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Woman saved from flood
Trooper waded through close to 5 feet of water to help Almo driver stranded by Tuesday’s rains
BY SHELLEY BYRNE
sbyrne@paducahsun.com
ALMO, Ky. — State police
Trooper Mark Sallin never
hesitated once he learned the
woman couldn’t swim.
“I took off my gun belt and
went in,” he said.
Sallin, who is assigned to
patrol Calloway County, was
called to Elm Grove Road near
Almo shortly before 11 a.m.
Tuesday. He had been told
a woman was trapped in her
flooded car.
“You could barely see the
roof,” he said.
Shirley Mills, 71, of Almo
was waist deep in water. She
hung onto the top of her open
car door, her feet dangling, her
back leaning against the car
for support. Mills said she had
opened the door because she
had heard the weight of water
against it could make it harder
to open as the water rose.
“I was hanging out on the
door,” she said. “I couldn’t get
down because it was too deep. It
was scary.”
Mills estimated she had hung
on for at least 45 minutes before
a passerby yelled to her that he
had called for help.
Mills had tried to drive
through the water, but her car dry land.
stalled, she said.
It came to rest in a ditch
“I came to the spot where the about 100 yards away.
water was, and it didn’t look real
The water was close to 5 feet
deep to me,” she said. “It looked deep.
like I could go across real easy.
Mills is only 5-feet-3.
“Then my car died out on me.”
When Sallin arrived, he was
She felt the water lifting the
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car as it drifted farther from
Arraignment
scheduled for
man charged
in shooting
Defendant’s
dad accused
of witness
tampering
Police find Carlisle man
at neighbor’s home after
gunshots are reported
Son is charged in October
Carlisle County death
BY MATT SANDERS
BY AMY BURROUGHS
msanders@paducahsun.com
aburroughs@paducahsun.com
CUNNINGHAM, Ky. — Kenneth H. Jones
will be arraigned at 9 a.m. today in Carlisle
District Court on a murder charge in
connection with the shooting death of nextdoor neighbor Perry D. Warren. (Obituary, 6A)
Warren, 30, died Monday night on his
driveway on Ky. 1029, north of Cunningham.
An autopsy performed Tuesday showed that
Wa r ren was
shot five times
and the fatal
“Even with
shot was to
the suspect in his left upper
custody, the abdomen, CarCounty
investigation lisle
Coroner Steve
Freeman said.
continues.”
Three bullets
were recovered
Dean Patterson d u r i n g t h e
Information officer,
autopsy, but
Kentucky State Police
Freeman dePost 1
clined to give
the locations of
Warren’s other wounds.
Jones, 66, surrendered to officers Monday
night near Warren’s driveway, Sheriff Steve
McChristian said. Carlisle County dispatchers received a 911 call about gunshots at approximately 8:20 p.m. McChristian, Deputy
Sheriff Billy Wayne Wildharber and three
state police troopers were headed to Warren’s
home when a second 911 call came in reporting that someone had been shot.
Wildharber was first at the scene and saw
Jones standing near the driveway and holding
schools participated Tuesday at Calloway County High
School’s Hoke Fieldhouse.
The large building was
transformed into Engineering
Survivor Island with different
camps surrounding a water
BARDWELL, Ky. — Larry Morris, the father
of an Iraq war veteran facing a murder charge,
will be arraigned Thursday on a charge of
intimidating a witness.
Commonwealth Attorney Mike Stacey said
he would not confirm whether the two cases
are linked because both are pending in Carlisle
Circuit Court.
Morris, 40, was brought
to the Hickman County
Detention Center in Clinton on Feb. 27. He is being
held on a $100,000 bond.
Stacey said Morris is
charged with intimidating
a commonwealth witness
in order to influence the
witness’ statement.
Morris’ son, Cody Morris, 19, is in the Ballard
Morris
County Jail in Wickliffe
on charges of murder,
wanton endangerment and evidence tampering
in connection with the shooting death of Casey
Lee Hall last October.
Cody Morris will be tried May 5 along with
William C. Adams, 16, who is charged with manslaughter, wanton endangerment, evidence tampering and receiving a stolen gun. Matt Turnbow, 19, will be tried for evidence tampering.
They have pleaded not guilty.
According to testimony from Carlisle County Sheriff Steve McChristian, the three were
among a group of friends playing video games
at a house last fall when a gun discharged and
Hall was shot in the forehead. Witnesses said
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BARKLEY THIELEMAN | The Sun
Patience Ahart, a Calloway County Middle School student, watches water being
piped from a ‘well’ to her ‘house’ in an obstacle course Tuesday during the Girls in
Engineering event at Calloway County High School.
MSU, TVA event helps girls
explore engineering possibilities
BY ANGIE KINSEY
akinsey@paducahsun.com
MURRAY, Ky. — Calloway
County sixth-grader Nikki
Austin has mixed feelings
about a career in engineering.
“It’s not all about guys, it’s
girls, too,” said Nikki, 12. “But
I can’t see many girls doing it,
getting all dirty.”
The annual Girls in Engineering event, hosted by
Murray State University and
funded by the Tennessee Valley Authority, is designed
to encourage girls to do just
that. Sixth-grade girls from
Calloway and Murray middle
McCain clinches Republican presidential nomination
Clinton victorious in Ohio, Rhode Island; Obama wins in Vermont
BY DAVID LIGHTMAN
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON — Hillary
Clinton beat Barack Obama
in the Ohio and Rhode Island
presidential primaries Tuesday,
breaking the Illinois senator’s
month-long winning streak and
all but guaranteeing that the
two Democrats will continue
their tense duel for at least seven
more weeks.
Obama, who’d won 12 contests
in a row, including Tuesday’s
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Vermont primary, had hoped to
secure the nomination. At the
start of the day, he had 1,386 delegates to Clinton’s 1,276. A total
of 2,025 is needed to nominate.
Instead, Clinton ran strong
among union members, older
voters and voters eager for a
strong commander in chief to
take Ohio and Rhode Island.
Clinton had a two-pronged
strategy: Show her more compassionate side and raise doubts
about Obama’s fitness to lead
the country.
Her victories leave the two
Democrats still battling for the
right to oppose Arizona Sen.
John McCain, who clinched the
Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory
in Texas.
The triumph of McCain,
whose win there and in three
other states pushed him well
over the 1,191 delegates needed
for the Republican nomination,
caps a White House campaign
that looked all but dead last summer, when he shook up his campaign staff, was short of money
and fell behind better-heeled
candidates such as former New
York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike
Huckabee conceded defeat in a
Associated Press
speech to supporters in Irving, John McCain gives a thumbs up to the crowd with his
Texas, saying he’ll do “every- wife, Cindy, at his primary watch party Tuesday in Dallas.
McCain surpassed the requisite 1,191 delegates to clinch
Please see CAMPAIGN | 8A the Republican nomination.
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Possible Defense?
