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State police are looking for a Trigg County man accused of a 2002 murder.
On Friday, a Trigg County grand jury indicted Claude Rus-sell, 34, for the murder of Chan-tell Humphries of Trigg County in June 2002, said Trooper Dean Patterson, state police spokes-man. Police issued a warrant for Russell’s arrest later that day.
Russell was originally indicted for Humphries’ murder in No-vember 2002, but a grand jury dismissed the charge in February 2003, saying state police acted too quickly in his arrest.
Patterson said detectives found new evidence in the case but de-clined to provide further details.
“We had answers to questions that we didn’t have before. ... The pieces of the puzzle just fi t to-gether better now,” he said.
Humphries, 33 at the time of the slaying, was shot and killed on June 25, 2002. A farmer found her body in a pasture along Barefi eld Road, fi ve miles northeast of Cadiz.
Police described Russell as
a black man, about 6 feet tall and roughly 160 pounds. Patterson said he’s confi dent Russell is still in or around Cadiz.
“We know he still lives in the area,” he said.
“We’ve had contact with him re-
cently.”Anyone with information on
Russell’s whereabouts is asked to contact state police at 800-222-5555 or 270-856-3721.
Commonwealth Attorney G.L. Ovey declined to comment on the indictment but said it carries a $500,000 cash bond.
Humphries’ mother, Mary Jones, and husband, Joel Humphries, could not be reached for comment.
State police seek Trigg man in 2002 slayingBY DANIELLE [email protected]
Humphries Russell
A four-hour hearing Friday cleared up some issues con-cerning a search warrant in a murder case but raised a new one.
Len Ogden, defense attor-ney for Ja-mie Taylor, argued any evidence ob-tained from a search of the Tay-lor home, 7400 Og-den Land-ing Road, should be suppressed.
He named four omissions to Detective Michael Wray’s af-fi davit for the search warrant as why. The omissions could have made Circuit Judge Tim Kaltenbach more likely to ap-prove the warrant when he should not have done so, Og-den said.
Taylor, her husband, Mark Taylor, and their 22-year-old daughter, Jasmine Taylor, are charged with murder in connection with the death of Jasmine’s friend, 21-year-old CaSondra Evrard of Lone Oak on Dec. 10. Three of the Tay-lors’ relatives, and one’s fi ancé, are charged with conspiring to kidnap her.
Ogden contended Wray should have noted the follow-ing four omissions on his affi -davit:
■ A neighbor noticed others but did not see Evrard at the Taylor home at about the same time Evrard sent her mother a text that she was on the way there.■ Sheriff’s Detective Tim
Reed found nothing in-criminating when he walked
through the Taylor home Dec. 11 searching for Evrard.■ A large folding knife was
found on the Massac Creek bank a few feet away from where Evrard’s body was dis-covered; the blade was open, indicating it may have been used to kill her.
■ Mark Taylor said in an interview that Evrard left the family’s home on foot after ar-guing with Jasmine Taylor.
“I believe if all of those things had not been left out that the affi davit would have been even
Defense challenges warrantBY SHELLEY [email protected]
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Detective Michael Wray of the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department answers a question from attorney Len Ogden (right) Friday during a suppression hearing in the CaSondra Evrard murder case in McCracken Circuit Court in Paducah. Ogden called Wray as a witness because the detective prepared the affadavit and search warrant for Judge Tim Kaltenbach, who signed those documents, allowing investigators to search for evidence, particularly at a house at 7400 Ogden Landing Road.
Evrard
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Judy Cole of Paducah, a five-year survivor of breast cancer, gets a hug from Dr. Charles Winkler, her oncologist, during the opening ceremony of the McCracken County Relay For Life at Carson Park in Paducah on Friday evening. This cer-emony recognizes survivors of cancer as they receive medals for their battle. Waiting to receive a medal is Barbie Jessup of West Paducah, a 13-year survivor of breast cancer.
For Kim Street and her family, the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life is more than a fundraiser, it’s a family tradition.
Street, 53, of Paducah has been involved with the program about 12 years. She was diagnosed with mantle cell non-Hodgin lympho-ma in March 2007. Her brother, Greg Street, died of lymphoma about three years ago. Lym-phoma also claimed the life of her father, Chester Street, a few months ago. Both Greg and Ches-ter Street battled their diseases about 13 years.
“We’re fi ghters, you know? (My
family) knows how to fi ght. Every person who’s sitting here tonight is a fi ghter,” Kim Street said of the cancer survivors at Friday evening’s McCracken County Re-lay For Life at Carson Park.
Street remembered the 2010 event. Her father was so deter-mined to attend that he never let on how much pain he was in un-
til he eventually got so sick that Street had to rush him to a local hospital.
When Street was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, she began regular trips to a cancer center in St. Louis. Two of her older broth-ers were by her side each trip and
Cancer survivors celebrate lifeBY DANIELLE [email protected]
WASHINGTON — Struggling to avert an unprecedented national default, congres-sional leaders jettisoned negotiations on a sweeping defi cit-reduction package Fri-day despite a plea from President Barack Obama to “do something big” to stabilize America’s fi nances.
Instead, lawmakers embarked on com-peting fallback plans as a critical Aug. 2 deadline neared, a House Republican ver-sion given little chance of success, even by some supporters, and a bipartisan Senate approach holding out more promise to avert what Obama called fi nancial “Ar-mageddon.”.
Late Friday, the Treasury Department announced it was resorting to the fi nal steps in an unusual series designed to avoid exceeding the current $14.3 trillion debt limit. Numerous offi cials have cau-tioned that a default will occur if the limit is not increased by Aug. 2, warning also of a calamitous effect on a national economy struggling to recover from the worst re-cession in decades..
At the behest of conservatives, House Republicans announced plans to vote next week on legislation to permit more borrowing automatically if Congress ap-proves a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. Senate approval of that amendment seemed extremely unlikely in a vote set for the next few days.
Showdown over debt: Obama wants ‘something big’
BY DAVID ESPOAssociated Press
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“They do it out of love, and you feel that love when you’re walking that lap and you hear those people
cheering you on.”
Kim StreetCancer survivor
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clearer ... that it did not demon-strate probable cause to search the residence but instead to demonstrate probable cause to search the area in and around where CaSondra Evrard’s body
was found,” Ogden said.
Ass is tant C o m m o n -wealth At-torney Ray-mond McGee argued those points re-ally did not matter in the larger scope of why inves-tigators were
interested in searching the house and should have been allowed to do so. Those points were all included in the affi davit for the warrant, he said. They are: the last communication from Evrard indicated she was on her way to the Taylor house; Jamie Taylor said Evrard and Jasmine Taylor argued in the home; and her body was found 1⁄4 mile away from the Taylor home.
“No matter what a neighbor saw, whether it was 15 ’til 3 (o’clock) or 20 ’til 3, his own cli-ent admitted CaSondra Evrard was at that trailer,” McGee said.
