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By John [email protected]

Twenty dogs and cats that offi-cials said had been neglected to near starvation were picked up from two homes Thursday, and owners might face criminal charges.

Vicksburg-Warren Humane Soci-ety workers and Warren County sheriff’s deputies collected ani-mals from homes at 820 Possum Hollow Road and 610 Martin St.

Humane society director Geor-gia Lynn said the seizures were the third and fourth in five weeks. She said two horses were seized Dec. 12, and a starving Doberman Pinscher was taken Dec. 19.

The action was carried out under a state law that allows authorities to seize animals after an investi-gation indicates they may have been cruelly treated or neglected. Lynn said misdemeanor criminal

charges for confining an animal without food or water may also be pending in the dog seizures.

“We get complaints during the year,” she said. “We go out and take pictures of the animals, pres-ent them to justice court, and the judge issues the order to take the animals. We need to get the

animals to a vet to determine whether the animal’s condition is caused by disease or neglect. The court order allows us to get the animal and take it to a vet for an examination.”

If abuse is found, she said, the veterinarian testifies as an expert witness at the criminal hearing in justice court.

Animal owners have five days to contest in justice court. If the seizures are not contested, the animals are turned over to the humane society.

If the seizures are contested, Lynn said, the animal owners have three days to post a bond of $300 to $500, and a hearing is set within 14 days. She said the horse seizure was contested in justice court and had been continued until Jan. 19.

“The bond goes for the care of the animals,” she said.

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County official seeks OK for late property assessments By Danny Barrett [email protected]

Warren County has asked the state for more time to assess the taxable value of homes, businesses and farm-land and file complete land rolls with the Board of Super-visors, despite no language in state law to accommodate the request, according to the

Mississippi Department of Revenue.

The agency is “in conver-sation” with Tax Asses-sor Angela Brown to extend the

process past the first Monday in July, said

Kathy Waterbury, direc-tor of communications for DOR, adding the law “does not allow for an extension of time.”

Assessors in Mississippi “shall complete the assess-ment of both real and per-sonal property and file the roll or rolls with the clerk of the board of supervisors on or before the first Monday

in July of each year,” the law states.

The law calls for Boards of Supervisors in the state to meet on that Monday to start equalizing the rolls, usually over several days, then make tax rolls available for people to view. From there, prop-erty owners have 30 days to formally object to listed appraisals. Supervisors may

accept whatever appraisal the assessor has calculated or review it based on a tax-payer’s objection.

Brown hired three employ-ees last week to coordi-nate homestead filings and process property appraisal figures after all office staff except for Brown retired, quit or were fired since her

tax revenueson beds, mealsgrow in 2011

Chick-fil-A plannedfor Halls Ferry Road

By John [email protected]

The 2011 revenue from tax collected on lodging and food and beverages for the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau was up 9.2 percent from 2010, members of the VCVB’s Board of Directors learned Thursday.

“This was our best year collection-wise,” said VCVB executive director Bill Seratt, adding that the revenue totaled $1.04 million for fiscal 2011, which ended Dec. 31. Tax collections for 2010 totaled $948,898.

The VCVB is funded by a 1 percent tax levied on area hotel, motel and bed and breakfast stays, as well as purchases at bars and restaurants in Vicksburg. Tax revenues reached $1.16 million in 2008, and produced $964,500 in 2009.

Seratt said the collections include

By Danny Barrett [email protected]

Construction will begin in August on a Chick-fil-A restaurant off Halls Ferry Road, company officials said today.

No contractor has been hired, but a building permit application is expected once one is in place, build-ing and inspections director Victor Gray-Lewis said.

Company officials said, however, the outlet that specializes in chicken filets and sandwiches should be open for business a year from now.

For years, talk has circulated across Vicksburg that the popular fast-food restaurant was coming to the city.

It would be the 23rd Chick-fil-A loca-tion in Mississippi. Locations nearest Vicksburg are in Clinton, Flowood and Monroe.

7 of 8 in state positionstake oaths for officesBy Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press

JACKSON — Seven of Mississip-pi’s eight statewide elected officials began their four-year terms Thurs-day, and Republican Gov.-elect Phil Bryant is preparing to take his oath on Tuesday.

New Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves of Flowood said in a brief inaugural speech that he wants to strengthen schools, cut government spending and encourage businesspeople to create jobs.

“We will start by improving the

education attainment level of our students. We have to make sure that we’re providing access to a qual-ity education for all of our people — black, white, rich and poor,” said Reeves, who just completed two terms as treasurer. “We have to improve the early education curric-ulum to get children off to the best start possible. We have to put col-lege within reach of every child who needs it.”

The new slate of officials, elected Nov. 8, includes a rarity for Mis-

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State officials waiting to be inaugurated Thursday are, from left, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Vicksburg native; Attorney General Jim Hood; Treasurer Lynn Fitch; Auditor Stacey Pickering; Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith; and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, a Vicksburg resident.

Georgia Lynn, president of the Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society, pauses to allow an emaciated Great Dane to drink water.

Two puppies found on Possum Hollow Road are caged, awaiting a move to a veterinary office.

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Car found hours after being stolen in cityA vehicle reported stolen

Thursday morning was recovered by Vicksburg police hours later, Capt. Bobby Stewart said.

The 2005 Nissan Murano was found undamaged at 8:06 p.m. at the Ridge Apart-ments, 420 Lake Hill Drive, said Stewart.

It had been reported stolen at 5:53 a.m. from a home in the 100 block of Forest Hill

Circle.

Cash reported stolenfrom unlocked vehicle

An auto burglary was reported Thursday, Capt. Bobby Stewart said.

At 6:44 a.m., $190 was

reported stolen from the center console of an unlocked 2010 GMC Acadia parked in the 100 block of Candlelight Drive.

Two men heldon court orders

A Vicksburg man was jailed Thursday for a pro-bation violation, records showed.

Coleman McKay, 27, 3308 Highland Drive, was being held without bond in the Warren County Jail.

Separately, a Vicksburg man was jailed for a drug court sanction.

Malcolm Wright, 22, 4737 Lee Road, was being held without bond.

crimefrom staff reports

Rhonda Day finishes off the letter L in “Klondyke” while painting a new sign that will read “Klondyke Trading Post 1896” on the front of her establishment Thursday. Day and her husband, David, have been the owners of the Klondyke for six years.

PAINTED UP

Lynn said the animals picked up Thursday were taken because of their physi-cal conditions. The 17 dogs and kittens picked up on Possum Hollow and the three pit bulls on Martin Street were taken to Woodland Animal Hospital in Vicks-burg for examinations and treatment.

Then, all but an emaciated Great Dane, were taken to the humane society shelter, on U.S. 61 South.

Lynn, humane society employee Drew Clempt and sheriff’s Investigator Mike Traxler picked up two ema-ciated Weimaraners, five 4-week-old puppies, and four small dogs, a pit bull and an American bulldog, and three kittens.

The residents of the

Possum Hollow home, Tammy and Allen Rymer, were not home when offi-cials arrived at about 11 a.m. Tammy Rymer arrived about 30 minutes later after she was called by the couple’s 16-year-old son. She declined to comment.

About 3/12 hours later, Lynn, Traxler and Clempt, accompanied by sheriff’s deputies and Vicksburg police, seized three pit bulls believed to be owned by Antonio and Derrick Thomas at the Martin Street home. The court order was served on Tammy Thomas, the Thomases’ cousin, who was listed on the order as the property owner.

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said his office and the humane society

received anonymous calls about the animals on Possum Hollow, a rural gravel road in northern Warren County between Mississippi 3 and Oak Ridge Road. Lynn added her office had received com-plaints about the animals for two weeks.

Pace said deputies took pic-tures of the dogs from the road, and presented them to county prosecuting attorney Ricky Johnson, who got the court order.

“The Great Dane was con-fined by a chain in the yard with no food or water,” Lynn said. “When we were walk-ing to the van, we passed a child’s swimming pool of dirty water and I let him drink. He drank for 4 minutes.”

She said the Great Dane

and the puppies were diag-nosed with an intestinal par-asite that can be fatal if not quickly treated.

The smaller dogs were con-fined to a pen at the rear of the property. She said the dogs had dry food, but no water. Two of them drank from a small bowl of water near the pen after they were placed on leashes and walked out of the pens.

She said the Humane Soci-ety also received anony-mous calls about the pit bulls, which were emaciated and had minor injuries. The males, she said, also had heart and ring worms, and the female is pregnant. All of the dogs had fleas and ticks, she said.

Louisiana aimsto track oyster boats

BATON ROUGE — The state wants to track oyster boats.

On Thursday, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Com-mission proposed setting up a vessel monitoring system for all boats on 1.6 million acres of public seed grounds.

The commission says the technology — the first of its kind in the Gulf of Mexico region — would help offi-cials know what areas are being harvested. More than 700 oyster vessel permits are issued a year.

The units would be pro-vided at no cost. The public can comment on the plan until Feb. 3.

West Monroe manfined for eagle death

MONROE — A 23-year-old West Monroe man has been ordered to pay $2,525 for kill-ing a bald eagle in Franklin Parish last April.

Jeffrey M. Miles also was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Hayes to serve three years of unsupervised probation and has had his hunting privileges revoked for three years.

Miles pleaded guilt Sept. 19 to shooting a mature bald eagle April 4. State wildlife agents found the eagle in a drainage ditch.

Bald eagles are protected by federal laws.

King mackerel seasonopens July 1 in La.

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Wildlife and Fish-eries Commission has set the 2012 commercial king mack-erel season to open on July 1.

The season will remain open until the quota set for the Gulf of Mexico of about 1 million pounds is met.

From 2000 through 2011, Louisiana has landed approx-imately 87 percent of the allotted western Gulf of Mexico quota. In 2011 approx-imately 690,000 pounds were landed in Louisiana. A large portion is shipped to the northeastern United States.

Clarke County manwounded in shooting

QUITMAN, Miss. — The Thursday shooting of a 50-year-old Shubuta man appears to have been the result of a drug deal that went sour, said Clarke County Sheriff Todd Kemp.

Mississippi and Alabama authorities were looking for three men in the shooting, he said, and a black Kia Sorento with an Alabama tag.

David Wayne Hales of Shubuta was treated for his wounds at a hospital, Kemp said.

The sheriff said Hales faces drug charges.

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By Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press

PEARL — Mike Womack said Thursday he will not continue to serve as direc-tor of the Mississippi Emer-gency Management Agency during the Phil Bryant administration.

Bryant will be sworn in as governor at noon Tuesday, succeeding fellow Republi-can Haley Barbour. Womack said Bryant asked him to stay.

“Quite frankly, he needs somebody that can commit to four years and hopefully eight years,” said Womack, 58. “After the last six years, post-Katrina and other chal-lenges we’ve had, I didn’t really feel like it would be fair to him to stay on in the position.”

Womack said he is ready to move on to something with more regular work hours, though he doesn’t have another job lined up.

Womack retired from the National Guard in 2001 and started working at MEMA in 2002. He was interim director in 2006 and named director in December that year.

Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. Mississippi has

had several natural disasters since then, including floods and tornadoes last year.

“This is a difficult decision for me,” Womack said of his departure. “It is a tremen-dously demanding position. It really is a 24-7 job. It needs to be somebody, as Gov. Bar-bour says, has got the fire in the belly to do it. I didn’t want to stay on and not have that same passion.”

Bryant has released few details about people he plans to hire for executive-branch agencies. Among other posi-tions, the governor appoints the directors of MEMA and the Department of Human Services.

Barbour: MEMA folks ‘not whiners, they don’t mope’

By Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press

PEARL — Mississippi’s emergency operations center was named Thursday for departing Gov. Haley Barbour, who said he is sharing the trib-ute with all those who respond to hurricanes, floods and other disasters in the state.

About 100 elected officials, emergency responders and others gathered for a cere-mony at the Mississippi Emer-gency Management Agency headquarters in Pearl. Work-ers pulled back a blue cloth to reveal the new lettering naming it the Haley R. Bar-bour Building.

Legislators voted last year to name the MEMA building for Barbour, who leaves office on Tuesday.

He had been in office a little more than 1 1/2 years when Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, smashing across the Gulf Coast regions of Mis-sissippi and Louisiana.

“We have strong, resilient, self-reliant people, and when we have a bad disaster, a mega-disaster, it brings out the true character and spirit

of Mississippi,” he said at the ceremony. “They’re not whiners, they don’t mope and they’re not looking for a hand-out. They get up, hitch up their britches, and go to work.”

Robert Latham, MEMA’s director during Katrina and the months that followed, said Barbour led Mississippi resi-dents well through a difficult time.

Barbour, in turn, praised his wife, Marsha, for spending

three months in the hard-hit region helping those leading a large-scale recovery effort.

“It is the Haley and Marsha Barbour Center to me,” Bar-bour told those gathered.

Barbour praised not only MEMA officials, but also everyone down to the state’s career and volunteer emer-gency responders.

“In my administration, I’ve been the master of disaster, and we’ve had all kinds of

disasters, almost everything except the plague of locusts,” he said. The state-of-the-art facility opened in 2006.

Barbour said those who work in the building perform a critical service, recalling how they came to the aid of vic-tims of last year’s Mississippi River flooding and a series of destructive tornadoes.

“Those are the kind of people this building exists to help,” he said.

Charter schools, teacher quality business group’s top goalsBy Jeff AmyThe Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Economic Coun-cil wants legislators to expand charter schools, improve teacher quality, recruit more businesses and increase the amount of funding available to entrepreneurs.

The MEC is the state cham-ber of commerce. On Thurs-day the group released its

Blueprint, a set of policy rec-ommendations for lawmakers and other state officials.

Incoming Gov. Phil Bryant and new Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, both Republicans, pledged support for the plan.

Blake Wilson, the head of the business group, said it needs a multi-year commitment.

Mississippi is at the bottom of many national rankings for education, health and other quality-of-life issues. Wilson

told about 500 people at MEC’s Capital Day that they should embrace the state’s achievements.

“We do not own the franchise on failure, ladies and gentle-men,” Wilson said. “For Pete’s sake, let’s stop selling it.”

Reeves expects a number of bills will be drafted in the Leg-islature using the document.

MEC pledged to continu-ously update the plan, hoping others will enact the ideas.

While the business group might lobby for measures, Wilson said the document was a research tool for Bryant.

“It’s going to be the governor who drives the agenda for eco-nomic development in Missis-sippi,” Wilson said.

In a statewide tour roll-ing out the plan, a survey of those who attended showed that a quarter ranked improv-ing education as the most important, followed by about

16 percent whose first prior-ity was improving the state’s pool of workers and another 16 percent who believed the state should strengthen its economy.

Higher Education Commis-sioner Hank Bounds, who led the planning effort, said the top goals are connected.

“If you want to improve the economy in this state, then the first thing you also have to do is improve education.”

Other goals include promot-ing health care and diversity, improving the state’s infra-structure, bettering coordi-nation among public and pri-vate leaders, supporting the state’s creative economy and making more money available for business expansion.

The $1.25 million effort was funded by the economic coun-cil, the Mississippi Partnership for Economic Development and Momentum Mississippi.

Lawsuit: Prep ball playerhazed by older teammatesBy Holbrook MohrThe Associated Press

JACKSON — Members of a south Mississippi high school baseball team participated in a hazing ritual that left one teenager hospitalized after being held from behind and punched in the chest, accord-ing to a lawsuit filed by the player’s parents.

The lawsuit claims that for at least two years, older baseball players at Picayune Memorial High School have routinely singled out younger, smaller players and punched them “violently in the chest” before games.

The lawsuit was filed by Jef-frey Dixon Sr. and Amy Dixon, parents of 15-year-old Jef-frey Dixon Jr. The suit says

the boy suffered a seizure and was hospitalized in April 2011, allegedly after a hazing ritual before Picayune played a home game against Lumber-ton High.

Named as defendants by the lawsuit are the Picayune School District, baseball coach Cayne Stockstill, three team members identified only with initials and 10 John Does. The lawsuit was originally filed Nov. 22 in Pearl River County Circuit Court, but the school district filed motions in late December to have it moved to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The school dis-trict’s filing said, among other things, the plaintiffs’ claims invoke questions of federal law.

Natchez airport gets new lightsNATCHEZ (AP) — The Nat-

chez Airport has new lights to guide pilots.

Airport Manager Clint Pome-roy said the airport received a $120,000 federal grant to replace the lighting in its taxi-way guidance signs.

Pomeroy says the lights let the pilots know where they are on the airport — which taxiway they are on and what direction

to go to find runways.The quartz lighting system

that was previously in place had been in use for about 20 years, and was starting to show signs of age.

Rather than replacing every part of the signs, Pomeroy says sign bodies were still usable, so the airport only replaced the insides with an LED light-ing system.

StAnding FirMJindal opposes proposal to cap college tuition grants

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal said he’ll oppose any efforts to limit grants in the state’s free college tuition program called TOPS, a recommenda-tion backed by a higher edu-cation study panel earlier this week.

The Governance Commis-sion suggested a restructur-ing of TOPS, to give all stu-dents a flat grant amount, capped at the same level for everyone, rather than tied

to the cost of tuition at

an individual school.

“We remain opposed to any efforts to cap TOPS. We think it is an important program

that has been very success-ful,” Jindal said.

Under the idea supported by the Governance Commis-sion, lawmakers could set TOPS awards at two levels, for example, one at commu-

nity colleges and another for four-year schools, with addi-tional stipends continuing for those higher performing students.

Panel members said that “decoupling” would give the state more ability to control the costs of TOPS, formally the Taylor Opportunity Pro-gram for Students, and could give some students money to cover costs beyond tuition, like books and student fees.

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Gov. BobbyJindal

Agency’s directorwon’t be back

Building named foroutgoinggovernor

‘We remain opposed to any efforts to cap TOPS. We think it is an important

program that has been very successful.’BoBBy Jindal

Louisiana governor

gov. Haley Barbour kisses his wife, Marsha, at thursday’s ceremony.

Mike Womack, MEMA director

JACKSON (AP) — A fed-eral judge in Mississippi is giving attorneys for former New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister and

Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. more time to negotiate a settlement in a lawsuit over the football star’s failed Jack-son auto dealership.

