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1. Sens. Mitch McCon-nell and Rand Paul see coal-to-fertilizer plant as a victory for Kentucky. 3A
2. Marshall man jailed after cousin is stabbed at Lakeland Arbor Village. 3A
3. Suburbs and rural areas now playing key roles in national gun de-bate. 8A
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5. Cielia Luro, a former bishop’s wife and longtime friend of Pope Francis, draws attention to her cam-paign backing option-al priestly celibacy.
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BOSTON — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by their religious faith but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. of-fi cials said Monday after inter-rogating the severely wounded younger man. He was charged with federal crimes that could bring the death penalty.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged in his hospital room with using a weapon of mass destruc-tion to kill. He was accused of joining with his older brother, Tamerlan — now dead — in set-ting off the pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 200 a week ago.
The brothers, ethnic Chechens from Russia who had been living in the U.S. for about a decade, practiced Islam.
D z h o k h a r T s a r n a e v c o m m u n i -cated with his interrogators in writing, a less-than-ideal format that precluded the type of detailed back-and-forth cru-cial to estab-lishing the facts, said one of two offi cials who recounted the ques-tioning. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.
The two offi cials said the pre-liminary evidence from an inter-rogation suggests the Tsarnaev brothers were driven by religion but had no ties to Islamic terror-ist organizations.
At the same time, they cau-
Faith shapedbomb suspects
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D. Tsarnaev
Mid-afternoon Monday, with her store half full of quilting enthusiasts, Pat English was on the phone in her small offi ce in Quilter’s Alley. With thousands of potential patrons traveling toward her shop and only two days before her busiest week of the year, English was desperate for more material.
“You order things early and they come in early, so people
have already bought them,” English said. “Now I have to reorder. Because I need to have them on hand, especially this week. You pick and choose what to buy, and you hope it’s what they want.”
English and others in her place are fi nishing last-minute preparations for Quilt Week in Paducah. The American Quil-ter’s Society’s 29th annual quilt show brings in an average of 30,000 people each year. Al-
though it’s been almost a decade since the last economic impact study was done for Quilt Week — it was once estimated quil-ters bring in nearly $20 million to the community annually — quilt-related businesses seem to have the biggest boom.
“It isn’t unusual for us to do $20,000 in business per day,” Quilt in a Day manager Jackie Doublin said. “We start stocking
Anticipation builds for quilters
BY CORIANNE [email protected]
CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
Jackie Doublin, manager of Quilt In A Day on Fifth Street,
hangs balloons on a power pole outside of the store Monday afternoon, signaling sales to
incoming quilters, above. The store began stocking up on fab-
ric in March.
Genny Varela (right) and Linda Felton, both of New Jersey,
scroll through one of hundreds of fabric swatches at Quil-
ter’s Alley on Fourth Street in Paducah, right. The two women,
along with several other com-panions, are using Paducah’s
Quilt Week as an extended cel-ebration for Varela’s birthday.
The group has spent over a year planning the trip.
Paducah finishes last-minute preparations
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Richie Farmer smiles before a debate at Ketucky Educational Television in Lexington in 2011. Farmer, a former agriculture commissioner, was indicted Monday on federal charges of misappropriating state funds.
LEXINGTON — A Kentucky basketball icon whose jersey hangs from the rafters of Rupp Arena was accused in a federal indictment Monday of misappro-priating government funds dur-ing his tenure as head of the state Department of Agriculture.
Richie Farmer, the sweet-shooting guard from impover-ished Clay County, could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fi ne on each of four counts of misappropriating gov-ernment property and money and one count of soliciting prop-
erty in exchange for a govern-ment grant.
Prosecutors said they also will seek $450,000 — the amount they alleged was misappropriat-ed — from the now-unemployed Farmer, who served from 2004 through 2011 in the elected posi-tion of state agriculture commis-sioner.
U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey outlined a litany of alleged mis-deeds at a press conference Mon-day morning in Lexington, not far from the University of Ken-tucky, where two decades ago Farmer was part of one of the nation’s most storied basketball programs.
Harvey alleged that Farmer used government employees to work on his Frankfort home, even build a basketball court in his backyard, and that he hired friends, including his girlfriend, as special assistants who did little or no work for the Kentucky De-partment of Agriculture.
“He also allegedly directed the Department of Agriculture em-ployees to drive him on personal errands, babysit his children, mow his lawn and transport his dog, among other things,” Har-vey said. “Mr. Farmer allegedly misappropriated Kentucky De-partment of Agriculture property for his own use, including com-
puter equipment, two refrigera-tors, various articles of clothing and two fi ling cabinets.”
The indictment said Farmer used an account that mingled private and government funds to purchase gifts, including cus-tomized Remington rifl es and embossed Case knives, for vis-iting state agriculture commis-sioners during a 2008 national conference. The indictment al-leges Farmer kept some of the gifts for himself.
On the solicitation count, the grand jury alleged Farmer in 2009 accepted an unnamed
Former ag commissioner indicted on federal chargesBY BRETT BARROUQUERE
AND ROGER ALFORDAssociated Press
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The McCracken Fiscal Court has narrowed a set of changes to an ordinance designed to regu-late dogs running loose in county neighborhoods.
Commissioners discussed a draft version of the ordinance, slated to defi ne some existing language and increase violation fi nes, at a regular meeting Mon-day. They plan to approve the fi rst reading at their next meeting set May 13, Judge-Executive Van Newberry said.
A series of complaints from county residents regarding dogs running loose on their proper-ties and wreaking havoc sparked the revamped ordinance. Some
residents expressed concerns about invoking too many regula-tions and commissioners came to a compromise by leaving the existing laws in place and making some clarifi cations and additions.
The new draft defi nes exces-sively at large to mean any dog that is roaming on property that is not its own. On the fi rst offense, the owner would receive a warn-ing, but if the dog is spotted roam-ing again within 90 days, animal control offi cials can be called to seize it. The owner would then have to pay a fi ne and have the animal licensed to get it back.
The commissioners agreed to increase the fi nes in place from
Court edging closer to dog law changes
BY MALLORY [email protected]
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The Paducah Civic Beautifi -cation Board Annual Dogwood Trail Committee announced the winners of the 2013 Dog-wood Trail lighting Monday.
Awards are separated into two categories: houses on the historic Dogwood Trail and houses off the trail. There are nine on-trail winners and four off-trail winners.
On-trail winners are Dale and Donna Perry, 2100 Jefferson St.; Stan and Missy Eckenberg, 4240 Pines Road; Denny Roof and Amy Troyer, 226 Wallace Lane; Jim and Linda Gould, 145 Red Fox Trail; Jim and Debbie Long, 4670 Quail Hol-low Drive; Carl and Polly LeB-uhn, 644 Woodland Drive; Di-anne and Glynn Roberts, 2107 Jefferson St.; Doug and Linda Painter, 2414 Jefferson St.; and Jim and Betty Chatellier, 2625 Jefferson St.
Winners, off-trail: Ken and Sally Lucas, 4301 St. Charles Circle; Tara Wise Sawvel, 3250 Madison St.; Phil Hall, 1600 Martin Luther King Drive; and Justin and Erin Lewis, 3263 Madison St.
The winners will be recog-nized today during the Paducah City Commission meeting at City Hall, beginning at 5:30 p.m., with a reception to fol-low the meeting. The commit-tee placed signs in the winners’ yards Monday.
Glynn and Dianne Roberts, fi rst-time winners, proudly dis-played their dogwood award sign. Glynn Roberts described his wife’s glee, when she was notifi ed that they won, to a NASCAR driver winning the Daytona 500.
“We have lit for years, but this is the fi rst time we won; it’s just a wonderful event for the com-munity,” Diane Roberts said.
The Dogwood Trail Commit-tee members urge residents to light up all trees and shrubs be-cause of the infl ux of tourists in town for Quilt Week. Because of the late blooming of the dog-wood trees, the timing of the
two events overlap this year.According to Ro Morse, Dog-
wood Trail Committee member, the judges try to give awards to participants who haven’t won in the past fi ve years. She also reminded participants to take pictures of their lighted dis-plays for the 2014 dogwood photo contest.
“Paducah is a gorgeous town, visitors will be drawn into its beauty,” Roberts said.
Additionally, the Quilter’s Society and Paducah Bank an-nounced the winners of the 2013 Window Quilt Display contest.
Courtyard Antiques, at 319 Broadway St., won fi rst place for small windows, and Cassi-ty’s, 115 S. Second St., won sec-ond place for small windows. Green Door Floral, 311 Broad-way St., won fi rst place for large windows, and Comfort Zone, 407 Broadway St., won second
place for large windows.The fi rst-place winners re-
ceived a $200 check and a blue ribbon, while second-place winners received a $100 check and a red ribbon. The winning displays will be available for viewing throughout the Quilt Show.
Contact Kathleen Fox, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651.
Dogwood lighting winners announcedBY KATHLEEN [email protected]
KATHLEEN FOX | The Sun
A Dogwood Trail award winner located at 2107 Jefferson St. is owned by Glynn
and Dianne Roberts, above. The 13 award winners were announced by The
Paducah Civic Beautification Board Annual Dogwood Trail Committee on
Monday.
One of the Dogwood Trail award win-ners, located at 2100 Jefferson St., is owned by Dale and Donna Perry, right.
LEXINGTON — Authorities have identifi ed the human remains re-covered from a private lake as a Lex-ington man who was originally from Murray.
Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn said that the cause of death for 45-year-old Michael Sanderson re-mains undetermined.
Sanderson’s remains were pulled from shallow water near the shore of Lake Ellerslie Fishing Club on April 7. A groundskeeper for the club fi rst spotted the body and called police.
Ginn said the body appears to have been in the lake since summer.
Ginn said a fi nal report could take months and the cause of death may never be known because only bones remain.
Funeral arrangements for Sand-erson are pending at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home in Murray.
Murray native’s body recovered
Associated Press
A new sewage treatment plant will be built in Grand Riv-ers now that funds are secured, utility manager Jeff Deweese said Monday.
The city has attempted to se-cure funds for the facility since 2008, Deweese said, when the Obama administration an-nounced it would issue stimu-lus money for city infrastruc-ture.
He said the city acquired a low-interest federal loan of $3.6 million and a $2.4 mil-lion grant. An additional $1.2 million was acquired through a community development block grant, which Deweese said is a grant of federal money issued by the state.
