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PUBLIC MEETINGSMay 4: Lowndes County Supervisors, court-house, 9 a.m.May 4: Columbus-Lown-des Recreation Authority Board, CLRA Administration Building, 6 p.m.May 5: Columbus City Council, Municipal Com-plex, 5 p.m.May 11: Columbus Mu-nicipal School District Board meeting, Brandon Central Office, 6 p.m.May 19: Columbus City Council, Municipal Complex, 5 p.m.

BY SLIM [email protected]

A year ago today, a series of tornadoes ripped through Missis-sippi and other southern states, inflicting hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and costing the lives of 35 people.

At approximately 5:30 p.m., five of those tornadoes — ranging in strength from EF1 to EF3 — touched down in Lowndes Coun-ty, and while the property damage was not as extensive as it was in Tupelo — where 2,000 homes and 100 businesses were damaged or destroyed — and there was no human toll as there was in Lou-isville, where 10 people died, the final cost almost doubled the pre-liminary estimates of $1 million.

Greg Flynn, public informa-tion officer for Mississippi Emer-gency Management Agency, told The Dispatch on Friday the final cost estimates in the county for six public projects approved by the Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency came to $1,492,000. Of that total, $1,050,000 in reim-bursement had been made.

“Actually, the recovery in Lowndes County has been much faster than what we’ve seen in oth-er areas,” Flynn said. “State-wide, there were 149 projects approved by FEMA at an estimated cost of $87,209,000. So far, FEMA has re-

2 arrested following vehicle chase

MSU professor continues fight against avian flu

Pursuit began in Columbus, ended with wreck in Alabama

Wan: ‘We cannot predict where it goes’

BY ISABELLE [email protected]

Two people are in custody following a pursuit that began in Lowndes County and ended in Alabama on Monday.

Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Marc Miley said the chase began around noon when officers in Columbus spotted a vehicle that had been reported stolen out of Gor-do, Alabama. The vehicle refused to pull over and authorities pursued it down several county roads into the Ethelsville, Alabama, area, where it crashed shortly after the chase be-gan, according to Miley.

Two people got out of the wrecked vehicle and attempted to flee. The passenger, a juvenile, was appre-hended immediately, according to Tony Cooper, a lieutenant in the LCSD Investigations Division. Au-thorities declined to release the juve-nile’s name.

The alleged driver, Austin Brow-ell, was apprehended around 5 p.m. Monday, according to Cooper.

BY ANDREW [email protected]

STARKVILLE — Influenza remains among the deadliest diseases known to living organisms on Earth.

Every year, the flu kills thousands of people. But in recent years, the type that scares the public the most has been avian flu strains, such as the H5N1 threat that spread from Asia to Europe and Africa in the early 2000s and has affected 650 hu-mans in 15 countries since 2003.

Now, a new strain of avian flu, H5N2, is moving through poultry farms across the upper plains and Midwest regions of the U.S. and Can-ada.

A year later

Dispatch file photoAn Ellis Road home in Lowndes County received significant damage during the April 28, 2014, tornadoes that swept through the area. A total of five — ranging in strength from EF1 to EF3 — touched down in Lowndes Coun-ty. While no lives were lost here, 10 people in Winston County were killed during the storms.

‘I think we bounced back pretty well’A year ago today, tornadoes struck Lowndes County

Dispatch file photoRick Sherman directs a crew as a tree is lifted from a New Hope home in this 2014 Dispatch file photo.

Tornado victims recall damage, recoveryBY ZACK [email protected]

Recently, a lawnmower threw a rock into the glass front door of Sybil Prather’s home in east Lown-des County.

Until the glass is replaced, the broken door is a minor inconve-nience. Considering what hap-pened to her home a year ago, she’ll take it.

Prather — on April 28, 2014 — lay huddled in her back bathroom with her son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren as the last gasps of a tornado that devastat-

ed parts of north Mississippi tore through her neighborhood and left her home at the corner of Lacy and Pleasant Hill roads ruined. No one was injured, but the storm lifted part of her roof above the carport and threw it into a tree in the back-yard, Prather said. It sent another part of the roof crashing into the living room.

“It just happened so fast,” Prath-er told The Dispatch on Monday. “It’s like you don’t hear it until it’s already passed. I’m really thankful no one was hurt. You can replace

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AP Photo/Bernat ArmangueNepalese villagers charge their cell phones in an open area in Kathmandu, Nepal on Monday. Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers — Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on everything Monday as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families’ needs.

TuesdaySAY WHAT?“He has the physical skills and intangibles to develop into a Pro Bowl-caliber player early in his career.”NFL Network’s Bucky Brooks, talking about former Missis-

sippi State linebacker Benardrick McKinney and his NFL draft prospects. Story, 1B.

‘Batman’ trial tries to look inside Colorado shooter’s mindBY SADIE GURMANThe Associated Press

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Two versions of the unstable mind of James Holmes were presented to a jury Monday as law-yers revealed many more details about his conver-sion from a promising grad student to a gunman capable of opening fire on hundreds of unsuspecting moviegoers at a “Batman” premiere.

The lead prosecutor displayed an image of the theater door on a TV screen as he told of a sin-ister but sane killer who methodically carried out the 2012 mass murder to make himself feel good and be remembered.

“Through this door is

horror. Through this door are bullets, blood, brains and bodies. Through this door, one guy who thought as if he had lost his career, lost his love life, lost his purpose, came to execute a plan,” said District At-torney George Brauchler, standing before a scale model of the theater.

“He tried to murder a theater full of people to make himself feel better and because he thought it would increase his self-worth.”

Brauchler said two pre-viously secret court-or-dered psychiatric exams found Holmes to be sane.

Public Defender Dan-iel King countered that Holmes suffers from schizophrenia, a diagnosis confirmed by 20 doctors.

Colorado Judicial Department via AP, PoolJudge Carlos A. Samour Jr., top right, presides over the opening of the trial of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes, far left, in Centennial, Colo., Monday.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GORKHA, Nepal — Helicopters crisscrossed the mountains above a remote district Tuesday near the epicenter of the weekend earth-quake in Nepal that killed more than 4,400, ferrying the injured to clinics and taking emergency supplies back to villages cut off by landslides.

Around noon, two helicopters brought in eight women from Ra-nachour village, two of them clutch-ing babies to their breast, and a third heavily pregnant.

“There are many more injured people in my village,” said Sangita Shrestha, who was pregnant and visibly downcast as she got off the helicopter. She was quickly sur-rounded by Nepalese soldiers and policemen and ushered into a wait-ing van to be taken to a hospital.

The little town of Gorkha is be-ing used as a staging post to get rescuers and supplies to those re-mote communities after Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 quake.

Sita Karki winced when soldiers lifted her. Her broken and swollen legs had been tied together with crude wisps of hay twisted into a makeshift splint.

“When the earthquake hit, a wall fell on me and knocked me down,” she said. “My legs are broken.”

Across central Nepal, hundreds of thousands of people are still liv-ing in the open without clean water or sanitation.

Helicopters ferry injured from Nepal villages near epicenter

Modern tragedy: Quake-ravaged Nepal tower a site for selfiesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KATHMANDU, Nepal — So-cial media is a chronicle of life, and sometimes death. So it should be no surprise that a site of great human and cultural loss in Ne-pal’s devastating earthquake is now barraged with the clicking of smartphones.

Near Kathmandu’s famed Dharahara Tower, a historic nine-story structure reduced to an enormous pile of red brick

dust, dozens of people clambered around the debris clicking selfies and photos of their friends posing in front of the wreckage. The tow-er built by Nepal’s royal rulers in the 1800s was one of the country’s most treasured monuments, and was photographed far more than other buildings destroyed by Sat-urday’s quake.

It is unclear how many people were killed in the tower, but it was believed to have been filled with tourists.

AP Photo/Bernat ArmangueA man takes a selfie at the historic Dharahara Tower, a landmark that was damaged in Saturday’s earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday.

Death toll passes 4,400

BY SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — If you find yourself sweat-ing out a day that is mon-strously hot, chances are you can blame humanity. A new report links three out of four such days to man’s effects on climate.

And as climate change worsens around mid-cen-tury, that percentage of extremely hot days be-ing caused by man-made greenhouse gases will push past 95 percent, ac-cording to the new study

published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Humans have not had as great an effect on heavy downpours, though. The Swiss scientists who did the study calculated that 18 percent of extreme rain events are caused by global warming. But if the world warms another two de-grees Fahrenheit (1.1 de-grees Celsius) — expected to happen around mid-cen-tury — about 39 percent of the downpours would be attributed to humanity’s

influence, according to the study. That influence comes from greenhouse gases, mostly carbon di-oxide from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

“This new study helps get the actual probability or odds of human influence,” said University of Arizona climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck, who wasn’t part of the research. “This is key: If you don’t like hot temperature extremes that we’re getting, you now know how you can reduce the odds of such events by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

ONLINE:n Nature Climate Change: nature.com/nclimate

Study blames global warming for 75 percent of very hot daysStudy: Man-made greenhouse gases will cause 95 percent of extremely hot days by mid-century

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BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSThe Associated Press

JACKSON — A conservative group announced last week that it will try to put a term-limits amendment on the Mississippi ballot, but history shows there’s a good chance the proposal will never even come up for a vote.

Legislators made Mississip-pi’s initiative process burden-some when they created it more than two decades ago. Putting a proposed constitutional amend-ment on the ballot requires people to circulate petitions and gather signatures from at least

107,216 registered voters within a year. At least 21,443 of those must come from each of the five congressional districts that the state used in 2000. Mississip-pi has had four congressional districts since the 2002 election cycle, but the initiative law still relies on outdated maps.

Most people who have start-ed petition drives have fallen short in getting signatures. Persuading perfect strangers to sign a piece of paper in a parking lot or at a high school football game is not as easy as it seems.

The new proposal by United Conservatives Fund would put

a limit of two consecutive four-year terms on each of the 174 state legislative seats and the eight statewide elected offic-es, from governor to insurance commissioner. The fund is a po-litical action committee headed by Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel of Ellisville, who’s currently seeking his third con-secutive term in office.

Only the governor and lieu-tenant governor currently have term limits. Mississippi voters defeated term-limits initiatives in 1995 and 1999, and in both elections, the politically connect-ed Farm Bureau spent signifi-cant amounts of money against the proposals. A later term-lim-its initiative never made it to the ballot because organizers didn’t

get enough signatures.The secretary of state’s web-

site lists the initiatives that have been started since the 1990s (http://1.usa.gov/1aVa9Hs ).

Three initiatives appeared on the ballot in 2011, with vot-ers approving two and rejecting one. Initiative 26, which failed, was a “personhood” amendment pushed by abortion opponents. It would have defined human life as beginning at “the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” It was supported by high-profile Republicans, including Phil Bry-ant, who was elected governor on the same ballot. But, it drew the ire of people who saw it as a threat to reproductive health, including fertility treatments.

The two measures that passed in 2011 were Initiative 27, to require voters to show photo identification at the polls; and Initiative 31, which limits the government’s ability to use eminent domain to take private land for economic development projects.

Among the proposals that never got to the ballot because organizers didn’t collect enough signatures were initiatives 5 and 8, which would have allowed denturists — who are not den-tists — to fit and make dentures. They would have amended the state constitution with language that sounds like a low-budget TV ad: “a 90-day, 100 percent mon-ey-back warranty on dentures furnished by denturists.”

Analysis: Initiative process complex and difficult to use

The following arrests were made by Oktibbeha County Sherif f ’s Depart-ment:

n Ricky Doyle Engel-bert, 23, was charged with circuit court order.

n Antwjuan Morelle Terry, 27, was charged with circuit court order.

n Lucas Henry Bai-ley, 21, was charged with fleeing law enforcement, reckless driving, improp-er turn, no insurance, possession of beer and other DUI.

n Learthur Montrell Neal, 28, was charged with bench warrant.

n Reginald L. Ward, 43, was charged with parole violation.

n Joseph Alan Fami-glio, 23, was charged with circuit court order.

n Anthony Tavaris Evans, 30, was charged with circuit court order.

n Ray Anthony Mitch-ell, 23, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of co-caine-two counts.

n Austin Jake McK-night, 23, was charged with bench warrant.

n Steven Bryant Thomas, 21, was charged with circuit court order.

n Charles Deonta Cook, 23, was charged with bench warrant.

n Brandon Reshard Burchfield, 28, was charged with indictment.

n Lemichael Niwan Reed, 25, was charged with burglary of vehicle, possession of weapon by felon, failure to yield right of way, disorder-ly conduct, malicious mischief and probation violation.

n Alexis Brooks Reed, 25, was charged with burglary of vehicle.

n Carrington Shaquille Butler, 21, was charged with circuit court order.

n Fannie Dell Leon-ard, 55, was charged with probation violation.

n Nicholas Deon Mc-Cloud, 23, was charged with grand larceny.

n Victor Lemar Ar-nold Jr., 25, was charged with circuit court order.

n Edith McLendon Dzoole, 48, was charged with computer crime.

The following arrests were made by Lowndes County Sherif f ’s Depart-

ment:n McArthur Bradley

Jr., 36, was charged with possession of marijuana in vehicle and posses-sion of cocaine.

n Jefferson Loren-zo Clayborn, 26, was charged with public

drunkenness and posses-sion of weapon by felon.

n Jasmine Shant-rell Douglas, 25, was charged with possession of marijuana-more than one ounce, false infor-mation and contempt of court-two counts.

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Most people who have started petition drives have fallen short in getting signatures


CANTON — Nissan Motor Co. is donating $500,000 to help fund ex-hibits and a dining area at two Mississippi history museums being built in downtown Jackson.

The Japanese automak-

er made the announce-ment Monday at its Canton plant, along with former Mississippi Govs. William Winter and Ronnie Mus-grove.

The Museum of Missis-sippi History and the Mis-sissippi Civil Rights Muse-um have met their goal of

$12 million in private dona-tions for exhibits. They're also seeking to raise $4 million to endow opera-tions. State government has promised $74 million, mostly borrowed, to pay for construction and exhib-its. That's less than the $87 million sought by the De-

partment of Archives and History, and the depart-ment says it will seek more public money next year to help complete exhibits and furnish the building.

The museums will share one structure. Con-struction started in De-cember 2013.

Nissan gives $500,000 to Miss. history museums

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OUR VIEW

Confederate Memorial Day?The U.S. Civil War ended

150 years ago this month and Monday, Mississippi celebrat-ed Confederate Memorial Day.

The war is long ended. So, too, should be this holiday.

Confederate Memorial Day is the only free-standing state holiday observed in the state. State offices and offices in some cities — including Columbus — were closed.

In addition, Robert E. Lee’s birthday and Jefferson Davis’ birthday are also officially recognized as state holidays but are held in conjunction with the federal Martin Luther King and Memorial Day holi-days.

That Mississippi’s three official holidays share an obvi-ous common theme speaks to the strange fixation we have for the Civil War, at least in Jackson, where such decisions

are made and sustained.In this regard, we are

reminded — yet again — of an observation by William Faulkner: “The past is never dead; it’s not even past.” The line should be our state motto, so often do events compel us to remember it.

In the early years of the holiday, the occasion held much symbolism: The South may have been defeated and decimated, but it remained defiant. Some element of that attitude persists today.

Defenders of Confederate Memorial Day argue that the Civil War was very much a part of our state’s history, perhaps the most significant event in our history. Dispensing with the holiday would be tanta-mount to ignoring our history.

Second, many Mississippi-ans count among their ances-

tors men who fought for the Confederacy. They maintain that it is good and proper to re-member the valor and sacrifice of their ancestors.

Finally, they argue there is nothing shameful about Mississippi’s role in the war because it was not what has been portrayed to be.

The revisionists tell us the war was an act of economic aggression on the part of the industrial North and an assault on the rights of a state to govern itself without federal interference. We still hear much of that latter concept on certain issues emanating from Washington.

Disposing of this relic of Southern obstinance does not dishonor those ancestors who fought and died in the Civil War. There is nothing to prevent those so inclined from

setting aside time to remem-ber their valor without the state’s official sanction. After all, we already have a day of remembrance for our brave soldiers who fought and died in uniform. It’s called Memori-al Day.

On that day Americans ev-erywhere pause to honor our fallen soldiers from every war. Mississippians fought and died in those wars, too.

Is it not strange then that it is only the Confederate soldier whose sacrifice should be remembered apart from all others?

Finally, the efforts to sanitize the Civil War to make it more acceptable is affront to the history it purports to honor.

There is nothing ambiguous to be found in the state’s dec-laration of secession, which

states plainly, “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery.”

So let’s not delude our-selves: While soldiers may fight for any number of reasons, the perpetuation of human bondage was among them.

Remember, too, that for every Mississippi solider who fought and died to maintain what Lincoln called “this peculiar institution,” there are descendants of other Missis-sippians whose freedom and humanity hung in the balance as this great conflict was decided.

We doubt seriously any of those Mississippians were inclined to celebrate Monday and neither should the rest of us, if we are to claim any meaningful progress as a people.

Voice of the people‘The worst kind of mendacity’

It was with no small degree of consternation that I read, in a recent Sunday edition of The Commercial Dispatch, the results a sort of man-on-the street opinion survey directed at local black folk.

The question being asked was “What do you think of the Columbus Pilgrimage?”

Frankly, I was somewhat taken aback by the response given by a certain Lowndes County Supervisor. Of all people, you’d think he would have known better. But as to the rest, I was not surprised; they don’t teach this stuff in secondary school, and scarcely in our colleges except with a goodly degree of subterfuge and watered-down revisionism.

Ever since I was a small boy trying to figure out where I fit in in a world where the rebel flag was more revered than the American flag; where so many streets, cities, and counties are named in honor of men whose raison d’être was to subdue the Negro; where on every courthouse square stands a massive monument topped with a Confeder-ate soldier whose back is invariably turned against the North, I have been left with a Biblical reframe rattling my brain, “Is their any balm in Gilead?”

How disconcerting to hear these same people raise a stolid hue and cry to black folk, “Why don’t y’all just forget, leave all that stuff in the past and move on?”

Ah but alas, comes the Columbus Pilgrimage, that luring attraction of ritualized yearning for an unfor-gotten past filled with moonlight and magnolias, what Gone With the Wind’s Ashley Wilkes dreamily bemoaned in his reminiscing the antebellum South “… the security of those years, the warm, still, country twilight, the high, soft laughter of Negro contentment.

Tennessee Williams hit it just right when he called it a “system of mendacity.”

I view not only the Columbus Pil-grimage but all these spring annuals held across the length and breath of the South as the worse kind of men-dacity. To glorify in costumed pag-eantry a time in our nation’s history when the elite of the South lived like practical gods at the expense of the unrequited toil of enslaved Africans is to my mind hideous.

Might I end by further quoting the venerable Mr. Ashley Wilkes in his pining the lost cause, “Unfortu-nately, we did think we were gods.”

James Clayton TerryColumbus

MISSISSIPPI VOICES

‘Last (white) Democrat in Dixie’ is still chugging along

OXFORD — Former Gov. Haley Barbour, whose pristine pedigree in Republican America is unmatched, inspired a headline a few of weeks ago with a speech on Mike Espy Scholars Day at Jackson’s historical-ly black Tougaloo College. Missis-sippi, Barbour said, would benefit from two “salt and pepper” political parties.

