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Corporal punishmentwaning in MississippiFrom staff and AP reports

The use of corporal punish-ment appears to be declining at Mississippi public schools, with many school districts reporting less use of corporal punishment during the 2010-11 school year compared to previous years.

Of Mississippi’s 152 school districts, 100 reported use of corporal punishment to the state Department of Educa-tion, and in more than half, decreases were noted.

For example, in the Oktib-beha County School District, 531 incidences of corporal punishment were reported last year, down from 1,252 in the 2009-10 school year.

Numbers for the Vicksburg Warren School District were not available, but Superin-tendent Dr. Elizabeth Duran Swinford said the district was in line with the trend.

“We see it a lot less,” she

said by phone while travel-ing. “We just don’t support it.”

A federal lawsuit was filed last year to seek a ban on paddling in Mississippi because of alleged gender and racial bias in its use.

The use of corporal punish-ment in Mississippi spurred a march and protest rally at the state Capitol in the spring.

Some districts, however, reported sharp increases in their use of corporal punish-ment. In Quitman County, a district of 1,273 students, there were 1,594 reported cases of corporal punish-ment last year — an increase of about 1,300 cases from the previous year.

The overall reported cases for the state has dropped over the years. Last year, the number of reported inci-

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Jay Herrle, 11 months, looks at Santa Claus in awe as his sister at left, Melissa Herrle, 4, keeps a close eye on him, and Taylor Briggs, 9, watches from the background during Openwood Plantation’s annual Santa Visit, spon-sored by the Open-wood Plantation Garden Club. Santa has been making his way through Open-wood every year for about 30 years, organizers said. This year, he was on a trailer pulled by Jerry Briggs. Jay and Melissa are the children of Ken and Susan Herrle, and Taylor is the daugh-ter of Jerry and Kelly Briggs.

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Supreme courtwill study, ruleon arizona’simmigrationBy The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed today to rule on Arizona’s controver-sial law targeting illegal immigrants.

The justices said they will review a federal appeals court ruling that blocked several tough provisions in the Arizona law. One of those requires that police, while enforcing other laws, question a person’s immigration status if officers suspect he is in the country illegally.

The Obama administration challenged the Arizona law by arguing that regulating immigration is the job of the federal govern-ment, not states. Similar laws in Alabama, South Carolina and Utah also are facing administration lawsuits. Private groups are suing over immigration measures adopted in Georgia and Indiana.

The court now has three politically charged cases on its election-year calen-dar. The other two are President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and new elec-toral maps for Texas’ Legislature and con-gressional delegation.

Justice Elena Kagan will not take part in the Arizona case, presumably because of her work on the issue when she served in the Justice Department.

Arguments probably will take place in late April, which would give the court roughly two months to decide the case.

The immigration case stems from the administration’s furious legal fight against a patchwork of state laws targeting illegal immigrants.

Arizona wants the justices to allow the state to begin enforcing measures that have been blocked by lower courts at the admin-istration’s request.

The state says that the federal government

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These two are in it for the city actionBy John [email protected]

Katrina Flagg remembers the call she received in early November.

“A man said he heard that the mayor was giving away clothes. He wanted to know when he could come get his suit,” said Flagg, one of Vicksburg’s two action line customer care rep-resentatives. “He started giving me his pants size. I told him

the mayor wasn’t giving out clothes.”

Since 2009, Flagg, 29, and Cheryl Cummins, 58, have han-dled an average of 53 telephone calls a day from city residents and visitors in their small office in City Hall.

Some of the calls are like the one last month, but most, they said, are requests for service or information, mingled with an occasional complaint.

Established in 2002, the action line gives people a central city telephone number to call and

report problems, voice con-cerns or complaints, get infor-mation or provide suggestions to city officials.

The phone number is 601-636-3411 and it is staffed by Flagg and Cummins from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. At night and weekends, calls roll over to the city’s gas plant.

“We’re usually the first city employees people talk to,”

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CLUBsVFW and Ladies Auxiliary — 6 tonight, 1918 Washing-ton St. American Legion Post 213 — 6 tonight, executive com-mittee meeting; 8, regular meeting; refreshments; 1618 Main St.Vicksburg/West Central MS AARP Chapter 4967 — 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Christmas meet-ing; all interested seniors invit-ed; Shoney’s.Vicksburg Chapter NARFE — 11:30 a.m. Tuesday; One Voice, Bovina Baptist ladies ensemble; Toney’s.Vicksburg Kiwanis — Christ-mas party, 6 p.m. Tuesday; Os-burn home, 1900 Freetown Road; bring spouse, present for Haven House; no noon meeting. Vicksburg-Warren Chapter JSU Alumni Association — 6 p.m. Tuesday, regular meet-

ing; Jackson Street Center.Vicksburg Toastmasters Club No. 2052 — Noon Thursday; Christmas party and gift exchange; IT Lab, Por-ters Chapel Road; Derek Wil-son, 601-634-4174. Hester Flowers Garden — 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jordan Amborn home; 601-631-6944. Vicksburg-Warren ASU Alumni Chapter Meeting — 6 p.m. Friday; potluck; Walter Sheriff, president; 601-634-6349; Vicksburg ASU branch, Cherry Street.

PUBLIC PROGRAMsSenior Center — Tuesday: 10 a.m., chair exercises; 1 p.m., oil painting class; 2, card games.Senior Circle — Noon Tues-day; Christmas bingo party with lunch; reservations re-quired; free to members or $5 nonmembers; River Region Medical Center; Leigh White, 601-883-6118.Spiritual Education of Chil-dren — 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tues-day; interfaith programs for ages 6-14; co-sponsored by the Baha’is of Vicksburg; Jea-nine Hensley, 601-415-3253; Alma Smith, 601-636-8628; Christ Episcopal, Sunday School Building two doors

down from church at 1115 Main St.NJROTC Booster Meeting — 6 p.m. Tuesday, ROTC build-ing; Darnisha Ramsey-James, 601-618-0385.Serenity Overeaters Anony-mous — 6-7 p.m. Wednes-day, Bowmar Baptist Church room 102C; for those wanting to stop binge eating; 601-638-0011. Share a Prayer — 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; bring favorite prayer, spiritual reading or meditation; sponsored by the Baha’is of Vicksburg; Alma Smith, 601-636-8628.

CHURCHEsChrist Episcopal — Quiet and peace during holiday sea-son, Morning Prayer, 7:30-7:50 a.m. Monday-Thursday; 601-638-5899; 1115 Main St.Gibson Memorial United Methodist — Drive-by Nativi-ty, 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 335 Oak Ridge Road.

HOLIDAY EVENTs“1940s Radio Hour” — 7:30 p.m. Dec. 20-22 and 27-29 at Strand Theatre on Clay Street; $12 for adults, $8 for those younger than 12; Westside Theatre Guild, 601-636-8313 or 601-618-9349.

Derrick Demby, 8, helps Jimmie Johnson, 68, make a Christmas wreath Friday as Der-rick and other third-graders from Sherman

Avenue Elementary visited the residents of Stonewood Apartments. Derrick is the son of Keisha Cooper and Derrick Demby.

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CulkinCulkin Water District has

issued a boil water alert for all customers in Possum

Hollow. Residents are asked to boil drinking and cooking water vigorously for 2 min-utes until further notice.

BOIL wATER

Cash, cell phone missing in two city burglaries

Two burglaries were reported in the city Friday, said police Capt. Bobby Stewart.

At 4:22 p.m., an HTC Inspire cell phone valued at $400 and a Sony DVD player valued at $100 were reported stolen from a home in the 1900 block of Main Street.

At 4:55 p.m., a purse valued at $75 and containing $350 was reported stolen from an unlocked 2007 GMC Arca-dia parked at the Vicksburg Mall, 3505 Pemberton Square Blvd.

City man jailedfor Louisiana

A Vicksburg man who showed up for a city court hearing Friday was jailed for Louisiana authorities when a records check showed he was wanted for a probation violation, said police Capt. Bobby Stewart.

Ronald Bailey, 40, 2914 Drummond St., was arrested

at 11:49 a.m.He was being held in the

Issaquena County Jail pending his extradition to Louisiana.

Jackson woman heldon bad check charge

A Jackson woman was charged with felony bad check this morning by Vicks-burg police, Capt. Bobby Stewart said.

Amber Smith, 21, 10050 U.S. 49 North, was picked up on a warrant in Clinton following a 1 a.m. traffic stop, Stewart said.

Smith is accused of cashing a $936.41 check with insuf-ficient funds at Riverwalk Casino on May 11, he said.

She was taken to the police station about 4:30 a.m. and was being held pending an initial hearing today.

CRIMEfrom staff reports

Mississippi 27 closed due to tanker accident

UTICA (AP) — An over-turned diesel tanker on Mis-sissippi 27 has led to the clo-sure of the highway between Utica and Interstate 55.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation said the

highway was closed around 3:30 this morning and was expected to remain closed until midday.

Traffic was being detoured off Mississippi 27 onto Curtis Road to Mississippi 18.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Skeletal remains foundin Long Beach woods

LONG BEACH (AP) — Human skeletal remains were found Saturday in a wooded area of Long Beach by people collecting firewood, officials said.

The remains were found about 5:30 p.m.

Harrison County Coroner

Gary Hargrove said he does not know if the remains are of a man or a woman, but said they might have been there for at least a year.

The area where the bones were found, which Hargrove declined to identify, was secured for the night.

Corps faces suit for damagein New Orleans after Katrina

NEW ORLEANS — A lawsuit alleging the Army Corps of Engineers ruined property in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after it built a ship-ping channel that turned into a conduit for storm surge during Hurricane Katrina is to be heard in court this week.

A trial was to start today in New Orleans. The suit was filed in 2005 in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington and argued that the government effec-tively took residential and commercial property when the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet shipping channel was built. The suit argues that residents in St. Ber-nard and the Lower 9th Ward deserve to be com-pensated for the govern-ment’s taking of their property.

The suit is one of several legal attacks filed against the Army Corps after Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005.

The Corps operates three entities in Vicksburg, the Mississippi River Commis-sion, the Vicksburg District and the Engineer Research

and Development Center.

Man airliftedafter wreck on I-110

D’IBERVILLE, Miss. — A D’Iberville man whose vehi-cle burned after being struck by another car has been air-lifted to an Alabama hospital.

D’Iberville Police said a vehicle driven by Charles Daniel Scrimpshire was traveling north on I-110 on Sunday, but failed to stop for a red traffic signal, according to witness accounts. Police said Silas Cruthirds was driv-ing through the intersection when Scrimpshire’s vehicle struck his.

Officers responding to the collision found Scrimpshire’s vehicle flipped over and Cruthirds’ car burning.

Both Cruthirds and Scrimp-shire were taken to Biloxi Regional Medical Center for treatment, and Cruthirds was later airlifted to Univer-sity of South Alabama Medi-cal Center in Mobile. Their conditions were unknown today.

Houma teen killedin Sunday wreck

HOUMA, La. — A pickup missed a curve and flipped into a water-filled ditch in Terrebonne Parish, killing an 18-year-old passenger, according to state police.

Amanda Doyle was pro-nounced dead at the scene of the accident, which hap-pened around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Stephen Murphy, an 18-year-old from Houma, was booked with vehicular homi-cide, possession of alcohol by a person under 21 and reck-less operation.

Rescue group raisingmoney for boat motor

NATCHEZ, Miss. — The Adams County Search and Rescue Unit — a group of volunteers that works under the direction of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office and county emergency officials — is trying to raise $9,000 for a new boat motor.

The motor is needed for a donated 17-foot double hull riverboat. The motor mal-functioned in early spring.

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Students pepper sprayed after fight in GreenvilleGREENVILLE (AP) — Offi-

cials say police had to use pepper spray on more than 50 students to quell fights that broke out in the school’s cafeteria.

The incident at the Green-

ville-Weston High School happened Friday around 1:30 p.m.

Police were brought in to help, and the spray was used by officers to control the crowd of students.

School property was dam-aged, such as doors inside the high school torn away from their hinges.

There were no reports of injuries. The Greenville Public School District is

investigating.In August, a stabbing and a

pepper spray incident at the school led representatives from the Mississippi Depart-ment of Education to visit the high school.

Louisiana plans to phase out LEAP testsBATON ROUGE (AP) —

State officials said a test for fourth- and eighth-graders that became a symbol of Loui-siana’s bid to improve public schools will be phased out.

The exam, which is called LEAP, will be scrubbed in three years because new tests will be launched in connection with a national drive to make public school courses more rigorous.

Under current rules, fourth- and eighth-graders have to pass LEAP, and meet other

standards, to move to the fifth and ninth grades.

Whether a similar rule will be in effect for passage when the new exams begin for the 2014-15 school year is up to the state Board of Elemen-tary and Secondary Educa-tion, which sets policies for public school students state-wide. LEAP stands for Louisi-ana Educational Assessment Program.

