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Area soldiers serving in the Middle East are expected home by April. Numerous groups begin preparing welcome events to honor the returning troops.

Woman charged withaiding fleeing suspect

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People of the CrossroadsKen Weeden, Corinth

Staff photo by Zack Steen

Ken Weeden, 46, is a Corinth transplant. Originally from Union County, Weeden moved his family to the Crossroads area in 2003 following in his brother, Mike’s footsteps. “We had bought some property up here and had grown to love the area,” said Weeden. “Pretty soon my mom and dad had migrated up here as well.” With wife, Amy, and daughters Sloan and Saili in tow, the owner of Weeden Law Firm in downtown Corinth also credits his brother for introducing his family to skiing. “We love to ski,” Weeden said. “We have went all over the coun-try just to ski — we even made it up to Alaska one year.” Traveling is a big deal to the Weeden fam-ily. “We have been to 49 of the 50 states ... and Hawaii is on our bucket list,” he added.

Wild turkey hunters and conservationists will gobble up Southern-fried favorites as the National Wild Turkey Federation holds its annual North MS Longbeards Banquet.

Slated for 6 p.m. on Tues-day, March 15 at Chapman’s Restaurant, guests will begin the night with the traditional dinner at 7 p.m.

Items on the menu will in-clude fried catfi sh and chick-en, French fries, slaw, hush-

puppies and dessert.Following dinner, live and

silent auctions will be held as well door prize drawings.

In addition to door prizes, raffl e tickets will also be sold on various items such as pictures, knives, jewelry, a luggage set, a bronze sculp-ture and more.

Raffl e tickets are available in increments from $20 to $200.

“We will have many dif-ferent packages available so guests will have the option of

Annual turkey banquetsupports conservation

BY KIMBERLY [email protected]

A correctional offi cer at the Alcorn County Jail is accused of bringing multiple types of drugs, along with alcohol and a cell phone, into the fa-cility for the use of inmates.

Alcorn County Sheriff Ben Caldwell said Ethan Wayne Little,

24, was arrested Saturday for alleg-edly bringing methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and a cell phone into the jail. The items were packaged to be slipped to in-mates, said the sheriff .

Little is charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine

with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana with intent to distrib-ute and conspiracy to introduce contraband into a correctional facil-ity.

Bond had not been set Saturday morning and he was being held in the county jail.

Caldwell said the arrest comes as

the result of an investigation into contraband in the jail by sheriff ’s department investigators.

“We absolutely will not tolerate this behavior,” he said.

He said he’s disgusted by the be-havior of the employee and they will aggressively prosecute anyone involved in this type of activity.

Jail officer charged with bringing in drugsBY BRANT SAPPINGTON

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Little

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A County Road 640 resi-dent is asking the county to partially close the road to help keep away undesirables.

Hugh Coleman made the request before the Alcorn County Board of Supervisors this week. The board wants to give it some thought be-fore taking action. The area is near Rainey’s Sod Farm in the western part of the county.

“On several occasions, people have broken into my grandmother’s old house,” said Coleman.

Other family members in the area have experienced vandalism and theft of prop-erty, he said.

Coleman showed a photo of a bullet hole in a family home.

It is a low-traffi c area, and the closure would not aff ect

property owners’ access, he said.

In other business:■ Fourth District Supervisor

Steve Glidewell notifi ed the board of drainage issues on several roads that will require work on private property to correct. The roads are 523, 614, 632 and Ellsworth Road. The roads are holding water and eroding, creating safety issues, he said.

“If it is a drainage issue that has impacted the integrity of the road or creates some sort of hazard, then the attorney general has been fairly clear that you can do what is neces-sary on private property,” said Board Attorney Bill Davis.

■ The board approved re-newals on several contracts for the correctional facility.

County resident wants road closed

BY JEBB [email protected]

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A majority vote on Monday will determine the future of two Alcorn County schools.

Last month, all but one board member gave Superintendent Larry B. Mitchell the OK to continue research into cost sav-ings associated with the closure of both Glendale and Rienzi El-ementary School.

Now the board is set to vote on whether to actually close the schools during the regular monthly meeting of the Alcorn School District Board of Educa-tion on Monday at 5 p.m.

During a special called meet-ing with the public on Thurs-day, Glen parent Jody Emerson presented budget numbers and information he learned during weeks worth of research.

“Mr. Mitchell has said the

school district is $5 million in debt with $200,000 due in in-terest this year — I have found out this is true,” said Emerson. “But my question was, what ex-

actly is this debt?”Emerson polled the audience

and board members who all

Board to vote on school closures

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School board to consider closing Glendale, Rienzi


Glendale Elementary School parent Jody Emerson talks to a packed board room last week during a special called meeting to discuss school closure.

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A group of underprivileged youth are getting a chance to learn the nuts and bolts of the manufacturing business.

The 4th Annual NEMCC Manufacturing Camp will let youngsters age 10-16 see how businesses in the fi eld operate.

“Campers will design and build a product, experiencing for themselves the world-class technology available to them lo-cally,” said camp director Bev-erly Harris. “This gives them a chance to learn about our thriv-ing manufacturing businesses

because so many youth are not privileged enough to know of the opportunities which are available in this area.”

Campers will get to take tours at a major manufacturing plant such as Kimberly-Clark, accord-

ing to Harris.“The camp is designed with

hopes to inspire these youth to work toward careers within their own community,” added Harris.

The group will also learn to create a product by design en-gineering and see it through to production in manufacturing machining.

The camp — held June 20-24 at Northeast at Corinth — is open to kids in Alcorn and Pren-tiss counties. Northeast’s an-nual event is solely run by the NEMCC staff and community.

“Our hope is they learn the

importance of gaining relation-ships and having the team-building skills to be successful in a work environment,” said Harris.

Northeast was among 33 win-ners of a Nuts, Bolts & Thing-amajigs (NBT) grant to have the camp.

The grants, ranging from $1,000 to $2,500, for a total of $66,000, were awarded by NBT to community and technical colleges off ering day camp ex-periences that introduce young people ages 12 to 16 to careers in manufacturing and engineer-ing.

NE camp offers taste of manufacturingBY STEVE BEAVERS

[email protected] a population of at

least 325 inmates per day, the facility will pay $1.05 per meal to CBM Managed Ser-vices, a decrease from $1.51 per meal. In the commissary operation, Brothers Correc-tional Services will continue to pay the facility a 32 per-cent commission on all sales plus salary reimbursement for an employee.

The board also approved a memorandum of under-standing with Centurion for the facility’s health care ser-vice, including reimburse-ment for the nurse’s salary.

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spending as much or as little as they would like,” said Heather Crabb, a sponsor of the event.

Tickets for the banquet are $50 per individual or $70 per couple. The may

be purchased at the door on the night of the event or by stopping by the Alcorn County Tax Collectors Of-fi ce in the Courthouse dur-ing regular business hours.

“We encourage every-one to come out and at-tend this banquet.” said

Crabb. “Those who par-ticipate will not only be supporting our youth and wildlife education pro-grams, but also promot-ing Save the Habitat and preservation.”

“The annual banquet is one of the events which

helps us get more state and federal funds as well as greater youth partici-pation,” she added.

Organizers are hopeful that year’s banquet will be even more successful than the last.

The NWTF is a national nonprofi t organization which works closely with state, federal and provin-cial wildlife agencies and other partners. Through these dynamic partner-ships, the NWTF and its members have helped re-store wild turkey popula-tions throughout North America, investing more than $412 million to con-serve 17.25 million acres of habitat. Wild turkeys and hundreds of other species of upland wild-life, including quail, deer, grouse, pheasant and songbirds, benefi t from this improved habitat.

Dedicated volunteers introduce an approximate 100,000 people to the out-doors each year through outdoor education events and its Women in the Out-doors, Wheelin’ Sports-men and JAKES youth outreach programs.

(For more information or questions about the banquet contact Chapter President Billy Miller at 662-286-9174.)

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Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. — A group of lawyers seek-

ing $2.3 million for their work overturning Ten-nessee’s ban on same-sex marriage are overbilling taxpayers, according to Tennessee Attorney Gen-eral Herbert Slatery. Slatery says they only deserve $1.1 million.

The Tennessean reports that a court document unsealed last week shows Slatery arguing that law-yers who worked in other states involved in the his-toric civil rights case asked for less money.

The fi ling from the state says the legal team “bal-looned to 19 attorneys, billing a total of nearly 6,000 hours.”

U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger will determine the amount of fees the lawyers should receive.

The group argues that the large legal force was necessary because the state continued to defend the ban.

Slatery: Gay marriage lawyers’ bill too much

Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. — A coalition of environmental-

ists is sounding the alarm about a plan the Tennessee Valley Authority is considering for storing coal ash in-volving 10 cites.

The TVA is closing down ash storage at 10 power plants.

The Southern Environmental Law Center and 10 other groups are warning there is a danger that toxic chemicals at sites near rivers in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama will leach into groundwater if TVA de-cides to leave the ash in place, drain it and cover it. The groups say it would be safer if TVA moved the ash into lined storage facilities

A TVA spokesman says the agency has not made a decision yet on what to do.

The spokesman said federal environmental of-fi cials say either method of storage is safe if done properly.

Environmental groups wary of coal ash plan

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Today in

History

Today is Sunday, March 13, the 73rd day of 2016. There are 293 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 13, 1996, a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

On this date:

In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar sys-tem, Uranus, was dis-covered by Sir William Herschel.

In 1865, Confeder-ate President Jefferson Davis signed a measure allowing black slaves to enlist in the Confeder-ate States Army with the promise they would be set free.

In 1925, the Tennes-see General Assembly approved a bill prohibit-ing the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.)

In 1946, U.S. Army Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save fellow soldiers from a grenade explosion in Seravezza, Italy; he was the only Japanese-Amer-ican service member so recognized in the immedi-ate aftermath of World War II.

In 1980, Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Indiana, found the com-pany not guilty of reck-less homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.

In 1995, two Ameri-cans working for U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, David Dalib-erti and William Barloon, were seized by Iraq after they strayed across the border; sentenced to eight years in prison, both were freed later the same year.

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Woman aided fleeing suspect, police say

BOONEVILLE — A woman who helped a man wanted for armed robbery flee from law en-forcement last week now faces felony charges.

Brandy May Penry Tay-lor, 39, of 116 Dudley Rd., Booneville has been charged with one count of felony fleeing and one count of hindering pros-ecution, said Booneville Police Chief Michael Ramey.

Taylor was arrested on March 2 after fleeing from police attempting to make a traffic stop. A passenger in her vehicle, Jimmy Penry, bailed out and managed to escape from police in the area of County Road 1000. Ramey said Penry is wanted in connection with the armed robbery of an individual in Boon-eville last year.

Bond for Taylor was set at $5,000.

Confederate statue’s plaque gives context

OXFORD — Instal-lation has begun on a plaque that will provide historical context for the Confederate statue at the entrance to Lyceum Circle at the University of Mississippi.

Construction should be complete by month’s end. The inscription engraved on the plaque reads:

“As Confederate veter-ans were passing from the scene in increasing numbers, memorial as-sociations built monu-ments in their memory all across the South. This statue was dedicat-ed by citizens of Oxford and Lafayette County in 1906. On the evening of September 30, 1962, the statue was a rallying point where a rebellious mob gathered to prevent the admission of the University’s first African American student. It was also at this statue that a local minister im-plored the mob to dis-perse and allow James Meredith to exercise his

rights as an American citizen. On the morning after that long night, Mer-edith was admitted to the University and gradu-ated in August 1963.

“This historic struc-ture is a reminder of the University’s past and of its current and ongoing commitment to open its hallowed halls to all who seek truth and knowl-edge and wisdom.”

The creation of the plaque is in response to a key recommendation of the 2014 action plan.

“Our university has worked hard to recog-nize our history while also living up to our promise as one of Amer-ica’s most hospitable, welcoming and inclusive institutions,” Chancellor Jeffrey S. Vitter said. “The placement of this plaque puts this statue into proper context and affirms, as in our UM Creed, our respect for the dignity of each per-son.”

Many hours of study and thought have gone into the design and wording of the plaque, Vitter said.

“I would like to thank the committee members, Drs. Donald Cole, Andy Mullins, Charles Ross and David Sansing, who were ap-pointed by Dr. Morris Stocks to draft the lan-guage of this plaque,” he said. “They have done an outstanding job of balancing history and perspective, and we owe them our thanks for their thoughtful work.”

“The benefit of plac-ing a plaque at the Confederate statute on campus provides con-text and helps us better understand our past,” said Sansing, emeritus professor of history. “Neither the statue nor the plaque answer all the questions about our past. The placement of this plaque is just one example of the univer-

sity fulfilling its mis-sion as an educational institution by pursuing knowledge and under-standing.”

“The key unifying fea-ture of this committee is that we all love the Uni-versity of Mississippi,” said Cole, assistant provost and assistant to the chancellor for multi-cultural affairs. “As we worked together to care-fully choose the wording for the plaque, we really wanted anyone who read it to know it to be truth-ful.”

Author will review book at luncheon

NEW ALBANY — Don H. Thompson will review his book “Stennis: Plow-ing a Straight Furrow; The story of Statesman John C. Stennis” for Luncheon with books at noon on Tuesday, March 15, at the Jennie Ste-phens Smith Library.

Senator Stennis’s wife was Coy Hines from Union County. A light lunch will be served be-ginning at 11:30 a.m.

Starkville 5th grader makes national bee

STARKVILLE — A Starkville 5th grader is heading to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Soyeon Park is a student at Henderson Elementary. Park won The Commercial Appeal’s 73rd Annual Mid-South Spelling Bee on Saturday.

Park emerged the winner after 15 rounds, beating more than 50 other students from sev-eral states.

Park says she’s ner-vous about the opportu-nity but studying for it all the time.

Park’s Language and Writing teacher, Alexis Bush, isn’t surprised at all by her student’s success. She describes Park as one of the best students any teacher

could ask for.The Scripps National

Spelling Bee will take place May 25-26 in the District of Columbia.

Emma, William top Tenn. baby names

Tennessee parents have voted and placed incumbents Emma and William at the top of the poll of names chosen for babies born in 2015.

Votes are tallied by the dedicated team in the Tennessee Office of Vital Records, which registers some 240,000 new records of births, deaths, marriages and divorces every year.

New Tennessee par-ents followed tradition in choosing names for their children in 2015, with only one new name getting enough votes to break into each list last year. William has now been the top name cho-sen for baby boys born in Tennessee for nine straight years. Emma has been the most pop-ular name for Tennessee baby girls since 2011.

The top 10 names Tennessee parents chose for their new ba-bies born in 2015 are as follows (in order): (Girls) Emma, Olivia, Ava, Harp-er, Abigail, Sophia, Eliza-beth, Isabella, Madison, Emily; (Boys) William, James, Elijah, Mason, Noah, Liam, Jackson, Jacob, John, Carter.

Both the boys’ and girls’ name lists include new candidates in the number 10 spots this year: Emily collected enough votes to break into the ranking as the number 10 name for girls; Carter is the new-comer as the number 10 name for boys. All other names on the 2015 top ten list are unchanged from the previous year, although some have moved in the rankings.

Data on Tennessee’s most popular baby

names are pulled from birth certificates, which are issued by the TDH Office of Vital Records. This office is charged with maintaining the in-tegrity of approximately 15 million records, which can include issuance and amending records such as birth and death cer-tificates and records of marriages and divorces that occur in Tennessee.

College announces 18 teacher interns

BLUE MOUNTAIN — Eighteen teacher interns from Blue Mountain College are serving 11 schools in North Missis-sippi this spring.

The students include: Tera Spears of Pontotoc (North Pontotoc Elemen-tary); Kayla McMillen of Pontotoc (Ingomar Atten-dance Center); Micayla Everett of Gulfport (New Albany Elementary); Shelia Alstatt of Walnut (Alcorn Central Middle School); Jessica Scott of Blue Springs (Ripley Mid-dle School); Courtney Floyd of Tupelo (Saltillo Elementary); Shauna Adams of Thaxton (Ingo-mar Attendance Center); Scott Milam of Tupelo (Ripley Elementary/Rip-ley Middle); Brandi Long of Booneville (Joyner Elementary /Thomas Street Elementary/Tupelo Middle); Emily Bryant of Ripley (Ripley Elementary); Matt King of Ripley (Kossuth High); Hannah Watson of Blue Springs (Ripley Elemen-tary); Rose Mechelle Poppelreiter of Saltillo (Guntown Middle); Katey Turner of Booneville (Saltillo Elementary); Makenzee Whaley of Ashland (Ripley Middle); Nikki Brown of Boon-eville (Saltillo Primary); Joshua Crowder of Madi-son (Ripley Elementary/Ripley Middle); Matt Car-penter of Ramer, Tenn. (Kossuth Elementary and High School).

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The intersection of Harper Road and Prop-er Street in Corinth just isn’t the same.

Ole “Harper” has gone missing and it’s tug-ging at our dog-loving heartstrings as to what happened to him.

Some say there are probably bigger issues to debate in the Cross City, which is without its stray dog who has captured the hearts of many as he roamed freely along Harper Road for at least a decade.

With over 12,000 views, Harper’s story in the Daily Corinthian on-line edition gives credit that many people want to know what happened to the happy-go-lucky canine who has managed to dodge capture all these years.

We know of several people who have searched for Harper, fearing him dead. Social media reports have gone wild, but rumors of Harper’s death after being hit by a vehicle cannot be verifi ed.

A regular sight at the intersection, the be-loved canine has walked the length of Harp-er Road for so long that he was eventually named for it.

With the dog presumed to have been taken, residents and visitors alike are asking, who could have taken Harper, and why?

Volunteer Director Charlotte Doehner with the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter may have the answer, she told the Daily Corinthian re-cently.

An older gentleman paid the shelter a visit and he was very upset and concerned about Harper’s well-being, claiming the shelter was not doing enough for him, said Doehner.

The man was concerned about Harper in the cold elements, but he didn’t know Corinth’s most known breaker of the leash law was the best kept canine in Corinth.

He gets food, water and lives with pillows and blankets in his dog house under the bridge near the intersection. With medicine slipped into his food, he even had medical care.

Not long after Doehner’s talk with the man, Harper came up missing.

Over the years, both the shelter and Corinth animal control have made numerous attempts to get Harper off the streets, but to no avail.

Believed to be a collie and lab mix, Harper is also known as “Lucky.”

The father of at least fi ve, Harper has a look-alike son called “Harper Junior” and has even had his own Facebook page for years.

If Harper is OK, we as a community need closure. The person who might have him can stay anonymous.

Please step forward and tell us Harper is OK.

That’s all we are asking.

Daily Corinthian

(Those who have information to share are asked to contact Volunteer Director Char-lotte Doehner at the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter at 662-284-5800 or Daily Corin-thian Staff Writer/Photographer Kimberly Shelton at 662-287-6111.)

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Random thoughts on the passing scene:

The presidential election prospects for the Demo-crats are so bad this year that only the Republicans can save them – as Repub-licans have saved them be-fore.

Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an “un-der-representation” of any group is evidence of dis-crimination?

Here is a trick ques-tion: What percentage of American households have incomes in the top 10 per-cent? Answer: 51 percent of American households are in the top 10 percent in in-come at some point in the course of a lifetime – usual-ly in their older years. Those who want us to envy and re-sent the top 10 percent are urging half of us to envy and resent ourselves.

His Super Bowl win gave retiring quarterback Peyton Manning his record 200th victory. But it may also have benefi tted losing young quarterback Cam Newton, by giving him a very sober-ing experience after his ex-hilarating 17 and 1 season. Over the course of his ca-reer, Cam Newton may be-come an even greater quar-terback than he would have been without this setback early in his career.

According to the Wash-ington Post, record numbers

of college students say that they plan to engage in protests. Our educational system may not teach stu-dents much math or sci-ence, but stu-dents learn

from gutless academic ad-ministrators that mob rule is the way to get what you want – and to silence those who disagree with you.

Many Americans were not only saddened but an-gry that Iran publicized photographs of captured American sailors weeping. But do you think that Rev-erend Jeremiah Wright was saddened and angry? What about his 20-year disciple in the White House? Let us not forget that President Obama voluntarily humbled himself — and America — by bowing to foreign leaders.

People who are willing to consider virtually any con-ceivable excuse for crimi-nals’ acts cut no slack at all for decisions that police have to make in a split second, at the risk of their lives. For some people, it is not enough that cops put themselves at risk to protect the rest of us. They want cops to risk their lives for the sake of handling criminals more gently.

What are the chances that the world’s greatest violinist

would make a good quar-terback? Or that the world’s greatest quarterback would make a good violinist? Why then would anyone think that a successful business-man would make a good president – especially when he is demonstrating almost daily why he would not?

Many people, including Senator Bernie Sanders, repeat incessantly that the economic system is “rigged” by the rich — without pro-viding either specifi cs or evidence. The latest fi gures I have seen show that the 400 richest people in the world have recently lost $19 billion on net balance. If they have rigged the system, they have certainly done a very incompetent job of it.

