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Analysis: Chairman says prisons should not be warehousesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSON — The new chairman of the Mississippi Senate Corrections Committee inherited a challenging job — sharing oversight of a prison system rocked by violence and burdened by de-crepit and underfunded facilities.

Democratic Sen. Juan Barnett of Heidelberg said in an interview Thurs-day that prisons need to be more than warehouses. He also said Mississippi needs to do a better job of rehabilitat-

ing inmates so they will be ready to work and earn their own living after they are released.

“My focus is to make sure that what we do today is not just good for today, but for decades to come,” said Barnett, a former mayor who is in his second

term in the Senate.At least 14 inmates died in Mississip-

pi prisons from late December through late January. Most of the deaths hap-pened at the Mississippi State Peniten-tiary at Parchman, and many of them happened amid violent confrontations.

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves was inaugurated Jan. 14 after serving eight years as lieutenant governor. As lieu-tenant governor, Reeves presided over the Senate and had great influence over state budgets, including decisions not to fund multiple requests made by lead-ers of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for money to increase pris-on guards’ low salaries and to repair Parchman’s notorious Unit 29.

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‘My focus is to make sure that what we do today is not just good for today, but for decades to come.’

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Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch StaffTamami Sugo, 49, poses for a picture at the Coffee House on 5th Thursday afternoon. Sugo followed her husband, Shunji Sugo, to the Columbus Air Force Base in 2018 for his two-year military service as a pilot.

Japanese native realizes dream of living abroad in Columbus

Sugo talks language, making friends in her ‘American hometown’BY YUE STELLA YUsyu@cdispatch.com

By the time she was 20, Tamami Sugo had never been on the back of a motorcycle.

Growing up under a strict and protective father, she recalled, she was never allowed to ride.

So when she learned that her younger sister’s friend, 18-year-old Shunji, had a bike, she didn’t hesitate to ask for a ride along.

“We went to the beach, we went to the mountain,” Shunji recalled. “(We enjoyed) the beautiful view from the top.”

The young man who took Sugo on her first motorcycle ride 30 years ago would later become her husband, take her last name and raise two kids with her. She would follow him for his assignments

Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch StaffShunji and Tamami Sugo laugh together as they communicate with each other in their native language, Japanese. The couple have known each other since she was 20 and he was 18. “She was so beautiful,” Shunji recalled of when he first saw her. “I liked her.”See SUGO, 6A

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NEW YORK — Seizing their op-portunity to make a cultural state-ment, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira infused the Super Bowl halftime show with an exuberance and joy that celebrated their Latina heri-tage.

Their breathless athleticism matched that of the football players waiting in the locker room.

Shakira opened with, yes, a hip-shaking performance of “She Wolf” and a fast-moving medley that included bits of “She Wolf,” “Whenever, Wherever” and a snip-pet of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” She managed a belly dance, some rope dancing and even backed into a crowd surf. Shakira ended her with her signature song, “Hips Don’t Lie.”

Lopez, in a black leather outfit that her dancers matched, started with a nostalgic snippet of “Jenny From the Block.” She exhibited some startling pole-dancing moves, a reference to her much-celebrated turn in the movie “Hustlers.” At one point she bent into a deep squat while standing on the shoulders of a dancer that likely had muscles ach-ing across the country in sympathy.

She tore through “Love Don’t Cost a Thing,” “Get Right, “On the Floor” and “Que Calor,” finding time to slip away from the black leather in to sparkling silver outfit that left little to the imagination.

Having, essentially, an opening act for a concert that stretches not much longer than a dozen minutes was a risky move. At times the performance seemed rushed, as if they were trying to say too much in too short of time. The guest acts, J. Balvin and Bad Bunny, were su-perfluous and only served to better emphasize the talents of the head-liners.

The first halftime show to cele-brate Latino artists could rightly be declared a success, and it also bodes well for the management of Jay-Z, who packaged the program for the first time on a new deal with the NFL.

Memorably, Lopez’s daughter, Emme, joined her mother for a verse of “Let’s Get Loud,” where the 11-year girl sang the chorus of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” Her mother then held out her arms and showed off a red, white and blue cape to the crowd that was a repre-sentation of the Puerto Rican flag in its inner lining, with the stars and stripes on the outside.

It was a reminder to a television audience that approached 100 mil-lion that a different part of America was making a powerful statement

in favor of inclusion.The two women came together at

the end to sing “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa),” the song Shakira composed that was the theme of the

2010 World Cup.“Muchas gracias,” Shakira said

as the camera pulled away.“Thank you so much,” Lopez

said.

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The best and worst of Super Bowl adsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — During advertising’s biggest night, Super Bowl Sun-day, marketers battled it out to bolster their brands and promote new products. Advertisers paid up to $5.6 million for 30 seconds, and almost 100 million people tune into the big game.

This year, Hyundai and Jeep scored with whimsical humor by poking fun at Boston accents and reuniting the “Groundhog Day” cast, Punx-sutawney Phil included. Google struck heartstrings with a quiet mes-sage about aging and remembrance. Cheetos and Doritos both played off exaggerated dancing to good effect.

But Pop Tarts and a Hard Rock action-movie commercial failed to connect with viewers.

BESTHYUNDAIThe automaker released its ad early, but it still drew fans during the game. Boston-af-filiated celebrities including actor Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch and former Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz discussed a Hyundai feature that lets car owners park remotely with exaggerated accents that make “Smart Park” sound like “smaht pahk.”JEEPSuper Bowl Sunday was on Groundhog Day, so someone had to do it. Fiat Chrys-ler painstakingly recreated the 1993 mov-ie “Groundhog Day,” including the town square and other locales, with original actors Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray and Stephen Tobolowsky. The twist: instead of a Chevrolet truck, Murray uses a Jeep Gladiator truck. FCA Group marketing chief Olivier Francois said the ad worked to demonstrate the versatility of the Jeep truck since Murray does something differ-ent every day.GOOGLE Google’s 90-second ad stood out by not using humor or celebrities. It features a man reminiscing about his wife, using the Google Assistant feature to pull up old photos of her and past vacations. The ad is set to an instrumental version of “Say Something” by Great Big World. “It’s so hard to write earnestly and not make it cheesy,” said Julia Neumann, executive creative director at ad agency TBWA(back-slash)Chiat(backslash)Day in New York. “This was really, really well done.”CHEETOS Cheetos used nostalgia effectively, appro-priating the 30 year old MC Hammer clas-sic “U Can’t Touch This” — still an earworm after all these years. The snack-food ad features a man with bright orange Chee-tos dust on his hands who uses it as an excuse not to move furniture and perform office tasks. Hammer himself — “Hammer pants” and all — also kept popping up to utter his iconic catchphrase.DORITOS The brand added a silly danceoff to “Old Town Road,” the smash hit of the summer by Lil Nas X. In the Western-themed ad, Lil Nas faced off with grizzled character actor Sam Elliott with silly, sometimes CGI-enhanced dances moves at the “Cool Ranch.” Billy Cyrus, who features in the song’s remix, also made a cameo.

