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With the snip of bright yellow caution tape and a fl urry of ex-citement Tuesday, offi cials cel-ebrated the trifecta of services offered inside a roughly $4.2 mil-lion government investment on Adams Street in Paducah.

Ground broke about a year and a half ago on the state-of-the-art

McCracken County Detention Center annex in a once high-crime area known as The Set be-tween South Sixth and Seventh Streets. On Tuesday, Paducah and McCracken County offi cials joined jail and sheriff’s deputies in celebrating the ribbon cutting, which consisted of caution tape draped over the three county ve-hicles represented inside the new

building.Jailer Bill Adams said the proj-

ect evolved from a conversation with Mayor Bill Paxton roughly two years ago about buying a piece of corner property behind the jail. It quickly turned into a plan between the city and county to obtain the land and construct a

County officials celebrate jail annex openingBY MALLORY PANUSKAmpanuska@paducahsun.com

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

McCracken County Jailer Bill Adams (left) leads Keith Oakley on a tour through the living quarters of the new McCracken County Detention Center annex Tuesday after a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Adams said they will be moving class D felons into the facility today.

“It’s not our goal to lock more up. It’s our goal to educate them and get them back to society.”

Bill AdamsMcCracken County jailer

Please see JAIL | 8A

A Kentucky State Penitentiary employee will be arraigned Sept. 17 on a charge of having a sexual relationship with an inmate.

Lori S. Holsapple, 41, was ar-rested Friday following a two-

month investigation by Kentucky State Police Trooper Chris An-derson.

Holsapple, of Kuttawa, was employed at the prison as an educator. Holsapple was charged with third-degree rape due to her

employment with the prison.“She was having a sexual rela-

tionship with one of the inmates,” said Trooper Jay Thomas, public affairs offi cer for Post 1. “It was a consensual relationship, but because she was an employee,

she received the charge of third-degree rape.”

The all-male maximum-securi-ty prison is in Eddyville.

The prison has multiple adult and vocational education pro-grams.

Thomas declined to offer infor-mation on the inmate.

Thomas said the investiga-tion remains open, but no other charges are expected.

Holsapple faces arraignment in Lyon Circuit Court.

Prison educator faces rape chargeStaff report

A Carlisle County man con-victed in 2009 of murdering his neighbor faces re-trial in Decem-ber.

Commonwealth Attorney Mike Stacy said Kenneth Jones is set to stand trial Dec. 3-5 following the judge’s denial on Monday of a change of venue request that Jones’ attorneys — Jeremy Ian Smith and Kevin Olsen — had fi led. Stacy said that if a jury can-not be seated in once the trial kicks off in Bardwell, the location may still be subject to change un-der the ruling.

Jones is accused of shooting Perry Warren fi ve times in his driveway in March of 2008. A Carlisle County jury convicted Jones of murder in February of 2009. Jurors also found Jones mentally ill and recommended a 25-year sentence, which Judge Tim Langford imposed. Less than two years into his sentence last September, the Kentucky Supreme Court reversed the con-viction after reviewing an appeal involving jury instructions, and a new trial was ordered.

Stacy said that because the jury instructions prompted the re-tri-al, the same evidence can be pre-sented in the second trial.

Carlisle murder re-trial gets date

BY MALLORY PANUSKAmpanuska@paducahsun.com

Please see JONES | 8A

Following a brief standoff with authorities in down-town Paducah, a wild sus-pect was taken into custody after hiding from law en-forcement beneath a parked car Tuesday.

But to say the encounter was anything along the lines of routine would simply be wishful thinking.

Driving down Kentucky Avenue shortly before 11 a.m., Paducah police Sgt. Steve Smith was on patrol near the McCracken County Public Li-brary when he caught a fl ash of the small, slinky subject as it bolted across the road and into the library’s parking lot.

The fi rst thought that jumped into Smith’s mind: “Wow, a river otter.”

Sure enough, as other law enforcement arrived to help locate the creature — for fear the wild animal might run across unsuspecting people and lash out — offi cers cor-nered the otter beneath a truck and called for backup.

“Crossing the path of a wild animal can be danger-ous,” Smith said. “It would do everything it could to pro-tect itself.”

Sgt. Garry Clark, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources public affairs offi cer, and

Police: ‘He otter known better’

BY WILL PINKSTONwpinkston@paducahsun.com

WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

Jake Stafford, McCracken County Animal Control warden, releases a river otter Tuesday at the boat ramp to Clark’s River underneath the Clark’s River Road bridge. Police cornered the otter underneath a parked car at the McCracken County Public Library, for fear it might bite passers-by if confronted.Please see OTTER | 8A

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4. Tilghman takes on Lone Oak in boys high school soccer action. 1B

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The LineupWednesday

Lone Oak Kiwanis, 7 a.m., Lone Oak Little Castle. 217-0402.

Disabled American Veterans, Miles Meredith Chapter 7 of Paducah, weekly Commander Cof-fee Call, 9 a.m. to noon.

Thursday

Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, 442-8993. Learn to detect potential er-rors, fraud and abuse. Report errors or suspected fraud to SMP.

Paducah Toastmasters, noon, The Pasta House Co. Call Joe Shall-better at 506-1791 or Clay Camp-bell at 703-2700.

Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch, noon , Elks Club, 310 N. Fourth St. 441-0825.

Wine tasting to benefit St. Nicholas Family Clinic, 5 p.m., Pasta House Co., 451 Jordan Drive. Guest bartender: Bob Hoppmann & Friends.

Kiwanis Club of South Paducah, dinner meeting, 7 p.m. , 1640 S. Sixth St. Cathy Brown, 488-3363.

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■ McCracken County Planning Commission — 1:30 p.m., court-house.

■ Paducah Area Transit System Board — 3 p.m., PATS office, 850 Harrison St.

Feb. 7Marvin J. Clark, 47, 302 East

Ironback Rd., Charleston, Mo., theft by unlawful taking; stay out of Wal-Mart, serve 14 days, 116 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $710 in fi nes.

Jennifer L. Knowlton, 31, 3155 Old Husband Rd., Paducah, theft by deception, cold checks; 10 days conditional discharge for 2 years.

Michael W. Stewart Jr., 26, 6052 Shar-Cal Rd., Calvert City, theft by unlawful taking, shoplifting; stay out of Wal-Mart, serve 2 days, 43 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $410 in fi nes.

Delvon R. Clemons, 22, 2439 Trimble St., Paducah, disorderly conduct; serve 4 days, 16 days

conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $360 in fi nes.

Kurtis L. Bell, 2151 Homewood Ave., Paducah, operating a mo-tor vehicle under the infl uence of drugs or alcohol; 24 days condi-tional discharge for 2 years. Pay $834 in fi nes.

Kristen M. Floyd, 18, 119 Herzog Lane, Paducah, operating a motor vehicle under the infl uence, under 21 years of age; 60-day license suspen-sion. Possession of drug parapherna-lia, 5 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $544 in fi nes.

Cheryl A. Speed, 32, 46 Treeland Drive, Mayfi eld, operating a mo-tor vehicle under the infl uence of drugs or alcohol, second offense; serve 30 days, 150 days condi-

tional discharge for 2 years.Audrey M. Shoemaker, 21, 3901

Lovelaceville Rd., Paducah, oper-ating a motor vehicle under the infl uence, under 21 years of age; 7 days conditional discharge for 2 years, 30-day license suspension. Pay $784 in fi nes.

Feb. 9Charles Green, 22, unknown ad-

dress, second-degree wanton en-dangerment; serve 9 days, 36 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Possession of marijuana, 10 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Buying or possessing drug parapher-nalia, 10 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $560 in fi nes.

