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forces liberate Warsaw dur-ing World War II; Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallen-berg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews, disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.1977: Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, 36, is shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. ex-ecution in a decade.

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Wikipedia going dark for day in protest of ‘censorship’ legislation

Limits proposed for gubernatorial pardons

By The Associated Press

Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legisla-tion under consideration in Congress, the foundation behind the popular commu-

nity-based online encyclo-pedia said in a statement Monday night.

The website will go dark for 24 hours in an unprec-edented move that brings added muscle to a growing base of critics of the legisla-tion. Wikipedia is considered

one of the Internet’s most popular websites, with mil-lions of visitors daily.

“If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of inter-national websites inside the United States,” the Wikime-

dia foundation said.The Stop Online Piracy Act

in the U.S. House of Repre-sentatives and the Protect Intellectual Property Act under consideration in the Senate are designed to crack down on sales of pirated U.S. products overseas.

Supporters include the film and music industry, which often sees its products sold illegally. They say the legis-lation is needed to protect intellectual property and jobs.

By Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press

JACKSON — Some Mississippi lawmakers want to limit the gov-ernor’s pardon powers, a discus-sion prompted by Republican Haley Barbour’s actions as he left office last Tuesday.

Barbour granted pardons or

other reprieves to more than 200 people, including many convicted of violent crimes. He said 189 had served their time, and pardons offer a chance for redemption.

“We believe in forgiveness of sin. We believe in second chances,” Barbour said last Friday, explaining his decisions.

The new governor, Republi-

can Phil Bryant, said last week he has no intention of pardon-ing anyone. He’s also changing a trusty program that allows a few inmates to cook, clean or do other odd jobs at the Governor’s Mansion. Trusties are chosen by the state Department of Correc-tions, and they’re traditionally pardoned or given some other

relief, such as suspended sen-tence, when a governor leaves office.

Barbour pardoned the 10 trust-ies who worked during eight years at the mansion — five each term. Eight were convicted of murder, one of manslaughter and

Politics, timeblamed forshortage onzoning boardBy John Surrattjsurratt@vicksburgpost.

When the Vicksburg Board of Zoning Appeals failed last week to have a quorum for a hearing on a high-profile special exception, its lack of action pointed to a two-year-old problem with keeping the board full.

The board, appointed by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and required by city ordi-nance to have seven members, has not had more than five members in nearly three years.

Politics, city officials say, is one reason why finding people willing to serve is a challenge.

“We have some high-profile issues,” board chairman Tommie Rawlings said. “This is the type of board where you can anger some people. I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘You guys are tough. You’re taking care of business. I don’t know if I can do that.’”

North Alderman Michael Mayfield said he approached someone about a zoning board spot “and they told me they didn’t want any part of it. They didn’t want the politics.”

The zoning board was established by city ordinance to review and decide issues involving rezoning, construction variances and special exceptions to ensure compatibil-ity with the city’s comprehensive plan. The seven are volunteers and serve without pay.

Their decisions can make or break a busi-ness or development or affect the life of one or hundreds of residents.

To hear and act on zoning issues, at least four board members must attend meetings, and four votes are required to approve a zoning change. When the board had seven people, members said, four to six regularly attended.

With only five members, the board has failed to have a quorum six times in the past two years, according to city planning department records. Some zoning requests have been denied because a four-member board failed to reach a unanimous vote. In

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King remembered with service, prayerBy Danny Barrett [email protected]

Household chores became labors of love Monday for local volunteers celebrating the spirit of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Five who represent local schools in the America Reads Mississippi literacy program wiped counter-tops and dusted baseboards at Waters Youth Foundation Boys’ Shelter in Vicksburg. The job ended in prayer.

“We do five service projects a year and this one was to honor Dr. King,” said volunteer Shar-unda Flagg, a regular volunteer who represents Sherman Avenue and Bowmar Elementary schools in the AmeriCorps literacy pro-gram for five national service days — the King holiday, Read Across America Day in March, National Global Youth Day in April, National AmeriCorps week in May and Make a Difference Day in October.

The volunteer “clean team” con-sisted of Flagg, Marita Smith, who works at Vicksburg Intermedi-ate; Mychal Winters, who works at Dana Road Elementary; Ria

Judge, assistant principal at Sher-man Avenue; and volunteer direc-tor Lillian Porter.

A squeaky-clean kitchen and fresh-scented study room for the six boys who live in the facility was a godsend for activities coor-dinator Daniel Jennings.

“It’s those things we sometimes just don’t have a chance to do,” he

said of the shelter, staffed by two to three people by day. It’s defi-nitely in the spirit of the holiday today.”

A reading room affords boys time to meet the written word between such outings as fishing and horseback riding.

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IN THE SPIRIT

After working to clean the Waters Youth Foundation Boys’ Shelter on Sherman Avenue, volunteers hold hands in prayer. They are, from left, Mychal Winters, Daniel Jennings, Sylvester Walker and Isla Thomas, 15, the daughter of Wade Thomas and Ria Judge.

Alma and John Smith, both 81 and married for 56 years, sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the closing of the 26th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Monday evening at the Vicksburg Municipal Auditorium. They have attended every year for 32 years.

See MLK, Page A7.

See Zoning, Page A7.

See Wikipedia, Page A7.

See Pardons, Page A7.

‘This is the type of board where you can anger some people.’

Tommie Rawlings

Zoning board chairman

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Students across Vicksburg could

be seen taking advantage of

mild tempera-tures on a day

out of school Monday. Above,

Vicksburg Junior High’s

Sheridan Bell, 13, son of Keith Neal and Shalay

Bell, goes up for a football

catch at River-front Park. At

right, 4-year-old Kurriya White-

head and her neighbor, Alicia

Louis, 9, enjoy a bicycle ride along Cherry

Street. Kurriya is the daugh-ter of Kurtre-

nia Whitehead and Stacy Wil-

liams and Alicia is the daugh-

ter of Agnes Donaldson and

Michael Louis.

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Store customer shotafter fight with clerk

A Vicksburg man was shot Monday night after an argu-ment with a convenience store clerk turned violent and involved racial insults, police said.

Thomas Flaggs, 34, 3014 Green St., was shot in the thigh while running from the clerk at the Five-Star Food Mart, 1108 Bowmar Ave., said Lt. Sandra Wil-liams of the Vicksburg Police Department.

Jalal Hizam, 21, 201 Ber-ryman Road, Apt. 33., was charged with aggravated assault after shooting “numerous times” at Flaggs as he ran down the street around 6:50 p.m. The loca-tion of the shooting was not included in the initial report, Williams said, though it was between the store — at the intersection with Drummond Street — and Flaggs’ home, about four blocks away.

“Hizam reportedly was screaming racial slurs at him as he was chasing him and trying to shoot him,” Wil-liams said.

Williams said Flaggs went to the store to make a pur-chase but did not have enough money. He left and returned later with the cor-rect amount, she said.

“The shooter started making derogatory state-ments to him and asked him to leave the store,” she said. “Somehow an argu-ment ensued, and the clerk started pushing him out of the store.”

As the argument became physical, the clerk reportedly pulled a weapon and began to chase and fire at Flaggs.

Flaggs was taken by ambu-lance to River Region Medi-cal Center, where he was in fair condition this morning, said spokesman Allen Karel.

Hizam was being held with-out bond pending an initial hearing, said Williams.

Two men jailedin county burglaries

Two Vicksburg men were charged with burglary Monday after a resident returned home on East Drive and saw two people running from the back of his home, Sheriff Martin Pace said.

Spencer Griffin, 22, 1929 Baldwin Ferry Road, and Herbert Norfort, 21, 103 North Drive, were arrested at Norfort’s home around noon, Pace said.

The resident who reported the burglary gave a descrip-

tion of the suspects’ clothing, and a deputy spotted them, chased them through woods off nearby Nailor Road before losing them.

With permission from the homeowner where Norfort lives, deputies searched the home, also in the same area, and found the two men, one under a bed and one in a shower stall.

Some items from the East Drive burglary were recov-ered, and a rifle, a laptop computer, an iPod, a camera and a recorder were recov-ered from a Jan. 3 burglary in the 100 block of North Drive.

Griffin and Norfort are charged with two counts of burglary each and were being investigated in other crimes, Pace said.

Both were in the Warren County Jail pending an ini-tial hearing to set bond.

Home, car burglariesreported over holiday

Auto and residential bur-glaries were reported in the city over the holiday weekend, said Lt. Sandra Williams.

Sunday at 2:30 p.m., a resi-dent in the 1100 block of Jef-ferson Street reported that a Louis Vuitton purse valued at $350, about 30 DVDs valued at $150, a cell phone valued at $20, a slab of ribs valued at $15 and a box of Little Debbie cakes valued at $5 were miss-ing from the home.

Monday at 12:45 a.m., a weed trimmer valued at $400, a bottle of liquor valued at $10, a pair of pants valued at $25, 12 DVDs valued at $60, a cell phone valued at $80 and $15 were reported stolen from a home in the 1800 block of Court Street.

Monday at 8:26 a.m., a .32-caliber handgun, no value provided, was reported miss-ing from a 1998 Mercury Mar-quis parked at DiamondJacks Casino, 3990 Washington St.

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Five more bodies foundon capsized Italian ship

ROME — Five more bodies have been found aboard a cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Tuscany, Italaian authorities said, raising the official death toll to 11.

Teams have been search-ing the ship for passengers and crew missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks Friday evening and capsized. Rescuers exploded four holes in the hull of the ship earlier today to gain easier access to areas that had not yet been searched.

Before the latest find, 29 people from the cruise ship were still missing. Officials said the missing included 14 Germans, six Italians, four French, two Americans, one Hungarian, one Indian and one Peruvian.

Mars rocks fellin Africa last July

WASHINGTON — Scien-tists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars — meteorite chunks that fell from the red planet over Morocco last summer.

This is only the fifth time experts have chemically con-firmed fresh Martian rocks fell to Earth. The last time was in 1962. Scientists believe this meteorite fell last July in North Africa because there were sightings of it.

A special committee of meteorite experts certified that 15 pounds of meteor-ite recently collected came from Mars. The biggest rock weighs more than 2 pounds.

N.J. mom gives birthon train to Big Apple

NEW YORK — A New Jersey woman got the morn-ing commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a PATH commuter train to New York.

Rabita Sarkar, 31, of Har-rison, N.J., said she had started feeling contraction-like pains but didn’t think

they were real because her baby wasn’t due yet. She and her 30-year-old husband decided to travel into the city to have her checked out Monday.

It was on the train ride that Sarkar started feeling her pains come more quickly. With guidance from another woman on the train, her husband, Aditya Saurabh, was able to deliver the baby around 10 a.m. Fellow riders offered encouragement, and the couple said one little girl offered her jacket to keep the baby warm.

Court: Cleric should notbe deported from UK

LONDON — An extrem-ist cleric described as one of Europe’s leading al-Qaida operatives should not be deported to face terrorism charges in Jordan because of the risk evidence obtained through torture would be used against him, Europe’s highest court ruled Tuesday.

After a six-year legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that deporting Abu Qatada from Britain — where he is in prison custody — would “give rise to a flagrant denial of justice.”

Syria rejects callsfor Arab troops

BEIRUT — Syria “abso-lutely rejects” any plans to send Arab troops into the country, the Foreign Ministry said today, even as the death toll mounts from 10 months of violent conflict.

Thousands of people have been killed in the regime’s crackdown on the anti-Assad revolt, which has turned increasingly militarized in recent months with a grow-ing risk of civil war.

Sheriff: Louisiana woman shoots husband, selfMETAIRIE, La. — Louisi-

ana authorities are investi-gating the deaths of a mar-ried couple in which the woman apparently shot her husband early Monday, then called 911 to report the slay-ing before shooting herself in the head.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said the woman identified herself as 61-year-old Penelope D. Springer and said she shot her husband. The woman then hung up the phone.

Normand said the front door of the home was unlocked. The body of 61-year-old Albert E. Springer was in the front bathroom. He’d been shot in the head.

Normand said the woman was found in a bathroom with a single gunshot wound to the head. A 9mm pistol was on her body.

1 dead in plane crashin Neshoba County

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — A Meridian businessman and former Navy pilot died when a small twin-engine plane he was flying crashed near Phil-adelphia, police said.

Philadelphia Police Chief Dickie Sistrunk identified the victim Richard Howarth Jr., 48. Howarth was the only one aboard the plane.

A former Navy pilot, How-arth flew for FedEx for 16 years.

Police: La. man diesin dune buggy wreck

BATON ROUGE — A man was killed when he wrecked

a dune buggy in a parking lot, but a 9-year-old passen-ger survived, police said.

Baton Rouge Police Depart-ment Sgt. Don Kelly said in a news release that the man died Monday when the buggy apparently slid in loose gravel west of Memo-rial Stadium and flipped. The investigation is continuing.

Elderly Copiah mankilled in collision

HAZELHURST, Miss. — An 87-year-old Georgetown man was killed in a collision on Mississippi 27.

Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol spokesman Cpl. Odis Easterling said Colie Dixon, and his son-in-law, Larry Garrett, were headed north when a pickup driven by Royce Rials of Crystal Springs collided with their vehicle.

All three men were taken to Hardy-Wilson Memorial Hos-pital in Hazlehurst, where Dixon was pronounced dead at 2:35 p.m.

Conditions on the other two were unavailable.

No murder charges inself-defense shooting

BATON ROUGE — Police said two people will not be arrested after shooting three drug dealers and killing one, because they fired in self-defense.

Robert Heard, 25, was shot and killed Saturday after he

and two other men tried to rob 26-year-old John Free-man during a drug deal, police said.

Police said Freeman shot at his attackers, as did a 16-year-old boy who saw the robbery happening.

The teen was questioned and released, and Freeman was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a count of illegal carrying of a firearm.

Police: Pot argumentleads to shooting

HOUMA, La. — A 60-year-old man shot his daughter’s boyfriend with a shotgun during a fight over miss-ing marijuana, Terrebonne Parish sheriff’s deputies said.

The boyfriend was hit with a .410 gauge shotgun, police said. Several pellets lodged in his heart. The pellets were removed. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Sheriff’s deputies said Dwight Landry accused the 26-year-old of taking the drugs. As the victim walked away from Landry’s house, Landry allegedly shot him.

Landry admitted to shoot-ing the man, but claimed it was because he punched his wife, police said. The victim denied that.

Landry is charged with aggravated second-degree battery. It wasn’t imme-diately clear if he had an attorney.

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Doug Cousineau, back, and Jack Oliver paddle into the Yazoo Diversion Canal in Vicksburg for an early evening trip Monday. Cousineau said the two were out for a bit of

exercise and also to, hopefully, find a pair of sunglasses the two lost on an earlier paddle out to Centennial Lake when the water was much higher.

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DebtIt’s staggering. The fed-

eral debt, currently calcu-lated at $15.2 trillion, actu-ally is $51 trillion.

The more familiar debt figure of $15.2 trillion is bad enough. It’s increas-ing at about $1.3 trillion a year and comes from deficit spending the past 10 years on the federal budget, whose fiscal year begins each Oct. 1. And the current debt limit soon will again need to be raised so that the borrow-ing can continue.

But that number doesn’t include future payments for Social Security, Medi-care, federal employees’ retirement and the mili-tary veterans’ retirement and medical care. Add in estimates for those pay-ments, and the actual debt is $51 trillion, Bruce Bartlett wrote this month in The New York Times. He’s a former senior eco-nomics adviser to presi-dents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Bartlett obtained an obscure federal docu-ment called the Finan-cial Report of the United States Government. He summarized its contents,

writing that “the govern-ment also owed $5.8 tril-lion to federal employees and veterans. Social Secu-rity’s unfunded liability -- promised benefits beyond expected Social Security revenue was $9.2 trillion over the next 75 years, or about 1 percent of the gross domestic product. Medicare’s unfunded lia-bility was $24.6 trillion, or 3 percent of GDP.

“Altogether, the Trea-sury reckons the govern-ment’s total indebtedness at $51.3 trillion,” he wrote.

How is the government dealing with the debt? Bartlett said it doesn’t have to be paid off now. But that means the debt is being pushed into the future to be paid for by America’s children and grandchildren. Kids born in 2002 or 2012 can’t yet vote. So they’re stuck with the tab.

“Bruce is right. We don’t have to pay it all off now,” Chris Edwards told us; he’s director of tax policy studies at the libertarian Cato Insti-tute. “But that money is a cost burden that is being pushed onto young

people in the future. They will have to pay for it, either in reduced ben-efits or increased taxes. It’s consumption or ben-efits that people are get-ting today, with the costs being pushed onto young people. It’s a measure of injustice with current fed-eral spending.”

Most people would like to leave things a little better for their kids. That’s generally been the case in American history. Now it’s being reversed. “We’re going to have a lower standard of living in the future,” Edwards warned. “The longer Con-gress postpones reform, the lower standard of living we’ll have in the future.”

With Congress in recent weeks unable to agree on even a long-term exten-sion of a modest pay-roll-tax cut, and a presi-dential campaign in full swing, not much is going to happen this year. Yet preventing the looting of America’s kids should be the first priority of the president and Congress.

120 YEARS AGO: 1892The late Mrs. Henrietta Steinhardt, who died here recently, carried $10,000 in life insurance.

110 YEARS AGO: 1902T.P. Bellows resigns as trainmaster of the Y&MV Railroad. • Murphy and Co., a broker-age business here, will close.

100 YEARS AGO: 1912“The Crusaders,” picture at the Walnut The-atre, attracts big crowds. • A.H. Jones of Meridian and Jack Coffee are to race at the skating rink.

90 YEARS AGO: 1922Maj. G.P. Thornton, superintendent of the national cemetery, is enjoying his first vaca-tion in 10 years.

80 YEARS AGO: 1932Ronald Coleman stars in “The Unholy Garden” at the Saenger Theatre.

70 YEARS AGO: 1942Ralph A. Bendenelli Jr. is here on furlough visiting his parents. • Mrs. G. Bobb Head and son Michael return to their home in Houston, Texas, after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Head of Yokena.

60 YEARS AGO: 1952The Mother’s March on Polio collects $2,829 here. • Services are held for Mrs. Irene Crook.

50 YEARS AGO: 1962Judy Simono wins first place in the state Elks National Youth Leadership contest. • David Nobra wins the annual Virgadamo Trophy at St. Aloysius High School.

40 YEARS AGO: 1972It is the equivalent of minus 2 degrees this morning according to the Army’s wind chill chart. The temperature downtown is 29.

30 YEARS AGO: 1982George P. “Mike” Riddle, a lifelong resi-dent of Vicksburg, dies at 47. • Winners of an art contest are Johnny Foster, first place; Heather Pikul, second place; and Valtrice Waters, third place.

20 YEARS AGO: 1992Col. Leonard G. Hassell becomes the 28th commander of the Waterways Experiment Station. • A fight outside a downtown cafe results in a $4.5 million suit against the busi-ness. • Lawrence Jones, 24, is involved in a motorcycle accident and receives several broken bones.

10 YEARS AGO: 2002Dennis Douglas Ware II celebrates his first birthday. • Fire destroys a mobile home at 1606 Greenhill Road, leaving three people homeless. • Walter C. Sherman Jr., longtime Waterways Experiment Station employee, dies.


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Q: My daughter and her hus-band are divorcing. His name and my mother’s name are on the mortgage. My daughter is not on the mortgage due to bad credit. He has moved from the home, and my daugh-

ter lives there with their three children. They have owned this home for approxi-mately 13 years.

Over those 13

years, my mother has made more of the house payments than my daughter’s hus-band, however, he is expect-ing a lump sum of money when the divorce is final. My daughter is not in a position to pay him any money. My daughter would like his name removed so he has no claim to the house. Right now, he is barely making the child-sup-port payments.

What options does she have in this matter? Does she need to get an attorney? — C.H., via e-mail

A: You use a couple of terms, and I want to disabuse you of their application. First, you say “they,” meaning your daughter and her husband, own this home. No, only your

son-in-law and your mother own the house. Your daugh-ter has no direct interest in the home.

Second, you say your mother has made more of the pay-ments. Without regard to that, she has been gratu-itously giving money to make sure the mortgage gets paid. In the absence of a side con-tract, how would she prove that this was nothing more than a gift to your daughter’s husband, not your daughter? It’s obvious what’s been going on, but legally it’s a whole dif-ferent story.

Other things also should have gone into a written agreement between your mother and your son-in-law. 20/20 hindsight is a wonder-ful thing.

You say your daughter would like to have her hus-band’s name removed from the mortgage. I’m sure she would. Finally, you ask, “Does she need an attor-ney?” The answer is, “With-out question.”

Your daughter should con-sult a competent divorce attor-ney. If she needs help, it would appear that your mother might be the only source of that help.

•Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at [email protected].

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— Mitt Romney’s four remain-ing challengers for the Repub-lican presidential nomination did their best to knock the front-runner off stride in a con-tentious debate, but the best they could do was to get him to grudgingly agree to consider releasing his tax returns.

Romney didn’t bend under heavy rhetorical pressure on the issue of his job-creation record at the private equity firm Bain Capital, nor did he apologize on stage for his evolv-

ing views on abortion. The former Massa-chusetts gov-ernor stressed the indepen-dence of the super PACs that have been running nega-

tive ads in his behalf against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other rivals, including former Sen. Rick Santorum.

Monday night’s debate was as

fiery as any of the more than dozen that preceded it.

Romney did say that while he might be willing to release his tax returns, he wouldn’t do so until tax filing time in April. And the multimillion-aire former businessman didn’t get much gratitude from his rivals for his halting change of heart.

“If there’s nothing there, why is he waiting ’til April?” Ging-rich said.

Romney at first sidestepped calls from his rivals to release

his records, then acknowl-edged later that he’d follow the lead of previous presidential candidates.

Romney, the clear front-runner for the GOP nomina-tion after back-to-back wins in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, was under fire from Gingrich and fellow GOP rivals Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum in Monday night’s debate as they sought to knock him off stride.

Stock rise on upbeat reports on China growth, Europe debt

NEW YORK — Stocks rose strongly early today on signs that Europe’s debt markets remain resilient and Chi-na’s economic slowdown has been gradual.

Debt auctions by Spain, Greece and Europe’s bailout fund drew solid interest from investors, easing fears that recent credit-rating down-grades would prevent trou-bled nations from obtaining funds. Many had feared the downgrades would increase borrowing costs and inten-sify the region’s debt crisis.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 130 points, or 1.1 percent, to 12,551 in the first half-hour of trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 12, or 0.9 percent, to 1,301. The Nasdaq com-posite index rose 26, or 1 per-cent, to 2,737.

Court to allow lawsuitsfrom tipped employees

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will allow bartenders and servers who make part of their money through tips to file lawsuits for more money when they do work that doesn’t involve tips.

The high court refused to hear an appeal from Applebee’s International, which wants to overturn a

lower court ruling.Restaurants consider tips

as part of some employees’ salary to get the pay up to the minimum wage. But if a worker spends 20 percent of the time doing general main-tenance and preparation work, they currently get full minimum wage.

Gerald Fast and others sued, saying that opening and clos-ing restaurants, as well as cleaning and stocking, con-sumed significant work time and Applebee’s should pay them additional wages. The lower courts refused to dis-miss the complaint.

Airbus’ record ordersbeats Boeing in 2011

HAMBURG, Germany — Airbus took in a record number of orders for new commercial aircraft last year as strong demand for its revamped single-aisle plane helped it best U.S. rival Boeing Co. in the race for orders for the fourth year running.

The jet-maker said today that it took in 1,419 net new orders in 2011, worth $140 billion, well above Boeing’s total of 805 aircraft.

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one of robbery. Barbour said he was so confident that the trusties had been reformed that he had let them watch his grandchildren while they played at the mansion.

The governor’s pardon powers are spelled out in the state constitution. Demo-cratic Rep. David Baria of Bay St. Louis is proposing a constitutional amendment to ban any governor from granting pardons during the final 90 days of a four-year term.

Baria also is proposing a bill — not a constitutional amendment — that would require notice be given to the local sheriff or district attorney when a pardon is considered. Baria said that would allow the sheriff or prosecutor to hold a public hearing in the county where the crime occurred to give victims and others a chance to speak. He said a transcript of that information could be sent to the governor.

“I’m not trying to eliminate this governor’s or any other governor’s constitutional prerogative to do pardons,” Baria said. “But, we could put reasonable restrictions to allow people to be heard before a pardon is granted.”

When Bryant became gov-ernor last Tuesday, he imme-diately halted the practice of trusties spending the night on the grounds of the Gover-

nor’s Mansion in downtown Jackson, Bryant spokesman Mick Bullock said. Bryant is also ending the use of violent offenders as mansion trust-ies, Bullock said.

“That was discussed sev-eral weeks ago,” Bullock said Monday.

Bullock said Bryant’s changes in the trusty pro-gram were not prompted by the uproar over the Barbour pardons.

Records show that during Barbour’s two terms, he gave “full, complete and uncondi-tional” pardons to 203 people, including 17 convicted of murder, 10 convicted of man-slaughter, eight convicted of aggravated assault and five convicted of drunken-driving incidents that caused deaths.

Barbour granted some sort of reprieve to 26 inmates who were in custody — 10 full pardons; 13 medical releases; one suspension of sentence; one conditional, indefinite suspension of sentence; and one conditional clemency.

A pardon erases any remaining punishment for a conviction and restores rights such as those to vote or carry a gun. A commuta-tion reduces the penalties of a sentence but does not restore full rights.

James Robertson, a former Mississippi Supreme Court justice who’s now in a pri-vate law practice in Jack-son, said the pardon power is “a virtue of all enlightened and humane societies” and it should not be eliminated.

