238Indianapolis .......0 12 0 .000 174 358
North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore ...........9 3 0 .750 296 192Pittsburgh ..........9 3 0 .750 268 195Cincinnati ...........7 5 0 .583 266 250Cleveland ...........4 8 0 .333 175 240
West W L T Pct PF PADenver ...............7 5 0 .583 256 292Oakland .............7 5 0 .583 274 308Kansas City .......5 7 0 .417 163 268San Diego .........5 7 0 .417 287 289
nATIOnAl COnfEREnCEEast
W L T Pct PF PADallas .................7 5 0 .583 283 244N.Y. Giants ........6 6 0 .500 287 315Philadelphia .......4 8 0 .333 271 282Washington ........4 8 0 .333 202 256
South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans .....9 3 0 .750 393 269Atlanta ...............7 5 0 .583 269 244Carolina .............4 8 0 .333 290 324Tampa Bay ........4 8 0 .333 218 329
North W L T Pct PF PAx-Green Bay ......12 0 0 1.000 420 262Chicago .............7 5 0 .583 291 242Detroit ................7 5 0 .583 333 277Minnesota ..........2 10 0 .167 246 330
West W L T Pct PF PAx-San Francisco 10 2 0 .833 288 161Seattle ...............5 7 0 .417 216 246Arizona ..............5 7 0 .417 232 269St. Louis ............2 10 0 .167 140 296x-clinched division
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Kansas City 10, Chicago 3Houston 17, Atlanta 10Denver 35, Minnesota 32Carolina 38, Tampa Bay 19Pittsburgh 35, Cincinnati 7N.Y. Jets 34, Washington 19Miami 34, Oakland 14Tennessee 23, Buffalo 17New England 31, Indianapolis 24Baltimore 24, Cleveland 10San Francisco 26, St. Louis 0Arizona 19, Dallas 13, OTGreen Bay 38, N.Y. Giants 35New Orleans 31, Detroit 17
Monday’s GameSan Diego 38, Jacksonville 14
Thursday’s GameCleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:20 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesNew Orleans at Tennessee, noonIndianapolis at Baltimore, noonKansas City at N.Y. Jets, noonMinnesota at Detroit, noonHouston at Cincinnati, noonTampa Bay at Jacksonville, noonAtlanta at Carolina, noonPhiladelphia at Miami, noonNew England at Washington, noonSan Francisco at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.Chicago at Denver, 3:05 p.m.Buffalo at San Diego, 3:15 p.m.Oakland at Green Bay, 3:15 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 7:20 p.m.
Dec. 12St. Louis at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.
CHARGERS 38, JAGUARS 14San Diego 10 14 7 7 — 38Jacksonville 0 14 0 0 — 14
First QuarterSD—Tolbert 13 run (Novak kick), 6:51.SD—FG Novak 29, :41.
Second QuarterJac—Jones-Drew 9 pass from Gabbert (Scobee kick), 7:55.Jac—Shorts 5 pass from Gabbert (Scobee kick), 2:32.SD—V.Brown 22 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 1:26.SD—Jackson 35 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), :16.
Third QuarterSD—Floyd 52 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 12:04.
Fourth QuarterSD—Mathews 31 run (Novak kick), 10:48.A—62,743.
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RUSHING—San Diego, Mathews 13-112, Tolbert 6-24, Brinkley 3-5, Hester 1-1, Volek 3-(minus 3). Jacksonville, Jones-Drew 20-97, Gabbert 6-19, Owens 2-11, D.Harris 2-2, N.Harris 1-0.PASSING—San Diego, Rivers 22-28-0-294. Jack-sonville, Gabbert 19-33-1-195.RECEIVING—San Diego, Gates 6-70, Floyd 4-108, Jackson 4-72, Mathews 3-2, McMichael 2-13, V.Brown 1-22, Crayton 1-5, Hester 1-2. Jack-sonville, Jones-Drew 6-91, Lewis 3-27, Potter 3-24, Thomas 2-21, Dillard 2-14, Whimper 1-17, Shorts 1-5, Owens 1-(minus 4).MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.
COllEGE fOOTbAll2011 AP All-SEC team
By The Associated PressThe 2011 Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference football team released Monday, with player’s position, name, school, height, weight and class (u-unanimous selection)Offensive player of the year - Trent Richardson, RB, AlabamaDefensive player of the year - Tyrann Mathieu, CB, LSUCoach of the year - Les Miles, LSUFreshman of the year - Isaiah Crowell, RB, Georgia
First teamOffense
WR — Jarius Wright, Arkansas, 5-10, 180, Sr. WR — Da’Rick Rogers, Tennessee, 6-3, 215, So. L — u-Barrett Jones, Alabama, 6-5, 311, Jr. L — Will Blackwell, LSU, 6-4, 290, Sr. L — Cordy Glenn, Georgia, 6-5, 348, Sr. L — Rokevious Watkins, South Carolina, 6-4, 340, Sr.C — William Vlachos, Alabama, 6-1, 294, Sr. TE — Orson Charles, Georgia, 6-3, 241, Jr.QB — Tyler Wilson, Arkansas, 6-3, 220, Jr. RB — u-Trent Richardson, Alabama, 5-11, 224, Jr. RB — Michael Dyer, Auburn, 5-9, 210, So. K — Caleb Sturgis, Florida, 5-11, 183, Jr.All-Purpose — Joe Adams, Arkansas, 5-11, 190, Sr.
DefenseT — Fletcher Cox, Miss. State, 6-4, 295, Jr. T — Malik Jackson, Tennessee, 6-5, 270, Sr.E — Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 6-2, 276, Sr.
E — Sam Montgomery, LSU, 6-4, 245, So. LB — u-Jarvis Jones, Georgia, 6-3, 241, So.LB — Danny Trevathan, Kentucky, 6-1, 232, Sr.LB — Courtney Upshaw, Alabama, 6-2, 265, Sr.CB — u-Tyrann Mathieu, LSU, 5-9, 175, So. CB — Morris Claiborne, LSU, 6-0, 185, Jr. S — Mark Barron, Alabama, 6-2, 218, Sr. S — Bacarri Rambo, Georgia, 6-0, 218, Jr.P — Brad Wing, LSU, 6-3, 184, Fr.
Second teamOffense
WR — Rueben Randle, LSU, 6-4, 208, Jr. WR — Alshon Jeffrey, South Carolina, 6-4, 229, Jr.L — Chris Faulk, LSU, 6-6, 325, So. L — Alvin Bailey, Arkansas, 6-5, 319, So. L — Larry Warford, Kentucky, 6-3, 336, Jr.L — Gabe Jackson, Miss. State, 6-4, 320, So.C — Ben Jones, Georgia, 6-3, 316, Sr.TE — Philip Lutzenkirchen, Auburn, 6-5, 250, Jr.QB — Aaron Murray, Georgia, 6-1, 211, So. RB — Zac Stacy, Vanderbilt, 5-9, 208, Jr.RB — Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina, 6-0, 232, So.RB — Vick Ballard, Miss. St., 5-11, 220, Sr.K — Drew Alleman, LSU, 5-11, 183, Jr. All-Purpose — Dennis Johnson, Arkansas, 5-9, 213, Jr.
DefenseT — Michael Brockers, LSU, 6-6, 306, So. T — Josh Chapman, Alabama, 6-1, 310, Sr.E — Corey Lemonier, Auburn, 6-4, 240, So.E — Barkevious Mingo, LSU, 6-5, 240, So. LB — Dont’A Hightower, Alabama, 6-4, 260, Jr. LB — Chris Marve, Vanderbilt, 6-0, 242, Sr.LB — Jerry Franklin, Arkansas, 6-1, 245, Sr. CB — Dre Kirkpatrick, Alabama, 6-3, 192, Jr. CB — Johnthan Banks, Miss. State, 6-2, 185, Jr.CB — Casey Hayward, Vanderbilt, 5-11, 188, Sr.S — Antonio Allen, South Carolina, 6-2, 202, Sr.S — Winston Guy Jr., Kentucky, 6-1, 216, Sr. S — Eric Reid, LSU, 6-2, 208, So. P — Dylan Breeding, Arkansas, 6-1, 211, Jr.
