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Vol. 118 No. 231
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UK Paducah
welcomes
large class
BY CARRIE DILLARD
cdillard@paducahsun.com
Nearly 200 students, including 62 freshmen, started classes Monday at the University
of Kentucky College of Engineering Paducah
Campus on Alben Barkley Drive.
The incoming freshman class falls just short
of the 2012 record of 64, said Denise Brazzell,
director of student services, but still creates excitement for college administrators.
“We are growing by leaps and bound,” Brazzell said. “We have worked really hard to retain
top-notch students. When I first came on board
(in 2008), if we had 30 freshmen we were really excited.”
When the campus opened in 1997, there
were 15 part-time students. In 2008, the campus boasted 91 full-time students across freshman through senior years. This year, there are
nearly 200 active enrolled full-time students.
Associated Press
Protesters move down the street, many carrying roses, Monday in Ferguson, Mo. The Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown
by police has touched off rancorous protests in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb where police have used riot gear and tear
gas and Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to help restore order Monday.
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Pathologist: Brown may
have had his hands raised
BY ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
Associated Press
FERGUSON, Mo. — An unarmed
18-year-old whose fatal shooting by
police has sparked a week of protests
in suburban St. Louis suffered a bullet
wound to his right arm that may indicate his hands were up or his back was
turned, a pathologist hired by his family
said Monday.
But the pathologist said the team that
examined Michael Brown can’t be sure
yet exactly how the wounds were inflicted, citing the need for more information.
An independent autopsy determined
that Michael Brown was shot at least six
times, including twice in the head, the
family’s lawyers and hired pathologists
said.
Witnesses have said Brown’s hands
were above his head when he was repeatedly shot by an officer Aug. 9 in
Ferguson.
In Washington, President Barack
Obama said the vast majority of protesters in Ferguson were peaceful, but
warned that a small minority was undermining justice.
During a brief pause in his summer
vacation, Obama said overcoming the
mistrust endemic between many communities and their local police would
require Americans to “listen and not
just shout.”
The president also weighed in for the
first time publicly on the militarization
of some local police departments, saying it would probably be useful to examine how federal grant dollars had been
used to allow local police to purchase
military-style equipment.
Attorney General Eric Holder was
scheduled to travel to Ferguson later
this week to meet with FBI and other officials carrying out an independent fed-
Dollar General
enters bidding
for Family Dollar
eral investigation into Brown’s death.
Obama said he told Nixon he wanted
to ensure Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s use
of the National Guard was limited in
scope.
Forensic pathologist Shawn Parcells,
who assisted former New York City chief
medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden
during the private autopsy, said a bullet
grazed Brown’s right arm. He said the
wound indicates Brown may have had
his back to the shooter, or he could have
been facing the shooter with his hands
above his head or in a defensive position
across his chest or face.
“We don’t know,” Parcells said. “We
still have to look at the other (elements)
of this investigation before we start
piecing things together.”
A third and final autopsy was performed Monday for the Justice Depart-
NEW YORK — The nation’s top dollar store
chains are betting big that their once-thriving
business will make a comeback if they band
together.
Dollar General, the nation’s largest dollarstore chain, started a bidding war on Monday
when it offered approximately $8.95 billion
for rival Family Dollar. It was an attempt to
trump Dollar Tree, which agreed to acquire
Family Dollar for $8.5 billion last month.
The bidding war comes as the chains look for
ways to grow sales and market share at a time
when their core low-income customers remain
financially stretched during the economic recovery. The companies have hit a particularly
rough patch after years of expanding rapidly
during the recession when people shopped
more at dollar stores to save money. Now, the
companies are hoping they’ll be more profit-
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Associated Press
ACS helps patients ‘Look Good, Feel Better’
BY CARRIE DILLARD
cdillard@paducahsun.com
Faye McBride of Metropolis,
Illinois, is not one to wear makeup regularly, but she decided
to attend the Look Good, Feel
Good session Monday at Baptist
Health Paducah anyway.