If you listen carefully to what Senator Marco Rubio says, he is not for instant amnesty. He is for amnesty on the installment plan, though of course he would not call it that. Does anyone who knows anything about politics seriously believe that “legalization” of illegal immigrants will end that issue, without turning into citizenship over time?

At last we have reached the point where we can say, “Next year this time, Obama will not be president.” But the disasters he leaves be-hind will plague us for years to come. And some of those disasters may strike even before he is gone.

Some countries in Europe have sealed their borders against refugees from the Middle East, as the Soviet Union once sealed its bor-ders against people getting in or getting out. But some-how it is said by some to be impossible to seal our bor-der with Mexico.

When the Whigs could not get their act together on the crucial issue of their day — slavery — that led some Whigs to leave the party and form the Repub-lican party, with Lincoln as its candidate for president. Today’s Republican party has repeatedly failed to get its act together on immigra-tion. That has produced the current divisiveness that may threaten them with the fate of the Whigs.

Historians of the future, when they look back on our times, may be com-pletely baffl ed when trying to understand how Western civilization welcomed vast numbers of people hostile to the fundamental values of Western civilization, people who had been taught that they have a right to kill those who do not share their beliefs.

(Daily Corinthian col-umnist Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stan-ford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.)

Only Republicans can save Democrats

STARKVILLE — When I went to my polling place on Tuesday, I approached the process with a feeling I’ve really never experienced since casting my fi rst ballot almost 40 years ago.

I had to confront the real-ity that for perhaps the fi rst time in my life, I really was not excited about voting for any of the choices available to me for the highest offi ce in the land. And it wasn’t that some were more or less likeable than others or of the familiar process of holding one’s political nose and choosing the lesser of underwhelming candidates.

No, it was more a matter of admitting that “none of the above” was where both my heart and my head were on this otherwise gorgeous Tuesday morning.

I voted. I chose. My father and other veterans fought too hard and sacrifi ced too much for me to take the right to vote as less than a sacred duty of citizenship. But I certainly didn’t leave the polling place with the feeling that I had contrib-uted much to the future awaiting the future genera-tions of my family.

And driving to work, I confronted a more ominous question: Is the traditional two-party system in Amer-ica on life support? Are we

headed to some sort of E u r o p e a n parl iamen-tary system where coali-tion govern-ments arise from elector-al chaos and where power

sharing leads to a peculiar kind of inertia in govern-ment?

But then I realized that I’d answered my own question. Our two-party system was one that worked because of the competition of dueling political, social, and eco-nomic philosophies.

That competition, howev-er, was uniquely tempered by the notion that when the electoral dust settled, the ruling party got about the business of governing in concert with the losing party – the so-called “loyal opposition.”

For my generation, that partisan relationship was exhibited most readily by Republican Ronald Rea-gan and Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill. Despite a divided government, Reagan and O’Neill were able to govern by compromise, negotia-tion and a realization that the interests of the country weren’t served by the poli-

tics of personal and parti-san destruction.

Yet over the last 20 years, we have reach a point that for many, the partisan path is a path of such ideologi-cal purity that merely win-ning an election isn’t good enough. For these voters, they want the political houses of their opponents burned down and if the country gets singed a little in the process, so be it.

The tone and tenor of the 2016 presidential cam-paigns in both parties has taken on the feel of tele-vision wrestling shows. What has passed for public discourse in this election cycle has run the gamut of misogyny, racism, personal insults that demean virtu-ally everyone, and a mean-spirited lack of hope and promise for the future of our nation that is nothing short of depressing.

Temper the present dung heap of debates, town hall meetings, and staged can-didate rallies with the resi-due of distrust in the basic mechanics of voting – think hanging chads, Diebold vot-ing machines, and the Flor-ida recounts – and you have a recipe for the present em-barrassment of an election.

When Congress struggles to even pass a budget, when public policy is debated

not over how it benefi ts or harms citizens but on how it injures or rewards politi-cians or their parties, the basic function of govern-ment – to protect and serve the citizens – simply gets lost in the shuffl e.

Despite the confusion and seemingly rudderless feel of the presidential primaries, the Democratic and Repub-lican parties will produce nominees and those nomi-nees will meet in the gen-eral election. A third party candidate may yet rise and some believe that candidate may rise from among can-didates already on the na-tion’s political stage.

What is less predictable is the impact of this election on political behavior by the vot-ers. A little food for thought. In 1992 and 1996, Bill Clin-ton won huge electoral vote victories but never carried a majority of the popular vote in either election.

Elections, fi nally, are about numbers and po-litical operatives who know how to manipulate those numbers. In both parties, the numbers remain largely up for grabs.

(Daily Corinthian colum-nist Sid Salter is syndicated across the state. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or [email protected].)

Is political system on life support in America?

“Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multi-tude of thy tender mercies.” — Psalms 69:16

Lord God, teach me this day to know that the veriest trifl e often keeps happiness alive, and that the smallest trifl e often may kill it. I pray that now thou wilt put within my heart that touch of love, which brings consider-ation for others, and the care that brings the greatest happiness. Amen.

Sid SalterColumnist

Thomas Sowell

Columnist

Daily Corinthian • Sunday, March 13, 2016 • 5A

One of the most common questions library visitors ask is, “What have you been reading lately?”

It’s a good habit to make sure that one has a defi nitive answer when asked this ques-tion; however, I have to admit that sometimes this question causes a bit of a brain overload. I often have several books that I’m reading selec-tions from, particularly when it comes to nonfi c-tion.

Lately, though, I have been more methodical about it, and today I want to share some of what I myself have been reading in the last few weeks.

Since January, I have had a goal to read a book that I was immediately interested in, as well as a book in a genre that I rarely read. Reading a book in

a genre diff erent than one’s fa-vorite is a good way to stay in-formed about other authors, as well as to stave off the stagna-tion that can come from staying in the same genre.

In a previous article, I highlighted Morgan Lly-welyn’s “Only the Stones Survive,” a mythic novel about the early days of Ireland. I was immedi-ately attracted to this one. It had ancient history, a promise of supernatural-ism, and a coming-of-age story of a young man in the middle of a tribal war. “Sounds right up my al-

ley,” I thought. I did fi nd it interesting, but

about halfway through the novel, I realized I didn’t care as much about the characters as I should have. So I decided to put it down temporarily and dive into a novel outside my “read-

ing zone,” Thomas Perry’s “For-ty Thieves,” a suspense thriller of detective fi ction. To my sur-prise, I sat down and read about half the book in one day. (My eyes haven’t forgiven me yet.)

What surprised me most, I think, was the way in which Perry makes his characters be-lievable. The novel, like many of this genre, begins with an un-solved murder, but the private detectives (a married couple) have such an interesting rap-port with each other that their conversations are often funny. Shortly after they begin their investigation, they begin to be hunted by a pair of assassins (also a married couple).

I won’t reveal any more of the story, except to say that I’ve also been impressed with the way Perry writes the action scenes. Maybe it’s because I grew up with action movies, but I normally fi nd action scenes

in books to be a little boring. Describing car chases and shootouts certainly requires a diff erent technique when they take place on a page instead of a screen, and Perry proves to be quite adept at keeping the reader engaged.

In addition to these, I’ve re-cently read two of our new nonfi ction titles, Brant Pitre’s “The Case for Jesus” (that I dis-cussed in our last article) and “The Name of God is Mercy,” a collaboration of Pope Francis and Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli. While both books are religious nonfi ction, the for-mer is a scholar’s analysis on the historical claims of Christ, while the latter is a conversa-tion with the pope on the topic of mercy. As one may infer from the title, Pitre makes the case for the historical accuracy of Christ’s claims to divinity. For students who wish to study the

opposing viewpoints, I would suggest pairing this book with those written by Bart Ehrman or Reza Aslan, both of whom make the case against Christ’s divine claims (all available through your Corinth Library).

I recommend “The Name of God is Mercy” for anyone who is interested in the person of Pope Francis and his emphasis on the theme of mercy (he recently announced a “Year of Mercy” to focus on this topic throughout 2016). Conversational instead of scholarly, this book is perfect for those who are not familiar with the Bishop of Rome, as well as for those who enjoyed John Paul II’s 1995 book “Crossing the Threshold of Hope.”

Cody Daniel is the head li-brarian at the Corinth Library and may be reached at 662-287-2441 or [email protected]

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My lifelong best friend and men-tor Jaybird warned me not to be deputized, but our little Mississip-pi Delta farming community was too far out for the law’s long arm to reach quickly, so I let the sheriff talk me into carrying a badge.

“Purty soon, we might git a chance to see jes’ how tough a law-man you are,” the old black man said, as I was leaving for church one Sunday morning. “Once agin, Tump Thompson is tryin’ to court Pete Plugg’s daughter, Lottie Mae. I’ll let you know if trouble starts brewin’.”

Pete hated Tump, a ne’er-do-well city slicker, and was deter-mined not to let him anywhere near Lottie Mae, but since ladies love outlaws, Tump was the only suitor she paid attention to.

I strutted into the Lord’s House looking like a real sheriff , decked out in boots, khakis, big belt buck-le, bolo tie, Stetson, and a new coat Mama bought me, a blue blazer with gold buttons.

The preacher told that wonder-ful story about how Jesus suff ered and died on the cross and returned to Heaven to wait for us. After the last hum of the last hymn, we farming folks talked weather and crops a bit, then went our separate ways. I looked forward to one of Mama’s big Sunday meals.

Jaybird was waiting. “Tump’s drunker’n a coot, and him and Pete are threatening to kill one

’nother.”Pete was a mechanic, and his

backyard was cluttered with junk cars, spare parts, jacks, hoists … and Woof — a huge hound, part Mastiff , part woolly mastodon — whose sole purpose was protect-ing his master’s junkyard, a job he truly loved.

When I pulled up, Lottie Mae said, “Things is gittin’ clean out of hand in Daddy’s junkyard. You might oughta call the law.”

Humph! What did she think I was? Patting the badge confi dent-ly, I strolled around back.

Pete and Tump were nose to nose, circling like two fi ghting cocks about to fricassee each oth-er. Stepping between them, I com-manded, “Break it up, boys – I’m the law.”

I turned to Tump, whose eyes were as red as maraschino cher-ries and whose 100-proof breath would have defoliated cotton.

Flashing my badge, I said, “Tump, by the authority vested in me….”

That’s all I had time to say be-fore we were on the ground, grap-pling fi ercely with each other, roll-

ing over and over.Lottie Mae Plugg was right.

Things were clean out of hand, and I wasn’t exactly getting the upper hand either. Then a third combat-ant entered the fray — Woof!

Tump forgot all about me and sprinted straight to the nearest tree. When the sheriff arrived, that’s where he was … staring down in abject terror at Woof’s glistening, salivating fangs.

“Lord, Son, what happened?” Mama asked, staring woefully at the coat, with ripped-out elbows and missing gold buttons.

“Mama, please don’t ask,” I groaned. “How about we just give thanks for this meal and eat?”

The next day, I mailed the badge back to the real sheriff .

(Oxford resident, Ole Miss alumnus, Army veteran, and re-tired Mississippi Delta cotton farmer Jimmy Reed ([email protected]) is a news-paper columnist, author, and college teacher. His latest collec-tion of short stories is available via squarebooks.com (662-236-2262).)

Life gives lesson on who’s the real sheriffBY JIMMY REED

Columnist

SELMER, Tenn. — Sunday Sing-ing is coming to The Latta.

The Stephen Foster Music Club and Arts in McNairy (AiM) are sponsoring the free series over the next four months.

“Crossing Jordan” and “Unity 4” will kick off the series on March 20 at 2 p.m.

“The series is planned to broad-en the scope of music off ered in McNairy County and surround-ing areas,” said Peggy Daniel with the music club. “It will also revisit our heritage and family traditions.”

Groups slated to perform in-clude some old favorites and new faces in the gospel music fi eld, ac-cording to Daniel.

Those scheduled to perform on April 17 are “Servant’s Heart” and “Earmark.”

The “Red Rooster Pickers” and “Bluegrass Pals” will be the fea-tured groups on May 22.

The series concludes with “Liv-ing Truth” and the “Loveless Fam-ily” performing on June 5.

Each Sunday event is set to last an hour.

Music club sponsors Sunday singing seriesBY STEVE BEAVERS

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JACKSON — A young Mississippi man pleaded guilty Friday to a ter-rorism-related charge, months after authorities said he and his fi ancée thought about using their honeymoon as ruse to go to Syria to join the Islamic State.

Muhammad Dakhlalla, 23, pleaded guilty to pro-viding material support to terrorism and faces up to 20 years in prison, $250,000 fi nes and life-time probation. His sen-tencing date hasn’t been set.

His fi ancée, Jaelyn Delshaun Young, is ac-cused in new court docu-ments of being the mas-termind of the plan to join the Islamic State. Her trial is set for June 6.

Both remain jailed without bail in Oxford.

The couple was arrest-ed Aug. 8 before boarding a fl ight from Columbus, Mississippi, with tickets for Istanbul. Authorities say they contacted un-dercover federal agents last year, seeking online help in traveling to Syria. The two, at one point, told federal agents posing on-line as recruiters for the Islamic State that they planned to disguise their journey to Syria as a hon-eymoon.

The couple’s arrest stunned their families.

Dakhlalla is a 2011 psy-chology graduate of Mis-sissippi State University who grew up in Starkville, a son of a prominent fi g-ure in the college town’s Muslim community. He is the youngest of three sons and was preparing to start graduate school at Missis-sippi State.

Young, a sophomore chemistry major from Vicksburg, was the daughter of a school ad-ministrator and a police offi cer who served in the Navy reserve. She was a former honor student, cheerleader and home-coming maid at Warren Central High School.

Court papers fi led with the plea portray Young as the mastermind of the

couple’s attempt to join the Islamic State, saying she had already expressed an interest in converting to Islam even before she began dating Dakhlalla in late 2014.

The papers confi rm that both Young and Da-khlalla left farewell let-ters “that explained they would never be back, with Young acknowledging her role as the planner of the expedition and that Da-khlalla was going as her companion of his own free will.”

The court papers reit-erate earlier government claims that Dakhlalla, in online contacts, told an FBI employee that he was good with computers and media and wanted to contribute to the Islamic State’s struggle. Court papers say Dakhlalla said online that he want-ed to become a fi ghter and learn “what it really means to have that heart in battle.”

The plea agreement drops a related charge against Dakhlalla, cut-ting the possible length of any imprisonment. How-ever, in the plea agree-ment signed Wednesday, Dakhlalla and his lawyer acknowledged that the sentencing recommenda-tion would be adjusted upward because terror-ism is involved.

Fiance accused of terrorism charge enters guilty plea

BY JEFF AMYAssociated Press

Pete and Tump were nose to nose, circling like two fighting cocks about

to fricassee each other. Stepping between them, I commanded,

“Break it up, boys – I’m the law.”Muhammad

Dakhlalla, 23, pleaded guilty to providing

material support to terrorism

and faces up to 20 years in prison, $250,000 fines and lifetime

probation. His sentencing date hasn’t been set.

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Deaths

Paul Edward BrentsIUKA — Funeral services for Paul Ed-

ward Brents, 73, of Iuka are set for 11 a.m. Monday at Ludlam Funeral Home in Iuka with burial in Mt. Evergreen Cemetery.

Visitation is at 5 p.m. today at the fu-neral home.

Mr. Brents died Friday, March 11, 2016, at Tishomingo Manor.

He was born May 30, 1942, and was a former student at Tishomingo County School.

Survivors include his wife, Sidney Brents; one son; three step-sons and two step-daughters; fi ve brothers; and one grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his par-ents, Fred and Cleo Brents.

Bro. Scott Brady will offi ciate.

Keith Bernard DavisKOSSUTH — Funeral services for Keith

Bernard Davis, 49, of Alcorn County are set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Pleasant M.B. Church in Kossuth with burial in An-nie Dilworth Cemetery.

Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Patterson Memorial Chapel.

Mr. Davis died Thursday, March 10, 2016, at his residence.

He was born Dec. 8, 1966, was a car-penter and a former student at Biggers-ville High School. He was a member of Oak Grove C.M.E Church.

Survivors include his wife, Tanesha R. Davis; his children, Christopher Laquin-tin Walker, KaDarren Blake Davis and Ar-lena Montell Davis; his siblings, Karaleen (William) Martin, Tommie (Margaret) Davis and Barry Dean Davis.

He was preceded in death by his par-ents, Ben Frank Davis and Ilean Davis; his grandparents, Ben Davis and Ernest Phillips; and his siblings, Norcus Jean Gardner.

The Rev. Alford Watt will offi ciate.

William Floyd MitchellWilliam Floyd Mitchell, 73, of Corinth

died Thursday, May 10, 2016, at Magnolia Regional Health Center.

He was born Dec. 29, 1942, and was a maintenance and Fabrication worker. He was of the Pentecostal Faith.

Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Linda Sue Russell Mitchell of Corinth; his son, Ste-phen Mitchell (Bridget) of Tuscumbia, Ala. and his daughter, Sandra Annette Floyd (Roger Dale) of Corinth; his grandchildren, Tristan Lee Mitchell, William “Will” Lee Mitchell and Sean Mitchell; his brothers, David Mitchell (Sandi) of Illinois; Ronnie Mitchell (Barbara) of Il-linois, Lonnie Mitchell (Sarah) of Corinth and his Twin Brother, James Mitchell (Carol) of Corinth and his sisters, Melba Hight (Jerry) of Michie, Tenn., and Beu-lah Mitchell of Corinth.

He was preceded in death by his par-ents, Ogle Dee Mitchell and Ethel Null Mitchell; his son, Jeff ery Mitchell; his step-mother, Etta Mitchell; his brother, Junior Mitchell and Olen Ray Mitchell and his sister, Martha Holloway and Dor-othy Mitchell.

Troy Wayne RossTroy Wayne Ross died at his residence

in Corinth. Arrangements are pending with McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors.

Mitchell

VANDALIA, Ohio — One day after well-organized protesters led Donald Trump to cancel a campaign rally before it even started, the Republican presidential front-runner coldly rejected calls on Saturday to tem-per the tone of his events. He called such protesters a “disgrace” and blamed them for fueling violent confron-tations at his rallies.

The intensity of the hos-tility Trump faces among those opposed to his candi-

dacy was underscored Sat-urday morning in Ohio.

Secret Service agents briefl y rushed the stage to form a protective circle around Trump after a man leapt over a barricade and charged toward the billion-aire businessman.

The man, later identifi ed by authorities as Thomas Dimassimo of Fairborn, Ohio, was able to physically touch the stage before he was tackled by security of-fi cials. He was later charged with disorderly conduct and

inducing panic.Trump’s rallies in recent

weeks have been marked by frequent clashes between his supporters and pro-testers, many of whom are young African-Americans and Latinos. Earlier this week, video footage cap-tured a white man punching an African-American pro-tester as police led him out of a North Carolina rally.

On Saturday, Trump’s rivals for the Republican nomination harshly criti-cized Trump for what had

been taking place at his events.

But Trump on Saturday rejected the suggestion that he or his supporters were to blame, instead laying re-sponsibility at the feet of protesters he panned as “a disgrace.”

“They want me to tell my people, ‘Please be nice.’ My people are nice,” Trump said.

Trump also railed against the protesters for prevent-ing him from speaking Fri-day night in Chicago.

Trump rejects calls to temper toneAssociated Press

agreed they were in the dark on debt details until Emer-son posted the information on social media earlier in the month.

“After a short two-hour meeting with Mr. Mitchell and school district accoun-tant Kimberley Woodard, I am proud to inform the public of the entire truth,” he said.

According to Emerson, the school district’s debt is broken up into four ac-counts.

Account No. 1 has a bal-ance of $2 million and is scheduled to be paid in full in February 2018.

“This is the bond that was fl oated to build gymnasiums for Kossuth and Alcorn Cen-tral high schools,” he said. “Payment is $525,000 per year and is held out of the state funded money given to all school districts. After 2018, the Alcorn County School District will have over $500,000 going back to the bottom line to utilize however it deems.”

Account No. 2 has a bal-ance of $1.43 million and is set to expire in 2022.

“This is a three mill tax levy that is used over time for operations,” said Em-merson. “It is my under-standing that this is a re-volving credit account the district uses for unbudgeted expenses and will never be removed as debt.”

Woodard added, “Funds from this account were also used for improvements and additions at Alcorn Central Middle School, Kossuth Middle School, the Biggers-ville High School gym and the central (district) offi ce.”

Emerson said debt ac-count No. 3, originally over $1 million, now has a bal-ance of $58,020 and is scheduled to be paid in full next month.

“This account was used for buses,” Woodard added.

Finally, account No. 4 is

possibly the school district’s worst and most upsetting debt.

“Originally a $2.16 million loan in 2010, this account has a balance of $1.584 million,” said Emerson. “Scheduled to be paid in 2025, this debt is for John-son Controls to upgrade our schools air conditioning, lighting and other electrical components.”

