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City water, sewer bills to surgeBy Steve [email protected]

Collectively, customers of Vicksburg’s water and sewer services will pay $1.2 mil-lion more in the next year in minimum charges and much more in tiered charges.

Rate increases to begin in May were approved by the Mayor and Aldermen Tuesday.

In base fee adjustments, each of the city’s 8,500 resi-

dential customers will pay $93.60 more for water and sewer services over the

coming year, and 1,300 com-

Work on Washington bridgecould begin in two weeksBy Steve [email protected]

Actual work on a rail-topped tunnel to replace the closed bridge at Washington and Clark streets might start as early as the first week of April following a decision to use up to $4 million more in previously approved munic-ipal bond funds to get the long-stalled project under way.

In order to get the funding in place, Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield proposed — and the board agreed on a split vote — to use $1.5 mil-lion in bond funds that had been earmarked for road paving and $2.2 million that had been pledged to the last phase of the develop-ing sports complex on Fisher Ferry Road. An additional

Utility hikesThe Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Thursday approved the following increases for water and sewer ser-vice, effective May 1:

Current Minimumminimum on May 1 increase

• Residential water $5 $8.75 $3.75 (75%)• Commercial water $23.81 $35.81 $12 (50%)• Residential sewer $8.85 $12.90 $4.05 (45%)• Commercial sewer $12 $28.25 $16.25 (135%)

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A 1957 Chevrolet crosses the Cherry Street viaduct Thursday heading to the 11th annual Big River Classic Car Show at the Battlefield Inn. The show that begins

this afternoon features about 80 Chevrolets from 1955, ’56 and ’57. It continues through 6:30 p.m. Saturday and is open and free to the public.

ROLLING BACK IN TIME StatebudgetactionstalledBy Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press

JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers are adjusting their calen-dar to allow more time for budget writing, and they’re hoping an infusion of federal cash will make their job easier.

The three-month legislative session originally was set to

Judges, supervisors threaten jail to get fines paid By Danny Barrett [email protected]

Some people might be going to jail to entice others to pay past-due Warren County Justice Court fines.

“When you pull out the steel bracelets, I guarantee

you money will start coming in,” Central District Justice Court Judge James Jeffer-son said during a rare meet-ing between the county’s five supervisors and three justice court judges on Thursday.

No definite plan was set, but the officials agreed to try

to determine if, on balance, spending money to incar-cerate some who owe fines would encourage them and others to pay up or at least sign up for payment plans or perform community service.

Another session between supervisors and judges was

tentatively set in another three months.

Collections from court fines are projected to drop by about a fourth in circuit and justice courts compared to last year, according to trends tracked in a budget update earlier this week. That, plus

about $3 million on the books in unpaid misdemeanor fines prompted the meeting.

“We’re not trying to com-mandeer justice court,” Board President Richard George said. “What we’re

School plan sees fewer employees, more spending

By Pamela [email protected]

No teacher or staff layoffs will be required by a school spending plan presented Thursday that shows both more spending and fewer employees.

Built into the proposed $80 million Vicksburg Warren School District budget is a salary and benefits alloca-tion based on an estimated 40 positions cut by attrition. Superintendent Dr. James Price said about 23 certified positions and 17 non-instruc-tional staff are expected to retire or voluntary sever

their employment and won’t be replaced.

The budget was explained at a public hearing. It contin-ues for a third year a choice by trustees not to cause an increase in local property taxes.

In employment numbers, the budget provides for 673 licensed employees and 601 non-licensed, for a total of 1,274. This compares with 696 licensed and 618 non-licensed, 1,314 total, in fiscal 2010, and 694 licensed, 668 non-licensed, 1,362 total in fiscal 2009 — a decrease of 88

Policeman hiredfor Warren CentralBy Pamela [email protected]

Both high schools in the Vicksburg Warren School District will have a full-time law enforcement officer on campus after James Edward Lee Jr. reports to Warren Central High School on April 1.

Lee, who has been a member of the Vicksburg Police Department, will become an

employee of the district and paid $36,000 annually with grant funds.

The district’s other high school, Vicksburg High, is in the city limits and has long had a VPD officer assigned to the school at city expense.

Warren Central, on Missis-sippi 27, is outside the corpo-rate limits and thus ineligible for a city officer.

Lee, father to six children, three boys and three girls ranging from 1 to 12 years old, has experience, having previously been assigned as school resource officer at

No layoffs required,but 40 spots empty

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HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — A 76-year-old woman was killed and another injured Thursday when a sport util-ity vehicle crashed into a dentist office in Holly Springs, authorities said.

Police Chief Robert Pearson said Mary L. Betts was sitting in the office and was killed when the crash occurred. He said the woman driver of the vehicle was injured.

Pearson said the case remains under investigation.

Marshall County Sheriff

Kenny Dickerson said the incident happened at the office of Dr. John Jones.

2 women, 1 childaccused in shoplifting

GULFPORT, Miss. — Two women are accused of using one of the women’s children to steal items from a store, Gulfport authorities said.

Police arrested 26-year-old

Sasha Dinelle Cole of Gau-tier, 33-year-old Stacy Ann Morgan of Douglasville and Morgan’s 11-year-old daugh-ter. All three were charged with two counts of felony shoplifting.

In two of the incidents, police said the women loaded computers into shopping carts, then caused a distrac-tion so the 11-year-old could push the cart out of the store without being noticed.

Itta Bena man killedwhen hit by car

ITTA BENA, Miss. — A 24-year-old Itta Bena man was killed when he was hit by a car on U.S. Highway 82.

Leflore County Coroner Debra Sanders said that John Allen Price Jr. was hit just after 2 a.m. Thursday and died on the scene.

Sanders said Price, a stu-dent at Mississippi Valley State University, was walking back to school.

A Warren County woman is warning area residents of a check scam after almost becoming a victim of it herself.

The victim said she received a check for $3,880.80 on Tuesday, alledgedly from Reader’s Digest, claiming she had been a sweepstakes winner of $130,000, and after looking it over, she realized the check was a scam.

She said she called the number on the letter, which came in an envelope addressed in her name and address and marked with a Canadian postage, and spoke to a man who identified him-self as Wesley Mitchell.

“I called them and he told us to put the money in our account,” she said. She said Mitchell told her, after she deposited the check, to wire

him $2,885 through Western Union as an insurance fee for the $130,000 she was due to receive.

The victim said she did not cash the check and she did not contact law enforcement authorities.

“Everybody needs to be aware of this,” she said.

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said his office receives reports of scams often. “We get scam reports all the time,” he said. “If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.”

He said what the victim had described is “typical” of a check scam.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the agency that

handles mail fraud. A call to the Memphis office serving central Mississippi was not returned.

One week ago, an elderly Warren County couple was cheated out of $2,500 after receiving a call from a woman pretending to be their granddaughter in need of cash to bond out of a Cana-dian jail.

Their case was turned over to the FBI.

Electronics, drugs hotin city burglaries

Two residential burglar-ies and an auto burglary were reported in the city Thursday.

Eight PlayStation 2 games valued at $360, a PlaySta-tion game case valued at $39,

a PlayStation PSP valued at $169, an iPod valued at $269, a radio valued at $150, a 19-inch Toshiba TV valued at $195, an Xbox 360 game system valued at $400, Xbox controllers valued at $39 and an assortment of Xbox games were reported miss-ing at 8:44 a.m. from a home in the 1400 block of High Street.

A 19-inch Sanyo TV valued at $400, a 19-inch Coby TV valued at $230 and a PlaySta-tion 2 game system valued at $235 were reported missing at 10:49 p.m. from a home in the 100 block of Alcorn Drive.

A bottle of prescription hydrocodone valued at $84 and 20 CDs valued at $200 were reported missing at 9:29 p.m. from a 2004 Pontiac Aztek in the 3000 block of Indiana Avenue.

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churchesNew Rock of Ages M.B. — Church board and members meeting canceled; 601-456-1423. Pleasant Valley M.B. — Friends and Family Day, 6:30 tonight and 6 p.m. Saturday; the Rev. E.E. Gibbs, pastor; 2585 N. Washington St.Shiloh Primitive Baptist — Services: 7 tonight, 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, 10:30 a.m. Sunday; Elder Neil Phelan Jr., speaker; Warriors Trail. Pleasant Valley M.B. — All-you-can-eat breakfast, 9 a.m. Saturday; the Rev. Joe Harris, pastor; 260 Mississippi 27.St. Paul — GAP meeting, 2 p.m. Saturday; ages 12-20; spiritual guidance, mentoring, discussions, refreshments; 437 Tiffintown Road. Mount Zion No. 1 M.B. — 3

p.m. Saturday; music appre-ciation program for Chandra White; choirs, groups, soloists invited; 920 Fifth North St. Second Union M.B. — Church cemetery fundraiser, 6 p.m. Saturday; Sensation Cho-sen Voices; groups and solo-ists are invited; Michael Redd, pastor; 18074 Old Port Gibson Road, Utica.Christian Home M.B. No. 2 — Youth Explosion, 6 p.m. Saturday; singing, miming, praise dancing; Betty Pend-leton, 601-631-8000 or 601-634-0978; the Rev. Johnny Hughes, pastor.

clubsElks Lodge — 4 p.m. Satur-day; pre-Easter hat, fashion and talent show; $5 admis-sion; Willie Mae Johnson, 601-638-5440; 916 Walnut St. Rosa A. Temple Class of 1965 — 3 p.m. Sunday; re-union planning; Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 817 Bowman St. Vicksburg Coin — 7 p.m. Sunday; Promise Health Care conference room.Vicksburg Kiwanis — Noon Tuesday, Jacques’ Cafe; Evan-geline Taylor, Social Security

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1022 Crawford St.Vicksburg Coin — 7 p.m. Sunday; Promise Health Care conference room.Narcotics Anonymous — River City Group, 8 p.m. Sun-day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Good Shepherd Community Center, 629 Cherry St.; daytime, Alvin J., 601-661-7646 or 601-415-1742; evening, Jackie G., 601-638-8456 or 601-415-3345.Weed Alert-Escaped Orna-mentals — 5:30-7 p.m. Mon-day; free seminar with Virginia DuBowy, Master Gardener; WC Extension; 601-636-5442. TOPS Soccer Game — 5 p.m. Monday; for K-12 children with special needs; Knights of Columbus, Fisher Ferry Road.Overeaters Anonymous — 5:30-6:30 p.m. every Monday; www.oa.org; 601-415-0500; 1315 Adams St.Tuesday Vicksburg Al-Anon — Noon Tuesday; sec-ond floor, First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; 601-634-0152.Coach Richard Hodges Sum-mer Basketball School — June 23-25, 28-30; deadline to register May 10; 601-636-2256 price and info; richard.

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In Vicksburgthis weekend• Tapestry Tour of Homes — Through April 5; $10 per home or $25 per three, available at the Vicksburg Conven-tion & Visitors Bureau of-fice on Clay Street; visit vicksburgbedandbreak-fast.com/tapestry.htm for schedule.• “Gold in the Hills” — 7:30 p.m. Friday and Sat-urday; Parkside Play-house, 101 Iowa Ave.; $12 for adults, $10 for 55 and older and $5 for 12 and younger.• River City Heart Walk — 8:30 a.m. Saturday; Rainbow Event Center, 1380 Warrenton Road; free, but donations ac-cepted.• Jamey Johnson con-cert — 8 p.m. Saturday; Vicksburg City Auditori-um, 901 Monroe St.; tick-ets: $35.50 standing-room and $30.50 reserved seats, plus facility fees.• Vicksburg Art Associa-tion Members’ Spring Show — Kicks off 8 p.m. Saturday; Firehouse Gal-lery on Main and Open-wood streets; artwork on display through Wednes-day; free.• Vicksburg National Military Park — Monu-mental Maidens: The Fe-male Form in Memorial Art tour: 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday; vis-itor center; women’s his-tory presentation: 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sun-day; canopy at USS Cairo and museum; $8 per car.

KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg PosT

Vicksburg firefighters and policemen direct traffic to turn around on Indiana Avenue between Porters Chapel and South Frontage roads Thursday after strong winds knocked a large tree across power lines and the road at about 2:30

p.m. Traffic was routed onto South Frontage and Porters Chapel roads for about three hours while Entergy and city workers cleaned up the site.

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County woman reports mailed check scam

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Passport blitz Saturdayat Vicksburg post office

Vicksburg’s is one of 28 post offices in Mississippi that will participate in Passport Day In The USA 2010.

From 9 a.m. to noon Satur-day, the Pemberton Square Boulevard facility will take passport customers on a first-come, first-served basis. Typically, passport business is handled by appointment.

Fees for a passport book are $60 for those younger than 16 and $75 for adults. A passport card is $10 for youths and $20 for adults. A fee of $25 will be charged for processing, as well as $15 for the photo.

For more information, call the Vicksburg post office at 601-636-1022.

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Federal money factor in charter school debateBy shelia ByrdThe Associated Press

JaCKsON — Mississippi legislators are considering a charter school proposal that proponents say could better position the state for the federal Race to the Top competition and provide an option for parents with chil-dren in struggling schools.

The Obama Administra-tion has set aside $4.35 bil-lion for states in its educa-tion reform competition. In Mississippi, any boost in education funding would be welcomed, some lawmak-ers say.

But debate has been heated on proposals to give parents the option to create charter schools and “new start” schools in an effort to convert failing ones. Mis-sissippi has 212 schools that are classified as failing or at risk of failing. The state has a total of 951 elementary and secondary schools.

Generally, charter schools are supported with public funding but have a differ-ent governing structure and don’t have to adhere to all state mandates.

Other resistance has come to lawmakers who represent the poverty-stricken Mis-sissippi Delta region, which has majority black public school systems.

Up to $17M could goto sweet potato farmers

A new law says Mississippi

can provide up to $17 million in loan guarantees to sweet potato farmers.

Gov. Haley Barbour signed the loan bill on Wednes-day and it became law immediately.

The Mississippi Develop-ment Authority can extend the loan guarantees to sweet potato farmers who had disaster-related losses in 2009. Those seeking the state aid must apply by Aug. 1.

New law sets alertsfor missing elderly

A new Mississippi law will set up a Silver Alert system to notify the public and the authorities when an elderly person or someone with dementia or other cognitive impairment goes missing.

Gov. Haley Barbour signed a bill Wednesday, and it becomes law July 1.

The Silver Alert would be

similar to the Amber Alert, which notifies law enforce-ment officers and the public when a child is missing.

After a family member or caretaker reports the person missing, law enforce-ment agencies will be able to request a Silver Alert activation.

The Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Investiga-tion will activate the alert.

Fines, fees will now entirely fund regulation of casino industryBy Maria BurnhamThe Associated Press

JaCKsON — The regulation and enforcement of the casino industry in Mississippi will now be funded entirely through fees and fines.

Essentially the industry will be paying to regulate itself through the fees assessed for licensing, work permits, inspec-tions and equipment, said Larry Gregory, executive direc-tor of the Mississippi Gaming Commission.

On Thursday, the commission filed the proposed fees with the secretary of state’s office for a 30-day public review period. After that, the commission will consider public comment, make any changes it deems necessary and then put the final proposal up for another 30-day review. After that, com-missioners will vote for final

adoption.The move to a more industry-

driven funding was contained

in a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Haley Barbour. The bill required the Gaming Commis-sion to set fees at a level that will allow it to do its job with-out using any money from the

state budget.Previously, the commission’s

budget was 70 percent fee-based with the other 30 per-cent coming from the state.

Luckily the commission staff

saw the handwriting on the wall and realized this was coming long before it became law, Com-mission Chairman Jerry St. Pe said. That gave them plenty of time to come up with a fair fee

system, he said.When Mississippi’s casino

industry was in its infancy, the state fully funded the commission. JaCKsON (ap) — The

Mississippi Gaming Com-mission accepted Thursday an examiner’s decision that a Ridgeland-based organi-zation misused charitable gaming funds and ordered its DeSoto County bingo operation to shut down immediately.

In October, the commis-sion denied a new license to the Fine Arts Institute of Mississippi.

While that decision was under appeal, the charity was allowed to continue operating its Boxcar Bingo hall in Olive Branch.

Panel shuts downbingo operation

Obama’s former pastorcompares black strugglesto those of Bible’s DavidBy Jack elliott Jr.The Associated Press

JaCKsON — The Rev. Jer-emiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s former pastor, said Thurs-day that black par-ents must pass on to their children and grandchildren stories of the civil rights movement so the memories won’t die.

Wright, speak-ing to a civil rights conference at Jack-son State Univer-sity, compared the struggles of young blacks to that of the Bible’s David who was ostracized by his family and local authorities. He said children should be told they have worth and are blessed by the Lord.

Wright said for every instance of hate against blacks in the 1960s, there were people like Fannie Lou Hamer, who challenged a segregated Mis-sissippi Democratic Party con-vention delegation. And like President Lyndon B. Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“The spirit of the Lord kept the white Citizen’s Council in check ... SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Commit-tee) kept up the job of voter registration.

“The spirit of the Lord had

created them, had called them to serve in the 1960s, conse-crated them for the work God assigned them and kept them while their enemies tried to destroy them.” Wright said.

Wr i g h t wa s pastor at Trin-ity United Church of Christ in Chi-cago for 36 years. Obama left the church during his presidential cam-paign, after videos surfaced of bom-bastic sermons by Wright, who retired in 2008.

Wr i g h t t o l d reporters before his speech that he has not talked with the president.

He praised the president’s work on health care reform,

which Obama signed into law this week.

However, he said the partisan political debate and removal from the bill of a public health option was indicative of some members of Congress’ attitude toward blacks and the poor.

“The name-calling, the nasty blogs ... are part of that kind of hatred going around the coun-try for people of color and the poor,” Wright said.

He said it is to Obama’s credit that he was able to over-come the partisan politics to win approval of the health care bill.

Mississippi Superintendent of Education Tom Burnham addresses a news conference at the Capitol on Jan. 28 while Senate Educa-

tion Committee Chairman Videt Carmichael, R-Meridian, listens.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright was pastor

at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 36

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EDITORIALTHE VICKSBURG POST

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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1890A break in the levee occurs at Skipwiths. • A delightful dance is given at the residence of George P. Roche in honor of Miss M. Pitchford.

110 YEARS AGO: 1900News reaches Vicksburg of the death of former Gov. John Stone. • The parade of the Gentry Dog and Pony show attracts much attention.

100 YEARS AGO: 1910Henry Clayton dies. • The work of oiling Crawford Street between Washington and Mulberry is started.

90 YEARS AGO: 1920A beautiful fountain, to be erected on Washington Street play-ground in honor of the late Clara Thompson Hackett, arrives. • Bessie Calder will take charge of the playgrounds at South and Walnut streets.

80 YEARS AGO: 1930Roy Wilson is called to Richton by the serious illness of his mother.

70 YEARS AGO: 1940Cecil Jaquith, former resident, accepts a position with South-ern Bell Telephone Company at Jackson. • Dr. and Mrs. Pres-ton Herring motor to Jackson to hear the St. Louis Symphony orchestra.

60 YEARS AGO: 1950Frank E. Shanahan, city assessor, and Charles Hibou, county assessor, warn city and county residents of the deadline on homestead exemption applications. • The Salvation Army announces total spending of $14,198.17 for 1949.

50 YEARS AGO: 1960Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Wheat announce the birth of a daughter, Susan Denice.

40 YEARS AGO: 1970Mr. and Mrs. Warren Farrell announce the birth of a daugh-ter, Ruth Ann, on March 2. • Dr. Tom Mitchell is re-elected to the American Academy of General Practice, the National Association of Family Doctors.

30 YEARS AGO: 1980V.P. Hunter dies. • Mr. and Mrs. Earl Graham Allen are the parents of a son, Jamie Graham. • Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Landers Jr. announce the birth of a son, Byron Scott.

20 YEARS AGO: 1990Bill Harrell of New Orleans offers horse and buggy rides to children and adults in downtown Vicksburg. • Carol Caeser is promoted to branch officer at Deposit Guaranty National Bank. • Margaret Ann Ellis is engaged to marry Brian Anthony McKenna.