Without commenting on the specifics of the Barbour pardons and reprieves, Rob-ertson said the pardon power is important in three situa-tions — if an innocent person is convicted, if an excessive sentence is given and if a sentence was just when it was given but the convicted person has proved worthy of pardon or reprieve.

“In simple terms, I have no doubt that there are per-sons in prison today that do not need to be there, nei-ther for the public good or any other reason,” Robert-son said. “Understand that our criminal justice system has been designed by fallible human beings acting in a state of imperfect knowledge. The officials who implement and enforce that system are no doubt highly motivated, well meaning, public-spirited citizens who try hard to do what is right and just. At the end of the day, these indi-viduals are similarly fallible human beings. The pardon or reprieve is an appropri-ate ameliorative remedy for harsh or otherwise excessive sentences.”

During interviews the past several days, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said they’d be willing to consider some changes in the pardon process. Most said they want to see detailed propos-als before deciding what to support.

“I think the people of the state of Mississippi are going to demand that the Legis-

lature look at it,” said Rep. Bryant Clark, D-Pickens.

Clark said he respects that any governor has the right to issue pardons, and he thinks there is a place for pardons in some cases. “I think the outrage and the concern for most citizens is just the number of them,” he said.

One of the inmates Barbour pardoned is David Gatlin, now 40, who was convicted of murder, aggravated assault and burglary. Gatlin was sen-tenced to life in prison in the 1993 slaying of his estranged wife, Tammy Ellis Gatlin, and the shooting of Randy Walker, her longtime friend. Tammy Ellis Gatlin was holding her infant when she was killed, and the baby was left in a pool of his mother’s blood, said Tammy’s sister, Tiffany Ellis Brewer of Pearl.

Walker said last week that he voted for Barbour in 2003 and 2007 and generally con-sidered him a good governor. But Walker said he was “dis-gusted” by Barbour’s pardon of Gatlin.

Walker is now afraid to answer the door, said his mother, Glenda Walker: “But wouldn’t you be if a bullet went through your head from one side to the other?”

Rep. Mark Formby, R-Pica-yune, said he thinks lawmak-ers should set some crite-ria for governors to follow in granting pardons. Formby, whose aunt was slain during a burglary in 1987, said he is sympathetic to victims’ families.

“I think the governor should have the right and the responsibility — I say that, because it is a big responsi-bility — to offer forgiveness to someone who has proven to be deserving,” Formby said.

Barbour gave one of the first-term trusties, Michael Graham, an indefinite sus-pended sentence in July 2008. Barbour gave Graham a full pardon last week. Graham was convicted of murder in the slaying of his ex-wife, Adrienne Klasky, who had divorced him in 1986. Klasky was shot on April 7, 1989, with a 12-gauge shotgun in Pascagoula.


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

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

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lows in the lower 30s, sun-ny Thursday, highs in the

lower 60s

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Partly cloudy tonight, chance of rain, lows in the

lower to mid-30s

Wednesday-ThursdayClear Wednesday night,

lows in the lower 30s, sun-ny Thursday, highs in the

lower 60s

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Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month .............0.97 inchesTotal/year ................0.97 inchesNormal/month .....3.09 inchesNormal/year ..........3.09 inches

sOLunar TabLeMost active times for fishand wildlife Wednesday:

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Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 24.3 | Change: -1.5Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 18.7 | Change: -0.5

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City


Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 18.4 | Change: -0.5

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West


Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 8.9 | Change: 0.1

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GreenvilleWednesday .......................... 27.8Thursday ............................... 28.3Friday ...................................... 28.8

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“We try to create a founda-tion and help them become men,” Jennings said.

The clean sweep was part of local holiday observances over the weekend starting with the downtown parade Saturday, a scholarship breakfast at Vicksburg Con-vention Center, a prayer ser-vice at the King memorial site at Openwood and Main streets and an evening event keynoted by civil rights attor-ney Sandra Jaribu Hill.

More than 200 attended the breakfast, but only one woman showed up at the midmorning event at the memorial.

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WikipediaContinued from Page A1.

turn, some of those cases have been heard on appeal by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

Last week, the board failed to assemble four members to hear Mountain of Faith Ministries’ request for a spe-cial exception to operate a transitional housing facility near the former ParkView Regional Medical Center. The request had generated widespread concern among residents in the Wildwood community, just north of the hospital.

Tina Hayward, executive director of Mountain of Faith Ministries, had requested that the hearing on her pro-posal be moved from Decem-ber to Jan. 10 as she sought more time to present her case.

Rawlings said numerous requests have been made to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to fill the vacant slots. “I wonder if they’re actively pursuing people,” he said.

Mayor Paul Winfield, Mayfield and South Alder-

man Sid Beauman said the board has been trying to find people interested in serving on the zoning board.

“It’s hard to find new blood for these boards,” Mayfield said. “The people who are serving now have been on for a long time. They keep get-ting reappointed until they get tired of it and just roll off.”

“Part of the problem is get-ting people willing to do it,” Winfield said. “We need people who are dedicated to attending the meetings and doing the research and filling those roles.”

“The zoning board is tough because it requires a lot of time,” Beauman said. “People have to go out and do research. I hope politics is not a reason for not serving.”

“It’s very time-consum-ing,” said Fred Katzenmeyer, an 11-year member of the zoning board. “You have to go out and look at the prop-erty, make a decision and attend the meetings, and it’s tough to get somebody to work for nothing.”

“We need people who are going to make their ruling based on the law and the rules, and that can upset some people, especially in a community our size,” Win-field said.

Mayfield said politics is a problem with all of the city’s appointed boards.

“There was a time — four to six years ago — when poli-tics wasn’t that prevalent,” he said. “You did your home-work, you went in, you voted, and you got out. Now these boards get swirled in politics. People see it on TV, and they don’t want any part of it.

“You have someone who goes on a board with good intentions to help make his community better, and he has to put up with abuse,” Mayfield said. “People come and yell and holler and threaten these board mem-bers. These are volunteers. It’s not supposed to be that way.”

Critics say the legislation could hurt the technology industry and infringe on free-speech rights. Among their concerns are provisions that would weaken cyber-security for companies and hinder domain access rights.

The most controversial pro-vision is in the House bill, which would have enabled federal authorities to “black-list” sites that are alleged to distribute pirated content. That essentially would cut off portions of the Internet to all U.S. users. But congressional leaders appear to be backing off this provision.

Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, AOL and others have spoken out against the legislation and said it threatens the indus-try’s livelihood. Several online communities such as Reddit, Boing Boing and others have announced plans to go dark in protest as well.

The Obama administration also raised concerns about the legislation over the week-end and said it will work

with Congress on legisla-tion to help battle piracy and counterfeiting while defend-ing free expression, privacy, security and innovation in the Internet.

Wikipedia’s decision to go dark brings the issue into a much brighter spotlight. A group of Wikipedia users has discussed for more than a month whether it should react to the legislation.

Over the past few days, a group of more than 1,800 vol-unteers who work on the site and other users considered several forms of online pro-test, including banner ads and a global blackout of the site, the foundation said.

Wikipedia will shut down access from 11 tonight Cen-tral Standard Time until 11 Wednesday night.

This is the first time Wiki-pedia’s English version has gone dark.

Its Italian site came down once briefly in protest to an Internet censorship bill put forward by the Berlusconi government; the bill did not advance.

DEATHSGerald C. Baker

PEARL — Gerald C. Baker, 74, died Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, at the Veterans Admin-istration Medical Center in Jackson.

Visitation will be from 4 until 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl and from noon until 2 p.m. Thurs-day, Jan. 19, 2012, at Fisher Funeral Home in Vicksburg. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

A member of the Mormon faith, Mr. Baker was a 1955 graduate of Central High School, Jackson. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he was a metallurgist and was employed with Sperry-Vick-ers for many years.

Survivors include daugh-ters, Jerri Baker Clair and husband Mike of Byram and Tina Baker Jennings and husband Jeff of Pearl; and grandchildren Sarah Clair of Byram and Dani Jennings of Pearl.

He was preceded in death by his parents, C.A. and Ollie Baker of Vicksburg.

Visit baldwinleepearl.com to sign online guest register.

Riley C. HarperRiley C. Harper died

Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. He was 58.

Born in Vicksburg, he was the son of the late Jack Purvis Harper and Agnes Logue Harper. Mr. Harper was a graduate of H.V. Cooper High School and received his bachelor’s degree in music from Missis-sippi College. He was a land-scape supervisor for the City of Vicksburg and a member of Hawkins United Methodist Church.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Jack P. Harper Jr.

He is survived by two daughters, Mandy Donald (Russ) of Pearl and Melissa Harper of Vicksburg; son, Jack C. Harper (Ashley) of Vicksburg; five grand-daughters, Paige Donald, Keri Donald, Reagan Donald, Mary Madisyn Harper and Mckynzie Harper; sister, Mary Lynd Harper Davis (Larry) of Shreveport, La.; brother, Ken Harper (Terri) of Vicksburg; and numerous other relatives.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Riles Funeral Home with the Revs. Tommy Miller and Rip Noble officiat-ing. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 tonight at Riles Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be Roger

Massey, Trey Logue, Russ Donald, Vaughn Mims, Dr. Gary Cheslek, David Hose-mann, Charles Haley and Shane Rollison.

Lloyd T. Spicer Jr.ATLANTA — Lloyd T.

Spicer Jr., formerly of Vicks-

burg, died Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, in Atlanta. He was 52.

W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Georgia WilsonGeorgia Wilson died Satur-

day, Jan. 14, 2012, at St. Domi-

nic-Jackson Memorial Hospi-tal. She was 62.

Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.


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Steve Wilson, sports editor | E-mail: [email protected] | Tel: 601.636.4545 ext 142

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SChEdulEPREP bASKETbALLWC at Madison CentralToday, 6 p.m.

St. Aloysius at Bogue ChitoToday, 6 p.m.

PCA at Park PlaceToday, 7 p.m.

PREP SOCCERVicksburg at WCToday, 5:30 p.m.

ON TV6 p.m. ESPNU - LSU hopes to shake off the effects of a loss to Arkansas on Sat-urday against Auburn in a primetime SEC matchup.

WhO’S hOTKELSEY HOWARDJackson State bas-ketball player and former Vicksburg High star scored 10 points in a win over Texas Southern on Monday.

SIdElINESTwo Saints assistants could leave franchise

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Rams have sched-uled a news conference to introduce Jeff Fisher as their new coach, having fi-nalized contract details.

The announcement to-day came amid reports Saints defensive coordi-nator Gregg Williams has agreed to join Fisher’s staff in the same role.

Though the Rams had not confirmed the hire, Saints linebacker Jona-than Vilma tweeted “Gregg williams is a great coach, I wish him luck in st Louis.”

A team spokesman said Fisher would discuss his staff at the news confer-ence,

Williams was in the final year of his contract and became available after the Saints’ 36-32 playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday.

The Oakland Raiders have been granted permis-sion to interview New Or-leans offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr., a per-son with knowledge of the request said on condition of anonymity because the Raiders are not publicizing the candidates.

The Rams on Friday agreed to a deal with Fish-er, who sat out last season after 17 years with the Ti-tans. Fisher was the top coaching candidate this offseason and picked St. Louis, 2-14 last year and with only 15 wins the last five years, over Miami.

Fisher and Williams, both 53, were together in Ten-nessee from 1994-2000.

Carmichael took over play-calling duties when head coach Sean Payton broke his leg in Week 6 and Payton allowed him to continue handling the bulk of play-calling throughout the remainder of the sea-son as the Saints set NFL records for most offensive yards and passing yards in a season.

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DeltaDevilsdevourJaguarsBy The Associated Press

Cor-J Cox scored 23 points off the bench to lead Mississippi Valley State in a 77-56 rout of Southern University on Monday night.

Five Delta Devils (6-11, 5-0 Southwestern Athletic Conference) scored in double figures as MVSU grabbed sole possession of first place in the confer-ence. Paul Crosby added 18 points and 14 rebounds, Kevin Burwell had 12 points and Falando Jones and Terrence Joyner chipped in 11 each.

The Delta Devils led 37-30 at halftime and held the Jaguars (8-11, 4-2) to just 9-of-25 shooting (36 percent) in the second half.

The Delta Devils scored 23 points off 21 turnovers and outrebounded South-ern 42-32.

Derick Beltran led the Jaguars with 15 points and Quinton Doggett and Mike Celestin added 11 each.

Jackson State 54, Texas Southern 51

Jenirro Bush scored 23 points and Christian Wil-liams scored five in the final 22 seconds to lift Jackson State to victory over Texas Southern.

Jackson State (4-14, 2-4 SWAC), which had lost its past four games, trailed 51-49 before Williams’ 3-pointer gave the Tigers a one-point lead.

After Patrick Onwenu missed two free throws for Texas Southern (5-12, 4-1), Williams was good on a pair for Jackson State.

Bush’s 3-pointer with 10:38 remaining had given Jackson State a 43-40 lead, its first in 15 minutes, and it continued to lead until a layup by Texas Southern’s Daniel King set up Wil-liams’ heroics.

