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She can’t get aid without a Social Security number By CHALLEN STEPHENS Times Staff Writer [email protected] At the age of 15 and five months pregnant, Katarina walked across the U.S. border and into the Arizona desert. Seven years later, she rests in a bed in Huntsville Hospital, her hair thinning from a first cycle of chemotherapy. Her doctors say she could die soon for want of a valid Social Security number. Without that number, said Dr. Richard Gualtieri, her on- cologist at Huntsville Hospital: “You don’t have any govern- ment services. You can’t fit into an indigent program. You’re stuck.” “These individuals are illegal aliens,” he said, “but, at the same time, they are humans.” The problem isn’t emer- gency care. Huntsville Hospi- tal reported $50 million in serv- ices for patients without in- surance last year. And the hos- pital doesn’t withhold care from illegal immigrants. “The problem we’re having is, what to do when she leaves Local Alabama A&M University trustees could discuss the future of the school President Dr. Robert J ennings when they gather on campus today for sub- committee meetings. B1 The Madison school board addresses a couple of hot t opics in a work session: A proposed drug-testing policy and the possibility of building a second high school. B1 State A former Madison County sheriff’s investigator testifies t hat Brian Butler fatally shot Grant Police Chief Verlon Lemaster and then tried to shoot him. B2 Sen. Charles Bishop, R- J asper, says he won’t sue over the Senate taking dis- ciplinary action against him for punching Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe. B2 Nation Congress passes an emer- gency plan that rushes rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers and $300 checks to disabled veterans, t he elderly and other low- income people. The checks could begin arriving in May. A4 The space shuttle Atlantis l aunches on an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. A5 A gunman storms a city council meeting in suburban St. Louis, killing two police officers and three other people before law enforcers fatally shoot him. A11 Business Huntsville’s Q-Track Corp. , formed in 2002, has a number of patents in the U.S. and also has secured related patents in Europe and China. E1 Sports Grissom is in second place and Bob Jones fifth after t he first day of competition at the state wrestling championships. F1 Alabama outside lineback- ers coach Lance Thompson is named the 2008 Recruiter of the Year by Rivals.com. F1 Huntsville, Alabama Vol. 98, No. 323, 48 pages Contents © 2008, The Huntsville Times Abby/C6 Bridge/C6 Business/E1 Classifieds/D1 Comics/C7 Crossword puzzles/C6, D3 Cryptoquote/C6 Deaths/B3 Editorials/A10 Horoscope/C6 Life/C1 Lotteries/A2 Movies/C8 People/C6 Sports/F1 Sudoku/D9 Television/E4 What’s inside Forecast: Mostly sunny. Full weather, E4 Dow + 46.90 Nasdaq + 14.28 S&P 500 + 10.46 High today 58 Low tonight 37 Classifieds: 532-4222 WE BREAK MORE NEWS AT FRIDAY / FEBRUARY 8 / 2008 An A&M ‘project’ comes of age. F1 Did nuns give Giants a hand? C1 Delta Air Lines to close Huntsville reservation call center. E1 Glenn Baeske/Huntsville Times “Katarina,” an immigrant from Guatemala, holds one of her sons at Huntsville Hospital. She was diagnosed with acute leukemia last month. REMEMBERING STORM VICTIMS After terror, grief Eric Schultz/Huntsville Times Opal Frost comforts Micah Devaney, brother of tornado victim Becky Coleman, as he searches through the rubble of her home for any sentimental items. Want to help? An account has been set up at Compass Bank to accept donations for Katarina under the name of the Golden Angel Medical Fund. Checks can be mailed to: Compass Bank, P.O. Box 127, Huntsville, AL 35804. By CHALLEN STEPHENS Times Staff Writer [email protected] PISGAH – Linda Tinker carried the phone into the center-most room of her house early Wednes- day, telling her daughter that she would be all right. “She did what she was supposed to do,” said her daughter, Leslie Bell. Sometime after they talked, a twister raced for 10.9 miles from Pisgah to Rosalie in Jackson County. According to the Nation- al Weather Service, the tornado stretched a half mile at its widest as winds topping 180 mph bowled over several homes on Sand Mountain and took Tinker’s life. Tinker, 60, had lost her husband a few years ago to lung cancer. Her children had grown up and moved, raising their own children. She was home alone when the tornado tore her entire house clear of the foundation. “When I got here, I just couldn’t find her,” Ron- nie Shelton said Thursday, hands deep in his