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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

Passengers and visitors walk up the gangway to tour the American Queen steamboat as it was tethered at the foot of Broadway Sun-day. The American Queen and a separately owned vessel, the Queen of the Mississippi, plan to stop in Paducah nearly a dozen times during the late summer and fall.

Reaching skyward above the painted murals of the fl oodwall, the familiar sight of twin fl ared black stacks along the riverfront signaled the return of an Ameri-can classic to the Port of Paducah.

Not only a symbol of the city’s nostalgic river roots, but a po-tential boon to downtown busi-nesses, the steamboat American Queen lowered its gangway at the foot of Broadway Sunday, dis-embarking its fi rst travelers into Paducah since before the ship was retired in 2008.

Purchased and refurbished by the Great American Steamboat Company in 2011, the American Queen recently returned to the water earlier this year and com-peted for the fi rst time in the Great Steamboat Race, fi nishing second.

Making the fi rst of six sched-uled stops to the city this year, American Queen Captain John

Sutton said it’s been too long since a paddle wheel cruised its way down the Ohio River and dropped anchor at the historic

riverfront.“It’s fantastic to be back in all of

these small cities and towns along American’s inland waterways,”

Sutton said.“This community has always

given us 110 percent in its interest and help.”

With the backdrop of a whis-tling calliope, downtown was bustling not only with crew and passengers taking the chance to venture into the city, but many a wide-eyed onlooker fl ocking to-ward the river to view the largest steamboat ever built.

“It’s the history,” said Lisa Mor-ris, of Paducah, explaining what draws people to the river when the massive paddlewheelers drop anchor.

“The craftsmanship is beauti-ful. They don’t make them like that anymore,” Morris said on Sunday afternoon.

“I think that as a community, when the boats are here, it’s how we see ourselves,” said Mary Hammond, Paducah Convention & Visitors Bureau executive di-

Long live the American Queen

BY WILL PINKSTONwpinkston@paducahsun.com

FRANKFORT — The Personnel Board is expected to consider a scathing audit of the Agriculture Department under former Com-missioner Richie Farmer.

The panel on Monday will take its first action on the au-dit, which found evidence that candidates for merit positions were pre-selected, that mon-etary awards were issued with-out input from supervisors and that a merit employee’s responsibilities were removed

without docu-menting the action in a personnel file.

P e r s o n n e l Board Executive Director Mark Sipek reserved comment until the board acts on state Auditor Adam Edelen’s referral of the

report.Edelen also referred results

of the audit to the Internal Rev-enue Service, Attorney General Jack Conway and the Executive Branch Ethics Commission.

Farmer’s attorney, Guthrie True, said he thought an inves-tigation focused on his client would be unlikely.

“I would think most of their in-vestigation would be focused in conjunction with the current ad-ministration in the Department of Agriculture,” True said.

The report by Edelen’s offi ce says the Agriculture Department

under Farmer would sometimes a candidate who was the second or third recommended by the panel and one time hired some-one who wasn’t recommended.

Former personnel director Dani-ta Fentress-Laird told auditors that sometimes the interview panel knew which candidate Farmer wanted hired and so would recom-mend that person fi rst.

Laird also said Farmer would pick employees to receive mon-etary rewards for work excellence and then told her to create a rea-

son for them.Current Agriculture Commis-

sioner James Comer said in a written response to the audit that he has fi red about 20 employees.

“While I have yet to fi ll any of the merit positions that were vacant when I took offi ce, if and when I do fi ll these positions, the appointments will be consis-tent with merit laws and regula-tions and will be chosen from the recommendations made to me by the interview panel,” Comer wrote.

Personnel Board to discuss hefty agriculture auditAssociated Press

Farmer

The fi rst steamboat travel on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers since 2008 was a trial run for the local tourism industry.

“After four hours, I’m all talk-ed out,” said Fowler Black, sales director of the Paducah Con-vention and Visitors Bureau.

That’s how many hours Black narrated bus tours Sun-day through downtown, Lower Town and as far west as the Fisher Mansion on Ninth Street. The tour attendees were some of the 250 passengers who ar-rived in town via the American Queen riverboat.

As the 418-foot-long, six-level vessel sat anchored at the river-front Sunday, business owners and tourism executives tried to capitalize on the visitors and weekend buzz.

“Today was sort of a trial run since it’s a new company,” Black said. The American Queen was recently acquired and refur-bished by the Great American Steamboat Company in Mem-phis, Tenn.

With new company owner-ship came new methods of tours and deals for travelers for free admission to certain Paducah sites.

A large tour bus decked from end-to-end in detailed graph-ics resembling the American Queen followed the boat to Paducah, as it does at every stop, and shuttled visitors on city-wide tours.

“I think Paducah is one of those unexpected surprises for people,” Black said. “They don’t really have much of an expec-tation coming in and then they see historic downtown.”

Laura Schaumburg, the CVB’s marketing assistant, and volunteer Melinda Winchester, also hosted tours and interacted with Sunday’s visitors.

Both said their groups were eager to see the town and were surprised by the stature of downtown.

On their tour buses were folks from all over the country and

Visit was first of many

BY ADAM SHULLashull@paducahsun.com

Please see TRIP | 3APlease see QUEEN | 3A

The American Queen makes grand appearance downtown

WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

Walking through the American Queen’s main gallery on Sunday, Captain John Sutton pauses to talk about the intricate detail placed into recreating the ship’s interior to what would have been standard during the steamboat’s heyday. The American Queen and a separately owned vessel, the Queen of the Mississippi, plan to dock at Paducah nearly a dozen times between the two, during late summer and fall.

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William Murphy, founding director of the University of Ken-

t u c k y ’ s C o l l e g e of En-g i n e e r -ing in Paducah, will step d o w n from his position

effective July 1.To mark the change,

and Murphy’s years of leadership, the sec-ond fl oor hallway of the Crisp Building on the West Kentucky Community & Tech-nical College campus is now called Murphy Hall. UK’s primary engineering classes in Paducah are offered on that fl oor. Murphy will continue to teach at the college as a professor in mechanical engineer-ing. The university is working to appoint his replacement, and hasn’t made a formal an-nouncement about the position.

Murphy joined the UK faculty in 1986. He earned a bachelor’s degree from UK, and master’s and doctorate degrees from Purdue University. An Owens-boro native, Murphy was hired to lead the newly formed local en-gineering program in 1998.

Since its inception in 1997, the UK’s Col-lege of Engineering in Paducah has produced more than 140 gradu-ates.

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Western Baptist Hospital’s “Miracles every day” ad cam-paign received a gold award after it scored above the 95th percen-tile in the 2012 Aster Awards, a competition among nearly 3,000 entries from the U.S., Canada and South America.

Entries from calen-dar year 2011 competed against similar-sized organizations in their category.

The hospital launched the TV ad series in No-vember.

WBH also honored three nurses during Nurses Week, which ran from May 6 to Sat-urday.

Jessica Pierce, R.N., in Maternal Child Ser-vices was selected as the Physician Choice for Outstanding Nurse.

On staff since 2003, Pierce recently moved to labor and delivery af-ter serving as a pulmo-nary/telemetry charge nurse where she was commended for always being available, re-sponding quickly to re-quests.

Jodi Wainscott, R.N., ICU/CCU Clinical Care coordinator was named Nurse of the Year.