Hornets stumbledown the stretchBy Brett MartelAP Sports Writer

NEW ORLEANS — LaMa-rcus Aldridge asserted him-self in a halftime huddle with his Portland Trail Blazers teammates, imploring them to snap out of their recent funk.

Then he took his own advice.

Aldridge scored 16 of his game-high 22 points in the second half, and Portland snapped a three-game skid with an 84-77 victory over the slumping New Orleans Hor-nets on Monday.

“That was a good wake-up call by him,” Portland for-ward Nicolas Batum said of Aldridge. “He took over the game and that’s why he’s our go-to guy.”

Batum added 19 points in a reserve role and Gerald Wal-lace scored 14 for Portland,

which blew open a tie game early in the third quarter with a 17-2 run during which Aldridge made all five of his shots for 10 points.

“I just started trying to be more attack-minded, going to basket, more confident,” Aldridge said. “I felt like I was kind of hesitant in the first half, kind of just out there, so I just wanted to be more aggressive going to the basket and try to make things happen.”

Aldridge made just one of his first seven shots before finishing 10 of 17 to go with nine rebounds. Wesley Mat-thews added 10 points for Portland.

Jarrett Jack scored 21, while Emeka Okafor added 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Hornets, who’ve lost four straight and 10 of 11.

The Hornets were plagued by poor perimeter shoot-

ing, going 0-of-9 from 3-point range, and turned the ball over 19 times.

“We’ve hit a funk. There’s no denying that. But you

have to continue to com-pete,” Hornets coach Monty Williams said. “We get to play basketball and we get paid. ... A lot of people would

love to have our problems. ... You’ve got to keep fighting and value your occupation

ThE ASSoCIATED PrESS

See Hornets, Page B3.

See SWAC, Page B3.

BrEndEn nEvillE•The Vicksburg PosT

Warren Central midfielder Kristen Pennington dribbles past Vicksburg midfielder Raven London this season. The two

teams will meet today at Viking Stadium with a playoff berth on the line.

A division title race in two daysWarren Central and Vicksburg to battle today for a playoff berthBy Steve [email protected]

Two days will decide two playoff spots.

That’s a lot of deuces and in this case, deuces are wild.

The race for two playoff spots out of Division 3-6A is heating up and coming down to a one-week stretch for three girls’ teams as the soccer season winds down to its final week.

With Vicksburg and Warren Central playing tonight, weather permitting, and two games involving the county rivals on Friday, the playoff bracket for Class 6A won’t be decided until Friday.

If tonight’s game is rained out, the game will be played Thursday at WC and Vicks-burg’s scheduled home game against Brandon will be canceled.

Warren Central is about to go through its toughest stretch of the season, having to play two grueling division games in one week. First, the Lady Vikes (10-7-2, 2-2) will have to take on archrival

Vicksburg today. On Friday, they will travel to Clinton to take on the Lady Arrows.

The last time WC and Vicksburg met, the Missy Gators took a 2-1 decision thanks to two first-half goals by Tabitha Hayden.

“They want it,” WC girls’ coach Trey Banks said of his team. “We can’t let T.T. (Hayden) have as much time on the ball as she did last week. She’s that inspiration and you let her get that much on the ball, she can do magi-

cal things.”For WC to win the division

title, it will need a win over Vicksburg and a three-goal win over Clinton on Friday. WC will clinch a playoff berth with a win over Vicksburg and anything less than a five-goal loss at Clinton.

Vicksburg is assured of a playoff berth with wins over Warren Central today and division bottom feeder Greenville-Weston on Friday.

The Missy Gators lost both of their decisions to Clinton, 5-0 and 2-1.

Clinton (15-4-4, 4-0) has locked up, at worst, a spot in the playoffs and needs only a win over Warren Central in

Warren Central’s Hannah Miller kicks the ball downfield in a game against Clinton last week.

See Soccer, Page B3.

Portland Trail blazers small forward Gerald Wallace (3) and guard Jamal Crawford (11) team up to force a jump ball with New Orleans Hornets point guard Greivis Vasquez Monday.

Down the stretchToday’s Game

Vicksburg at Warren Central, 5:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesVicksburg at Greenville-Weston, 5:30 p.m.WC at Clinton, 5:30 p.m.

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nflnfl Playoffs

Wild-card roundJan. 7

Houston 31, Cincinnati 10New Orleans 45, Detroit 28

Jan. 8New York Giants 24, Atlanta 2Denver 29, Pittsburgh 23, OT

Divisional PlayoffsJan. 14

San Francisco 36, New Orleans 32New England 45, Denver 10

Jan. 15Baltimore 20, Houston 13N.Y. Giants 37, Green Bay 20

Conference ChampionshipsSunday’s Games

Baltimore at New England, 2 p.m.N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 5:30 p.m.

Pro BowlJan. 29

At HonoluluNFC vs. AFC, 7 p.m.

Super BowlFeb. 5

At IndianapolisAFC champion vs. NFC champion, 5:30 p.m.———

Super Bowl Winners FaredHow the Super Bowl winners fared in their next

season2011—Green Bay lost to N.Y. Giants 37-20 NFC divisional playoff.2010—New Orleans lost to Seattle 41-36 in NFC wild-card game.2009—Pittsburgh finished third in AFC North divi-sion with an 9-7 record.2008—N.Y. Giants lost to Philadelphia 23-11 in NFC divisional playoff.2007—Indianapolis lost to San Diego 28-24 in AFC divisional playoff.2006—Pittsburgh finished third in AFC North divi-sion with an 8-8 record.2005—New England lost to Denver 27-13 in AFC divisional playoff.2004—New England repeated and beat Philadel-phia 24-21 in Super Bowl.2003—Tampa Bay finished third in NFC South division with a 7-9 record.2002—New England finished second in AFC East division with a 9-7 record.2001—Baltimore lost to Pittsburgh 27-10 in AFC divisional playoff.2000—St. Louis lost to New Orleans 31-28 in NFC wild-card game.1999—Denver finished last in the AFC West divi-sion with a 6-10 record.1998—Denver repeated and beat Atlanta 34-19 in Super Bowl.1997—Green Bay lost to Denver 31-24 in Super Bowl.1996—Dallas lost to Carolina 26-17 in NFC divi-sional playoff.1995—San Francisco lost to Green Bay 27-17 in NFC divisional playoff.1994—Dallas lost to San Francisco 38-28 in NFC championship.1993—Dallas repeated and beat Buffalo 30-13 in Super Bowl.1992—Washington lost to San Francisco 20-13 in NFC divisional playoff.1991—N.Y. Giants finished fourth in NFC East division with an 8-8 record.1990—San Francisco lost to N.Y. Giants 15-13 in NFC championship.1989—San Francisco repeated and beat Denver 55-10 in Super Bowl.1988—Washington finished third in NFC East divi-sion with a 7-9 record.1987—N.Y. Giants finished last in NFC East divi-sion with a 6-9 record.1986—Chicago lost to Washington 27-13 in NFC divisional playoff.1985—San Francisco lost to N.Y. Giants 17-3 in NFC wild-card game.1984—L.A. Raiders lost to Seattle 13-7 in AFC wild-card game.1983—Washington lost to the Los Angeles Raid-ers 38-9 in Super Bowl.1982—San Francisco finished eleventh in the conference with a 3-6 record.1981—Oakland finished fourth in the Western divi-sion with a 7-9 record.1980—Pittsburgh finished third in the Central divi-sion with a 9-7 record.1979—Pittsburgh repeated and beat the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl.1978—Dallas lost to Pittsburgh 35-31 in Super Bowl.1977—Oakland lost to Denver 20-17 in AFC Championship.1976—Pittsburgh lost to Oakland 24-7 in AFC Championship.1975—Pittsburgh repeated and beat Dallas 21-17 in Super Bowl.1974—Miami lost to Oakland 28-26 in AFC divi-sional playoff.1973—Miami repeated and beat Minnesota 24-7 in Super Bowl.1972—Dallas lost to Washington 26-3 in NFC Championship.1971—Baltimore lost to Miami 21-0 in AFC Cham-pionship.1970—Kansas City finished second in the Western division with a 7-5-2 record.1969—New York Jets lost to Kansas City 13-6 in AFL divisional playoff.1968—Green Bay finished third in the Central divison with a 6-7-1 record.1967—Green Bay repeated and beat Oakland 33-14 in Super Bowl.

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Atlantic Division W L Pct GBPhiladelphia ..................10 3 .769 —New York ......................6 7 .462 4Boston ..........................4 8 .333 5 1/2Toronto .........................4 10 .286 6 1/2New Jersey ..................3 11 .214 7 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBOrlando .........................9 3 .750 —Atlanta ..........................10 4 .714 —Miami ............................8 4 .667 1Charlotte .......................3 11 .214 7Washington ...................1 12 .077 8 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago ........................12 3 .800 —Indiana ..........................9 3 .750 1 1/2Cleveland ......................6 6 .500 4 1/2Milwaukee .....................4 8 .333 6 1/2Detroit ...........................3 10 .231 8

WESTERn COnfEREnCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio ..................9 4 .692 —Dallas ............................8 6 .571 1 1/2Memphis .......................6 6 .500 2 1/2Houston ........................6 7 .462 3New Orleans ................3 10 .231 6

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City ..............12 2 .857 —Utah ..............................8 4 .667 3Portland ........................8 5 .615 3 1/2Denver ..........................8 5 .615 3 1/2Minnesota .....................5 8 .385 6 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers .................7 3 .700 1/2L.A. Lakers ...................10 5 .667 —Phoenix .........................4 8 .333 4 1/2Golden State ................4 8 .333 4 1/2Sacramento ..................4 10 .286 5 1/2

Monday’s GamesMemphis 102, Chicago 86Orlando 102, New York 93Cleveland 102, Charlotte 94Houston 114, Washington 106Philadelphia 94, Milwaukee 82Portland 84, New Orleans 77L.A. Clippers 101, New Jersey 91Atlanta 93, Toronto 84Minnesota 99, Sacramento 86Oklahoma City 97, Boston 88L.A. Lakers 73, Dallas 70

Today’s GamesGolden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m.Charlotte at Orlando, 6 p.m.San Antonio at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Phoenix at Chicago, 7 p.m.Detroit at Houston, 7 p.m.Denver at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Utah, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesSan Antonio at Orlando, 6 p.m.Oklahoma City at Washington, 6 p.m.Denver at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Toronto at Boston, 6:30 p.m.Golden State at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.Phoenix at New York, 6:30 p.m.Memphis at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Portland at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Indiana at Sacramento, 9 p.m.Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

COllEgE baSkETballSOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTKentucky ............3 0 1.000 17 1 .944Vanderbilt ..........3 0 1.000 13 4 .765Mississippi St. .2 1 .667 15 3 .833Florida ................2 1 .667 14 4 .778Alabama ............2 1 .667 13 4 .765Arkansas ............2 1 .667 13 4 .765Auburn ...............1 2 .333 11 6 .647LSU ....................1 2 .333 11 6 .647Ole Miss ...........1 2 .333 11 6 .647Tennessee .........1 2 .333 8 9 .471Georgia ..............0 3 .000 9 8 .529South Carolina ..0 3 .000 8 9 .471

Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesAuburn at LSU, 6 p.m.Arkansas at Kentucky, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesTennessee at Georgia, 7 p.m.Mississippi St. at Ole Miss, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesVanderbilt at Alabama, 6 p.m.

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CONFERENCE USA Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTMarshall .............4 0 1.000 13 4 .765Memphis ............3 0 1.000 12 5 .706Southern Miss .3 1 .750 16 3 .842UCF ...................3 1 .750 13 4 .765Rice ...................2 1 .667 11 7 .611Tulsa ..................2 2 .500 9 9 .500UTEP .................2 2 .500 9 9 .500SMU ...................1 2 .333 9 8 .529Houston .............1 3 .250 8 8 .500Tulane ................0 3 .000 12 5 .706East Carolina .....0 3 .000 9 7 .563UAB ...................0 3 .000 5 11 .313

Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesNo games scheduled

Wednesday’s GamesMarshall at West Virginia, 6:30 p.m.UAB at Rice, 7 p.m.Houston at SMU, 7 p.m.Tulane at Tulsa, 7 p.m.Memphis at Central Florida, 7 p.m.East Carolina at UTEP, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

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SWAC Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTMVSU ................5 0 1.000 6 11 .353Alabama St. .......4 1 .800 7 10 .412Texas Southern .4 1 .800 5 12 .294Southern U. .......4 2 .667 8 11 .421Prairie View .......3 2 .600 7 11 .389Jackson St .......2 4 .333 4 14 .222Grambling St. ....2 4 .333 2 14 .125Alabama A&M ...1 4 .200 3 11 .214Ark.-Pine Bluff ...1 4 .200 2 16 .111Alcorn St. .........1 5 .167 4 14 .222

Monday’s GamesPrairie View 81, Grambling St. 64Miss. Valley St. 77, Southern U. 56Jackson St. 54, Texas Southern 51Ark.-Pine Bluff 75, Alcorn St. 68


Wednesday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

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Top 25 ScheduleMonday’s Games

No. 1 Syracuse 71, Pittsburgh 63 No. 7 Kansas 92, No. 3 Baylor 74 No. 5 Missouri 70, Texas A&M 51 No. 21 Marquette 74, No. 23 Louisville 63

Today’s GamesNo. 2 Kentucky vs. Arkansas, 8 p.m.No. 9 Michigan St. at No. 20 Michigan, 6 p.m.No. 10 Georgetown at DePaul, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesNo. 11 Indiana at Nebraska, 6 p.m.No. 12 Murray St. at Morehead St., 6 p.m.No. 13 UConn vs. Cincinnati, 6 p.m.No. 14 UNLV vs. TCU, 9:30 p.m.No. 16 San Diego St. at New Mexico, 9 p.m.No. 18 Mississippi St. at Ole Miss, 8 p.m.No. 19 Creighton at Missouri St., 7:05 p.m.No. 25 Kansas St. vs. Texas, 8 p.m.