The changes will also spell the end of iLEAP, an annual skills test for third-, fifth-,

sixth-, seventh- and ninth-graders, as well as end-of-course exams that high school students have to pass to earn a standard high school diploma. Those students will take new tests starting with the 2014-15 school year linked to the state’s revamped curriculum.

All the test changes stem from the state’s adoption last year of a new curricu-lum called “common core standards.”

That switch is designed to focus teaching on core topics

in math, English and other subjects and making sure that students master those skills before moving to the next grade.

Fourth- and eighth-graders have been required to pass LEAP since 2000. About 100,000 students in both grades take the test annually.

Backers said the rule ended decades of social promotions and forced students to gain at least a basic knowledge of math and English skills before they were promoted.

More than 100 sick dogsrescued from Macon home

MACON (AP) — More than 100 dogs — some covered with bite wounds, suffering from broken bones, or with skin problems — have been res-cued from a home near Macon that was meant to be their refuge.

Elaine Jewell, president of a 14-year-old nonprofit orga-nization called Animal Rescue Foundation, intended to care for and shelter the animals at h e r h o m e but became overwhelmed.

Personnel from the Humane Society of the United States, who led the rescue Tuesday, seized 108 dogs, and rescu-ers are still trying to capture five others. They estimate at one time as many as 200 were living on the property.

Sixteen dogs had to be

euthanized. Mississippi State Univer-

sity’s College of Veterinary Medicine is treating 10 others, including a dog with a pain-ful ear infection and another

whose femur h a d b e e n broken and h i p d i s l o -cated for what looked l ike weeks. That dog required surgery.

Many of the dogs can be treated and are adoptable.

Jewell doesn’t face any charges but has agreed

to monthly monitoring of her property to make sure she doesn’t again begin collect-ing animals.

Jewell surrendered owner-ship of the 108 dogs, but was allowed to keep four Chihua-huas as indoor pets.

Sixteen dogs had to be euthanized. Mississippi

State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine

is treating 10 others, including a dog with a

painful ear infection and another whose femur had been broken and

hip dislocated for what looked like weeks.

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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891Alice Ryan returns to Memphis. • A bridge across the river at Vicksburg is talked about. • J.G. Hicks reports the loss of a purse. • The Knights of St. John, in full dress, will act as ushers in the midnight Mass at St. Paul Catholic Church.

110 YEARS AGO: 1901A.M. Lea is reported in a dying condition. • Felix Kaufman dies. • R.M. Kelly and Annie McGuire are married. • Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Gray arrive from Georgetown, Texas.

100 YEARS AGO: 1911Alma McQuaide and E.E. Larrett are married. • Albert Fis-chel steps off a gallery accidentally and dislocates his arm. • Services are held for Marye Dabney.

90 YEARS AGO: 1921Robert Portwood is now doing Scout work in Shreveport. • Frank Artz, Ashby Woodson and Raymond Birchett are home from the University of Mississippi. • Maj. G.P. Thomas enter-tains a merry party at the National Park Hotel in honor of Martha Hicks.

80 YEARS AGO: 1931Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Hockett have a family reunion. • Mrs. Kate Heron entertains the G.I.A. at their annual Christmas party. • J.W. Bliss is ill. • Katherine Johns spends the holidays here. • Sadie Mae Pendergraft is home for the holidays.

70 YEARS AGO: 1941Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Katzenmeyer are spending the holidays in Montgomery, Ala., with their son, Lt. Brent Katzenmeyer. • Florence Auter arrives to spend the holidays.

60 YEARS AGO: 1951The Warren County Bar Association adopts resolutions of regret on the death of R.M. Kelly. • Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Black cel-ebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

50 YEARS AGO: 1961Freeman Evans, executive director of the Mississippi Safety Council, speaks to local Civitans. • George W. Owens dies. • Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Green announce the birth of a son, Tony, on Dec. 23.

40 YEARS AGO: 1971Theoretical physicist Dr. Richard A. Weiss of the Waterways Experiment Station is cited by Nobel Prize Winner Profes-sor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell University in the 1971 Annual Review of Nuclear Science for his research on the nuclear symmetry energy concept.

30 YEARS AGO: 1981Mattie Harris of Vicksburg is elected and installed as presi-dent of the American Legion Auxiliary. • The Rev. W.L. Las-siter is honored by members of Mount Carmel Baptist Church on his 25-year anniversary.

20 YEARS AGO: 1991The threat of a $25,000-a-day fine brings city and county offi-cials together to discuss the future of local solid waste dis-posal. • Haley Marie Sanders celebrates her first birthday.

10 YEARS AGO: 2001Lee H. Abraham, front man for “The Chill,” leaves the band to focus on his job as owner of Plaza Hair Care. • Louise Graham Jacobs, 65-year resident of Tallulah, dies.

JACKSON — Where does the money go?

That’s the most recent ques-tion from the Mississippi Supreme Court in the legal dispute over fees paid to private attorneys hired by the attorney general to handle law-suits for the state.

In orders issued in August, the Supreme Court asked attorneys for state Auditor Stacey Pickering and Attorney General Jim Hood to interpret a constitutional provision that requires funds to be paid into the “proper treasury.”

That appears to mean that the Supreme Court will decide two things — whether fees paid to pri-vate lawyers are public money and if, as public funds, they should go into the state general fund or some other account to be passed on to the lawyers.

Pickering contends that rather than directly paying outside coun-sel retained by the AG’s office, the attorney general should request an appropriation for the fees.

A Hinds County judge in 2010 ruled the $14 million in fees paid to

two attorneys for handling a state lawsuit against telecommunications giant MCI was properly handled.

Another Hinds County judge ruled the same again in 2010 involv-ing $10 million in fees paid to law-yers for handling a state lawsuit against computer software manu-facturer Microsoft.

Hood and the attorneys involved in the cases contend the fees are the property of the lawyers not the state.

But Pickering has contended the fees paid to attorneys are public funds, should be placed in the

state’s general fund and then appro-priated by the Legislature.

Hood has said that paying the pri-vate attorneys is part of the settle-ment of the lawsuit and should not be counted as part of the money the state receives.

Hood has said he enters into such contracts with private attorneys when his office does not have the expertise, resources or manpower to pursue a case.

Pickering is not challenging Hood’s right to hire outside legal help. He wants the lawyers to submit a bill, or voucher, to the Leg-

islature and let the Legislature pay them.

In arguments in the Microsoft case before the Supreme Court in August, justices questioned where was the proper place for the law-yers’ fees to be deposited until paid to the attorneys.

“The state of Mississippi should collect all the money and then dis-perse the money to the attorneys. We can’t have Microsoft appropriat-ing public money to anybody by the state. All of the recovered money is public money. It must all go to the state,” said attorney Arthur Jerni-gan Jr., who represented Pickering.

Assistant Attorney General Harold Pizzetta told the justices the term “proper treasury’ is subject to interpretation.

Pizzetta said the attorney gen-eral has a trust account — like most law firms — into which the office receives proceeds from litigation.

When the attorney general hires outside attorneys, Pizzetta said they become like assistant attorney generals who work under guidance of the attorney general.

In the Microsoft case, Pizzetta said attorney fees were paid into the trust account of the outside counsel which the attorney general believed was the “proper treasury.”

“If you collect these attorney fees ... it makes perfect sense to say that the proper treasury is to go into their trust account,” Pizzetta said.

If the attorney fees had come to the attorney general’s trust account, Pizzetta said the AG would then have had to cut a check to the lawyers.

Microsoft is not a party to Picker-ing’s lawsuit.

Microsoft reached a $100 million settlement with the state in 2009 in a software lawsuit.

In the MCI case, Hood sought to recoup unpaid taxes and inter-est stemming from the collapse of Clinton-based WorldCom, which emerged from bankruptcy as MCI. In 2005, MCI agreed to pay the state $100 million and hand over real estate valued at several million.

•Jack Elliott Jr. lives near Jackson and covers Mississippi for The Associated Press.

State Supreme Court will decide dispute over attorneys’ fees

JACKELLIOTT JR.

Hood and the attorneys in-volved in the cases contend the fees are the property of the law-yers not the state. But Pickering has contended the fees paid to at-

torneys are public funds.

Happy MealsThe ordinance San Francisco

passed last year that prohibits restaurants from offering chil-dren’s toys with high-calorie, high-fat foods — the so-called Happy Meal ban — finally went into effect late last week.

However, it was served with a heaping side of unintended consequences.

Shockingly, McDonald’s (the clear target of the ordinance) altered its policies to get around the ban. Instead of giving away a toy with a Happy Meal, San Fran-cisco McDonald’s restaurants will now require customers to make a 10-cent charitable donation to Ronald McDonald House in order to receive the gewgaw. They can buy a Happy Meal without the toy, but they can’t buy the toy without the Happy Meal.

According to SF Weekly, city officials and health activists were “blindsided” by the move. Of course they were.

Nanny-staters seemingly never consider the consequences of their heavy-handed actions. Per-haps they are too consumed by their self-righteousness and dictatorial desires to appreci-ate human nature. They believe

people will just passively accept more and more facets of their everyday lives being microman-aged by busybodies.

As the history of central plan-ning and statism shows, eventu-ally a large number of citizens will chafe at such control. They will find ways to circumvent reg-ulations, either legally (as San Francisco McDonald’s restau-rants have) or illegally (via graft or a black market).

Government’s response often is to pass even more regulation in desperate, reactive attempts to tamp down on every recalcitrant actor. The size and power of the state grow as the ends justify the means. What might have started as a modest (if annoying) “for your own good” rule can multiply like kudzu into a myriad number of complex laws, with an accom-panying expansion in bureau-cratic administration. The costs of compliance and enforcement create a drag on the economy. Individual freedom shrinks.

Look at the immediate conse-quences of the Happy Meal ordi-nance. San Francisco has made McDonald’s kids meals a tad more expensive and a little more

cumbersome to order. And to what end? City officials and their “food activist” allies said they wanted to combat the “crisis” of childhood obesity, which they blame on fast-food restaurants marketing their fattening wares to moppets.

Even if you accept the premise that McDonald’s plays a signifi-cant role in children’s weight, and that Happy Meal toys in par-ticular are the gateway to a life of burgers and fries, that still overlooks the fact that it is the responsibility of parents to moni-tor what their kids eat, and to say no when the young’uns plead for the Happy Meal with the Hello Kitty figurine. It is not govern-ment’s role to step in between Mom and the front counter and dictate to businesses what they should offer their customers.

San Francisco not only infringes on McDonald’s free-dom to market and sell. It also absolves parents of their respon-sibility to teach their children about choices, trade-offs, conse-quences, delayed gratification and disappointment.

California’s sad case of overreaching

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TONIGHT

Partly cloudy tonight, lows in the lower 40s; mostly

sunny Tuesday, highs in the mid-60s

42°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSSETTTuESdAy

64°

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 FORECASTtuesday-wednesdayPartly cloudy, lows in the

lower 40s, highs in the mid-60s

STATE FORECASTtOnIGHt

Partly cloudy, lows in the lower 40s

tuesday-wednesdayPartly cloudy, lows in the

lower 40s, highs in the mid-60s

ALmAnACHIGHs and LOws

High/past 24 hours............. 48ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 27ºAverage temperature ........ 38ºNormal this date .................. 50ºRecord low .............12º in 1962Record high ...........79º in 1931

RaInfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month .............1.47 inchesTotal/year ............. 38.44 inchesNormal/month .....2.21 inchesNormal/year ....... 48.63 inches

sOLunaR tabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Tuesday:A.M. Active ........................... 6:51A.M. Most active ..............12:39P.M. Active ............................ 7:17P.M. Most active ................. 1:04

sunRIse/sunsetSunset today ....................... 4:58Sunset tomorrow .............. 4:58Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:55

RIVER DATAstaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 37.5 | Change: +0.3Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 22.2 | Change: -0.1

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City

Current: 21.6 | Change: +0.3Flood: 29 feet

Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 21.0 | Change: +0.1

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West

Current: 3.4 | Change: -0.2Flood: 12 feet

Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 7.1 | Change: +0.1

Flood: 28 feet

steeLe bayOuLand ...................................85.1River ...................................84.9

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Cairo, Ill.Tuesday ................................. 43.2Wednesday .......................... 42.9Thursday ............................... 42.2

MemphisTuesday ................................. 26.8Wednesday .......................... 26.9Thursday ............................... 27.0

GreenvilleTuesday ................................. 42.7Wednesday .......................... 42.8Thursday ............................... 43.0

VicksburgTuesday ................................. 37.6Wednesday .......................... 37.6Thursday ............................... 37.7

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Cummins said.“They do an excellent job,”

their supervisor, IT direc-tor Billy Gordon, said. “I tell them that all the time. It takes a special type of person to handle some of the calls they receive, and they do it very well.”

Service requests come from two sources, the phone and e-mails through the city’s website. The action line also has been available through the city’s upgraded website since August, but Flagg and Cummins said few people use the website to contact them.

“Most people prefer to call,” Cummins said.