pock- ets, choking back sobs for his sister. Shelton lived in a log cabin down the hill from Tin- ker’s home. After the tornado passed, he emerged to screams. His most immediate neighbors, the Gilberts, had survived unharmed in their basement, although By PATRICIA C. McCARTER Times Staff Writer [email protected] FAIRFIELD – Despite the heroism of a selfless young neighbor, Faye Nell McCullough became the fifth North Alabama victim of Wednesday morning’s deadly tornado outbreak. Moments after a massive tornado ripped through southeastern Lawrence County, 86-year-old McCul- lough’s next-door neighbor, Jade Eddy, came to check on her. It was dark, raining and windy, and McCul- lough had been thrown from her trailer, which had been blown from its base and landed across County Road 186. McCullough was breathing, barely. Eddy, 24, found McCullough in the yard. She could- n’t locate a blanket to place on the elderly woman to shield her from the cold rain, so she lay down on top of her. With wind and rain whipping around them, Eddy held the woman and recited the Lord’s Prayer. The young woman – who works at Moulton Nurs- Green accused of killing his son, 10, and 13-year-old By NIKI DOYLE Times Staff Writer [email protected] Tuesday night, Kishon Green threw back a few shots with “Boogie” Hatcher and celebrated landing a job interview. He told his friend that he want- Please see CANCER on A11 Illegal immigrant dying of cancer falls through the cracks Suspect Kishon Green Please see KILLING on A12 Erin Musland/Huntsville Times Mike Tinker and Leslie Bell, son and daughter of tornado victim Linda Tinker, embrace at the site of her home in Pisgah. Little consoles family that lost a mother Please see MOTHER on A12 Please see SAVE on A12 In today’s Times • Baby found alive among tornado debris. A5 • Gov. Riley tours devastated areas. B1 Neighbor’s heroics unable to save woman Father is charged in boys’ deaths
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She can’t get aidwithout a SocialSecurity numberBy CHALLEN STEPHENSTimes Staff [email protected]
At the age of 15 and fivemonths pregnant, Katarinawalked across the U.S. borderand into the Arizona desert.Seven years later, she rests ina bed in Huntsville Hospital,her hair thinning from a firstcycle of chemotherapy.
Her doctors say she could diesoon for want of a valid SocialSecurity number.
Without that number, said
Dr. Richard Gualtieri, her on-cologist at Huntsville Hospital:“You don’t have any govern-ment services. You can’t fit intoan indigent program. You’restuck.”
“These individuals are illegalaliens,” he said, “but, at the same
time, they are humans.”The problem isn’t emer-
gency care. Huntsville Hospi-tal reported $50 million in serv-ices for patients without in-surance last year. And the hos-
pital doesn’t withhold carefrom illegal immigrants.
“The problem we’re havingis, what to do when she leaves
LocalAlabama A&M Universitytrustees could discuss thefuture of the schoolPresident Dr. RobertJennings when they gatheron campus today for sub-committee meetings. B1
The Madison school boardaddresses a couple of hottopics in a work session: Aproposed drug-testingpolicy and the possibility ofbuilding a second highschool. B1
StateA former Madison Countysheriff’s investigator testifiesthat Brian Butler fatally shotGrant Police Chief VerlonLemaster and then tried toshoot him. B2
Sen. Charles Bishop, R-Jasper, says he won’t sueover the Senate taking dis-ciplinary action against himfor punching Sen. LowellBarron, D-Fyffe. B2
NationCongress passes an emer-gency plan that rushesrebates of $600 to $1,200 tomost taxpayers and $300checks to disabled veterans,the elderly and other low-income people. The checkscould begin arriving in May.A4
The space shuttle Atlantislaunches on an 11-daymission to the InternationalSpace Station. A5
A gunman storms a citycouncil meeting in suburbanSt. Louis, killing two policeofficers and three otherpeople before law enforcersfatally shoot him. A11
Business
Huntsville’s Q-Track Corp.,formed in 2002, has anumber of patents in theU.S. and also has securedrelated patents in Europeand China. E1
SportsGrissom is in second placeand Bob Jones fifth afterthe first day of competitionat the state wrestlingchampionships. F1
Alabama outside lineback-ers coach Lance Thompson isnamed the 2008 Recruiterof the Year by Rivals.com. F1
Huntsville, AlabamaVol. 98, No. 323, 48 pagesContents © 2008, The Huntsville Times
Abby/C6Bridge/C6Business/E1Classifieds/D1Comics/C7Crossword
puzzles/C6, D3Cryptoquote/C6Deaths/B3
Editorials/A10Horoscope/C6Life/C1Lotteries/A2Movies/C8People/C6Sports/F1Sudoku/D9Television/E4
What’s inside
Forecast:Mostly sunny.