Favre Retires From Packers
Lawmakers Set Stage For Tax
A clinical neuropsychologist is expected to present a report this week
on whether Tourette’s syndrome
could be a viable defense for burglary charges against Kevin Booker.
After flirting with retirement for years,
Brett Favre means it this time. The Green
Bay Packers quarterback ended a 17-season career in which he dazzled fans with his
grit, heart and rocket of an arm.
Lawmakers say a proposal to increase
the state’s cigarette tax could turn up
next week in legislation that now calls for
exempting lemurs from the state sales
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Tourette’s defense
mulled in burglary
Chilly work
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Parlor. 442-7389.
AARP Tax-Aide, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
McCracken County Public Library. 4431893.
Senior Medicare Patrol, provides
information on waste, fraud and abuse
in Medicare system, 1 to 3 p.m., Senior Center, 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive.
442-8993.
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to 1:30 p.m., Lone Oak First Baptist
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claims, 9 a.m. to noon, National Guard
Armory, Benton. 877-812-0840.
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Brian Green of the Paducah Public
Works Department is dressed for the
weather as he maintains decorative lighting on Water Street during Tuesday’s cold
mist.
BARDWELL, Ky. — A clinical
neuropsychologist is expected
to present a report this week on
whether Tourette’s syndrome,
which can inhibit impulse
control, could be a viable
defense for burglary charges
against Kevin Booker.
Booker has pleaded not guilty
to burglary and theft in connection with items stolen from
Flegle’s ACE Home Center in
December.
Booker’s attorney, Jeremy
Ian Smith, said Booker has had
Tourette’s syndrome for years.
The neurological disorder is
best known for causing profane
outbursts, but more common
symptoms are physical and vocal tics, sometimes accompanied by poor impulse control
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One killed in
U.S. 60 wreck
Staff report
LEDBETTER, Ky. — One person was
killed and another person was injured in a
one-vehicle wreck about 10:05 p.m. Tuesday
at U.S. 60 and Ferren Road.
The vehicle apparently caught on fire,
according to emergency responders.
State police and the Livingston County
Sheriff’s Department sent investigators
to the scene. Further information was not
immediately available.
Woman charged
in teen stabbing
Staff report
MAYFIELD, Ky. — Mayfield police
were investigating a stabbing at 7:12 p.m.
Tuesday at 429 Lockridge St.
A 17-year-old girl was taken to Jackson
Purchase Medical Center, police said. She
had a punctured lung and three back lacerations.
Police had one woman in custody on
charges of assault and wanton endangerment. They had not released her name.
Other information was unavailable from
the Mayfield Police Department.
and compulsive behaviors.
Neuropsychologist Dr. Michael Nicholas of Paducah
evaluated Booker on Thursday to determine whether his
condition could have affected
his criminal responsibility.
Nicholas is expected to submit
his report by Thursday, when a
pretrial hearing will be held in
Carlisle Circuit Court.
Smith said he is awaiting the
report before deciding whether
to pursue Tourette’s as a defense, but that Booker’s condition was not being treated in
December.
“When you have a mental illness and it’s untreated at the
time you’re accused of a crime,
I definitely think any attorney
worth his salt would look into
that,” Smith said. “I can’t help
that this is a novel defense for
Carlisle man indicted
on child porn charges
BARDWELL, Ky. — A Carlisle
County man turned himself in to
state police
Tuesday after
a grand jury
indicted him
on nine child
pornography
charges.
Dale
Harp, 38, of
Bardwell was
indicted on
four counts
Harp
of distribution of matter
portraying a sexual performance by a minor and five
counts of possession of matter
portraying sexual performance
of a minor, according to court
documents.
He was arrested at the Carlisle County Sheriff’s Department and taken to the Hickman
County Detention Center in Clinton, where he remained Tuesday
afternoon. His bond was set at
$500,000 cash.
Calvert City woman
accused of forgery
CALVERT CITY, Ky. — A Calvert City woman was arrested
Tuesday after being accused of
forging her mother’s signature
on checks.
Jennifer G. Moore, 38, was
charged with forgery, theft,
fraudulent use of a credit card
and driving on a suspended license.
Marshall County Chief Deputy
Sheriff David Maddox said Detective Dan Melone received a
report of forged checks on Friday. His investigation led him to
suspect Moore.
About 10 a.m. Tuesday, Melone located Moore as she was
driving on Oak Park Boulevard
in Calvert City, Maddox said. A
computer check revealed that
her driver’s license was suspended.
Melone stopped the vehicle
and arrested Moore. She was
jailed in Benton.
Freemont burglary, Hayden said.
They are also looking for a white
man in his late 20s or early 30s
who was caught on a video camera, they said.
Hayden asked anyone with
information to call the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department at 444-4719 or West
Kentucky Crime Stoppers at
443-TELL.
Terry settling in as
Carlisle judge-executive
BARDWELL, Ky. — His office
space is still temporary, but
Greg Terry said he has enjoyed a
smooth transition as the newly
appointed
Carlisle
County judgeexecutive.
Terry had
been the
Task force discusses
county road
Paducah campus options
supervisor
Sheriff’s department
Members of a task force that
since 1998
to step up patrols
will decide how best to expand
and was
McCracken County deputy
programs, services and faciliappointed
sheriffs will be stepping up
ties at Murray State University’s
deputy judgeTerry
patrols after recent burglaries,
Paducah campus listed pros
executive, an
Sheriff Jon Hayden said.
and cons of five options during
unpaid posiOn Feb. 25, someone took the Monday’s meeting.
tion, by the fiscal court about
cash register from the Farmer’s
Options are: renovating and
four months ago. He took the
Market in Freemont, Hayden
expanding the Crisp Center on
oath of office on Saturday after
said. The cash register was
Irvin Cobb Drive, buying property Gov. Steve Beshear appointed
found a day later in some brush to build a new facility, using
him. Terry presided over his first
behind the All Seasons Car
space in a building provided
fiscal court meeting on Tuesday
Wash in Lone Oak.
by West Kentucky Community
morning.
About the same day, there
& Technical College, sharing a
As deputy judge, Terry worked
was an attempted burglary at
space with other colleges and
alongside Judge-Executive John
Symsonia Grocery & Hardware,
universities, or buying a building Roberts, who resigned effective
Hayden said. Graves County
and renovating it to meet class- Feb. 29 because he had been
Chief Deputy Sheriff Dewayne
room needs.
diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.
Redmon said someone broke a
Task force members diswindow.
cussed the importance of havLBL Road 165 closed
The Graves and McCracken
ing a building that would be
County sheriff’s departments
flexible enough for future needs,
GOLDEN POND, Ky. — Runoff
are investigating the possibility
convenient to students travelfrom heavy rain washed out a
of a link between the burglaries, ing from throughout the region,
section of road south of the Land
Hayden said.
preserve the university’s identity Between the Lakes’ Wranglers
Sometime early Tuesday,
and help it increase the number Campground overnight Monday.
someone broke into Starnes
of degree holders in far western LBL managers say a southern
Wholesale on Starnes Avenue
Kentucky.
section of Road 165 will be
and stole two computers and
The task force will ask memclosed until further notice.
other items valued at more than bers from a West Kentucky
Wranglers Campground still
$11,000, Hayden said.