Honorable MentionOffense
Kyle Fischer, L, Vanderbilt, 6-6, 308, Sr.;T-Bob Hebert, LSU, L, 6-3, 304, Sr.; Quentin Sauls-berry, L, Miss. State, 6-2, 300, Sr.
DefenseDrew Butler, P, Georgia, 6-2, 214, Sr.; Tyler Campbell, P, Ole Miss, 6-2, 220, Jr.; Tim Fug-ger, E, Vanderbilt, 6-4, 250, Sr.; Jaye Howard, T, Florida, 6-3, 303, Sr.; Devin Taylor, E, South Caro-lina, 6-7, 260, Jr.; Tramain Thomas, S, Arkansas, 6-0, 204, Sr.
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FCS playoffsQuarterfinals
FridayNorthern Iowa at Montana, 7 p.m.
SaturdayMontana St. at Sam Houston St., 11 a.m.Maine at Georgia Southern, 1 p.m.Lehigh at North Dakota St., 3 p.m.
SemifinalsDec. 16 or Dec. 17
Northern Iowa-Montana winner vs. Montana State-Sam Houston State winnerMaine-Georgia Southern winner vs. Lehigh-North Dakota State winner
ChampionshipJan. 7
At Frisco, TexasSemifinal winners, Noon
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NCAA Division II playoffsSemifinalsSaturday
Wayne St. at Winston-Salem, 1 p.m.Delta St. at Pittsburg St., 6:05 p.m.
ChampionshipDec. 17
At Florence, Ala.Semifinal winners, 10 a.m.
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NCAA Division III playoffsSemifinalsSaturday
Wesley at Mount Union, 11 a.m.St. Thomas (Minn.) at Wis.-Whitewater, 2:30 p.m.
ChampionshipDec. 16
At Salem, Va.Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.
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NAIA playoffsChampionship
Dec. 17At Rome, Ga.
St. Xavier (Ill.) vs. Carroll (Mont.), 3:30 p.m.
COllEGE bASkETbAllTop 25 schedule
Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled
Today’s GamesNo. 3 Syracuse vs. Marshall, 6 p.m.No. 4 North Carolina vs. Evansville, 6 p.m.No. 10 Missouri vs. Villanova, at New York, 6 p.m.No. 11 Marquette vs. Washington, at New York, 8 p.m.No. 13 Kansas vs. Long Beach St., 8 p.m.No. 15 Pittsburgh vs. VMI, 6 p.m.No. 21 Memphis at Miami, 8 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesNo. 5 Louisville vs. IUPUI, 6 p.m.No. 7 Duke vs. Colorado St., 6 p.m.No. 8 Xavier at Butler, 8 p.m.No. 12 Florida vs. Arizona, 6 p.m.No. 14 Wisconsin vs. Green Bay, 7 p.m.No. 16 Alabama at Dayton, 6 p.m.No. 22 Texas A&M vs. Sam Houston St., 7 p.m.No. 24 Illinois vs. St. Bonaventure, 8 p.m.
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Mississippi college scheduleMonday’s Games
No games scheduledToday’s Games
Ark.-Monticello at Delta St., 7 p.m.Louisiana College at Mississippi College, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s GameSouthern Miss at South Alabama, 7:05 p.m.
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SEC scheduleMonday’s Games
No games scheduledToday’s Games
No games scheduledWednesday’s Games
Arizona at Florida, 6 p.m.Alabama at Dayton, 6 p.m.Vanderbilt at Davidson, 6 p.m.Georgia Tech at Georgia, 6 p.m.
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C-USA scheduleMonday’s Games
No games scheduledToday’s Games
Marshall at Syracuse, 6 p.m.Massachusetts at East Carolina, 6 p.m.Tulane at Wofford, 6 p.m.Houston at Texas St., 6 p.m.Memphis at Miami, 8 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMiddle Tennessee at UAB, 7 p.m.
Wichita St. at Tulsa, 7 p.m.Southern Miss at South Alabama, 7:05 p.m.
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SWAC scheduleMonday’s Games
No games scheduledToday’s Game
Prairie View at Iowa St., 7 p.m.Wednesday’s Games
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The AP Top 25By The Associated Press
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ col-lege basketball poll, with first-place votes in paren-theses, records through Dec. 4, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Kentucky (47) .........................8-0 1,606 12. Ohio St. (18) ..........................8-0 1,575 23. Syracuse ................................8-0 1,491 44. North Carolina ........................6-2 1,328 55. Louisville ................................7-0 1,325 66. Baylor .....................................7-0 1,283 77. Duke .......................................7-1 1,264 38. Xavier .....................................6-0 1,133 119. Connecticut ............................7-1 1,120 810. Missouri ................................7-0 1,009 1311. Marquette .............................7-0 982 1612. Florida ..................................5-2 923 1013. Kansas .................................5-2 833 1514. Wisconsin .............................6-2 665 915. Pittsburgh .............................7-1 660 1716. Alabama ...............................7-1 635 1217. Mississippi St. ....................8-1 493 2118. Georgetown ..........................7-1 491 —19. Creighton ..............................7-0 352 —20. Michigan ...............................6-2 312 1421. Memphis ...............................4-2 216 2222. Texas A&M ..........................6-1 199 2523. Gonzaga ...............................5-1 197 1924. Illinois ...................................8-0 193 —25. Harvard ................................8-0 191 —Others receiving votes: UNLV 188, Vanderbilt 141, Michigan St. 135, San Diego St. 50, Virginia 26, Saint Louis 25, Stanford 23, Purdue 12, Cali-fornia 11, Cleveland St. 9, Florida St. 7, Kansas St. 6, Arizona 5, Indiana 4, Murray St. 2, N. Iowa 2, Oregon St. 2, UC Santa Barbara 1.
USA Today/ESPN Top 25 PollThe top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 4, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs1. Kentucky (19) .........................8-0 763 12. Ohio St. (11) ..........................8-0 754 23. Syracuse (1) ..........................8-0 713 34. Louisville ................................7-0 654 65. Duke .......................................7-1 611 46. North Carolina ........................6-2 594 57. Baylor .....................................7-0 582 88. Xavier .....................................6-0 538 119. Connecticut ............................7-1 533 1010. Missouri ................................7-0 511 1311. Marquette .............................7-0 468 1612. Florida ..................................5-2 419 913. Kansas .................................5-2 385 1414. Pittsburgh .............................7-1 359 1715. Alabama ...............................7-1 326 1216. Wisconsin .............................6-2 306 717. Creighton ..............................7-0 222 2218. Mississippi St. ....................8-1 208 2419. Michigan ...............................6-2 164 1520. Memphis ...............................4-2 154 2121. Georgetown ..........................7-1 136 —22. Illinois ...................................8-0 96 —22. Gonzaga ...............................5-1 96 1824. Harvard ................................8-0 95 —25. Texas A&M ..........................6-1 79 —Others receiving votes: UNLV 62, Vanderbilt 61, California 32, San Diego St. 30, Michigan St. 29, Indiana 23, Saint Louis 18, Murray St. 8, North-western 8, Stanford 7, Kansas St. 4, Purdue 4, Saint Mary’s 4, Virginia 4, Cincinnati 3, Cleveland St. 3, Washington 3, Arizona 2, Tulane 2, George Mason 1, Northern Iowa 1.
wOMEn’S bASkETbAllWomen’s Top 25 Schedule
Monday’s GameNo. 9 Miami 92, No. 11 Rutgers 81, 2OT No. 22 Delaware 77, Yale 45
Today’s GamesNo. 2 Connecticut vs. No. 8 Texas A&M, 6 p.m.No. 14 Georgia at Mercer, 6 p.m.No. 17 Penn St. vs. Virginia Tech, 6 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesNo. 3 Notre Dame vs. Marquette, 6 p.m.No. 16 Texas Tech vs. Texas-Arlington, 7 p.m.No. 18 North Carolina vs. Lipscomb, 6 p.m.No. 19 Georgetown at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.No. 20 DePaul vs. St. John’s, NoonNo. 23 Vanderbilt at Tenn.-Martin, 7 p.m.