The women also get walk-in traffic from people seeking directions to a specific office in City Hall, visitors, or call-ers who come occasionally to match a face to a voice.

“We have regular visitors,” Flagg said. “We had one man who came in every day and asked for a quarter.”

There was also the man

who brought his complaint, including the “evidence,” to City Hall.

“He said that a Waste Man-agement (garbage) truck was leaking hydraulic fluid and left some on his driveway,” Cummins said. “He scraped it up and put it in a plastic bag and brought it to Katrina to show her.”

The man, she said, was unable to prove that the truck left the fluid, and left, taking the evidence with him.

Cummins said the service calls include sewer and util-ity problems, picking up fallen tree limbs, removing old sofas and appliances, gar-bage can problems and stray dogs.

“We also get calls from people requesting informa-tion about the city or want-ing maps,” she said. “And we have people who have visited the city and call and give us their impressions — what they liked, how they were treated.”

The type of service call, she said, depends on the season. Right now, the majority of the calls involve fallen limbs. Calls about sewer and utility problems are all the time.

Last winter, Flagg said, she received a complaint about the heating system at Dia-mondJacks Casino.

“An old man called and said it was too cold (in the casino) and wanted us to fix it,” she said. “I told him to just bundle up.”

“During the summer, we had a lot of calls about snakes in homes and day cares,” Cummins said. “I’d never given any thought about snakes in buildings. We had such a hot summer that I guess the snakes were looking for any place they could go to get out of the sun.”

When the Mississippi River rose to record heights in early May, cresting at 57.1 feet at Vicksburg, 14.1 feet above flood stage, many call-ers had different requests.

“We had people asking about cleaning up debris (after the flood),” Cummins said. “During the flood, we had people asking about shelters and housing.”

Calls for service are fol-lowed up by work orders that are sent to the proper city department. Calls to remove such items as furniture or appliances require a special order, they said. The women later call the departments to ensure problems are being handled.

“They’re very good about making sure we get the work orders,” said Percy Guy, a sewer department employee. “They keep me busy.”

The bulk of the complaints they receive, Flagg said, involve utility bill problems.

“We’ll get people scream-ing, ‘my bill was so much last month and now it’s higher this month,’” she said. “We transfer those calls directly to the water and gas office.”

Flagg and Cummins said they applied for the action

line spots because they wanted to try something different.

Flagg, who has a 5-year-old son, Ke’Shawn, worked at a convenience store in Vicks-burg before joining the city.

Her parents also work for the city. Her mother, Pamela Flagg, works for human resources, and her father, William Flagg, works at the water treatment plant.

Cummins was a teacher’s assistant for 10 years in the Vicksburg Warren County School District, working with kindergartners and first-graders. She also has a family connection with the city. Her 82-year-old mother, Arveta Avant, is the assistant director of the Vicksburg Senior Center.

“I like meeting the public,” Flagg said. “I was doing that where I was, but the atmos-phere here is much better and the hours are better, which means I have more time to spend with my son. And the benefits are better.”

DEATHThe 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.

Edgar Green Jr.PANAMA CITY, Fla. —

Edgar Green Jr. died Tues-day, Dec. 6, 2011, at his home in Panama City. He was 56.

Mr. Green was preceded in death by his parents, Edgar Sr. and Carnella Martin Green; and a brother, Julius Green.

He is survived by his wife, Debbie Green of Panama City; two sons, Christopher Harris of Japan and Javon Green of Fayette; two daugh-ters, Antionette Green and

Tricalyn Green, both of Fay-ette; two brothers, Corne-lius Green of Jackson and Nelson Green of Port Gibson; seven sisters, Janice McGee, Inez Green and Linda Smith, all of Jackson, and Gwen-dolyn Green, Addie Fields, Everjean Small and Cath-erine Williams, all of Port Gibson; eight grandchildren; and aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, friends and other relatives, including Christy Mathias, Clyde Mathias, Cleo Jo Mathias and Quentin Mathias, all of Panama City.

Services were at 11 a.m. today at Antioch Baptist Church in Port Gibson with the Rev. Daniel Cook officiat-ing. Burial followed at McCay Cemetery under the direc-tion of Thompson Funeral Home of Port Gibson.

isn’t doing enough to address illegal immigration and that border states are suffering disproportionately.

In urging the court to hear the immigration case, Ari-zona says the administra-tion’s contention that states “are powerless to use their own resources to enforce fed-eral immigration standards without the express blessing of the federal executive goes to the heart of our nation’s system of dual sovereignty and cooperative federalism.”

Many other state and local governments have taken steps aimed at reducing the effects of illegal immigration, the state says.

But the administration

argues that the various legal challenges making their way through the system provide a reason to wait and see how other courts rule.

In April, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a fed-eral judge’s ruling halting enforcement of several provi-sions of Arizona’s S.B. 1070. Among the blocked provi-sions: requiring all immi-grants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers; making it a state criminal offense for an ille-gal immigrant to seek work or hold a job; and allowing police to arrest suspected illegal immigrants without a

warrant. In October, the federal

appeals court in Atlanta blocked parts of the Ala-bama law that forced public schools to check the immi-gration status of students and allowed police to file criminal charges against people who are unable to prove their citizenship.

Lawsuits in South Caro-lina and Utah are not as far along.

In other action today, the court:

• Said it will decide whether a lawsuit attempting to shut down a new tribal casino in southwestern Michigan can move forward.

The justices agreed to hear

from the government and the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pattawatomi Indians, also known as the Gun Lake Tribe.

The tribe opened a casino this year in Wayland Town-ship, 20 miles south of Grand Rapids. But casino foe David Patchak sued to close the casino down, challenging how the government placed the land in trust for the tribe. A federal judge threw out his lawsuit, but the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit said it could move forward.

The justices will hear argu-ments next year.

• Temporarily stopped the deportation of a native of the Philippines because U.S. gov-

ernment officials won’t let him apply for an exception to the deportation rules.

Joel Judulang has lived in the United States since 1974 as a lawful permanent resident. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and then was arrested for theft. The government began deportation proceedings and refused to let Judulang apply for an exception.

The high court in a unani-mous decision written by Justice Elena Kagan said that decision was “arbitrary and capricious.” Judulang’s case was sent back to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for rehearing.

dences in 110 districts fell to 41,228 from 46,968 in 2009-10 and 57,953 the year before.

Some school district offi-cials have said they are trying to rely more on other forms of discipline.

Oktibbeha County schools Superintendent James Cov-ington said the discipline focus in his district is shifting to rewarding good behavior. Corporal punishment is used as a last resort, he said.

Parents still have to con-sent to corporal punish-ment and the overwhelm-ing majority in Oktibbeha County schools do, he said.

“And even with that, it can only be done by a certified person with a witness,” Cov-ington said. The paddling is usually offered as an alterna-tive to a suspension, he said, which would help the district keep up its average daily attendance and its gradua-

tion rate.Corporal punishment is

still allowed in Hinds County schools, but the district is one of several that reported some use of corporal punish-ment in 2009-10 but none last year. The district has been focusing more on counseling and preventative measures,

spokesman John Neal said. Jackson Public Schools is

being sued in federal court by a group of Murrah High School parents whose sons were whipped with a weight belt in basketball practice by their coach, Marlon Dorsey, despite a ban on corporal punishment in the district

since 1991. The parents had filed simple assault charges against Dorsey, but those charges were dismissed.

Euro summit does little to boost U.S. stocksBy The Associated Press

U.S. stocks fell today after Moody’s Investors Service said last week’s fiscal pact will not deter it from recon-sidering the credit ratings of all European Union nations.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 179 points in morning trading. The euro weakened against the dollar and the yields on Italian gov-ernment bonds rose sharply as investors became more nervous about that nation’s

debt burden. European stock indexes fell broadly.

Moody’s said last week’s summit of European leaders produced “few new measures” and that Europe’s financial crisis remains in a “critical and volatile stage.”

It said last week’s pact does not address Europe’s root problem: the crushing debt loads of some nations and their rising borrowing costs.

The region remains “prone to further shocks and the cohesion of the euro under

continued threat,” Moody’s said. As a result, the agency will review the creditworthi-ness of all European countries in the first three months of 2012.

U.S. stocks fell broadly, with declines for all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average and all 10 industry groups in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.

The Dow Fell 179 points, or 1.5 percent, to 12,004 as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern. Intel Corp., fell 4 percent after the chipmaker

said a shortage of hard drives will limit shipments, pushing its fourth-quarter revenue far below what Wall Street had expected.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 20 points, or 1.6 per-cent, to 1,235. The Nasdaq com-posite index dropped 44 points, or 1.7 percent, to 2,603.

Financial stocks fell sharply on fears that big banks could be damaged by the turmoil in the European financial system. Bank of America Corp. fell 4.3 percent, the most in the Dow.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. lost 2.7 percent, Morgan Stanley 5.5 percent.

The warning from Moody’s helped deflate optimism about last week’s pact, which called for tougher fiscal discipline in countries the euro and greater oversight of national budgets by a central authority.

The agreement does not address the heavy debt loads of many nations and their rising borrowing costs. Greece, Portugal and Ireland have had to accept bailouts.


Obama, Iraqi leader to chart life after U.S. militaryWASHINGTON (AP) —

With the U.S. troop with-drawal from Iraq in its final days, President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki were to meet at the White House today to discuss the next phase of the relation-ship between their countries.

The withdrawal of all Amer-ican troops on Dec. 31 marks the end of a nearly nine-year war that has been deeply divi-sive in both the U.S. and Iraq.

While Obama and al-Maliki have pledged to maintain

strong ties, the contours of the partnership between Wash-ington and Baghdad remain murky, especially with Iran eager to assert influence over neighboring Iraq. And serious questions remain about Iraq’s capacity to stabilize both its politics and security.

Yet the end of the war still marks a promise kept for Obama, one the White House is eager to promote. In addi-tion to his meeting with al-

Maliki, Obama will mark the milestone Wednesday when he speaks to troops at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg. And he thanked service members and their families for their sacri-fices when he attended the annual Army-Navy football game Saturday.

The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has dwindled to about 6,000, down from 170,000 at the war’s peak in 2007.

Today’s meeting between

Obama and al-Maliki is expected to focus heavily on how the U.S. and Iraq will con-tinue to cooperate on security issues without the presence of American troops. Iraqi lead-ers have said they want U.S. military training help for their security forces but have been unable to agree on what type of help they’d like or what pro-tections they would be willing to give American trainers.

The White House said

Obama and al-Maliki will also discuss cooperation on energy, trade and education.

Obama and al-Maliki will also hold a joint news con-ference at the White House, then lay wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery.

Looming over the talks are concerns among U.S. officials over how Iraq’s relationship with Iran will develop with a significantly smaller U.S. presence in the region.

Noriega meets apathyon return to homeland

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Manuel Noriega is back in his Panamanian homeland after nearly 22 years, sitting in a prison cell in a country he ruled as a per-sonal fiefdom until U.S. troops invaded and hauled him off to a Florida jail.

A few protesters gathered outside El Renacer prison as the 77-year-old former general was spirited inside Sunday night after an extradition flight from France, yet the mood among his countrymen seemed to be indifference.

Officials escorted Noriega home on a jet that touched down Sunday afternoon.

Noriega, who served 17 years in U.S. prison for drug traffick-ing and two years in France for a money-laundering con-viction, now has begun serv-ing three 20-year sentences for killings of political oppo-nents in the 1980s.

Officials whisked him into prison without letting anyone see him, a move that irri-tated some of the protesters outside.

“ We a r e disappointed at the exces-sive security that kept us from seeing the prisoner,” said Aure-lio Barria, a

member of the old opposition

to Noriega.“Why not let him be seen?”

Barria said.

Va. Tech suspect’s family says they’re prayingRICHMOND, Va. — The

family of the man authori-ties say shot and killed a Virginia Tech police officer has offered condolences and prayers to the slain officer’s family.

In an unsigned statement faxed Sunday to The Asso-ciated Press, the family of 22-year-old Ross Truett Ashley also requested that their privacy be respected.

Investi-gators say Ashley on Thursday walked up to police offi-cer Deriek Crouse on Vir-ginia Tech’s

Blacksburg campus and fatally shot him. Ashley was found a short time later, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“The Ashley family would like to offer their condo-lences to the family of Offi-cer Crouse,” the statement said. “Officer Crouse and his family are in their prayers.”

The family, of Spotsylvania County, also said there would be no other statements.

Fed meeting will focuson clarifying methods

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke has gone further than ever to explain its poli-cies to the public. It’s ready to go further still.

A Fed policy meeting set for Tuesday will likely focus, in part, on an evolving plan to reveal the direction of inter-est rates more explicitly. The Fed may decide, for exam-ple, to regularly update the public on how long it plans to keep short-term rates at

record lows.The new communications

strategy could be unveiled as soon as next month.

Most analysts expect no announcements Tuesday about the new strategy or any further steps to try to strengthen the economy. They think the Fed wants to delay any new programs, such as additional bond pur-chases, to see if the economy can continue the modest gains it’s been making.