Grand Rivers must match the amount of money issued as a condition for receiving a community development block grant. Deweese said the city is using the loan money as the match.
Florence and Hutcheson, a Paducah engineering fi rm, cre-ated the blueprints for the facil-ity, paid for with city funds.
Deweese said the city has not yet hired local contractors but anticipates the project will be completed by the middle of next year. He said the building site is one fourth of a mile away from the current plant.
The grants and loans for the plant come at just the right time. With a town the size of Grand Rivers, the utility rate could not be raised high enough
to pay for a new facility, De-weese said.
“Really, I don’t know what would happen to the commu-nity,” he said.
The current plant was created in the 1960s, Deweese said, and was not created to last as long as it has. He said renovating the facility would be just as ex-pensive as building a new one. Many of the parts in the older plant are no longer manufac-tured, and have to be custom-made when one breaks.
“It’s kind of like going down a river with one engine,” he said. “If that one goes down, you’ve got no backup.”
Deweese said the city was facing fi nes from the Environ-mental Protection Agency, as the current plant’s discharge
did not meet environmental standards. The new facility will prevent these fi nes.
“We’ve been under the gun for quite some time,” he said.
Grand Rivers gains much of its revenue from tourism. Deweese said while the tour-ism industry is slow due to the recession, the new plant will be benefi cial to the city as the economy improves.
Contact Nicholas Reside, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8667 or follow @NicholasReside on Twitter.
Grand Rivers plans new sewage treatment plantBY NICHOLAS [email protected]
paducahsun.com From Page One/Region The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, April 23, 2013 • 3A
up the fi rst day of April to prepare for this.”
While retail shops in Paducah have been pre-paring for Quilt Week all month, stores specializing in quilting materials treat Quilt Week like Christmas season. Places like Bry-erPatch Studios in Lower Town, All About Quilting on Irvin Cobb Drive, and Han-cock’s of Paducah on Hin-kleville Road are stocked and ready for the show, which starts Wednesday night.
While sales are generally up for those stores — Blann Hancock, co-owner of Han-cock’s fabrics, likens it to a 13th month for retailers — the week also is a time to see both new and familiar faces.
“It’s our time to forge
new relationships,” Han-cock sad. “We ship inter-nationally and nationally all year, and these are the people we get to meet and start doing business with. It’s such a great time to make new friends and show off our city and how our city embraces quilting.”
Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
QUILTS
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“thing of value” from a motor vehicle dealership in Whitley County in ex-change for a state grant.
Instead of being taken into custody, Farmer will voluntarily appear in court to answer the charges.
Farmer’s arraignment is tentatively set for April 30 at the federal courthouse in Lexington. His defense attorney, Guthrie True of Frankfort, said Farmer will enter a not guilty plea. True said he may ask for the ar-raignment date to be reset because of a scheduling confl ict.
True said the indictment was disappointing but not
surprising because he had known for weeks that it was coming.
“We don’t believe that these issues should be in the criminal arena at all,” True told reporters on Monday after the indict-ment was released.
True said Farmer’s politi-cal foes may be responsible for the charges.
“Should he have elected to make himself available for public service, they should have elected to stand in competition with him, not to try to eliminate him from politics in Ken-tucky through this type of maneuver,” True said.
Harvey said the Farmer case was treated no differ-
ently than any other.“I don’t know that there’s
anything markedly dif-ferent about his case than other cases that we’ve pros-ecuted in the past, other than perhaps the notoriety of the defendant,” he said.
Though he played more than 20 years ago, the homegrown athlete from Appalachia remains a household name in Ken-tucky. After all, he and his teammates were dubbed the “Unforgettables.”
True said he viewed the federal indictment as “a dangerous precedent,” say-ing the issues raised in it are state matters.
“The manner in which
the elected commissioner of the Kentucky Depart-ment of Agriculture con-ducts his business is a po-litical, not a legal, issue,” he said.
Harvey declined to say if others may be indicted in the case. “The investigation continues, and I wouldn’t speculate about the course that that might take,” Har-vey said.
State Auditor Adam Edelen, whose review of the Department of Agri-culture led to the criminal investigation, said the case shows that “no public of-fi cial, regardless of posi-tion, power or popularity, is above the law.”
FARMER
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$25 on the fi rst offense and $50 on the second to $30 on the fi rst and $60 on the second. Commis-sioner Ronnie Freeman initially suggested raising the fi nes to $40 on the fi rst offense and $75 on the second, but Chrystal George, animal control director, expressed con-cern about it being too high. She said if the fi nes are too high, it could prompt owners to leave their dogs at the shelter for good.
The commissioners also plan to publicize the changes so pet owners are aware of them and
can make concerted ef-forts to keep their dogs on their own properties.
Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writ-er, at 270-575-8684 or follow @MalloryPanuska on Twitter.
DOGS
CONTINUED FROM 1A
Murray State University President Randy Dunn has been selected as a fi nalist for president at Youngstown State Uni-versity in Youngstown, Ohio.
Dunn was one of eight candidates vying for the position. Mark Welch, public information offi cer for the president at MSU,
said the three fi nalists will be interviewed May 1-3.
Dunn also will interview for president at Illinois State University in Nor-mal, Ill., on Wednesday. Dunn is one of four candi-dates there.
The MSU Board of Regents did not renew Dunn’s contract at its March meeting. His con-tract expires July 2014.
Dunn competesfor presidenciesat two colleges
Staff report
A man accused of stabbing his cousin is behind bars in Marshall County, Sher-iff Kevin Byars said.
Byars said Deputy Samantha Mighell was sent to Lakeland Arbor Village in reference to an alleged stabbing at one of the apartments Sunday night. Mighell found John Nicholas, 54, of Benton with several stab wounds. Nicholas told Mighell that his cousin, Michael D. Nich-olas, 59, of Hardin, had stabbed him af-ter an argument.
Byars said Mighell found a knife on the kitchen fl oor of John Nicholas’ apartment, near a pool of blood. Michael Nicholas was found in a chapel in the nearby apartment complex, the Lake-land Wesley Village, and arrested. John Nicholas was taken to Marshall County Hospital with what Byars called non-life-threatening injuries. He was stabbed three to four times, Byars noted.
Michael Nicholas was taken to Mar-shall County Detention Center and charged with fi rst-degree assault.
Man jailed afterMarshall stabbing
Staff report
LOUISVILLE — Waste products from a coal-fi red Louisville power plant will be turned into fertilizer by a new facility that was un-veiled Monday.
The announcement by LG&E and Charah Inc. drew Kentucky’s Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul to the Mill Creek Gen-erating Station in south-west Jefferson County.
The $13 million facility at LG&E’s plant will use a synthetic form of the min-eral gypsum, left over from the process that removes sulfur dioxide from coal-burning emissions.
The money for the facil-ity came from a public-pri-vate partnership, according to LG&E. Charah says it is the fi rst facility of its kind
in the country.McConnell, Paul and
other state leaders hailed the plant as a victory for the state’s coal and agriculture industries.
“I think all of us would agree that Kentucky is a coal state and Kentucky is an agriculture state,” said Democratic Rep. Rocky Adkins, majority fl oor leader in the Kentucky House. “And when these two industries join togeth-er ... we can create a strong economy that will produce the types of jobs that our people need and deserve.”
McConnell says the plant, which produces fer-tilizer pellets from gypsum, is “the marriage between energy production and ag-riculture.”
Mill Creek, LG&E’s larg-est power plant, produces
about 600,000 tons of gyp-sum a year.
Danny Gray, executive vice president at Charah, said the new facility will produce about 300,000 tons of the fertilizer a year when it is running at full capacity. About 20 workers will staff it, he said.
The coal-fi red plant uses pollution controls called scrubbers that spray a slur-ry of limestone across the exhaust gases, causing it to bond with the sulfur diox-ide and keeping it from en-tering the atmosphere. The leftover gypsum byproduct is also used to make wall board and as a fi ller for concrete.
Gray said the gypsum that comes from power plants can be sticky and is not easily spread us-ing farming equipment.
Charah adds a binder to the dried gypsum and forms it into pellets. The product is called SUL4R-PLUS, and Charah said it dissolves faster that other sulfur-based fertilizers.
“It spreads just like fertil-izer,” Gray said.
Vic Staffi eri, LG&E chief executive offi cer, said reus-ing the gypsum and ship-ping it away reduces the utility’s storage needs and lowers customer costs.
The Mill Creek plant is also currently undergoing a $940 million upgrade to its pollution controls. The plant burns about 4 mil-lion tons of coal a year that comes mostly from western Kentucky, where coal has a higher sulfur content than coal mined in eastern Ken-tucky and other parts of the Appalachia.
Coal plant to use byproduct as fertilizerBY DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press
HODGENVILLE — Investigators say two family members fought over a gun, resulting in one per-son being shot at a home in Hod-genville.
LaRue County Sheriff Merle Edlin told WAVE-TV in Louisville the strange situation unfolded Sunday night when 55-year-old
Dennis Locke of Buffalo went to a house and threatened to kill him-self in front of family members.
A family member tried to wrestle the gun from Locke, resulting in a single shot being fi red. Edlin says Locke was shot in the shoulder. Offi cers believe Dennis Locke was under the infl uence of alcohol at the time. No charges are expected.
Relatives wrestle over gun, 1 shot Associated Press
HENDERSON — A west-ern Kentucky man has been charged with ter-roristic threatening after police say someone over-heard him in a restaurant discussing how he could use explosives at Hender-son County High School.
Henderson Police spokeswoman Offi cer Jenny Richmond says Brenden Mathis, 20, of Henderson was arrested Sunday. Richmond said
that someone overheard Mathis discussing explo-sives and the school and used an instant commu-nication system to reach school offi cials.
School offi cials called Henderson police, who arrested Mathis later in the day at his home. Rich-mond says Mathis is a for-mer student at Henderson County High School.
Additional police of-fi cers were present at the high school on Monday.
School threat brings chargeAssociated Press
A safety bulletin issued to the Murray State University commu-nity states that the Murray Police Department has received two re-ports of assault and battery near campus from female students.
In both incidents, police said the victims were assaulted and grabbed around the throat by an unknown male.