10 YEARS AGO: 2000Barbara Tolliver, school district administrator and former

teacher, is named president of the United Way of West Central Mississippi. • DC Jewelers advertises cake knives and servers. • Lillian Moeller-Daley dies.

HealthThe challenge now is to pay real costs

President Barack Obama used his Democratic majority, buttered with promises and payoffs, to pass a health care bill he declares is good for the American people, but one that the people despise.

Passing such sweeping legisla-tion against the public will, with the votes of just one party and by bending the rules of lawmak-ing, will make it much harder to convince taxpayers to endure the sacrifices that these changes will mandate.

In the end, passage is a solid personal political victory for Obama. His perseverance in driv-ing the bill forward despite it repeatedly coming off the rails stands as a historic presidential achievement, one that is pushing his poll numbers higher. People respond to strength.

The legislation is not likely to deliver a win for the country. A central reason, as Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss. noted repeatedly, is the cost.

The Congressional Budget Office scored the cost of the bill at $950 billion over 10 years. The CBO also says it will reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion. But achieving that feat on paper

required fiscal sleights of hand and for congressional Demo-crats to pretend to have forgotten everything they know about how government works.

The CBO had to score the bill based on what Congress says it intends to do. But no one who voted for this bill could possi-bly believe that Congress will, for example, cut $500 billion out of Medicare costs by attacking fraud. Nor are lawmakers likely to trim payments to doctors and hospitals by the amounts required to make the numbers work.

Former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin estimates in reality the bill will add $562 billion to the deficit and cost 2 1/2 times what is projected.

In addition, the coverage man-dates included in the bill will drive up health insurance pre-miums for both individuals and businesses. And it is paid for with direct tax hikes on high-income earners and indirect tax hikes on everyone else.

But the bill is done, at least for the moment, and is not likely to be undone. The challenge ahead is to make sure the nation can

pay for it without piling on defi-cits and raising taxes to the point where they diminish quality of life and kill economic growth.

That starts with Congress turn-ing into law the cost-cutting promises issued to make the bill look balanced.

Recognizing that the measure — like every other entitlement program ever passed — is likely to cost far more than projected, the president and Congress must commit to holding spending in other areas in check.

Obama claims to be fretful over rising deficits, and yet he keeps adding new spending programs that consume tax dollars in $10 billion clips. That has to stop. Spending should be restrained and the savings used to fund this bill.

The legislation levies 10 years of taxes to pay for six years of ben-efits. Congress must promise not to spend that money as it comes in on other programs, as it has always done with the Social Secu-rity surplus.

We have to remain optimis-tic that will happen. The alter-native, quite simply, is national bankruptcy.

WASHINGTON — At any given political moment, the most impor-tant public judgment made about a president is not “liberal” or “conser-vative”; it is “strong” or “weak.” A verdict of weakness tends to be self-reinforcing. Every stumble proves the narrative, while achievements that contradict that narrative are downplayed or ignored. (See Jimmy Carter.) But the converse is also true. Strength has a momentum of its own.

President Obama possesses a cer-tain kind of strength, which I had underestimated. His reserve is not passionless. During the health care debate, Obama has been tenacious, even ruthless. Following the Republi-can Senate victory in Massachusetts, he reacted with anger and ambi-tion, not conciliation. He rejected a “skinny bill” out of hand. He was willing to employ and defend any method — budget gimmicks, special deals, procedural tricks — to achieve his goal. His methods were flexible — the legislation violates some of his own campaign pledges on health care reform, including the imposition of an individual mandate — but his determination was firm. When push came to shove, he shoved.

In the process, Obama has joined

the pantheon of progressive presi-dents. Some of them, such as the ruth-lessly cheerful Franklin Roosevelt, were politically dominant. Others ended as political failures: Woodrow Wilson, cold, cerebral and unloved; Lyndon Johnson, passionate, pride-ful and broken. But each tested the limits of executive power, changed the relationship between citizens and the state, and inspired genera-tions to love or disdain. Obama now belongs in this company.

The politics of health reform is nearly as complex as the legislation itself. To have raised this issue first — before a serious emphasis on job creation and economic growth — still seems a serious mistake. Obama’s progressive agenda did not align with public priorities, which has cost

him support. Once he embarked on that agenda, however, abandoning it would have fed a narrative of weak-ness that could have undermined the entire Obama presidency.

Yet passing this ambitious reform on a party-line vote by questionable tactics may also lead to political disaster. Headed into a midterm elec-tion, Obama has managed to alien-ate many senior citizens, concerned that cuts in their Medicare will be used to finance someone else’s enti-tlement, and many independents, whose general disgust with the polit-ical process has been reinforced. The intensity of opposition to health care reform remains higher than the intensity of support. Solid majorities of Americans believe that reform will increase their own costs and

reduce the quality of their care. No amount of presidential speechmak-ing between now and November is likely to change those views — par-ticularly because the past year of presidential speechmaking actually has been counterproductive.

The immediate political judgment on Obama is likely to be harsh. The historical judgment is, by nature, uncertain. Obama can (correctly) comfort himself that he has altered the health care debate in America forever. When Republicans eventu-ally return to power, they will attempt to modify the package through the introduction of more market-oriented elements. They will not attempt to abolish health care reform. What Republican would want to campaign on a return to the exclusion of insur-ance coverage because of pre-exist-ing conditions? Obama has created legislative facts on the ground that will shape every future health care debate.

But the value of this achievement will be determined by another his-torical judgment. If this health care reform had passed in, say, 1994, it might have been just another burden borne by a growing economy, and later refined as the predictable, unintended consequences of the law

became evident — an economic drag, but not a disaster. Yet if the Ameri-can government is headed toward a general entitlement crisis, Obama’s health reform will be seen as his-torically irresponsible. He is adding a massive new entitlement on top of a structure of entitlements that is already precarious. The costs of this new commitment are projected to grow at about 8 percent a year — faster than the economy or tax revenues. And this new entitlement is substantially funded by the easi-est cuts in current entitlements — money that now cannot be used to honor existing, unfunded entitlement promises.

In this historical scenario, the irony will be thick. Having seen Wall Street court disaster with highly leveraged risks and many Americans ruined by overextended borrowing, Obama’s main response to the economic crisis has been to repeat the excesses of both on a grand scale.

It is possible for a president to be strong — and badly wrong.

•Michael Gerson writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. E-mail reaches him at [email protected].

When push came to shove, this president shoved

MICHAELGERSON

If the American government is headed toward a general entitle-ment crisis, Obama’s health re-

form will be seen as historically ir-responsible.

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Democrats send Obama final piece of health care legislationWASHINGTON (AP) — Con-

gressional Democrats sent the final piece of landmark health care legislation to President Barack Obama before heading home to face a skeptical — and sometimes even threatening — electorate.

The last legislative chapter in the wrenching national debate over Obama’s health overhaul plan came Thursday night in the House, as Democrats

approved — for the second time — a package of fixes to the sweeping health bill Obama signed two days earlier. The measure includes better bene-fits for seniors and low-income and middle-class families.

In the hours ahead of the vote lawmakers reported isolated threats of violence from a vola-tile public.

The vote was 220-207, as majority Democrats pre-

vailed despite 32 defections and no Republican support. The same bill had passed the Senate earlier in the day 56-43, with all voting Republicans and three Democrats voting “no.”

Obama was expected to sign the measure early next week.

The fix-it bill was slightly changed by the Senate from a version that passed the House last weekend, necessitating

Thursday night’s second vote by the House because both chambers must approve iden-tical legislation before the pres-ident can sign it.

“This is the last step we must take to make health reform a reality for millions of Ameri-cans,” said Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J.

Republicans were bitterly opposed to the end.

“We need to repeal Obama-

care and replace it with policy that will create more access, create jobs, which will lower the cost of health care and not be a government takeover of the health care system,” said Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga.

In Iowa on Thursday to trum-pet the benefits of the legisla-tion, Obama said, “We made a promise. That promise has been kept.”

“From this day forward, all

of the cynics, all the naysayers — they’re going to have to con-front the reality of what this reform is and what it isn’t,” the president said. “They’ll have to finally acknowledge this isn’t a government takeover of our health care system.”

Taken together, the two bills extend coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans and aim to crack down on unpopular insurance industry practices.

Hood says he needs timeon lawsuitdecisionBy Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press

JACKSON — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Thursday he needs more time to evaluate a new fed-eral health care law before deciding whether to chal-lenge it in court.

Hood also said Gov. Haley Barbour is not authorized to file suit while the attorney general’s office completes its review.

Barbour’s o f f i c e h a d no immedi-ate response t o H o o d ’s announce-ment.

More than a dozen other st at e s a r e challenging the constitutionality of the health care overhaul, which President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday.

Barbour, a Republican, had given Hood, a Democrat, until noon Thursday to say whether the attorney gener-al’s office would file a lawsuit. Barbour said he would file one himself if Hood chooses not to act.

Barbour said the health care law might be unconstitu-tional because it will require most Americans to buy health insurance by 2014.

Hood said attorneys in his office are evaluating the law and will consult constitu-tional experts.

“Our office will seek the counsel of constitutional scholars within our univer-sity system and make a timely decision based upon the dry law — not anyone’s agenda or political aspirations,” Hood said in a publicly released letter to Barbour.

Barbour is head of the Republican Governors Asso-ciation and has not dismissed the possibility of running for president in 2012. He can’t seek a third term in Missis-sippi in 2011.

Hood said last week that he will seek re-election as attor-ney general next year.

Florida Attorney Gen-eral Bill McCollum took the lead in a lawsuit filed by 13 state attorneys general. He has been joined by col-leagues from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Utah, Pennsylvania, Ala-bama, South Dakota, Louisi-ana, Idaho, Washington and Colorado.

Some states, including Wis-consin, are considering join-ing the suit.

Georgia is among the states filing its own lawsuit and not joining the one led by Florida.

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, said Thursday he plans to appoint a spe-cial attorney general to file the lawsuit after Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, declined Perdue’s request to sue.

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In February 2009, supervi-sors hired a Natchez firm, Receivable Solutions Special-ists, to try to collect amounts owed in fines and some past-due garbage fees. That effort has netted only a fraction and the board hinted the company won’t be handling any additional court fine accounts after this month.

A poor economy has hit local government income and prompted a series of actions, including consider-ing employee furloughs and using distress warrants to collect past-due property taxes.

Northern District Justice Court Judge Eddie Woods said most payment plans require $100 to $300 monthly installments, and the court has to be realistic in setting and collecting fines. South-ern District Justice Court Judge Jeff Crevitt agreed. “If you put somebody on an outrageous payment, you’re never going to see it,” Crevitt

said. “The problem we have

is $500 is all the money in the world to some people,” Woods said. “If somebody’s ordered to pay $300, I don’t see why somebody can’t come up with that — maybe I need to adjust my thinking because of the economy... but everybody’s got a cell phone. When they whip out that cell phone, I know they have $100 to pay.”

An amnesty program and community service to work off fines was put into place in November by the City of Vicksburg, where bench warrants were suspended for people who worked out payment arrangements or agreed to pick up trash or clean buildings. It has had some success.

For the county to have pay-ment plans or work pro-grams, officials said, pay-ment options must be kept affordable and the sheriff’s department must agree to supervise community ser-vice, which the judges indi-cated would be a departure

from the department’s cur-rent stance.

State law allows courts to order defendants to pay fines any of four ways — immedi-ately, by installments, as a condition of probation or by requiring them to work on public property for public benefit under the direction of the sheriff for a specific number of hours.

Because the Warren County Jail remains full, if sentenced to jail, misde-meanor detainees most likely would be taken to Issaquena County, adding the cost of transportation to the per-day rate charged by the private detention center in Mayersville.

Thursday, officials said they also want to rearrange how money from fines, constable payments and special assess-ments is distributed. Cur-rently, fines paid to county coffers often make up the final bits of the total amount paid by defendants, after constables and assessments to the state are paid.

CountyContinued from Page A1.

mercial customers will pay $339 more.

The increases, said the board, will be used to pay off multimillion-dollar deficits in both utility funds over the next seven years. Because those deficits have been paid from the general fund, the increases will free up the money for the mayor and aldermen to allocate to other purposes.

City Accountant Doug Whittington said there is a $2.5 million deficit in the water fund and a $2.4 million shortfall in the sewer fund. According to his calculations, it would take seven years to achieve a balance where the city-owned utilities will be self-sustaining and deficit-free.

“Basically, we’re creating a surcharge ... and that sur-charge will work to retire that debt,” said Mayor Paul Winfield. “The city has been supplementing these funds, and we cannot continue to do that or we will bankrupt the city.”

Specifically, minimum water rates for residents will rise from $5 to $8.75 per month, based on consump-tion of less than 2,000 gallons. The charge for each 1,000 gal-lons after the first 2,000 will rise 30 cents to $3.07.

Minimum sewer rates will go to $12.90 per month, up from $8.85, also based on the 2,000 gallon threshold. Additional volume charges are going up by $1, to $3.60 per every 1,000 additional gallons.

Commercial customers will see larger increases. Their minimum usage fee is going up by $12 a month to $35.81 and minimum sewer rates will more than double — to $28.25, from $12.

“The reason for the discrep-ancy is the commercial use puts more demand on the system,” Whittington said.

In the past, shortfalls in the water and sewer funds have been subsidized by a number of other city funds, primar-ily the general fund, which is approximately $31.5 million for this fiscal year. In fiscal year 2008, Whittington said the water fund ran a $242,000 deficit and the sewer fund was $393,000 in the red. Last fiscal year was even worse, he said, with the water fund drawing $770,000 from other funds and the sewer fund running a $829,000 deficit.

On top of being a budgeting nightmare, Whittington said supplementing the utility funds with the general fund each year is not allowed by state municipal law.

“It becomes a question of how long can we continue to allow sales tax, gaming revenue and property tax to subsidize these funds that are supposed to be self-suf-ficient?” said Whittington. “The general fund is running short as well.”

South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman said the util-ity funds have been accumu-lating millions of dollars in debt mostly due to failures in the city’s aging sewer and water infrastructure. Many of the pipes are made of clay and date back to more than 100 years, making burst, col-lapsed or backed up pipes a common occurrence.

“That’s why this quote ‘sur-charge’ is so important,” said Beauman. “It will generate an account in the future that will have dollars in it in the event of emergencies.”

Before the surcharges start to accumulate into an emer-gency repair fund, they’ll be used to pay off the nearly $5 million debt the water and sewer funds have racked up. Of the collective $7.80 rise in water and sewer charges for residential customers per

month, $4.50 will be set aside to repay the utility bond debt. On businesses with water and sewer, $14.75 of the $28.25 monthly increase on their bill will go toward the debt.

Once the utility fund debts are repaid, Whittington said the administration will have the choice of continu-ing the surcharges to create an emergency repair fund such as Beauman envisions or eliminate the extra fees. Whittington emphasized the city’s rates are still less than half of those charged by sev-eral local water districts, and noted the last time water and sewer rates were increased was 2006.

“This is a hard thing to do,” Winfield said of the rate hikes, “but it’s something we have to do.”

Vicksburg also operates a natural gas utility and that’s where most of the rate fluctuations have been in recent years, as well. After

five increases approved throughout early 2008 more than quadrupled the rate, a decrease in September 2008 dropped base fees to $4.31 per 1,000 cubic feet — still roughly $2.50 higher per month than before the increases began.

In August 2008, the city also raised garbage collec-tion fees. Single-family resi-dences and small commercial customers who have garbage collected twice weekly saw their monthly fees rise by $2.06, from $17.89 to $19.95. Downtown businesses were subjected to an even sharper rise in rates, from $43.53 to $48.54, for collection four times weekly.

Waste Management of Mis-sissippi Inc. is contracted to collect garbage, but the city handles the billing and administration of the service. The electricity franchise in the city is owned by Entergy Inc.

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On the agendaMeeting Thursday, the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen: • Recognized employee an-

niversaries: Rufus White, 35 years, sewer depart-ment; Marilyn “Rosie” Ed-wards, 15 years, waste water treatment plant; An-gela Bell, 15 years, water and gas; Johnnie Edwards, 10 years, police; Tasha Wynn, 10 years, city clerk’s office; Cathy Mitchell, five years, recreation; James Washington, five years, right of way; and Tommy Curtis, five years, police.

• Received a bid for con-cession stand opera-tion from Roscoe Lee Inc. of Edwards, at $600 per month for the franchise at Halls Ferry Park and City Park during adult softball games.

• Awarded Brown Bottling Group Inc. of Ridgeland the city’s soft drink fran-chise.

• OK’d a request to cancel a contract with Holmes Lawn Care for grass cut-ting at Cedar Hill Cem-etery and awarded the contract to Scallions Lawn Service. Purchasing Direc-tor Tim Smith said Holmes Lawn Care informed the city it could not fulfill the contract, and the board decided the company should not be allowed to bid on any city contracts for three years. Scallions will be paid $6,449 per cutting.

• OK’d an agreement with Cintas for cleaning sup-plies at $22,705.28 per year.

• OK’d an amendment to a frequency reconfiguration agreement with Nextel at no cost to city funds.

• OK’d a request from parks and recreation for a $2,820 payment for Vicksburg Girls Softball Association affiliation and insurance fees.

• Agreed to continue affili-ation with the Mississippi Main Street Association for Vicksburg Main Street in 2010.

• Gave Vicksburg Main Street permission to host a “Preview to Hollywood Hair Show” at Crawford Square on Saturday, April 17, from 2 to 4 p.m.; and gave permission to host a downtown 5K walk ben-efiting the National Mul-tiple Sclerosis Society on April 17.

• Tabled a request by Vicks-burg Main Street to hold the 3rd annual Vicksburg Farmers’ Market at Grove and Levee streets from

June 5 to Aug. 28. • Adopted a resolution for

cutting or clearing, and established special as-sessment of the follow-ing properties: 2014 Ford St., owned by Acquintas Enterprises LLC; 2504 Oak St., owned by the State of Mississippi; and 2112 Oak St., owned by Jefferson Strong.

• OK’d a request to lend Port Gibson approximately 100 barricades for its 18th an-nual Heritage Festival on Saturday. Mayor Paul Win-field, city attorney for Port Gibson, did not partici-pate in the decision.

• OK’d a request from Vicks-burg Catholic Schools to block part of Grove Street, connecting Howard and Hayes streets, on May 1, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the 40th Play-A-Day-In-May-Away Festival.

• OK’d a request from the police department to re-move a 2008 Chevrolet Impala from unmarked in-ventory to marked inven-tory.

• OK’d payment of $4,602.61 to the Vicksburg-Tallu-lah Regional Airport in Mound, La.

• OK’d payment of $17,500 to the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District.

• Approved the reports of the city sexton, privilege license, mayor and trea-surer, monthly tax col-lection, delinquent tax collection and detailed budget.

• Approved the claims dock-et.

In closed session, the board:• OK’d seven longevity rais-

es in waste water treat-ment, city clerk and police, recreation, right of way and water and gas depart-ments.

• OK’d one hire in the police department and three in parks and recreation, one transfer each in building maintenance and commu-nity service, two raises in the fire department and a termination in inspection.

• Accepted a resignation in the police department and two in water mainte-nance.

• Discussed personnel mat-ters in the sewer, gas, parks and recreation maintenance and fire de-partments and one litiga-tion matter.

The board is scheduled to meet next at 10 a.m. April 5 at City Hall Annex, 1415 Walnut St.

$350,000 reimbursement from Kansas City Southern rail-road will complete the $4 mil-lion needed to get the con-tract signed.

The city has been trying to fill the funding shortfall for the tunnel project since shortly after the bridge was closed to traffic in January 2009 after soil along the river bluff washed away from sup-port piers.

The city most recently made a formal request for a $4 million federal earmark, but it won’t know until the summer if local delegates secured the appropriation. If that money comes, the $4 million reallocated from the bond authorization will become available for the orig-inal purposes.