Still, the U.S. economy remains vulnerable. So the Fed is keeping its options open.

It’s already taken numerous unorthodox steps to try to lift the economy. December, for example, will mark three years since it cut its key rate, the federal funds rate, to a record low of between zero

and 0.25 percent.It has also bought more

than $2 trillion in govern-ment bonds and mortgage-backed securities to try to cut long-term rates and lower borrowing costs.

Shops, schoolsshuttered in Syria

BEIRUT — Syrians closed their businesses and kept children home from school in several parts of the country today in a show of civil dis-obedience against the regime as a new and fierce round of clashes between troops and army defectors spread, activ-ists said.

Amid the violence, Presi-dent Bashar Assad’s regime pushed ahead with municipal elections that the opposition has dismissed as a meaning-less concession that falls far short of their demands for Assad to give up power.

A call by opposition activ-ists for an open-ended gen-eral strike, if widely heeded, could place added economic pressure on Assad’s regime at a time when it is already struggling with growing international sanctions.

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TebownedBroncos shock Bearswith two late scoresto steal win in OT/B3

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MYCHAL AMMONSSouth Alabama basket-ball player and former Vicksburg High star had 12 points, six rebounds and three as-sists in a 102-62 win over Alcorn State on Sunday.

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Lakers trade Odomto the Mavericks

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Lakers traded forward Lamar Odom and a second-round draft pick to the Dallas Mav-ericks on Sunday night for a first-round pick and an $8.9 million trade ex-ception, capping Los An-geles’ stunning breakup with last season’s Sixth Man of the Year.

The Lakers and Mav-ericks reached a swift deal after Odom learned Thursday that Los An-geles was attempting to trade him for New Or-leans guard Chris Paul.

After the NBA blocked that trade, Odom de-clined to report to the Lakers’ training camp on Friday. Odom then requested a trade in a meeting with general manager Mitch Kupchak, and the Lakers swung a deal with the rival Mavs, who swept Los Angeles out of the second round of last season’s playoffs.

“To be honest with you, I don’t like it,” Lakers star Kobe Bryant said. “It’s hard when you’ve been through so many battles with players to just see them go somewhere else. It’s tough.”

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New Orleans 22, Tennessee 17Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 10

New York Jets 37, Kansas City 10Detroit 34, Minnesota 28

Houston 20, Cincinnati 19Jacksonville 41, Tampa Bay 14

Atlanta 31, Carolina 23Philadelphia 26, Miami 10

New England 34, Washington 27Arizona 21, San Francisco 19

Denver 13, Chicago 10, OTSan Diego 37, Buffalo 10Green Bay 46, Oakland 16

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brees leads saints to postseason JSU, Alcornstumbleon the roadBy The Associated Press

Allen Crabbe was late for California’s morning shoot-around Sunday and tem-porarily lost his spot in the Golden Bears’ starting lineup as a result.

It didn’t matter much.Crabbe came off the bench

for the first time this season and had 17 points, nine coming during a big second-half run when Cal pulled away and coasted to a 73-46 win over Jackson State.

“A simple mistake,” said Crabbe, who went 7-of-13 from the floor and finished in double figures for the fifth straight game and the sev-enth time this season. “It won’t happen again. You learn from it and move on.”

Richard Sol-omon, Crab-be’s room-mate and the Bears’ leading rebounder, was also late for the shoot-around after missing the previous two games while suspended for conduct con-trary to athletic department values. He, too, was on the bench to start the Jackson State game.

That might have contrib-uted to Cal’s slow start, but Crabbe, who added five rebounds and three assists, got the Bears rolling. They didn’t look back, posting their sixth win of 21 or more points this season.

Jorge Gutierrez had seven points, seven rebounds and 10 assists for California (8-2).

Jenirro Bush had 16 points for Jackson State (1-8), which has lost four straight. The Tigers matched the Bears’ quickness but shot just 34 percent from the floor.

Former Vicksburg High star Kelsey Howard added 11 points for the Tigers, who will stay in Northern Califor-nia to play Saint Mary’s on Tuesday.

“We came out each half and were pretty competitive, (but) they wore us down,” JSU coach Tevester Ander-son said. “Fatigue gets you out of your game.”

South Alabama 102,Alcorn State 62

Augustine Rubit scored a career-high 31 points and South Alabama routed Alcorn State on Sunday.

All 11 players in uniform scored for the Jaguars (5-3), who reached 100 points for the first time since 2007.

Antione Lundy had a career high with 18 points off the Jaguars’ bench. Former Vicksburg High star Mychal Ammons had 12 points and six rebounds.

Twann Oakley scored 15 points and Kendrick McDon-ald added 11 for Alcorn State (1-7), which has lost all seven of its road games since beat-ing Blue Mountain College 76-39 at home on Nov. 12.

Saints edge Titans to clinch playoff spotBy The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Drew Brees had plenty of time to reflect on his missed chances to score as he watched the Tennessee Titans nearly rally past his New Orleans Saints.

The Titans reached the Saints 5 in their near come-back, but Jo-Lonn Dunbar sacked a scrambling Jake Locker as time expired to preserve New Orleans’ 22-17 win at Tennessee on Sunday.

“You’re sitting there kick-ing yourself saying, ‘Man, it shouldn’t have come down to this,”’ Brees said. “Jake Locker came back in with a gutty performance, led them down and our defense came up with two big plays on the goal line to get us the victory.”

Though New Orleans’ top-

ranked offense struggled to reach the end zone for three quarters, Brees’ two touch-down passes to Marques Colston in the fourth quar-ter were just enough to help the Saints (10-3) seal their fifth straight victory and stay in control of the NFC South with three games left in the regular season.

They clinched a playoff berth when the Chicago Bears lost in overtime to the Denver Broncos later Sunday.

On third-and-6, Brees threw 35 yards to a wide-open Colston, who fell into the end zone with 12:39 to play. The Saints converted

two third downs on their next drive before Brees hit Colston on a 28-yard TD make it 22-10 with 7:01 left.

Colston finished with 105 yards on seven catches. Brees was 36-for-47 for 337 yards and completed passes to nine different receivers.

“It was a gut-check win for us,” New Orleans coach Sean Payton said. “A lot of things early on didn’t go our way. We had some calls that could have went either way. We just kept fighting and won a good game on the road against a good team.”

Tennessee backup Locker threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Nate Washington to cut New Orleans’ lead to 22-17 with 5:58 left. The Titans twice had the ball in the final minutes with a chance to win.

The rookie quarterback entered the game with the

score 3-3 with 11:13 left in the second quarter. He replaced Matt Hasselbeck, who hurt his left calf trying to chase a tipped pass in the second quarter. Locker was 13-for-29 for 282 yards and a touchdown, and Washington finished with 130 yards and a TD on six catches.

Locker hit Washington on an 18-yard pass on second down, and Chris Johnson ran 3 yards around the left end to convert a fourth-and-1 to keep the Titans’ second-to-last drive alive.

Faced with another fourth down at the Saints 24 with 2:18 left, Locker kept the ball. Though a replay seemed to show he picked up the needed yard, the offi-cials ruled him down with no gain.

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Giants stun Cowboyswith late comebackBy The Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas — Eli Manning was steam-ing. A simple screen pass was tipped, bounced off the shoulder of a linebacker and was intercepted, setting up a touchdown that could’ve buried the New York Giants in this game, and this season.

Only, he wouldn’t allow it.Manning channeled his

anger into energy, leading the Giants to two touch-downs in the final 3:14 and Jason Pierre-Paul blocked a field goal in the closing seconds, giving New York a 37-34 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.

“He was really upset over

the interception, but he comes right back and takes the field and away we go,” New York coach Tom Cough-lin said. “Sometimes I wish I was in that huddle so I could hear what’s being said. He obviously made some great plays down the stretch.”

Just like that, the Giants’ four-game losing streak was done. And the NFC East race is cracked open, with New York reclaiming the inside track.

“It’s been a while since we’ve had that winning feeling,” said Manning, the former Ole Miss stand-out who pulled off his sixth

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New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs scores a touchdown in the first half of Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys. Jacobs added another touchdown late in the fourth quarter to give the Giants a 37-34 win.

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South W L T Pct PF PAy-Houston ..........10 3 0 .769 330 208Tennessee .........7 6 0 .538 266 251Jacksonville .......4 9 0 .308 193 252Indianapolis .......0 13 0 .000 184 382

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore ...........10 3 0 .769 320 202Pittsburgh ..........10 3 0 .769 282 198Cincinnati ...........7 6 0 .538 285 270Cleveland ...........4 9 0 .308 178 254

West W L T Pct PF PADenver ...............8 5 0 .615 269 302Oakland .............7 6 0 .538 290 354San Diego .........6 7 0 .462 324 299Kansas City .......5 8 0 .385 173 305

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants ........7 6 0 .538 324 349Dallas .................7 6 0 .538 317 281Philadelphia .......5 8 0 .385 297 292Washington ........4 9 0 .308 229 290

South W L T Pct PF PAx-New Orleans ..10 3 0 .769 415 286Atlanta ...............8 5 0 .615 300 267Carolina .............4 9 0 .308 313 355Tampa Bay ........4 9 0 .308 232 370

North W L T Pct PF PAy-Green Bay ......13 0 0 1.000 466 278Detroit ................8 5 0 .615 367 305Chicago .............7 6 0 .538 301 255Minnesota ..........2 11 0 .154 274 364

West W L T Pct PF PAy-San Francisco 10 3 0 .769 307 182Arizona ..............6 7 0 .462 253 288Seattle ...............5 7 0 .417 216 246St. Louis ............2 10 0 .167 140 296x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

———Week 14Dec. 8

Pittsburgh 14, Cleveland 3Sunday’s Games

New Orleans 22, Tennessee 17Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 10N.Y. Jets 37, Kansas City 10Detroit 34, Minnesota 28Houston 20, Cincinnati 19Jacksonville 41, Tampa Bay 14Atlanta 31, Carolina 23Philadelphia 26, Miami 10New England 34, Washington 27Arizona 21, San Francisco 19Denver 13, Chicago 10, OTSan Diego 37, Buffalo 10Green Bay 46, Oakland 16N.Y. Giants 37, Dallas 34

Today’s GameSt. Louis at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.

———Week 15

Thursday’s GameJacksonville at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 17Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 18New Orleans at Minnesota, NoonSeattle at Chicago, NoonCincinnati at St. Louis, NoonCarolina at Houston, NoonGreen Bay at Kansas City, NoonTennessee at Indianapolis, NoonMiami at Buffalo, NoonWashington at N.Y. Giants, NoonDetroit at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.New England at Denver, 3:15 p.m.Cleveland at Arizona, 3:15 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 3:15 p.m.Baltimore at San Diego, 7:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 19Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 7:30 p.m.

SAInTS 22, TITAnS 17New Orleans 3 3 3 13 — 22Tennessee 0 3 7 7 — 17

First QuarterNO—FG Kasay 25, 9:54.

Second QuarterTen—FG Bironas 43, 6:37.NO—FG Kasay 29, :15.

Third QuarterNO—FG Kasay 22, 3:51.Ten—Locker 6 run (Bironas kick), 2:19.

Fourth QuarterNO—Colston 35 pass from Brees (Kasay kick), 12:39.NO—Colston 28 pass from Brees (run failed), 7:01.Ten—Washington 40 pass from Locker (Bironas kick), 5:58.A—69,143.

——— NO TenFirst downs ...............................24 .......................17Total Net Yards ......................437 .....................373Rushes-yards ....................26-114 ..................17-59Passing ...................................323 .....................314Punt Returns .........................3-18 ....................4-34Kickoff Returns ......................2-42 ..................5-121Interceptions Ret. ....................0-0 ......................0-0Comp-Att-Int .................... 36-47-0 .............. 18-36-0Sacked-Yards Lost ................2-14 ....................2-12Punts ..................................5-49.8 .................5-45.2Fumbles-Lost ...........................0-0 ......................0-0Penalties-Yards ...................11-95 ....................8-54Time of Possession ............37:33 ..................22:27

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—New Orleans, Ivory 13-53, Sproles 5-33, P.Thomas 6-22, Brees 2-6. Tennessee, Locker 6-36, Johnson 11-23.PASSING—New Orleans, Brees 36-47-0-337. Ten-nessee, Locker 13-29-0-282, Hasselbeck 5-7-0-44.RECEIVING—New Orleans, Colston 7-105, Spro-les 7-58, P.Thomas 6-35, Graham 5-55, Moore 4-20, Henderson 3-36, Collins 2-4, Meachem 1-15, Gilmore 1-9. Tennessee, Washington 6-130, John-son 5-43, L.Hawkins 3-49, Williams 2-62, Stevens 1-31, Ringer 1-11.MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

college fooTbAllFCS playoffs

SemifinalsFriday

Montana vs. Sam Houston St., 7 p.m.Saturday

Georgia Southern vs. North Dakota St., 1:30 p.m.Championship

Jan. 7At Frisco, Texas

Semifinal winners, Noon———

NCAA Division II playoffsChampionship

SaturdayAt Florence, Ala.