A court filing late Thursday said that “because progress was demonstrated” U.S. Mag-istrate Judge Linda Ander-son will allow the settlement

negotiations to continue until March 20. The dealership closed in 2009 and filed for Chapter 7 liquidation under federal bankruptcy law.

Judge gives Deuce McAllister more time in lawsuit

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Saying no to the pro-posed Keystone XL oil pipeline across the Great Plains states would not change the demand for oil by one barrel nor would it lessen the impact of get-ting that oil out of the tar sands of Canada’s Alberta province.

Despite the promise of alternative fuels and more fuel-efficient vehicles and our need to develop them, demand for oil will remain high for several decades yet, even in the most optimistic projec-tions, here and in places such as China and India. And given that demand and the Canadian govern-ment’s position, that oil is going to come out of the ground and be sent some-where. What’s in question is where.

Building the pipeline does at least two things: It will provide thousands of new jobs in the con-struction of the pipeline and many more thou-sands in ancillary jobs,

and it provides a reli-able supply of oil from a friendly neighbor. What’s a better supply line of oil? Tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz or a pipeline that goes through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma to refineries in Texas?

The pipeline already has gone through three years of review, and two envi-ronmental impact stud-ies have been done on the route; the State Depart-ment, which is conducting the review, has said there is no significant environ-mental risk.

But in the debate over the project, which became a bargaining chip in recent negotiations between Republicans and the Obama administra-tion, exaggerated claims have been made by both sides. TransCanada, the company that owns the project, has claimed that it will create 20,000 new jobs. The actual figure, according to independent

estimates, is probably closer to 10,000 to 13,000.

For their part, environ-mentalists argue that drawing all the oil from Canada’s tar sands means “game over” for climate change. But building the pipeline does not mean all the oil has to be with-drawn, nor does it pre-clude development of alternative fuel sources or developing technol-ogy to withdraw the oil more cleanly. And even in the worst-case scenario, extraction of all the oil in the tar sands would take so many years that any impact on climate change would be gradual, accord-ing to other experts.

If the pipeline is not built, the oil will be shipped to the west by pipeline, train, truck or barge and then across oceans on tankers. That’s not a safer route.

The safest thing to do is to build a pipeline and create the jobs and fuel security the nation needs.

120 YEARS AGO: 1892A jingle party is held at the home of Mrs. Harrod, Locust Street. • Capt. P.J. Jays dies at his home in Issaquena County. • S.W. Phil-lips, clerk of the steamer Chattahoochie, is seriously ill. • Robert Johnson, levee contrac-tor, is in the city.

110 YEARS AGO: 1902Luther Manship is in the city. • Mrs. W.K. McLaurin, who has been ill, is much improved. • Justice of the Peace John W. Powell is critically ill. • W.E. Perry of Chicago and W.A. Matthews of Memphis are guests of Maj. Wade Quackenboss.

100 YEARS AGO: 1912The steamer S.B. Duncan, valued at $24,000, burns here. • Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rodgers of Greenville are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rigby. • Nettie Gusdorfer returns from New Orleans. • Mrs. Richard Griffith returns from Oklahoma City.

90 YEARS AGO: 1922Mrs. T.E. Kirkland, ill with pneumonia, is slightly improved. • Charles Rafferty is now with Charles Isaacs & Co. • Ethel Spengler takes charge of the china department at O’Neill-McNamara Co. • Joe Mondelli’s barn and its contents are destroyed by fire.

80 YEARS AGO: 1932Charles Crook is given the Silver Beaver Award at the Boys Scouts Court of honor. • Sailor Watkins beats Hansen in a savage wrestling match.

70 YEARS AGO: 1942Lt. Col. S.D. Sturgis, Vicksburg district engi-neer, says expansion of Mississippi air bases at Greenville, Jackson and Meridian is con-templated. • Mrs. Myrtle McGraw accepts

a position with the Civil Service Commis-sion in Washington, D.C. • Lt. B.W. LaHatte returns to his Army station after visiting his parents here.

60 YEARS AGO: 1952Allen Maxwell celebrates his fourth birth-day with a party at his home. • Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Neill arrive here from New Orleans to visit relatives. • Mrs. Mary Ann Barker receives her bachelor of arts degree from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.

50 YEARS AGO: 1962Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lucchesi announce the birth of a son on Jan. 14. • Dr. and Mrs. H.T. Long Jr. announce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth, on Jan. 17.

40 YEARS AGO: 1972The Vicksburg school board votes not to con-solidate the district’s high schools. • Presi-dent Nixon’s proposed budget asks for $5 million to continue flood control work in Mis-sissippi and Louisiana, including $2.8 million for the Yazoo Backwater Project and $100,000 for the Muddy Bayou Control Structure.

30 YEARS AGO: 1982Two pages of photos show ice and snow in Vicksburg. • Bennie E. Huell dies. • Services are held for Roger Green.

20 YEARS AGO: 1992Daniel Kirkwood Fordice Jr. of Vicksburg takes the oath of office as Mississippi’s 61st governor. • Elizabeth Hutchinson Daniels dies.

10 YEARS AGO: 2002The city scraps plans to buy high-tech devices to track locations of Vicksburg’s police officers. Scouts Chris Talley and Jona-than Sellers are presented their Eagle Badge.

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Q: Not a question; an obser-vation. You and other finan-cial writ-ers are ignoring state gift tax laws when discuss-ing this matter.

For instance, Tennessee has only a $10,000 annual gift tax exemption per donor. Beyond that, there is gift tax payable,

albeit not as high as the fed-eral rate. — James, via e-mail

A: Thank you very much for writing. Your observation is completely accurate. In many states there would be no addi-tional tax, but in some it is true there would be, and the donor might want to reconstruct the gifting to avoid the state gift tax. In any case, you’ve made a valuable contribution, and I’m appreciative.

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Obama turns eye toward Asiain plan to bolster U.S. security

WASHINGTON (AP) — In recasting his defense strategy, President Barack Obama is looking beyond the wars he inherited to focus on Asian security risks — mainly China and North Korea — that took a back seat to Iraq and Afghanistan.

This marks a turning point not only for the U.S. military but also for Obama, entering the final year of his White House term. Facing a re-elec-tion battle, he is declaring suc-cess in Iraq and Afghanistan and taking a forward-looking stance on the how to preserve U.S. military pre-eminence.

A prominent theme of the new strategy that Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta unveiled Thursday is what Panetta has called a renewed commitment to asserting America’s position in the Asia-Pacific region.

“This region is growing in importance to the future of the United States economy and our national security,” Panetta said. “This means, for instance, improving capa-bilities that maintain our mili-tary’s technological edge and freedom of action.”

The admin-istration is not antici-pating mil-i tary con-flict in Asia, but Panetta believes the U.S. got so

bogged down in Iraq and

Afghanistan after 9/11 that it missed chances to improve its strategic position in other regions. He has yet to visit China as Pentagon chief but is expected to go as early as this spring.

The new strategy also identi-fied India as a long-term stra-tegic partner that can serve as a regional economic anchor and provider of security in the Indian Ocean region. And it said the U.S. will try to keep the peace on the Korean peninsula by working with allies and others in Asia to defend against North Korean provocations.

The eight-page document highlights the administra-tion’s efforts to deepen its engagement in the increas-ingly prosperous Asia-Pacific through diplomacy, trade and

security ties.“All of the trends — demo-

graphic trends, geopolitical trends, economic trends and military trends — are shifting toward the Pacific,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, standing alongside Obama and Panetta in the Pentagon briefing room. “So our stra-tegic challenges in the future will largely emanate out of the Pacific region.”

America views its military presence as key to ensuring Asian stability and the free flow of commerce, although it is a source of tension with China, which sees its military buildup as commensurate with its rise as a global power. Lurking in the background is the threat of China taking mil-itary action to force Taiwan to reunite with the mainland — a move that could draw the U.S. into the conflict.

Even as the Pentagon’s focus shifts more toward Asia, Panetta said it would keep a close eye on the Mideast, where major problems persist, including the threat of increas-ing instability in Iraq now that U.S. troops have left.

Obama administration mullschange in immigration rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are sep-arated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Currently, illegal immigrants must leave the country before they can ask the government to waive a three- to 10-year

ban on legally coming back to the U.S.

The length of the ban depends on how long they have lived in the U.S. without permission.

The official said the new rule would let children and spouses of citizens ask the government to decide on the waiver request before the ille-gal immigrant heads to his or her home country to apply for a visa.

IRS: Audit rate for wealthy risesWASHINGTON (AP) — If

you earn less than $200,000 a year, there’s a strong chance you don’t have to worry about an Internal Revenue Service audit. But if you make more than $1 million annually, the odds have been rising that you’ll be hearing from the tax man.

The IRS released figures Thursday showing that 12 percent of millionaire earners were audited last year. That’s up from 8 percent in 2010 and 6 percent in 2009. The data shows that for those making under $200,000, the rate has stayed steady at around 1 per-cent in recent years.

IRS officials said the growing audit rate for high earners is aimed at demonstrating that the tax code is being enforced fairly and is unrelated to Pres-ident Barack Obama’s recent proposals to boost taxes on the rich. The White House and congressional Democrats are expected to continue taking similar populist stances with the approach of this Novem-ber’s presidential and con-gressional elections.

Overall, the agency says, it audited nearly 1.6 million of 141 million individual returns in 2011, or just over 1 percent. That rate has been growing gradually and is almost double

the 0.6 percent audited in 2001, the IRS said.

Only about a quarter of IRS’ audits involve dreaded meet-ings between taxpayers and agency officials. The rest are carried out using letters.

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Stocks downdespite strongDecemberjobs report

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell early today despite a gov-ernment report that the unem-ployment rate dropped in December to the lowest level in nearly three years.

Concerns about the Euro-pean debt crisis continued to weigh on the market. Ita-ly’s borrowing costs spiked to dangerously high levels and the euro fell to a 17-month low against the dollar. U.S. bank stocks fell on concerns that the debt crisis will spread through the financial industry.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 79 points, or 0.6 percent, to 12,336 in the first two hours of trading.

Europe’s debt woes and Chi-na’s slowing economy are still overshadowing signs of strength in the U.S. economy, said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at ING Investment Management.

“The global risks continue to exert their weight,” Cote said. Ultimately, improving U.S. stronger consumer demand, manufacturing activity and corporate profits will drive U.S. stocks higher, Cote said.

The Labor Department said the unemployment rate fell last month to 8.5 percent, while U.S. employers added a net 200,000 jobs.

It was the latest in a series of positive signs about the labor market. The economy has generated 100,000 or more jobs each month for the past six, the longest such streak since April 2006. The number of people applying for jobless benefits last week fell, push-ing the four-week average of new claims down to its lowest level since June 2008.

In other trading, the Stan-dard & Poor’s 500 index fell 7, or 0.6 percent, to 1,273. The Nasdaq composite index fell 11, or 0.4 percent, to 2,659.

The euro lost 0.6 percent to $1.2724, its weakest since July 2010. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.96 per-cent from 2 percent late Thurs-day as investors put money into low-risk investments.

Stocks held steady in Europe despite the latest worrying signs about the debt crisis there. Italy’s borrowing costs are soaring; it is now paying 7.09 percent to borrow for 10 years. That reflects investors’ fears that the nation might default. Ireland and Portugal were forced to take bailouts when their ten-year borrowing rates rose above 7 percent.

Earlier, Asian markets ended mostly lower as they reacted to the previous day’s Euro-pean market jitters.

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Mostly cloudy tonight, chance of rain, lows in the lower 50s; mostly cloudy Saturday, chance of rain,

highs in the lower 70s

52°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSSETTSATuRdAy

72°

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 FORECASTSaturday-Sunday Mostly cloudy Saturday

night, chance of rain, lows in the lower 50s; mostly

cloudy Sunday, highsin the lower 70s

STATE FORECASTtOnIGHt

Mostly cloudy, chance of rain, lows in the lower 50s

Saturday-SundayMostly cloudy Saturday

night, chance of rain, lows in the lower 50s; mostly

cloudy Sunday, highsin the lower 70s

ALmAnACHIGHS and LOwS

High/past 24 hours............. 63ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 40ºAverage temperature ........ 52ºNormal this date .................. 47ºRecord low .............10º in 1886Record high ...........79º in 1949

raInfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month ............... 0.0 inchesTotal/year ............. 00.00 inchesNormal/month .....1.12 inchesNormal/year ..........1.12 inches

SOLunar tabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Saturday:A.M. Active ........................... 2:09A.M. Most active ................ 8:22P.M. Active ............................ 2:34P.M. Most active ................. 8:47

SunrISe/SunSetSunset today ....................... 5:11Sunset tomorrow .............. 5:12Sunrise tomorrow ............. 7:05

RIVER DATAStaGeS

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 34.9 | Change: -0.3Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 22.6 | Change: -0.5

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City


Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 22.3 | Change: -0.4

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West


Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 11.0 | Change: -2.0

Flood: 28 feet

SteeLe bayOuLand ...................................82.8River ...................................82.5

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Saturday ................................ 33.7Sunday ................................... 31.4Monday ................................. 29.1

MemphisSaturday ................................ 20.7Sunday ................................... 19.6Monday ................................. 18.0

GreenvilleSaturday ................................ 38.8Sunday ................................... 38.7Monday ................................. 38.5

VicksburgSaturday ................................ 35.1Sunday ................................... 35.0Monday ................................. 34.9

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DEATHSLela Faye Bland

HAZLEHURST — Lela Faye Bland died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, at her home. She was 68.

Mrs. Bland was a cafete-ria worker at Wesson Atten-dance Center. She was a member of New Providence Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Jazy and Lessie Maher; her brother, Edgar Maher; and a husband, John Shirley Ahrend Jr.

Survivors include her husband, Ira Lee Bland Jr. of Hazlehurst; three sons, Michael Bland of Pearl, Jay Bland of Hazlehurst and Brand Bland of Winona; a daughter, Brenda Ahrend Cranfield; three brothers, Jazy L. “Red” Maher Jr. and Joe T. Maher, both of Hazle-hurst, and Eddie Maher of Brookhaven; four sis-ters, Patricia G. Hatcher of Port Gibson, Mary J. Watts of Vidalia, Elaine Smith of Brookhaven and Joyce Cock-rell of Vicksburg; and five grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at New Providence Baptist Church. Visitation will be tonight from 5 until 8 at the church. Burial will follow at the church cem-etery under the direction of Community Funeral Ser-vice with assistance from Riverwood Family Funeral Service.

dorothy Mae HallSILSBEE, Texas — Doro-

thy Mae Hall, formerly of Rolling Fork, died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, at her home in Silsbee. She was 55.

She is survived by two daughters, Areka Hall of

Jackson and Olivia Hall of Silsbee; a son, Travis L. Hall of Silsbee; a nephew she reared, Jeremiah Jackson of Silsbee; her mother, Lillie Mae Powell of Rolling Fork; five brothers, Curtis Hall of Fairfield, Calif., Sammie Lee Powell of Chicago and Jerry Powell, Larry Powell and Bobby Joe Powell, all of Cary; two sisters, Velma Marie Warren and Shirley Marie Powell, both of Rolling Fork; and six grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mount Lula M.B. Church in Rolling Fork with Pastor Danly Price offi-ciating. Burial will follow at Elmwood Cemetery in Roll-ing Fork. A wake service will be from 5 until 6 tonight at Walker Funeral Home in Rolling Fork.

david Joe NelsonGREENVILLE — David

Joe Nelson died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville. He was 67.

Mr. Nelson is survived by three brothers, James Nelson of St. Louis and Leonard Nelson and Rodger Nelson, both of Anguilla; and four sisters, Classie Davis of St. Louis, Shirley Woods of Rolling Fork, Ruby Buck of Greenville and Gloria Nelson of Norman, Okla.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Rosehill M.B. Church in Anguilla with Pastor James Grey offici-ating. Burial will follow at Anguilla Cemetery under the direction of Walker Funeral Home of Rolling Fork.

Margaret Gray RamseyServices for Margaret

Gray Ramsey will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at Vicksburg City Auditorium. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Ceme-tery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Saturday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home

and Sunday at the audito-rium from 10 a.m. until the service.

Mrs. Ramsey died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, at her home.

She was 64.She was a

member of Mount Zion M.B. Church, Eagle Lake, where

she served as Pastor’s Aid secretary and assistant to the church secretary. She was a member of the Rosa A. Temple Class of 1967.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Rubena Gray; her maternal grandparents, Abraham and Elena Slaugh-ter; and her paternal grand-parents, Charlie and Mim Gray.

Survivors include a daugh-ter, Lee Ann Gray-Moore of Jackson; her father, Dave Gray Sr. of Vicksburg; five brothers, Dave Gray Jr., Eddie Lee Gray, Steve B. Gray and Charlie Gray, all of Vicksburg, and Albert Gray of DeKalb, Ill.; four sis-

ters, Rubena K. Washington, Artia G. Jackson and Rosie Gray Maxwell, all of Vicks-burg, and Stacy B. Ervin of Portland, Ore.; two grand-children; and aunts, uncles, friends and other relatives, including members of the Slaughter, Brooks, Ervin, Epps, Bailey, Logan, Murphy, Gray, Mayfield and Cox families.

Nov. 8 election. Brown outpo-lled three opponents, includ-ing former field appraiser Ben Luckett, one of three dis-missed last week.

Officials from the Hum-phreys County Tax Asses-sor’s Office have tutored the new employees this week. Former assessor Richard Holland and former deputy assessor Jim Agent retired at the end of 2011; both had announced their decisions a year ago.

Also, the state agency expects to advise the office on contracting out certain functions of the office. Brown

has said she has sent a letter to DOR asking for guid-ance to that effect. Boards of supervisors or county tax assessors may hire a private consultant to appraise prop-erty in Mississippi. No public request for such proposals has been made in Warren County this week.

Contracting out certain functions of tax assessors’ offices is commonplace across the state, Waterbury said.

“A number of smaller coun-ties don’t have sufficient staff to do this,” Waterbury said.