Circuit Judge Craig Clymer, who oversaw Friday’s hearing, concluded that the omissions were not likely to have changed
Kaltenbach’s ruling.Ogden raised a new issue
moments before the hearing concluded, however. Wray, the only witness in Friday’s hear-ing, testifi ed that he signed the affi davit for the search warrant before Kaltenbach arrived to review it and ultimately ap-prove the warrant. Ogden said it should have been signed in Kaltenbach’s presence. He ar-gued that even though Kalten-bach had Wray raise his hand and swear in front of him that the affi davit was true, it was not enough, and therefore, evi-dence obtained from the search warrant should be suppressed.
Clymer allowed Ogden two weeks to fi le a written brief detailing his argument. He allowed prosecutors a week thereafter to respond. Clymer also gave Ogden three weeks to fi le a request for a change of venue, which would move the trial for the seven defendants to another county. He gave prosecutors two weeks to re-spond.
McGee said in court Friday the state police crime lab con-tinues to process DNA evidence in the case but is expected to fi nish by late September. The evidence includes human blood that will be tested to see if it was
Evrard’s, he said. McGee did not say where the
blood came from, but Sheriff Jon Hayden has previously said investigators found blood in the Taylor home’s kitchen. He also said detectives found burned shoes in the Taylors’ yard that appeared to match those Ev-rard was wearing when she dis-appeared. When Hayden found her body, she was not wearing shoes.
McGee said analysts were also checking to see if Evrard had any DNA beneath her fi n-gernails and, if she did, whether it belonged to any of the people charged in the case.
Clymer had hoped to hold a hearing Friday to determine whether Jasmine Taylor was competent to stand trial. A mental health offi cial was not available on Friday, however, so he continued it. Jasmine Taylor’s attorney, Robin Irwin, has said the report’s conclusion indicates she is competent, but the judge must make the fi nal ruling under state law.
Mark Taylor has also under-gone a mental health evalua-tion. His attorney, Aaron Harp-er, has been told it will show he is also competent.
Clymer set competency eval-uations for Jasmine Taylor and Mark Taylor for noon Sept. 8, when the mental health offi cial expects to be available to travel to Paducah from the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center in LaGrange.
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Jamie Taylor sits with her husband, Mark, Friday in McCracken Circuit Court in Paducah. The Taylors are two of the seven defendants in the CaSondra Evrard murder case.
Clymer
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EVRARD: Defense attorney given two weeks to submit brief detailing his argument about search
Sheriff’s detectives arrested a Paducah man on drug charges after a two-month investigation.
A McCracken County grand gury indicted Jarry L. Powers, 46, for traf-fi cking methamphetamine on July 1. Detectives arrested Powers at his home on Hill Street on Thursday, Detective Ryan Norman said in a news release. Detectives also seized Powers’ pickup truck as part of the investigation.
Powers had been previously con-victed of traffi cking in a controlled substance, making the latest drug charge his second or subsequent of-fense.
Powers was jailed in McCracken County.
Paducah man indicted on drug trafficking charge
Usually it’s the product of a national franchise being hawked in the middle of a mall or retail center.
On Friday afternoon, it was the role of franchisee being of-fered at a kiosk in the center of the Kentucky Oaks Mall.
Representatives from Auntie Anne’s, the Pennsylvania-based pretzel maker, set up shop from 3-7 p.m. Friday recruiting any-one interested in running a new local store.
It was part of a proactive ap-proach to putting an Auntie Anne’s in Paducah, said Linda
Engels, sales representative. Engels said the company re-cently joined the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce and sought out discussions with En-trePaducah, the small business development group that fosters entrepreneurial opportunities.
Engels said the company is negotiating with the mall for a future store, but nothing is set in stone.
“We need a franchise partner fi rst,” Engels said.
The mall hasn’t announced it will add a local store of the fran-chise, said Joe Bell, a spokes-man for the Cafaro Co., the mall’s owner.
Bell said he was unaware of negotiations between Auntie Anne’s and the mall’s leasing division, and he declined to comment further.
The news that a national fran-chise was knocking at the door was an interesting surprise for Terry Reeves, concierge of En-trePaducah.
Reeves said he connected some local clients who may be interested with the pair of Auntie Anne’s representatives in town, which includes Mele Sarmiento, Auntie Anne’s di-rector of franchise sales and de-velopment.
More than anything, the de-
velopment encouraged Reeves on the prospects of the local market.
“It’s not like they just threw a dart at a map,” Reeves said. “They see a lot of potential here and feel Paducah is a good fran-chise market.”
Engels said Kentucky has sev-en Auntie Anne’s stores, with the closest in Bowling Green. Adding a location in Paducah would add to the roughly 1,100 stores in 44 states and 22 coun-tries.
“We identifi ed this mall as a great opportunity,” Engels said. “And we said, ‘Let’s just go out into the market.’”
Auntie Anne’s takes steps to open storeBY ADAM SHULL
Paducah police arrested a Hick-man man on multiple drug charges Friday.
Detectives arrested Gregory V. Wilson, 29, after receiving an anonymous tip about possible drug trafficking, police spokeswoman Robin Newberry said in a news release.
Police stopped Wilson’s vehicle in the 1600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive about 3:45 p.m. Fri-day.
Detectives and a police dog found an ounce of crack cocaine, worth about $1,200, and a small amount of marijuana inside Wilson’s car, Newberry said.
Detectives seized the drugs and $1,150 found in Wilson’s posses-sion.
Wilson was charged with traffick-ing in crack cocaine, possession of marijuana and operating on a sus-pended license.
He was jailed in McCracken County.
State police acceptingcadet applications
The Kentucky State Police is ac-cepting applications for its next cadet class. Interested applicants can visit www.kentuckystatepolice.org and click on the Career Opportunities, Re-cruitment Home and How To Become A Kentucky State Trooper links.
Information on the site includes an outline of the application pro-cess, a list of minimum require-ments and disqualifications, a downloadable application form with a list of supporting documents re-quired, a downloadable study guide for the written test and a list of the testing sites statewide.
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Paducah police offer citizens’ academy
The Paducah Police Department 2011 Citizens’ Police Academy will kick-off at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 4 in the training room of department head-quarters, 1400 Broadway.
The CPA formed nearly 11 years ago to give citizens a better under-standing of the inner workings of the department. Attendees are exposed to some of the same training that police officers receive, and witness presentations from the depart-ment’s K9 units, bomb squad, SWAT team and others. They also partici-pate in a mock crime scene investi-
gation and visit the firearms range.The CPA helps build understand-
ing and trust between the police department and the community. It will expose citizens to a number of current law enforcement issues and the latest Paducah police procedures, according to a police department news release.
Other topics include criminal investigations, evidence and patrol tactics. The CPA is held on Thurs-day nights over 11 weeks. It is free to anyone 18 or older who lives in Paducah or the surrounding area.
Volunteers in Police Service (V.I.P.S.) help lead the CPA classes and promote the community-orient-ed policing initiatives. Volunteers in Police Service (V.I.P.S.) assist with crowd control and public safety at events such as Live on Broadway, Halloween on Jefferson Street and Barbecue on the River.
Anyone interested in attend-ing the academy can email or call Sgt. George Johnson at [email protected] or 444-8548.
From Sun staff reports
Hickman man faces trafficking, other drug charges
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eventually coined a catch-phrase that the family would grow to embrace: “Another day closer.”
“We’re another day clos-er; that phrase has various meanings for me,” Street said.