Nominations from her peers described Wainscott as well-ed-ucated, compassion-ate, caring and profes-sional.

Shannon Fuller, R.N., with Orthope-dics and Urology, was named Preceptor of the Year.

Co-workers see Full-er as an asset to her unit and described her as effi cient and profes-sional.

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City National Bank in Metropolis, Ill., pro-moted Doris Meadows-

P u c k e t t to assis-tant vice president of pay-m e n t process-ing.

M e a d -o w s -P u c k e t t e a r n e d a bache-

lor’s degree in business administration and information process-ing from Murray State University.

She has worked at CNB for 20 years, 17 of which have had her working in the opera-tions department.

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HARDIN — New Covenant Christian Academy welcomes an increased preschool and pri-mary class next year with a re-newed fervor for its faith-based mission.

Enrollment for next year stands at 25 students, an in-crease of three students from the 2011-2012 school year, said Tara Siress, head of NCCA at 218 Col-lege St. It’s not a huge increase, but for such a small school, Sir-ess said it’s a considerable step. The school employs three full-time teachers and part-time staff for some “specials” class, such as music.

NCCA students attend school fi ve days a week from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students leave early on Wednesdays due to family church activities. Preschoolers let out at lunch time daily. As both a Christian and a classical school, Latin classes begin in fi rst grade with more rigorous courses in third grade.

Siress is pleased with the growth she’s seen since the school opened in 2010. She hopes to add one grade at a time, as needed.

Expanding into high school

grades is part of the long-term plan, she said. Much more plan-ning and resources would be necessary before committing to secondary offerings. Though the school is eager to increase offerings to families interested in a classical Christian educa-tion, Siress said any changes must support the purpose of the school.

“We want children to be

well educated not for the sake of potentially going to college and having a career, though we want them to be prepared,” she said. “Our main goal is to understand the world in which they live, to understand their purpose in this world and also to become leaders for our world and to be infl uencers of others for Christ.”

Kate Mizell, second- and

third-grade teacher, has fi ve students in her class. A Mur-ray State University graduate, Mizell focused on math and computer science in her degree. Because she didn’t have a back-ground in education, Mizell said the learning curve was steep, but she’s developing in her teaching and her faith. NCCA fi lls a niche that other offerings don’t, she said.

“It’s a great in-between state if you’re not certain about home-schooling, but don’t want to send to public school,” she said. “(It’s great) to have a Christian schooling that’s not just public schooling with a Bible class.”

Shelley Crowell chose to en-roll her daughter, Jacey, in the pre-school program because she knew Siress from church.

“I know the teachers here, and the head mistress, really care about kids,” she said. “I wanted my daughter to be cared for as much at school as she was at home.”

Siress is also exploring the op-tion of a home school co-op next school year.

Call Rebecca Feldhaus, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651.

Hardin school keeps Christian goalsBY REBECCA FELDHAUS

rfeldhaus@paducahsun.com

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REBECCA FELDHAUS | The Sun

Pierson Kerrick (right) swings at recess with classmates Caleb Wyatt (center) and Ben Siress at New Covenant Christian Acad-emy. The Hardin-based Christian School is committed to a faith-based mission statement and small classroom learning.

A Paducah woman faces various drug charges after a police investigation Friday, police said.

McCracken County Sheriff’s Department Drug Division detectives received information about possible drug activity at 2925 Adams St. in Paducah, reported Detective Sgt. Jesse Riddle in a news release. After obtaining a warrant, police searched the home at 5:30 p.m. Friday.

Detectives found Kimberly Via, 49, inside the house, as well as drug paraphernalia and mari-juana. Inside Via’s Ford pickup, police found a methamphetamine smoking pipe, a bag of crystal methamphetamine, more marijuana, digital scales and other drug paraphernalia.

Via faces charges of possession of metham-phetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana, Riddle reported.

—Staff report

Police: Paducah woman faces drug charges

A two-vehicle wreck involving a motorcycle in Livingston County sent a Grand Rivers man to the hospital Sunday, police said.

Livingston County Sheriff’s deputies were alerted to the wreck at about 4 p.m. at the intersection of Ky. 453 and West Commerce Avenue, said Deputy Robert Johnson. Denver Edmonds, 20, drove south on Ky. 453 on his Harley Davidson motorcycle when a Ford Taurus, driven by Chelsea Hefflin, 18, of Gilbertsville, attempted to cross the road.

Hefflin’s vehicle hit the right side of the motorcy-cle, throwing Edmonds about 25 feet, Johnson said.

Edmonds was taken to Western Baptist Hospital where he was admitted in fair condition. He didn’t wear a helmet.

—Staff report

Motorcycle wreck injures Grand Rivers man

Officials expect construction equipment and re-placement span of the Eggners Ferry Bridge to be moved as soon as Monday.

Workers spent the better part of Sunday loading the second of two cranes into position on a barge alongside the bridge span at the Eddyville Riverport, said Keith Todd, public information officer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, in a news release.

The first crane was loaded onto the barge Sat-urday evening, but on Sunday crews did not feel they had enough time to load the second crane and transport the equipment and span 30 miles away to Aurora without running out of daylight. The cranes will help hoist the bridge section into place, and will take about a week to disassemble and reassemble.

—Staff report

Workers prepare to move bridge span

Murphy

rector. “These are the fi rst kinds of boats that came through here many years ago when our city was fi rst settled, and it’s such a part of our history.” Steaming along in its journey from Cincinnati to Memphis, Tenn., the American Queen can hold 436 guests with a crew of nearly 150.

Nearing the end of the steamboat’s voyage, Paducah serves as a port of call where all can disem-bark for excursions into the many downtown museums, eateries and businesses, Hammond said.

“It’s so exciting and of course this brings people to town from all over,” Ham-mond said. “We almost be-come tourists in our own community, which is just very fun.” Kelly Hagy and her 3-year-old daughter

Geneva Hagy played the part of local tourists Sun-day afternoon. The Paduca-hans enjoyed a breezy walk along the riverfront with Geneva running in circles, stopping only long enough

to take a glimpse of the gi-ant ship before taking off to run again.

Hagy said she brought her little one to see the American Queen for its his-torical value. “These aren’t

things you see every day,” Hagy said.

The ship will make six return voyages to the riv-erfront toward the end of summer, Sutton said.

Around the same time frame, the Queen of the Mississippi — owned by American Cruise Lines — has scheduled fi ve stops

in the fall, from August through November.

Staff writer Adam Shull contributed to this report.

Call Will Pinkston, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.

WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

Tethered to the shoreline, the American Queen dropped its gangway at the Port of Paducah Sunday for its first visit in several years. The steamboat can ac-commodate upwards of 436 guests durings its voyages

QUEEN

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overseas: California, Ger-many, Pennsylvania, Ari-zona, Florida and Missouri. They came from places as obscure as Nameless, Tex-as, and as familiar as Mem-phis, Tenn.

A steady stream of cars and walkers trickled down to the water’s edge, some drawn in by the sound of the calliope.

The day brought some suggestions for the future, for when the American Queen and the Queen of the Mississippi will stop at Paducah 10 more times through November.

For the next visit, per-haps the CVB will have golf carts or other trans-portation for the elderly and handicapped so those people don’t have to walk up the inclined landing from the boat’s gangway to the fl ood wall. Perhaps the bus tour could also travel along Madison Street to see three newly-renovated and restored homes. The latter was a suggestion from Bob and Terrie Dwyer, who have renovated two homes on the street.