Community & Technical College is accessible via the northern
Sheriff’s investigators are
committee to meet with them in entrance of Road 165 and by
looking for a dark-colored
a few weeks to further discuss
Fords Bay Road.
minivan in connection with the
the options.
From Sun staff reports
Tuesday’s lottery
People on the Street
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Pick 3-evening: 5-1-2
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Quilters, stitchers and crafters can learn
more about their field during A Quilter’s
Day Out Quilt Fest from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday at Paducah’s St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, 21st and Kentucky Avenue.
The event is free and open to the public.
It will feature a quilt show, country store,
vendors and demonstrations. Paducah
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— called meeting, 8 a.m., Four Rivers
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Little Lotto: 16-23-29-32-36
Est. Lotto Jackpot: $2.5 million
Est. Mega Millions Jackpot:
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“History. Without history,
we don’t know how we got to
where we are or how to keep
from going the wrong way.”
Bethany Gourley
“Economy. With gas prices
going up, we learn why it’s
costing so much and what we
can do to keep it down.”
Ben Hudson
“An English class or reading
class. In every class you take
in college, you have to read
and write papers.”
Ashley Jones
■ It is possible to hear
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Outdoors
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needs to know how we came
to be here and to learn from
mistakes and successes.”
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Quilters’ program set
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someone in this area to present,
but it’s certainly not a novel defense for the legal community
as a whole or in this country.”
According to a national academic journal, Tourette’s syndrome has been implicated in at
least two dozen criminal cases.
Commonwealth Attorney
Mike Stacey said he would wait
for Nicholas’ report before deciding whether to obtain a second evaluation of Booker.
Jeremy Ellis, who also was
charged with the burglary,
pleaded guilty in January and
agreed to testify against Booker. He was sentenced to five
years of probation and ordered
to pay $3,425 in restitution, Stacey said.
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The Paducah Sun • Wednesday, March 5, 2008 • 3A
Hardin teachers striking over insurance
BY SHELLEY BYRNE
The strike means students missed
what was to have been the first day
of state-mandated testing Tuesday.
The next testing window is later this
month, Fowler said.
“We were disappointed that the
teachers chose to go ahead and walk
off the job,” Fowler said.
The teachers have been working
without a contract since the beginning
of the school year.
sbyrne@paducahsun.com
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ill. — Hardin
County schools will not resume until
Tuesday at the earliest because of its
teachers going on strike.
A bargaining session with a federal
mediator is set for 10 a.m. Monday.
The mediator has been involved in the
last three negotiating sessions, Superintendent Ernie Fowler said.
The teachers and administrators
disagree over whether the district
should provide health insurance for 16
cooks, aides, secretaries and custodians hired after July 2004.
Many of the employees cannot afford health coverage on their own, according to the Hardin County Education Association.
“It is simply a social justice issue for
us,” union President Patty Koch said
in a release. “We believe the school
system should be an example of how
everyone should be treated.”
Fowler called the disagreement a
misunderstanding. “They knew when
they took the job that health insurance
was not part of that package,” he said.
Providing insurance for those employees would cost the school district
about $250,000 over a three-year contract, he said. The district has said
previous contract proposals are unacceptable because they would require
the district to raise taxes.
The education association has said
school administrators have grossly
overestimated the cost of the latest
proposal and that raising taxes would
not be necessary.
Shelley Byrne can be contacted at
575-8667.
Clark claims District 2 Proposal would smoke out lemur clause
Governor’s Cup meet
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Clark and St. Mary elementary schools finished first and
second, respectively, in the District 2 Elementary Governor’s
Cup competition Saturday at
St. Mary.
Winners will compete at the
Region I event on March 22 at
Graves Central Elementary.
The District 2 results in order of finish:
■ Math: Reese Butler, Clark;
Ben Hopper, St. Mary; Grant
Hutcheson, Clark; Alex Rich,
St. Mary; Stephanie Hern, Morgan.
■ Science: Parker Loyd,
Cl a rk ; Gr a nt Hutche son,
Clark; Thai Daniels, Morgan;
Alex Rich, St. Mary; Jonathon
Bragg, Morgan.
■ Social Studies: Ben Hopper,
St. Mary; Parker Loyd, Clark;
(tied for 4th place) Lakyn Fulton, Morgan; Sabrina Bherens,
Morgan, Erin Burba, Clark, Reese Butler, Clark.
■ Language arts: Jacob
Lang, St. Mary; Matthew Poat,
St. Mary; Riley Sigler, Clark;
Gabriella Argotte, St. Mary;
McKenna Garneau, Clark.
■ Arts and humanities: Meg
Hancock, Clark; Erin Burba,
Clark; Sabrina Behrens, Morgan; Sydney Nash, St. Mary;
Katie Clark, St. Mary.
■ Written composition: Karlee Humphrey, Clark; (tied for
second) Nadine Rewa, St. Mary,
and Meg Hancock, Clark; Gabriella Argotte, St. Mary; Erin
Burba, Clark.
■ Future Problem Solving:
Clark; St. Mary.
■ Quick recall team: Clark;
St. Mary.
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A lemur is a longtailed, large-eyed primate with a pointed
muzzle and soft, wooly
fur native to Madagascar and the Comoro
Islands.
says the proposed cigarette tax
increase and other proposals
aimed at increasing state revenues could be rolled into the
bill.
Lawmakers have discussed
cigarette tax increases since
January. State Rep. David
Watkins, D-Henderson, filed
legislation calling for a tax
increase of 70 cents per pack.
House Speaker Jody Rich-
ards, D-Bowling Green, said
most lawmakers would favor
a lesser increase. He suggests
the hike should be 25 cents per
pack.
Also Tuesday:
■ A proposal to legalize casino gambling by amending
Kentucky’s constitution is still
shy of the 60 votes it needs to
clear the state House, Gov.
Steve Beshear told reporters.
Beshear acknowledged the
proposal, which was one of his
top legislative priorities heading into the 2008 General Assembly session, is facing an
“uphill climb” getting onto the
ballot and before Kentucky
voters this November. Nevertheless, Beshear said the measure has support from at least
50 House members and could
get more.
■ Carl Shoupe is hopeful
that a maneuver by lawmakers may clear the way for leg-
islation that could effectively
halt a form of mining that involves removing mountaintops
to get coal out of the ground.
Shoupe and other mountain residents were in Frankfort on Tuesday to urge state
lawmakers to pass legislation
that would prohibit coal companies from dumping dirt and
rock from mountaintops into
streams and valleys.
Lawmakers began hearing
testimony on Tuesday in the
House Appropriations and
Revenue Committee. More testimony is scheduled for today.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Lawmakers say a proposal to increase the state’s cigarette tax
could turn up next week in legislation that now calls for exempting lemurs from the state
sales tax.