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Espy, a Democrat who is African-American, was in the audience. Espy endorsed Barbour for a second term in 2007 and endorsed the speech at Touga-loo.

It’s just not healthy to have, as Mississippi does, a Demo-cratic Party with which 95 percent of blacks and a smattering of whites identify and a Republican Party with which 95 per-cent of whites and a smattering of blacks identify.

Politics should be idea-driven, not identity-driven, both said. Ideas, at least in the abstract, are race-neutral.

There’s no better illustration of being idea-driven than Jim Hood. Two years go, Governing magazine dubbed him the “last Democrat in Dixie,” a reference to all other statewide of-fices, majorities of the state House and Senate seats, three of the state’s four seats in the U.S. House and both U.S. Senate seats being held by Republicans.

Hood, who is seeking a fourth term in November, is a Bible-believing, pistol-toting, deer-hunting, drawl-speaking 52-year-old from New Houlka, population now steady at 611. Governing noted that Hood wears his hair “Conway Twitty” style, which is in more line with Republican Gov. Phil Bryant than the rakish styles of modern, “with it” barristers.

It’s no surprise that a former district attorney who became the state’s top attorney is a sincere prosecutor. Hood has been relentless against cybercrime, child pornographers and their customers. He has worked diligently and effectively to combat domestic violence.

But while he packs a 9 mm and shares much with conserva-tives, Hood parts ways, too:

n He interceded when a gay couple was denied permission to rent a state facility for their commitment ceremony. (The planned use was not against state law, he said. Mississippi doesn’t license same-sex marriage, he reasoned, but the cou-ple wasn’t seeking the state’s building, not its blessing.)

n He, along with Republican state Insurance Commission-er Mike Chaney, tried to prevail upon Bryant that fighting

against the Medicaid eligibility expansion in the Affordable Care Act was not in the state’s best interest.

n Earlier in his tenure, he was aggressive in pursuing “cold case” files from the Civil Rights Era, winning in 2005 a conviction of Edgar Ray Killen in the 1964 Neshoba County triple homicide. (Much of white Mississippi would be happier if the past remained in the past.)

n And while a lot of Mississippians profess disdain for “ambulance-chasing” lawyers, Jim Hood has become known nationally and internationally for empowering private lawyers to sue the pants off corporations.

It was former Attorney General Mike Moore who started this ball rolling by suing Big Tobacco in 1994. The result was a 25-year payout to total at least $4.1 billion that was to create a “trust” to invest in health care. The Legislature soon decided to spend as opposed to invest, but the revenue stream continues and adds tens of millions to the state treasury every year.

Hood has OK’d similar suits. Often, he attracts sniffs of disdain when deals are made with private lawyers to sue drug companies or to haul investment firms suspected of fraud into court. Hood has sued Entergy, Google and just about every insurance company known to mankind.

Hood’s newest case is another against State Farm, which professed “surprise” and believed that all its liability stem-ming from Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago had been resolved.

Not so, the new lawsuit says. Mississippi taxpayers gave a lot of money to property owners. That money should have come from their insurance policies, the suit says. So justice demands State Farm reimburse the public treasury.

Private lawyers pitch their ideas about who should be sued to Hood, who chooses whether to allow them to use the state’s name. The lawyers stand to walk away wealthy, or with nothing. The state has banked more than $500 million from Hood’s cases, so outrage among conservatives in the Legisla-ture has been, well, muted.

Hood will have a Republican opponent on the November ballot. Veteran former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, who lives in Madison, will challenge the incumbent. Hurst is certainly a competent and compelling adversary.

But the fact that Hood’s tenure has been about ideas as opposed to following a scripted party line has kept this lonely Democrat in good stead with voters in one of the reddest of red states.

Too bad that’s not contagious.Charlie Mitchell is an assistant dean of journalism at the

University of Mississippi. Write to him at Box 1 University, MS, or [email protected].

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Marilyn McInnis ElliottMarilyn McInnis Elliott,

63, was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on May 2, 1951 and died April 25, 2015 in Birmingham, Alabama. She was preceded in death by her parents, GW McInnis and Geneva Conerly McInnis. Survivors include her husband of 39 years, Dennis Elliott; a daughter, Stephanie Waller; a son Steven Elliott; grandchildren, Michael Waller and Katherine Waller. She is also survived by two sisters, Betty McInnis and Barbara Fleck.

She graduated from Northwestern State University in 1972 and then moved to Alexandria, Louisiana. She taught 1st grade at England Air Force Base until 1975. On June 6, 1975 she married and moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana with her husband. Taught school for only one year and decided that being a wife and mother was more important. In 1995 the family moved to Columbus, Mississippi. In 1996 she decided to open Marilyn’s Cottage Gift Shop; simply because she wanted to have something to do and make more friends. Marilyn’s Cottage was more of a social club than a gift shop. She closed Marilyn’s Cottage in 2006 in order to have more time to travel. In 2008 she and Dennis moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2010 she and Dennis moved to Birmingham, Alabama so she could begin treatment of recurring breast cancer. She had five wonderful years in Birmingham. As in any place she lived, she made some great friends whom she loved dearly.

The family will receive friends from 1-2, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at the Currie-Jefferson Funeral Home. Funeral will follow at 2 PM in the chapel, Janis Nichol officiating. Interment will be in Jefferson Memorial Gardens, South.

Memorials may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church, 6342 Military Road, Steen, Mississippi 39766 or to Stella’s Voice, P.O. Box 241241, Montgomery, Alabama 36124.

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— Ann Hankins, 85, died April 25, 2015, at her residence.

Services were 6 p.m. Monday, April 27, 2015, at Taylor Springs Free Will Baptist Church with Jeremy Sorrells. Burial followed at Tay-lor Springs Cemetery.

Mrs. Hankins was born in Lamar County, Alabama, on Jan. 9, 1930, to the late Howard Lee and Effie Gosa Sor-rells. She was formerly employed at HealthTex in Guin, Alabama, and a member of Taylor Springs Free Will Bap-tist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death her husband, Douglas D. Hankins Jr.; brother, Hershal Sorrells; and sister, Charlene Cooper.

She is survived by sons, Randall M.

Hankins of Sulligent, Alabama, and David Lynn Hankins of Bea-verton; daughter, Nelda S. Herron of Fayette, Al-abama; four grandchil-dren; two great-grand-children; and sister, Jean Birmingham of Vernon, Alabama.

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Oscar SpruillOscar Burris Spruill

Jr., 82, died April 26, 2015, in Geneseo, New York.

Services are 1 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Friendship Cemetery. Visitation is one hour before ser-vice time at the funeral home.

Irnez ApplinCOLUMBUS —

Irnez Cleo Applin, 90, died April 25, 2015, at Baptist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.

Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus with the Rev. Raphael Terry officiat-ing. Burial will follow at Union Cemetery. Visitation is one hour before service time at the funeral home.

Ms. Applin was born in Lowndes County on June 20, 1924, to the late Theodric Lyons Ap-plin and Mattie Applin. She was formerly em-ployed as a registered nurse at Baptist Memo-rial Hospital-Golden Triangle and a member of Glenn Chapel Chris-tian Methodist Episco-pal Church.

In addition to her parents, she was pre-ceded in death by five siblings, Theresa Alex-ander, Carrie Nance, Arthur Applin, Leroy Applin and John Applin.

Theda RobertsonLITHIA SPRINGS,

Georgia — Theda Tay-lor Robertson, 95, died April 27, 2015, at Brook-dale Assisted Living.

Graveside services are 2 p.m. Friday at Friendship Cemetery with the Rev. Bill Ben-son officiating. Visi-tation is 12-1:45 p.m. before service time at Gunter & Peel Funeral Home.

Mrs. Robertson was born in Monroe County on Jan. 4, 1920, to the late Charles Ambrose and Arcena Alice McWhirter Taylor. She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyteri-an Church and formerly employed with Semi-nole Manufacturing.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Leobert Robertson; and one grandchild.

She is survived by sons, Paul T. Robertson of Tupelo and Charles Douglas Robertson of Irving, Texas; daugh-ter, Sandy Vickers of Douglasville, Georgia; eight grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Memorials may be made to The Palmer Home for Children, P.O. Box 746, Columbus, MS, 39703.

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Eugene Dixon Jr., 82, died April 27, 2015, at Baptist Memorial Hos-pital-Golden Triangle.

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BY MARK SHERMANThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Su-preme Court is set to hear his-toric arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage the law of the land.

The justices are meeting to-day to offer the first public indi-cation of where they stand in the dispute over whether states can continue defining marriage as the union of a man and a wom-an, or whether the Constitution gives gay and lesbian couples the right to marry.

The court is hearing extend-ed arguments, scheduled to last 2 ½ hours, which also will ex-plore whether states that do not permit same-sex marriage must nonetheless recognize such unions from elsewhere.

Same-sex couples can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia.

The cases before the court

come from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, four of the 14 remaining states that allow only heterosexual marriage. Those four states had their mar-riage bans upheld by the federal appeals court in Cincinnati in November. That is the only fed-eral appeals court that has ruled in favor of the states since the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law.

Justice Anthony Kennedy has written the court’s three prior gay rights decisions, including the case from two years ago. All eyes will be on Kennedy for any signals that he is prepared to take the final step in granting marriage rights to same-sex cou-ples.

Such an outcome was incon-ceivable just a few years ago.

The first state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry was Massachusetts, in 2004. Even as recently as October, barely a third of the states per-mitted it. Now, same-sex couples can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia, a dramatic

change in the law that has been accompanied by an equally fast shift in public opinion.

The main thrust of the states’ case is to reframe the debate.

“This case is not about the best marriage definition. It is about the fundamental question regarding how our democracy

resolves such debates about so-cial policy: Who decides, the people of each state or the feder-al judiciary?” John Bursch, rep-resenting Michigan, wrote in his main brief to the court.

Other arguments by the states and more than five-dozen briefs by their defenders warn the jus-

tices of harms that could result “if you remove the man-woman definition and replace it with the genderless any-two-persons definition,” said Gene Schaerr, a Washington lawyer.

The push for same-sex mar-riage comes down to fairness, said Mary Bonauto, who will ar-gue on behalf of the plaintiffs. The people who have brought their cases to the Supreme Court are “real people who are deeply committed to each oth-er. Yet they are foreclosed from making that commitment sim-ply because of who they are,” she told reporters last week.

Arguments made by Bonau-to, other lawyers for same-sex couples and more than six-doz-en supporting briefs have strong echoes of the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case, in which the Su-preme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage. In that case, the justices were unanimous that those bans vio-lated the constitutional rights of interracial couples.

No one expects unanimity this time.

Supreme Court to hear historic same-sex marriage argumentsCourt’s decision expected in June

AP Photo/Andrew HarnikA rainbow colored flag, seen through an American flag, flies in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, as the Su-preme Court is set to hear historic arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage the law of the land.

BY MIKE STOBBEAP Medical Writer

NEW YORK — The government is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking wa-ter because some kids are getting too much, causing white splotches on their teeth.

It’s the first change since the government urged cities to add fluo-ride to water supplies to prevent tooth decay more than 50 years ago. Now, fluoride is put in tooth-

paste, mouthwash and other products as well.

One study found about 2 out of 5 adolescents had tooth streaking or spotti-ness. It’s primarily a cos-metic issue, said Deputy Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, in announcing the new standard Monday.

The mineral fluoride is in water and soil. About 70 years ago, scientists discovered that people whose drinking water nat-urally had more fluoride also had fewer cavities.

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BY JIM KUHNHENNThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Eager to build on the U.S.-Japan alliance, Pres-ident Barack Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will work to strength-en economic ties further while confronting stiff resistance from the U.S.

president’s own political party to a massive new Pacific Rim trade deal.

Trade is one of the top agenda items for Abe’s state visit to the U.S. as the two countries work toward a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that would fur-ther open vast Asian and Pacific rim markets to

U.S. exports.Abe’s visit comes as

Obama’s negotiators work to complete the trade agreement, and as Obama seeks authority from Congress to put the deal, once completed, on a fast track to approval later this year. Obama is pressing for the trade agreement and the nego-tiating authority against mounting pressure from liberals and labor unions who fear trade agree-

ments can cost American jobs.

The U.S. and Japan are the agreement’s biggest participants and the talks between the two coun-tries would go far in ad-vancing the broader nego-tiations. But while Obama and Abe won’t be ready to announce a trade break-through, officials on both sides say they will likely declare they have made considerable progress in closing remaining gaps.

Obama, Abe putting joint face on trade amid opposition in USTrade one of the top agenda items for Japanese prime minister

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improving flexibility and function.

As springtime approaches, many people will spend more time outside planting bulbs, mowing the lawn and pulling weeds. Gardening can provide a great workout, but with all the bending, twisting, reaching and pulling, your body may not be ready for exercise of the garden variety. Gardening can be enjoyable, but it is important to stretch your muscles before reaching for your gardening tools. The back, upper legs, shoulders,

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your house and your stuff, somehow, but you can’t re-place people.”

A year ago today, the series of tornadoes that struck Prather’s home also ripped through Win-ston County, killing 10 people and destroying millions of dollars in property, before coming into the Golden Triangle. While no Lowndes Coun-ty residents were hurt or injured, the storm downed trees, damaged homes and left as many as 9,000 area residents without power.

Prather said she and other family members spent days cleaning up debris before profession-als arrived tasked with restoring her home to pre-storm condition. In the meantime, she said she lived in an apartment for more than two months waiting until she could re-turn home.

“I do think about it sometimes,” Prather said of the tornado. “I don’t dwell on it or anything. Really, I just think that if a storm can pick up a roof and make it fly away, it could have picked up one of us. I’m just thankful God wasn’t ready for us to fly away that night.”

Neighbors helping neighbors

Another Lacy Road res-ident, Jerry Nickoles, re-called spending the storm with about 20 of his neigh-bors in a basement locat-

ed at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, just down the road from his house and two businesses — Nick-oles Dirt Construction and Columbus Speedway.

Nickoles said that af-ter the storm, downed trees littered the area, some landing on people’s homes. So he and his brother, Gary, spent the next several hours using equipment from their construction shop to help their neighbors remove debris.

They weren’t the only ones lending a hand, ei-ther. Nickoles said doz-ens in the neighborhood came out to do something, whether it was helping move debris or getting water to the workers.

“We couldn’t do ev-erything, and honestly we didn’t do as much as needed to be done, but we did as much as we could,” Nickoles said. “The main thing people need to see in a situation like that is a helping hand. Once they saw that, it grew from there.”

Nickoles said it took about a month to get things sort of back to nor-mal, but the storm still has a lingering affect. Church members at Pleasant Hill, he said, are still meet-ing in the fellowship hall since part of the church’s roof collapsed last fall, an event he said directly re-lated to the storm.

All told, he said his neighborhood looks dif-

ferent, with a little more open space and the occa-sional visible scar from the storm. But even through an unfortunate event like last year’s tornado, he said his neighborhood became stronger.

“We had a good neigh-borhood anyway,” he said. “But I think it’s clos-er-knit. We value who’s living next to us more than ever.”

‘It has certainly changed us all’

That’s a feeling Lou-isville Mayor Will Hill knows all too well.

The storm there de-stroyed more than 400 structures, damaged more than 1 million square feet of industrial property and destroyed Winston Med-ical Center. While the city has made significant progress toward replac-ing the lost property, he said the 10 lost lives will forever make the tornado a tragic landmark in city and county history.

“It has certainly changed us,” Hill said. “For at least a few gener-ations, the history of this community will be de-fined, in part, as pre-tor-nado/post-tornado.”

Hill said the hospital has moved to a transi-tional facility on county industrial property while construction of the new Winston Medical Cen-ter is expected to be complete in 2017. Plus, Winston Plywood’s new

300,000 square foot facili-ty to replace the plant the storm destroyed, begins construction today.

Organizations like the non-profit Winston Strong have also stepped up, Hill said, assisting 141 house-holds thus far either re-build or relocate.

“We’ve got a lot accom-plished in a year,” he said. “We’ve still got a long way to go. We’re asking people for patience and a positive attitude.”

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imbursed $11.6 million of that total, with the remain-ing $75.6 million yet to be reimbursed. So you can see, things have moved a lot faster in Lowndes County than other areas.”

Flynn said most of those funds were desig-nated to reimburse local agencies for debris re-moval, repairs to roads/bridges, overtime costs and repair of public build-ings. FEMA covered 75-to-85 percent of those costs. In Lowndes Coun-ty, the state covered the remaining balance. Coun-ties whose damages were less extensive were re-quired to pay 12.5 percent of the costs not covered by FEMA.

Lowndes County

Emergency Management Director Cindy Lawrence said approximately 200 homes in Lowndes Coun-ty received significant damage. Thirty-nine homes were destroyed, including 12 house trail-ers. Two churches were destroyed. Lawrence said 976 individuals registered with FEMA for a total $312,639 for temporary housing and $66,233.90 for other needs.

In addition to that aid, 24 applicants for emer-gency loans from the Small Business Admin-istration were approved, for a total of $807,400 in loans.

A year after the torna-does, Lawrence said she felt the recovery effort

was very successful.“I do think we bounced

back pretty well,” she said. “I think most every-one, if not everyone, is back to where they were before the storm.”

Lawrence said she also feels as though the memories of what hap-pened on April 28, 2014, will make the community better prepared for future weather emergencies.

“My sense is that people are more weath-er-aware,” Lawrence said. “More and more people have bought storm shel-ters and weather radios. I think the tornadoes re-ally made people stop and think about how prepared they would be when an-other tornado comes.”

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Dr. Henry Wan, a sys-tems biology professor at Mississippi State Univer-sity, is among the world’s preeminent authorities on avian flu. He said it is im-portant we not overreact with fear.

Wan was the first re-searcher to recognize and document the avian flu. He was a 23-year-old mas-ter’s student in his native China when he identified influenza in geese in 1996. It was the original discov-ery of the H5N1 virus.

‘It could come to Mississippi’

H5N2 has claimed the lives of three million birds in Minnesota, taking out 6 percent of the state’s turkey farms. Minneso-ta is the nation’s leading turkey producer. The flu has popped up in 16 states since emerging this win-ter. The upper Midwest has been the hardest hit, but cases have spread down the Mississippi val-ley into Missouri and Ar-kansas. Where the flu will go next, Wan said, is any-one’s guess.

“Apparently, we cannot predict where it goes,” Wan said. “There is a risk it could come to Mississip-pi.”

The concern is the flu’s potential to mutate and affect new species. The virus is already affecting chickens and turkeys, but Wan said these species are very similar. Making the jump to humans is a taller task.

“They can cause hu-man problems, but it hasn’t happened yet,” Wan said. “We cannot predict if or when this will happen.”