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The Women’s AP Top 25By The Associated Press
The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 4, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previ-ous ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Baylor (39) .............................8-0 975 12. UConn ....................................7-0 928 23. Notre Dame ...........................7-1 895 34. Stanford ..................................6-1 855 55. Maryland ................................9-0 792 66. Duke .......................................6-1 750 77. Tennessee .............................4-2 729 88. Texas A&M ............................6-1 698 49. Miami ......................................6-1 671 910. Kentucky ..............................8-0 597 1211. Rutgers .................................8-0 595 1112. Purdue ..................................7-1 554 1313. Ohio St. ................................7-0 449 1714. Georgia ................................7-1 430 1515. Louisville ..............................7-2 428 1016. Texas Tech ..........................7-0 395 1917. Penn St. ...............................6-2 324 1618. North Carolina ......................5-1 287 1419. Georgetown ..........................7-2 267 2020. DePaul .................................6-1 211 2221. Green Bay ............................7-0 194 2322. Delaware ..............................6-0 156 2423. Vanderbilt .............................9-0 155 2524. Oklahoma .............................3-2 154 1825. Texas ...................................5-2 87 21Others receiving votes: Michigan 17, Nebraska 14, Southern Cal 13, LSU 12, Florida St. 9, Virginia 9, California 8, Arkansas 5, Arizona St. 3, Tulane 3, Georgia Tech 2, Gonzaga 2, North-western 2.Ballots Online: http://tinyurl.com/43tz39t
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6 p.m. ESPN - Missouri vs. Villanova6 p.m. ESPNU - Evansville at North
Carolina6 p.m. CBS Sports Network - Texas
Tech at TCU7 p.m. Big Ten - Appalachian State at
Minnesota8 p.m. ESPNU - Long Beach State at
Kansas8 p.m. ESPN - Washington vs. Marquette8 p.m. ESPN2 - Memphis at Miami
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL6 p.m. ESPN2 - Texas A&M at Connecticut
NHL6:30 p.m. Versus - Detroit at St. Louis7 p.m. FSN - Phoenix at Nashville
SOCCER1:30 p.m. FSN - UEFA Champions
League, Zenit at Porto
Dec. 61992 — Jerry Rice becomes the
NFL’s career leader in touchdown receptions with his 101st scoring pass during the fourth quarter of the San Francisco 49ers’ 27-3 vic-tory over Miami. The Mississippi native surpassed Steve Largent’s mark of 100.
2000 — Golden State’s Antawn Jamison and the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant each score 51 points, includ-ing trading six straight scores in the final two minutes of overtime. It’s Jamison’s second 51-point per-formance in four days, and Bryant’s career high. The Warriors defeat Los Angeles 125-122.
2009 — Drew Brees is 35 for 49 for 419 yards with two touchdowns and one interception as New Orleans stays undefeated with a 33-30 over-time win at Washington. New Orleans and Indianapolis improve to 12-0, the first time two NFL teams are unbeaten this late in the season.
2009 — Minnesota Vikings quar-terback Brett Favre sets an NFL record by playing in his 283rd con-secutive game, a 30-17 loss to Ari-zona. The 40-year-old former South-ern Miss star breaks the record of 282 held by longtime Vikings defen-sive end Jim Marshall.
PREP bASkETbAllTrinity handsPCA first loss
Kawayne Gaston led four Porters Chapel players in double figures, with 12 points, but Trinity handed the Eagles their first loss of the season Monday night, 64-48.
P.J. Lassiter, Alton Burden and Talbot Buys scored 10 points apiece for PCA (6-1). Tanner Cage led Trin-ity (2-0) with 37 points. The Saints led by more than 10 points for much of the second half.
In the girls’ game, Trinity raced out to a 27-point lead by halftime and beat PCA 48-14. Morgan Ross scored four points to lead PCA, which didn’t score its first point until midway through the second quarter. Abbey Ashmore led Trinity (3-1) with 11 points.
MlbSanto elected to Hall of Fame
DALLAS — Ron Santo was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee nearly a year to the day after the Chicago Cubs third baseman died hoping for the honor.
Santo received 15 votes from the 16-member panel. He needed 75 percent — 12 votes — to get chosen.
Bell, Marlinsagree to deal
DALLAS — All-Star closer Heath Bell and the splurging Miami Mar-lins completed a $27 million, three-year contract a day after the team reached a preliminary agreement on a $106 million, six-year deal with All-Star shortstop Jose Reyes.
Bell had more than 40 saves each of the past three seasons for the San Diego Padres.
Francona replaces Valentine as ESPN Sunday analyst
DALLAS — Terry Francona is swapping jobs with Bobby Valen-tine. In another winter meetings trade, ESPN said Monday that Francona will become an analyst for its Sunday night game telecasts.
2011-12 bowl scheduleDec. 17 New Mexico Bowl Wyoming (8-4) vs. Temple (8-4) ................... 1:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 17 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Utah St. (7-5) vs. Ohio (9-4) ...................... 4:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 17 New Orleans Bowl La.-Lafayette (8-4) vs. San Diego St. (8-4) ................ 8 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 20 Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4) ..............................7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4) ....................... 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl Boise St. (11-1) vs. Arizona St. (6-6)..................... 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Miss (11-2) ....................7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 26 Independence Bowl North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5) ................... 3 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6)........... 3:30 p.m. ESPN2Dec. 27 Belk Bowl North Carolina St. (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5) ................ 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 28 Military Bowl Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4) .................... 3:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 28 Holiday Bowl Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5) ......................... 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl Florida St. (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4) ............... 4:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 29 Alamo Bowl Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5) ....................... 8 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3) ............................ 11 a.m. ESPNDec. 30 Pinstripe Bowl Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa St. (6-6) .................... 2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 30 Music City Bowl Mississippi St. (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6) .......... 5:40 p.m. ESPNDec. 30 Insight Bowl Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5) .......................... 9 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 31 Meinke Car Care Bowl Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6) ................ 11 a.m. ESPNDec. 31 Sun Bowl Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5) ..........................1 p.m. CBSDec. 31 Liberty Bowl Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3) ................. 2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 31 Fight Hunger Bowl UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6) ....................... 2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 31 Chick-fil-A Bowl Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5) ..................... 6:30 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl Penn St. (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1) ...................11 a.m. ESPNUJan. 2 Capital One Bowl Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2) ................... Noon ESPNJan. 2 Outback Bowl Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan St. (10-3) ....................... Noon ABCJan. 2 Gator Bowl Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio St. (6-6) .......................... Noon ESPN2Jan. 2 Rose Bowl Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2) ...................... 4 p.m. ESPNJan. 2 Fiesta Bowl Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma St. (11-1) ............. 7:30 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2) .................. 7 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 4 Orange Bowl West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3) ................... 7 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl Kansas St. (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2)....................7 p.m. Fox
Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5) ........................ 11 a.m. ESPN
Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl Arkansas St. (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3) ............. 8 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 9 BCS National Championship LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1) .................... 7:30 p.m. ESPN
Sunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-6-4La. Pick 4: 9-8-1-6Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 3-2-6 La. Pick 4: 9-4-3-6 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-8-1 La. Pick 4: 3-8-5-3 Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 6-4-9La. Pick 4: 2 8 6 3Easy 5: 2-3-5-14-19La. Lotto: 2-6-9-27-29-32Powerball: 2-6-34-35-47Powerball: 22; Power play: 2Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-2-8La. Pick 4: 0-6-0-4 Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-1-2La. Pick 4: 4-1-6-0Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 0-8-8La. Pick 4: 8-4-0-5Easy 5: 10-14-20-21-22La. Lotto: 7-8-9-26-33-37Powerball: 5-18-33-43-45Powerball: 8; Power play: 3
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games in the AFC West with four to play.
And it was another blow to the Jaguars, who endured the most sweeping changes in the 17-year history of the franchise last week.
Team owner Wayne Weaver fired coach Jack Del Rio and announced he was selling the club to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan. Interim coach Mel Tucker fired receivers coach Johnny Cox, reassigned quarter-backs coach Mike Sheppard and waived starting receiver Jason Hill.
The moves seemed to invigorate a franchise that had seemingly gone stale in Del Rio’s ninth season. Fans showed up energized for a prime-time game that sig-naled the start of a new era. Some wore “Yes We Khan” T-shirts. Others donned fake mustaches to look like the owner-in-waiting.
It made little difference on the field, mostly because Jacksonville’s defensive injuries proved too much to overcome.
The Jaguars played with-out their top three corner-backs — Rashean Mathis, Derek Cox and Will Middle-ton — and lost safety Dwight Lowery (shoulder) and defensive end John Chick (knee) during the game.