Emerson said it was stat-ed that Johnson Controls would pay for itself within 10 to 15 years by saving elec-tricity.

“It was reported that the school district would save an estimated $156,000 to $196,000 per year, which was their selling point to the board at the time, on its budgeted $780,000 elec-tricity, natural gas and pro-pane usage,” said Emerson. “Using the district-supplied numbers, we have actu-ally saved $164,678 — some $300,000 short of the pro-jected savings.”

Using the average savings

so far and only the initial in-vestment of $2.16 million, the school district’s return on investment will take more than 39 years.

Board President Carroll Morton said the board will seek more information on a guarantee of savings issued by Johnson Controls.

“They (Johnson Controls) use an international proto-col for accountability stan-dards on how they access our savings ... I think we all reconsidered that (vote) once that statement was made — that their account-ability standards (forecasted savings) is what ever they determine,” said Morton.

According to Woodard, the district is not in default on any of the current loans. However, the district can’t aff ord to add new roofs on school buildings on the Al-corn Central and Kossuth campus without fl oating an-other loan. It is believed that roof additions is one reason school closures are being addressed.

More than 100 people gathered inside the board room for the Thursday night meeting, which featured public comments from more than 15 supporters begging the board to keep the two schools open.

During the meeting, Mitchell also said no teach-ers would lose their job if Glen and Rienzi are closed. He said pre-K classrooms would be transferred from Rienzi to Biggersville.

The superintendent also confi rmed students current-ly at Glendale would attend Alcorn Central and students currently at Rienzi would at-tend Biggersville.

Emerson closed out the meeting.

“We are in debt and this is why — all information we show know, but I ask why should Glen and Rienzi pay the penalty for bad fi nancial decisions made in the past?” he said. “We are all common folks and we have to go in debt in order to pay for the things that we need.”


Alcorn School District Board of Education President Carroll Morton addresses the crowded board room during a special called meeting last week to discuss school clo-sure.

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Across the Nation Across the State

Mississippi residents watch rising waters

Residents in Louisiana and Mississippi were taking stock of damage Saturday after a mas-sive deluge of rain sub-merged roads and cars, washed out bridges and forced residents to flee homes.

The rain and flooding is part of a weather sys-tem that has affected Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama. At least three people have died in Louisiana alone.

In Mississippi, officials said as many as 1,000 residents could see their homes flooded by the rising Leaf River in Hat-tiesburg, Petal and sur-rounding areas.

As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. She says she has a book bag full of dirty clothes and was lucky to get that.

Bruce was among about 20 people in a Red Cross shelter in the Forrest County Commu-nity Center on Saturday, as creeks and rivers con-tinued to rise after tor-rential rains across the Deep South.

Mississippi’s emer-gency director says the state is dealing with the most widespread flood-ing since Hurricane Isaac dumped more than 2 feet of rain throughout the state. But Lee Smith-son says it’s not as bad as expected, because heavy rain expected across the Mississippi

Gulf Coast never materi-alized.

Woman accused of insurance fraud

JACKSON — A 34-year-old Laurel woman has been arrested on a charge of insurance fraud.

Attorney General Jim Hood says Arnisha Dean is accused of making a false and fraudulent statement to her insur-ance company, United Automobile Insurance Company. Hood said Friday that Dean bought insurance online on a vehicle and minutes later filed a claim for damage to a vehicle that had been wrecked a few hours earlier that same day.

Dean was booked into the Jones County Jail. Her arraignment is set for March 15. It was not immediately known if Dean is represented by an attorney who could comment on her case.

If convicted, she faces up to three years behind bars and $5,000 in fines.

Suspect in shooting of officer surrenders

JACKSON — A man wanted in connection with a shooting that in-jured a Jackson police officer has surrendered.

Authorities tell WAPT-TV that Rashad R. Cas-ton turned himself in Fri-day. He faces charges of aggravated assault on a police officer, attempted armed robbery of an indi-vidual and burglary of an occupied dwelling.

Officer Abe Gines, an eight-year veteran,

responded to an armed robbery call at an apart-ment complex Wednes-day morning. When he entered an open door, a suspect emerged from behind him and fired. Gines was grazed by a bullet. He has since been released in good condition.

Police Chief Lee Vance says Gines ran after Caston following the shooting but lost him as he ran through a creek. Vance praised Gines as “brave enough to con-tinue the chase despite” being wounded.

Businessman found guilty of 13 counts

PLYMOUTH, Ind. — A jury has convicted a busi-nessman on 13 counts alleging he used a north-ern Indiana company to steal hundreds of thou-sands of dollars.

A Marshall County jury found 63-year-old David A. Ferguson of Missis-sippi guilty Thursday of charges including theft, receiving stolen property and corrupt business influence.

Marshall County Prose-cutor E. Nelson Chipman Jr. said the former CEO of Stone Creek Homes and another executive abrupt-ly shuttered the company in May 2012, took more than $250,000 from at least two customers with-out fulfilling orders, and failed to pay employees some of their paychecks and insurance premiums.

The company made mobile living quarters for workers in oil and gas fields.

Ferguson is due to be sentenced April 14.

Co-defendant Alan G.

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Man dead in boat collision on river

NEW YORK — One person is dead and two more are missing after authorities say a tugboat overturned and sunk on New York’s Hudson River following a collision with a barge north of New York City.

WABC-TV in New York reports the collision happened early Satur-day morning near the spot where the new Tap-pan Zee Bridge is under construction.

Two people have been pulled from the water. WABC reports that one person died on the way to the hospital, the other survived. The U.S. Coast Guard says searchers are looking for two more people in the water.

Snowmobile strikes two Iditarod teams

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Officials in the Idi-tarod Trail Sled Dog Race say a person on a snow-mobile early Saturday morning purposely struck two teams in the race.

A dog on the team of four-time champion Jeff King was killed.

Two other dogs on King’s team were in-jured. King received medical attention at the village of Nulato.

A dog on the team of Aliy Zirkle also received what was described as a non-life-threatening injury.

Race officials say the snowmobiler made repeated attempts to harm Zirkle and her team.

Riders glad to hear rail strike averted

NEWARK, N.J. — Rid-ers were expressing their thanks and relief Saturday after learning that New Jersey Transit and its rail workers had reached a tentative deal to avert a strike that was due to start Sun-day morning.

They also were thrilled to hear Gov. Chris Christie say that they won’t have to worry about fare hikes for a while to cover the cost of the settlement.

The deal, announced Friday between the transit agency and its rail workers, averted a strike that would have thrown Monday’s com-mute into New York into chaos. It put to rest a dispute that has been percolating for nearly five years, when the last contract expired.

“There’s no way I would have even tried to get to work on Monday. It would have been a zoo,” Ron Simmons, a Hamilton Township resi-dent who works for a fi-nancial firm in New York City, said Saturday while waiting for a train on the Trenton transit center.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer founder dies

NEW YORK — Keith Emerson, the keyboard-ist and founding mem-ber of the 1970s pro-gressive rock group Em-erson, Lake and Palmer, died Thursday at home in Santa Monica, Cali-fornia. He was 71.

The death was an-nounced on Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s veri-

fied Facebook page Fri-day. No further details were provided.

“We ask that the fam-ily’s privacy and grief be respected,” the post read. An email to the band’s management company wasn’t imme-diately returned.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer included vocal-ist/bassist Greg Lake and drummer Carl Palmer.

Palmer said in a statement that he was “deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my good friend and brother-in-music.”

Reported runaways actually kidnapped

VESTAL, N.Y. — A pair of teenage sisters who were reported as run-aways last year actually had been abducted by a family acquaintance, and a telephone tip led to their rescue this week, authorities say.

Fifteen-year-old Ky-Lea Fortner and 13-year-old Shaeleen Fitch-Fortner were found Wednesday night in Ves-tal, and a suspect has been arrested, as well as the girls’ mother, who’s accused of help-ing in the kidnapping, authorities say.

The sisters were liv-ing with a foster family less than 10 miles away in Binghamton in April 2015 when they were reported as runaways, state police said.

The acquaintance, 29-year-old Amanda Hellman, is accused of kidnapping them on their way to school and holding them against their will for 11 months.

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CORN5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushelMar 16 366.25 354.25 366 +11.50May 16 365.25 356 365 +6.75Jul 16 369.75 361.75 369.50 +6Sep 16 374.50 367.75 374.25 +4.75Dec 16 383.25 376.75 382.75 +4.75Mar 17 391.25 385.50 391.25 +4.50May 17 395.50 390 395.25 +4.25

SOYBEANS5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushelMar 16 888.75 870.75 888 +17.50May 16 896.75 875.25 895.75 +17.25Jul 16 902.50 881 901.50 +17Aug 16 904 883.50 903.50 +16.75Sep 16 904.25 884 903.50 +16.50Nov 16 907.50 887.50 906.75 +15.75Jan 17 911.25 893 911 +14.75

WHEAT5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushelMar 16 472.75 454.75 469.75 +15May 16 478.25 457 475.75 +15Jul 16 484.50 464 482.75 +16Sep 16 493.50 473.75 492 +15.75Dec 16 507 489 505.50 +14.25Mar 17 519.75 502.25 518.75 +13.25May 17 527.75 512.75 527.25 +12.50

CATTLE40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.Apr 16 141.12 138.42 139.80 +3.45Jun 16 129.77 127.80 128.55 +2.08Aug 16 124.60 122.87 123.20 +1.28Oct 16 123.90 122.27 122.60 +.53Dec 16 123.22 121.72 122.05 +.53Feb 17 122.52 121.12 121.40 +.83Apr 17 121.50 120.00 120.40 +.70

HOGS-Lean40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.Apr 16 72.70 71.62 71.82 +1.02May 16 79.75 79.00 79.25 +1.93Jun 16 83.47 82.67 83.07 +1.85Jul 16 82.52 81.72 82.20 +1.33Aug 16 81.50 80.52 81.22 +1.07Oct 16 69.50 68.57 69.45 +.98Dec 16 64.57 63.75 64.50 +.83

COTTON 250,000 lbs.- cents per lb.May 16 57.90 55.66 57.15 +.04Jul 16 57.58 55.51 57.03 +.32Oct 16 ... ... 56.84 +.23Dec 16 57.38 55.50 56.82 +.37Mar 17 58.20 56.41 57.71 +.37May 17 58.92 57.20 58.42 +.35Jul 17 59.44 57.90 59.04 +.41

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Vanguard 500Adml LB 147,060 187.40 +10.8 +1.3/A +11.5/A NL 10,000Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 121,424 50.25 +11.5 -0.8/C +11.0/B NL 10,000Vanguard InstIdxI LB 100,777 185.56 +10.8 +1.3/A +11.5/A NL 5,000,000Vanguard TotStIdx LB 92,482 50.22 +11.5 -0.9/C +10.9/B NL 3,000Vanguard InstPlus LB 85,519 185.57 +10.8 +1.3/A +11.5/A NL200,000,000Vanguard TotIntl FB 73,735 14.31 +12.1 -6.9/C +0.8/D NL 3,000Fidelity Contra LG 72,174 94.59 +9.4 +0.1/A +11.3/B NL 2,500American Funds IncAmerA m MA 68,528 20.49 +7.6 -0.1/A +7.9/A 5.75 250American Funds GrthAmA m LG 67,336 39.54 +11.5 -1.0/B +10.5/C 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 66,617 57.13 +7.7 +0.2/A +6.7/A 5.75 250Vanguard WelltnAdm MA 65,408 63.84 +6.7 +1.0/A +8.5/A NL 50,000Vanguard TotBdAdml CI 63,295 10.76 -0.7 +1.3/A +3.3/C NL 10,000PIMCO TotRetIs CI 58,241 10.06 +0.2 -0.3/D +3.4/C NL 1,000,000Vanguard TotStIIns LB 58,081 50.26 +11.5 -0.7/C +11.0/B NL 5,000,000Vanguard IntlStkIdxIPls FB 52,424 95.75 +12.2 -6.8/C +1.0/D NL100,000,000American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 52,329 33.84 +10.8 +1.0/A +10.4/C 5.75 250Dodge & Cox Stock LV 50,617 160.13 +14.3 -4.3/D +10.3/B NL 2,500Dodge & Cox IntlStk FB 49,697 35.06 +17.9 -16.3/E +1.6/C NL 2,500Fidelity Spartan 500IdxAdvtg LB 49,176 71.39 +10.8 +1.3/A +11.5/A NL 10,000American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 48,633 42.85 +10.8 -4.3/C +6.4/B 5.75 250American Funds AmBalA m MA 48,465 23.89 +6.2 +1.9/A +9.2/A 5.75 250American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 47,530 38.54 +10.1 +1.0/A +11.2/A 5.75 250Metropolitan West TotRetBdI CI 45,117 10.72 -0.4 +1.0/B +4.6/A NL 3,000,000Vanguard MuIntAdml MI 43,452 14.30 -1.2 +3.8/A +4.8/B NL 50,000Dodge & Cox Income CI 43,340 13.39 +1.3 -0.5/D +3.5/B NL 2,500American Funds FnInvA m LB 41,969 50.20 +11.3 +1.5/A +10.2/C 5.75 250FrankTemp-Franklin IncomeA m CA 41,562 2.10 +9.9 -6.4/E +4.5/B 4.25 1,000Vanguard InstTStPl LB 36,428 45.48 +11.6 -0.7/B +11.1/A NL200,000,000Vanguard IntlStkIdxAdm FB 35,813 23.94 +12.2 -6.8/C +0.9/D NL 10,000Vanguard HltCrAdml SH 35,690 85.89 +8.3 -2.3/A +18.7/B NL 50,000Vanguard PrmcpAdml LG 35,359 99.19 +10.5 -2.6/C +12.6/A NL 50,000T Rowe Price GrowStk LG 35,343 50.05 +11.6 -0.7/B +12.4/A NL 2,500Harbor IntlInstl FB 34,976 59.21 +12.7 -6.3/C +2.0/C NL 50,000Vanguard STGradeAd CS 34,147 10.58 0.0 +1.2/A +2.1/A NL 50,000American Funds NewPerspA m WS 33,922 34.64 +11.2 -1.0/A +7.8/A 5.75 250Vanguard TotBdInst CI 30,242 10.76 -0.7 +1.3/A +3.4/C NL 5,000,000Fidelity ContraK LG 29,451 94.54 +9.4 +0.2/A +11.4/B NL 0Vanguard WellsIAdm CA 29,406 60.53 +3.1 +3.6/A +7.6/A NL 50,000Vanguard TgtRe2025 TG 28,778 15.62 +7.6 -1.4/B +6.7/A NL 1,000Vanguard WndsIIAdm LV 28,287 59.04 +12.2 -2.3/C +9.9/B NL 50,000

Total Assets Total Return/Rank Pct Min InitName Obj ($Mlns) NAV 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, FB -Foreign Large Blend, IH -World Allocation, LB-Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MI -MuniNational Intermediate, TG -Target Date 2021-2025, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with divi-dends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.

Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listingstandards. lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergonea reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specifiedprice. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy orreceivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b =Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f =front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net assetvalue. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week. Source: TheAssociated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Alan Amron has invented a battery-pow-ered squirt gun, a digital photo frame, even a laser system that may someday provide a visible fi rst-down line for fans inside NFL stadiums. He holds 40 U.S. patents, but he’s most interested in an invention for which he gets no credit: the Post-it Note, that ubiquitous sticky-back product made into a worldwide success by the 3M Company.

Amron, 67, says he in-vented what he called the Press-on Memo in 1973, a full year before 3M scientists developed what later became known as the Post-it Note. Al-though Amron settled a previous lawsuit against 3M, he’s suing again in federal court in Fort Lau-derdale. He says the com-pany breached its previ-ous agreement not to take credit. The settlement is confi dential.

Now Amron wants $400 million in damages — and something he says is even more important to him.

“l just want them to ad-mit that l am the inventor and that they will stop saying that they are the inventor,” Amron said in a recent interview. “Every single day that they keep claiming they invented it damages my reputation and defames me.”

3M, based in Maple-wood, Minnesota, is one of the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the New York Stock Ex-

change. The maker of Scotch tape, Ace ban-dages, sandpaper, fi lms, offi ce products, window insulation, paint remover and hundreds of other products earned more than $30 billion in rev-enue in 2015, according to the company’s website.

The company says Post-it Notes were invented by 3M scientists Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver, both members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Silver came up with the adhesive — one that could be used over and over yet not mar surfaces to which it attached — and Fry the idea of using it for the small, yellow squares of paper to become sticky-back notes.

“3M developed Post-it Notes without any input or inspiration from Mr. Amron and it is false and misleading for him to state or suggest that he created, invented, or had any role in the product’s development,” said com-pany spokeswoman Don-na L. Fleming Runyon in an email. The company declined to comment fur-ther on the lawsuit.

Fry, now 84 and re-tired, is named as a de-fendant in Amron’s law-suit, but Silver is not. Fry did not respond to an email and a phone mes-sage seeking comment. Silver also is retired, Ru-nyon said.

The history of inven-tion is full of people competing for credit for the same idea, and often things come about be-cause smart people are working separately. Take the microchip: Texas In-

struments and Fairchild Semiconductor battled for a decade in court over who came fi rst and de-served the patent, decid-ing amid the wrangling it was best to work out a licensing deal for both companies.

Amron said his idea in 1973 came about with chewing gum. He was looking for a way to stick a note on his refrigera-tor for his wife and used gum, providing inspira-tion for the adhesive he would use on his Press-on Memo. That year he took the sticky notes to a New York trade show and met briefl y with two 3M executives, Amron said, but nothing came of the meeting.

Fry and Silver came up with what 3M originally called the Press ‘n’ Peel memo pad in 1974, but it wasn’t brought to the mar-ket until 1977 and didn’t really take off until 1980, when it was renamed the Post-it Note. It’s now one of the top-selling items in 3M’s consumer products division, which in 2015 earned $4.4 billion for all products, company fi g-ures show.

Post-it Notes have be-come so iconic that in the 1997 movie “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion,” the title char-acters, played by Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sor-vino, claim credit for in-venting them to impress their former classmates.

It was also in 1997 that Amron sued 3M claiming he was the true inventor. The case was settled, and Amron agreed to release the company from any fu-

ture claims, which intel-lectual property lawyers say could make his new Florida lawsuit diffi cult to win.

“I would predict what he has left perhaps is the enforcement of a settle-ment agreement but not the claims he is pursu-ing,” said Miami attorney Jeff rey Feldman, who is not involved in the case. “The fi rst thing I would want to know is whether or not there was an agree-ment between them re-garding who was allowed to say what.”

Amron said the agree-ment was that neither could claim credit be-cause, years earlier, a Swiss inventor had sup-posedly devised a similar product. But that turned out to be a less-useful adhesive, not the entire sticky note, and Amron said he felt 3M used the Swiss tale to trick him into the settlement — and is now breaching that deal by claiming credit for the product.

No trial date is set for Amron’s lawsuit, which survived a 3M initial at-tempt last month to get it thrown out based in part on the prior settle-ment of similar claims. A federal judge has ordered both sides into mediation to possibly reach a settle-ment and set various legal deadlines through De-cember of this year.

Meanwhile, 3M contin-ues to invent things. Ac-cording to the company’s year-end 2015 statement, 565 U.S. patents were granted to 3M — bring-ing its total to more than 105,000.

Post-it inventor dispute lingersBY CURT ANDERSON

AP Legal Affairs Writer

The Aff ordable Care Act’s health insurance co-ops absorbed deep fi nan-cial losses last year, and 2016 is shaping up to be a make-or-break year for these nonprofi t alterna-tives to traditional insur-ers.

Offi cially called Con-sumer Operated and Ori-ented Plans, these still-fl edgling insurers were devised during the ACA’s creation to inject com-petition into insurance markets. But they have struggled from the start to build a customer base from scratch and deal with higher-than-expect-ed expenses, among other problems.

Heading into their third full year of operation, the co-ops are adding cus-tomers and improving their coverage, but they also face the end of some government programs de-signed to support insur-ers as they build business on the ACA’s public insur-ance exchanges. They will have to determine soon whether their businesses

can stand on their own and compete with more established carriers.

“Plan year 2016 is a crit-ical year for these co-ops — they must move from startup to stability and improve their fi nancial capabilities,” said Kevin Counihan, CEO of the federal exchange operator HealthCare.gov, during a Thursday hearing held by the Senate’s Homeland Security & Government Aff airs Committee.

A dozen of the 23 co-ops created under the law have closed, and many of the survivors lost well over $20 million last year, according to recently fi led annual statements com-piled by the National As-sociation of Insurance Commissioners.

But the co-ops also hit a growth spurt and now cover more than 350,000 people, or nearly triple their total from 2014. En-rollment is growing better than expected and patient populations appear to be getting younger and healthier in some cases. That can help cut future expenses.

Plus, the co-ops are learning more about their patient population, which can help them price future coverage to cover claims.