Inside Wan’s lab at MSU, he and his 18 team members have a grant to study how diseases spread from one species

to another. It is believed the H5N2

strain of avian flu is car-ried by waterfowl, for whom it does not have a deadly affect. The virus does not have a deadly affect in food. If someone ate eat a bird affected with the flu, they would be safe, so long as the meat was thoroughly cooked Wan said. There have been no recorded human cases of H5N2.

Wan said the focus needs to be on containing the spread, and though researchers are preparing

vaccines, he believes the best way to deal with the initial outbreak is eradica-tion and isolation.

“In my opinion, in the United States, a vaccine is not an effective strategy,” he said.

He thinks poultry farms should increase their bird security by limiting the potential for contact with other bird species. The birds in farms that have been affected need to be killed. Security on the farms themselves needs to be increased. For exam-ple, Wan said it is critical for workers on farms to clean all their clothing and equipment thoroughly be-fore entering their farms, especially if they’ve been duck hunting.

Farmers have had to kill significant portions of their flocks, but the federal government com-pensates those who do so. Last week, the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture said it has $84 million to reimburse farmers for lost stock. But the USDA has already received $60 mil-lion in claims.

U.S. in position to deal with outbreak

Wan said the U.S. is a much safer place to have this virus break out than

Asia, Africa or Europe. Our system of massive su-permarkets and commer-cial farms makes tracking the spread of the virus and containing it is easier. In his native China and many other nations, people often keep a few chickens for eggs and meat. Live ani-mals are brought to open air markets. We are in a better position to control the virus, he said, because “you don’t see live animals at Walmart.”

The U.S. also has few-er waterfowl species than Eurasia, which means few-er animals carrying the disease with them.

“In the United States, we have better security than Asia,” Wan said.

For now, researchers and officials with the Cen-ter for Disease Control, where Wan worked as an influenza specialist for five years, believe the vi-rus will stay contained in the areas it currently af-

fects. Wan said once sum-mer ends and waterfowl begin migrations, the risk of H5N2 spreading will in-crease. As fear of the dis-ease has spread, Mexico announced it would not be taking in poultry products from the U.S., its largest supplier of bird meat, a move Wan said is more likely politically-based than scientifically-found-ed.

In his lab at MSU’s school of veterinary medi-cine, Wan and his students are attempting to expand our understanding of in-fluenza so the next gen-eration has more tools to handle the constantly evolving virus.

Wan maintains there is nothing about the current outbreak that we aren’t ca-pable of dealing with as a country.

“Don’t be scared,” he said, “this is the same thing that has been around us forever.”

MSU College of Veterinary Medicine/Tom ThompsonHenry Wan uses a centrifuge to isolate the flu viruses he researches. Wan and his colleagues discovered the first molecular evidence linking live poultry markets in China to human H5N1 avian influenza.

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The violence that started in West Baltimore on Monday afternoon — within a mile of where Freddie Gray was arrested and placed into a po-lice van earlier this month — had by midnight spread to East Baltimore and neighborhoods close to down-town and near the baseball stadium.

It was one of the most volatile outbreaks of violence prompted by a police-involved death since the days of protests that followed the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed

black man who was shot and killed during a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Missou-ri, last summer.

At least 15 officers were hurt, in-cluding six who remained hospital-ized late Monday, police said. Two

dozen people were arrested.State and local authorities

pledged to restore order and calm to Baltimore, but quickly found themselves responding to questions about whether their initial respons-es had been adequate.

Riots in Baltimore raise questions about police response

AP Photo/Patrick SemanskyA man carries items from a store as police vehicles burn, Monday, after the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.

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SANTA BARBARA D’OESTE, Brazil — It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair some-where well below the Mason-Dix-on line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and draft beer, and a plethora of Confederate flags em-blazoning everything from belt buckles to motorcycle vests to trucker caps.

But Sunday’s party marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War took place about 5,000 miles south of the South, in a rural Brazilian town colonized by families fleeing Recon-struction.

For many of the residents of Santa Barbara d’Oeste and neigh-boring Americana in Brazil’s south-eastern Sao Paulo state, having Confederate ancestry is a point of pride that’s celebrated in high style at the annual “Festa dos Confeder-ados,” or “Confederates Party” in Portuguese.

Thousands turn out every year,

including many who trace their an-cestry back to the dozens of fami-lies who, enticed by the Brazilian government’s offers of land grants, settled here from 1865 to around

1875. They’re joined by country mu-sic enthusiasts, history buffs and locals with a hankering for butter-milk biscuits or a fondness for “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

American Civil War commemorated way, way down south of Dixie

AP Photo/Andre PennerDescendants of American Southerners wearing Confederate-era dresses and uniforms dance during a party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War in Santa Barbara d’Oeste, Brazil, Sunday. For many of the residents of Santa Barbara d’Oeste and neighboring Americana, in Brazil’s southeastern Sao Paulo state, having Confederate ancestry is a point of pride and is celebrated in high style at the annual “Festa dos Confederados,” or “Confederates Party” in Portuguese.

AP Photo/Andre PennerDescendants of American Southerners prepare to attend a party to cele-brate the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War in Santa Barbara d’Oeste, Brazil, Sunday.

BY ADAM [email protected]

WEST POINT — Marion Bratton has been coaching long enough to know not to buck tradition.

But the Oak Hill Academy baseball coach also has learned that sometimes it’s better to do things differently if you sense an opportunity to lift the spirits of an individual or to snap your team out of its doldrums.

Bratton accomplished both of those goals last week with one talk.

BY ADAM [email protected]

CALEDONIA — Alex Burns wasn’t going to lower her head after the Caledonia High School fast-pitch softball team made one mistake.

Hope Burton shared the senti-ment and knew she had to forget the error and do her job if Caledonia was going to recapture the momentum.

The Lady Confederates accom-plished that goal is rousing fashion.

After an error in the top of the first inning helped Cleveland score three runs, Caledonia responded with five hits in a six-run outburst in the bottom half of the inning that propelled it to a 13-5 victory in Game 1 of the best-of-three Mississippi High School Activities Association Class 4A playoff series.

Caledonia (14-7) will try to wrap up the series in Game 2 at 5:30 p.m. today in Cleveland. If needed, the

BY BRANDON [email protected]

STARKVILLE — Ginger Brown-Lemm had done the math and had a few destinations in mind.

Mississippi State’s women’s golf coach knew her team, ranked No. 12 in the country, would receive a favor-able draw in the NCAA Champion-ships, so when her team’s destination was announced, Brown-Lemm let out


STARKVILLE — Benardrick McKinney hasn’t played a football game in more than three months.

That hasn’t stopped him from becoming one of the most polariz-ing prospects in the upcoming NFL draft.

McKinney, a three-year stalwart in the middle of Mississippi State’s defense, end-ed his college career following a 49-34 loss to Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. With two days remaining until the draft kicks

off, even the most embedded experts are having trouble predicting where the 6-foot-4, 246-pound linebacker is headed.

NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock, who had McKinney slotted as the draft’s No. 2 inside linebacker prospect following February’s NFL Combine, has dropped McKinney to


STARKVILLE — A turbulent offseason for Mississippi State’s football team continued over the weekend.

MSU freshman Deshun Dixon was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with driving under the influence. He was arrested by officers with the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office.

MSU had no comment on Dixon’s arrest.

Dixon is the third of four Dix-on brothers from Terry High School — following Anthony, a former standout running back in Starkville, and Rashun, who plays tight end for the Bulldogs. He joined the team in January as a walk-on. He is listed as an athlete on the Bulldogs’ spring roster. Deshun Dixon played three seasons of minor league baseball after signing with MSU out of high school.

It was the fourth arrest of an MSU player since March 13. Wide receiver De’Runnya Wil-son was arrested in his home state of Alabama and charged with second-degree possession of marijuana after a traffic stop on spring break.

Freshman offensive lineman Elgton Jenkins was arrested the following week for simple as-sault. On April 8, former MSU cornerback Jam-erson Love was arrested and charged with sim-ple domestic violence.

MSU coach Dan Mullen, in Georgia playing in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge golf tournament, was unavailable for comment.

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One of the Mississippi State baseball team’s most experienced pitchers has drawn the assignment of tackling the school’s biggest rival for the first time this season.

Senior Ross Mitchell, who won his only appearance in the Governor’s Cup series against Ole Miss with a 5-1 win in 2013, will starting at 6:30 tonight when MSU (23-21, 7-14 Southeastern Conference) takes on Ole Miss (23-22, 10-11) at Trustmark Park in Pearl. The game is a non-conference matchup.

Mitchell, who is fourth in the nation with 27 career wins, is 3-2 with a 4.30 ERA this season. This will be his first start of the season. At press time, Ole Miss hadn’t announced a starting pitcher.

Mitchell has made 18 relief appearanc-es this season. He has 14 strikeouts and 11 walks in 44 innings out of the bullpen.

MSU, which earned a 2-1 win against then-No. 25 Arkansas on Sunday, has won five of the past eight Governor’s Cup games. It is looking to become the first school to win three straight Governor’s Cup games.

Ole Miss went 3-2 last week in a five-game homestand. The Rebels had 68 hits last week, tallying double digits in four of the five games. The production helped Ole Miss improve its batting average by 15 points

In a series victory against Alabama, Ole Miss hit five home runs. Connor Cloyd (13-for-23, .565), Colby Bortles (9-for-18, .500), and Austin Knight (8-for-16, .500) hit .500 or better last week.

n Southern Mississippi will take on Alabama: At Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Ala-bama baseball team (23-20) will play host to Southern Mississippi (23-16-1) at 6:30 tonight (SEC Network +) at the Hoover Met. The game will kick off a six-game homestand.

Sophomore right-hander Nick Eicholtz (2-0, 1.32 ERA) is scheduled to start for Al-abama, while Southern Miss is expected to counter with junior right-hander Cord Cock-rell (2-0, 3.99).

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Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffMembers of the Caledonia High School fast-pitch softball team congratulate Alex Burns (55) after she hit a two-run home run in the third inning Monday against Cleveland in Game 1 of their best-of-three Mississippi High School Activities Association Class 4A first round State tournament series in Caledonia.

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LADY FEDS DELIVER BIG ANSWERSix-run first inning helps Caledonia seize momentum from Cleveland, take playoff opener

Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffCaledonia High School shortstop Gracie McCleskey had two hits Monday in a 13-5 victory against Cleveland.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — After the final buzzer of their Game 4 victory against the Memphis Griz-zlies on Monday night, the Portland Trail Blazers all gathered in a huddle at midcourt and raised their clasped hands skyward.

All of them were smil-ing. Portland had avoided elimination from the play-offs with a 99-92 victory against Memphis.

“I think since the last game when we went 0-3, the big thing we’ve been talking about is having heart and playing with pride — and just not being swept,” said Blazers guard Damian Lillard, who had 32 points. “Everybody’s always saying, ‘Nobody’s ever done it, coming back from 0-3.’ We didn’t want to focus on that. We want-ed to focus on just today, and doing everything we had to do to give ourselves a chance to keep playing.”

Memphis led by as many as 10 points in the fourth quarter, but Port-land rallied to deny the Grizzlies their first-ev-er playoff sweep. Lillard united the team in time-outs, then encouraged the hometown fans by gestur-ing for cheers late in the game.

LaMarcus Aldridge had 18 points and 12 re-bounds for Portland, while C.J. McCollum added 18 points — including two

BY CHARLES ODUMThe Associated Press

ATLANTA — Based on the intensity shown in the season’s first game between NL East rivals Washington and Atlanta, the remaining 18 games in the season series could be interesting.

Kelly Johnson homered and drove in three runs, Eric Stults pitched 6 1/3 strong innings and the Braves beat Washington 8-4 on Monday night to give the Nationals their

sixth-straight loss.Tensions rose following a hard slide into third

base by Atlanta’s Andrelton Simmons in the fifth. Simmons was safe when he knocked the ball out of Washington third baseman Yunel Escobar’s glove and Escobar left the game with a cut on his left hand.

Both dugouts were warned after Washington’s Ra-fael Martin hit Simmons with a pitch to open the bot-tom of the seventh. Jonny Gomes, who wasn’t playing, charged out of Atlanta’s dugout and was ejected.

Simmons defended his slide as “going hard.” He said he expected a response.

“I kind of knew they were looking at me kind of bad after the slide,” Simmons said. “I had it in my mind it might happen.”

Escobar, whose hand was swollen, said he ex-pects to miss a day or two.

Asked if he thought Simmons’ slide was clean, Nationals manager Matt Williams said “I’m not go-ing to comment on that.”

BY STEPHEN HAWKINSThe Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas — Josh Hamilton knows he never was the player the Los Angeles Angels wanted and expected him to be.

“I worked my butt off to be that guy this year going into this season for the Angels,” Hamilton said. “They just didn’t want that to happen for some reason.”

The Angels traded Hamilton back to AL West rival Texas, a deal completed Monday less than halfway through a $125 million, five-year contract for which Los Angeles will pay most of

the remaining $80 million the slugger is owed.

After a disap-pointing stay on the West Coast, where Hamilton struggled with his performance and injuries, and had a self-reported alcohol and cocaine relapse this off-season, the 2010 AL MVP is back home with the team for which he had his greatest success.

And he’s ready to final-ly start his spring train-ing.

“I’ve been working in the cage and doing all the things that I need to do to get prepared for a season

and feel really good as far as my men-tal state of mind and my physical well-being,” Ham-ilton said during a news conference in Texas before flying to Arizona.

Still on the 15-day disabled list recover-ing from offseason shoul-der surgery, and several weeks away from playing again in the majors, Ham-ilton reports Tuesday to the Rangers’ spring train-ing complex in Surprise. He will spend about 10 days in Arizona before an-other 10-14 days playing for Triple-A Round Rock.

“I feel good about our

chances to get a produc-tive player,” said Rang-ers general manager Jon Daniels. “This guy has been counted out a lot of times, and he sat out four years and came back and was the best player in the game. I’m not saying he’s going to perform at that level again, he doesn’t necessarily need to to help us.”

Hamilton was an All-Star in each of his five sea-sons in Texas (2008-12), and part of the franchise’s only World Series appear-ances in 2010 and 2011. He hit .305 with 152 hom-ers and 506 RBIs in 647 games for the Rangers.

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BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles’ home game against the Chicago White Sox was post-poned Monday night because of safety concerns after riots broke out near Camden Yards following the funeral of Freddie Gray.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, at the sta-dium for a previously planned visit, said tonight’s game between the Orioles and White Sox could be moved — possibly to Nationals Park in Washington — if safety continued to be an issue.

Rioters looted stores and threw rocks and bricks at Baltimore police about three miles from the sta-dium in the wake of the mysterious death of Gray. He died April 19 after suffering a severe spinal in-jury in police custody.

The Orioles announced the postponement about 40 minutes before gametime. About 1,000 fans were inside the stadium at the time, and many gates already had been closed.

The team said the game was called off after con-sultation with police. The White Sox were in Balti-more for the start of a three-game series.

“We feel like we made the decision that would provide us the greatest possible security in terms of protecting the fans, the players, the umpires, everybody involved in the game,” Manfred said. “I don’t know what more I can say about it at this point.”

Prior to the game, Orioles players gathered around a television in the clubhouse and watched the violence unfold. Police blocked off several streets near Camden Yards.

Orioles’ game against White Sox postponed

Johnson’s home run sparks Braves’ win

Atlanta 8, Washington 4

Hamilton ready to get back to work with Rangers

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BASKETBALL: NBA Playoffs

Grizzlies can’t close series in Portland

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Prep BaseballToday’s Games

Mississippi High School Activities Association Class 5A Playoffs —

First Round(Best-of-three series, Game 1)

New Hope at Pearl, 6:30 p.m.MHSAA Class 1A Playoffs — First Round

(Best-of-three series, Game 3)Hamilton at St. Joe’s, 6 p.m.

Mississippi Association of Independent Schools

Class AA Playoffs — Second Round(Best-of-three series, Game 1)

Oak Hill Academy at Winona Christian, 6 p.m.MAIS

Class A Playoffs – Second Round(Best-of-three series, Game 1)

Benton Academy at Hebron Christian, 5 p.m.Class AAA Regular Season

Heritage Academy at Washington School, 4 p.m.Magnolia Heights at Starkville Academy, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesMHSAA Class 5A Playoffs —


Pearl at New Hope, 6:30 p.m.MAIS Class A Playoffs — Second Round(Best-of-three series, Games 2 and 3)

Hebron Christian at Benton Academy, 4 p.m.Class AAA Regular Season

Starkville Academy at Magnolia Heights (DH), 4 p.m.Washington School at Heritage Academy (DH), 4 p.m.

Friday’s GamesMAIS

Class AA Playoffs – Second Round(Best-of-three series, Games 2 and 3)

Winona Christian at Oak Hill Academy, time TBA

Prep SoftballToday’s Games

MHSAAClass 5A Playoffs — First Round(Best-of-three series, Game 1)

New Hope at Vicksburg, 4 p.m.MHSAA Class 4A Playoffs —


Cleveland at Caledonia, 6 p.m.Class 1A Playoffs — First Round(Best-of-three series, Game 1)

Ingomar at Hamilton, 6 p.m.Tuesday’s Games

MHSAA Class 5A Playoffs — First Round

(Best-of-three series, Games 2 and 3)Vicksburg at New Hope, 4 p.m.

MHSAA Class 4A Playoffs — First Round(Best-of-three series, Games 2 and 3)

Caledonia at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.Class 1A Playoffs — First Round

(Best-of-three series, Games 2 and 3)Hamilton at Ingomar, 5:30 p.m.

College BaseballToday’s Games

Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss (Pearl), 6:30 p.m.Southern Mississippi vs. Alabama (Hoover), 6:30 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesLSU at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m.Arkansas vs. Alabama (Hoover), 6:30 p.m.

College SoftballWednesday’s Game

Ole Miss at Mississippi Valley State, 6 p.m.

TodayCOLLEGE BASEBALL

6 p.m. — Louisville at Kentucky, SEC Network6 p.m. — Nebraska at Creighton, CBS Sports Network7 p.m. — Oklahoma at Wichita State, ESPNU

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL6 p.m. — Washington at Atlanta, Fox Sports South6 p.m. — Regional coverage, Chicago White Sox at Baltimore or Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, MLB9 p.m. — Regional coverage, San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers or Houston at San Diego, MLB

SOCCER1:40 p.m. — Premier League, Liverpool at Hull City, NBC Sports Network

WednesdayCOLLEGE BASEBALL

6 p.m. — Kennesaw State at Auburn, SEC NetworkCOLLEGE SOFTBALL

4:30 p.m. — Minnesota at Wisconsin, Big Ten Network

GOLF3 p.m. — PGA Tour-WGC, Cadillac Match Play, day 1, at San Francisco, TGC

HORSE RACING4:30 p.m. — Kentucky Derby Draw, at Louisville, Kentucky, NBC Sports Network

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLNoon — Regional coverage, Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees or Detroit at Minnesota, MLB6 p.m. — Washington at Atlanta, SportSouth7 p.m. — Philadelphia at St. Louis, ESPN

NHL6:30 p.m. — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 7, Detroit at Tampa Bay, NBC Sports Network

PARALYMPICS9:30 p.m. — IPC, Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, preliminary round, teams TBA, at Buffalo, New York (same-day tape), NBC Sports Network

SOCCER1:55 p.m. — Premier League, Chelsea at Leicester City, NBC Sports Network

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BRIEFLYLocalCentral Arkansas announces signing of JCJC’s Baudoin

CONWAY, Ark. — The Central Arkansas women’s basketball team bolstered its frontcourt for the next three seasons with the signing of 6-foot forward Taylor Baudoin from Jones County Junior College.