“No excuses here,” Tucker said. “We won’t allow our-selves to go down that road.”
Rivers took advantage of the injuries, picking on a pair of cornerbacks who were signed off the street in recent weeks.
Rivers threw two TD passes in the final 2:32 of the first half.
The opening drive of the third quarter didn’t take long, either. On the fifth play, Rivers found Floyd deep down the right sideline for a 52-yard score. Floyd, acti-vated Monday night after missing six games with a
hip injury, finished with four receptions for 108 yards.
“He’s just an outstanding player,” Chargers coach Norv Turner said of Rivers. “Like any quarterback, it starts with protection, with the guys up front. He’s missed Malcom. We’ve missed Malcom. When Philip has all his guys, and he can operate like he did today, he’s as good as anybody.”
The biggest cheer for the Jaguars came late in the third quarter, when Weaver was shown on the stadium’s large video board. Weaver and his wife received a stand-ing ovation.
The $760 million sale must
be approved by the NFL later this month. Khan chose not to attend the game, which turned out to be a good move.
Maurice Jones-Drew was the lone offensive star for Jacksonville — again. He fin-ished with 97 yards rushing and 91 yards receiving. He now leads the NFL in rushing with 1,137 yards.
“I don’t think anyone has been through anything like that,” Jones-Drew said, reflecting on the week. “This is a $9 billion business. Other than that, we played football. We’ve got to figure out how to keep going for four quar-ters and not two.”
the state of Mississippi — a not-so-subtle jab at Missis-sippi State and coach Dan Mullen.
While Nutt never com-pletely seemed to grasp the state’s culture — espe-cially the Egg Bowl rivalry — Freeze jumped into the fray unabashedly. He went to high school less than 45 miles away in Senatobia.
“This is home to me,” Freeze said. “This is a desti-nation job.”
He’s known for a high-powered offensive philoso-phy, that he called a “funda-mentally efficient scoring machine” when it’s going well.
Freeze is a Southern Miss graduate, but has Ole Miss
ties, serving as an assistant under then-Rebels’ coach Ed Orgeron from 2005-’07. During that time, he coached receivers, tight ends and also served as the program’s recruiting coordinator. He had a 20-5 record as head coach at NAIA-level Lam-buth (Tenn.) in 2008 and ‘09. After his successful two-year stint at Lambuth, he joined Arkansas State’s staff as the offensive coordinator in 2010. The Red Wolves broke nine offensive records that season and ranked second in the Sun Belt in total offense, but head coach Steve Roberts was fired after a 4-8 season.
Freeze was promoted and the Red Wolves took a dra-matic step forward this fall,
finishing undefeated in the Sun Belt. They finished first in the league in scor-ing offense, scoring defense, total offense and total defense. His high-powered, spread offense has worked everywhere it’s been, though it’s never been tested against SEC competition.
The Ole Miss coaching search was led by a five-per-son committee, including former Rebel quarterback Archie Manning and FedEx executive Mike Glenn.
Glenn said Freeze’s combi-nation of innovative offensive thinking, recruiting ability and communicating skills made him the obvious choice.
on the team, punter Tyler Campbell, who made the honorable mention list.
As expected, LSU and Ala-bama (11-1) led the selec-tions, with both powerhouses placing five players on the first team. SEC East cham-pion Georgia, which lost to the Tigers 42-10 in the SEC championship game, had four first-teamers.
Mathieu gained national attention with his big plays as both a defender and a punt returner, not to men-tion his nickname. Dubbed the “Honey Badger” after a humorous YouTube video that chronicled the world’s fiercest animal, the sopho-more showed no fear despite his diminutive size — just 5-foot-9 and 175 pounds.
“He’s a hard worker. He’s an achiever. Just watching him on the sideline is great,” said LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson. “He’s a big-time ballplayer.”
Despite being suspended for one game, Mathieu led the Tigers in tackles, caused
six fumbles and recovered five loose balls, returning two of them for touchdowns. He also intercepted two passes and broke up seven other throws. On special teams, he averaged more than 16 yards per return and scored two more TDs, capped by an MVP performance in last Sat-urday’s SEC championship.
Mathieu sparked the slug-gish LSU offense with a 62-yard punt return for a score.
He added a 47-yard return that was even more spec-tacular, breaking away from or avoiding eight would-be tacklers before he was finally brought down, setting up a TD that gave the Tigers a commanding lead. In addi-tion, he recovered a fumble that led to the go-ahead score.
“He’s a guy who gives everything to his team,” Miles said. “He’s a play-maker, and if he’s given an opportunity, he will do what he can. That’s pretty spe-cial, to make a difference in
a game.”Richardson proved to be a
worthy replacement to Heis-man Trophy winner Mark Ingram in the Alabama back-field. The junior led the SEC with 1,583 yards rushing and 20 touchdowns, receiving every vote for the top offen-sive award.
He’s also a leading con-tender for the Heisman after putting up the second-high-est rushing total in school history, surpassed only by Ingram’s 1,658 yards in 13 games during the 2009 Heis-man season. He matched Ingram’s record with nine 100-yard games on the ground.
Richardson and Mathieu were among four unanimous selections to the first team, along with Alabama offen-sive lineman Barrett Jones and Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones. The Honey Badger was picked as a cor-nerback on nine ballots and as an all-purpose player on two other ballots. One voter placed him in both spots.
Penske, Kurt Busch split upCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)
— Kurt Busch and Penske Racing parted ways Monday after six bumpy seasons, a split that clouds the former champion’s future in NASCAR as he embarks on a personal journey to reclaim his passion for racing.
Both the team and driver said ending the relationship was a “mutual agreement,” but most believe Busch was fired in the fallout of yet another embar-rassing incident. A fan caught Busch on video verbally abus-ing an ESPN reporter during last month’s season finale, and Busch was fined $50,000 by NASCAR after the clip was posted on YouTube.
Busch, though, was insistent leaving Penske is probably the best thing for him personally and seemed at peace during an interview with The Asso-ciated Press.
“What’s troublesome is this five letter ‘f-i-r-e-d’ word is being used, but it’s obvious to me that looking back, I was very unhappy over the second half of the season,” Busch told the AP.
“I need to put the fun back into racing for me. I want to be a better driver and a better person.”
Busch admitted last week during activities surrounding the season-ending awards cer-emony that he began seeing a sports psychologist about two months ago to address what he called “personal issues.”
Known for both his inten-sity and notorious meltdowns during in-race communica-tions with his team, the 2011 season was particularly brutal for Busch.
Although he won two races and made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, he had an epic tantrum over his in-car radio at Richmond in May that set the tone for the season. He feuded with rival Jimmie Johnson.
Busch also had at least three public flare-ups with media
members, Steve Addington became his second crew chief to quit in three years, and he was overshadowed on and off the track by Penske team-mate Brad Keselowski. He also became publicly annoyed over interest in his ongoing divorce and new relationship with Patricia Driscoll.
His behavior wore thin on the buttoned-up Penske organiza-tion, which signed Busch away from Roush Fenway Racing a year removed from his 2004 Cup championship. Busch said after reflecting during the Thanksgiving break, he came to realize he maybe just isn’t Penske material.
“I’m not sure I was the best
fit,” he admitted. “My frank-ness and my intensity, it didn’t play the way I intended it to. It didn’t fit.”
Busch won 10 Cup races and made the Chase four times since joining Penske in 2006. Bud Denker, senior vice president for Penske Corp., seemed puzzled by Busch’s assessment of his fit with the organization.
“We thought he did a ter-rific job for us on the track, and there is no better driver who hits the marks, relative to sponsors and understand-ing the brands thanKurt,” Denker said. “He was admi-rable. I never saw him as a bad fit.”
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Pricey iPad finds use as gaming systemNEW YORK (AP) — Make
room in the toy box for the iPad and iPhone.
Crayola allows tots to doodle on the iPad using its iMarker just as they would a crayon on a coloring book. Tweens are able to belt out their favorite Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez tunes on a Disney microphone that turns the tablet into a kara-oke machine. And technology accessories company Griffin enables teens to fly its toy heli-copter by using the iPhone as a remote control.