Tabitha M. Mills, 27, 608 S. 12th

St., Apt. 4, Mayfi eld, theft by unlaw-ful taking, shoplifting; stay out of TJ Maxx, serve 20 days, 25 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $285 in fi nes.

Jennifer L. Boyd, 29, 1409 Kaler Mill Rd., Symsonia, theft by unlawful taking, shoplifting; stay out of Wal-Mart, 30 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $385 in fi nes.

Maritom Marshall, 31, 10845 Old Hinkleville Rd., Kevil, theft by unlawful taking, cold checks; 5 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $435 in fi nes.

Vincent M. Schaeffer, 23, 335 N. 13th St., Mayfi eld,  theft by unlawful taking, shoplifting; stay out of Spen-cers, 30 days conditional discharge for 2 years. Pay $360 in fi nes.

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Tyson Lents catches air while skating Tuesday afternoon at the Paducah Skatepark. Lents comes from Benton almost every week to use the park, and has been skating about nine years.

Shredding at the skate parkALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

Every year, instructors at the Paducah School of Art take the time to put theory into prac-tice. On Thursday, the public is invited to see the fruits of that labor at PSA’s annual faculty show, which features art from nine instructors.

“It’s incumbent on us per-sonally to represent the work of our faculty, so our students can have a better idea of who they’re dealing with artisti-cally,” said Paul Aho, instructor and dean of the art school.

In addition to showcasing creativity, Aho said the exhibi-tion will demonstrate the fl ex-ibility of the faculty. Although Aho himself is teaching a course in digital photography this se-mester, his fi ve-piece contri-bution to the show will include paintings, he said.

Other instructors, too, will show their talents in a variety of media, including sculpture, charcoal drawing and fi ber arts. “Each of our faculty members will bring their representative skills to the practice, and many of them participate in more than one practice, as well,” Aho said.

Linda Ogden, sculpture in-structor, said the show gives

students a goal.“I’ve always enjoyed seeing

my instructors’ work, and I’ve learned a lot just by seeing (it).”

Instructor Randy Simmons said: “If any student wants to see the quality of work that can come out of any kind of art pro-

gram, they need to look at the faculty’s work.”

Faculty members said the an-nual exhibition draws many vis-itors from outside the Paducah School of Art.

“I think it’s not only a benefi t to the school, but it’s a benefi t to the community to ... show our skills as artists and instruc-tors,” Ogden said.

Instructors who most often show their work nationally ap-preciate the chance to show work to the local public. “Most of my shows are out of town. I tend to show across the U.S., so it’s a good opportunity for me to show in my hometown,” Simmons said.

Other faculty members fea-tured in the exhibition include Todd Birdsong, John Hasega-wa, BiLan Liao, Lily Liu, Kevin Myers and Anita Rodriguez-Fitch. The free opening recep-tion will be held in the Clemens Gallery at the Clemens Fine Art Center at the West Kentucky Community & Technical Col-lege at 5 p.m. Thursday. Gal-lery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.

Call Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641.

Faculty exhibition shows creativityBY LAUREL BLACKlblack@paducahsun.com

Photo contributed

Paul Aho’s “Everything Else,” an acrylic painting on wood, will be on display at the Paducah School of Art’s annual faculty ex-hibition. The show features art from full- and part-time faculty members who work in a variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, and photography. 

paducahsun.com Local/Region The Paducah Sun • Wednesday, August 22, 2012 • 3A

FRANKFORT — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell continued his assault on federal health care reforms Tuesday, promising again to push to repeal them if he becomes majority leader next year.

McConnell and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul made a joint ap-pearance at a boisterous tea party rally that drew some 400 people to the state Capitol in Frankfort.

“We can’t let this stand, and if I’m setting the agen-da next January instead of Harry Reid, the repeal of Obamacare will be Job 1,” McConnell said, drawing cheers from Kentucky’s tea party faithful.

The rally was signifi -cant in that Paul stood be-fore tea party groups from across Kentucky to herald McConnell as the GOP’s champion against the Af-fordable Care Act, describ-ing him as the most vocal opponent of the reforms in the Senate. McConnell received applause through-out his speech from a group that he hopes will support him for re-election in 2014.

McConnell drew loud cheers when he began his speech by praising Paul as “bright, capable, effective, an extraordinary new sena-tor from Kentucky and my teammate.”

McConnell and Paul have been staunch critics of the federal health care reforms that they refer to as “Obamacare.” Paul had been sharply criticized for saying the reforms were unconstitutional even af-ter the U.S. Supreme Court upheld them in June.

“Even my wife said to

me, ‘please can’t you count to 10 before you respond,’” Paul said. “But you know what, I’ve had time to count to 10 and I still think the whole damn thing is unconstitutional.”

Paul referred to the health care reforms as “a house of cards” that takes money from Medicare to give to “Obamacare.” Mc-Connell repeated his often

used phrase that the Af-fordable Care Act “is the single worst piece of legis-lation that’s been passed in America in modern times.”

The law will require nearly all Americans to purchase insurance begin-ning in 2014, a so-called individual mandate that Republicans lament. The law’s constitutionality was upheld in a 5-4 Supreme

Court opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts.

McConnell also reiter-ated his displeasure with the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday.

“The Supreme Court hav-ing let us down, there’s one last chance. It’s called the ballot box. And this Novem-ber, we need to make Barack Obama a one-term president and change the government.”

McConnell, Paul share spotlight at rallyBY ROGER ALFORD

Associated Press

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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a tea party movement rally on the steps of the Capi-tol Tuesday in Frankfort, above. Senate Repub-lican Leader Mitch Mc-Connell also spoke at the rally, promising to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care reform if Re-publicans take control of the Senate in November.

Rally attendees express differing opinions during the rally, left.

Kim Knopf knows a thing or two about the potential of young pro-fessionals.

In her early 20s, and only one year removed from her college days at the University of Ken-tucky, Knopf scrapped together seed money and set out to build a bedding shop business from the ground up.

After opening the fi rst Mattress Warehouse store in 1983 in South Charleston, W.Va., Knopf’s company — In-novative Mattress Solu-tions — boasts 90 stores in four states operating as Mattress Warehouse and Sleep Outfi tters. As CEO, Knopf still handles every facet of her busi-ness, including the deci-sion to put Paducah in the company’s footprint.

So it is fi tting that Knopf will address the crowd Thursday at the Young Leaders of West-ern Kentucky luncheon at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center.

“I’m an avid supporter of up-and-coming lead-ers,” Knopf said by phone Tuesday. “In a business, young professionals are the future, and planning for that succession track and leadership replace-ment is critical.”

The luncheon set for

noon Thursday in the Car-son Center’s Myre River Room is the culmination of the Four Rivers Business Journal’s Young Leaders program that highlights local professionals under 40 who succeed at work and in the community. Sleep Outfi tters sponsored the program.

For the second year, the Journal called readers to nominate their peers and 10 were chosen as fi nal-ists. A Young Leader of the Year will be honored Thursday, and will receive a $1,000 scholarship to be used toward profes-sional development.

The Paducah Police De-partment’s Assistant Chief Brandon Barnhill took home Young Leader of the Year honors last year.

Everyone is invited to the luncheon. Tickets are $12 each or $80 for a table of eight. To pur-chase tickets or for more information call Kendra Mitchell at 270-575-8625 or email kmitchell@pa-ducahsun.com.

To read profi les of this year’s Young Leaders fi -nalists, visit fourrivers-business.com or pick up an August issue of the Four Rivers Business Journal.

Call Adam Shull, Sun business editor, at 270-575-8653 or follow @adamshull on Twitter.