Look Good, Feel Better is a free
monthly workshop, sponsored
by the American Cancer Society, which offers a skin care and
makeup demonstration as well as
helpful tips about wigs and other
products to camouflage areas of
concern for women undergoing
cancer treatments.
The workshop is held every
third Monday of the month at
Baptist. McBride was one of
three women who participated
“It’s rewarding to
see a light in their
eyes when they
leave.”
Jane Charlton
American Cancer Society
volunteer
this month.
American Cancer Society volunteer Jane Charlton said sessions average four participants.
Charlton and fellow volunteer
Sandra Hawkins, both licensed
cosmetologists from Wingo, have
donated their time to the Look
Good, Feel Good program for five
years.
“We love doing it,” Charlton
said. “We’ve seen as many as
seven and as few as one. But even
with one, it was worth coming
here. We who are well take it so
for granted.”
McBride has been undergoing daily radiation treatments
at Baptist after being diagnosed
with breast cancer in June.
“I have 28 treatments left,” she
said.
She’s tired and has lost most
of her appetite, along with 14
pounds, but she’s not experiencing many other symptoms.
JOHN PAUL HENRY | The Sun
But chemo and radiation can Jane Charlton of Wingo shows Faye McBride of Metropolis, Ill.,
ravage the skin and hair, said makeup application techniques on Monday during the Look Good
Terri Walters, nurse navigator Feel Better program at Baptist Health in Paducah. During the event,
volunteer beauticians show patients beauty techniques to combat
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street hockey clinic at Lowes Elementary School.
Fall sports action is underway, as
St. Mary hosts McCracken County in
a boys and girls soccer doubleheader, and Paducah Tilghman entertains
Livingston Central in volleyball.
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ment by the one of the military’s most experienced
medical examiners, Holder
said.
Also Monday, Nixon lifted the neighborhood’s midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew two
days after it went into effect
when he declared a state of
emergency. The governor
had summoned the National Guard overnight after
police again used tear gas
to quell protesters.
It was unclear when National Guard troops would
arrive, but Nixon said they
would be under the direction of the Missouri State
Highway Patrol, which is
overseeing security during
protests.
Police were telling protesters Monday that they
could not assemble in a
single spot, saying they had
to keep moving. In federal
court, a judge denied a request from the American
Civil Liberties Union for
a restraining order that
would have prevented authorities from enforcing the
rule.
Authorities were also
establishing a designated
protest zone for nightly
demonstrations. The plan
was announced Monday by
St. Louis County police.
It was not clear what
would happen to those who
refuse to use the area along
West Florissant Avenue,
where the majority of protests have occurred.
A grand jury could begin
hearing evidence Wednesday to determine whether
the officer, Darren Wilson, should be charged
in Brown’s death, said Ed
Magee, spokesman for St.
Louis County’s prosecuting
attorney.
The St. Louis County
medical examiner’s autopsy found that Brown was
shot six to eight times in
the head and chest, office
administrator Suzanne McCune said Monday. But she
declined further comment,
saying the full findings
were not expected for about
two weeks.
Family attorney Benja-
min Crump said Brown’s
parents wanted the additional autopsy because they
feared results of the county’s examination could be
biased. Crump declined to
release copies of the report.
The second autopsy,
Crump said, “verifies that
the witness accounts were
true: that he was shot multiple times.”
Baden said one of the
bullets entered the top of
Brown’s skull, suggesting
his head was bent forward
when he suffered that fatal injury. The hired pathologists said Brown, who
also was shot four times in
the right arm, could have
survived the other bullet
wounds.
pricing,” he said.
For Dollar General, the
decision to enter the fray
was clear because Family
Dollar had been on its radar for a while. Dollar General Chairman and CEO
Rick Dreiling said during
a conference call Monday
that the company had expressed interest in combining with Family Dollar
multiple times over the last
few years.
While Dreiling didn’t
disclose if there’d been any
sticking points in working
out an agreement in the
past, he said Dollar Gener-
al was very surprised when
Family Dollar announced
its deal with Dollar Tree.
Despite the shock, Dollar
General remains undeterred in trying to work out
a transaction.