State Rep. Jim Wayne, DLouisville, filed the lemur
legislation on Tuesday in a
legislative move intended to allow lawmakers more time to
draft a cigarette tax proposal.
Wayne says the plan is to drop
the exotic animals content
from the measure and replace
it with a proposed cigarette tax
increase before the bill comes
up for a vote in the House Appropriations and Revenue
Committee, perhaps as soon as
Monday.
The move drew yuks from
lawmakers during a meeting
of the committee on Tuesday.
Chairman Harry Moberly
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McCracken District Court
Feb. 5
Michael L. Barnett, 4620
Bethel Church Road, Kevil, 28,
operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/
drugs etc. .08 1st offense: 30
days conditional discharge 2
years, alcohol driving education, $754, pay 5-6-08, license
suspended 60 days; possession
of marijuana: 30 days conditional discharge 2 years, random drug screens through
Crossroads 6 months, $200.
Joshua A. Linson, 816 E. 5th
St., Metropolis, Ill., 21, failure
of owner to maintain required
insurance/security 1st: $439,
pay 5-6-08.
Pat r ici a B a r tolo, 2 8 6 0
Pool Road Lot 9, Paducah, 21,
no operator’s license: 30 days
conditional discharge 2 years,
$279; failure to use a child restraint device in vehicle: $35;
4 charges contempt of court,
libel/slander, resistance to order: 1st charge $100; 2nd charge
$100, 2 days jail, 3rd charge 30
days conditional discharge 2
years, 4th charge $100, 8 days
jail.
Robert Lowell Hutchens,
2200 Bridge St., Paducah, 42,
contempt of court, libel/slander, resistance to order: 30 days
conditional discharge 2 years,
$100, pay 5-6-08.
James Arthur Hammond,
2400 Jefferson St., Paducah, 35,
operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/
drugs .08 3rd offense: 300 days,
serve 60 days, 240 days conditional discharge 2 years, $1,304,
license suspended 36 months;
driving on DUI suspended license 1st offense with Aggravator: 60 days, serve 10 days, 50
days conditional discharge 2
years, $200, pay 8-5-08, license
suspended 12 months; posses-
sion of open alcoholic beverage
container in motor vehicle: $35.
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4A • Wednesday, March 5, 2008 • The Paducah Sun
OPINION
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Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961
Frank Paxton, Publisher, 1961-1972
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Editorials
PAST TIME
Those in authority must
be held to higher standard
The legislature is considering
a bill to make it illegal for any
person in authority to have
sexual contact with someone
under the age of 18.
That’s right, it’s not already
against the law. In the
Commonwealth, a high school
teacher or coach can legally
have consensual sex with a
16-year-old student. There
is no special prohibition for
teachers or, for that matter,
clergy, counselors or others in
positions of authority.
The case that brought the
statutory omission to public
attention involved Marshall
County High School band
director Michael Colvett,
who allegedly had a sexual
relationship with a 16-year-old
student. Investigators were at
first only able to charge him
with encouraging the student
to disobey her parents, a
misdemeanor. No protections
are in place for youth over 16.
Fortunately, that’s about to
change.
Lawmakers are halfway
through the process of raising
the age of consent between
a minor and “a person in a
position of authority or special
trust” to 18. The bill is sailing
through the general assembly
in a session in which just about
every other bill is at a standstill.
The House already approved
HB 211 by unanimous vote
(96-0). The bill is now before
the Senate. The Senate should
not delay passing the bill and
getting it to Gov. Beshear’s
desk.
In addition to increasing
the age of consent in such
situations, the bill would
increase the penalty for not
reporting abuse to authorities,
and it increases the statute of
limitations to five years after a
victim’s 18th birthday.
Since Colvett’s original
charges, investigators have
charged him with felony rape,
alleging a sexual relationship
began when the student was
15. Regardless of how the case
is resolved, it illustrates the
obvious; if a person in authority
abuses their position to obtain
sex from a student, there is no
appreciable difference whether
the student is 15 or 16.
Lawmakers are doing the
right thing. The law is overdue.
CONTORTIONS
Legislators resort to
political gymnastics
It’s amazing how many
lawmakers are ready to vote in
favor of something they oppose.
Kentucky legislators, mostly
Democrats, say they “personally
oppose” casinos but the voters
should be allowed to decide
whether to legalize them. Well,
then why not take the same tack
on prostitution? Cocaine use?
Public indecency?
A little self-examination is
in order. If one “personally”
opposes casinos, why? Is it not
the societal costs? Then how
does one justify approving that
which would compound those
costs in the Commonwealth?
The area Democratic
lawmaker who comes nearest
a consistent position is Sen.
Dorsey Ridley of Henderson,
who not only favors casinos,
he is positively giddy over the
fact that Kentucky now has a
governor behind the effort to
legalize them, something Ridley
has been awaiting for 20 years.
The senator makes no pretense
of opposing gambling, bless him.
But there’s plenty of pretense
to go around. Newly elected Rep.
Will Coursey of Benton still
hasn’t taken off his legislative
training wheels, but he’s already
mastered political doublespeak.
Against casinos, he’s “open to
voting for the amendment if
that’s what the voters ... want.”
Rep. Melvin Henley of Murray
wins the prize for conflicted
stands. Henley says he opposes
casinos and will vote against
putting the amendment on the
ballot, but as a member of the
House amendments committee,
he voted for it. His rationale:
to end the incessant “fiddling
with it” once and for all. But in
committee, his was the deciding
vote; Henley had the power
to single-handedly end the
“fiddling” then and there. The
amendment had already failed
three times in committee before
Speaker Jody Richards shook
up the membership to move the
amendment out of committee.
Richards expended too much
political capital to risk it again.
Even the reflective Rep. Frank
Rasche of Paducah, who calls
it “poor public policy” and
promises to vote against casinos
in November, admits he will
likely support the amendment in
the House, citing polls showing
80 percent of Kentuckians want
to vote on the issue. How much
better to educate the public on
why it is poor policy.
Rep. Fred Nesler of Mayfield
says even opponents of casinos
want to vote on it, and he is
considering giving them the
opportunity, though he opposes
casinos and fears the voters
will choose wrongly. He said,
“I don’t think they understand
the long-term consequences.”
Why not spare Kentuckians the
unforeseen consequences?
Here’s the kicker; not one
says casinos should be legalized
because Kentucky needs the
money. Wasn’t that the point?
Area Republicans — Sen.
Ken Winters of Murray and
Rep. Steve Rudy of Paducah
— consistently oppose casinos
as bad policy and a distraction
from the more pressing issues
facing lawmakers. No political
contortions there.
And the legislature’s lone
independent, Sen. Bob Leeper
of Paducah, makes the most
astute observation. Under
Kentucky’s Constitution, Leeper
says, lawmakers, by putting
an amendment on the ballot,
voice their support for it and
recommend it to the voters.