This holiday season, toy- makers have turned Apple Inc.’s pricey tablet and smart-phone into playthings for kids. They figure in this weak econ-omy, parents will be willing to splurge on toys for their children that utilize devices they already have — or want — themselves.
Tiffany Fessler of Gainsville, Ga., certainly was willing to do that even though when she initially bought her $829 iPad she never imagined she’d be sharing it with her 20-month-old son. But whenever she sat down to check e-mails on the iPad, he’d climb into her lap wanting to use it.
So, Fessler decided to get him the $29.99 Crayola iMarker, which transforms the iPad into a digital coloring book using a Crayola’s free Col-orStudio HD application that parents can download. Kids can draw and color using the iMarker, which has a soft tip so it doesn’t scratch the tablet’s glass screen.
“When you have a screaming toddler in a restaurant or any public area, you want to have something to calm him down with,” says Fessler, 39. “This is just another way to keep him entertained.”
That the iPad and iPhone, which can cost as much as $849, have infiltrated the $22 billion toy market this season is no surprise. Smartphones and tab-lets — particularly Apple prod-ucts — are more popular than ever with people of all ages. This year, Apple is expected to double the number of iPhones sold to 90.6 million worldwide, according to research firm Gart-ner. Meanwhile, the number of iPads sold is expected to triple to 46.7 million.
And Apple products have a certain “cool factor” with kids
that toy companies, which can make up to half of their rev-enue during the holidays, are hoping to tap. In fact, the iPad and iPhone are among the most coveted electronics this holi-day season among kids. About 44 percent of 6- to 12-year-olds want the iPad this year, accord-ing to a survey by research firm Nielsen. The iPod touch came in the No. 2 spot with 30 percent, followed by the iPhone at 27 percent.
Not to mention, anyone who’s a parent knows all too well that babies and older kids alike love to fiddle with or drool all over mommy’s iPad. Nearly 40 percent of 2 to 4-year-olds have used a smartphone, iPad or video iPod, according to a survey by nonprofit group Common Sense Media. That
number rises to 52 percent for 5- to- 8 year olds. And even 10 percent of infants have used one of the devices before their first birthday.
“It’s mostly something for kids to use in the car or at the doc-tor’s office,” says Chris Baynes, a toy analyst. “It’s a way to get the kid to be quiet.”
With that in mind, Crayola teamed up with Nashville, Tenn.-based Griffin Technol-ogy, which is mostly known for selling iPhone and iPad cases and car chargers, to make the iMarker and the ColorStudio HD app for kids. The iMarker, which is like a stylus that resembles a Crayola marker, is targeted at children ages 3 and up.
Microsoft rolls out Xbox, TV platform LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a new interface for its Xbox game console, one that allows you to navigate through music, movies, TV shows and games with the wave of your hand or the sound of your voice.
The interface, first demon-strated by CEO Steve Ballmer in September, is set up simi-larly to Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system with a series of large panes showing content options.
Xbox owners with the Kinect motion controller can swipe through screens by waving their hands in the air. It also responds to direct voice com-mands and incorporates Micro-soft’s search engine, Bing. Win-dows phone-users can control what to watch or hear by tap-ping on their portable devices.
The interface will be available to Xbox users connected to the Internet via a download today.
In a demonstration for The Associated Press, a Microsoft employee demonstrated how saying, clearly, “Xbox. Bing. ‘Iron Man,’” brought up a selection of movies, TV shows, games and soundtracks related to the title. Saying “Xbox. Show. Movies,” brought up places to rent or buy the movie, includ-ing Microsoft’s Zune store, Wal-Mart’s Vudu, Netflix or pay TV channel Epix.
Separate subscriptions are required for services like Net-flix, and much of the content also requires being a gold member of Xbox Live, a con-nected Internet service that costs $60 a year.
Microsoft expects to have to pay TV channel partners, including those supplied by Verizon FiOS. There will be no broadcast partners, so fans of the ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox networks will continue to rely on standard set-top boxes or digital rabbit ear antennas for that content.
Microsoft says there have been 57 million Xbox units sold around the world and there are more than 35 million users who have logged on to its Xbox Live service at least once in the last three months. It did not divulge how many Xbox Live users are paying gold members.
Ross Honey, general manager of Xbox Live entertainment and advertising, said about 40 con-
tent partners were expected for the platform. Available apps from those partners will roll out over time. Other partners include the British Broadcast-ing Company, Hulu Plus, Dis-ney’s online ESPN3 service, Ultimate Fighting Champion-ship, YouTube and cable giant Comcast Corp.’s Xfinity on-demand subscription service.
Many of the offerings require separate pay TV subscriptions or one-time payments. Honey said that many deals with con-
tent providers are still in the works.
“As with any new technology that comes with the entertain-ment industry, it takes time,” he said.
Xbox owners with the Kinect motion controller can swipe through screens by waving their hands in
the air. It also responds to direct voice commands and incorporates Microsoft’s search engine, Bing.
Windows phone-users can control what to watch or hear by tapping on their portable devices.
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The Disney AppMates, a toy car based on the characters from the company’s “car’s 2” ani-mated movie.
TONIGHT ON TVn MoVie“Tooth Fairy” — As penance for dashing a child’s hopes, a rough-and-tumble hockey player, Dwayne Johnson, must serve time as a genuine tooth fairy./7:15 on cinemaxn sPorTscollege basketball — With college football on hiatus un-til the bowls begin, it’s time to shift attention to basketball. Missouri vs. Villanova highlights a full night of action on the hardwood./6 on esPnn PriMeTiMe“Body of Proof” — Everyone is a suspect when a lottery winner is found murdered./9 on ABc
THIS WEEK’S LINEUPn eXPAnDeD lisTingsTV TiMes — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost.com
MILESTONESn BirThDAysDave Brubeck, jazz musician, 91; JoBeth williams, actress, 63; Tom hulce, actor, 58; steven wright, comedian, 56; Bill lloyd, country singer, 56; Janine Turner, actress, 49; Judd Apatow, writer-director, 44; lindsay Price, actress, 35; Ashley Made-kwe, actress, 30; Jacob chesnut, Christian rock musician, 22. n DeAThPatricia Dunn SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveil-lance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper class, has died after a long bout with cancer at 58. Dunn died Sunday morning at her home in Orinda, Calif., surrounded by her family, accord-ing to her sister, Debbie Lammers. She said Dunn’s ovarian can-cer had returned.
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Rancic to have double mastectomySix weeks after revealing she has breast cancer,
E! News host Giuliana Rancic said she will have a double mastectomy.
The 37-year-old made the announcement Monday.
“It was not an easy decision but it was the best decision for me,” she said.
She plans to have the surgery next week and said she hopes to be recovered by New Year’s Eve, when she and husband, Bill Rancic, are planning to be in Times Square.
Rancic said she received an “overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support” after announcing her breast cancer diagnosis in October.
“I want to make sure to thank everyone and give them an update for being so kind and loving and supportive,” she said Monday.
E! expressed its support for Rancic in a statement Monday.“Giuliana’s strength continues to amaze us,” the network said.
“We admire her courage and are proud to stand by her side through every step on her path to full recovery.”
Actor Weller joins ‘Star Trek’ sequel“Robocop” actor Peter Weller is joining the cast of director J.J.
Abrams’ big-screen “Star Trek” sequel.An APA talent agency spokesman for Weller
said Monday the actor’s role is a principal one in the film, but details were being kept under wraps.
Weller’s sci-fi credentials include the “Robo-cop” films and the TV series “Odyssey 5.” He has guest-starred on shows including “Dexter,” “Fringe” and “Psych.” His directing credits include “Monk” and the TV
movie “Elmore Leonard’s Gold Coast.”The second “Star Trek” film will include the return of stars Chris
Pine and Zachary Quinto. The film is set for a May 2013 pre-miere.
Sheen aids wrongful conviction bidMartin Sheen is shining a spotlight on a New York prisoner’s
efforts to get his 1999 murder conviction thrown out. The actor joined a Manhattan news confer-
ence Monday after meeting with inmate Jon-Adrian Velazquez at a suburban prison. Sheen said he believes Velazquez is innocent. He said “the case cries out for justice.”
Sheen called his meeting with Velazquez in-spirational.
Velazquez was convicted of fatally shooting retired police officer Albert Ward in an under-
ground betting parlor in 1998. Velazquez’s law-yers say two key eyewitnesses have since recanted their identifi-cations of him as the killer in a case with no physical evidence.