“It’s all water under the
bridge. We’re ready to
move forward,” Dreiling
said.
While Dreiling was planning to retire from the
CEO post in May 2015, he’s
agreed to postpone his retirement until May 2016
in order to help with the
integration of the two companies.
One reason Dollar General is angling for Family
Dollar is its customer base.
Dreiling said that Family
Dollar is strong in metropolitan areas, while Dollar
General’s strength lies in
rural markets.
“Maybe we’ll be able to
learn something from each
other,” he said.
The two businesses also
have similar pricing strategies, offering shoppers
most products at $10 or
less.
At Dollar Tree, everything in its stores costs just
a buck.
“but we couldn’t do it
without strong partnerships with WKCTC (West
Kentucky Community and
Technical College) and
Murray State. You can’t
put out quality students
without quality instructors
— not just our engineering
professors, but math and
English too.”
According to David Silverstein, program director
and professor at the University of Kentucky College
of Engineering Paducah
Campus, students can take
advantage of a lower tuition rate in Paducah while
still being a full-time student at the University of
Kentucky.
“We offer a world-class
UK facility at a cost that
is significantly less than if
they’d gone elsewhere,” he
said.
Like with any community college, he added, students can take advantage
of a lower tuition rate from
UK Paducah’s partners for
the first two years of classes. Following the first two
years, no transfer to the
UK Lexington campus is
needed; all four years can
be completed in Paducah.
“While we are excited
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able and efficient if they
consolidate.
Ken Perkins, president
of RetailMetrics LLC, a retail research firm, said any
merger will wind up being
good for customers. At a
time when shoppers are
“extremely deal oriented,”
a merger will enable the
companies to use their
scale to lower the overall
costs of purchasing goods,
which will help bring prices lower.
“It feels like a race to the
bottom with some of the
finally asked about it,” she
said.
Holley was diagnosed
with metastatic lung cancer in July. She will finish her first set of radiation Tuesday, but doesn’t
know what the future will
hold.
“The doctor said, ‘You
have three to six months,’”
she said. “I’m in a daze,
just taking baby steps
right now. I’m just taking
it one day at a time.”
The feeling is not uncommon for anyone going
through cancer, Walters
said.
“This is all new, foreign and so confusing
when you’ve never been
through this before,” she
said. “That’s why they are
so appreciative (of little
things).”
As the women apply
their lip liner and lipstick,
the finals touches of the
day, their smiles become
more frequent with each
other and the volunteer
cosmetologists.
“It’s rewarding to see a
light in their eyes when
they leave,” Charlton said.
To learn more about
the Look Good, Feel Good
program and upcoming
sessions in Paducah, contact the American Cancer
Society in Louisville at
1-800-227-2345.
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at Baptist Health. “Especially with chemotherapy,
they have a lot of changes
in their skin,” she said.
“This gives them a little
hope and encouragement
when your entire body
and appearance is changing.”
Each participant receives a free goodie bag
filled with name brand
cosmetics
donated
through the Personal Care
Products Council, a charitable organization supported by the cosmetic industry, to use during the
program and take home.
Charlton and Hawkins
led the group in a step-bystep tutorial for applying
everything from moisturizer to mascara.
“Some women come in
very confident in putting
on makeup,” Charlton
said, “and some have never done it.”
Most makeup kits include cleansing cloths,
foundation,
concealer,
moisturizer,
eyeliner,
mascara, nail polish,
blush, lip liner and lipstick in brands including
Biore, Avon, Estee Lauder, Neutrogena, Covergirl
and Lancome.
Anna Holley of Metropolis signed up for the
workshop while in a radiation room for treatment.
“I kept reading the flier
every time I went, and I
Contact Carrie Dillard, a
Paducah Sun staff writer,
at 270-575-8657.
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The UK College of Engineering Paducah Campus offers students the
chance to earn a four-year
bachelor’s degree in either
chemical or mechanical
engineering without ever
leaving home.
“We are putting out
UK grads right here in
Paducah,” Brazzell said,
about the number of freshmen (this year), we are
also excited about the total
number of students nearing 200,” Silverstein said.