Baudoin, a native of Columbus, who played at New Hope High School, comes to Central Arkansas following a freshman season at JCJC where she earned NJCAA Division I All-American honorable mention after averaging 18.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 2.6 steals in leading her team to a 19-8 record and appearance in the Region 23 tournament championship.

“I’m so excited to have Taylor sign with us,” Central Arkansas coach Sandra Rushing said. “Her inside presence is going to add another dimension to our team. She has a chance to help us a lot right away — the things she can do, we don’t really have. She’s a very phys-ical, aggressive player who can run the floor and rebounds very well. She can get the ball off the board, go the length of the floor and finish. She had an outstanding freshman year at Jones, being an All-American honorable mention, and she’s just going to continue to get better. Her best basketball is still ahead of her, and I’m happy that we’ve got her for three years.”

JCJC’s leading scorer last season, Baudoin reached double figures in 24 of 27 games, with 11 games of 20 or more points and a season high of 38. She recorded six double-doubles, had single-game highs of 16 rebounds, nine steals, five assists, and five blocked shots. She shot 51.6 percent from the field, 34.4 percent from 3-point range, and 78.1 percent at the free-throw line.

MSUMen’s, women’s track and field teams ranked

STARKVILLE — Capturing eight wins at the Southern Miss Invita-tional this past weekend, the Mississippi State men’s and women’s track and field teams moved up in the USTFCCCA rankings.

Moving up five spots from No. 18, the men’s team lands at No. 13, while the women moves back into the Top 25 at No. 22.

“I’m glad going into the last meet of the season that both teams are receiving national attention,” MSU coach Steve Dudley said. “I’m hoping after this weekend we can continue to improve our program. There’s still a lot to do this season.”

Senior Tautvydas Kieras in the discus. With an MSU record-break-ing throw of 196 feet, 11 inches. The throw ranks ninth nationally.

Senior Marcus Jackson is third in the nation in the high jump. Jack-son cleared a school record of 7 feet, 5 3/4 inches at the Florida Relays.

Junior Brandon McBride holds the third best time in the nation in the 800 meters with a time of 1 minute, 46.28 seconds, which came earlier this season at the Mt. SAC Relays.

The MSU women’s team captured three wins at the Southern Miss Invitational, with junior Marta Freitas earning her first win of the season in the 1,500 (4:26.67). With the second-best time nationally in the event is Rhianwedd Price with a time of 4:11.67. Price also holds the 12th-best time in the 800 (2:05).

With a time of 10:04.03, distance runner Cornelia Griesche holds the nation’s ninth-best time in the steeplechase.

Erica Bougard holds the fifth best points in the heptathlon this season with 5,962. She is also 16th in the high jump with a clearance of 5-11 1/2 and 22nd in the 100 hurdles (13.29).

Nine men’s teams and nine women’s teams are ranked in the SEC. Conference rival Texas A&M holds the No. 1 spot on the men’s team, while No. 1 on the women’s side is Southern California.

MSU will play host to the Jace LaCoste this Friday and Saturday at the Mike Sanders Track Complex. This will be the last regular-season meet of the season.

n Women’s tennis team welcomes Rentouli: At Starkville, the women’s tennis announced Monday the signing of Anastasia Rentouli to the Bulldog program. Rentouli will join the squad in the fall of 2015 as a freshman.

Hailing from Athens, Greece, Rentouli brings with her some impressive tournament experience. Rentouli has been a staple in ITF and European competition since 2012, when she won the U16 Greek National Championships in both singles and doubles. That same year, she also won two Team Europe tournaments in doubles and was a semifinalist in two more Team Europe tournaments, and ended the year ranked No. 1 in Greece Girls U16 competition.

AlabamaJury named SEC Pitcher of the Week

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — After going 2-0 while allowing one run in 11 1/3 innings, Alabama senior pitcher Leslie Jury has been named SEC Pitcher of the Week, announced by the league office Monday.

Jury earned two wins and a save this past weekend in three appearances. She struck out 10 and had an ERA of 0.62.

Junior CollegesBowens to be inducted into MACJC Sports Hall of Fame

FULTON —Former Itawamba Community College football stand-out Tim Bowens will be inducted into the Mississippi Association of Community and Juniors Colleges (MACJC) Sports Hall of Fame today in a special ceremony in Jackson.

Bowens’ athletic prowess was first recognized when he earned All-District honors in football as a junior at Okolona High School before grabbing the spotlight by leading the Chieftains to an 11-2 record and the Class 2A North State championship game while earning All-State and All-District honors as a senior.

At ICC, he was a two-time MACJC All-State selection and NJCAA All-American. He went on to play one season at Ole Miss, where he had 47 solo tackles, six assists, six sacks, five tackles for loss, four pass breakups, one interception, and one fumble recovery.

Bowens opted out of his senior season in Oxford and entered the 1994 NFL draft. Unsurprisingly, the first round selection made an immediate impact for the Dolphins. He was named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year by the Associated Press and was named to the All-Pro team after recording 44 solo tackles, eight assists, one fumble recovery, and three sacks as a rookie. He retired after an 11-year career with the Dolphins.

EMCC’s Eilders finishes fourth at NJCAA Region 23 Golf Championship to qualify for nationals

LAUREL — East Mississippi Community College sophomore Steven Eilders qualified for next month’s NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship by claiming a fourth-place individual finish Monday at the NJCAA Region 23 Championship at Laurel Country Club.

Eilders, who is from Ridgeland, climbed eight places during Mon-day’s final round by firing a 1-over-par 73 to record the lowest round of the day and collect all-region honors. His two-day total of 151 stood two strokes behind co-runners-up Connor Cavin of Meridian (74-75—149) and Mississippi Gulf Coast’s George Kawell (70-79—149). MGCCC’s Grant Motter, this year’s Hubert Tucker Award recipient as the MACJC’s stroke average leader, garnered individual medalist honors for the fifth time this spring with his composite score of 145 (71-74).

Mississippi Gulf Coast posted a 12-stroke victory (599-611) over runner-up Meridian C.C. to earn its eighth-consecutive regional golf team championship. EMCC finished third (620).

Fellow EMCC sophomore Hunter Harmon, an NJCAA Champion-ship participant a year ago and an MACJC second-team All-State recip-ient this season, completed the 6,699-yard, par-72 layout in a three-way tie for fifth (74-78—152) with Meridian’s Austin Terrell (74-78—152) and Phillip Hickam (75-77—152) of Gulf Coast.

Improving eight strokes and climbing nine notches from Sunday’s opening round with a 2-over-par 74 Monday, EMCC freshman Daniel Schroder placed 13th (156). Chase Chitwood (78-83—161) and Trent Humber (84-89—173) rounded out the Lions’ scorecard by finishing 19th and 26th, respectively.

This year’s NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship will be May 17-19 at Goose Pond Colony Golf Course in Scottsboro, Alabama.

— From Special Reports

Auto RacingSprint Cup Leaders

Through April 26Points

1, Kevin Harvick, 357. 2, Joey Logano, 324. 3, Martin Truex Jr., 315. 4, Jimmie Johnson, 299. 5, Brad Keselowski, 283. 6, Kasey Kahne, 275. 7, Matt Kenseth, 273. 8, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 271. 9, Jamie McMurray, 264. 10, Jeff Gordon, 263.11, Aric Almirola, 250. 12, Denny Hamlin, 245. 13, Paul Menard, 239. 14, Clint Bowyer, 235. 15, Ryan Newman, 234. 16, Danica Patrick, 230. 17, Carl Edwards, 228. 18, Kurt Busch, 222. 19, David Ragan, 218. 20, Kyle Larson, 205.

Money1, Kevin Harvick, $3,351,237. 2, Joey Logano, $2,989,187. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $2,374,995. 4, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $2,020,370. 5, Jeff Gordon, $1,820,409. 6, Brad Keselowski, $1,813,074. 7, Matt Kenseth, $1,778,994. 8, Denny Hamlin, $1,696,593. 9, Martin Truex Jr., $1,682,333. 10, Ryan Newman, $1,593,883.11, Jamie McMurray, $1,541,179. 12, Clint Bow-yer, $1,498,222. 13, Aric Almirola, $1,464,009. 14, Trevor Bayne, $1,436,490. 15, David Ra-gan, $1,430,226. 16, Casey Mears, $1,425,134. 17, Greg Biffle, $1,423,955. 18, Austin Dillon, $1,420,652. 19, Kasey Kahne, $1,367,564. 20, AJ Allmendinger, $1,331,838.

BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct. GBNew York 12 8 .600 —Boston 11 9 .550 1Tampa Bay 11 9 .550 1Baltimore 9 10 .474 2½Toronto 9 11 .450 3

Central Division W L Pct. GBDetroit 14 6 .700 —Kansas City 13 6 .684 ½Chicago 8 9 .471 4½Minnesota 8 11 .421 5½Cleveland 6 12 .333 7

West Division W L Pct. GBHouston 12 7 .632 —Los Angeles 9 10 .474 3Seattle 8 11 .421 4Oakland 8 12 .400 4½Texas 7 12 .368 5

Monday’s GamesKansas City 6, Cleveland 2Boston 6, Toronto 5N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 1Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, ppd., public safetySeattle 3, Texas 1Detroit 5, Minnesota 4Houston 9, San Diego 4

Today’s GamesKansas City (Guthrie 1-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 2-0), 5:10 p.m.Toronto (Hutchison 2-0) at Boston (Buchholz 1-2), 5:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 1-1) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-2), 6:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 0-0), 6:05 p.m.Seattle (Happ 1-1) at Texas (Detwiler 0-2), 7:05 p.m.Detroit (An.Sanchez 1-2) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 1-0), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-2) at Oakland (Gray 2-0), 9:05 p.m.Houston (R.Hernandez 0-2) at San Diego (T.Ross 1-1), 9:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesTampa Bay (Smyly 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 2-1), 12:05 p.m.Detroit (Greene 3-1) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 0-4), 12:10 p.m.Houston (Keuchel 2-0) at San Diego (Cashner 1-3), 2:40 p.m.Kansas City (Ventura 2-1) at Cleveland (Salazar 2-0), 5:10 p.m.Toronto (Dickey 0-2) at Boston (Porcello 1-2), 5:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Sale 2-0) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-2), 6:05 p.m.Seattle (F.Hernandez 3-0) at Texas (W.Rodriguez 0-0), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-1) at Oakland (Hahn 1-1), 9:05 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct. GBNew York 15 5 .750 —Atlanta 10 9 .526 4½Miami 8 12 .400 7Philadelphia 8 12 .400 7Washington 7 13 .350 8

Central Division W L Pct. GBSt. Louis 12 6 .667 —Chicago 11 7 .611 1Pittsburgh 11 9 .550 2Cincinnati 9 10 .474 3½Milwaukee 4 16 .200 9

West Division W L Pct. GBLos Angeles 12 7 .632 —Colorado 11 8 .579 1San Diego 11 10 .524 2Arizona 8 11 .421 4San Francisco 8 12 .400 4½

Monday’s GamesCincinnati 9, Milwaukee 6N.Y. Mets 3, Miami 1Atlanta 8, Washington 4Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 0Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 1Colorado 5, Arizona 4Houston 9, San Diego 4L.A. Dodgers 8, San Francisco 3

Today’s GamesMilwaukee (Lohse 1-3) at Cincinnati (Cueto 1-2), 6:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (R.Montero 0-1) at Miami (Phelps 1-0), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Roark 0-2) at Atlanta (Teheran 2-1), 6:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Locke 2-0) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 1-1), 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia (S.Gonzalez 0-0) at St. Louis (Wacha 3-0), 7:15 p.m.Colorado (K.Kendrick 1-2) at Arizona (Bradley 2-0), 8:40 p.m.Houston (R.Hernandez 0-2) at San Diego (T.Ross 1-1), 9:10 p.m.San Francisco (Bumgarner 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-1), 9:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesMilwaukee (Garza 1-3) at Cincinnati (Leake 0-1), 11:35 a.m.Houston (Keuchel 2-0) at San Diego (Cashner 1-3), 2:40 p.m.N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 4-0) at Miami (Latos 0-3), 6:10 p.m.Washington (Zimmermann 1-2) at Atlanta (A.Wood 1-0), 6:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Cole 3-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia (Harang 2-1) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 2-0), 7:15 p.m.Colorado (Lyles 2-1) at Arizona (Collmenter 1-3), 8:40 p.m.San Francisco (Vogelsong 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 3-0), 9:10 p.m.

Monday’s College ScoresEAST

Houghton 16, Utica 14Susquehanna 14, Gettysburg 7W. New England 11, Babson 2

SOUTHWinston-Salem 6-5-11, Virginia St. 1-4-2

Baseball America Top 25 DURHAM, N.C. — The weekly poll through April 26 (voting by the staff of Baseball America): Rec. Prv1. LSU 37-7 12. UCLA 31-9 33. Texas A&M 37-7 24. Louisville 34-10 45. TCU 34-8 56. Vanderbilt 33-12 87. Arizona State 28-12 78. Illinois 36-6 99. Florida State 33-13 1210. Florida 33-12 611. UC Santa Barbara 31-10 1112. Oklahoma State 29-14 1713. USC 30-12 1014. Missouri State 30-10 1515. Dallas Baptist 32-9 1616. Iowa 30-11 1817. Miami 31-13 1318. Florida Atlantic 33-10 2119. College of Charleston 32-9 2020. Missouri 26-18 1421. Maryland 30-13 2122. North Carolina 29-15 2323. Arkansas 26-18 2524. Memphis 29-13 NR25. Ohio State 31-10 NR

Collegiate Baseball Poll TUCSON, Ariz. — The weekly poll with records through April 26. Voting is done by coaches, sports writers and sports information directors: Rec. Pts Prv1. LSU 37-7 495 12. UCLA 31-9 493 23. Louisville 34-10 491 34. Texas Christian 34-8 489 75. Texas A&M 37-7 487 46. Arizona St. 28-12 484 57. Florida St. 33-13 482 88. Illinois 36-6-1 480 139. Vanderbilt 33-12 478 1410. Miami, Fla. 31-13 475 611. Oklahoma St. 29-14 473 912. Florida 33-12 471 1013. California 26-14 468 1614. U.C. Santa Barbara 31-10 465 1215. Iowa 30-11 463 1716. Southern California 30-12 459 1117. Missouri St. 30-10 456 1818. Oregon St. 27-13 454 2019. Dallas Baptist 32-9 452 2220. College of Charleston 32-9 449 2721. Rice 29-16 447 NR22. North Carolina 29-15 444 NR23. Ohio St. 31-10 441 NR24. Maryland 30-13 439 2125. Oklahoma 29-18 437 2326. Florida Atlantic 33-10 434 2527. Houston 29-15 432 2828. Texas Tech 27-17 430 2429. Nevada 33-11 428 2930. Arkansas 26-18 426 30

Southeastern ConferenceEastern Division

Conference All Games W L Pct. W L Pct.Vanderbilt 15 6 .714 33 12 .733Florida 13 8 .619 33 12 .733Missouri 12 9 .571 26 18 .591Kentucky 10 10 .500 25 17 .595South Carolina 9 12 .429 26 19 .578Tennessee 7 14 .333 18 21 .462Georgia 6 14 .300 21 23 .477

Western Division Conference All Games W L Pct. W L Pct.LSU 14 6 .700 37 7 .841Texas A&M 13 7 .650 37 7 .841Arkansas 11 10 .524 26 18 .591Auburn 10 11 .476 29 16 .644Mississippi 10 11 .476 23 22 .511Alabama 8 13 .381 23 20 .535Mississippi St. 7 14 .333 23 21 .523

Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Today’s GamesVanderbilt at Belmont, 5 p.m.Louisville at Kentucky, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)Alcorn State at LSU, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network +)Texas State at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network +)Southern Mississippi at Alabama, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network +)Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m. at Trustmark Park, PearlMissouri at Missouri State, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesXavier at Tennessee, 5 p.m. (SEC Network +)Kennesaw State at Auburn, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)

Thursday’s GamesLSU at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m. (ESPNU)Arkansas at Alabama, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)

Friday’s GamesTexas A&M at Tennessee, 5 p.m.Vanderbilt at Kentucky , 5:30 p.m.Arkansas at Alabama, 6 p.m. (SEC Network)Florida at Georgia, 6 p.m.Ole Miss at Missouri, 6 p.m.Auburn at South Carolina, 6 p.m. LSU at Mississippi State, 7 p.m. (ESPNU)

BasketballNBA Playoffs

FIRST ROUND(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)

Saturday, April 25Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 83Milwaukee 92, Chicago 90Golden State 109, New Orleans 98, Golden State wins series 4-0Memphis 115, Portland 109

Sunday’s GamesCleveland 101, Boston 93, Cleveland wins series 4-0L.A. Clippers 114, San Antonio 105, series tied 2-2Washington 125, Toronto 94, Washington wins series 4-0Dallas 121, Houston 109, Houston leads series 3-1

Monday’s GamesBrooklyn 120, Atlanta 115, OT, series tied 2-2Milwaukee 94, Chicago 88, Chicago leads series 3-2Portland 99, Memphis 92, Memphis leads series 3-1

Today’s GamesDallas at Houston, 7 p.m.San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesBrooklyn at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Portland at Memphis, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesChicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.x-Houston at Dallas, 6 or 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8 or 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesAtlanta at Brooklyn, 7 p.m.x-Memphis at Portland, 9 or 9:30 p.m.

Trail Blazers 99, Grizzlies 92

MEMPHIS (92): Allen 1-2 2-2 4, Randolph 6-20 0-0 12, Gasol 7-16 7-8 21, Calathes 4-10 0-0 12, Lee 8-11 2-2 19, Udrih 5-10 2-2 13, Je.Green 3-10 0-0 7, Koufos 1-1 0-0 2, Carter 1-2 0-0 2, Leuer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-82 13-14 92.

PORTLAND (99): Batum 3-13 4-6 12, Aldridge 6-22 6-6 18, Lopez 2-4 2-2 6, Lillard 12-23 7-7 32, Afflalo 0-5 0-0 0, McCollum 8-12 0-0 18, Leonard 5-6 0-0 13, Blake 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 36-87 19-21 99.Memphis 22 26 27 17 — 92Portland 27 28 13 31 — 99

3-Point Goals—Memphis 7-14 (Cala-thes 4-5, Je.Green 1-1, Udrih 1-2, Lee 1-3, Randolph 0-1, Gasol 0-1, Allen 0-1), Portland 8-25 (Leonard 3-3, McCollum 2-2, Batum 2-8, Lillard 1-5, Afflalo 0-2, Blake 0-2, Aldridge 0-3). Rebounds—Memphis 45 (Allen 10), Portland 55 (Batum, Leonard 13). Assists—Memphis 19 (Gasol 6), Portland 18 (Lillard 7). Total Fouls—Memphis 20, Portland 13. A—19,541 (19,980).