These insurers knew 2015 would be ugly, ac-cording to Kelly Crowe, CEO of the trade associa-tion the National Alliance of State Health Co-Ops. But she said last year’s numbers don’t refl ect where the co-ops stand today. Crowe noted that many are growing me-thodically and adding more stable, employer-sponsored coverage.

“We’re optimistic that they will continue to grow and be a viable alterna-tive for people in select-ing their health care,” she said. “They are still fi -nancially fragile, though. There obviously is still some risk there, as there is with any start up busi-ness.”

Maryland’s Evergreen Health Cooperative did the best of the remaining co-ops in 2015, booking a loss of $10.8 million. Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Co. in Illinois lost $90.8 million.

Maine’s Community Health Options made $7.3 million in 2014 but lost $74 million last year. More than half of that stemmed from a reserve the insurer set aside to cover future losses.

Both the Maine and Il-linois co-ops say higher-than-expected costs hurt them in 2015.

Hospital and medical expenses for Community Health Options more than doubled to $354.7 million, something CEO Kevin Lewis attributes in part to pent-up demand from people who had been waiting for cover-age in order to seek treat-ment. A nearly $55-mil-lion reinsurance payment from the federal govern-ment helped ease that blow.

But that program,

which aims to help insur-ers pay big medical bills, will end after this year.

Maryland’s Evergreen Health should turn a prof-it in 2016, according to CEO Dr. Peter Beilenson.

He said $7.3 million of Evergreen’s 2015 loss came from a payment the insurer had to make for a federal risk adjustment program. That program aims to help insurers with high-cost patients by giv-ing them payments from carriers with healthier pa-tient populations.

Beilenson and other co-op leaders say the for-mula for calculating this risk adjustment is skewed to favor established insur-ers, and they are talking with government offi cials about adjusting it.

Evergreen Health wound up running a profi t in three of the last six months of 2015, and Beilenson said its new-er enrollees have been healthier than initial cus-tomers who signed up for coverage because they needed care right away.

Montana Health Coop-erative also might turn a profi t this year, accord-ing to CEO Jerry Dworak. The insurer lost about $40.7 million last year, but Dworak said $31 mil-lion of that came from a charge it took when the federal government de-livered only a fraction of a payment due under an-other program designed to limit insurer losses.

The co-op raised pre-miums 36 percent on av-erage without losing any business. It also dropped an unprofi table plan and caught a break when a state Medicaid expansion took away high-cost pa-tients.

“Everything we’ve done seems to be working,” he said. “Of course, we won’t know for sure for several months ... but so far, we have seen a positive turn from 2015.”

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DEAR ABBY: How can I help a friend who needs to stand up for herself and fi le for divorce?

Her husband is in a high-pro-fi le job that’s connected with hers.

He has been having an af-fair with a c o - w o r k e r for years, and he is verbally and somet imes p h y s i c a l l y abusive.

She has called the police twice, but didn’t press charg-es.

F r i e n d s are running out of sympathy, but don’t know how to help her. Is it wrong to report his behav-ior to his employer even though he might get fi red because of it? -- NEEDS TO STAND UP

DEAR NEEDS TO STAND UP: As your friend may prob-ably be already aware, abuse doesn’t stay at the same level.

It can escalate from verbal abuse to pushing and slapping to serious physical harm and sometimes even death.

That’s why this woman’s friends should assure her they stand with her, and try to con-vince her to contact the Nation-al Domestic Violence Hotline

(800-799-7233; thehotline.org) and arrange a safe and effec-tive escape plan.

Trained advocates at the hot-line have told me that not every caller will leave after the fi rst -- or even the second -- episode of violence, but at least she will know what she needs to do.

If she comes to you injured, get her to an emergency room for treatment and so that her wounds can be photographed.

If she shows up at work with bruises, it’s time to talk to hu-man resources to see if you can get her some help, but I would not advise contacting her husband’s employer.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a happily married gay man living in met-ro Atlanta.

My 50th high school reunion is approaching and I want to take my husband.

The reunion is being held in a small rural town in the Mid-west.

Of course, I haven’t lived there in 50 years, but I go there occasionally for family events.

I come from a large family, lots of brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, and grandnieces and grandneph-ews, many of whom still live in my hometown.

I don’t know if all of them know about my situation and I’m not that concerned, but I

am concerned about small-town gossip that can be mean-spirited. I wouldn’t want any-one to be hurt.

I know my relatives interact professionally and personally with some of my classmates and their descendants.

Am I being overly concerned, or should I just go and let the chips fall where they may?

That’s the thing about com-ing out as gay -- it’s an ongo-ing process, even at my age. -- GAY GRADUATE IN GEOR-GIA

DEAR GAY GRADUATE: Go to the reunion, take your hus-band and have a good time.

If anyone has a problem with the fact that you are homosex-ual and married, do not make it your problem.

We can’t control what some-one might say behind our backs.

But whatever is said is a re-fl ection on the speaker -- not us or our relatives.

Because people live in small towns does not mean they are all small-minded.

Dear Abby is written by Abi-gail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pau-line Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You might do things you wouldn’t normally do to accom-modate someone -- nice of you, but don’t expect a return on this. Your payback will be purely spir-itual, and therefore it’s up to you to interpret as you will.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you don’t know the answers yet, don’t worry. You always fi nd help when you need it. Fur-thermore, a quick review of the hits and misses of the last few weeks will reveal a single, clear, obvious and empowering goal.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There is someone out there who is trying to help you but is over-helping you instead. The crazy energy of this feels repel-lent. Heed the warning in that feeling.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Life is a journey, and you’re not wed to the road map. You’re not even wed to the road itself. Your vehicle is capable of an off-roading adventure, and it’s about time that you went on

one.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Make

yourself comfortable. This won’t require money. What’s really needed is some organization. You have everything that’s re-quired. All you have to do is quiet your brilliant mind.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Homogeny is the enemy of per-spective. You won’t have to go out of your way to fi nd some-one with a different point of view. And when you fi nd such a person, don’t hesitate to ask everything you’ve been wonder-ing about.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You don’t need to jump in and save the day. In fact, you’ll be better off hanging back and waiting to see what’s really necessary. Play it cool in every way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). While you follow the leader, are you wishing that you were the one bringing everyone along on this tour? It’s a lot of work to be in that position, but you’re al-most ready for it ... almost!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your family now extends past the one you were born into. Most of the people around you are people you chose in some fashion. Your relationship with extended family will greatly in-fl uence your day.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll take on a respon-sibility in order to give another person a break. This is among the absolute sweetest things you can do for a loved one, and hopefully you’ll be shown the level of appreciation you so de-serve.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You might have to remind someone of the agreement that was made. You’re both thinking of it differently. Forgetfulness (not malice) is at the root of this.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The best wrestlers know that not everything is worth going to the mat over. Love thrives because you know how to pick your battles, and you pick very few of them, if any at all.

Friends are stymied on how to help wife in bad marriage

Sports10A • Daily Corinthian Sunday, March 13, 2016

Local Schedule

Monday

SoftballKossuth @ ICC Tourney

Tuesday

BaseballKossuth @ Central, 6TrackCentral @ USJ, Tenn.

Thursday

BaseballGulf Coast TournamentCorinth @ Pascagoula, 7TrackCentral @ USJ, Tenn.

Friday

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BaseballAdamsville @ Central, 1Gulf Coast TournamentCorinth @ Harrison Central, 2

Associated PressKISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Atlanta

Braves have released right-handed pitcher Kyle Kendrick as they re-duced their spring roster by 14 play-ers.

Kendrick allowed 14 hits and 10 runs, nine earned, in only 3 2⁄3 innings in his failed attempt to land one of the last two spots in the Braves’ rota-tion. He also walked three batters.

Braves releaseKendrick

Six-time state champions

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Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ton-

ny Trocha-Morales scored 13 points as No. 17 Texas A&M trounced LSU and freshman star Ben Simmons 71-38 on Saturday to reach the Aggies’ fi rst conference tournament championship game since 1994.

The Aggies (26-7) will play for the Southeastern Conference Tournament title on Sunday af-ter sharing the regular-season crown with No. 16 Kentucky. They will face either the Wild-cats or Georgia.

Texas A&M hadn’t reached a conference tourney champion-ship since losing to Texas 22 years ago in the Southwest Con-ference. Now, after its eighth straight victory, it is one win away from adding its fi rst tour-nament title since 1987.

The Aggies announced a new fi ve-year deal with coach Billy Kennedy before tipoff , and then they proved he deserved it by

routing the last team to beat them back on Feb. 13.

Jalen Jones added 12 points and Admon Gilder had 10. The Aggies not only held LSU to a season-low in both points and made fi eld goals (13) but also the fewest points scored by a team in any major conference this season, according to STATS LLC.

Simmons fi nished with 10 points and 12 rebounds for fourth-seeded LSU (19-14).

The Tigers beat the Aggies 76-71 in Baton Rouge but looked nothing like that team in this game.

The Aggies missed fi ve of their fi rst six shots before Tro-cha-Morelos hit a 3-pointer that woke them up with 13:29 left, starting them on what wound up a crushing 32-5 run. Gilder punctuated the performance by beating the buzzer with a 3-pointer for a 35-13 lead at in-termission.

LSU led 8-3 in the opening

minutes and had a 13-5 edge in rebounding when Tocha-Morelos hit his second 3 to tie it up at 9 with 11:40 left in the half. That’s when the Tigers’ mistakes caught up with them and LSU fell apart with a simply ghastly performance. The Tigers wound up with more turnovers (11) than made shots (fi ve) by halftime as they missed their fi -nal 14 shots.

Tim Quarterman hit two 3s within the fi rst 2 minutes of the second half to pull the score to 39-19. The Tigers never got any closer. Texas A&M spent much of the second half throwing down big dunks that had the Aggies jumping up and down on the bench. A free throw by Kyle Dobbins off a technical on Sim-mons gave the Aggies their big-gest lead at 68-28 with 3:05 left.

Tip-Ins

LSU: Boston College’s 40 points scored Jan. 13 at Syra-

cuse had been the fewest points scored by a team in the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC until this game. The Tigers’ previous season low for points scored was 57, when they lost to the Aggies on Jan. 19 in Col-lege Station. ... Their previous low for made shots was 19 on Nov. 30 against the College of Charleston. They wound up 13 of 63.

Texas A&M: The Aggies will be playing in their sixth confer-ence tournament fi nal and fi rst in their fourth trip to this tour-nament. They haven’t won a tournament title since beating Baylor in 1987. ... The Aggies outrebounded LSU 52-40 and outscored the Tigers’ bench 42-10.

Up next

LSU: Hoping for an NIT invi-tation.

Texas A&M: SEC tournament fi nal Sunday against Kentucky.

No. 17 Texas A&M tops LSU by 33

Associated PressJACKSON — Adallice

Young scored a game-high 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead Booneville past Choctaw Central 58-49 to win the Mississippi Girls 3A state title on Saturday.

Booneville (29-1) clinched its second state champion-ship in three seasons thanks to terrifi c second half de-

fense. Choctaw Central (31-3) made just one fi eld goal after halftime, shooting 1 of 19 from the fi eld.

The Lady Devils outscored Choctaw Central 37-17 over the fi nal two quarters after trailing 32-21 at halftime.

Choctaw Central was 13-of-32 overall and 4-for-12 from 3-point range in taking an 11-point lead into inter-

mission.Young was named the

game’s Most Valuable Play-er. Kabrina Hill added 11 points for the Lady Blue Devils.

Melody Jimmie had 11 points and 12 rebounds to lead Choctaw Central. Darien Tubby and Kyarrah Grant each added 10 points for the Lady Warriors.

Booneville claims 3A championshipChampionships

Class 1A(G) Bogue Chitto 57, Shaw 31(B) Ashland 60, West Lowndes 49Class 2A(G) Ingomar 41, Heidelberg 40(B) W.Tallahatchie 52, Coahoma

AHS 43Class 3A(G) Booneville 58, Choctaw Central

49(B) Forest-Kemper Co., lateClass 4A(G) Quitman 58, Florence 48(B) Corinth 68, McComb 63Class 5A(G) Holmes Co. Central 58, W. Har-

rison 43(B) Laurel 71, Wayne Co. 47Class 6A(G) Callaway-Murrah, late(B) Columbus-Starkville, late

Semifinals

Class 1A GirlsBogue Chitto 77, Biggersville 40Shaw 49, Vardaman 47Class 1A BoysAshland 72, Simmons 69West Lowndes 70, Houlka 55Class 2A GirlsIngomar 49, Newton 40Heidelberg 63, Pelahatchie 50Class 2A BoysWest Tallahatchie 63, Baldwyn 44Coahoma AHS 77, Calhoun City 67Class 3A GirlsBooneville 59, Independence 40Choctaw Central 72, Velma Jack-

son 65Class 3A BoysForest 67, Humphreys Co. 49Kemper Co. 43, Velma Jackson 41,

OTClass 4A BoysCorinth 52, Leake Central 38McComb 83, Shannon 57Class 4A GirlsFlorence 62, Bay 51Quitman 43, McComb 42Class 5A GirlsWest Harrison 53, Hattiesburg 39Holmes Co. Central 43, Lanier 39Class 5A BoysWayne Co. 67, Center Hill 54Laurel 61, Clarksdale 53Class 6A GirlsCallaway 69, St. Martin 56Murrah 44, Starkville 42Class 6A BoysColumbus 67, Southaven 42Starkville 61, Tupelo 46

MHSAA StateTournament

Photo by Randy J. Williams

Corinth High School players celebrate following a 68-63 win over McComb on Thursday in the Class 4A State Basketball Tournament. Corinth won its sixth state basketball title — first in Class 4A — by knocking off the two-time defending champions. For more on this and the record-setting 2015-16 season, see Wednesday’s edition.

Photo by Chris Butler

The Booneville Lady Blue Devils hoist the Gold Ball after winning the Class 3A championship with a 58-49 win over Choc-taw Central on Saturday.

Booneville 58, Choctaw Central 49

Choctaw 21 11 6 11 — 49Booneville 9 12 17 20 — 58

CHOCTAW CENTRAL (49): Melody Jim-mie 11, Darien Tubby 10, Kyarrah Grant 10, Kaedre Denson 9, Kyannah Gant 4, Jordan Bell 3, Sarah Allen 1, Reese Tubby 1.

BOONEVILLE (58): Adallice Young 23, Kabrina Hill 11, Elly Nash 7, Shmia Wil-liams 5, Cora Geno 5, Maria Lauderdale 4, Maleeka Patterson 3.

3-Pointers: (CC) Kyarrah Grant 2, Jimmie, Bell. (B) Hill.

Records: Choctaw Central 31-3, Boonev-ille 29-1

Associated PressKANSAS CITY, Mo. —

There may be no tourna-ment more volatile than the Southeastern Confer-ence, where it seems just about every outcome has some eff ect on the NCAA Tournament’s ever-ex-panding bubble.

Georgia knocks off South Carolina, sending its stock soaring while making everyone take a closer look at the Game-cocks.

Kentucky puts the fi nal dagger in Alabama, giving hope to dozens of other teams hoping for an at-large bid.

And Texas A&M buries Florida, potentially keep-ing the Gators out of the dance.

Toss in LSU’s victory over Tennessee to keep the NCAA Tournament dreams of standout fresh-man Ben Simmons alive, and the quarterfi nals Fri-day played havoc with bracketologists every-where.

“It’s really good for our players to focus on their next opponent, and at the end of the day, we’re hopeful that those things take care of themselves,” Tigers coach Johnny Jones said of his team’s NCAA hopes.

“I thought we played a really good basketball team in Tennessee today and that’s where their focus had to be,” he said. “They knocked off a very good Vanderbilt basket-ball team yesterday, and I thought our guys had to

stay engaged.”On Saturday, LSU was

drilled by Texas A&M in one semifi nal. Kentucky defeated Georgia in the other.

As for the rest of the league’s bubble-dwelling teams? A nervous wait for Selection Sunday.

The Gamecocks (24-8) have only beaten Texas A&M in the RPI’s top 50, a sorry strength of sched-ule will do them no favors.

The Crimson Tide (18-14) seemed like an NCAA Tournament lock before their months-long swoon hit. Florida (19-14) has a strong schedule but poor results against the best foes.

“I hate to be generic,” Gators coach Mike White said, “but I just think there’s so many teams in this league that, if given the opportunity, would be really competitive in the NCAA Tournament.”

On the rise

Michigan. The Wolver-ines (22-11) stunned No. 10 Indiana in the Big Ten quarterfi nals, the kind of signature win that may have gotten them safely into the fi eld. Michigan can be more certain by beating No. 13 Purdue in Saturday’s semifi nals.

Davidson. The Wildcats (20-11) are crashing the Atlantic 10 party at the Barclays Center in Brook-lyn, beating St. Bonaven-ture in the quarterfi nals.

Now, the Bonnies (22-8) are left on the bubble

while Davidson tries to play its way into the NCAA Tournament.

Dayton and Saint Jo-seph’s. Speaking of the A-10, those two took care of business with their quarterfi nal wins. Now, the Fliers (25-6) and Hawks (25-7) have built strong cases for at-large bids — they face each oth-er in the fi rst of the semi-fi nals Saturday.

San Diego State. The Aztecs (25-8) beat Ne-vada in the Mountain West semifi nals, but they remain on shaky ground. Winning their league tournament would take all the stress out of Selec-tion Sunday.

Fading hope

Ohio State. The Buck-eyes (20-13) no-showed against second-ranked Michigan State in an 81-54 loss. It was the kind of listless performance that NCAA Tournament se-

lection committees were sure to notice.

Houston and Tulsa. It was a rough day for the American with the Cou-gars (22-9) falling to woe-ful Tulane and the Golden Hurricane (20-11) losing to Memphis. Hey, maybe everybody was too busy talking about UConn’s four-overtime thriller over Cincinnati to notice?

George Washington. For all the teams rising in the A-10, there had to be somebody falling. The Colonials (23-10) were it, blowing a 14-point half-time lead in their loss to Saint Joseph’s.

Wichita State. Remem-ber the Shockers? They haven’t played in more than a week after getting knocked out of the Mis-souri Valley semifi nals.

As upsets continue to happen elsewhere, the suspect resume of Wichi-ta State (24-8) is starting to come under the micro-scope.

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200 ResultsSaturday at Phoenix International Race-

way, Avondale, Ariz. Lap length: 1 miles(Start position in parentheses)

1. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200 laps, 149.7 rating, 0 points.2. (1) Erik Jones, Toyota, 200, 122.4, 40.3. (2) D.Suarez, Toyota, 200, 118.6, 38.4. (10) J.Allgaier, Chev., 200, 114, 37.5. (5) C.Elliott, Chevrolet, 200, 107.6, 0.6. (4) Ty Dillon, Chev., 200, 107.7, 36.7. (6) A.Dillon, Chevrolet, 200, 100.6, 0.8. (16) E.Sadler, Chev., 200, 93.4, 33.9. (7) B. Keselowski, Ford, 200, 101.6, 0.10. (17) B.Poole, Chev., 200, 86.8, 31.11. (8) B.Jones, Chev. 200, 91.1, 30.12. (9) D.Wallace Jr., Ford, 199, 91.5, 29.13. (11) B.Gaughan, Chev. 199, 85, 28.14. (13) Ryan Reed, Ford, 199, 81, 27.15. (14) J.Marks, Chev., 199, 78.8, 26.16. (12) B.Koch, Chev., 199, 74.2, 25.17. (15) Jeb Burton, Ford, 199, 75.2, 24.18. (26) D.Armstrong, Toyota, 198, 65.7, 23.19. (28) D.Lupton, Chev., 198, 65.2, 22.20. (23) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 198, 66.5, 21.21. (24) R.Preece, Chev., 197, 58.3, 20.22. (22) D.Starr, Toyota, 197, 52.6, 19.23. (18) S.Gallagher, Chev., 196, 59.3, 0.24. (19) R.Chastain, Chev., 196, 63.8, 17.25. (25) Ray Black Jr., Chev., 196, 52.3, 16.26. (27) T.J. Bell, Toyota, 196, 52.3, 15.27. (21) Ryan Sieg, Chev. 195, 66, 14.28. (20) J. Clements, Chev. 195, 58.4, 13.29. (35) B.J. McLeod, Ford, 194, 43.8, 12.30. (38) H.Rhodes, Chev., 194, 40.3, 11.31. (34) G.Smithley, Chev. 194, 42.3, 10.32. (31) T.Hill, Chevrolet, 193, 45.8, 0.33. (36) J.Gase, Chevrolet, 191, 36.8, 8.34. (37) D.Cope, Chevrolet, 191, 32.6, 7.35. (32) M.Gosselin, Chev., 190, 40, 6.36. (33) D.J. Kennington, Dodge, 190, 33, 5.37. (40) Todd Peck, Ford, 188, 27.3, 4.38. (39) M.Harmon, Dodge, 182, 28.3, 3.39. (30) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, overheating, 11, 26.5, 2.40. (29) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration, 5, 23.2, 1.

___Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 114.087 mph.

Time of Race: 1 hour, 45 minutes, 11 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 2.285 seconds.Caution Flags: 3 for 16 laps.Lead Changes: 5 among 4 drivers.Lap Leaders: E.Jones 1-5; K.Busch

6-97; T.Dillon 98-108; K.Busch 109-177; B.Keselowski 178-186; K.Busch 187-200.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Busch, 3 times for 175 laps; T.Dillon, 1 time for 11 laps; B.Keselowski, 1 time for 9 laps; E.Jones, 1 time for 5 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. D.Suarez, 144; 2. E.Sadler, 136; 3. T.Dillon, 135; 4. J.Allgaier, 132; 5. B.Jones, 129; 6. E.Jones, 126; 7. B.Gaughan, 119; 8. R.Reed, 106; 9. B.Poole, 102; 10. D.Wallace Jr., 96.

BaseballSpring Training Schedule

Saturday’s GamesSt. Louis (ss) 4, Houston 3Tampa Bay 2, N.Y. Yankees 1Detroit 3, Pittsburgh 0Baltimore 8, Minnesota 1Miami 11, Boston 8Philadelphia 8, Toronto 5St. Louis (ss) 14, N.Y. Mets 9Chicago Cubs (ss) 9, Chicago White

Sox 2Arizona (ss) 9, San Francisco (ss) 5Texas 14, Oakland 5Milwaukee 7, Colorado 6Arizona (ss) 3, Kansas City 0L.A. Angels 9, San Francisco (ss) 5

Today’s GamesBoston vs. Tampa Bay (ss) at Port Char-

lotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Detroit vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton,

Fla., 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla.,

12:05 p.m.Baltimore vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers,

Fla., 12:05 p.m.Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tam-

pa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Atlanta vs. Houston at Kissimmee,

Fla., 12:05 p.m.St. Louis vs. Washington at Viera, Fla.,

12:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Toronto at Dunedin,

Fla., 12:07 p.m.Cleveland (ss) vs. Kansas City at Sur-

prise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Cleveland (ss) at Good-year, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. Chicago White Sox at Glen-dale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Colorado at Scotts-dale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Texas vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

San Diego vs. San Francisco at Scotts-dale, Ariz., 5:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesMinnesota vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla.,

12:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla.,

12:05 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Boston at Fort Myers,

Fla., 12:05 p.m.Philadelphia vs. Baltimore at Sarasota,

Fla., 12:05 p.m.Houston vs. Washington at Viera, Fla.,

12:05 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee,

Fla., 12:05 p.m.Texas vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.Milwaukee vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glen-

dale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Kansas City at

Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa,

Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Cincinnati vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe,

Ariz., 3:10 p.m.Seattle (ss) vs. Arizona at Scottsdale,

Ariz., 3:10 p.m.Colorado vs. Seattle (ss) at Peoria,

Ariz., 3:10 p.m.San Francisco vs. Oakland at Mesa,

Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

BasketballNBA standings

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBToronto 43 20 .683 —Boston 39 27 .591 5½New York 27 40 .403 18Brooklyn 18 47 .277 26Philadelphia 9 56 .138 35

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 38 27 .585 —Charlotte 36 28 .563 1½Atlanta 36 29 .554 2Washington 30 34 .469 7½Orlando 28 36 .438 9½

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 46 18 .719 —Indiana 35 30 .538 11½Detroit 33 32 .508 13½Chicago 32 32 .500 14Milwaukee 27 38 .415 19½

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBx-San Antonio 55 10 .846 —Memphis 39 26 .600 16Houston 33 32 .508 22Dallas 33 33 .500 22½New Orleans 24 40 .375 30½

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 44 21 .677 —Portland 34 32 .515 10½Utah 30 35 .462 14Denver 27 38 .415 17Minnesota 21 45 .318 23½

Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBx-Golden State 58 6 .906 —L.A. Clippers 42 22 .656 16Sacramento 25 39 .391 33Phoenix 17 48 .262 41½L.A. Lakers 14 52 .212 45

x-clinched playoff spot

Friday’s late gamesUtah 114, Washington 93 Orlando 107, Sacramento 100Golden State 128, Portland 112L.A. Clippers 101, New York 94

Saturday’s GamesIndiana 112, Dallas 105Miami at Toronto (n)Detroit at Philadelphia (n)Houston at Charlotte (n)New Orleans at Milwaukee (n)Memphis at Atlanta (n)Oklahoma City at San Antonio (n)Washington at Denver (n)Phoenix at Golden State (n)Orlando at Portland (n)

Today’s GamesCleveland at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.Utah at Sacramento, 5 p.m.Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m.Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 7 p.m.New York at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s GamesDallas at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Chicago at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.Denver at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Memphis at Houston, 7 p.m.Portland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m.New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30

p.m.Cleveland at Utah, 9:30 p.m.

NBA LeadersThrough March 11

SCORING G FG FT PTS AVGCurry, GOL 61 626 293 1856 30.4Harden, HOU 65 554 601 1886 29.0Durant, OKC 58 561 358 1631 28.1Cousins, SAC 54 506 404 1478 27.4Lillard, POR 59 510 322 1528 25.9James, CLE 62 588 298 1542 24.9Davis, NOR 57 528 296 1384 24.3Westbrook, OKC 65 551 388 1570 24.2George, IND 64 485 368 1513 23.6DeRozan, TOR 63 494 458 1484 23.6Butler, CHI 49 363 318 1098 22.4Thompson, GOL 62 502 161 1369 22.1Thomas, BOS 66 473 369 1448 21.9Anthony, NYK 60 469 294 1309 21.8Lowry, TOR 62 426 317 1340 21.6Walker, CHA 63 455 300 1344 21.3Leonard, SAN 60 457 227 1254 20.9Lopez, Bro 64 525 282 1333 20.8McCollum, POR 64 515 143 1330 20.8Wiggins, MIN 65 476 349 1343 20.7

FG PERCENTAGE FG FGA PCTJordan, LAC 280 404 .693Howard, HOU 301 490 .614Whiteside, MIA 305 503 .606Kanter, OKC 315 550 .573Faried, DEN 314 556 .565Gortat, WAS 335 603 .556Lopez, NYK 288 523 .551Towns, MIN 488 895 .545Dieng, MIN 242 452 .535Noel, PHL 254 476 .534

REBOUNDS G OFF DEF TOT AVGDrummond, DET 65 322 654 976 15.0Jordan, LAC 62 224 649 873 14.1Howard, HOU 54 193 459 652 12.1Whiteside, MIA 56 181 479 660 11.8Cousins, SAC 54 136 484 620 11.5Gasol, CHI 61 136 544 680 11.1Pachulia, DAL 60 209 412 621 10.4Davis, NOR 57 119 470 589 10.3Towns, MIN 66 190 488 678 10.3Randle, LAL 65 143 514 657 10.1

ASSISTS G AST AVGRondo, SAC 61 726 11.9Westbrook, OKC 65 676 10.4Wall, WAS 64 630 9.8Paul, LAC 59 579 9.8Rubio, MIN 60 520 8.7Green, GOL 63 468 7.4Harden, HOU 65 458 7.0Lillard, POR 59 407 6.9James, CLE 62 410 6.6Thomas, BOS 66 433 6.6

GolfPGA-Valspar

Championship scoresSaturday at Innisbrook Resort, Copper-

head Course, Palm Harbor, Fla.. Purse: $6.1 million. Yardage: 7,340; Par 71

Third RoundBill Haas 71-67-67—205 -8Graham DeLaet 72-66-68—206 -7Charley Hoffman 69-72-67—208 -5Ryan Moore 70-69-69—208 -5Patrick Reed 71-70-68—209 -4Charles Howell III 67-72-70—209 -4Steve Stricker 71-66-72—209 -4Charl Schwartzel 71-70-69—210 -3Lee McCoy 74-71-66—211 -2Jordan Spieth 76-68-67—211 -2Jason Gore 72-72-67—211 -2John Huh 71-71-69—211 -2Henrik Stenson 71-70-70—211 -2Justin Thomas 72-67-72—211 -2Retief Goosen 70-69-72—211 -2Scott Brown 70-69-72—211 -2Daniel Berger 70-68-73—211 -2Will MacKenzie 70-67-74—211 -2Danny Lee 70-72-70—212 -1Louis Oosthuizen 72-70-70—212 -1Sung Kang 72-68-72—212 -1Jerry Kelly 70-69-73—212 -1Sam Saunders 74-71-68—213 EShawn Stefani 73-72-68—213 EDaniel Summerhays 71-73-69—213 EDanny Willett 70-72-71—213 EJamie Lovemark 70-71-72—213 EK.J. Choi 74-67-72—213 EGeorge McNeill 74-66-73—213 EBranden Grace 72-72-70—214 +1Justin Hicks 72-72-70—214 +1Patton Kizzire 71-73-70—214 +1

Russell Knox 75-69-70—214 +1Brandon Hagy 70-73-71—214 +1Greg Yates 69-73-72—214 +1Kevin Na 74-68-72—214 +1Tyler Aldridge 70-72-72—214 +1Cameron Smith 70-71-73—214 +1Camilo Villegas 72-73-70—215 +2Justin Leonard 72-72-71—215 +2Luke Donald 75-69-71—215 +2Thomas Aiken 75-69-71—215 +2Jason Dufner 72-71-72—215 +2Whee Kim 72-71-72—215 +2Steve Wheatcroft 73-68-74—215 +2Matt Kuchar 71-70-74—215 +2Vijay Singh 75-70-71—216 +3Padraig Harrington 74-71-71—216 +3Ryan Palmer 71-74-71—216 +3Hunter Mahan 73-72-71—216 +3Gary Woodland 73-72-71—216 +3Hiroshi Iwata 71-74-71—216 +3Will Wilcox 72-71-73—216 +3Brett Stegmaier 71-72-73—216 +3Ken Duke 67-73-76—216 +3Kyle Reifers 71-73-73—217 +4Chez Reavie 69-75-73—217 +4Rory Sabbatini 73-71-73—217 +4Jonas Blixt 70-73-74—217 +4Seung-Yul Noh 71-71-75—217 +4Matt Every 70-74-74—218 +5Blayne Barber 71-72-75—218 +5Ian Poulter 72-71-75—218 +5Mark Hubbard 71-73-75—219 +6Chris Kirk 72-72-75—219 +6Mark Wilson 74-69-76—219 +6Kyle Stanley 73-69-77—219 +6Carlos Ortiz 74-69-77—220 +7Hudson Swafford 73-71-77—221 +8Chesson Hadley 68-76-77—221 +8Kevin Chappell 72-72-78—222 +9

HockeyNHL standings, schedule

Friday’s late gameArizona 4, Calgary 1

Saturday’s GamesBoston 3, N.Y. Islanders 1Buffalo 3, Carolina 2, OTDetroit 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OTMinnesota at Montreal (n)Toronto at Ottawa (n)Philadelphia at Florida (n)Colorado at Winnipeg (n)St. Louis at Dallas (n)Arizona at Edmonton (n)Nashville at Vancouver (n)New Jersey at Los Angeles (n)Washington at San Jose (n)

Today’s GamesPittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 11:30 a.m.Tampa Bay at Columbus, 2 p.m.Toronto at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s GamesFlorida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.Los Angeles at Chicago, 7 p.m.St. Louis at Calgary, 8 p.m.Nashville at Edmonton, 8 p.m.Winnipeg at Vancouver, 9 p.m.New Jersey at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

TransactionsSaturday’s deals

BASEBALLAmerican League

TEXAS RANGERS — Assigned RHP Miles Jaye, RHP Scott Williams, and C Kellin Deglan to their minor league camp.

National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES — Released RHP

Kyle Kendrick and RHP Chris Volstad. Op-tioned RHPs Danny Burawa, Tyrell Jenkins and Casey Kelly and INF Daniel Castro to Gwinnett (IL), and RHP Mauricio Cabrera to Mississippi (SL). Reassigned RHPs Chris Ellis and Madison Younginer, LHPs David Holmberg and Sean Newcomb, and INFs Chase d’Arnaud, Nate Frieman and Rio Ruiz to their minor league camp.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Ray McCallum and C Alex Stepheson to 10-day contracts.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with LB Jerrell Freeman on a three-year contract, DL Mitch Unrein on a two-year contract and WR Marc Mariani on a one-year contract.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed S Rafael Bush.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed P Tress Way to a fi ve-year contract.

COLLEGEBIG TEN CONFERENCE — Announced

that Wisconsin hockey player Jedd Sole-way has been suspended for one game, under the conference’s supplemental dis-cipline process.

TEXAS A&M — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Billy Kennedy on a fi ve-year contract.

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Following eight sea-sons with Philadelphia, Kendrick was 7-13 with Colorado in 2015.

The Braves on Satur-day put right-hander Chris Volstad on uncon-ditional release.

Right-handers Danny Burawa, Tyrell Jen-kins and Casey Kelly and infi elder Daniel

Castro were optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett. Right-hander Mauricio Cabrera was optioned to Double-A Mississippi.

Right-handers Chris Ellis and Madison Younginer, left-handers David Holmberg and Sean Newcomb, and in-fi elders Chase d’Arnaud, Nate Frieman and Rio Ruiz were re-assigned to the minor league camp.

BRAVES

CONTINUED FROM 10A

Associated PressAVONDALE, Ariz. — Kev-

in Harvick’s dominance amazes Carl Edwards. Jimmie Johnson shrugs while making Harvick the favorite on Sunday.

When NASCAR comes to Phoenix International Raceway, all drivers chase Harvick, who has won a record seven Sprint Cup races in the desert.

“I think really at this time in the sport for any-one to be that dominant at a track it really must have something special,” Ed-wards said. “Yeah, I think the whole fi eld is chasing those guys and chasing Kevin and that 4 car at this track.”

There might be some hope for the fi eld heading into Sunday’s 312-mile race. Kyle Busch, who will be on the pole, noticed Harvick’s Chevrolet “was a little off ” on Friday when he qualifi ed 18th.

But there was Harvick on Saturday morning with the second-fastest car in practice on the mile oval behind Kurt Busch.

Harvick followed that by posting the fastest speed in the fi nal practice ses-sion at midday, with track conditions most resem-bling those of Sunday af-ternoon’s race.

“It’s hard to pick a favor-ite, but I guess if I’m forced to, the No. 4 car is the one that we’ll all be paying close attention to,” John-son said.

It’s true that when Har-vick makes his 500th con-secutive Cup start, he won’t be the defending cham-pion at Phoenix for the fi rst time since November 2013. His four-race win streak was snapped last fall when Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the rain-shortened race.

Harvick still led the most laps and fi nished second.

“For me personally, this is a fun place to come just for the fact that I started racing here in the mid-’90s,” Harvick said. “You still see some of the same fans and people that fol-lowed your career up through the ranks.”

The Bakersfi eld, Califor-nia, native went from mi-nor league races at Phoe-nix to dominating this

track after it was repaved in 2011.

Now Harvick, who has fi nished fourth, sixth and seventh in the fi rst three races of the season, is looking to lock up a spot in the season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup with a track-record eighth win.

“We grew up on a lot of these fl at style-type tracks, short tracks, up and down the West Coast,” Harvick said. “For whatever rea-son, all the fl at tracks have just kind of still fi t my driv-ing style throughout the years, whether it be here or Loudon.

“But obviously this place, we have had a lot more success than some of the others.”

Here are some other things to watch on the second leg of NASCAR’s three-race Southwest swing:

Steering Wheel: Ex-pect Johnson to be extra careful locking in his steer-ing wheel after it came off in his hands in qualifying Friday, leading to a scary wreck.

“I was sitting there with no steering and no steer-ing wheel and staring at the blue wall,” Johnson said. “I was along for the ride at that point.”

Johnson, who took the blame for the incident, was forced to a backup car and will start at the rear of the fi eld. He was 13th fastest in the fi nal practice.

JGR Up Front: Joe Gibbs Racing took the top three spots in qualifying, with Edwards joining Kyle Busch on the front row and Denny Hamlin start-ing third.

New Rules: It will be the fi rst test for NAS-CAR’s new downforce and aerodynamics pack-age on a mile track. Good-year has also brought new tires to Phoenix. Drivers indicated it has been slick in the fourth turn.

Harvick’s Task: Har-vick will have to weave his way through the fi eld from the 18th spot.

“I would not discount him being able to drive up from his starting position,” Kyle Busch said. “I don’t think you can ever count out Harvick.”

Harvick ratesfavorite labelfor Phoenix

Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. —

Jamal Murray scored 26 points, Tyler Ulis added 25 and both keyed a late 11-3 run that helped No. 16 Kentucky put away Georgia 93-80 in Sat-urday’s semifi nal of the Southeastern Confer-ence Tournament.

Isaiah Briscoe’s put-back with 8:16 left put the Wildcats up 68-67 and Murray followed with two free throws. After Houston Kessler’s jumper got Georgia within one, Ulis scored fi ve points while Murray made a layup during the critical run that pushed second-seeded Kentucky ahead to stay and into Sunday’s championship against top-seeded Tex-as A&M.

Briscoe (12 points) was also important down the stretch with a jumper and feed to Marcus Lee for a dunk as Kentucky (25-8) had to work hard to make its third straight SEC fi nal.

Yante Maten had 20

points, J.J. Frazier 19 and Kenny Gaines 16 for sixth-seeded Georgia (19-13), which led most of the game before fal-tering down the stretch.

Derek Willis came off the bench to score 14 points and grab seven re-bounds. Alex Poythress added 10 points for Ken-tucky, which used 56 percent shooting in the second half to fi nish 29 of 58 for the game.

Though Georgia’s NCAA prospects re-mained to be deter-mined, the Bulldogs succeeded in giving Ken-tucky a game for more than 30 minutes. But the physical strain of play-ing a third game in as many days and second in less than 24 hours ap-peared to catch up with the Bulldogs.

Georgia controlled the tempo and the momen-tum, answering every Kentucky challenge with a basket or rebound that had a blue-clad crowd at Bridgestone Arena anx-ious.

Kentucky rallies past Georgia

SEC Tournament keeps shaking up bubble


Associated PressSTONY BROOK, N.Y. —

Everybody wanted a photo with the hero and Jameel Warney was happy to oblige.

With a net around his neck and an MVP trophy in his arms, Stony Brook’s un-stoppable big man obliged fan after fan. Warney and his teammates were in no rush to leave the fl oor. The Seawolves had been so close to winning this champion-ship and earning this NCAA bid before, they clearly wanted to savor the accom-plishment.

Nobody was more re-sponsible than Warney, who scored 43 points to set an America East Tournament record and lead Stony Brook to an 80-74 victory against Vermont on Saturday.

Top-seeded Stony Brook (26-6) had reached the tour-nament fi nal four times in the last fi ve seasons, includ-ing the last two years, and lost each time — each defeat seemingly more excruciat-ing than the last. Last year, a 3-pointer with just seconds left by Albany kept the Sea-wolves out of the NCAAs.

“I think you have to go through last year, even though no one wants to hear it, to get to this place to not make these same kind of mistakes,” Stony Brook coach Steve Pikiell said.

From heartbreak has come resolve, the Seawolves

say, and they needed it against Vermont. They were down 15 in the second half, but Warney’s inside game was too much for third-seeded Catamounts (21-13).

Carson Puriefoy contrib-uted 23 points and some big free throws down the stretch for Stony Brook.

Instead of thinking, ‘Oh, no, not again,’ it was just the opposite from Stony Brook.

“My mindset was we’re not going to let this hap-pen,” said Puriefoy, a senior like Warney who was down to his last shot at the NCAA Tournament.

Vermont went up by 13 with 16:00 left in the second half when Bell-Haynes got a runner in the lane to bounce through. Pikiell called time-out and the crowd was stunned silent — for a few seconds.

Stony Brook’s 4,100-seat on-campus arena still has the smell of new plastic seats two years after a ma-jor renovation, and it was jammed with red-clad fans. The Long Island school has invested heavily in athletics in recent years and residents of the suburbs that surround this campus, 60 miles east of Manhattan, have mostly embraced the attempt to bring big-time college sports to Suff olk County.

Stony Brook tied it at 61 with 6:19 left on a short jumper by Rayshaun Mc-

Grew, the other star senior. When Warney made a free throw with 5:59 left, Stony Brook led 62-61.

The Seawolves and their fans, so desperate to fi nally break through and play the main stage of March Mad-ness, would have to endure another nervous fi nish.

Warney got free down the baseline and put the Sea-wolves up 73-70 with 2:01 left. Then it was Warney again, this time securing a rebound with one hand and fl ipping it back to make it 75-72.

Warney said Pikiell told him before the game he would need at least 20 shots from the three-time confer-ence player of the year. “I was like, I don’t know if I can do that,” said Warney, who was 18 for 22 from the fi eld.

Two more free throws by Puriefoy with 46.4 second left made it a two-posses-sion game, 77-72. Of course, it was Warney to all but fi n-ish it off , grabbing another rebound for an easy putback with 20 seconds left to make it 79-74.

“He played out of his mind,” Vermont’s Ethan O’Day said. “He did what-ever he wanted.”