Velazquez asked the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in October to reinvestigate the case. The DA’s office had no imme-diate comment Monday.
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Stolen Santa returned with $100, noteA southern Indiana man has gotten an early Christmas gift: A
16-foot-tall inflatable Santa Claus stolen from his yard has been returned with $100 and a note of apology.
Jason McClaren said that someone returned the deflated San-ta to his Unionville yard early Saturday in a trash bag that also contained the money and note.
He said the anonymous note makes it clear that the person who returned the Santa wasn’t the thief who took it and two 6-foot tall penguins this past week. The penguin decorations are still missing.
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At a glanceOther toy-makers also have gotten into the game:• Griffin’s $49.99 remote-controlled toy helicopter is aimed at teens over 14. Called the “HELO TC,” it flies using a device that plugs into an iPhone, iPad or iPod. A free app turns the touchscreen of the devices into a cockpit that controls the helicopter.• Mattel Inc.’s Fisher-Price unit is selling “The Laugh and Learn Apptivity Case” aimed at babies for $15. The case locks the iPhone into a colorful, easy to grab case that looks like a big round rattle. The case stops babies from making un-wanted calls and protects the iPhone from some-thing else: drool. Parents can open up three free apps that play music, read words aloud and count numbers. The company plans to release an iPad version of the case this spring.• The “Disney Spotlight” mi-crophone, which is $69.99 or $99.99 for a wireless ver-sion, plugs into the iPad and allows kids to sing along to Disney songs from shows such as “Han-nah Montana” — or to their own music — and record their own music video.
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Airlines thinking small as Americans getting bigDear Abby: This letter is to
offer sympathy to “Trish in Louisiana” (Sept. 25), who was seated next to two large pas-sengers on a three-hour flight. It has happened to me.
The airlines control the size and weight of baggage, whether it’s checked or carry-on, and charge when it’s over-weight. So why do they turn a blind eye when it comes to passengers who must endure being crowded out of the seats we have paid for? If airlines aren’t willing to screen pas-sengers for size, perhaps they should provide a few rows of larger seats to accommodate them.
Airlines have sacrificed com-fort for economy to the point that the seats are simply too small. I’m an average-size woman, but I find the seats are barely large enough. They’re crowded so close together you can’t move your legs, and they don’t actually recline. I agree with your advice to speak up if you find yourself being squeezed. — Ellen in Las Cruces
Dear Ellen: While your
letter reflects the views of many readers, they ALL emphatically agree that air-lines need to do a better job of customer service regard-ing the seating on passenger planes. My newspaper read-ers comment:
Dear Abby: As America grows larger, airline seats grow smaller. Trish was right to be compassionate. If air-lines treat large people (who are also paying customers) like dirt so they can turn a profit by squeezing passen-gers into every inch of space, they are WRONG.
There are ways to be creative and not humiliate anyone. The flight attendant could have moved a child to her seat with Mom across the aisle.
I recommend that flight
attendants think along those lines, because having a gate attendant drag people off flights is not the best way to handle this and should only be a last resort. We’re all custom-ers, and we all deserve to be treated with dignity. — Mary in Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Abby: The fault lies with airline management. They should specify up front in their ad campaigns that if the passengers’ dimensions exceed certain parameters, they must buy two tickets. — Comfortable on the Ground
Dear Abby: My heart goes out to all three. I am a plus-size woman and my husband is “normal” size. His field is marketing, and I showed him your letter. He said recent surveys have shown that one-third of people who refuse to fly do so because of the tight seating, and not fear of an accident. Airlines pack people in like sardines to make more money, and it is resented.
I quit flying years ago because of claustrophobia. If I had to fly now, I’d buy a first-class ticket. I wonder
why the planes don’t have six or eight seats in the back of coach that are larger and cost more money, but less than first class.
Something has to be done to make flying safer and more comfortable for everyone. Surely we have the intellec-tual capacity to solve these problems. — No Longer a Fre-quent Flier in New York
Dear Abby: It’s unfortunate that Trish didn’t stick to her guns and continue with her complaint. I believe airlines should head these problems off at the gate. They have a box to check the size of carry-on luggage; they should also have a passenger seat to check the size of people. If someone doesn’t fit, then that person must buy an additional ticket for a second seat. — Refuses to be Squished
•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.
Don’t let baby’s pacifierbecome all-purpose crutch
Dear Doctor K: My new baby wants her pacifier all the time. The moment I take it away, she sticks her thumb in her mouth. How can I break her of these habits?
Dear Reader: In general, thumb- and finger-sucking in an infant is not something to worry about. You have little control over it, anyway.
Why do babies suck their fingers and thumbs? Who knows? The babies can’t tell you.
One theory is that nurs-ing is comforting to babies: It provides food to take away hunger and offers contact with Mom. When something makes a baby uneasy, even if the baby is not hungry, he or she seeks reassurance and comfort from sucking on something.
Thumb-sucking does help some babies sleep. To put some myths to rest, thumb-sucking won’t delay your child’s language develop-ment. And it won’t cause any harm to her mouth or teeth if it is stopped by age 4 or 5.
If your infant sucks her thumb, first make sure she is getting enough to eat. If she wants to nurse a little longer or wants a little more for-mula, let her eat. Once you’ve established that the sucking isn’t about food, allow her the comfort of her fingers or thumb.
I’m not a pediatrician, but from conversations with my pediatric colleagues here at Harvard, I view pacifiers a little differently. Unlike thumb- or finger-sucking, which is generally your baby’s choice, introducing a pacifier is your choice. Once you’ve made that choice and given the object to your baby, it can be hard to take it away later.
Pacifiers do have some advantages: They satisfy the sucking need, offer com-fort and might help some babies sleep. A pacifier might be most useful in infants 2 months to 4 months old, when the need to suck seems to be strongest.
Your baby might lose inter-est after this time frame — unless the pacifier has become a sleeping aid. If you put your baby to bed with one, she might wake up repeatedly when she loses it during the night.
Make sure you don’t let the pacifier become a crutch. Before you put the pacifier into your baby’s mouth, ask yourself if it is really sucking that your baby wants. If your baby just needs comforting, there are other things you can do. Try talking or sing-ing to your baby, picking her up and swaying from side to side. She might just need to know you are there and that you will protect her.
Because your baby already has an alternative to the pacifier — her thumb — my
advice would be to gradu-ally take away the pacifier. I emphasize “gradually”: Sudden changes can be very upsetting.
Thumb-sucking might become problematic if it per-sists beyond age 4 or 5. But by that time, it will more than likely be a long-forgot-ten habit.
•Write to Dr. Komaroff in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016, or send questions to his website, www.AskDoctorK.com.
Dr. Wallace: I’m a senior and will graduate from high school next June. Both of my parents are dentists, and they want me to follow in their footsteps. But I have no desire to be a dentist. The thought of probing in some stranger’s mouth is revolting. I would like to be a high school math teacher. My parents think this is a disgusting choice of career opportunities.
Since you are a former educator, I’m positive you will be on my side. Please tell my parents that becoming a teacher is not a disgusting choice. I suspect that even if you support my choice, they won’t respect your opinion because they know you are a former educator. — Alex, Seattle, Wash.
Alex: Before I would defend teaching as a career choice, I would want to defend something more basic — the right of children to choose their own career path no matter what it is. Parents who deny their children this right are overstepping their bounds and robbing their kids of the right to their own lives. When it comes to career choice, wise parents encourage; they do not demand.
I speak from experience. My father wanted me to follow in his footsteps and be gainfully employed with the United States Steel Corporation in Gary, Ind. The steel mill provided him with ample money to support a wife and three children, but it was not my choice. I wanted to teach English and coach varsity bas-ketball. I loved every minute of being an educator, and the pro-fession provided me with ample money to support a wife and two children. Eventually, my father admitted that my choice was the right one, but it took time.
If your father and mother are still skeptical, let me remind them that they wouldn’t be excellent dentists today if it weren’t for dedicated professional teachers.
