Late-night fire destroys Nauvoo Church of God

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INSIDE TODAY: Trump, Clinton continue dominance in 2016 primaries / A12
MARCH 9, 2016
JASPER, ALABAMA
— WEDNESDAY —
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WALKER COUNTY DISTRICT
ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
INSIDE
IRS scam
targeting
residents
in county
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SEC tourney?
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. — The Southeastern Conference
Tournament features something
that coaches and
players are looking
forward to in Music
City, at least everyone not playing
against Kentucky
and the horde of
fans the Wildcats
bring. / A9
Officials warn against
falling for costly scam artists
By RON HARRIS
Daily Mountain Eagle
Daily Mountain Eagle - Jennifer Cohron
BRIEFS
City council
to meet today
The Jasper City
Council will hold a
special called meeting at 3:30 p.m.
today in the council
chambers at City
Hall.
The meeting is
open to the public.
Joey Vick, pastor of Nauvoo Church of God, at right, talks with a state fire marshal’s investigator Tuesday morning at the site outside the church, which was destroyed in a late-night
fire Monday. “At some point, we are going to rebuild. That’s a given,” Vick said.
Late-night fire destroys
Nauvoo Church of God
State investigators probing cause of devastating blaze
By JENNIFER COHRON
DEATHS
Ralph Clifford Davis, 93,
Pensacola, Florida
Jewell McCurry Reeves
Jones, 86, Jasper
Donald Ray ‘Don’ Vines,
53, Carbon Hill
Kenneth Wayne Cain, 67,
Wetumpka
James Shepherd, 93,
Parrish
Pauline Stovall Phillips, 90,
Carbon Hill
Lawton Keeton, 84, Nauvoo
Full obituaries / A2
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NAUVOO — Investigators with the
Alabama State Fire Marshal’s Office
began digging through the smoldering
rubble of the Nauvoo Church of God
Tuesday morning to determine the cause
of the blaze that destroyed the 56-yearold church Monday night.
Pastor Joey Vick said Wednesday
night services will be held in the Johnny
B. Sims Life Center, the only part of the
church that was spared.
“At some point, we are going to rebuild. That’s a given,” said Vick, who has
pastored the church for the past eight
years.
Carbon Hill Fire Chief Buddy Smith
said the fire occurred around 8:30 p.m.
The church was unoccupied at the time.
Volunteer fire departments from Carbon Hill, Saragossa, Nauvoo, Townley
and Eldridge responded to the call and
were on scene until approximately 1
a.m.
“When we got here, flames were coming through the ceiling above the
5-day forecast / A2
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Photo Special to the Eagle
A photo posted Monday night on Facebook shows
flames spewing from the sanctuary at Nauvoo
Church of God. Officials are looking into the cause
of the fire.
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Daylight Saving Time
returns Saturday night at
midnight. Do you prefer
Daylight Saving Time or do
you like it like it is now?
And explain why.
Jasper’s Westfork
Apartments named
in lawsuit settlement
By NICOLE SMITH
Westfork Apartments in
Jasper is part of a
$350,000 lawsuit settlement, in which the Justice
Department found 71
multi-family housing complexes in violation of the
Fair Housing and Americans with Disabilities acts.
A lawsuit filed on Sept.
30 accused Alabamabased developers Allan
Rappuhn, Gateway Construction
Corporation,
Gateway
Development
Corporation and affiliated
companies, with complexes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and
Tennessee, as failing to
meet Fair Housing Act
By LEA RIZZO
(FHA) and Americans
with
Disabilities Act
(ADA) requirements to
provide accessible housing
for the disabled.
As part of Monday’s settlement, defendants will
pay $300,000 to provide a
settlement fund for affected tenants and a
$50,000 civil penalty. In
addition, defendants will
be required to update
housing to meet FHA and
ADA standards.
A press release from the
Department of Justice
states: “These corrective
actions include replacing
excessively sloped portions of sidewalks, installing properly sloped
The Jasper American Legion WoodsSmith Post 9 will commemorate Four
Chaplains Day during its regular post
meeting Thursday.
The meeting, which starts at 7 p.m.,
will include a presentation about the
sinking of the transporter Dorcester on
Feb. 3, 1943, the event that caused the
four chaplains to lose their lives. A short
candle lighting ceremony in honor of the
chaplains will conclude the program. The
meeting will take place in the Wade Math
and Science Building on the Jasper campus of Bevill State Community College.
The four chaplains — Lt. Alexander D.
Goode, a Jewish rabbi; Lt. John P. Washington, a Roman Catholic priest; Lt.
George L. Fox, a Methodist minister; and
Lt. Clark V. Poling, a Dutch Reformed
minister — gave up their life jackets so
that other men on the ship had the
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EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
It’s tax time again. For many, that
means hefty refunds; for others, tax
bills to pay.
For some, it’s a perfect opportunity
to scam unsuspecting — and primnarily elderly —
residents who fear
owing money to the
government.
Walker County
District Attorney
Bill Adair said his
office has recently
gotten several calls
from residents who
have been targeted
as possible victims
Bill
of a scam. Callers
Adair
claiming to be from
the IRS say they
are trying to collect past tax bills and,
in some cases, resort to threats to entice residents to pay up.
“The last few days I’ve had numerous calls from people here in the
county about the IRS scam,” Adair
said. “It’s getting to be tax season,
and these type scams are going to be
more prevalant.”
The IRS scam — one of several
scams that have targeted local residents in the past year — is a growing
problem that Adair said he hopes to
warn residents about and encourage
them to not fall victim to.
The IRS scam, he said, focuses
mostly on the elderly who are more
prone to fall victim to scams.
“I just want to warn everyone, especially our residents who are more
vulnerable, such as the elderly who
may be living alone,” Adair said.
“Please be careful and don’t fall for
these scams.”
According
to
the
website
www.IRS.gov, officials from the IRS
continue to warn residents to guard
against scam phone calls from
thieves intent on stealing their
money or their identity. Criminals
pose as the IRS to trick victims out of
their money or personal information.
Here are several tips to help you
avoid being a victim of these scams:
•Scammers make unsolicited
calls. Thieves call taxpayers claiming to be IRS officials. They demand
that the victim pay a bogus tax bill.
They con the victim into sending
cash, usually through a prepaid debit
card or wire transfer. They may also
leave “urgent” callback requests
through phone “robo-calls,” or via
See SCAM, A8
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House approves
education budget,
teacher raise
MONTGOMERY (AP) — The
Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday
unanimously approved an education budget that
gives teachers and
school employees
their first pay raise
in several years.
Representatives approved the
$6.3 billion budget on a 105-0
vote, sending it to the Alabama
Senate for consideration. / A8
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Ralph Clifford Davis
Donald Ray ‘Don’ Vines
Jasper native Ralph Clifford Davis, 93, who loved his
Lord, country and family, passed away March 6, 2016,
in Pensacola, Florida.
Davis was preceded in death by a
dedicated Christian wife of 38 years,
Julia Ruth Davis, who was devoted to
her husband’s Air Force career, and
made many moves overseas and to
numerous states to keep the family
together; daughter, Patricia Elaine
Teal; son, David Kirk Davis; father,
John Wilburn Davis; mother, Dora
Ethel Davis; sister, Inez Williams;
brother, John Newman Davis and his
loving wife of 32 years, Shirley Marie Davis.
He is survived by his son, Ralph Steven Davis and his
wife, Yu Sun Davis, and their daughters, Jamie Davis
and Cindy Heiss; granddaughters, Amanda Davis and
Kimberly Teal; grandson, Rob Davis and his wife, Liriane, and their children, Anna Victoria and Zachary
William Davis; stepsons, Nelson Pendley, Nicky Pendley
and Jeff Pendley, and their wives; three stepgrandsons;
and two stepgranddaughters.
Viewing will be held from 10 until 11 a.m. Thursday,
March 10, 2016, at Collins-Burke Funeral Home, followed by a service conducted by Pastor David Byrd of
Northside Baptist Church.
Burial will be at Crestview Memorial Garden in
Adamsville.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be
made to the Heart Fund, Cancer Fund or American Red
Cross.
Donald Ray “Don” Vines, 53, of Carbon Hill, was born
May 21, 1962, and passed away Monday, March 7, 2016, at his residence.
The family will receive friends
Thursday, March 10, 2016, at 1 p.m.
at Collins-Burke Funeral Home. Funeral services will be Thursday,
March 10, 2016, at 2 p.m. in the
Collins-Burke Chapel, with burial at
McDade Cemetery.
Vines was preceded in death by his
mother, Carolyn Vines; brother-inlaw, Randy McGough; aunt, Mary
Vines; and nephews, Daniel McGough and James
Whitehead.
He is survived by his wife, Theresa Vines of Carbon
Hill; father, Paul Vines of Carbon Hill; daughters, April
Trantham (Daniel) of Alexandria, Brittany Stevens
(Tommy) of Anniston and Samantha Vines; sisters, Debbie Burtner (David) and Paula McGough (Randy); special brother, Ricky Posey (Rhonda); and grandchildren,
Sadie and Sawyer.
Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571
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Kenneth Wayne Cain, 67, of Wetumpka, passed away
Monday, March 7, 2016. He was a United States Navy
veteran of the Vietnam War and was retired from the
Monroe, Mich., Police Department and the Polk County
Sheriff’s Department in Florida.
Visitation will be held Thursday, March 10, 2016, from
12:30 until 2 p.m. at New Horizon Memorial Funeral
Home. Funeral services will be Thursday, March 10, 2016,
at 2 p.m. in the New Horizon Memorial Chapel. Burial
will follow at Crossroads Methodist Cemetery in Jasper.
Cain was preceded in death by his father, J.L. Cain;
brother, Glenn R. Cain; and grandparents, Mack and Harriett Knoblock and Clyde and Juanita Cain.
He is survived by his mother, Frances N. Cain of Wetumpka; sister-in-law, Renee Cain of West Jefferson; several cousins and other relatives; and many friends.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.newhorizonmemorial.com.
Jewell McCurry Reeves Jones, 86, of Jasper, was born
May 29, 1929, and passed away Monday, March 7, 2016,
at her residence.
The family will receive friends Thursday, March 10,
2016, at 12:30 p.m. at Collins-Burke Funeral Home.
Graveside services will be Thursday, March 10, 2016, at
2 p.m. at Oak Hill Cemetery. The Rev. Stan Prewett will
officiate.
New Horizon Memorial Funeral Home,
Jones was preceded in death by her parents, George
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and Lovie Tingle; siblings, Bob Tingle, Bill Tingle, George
Tingle Jr., Jeanette Avery and Joyce McGuff; and husbands, Arnold McCurry, Johnny Reeves and Floyd Jones.
She is survived by her son, Larry E. McCurry (Glynace)
James Shepherd, 93, of Parrish, passed away Wednesof Cordova; daughters, Peggy Hallmark (Oneal) of Warday,
March 2, 2016, at his residence.
rior, Donna McCurry (Keith Clark) of Trussville, Sandra
Visitation will be Friday, March 11, 2016, from 6 until
Pate (late Casey Pate) of Jasper and Jan Watts (Jerry) of
Jasper; sister, Louise Painter; 15 grandchildren; 27 great 8 p.m. at Faith Chapel Funeral Home in Jasper. Funeral
services will be Saturday, March 12, 2016, at 11 a.m. at
-grandchildren; and 13 great-great-grandchildren.
Capers Chapel in Parrish. Burial will be at Gay Reed
Cemetery. Pastor Dottie Belser will officiate.
James Shepherd
Faith Chapel Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-9680
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Pauline Stovall Phillips, 90, of Carbon Hill, passed
away Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in
Lawton Keeton, 84, of Nauvoo, passed away Tuesday,
Birmingham.
March
8, 2016, at Walker Baptist Medical Center in
Arrangements will be announced by Kilgore-Green FuJasper.
neral Home in Jasper.
Arrangements will be announced by Collins-Burke Funeral Home.
Kilgore-Green Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-9503
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Auctioneer to sell Hitler’s
personal copy of ‘Mein Kampf’
CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md. (AP) — A Maryland auction house says it is selling a copy of “Mein Kampf” that
once belonged to Adolf Hitler and was taken from his
Munich apartment at the end of World War II.
News outlets report that Chesapeake City-based
Alexander Historical Auctions LLC will offer Hitler’s
Nazi manifesto during its March 17 and 18 auction of
more than 1,000 other WWII historical items.
The red leather-bound book bears an inscription
signed by 11 officers from an American field artillery
unit. It was kept by a soldier’s daughter until a few
years ago.
“From Adolph Hitlers (sic) apartment in Munich on
May 2 1945,” the inscription reads.
The book has an estimated value of between $12,000
and $15,000, but company auctioneer Bill Panagopulos
said he expects the price to go higher.
“This is not a trade copy,” Panagopulos was quoted by
The Daily Record of Baltimore (http://bit.ly/1R3Yap0 )
as saying. “It’s a very special edition. It’s one I’ve never
seen before.”
According to the auction house’s online catalog, a 2015
letter of provenance from the daughter of Capt. Daniel
B. Allen of the 45th Infantry Division says he brought
the book home with him after the war. The current
seller is identified only as an East Coast collector.
The handwriting of the signatures is consistent with
that period, Panagopulos said. He also said people of the
time would have spelled Adolf as “Adolph” as it appears
in the inscription.
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CHURCH HAPPENINGS
The “Church and Cemetery Happenings” section
is featured each Wednesday and Saturday in the
Daily Mountain Eagle, and daily on the Community
Calendar at www.mountaineagle.com. Events are
listed free of charge. They are ran by calendar
date and time as space allows, so there is no
guarantee when or the number of days an event
will run. Events are only accepted from local
churches, faith-based ministries or organizations,
and cemetery associations. The deadline to place
an event is by noon each Tuesday and Thursday.
For information, call Elane Jones at 205-221-2840
or email information to [email protected].
SATURDAY, MARCH 12
Dutton Hill Missionary Baptist Church on Dutton Hill Road
between Jasper and Oakman will
have its food bank and clothes closet
open the second Saturday in March,
beginning at 8 a.m.
Walker County Singing Convention will be held Saturday,
March 12, at 10:30 a.m. at Boldo
First Baptist Church on Alabama
Highway 69 North in Jasper. Lunch
in fellowship hall at noon, and
singing in the afternoon. Southern
Heritage will be the guest singers.
For more information, call Sidney
Hicks at 205-221-5985.
Westside Baptist Church at
1101 22nd Street West in Jasper
will have an Easter egg hunt for
kids up to age 12 on Saturday,
March 12, at 11:30 a.m. The event is
free and will include egg hunt,
games, inflatables, snow cones, popcorn and hot dogs.
SUNDAY, MARCH 13
New Bethel Baptist Church
junior and young adult choir will
host their annual Choir Day, Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m. All choirs,
mime and praise teams are invited
to attend.
Wright's Chapel A.M.E.
Church, located at 607 27th Street
West in Jasper, will have its annual
Men’s Day Celebration Sunday,
March 13, 2016 at 3 p.m. This year’s
theme is “Men Of Distinction; Leading By Example” 1 Timothy 4: 12.
The guest speaker will be the Rev.
Johnnie L. Edison, pastor of Coppins
Chapel A.M.E. Church in Yerkwood.
For more information, call Jerry
Callahan or Joshua Crutchfield at
205-221-3296.
First Baptist Church of Frisco
cordially invites your congregation
to its Pastor Appreciation Day on
Sunday, March 20, at 3 p.m., to celebrate 19 years with the Harper family. The guest speaker will be the
Rev. Charlie Moore of First Baptist
Church in Livingston.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19
GN3 Ministry’s annual “Good
Walk of Faith-a-thon” will be held
Saturday, March 19, at 9 a.m. at
Hancock Park on Ida Street in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Union Grove Baptist Church
will have a singing with special
guest singers The Durhams and revival services Sunday, March 20, at
5 p.m. and Monday, March 21,
through Wednesday, March 23, at 7
p.m. each night. The guest evangelist will be Tim Barnett.
Nauvoo United Methodist
Church on 3rd Avenue in Nauvoo
will host its Christian Place Mission
food distribution program the third
Saturday of each month from 10
a.m. until noon at the church. For
more information, call Carole Newman at 205-410-7029.
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
Westside Baptist Church at
1101 22nd Street West in Jasper
will host a Spring Break Fun Day
on Friday, March 25, from 10 a.m.
until 2 p.m. by opening its playground and providing free lunch as
the kids wrap up Spring Break.
Berry Civic Center will host a
Southern Gospel Singing the third
Saturday of each month at 6 p.m.
Admission is free.
Faith Worship Center invites
you to its Easter Program “You are
Holy” on Friday, March 25, and Saturday, March 26, at 7 p.m. each
night and Sunday, March 27, at 6
p.m.
Phillips Chapel Church on Empire Road in Sumiton will have a
singing Saturday, March 19, at 6
p.m. The guest singers will be Holy
Destiny.
Eastside Baptist Church on
Viking Drive in Jasper will have a
singing Saturday, March 19, at 6
p.m. The guest singers will be New
Ground and Southern Image.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26
Cedrum Grove Free Will Baptist Church has postponed its regular fourth Saturday singing until
further notice. For more information, call Pastor John Ed Warren at
205-544-9695.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
Dutton Hill Missionary BapSUNDAY, MARCH 20
tist Church at 2263 Dutton Hill
New Hope Holy Church of God Road in Oakman will host a youth
at 3911 Rosehill Road in Nauvoo
rally “Rooted In Jesus” featuring
will have a singing Sunday, March
special guest speaker Drew Turner
20, at 10 a.m. The guest singers will on Saturday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m. For
be the Lovelace Family.
more information, call 205-5044949.
Inventor of modern email, Ray Tomlinson, dies
By The Associated Press
Raymond Tomlinson, the
inventor of modern email
and a technological leader,
has died, his employer said
Sunday.
Tomlinson died Saturday, the Raytheon Co. said.
Email existed in a limited capacity before Tom-
linson in that electronic
messages could be shared
amid multiple people
within a limited framework. But until his invention in 1971 of the first
network person-to-person
email, there was no way to
send something to a specific person at a specific
address.
Tomlinson wrote and
sent the first email on the
ARPANET system, a computer network that was
created for the U.S. government that is considered
a precursor to the Internet.
Tomlinson also contributed to the network’s
development, among nu-
merous other pioneering
technologies in the programming world.
At the time, few people
had personal computers.
The popularity of personal
email wouldn’t take off
until years later and
would ultimately become
an integral part of modern
life.
DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Wed., March 9, 2016 www.mountaineagle.com — A3
9 hurt as train derails, car plunges into California creek
SUNOL, Calif. (AP) — A
commuter train struck a
tree and derailed in stormsoaked Northern California, plunging its lead car
into a rain-swollen creek
and sending passengers
scrambling in the dark to
get out of the partially
submerged car.
Nine people were injured, four seriously, the
Alameda County Fire Department said.
Rescuers battled the
creek’s fast-moving currents Monday night to pull
riders to safety, Alameda
County Sheriff ’s Sgt. Ray
Kelly said.
“It was dark, wet, it was
raining. It was very
chaotic,” Kelly said. “This
is an absolute miracle that
no one was killed, no passengers or first responders.”
The San Francisco Bay
Area has been inundated
with thunderstorms in recent days that have
swamped roadways and
creeks. On Monday, some
San Francisco Bay Area
roads were under more
than a foot of water. Santa
Cruz and Santa Clara
counties saw about 11
inches of rain over the
Photo by Aisha Knowles/Alameda County Fire Department via AP
In this image provided the Alameda County Fire Department, first responders
work the scene after a car of a commuter train plunged into Alameda Creek
after the train derailed Monday in Alameda County, Calif., about 45 miles
east of San Francisco. Crews had to fight the creek’s fast-moving currents
to pull riders from the partially submerged rail car, Alameda County Sheriff’s
Sgt. Ray Kelly said.
weekend.
Union
spokesman Francisco J. most likely swept the tree
Pacific Castillo says a mudslide onto the Altamont Corri-
NATION IN BRIEF
Retired officer who cut dog’s
throat to get $45K in back pay
BALTIMORE — A former Baltimore police officer
acquitted of animal-cruelty charges after he slit a
dog’s throat while trying to restrain it is in line to
receive $45,000 in back pay from the city.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the Board of Estimates is expected on Wednesday to approve a
deal in which Jeffrey G. Bolger, a retired 20-year
veteran of the department, will be compensated
for about 10 months he missed while on unpaid
leave.
Bolger was cleared in November of all charges
stemming from the June 2014 killing of a 7-yearold Shar Pei. Bolger was charged with mutilating
an animal, animal cruelty and misconduct in office. A judge ruled that Bolger and another officer
involved thought the dog was dangerous.
Erin Andrews’ verdict will
reverberate for hotels, guests
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The $55 million jury verdict over nude videos of sportscaster Erin Andrews taken through a hotel peephole will likely
reverberate a long time for hotels and their
guests, whether she ever collects it or not.
After the jury in Nashville rendered its decision
Monday, Andrews said it would “hold accountable
those whose job it is to protect everyone’s safety,
security and privacy.”
Legal experts tend to agree, saying that aside
from Andrews’ celebrity status, the jury’s award
likely reflects people’s expectation that hotels
must honor their privacy.
And one of the jurors said that’s exactly what the
panel hoped to do. Noble Taylor, a Nashville police sergeant who was on the jury, said jurors
wanted to send a message to hotels and hotel
chains to do a better job.
Man convicted of killing
kidney transplant survivor
ROCKVILLE, Md. — A man charged with killing a
survivor of a 32-person kidney exchange has
been convicted of first-degree murder.
The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a news release that 33-year-old Dion
Sobotker of Temple Hills was convicted Tuesday
in the slaying of 26-year-old Jonathan Harris in
Harris’ Silver Spring home.
According to charging documents, Sobotker and
Harris’ ex-girlfriend, 26-year-old Samantha Parker
of Temple Hills, entered Harris’ home on Dec. 6,
2014. Prosecutors say that Harris was later found
dead of asphyxiation and his credit cards had
been stolen. Prosecutors say Parker, who was
also charged with first-degree murder, died of a
brain tumor in December 2015.
Harris was among 16 patients who received kidneys from 16 donors in the transplant exchange at
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in 2010.
— The Associated Press
Vehicle crashlands on roof
of Pittsburgh
supermarket
PITTSBURGH — A vehicle has crashed onto the
roof of a supermarket in
Pittsburgh, and the store
has been evacuated as a
precaution.
The crash happened late
Tuesday morning at a
Giant Eagle store in the
city’s Greenfield neighborhood.
The store sits on a lot
below some other city
streets. Images on WPXITV show the right-rear
roof is slightly below street
level.
— The Associated Press
dor Express train tracks
Monday evening.
The ACE No. 10 commuter train was traveling
from San Jose to Stockton
when the first two cars
went off the tracks in
Sunol, a rural area of
Alameda County about 45
miles east of San Francisco. One toppled over,
while the other remained
upright.
Steve Walker, an ACE
spokesman, says the train
was traveling 35 mph in
the 40 mph zone. Walker
said the first car was carrying six passengers and
one crew member when it
fell into Alameda Creek.
Passengers described a
harrowing scene.
Rad Akhter said he was
in the front car that fell
into Alameda Creek and
saw a woman lying in mud
just under a train car
hanging off the tracks.
“We were all just panicking,” Akhter, who waited
wrapped in a blanket for a
ride home, told San Jose
television station KNTV.
Passenger
Russell
Blackman told KGO-TV he
was in the second car,
which stopped near the
creek.
“Our car went off the
track and stopped right at
the edge, which was a
blessing,” Blackman said.
“I was thrown out of my
seat. I hurt my shoulder,
but I’m not going to complain.”
Images posted on Twitter by Alameda County
Fire Department showed
that car on its side about
half-submerged in the
creek.
Passengers were evacuated and checked by paramedics. The uninjured
riders were taken to the
Alameda County Fair in
Pleasanton, the department said.
Altamont Corridor Express said it sent buses to
take passengers to their
destinations.
The ACE No. 10 train,
which travels from Silicon
Valley to Central California, stopping in eight cities
along the way, was carrying 214 passengers, officials said. ACE has had
only one other derailment
in the past decade.
All Altamont Corridor
Express trains traveling
from Silicon Valley to the
Central Valley were canceled on Tuesday.
Second Freddie Gray trial set, court
rules fellow officer must testify
BALTIMORE (AP) —
The second trial for a police officer charged in the
death of Freddie Gray is
set for next month — a
year after the black man’s
neck was broken in a police van — and one of the
officer’s colleagues will be
forced to testify.
The latest reshuffling of
trial dates happened Tuesday when Maryland’s
highest court ruled that
Officer William Porter
must testify against his
fellow officers while he
awaits retrial. Porter’s
trial ended in a hung jury
in December and proceedings for the other officers
have essentially been on
hold while the courts determined whether he
should be forced to take
the stand.
The trial for Lt. Brian
Rice, the highest-ranking
officer charged in the Gray
case, will start April 13 —
one year and one day after
Gray was arrested outside
the Gilmor Homes in Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester
neighborhood
when he ran from police.
Gray was booked after
Rice and officers Edward
Nero and Garrett Miller
found a knife they deemed
illegal in Gray’s pocket.
The state’s attorney has
said the knife was legal
and Gray should have
never been taken into custody. He died a week after
his injury in the van.
Rice is charged with
manslaughter, misconduct
in office, reckless endangerment and assault. All of
the officers have pleaded
not guilty.
Porter, who checked on
Gray after he was put in
the van, testified at his
trial that he didn’t do anything wrong during Gray’s
arrest. He told a jury that
it was the van driver’s responsibility to make sure
Gray was secured in a seat
belt.
Porter’s attorneys argued he shouldn’t be
forced to take the stand at
the other trials because he
could potentially open
himself up to perjury. The
Maryland Court of Appeals judges seemed skeptical
during
oral
arguments last week, saying Porter shouldn’t have
anything to worry about as
long as he tells the truth.
The judges did not explain their decision Tuesday, saying they would
issue an opinion later.
Amy Dillard, a law professor at the University of
Baltimore, said their ruling makes sense.
“What the prosecution is
asking for is that Porter be
called and asked the same
questions and testify as he
did before under oath,” Dillard said. “If the prosecutor goes into areas he has
not commented on or testified about, there are motions to be made during
those trials.”
The appeals court issued
two rulings. The first ruling agreed with Baltimore
Circuit
Judge
Barry
Williams’ decision to force
Porter to testify against
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— FBI agents involved in
the traffic stop that led to
the killing of one of the
armed occupiers of an Oregon wildlife refuge are
under investigation for not
disclosing they fired shots
that
missed
Robert
“LaVoy” Finicum, authorities said Tuesday.
Oregon State Police
troopers fired the three
rounds that killed the Arizona rancher during a confrontation on a remote
road, law enforcement officials said at a news conference in Bend.
An independent investigation by Oregon authorities found the troopers
were justified in shooting
Finicum because he failed
to heed their commands
and repeatedly reached for
his weapon, Malheur
County District Attorney
Dan Norris said.
The investigators discovered members of an FBI
hostage rescue team who
were at the scene failed to
disclose they fired two
rounds.
As they looked into how
many shots were fired during the confrontation and
by whom, the investigators
found a round in the roof of
Finicum’s truck.
“We could not explain
the fourth shot into the
roof of the truck, or its trajectory given the placement of the Oregon State
Police troopers at the
time,” Deschutes County
Sheriff Shane Nelson said.
The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Inspector
General said it is investigating the FBI team’s actions,
working
with
Oregon officials.
During the news conference, Oregon officials
played videos showing
Finicum and others in his
truck Jan. 26 during the
initial stop by law enforcement. Finicum was driving
one of two vehicles that
were pulled over while carrying key occupation figures.
Video taken from the
phone of one of his passengers shows the occupants
panicking after authorities
stop the truck.
With his window rolled
down, Finicum shouts at
the officers: “Shoot me, just
shoot me! Put the bullet
through me. Do as you
damn well please.”
After a conversation
with others in the truck,
Finicum drives off, leading
authorities on a short
chase. The song “Hold
Each Other” by a Great
Big World was on the vehicle’s stereo.
Finicum was driving
Jeanette Finicum, on
Tuesday rejected authorities’ conclusion that her
husband’s shooting was
justified and said she is
talking with attorneys
about taking her family’s
fight to court.
Speaking to reporters in
St. George, Utah, Jeanette
Finicum said she believes
her husband was shot with
his hands in the air trying
to surrender.
AP Photo
In this Jan. 5 file photo, Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum,
center, a rancher from Arizona, talks to reporters
at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near
Burns, Ore. On Tuesday, authorities said police
were justified in killing Finicum during a traffic stop
on Jan. 26.
over 70 mph when the
truck came to a roadblock,
Nelson said.
A trooper fired three
shots at the truck as it approached because it was a
threat to law enforcement,
he said. The truck plowed
into a snowbank. Finicum
got out, and someone from
the FBI team fired two
more shots, Nelson said.
As Finicum stood in the
snow, authorities told him
multiple times to lie on the
ground.
Instead,
he
reached into the inside of
his jacket. The troopers
fired three rounds, all of
which hit Finicum. A
loaded pistol was found in
his jacket pocket.
Oregon
investigators
said Finicum posed a
threat to officers by nearly
running over one of them
at the roadblock, and by
reaching for a gun.
Occupation members in
the other vehicle, including leader Ammon Bundy,
surrendered.
Finicum was a high-profile part of the weekslong
standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge,
launched Jan. 2 by a small
armed group demanding
the government relinquish
control of public lands and
objecting to the prison sentences of two local ranchers convicted of setting
fires.
His death became a
symbol for those decrying
federal oversight, on public
lands in the West and elsewhere, and led to protests
of what they called an unnecessary use of force.
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DEAR IN A STINK: If
your husband can’t
sleep through the
night without smoking, it should be obvious to you that your
husband is seriously
addicted to nicotine.
How sad for him. Suggest that he keep a
pack of nicotine gum
in the medicine cabinet and chew it rather
than light up before
he returns to bed.
That may solve your
problem.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband of 40 years is a
smoker. I am not, but
have learned to live with
the smell, etc. Most of the
time he smokes outside,
except in winter, when he
opens the bathroom window, smokes his cigarette, puts it out in the
toilet and disposes of the
butt in the trash can. He
has begun a new behavior that is really bothering me. When he wakes
up in the middle of the
night to use the bathroom, he’ll light up a cigarette, take a few puffs
and then put it out and
return to bed. When he
gets back in our bed, he
stinks! And he coughs
and coughs. I try not to
nag him about his smoking, but I’d really like to
bring this up. Any suggestions on how?
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OUT: I took your question to an expert on
the subject of adult
entertainment viewing, Larry Flynt. He
said that while CURIOSITY is normal,
not many heterosexual men make a habit
of viewing gay male
porn sites. He added
that if your fiance is a
regular consumer of
this kind of entertainment, he may have latent homosexual
tendencies. I then consulted Jack Drescher,
M.D., a psychoanalyst
and expert on gender
and sexuality, who
told me that some people fantasize about
people of the same
sex, but never ACT on
it. According to Dr.
Drescher, what is important is that you
and your fiance are
able to talk about sex
honestly and openly. If
you need more assurances, continue this
discussion so that you
both will know what
you’re getting if your
betrothal leads to
marriage.
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DEAR
ABBY:
I’ve been
with my
fiance for
three
years and
I’m very
much in
love. A
Dear Abby
few
By Abigail
months
Van Buren
ago I
asked to
use his phone to look up
something on the Internet because my battery
had died. It opened up to
a gay porn site! I was
shocked and asked him if
it was something he was
looking at. He admitted
that it was. Nothing like
this has happened to me
before, so I began asking
if that’s what he likes
and is into. He assured
me the answer was no.
He said he looked because he was simply curious about it. He told me
he loves women and
doesn’t want to be with
men. He said he was just
looking. I believe him,
but is this normal behavior?
— WEIRDED OUT IN
THE WEST
By Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers
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gay porn may
be more than
merely curious
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March 9, 2016
EDITORIALS
It’s time to shut
down Guantanamo
Since his very first days in office, President Barack
Obama has made closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba a priority. Resistance from Congress has thwarted those plans, but Mr. Obama is
making another go of it during his final year in office.
“For many years, it’s been clear that the detention
facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security — it undermines it,” Mr. Obama recently noted in a White House address. “It’s
counterproductive to our fight against terrorists, because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit. ... Guantanamo harms our partnerships with
allies and other countries whose cooperation we need
against terrorism. When I talk to other world leaders,
they bring up the fact that Guantanamo is not resolved.”
Government documents, media interviews with
military sources with direct knowledge of the happenings at Guantanamo and information released
through Wikileaks have validated these arguments.
Moreover, these sources reveal that the detention facility was used to house hundreds of innocent people;
torture prisoners through beatings, sleep deprivation,
the notorious waterboarding and other methods; and
confine detainees — even those determined to be no
threat to the United States — for years on end without due process of law.
“An eight-month McClatchy investigation in 11
countries on three continents has found that the U.S.
wrongfully imprisoned dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of men in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on
the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal
scores or bounty payments,” McClatchy concluded in
2008.
The facility once held nearly 800 prisoners, but the
population has dwindled to 91, with 35 of those
cleared for transfer into the custody of other nations
and 10 others still undergoing military commission
review.
There is no reason the remaining few dozen detainees cannot be housed in domestic maximum security prisons and tried in American courts, as has
been done for terrorists like “shoe bomber” Richard
Reid, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
and Faisal Shahzad, who put a car bomb in Times
Square.
The United States of America is a nation built on
individual rights and the rule of law. No free society
can tolerate indefinite detention, violations of habeas
corpus rights, secret military tribunal proceedings or
cruel and unusual punishment. The Guantanamo
Bay detention camp has served as a black mark
against a nation that professes to champion human
rights for people around the globe. It should be shuttered so that we may begin to repair the damage it
has done to our credibility.
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We really need to elect Ted Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz
is an amazing
young man. His
extreme intelligence and quick
wit are simultaneously his best
and worst attributes. Legendary
Harvard Law
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By Daniel
Alan Dershowitz
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described Cruz:
"Off-the-charts
brilliant. And you know, liberals
make the terrible mistake, including some of my friends and colleagues, of thinking that all
conservatives are dumb. And I
think one of the reasons that conservatives have been beating liberals in the courts and in public
debates is because we underestimate them. Never underestimate
Ted Cruz. He is off-the-chart brilliant. I don't agree with his politics."
Cruz’s parents are pretty remarkable also. Rafael, his father
fled from Cuba after imprisonment
and torture. He traveled to Texas
where he learned to speak English,
graduated from the University of
Texas at Austin working his way
through college, then building his
own small business in the oil and
gas industry. Today, Rafael is a
pastor in Dallas. Ted and his family attend First Baptist Church in
his hometown of Houston, Texas.
Cruz’s mother, Eleanor was born
in Delaware and raised in a working class family. She was the first
to go to college, graduating from
Rice University with a degree in
mathematics, and then becoming a
“pioneering computer programmer
in the 1950s.”
Cruz studied public policy at
Princeton and was one of the university’s brightest debaters. He
was admitted to Harvard Law
School after scoring nearly perfect
marks on the LSAT. Cruz joined
the Harvard Law Review and was
one of the founding editors of the
Harvard Latino Law Review. Of
course, Cruz also joined the Harvard Journal of Law and Public
Policy.
After graduating magna cum
laude from Harvard Law, Cruz won
a clerkship with Supreme Court
Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
This experience paid big dividends
after leaving the court as Cruz authored more than 80 briefs and argued 9 cases orally before the U.S.
Supreme Court. According to tedcruz.org, Cruz’s record at the
Supreme Court includes winning
“an unprecedented series of landmark national victories including
defending U.S. sovereignty against
the UN and the World Court in
Medellin v. Texas, defending our
Second Amendment right to keep
and bear arms, defending the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument at the Texas
State Capitol and the words ‘under
God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012 riding a wave of Tea
Party fervor, and has been the only
Tea Party senator to keep his
promises to restore constitutional
governance in Washington. Perhaps that’s why no senator has endorsed him. Cruz has not made the
usual political deals in Washington
common among career politicians.
Nevertheless, Cruz has received
endorsements from 24 representatives in the House. Last month
Conservative Review gave those
representatives a “Liberty Score” of
83 percent or B grade. By contrast
Conservative Review gave Marco
Rubio’s 56 congressional endorsers
a “Liberty Score” of 54 or F grade.
Cruz is a bona fide constitutional
scholar who has proven his skills
before the highest court in the
land, making him the most qualified presidential candidate to nominate the next justice of the
Supreme Court. Considering the
ages of the remaining justices on
the court, the next president will
probably nominate at least two
justices if not more over one or two
terms.
Without any doubt, Ted Cruz is
the most intelligent candidate for
president in the 2016 race. Cruz
will be a force in the White House
to restore constitutional governance in Washington. That scares
progressives and establishment
elite in both parties and the media.