Young Leaders luncheon set for Thursday

BY ADAM SHULLashull@paducahsun.com

NRC to discuss Honeywell plant

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sched-uled a conference with officials from Honeywell’s Metropolis, Ill., works in Atlanta.

The purpose is to dis-cuss apparent violations associated with Honey-well’s alleged failure to identify the kinds of ac-cidents that significant earthquakes or tornadoes might cause including the potential release of large amounts of uranium hexa-fluoride, reported Roger Hannah, NRC public affairs officer, in a news release.

Officials also plan to discuss licensing issues associated with modifica-tions the company plans to make to that facility.

No decision on enforce-ment actions will be made at the conference, but the meeting will serve as a review of the information presented by the plant. A decision on appropri-ate regulatory action will take place later, Hannah reported.

The conference is scheduled for Monday at the NRC Region II office in Atlanta.

— Staff report

Gourd race workshop scheduled in Mayfield

Ronn Moyers will con-duct a workshop to con-struct the cars for the an-nual Gourd-mobile Derby at the Ice House Arts Center, 120 N. Eighth St. in Mayfield. Participants will build a racecar using gourds and gourd pieces. The workshop will be 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The class fee is $10 for children and grandchil-dren of Mayfield Art Guild members, and $15 for non-

members. Call the Mayfield-Graves County Art Guild at 270-247-6971 for more information and to reserve a space at a workshop.

The Gourd Patch Fes-tival, sponsored with the city of Mayfield, the Mayfield Tourism Commis-sion, and the Mayfield-Graves County Art Guild, promotes interest in and appreciation of gourds in western Kentucky. The celebration will include workshops, a national gourd art exhibition, gourd vendors, gourd crafters, outdoor entertainment, concessions and other activities, including the Gourd-mobile Derby.

— Staff report

Local cancer society fundraisers announced

The American Cancer Society announced two fundraising opportunities in western Kentucky to help collect donations in support of local cancer services and support pro-grams.

On Thursday, Calloway County’s celebrities are coming together to help support the county’s Relay For Life team with a celeb-rity waiter event at Murray State University’s Curris Center, which includes Racer basketball stars Isa-iah Canaan and Ed Daniel.

The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a dinner and si-lent auction.

On Aug. 30, the Society will hold the Taste of Hope wine tasting and dinner at Purple Toad Winery, start-ing at 6:30 p.m. The event will feature dinner from Outback Steakhouse, music by The Lane Davis Band from 7-10 p.m., and an open bar. To purchase tickets to the event, con-tact the Paducah office at 270-444-0384.

— Staff report

Quilt museum plans Kidz Day in the Arts

The National Quilt Mu-seum will celebrate its seventh annual “Kidz Day

in the Arts” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Saturday is also “Com-munity Day,” the one day of the year everyone is admitted free. Many ac-tivities reflect this year’s theme, “The Spirit of the Olympics.” There will be a variety of free indoor and outdoor activities, includ-ing inflatable lawn games. Retta Folsom and her pup-pets from the McCracken County Public Library will hold a storytelling session from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Paducah Fire De-partment will bring a fire-truck and its fire safety trailer. The trailer simu-lates the conditions in a smoke-filled house to edu-cate children on how to safely evacuate a house.

Paducah police will also provide educational items for children, with appear-ances by a K-9 team and one of the Paducah Bomb Squad’s robots.

For a schedule of activi-ties, visit www.QuiltMuse-um.org/Kidz.

— Staff report

Greenway Trail to close Thursday

Greenway Trail from No-ble Park to Stuart Nelson Park will close from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday for the Heath Cross Coun-

try Invitational.Stuart Nelson Park’s

softball fields and disc golf course also will close for the safety of runners. The dog park and Noble Park will remain open, although runners may be present.

Disc golf courses will be open at Midtown Golf Course on South 12th Street behind the former Walter Jetton Junior High. Midtown Golf Course is a nine-hole traditional golf course in addition to a nine-hole disc golf course.

— Staff report

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Mitt Romney is rich.What, you already knew that?

Of course you did. Democratic operatives make a point of bringing it up in every TV inter-view, campaign stop and press conference ad nauseam. They must suspect there’s still some-one out there somewhere who hasn’t heard.

Of course, by “rich,” they mean “out of touch.” You see, the Romneys just can’t relate to the everyday problems the rest of us suffer — after all, they’re worth a quarter of a billion dollars. Or nearly that. Forbes magazine calculated the Rom-neys’ net worth at $230 million.

That doesn’t make Mitt Romney the richest politician in America. Not by a long shot. He’s a pauper compared to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is worth about 100 times as much, $22 billion, according to Forbes, and ranks 20th in the list of richest Ameri-cans in 2012. Neither party can exploit that fact. Bloomberg is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but he’s been both. Now he’s an independent, as was two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot, who hap-pens to be 10 times as rich as Romney.

Still, Romney’s a whole lot richer than most Americans, and the Obama campaign wants to make sure you know it. But what isn’t clear is why Democrats suddenly think a candidate’s wealth is an issue when it hasn’t been in previous elections. The answer is simple: most leading Democratic candi-dates — going back to FDR and JFK — have also been fabulous-ly wealthy.

N ot Obama. Forbes estimated Barack and Michelle Obama’s net

worth at a mere $9 million —a lot higher than most Americans though far below the Romneys.

But other Democratic can-didates for president in recent years have been in the same league as Romney. Bill and Hillary Clinton are worth $85 million. Al Gore is worth $100 million. And John Kerry, who is married to billionaire Teresa Heinz, has a personal net worth of $240 million, according to The Wealth Report in the Wall

Street Journal.Where were all the disparag-

ing comments about the rich when wealthy Democrats were running for president?

T he news media often act as extensions of the cam-paign in making an issue

of the Romneys’ wealth. The coverage of the fashion choices of the two candidates’ wives is illustrative. When Ann Romney did a TV interview wearing a blouse that cost $990, numer-ous media outlets commented on how badly it refl ected on the Romneys. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said the designer blouse was “yet another ex-ample of how out of touch the Romney family can be with how 99 percent of Americans live.”

A Washington Post piece stated: “Ann Romney’s $990 T-shirt is indicative of a tone-deaf campaign.” But in the very

same issue of the Post, columnists praised fi rst lady Michelle Obama for how stylish she looked when she arrived at a Buckingham Palace recep-tion wearing a designer top that cost $6,800. The

headline read: “Fit For a Queen (Truly).”

To the left, if a candidate was tremendously successful in the private sector — as Romney was in both business and in running the Olympics — he is morally unfi t for public service. But if a candidate parlays fame in public offi ce into wealth, it is somehow less repugnant. Obama passes the test because his millions came from sales of his books, not one but two auto-biographies, which, incidentally, contain much fi ction.

How strange to hold such a dim view of success in the country where countless suc-cess stories created the highest standard of living in the world. Not so long ago, we all pursued the American dream and we took inspiration from those who achieved it. Not all succeed at the same level, but most benefi t from those who achieve great success, creating jobs and sup-plying the products and services that make our lives better.

Doesn’t it make sense to elect a chief executive with successful executive experience? Success shouldn’t be a dirty word.

In 1995, Barack Obama released “Dreams From My Father,” a compelling memoir full of stories about his life that — though often not ex-actly true — persuaded many people that this young man had a great political future ahead of him.

Nearly a decade later, Obama introduced himself to the country with a stirring speech at the 2004 Demo-cratic convention in which he conceded, “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story ... and that in no other country on Earth is my story even pos-sible.”

“Even as we speak,” Obama declared as he strode the high road at takeoff velocity, “there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of any-thing goes.”

“Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America.” He insisted that we stop listening to the “pundits” who divide the country into red and blue states.

“I’ve got news for them, too.” Obama thundered. “We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.”

Obama’s rhetoric soared high, despite the ballast of straw men clinging to his sentences like desperate souls clinging to the struts of an American helicopter leaving Saigon. (What federal agents, pray tell, poked around our libraries?)

Four years later, Obama ran for president as a “change” candidate championing the transformative power of words. In the Democratic primary, he announced that his true opponent was “cyni-cism” itself. Apparently, to

oppose Obama’s candidacy for any reason was to give in to dark motivations. Later, he explained that Democratic voters who preferred Hill-ary Clinton were “clinging” to their bigotries and small-mindedness. As ever, his candidacy did not bear close inspection, but it’s hard to inspect something at such an altitude. Besides, as ever, he told a good story.

Indeed, as Obama told Newsweek reporter Richard Wolff, “You know, I actually believe my own bull----.”

No doubt he believed it, in April 2008, when he assured voters, “We’re not going to run around doing negative ads. We’re going to keep it positive, we’re going to talk about the issues.” By July 2008, Obama was saying that the $4 trillion increase in national debt during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency was “unpatriotic.”

And by September 2008, his campaign was running ads ridiculing his opponent, Sen. John McCain, because he couldn’t send an e-mail. Never mind that McCain’s in-ability had nothing to do with technological ineptitude and everything to do with the war hero having been so brutally beaten by the Viet Cong that he physically couldn’t use a keyboard. His wife would read his e-mails to him.

Of course, Obama won. People liked his story.

Some say President Obama has been a smashing suc-cess, achieving everything he promised to do. He himself

told “60 Minutes” in Decem-ber that his domestic and foreign-policy accomplish-ments exceeded those of any president “with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR and Lincoln.”

Others claim President Obama was stymied at every turn by an obstructionist Congress that wanted him to fail. Interestingly, both stories can be heard coming out of the president’s own mouth on any given day.

But last month he added a new twist to his tale. He told CBS News that “the mistake of my fi rst term — couple of years — was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right.” What Obama forgot to do was “to tell a story to the American people.”

What a curious thing to say, particularly for such a story-teller. It amounts to: “I did ev-erything right, but the public can’t see it without a story.

By the way, if amassing $4 trillion in debt over eight years is “unpatriotic,” how does racking up $5 trillion more in four years add up to “getting the policy right”?

And what was he focusing on? It’s an uncontroversial observation inside the Belt-way that Obama farmed out the stimulus and health care to congressional Democrats. What was he doing if not tell-ing stories about green energy magic and invisible recovery summers?

Just in the last few weeks, the Obama campaign or its surrogates have accused (either directly or by insinua-tion) his opponent — I mean Mitt Romney, not “cynicism” — of hastening a cancer death, being a tax cheat, and wanting to put black people in chains and give children E. coli.

But fear not. If you don’t like those stories, the presi-dent has more. He’s always got more stories. And he actu-ally believes them, too.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet takes to heart its mission to provide a safe, effi cient, environmentally sound and fi scally respon-sible transportation system — including inland waterways, such as Kentucky Lake.

The editorial of July 31 (Wake-Up — State seems to have taken bridge hazard too lightly) implies that KYTC employees were at fault for the M/V Delta Mariner crashing into the Egg-ner’s Ferry Bridge because bridge navigation lights were not in perfect working order.

“Transportation cabinet bureaucrats were asleep at the wheel,” the Sun stated.

That is a skewed, incorrect view and could have been taken directly from the ship’s owner, Foss Maritime Co. The ship and crew were no strangers to Kentucky Lake or the Eggner’s Ferry Bridge. Yet, throughout the investigation, the company has played the only card in its hand — that not all lights on the bridge were lit — without regard for actions of the ship’s crew and the pilot/adviser who was aboard in its employ.

The Coast Guard/NTSB Board of Inquiry

revealed a fuller picture:■ A KYTC electrical crew was repairing the

bridge lighting the week of the crash.■ The Coast Guard has an established proto-

col for reporting outages of navigation lights. Cabinet employees followed that protocol precisely.

■ As part of that protocol, the Coast Guard issued a series of warnings — broadcast no-tices to mariners — about the Eggner’s Ferry Bridge lights.

■ The ship’s crew, by their own admission, did not heed the repeated notices. Nor did they use their own on-board navigational instruments.

Someone was indeed asleep at the wheel, but it was not the Transportation Cabinet. The editorial notes that “navigation protocols aboard the Delta Mariner appear to have been overlooked.” A decided understatement, in our view, and a disservice to the KYTC employees who live and work in the Paducah area.

CHUCK WOLFEExecutive Director

Offi ce of Public AffairsKentucky Transportation Cabinet

Frankfort

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father’s attic in Chat-tanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an au-dio reel labeled, “Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960.”

He wasn’t sure what he had until he borrowed a friend’s reel-to-reel player and listened to the record-ing of his father interview-ing Martin Luther King Jr. for a book project that never came to fruition. In clear audio, King discusses the importance of the civil rights movement, his defi ni-tion of nonviolence and how a recent trip of his to Africa informed his views. Tull said the recording had been in the attic for years, and he wasn’t sure who other than his father may have heard it.

“No words can describe. I couldn’t believe it,” he told The Associated Press this week in a phone interview from his home in Chat-tanooga. “I found ... a lost part of history.”

Many recordings of King are known to exist among hundreds of thousands of documents related to his life that have been catalogued and archived. But one histo-rian said the newly discov-ered interview is unusual because there’s little audio of King discussing his activ-ities in Africa, while two of King’s contemporaries said it’s exciting to hear a little-known recording of their friend for the fi rst time.

Tull plans to offer the re-cording at a private sale ar-ranged by a New York bro-ker and collector later this month.

Tull said his father, an insurance salesman, had planned to write a book about the racism he encoun-

tered growing up in Chatta-nooga and later as an adult. He said his dad interviewed King when he visited the city, but never completed the book and just stored the re-cording with some other in-terviews he had done. Tull’s father is now in his early 80s and under hospice care.

During part of the inter-view, King defi nes nonvio-lence and justifi es its practice.

“I would ... say that it is a method which seeks to secure a moral end through moral means,” he said. “And it grows out of the whole concept of love, be-cause if one is truly non-violent that person has a loving spirit, he refuses to

infl ict injury upon the op-ponent because he loves the opponent.”

The interview was made four years before the Civil Rights Act became law, three years before King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and eight years be-fore his assassination. At one point in the interview, King predicts the impact of the civil rights movement.

“I am convinced that when the history books are written in future years, his-torians will have to record this movement as one of the greatest epochs of our heritage,” he said.

King had visited Africa about a month before the

interview, and he discusses with Tull’s father how lead-ers there viewed the racial unrest in the United States.

Raymond Winbush, di-rector of the Institute for Ur-ban Research at Maryland’s Morgan State University, said the tape is signifi cant because there are very few recordings of King detailing his activity in Africa.

“It’s clear that in this tape when he’s talking ... about Africa, he saw this as a global human rights movement that would in-spire other organizations, other nations, other groups around the world,” said Winbush, who is also a psy-chologist and historian.

Unheard MLK audio found in atticBY LUCAS L. JOHNSON II

Associated Press

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Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in 1960 in Atlanta. A 1960 recording of an interview with King never before heard in public is up for sale.

iPhone technology patent trial wraps up

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A lawyer for Apple said Tues-day that Samsung was having a “crisis of design” after the launch of the iPhone, and executives with the South Korean company were determined to cash in on the success of the revolutionary device.