When directed by either

county boards or assessors, state law says private firms must have at least five years’ experience in appraising land, homes, businesses and personal property, which are assets not fixed to land such as inventory held by busi-nesses. A contractor also must be a certified appraiser and hold an assessment eval-uator designation before a bid is placed, the law says. Such programs are admin-istered by DOR, the Center for Governmental Technol-ogy at Mississippi State Uni-versity and the Mississippi Assessors and Collectors

Association. Appraising real property

is contracted out by 53 of the state’s 82 counties, while 59 hire outside firms to appraise personal property, according to DOR. Sixty counties out-source mapping, according to DOR. Proposals are pending in Warren County for new digital photos for tax-map-ping purposes.

A private firm appraises personal property in Rankin County. Hinds and Madi-son counties do everything in-house. In Copiah County, mapping and personal prop-erty is handled by an out-

side firm, but real property is done in-house. Claiborne, Issaquena and Yazoo con-tract all three functions.

DOR does not recom-mend a specific contractor when counties ask for help, but provides guidelines and information on what educa-tion and certifications that qualified contractors must meet, Waterbury said.

About 25 to 30 qualified con-tractors appraise property in Mississippi.

sissippi — two women hold-ing statewide office at once. Lynn Fitch of Madison begins her first term as treasurer, and Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith of Brookhaven begins her first term as agriculture commissioner.

The last time Mississippi had two women in elected office at once was 1968-72, when Demo-crat Evelyn Gandy of Hatties-burg was in her second term as treasurer and Julia H. Kendrick was clerk of the state Supreme Court. The clerk’s job since has been switched from elected to appointed.

The state House cham-ber Thursday was standing-room-only for the swearing in of Reeves, Fitch, Hyde-Smith, Attorney General Jim Hood, Sec-retary of State Delbert Hose-mann, Auditor Stacey Pickering and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney.

Hood, starting his third term, is the only Democrat holding state-wide office.

Hosemann, Pickering and Chaney are beginning second

terms.Bryant’s single term as lieu-

tenant governor ended when Reeves took the oath of office.

“I understand I will be unem-ployed for about four days,” Bryant deadpanned Thursday while speaking to state busi-ness leaders. “I considered going hunting.”

Instead, Bryant said he’ll stay in the Jackson area and continue working on his transition.

Reeves was accompanied Thursday by his wife, Elee, and their two young daughters. He also announced that he and Elee are expecting a third daughter on Feb. 29.

Two-term Republican Gov. Haley Barbour sat among law-makers on the House floor during the ceremony.

At a pre-inaugural prayer meeting at Galloway United Methodist Church near the Capi-tol in downtown Jackson, min-isters from several faiths called on the officials to show strength and unity.

“My prayer for you is that you will work together even when

it is difficult ... even when the temptation is to go it alone,” said the Rev. Mike O’Brien of Saint Richard Catholic Church in Jackson.

The prayer meeting was hosted by the Federation of Republican Women. Statewide elected offi-cials and their families attended, except for Reeves who had an earlier prayer breakfast and Bryant who was at the Capitol.

The ministers urged officials to pray together, work together and build the future of Mississippi together.

“My promise is to pray for you often and in earnest ... as you lead our state,”’ said Randy Turner, pastor of First Baptist Church in Laurel.

Jim Genesse, senior pastor at Madison United Methodist Church, urged officials to be uni-fied in their goals and deeds.

“You are all united in serving the people of Mississippi. What unites you will be stronger than those things that tend to divide you,” he said.

overnight stays from both tourism and business travelers, including workers employed on projects at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Claiborne County, who book rooms and stays at local hotels for the duration of the projects.

Grand Gulf is expected to begin an upgrade proj-ect in February, he said.

He said the tax also benefited from the 2011 spring flood, when visitors to Vicksburg came to see the rising water as the Mississippi River rose to record heights, cresting at 57.1 feet at Vicks-burg, or 14.1 feet above flood stage and nine-tenths of a foot above the Great Flood of 1927.

“They came to see history being made,” he said, adding that while most visitors didn’t stay, “they bought gas and ate.”

In another matter, VCVB board chairman Annette Kirklin said after the meeting that the VCVB expects to move into its new offices at the old Levee Street Depot by Feb. 1. The board dis-cussed the visitors bureau’s lease with the city, which is in negotiations, in executive session. Kirklin would not discuss the lease except to say that it was reviewed by the board and was being sent to the city. The VCVB is leasing office space on the depot’s second floor.

Under a letter of understanding with the city in 2009, the VCVB agreed to pay the city $500 a month rent and contribute $150,000 toward the city’s match of a $1.65 million Mississippi Depart-ment of Transportation grant to renovate the building.

The board in August discussed possibly backing off from leasing the space, but changed its mind after touring the depot in early September.

In other action, the board:• Approved a $5,000 grant for advertising for the

Alcorn State University National Alumni Asso-ciation for its national midwinter conference in Vicksburg, Feb. 23 to 26.

• Approved the October board minutes.• Approved the financial reports for October and

November.• Approved the executive director’s report.• Learned that 4,592 people visited the visitor

information centers in October, 331 more than during October 2010. The centers saw 3,240 visi-tors in November, 592 more than in November 2010.

The Atlanta-based company operates 1,272 locations nation-wide, including 938 freestand-ing stores, 29 drive-through-only restaurants and 214 licensed outlets at airports, universities, hospitals and other businesses, according to its website.

Recognized for its ad campaign starring cows that ask people

to “Eat Mor Chikin,” the chain sponsors the opening game of the college football season, a postseason game in Atlanta, formerly the Peach Bowl, and numerous charity events.

Dirt work on the long-delayed strip center is expected to start this month, weather permitting, said Jim Eichenberger, a leas-

ing agent for Yazoo City-based Action Properties LLC, which took over the center last May. No tenants have been announced. The firm’s commercial space in Mississippi and Arkansas is leased to sporting goods, elec-tronics outlets, restaurants and banks.

Margaret GrayRamsey


Syria: Suicide bomber kills 11 in DamascusDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) —

An explosion ripped through a busy intersection in the Syrian capital today, hitting a police bus and killing at least 11 people and possibly many more in an attack that left pools of blood in the streets and marked the second deadly attack in the capital in as many weeks, Syrian authori-ties said.

Interior Minister Moham-med Shaar blamed a suicide bomber for the blast, which comes exactly two weeks after twin bombings in the capital killed 44 people. The bomb-ings mark a dramatic esca-lation of bloodshed as Arab League observers tour the country to investigate Presi-dent Bashar Assad’s bloody crackdown on a 10-month-old

popular revolt.“He detonated himself with

the aim of killing the larg-est number of people,” Shaar said.

Syrian television showed residents and paramedics car-rying human remains, holding them up for the camera. Other footage showed a police bus with blood on its seats, and cars with blown-out windows

and riddled with shrapnel.An Associated Press reporter

at the scene said the blast also damaged a nearby police sta-tion, shattering its glass, and that there was blood and flesh in the streets. .

Shaar said 11 people have been confirmed dead. Authori-ties believe another 14 were also killed, based on human remains from the scene, which

would bring the death toll to 25, state TV said. More than 60 people were wounded.

In a sign of just how polar-ized Syria has become, the opposition has questioned the government’s allegations that terrorists are behind the attacks — suggesting the regime itself could have been behind the violence to try to erode support for the uprising

and show the observer team that it is a victim in the coun-try’s upheaval.

The government has long contended that the turmoil in Syria this year is not an upris-ing but the work of terrorists and foreign-backed armed gangs.

A Syrian official said the target of the attack appeared to be a bus carrying policemen.

Rivals say Romneytoo timid, moderateto win presidency

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Mobilizing against Republi-can presidential front-runner Mitt Romney as too timid and too moderate, the rest of the GOP field is exhorting Repub-licans to do themselves a favor and nominate a more conser-vative standard-bearer who has a better chance of holding up against President Barack Obama.

“The only way Republi-cans lose is if we screw this up and nomi-nate another moderate who has taken mul-tiple positions on every major issue of our time,” former Pennsylva-nia Sen. Rick Santorum told supporters in urgent fund-raising appeal this morning.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was up early to con-tinue the anti-Romney drum-beat, predicting on morning TV news shows that Romney can’t win the nomination and saying that even if he did, his performance against Obama in the general election cam-paign debates would get little more than a laugh from the president.

Gingrich, speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” said Romney would win New Hampshire but that one of the ex-Massachusetts governor’s GOP rivals “will eventually emerge as the conservative alternative.”

Romney had harsh words of his own, but for Obama, whom he called a “crony capitalist” and “a job killer.”

Romney was heavily favored to win Tuesday’s New Hamp-shire primary, so much so

that he was campaigning for a second day in South Car-olina, where voters weren’t due to cast primary ballots for two weeks. He was scheduled to appear today with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, two local favorites who have

urged conser-vatives to sup-port Romney as the GOP’s nominee.

Santorum, who pul led within a hand-ful of votes to place just behind Romney in Iowa’s cau-c u s e s , wa s

likely to find a welcome audi-ence among South Carolina conservatives and so remained in New Hampshire to try to maintain the momentum he earned from Iowa. Jon Hunts-man, who bypassed Iowa to bet his campaign on a good finish in New Hampshire, was showing off an endorsement by The Boston Globe, Rom-ney’s hometown paper.

Romney benefited hand-somely from having several rivals split the vote in Iowa, where his winner’s share was roughly 25 percent.

Gingrich unveiled a new TV commercial aimed at voters in New Hampshire and South Carolina that cited one review of Romney’s jobs program as timid and nearly identical in part to the president’s.

“Timid won’t create jobs. And timid certainly won’t defeat Barack Obama,” the ad said.

Pope Benedict XVI names 22 new cardinalsVATICAN CITY (AP) —

Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals today, including prelates in such key posts as New York and Hong Kong and a large group of Ital-ians holding major Vatican positions.

Cardinals are the pope’s top advisers, the elite group of churchmen who will eventually elect Benedict’s successor. Of the 22, 18 are under the age of 80 — raising to 125 the number of cardinals eligible to vote in the next papal conclave. Cardinals older than 80 are not allowed to vote on the next pope.

Other new cardinals come from Berlin, Prague, Toronto and Florence, Italy.

The Vatican officials include a Brazilian prelate who heads the office for Consecrated Life.

The pope announced the names “with great joy” fol-lowing an Epiphany Mass that ended the Vatican’s main

Christmas celebrations. He said they will be formally ele-vated at a Feb. 18 ceremony in Rome.

The list includes two Amer-icans: Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York and Arch-bishop Edwin O’Brien, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the former archbishop of Baltimore.

Belarus tightens grip on InternetMINSK, Belarus (AP) —

Belarus’ authoritarian gov-ernment further tightened its control over citizens’ access to Internet today with a new law that obliges service providers to monitor users.

Reporters without Borders, the media rights watchdog, condemned the new law in the former Soviet republic as the latest “stage in the gov-ernment’s escalating control of the Internet, adding new

weapons of repression.”Belarus’ authoritarian Pres-

ident Alexander Lukashenko, who Western rights group have called “Europe’s last dic-tator,” has been in office since 1994, consistently suppressing

opposition and cracking down on independent media.

The amendments bar busi-nessmen from using outside Internet resources such as online stores registered out-side the country.

NASA probes commander’s right to sell checklistMIAMI (AP) — NASA is

questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten cal-culations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.

The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in Novem-ber for more than $388,000, s o m e 1 5 times its ini-tial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dra-matic scene in the 1995 film “Apollo 13” in which actor Tom Hanks plays Lovell making the calculations.

After the sale, NASA con-tacted Lovell and Heritage to ask whether Lovell had title to the checklist. Greg Rohan, president of Dallas-based Her-itage, said Thursday the sale has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry. The checklist, he said, is being stored for now in the compa-ny’s vault.

Rohan said Lovell provided a signed affidavit that he had clear title to the ring-bound checklist, which is standard procedure. Heritage does robust business in space mem-orabilia and has worked with many former astronauts, he

added.“It’s one that is near and dear

to our hearts,” Rohan said of the space collectibles busi-ness. “We, like a lot of people, consider these astronauts to be national heroes.”

The Apollo 13 moon mission

was aborted about 200,000 miles from Earth when an oxygen tank exploded on April 13, 1970, causing another tank to fail and seriously jeopardiz-ing the three-man crew’s abil-ity to return home. Astronaut Jack Swigert famously said

“Houston, we’ve had a prob-lem here” after the explosion, according to a NASA history of the flight.

The crew was forced to move into the lunar landing module for the return flight.

Lovell’s calculations on the checklist were key in transfer-ring navigation data from the command craft to the lunar module.

In an e-mail to Heritage, NASA Deputy Chief Counsel Donna M. Shafer said there appeared to be “nothing to indicate” that the agency had ever transferred ownership of the checklist to Lovell.

“Only NASA has the author-ity to clear NASA property for sale,” Shafer said in the email, which was provided by NASA to The Associated Press.

Lovell, 83, who lives near Chicago and owns a restau-rant bearing his name in Lake Forest, Ill., did not immedi-ately respond to a telephone message left Thursday with his assistant.

NASA has also raised ques-tions about title rights for two items Heritage had sold from Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Sch-weikart: a lunar module iden-tification plate that brought more than $13,000 and a hand controller bid at $22,705.

The space agency also tar-geted a fourth item, a hand glove worn by Alan Shepard during training for Apollo 14 that brought more than $19,000.

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WhO’S hOTTAbITHA HAYDENVicksburg High soccerplayer scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Warren Central on Thursday.

SIdElINESOle Miss dismissesNelson from team

OXFORD (AP) — Ole Miss scoring leader Dun-drecous Nelson has been dismissed from the bas-ketball team for a “viola-tion of team rules” a day after he was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia by the Oxford Police Depart-ment.

The 5-foot-11 guard from Murrah High in Jackson averaged 11.6 points and led the team with 20 steals. Back-up guard Jamal Jones also was dismissed. The 6-foot-8 guard aver-aged 1.8 points over five games.

“We’re all disappointed that this had to happen,” Kennedy told The Associ-ated Press. “But there’s a standard that has to be met to stay in this pro-gram. The fact that we had to take our most harsh disciplinary step speaks to the seriousness of the situation.”

According to the arrest affidavit, Nelson stated under oath he “unlawfully and willfully used para-phernalia to ingest or inhale a controlled sub-stance.”

Nelson was booked into the Lafayette County De-tention Center, where he was released on bond. He is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 25.

Nelson’s departure means a large chunk of playing time is suddenly available in the Ole Miss backcourt.

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Missy Gators dispatch lady Vikes

By Jeff [email protected]

The powerful leg of Tabitha Hayden gave Vicksburg High a big win over archrival Warren Central Thursday night at Memorial Stadium.

Hayden blasted two first-half goals and the Missy Gators defense made it stand up for a 2-1 win. The vic-tory was a big lift for Vicks-burg’s playoff hopes while Warren Central (8-6-2, 1-1 Division 3-6A) faces a must-win situation when the two teams meet again Tuesday at Viking Stadium.

Missy Gators coach Kori Babb credited Hayden and goalkeeper Robin Cooper, who kept the Lady Vikes off the board for the last 58 min-utes of the match.

“T.T. (Hayden) made some amazing shots and Robin made some great saves,” Babb said. “The girls played their hearts out.”

Babb added that the Missy Gators got some positive car-ryover from Tuesday’s solid game in a 2-1 loss at Clinton.

“It definitely helped us,” Babb said. “Warren Cen-tral hadn’t played since the break, while we were able to improve on some areas we needed to work out.”

One area where Vicks-burg (6-6, 1-2 3-6A) shines is Hayden. Her first goal, which came at the 13:45 mark in the first half, came from 35 yards out. Eight minutes later, she rocketed another one from 40 yards.

“When I’m out there play-ing, I’m thinking about how we’re doing as a group,” Hayden said. “We’ve worked hard and our plan is to win again Tuesday and go to the playoffs.”

Warren Central coach Trey Banks said his team had a pair of defensive lapses at the wrong time.

“Against T.T., you have to close down quick on her,” Banks said. “We didn’t and she took advantage. I

thought Vicksburg played an outstanding game and got the result they needed.”

Because the Lady Vikes have yet to play Clinton, they have a lot of soccer left, but the focus is on Tues-day’s rematch with the Missy Gators.

“We looked at this as two halves,” Banks said. “The second half for us is Tuesday night.”

In the second half Thurs-day, WC had three golden chances to get a tying goal. Just minutes into the half, the Lady Vikes forged a scrum in front of the Vicks-burg’s goal. Two shots were deflected away and Vicks-burg was able to clear.

Six minutes later off a corner kick, Lindsey Barfield had a header that went over the bar.

With under four minutes to play, WC’s Lindsey Burris unleashed a strong kick from the center at 30 yards. Cooper reacted in time to

knock it away.“I just had to figure out

where it was going, and just go for it,” Cooper said of the save. It was one of seven in the game.

The Lady Vikes finished with 13 shots to Vicksburg’s 11. WC’s lone goal came with 19:53 left in the first half on a right crosser from Taylor Hanes.

(B) Warren Central 2, Vicksburg 0

The Vikings needed a half to shake off a near three-week layoff from their last game. Oscar Kjellberg’s goal with 8:09 left in the match finally put away the Gators in the Division 3-6A contest at Memorial Stadium.

Warren Central (11-3-2, 2-0) moves into a tie for first place in the division with Clinton. Vicksburg remained winless

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Warren Central defender Kylee burke and Vicksburg for-ward Maya Thomas jockey for possession of the ball during

a game Thursday at Memorial Stadium. Vicksburg won 2-1 and the two teams meet again Tuesday night.

Warren Central defender Christopher Kurtz is pursued by Vicksburg forward Dennis Clark during a game Thursday. WC won 2-0.

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ground game pays immediate dividends for Saints offenseBy Brett MartelThe Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Lost in all the gaudy, record-break-ing numbers Drew Brees puts up in the Saints’ pass-ing game is the fact that New Orleans’ running game isn’t half bad.

In fact, the Saints wound up ranked sixth in the NFL in rushing, an eyebrow-rais-ing statistic even for Brees himself.

“Typically, I’d say when you look at an offense, it would probably be hard to be top 10 passing and rushing because

there are only so many plays in a game and so you’re run-ning it more you’re throw-ing it more,” Brees said. “It’s great that we’ve been able to sustain the efficiency in both and create for the other, especially when you look at the overall yardage, both passing and rushing. It’s pretty unique.”

