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JESUIT STUDENT TO COMPETE ON ‘JEOPARDY!’ LIVING FRIEND’S FRESH CORN AWAKENS CRAVING IN MARCELLE BIENVENU LIVING CHECK OUT THE FULL SATCHMO SUMMERFEST LINEUP ON NOLA.COM t D/E D1 BREAKING NEWS AT NOLA.COM THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009 EAST JEFFERSON EDITION • 75¢ XXXXXXXXXX 3,000 La. troops ordered to Iraq Kenner has plan to fix sewer system Corey ‘C-Murder’ Miller Second-degree murder trial starts in August Residents endure backups, broken pipes By Mary Sparacello Kenner bureau –––––––––– But C-Murder friend denied role in past, prosecutors counter –––––––––– By Paul Purpura West Bank bureau See SEWER, A-6 THE LOUISIANA TIGERS The 256th Brigade (Mechanized) of the Louisiana National Guard is one of 15 “enhanced” combat brigade units in the National Guard. They are considered as capable as regular units. The 256th is made up of three infantry battalions of 700 soldiers, an artillery battalion, and a smaller specialist support and headquarters company. Based in Lafayette, the battalions are scattered across the state. About 3,700 Louisiana Guard soldiers are training for deployment. t 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery, The Washington Artillery – New Orleans t 2nd Battalion 156th Infantry, Steel Lightning – Abbeville t 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, Bayou Bandits – Lake Charles t 1st Battalion, 156th Armor Regiment – Shreveport Witness: Jefferson took care of sibling Brother offered share of profits, oilman says By Jonathan Tilove and Bruce Alpert Washington bureau In January 2002, Louisiana oil entrepreneur John Melton presented thenRep. William Jefferson with an agreement promising to give Jefferson’s brother, Mose, 3 percent of any profits from oil, fertilizer and other deals Melton was pursuing with the congressman’s help in Nigeria, according to testimony Wednesday. “He looked at it and dropped it on his desk (and said), ‘This won’t do,’ ” Melton said at the nine-term Democrat’s corruption trial. Jefferson wanted money for his brother up front, Melton said. After a tense discussion, Jefferson asked Melton to walk him back from the meet- Rapper’s friend serving life sentence in Georgia Rapper’s pal admits shooting, lawyer says They’ll train in January for yearlong mission The day before a public hearing on an overhaul of Kenner’s sewer system, city officials received more evidence that the renovation is necessary: A 48-inch sewage main broke, spilling treated wastewater into a drainage canal instead of the Mississippi River. Similar breakages have occurred all over Kenner in recent years because the aging sewer system is overwhelmed in heavy rains. Rainwater seeps through the ground into numerous cracks in underground pipes, increasing the volume beyond the capacity of the pipes, lift stations or treatment plant. Now, however, Kenner officials have developed plans for a Juan Flowers MICHAEL DeMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE ARCHIVE Craig Sparrow of Mandeville and Chris Hulin, left, of Breaux Bridge patrol Baghdad in January 2005. They are part of the 256th Brigade Combat Team. –––––––––– By Paul Purpura West Bank bureau About 3,000 Louisiana Army National Guard soldiers and their families, including several hundred in the New Orleans area, have received confirmation they are going back to Iraq. The 256th Brigade Combat Team received orders this past weekend to mobilize in January for predeployment training at Camp Shelby, Miss. The brigade will spend one year in Iraq. “The exact mission that they’re going to be conducting will become known as we get closer to the deployment,” Maj. Michael Kazmierzak of the Louisiana National Guard said Wednesday evening. “I don’t want to speculate on what that might be.” The last time the brigade deployed, on a security mission in 2004, it lost 22 soldiers, mostly to roadside bombs. Soldiers then watched helplessly from overseas as Hurricane Katrina pounded southeast Louisiana in 2005. They returned home shortly after the storm, and Three weeks before Corey “C-Murder” Miller is retried on a murder charge, a friend of the rapper’s who is serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison for homicide has admitted he was the shooter in a Harvey nightclub seven years ago that left a teenager dead, Miller’s attorney said. Prosecutors, however, said the friend, Juan Flowers, who was with Miller at the Platinum Club on Jan. 12, 2002, denied he and the rapper were involved in Steve Thomas’ killing. Miller, 38, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Thomas, 16. A jury convicted Miller in September 2003, but a judge gave him a new trial after finding that prosecutors did not See TRIAL, A-4 FINALLY, LIFTOFF See TROOPS, A-4 ALEXANDRIA, VA. — .. . See JEFFERSON, A-3 Defender, investigator found in contempt They tried to interview children in rape case By Gwen Filosa Staff writer A n O r l e a n s Pa r i s h j u d g e Wednesday held a public defender and a newly hired investigator in contempt of court for trying to interview a 12-year-old girl and her 8-year-old sister in connection with a rape case without permission from THUNDERSTORMS HIGH LOW 92 77 Weather, B-8 CLASSIFIED COMICS DEATHS the children’s mother. Investigator Emily Beasley left Criminal District Court in handcuffs, arrested on a warrant for simple kidnapping that prosecutors filed after a lengthy and acrimonious hearing over whether she had the right to speak with the children without their mother present. The kidnapping charge accused Beasley of detaining the two girls last week for nearly an hour as their mother slept inside their house. Beasley took the girls across the street, to the steps of a church, where she let them listen to Michael D-5 C-5 B-4 EDITORIALS LIVING LOUISIANA B-6 C A-2 Jackson songs on her iPod, according to the arrest report. The arrest silenced the courtroom briefly, as a deputy escorted the young woman to Central Lockup. She was released on a $4,000 personal recognizance bond within a half-hour, court records show. Beasley, who only weeks ago walked through graduation ceremonies at Tulane University, started working for the Orleans Parish public defenders program on June 9. A month later, she broke the MONEY NATIONAL SPORTS See CONTEMPT, A-5 C-8 A-10 D TELEVISION WASHINGTON WORLD MARTA LAVANDIER / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS After being delayed five times, the space shuttle Endeavour launches Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crews will check for possible damage to the orbiter after debris fell off the external fuel tank. See story, A-11 C-2 A-3 A-12 173RD YEAR NO. 177 7 12393 11111 8
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