Police said the fi rst attack oc-curred at 3:30 a.m. April 6 in the parking lot of Chase Apartments,
1700 Lowes Drive. The second at-tack reportedly occurred at 3:30 a.m. April 14 in the area of Fif-teenth Street and Hughes Avenue.
The victim in the second al-leged attack gave police a limited description of the suspect, a male wearing a hoodie.
If you have any information re-garding these incidents, contact the Murray Police Department at 270-753-1621 or the Murray State University Police at 270-809-2222.
MSU warns students about assaultsStaff Report
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The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $3 million advertising contract to sell Obamacare to the American people. According to Advertising Age magazine, the advertising firm Weber Shandwick will “roll out a campaign to convince the skeptical — or simply confused — Americans the Affordable Care Act is good for them and convince them to enroll in a health plan.”
Good luck. Obamacare has never enjoyed the support of even half the voters. The latest Kaiser Family Health Foundation poll put support at 37 percent. It was unpopular before Congress passed it in 2010, and it remains unpopular, despite President Obama’s nonstop promotion of it.
National Review columnist John Fund notes that the PR campaign is similar to one HHS launched in 2010 featuring the late Andy Griffith promising Americans their health benefits would remain the same under Obamacare. FactCheck found the claim “as fictional as the town of Mayberry.” The campaign did not move the needle on the approval scale.
The administration is also asking Congress for $554 million for “outreach and education” to explain Obamacare. But it will be an uphill battle. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., one of the authors of Obamacare, called it “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress.”
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, who is up for re-election
in 2014, has become a critic of the law he helped draft. At a budget hearing last week the Montana Democrat told HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, “I just see a huge train wreck coming down.” He said he can’t get answers to basic questions from the department or the White House.
“You never give me any data,” he complained to Sebelius. “You give me concepts.”
If a powerful Democratic senator partly responsible for Obamacare is in the dark,
imagine what it will be like for ordinary Americans. Baucus said, “Small businesses have no idea what to do, what to expect. They don’t know what affordability rules are. They don’t know what penalties may apply.”
An HHS official admitted the 15-page application for subsidies is “enormously time consuming and complex.” He said the goal of the state health exchanges was to make accessing them “a world-class user experience,” but the department fears it will be “a third-world experience.”
Adding more confusion, the Obama administration can’t
meet its own October deadline for setting up state exchanges and is scrambling to come up with contingency plans.
The White House can no longer pretend Obamacare will reduce health care costs, so the administration is proposing to inject another $600 billion into the exchanges to soften the shock of sharply higher premiums. This would only put more of the costs on the nation’s credit card to be paid for by future generations, and it would contradict Obama’s promise that the Affordable Care Act would “not add one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future.”
According to Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, 80 percent of Americans in their 20s will pay more for insurance, even after subsidies. About a third of Americans over age 30 will also pay more out of pocket.
No Republican voted for the Affordable Care Act. A few Democrats opposed it too, and now their ranks are growing. Last month the Senate voted 79-20, with a majority of Democrats joining the Republicans, to repeal a sales tax on medical devices, which was a key provision for financing premium subsidies for low earners.
The Affordable Care Act is unraveling. Democrats who will face the voters after the mandate kicks in next year are starting to squirm. As they should. Your health coverage is about to get far more complicated and expensive.
WASHINGTON — The sense of helplessness that follows a tragedy is too much for us. So we fi ll the silence after the sirens with explanations. This is very human — until it becomes inhuman.
For some, the immediate response to events in Boston was the search for political advantage. At fault were “Is-lamist apologists,” or “Senate Republicans” blocking law enforcement nominees, or the sequester. “Don’t talk to me about religion of peace,” fumed one, less-than-irenic religious fi gure. These com-mentators share not an ideol-ogy but a tendency: to search the headlines, and the obitu-aries, for affi rmations of their pre-existing beliefs.
Those of us who comment for a living understand the temptation. When your blood is up, it is easy to cross lines that are diffi cult to uncross. Twitter is not a medium that encourages refl ection.
But at the extremes, this form of politicization is hard to distinguish from desecra-tion. It fashions the grief of others into a Hyde Park plat-form. “Too many people,” said Albert Camus, “now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.”
The Boston bombings also set off a different sort of search — not for advantage but for facts and information. This is the occupation of law enforcement, as well as the calling of journalism.
Journalists often get a bad rap, and sometimes deserve it, particularly when their desire to be fi rst supplants their desire to get it right. But the days following a crisis or tragedy serve as a reminder of
their indispensability. In the initial coverage of the Boston attacks, commentary consist-ed mainly of premature spec-ulation and warnings against premature speculation. The work of a fi ne, methodical reporter — say Pete Williams of NBC — contributed more than the entire cast of his company’s cable network.
We have a media culture that emphasizes opinion in order to fi ll the 24-hour news cycle and occupy the infi nite reaches of broadband. But when it mattered most in Boston, only actual journal-ism mattered. It is a reminder of the main direction that dependence runs: Facts with-out commentary lack context. Commentary without facts is a gelatinous mass of senti-ment and prejudice.
This is the reason that jour-nalism is a moral enterprise (though some who practice it would probably run scream-ing from the newsroom at that adjective). Truth really does set us free. The discernment of a common set of facts is the only basis for construc-tive, democratic disagree-ment. Otherwise, we inhabit fundamentally incommen-surable ideological worlds, and power becomes the only way to choose among them. Undermine journalism as a profession and a vocation — which we seem in the process of doing — and something essential is lost.
Tragedy also leads to anoth-er type of search, the search for meaning in cruel and ap-parently random events.
One of the most terrible and revealing moments of the recent bombings was reported in The Boston Globe. When a relative of Martin Richard fi rst heard the general news that a child had been killed, she tried to imagine the fam-ily’s pain. “Then I found out we were the family,” she said.
To those most closely af-fected — those, for example, who held a child for eight years and will not again — the drawing of life lessons by outsiders will seem trivial or callous.
But other families will feel the shock of familiarity — recalling a school shooting, a hospital cancer ward or a sudden accident. A tragedy makes communal what most of us face in isolation — a loss that can’t be reconciled with justice. The news breaks, and we stare into the abyss together.
It is true, even if trivial, that tragedy, loss and nobility are often knit in the same fabric. And many in this circum-stance turn to faith, not out of arrogant certainty (which life usually breaks in one way or another) but out of fear of the terrible alternative: that the innocent suffer and the uni-verse is indifferent. Such faith is not the opposite of doubt, but haunted by it and insepa-rable from it. It is the cry to an absent God.
We spend most of our days in denial, until the day it is no longer possible. The op-tions are relatively simple: Either death is fi nal, or love is fi nal. “You wanted justice, didn’t you?” says J.B.’s wife in Archibald MacLeish’s play. “There isn’t any. ... Only love.”
EDITOR:While I was picking up my daughter from
the hospital because insurance was refusing to pay for her care, the hospital attempted to reassure me that a bill had recently been passed in the Kentucky Senate to make it harder for insurance companies to deny pay-ment for care. That news was somewhat of a relief to us and I am sure to the many people I have talked with who are either served by, or who provide services to families on, Medic-aid.
I don’t know everybody’s Medicaid story, but I do know that parents who adopt spe-cial needs children from the foster system, providing them with a stable, loving home, are promised funding mostly in the form of Medicaid, to take care of the kids’ medical needs. This should be benefi cial to everyone involved, providing homes and permanency for our neediest, most fragile children, at the same time lifting the burden of the children’s full cost off the shoulders of the taxpayers.
Medicaid isn’t living up to their part of the bargain. A little more than a year ago, Ken-tucky granted Medicaid contracts to private for-profi t insurance companies, and now our hospitals are being denied payment by these companies, and the hospitals in turn are de-nying care to our children.
The legislature obviously saw a problem, and did the right thing for our families, by
writing and passing House Bill 5, 99-0 in the House and 37-0 in the Senate, in an attempt to get insurance companies to make prompt payment to care providers. So why, out of all the bills that passed, did Gov. Beshear veto this one bill? He says it is because it would lead to excessive costs to the state, but I fi nd that odd, since the contracts were negotiated just over a year ago and insurance companies already aren’t paying the bills.
Insurance companies are excellent at know-ing almost exactly how much they are going to pay in benefi ts when they set rates or nego-tiate contracts. Did they fail when negotiating with the state, or was their plan all along to take the money from Kentucky, but not pro-vide services? Why is Gov. Beshear covering for these companies?
If these for-profi t companies can’t live up to the contracts they bid on, shouldn’t the contract be awarded to someone who will? To me, the whole thing stinks, and instead of implementing even the smallest fi x, Gov. Bes-hear sides not with our families and children, but with the for-profi t insurance companies. Makes me wonder how much they paid into his campaign, and who exactly is running this state.
And while the insurance industry socks away profi ts and the governor enables them, the price is being paid by our most vulnerable citizens in the health, and in some cases the very lives, of children.
Cynthia DaviesMarion, Ky.
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Overcoming tragedy a communal task
Michael Gerson
IN TROUBLEAn Obamacare architect
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FORT KNOX — Fort Knox has developed artifi cial habitats for the endangered Indiana bat and has posted the roosts on telephone poles at the Army post.
Fort Knox Environmen-tal Management Division Wildlife Biologist Jimmy Watkins said the post put up 12 of the roosts in for-ested areas on the instal-lation. Watkins told The News-Enterprise offi cials have confi rmed that two of the roosts have been used by Indiana bats.
Watkins said six new roosts were installed weeks
ago in areas where the In-diana bat has not been doc-umented but habitats are ripe for use. The concept is not unique but Watkins said he does not know of another military installa-tion using the conservation effort on this scale.
The project evolved from an effort in 2006 to place artifi cial bark on existing dead trees, which attracted the bats.
Watkins said some of the trees where the bark was placed decayed and have fallen over.
The bats, which weigh only one quarter of an
ounce with a 9- to 11-inch wingspan, hibernate in caves or mines during the winter but roost, give birth and raise their offspring under tree bark on dead or dying trees during sum-mer.
The roosts are created using a telephone pole treated only at the bottom and dressed with artifi cial bark to replicate a tree.
The bat was placed on the endangered list in 1967 for several reasons, includ-ing commercialization and human disruption of caves and the indiscriminate use of pesticides. More recent-
ly, the bats have proven susceptible to white-nose syndrome that infects the skin of the muzzle, ears and wings of hibernating bats.