While the Saints led the

NFL in passing with 467 yards per game, they aver-aged 133 yards on the ground, which was better than 26 other teams, despite the fact that the Saints attempted a pass on 61 per-cent of their plays (662 pass attempts and 441 rushes out of 1,093 total regular-season plays).

New Orleans won’t be able to hand the ball to rookie running back Mark Ingram, who will miss the playoffs because of his toe injury, but the Saints still have ample depth at the position with Darren Sproles, Pierre

Thomas and Chris Ivory all suiting up Saturday night for the playoff opener against the Detroit Lions.

“We’ve got a great group of guys with different skills,” Thomas said. “You hit ‘em with a three-headed combination.

“When we’re out there and going against a defense it’s hard for them to really read and feel each and every one of us out there because we have different, unique styles of running the ball,” Thomas continued. “What I love about our rotation is we’re always keeping fresh legs.”

The result is a ground game that gives the Saints’ offense balance as needed, even if there aren’t any run-ning backs on the roster boasting the kind of individ-ual stats that can generate a buzz in this age of fantasy football.

“You have to get over 100 yards (a game) for people to really notice or recog-nize the things you’re really doing,” Ivory said after prac-tice Wednesday, adding that those who don’t watch every Saints game “can’t

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Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami ............................7 1 .875 —Orlando .........................5 2 .714 1 1/2Atlanta ..........................4 3 .571 2 1/2Charlotte .......................2 4 .333 4Washington ...................0 6 .000 6

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago ........................6 1 .857 —Indiana ..........................4 2 .667 1 1/2Cleveland ......................3 3 .500 2 1/2Detroit ...........................2 4 .333 3 1/2Milwaukee .....................2 4 .333 3 1/2

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W L Pct GBSan Antonio ..................5 2 .714 —Memphis .......................3 3 .500 1 1/2Dallas ............................3 5 .375 2 1/2Houston ........................2 4 .333 2 1/2New Orleans ................2 4 .333 2 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct GBPortland ........................5 1 .833 —Denver ..........................5 2 .714 1/2Oklahoma City ..............5 2 .714 1/2Utah ..............................3 3 .500 2Minnesota .....................2 4 .333 3

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers .................3 2 .600 —L.A. Lakers ...................4 4 .500 1/2Sacramento ..................3 5 .375 1 1/2Phoenix .........................2 4 .333 1 1/2Golden State ................2 4 .333 1 1/2

Thursday’s GamesMiami 116, Atlanta 109,3OTSan Antonio 93, Dallas 71Sacramento 103, Milwaukee 100Portland 107, L.A. Lakers 96

Today’s GamesAtlanta at Charlotte, 6 p.m.New Jersey at Toronto, 6 p.m.New York at Washington, 6 p.m.Detroit at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Indiana at Boston, 6:30 p.m.Houston at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Denver at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Chicago at Orlando, 7 p.m.Memphis at Utah, 8 p.m.Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.Portland at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesChicago at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Charlotte at Indiana, 6 p.m.Miami at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.New York at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at Houston, 7 p.m.Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Denver at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.New Orleans at Dallas, 8 p.m.Utah at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

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Scoring G FG FT PTS AVGJames, MIA ..................... 7 78 53 209 29.9Anthony, NYK .................. 6 52 51 167 27.8Bryant, LAL ..................... 8 78 48 211 26.4Durant, OKC .................... 7 65 38 183 26.1Love, MIN ........................ 6 50 41 154 25.7Griffin, LAC ...................... 5 50 26 126 25.2Bargnani, TOR ................ 6 53 30 144 24.0Ellis, GOL ........................ 5 45 21 119 23.8Aldridge, POR ................. 6 57 25 139 23.2Rose, CHI ........................ 7 47 41 146 20.9Bosh, MIA ........................ 8 65 33 165 20.6Nowitzki, DAL .................. 8 58 41 161 20.1Allen, BOS ....................... 6 39 20 120 20.0Jennings, MIL .................. 6 44 20 119 19.8Anderson, ORL ............... 7 48 17 138 19.7Thornton, SAC ................ 8 56 27 155 19.4Howard, ORL .................. 7 53 28 134 19.1DeRozan, TOR ................ 6 40 21 111 18.5Williams, PHL .................. 5 28 26 91 18.2D. Williams, NJN ............. 6 34 27 104 17.3

FG Percentage FG FGA PCTHawes, PHL .................31 46 .674White, CHA ..................30 49 .612Bynum, LAL ..................37 61 .607James, MIA ..................78 131 .595Ginobili, SAN ................29 49 .592Howard, ORL ...............53 90 .589Gasol, LAL ...................55 95 .579Hibbert, IND .................34 59 .576Monroe, DET ................38 66 .576Griffin, LAC ...................50 88 .568

Rebounds G OFF DEF TOT AVGHoward, ORL .................. 7 30 82 112 16.0Love, MIN ........................ 6 36 54 90 15.0Hawes, PHL .................... 5 11 46 57 11.4Gasol, MEM .................... 6 13 48 61 10.2Cousins, SAC .................. 7 37 34 71 10.1Haslem, MIA .................... 8 23 58 81 10.1Hibbert, IND .................... 6 18 42 60 10.0Varejao, CLE ................... 6 24 35 59 9.8McGee, WAS .................. 6 18 41 59 9.8Griffin, LAC ...................... 5 16 32 48 9.6

Assists G AST AVGRondo, BOS .................7 75 10.7Lowry, HOU ..................6 60 10.0Calderon, TOR .............6 60 10.0Paul, LAC .....................5 49 9.8Nash, PHX ...................6 52 8.7Jack, NOR ....................5 43 8.6

Rose, CHI .....................7 60 8.6Ellis, GOL .....................5 41 8.2Felton, POR .................6 45 7.5James, MIA ..................7 52 7.4

COllEgE baSkETballSOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTKentucky ............0 0 .000 14 1 .933Mississippi St. .0 0 .000 13 2 .867Florida ................0 0 .000 12 3 .800Alabama ............0 0 .000 11 3 .786Arkansas ............0 0 .000 11 3 .786Auburn ...............0 0 .000 10 4 .714LSU ....................0 0 .000 10 4 .714Ole Miss ...........0 0 .000 10 4 .714Vanderbilt ..........0 0 .000 10 4 .714Georgia ..............0 0 .000 9 5 .643South Carolina ..0 0 .000 8 6 .571Tennessee .........0 0 .000 7 7 .500

Wednesday’s GamesFlorida St. 85, Auburn 56Memphis 69, Tennessee 51

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesNo Games scheduled

Saturday’s GamesFlorida at Tennessee, 10 a.m.Auburn at Vanderbilt, 12:30 p.m.Ole Miss at LSU, 12:30 p.m.South Carolina at Kentucky, 3 p.m.Alabama at Georgia, 6 p.m.Mississippi St. at Arkansas, 8 p.m.———

CONFERENCE USA Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTSouthern Miss .1 0 1.000 14 2 .875UCF ...................1 0 1.000 11 3 .786Marshall ............1 0 1.000 10 4 .714Houston ............1 0 1.000 8 5 .615Memphis ...........0 0 .000 9 5 .643Rice ...................0 0 .000 9 6 .600SMU ...................0 0 .000 8 6 .571UAB ...................0 0 .000 5 8 .385Tulane ...............0 1 .000 12 3 .800East Carolina ...0 1 .000 9 5 .643Tulsa .................0 1 .000 7 8 .467UTEP .................0 1 .000 7 8 .467

Wednesday’s GamesUCF 60, Tulane 53Marshall 76, UTEP 60TCU 78, Rice 74Houston 70, Tulsa 69, OTMemphis 69, Tennessee 51Southern Miss 78, East Carolina 76

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesNo games scheduled

Saturday’s GamesUCF at East Carolina, 4 p.m.Marshall at Rice, 7 p.m.SMU at Tulsa, 7 p.m.Southern Miss at Tulane, 7 p.m.Houston at UTEP, 8 p.m.Memphis at UAB, 8 p.m.

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SWAC Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTAlabama St. .......2 0 1.000 4 9 .308Texas Southern .2 0 1.000 3 11 .214MVSU ................1 0 1.000 2 11 .154Prairie View .......1 1 .500 5 10 .333Southern U. .......1 1 .500 5 10 .333Jackson St .......1 1 .500 3 11 .214Grambling St. ....1 1 .500 1 11 .083Ark.-Pine Bluff ...0 1 .000 1 13 .071Alcorn St. .........0 2 .000 3 11 .214Alabama A&M ...0 2 .000 2 9 .182

Wednesday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Thursday’s GamesAlabama St. 81, Jackson St. 78, 3OTPrairie View 55, Alcorn St. 47Grambling St. 60, Alabama A&M 55Texas Southern 73, Southern U. 39


Saturday’s GamesJackson St. at Alcorn St., 4 p.m.Miss. Valley St. at Alabama St., 5 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff at Alabama A&M, 5 p.m.Prairie View at Texas Southern, 6 p.m.Grambling St. at Southern U., 7:30 p.m.

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Top 25 ScheduleWednesday’s Games

No. 1 Syracuse 87, Providence 73 Temple 78, No. 5Duke 73 No. 9 Georgetown 73, No. 20 Marquette 70 No. 14 Kansas 67, No. 23 Kansas St. 49No. 19 Murray St. 76, E. Kentucky 67

Thursday’s GamesNo. 12 Indiana 73, No. 16 Michigan 71No. 17 UNLV 89, CS Bakersfield 57No. 24 San Diego St. 83, San Diego Christian 52 No. 25 Gonzaga 73, Pepperdine 45


Saturday’s GamesNo. 1 Syracuse vs. No. 20 Marquette, 3 p.m.No. 2 Kentucky vs. South Carolina, 3 p.m.No. 3 North Carolina vs. Boston College, 1:30 p.m.No. 4 Baylor at Texas Tech, 12:45 p.m.No. 5 Duke at Georgia Tech, 11 a.m.No. 6 Ohio St. at Iowa, 2 p.m.No. 7 Missouri at No. 23 Kansas St., 12:30 p.m.No. 8 UConn at Rutgers, 7 p.m.No. 9 Georgetown at West Virginia, 11 a.m.No. 11 Louisville vs. Notre Dame at 3 p.m.No. 13 Florida at Tennessee, 10 a.m.No. 14 Kansas at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.No. 15 Mississippi St. at Arkansas, 8 p.m.No. 19 Murray St. at Austin Peay, 7 p.m.No. 21 Virginia vs. Miami, 5 p.m.No. 22 Harvard vs. Dartmouth, 1 p.m.No. 25 Gonzaga vs. Santa Clara, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesNo. 12 Indiana at Penn St., 11 a.m.No. 16 Michigan vs. No. 18 Wisconsin, 12:30 p.m.

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Mississippi college scheduleWednesday’s Games

Southern Miss 78, East Carolina 76 Thursday’s games

Valdosta St. 81, Delta St. 61Alabama St. 81, Jackson St. 78, 3OTPrairie View 55, Alcorn St. 47Mississippi College 72, McMurry 65

Today’s GamesWilliam Carey at Lee, 7:30 p.m.Millsaps at Birmingham Southern, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesOle Miss at LSU, 12:30 p.m.Oglethorpe at Millsaps, 3 p.m.Hardin-Simmons at Mississippi College, 3 p.m.William Carey at Shorter, 5 p.m.

Mississippi Valley State at Alabama State, 5 p.m.Jackson State at Alcorn State, 7 p.m.Mississippi St. at Arkansas, 8 p.m.

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Thursday’s Scores EAST

Albany (NY) 89, UMBC 72 CCSU 69, St. Francis (Pa.) 58 Hartford 56, New Hampshire 49 LIU 87, Sacred Heart 81 Loyola (Md.) 61, Manhattan 60 Monmouth (NJ) 73, Mount St. Mary’s 59 Penn St. 65, Purdue 45 Robert Morris 84, Bryant 53 South Florida 74, Villanova 57 St. Francis (NY) 73, Quinnipiac 72 St. Peter’s 65, Canisius 61 Stony Brook 60, Binghamton 54 UMass 80, Fordham 76 Vermont 83, Boston U. 69 Wagner 88, Fairleigh Dickinson 64

SOUTH Alabama St. 81, Jackson St. 78, 3OT Appalachian St. 68, Samford 63 Charleston Southern 91, Campbell 73 Chattanooga 78, W. Carolina 62 Davidson 92, UNC Greensboro 63 FAU 58, Louisiana-Monroe 30 Furman 77, The Citadel 45 Georgia Southern 69, Elon 63 Grambling St. 60, Alabama A&M 55 High Point 63, Presbyterian 57 Louisiana-Lafayette 72, W. Kentucky 70, OT Middle Tennessee 63, Troy 53 Morehead St. 63, Jacksonville St. 55 North Texas 78, South Alabama 73, OT SE Missouri 73, UT-Martin 71 Tennessee Tech 92, Tennessee St. 86 UNC Asheville 94, VMI 85 Winthrop 70, Radford 54 Wofford 75, Coll. of Charleston 58

MIDWEST Cleveland St. 73, Ill.-Chicago 56 DePaul 84, Pittsburgh 81 IPFW 72, IUPUI 67 Indiana 73, Michigan 71 W. Illinois 71, Oakland 61 Youngstown St. 68, Loyola of Chicago 64, OT

SOUTHWEST Denver 53, Arkansas St. 50 Oral Roberts 89, N. Dakota St. 80 Prairie View 55, Alcorn St. 47 Texas Southern 73, Southern U. 39

FAR WEST Arizona St. 62, Southern Cal 53 BYU 73, Loyola Marymount 65 Colorado 87, Washington 69 Gonzaga 73, Pepperdine 45 Long Beach St. 55, Cal Poly 50 Montana St. 73, Idaho St. 69 Oregon 78, Stanford 67 Oregon St. 92, California 85 Portland St. 82, N. Arizona 62 S. Dakota St. 75, S. Utah 68 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 78, San Diego 72 San Diego St. 83, San Diego Christian 52 UC Irvine 73, Pacific 69 UC Riverside 60, UC Davis 58 UC Santa Barbara 77, Cal St.-Fullerton 64 UNLV 89, CS Bakersfield 57 Utah 62, Washington St. 60, OT Utah St. 72, Fresno St. 53 Weber St. 76, E. Washington 69

alabaMa ST. 81, JaCkSOn ST. 78, 3OTALABAMA ST. (5-9)White 4-9 5-6 15, Crawford 4-5 1-2 9, Middle-brooks 4-8 6-8 17, Washington 3-10 5-8 13, Butler 6-14 1-5 16, Page 1-3 2-2 4, Mason 0-2 0-0 0, Watts 2-6 0-0 5, Brown 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 25-61 20-31 81.JACKSON ST. (3-11)Coleman 2-2 0-0 4, Jones 1-3 0-0 2, Bush 6-13 7-8 20, Howard 4-12 4-5 12, Lewis 0-0 1-2 1, Taylor 1-2 0-2 2, Stewart 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 11-25 3-3 31, Readus 3-5 0-0 6, Gregory 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-64 15-20 78.Halftime—Alabama St. 36-26. End Of Regula-tion—Tied 55. End Of 1st Overtime—Tied 63. End Of 2nd Overtime—Tied 68. 3-Point Goals—Alabama St. 11-30 (Middlebrooks 3-6, Butler 3-7, Washington 2-5, White 2-7, Watts 1-3, Mason 0-1, Brown 0-1), Jackson St. 7-17 (Williams 6-11, Bush 1-2, Howard 0-4). Fouled Out—Bush, Craw-

ford, Williams. Rebounds—Alabama St. 32 (White 7), Jackson St. 50 (Howard 11). Assists—Alabama St. 15 (Middlebrooks 5), Jackson St. 10 (Bush, Lewis 3). Total Fouls—Alabama St. 18, Jackson St. 28. A—650.

WOMEn’S baSkETballWomen’s Top 25 Schedule

Wednesday’s GamesNo. 1 Baylor 90, Missouri 46No. 2 Connecticut 79, West Virginia 60No. 3 Notre Dame 74, Seton Hall 36Kansas St. 71, No. 9 Texas A&M 69No. 13 Texas Tech 58, Oklahoma St. 53Kansas 72, No. 23 Texas 67

Thursday’s GamesNo. 4 Stanford 93, Oregon 70 No. 6 Tennessee 80, Georgia 51 No. 11 Kentucky 84, Arkansas 72 No. 12 Miami 78, NC State 68No. 18 Purdue 63, Wisconsin 52 No. 19 Nebraska 62, Indiana 48No. 21 Delaware 74, Towson 51South Carolina 65, No. 24 Vanderbilt 55 No. 25 North Carolina 78, Virginia 73, 2OT

Today’s GamesNo. 5 Maryland vs. Georgia Tech, 7:30 p.m.No. 7 Duke at Wake Forest, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesNo. 1 Baylor at Iowa State, 7 p.m.No. 2 UConn at No. 3 Notre Dame, 3 p.m.No. 4 Stanford vs. Oregon State, 4 p.m.No. 8 Ohio State at Michigan, 4 p.m.No. 10 Rutgers vs. Cincinnati, 1 p.m.No. 13 Texas Tech at Missouri, 4 p.m.No. 15 Georgetown at South Florida, 6 p.m.No. 17 Green Bay at Milwaukee, 12:30 p.m.No. 20 DePaul at Providence, 1 p.m.No. 22 Penn State vs. Michigan State, 1 p.m.No. 23 Texas at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesNo. 5 Maryland at No. 25 North Carolina, noonNo. 6 Tennessee at Arkansas, 2:30 p.m.No. 7 Duke vs. NC State, 1 p.m.No. 9 Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma, 2 p.m.No. 11 Kentucky vs. Mississippi State, 2:30 p.m.No. 14 Louisville at St. John’s, 12:30 p.m.No. 16 Georgia at Auburn, 1 p.m.No. 19 Nebraska at Iowa, 3 p.m.No. 21 Delaware at George Mason, 1 p.m.No. 24 Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss, 2 p.m.

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10 p.m. SHO - Lightweights, Luis Ramos Jr. (20-0-0) vs. Raymundo

Beltran (25-5-0), at Indio, Calif.GOLF

4:30 p.m. TGC - PGA Tour, Tourna-ment of Champions

COLLEGE HOCKEY6:30 p.m. NBCSP - Dartmouth at RPI

NBA7 p.m. ESPN - Chicago at Orlando9:30 p.m. ESPN - Portland at Phoenix

Jan. 61985 — Dan Marino passes for a

record 421 yards and four touch-downs to lead the Miami Dolphins to a 45-28 victory over the Pitts-burgh Steelers in the AFC champi-onship game.