Bucks 94, Bulls 88MILWAUKEE (94): Antetokounmpo 5-12

1-1 11, Ilyasova 2-11 0-0 6, Pachulia 4-9 1-1 9, Carter-Williams 10-15 2-2 22, Middleton 8-16 3-3 21, Dudley 1-4 2-2 5, Henson 4-8 0-0 8, Mayo 2-8 5-5 10, Bayless 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 36-85 16-16 94.

CHICAGO (88): Dunleavy 0-3 0-0 0, Gasol 9-15 7-9 25, Noah 5-9 0-2 10, Rose 5-20 3-4 13, Butler 5-21 8-9 20, Gibson 4-8 4-5 12, Hinrich 0-1 0-0 0, Mirotic 1-6 0-0 3, Brooks 2-4 0-0 5, Snell 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 31-90 22-29 88.Milwaukee 23 29 24 18—94Chicago 22 27 21 18—88

3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 6-16 (Middle-ton 2-4, Ilyasova 2-6, Dudley 1-2, Mayo 1-3, Carter-Williams 0-1), Chicago 4-22 (Butler 2-4, Brooks 1-2, Mirotic 1-4, Dunleavy 0-2, Snell 0-3, Rose 0-7). Rebounds—Milwaukee 55 (Henson 14), Chicago 60 (Noah 13). Assists—Milwaukee 21 (Carter-Williams 9), Chicago 22 (Noah, Butler 6). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 24, Chicago 19. Technicals—Mayo, Butler. A—21,814 (20,917).

Nets 120, Hawks 115, OTATLANTA (115): Carroll 8-15 0-0 20, Mill-

sap 7-14 1-2 16, Horford 8-13 1-2 17, Teague 7-16 5-8 20, Korver 6-16 0-0 16, Antic 2-4 0-0 6, Bazemore 1-2 0-0 2, Schroder 4-9 2-2 10, Scott 3-6 1-1 8. Totals 46-95 10-15 115.

BROOKLYN (120): Johnson 5-16 5-5 17, Young 5-11 0-1 10, Lopez 11-19 4-6 26, Wil-liams 13-25 2-2 35, Bogdanovic 6-12 0-0 15, Jack 2-7 0-0 4, Anderson 4-6 1-3 11, Plumlee 0-0 2-4 2. Totals 46-96 14-21 120.Atlanta 24 27 31 22 11 — 115Brooklyn 25 20 29 30 16 — 120

3-Point Goals—Atlanta 13-33 (Carroll 4-5, Korver 4-13, Antic 2-3, Scott 1-2, Teague 1-4, Millsap 1-4, Bazemore 0-1, Schroder 0-1), Brooklyn 14-31 (Williams 7-11, Bogdanovic 3-6, Anderson 2-3, Johnson 2-6, Young 0-1, Jack 0-4). Rebounds—Atlanta 62 (Millsap 12), Brooklyn 49 (Lopez 10). Assists—Atlanta 27 (Teague 11), Brooklyn 25 (Williams 7). Total Fouls—Atlanta 19, Brooklyn 19. A—17,732 (17,732).

FootballArena League

NATIONAL CONFERENCEWest Division

W L T Pct. PF PAArizona 4 1 0 .800 295 231Las Vegas 2 2 0 .500 200 220Los Angeles 0 5 0 .000 191 286

Pacific Division W L T Pct. PF PASan Jose 5 0 0 1.000 281 189Portland 2 3 0 .400 229 263Spokane 1 3 0 .250 185 216

AMERICAN CONFERENCESouth Division

W L T Pct. PF PAOrlando 3 2 0 .600 281 270Tampa Bay 2 3 0 .400 221 219Jacksonville 1 4 0 .200 264 265

East Division W L T Pct. PF PAPhiladelphia 5 0 0 1.000 305 248Cleveland 3 2 0 .600 281 252New Orleans 1 4 0 .200 190 264

Saturday’s GamesPortland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Cleveland at Orlando, 6 p.m.Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Spokane at New Orleans, 7 p.m.San Jose at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Monday, May 4Los Angeles at Las Vegas, 9:30 p.m.

HockeyNHL Playoffs

FIRST ROUND(Best-of-seven)

Saturday, April 25N.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1, series tied 3-3Detroit 4, Tampa Bay 0, Detroit leads series 3-2Chicago 4, Nashville 3, Chicago wins series 4-2Calgary 7, Vancouver 4, Calgary wins series 4-2

Sunday’s GamesMinnesota 4, St. Louis 1, Minnesota wins series 4-2Montreal 2, Ottawa 0, Montreal wins series 4-2

Monday‘s GamesTampa Bay 5, Detroit 2, series tied 3-3Washington 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, Washington wins series 4-3

Wednesday’s GameDetroit at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

SoccerMLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GANew England 4 2 2 14 10 7D.C. United 4 1 2 14 8 6New York 3 0 3 12 10 5Columbus 3 2 2 11 12 6Chicago 3 3 0 9 6 7Orlando City 2 4 2 8 6 10Toronto FC 2 4 0 6 10 11New York City FC 1 4 3 6 5 7Philadelphia 1 5 3 6 10 17Montreal 0 2 2 2 2 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GAVancouver 5 3 1 16 11 9FC Dallas 4 2 2 14 11 11Seattle 4 2 1 13 10 5Los Angeles 3 2 3 12 9 8Houston 2 2 4 10 10 8Sporting Kansas City 2 2 4 10 11 12San Jose 3 4 0 9 7 9Portland 2 3 3 9 7 8Real Salt Lake 2 2 3 9 6 9Colorado 1 2 4 7 6 6

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s GameColorado at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesFC Dallas at Houston, 7 p.m.San Jose at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesToronto FC at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.Columbus at D.C. United, 6 p.m.New York at New England, 6:30 p.m.Vancouver at Portland, 9:30 p.m.Colorado at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesChicago at Sporting Kansas City, 4 p.m.Seattle at New York City FC, 6 p.m.

SoftballSEC

Conference All Games W L Pct. W L Pct.Florida 16 4 .800 47 4 .922Auburn 16 5 .762 44 8 .846LSU 14 7 .667 42 8 .840Alabama 14 7 .667 38 11 .776Missouri 13 8 .619 35 11 .761Georgia 14 9 .609 39 13 .750Tennessee 12 9 .571 36 13 .735Mississippi St. 9 12 .429 34 16 .680Texas A&M 9 12 .429 34 17 .667South Carolina 8 13 .381 34 18 .654Mississippi 6 15 .286 29 21 .580Kentucky 5 16 .238 29 20 .592Arkansas 1 20 .048 15 33 .313

Monday’s GameLSU 9, Missouri 0

Today’s GamesNo games scheduled

Wednesday’s GamesSoutheast Missouri State at Arkansas (DH), 3 p.m. (SEC Network +)Northern Iowa at Missouri (DH), 4 p.m.Southeastern Louisiana at LSU, 6 p.m.Ole Miss at Mississippi Valley State, 6 p.m.Texas State at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network +)

Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled

Friday’s GamesKentucky at Tennessee, 5:30 p.m. Alabama at Arkansas, 6 p.m. (SEC Network +)Auburn at LSU, 6 p.m. (SEC Network +)Mississippi State at South Carolina, 6 p.m. (SEC Network +)Florida at Missouri, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network +)Ole Miss at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. (SEC Network +)

TennisATP World Tour

Millennium Estoril OpenMonday

At Estadio NacionalOeiras, Portugal

Purse: $537,400 (WT250)Surface: Clay-Outdoor

SinglesFirst Round

Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4.Borna Coric, Croatia, def. Jeremy Chardy (6), France, 6-2, 6-4.Gilles Muller (8), Luxembourg, def. Frederico Ferreira Silva, Portugal, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, def. Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, 6-3, 6-3.

WTA J&T Banka Prague Open

MondayAt TK Sparta Praha, Prague

Purse: $250,000 (Intl.)Surface: Clay-Outdoor

SinglesFirst Round

Alize Cornet (5), France, def. Kristina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-3.Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, def. Irina-Camelia Begu (6), Romania, 6-3, 6-3.Denisa Allertova, Czech Republic, def. Coco Vandeweghe, United States, 6-4, 6-1.Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-1.Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-0.Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (5).Zhang Shuai, China, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (4), Russia, 6-4, 6-3.Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def. Camila Giorgi (8), Italy, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.

DoublesFirst Round

Madison Brengle, United States, and Janette Husarova, Slovakia, def. Paula Kania, Poland, and Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 10-6.Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, and Eva Hrdinova, Czech Republic, def. Katerina Vankova and Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-3.Jana Cepelova and Chantal Skamlova, Slovakia, def. Nicole Melichar and Asia Muhammed, United States, 6-1, 6-3.Klara Koukalova and Tereza Smitkova, Czech Republic, def. Vera Dushevina, Russia, and Andrea Hlavackova (3), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-3.

WTA Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem

MondayAt Le Royal Tennis Club de Marrakech

Marrakech, MoroccoPurse: $250,000 (Intl.)Surface: Clay-Outdoor

SinglesFirst Round

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (7), Slovakia, def. Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, 6-4, 6-4.Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, def. Kurumi Nara, Japan, 7-6 (3), 6-4.

DoublesFirst Round

Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (1), France, def. Rita Atik and Zaineb El Houari, Morocco, 6-1, 6-1.Stephanie Foretz and Pauline Parmentier, France, def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Renata Voracova (3), Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-6 (3).Olga Savchuk and Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, def. Ghita Benhadi, Morocco, and Ilze Hattingh, South Africa, 6-1, 6-0.Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgium, and Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, def. Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith, Britain, 6-4, 6-7 (1), 11-9.Sandra Klemenschits, Austria, and Tatjana Maria, Germany, def. Tatiana Bua, Argentina, and Daniela Seguel, Chile, 7-5, 7-6 (5).

TransactionsMonday’s Moves

BASEBALLAmerican League

BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled RHP Steven Wright from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned RHP Heath Hembree to Pawtucket.HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled OF L.J. Hoes from Fresno (PCL). Optioned RHP Asher Wojciechowski to Fresno.TEXAS RANGERS — Acquired OF Josh Hamilton and cash considerations from the Los Angeles Angels for a player to be named or cash considerations. Transferred RHP Nick Tepesch from the 15- to the 60-day DL. Recalled LHP Alex Claudio from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned RHP Tanner Scheppers to Round Rock.

National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS — Recalled OF Junior Lake from Iowa (PCL). Optioned RHP Brian Schlitter to Iowa.CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled RHP Carlos Contreras from Louisville (IL). Placed RHP Homer Bailey on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 24.COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Adam Ottavino on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jorge Rondon from Albuquerque (PCL).LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Traded LHP Xavier Cedeno to Tampa Bay for cash considerations.MIAMI MARLINS — Reinstated C Jarrod Saltalamacchia from paternity the list and designated him for assignment.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

NBA — Suspended Cleveland G J.R. Smith two games and Boston C Kelly Olynyk one game for their roles in separate incidents during an April 26 game. Thorn, President, Basketball Operations. Announced the Flagrant Foul 1 called on Cleveland C Kendrick Perkins, was upgraded to a Flagrant Foul 2 and he was fined $15,000.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

BUFFALO BILLS — Released DB Jonte Green.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Re-signed LB Jerrell Freeman.NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived RB Michael Cox.WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Promoted Ross Taylor to director of communications. Named Zena Lewis media services coordinator.Canadian Football LeagueEDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released CB Robert Sands and QB Matt Scott.WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released DE Jason Vega and OL Steve Morley.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

FC DALLAS — Loaned MF Danny Garcia to Arizona United (USL).

STANDARDBRED RACINGNEW YORK STATE GAMING COMMISSION — Fined trainer Luis Pena $343,400 and banned him three years for illegally drugging horses.

COLLEGEFLORIDA — Announced men’s senior basketball G Eli Carter will transfer.MICHIGAN — Announced men’s sophomore basketball G Austin Hatch was approved a medical exemption waiver allowing him to keep his scholarship and serve as an undergraduate student assistant.NORTH CAROLINA — Announced wom-en’s freshman basketball G Paris Kea has transferred from Vanderbilt.SOUTH CAROLINA — Announced women’s senior basketball F Sarah Imovbioh has transferred from Virginia.ST. JOHN’S — Granted men’s basketball G Samir Doughty a release from his National Letter of Intent.TEXAS A&M — Annnounced basketball G Anthony Collins will transfer from South Florida.TEXAS — Named David Harris special assistant, video coordinator for men’s basketball.UTSA — Named Greg Sheen women’s soccer coach.

The DispaTch • www.cdispatch.com TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 3B

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

By The Associated Press

MACOMB, Ill. — A West-ern Illinois University line-backer soon will give an infant suffering from a rare immune disorder a bone marrow trans-plant.

School officials said Sopho-more Jordan Veloz, 20, signed up last year during a bone mar-row registry drive on campus. The “Get in the Game” drive, a national initiative that was be-gan in 2008 by Villanova Coach Andrew Talley, is designed to build the National Bone Mar-

row Donor Registry.The player was informed

last month he might be a match. It was confirmed this month. “It hasn’t really hit me yet, but I feel like I am just do-ing what I should do,” Veloz said. “But there are times I stop and think, ‘Wow, it is all in my hands.’ ”

Veloz said he hopes when people hear about his donation they will feel inspired to go out to get registered. He said that registering takes just about 15-20 minutes, followed by swabs

taken from the donor’s mouth. The DNA goes into the national bone marrow registry.

The president and co-found-er of Western Illinois’ Be the Match chapter president Grant Severs said a patient’s likelihood of finding a matching donor on the organization’s registry is estimated to range from 66-93 percent. He added that each year, more than 12,000 patients are diagnosed with a life-threat-ening disease, such as leuke-mia, whose best hope for a cure is a marrow transplant.

Western Illinois player to donate bone marrow to infant

teams will play Game 3 approximately 30 minutes after the first game.

Gracie McCleskey had a triple, Makayla Taylor had a double, Burton, and Lauren Duckworth, and Burns had singles to fuel the attack. The Lady Wildcats (12-7) also com-mitted two errors that en-abled the Lady Confeder-ates to send 10 batters to the plate against starting pitcher Bree Garner.

The uprising helped erase the memory of the top of first, when Burns couldn’t handle a throw from Burton, the pitch-er, on an attempted force play at third base. The throw after Burton field-ed a comebacker off the bat of Morgan Ray went off Burns’ glove and rolled to the fence. After a walk, AP Hackney’s two-run double gave Cleveland an early cushion.

“We have gotten re-ally good at keeping our heads up, so errors like that we just have to swipe off and keep our focus on the game,” said Burns, one of three seniors on the team. “We have been really strong this year keeping our heads up in the game whether we are down or whatever. We have done really well with that this year.”

Burns said the team has used the slogan “tear the roof off” to remind the players to support each other through the ups and downs in a game. The say-ing comes from Mark 2:4 in which four men tear the roof off of a house to low-er a paralyzed man inside so he can meet Jesus. She said she knew she, Bur-ton, and classmate Nicole Kifer have to re-assure their teammates that it is OK if someone makes a mistake and that it is cru-cial for everyone to put it behind them and take care of business.

Burns made sure she did her part by smack-ing a two-run home run, her second of the season, in the third. The blast scored Stephanie Wil-kes, who had singled, and gave the Lady Confeder-ates a three-run lead after the Lady Wildcats inched closer with two runs in the top of the second.

Burns said she doesn’t have a sense when she makes solid contact to hit a home run. She smiled and said, “I am just pray-ing the whole time, and the Lord just leads my bat.” The home run was part of a three-hit night for Burns, who paced a 14-hit attack.

“We have hit the ball great,” Burns said. “This year has been the best year we have hit. That used to be our downfall, but this year we have got-ten so much better at it.”

Hope Harbin, who cel-ebrated her 15th birthday Monday, Burton, and Wil-kes had two hits, as eight starters had at least one hit. The offensive explo-sion backed Burton, who allowed only five hits. She worked through five walks and struck out two in a complete-game effort.

Burton surrendered only two hits in the final five innings. She struck out Hackney to escape a jam in the sixth after a throwing error put two runners in scoring posi-tion. The scoreless half inning helped shut the door following Caledo-nia’s four-run fifth.

Burton said the play in the first inning motivated her to throw more strikes so she could get ahead in counts and put herself in better position to help her team. Little did she

know that everyone was going to rise up and help the Lady Confederates re-take the momentum.

“I didn’t think it was going to come that quick-ly, but I knew it was going to come because our team is doing so great with hit-ting,” Burton said. “They have been doing well with not putting our heads down. We like to focus and do our best to come out on top.”

Caledonia coach Robin Elmore said the team’s hitting is a result of a lot of work in the batting cages, off the Iron Mike pitching machine, or off live prac-tice pitching, usually from assistant coach Devon Downey. Elmore hoped the Lady Confederates could find a way to get out of the top of the first because she knew the team’s offense could help it re-gain its confidence. The result was even more than she expected.

“There couldn’t be a better illustration of tear the roof off because no matter how bad it has got-ten they have never got-ten down,” Elmore said. “They have stayed up and they believe. Every game, just like I told then, that is part one. Part two is coming (today). I can’t tell you how proud I am of the chemistry and unity of the team.”

n New Hope 11,

Vicksburg 9: At Vicks-burg, Savannah Britt had three hits and five RBIs Monday to lead the Lady Trojans in Game 1 of their Class 5A best-of-three playoff series.

Game 2 will be at 4 p.m. today in Columbus. The if-needed game will follow approximately 30 minutes after Game 2.

Lanora Abrams had two hits and two RBIs, while Kelsey Gerhart had two hits. Brittni Beard allowed only five hits in a complete-game effort. New Hope had 14 hits to help it offset six errors.

The winner of the se-ries will play the winner of the series between two-time reigning state champion Neshoba Cen-tral and Lake Cormorant. That series is scheduled for Friday and Saturday.

n In other prep games Monday, the Hamilton High baseball team de-feated Pine Grove 8-4 in Game 3 of its best-of-three Class 1A playoff series to win the series. Hamilton will advance to play St. Joe’s today.

The Hamilton High fast-pitch softball team defeated Ingomar 13-9 in Game 1 of its Class 1A best-of-three playoff se-ries. It will play Game 2 at 5:30 today.

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out a celebratory yell and pumped her fist.

“I had a feeling we were either going to be sent to Utah or North Carolina,” said Brown-Lemm, who watched the live broadcast of the tournament selection show at Starkville’s Buffalo Wild Wings with her players. “When I saw we were going to North Caroli-na, I was terribly excited. This team has a lot of great memories of North Carolina, and we are thrilled to be heading there.”

MSU will be the No. 3 seed in the East Regional on May 7-9 at the Lonnie Pool Golf Course in Raleigh, North Carolina, home course of North Carolina State.

MSU will be one of 16 teams play-ing in Raleigh. The top eight fin-ishers will move on to the NCAA Championships. The field will in-clude a number of Southeastern Conference teams, including No. 1 seed South Carolina, No. 2 seed LSU, and No. 8 seed Alabama.