For her late brother and father, the phrase meant they were another day closer to their permanent home, she said. For Street, it means another day clos-er to remission. She has undergone chemotherapy and a bone marrow trans-plant.
Though her doctors have not concluded that Street is in remission just yet, things are looking up. She got one of only 10 spots in St. Louis for a clinical trial of the cancer-fi ghting drug Velcade.
For two years after the clinical trial, Street had to return to the clinic once every two months. That eventually turned to once every three months, and as of July 8, Street only has to make the trip every four
months. But she still signs all of her e-mails “another day closer.”
Street said seeing how many people turn out to Relay For Life each year to support cancer research and survivors is amazing.
“They do it out of love, and you feel that love when you’re walking that lap and you hear those people cheering you on,” she said.
Cindy Malray, event chairwoman, said it’s about cheering on survi-vors and remembering those who lost their battles with cancer.
The event was originally scheduled for May 13, but was postponed after fl ood-ing struck the area in late April.
Malray said the number of teams was down slightly because of the reschedul-ing, with a total of 45 on site.
Despite rescheduling, the Relay topped its goal of $310,000 before the fes-tivities even began, pull-ing in $312,000 by Friday, Malray said.
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
The Survivors Lap of the McCracken County Relay For Life winds its way in front of the grandstand at Carson Park Friday night in Paducah. It is the traditional opening lap of the all-night event that raises money in the fight against cancer.
RELAY: Event cheers on survivors, remembers those who lost battles with cancer
JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Beverly Cain of Paducah holds hands with her grandson, Jase Gill, 5, also of Paducah, Friday evening as she prepares to re-ceive her medal as a 21-year survivor of breast cancer during the opening ceremony for the McCracken County Relay For Life at Carson Park in Paducah. The ceremony honors survivors for their battle and directly leads into the traditional first lap of the all-night event — the Survivors Lap.
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At the same time, Senate leaders from both parties worked on their own fall-back measure that would allow Obama to raise the debt limit without a prior vote by lawmakers, discus-sions that now have ex-panded to include House offi cials and top White House aides.
That plan was likely to include limits on spending across thousands of gov-ernment programs, and possibly a down payment
on cuts, as well.As part of that proposal, a
panel of lawmakers would recommend cuts in benefi ts programs by the end of the year, with the House and Senate required to vote yes-or-no on the package with-out possibility of changes.
“If they show me a seri-ous plan I’m ready to move,” declared Obama at his sec-ond news conference of the week, even though he said he wanted a far more sweeping deal that might even have raised the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 if
Republicans would increase selected taxes.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said, “Now the debate will move from a room in the White House to the House and Senate fl oors,” an in-dication that the daily closed-door negotiations on Obama’s home ground were a thing of the past.
The House Republican rank and fi le were advised in a GOP meeting that, barring
action by Congress, the gov-ernment would be able to pay only about half its bills after Aug. 2, and separately that a default could cost the government trillions of dol-lars in the form of higher in-terest rates on the debt.
“No matter what 50 per-cent you choose to pay, there are things in that 50 percent you don’t pay that would have really severe conse-quences,” Rep. John Camp-bell, R-Calif., said afterward.
DEBT: Senate leaders work on fallback measure to allow Obama to raise debt limit
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — About 20 percent of seniors and people with disabilities who get state-sponsored prescription drug coverage will lose it because of cuts in the Illinois state budget.
State offi cials are sending letters to 43,000 Illinois Cares Rx participants tell-ing them they no will lon-ger qualify Sept. 1. Those who are still enrolled will pay more out of pocket for their prescriptions.
“This is a voluntary, optional state program,” said Mike Claffey, spokes-man for the Department of Healthcare and Family Ser-vices. “Due to the nature of the state’s fi scal problems, we had to look across the board where we can to trim programs.”
All 211,000 enrollees are getting letters to notify them of the changes. About 5,700 already got letters in error, saying they’re not eligible when updated in-come information provided to the state shows they are. The agency is sending new letters, Claffey said.
The changes mean a single person cannot make more than $21,780 a year to qualify. That’s down from $27,610. The base income
for a two-person house-hold went from $36,635 to $29,420.
For those still participat-ing, generic drug co-pays will rise to $5 from $2.50 and brand-name prescrip-tions will cost $15, up from $6.30.
Gov. Pat Quinn originally proposed eliminating the program, according to Da-vid Vinkler, associate direc-tor of AARP Illinois, so the reduced funding is better than no coverage.
“In the end, we’re much gladder to see 160,000 people with the service than seeing them all gone,” Vinkler said.
The state’s total allo-cation for the program dropped by half, from $107 million to $53.7 million.
Budget cuts reduce seniors’ drug benefits
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CHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has told a fed-eral judge he understands he could lose his home if he violates the conditions of his bond.
Blagojevich’s appearance Friday was his first time in court since a jury convicted him of multiple corruption counts last month.
Judge James Zagel warned Blagojevich that he could lose his Chicago home and a condo in Washington if he tried to flee or oth-erwise violated his bond terms.
Zagel set bond at $450,000, which is secured by the two prop-erties.
A defense attorney also revealed that the Blagojeviches are trying to sell their Chicago home. And the defense said that as of Friday, they had filed all the paperwork related to the properties.
Ford using lottery to fill open Louisville jobs
LOUISVILLE — Nearly 17,000 people have submitted applica-tions for jobs at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant, which is in need of about 1,800 workers when the plant reopens in November.
Ford is planning to hold a lottery on Friday to determine who will be considered for the jobs, which pay $15.51 an hour. As of Thursday, the last day to fill out an application, 16,837 people had turned in forms. The Courier-Journal reports lottery winners would undergo further screenings, tests, a background check and inter-views to be considered for the job.
Connie Schnell with the Kentucky Office of Employment & Train-ing says about 4,300 of the applications came in on Thursday.
Soldier sentenced to 20 years in fatal DUI crash
HOPKINSVILLE — A former soldier convicted of murder in a fatal crash in western Kentucky that happened while he was driving drunk has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Ryan Kristoff told Christian Circuit Judge Andrew Self during his sentencing that the death of 73-year-old Norma Cook would bur-den him for the rest of his life. Cook, of Hopkinsville, suffered fatal injuries in the January 2010 crash, which was Kristoff’s first night of leave from serving Afghanistan. Police say Kristoff swerved over the center line on Canton Pike and hit Cook’s car.
Kristoff was convicted by a jury of murder and drunken driving in May. Self sentenced him Wednesday to 20 years in prison.
Cook’s husband, Jack Cook, survived the crash, and is now living in a nursing home.
Appeal planned for man convicted in shooting death
MARION, Ill. — The attorney for a southern Illinois man newly convicted in a fatal shooting says he plans to appeal the verdict based on claims the jury’s impartiality may have been compro-mised.
A Williamson County jury on Thursday convicted Marcus Mar-shall, 31, of Creal Springs in the August 2010 death of LaQuinn Hudson at the victim’s Marion home. Jurors deliberated a little more than two hours before finding Marshall guilty.
Defense attorney Thomas Mansfield insists the jury’s impartial-ity was compromised because one juror was reportedly followed home by someone on the third day of the trial. Mansfield says the possible stalking left jurors scared and nervous, and he believes a mistrial should have been declared.