Full weather, E4
Dow+ 46.90
Nasdaq+ 14.28
S&P 500+ 10.46
High today
58Low tonight
37
Classifieds: 532-4222WE BREAK MORE NEWS AT FRIDAY / FEBRUARY 8 / 2008
An A&M‘project’comes ofage. F1
Did nunsgive Giantsa hand? C1
Delta Air Lines to close Huntsvillereservation call center. E1
Glenn Baeske/Huntsville Times
“Katarina,” an immigrant from Guatemala, holds one of hersons at Huntsville Hospital. She was diagnosed with acuteleukemia last month.
REMEMBERING STORM VICTIMS
After terror, grief
Eric Schultz/Huntsville Times
Opal Frost comforts Micah Devaney, brother of tornado victim Becky Coleman, as he searches through the rubble of her home for any sentimental items.
Want to help?An account has been
set up at Compass Bankto accept donations forKatarina under the nameof the Golden AngelMedical Fund. Checks canbe mailed to: CompassBank, P.O. Box 127,Huntsville, AL 35804.
By CHALLEN STEPHENSTimes Staff [email protected]
PISGAH – Linda Tinker carried the phone intothe center-most room of her house early Wednes-day, telling her daughter that she would be all right.
“She did what she was supposedto do,” said her daughter, LeslieBell.
Sometime after they talked, atwister raced for 10.9 miles fromPisgah to Rosalie in JacksonCounty. According to the Nation-al Weather Service, the tornadostretched a half mile at its widestas winds topping 180 mph bowledover several homes on SandMountain and took Tinker’s life.
Tinker, 60, had lost her husbanda few years ago to lung cancer. Her
children had grown up and moved, raising their ownchildren. She was home alone when the tornado toreher entire house clear of the foundation.
“When I got here, I just couldn’t find her,” Ron-nie Shelton said Thursday, hands deep in his pock-ets, choking back sobs for his sister.
Shelton lived in a log cabin down the hill from Tin-ker’s home. After the tornado passed, he emerged toscreams. His most immediate neighbors, the Gilberts,had survived unharmed in their basement, although
By PATRICIA C. McCARTERTimes Staff [email protected]
FAIRFIELD – Despite the heroism of a selflessyoung neighbor, Faye Nell McCullough became thefifth North Alabama victim of Wednesday morning’sdeadly tornado outbreak.
Moments after a massive tornado ripped throughsoutheastern Lawrence County, 86-year-old McCul-lough’s next-door neighbor, Jade Eddy, came to checkon her. It was dark, raining and windy, and McCul-lough had been thrown from her trailer, which hadbeen blown from its base and landed across CountyRoad 186.
McCullough was breathing, barely.Eddy, 24, found McCullough in the yard. She could-
n’t locate a blanket to place on the elderly woman toshield her from the cold rain, so she lay down on topof her.
With wind and rain whipping around them, Eddyheld the woman and recited the Lord’s Prayer.
The young woman – who works at Moulton Nurs-
Green accused ofkilling his son, 10,and 13-year-old By NIKI DOYLETimes Staff [email protected]
Tu e s d a ynight, KishonGreen threwback a fewshots with“ B o o g i e ”Hatcher andcelebratedlanding a jobinterview. Hetold his friendthat he want-
Please see CANCER on A11
Illegal immigrantdying of cancer fallsthrough the cracks
SuspectKishon Green
Please see KILLING on A12
Erin Musland/Huntsville Times
Mike Tinker and Leslie Bell, son and daughter oftornado victim Linda Tinker, embrace at the siteof her home in Pisgah.
Little consolesfamily thatlost a mother
Please see MOTHER on A12 Please see SAVE on A12
In today’sTimes
• Babyfound aliveamongtornadodebris. A5
• Gov.Riley tours devastatedareas. B1
Neighbor’sheroics unableto save woman
Father ischarged inboys’ deaths