Winfield said Thurs-day the city cannot afford to wait or the cost of the tunnel — which has already nearly doubled since the city began planning for it in 2006 — could rise even more. The reason, said the mayor, is Kanzaa Construc-tion of Topeka, Kan., recently informed the city the $8.6 million quote it gave on the tunnel work last summer will only be good until Wednesday.

“We’re at a stage right now where we can’t afford to sit on our hands and allow this project to change again,” Winfield said. “But we should not, and cannot, legally move forward without having the funding in place.”

“This is only in the event that we do not get our fed-eral appropriation,” Win-field said. “I’m very confident we’ll get it and those funds will be put back in place for those projects.”

While North Ward Alder-man Michael Mayfield and South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman agreed with the mayor on reallocating the $1.5 million from paving projects, primarily on North Ward streets, Beauman voted against moving the funds from the sports com-plex project.

“I’ve got a problem with it,” said Beauman, who has long championed the complex and was parks and recreation director before being elected alderman in 2001. “We talked yesterday and you men-tioned to me some other ideas for that property, and I don’t want to sit here and vote for moving the money, and come back later and the property is not available for us to complete (the sports

complex).”Vicksburg has invested mil-

lions in the sports develop-ment, starting with the pur-chase of the land off Fisher Ferry Road between Hamil-ton Heights subdivision and St. Michael Catholic Church. Clear River Construction is nearing completion of a $2.38 million contract to com-plete phase one clearing and ground work on the sports complex that started in early 2009. The second and final phase of work, which would include completion of the first four softball fields, was expected to be put to bid this spring.

The mayor said he does not think the sports complex is being constructed on the most appropriate site, but insisted that had no bearing on his decision to alter its funding.

“This is not to slight the youth or recreation in Vicks-burg, but it’s an issue of sur-vival in our city,” Winfield said. “We have the most pressing issue in Vicksburg today before us. Business owners are suffering, and it has totally thrown the move-ment throughout our city off. It’s a tough issue now, and I’m sure there are some folks who are not going to be happy about it, but we have been charged with set-ting priorities.” Washing-ton Street is the city’s main north-south corridor.

City Attorney Lee Davis Thames Jr. said he would begin discussions with Kanzaa immediately to get a contract in place before the March 31 deadline.

“I’m running to talk to them as soon as this meet-ing is over,” he assured the board. Winfield said Kanzaa informed the city it will be ready to break ground on the project within 10 days of a contract signing.

The tunnel project likely will be split into two phases. The first will include creating a connector road between Washington and Lee streets via DiamondJacks entrance on the south side of the closed bridge. The existing two-lane casino entrance would be widened by a lane, with one lane dedicated to casino traffic and the remain-ing two for city traffic.

The new road should ease some of the conges-tion and shorten the cur-rent detour route around the bridge, which takes motor-ists around City Park via Lee Street, Confederate Avenue and North Frontage Road. The second phase will include the construction of the tunnel, which should be complete one year after the

project begins. When the city began plan-

ning for the bridge replace-ment, the estimated cost was $5 million and that amount was set aside in a $16.9 mil-lion bond issue — the same bond issue that set aside funds for the paving and sports complex projects. The Federal Railroad Adminis-tration was to reimburse the city $4 million via a grant at the rate of $1 million per year, leaving the city’s net cost at $1 million.

The city got a three-year extension earlier this month on the reimburse-ment, meaning the net cost to the city will be $5 million if the federal earmark is not forthcoming and remain at $1 million if federal cash is obtained.

Under both former Mayor Laurence Leyens and Win-field, city officials tried to corral federal stimulus dol-lars or funds from the Mis-sissippi Department of Transportation to get the project under way. They gave local delegates a tour of the 80-year-old span, showing them the negative effects of its closure. During an annual lobby trip to Washington, D.C., this spring, a group of city, county and business leaders all told delegates getting an earmark for the bridge was the city’s No. 1 priority.

“You’re going to have some people that are going to be upset about the fact that their street possibly may not be paved or that park possi-bly may not be finished, but you can’t be caught in a situ-ation that we find ourselves in right now,” Mayfield said. “There’s always an if when you’re talking about federal dollars, and I’m just really hoping they come through for us because if they don’t we’re going to be blanked if we do and blanked if we don’t.”

Municipalities are autho-rized to borrow money for capital projects through the bonding process, pledging to make payments over time, usually 10 years or 20 years. Money is not actually bor-rowed until needed. After a bond proposal is passed, there is a period for citizens to object and, if enough do, a public vote is required. Once a bond issue is finally approved, officials are legally free to adjust the purpose when needs change.

Vicksburg has a good bond rating and repayment of existing debts costs about 7 percent of the general fund or $2.2 million per year.

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end April 3, but the House and Senate passed a reso-lution Thursday that sets a new schedule.

Legislators plan to work through this weekend and

into Tuesday or Wednes-day to finish bills that would make general changes to state laws.

They’ll leave the Capitol for almost three weeks, then return April 20 to finish the budget. The session’s new ending date is May 3.

Leaders say the adjusted

schedule won’t create any new expenses. Lawmakers have skipped several days because of cold weather or long weekends, and they’ll use those days when they return.

Mississippi officials are hoping that Congress in the next few weeks will expand

a stimulus program that has temporarily given states extra money for Medicaid. State House and Senate lead-ers say Mississippi could get $187 million from the expansion.

That would be a relatively small portion of what’s shap-ing up as $5.5 billion state

budget for the year that starts July 1. It would, how-ever, allow legislators to shuffle some state money out of Medicaid and into other services such as education.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Alan Nunnelee, R-Tupelo, said nobody wants a replay of last

year, when lawmakers left and returned several times before finishing a budget moments before the new fiscal year began.

“I don’t think any of us want to be here on June the 30th at 11:59 p.m., waiting for Congress to act,” Nunnelee said.

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Q: I watch television at night, which is nothing but infomer-cials. The one that catches my

atten-tion is the TV corre-spon-dence courses that adver-tise get-t ing a nation-ally

accredited diploma? If one were to get their degree this way, do businesses actu-ally acknowledge these as legit degrees? — Reader, via e-mail

A: There are many corre-spondence schools out there

that are held in high regard. In fact, these are becoming more acceptable. There are many people who have been trained at home to raise their skill levels, and there are, as you may know, accredited col-leges that offer degrees that are earned entirely or almost entirely through the mail. If this is something you are con-sidering, I would be very dili-gent in doing my homework to check them out. As I said earlier, with everything good, there definitely is the bad, and there are some correspon-dence courses out there that will rip you off.

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Senate Republican holds up jobless benefitsWASHINGTON (AP) — As

Congress raced to leave Wash-ington for its Easter recess, a Republican senator blocked a stopgap bill to extend jobless benefits, saying its $9 billion cost should not be added to the national debt.

As a result, some people who have been out of work for more than six months will at least temporarily lose ben-efits. Newly jobless people won’t be eligible to sign up for generous health insurance

subsidies.At the center of the battle

is Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who’s insisting that the mea-sure be “paid for” so as not to add to the nation’s $12.7 tril-lion debt.

“What we are doing is steal-ing future opportunity from our children,” Coburn said Thursday.

Republicans offered legisla-tion to finance the monthlong extension of jobless benefits by rescinding unspent money

from last year’s economic stimulus bill. The effort was killed on a party-line vote.

Democrats repeatedly sought speedy Senate approval of a House-passed measure that would extend jobless benefits through May 5, but Coburn objected. Republicans said Senate negotiations produced a compromise that didn’t pass muster in the House.

Jim Manley, a spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the Senate

would attempt to retroac-tively bestow the jobless ben-efits when it returns from its spring recess April 12.

The practical effect of the lapse in benefits would be lim-ited if they are awarded retro-actively. But labor advocates say it produces bureacratic nightmares for state labor departments and that trying to restore the lapsed benefits is easier said than done.

Government to unveil plan to shrink home loansWASHINGTON — The

Obama administration will announce today a plan to reduce the amount some troubled borrowers owe on their home loans, after months of criticism that it hasn’t done enough to pre-vent foreclosures.

The effort will let people who owe more on their mort-gages than their proper-ties are worth get new loans backed by the Federal Hous-ing Administration, people briefed on the plan said. It would be funded by $14 bil-lion from the administra-tion’s existing $75 billion fore-closure-prevention program.

Toyota stopping outputin Britain, France

TOKYO — Toyota said today it is stopping produc-tion at its factories in France and Britain for a total of nine days amid falling sales that the company partly attrib-uted to its recent recall woes.

The world’s No. 1 auto-maker will suspend output at it plant in France for four days starting April 6, said spokesman Ririko Takeuchi. Toyota will also stop produc-tion at its two factories in Britain for five working days sometime in May.

Evenflo recalls150,000 baby gates

WASHINGTON — Evenflo is recalling 150,000 wooden gates that block stairways from young children.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the slats on Evenflo Top-of-

Stair Plus gates can break or detach, allowing children to access the stairs.

The company has received 142 reports of broken or detached slats, including three reports of children who breached the gate and gained access to the stairs.

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Wild-harvest shrimpfrom Mexico banned

WASHINGTON — Mexico is losing its certification to export wild-harvest shrimp to the United States because its trawls lack required pro-tections for endangered sea turtles, the State Department said.

The department said the certification was with-drawn after the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service determined that Mexico’s turtle excluder devices no longer meet U.S. stan-dards. U.S. rules require that exporters use excluders comparable to those used by American shrimpers.

N.Y. regulators rejectEntergy spinoff

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York utility regulators on Thursday rejected Entergy Corp.’s plan to spin off its six nuclear power stations into a separate company.

The state Public Service Commission acted after its staff determined the deal

wasn’t in the public inter-est, primarily because the resulting company — Enexus Energy Corp. — could be financially shaky.

New Orleans-based Entergy had offered con-cessions that would have reduced the spinoff’s initial debt and restricted dividend payouts, among other things.

But that wasn’t enough to overcome the commission’s concerns.

The commission said its rules allow the power pro-vider to ask for a re-hearing or file a new petition.

Marathon bringsrefinery up to speed

GARYVILLE, La. — Mara-thon Oil Corp. said Thurs-

day it has brought its vastly expanded Louisiana refinery up to full production, turning out nearly 20 million gallons of gasoline and other fuels a day despite the industry chill from possible carbon legisla-tion coming from Congress and growing competition overseas.

Following a $3.9 billion expansion, Houston-based Marathon is now processing about 436,000 barrels of oil per day at its New Orleans-area refinery and producing 19.5 million gallons of gaso-line and other fuels daily. Previously, the refinery could handle 256,000 barrels of oil and turn out 12 million gal-lons of fuels daily.

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to hold steady at about 9,000, Price said the district will aim for maximum efficiency in class scheduling, which has already begun for next year for secondary students.

On paper the budget reflects about $1.4 million more in spending, from $78.6 million this year to $80 mil-lion for the budget year start-ing July 1, but much of that is due to dedicated projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or specific grants that are not part of regular spending, Price said.

Total anticipated revenues are lower by about $350,000, but again reflect ARRA funds as well as grants, that pad revenues by more than $5 million and distort an antici-pated loss of $5.5 million in state aid.

Trustees stopped short of setting a date to adopt the budget after Zelmarine Murphy, newly elected board president, requested a work session to further study it, line by line.

“I see my name there on the last page,” Murphy said in reference to the budget package. “If I have to be a part of this I want to be knowledgeable about what’s in it. We are accountable to the citizens of this commu-nity for the finances and the education of our children.”

The work session was tar-geted for mid-April.

Price said estimating rev-enues — local as well as state and federal — has meant aiming at a constantly moving target.

Disregarding ARRA rev-enues and spending, about $6 million was cut from the district’s operating expenses next year, mostly due to the projected 15 percent cut in the expected state contribu-tion, Price told the board.

“We try to get as accurate a number as possible so we can build a budget,” he said. “There’s just no such thing anymore as having a defini-tive budget, though, because it changes every day,” he said, referring to state aid. “If the cuts do not occur, we can build things back in.”

Since this fiscal year began last July 1 Gov. Haley Bar-bour has cut MAEP funds to school districts three times, once last week after the Leg-islature had voted to restore a portion of the previous cuts.

Legislators are work-ing toward setting the state budget for 2010-2011, mean-ing Price and Dale McClung,

district finance director, must operate largely on guess-work in deciding on next years’ plan because again this year the Legislature will still be in session while schools are making hiring and other decisions.

Price said some school dis-tricts will wait until final pledges are made by the state, which provides most of the district’s money. He said he prefers getting the budget ready early so teacher and other contracts can be set-tled and the district can move into testing and other end-of-school-year mat-ters and activities with the budget behind them. “The teachers and the public need to know,” he said.

In addition to predicting state cuts, Price said he and McClung aimed at shaving about 5 percent of local con-tributions, which come from the schools’ share of real estate and personal property taxes and casino revenues.

McClung said because of increases in assessed valua-tions, his built-in cuts result in a relatively flat projection of local aid from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2011.

The difference of $5.6 million between antici-pated revenues and bud-geted expenses is reflected in beginning balances in various accounts, includ-ing ARRA monies, and does not indicate deficit spending, McClung told the board.

Some of these are for funds that have been set aside for certain expenses, such as $2 million — part of that beginning balance — in bond funds that will pay for already-approved construction at Vicksburg Junior High and Warrenton Elementary schools. That total is also reflected in the apparent large increase in the equipment/renovations category.

Besides employee posi-tions lost through attrition,

some current employees will not have their contracts renewed, Price said. “That’s a performance issue,” Price said, declining to make a guess as to how many may not be brought back but adding that most or all of those employees will be replaced.

Other expenses being cut include about $1 million in support services, which includes building mainte-nance, and about $440,000 in transportation.

Besides the VJHS and War-renton projects, “We won’t be doing any kind of new construction at all,” he said. “And we won’t be buying any new buses. That’s another big-ticket item that we will delay.”

He said “dozens and dozens” of other budget line items have been trimmed.

“We laboriously went through it, line item by line item,” Price said. “That got us an additional $1 million.”


TONIGHT

The clouds are gone and the sunny skies continue

Saturday. Rain chances will increase Saturday night.

44°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSSETTSATuRdAy

76°

WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information

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

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECASTsunday-monday

Partly cloudy; highs in the upper 60s, lows in the up-

per 40s

STATE FORECASTTonIGHT

Clear; lows near 40

saTurday-mondayMostly cloudy; chance

of showers and thunder-storms; highs in the mid-70s, lows in the lower 40s

ALmAnACHIGHs and Lows

High/past 24 hours............. 68ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 52ºAverage temperature ........ 60ºNormal this date .................. 60ºRecord low .............26º in 1955Record high ...........88º in 1907

raInfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ............. 0.47 inchThis month .............2.58 inchesTotal/year ............. 12.81 inchesNormal/month .....4.98 inchesNormal/year ....... 15.31 inches

soLunar TabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Saturday:A.M. Active ........................... 3:15A.M. Most active ................ 9:28P.M. Active ............................ 3:41P.M. Most active ................. 9:54

sunrIse/sunseTSunset today ....................... 7:18Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:18Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:58

RIVER DATAsTaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 36.4 | Change: +0.8Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 19.3 | Change: -0.1

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City


Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 19.3 | Change: N/C

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West


Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 18.5 | Change: +2.4

Flood: 28 feet

sTeeLe bayouLand ...................................78.3River ...................................83.8

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Saturday ................................ 44.6Sunday ................................... 44.2Monday ................................. 43.9

MemphisSaturday ................................ 28.3Sunday ................................... 28.4Monday ................................. 28.4

GreenvilleSaturday ................................ 42.6Sunday ................................... 43.1Monday ................................. 43.5

VicksburgSaturday ................................ 37.0Sunday ................................... 37.6Monday ................................. 38.1

Vicksburg Warren School District budgets

Budgeted revenues and expenditures, fiscal 2009-2010 and fiscal 2010-2011(Unaudited actual figures for 2009-2010 will not be available until after June 30)* see below

2008-2010Revenues: 2008-2009 2009-2010 Difference PercentLocal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,548,562 $25,537,075 -$11,487 -.04%State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $39,906,389 $37,789,528* -$2,116,861 -5.3%Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,024,810 $10,681,083 -$343,727 -3.1%16th Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $906,088 $774,456 -$131,682 -14.5%Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $77,385,849 $74,782,142 -$2,603,707 -3.4%

Expenditures: 2008-2009 2009-2010 Difference PercentSalaries/Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $59,878,918 $58,036,920 -$1,841,998 -3.1%Professional Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,493,281 $2,020,939 $527,658 35.3%Property/Purchased Services . . . . . $7,937,577 $7,243,501 -$694,076 -8.7%Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,220,708 $7,069,403 -$151,305 -2.1%Equipment/Renovations . . . . . . . . . $1,119,467 $1,560,494 $441,027 39.4%Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,724,989 $2,731,261 $6,272 .23%Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $80,374,940 $78,662,518 -$1,712,422 -2.1%

2009-2011Revenues: 2009-2010 2010-2011 Difference PercentLocal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,537,075 $25,560,452 $23,377 +0.09%State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $37,789,528* $32,207,661 -$5,581,867 -14.8%Federal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,681,083 $16,137,138 $5,456,055 +51.1%16th Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $774,456 $530,764 -$243,692 -31.5%Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $74,782,142 $74,436,015 -$346,127 -0.46%

Expenditures: 2009-2010 2010-2011 Difference PercentSalaries/Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $58,036,920 $57,293,198 -$743,722 -1.3%Professional Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,020,939 $2,560,714 $539,775 +26.7%Property/Purchased Services . . . . . $7,243,501 $7,085,896 -$157,605 -2.2%Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,069,403 $6,844,395 -$225,008 -3.2%Equipment/Renovations . . . . . . . . . $1,560,494 $3,847,685 $2,287,191** 146.57%Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,731,261 $2,396,546 -$334,715 -12.3%Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $78,662,518 $80,028,434 +$1,365,916 +1.7%

* Revised state allocation for 2009-2010, after governor’s cuts and legislative restorations, through March 16, 2010, is $34,716,279 (source: Mississippi Department of Education).** Includes $2 million in construction funded by federal stimulus funds (ARRA).

Explanations:Salaries are all licensed and non-licensed employees. Professional services include consulting, curriculum improvement, guidance services, lawyers, nurses and contractors. Property/purchased services include utilities, postage and printing. Supplies include general and instructional items, books, gasoline and oil. Property includes land improvements and equipment (machinery, vehicles, furniture and fixtures). Other includes dues and fees, interest and principal on notes, bonds and other debts.

The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.

James E. DixonJames E. Dixon died Tues-

day, March 23, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. He was 67.

Mr. Dixon was a native and lifelong resident of Vicks-burg. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and owned and operated Dixon Service Sta-tion for many years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Maurice Ervin Dixon Sr. and Maggie Leist Hackler Dixon; and two brothers, Maurice Ervin Dixon Jr. and Albert Lee Hackler.

He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Janet Caldwell Dixon of Vicksburg; three sons, James Ervin “Jim” Dixon and wife Kim of Madi-son, Sean Stewart Dixon and wife Melanie of Vicksburg and William George Dixon of Vicksburg; one brother, Lonnie Ray Dixon and wife Beverly of Florissant, Mo.; four sisters, Vera Snow of Creston, Ohio, and Bobbye Dunn, Doris Williams and Martha Boone and husband David, all of Vicksburg; five beloved grandchildren, Ally-

son, Kathleen, Kyle, Sean and Miranda Dixon; and 16 nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 27, 2010, at Glenwood Chapel with the Rev. Ron Burch officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be J.O. Smith, David Smith, Alan Dixon, Jeff McRaney, Greg Bryan, Sean Williams, Jim Dixon, Derrek Elam, Stew-art Dixon, George Dixon and Craig Watkins.

Honorary pallbearers will be Kenny Switzer, Claude Jackson, Pat Hearn, Doug Dubuisson, Dr. Paul Pierce III, Dr. Michael Davis, Joe Loviza and David Schaffer.