The claim came during closing arguments at the multibillion-dollar patent trial involving the world’s biggest smartphone companies, after last-minute talks between chief executives failed to resolve the dispute.

Apple argues that Samsung Electronics Co. should pay the Cupertino-based company $2.5 bil-lion for ripping off its iPhone and iPad technology.

Apple is also demanding that Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market.

Lawyers for Samsung were expected to deliver their closing arguments later in one of the biggest technology disputes in history.

— Associated Press

Huge fire burns to edge of California towns

MANTON, Calif. — As a lightning-sparked wildfire raged near Lynn Rodgers’ home of less than a year, the evacuated resident said Tuesday she remained optimistic — in spite of her growing frustration and fear.

“Yeah, but what can you do? Everything is in God’s hands — and the firefighters’,” said Rodgers, who lives in Shingletown.

Aided by a shift in winds, firefighters were making a stand against the fire, which has destroyed seven homes and prompted fearful residents to take shel-ter at a sports complex in nearby Redding.

Since igniting Saturday, the fire grew to more than 30 square miles. Nearly 1,900 firefighters were bat-tling the blaze in rugged, densely forested terrain as it threatened 3,500 homes in the remote towns of Shingletown, Manton and Viola, about 170 miles north of Sacramento.

The fast-moving fire is one of many burning across the West, where dry lightning has sparked up grass, brush and timber, bringing an early start to the fire season.

— Associated Press

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Rep. Todd Akin defi ed the nation’s top Republicans Tuesday and forged ahead with his besieged Senate bid, declaring the party was overreacting to his com-ments that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” and by insisting he aban-don his campaign.

Akin pledged to carry on with his quest to unseat Democrat Sen. Claire Mc-Caskill of Missouri. But his bid faced tall obstacles: a lack of money, a lack of par-ty support and no assurance that his apologies would be enough to heal a self-infl ict-ed political wound.

“I misspoke one word in one sentence on one day, and all of a sudden, over-

n i g h t , e v e r y -b o d y decides, ‘ W e l l , A k i n c a n ’ t possibly win,’” he said on a national r a d i o s h o w

hosted by former Republi-can presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. “Well, I don’t agree with that.”

Akin predicted he would bounce back from the po-litical crisis threatening his campaign and capture a seat that is pivotal to Re-publican hopes of regain-ing control of the Senate.

“I’m in this race for the long haul, and we’re going to win it,” he said.

If he stays on the bal-lot, Akin w i l l have to rebuild w i t h -out any m o n e y from the national p a r t y

and with new misgivings among rank-and-fi le Re-publican voters who just two weeks ago propelled him to a comfortable vic-tory in a hotly contested three-way primary.

In a potential sign of his strategy, Akin appealed Tuesday to Christian evan-gelicals, anti-abortion activ-ists and anti-establishment Republicans.

Tuesday was the fi nal day

in which Akin could with-draw from the race with-out a court order. As the 5 p.m. deadline to withdraw neared, Republican leaders intensifi ed their pressure on Akin to exit.

Akin provoked the political uproar when he was asked in the KTVI interview whether his general opposition to abortion extends to women who have been raped.

“It seems to me, fi rst of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin said.

Congressman defies GOP leaders to stay in raceBY DAVID A. LIEB

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KABUL, Afghanistan — It was once President Barack Obama’s “war of necessity.” Now, it’s Amer-ica’s forgotten war.

The Afghan confl ict gen-erates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It’s not a hot topic at the offi ce wa-ter cooler or in the halls of Congress — even though more than 80,000 Ameri-can troops are still fi ghting

here and dying at a rate of one a day.

Americans show more interest in the economy and taxes than the lat-est suicide bombings in a different, distant land. They’re more tuned in to the political ad war play-ing out on television than the deadly fi ght still raging against the Taliban. Earlier this month, protesters at the Iowa State Fair chanted “Stop the war!” They were referring to one purport-

edly being waged against the middle class.

By the time voters go to the polls Nov. 6 to choose between Obama and pre-sumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the war will be in its 12th year. For most Americans, that’s long enough.

Public opinion remains largely negative toward the war, with 66 percent opposed to it and just 27 percent in favor in a May AP-GfK poll. More recent-

ly, a Quinnipiac University poll found that 60 percent of registered voters felt the U.S. should no longer be involved in Afghanistan. Just 31 percent said the U.S. is doing the right thing by fi ghting there now.

Not since the Korean War of the early 1950s — a much shorter but more in-tense fi ght — has an armed confl ict involving Amer-ica’s sons and daughters captured so little public at-tention.

“We’re bored with it,” said Matthew Farwell, who served in the U.S. Army for fi ve years including 16 months in eastern Afghani-stan, where he sometimes received letters from grade school students addressed to the brave Marines in Iraq — the wrong war.

“We all laugh about how no one really cares,” he said. “All the ‘support the troops’ stuff is bumper sticker deep.”

Farwell, 29, who is now

studying at the University of Virginia, said the war is rarely a topic of conversa-tion on campus — and he isn’t surprised that it’s not discussed much on the campaign trail.

“No one understands how to extricate ourselves from the mess we have made there,” he said. “So from a purely political point of view, I wouldn’t be talking about it if I were Barack Obama or Mitt Romney either.”

Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting ragesBY DEB RIECHMANN

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Sci-entists on Tuesday pre-pared to send Curios-ity on its fi rst test drive over the billion-year-old rocks of Mars and said a busted wind sensor won’t jeopardize its mission of determining whether life could exist there.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labora-tory in Pasadena turned four of the rover’s six wheels in place this week in a successful “wheel wiggle” to test the steer-ing for Wednesday’s trek, mission manager Mike Watkins said.

The rover will move forward about 10 feet, turn right, then back up and park slightly to the left of its old spot, Wat-kins said.

“You will defi nitely see tracks,” he said.

The test drive is part of a health checkup the rover has been undergoing since arriving on Aug. 5. Eventu-ally, the rover could roam hundreds of feet a day over the ancient crater where it landed.

Meanwhile, research-ers discovered the dam-aged wind sensor while checking out instru-

ments that Curiosity will use to check the Martian weather and soil.

The cause of the dam-age wasn’t known, but one possibility is that peb-bles thrown up by Curios-ity’s descent fell onto the sensor’s delicate, exposed circuit boards and broke some wires, said Ashwin Vasavada, deputy project scientist for Curiosity.

A second sensor is op-erating and should do the job, but Vasavada said scientists may “have to work a little harder” to determine wind speed and direction, which are important factors that can determine when the rover is allowed to move.

Scientists also continued to test and calibrate Cu-riosity’s 7-foot-long arm and its extensive tool kit — which includes a drill, a scoop, a spectrometer and a camera — in preparation for collecting its fi rst soil samples and attempting to learn whether the Martian environment was favor-able for microbial life.

Mars rover Curiosity prepares for test drive

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vis Carter’s family hasn’t accepted the offi cial expla-nation for his death: that he was on meth when he fatally shot himself while his hands were cuffed be-hind him in the backseat of a patrol car in Arkansas.

The family portrays the 21-year-old as a bright, young man who aspired to be a veterinarian, who liked shopping for sneak-ers and playing basketball. As questions swirl about how and why Carter died, his family also has been demanding more answers from authorities.

“If he did it, I want to know how it happened,” his grandmother, Anne Winters Carter, said in an interview. “And if he didn’t do it, then we want justice.”

Jonesboro, Ark., po-lice have faced criticism because they say offi cers searched Carter twice but didn’t fi nd a gun before they noticed him slumped over and bleeding in the back of a patrol car on July 28. Questions about race have cropped up too, because Carter was black and police said the two offi cers who stopped the truck he was in were white, as were the other people in the vehicle.