Watkins said the syn-drome appears to disrupt hibernating patterns of the bats and causing them to deplete their fat reserves, which can lead to dehydra-tion or starvation.
White-nose syndrome, which has killed large pop-ulations of bats, has been confi rmed at Fort Knox but has not caused any deaths there yet, he said.
“Not all bats die from it,” Watkins said.
The summer habitats for the bats has been decay-ing — an effect Fort Knox is trying to combat.
Watkins said biologists have been mindful to place the artifi cial roosts in areas where they do not confl ict with the training of sol-diers.
The bat can be found in the eastern part of the country and 400,000 or fewer are left.
Hundreds have been found at Fort Knox, and its 1,450-acre Indiana bat management area houses the largest known mater-nity colony in the state and
second-largest known col-ony of the species’ range, which produced more than 280 bats from one tree, Watkins said.
The post still is analyz-ing the effectiveness of the roosts but Watkins said he hopes conservation efforts like these will one day re-move the Indiana bat from the endangered list.
The Department of De-fense owns around 30 mil-lion acres of land, home to more than 400 endangered species it is working to con-serve, he said.
“They try to be a good landowner,” Watkins said.
Rare bats receive artificial roots at Fort KnoxAssociated press
HOPKINSVILLE — Ra-chel Rodgers wanted to make sure her wedding to Jamie Putty would be a hole in one.
The 36-year-old Rodgers planned and pulled off the couple’s wedding on the 9th hole of Western Hills Golf Course in Hopkins-ville. The location of Sat-urday’s ceremony came as a surprise to the 41-year-old Putty, an avowed golf
junkie.Rodgers told the Ken-
tucky New Era that keep-ing the location secret from Putty proved diffi -cult because everyone in the wedding party is very close.
“I don’t know if I was more excited about the wedding or surprising him,” she said.
A silver arch festooned with broken golf clubs sat at the end of an aisle of
white balloons.Rodgers said they both
wanted an intimate cer-emony since each has been married before.
Western Hills manager Dave Sensing says the wedding is the fi rst to be held on the course.
“We all were pretty ex-cited about it. I’m just happy I could help,” Sens-ing said.
Rodgers was glowing, similar to the way she said
she felt when she fi rst met Putty years ago — ironi-cally, he wasn’t golfi ng.
“I tell people that no-body looked at me the way he did,” she said. “I just knew.”
After the kiss, Putty embraced guests and ex-claimed how surprised he was with the location.
“This is the best place in the world,” he said. “I can’t think of any other place I’d rather be.”
Couple marries on 9th hole of golf courseAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — More parents need to talk with their teens about the dan-gers of abusing Ritalin, Ad-derall and other prescrip-tion drugs, suggests a new study that fi nds discourag-ing trends on kids and drug use.
When teens were asked about the last substance abuse conversation they had with their parents, just 14 percent said they talked about abusing a prescrip-tion drug, said the report being released Tuesday by The Partnership at Drug-free.org.
“For parents, it really comes down to not using the power they have be-cause they don’t think this is an immediate problem, meaning their own home,
own neighborhood kind of thing,” says Steve Pasierb, president of the partner-ship. “They believe that this is probably a safer way, not as bad as illegal street drugs.”
By comparison, most teens — 81 percent — said they have talked about the risks of marijuana use with their parents. Almost the same number said they have discussed alcohol with their parents. Almost one-third said they have talked about crack and cocaine.
Some parents didn’t see a signifi cant risk in teens misusing prescription drugs.
One in six parents said using prescription drugs to get high is safer than us-ing street drugs, according to the survey. Almost one-third of the parents said
attention defi cit hyperac-tivity disorder (ADHD) medications such as Ritalin or Adderall can improve a child’s academic or testing performance even if the teen does not have ADHD.
For Tracey and Jeff Gerl, of Cypress, Texas, their son’s drug abuse problem was a shock.
“We just didn’t know,” said Jeff. He and his wife had the “drugs are bad” talk with their son, Nick, and thought he got the message. They called the parents of friends when he said he was spending the night to make sure an adult
would be home. They tried to get to know his friends. Despite their efforts, Nick started smoking pot at the age of 12.
In an AP interview, Nick said he and his friends often raided their parents’ medi-cine cabinets for anything they could get their hands on — codeine, Xanax, Rit-alin. Some kids, Nick said, would have “skittles par-ties,” where the teens threw all the pills they poached from home into a big bowl, mixed them up and then took a few without know-ing exactly what they were ingesting.
OXFORD, Miss. — In-vestigators haven’t found any ricin in the house of a Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge, according to testi-mony Monday from an FBI agent.
Agent Brandon Grant said that a search of Paul Kevin Curtis’ vehicle and house in Corinth, Miss., on Friday did not turn up ricin, ingredients for the poison, or devices used to make it. A search of Curtis’ comput-ers has found no evidence so far that he researched making ricin.
Defense lawyers for Cur-tis say investigators’ failure to fi nd any ricin means the government should re-lease their client. That lack of physical evidence could loom large as a detention and preliminary hearing continues Tuesday morn-ing. U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Allan Alexander ended the hearing after lunch Monday, citing a personal schedule confl ict. Through his lawyer, Curtis has de-nied involvement in letters sent to Obama, Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, and a Lee County, Miss., judge. The fi rst of the letters was found April 15.
“There was no apparent ricin, castor beans or any material there that could
be used for the manufactur-ing, like a blender or some-thing,” Grant testifi ed. He speculated that Curtis could have thrown away the pro-cessor. Grant said computer technicians are now doing a “deep dive” on the suspect’s computers after initially fi nding no “dirty words” in-dicating Curtis had searched for information on ricin.
Christi McCoy, who is leading the defense for Cur-tis, said the government doesn’t have probable cause to hold her client and his history of problems related to bipolar disorder are not enough to keep him in jail.
“The searches are con-cluded, not one single shred of evidence was found to indicate Kevin could have done this,” McCoy told re-porters after the hearing.
She questioned why Curtis would have signed the letters “I am KC and I approve this message,” a phrase he had used on his Facebook page, and then thrown away a processor used to grind castor beans. And she said that in any event, Curtis is not enough of an imminent danger or fl ight risk to justify holding him without bail.
“If they continue to de-mand his incarceration, it’s basically bad faith,” McCoy said. “Now, surely they are satisfi ed that there is no im-mediate threat from Kevin Curtis, and we want him re-leased.”
FBI: No ricin trail discovered in Mississippi suspect’s home
BY JEFF AMYAssociated Press
NEW YORK — Flight de-lays piled up across the country Monday as thou-sands of air traffi c control-lers began taking unpaid days off because of federal budget cuts, providing the most visible impact yet of Congress and the White House’s failure to agree on a long-term defi cit-reduction plan.
The Federal Aviation Ad-ministration kept planes on the ground because there weren’t enough controllers to monitor busy air corri-dors. Cascading delays held up fl ights at some of nation’s busiest airports, including New York, Baltimore and Washington. Many opera-tions were more than two hours behind schedule.
At one point, the delays were so bad that passengers on several Washington-New York shuttle fl ights could have reached their destination faster by taking
the train.Nearly a third of fl ights at
New York’s LaGuardia air-port scheduled to take off before 3 p.m. were delayed 15 minutes or more, accord-ing to fl ight-tracking service FlightAware. Last Monday, just 6 percent of LaGuar-dia’s fl ights were delayed.
The situation was similar at Washington’s Reagan National Airport, in New-ark, N.J., and in Philadel-phia, with roughly 20 per-cent of fl ights delayed.
At airports, Monday is typically one of the busi-est days, when many high-paying business travelers
depart for a week on the road. The FAA’s controller cuts — a 10 percent reduc-tion of its staff — went into effect Sunday. The full force was not felt until Monday morning.
Travel writer Tim Lef-fel had just boarded a US Airways plane from Char-lotte, N.C., to Tampa, when the fl ight crew had an an-nouncement.
“They said: ‘The weather’s fi ne, but there aren’t enough air traffi c controllers,’” Lef-fel said. Passengers were asked to head back into the terminal. “People were just kind of rolling their eyes.”
His fl ight landed one hour and 13 minutes late.
One thing working in fl i-ers’ favor Monday was rela-tively good weather at most major airports. A few wind gusts in New York, snow in Denver and thunderstorms in Miami added to some delays, but generally there were clear skies and no ma-jor storms.
Major flight delays pile up amid FAA budget cutsBY SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
Associated Press
Associated Press
An American Airlines plane takes off at LAX Interna-tional airport Monday in Los Angeles. Some fliers were met with delays Sunday on the first day of staffing cuts for air traffic controllers because of government spend-ing reductions.
Associated Press
Christi McCoy, attorney for Paul Kevin Cur tis, speaks outside of federal court Monday in Oxford, Miss. Curtis is in custody under the suspicion of sending letters that tested positive for ricin to U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Roger Wick-er, R-Miss.
Study finds lax attitude on teens, prescription drug abuse BY JENNIFER C. KERR
Associated Press
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QUAKERTOWN, Pa. — In the emotional politics of gun control, the suburbs seem to be emerging as a new sphere of infl uence.
The Senate’s defeat last week of fi rearms restric-tions underscored the na-tion’s shifting demograph-ics and a pronounced divide on the gun issue between Americans in rural areas and residents of suburban enclaves, like Quakertown, outside Philadelphia.
Packed with married women and political inde-pendents, vote-rich com-munities like these are start-ing — in the wake of a string of shooting massacres — to act more like urban centers that long have been con-cerned with the threat of local gun violence and have favored stricter laws. Those include the expansion of background checks, viewed by gun control advocates as a way to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from buying fi rearms.
Like most Pennsylvania voters, Lisa Inglis, 43, a stay-at-home mom of two from the Philadelphia suburbs, is a supporter of expanded checks of gun buyers, part of the legislation defeated last week. She said she was very disappointed by the Senate action, though she also questioned whether such measures would pre-vent many crimes.
“The reality hits you that nobody can keep anybody safe. You really depend on the stability of other people’s thinking. You just hope for the best,” said In-glis, eating at John’s Plain & Fancy Diner in Quaker-town, about 45 miles north of Philadelphia. Voters like her in suburbs like this are a big reason why a handful of Republican lawmakers broke ranks with the GOP last week to support the
expanded checks, raising the possibility that gun con-trol could end up becoming
more ac-ceptable to other R e p u b -licans as suburbs in swing-v o t i n g s t a t e s swell and push far-ther into
rural areas where people cherish their gun rights.