PLANTERSPlanters teased its Super Bowl ad nearly two weeks before the game, releasing a teaser that showed its Mr. Peanut mascot seemingly being killed. The “death” of Mr. Peanut went viral on Twitter. But when Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash, the marketing stunt suddenly seemed insensitive, so Planters paused its pre-game advertising. The actual Super Bowl ad was relatively inoffensive, with a baby Mr. Peanut appearing at the funeral. “Baby Nut” comparisons to “Baby Yoda” and “Baby Groot” sprung up online.

WORSTAVOCADOS FROM MEXICOAvocados from Mexico have carved out a niche with humorous ads featuring avocados, but they may have veered a little too far into “random” territory with this effort featuring a home shopping net-work with fake products such as a baby carrier-like device for avocados. “I thought the Avocados from Mexico spot felt like a random and gratuitous use of celebrity,” said Steve Merino, chief creative officer of Aloysius, Butler & Clark in Wilmington, Delaware. “Not only did it not make sense to have Molly Ringwald as your spokesper-son, it was also a bit of a distraction.” POP TARTSKellogg’s went for quirky but ended up with a bland spot that isn’t likely to be remembered. In a pseudo infomercial, Jonathan Van Ness of “Queer Eye” de-scribes the new Pop Tarts pretzel snack. The idea is that Pop Tarts adds pizazz to pretzels, but the ad itself failed to have much spark.SQUARESPACEWinona Ryder went back to Winona, Min-nesota — which she is named after — to create a website for the town. But nothing much happened in the ad, which shows Ryder in a snowdrift on her laptop being confronted by a “Fargo”-like cop. There’s a more involved marketing campaign with Ryder, but the Super Bowl ad didn’t communicate much.HARD ROCK INTERNATIONALHard Rock International went all in on its first Super Bowl ad, maybe too much so. It enlisted Michael Bay for a frenetic com-mercial showing a frenzied heist caper involving Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, and Steven Van Zandt — but some found it hard to follow.

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Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO convicted in WorldCom scandal, dies

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The former chief of WorldCom, convicted in one of the largest corpo-rate accounting scandals in U.S. history, died just over a month after his early release from prison. Bernard Ebbers was 78.

The Canadian-born for-mer telecommunications executive died Sunday in Brookhaven, Mississippi, surrounded by his fami-ly, according to a family statement.

WorldCom Inc. col-lapsed and went into bankruptcy in 2002, fol-lowing revelations of an $11 billion accounting fraud that included pres-sure by top executives on subordinates to in-flate numbers to make the company seem more profitable. The collapse caused losses to stock-holders, including those who had invested through retirement plans.

Ebbers was convicted in New York in 2005 on securities fraud and other

charges and received a 25-year sentence. A federal appeals court judge who upheld Ebbers’ conviction in 2006 wrote that World-Com’s fraudulent account-ing practices were “specif-ically intended to create a false picture of profitabil-ity even for professional analysts that, in Ebbers’ case, was motivated by his personal financial circum-stances.”

Before establishing himself in telecommu-nications, Ebbers had a diverse career that start-ed in sports. He received a basketball scholarship at Mississippi College, where he majored in phys-ical education. After grad-uating, he coached high school teams for a year before investing in a hotel; he eventually amassed a chain of Best Westerns in Mississippi and Texas, as well as a car dealership in Columbia, Mississippi.

Following the advice of friends and knowing little about the phone

business, he invested in a small long-distance company, LDDS, in 1983. He eventually took over the day-to-day operations and bought up competi-tors, transforming LDDS — which was later re-named WorldCom, based in Clinton, Mississippi — into the fourth-largest long-distance company by 1996.

He was considered to be a “no-nonsense” man with a brash attitude who preferred jeans to a suit. One analyst cited in an early profile in the late nineties said Bernie Ebbers was “the tele-phone equivalent of Bill Gates.”

By the time of its col-lapse over its accounting fraud scandal in 2002, WorldCom was the na-tion’s second-largest long-distance business. Ebbers left that year and following his conviction, was imprisoned from Sep-tember 2006 until Dec. 21, when he was released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.

In the meantime, WorldCom reemerged as MCI, taken over by Veri-

zon, and relocated to Ash-burn, Virginia.

U.S. District Judge Val-erie E. Caproni said late last year that it fell within her discretion to order the early release of Ebbers af-ter a lawyer cited severe medical problems and said that Ebbers had ex-perienced severe weight loss. At over 6 feet tall, he had dropped in weight from above 200 pounds to 147 pounds. Attorney Gra-ham Carner told the judge it was possible his client might not live another 18 months.

Among other ailments, Ebbers had heart disease, Carner said. Ebbers was not in court when Caproni announced her ruling on Dec. 18; his lawyers said he was hospitalized.

“While Mr. Ebbers is physically alive ... his quality of life is gone,” Carner said in December. “If he was released today, Mr. Ebbers is not going to be playing tennis or run-ning a business.”

In court papers in Sep-tember, his lawyers said Ebbers unintentionally bumped into another pris-oner while walking in the

facility in September of 2017, only to have the pris-oner go to Ebbers’ open cell later in the day and physically attack him.

The papers said the at-tack fractured the bones around Ebbers’ eyes and caused blunt head trauma and other injuries. They also said Ebbers was put into solitary confinement because his “severely lim-ited eyesight” made him unable to identify the at-tacker.

In July 2019, one of Ebbers’ daughters sub-mitted a request that her father receive compas-sionate release from a federal prison medical facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Court papers say a Bureau of Prisons offi-cial denied that request in August. The family state-ment said that the Bureau of Prisons “had no diag-nosis or treatment plan in place” and Ebbers experi-enced a “rapid decline” in October, followed by mul-tiple hospitalizations in November and December.

While prosecutors agreed that Ebbers’ health had deteriorated in prison, they opposed

an early release. Assis-tant U.S. Attorney Jason Cowley told the judge that such a move would send “a terrible message to the rule of law” because it would cut Ebbers’ sen-tence in half.