Marshall faces up to 85 years in prison when sentenced Sept. 9.Associated Press
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A majority in Congress listened to the people. But a majority was not enough.
The U.S. House voted 233-193 this week in favor of the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act of 2011. The bill would have repealed language in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act that raised energy-use standards in a way designed to eliminate cheap incandescent light bulbs.
But the vote fell short of the 284-vote supermajority necessary to pass. The vote was largely along party lines, with Republicans supporting repeal, Democrats opposing it.
The 2007 bill, which remains on the books, is phasing out traditional incandescent light bulbs and replacing them with lights that use less energy.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who thinks his job is not to make sure America has an abundant energy supply but to force Americans to use less of it, said he wanted to “dispel the myth” that the standards ban incandescent bulbs.
It’s not a myth. The law raises the energy standards for manufacturers to a
level traditional incandescent bulbs can’t meet. So it’s true consumers aren’t “forced” to buy the far more expensive alternatives; they could opt for candles and kerosene lanterns.
Chu said, “We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money.”
Is that now the role of government — to save you money by denying you consumer choices? What other everyday choices will Washington take from you?
And what qualifies Congress to control your spending habits? That esteemed body has nearly bankrupted the nation with its irresponsible spending.
Besides, the “savings” is minimal by even the most liberal estimates. The environmental advocacy group National Resources Defense Council said the average American family’s cost for electricity would be reduced only 7 percent, or $85 a year, when the new standards are in place, thanks to longer-lasting, though more expensive, bulbs that burn less energy.
Democrats defended the standards, saying it would reduce energy
consumption. Congressman Bobby Rush of Illinois said the vote shows how the House Republican leadership is “beholden to its extremist elements.”
So allowing American consumers to decide what kind of lights to install in their homes is now an “extremist” view? Democrats in Congress apparently think you are not smart enough to make wise consumer choices, so they have to make them for you.
Michigan Republican Fred Upton, who authored the light bulb provision in 2007, reversed his position this time around. He said, “The public response on this issue is a clear signal that markets, not governments, should be driving technological advancements.”
Exactly. The concept is well understood by the American people but entirely beyond the grasp of Chu and 193 members of Congress.
In 1994, the Republicans took back the House of Representatives for the fi rst time in 40 years. The signifi -cance of that victory is hard for some younger people to appreciate, because we now seem to go through political leaders the way Lady Gaga goes through wardrobe changes. In the old days, it was a given that the House was the Democratic Party’s fi efdom, which is why the Gingrich Revolution was such a tectonic shock. By the spring of 1995, Americans were talking as if we had suddenly adopted a parlia-mentary system with House Speaker Newt Gingrich as the prime minister. Really.
President Clinton was asked at a news conference if he were even relevant anymore. He responded: “The Constitution gives me relevance.” Critics guffawed at fi rst, because it set such a low bar, like raving about potted meat because it complies with the minimal government standards for human consumption. Didn’t the president bring anything else to the table, other than the job description?
But Clinton was right. The presidency matters, period. Soon, Clinton had more going for him. The news con-ference after the Oklahoma City bombing gave him an opening, and the rebounding economy gave him a wind at his back.
In 2010, President Obama’s party suffered from an even worse “shellacking” in the House than Clinton’s had in 1994. Few asked whether Obama was still relevant, in part because the Democrats still held the Sen-ate, but also because we had learned from Clinton that it’s a silly question.
And that’s what is amaz-ing about Obama’s presi-dency right now. It is almost entirely pro forma. Save for a few marginal exceptions (like an overly sympathetic media and the loyalty of Senate Democrats), his place in American politics rests entirely with what the job brings to him and not what he brings to it.
Obama seems incapable of moving public opinion, at least among people who don’t already agree with him. You can tell his handlers have noticed because his talking points have become top-heavy with jargon freshly minted from focus groups: corporate jet owners, “win-ning the future,” raising revenue instead of raising taxes, etc.
Similarly, his shopworn rhetoric has become more desperate. On July 5, he said of the debt-ceiling negotia-tions, “It’s my hope ... that we’ll all leave our political rhetoric at the door.” The next day he insisted that “the debt ceiling should not be ... used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners, for oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of gasoline has gone up so high.”
When Obama says people should drop their political rhetoric, he means everyone else.
The most telling sign that
Obama’s presidency has been shorn of its pretensions to greatness is not rhetori-cal but substantive. Obama began his presidency using his defi cit reduction com-mission as an excuse not to worry about the debt or defi -cit, as he borrowed trillions of dollars more. When the commission released its rec-ommendations, he politely ignored them.
Ever since Obama’s deci-sion to extend the George W. Bush tax cuts until 2013, he’s been pulled in a direction not of his choosing. Amid talk of a second stimulus, he began the year with a budget that increased the defi cit, and it sank without a ripple, voted down 97-0. In April, after the GOP came out with the Ryan plan, Obama offered a new, fake counter-budget in the form of a gaseous speech. And until recently the White House still thought it could get a “clean” debt ceiling hike simply by insisting on it.
The national conversation now is not one he wants to have. “I’d rather be talking about stuff that everyone welcomes, like new pro-grams,” he said at Monday’s news conference. But, “The politics that swept (John Boehner) into the speaker-ship were good for a midterm election. They’re tough for governing.”
But even as Obama has been forced to put aside his understanding of what gov-erning means, Clinton’s point is still valid. When it comes to getting the deal done, it’s very diffi cult to go around the presidency, and it’s very easy for the president to declare victory even after a failure. Obama may not be bring-ing much to the table, but it remains his table — because it came with the offi ce.
WASHINGTON — I’d like to speak up for Michelle Obama’s 1,700-calorie lunch the other day at Shake Shack. ShackBurger, 490 calories. Fries, 470. Chocolate shake, 740.
And, oh yes, the Diet Coke. What woman who’s watched her weight hasn’t incongruously washed down the slice of cheesecake with a diet drink?
I’d like to speak up for the fi rst lady’s meal even though, as luck would have it, I was lunching down the block that day and happened to see the serious-looking guys with earpieces standing outside Shake Shack.
My lunch involved asking for the dressing on the side and eyeing the fried calamari on my companion’s plate the way a grizzly eyes a leaping salmon. Uncharac-teristically, I didn’t pounce.
That word, uncharacteristically, is every-thing you need to know about the differ-
ence between my situation and the fi rst lady’s. She’s in great shape. Have you seen those arms? She doesn’t need to lose an ounce.
As for me, well, I can’t exactly say the same. I can say that, since yet another New Year’s facing the same fl abby old resolution, and even more of the same old fl ab, I’ve lost almost 25 pounds. This is a lot of weight, especially if you’re as short as I am, but I’ve got more to go.
I did it with the help of a program, but the basic theory isn’t magic: Exercise more, eat less, keep track, get support. And — which is the reason I’m sharing this simultaneously embarrassing and gratifying personal information — don’t deprive yourself. Do it slowly, and in moderation.
Everyone needs a little Shake Shack in her life. You can’t diet on lettuce alone, with or without the bal-samic vinaigrette. Well, you can, but it probably won’t last very long.