The local branch of the NAACP has called for a thorough investigation, and the FBI has said it’s monitoring the case. Cart-er’s grandmother and his mom, Teresa Carter, are

also working with a high-profi le legal fi rm that rep-resented O.J. Simpson.

Some of the family’s sup-porters marched through Jonesboro on Tuesday. One woman had a sign that read, “Stop the lies!! No suicide.” That march came a day after a candlelight vigil was held for Carter in Memphis and police re-leased an autopsy report from the Arkansas state crime lab that deemed his death a suicide.

The ruling that his death was a suicide was confound-ing to those who knew Cart-er. It’s not just that he was searched and handcuffed. They note that Carter was

left-handed but was shot in his right temple.

“If he’s double-locked and ... he’s shot in his right temple, but he is left-hand-ed, that’s the part I don’t understand,” Winters Cart-er said.

Police have released video showing how a man could put a gun to his tem-ple while his hands were cuffed behind his back. They shared footage re-corded by dashboard cam-eras the night of the shoot-ing and sent out a copy of the autopsy report.

“There’s no other expla-nation to this ... other than that he put the gun to his head and pulled the trig-

ger and that’s what we call a suicide,” said Stephen Erickson, a medical exam-iner who conducted the au-topsy.

Toxicology tests showed Carter’s blood tested positive for at least trace amounts of the anti-anxi-ety medication diazepam and the painkiller oxyco-done in addition to a larger amount of methamphet-amine. His urine test also returned a positive result for marijuana.

Family wants more answers about deathBY JEANNIE NUSS

Associated Press

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People hold hands at a rally Tuesday in Jonesboro, Ark. The group earlier marched in protest of the July 28 death of a man that was later ruled a suicide in the back of a Jonesboro Police Department car.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Horse rescue groups say they are struggling to care for horses abandoned in the drought, and some have stopped tak-ing in more.

Abandonments spiked after the recession hit more than four years ago, but rescue groups say the drought made the problem worse by burning up pastures and sending hay prices skyrocketing.

They say owners who had held on to their horses are giving them up now.

Advocates say no one tracks how many horses are abandoned, but the Washington, D.C.-based Unwanted Horse Coali-tion estimated the number at 170,000 to 180,000 per year before the drought.

With fewer people buying horses and sanctuaries fi lling up, Iowa Horse Council Pres-ident Bill Paynter says, some owners are desperate. He says, “There’s no place to go with a horse you can’t feed.”

Abandoned horses swamp rescue groups

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MURRAY — Sharon Sledd Hopkins, 65, of Mur-ray, Kentucky, and former-ly of Richmond, Kentucky, passed away on Friday, August 17, 2012, at Spring Creek Health Care in Mur-ray.

Sharon was born on No-vember 26, 1946, in Mur-ray, Kentucky, and was the daughter of Joseph and Larue Hall Sledd, both of whom preceded her in death.

She was a member of White Oak Pond Christian Church in Richmond and attended Unity Cumber-land Presbyterian Church in Hardin, Kentucky. She was a retired special edu-cation teacher in the Madi-son County School System. Sharon served as director of the Madison County Special Olympics, and was active in the local chap-ter of Alpha Delta Kappa Teacher’s Sorority. She en-joyed her wine club, book club, reading, and playing Bunco.

Survivors include two sons, Stephen Hopkins (Al-lison) of Atlanta, Ga., and David Hopkins of Rich-mond, Ky.; three grand-children, Andrea Ballard, Erin Hopkins and Evan Hopkins; one brother, Terry Joe Sledd of Murray, Ky.; and three sisters, Jo-ette Shields of Murray, Ky., Renee Turnbow (Bruce) of Benton, Ky., and Dawn

Hollamon (Greg) of Crit-tenden County, Ky.

In addition to her par-ents, Sharon was preceded in death by a son, Charles Hopkins.

A celebration of life for Sharon Hopkins will be held at 1 p.m. on Satur-day, August 25, 2012, at Oldham, Roberts & Powell Funeral Home, with Nancy Long offi ciating. Burial will follow in the Richmond Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Au-gust 24, 2012, at Oldham, Roberts & Powell Funeral Home, and again on Satur-day, August 25, 2012, from 11 a.m. until the time of ser-vice.

A reception will be held at 12 noon on Sunday, Au-gust 26, 2012, at the Unity Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Hardin, Ken-tucky, followed by a cel-ebration of life service at 2 p.m. at the church.

In lieu of fl owers, the family suggests volunteer-ing with, or contributing to, the Kentucky Special Olympics/ Madison Coun-ty Chapter, 321 North Sec-ond Street, Richmond, KY 40475, or making a memo-rial donation to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hos-pital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142.

To express condolences, visit www.orpfh.com.

Sharon Sledd Hopkins

Alton Andrew Overstreet, 96, of Lone Oak, passed away surrounded by family at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, August 20, 2012, at Massac Memorial Hospital.

Al was a lifetime member of Massac United Methodist

C h u r c h , where he served in v a r i o u s o f f i c e s and as an usher for over 50 years. He was a mem-ber of the

I . B . E . W . Local #826 in Paducah, a Kentucky Colonel, and a member of the Masonic Gra-hamville Lodge #707. He was retired from Jackson Purchase Rural Electric Co-operative, where he worked his entire career.

He loved to garden and tend to his roses. He was a kind and gentle soul.

He was extremely devoted to his family and is survived by his wife of 72 years, Mar-gie Peyton Overstreet of Lone Oak; his daughter, Phyllis Moore and husband John of Lone Oak; his granddaugh-

ters, Jennifer A. Moore of Louisville, Angela B. Moore and husband Michael Schnuerle, both of Louisville; his great-grandchildren, Viv-ian Mary Schnuerle and Clinton Andrew Schnuerle, who is his namesake, both of Louisville; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Edward Pruitt and Irene Bumpous Overstreet of Paducah, and his brothers, Vernon, Oliver, Cliff, Elvin, and Windy Over-street.

Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 23, 2012, at the Lone Oak Chapel of Milner and Orr Funeral Home with Revs. John Smithmier and Gregory Waldrop offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow in the Woodlawn Memorial Gar-dens. Visitation will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home.

The family requests in lieu of fl owers that contributions be given in his memory to his church, Massac United Methodist Church, 2605 Mayfi eld-Metropolis Rd., Paducah, KY 42001.

You may leave a message of sympathy or light a candle at www.milnerandorr.com.

Alton Overstreet

Overstreet

METROPOLIS, Ill. — Mrs. Doris Ann Russell, age 79, of Metropolis, Illinois, passed away on Saturday, August 18, 2012, in Rowlett, Texas.

Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, August 24, 2012, at the Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Ky. The Rev. Mike Duncan will offi ciate.

Doris was a member of the First Christian Church in Metropolis, Illinois.

Doris is survived by two daughters, Carol Hughes and husband Randall of Heath, Texas, and Christy Russell of Metropolis, Ill.; one son, Charles Russell and wife Susan of Marion, Iowa; six grandchildren, Ashley Eskridge and Lauren Conder, both of Metropo-lis, Ill., Russell Hughes and Ross Hughes, both of Heath, Texas, Michael Russell and Rachael Russell, both of

Marion, Iowa; four great-grandchildren, Nicholas Es-kridge, Nathaniel Eskridge, Brendan Conder and Noah Eskridge, all of Metropolis, Ill.; one brother, William Foster of Brentwood, Tenn.; one aunt, Ruth Ford of Geor-gia; several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Doris was preceded in death by her parents, Ru-dolph and Christine Foster; and her husband, Charles Russell.

There will not be any visi-tation. Family and friends are asked to meet at the cem-etery for the services. Online condolences may be left at www.newhopefh.com.