1994 — Nancy Kerrigan is attacked after practice at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. Shane Stant clubs Kerri-gan on the knee and flees the scene. Later that evening, Scott Davis wins the men’s U.S. Figure Skating title.

1995 — Lenny Wilkens becomes the winningest coach in NBA his-tory as the Atlanta Hawks post a 112-90 victory over the Washington Bullets. Wilkens, with his 939th win, surpasses Red Auerbach’s record.

1999 — The NBA lockout finally ends on its 191st day after a divi-sive struggle that costs the owners and players hundreds of millions of dollars.

COllEgE fOOTballSouthern Miss fills outfootball coaching staff

HATTIESBURG — Southern Miss coach Ellis Johnson has announced the hiring of offensive coordinator Rickey Bustle, defen-sive coordinator Tommy West and assistant head coach/running backs coach Steve Buckley.

Both Bustle and West have more than 30 years of experience at the college level. The 58-year-old Bustle was head coach at Louisiana-Lafay-ette from 2002-10 and also Virginia Tech’s offensive coordinator for seven seasons. He was the quarter-backs coach at Tulane this season.

The 57-year-old West was the head coach at UT-Chattanooga, Clemson and Memphis before spending this fall as the defensive coordinator at UAB.

Buckley has been the head coach at Petal High School in Petal the past five seasons. This is the 48-year-old’s third stint as an assis-tant at Southern Miss.

Penn State willhire O’Brien

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — New England Patriots offensive coor-dinator Bill O’Brien will be Penn State’s first new head football coach in nearly a half-century, according to multiple reports.

ESPN, citing unnamed sources, first reported Thursday night that an official announcement would be made Saturday, and that O’Brien would continue as an assistant with the Patriots the rest of the postseason.

O’Brien interviewed on Thursday, agent Joe Linta said, telling The Associated Press that O’Brien was “flattered by the interest.”

Penn State coaches contacted by The Associated Press said they had not received any word about O’Brien or anything else related to the two-month long search to replace Hall of Famer Joe Paterno. The Nittany Lions’ leader for 46 sea-sons was fired Nov. 9 in the after-math of child sex abuse charges against retired defensive coordina-tor Jerry Sandusky.

MlbPujols: $240 million and 4 season tickets

NEW YORK — Guess $240 mil-lion wasn’t quite enough for Albert Pujols. In addition to his salary, the Los Angeles Angels are giving the slugger four season tickets to home games over the next decade.

He and the Angels still need to work out the location of the seats, which are his to enjoy for the dura-tion of his contract. After that, if he still wants them, he has to pay.

Those details were contained in the terms of his deal that was filed Thursday with Major League Base-ball and the players’ association.

Sunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-3-1 La. Pick 4: 9-5-9-2Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 5-0-1La. Pick 4: 6-8-0-1Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 7-2-9 La. Pick 4: 1-5-6-0 Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 0-2-4La. Pick 4: 7-6-6-5Easy 5: 3-9-11-29-33La. Lotto: 2-4-8-20-31-40Powerball: 21-35-46-47-50Powerball: 2; Power play: 4Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 2-9-6 La. Pick 4: 7-6-0-1 Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-9-5 La. Pick 4: 8-5-4-0 Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 9-3-9La. Pick 4: 0-9-6-6Easy 5: 3-9-11-15-35La. Lotto: 3-6-9-17-24-35Powerball: 5-23-25-28-40Powerball: 34; Power play: 4

2011-12 bowl scheduleDec. 17 New Mexico Bowl ............................................................................Temple 37, Wyoming 15Dec. 17 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl ............................................................ Ohio 24, Utah State 23Dec. 17 New Orleans Bowl .............................................................La.-Lafayette 32, San Diego St. 30

Dec. 20 Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl ........................................................................... Marshall 20, FIU 10

Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl ............................................................................TCU 31, Louisiana Tech 24

Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl .........................................................................Boise State 56, Arizona State 24

Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl....................................................................................Southern Miss 24, Nevada 17

Dec. 26 Independence Bowl.......................................................................Missouri 41, North Carolina 24

Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl ...................................................... Purdue 37,Western Michigan 32Dec. 27 Belk Bowl ............................................................................ North Carolina St. 31, Louisville 24

Dec. 28 Military Bowl ..........................................................................................Toledo 42, Air Force 41Dec. 28 Holiday Bowl ...........................................................................................Texas 21, California 10

Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl.....................................................................Florida St. 18, Notre Dame 14Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl.............................................................................................Baylor 67, Washington 56

Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl ....................................................................................BYU 24, Tulsa 21Dec. 30 Pinstripe Bowl ....................................................................................Rutgers 27, Iowa State 13Dec. 30 Music City Bowl ..........................................................Mississippi State 23, Wake Forest 17Dec. 30 Insight Bowl .............................................................................................Oklahoma 31, Iowa 14

Dec. 31 Meinke Car Care Bowl ...............................................................Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22Dec. 31 Sun Bowl ....................................................................................... Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27, OTDec. 31 Liberty Bowl ...................................................................................... Cincinnati 31, Vanderbilt 24Dec. 31 Fight Hunger Bowl ..................................................................................... Illinois 20, UCLA 14Dec. 31 Chick-fil-A Bowl .......................................................................................Auburn 43, Virginia 24

Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl...........................................................................................Houston 30, Penn St. 14Jan. 2 Capital One Bowl...........................................................................South Carolina 30, Nebraska 13Jan. 2 Outback Bowl...............................................................................Michigan St. 33, Georgia 30, 3OTJan. 2 Gator Bowl.....................................................................................................Florida 24, Ohio St. 17Jan. 2 Rose Bowl..................................................................................................Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38Jan. 2 Fiesta Bowl..................................................................................Oklahoma St. 41, Stanford 38, OT

Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl ................................................................................Michigan 23 Virginia Tech 20, OT

Jan. 4 Orange Bowl ..................................................................................West Virginia 70, Clemson 33Jan. 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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in the division at 0-3 and is now 2-8-3 overall.

WC coach Greg Head said his team had a struggle with the Gators.

“It was our first game back since the break and we’re still not 100 percent healthy,” Head said. “That said, I’m wasn’t happy with our first half. We were much better in the second half.”

The Vikings had just seven shots in the first half, but still managed an unassisted goal by Chandler Bounds. They stepped up the pressure in the second half with 12 shots. Four came from Ahstin Greer, but each of those were

turned away by Vicksburg’s keeper Marc Grace.

Kjellberg, a foreign exchange student from Sweden, finally broke away from his defender and sliced in a goal for a 2-0 cushion. Vicksburg’s best chance to score came off a free kick by Kyle Davidson, but it was caught by WC keeper Baxter Richardson.

Grace had nine saves to pace the Gators, while Rich-ardson had three in the shut-out for the Vikings.

actually see the great plays that we make with the run-ning game.”

Sproles led the Saints in rushing with what at first glance might look like a solid but unspectacular 603 yards. Divide that by his 82 carries, however, and it comes out to 6.9 yards per carry. One of his touchdowns this season came on a 36-yard run.

Thomas rushed 110 times for 562 yards, or 5.1 yards per carry, and scored five touch-downs. Of the three seasons in which Thomas was mostly healthy and a regular in the New Orleans’ running back rotation, 2011 was his worst in terms of total yards. Still, he could not argue with the Saints’ running-by-com-mittee approach, given the results.

“It works for our offense and it works great,” Thomas said. “So I’m not complain-ing, and as long we’re win-ning and do good things out there, hey, let’s keep doing it.”

Ivory, who started the season on the physically unable to perform list, fin-ished with only 374 yards, but averaged 4.7 yards per carry and scored a 35-yard touch-down last Sunday against Carolina. When Ingram was healthy, the former Heisman winner rushed for 474 yards (3.9 yards per carry).

“The importance in this season was to find that bal-ance offensively and the ability to control games at times,” Saints coach Sean Payton said. “Short yard-age and goal line is some-thing that can be affected by a better running game, but I also think it helps with our play action pass. It’s just one more aspect to our offense that can help us be proficient.”

Although Payton’s offenses have led the NFL in four of his six seasons as head coach, the Saints haven’t always been able to run the ball well. Last season, they ranked 28th in the league, in large part because they were beat up. They also ranked 28th in 2007, the one season the Saints had a losing record in the Payton era.

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ON THE HUNTThe Vicksburg Post invites all hunters to submit photographs of wildlife they have killed. Please include the following: A general location of the hunt; what type of weapon was used; how long the shot was; and the size of the animal. If it is a buck, include information on rack length, width and points. Please submit pictures of children before they have been blooded. Pictures with an excess amount of blood will not be considered. Photos can be hand-delivered to The Vicksburg Post, 1601F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg; e-mailed to [email protected]; or mailed to: Sports, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS, 39182.

Vicksburg resident Cody Bryant took down this 8-point buck with a 7mm-08 from 65 yards away. The buck’s rack measured 16 inches on the inside spread. Cody is the son of Jerry and Patricia Bryant.

Bryson Whitaker shot this button buck on private land south of Vicksburg on Nov. 12. The deer weighed 97 pounds and was taken with a .44 Magnum from 90 yards away. Bryson is the son of Wesley and Sherry Whitaker of Redwood.

Four-year-old John Ellis Montgomery was hunting with his father, Jerry Montgomery, when he bagged his first doe. The shot was made with a .223 rifle from a distance of 35 yards. The doe weighed 120 pounds. John Ellis is the son of Jerry and Speler Montgomery.

Kylan Clay killed this deer while hunting with his father on Christmas Eve in Fitler, Miss. The 8-point, 205-pound buck was shot with a 7mm-08 from 200 yards away. Kylan is the son of Robert and Cassie Clay.

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Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino motions to a player against Troy this season.

A BCS-worthy matchupArkansas and Kansas State collide in the Cotton Bowl

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — For coach Bill Snyder’s second Wildcat turnaround and 11th-ranked Kansas State’s surpris-ing season, the Cotton Bowl is an appropriate ending.

When the Wildcats first played in the Cotton Bowl 15 years ago, that New Year’s Day game was a watershed moment for a program that had evolved from consecutive winless seasons just before Snyder arrived. They went again at the end of the 2000 season, during a stretch of six 11-win seasons in seven years before the coach’s brief retirement.

Seventh-ranked Arkan-sas, meanwhile, gets another game at Cowboys Stadium, where a stunning second-half comeback against Texas A&M three months ago was a cat-alyst in a season where the Razorbacks’ only losses are to No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama, the two teams playing in the BCS national championship game next week.

“I thought the game we played here this year really helped us throughout our season. We came into halftime and we were down 18 points, but our team rallied together. Our leadership really showed up,” Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino said. “To be able to really bring out the com-petitive spirit that our team showed from that point on, I think carried us throughout the season.”

The Cotton Bowl matchup of 10-2 teams tonight is the only postseason game featuring the Big 12 vs. the SEC, which expands next season with the addition of outgoing Big 12 members Texas A&M and Missouri. No other non-BCS bowl had both teams ranked even in the top 15 of the Bowl Championship Series stand-ings, much less the top eight.

While Arkansas came into the season with 18 seniors and some big expectations after playing in the Sugar Bowl last season, K-State was picked eighth in the preseason Big 12 poll and then needed a fourth-quarter comeback to win its season opener against East-ern Kentucky.

The Wildcats, with the emer-gence of hard-nosed running quarterback Collin Klein and a record number of close vic-tories, went on to finish eighth in the BCS standings, two spots behind Arkansas.

“Being here five years and seeing where the program was and where Coach Snyder has taken it means a lot to me, especially my last year, my last go-around,” Wildcats safety Tysyn Hartman said.

“They’re certainly a young group that has exceeded whatever the expectations

may have been,” said Snyder, wrapping up his 20th season coaching K-State. “They’ve probably come as far as any football team we’ve had up to this point.”

During the three seasons Snyder was away, the Wild-cats went 17-20 under Ron Prince. When Snyder came back three years ago, that still wasn’t nearly as bad as things were when he first got to Man-hattan in 1989; the Wildcats were 0-26-1 the previous 21⁄2 seasons.

Kansas State was 13-12 in Snyder’s first two years this time around before a 7-0 start this season. That included a comeback victory against Baylor when the first intercep-tion of the season by Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III led to a go-ahead field goal as the Wildcats overcame a nine-point deficit in the final 6 minutes.

That was Oct. 1, the same day Arkansas trailed by 18 points at halftime before win-ning 42-38 over the Aggies at Cowboys Stadium, the $1.2 bil-lion showplace built by Dallas Cowboys owner and Arkansas alumnus Jerry Jones.

Tyler Wilson threw for a school-record 510 yards, including a record 281 receiv-ing by Jarius Wright. The Razorbacks recovered from their loss to Alabama to start a seven-game winning streak before losing the regular season finale at LSU.

Hornets sting Tigers in overtimeBy The Associated Press

Jeff Middlebrooks scored 17 points, and he and Ivory White hit key baskets for Ala-bama State in the third over-time of an 81-78 victory over Jackson State on Thursday night. White, who finished with 15 points, hit a 3-pointer to put the Hornets (5-9, 2-0 Southwestern Athletic Con-ference) ahead to stay, 72-71, with 3:49 to go. A 3-pointer by Middlebrooks and a jumper by White extended the lead to 77-71.

A layup by Willie Readus and a 3-pointer by Christian Williams brought the Tigers (3-11, 1-1) back within a point before Tremaine Butler’s layup made it 79-76 Alabama State with 29 seconds left.

Former Vicksburg star Kelsey Howard answered with a layup for Jackson State, but Middlebrooks iced the game with two free throws.

Williams led all scorers with 31 points, including a layup that tied the game 68-68 after two overtimes. Jenirro Bush added 20 points and Howard 12 for Jackson State.

Prairie View A&M 55, Alcorn State 47

Montrael Scott scored 18

points, Marcellus Jackson added 12 points and eight rebounds, and Prairie View A&M held off a furious Alcorn State comeback.

Xavian Rimmer led the Braves (2-11, 0-2 SWAC) with 14 points, and Ken McDonald scored 10.

Indiana 73, Michigan 71

Christian Watford scored 25 points, and Verdell Jones broke a late tie with four

straight points to help No. 12 Indiana beat No. 16 Michigan.

Indiana (14-1 2-1 Big Ten) stayed perfect at Assembly Hall and beat a third ranked team this season — its most in one season since 2005-06.

Tim Hardaway Jr. had 19 points for Michigan (12-3, 2-1) while Jordan Morgan added 12. The Wolverines have lost 14 of their last 15 at Indiana since 1996.

UNLV 89, Cal St. Bakersfield 57

Mike Moser and Justin Hawkins both scored 17 points and No. 17 UNLV won its sev-enth straight game.

Moser had 11 rebounds for the Rebels (16-2), who out-scored the Roadrunners (7-9) 51-30 in the second half.

SDSU 83, San Diego Christian 52

Junior guard DeShawn Ste-phens scored a career-high 18 points for 24th-ranked San Diego State.

Garrett Green added 14 points, Chase Tapley and Jamaal Franklin had 11 each, and Alec Williams scored 10 for the Aztecs (13-2), who won their sixth straight game.

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Michigan’s Jordan Morgan puts up a shot while being defended by Indiana’s Victor Oladipo Thursday.


‘He’s a Big Ham’

Hawking to turn 70, defying his disease

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.

The physicist and cosmolo-gist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cam-bridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neu-rone disease in the U.K. On Sunday, Hawking will turn 70.

“I don’t know of anyone who’s survived this long,” said Ammar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre at King’s College London. He does not treat Hawking and described his longevity as “extraordinary.”

“It is unusual for (motor neurone disease) patients to survive for decades, but not unheard of,” said Dr. Rup Tandan, a neurology profes-sor at the University of Ver-mont College of Medicine. Still, Tandan said many long-time survivors had ventilators to breathe for them — which Hawking does not.

Hawking first gained atten-tion with his 1988 book “A Brief History of Time,” a simpli-fied overview of the universe. It sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. His subse-quent theories have revolution-ized modern understanding of concepts like black holes and the Big Bang theory of how the universe began.

To mark his birthday Sunday, Cambridge University is hold-ing a public symposium on “The State of the Universe,” featuring talks from 27 leading scientists, including Hawking himself. For 30 years, he held a mathematics post at the uni-versity previously held by Sir Isaac Newton. Hawking retired from that position in 2009 and is now director of research at the university’s Centre for Theo-retical Cosmology.

Hawking achieved all that despite being nearly entirely paralyzed and in a wheelchair since 1970. He now communi-cates only by twitching his right cheek. Since catching pneu-monia in 1985, Hawking has needed around-the-clock care and relies on a computer and voice synthesizer to speak.

A tiny infrared sensor sits on his glasses, hooked up to a computer. The sensor detects Hawking’s cheek pulses, which select words displayed on a computer screen. The chosen words are then spoken by the voice synthesizer. It can take up to 10 minutes for Hawking to

formulate a single sentence.“The only trouble is (the

voice synthesizer) gives me an American accent,” the Briton wrote on his website.

It took Hawking four years to write his last book, “The Grand Design,” missing his publisher’s original deadline.

Hawking declined requests from The Associated Press for an interview, but his personal assistant spoke to the AP.

Judith Croasdell, Hawking’s personal assistant, described her boss as remarkably patient.

After a brief hospital stay, Hawking told her that he spent the time thinking about black holes.

Hawking’s rooftop univer-sity office is crammed full of memorabilia: family photos, a miniature NASA shuttle and a signed picture of him-self with President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. On top of physics books sits a disability access guide for the university.

Hawking’s fame has led to guest appearances on some of

his favorite television shows including “The Simpsons” and “Star Trek.” His animated like-ness from “The Simpsons” has even been turned into an action figure — one of which sits proudly on his office desk. There’s also a Homer Simpson clock that Hawking is known to glare at when visitors are late for an appointment.

“He’s a big ham, he loves the spotlight,” said Kitty Fergu-son, who’s written two biogra-phies of the physicist.