And what he wanted to do when it was over was to bask in the moment with fans. “If they need more pictures,” Warney said, “I’ll take them.”

Tip ins

Vermont: Forward Dar-ren Payen took a hard fall when he was fouled going up for a fast-break dunk late in the fi rst half. The 6-foot-8 Payen landed hard on his side and back, stayed down for a couple minutes but walked off slowly without assistance. Roland Nyama was given a fl agrant. Dre Wills made one free throw and Everett Duncan hit a 3 on the ensuing possession, which gave Vermont a sev-en-point lead. Wills had a la-yup on a runout as time ex-pired to put the Catamounts up 36-27 at half. Payen started the second half.

Stony Brook: Pikiell is a former UConn player and assistant coach, and former Huskies great Jim Calhoun was at Stony Brook to watch his protege.

Up next

Stony Brook is off to the NCAA Tournament, and the Seawolves don’t care where they’ll play. “We’ll worry about next week later on down the road,” Pikiell said.

If Vermont wants to play in the postseason, the NIT might not be an option. Maybe another tournament will invite them.

Stony Brook off to NCAA after America East win

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Features1B • Daily Corinthian Sunday, March 13, 2016

“Before I Forget” by B. Smith & Dan Gasby with Michael Shnayer-son, foreword by Rudolph Tanzi, PhD

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what you came into the room for.

That happens with disturbing frequency. Forgetting your glasses, losing your keys, it re-ally bothers you because you’re not sure if it’s a normal part of aging or something else. And in the new book “Before I Forget” by B. Smith & Dan Gasby with Michael Shnayerson, the worry isn’t yours alone.

For most of her life, B. Smith was a whirlwind of activity. She was a mod-el, and had her own line of household goods, TV shows, and restaurants she co-owned with her

husband, Dan Gasby. She was known for her sense of style and her elegance.

And then, a few years ago, something uncharac-teristic began to happen: the woman who was put together, inside and out, began to display emotion-al outbursts, use inappro-priate language, and her fashion sense faltered. Her memory faded until it frightened the couple and they sought help.

Smith, as it turned out, had mild-stage Alzheim-er’s.

A take-charge kind of guy, Gasby did his re-search.

“Some 5.2 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s,” he says; half a million people die of it every year. Perhaps due to higher rates of diabetes and heart disease, it hits the black community the hardest: by age 85, “half of all African Americans have it.”

Knowing the facts can be empowering, but they don’t make deal-

ing with the disease any easier. Smith lost things constantly; “hoarded” clothing, to Gasby’s ir-ritation; and, though she was previously fastidious, ignored sloppiness. She shut family out physically and friends, emotionally. Long-ago recollections were sharp, but her short-term memory was all but lost.

When things got worse and Smith was inadver-tently put in a dangerous situation, the family found expert advice, only to learn that there was little they could do. Alzheimer’s has no cure. It can barely be “managed.” They would just have to deal with the day-to-day challenges and learn to cope…

Of his wife, and their plans one day, author Dan Gasby says, “She sits…at the breakfast table, the love of my life, waiting quietly for me to tell her what to do.”

Is there a sentence more heartbreaking than that? I don’t think so, and

you’d be likewise hard-pressed to fi nd a book that will aff ect you more than “Before I Forget.”

Would you blame any-one if you saw a pity-par-ty in this book? Probably not, but there’s no whin-ing in Gasby’s words, nor will you fi nd “poor me” in what B. Smith contrib-utes (with Michael Shnay-erson). Instead, there’s resignation here; a we’ll-get-through-this wrapped in a love story that gets more and more poignant as the story progresses. Gasby, who is fi erce about Alzheimer’s education, also off ers up-to-date in-formation and advice on what worked for him and Smith, and what doesn’t.

Without being a spoiler, there is no happy ending to this book, save but the sheer love that makes it soar. If you’re an Al-zheimer’s caretaker, or are facing the disease yourself, you absolutely will want this memoir. “Before I Forget” is a book you never will…

New book offers touching journey through Alzheimer’sBY TERRI

SCHLICHENMEYERThe Bookworm Sez

From cold wet noses to excitedly wagging tails, author Rheta Grimsely Johnson pays tribute to the four-legged compan-ions of her life in her lat-est book titled “The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge”.

Conjuring images of a ceramic St. Bernard bank, generous pans of corn-bread and one big galoot named Monster, the long-time dog owner relates her joys and heartaches as she continues to navigate through life’s uncertain waters, almost always with a dog by her side.

“For me, a signifi cant pet must be a dog. Any-thing else is a weak sub-stitute, a decaff einated coff ee. I love dogs. Dogs with their dignifi ed si-lence. Dogs with their to-tal lack of pretension and hypocrisy,” she writes. “I have had, and have, a cat. Cats have an angle. Dogs are guileless. Dogs and dogs along are requisite in my household.”

Bringing her readers along for the journey, Johnson welcomes them into a “select fraternity that pledges love to a creature whose days are numbered and whose needs are many”.

Beginning as a “star-ry-eyed” newlywed who delays fi nishing college to start a newspaper on Georgia’s idyllic St. Sim-mons Island, the syndi-cated columnist winds her way through other “Southern newspapers large and small,” eventu-ally ending up in “dog-friendly” Fishtrap Hol-low, (near Iuka).

“Longtime readers of my column always ask about its frequent date-line, Fishtrap Hollow. They seemed to want to know more,” said the au-thor. “In response, I’ve given them this new book about my nearly 30 years in North Mississippi near Pickwick Lake and Iuka. I feature the critters and people that make my old dark hollow a beautiful and lively place.”

Filled with cherished memories and colorful canine antics, the book also identifi es dogs as metaphors for love, loss and life.

“Over the years, I have found it harder and hard-er to separate the hu-mans from the dogs. That would be like separating the past from the pres-ent, or memory from real-ity. Why bother anyway? Maybe all we are is an

amalgamation of the ani-mals we have loved, the things they have taught us. Certainly we learn more from them than they do from us.” said the dog owner.

Born in Colquitt, Ga., and reared in Pensacola, Fla., and Montgomery, Ala., Johnson discovered her true home when she moved to Mississippi in 1979.

Having spent most of her adult life writing for newspapers all over the South, the writer has writ-ten columns pretty much exclusively for the past 34 years. Her fi rst book was a collection of columns called “America’s Faces in 1987.” She is also proud to have written the only authorized biography of “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz, the 1988 “Good Grief.”

Her other works in-clude, “America’s Faces” (1987) “Georgia” (2000), “Poor Man’s Provence: Finding Myself In Cajun Louisiana” (2008) , “En-chanted Evening Barbie and the Second Com-ing” (2010) and “Hank Hung the Moon and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts” (2012). Her fi rst play, “Hiram: Becoming Hank Williams,” about the country singer’s early years, premiered in Ala-bama last month.

A lark rather than a nightingale, the author prefers to write in the wee hours of the morning as opposed to night.

“If I try and wait ’til noon or later, nothing gets written,” she said. “I don’t need vistas or a fan-cy offi ce. I have a corner in my bedroom at both of my homes where I write.”

“If someone would lock me in a closet, that would work best of all,” she add-ed.

Rheta’s advice to others who wish to become pub-lished authors: “Listen to other people, to their sto-ries and manner of speak-ing. We live in a region of storytellers, and I’m not

talking about published authors,” she said. “The South is rich in evoca-tive language and tangled lives. It all makes for good reading, but you have to hear it fi rst.”

Autographing her new-est novel, Johnson will hold a book signing at the Iuka Library at noon on Tuesday, June 21.

Hardbacks are $26.95, the amount you’d prob-ably spend on lunch with friends, and are avail-able for purchase online at blairpublisher.com or wherever books are sold.

The book is not available in paperback, but can be bought as an eBook.

Syndicated today by King Features of New York, Rheta’s columns appear in 50 newspapers nationwide, including “Daily Corinthian”.

The columnist current-ly splits her time between Iuka and Pass Christian where she resides with her husband, Hines Hall – a retired Auburn Uni-versity history professor, their cat Oatmeal, and their dogs Hank and Boo-zoo.

Columnist shares story of life with dogsBY KIMBERLY [email protected]

“The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge” relates the life story of nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson through tender tales of her canine companions.

Author Rheta Grimsley Johnson has won numer-ous awards while reporting for regional newspapers and in 1981, was inducted into the Scripps Howard Newspapers Editorial Hall of Fame.

“Over the years, I have found it harder and harder to separate the humans from

the dogs. That would be like separating the past from the

present, or memory from reality. Why bother anyway?”

Rheta Grimsley JohnsonAuthor and syndicated columnist

Education2B • Daily Corinthian Sunday, March 13, 2016

Third Nine Weeks Honor Roll

Kindergarten:All A’s: Willow Blue, Cam-

eron Bobo, Andrew Brown, Bo Burcham , Cassidy Collins, Aubrey Collums, Javin Crum, Zane Depoyster, Paisley Duck-worth, Madilyn Ivy, Shilyn Johnson, Bryson Justice, Al-lison Lambertus, Dinah Lan-caster, Ava Mcclamrock, Lo-gan McPheters, Anna Grace Meeks, Elizabeth Orman, Pey-ton Pharr, Parker Price, Pray-lee Putt, Kaylee-Jo Rhoads, Ryan Rogers, Bailey Smith, Brad Streetman, Cole Talley, Aiden Turner, Channing Wil-liams, Luke Williams.

A’s & B’s: Jordyn Barber, Kurt Burcham , Bryson Burrell, Levi Emily, Ashton Felks, Kay-lee Fowler, Drake Jarnigin,

Chloe Jones, Myles Kinkennon, John Chandler Latch, Aiden Malone, Jaxson Pady, Braylen Parrish, Lindley Steen, Diana Swadler, Neyland Tucker, Jace Weber, Braxton Willingham, Briley Willingham.

First Grade:All A’s: Ashton Harris,

Swayzee Hartnell, Ella Grace Kinney, Landon Patterson, Madison Stewart, Weston War-ren.

A’s & B’s: Brently Adams, Destiny Bobo, Grant Bolton, Ryan Calvary, Alayla Cum-mings, Mackenzie Driskell, Jayden Fisk, Caleb Gahagan, Kiara Holbrook, Dillion John-son, Jaycee Lawson, Jerimiah Logan, Scotty Maness, Shan-non Markle, Daniel Owen, JJ. Sharpe, Sydney Slaughter, Elizabeth Snyder, John Snyder, Lucas Staff ord, James Traynor,

Austin Vaughn, McKinley Voyles, Kinsley Wilson, Kaleea Wright, Isaac Yager.

Second Grade:All A’s: Ella Lacy, Mccaden

Rhoads.A’s & B’s: Addyson Arm-

strong, Ethan Bassett, Zach-ary Brazil, James Cartee, Lacy Cartee, Addison Corbin, Ans-ley Corbin, Dylan Davis, Riley Dunn, Destiny Essary, Dylan Gofourth, Nicholas Hen-drix, Brettany Jennings, Riley Joyner, Eli Kirkland, Joshua Mallard, Zachary Mccollum, Tyler Moon, Kinsley Moore, Wesley Nash, Brinlee Rickman, Ashton Smith, Emily Sowell, Kaden Tapley, Eric Uhrmacher, Nevaeh Whirley, Alana Whit-temore, Lexie Wilbanks, Jacob Wiley, Peyton Winters, Gracie Youngblood.

All B’s: Dylan Duckworth,

Hailey Willis.Third Grade:All A’s: Jacob Cornelius, Ju-

lia Davis, Joshua Harris, Ella Tucker, Michelle Uhrmacher.

A’s & B’s: Aidan Anderson, Clay Barnett, Emma Barnett, Noah Canten, Seth Carman, Leeah Davis, Rebeca Diaz, Tan-ner Haynes, Jacob Huff , Aus-tin Johnson, Glorianna John-son, Autumn Johnston, Anslee Kemp, Makayla Kuykendall, Abagail Lambertus, Sarah Latch, Ian Marion, Anna Mc-Nair, Skylar McPheters, Sophia Mullins, Mabry Nelms, Chris-topher O’brien, Matthew Oaks, Cratin Quinnelly, Katy Rob-erts, Jamee Robinson, Brandon Selph, Lindsay Stevens, Caleigh Stone, Jacie Stowers, Emma Strickland, Carter Thurman , Evie Jewell Tucker, Gracey Viola, Shelby Wigginton, Noah

Wiginton, Ayden Wilbanks, Na-than Williams.

All B’s: Dawson Gammill, Gillian Parker, Kacey Radtke.

Fourth Grade:All A’s: Owen Depoyster,

Mattie Gracynn Mynatt, An-drew Williams.

A’s & B’s: Jade Calvery,Lynden Duckworth, Lacy Geer, Davis Hardin, Charles Harrington, Aubree Justice, Allie Grace Kirkland, Kurt Lavender, Rilee Mor-row, Dustin Mullins, Madison Owen, Destynee Powers, Ca-dence Robbins, Laurie Rushing, Haleigh Selph, Aaron Snyder, Caden Whittemore , Lindsey Wolfgang.

All B’s: Camber Burcham, Olivia Holmes, William Pear-son, Skyler Rogers, Aaron Vaughn, Talia Whitley, Jasen Wiginton.

Alcorn Central Elementary School Honor Roll

The following lo-cal residents have re-ceived their degree from Western Governors Uni-versity (WGU). The uni-versity held its 30th semi-annual commencement ceremony in Orlando on Feb. 6 and celebrated the graduation of more than

7,300 graduates.Amy Wilkins of Corinth

has received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Corbit Wallace of Corinth has received his Bachelor of Science in Business - Human Re-source Management.

The university awarded

4,557 undergraduate and 2,759 graduate degrees in business, information technology, K-12 teacher education, and health care professions, including nursing.

Graduates reside in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, as

well as Armed Forces personnel stationed over-seas.

Claire Bilby, senior vice president, event opera-tions and premium ser-vices at Walt Disney World Resort, delivered the commencement ad-dress. Students who were

not able to attend the ceremony in person were able to watch the event via live video stream on the WGU website.

WGU’s competency-based model makes it possible for students to set their own study sched-ules and move quickly

through material they al-ready know so they can focus on what they still need to learn.

While WGU’s online degree programs are rig-orous and challenging, adult learners are still able to earn their degrees.

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Artist Guild Gallery Exhibit

The Corinth Artist Guild Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of works by recently retired Corinth art teacher Lynn Haynie. Called “Good-bye Winter,” the exhibit includes oil and acrylic paintings focused on floral themes. Haynie taught in both city and county schools through the years. The exhibit runs through March 26. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at 609 North Fillmore. Call 665-0520 for more informa-tion.

Extension ActivitiesArt Class

An Art Class is open to the public at no cost will meet every Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Extension Office, located behind the Crossroads Arena. Participants will need to bring their own supplies and should call 662-286-7755 to regis-ter and get more informa-tion. The class is limited to 15 students.Batik Workshop

A Batik Workshop will be conducted every Thursday night for six weeks from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Extension Of-fice, located behind the Crossroads Arena. The cost is $10. Participants should register by calling 662-286-7755.Beginning Quilt Class

A Beginning Quilt

Class will begin Tues-day, March 15 at the Extension Office, located behind the Crossroads Arena and will meet at 5 p.m. every Tuesday thereafter. Six sewing machines will be avail-able for individuals who do not own one.

Fish on FridayFrom 4 to 6 p.m. every

Friday, the Easom Foun-dation will sell eat-in or carry-out farm-fed catfish dinners for $6 to support its hot meals program. The meal includes cole-slaw or salad, French fries or roasted pota-toes, a dessert, juice and catfish. Dinners are also available from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday at the same price. Side items on the menu for the day may also be purchased. Stop by the Easom Com-munity Center and pick up a monthly menu or contact Chef Ben Betts at 662-415-4003 or Ernestine Hollins at 662-643-8024. The menu can also be faxed each month to those who pro-vide a fax number.

NWTF North MS Longbeards Banquet

The National Wild Turkey Federation will host its local banquet on Tuesday at Chapman’s Restaurant. The doors will open at 6 p.m. and dinner will start at 7 p.m. Auction and door prizes will follow. There are lots of door prizes, an auc-tion, and silent auction.

Tickets will be sold for raffle prizes at the event. Tickets are $50 for individual of $70 for a couple. They can be pur-chased at the door or in advance. For questions call chapter president

Billy Miller at 662-286-9174.

CT-ACorinth Theatre-Arts

will present “Madam’s Been Murdered: Tea will be Late” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 17–Saturday, March 19. A 2 p.m. matinee will be presented on Sunday, March 20. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students. For tickets and more information call 662-287-2995. Leave a message if there is no answer for a return call. The theatre is located at 303 Fulton drive in Corinth.

Pickin’ on the SquareThe Pickin’ on the

Square guest for Thurs-day, March 17 is “No Time Flat”.

High School Art Competition

Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Art Department will host its Annual High School Art Competition now – March 24. High school students from the five-county district of Northeast will compete in the following categories: Drawing, 2D Design, 3D Design/Ce-ramics, Painting/Mixed Media and Photography/Printmaking/Computer Graphics.

Anderson Hall Art Gal-lery hours from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday – Thurs-day. For more informa-tion contact Terry Ander-son at 662-720-7336 or [email protected].

Color Run for Pi DayThe Alcorn Central

High School Math Club is hosting its first color run in honor of Pi Day on March 14. Students, par-ents, teachers and mem-

bers of the community age 6 and up may partici-pate in the event. Those under 6 may participate with a parent for free, although a t-shirt will not be included for them.

Participants will begin the route at the high school entry gate, make two complete circuits, and finish in the baseball parking lot. Each partici-pant will receive a t-shirt and a bag of color for the color explosion at the fin-ish line. The participation fee is $25. Other activi-ties include a quiz bowl, spring sports rally and Pi Games, group games, lunch and free time, a talent show and baseball scrimmage.

Methodist Men Annual Banquet

The Methodist Men will hold its annual banquet at the Easom Outreach Foundation at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 20. Bish-op Kenneth W. Carder of the Sixth Episcopal District will be the guest speaker. The cost is $20 per person. Those inter-ested in tickets should see any member of the Methodist Men or Presi-dent Paul Wright.

Sunday SingingThe Stephen Foster

Music Club and Arts in McNairy (AiM) are spon-soring a free series over the next four months at the Latta. The Sun-day singing will kick-off with “Crossing Jordan” and “Unity 4” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 20. Those scheduled to perform on April 17 are “Servant’s Heart” and “Earmark.” The “Red Rooster Pickers” and “Bluegrass Pals” will be the featured groups on May 22. The series con-cludes with “Living Truth” and the “Loveless Fam-ily” performing on June 5. The set will last one hour, each Sunday.

Cruise-InThe Magnolia Antique

Car Club and Arby’s will host a Cruise-In at Arby’s from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sun-day, March 20. The cost to register is $5. There will be a free food give-away for participants. For more information call Reggie Rickman at 662-415-2582 or Michael Mann at 662-286-4988.

Cancer Support Meeting

The Corinth/Alcorn County Cancer Support Group will hold a meet-ing at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22 at the Corinth library. Amanda Webb will be the special guest speaker. She will speak on programs offered by the American Cancer So-ciety. Guests are encour-aged to bring a friend. For more information contact Lanell Coln at 662-212-2303.

Pray As OneAs One is a national

call to prayer. The basic strategy revolves around two 40-day periods of prayer walking, fasting, and corporate prayer events. The first will start on Easter Sun-day, March 27 and run through the National Day of Prayer on May 5. The second begins on Sep-tember 30 and ends on Election Day. In addition, there will be much col-laboration with major na-tional prayer events that are happening through-out the year. Participants should note that the times of the Bible Read-ing have changed. The 75 hour Bible reading will be held from 8 a.m. on Monday, May 2 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 5.

Michie School Alumni Reunion

The annual Michie School Alumni Reunion will be held April 2, 2016 at Michie School Cafeteria. The doors will open at 4:30 p.m. and a potluck meal will be served at 5:30 p.m. All Michie alumni, spouses and guests are welcome to attend.

All are asked to bring a favorite dish and join us for great memories, food and fun.

Horse ShowThe Magnolia Classic

Racking Horse Show will return to the Crossroads Arena at 5 p.m. on April 2. Admission is $7. Chil-dren under 6 may attend for free. VIP tickets are also available (Call for details). Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Crossroads Arena or at the gate the day of the show which is RHBAA and RHBAA–HIO affili-ated. Blue Heat All-Stars and KTC will perform at

intermission. For more informa-

tion and for questions, contact Michelle at 662-665-1243.

Purple and Gold Banquet and Ball

The Alcorn County Chapter of the Alcorn State University (ASU) National Alumni Asso-ciation will sponsor a Purple and Gold Scholar-ship Banquet and Ball to provide assistance and scholarships to students from Alcorn County and surrounding areas attending Alcorn State University from 7:30 p.m. until midnight on Saturday, April 9. The event will be held at Re-freshments Inc. which is located at 101 W. Linden Street in Corinth. Tickets are available from mem-bers or at Walker Law office, located at 408 Waldron Street in Corinth or by calling 662-665-9536.