Four Republicans backed the proposal, includ-ing three — Sens. Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania, Mark Kirk of Illinois and John McCain of Arizona — where suburbs play a strong role in their home states’ politics. The proposal also won support from Demo-crats such as Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, two states that are home to many hunters liv-ing in rural areas — but also to booming suburbs outside Washington and Denver.
To be sure, rural interests still play a powerful role in Congress, and the gun vote showed how small states can shape the debate. Dem-ocrats representing rural states bucked members of their party and President Barack Obama to help scut-tle the legislation. Among Democrats, fi ve opposed the plan, including rural state lawmakers like Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mark Begich of Alaska and Max Baucus of Montana, all of whom face the voters next year. Polling bears out the geographic divide.
In the months since the deadly Newtown, Conn., elementary school shoot-ing, polls showed an over-whelming support for expanding background checks and strong senti-ment for tighter gun mea-
sures among women. An Associated Press-GfK poll this month found that 52 percent of people living in suburban areas supported stricter gun laws compared with 41 percent rural resi-dents. An additional 44 per-cent who live in rural areas say gun laws should remain the same, 13 percent think they should be made less strict.
The poll found that 58 percent of women favored stricter gun laws, compared
with 41 percent of men. The difference held up across party lines, though 34 per-cent of Republican women supported stricter gun laws compared with 80 percent of Democratic women.
Republicans said many GOP members were chal-lenged by the larger context of Obama’s agenda — in-cluding likely votes ahead on immigration and grow-ing support in the nation for gay marriage.
— AP
Suburbs now playing key role in gun billBY KEN THOMAS
AND MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated Press
Nation Briefs
BOSTON — In a glim-mer of good news after last week’s tragedy, all of the more than 180 people in-jured in the Boston Mara-thon blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.
That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails. Even a transit system police offi cer whose heart had stopped and was close to bleeding to death after a shootout with the suspects now ap-pears headed for recovery.
“All I feel is joy,” said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massa-chusetts General Hospital, referring to his hospital’s 31 blast patients. “Whoever came in alive, stayed alive.”
Three people did die in the blasts, but at the scene, before hospitals even had a chance to try to save them. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police offi cer who police say was fatally shot Thursday by the sus-pects was pronounced dead when he arrived at Massa-chusetts General.
The only person to reach a hospital alive and then die was one of the suspect-ed bombers — 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
But the remarkable, uni-versal survival one week later of all others injured in the blasts is a testimonial to fast care at the scene, on the way to hospitals, then in emergency and op-erating rooms. Everyone
played a part, from doctors, nurses and paramedics to strangers who took off belts to use as tourniquets and staunched bleeding with their bare hands.
As of Monday, 51 people remained hospitalized, three of them in critical condition and fi ve listed as serious. At least 14 people lost all or part of a limb; three of them lost more than one.
Two children with leg injuries remain hospital-
ized at Boston Children’s Hospital. A 7-year-old girl is in critical condition and 11-year-old Aaron Hern of Martinez, Calif., is in fair condition.
The surviving bomb-ing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a neck wound.
“Our training, our prac-ticing, went a long way” to minimizing chaos so that hospitals and emergency
responders worked effec-tively to treat the many wounded, said Dr. William Mackey, surgery chief at Tufts Medical Center.
“Trauma care is opti-mism translated into ac-tion,” said Dr. Russell Nau-ta, chairman of surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., where the wounded transit police offi cer, Richard Donohue, remains in stable but criti-cal condition.
— AP
Doctors: Bomb patients likely to liveBY MARILYNN MARCHIONEAssociated Press
Associated Press
Medical workers aid an injured woman April 15 at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following two explosions there. One week after the bombings, all of the more than 180 people injured in the blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive. The remarkable, universal survival of those injured is a testimonial to fast care at the scene, on the way to hospitals, then in emergency and operating rooms.
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WASHINGTON — Democratic supporters of a new immigration bill accused opponents Monday of trying to “exploit” the Boston Marathon bombings to hold up the legislation, sparking a testy exchange at a Senate hearing.
“I never said that! I never said that!” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, interjected as Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a lead author of the bill, criticized “those who are pointing to what happened, the terrible tragedy in Boston, as a, I would say, excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it.”
Schumer said he wasn’t talking about Grassley, who said last week that the bombings, allegedly carried out by two immigrant brothers, raised question about gaps in the U.S. immigration system that should be exam-ined in context of the new bill. Senate Judiciary Chair-man Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., banged his gavel to settle the proceedings. The exchange came as the Judiciary Committee opened its second hearing on sweeping legislation to strengthen border security, allow tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, require all employers to check their workers’ legal status, and provide an eventual path to citizen-ship for some 11 million immigrants now here illegally.
Supporters: Don’t link immigration bill to Boston
— Associated Press
DALLAS — A tour of the George W. Bush Presi-dential Library and Museum begins in a bright area representing his early domestic agenda, but with one turn, visitors find themselves in a darkened room sur-rounded by chilling reminders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
This contrast, symbolizing Bush’s abrupt shift in priorities less than eight months into his first term, is among the most poignant exhibits at a museum being dedicated this week that also chronicles the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the Florida recount and various other historical events.
Bush told The Associated Press last week that he wanted to make sure the part of the museum devoted to 9/11 was powerful enough to remind visitors of how much the world changed that day.
Bush library exhibits: 9/11, Katrina, recount
— Associated Press
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LUSHAN, China — The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-fl anked Lushan is no ordi-nary refugee camp. China’s full range of disaster re-sponse is on display: Trucks with x-ray equipment, phone-charging stations, bank tellers-on-wheels — even a tent for insurance claims.
The efforts under way Monday in mountainous Sichuan province after a quake Saturday that killed at least 188 people showed that the government has continued to hone its di-saster reaction — long con-sidered a crucial leader-ship test in China — since a much more devastating earthquake in 2008, also in Sichuan, and another one in 2010 in the western region of Yushu.
“Lushan was so heavily hit and my family’s house toppled. It has been such a disaster for us,” said Yue Hejun, 28, as he waited to recharge his family’s three mobile phones at a charging stall, volunteered by a com-munications company and coordinated by the govern-ment in a new addition to the arsenal of services after natural disasters. “If we can charge our phones, we are at least able to keep in touch with our family members outside and that helps to set our minds at ease.”
At a mini-clinic with two green cots in the open air and a small tent for doctors to sleep, a doctor said the government has learned the importance of fast coordina-tion since the Yushu quake, which killed more than 2,600 people. Much of the initial relief in that disaster came from Buddhist monks
and other non-government volunteers, partly because of the remoteness of much of the affected areas.
“After 24 hours or 48 hours in Yushu, things were not so orderly or settled in,” said the doctor, who like many government of-fi cials would give only her surname, Luo. “The gov-ernment’s quick, organized response is very important. It’s no use to blindly come here and try to save people.”
Helicopters have been an obvious presence in the lat-est rescue efforts, used to reach outlying communities, unlike in 2008 when bad weather hampered their use in the critical fi rst 36 hours. This time, better use of he-licopters for reconnaissance — with remote sensing tech-nology — and for the distri-
bution of aid has allowed help to get out more quickly to where it is needed, said Teng Wuxiao, director of the Institute of Urban Public Se-curity at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Still, complaints were common among the survi-vors of the latest quake, es-pecially in the more hard-to-reach areas. While aid was being delivered, it was not getting out to all who need it. Yue said family members in his remote mountain vil-lage had received no help with shelter and were living under tarpaulins.
Huang Mingxian, 47, who was camped out with seven family members in a gov-ernment-issued blue tent in a small public square, said the government’s efforts were appreciated but that
supplies were not always distributed fairly.
“This morning is the fi rst time in three days that we have gotten instant noo-dles,” Huang said, waving a pair of long chopsticks she was using to stir the noodles in a wok over a gas canister-powered mobile stove. “Other areas have electricity and water, what about us?”
The death toll in Satur-day’s quake — measured at magnitude 7.0 by Chinese authorities and at magni-tude 6.6 by monitors in the U.S. — may continue to tick upward, with about two dozen people still missing. More than 15,000 people have been sent to hospi-tals, with more than 300 of them seriously injured.
— AP
China learned lessons from years agoBY GILLIAN WONG
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Turkish transport helicop-ter carrying at least 11 civil-ians was forced to make an emergency landing in a Tal-iban-controlled area in east-ern Afghanistan, and the in-surgents took all the people on board prisoner, including eight Turks and a Russian, offi cials said Monday.
The civilian aircraft landed in strong winds and heavy rain on Sunday in the village of Dahra Mangal in the Azra district of Logar province, southeast of Kabul, District Governor Hamidullah Hamid told The Associated Press.
He said the helicopter came down in a gorge in the densely forested region, known for narrow gorges and rugged mountains,
about 12 miles from the Pak-istani border.
The Taliban fi ghters then captured everyone aboard the helicopter and took them away, Hamid said.
In a telephone interview, Arsala Jamal, the Logar provincial governor, identi-fi ed the prisoners as eight Turks, one Afghan transla-tor and two foreign pilots of unknown nationality.
In Ankara, a spokesman at Turkey’s Foreign Ministry confi rmed that eight Turks were aboard the helicopter but had no information on their condition or what had happened to them after the emergency landing. The of-fi cial spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with ministry regulations.
Stepan Anikeyev, the Rus-
sian Embassy’s press attache in Kabul, said in a phone in-terview that a Russian man was being held prisoner. He said the Russians know he was one of the two pilots, but they don’t have details about his identity yet, and they are in “constant touch” with lo-cal offi cials in Afghanistan.
“A helicopter that belongs to no military organization made emergency landing in an area of Logar province,” Interior Ministry spokes-man Sediq Sediqi said. “We have sent our police forces to the area to investigate the situation, to fi nd out the reason of the landing and to know who was in the he-licopter, how many of them were there and their where-abouts at the moment.”
— AP
Taliban capture 11 after emergency helicopter landing in Afghanistan
Associated Press
BANGKOK — A leading international rights group on Monday accused au-thorities in Myanmar, in-cluding Buddhist monks, of fomenting an organized campaign of ethnic cleans-ing against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minor-ity that killed hundreds of people and forced 125,000 from their homes.