Memorials may be made to the First Christian Church, 420 Catherine Street, Me-tropolis, IL 62960.

Miller Funeral Home in Metropolis, Illinois, is in charge of arrangements.

Doris Ann Russell

William “Bill” H. Petterson, age 85, of Paducah passed away August 11, 2012, at his residence.

Mr. Petterson was the owner and operator of A To Z Antique shop in Paducah and was a se-

c u r i t y off icer for Res-idential C a r e . He was a U.S. A r m y veteran a n d was a m e m -

ber of the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.

He is survived by his two sons, Billy Joe Pet-terson and wife JoAnn of Paducah and David Gerald Petterson of Boaz, Ky.; four grandchildren, David Gerald Petterson II and wife Christy, Cheryl Petterson-Riley and hus-

band Bradley, Kara Wiss-inger and husband Jake, and Amber Petterson; two great-grandchildren, Alexandra Petterson and Aileen Wissinger.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Lexine Petterson; one son, PFC Charles Stanley Petter-son; and one sister. His parents were Nealy Pet-terson and Eva Moore Petterson.

Funeral service will be held at 12 Noon Thurs-day at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church with Father Brian Roby offi ciating. Burial will follow in the Mt. Carmel Cemetery. There will be no visitation.

Keeling Family Fu-neral Home is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of fl owers the family re-quests memorials be made to the Capital Cam-paign Fund of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, 116 South 6th Street, Paducah, KY 42001.

Bill Petterson

Petterson

GILBERTSVILLE — Nor-ma Phelps Butler-Gray, 81, of Gilbertsville died at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday at her home.

She was a homemaker and a member of Ed-dyville Assembly of God.

S h e is sur-v i v e d by four daugh-t e r s , Carolyn Thorn-ing of K u t -t a w a , B e t t y

F i l b e c k of Benton, and Wynona Euensen and Wilma Mayes, both of Gilberts-ville.; three sons, Charles Satterfi eld of Nortonville, Danny Phelps of Paducah, and Cecil Phelps of Sa-lem; one stepson, Junior Ray Butler of Florida; two stepdaughters, Merle Ivy, St. Charles, and Eva Ho-glan of Springfi eld, Mo.; 19 grandchildren; 18 step-grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; 52 step-great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchil-dren; and 23 stepgreat-great-grandchildren; four sisters, Nell Russell and Patricia Russell, both of Calvert City, Ruth Littlep-age of Nortonville, and Earlene Masden of Ben-ton; and one brother: Ju-nior Phelps of Nashville, Tenn.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Gralla B. Phelps and Ines Gamblin Phelps; her fi rst husband, Joseph Edward Butler; her second hus-band, Robert Alvin Gray; two brothers; and three sisters.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Collier Funeral Home in Benton. The Rev. Willard Walls will offi ci-ate, with interment in the Marshall County Memory Gardens, Benton.

Friends may call after 5 p.m. Thursday at the fu-neral home.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the Kentucky Kidney Fund, Lourdes Hospice or a local church youth group.

Norma Butler-Gray

Butler-Gray

John Wesley Crutcher Jr., 79, of Paducah died at 2:26 p.m. Tuesday at Western Baptist Hospital.

Arrangements were in-complete at Hughes Fu-neral Home of Paducah.

John Crutcher

METROPOLIS, Ill. — La-vinia Pearl Sinclair “Benji” Eyer, 103, of Metropolis died at 7:25 a.m. Tuesday at the Metropolis Nursing and Re-habilitation Center.

Mrs. Eyer is survived by one son, Charles Sinclair Eyer of

Lexington, Ky,; two daughters, Beth Carol Dempsey of Lexing-ton, and Lois Elea-nor Eyer of Brook-port; 10 g r a n d -children; 26 great-g r a n d -children; 20 great-g r e a t -g r a n d -children; and many nieces and nephews.She was

p r e c e d e d in death by her husband, Charles Minor Eyer; two brothers; one great-grand-child; and two great-great grandchildren. Her parents were Alonzo and Frances Elizabeth Morris Sinclair.

Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Maplelawn Cemetery in Paducah with the Rev. Larry Call offi ciating.

Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Friday at Brookport Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Brookport First Christian Church, 302 Crockett St., Brookport, IL 62910; or the Illinois Audubon Society, P.O. Box 2547, Springfi eld, IL 62708.

Lavinia Eyer

Eyer

MAYFIELD — George Mat-thew Delk, 71, of Mayfi eld died at 12:20 a.m. Sunday at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah.

He was a retired painter.Mr. Delk is survived by one

son, Charles Joseph Delk of Louisville; two sisters, Mary Guyer of Harrisonburg, Va., and Barbara Ennis of Lon-don, England; two brothers. John M. Delk and James Delk, both of Wingo; two grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

His parents were Joseph N. and Grace Fleetwood Delk.

Memorial services will be conducted later.

There will be no visitation. Brown Funeral Home in Mayfi eld is in charge of ar-rangements.

George Delk

METROPOLIS, Ill. — Graveside services for Olon Smith, 91, formerly of Me-tropolis, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Metropolis Me-morial Gardens. The Rev. Mike Duncan will offi ciate.

Mr. Smith died Aug. 7 at Sunnyside Nursing Home in Sarasota, Fla.

A native of Lake, Miss., Mr. Smith served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He formerly served as superintendent of the Metropolis Water and Light Department and worked for Allied Chemical/Honeywell for 29 years before retiring.

He was of the Christian faith and a member of the American Legion.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years, Lavene Reynolds Hard Smith.

He is survived by three children, Michael Hard of Sarasota, Fla., Jackie Hard of Silver Spring, Md., and Judi Storms of Corpus Christi, Texas; 10 grand-children; and four great-grandchildren.

A memorial service was held in Sarasota on Aug. 13.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to the Sunnyside Foundation, Chapel Build-ing Fund, 5501 Bahia Vista St., Sarasota, FL 34232.

Miller Funeral Home in Metropolis is in charge of arrangements.

Olon SmithLouis C. Long, 84, of

Paducah died at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday at Morningside As-sisted Living of Paducah.

Mr. Long, a veteran of the U.S. Army, was a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic

C h u r c h and re-tired from the service d e p a r t -ment of W i l s o n Chevrolet.

M r . Long is survived by one sis-ter, Mar-

tha Midyett of Paducah; and two nieces.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Carolyn Cole Long; two sisters; and one brother. His parents were Luther and Mary Long.

A funeral Mass will be held at noon Friday at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church with the Rev. Brian Roby of-fi ciating. Burial will follow in Mt. Carmel Cemetery.

Friends may call from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contri-butions to Lourdes Hospice, P.O. Box 7100, Paducah, KY 42002-7100; or to St. Fran-cis de Sales Catholic Church, 116 South 6th St., Paducah, KY 42001.

Louis Long

Long

Rhonda Meredith, 54, of Paducah died at 12:46 a.m. Friday at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.

Mrs. Meredith is survived by her husband, Lee Mer-

edith; four s o n s , C h u c k Kingston and Joe Kingston, both of Paducah, and Justin F a r m e r and Wil-l i a m

F a r m e r , both of Freemont; her moth-er, Betsy Turner of Bardwell; one brother, Pete Turner of Bardwell; one sister, Ju-lie Samples of Bardwell; six grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father, Gerald Turner; three brothers; and one sister.

Memorial services will be at 6 p.m. Saturday at Hughes Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Topper Council offi ciating.

Friends may call after 4 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to Toys for Tots, c/o Barry Bryan, 310 Sunrise Drive, Kevil, KY 42053.