He is the only candidate who has
proved he can make the changes
voters have been asking for.
Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who
lives in Starkville, Mississippi. You may contact
him at [email protected], or interact with
him on the Clarion-Ledger web site
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TODAY IN
HISTORY
Today is Wednesday,
March 9, the 69th day of
2016. There are 297 days
left in the year.
Today's Highlights in
History:
On March 9, 1916, more
than 400 Mexican raiders
led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New
Mexico, killing 18 Americans. During the First
World War, Germany declared war on Portugal.
On this date:
In 1862, during the
Civil War, the ironclads
USS Monitor and CSS
Virginia (formerly USS
Merrimac) clashed for five
hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
In 1933, Congress,
called into special session
by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, began its "hundred days" of enacting
New Deal legislation.
In 1945, during World
War II, U.S. B-29 bombers
began launching incendiary bomb attacks against
Tokyo, resulting in an estimated 100,000 deaths.
In 1964, the U.S.
Supreme Court, in New
York Times Co. v. Sullivan, raised the standard
for public officials to
prove they'd been libeled
in their official capacity
by news organizations.
In 1965, the Rev. James
Reeb, a white minister
from Boston who'd gone to
Selma, Alabama, to show
support for civil rights
marchers, was attacked
by a group of white men
and struck on the head;
he died two days later at
age 38.
In 1981, Dan Rather
made his debut as principal anchorman of "The
CBS Evening News."
Five years ago: After
a trip to the International
Space Station, shuttle
Discovery ended its career as the most flown
U.S. spaceship, returning
from orbit for the last
time.
Today's Birthdays:
Country singer Mickey
Gilley is 80. Former ABC
anchorman Charles Gibson is 73. Actress Juliette
Binoche is 52. Actor Emmanuel Lewis is 45. Actress Jean Louisa Kelly is
44. Actor Matthew Gray
Gubler is 36. Actress
Brittany Snow is 30.
Thought for Today:
“Anybody who wants the
presidency so much that
he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be
trusted with the office.” —
David Broder (19292011).
WHAT’S GOING ON
The “What’s Going On” Section will
be featured each Wednesday and
Sunday on A7 of the Daily Mountain
Eagle, and daily on the Community
Calendar on the DME website at
www.mountaineagle.com. Community
events and class and family reunions
are listed free of charge and run in
chronological order by calendar date
and time. Community events and
class and family reunions are only accepted from local civic, government
and nonprofit (501(c)(3)) organizations, and high school classes and
families. Deadline to place a community event, class or family reunion will
be noon each Tuesday and Friday. To
place a community event, class or
family reunion in the What’s Going On
section, contact Elane Jones at 205221-2840 Ext. 246, or email information to
[email protected].
SPECIAL NOTICE
Retired Senior Volunteer Program will assist
seniors in applying for the
Senior Farmers Market
Nutrition Program. The
application will be taken
over the phone. Submission of application does
not guarantee that you
will receive vouchers.
SFMNP Vouchers will be
issued from the state in
limited quantities to those
who qualify. Vouchers will
be received by mail prior
June 15. For more information or to submit an application, call
205-221-3760.
THURS., MARCH 10
Jasper Senior Center,
located at the Memorial
Park FOP Building at
1050 Kiker Lane in
Jasper, will host a free diabetes education class “Got
Sugar” for medicare recipients with diabetes or prediabetes, their family
members and caregivers
on the next four Thursdays (March 10, 17, 24 and
31) at 9:30 a.m. at the center. Pre-registration is required for the class. For
more information or to
pre-register, call the
Jasper Senior Center at
205-221-2849, call toll free
1-800-760-4550, ext. 3437,
or email Melinda Grayson
at [email protected].
Jefferson-Lovell
United Daughters of
the Confederacy will
meet the second Thursday
of each month at 11 a.m.
at the Jasper Library on
18th Street in downtown
Jasper.
Breast Cancer Support Group of Walker
County will meet the second Thursday of each
month at 1:30 p.m. in the
community room at the
Carl Elliott Regional Library on 18th Street in
Jasper.
Walker County Democratic Party will meet
the second Thursday of
each month at 6 p.m. at
Victoria’s Restaurant in
Jasper. For more information, call 205-221-3296,
205-962-3082 or 205-7174027.
Arley American Legion Post 0223 will meet
the second Thursday of
each month at 6:30 p.m. at
the Boy Scout Lodge in
Arley.
Jasper American Legion Woods-Smith Post
9 and Auxiliary Unit 9
will meet Thursday March
10 at 6:30 p.m. in the
Wade Math and Science
Building, located at 805
14th Street on the Bevill
State Community College
- Walker Campus in
Jasper. Will be celebrating
97th Birthday of the
American Legion, which is
March 15. Will also commemorate “Four Chaplains Day” with a
presentation about the
sinking of the transport
Dorchester, which took
place on Feb. 3, 1943,
when four chaplains gave
their life vests so other
men might survive the
sinking of their ship. The
program will conclude
with a short candlelighting ceremony in honor of
these four clergys. For
more information, call Adjutant James Snow at 205527-7090 or e-mail
[email protected]
m.
Band starts at 8 p.m. Must
be 21 to get in the dance.
Berry Civic Center
Admission $5 per person.
will be hosting a Southern
For more information, call Gospel concert on Saturthe Jasper Elks Lodge.
day, March 19, at 6 p.m.
This month’s featured
MONDAY, MARCH 14 singers will be the Gospel
Pregnancy Test and
Barn Quartet and Band
Resource Center in
from Dora and the Busby
Jasper will be selling
Family from Berry. Admissmoked hams for Easter
sion is free.
from Son’s Smokehouse on
9th Avenue in Jasper. The
SUNDAY, MARCH 20
cost of the hams are $35
Birmingham Holoeach. See a PTRC staff
caust Education Center
member, board member or and Pastime Civic CenFRIDAY, MARCH 11 volunteer or call 205-221ter in Winfield will
Hope Clinic 5th An5860 to place an order.
proudly present the “Darknual Casino Night
Hams can be picked up
ness into Life” Alabama
Fundraiser will be held
from Son’s Smokehouse on Holocaust Survivors
Friday, March 11, at the
Thursday, March 24, FriThrough Photography and
CHS Activities Center on
day, March 25, or SaturArt collection on display at
19th Street in downtown
day, March 26. Please
the Pastime Civic Center
Jasper. Doors open at 6
specify preferred pickup
on Sunday, March 20, from
p.m. Tickets are $50 and
date when ordering. The
1 until 4 p.m., Monday,
include a buffet dinner,
order deadline will be
March 21; Tuesday, March
beverages, $500 in play
Monday, March 14.
22; Thursday, March 24;
money for casino games
Friday, March 25; Monday,
and a chance to win one of
Alabama Extension,
March 28; Tuesday, March
several grand prizes valAlabama A and M and
29; and Wednesday, March
ued from $500 to $3,000.
Auburn University will
30, from 8:30 a.m. until 4
For more information or to present the program
p.m. each day.
purchase tickets, call the
“What is Really in Your
Hope Clinic at 302-0011.
Food?” on Monday, March
Sons of Confederate
14, from 6 until 8 p.m. at
Veterans Major John C.
Jasper Area Sacred
the Walker County Exten- Hutto Camp 443 will
Harp will resume its
sion Office on North Airmeet the third Sunday of
monthly singing on the
port Road in Jasper.
each month at 2:30 p.m.,
second Friday of each
Seating is limited, so prein the basement of First
month at 6:30 p.m. in the
register by calling the
United Methodist Church
fellowship hall at First
Walker County Extension in Jasper.
Presbyterian Church on
Office at 205-221-3392.
4th Avenue in Jasper beMONDAY, MARCH 21
ginning Friday, March 11.
WED., MARCH 16
Pineywoods VolunFor more information, call
Relay For Life Team
teer Fire Department
Brenda Chafin at 522of Gentiva Hospice in
will have a Swamp John’s
2968.
Jasper will be selling
supper Monday, March 21,
Swamp John’s dinners
from 4 until 7 p.m. at the
SAT., MARCH 12
Wednesday, March 16,
fire station on PineyDilworth Community from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.,
woods/Sipsey Road off AlaCenter on Stella Lockard at their office. Plates are
bama Highway 69 North
Road will host its monthly $11 each. For more inforin Jasper. Tickets are $11
breakfast the second Satmation or to place an
per plate.
urday of each month at
order, call Gentiva Hospice
7:30 a.m. at the center.
at 205-384-3882 or fax an
TUESDAY, MARCH 22
order to 205-384-3733.
Parkinson’s Support
Walker County AmaProceeds from the event
Group will meet the
teur Radio Emergency
will benefit the Relay For
fourth Tuesday of each
Service (ARES) Ham
month at 6 p.m. in the
Life of Walker County Radio Club will meet the Jasper.
community room at First
second Saturday of each
Christian Church at 400
month at 8 a.m. at the
THURS., MARCH 17 18th Street West in
American Red Cross office
Jasper. For more informaPilot Club of Jasper
on Viking Drive in Jasper. will meet the third Thurs- tion, call 205-384-6302.
A free Ham Radio class for day of each month at noon
the technician license will at the Francis Israel HosTHURS., MARCH 24
be available. This class
Walker County Gepitality Center on the
will be held on four consec- Bevill State Community
nealogical Society will
utive Saturday mornings
meet the fourth Thursday
College - Walker College
starting Saturday, March
of each month at 1 p.m. in
Campus in Jasper.
12, from 9:30 a.m. until 1
the meeting room of the
p.m. All other classes will
Jasper Public Library in
Fibromyalgia Supbe held each Saturday
downtown Jasper.
port Group of Walker
from 8 a.m. until noon.
County will meet the
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
Test will be given at end of third Thursday of each
Relay For Life Team
final class on Saturday,
month at 1 p.m. at the
of Capstone Rural
April 9. You need to regisCHS Activities Center on
Health is currently sellter by no later than Fri19th Street in downtown
day, March 4, for WCARES Jasper. For more informa- ing tickets for a drawing
on an Easter basket. The
to order you a study guide, tion, call 205-387-1833 or
deadline to enter the
which will be $18 with no
205-275-4984.
drawing is Monday, March
shipping charges when
preordered. Or you can
New Beacon Hospice, 25. Also selling tickets for
a drawing on a football
order the “Technician Q
located at 300 North Airsigned by Nick Saban and
and A” study guide from
port Road, Suite 4, in
online resources. You will
Jasper will host a monthly the deadline to enter the
football drawing will be
need the study guide prior grief support group the
Friday, May 6. All proceeds
to the first class. For more third Thursday of each
will go to the American
information or to register
month at 2 p.m. at the ofCancer Society Relay For
for the class, call Jimmie
fice. The group will be led
Dill at 205-527-4602.
by Stan Prewett, the New Life of Walker County Jasper. For more informaBeacon Hospice chaplain
tion or to purchase tickets,
Fayette Arts Council
and bereavement coordicall Shannon at 205-724will present the Joe Giatnator. For more informa9031 or Secly at 205-724tina Orchestra, led by
tion, call Prewett at
3005.
Chuck King and featuring 205-387-9339 or email
vocalist Annie McClendon, [email protected].
SAT., MARCH 26
Fayette resident Mart
Relay For Life Team
Avant (Hall of Fame trumSumiton Senior Citiof Cinderella Girls will
peter and founder of the
zen Dance at the senior
host an Easter bake sale
Tuscaloosa Horns) and
complex in Sumiton will
Steve Black of the
be held the third Thursday Saturday, March 26, at
Jasper Mall.
Tuscaloosa Horns on Satof each month at 6 p.m.
urday, March 12, at 7 p.m. Music provided by CounAnnual Nunnally,
at the Fayette Civic Centry Classic Band. AdmisNunnelly, Nunnelly
ter on North Temple Avsion is $3.
family reunion will be
enue in Fayette. Tickets
held Saturday, March 26,
are $10 and can be purSAT., MARCH 19
at 11 a.m. at Northside
chased at
Odd Fellow and Rewww.eventbrite.com or at
bekah Lodges of Town- Baptist Church in Jasper.
For more information or
the Civic Center. For more ley, located at 150 Main
directions, email bobinformation, call 205-932Street in Townley, will
8727.
host its annual Easter
fundraiser and free Easter
Jasper Elks Lodge
egg hunt for children on
will host a dance each Sat- Saturday, March 19, at 11
urday night featuring
a.m. A luncheon will be
music by David Upton and held at noon and a cake
the Broke Down Band.
walk at 1 p.m.
[email protected],
[email protected] or
[email protected].
MONDAY, MARCH 28
Relay For Life of
Walker County - Jasper
will hold a team captain
meeting Monday, March
28, at 6:30 p.m. at Victoria’s Restaurant in Jasper.
Bama Carry of
Walker County will meet
Monday March 28, at
Gabby’s Restaurant. The
meeting will begin at 6
p.m. Guest speaker will
be Greg Hopkins, author
of the book “A Time to Kill:
The Myth of Christian
Pacifism.”
SAT., APRIL 2
7th Annual Herb Day,
a fundraiser for the Jasper
Herb Society, will be held
Saturday, April 2, from 9
a.m. until 4 p.m. at 4 Seasons Garden Center located at 2223 North
Airport Road in Jasper.
For more information, call
205-387-1557.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
Dancing With Our
Stars of Hope will be
held Friday, April 22, at
6:30 p.m. at Rowland Auditorium located on the
Bevill State Community
College-Walker College
Campus in Jasper. Admission is $15 for ages 13 and
up and $5 ages 6-12. Proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society’s Relay
For Life of Walker CountyJasper. The event is hosted
by the RFL of Walker
County-Jasper Event
Leadership Committee.
SAT., APRIL 23
Relay For Life Team
of Capstone Rural
Health Care will host a
lip sync battle Saturday,
April 23, at Warehouse
319 on 19th Street in
downtown Jasper. For
more information, email
Shannon at
[email protected] or call 205686-5113.
MONDAY, APRIL 25
Relay For Life of
THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Walker County - Jasper
Walker County Eduwill hold a team captain
cation Retirees Associa- meeting Monday, April 25,
tion will meet April 7, at
at 6:30 p.m. at Victoria’s
10 a.m. at the CHS Activi- Restaurant in Jasper.
ties Center on 19th Street
in downtown Jasper. There
WED., APRIL 25
will be an installation of
Run for “Coop” 5K
officers and a program on
Run will be held Satur“Exercising to Keep You
day, April 30, at Carbon
Young.”
Hill High School. T-shirt,
bib pickup and registraSATURDAY, APRIL 9
tion will be from 6:45 until
Relay For Life Team
7:45 a.m. Race will begin
of Mouth Monkeys will at 8 a.m. Entry fee is $25.
host the Miss Hope PagDeadline for entry is
eant Saturday, April 9, at 1 Wednesday, April 25. The
p.m. at Curry Middle
event is being held to help
School. For more informa- raise money for Coop
tion, email Rachel at butLawrence, the son of Jacob
[email protected], call
and Tiffany Lawrence of
205-275-1563 or visit the
Carbon Hill, who has been
Miss Hope Pageant Facediagnosed with Acute
book page.
Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
For more information, call
Nanette Brown at 205924-9961 or Jason Morris
at 662-346-3258.
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Utah Planned Parenthood challenges defunding order
DENVER (AP) — The Utah branch of
Planned Parenthood asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to stop the governor from cutting off funding to the
organization, arguing the move was unconstitutional political retribution against
an organization he opposes.
Gov. Gary Herbert already knew that
investigations had cleared Planned Parenthood of illegally selling fetal tissue to
researchers for profit when he ordered
state agencies to stop distributing federal
money to the organization last fall,
Planned Parenthood lawyer Peggy Tomsic
told a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
If the appeal court doesn’t undo the
lower court’s decision, it would send the
message that public officials may “punish
their political enemies for exercising their
constitutional rights,” Tomsic said.
Tyler Green of the Utah attorney general’s office argued that the organization
was still under a cloud of suspicion after
the release of secretly recorded videos
showing out-of-state employees discussing
fetal tissue from abortions when the order
came down.
The appeals judges pressed Green to explain how the governor’s move was not intended to punish the organization for its
associations, which would be a violation of
its constitutional rights. “There’s no evidence Utah Planned Parenthood is endorsing the sale of fetuses,” Senior Judge
David M. Ebel said.
Green said the governor has the right to
end at-will contracts.
The appeals court did not immediately
decide Tuesday whether to extend its
emergency order keeping the federal
money flowing. The panel asked pointed
questions of both sides, but the judges
gave no indication of when they will rule.
The governor has said he was offended
by the callousness of the discussion shown
on the videos, which sparked uproar
among GOP leaders around the country.
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ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
House approves education budget, teacher raise
MONTGOMERY (AP) — The
Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously
approved an education budget
that gives teachers and school
employees their first pay raise in
several years.
Representatives approved the
$6.3 billion budget on a 105-0
vote, sending it to the Alabama
Senate for consideration.
The spending plan would give
a 4 percent raise for teachers,
cafeteria workers, bus drivers
and other public school employees making less than $75,000
annually.
“A 4 percent pay raise is a
healthy pay raise. We haven’t
been able to accomplish that in
sometime based upon the economic downturn. I’m very
pleased that we are able to do
that,” House Ways and Means
Chairman
Bill
Poole, RTuscaloosa, said.
Lawmakers in 2013 approved
a 2 percent pay raise for teachers, although that was offset by
increases in benefit costs. The
last raise before that came in
2007.
The budget would also provide
money to hire an additional 475
teachers in middle schools and
high schools and steer an additional $14 million to the state’s
voluntary pre-kindergarten program.
The unanimous vote was indicative of the rosier fiscal picture in the Education Trust
Fund, one of the state’s two
budgets.
Economic recovery boosted
state sales and income tax receipts and provided more money
to spend in education.
Lawmakers are expected to
have a much more difficult time
with the state General Fund.
“We are in dire straits,” Gov.
Robert Bentley said Tuesday of
the state’s General Fund budget.
Bentley said the General
Fund is $100 million short of
what is needed to adequately
fund the state’s Medicaid program.
He said lawmakers need to
find the money from “some
source” or it will cause cuts to
Medicaid and halt a lawmakerapproved plan to transition the
state’s Medicaid program to
managed care.
“That is all in jeopardy. Our
entire Medicaid system is in
jeopardy, if they are not willing
to fund what they already
passed,” Bentley said.
Committee OK’s
tenure, teacher
evaluation changes
MONTGOMERY (AP) — A
proposal to make student test
scores a factor in teachers’ annual evaluations— and extend
the time it takes to obtain
tenure — advanced out of legislative committee on Tuesday.