She said he has a wry sense of humor and has programmed his computer to respond to random encounters with people who ask if he’s Stephen Hawking. “No, but I’m often mistaken for that man,” his voice synthesizer deadpans.

Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks motor neurons, cells that con-trol the muscles. Patients typ-ically suffer muscle weakness and wasting, become para-lyzed and have problems talk-ing, swallowing and breath-ing. Only about 10 percent of

patients live longer than a decade.

People who are stricken at a young age, as Hawking was, generally have a better chance of surviving longer. Most people are diagnosed between 50 and 70. Life expec-tancy generally ranges from two to five years after symp-toms like slurred speech, diffi-culty swallowing and muscle weakness set in. Hawking’s personal physicians don’t dis-cuss his condition with the press, Croasdell said.

For some reason, the disease has progressed more slowly in Hawking than in most. Al-Cha-labi and colleagues are ana-lyzing a DNA sample from Hawking, along with those of other patients, to see if there is something rare about his dis-ease or any genetic mutations that could explain his long sur-vival and if that information could be used to help others.

Some experts said the type of care Hawking has, includ-ing about a dozen health work-ers 24 hours a day, might have extended his life expectancy.

Hawking says he tries not to think about his limitations.

“I have had (Lou Gehrig’s disease) for practically all my adult life,” he says on his web-site. “Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attrac-tive family and being success-ful in my work,” he writes. “I try to lead as normal a life as possible and not think about my condition or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many.”

Milestones• Hawking is born on Jan. 8, 1942, 300 years to the day of Galileo’s death, in Oxford, England. He is the eldest of three children.• In 1963, while studying for his PhD at Cambridge University, Hawking is diagnosed with motor neurone disease, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Doctors give him about two years to live.• Hawking marries Jane Wilde in 1965. They later have three children: Robert, Lucy and Timothy.• In 1979, Hawking is named the Lucasian professor of math-ematics at Cambridge, a post previously held by Sir Isaac Newton.• During a 1985 trip to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Hawking catches pneumo-nia. He requires a tracheotomy and loses the ability to speak. He soon begins using a computer and voice synthesizer.• Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” is published in 1988. The book sells more than 10 million copies.• In 1999, Hawking makes the first of several guest appear-ances on “The Simpsons.”• Hawking takes a zero-gravity flight in 2007, the first time he is free of his wheelchair in 40 years.


stephen Hawking speaks on the origins of the universe at Beijing’s great Hall of the People in China.

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‘Cable Guy’ tours country for History ChannelNEW ORLEANS (AP) —

Funny man Dan Whitney, the Blue Collar Comedy crew member known as “Larry the Cable Guy,” says Louisi-ana and Alaska are among the states that gave him great fodder for the second season of his History Channel show “Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy,” which pre-mieres Wednesday.

The show takes quirky and humorous approaches to interesting people and places across the country. Season two opens with Whitney’s venture to the Alaska frontier, where he goes on a stakeout with authorities to catch illegal moose hunters, learns some moose calls and helps one of the state’s top moose scien-tists with an experiment.

Whitney said he also made an unannounced visit to the home of former Alaska gover-nor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

“She was a good sport,” Whitney said with a laugh. “She didn’t shoot me or

anything.”Whitney said he made repeat

visits to Louisiana to tape seg-ments for his show because “there are so many interest-ing things to do there.”

During a trip to New Orleans a few months ago, he met with a voodoo priest, ate beig-nets at Cafe du Monde in the French Quarter, helped deco-rate a Mardi Gras float and marched in a street parade. He returned to Louisiana in December for a nutria hunt-ing expedition in a south Loui-siana swamp.

“I didn’t even know what

a nutria was,” said the Ken-tucky native who now lives in Florida. “My show tries to be funny but informative, too. We talk about why it’s important to get rid of the nutria, how they’re doing a lot of damage down there.”

The nutria is a rodent native to South America that is believed to have been accidentally introduced into coastal Louisiana in the 1930s. It wreaks havoc on the state’s fragile wetlands by devour-ing the roots of erosion-stop-ping marsh plants. They also damage banks and levees by burrowing. Louisiana holds periodic nutria hunts in which hunters turn in tails as proof of a kill.

Whitney said he addresses those subjects in his show and even gets a taste of some fried nutria meat.

“It was kind of like eating rabbit,” he said. “It’s a little gamey, but it’s not that bad.”

Whitney has been to about 65 cities for the taping of the show’s two seasons. Season two premieres Wednesday at

8 p.m. on the History Chan-nel and includes stops in more than a dozen states, among them Florida, New York, Mary-land, Colorado, Virginia, Geor-gia and Ohio.

The Blue Collar Comedy troupe — formed more than a decade ago — includes come-dians Whitney, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Ron White.

On TV“Only in America with Larry the Ca-ble Guy” premiers Wednes-day at 8 on the History Channel

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TONIGHT ON TVn mOVie“Torque” — Framed for mur-der by a drug dealer, a biker, Martin Henderson, must elude lawmen and the brother, Ice Cube, of the dead man./6:30 on HBOn sPORTsCollege football — Arkansas and Kansas State were left out of the BCS, but get one heck of a consolation prize in the most prestigious of the non-BCS bowls, the Cotton Bowl./7 on Foxn PRimeTime“Chuck” — Chuck and Sarah think about the next move for Carmichael Industries; Gertrude approaches Casey with a mission; Jeff and Lester suspect some-thing strange is going on at the Buy More./7 on NBC

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MILESTONESn BiRTHDaYsearl scruggs, Bluegrass performer, 88; Bonnie Franklin, ac-tress, 68; Kim Wilson, rock singer-musician, 61; Jett Williams, singer, 59; Rowan atkinson, actor-comedian, 57; Nigella Law-son, TV chef, 52; John singleton, movie director, 44; Julie Chen, TV personality, 42; alex Turner, rock singer, 26.

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First lady makes appearance on ‘iCarly’Teen star Miranda Cosgrove said she doesn’t usually get ner-

vous about taping episodes of her Nickelodeon comedy, “iCarly,” but that changed when first lady Michelle Obama taped an ap-pearance on the show.

“I’ve been doing the show for a long time and I usually don’t get nervous, but having the first lady on the set, I was really ner-vous,” laughed Cosgrove, 18, in an interview Wednesday.

Nickelodeon and the White House want to show support for U.S. military families with a cameo by the first lady on the show.

On “iCarly,” Cosgrove plays Carly Shay, the daughter of an Air Force colonel who is serving overseas.

In an episode titled, “iMeet the First Lady,” Carly gets upset when her father’s return from active duty is canceled because he is deployed again. Her friends decide to surprise her with a live feed to her father during an iCarly webcast. After Mrs. Obama sees the webcast, she praises Carly for being such a sup-portive daughter to a father who is serving his country.

Cosgrove said that despite being nervous about meeting Mrs. Obama, she found her quite approachable, calling the first lady a “nice, pretty normal person” who even danced with the cast during a regular segment called “Random Dancing.”

“It was probably the most fun thing we did. We all just got to let loose and have a good time,” Cosgrove said.

The episode of “iCarly” featuring the first lady will be shown Jan. 16 on Nickelodeon at 7 p.m.

Actress Deschanel files for divorce Zooey Deschanel has filed for

divorce from her rocker hus-band of two years.

The actress filed for divorce in Los Angeles on Dec. 27 from Ben Gibbard, citing irreconcil-able differences. The former couple announced they had broken up in November.

The 31-year-old actress stars in the Fox sitcom “New Girl” and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her perfor-mance. Gibbard is the lead sing-er of the rock band Death Cab for Cutie, which released the al-bum “Codes and Keys” in May.

Deschanel and Gibbard were married in September 2009 and have no children together.

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County mulls fines for noisy dogsHush, puppy. Sullivan County, Tenn., commissioners are talk-

ing about fining owners of noisy dogs.A proposal discussed, but not acted upon Tuesday by a com-

mittee of commission members, would allow fines each day that a dog is allowed to “bark, howl, or whine in an excessive, continuous, or untimely fashion which disturbs the repose of any citizen, or disturbs the peace and quiet of a neighborhood.”

Commission members Joe Herron and Eddie Williams spon-sored the proposal, which would let the county fine dog own-ers $25 to $50 each day their pets were unduly vocal.

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TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

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

Try home remediesto treat hemorrhoids

Dear Doctor K: Please help — I have hemorrhoids. What’s the best way to treat them?

Dear Reader: Hemorrhoids are clusters of veins in the lowest part of the rectum and anus that become swollen and distended.

You can have hemorrhoids without any symptoms. But hemorrhoids can also have very unpleasant symptoms — rectal pain, itching, soil-ing and bleeding. Hemor-rhoids are rarely dangerous, however, and there are many treatment options.

Hemorrhoid symptoms can also be caused by other con-ditions, including anal warts and fissures, Crohn’s disease and (rarely) anal cancer. So if you have persistent both-ersome symptoms that you think are caused by hemor-rhoids, it’s wise to see your doctor.

There are several helpful home treatments. The first thing you should do is boost the fiber in your diet. Eat high-fiber foods (such as prunes, pears, beans, bran cereals and oatmeal), take a fiber supple-ment (there are many variet-ies available in drugstores), or both. Fiber softens stools and makes them easier to pass. This reduces pressure on hemorrhoids, which in turn reduces the risk of bleeding, inflammation and swelling. Make sure to take fiber with plenty of fluids.

Exercise is another impor-tant home remedy for hemor-rhoids. Take a brisk walk for 30 minutes a day, at least five days a week. Not only does this have a powerfully positive effect on your health, it also is a great way to stimulate your bowels.

When you feel the urge, go to the bathroom immediately; don’t wait for a more conven-ient time. Waiting can cause your bowels to back up, lead-ing to increased pressure and straining.

Sitz baths can relieve itch-ing, irritation and muscle spasm. A sitz bath is a warm water bath for the buttocks. Sit in a regular bathtub with a few inches of warm water, or buy a small plastic tub that fits over a toilet seat. Try a 20-minute sitz bath after each bowel movement and an addi-tional two or three times a day. (This works best if you’re retired.) Afterward, gently pat the area dry.

Over-the-counter pain-relief creams can temporar-ily soothe pain, irritation and itching. Witch hazel wipes (Tucks) are soothing and have no harmful effects. A small ice pack placed against the anal area for a few minutes may also help.

Finally, sitting on cushions rather than hard surfaces can help reduce swelling.

If the treatments I’ve dis-cussed don’t help, talk to your doctor. You may benefit from a simple outpatient procedure to treat hemorrhoids. One pro-cedure involves rubber rings tightened around the hem-orrhoid. Other procedures, using lasers or infrared light,

heat the hemorrhoids, caus-ing them to shrink. Injecting a chemical into the hemor-rhoids (called sclerotherapy) also can shrink them. If your symptoms continue despite these measures, you may need minor surgery to remove your hemorrhoids.

Hemorrhoids are among the most common “minor mala-dies of man.” The good news is that, most of the time, simple home remedies can give you great relief.

•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.

Girl who thinks she’s abused gets scolded by teensDear Readers: Yesterday

I printed letters from adults in response to a letter from “Emotionally Abused in Cali-fornia,” the 15-year-old who felt her mother was treating her unfairly. Today we’ll hear from teenage readers:

Dear Abby: I’m a 14-year-old girl. The mom of Emotionally Abused sounds just like mine. I am not allowed to wear cloth-ing that shows too much or get into a car with a boy. I don’t have cable TV. I have to do my laundry, clean my room, cook and hem my own jeans.

My parents always know my plans when I’m out with my friends, and I go to church every Sunday. I’m not the per-fect daughter, but I’m glad I’m being raised with integrity, responsibility and a whole lot of chores. — Cooperating Teen in New Jersey

Dear Abby: From one teen to another: I have heard your same story from friends a

thousand times. You’re not being treated like a criminal. Your mom is doing you a huge favor. She’s preparing you for the real world by making you pay for your own things. And about your friends, she just wants to know who they are. She’s not telling you no, right? She’s trying to protect you.

Not everything she does is an attack on you — in fact, it’s the opposite. — Fellow Cali-fornia Teen

Dear Abby: I’m an 18-year-old girl and I have never been in trouble. I attend a private school where modesty is the dress code policy. To pay for

tuition to this school, I work every afternoon during the school year and full time during the summer. I’m expected to pay for my own clothes, phone bill and hair-cuts. If I can’t afford some-thing, I don’t buy it.

As long as I live with my par-ents, I will abide by their rules. My parents have my best interests at heart. Emotion-ally Abused should be thank-ful for the many things she has. — Montana Teen

Dear Abby: I’m also a 15-year-old Catholic girl. Emo-tionally Abused should be grateful she can attend church because it means we have reli-gious freedom in our country. She is going to private school, which means her mother loves her enough to put her daugh-ter’s needs ahead of her own. She needs to rethink who is being unreasonable. — Teen in Florida

Dear Abby: I would like

to say the following to Emo-tionally Abused: Our mom makes my brother and me go to church every Sunday and Wednesday. Mom home-schools us, thus making her teacher, principal and mother all in one. I’ll be 17 this month, and I still can’t date.

Mom checks my computer regularly. My brother and I have to set the table and eat with her every night. As for visiting Dad, I wish we could see ours every week. Unfortu-nately, he’s overseas.

Mothers like yours are few and far between. If she didn’t love you, she wouldn’t act the way she does. — Laughing Sibs in North Carolina

•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.

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DEAR ABBY

If tomorrow is your birthday: Because in the year ahead most of your hopes and expectations will be founded upon realistic premises and not on wishful thinking, many of your objectives will be accomplished in a pragmatic and realistic manner.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Even if you sense that you have the upper hand over another, it doesn’t give you license to take advantage of him or her. Be honest and fair.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — When performing a service for another, keep accurate records of your time, effort and all the parts you’re supplying. If you don’t, a misunderstanding could arise down the line.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Upon occasion, you aren’t too prudent about managing your resources, and this could be one of those times. Be extra careful whenever you have your check-book in hand.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Keep your lips closed and your vest tight when it comes to important business or personal matters. If you don’t, you can expect a loss of some friends and/or co-workers. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Stand up for your rights instead of knuckling under to an insulting big mouth. A mouse like him or her might have learned to roar like a lion, but he or she is still just a mouse, in reality.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Be extremely careful if you get in-volved in an arrangement that requires a cash outlay. Make sure you know what you’re doing, where your money is going and what it will get you.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — It’s commendable to be your own person, but it’s not admirable to gratify your self-interests at the expense of another. Be mindful of how your behavior affects friends or companions.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — When formulating future plans, make sure they are predicated upon actual projections and not cal-low optimism. Miscalculating your future today could bring you grief on the morrow.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — There are some indications that you could be operating on a different plane than your friends. That’s OK if both parties know and accept this. If not, a serious misunderstanding could arise.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — It can be courageous to rush in where others fear to tread, but it can also be foolish if you wade into a no-win, no-benefit situation. Don’t try to butt your head against overwhelming opposition.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — If it’s difficult for you to distin-guish between false apprehensions and real, intuitive percep-tions, you might forsake something that would be beneficial.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If you are considering making an expensive, uninformed purchase, it might be wise to have a friend who’s in the know check things out for you.

Dr. Wallace: I’m married and the father of a two-month-old son. I love him more than life. Last year, when I was 19, I was ar-rested for driving under the influence of alcohol. That should have made me quit drinking, but it didn’t. I’m still drinking, a lot. My wife begs me to stop drinking. I try, but I just can’t.

More than anything, I want to be a good role model for my son. I fear that someday I could be involved in a fatal automo-bile accident by driving after drinking. I’m willing to do any-thing. I want to change my life. — P.J., Santa Fe, N.M.

P.J.: Asking for help is the first step in becoming sober for life. The vast majority of alcoholics cannot overcome the strong urge to consume alcohol by themselves. There are many treat-ment centers that can offer assistance. The most widely known is the Alcoholics Anonymous network. AA is a highly successful form of group counseling and support. Please look in the white pages of the telephone book for the number under the listing of Alcoholics Anonymous, or call 1-800-510-2437.

Dr. Wallace: My three best friends have formed an “informal” neighborhood hockey team. They play other “informal” hock-ey teams every Saturday afternoon. I’m a pretty good ice skater and would like to play on the team (age limit 14), but my step-mother won’t let me. She doesn’t want me to catch a cold be-cause the teams play on a frozen pond.

All the players dress warmly and actually sweat sometimes during the game. Their parents don’t seem to worry much about colds. — Karl, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Karl: If the threat of catching a cold is the only reason you are not allowed to play hockey outdoors, then your stepmother should contact your family doctor and ask about cold weath-er and colds. She would be informed that weather has nothing whatsoever to do with catching a cold or the flu. Viruses cause colds and are transferred from one human to another.

To reduce your chance of contracting a cold or the flu, wash your hands with soap and warm water several times daily. Keep fingers away from your nose or mouth and never share eating utensils or drinking glasses with anyone.