Memorials may be made to the American Kidney Foundation, 6110 Executive Blvd., Suite 1010, Rockville, MD 20852-9813; the Palmer Home for Children, P.O. Box 746, Columbus, MS 39703; or the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, 800 Avery Blvd., Suite 100, Ridgeland, MS 39157.

Dennis P. LewisDennis P. Lewis died Satur-

day, March 20, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. He was 31.

Mr. Lewis was a native of Yazoo City and a 1996 grad-uate of Yazoo City High School.

Survivors include his wife, Georgette Lewis; a son, Ja’kobe Lewis; three daugh-ters, Danasia Lewis, Destiny Lewis and Sha Anna Cooper; his parents, Dennis and Janice Lewis; one stepson; his maternal grandparents, Eugene and Nehema John-son; his paternal grandpar-ents, Ozie Younger, Smiley

Lewis and Houston Younger; and other relatives and friends.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Word of Faith Church in Yazoo City with the Rev. Dennis Lewis Sr. officiating. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 today at Shaf-fer & Collins Funeral Home in Yazoo City.

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Vicksburg High. His hiring was unanimously approved by school trustees Thursday night.

“I always had an interest in helping educate young kids,” Lee said in an interview. “I had originally studied biol-ogy education at Alcorn State, and I was also inter-ested in law enforcement.”

A native of Fayette, Lee moved to Vicksburg in 2003 to work at a casino. A pro-motion led him to a second casino, and he joined the Vicksburg police force in 2006.

He and his wife, La-Freda Lee, a deputy clerk at the police department, are members of Mount Carmel Ministries.

Both schools employ pri-vate security firms for daily campus access monitor-ing and for athletic events. At larger events, additional officers from the VPD and Warren County Sheriff’s Department work traffic and crowd control.

Sworn officers may be armed and have the author-ity to make custodial arrests.

Also Thursday, the five trustees, elected from super-visor districts, chose officers.

Chosen president was Zel-marine Murphy, the lon-gest-serving member of the board. Tommy Shelton was re-elected vice president and Joe Loviza, secretary.

Trustees also approved a request by South Park Ele-mentary School principal Dr. Wanda Fears to add the school to the list of district facilities served by GCA Cus-todial Services.

GCA was awarded a bid years ago to provide custo-dians to schools in the dis-trict at the discretion of the principal, Superintendent Dr. James Price said. Five use GCA, called a less expensive option because the company provides its own supplies, does summer floor waxing and provides workers com-pensation insurance.

“But we leave it up to the principals because we do feel an obligation to our staff,” Price said. “Many of them (staff custodians) have been here a long time, and they do a good job. They interact with the children, they’re another set of eyes and ears and they are nurturing to the kids.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Marty Lederhandler, an Associated Press photographer who cap-tured on film every U.S. presi-dent from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, covered the D-Day land-ing in 1944 and climaxed a 6 6 - y e a r career with an iconic shot of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, has died. He was 92.

Lederhandler died Thurs-day at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hacken-sack, N.J., said his compan-ion, Sheila Barkow. He had suffered a stroke Feb. 17. He retired from AP in 2001, saying he wanted to “give someone else a chance to do the things I’ve done.”

Over more than six decades, the New York City native cov-ered every kind of news and chalked up a roster of celebrity subjects perhaps unmatched

by any other lensman of his time.

Among his favorites, he told an interviewer in 2001, were Marilyn Monroe in hus-band Arthur Miller’s Manhat-tan apartment and Winston Churchill in financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch’s.

His other subjects over the years were a panorama of the 20th century’s proud and profane — every New York mayor from Fiorello LaGuar-dia to Rudy Giuliani; Haile Selassie; Eleanor Roosevelt; Queen Elizabeth II; Elizabeth Taylor; Sophia Loren; heavy-weight champs Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; Gen. Douglas MacArthur; gangster Frank Costello; con-victed spy Ethel Rosenberg; bank robber Willie Sutton; Ber-trand Russell; Aristotle Onas-sis; Groucho Marx; Malcolm X; Anwar Sadat; Yasser Arafat; Nelson Mandela; Frank Sina-tra; the Beatles and Luciano Pavarotti; among others.

United States, Russia sign‘reset’ pact to cut nukes

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed today to a sharp cuts in the nuclear arse-nals of both nations in the most comprehensive arms control treaty in two decades. “We have turned words into action,” Obama declared.

Obama said the pact, to be signed April 8 in Prague, was part of his effort to “reset” rela-tions with Russia and a step on a path toward “the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”

The agreement would require both sides to reduce their arse-nals of long-range nuclear weapons by about a third, from 2,200 now to 1,500 each. The pact, replacing and expand-ing a 1991 treaty that expired in December, was a gesture toward improved U.S.-Russian relations that have been badly frayed.

“In many ways, nuclear weap-ons represent both the dark-est days of the Cold War, and

the most troubling threats of our time. Today, we have taken another step forward in leav-ing behind the legacy of the 20th century while building a more secure future for our chil-dren,” Obama said at the White House.

In Russia, Medvedev’s spokes-man Natalya Timakova told the Interfax news agency, “This treaty reflects the balance of interests of both nations.”

Both sides would have seven years after the treaty’s ratifica-tion to carry out the approxi-mately 30 percent reduction in long-range nuclear weapons. The agreement also calls for smaller cuts to warheads and bombs based on planes, ships and land.

“We have turned words into action. We have made prog-ress that is clear and concrete. And we have demonstrated the importance of American leadership — and American partnership — on behalf of our own security, and the world’s,” Obama said.

At least 11 die in crashon Kentucky highway

MUNFORDVILLE, Ky. — A coroner said “at least 11” people were killed today in a fiery crash between a tractor-trailer and a van after the truck crossed over the median on an interstate highway in south-central Kentucky.

The van was carrying “men, women and children,” Emergency Management Director Kerry McDaniel said. He said the tractor-trailer was going south on I-65 and crossed the median around 5:30 a.m., striking the van head-on near Munford-ville, about 75 miles south of Louisville.

Hart County Coroner Jeff Roten confirmed the number dead.

The truck hit a rock wall and burst into flames. McDaniel said the truck’s driver was killed.

NASA pays $66 a personfor seminar snacks

WASHINGTON — The nation’s space agency paid the out-of-this-world price of $66 a person a day for bagels, cookies and juice at a confer-ence, a new report found.

The subject of the NASA conference? It was a training session for its procurement officials — the people who do the buying with taxpayer funds.

During the three-day con-ference, the 317 attendees snacked on “light refresh-ments” of soda, coffee, fruit, bagels and cookies at a cost

of $62,611, according to a NASA Inspector General report. That’s $66 a day per person.

And that wasn’t the only problem. The NASA finan-cial watchdog criticized the financially strapped space agency’s spending on confer-ences in general. The inspec-tor general said NASA didn’t price shop to get cheaper locations for conferences and that NASA’s spend-ing on food and drinks was “excessive.”

Mexican traffickerscement grip in U.S.

WASHINGTON — Mexi-can criminal organizations have more than doubled heroin production in a year and have cemented their grip as the predominant whole-sale suppliers of illicit drugs in the United States, a gov-ernment report concluded Thursday.

The National Drug Threat Assessment found that Mexi-can groups were the only drug trafficking enterprises operating in every region of the United States.

The study by a unit of the Justice Department says Mexican traffickers increased the flow of heroin, methamphetamine and mari-juana into the United States, while they increased produc-tion of those drugs in Mexico.

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LOTTERYLa. Pick 3: 9-8-5La. Pick 4: 9-6-2-3Weekly results: B2

Morgan hired as WC coachBy Ernest [email protected]

In a lot of ways, Josh

Morgan seems to have been born to become Warren Cen-tral’s football coach.

He spent his childhood on the sidelines and in the field-house watching his father, Robert, lead the Vikings. In high school he joined older brother Rob and younger brother Brett as starting quarterbacks at the school. Once he grew up and became a coach himself, Josh eventu-ally returned to his roots as WC’s defensive coordinator.

Now, at age 30, Morgan’s destiny is fulfilled. His hire as Warren Central’s head coach was approved at Thursday’s meeting of the Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees. He becomes just the fourth head coach at Warren Cen-tral since 1971, and succeeds Curtis Brewer who retired in December.

“I’m very excited about it. About everything. Not just the job,” Morgan said. “It’s hard to describe. This is my program. I grew up in it. Some of my youngest memo-ries are being on the foot-ball field with my father and brothers.”

Morgan’s hire was not pop-ular with everyone.

The board voted 3-2 in favor of the recommendation of superintendent Dr. James Price. Price based his rec-ommendation on that of an eight-person selection com-mittee that included princi-pals from Warren Central and Warren Central Junior High, two high school teach-

ers, two par-ents of junior high players and two mem-bers of the community. Price said at the meet-ing the com-mittee was racially bal-anced, with four white and four black members.

Voting for Morgan were Jerry Boland, Joe Loviza and Thomas Shelton. Voting against were Jim Stirgus Jr. and Zelmarine Murphy. The primary concern for both Stirgus and Murphy was Morgan’s lack of head coach-ing experience, they said

After earning All-South-eastern Conference honors as a player at Mississippi State, Morgan spent the 2004

Warren central coachesCoach Record

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Kansas State outlastsXavier in double-OTBy The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Long after the jump shots stop falling and their ballyhooed beards go gray, Kansas State players will look back on this game as one of the best they ever played.

Same for the guys at Xavier, hard as it was to appreci-ate after a heartbreaker like that.

Jacob Pullen — the guard who brought the phrase “Fear the Beard” to the Little Apple — hit a pair of 3-pointers in the second over-time to help K-State outlast Xavier 101-96 on Thursday night in the West Regional semifinals.

An instant classic.“It was two teams that

didn’t want their season to end,” said Pullen, who fin-ished with 28 points.

It added yet another dra-matic chapter to an NCAA tournament that has already been crazy. This was the fifth game to go to overtime — and the second to double OT.

After knocking off one so called mid-major, the second-seeded Wildcats (29-7) will play another — fifth-seeded Butler — on Saturday to try to make their first Final Four since 1964. This is the first time Kansas State has made it this far since 1988.

The sixth-seeded Mus-keteers (26-9) were seek-ing their third trip to the regional finals in seven years. They missed, just barely, but it was hard to call anyone a loser on this night.

“As good a game as I’ve ever coached or been a part

of,” coach Chris Mack said.Trailing by three at the end

of regulation, Xavier’s Terrell Holloway got fouled while heaving up a 30-footer with 5 seconds left and calmly made

all three free throws. Xavier was down by three again at the end of the first overtime, but Jordan Crawford jacked up a 35-footer

that hit nothing but net.Xavier led 93-91 with 1:23

left in the second overtime. Exhausted and in foul trou-ble, the Musketeers had no answer for Pullen at the end. He hit an open 3 from the top of the key for a 94-93 lead with 1:09 left. Jason Love made one of two free throws on the next possession, then Pullen hit the next 3 to make it 97-94.

Pullen and Clemente then combined for four straight free throws over the last 24 seconds to ice the game.

When it was finally over, K-State fans, who made the 1,000-mile trip from Man-hattan, Kan., chanted “K-S-U! K-S-U!” Love stood near the foul line and drooped his head — dispirited and exhausted, certainly taking little consolation that he was part of an instant classic.

“I expected it to be a hard-fought game. I didn’t expect it to be like this,” KSU coach Frank Martin said. “But they were phenomenal. And our guys were pretty good, too.”

Syracusestunnedby ButlerBy The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Butler missed three times as many 3-pointers as it made, yet never hesitated to keep on shooting them.

A couple of them finally fell late and the Bulldogs went from being pesky defend-ers to stifling, holding Syra-cuse scoreless for almost 5 minutes and upsetting the top-seeded Orange 63-59 on Thursday night in the West Regional semifinals.

Butler is in the regional final for the first time in school history, facing Kansas State on Saturday for a ticket to the Final Four in Indianap-olis — home of the Bulldogs.

“I’m going home Saturday night or Sunday morning whenever the charter gets here,” coach Brad Stevens said. “I just hope we’re going there with some season left.”

There just might be.The Bulldogs scrapped

through a poor shooting night and were ultrapro-tective of the ball — even while chucking it 24 times from beyond the arc — as they tried to crack Syra-cuse’s acclaimed 2-3 zone defense. Every time the ball clanged off the rim, several Butler players were already diligently on their way to the other end to defend and keep the Orange from fast breaks.

Butler forced 18 turnovers while committing just seven, more than making up for Syracuse’s 38-28 advantage in rebounds.

“We value possessions. That’s the main reason we are still here,” Stevens said.

That and some clutch shooting. After making only 4 of 22 3-pointers, the Bulldogs hit their last two attempts during the 11-0 run that clinched it.

Ronald Nored got it started when his 3-pointer cut Syr-acuse’s lead to 54-53 with 3:14 left and Willie Veasley kept it going with a 3 that bounced high off the rim and appeared to be headed over the backboard. But the ball caromed off the glass and ended up falling through the net as Veasley celebrated with a fist pump and grin — while on his way back to defend.

“I was headed down the court on defense because I figured it was going to go over the top of the back-

board. But I looked back and it came down and went through,” Veasley said. “That was a H-O-R-S-E shot. I’ve never made a shot quite like that.”

Veasley followed his for-tunate 3 with a tip-in as the Bulldogs (31-4) scored 11 straight points and became the latest mid-major team to knock off a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. Butler has won 23 consecutive games.

“We said this word over and over in Indianapolis, and that word is ‘resolve.’ These guys have resolve,” Stevens said. “It’s hard to measure, but they’ve got it.”

The Orange (30-5) made only three more field goals than turnovers in another loss in the round of 16. Syra-cuse hasn’t played in the regional finals since winning the 2003 national title.

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PREP BASEBALLVicksburg hosts GreenvilleToday, 7 p .m .

St . Aloysius at West LincolnToday, 7 p .m .

WC hosts ClintonToday, 7 p .m .

ON TV6 p.m. CBS - March Mad-

ness rolls on, with the fi-nal half of the Elite Eight settled tonight . Tennessee and Ohio State start things off with a Midwest Regional semifinal .

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MALLORY MCGUFFEESt . Al soft-

ball player had two doubles and two RBIs, scored two runs and stole a base in a 12-5 win over West Lincoln on Thursday . Story/B2

FIU player stabbedto death on campus

Florida International run-ning back Kendall Berry was stabbed to death late Thurs-day on the school’s Miami campus, police said .

Miami-Dade police said the 22-year-old junior from Haines City, Fla ., was stabbed following an argu-ment with one or possi-bly more individuals out-side the front doors of the school’s rec center — one of the spots where the foot-ball team trains . Several wit-nesses to the 9 p .m . incident were being interviewed, Mi-ami-Dade Police Detective Javier Baez said .

FIU opened as scheduled this morning, with increased security for students and grief counseling available . Students living in residence halls were advised to keep doors locked, and any per-son at the university could be escorted around campus if desired .

Members of the FIU foot-ball team were already re-ceiving counseling .

Berry finished last sea-son with a team-best seven touchdowns, despite not playing in the first seven games because of contin-ued rehab from a knee inju-ry that kept him out for all of the 2008 season .

Vicksburg Warren School Board member Jim Stirgus Jr. pro-poses questions to the board and Superintendent James Price during Thursday’s board meeting. The board voted

3-2 to hire Josh Morgan as Warren Central’s football coach, with Stirgus casting one of the dissenting votes.

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Injured Syracuse forward Arinze Onuaku looks at the score-board from the bench late in the second half of Thursday’s 63-59 loss to Butler in the NCAA Tournament.

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COLLEgEBaSkETBaLL

On B3Kentucky rolls throughIvy League upstart Cornell

‘It was two teams that didn’t want

their season to end.’ Jacob Pullen

See Morgan, Page B3.

march madnessThursday’s scores

Butler 63, Syracuse 59Kansas St. 101, Xavier 96, 2OTKentucky 62, Cornell 45West Virginia 69, Washington 56

Today’s GamesAll games on CBS

6:07 p.m. - Tennessee vs. Ohio State6:27 p.m. - Saint Mary’s vs. Baylor8:37 p.m. - Northern Iowa vs. Michigan State8:57 p.m. - Purdue vs. Duke

B1 Sports

Major League BaseBaLLSpring TrainingThursday’s Games

Detroit (ss) 5, Toronto 1St. Louis 2, N.Y. Mets 1Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 3Philadelphia 8, Houston 7Pittsburgh 7, Atlanta 6, 10 inningsBoston 6, Florida 4Baltimore 8, N.Y. Yankees 0Kansas City 8, Seattle (ss) 7Chicago Cubs 7, Arizona 2Cleveland 3, Seattle (ss) 1L.A. Angels 9, Texas 6San Diego 5, Chicago White Sox 3L.A. Dodgers 7, Milwaukee 3Colorado 10, Cincinnati 6Detroit (ss) 8, Washington 2San Francisco 6, Oakland 3

Today’s GamesTampa Bay vs. Toronto (ss), 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Florida, 12:05 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Houston, 12:05 p.m.Detroit vs. Atlanta, 12:05 p.m.St. Louis vs. Washington, 12:05 p.m.Toronto (ss) vs. Boston, 12:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.Oakland (ss) vs. Texas, 3:05 p.m.Colorado vs. Cleveland, 3:05 p.m.Cincinnati vs. Seattle, 3:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Arizona, 3:05 p.m.Oakland (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs, 3:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Milwaukee, 3:05 p.m.Kansas City vs. L.A. Dodgers, 3:05 p.m.Minnesota vs. Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesFlorida vs. St. Louis, 12:05 p.m.Washington (ss) vs. Atlanta, 12:05 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Houston, 12:05 p.m.Toronto vs. Pittsburgh, 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees vs. Detroit, 12:05 p.m.Boston vs. Baltimore, 12:05 p.m.Philadelphia vs. Minnesota, 12:05 p.m.Washington (ss) vs. N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.San Diego (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs, 3:05 p.m.Oakland vs. Kansas City, 3:05 p.m.Texas vs. Milwaukee, 3:05 p.m.Cincinnati vs. San Diego (ss), 3:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. L.A. Angels, 3:05 p.m.Arizona vs. Cleveland, 3:05 p.m.Seattle vs. L.A. Dodgers, 3:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

CoLLege BaseBaLLSoutheastern Conference

EastTeam Overall SECFlorida ...........................17-3................................3-0South Carolina .............17-4................................3-0Vanderbilt .....................18-4................................1-2Kentucky .......................16-5................................1-2Tennessee ....................11-10..............................0-3Georgia .........................8-13................................0-3

WestTeam Overall SECAuburn ..........................16-5................................3-0 Ole Miss ......................17-5................................2-1Alabama .......................16-3................................2-1 LSU ...............................17-3................................2-1Arkansas .......................15-5................................1-2Mississippi St. ............12-9................................0-3

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesKentucky at Vanderbilt, 6 p.m.LSU at Tennessee, 6 p.m.South Carolina at Auburn, 6:30 p.m.Florida at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.Georgia at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m.Alabama at Arkansas, 6:35 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesSouth Carolina at Auburn, NoonGeorgia at Mississippi State, 2 p.m.Kentucky at Vanderbilt, 2 p.m.LSU at Tennessee, 2 p.m.Alabama at Arkansas, 2:05 p.m.Florida at Ole Miss, 7 p.m.