The couple also repre-sented a strong local crowd at the riverfront, a crowd

local businesses may want to remember will be visiting again. “I’m an old Memphis boy,” Bob Dwyer said on the river side of the fl ood wall. “I went to my junior-senior prom on the Delta Queen.” Seeing a paddlewheeler, on its way to Memphis no less, was a fun Sunday afternoon

for the couple.When Vickie Archer, of

Paducah, heard about the American Queen being at the riverfront, she told her friend Lisa Morris they had to go down to the water. “I love the water,” Archer said. “And I like the designs of the old steamboat stacks.”

The next scheduled steamboat visit is a re-turn trip for the American Queen set for noon to 5 p.m. July 1.

Call Adam Shull, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8653 or follow @ad-amshull on Twitter.

ADAM SHULL | The Sun

Lisa Morris, of Paducah, snaps a photo with her cell phone of the American Queen steamboat Sunday at the Paducah riverfront. The six-level steamboat’s ongoing trip from Cincinnati to Memphis, Tenn., marks the first steamboat travel on the Missis-sippi and Ohio rivers since 2008.

TRIPCONTINUED FROM 1A

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A federal judge has dis-missed a large portion of a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 140 southeast Missouri farmers whose land was damaged when Birds Point levee was intentionally breached last year.

On Friday, Judge Nancy B. Firestone of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington granted the government’s motion to dismiss the fi rst two counts of the lawsuit, in which the farmers are seeking mil-lions of dollars from the U.S. government.

The parts Firestone dis-missed involve a “takings claim,” which would re-quire the plaintiffs to show that there would be fre-quent, inevitable fl ooding in the future because of the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-neers decision to destroy

the levee in order to protect homes upriver.

The Southeast Missouri-an reported that the May 2, 2011, breach was only the second time the Corps has activated the 130,000-acre fl oodway that sits in Mis-sissippi and New Madrid counties.

“The fi rst fl ood took place in 1937. Allegations of two fl oods separated by nearly 75 years are not enough to support an in-ference of frequent and inevitably recurring fl ood-ing,” Firestone said in her written opinion.

Cape Girardeau lawyer J. Michael Ponder, who is representing the plaintiffs, said despite Firestone’s ruling, he thinks his clients eventually will get the repa-rations they seek.

“The farmers are not giv-ing up by a long shot,” Pon-der said. “There’s no reason for despair here. This is just

a trimming of the claim.”He said the judge has yet

to consider an amended complaint fi led April 23, which seeks compensa-tion for the government’s failure to pay the plaintiffs for damage caused by sand and gravel deposits, in vio-lation of their easements.

Ponder said the mo-tion, which is a “breach of contract claim,” could get the farmers as much as a takings claim. He said the damage caused by activat-ing the fl oodway was more severe than what was al-lowed under fl owage agree-ments paid to the property owners.

“In truth, the landown-er probably doesn’t care whether his damages get paid under count 1, which is the takings count, or count 2, which is a breach of easements count,” Pon-der said. “Just so long as the damages are paid.”

Still, Ponder said he in-tends to appeal Firestone’s decision. He also hopes the law on government taking will soon be redefi ned by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission against the Corps of Engineers.

The court agreed in April to hear that case, in which the commission has been trying for seven years to get the government to pay for damage it said the corps caused to its Dave Donald-son Black River Wildlife Management Area.

The Court of Federal Claims had awarded $5.78 million to the Arkansas commission, fi nding that the corps destroyed and degraded more than 18 million board feet of timber by deviating from a water-control plan. But a higher court reversed the trial judgment.

Judge dismisses part of lawsuitAssociated Press

Associated Press

Wayne County Clerk Glenda Young (second from right) assists a group of “lease hounds” from Texas as they pore over land records in search of mineral rights holders at the courthouse in Fairfield, Ill. Out-of-staters have descended on counties in southern Illinois to scour through property records, hoping to help lock up land leases that would allow drillers to chase underground, previously inaccessible caches of oil and natural gas in the state.

McLEANSBORO, Ill. — It’s not a festival or the 19th century architecture that’s drawing the late-model cars from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Pennsylvania to the down-town square in this tiny, southern Illinois commu-nity. It’s the musty vault inside the county court-house, where secretive visitors have converged in a hunt for underground riches.

For months, out-of-staters known in the business as “land men” have descended on this 2,900-resident city, lining up to comb through bulky books of yellowed prop-erty records dating to the 1800s. The aim is to fi nd choice parcels in a veri-table land rush tied to the prospect of reaching pre-viously inaccessible oil and natural gas deposits in the region.

They’re a guarded bunch armed with lap-tops and legal pads, refus-ing for competitive rea-sons to reveal who they’re working for. But they confi de they’re painstak-ingly pinpointing owner-ship of rights to a shale formation thousands of feet underground for cli-ents hoping to exploit trendy yet controversial horizontal drilling tech-niques.

“I’ve never seen this

kind of activity,” said Mary Anne Hopfi nger, Hamilton County’s clerk for the past six years.

The suddenly intense in-terest in southern Illinois stems from a belief that the region’s New Albany Shale, a formation of rock roughly 5,000 feet below the surface, contains oil and other liquid hydrocar-bons that are rarer — and far more profi table — than natural gas.

Energy companies have learned in recent years how to tap huge amounts of once-inaccessible oil and gas in the U.S. using a drilling practice called hy-draulic fracturing. Com-monly known as fracking, the technology uses sand and chemical-laced water to blast open shale and create escape routes for oil and gas trapped inside.

Drilling ideas bring land rush to Illinois

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The following editorial appeared in the Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger-Inquirer on May 7:

State Auditor Adam Edelen’s report on former Agriculture Com-missioner Richie Farmer was the knockout blow to a once-promising political career.

In his fi ndings, Edelen described the eight years Farmer led the Ag

offi ce as a “toxic culture of entitle-ment and self-dealing at Kentucky taxpayers’ expense.”

Just as Farmer played the game of basketball so well at the Univer-sity of Kentucky, he used the same charisma and talent to play the vot-ers of this state.

In both of his re-elections, Farmer, a Manchester Republican, enjoyed easy victories.

He then repaid the voters by hosting what the auditors called “an extravagant conference” that cost the taxpayers $96,000, instructing his staff to buy rifl es, rifl e cases, knives, cigar boxes, shopping mall gift cards and watches as gifts for the event.

But Farmer didn’t stop there.“The former commissioner had

state employees on state time take

him hunting and shopping, build a basketball court in his backyard, mow his lawn and even chauffeur his dog,” Edelen said. “These are just some of the documented abuses that ought to outrage every Kentuckian.”

If you recall, we were just given a teaser in November of Farmer’s misdeeds — hiring his girlfriend as his special assistant for $5,000 per month; paying thousands of dollars for hotel rooms that were less than an hour from his home and pur-chasing refrigerators at the taxpay-ers’ expense for his home offi ce.

No doubt Farmer’s success as part of the UK team — nicknamed the “Unforgettables” — afforded him special treatment over the years.

But as a politician, he never learned where the foul line started and ended.

For that sense of entitlement, Farmer is now faced with possible criminal charges and answering to the Executive Branch Ethics Com-mission for misusing tax money and state workers for his own personal gain.