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

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CAPPAERT FAMILY FOUNDATIONThe annual report is on filefor inspection during the next180 days at 820 South Streetduring regular businesshours.By BancorpSouth Bank,trustee,Cappaert Family Foundation.January 31st 2012Publish: 1/6(1t)

IN THE COUNTY COURTOF WARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPIYOUTH COURT DIVISIONWARREN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMANSERVICESBY MARGIE SHELTONAND CAYDEN JAMESROBINSONA MINOR, BY ANDTHROUGH HIS NEXTFRIENDMARGIE SHELTONPETITIONERSVS.CIVIL ACTION, FILE NO.11,1372-COKIMBERLY NICOLE CHAPMAN ANDJEFFREY NULLRESPONDENTSCOUNTY COURT SUMMONSTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: Kimberly Nicole Chapman and Jeffrey Null,who are not to be found inthe State of Mississippi ondiligent inquiry and whosepost office addresses are notknown to the Petitioners afterdiligent inquiry made by saidPetitioners.You have been made Respondents in the suit filedin this Court by the WarrenCounty Department of Human Services by MargieShelton, and Cayden JamesRobinson, a minor, seekingto terminate your parentalrights as those rights relateto said minor and demandingthat the full custody, controland authority to act on behalfof said minor be placed withthe Warren County Department of Human Services.YOU ARE SUMMONED TOAPPEAR AND DEFENDAGAINST THE PETITIONFILED AGAINST YOU INTHIS ACTION AT 9:00 O'CLOCK A.M. ON THE13TH DAY OF FEBRUARY2012, IN THE COURTROOM OF THEWARREN COUNTYCOURTHOUSE AT VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI,AND IN CASE OF YOURFAILURE TO APPEAR ANDDEFEND, A JUDGMENTWILL BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THERELIEF DEMANDED INTHE PETITION.You are not required to filean answer or other pleading,but you may do so if you desire.ISSUED under my hand andseal of said Court, this 4thday of January, 2012.SHELLY ASHLEY-PALMERTREE, CIRCUITCLERK WARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPIVICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI39181BY: R. James, Deputy ClerkJoyce A. HillOffice of the Attorney GeneralP. O. Box 220Jackson, Mississippi 39205Telephone No.: (601) 359-4215Publish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

Substitute Trustee's Notice�of Sale STATE OF

�MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF�Warren WHEREAS,

on the 25th day of September, 2007, and acknowledged on the 25thday of September, 2007, EvaM. Hayward aka Eva M. Wilson, a married woman,joined herein by Louis R.Hayward, executed and delivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto ReconTrust Company, N.A., Trustee forMortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,as nominee for CountrywideBank, FSB, Beneficiary, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1685 atPage 0846 Instrument

�#252861; and WHEREAS,on the 20th day of October,2011, Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,as nominee for CountrywideBank, FSB, assigned saidDeed of Trust unto Bank ofAmerica, NA successor bymerger to BAC Home LoansServicing, LP fka Countrywide Home LoansServicing, LP, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1528 at Page 744 Instrument #292840;

�and WHEREAS, on the23rd day of November, 2011,the Holder of said Deed ofTrust substituted and appointed Michael Jedynakas Trustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument recorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1530 at Page 309

�Instrument #293431; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 27th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public out-cry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Courthouse at Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,

�Mississippi, to-wit: The following described propertybeing situated in the Countyof Warren, State of Mississippi, and being moreparticularly described as

�follows, to-wit: All of Lot 130,Hamilton Heights Subdivision, Part 4, a plat ofwhich is recorded in PlatBook 1 at Page 93 of theWarren County, Mississippi

�land records. By fee simpledeed from Jimmy L. Sweetand Cora L. Sweet as setforth in Deed Book 1130,Page 540 and recorded on2/9/1998, Warren County

�records. I will only conveysuch title as is vested in me

�as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 30th day of December,

� �2011. Michael Jedynak�Substitute Trustee 2309

�Oliver Road Monroe, LA� �71201 (318) 330-9020

�DMM/F10-2563�Publish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

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Substitute Trustee's Notice�of Sale STATE OF

�MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF�Warren WHEREAS,

on the 25th day of September, 2007, and acknowledged on the 25thday of September, 2007, EvaM. Hayward aka Eva M. Wilson, a married woman,joined herein by Louis R.Hayward, executed and delivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto ReconTrust Company, N.A., Trustee forMortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,as nominee for CountrywideBank, FSB, Beneficiary, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1685 atPage 0846 Instrument

�#252861; and WHEREAS,on the 20th day of October,2011, Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,as nominee for CountrywideBank, FSB, assigned saidDeed of Trust unto Bank ofAmerica, NA successor bymerger to BAC Home LoansServicing, LP fka Countrywide Home LoansServicing, LP, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1528 at Page 744 Instrument #292840;

�and WHEREAS, on the23rd day of November, 2011,the Holder of said Deed ofTrust substituted and appointed Michael Jedynakas Trustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument recorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1530 at Page 309

�Instrument #293431; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 27th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public out-cry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Courthouse at Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,

�Mississippi, to-wit: The following described propertybeing situated in the Countyof Warren, State of Mississippi, and being moreparticularly described as

�follows, to-wit: All of Lot 130,Hamilton Heights Subdivision, Part 4, a plat ofwhich is recorded in PlatBook 1 at Page 93 of theWarren County, Mississippi

�land records. By fee simpledeed from Jimmy L. Sweetand Cora L. Sweet as setforth in Deed Book 1130,Page 540 and recorded on2/9/1998, Warren County

�records. I will only conveysuch title as is vested in me

�as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 30th day of December,

� �2011. Michael Jedynak�Substitute Trustee 2309

�Oliver Road Monroe, LA� �71201 (318) 330-9020

�DMM/F10-2563�Publish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

Substitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Warren WHEREAS, on the 8th dayof May, 2007, and acknowl-edged on the 8th day of May,2007, Phillip Hogan, an un-married man, executed anddelivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Recon Trust Company, N.A., Trustee forMortgage Electronic Regis-tration Systems, Inc., asnominee for CountrywideHome Loans, Inc., Beneficia-ry, to secure an indebted-ness therein described,which Deed of Trust isrecorded in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi in Book1653 at Page 803 Instrument#245406; andWHEREAS, on the 27th dayof August, 2011, MortgageElectronic Registration Sys-tems, Inc., assigned saidDeed of Trust unto Bank ofAmerica, N.A., successor bymerger to BAC Home LoansServicing, Lp fka Country-wide Home Loans ServicingLp, by instrument recorded inthe office of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1526 at Page 768 Instrument#289942; and WHEREAS, on the 29th dayof November, 2011, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedMichael Jedynak as Trusteein said Deed of Trust, by in-strument recorded in the of-fice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1530 at Page 473 Instrument#293657; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 27th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public out-cry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Court-house at Vicksburg, Missis-sippi, for cash to the highestbidder, the following de-scribed land and property sit-uated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit:All of Lot 10 in Block 1 of thatsurvey in the City of Vicks-burg known as "Katieville" asshown by plat of record inBook 116, Page 230 of theWarren County LandRecords.Also, that part of Lot 11 inBlock 1 of that survey in theCity of Vicksburg known as"Katieville" as shown by platof record in Book 116, Page230 of the Warren CountyLand Records, described asbeginning at the Northeastcorner of Lot in Block 1 ofsaid survey, being the South-east corner of said Lot 11,and running thence in aNortherly direction along theEast line of said Lot 11, adistance of 2 feet; thence onan azimuth of 94 degrees 03minutes, a distance of 62.03feet; thence on an azimuth of90 degrees 21 minutes, adistance of 144.69 feet to theWest line of said Lot 11;thence on an azimuth of 13degrees along the West lineof said Lot 11, a distance of6.15 feet to the Southwestcorner of said Lot 11, beingthe Northwest corner of saidLot 10; thence on an azimuthof 90 degrees 21 minutes,along the North line of saidLot 10, a distance of 208.04feet to the point of beginning.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me as Substi-tute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 22nd day of December,2011.Michael JedynakSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020DMM/F11-1717Publish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

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Substitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Warren WHEREAS, on the 8th dayof May, 2007, and acknowl-edged on the 8th day of May,2007, Phillip Hogan, an un-married man, executed anddelivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Recon Trust Company, N.A., Trustee forMortgage Electronic Regis-tration Systems, Inc., asnominee for CountrywideHome Loans, Inc., Beneficia-ry, to secure an indebted-ness therein described,which Deed of Trust isrecorded in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi in Book1653 at Page 803 Instrument#245406; andWHEREAS, on the 27th dayof August, 2011, MortgageElectronic Registration Sys-tems, Inc., assigned saidDeed of Trust unto Bank ofAmerica, N.A., successor bymerger to BAC Home LoansServicing, Lp fka Country-wide Home Loans ServicingLp, by instrument recorded inthe office of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1526 at Page 768 Instrument#289942; and WHEREAS, on the 29th dayof November, 2011, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedMichael Jedynak as Trusteein said Deed of Trust, by in-strument recorded in the of-fice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1530 at Page 473 Instrument#293657; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 27th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public out-cry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Court-house at Vicksburg, Missis-sippi, for cash to the highestbidder, the following de-scribed land and property sit-uated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit:All of Lot 10 in Block 1 of thatsurvey in the City of Vicks-burg known as "Katieville" asshown by plat of record inBook 116, Page 230 of theWarren County LandRecords.Also, that part of Lot 11 inBlock 1 of that survey in theCity of Vicksburg known as"Katieville" as shown by platof record in Book 116, Page230 of the Warren CountyLand Records, described asbeginning at the Northeastcorner of Lot in Block 1 ofsaid survey, being the South-east corner of said Lot 11,and running thence in aNortherly direction along theEast line of said Lot 11, adistance of 2 feet; thence onan azimuth of 94 degrees 03minutes, a distance of 62.03feet; thence on an azimuth of90 degrees 21 minutes, adistance of 144.69 feet to theWest line of said Lot 11;thence on an azimuth of 13degrees along the West lineof said Lot 11, a distance of6.15 feet to the Southwestcorner of said Lot 11, beingthe Northwest corner of saidLot 10; thence on an azimuthof 90 degrees 21 minutes,along the North line of saidLot 10, a distance of 208.04feet to the point of beginning.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me as Substi-tute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 22nd day of December,2011.Michael JedynakSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020DMM/F11-1717Publish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on October 24,2009, Jeffrey Lee Laubachand Paula Dianne Laubach,husband and wife as jointtenants with right of survivorship executed a certain deed of trust to LSI - Lender's Service, Inc.,Trustee for the benefit ofMortgage Electronic Registrations Systems, Inc.which deed of trust is ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, State of Mississippiin Book 1703 at Page 510;andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned to JPMorganChase Bank, National Association by instrumentdated October 6, 2011 andrecorded in Book 1528 atPage 511 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, JPMorganChase Bank, National Association has heretoforesubstituted J. Gary Masseyas Trustee by instrument dated November 10, 2011and recorded in the aforesaidChancery Clerk's Office inBook 1530 at Page 158; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, JPMorgan ChaseBank, National Association,the legal holder of said indebtedness, having requested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee to execute the trust and sellsaid land and property in accordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on January 20, 2012 offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours(being between the hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), atthe West Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren County, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit: The Following describedproperty:Situated in the County ofWarren, State of Mississippi,more particularly describedas follows, to-wit:Lot 72 of Openwood Plantation Subdivision, PartIII, as shown by Plat ofRecord in Plat Book 2 atPage 32-33 of the WarrenCounty Land Records.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 21st day of December, 2011.J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEShapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-9299205 E. Pecan Tree LaneVicksburg, MS 3918311-002723JCPublish: 12/30, 1/6, 1/13(3t)

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01. LegalsSubstitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Warren WHEREAS, on the 23rd dayof December, 2004, and acknowledged on the 23rdday of December, 2004,Odell F. Allen and Tena M.Mace aka Tena Marie Mace,executed and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoWilliam H. Glover, Jr.,Trustee for Wells FargoBank, N.A., Beneficiary, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1509 atPage 182; andWHEREAS, on the 25th dayof August, 2008, Wells FargoBank, NA, assigned saidDeed of Trust unto US BankNational Association, asTrustee for SASCO Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-GEL4, by instrument recorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1484 at Page 123 Instrument Number 259532;and WHEREAS, on the 25th dayof July, 2008, the Holder ofsaid Deed of Trust substituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument recorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1484 at Page 124 Instrument Number 259533;andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 20th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public out-cry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Courthouse at Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit:All of Lot 4 of Benard AcresSubdivision, a plat of whichis filed for record in PlatBook 3 at Page 12 of theland records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 20th day of December,2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020COC/F08-1938Publish: 12/30, 1/6, 1/13(3t)

NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS OF THE ES-TATE OF BARBARALOUISE BREWER McAACAUSE NO. 2010-087-PR Letters Testamentary in Estate of Barbara LouiseBrewer McCaa having beengranted to the undersignedon the 4th day of January,2011, by the Chancery Courtof Warren County, notice ishereby given to all personshaving claims against saidEstate to have same probated, registered and allowed by the Clerk of saidCourt within ninety (90) daysfrom the 1st date of publication of this noticewhich is the 6th day of January, 2012, or they willbe forever barred by operation of law. Dated thisthe 22nd day of December,2011./s/ JENNIFER L. DANCZYK EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF BARBARALOUISE BREWER MCCAAPublish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

PUBLIC NOTICE- WarrenCounty. Mabrie Gilmor willbe applying for a full pardon30 days from posting for thecrime of vehicularmanslaughter committed6/1990 charged in this coun-ty and has lived a law abid-ing life since, forgiveness issought. If there are objec-tions to granting of this par-don, please contact the Pa-role Board by phone at (601)576-3520 or fax (601) 576-3528. Publish: 12/8, 12/9, 12/10,12/11, 12/12, 12/13, 12/14,12/15, 12/16, 12/17, 12/18,12/19, 12/20, 12/21, 12/22,12/23, 12/24, 12/25/26,12/27, 12/28, 12/29, 12/30,12/31, 1/1, 1/ 2, 1/3, 1/ 4,1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8(30t)

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01. LegalsSubstitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Warren WHEREAS, on the 22nd dayof February, 2007, and acknowledged on the 22ndday of February, 2007, BrianK. Russell, executed and delivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Recontrust Company, NA, Trustee forMortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. asnominee for CountrywideHome Loans, Inc.,Beneficiary, to secure an indebtedness therein described, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1641 at Page 553Number 243221; andWHEREAS, on the 1st dayof March, 2010, MortgageElectronic Registration Systems, Inc., assigned saidDeed of Trust unto BACHome Loans Servicing, LPf/k/a Countrywide HomeLoans Servicing, LP, by instrument recorded in theoffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1506 at Page 680 InstrumentNumber 276306; and WHEREAS, on the 25th dayof September, 2008, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument recorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1486 at Page 20 Instrument Number 261916;andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 13th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Courthouse at Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit:All of Lot Twenty-Two (22) ofthat certain tract of land inWarren County, Mississippiknown as Shoreline Estates,being Lots 14 through 23, inclusive, of the Survey andSubdivision of Part ofParcels 3 and 2 South, of"Tarri-Longer Ranch, PartThree", in Section 21, Township 18 North, Range 2East, Warren County, Mississippi, a plat of whichappears of record in PlatBook 3 at Page 26 of theLand Records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi. SaidParcel is the same that wasconveyed to Forrest L. McNair and Patsy P. McNairby Merchants National Bank,Trustee for the LorenaBonelli Trust by correctivewarranty deed datedSeptember 16, 1981 andrecorded in Deed Book 644at Page 12 of the WarrenCounty, Mississippi LandRecords.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 19th day of December,2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020COC/F08-2309Publish: 12/23, 12/30, 1/6(3t)

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on April 27,2007, Michele C. Spivey andMontie Spivey, wife and husband executed a certaindeed of trust to MichaelLyon, Trustee for the benefitof Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.which deed of trust is ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, State of Mississippiin Book 1651 at Page 797;andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned to Deutsche BankNational Trust Company, asTrustee of the IndyMacIMSC Mortgage Trust 2007-HOA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,Series 2007-HOA1 under thePooling and Servicing Agreement dated June 1,2007 by instrument datedNovember 21, 2011 andrecorded in Book 1530 atPage 364 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company, asTrustee of the IndyMacIMSC Mortgage Trust 2007-HOA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series2007-HOA1 under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated June 1,2007 has heretofore substituted J. Gary Masseyas Trustee by instrument dated December 9, 2011 andrecorded in the aforesaidChancery Clerk's Office inBook 1530 at Page 579; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt se-cured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, asTrustee of the IndyMacIMSC Mortgage Trust 2007-HOA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,Series 2007-HOA1 under thePooling and Servicing Agreement dated June 1,2007, the legal holder of saidindebtedness, having requested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee to execute the trust and sellsaid land and property in accordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on January 27, 2012 offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours(being between the hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), atthe West Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren County, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit: ALL OF LOT 58, SHERWOOD FORESTSUBDIVISION ASRECORDED IN PLATBOOK 2, PAGE 89 OF THELAND RECORDS OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 23rd day of December, 2011.J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEShapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-9299119 King Arthur's RidgeVicksburg, MS 3918011-004000JCPublish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on April 27,2007, Michele C. Spivey andMontie Spivey, wife and husband executed a certaindeed of trust to MichaelLyon, Trustee for the benefitof Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.which deed of trust is ofrecord in the office of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, State of Mississippiin Book 1651 at Page 797;andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned to Deutsche BankNational Trust Company, asTrustee of the IndyMacIMSC Mortgage Trust 2007-HOA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,Series 2007-HOA1 under thePooling and Servicing Agreement dated June 1,2007 by instrument datedNovember 21, 2011 andrecorded in Book 1530 atPage 364 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company, asTrustee of the IndyMacIMSC Mortgage Trust 2007-HOA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series2007-HOA1 under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated June 1,2007 has heretofore substituted J. Gary Masseyas Trustee by instrument dated December 9, 2011 andrecorded in the aforesaidChancery Clerk's Office inBook 1530 at Page 579; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt se-cured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, asTrustee of the IndyMacIMSC Mortgage Trust 2007-HOA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,Series 2007-HOA1 under thePooling and Servicing Agreement dated June 1,2007, the legal holder of saidindebtedness, having requested the undersignedSubstituted Trustee to execute the trust and sellsaid land and property in accordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on January 27, 2012 offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours(being between the hours of11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), atthe West Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren County, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to thehighest and best bidder forcash the following describedproperty situated in WarrenCounty, State of Mississippi,to-wit: ALL OF LOT 58, SHERWOOD FORESTSUBDIVISION ASRECORDED IN PLATBOOK 2, PAGE 89 OF THELAND RECORDS OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 23rd day of December, 2011.J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTED TRUSTEEShapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-9299119 King Arthur's RidgeVicksburg, MS 3918011-004000JCPublish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

Substitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Warren WHEREAS, on the 21st dayof December, 2004, and acknowledged on the 21stday of December, 2004, An-toinette Woods, a singlewoman, executed and delivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Title First, LLC,Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee forUnited Financial MortgageCorp., Beneficiary, to securean indebtedness therein described, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1513 at Page 55#218834; andWHEREAS, on the 18th dayof September, 2009, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,assigned said Deed of Trustunto U.S. Bank National Association, a NationalBanking Association, not inits Individual Capacity, butsolely in its capacity asTrustee for the Terwin Mortgage Trust, SeriesTMTS 2005-6HE, by instrument recorded in theoffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1508 at Page 585 #277379;and WHEREAS, on the 18th dayof September, 2009, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument recorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1508 at Page 586#277380; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 27th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Courthouse at Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit:Lot 9, Wicland Place, Part 1,as per map or plat thereof onfile and of record in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi,in Plat Book 2 Page 29.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 27th day of December,2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020COC/F09-2685Publish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

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Substitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Warren WHEREAS, on the 21st dayof December, 2004, and acknowledged on the 21stday of December, 2004, An-toinette Woods, a singlewoman, executed and delivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Title First, LLC,Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee forUnited Financial MortgageCorp., Beneficiary, to securean indebtedness therein described, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1513 at Page 55#218834; andWHEREAS, on the 18th dayof September, 2009, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,assigned said Deed of Trustunto U.S. Bank National Association, a NationalBanking Association, not inits Individual Capacity, butsolely in its capacity asTrustee for the Terwin Mortgage Trust, SeriesTMTS 2005-6HE, by instrument recorded in theoffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1508 at Page 585 #277379;and WHEREAS, on the 18th dayof September, 2009, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrument recorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1508 at Page 586#277380; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 27th day of January,2012, I will during the lawfulhours of between 11:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m., at public outcry, offer for sale and willsell, at the west front door ofthe Warren County Courthouse at Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit:Lot 9, Wicland Place, Part 1,as per map or plat thereof onfile and of record in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippi,in Plat Book 2 Page 29.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me as Substitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 27th day of December,2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020COC/F09-2685Publish: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20(3t)

02. Public Service

FREE PUPPIES TO goodhomes. Labrador/ Bull Dogmix, cute adorable, ready togo! 601-638-4840.