———Conference USA

Team Overall C-USASouthern Miss ............13-6................................0-0Tulane ...........................15-7................................0-0Central Florida ..............14-8................................0-0 UAB ..............................11-7................................0-0East Carolina ................13-8................................0-0 Rice ..............................12-10..............................0-0Houston ........................10-9................................0-0Marshall ........................9-10................................0-0Memphis .......................9-12................................0-0

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesNorth Carolina Central at East Carolina, 6 p.m.Marshall at Tulane, 6:30 p.m.Rice at Memphis, 6:30 p.m.Southern Miss at UAB, 6:30 p.m.UCF at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesMarshall at Tulane, 2 p.m.North Carolina Central at East Carolina, 2 p.m.Rice at Memphis, 2 p.m.Southern Miss at UAB, 2 p.m.UCF at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

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Mississippi college scheduleThursday’s Games

No games scheduledToday’s Games

LSU-Shreveport at Belhaven, 1 and 4 p.m.Tougaloo at Mobile, 2 p.m.William Carey at Spring Hill, 6 p.m.Southern Miss at UAB, 6:30 p.m.Florida at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.Georgia at Mississippi St., 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesAlabama St. at Alcorn St., Noon and 3 p.m.Jackson St. at Alabama A&M, Noon and 3 p.m.Delta St. at Harding, 1 and 4 p.m.Millsaps at Austin College, 1 and 4 p.m.William Carey at Spring Hill, 1 and 4 p.m.Tougaloo at Mobile, 1 and 4 p.m.Southern Miss at UAB, 2 p.m.Georgia at Mississippi St., 2 p.m.Florida at Ole Miss, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesDelta St. at Harding, 1 p.m.Millsaps at Austin College, 1 p.m.Alabama St. at Alcorn St., 1 p.m.Jackson St. at Alabama A&M, 1 p.m.Southern Miss at UAB, 1 p.m.Florida at Ole Miss, 1 p.m.Georgia at Mississippi St., 1:30 p.m.

PreP BaseBaLLWarreN CouNTY LeaDers

HittingBatting Average(Minimum 30 at-bats)

Player Avg.Blake Haygood (SA) ......................................... .515Regan Nosser (SA) ........................................... .469John Michael Harris (PC) ................................. .463Lamar Anthony (VHS) ....................................... .459Colby Rushing (PC) .......................................... .457Matthew Warren (PC) ....................................... .438Reed Evans (SA) .............................................. .424Taylor Brocato (VHS) ........................................ .417Pierson Waring (SA) ......................................... .410

RBIPlayer No.Taylor Brocato (VHS) ........................................... 17Blake Haygood (SA) ............................................ 16Reed Evans (SA) ................................................. 15John Michael Harris (PC) .................................... 15Dylan Wooten (WC) ............................................. 14Matthew Warren (PC) .......................................... 14Pierson Waring (SA) ............................................ 13Brendan Beesley (SA) ......................................... 13

DoublesPlayer No.Pierson Waring (SA) .............................................. 7Reed Evans (SA) ................................................... 7John Michael Harris (PC) ...................................... 7Carlos Gonzales (WC) ........................................... 6Beau Wallace (WC) ............................................... 5Dylan Wooten (WC) ............................................... 5Colby Rushing (PC) ............................................... 5Justin Rushing (SA) ............................................... 4

HitsPlayer No.John Michael Harris (PC) .................................... 19Lamar Anthony (VHS) .......................................... 17Blake Haygood (SA) ............................................ 17Pierson Waring (SA) ............................................ 16Colby Rushing (PC) ............................................. 15Taylor Brocato (VHS) ........................................... 15Dylan Wooten (WC) ............................................. 15Regan Nosser (SA) .............................................. 15Reed Evans (SA) ................................................. 14Matthew Warren (PC) .......................................... 14Dylan Wooten (WC) ............................................. 13

RunsPlayer No.Pierson Waring (SA) ............................................ 19Blake Haygood (SA) ............................................ 17John Michael Harris (PC) .................................... 16Colby Rushing (PC) ............................................. 15Luke Burnett (SA) ................................................ 15Lamar Anthony (VHS) .......................................... 13Dylan Wooten (WC) ............................................. 13Beau Wallace (WC) ............................................. 12

Stolen basesPlayer No.Lamar Anthony (VHS) .......................................... 12Colby Rushing (PC) ............................................. 10Clayton Ashley (WC) ............................................. 9Montana McDaniel (PC) ........................................ 9Blake Haygood (SA) .............................................. 7Beau Wallace (WC) ............................................... 7Keaton Jones (VHS) .............................................. 6John Michael Harris (PC) ...................................... 6Justin Pettway (VHS) ............................................. 5Pierson Waring (SA) .............................................. 5

WalksPlayer No.Jacob Thomas (VHS) .......................................... 14Keaton Jones (VHS) .............................................. 9Jeff Hearn (PC) ...................................................... 9Cameron Cooksey (VHS) ...................................... 8Reed Gordon (PC) ................................................. 8Justin Rushing (SA) ............................................... 7Josh Eargle (SA) .................................................... 7Justin Pettway (VHS) ............................................. 7Kreuz Federick (PC) .............................................. 7

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PITCHINgWins

Player RecordStephen Evans (SA) ........................................... 5-0Regan Nosser (SA) ............................................. 4-0Jacob Thomas (VHS) ......................................... 3-1Carlos Gonzalez (WC) ........................................ 2-0Cody Waddell (VHS) ........................................... 2-0John Michael Harris (PC) ................................... 2-0Jay Harper (WC) ................................................. 2-1Montana McDaniel (PC) ..................................... 2-2

StrikeoutsPlayer No.Montana McDaniel (PC) ...................................... 34Regan Nosser (SA) .............................................. 27Stephen Evans (SA) ............................................ 18Jay Harper (WC) .................................................. 17Jacob Thomas (VHS) .......................................... 16John Michael Harris (PC) .................................... 16Colby Key (WC) ................................................... 15Blake Jobe (WC) .................................................. 14Matthew Warren (PC) .......................................... 14Pierson Waring (SA) ............................................ 11

ERA(Minimum 10 innings pitched)

Player No.Cody Waddell (VHS) ......................................... 0.00Dee White (WC) ................................................ 0.66Carlos Gonzalez (WC) ...................................... 0.66Jacob Thomas (VHS) ....................................... 1.68Stephen Evans (SA) ......................................... 1.86Colby Key (WC) ................................................ 1.87Blake Jobes (WC) ............................................. 2.50Cameron Cooksey (VHS) ................................. 2.91Jay Harper (WC) ............................................... 3.28Regan Nosser (SA) ........................................... 3.50

Innings pitchedPlayer IPStephen Evans (SA) ......................................26 1/3Jacob Thomas (VHS) .......................................... 25Montana McDaniel (PC) ................................22 1/3Cameron Cooksey (VHS) ..............................21 2/3Jay Harper (WC) ............................................21 1/3Regan Nosser (SA) .............................................. 18Colby Key (WC) ................................................... 15Blake Jobe (WC) .................................................. 14Cody Waddell (VHS) ......................................13 1/3John Michael Harris (PC) .................................... 11Dee White (WC) .............................................10 2/3Carlos Gonzalez (WC) ...................................10 2/3

NBaEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBy-Cleveland ...................57 15 .792 —x-Orlando ......................50 22 .694 7x-Atlanta .......................46 25 .648 10 1/2x-Boston .......................46 25 .648 10 1/2Milwaukee .....................39 31 .557 17Miami ............................38 34 .528 19Charlotte .......................37 34 .521 19 1/2Toronto .........................35 35 .500 21Chicago ........................33 38 .465 23 1/2New York ......................26 45 .366 30 1/2Indiana ..........................26 46 .361 31Philadelphia ..................25 47 .347 32Detroit ...........................23 48 .324 33 1/2Washington ...................21 49 .300 35New Jersey ..................8 63 .113 48 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBx-L.A. Lakers ................53 18 .746 —d-Dallas ........................47 25 .653 6 1/2d-Denver .......................47 25 .653 6 1/2d-Utah ...........................47 25 .653 6 1/2Phoenix .........................45 26 .634 8Oklahoma City ..............43 27 .614 9 1/2San Antonio ..................42 28 .600 10 1/2Portland ........................43 29 .597 10 1/2Memphis .......................38 34 .528 15 1/2Houston ........................36 35 .507 17New Orleans ................34 39 .466 20L.A. Clippers .................27 45 .375 26 1/2Sacramento ..................24 48 .333 29 1/2Golden State ................20 51 .282 33Minnesota .....................14 58 .194 39 1/2d-division leaderx-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

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Thursday’s GamesMiami 103, Chicago 74L.A. Clippers 99, Houston 93Portland 101, Dallas 89

Today’s GamesWashington at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Utah at Indiana, 6 p.m.Denver at Toronto, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Orlando, 6 p.m.Sacramento at Boston, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Detroit at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Miami at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.Cleveland at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.New York at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesUtah at Washington, 6 p.m.New Jersey at Chicago, 7 p.m.Portland at New Orleans, 7 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Houston, 7:30 p.m.Dallas at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

CoLLege BaskeTBaLLNCaa TournamentEAST REGIONAL

At Syracuse, N.Y.Regional Semifinals

ThursdayWest Virginia 69, Washington 56Kentucky 62, Cornell 45

Regional ChampionshipSaturday

West Virginia vs. Kentucky, 6 p.m.

SOUTH REGIONALAt Houston

Regional SemifinalsToday

Saint Mary’s, Calif. vs. Baylor, 6:27 p.m.Duke vs. Purdue, 8:57 p.m.

Regional ChampionshipSunday

Semifinal winners, 1 or 6 p.m.

MIDWEST REGIONALAt St. Louis

Regional SemifinalsToday

Ohio State vs. Tennessee, 6:07 p.m.Northern Iowa vs. Michigan State, 8:37 p.m.

Regional ChampionshipSunday

Semifinal winners, 1 or 6 p.m.

WEST REGIONALAt Salt Lake City

Regional SemifinalsThursday

Butler 63, Syracuse 59Kansas State 101, Xavier 96, 2OT

Regional ChampionshipSaturday

Butler vs. Kansas State, 3:30 p.m.

National Invitation TournamentSemifinals

TuesdayAt New York

Ole Miss vs. Dayton, 6 p.m.N.orth Carolina vs. Rhode Island, 8:30 p.m.

ChampionshipApril 1

Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.

WoMeN’s BaskeTBaLLNCaa Women’s Tournament

MEMPHIS REGIONALRegional Semifinals

SaturdayTennessee vs. Baylor, 11:04 a.m.

San Diego State vs. Duke, 1 p.m.Regional Championship

MondaySemifinal winners, TBA

SACRAMENTO REGIONALRegional Semifinals

SaturdayGeorgia vs. Stanford, 8:04 p.m.

Gonzaga vs. Xavier, 10:32 p.m.Regional Championship

MondaySemifinal winners, TBA

DAYTON REGIONALRegional Semifinals

SundayConnecticut vs. Iowa State, 11:04 a.m.Florida State vs. Mississippi State, 2:32 p.m.

Regional ChampionshipTuesday

Semifinal winners, TBA

KANSAS CITY REGIONALRegional Semifinals

SundayOklahoma vs. Notre Dame, 6:34 p.m.Nebraska vs. Kentucky, 8:30 p.m.

Regional ChampionshipTuesday

Semifinal winners, TBA

NHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OT Pts GF GAy-Washington ..74 49 14 11 109 289 209d-New Jersey .73 43 25 5 91 198 176d-Buffalo .........72 40 22 10 90 203 182Pittsburgh .......74 42 25 7 91 228 212Ottawa ............74 39 30 5 83 198 212Montreal ..........75 37 30 8 82 202 204Philadelphia ....74 37 31 6 80 215 205Boston ............73 33 28 12 78 183 186Atlanta ............74 32 30 12 76 219 236N.Y. Rangers ..74 33 32 9 75 195 200Tampa Bay .....74 30 32 12 72 196 230Florida .............73 30 32 11 71 191 214Carolina ..........74 31 34 9 71 206 231N.Y. Islanders .74 30 34 10 70 192 229Toronto ...........74 27 35 12 66 195 243

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-San Jose .....74 45 19 10 100 239 193x-Chicago .......73 46 20 7 99 239 187d-Vancouver ...74 45 25 4 94 242 191Phoenix ...........75 46 23 6 98 204 185Nashville .........75 43 27 5 91 211 209Los Angeles ...73 42 25 6 90 215 195Colorado .........73 41 25 7 89 220 197Detroit .............73 37 23 13 87 200 195Calgary ...........74 37 28 9 83 189 185St. Louis .........74 35 30 9 79 201 204Minnesota .......74 36 32 6 78 203 218Dallas ..............74 32 28 14 78 211 234

Anaheim .........73 34 31 8 76 205 224Columbus .......74 30 32 12 72 198 238Edmonton .......73 24 42 7 55 187 250NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.d-division leaderx-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Thursday’s GamesN.Y. Rangers 4, New Jersey 3, SOCarolina 3, Washington 2, SONashville 4, Phoenix 3, SOTampa Bay 5, Boston 3N.Y. Islanders 3, Calgary 2Minnesota 4, Philadelphia 3, OTToronto 2, Atlanta 1, OTColumbus 8, Chicago 3Montreal 4, Florida 1St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 1San Jose 3, Dallas 0

Today’s GamesOttawa at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Anaheim at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesCalgary at Boston, NoonPhiladelphia at Pittsburgh, NoonTampa Bay at Buffalo, 6 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 6 p.m.New Jersey at Montreal, 6 p.m.Florida at Ottawa, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Carolina, 6 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 6 p.m.Detroit at Nashville, 7 p.m.Colorado at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Vancouver at San Jose, 9 p.m.Dallas at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

goLfArnold Palmer Invitational Par Scores

ThursdayAt Bay Hill Club & Lodge

Orlando, Fla.Purse: $6 million

Yardage: 7,353; Par 72 (36-36)First Round

J.B. Holmes .................33-33—66 ........................-6Davis Love III ..............32-34—66 ........................-6Henrik Stenson ............33-34—67 ........................-5Mike Weir ....................35-32—67 ........................-5Ernie Els ......................33-35—68 ........................-4Kevin Streelman ..........34-34—68 ........................-4Kevin Na ......................36-32—68 ........................-4Robert Allenby .............36-32—68 ........................-4Chris DiMarco .............34-35—69 ........................-3Heath Slocum ..............35-34—69 ........................-3George McNeill ...........35-34—69 ........................-3Jason Dufner ...............36-33—69 ........................-3Steve Stricker ..............35-34—69 ........................-3Ben Crane ...................33-36—69 ........................-3D.J. Trahan .................32-37—69 ........................-3Nathan Green ..............35-34—69 ........................-3Pat Perez ....................34-35—69 ........................-3Steve Marino ...............35-35—70 ........................-2Paul Goydos ................33-37—70 ........................-2Kevin Sutherland .........34-36—70 ........................-2Sean O’Hair .................36-34—70 ........................-2John Rollins .................38-32—70 ........................-2Boo Weekley ...............36-34—70 ........................-2Chris Couch ................35-35—70 ........................-2Mark Wilson ................33-37—70 ........................-2Stuart Appleby .............34-36—70 ........................-2Edoardo Molinari .........37-33—70 ........................-2J.P. Hayes ...................37-33—70 ........................-2Marc Leishman ............35-35—70 ........................-2Ben Curtis ...................35-35—70 ........................-2Jonathan Byrd .............35-36—71 ........................-1Dustin Johnson ...........37-34—71 ........................-1Zach Johnson ..............37-34—71 ........................-1K.J. Choi ......................34-37—71 ........................-1Jim Furyk .....................36-35—71 ........................-1David Toms .................37-34—71 ........................-1Carl Pettersson ...........37-34—71 ........................-1Jason Day ...................37-34—71 ........................-1Graeme McDowell .......33-38—71 ........................-1Matt Jones ...................36-35—71 ........................-1John Senden ...............36-35—71 ........................-1Retief Goosen .............35-36—71 ........................-1Derek Lamely ..............36-35—71 ........................-1Hunter Mahan .............35-36—71 ........................-1Phil Mickelson .............36-35—71 ........................-1Trevor Immelman ........36-35—71 ........................-1Jerry Kelly ...................36-35—71 ........................-1Michael Allen ...............35-37—72 ........................ EBrandt Snedeker .........36-36—72 ........................ ERicky Barnes ...............35-37—72 ........................ EGarrett Willis ................37-35—72 ........................ ECharles Howell III ........38-34—72 ........................ EBo Van Pelt .................35-37—72 ........................ EJohn Mallinger .............35-37—72 ........................ EChad Collins ................37-35—72 ........................ EBriny Baird ...................35-37—72 ........................ EBill Haas ......................36-36—72 ........................ ERyan Moore .................37-35—72 ........................ EVaughn Taylor .............35-37—72 ........................ EColin Montgomerie ......36-36—72 ........................ EJosh Teater .................38-34—72 ........................ E

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NASCAR2 p.m. Speed - Sprint Cup, qualifying for Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 5003:30 p.m. Speed - Truck Series, qualifying for Kroger 250BOXING9 p.m. ESPN2 - Steve Cunningham (22-2-0) vs. Matt Godfrey (20-1-0), for vacant IBF cruiserweight titleGOLF2 p.m. TGC - PGA Tour, Arnold Palmer Invitational5:30 p.m. TGC - LPGA, Kia ClassicMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL3 p.m. WGN - Preseason, Chicago Cubs vs. OaklandCOLLEGE BASKETBALL6 p.m. CBS - Ohio St. vs. Tennessee 8:55 p.m. CBS - Duke vs. PurdueWOMEN’S BASKETBALL7 p.m. ESPN2 - NCAA Division II Tournament, championship, Fort Lewis vs. Emporia State

Sunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-0-9La. Pick 4: 9-0-7-0Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 6-6-0La. Pick 4: 1-4-4-9Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-4-4La. Pick 4: 6-6-9-7Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-7-5La. Pick 4: 5-3-0-0Easy 5: 12-19-25-27-34La. Lotto: 16-19-21-22-29-33Powerball: 14-20-24-39-49Powerball: 7; Power Play: 3Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-8-5La. Pick 4: 9-6-2-3Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-2-5La. Pick 4: 5-7-8-2Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-9-2La. Pick 4: 0-8-7-6Easy 5: 14-18-22-30-37La. Lotto: 6-7-16-17-18-28Powerball: 9-36-39-44-45Powerball: 9; Power play: 2

March 261973 — Bill Walton scores 44

points to help UCLA win its record seventh NCAA basketball champi-onship with an 87-66 triumph over Memphis State.

1987 — Southern Miss defeats La Salle 84-80 in the championship of the 50th NIT.

1996 — Mario Lemieux scores five goals and two assists in his first head-to-head competition against Wayne Gretzky in more than three years to lead the Pittsburgh Pen-guins to an 8-4 victory over the St. Louis Blues.

2006 — George Mason stuns No. 1 seed Connecticut 86-84 in over-time to become the first No. 11 seed to reach the men’s Final Four since LSU in 1986.

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Lady Flashes earnbig division victory

Mallory McGuffee hit two doubles, drove in two runs and scored two more as St. Aloysius beat West Lin-coln 12-5 on Thursday in a Division 7-1A game.

Grace Franco had a double, three RBIs and three runs scored for St. Al, while Julie Mabry stole two bases and scored three runs. Madi-son Heggins, Sara Howington and Brittany Turner each had an RBI single.

Taylor Ann Hasty earned the win by scattering six hits in seven innings. She had three strikeouts and also helped her own cause with an RBI single.

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Vicksburg rollsover Ridgeland

The Vicksburg Gators cruised to their sixth victory of the season Thursday, beating Ridgeland 5-2. In their five victories against the Titans the Gators did not drop a set and lost only 11 games total.

In boys singles, Donald Brown beat Karud Heiuzelman 6-4, 6-2, and in girls singles Christine Figueroa blanked Jordan Walker 6-0, 6-0. Charlene Figueroa and Amanda Guizerix were 6-0, 6-1 winners in girls doubles, while Fritz Valerio and Perry Tolliver beat Turner Lott and Danny Banberger 6-0, 6-2 in boys No. 1 doubles. Vicksburg’s tandem of Caleb White and Perry Wolfe beat Jaquan Barnett and Brennan McArthur 6-0, 6-1 in boys No. 2 doubles.

Vicksburg (6-1) will host Terry today at 4 p.m. at Halls Ferry Park.

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International Bowlfolds after four seasons

TORONTO — The Interna-tional Bowl is folding after failing to renew its contract with the Big East.

The only bowl game played out-side the U.S. matched a Big East school against a Mid-American Conference opponent for four years. The Big East is now sending a team to the new Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.