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Mississippi college scheduleMonday’s Games

Tougaloo 58, Mobile 52Delta St. 81, New Orleans 59Miss. Valley St. 77, Southern U. 56Jackson St. 54, Texas Southern 51Ark.-Pine Bluff 75, Alcorn St. 68


Wednesday’s GameMississippi St. at Ole Miss, 8 p.m.

Monday’s Scores EAST

Boston U. 70, Albany (NY) 57 Fairfield 61, Rider 52

Felician 70, Dowling 56 Longwood 87, Fairleigh Dickinson 83 Rutgers 65, Notre Dame 58 Stony Brook 61, New Hampshire 52 Syracuse 71, Pittsburgh 63 Vermont 79, Maine 65 William Paterson 72, Baruch 58

SOUTH Austin Peay 69, Tennessee St. 63 Bellarmine 64, N. Kentucky 60 Belmont 95, Florida Gulf Coast 53 Bethune-Cookman 68, Savannah St. 62 Cumberland (Tenn.) 62, Bethel (Tenn.) 58 ETSU 64, North Florida 63 Emory & Henry 69, Roanoke 60 Florida A&M 86, SC State 69 Freed-Hardeman 83, Trevecca Nazarene 57 Jackson St. 54, Texas Southern 51 Jacksonville 77, SC-Upstate 74, OT King (Tenn.) 72, Lees-McRae 51 Lee 80, Truett McConnell 70 Lipscomb 104, Stetson 103, OT Miss. Valley St. 77, Southern U. 56 Martin Methodist 110, Blue Mountain 84 Mid-Continent 79, Union (Tenn.) 46 Miles 60, Stillman 56 Milligan 62, Warren Wilson 60 Morgan St. 68, Hampton 56 NC Central 69, Howard 53 Norfolk St. 74, Coppin St. 66 Prairie View 81, Grambling St. 64 SC-Aiken 76, Augusta St. 54 Shenandoah 81, Methodist 72 St. Augustine’s 66, Chowan 52 Tougaloo 58, Mobile 52 Virginia Union 85, Johnson C. Smith 84 Winston-Salem 59, Lincoln (Pa.) 52 Xavier (NO) 87, Philander Smith 80

MIDWEST Bethel (Minn.) 68, St. Thomas (Minn.) 66 Carleton 66, Augsburg 52 Gustavus 74, Concordia (Moor.) 58 Hamline 80, St. Mary’s (Minn.) 61 Kansas 92, Baylor 74 Marquette 74, Louisville 63 Missouri 70, Texas A&M 51 St. John’s (Minn.) 68, Macalester 50

SOUTHWEST Ark.-Pine Bluff 75, Alcorn St. 68

FAR WEST BYU 82, San Diego 63 Portland St. 80, Idaho St. 68 Seattle 91, E. Washington 78 Utah Valley 98, Haskell Indian Nations 72

JaCkSOn ST. 54, TEXaS SOUTHERn 51TEXAS SOUTHERN (5-12)Price 0-0 1-2 1, Clayborn 1-3 1-2 3, Ellington 1-3 1-2 3, Strong 2-8 1-2 6, Johnson-Danner 2-9 0-0 5, Onwenu 0-1 3-6 3, King 1-1 0-0 2, Sturdivant 2-4 0-2 4, Joyner 6-6 1-2 13, Scott 0-1 2-2 2, Peters 0-0 0-0 0, Gibbs 4-5 1-2 9. Totals 19-41 11-22 51.JACKSON ST. (4-14)Jones 2-5 0-0 4, Bush 9-18 4-4 23, Howard 4-12 2-3 10, Williams 3-12 2-2 9, Lewis 0-2 0-1 0, Taylor 0-1 2-2 2, Stewart 1-5 2-7 4, Coleman 0-1 0-0 0, Readus 1-6 0-0 2. Totals 20-62 12-19 54.Halftime—Texas Southern 28-24. 3-Point Goals—Texas Southern 2-13 (Strong 1-5, Johnson-Danner 1-6, Scott 0-1, Ellington 0-1), Jackson St. 2-13 (Williams 1-4, Bush 1-5, Stewart 0-1, Howard 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Texas Southern 28 (Joyner 7), Jackson St. 47 (Bush 8). Assists—Texas Southern 9 (Gibbs, Onwenu 2), Jackson St. 9 (Lewis 4). Total Fouls—Texas Southern 19, Jackson St. 20. Technicals—Clay-born, Jones. A—715.

MISS. VallEY ST. 77, SOUTHERn U. 56SOUTHERN U. (8-11)Beltran 5-12 4-4 15, Grace 2-7 1-3 6, Monroe 0-1 0-0 0, Doggett 3-7 5-6 11, F. Coleman 3-7 0-0 6, Marshall 1-1 1-2 3, Celestin 4-11 0-0 11, Hill 0-0 1-2 1, Bol 1-3 0-0 3, Webb 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 19-49 12-17 56.MVSU (6-11)Joyner 5-9 0-0 11, Studivant 0-2 0-0 0, Jones 4-8 1-3 11, Burwell 5-12 0-0 12, Crosby 6-9 4-4 18, Pugh 0-4 0-0 0, Pajkovic 1-2 0-0 2, Cox 9-20 1-1 23, Ralling 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 30-68 6-8 77.Halftime—MVSU 37-30. 3-Point Goals—Southern U. 6-14 (Celestin 3-8, Bol 1-1, Grace 1-2, Beltran 1-3), MVSU 11-35 (Cox 4-12, Crosby 2-3, Jones 2-4, Burwell 2-7, Joyner 1-4, Ralling 0-1, Pajkovic 0-1, Pugh 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Southern U. 32 (Doggett 9), MVSU 42 (Crosby 14). Assists—Southern U. 12 (F. Coleman, Grace 3), MVSU 19 (Burwell 8). Total Fouls—Southern U. 13, MVSU 16. Technical—MVSU Bench. A—3,938.

aRk.-PInE blUff 75, alCORn ST. 68ALCORN ST. (3-14)Rimmer 7-12 3-3 18, Francis 2-5 1-2 5, Sullivan 9-11 0-0 19, McDonald 4-11 0-0 8, Oakley 2-6 3-5 8, Hawkins 2-6 2-2 6, Moore 1-2 0-0 2, Tufono 0-0 0-0 0, Starks 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 28-54 9-12 68.ARK.-PINE BLUFF (2-16)Bailey 1-5 6-8 8, Broughton 10-13 3-4 23, Jack-son 4-12 4-5 13, Johnson 2-2 0-0 4, Townsend 5-11 8-11 19, Floyd 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 1-3 1-3 3, Anderson 2-3 0-0 5, Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 0-2 0-0 0, Allen 0-0 0-0 0, Weathers 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 25-51 22-32 75.Halftime—Alcorn St. 34-33. 3-Point Goals—Alcorn St. 3-8 (Sullivan 1-1, Oakley 1-2, Rimmer 1-4, Hawkins 0-1), Ark.-Pine Bluff 3-13 (Townsend 1-1, Anderson 1-2, Jackson 1-6, Bailey 0-2, Jones 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Alcorn St. 31 (Francis 7), Ark.-Pine Bluff 28 (Broughton 8). Assists—Alcorn St. 13 (Rimmer 7), Ark.-Pine Bluff 15 (Jackson, Townsend 5). Total Fouls—Alcorn St. 18, Ark.-Pine Bluff 13. A—3,421.

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The AP Top 25By The Associated Press

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ col-lege basketball poll, with first-place votes in paren-theses, records through Jan. 15, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Syracuse (60) .......................19-0 1,619 12. Kentucky (4) ..........................17-1 1,558 23. Baylor (1) ..............................17-0 1,503 44. Duke ......................................15-2 1,380 85. Missouri .................................16-1 1,335 96. Ohio St. .................................16-3 1,312 57. Kansas ..................................14-3 1,218 108. North Carolina .......................15-3 1,172 39. Michigan St. ..........................15-3 1,119 610. Georgetown .........................14-3 884 1111. Indiana ................................15-3 858 712. Murray St. ...........................18-0 825 1513. Connecticut .........................14-3 807 1714. UNLV ...................................16-3 651 1215. Virginia ................................14-2 649 1616. San Diego St. .....................15-2 621 2217. Florida .................................14-4 596 19

18. Mississippi St. ...................15-3 590 2019. Creighton .............................16-2 471 2320. Michigan ..............................14-4 461 1321. Marquette ............................14-4 278 2522. Illinois ..................................15-3 257 —23. Louisville .............................14-4 208 1424. Saint Mary’s (Cal) ...............17-2 167 —25. Kansas St. ..........................12-4 102 18Others receiving votes: Vanderbilt 101, Wiscon-sin 90, Seton Hall 79, Gonzaga 64, New Mexico 61, Harvard 22, Cincinnati 17, Stanford 16, West Virginia 16, Alabama 10, Wichita St. 3, Iona 2, Florida St. 1, Northwestern 1, Wagner 1.Ballots Online: http://tinyurl.com/43u6jr6

USA Today/ESPN Top 25 PollThe top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 15, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous rank-ing: Record Pts Pvs1. Syracuse (31) .......................19-0 775 12. Kentucky ...............................17-1 742 23. Baylor ....................................17-0 714 44. Duke ......................................15-2 654 65. Missouri .................................16-1 629 96. Ohio St. .................................16-3 619 57. Kansas ..................................14-3 591 108. North Carolina .......................15-3 569 39. Michigan St. ..........................15-3 509 710. Murray St. ...........................18-0 449 1411. Connecticut .........................14-3 416 1612. Georgetown .........................14-3 410 1113. Indiana ................................15-3 358 814. Florida .................................14-4 304 1915. Mississippi St. ...................15-3 288 2016. San Diego St. .....................15-2 282 2217. Virginia ................................14-2 269 1718. Creighton .............................16-2 260 2119. Michigan ..............................14-4 259 1320. UNLV ...................................16-3 252 1221. Louisville .............................14-4 130 1522. Marquette ............................14-4 119 2423. Saint Mary’s ........................17-2 100 —24. Harvard ...............................15-2 61 2525. Illinois ..................................15-3 58 —Others receiving votes: Vanderbilt 47, Kansas St. 46, New Mexico 41, Wisconsin 27, Gonzaga 21, Middle Tennessee 21, Seton Hall 16, West Virginia 13, Wichita St. 13, Alabama 7, Nevada 3, California 2, BYU 1.

WOMEn’S baSkETballWomen’s Top 25 Schedule

Monday’s GamesNo. 3 UConn 86, No. 24 North Carolina 35 No. 8 Maryland 68, Virginia 61

Today’s GamesNo. 2 Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.No. 7 Rutgers at St. John’s, 6 p.m.No. 19 Georgetown at Marquette, 8 p.m.No. 21 DePaul at South Florida, 6 p.m.No. 23 Kansas State vs. Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesNo. 1 Baylor at No. 17 Texas Tech, 7 p.m.No. 5 Duke at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m.No. 14 Texas A&M vs. Missouri, 7 p.m.No. 18 Louisville vs. Providence, 6 p.m.

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The Women’s AP Top 25By The Associated Press

The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 15, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Baylor (39) ............................17-0 975 12. Notre Dame ..........................17-1 936 23. Connecticut ...........................14-2 887 34. Stanford .................................15-1 865 45. Duke ......................................14-2 797 76. Kentucky ...............................16-2 739 97. Rutgers ..................................15-2 719 88. Maryland ...............................16-1 718 59. Tennessee ............................13-4 667 610. Ohio St. ...............................17-1 630 1111. Miami ...................................15-3 606 1312. Green Bay ...........................15-0 500 1413. Purdue .................................15-3 424 1714. Texas A&M .........................11-4 413 1215. Georgia ...............................15-3 403 1916. Delaware .............................14-1 367 2017. Texas Tech .........................14-2 355 1018. Louisville .............................14-4 342 1619. Georgetown .........................14-4 285 1820. Nebraska .............................15-2 282 1521. DePaul ................................14-3 249 2122. Penn St. ..............................13-4 180 —23. Kansas St. ..........................13-3 132 —24. North Carolina .....................12-4 60 2225. Vanderbilt ............................14-3 50 25Others receiving votes: Gonzaga 41, LSU 20, Georgia Tech 10, South Carolina 7, Kansas 4, Hofstra 2, Michigan St. 2, Oklahoma 2, St. Bonaventure 2, BYU 1, Princeton 1, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 1, Southern Cal 1.