Pittsburg St. vs. Wayne St. (Mich.), 10 a.m.———

NCAA Division III playoffsChampionship

FridayAt Salem, Va.

Mount Union vs. Wisc.-Whitewater, 6 p.m.———

NAIA playoffsChampionship

SaturdayAt Rome, Ga.

St. Xavier (Ill.) vs. Carroll (Mont.), 3:30 p.m.

college bASkeTbAllTop 25 schedule

Sunday’s GamesNo. 16 Alabama 62, Detroit 54Murray St. 76, No. 21 Memphis 72No. 24 Illlinois 80, Coppin St. 63

Today’s GamesNo games scheduled

Tuesday’s GamesNo. 14 Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.No. 17 Mississippi St. vs. Fla. Atlantic, 8 p.m.No. 20 Michigan vs. Ark.-Pine Bluff, 6 p.m.

———

Mississippi college scheduleSunday’s Games

California 73, Jackson St. 46South Alabama 102, Alcorn St. 62


Tuesday’s GamesXavier-N.O. at William Carey, 7 p.m.Jackson St. at St. Mary’s, Calif., 7 p.m.Point University at Alcorn St., 7 p.m.Fla. Atlantic at Mississippi St., 8 p.m.

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SEC scheduleSunday’s Game

Detroit Mercy at Alabama, 5 p.m.Today’s Games

No games scheduledTuesday’s Games

Fla. Atlantic at Mississippi St., 8 p.m.Presbyterian at South Carolina, 6 p.m.

———

C-USA scheduleSunday’s Games

Marshall 82, Iona 63UTEP 73, New Mexico St. 69Murray St. 76, Memphis 72Tulane 59, Jacksonville St. 51


Tuesday’s GamesNorth Carolina A&T at Central Florida, 6 p.m.

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SWAC scheduleSunday’s Games

California 73, Jackson St. 46South Alabama 102, Alcorn St. 62

Today’s GameSouthern at SE Louisiana, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesArk.-Pine Bluff at Michigan, 6 p.m.Point University at Alcorn St., 7 p.m.Jackson St. at Saint Mary’s (Calif.), 9 p.m.

Sunday’s ScoresEAST

Boston College 66, Stony Brook 51Fairfield 58, New Hampshire 52Quinnipiac 62, Vermont 58

SOUTHAlabama 62, Detroit 54Alabama St. 88, Texas Wesleyan 80Florida St. 75, UNC Greensboro 60Furman 85, Jacksonville 79Gallaudet 71, Penn St.-Berks 69Marshall 82, Iona 63Maryville (Tenn.) 93, NC Wesleyan 82, OTMurray St. 76, Memphis 72NC State 65, NC Central 60Randolph 52, Shenandoah 37South Alabama 102, Alcorn St. 62South Florida 83, Florida A&M 59Tulane 59, Jacksonville St. 51Virginia Tech 73, Norfolk St. 60West Liberty 93, WV Wesleyan 90Winthrop 79, Virginia-Wise 70

MIDWESTAlbion 69, Denison 63Dayton 72, SC-Upstate 68Illinois 80, Coppin St. 63Kansas St. 79, North Florida 68, OTW. Michigan 54, S. Illinois 43

SOUTHWESTFIU 58, Stephen F. Austin 56UTEP 73, New Mexico St. 69

FAR WESTCal St.-Fullerton 91, E. Washington 76California 73, Jackson St. 46Hawaii 74, UC Davis 61Idaho 73, Seattle 62UC Riverside 75, Montana St. 73Washington St. 93, Santa Clara 55

cAlIfoRnIA 73, JAckSon ST. 46JACKSON ST. (1-8)Coleman 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 2-5 0-0 4, Bush 6-20 2-3 16, Howard 3-9 5-6 11, Lewis 0-0 0-0 0, Tay-lor 1-1 0-0 2, Ballard 0-0 0-0 0, Stewart 0-2 0-0 0, Williams 3-4 0-0 8, Readus 1-5 0-0 2, Sykes 0-0 0-0 0, Gregory 0-0 3-4 3. Totals 16-47 10-13 46.CALIFORNIA (8-2)Kamp 3-4 0-0 6, Kravish 0-3 1-2 1, Cobbs 2-4 5-6 9, Gutierrez 3-7 0-0 7, Smith 1-4 1-2 3, Solomon 3-3 0-1 6, Chalian 0-0 2-2 2, Bak 4-4 2-2 10, Fil-ley 0-0 0-0 0, Powers 2-4 0-0 6, Crabbe 7-13 1-1 17, Murray 2-5 0-0 6, Thurman 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-51 12-16 73.Halftime—California 31-19.3-Point Goals—Jackson St. 4-9 (Williams 2-3, Bush 2-4, Stewart 0-1, Howard 0-1), Califor-nia 7-18 (Powers 2-3, Murray 2-5, Crabbe 2-6, Gutierrez 1-3, Cobbs 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Jackson St. 23 (Bush 6), California 33 (Gutierrez 7). Assists—Jackson St. 8 (Lewis 3), California 24 (Gutierrez 10). Total Fouls—Jackson St. 15, California 10.A—7,856.

SoUTH AlAbAMA 102, AlcoRn ST. 62ALCORN ST. (1-7)Brand 3-3 0-0 7, Francis 3-11 0-0 6, McDonald 4-13 3-3 11, Oakley 4-9 4-8 15, Moore 0-1 0-0 0, Hawkins 3-13 0-0 8, Tufono 0-2 0-0 0, Rimmer 2-4 3-4 7, Starks 2-4 0-2 4, Sullivan 1-4 2-4 4. Totals 22-64 12-2162.SOUTH ALABAMA (5-3)Rubit 13-22 5-6 31, Carter 3-5 0-2 6, Jones 2-11 0-0 6, Wright 1-1 0-0 2, Goldstein 5-7 0-0 12, Anderson 1-3 2-2 4, Diaz 1-4 2-2 5, Ammons 3-10 6-6 12, Hersey 1-2 2-2 4, Gowins 0-2 2-2 2, Lundy 7-8 4-6 18. Totals 37-75 23-28 102.Halftime—South Alabama 47-22.3-Point Goals—Alcorn St. 6-18 (Oakley 3-4, Hawk-ins 2-6, Brand 1-1, Sullivan 0-1, McDonald 0-2, Tufono 0-2, Rimmer 0-2), South Alabama 5-13 (Goldstein 2-4, Jones 2-8, Diaz 1-1). Fouled Out—Starks, Sullivan. Rebounds—Alcorn St. 31 (Sul-livan 7), South Alabama 53 (Rubit 10). Assists—Alcorn St. 11 (McDonald 3), South Alabama 21 (Anderson 5). Total Fouls—Alcorn St. 20, South Alabama 15.

woMen’S bASkeTbAllWomen’s Top 25 Schedule

Sunday’s GamesNo. 1 Baylor 73, St. John’s 59No. 5 Maryland 78, George Mason 50No. 6 Duke 93, S.C.-Upstate 35No. 7 Tennessee 84, No. 20 DePaul 61No. 8 Texas A&M 68, TCU 56No. 10 Kentucky 101, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 43No. 12 Purdue 75, Central Michigan 62No. 17 Penn St. 76, Md.-Eastern Shore 51No. 18 North Carolina 93, ETSU 77No. 19 Georgetown 59, George Washington 50No. 22 Delaware 70, Wake Forest 57No. 24 Oklahoma 72, Milwaukee 50


Tuesday’s GamesNo. 8 Texas A&M at No. 11 Rutgers, 6 p.m.No. 17 Penn St. vs. Southern, 6:30 p.m.No. 20 DePaul at Princeton, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s ScoresEAST

Baylor 73, St. John’s 59Bryant 56, Lafayette 48Georgetown 59, George Washington 50Penn St. 76, Md.-Eastern Shore 51Rider 60, NJIT 50UMass 63, Maine 54

SOUTHAmerican U. 55, Troy 45Central Florida 62, Savannah St. 48Delaware 70, Wake Forest 57Duke 93, SC-Upstate 35Georgia Tech 58, Middle Tennessee 42Howard 60, Navy 50Kentucky 101, Ark.-Pine Bluff 43LSU 67, Alabama St. 35Louisiana Tech 63, Mississippi St. 62Louisiana-Lafayette 63, SE Louisiana 54, OTMaryland 78, George Mason 50North Carolina St. 79, Alabama 57North Carolina 93, ETSU 77South Carolina 72, Furman 33Stetson 82, Bethune-Cookman 64Tennessee 84, DePaul 61Tulane 66, Southern U. 59Virginia Tech 70, NC Central 52

MIDWESTBowling Green 83, Jacksonville 53Cent. Michigan 75, Purdue 62Drake 65, Wisconsin 54E. Michigan 77, Michigan 64Indiana 65, IUPUI 64Iowa St. 77, Mississippi Valley St. 47Minnesota 75, Alcorn St. 46Missouri St. 78, North Texas 67

SOUTHWESTNicholls St. 69, Texas Southern 48Oklahoma 72, Milwaukee 50Texas A&M 68, TCU 53

FAR WESTArizona 66, Long Beach St. 42Boise St. 72, New Mexico St. 57Colorado St. 73, Maryville (Mo.) 35Denver 89, Oregon 65Fresno St. 70, CS Northridge 61Gonzaga 70, Montana 54San Diego 77, Pacific 57Seattle 69, Portland 55UC Irvine 81, Sacramento St. 75Washington St. 74, UC Riverside 35

nHlEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPhiladelphia ....28 18 7 3 39 101 81N.Y. Rangers ..27 17 6 4 38 83 60Pittsburgh .......30 17 9 4 38 94 75New Jersey ....28 14 13 1 29 71 80N.Y. Islanders .27 9 12 6 24 62 88

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston ............28 18 9 1 37 94 59Toronto ...........29 15 11 3 33 91 94Buffalo ............29 15 12 2 32 79 79Montreal ..........30 12 11 7 31 74 77Ottawa ............30 13 13 4 30 91 105

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida .............30 16 9 5 37 82 77Washington .....28 15 12 1 31 88 89Winnipeg .........29 13 12 4 30 82 92Tampa Bay .....29 12 15 2 26 75 96Carolina ..........31 9 18 4 22 79 108

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago ..........30 18 8 4 40 99 92Detroit .............28 18 9 1 37 89 62St. Louis .........29 17 9 3 37 71 62Nashville .........29 14 11 4 32 77 79Columbus .......29 8 17 4 20 71 99

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAMinnesota .......30 20 7 3 43 79 64Vancouver ......29 18 10 1 37 97 71Edmonton .......30 14 13 3 31 83 80Calgary ...........29 14 13 2 30 73 80Colorado .........30 13 16 1 27 78 91

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas ..............28 16 11 1 33 73 78Phoenix ...........29 15 11 3 33 77 76San Jose ........27 15 10 2 32 75 64Los Angeles ...29 13 12 4 30 65 67Anaheim .........29 8 16 5 21 67 95NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.

———Sunday’s Games

Chicago 3, San Jose 2, OTN.Y. Rangers 6, Florida 1

Today’s GamesNew Jersey at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesLos Angeles at Boston, 6 p.m.Ottawa at Buffalo, 6 p.m.Carolina at Toronto, 6 p.m.Dallas at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.Detroit at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Philadelphia at Washington, 6 p.m.Vancouver at Columbus, 6 p.m.New Jersey at Florida, 6:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.Calgary at Nashville, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m.San Jose at Colorado, 8 p.m.

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scoreboardNFL

7:30 p.m. ESPN - St. Louis at SeattleNHL

6 p.m. Versus - New Jersey at Tampa Bay

COLLEGE BASKETBALL7 p.m. FSN - Clemson at Arizona

SOCCER1:50 p.m. ESPN2 - Premier League,

Manchester City at Chelsea

Dec. 121965 — Chicago’s Gale Sayers

scores six touchdowns with 336 combined yards to lead the Bears to a 61-20 rout of the San Francisco 49ers.

1987 — Guard Mookie Blaylock leads Oklahoma to an NCAA-record 33 steals with 13 in a 152-84 victory over Centenary.

2009 — Mark Ingram completes the trophy case at Alabama, deliv-ering the first Heisman to a school that boasts one of the richest histo-ries in college football.

2010 — The inflatable roof of the Minneapolis Metrodome, where the Minnesota Vikings play, col-lapses overnight following a snow storm that dumps 17 inches on the city. The NFL is forced to shift the Giants-Vikings game to Detroit’s Ford Field on Monday night.

loTTeRYSunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-9-5La. Pick 4: 7-3-0-9Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 3-2-6 La. Pick 4: 9-4-3-6 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 6-5-3 La. Pick 4: 4-2-6-2 Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-2-7La. Pick 4: 3-1-0-2Easy 5: 4-5-9-18-30La. Lotto: 16-21-31-32-37-40Powerball: 3-14-20-39-40Powerball: 37; Power play: 2Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 1-2-1La. Pick 4: 0-3-8-0Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-8-7La. Pick 4: 8-6-0-3Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 0-8-8La. Pick 4: 8-4-0-5Easy 5: 10-14-20-21-22La. Lotto: 7-8-9-26-33-37Powerball: 5-18-33-43-45Powerball: 8; Power play: 3

nflStruggling Chiefsfire coach Haley

KANSAS CITY — The Kansas City Chiefs, one year removed from a playoff appearance, fired head coach Todd Haley today.