Which is why there is no contradiction between the fundamental message of the fi rst lady’s anti-obesity
campaign — eat healthy, get moving — and her visit to Shake Shack. Or her earlier outings to Five Guys, the equally calorie-laden burger joint. Or her paean to potatoes on her recent trip to South Africa. “If I picked one favorite, favorite food, it’s french fries,” she said. “OK? It’s french fries. I can’t stop eating them.”
Going to Shake Shack is not a high-handed matter of the fi rst lady proclaim-ing, “Do as I say, not as I eat.” It’s an
illustration that you can eat your cake and stay healthy, too, as long as you don’t have too much of it, too often. And you walk or otherwise exercise it off.
Recently we miraculously managed to survive a week in France, land of the cheese plate at every meal and patisserie on every corner, without gaining weight.
Speaking of we, time out for full disclo-sure: My husband is a grand fromage at an independent agency that works with the fi rst lady on obesity issues. Even fuller disclosure: He’s been hewing to her advice and lost weight too. Not, as we’re quick to say in my house, that he needed to.
Still, as the fi rst lady reportedly once said, “Life would be boring without a burger and fries.”
Indeed. Mrs. Obama, 10 more pounds and I’ll meet you at Shake Shack? Maybe we could split the fries. But I’m going to drink that whole darn shake.
Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961
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DIM BULBSCongress unqualifi edto dictate what we buy
Obama believes rhetoric is his monopoly
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DECATUR, Ill. — Something came between a central Illi-nois couple as they waited to marry — a court order forbid-ding the groom from contact with the bride.
The (Decatur) Herald & Re-view reports that 23-year-old Billy Rutherford was arrested Wednesday for allegedly vio-lating the terms of his bail as he and his fiancée waited outside a Macon County courtroom to get married.
The fiancée had told police in March that Rutherford beat her for an entire day. Ruther-ford was ordered to stay away from her and was arrested later in March for allegedly violating the order.
Rutherford hasn’t entered a plea in either case.
Liberal group threatens to pull Obama support
CHICAGO — A liberal group upset over potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security delivered pledges Friday to President Barack
Obama’s national campaign headquar-ters threat-ening to pull its support.
About a dozen people represent-ing the
Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered what they said were 200,000 pledges from people who will refuse to donate or volunteer for Obama’s re-election cam-paign if he cuts the entitle-ment programs.
“It’s not a question of who they’re going to support for president, they’re going to vote for Barack Obama. It’s a question of where their time and money is going to go,” spokesman T. Neil Sroka said.
Obama has been taking heat from the left over the debt ceiling negotiations, in which he has been willing to target the long-standing programs. His approach is certain to sit better with in-dependent voters, many of whom have told pollsters they want Washington politicians to work together to solve the big problems.
Sroka said the 200,000 people represent more than
$17 million in donations to Obama’s campaign in 2008 and about 2.6 million volun-teer hours.
California may experience
‘Carmageddon’
LOS ANGELES — On- and off-ramps along 10 miles of Interstate 405 are closed for a major construction project on the west side of Los Angeles.
The 53-hour closure that is being called “Carmageddon.”
Heavy equipment has been brought in to demolish a section of a 50-year-old bridge as part of a $1 billion freeway-widening project that is intended to ease traffic in the area.
‘Potter’ sets midnight box office record
LOS ANGELES — Harry Pot-ter still has that magic touch — even before dawn.
“Harry Potter and the Death-ly Hallows: Part 2,” the final film in the successful Warner Bros. boy wizard franchise, conjured up $43.5 million from midnight shows Friday, according to studio estimates.
“Part 2” beat the previous midnight record set last sum-mer by “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” which earned around $30 million for its midnight screenings. It also smashed the midnight opening record for IMAX theaters, making $2 million at 274 theaters with IMAX screens
With the addition of 3-D, “Part 2” could end the fran-chise’s spellbinding 10-year story with a total weekend de-but approaching $150 million, according to Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. That would surpass the $125 million opening last November of the first “Deathly Hallows” installment.
The current record is $158
million set by “The Dark Knight” in 2008.
Melungeons celebrate Appalachian heritage
RALEIGH, N.C. — Tales of Melungeons are packed with mystery and meaning in the Ap-palachian region.
Campfire stories about the dark-skinned mountaineers have long swirled through the hills and hollers, largely depict-ing the Melungeons as secre-tive, lawless, and even threaten-ing to outsiders.
A conference this week may help unravel the mystery of the Melungeons, including DNA results that show that their dark hair and European features likely came from Arabic and Jewish immigrants.
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Associated PressORLANDO, Fla. — When Casey
Anthony is released from jail Sunday, it will probably be in the middle of the night.
If her lawyers are smart, security observers say, they will arrange for several SUVs with tinted windows to pull up to the Orange County Jail. Then they will bundle her into one of them and whisk her away to a safe house, where she will be protected by bodyguards for days, if not weeks.
Online and elsewhere, An-thony has been vilifi ed, many believing she got away with murder. Some have wished the same fate on her that prosecutors say befell her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Anthony’s legal team said Friday it received an emailed death threat with a doctored photo of the 25-year-old woman with a bullet hole through her forehead. The threat was forwarded to au-thorities.
A jury acquitted Anthony last week of murder but found her guilty of lying to law offi cers investigating the disappearance of Caylee in 2008. She was sentenced to four years in prison, but with good behavior and nearly three years already served, she will be out this weekend.
Details of her release are being closely held, and the sheriff’s department is not making the time public be-forehand.
“This will not be a usual re-lease,” jail spokesman Allen Moore said in an email. “Due to the high-profi le nature of this case and intense, emo-tional interest by the public, appropriate measures will be taken to release the indi-vidual into the community in such a manner so as to preserve the safety of the in-dividual and public.”
“She’s like every other resi-dent or citizen here,” Orange County Sheriff Jerry Dem-ings said. “We’re not going to be her personal security. Her attorneys will make appro-priate decisions or prepare for her own security after that.”
She should be let out of jail at “an offbeat time like 3 or 4 in the morning,” said Daniel Meachum, an Atlanta lawyer who has represented football star Michael Vick and actor Wesley Snipes.
Ideally, security experts said, she should go to a safe house. She may have to ar-range backup locations, in case the address is discov-ered.
She probably won’t be going to the home she had shared with her parents be-fore her arrest, in part be-
cause the trial fractured their relationship. Defense attor-ney Jose Baez told jurors that Anthony’s father, George An-thony, molested his daughter and covered up his grand-daughter’s death after Caylee accidentally drowned in the family pool. George Anthony has denied the abuse and cover-up allegations.
“Most of the time you can always go home, but she doesn’t have that option,” Meachum said. “Baez has to have somewhere for her to go for her to get herself to-gether.”
The best thing she can do for her safety is keep a low profi le, said Mark Geragos, a Los Angeles lawyer who has
represented Winona Ryder, Michael Jackson and Nicole Ritchie.
“She needs to lay as low as possible until the next big scandal or trial,” Gera-
gos said. “It’s not time to do a photo spread. It’s not time to sit down with Diane Saw-yer. None of those things. There is no reason to do any of that.”
Observers: Casey Anthony to use safe house
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Local residents and visitors watch Judge Belvin Perry on television during the Casey Anthony sentencing in a cafeteria next to the Or-ange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla., July 7. A court official says Casey Anthony is going to be released from jail Sunday following her conviction for lying to authorities who were investigating the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
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Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Dentis ‘D.K.’ RileyMr. Dentis “D.K.”