Human Rights Watch also described the bloody wave of violence and mas-sacres in western Rakhine state last year as crimes against humanity, and slammed the government of President Thein Sein for
failing to bring the perpetra-tors to justice months after mobs of Buddhists armed with machetes and home-made guns razed thousands of Muslim homes.
While state security forc-es sometimes intervened to protect fl eeing Muslims, more often they fueled the unrest, the rights group said, either by standing by idle or directly participat-ing in atrocities. One sol-dier reportedly told a Mus-lim man whose village was ablaze: “The only thing you can do is pray to save your lives.”
The allegations, detailed in a new report by the New York-based rights group,
came the same day the Eu-ropean Union was expect-ed to lift all sanctions on Myanmar except an arms embargo to reward the Southeast Asian nation for its progress toward demo-cratic rule.
Win Myaing, a govern-ment spokesman for Rakh-ine state, strongly rejected the allegations against state security forces, saying Hu-man Rights Watch investi-gators “don’t understand the situation on the ground.”
He said there the govern-ment had no prior knowl-edge of impending attacks and deployed forces to stop the unrest.
— AP
Rights group: Myanmar unrest being called ‘ethnic cleansing’
BY TODD PITMANAssociated Press
Associated Press
A woman whose relatives were killed in Saturday’s earthquake cries while sitting on a pile of rubble in Lingguan township in Baoxing county of southwest China’s Sichuan province on Sunday. Saturday’s earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya’an city, along the same fault line where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China’s worst natural disasters.
TORONTO — Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, police said Monday. The case bolstered allegations by some governments and analysts of a relation-ship of convenience be-tween Shiite-led Iran and the predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network.
Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, had “direction and guidance” from al-Qaida members in Iran, though there was no reason to think the planned attacks were state-sponsored, Royal Canadian Mounted Po-lice Assistant Commis-sioner James Malizia said. Police said the men did not get fi nancial sup-port from al-Qaida, but declined to provide more details.
“This is the fi rst known al-Qaida planned attack that we’ve experienced in Canada,” Superintendent Doug Best told a news conference. Offi cials in Washington and To-ronto said it had no con-nections to last week’s bombings at the Boston
Marathon fi nish line.The arrests in Montreal
and Toronto raised ques-tions about Iran’s murky re-lationship with the terrorist network. Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran who is now a Brookings Institution se-nior fellow, said al-Qaida has had a clandestine pres-ence in Iran since at least 2001 and that neither the terror group nor Tehran speak openly about it.
“The Iranian regime kept some of these elements un-der house arrest,” he said in an email to The Associ-ated Press. “Some prob-ably operate covertly. AQ members often transit Iran traveling between hideouts in Pakistan and Iraq.”
U.S. intelligence offi cials have long tracked limited al-Qaida activity inside Iran. Remnants of al-Qa-ida’s so-called manage-ment council are still there, though they are usually kept under virtual house arrest by an Iranian regime suspicious of the Sunni-/Salafi -based militant move-ment. There are also a small number of fi nanciers and facilitators who help move money, and some-times weapons and people throughout the region from their base in Iran.
— AP
Canadian authorities suspect terror plot
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Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Deanna B. Ross, 61, of West Paducah, passed away at 9:02 a.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Lourdes hospital.
She was an accountant for CSI of Paducah and Lourdes hospital. Deanna
was a m e m -ber of T e m p l e B a p t i s t Church. She was a gradu-ate of H e a t h H i g h S c h o o l , Paducah
Community College, and Murray State University where she received her bachelor’s degree in ac-counting. Deanna was an animal advocate, she loved taking care of animals and fi nding loving homes for them. She was a member of an online cat rescue group.
Deanna is survived by her husband, Paul G. Ross of West Paducah; son, Bri-an Ross and wife Denise of Louisville; father and step-mother, Everett and Gladys
Bradford of Biloxi, Miss.; one brother, Roger Paul Bradford of West Paducah; grandchildren, Meg Ross and Ella Ross, both of Lou-isville; brother-in-laws, Joe Record and David Ross, both of West Paducah, and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Nor-ma G. Crenshaw Bradford.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April, 24, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Jerry Walker and the Rev. Keith Tilford offi ciating. Burial will fol-low in McKendree United Methodist Church Cem-etery.
Visitation will be 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to Temple Bap-tist Church Building Fund, 755 Berger Road, Paducah, KY 42003.
You may leave a mes-sage of sympathy and light a candle at www.milneran-dorr.com.
Deanna Ross
Kenneth Ray Adams, 57, of Lone Oak, went home to be with his Lord at 6:10 a.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013, from his residence.
Born in Fulton, Ken-tucky, Ken earned his B.S.
d e g r e e f r o m M u r -ray State Univer-sity. He was also a veteran of the U n i t e d S t a t e s A i r
Force, and had worked as a Sales Rep for Guy Gray Supply Company. A born-again believer, Ken was an active member of the Lone Oak First Baptist Church, where he was a member of the Sanctuary Choir.
Ken is survived by his wife, Lisa Black Adams; his daughter, Abigail Alloway and her husband Zach of Strasburg, Colorado; his son, Nathan Ray Adams of Lone Oak; his mother, Linda Sue Sams Adams of Lone Oak; two stepdaugh-ters, Katherine Allen of Grantsburg, Illinois, and Elizabeth Allen of Lone Oak. Ken is also survived by a stepson, Joseph Al-len of Lone Oak; his sister, Linda Kay Willis and her husband Tim of Mt. Carm-
el, Illinois, and his brother, Danny C. Adams and his wife Frankie of Lone Oak. Additional survivors in-clude one granddaughter, Breanna “Breazy” Alloway of Strasburg, Colorado; one nephew, Sean Willis, and two nieces, Brook Englert and Bethany Adams.
Ken was preceded in death by his father, Ken-neth Clay Adams.
A celebration of Ken’s life will take place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Lone Oak First Bap-tist Church with Dr. Mike Sams, Dr. Dan Summerlin, and the Rev. Mike Williams offi ciating. Burial with mil-itary honors will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Gar-dens.
Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to Lone Oak First Baptist Church Music Department; or the Mis-sions Fund, 3601 Lone Oak Road, Paducah, Ky. 42003.
Friends may visit with the family from 5 p.m. un-til 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah, 120 Memorial Drive, and from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Lone Oak First Baptist Church.
You may light a candle or leave a message of comfort at www.milnerandorr.com.
Kenneth Ray Adams
MARION — Mr. Ray-mond Carter Watson, 81, of Marion, passed away Monday, April 22, 2013, at Crittenden County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Marion. Mr. Watson was a member of Faith Apostolic Church in Princeton, the National Rifl e Association, the United Auto Workers, and served in the United States Army.
He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Helen (Williams) Watson; three children, Carla Wiggins and her husband Rick of Salem, Stan Watson and his wife Angie of Union City, Tenn., and Jeff Wat-son of Martin, Tenn.; one sister, Helen Watson and her husband Lynvil of Evansville, Ind., and Paul Watson and his wife Ear-lean of Atlanta, and three
grandchildren, Joshua and Victoria Wiggins and Lily Watson.
He was preceded in death by one brother, Truman Watson, and his parents, Roy and Vivian Sunderland Watson.
Funeral services will be Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at 1 p.m. at Boyd Funeral Directors in Sa-lem. Burial will follow in Tyners Chapel Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at Boyd Funeral Directors in Salem.
In lieu of fl owers, me-morial contributions may be made to: St. Jude Chil-dren’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
Condolences and me-morial contributions may also be left online at boyd-funeraldirectors.com.
Raymond Carter Watson
CALVERT CITY — Rev. Ronald Earl Schoo, 82, of Calvert City, passed away at 2:10 a.m., Friday, April 19, 2013, at his home.
Pastor Schoo was a current member of St. Matthew by the Lake Lu-theran Church in Benton. He served in the ministry
for 54 y e a r s , s e r v -ing the church-es of St. M a t -thew by the Lake Luther-an in Benton, St. An-
drew Lutheran in Poplar Bluff, Mo., St. Matthew Lutheran in Paducah, Redeemer Lutheran in Jasper, Ind., St. Paul Lu-theran in Batesville, Ind., and Smyrna Lutheran in Greensburg, Ind. He was a mission developer for Redeemer, St. Matthew by the Lake, and St. Andrew congregations. During his ministry, he was active in many community services including the Lions Club, Paducah Cooperative Ministry, Pastor Speaks, Habitat for Humanity, Board of Directors of Good Samaritan Society, Haven House for abused wom-en, and local ecumenical ministerial associations. He enjoyed involvement in LBL Outdoor Minis-try, and developed special needs Sunday school for the Paducah community. His love for music was ex-pressed through singing in the church choirs and
playing the xylophone. He was a graduate of Car-thage College in Carthage Ill., in 1955, a graduate of Hamma Divinity School of Wittenberg College in Springfi eld, Ohio, in 1959 and received his Master’s degree from Murray State University.
He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Debbie Schoo of Calvert City; his daughters, Luann Schoo of Paducah, Janis Schoo of Indianapolis, Ind., Catherine Cardwell and husband Rand of Mas-cot, Tenn., Cynthia Potter and husband Michael of Kevil, Beverly Schoo of In-dianapolis, Ind., and Lisa Lockwood and husband Kevin of Melber; his step-sons, Ken Lown and wife Debbie of Ada, Mich. and John Lown of Los Angeles; his brother, Dale Schoo of Bloomington, Ind.; 18 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
His parents Earl An-thony Schoo and Olive Bergetta Olson Schoo; and his sister, Nancy Costelow preceded him in death.
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, at St. Mat-thew by the Lake Lutheran Church in Benton with the Rev. Paul Meier offi ciat-ing. Filbeck-Cann & King Funeral Home and Cre-matory is handling all ar-rangements.
Memorial gifts may be given to: St. Matthew by the Lake Lutheran Church. Gifts may be designated to Alzheimer’s Association. Condolences may be sent online at www.fi lbeck-cannking.com
Ronald Earl Schoo
MILBURN — Carolyn Joyce (Pool) Johnson, 68, of Milburn died at Lourdes hospital at 1:26 a.m., Sun-day April 21, 2013. She was a member of Milburn Baptist Church, a former waitress at Red Lobster in Paducah, and a contrib-uting writer for Carlisle County News.