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Jan. 171961 — The Cincinnati Royals’

22-year-old rookie sensation, Oscar Robertson, becomes the youngest player to receive NBA All-Star MVP honors. Robertson scores 23 points and hands out 14 assists in a 153-131 victory for the West at Syracuse.

1971 — The first Super Bowl under the NFL-AFL merger ends with Baltimore rookie Jim O’Brien kicking a 32-yard field goal as time expires for a 16-13 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V.

1988 — The Denver Broncos beat the Cleveland Browns for the second straight year in the AFC championship game. Defensive back Jeremiah Castille strips run-ning back Earnest Byner at the Denver 3-yard line with 65 seconds left in the game to preserve a 38-33 victory.

1995 — The NFL’s Rams announce they’re leaving Southern Califor-nia after 49 years and moving to St. Louis.

nflBank foreclosingon Simpson’s home

MIAMI — A bank is foreclosing on the Florida home of O.J. Simp-son, who is serving a nine-to-33-year prison sentence in a Nevada prison for kidnapping, armed rob-bery and other charges stemming from a 2007 armed confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court records show that JPMorgan Chase filed for foreclosure in September. Simp-son’s attorneys have since filed a motion to dismiss the case. The 64-year-old former football star and actor bought the four-bedroom, four-bath house south of downtown Miami in 2000 for $575,000.

OlYMPICS20 players picked to try outfor U.S. basketball team

NEW YORK — The United States announced the 20 players who will be candidates for the London Games, adding Blake Griffin of the Clippers and LaMarcus Aldridge of Portland to the 18 holdovers from either the 2008 Olympics or 2010 world championship who have said they wish to be considered again.

The 12-man roster and alternates for the Olympics will be chosen from the new player pool in June.

Returning from the team that won gold in Beijing are Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul and Deron Williams. Back from the reigning world champions are: Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, Tyson Chandler, Eric Gordon, Rudy Gay, Kevin Love, Lamar Odom, Chauncey Billups, Russell West-brook and Andre Iguodala.

nbaPistons’ plane makesemergency landing

HOUSTON — A charter flight bringing the Detroit Pistons to Houston for a game against the Rockets had to make an emergency landing at Hobby Airport. A team spokesman said no one was hurt.

nHlCrosby will meetwith concussion specialist

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby will meet with a specialist this week because of lingering concussion-like symptoms.

Crosby hasn’t played since Dec. 5 following a recurrence of the symp-toms that sidelined him for more than 10 months last year.

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Former Vicksburg High star Kelsey Howard scored 10 points and Williams nine for Jackson State, and Bush had eight rebounds.

DaQuan Joyner scored 13 to pace Texas Southern, which had won its first four conference games by an average of 27 points.

Arkansas-PB 75, Alcorn State 68

Daniel Broughton scored 23 points and Savalace Townsend added 19 to lead Arkansas-Pine Bluff to a vic-tory against Alcorn State.

Lazabian Jackson added 13 points for the Golden Lions (2-16, 1-4 SWAC), who out-scored Alcorn State 12-5 in the last 1:36.

KeDorian Sullivan had 19 points and Xavian Rimmer 18 for the Braves (3-14, 1-5).

The game was tied before Broughton and Townsend made two free throws each for a 67-63 Arkansas-Pine Bluff lead with 1:20 remain-ing. After a missed Alcorn State shot, Townsend con-verted a crushing 3-point play with 53 seconds left, and the Golden Lions protected the lead at the charity stripe.

and take it seriously.” After trailing by 17 points

in the fourth quarter, the Hornets pulled to 79-71 on Okafor’s short baseline jumper with under 3 minutes to go. But Batum responded with a 3 with 2:25 left to make it 82-71, and the Hornets were unable to threaten after that.

“Sure it was ugly but we needed a win and we’ll take it,” Portland coach Nate McMillan said. “We know we can play better and we know we’ll have to play better.”

The score was tied at 37 when Jason Smith hit a jumper in the opening minute of the second half. Aldridge then began Port-land’s decisive run with a jumper, tip-in and an inside basket in quick succession. Aldridge added another bucket inside and a smooth 11-foot turnaround fade from the baseline during the surge, which Matthews capped with a 3 to make it 54-39.

While Portland struggled to find its shooting touch in a tight first half, the Blaz-ers made 54 percent (19 of 35) of their field goals in the second, and outshot New Orleans 47 percent (34 of 72) to 41 percent (28 of 68) for the game. They also combined

for 25 assists, 12 by Raymond Felton.

Chris Kaman scored 12 points for the Hornets but made only 6 of his 15 shots.

“We’ve all got to look in the mirror and see where we need to step up,” Kaman said. “It’s definitely tough. We’ve been doing a good job defensively so that’s all you can ask for. We’ve got to get better with our offense and do a better job taking care of the basketball.”

Batum, who had 10 of his points in the first half, and Kurt Thomas, who added eight points, helped the Blaz-ers take an early lead that they maintained through the first two quarters.

Portland led by as much as nine but squandered chances to pull farther ahead while the Hornets were plagued by a pair of 0-for-7 shooting slumps, as well as an 0-for-5 start from 3-point range, during the first two quarters.

Mexican rookie Gustavo Ayon came off the bench in the second quarter to help the Hornets close the gap. In his first eight minutes on the floor, he made his first three shots, grabbed three rebounds and had a steal.

His driving layup off the glass pulled the Hornets to 32-28.

college basketball

tennis

Jayhawks romp over third-ranked BearsBy The Associated Press

The last time Baylor coach Scott Drew brought a team into Allen Fieldhouse, he led them off the court and into a tunnel after his players had been introduced.

The reason was the noise: It can get so loud in Kansas’ venerable gymnasium, espe-cially during the video mon-tage before the Jayhawks are announced, that it’s almost impossible to hear.

He didn’t pull them off the court Monday night.

Then the Jayhawks made it look like the Bears never showed up at all.

Thomas Robinson had 27 points and 14 rebounds, Tyshawn Taylor matched a career-high with 28 points and the seventh-ranked Jay-hawks rolled to a 92-74 vic-tory, ending No. 3 Baylor’s perfect start and proving once more that the road to the Big 12 title goes through Kansas.

Travis Releford and Elijah Johnson added 11 points each for the Jayhawks (15-3, 5-0), who won their 16th straight game at Allen Field-house and 10th in a row at home over the Bears.

Syracuse 71, Pitt 63Dion Waiters had 16 points

and Scoop Jardine had 12 points and 10 assists as No. 1 Syracuse beat Pittsburgh to open the season with 20 straight wins.

The Orange (20-0, 7-0 Big East) set a school record for most consecutive victories to start a season and it was win No. 876 for coach Jim Boe-heim, tying him with Adolph Rupp of Kentucky for fourth

place all-time in Division I. North Carolina’s Dean Smith is third with 879.

Boeheim extended his Divi-sion I record for most 20-win seasons to 34.

It was the seventh straight loss for Pittsburgh (11-8, 0-6). The Panthers were coming off a stunning 62-39 home loss to Rutgers last Wednesday, the fewest points they scored in a regulation game since a 53-30 loss to Temple in 1969.

Ashton Gibbs, Cameron Wright and Lamar Patter-

son all scored 10 points for Pitt, which had beaten Syra-cuse five straight times and had won 13 of the past 16 meetings.

Missouri 70,Texas A&M 51

Reserve Michael Dixon scored 18 points and helped spark a 17-0 first-half run as fifth-ranked Missouri snapped an eight-game losing streak to the Aggies.

The Tigers (17-1, 4-1 Big 12)

started the game by making only five of their first 14 shots from the field against the con-ference’s best scoring defense. But Dixon’s 3-pointer with 7:22 remaining in the first half started the 17-0 run that gave Missouri a 31-17 lead.

Elston Turner and Khris Mid-dleton both had 13 points for Texas A&M (10-7, 1-4), which scored the first seven points of in the second half to get within 42-30. The Aggies got within 10 points three times, but could get no closer.

Djokovic wins Australian Open debutMELBOURNE, Australia

(AP) — Novak Djokovic was having an easy time of it in his first-round match at the Aus-tralian Open, so he decided to experiment by coming to the net.

Like pretty much everything he does on the tennis court these days, it was an unquali-fied success. He easily beat Paolo Lorenzi 6-2, 6-0, 6-0 Tuesday to advance to the second round and continue his quest to join Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal by winning three straight Grand Slam sin-gles titles.

“When you’re 3- , 4-love up, why not try some other things, something that is not charac-teristic for your game,” said Djokovic, who usually doesn’t stray far from the baseline.

“But I am definitely working on my net game, approaching the short balls as much as I can, and take my chances.”

He took them well, winning 21 of 26 points he attempted at the net.

While Djokovic looks to extend his Grand Slam suc-cess, reigning U.S. Open wom-en’s champion and Australian hope Sam Stosur was beaten in the following match, and a full and partisan house at Rod Laver Arena could do nothing to help.

The sixth-seeded Stosur was outplayed by Sorana Cirstea 7-6 (2), 6-3, the Romanian later telling the crowd that “prob-ably the whole country hates me now.”

Serena Williams, a five-time Australian Open champion who lost to Stosur in the U.S. Open final last September, was due to play her first-round match later Tuesday against Tamira Paszek of Austria.

Williams, who comes into the match with concerns over the left ankle she twisted at the Brisbane International two weeks ago, didn’t defend her title here last year because of injury.

Stosur’s first-round loss mir-rors that of Petra Kvitova, who went out in the first round of last year’s U.S. Open after win-ning Wimbledon.

“I’m not sure if it’s one of my biggest matches, but it feels like that now,” said Cirstea, who had lost both her previ-ous matches against Stosur.

Stosur saved three match points while serving, but finally lost it when her loop-ing forehand drifted over the baseline. No Australian has won the national title since Chris O’Neil in 1978.

“Certainly not the way that I wanted, not just this tournament, but the whole summer,” to play out, Stosur said. “There’s not any other word for it but a total disappointment.”

Second-ranked Kvitova and No. 4 Maria Sharapova advanced. After surrender-ing her opening service game with a double-fault, Kvitova won 12 consecutive games in a 6-2, 6-0 win over Russia’s Vera Dushevina.

Sharapova, a former Aus-tralian Open and Wimbledon champion, won the first eight games of a 6-0, 6-1 win over Gisela Dulko of Argentina in her first match since return-ing from a left ankle injury.

The 2008 champion needed just 58 minutes for the win and the only game she lost was on her own serve.

Other women advancing included No. 7 Vera Zvonar-eva, No. 9 Marion Bartoli and former French Open cham-pion Ana Ivanovic.

No. 14 Sabine Lisicki, No. 17 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 27 Maria Kirilenko, Canada’s Aleksandra Wozniak, Shahar Peer of Israel and 2000 Wim-bledon semifinalist Jelena Dokic also advanced.

Joining Djokovic in the second round of the men’s draw is the player he beat last year in the final here, fourth-

seeded Andy Murray, who had a first-set lapse before beating American Ryan Harrison 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

Murray, who has lost in Grand Slam finals three times without taking a set, is attempting to become the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a major.

Andy Roddick easily defeated Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 to also move into the second round. The 15th-seeded American broke Haase to go up 3-0 in the final set with a running passing shot down the line that left his opponent hitting his head with his racket. He broke Haase again to close out the match.

In night matches, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, beaten by Djokovic in the 2008 final at Melbourne Park, defeated Denis Istomin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5.

Another former finalist, Lley-ton Hewitt, gave the night ses-sion crowd at Rod Laver Arena something to cheer when the Australian veteran beat Ger-many’s Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, coming from 5-1 down in the fourth set.

Earlier, No. 5-seeded David Ferrer advanced in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, over Rui Machado of Portugal. No. 17 Richard Gasquet, No. 23 Milos Raonic of Canada, No. 24 Kei Nishikori of Japan and No. 32 Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia also advanced.

Djokovic started his Aus-tralian Open defense wear-ing a pair of red, white and blue shoes with images of his three major trophies on the sides and a Serbian flag on the heels.

He gave up an early break but immediately broke back at love as he won the next 17 games, saving a break point in the opening game of the second set.

“I think it was a learning pro-cess for me in the last couple of years. I just have more confidence that I’m playing on right now,” he said. “I just believe that I can win, espe-cially against the biggest rivals in the major events.”

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Novak Djokovic makes a backhand return to Italy’s Paolo Lorenzi during their first-round match at the Australian Open today.

the season finale on Friday to take another division crown and a home playoff game.