FREE TO GOOD homes.Adorable German Shepherdmix puppies. Full of love.601-636-0540.

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05. Notices“Credit problems?

No problem!”No way. The Federal

Trade Commission says no company can legally

remove accurate and timelyinformation from your creditreport. Learn about manag-

ing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit

A message from The Vicksburg Post

and the FTC.

Warren County LongTerm Recovery

CommitteeA non-profit volunteer

agency organized to provide for the unmetneeds of the Warren

County victims of the2011 flood.

VOLUNTEERSNEEDED

Volunteers experiencedwith construction anddesign are needed to

assist the LTRC invarious projects

supporting 2011 Floodvictims in

Warren County.Please call 601-636-1788

to offer support.

Center ForPregnancy ChoicesFree Pregnancy Tests

(non-medical facility)· Education on All

Options· Confidential Coun-

selingCall 601-638-2778

for apptwww.vicksburgpregnan-

cy.com

ENDING HOMELESS-NESS. WOMEN with chil-dren or without are you inneed of shelter? Mountainof Faith Ministries/ Wom-en's Restoration Shelter.Certain restrictions apply,601-661-8990. Life coach-ing available by appoint-ment.

05. Notices

Is the one youlove

hurting you?Call

Haven House FamilyShelter

601-638-0555 or1-800-898-0860

Services available towomen & children who are

victims of domestic violence and/or homeless: Shelter, coun-seling, group support.(Counseling available by

appt.)

FOUND!MALE POODLE mix. Black

and brown. Camelot area.601-415-2085.

RunawayAre you 12 to 17?Alone? Scared?

Call 601-634-0640 any-time or 1-800-793-8266

We can help!One child,

one day at a time.


06. Lost & Found

Brown and White Male Sheltie(About 11 inches tall)

Looks like Lassie. Last seen at hunting Club

property MT Alban/ WarriorsTrail about 5pm 1/1/12 (near

trailer park and concrete bridge)PLEASE CALL 601-618-5457

Call if you see him(leave message as to

where you saw him andyour phone)

Call if you catch him orfind his body!

REWARD!!

FOUND YOUNG MALEBLACK LABRADOR

This sweet dog found meyesterday when he appearedfrom the woods behindHelping Hands Pharmacy onHwy 61 N on December 30,2011. He has no collar, isreally thin and very wellbehaved. If you think hemight be your pet, pleasecall Mike or Kristy at 601-638-6292.

LOST DOG!9 POUND CHIHUAHUA.

“Justin” is an all white male,lost in the Clay Street/ FirstNorth Street area. Reward.601-630-3276.

LOST DOG!GROWN WHITE MALE

Foxhound. Chapel Hillsarea. 601-415-1504.

LOST!GRAY AND WHITE male

Tabby kitten. Wearing a tealcollar with a bell, missingfrom the Dana Road, Deer-field Drive vicinity. 601-634-6560, 601-529-0690.

LOST! MALE RED MerleAustralian Shepherd andFemale Yellow Labrador/Pit Bull mix. Hwy 27 area.601-529-0116.

REWARD $100+ FAMILYloved pet. Female blackLabrador- Large, very friend-ly. Blind in one eye. Needsmedication. Has been treat-ed for red mange. Spayed,was wearing pink collarwhen she went missing.Chases deer, not trafficsmart. Always sleeps inside.Missing from Timberlanearea. Was seen on HallsFerry. If seen please call601-415-2284, 601-636-8774.

REWARD!PIG TAKEN!

Family pet pig takenfrom Warriors Trail home.$50 reward for return or

for information leading tothe return of the pig.

Call 769-232-5496.

PRIVATE, LOCAL PRACTICE LOOKING FOR A

MOTIVATED, ORGANIZED AND EXPERIENCED

PART-TIME OPTICIAN.

Candiates must possess excellent communicationskills, reliability, responsibility, intelligence,

and personality qualities.Duties include but are not limited to:

• Optical sales • Frame selection• History of Retail Sales, • Cutting and edging

• Billing optical sales through vision service plans • Computer Skills • Contact lens training

• Availability to work on Saturdays.

Mail Cover letter, Resume,Compensation History and Expectations to:

Dept. #3775, The Vicksburg PostP.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182

LEAD MAIN BANKERThe minimum requirements for this position includes:· Minimum two (2) years experience as a Main Banker

in the gaming industry·High school diploma or GED·Passing company math test

·Ability to work at a fast pace with large amounts of currency·Available to work weekends, holidays and/or any shift assigned

·Mississippi Gaming License required

CAGE CASHIERThe minimum requirements for this position includes:

·Minimum one (1) year cash-handling experience ·High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

·Passing company math test·Ability to work at a fast pace with large amounts of currency

·Available to work weekends, holidays and/or any shift assigned·Mississippi Gaming License required

Candidates who submitted an application more than 90 days ago should complete a new application

If you want to be part of the excitement and are an experienced customer service professional, visit our website at www.riverwalkvicksburg.com and click on

“work for us” to complete an application or stop by our Human Resources office at 200 Warrenton Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180

(next to Waffle House & Days Inn) Monday-Friday 9:00am–4:00 pm

“Work Happy!”EOE / DRUG FREE

www.riverwalkvicksburg.com


APPLICATIONS ARECURRENTLY BEING ACCEPTED FOR A

PRESSMAN. Experience helpful,

but will train theright person.

Some nights and weekend work

required. Position includes

benefits. Applications taken at

the front desk of The Vicksburg Post,

Monday- Friday, 10am until 2pm ONLY!No phone calls, please.

LLOOOOKKIINNGG FFOORR YYOOUURR

DDRREEAAMM HHOOMMEE??

Check the real estate

listings in the

classifieds daily.

29. UnfurnishedApartments

07. Help Wanted

“ACE”Truck Driver Training

With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.

Day, Night & RefresherClasses

Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124

BARTENDER, CASHIER,WAITERS needed. Full and

part time. Please send resumes to:Dept 3774

The Vicksburg PostP.O. Box 821668

Vicksburg, MS 39182

CEDAR GROVE MANSION Inn& Restaurant, Vicksburg MS Nowhiring a front desk clerk. Part timeposition. Hours and Days vary.Must be willing to work weekendsand Holidays. Experience withcustomer service, computers,phones, reservations and lodging.Send resumes to: [email protected]

COUNSELOR NEEDEDFOR a juvenile group home.Must have a Master's degreein counseling, social work orrelated field. Must have ex-perience working in the sub-stance abuse field. Pleasefax your resume to 318-574-4093, attention Janet.

LOCAL COMPANYLOOKING for a qualified in-dividual who is seekinglong-term employment. Wehave a full-time position foran experienced and de-pendable HVAC technician.2 or more years experiencerequired. Please fax yourresume to 601-636-1475.


07. Help Wanted

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

EXPERIENCEDMECHANIC

NEEDED

Apply in person only at:

Sheffield Rentals1255 Hwy 61 South

Vicksburg.NO PHONE CALLS,

PLEASE

07. Help Wanted

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NOW HIRING SHIP fit-ters, Flux Core Welders,Short Arc Welders, StickWelders, Pipe Welders, andPipe Fitters. Must have 3 ormore years experience.Work located alongLouisiana/ Gulf Coast area.Please call 985-542-7881 orFax resumes to 985-346-7882. EOE

PART TIME ON-SITEapartment manager neededfor small local apartmentcomplex. Must be honest,dependable, work well withpublic, must have good cler-ical skills, experience aplus. Serious inquiries only,fax resume to: 318-352-1929.

PECAN PICKERS NEED-ED. Keep half of all you pick.

Call 601-630-5439.

12. Schools &Instruction

EARN COLLEGE DEGREE ONLINE.

*Medical, *Business,*Criminal Justice. Jobplacement assistance.Computer available. Financial aid if qualified.

SCHEV certified. Call 877-206-5185.

www.CenturaOnline.com

WORK ON JET Engines.Train for hands on AviationCareer. FAA approved pro-gram. Financial aid if quali-fied. Job placement assis-tance. CALL Aviation Insti-tute of Maintenance 866-455-4317.


14. Pets &Livestock

Vicksburg WarrenHumane Society& MS - Span

Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631

CATS:Male . .$25 Female ........$35

DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS):Male . .$55 Female ........$65

• For the above category ofanimals, pick up applications at

the Humane Society

DOGS (OVER 40 LBS):Male . .$70 Female ........$80

• For dogs over 40 lbs,call 866-901-7729 for appt.

Low CostSpay & Neuter Program

14. Pets &Livestock

FULL BLOODED AUS-TRALIAN Shepherd puppy.Small type, black tri-col-ored male. $100. 601-415-1373.

www.pawsrescuepets.org

If you are feeding a strayor feral cat and needhelp with spaying orneutering, pleasecall 601-529-1535.

15. AuctionOUR ON-LINE

SUBSCRIPTION keepsyou “plugged” in to allthe local news, sports,community events. Call

Circulation, 601-636-4545.

16. Antiques

STACY DOUGLASANTIQUES

New Shipment from New Orleans!

619 Crawford Street(beneath Cinnamon Tree)

504-427-4071

17. Wanted ToBuy

PLEASE CALL THEGentleman of Junk for allyour junk vehicle needs.Just in time for extraChristmas cash, Pleaseleave message if no an-swer. 601-868-2781.

WANTING TO PUR-CHASE all types of usedconstruction equipment.Call Mark at 337-439-6608.

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.

24. BusinessServices

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

HOME COMPUTER SER-VICE and repair. Reasonableprices. Pick up available .601-502-5265, 601-636-7376.

OAK FIREWOOD $70 ½cord, $40 ¼ cord. Free De-livery and Stack. 601-218-7579.

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!

TANNING BED. 16 bulbSuntanna, one owner, newbulbs, 110 outlet. $800.601-218-1458.

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.

18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale

TWIN MATTRESS SETS$175, Full sets $199. Newsofa love seat $675. 601-638-7191. Discount FurnitureBarn.

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.

19. Garage &Yard Sales

10030 HIGHWAY 61South at Yokena, Friday,Saturday, 10am- until, 21inch t.v., small generator,clothes, miscellaneous, toomuch to list!

1116 HARRISONSTREET, Multi-family, Sat-urday 7am-Noon. House-hold items, collectibles,home décor, clothing, andmuch more.

200&203 HARRIET AV-ENUE, off John Allen, Satur-day 7am- 2pm. Furniture, Shi-atsu massage cushion, paint-ball gun, slow cooker, dishes,toys, paper, pens, books, TV,radio, clothes, shoes, lamps,car seat, more.

Ask us how to “PostSize” your ad with some

great clip art! Call theClassified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355).

GARAGE SALE OVER?River City Rescue Missionwill pickup donated left overitems. 601-636-6602.

STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale?Donate your items to

The Salvation Army, we pick-up!

Call 601-636-2706.

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

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

for circulation.

20. Hunting

Call our Circulation Department for

CONVENIENT Home Delivery and/ or our On-line Subscription.

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

21. Boats,Fishing Supplies

What's going on in Vicksburg?

Read The Vicksburg Post!For convenient home

delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for

circulation.



CLARK’S CONSTRUCTION

Dozer, Track hoe, Form setting, Concrete,

Demolition work.

601-218-9233 • 601-638-9233

State licensed and Bonded

• 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

D.R. PAINTING AND CON-STRUCTION. Painting, roof-ing, carpentry service. Li-censed, bonded. Free esti-mates! Call 601-638-5082.

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

DIRT, SAND, CLAY grav-el, 6/10. Anywhere andAnytime. 601-218-9233,601-638-9233.

ELVIS YARD SERVICES.General yard clean-up, rakeleaves, grass cutting, treecutting, reasonable. 601-415-7761. Quick response.

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

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

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

ALL MOBILE HOMEOWNERS!

Single or double wide.Insulate with a new mobile

home roof over kit. 2" foam insulation on top ofyour home with 29 gauge

steel roofing. Guaranteed to save 25- 30%

on heating/ cooling bill. 20 colors to choose from.

Financing available with nomoney down. Also custom

insulated mobile home windows. Free estimate.

Donnie Grubbs. Toll free 1-888-339-5992www.donniegrubbs.com

26. For RentOr Lease

RICHARD M. CALDWELL

BROKER

SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS(INCLUDING CORPORATE

APARTMENTS)CALL 601-618-5180

[email protected]


THE COVEStop looking,

Start living!Paid cable, water and

trash. Washer, Dryer andbuilt-in microwave

furnished.

601-638-55871-601-686-0635

Ask about ourHoliday special!


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

DOWNTOWN, BRICK,MARIE Apartments. Total

electric, central air/ heat,stove, refrigerator. $520, water

furnished. 601-636-7107, [email protected]

GATED, HAS IT ALL. 1 bed-room/ 2 bedroom, $450/ $550.Washer/ dryer included. 1115First North. 512-787-7840.

30. HousesFor Rent

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.Formal dining/ living, den,hardwood floors, 2000 squarefeet, $1150. 601-831-0066.

EAGLE LAKE. 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, furnished,largest pier on lake. Beauti-

ful view. $1,250 monthly,DirectTV included.

601-218-5348.

31. Mobile HomesFor Rent

1 BEDROOM, and RV'sfor rent Some with utilitiesfurnished, no pets, depositrequired. 601-301-0285.

118 RIDGEVIEW. COUN-TRY lot. Nice, 3 bedroom 2bath. $575 plus deposit andreferences. 601-638-6660.

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

601-619-9789.


32. Mobile HomesFor Sale

16x80 singlewide. 3 bed-rooms, 2 baths, fireplace,central air. $18,375. 601-916-9796, 662-417-2354.

KEEP UP WITH ALLTHE LOCAL NEWS

AND SALES...SUBSCRIBE TO

THE VICKSBURG POSTTODAY! CALL

601-636-4545, ASK FORCIRCULATION.

NEED A HOME? Creditbeen a problem? Call theCredit Experts “GuaranteedCredit Approval!” 601-916-9796, 662-417-2354.

OWNER FINANCE, NO CREDIT CHECK!

5 bedrooms, 3 baths withland. Must have $5,000

deposit. Call Buddy, 601-941-2952.

USED DOUBLE WIDE. 3bedrooms, 2 baths, centralair, will deliver and set-up.Only $30,000. 662-417-2354, 601-916-9796.

34. HousesFor Sale

3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths.South county, carport,basement. $35,000. 601-529-0829.

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

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

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

www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net

Eagle Lake - 16853 Hwy 465,2 story apartment 2BR/1BA

upstairs, 1BR /1BA downstairs,lakefront, deck, pier, completelyfurnished, reduced, make offer.

50 Sullivan Cove - 2 story,2BR/1BA up, 1BR down,

everything new, flooring toroof, deck, community pier,boat launch, 2 lots, $130,000

Bette Paul Warner601-218-1800

McMillin Real Estate

HOUSES FOR SALE1862 MLK

807 First NorthLAND FOR SALE

801 First NorthFarmer St. Bl. 3

Call [email protected]

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

601-636-6490

Licensed inMS and LA

Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency

1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com

Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Alex 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

35. Lots For SaleBEAUTIFUL 3.03

ACRES, ready for building.Bill Strong Road. Price re-duced to $17,000. 601-218-7816 , 601-218-9984.

37. RecreationalVehicles

4 WHEEL DRIVE Electrichunting golf cart. Rough andtough. 48 volt, street legal. Allaccessories. Must see!!$5,500. Sacrifice. 60-415-2224.


40. Cars & Trucks

YEAR END SPECIAL!!

Garyscfl.com

2003 Buick Rendevous$955 Down

$176 Bi -WeeklyGary’s Cars601-883-9995

1985 JEEP RENEGADE4 wheel drive, 6 cylinder,soft top. Runs Great!! 601-415-2224. $5,500 Sacrifice.

1996 CROWN VICTO-RIA. Loaded, good condi-tion. $4,000. 601-218-2030.

EXPERIENCED FRONTDESK and house keeperneeded. Apply in person. Nophone calls. Battlefield Inn.

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

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

660011--663366--SSEELLLL ((77335555))

All Business &

Service Directory Ads

MUST BE PAID

IN ADVANCE!

To advertise yourbusiness here for as

little as $2.83 per day,call our Classified Dept.

at 601-636-7355.

ROCKETTAXICAB

601-636-0491FREERides for

Children 4 & Under

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!

MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive

Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625

Equal Housing Opportunity

801 Clay Street 601-630-2921www.the-vicksburg.com

UTILITIES PAID!1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments

Studios & Efficiencies

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COME CHECK US OUT TODAYYOU’LL WANT TO MAKE YOUR

HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

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HOME HEREGreat Location, Hard-Working Staff

601-638-7831 • 201 Berryman Rd

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

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