“We are not surprised there will be other SEC teams,” MSU senior Ally McDonald said. “This is a brutal conference with some of the best teams in the country. We are excited about the oppor-tunity.”

The Bulldogs are coming off a 12th-place finish at the SEC tour-nament in Birmingham, Alabama. Brown-Lemm said the postseason

is a chance for redemption. Last season, MSU also finished 12th in the SEC tournament and went on to take third in the Central Regional in Norman, Oklahoma. The team then took sixth at the NCAA Championship.

“Sometimes when you have a bad round, you have to remem-ber how far you have come,” said Brown-Lemm, who is in her fifth season as coach. “These ladies have matured so much on the golf course and have come together as a team every single year. I don’t look for anything but great scores coming in North Carolina.”

McDonald, a senior from Ful-ton, has been MSU’s best player

for the past three seasons. This season, she earned victories at the Schooner Fall Classic and at the Old Waverly Invitational in West Point. MSU won the team competition at both events.

In her final days as a Bulldog, McDonald can feel the tension of a career coming to a close.

“I don’t have class anymore, so it has already become reality,” McDonald said. “I definitely can tell it’s going to be over soon, but I am excited about the opportunity in North Carolina. We have really been preparing for this, and ev-eryone is just ready to get there and play.”

MSU enters the NCAA Re-

gionals as the No. 3 seed in a regional for the second-straight year.

“I am excited to go to North Carolina, as it’s really one of the sites we wanted to go to the most,” Brown-Lemm said. “The weather is more consistent there, better than some of the other locations. More importantly, though, the grass is similar to what we have here in Mississippi, where as some of the other sites have grass that is completely different than what we are used to. We hope to use this at our advantage.”


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fifth on that list. But Bucky Brooks, who also works for NFL Network, has McKin-ney listed as the draft’s top inside linebacker.

“He is a hard-hitting ‘Mike’ linebacker,” Brooks said. “He has the physical skills and intangibles to de-velop into a Pro Bowl-cal-iber player early in his ca-reer.”

The divide between Brooks and Mayock has become the norm. As the draft nears, mock drafts on sites like ESPN.com and SportsIllustrated.com, have varied. Sports Illus-trated predicts McKinney will go to the Minnesota Vikings early in the second round, while ESPN slots him as a potential third-round pick.

ESPN analyst Todd Mc-Shay, who once had McK-inney in the top 30 pros-

pects, dropped the Tunica native to No. 62 Monday.

So why the wide range of opinions about McKin-ney? And why the sudden fall in some experts’ mock drafts?

“I think it has a lot to do with production versus potential,” said Eric Galko of OptimumScouting.com. “He has an NFL body and he’s played in a great league. But some might look at say that 71 tackles as a junior, that’s not very much production, so it will be a choice teams will have to make on him come draft night.”

McKinney is staying above the fray.

“I can’t worry about that,” McKinney said March 18 after MSU’s Pro Day. “I can control what I can control, and the rest is up to somebody else. I have

a belief in myself and I plan to make some team happy with me.”

It’s hard to tell which team that would be. Since MSU’s Pro Day, McKinney has been on a whirlwind of a pre-draft tour. He has been flown in to more than 10 cities to meet with NFL teams, including the Mi-ami Dolphins, the Minne-sota Vikings, the Denver Broncos, and the Pitts-burgh Steelers.

The Dolphins, who have a need at linebacker, have the 14th pick in the first round. Minnesota has the 12th pick.

Still, a first-round pick seems unlikely for McK-inney, who likely will be selected on the second day of the draft. The first round will be Thursday night in Chicago. Rounds two and three will be Friday. The

final four rounds will be Saturday.

At the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, McKinney ran a 4.66-second 40-yard dash, good for sixth among middle linebackers. He also recorded a vertical jump of 40.5 inches, good for third among linebackers.

Mayock said a lack of quickness might be the biggest knock against McKinney. Appearing on NFL Network’s Path to the Draft, Mayock said, “McK-inney’s straight-line speed in good, but he is not as quick as other linebackers in the draft.”

A first-team All-South-eastern Conference selec-tion as a junior, McKinney finished his career with 244 tackles and 7.5 sacks in three seasons. As a ju-nior, he helped the Bull-dogs race to a 9-0 start and

claim the school’s first No. 1 ranking.

Those around McKin-ney believe in the former two-star recruit out of Rosa Fort High School.

“I think a guy like Be-nardrick McKinney is basically the poster child for our football program,” MSU coach Dan Mullen said. “He had one offer out of high school, played in a very small town, and not a lot of people noticed him. But he put in the work, he showed up here and be-came one of the best play-ers in the country. He will be making money to play football.”

Mullen isn’t the only ob-server from MSU betting on McKinney.

“It really doesn’t matter where he gets drafted,” said former MSU safety Jay Hughes, who also was

a part of a defense that helped MSU win 10 games this past season. “Wheth-er he’s drafted in the first round or second round or third round, Benardrick is a beast. He’s a very hard worker. He’s smart. He has all the tools, so whatever teams are seeing that they don’t like, it’s not going to matter. Whoever picks Be-nardrick is going to get a great player.”

Regardless of where he is selected, McKinney plans to have fun. Two weeks ago, he accepted an invitation to attend the draft.

“I am just enjoying the process,” McKinney said. “This is something that only happens once, so I am going to let it play out and we will see what happens.”


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Luisa Porter/Dispatch StaffCaledonia High School senior pitcher Hope Burton allowed five hits in a complete-game effort Monday night in a 13-5 victory against Cleveland.

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In the process, he might have helped Drew Riley have the best pitching per-formance of the season.

Coming off a lackluster performance in a 7-4 victory against Riverfield Acade-my (La.) in Game 1 of their best-of-three Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Class AA playoff series, Bratton sat his team down for a clear-the-air talk. The conversation wound up lasting 30 minutes and touched on a number of topics, including a way to get Riley to forget the first game. Despite the victory, Riley wasn’t in good spirits after striking out a couple of times. The junior right-hander felt he needed to do more, especially since he stated at the beginning of the season he wanted to be the team’s MVP.

Bratton knew exactly what to say. Knowing Riley might have been putting too much on his shoulders, Bratton asked Riley, “What would you think if the con-ference (Class AA, District 2) already had selected the MVP and that it had select-ed you?”

Bratton said all Riley could do in response was keep his head down and grin.

“I always hold (awards players receive) until the end, but I just felt like it was time,” Bratton said. “It was a way to vent the team and re-lax the ballclub, and I hope it works. So far it has.”

Riley responded by pitching a complete-game one-hitter Friday in an 8-0 victory against Riverfield Academy that helped Oak Hill Academy take the se-ries.

For his accomplishment. Riley is The Dispatch’s Prep Player of the Week.

“I just cleared my mind and did what I had to do and was successful,” Riley said. “I felt like this past game ev-erything was falling perfect-ly in hand. It was probably our best game of the year. Everybody had a part in the game.”

Riley and the Raiders will try to build off that series victory starting at 6 tonight when they take on Winona Christian in Game 1 of that best-of-three series. Game 2 is scheduled to be in West Point on Friday. If needed, Game 3 would follow ap-proximately 30 minutes af-ter the previous game.

Riley said he knew after the first inning that he could

“control the mound” and that things were going to go well. Even though he hadn’t faced Riverfield Academy, Riley said he stayed focused and pitched the best game he has had in a long time.

“After the first few in-nings, I thought about it for a little bit and I was like, ‘I don’t need to think about it because something is going to go wrong,’ ” Riley said. “I just told myself I needed to keep doing my thing, keep throwing strikes, and let the infield work for me. The in-fielders and outfielders had my back.”

Bratton said Riley’s only loss of the season was a 1-0 decision to Tri-County in the first district game of the season. He said Riley has been steady all season thanks to good control.

“He has pretty much been our go-to guy,” Bratton said. “If he makes a mistake, he doesn’t dwell on it.”

Riley didn’t make many against Riverfield Academy, allowing only a hit to the No. 9 hitter and hitting another batter. Aside from those two at-bats, Riley was solid, mix-ing his pitches to keep his defense in the game. The Raiders (13-5) responded with their second errorless game of the season.

“Everybody realized maybe we’re coming to-gether,” Bratton said. “We played our best ballgame. I was very, very proud of them.”

Bratton said the Raiders have overcome an injury to senior Drake Riley, one of the team’s leading hitters last season. He said every-one else has emerged to do their part, including soph-omore Powell Tabor and senior Blake Henley, who are splitting time in left field in the absence of Drake Ri-ley. Bratton said the team’s versatility allows him to move three or four players to different position to suit his needs depending on the situation.

With Drew Riley, Bratton said consistency is the key. Whether it is at the plate or on the mound, he knows Ri-ley is going to deliver.

Riley said he knew he was going to start Game 2. He said Bratton told him to forget about Game 1 and he was able to clear his mind.

“It turns out I pitched the best game I have pitched all year,” Riley said.

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BY JOHN ZENORThe Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder thinks Wladimir Klitschko is “losing the juice,” but he’s still awaiting a chance to prove it.

That was Wilder’s as-sessment after attending Klitschko’s lopsided victo-ry over Bryant Jennings on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

“It gave me a great

look,” he said Sunday. “That’s what I was there for. I was really doing more of a scouting report, and I got what I was looking for. Klitschko, he’s losing the juice, I would say.

“I’m proud of Bryant Jen-nings. He did a great job. He put up a great fight. He gave all he could give and that was that, but now the world is looking for Klitsc-hko and Wilder. I want it to be the biggest and best fight in boxing history.”

The undefeated Wild-

er, who is 33-0 with 32 knockouts, isn’t expecting that to happen until 2016. Wilder said he and Klitsc-hko have sparred for 50-plus rounds.

The Tuscaloosa native attended the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama on Sunday. He was supposed to serve as grand marshal but me-chanical problems with the plane meant he didn’t ar-rive at Barber Motorsports Park in time.

Wilder was cleared to resume training on April

20 after breaking his right hand in winning the WBC title with a decision over Bermane Stiverne on Jan. 17. That made him the first American to win a piece of the heavyweight title since Shannon Briggs in 2006.

He expects to fight again in June, but he isn’t sure of the location or op-ponent.

In the meantime, Wild-er is set to attend the latest “biggest and best fight in boxing history” with Man-ny Pacquiao versus Floyd

Mayweather Saturday night in Las Vegas.

The cheapest ticket on the StubHub website Sunday was $5,245, while ringside seats were be-ing offered for as much as $106,950.

BY GREG BEACHAMThe Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Manny Pacquiao and train-er Freddie Roach have spent the past two months trying to solve the biggest puzzle in modern boxing.

How does anybody hit Floyd Mayweather Jr., a fighter whose perfect ca-reer is built on being nearly impossible to touch?

Pacquiao and Roach will reveal their answer in de-tail Saturday night in Las Vegas, when the fighters meet in the richest bout in boxing history. But clues to a strategy for breaking Mayweather’s impenetra-ble defense were evident in Pacquiao’s final workout at

Roach’s Wild Card gym in Hollywood on Monday.

Pacquiao was a whirl-wind of motion from the moment he stepped in the ring, throwing dozens of punches in combinations against Roach’s mitts and chest protector. While Roach took a much-de-served break, Pacquiao shadowboxed across the canvas, peppering the air with hundreds of rapid-fire punches long after his workout could have been over.

“You can beat Floyd Mayweather if you outwork him and never give him a chance to do the things he does best,” Roach said. “Manny is punching real hard, but I want him to

outscore (Mayweather) in every round. I think we can win a 12-round decision. We want to throw a ton of punches.”

Pacquiao is betting on aggression, activity and punch volume to defeat Mayweather, according to the fighter and his long-time trainer. The eight-di-vision world champion has trained fiercely to fight 12 rounds of nonstop offense against the pre-eminent defensive fighter of his gen-eration.

“I’m not really looking for a knockout,” Pacquiao said. “We’re not looking only for a knockout, but for throwing a lot of punches, and also making sure that every round, we’re ahead

on points.”Pacquiao has built his

remarkable career on otherworldly quickness and old-fashioned volume punching, both outma-neuvering and outworking nearly all of his opponents over the past 10 years. He has never faced a fighter with Mayweather’s skills in defense and counter-punching, but Roach be-lieves Mayweather has never dealt with an oppo-nent as relentless as the southpaw Filipino con-gressman.

“Our volume of com-binations is much high-er than Mayweather’s,” Roach said. “Mayweather waits for you to finish your combination and throws

back with the big right hand or the check hook, and we’re not going to be there for that. We’re going to be in and out, and I plan on Manny outscoring him that way.”

Roach also seems con-fident Pacquiao can move better than Mayweather in a 12-round fight, a re-markable prediction based on observation. The train-er believes Mayweather’s legs will fade in the second half of the fight, particular-ly if Pacquiao chases him around the ring for the first half.

Evidence of the decline in the 38-year-old May-weather’s legs is debatable, but Roach insists he saw it in Mayweather’s two most

recent fights against Mar-cos Maidana. The hard-hit-ting Argentine seemed to land more clean shots on Mayweather than anybody in recent history through persistence and volume, although Mayweather has scoffed at the notion.

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BY JOSH ABNERThe Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — American Pharoah put in his final workout be-fore the Kentucky Derby, and trainer Bob Baffert says his colt is quite com-fortable with the track at Churchill Downs.

The likely favorite for the Derby worked five furlongs in 58.40 seconds under Martin Garcia on Sunday. Looking on was Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who arrived from California to supervise, and owner Ahmed Zayat.

The colt has been in Lou-isville since April 13 after winning the Arkansas Der-by by eight lengths.

Baffert says American Pharoah handled his lone workout on the dirt strip well and he looks great.

“He was doing it in hand, but that’s the way he works,” Baffert said of the move, the fastest of 32 at the distance.

American Pharoah takes a four-race winning streak into the Derby. He’s won those races by a combined 22 ¼ lengths, all under Vic-tor Espinoza, who will be aboard in the Derby.

Baffert now waits for Wednesday’s post-posi-tion draw that he called “probably the last stress-ful moment that we have.”

BY MICHAEL MAROTThe Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Kevin Lennon is putting transfer rule changes near the top of his priority list.

The NCAA’s new vice president for Division I gov-ernance told The Associat-ed Press there are growing concerns among the divi-sion’s 345 members about the surging number of stu-dents switching schools — and that the debate could come to a close sometime in the next year.

Some of the ideas ban-died about would have a dramatic impact on gradu-ate transfer students. The proposals include giving schools the ability to re-strict where ex-players can go and requiring the athletes to sit out one year before becoming eligible.

Undergrads already are required to sit out one year, but the current rules allow players with bachelor’s de-grees to transfer to another school and become eligible immediately if they attend grad school.

“If you’re transferring to be in a graduate program, the NCAA wants you to be working in earnest toward that degree rather than just using up your last year of eligibility,” Lennon said last week, noting there are no formal proposals.

Lennon has spent the past several weeks reach-ing out to school leaders and fine-tuning his vision for the future. The Harvard and Ohio University grad-uate replaced longtime NCAA executive David Berst on April 6 after Berst announced he would retire

this summer.One of the hottest topics

is transfers. According to an NCAA report based on statistics from ESPN, 604 Division I men’s basketball players changed schools in 2014 compared with 455 in 2013.

Lennon said finding a consensus about potential solutions has been tricky.

“You have one line of thinking that says when a student has earned their undergraduate degree they’ve earned the right to go wherever they want without any kind of NCAA restrictions,” Lennon said. “I think, unfortunately, what the data has shown is that people are transferring and they are not complet-ing their graduate degrees because the vast majority of those degrees are two

years.”Belmont coach Rick

Byrd, the basketball rules committee chairman, be-lieves the transfer issue would clear up if players took more time to contem-plate their college choices. Byrd has 711 career wins and said he hasn’t had a player leave his program in more than a decade.

Pacquiao, Roach devising plan to break Mayweather Jr.’s defense

WBC champion Wilder says Klitschko ‘losing his juice’

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layups and a 3-pointer down the stretch. The victory snapped Portland’s seven-game losing streak to Memphis, including all four regular-season meet-ings.

Game 5 is Wednesday in Memphis. The winner of the series goes on to face the Gold-en State Warriors in the second round.

The Grizzlies were playing without starting point guard Mike Conley, who was inadver-tently elbowed in the face in the third quarter of Game 3 and un-derwent surgery Monday morn-ing. His status for the rest of the playoffs is uncertain.

Marc Gasol led the Grizzlies with 21 points and Courtney Lee added 19.

“When you’re up 10 points with six minutes in the game in this league, you got to finish,”

said Zach Randolph, who had 12 points for Memphis. “Espe-cially in these circumstances and what we’re playing for, so it’s frustrating.”

McCollum’s layup with 4 minutes, 50 seconds left knot-ted it at 82. Gasol’s hook shot on the other end denied Portland the lead but McCollum made another layup to tie it again with 2:36 to go.

Gasol made two free throws but Lillard hit a 3-pointer and a free throw to put Portland in front 88-86 with 1:58 left. Ran-dolph’s layup tied it again for the Grizzlies before McCol-lum’s 3-pointer put the Blazers up 91-88.

Lee’s layup closed the gap to 92-90 with 19 seconds left. Af-ter Lillard’s free throws, Gasol dunked, but Lillard and Batum made free throws as time wound

down before Aldridge’s rebound and layup at the buzzer.

“It was good to get a win. That’s an understatement,” Blazers coach Terry Stotts said.

Nick Calathes started for the Grizzlies in Conley’s place. It was his first career playoff start and first of the season. He finished with 12 points on four 3-pointers.

Memphis backup guard Beno Udrih, who had 20 points in the opener, hurt his ankle in the first half of Game 2, but returned in the third quarter and finished with 10 points. He warmed up Saturday night but didn’t play. He played in Game 4 and had 13 points.

Meyers Leonard hit a 10-foot jumper and added consec-utive 3-pointers to put Portland up 35-30 in the first half. Al-dridge’s layup gave the Blazers

a 43-37 and they went on to a 55-48 halftime lead.

Memphis opened the second half with a 10-2 run capped by Lee’s 3-pointer to go up 58-57.

Lee’s long jumper put Mem-phis in front 62-57 and Portland went cold, going 0 for 10 from the field until McCollum’s layup with 5:32 left.

The Grizzlies outscored the Blazers 27-13 in the third quar-ter and carried a 75-68 lead into the final period.

Jeff Green’s 3-pointer gave the Grizzlies the biggest lead of the game, 80-70, with 8:48 left.

Gasol was blunt about what happened from there:

“We stopped competing. We tried to trade buckets with them and we played a little bit too fast, we did not execute as well as we could have,” he said. “They took away the momen-

tum that we built and got away with a win. Got to give them credit.”

n Bucks 94, Bulls 88: At Chicago, Milwaukee insisted this playoff series was about more than just showing up, taking its beating, and learning from it.

They wanted to hang around. That’s exactly what the Bucks are doing.