Big East members won all four games, outscoring their MAC foes 117-53 the last three years. South Florida’s 27-3 win over Northern Illinois on Jan. 2 drew the bowl’s lowest attendance with just over 22,000 fans at Toronto’s Rogers Centre. A year earlier, 40,184 people watched Connecticut beat Buffalo.

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and 2005 seasons as a gradu-ate assistant coach at the University of Memphis and the next four as WC’s defen-sive coordinator. This, how-ever, will be his first head coaching job. Five of the other eight finalists have been or currently are head coaches.

“This is a travesty,” Stirgus said in disputing the rec-ommendation. “You have someone with 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years of experience and we’re about to vote on some-body with 48 months.”

After the meeting, Murphy said she would have pre-ferred not only a head coach with experience but one who has had success. She specifically mentioned For-est’s Judd Boswell, one of the finalists, as someone the committee should have recommended.

Boswell led Forest to the Class 2A championship game in 2008 and the 3A quarterfi-nals in 2009.

“I have nothing against the young man. I would have loved to have had a coach with a little more experi-ence,” Murphy said. “I just need a coach that can get me to the big house and teach morals and values. That’s not part of the contract.”

Morgan, who did not attend the board meeting, acknowl-edged his lack of experience but felt a lifetime in football

made up for it.“If I didn’t feel like I was

ready I wouldn’t have applied. It’s a very big stage and there’s a lot required to be a head coach at a 6A pro-gram,” Morgan said. “I feel like I’ve been a coach for a long time. I’ve been fortunate to be around some mighty good coaches ... I think I’m very experienced. Maybe not as a head coach.”

Some in attendance were upset that Morgan got the job instead of their preferred candidate.

After the board made its decision, a woman who would not give her name approached the members to voice her displeasure. Before she was escorted out by a security officer she screamed at the board mem-bers, “This is a kangaroo — you should all be ashamed of yourselves.”

As she left the room another young man walked out on his own and yelled, “This is all politics.”

The outbursts showed one major off-the-field battle Morgan will have to fight. Not only will he have to escape the shadow of his father, the winningest coach in WC history and still a member of the staff, but also the perception that his hire was a result of the family name.

“It’s not going to make it

any easier or harder. It just so happens that my dad was a coach there,” Josh Morgan said. “We just happen to love the same school. ‘Politics’ is getting a little too carried away. It’s a happy time for me and I don’t want to waste it on negativity.”

If Morgan had any sort of inside track, he said he wasn’t aware of it. The selec-tion committee scored all nine candidates on a series of criteria and their answers to questions, and the highest score became Price’s recom-mendation. Price then kept the selection committee’s recommendation a secret since they interviewed the candidates on March 4. Not even the candidates them-selves knew who it was. Morgan said he found out he was the top choice Thursday evening, at the same time Warren Central Principal Rodney Smith told him he had gotten the job.

“I was really in the dark. It’s kind of how everybody found out. It’s been a very stressful couple of weeks,” Morgan said.

Two other Warren Central assistants, Buddy Wooten and Larry Tyrone, also were among the finalists. So was former Warren Central assistant and current Stone County head coach Brian Oakes. Morgan didn’t think the uncertainty of the past

month would damage the relationship between col-leagues and friends.

“It’s been a very good rela-tionship with the coaches. Coach Tyrone or Buddy would’ve done a great job. It’s a good relationship and it’ll stay that way,” Morgan said.

When it comes to football, Morgan said it was too early to say what exactly he’ll change but did promise some new wrinkles to WC’s tried-and-true philosophy of a power-I offense and staunch defense.

“Sometimes when you hit the restart button, if we can get the kids to buy into it that’s the most positive thing that can come out of a coach-ing change,” Morgan said.

Balancing a new approach while honoring the history and tradition he helped build will be another challenge Morgan will deal with. It’s also one he feels he’s well-suited to take on.

“We don’t want to get away from too much because I’ve seen many teams, many coaches base what they do on what we’ve done,” Morgan said. “We want to change things to do what it takes to win, but don’t want to turn our backs on what we’ve done. That’s what I bring. A new start, but still that Viking link.”

By Steve [email protected]

Local hunters and fisher-men can get more informa-tion about leasing 16th Sec-tion state land via Vicksburg native and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s Web site at www.sos.ms.gov.

“Mississippians interested in leasing hunting and fish-ing land from the state can get a comprehensive view of the land they are looking to lease through this program,” Hosemann said in a release. “In many areas, the maps are so detailed, cars are actually visible on the roads.”

The Web site provides

information about 16th Sec-tion leases set to expire this year, as well as detailed infor-mation on the roughly 7,000 tracts of 16th Section land currently under lease.

The 16th Section lands are state-owned parcels leased to benefit local school dis-tricts. The land is typically leased for farming, hunting, fishing, recreational, indus-trial or residential uses. A total of 108 school districts in the state, including Vicks-burg Warren School District, manage or receive income from some 640,000 acres of land leased as 16th Section.

Local school boards serve

as trustees of 16th Section lands and are responsible for leasing the land and manag-ing it. The Secretary of State’s Office serves as a supervi-sory trustee, and works with school districts to insure that the lands are well managed and that lease revenues are maximized.

Hosemann’s Web site now features the current lease price for all 16th Section deals, as well as total acreage of each tract, school district contact information and the forest management plan for each parcel. Hosemann said he hopes the new features will increase school districts’ lease collections, “meaning more money pumped back

into our schools, and the less taxpayers will have to supple-ment our school systems.”

As the keynote speaker of the Vicksburg Main Street Program annual meet-ing in January, Hosemann spoke about the importance of increasing and manag-ing 16th Section revenues. Through reviewing and approving all 16th Section land lease contracts during fiscal year 2008, Hosemann said his office was able to increase lease collections to $77 million, from $54 million the fiscal year previous.

In Warren County, the 16th Section lands principal fund is at $3.8 million, he said.

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Portland knocks offMavs for a third timeBy The Associated Press

If the Trail Blazers land the Mavericks as first-round opponents in the playoffs, the season series thus far has cer-tainly been a good omen.

Portland has gone 3-0 against Dallas, the latest a 101-89 vic-tory on Thursday night at the Rose Garden.

The teams meet once more, on April 9 again in Portland. But the Blazers have already claimed their first season series over Dallas since the 1998-99 season.

The Mavericks’ loss put them in a tangle for second in the Western Conference stand-ings with the Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz — all 6 1/2 games back of the Los Ange-les Lakers.

The Blazers are 10 1/2 games back, jockeying for the sev-enth spot with San Antonio.

“This is a good test,” said Blazers guard Andre Miller, who had 19 points and 10 assists.

LaMarcus Aldridge added 20 points and 10 rebounds and Marcus Camby had 17 points and 11 rebounds for Portland, which has won six of its last seven games overall and five straight at home.

“We take tonight’s game and show that we can play with those guys that are ahead of us,” Blazers coach Nate McMillan said.

Caron Butler had 25 points for Dallas, which has lost four of its last five games after a 13-game winning streak.

Shawn Marion’s short jumper pulled the Mavs within 82-80 early in the fourth, but Portland wouldn’t let them get any closer.

The Blazers stretched their lead to 93-82 after Rudy Fer-nandez’s 3-pointer and Mill-er’s pull-up jumper, then held a comfortable margin the rest of the way.

The Mavericks lost the first two games against the Blaz-ers in the season series — both in Dallas. Miller scored a career-high 52 points against the Mavs in a 114-112 overtime victory on Jan. 30.

Heat 103, Bulls 74Jermaine O’Neal scored 24

points and the Miami Heat jumped out to a 30-point half-time lead in routing Chicago.

Pushing for a better playoff seeding, Miami’s third straight victory and ninth in 12 games lifted it into the No. 6 slot in the Eastern Conference, a half game ahead of the idle Char-lotte Bobcats.

Clippers 99, Rockets 93Craig Smith scored a sea-

son-high 25 points and had 10 rebounds as Los Angeles ended an 11-game road losing streak.

Drew Gooden had 17 points and 14 rebounds, Baron Davis scored 16 points and Eric Gordon added 14 for the Clip-pers, who hadn’t won on the road since Feb. 2.

Kentucky smashes Cinderella CornellBy The Associated Press

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Big Red came readied for the big upset. Cornell turned the regional semifinal into a home game, with fans dressed in red and chant-ing, “Let’s Go, Red!” in nearly every section of the massive Carrier Dome.

When Cornell pounced to 10-2 lead, the roar could be heard 55 miles away on its campus in Ithaca, N.Y.

But you don’t have to be an Ivy Leaguer to know the real team to beat didn’t come in red, but Big Blue.

John Wall, DeMarcus Cous-ins and Patrick Patterson stopped Cornell’s captivat-ing NCAA tournament run, giving the top-seeded Wild-cats a 62-45 win Thursday night in the East Regional semifinals.

“They’re a group that has a will to win,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said. “But they hadn’t been in a game like this where the other team makes a little run ... and we got away from playing how we play.”

Kentucky overcame the early deficit with a swarming defense, spoiling all the fun at Cornell’s loudest and larg-est pep rally.

Calipari has the Wildcats (35-2) in the regional final in his first season, erasing much of the sting of the pro-gram’s decade-long slide from the top.

Kentucky moved within one win of its first Final Four since winning the national championship in 1998 and will play second-seeded West Virginia on Saturday.

Cornell (29-5) bolted to a 10-2 lead in the opening min-

utes, then continuously mis-fired from beyond the arc and couldn’t catch up. Ken-tucky closed the first half with a 30-6 run, then held off a late comeback by Cornell.

Cornell sliced a 17-point deficit to six late in the second half, but Eric Bled-soe hit a short jumper with one tick left on the 35-second shot clock to push Ken-

tucky’s lead to 12. The Wild-cats finally put away Cornell from the free throw line.

“I think we did a great job landing the first punch,” Cor-nell center Jeff Foote said. “They’re a very talented team. Their skill and talent is going to show eventually.”

West Virginia 69,Washington 56

Da’Sean Butler shook off a sore right hand and helped West Virginia (30-6) shake off

feisty Washington to reach the East Regional final.

Butler kept playing after hurting himself midway through the second half and scored 14 points while Kevin Jones added 18 and eight rebounds. West Virginia won its ninth in a row.

Washington shot 22-of-56 from the field and was out-rebounded 49-29.

“It felt like it was eight against five out there,” Wash-ington forward Darnell Gant said.

Cornell’s Ryan Wittman (20) runs up the court after hitting a 3-pointeras Kentucky’s Darius Miller follows him. Kentucky won 62-45 to advance to the NCAA East Regional final.

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Eisenhower memorial would have 80-foot columnsWASHINGTON (AP) — A

national memorial to former president and World War II general Dwight D. Eisen-hower would include eight-story columns and metal “tap-estries” of photos, according to plans announced Thursday in Washington.

Architect Frank Gehry designed the memorial, but it still needs some $80 million in funding and the approval of federal agencies to be com-pleted. A commission oversee-ing its construction wants to have it finished by 2015.

The general’s grandson, David Eisenhower, who is a member of the memorial com-mission, called the plans an

“amazing design concept” during a news conference with Gehry. Gehry said that historically, tapestries have been used to tell stories, and that’s why he chose to weave the photos. Gehry said the 13 columns, 12 feet in diameter and about 80 feet tall, were

something he initially needed to hold up the tapestries, but they also created a “dignity for the site.”

Planning for the Eisenhower memorial began more than a decade ago and the site, about four acres of land by the National Air and Space

Museum and in view of the Capitol, was selected in 2006. The monument will be the first in the National Mall area since the World War II Memorial opened in 2004 and the first to a president since the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial opened in 1997.

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PBS, NPR stations get $10M infusion for local newsWASHINGTON (AP) —

Public radio and TV stations across the country will receive more than $10 million over the next two years to boost local news coverage as newspapers decline.

On Thursday, the Corpora-tion for Public Broadcasting announced the creation of local journalism centers in five regions. NPR and PBS stations in each region will collaborate on covering key issues, includ-ing immigration, agribusiness, the economy and health care. They will jointly hire about 50

multimedia journalists.“This is a commitment to

journalism,” said Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Corporation, which is a nonprofit organization cre-ated and funded by Congress. “As we look at this environ-ment and the impact on news-papers, we just felt we had to ... try something innovative and ensure that we hired real journalists as part of this initiative.”

Experienced journalists shed by failing newspapers could provide a pool of applicants,

she said.The funding initially targets

the Southwest, the Plains states, the upper Midwest, upstate New York and central Florida. Proposals also are being accepted from stations in the South and Northwest.

It will involve 37 local sta-tions, though at least 100 applied. To date, 13 radio sta-tions, 13 joint ventures operat-ing both radio and TV outlets, and one stand-alone TV sta-tion have signed on. Stations were selected on the basis of a business plan that included an

outline for becoming self-sus-taining within two years.

“The idea of pulling together radio and television for con-tent that is broadcast and online ... this is going to be our template going forward,” Har-rison said.

The Corporation will pro-vide $7.5 million for the proj-ect, while the stations involved contribute $3 million. Officials hope the arrangement could serve as a model for other stations and leverage private support.

Aruba cops say no bonesof Holloway found in sea

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — Police found noth-ing but rocks and coral while searching underwater for the remains of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, the Aruba prosecutors’ office said Thursday.

Police dove several times Wednesday and Sunday after an American couple turned over an underwater photo of what they believed might have been her remains, said spokes-man Ann Angela. The couple were diving while on vacation in Aruba last year.

Divers didn’t find any items in the photo, Angela said.

“We looked at it seriously,” she said. “It did not prove successful.”

The 18-year-old Clinton, Miss., native disappeared while on vacation in Aruba in 2005 and was last seen leav-ing a bar with Joran van der Sloot on the final night of a high school graduation trip.

Van der Sloot has been detained several times, but Aruban prosecutors say they

lack evidence to charge him.

Police believe the couple f rom Man-heim, Penn., likely zoomed in on some coral, giving

the impression that it might

have been a skull and bones, Angela said.

The search was one of many launched to find Holloway.

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TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE“Gangs of New York” — Dur-ing the era of Tammany Hall’s sway, a young man, Leonardo DiCaprio, vows vengeance on the vicious gangster, Daniel Day-Lewis, who killed his fa-ther./7 on AMCn SPORTSCollege basketball — It’s an NCAA twinbill as Ohio State battles SEC foe Tennessee in the opener and Duke faces Purdue in the nightcap./6 on CBSn PRIMETIME“Kitchen Nightmares” — Chef Ramsay tries to help improve a family-fun restaurant in Boca Raton, Fla., but is frustrated by the owner’s resistance to change./8 on Fox

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

MILESTONESn BIRTHDAYSSandra Day O’Connor, retired Supreme Court justice, 80; Leon-ard Nimoy, actor-director, 79; Nancy Pelosi, House speaker, 70; James Caan, actor, 70; Diana Ross, singer, 66; Steven Ty-ler, Aerosmith singer, 62; Ronnie McDowell, country singer, 60; Jennifer Grey, actress, 50; Michael Imperioli, actor, 44; Kenny Chesney, country singer, 42; Keira Knightley, actress, 25.

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Palin’s Alaska series to appear on TLCSarah Palin’s travelogue series about Alaska

has landed at the TLC network, and filming is set to begin this summer.

Network owner Discovery Communications announced Thursday that it had acquired rights to the eight-part series, produced by “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett. The deal lands “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on the network that also airs “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” “Cake Boss” and “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.”

The series tells stories of some of Alaska’s unique features as seen through the eyes of its former governor.

Burnett and Palin had been pitching the series to various net-works in recent weeks and had been asking for $1.2 million an episode, considered expensive in the world of nonfiction televi-sion. Discovery got the series for about $1 million an episode, according to two television executives familiar with the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because their networks don’t discuss such details publicly.

No air date has been set for the series.

Manager sues Axl Rose for nearly $2MAxl Rose is being sued by a famed music man-

ager who claims the singer owes him nearly $2 million in unpaid commissions.

Front Line Management, which was found-ed by Irving Azoff, sued Rose in Los Angeles on Thursday for nearly $1.9 million in unpaid fees. The company claims it had an oral agreement with Rose to receive 15 percent of the Guns N’ Roses’ frontman’s commissions.

The lawsuit states the commissions are due on more than $12 million in earnings Rose made for performances abroad.

Attempts to reach Rose’s current management were unsuc-cessful.

Azoff has represented famous musicians such as The Eagles and Joe Walsh and is currently the executive chairman of Live Nation Entertainment Inc., which recently merged with Ticket-master Entertainment.

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Car-attacking dog must attend classesA pit bull mix in Tennessee has been sentenced to obedience

training after his dogged attack on a local police car.Winston didn’t bite anybody, but he mauled a Chattanooga

police car in what might have been a confused attempt to take a bite out of crime.

The persistent pooch managed to tear off a section of the front bumper and damage the tires.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a judge ruled that Winston had been a very bad dog. He was sentenced to obedience and canine good citizen classes, and he’ll have to wear a tag that says he is “potentially dangerous.”

Charges against his owner will be dismissed if the classes are completed successfully.

Owner Nancy Emerling said Winston got out of a fenced-in area at a welding shop March 14.

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Dear Abby: My father is in the early stages of Alzheim-er’s. While at a family party, my stepmother started talk-ing about how she and Dad had just visited their friends, the Royal Family in England. I assume she thought she was being funny. My poor father was completely confused, but my stepmother continued on with the charade. We all felt uncomfortable and didn’t know how to handle the situ-ation. The grandkids felt bad for Grandpop.

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Dear Abby: My husband doesn’t like his sister. When he drinks beer, he says ugly things about her and starts to cry. When I said she’s his only sister and to cut it out, he closed his hands into fists.

I twice tried calling her at 1 a.m., after he fell asleep.

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Dear Dr. Gott: Since June of last year, I have experi-enced a very tight neck that makes sleeping and driving difficult. My doctor seems unconcerned but did recom-mend a physical therapist. While massage feels good, it does not take the pain away, nor does it make it any easier to turn my head. My left side is tighter than my right and throbs when I lie down, turn-ing into an all-head-involved headache.

If you have any insight or direction as to what I need to do, I would be grateful. I have tried everything except acu-puncture, which I think I will do next.

By the way, I am 70 years old and in excellent health oth-erwise. I do take amlodipine besylate for blood pressure, vitamins C and D, calcium, red yeast rice for cholesterol-lowering properties, glu-cosamine, MSM and an 81-mil-ligram aspirin. Plus, I have been on OsteoValin for a year as a substitute for Fosamax, which I took for five years. I need help.

Dear Reader: Neck pain is a common condition that can result from a number of dis-orders and diseases, includ-ing poor posture, herniated disc, degenerative disc dis-ease, pinched nerve, whip-lash from an auto accident and strain. The pain can be minor to severe and cause tin-gling, sensitivity, headache, dizziness, tight shoulders and a host of other unpleasant and often debilitating symptoms.

Because you are taking OsteoValin and were taking Fosamax six years ago, I assume you have been diag-nosed with osteoporosis. OsteoValin is a nonprescrip-tion supplement designed to prevent further bone deteri-oration. One of its three key ingredients is strontium. Overuse of the supplement can result in headaches. Amlodipine besylate can also cause headaches and muscle pain.

Speak with your physician about your concerns. Perhaps you can consider a trial period of other medications and/or eliminate one or more.

Treatment of your neck pain depends on the underlying cause. You may require an X-ray, CT or MRI, which are all noninvasive procedures used to determine exactly what is occurring and what the best course of action might be. It is important to rule out whether a pinched nerve or other nerve problem is to blame.

In the interim, consider heat or cold packs, physical ther-apy, over-the-counter topi-cal analgesic creams (per-haps containing capsaicin or menthol), muscle relax-ants, acupuncture, massage, hydrotherapy or yoga. Your physician or local hospital’s physical-therapy department should be able to guide you.

Dear Dr. Gott: What is the

process for using clear iodine on nails?

Dear Reader: Clear iodine can be applied with a cotton swab directly onto nails to combat ridges and splits. The product will work best if applied before bedtime, after showering or at other times when the hands will not be immersed in warm water for a period of time.