Rhonda Meredith

Meredith

PRINCETON — Wayne “Red” Salyers, 78 of Princ-eton, died Tuesday at his residence.

He is survived by one son, David Salyers of Humboldt, Tenn.; two daughters, Pat-tie McDowell of Eddyville and Deedi Bell of Princeton; four grandchildren, Ashley Bennett, Kara Cross, Brady Oliver and Makenzie Bell; and three great-grandchil-dren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Pat Short Saly-ers; his parents, Lewis Jef-ferson and Elois McKinney Salyers, and one brother.

Mr. Salyers was a retired electrician from Air Prod-ucts in Calvert City, a mem-ber of First Baptist Church of Princeton and a U.S. Army veteran.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Morgan’s Fu-neral Home with the Rev. Kent Workman offi ciating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at the fu-neral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Bap-tist Church Family Life Center, 300 West Main St., Princeton, KY 32445.

Wayne Salyers

BENTON — Mary Irene Warren, 89, of Benton died Tuesday at her home.

She was a homemaker and member of Oakland United Methodist Church.

She is survived by two sons, Joe R. Warren of Benton, and John M. War-ren of Crossville, Tenn.; one sister, Odell Paschall of Appling, Ga.; and four grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Julian Warren; one son, James Warren; one broth-er; and one sister. Her parents were Claude N. Schucraft and Nola Stone Schucraft.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Collier Fu-neral Home. The Rev. Ben Northcutt will offi ciate.

Interment will follow at Barnett Cemetery in Mur-ray.

Friends may call after 5 p.m. Thursday at the fu-neral home.

Memorial contributions may be given to Lourdes Hospice, 2855 Jackson St., Paducah, KY 42003.

Mary Warren

Ira William “Bill” Myers, 87, of Paducah died Mon-day at Superior Care Home.

Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah, where a memo-rial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Additional information is pending.

Bill Myers

ARLINGTON — Gracie Mae King, 88, of Arlington died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday at Countryside Healthcare in Bardwell.

Arrangements were in-complete at Milner and Orr Funeral Home in Arlington.

Gracie King

FULTON — Kyle Malone, 19, of Fulton died Tuesday morning at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Arrangements were in-complete at Strong Funeral Home in Hickman.

Kyle Malone

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nearly 30,000-square-foot, single-story building.

The structure contains 132 beds to house low-risk, Class D felons and work-release inmates, as well as space for evidence, train-ing and vehicle impound for the sheriff’s department and a satellite station for Mercy Regional Emergency Medical Service. The coun-ty secured about $4.2 mil-lion in bonds to construct the building, which is fi n-ished and ready for full use.

Adams said he is looking forward to moving inmates into the building, which he plans to begin today. He told the crowd of about

20 offi cials and offi cers on Tuesday that he expects the structure to serve as a place to help inmates success-fully transition from incar-ceration to the real world.

“It’s not our goal to lock more up. It’s our goal to edu-cate them and get them back to society,” Adams said.

Dr. Irvin Smith, Mercy Regional EMS director, said his staff has been set up inside the new build-ing and taking calls about two months. Emergency response times have seen a signifi cant decrease as a result, he said.

“We track that very close-ly,” Smith said. “It’s amaz-ing to see the graph cutting the response time.”

With this new satellite station and a station in Lone Oak set for a ground-breaking in October, Smith said the county will be well covered with estimated emergency response times.

Sheriff Jon Hayden also thanked all the offi cials who worked to bring the new structure to fruition. He said that the depart-ment has not had enough space to keep all of its evi-dence and training in one place, and he looks forward to using the new building.

Call Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or fol-low @mallorypanuska on Twitter.

McCracken County Animal Control Warden Jake Staf-ford arrived to help diffuse the stalemate. With a large dip net, Clark snagged the otter and caged it in the back of Stafford’s truck.

“He didn’t look like he was hurt or anything,” Clark said, adding the creature certainly

ran just fi ne, so Stafford took the otter to the boat ramp be-neath U.S. 60/62 and freed it into the Clark’s River.

Though it’s hard to pin-point how the otter got downtown in the fi rst place, Smith said several callers reported seeing the creature along Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Drive and as it ran across Broadway.

Tongue fi rmly in cheek, Smith said police don’t intend to charge the animal, unless it was for jaywalking. Offi cer Shawn Craven summed the furry situation up best in a message to Smith: “He otter known better.”

Call Will Pinkston, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.

The state fi led three ad-ditional motions to prevent the defense from introduc-ing various evidence. The evidence includes the exis-tence of methamphetamine in Warren’s system at the time of his death, and al-legations that he manufac-

tured meth. The third mo-tion seeks to prevent Jones’ attorneys from raising the defense of self-protection or self-defense at trial. Sta-cy said he submitted simi-lar motions during the fi rst trial as well.

The judge gave Smith and Olsen time to respond to the motions, and Stacy said a

hearing will be set once the responses are fi led.

Smith declined comment on the case and the mo-tions.

Call Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or fol-low @mallorypanuska on Twitter.

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BEIRUT — Its forces stretched thin on multiple fronts, President Bashar Assad’s regime has sig-nifi cantly increased its use of air power against Syr-ian rebels in recent weeks, causing a spike in civilian casualties.

The shift is providing useful clues about the capa-bility of the Syrian air force as Western powers consid-er the option of enforcing a no-fl y zone over the north-ern part of the country, where rebels control large

swaths of territory along the Turkish border.

If a no-fl y zone is en-forced, Western aircraft will likely go head-to-head with the Syrian air force as well as try to neutralize, at least partially, its air de-fense system.

“It is certainly a sign of in-creased concern on the part of the regime,” said senior political scientist Christo-pher S. Chivvis of the Rand Corporation. “The growing use of air power, particular-ly fi xed-wing aircraft, raises the possibility of foreign in-

tervention.”U.S. Defense Secretary

Leon Panetta said Aug. 14 that plans to set up a no-fl y zone over parts of Syria is “not on the front burner,” despite persistent calls from rebel forces there that they need the added protection from escalating regime air-strikes in the civil war.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said that the U.S. and Turkey are discussing a range of steps, including a no-fl y zone over some parts of Syria. Russia, Assad’s main foreign back-

er, opposes a no-fl y zone.There are no estimates

on how many civilians have been killed in airstrikes in the four-week period in which stepped up at-tacks have been detected, but Syrian activists speak of hundreds, maybe thou-sands, across the country.

Helpless civilians run

for cover when they hear the distant buzz of aircraft. Terrifi ed and screaming, they head to the nearest basement or ground fl oor.

“May God exact retribu-tion on him!” they shout against Assad or the pilot involved. “May God cripple him!” and “May he rot in hell!” are other frequently

used curses.Syria’s air force has an

unimpressive record — it lost 85 planes in a battle with Israel in 1982 — but without any effective anti-aircraft weapons in the hands of the rebels, the relatively antiquated fl eet of Soviet-era warplanes is unchallenged.

Assad’s regime steps up use of air powerAssociated Press

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Sunrise today ................................. 6:17 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 7:37 p.m.Moonrise today ............................. 11:46 a.m.Moonset today .............................. 10:28 p.m.

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Kentucky: Beautiful today with abundant sunshine. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny and pleasant tomorrow.

Illinois: Mostly sunny today; pleasant. Clear tonight. A shower or thunderstorm in spots in the north tomorrow.

Indiana: Pleasant today with a full day of sunshine. Clear tonight. Abundant sunshine and beautiful tomorrow.

Missouri: Plenty of sun today; very warm in the west. Clear tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow; pleasant.

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Tennessee: Brilliant sunshine today. Clear tonight; patchy fog late in the east. Mostly sunny tomorrow.

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