•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTETRUSTEE'S SALEBy virtue of that certain Deedof Trust made on the 27thday of October, 2003, byKhaled Abdeen and JenniferAbdeen, to Peter T. Burns,Trustee, subsequentlyreplaced by Lauren RobertsCappaert, SubstitutedTrustee, pursuant to validSubstitution of Trustee whichis recorded in Deed Book1528 at Page 158 of theLand Records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, tosecure certain indebtednesstherein mentioned for thebenefit of Britton & KoontzBank, N.A., which Deed ofTrust is duly recorded inBook 1431 at Page 43, asmodified by instrument datedSeptember 1, 2010, andrecorded in Deed Book 1514at page 30 of the Records ofMortgages and Deeds ofTrust on Land in the Office ofthe Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi;and pursuant to the powerand authority vested in me,as Substituted Trustee, andat the request of the owner ofsaid indebtedness, defaulthaving been made in thepayment due thereunder asdescribed in PromissoryNote by said Deed of Trustsecured and the payment ofthe interest thereunderaccruing and the holder andthe owner of the Note havingelected under the terms ofsaid Deed of Trust to declaresaid Note due and payableas by said Deed of Trustauthorized, and the sameremaining unpaid, I, LaurenRoberts Cappaert, asSubstituted Trustee, willbetween the legal hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. onWednesday, the 7th day ofDecember, 2011, at the mainfront door of the CherryStreet side of the countycourthouse in Vicksburg,Warren County, Mississippi,expose for sale at publicauction to the highest andbest bidder for cash thefollowing described propertyconveyed by said Deed ofTrust, said property beingsituated in Warren County,State of Mississippi, beingdescribed as follows:That part of the NorthwestQuarter (NW1/4) of Section2, Township 14 North,Range 3 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi,containing one (1) acre,more or less, and moreparticularly described asfollows, to-wit:Commencing at a pointlocated on the Southeastcorner of the 7.2 acre tract ofland described in the deed toT. A. Jamison and MaryPearl Jamison, of record inBook 410 at Page 7 of theLand Records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, whichsaid point is also theSoutheast corner of the tractherein described; run thenceNorth 79 degrees 15 minutesWest, 210 feet along theNorth side of the RedboneChurch Road; thence North11 degrees 20 minutes East,207.4 feet to a point; thenceSouth 79 degrees 15minutes East, 210 feet to apoint on the boundary linebetween said Jamison tractand the Graham tract asdescribed in Book 348 atPage 206 of said landrecords; run thence South11degrees 20 minutes West,207.4 feet to the point ofbeginning.The undersigned will onlyconvey such title as is vestedin me as SubstitutedTrustee.WITNESS my signature thisthe 8th day of November,2011./s/ Lauren Roberts CappaertLAUREN ROBERTSCAPPAERTSubstituted TrusteePublish: 11/15, 11/22, 11/29,12/6(4t)
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on April 18,2007, Avery L. Harris andGlory S. Harris, Husbandand Wife, executed a certaindeed of trust to Dyke, Henry,Goldsholl and Winzerling,Trustee for the benefit ofMortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,which deed of trust is ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, State of Mississippiin Book 1651 at Page 534;andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequentlyassigned to Deutsche BankNational Trust Company, asTrustee for the RegisteredHolders of Morgan StanleyABS Capital I Inc. Trust2007-HE7 MortgagePass-Through Certificates,Series 2007-HE7 byinstrument dated December14, 2010 and recorded inBook 1518 at Page 156 ofthe aforesaid ChanceryClerk's office; andWHEREAS, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company, as
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01. LegalsTrustee for the RegisteredHolders of Morgan StanleyABS Capital I Inc. Trust2007-HE7 MortgagePass-Through Certificates,Series 2007-HE7 hasheretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated October 24,2011 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1528 at Page740; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debtsecured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company, asTrustee for the RegisteredHolders of Morgan StanleyABS Capital I Inc. Trust2007-HE7 MortgagePass-Through Certificates,Series 2007-HE7, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested theundersigned SubstitutedTrustee to execute the trustand sell said land andproperty in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust and for the purpose ofraising the sums due there-under, together with attor-ney's fees, trustee's fees andexpense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on December 20, 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 WarrenCounty, located atVicksburg, Mississippi, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit:Parcel One:Lot 99 of OpenwoodPlantation Subdivision, PartIII, as shown by plat ofrecord in Plat Book 2 atPages 32-33 of the WarrenCounty Land Records.Parcel Two:Begin at the Northwestcorner of Lot 100, PartThree, Openwood PlantationSubdivision; thence leaveBeauregard Drive and runNorth 89 degrees 07 minutes35 seconds East 273.82 feetto the East line of Lot 100;thence run along the Eastline of Lot 100, North 00degrees 05 minutes 27seconds West, 5.74 feet tothe Northeast corner of saidLot 100; thence run along thedividing line between Lots 99and 100; South 87 degrees55 minutes 33 secondsWest, 273.96 feet to thePoint of Beginning,containing 0.02 acres andbeing part of Lot 100Openwood PlantationSubdivision, Part 3, as perplat recorded in Plat Book 2at Page 32-33 of the WarrenCounty Land Records.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 22nd day ofNovember, 2011.J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEShapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland Drive- Suite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-92994 Beauregard DriveVicksburg, MS 3918311-003543DTPublish: 11/29, 12/6, 12/13(3t)
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NOTICE TO CREDITORSOFWILLIS JONES, JR.,DECEASEDPROBATE NO. 2011-137PRThe undersigned, havingbeen appointed Executor ofthe Estate of WILLISJONES, JR., Deceased, bythe Chancery Court ofWarren County, Mississippi,upon the docket of saidCourt on the 2nd day ofNovember, 2011, givesnotice to all persons having aclaim against said Estate topresent the same to theClerk of this Court forprobate and registrationaccording to the law withinninety (90) days from the firstpublication of this Notice, orthe claim will be foreverbarred.WITNESS my signature thisthe 17th day of November,2011./s/ Douglas ThomasDOUGLAS THOMAS,ExecutorPublish: 11/22, 11/29, 12/6(3t)
Public Notice County ofSharkey Johnny EarlMcCool, II will be applyingfor a full pardon 30 days fromthis posting for the crime ofpossession of precursorchemicals committed onApril 13, 2003, charged inthis county and has lived alaw abiding life since thecrimes, forgiveness issought. If there areobjections to the granting ofthis pardon, please contactthe Governor's Office byphone at (601)359-3150.Publish: 11/15, 11/16, 11/17,11/18, 11/19, 11/20, 11/21,11/22, 11/23, 11/24, 11/25,11/26, 11/27, 11/28, 11/29,11/30, 12/1, 12/2, 12/3, 12/4,12/5, 12/6, 12/7, 12/8, 12/9,12/10, 12/11, 12/12, 12/13,12/14(30t)
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN RE: ESTATE OF HUGHPATRICK SOUTHERLAND,JR.,DECEASEDNO. 2011-094 PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters of Administrationupon the Estate of HughPatrick Southerland, Jr.,deceased, having beengranted to the undersigned,on the 30 day of November,2011, by the Chancery Courtof Warren County,Mississippi, notice is herebygiven to all persons havingclaims against said Estate topresent the same of theClerk of said Court forprobate and registration,according to law, within three(3) months from the firstpublication of this notice orthey will be forever barred.This the 1 day of December,2011./s/ Lee Ann SoutherlandStuartLEE ANN SOUTHERLANDSTUARTADMINISTRATRIX OF THEESTATE OF HUGHPATRICK SOUTHERLAND,JR., DECEASEDOF COUNSEL: MICHAEL R.BONNERAttorney at Law914 Grove StreetVicksburg, MS 39183MSB No. 9331Telephone No.(601) 636-4191.Facsimile No.(601) 638-1643Publish: 12/6, 12/13, 12/20(3t)
01. LegalsSEALED PROPOSALS forfurnishing Weed Control willbe received in the office ofthe City Clerk of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi until9:00 o'clock a.m., Monday,December 19, 2011. Theywill be publicly opened andread aloud by the Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg in a RegularBoard Meeting at 10:00o'clock a.m., Monday,December 19, 2011Bidders are cautioned thatthe City Clerk does notreceive the daily U.S. Mail onor before 9:00 a.m. Bids willbe time-stamped uponreceipt according to CityClerk's time clock.Specifications andinstructions for bidding areon file in the office of the CityClerk, second floor, City Hall,1401 Walnut Street, cornerCrawford and WalnutStreets, Vicksburg,Mississippi.Cash, Cashier's Check,Certified Check or Bidder'sBond in the amount of 5% ofbid must accompany same.(No Business or PersonalChecks)The Mayor and Aldermen ofthe City of Vicksburgreserve the right to reject anyand all bids and to waiveinformalities./s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr., CityClerkPublish: 11/29, 12/6(2t)
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601-529-6168.