Senior Sounds

Alcorn Central High School seniors will pres-ent “Good to be Alive” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 14; Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16 at the Coliseum Civic Center – located at 404 Taylor Street.

Admission is $12 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets go on sale April 4 at www.se-niorsounds.net. For more information call Alcorn Central High School at 662-286-872.

Free Medical Clinic

The Living Healthy Free Medical Clinic, where residents with no way to pay can get free medi-cal treatment, welcomes adults and children age 12 and up with no income and no health insurance.

The clinic, now located at 2668 South Harper Road Suite 3 next to Phy-sicians Urgent Care in the former Oasis Medical Center, is open 1-5 p.m., on the second Wednes-day and fourth Saturday of each month.

The clinic is always looking for both medi-cal and non-medical volunteers. Medical and non-medical volunteers should contact Ann White at [email protected] or 662-415-9446.

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What would make your medicines cheaper?

That’s a question Amer-icans are asking every time they go to the phar-macy and fi nd the price of a maintenance drug they’ve been taking has doubled or tripled, or that a new medicine, like one of the new diabetes drugs, their doctors have prescribed is beyond their means.

Increasingly the answer from the drug industry, which pretty much can charge whatever it wishes, is more patient assistance programs that come in the form of coupons, co-pay cards, or vouchers to help people buy their drugs. People needing help can also apply directly to a pharmaceutical compa-ny, and if their income is low enough, the company simply sends a supply of medicine to their home or doctor’s offi ce. How many times have you heard on

TV that AstraZeneca can help?

The coupon, co-pay route to helping patients is easiest to understand. The industry calls the coupons “pay-no-more “ cards telling patients they will pay no more than $50 or $100 for a pre-scription. Discounts vary by the type of drug. Some work like airline loyalty programs: Buy so many drugs and get the next one free.

E-vouchers are more complicated and hardly transparent. A pharmacy sends a prescription to a middleman vendor. The vendor works with the drug company to fi gure out how much of the pa-tient’s cost sharing that’s required by the insurer it will pay on the pa-tient’s behalf. Rules and amounts patients receive vary depending on the kind of drug.

Andrew Pollpeter, a senior principal with the Amundsen Group, an

IMS Health Company, told me the company sets the amount of the vouch-er, and the patient doesn’t know much about it. But, he said, “they are happier when they see a lower co-pay.”

All this sounds great for patients, right? It may not be in the long-run.

Recently the Oversight Committee of the House of Representatives held hearings on the high price of pharmaceuticals. It found that one company tried to divert attention from the high price of its drugs by publicizing its patient assistance pro-grams.

Committee member Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-DC, was blunt when she questioned one company executive who was testify-ing. “In other words, in-stead of keeping the price so it could be purchased by patients and hospitals, you went to patient assis-tance programs to try to obscure the price.” Hol-

mes Norton got the point: No matter the kind of as-sistance program, the un-derlying price of the drug remains high.

Patient assistance pro-grams are nothing new. Several years ago I sat next to a drug company executive at a dinner and asked him why his com-pany made it so hard for poor people to qualify for assistance. (The require-ments can be diffi cult to meet.) He replied that if the company were more generous, it would hurt the bottom line.

The bottom line is still all-important, but to-day drug makers have a PR problem. They need to appear more benevo-lent. There’s genuine public backlash against their companies’ pricing strategies, and Congress is asking questions. By becoming more “patient centric,” a word they use to describe their market-ing path, they look like good guys while keeping

prices high and profi ts up. Drug companies have

another problem patient assistance programs aim to solve. Large numbers of patients are not taking their medicines as their doctors ordered, either because they can’t aff ord them or because the med-icines make them sick. No matter the reason, it translates into lost sales.

Stats from the IMS In-stitute for Healthcare In-formatics show that only 25 percent of patients with drug deductibles will most likely still be taking their brand name drugs after six months com-pared with 40 percent in plans without such de-ductibles.

The rate at which pa-tients don’t pick up with meds at the pharmacy is 60 percent higher for new patients with brand drug prescriptions and drug deductibles than those who don’t have drug de-ductibles. “If patients walk away, they frequent-

ly don’t come back with an alternative prescrip-tion,” says Pollpeter.

According to Matt Lam-kin, an assistant professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law who stud-ies this issue, drug compa-nies believe “they are leav-ing billions on the table” when patients don’t take their pills. Trying to help more people stay on their meds “reframes the goal of boosting sales as a goal of public service,” he told the health news site STAT.

Transforming drug companies from bad guys to good guys with the magic of PR will help some patients get cheaper medicines and no doubt boost sales. It will do little to get us out of the big-picture jam. Drug prices are still too high and out of reach for too many Americans.

What strategies do you use to pay for costly pre-scriptions? Write to Tru-dy at [email protected].

Drug coupons mask the real price of medicinesBY TRUDY LIEBERMAN

Rural Health News Service

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 in 3 patients who needs a kidney transplant is especially hard to match, and new research sug-gests a painstaking treatment to help those patients tolerate an incompatible organ is worth considering.

More hospitals have begun off ering so-called desensitiza-tion therapy to help high-risk patients who have a willing but non-matching living donor receive an organ their bodies otherwise would reject. Some specialty centers have reported success but it wasn’t clear how well the approach would work when used widely.

Now an analysis from nearly two dozen transplant centers found patients who took that chance had better long-term survival than those who stayed on the waiting list, whether or not they eventually found a match from a deceased donor.

“Desensitization is still not for every transplant center,” said senior author Dr. Dorry Segev of Johns Hopkins Uni-versity, which helped pioneer incompatible transplants. But the fi ndings show “you don’t need a compatible living donor to make a transplant happen today — you just need a living donor.”

The study is published in Thursday’s New England Jour-nal of Medicine.

More than 100,000 people are on the national waiting list for a kidney but just 17,878 transplants were performed last year, according to the Unit-ed Network for Organ Sharing. More than 12,000 were kidneys from someone who just died; the rest come from living do-nors, considered the optimal kind.

Finding a match goes beyond

blood and tissue type. Some patients are “sensitized,” their bodies abnormally primed with antibodies that can immedi-ately attack many donated kid-neys. Pregnancy, blood transfu-sions, a previous transplant and longer time spent on dialysis all can trigger production of those antibodies.

Those patients sometimes achieve transplants through kid-ney exchanges that widen the organ pool by mixing up pairs of would-be donors and their re-cipients for better matches.

The other option is desensi-tization: Patients take potent immune-targeting medications and have their blood fi ltered to remove specifi c antibodies that would target their living donor’s kidney. If they had to wait for a deceased donor, the antibodies could form again. Infection is a risk, and desensitization adds thousands of dollars to a trans-plant’s cost.

Segev’s team analyzed re-cords of 1,025 patients around the country who received in-compatible living-donor trans-plants. They were compared to groups of similarly ill patients who remained on the waiting list in hopes of a match from a deceased donor.

After eight years, 76 percent of the desensitized patients who got incompatible transplants were still alive, he reported. That compares with 63 per-cent survival in a group where just under half of those waiting eventually got a deceased-do-nor transplant — and 44 per-cent survival among those still waiting without a transplant.

The study shows the tech-nique “may save lives and may be cost-eff ective over time,” Dr. Lionel Rostaing, a kidney specialist at France’s Toulouse University, wrote in an accom-panying editorial.

Study backs new methodfor matching kidneys

BY LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON — The bath-room scale may show a good number but how much of that weight is fat, not muscle? New studies are adding to the evi-dence that the scale doesn’t al-ways tell the whole story when it comes to weight-related health risks.

Keeping body fat low is more important for healthy aging than a low overall weight, re-searchers reported Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. A separate study found young people who aren’t physically fi t are at greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes later in life even if their weight is healthy.

Here are some things to know:

Isn’t BMI important?

Yes. Body mass index, or BMI, is a measure of a per-son’s weight compared to their height. For many people, that’s plenty of evidence to tell if they’re overweight or obese and thus at increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and premature death. Gener-ally, a BMI of 25 and above indicates overweight, while 30 and above indicates obe-sity. Someone who is 5 feet, 9 inches would hit that obesity threshold at 203 pounds.

Not a perfect measure

Some people have a high BMI because they’re more muscular. More common are people who harbor too little muscle and too much body fat even if their BMI is in the nor-mal range.

Body composition shifts as we age, with the proportion of muscle decreasing and the proportion of body fat increas-ing. That slows metabolism, making it easier to put on pounds in middle age even if

people haven’t changed how they eat or how much they ex-ercise.

Fat findings

Dr. William Leslie of the University of Manitoba won-dered if poorly measured body fat might help explain the controversial “obesity para-dox,” where some studies have suggested that being moder-ately overweight later in life might be good for survival. He tracked 50,000 middle-aged and older Canadians, mostly women, who’d undergone screening for bone-thinning osteoporosis. Those screening X-rays — known as DXA for dual-energy X-ray absorpti-ometry — measure bone and also allow an estimation of fat.

A higher percent of body fat, independent of the person’s BMI, was linked to reduced survival, Leslie reported. Risk began rising when body fat was in the range of 36 percent to 38 percent. Interestingly, being underweight also was linked to reduced survival, possibly re-fl ecting age-related frailty.

“It’s not just the amount of body you’ve got, but what you’re actually made of,” Les-lie concludes.

And fitness time counts

A high BMI is one of the biggest risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. But a second study reported in Annals Monday suggests people can still be at risk if they’re skinny but not physically fi t.

Researchers in Sweden and New York checked records of about 1.5 million Swedish men who at age 18 received medical exams for mandatory military service, and tracked how many developed diabetes many years later.

Low muscle strength and low aerobic fi tness each were associated with an increased

diabetes risk — regardless of whether the men were normal weight or overweight. Scoring low on both added to the risk.

What do the findings mean?

For diabetes, “normal-weight persons may not re-ceive appropriate lifestyle counseling if they are sed-entary or unfi t because of their lower perceived risk,” wrote obesity specialist Peter Katzmarzyk of Louisiana’s Pennington Biomedical Re-search Center, who wasn’t in-volved in the study.

That study also suggests fi t-ness in adolescence can have long-lasting impact.

And Leslie said doctors should consider patients’ body composition, not just weight, in assessing their health.

How to tell

Most people won’t benefi t from a DXA scan for fat, said Dympna Gallagher, who di-rects the human body compo-sition laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center and thinks those tests are more for research than real life.

Other methods for deter-mining body composition range from measuring skin-fold thickness to “bioimped-ance” scales that use a tiny electrical current, but all have varying degrees of error, Gal-lagher said. Plus, normal body fat varies with age and there’s no agreement on the best cut-off s for health, she said.

Her recommendation: Check your waistline, even if your BMI is normal. Abdomi-nal fat, an apple-shaped fi gure, is riskier than fat that settles on the hips. The government says men are at increased risk of health problems if their waist circumference is larger than 40 inches, and 35 inches for women.

CHICAGO — Two new stud-ies bolster evidence that feeding babies peanuts or other allergy-inducing foods is more likely to protect them than to cause problems.

One study, a follow-up to landmark research published last year, suggests that the ear-ly prevention strategy leads to persistent, long-lasting results in children at risk for food aller-gies. It found that allergy protec-tion lasted at least through age 5 and didn’t wane even when kids stopped eating peanut-contain-ing foods for a year.

That means at-risk kids who don’t want to eat peanut butter on a weekly basis can safely take a break, at least for a year.

The second new study sug-gests that the early strategy could also work with eggs, an-

other food that can cause aller-gies in young children. It found that allergies to peanuts and eggs were less common in young children who started eating those foods at 3 months of age than in kids who as infants re-ceived only breast milk.

Food allergies are common, potentially serious and some-times deadly. They’re becom-ing more prevalent in children in many countries, aff ecting up to 8 percent of kids under age 3. About 2 percent of U.S. kids have peanut allergies.

The results from last year’s study prompted a sea change in experts’ approach to preventing these allergies. It was the fi rst “to show that early introduc-tion of peanut can prevent the development of allergy to it,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in

a statement.It also led to new draft guid-

ance issued Friday by a panel convened by Fauci’s agency. The recommendations include giving at-risk kids peanut-con-taining food as early as 4- to 6-months of age. Infants at risk are those with severe skin rashes or egg allergies; allergy tests are recommended beforehand.

The agency will issue fi nal guidelines after a 45-day com-ment period. The draft guidance echoes advice issued last year by the American Academy of Pedi-atrics in response to the study.

That study involved more than 600 at-risk British infants. By age 5, peanut allergies were much less common in children who had started eating peanut-based foods before age 1, usually peanut butter or a peanut-based snack, than among children who’d been told to abstain.

The follow-up involved most of those children. After a year off , an additional three kids in both groups tested positive for peanut allergies. The allergies remained much less common in the early peanut eaters — aff ect-ing just under 5 percent of those kids versus almost 19 percent of the others.

The results suggest that early introduction of allergy-inducing foods results in “true tolerance” in at-risk kids, said Dr. Stacy Dorris, an allergist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She was not involved in the research.

The second study involved 1,300 study breast-fed British children randomly assigned to get several types of allergy-in-ducing foods or just breast milk.

The strongest results were with peanut-based food and eggs but there was one hitch. About 60 percent of the early

eaters didn’t stick to the pro-gram. Some may have had im-mature swallowing skills; some doctors don’t recommend start-ing solid foods until around 4 months of age. But it’s possible some parents stopped giving solid foods because they noticed allergy-like symptoms, which may have included false alarms, said Dr. Gideon Lack, a King’s College London researcher who led all three studies.

The results suggest feeding these foods to at-risk infants is safe, but often not feasible in infants so young, said Dr. Gary Wong, a Hong Kong pediatri-cian. Still, Wong said the new studies confi rm that the old ap-proach to preventing food aller-gies is probably obsolete.

“Evidence is really building up. It appears early introduction would be better off than avoid-ance,” said Wong.

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Overall fitness, body fat key for healthBY LAURAN NEERGAARD

AP Medical Writer

BY LINDSEY TANNERAP Medical Writer

4B • Sunday, March 13, 2016 • Daily Corinthian

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NEW YORK — Chris Cornell remembers the challenges that he and members of Audioslave faced when they were planning a free concert in Havana a decade ago, and he’s encouraging the Rolling Stones to tell their musician-friends to per-form in the country that once persecuted young people for listening to rock music after the band visits later this month.

In 2005, Cornell, Tom Morello, Tim Commer-ford and Brad Wilk fl ew to Cuba in the Miami Heats’ jet and fi lmed their visit and outdoor concert in Havana for a DVD, all while Fidel Castro still ruled.

Cornell said the band spent $1 million to fund the concert at the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal.

“It wasn’t easy ... but we

fi gured out how to do it,” he said.

On March 25, the Roll-ing Stones will perform a free show at Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva, be-coming the most famous act to play Cuba since its 1959 revolution.

“What about all these other enormous bands?” Cornell said of encourag-ing other acts to perform.

“Particularly, I was thinking British bands, Australian bands that have sold millions and millions of records that can aff ord to go play for this audience — how come no one has come? And I sort of halfway as-sumed because we did it, in probably the most dif-fi cult way possible, people would follow, and I’m kind of surprised that it’s taken this long, but I am superhappy that the Roll-ing Stones are doing it!”

Cornell added that Cu-

ban fans are “amazing people and they deserve to see every rock band that you or I or anybody else gets to see.”

The Cuban government has eased restrictions on the arts and recently has allowed more large gath-erings not organized by the state. Colombian sing-er Juanes drew more than a million people to a show titled “Peace without Frontiers” in Havana’s Revolution Plaza in 2009,

and Diplo, the Grammy-winning electronic DJ-producer, recently per-formed in Havana with his group, Major Lazer.

The Stones, who will perform three days after President Barack Obama visits Havana, are expect-ed to draw a large crowd.

“I think that they’re just going to have a fantas-tic time and they should just use up every second that they’re there and not sleep and just be there

with the Cuban people,” Cornell said. “I also think that upon their exit they need to ... tell all their friends in the music busi-ness and all their friends who are in bands who can aff ord to follow suit, and go right in and play music for the Cuban people.”

The Soundgarden frontman said that plan-ning the 2005 show — with the help of the U.S. State Department — was trying and unpredictable. He said that although the U.S. was OK with the band’s fi ve-day visit, “Fi-del Castro hadn’t decided if it was going to work for him or not, and they were reviewing our music and the tone of it.”

“From the American side, there was defi nitely a lot of caution. They told us that our rooms would likely be bugged, they told us we would likely be followed ... (and) not to

talk to any strangers,” he added.

Cornell and his former bandmates visited art gal-leries, radio stations, the-aters and music schools. A government offi cial ac-companied the band and crew as they shot footage for the live concert and documentary, “Live in Cuba.”

“She was in charge of making sure it was OK, ev-erything we did, and if she said ‘yes’ the camera was on,” he said. “We didn’t try to sneak anything.”

Cornell, 51, said he wants to go back to Cuba and tried to plan another concert fi ve years ago, but it didn’t pan out.

“I really didn’t think the same after I left,” he said. “I really understood what music is and how it’s that language that everybody speaks no matter what other audible language you speak.”

Singer recalls Cuba show, gives advice to Stones“I really didn’t think the same

after I left (Cuba). I really understood what music is and

how it’s that language that everybody speaks no matter what other audible language

you speak.”

Chris CornellLead singer, Audioslave

BY MESFIN FEKADUAP Music Writer

NEW YORK — It doesn’t take a high-tech headset to see that virtual real-ity is the rage. It’s being touted as the future for all things sensory, from games to fi lm and televi-sion, from storytelling to visual art.

My response as a tele-vision critic — and as a dyed-in-the-wool TV viewer — is to ask what this all means to me.

I am not typically an early adopter. My beat as a journalist isn’t new-fangled gadgetry. I’m a TV-centric content guy, scrambling to keep up with the torrent of pro-grams that, however more plentiful and varied their providers, still con-tain themselves in two di-mensions.

Even so, VR seems a force to be reckoned with. So I grabbed a Samsung Gear VR headset for a maiden voyage.

Virtual reality is the link to an alternate reali-ty, and instantly I’m all in! For example, I fi nd that a wooded, birds-twittering forest on a sunny day is a far more agreeable envi-ronment than my stuff y apartment. And that’s even before Reese With-erspoon appears over a rise and, puffi ng with her backpack, rests herself on a nearby rock.

In character from her 2014 fi lm “Wild,” she is bedraggled but radiant and seems close enough and real enough to both-er for a sip of her wa-ter. Alas, all too quickly Witherspoon resumes her solitary trek, vanish-ing through trees in the opposite direction too ab-sorbed in her odyssey to have paid me any notice.

But a dinosaur does. With “Jurassic World: Apatosaurus,” I am in a diff erent kind of for-est, stationed a few yards from a colossal dozing reptile sprawled on the forest fl oor. Then, dur-

ing this two-minute in-terlude, it blinks awake, clambers to its feet, spots me and, staring me right in the face, takes a curious sniff .

These adventures pale in wonder to Cirque du Soleil’s “Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities,” which sweeps me into a won-drous spectacle. Beautiful and dazzlingly weird, the dozen-and-a-half per-formers cavort on a stage where they accept me as a spellbound intruder. They put on quite a show.

Or, maybe more accu-rately, many shows. As I share their 360-degree space, where and what I look at is up to me. I am free to bob and swivel my head to fi x my gaze on anyone or anything. I lit-erally get to call the shots. And after a half-dozen viewings, with my atten-tion leap-frogging from one direction to another, I still can’t take it all in.

If joining a famed en-tertainment troupe is re-markable, an even bigger blast is gaining entry to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

Thanks to a VR reimag-ining of Van Gogh’s 1888 “The Night Cafe,” I can take my place within the brushstrokes of the Café de la Gare and its scatter-ing of tables and chairs, billiard table and lone pa-tron come to life.

But there’s more to explore than the single room the painting has immortalized. Through a doorway in the corner, I can stray into a never-before-seen side room, where a pianist plays a melancholy tune and — lo and behold — Vincent himself sits listening while meditatively smok-ing his pipe.

Unlike VR video cap-tured with stationary 360-degree cameras, this Van Gogh tribute is more like a video game, letting me interact more authentically with my surroundings. I can step

up to a table or a person, but no farther, as if these objects were really in my way. And unlike many VR experiences, this one is open-ended. I am free to linger in this otherworld-ly, painterly realm to my heart’s content. At this cafe, there is no last call. And I am in no hurry to leave.

Why would I? Despite the possible onset of a headache or queasiness (nothing comes without a price, including this technology in its infant stage), VR is a habitat of countless possibilities, an exhilarating refuge that yanks me from the side-lines and thrusts me into the action.

Could VR ever become the default mode for its audience? I can imagine a time when immersion in VR might be as normal a state of self-imposed isolation as earbuds pip-ing music from an iPod is now.

But more pertinent to me, a television guy, is this question: As VR evolves as technology and art, what will be its impact on the act of vegging out with old-fashioned TV?