•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, P.O. Box 167, Wickliffe, OH 44092-0167.

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TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) — A major aspiration you’ve been nurturing can be realized at this time, but it is going to have to take some changes in your initial presentation to get it up and going.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — If you really want to get a project of yours going, you may need to be willing to accept the aid of a certain person who is willing to lend you a hand. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — That bright idea you have can be developed if you’re assertive enough to take the necessary ac-tion, even if that means going to an experienced person for ad-vice.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Opportunity isn’t likely to develop today through doubt and negative thinking, but it can happen if you are allied with an industrious person who knows how to make things happen. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Services you render aren’t likely to go unacknowledged or unrewarded. However, unless you have an understanding, returns may come back to you in bits and piec-es instead of all at once.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — If you see friends who are shy and fumbling, you’ll move in and get everybody mingling together, gabbing about everything and anything.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Persistence and the will to try differ-ent ways and means to achieve your aims may become of ex-treme importance if you hope to be successful today. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Go ahead and express your ideas and opinions today regarding an issue about which you feel strongly, as long as you do so in an unobtrusive manner. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Now is the time to start in-creasing your efforts instead of slacking off and doing nothing. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — An old interest of yours can be resurrected at this time, provided you figure out ways to get others wanting to hear more of what you have to offer. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Don’t be timid if bold measures are required to achieve your ends today. Once you take action, it will enhance your self-esteem, encourage you to do more and win you admiration in the process.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — After giving ample time to evalu-ate an idea, you may see an effective course of action to take in order to achieve what you envision.

Dr. Wallace: I’ve been reading your column for a long time and I know that you encourage teens to avoid the fabulous weed known as pot — aka marijuana. You always mention the “evils” to the person’s health, but never did you write anything about the enjoyment caused by this fabulous “organic” weed. As you can tell, I enjoy a marijuana cigarette a couple of times a day.

Some anti-marijuana guru doctor wrote in a health journal that marijuana use causes medical and emotional strains on the body for regular users. Be so kind as to enlighten me about what the medical and emotional strains might be. Please use everyday language in your explanation, not medical “mumbo jumbo.” — Nameless, South Bend, Ind.

Nameless: I can’t tell you all the medical and emotional strains that are placed on the body from smoking marijuana regularly. I’m not a medical doctor, but I don’t need an MD to know that filling your lungs with smoke from any source would be consid-ered a very unwise decision. Most pot smokers inhale deeply, and hold the smoke in the lungs as long as possible to get the “ultimate” effect from this “fabulous, organic weed” — making smoking pot doubly risky!

Dr. Wallace: This summer, my buddy and I plan to travel around the United States and Canada before we start our first year of college. Naturally, we don’t have an abundance of mon-ey, so we are planning to stay in youth hostels.

Can you please explain how youth hostels function? — Ed, Chicago.

Ed: There are over 275 youth hostels throughout the United States and Canada. You will find a network of American Youth Hostels in major cities, in national, state and provincial parks, in the mountains and by the seashore. AYH makes travel afford-able for those on a tight budget ($10 to $20 per person per night — larger cities may be higher). They also provide self-ser-vice kitchens, dining areas and common rooms.

AYH is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping all, espe-cially young people, gain a greater understanding of the world and its people through its network of hostels and its educa-tional and recreational travel programs. For further informa-tion, please contact: Hostelling International — USA, Nation-al Administrative Office, 8401 Colesville Road, Suite 600, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Phone: 301-495-1240. Or visit their Web site at www.hiusa.org.

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

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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on June 30,2000 Fred Johnson executeda certain Deedof Trust to TranscontinentalTitle Trustee for GreenPointCredit, LLC,beneficiary, which Deed ofTrust was recorded in theoffice of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi in Book 1217 atPage 740; and,WHEREAS, Green TreeServicing, LLC, successor ininterest toGreenPoint Credit, LLC thepresent owner of theindebtedness and holder ofthe above described Deed ofTrust, appointed Jeff D.Rawlings in the placeand stead of Transcontinen-tal Title or any subsequentlyappointedsubstituted trustee, saidSubstitution of Trustee beingrecorded in theoffice of the Chancery Clerkof said County by instrumentno. 275585 in Book1506 at Page 131; and,WHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions ofsaid Deed of Trust and theentire debt secured therebyhaving been declaredto be due and payable inaccordance with the terms ofsaid Deed of Trust,Green Tree Servicing, LLC,the legal holder of said in-debtedness, havingrequested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee to exe-cute the trust and sellsaid land and property in ac-cordance with the terms ofsaid Deed of Trustand for the purpose of raisingthe sums due thereunder,together withattorney's fees, trustee's feesand expenses of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, JeffD. Rawlings, SubstitutedTrustee in saidDeed of Trust, will on the19th day of April, 2010, offerfor sale at publicoutcry and sell within legalhours (being between thehours of 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.), at the FrontDoor of the Warren CountyCourthouse, locatedat 1009 Cherry Street,Vicksburg, Mississippi to thehighest and best bidderfor cash the followingdescribed property situatedin Warren County, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:PARCEL 1: Begin at theSoutheast (SE) corner ofNortheast Quarter (NE 1/4)of the Northeast Quarter (NE1/4) of Section 31, Township15 North, Range 4East, Warren County, Missis-sippi: thence run North 00degrees 02 minutesEast a distance of 323.0 feet;thence North 63 degrees 07minutes West adistance of 441.8 feet;thence continue North 63degrees 07 minutes West adistance of 200.00 feet to apoint on the east right of wayline of FisherFerry Road, as now laid outand in use, and being thepoint of beginning ofthe herein described parcel;from the point of beginning;thence South 26degrees 53 minutes West adistance of 100.0 feet;thence South 63 degrees 07minutes East a distance of100 feet; thence North 26degrees 53 minutes Easta distance of 100.00 feet;thence North 63 degrees 07minutes West adistance of 100.00 feet to thepoint of beginning of theherein describedproperty; and containing 0.23acres of land, more or less,located in theNortheast Quarter (NE 1/4)of Section 31, Township 15North, Range 4 East,Warren County, Mississippi.ACCESS EASEMENT: Be-gin at the Southeast (SE)corner of the NortheastQuarter(NE 1/4) of the NortheastQuarter (NE 1/4) of Section31, Township 15 North,Range 4 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi; thencerun North 00 degrees 02minutes East a distance of323.0 feet; thence North 63degrees 07 minutesWest a distance of 441.8feet, thence South 26 de-grees 53 minutes West adistance of 100.00 to thepoint of beginning of theherein described aeasement; from the point ofbeginning thence North 63degrees 07 minutesWest 200 feet to the Eastright of way line of FisherFerry Road; thenceSouth 26 degrees 53minutes West along the Eastright of way of Fisher FerryRoad, a distance of 52.57feet to a point; thence South63 degrees 07minutes East a distance of200.00 feet to a point; thenceNorth 26 minutes53 minutes East a distanceof 52.57 feet to the point ofbeginning of theherein described; located inthe Northeast Quarter (NE1/4) of Section 31,Township 15 North, Range 4East, Warren County,Mississippi;INCLUDING THEFOLLOWINGMANUFACTURED HOME:1994 General AugustineSerial No. 037689A/BI WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as is vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 23rd day of March,2010_________________Jeff D. Rawlings,Substituted Trustee forGreen Tree Servicing, LLCPublish: 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16(4t)

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OFGREGORY NEAL MASSEY,DECEASEDPROBATE NO. 2010-034PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSOF GREGORY NEALMASSEYNOTICE is hereby given thatLetters of Administration inthe Estate of Gregory NealMassey were granted to theundersigned by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, on the16th day of March, 2010,and all persons havingclaims against said estateare hereby notified andrequired to have sameprobated and registered bythe Clerk of said Court asrequired by law within ninety(90) days of the first date ofpublication hereon. Failureto do so will forever bar suchclaims.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREthis the 23rd day ofMarch, 2010./s/ William M. MasseyWILLIAM M. MASSEYPublish: 3/26, 4/2, 4/9(3t)

Substitute Trustee'sNotice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 5th dayof January, 2007 andacknowledged on the 5thday of January, 2007, Ned HJones, Jr. & Valencia RJones, married, executedand delivered a certain Deedof Trust unto Dennis FHardiman of Bristol County,RI, Trustee for MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., Beneficiary,to secure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi in Book 1633 atPage 670 Instrument#242091; andWHEREAS, on the 16th dayof September, 2009,Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,assigned said Deed of Trustunto BAC Home LoansServicing, LP fka Country-wide Home Loans ServicingLP, by instrument recordedin the office of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1500 at Page 614 Instrument#272757; andWHEREAS, on the 16th dayof September, 2009, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument record-ed in the office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk in Book1500 at Page 628 Instrument#272778; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 16th day of April, 2010, Iwill during the lawful hours ofbetween 11:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., at public outcry, offerfor sale and will sell, at thewest front door of the WarrenCounty Courthouse at Vicks-burg, Mississippi, for cash tothe highest bidder, the fol-lowing described land andproperty situated in WarrenCounty, Mississippi, to-wit:All that certain tract of parcelof land lying and being situ-ated in the County of War-ren, State of Mississippi: Allof Lot Ninety-Eight (98) ofWarrenton HeightsSubdivision, Part "A" of PartTwo, a plat whereof appearsof record in Plat Book 2 atPage 39 of the WarrenCounty, Mississippi LandRecord.

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01. LegalsFor title reference see Deedrecorded December 27, 1994in Book 1030 Page 736.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me asSubstitute TrusteeWITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this day March 23, 2010Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020cab/F09-2521Publish: 3/26, 4/2, 4/9(3t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OF VICKS-BURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO:Maxim DornbuschParcel# 1082 291970020351001223 Forrest Street1223 Forrest Street, PPIN5862Vicksburg, MS 39180Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting on April05, 2010 at 10:00a.m. on thestate of your propertydescribed above, situatedwithin the City of Vicksburg,Mississippi, to determine ifsuch condition is a hazardand/or menace to the health,safety and welfare of the citi-zens of the City of Vicksburg,Mississippi, and to ordersuch cleaning of the abovementioned property as maybe necessary to remove saidproperty as a hazard ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg,Mississippi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG,MISSISSIPPI, this theMarch 17, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 3/19, 3/26(2t)

BEFORE THE BOARD OFMAYOR AND ALDERMENOF THE CITY OFVICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPINOTICE OF PUBLICHEARINGName & AddressProperty DescriptionTO:Irene Harris et alParcel# 0861 33 0124001700134 Curry Street134 Curry Street, PPIN14252Vicksburg, MS 39183Vicksburg, MS 39180You are hereby notified thatthe Board of Mayor andAldermen of the City ofVicksburg, Mississippi, willconduct a public hearing attheir regular meeting on April09, 2010 at 10:00a.m. on thestate of your property de-scribed above, situated with-in the City of Vicksburg, Mis-sissippi, to determine if suchcondition is a hazard and/ormenace to the health, safetyand welfare of the citizens ofthe City of Vicksburg, Missis-sippi, and to order suchcleaning of the above men-tioned property as may benecessary to remove saidproperty as a hazard or men-ace to the health, safety andwelfare of the citizens of theCity of Vicksburg, Mississip-pi.BY ORDER OF THEBOARD OF MAYOR ANDALDERMEN OF THE CITYOF VICKSBURG,MISSISSIPPI, this the March17, 2010.Victor Gray-LewisDirectorBuilding & InspectionsPublish: 3/19, 3/26(2t)

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01. LegalsREQUEST FORPROPOSALfor BANKING SERVICESSealed proposals to bedelivered to the office of theCity Clerk, second floor, CityHall, Suite 201, 1401 WalnutStreet, Vicksburg, Mississip-pi prior to 9:00 a.m., April 23,2010.Proposals to be opened atthe regular meeting of theMayor and Aldermen at10:00 a.m. on April 23, 2010.Those submitting Proposalsare cautioned that the CityClerk does not receive thedaily U.S. Mail on or before9:00 a.m. Bids will be time-stamped upon receiptaccording to City Clerk'stime clock.The City of Vicksburg,(The City) is acceptingwritten proposals from localfinancial institutions to serveas it's primary depository.The financial institution(Contract Bank) should notbe dependent upon TheCity's deposits; therefore,The City's deposits shouldcomprise less than ten per-cent (10%) of the ContractBank's total deposits. TheCity may elect to periodicallyinvest in interest-bearingsecurities with otherfinancial institutions. Thefinancial institution shallmeet all legal requirementscontained in the MississippiCode of 1972 to be a deposi-tory of the City of Vicksburgpertaining to a municipality.Sealed proposals shall beclearly marked on theenvelope as "DEPOSITORYPROPOSAL". The proposalswill be opened by the Mayorand Aldermen at their regularmeeting on April 23, 2010and taken under advisement.All proposals shall contain, ata minimum, the servicesrequested in this RFP. Thesubmitted RFP shall becomea part of the final contractnegotiated by the City andthe financial institution. Eachfinancial institution is encour-aged to submit informationoutlining other services thatmay be worthy of considera-tion by The City.Proposals should be submit-ted for a one year contractand a two year contract. Thecontract Bank will be award-ed The City's business forthe selected period to beginJune 1, 2010.The City reserves the right toreject any and all proposalsand to award this contract tothe financial institutionwhose overall capabilitieswill best serve its needs.Selection of the ContractBank will be made primarilyon the basis of the interestrate paid on The City's idlemonies, the amount of theprojected service charges toprocess The City's accountactivity, and the abilities ofthe financial institution, in thesole judgement and opinionof The City, to provide theoverall level of service andcommitment required forThe City to carry out itsoperations.All questions regarding TheCity's current bankingoperations should bepresented in writing to WalterW. Osborne, Jr., City Clerk,at 1401 Walnut Street, sec-ond floor, City Hall, Suite

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201, by mail to the above atPost Office Box 150, Vicks-burg, MS 39181-0150, byfacsimile at (601) 631-3778or e-mail [email protected]./s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr.Walter W. Osborne, Jr.,City ClerkPublish: 3/19, 3/26(2t)

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1INTHE CHANCERY COURTOF WARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OF THELAST WILL ANDTESTAMENT OF GEORGEEDNA SHERMAN,DECEASEDEDNA JOYCE WAITES,EXECUTRIXPROBATE NO. 2010-033PRNOTICE TO CREDITORSOF GEORGE EDNASHERMANNOTICE is hereby given thatLetters Testamentary of theEstate of George Edna Sher-man, Deceased, were grant-ed to the undersigned by theChancery Court of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, on the16th day of March, 2010, andall persons having claimsagainst said estate arehereby notified and requiredto have the same probatedand registered by the Clerkof said Court as required bylaw within ninety (90) days ofthe date hereof. Failure todo so will forever barsuch claims.WITNESS my signature this,the 23rd day of March,2010./s/ Edna Joyce WaitesEDNA JOYCE WAITESPublish: 3/26, 4/2, 4/9(3t)

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on February 14,2008, Lovejoy G. Walker,unmarried, executed a deedof trust to Angie Dellinger,trustee for the benefit of Re-gions Bank, which deed oftrust is recorded in Deed ofTrust Book 1695 at Page561 in the office of theChancery Clerk of theCounty of Warren, State ofMississippi; andWHEREAS, the aforesaid,Regions Bank, the holder ofsaid deed of trust and thenote secured thereby,substituted John C. Under-wood, Jr., as Trustee therein,as authorized by the termsthereof, by instrument datedFebruary 4, 2010 andrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1506 at Page 312; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt se-cured thereby, having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, and the legal holder ofsaid indebtedness, RegionsBank, having requested theundersigned Substituted

01. LegalsTrustee to execute the trustand sell said land and prop-erty in accordance with theterms of said deed of trust forthe purpose of raising thesums due thereunder, to-gether with attorney's fees,Substituted Trustee's feesand expense of sale;NOW, THEREFORE, I, JohnC. Underwood, Jr.,Substituted Trustee, in saiddeed of trust, will on the 9thday of April, 2010, offer forsale at public outcry for cashto the highest bidder, andsell within legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00A.M. and 4:00 P.M.) at theMain front door of the CountyCourthouse at Vicksburg,County of Warren, State ofMississippi, the following de-scribed property situated inthe County of Warren, Stateof Mississippi, to-wit:Lot 26 of Broadhills Addition,according to the map or platof said Broadhills Additionwhich is of record in theoffice of the Chancery Clerkof Warren County,Mississippi, reference towhich is hereby made in aidof this descriptionI WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as is vested in me asSubstituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 4th day of March,2010._______________John C. Underwood, Jr.SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEControl #10010028Publish: 3/19, 3/26, 4/2(3t)

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REHABILITATION CENTERNow Hiring

DIRECTOR OF NURSING• Must be an RN

• Plans, Organizes, Directs Nursing Staff• Strong Multi-task Abilities

• Strong people skills

come GIVE OUR TEAM A LOOKCompetitive Salary and Benefit Package

Apply in person to:Administrator

3103 Wisconsin Ave. • Vicksburg, MS Phone: 601-638-1514

Fax: 601-638-8738

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Warren County Emergency Managementis seeking a candidate to fill the position

of Operations Officer.

This position serves as key StaffAssistant and advisor to the Director and

provides support on the formulation,development, integration and evaluationof Emergency Management policy, plans

and programs.

Application packets for this position are;available in the Chancery Clerk’s Officelocated on the First Floor of the Warren

County Court House, 1009 Cherry Street,Vicksburg, Mississippi 39183, between8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through

Friday. The deadline to submitApplication is Friday, April 2, 2010.

Picture Yourself At

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Looking for a promising future in healthcare?

Full-Time Positions:

• Registered Nurse• RN - ICU experience

• Medical RecordsManager/Coder

• Clinical Liaison - RN• RN Nurse Manager

Sign On Bonus For Clinical Full Time Positions!Contact Our Human Resources Department TODAY

At (601) 619-3628 • Fax (601) 619-3069Or email your resume to Angela Hunter at

[email protected]

As a leader in the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH)industry, Promise Healthcare provides rewarding career

opportunities, excellent benefits and a chance to have a key role as a vital part of a growing team.

1111 North Frontage Rd., 2nd Floor, Vicksburg, MS 39180Equal Opportunity Employer

• PRN RNs, LPNs, CNA’s

• Full-time PT, PTA• Director of Rehab

Services (Must be PT, 3-5 yrs. Mgmt. exp.)

• Chief ClinicalOfficer (BSN Required)

• Physical Therapy Asst.• Clinical Evaluator-FT

Current RN License

Contact our Human Resources Department TODAYAt (601) 883-3628 • Fax (601) 883-3069

Or email your resume to Debbie Carson [email protected]

Covenant Health & Rehab ofVicksburg LLC

“Every Day of Life Counts”We are a Dynamic skilled nursing facility

seeking an energetic individual.

Housekeeping SupervisorPrevious housekeeping Management required.

Please fax to 601-636-4986

Covenant Health & Rehabilitation of Vicksburg, LLC2850 Porters Chapel RoadVicksburg, MS 39180-1805

Phone: (601) 638-9211 Fax: (601) 636-4986

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06. Lost & Found

FOUND! Boston Terrier,young female, collar, nearMount Alban Road andWarriors Trail area. Call601-218-5158

FOUND! Labrador, youngfemale, black. Found in theCulkin Road area. Call 601-415-4431.

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07. Help Wanted

“ACE”Truck Driver Training

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ADVERTISING SALESCONSULTANT Looking fora new challenge in Advertis-ing Sales? Apply now- Thisposition won't last! In thisrole you will have an ac-count list to look after andmanage. You will work withclients to find creative andunique advertising solutionsfor their businesses. Youwill be responsible for gen-erating revenue and achiev-ing your goals. You willhave a selection of clientsto service; you will identifytheir needs and buildstronger relationships withthem. You will also spendtime building new relation-ships and finding new busi-ness opportunities. Ideallyyou will have experienceselling business to busi-ness. Any advertising ormarketing or sales experi-ence that you have will alsobe advantageous. You mustbe intelligent, customer fo-cused, and a strong teamplayer. Must have a gooddriving record with depend-able transportation and autoinsurance. The successfulcandidate will be rewardedwith an above industry basesalary, plus commission.Send resumes to Dept.3713, The Vicksburg Post,P.O. Box 821668, Vicks-burg, MS 39182.