“Dentley” Kerr Riley, 89, of Paducah passed away
Tuesday e v e n i n g at his home in Paducah.
He was a mem-ber of Highland C u m -b e r l a n d P r e s b y -t e r i a n
Church, a perpetual mem-ber of the Gold Wing Riders Association and was a Ken-tucky Colonel. He worked and retired from Union Carbide after over 30 years. He was a proud World War II veteran of the Army, serving from September of 1942 to January of 1946.
He is survived by two sons, Rickey Riley and his wife, Barbara of Marion and Monty Riley of Paducah; two daughters, Mona Ri-ley Gish and her husband, Michael of Owensboro and Lana Masse and her hus-band, Robert of Paducah; one brother, William Doy Riley and his wife, Marga-ret of Crittenden County;
seven grandchildren, Den-tis “DJ” Riley, Andrea Mil-ligan, James Riley, Andrew and Erin Gish, Tyler and Taylor Masse; and two great-grandchildren, Ely-see and Tanner Riley, and his faithful companion, Su-sie.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Naomi Riley; his brother, Ollie Darrell Riley; and one grandson, Phillip Riley. Mr. Riley was also preceded in death by his parents, William Hayden and Sarah Kather-ine Kimsey Riley.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the chapel of Boyd Funeral Directors in Salem with the Revs. Joe Butler and Brent Ballowe offi ciating. Burial will follow in White’s Cha-pel Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the chapel of Boyd Fu-neral Directors in Salem.
In lieu of fl owers, me-morial contributions may be made to White’s Chapel Cemetery Fund, c/o Boyd Funeral Directors, P.O. Box 26, Salem, KY 42078. Con-dolences may also be left online at boydfuneraldirec-tors.com.
Riley
Clara Davis TannerClara Davis Tanner, 93
years old, of Paducah, was born November 9, 1917, in
Bardwell and died July 14, 2011, in N a s h -v i l l e , Tenn.
C l a r a was a r e t i r e d t e a c h e r w h o taught at
Heath Elementary, Middle and High School and served as a guidance counselor at Paducah Tilghman High School from 1966 until her retirement in 1982. She was an active member of Palestine United Methodist Church for 65 years, United Methodist Women and was a Daughter of the American Revolution.
Survivors include her two daughters, Janice (Ron) Cowherd of Paducah and Linda Tanner Brown of Nashville; four grandchil-dren, Jon Cowherd and Anne Cowherd, both of
New York City, and Jen-nifer Brown and Caroline Rutland (Todd), both of Nashville; one sister, Katie Lee Terry of Versailles; two great-grandchildren, Linda Gail Rutland and Cara Beth Rutland; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, H. Wallace Tanner Jr.; her parents, John Hardin Davis and Katie Lee Fisher Davis; one sister, and two broth-ers.
Services will be held Mon-day, July 18, 2011, at 1 p.m. at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with the Revs. Kendrick Lewis and Randy Hines offi ciating. Burial will follow in Bar-low Cemetery. The family will receive friends Sunday, July 17, 2011, from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to Palestine United Church, 5105 Me-tropolis Lake Road, West Paducah, KY 42086. You may light a candle or leave a message of sympathy at milnerandorr.com.
Tanner
Robert Dale ElrodCALVERT CITY — Robert
Dale Elrod, 57, of Calvert City passed away at 6:53
p . m . T h u r s -day, July 14, 2011, at Mar-s h a l l C o u n t y Hospital in Ben-ton.
He was the presi-dent of
DK Construction Company and a member of Local 184 for 37 years (2nd genera-tion). He served as a trustee to the Plumber and Steam-fi tters Local 184, a trustee to the Bolt Program and a trustee to the Regional Carpentry District Council. He was also of the Method-ist faith and he was an avid racing, hot rod and rat rod enthusiast as well as a big sports fan.
Surviving are his wife,
Wendy Elrod of Calvert City; one son, Dustin (Me-lissa) Elrod of Gilbertsville; two stepsons, Jeremy Rowe and Matthew Rowe, both of Calvert City; and two grand-children, Ty Elrod and Karli Elrod, both of Gilbertsville.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Darrell “Butch” and Jean Lamon Elrod; his grandparents, A.P. and Valerie Elrod and Maurice E. and Zelphia Lamon; one infant son, Jonathan Darrell Elrod; and his fi rst wife, Tammy Rhena Elrod.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17, 2011, at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with burial to follow at Maple-lawn Park Cemetery. Visita-tion will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 16, 2011, at the funeral home. Expres-sions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to Plumbers and Steamfi tters Local 184 JAC.
Elrod
Eldon DoughertyEldon Dougherty, 78, of
Paducah died Friday at his home.
Arrangements were in-complete at Lindsey Funer-al Home.
Charles Lynn Jr.WELLINGTON, Fla. — Charles
Herbert Lynn Jr., 58, of Wellington, formerly of
Paducah, d i e d Tuesday, July 12, at Mayo Clinic in Jackson-ville, Fla.
H e was born June 13, 1953, in Paducah
to the late Rev. Charles Herbert Lynn Sr. and the Rev. Shirley Gupton Lynn. Charles graduated from Marshall County High School, Murray State Uni-versity and Chase College of Law. He was awarded both Duke of Paducah and Kentucky Colonel. Charles was City Manager for sev-eral cities throughout his career and was granted the ICMA-CM, AICP certifi ca-tion, a prestigious creden-tial awarded to only 35 City Managers in Florida and 238 worldwide. Charles was
also a member of St. Peters United Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Patsy Martin Lynn; two children, Molly Elizabeth Lynn and Michael Thomas Lynn all of Wellington; his mother, the Rev. Shirley Gupton Lynn of Memphis; his brother, Billy Lynn and wife, Beth of Nashville, Tenn.; and numerous niec-es, nephews, cousins and in-laws.
Preceding him in death was his father, the Rev. Charles H. Lynn Sr.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church with Dr. Paul Clayton offi ciating. Burial will follow at Mt. Kenton Cemetery in Lone Oak. Visitation will be held Monday evening from 5-8 p.m. at the Lone Oak Chapel of Milner and Orr Funeral Home and will resume at 12 p.m. Tuesday at the church.
You may leave a message of sympathy or light a me-morial candle at milneran-dorr.com.
Lynn
Rosie BallardFANCY FARM — Rosie
Nell Ballard, 93, of Fan-cy Farm died at 11:40 p.m. Thursday at her residence.
She was a member of St. Jerome Catholic Church and a retired seamstress from Merit Clothing Company.
Mrs. Ballard is sur-vived by one daughter, Daisy Ballard Dowdy of Cuba, Ky.; four sons, Charles and William Bal-lard, both of Paducah, John Ed Ballard of Fan-cy Farm, and Tommy Ballard of Farmington; one brother, Robert Brown of Paducah; one sister, Charlotte Sim-mons of Melber; 16 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; 20 great-great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Martin Ballard; three brothers, and three sisters. Her parents were Shelly and Laura Jack-son Brown.