The family statement acknowledged resistance to Ebbers’ early release from victims of World-Com’s collapse, but said that many victims also ex-pressed their support.

“Many stockholders and employees lost their investments in the fall of WorldCom. Many of our friends — and many in our family — did too,” the statement read. “Thank-fully, Judge Caproni agreed with us — keeping Dad in prison, especially in his unexplained and undiagnosed deteriorated condition, would not bring back anyone’s invest-ments.”

The family said they would pray for the victims. The statement, which re-peatedly praised Caproni, said family members plan to eventually advocate for others “who are deserv-ing of compassionate re-lease to their families.”

Mississippi investigates hepati-tis case at restaurant

VICKSBURG — The Mississippi Department of Health says a restau-rant worker in Vicksburg has been diagnosed with hepatitis A.

A news release people who ate at The Gumbo Pot on Halls Ferry Road on Jan. 17, 18 and 22, may have been exposed to the infectious liver disease, news agencies report.

“The risk of transmission of hepatitis A in this situation is likely very low,” but people who ate at the Gumbo Pot on Jan. 22 should con-sider getting vaccinated as a pre-caution if they haven’t already had the shots, said Dr. Paul Byers, the state epidemiologist.

Free vaccinations are available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Warren County Health Department on Monroe Street in Vicksburg. The Centers for Disease Control and Protection says the vaccination is made up of two shots, six months apart.

They won’t protect people ex-

posed more than 14 days earlier, so the department advises people who ate there on Jan. 17 or 18 to keep an eye out for symptoms and see a doc-tor if symptoms develop.

Symptoms can include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, joint pain and jaundice, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms usually appear two to six weeks after exposure — but people can spread hepatitis A without ever showing any symptoms.

The state health department says 149 people in Mississippi have come down with the disease since April 1, 2019, and 70 of them have been hospitalized. None has died.

Health inspectors gave the Gum-bo Pot an A rating Friday, owner Perry Boyd told the Vicksburg Post.

Boyd said the worker had no symptoms Jan. 17 or 18. “When the employee came back to work on Jan. 22, she was sick and we sent them home,” he said. “It was then they went to the emergency room

and was diagnosed with hepatitis A. They have not been back to work since then.”

Police: 4 shot in parking lot in Mississippi

PHILADELPHIA — Police in Mississippi said officers were work-ing to identify possible suspects after a shooting in a parking lot wounded four people.

Shots were fired Sunday night at a family fun center in Philadelphia, The Neshoba Democrat reported.

The people who were wounded were between 18 and 45 years old. All four were taken by personal ve-hicle to hospitals. Then, three of the four were airlifted to a hospital in Jackson for further treatment, the newspaper reported.

Their conditions weren’t imme-diately released.

Philadelphia, Mississippi, is about 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Jackson.

SOURCE: The Associated Press

Ebbers, 78, died just over a month after his early release from prison

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Today is Monday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2020. There are 332 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:

On Feb. 3, 1943, during World War II, the U.S. transport ship SS Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Green-land, sank after being hit by a German torpedo in the Labrador Sea; of the more than 900 men aboard, only some 230 survived. (Four Army chaplains on board gave away their life jackets to save others and went down with the ship.)

On this date:In 1690, the first pa-

per money in America was issued by the Mas-sachusetts Bay Colony to finance a military expedi-tion to Canada.

In 1877, the song “Chopsticks,” written by 16-year-old Euphemia Al-len under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli, was de-posited at the British Mu-seum under the title “The Celebrated Chop Waltz.”

In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified.

In 1917, the United States broke off diplo-matic relations with Ger-many, the same day an American cargo ship, the SS Housatonic, was sunk

by a U-boat off Britain af-ter the crew was allowed to board lifeboats.

In 1930, the chief jus-tice of the United States, William Howard Taft, resigned for health rea-sons. (He died just over a month later.)

In 1959, rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

In 1966, the Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first manmade object to make a soft landing on the moon.

In 1969, “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt and his family were aboard an Eastern Air-lines flight that was hi-jacked to Cuba. (Fellow passengers who recog-

nized Funt thought the whole thing was a stunt for his TV show.)

In 1988, the U.S. House of Representatives handed President Ronald Reagan a major defeat, rejecting his request for $36.2 million in new aid to the Nicaraguan Contras by a vote of 219-211.

In 1991, the rate for a first-class postage stamp rose to 29 cents.

In 1994, the space shuttle Discovery lifted off, carrying Sergei Kri-kalev (SUR’-gay KREE’-kuh-lev), the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft.

In 1998, Texas exe-cuted Karla Faye Tucker, 38, for the pickax killings of two people in 1983; she was the first woman exe-cuted in the United States

since 1984. A U.S. Marine plane sliced through the cable of a ski gondola in Italy, causing the car to plunge hundreds of feet, killing all 20 people in-side.

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POSSUMHAW

Change is inevitable

Most of the time I find technology a little scary. I reviewed

George Orwell’s 1964 futuristic book “1984” for its possibilities. Electronic screens were located in pub-lic places — I imagine like restaurants, waiting rooms, dentists’ chairs, airports and along highways. Govern-ment screens were required in residential homes, strate-gically placed where occu-pants could be monitored. I looked over at our big screen television and thought about all the public places with electronic screens. Who’s really watching who? I closed the book and put it away.

In every decade major changes take place. Some folks find changes unnerv-ing while others embrace change with enthusiasm. “Anne Morrow Lindbergh: A Gift for Life,” by Dorothy Herrmann, narrates the story of the Lindberghs. On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh Jr., age 25, flew the “Spirit of St. Louis” from New York to Paris, all 3,500 miles,

alone. As a result, much of the country was taken with the possibility of air travel. Airlines like Pan Ameri-can and Transcontinental were becoming the means of future travel. Nowadays air travel is as common as owning a car, or a washing machine, a refrigerator, a big screen TV, a cell phone, a laptop computer, a nanny cam, a phone on your wrist. Maxwell Smart from the TV show “Get Smart” had a

shoe phone (1965). It seemed absurd.A friend from California sent an

email containing possibilities and probabilities for our technological future. Though I was unable to confirm the original source of the information, just imagine how our lives, the lives of our children and grandchildren, are changing.

Cars will be electric with recharging stations on street corners. (Think the Tennessee Williams Home on Colum-bus’ Main Street.) There will be no gasoline, gas stations or auto repair

shops. An electric motor has 20 parts compared to a gas/diesel motor of 20,000 individual parts. If the electric motor fails it can be replaced in a few minutes from a drive-through.