Silverstein said the campus has continued to attract quality students who
are committed to their
studies and highly capable.
He credits Project Lead
the Way programs in area
schools for better prepar-
Paducah 5-Day Forecast
Today
Tonight
92°
72°
A t-storm in spots this Mostly cloudy, a t-storm
in spots
afternoon
Wednesday
95°
74°
Thursday
95°
74°
Clouds and sun, a
t-storm; humid
Partly sunny, hot and
humid
Almanac
Paducah through 6 p.m. yesterday
Temperature
Sunrise today ...............
Sunset tonight .............
Moonrise today ...........
Moonset today ............
6:15 a.m.
7:42 p.m.
1:10 a.m.
3:35 p.m.
Shown is
today’s weather.
Temperatures
are today’s highs
and tonight’s
lows.
8 a.m. 10 a.m.
6
4
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High;
8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme
Around the Region
Kentucky: Humid today with a thunderstorm, which can produce hail and
damaging winds.
Illinois: Variable clouds today with a
couple of thunderstorms; humid.
Indiana: A couple of thunderstorms
today; very warm in the south. Storms can
bring hail and damaging winds.
Missouri: Partly sunny today. A stray
thunderstorm, except dry in the west and
north; hot in the south and east.
Arkansas: Intervals of clouds and sunshine today; a thunderstorm in spots in
the north and east.
Tennessee: Partly sunny today with a
thunderstorm; humid. Humid tonight with
a thunderstorm in spots.
Partly sunny and hot
Owensboro
89/71
Cadiz
90/73
City
Belleville, IL
Bowling Gn., KY
Bristol, TN
C. Girardeau, MO
Carbondale, IL
Charleston, WV
Chattanooga, TN
Clarksville, TN
Columbia, MO
Evansville, IN
Ft. Smith, AR
Hopkinsville, KY
Indianapolis, IN
Jackson, KY
Jackson, TN
Clarksville
92/72
Union City
89/71
Blytheville
91/73
6
Partly sunny, hot and
humid
Paducah
92/72
Last
Sept 15
4
95°
74°
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.
Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Cape Girardeau
89/70
Full
Sept 8
1
Saturday
96°
73°
Carbondale
89/69
Sun and Moon
UV Index Today
Friday
Evansville
90/72
Precipitation
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Around the Nation
St. Louis
90/73
24 hrs ending 6 p.m. yest. ... 0.00”
Month to date ...................... 2.54”
Normal month to date ........ 1.67”
Year to date ........................ 31.46”
Last year to date ................ 40.77”
Normal year to date .......... 31.39”
First
Sept 2
Contact Carrie Dillard, a
Paducah Sun staff writer,
at 270-575-8657. Around the Region
High .......................................... 89°
Low ........................................... 72°
Normal high ............................. 89°
Normal low ............................... 66°
Record high ............... 103° in 1988
Record low ................... 55° in 2012
New
Aug 25
ing students to enter the
science, technology, engineering and mathematics,
or STEM, workforce.
Brazzell said the UK
Paducah Campus has
graduated more than 150
engineering students since
1997.
Memphis
95/78
Hi
91
90
84
89
89
84
89
92
86
90
96
91
85
83
92
Today
Lo W
70 t
71 t
65 t
70 t
69 t
69 t
72 t
72 t
70 t
72 t
75 pc
73 t
68 t
69 t
72 t
Hi
92
90
85
93
92
86
94
93
93
89
94
92
86
84
94
Wed.
Lo W
73 t
71 t
66 t
72 t
72 t
69 t
72 t
72 t
72 t
73 t
74 s
74 t
70 t
70 t
72 pc
Nashville
92/73
Jackson
92/72
Pulaski
90/70
City
Joplin, MO
Kansas City, MO
Knoxville, TN
Lexington, KY
Little Rock, AR
London, KY
Louisville, KY
Memphis, TN
Nashville, TN
Owensboro, KY
Peoria, IL
St. Louis, MO
Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Terre Haute, IN
Hi
96
90
85
87
95
85
89
95
92
89
86
90
87
94
85
Today
Lo W
73 t
72 pc
71 t
69 t
77 pc
70 t
72 t
78 t
73 t
71 t
66 t
73 t
66 t
73 t
66 t
Hi
95
92
89
87
94
86
90
96
93
90
88
93
87
95
86
Wed.