The move is effective immedi-ately, but the team did not name an interim coach. The Chiefs fell to 5-8 following Sunday’s 37-10 loss to the New York Jets.

The team won the AFC West last season and are 19-27 in two sea-sons-plus under Haley. But a rash of injuries this year contributed to a bad start this season.

college fooTbAllAuburn suspends Dyerfor Chick-fil-A Bowl

AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn tail-back Mike Dyer has been sus-pended indefinitely for violating undisclosed team rules and won’t play in the Tigers’ bowl game.

Auburn confirmed the suspension of the first-team All-Southeastern Conference player Sunday and said he will miss the Chick-fil-A Bowl Dec. 31 against Virginia.

Dyer is the first Auburn back to rush for 1,000 yards in each of his first two seasons.

Paterno breaks pelvisin fall at his home

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno fractured his pelvis again following a fall at his home but will not need surgery, a person close to the family told The Associated Press on Sunday.

The former Penn State football coach was expected to make a full recovery after slipping Saturday and was admitted to the hospital the next day, the person added. The person spoke on condition of ano-nymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

college bASkeTbAllSuspensions handed outfor Xavier-Cincy brawl

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati for-ward Yancy Gates got a six-game suspension Sunday for throwing punches during a game against No. 8 Xavier, and seven other players were suspended for their roles in a brawl that ended the annual cross-town rivalry game.

Gates punched Xavier’s Kenny Frease in the face, causing a nasty gash below his left eye, and hit at least one other Musketeer during the fracas Saturday, which prompted the referees to call Xavi-er’s 76-53 victory with 9.4 seconds left.

The Bearcats also gave Cheikh Mbodj and Octavius Ellis six-game suspensions. Ge’Lawn Guyn was suspended for one game.

Xavier suspended point guard Tu Holloway for one game, guard Mark Lyons for two, and Dez Wells and Landen Amos for four games each.

2011-12 bowl scheduleDec. 17 New Mexico Bowl Wyoming (8-4) vs. Temple (8-4) ...................1:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 17 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Utah St. (7-5) vs. Ohio (9-4) ......................4:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 17 New Orleans Bowl La.-Lafayette (8-4) vs. San Diego St. (8-4) ................8 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 20 Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4) ..............................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4) .......................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl Boise St. (11-1) vs. Arizona St. (6-6).....................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Miss (11-2) ................... 7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 26 Independence Bowl North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5) ...................3 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6)...........3:30 p.m. ESPN2Dec. 27 Belk Bowl North Carolina St. (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5) ................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 28 Military Bowl Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4) ....................3:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 28 Holiday Bowl Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5) .........................7 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl Florida St. (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4) ...............4:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 29 Alamo Bowl Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5) .......................8 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3) ............................11 a.m. ESPNDec. 30 Pinstripe Bowl Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa St. (6-6) ....................2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 30 Music City Bowl Mississippi St. (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6) ..........5:40 p.m. ESPNDec. 30 Insight Bowl Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5) ..........................9 p.m. ESPN

Dec. 31 Meinke Car Care Bowl Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6) ................11 a.m. ESPNDec. 31 Sun Bowl Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5) ......................... 1 p.m. CBSDec. 31 Liberty Bowl Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3) .................2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 31 Fight Hunger Bowl UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6) .......................2:30 p.m. ESPNDec. 31 Chick-fil-A Bowl Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5) .....................6:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl Penn St. (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1) .................. 11 a.m. ESPNUJan. 2 Capital One Bowl Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2) ...................Noon ESPNJan. 2 Outback Bowl Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan St. (10-3) .......................Noon ABCJan. 2 Gator Bowl Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio St. (6-6) ..........................Noon ESPN2Jan. 2 Rose Bowl Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2) ......................4 p.m. ESPNJan. 2 Fiesta Bowl Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma St. (11-1) .............7:30 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2) ..................7 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 4 Orange Bowl West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3) ...................7 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl Kansas St. (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2)....................7 p.m. Fox

Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5) ........................11 a.m. ESPN

Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl Arkansas St. (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3) .............8 p.m. ESPN

Jan. 9 BCS National Championship LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1) ....................7:30 p.m. ESPN

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Tebow does it again for DenverBy The Associated Press

Wild wins are becoming rou-tine for Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos.

Matt Prater’s 51-yard field goal 6 1/2 minutes into over-time gave the Broncos a 13-10 victory over the stunned Chi-cago Bears on Sunday. Prat-er’s 59-yarder with 3 seconds left in regulation tied the score after Tebow led another rally.

After failing to score on their first dozen possessions, the Broncos (8-5) erased a 10-0 deficit in the final 2:08 of regulation.

It was Denver’s sixth straight win and seventh in eight games since Tebow was pro-moted to starter. The Broncos have trailed in the second half in six of those victories.

This latest comeback put Denver in sole possession of first place in the AFC West after Oakland’s 46-16 drubbing at Green Bay.

“Never say never,” wide receiver Eric Decker said. “That’s a great characteristic of this team. ... Again it wasn’t pretty. But again in the fourth quarter, we found a way to make some plays. Matt Prater, man, the kid can boom it.”

Texans 20, Bengals 19Rookie T.J. Yates led the big-

gest drive in Houston Texans history, throwing a 6-yard

touchdown pass with 2 sec-onds left for a one-point vic-tory that brought the first playoff berth in franchise history.

With their seventh straight win, the Texans (10-3) moved to the threshold of their first playoff berth. They clinched the AFC South title a few min-utes later when Tennessee lost to New Orleans.

Patriots 34, Redskins 27

Tom Brady threw for 357 yards and three touchdowns, and Rob Gronkowski set an NFL single-season record for most touchdown catches by a tight end as New England (10-3) won its fifth straight.

Washington (4-9) has lost eight of its last nine.

Ravens 24, Colts 10Terrell Suggs had three

sacks and forced three fum-bles to keep Indianapolis win-less. Baltimore (10-3) limited the Colts (0-13) to 167 yards — 53 through three quarters. Dan Orlovsky threw a TD pass to Jacob Tamme on the game’s final play for the Colts.

Falcons 31, Panthers 23

Matt Ryan threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to

rookie Julio Jones and Atlanta (8-5) erased a 16-point deficit to beat Carolina (4-8)

Jets 37, Chiefs 10Mark Sanchez threw two

touchdown passes and ran for two more scores as the Jets (8-5) thrashed Kansas City (5-8) and kept pace in the AFC playoff race.

Lions 34, Vikings 28Backup quarterback Joe

Webb fumbled deep in Lions territory in the final seconds, and Detroit (8-5) escaped with a much-needed victory.

Packers 46, Raiders 16Aaron Rodgers threw for 281

yards and two touchdowns in less than three full quarters worth of work, Ryan Grant had two touchdowns rush-ing and the Packers (13-0) remained perfect with a rout of Oakland (7-6).

Eagles 26, Dolphins 10Philadelphia (5-8) forced

three turnovers while scoring four times during a nine-min-ute span in the second quarter and totaled nine sacks to beat Miami (4-9).

Chargers 37, Bills 10Philip Rivers threw three

touchdown passes, two to

Antonio Gates, and San Diego (6-7) beat Buffalo (5-8) to keep its playoff hopes alive.

Buffalo lost its sixth straight game and was eliminated from playoff contention for the 12th straight year.

Cardinals 21, 49ers 19John Skelton threw for 282

yards and three touchdowns, and Arizona (6-7) rallied to hand San Francisco (10-3) just its third loss of the season.

Jags 41, Buccaneers 14Maurice Jones-Drew scored

four times, and Jacksonville (4-9) rolled up 41 unanswered points to rout Tampa Bay (4-9).

The associaTed press

fourth-quarter win this season. “It’s good to have excited guys with a lot of smiles in the locker room.”

New York’s recent skid was filled mostly with narrow losses to division leaders. The Giants (7-6) appeared headed to another setback trailing 34-22 with 5:41 left, but a series of clutch plays on their part and meltdowns by Dallas changed every-thing. The teams are tied, with the Cowboys headed to the Meadowlands for a sea-son-ending rematch on New Year’s Day.

“We knew what was on the line,” Cowboys linebacker Bradie James said. “But those guys made one more play than we did.”

Dallas has gone from win-ning four straight to losing

two in a row, both in dra-matic, frustrating fashion that involved missed kicks by rookie Dan Bailey, who’d been so good for so long this season. The Cowboys also lost running back DeMarco Murray to a broken right ankle, ending his record-set-ting rookie season.

“We certainly know we’ve got our work cut out for us,” team owner Jerry Jones said in a brief statement.

Neither team led by more than five points for most of this back-and-forth game until Tony Romo threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Dez Bryant with no one else around. He strutted into the end zone, putting Dallas up 34-22 with 5:41 left.

Yet instead of that ending the excitement, the fun was

just beginning.Manning mounted an eight-

play, 80-yard drive capped by an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jake Ballard. The play had to withstand a video review to make sure he really got the ball past the front of the goal line before his knee landed inches shy of the stripe.

New York’s defense fol-lowed with a three-and-out, and the Giants got another break when Dallas’ usually reliable punter, Mat McBriar, had a 33-yarder, letting Man-ning take over at his 42 with 2:12 left.

Two penalties on the Cow-boys’ defense helped, as did completions of 21 and 18 yards to Ballard. Brandon Jacobs scored on a 1-yard run with 51 seconds left and D.J. Ware followed with the

2-point conversion.Romo still had 46 seconds

left. He hit Miles Austin for gains of 22 and 23 yards to set up Bailey for a 47-yard field goal that would force overtime. The rookie who’d made four winning kicks, but was coming off a game-losing debacle the previous week, split the uprights — only it

didn’t count because Cough-lin called a timeout.

On the do-over, Bailey’s kick was clipped by the out-stretched arms of Pierre-Paul. He’d been a disruption all night, sacking Romo for a safety early in the game and forcing a fumble in the second quarter.

“This one’s going to hurt,

it’s going to sting, but we’ve got to figure out how to do things a little better and play our best game of the season next week,” said Romo, who was 21-of-31 passing for 321 yards and four touchdowns, two of them in the fourth quarter. “We need to get a win next week and get back going.”

Orleans on the next drive, and Washington caught a 40-yard pass from Locker with 27 seconds left, set-ting up another chance for a Titans rally.

Locker spiked the ball at the Saints 5 to stop the clock, but his pass on second down to Marc Mariani in the end zone was batted down by Tracy Porter before Dunbar’s sack ended the game.

Their loss allowed the Houston Texans, which won at Cincinnati on Sunday, to clinch the AFC South and kept them from gaining any ground in a crowded race for the second AFC wild-card spot.

“As bad as this one’s going to hurt ... we can’t let this one cost us any more games,” Titans coach Mike Munchak said. “We have three games, we have to win all three games.”

Penalties and other mis-takes kept New Orleans’ league-leading offense from getting any rhythm through three quarters, and three times the Saints got within 11 yards of the end zone only to settle for a field goal. John Kasay kicked field goals of 29, 25 and 22 yards to help the Saints build a 9-3 third-quarter lead.

The Saints also missed another scoring opportu-nity early in the first half. Darren Sproles returned a punt 82 yards to the end zone, but the score was negated on a holding call on Dunbar.

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow throws a pass in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bears. Tebow led two scoring drives in the last three minutes of regulation, and the Broncos won 13-10 in overtime.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An exceedingly rare 1787 gold Brasher doubloon has been sold for $7.4 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a gold coin.

Blanchard and Co., the New Orleans-based coin and pre-cious metals company that bro-kered the deal, told The Asso-ciated Press the doubloon was purchased by a Wall Street investment firm. Identities of the buyer and seller were not disclosed.

Minted by Ephraim Brasher, a goldsmith and neighbor of George Washington, the coin contains 26.66 grams of gold — slightly less than an ounce. Worth about $15 when it was minted, the gold value today

would be more than $1,500.It is the only known exam-

ple of the doubloon with a dis-tinctive hallmark punch on the eagle’s breast; five other known doubloons have a punch on the

eagle’s left wing.The Brasher doubloon is

considered the first American-made gold coin denominated in dollars; the U.S. Mint in Phila-delphia didn’t begin striking coins until the 1790s, and for-eign coins of various curren-cies were in use in the nation’s early years.

At Blanchard’s New Orleans headquarters Friday, the dou-bloon sat sealed in a protec-tive case on an office table surrounded by three armed guards. Elevators were shut off to the 19th floor of a down-town office building housing Blanchard’s offices, and doors inside the office were locked.