The Senate Education and
Youth Affairs Committee approved the bill on a 5-4 vote after
a public hearing that illustrated
the divisions over the proposal.
Some educators criticized the
bill as a return to high-stakes
testing. But several education
reform groups praised it, saying
something needs to be done to
push student achievement in the
state forward.
Senate President Pro Tem Del
Marsh, the bill’s sponsor, noted
recent National Assessment of
Educational Progress scores
that showed Alabama ranking at
the bottom of the nation.
“You can’t look at the NAEP
scores and sit here at this table
and say we can do nothing,”
Marsh, R-Anniston, said.
The bill would set forth an
evaluation system in which 25
percent of a teacher’s annual
evaluation score would come
from measures of student
achievement growth using ACT
Aspire or other test scores.
Mountain Brook School Superintendent Richard “Dicky”
Barlow criticized what he described as a return to highstakes testing which will put
emphasis on a “test score number rather than the whole child.”
“What they are objecting to is
one test, one day for students
that influences their evaluation,” AEA President Sheila
Remington told the committee of
teachers concerns.
Anne Monroe, an elementary
school teacher in Jackson
County, told the committee how
one of her students has missed
more than 40 days of school because of his parents’ drug arrests.
“When it comes testing time....
Teachers have done everything
they can do,” Monroe said.
SC lawmaker: Remove rebel
emblem from Mississippi flag
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A South Carolina lawmaker is joining other black leaders in calling for Mississippi to change the last state flag that includes the
Confederate battle emblem.
Democratic Rep. Justin Bamberg spoke Tuesday to
more than 200 people at a change-the-flag rally outside the Mississippi Capitol — an event organized by
attorneys suing Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant in federal court. The suit asks a federal judge to declare the
flag an unconstitutional vestige of slavery.
“If your governor needs to see an example of what
it means to lead as governor, maybe he should look at
South Carolina’s very own Republican governor,
Nikki Haley,” said Justin Bamberg, who is from the
same hometown as Haley.
Haley and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers removed a Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse
lawn in Columbia last summer in response to the
massacre of nine black worshippers at a church in
Charleston, South Carolina. The white man charged
in the attack had previously posed for photos with a
rebel flag.
The 122-year-old Mississippi flag is the last in the
nation with the Confederate battle emblem — a red
field topped with a blue X dotted by 13 white stars.
Old South symbols have come under sharp debate
since the Charleston attack, and several Mississippi
cities and counties, and some universities, have
stopped flying the state flag since then.
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scams use threats to intimidate and bully a victim
into paying. They may even threaten to arrest, deport
or revoke the license of their victim if they don’t get
the money.
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alter caller ID to make it look like the IRS or another
agency is calling. The callers use IRS titles and fake
badge numbers to appear legitimate. They may use
the victim’s name, address and other personal information to make the call sound official.
•Cons try new tricks all the time. Some
schemes provide an actual IRS address where they
tell the victim to mail a receipt for the payment they
make. Others use emails that contain a fake IRS document with a phone number or an email address for
a reply. These scams often use official IRS letterhead
in emails or regular mail that they send to their victims. They try these ploys to make the ruse look official.
•Scams cost victims over $23 million. The
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration,
or TIGTA, has received reports of about 736,000 scam
contacts since October 2013. Nearly 4,550 victims
have collectively paid over $23 million as a result of
the scam.
The IRS will not:
•Call you to demand immediate payment. The IRS
will not call you if you owe taxes without first sending
you a bill in the mail.
•Demand that you pay taxes and not allow you to
question or appeal the amount you owe.
•Require that you pay your taxes a certain way. For
instance, require that you pay with a prepaid debit
card.
•Ask for your credit or debit card numbers over the
phone.
•Threaten to bring in police or other agencies to arrest you for not paying.
•If you don’t owe taxes, or have no reason to think
that you do.
•Do not give out any information. Hang up immediately.
Adair said anyone who may have gotten a call recently they believe was a potential scam is asked to
call his office at (205) 384-7272.
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Crime scene tape surrounds Nauvoo Church of God, which burned Monday night.
Fire
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kitchen area. Everything was up in
the top, which made an offensive attack impossible. It’s a sad thing for
the community,” said Smith, whose
family attended the church when he
was a child.
Associate Pastor Tyler Keene said
it appears the fire started in the
church’s attic space.
“It looks like it started high and
got the roof structure and then
worked its way down,” Keene said.
In January, the church body of approximately 125 people kicked off
Operation Relaunch with the stated
goal of revamping current ministry
programs.
“We were relaunching our singing
ministry and our youth department
and wanted that to spread through-
Settlement
curb walkways to allow
persons with disabilities
to access units from sidewalks and parking areas,
replacing cabinets in bathrooms to provide sufficient
room for wheelchair users
and removing accessibility
barriers in public and
common use areas at the
complexes.”
The defendants are also
required to receive training to ensure future housing complexes meet FHA
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and ADA standards, and
will have to submit reports to the Justice Department.
“Our country prohibits
discrimination because of
an individual’s disability,
and our laws guarantee all
people the right to access
housing of their choice,”
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Vanita Gupta, head of the
Justice Department’s Civil
Rights Division, said in
chance to survive the sinking of the
Dorcester.
The Four Chaplains Memorial
Foundation’s website states that the
four Army chaplains gave up their
life jackets and “prayed together
when their transport ship ... was torpedoed 80 miles south of Greenland.”
“The first thing that hit me was
[the phrase] ‘no greater love can a
man have than to lay down his life
for another.’ And when these four
chaplains gave up their life jackets
to these other sailors, they really
signed their [own] death warrants,”
Post 9 Chaplain Larry Stewart said.
According to reports from eyewitnesses that night, the last thing
they saw the chaplains doing was
standing with their arms interlinked with each other and singing
hymns and praying as the ship
sank.
Stewart said the chaplains’ sacrifice transcends their differences in
denomination.
The Distinguished Service Cross
and Purple Heart were awarded
posthumously in 1941 to the chaplains’ next of kin. In 1961, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded a
special Chaplain’s Medal for Heroism to the chaplains’ next of kin, a
one-time award authorized by Congress and intended to have the same
weight and importance as the Medal
of Honor.
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While the American Legion recognizes the four chaplains’ sacrifice
every February, Stewart said he
thought they needed to go beyond
just recognition this year and do
some sort of commemoration.
Jennifer Williams Smith, president of the Jasper City Council, will
be present at the meeting to present
a proclamation to Post 9 in recognition of the four chaplains service.
Since March 15 is the birthday of
the American Legion, Stewart said
Post 9 will be cutting a cake in celebration, during the social time before the actual meeting starts.
For more information, call Adjutant James Snow at 205-527-7090 or
email [email protected].
Wednesday,
March 9, 2016
SPORTS
PREP BASEBALL
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NFL
Blue Devils take
down Good Hope
QB Tony Romo
has surgery, on
track for return
IRVING, Texas
(AP) — Dallas quarterback Tony Romo
has undergone
shoulder surgery
and should be ready
for offseason workouts when they start
in May.
Romo had the procedure Tuesday on
the left collarbone
that he broke twice
last season, causing
him to miss 12
games. The recovery time is six to
eight weeks.The first
injury came in Week
2 against Philadelphia, and the Cowboys went 0-7
without him on their
way to a last-place
finish in the NFC
East at 4-12.
Dallas won in his
return at Miami, but
he got hurt again in
his second game
back against Carolina. Because of
Romo's injuries, the
Cowboys are likely
to sign a backup in
free agency to compete with Kellen
Moore, who started
the last two games
in 2015.
Romo played in
just four games in
2015, leading the
Cowboys to a 3-1
mark.
Sports on TV
College Basketball
Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh,
11 a.m., ESPN
Duke vs. N.C. State,
1:30 p.m., ESPN
Illinois vs. Minnesota,
3:30 p.m., ESPN2
Nebraska vs. Rutgers,
6 p.m., BTN
Ga. Tech at Clemson,
6 p.m., ESPN2
Okla. St. vs. Kansas St.,
6 p.m., ESPNU
DePaul vs. G’town,
6 p.m., FS1
Holy Cross vs. Lehigh,
6:30 p.m., CBSSN
Tennessee vs. Auburn,
7 p.m., SECN
Va. Tech vs. Florida St.,
8 p.m., ESPN2
TCU vs. Texas Tech,
8:430 p.m., ESPNU
Marquette vs. St. John’s,
8:30 p.m., FS1
NBA
Grizzlies at Celtics,
6 p.m., ESPN
Clippers at Thunder,
8:30 p.m., ESPN
MLB Preseason
Yankees vs. Mets,
noon, MLB
Soccer
Champions League
SL Benfica at
Zenit St. Petersburg,
11 a.m., FS1
Paris Saint-Germain at
Chelsea, 1:30 p.m., FS1
A9
Walker
winning
streak hits
four games
By JOHNATHAN BENTLEY
Eagle Sports Editor
Daily Mountain Eagle - Johnathan Bentley
Cordova’s Abby Sargent (00) scores a run in front the throw home during the Blue Devils’
win over Good Hope on Tuesday. Cordova won the game 6-4.
Sargent, Freeman lead
Cordova to home win
By W. BRIAN HALE
Eagle Sports Writer
CORDOVA — The Cordova Lady Blue Devils picked up a
hard-earned victory on Tuesday, beating the Good Hope
Raiders 6-4 at Cordova.
Alea Freeman got the win for the Blue PREP SOFTBALL
Devils (7-3), giving up four runs, 10 hits
and a walk, while striking out one batter
in seven innings.
At the plate, Abby Sargent was 3 of 4
with two runs scored, two RBIs and a
triple, Mary Kilpatrick went 2 for 4 with
three runs scored and a triple, Hannah
Ingram was 2 for 4 with three RBIs and a double, Meagan
Hicks went 2 for 3 and Emma Hyche was 2 for 3.
Good Hope, under former Parrish state champion coach
Chris Harris, got on the scoreboard with a run in the first inning, but Cordova tied the game at 1-1 when Kilpatrick
crossed the plate.
After a scoreless second inning, the Blue Devils gained the
SEE PREP, A11
DME - Johnathan Bentley
Cordova’s Alea Freeman throws a
pitch to a Good Hope batter during
Tuesday’s game.
Walker’s winning streak is at
four games thanks to a doubleheader sweep of Mortimer Jordan at Valley Park on Tuesday.
The Vikings used a pair of late
rallies to pick
up wins over
the Blue Devils.
Walker
(8-4)
scored five runs in
the bottom of the
sixth en route to a 7-5
win in the opener. The Vikings
needed extra innings in the
nightcap, scoring two in the seventh and one in the eighth for a
5-4 victory.
In the first game, Walker entered the bottom of the sixth inning trailing 5-2. The Vikings
took advantage of three walks
and two hit batters to score five
runs. Joseph Daniel had the only
hit in the inning.
Zac Durham got the win in relief, pitching one scoreless inning.
Jackson Holladay earned the
save, striking out one in one inning. Bryant Atkins got the start
allowing five runs — two earned
— on five hits and two walks
while striking out four in five innings.
Offensively, Durham was 1 for
3 with a triple, a run and two
RBIs, Slade Harbin was 1 for 2
with a run and an RBI, Parker
Cagle was 1 for 3 with a double
and a run and Taylor Whitley
was 1 for 3 with an RBI.
In the second game, Walker
broke an eighth-inning tie when
Atkins singled and went to third
base on a throwing error and
scored on Holladay’s sacrifice fly.
Luke Ferrell earned the win,
striking out one batter in one inning of work.
Ben Stallsmith got the start for
Walker. He went four innings,
giving up four runs — two
earned — on four hits while
striking out four.
Daniel went the following
three innings, allowing two runs
on four hits while striking out
three.
At the plate, Whitley was 1 for
4 with a double, a run and two
RBIs, Atkins was 2 for 4 with two
runs, Durham was 1 for 2 with a
stolen base and two runs, Cagle
was 1 for 4 with an RBI, Daniel
was 1 for 4 with a double and a
run and Cole Wade was 1 for 4
with a stolen base.
Walker looks to continue its
winning streak on Thursday with
a home double header against
Curry set for 4 p.m. The Yellow
Jackets are 11-3 on the season.
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Tuesday’s other
baseball scores
Curry 21, Oakman 5
Curry 8, Oakman 6
Haleyville 7, Cordova 2
Shades Mountain Christian
12, Sumiton Christian 8
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Hard to pick favorite in SEC Tournament
Texas A&M No. 1 seed in Nashville
By TERESA M. WALKER
AP Sports Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The
Southeastern Conference Tournament features something that
coaches
and
players
are
looking
forward to in
Music City, at
least everyone
not
playing
against Kentucky
and the horde of fans the Wildcats bring.
That something is a neutral
court.
That's significant since winning on the road in the SEC this
season was difficult. Teams successfully defended homecourts
in 69.8 percent (88-38) of league
games. Only the Pac-12 had better home success (71.3 percent,
77-31). Throw in the parity fac-
tor — four teams had a chance
to split the regular season title
on the final day — and this tournament is as wide open as it has
been in years.
"I don't think there's a lead
from anybody as to what might
happen," South Carolina coach
Frank Martin said. "We all
know, the coaches in this league,
just how good this league is, how
balanced it is, and we all know
we're all prepared to have to
play these teams again. These
games are going to be incredible
and should make for a great
tournament."
Only Missouri, sitting out the
postseason over NCAA violations, can be counted out before
Auburn and Tennessee tip off
Wednesday night.
Here's a look at those with a
chance to win along with those
SEE SEC, A11
AP Photo
Alabama players, including Jimmie Taylor (10), celebrate after the
Tide’s win over Auburn on Feb. 27. Alabama opens play in the
SEC Tournament against Ole Miss on Thursday. The tournament
starts today in Nashville.
SPORTS DIGEST
MLB
Marlins-Braves game on July 3
moved to Fort Bragg, NC
NEW YORK (AP) — The Atlanta Braves and
Miami Marlins will play on the U.S. military base at
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on July 3 in a 12,500capacity ballpark to be built with funding by Major
League Baseball and the players' association.
The ballpark will be converted to a softball field
and multi-purpose facility after the game.
The matchup originally was to be played at Atlanta's Turner Field, and the Braves will remain the
home team. The game will be televised by ESPN.
Braves catcher A.J. Pierzynski attended a 2012
college basketball game aboard the USS Bataan,
an amphibious assault ship anchored at Mayport
Naval Station in Jacksonville, Fla. He expects an
even greater thrill playing at Fort Bragg.
"It's going to be pretty awesome," Pierzynski
said. "To play in front of the troops, that's kind of
what you do this for. Because those guys are the
real heroes. What they do protecting us and defending out way of life is pretty amazing."
It's a 'B' game: Swarm of bees
delays Rockies-Royals game
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — There was quite a
buzz to the Rockies-Royals spring training game
on Tuesday.
A swarm of bees sent Kansas City manager Ned
Yost, members of his coaching staff and fans scurrying early in the exhibition matchup. Yost and his
coaches like to sit on folding chairs outside the
dugout, and the bees caused them to duck for
cover and a brief delay at Surprise Stadium.
The bees were removed in a plastic trash bag
after the top of the third inning. Lowell Hutchinson,
a retired beekeeper from St. Joseph, Missouri,
came out of the stands to assist with the removal
of the bees. With the scarcity of honey bees, Yost
implored the bees be saved, not exterminated.
Arrieta says he has talked with
Cubs about long-term deal
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — NL Cy Young Award winner
Jake Arrieta said Tuesday he has talked with the
Chicago Cubs about a long-term contract.
Arrieta went 22-6 with a 1.77 ERA last season
and agreed last month to a $10.7 million, one-year
deal that avoided salary arbitration. The right-hander, who turned 30 on Sunday, is eligible for free
agency after the 2017 season.
"Money can only make you so happy," Arrieta
said, speaking a day before his scheduled spring
training debut. "I love my teammates, and I love
Chicago. Those are more important than the contract extension for me."
Marlins' Capps needs Tommy
John surgery, out for season
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Miami Marlins reliever
Carter Capps has a torn ligament in his throwing
elbow that requires Tommy John surgery and will
sideline him for the entire season.
Miami announced the diagnosis Tuesday, and
the operation was to be performed later in the day
by specialist Dr. James Andrews in Gulf Breeze,
Florida. Capps is expected to return by opening
day 2017. The hard-throwing right-hander cut
short a throwing session and underwent an MRI
last week after his troublesome elbow again flared
up. He missed the final two months of last season
because of elbow soreness and sat out three
months in 2014 for the same reason.
AP source: Alvarez, Orioles
agree to $5.75M, one-year deal
A person familiar with the negotiations says infielder Pedro Alvarez and the Baltimore Orioles
have agreed to a $5.75 million, one-year contract.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity to
The Associated Press on Tuesday because the
deal had not yet been completed by the Orioles.
Baltimore likely will give Alvarez the bulk of his
playing time at designated hitter. His arrival probably means Mark Trumbo will play right field.
Alvarez was shifted from third base to first by
Pittsburgh in August 2014 because of poor defense. He became a free agent in December when
the Pirates declined to offer a contract.
NFL
Colts re-sign NFL's oldest player,
place kicker Adam Vinatieri, 43
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kicker Adam Vinatieri,
the NFL's oldest player, has agreed to terms to remain with the Indianapolis Colts.
The team announced the agreement with the
43-year-old four-time Super Bowl champion on
Tuesday, one day before NFL free agency begins.
Vinatieri has been with the Colts for 10 seasons,
including the 2006 NFL championship season. He
also won three titles with the Patriots before joining Indianapolis as a free agent. He holds career
postseason records for points scored (234), field
goals (56) and extra points (66).
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Bass Tournament
•The second annual Oakman Booster Club Bass
Tournament will be held Saturday, March 19 from
safelight to 2 p.m. at G’s Landing. The entry fee is
$100 per boat. There will be a five-fish limit. Each
fish must be 12 inches long and no boats will be
weighed after 2 p.m. There is a $1,000 guarantee
for first place. For more information, call Brian
Bridges at 471-4107.
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FOOTBALL
Lions star WR Calvin Johnson
retires after nine NFL seasons
By LARRY LAGE
AP Sports Writer
DETROIT — Calvin Johnson, one
the most spectacular receivers in
NFL history, retired from the Detroit Lions on Tuesday and rekindled memories of the way superstar
running back Barry Sanders quietly
stepped away from football.