Taxis will be self-driven. Cars will become computers on wheels. There will be fewer accidents and loss of lives — no drunk or inattentive driv-ers. There will be less of a need for car insurance, thus changing the insur-ance industry. Fewer cars mean fewer parking areas and more green space, cleaner air, less noise pollution.

Think of camera companies Kodak and Polaroid and the effects of cell phones on camera sales. The business model of both companies changed

remarkably in less than three years. Uber and Airbnb. Uber is now the

largest taxi company, and they don’t own any cars. Airbnb is the biggest hotel company, and they don’t own any property.

Medical diagnosis will be available online and through apps with greater accuracy than humans. A device is in the works enabling a retina scan, blood test and breath analysis. Legal advice will be at your fingertips.

It’s not hard to believe the future possibilities when you can scan your own items at the grocery store or order milk and Cheerios online.

Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of Columbus at msdeltachild@msn.com.

Voice of the peopleReflections on water

There is exactly the same amount of fresh water in the world today as there was at the time of the building of the Great Pyramid some 4500 years ago. The difference is that there were roughly 9 million people in the world then, and now there are 45 cities with that many people. 7.8 billion people, and counting.

U.S. cities are spending millions, sometimes billions of dollars, to provide water to growing populations. Since the amount of water is fixed, and its availability is declining as we empty our aquifers, cities have turned to con-servation of water. Plumbing that uses less water is mandated in some cities.

One of the great triumphs of the 20th century was the prohibition against dumping sewage and industrial waste into our lakes and rivers, and the development of wastewater treatment. Wastewater reclamation is now a mature technology, converting sewage into potable water. When the Cuyahoga River caught on fire in 1969 (sending flames up to 5 stories high), the em-barrassment lit a fire (pun intended) and in 1972, we had the Clean Water Act. Today, the Cuyahoga is a clear stream—with fish!! The hard-fought battle against lake and river pollution has raged since the Civil War. Today in the U.S., cholera and typhoid are practically unheard of; most rivers and streams are clean enough to supply municipal water systems; and river and riparian fauna are returning.

Last month, President Trump issued an executive order removing restric-tions on the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers that run off into streams and wetlands. The regulations were “a burden to farmers and indus-tries.”

Addressing a campaign rally, he complained about low-water-use plumb-ing. Since the toilets he complained of have long since been replaced by efficient and effective toilets (15 years ago, the city of San Antonio had a toilet made of clear plexiglass to show that it could flush a full-size Idaho russet po-tato with 1.3 gallons of water), I wonder where he has been. The Hilton Hotel asked their guests for their ratings of their “shower experience” using aerat-ed shower heads and got very good to excellent ratings. Where has President Trump been showering?

His complaints serve to under-mine the effectiveness of programs to conserve water — urgently needed programs.

The water table under the Delta has been falling more than a foot per year since the invention of high-volume well pumps—generations. The State of Mis-sissippi is suing Memphis for pumping water from a Mississippi aquifer. We get 57 inches of rain every year and our ground water is disappearing.

That our President can say and do as he has in the face of a water crisis implies that either he does not know or does not care.

Bill GillmoreColumbus

MUSINGS

There’s no such thingMany people, in-

cluding our whop-ping mistake of

a president, characterize the investigation and the impeachment of Donald J. Trump as a “witch hunt.”

They refer to history, or rather what they think is history.

Originally, a witch hunt was just what it sounds like.

Your infant daughter died and, even though most of your children died in infancy, back there in the year 1240, you were crazy with grief, and you began to be suspicious of the mumbling, unpleas-ant, toothless hag next door. Those were hard years. She was 45, by the way. Well, actually, she was 45, but she looked 80. Or at least you thought she looked 80, because no one in your village ever lived to be 80.

And the old lady had a cat. A black cat. She wandered all day through the village, talking to herself, mak-ing evil faces. She was, of course, just sliding into a kind of dementia brought on by bad food, bad water and losing nine of the 14 children she’d birthed. The evil faces were the result of the pain caused by rotting teeth.

No matter.

“Witch!” you hollered.The other villagers,

weak-minded from hunger and homebrewed beer, agreed with you, and then there was a trial before some red-capped, louse-infested ecclesiastic who let you burn the semi-old lady to death.

Having found one witch, you figured there were more. After all, who ever had just one rat in his hut?

You hunted witches, and you found them everywhere. Weird old John who talked to his grapevine. That nutcase Geofric who couldn’t get a wife and babbled incessantly about the Devil.

You burned them all. It made the village smell pretty bad, but you were a zero-tolerance zone where witches were concerned.

And this, they say, is what the lib-erals did to President Donald Trump.

Trouble is, there never were any witches in your village. Witches don’t exist. “There’s no such thing,” as my parents used to tell 5-year-old me about ghosts and goblins. There are no witches, no witchcraft, no wizards and no sorcerers.

The problem with calling Trump’s legal troubles a “witch hunt” is that

no one is accusing him of something that doesn’t exist.

He did not bring a murrain upon the crops, though he’s put numerous farmers out of business. He did not cause your infant child to die, not un-less you are an illegal immigrant and your kid died in a dog kennel down in Texas. He most certainly did not use the black arts to construct a magical wall along the Mexican border.

See, the guy is completely clean of committing crimes that do not exist, or at least they don’t exist as the result of witchery.

There is such a thing as treason. There is such a thing as obstruction of justice. There is such a thing as inviting a foreign government to help you fix an American election. Those things are as real as a convenience store owner’s identification of the man who robbed his cash register at gunpoint. Of course, if the conve-nience store owner isn’t allowed to testify, his identification isn’t gonna count for much.

So don’t call Trump’s legal trou-bles a “witch hunt.” His crimes can be seen and touched. They exist.

Marc Dion, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a reporter and columnist for The Herald News, the daily news-paper of his hometown, Fall River, Massachusetts. For more on Dion, go to go to www.creators.com.

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China opens virus hospital, market plunges as toll growsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — China sent medical workers and equipment to a new hos-pital built in 10 days, infused cash into tumbling financial markets and further restricted people’s movement in sweep-ing new steps Monday to contain a rap-idly spreading virus and its escalating impact.