Lawmakers ready to place a
casino amendment on the ballot
are either disingenuous about
their opposition or unfaithful to
their Constitutional oath.
Rhetoric will not bring jobs to the ‘rust belt’
It is fascinating watching politicians say how they are going to
rescue the “rust belt” regions
where jobs are disappearing and
companies are either shutting
down or moving elsewhere.
The North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is
being blamed for the jobs going
elsewhere. Barack Obama blames
the Clinton administration for
NAFTA, and that includes Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Obama says that he is for
free trade, provided it is “fair
trade.” That is election year
rhetoric at its cleverest.
Since “fair” is one of those
words that can mean virtually
anything to anybody, what this
amounts to is that politicians can
pile on whatever restrictions they
want, in the name of fairness, and
still claim to be for “free trade.”
Clever.
We will all have to pay a cost
for political restrictions and political cleverness, since there is
no free lunch.
In fact, free lunches are a big
part of the reason for once-prosperous regions declining into
rust belts.
When the American automobile
industry was the world’s leader
in its field, many people seemed
to think that labor unions could
transfer a bigger chunk of that
prosperity to its members without
causing economic repercussions.
Toyota, Honda, and others who
took away more and more of the
Big Three automakers’ market
share, leading to huge job losses
in Detroit, proved once again the
old trite saying that there is no
free lunch.
Like the United Automobile
Thomas Sowell
Workers union in its heyday,
unions in the steel industry and
other industries piled on costs,
not only in wage rates having
little relationship to supply and
demand, but in all sorts of red
tape work rules that added costs.
State and local governments in
what later became the rust belt
also thought that they could treat
the industries under their jurisdiction as prey rather than assets,
and siphon off more of the wealth
created by those industries into
state and local treasuries with
ever higher taxes — again, without considering repercussions.
In the short run, you can get
away with all sorts of things.
But, in the long run, the chickens
come home to roost. The rust belt
is where those rising costs have
come home to roost.
While American auto makers
are laying off workers by the
thousands, Japanese auto makers
like Toyota and Honda are hiring
thousands of American workers.
But they are not hiring them in
the rust belts.
They are avoiding the rust
belts, just as domestic businesses
are avoiding the high costs that
have been piled on over the years
by both unions and governments
in the rust belt regions.
In short, the rust belts have
been killing the goose that lays
the golden eggs. That is a viable
political strategy, so long as the
goose doesn’t die before the next
election and politicians can avoid
leaving their fingerprints on the
weapon.
But the people who lose their
jobs, and who live in communities
that decline, need to look beyond
the political rhetoric to the grim
reality that there is no free lunch.
Many workers in the new
plants being built by Toyota and
others apparently already understand that. They have repeatedly
voted against being represented
by labor unions. They want to
keep their jobs.
Where does NAFTA come into
the picture?
International trade is just one
of the many ways in which the
competition of lower cost producers can cause higher cost producers to lose customers and jobs.
Technological improvements or
better management practices by
domestic competitors can have
the same result.
Jobs are always disappearing.
The big question is why they are
not being replaced by new jobs.
Rust belt policies that drove out
old jobs also keep out new jobs.
NAFTA makes it easier for politicians to blame the problem on
foreigners.
In fact, foreigners make ideal
scapegoats for politicians. After
all, people in Japan or India can’t
vote in American elections.
Americans who can vote would
do well to start spending more
time thinking about economic
realities, instead of being swept
away by political rhetoric.
Letters
Beshear sold out
to the gambling crowd
EDITOR:
Puzzle solved. Now I know finally why our new
governor is so bent on his “gambling kick.” The $1
million given to his campaign by the “gambling
crowd” reported in the Sun from the AP explains it
all: he sold out.
I never could get it when he was campaigning on
being such a great church-going Christian, with a
dad and grandfather Baptist preachers and promoting gambling at the same time. I e-mailed him about
this, with no reply, of course, since I am a Baptist
preacher of almost 60 years and the son of a Baptist
preacher and have known and heard hundreds of
Baptist preachers and never one time ever heard one
who was for gambling, but always the opposite, that
it is always wrong.
Now he is crying what terrible shape Kentucky is
in financially so he can have more leverage to promote his “sale” to and for the gambling crowd who
bought him.
Shame, shame if Kentucky falls for all of this
and votes for legalized gambling in our beloved
commonwealth. Our best hope now is for the Republican-controlled Senate to block it if the Democraticcontrolled House passes the proposal promoted by
the Democratic governor to get it on the November
ballot for a vote.
AUBERT ROSE
Benton
Editorial didn’t consider
poor pay of prison guards
EDITOR:
Once again I must disagree with you because you
don’t consider all the points involved with your editorial.
You point out that the retirement plan is underfunded but you fail to say anything about how the
last governor spent all the discretionary funds that
have created the shortfall we have today.
You complain that the retirement is too generous
but don’t mention that some if not most are underpaid prison guards who are paid so little that the
medical plan for families is out of reach for most of
them. The retention rate for the job is terrible and
the conditions and risk are so bad that only one in
four complete the probationary period and 50 per-
cent of those quit in the first year.
That being said, the only thing to keep them working is the retirement. To reduce the cost of living
increases will just create a new class of poor. That is
not an appropriate reward for public service.
You need to check the suicide rate of correctional
officers, both working and retired.
The system needs change, but if you put the burden on new hires you must either pay more or give
them some other good reason to do the jobs if you
take the retirement reason away.
ROY BAKER
Eddyville
What politicians don’t
tell you about gambling
EDITOR:
I am amazed at what is going on in our country
and town.
Our elected officials have decided that we are no
longer able to tell what is best for us. We are told that
our state is broke and without casinos our children
will not be able to attend school and our state will
fail.
What they don’t tell you is that with gambling
some of our children will not have food or family,
and they don’t mention crime involved with gambling.
It’s time for people to stand up to these people who
try to make decisions for “We the People.”
JACKIE FOWLER
Paducah
Taxpayers should not
bear expense of cleanup
EDITOR:
After reading in the paper where Paducah Power
was going to raise their rates I thought it was time
for me to express my opinion.
I have been retired from USEC for 19 years and
never had 1-cent raise. I don’t think taxpayers ought
to have to supplement the airport and also pay for
the AEC plant cleanup. The people responsible for
the cleanup should be Union Carbide and Martin
Marietta.
Well, I guess there will be another tax raise.
JAMES CHAMPION
Paducah
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6A • Wednesday, March 5, 2008 • The Paducah Sun
Marjorie Holder
FULTON, Ky. — Services for
Marjorie Elizabeth Holder, 81, of
Fulton will be at 2 p.m. today at
Hornbeak Funeral Chapel with
Dr. Jack Acree officiating. Burial
will be at Fairview Cemetery.
Mrs. Holder died at 8:30 p.m.
Monday at Haws Memorial Nursing Home.