“The responsibility of holding accountable a man I once cheered as a kid is a grim one,” Edelen said. “But the law makes no distinction between icons and the rest of us, and neither do I.”

Farmer may not want to admit it, so we’ll say it for him: Game over! You played us for the last time.

Roman legions? Horrifi c crucifi xions? Sacking dissenters and making examples out of their deaths?

These may sound like some of the grue-some tactics used by military command-ers of the ancient world, but according to Al Armendariz, who, until recently, was regional administrator for the Environ-mental Protection Agency, it’s much more relevant to modern America than we’d care to believe.

Shockingly, these are all tactics Arm-endariz used to describe the EPA’s strate-gies for shutting down local energy plants and making examples out of those who would dare question the draconian edicts of the EPA. We in Kentucky should take somber note of such threats since it is our energy sector that the EPA’s legions have specifi cally targeted for “crucifi xion” — all in the name of extreme environmentalism.

According to Armendariz, those in the current administration were not just whistling Dixie when they stated their goal

to bankrupt all coal-fi red power plants and Appalachia’s energy sector — an industry that directly provides Kentuckians with

more than 70,000 jobs.Kentuckians who

disagree with the unilat-eral mandates handed down by these unelected bureaucrats in Washing-ton D.C. could likely be made an example out of, or worse.

“It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediter-

ranean,” Armendariz said. “They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d fi nd the fi rst fi ve guys they saw, and they’d crucify them. And then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”

The merciless general went on to reveal more of his heavy-handed plans: “you make examples out of people who are, in this case, not complying with the law …

and you hit them as hard as you can.” This will act as a “deterrent” to others.

If this out-of-control agency has its way in Kentucky, it’s not just going to be the fi rst fi ve guys the EPA sees that get nailed to a cross. It’s going to be all 4.4 million of us who rely on Kentucky coal for some of the cheapest energy rates in the country — rates that attract businesses and desper-ately needed jobs from industries as varied as aluminum, steel and automotive.

What a David and Goliath story this has turned out to be.

We’ve suspected for some time that those at the EPA would use any terrible tactic available in their arsenal of federal fi repower — funded by our tax dollars, mind you — to force their warped vi-sion of the future of energy on individual states. But Armendariz’s comments make painfully clear the sort of imperial forces Kentucky must overcome in order to prac-tice its sovereign right to regulate its own energy sector for the benefi t of us all.

Still, Armendariz and the rest of the EPA should remember this: the Roman Empire

did indeed collapse, and some of those pesky dissenters nailed to the cross in territories the Romans ruled as their own didn’t go so easily into the next life, forgot-ten and powerless.

And just as the ancient Romans couldn’t use their treacherous powers to subvert the deeply held beliefs of local popula-tions, denizens of the Bluegrass State are not lying idly. Kentuckians are anything but intimidated. We won’t be made an example out of.

On June 5 and 7, the generals of EPA’s legions will dare to step inside the borders of the commonwealth for public hearings in Frankfort and Pikeville, respectively.

I hope enough of my fellow Kentuckians show up at these meetings to turn back the EPA’s legions, making an example of our own out of a government agency that threatens the very way of life for an entire region of the country.

Jim Waters is president of the Blue-grass Institute, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Reach him at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com.

“They made me feel so small.”

Bea does my nails. I found her because she works seven days a week until 8 at night.

She sits at the front table, which in the world of Viet-namese nail salons means the money is in her drawer, and she’s the one who makes sure everyone gets their fair share of business.

Until last Saturday night, though, I didn’t know she owned the place.

I came running in way after 7, my nails black from clean-ing my suede shoes for a trip the next morning to New York without wearing gloves. Dumb as a doorknob.

When I walked in, near closing, black nails, Saturday night, Bea looked at me like I was God’s gift. I tip well — but not that well.

She was almost done, and the place was almost empty except for the other workers, who had gathered around me, no doubt because the message had been spread in Vietnam-ese: Look who’s here, what luck. You’re a lawyer, Bea said. She knows I’m a lawyer. What kind of lawyer? I represent big companies in the biggest fi ghts they have: when the farm is on fi re.

Can I ask you just one ques-tion, she said, just a small question.

My father was what we call a solo (a sole practitioner) in Lynn, Mass. He never made a dime. On the day he had the heart attack that killed him, 35 years ago, he was walking back from the courthouse where he successfully had helped grand-parents keep their beloved grandchild from being taken to foster care. No retainer. No fee.

I don’t do those cases, ex-cept when I do. I worked from

the time I was 14, worked my way through college, bartend-ed my way through law school. The big cases are paying my kids’ tuitions. The little cases are my way of honoring my father. I can help a person like Bea feel a little bit bigger. I write a letter. Make a call. Give them a voice, mine. Win or lose, it’s about dignity. Right now, I have my hairdresser and my secretary.

And Bea.A fancy white lady walked

in with a little dog hidden in a carrier. No dogs allowed in the manicure shop.

OK, there are three Estrich dogs. If I could, they’d be sit-ting next to me on this plane. So fi ne.

Except the woman didn’t keep the dog in the carrier. She let the dog out, and the dog bit a pregnant manicurist. And the woman who was bit screamed, and Bea jumped up, and the customer started huff-ing out of the salon, claiming she had no ID and had to leave right then, and Bea took hold of the dog’s leash and called the police.

The right thing to do? Of course.

Except when the police came, they treated Bea like the criminal. The customer said Bea had pushed and shoved her. Hit her. The police told Bea that she was subject to ar-rest, that they could handcuff her and take her to the police station and lock her up. Bea

said, “But I have witnesses.” The police offi cer (yes, the white police offi cer) walked over to the next station, to a woman who speaks broken English, and started battering her with questions. She got fl ustered. She couldn’t answer. As she told me later, the of-fi cer announced that if your witnesses can’t speak English, they don’t count.

At that point, some of the customers stood up. They offered their names and their testimony. The police offi cers went back to focusing on the woman whose dog had bitten the pregnant woman. Even-tually, the customer left, the pregnant woman went to the hospital, and Bea sat there shaking for the next six hours until I got there, when she fi nally broke down.

In every city and town, there are police offi cers who respect the dignity of every citizen, who put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe. And then there are the ones who make hardworking Americans feel like powerless criminals, turn them from people striv-ing for the American dream into people who are small and scared.

Shame. Shame.Everybody hates lawyers

until they need one. We don’t just fi ght for the big guys. We stand between the Beas of the world and the people who, without us, would abuse their power with impunity. We do our best to make the rule of law mean something. We are the priests in the temple of our civic religion. In the rush to fi nd jobs and pay debts, I try to remind my students of this. And myself.

What do I do if the police come after me, Bea asked, still shaking. I gave her my card. Tell them to call your lawyer.

Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961

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Kentucky coal targeted for crucifixion by EPA

Waters

BY JIM WATERSThe Bluegrass Institute

Farmer

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paducahsun.com Nation The Paducah Sun • Monday, May 14, 2012 • 5A

WASHINGTON — By the time the late-night argument ended, Jacqi Galles had been hoisted off the ground in a tight stranglehold and choked so vigorously that she says she nearly passed out. She fl ed her home and called the police on her then-boy-friend, who was charged with a misdemeanor and spared a prison sentence after pleading guilty.