Services will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Jerome Catholic Church with the Rev. Eric Riley offi ciating. Burial will be in St. Jerome Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. with prayers at 7 p.m. today at Brown Fu-neral Home in Mayfi eld.
Expressions of sympa-thy may be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospi-tal, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105; or to Lourdes Hospice, P.O. Box 7100, Paducah, KY 42002.
Freddie BellLOOGOOTEE, Ind. — Fu-
neral services for Paducah native Freddie Bell, 69, of Loogootee, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 16 at Loogootee United Meth-odist Church, where he was a member. Burial will follow in Goodwill Cem-etery.
Mr. Bell died Tuesday at his home.
Mr. Bell, a veteran of the U.S. Army, retired from NSWC Crane and had also worked at the Martin County Recycling Center.
He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Janice Hosking Bell; one daugh-ter, Rhonda Parker of Loogootee; two sons, Randy Bell and Ryan Bell, both of Loogootee; two brothers, David Bell and Ricky Bell, both of Paducah; three sisters, Anna Lou Crotzer, Mary Ruth Langston and Reni-ta Boone, all of Paducah; and six grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers. His parents were Rex and Dulcie Burns Bell.
Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to the Loo-gootee United Methodist Church Food Pantry.
Brocksmith Funeral Home is in charge of ar-rangements.
Idanell StrongMAYFIELD — Idanell
Strong, 95, of Gilbert, Iowa, formerly of May-fi eld, died Wednesday at Bethany Manor in Story City, Iowa.
She worked as a model, foster parent and nurses aide and was a homemak-er. She was of the Bap-tist faith and a Girl Scout leader.
She is survived by two sons, Robert Reller of Waynesville, Mo., and Clyde Strong Jr. of Gilbert; 14 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Walter Reller and Clyde Strong Sr.; a son, Henry George Reller; her daugh-ter, Diane DiFanzo; two brothers; one sister, and her parents.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Maplewood Cemetery. Byrn Funeral Home is in charge of local arrange-ments. Service were also held at Adams Funeral Home in Ames, Iowa.
Kenneth ParksSMITHLAND — Kenneth
Allen “Kenny” Parks, 69, of Smithland died Thursday.
Mr. Parks was a re-tired farmer and a mem-ber of Ohio Valley Bap-tist Church.
Surviving are two sons, John Parks of Pleasant View, Tenn., and Jim Parks of Smithland; his sister, Patsy Kennedy of Hazel Green, Ala.; six grandchildren, and six nieces and nephews.
His parents were Haskel and Ruby Parks.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Smith Funeral Chapel. Burial will be at Scotts Chapel Cemetery in Livingston County. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.
William ColesMAYFIELD — William B.
“Hebbie” Coles, 85, of May-fi eld died Thursday at St. Frances Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
He was a retired pip-ing superintendent with Santa Fe International, a life member of Plumbers and Pipefi tters Local 184 in Paducah, a member of Mayfi eld Masonic Lodge 369 and the Shriners in Evansville, Ind. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
He is survived by his son, Ronald B. Coles of May-fi eld; four grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his fi rst wife, Bil-lie Jean Coles; his second wife, Christine Coles; one brother, and one sister. His parents were Willard and Berry (Drake) Coles.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today at Spen-ce Chapel Cemetery with the Rev. Billy Sizemore offi ciating. Byrn Funeral Home is in charge of ar-rangements.
Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of donations to the Mayfi eld-Graves County Animal Shelter.
Rosie RaySYMSONIA — Rosie A.
Ray, 88, of Symsonia died Thursday at Calvert City Convalescent Center.
She was a homemaker and member of Sand Hill Baptist Church.
She is survived by her two sons, Thomas Ray of Symsonia and Jerry David Ray Sr. of Golden Pond; her sister, Margaret Em-erson of West Paducah; nine grandchildren, and 26 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob-by Holmes Ray; her son, Jimmy Robert Ray; her daughters, Barbara Ann Coulter and Betty Joyce Ray, and one brother. Her parents were Shelby Bor-ders and Gracie (Burnett) Borders.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sand Hill Bap-tist Church with the Rev. Max Anderson offi ciat-ing. Interment will be at New Sand Hill Cemetery in Graves County. Friends may call after 1 p.m. Sun-day at the church. Collier Funeral Home of Benton is in charge of arrangements.
Tassanilla HopsonMURRAY — Tassanilla
“Tass” Hopson, 88, of Mur-ray died Thursday at his home.
Mr. Hopson retired as a U.S. Air Force pilot. He was a member of Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Murray.
He is survived by his son, Gil Hopson of Murray.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Rose Antionette (Toni); his son, Tass Hopson; two brothers, and two sisters. His parents were Hood and Mellie Wit-ty Hopson.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Imes-Miller Fu-neral Home with the Rev. Gary Vacca offi ciating. Burial will follow in Evans Cemetery. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to The Alzheim-er’s Association Greater Kentucky and Southern Indiana Chapter, Kaden Tower, 6100 Dutchmans Lane, Suite 401, Louisville, KY 42025-3284.
Jessie WarrenDRESDEN, Tenn. — Jessie
Lee Warren of Dresden, formerly of Dukedom, died Thursday at Weak-ley County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
She was of the Baptist faith and had retired as a machine operator for the former Henry I. Siegel clothing company in Ful-ton, Ky.
She is survived by two sons, Ray Warren of Camdenton, Mo., and Jim Warren of Martin; two grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two sisters. Her parents were Claude and Josie (Alderdice) New-ton.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. today at Jackson Fu-neral Home, with burial in New Hope Cemetery near Latham. Friends may call after 10 a.m. to-day at the funeral home.
Online condolences may given at www.horn-beakfuneralchapel.com.
Robert KnightMemorial services
for Robert Leo “Rob” Knight, 50, will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Con-cord United Methodist Church in Paducah.
Mr. Knight died June 28 in Gonzales, Texas. He was a native of Ad-vance, Mo.
He is survived by two daughters, Lyndsey Knight Heath of Hickory and Danielle Knight of Paducah; one son, Dane Knight of Paducah; one brother, Rick C. Knight of Arkansas; one sister, Vicki Kay Shropshire of Paducah; four grand-children; several nieces, nephews and cousins; one uncle, and two aunts.
He was preceded in death by his father, Charles Dwayne Knight; his mother, Betty Sue Davis Knight; his step-mother, Ellen Knight; and his stepbrother, Kenny Knight.
Seydler-Hill Funeral Home in Gonzales is handling arrangements.
Ima OutlandMURRAY — Ima D. Out-
land, 85, of Murray died Friday at Lourdes hospital.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ma-son Outland; three broth-ers, and two sisters. Her parents were Newt and Flora Patterson Schroader.
Mrs. Outland is survived by several nieces and neph-ews.
Graveside services will be at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Murray City Cemetery.
Imes-Miller Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.
Gailon WalkerGailon Walker, 77, of
Paducah died at 12:20 p.m. Friday at Kindred Hospital in Greenwood, Ind.
Arrangements were in-complete at the Lone Oak Chapel of Milner and Orr Funeral Home.
Edward McDanielEdward Junior McDan-
iel, 84, of Paducah died at 4:35 p.m. Thursday.