Health authorities released updated figures of 361 deaths and 17,205 con-firmed cases, an increase of 2,829 over a 24-hour period, as other countries continued evacuating citizens from hardest-hit Hubei province and restrict-ed the entry of Chinese or people who recently traveled in the country. The World Health Organization said the number of cases will keep growing be-cause tests are pending on thousands of suspected cases.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, presid-ing over a special meeting of the coun-try’s top Communist Party body for the second time since the crisis started, said “we have launched a people’s war

of prevention of the epidemic.”He told the Politburo standing

committee that the country must race against time to curb the spread of the epidemic and that those who neglect their duties will be punished. His speech was read by an anchor on the major evening news program of state broadcaster CCTV.

Reopening of schools was also de-layed to keep the virus from spreading further in Hubei, where the 1,000-bed hospital in the provincial capital Wuhan was completed in just 10 days. A second hospital with 1,500 beds will open with-in days. Restrictions were tightened still further in one city by allowing only one family member to venture out to buy supplies every other day.

Medical teams from the People’s Lib-eration Army were arriving in Wuhan to relieve overwhelmed health workers and to work at the new hospital, located in the countryside far from the city cen-ter. Its prefabricated wards, where pa-tients began arriving by late morning, are equipped with state-of-the-art med-

ical equipment and ventilation systems. Leading Chinese epidemiologist

Zhong Nanshan said additional hospi-tal space was crucial to stopping the spread of new infections.

“The lack of hospital rooms forced sick people to return home, which is ex-tremely dangerous. So having addition-al (beds) available is a great improve-ment,” Zhong told state broadcaster CCTV.

Zhong played a major role in over-coming China’s 2002-2003 outbreak of SARS, a coronavirus from the same family as the current pathogen.

In a sign of the economic toll of the outbreak, China’s Shanghai Composite index plunged nearly 8% on the first day of trading after the Lunar New Year holiday. That despite a central bank an-nouncement Sunday that it was putting 1.2 trillion yuan ($173 billion) into the markets.

“We are fully confident in and capa-ble of minimizing the epidemic’s im-pact on economy,” said Lian Weiliang, deputy chief of the National Develop-

ment and Reform Commission, at a news conference in Beijing.

Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, an-nounced Monday that the semi-autono-mous territory will shut almost all land and sea border control points to the mainland from midnight to stem the spread of the virus. She said only two border checkpoints — at Shenzhen Bay and the bridge to Macau and Zhuhai — will remain open.

More than 2,000 hospital workers had gone on strike earlier in the day, demanding a complete closure of the border, and their union has threatened a bigger walkout Tuesday.

Hong Kong has recorded 15 cases of the virus and has cut flights and train and bus connections to the mainland, but a push is growing for it to close the border completely. Strike organizers say about 6,000 medical staff were pre-pared to participate. Hong Kong was severely impacted by the SARS out-break, which many believe was inten-sified by official Chinese secrecy and obfuscation.

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Deanna Robinson/Dispatch StaffEverleigh Massey, 2, rides with her doll at her home in New Hope Tuesday afternoon. She is the daughter of Riley and Kayla Massey.

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all across Japan before he brought her on a grander adventure — one that’s far away from her hometown in Yokosuka, Japan, and all the way to Mississippi for his two-year military service as a pilot at Columbus Air Force Base.

For Sugo, this cross-continental trip to the United States is a dream realized 30 years late.

Yokosuka, home to 400,000 people, is the location of a U.S. Navy Base. As a teenager born into the era of famous American pop musicians such as Madonna and Michael Jackson, Sugo became interested in English and American culture. She wanted to study abroad and expe-rience a different part of the world. Her father never allowed her to live abroad, but she still got a job on the Navy base to practice her English.

“I realized the world was very big,” Sugo said. “I wanted to know and communicate with for-eign people. They were born with another face and they have different cultures, languages, ways of thinking. ... It’s interesting.”

The opportunity to live

abroad finally presented itself in 2018 when Shunji was to be stationed in Columbus for two years.

When Sugo arrived in October of that year, Columbus struck her as a Southern historical town. From time to time, she said, she would experi-ence culture shock.

“When I stopped at the Walmart ... I could see a gun section,” Sugo said. “I was very surprised at first, because I have nev-er seen (that) in Japan. We have very strict rules. They are illegal. But they sell it at the supermarket (in America), and there are a lot of kids.”

Sugo’s English was still poor at the time, she remembered, and people’s thick Southern accents did not help. Or-dering at drive-throughs sometimes became a challenge.

“I could not get what they mean,” Sugo said. “Sometimes I give up. ... I (would leave) the car and go to the shop and I pointed at the picture (on the menu).”

Soon, Sugo met a group of international friends, with whom she takes English classes several times a week in Starkville. They all come from different cultures,

she said, which made her feel at ease.

“I don’t have to hesitate to speak with them, because all the people who came from other countries were very friendly to me,” Sugo said.

One of those friends, Olga Almazan, said Sugo wants to know about everyone else’s culture. The two exchange details about Japan and Almazan’s native Mexico, including weather, fash-ion and family traditions.

“She always tries to speak with our students and tries to learn more about them,” Almazan said.

Sugo was eager to learn about Columbus as well. To prepare for last year’s Pilgrimage as a member of the CAFB International Spouses Group, she had to learn how to sew the dress she would wear.

Patricia Wilson, who led the efforts to create the group in 2003, taught her how, Sugo said. Since Sugo did not have a sewing machine at home, she worked on the dress at Wilson’s house for a month.

“I have never sewn a dress, I just made kids’ clothes,” Sugo said. “(It

was a) big mission.”Being a part of

Pilgrimage, standing in old houses and walking tourists through a brief segment of history, made Sugo’s life in Columbus more enjoyable. After more than a year living in the city, Sugo said she has adopted the lifestyle here to some extent.

But sometimes, she still misses the hot springs, the food and culture in Japan.

“When I went to Hous-ton, I went to a Japanese supermarket,” Sugo said. “The atmosphere reminds me of Japan, my hometown, a lot.

“But when I go out-side, it’s America,” she said.

Sometimes, she said, she just wants to quit studying English and go back to Japan “tomor-row.”

Other times, she feels torn at the thought of leaving Columbus in October.

By the time she leaves, she said, Columbus may even become her “Ameri-can hometown.”

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance,” Sugo said. “I should cherish the time (I spend here).”

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lingering problems at Parchman, including broken toilets and sinks, holes in cell walls, birds’ nests in windows and widespread mold and mildew in showers.

Reeves said during his State of the State speech Jan. 27 that the state will take steps to shut down Unit 29, which consists of multiple buildings. The interim commission-er of corrections, Tommy Taylor, told reporters moments later that crews had already started re-pairing sinks and toilets and had restored heat to Unit 29.