The 30-year-old Johnson called it
a career after nine seasons filled
with highlight-reel catches, dozens
of touchdowns and nearly 12,000
yards receiving. The 6-foot-5 receiver
was known as Megatron, a sign of
respect for his imposing skills and
unusual mixture of speed, power
and gracefulness.
"Let me assure you that this was
not an easy or hasty decision," Johnson said. "I, along with those closest
to me, have put a lot of time, deliberation and prayer into this decision
and I truly am at peace with it."
Shortly after Detroit finished last
season with a 7-9 mark — their seventh losing season in nine years —
Johnson announced he was evaluating his future.
He had reportedly told some teammates entering last season that it
would be his last and told coach Jim
Caldwell afterward that he was retiring.
Johnson piled up 731 career receptions for 11,619 yards, a leaguerecord 86.1 yards receiving per
game, and 83 touchdowns against
defenses often geared to stop him.
He reached 10,000 yards (115
AP Photo
Star wide receiver Calvin Johnson has retired after nine seasons with the Detroit Lions.
games) and 11,000 yards (127
games) yards quicker than anyone
in NFL history. Including the postseason, he has another league mark
with six 200-yard receiving games.
Johnson broke one of Hall of
Famer Jerry Rice's records with
1,964 yards receiving in 2012.
He ranked among league leaders
last season with 88 receptions for
1,214 yards and nine TDs, playing
through lingering injuries as he
often did.
"Not only is he as good as any
player I've ever seen, but I am con-
vinced that God has not put a finer
person on this earth than Calvin
Johnson," Caldwell said.
The three-time All Pro and sixtime Pro Bowl receiver leaves Detroit much as Sanders did. The Hall
of Famer slipped away from the
Lions shortly before the 1999 season
after he had 1,491 yards rushing as
a 30-year-old running back the previous year, faxing the announcement
to a friend at his hometown newspaper.
Like Sanders, the quiet and humble Johnson avoided the spotlight
and released a statement of his own.
"While I truly respect the significance of this, those who know me
best will understand and not be surprised that I choose not to have a
press conference," Johnson said.
"After much prayer, thought and discussion with loved ones, I have made
the difficult decision to retire from
the Lions and pro football. I have
played my last game of football."
Detroit drafted Johnson out of
Georgia Tech with the No. 2 pick in
2007 and gave him a six-year deal
worth up to $64 million. Former
teammate Roy William gave him his
nickname and Johnson gave fans in
the Motor City a reason to watch
their scuffling team. Like Sanders,
his jaw-dropping plays made the
Lions bearable.
"He was an amazing and rare talent both on and off the field, and I
feel lucky to have been able to see
him play," Sanders said on his website.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Replay to play bigger role for targeting
The Associated Press
Replay officials will have
more say about what is a
targeting penalty in college football next season.
The NCAA playing rules
oversight panel approved
on Tuesday a proposal by
the rules committee to expand instant replay officials' authority regarding
targeting fouls. Replay officials now will be able to
call "egregious" targeting
penalties missed by onfield officials. They also
will have more flexibility
to overturn incorrect targeting calls.
Targeting results in a
15-yard penalty and the
ejection of the player who
commits the foul.
All targeting fouls are
reviewed, but replay officials have been limited to
reviewing only if there was
forcible contact to the head
and neck area and if the
hit was made with the
Florida
suspends
Harris,
Callaway
crown of the helmet.
Under this proposal, how
the contact occurred,
whether
the
player
launched into an opponent
or whether the contact was
more incidental, also can
be reviewed.
There were 158 targeting penalties called in all
FBS games last season.
Forty-three were overturned by replay review
and 115 were upheld.
The oversight panel also
approved the use of electronic devices such as laptop computers and tablets
for coaching purposes during games. They will be
permitted in press boxes
and the locker room but
not on the sidelines.
The home school is responsible for ensuring
identical television and
video capability and internet connectivity in the
coaches' booths for both
teams.
Other changes approved
by the panel:
— Players who leave the
tackle box will be prohibited from blocking below
the waist toward the initial position of the ball.
— A ball carrier who has
clearly given himself up by
sliding feet first will be
covered by rules pertaining to defenseless players.
— Deliberately tripping
a ball carrier with the leg
will be a foul.
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By MARK LONG
AP Sports Writer
GAINESVILLE, Fla. —
Florida has suspended
quarterback Treon Harris
and dynamic receiver Antonio Callaway, but it's unclear what prompted the
suspension that will cause
them to miss the start of
spring practice.
Coach Jim McElwain
said Tuesday that Harris
and Callaway haven't been
with the team since January. A team spokesman
confirmed that both players have been suspended.
It's unclear whether
they're being punished by
the university or the football program.
McElwain said there's
no timetable for either
player's
return.
The
Gators open spring practice on Wednesday
Harris completed 50 percent of his passes for 1,676
yards as a sophomore last
season, with nine touchdowns and six interceptions.
McElwain said there's a
chance
Harris
might
switch positions when and
if he returns.
Callaway caught for 35
passes for 678 yards and
four touchdowns as a
freshman in 2015.
He also returned 28
punts for 435 yards and
two scores.
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WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
SEC poised to send record-tying
nine teams to NCAA Tournament
By MARK LONG
AP Sports Writer
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Despite
third-ranked South Carolina becoming just the fourth team to go undefeated
in
the
Southeastern
Conference's regular season and
tournament, the league believes it
has as much depth and parity as
ever.
The NCAA Tournament might
prove it.
The SEC is poised to send a
record-tying nine teams into the
NCAA field, which will be announced Monday night. The SEC
has never had nine — it has sent
eight teams four times — but is expected to match the mark set by the
Big East in 2011.
"The conference has just been
nuts this year," Florida coach
Amanda Butler said. "We always
feel like we're at the top in terms of
top to bottom, the quality of teams
and coaches and players in this
league. This year I think is unprecedented. We have nine NCAA Tournament teams. We have several
top-four seeds as well."
No one in the SEC was able to
beat the Gamecocks (31-1), who
routed No. 15 Mississippi State on
Sunday in nearby Jacksonville to
capture its second straight conference tournament title.
South Carolina's only loss was
against top-ranked and three-time
defending
national
champion
UConn. The Gamecocks have won
nine in a row since and locked up a
No. 1 seed by winning its three SEC
tourney games by a combined 53
points.
Coach Dawn Staley has lobbied
for the NCAA selection committee
to place her team in the Lexington
Regional, which would keep the
Gamecocks as close to home as possible until the Final Four in Indianapolis.
———
Here's a look at the rest of the
league's NCAA Tournament hopefuls:
KENTUCKY: The 12th-ranked
Wildcats (23-7) have won eight of
their last 10 games, with both losses
coming against South Carolina.
After a 4-6 start in league play, Kentucky is now projected to be a topfour seed and open the tournament
at home. "It would be great," coach
Matthew Mitchell said. "I don't
know how we wouldn't be with the
resume that we have."
TEXAS A&M: The 19th-ranked
Aggies (21-9) are coming off consecutive losses to Kentucky and Tennessee and haven't hit a 3-pointer in
three games (0-for-16). But a tough
non-conference schedule and a few
quality wins should have Texas
A&M a top-four seed and opening
the tournament at home.
MISSISSIPPI STATE: The 15thranked Bulldogs (26-7) advanced to
the SEC championship game for the
first time since 2000, thanks mostly
to guard Victoria Vivians. But Mississippi State's relatively weak nonconference schedule likely will keep
it out of the top four. "I don't care
where they send us. I don't care
what seed they give us," coach Vic
Schaefer said.
FLORIDA: The Gators (22-8)
have been up and down lately, losing
four of their last seven games and
getting blown out by Kentucky in
the SEC Tournament. Still, Florida
enjoyed a huge turnaround after
going 13-17 last season.
TENNESSEE: The Lady Vols
(19-13) won two games in the SEC
Tournament, essentially locking up
a 35th consecutive spot in the
NCAA field. Tennessee played the
nation's top non-conference schedule, and after a topsy-turvy regular
season, did enough down the stretch
to extend their NCAA streak. "I
think we ended with a bang," coach
Holly Warlick said. "It's a difficult
league. I think sometimes it wears
you down."
GEORGIA: The Bulldogs (21-9)
will limp into the NCAA Tournament having lost three of their last
five games. They surely would be on
the bubble if not for sweeping
Florida and upsetting Mississippi
State in January.
MISSOURI: The Tigers (21-9)
failed to reach 60 points in their last
three games and lost all three. But
they will get in thanks to an RPI
ranking of 45 and wins against
Florida and Mississippi State.
AUBURN: The only real bubble
team in the league, Auburn (19-12)
feels like it solidified a spot in the
NCAA field by beating Missouri and
then playing South Carolina tough
in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. "Our resume, for what type of
team we are, is good going into the
NCAA Tournament," coach Terri
Williams-Flournoy said. "Hopefully
somebody else will see that and give
us that chance."us that chance."
SEC
From A9
playing to improve their seed in the
NCAA Tournament and those hoping to play their way into the tournament:
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LEADING TITLE
CONTENDERS
Kentucky and No. 17 Texas A&M
are considered the favorites to win
the SEC tournament after sharing
the regular-season title.
KENTUCKY: The 16th-ranked
Wildcats also are the defending
champs at a tournament they've
won three times since John Calipari
was hired. His Wildcats also lost in
the title game twice, in 2014 and
2012.
Calipari knows adding the 29th
tournament title is what his fans
want from the Wildcats (23-8).
"It's a huge thing for Kentucky
fans," Calipari said. "We're going to
play as well as we can play. We're
using the tournament to improve
our seed in the NCAA Tournament."
TEXAS A&M: The Aggies (24-7)
come in with the league's longest
winning streak at six straight and
also posted the only winning road
record in SEC play. They have yet to
win this tournament since moving to
the SEC, but coach Billy Kennedy
knows nothing is a given, especially
this season.
"It definitely is wide open, and obviously Kentucky to me is playing as
well as anybody in the country right
now," Kennedy said. "With the people they bring in that arena, it's definitely going to be a challenge."
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PLAYING FOR SEEDING
South Carolina and Vanderbilt,
along with Kentucky and Texas
A&M, seem to be NCAA Tournament locks, but a strong showing at
the SEC Tournament could improve
the seed they get.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Martin's
Gamecocks won at Texas A&M and
also beat Vanderbilt and LSU this
season. But they finished the regular season losing four of their final
seven games. The Gamecocks (24-7)
start Friday night, so two wins
would put them in the title game
with a chance to make a strong impression.
VANDERBILT: Coach Kevin
Stallings has his best team since upsetting then-No. 1 Kentucky in the
2012 title game, and the Commodores (19-12) come in having won
four of five. This tournament is just
a couple miles from Memorial Gym.
They open against either Tennessee
or Auburn with LSU waiting in the
quarterfinals.
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ON THE BUBBLE
Florida and Alabama are firmly on
the NCAA Tournament bubble,
while the rest of the league likely
needs to win the SEC Tournament
for a spot.
FLORIDA: Florida's spot looked
secure after beating West Virginia to
wrap up January. Instead, they finished the regular season losing five
of their last seven. The Gators (1813) open against Arkansas on Thursday. Then Texas A&M looms on
Friday.
ALABAMA: The Crimson Tide
(17-13) notched big wins over South
Carolina and Texas A&M during the
season, the kind good for any resume in March.
Alabama opens against Mississippi on Thursday night with Kentucky awaiting the winner on
Friday.
A win against the Wildcats likely
would push the Tide off the bubble,
but first things first.
"None of that's going to come into
play unless we're able to be successful against Ole Miss," Alabama
coach Avery Johnson said.
The best ticket for Ben Simmons
and LSU (18-13), Mississippi (2011), Georgia (17-12), Arkansas (1615) will be the automatic berth that
goes to the SEC tournament champ.
Prep
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lead in the third after Sargent scored on a sacrifice
fly by Ingram for a 2-1 edge.
Cordova pulled further ahead in the fourth inning
after Sargent drove in Kristan Swindle on an RBI
single, then Ingram added two scores on a two-run
double for a 5-1 advantage.
The Raiders added runs in the top of the fifth and
sixth innings, but Kilpatrick scored after being
driven in by Sargent, allowing the Blue Devils to pull
further ahead, 6-3. Good Hope scored a run at the top
of the seventh inning for the 6-4 final.
Cordova hosts Winfield on Thursday.
———
Curry 9, Haleyville 0
The Curry Yellow Jackets advanced their season
record to a perfect 9-0 following Tuesday’s 9-0 win
over the Haleyville Lions at Haleyville.
Ashlee Swindle (8-0) gave up just two hits and
struck out 10 batters in seven shutout innings in the
victory. Offensively, Justus Perry went 2 for 2 with
three runs scored and two doubles, Kyndra Richard
was 3 for 4 with two RBIs and a run scored and Kara
Thompson went 2 for 3 with three RBIs and two doubles.
The Yellow Jackets compete in the Hamilton Aggie
Tournament on Friday.
———
Hamilton 11, Carbon Hill 9
Carbon Hill wasn’t able to overcome 10 walks from
its pitching staff in an 11-9 home loss to Hamilton
on Tuesday.
The Bulldogs mounted a late rally, scoring four
runs in the seventh, before the Aggies finally got out
of the jam to earn the victory.
For Carbon Hill, Anna Grace Martin was 3 for 4
with a double, a triple, two stolen bases, two runs an
three RBIs, Katie Moore was 3 for 5 with a pair of
doubles, Karlie Ratliff was 2 for 4 with a double and
a run, Kenna Alexander was 1 for 3 with two runs,
Alyssa Dutton was 1 for 3 with two runs, Allie Parr
was 1 for 4 with a run and two RBIs, Abby Martin
was 1 for 4 with an RBI and Makindle McGough
scored a run.
Ratliff got the loss in the circle, allowing eight runs
on five hits and six walks while striking out two.
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EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Toronto
42 20 .677 —
Boston
38 26 .594 5
New York
26 39 .400 17½
Brooklyn
18 46 .281 25
Philadelphia 8 55 .127 34½
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami
37 26 .587 —
Atlanta
36 28 .563 1½
Charlotte
34 28 .548 2½
Washington 30 32 .484 6½
Orlando
27 35 .435 9½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Cleveland
44 18 .710 —
Indiana
34 30 .531 11
Chicago
32 30 .516 12
Detroit
32 31 .508 12½
Milwaukee
26 38 .406 19
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
x-San Antonio 54 10 .844 —
Memphis
38 25 .603 15½
Dallas
33 31 .516 21
Houston
31 32 .492 22½
New Orleans 24 38 .387 29
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Okla. City
43 20 .683 —
Portland
33 31 .516 10½
Utah
29 34 .460 14
Denver
26 38 .406 17½
Minnesota
20 45 .308 24
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
x-Golden St. 56 6 .903 —
L.A. Clippers 41 21 .661 15
Sacramento 25 37 .403 31
Phoenix
17 46 .270 39½
L.A. Lakers
13 51 .203 44
x-clinched playoff spot
———
Monday's Games
Memphis 106, Cleveland 103
Indiana 99, San Antonio 91
Charlotte 108, Minnesota 103
Chicago 100, Milwaukee 90
New Orleans 115, Sacramento
112
L.A. Clippers 109, Dallas 90
Golden State 119, Orlando 113
Tuesday's Games
Toronto 104, Brooklyn 99
San Antonio 116, Minnesota 91
Atlanta 91, Utah 84
Denver 110, New York 94
Washington at Portland, n
Orlando at L.A. Lakers, n
Wednesday's Games
Memphis at Boston, 7 p.m.
Houston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
N. Orleans at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Miami at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
New York at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City,
9:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Sacramento, 10
p.m.
Utah at Golden State, 10:30
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BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES —
Agreed to terms with RHPs
Parker Bridwell, Odrisamer Despaigne, Oliver Drake, Jason
Garcia, Kevin Gausman, Mychal
Givens, Chaz Roe, Andrew
Triggs, Tyler Wilson and Mike
Wright; LHPs Chris Jones, Chris
Lee and T.J. Mcfarland; Cs Caleb
Joseph and Francisco Pena;
INFs Jimmy Paredes, Jonathan
Schoop and Christian Walker;
and OFs Dariel Alvarez, Joey
Rickard and Henry Urrutia on
one-year contracts.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Assigned INF Mike Olt outright to
Charlotte (IL).
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS —
Optioned RHP Dominic Leone to
Reno (PCL) and C Oscar Hernandez to Visalia (Cal).
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
PHOENIX SUNS — Signed F
Chase Budinger for the remainder of the season and F/C Alan
Williams to a 10-day contract.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS —
Agreed to terms with QB Drew
Stanton on a two-year contract.
BUFFALO BILLS — Agreed to
terms with G Richie Incognito on
a three-year contract.
CHICAGO BEARS — Signed
WR Alshon Jeffery.
DENVER BRONCOS — Released TE Owen Daniels, G Louis
Vasquez and LS Aaron Brewer.
DETROIT LIONS — WR Calvin
Johnson announced his retirement.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Resigned G Lane Taylor to a twoyear contract.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS —
Waived LB Bjoern Werner.
Signed LS Forrest Hill. Agreed to
terms with K Adam Vinatieri.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS —
Signed DT Abry Jones and TE
Nic Jacobs to one-year contracts.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Resigned LB Audie Cole. Released
WR Mike Wallace. Waived OL
Austin Wentworth.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES —
Agreed to terms with CB Leodia
McKelvin on a two-year contract.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS —
Signed CB William Gay to a
three-year contract.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS —
Signed LB Ray-Ray Armstrong to
a one-year contract extension.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS —
Waived DT Jesse Williams.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS —
Re-signed S Keith Tandy. Released LB Bruce Carter.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS —
Agreed to terms with F Marcus
Kruger on a three-year contract
extension through 2018-19.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled F Mike Sislo and D Seth
Helgeson from Albany (AHL) on
emergency recall. Agreed to
terms with F Nick Lappin on a
two-year contract.
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING —
Recalled D Luke Witkowski from
Syracuse (AHL).
COLLEGE
FLORIDA — Suspended QB
Treon Harris and WR Antonio
Callaway.
NJIT — Named Ally Nick
women's soccer coach.
OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN —
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Trump, Clinton continue
dominance in 2016 primaries
LANSING, Mich. (AP) —
Republican front-runner
Donald Trump swept to
victory in the Mississippi
and Michigan presidential
primaries Tuesday, deepening his grip on the GOP
nominating contest despite
fierce efforts to block his
path. Democrat Hillary
Clinton easily carried Mississippi but was locked in a
close race with rival Bernie
Sanders in Michigan.