She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Jim-my Johnson of Milburn; her daughters, Kelly Marsh and husband Dan of St. Louis, Darla Johnson and fi ancée Matthew Talbert of St. Louis, and Karrie Gray and husband Thomas of Mayfi eld; her son, James Johnson and wife Lisa of St. Louis; her sister, Mar-gie McMackins of Cape Gi-rardeau, Mo.; her brothers, Curtis Pool of Belleville, Ill., Robert Pool of St. Louis, and Roger Pool of St. Louis; her 12 grandchildren, Eliz-abeth Bayer, Julie Duke, Victoria Zawodniak, Lau-ren Feazel, Daniel Zawod-niak, Karen Moore, Josh
Johnson, Maysen Johnson, Davis Dunn, Samual Dunn, Jazlyn Gray, and Percy Gray; and 5 great grand-children.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jew-ell B. and Beatrice (Payne) Pool; her brother, Kenneth Pool; and an infant brother and sister.
Services for Ms. Caro-lyn will be held at Milburn Baptist Church at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, with the Rev. Glen Stewart offi ciating.
Burial will follow at Mil-burn Cemetery. Friends may call at the church Wednesday after 11 a.m. till service time.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of do-nations to: Arthritis Foun-dation, Kentucky Chapter 2908 Brownsboro Road Suite 100 Louisville, KY 40206.
You may online to light a candle or leave a message of support at www.milne-randorr.com
Carolyn Joyce Johnson
HAMPTON — Law-rence Eugene Bryan, 62, of Hampton died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at his home.
Mr. Bryan was a member of Local 11 Roofers Union in Westchester, Ill.
He is survived by his wife, Vickie Bryan; three children, Anthony Vick of Hutchison, Kan., Krystal Broderick of Salem, and Ja-mie Bryan of Hampton; two sisters, Ruby Hernandez of Rockdale, Ill., and Mary Helen Hillock of Leesburg, Fla.; two brothers, Ronald Bryan of Lockport, Ill., and Samuel Bryan of Joliet, Ill., and six grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers. His par-ents were Samuel and Faye Bryan Slagel.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the Bryan home, 707 Ten-nessee St., Hampton.
Arrangements are being handled by Boyd Funeral Directors in Salem.
Lawrence Bryan
PRINCETON — Wilford Eugene Wyatt, 91, of Princ-eton died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Rivers Bend Retire-ment Center of Kuttawa.
Mr. Wyatt was a retired Baptist minister, a member of Princeton Second Baptist Church, and a World War II veteran. He is survived by his wife, Juanita Baker Wy-att; four sons, Amos Wyatt of Princeton, James Wy-att of Concord, N.C., David Wyatt of Portage, Ind., and Tommy Wyatt of Princeton; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one brother, Leslie Wyatt of Nashville, Tenn.; and several nieces and nephews.
His parents were Sherman Franklin and Bessie Sholar Wyatt.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Morgan’s Funeral Home in Princeton with the Revs. Ronnie Sivells and Harold Greenfi eld offi ciating. Buri-al will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery with military rites. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. today, April 23, 2013, at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to: Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301; or to Gideon’s International, c/o David Mitchell, 9275 Cadiz Road, Princeton, KY 42445.
Wilford Wyatt
MURRAY — Steve O. Chadwick, 66, of Murray died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.
Mr. Chadwick had worked at Tappan Manufac-turing, Murray Appliance and Ward-Elkins. He was a member of Sugar Creek Missionary Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Linda Willoughby Chad-wick; one son, Keith Chad-wick of Murray; one sister, Jane Garland of Kirksey; one brother, Sammy Chad-wick of Murray; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Edward Chadwick and Thelma Mor-ris Chadwick.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with the Revs. Brett Miles and Darrell Walker offi ciating.
Burial will be in Sugar Creek Baptist Church Cem-etery.
Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. today, April 23, 2013, at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy can be made to: St. Jude Tribute Program, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38101-9908; or to the Sugar Creek Baptist Church Love Offering Fund, 1888 Faxon Road, Murray, KY 42071.
Steve Chadwick
WINGO — Corinne Virginia Deweese, 77, of Wingo died at 1:37 a.m. Monday, April 22, 2013, at Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfi eld. Mrs. Deweese was a cook at the Keg Restaurant in Murray.
She is survived by three sons, Phillip and Michael C. Barclay, both of Wingo, and Robert G. Barclay of Milton, Fla.; two brothers, Thomas Ray Chaney of St. Louis and Jimmy Chaney of Dyersburg, Tenn.; one sister, Robbie Fisher of Murray; fi ve grandchil-dren; and eight grandchil-dren. She was preceded in death by her fi rst husband, Bill Barclay; her second husband, Hilrey Deweese; and one brother. Her par-ents were Cruse and Rob-bie Mayse Chaney.
A memorial visitation will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2013, at Brown Funeral Home in Wingo.
Corinne Deweese
Elmer “Flood” J. Jack-son Jr., 61, of Paducah died at 6:57 p.m. Friday, April 19, 2013, at Baptist Health
Paducah.M r .
Jackson was for-m e r l y employed by the U n i t e d S t a t e s E n r i c h -m e n t Corpora-tion as a
welder and was a self-em-ployed computer program-mer. He attended St. James Christian Methodist Episco-pal Church.
He is survived by two daughters, Yolanda Rene Bolen and Chandra Dee Starks, both of Paducah; one son, Jamario Bolen of Paducah; one sister, Kath-leen Jackson of Paducah; fi ve grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Elmer J. Jackson Sr. and Catherine Bolen Jackson.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2013, at Nehemiah Christian Minis-tries with the Revs. Charles E. Dunbar and James Topp Jr. offi ciating. Burial will fol-low in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Pettus-Rowland Fu-neral Home.
Elmer JacksonHARDIN — Zakari S. Win-
chester, 20, of Hardin died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at his home. Mr. Winchester was self-employed and a member of Grace Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Ashley Duncan Winchester of Hardin; a son, Brantley Clay Winchester of Hardin;
his father, Paul Win-c h e s t e r and wife K i m -berly of Murray; a sister, Harleigh Merrell of Murray; a stepsis-ter, Kel-
lie Chapman of Murray; a brother, Dalton Winchester of Murray; a stepbrother, Timothy Chapman of Mur-ray; his grandparents, Margie Emerson and husband David of Murray, Patricia Butler of Nashville, Tenn., and Ronnie and Patti Kimbro of Murray; and his stepgrandparents, Hank and Jeanie Whitesell of New Concord.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with the Rev. Sammy Cunningham offi ciating. Burial will be in Spring Creek Baptist Church cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-9 p.m. today, April 23, 2013, at the funeral home.
Zakari Winchester
Wanda Woll, 83, of Paducah died at 3:39 p.m. Sunday, April, 21, 2013, at her home.
She was a member of First Baptist Church in Belle Plaine, Kan., and a vocalist.
She is survived by a daugh-ter, Kim Sales of Paducah; a son, David C. Woll of Lincoln, Neb.; fi ve grand-children; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, J. Charles Woll; and a son, Jim Woll. Her parents were J.E. Hatcher and Marie Hamil-ton Hatcher.
Services will be at Hat-fi eld Smith Funeral Home in Belle Plaine, Kansas. Mil-ner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah is in charge of local arrangements.
Wanda WollHazel Mae Brinkley, 90, of
Ledbetter died at 11:54 a.m. Friday, April 19, 2013, at her home.
Mrs. Brinkley was home-maker and of the Church of Christ faith. She is survived by a daughter, Betty Rickey of Ledbetter.
She was preceded in death by her fi rst husband, Arthur Shoemaker; her second hus-band, Clyde Brinkley; her daughter, Hazel Witt; and three brothers. Her parents were Wallace and Nanny Blunkall.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Hughes Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Frank Queen offi ciating.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of dona-tions to McCracken County Humane Society Inc., 4000 Coleman Road, Paducah, KY 42001.
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paducahsun.com Obituaries/World The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, April 23, 2013 • 11A
BUENOS AIRES, Ar-gentina — She uses a wheelchair and carries the weight of her 87 years, but Clelia Luro feels powerful enough to make the Ro-man Catholic Church pay attention to her campaign to end priestly celibacy.
This woman, whose ro-mance with a bishop and eventual marriage be-came a major scandal in the 1960s, is such a close friend with Pope Francis that he called her every Sunday when he was Ar-gentina’s leading cardinal.
Luro’s convinced that he will eventually lead the global church to end man-datory priestly celibacy, a requirement she says “the world no longer un-derstands.” She believes this could resolve a global shortage of priests, and persuade many Catholics who are no longer prac-ticing to recommit them-selves to the church.
“I think that in time priestly celibacy will be-come optional,” Luro said in an interview with The Associated Press in her home in Buenos Aires, after sending an open let-ter to the pope stating her case. “I’m sure that Fran-cis will suggest it.”
John Paul II, Benedict XVI and other popes be-fore them forbade any open discussion of chang-ing the celibacy rule, and Francis hasn’t mentioned the topic since becoming pope last month.
But as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he re-ferred to the issue of celi-
bacy in ways that have in-spired advocates to think that the time for a change has come.
In his book “On Heaven and Earth,” published last year, Bergoglio said: “For the moment I’m in favor of maintaining celibacy, with its pros and cons, because there have been 10 centu-ries of good experiences rather than failures.” But he also noted that “it’s a question of discipline, not of faith. It could change,” and said the Eastern Rite Catholic church, which makes celibacy optional, has good priests as well.
Luro and her husband, the former bishop of Avel-laneda, Jeronimo Podesta, felt ostracized from the
church for many years, but she says Bergoglio didn’t hesitate to minis-ter to them when Podesta was hospitalized before his death in 2000. They became such good friends thereafter that Luro said Bergoglio called her every Sunday for 12 years, and often discussed the celi-bacy issue as they debated all sorts of hot topics in private conversations.
Luro now feels that the cardinals’ election of a Jesu-it and Vatican outsider who is committed to expanding the global church and reaf-fi rming its commitment to the poor shows their will-ingness to undertake pro-found changes to stem an exodus of the faithful.
Ex-bishop’s widow wants optional priestly celibacy
BY DEBORA REYAND MICHAEL WARREN
Associated Press
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Rosa FulcherLA CENTER — Virginia
Irene Terry High, 94, of La Center died at 7:25 p.m. Fri-day, April 19, 2013, at Life Care Center of La Center.