Moved by that case and others like it, South Dakota this year joined a growing list of states that have made non-fatal choking a felony crime, which is more serious and carries a stiffer penalty. Anti-domestic violence groups leading the effort say the laws are intended to not only secure tougher punishments for domestic abusers but also to pro-mote awareness of a crime they say often precedes homicide — yet is chroni-cally under-prosecuted.

“For decades, we’ve simply lumped it into as-sault or battery or caus-ing injury to another,” said Scott Burns, execu-tive director of the Na-tional District Attorneys Association. “But there’s a heightened awareness that this is something dif-ferent. This is far more serious.”

Attempted strangula-tion cases have long vexed police and prosecutors

seeking stiff penalties for attacks. The act can leave victims close to death, but unlike blows that produce a black eye or broken nose, it generally leaves few, if any, external signs of injury needed to prove a felony as-sault charge. An attempted murder charge is also hard to sustain in cases where suspects intend to frighten rather than kill. As a result, advocates say, suffocation cases have historically been handled as misdemeanors that don’t refl ect the act’s severity or carry meaningful punishment.

About 30 states have passed laws, most in the past decade, making it a felony under certain condi-tions to knowingly impede someone’s breathing. Iowa, South Dakota, California and Tennessee are among recent states to act, and Vir-ginia’s governor signed a law last week. A New York law that took effect in 2010 added three classifi cations, from a misdemeanor re-quiring no proof of injury to a Class “C’’ felony, and yield-ed more than 11,000 charg-es in its fi rst 14 months, according to the offi ce on Domestic Violence Preven-tion.

The laws, part of a multi-pronged effort to draw at-tention to strangulation at-tempts, come as advocates train police on identifying the more nuanced signs — including a raspy voice, bloodshot eyes and involun-tary urination.

States cracking down on strangulation cases

BY ERIC TUCKERAssociated Press

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-strug-gling Chevy plant endures. It is a place fi lled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many here see as their savior.

The Mahoning Valley is, without question, Barack Obama country. And native Andre Allie is very much a Barack Obama man: An Af-rican-American who “went with history” by voting for him in 2008. A retired auto worker who made air-bag parts. A lifelong Democrat and union member whose wife, brothers, aunt, cousins are all Democrats and union folks, too.

But Allie is also a deeply religious man, an elder dea-con at his Baptist church who quotes from the Bible with ease. And he fervently op-poses what the president last week decided to publicly sup-port. “It’s wrong. Period. It’s just wrong,” Allie, 54, says of the latest issue to push to the front of the presidential cam-paign.

Obama’s declaration in

support of gay marriage was undoubtedly a milestone in American politics and cul-ture. But six months from an election that will decide whether the president keeps his job, a question hovers over the moment: Was it, somehow, a game-changer?

In three very different re-gions of a state where the election could be won or lost, voters themselves have been considering that. And their

refl ections reveal something far more pragmatic than an electorate that shifts its views because of the headline of the day, no matter how historic.

Allie is but one example, a voter as adamant in his op-position to same-sex mar-riage as he is in his support — still — of Obama. In his words: “The world is bigger than gay marriage.”

And yet something has sprung from the dialogue the

president’s words compelled. It may be far more subtle than a changed mind or a changed vote, but it is there all the same.

Among Democrats hun-gering for inspiration from the man who instilled hope four years ago, you hear talk of newfound respect for a candidate they supported, before this, only halfheart-edly. The word “courage” comes up again and again.

How will gay marriage effect voters?BY PAULINE ARRILLAGA

Associated Press

Associated Press

Matt Bins-Castronovo gives his views on President Barack Obama’s declaration in support of gay marriage, in Youngstown, Ohio. Castronovo, a worker’s compensation lawyer, completely agrees with the president’s position but was annoyed by his tim-ing, calling it “a silly thing to do at this point.”

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ORDINANCESDetailed copies of the following ordinances adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah on May 8, 2012, are on fi le and may be obtained upon request at the offi ce of the City Clerk, City Hall, 300 South 5th Street, Paducah, Kentucky.

----“AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH THE PADUCAH-MCCRACKEN COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU FOR SPECIFIC SERVICES.” This ordinance is summarized as follows: That the Mayor is hereby authorized to execute a contract with the Paducah-McCracken County Convention and Visitors Bureau in the amount of $25,000 as a match for a state tourism grant and to be used for marketing and promoting events and venues related to the American Quilters Society Show. This contract shall expire June 30, 2012.

----“AN ORDINANCE APPROVING ADDENDUM 1- CONCESSION AND SPRAY PAD TO THE AGREEMENT WITH FLORENCE & HUTCHESON, INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE NOBLE PARK POOL RENOVATION PROJECT AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE ADDENDUM 1.” This ordinance is summarized as follows: That the City of Paducah hereby approves Addendum 1-Concession and Spray Pad with Florence & Hutcheson, Inc., in the amount of $44,500.00 for additional professional engineering services for the Noble Park Pool Renovation Project, increasing the total contract amount to $143,200.00 and authorize the Mayor to execute the approved Addendum 1 with Florence & Hutcheson, Inc..

----AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, APPROVING AN AMENDED AND RESTATED MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BY AND AMONG THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND HIGDON DEVELOPMENT, INC., AND GREENWAY VILLAGE, LLC, WITH RESPECT TO THE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF VACANT PROPERTY WITHIN THE CORPORATE BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH; AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF VARIOUS DOCUMENTS RELATED TO SUCH MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.” This ordinance is summarized as follows: This Ordinance authorizes the City of Paducah, Kentucky to approve an Amended and Restated Memorandum of Understanding by and among the City of Paducah, Kentucky, Higdon Development, Inc., and its affi liate, Greenway Village, LLC, which outlines the terms of the development of a multi-family residential development upon real property owned by the Developers and generally bounded by County Park Road, Stuart Nelson Park Road and Stuart Nelson Park, in the city of Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky. The Ordinance approves the form of the Amended and Restated MOU presented to the Board of Commissioners of the City, with such changes therein as shall not be adverse to the City and may be approved by the Mayor and City Clerk.

----“AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 126-76 (l), SIGNS AUTHORIZED FOR POP ZONE OF CHAPTER 126, ZONING OF THE PADUCAH CODE OF ORDINANCES.” This ordinance is summarized as follows: That Article III, General Regulations, Section 126-76(l), Signs Authorized for POP Zone, of Chapter 126, Zoning of the Paducah Code of Ordinances is hereby amended to allow electronic message signs in the Planned Offi ce Park Zone.

----“AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING THE BID OF BLUEGRASS FIRE EQUIPMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF FIRE STRUCTURAL TURN OUT GEAR, FOR USE BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT FOR SAME.” This ordinance is summarized as follows: Authorizing and directing the Mayor to execute a contract with Bluegrass Fire Equipment in the amount of $16,320.00, for fi re structural turn out gear for use by the Fire Department.

----“AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING THE BID OF BLUEGRASS UNIFORMS INC., FOR THE PURCHASE OF UNIFORMS FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES, AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT FOR SAME.” This ordinance is summarized as follows: The City of Paducah accepts the bid of Bluegrass Uniforms Inc., for the Fire Department uniform unit prices contained in the bid dated April 10, 2012, for a period of two years beginning upon execution of the contract, and authorizing the Mayor to execute said contract. Further, the contract may be renewable for an additional two-year term.