She was employed by the former Fulton Bank for 43 years as
a teller, bookkeeper and assistant vice president. Mrs. Holder
was a member of First Baptist
Church of Fulton, where she was
a member of the Bethany Sunday
school class. She was a member
and Past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star No. 41, and a member of
the American Legion Auxiliary.
Several cousins survive.
She was preceded in death by
one brother. Her parents were
Irby L. and Beatrice Wrather
Holder.
Friends may call after noon
today at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may
take the form of contributions to
First Baptist Church Building
Fund, 115 Second St., Fulton, KY
42041.
Annie Cooper
MURRAY, Ky. — Services for
Annie Lee Cooper, 94, of Murray
will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at
J.H. Churchill Funeral Home
with the Revs. Bob Saywell
and Robert Jetton officiating.
Burial will be at South Pleasant
Grove Cemetery.
Mrs. Cooper died at 6:12 p.m.
Monday at Murray-Calloway
County Hospital.
She was a homemaker and
a member of South Pleasant
Grove United Methodist Church
and United Methodist Women.
Surviving are three daughters, Jean Cooper, Joan Cooper
and Jane Gaines, all of Murray;
one grandchild, Krista Albrecht
of Jacksonville, Fla.; one greatgrandchild; and several nieces
and nephews.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Leon Cooper; two
sisters; and one brother. Her
parents were Ollie Brandon and
Pearl West Brandon Kelso.
Friends may call after 5 p.m.
today at the funeral home.
Gregory Bates
MARION, Ky. — Services for
Gregory Adam Bates, 25, of
Marion will be at 4 p.m. today
at Gilbert Funeral Home with
Sister Sandy Winters and the
Rev. Tony Perryman officiating.
Burial will be at Bachelor
Cemetery in Fountain, Mich.
Mr. Bates died Sunday at
Lourdes hospital in Paducah.
He was an employee of the
Pella Corp. in Murray.
Surviving are his mother,
Kim Moody of Marion; his father, Jerry Duane Bates Sr. of
Ludington, Mich.; two brothers, Jerry Duane Bates Jr. of
Berea and James Mathew Bates
of Marion; one sister, Diamond
Louise Bates of Ludington;
and his grandmother, Wauneta
Bates of Ludington.
Friends may call after 11 a.m.
today at Gilbert Funeral Home.
Services will also be at 4 p.m.
Friday at Stephens Funeral
home in Scottville, Mich., where
friends may call after 1.
Teddie Tucker
MAYFIELD, Ky. — Services
for Teddie H. Tucker, 80, of
Mayfield will be at 1 p.m.
Thursday at Brown Funeral
Home in Mayfield with the
Rev. Steven Bruns officiating.
Burial will be at Highland Park
Cemetery.
Mr. Tucker died at 8:38 p.m.
Monday at Jackson Purchase
Medical Center.
He was a U.S. Air Force veteran and a member of American Legion Post 26. Mr. Tucker
was a retired truck driver for
McLean Trucking Company
and was former owner of the
Dairyette in Lone Oak. He
was a member of First United
Methodist Church and Senior
Friends.
Surviving are his wi fe,
Joanne Givens Tucker; one
stepson, Steven Wendell Givens
of Albuquerque, N.M.; three
stepgrandchildren; and five
nieces.
He was preceded in death by
his first wife, Desa Tucker; two
brothers; and two sisters. His
parents were Ira Dee and Tommie Henson Tucker.
Friends may call after 10 a.m.
Thursday at the funeral home.
Glen Mohon
Glen Mohon, 72, of Penrod,
formerly of Paducah, died Tuesday at the Medical Center of
Bowling Green.
Arrangements were incomplete at Milner & Orr Funeral
Home of Paducah.
Alice Chumbler
B E N T O N , Ky. — A l ic e
Chumbler, 98, of Benton died at
3:55 a.m. Tuesday at Riverside
Manor Healthcare in Calhoun.
Arrangements were incomplete at Collier Funeral Home.
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Roy Yancy
Roy Yancy, 85, of Paducah died
at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah.
Arrangements were incomplete at Roth Funeral Chapel in
Paducah.
Gladys Rogers
BARLOW, Ky. — Gladys Rogers,
82, of Barlow died Tuesday at
Western Baptist Hospital in
Paducah.
Arrangements were incomplete at Jones Funeral Home in
La Center.
Kendall Thomas
BARLOW, Ky. — Kendall
Thomas, 86, of Barlow died
Tuesday at Lourdes hospital in
Paducah.
Arrangements were incomplete at Jones Funeral Home in
La Center.
RAMALLAH, West
Bank — The U.S.-backed
P a l e s t i n i a n p r e si d e nt
rebuffed the Bush
administration’s request
Tuesday to quickly end
a walkout of peace talks
with Israel, saying Israeli
military bombardment of
civilians in the Gaza Strip
is unacceptable under any
circumstance.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said negotiations
are the only solution.
She defended Israel’s right
to seek out militants who
use the tiny Hamas-held territory as a launching pad
for increasing numbers of
rockets targeting civilians
in southern Israel.
“I understand the difficulties of the current moment,”
Rice said following meetings
with Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas. “We all
must keep an eye on what is
important.”
She won no public promise that Palestinians would
end their boycott soon.
U.S. officials say they understand his political predicament and predict talks
will resume after a brief
lull. Abbas was not expected
to relent before Rice leaves
the Middle East on Wednesday.
The goal has been reaching an Israeli-Palestinian
peace treaty by the end of
the year.
“Negotiations are going to
have to be able to withstand
the efforts of rejectionists to
upset them, to create chaos
and violence, so that people
react by deciding not to negotiate, “ Rice said while
visiting Egypt
Abbas pulled out of negotiations Sunday in protest
of Israel’s weekend sweep,
which has killed more than
120 Palestinians.
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with Israelis
MILWAUKEE — Gary Gygax,
who co-created the fantasy
game Dungeons & Dragons
and is widely seen as the father
of role-playing games, died
Tuesday morning at his home
in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
He had been suffering from
health problems for several
years, including an abdominal
aneurysm, said his wife, Gail
Gygax.
Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons
in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures.
The game known for its oddly
shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys,
and spawned video games,
books and movies.
Gygax always enjoyed hearing from the game’s legion of
devoted fans, many of whom
would stop by the family’s home
in Lake Geneva, about 55 miles
southwest of Milwaukee, his
wife said. Despite his declining
health, he hosted weekly games
of Dungeons & Dragons as recently as January, she said.
“It really meant a lot to him
to hear from people from over
the years about how he helped
them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave
them,” Gail Gygax said.
Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters
and carry out their adventures
with the help of complicated
rules. The quintessential geek
pastime, it spawned a wealth
of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that’s still growing in
popularity.
He grew up in Chicago and
moved to Lake Geneva at the
age of 8. Gygax’s father, a Swiss
immigrant who played violin
in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, read fantasy books to
his only son and hooked him
on the genre, Gail Gygax said.