Lo W
74 s
75 pc
70 t
71 t
76 s
70 t
74 t
78 pc
73 t
72 t
73 t
77 t
71 t
72 s
68 t
National Summary: As New England remains dry and sunny today,
clusters of drenching showers and thunderstorms will extend from
the Upper Midwest to the mid-Atlantic coast. Heat will expand
over the South Central states as cooler air settles over the coastal
Northwest. Storms will affect the interior West as a tropical system
forms well south of California.
Today
Wed.
Today
Wed.
City
Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City
Hi Lo W Hi Lo W
Albuquerque
87 64 pc 81 63 t Little Rock
95 77 pc 94 76 s
Atlanta
87 72 t 93 75 t Los Angeles
81 63 pc 82 64 pc
Baltimore
82 64 t 83 66 t Miami
92 78 t 92 79 t
Billings
90 64 s 83 58 t Milwaukee
81 64 t 78 64 pc
Boise
93 63 pc 88 62 s Minneapolis
80 64 t 84 70 pc
Boston
75 59 s 76 60 s New Orleans
92 77 t 91 77 pc
Charleston, SC 94 77 t 94 78 t New York City 81 66 pc 82 66 pc
Charleston, WV 84 69 t 86 69 t Oklahoma City 96 75 pc 98 74 s
Chicago
85 65 t 84 68 pc Omaha
87 69 pc 92 73 t
Cincinnati
88 69 t 86 70 t Orlando
95 74 s 95 75 pc
Cleveland
83 66 t 81 64 t Philadelphia
83 66 pc 84 67 pc
Dallas
95 76 s 96 77 s Phoenix
94 78 t 96 74 t
Denver
88 62 s 85 60 t Pittsburgh
82 67 pc 81 66 t
Des Moines
85 67 pc 89 74 t Portland, OR
81 57 s 77 58 pc
Detroit
81 65 t 82 61 t Salt Lake City 77 61 t 82 63 pc
El Paso
90 71 t 87 70 t San Antonio
98 78 s 96 78 s
Fairbanks
68 49 pc 70 50 sh San Jose
75 60 pc 76 59 pc
Honolulu
89 75 sh 89 77 s San Diego
76 69 pc 76 69 pc
Houston
94 77 t 94 79 pc San Francisco 72 61 pc 73 60 pc
Indianapolis
85 68 t 86 70 t Seattle
78 57 s 72 54 pc
Jacksonville
94 75 t 95 75 pc Tucson
83 69 t 87 70 t
Las Vegas
97 74 t 91 73 s Washington, DC 85 70 t 87 72 t
Lakes and Rivers
Around the World
Through 7 a.m. yesterday (in feet)
Ohio River
Paducah
Owensboro
Flood
stage
39
38
24 hr
Stage Change
15.26
10.50
-0.43
-0.30
24 hr
Full
Pool Elevation Change
Smithland Dam 40
Lake Barkley
359
Kentucky Lake 359
13.60
357.30
357.20
+0.18
-0.05
+0.10
Mississippi River
Flood
stage
Cairo
40
24 hr
Stage Change
17.32
-0.11
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014
Athens
Beijing
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Manila
Mexico City
89
90
69
74
93
88
84
65
88
71
72 s 91 71 s
70 s 91 72 pc
50 sh 66 49 sh
61 s 75 64 s
75 s 94 75 s
80 t 87 80 r
65 s 85 64 s
46 sh 66 48 pc
77 t 90 77 t
56 t 71 56 t
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Warsaw
Zurich
75
68
82
78
62
90
70
70
53 s 78 60 s
47 pc 68 45 pc
70 s 84 67 s
69 r 83 70 sh
48 r 61 49 s
79 s 92 79 s
53 pc 68 48 pc
51 pc 67 48 t