CDL LICENSED EQUIPMENT OPERATOR

and Driver. 5 years experience, clear record.

No phone calls. Apply in person at

4385 Highway 61 North.

CONFEDERATE RIDGEAPARTMENTS now accepting applicationsfor Certified HVAC maintenance person. Experience is a must!

Call 601-638-0102, for information.

07. Help Wanted

COOK POSITION OPENTaking applications Monday-

Friday from 9am-11am. Apply in person at

Goldies Bar-B-Q2430 South Frontage Road

DIALYSIS NURSE

DRG Fayette Dialysishas an immediate

opening for a full-timeRN psoition. We offer acompetitive salary andbenefits package and asign-on bonus. CurrentMississippi RN license

required along withDialysis experience.

Contact Wanda Page at 601-488-6347 or

769-798-9969

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

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Dept 3717The Vicksburg Post

P.O. Box 821668Vicksburg, MS 39182

Resumes are beingaccepted for a Full-TimeKindergarten/ Daycare

Director. MS HealthDept. qualifications.

Send resume to P.O. Box820772, Vicksburg, MS

39182. Deadline to applyis May 3rd, 2010.

SEEKING CERTIFIEDPublic Accountants CPAfor MY Hospitality Ser-

vices LLC, local hotel andmotel management com-pany. Position is salary

based and requires appli-cant to reside in Vicksburgand work out of local office.

Send resumes to: Dept 3720

The Vicksburg Post P.O Box 821668

Vicksburg MS 39182

07. Help Wanted

QUALITY CONTROL.EARN up to $100 per day!Evaluate retail stores, train-ing provided, no experiencerequired. Call 877-699-9772.

SOCIAL WORKERMONDAY - FRIDAY

8:00-4:30

We offer Blue Cross/Blue

Shield medical insurance,

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full time employees

Apply in Person at:

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60 Shady Lawn Place

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AVONCALL 601-636-7535

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UPSCALE VICKSBURGHOTEL has immediateopening for Night auditor.Accounting/ front desk ex-perience preferred. Sendresume to: Dept. 3720, TheVicksburg Post, P.O. Box821668, Vicksburg, MS39182.

11. BusinessOpportunities

Need Additional Income?Be Your Own BossImmediately earn

$800-$1300 for only $99 investmentCall Margie at

Naleka Pewterware601-638-2833

LOCAL TANNING SALONfor sale, 10 years in business,good income. For more infor-mation, call 601-218-2300.

13. SituationsWanted

Looking for usedchain linked fence

with (2) T-post, 6 or 7 feet. Oil

well sucker rods.

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13. SituationsWanted

LOOKING FOR A HIGHSchool student to tutor Al-gebra 1, three days a week.Call 601-415-6578.

40. Cars & Trucks

14. Pets &LivestockAKC REGISTERED

Labrador Retrievers forsale! Born February 18th,

will be ready for new homeon April 1st. (4) Chocolatemales, (1) Black male andfemale. $250 each. Call

318-282-2156 if interested.

VICKSBURG WARRENHUMANE SOCIETYHighway 61 South

601-636-6631Currently housing 84 unwanted

and abandoned animals.

43 dogs & puppies41 cats & kittens

Please adopt today!Call the Shelter for more information.

HAVE A HEART, SPAYOR NEUTER YOUR PETS!Look for us on www.petfinder.com

14. Pets &Livestock

AKC/ CKC REGISTERED

YORKIES, Poodles and Schnauzers

$200 to $700!601-218-5533,

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Pet!

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Horseback Birthday Parties

Silver Creek Equestrian601-638-8988

silvercreekarena.com

40. Cars & Trucks

15. Auction

LOOKING FOR A greatvalue? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.

16. Antiques

�� Uniques and Antiques

5553 Gibson Road Old finds.. New style

10-4 Thursday and Friday,10-1 Saturday, 601-415-0844.

17. Wanted ToBuy

CASH PAID FOR COINS,war relics, antique booksand collectibles. Call 601-618-2727.

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

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

1993 ISUZU PICKUP.Make offer. Set of 5 Jeeprims, $100. 601-218-3135.

3216 Washington Large shipment

of designerhandbags &wallets.Children &adult

name brand shoes.Brenda Love.


20-25 GALLON HALFBARRELS, plastic. Good formany uses. $2 each. 601-636-3379.

BABY CHICKS hatchedMarch 21st, and older. $1.50each. Looking for HenTurkeys. 318-552-3314.

CONTRACTORS TRUCKrack, fits extra cab '07 GMCand Chevrolet. $500. 601-415-3847.

CRAFTSMAN TILLER.17 inch till, 7 horse power.Like new. 601-636-6848 or601-397-1679.

atDISCOUNT

FURNITURE BARN601-638-7191

600 Jackson St, Vicksburg

FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post

delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,

7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,

Circulation Department.


FOR SALE! Blueberryplants. $5 each. Fruit trees.$9 each. 601-529-5150.

FOR THE BEST priceson furniture at 7059 FisherFerry Road, Sandy's 3 WayConvenience Store andDeli, factory direct furniturecorner of Fisher Ferry andJeff Davis Road. 601-636-8429.

GE 4' DEEP FREEZER,good condition. $350. Call601-218-3037.

GE WASHER AND DRY-ER for sale. Good condition,$400. Call 318-341-2038

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SOLID PINE QUEEN-SIZE Pier One headboard,$100. Custom made tile topend table, $40. Kitchen ta-ble, drop leaf, solid wood,carved legs, $150. 601-636-2803, 601-831-6888.

WE PAY CASH!for gold, silver, diamonds & coinsScallions Jewelers

1207 Washington St. • 601-636-6413


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INVACARE MODEL 9000electric wheel chair with bat-tery charger. Never used.$700. Call 601-415-0981.

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”Bring Your Best Friend to our

NEW LOCATION, 3508 South Washington Street

Not so far, just 1 milesouth of Belmont St.

Same Great Pet Merchandise, Just More Room!

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

Fresh Seafood, Fresh Sack Oysters,

Live Crawfish$2.25/ lb

Cheapest Prices in TownCheapest Prices in Town

STRICK’S SEAFOOD601-218-2363

Crawfish CookingEvery Sunday

19. Garage &Yard Sales

#1 RIVERVIEW DRIVE,Saturday 7am- until. Searstable saw, 25 gallon aircompressor, baby furnitureand clothes, dining room ta-ble and 6 chairs, 5-piecewicker set, porch rockers,dishes and kitchen items,living room furniture, lad-ders, much more.

1844 CULKIN ROAD, Fri-day 7am-6pm, Saturday7am-12 Noon. 4 families,plants, lots of miscella-neous.

2083 OAK RIDGE, Satur-day 6:30am-11am. 4-Familysale! Baby boy clothes, juniorto plus size, men's 2x, miscel-laneous, household items,purses, scrubs, love seat.

3 Rolling Hills Road,

off Oak Ridge, Saturday, 7am- 12

noon, 3 families, teen's,kid's, adult's clothing, household items, great

miscellaneous. Awesome sale! Benefits DECA!

517 HOLLY RIDGEDRIVE off Porter's Chapelby park. Saturday 8am-1pm. Crochet and craftmagazines, clothes, men'sshoes 8.5, archaeologybooks and magazines,weights, songbooks, guitarinstruction books, DVD's,music CD's, fiction books,much more.

BOVINA ELEMENTARYSCHOOL, Saturday, 7am-12 noon, lots of

great items, School wide sale!

Benefits Bovina PTO.

HUGE YARD SALE! Sat-urday 8am-1pm. Spring HillChurch, 815 Mission 66. Fur-niture, clothes, linens, cur-tains, household items, bikesand toys, etcetera. Also hotdogs, burgers and sodas.

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

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

for circulation.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

16' JON BOAT, TRAIL-ER, trolling motor and bat-tery. $1000. 601-415-3354.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

2006 BAYLINER SKIBoat. 4.0 Mercruiser, manyaccessories, excellent con-dition. $13,000. 601-218-1714.

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

22. MusicalInstruments

PIANO TUNING $68 Backin town briefly (Jacksontuners charge $125-$145)Repairs since 1972. Formerfull-time University tuner.Stewart Speers 601-529-7557

24. BusinessServices

AFFORDABLE PAINTING.Quality work. Exterior/interi-or: Pressure washing. 20years experience. 601-218-0263.

• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13

• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce

Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law

601-636-1109

D&D Tree Cutting,Trimming &

Lawn CareFor Free Estimates,call “Big James”at 601-218-7782.

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

GOODWIN FLOOR FIN-ISHING. Install, sand, refin-ish hardwood floors, 98 per-cent dust free, commercialequipment used. Free esti-mates. 601-636-4128, 601-529-1457.

HOME OR OFFICE clean-ing available. 10 years expe-rience. Honest, dependable.References available. 601-218-3558.

J. JONES LAWN SERVICE.

Reasonable rates. Call 601-218-7173.

LaBarre Lawn Service. 10years of service, grass cut-ting, blowing and edging.601-540-4395.

MOWING! ONE TIME CUTor scheduled cut. Hedges,pruning, flower beds, clean-ing, planting, mulching, gutterand pressure washing. Freeestimates. Call 601-218-4415.

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

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

601-529-6168.

SPRING CLEANING ONyour list? Let us do the workfor you! Quality Cleaning,painting, power washing.Free estimates, 601-214-9805.

HELPING PEOPLE FILEUNDER THE

“BANKRUPTCY CODE”CHAPTER 7 - $600

CHAPTER 13 - $300 DOWN,THE REST IN THE PLAN

NO FAULT DIVORCE - $350SPEAK DIRECTLY TO AN

ATTORNEY

TYE ASHFORD

(601-924-8670)WILL MOVE YOU easy,

fast and cheaper. Just call,601-630-9196, 601-529-0809.

26. For RentOr Lease

4216 1/2 HALLS FERRYRoad, 2 story building, 1000square foot. Commercial useonly. Call 601-638-3211.

28. FurnishedApartments

EXECUTIVE BEDROOMSUITE. Fully furnished,

kitchen, washer / dryer, cov-ered garage, alarm system,maid service, all utilities fur-nished. $600 monthly. Call

601-618-0264

NEWLY RENOVATED.Completely furnished corpo-

rate apartment. All utilities pro-vided including cable andinternet. Laundry room,

courtyard, security entrance.Great location. $750 - $900

month. 601-415-9027,601-638-4386.

29. UnfurnishedApartments

1 bedroom apartments,$400. 2 bedroom townhouse,new paint/ carpet, $500,$300 deposit. 601-631-0805.

SPRING INTOSAVINGS at

CONFEDERATERIDGE

780 Highway 61 North

Call for Details,601-638-0102

GREAT FAMILY

ATMOSPHERE

Newly remodeled 2 and3 bedrooms. Paid cable,water and trash.Washer,

dryer and microwaveincluded. $0 deposit.Call 601-415-8735 or

601-638-5587

Vicksburg’s MostConvenient Luxury

Apartments!

• Cable Furnished!• High Speed Internet

Access Available!

601-636-05032160 S. Frontage Rd.Vicksburg, MS 39180

BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE LIVING

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped

• Lake Surrounds Community• Pool • Fireplace

• Spacious Floor Plans601-629-6300

www.thelandingsvicksburg.com501 Fairways Drive

Vicksburg

Voted #1 Apartments in the2009 Reader’s Choice

Classic Elegancein Modern Surroundings

601-630-2921801 Clay Street • Vicksburg

SpringMove-In Special

• 1 & 2 BedroomStudios & Efficiencies

• Utilities PaidNo Utility Deposit Required

• Downtown Convenienceto Fine Restaurants, Shops,Churches, Banks & Casinos

FF From $495.00 FFSecure High-Rise Building •

Off Street Parking •9 1/2 Foot Ceilings •

Beautiful River Views •Senior Discounts •


1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOMAPARTMENTS, downtown.$400 to $650 monthly, depositrequired. 601-638-1746.

3 BEDROOM APART-MENTS. New carpet, paint,washer/ dryer hookups.$525- $550. 601-631-0805.

APARTMENTS FORRENT. 1, 2 and 3 bedroomsavailable. Autumn Oaks. 601-636-0447.

CLEAN 2 BEDROOMS, 1bath. Wood floors, appli-ances, $650 monthly, 3321Drummond. 601-415-9191.

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

DOWNTOWN, BRICK, MarieApartments. Total electric, cen-tral air/ heat, stove, refrigerator.$500, water furnished. 601-636-7107, [email protected]

NOW LEASING! 1, 2 and 3bedrooms. Magnolia Com-mons of Vicksburg, off High-way 61 South. 601-619-6821.

TAKING APPLICATIONS!!On a newly remodeled 3 bed-room, $450. Refrigerator andstove furnished. $200 deposit.

Call 601-634-8290

30. HousesFor Rent

1622 SOUTH STREET. 3bed, 2 full bath, big livingroom, dining and kitchenarea, washroom, newly re-modeled, section 8 wel-comed. Call 601-795-5065,601-529-3286.

3 BEDROOMS, 1 BATH,House in South WarrenCounty. Country setting,large yard. 601-529-5733 or601-415-1117 after 5pm.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS2300 square feet, remod-eled, 3 car carport. $1000monthly, $1500 deposit, ref-erences required. Serious in-quiries only. 601-301-0878.

3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHScompletely remodeled, conve-nient to WES, fenced backyard, quiet dead end street.$875 monthly. Deposit, firstmonth's rent, references andcredit check required. 601-529-0725, leave message.

3/ 4 BEDROOMS- Rent $1,100 and Up!

• 721 National.732-768-5743.

909 NATIONAL STREET.2 bedrooms, 1 bath, $595,deposit required. 601-415-0067

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

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

2005 16x80, 3 bedroom,2 bath. Laundry room/pantry. Call for details.$18,500. 601-636-7661.

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

Owner Finance- No Cred-it Check! $5000 down, $775monthly. Nice 3 bedrooms,2 baths on 2 acres. 601-941-2952, 601-720-2106.


33. Commercia lProperty

PPPPFOR LEASEPPPP

1911 Mission 66Office or Retail

Suite B-Apprx. 2450 sq. ft.Great Location!

Easy Access!High Visability!

Brian Moore RealtyConnie - Owner/ Agent

318-322-4000

33. Commercia lProperty

I-20 AREA, INDIVIDUALoffice suites, conference

room, kitchen, lobby and re-ception area. Starting at

$300 including utilities. Call601-218-9631.


34. HousesFor Sale

4909 OAK RIDGE ROADCompletely rebuilt,

approximately 1100 squarefeet, hardwood, ceramicfloors, 2 car carport, all

appliances included, 1 acre.Asking $110,000. 601-831-

2073 or 601-638-0927.

AskUs.

2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.comMember FDIC

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

Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator

MortgageLoans601.630.8209

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

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

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

McMillinReal Estate601-636-8193

VicksburgRealEstate.com


34. HousesFor Sale

Big River Realty

Bigriverhomes.com

Rely on over 19years of experience

in Real Estate.

DAVID A. BREWER601-631-0065

225 Falcon Ridge

600 Blossom Lane3 BR, 2 BAhome withingroundpool &large

workshop.

3 BR,2 BA.Open

floor plan,fencedyard.

Reduced!

Judy Uzzle.................601-994-4663Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Rip Hoxie, Land Pro....601-260-9149Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Bob Gordon........601-831-0135Tony Jordan........601-630-6461Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Kai Mason...........601-218-5623Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Rick McAllister..601-218-1150Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCV

JIM HOBSONREALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

34. HousesFor Sale

HOME FOR SALE. Cary,Ms, adorable 3 bedroom, 2bath home, 1200 squarefeet, front/ back porches.662-907-0619.

Eagle Lake3 lots, shop & greenhouse,

septic, utilities,community pier and

boat launch, water view.$49,500

Sullivan Cove

Call Bette Paul Warner,601 218 1800.

www.lakehouse.comMcMillin Real Estate

36. Farms &Acreage THINKING OF

BUYING LAND? Check out OUR listings!

investorsrealtyinc.netDanny Rice/ Broker

601-529-2847, 601-638-2236,

Charlie Donald, 601-668-8027, Investors

Realty Group, Inc.

39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles

2006 HONDA SHADOWAero 750 Windshield, Sad-dleman Saddle bags. Lessthan 5000 miles. Two tonesilver/pearl white. 2 matchinghelmets included. $4900.601-279-4031, after 6pm


40. Cars & Trucks

1980 MERCEDES 450SL.Convertible/hardtop, great con-dition. See at 717 Clay Street.601-638-7484.


40. Cars & Trucks

1989 F250 DIESEL.Great shape. Runs good.$2500 or best offer. Call601-218-4873.

1994 DODGE INTREPID.Loaded, new battery, radia-tor, etcetera. Excellent con-dition. $800. 601-629-9762.

1996 BUICK PARK AV-ENUE. $1800. 601-497-5382.

1996 GMC SIERRAC2500 SLT. Good condi-tion, 231,000. $4500. 601-618-0962,

1996 NISSAN MAXIMA.$1800. 601-497-5382.

2000 VOLVO S-40.$6,995. Call Vicksburg Toy-ota at 601-636-2855.

2006 FORD TAURUS.35,000 miles. $9,995. CallVicksburg Toyota at 601-636-2855.

2008 NISSAN ALTIMA2.5S Coupe. $20,995. CallVicksburg Toyota at 601-636-2855.

2008 TOYOTA AVALONLimited. 25,000 miles, Pearlwhite. $26,995. Call Vicks-burg Toyota at 601-636-2855.

2009 HONDA FIT. Goodcondition. $13,500. Call601-868-1240

BOTTOM LINE AUTO SALES

We finance! Corner ofFisher Ferry Road and JeffDavis Road. 601-529-1195.

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Gary has cars, TrucksSUV's for everyoneRegardless of Credit

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HYUNDAI PARTS forsale. 601-497-5382.

COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

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Bradford RidgeApartments

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Discount for Senior Citizens available

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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A P A R T M E N T SBe the first to live in one of our

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1, 2, & 3 bedroomsand townhomes

available immediately.

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Looking for a new ride?Check our online listings

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Rebates - $3,500

2009 GMC EnvoySLE

0% APRfor

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of Rebate

TRUCKMONTHPRICE

Equipped with 6.6LDuramax Diesel,Allisontransmission, SLEpreferred package,steering wheelradio controls, dualzone air, bluetooth,fog lamps,adjustable powerpedals, remotevehicle start, reardefogger, powerheated mirrors, HDtraileringequipment. #41051

$36,495*

M.S.R.P. -$45,330


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2009 GMC Sierra 2500Ext. Cab SLE Duramax Diesel

TRUCKMONTHPRICE

Equipped with 3.73rear axle, skidplate, SLE preferredpackage, steeringwheel radiocontrols, airconditioner,bluetooth, foglamps, 5.3L V8, 20”chrome-cladaluminum wheels,Pro-sport packageand more. #41137

$29,495*

M.S.R.P. -$38,589


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$28,535*

M.S.R.P. -$34,710


Rebates - $4,000

2010 GMC SierraCrew Cab

GMCTRUCK MONTHPRICE

Equipped withleather interior,Duramax Diesel,Allisontransmission,17” brightaluminum wheels,conveniencepackage,17” All-terrain tires,heavy dutytraileringequipment.#41253

$46,995*

M.S.R.P. -$51,935


Rebates - $3,000

2010 GMC Sierra 25004x4 Crew Cab Duramax Diesel

GMCTRUCK MONTHPRICE

Equipped withwhite diamondpaint, 2nd rowbucket seats, SLTequipmentpackage, heatedfront and 2nd rowseats, poweroperated lift gate,2nd row powerrelease seat andmore. #41199

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Rebates - $2,000

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$50,995*

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