Some inmates went days without showers when prisons were locked down after the violence. A woman who spoke at a rally Jan. 24 said her

husband is incarcerated in Parchman, and he and others had to defecate in plastic bags when toilets were broken.

Dozens of Mississippi sheriffs were at the state Capitol the middle of last week, and Barnett said many of them wanted to talk about the possibil-ity of the state moving some inmates to coun-ty or regional jails. The state would pay sheriffs’ departments to house in-mates.

“Everyone is talking about the cost,” Barnett said. “You know, ‘I’ll keep your people at this cost.’”

Barnett said housing is an issue, but it’s not the only consideration.

“For so long, all we have done in our correc-

tions system is house in-dividuals,” Barnett said.

He said state policy-makers need to expand the conversation beyond just housing prisoners as a way to keep county jails, regional jails or pri-vate prisons open.

“What we need to be talking about is the things ... that they are willing to do to make sure that they’re not just only housing these peo-ple, but to make sure that there’s rehabilitation go-ing on, as well, so that we don’t have this problem going forward,” Barnett said.

Hosemann appointed Barnett as the Correc-tions Committee chair-man, and the two men express similar goals.

Hosemann said the

first step in the imme-diate prison crisis is to secure Parchman. The second step is to move prisoners to other facili-ties. The third step is to make sure inmates re-ceive education and job-skills training and that they have a valid driver’s license before they are free — a necessary step because public transit is scarce in Mississippi.

Hosemann said the fourth step is to have former inmates back out in the community with the goal that they will be productive and that they won’t commit an offense that sends them back to prison.

“Clearly, Mississippi is better than Unit 29,” Hosemann said.

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Geoff Burke/USA TODAY SportsKansas City Chiefs defensive end Chris Jones (95) knocks down a pass from San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) during the fourth quarter in Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium Sunday.

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Patrick Mahomes was struggling, and the Kansas City Chiefs were in huge trouble.

Until the young quar-terback coolly brushed aside three-plus quarters of frustration and came through in the clutch, that is.

As he has already done so often in his young ca-

reer.“It’s Magic Mahomes,”

tight end Travis Kelce said with a huge grin. “It’s Showtime Mahomes. He’s going to be himself no matter what the scenar-io. And, you know what? I love him. He willed this team back into the game.”

Mahomes threw touch-down passes on consecu-tive fourth-quarter drives to lead Andy Reid’s Chiefs to a 31-20 comeback vic-

tory and deliver the fran-chise its first Super Bowl title in 50 years.

“We never lost faith,” Mahomes said. “That’s the biggest thing. Every-body on this team, no one had their head down. And we believed in each other. And that’s what we preached all year long — and we had this guy (Reid) right here to get us there.

“And we found a way to

get it in the end.”The 24-year-old Ma-

homes was selected the game’s MVP after bounc-ing back from being in-tercepted on two straight possessions as the Chiefs’ title hopes seemingly slipped away.

“I was making a lot of mistakes out there early,” Mahomes acknowledged.

But trailing 20-10, Ma-homes and the Chiefs suddenly got going —

and didn’t stop until they stood in a confetti shower while passing around the Lombardi Trophy.

And it was the late-game performance of Mahomes that got them where Len Dawson last delivered the Chiefs in 1970.

“It’s not all Patrick, and he’ll be the first to tell you that,” Reid said, “but it’s a good place to start.”

Mahomes capped a 10-

play, 83-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown toss to Kelce that made it 20-17 with 6:13 remaining.

There were already signs on that drive that Mahomes was on the verge of something spe-cial.

“Anything is possible with him,” fullback An-thony Sherman said.

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STARKVILLE — Con-ference play is heating up.

With a three game stretch against ranked opponents just around the corner, the Mississippi State women’s basketball team (19-3, 7-1 SEC) wel-comes Georgia (12-9, 3-5 SEC) to town Monday for a rematch of the Bulldogs’ seven-point win in Athens Jan. 5.

“We have to get ready for a really good Georgia team,” MSU coach Vic Schaefer said. “They had a heart breaker last week at Texas A&M, losing by one. They had a great victory at Arkansas on the road two weeks ago. (Coach) Joni Taylor has

done a tremendous job there. They are playing at a very high level.”

With the red and white clad Bulldogs riding a stretch of four straight ranked opponents, Tay-lor’s bunch picked up a much needed aforemen-tioned win over Arkansas Jan. 23 before dropping games to No. 1 South Car-olina and suffering a one-point loss at Texas A&M Thursday.

Flashing a balanced offensive attack, Geor-gia boasts seven players scoring at least 4.4 points per game this season. Of those, guards Gabby Con-nally and Maya Caldwell lead the bunch at 12.7 and 10 points per game, re-spectively.

“We were lucky to

get out of there after the first time,” Schaefer said. “Obviously, I don’t think we are playing as well as we were. We have to find a way to get I fixed. With that being said, our kids got a day off. We will get back at it and get ready for a well-coached and really talented Georgia team.”

For MSU, the Bulldogs enter the contest sitting in sole possession of second place in the SEC stand-ings behind South Car-olina. And while Schae-fer’s bunch endured a tight one-point loss to the Gamecocks in Columbia two weeks ago, the squad has shown a recent pro-pensity to play down to its competition since.

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Heritage Academy at district tourna-ment, Lamar, TBAHebron Christian at Hamilton, 6 p.m.Noxubee County at Kosciusko, 6 p.m.

Prep Boys BasketballHeritage Academy at district tourna-ment, Lamar, TBAHebron Christian at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.Noxubee County at Kosciusko, 7:30 p.m.

Women’s College BasketballGeorgia at Mississippi State, 6 p.m.East Mississippi Community College at Holmes Community College, 5:30 p.m.

Men’s College BasketballEast Mississippi Community College at Holmes Community College, 7:30 p.m.

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Heritage Academy at Magnolia Heights, 4 p.m.Lamar School at Starkville Academy, 5 p.m.

Men’s College BasketballMississippi State at Kentucky, 8 p.m.MUW at Lyon College, 7 p.m.