The coin, which is smaller than a half dollar but heavier,

was to be delivered by armored vehicle to the buyer over the weekend.

Blanchard has brokered the sale of other extremely rare and valuable U.S. coins, includ-ing a 1913 Liberty Head nickel that sold for $3 million.

The Brasher doubloon last changed hands in 2004 for $3 million. About six weeks ago, the doubloon was sent to John Albanese of Certified Accep-tance Corp. for grading and authentication. Albanese is a consulting partner for Blanchard and well-established in the coin grading field.

Albanese said he offered $5.5 million for the coin more than three years ago — and the offer was rejected.


Rare 1787 gold coin fetches $7.4M in N.O.TONIGHT ON TVn MOVIE“Red Planet” — As Earth dies, a team of American astro-nauts, Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore, tries to colonize Mars to save man-kind./5:30 on SYFYn SPORTSNFL — The Seattle Seahawks (5-7), still very much alive in the NFC playoff race, host the hapless St. Louis Rams (2-10) in a West Division matchup to-night./7:30 on ESPNn PRIMETIME“Hawaii Five-0” — On the night before Chin Ho’s wed-ding, the team’s investigation into a man left to die in an aban-doned bunker intersects with Capt. Fryer’s case./9 on CBS

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 BIRTHDAYSBob Barker, former game show host, 88; Edward Koch, for-mer New York City mayor, 87; Connie Francis, singer, 74; Di-onne Warwick, singer, 71; Cathy Rigby, gymnast-actress, 59; Sheila E., singer-musician, 54; Jennifer Connelly, actress, 41; Hank Williams III, country singer, 39; Mayim Bialik, actress, 36; Bridget Hall, model, 34.n DEATHCardinal John Foley — The cardinal who for 25 years was the voice for American viewers of the Vatican’s Christmas Midnight Mass and who led an ancient Catholic order in the Holy Land died Sunday at 76. Foley died at the Villa St. Joseph in suburban Darby, Pa., the Archdiocese of Philadelphia said. The cause of death was not given.

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Streep covers Vogue for first timeMeryl Streep might be considered

one of the finest actresses around, yet she says she believed her career was over 20 years ago.

Streep, now 62, tells Vogue magazine she was offered three different roles to play a witch after turning 40. She believed it meant women in her age group were “grotesque on some level,” and told her husband “it’s over.”

Streep graces the January cover of Vogue magazine for the first time and jokes in the magazine she’s the “oldest person” to do so.

Next, she plays the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the new film “Iron Lady.” She’ll portray Thatcher from age 49 to 85. The film opens January 13.

The January issue of Vogue goes on sale Dec. 20.

Ernie, Cindy claim $1M prize on ‘Race’“The Amazing Race” took its

final three teams on a frantic scramble through Atlanta dur-ing Sunday’s conclusion of the CBS competition show.

In the end, it was Ernie Hal-vorsen and his fiancee, Cindy Chiang, both from Chicago, who crossed the finish line at Atlan-ta’s historic Swan House to win the $1 million prize.

In second place were Califor-nians Jeremy Cline and Sandy Draghi. In third place were for-mer NFL player Marcus Pollard and his wife, Amani, from Pine Mountain, Ga.

During this last leg of the round-the-world race, the cou-ples were required to land a jet-liner in a flight simulator, find “Gone With the Wind” author Mar-garet Mitchell’s home, and plot their 40,000-mile odyssey on a giant world map erected high above the parking lot at Turner Field.

‘Face the Nation’ to expand to 1 hourThe CBS Sunday political talk show “Face the Nation” will soon

match its rivals in length.Anchor Bob Schieffer said Sunday that the show will become

an hour in April. It currently airs for a half an hour.Both of its competitors, NBC’s “Meet the Press” and ABC’s “This

Week,” are already an hour in length. CBS is making the change at a time “Face the Nation” has been doing well in the ratings.

Schieffer didn’t mention it, but it’s not entirely certain the change will be permanent. CBS News President David Rhodes says the extended length will last at least through the political conventions next summer, and then be evaluated.

ANd ONE MORE

Town names spelled wrongly on signs State transportation officials are apologizing for putting up

street signs in Haverhill, Mass., that misspell the names of near-by communities.

The signs direct drivers to “Plastow” N.H. on Route 125, and to “Merrimack” Mass. on Route 110.

The New Hampshire community is actually spelled Plaistow.And although there is a Merrimack, N.H., the Massachusetts

community with a similar name is spelled Merrimac, without the “k.” State highway officials believe the signs were recently in-stalled and that spelling errors were made during their manu-facture.

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Meryl Streep on the cover of Vogue

A 1787 gold Brasher doubloon

Cindy Chiang and Ernie Halvorsen

U.S. Lowe’s faces backlashfor pulling ads from show

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lowe’s Home Improvement has found itself facing a back-lash after the retail giant pulled ads from a reality show about Ameri-can Muslims.

The retail giant stopped advertising on TLC’s “All-American Muslim” after a con-servative group known as the Florida Family Association complained, saying the pro-gram was “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agen-da’s clear and present danger to American liberties and tra-ditional values.”

The show premiered last month and chronicles the lives of five families from Dearborn, Mich., a Detroit suburb with a large Muslim and Arab-Amer-ican population.

A state senator from South-ern California said Sunday he was considering calling for a boycott.

Calling the Lowe’s decision “un-American” and “naked religious bigotry,” Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, told The Associated Press he would also consider legislative action if Lowe’s doesn’t apologize to Muslims and reinstate its ads.

The senator sent a letter out-lining his complaints to Lowe’s

Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Niblock.

“The show is about what it’s like to be a Muslim in America, and it touches on the discrimina-tion they some-times face. And

that kind of discrimination is exactly what’s happening here with Lowe’s,” Lieu said.

The Florida group sent three e-mails to its members, asking them to petition Lowe’s to pull its advertising.

The show premiered last month and chronicles

the lives of five families from Dearborn, Mich.,

a Detroit suburb with a large Muslim and Arab-American population.

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Woman ready to end friendship that’s past its primeDear Abby: I am a gay

woman. My partner, “Jenny,” and I have been friends with another couple for 15 years. Over the last year I have come to realize that I no longer want to be friends with them. One of them has been particularly unkind to me, and frankly, we don’t have a lot in common.

Jenny is uncomfortable with my decision and wants me to talk to them to discuss my feelings. They have already asked her if there’s a prob-lem. If I talk to them, I’m sure they will be offended by what I have to say because I didn’t say anything when the issues first arose. I’m not good at con-frontation, and it’s hard for me to tell someone my feelings

are hurt.The bottom line is, I want out

of this couple’s friendship. But I need to do it in a way that’s OK with Jen. I met the couple through her, and she wants to continue her friendship with them. Please help. — Moving On in Georgia

Dear Moving On: It would not be confrontational to tell them that while you have

known each other for a long time, you feel you have grown apart. You should also men-tion that your feelings were hurt when one of them said “( ).” At least that way they will understand why you have disappeared, and Jenny won’t be left with the responsibility of explaining it to them.

Dear Abby: I love the holi-day season, but I often feel the blues and get a little depressed. I lost my father on Christmas Day several years ago and have since lost a brother to cancer. I’m tired of feeling this way when this is the season to be merry. What can I do? — Another Blue Christmas in South Carolina

Dear Blue: I am sorry for

your losses. Because of your father’s death on Christmas Day, it might always bring some sense of loss. However, an effective way to distract yourself would be to spend time in the company of friends who understand your feelings. Another would be to volun-teer at a senior center, shelter or food distribution program. Helping someone else through a difficult time is the surest cure for the blues. Please give it a try.

•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Laser treatment makesvaricose veins less visible

Dear Doctor K: I have unsightly varicose veins on my legs. Is there any way to get rid of them? And can I prevent new ones from forming?

Dear Reader: Varicose veins are very common, and as in your case, they’re usu-ally found in the legs. They can look blue, swollen or stretched out, kinked or twisted.

It sounds like your vari-cose veins are not causing any symptoms — such as aching, swelling or itching. In most people, they rarely cause symptoms; they’re just unattractive.

What are they, and what can you do about them? Veins are the blood vessels that return blood to the heart. Varicose veins occur when veins just below the skin’s surface get damaged. They become swol-len and fill with too much blood.

They get swollen because their valves get weak. Veins in the legs are designed to carry blood upward from your legs to your heart. Here’s the prob-lem: We’re on our feet a lot of the day. Whenever we are standing, the blood in our leg veins — the blood that wants to go up to the heart — is being pulled down by gravity. To counteract that, we are born with valves in our veins that let blood flow through them in just one direction — upward to the heart. When those valves get weak, gravity pulls blood downward, making the veins swell.

Varicose veins run in fami-lies. They’re more common in women in general, pregnant women and obese people. They are more common in pregnant women and obese people because both condi-tions cause pressure to rise in the leg veins. In pregnancy, the uterus and the fetus inside it often press against the veins carrying blood from the legs to the heart. That makes it harder for the blood to go upward, and so causes the veins to swell.

If your occupation requires uninterrupted standing (a waitress or a nurse, for exam-ple), this also increases your risk of varicose veins.

There aren’t many things you can do to prevent varicose veins. Maintaining a normal weight and avoiding standing for long periods will help. But you might still develop vari-cose veins if they run in your family.

If you already have varicose veins, you can help to prevent symptom flare-ups. Periodi-cally lie down or sit down with your legs raised above chest level. You can also wear sup-port stockings or compression

stockings when you walk or stand for long periods of time. The stockings prevent blood from pooling in the veins.

There are two treatment options. One is sclerotherapy, which involves (strange as it might sound) injecting an irritating substance into the affected vein. This causes the vein to scar and shut down.

Your other option is laser therapy, which can remove small, superficial, spider-like veins, and is effective for even the smallest varicose veins. Lasers placed inside very large varicose veins also can be effective. A vascular medi-cine specialist can determine the best treatment for you.

•Write to Dr. Komaroff in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016, or send questions to his website, www.AskDoctorK.com.

Dr. Wallace: I’d really like your opinion. I am 5 feet 5 inches and weigh 103 pounds. I’d like to get down to double digits (99 pounds), but my friends and family think I’m already too thin and need to gain four pounds instead of losing four pounds.

My best friend says that I’m anorexic. Even though I don’t eat breakfast or lunch, I try to eat a balanced supper. I tried eating a light lunch, but I had to stop because I was really feeling guilty. Please tell my friend I’m not anorexic because anorexics do not eat well-balanced suppers. I’m just on a diet. — Nameless, Char-lotte, N.C.

Nameless: Your letter worries me. I don’t know if you are an-orexic — it’s not my place to make a diagnosis — but some-thing is clearly going on with you regarding food and weight that contains many of the warning signs of an eating disorder.

Why do you want to weigh 99 pounds? What made you feel guilty about eating a light lunch? Even though you’re very thin, do you feel that you weigh too much? I urge you to discuss your eating patterns with your parents and ask them to make an ap-pointment for you with a mental health professional who spe-cializes in weight issues.

You need some sound advice about nutrition and health. I fear that you’re pushing yourself in the wrong direction. I have been advised by several dietitians that a well-balanced, nutritious breakfast is the most important meal of the day for maintaining good health.

Dr. Wallace: My parents both have bad tempers and they of-ten get into heated discussions. When that happens, they try and drag me into the argument by asking me whom I think is right. Most of the time it’s my dad who is right, but if I say that, my mom gets upset with me. I can’t win! I try not to get in-volved when they argue, but somehow I’m dragged into it. I’m getting tired of being the scapegoat. Now I know how a referee feels. Help! — Nameless, Geneva, Ill.

Nameless: Parents should never drag their children into their arguments, let alone make them act as referees. Whenever you sense a heated discussion coming on, make yourself scarce. If possible, leave the house. If you can’t do that, at least go to your room. Mom and Dad will have to learn to settle their own dis-putes.

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

If tomorrow is your birthday: There is a good chance that the kind of friends you like to hang out with will shift in the year ahead. People with a practical look to the future might draw you into their circle.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — An ambitious objective isn’t apt to be fulfilled, because it’s likely that you’ll only be willing to wish for what you want but not eager to work for it. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If you hear about something that sounds wonderful but requires a large outlay of cash, don’t jump in without first checking out its bona fides. Naivete could cost a bundle.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Someone on whom you’re counting for help in concluding a very complicated matter might let you down. You could be in trouble unless you have a backup plan ready, just in case.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — A job you’ve been putting off for quite some time might become a thorn in your side. Don’t waste any more time making excuses — get down to business as promptly as possible.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Wanting things and being able to afford them are two entirely different matters. Don’t let your ex-travagant whims overwhelm your common sense and land you in debt.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Some of your objectives aren’t likely to be achieved, because it isn’t likely that you’ll get orga-nized or be persistent enough to do what it takes to realize your aims. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Be very careful of what you voice about others, even those who might deserve being put in his or her place. Unfortunately, what you say and how you say it could make you look bad.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — If being friends with someone is predicated purely upon what they can do for you, the relation-ship is likely to fall flat. It might be wise to examine your reasons for this kind of behavior.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — It wouldn’t be smart to get into a fin-ger-pointing contest with an associate at work, because there is no way it will make either of you smell nice. The bad odor could even affect your career.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — It doesn’t matter if it happens at work or in a social setting, arguing political intrigues is likely to cause you some problems. Don’t be jockeyed into feeling you must participate.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — The change that you’ve been fer-vidly awaiting might happen at last, but once it does, you could wonder why it was something you thought you wanted. Make the best of things.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Before you lash out about some unflattering things being said about you, perhaps it might be wise to check it out first. What is told to you might have no basis in fact.