Television has long reigned as the province of the couch potato, view-ing passively while free to do other things: answer email, fi x a snack or just nurse a beer. But lost in VR’s altered state, I could easily miss my mouth when trying to take a sip. VR demands full commit-ment.

Could be, as VR comes of age, television will be-come not quite old hat, but instead what radio became with TV’s birth: an atmospheric add-on, just one part of the every-day sensory mosaic. Simi-larly, TV, with its grip on public consciousness downgraded, might be recast as an omnipresent supplement to real life.

Not supplementing, but supplanting real life: That’s what VR aims to do.

Never tried virtual reality? Writer describes experience

BY FRAZIER MOOREAP Television Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Aubrie Sellers’ debut al-bum, “New City Blues,” introduces her as a musi-cian that seamlessly links the indie rock enclave of East Nashville to her country roots in Texas. It’s a sound she’s branded “garage country,” a blend of fuzzed-out electric gui-tars, high-energy rock ‘n’ roll and Sellers’ country vocals and songwriting.

“I was born in Nash-ville, but my whole fam-ily is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual

citizen,” said the 24-year-old Sellers, who will play South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on Friday.

Onstage, her strong and steady voice, with just the slightest twang, goes toe-to-toe with lay-ers of reverb and thump-ing drums. But off stage, Sellers says she was shy and didn’t start singing in front of others until she was well into her teens.

“There’s a lot to live up to when three of your par-ents are successful in the music business,” she said.

Her mother is Gram-my-winning country

singer-songwriter Lee Ann Womack. Her father, Jason Sellers, is a country songwriter who has co-written singles for Jason Aldean, Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts and Thomp-son Square. Her stepfa-ther, Frank Liddell, is an award-winning producer who helped Miranda Lambert become a star.

She wrote or co-wrote all 14 songs on the album, which range from the headbanger “Paper Doll” to the dark and moody “Liar Liar,” which she wrote with singer-song-writer Brandy Clark.

Aubrie Sellers debuts gritty new soundBY KRISTIN M. HALL

Associated Press

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AUTO REPAIR0844

We’ll Put Collision Damage in Reverse

Let our certifi ed technicians quickly restore your vehicle to pre-accident condition with a satisfaction guarantee.

State-of-the-Art Frame StraighteningDents, Dings & Scratches RemovedCustom Color Matching Service

We’ll Deal Directly With Your Insurance CompanyNo up-front payments.No hassle. No paperwork.

Free Estimates25 Years professional service experienceRental cars available

Corinth Collision Center810 S. Parkway

662.594.1023

TAX GUIDE 2016Holder Accounting Firm

1407-A Harper RoadCorinth, MS 38834

Kellie Holder, Owner

Our staff is ready to help you.

Open year-round.Thank you for your

business and loyalty.Telephone: 662-286-9946

Fax: 662-286-2713

ADVERTISE YOUR

TAX SERVICEHERE FOR

$95 A MONTH

CALL 287-6111FOR MORE DETAILS

ADVERTISE YOUR

TAX SERVICEHERE FOR

$95 A MONTH

CALL 287-6111FOR MORE DETAILS

Jackson Hewitt Income Tax

WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH

ANY OF THE WALMART

JACKSON HEWITT’S

Corinth 662-286-10402003 Hwy 72 E

Booneville662-728-1080

508 W Chambers DriveOld highway 4

Ripley662-512-5829

1906B City Avenue N

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GUARANTEEDGUARANTEEDAuto SalesAuto SalesAdvertise your CAR, TRUCK, SUV, BOAT, TRACTOR, MOTORCYCLE, RV & ATV here for $39.95 UNTIL SOLD! Ad should include photo, description and price. PLEASE NO

DEALERS & NON-TRANSFERABLE! NO REFUNDS.Single item only. Payment in advance. Call 287-6147 to place your ad.

134,514 miles$13,900 OBO

Just serviced and ready for the road.

2004 Hummer H2

Call @ 662-664-0210

2006 Jeep Liberty

New Tires100K Miles

Never BeeWrecked

$8200 OBO662-664-0357

REDUCEDREDUCED

$5900.00 OBO

2012 JeepWrangler 4WD

00 Miles, Red Garage Kept, it has

been babied. All maintenance

records available. Call or Text:

662-594-5830

832Motorcycles/ATV’S

1990 Harley Davidson

Custom Soft-Tail$9000

1949 Harley Davidson Panhead

$9000 OBO

662-808-2994

1987 FORD 250 DIESELUTILITY SERVICE TRUCK

$4000. IN GOOD CONDITION731-645-8339 OR

731-453-5239

1500 Goldwing

Honda 78,000 original miles,new tires.

$4500662-284-9487

2003 100 yr. Anniversary 883 Harley Sportster,

color: blue, 14,500 miles, $4,900. OBO. Just serviced, good or new tires, brakes, ready for the road.

Call @662-664-0210

2002 Harley Fat Boy,color: purple, 27,965 miles, $7,900 OBO

Just serviced, good or new tires, brakes, ready for the road.

Call @ 662-664-0210

2012 BansheeBighorn

Side-by-Side4 X 4 w/ WenchAM/FM w/ CD

$7200.00 OBO

662-664-0357

2003 Mustang GTSVT Cobra CloneTuned 4.6 Engine

5 SpeedLowered

4:10 GearsAll Power & Air

$6500.662-415-0149

2010 Chevy Equinox LS

130K Miles, Fully Loaded

GREAT Condition!

$10,500662-415-8343 or 415-7205

2005 White Silverado

TruckExtended Cab with Bed Cover

New Michelin Tires

Excellent Condition

462-7421808-9114

95’CHEVYASTRO

Cargo VanGood, Sound

Van

$2700872-3070

06 Chevy Trailblazer

Powereverything!Good heat

and Air$3,250 OBO

662-319-7145

2008 Harley Davidson

Electra Glide ClassicBlack w/lots of

Chrome21,600 miles

$12,500662-286-6750

2006 YAMAHA 1700GREAT CONDITION!

APPROX. 26,000 MILES

$4350(NO TRADES)

662-665-0930662-284-8251

1999 Harley Classic Touring, loaded, color:

blue, lots of extras. 70,645 Hwy. miles,

$7,900.00 OBO Just serviced, good or new tires, brakes, ready for

the road. Call @ 662-664-0210

1976 F115428 Motor

Very Fast

$3,500.

662-808-9313662-415-5071

1997 Mustang

BlackLike new on the inside and out.

Runs Great, good tires, 114K miles

$4,000.00662-664-0357

GT

2006 Express 25006.6 Diesel Runs

and drives great. 172,000 miles. A/C

and new tiresWell serviced!

$8500.00662-594-1860

1994 Nissan Quest New Lifters,Cam, Head,

Struts and Shocks.$2000.

Call 603-9446

1998 PORSCHE BOXSTER6 cyl., 5 speed

ConvertibleLeather Seats

All OriginalElectric Windows

& Seats88,000 miles

$10,000.00 OBO212-4882

For Sale or Trade1978 Mercedes

6.9 Motor 135,000 miles.Only made 450 that year.

$2,500. OBOSelling due to health

reasons.Harry Dixon

286-6359

2011 GMC CANYON-RED

REG. CAB, 2 WD

78,380 MILES

$11,900 OBO

662-462-7790

1989 Mercedes Benz300 CE

145K miles, Rear bucket seats,

Champagne color, Excellent Condition.

Diligently maintained. $5000.00

662-415-2657$4000.00

1946 Willys Jeep

Completely Restored

$5000.

287-6993

1995 Chevrolet Silverado Z71

Regular Cab Short Wheel Base, Red35,000 miles on rebuilt engine,

transmission, and rear differentialSuper clean interior and exterior, only

minor cosmetic fl awsComes with extra set of wheels and tires

$4,900 or best offerContact Joe anytime after 5:00 pm

(662) 415-2509

2003 FORD TAURUS

142100 MILES$2800.00

662-665-5720

2002 Dodge 3500

5.9 Diesel. 6 speed. 391,000 miles.$5,800

(901) 409-0427

2013 Arctic Cat

308 miles4 Seater w/seat beltsPhone charger outlet

Driven approx. 10 times

Excellent ConditionWench (front bumper)

(662)279-0801

2009 Pontiac G6

Super Nice, Really Clean,

Oil changed regularly, Good cold air and has

good tires. 160k

Asking $5400. OBO CALL/TEXT DANIEL @

662-319-7145

2004 Cadillac Seville SLSLoaded, leather, sunroof, chrome

wheels.

89,000 Miles$5500.

Call 662-603-1290

2000 POLARIS MAGNUM 325 4X4

4 WHEELER2nd Owner, Great

ConditionHas a Mossy Oak

Cover over the body put on when it was

bought new. Everything Works. Used for

hunting & around the house, Never for mud

riding. $1500 Firm.

If I don’t answer, text me and I will contact you. 662-415-7154

YAMAHA V STAR 650

22,883 MILES$2,650.00

665-1288

SOLD SOLD

2012 Yamaha 230 Dirt Bike

Great Condition.

$2800.00Call

662.415.1173

REDUCEDREDUCED

1950 Buick 78,400 miles$4200.00 or

TradeAll Original

662-415-3408

1985 Mustang GT, HO, 5 Speed,

Convertible, Mileage 7500 !! Second owner

Last year of carburetor, All original.

$16,500

662-287-4848

1998 CHEVYCUSTOM VAN

136,200 mi.Well Maintained

Looks & Runs Great

$6,500.00662-415-9062

CAR HAULERTRAILER

6 Ft 6 in. wide,13 Ft 6 in. long,Electric Brakes

& LightsGOOD

CONDITION$1,250.00415-1281

HD 1200 SPORTSTER CUSTOM XL

LOTS OF EXTRASGREAT CONDITION

39K MILES$5,200.00

662-643-8382

$7500.00

SOLD SOLD

$5,000

$3,900.00

$5900.00 OBO

2002 FORD ESCORT ZX2

Very Dependable

Car

Call for information.

662-212-4437

2006 Harley Davidson Street Glide

103 Screaming Eagle Engine9700 Actual Miles-Showroom Condition-Fully Chromed and

Customized-RinehartTrue Dual Exhaust-Stage1

Breather Kit-10K Mile Full Factory Service Just Compled-

$14,000.00 Firm-662-212-0362

$8,90000

1970 MERCURYCOUGAR

Excel. Cond. Inside & OutAll Original

662-664-0357Automobile for sale

2011 TOYOTA AVALON

Blizzard White, Tan Leather Interior, Fully

Loaded, 66K miles,

$19,500Excellent Condition Call:731-610-6153

2001 Heritage Softail

LIKE NEW9K Miles

25,000 InvestedAsking 8K

Serviced by H/D Bumpas

731-645-3012

2000 Harley Davidson Road

King Classic

20,000 miles,One Owner,Garage kept.$8,500.00

662-287-2333Leave Message

1964 F100 SHORT BED

completely refurbished & recovered seat, new brakes, NOS starter,

new $125 battery. 6cyl, 3spd-

Walnut $1850.00,

750-8526

1998 Cadillac DeVilleTan Leather InteriorSunroof, green color

99,000 miles - needs motor

$1,100.00(662) 603-2635

212-2431

2001 LINCOLNTOWNCAR

GREAT CONDITION174,000 MILES

$6,000.00CALL 9AM-5PM M-F

662-415-3658

2012 Subaru Legacy$10,900

Excellent condition, One owner, Must sell!

Call662-284-8365

2002 Chevy Silverado Z712 Person Owner

Heat & Air, 4 Wheel Drive, Works Great

New Tires, 5.1 EngineClub Cab and Aluminum

Tool BoxAM/FM Radio, Cassette &

CD PlayerPewter in Color

Great Truck for $7000.00

662-287-8547662-664-3179

HONDA VAN2005 TOURING

PACKAGE

White with tan leather

DVD, Loaded180K miles,$8000 OBO

662-284-5600

2009 HONDA RUBICON

Rode 90 hoursONE OWNER662-554-2363

$3,800.00

REDU

CED

REDU

CED

$7,900

SOLD SOLD

SOLDSOLD

2012 Yamaha 230 Dirt Bike

Great Condition.

$2800.00Call

662.415.1173

REDUCEDREDUCED

2014 Toyota Corolla S 1.8 LOW MILES!!

$15,999 (Corinth Ms)

Silver 2014 Toyota corolla

S 1.8: Back-up camera;

Xenon Headlights;

Automatic CVT gearbox;

Paddle Shift; 25k miles

LOW MILES !!!

Up to 37mpg; One owner!

Perfect condition!

(205-790-3939)

SOLD SOLD

SOLD SOLD

SOLD SOLD

We’ll Put Collision Damage in Reverse

Let our certifi ed technicians quickly restore your vehicle to pre-accident condition with a satisfaction guarantee.

State-of-the-Art Frame StraighteningDents, Dings & Scratches RemovedCustom Color Matching Service

We’ll Deal Directly With Your Insurance CompanyNo up-front payments.No hassle. No paperwork.

Free Estimates25 Years professional service experienceRental cars available

Corinth Collision Center810 S. Parkway

662.594.1023

MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT0675

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

HOMES FOR SALE0710

HUDPUBLISHER’S

NOTICEAll real estate adver-tised herein is subjectto the Federal FairHousing Act whichmakes it illegal to ad-vertise any preference,limitation, or discrimi-nation based on race,color, religion, sex,handicap, familial statusor national origin, or in-tention to make anysuch preferences, limi-

MISC. ITEMS FOR SALE0563

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

HOMES FOR RENT0620

MISC. ITEMS FOR SALE0563

REVERSE YOURAD FOR $1.00

EXTRACall 662-287-6111

for details.

MISC. ITEMS FOR SALE0563PETS

CATS/DOGS/PETS0320

FARM

FEED/FERTILIZER0430

MERCHANDISE


HEALTH CARE

Excellent Compensation & Benefi ts!

The following positions are available:NEW RN PAY RATES!

Come in and Inquire about our new RN Wage Scale!

3p-11p, 11p-7a Weekday RN Supervisors

7a-7p, 7p-7a Weekend RN Supervisors

Staff Development Coordinator, RN FT/PT/PRN LPNsFT/PT/PRN CNAs

Cornerstone Health & Rehab of Corinth

302 Alcorn DriveCorinth MS 38834

Apply Online at www.covenantdove.com

E-Mail Resumes to [email protected]

Equal Opportunity Employer

“Serving the Needs of the Community, One Patient at a Time”

Cornerstone Health &Rehab of Corinth

& Business– Run Your Ad On This Page For $165 Mo. –

Harper Square Mall. Corinth, MS 38834

GRISHAM INSURANCE662-286-9835662-415-2363

Final Expense Life Insurance

Long Term Care Medicare Supplements

Part D Prescription Plan

Are you paying too much for your Medicare Supplement?

“ I will always try to help you”

FiFinall EExpense

CHRIS GRISHAMCHRIS GRISHAM

BUSINESS & SERVICE GUIDE

40 Years

Loans $20-$20,000

TORNADO SHELTERS

ROOFTUNE-UP

Complete Package$295.00

1. Clean off Entire Roof2. Thorough Inspection (roof and fascias)3. Replace any missing shingles4. Seal around pipes, chimneys, and sky lights5. Locate and Stop Leaks6. Clean out gutters

662-665-1133

We can also install H.D. leaf-guards. JIMCO is your full

service roofi ng company with 38 years experience and 1

Million in liability insurance.

Bill PhillipsSand & Gravel1299 Hwy 2 West

(Marshtown)Structure demolition & RemovalCrushed Lime Stone (any size)

Iuka Road GravelWashed gravel

Pea gravelFill sand

Masonry and sandBlack Magic mulch

Natural Brown mulchTop Soil

“Let us help with your project”“Large or Small”

Bill Jr., 284-6061G.E. 284-9209

FULL SERVICE LAWN SPECIALIST

• MOWING• MOWING• TRIMMING• TRIMMING• SMALL TREE &• SMALL TREE & BRUSH CLEANUP BRUSH CLEANUP & MORE & MORE

• QUICK SERVICE• QUICK SERVICE• FREE ESTIMATES• FREE ESTIMATES

MARTIN MARTIN LAWN SERVICELAWN SERVICELOCALLY OWNED & OPER ATEDLOCALLY OWNED & OPER ATED

662-416-9296662-416-9296

SPRING CLEAN UPSPRING CLEAN UPCREPE MYRTLE PRUNINGCREPE MYRTLE PRUNING

Hat Lady

Mary CoatsThank you for

15 years!!Call me with your

vehicle needs, new, certifi ed,

and pre-owned.Come by, text or

call today!!!Long Lewis Ford

Lincoln of Corinth(662)664-0229 Cell / (662)287-3184 Offi [email protected]

STEVENS LAWN MOWING &

MAINTENANCE, LLCLicensed &

Fully InsuredFREE ESTIMATES

662-603-7751

Rhonda & Bubba StevensOwners

Buddy Ayers Rock & Sand

• Crusher Run• Driveway Slag• Fill Sand • Top Soil• Rip-Rap

662-286-9158or 662-287-2296

We also do:• Dozer• Back-Hoe• Track-hoe• Demolition• Crane Service

We Haul:We Haul:

GENERAL HELP0232

CDL A TRAINING$500 - $1,000 INCENTIVE BONUS

NO OUT OF POCKET TUITION COST!

GET YOUR CDL IN 22 DAYSPAID TRAINING AFTER GRADUATION

ACCOMMODATIONS PROVIDEDIF YOU LIVE 50+ MILES FROM

JACKSON

6 DAY REFRESHER COURSES AVAIL.MINIMUM 21 YEARS OF AGE

844-689-3747 EOEWWW.KLLMDRIVINGACADEMY.COM

GENERAL HELP0232

935 Wayne Road, Savannah, TN 38372

Charge Nurse (RN)HMC Health & Rehab (Nursing Home) is seeking qualifi ed candidates for a Registered Nurse(Charge Nurse). The RN provides direct nursing care to the residents and their families in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the Nursing Home. Responsible for the direct supervision and management of patient care activities. The tasks and responsibilities include: Assesses, plans and implements care and interventions in addressing the problems of the resident. Carries out physician orders. Assists physician during examination, treatment, and procedures. Administers prescribed medications, provides wound care, monitors vital signs. Provides nutritional assessment and care to the resident. Promotes family centered nursing care for resident. Serves as the primary coordinator of all disciplines for well coordinated resident care. Monitors, records and communicates resident condition as appropriate .Instructs and educates residents and families. Works along with the interdisciplinary team in discharge planning. Provides age and culturally appropriate care. Maintains a safe and therapeutic environment for at risk residents.MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS: Current TN licensure as an RN. Current certifi cation as a BLS Healthcare Provider . Must have at least one year of long term care and charge nurse experience. Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing. Customer service abilities including effective communication & listening skills. Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment. Ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, lifting of patients and/or equipment up to 50 pounds.

Please apply online at www.hardinmedicalcenter.org or apply in person at Hardin Medical Center Human Resources Department.

HMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

GENERAL HELP0232

662-257-9370

GENERAL HELP0232

ARE YOU AN ENTREPRENEUR?ARE YOU A SELF-STARTER?

Outside Sales Rep / MerchandiserIndependently Owned Distributor Route Sales Position in the Corinth, MS / Selmer, TN area.

6 Month repurchase gurantee. Generates great profit after expenses. Equity ownership. Protected territory. Vacation & Insurance Options available. Call for appointment! • 662-396-6488.

Independently Owned Distributor Route Sales Position in the Corinth, MS / Selmer, TN area. 6 Month

repurchase guarantee . Generates great profi t after expenses Equity ownership. Protected territory.

Vacation & Insurance Options available.

MEDICAL/DENTAL0220

FULL TIMENURSE POSITIONS AVAILABLE

SIGN ON BONUSBLUE CROSS/ BLUE SHIELD

INSURANCE APPLY IN PERSON OR ONLINE AT

TISHOMINGO MANOR230 KAKI STREET IUKA, MS 38852

662-423-9112www.tishomingomanor.com

MEDICAL/DENTAL0220

MS CARE CENTER

is looking for

Certifi ed CNA’sfor all shifts

Dietary, LPN, PRNLaundry Staff

Please apply in person. 3701 Joanne Dr. • Corinth

Mon. – Fri 8 – 4:30E.O.E.

LOST0142

CHLOE IS LOSTREWARD IF FOUND

901-828-9460

MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE0741

TRANSPORTATION

FINANCIAL

LEGALS

HOME SERVICE DIRECTORY

LAWN/LANDSCAPE/TREE SVC

MANUFACTURED HOMES

STORAGE, INDOOR/OUTDOOR

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE DIRECTORY

tations or discrimina-tion.State laws forbid dis-crimination in the sale,rental, or advertising ofreal estate based onfactors in addition tothose protected underfederal law. We will notknowingly accept anyadvertising for real es-tate which is in viola-tion of the law. All per-sons are hereby in-formed that all dwell-ings advertised areavailable on an equalopportunity basis.

HOMES FOR SALE0710

662-287-6111

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CLASSIFIEDS!

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