Prep Girls BasketballGermantown at Starkville, 6 p.m.Noxubee County at Columbus, 6 p.m.West Point at Choctaw County, 6 p.m.Ethel at West Lowndes, 6 p.m.Heritage Academy at district tourna-ment, Lamar, TBA

Prep Boys BasketballGermantown at Starkville, 7:30 p.m.Noxubee County at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.West Point at Choctaw County, 7:30 p.m.Ethel at West Lowndes, 7:30 p.m.Heritage Academy at district tourna-ment, Lamar, TBA

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Heritage Academy at district tourna-ment, Lamar, TBA

Prep Boys BasketballHeritage Academy at district tourna-ment, Lamar, TBA

Men’s College BasketballSouth Carolina at Ole Miss, 6 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)6 p.m. — Lafayette College at Bucknell, CBSSN6 p.m. — North Carolina at Florida State, ESPN6 p.m. — Norfolk State at North Caroli-na Central, ESPNU8 p.m. — Texas at Kansas, ESPN8 p.m. — Baylor at Kansas State, ESPN2

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)5 p.m. — Indiana at Purdue, BTN6 p.m. — Oregon at Connecticut, ESPN26 p.m. — Georgia at Mississippi State, SECN7 p.m. — Michigan State at Maryland, BTN

COLLEGE HOCKEY (MEN’S)4 p.m. — Beanpot Tournament: North-eastern vs. Harvard, Boston, NHLN7 p.m. — Beanpot Tournament: Boston College vs. Boston University, Boston, NHLN

COLLEGE HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)6:30 p.m. — Rivalry Series: U.S. vs. Canada, Memorial Centre, Victoria B.C, NHLN.

NBA BASKETBALL6:30 p.m. — Philadelphia at Miami, NBATV9:30 p.m. — San Antonio at LA Clip-pers, NBATV

NHL HOCKEY6:30 p.m. — Philadelphia at Detroit, NBCSN

SOCCER (WOMEN’S)4:50 p.m. — CONCACAF Olympic Quali-fying: Panama vs. Haiti, Houston, FS27:30 p.m. — CONCACAF Olympic Qual-ifying: U.S. vs. Costa Rica, Houston, FS1

SPEEDSKATING10 p.m. — ISU: Four Continents Cham-pionships, Milwaukee (taped), NBCSN

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BRIEFLYCollege BasketballOle Miss women can’t eek out win against Alabama

The Ole Miss women’s basketball team (7-15, 0-9 SEC) put together a strong effort in a game that featured 18 lead changes, but Alabama was able to edge out a 57-56 win thanks to a late fourth quarter run at The Pavilion on Sunday afternoon.

The Crimson Tide (13-9, 3-6 SEC) started the game 0-13 from beyond the arc, but they were able to find their stride at just the right time, hitting three trifec-tas in a row to erase what had been the largest Ole Miss lead of the game. The Rebels to that point had played a complete game, turning 16 Alabama turnovers into 18 points and shooting 40.7 percent overall and 56.3 percent from three on an SEC season-high nine treys. However, the Tide were able to remain in the ballgame thanks to a significant 17-9 advantage on the offensive glass that translated to 24 second-chance points, as well as a 14-of-17 clip from the charity stripe compared to a 3-of-3 line for the Rebels.

“Great game. Tough loss. Just incredibly proud of my group,” said Ole Miss head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin in a news release. “After the loss that we had last game (vs. No. 1 South Carolina), the whole program, myself included, we were in a really down place. Today I just talked to them about life. Adversity is going to hit and you have to be able to respond.”

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Kaepernick’s Super Bowl close call has lasting impact on NFLTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — One play. Five yards. A f lag that wasn’t thrown.

Seven years ago at the Su-per Bowl, history was made when a 49ers receiver, un-able to break free from the prying hands of a harassing cornerback, could not grab a pass on fourth-and-goal that would have given San Fran-cisco the go-ahead score late in the game against the Bal-timore Ravens.

The Niners lost that game 34-31 and were relegated to the forgettable list of very good NFL teams who came in second place. For the man who threw that pass, Col-in Kaepernick, things have never been the same.

The same could be said about the NFL.

The 49ers made it back to the Super Bowl this year, but Kaepernick had noth-ing to do with this trip. His name has barely been men-tioned. In most instances, this would simply be anoth-er example of the relentless churn of players through a league that chews them up and spits them out. But at 32, Kaepernick could, con-ceivably, be in his prime. In-stead, he has been out of the league for three years.

And yet, if there’s a sin-gle player who brought this league to a point of reckon-ing — who exposed it for what it is, what it is not, and what it could still be when it comes to shaping conver-sations about the American experience that cascade well beyond the football field — it is that now-unemployed quarterback out of Nevada who came 5 yards from win-ning the Super Bowl in 2013.

“By losing that job, he gained a legacy, a career,” said Marcus Hunter, chair of the department of Afri-can-American Studies at UCLA. “Now, he has more than a job. He’s an activ-ist-minded thought leader about the state of race in America. A lot of young peo-ple, including a lot who I teach, often find themselves sitting there waiting to see what he is going to say.”

Instead of being forev-er known as a Super Bowl champion, Kaepernick will go down as the quarterback who kneeled — first during the national anthem before a preseason game — to spark one of the biggest controver-sies in the NFL’s 100-year history and, in turn, to bring what looks like a premature end to his own career.

He explained his low-key decision not to stand in 2016 as a way of underscoring his disdain for social injustice in America, a country where blacks are targeted and ar-rested by police at alarm-ingly higher rates than are whites.

The decision drew the support of fellow players, dozens of whom initially

joined him in his show of protest.

It drew the ire of a cer-tain cross-section of the country, stoked in part by President Donald Trump, who infamously wondered out loud at a political rally about how nice it would be for an NFL owner to point at a kneeling player and say “Get that son of a bitch off the field right now.” Not long after, Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a game involving the 49ers, several of whom supported Kaeper-nick’s cause and kneeled during the anthem before a game against the Indianapo-lis Colts.

It forced the NFL into a series of uncomfortable de-cisions, first in an attempt to simply tamp down the discord about kneeling, then later to try to get on board with Kaepernick’s cause, al-beit with an unspoken hope that the protests come to a halt.

“He clearly drew attention to a societal problem which needs to be addressed and that we haven’t addressed,” said Alan Page, the Hall of Fame defensive lineman who went on to a career as a Min-nesota Supreme Court jus-tice. “There’s value in that. The problem is, we get side-tracked, I think, in focusing on things that aren’t really relevant to the problem. We get sidetracked on flags and all that.”

Also sidetracked: Kaeper-nick’s career.

Though it ’s hard to imag-ine that not one of 32 teams could find a place for a quar-terback with potential to disrupt defenses with both his arm and his legs, a quar-terback who, to this day, has the sixth-best TD-to-inter-ception ratio in NFL histo-ry, a quarterback not far re-moved from bringing a team within five yards of winning the Super Bowl, there is no spot for Kaepernick.