“Hopefully, we can open things up the next time we play,” Clinton coach Thomas Bobo said after his team escaped after a 1-0 win over WC on Friday. “From a dis-trict standpoint, some of the rules they put on us will dic-tate that we play these dis-trict games later in the year. We’ve got a synthetic surface in Clinton and it can rain if it wants to and we’re still going to play.”

On the boys’ side, things

are a lot more cut and dried. Warren Central needs a win on Thursday against Vicks-burg to clinch a spot. WC lost, 2-0, against a powerful Clinton team Friday.

“We’ve got to beat Vicks-burg,” WC coach Greg Head said. “We’re not going to worry about the scenarios.”

Vicksburg would need a three-goal win over WC today and a victory Friday over Greenville-Weston to make the postseason.

Clinton (18-2-2, 4-0) needs only a win Friday to clinch a division title.


Baylor forward Quincy Miller is fouled by Kansas forward Justin Wesley Monday.

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MILESTONESn BIRTHDAYSBetty White, actress, 90; Vidal Sassoon, hairdresser, 84; James Earl Jones, actor, 81; Maury Povich, talk show host, 73; Mick Taylor, rock musician, 64; Steve Earle, singer, 57; Paul Young, singer, 56; Steve Harvey, actor-comedian, 55; Susanna Hoffs, singer, 53; Jim Carrey, actor-comedian, 50; first lady Michelle Obama, 48; Kid Rock, rapper, 41; Zooey Deschanel, actress, 32; Amanda Wilkinson, actress, 30. n DEATHDan Evins — The founder of the Cracker Bar-rel Old Country Store chain, Dan Evins, has died at 76. The company said Monday that Evins — known as Danny — died Saturday in Leba-non, Tenn. No cause of death was given. Evins opened his first restaurant in Lebanon, Tenn., in 1969. The restaurant catered to highway travel-ers and focused on offering Southern hospital-ity, country-style cooking and an associated gift shop that came to define the chain. He fash-ioned the restaurant after the country stores of his youth in rural Tennessee and used a number of family recipes. The restaurant was named after the practice of customers gathering at coun-try stores to share news and play checkers on top of an empty barrel that had been used to deliver crackers to the store. Evins helped build the chain into a national brand as CEO from 1969 to 2001 and chairman until he retired in 2004. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., headquartered in Lebanon, Tenn., now op-erates more than 600 restaurants in 42 states, including one in Vicksburg.

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Kid Rock apologizes for cigar violationKid Rock has apologized after a man com-

plained that the musician smoked a cigar at a nonsmoking venue in the Detroit area.

Randy Snell said Kid Rock lit the cigar while at-tending country singer Travis Tritt’s show Friday at Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren.

Spokesman Nick Stern said that Kid Rock of-fered his “most sincere apologies” to patrons he might have offended. He said he had been drinking alcohol.

Fifty-eight-year-old Randy Snell, of Trenton, has asthma and said he plans to file a health department com-plaint. Michigan law prohibits smoking at workplaces including bars and restaurants.

Lohan to return to court for updateLindsay Lohan is returning to court to give a

judge her second update on how she’s faring under strict new probation requirements.

The hearing today is expected to be much like Lohan’s last progress update: short and without surprises.

The starlet has been doing cleanup work at the county morgue and attending psychother-apy sessions in an effort to avoid problems with her probation for separate drunken driving and theft cases.

Lohan’s spokesman Steve Honig said the actress has made her community service her “primary focus” and is eager for Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner to receive the details.

Urban’s Nashville benefit to be April 10Keith Urban has rescheduled a benefit concert for April 10.He had to postpone the third annual “All For The Hall” Country

Music Hall of Fame and Museum fundraiser in Nashville on Jan. 18 because he’s still recovering from having a polyp removed from a vocal cord late last year.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 27. He’s raised about $1 million so far.

ANd ONE MORE

Fugitive’s suit against hostages axedA judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Colorado man who

held a Kansas couple hostage then sued them for breach of contract for turning him in.

Jesse Dimmick of Denver contended he had a legally binding oral contract with Jared and Lindsay Rowley that they’d hide him from police in return for money.

Dimmick was a fugitive facing a murder charge when he burst into the Rowleys’ home in September 2009 and confronted them at knifepoint. The Rowleys escaped when he fell asleep.

Dimmick was later convicted of kidnapping and other charges and the Rowleys sued him for more than $75,000 in damages. Dimmick counter-sued, seeking $160,000 for hospital bills and $75,000 for pain and suffering.

A judge dismissed the suit Jan. 9.


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MISS AMERICA 2012

Kaeppeler confronted family pain with pageantLAS VEGAS (AP) — The

nation’s newest Miss America is a 23-year-old Wisconsin bru-nette who had long conversa-tions with her family mulling whether or not to make her father’s jail time for mail fraud the heart of her campaign in the beauty pageant.

While her competitors pushed platforms including promoting the health bene-fits of milk and protecting the environment, Laura Kaep-peler said she wants chil-dren of incarcerated adults to feel less alone, to have men-toring and as much of a rela-tionship with their parents as possible.

“There are many of you out there — and I was one of them — but it doesn’t have to define you,” Kaeppeler told The Asso-ciated Press after winning the crown and $50,000 scholarship on Saturday night.

To win, she said beauty queens and politicians should remember they represent all Americans, sang an opera song and strutted in a white bikini and black evening gown.

Her looks, smarts and per-sonal vocation impressed a panel of seven celebrity judges enough to give her the next year with the title.

“What happened with my father is not what my year is going to be focused on,” she said. “It’s going to be focused on looking forward and moving to the future because that’s what my family has done and that’s what I’ll encourage others to do, as well.”

Kaeppeler estimated that there are more than 2 million children with a parent in jail.

Kaeppeler’s father, Jeff Kaep-

peler, served 18 months in fed-eral prison for mail fraud, a sentence his daughter said started as she was graduat-ing high school and entering college.

Jeff Kaeppeler said when his daughter approached the family about making the per-sonal topic her chosen plat-form, they supported it even though they knew it would be discussed publicly.

“It taught us that God can

turn anything into good if you let him,” he said. “Laura is totally on board with that idea. She let that drive her and inspire her this past year to get ready for this.

“We’ve seen a miracle,” he said while waiting backstage for a news conference in which his daughter called him her “best friend” and briefly took pictures with him onstage.

“I love you,” he whispered to her as dozens of cameras

snapped photos.Miss Oklahoma Betty

Thompson came in second, while Miss New York Kaitlyn Monte placed third.

Kaeppler was good enough during preliminary competi-tions to be chosen as one of 15 semifinalists who moved on to compete in the pageant’s finale. Her bid lasted through swimsuit, evening wear, talent and interview competi-tions that saw cuts after each round.

She was asked minutes before being crowned whether Miss America should declare her politics.

“Miss America represents everyone, so I think the mes-sage to political candidates is that they represent every-one as well,” she said. “And so in these economic times, we need to be looking forward to what America needs, and I think Miss America needs to represent all.”

Kaeppeler, of Kenosha, Wis., some 40 miles south of Mil-waukee, said her crowning moment was a blur.

“I was crying even before my name was called,” Kaeppeler said. “It was just surreal to have this honor.”

She replaces Teresa Scan-lan of Nebraska, who won last year at age 17 and plans to use her scholarship to pay for law school.

As the new Miss America, Kaeppeler will spend the next year touring the country to speak to different groups and raising money for the Chil-dren’s Miracle Network, the Miss America Organization’s official charity.

Marvel head: Creativitywill drive comics in 2012

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Stop counting comic books out.

That’s the assessment of Dan Buckley, publisher and president of Marvel Comics, the longtime purveyor of sto-r ies about the exploits o f c h a r a c -ters including the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and the X-Men.

The indus-t r y, wh i c h reported modest increases during the recent recession, is still growing, though the level has tapered off, Buckley said. But it still remains vibrant because of the creativity engendered by new characters, reboots and, in the case of rival DC Comics, a total relaunch that generated new interest and buzz, something that other publishers benefited from.

“This is an American story-telling medium that people love and respect,” Buck-ley said, noting that Marvel retained its ranking as the top comics publisher again last year. He attributed the com-pany’s success to deeper sto-rytelling and moving readers

with the deaths of some well-known characters and the reinvigoration of some old favorites, too.

Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., a Baltimore-based com-pany that distributes comics, and graphic novels to more than 4,000 shops, said that while DC held nine of the top 10 top-selling comic titles for the year, Marvel held the big-gest share of the market.

Diamond said Marvel remained atop thanks to demand for issues like “Fan-tastic Four” No. 587, which fea-tured the death of the Human Torch, and “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man,” which saw Miles Morales take up the mantel of the wall crawler after Peter Parker’s death.

That helped give the com-pany a 37 percent dollar market share and a 41 per-cent unit market share. That, along with DC’s New 52, cre-ated more interest from new and first-time buyers.

“Sales of comic books were quite strong in the second half of the year, led by the Sep-tember launch of DC’s New 52 comic books, and that pos-itive trend has continued in the months since,” said Dia-mond President and CEO Steve Geppi.

’Contraband’ takes top spotat movies with $28.8 million

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Contraband” managed to steal the top slot away from competitors at the weekend box office.

The Universal action drama film starring Mark Wahl-berg as a reformed smuggler debuted above expectations at No. 1 with $28.8 million, while Disney’s 3-D rerelease of “Beauty and the Beast” waltzed into the No. 2 position with $23.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Both films helped boost Hollywood’s business after a sluggish holi-day season.

“It’s great to have an uptick in the total box office, and Univer-sal is thrilled that ‘Contraband’ was the driving force behind

that,” said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for the studio. “I think it’s combination of a great marketing campaign, audiences love Mark Wahl-berg and (producer) Working Title made a terrific movie, particularly for the cost.”

“Joyful Noise,” the Warner Bros.’ musical comedy star-ring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton, opened below expec-tations with $11.3 million in the No. 4 spot behind Para-mount’s “Mission: Impossi-ble — Ghost Protocol,” which earned $11.5 million in its fifth week, bringing the total haul of the fourth installment of the Tom Cruise action franchise to $186.7 million.

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Get counseling to cope with manipulative motherDear Abby: I’m 23, the only

child of a controlling, para-noid, hermit-like and hyper-religious mother and a peace-loving, passive father. I graduated from college last year. Shortly after, my boy-friend and I accepted dream jobs in the same town several hours away from my parents.

Mom was appalled. She “warned” me that I wouldn’t last and would come home. Instead, I have embraced my new city and job. Mom is at her wits’ end. When I men-tioned that my boyfriend had recorded a movie for me, she said he was controlling me via technology. If I tell her about a project I initiated at work, she says my employer is taking advantage of me.

Mom pays for a landline in my apartment that I don’t want, but she insists because she’s convinced that cell phones cause cancer. She calls me constantly, and if I don’t answer she leaves fran-tic messages about how “dis-respectful” I am, and how she and Dad are “praying for my

soul.”This has gotten out of con-

trol. I try talking to her, but she won’t listen and laughs at the idea of counseling. She says it’s her “job” to tell me what to do. My father agrees that her behavior and approach are wrong, but says she has good intentions and I need to “work with her.”

Abby, I don’t know what to do. I’m worried that my dis-tance is affecting her health. Some advice, please! — Wants a Healthy Relationship with Mom

Dear Wants: If you return home because you’re afraid having moved away and asserting your independence is negatively affecting your mother’s health, you will never have a life of your own.

Because she laughs at the idea of counseling doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t get some in order to help you separate yourself from her constant efforts to manipulate you.

Her dependence on you is not normal. That’s why you should enlist the help of a mental health professional. It will give you some insight in how to deal with her. If you try to “work with her” without that help, she will suck you in and you will never be free.

Dear Abby: I have very nice neighbors who believe in leaving the wild and natu-ral growth on their property. They have posted a sign that claims it to be a “certified natural habitat.” They never weed or cut anything back. At first, it was cared for, but now it has become an eyesore, and people who visit our house have made comments.

I have tried to grow border plants to hide the mess, but nothing seems to help. I believe it affects the value of our home. My husband doesn’t want me to say anything for

fear of hurting their feelings. They’re nice people, but we don’t live in a rural area where this might be more acceptable. Have you any suggestions? — Thorn in Our Side

Dear Thorn: Yes. Who certi-fied your neighbors’ yard as a “natural habitat”? The city? If so, call City Hall and find out if their yard still qualifies. What you have described may be a fire hazard, so some investiga-tion may be in order. If there is a homeowners association in your neighborhood, it should also be contacted to ensure their house is in compliance with the codes, covenants and restrictions. If necessary, someone who is close to these neighbors should volunteer to “help” them with their yard. A natural landscape can be beautiful, but only if it’s prop-erly maintained.

•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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Medication, therapymay curb panic issues

Dear Doctor K: In the past year I’ve had five panic attacks. Now I’m always worried I’m going to have another, at any moment. Is there anything I can do to prevent them?