Gygax dropped out of high
school but took anthropology
classes at the University of Chicago for a while, she said.
MAYFIELD, Ky. — Norma
McCary, 80, of Mayfield died at
3:30 p.m. Monday at Jackson
Purchase Medical Center.
Arrangements were incomplete at Byrn Funeral Home.
Curley Sanderfer
W I N G O, Ky. — Charles
David “Curley” Sanderfer,
69, of Wingo died at 11:45 a.m.
Tuesday at his home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Brown Funeral Home
in Wingo.
Dungeons creator
dies at age 69
Sully Sullivan
Graveside services for Theron
“Sully” Sullivan, 93, of Lone Oak,
formerly of the Lowes community, will be at 2 p.m. today at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens with the
Rev. Nathan Rogers officiating.
Mr. Sullivan died at 12:35 a.m.
Tuesday at Jackson Purchase
Medical Center in Mayfield.
A native of Graves County, he
was a stockroom clerk for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad and a
member of the Kentucky Pioneer
Basketball Association.
He was preceded in death by
his wife, Deloris Bristoe Sullivan.
His parents were Hester Sullivan
and Lillian Frey Sullivan.
There will be no visitation.
Milner & Orr Funeral Home of
Paducah is in charge of arrangements.
Expressions of sympathy may
take the form of contributions to
Paducah Cooperative Ministry,
402 Legion Drive, Paducah, KY
42003.
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C U N N I N G H A M , Ky. —
Services for Perry Dwain
Warren, 30, of Cunningham
will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at
Trinity Holiness Church with
Davin Burnett and Lyndal
Birdsong officiating. Burial
will be at Bethel Holiness
Church Cemetery.
Mr. Warren died Monday in
Carlisle County. (Story, 1A)
He was co-owner/operator
of Better Built Garages and
a member of Bethel Holiness
Church.
Surviving are his wife of 12
years, Chera Fulcher Warren;
his parents, Dwain and Sharon
Burnett Warren of Melber; one
son, Tanner Warren of Cunningham; two brothers, Brandon Warren of Paducah and
Darren Warren of Hickory; and
his grandparents, Bishop and
Patsy Ann Warren of Mayfield.
He was preceded in death by
one son, Reagan Perry Raphael
Warren, and his grandparents,
Colvin and Tess Burnett.
Friends may call after 5 p.m.
today at Byrn Funeral Home in
Mayfield.
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Memphis police report no clues in home attack that killed 6
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A day
into one of the city’s biggest murder investigations
in decades — two men,
two women and two boys
shot and stabbed — police
conceded Tuesday they had
virtually nothing to go on.
Investigators said they
believed the attacker or attackers were not among the
dead, ruling out a murdersuicide.
But detectives faced a
broad window for the killings: some time between
Saturday night and Monday
evening, when the six bodies and three wounded children were found in a small
brick home on a dead-end
street in a poor neighborhood east of downtown.
Officers went door to door
looking for tips that could
lead to a suspect or a motive.
“We’re working with a
blank sheet of paper,” police spokeswoman Monique
Martin said.
Most of the victims had
been shot and at least one
child had been stabbed, authorities said. The children
ranged in age from about 1
to 12 years old, police said.
The surviving children
were hospitalized, two in
very critical condition and
the other in serious, according to police. Their families
asked that no details of
their conditions be released,
and it wasn’t clear when or
if they might be able to help
investigators.
2 women convicted
of enslaving teen
Paratrooper brigade
to leave Iraq
WASHINGTON — An Army
paratrooper unit that led the
U.S. troop surge into Baghdad last year is returning
Associated Press
Zella Cathey weeps and prays with other members of the home, marking a resumpBinghampton community on Tuesday during a prayer ser- tion of a troop drawdown
vice at First Baptist Church on Broad in Memphis, Tenn.
that will test the durability of
recent security gains.
The drawdown began last
but convicted of a lesser
No information was availDecember with the deparcharge of harboring an ilable on whether the target
ture of one brigade, numlegal alien. Claire Telasco,
was hit.
bering about 5,000 troops,
Paulin’s sister, was acquittaking the overall U.S. troop
ted of conspiracy and forced Hormone research
level in Iraq to 158,000. A
labor charges.
shows mixed results three-month lull was built
Prosecutors alleged that
into the drawdown plan.
Celestin was stolen at age
CHICAGO — The first folA senior military official
5 from her mother and
low-up of a landmark study
said Tuesday that the 2nd
grandmother in a mountain
of hormone use after meno- brigade, 82nd Airborne Divivillage and forced to pretend pause shows heart probsion is heading back to Fort
she was an orphan at the
lems linked with the pills
Bragg, N.C., in coming days
orphanage Theodore ran
seem to fade after women
and will not be replaced in
with her late husband in
stop taking them, while
the rotation. That will drop
Ranquitte, Haiti.
surprising new cancer risks the number of U.S. combat
At age 14, the girl was
appear.
brigades in Iraq from 19 to
taken to the U.S. on a 29That heart trouble associ- 18, with an additional three
day visa.
ated with hormones may not scheduled to leave by July.
be permanent is good news
for millions of women who
Missile targeted
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quit taking them after the
bombing suspect
from hotel powder
government study was haltWASHINGTON — A U.S.
ed six years ago because
LAS VEGAS — Police have
missile strike in Somalia on of heart risks and breast
given the all-clear after auMonday targeted a Kenyan
cancer.
thorities checked an unidensuspected in the 1998
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tified white powder a man
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Vegas Strip hotel room.
Authorities say a substance found Tuesday in a
room at the Excalibur hotelcasino is not hazardous but
have not disclosed what the
substance is.
Officials found the toxin
ricin at another Las Vegas
motel last week.
FCC investigates
loss of ‘60 Minutes’
WASHINGTON — The
Federal Communications
Commission is investigating
why an Alabama television
station went dark during a
Feb. 24 broadcast of a “60
Minutes” installment.
The blackout occurred
on WHNT-TV in Huntsville,
Ala., during a segment on
imprisoned former Gov. Don
Siegelman that suggested
he was the victim of a Republican conspiracy. The
station blamed the outage
on equipment failure.
Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said
Tuesday that the agency
had received “some 20-odd
complaints” regarding the
broadcast and had told staff
to send a letter asking for
an explanation of the incident. A “letter of inquiry”
is routine when reviewing
complaints against a station
and is the first step in an
investigation of a broadcast
licensee.
Part of gas increase
linked to speculators
WASHINGTON — Market speculation on energy
prices may have added
as much as 10 percent to
crude oil costs and the peak
may be yet to come, a top
Energy Department official
said Tuesday.
Guy Caruso, head of the
department’s Energy Information Administration, told
a Senate hearing that supply and demand would suggest a price of about $90 a
barrel.
Prices fluctuated around
$102 a barrel Tuesday — although futures prices later
dropped below $100 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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were acquitted of that count
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CAMPAIGN: Exit polls suggested Clinton’s recent
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3 a.m. phone call ad worked for her among Ohio voters
CONTINUED FROM 1A
thing possible to unite our party, but more important, to unite
our country so that we can be
the best that we can be.”