ABIGAILVANBUREN

DEAR ABBY

Dr. Anthony L.KomARoff

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Public Notice County ofSharkey Johnny EarlMcCool, II will be applyingfor a full pardon 30 days fromthis posting for the crime ofpossession of precursorchemicals committed onApril 13, 2003, charged inthis county and has lived alaw abiding life since thecrimes, forgiveness issought. If there areobjections to the granting ofthis pardon, please contactthe Governor's Office byphone at (601)359-3150.Publish: 11/15, 11/16, 11/17,11/18, 11/19, 11/20, 11/21,11/22, 11/23, 11/24, 11/25,11/26, 11/27, 11/28, 11/29,11/30, 12/1, 12/2, 12/3, 12/4,12/5, 12/6, 12/7, 12/8, 12/9,12/10, 12/11, 12/12, 12/13,12/14(30t)

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

WE PAY CASH forjunk. Cars, trucks. Vans,SUVs, and old dumptrucks. 601-638-5946 or601-529-8249.

07. Help Wanted

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

AIRLINE TICKETVOUCHERS. Anywherehalf price, International also.702-521-7298, 240-281-4077.

HARVARD FOOSBALLTABLES and air hockeygame table, perfect condi-tion. Great Christmas gifts!Must see, make offer! 601-638-8925.


07. Help Wanted

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

MOVING MUST SELL!Furniture and other miscel-laneous. Excellent condi-tion, like new! 601-638-8383.

THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street

Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish foodaquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads,loads of pet supplies!Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!

THE BEST WAY to bargain hunt is to

check the Classifieds Daily. We make it easywith our convenient

home delivery. For details call 601-636-4545, Circulation.

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

ClassifiedHours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, Closed Saturday & Sunday. Post Plaza, 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • P. O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182.

• S O M E T H I N G N E W E V E R Y D A Y •We accept: e y r w • Call Direct: (601)636-SELL

Online Ad Placement: http://www.vicksburgpost.com

We Write Thousands OfBest Sellers Every Year...We’re The Vicksburg PostClassified Advertising Department . . .our job is to help you writeeffective classified ads so you canhave best sellers too! Give us a call . . . we’ll write one for you!Call (601) 636-SELL.

Classified InformationLine Ad DeadlinesAds to appear Deadline

Monday 2 p.m., FridayTuesday 5 p.m., Friday

Wednesday 5 p.m., MondayThursday 5 p.m., Tuesday

Friday 5 p.m., WednesdaySaturday 11 a.m., Thursday

Sunday 11 a.m., Thursday

Classified DisplayDeadlinesAds to appear Deadline

Monday 5 p.m., ThursdayTuesday 3 p.m., Friday




Classified Ad RatesClassified Line Ads:

Starting at 1-4 Lines, 1 Day for $8.28Classified line ads are charged according to the

number of lines. For complete pricinginformation contact a Classified SalesRepresentative today at 601-636-SELL.

Ads cancelled before expiration date ordered arecharged at prevailing rate only for days actually run,

4 line minimum charge. $8.28 minimum charge.

e y r w

InternetPlace your classified line ad at

http://www.vicksburgpost.com

ErrorsIn the event of errors, please call the very first dayyour ad appears. The Vicksburg Post will not be

responsible for more than one incorrect insertion.

Mis-ClassificationNo ad will be deliberately mis-classified.

The Vicksburg Post classified department is thesole judge of the proper classification for each ad.

Classified Line DasStarting at 1-4 Lines, 1 Day for $8.32

4 line minimum charge $8.32 minimum charge.

DeadlinesAds to appear Deadline

Monday 5 p.m., ThursdayTuesday 3 p.m., Friday




NEEDEDLPN

11 - 7 SHIFTCONTACT IN PERSON:

LAREINA PATTERSON,Staff Development NurseHERITAGE HOUSE NURSING CENTER

3103 Wisconsin Ave.Vicksburg, MS 39180

Barnes GlassQuality Service at Competitive Prices#1 Windshield Repair & Replacement

Vans • Cars • Trucks•Insurance Claims Welcome•

AUTO • HOME • BUSINESSJason Barnes • 601-661-0900

ROSSCONSTRUCTION

New HomesFraming, Remodeling,

Cabinets, Flooring,Roofing & Vinyl Siding

State Licensed & BondedJon Ross 601-638-7932

Simmons Lawn ServiceProfessional Services &

Competitive Prices• Landscaping • Septic Systems• Irrigation: Install & Repair• Commercial & Residential

Grass CuttingLicensed • Bonded • Insured

12 years experienceRoy Simmons (Owner)

601-218-8341

BUFORDCONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

601-636-4813State Board of Contractors

Approved & Bonded

Haul Clay, Gravel, Dirt,Rock & Sand

All Types of Dozer WorkLand Clearing • Demolition

Site Development& Preparation Excavation

Crane Rental • Mud Jacking

River CityDirt Work, LLC

• Dozer / Trackhoe Work• Dump Truck •

• Bush Hogging • Box Blade• Demolition • Debris Removal

• Hydro Seeding• Deliver

Dirt -13 yd. load $85 locally• Gravel • Sand • Rock

Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins.Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner)

601-529-0894

All Business &

Service Directory Ads

MUST BE PAID

IN ADVANCE!

FREERides for

Children 4 & Under

ROCKETTAXICAB

601-636-0491

SPEEDIPRINT &OFFICE SUPPLY

• Business Cards• Letterhead• Envelopes• Invoices

• Work Orders• Invitations

(601) 638-2900Fax (601) 636-6711

1601-C North Frontage RoadVicksburg, MS 39180

PATRIOTIC• FLAGS

• BANNERS

• BUMPER STICKERS

• YARD SIGNSShow Your Colors!


PUT THE CLASSIFIEDSTO WORKFOR YOU!

Check our listings to findthe help you

need...

• Contractors• Electricians • Roofers • Plumbers • Landscapers

Classified Advertisingreally brings big results!

READ THE CLASSIFIEDSdaily!

Baby’s FirstChristmas

A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER!Just bring or mail your child’s photo

along with completed form to:THE VICKSBURG POST

Attention: ClassifiedsP.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182

Child’s Name:____________________________

Birthdate:_____________________________

Phone:________________________________

Return photo to:

Name:_______________________________

Address:______________________________

City:__________________________________

State:____________________Zip:_________Circle One: Boy Girl

Cost is $20 per photo or$35 for twins

The deadline is Tuesday, December 15th, 3pm

Publishes on December 25thNo scanned or copied photos!



Fixer-Uppersfor people with a plan!

Do you knowexactly what youwant in a home?

Do you long for unique

surroundings thatperfectly reflect

your style? Find the home of

your dreams in theVicksburg Post

Classifieds

29. UnfurnishedApartments

19. Garage &Yard Sales

Ask us how to “PostSize” your ad with some

great clip art! Call theClassified Ladies at601-636-Sell (7355).


19. Garage &Yard Sales


19. Garage &Yard SalesWhat's going on in

Vicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!

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

for circulation.

20. Hunting

Call our CirculationDepartment for

CONVENIENT HomeDelivery and/ or ourOn-line Subscription.

Monday- Friday,8am-5pm, 601-636-4545.

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

What's going on inVicksburg?

Read The Vicksburg Post!For convenient home

delivery, call601-636-4545, ask for

circulation.



A CHIMNEY SWEEP. In-spect/ clean, best price intown! Licensed/ insured.601-218-0253 Jeff- Agape.



• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13

• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce

Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law

601-636-1109

D & D TREE CUTTING•Trimming • Lawn Care

• Dirt Hauled• Insured

For FREE EstimatesCall “Big James”

601-218-7782

FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON

ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair

(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref

Licensed • Insured601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133

I CLEAN HOMES! Over35 years experience. Ex-cellent references. 601-631-2482, 601-831-6052.

PLUMBING SERVICES-24 hour emergency- brokenwater lines- hot waterheaters- toilets- faucets-sinks. Pressure Washing-sidewalk- house- mobilehomes- vinyl siding- brickhomes. 601-618-8466.


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

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

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.

STEELE PAINTINGSERVICE LLC

Specialize in painting/ sheet rock.

All home improvementsFree Estimates 601-634-0948.

Chris Steele/ Owner

26. For RentOr Lease

APARTMENT FORRENT

Garage Apartment for rent.Heat & AC, 2 Bedroom 1Bath. Washer & DryerHookup 601-218-9631.

RICHARD M. CALDWELL

BROKER

SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE

APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180

[email protected]


THE COVEStop looking,

Start living!

Paid cable, water andtrash. Washer, Dryer

and built-inmicrowave furnished.

601-638-55871-601-686-0635

29. UnfurnishedApartments2 BEDROOM Duplex,

$400. 4 bedroom duplex,$500. With stove andrefrigerator. $200 deposit.

601-634-8290.

BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE

LIVING

• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community

• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans

601-629-6300www.thelandingsvicksburg.com

501 Fairways DriveVicksburg

CommodoreApartments

1, 2 & 3Bedrooms

605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS

39180

601-638-2231

SAVE! SAVE! SAVE!Ask about our Holiday

Special- 2 and 3bedrooms. We aim to

please. Call 601-686-0635.

30. HousesFor Rent

2 BEDROOM, 1 bath,with washer/ dryer hook-up,refrigerator, stove andfenced yard. $450 month,$250 security deposit. 601-638-0133.


31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

16X60 2 BEDROOM, 2Bath, 12x60 porch. No pets.$200 deposit, $650 month-ly. 601-631-1942.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

DOUBLE WIDE. 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, off Highway80. $700 monthly, water in-cluded deposit/ references.769-203-0379.

MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.

601-619-9789.

32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

VERY NICE 5 bedroom,3 bath. New hardwoodfloors on ½ acre lot. Asking$65,000. 601-618-8612.

33. Commercia lProperty

COMMERCIAL BUILD-ING or Turn- Key restaurantwith 2 lots for sale at EagleLake. Call 850-683-1085.


34. HousesFor Sale

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

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

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

FOR SALE BY owner$70,000. 3 bedroom 2 bath.Port Gibson. Large backyard,All new heating cooling. 601-437-0654, 601-870-5548.

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

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

34. HousesFor Sale

CARY, MS. 3 bed, 2 bathhome, 4.5 lots. Shown byappointment only. Asking$115,000. 601-824-0270.

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCVJIM HOBSON

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

When you need helpin finding that perfecthome in Eagle Lake,

call me!Whether you’re looking for a

lakefront home, waterfront lots,foreclosures, reduced housing

or just good deals!!!

Bette Paul Warner,601-218-1800,

McMillin Real Estate.

38. FarmImple ments/

Heavy Equipment






39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles



40. Cars & Trucks

DECEMBER DEAL!

Garyscfl.com

2002 Ford Escape

$850 Down $163 Bi -Weekly

Gary’s Cars601-883-9995

2002 CAMRY XLE.Black, asking $7500. 1997Honda Accord, Silver, ask-ing $3000. 601-630-5091.

AUTO WORLD'SROCK-BOTTOM

CHRISTMAS SALE!George Carr

Rental building. 601-831-2000 after 3pm.






MUTUAL CREDITUNION has for sale: 2007GMC Yukon, 93,000 miles.$16,500. Please call 601-636-7523, extension 258.

COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd.

COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd

MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive

Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625

Equal Housing Opportunity801 Clay Street 601-630-2921

www.the-vicksburg.com

UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments

Studios & Efficiencies

NNEEEEDD AANN AAPPAARRTTMMEENNTT??Enjoy the convenience of downtown living at

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S H A M R O C KA PA RT M E N T S

SUPERIOR QUALITY,CUSTOM CABINETS,

EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM,& WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS.

SAFE!!SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT

601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333

Bradford RidgeApartments

Live in a Quality Built Apartmentfor LESS! All brick,

concrete floors and double wallsprovide excellent soundproofing,

security, and safety.601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333

BienvilleApartments

The ParkResidencesat Bienville

1, 2 & 3 bedroomsand townhomes

available immediately.

VICKSBURGS NEWEST,AND A WELL MAINTAINED

FAVORITE. EACH WITHSPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS ANDSOPHISTICATED AMENITIES.

FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com

and

EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY


Looking for a newhome? Check our onlinelistings today. Just go towww.vicksburgpost.com

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