Michael Carter-Williams had 22 points and nine assists, Khris Middleton scored 21 points, and Milwaukee avoid-ed elimination again with a 94-88 victory against Chicago on Monday night in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.

With a 3-2 lead, the Bulls will try to close it out again Thurs-day at Milwaukee. But the Bucks aren’t going quietly after dropping the first three games.

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IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF LOWNDESCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OFALLIE FAYE MCCUL-LOUGH, DECEASED

CAUSE NO. 2015-0044

DONNA M. MCLEAN, PE-TITIONER

SUMMONS BY PUBLICA-TION

THE STATE OF MISSIS-SIPPI

TO: ALL THE UNKNOWNHEIRS AT LAWOF ALLIE FAYE MCCUL-LOUGH, DECEASED

You have beensummoned in the Peti-tion filed in this Court byDonna M. McLean, Ad-ministrator for the Es-tate, seeking to Determ-ine the Heirs at Law ofAllie Faye McCullough,Deceased.

You are summoned toappear regarding saidpetition at 9:00 a.m. onthe 21st day of May,2015, in the courtroomof the Oktibbeha CountyCourthouse at Stark-ville, Mississippi, and incase of your failure toappear and defend ajudgment will beentered for the thingsdemanded in the Peti-tion.

Should you not be ableto attend the hearing onthe 21st day of May,2015, you are requiredto mail or hand-deliver awritten response to thePetition filed in this ac-tion to Christopher R.Purdum, Attorney for theEstate, whose addressis Post Office Box 745,Magee, Mississippi39111 and whosestreet address is 115Main Ave., North,Magee, Mississippi39111.

Issued under my handand seal of said Court,this 7th day of April,2015.

(Seal) Lisa Neese,Lowndes CountyChancery ClerkP.O. Box 684Columbus, MS 39703

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CAUSE NO.: 2015-0040-D


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Letters Testamentaryhave been granted andissued to the under-signed upon the Estateof Armentha J. Cunning-ham, deceased, by theChancery Court ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi, on the 24thday of March, A. D.,2015. This is to give no-tice to all persons hav-ing claims against saidestate to Probate andRegister same with theChancery Clerk ofLowndes County, Mis-sissippi, within ninety(90) days from the firstpublication date of thisNotice to Creditors. Afailure to so Probateand Register said claimwill forever bar thesame.

This the 24th day ofMarch, 2015.

CHARLES SHIRLEY, Ex-ecutor

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IN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OF JOAN M.KENDALL

CAUSE NO. 2015-0057-B

NOTICE TO CREDITORS


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This the 9th day of April,2015.

/s/ Sylvia GouldSylvia Gould, Executrix

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STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, the follow-ing tenants entered in-to leases with Tweety'sMini Storage space inwhich to store personalproperty and

WHEREAS, default hasbeen made in the pay-ment of rent andTweety's Mini Storagepursuant to said Leasesis authorized to sell thepersonal property to sat-isfy the past due andany other charges owedto it by the following ten-ants.

NOW THEREFORE, no-tice is hereby given thatTweety's Mini Storagewill offer for sale, andwill sale at auction tothe highest bidder forcash all personal prop-erty in storage unitsleased by the followingtenants at Tweety'sMini Storage, 8527 Hwy45 N., Columbus, MS,39705 at 10:00 a.m.on the 2nd day of May,2015.

Title to the personalproperty to be sold isbelieved to be good, butat such sale, Tweety'sMini Storage will con-vey only such title as isvested in it pursuant toits lease with the follow-ing and its allowed un-der Mississippi CodeAnnotated Section 85-7-121 et seq (Supp1988).

Ray Sullivan #15

Christoper McCranie#56, 58

Gavin S. #73

Taylor Watkins #105

WITNESS MY SIGNA-TURE on this the 10thday of April, A.D. 2015.

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SUNDAY ALCOHOLSALES ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 1

AN ORDINANCE OF THETOWN OF ARTESIA, MIS-SISSIPPI TO PROHIBITSUNDAY SALES OFMALT BEVERAGES,BEER, WINE, AND DIS-TILLED SPIRITS;

WHEREAS, The Town ofArtesia, Mississippi ischarged with providingfor the health, safety,and welfare of the cit-izens of the Town, and

WHEREAS, The Town isauthorized to regulatesales of alcoholic bever-ages in the Town, and

WHEREAS, it is in thebest interest of theTown and its citizensthat the sale of alcohol-ic beverages be prohib-ited on Sundays, and

WHEREAS, the Board ofAlderman desire to passan Ordinance prohibit-ing Sunday sales ofmalt beverages, beer,wine and distilled spir-its.

THEREFORE, BE IT OR-DAINED BY THE MAYORAND BOARD OF ALDER-MAN OF ARTESIA, MIS-SISSIPPI, as follows:

SECTION ONEDays when Sales Al-lowed:

(a) No licensee shallpermit the sale of alco-holic beverages on anyday or during any timeof day when such salesare prohibited by statelaw.(b) No licensee shall bepermitted to sell maltbeverages, beer, wine,and distilled spirits onSundays.

SECTION TWOAll ordinances or partsof ordinances in con-flict herewith are herebyexpressly repealed.

SECTION THREEAny person or entitywhich shall be found tohave violated this Ordin-ance shall be subject toa fine not exceeding$1,000.00 or imprison-ment not exceeding 90days, or both.

SECTION FOURThe Lowndes CountySherriff's Department ishereby authorized,ordered, and directed toenforce this Ordinance.

SECTION FIVE

This Ordinance shall be-come effective immedi-ately after the adoptionthereof. The Board of Al-derman has unanim-ously voted and agreethat this Ordinance is amatter of public peaceand it should be effect-ive immediately. TheTown of Artesia is exper-iencing an influx of indi-viduals each and everySunday that are pur-chasing alcohol and be-coming drunk in public.The Board of Aldermanunanimously find thisOrdinance will promotethe public peace,health, and safety ofthe Town of Artesia.

The foregoing Ordin-ance, having been firstreduced to writing, wasintroduced by AldermanHill, who moved its ad-option. It was secondedby Alderman Clay.

The foregoing Ordin-ance was consideredand voted upon by sec-tions and as a whole.The vote on each andall of the motions, andupon the Ordinance asan entirety, was takenby "Yea" and "Nay" withthe following results:

Alderman Clay votedYeaAlderman Hill voted yeaAlderman Johnson votedyeaAlderman Sanders votedyeaAlderman Stovall votedyea

This motion having re-ceived the affirmativevote of the Board mem-bers present, the Pres-ident declared the mo-tion carried and the Or-dinance adopted.

ADOPTED, APPROVED,and PASSED, this the21 day of April, 2015.

/s/ Jimmy L. SandersJimmy L. Sanders, May-or of Artesia

Attest:/s/Tresa SandersTresa Sanders, TownClerk

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SUNDAY ALCOHOLSALES ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 1

AN ORDINANCE OF THETOWN OF ARTESIA, MIS-SISSIPPI TO PROHIBITSUNDAY SALES OFMALT BEVERAGES,BEER, WINE, AND DIS-TILLED SPIRITS;


WHEREAS, The Town isauthorized to regulatesales of alcoholic bever-ages in the Town, and

WHEREAS, it is in thebest interest of theTown and its citizensthat the sale of alcohol-ic beverages be prohib-ited on Sundays, and

WHEREAS, the Board ofAlderman desire to passan Ordinance prohibit-ing Sunday sales ofmalt beverages, beer,wine and distilled spir-its.


SECTION ONEDays when Sales Al-lowed:

(a) No licensee shallpermit the sale of alco-holic beverages on anyday or during any timeof day when such salesare prohibited by statelaw.(b) No licensee shall bepermitted to sell maltbeverages, beer, wine,and distilled spirits onSundays.




SECTION FIVE

This Ordinance shall be-come effective immedi-ately after the adoptionthereof. The Board of Al-derman has unanim-ously voted and agreethat this Ordinance is amatter of public peaceand it should be effect-ive immediately. TheTown of Artesia is exper-iencing an influx of indi-viduals each and everySunday that are pur-chasing alcohol and be-coming drunk in public.The Board of Aldermanunanimously find thisOrdinance will promotethe public peace,health, and safety ofthe Town of Artesia.

The foregoing Ordin-ance, having been firstreduced to writing, wasintroduced by AldermanHill, who moved its ad-option. It was secondedby Alderman Clay.







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SUNDAY CURFEWORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 3

AN ORDINANCE OF THETOWN OF ARTESIA, MIS-SISSIPPI TO ENACT ACURFEW ON SUNDAY


WHEREAS, The Town isauthorized to enact acurfew in the Town, and

WHEREAS, it is in thebest interest of theTown and its citizensthat a curfew be imple-mented for Sundays,and

WHEREAS, the Board ofAlderman desire to passan Ordinance imple-menting a curfew onSunday.


SECTION ONEScope of Curfew:

(a) No person or per-sons shall loiter in theTown of Artesia betweenthe hours of 8:00 PMon Sunday night until6:00 AM on Mondaymorning.




SECTION FIVEThis Ordinance shall be-come effective immedi-ately after the adoptionthereof. The Board of Al-derman has unanim-ously voted and agreethat this Ordinance is amatter of public peaceand it should be effect-ive immediately. TheTown of Artesia is exper-iencing an influx of indi-viduals each and everySunday that are drag ra-cing on public roads, be-coming drunk in publicand fighting. The Boardof Alderman unanim-ously find this Ordin-ance will promote thepublic peace, health,and safety of the Townof Artesia.

The foregoing Ordin-ance, having been firstreduced to writing, wasintroduced by AldermanSanders, who moved itsadoption. It wasseconded by AldermanStovall.







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SUNDAY CURFEWORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 3

AN ORDINANCE OF THETOWN OF ARTESIA, MIS-SISSIPPI TO ENACT ACURFEW ON SUNDAY


WHEREAS, The Town isauthorized to enact acurfew in the Town, and

WHEREAS, it is in thebest interest of theTown and its citizensthat a curfew be imple-mented for Sundays,and

WHEREAS, the Board ofAlderman desire to passan Ordinance imple-menting a curfew onSunday.


SECTION ONEScope of Curfew:

(a) No person or per-sons shall loiter in theTown of Artesia betweenthe hours of 8:00 PMon Sunday night until6:00 AM on Mondaymorning.




SECTION FIVEThis Ordinance shall be-come effective immedi-ately after the adoptionthereof. The Board of Al-derman has unanim-ously voted and agreethat this Ordinance is amatter of public peaceand it should be effect-ive immediately. TheTown of Artesia is exper-iencing an influx of indi-viduals each and everySunday that are drag ra-cing on public roads, be-coming drunk in publicand fighting. The Boardof Alderman unanim-ously find this Ordin-ance will promote thepublic peace, health,and safety of the Townof Artesia.

The foregoing Ordin-ance, having been firstreduced to writing, wasintroduced by AldermanSanders, who moved itsadoption. It wasseconded by AldermanStovall.







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SUNDAY PARKING OR-DINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 2

AN ORDINANCE OF THETOWN OF ARTESIA, MIS-SISSIPPI TO PROHIBITPARKING IN CITY-OWNED LOTS ONSUNDAY


WHEREAS, The Town isauthorized to prohibitparking in the cityowned parking lots onSunday in the Town,and

WHEREAS, it is in thebest interest of theTown and its citizensthat individuals be pro-hibited from parking incity-owned lots onSundays, and

WHEREAS, the Board ofAlderman desire to passan Ordinance prohibit-ing parking in city-ownedlots on Sunday.


SECTION ONENo person or personsshall park their vehiclein a city-owned lot in theTown of Artesia between12:00 AM on Sundayand 11:59 PM onSunday. This specific-ally ordinance applies,but is not restricted to,the city parking lot onFront Street and thePost Office parking lot.




SECTION FIVEThis Ordinance shall be-come effective immedi-ately after the adoptionthereof. The Board of Al-derman has unanim-ously voted and agreethat this Ordinance is amatter of public peaceand it should be effect-ive immediately. TheTown of Artesia is exper-iencing an influx of indi-viduals each and everySunday that are loiter-ing, becoming drunk inpublic, disturbing thepeace with loud musicand fighting. The Boardof Alderman unanim-ously find this Ordin-ance will promote thepublic peace, health,and safety of the Townof Artesia.

The foregoing Ordin-ance, having been firstreduced to writing, wasintroduced by AldermanHill, who moved its ad-option. It was secondedby Alderman Sanders.







Publish: 4/28/2015

Legal Notices 0010

SUNDAY PARKING OR-DINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 2

AN ORDINANCE OF THETOWN OF ARTESIA, MIS-SISSIPPI TO PROHIBITPARKING IN CITY-OWNED LOTS ONSUNDAY


WHEREAS, The Town isauthorized to prohibitparking in the cityowned parking lots onSunday in the Town,and

WHEREAS, it is in thebest interest of theTown and its citizensthat individuals be pro-hibited from parking incity-owned lots onSundays, and

WHEREAS, the Board ofAlderman desire to passan Ordinance prohibit-ing parking in city-ownedlots on Sunday.


SECTION ONENo person or personsshall park their vehiclein a city-owned lot in theTown of Artesia between12:00 AM on Sundayand 11:59 PM onSunday. This specific-ally ordinance applies,but is not restricted to,the city parking lot onFront Street and thePost Office parking lot.




SECTION FIVEThis Ordinance shall be-come effective immedi-ately after the adoptionthereof. The Board of Al-derman has unanim-ously voted and agreethat this Ordinance is amatter of public peaceand it should be effect-ive immediately. TheTown of Artesia is exper-iencing an influx of indi-viduals each and everySunday that are loiter-ing, becoming drunk inpublic, disturbing thepeace with loud musicand fighting. The Boardof Alderman unanim-ously find this Ordin-ance will promote thepublic peace, health,and safety of the Townof Artesia.

The foregoing Ordin-ance, having been firstreduced to writing, wasintroduced by AldermanHill, who moved its ad-option. It was secondedby Alderman Sanders.







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we'll grind it!662-361-8379

STUMP GRINDING, ex-cavation, & dirt work.Text/call 662-251-9191.

Swimming Pools 1800

READY TO open yourpool? We provideseasonal and yearround service. CallClear Water Pools at662-364-0333 for moreinformation or to sched-ule an appointment.

Tree Services 1860

A&T Tree ServiceBucket truck & stump

removal. Free est.Serving Columbussince 1987. Senior

citizen disc. Call Alvin @242-0324/241-4447

"We'll go out on a limbfor you!"

J&A TREE REMOVALWork from a buckettruck. Insured/bonded.Call Jimmy for afree estimate662-386-6286

J.R. BourlandTree & Stump

Removal. Trimmingw/bucket truck

Licensed & BondedFirewood 4 sale LWB$100. 662-574-1621

TREE REMOVAL, trim-ming, heavy duty indus-trial mowing & mulch-ing. Text/call 662-251-9191

Good Things To Eat 2150

Mother's Day SpecialsCandy Arrangement:$25Cupcake Bouquet: $251/2 Dozen Dipped Ber-ries & 10 Cherries: $15Build a package:Choose any 3: $201/2 Doz. Dipped Berries10 Dipped Cherries1/2 Doz. Dipped Oreos1/2 Doz. Dipped Pret-zel RodsCall 662-425-4028Sweet Dreamz Delivered

Lost & Found 2300

FOUND IN East Colum-bus: small male dog. Toclaim, please call andidentify. Animal MedicalCenter 662-328-8395.

LOST DOG: Blonde w/ ashort tail male. Name isHoss. Wearing a grn col-lar. Missing frmBluecutt Rd. REWARD!251-1269/251-1258.

Personals 2350

****ADOPTION****Professional Guitarist &Loving Wife long for 1stbaby. Financial Security,**Close-knit family.*****Expenses paid*****1-800-997-1720****Katherine & Mike**

Clerical & Office 3050

PART-TIME CLERICALPOSITION: The Commer-cial Dispatch is seekinga part-time employee toassist with accountspayable duties & anassortment of otherclerical duties. Positionaverages 20 hours perweek. Applicants shouldbe detail oriented &reliable. Previous book-keeping-type work is aplus but is not required.Email resumes [email protected] ordrop them off at 516Main Street in Colum-bus. No phone callsplease.

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22 Make tea23 Great joy24 Steve Martin film25 Resistance to change26 Grendel’s slayer28 Whip30 Shorthand pro31 Baseball’s Derek32 Improve, in a way33 Code creator38 Very popular39 Suit accessory

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Sales / Marketing 3600

The Dispatch is looking for an

ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE.

The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter with excellent communication and organizational skills, a strong work ethic and the ability to relate to a wide range of people. Sales experience preferred, but not required. Full-time position includes insurance benefits,

competitive pay, paid personal leave and opportunity for advancement. Come join our

creative, award-winning staff. Hand deliver resume to

Beth Proffitt at 516 Main Street, Columbus or

email to [email protected]

Apts For Rent: Northside 7010

625 31st Ave. N. - Columbus, MS(662) 329-2544

www.falconlairapts.com

1/2 Off First Month’s RentMove In Same Day Specials!Military Discounts Available

Autos For Sale 9150

NEED A CAR?Guaranteed Credit Approval!

No Turn Downs!We offer late model vehicles with warranty.Call us, we will take application by phone.

We help rebuild your credit!

Tousley Motors662-329-4221 • 4782 Hwy. 45 N., Columbus

by Shell Station at Hwy. 373 intersectionwww.tousleymotors.net

General Help Wanted 3200

CAMELLIA HOSPICE inColumbus is seeking apart-time Chaplain. Hos-pice chaplains providefaith-based counselingand guidance to hos-pice patients and theirfamilies. The chaplainworks with an interdis-ciplinary team com-prised of nurses, aides,social workers, chap-lains, and physicians toensure all of the pa-tient's and family'sneeds are met. Hos-pice chaplains alsomanage our bereave-ment program. This pos-ition requires a Mas-ters of Divinity. Quali-fied candidates onlyplease contact Ben Pealat [email protected]

EXPERIENCED DOGGroomer Needed.Call 662-338-9400.

GARAGE DOORREPAIRMAN- A Colum-bus mini-warehouse fa-cility is seekingsomeone who knowshow to repair and re-place roll-up and fold-upmetal doors on a con-tract basis. We don'thave constant work butwould like a local per-son to call when we dohave doors to repair. Ifyou have experienceworking with these typedoors please call 662-327-4236 and ask forLisa.

LOCAL SECURITYCOMPANY seeking qual-ified and experienced in-stallers and servicetechnicians (1 yr. experi-ence preferred). Salarycommensurate with ex-perience. Must pos-sess clean driving re-cord. Send resume toBox 553, c/o The Com-mercial Dispatch, P.O.Box 511, Columbus, MS39703, or email [email protected].

Prographics, a North-east MS leader in theSign & Printing industry,is currently seeking full-time Production Asso-ciates in our Columbusand Starkville locations.The ideal team memberhas prior experience inthe printing & sign in-dustry, software skills inMicrosoft Office, Adobe,Flexi along with a work-ing knowledge of print-ers, copiers, & vinyl cut-ters. If you are a dedic-ated hard working pro-fessional with greatcommunication & cus-tomer service skills,send resume to: [email protected].