The primaries offered
Trump and Clinton a
chance to pad their leads
and start turning toward
the general election. But
Sanders was hoping to prevent a Clinton coronation
with a strong showing in
Michigan, the night’s
biggest prize and the first
Midwestern
industrial
state to vote in the 2016
race.
With votes in Michigan
still being counted, Clinton
glossed over race with
Sanders and jabbed at the
Republicans and their
chaotic nomination fight.
“Every time you think it
can’t get any uglier, they
find a way,” she said. “As
the rhetoric keeps sinking
lower, the stakes in this
election keep rising.”
Trump, too, turned an
eye toward the Democrats
and November, emphasizing the importance of helping Republican senators
and House members get
elected in the fall. Having
entered Tuesday’s contests
facing a barrage of criticism from rival candidates
and outside groups, he reveled in overcoming the attacks.
“Every single person who
has attacked me has gone
down,” Trump said at one
of his Florida resorts. In his
typically unorthodox style,
the billionaire was flanked
by tables packed with his
retail products, including
steaks, bottled water and
wine.
While a handful of recent
losses to Texas Sen. Ted
AP Photo
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
speaks during a news conference at the Trump
National Golf Club Tuesday in Jupiter, Fla.
Cruz have raised questions
about Trump’s durability,
Tuesday’s contests marked
another lost opportunity
for rivals to slow his momentum. Next week’s winner-take-all primaries in
Ohio and Florida loom especially large as perhaps
the last chance to stop him
short of a long-shot contested convention fight.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich
was in a fight for second
place in Michigan and hoping a good showing would
give him a boost heading
into next week’s crucial
contest in his home state.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio,
a favorite of Republican
elected officials, continued
to struggle Tuesday, upping
the stakes for him at home
on March 15.
“It has to happen here,
and it has to happen now,”
Rubio told supporters
Tuesday during a rally in
Sarasota.
If Rubio and Kasich can’t
win at home, the GOP primary appears set to become a two-person race
between Trump and Cruz.
The Texas senator is sticking close to Trump in the
delegate count and with six
states in his win column,
he’s argued he’s the only
candidate standing be-
tween the brash billionaire
and the GOP nomination.
During a campaign stop
at a North Carolina church
Tuesday, Cruz took on
Trump for asking rally attendees to pledge their allegiance to him. He said the
move strikes him as “profoundly wrong” and is
something “kings and
queens demand” of their
subjects.
“I’m not here asking any
of you to pledge your support of me,” Cruz said, to
thunderous applause and
cheers. “I’m pledging my
support of you.”
Republicans were also
holding contests Tuesday
in Hawaii and Idaho. GOP
candidates were fighting
for 150 delegates, while 179
Democratic delegates were
at stake in the party’s two
primaries.
The economy ranked
high on the list of concerns
for voters heading to the
polls in Michigan and Mississippi. At least 8 in 10
voters in each party’s primary said they were worried about where the
American economy is heading, according to exit polls
conducted by Edison Research for The Associated
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Wednesday,
March 9, 2016
B1
Health law fines double for many uninsured at tax time
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many
people who went without health
insurance last year are now seeing fines more than double
under
President Barac
k
Obama’s health care la w, tax
preparation company H&R
Block said Tuesday.
Among its customers who owe
a penalty for the 2015 tax year ,
the average fine is $383, compared with $172 for 2014, the
company said.
Separately, among those who
complied with the la w and took
advantage of its taxpayer-subsidized private health insurance, 6
in 10 are now having to pay back
to the IRS some portion of their
financial assistance.
Those payments also are
trending higher this year, averaging $579, compared with $530
last tax season.
Although millions of uninsured people have gained coverage through the Affordable Care
Act, the update from H&R Block
Early data suggests
pedestrian deaths
surged in 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — P edestrian deaths surged by an estimated
10 percent last year as the economy
improved, the price of gas plunged
and motorists put more miles behind the wheel than ever before, according to an analysis of preliminary
state traffic fatality data.
The growing use of cellphones distracting drivers and w alkers may
also be partially to blame , states a
report released by the Governors
Highway Safety Association, which
represents governors’ highw ay
safety offices. Warmer weather and
shorter winters along with a greater
awareness of health benefits ma y
also be encouraging people to w alk
more.
“This is really sobering news,” said
Richard Retting, co-author of the report. “Pedestrian safety is c learly a
growing problem across the country.”
The data analyzed were from the
first half of 2015. If the trend holds
true for the full year, it would be the
largest year-to-year increase in
pedestrian deaths since 1975 when
the current federal system for
recording traffic deaths was created.
The report is based on state traffic
fatality figures, extrapolated for the
full year by researc hers at Sam
Schwartz Consulting, which specializes in transportation matters.
See DEATHS, B2
underscores the extent to which
the law’s complex provisions remain a challenge for many consumers.
The law provides subsidized
insurance for people who don’t
have access to coverage on the
job. By using the income tax system to deliver the subsidies as
tax credits, the White House and
congressional Democrats were
able to call the health law a middle-class tax cut.
But it also connected two of
the most complicated areas for
consumers: health care and
taxes. At tax time, people have to
account for the subsidies they
received for health care or , if
they remained uninsured, pay a
fine.
H&R Block said it expected to
see lots of confusion last year ,
the first time that consumers
had to grapple with the connections between the health la w
and the income-tax system. But
such issues don’t seem to ha ve
diminished this tax filing season.
“Even the people going
through it a second time weren’t
getting any better at it, ” said
Mark Ciaramitaro, the company’s vice president for taxes
and health care. About the same
proportions of returning customers and new customers
wound up having to repay subsidies.
U.S. stocks pull back in early
trading as oil prices drop
NEW YORK (AP) — Stoc ks
are pulling bac k in morning
trading Tuesday as oil prices
slip and energy companies drop
sharply. Chesapeake Energy
and Southwestern Energy
plunged. Traders were also discouraged by weak trade figures
from China.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial a verage
fell 112 points, or 0.7 percent, to
16,962 as of 11:27 a.m. Eastern
time.
The Standard and Poor’s 500
index fell 18 points , or 0.9 percent, to 1,984.
The Nasdaq composite ga ve
up 40 points, or 0.9 percent, to
4,668.
THE QUOTE: “We’re overbought,” said Chief Investment
Officer Bill Stone of PNC Asset
Management Group, noting
that the S&P 500 is up about 10
percent from mid-F ebruary.
“People are taking some profits
off of the larger run-up from the
low.”
SHAKE QUAKE: Hamburger chain Shake Shac k
dropped $4.37, or 10 percent, to
$37.86 after delivering results
and an outlook that disappointed investors.
SALES SLIP: Dick’s Sport-
AP Photo
Specialists Robert Nelson, center, and James Sciulli, right,
work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday.
Stocks are pulling back in early trading, led by declines in
materials and energy companies.
ing Goods fell $1.13, or 2.6 per- tailer’s sales. Its guidance for
cent, to $43.25. Its fourth-quar- the future also disappointed.
ter results fell short of analysts’
URBAN JUMPS: Urban
expectations as a warmer-thanSee STOCKS, B2
usual winter crimped the re-
See HEALTH LAW, B2
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Green Top, Jasper: 91
Lee’s Restaurant,
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Little Caesar’s, Sumiton: 95
Moore’s Landing,
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Pizza Hut, Jasper: 95
Star Food Mart No. 9
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Subway - Parkland
Plaza, Jasper: 88
Sumiton Elementary
School, Sumiton: 95
Sumiton Middle School,
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Valley Jr. High School,
Jasper: 93
Wendy’s, Jasper: 85
Zaxby’s, Jasper: 86
McDonald’s, Jasper: 97
Odom’s Grocery, Jasper:
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Sakura Japanese
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State law requires any facility selling food to have a current food service permit that is issued by the local
county health department. Inspection
reports and permits are required to
be posted in conspicuous view within
the establishment. A numerical scoring system on a 100-point scale is
used with points deducted for each
violation. To learn more about the
scoring system used by the Alabama
Department of Public Health, visit
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Outfitters jumped $4.05, or 14 percent, to
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the holiday season. The Philadelphiabased company said it earned $72.9 million, or 61 cents per share , in its fourth
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CHINA TRADE: China’s exports
plunged 25 percent in F ebruary from a
year earlier, as weak global demand and
a business shutdown during the Lunar
New Year holiday combined to depress
sales. Customs data Tuesday also showed
imports fell 14 percent.
EUROPE DOWN: France’s CAC 40,
Germany’s DAX and Britain’s FTSE 100
each fell 1.2 percent.
ASIA’S DAY: Japan’s benchmark
Nikkei 225 dropped 0.8 percent and
South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.6 percent.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index shed 0.7
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rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury
note fell to 1.82 percent from 1.91 percent
late Monday.
Health law
From B1
Ciaramitaro said many
consumers appear to be
having problems correctly
estimating their incomes
for the year ahead. Lowerincome workers who represent a big part of the
customer base for coverage
can have sizable swings in
their earnings over the
course of 12 months.
Underestimating income
results in a bigger tax
credit up front to help pay
your premiums. But at tax
time any overpayment has
to be repaid — usually
subtracted from the consumer’s tax refund. H&R
Block said those who owed
money back saw about a
20 percent reduction in
their federal refunds.
Only 3 percent of its customers with health la w
subsidies saw no impact on
their refunds, meaning
they correctly estimated
their incomes, or called
HealthCare.gov to report
changes during the year.
More than 1 in 3 overestimated their incomes ,
meaning that received a
smaller tax credit than
they were entitled to. They
got an a verage of $450
back from the IRS.
As for the health care
law’s fines, they’re meant
as a stiff nudge to get
healthy people who can afford coverage to join the
insurance
risk pool,
thereby helping to keep
premiums more manageable for everyone.
Exemptions are a vailable for people with low incomes or who face other
extenuating
circumstances. But the la w’s requirement
to ha
ve
coverage or risk fines remains highly unpopular.
The minimum fine went
up from $95 in 2014 to
$325 for the 2015 tax year.
It rises again this year to
$695 for an adult uninsured for a full 12 months.
H&R Block said that
means an uninsured family of four earning $60,000
will face a penalty of $975
for this year , compared
with about $400 for 2015.
Next year, that same hypothetical family would face
a penalty of $2,000 at tax
time.
With 2016 open-enrollment season over , uninsured consumers have few
options for avoiding fines
next year at tax time . If
they don’t qualify for a
hardship exemption, they
can try to find a job that
provides health insurance,
or see if they meet the criteria for a special sign-up
period through HealthCare.gov.
Deaths
From B1
There were 2,368 pedestrians killed in
the first six months of 2015, compared to
2,232 during the same period in 2014 —
a six percent increase . Researchers arrived at a 10 percent increase for the entire year by factoring in that fatalities for
the first half of the year are typically underreported, and that for at least the last
five years an average of 25 percent more
pedestrian deaths were recorded in the
second half of the year , which includes
warmer summer months, Retting said.
Total traffic deaths , which had been
trending downward for the past decade ,
were also up an estimated 8 percent last
year. But pedestrian fatalities have been
rising since 2005, and now account for 15
percent of total traffic deaths . The last
time pedestrian deaths accounted for
that large a share of traffic deaths was 25
years ago.
Nearly three-quarters of pedestrian
deaths occur after dark, and a third of
those killed had been drinking alcohol,
according to National Highw ay Traffic
Safety Administration data. By comparison, about 15 percent of motorists involved in those crashes had a blood
alcohol content at the legal limit or
higher.
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3
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Vol. (in mil.)
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Advanced
Declined
New Highs
New Lows
NYSE
NASD
4,508
4,864
752
2339
79
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1,917
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2194
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17072.79
7664.77
643.38
9952.23
4695.04
1996.88
1399.50
20659.09
1092.71
16921.51
7469.36
634.21
9862.33
4642.87
1977.43
1379.02
20361.65
1067.23
16964.10
7478.37
642.77
9868.52
4648.83
1979.26
1379.70
20379.58
1067.87
-109.85
-207.65
+6.16
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Stocks of Local Interest
Stocks closed lower Tuesday,
pulled down by a slide in energy
companies as crude oil prices
fell. Investors also were
discouraged by new trade
figures from China indicating
that the country’s exports
plunged 25 percent in February
from a year earlier.
SunEdison
SUNE
Close: $2.00 0.10 or 5.3%
Vivint Solar, which SunEdison
agreed to buy in July, says it’s calling off the deal.
$10
5
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$1.21
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52-week range
$33.45
Vol.: 104.1m (2.2x avg.)
Mkt. Cap: $633.44 m
Shake Shack
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52-week range
$96.75
Vol.: 4.5m (5.9x avg.)
Mkt. Cap: $566.38 m
United Continental
PE: ...
Yield: ...
UAL
Close: $56.34 -1.27 or -2.2%
Two activist investors are pushing
for a board shakeup at the airline.
$60
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40
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$42.17
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F
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52-week range
$70.31
PE: 2.9
Yield: ...
THO
Close: $59.98 3.57 or 6.3%
The recreational vehicle maker reported a larger profit than analysts
expected.
$60
D
J
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52-week range
$64.65
Vol.: 2.3m (4.2x avg.)
PE: 14.9
Mkt. Cap: $3.15 b
Yield: 2.0%
BNED
$12
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Div Yld PE
AFLAC 1.64f
AT&T Inc 1.92f
AllegTch .32m
Alphabet A ...
Altria
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Amazon
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Apple Inc 2.08
BkofAm
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ChesEng
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CocaCola 1.40f
CrackerB 4.40a
CSVLgCrd rs ...
Cummins 3.90
DirDGldBr ...
Disney
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FedExCp 1.00
FstHorizon .24
Flowserve .76f
FordM
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FreeSea rs ...
FrptMcM
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FrontierCm .42
HomeDp 2.76f
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5.0
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3.6
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3.2
2.9
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3.8
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1.5
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1.9
1.7
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$15.49
PE: 29.2
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Last Chg %Chg Name
60.06
38.09
16.40
713.53
62.30
560.26
101.03
13.06
22.73
4.30
44.32
149.28
2.16
101.78
3.97
97.82
142.53
12.81
44.02
13.23
.04
8.66
5.65
126.72
-.49
-.04
-.48
+.73
+.49
-2.54
-.84
-.47
+.84
-.93
+.31
-1.09
-.33
-3.29
+.48
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-.38
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-.39
+.01
-1.20
-.14
+1.24
+.3
+10.7
+45.8
-8.3
+7.0
-17.1
-4.0
-22.4
+13.1
-4.4
+3.2
+17.7
-45.3
+15.6
-76.0
-6.9
-4.3
-11.8
+4.6
-6.1
-96.3
+27.9
+21.0
-4.2
Div Yld PE
IBM
5.20
IntPap
1.76
Kroger s .42f
Lowes
1.12
MktVGold .12e
McDnlds 3.56f
Microsoft 1.44
NorthropG 3.20
Penney
...
PepsiCo 2.81
PhilipMor 4.08
RegionsFn .24
S&P500ETF4.13e
SearsHldgs ...
SPDR Fncl .46e
SunEdison ...
SynovusFn .48
Textron
.08
TractSupp .80
US Bancrp 1.02
Vale SA .29e
VerizonCm 2.26
WalMart 2.00f
Wendys Co .24
Money Rates
SHAK
$45
30
Name
PE: ...
Yield: ...
Close: $37.23 -5.00 or -11.8%
The burger chain gave a conservative sales outlook that disappointed
investors.
Vol.: 603.2k (1.5x avg.)
Mkt. Cap: $467.57 m
Prime Rate
Discount Rate
Federal Funds Rate
Treasuries
3-month
6-month
5-year
10-year
30-year
3.7
4.7
1.1
1.6
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3.0
2.8
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4.3
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Last Chg %Chg
139.07
37.83
37.02
70.99
19.42
118.42
51.65
186.86
11.86
99.74
94.45
8.05
198.40
18.03
21.91
2.00
28.28
32.51
85.92
39.85
4.00
52.46
68.04
9.39
-1.08
-1.09
-.03
+.22
-.98
+1.27
+.62
+.18
+.18
+.49
+.55
-.33
-2.19
-.26
-.36
+.10
-.70
-.41
+.11
-.92
-.65
+.25
+.15
-.25
TOMATO TRAY
99 ¢Ea.
Martha White
¢
Muffin Mix Pouch 7-7.6 Oz. ............79 Ea.
$ 99
Shurfine Vegetable Oil 128 Oz. .. 4 Ea.
Post Cocoa or
Fruity Pebbles Cereal
$ 99
2 Ea.
4.6-5 Oz....................................................................... 2/ 1 Starbuck’s Coffee 12 Oz.................. 5 Ea.
$ 49
Hungry Jack Pancake Mix $ 59
Capri Sun Juice 10 Pack.................. 2 Ea.
2 Lb............................................................................. 1 Ea.
$ 89
Viva Paper Towels 6 Pack .............. 5 Ea.
Hungry Jack Pancake Syrup $ 99
27.6 Oz....................................................................... 1 Ea.
Flora Bathroom Tissue
$ 99
12 Rolls...................................................................... 4 Ea.
Kellogg’s Pop Tarts
$ 79
10.5-14.7 Oz. .......................................................... 1 Ea.
Royal Oak Charcoal
$ 49
Betty Crocker Cake Mix
7.7-8.3 Lb.................................................................. 2 Ea.
¢
15.25 Oz. ................................................................. 99 Ea.
Pepsi Products 12 Pack 12 Oz. Cans. . .3/ $11
$ 69
Ken’s Salad Dressing 16 Oz. ....... 1 Ea.