Dear Reader: Panic attacks can be very unsettling. All of a sudden, you are filled with extreme fear or terror. You may be short of breath, have palpitations, chest pain, sweating or feel a smothering sensation. You probably fear that you are losing control. You might even think you are about to die.

A panic attack usually lasts five to 30 minutes. But it can continue for several hours. Sometimes the attacks occur in stressful situations, but often they begin for no appar-ent reason. They can even wake you from deep sleep.

For my patients who suffer from panic attacks, the worst part about them is their unpre-dictability. If certain things seem to trigger panic attacks — like dining in crowded res-taurants — they avoid them.

Panic attacks are surpris-ingly common: About 5 percent of women and 2 percent of men suffer from them at some point in their lives. In my experience, panic attacks are not always accurately diagnosed. Some of my patients tell me they’ve had panic attacks, but describe something different and even more common: being nervous a lot of the time. In contrast, panic attacks come like a bolt out of the blue and can end just as quickly. A mental health professional is best qualified to make a diagnosis.

Most illnesses stem from a combination of genes and the external environment. Panic attacks are no exception. They run in families. Identical twins (who share the same genes) are more likely to both have panic attacks than noniden-tical twins (who share only some genes).

Various imaging studies have found that the parts of the brain that control fear are different in people who suffer from panic attacks. In other words, some people are born with a higher risk of suffer-ing panic attacks. At the same time, stressful situations (the external environment) often trigger the attacks.

Treatment often eliminates panic attacks or makes them less intense. Antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are very effective for panic dis-order. Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil are commonly prescribed.

Antidepressants can take several weeks to work, so they are often combined with a short course of anti-anxiety drugs that work more quickly. Examples of these drugs are diazepam (Valium) and alpra-zolam (Xanax).

Medication often works best when combined with cognitive and/or behavior therapy. Cog-nitive therapy teaches patients to recognize the unreasonable-ness of the fears that cause panic. Behavior therapy may include gradual exposure to

fear-provoking situations or using breath control as a way to fight panic.

Finally, eliminating or reducing caffeine (which can promote panic attacks) is essential.

With appropriate treatment, you’ll find that panic disor-der no longer has to rule your thoughts or your actions.

•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.

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TomoRRoW’S HoRoSCoPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

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

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Even though you believe that friends will back up your words, it might not happen. The sup-port you’ve been looking for isn’t likely to be forthcoming, so play things close to the vest.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Unfortunately, it might be dif-ficult for you to stay the course. All those good intentions of yours could quickly be swept aside if you let outside distrac-tions influence you.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’re not likely to be plagued with a lack of imagination. In fact, the problem you’ll have will be one of being too easily swayed by your illogical concepts.Aries (March 21-April 19) — You’re likely to get a much better price from a stranger than from the usual places at which you do business. Check out all sources before making a purchase.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Although your objectives are wor-thy ones, a busybody could gum up the works for you if you let him or her do so. Your aims might be quite different from those of your pal.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Generosity is a noble virtue, but it should be dosed with a bit of wisdom. Be careful not to give to an unworthy pal while forgetting about someone who has done much for you.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — There are no guarantees that you will yield the same good fortune if you replicate a friend’s en-deavor. Your pal might have been in the right spot at the right time.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Even though you might try to please everyone in the same manner, it doesn’t always work. Disap-pointment on your part can be minimized by realizing that you can’t be all things to all people.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — If you want to fulfill an important objective, you need to be quite shrewd and resourceful. How-ever, be careful not to do anything that would violate your code of ethics.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You’ve been in a cycle of peaks and valleys lately when it comes to your finances. If you make this day one of prudent spending and negotiation, it’ll pay off for you more than usual.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Do first all the things that you know you can accomplish on your initial effort, because if you try something hard and fall short, it’s likely to stop you from try-ing anything else. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t be a source for gos-sip or hearsay that has yet to be substantiated. If you say any-thing negative about another, chances are the same will be said about you.

Dr. Wallace: I recently moved to my grandparents’ house in Irvine, Calif., because my parents are going through a nasty breakup. Two days before Christmas, a friend I just met at my new school invited me to go to a big mall in Newport Beach. Her mother was to drop us off and pick us up three hours later. My grandmother agreed that I could go.

Just before it was time for us to look for her mother, we went into a large department store. My friend left me for a while in the shoe department where I was looking at new shoes.

When my friend returned, she told me that it was time to meet her mother, so we had to hurry. But when we left the store, a man came up to us and told us to follow him. He took us into a back room where two ladies asked my friend to open up a bag that she was carrying. She did and in it was something she hadn’t paid for. My friend started crying and said that she was sorry, but a lady called her mother. I had done nothing wrong, and I was allowed to call my grandmother to pick me up. See-ing my friend get caught shoplifting was traumatic. I hope that sharing this experience has convinced all the teens who read your column to say the same. — Nameless, Irvine, Calif.

Nameless: Thanks for the excellent advice. Shoplifting is a very serious offense. If convicted, the guilty party can have a criminal record that can hinder future employment.

Dr. Wallace: I’m 19 and my husband is 21. Two weeks ago, we received wonderful news that we will be parents in six months. I’m going to do everything possible, so I can have a healthy baby. I will follow my doctor’s advice 100 percent. My only wor-ry is that three years ago I smoked about 10 marijuana ciga-rettes but took no other drugs. Could my marijuana escapade cause my baby to have any birth defects? — Nameless, Chicago

Nameless: Your brief encounter with marijuana three years ago would have no ill effects on any of your children. Birth de-fects caused by drugs or alcohol occur only when used during the pregnancy.

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

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIESTATE OF ROBERT BARRON HYNUMCIVIL ACTION FILE NO.2011-161PRDECEASEDVELMA DUNGAN HYNUM,EXECUTRIXNOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters Testamentary havingbeen granted on the 29thday of December, 2011, bythe Chancery Court of Warren County, Mississippi,to the undersigned Executrixof the Estate of Robert Barron Hynum, Deceased,notice is hereby given to allpersons having claimsagainst this Estate to presentsuch claims to the Clerk ofthis Court for probate andregistration according to law,within ninety (90) days fromthe first publication of thisnotice, or such claims will beforever barred.This the 11th day of January, 2012./s/VELMA DUNGAN HYNUMExecutrix of the Estate ofRobert Barron Hynum, DeceasedRobert G. Ellis, (MBN 5113)ELLIS, BRADDOCK &DEES, LTD.901 Belmont StreetVicksburg, Mississippi 39180Telephone: (601) 636-5433Facsimile: (601) 638-2938Publish: 1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7(4t)

IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIMIDFIRST BANK PLAIN-TIFF VS. NO. 2011-071GNTIFFANY YEAGER ANDMISSISSIPPI DEPART-MENT OF REVENUE DE-FENDANTSSUMMONS BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: Tiffany YeagerYou have been made a Defendant in the suit filed inthis Court by Midfirst Bank,Plaintiff, seeking Certificateof Title on a Mobile Home.Defendants other than you inthis action is The MississippiDepartment of Revenue.You are required to mail orhand deliver a written response to the Complaintfiled against you in this action to Eric C. Miller,Shapiro & Massey, Attorneyfor the Plaintiff, whose address is 1910 LakelandDrive, Suite B, Jackson, MS39216. Your response mustbe mailed or delivered notlater than thirty days after the17th day of January, 2012,which is the date of the firstpublication of this summons.If your response is notmailed or delivered, a judgment by default will beentered against you for themoney or other things demanded in the complaint.You must also file the original of your responsewith the Clerk of this Courtwithin a reasonable time afterward. Issued under myhand and seal of said Court,this 6th day of January,2012.(SEAL)Dot McGee, Chancery ClerkChancery Clerk of WarrenCountyP.O. Box 351Vicksburg, MS 39181By:D.C.Publish: 1/17, 1/24, 1/31(3t)

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIMIDFIRST BANK PLAIN-TIFF VS. NO. 2011-071GNTIFFANY YEAGER ANDMISSISSIPPI DEPART-MENT OF REVENUE DE-FENDANTSSUMMONS BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: Tiffany YeagerYou have been made a Defendant in the suit filed inthis Court by Midfirst Bank,Plaintiff, seeking Certificateof Title on a Mobile Home.Defendants other than you inthis action is The MississippiDepartment of Revenue.You are required to mail orhand deliver a written response to the Complaintfiled against you in this action to Eric C. Miller,Shapiro & Massey, Attorneyfor the Plaintiff, whose address is 1910 LakelandDrive, Suite B, Jackson, MS39216. Your response mustbe mailed or delivered notlater than thirty days after the17th day of January, 2012,which is the date of the firstpublication of this summons.If your response is notmailed or delivered, a judgment by default will beentered against you for themoney or other things demanded in the complaint.You must also file the original of your responsewith the Clerk of this Courtwithin a reasonable time afterward. Issued under myhand and seal of said Court,this 6th day of January,2012.(SEAL)Dot McGee, Chancery ClerkChancery Clerk of WarrenCountyP.O. Box 351Vicksburg, MS 39181By:D.C.Publish: 1/17, 1/24, 1/31(3t)

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// Sea-like shapes crown the Bridge of Glass in Tacoma, Wash., Dale Chihuly’s hometown.

Dale Chihuly shapes a modern art movement// BY MARGARET HABERMAN

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DARYL SMITH, 39, blows and twirls a glob of glowing glass at the end of a long stainless steel pipe, rolling the molten mass on a table to fashion an orange-red icicle shape at the Seattle studio of American glass master Dale Chihuly.

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Using an array of torches, files, crimps, tweezers and shears, Smith curls, imprints and cuts the fiery shape—moving it in and out of a 2,150-degree furnace to keep the material pliable—before a fellow craftsman places the glass in a cooling oven.

The finished object is one of 1,800 pieces being used to create a massive sculpture for Chihuly’s most ambitious project to date—the 1½-acre Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit opening later this year in Seattle. The venture’s hallmark glass house will feature a massive installation 100 feet long and 25 feet high.

“People are going to see it and go, ‘Whoa!’” says Chihuly, 70.

One of America’s most prominent and prolific living artists, Chihuly is credited with elevating the craft of glassmaking to a fine art. His inventive sculptures—abstract baskets, colorful sea forms, lavish towers and effusive chandeliers—appear in the permanent collections of more than 200 museums worldwide and countless private collections.

Chihuly himself is a striking figure, with a barrel chest, a patch covering his blind left eye and a crown of curly hair. He offers a simple explanation for his success in recasting glass as a popular artistic movement.

“I think people like to look at something they’ve never seen before,” he says. “And that’s what I try to do.”

Shaping a visionOne of two sons born to a butcher and a

homemaker in nearby Tacoma, Wash., the unconventional artist remembers a traditional and happy childhood.

While attending high school in the 1950s,

however, Chihuly saw his world change abruptly when his older brother was killed in a Navy flight training crash and his father died from a heart attack the next year. To pay the bills, he worked at a meatpacking plant, and his mother took a job at a bar.

Chihuly studied interior design and architecture at the University of Washington—his ambitions stirred by a fiber weaving class and his work remodeling a room in his family’s home in the style of celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright, one of his creative idols.

In 1965, he graduated from college and experienced an epiphany that changed his

artistic direction. Exploring how to incorporate glass into a weaving, Chihuly melted glass in a kiln in his Seattle basement and used a pipe to blow a glass bubble.

“It’s usually very difficult to get a bubble. So I think I was

very lucky,” he says. “And from that point on, I wanted to be a glassblower.”

Earning money for graduate school by working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, he studied glassmaking at the University of Wisconsin and the Rhode Island School of Design before traveling to Italy on a Fulbright scholarship. He was the first American to work in the Venini glass factory in Venice, where he observed a collaborative approach to blowing glass—in which a master artist choreographs a team of assistants to create an intricate design, much like a maestro conducts an orchestra or a director oversees the cast and crew of a movie or play.

From the beginning, Chihuly liked the team approach to glassmaking and embraced the practice completely after losing sight in his left eye in a 1976 car accident in England and three years later dislocating his right shoulder in a body-surfing accident—injuries that made it physically difficult for him to sculpt glass himself.

Once back in America, he established a glass studies program at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Wash. In 1983, he settled in the Pacific Northwest and eventually established Chihuly Inc. in Seattle, where today he employs 102 artists and staff members.

His glass sculptures have grown increasingly grand

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// Left: The artist honed his glass-making skills at the University of Wisconsin, and directs his creative team (below) in Seattle.

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through the years, adorning the lobby of the Bellagio resort in Las Vegas, the 2002 Olympics site in Salt Lake City, the canals in Venice, Italy, and botanical gardens from New York to London. More than a million people flocked to see his sculptures in Jerusalem during a yearlong exhibit that ended in 2000.

“Chihuly changed the face of glass,” says Bruce Guenther, chief curator at the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum. “He started out in a field that had been dominated by craft and manufacturing in America, and Dale transformed the field through his vision, his energy and the opportunities that were presented to him.

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