----“AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING AN EXTENSION OF TIME GRANTED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR THE 2009 COPS HIRING RECOVERY PROGRAM GRANT AWARD #2009RKWX0377.” This ordinance is summarized as follows: The City of Paducah hereby accepts the extension of time granted by the U.S. Department of Justice, Offi ce of Community Oriented Policing Services for the 2009 COPS Hiring Recovery Program Grant Award (#2009RKWX0377) for the hiring of three police offi cers for three years. The new end date is December 31, 2013.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ron Luce didn’t rec-ognize the voice of the woman who phoned Fri-day to say his daughter Hannah was with her, and was fi ne.

Her words didn’t make any sense to the Texas minister and founder of a Christian organiza-tion that reaches out to troubled youths. How could Hannah be with this woman when she was on a plane, headed to a Christian youth rally in Iowa?

“The way I discovered about my daughter and the plane accident was probably the most un-scripted way you could imagine,” Luce said Sun-day during a news con-ference at University of Kansas Hospital, where his 22-year-old daughter was in serious condition with burns over 28 per-cent of her body. “I asked (the woman), ‘Where’s the plane?’ She said it’s off in the distance, and

there are f l a m e s , t h e r e ’ s smoke.”

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twin-engine Cessna 401 crashed Friday afternoon northwest of Chanute. Three died at the scene, and a fourth, who Luce said helped his daughter walk from the wreckage to a nearby road, died early Sat-urday morning at a hospital in Wichita.

All fi ve were on their way from Tulsa, Okla., to an Ac-quire the Fire rally in Coun-cil Bluffs, Iowa. It was the last of 33 such events this year held across the U.S. by Teen Mania Ministries, which Luce said he cre-ated 25 years ago to reach out to troubled youths. The ministry is based in Garden Valley, Texas, where the Luce family lives.

Father of Kansas plane crash survivor speaks

BY BILL DRAPERAssociated Press

NEW YORK — Don’t let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO.

Facebook’s chief execu-tive turns 28 today, setting in motion the social net-work’s biggest week ever. The company is expected to start selling stock to the public for the fi rst time and begin trading on the Nas-daq Stock Market on Fri-

day. The IPO could value Facebook at nearly $100 billion, making it worth more than such iconic com-panies as Disney, Ford and Kraft Foods.

At 28, Zuckerberg is ex-actly half the age of the average S&P 500 CEO, according to executive search fi rm Spencer Stu-art. With eight years on the job, he’s logged more time as leader than the av-erage CEO, whose tenure

is a little more than seven years, according to Spencer Stuart. Even so, the pres-sures of running a public company will undoubtedly take some getting used to. Once Facebook begins sell-ing stock, Zuckerberg will be expected to please a host of new stakeholders, in-cluding Wall Street invest-ment fi rms, hedge funds and pension funds who will pressure him to keep the company growing.

IPO could be huge gift for Zuckerberg Associated Press

NEW YORK — For years, Gac Filipaj mopped fl oors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia Univer-sity.

A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sun-day was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in classics.

As a Columbia employee, he didn’t have to pay for the classes he took. His favor-ite subject was the Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca, the janitor said dur-ing a break from his work at Lerner Hall, the student union building he cleans.

“I love Seneca’s letters be-cause they’re written in the spirit in which I was edu-cated in my family — not to look for fame and fortune, but to have a simple, hon-est, honorable life,” he said.

His graduation with hon-ors capped a dozen years of studies, including readings in ancient Latin and Greek.

“This is a man with great pride, whether he’s doing

custodial work or academ-ics,” said Peter Awn, dean of Columbia’s School of Gen-eral Studies and professor of Islamic studies. “He is im-mensely humble and grate-ful, but he’s one individual who makes his own future.”

Filipaj was accepted at Columbia after fi rst learn-ing English; his mother tongue is Albanian.

For Filipaj, the degree comes after years of study-ing late into the night in his Bronx apartment, where

he’d open his books after a 2:30-11 p.m. shift as a “heavy cleaner” — his job title. Before exam time or to fi nish a paper, he’d pull all-nighters, then go to class in the morning and then to work.

School janitor graduates with honorsBY VERENA DOBNIK

Associated Press

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Gac Filipaj smiles as he is congratulated during the Columbia University School of General Studies graduation ceremony on Sunday in New York. Filipaj, an ethnic Alba-nian who left his native Montenegro 20 years ago to escape war, is graduating with honors after 12 years of balancing studies and his full-time job.

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METROPOLIS, Ill. — Rev. William D. (Don) Ander-son was born on January

19, 1924, to Henry Lee and I s a b e l l e Anderson. He left this life for a bet-ter one at 2:56 p.m., Saturday, May 12, 2012, sur-r o u n d e d

by the family he loved and who love him still.

At his request, a private, family visitation will be held. Graveside services will be conducted Tues-day, May 15, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. at the IOOF Cemetery. His dear friend, Bro. Kevin Richerson, will offi ciate.

Pallbearers will be Chance Clanahan, Chase Clanahan, Larry Clanahan, Billy Comer, Kevin Comer, and Keith Kossow.

In lieu of fl owers, contri-butions may be made to An-tioch Baptist Church, 305 Rosebud Road, Golconda, IL 62938 or IOOF Cem-etery, c/o Wilma Flemister, 719 A East Fifth Street, Me-tropolis, IL 62960.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Mary Beth; his par-ents; one sister, Mary Alice Haer, and four brothers, John D., Dale, Harry, and Robert Anderson.

Survivors include three daughters, Karen Lee (Bil-ly) Comer and Donna Sue (Keith) Kossow of Metrop-olis and Beth Ann (Larry) Clanahan of Brownfi eld, IL.; fi ve grandchildren, Chance (Kacey) Clanahan of Metropolis, Chase Cla-nahan of Washington, D.C., Kevin Comer, Kim Comer Jackson, and Brian (Pam) Comer of Metropolis; two great-grandchildren, Ben (Tiffany) Comer of Clarks-ville, TN. and Bradley Com-er of Metropolis; one great-great-grandchild, Liam Comer of Clarksville, TN., several nieces and nephews and his faithful companion, his dog Fuji. He also leaves behind his church family at Antioch Baptist Church that he loved so dearly as well as very special care-givers Christina Faulkner, Pam Fletcher, Yevette Brown, Geneva Eppinger, and Janica Konemann.

Don was extremely proud to have served his coun-try in the Army Air Corps, serving with the 15th Air Force stationed in Cheri-nola, Italy. He served as a Flight Engineer on a B-24 crew, fl ying 52 missions, 35 sorties, including 7 trips over Vienna, Austria.

For the past several years, Don enjoyed traveling to Dayton, Ohio each May to reunite with the surviving crew members of “Capes Crew”.

He was a charter mem-ber of the Friends of the IOOF Cemetery and had served as President.

Brother Don, as he was affectionately called, would often recount the day he was saved on January 18, 1942, in the basement of the old First Baptist Church at 6th & Girard Streets in Metropolis. He would tell you that those in atten-dance were Dr. Ira C. Cole, who was conducting a re-vival at the time, Clarence Holt and Curry Simpson. He would also tell you that on that (Saturday) night, kneeling beside an old wooden chair, his life was forever changed.