Mrs. High was a gradu-ate of Draughon’s Business School. She was a member of First Baptist Church of La Center, where she was a Sunday School teacher.
She is survived by a son, Fred High of Benton; a granddaughter; a great-granddaughter; two sisters, Jean Barnett of Union City, Tenn., and Polly Stanton of Riverton, Ill., and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Mar-vin Alfred High; a daughter, Rose Anita Powers; four brothers; and two sisters. Her parents were Arthur and Jennie Gorham Terry.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Morrow Funeral Chapel in La Center with the Rev. Mark E. Sickling offi ciating. Burial will be in La Center Cemetery. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
In lieu of fl owers, the family requests donations in her memory to: Meals on Wheels, P.O. Box 508, Bar-low, KY 42024.
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Joyce Riley
MURRAY — Michael Sanderson, 45, of Lexing-ton, formerly of Murray, died in Lexington.
He is survived by his mother, Gloria Sander-son; his stepfather, Jackie Hale; two sons, Tyler Bo-hannon and Trevor Sand-erson; a brother, William “Billy” Sanderson; a sis-ter, Jennifer Sanderson; a stepsister, Ginny Tabers; a granddaughter; and several nieces and nephews.
Private family services will be held later.
J.H. Churchill Funeral Home is in charge of ar-rangements.
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Charles Jones
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SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. — Rosa Fulcher, 91, of the Ruthville community died Saturday, April 20, 2013, at Haws Memorial Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Fulton, Ky.
Mrs. Fulcher retired from Stewart-Warner Compa-ny in Chicago, where she worked as a calibrator. She was a member of Ruthville Baptist Church.
She is survived by a son, Lowell T. Fulcher of Latham; a daughter, Donna M. Harvey of Gridley, Ill.; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and two sisters, Amiee Haygood of Jackson and Ruthie Prince of Chicago.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Fulcher; a sister; and fi ve brothers. Her parents were Thomas and Ida Duke Doughty.
Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Hornbeak Funeral Chapel in Fulton, Ky. Burial will fol-low at Palestine Cemetery. Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. today, April 23, 2013, and after 8 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
MURRAY — Joyce Ann Thompson Riley, 72, of Murray died at 4:12 a.m. Monday, April 22, 2013, at Lourdes hospital in Paducah.
Arrangements were in-complete at Collier Funeral Home in Benton.
CALVERT CITY — Charles M. “C.M.” Jones, 91, of Cal-vert City died at 9:49 p.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Southgate Health Care Cen-ter of Metropolis, Ill.
Mr. Jones was a retired as-sembly line worker at Cater-pillar Inc. of Peoria, Ill., and was a member of First Bap-tist Church of Calvert City.
He is survived by one brother, James T. “Jim” Jones of Lone Oak; one sis-ter, Sally Standard of Mat-toon, Ill.; and several nieces and nephews. His parents were Marvin Jones and Lizzie Mae Oaks Jones.
Services will be at 1 p.m. today, April 23, 2013, at Hughes Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Jim Ewing offi ciating. Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery in Carbondale, Ill.
Friends may call after 11 a.m. today, April 23, 2013, at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of dona-tions to First Baptist Church of Calvert City, 34 Ash St., Calvert City, KY 42029.
MAYFIELD — Jackie Da-vis “Jack” Jones, 81, of Mayfi eld died at 4:13 p.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfi eld.
He was a retired insur-ance salesman and was of the Baptist faith.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Jones; three sons, Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla., and Gary Jones and Kevin Jones, both of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; three step-daughters, Sherry Osteen of Clinton, Kathy Marine of Sonoma, Calif., and She-lia Smith of Mayfi eld; two stepsons, Robert Adams of Knoxville, Tenn., and Den-nis Adams of Mayfi eld; 20 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Jonathon Jackson Jones and Flor-ence Jones.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Mayfi eld Memory Gardens with the Rev. Terry Jones offi ciat-ing.
Friends may call after 10 a.m. Wednesday at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfi eld.
MURRAY — Corrine D. Foster, 79, of Murray died Saturday, April 20, 2013, at Paducah Care Center in Paducah.
She was a retired elemen-tary school teacher at Pur-year (Tenn.) Elementary and was the owner and op-erator of Nicole’s Beauty Shop in Hazel. She was a member of Union Grove Baptist Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Sheila A. Scott of Murray; one son, Gary Pete Foster of Murray; one sister, Irene McCoy of Nashville, Tenn.; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by numerous broth-ers and sisters. Her parents were Nathaniel “Tump” Dunlap and Mamie Frazier Dunlap.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2013, at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at the funeral home.
Associated Press
Clelia Luro sits in her home in Buenos Aires, Argen-tina, on April 12. Luro’s romance with the former bishop of Avellaneda, Jeronimo Podesta, and eventual marriage became a major scandal in the 1960s. Luro and Podesta felt ostracized from the Church for many years, but she says Pope Francis, then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, didn’t hesitate to minister to them when Podesta was hospitalized before his death in 2000.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Police in Nicaragua have detained a former U.S. school teacher who was on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child pornography inves-tigation, authorities con-fi rmed Monday.
Eric Justin Toth was de-tained Saturday in Esteli, a city near Nicaragua’s bor-der with Honduras, and will be immediately de-ported to the United States, said National Police chief Aminta Granera.
“Toth will be deported immediately because he was in our country illegal-ly,” Granera said at a news conference in Managua, the capital.
She said Toth entered Ni-caragua with a false pass-port and also had a fake driver’s license and credit cards.
Toth was being handed over to FBI agents present at the news conference and they planned to take him to the U.S. in a special plane, Granera said.
A thin and nervous-look-ing Toth dressed in cream-colored shirt and pants was
briefl y presented to jour-nalists and photographers who took his picture, but he wasn’t allowed to talk and was quickly taken away.
Granera said Toth fi rst entered Nicaragua on Oct. 24, 2012, and left on Jan. 27. He returned on Feb. 12 and that’s when Nicara-guan police began keeping a close watch, she said.
“He was captured in a house in the Panama So-berana neighborhood in Esteli, even though he re-sisted,” Granera said.
Toth taught third grade at Beauvoir, a private el-ementary school on the grounds of the Washing-
ton National Cathedral. He was escorted off campus in June 2008 after another teacher reported fi nding sexually explicit photo-graphs on a school camera in Toth’s possession. He had not been seen since he lost his job.
In a statement, the school commended the work of U.S. authorities.
Toth was added to the FBI’s most-wanted list in April 2012 for allegedly possessing and producing child pornography, giving him notoriety normally re-served for people sought in connection with violent crimes or terrorism.
Nicaragua nabs US child porn suspect BY LUIS MANUEL
GALEANOAssociated Press
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tioned that they were still trying to verify what they were told by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and were looking at such things as his tele-phone and online commu-nications and his associa-tions with others.
The criminal complaint containing the charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shed no light on the motive.
But it gave a detailed se-quence of events and cited surveillance-camera im-ages of him dropping off a knapsack with one of the bombs and using a cell-phone, perhaps to coordi-nate or detonate the blasts.
The Massachusetts col-lege student was listed in serious but stable condi-tion at Beth Israel Deacon-ess Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries. His 26-year-old brother died last week in a fi erce gunbattle with police.
“Although our investi-gation is ongoing, today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston and for our country,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a state-ment.
The charges carry the death penalty or up to life in prison.
“He has what’s coming to him,” a wounded Kaitlynn Cates said from her hospi-tal room. She was at the fi n-ish line when the fi rst blast knocked her off her feet, and she suffered an injury to her lower leg.
In outlining the evidence against him in court pa-pers, the FBI said Tsarnaev was seen on surveillance cameras putting a knap-sack down on the ground near the site of the second blast and then manipulat-ing a cellphone and lifting it to his ear.
Seconds later, the fi rst explosion went off about a block down the street and spread fear and confusion through the crowd. But Tsarnaev — unlike nearly everyone around him — looked calm and quickly walked away, the FBI said.
Just 10 seconds or so later, the second blast oc-curred where he had left the knapsack, the FBI said.
The FBI did not make it clear whether authori-ties believe he used his cellphone to detonate one or both of the bombs or whether he was talking to
someone.The court papers also said
that during the long night of crime Thursday and Friday that led to the older broth-er’s death and the younger one’s capture, one of the Tsarnaev brothers told a carjacking victim: “Did you hear about the Boston ex-plosion? I did that.”
In addition to the federal charges, the younger Tsar-naev brother is also likely to face state charges in con-nection with the shooting death of an MIT police of-fi cer.
The Obama administra-tion said it had no choice but to prosecute Tsarnaev in the federal court system. Some politicians had sug-gested he be tried as an en-emy combatant in front of a military tribunal, where de-fendants are denied some of the usual U.S. constitu-tional protections.
Associated Press
People pause for a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Monday near the Statehouse in Boston, exactly one week after the first bomb went off at the finish area of the Bos-ton Marathon.
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WASHINGTON — The White House says the surviv-ing suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will not be tried as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be prosecuted in the federal court system.
He says President Barack Obama’s entire national se-curity team supports the decision.
Tsarnaev is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Carney says that under U.S. law U.S. citizens cannot be tried in military commissions. Carney says that since Sept. 11, 2001, the federal court system has been used to convict and incar-cerate hundreds of terrorists.
Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother and suspected co-conspirator, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were born in southern Russia.
— Associated Press
White House: Tsarnaevto be tried in federal court
BEIRUT — After watch-ing much of Syria’s terri-tory slip into rebel hands, President Bashar Assad’s regime is focusing on the basics: shoring up its hold on Damascus and the strip of land connecting the capital with the Mediter-ranean coast.
Government troops have overrun villages near the
Lebanese border and sub-urbs of Damascus, includ-ing two districts west of the capital where activists say regime forces killed more than 100 people. The ad-vances have improved the regime’s footing in strate-gic areas that are seen as crucial to its survival.
In many ways, Assad’s government has little choice at this point in
the civil war, analysts say. Rebels have cap-tured much of northern and eastern Syria, seizing control of military bases, hydroelectric dams, bor-der crossings and even a provincial capital. Those areas are home to most of the country’s oil fi elds, and the losses have deprived the regime of cash and fuel for its war machine.
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