Arrangements were in-complete at Milner and Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
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LONDON — Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignations of The Wall Street Journal’s publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defi ant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal, offering apologies to the public and the family of a murdered schoolgirl.
The scandal has knocked billions off the value of Mur-doch’s News Corp., scuttled his ambitions to take con-trol of a lucrative satellite TV company, withered his polit-ical power in Britain — and is threatening to destabilize his globe-spanning empire.
The controversy claimed its fi rst Murdoch executive in the United States as Les Hinton, chief executive of the Murdoch-owned Dow Jones & Co. and publisher of the Wall Street Journal, announced he was resign-ing with immediate effect.
Murdoch’s British lieu-tenant, Rebekah Brooks, stepped down earlier Friday.
Hinton, 67, has worked for Murdoch’s News Corp. for 52 years and is one of the media baron’s staunch-est allies. He became head of Dow Jones in December 2007.
He was chairman of Mur-doch’s British newspaper arm during some of the years its staffers are alleged to have hacked cell phones, but testifi ed to a parliamen-tary committee in 2009 that he had seen no evidence abuses had spread beyond a single jailed reporter, Clive Goodman.
Hinton said Friday that “the pain caused to inno-cent people (by hacking) is unimaginable.”
“That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant, and in the cir-cumstances I feel it is prop-er for me to resign from News Corp. and apologize to those hurt by the actions of News of the World,” he said.
Murdoch said he accept-ed Hinton’s resignation with “much sadness.” It capped a diffi cult week for the embattled mogul.
Just a day after asserting that News Corp. had made only “minor mistakes,” Murdoch issued an apology
to run in Britain’s national newspapers for “serious wrongdoing” by the News of the World, which he shut down last week amid alle-gations of large-scale illegal hacking by its staff.
“We are sorry for the se-rious wrongdoing that oc-curred. We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected. We re-gret not acting faster to sort things out,” said the full-page ad, signed by Mur-doch and due to run in Sat-urday’s editions of Britain’s main national newspapers.
Murdoch promised “further concrete steps to resolve these issues and make amends for the dam-age they have caused.”
Murdoch also met the family of murdered school-girl Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked by the News of the World in 2002. The revelation that jour-nalists had accessed her phone in search of scoops infl amed the long-sim-mering scandal about il-legal eavesdropping by the newspaper.
The 80-year-old mogul emerged from the meet-ing at a London hotel to catcalls of “shame on you!”
from hecklers. He said that “as founder of the company I was appalled to fi nd out what had happened and I apologized.”
Dowler family lawyer Mark Lewis said Murdoch appeared humbled and had offered “a heartfelt and what seemed to be a very sincere apology.”
“I don’t think somebody could have held their head in their hands so many times and said that they were sorry,” Lewis said.
Murdoch’s tone was dra-matically different from an interview published Thurs-day in the Wall Street Jour-nal — which is owned by News Corp. — in which he said the company had han-dled the crisis “extremely well in every way possible” and complained he was “getting annoyed” at all the negative headlines.
The crisis claimed an-other senior scalp Friday as Brooks, chief executive of Murdoch’s British newspa-per division, resigned.
The media magnate had defended the 43-year-old Brooks in the face of demands she step down from British politicians — including her friend and
neighbor, Prime Minister David Cameron. After pre-viously refusing to accept her resignation, Murdoch made an abrupt switch as News Corp. struggled but failed to contain the crisis.
Brooks said she was step-ping aside because “my de-sire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate.”
“This is now detract-ing attention from all our honest endeavors to fi x the problems of the past,” she said in an email to staff.
Brooks said she would “concentrate on correcting the distortions and rebut-ting the allegations about my record as a journalist, an editor and executive.”
A new chief executive untainted by the U.K. prob-lems, Tom Mockridge, was installed to replace Brooks at News International, the British arm of Rupert Mur-doch’s global News Corp. Mockridge, a 55-year-old New Zealander, joined News Corp. in 1991 and has been in charge of Sky Italia since 2003.
Dow Jones President Todd Larsen will maintain his title but will temporarily be the top executive there.
Publisher quits in responseto cell phone-hacking scandal
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Rupert Murdoch, attempts to speak to the media after he held a meeting with the parents and sister of murdered school girl Milly Dowler in London on Friday. The lawyer for the Dowler’s family says Mur-doch issued a full and sincere apology for the actions of journalists at his newspaper.
ISTANBUL — The United States and other nations on Friday formally recognized Libya’s main opposition group as the country’s legitimate government until a new interim authority is formed.
The decision, which declared Libyan leader Moammar Gad-hafi’s regime no longer legitimate, will potentially free up cash that the rebels fighting Libyan forces urgently need.
The front lines in the Libyan civil war have largely stagnated since the popular uprising seeking to oust Gadhafi broke out in February. Rebels, backed by NATO’s air force bombings, control much of the country’s east and pockets in the west. But Gadhafi controls the rest from his stronghold in Tripoli, the capital.
Foreign ministers and other representatives of the so-called Contact Group on Libya said in a statement Friday that the “Gadhafi regime no longer has any legitimate authority in Libya.” They said the Libyan strongman and certain members of his family must go.
The group said it would deal with Libya’s main opposition group — the National Transitional Council, or NTC — as “the legitimate governing authority in Libya” until an interim au-thority is in place. In addition to the U.S., the 32-nation Con-tact Group on Libya includes members of NATO, the European Union and the Arab League.
Syrians stage largest protests yet; 17 killed
BEIRUT — Hundreds of thousands of Syrians mounted the largest protests Friday since the uprising began more than four months ago, pouring into areas where the government crackdown has been most intense in a sign that security forces cannot break the revolt.
Syrian authorities fired on the crowds, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 100, activists said.
In a significant show of the uprising’s strength, thousands turned out in the capital, Damascus, which had seen only scattered protests. Until now, much of the dissent against President Bashar Assad has been in impoverished, remote areas.
“This is the heart of the regime,” said David Schenker, director of the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “So I think if these protests (in Damascus) continue and gain strength, it will be the begin-ning of the end of the regime.”
Massive rallies also were reported in areas that have come under military siege since the uprising began in March, with tanks and snipers trying to crush dissent. But the protesters have returned to the streets unbowed, defying the crackdown in a remarkable show of resilience.
Italy approves austerity package to calm investors
ROME — Italy cleared a $99 billion austerity package on Friday to reassure nervous investors that the eurozone’s third-largest economy will not succumb to the debt crisis.
Berlusconi’s government fast-tracked approval of the package measures — initially set for later this summer — and increased their scope after markets plummeted this week on worries over the country’s financial stability.
Italy’s future is crucial to Europe’s hopes of surviving the debt crisis because the country would be far too expensive to bail out.
The lower house of parliament passed the austerity mea-sures by a vote of 314-280, hours after Premier Silvio Berlus-coni’s government survived a confidence vote. The package was approved by the Senate on Thursday.
“Italy is stronger after the approval of these measures even if unknown factors of the economic crisis remain,” Berlusconi was quoted saying by the LaPresse news agency. He pledged economic reforms in the next two years, and urged the oppo-sition to work with the government to achieve them.
To increase their impact, the Senate reduced tax breaks in that period — placing the burden on individuals.
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US, world pressure Gadhafi’s regime