24. BusinessServices
LEAVES, GUTTERS,FLOWER bed cleaning,hedges, pruning, generalyard clean-up. 601-218-4415.
STEELE PAINTINGSERVICE LLC
Specialize in painting/ sheet rock.
All home improvementsFree Estimates 601-634-0948.
Chris Steele/ Owner
29. UnfurnishedApartments
26. For RentOr Lease
APARTMENT FORRENT
Garage Apartment for rent.Heat & AC, 2 Bedroom 1Bath. Washer & DryerHookup 601-218-9631.
RICHARD M. CALDWELL
BROKER
SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE
APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180
COUNTRY HOME3 Bedroom, 1-1/2 bathFenced pasture 2 acres ,barn, 2 miles City limits$800 monthly/ $800 deposit.601-415-0186.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
2 BEDROOM HOUSE.Eagle Lake. $600 monthly.Partially furnished. 601-218-5348.
2 BEDROOM. ALL elec-tric includes water $450.
With stove and refrigerator.$200 deposit.
1 BEDROOM $425monthly, $200 deposit.
601-634-8290.
THE COVEStop looking,
Start living!
Paid cable, water andtrash. Washer, Dryer
and built-inmicrowave furnished.
601-638-55871-601-686-0635
BEAUTIFUL DOWN-TOWN LOCATION. 2 bed-room, 1 bath. Central air/heat. Washer and dryer$750 monthly. Deposit andreferences required. 601-529-8002.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE
LIVING
• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community
• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans
601-629-6300www.thelandingsvicksburg.com
501 Fairways DriveVicksburg
COUNTY 2 BEDROOMS,2½ baths. Openwood Town-house. 1,400 plus/ minussquare feet, cheap county cartags. 601-831-8900. Leavemessage.
CommodoreApartments
1, 2 & 3Bedrooms
605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS
39180
601-638-2231
LUCKETT COMPOUND.DOWNTOWN 1 bedroomCentral air/ heat, washerand dryer. $625 monthly.References and deposit re-quired. 601-529-8002.
SAVE! SAVE! SAVE!Ask about our Holiday
Special- 2 and 3bedrooms. We aim to
please. Call 601-686-0635.
SPACIOUS 2 BEDROOMapartment. 61 South area.Meadowbrook Properties,601-619-9789.
30. HousesFor Rent
3 BEDROOM, 1 bath.Central heat/ air, fencedyard, carport, hardwoodfloors. $695 monthly, $695deposit. 850-291-4743.
3 BEDROOMS 2.5 baths.4 years old, 2-story, all elec-tric, garage, 2000 squarefeet, hardwood and ceram-ic. $1500 monthly, deposit/references required. 601-218-1002.
4 BEDROOM, 2 bath. For-mal living/ dining, hardwoodfloors, large workshop. $1150/month, 601-831-0066, pleaseleave message.
31. Mobile HomesFor Rent
16X60 2 BEDROOM, 2Bath, 12x60 porch. No pets.$200 deposit, $650 month-ly. 601-631-1942.
2 BEDROOM, 1 bath.Washer/ Dryer. All electric,No pets, $450 month, $200deposit. 601-638-6239.
DOUBLE WIDE. 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, FreetownRoad. $895 monthly, de-posit/ references. 601-831-3686, 601-529-4077.
32. Mobile HomesFor Sale
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33. Commercia lProperty
COMMERCIAL BUILD-ING or Turn- Key restaurantwith 2 lots for sale at EagleLake. Call 850-683-1085.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
34. HousesFor Sale
CARY, MS. 3 bed, 2 bathhome, 4.5 lots. Shown byappointment only. Asking$115,000. 601-824-0270.
Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm
601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.
www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net
FOR SALE BY owner$70,000. 3 bedroom 2 bath.Port Gibson. Large backyard,All new heating cooling. 601-437-0654, 601-870-5548.
34. HousesFor Sale
Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI
601-636-6490
Licensed inMS and LA
Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency
1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com
NICE HOUSE WITH riverview. Oak street VicksburgMS. 3 bedroom, good con-dition. $45,000. 601-636-8291.
Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549
Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211
AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCVJIM HOBSON
REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER
601-636-0502
38. FarmImple ments/
Heavy Equipment
HEY! NEED CASH NOW?We buy JUNK CARS,
VANS, SUV’S, TRUCKS,SCHOOL BUSES, HEAVY
EQUIPMENT, HEAVY DUTYTRUCKS & TRAILERS.
Whether your junk is run-ning or not, & PAY YOUCASH NOW. Call today,
we'll come pick your junk upwith CASH in hand!1-800-826-8104
39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles
HEY! NEED CASHNOW? We buy junk cars,vans, SUVs, heavy equip-ment and more! Call today,we'll come pick them upwith money in hand! 1-800-826-8104.
40. Cars & Trucks
DECEMBER DEAL!
Garyscfl.com
2002 Ford Escape
$850 Down $163 Bi -Weekly
Gary’s Cars601-883-9995
2003 FORD E250 van.Wheel chair accessible anddrivable, 120,000 miles.$7500. 601-218-9408.
AUTO WORLDCome see us at GeorgeCarr Rental building forgreat used car bargains.601-831-2000 after 3pm.
HEY! NEED CASH NOW?We buy JUNK CARS,
VANS, SUV’S, TRUCKS,SCHOOL BUSES, HEAVY
EQUIPMENT, HEAVY DUTYTRUCKS & TRAILERS.
Whether your junk is run-ning or not, & PAY YOUCASH NOW. Call today,
we'll come pick your junk upwith CASH in hand!1-800-826-8104
MUTUAL CREDITUNION has for sale: 2007GMC Yukon, 93,000 miles.$16,500. Please call 601-636-7523, extension 258.
ClassifiedHours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, Closed Saturday & Sunday. Post Plaza, 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • P. O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182.
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Classified Ad RatesClassified Line Ads:
Starting at 1-4 Lines, 1 Day for $8.28Classified line ads are charged according to the
number of lines. For complete pricinginformation contact a Classified SalesRepresentative today at 601-636-SELL.
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ErrorsIn the event of errors, please call the very first dayyour ad appears. The Vicksburg Post will not be
responsible for more than one incorrect insertion.
Mis-ClassificationNo ad will be deliberately mis-classified.
The Vicksburg Post classified department is thesole judge of the proper classification for each ad.
Classified Line DasStarting at 1-4 Lines, 1 Day for $8.32
4 line minimum charge $8.32 minimum charge.
DeadlinesAds to appear Deadline
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Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement
Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•
AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900
ROSSCONSTRUCTION
New HomesFraming, Remodeling,
Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding
State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932
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
PATRIOTIC• FLAGS
• BANNERS
• BUMPER STICKERS
• YARD SIGNSShow Your Colors!
SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY
• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices
• Work Orders• Invitations
(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711
1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180
BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
601-636-4813State Board of Contractors
Approved & Bonded
Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand
All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition
Site Development& Preparation Excavation
Crane Rental • Mud Jacking
River CityDirt Work, LLC
• Dozer / Trackhoe Work• Dump Truck •
• Bush Hogging • Box Blade• Demolition • Debris Removal
• Hydro Seeding• Deliver
Dirt -13 yd. load $85 locally• Gravel • Sand • Rock
Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins.Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner)
601-529-0894
All Business &
Service Directory Ads
MUST BE PAID
IN ADVANCE!
To advertise yourbusiness here for as
little as $2.83 per day,call our Classified Dept.
at 601-636-7355.
COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR
HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd.
COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR
HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff
601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd
MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive
Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625
Equal Housing Opportunity
801 Clay Street 601-630-2921www.the-vicksburg.com
UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments
Studios & Efficiencies
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S H A M R O C KA PA RT M E N T S
SUPERIOR QUALITY,CUSTOM CABINETS,
EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM,& WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS.
SAFE!!SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT
601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333
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.
FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com
and
EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY
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