Several positions openat local retail business:

1. Clerical Assistant:Various duties includ-ing bookkeeping, cus-tomer service, etc. Parttime, flexible hours.2. Salesperson: Strongsales background pre-ferred.3. Shipping/ReceivingClerk: Manages all ship-ping and receiving intoand out of store.4. Entry level part timeposition: Duties includestore maintenance andvarious other jobs.

To apply, please mailresume to Box 558, c/oThe Commercial Dis-patch, P.O. Box 511,Columbus, MS 39703.Please note which posi-tion(s) you are applyingfor in order to beconsidered.

TIRE-TECH needed, fulltime and part time posi-tions available.Applicant must have avalid drivers license andclean driving history.Apply in person at BatesTire, 1401 WaterworksRoad Columbus, MS.No phone calls please.

Medical / Dental 3300

FULL TIME PharmacyTechnician needed inColumbus, MS. Experi-ence in retail settingpreferred. Send resumewith references to:Pharmacy Tech Position2320 5th St N.Columbus, MS 39705

FULL TIME and PRN,LPN positions available.RN’s welcome to applyfor these positions. Weare looking for Caring,devoted nurses to workwith persons with men-tal and developmentaldisabilities. Our fulltimestaff enjoys benefits in-cluding vacation, sick,health, dental and vis-ion insurance and holi-days. Apply in person atRolling Hills, 200Womack Rd. Starkville.EOE/AA/VETS

PART TIME LPN neededfor Columbus MedicalClinic send resumes toBox 559, c/o TheCommercial Dispatch,P.O. Box 511, Colum-bus, MS 39701.


INSIDE SALES asso-ciate needed. job du-ties include: Tire sales,Automotive repair estim-ating, Inventory. Applic-ant must have a validdrivers license andclean driving history.Apply in person at BatesTire, 1401 WaterworksRoad Columbus, MS.No phone calls please.


THE COMMERCIALDISPATCH is in searchof an excellent newspa-per subscription sales-person to work the Mon-roe County area. Mustbe able to sell door-to-door, KIOSK & work in-dependently. Must beable to pass drugscreen if hired. Formore information applyto The Commercial Dis-patch at 516 MainStreet in Columbus,MS. No phone calls ac-cepted.

Trades 3650

HVAC TECHNICIANSwanted. STAR SERVICE,INC. of JACKSON is tak-ing applications for em-ployment in the COLUM-BUS/STARKVILLE area.Exc. bnfts/income. Forconfidential considera-tion, call or forward re-sume to: Stan Rasberry,STAR SERVICE, INC.P.O. Box 720339,Byram, MS 39272.Phone: 1-800-478-0486; Fax: 601-373-0459.www.star-service.com

LONGTIME FAMILYOwned Business seek-ing experience ManualMachinist for mechanicshop in Columbus, MS.Please send resume toPO Box 2387 Colum-bus, MS 39704.

Appliances 4090

WITHYOUNG APPLIANCE!

Top quality used appli-ances! Whirlpool, Fri-gidaire, Kenmore, Kit-chen-Aid, & more. All

come with 30 daywarranty. We also do

appliance repairs!662-549-5860

or 662-364-7779

Bargain Column 4180

15" CHROME wheels$100. 662-570-3864.

DRYER, WORKS good,electric, $100. Call662-356-6413 or 251-5003.

WASHING MACHINE,works good, $100. Call662-356-6413 or 251-5003.

WAYNE SHALLOW wellwater pump $100. Call662-570-3864.

Garage Sales: North 4520

YARD SALE: 888 WestJess Lyons Rd. Thurs-Sat. 7-4. Large variety.$5 & $10 grab bags.

General Merchandise 4600

HOMESTORE OPEN daily8-6. 239 ShrinewoodDr. off Jess Lyons Rd.New arrival of Summershoes, $10ea. Newpurses $15ea. New ar-rival of antiques, lg. pic-tures, futon w/thickmattress, golf cart,travel trailer 6x4.5 feet,& plenty more.

Lawn & Garden 4630

38" MURRAY ridinglawn mower, runs good,$400 obo. 662-769-9992.

Free Pets 5100

3 FREE Persian kittenswith or w/out mother. 2orange. 1 black. Around10-11 weeks old. Theylove to play. 205-662-4792. In Ethelsville.

FREE: 1 male seal pointHimalayan w/blue eyes& 1 dilute calico female.Spayed/neutered, litterbox trained & shots arecurrent. 662-549-7809

Pets 5150

AKC Registered Chocol-ate Lab puppies forsale. I have 6 femalesand 2 males. Both par-ents are good huntingretrievers. Will make ex-cellent hunting or fam-ily pets. Asking 350 forthe females and 400 forthe males. Call(662)927-0880.

For Sale: Siberian Huskypuppies. CKC re-gistered. Call or text662-305-5584.

Business Opportunity 6050

Restaurant space forlease @ Elm Lake GolfCourse. Fully equippedfor your own business.$300/mo plus butane.662-329-8964.

Business For Sale 6350

BBQ RESTAURANT forsale: business & equip-ment. $25,000. Re-quires property lease.Serious inquiries only.662-386-1546.


1933 CHERRY Street-Brick, 2 bed/1bath,central heat & air, appli-ances, carpet.$435/mth. Call Long &Long @328-0770.

2BR/1BA furnished apt,elec & water paid byowner, $250 weekly,$1000 monthly, lease &dep. reqd, open Mon-Fri8-5 Weathers Rentals327-5133.


EXECUTIVE SUITE: com-pletely furnished incl.pans, dishes, linens,etc. 2 large rooms, 1combo living room, din-ing room, & kitchen,1BR/1BA. Large pri-vacy porch. Great loca-tion. By the day, week,or month. 329-4405.

1, 2, 3 BEDROOM apart-ments & townhouses.Call for more info. 662-549-1953.

2BR/1BA apts. in North& East Columbus.CH&A, all elec, water &sewer furn, convenientto shopping. $350/mo.$150 dep. 352-4776.

Northwood Town-houses 2BR, 1.5BA,CH/A, stove, fridge,DW, WD hookups, &private patios. Call

Robinson Real Estate328-1123

Northwood Town-houses 2BR, 1.5BA,CH/A, stove, fridge,DW, WD hookups, &private patios. Call

Robinson Real Estate328-1123

Apts For Rent: East 7020

1, 2, 3 BEDROOMS &townhouses. Call formore info. 662-549-1953

TRINITY PLACE Retire-ment Community, inColumbus, now has stu-dio, 1 bedroom, & 2bedroom apartmentsavailable. We offer noonmeal 6 days each week,scheduled transporta-tion, variety of activities,optional housekeeping,& many other amenit-ies. Rent assistance tothose that qualify. CallMichelle for a tourtoday, 327-6716 & youcan enjoy the Trinity wayof life. EHO.

Apts For Rent: South 7040

1BR/1BA Apts. 6 blocksfrom Main St, 6 blocksfrom MUW. Hardwoodfloors, granite counters-Newly renovated. W/Dincl. $450+/mo. Call662-251-6463

Apts For Rent: West 7050

Apts For Rent: Caledonia 7060

2BR/1BA. CentralHVAC. Electric stove, re-frigerator, washer/dryerconnections (electric).

Nice neighborhood.Caledonia schools.

Background checks andcredit checks required.Contact 662-436-2255or 662-319-7998 formore details.

3BR/2BA: 1278 sq ft,all electric, 5027 Cal-Kolola Rd, $1000deposit/monthly, call205-658-1088 or 662-251-7366

PRIVATE STUDIO-typefurnished apartment. In-cludes W/D & utilities.$550/mo. plus dep.Call 662-356-6206

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apart-ments & Townhouses.1BR/1BA Apt. $3002BR/1BA Apt. $350-$400. 2BR/2BA 3BR/2BA Townhouses$550-$800. No HUD al-lowed. Lease, deposit,credit check required.Coleman Realty. 329-2323

DOWNTOWN: 2BR/1BACH&A, remodeled, 1story, W/D, historic dis-trict, 1 block from down-town, $550/mo. with$550 dep. NO PETS.Call 662-574-8789.

Apts For Rent: Other 7080

Chateaux Holly HillsApartments102 Newbell Rd

Columbus

Mon-Fri 8-5328-8254

• Central Heat & Air Conditioning• Close to CAFB• Onsite Laundry Facility• All Electric/Fully Equipped Kitchen• Lighted Tennis Court• Swimming Pool

Where Coming Home is the Best Part of

the Day

Commercial Property For Rent 7100

BUSINESS SPACE avail-able. 114 Alabama St.Suite B. Move in readywith ample parking.662-352-9903.

OFFICE SPACES forlease. 200-2,000 sq. ft.Utilities & internet in-cluded, starting at$285. Fairlane Center,118 S. McCrary. 662-364-1030 or 386-7694.

Office space availableat Military Centre acrossfrom Lion Hills GolfCourse. 1500 s.f.$1750 per month. Call662-574-4413. PhotosAvailable.

Houses For Rent: Northside 7110

1 4BR & 1 2BR houseavailable. SEC. 8 accep-ted. Ref. req. Call 662-425-4491 or 327-6802after 4pm.

SPACIOUS, EXECUTIVEHome. 4BR/3.5 BA plus1000 more sq. ft. GreatColumbus location!Convenient! Pool/Patio;Perfect for Family orPilot's Palace. $1850.662-327-2107.

Houses For Rent: New Hope 7130

REALLY NICE, cleanhouse, good neighbor-hood, lg. den, bath, kit-chen, dining, 2-3BR, &utility room. Lg. outdoorstrg. bldg. 328-2434.

Houses For Rent: Caledonia 7160

3BR/2BA on 2 acre lot,Caledonia, 2 car gar-age. $1000/ mo. plusdeposit w/2 year lease.No pets, no smokers.435-1248/ 435-2842.

Houses For Rent: Other 7180

2BR/1BA old countryhouse in Steens, Cale-donia schools, $650/mo. plus $650 deposit.Avail. May 1. No pets.Call 662-356-4764.

3BR/1BA. Steens.$850/mo. + dep. Nicekitchen & living area.662-242-2095.

Mobile Homes 7250

3BR/2BA single wide.$525/month with$400/deposit.3BR/2BA double wide$575/month with$400/deposit.No pets allowed. 12month lease required.Located in Caledoniaschool district. Musthave previous rentalreferences. Call 434-6000.

RENT A fully equippedcamper w/utilities &cable from $135/wk -$495/month. 3 Colum-bus locations. Call 601-940-1397.

Office Spaces For Rent 7300

OFFICE SPACE for rentat 300 Chubby Dr. Con-tact 662-549-1953 formore information.

OFFICE OR Retail spacefor Rent. 3,000 sq ft.Great rate! Call 662-574-0147.

Storage & Garages 7500

INEXPENSIVEMINI-STORAGE. From

5'x10' to 20'x20'. Twowell-lit locations in

Columbus: Near Wal-mart on Hwy 45 & nearTaco Bell on Hwy 182.Call 662-327-4236 for

more information.

FRIENDLY CITYMini-Warehouses

2 Convenient LocationsBest RatesIn Town!

friendlycitymini.com

662-327-4236

Wanted To Rent 7550

HOUSE WANTED: rentalhouse, 1-2BR that ac-cepts Section 8 HUD inLowndes county area.Must be nice. Pays upto $500. 242-4210.

Commercial Property 8050

THRIVING STORE forsale or lease located at1202 4th St. S. Con-tact Hilbert Williams atCrye Leike PropertiesUnlimited at 328-1150or 425-8317.

Farms & Timberland 8100

44.98 acres for sale onBrown Road. Pine Plant-ation 20 mins fromStarkville. Excellent forhunting deer & wild tur-key. 100 huge blue-berry bushes, 2 ponds,utilities available. SelfCreek runs at back ofproperty. Frontage roadin process of beingpaved. Pine trees havea substantial future in-come potential. Plusmuch more, call 904-743-7406 for details.

Houses For Sale: Northside 8150

1099 SOUTHDOWNParkway-Updated andmove-in-ready. 4 Bed-rooms, 2 1/2 baths,nice, quiet, centralizedlocation convenient toeverything. Call Emily C.Moody @ Long & Long328-0770 or 574-3903.

Houses For Sale: East 8200

303 Beverly Dr.4BR/2BA home, formalliving/dining area, den,large kitchen, privacyfence, 2 car garage,1987 Sq. Ft. $89,900.Nice neighborhood, nearschools, call 245-1191or 549-9298.

Houses For Sale: New Hope 8250

$85,000. New Hopeschool district.3BD/2BA, over 1400sq. ft, hardwood, car-pet & vinyl floors, woodburning insert, CH&A,ceiling fans, double car-port, storage building.662-549-7372.

3BR/2BA home sittingon wooded hilltop.Beautiful wood floors &nice colors throughout,formal dining & ofc. Of-fers country livingw/easy access to 82bypass. Call Kimberly @Crye-Leike 364-1423 or328-1150.

Houses For Sale: Southside 8300

PORTFOLIO SALE$45,000 for 3 Homes!

Yes $45,000!Investors: 10 Bed-

rooms of Potential In-come. Owner Occupier:Live in 1 home whilerenting the other 2.

Excellent Opportunity toOwn 3 homes for

$45,000.-1513 22nd St North-

3BR/1BA-1515 22nd St North-

3BR/1BA-1812 3rd Ave South-

4BR/1BACall Janice MatthewsHearts & Home Realty

662-386-0700

Houses For Sale: Caledonia 8450

196 Justin Cir. in Ridge-land estates. Beautiful3BR/2BA home. 2002Sq. ft, large living room,w/ large sun room,screened in patio, largebackyard w/privacyfence and shed.$159,900. Call 549-9298 or 245-1191.

Houses For Sale: Other 8500

3 STORY power plushome in West Point ona 5.7 ac. private lot.Priced to sell at $149K.5BR/3BA w/bonusroom. MUST SEE!! CallKimberly @ Crye-Leike364-1423 or 328-1150.

100+ ACRES of land forsale. Located in Craw-ford, MS. $225,000.(205)790-7441.

WATERFRONT HOME inHamilton. 2 BR 1 Bath.Central air, large livingspace, deck, fully up-dated. $119,000 662-425-0250.

Lots & Acreage 8600

28.5 ACRES in N.H.w/25 yr. old pines.$3500/ac. Will divideinto 10 ac. plots. (2) 2acre lots, Chism Dr.$10,000 ea. 2 acre lot,Tiffany Lane $10,000.Owner financing avail.386-6619.

55 AC. w/2BR/1BA,1200 sq ft wired shop,5400 sq ft barn. WolfeRd. & Lollar Drive front-age. By appt. only 662-889-6758/329-8325.

Are You Ready to Sell?Pioneer Auction

& Realty LLC662-562-6767

Pioneer-Auctions.com

INDUSTRIAL SITE forsale. 229 acres + at theSouthwest corner ofArtesia Rd. & Manufac-turer's Dr. Immediatelysouth of Severstal.Please call 327-3154

LARGE LOT in smallersubdivision. Two Riverssubdv., on Tombigbee.If you are looking forplace to get away fromstress of life, this is agreat place! Fish, enjoywater sports, or even sitby fire, or take a long,peaceful walk. Has gate& its own boat ramp,great price, owner finan-cing possible. Call 205-361-7890.

300 ACRES in LowndesCounty: 6 lakes, pas-ture land, timber land,excellent hunting. Formore info call 205-695-2248 or 205-609-0264.

READY TO GO: 100acres w/green fields &shooting houses. 1.5mi. SW of Crawford, MSon Fairport Rd.$2500/acre. Serious in-quiries only. ContactRandy Luker at 386-8470.

SPRING SPECIAL. 2½acre lots. Good/badcredit. $995 down.$197/mo. Eaton Land.662-726-9648

Lots & Acreage 8600

RIVERFRONTPROPERTYCamp Pratt

Call 574-3056Ray McIntyre

Blythewood Realty

Mobile Homes 8650

DOUBLE WIDE &SINGLE WIDE HOMESFOR SALE, CONVENI-ENT FINANCING AVAIL-ABLE. See our homesthat are move in readyat The Grove MobileHome Community. Call662-329-9110 today formore info.

ENJOY HOME Owner-ship Today! Own yourown new 2014 3 bed-room/2bath 16X80Clayton Energy Effi-cient Mobile Home inonly 10 years!! Homesare set up on residen-tial lot, 2 decks/under-pinning included. Con-venient financing, Call662.329.9110 or comeby The Grove MobileHome Community of-fice located at 510Lehmberg Rd., Colum-bus, MS for more info.

EXCELLENT CONDITION2006 16x80 3BR/2BAfor sale, vinyl/shingle,appliances, $26,900delivered 662-760-2120.

HANDYMAN SPECIAL:14x70 for sale $4,500home has potential. Call662-296-5923.

I PAY TOP DOLLAR FORUSED MOBILE HOMESCALL 662-296-5923.

MOVE IN ready 16x602BR single wide forsale, central H&A, realhardwood floors, fire-place, appliances.$12,500 delivered.662-296-5923.

SUPER NICE 32x60Southern 3BR/2BA forsale,vinyl/shingle, cent-ral H&A, appliances,stone fireplace, home ismove in ready $34,900incl. del. & set up 662-760-2120.

WHOLESALE PREOwned Mobile Homes,Over 40 homes tochoose from, Single &Double Wides, delivery& set up can be in-cluded Call 662-401-1093.

Wanted To Buy 8850

CLIENT LOOKING FORlarge 4BR plus home,pool preferred, acre-age is great but not

must. If you think youmight have what my cli-

ents are looking forplease call DJ Williams,

CENTURY 21 DorisHardy & Associates,LLC, 662-386-3132.

Waterfront Property 8900

RIVER LOT & house-boat for sale. Claycounty, call for details.662-574-0093.

Autos For Sale 9150

1995 GMC Sierra 1500.Southern comfort cust.96,300 Mi. Good condi-tion. $7,000. 662-328-3619.

2005 CHEVY Malibu,very nice condition withall extras, $3500 obo.Call 662-356-6413 or251-5003.

2008 BLACK Acura TL,one owner, low mileage(83,000 miles.) Veryclean, excellent condi-tion. $12,800. Call 662-549-5422.

78' 280 Z. Automatic.130,000 miles. Garagekept. $5000. 662-574-9480.

Mitsubishi Eclipse,2007, all options, per-fect Graduation gift! 4cycl & auto, 102K hwymi, below loan, $7000obo. 662-327-2469 or364-9800 Before 7pm.

Campers & RVs 9300

2002 24FT. Eagle byJayco 5th wheel/slideout. New hot water heat-er & microwave. Barelyworn tires. $6,000. Call889-5841.

RV CAMPER & mobilehome lots. Full hookupw/sewer. 2 locationsW&N from $80/wk -$265/mo. 662-251-1149 or 601-940-1397

Motorcycles & ATVs 9400

150 VELOCITY MotorScooter. Recently ser-viced. $1000 OBO. 662-327-5677

HD SPORTSTER. 2Kobo. Needs a little TLC,will consider trades.205-442-8147. Loc-ated in Steens.

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