Pepsi Products 2 Liters.......................4/ $5
Moore’s Wing, Dipping or
$
$ 99
Marinade Sauce 16 Oz. ....................... 1 Ea. Pepsi Products 1/2 Ltr. 6 Pk. Btls...... 4/ 10
15 Oz. .......................................................................
$ 99
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+.3
-11.5
-6.6
+41.5
+.2
-6.9
-1.0
+78.1
-.2
+7.4
-16.1
-2.7
-12.3
-8.1
-60.7
-12.7
-22.6
+.5
-6.6
+21.6
+13.5
+11.0
-12.8
Currencies
Last
Pvs Week
3.50
1.00
.25-.50
3.50
1.00
.25-.50
0.28
0.46
1.34
1.83
2.64
0.31
0.47
1.31
1.82
2.69
US $ in Foreign Currency
Australian Dollar
British Pound
Canadian Dollar
Chinese Yuan
Euro
Japanese Yen
Mexican Peso
Swiss Franc
1.3427
.7035
1.3399
6.5057
.9090
112.61
17.8737
.9965
Pvs Day
1.3385
.7012
1.3281
6.5142
.9079
113.27
17.7420
.9951
Mutual Funds
Name
Total Assets
($Mlns) NAV
Total Return/Rank Pct Min Init
Chg 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt
AB GlbThmtGrB m
10 66.74 -.91 +9.1 -10.8/D -0.4/E 4.00 2,500
AB GrB m
13 32.84 -.34 +8.5 -2.9/A +9.8/B 4.00 2,500
AB IntlGrB m
2 12.98 -.14 +5.7 -13.7/E -1.3/E 4.00 2,500
AllianzGI FcGrC m
218 27.68 -.23 +8.6 -2.9/A +10.9/A 1.00 1,000
American Century ValueInv
1,886
7.51 -.14 +6.8 -4.9/B +9.0/B NL 2,500
American Funds AmBalA m
48,465 23.61 -.12 +4.1 -0.2/A +8.8/A 5.75
250
American Funds CapIncBuA m
66,617 56.17 -.29 +4.1 -2.8/A +6.1/A 5.75
250
American Funds CpWldGrIA m
48,633 41.87 -.49 +6.1 -7.9/C +5.6/B 5.75
250
American Funds FnInvA m
41,969 49.02 -.58 +7.0 -2.4/A +9.3/C 5.75
250
American Funds GrthAmA m
67,336 38.58 -.60 +7.6 -4.9/B +9.6/C 5.75
250
American Funds IncAmerA m
68,528 20.21 -.09 +4.7 -2.4/A +7.5/A 5.75
250
American Funds InvCoAmA m
52,329 33.11 -.48 +6.4 -2.9/B +9.6/C 5.75
250
American Funds NewPerspA m 33,922 33.94 -.39 +7.5 -4.5/A +7.0/A 5.75
250
American Funds WAMutInvA m 47,530 37.75 -.32 +6.1 -2.4/A +10.5/A 5.75
250
Dodge & Cox Income
43,340 13.37 +.04 +0.8 -0.4/E +3.5/C NL 2,500
Dodge & Cox IntlStk
49,697 33.99 -.56 +9.7 -20.0/E +0.6/C NL 2,500
Dodge & Cox Stock
50,617 155.51 -2.96 +8.7 -8.6/D +9.3/B NL 2,500
Fidelity BlChGrow
13,756 62.90 -.78 +8.8 -8.0/D +11.3/A NL 2,500
Fidelity Contra
72,174 92.76 -.75 +7.5 -3.2/A +10.5/B NL 2,500
Fidelity ContraK
29,451 92.71 -.74 +7.6 -3.1/A +10.6/B NL
0
Fidelity Magellan
12,254 83.73 -1.05 +7.5 -5.4/B +8.3/D NL 2,500
Fidelity Spartan 500IdxAdvtg
49,176 69.85 -.77 +7.1 -2.4/A +10.7/A NL 10,000
FrankTemp-Franklin IncomeA m 41,656
2.07 -.02 +6.1 -8.6/E +4.1/C 4.25 1,000
FrankTemp-Templeton Fgn A m
3,540
6.20 -.12 +9.9 -12.4/D -0.2/D 5.75 1,000
Harbor IntlInstl
34,976 57.66 -.80 +7.9 -10.4/C +1.0/C NL 50,000
Janus EnteprsT
2,165 83.60 -1.20 +9.8 -4.6/A +10.1/A NL 2,500
Lord Abbett AffiliatA m
5,090 13.93 -.19 +7.2 -5.2/C +7.3/D 5.75 1,000
MFS GrowB m
127 55.06 -.42 +7.0 -3.6/A +10.0/B 4.00 1,000
MFS HighIncA m
398
3.17
... +5.1 -5.4/C +3.9/B 4.25 1,000
MFS TNMuniBdA m
103 10.65 +.01 -0.6 +3.6/B +4.7/C 4.25 1,000
MFS TotRetA m
4,417 17.10 -.10 +4.1 -1.0/A +7.1/A 5.75 1,000
Nuveen TNMuniBdA m
290 12.01 +.02 -0.9 +4.0/A +5.5/B 4.20 3,000
Oppenheimer CapIncA m
1,666
9.42 -.03 +2.1 -1.9/B +4.9/A 5.75 1,000
Pioneer PioneerA m
4,134 30.89 -.28 +5.6 -4.4/C +7.5/D 5.75 1,000
Prudential Investmen BlendB m
11 15.85 -.25 +9.0 -10.8/E +5.4/E 5.00 2,500
Putnam EqIncomeA m
3,110 18.64 -.25 +6.3 -6.9/C +9.4/B 5.75
0
Putnam MultiCapGrA m
3,082 63.48 -.77 +8.1 -9.6/E +8.8/D 5.75
0
T Rowe Price GrowStk
35,343 48.77 -.59 +9.2 -4.9/B +11.4/A NL 2,500
Vanguard 500Adml
147,060 183.33 -2.05 +7.1 -2.4/A +10.7/A NL 10,000
Vanguard HltCrAdml
35,690 84.15 -1.10 +5.0 -4.6/A +18.0/B NL 50,000
Vanguard IntlStkIdxAdm
35,813 23.32 -.28 +6.2 -11.0/C -0.1/D NL 10,000
Vanguard MuIntAdml
43,452 14.31 +.01 -0.8 +3.9/A +4.8/B NL 50,000
Vanguard PrmcpAdml
35,359 97.16 -1.25 +7.3 -5.7/C +11.7/A NL 50,000
Vanguard STGradeAd
34,147 10.59 +.01 0.0 +1.4/A +2.1/A NL 50,000
Vanguard TotBdAdml
63,295 10.81 +.04 -0.1 +2.3/A +3.6/B NL 10,000
Vanguard TotIntl
73,735 13.94 -.17 +6.3 -11.1/C -0.2/D NL 3,000
Vanguard TotStIAdm
121,424 49.16 -.65 +7.7 -4.1/B +10.2/B NL 10,000
Vanguard TotStIdx
92,482 49.14 -.64 +7.7 -4.2/B +10.1/B NL 3,000
Vanguard WellsIAdm
29,406 60.21 +.03 +2.1 +2.9/A +7.5/A NL 50,000
Vanguard WelltnAdm
65,408 62.96 -.32 +4.1 -1.2/A +8.0/A NL 50,000
Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late
filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50
percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within
the last year. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership.
Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset
value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.
Source: The Associated Press and Morningstar. Sales figures are unofficial.
Ea.
GROCERY ITEMS
Piknik Mayonnaise 30 Oz. .............. 1 Ea.
Shurfine Fancy
¢
Sweet Peas 15 Oz................................ 69 Ea.
Shurfine
¢
Mixed Vegetables 14.5 Oz..............69 Ea.
Armour Vienna Sausage
$
2,080
10
4 COUNT
Ea.
18,000
$8.15
2
Ea.
16,160
10 DAYS
2,160
8
$ 99
$ 39
1,880
Close: $9.69 -1.70 or -14.9%
The operator of book stores on college campuses reported lower-than-expected quarterly sales.
48 OZ.
FRESH EXPRESS
BABY SPINACH
Close: 16,964.10
Change: -109.85 (-0.6%)
Barnes & Noble Edu.
2
5 OZ. BAG
16,640
$47.56
PRODUCE
SEEDLESS RED OR
WHITE GRAPES
1,960
45
MAYFIELD
ICE CREAM
$ 99
¢
$ 49
$ 25
HOT POCKET
MEALS
Dow Jones industrials
Close: 1,979.26
Change: -22.50 (-1.1%)
50
MILO’S FAMOUS TEA
9 OZ. PKG.
17,120
55
MOM & POP
SAUSAGE OR
STEAK
BISCUITS
GALLON JUG
FROZEN
MCKENZIE YELLOW OR
WHITE CHUB CORN
Lb.
4 PACK
89 ¢Ea.
Ea.
20 OZ.
1
Ea.
S&P 500
Thor Industries
$ 99
69 ¢Lb.
Lb.
2,040
Vol.: 7.8m (1.3x avg.)
Mkt. Cap: $20.25 b
FRESH
FRESH
GRADE ‘A’
GRADE ‘A’
FRYER THIGHS BONELESS
24 OZ. PKG.
$ 99
SEE US ON FACEBOOK
FRYER BREAST
$ 49
Lb.
12 OZ.
$ 89
Money&Markets
From B1
IF YOU EVER HAD A THOUGHT
ABOUT ADVERTISING YOUR
BUSINESS IN THIS
NEWSPAPER . . . THIS MIGHT BE
A GOOD PLACE TO DO JUST
THAT. AFTER ALL, YOU ARE
READING THIS AND IT IS
JUST AS LIKELY THAT
SOMEONE ELSE WILL READ IT
ALSO. IF THIS WERE YOUR
MESSAGE, YOU WOULD HAVE
PLANTED AN IRRESISTIBLE
URGE IN THEIR BRAIN TO RUSH
OVER TO YOUR BUSINESS AND
OPEN THEIR CHECKBOOK FOR
YOU TO FILL IN THE AMOUNT.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
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Lawyers want DA
to say Bobbi Kristina’s
death wasn’t murder
Information please ...
Many times we
walk back in time
unawares. For instance, how many
times have you
called the refrigerator “The Ice
Box” or those of
you of the Baby
Boomers generaWalking
tion referred to
Back in Time
“The Frigidaire?”
By Bobbye
Or mentioned the
Wilson Wade
running board?
Those of us old
enough to remember when the
phone was wired to the wall, and
usually in the kitchen, can relate to
this story. The telephone was the
backyard fence in many neighborhoods.
The operator could hear every conversation, and some operators were
not above passing the information
along to the neighborhood. Remember the party lines. Want to bet that
there was not a party line sharer
that did not listen in when the other
person’s phone rang?
I read this story, author unknown
but appreciated, and wanted to
share it with others. It reminds of a
gentler, calmer time. The story of
coming of age follows:
When I was a young boy, my father had one of the first telephones
in our neighborhood. I remember the
polished, old case fastened to the
wall. The shiny receiver hung on the
side of the box.
I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to it.
Then I discovered that somewhere
inside the wonderful device lived an
amazing person. Her name was “Information Please,” and there was
nothing she did not know. “Information Please” could supply anyone’s
number and the correct time.
My personal experience with the
genie-in-a-box came one day while
my mother was visiting a neighbor.
Amusing myself at the tool bench in
the basement, I whacked my finger
with a hammer, the pain was terrible, but there seemed no point in
crying because there was no one
home to give sympathy.
I walked around the house sucking my throbbing finger, finally arriving at the stairway. The
telephone! Quickly, I ran for the footstool in the parlor and dragged it to
the landing.
Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in the parlor and held it to my
ear. “Information, please,” I said into
the mouthpiece just above my head.
A click or two and a small, clear
voice spoke into my ear. “Information.”
“I hurt my finger...” I wailed into
the phone, the tears came readily
enough now that I had an audience.
”Isn’t your mother home?” came the
question.
“Nobody’s home but me,” I blubbered. “Are you bleeding?” the voice
asked. “No,” I replied. “I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts.”
“Can you open the icebox?” she
asked. I said I could. “Then chip off a
little bit of ice and hold it to your finger,” said the voice.
After that, I called “Information
Please” for everything. I asked her
for help with my geography, and she
told me where Philadelphia was. She
helped me with my math.
She told me my pet chipmunk that
I had caught in the park just the day
before would eat fruit and nuts.
Then, there was the time Petey,
our pet canary, died. I called, “Information Please,” and told her the sad
story. She listened, and then said
things grown-ups say to soothe a
child. But I was not consoled.
I asked her, “Why is it that birds
should sing so beautifully and bring
joy to all families, only to end up as a
heap of feathers on the bottom of a
cage?”
She must have sensed my deep
concern, for she said quietly, “Wayne,
always remember that there are
other worlds to sing in.” Somehow I
felt better.
Another day I was on the telephone, “Information Please.” “Information,” said in the now familiar
voice. “How do I spell fix?” I asked.
All this took place in a small town
in the Pacific Northwest. When I
was nine years old, we moved across
the country to Boston. I missed my
friend very much.
“Information Please” belonged in
that old wooden box back home, and
somehow I never thought of trying
the shiny new phone that sat on the
table in the hall.
As I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood conversations never really left me. Often, in
moments of doubt and perplexity, I
would recall the serene sense of security I had then. I appreciated now
how patient, understanding and
kind she was to have spent her time
on a little boy.
A few years later, on my way west
to college, my plane put down in
Seattle. I had about a half-hour or so
between planes. I spent 15 minutes
or so on the phone with my sister,
who lived there now.
Then, without thinking what I
was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, “Information
Please.” Miraculously, I heard the
small, clear voice I knew so well.
“Information.”
I hadn’t planned this, but I heard
myself saying, “Could you please tell
me how to spell fix?” There was a
long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, “I guess your finger
must have healed by now.”
I laughed, “So it’s really you?” I
asked. “I wonder if you have any
idea how much you meant to me
during that time?” “I wonder,” she
said, “if you know how much your
calls meant to me. I never had any
children, and I used to look forward
to your calls.”
I told her how often I had thought
of her over the years and I asked if I
could call her again when I came
back to visit my sister. “Please do,”
she said. “Just ask for Sally.”
Three months later I was back in
Seattle.
A different voice answered, “Information.” I asked for Sally.
“Are you a friend?” she said. “Yes, a
very old friend,” I answered.
“I’m sorry to have to tell you this,”
she said. “Sally had been working
part-time the last few years because
she was sick. She died five weeks
ago.” Before I could hang up, she
said, “Wait a minute, did you say
your name was Wayne?”
“Yes.” I answered.
“Well, Sally left a message for you.
She wrote it down in case you called.
Let me read it to you.” The note said,
“Tell him there are other worlds to
sing in. He’ll know what I mean.” I
thanked her and hung up. I knew
what Sally meant.
I love this story. Do you remember
a kindness that was shown to you
50, 60, 70 or 80 years ago? Is there
someone you vividly remember that
was always there for you...to listen
to you...to give you a warm
hug...feed you when you were hungry...loan you a dime? You might be
surprised how much that special
person might appreciate hearing
from you or seeing you again. All experiences go into the making of a
person...you are part of every person
you have ever met.
Life is short; drink the good wine
first, and dance as if no one is watching. Never underestimate the impression you may make on others.
Whose life have you touched?
Bobbye Wilson Wade is a retired school teacher
and corresponding secretary for the Walker County
Genealogical Society. She may be reached at 205
648-6394 or [email protected].
J.K. Rowling launching 4-part series on wizarding school
NEW YORK (AP) — J.K.
Rowling has more magic
on the way.
The “Harry Potter” author is launching a series
called “Magic in North
America,” a four-part backstory for this fall’ s film
adaptation of the P otter
prequel “Fantastic Beasts
and Where to Find Them.”
Announced on Rowling’s
Web site, www.pottermore.com, “Magic in North
America” will run in installments Tuesday-Friday
on Pottermore.
According to the Web
site, the new series will tell
of the North American
wizardry school Ilver-
morny and “bring to light
the history of this previously unexplored corner of
the wizarding world in the
run up to ‘Fantastic Beasts
and Where to Find Them.’”
Rowling has taken on
ATLANTA (AP) — La wyers for Bobbi Kristina
Brown’s partner on Tuesday called on a prosecutor to
tell the public she wasn’t murdered.
Joe Habachy and Jose Baez, attorneys for Nick Gordon, released a statement calling on Fulton County
District Attorney Paul Howard to acknowledge there
was no evidence of wrongdoing in Brown’s death.
“Frankly, the right thing for the District Attorney’s
office to do right now is to tell the public the truth ...
that this was an accident ... or even a suicide, but not
a murder,” the statement sa ys. “And the right thing
for everyone to do is let Nick live his life now and let
Bobbi Kristina rest in peace.”
Howard spokeswoman Claire LaBriola said in an
email that the district attorney had no comment.
Howard said last week his office’ s investigation into
Brown’s death would continue.
Brown, daughter of singers Whitney Houston and
Bobby Brown, was found face-down and unresponsive
in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta townhome Jan.
31, 2015. She died in hospice care July 26.
Howard had asked a judge to seal the report from
Bobbi Kristina’s autopsy while his office investigates.
The judge did so in September, but last week ordered
it unsealed after two television stations challenged it.
The autopsy report shows that her face being immersed in water, along with drug intoxication, led to
Brown’s death.
The medical examiner couldn’t determine whether
her death was an accident.
Habachy and Baez said How ard fought to conceal
evidence that Brown’s death “was nothing more than
a tragic accident.”
“By failing to acknowledge that there is simply no
evidence of any wrongdoing , they ha ve in essence
helped feed the slanderous media frenzy regarding
Nick Gordon,” Habachy and Baez wrote.
Howard said last week his office had “valid public
safety and investigative” reasons for asking that the
autopsy report be sealed. He has said very little about
his office’s investigation and hasn’t said whether he
has a suspect.
numerous projects lately,
from the stage production
“Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child” to her detective novels written under
the pseudonym Robert
Galbraith.
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001 Employment
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Parrish/Goodsprings Area
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025 Lost & Found
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totaling 10,013 acres. Range
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047 Livestock
FISH DAY!!
Stock Now!
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•Black Crappie (if avail.)
•Minnows •Koi (if avail.)
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Save 10% when you mention
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MONEY PLEDGER
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MUMMEY LAWN Service.
Year Round Lawn Maintenance.
FREE estimates. (205)388-7004
RED RYDER HAULING
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085 Yard Sales
ESTATE SALE, Wednesday.
Curry Hwy (next to Candyland
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095 Merchandise
BEST PRICES in Town
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Rent-To-Own! Payments
starting @ $58 per month!
The Storage Place
Hwy.78E between Family Thrift
and HandyTV (205)221-0105
CAROLINA CARPORTS
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20x21x9 Enclosed w/2 Garage
Doors just $3,555 installed!
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205-295-8958
CRAPPIE JIGS- 1/32 & 1/16
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wire hooks. Various colors. $6 a
dozens. (205)648-9543
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The Storage Place
HENRIETTA'S CLOSET Open
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March 2nd-12th, 10AM-6PM;
Saturday 10AM-4PM
CA$H! CA$H!
CA$H!
1BR., APARTMENT downtown.
All appliances & water included.
$425/mo., plus deposit & references. No pets. 205-275-3596
$$$ for broken $$$
(behind Tractor Supply)
2BR MH (Poplar Springs).
Water & Garbage furnished.
$450mo. $250dep.
205-295-8151.