A short time later he felt the call to preach and began a journey into the gospel ministry, with his wife, Mary by his side. A ministry that would span over 64 years. He preached his fi rst sermon on May 17, 1947, at Waldo Baptist Church. They would even-tually serve 6 churches, Waldo Baptist Church, Macedonia Baptist Church, Joppa Baptist Church (or-ganizing the church with Rev. C.W. McHaney in 1955), New Hope Baptist Church, Brownfi eld Baptist Church, and Antioch Bap-tist Church, where he was serving as Pastor when he suffered a stroke on July 1, 2011. At each church they served, they were blessed. Blessed as a couple who started on this journey in this ministry together, not knowing what it would bring, but trusting God that they were in His will and believing they were follow-ing the plan He had for their lives. Until her passing, in 2003, they served together raising their three girls to know and love the Lord!

When Mary passed away, his life changed while his children and grandchildren continued to surround him, he was without his wife by his side. But even in his sor-row he rejoiced in knowing that she was already ex-periencing what they had talked about so many times through their years togeth-er, she was in the presence of Almighty God. While Don’s steps slowed, he con-tinued preaching until the early morning hours of July 1, 2011, when he suffered a stroke.

At the time of his stroke, he was the oldest active Pas-tor in the state of Illinois.

Don loved and promoted gospel music in Metropolis

and the surrounding areas for many years.

He was the last surviv-ing member of the original Metropolis Labor Day Cel-ebration Committee and was the founder of the an-nual Labor Day Lions Club Gospel Singing. He was an avid CUBS fan and always believed there was “next year”!!

He and his wife, Mary, traveled for nine years with their daughter, The Ander-son Sisters/Sweet Dedi-cation as they performed across the region.

He was always a bi-vo-cational pastor and was employed by Bonifi eld Brothers Truckline as Dock Foreman for eighteen years. He served as Assis-tant Street Commissioner and HUD director for the city of Metropolis, and was instrumental in bringing the Laidlaw Corporation to Metropolis and secur-ing the land that is now the Metropolis Sports Park.

His true love and his life calling was the church and he was blessed with a pas-tor’s heart. He often said you can tell the strength of a loving church family by how long they linger fol-lowing worship services to visit.

He loved visiting with his church family and he looked forward to church potluck. He enjoyed the food but the fellowship with the church family was what he truly loved!

Don fervently believed that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. And so on Sat-urday at 2:56 p.m., he re-alized that promise. As he told his Antioch congrega-tion so many times, “at that moment that my eyes close and you hear I have left this world, don’t let anybody tell you I died, I did not die, my body, yes, but my soul will be forever alive!” And so he is alive today, living in the presence of Jesus and reunited with his pre-cious wife and family who were waiting to greet him. What a meeting that must have been!

If he could speak to those of us left behind today, those of us who knew him best believe he would have quoted the words that he used so many times in ser-vices he conducted, “do not weep for me, for I have traveled a road we all must travel, I have crossed a river we all must cross, and I rest in the arms of an al-mighty, omnipresent God; and so I say, till then, dear friend, till then.”

Miller Funeral Home in Metropolis is in charge of arrangements.

William AndersonBENTON — Mr. Steve

Alan Willett, age 60, of Benton, KY., died Friday, May 11, 2012, at his home in Benton, KY.

Born April 19, 1952, in Mayfi eld, KY., he worked in the maintenance de-partment for West Ken-tucky Community and Technical College in Paducah. He was a mem-ber of St. Pius X Catholic Church in Calvert City, KY.

He was the son of the late James Leon Willett and Dorothy “Dot” Louise (Carrico) Willett of Ben-ton, KY. He is also sur-vived by a special friend, Debra J. Moubray of Paducah, KY.; two sisters, Marilyn Derington of Ben-ton, KY. and Ellen Erwin of Benton, KY.; one neph-ew, Craig Hanley of Cal-houn, GA.; three nieces, Brandi Campbell of Her-rin, IL., Emily Erwin of

Louisville, KY., and Amy Erwin of Murray.

He was preceded in death by his father, James Leon Willett.

Arrangements are be-ing handled by Collier Fu-neral Home, P.O. Box 492, Benton, KY.

Private family prayers will be said by Father An-toni Ottagan.

Friends may visit with the family between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at the Collier Funeral Home in Benton, KY.

The family asks that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Bren-da McClaran, 510 West 9th St., Benton, KY. 42025 or to the American Heart Association, Louisville Chapter, 240 Whitting-ton Pkwy., Louisville, KY. 40222

Steve Willett

PRINCETON — Glen Ringstaff, 53, of Princeton died Saturday at his home.

He was retired from Caldwell County High School as principal and a member of First Baptist Church of Princeton.

He is survived by his wife, Tammy Lax Ringstaff; two sons, Tanner Ringstaff and Alexander Ringstaff, both of Princeton; and two brothers, Ricky Ringstaff of Ledbetter, and Scott Ring-staff of Burna.

His parents were Roy Glen Ringstaff Sr. and Toni Bell Glass Ringstaff.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Commu-nity Activities Building on the Caldwell County High School campus in Princ-eton with burial to follow in Beech Grove Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4-9 p.m. Tuesday at First Bap-tist Church in Princeton.

Glen Ringstaff

MURRAY — Jean Mitch-ell, 82, of Murray died Sat-urday at her home.

She was a homemaker and member of Locust Grove Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, James “Cliff” Mitchell; one daughter, Karla K. Noffsinger of No-lensville, Tenn.; one son, Glenn T. Mitchell of Mur-ray; sister, Hoyland Jones of Murray; and four grand-children, Jessica Mitchell of Paducah, Adam and Allison Noffsinger, both of Nolens-ville, Tenn.; and Brandon Meadows of Memphis.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, John Frank, and Vernon Taylor. Her parents were Tandy Conrad and Willie Ann Marr Taylor.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with Rev. Hal Shipley offi -ciating. Burial will follow in Murray Memorial Gardens.

Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Monday at the fu-neral home.

Jean Mitchell

MAYFIELD — Chris-tine Hughes Roach, 86, of Mayfi eld died at 10:35 a.m. Saturday at Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfi eld.

She was a former em-ployee of Merit Clothing Company and Mary Nell Industries.

She is survived by two daughters, Oma Lou Tidwell of Murray and Kay Wallace of Mayfi eld; one son, Richard Reed of May-fi eld; eight grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchil-dren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Roach; one daugh-ter, Brenda Joyce Hughe-sone; one brother; and one grandson. Her parents were Elbridge and Leoma Jones Hughes.

Services will be con-ducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfi eld with Rev. Chad Lamb offi ciating. Burial will follow in Robbins Cemetery.

Friends may call from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Christine Roach

GILBERTSVILLE — Mi-chael Allcock, 52, of Gil-bertsville died Wednesday at his residence.

Arrangements were in-complete at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Bardwell.

Michael Allcock

KIRKSEY — Imogene Drinkard Palmer, 86, of Kirksey died at 12:41 a.m. Sunday at her home.

Arrangements were in-complete at Blalock-Cole-man & York Funeral Home.

Imogene Palmer

Elnora Harp Green, 89, of Paducah died Saturday at Parkview Nursing and Re-

h a b i l i t a -tion Cen-ter.

She was a mem-ber of Broadway U n i t e d Methodist Church.

She is s u r v i v e d by one son, Ron-

nie Green of Pelham, Ala.; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three nieces; and fi ve nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Glen Green; one sister; six broth-ers; two nephews; and one niece. Her parents were Louis and Maggie Johnson Harp.

Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens in Car-thage, Tenn. There will be no local services.

Smith Funeral Chapel of Smithland is in charge of arrangements.

Elnora GreenVIENNA, Ill. — B. Jo

Burns, 64, of Vienna died at 7:40 a.m. Saturday at

Hillview H e a l t h C a r e Center in Vienna.

S h e was em-p l o y e d by the Johnson C o u n t y Housing

Author i -ty, served

as the public housing manager, was a devoted member of Vienna First Baptist Church and taught for more than 25 years in the church youth depart-ment.

She is survived by her three daughters, Tricia Shelton of Goreville, Ill., Trina Harner of Tunnel Hill, Ill., and Tammy Weis of Omaha, Neb..; sister, Nicki Holloman of Vien-na; and six grandchildren.Her parents were J.T. “Tommy” and Loreva (Love) Turner.

Services will be con-ducted at 7 p.m. Wednes-day at Vienna First Bap-tist Church.

Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at the church.

A private committal ser-vice will be held at Vienna Fraternal Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Vienna First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 727, Vi-enna, IL. 62995 or to the National Ataxia Foun-dation, 2600 Fernbrook Lane, Suite 119, Minne-apolis, MN. 55447.

Bailey Funeral Home in Vienna is in charge of ar-rangements.

B. Jo Burns

METROPOLIS, Ill. — Phyllis Newton, 93, of Me-tropolis died Sunday at Western Baptist Hospital.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.

Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home.

Arrangements were in-complete at the funeral home.

Phyllis Newton

Anderson

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A gunman in a car assassi-nated a former high-ranking Taliban offi cial working to end the decade-long war in Afghanistan, dealing a pow-erful blow Sunday to the fragile, U.S.-backed effort to bring peace to the country.

Arsala Rahmani, a top member of the Afghan peace council and a senator in Par-liament, was killed a week before a key NATO sum-mit and just hours before President Hamid Karzai announced the third stage of a fi ve-part transition that is supposed to put Afghan security forces in control of their country by the end of 2014.

Police said an assassin with a silencer-equipped pistol shot Rahmani, who was in his 70s, as he was rid-ing in his car in one of the capital’s most secure areas, near Kabul University. The gunman fi red from a white Toyota Corolla that pulled up alongside Rahmani’s vehicle at an intersection. Rahmani’s driver rushed him to a hospital, but he died on the way, police said.

Rahmani was a former deputy minister of higher education in the Taliban re-gime that was ousted by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. He eventually reconciled with the government and

was trying to set up formal talks with the insurgents.

The killing was another setback to efforts to nego-tiate a political resolution to the war. In September 2011, former Afghan Presi-dent Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was head of the peace council, was assassinated in his Kabul home by a suicide bomber posing as a peace emissary from the Taliban.

The Taliban denied re-sponsibility for Rahmani’s killing, although they had publicly threatened to target peace negotiators and oth-ers working with the gov-ernment.

Agha Jan Motasim, a member of the Taliban lead-ership council known as the Quetta Shura, condemned Rahmani’s assassination.

“He was a good Muslim. He was a nationalist and worked for an Islamic sys-tem in Afghanistan. We respected him,” Motasim said from Turkey, where he is recovering from gunshot wounds suffered last year in Pakistan.

The U.S.-led coalition is trying to wind down its in-volvement in Afghanistan by fi nding a political reso-lution to the war and train-ing Afghan security forces to take the lead in protect-ing their homeland. But a recent rise in violence has raised concerns about the Afghan government’s readi-ness to assume responsibil-ity for the country’s security. If the government fails, the Taliban could stage a come-back.

Gunman kills Afghan peace council member

BY DEB RIECHMANN RAHIM FAIEZAssociated Press

AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

Afghan National Army soldiers secure the gate of the military hospital after Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official turned Afghan peace negotiator, was killed by an unknown attacker in western Kabul, Sunday.

ATHENS, Greece — Critical talks to form a governing coalition in crisis-struck Greece foun-dered once more, leading the country one step clos-er to new elections — and bringing its continued presence in the euro into serious doubt.

Last-ditch efforts by President Karolos Pa-poulias to broker a deal between wrangling party leaders ended with no

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BEIRUT — Syrian forces killed at least fi ve people and torched a number of homes in a raid on a farming village Sunday that activists said showed worsening relations between Syria’s myriad reli-gious groups.

The continuing violence further undermines a U.N.-backed peace plan that is supposed to bring an end to the country’s 14-month-old crisis. A cease-fi re that was supposed to begin on April 12 has had only a limited ef-fect, throwing into doubt the rest of the plan, which calls for talks between the regime of President Bashar Assad and those seeking to end his rule.

Sunday’s deaths occurred

during a raid by regime forces on the impoverished village of al-Tamana, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) northwest of the city of Hama. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Hu-man Rights said fi ve people were killed in the raid and government troops were setting fi re to homes.

Speaking via Skype from Hama, activist Mousab Al-hamadee said one local reb-el leader was killed along-side fi ve civilians.

“He was a hero in the Free Syrian Army who was try-ing to defend the civilians,” he said, referring to the um-brella group of local, anti-regime militias.

An amateur video posted online Sunday showed men carrying the dead body of a

woman from a house. A sec-ond video showed men in a mosque praying over fi ve coffi ns, three of them open with fl owers piled on bodies wrapped in white cloth.

The area, a plain of farm-land along the Orontes Riv-er, is dotted with villages of Christians, Sunni Muslims and Alawites, the offshoot sect of Shiite Islam to which Assad belongs.

Alhamadee, who is from a village near al-Tamana, said sectarian tensions were low before the uprising, but have deteriorated as Sunni villag-es like al-Tamana joined the anti-Assad uprising.

He said most of the vil-lage’s residents had fl ed and regime forces were setting fi re to houses and looting shops.

Syria activists: At least 5 killed in raidBY BEN HUBBARD

Associated Press

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Sunrise today ................................. 5:47 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 7:55 p.m.Moonrise today ............................... 2:13 a.m.Moonset today ................................ 2:24 p.m.

24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.05”Month to date ......................................... 0.19”Normal month to date ............................. 2.28”Year to date .......................................... 10.49”Last year to date ................................... 36.91”Normal year to date .............................. 18.69”

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Kentucky: Mostly cloudy today with a shower, but dry in the west; warmer in the north and south. Clear tonight.

Illinois: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Sunny much of the time and warm tomorrow; pleasant.

Indiana: Mostly sunny today. Clouds and sun with a shower in spots; warmer in southern parts. Clear tonight.

Missouri: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny, nice and warm tomorrow.

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Tennessee: Mostly cloudy today. A shower in cen-tral parts of the state; a couple of thunderstorms in the east.

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National Summary: Stormy weather will affect much of the eastern part of the country today with drenching thunderstorms from New England through Florida. High pressure building in behind this system will support dry weather from the Great Lakes through eastern Texas. Strong storms will rumble across western Texas while the rest of the West remains warm.

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Lake Barkley 356.7 356.00 noneKentucky Lake 356.7 355.98 -0.12

Washington71/63

New York72/61

Miami84/73

Atlanta76/60

Detroit74/50

Houston83/64

Chicago76/55

Minneapolis81/56

Kansas City78/54

El Paso83/57

Denver76/48

Billings82/50

Los Angeles77/58

San Francisco63/48

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