McCain, who’s scheduled to
visit the White House today
for lunch with and an endorsement from 2000 rival President
Bush, reinvigorated his campaign with the kind of grassroots effort that made him a
national figure the first time
he ran for president eight
years ago.
“I understand the responsibilities I incur with this nomination,” McCain told supporters in Dallas, “and I give you
my word, I will not evade or
slight a single one.
“Our campaign must be,
and will be, more than another
tired debate of false promises,
empty sound-bites or useless
arguments from the past that
BARKLEY THIELEMAN | The Sun
Calloway County Middle School girls listen to instructions on piping water from the
‘well’ to their ‘house’ for a project Tuesday at the Girls in Engineering event.
GIRLS: 20 of 110 engineering students at MSU are
women, about the same as in work force, chairman says
CONTINUED FROM 1A
tank, or oasis, in the center.
“We thought they could identify with the TV show,” said Steve
Cobb, chairman of the MSU department of engineering and
physics. “We want them to have
this experience in a supportive atmosphere, so they can make curriculum decisions in high school
and take more science and math.”
Cobb said about 20 of Murray
State’s 110 engineering students
are women, which is about the
same percentage as female engi-
SHOOTING:
Gun was recovered
from man’s truck
CONTINUED FROM 1A
up his hands, McChristian said.
Jones was arrested without a
confrontation and his handgun
was recovered from his pickup
truck, McChristian said.
Trooper Dean Patterson, Post
1 public information officer,
said the men knew each other,
but would not discuss a motive.
“Even with the suspect in
custody, the investigation continues, and I can’t say anything
else,” Patterson said.
Jones was awaiting bond
in the Ballard County Jail in
Wickliffe late Tuesday.
Matt Sanders can be contacted at 575-8659.
neers in the work force.
“We’re getting more women in
science and engineering, but females are underrepresented,” he
said. “We want to show them it’s
fun and accessible.”
The girls worked in teams to
design a PVC piping system to
transport water through, over
and around several obstacles. Female MSU engineering students
helped them.
“It was fun finding all the parts
and everything,” said Calloway
student Cody Dumas, 12. “You
had to find the right size pipes.”
If the system was built correctly and didn’t leak, the water
turned a small wheel back at the
camps and lit a light bulb, illustrating energy conversion and
electricity production.
“This is just a taste of what engineering can provide,” adjunct
engineering professor Annette
Nimmo said. “Sixth-grade girls
don’t have any idea about engineering. Engineering affects everything we do.”
address not a single of America’s concerns for their family’s
security.”
In the final days, Clinton
stopped at a Bob Evans fastfood restaurant, appeared
on the David Letterman and
Jon Stewart TV shows and
spoofed herself on “Saturday
Night Live” in her attempt to
show her compassionate side.
She held town hall meetings
in small, rural Ohio communities and talked one-on-one
with voters about their health
care concerns.
She also continued to stress
Obama’s lack of experience
in foreign affairs, notably by
running an ad dramatizing a
3 a.m. phone call to the White
House and telling viewers that
“something’s happening in the
world. Your vote will decide
who answers that call.”
Exit polls suggested that the
strategy worked in Ohio.
One-fourth of Ohio voters
said that only Clinton had a
“clear plan for the country’s
problems,” and 97 percent of
them voted for her. Fifty-seven
percent thought Clinton was
more qualified to be commander in chief.
Clinton also raised doubts
about Obama’s views on the
North American Free Trade
Agreement, the 1993 treaty
that’s widely reviled among
struggling Ohio residents, although she remained silent
about NAFTA when it was one
of her husband’s top presidential priorities.
Nearly 60 percent of voters said the economy was the
race’s major issue; Iraq was a
distant second at 19 percent.
Those who listed the economy
first as well as union households — about one-third of the
vote — gave Clinton a slight
edge.
FATHER: At time of October shooting, man’s son
had recently returned from serving with National Guard
CONTINUED FROM 1A
the shooting was an accident,
McChristian said.
According to McChristian,
witnesses initially said Hall
had accidentally shot himself,
but changed their stories to
Angie Kinsey can be contacted at 575-8657.
say others had been holding
the gun.
At the time of the shooting,
Cody Morris had recently returned from serving with the
National Guard in Iraq.
L a r r y Mor r i s a l s o i s
charged as a persistent felony
offender, which Stacey said is
based on a previous conviction involving drug trafficking and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.
Amy Burroughs can be contacted at 575-8652.
FLOOD: Most of western Kentucky averaged from 2 to 4 inches of rain before 6 a.m. Tuesday
CONTINUED FROM 1A
told that a county road department tractor was on its way
to help, but he feared Mills
couldn’t wait that long.
He waded in.
“I knew the water was cold,
and I knew about hypothermia,” he said. “That was the
first concern of mine. I just
wanted to get her warm.”
Mills was worried Sallin
would be knocked off his feet.
She said she tried to warn him
away at first.
“He kept coming, and I was
sure glad he did,” she said. “I’d
like to thank him. God bless
him. That’s how I feel.”
Because Sallin is 6-feet- 4 he was able to keep his
head and neck above the
water.
“I went over to the car and
grabbed hold of her, and took
her in my arms,” Sallin said.
“We did a couple of strokes up
to the roadway, and we were
both able to stand up then.”
As they walked through
some shallower water, avoiding stubble from cornstalks
that had floated onto the pavement, Mills’ legs began to give
out.
Sallin, Calloway County
Deputy Sheriff Richard Steen
and an unidentified Kentucky
Division of Forestry worker
carried her to a waiting ambulance.
Mills was treated for mild
hypothermia at Murray-Calloway County Hospital and released.
Sallin said he hoped the rescue reminded people to avoid
driving on roads covered by
floodwaters.
“It’s something you hear
time and time again when we
have flash floods,” he said. “If
you can’t tell how deep the water is, don’t go into it.”
Flood warnings across western Kentucky were canceled
Monday, but some highways in
Trigg, Hickman, Carlisle and
Calloway counties remained
closed due to high water. Oth-
er roads were open, but still
covered by shallow water.
Most of western Kentucky
averaged from 2 to 4 inches of
rain between 6 a.m. Monday
and 6 a.m. Tuesday, according to the National Weather
Service. Paducah received 3.01
inches. Kenlake State Resort
Park in Marshall County received 3.15 inches.
Meteorologist Mike York
said the area will get a break
today with partly sunny skies
and highs in the upper 40s.
By Thursday a cold front will
move back into the area and
bring a 20 percent chance of
rain. A 40 percent chance of
“If you can’t tell
how deep the
water is, don’t
go in it.”
Mark Sallin
Kentucky State
Police trooper
snow is predicted for Friday,
with the potential for some accumulation, York said.
Shelley Byrne can be contacted at 575-8667.
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