GOLF CLUBS FOR SALE
Adams "Blue" Driver
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Condition! Driver $125. 3Wood $75
Or both for $175
Call Jack at 205-388-6997
3750 SQ.FT. WAREHOUSE
(Carbon Hill); $500 month.
Call Southern States Realty
(205)221-6960
3BR. 2BA., HOUSE. Non-smokers, no inside pets. Great location.
$650/mo.
$650/dep.
205-387-7238.
115 Rent or Lease
250 GALLON Propane Tank,
$325; (205)300-3403
RENTAL SPACE available:
1700 to 5000 sq ft;
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ASSORTED FRUIT Trees
Bradford Pear &
Leyland Cypress Trees.
Assorted Flowering Trees
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highest bidder, during legal
hours of sale on March 30, 2016
at the front door of the courthouse of Walker County, Alabama, all of their right, title and
interest in and to the following
described real property in the
County of Walker, State of Alabama, being the same property
described in the above referred
to mortgage:
The NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 and
ten acres off West side of the
NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of the
public road as the line on the
East side, 50 acres, more or
less, all in Section 2, Township
15 South, Range 7 West, situated in Walker County, Alabama. Usual mining and mineral
rights excepted.
Also, twenty acres, more or
less, of the SE 1/4 of the SW
1/4, Section 2, Township 15
South, Range 7 West, as follows: Begin at the SW corner of
forty and run North to NW corner of forty; then run East to the
NE corner of forty; then run
Southwesterly to SW corner of
forty and point of beginning. Situated in Walker County, Alabama. Mineral and usual mining
rights excepted. The above
being the NW diagonal half of
forty.
Less and Except: That part of
the East 1/2 of the SW 1/4 and
that part of the NW 1/4 of the
SE 1/4 of Section 2, Township
15 South, Range 7 West,
Walker County, Alabama, described as follows: Commence
at the NE corner of the NE 1/4
of the SW 1/4 of said Section 2;
thence South 0 degrees 44' 30"
East, along the East line
thereof, 505.29 feet to the point
of beginning; thence South 80
degrees 31' 50" West 248.64
feet; thence South 15 degrees
59' 25" West 900.21 feet to the
North bank of Bull Barn Branch;
thence North 82 degrees 44' 48"
East, along said bank, 47.44
feet; thence North 89 degrees
05' 58" East, along said bank;
104.32 feet; thence South 84
degrees 41' 36" East, along said
bank, 74.40 feet; thence South
82 degrees 31' 12" East, along
said bank, 16.74 feet; thence
North 68 degrees 32' 51" East,
along said bank, 243.79 feet;
thence continue along said
bank, North 60 degrees 17' 00"
East, 39.88 feet to the SW corner of the NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4;
thence South 88 degrees 24'
20" East, along the South line of
said NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4,
599.32 feet to the West right of
way of Hay Valley Road; thence
North 10 degrees 56' 27" East,
along said right of way, 18.49
feet; thence North 5 degrees 54'
39" West, along said right of
way 30.33 feet; thence North 18
degrees 13' 20" West along said
right of way, 39.21 feet; thence
North 33 degrees 14' 52" West,
along said right of way 70.78
05' 58" West, along said right of
way, 117.73 feet; thence North
31 degrees 29' 32" West, along
said right of way, 66.14 feet;
thence North 29 degrees 11' 05"
West, along said right of way,
54.90 feet; thence North 25 degrees 42' 40" West, along said
right of way, 63.51 feet; thence
along said right of way, 102.40
15' 41" West, along said right of
way, 205.57 feet; thence continue along said right of way,
175.61 feet to an iron pin;
thence South 80 degrees 35'
30" West, 229.24 feet to the
point of beginning, containing
14.94 acres, more or less.
This sale is made for the purpose of paying the said indebtedness and the expenses
incident to this sale, including a
reasonable attorney’s fee. The
Mortgagee/Transferee reserves
the right to bid for and purchase
the property and to credit its
purchase price against the expenses of sale and the indebtedness secured by the real
estate. This sale is subject to
postponement or cancellation.
Contact Scott Thornley, as
shown below, prior to attendance. Any purchaser must tender payment in certified funds to
Scott Thornley within 24 hours.
The property may be awarded
to the next highest bidder or the
sale may be rescheduled if purchaser fails to timely tender payment.
Alabama Law gives some persons who have an interest in
property the right to redeem the
property under certain circumstances. Programs may also
exist to help persons avoid or
delay the foreclosure process.
An attorney should be consulted
to help you understand these
rights and programs as a part of
the foreclosure process.
This property will be sold on an
“As Is, Where Is” basis subject
to all matters of record without
warranty or recourse as to title
and subject to the right of redemption of all parties entitled to
redeem under the laws of the
State of Alabama and of the
United States of America.
Ivan Plyler
Mortgagee/Transferee
Scott Thornley
Auctioneer and Attorney
318 19th Street West
Jasper, Alabama 35501
(205) 384-4547
*March 9, 16, 23, 2016
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NOTICE OF
DIVORCE ACTION
SABRINA NICHOLE SHELL,
whose whereabouts is unknown, must answer JACK
ODOM SHELL, II, petition for divorce and other relief by April
8th, or, thereafter, a judgment by
default may be rendered against
her in Case No. DR 2006455.02, Circuit Court of Walker
County, Alabama.
DONE the 3rd day of March,
2016.
SUSAN ODOM, CLERK OF
CIRCUIT COURT OF
WALKER COUNTY, AL
Outlaw Law, P.C.
P.O. Box 2323
Jasper, AL 35502-2323
Attorney for Jack Odom Shell, II
*March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016
IN THE PROBATE COURT
OF WALKER COUNTY
ALABAMA
IN THE MATTER OF
THE ADOPTION PETITION OF
Emily Lauren Key Lambert
and Michael Corey Lambert
TO ADOPT: HJGS
CASE NO. PC2016-A007
TO: Unknown father, whose
whereabouts are unknown.
You must respond to the Probate Court of Walker County, Alabama, 1900 3rd Avenue,
Jasper, Alabama, 35501, regarding the Petition for Adoption
of HJGS as filed by EMILY LAUREN KEY LAMBERT and
MICHAEL COREY LAMBERT
within thirty days from March 30,
2016, or your rights will be forever barred regarding the adoption of HJGS in Case Number
PC2016-A007 in the Probate
Court of Walker County, Alabama.
DONE this the 3rd day of
March, 2016.
RICK ALLISON,
JUDGE OF PROBATE
*March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016
FORECLOSURE NOTICE
Default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness
described in and secured by
that certain mortgage executed
by James Paul Jones, Jr. and
Jennie K. Jones to Ivan Plyler
dated November 26, 2002 and
recorded at Volume 1804 page
726, of the records in the Office
of the Judge of Probate of
Walker County, Alabama, notice
is hereby given that the undersigned as holder of said mortgage will under power of sale,
contained in said mortgage, sale
at public outcry for cash to the
IN THE PROBATE COURT
OF WALKER COUNTY
ALABAMA
IN THE MATTER OF
THE ADOPTION PETITION OF
JAMES LEE WOODLEY
TO ADOPT: CCT
CASE NO. PC2016-A004
TO: Unknown father, whose
whereabouts are unknown.
You must respond to the Probate Court of Walker County, Alabama, 1900 3rd Avenue,
Jasper, Alabama, 35501, regarding the Petition for Adoption
of CCT as filed by JAMES LEE
WOODLEY within thirty days
from March 30, 2016, or your
rights will be forever barred regarding the adoption of CCT in
Case Number PC2016-A004 in
the Probate Court of Walker
County, Alabama.
DONE this the 29th day of February, 2016.
RICK ALLISON,
JUDGE OF PROBATE
*March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
TO BE PUBLISHED
BY ADMINISTRATOR
ESTATE OF
Charles Lee Flemmings a/k/a
Charles Lee Flemmings, Sr.,
DECEASED
PROBATE COURT
CASE NO. PC2016-029
Letters of Administration
Of said deceased having been
granted to the undersigned on
the 19th day of February, 2016,
by the Hon. Rick Allison, Judge
of the Probate Court of Walker
County, notice is hereby given
that all persons having claims
against said estate are hereby
required to present the same
within time allowed by law or the
same will be barred.
Charles Lee Flemmings, Jr.
Administrator
Laird and Robertson, P.C.
Russell B. Robertson
Jasper, Alabama
*March 2, 9, 16, 2016
TO BE PUBLISHED
BY ADMINISTRATRIX
ESTATE OF
Herbert Gordon Stanley,
DECEASED
PROBATE COURT
CASE NO. PC2016-018
CYNTHIA FORRESTER
ADMINISTRATRIX
Steven A. Thomas,
Attorney at Law
Jasper, Alabama
*February 24, March 2, 9, 2016
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MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness
secured by that certain mortgage executed on July 28, 2006
by Leah Danielle Addison and
Lon Addison, husband and wife,
originally in favor of Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems,
Inc. as nominee for Nationpoint,
a Division of NAT. City Bank of
IN, and recorded in DML Book
2025 at Page 700 on July 31,
2006, and rerecorded in DML
Book 2047, Page 350 on
12/6/2006 in the Office of the
Judge of Probate of Walker
County, Alabama, and secured
indebtedness
having
been
transferred or assigned to
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as trustee for First
Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust
2006-FF13 Mortgage PassThrough Certificate, Series
2006-FF13 as reflected by instrument recorded in DML Book
2340, Page 298 of the same Office. Shapiro and Ingle, L.L.P.,
as counsel for Mortgagee or
Transferee and under and by
virtue of power of sale contained
in the said mortgage will, on
March 25, 2016, sell at public
outcry to the highest bidder in
front of the main entrance of the
Walker County, Alabama, Courthouse in the City of Jasper, during the legal hours of sale, the
following real estate situated in
Walker County, Alabama, to wit:
The following described real estate, situated in Walker County,
Alabama, to-wit:
Commence at the SE corner of
the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of
Section 4, Township 14 South,
Range 6 West; Thence run
westerly along the South line of
said 1/4-1/4 for a distance of
30.22 feet; Thence turn an
angle to the right of 89° 52'
06" for a distance of 25.16 feet;
Thence turn an angle to the left
of 89° 53' 09" for a distance of
927.50 feet to the point of beginning; Thence turn an angle to
the left of 0° 02' 06" for a distance of 371.19 feet; Thence
turn an angle to the right of 92°
43' 27" for a distance of 634.62
feet; Thence turn an angle to the
right of 92° 45' 44" for a distance of 371.19 feet; Thence
turn an angle of 87° 14' 47" to
the right for a distance of 634.63
feet to the point of beginning of
the tract or parcel to be described. Situated in Walker
County, Alabama.
For informational purposes
only, the property address is:
657 South Pine Drive, Jasper,
AL 35504.
Any property address provided is not part of the legal
description of the property
sold herein and in the event
of any discrepancy, the legal
description referenced herein
shall control.
This sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness
secured by said mortgage, as
well as the expenses of foreclosure. Furthermore, the property
to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for
sale, transfer and conveyance
AS IS, WHERE IS. Neither the
mortgagee, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees,
agents or authorized representative of the mortgagee make
any representation or warranty
relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or
safety conditions existing in, on,
at or relating to the property offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising
out of or in any way relating to
any such condition, including
those suggested by Code of Ala.
(1975) § 35-4-271, expressly
are disclaimed. This sale is subject to all prior liens and encumbrances and unpaid taxes and
assessments including any
transfer tax associated with the
foreclosure. The successful bidder must tender a non-refundable deposit of Five Thousand
Dollars and no/100 ($5,000.00)
in certified or cash funds at the
time and place of the sale. The
balance of the purchase price
must be paid in certified funds
by close of business on the next
business day thereafter at the
Law Office of Shapiro and Ingle,
LLP at the address indicated
below. Shapiro and Ingle, LLP
reserves the right to award the
bid to the next highest bidder, or
to reschedule the sale, should
the highest bidder fail to timely
tender the total amount due.
Alabama law gives some persons who have an interest in
exist that help persons avoid or
An attorney should be consulted
to help you understand these
rights and programs as a part of
the foreclosure process.
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as trustee for First
Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust
2006-FF13 Mortgage PassThrough Certificate, Series
2006-FF13, and its successors
and assigns
Mortgagee or Transferee
SHAPIRO AND INGLE, LLP
10130 Perimeter Parkway,
Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28216
704-333-8107/ 16-009213
Attorneys for Mortgagee
or Transferee
*February 24, March 2, 9, 2016
MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in
the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain
mortgage executed on September 18, 2003 by Shirlene H.
Brown and Robert L. Brown,
wife and husband, originally in
favor of Wells Fargo Home
Mortgage, Inc., and recorded in
DML Book 1857 at Page 477
on September 22, 2003, in the
Office of the Judge of Probate
of Walker County, Alabama,
and secured indebtedness having been transferred or assigned to The Bank of New
York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of
New York as successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank,
N.A. as Trustee for Bear
Stearns Asset Backed Securities Trust 2004-SD3, AssetBacked Certificates, Series
2004-SD3 as reflected by instrument recorded in DML Book
2379, Page 592 of the same
Office. Shapiro and Ingle,
L.L.P., as counsel for Mortgagee or Transferee and under
and by virtue of power of sale
contained in the said mortgage
will, on March 24, 2016, sell at
public outcry to the highest bidder in front of the main entrance of the Walker County,
Alabama, Courthouse in the
City of Jasper, during the legal
hours of sale, the following real
estate situated in Walker
County, Alabama, to wit:
Lot 8 according to the Parrish
Land Company's Subdivision
as recorded in Map Book 2
Page 65 in the Office of the
Judge of Probate of Walker
County, Alabama. Minerals and
usual mining rights excepted.
Also included is a 2004
Homes of Legend TS002 SP,
Serial Number H115743ABAL
For informational purposes
only, the property address is:
107 Roberts Circle, Parrish, AL
35580.
Any property address provided is not part of the legal
description of the property
sold herein and in the event
of any discrepancy, the legal
description referenced herein
shall control.
This sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness
secured
by
said
mortgage, as well as the expenses of foreclosure. Furthermore, the property to be offered
pursuant to this notice of sale is
being offered for sale, transfer
and
conveyance
AS
IS,
WHERE IS. Neither the mortgagee, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees,
agents or authorized representative of the mortgagee make
any representation or warranty
relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or
safety conditions existing in,
on, at or relating to the property
offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating
to any such condition, including
those suggested by Code of
Ala. (1975) § 35-4-271, expressly are disclaimed. This
sale is subject to all prior liens
and encumbrances and unpaid
taxes and assessments including any transfer tax associated
with the foreclosure. The successful bidder must tender a
non-refundable deposit of Five
Thousand Dollars and no/100
($5,000.00) in certified or cash
funds at the time and place of
the sale. The balance of the
purchase price must be paid in
certified funds by close of business on the next business day
thereafter at the Law Office of
Shapiro and Ingle, LLP at the
address
indicated
below.
Shapiro and Ingle, LLP reserves the right to award the
bid to the next highest bidder,
or to reschedule the sale,
should the highest bidder fail to
timely tender the total amount
due.
Alabama law gives some per-
sons who have an interest in
An attorney should be consulted to help you understand
these rights and programs as a
part of the foreclosure process.
The Bank of New York Mellon
f/k/a The Bank of New York as
successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as
Trustee for Bear Stearns Asset
Backed Securities Trust 2004SD3, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-SD3, and its
successors and assigns
SHAPIRO AND INGLE, LLP
10130 Perimeter Parkway,
Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28216
704-333-8107/ 16-009241
Attorneys for
*March 2, 9, 16, 2016
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in
the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain
Mortgage executed by Daniel
M. Stacey, an unmarried man,
to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”),
(solely as nominee for Lender,
First
Federal
Bank,
and
Lender’s successors and assigns), dated the 16th day of
December, 2011, which Mortgage was recorded in the Office
of the Judge of Probate of
Walker County, Alabama, in
DML Book 2282, at Page 101,
as corrected and re-recorded in
DML Book 2292, at Page 121;
said Mortgage having been
transferred and assigned by
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (solely as
nominee for Lender, First Federal Bank, and Lender’s successors
and
assigns)
to
Alabama Housing Finance Authority by virtue of that certain
Assignment of Mortgage dated
September
3,
2015
and
recorded in said Probate Office
in DML Book 2435, at Page
359. The undersigned Alabama
Housing Finance Authority as
Assignee of said Mortgage will,
under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained in said
Mortgage, sell at auction to the
highest bidder for cash before
the main entrance of the Walker
County Courthouse in the City
of Jasper, Alabama, during the
legal hours of sale on April 5,
2016, the real property described in said Mortgage, which
said description is hereby referred to and made a part
hereof, said property being situated in Walker County, Alabama, to-wit:
Lot 6 Block A according to the
Survey of Porterfield Subdivision, First Addition as recorded
in Map Book 4, Page 86, in the
Probate Record Room, Walker
County, Alabama.
Alabama law gives some persons who have an interest in
An attorney should be consulted to help you understand
these rights and programs as a
part of the foreclosure process.
This sale is made for the purpose of realizing the mortgage
debt, together with all expenses
of the sale, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
ALABAMA
HOUSING
FINANCE AUTHORITY
ASSIGNEE
SASSER, SEFTON &
BROWN, P.C.
Bowdy J. Brown, Esq.
445 Dexter Avenue, Suite 8050
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
Our File No.: 49696-1858
ATTORNEYS FOR ASSIGNEE
*March 9, 16, 23, 2016
TO BE PUBLISHED
BY ADMINISTRATOR
ESTATE OF
ANNIE LOIS MEADOWS,
DECEASED
PROBATE COURT
CASE NO. PC2016-004
the 17th day of January, 2016,
JOHN MEADOWS
ADMINISTRATOR
Nursing Home Law Group, PC
R. Steven Baker
Birmingham, Alabama
*March 2, 9, 16, 2016
TO BE PUBLISHED
BY ADMINISTRATRIX
ESTATE OF
JOE SHIRLEY DEAVOURS,
DECEASED
PROBATE COURT
CASE NO. PC2016-031
Denise Deavours Howland
Administratrix
Jeff Donaldson,
Attorney at Law
Jasper, Alabama
*March 9, 16, 23, 2016
TO BE PUBLISHED
BY ADMINISTRATRIX
ESTATE OF
IDA L. ENGLEBERT A/K/A
IDA LEE ENGLEBERT,
DECEASED
PROBATE COURT
CASE NO. PC2013-189
the 22nd day of August, 2013,
SHIRLEY E. SEXTON
ADMINISTRATRIX
Patterson Comer Law Firm
Northport, Alabama
*March 9, 16, 23, 2016
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