He filed a grievance against the league, claiming the teams colluded to keep him out, and the parties eventually reached an undis-closed settlement.

In one of the more bizarre 24-hour news cycles of the past season, the NFL ar-ranged a workout for Kaeper-nick in Atlanta that all teams were welcome to attend. But unhappy with caveats and rules the league placed on the workout, Kaepernick abruptly pulled out of the NFL-sanctioned event and arranged a different work-out in another location. Only a handful of teams sent scouts, and the day ended with everyone’s intentions in question.

Did the NFL really want to help Kaepernick?

Did Kaepernick really want to play again?

“We’re waiting for the 32 owners, the 32 teams, (NFL commissioner) Roger

Goodell, all of them to stop running, stop running from the truth, stop running from the people,” Kaepernick said that day. “Around here, we’re ready to play, we’re ready to go anywhere.”

But it went nowhere.Before that, the NFL, well

aware of the need to address Kaepernick’s off-the-field concerns, began pumping money into his social-jus-tice cause, to the tune of $25 million so far with more than $60 million additional promised. It teamed with an activist-minded group com-posed of a few dozen play-ers who called themselves The Players Coalition. That group, however, did not in-clude Kaepernick, who went his own way after a series of contentious meetings with the leaders who ended up as the backbone of the Coa-lition.

The NFL named the pro-gram “Inspire Change.” The league has been running a commercial through the playoffs, with another air-ing scheduled for the Super Bowl, in which former wide receiver Anquan Boldin, a founder of The Players Coalition, tells the story of his cousin getting shot and killed by a plainclothes po-lice officer in Florida.

The irony isn’t lost that the NFL is getting credit for advancing a cause spurred by a player who cannot get a job in its own league.

“Doing the right thing for whatever reason is always a plus,” Page said of the NFL. “I’ve gotten beyond trying to ascribe people’s motives. What’s important is they do the right thing.”

What there is no defini-tive answer to, though, is ex-actly what the “right thing” really is.

As the 49ers prepared for their first trip to the Super Bowl since the Kaepernick game, it was hard not to won-der how both football and the quarterback might be differ-ent were it not for those five yards that were not gained and the touchdown that was not scored that day in the Su-perdome.

As it turned out, Kaeper-nick followed up with a pro-ductive season that stopped one game short of the Super Bowl. He followed that by signing a six-year, $126 mil-lion contract that he would never come close to playing out. He struggled through 2014, then dealt with injuries and an unsuccessful transi-tion to a new coaching staff, led by Jim Tomsula, who went 5-11 in 2015 and was promptly fired.

In 2016, Kaepernick was working with another new coach, Chip Kelly, but the quarterback was coming off injuries, had asked for a trade and, eventually, had his contract reworked to much less lucrative terms.

Kelly also was ousted af-

ter a year, and when the cur-rent coach, Kyle Shanahan, came on, he made it clear that the more traditional of-fense he was going to run would not be a good fit for an option-read style quarter-back the likes of Kaepernick. One twist in all this was that one of the few owners who supported the quarterback publicly was Jed York of the Niners. But a team that was friendly to Kaepernick’s cause suddenly had no use for him.

How would things be dif-ferent if he had been a Super Bowl champion?

“Maybe he wouldn’t have been as easily dismissed,” Hunter offers.

Dismissed how, though? As an athlete? As a voice for even bigger issues?

“When you win the Super Bowl as a quarterback in the NFL, it gives you a certain level of power,” Hunter says. “But the other side of that is, if he’d won, maybe it takes him in a whole different di-rection.”

At the NFL Players’ Asso-ciation’s annual news confer-ence earlier this week, the subject of Kaepernick came up, ever so briefly.

The union has defended Kaepernick, fought for him in the collusion case and, in theory, is behind what he’s all about. The union also rep-resents players involved in the Players Coalition, which is fighting for many of the same things but is not on the same page with the quarter-back.

NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith danced around the question of what he thought about Kaeper-nick specifically, choosing instead to generically laud “anybody who makes a de-cision to represent issues that are greater than them-selves.”

After that f lourish, the microphone moved to the next reporter. But before the question came, Michael Thomas, a player’s rep from the New York Giants who sided with Kaepernick in the contentious debate over The Players Coalition, stopped the momentum.

“As a player who did take a knee with him, he had a huge impact on a lot of play-ers, that whole movement did,” Thomas interjected. “It means a lot, taking a stand for something that’s greater than us, knowing you’re go-ing to get punished. We’ve seen how he’s been pun-ished, and the impact was huge. And a lot of players still talk about it.”

And with that, Thom-as may have best summed up the place to which both Kaepernick and the NFL have been brought to today — still unsettled, still un-comfortable, but all of it still bubbling, even if it ’s a little bit farther beneath the sur-face.

No. 1 South Carolina defeats No. 22 Vols 69-48THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Zia Cooke thinks communica-tion is the key to South Car-olina’s tough defense.

All that talking worked out quite well on Sunday.

Cooke scored 20 points, and the top-ranked Game-cocks clamped down on No. 22 Tennessee for a 69-48 victory.

South Carolina (21-1, 9 -0 Southeastern Conference) earned its 15th straight win. Cooke posted her fourth game with at least 20 points, and fellow freshmen Aliyah Boston and Brea Beal also helped with the Gamecocks’ impressive de-fensive performance.

“I think communication is something that ’s helping us out a lot,” Cooke said. “At practice we go hard and whenever we go hard at practice it helps us out in the game as well.”

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley likes how her freshman class, rated No. 1 in the country, is develop-ing.

“They are just super competitive young ladies who don’t like to lose,” Sta-ley said.

Tennessee (17-5, 7-2) had a season-low 23 points in the first half. The Lady Vols shot just 34.6% (18 of 52) for the game and finished with 21 turnovers.

Rennia Davis had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Tennessee, which lost its eighth straight to a No. 1 opponent since defeating LSU in 2005.

“They play with great poise,” Tennessee coach Kellie Harper said. “”Yet they’re very aggressive.”

South Carolina got a temporary scare in the third quarter when Boston hobbled off the court. The Gamecocks’ leading scorer

and rebounder came back to the bench with her right knee heavily wrapped, and Staley patted the freshman on the head as the final pe-riod began.

Boston, who joked and chatted with teammates in the fourth, finished with 10 points, five rebounds, two blocks and two steals. Staley said Boston would be fine and she would have gone back in if the Game-cocks were playing a cham-pionship game.

The Lady Vols cut a 15 -point halftime lead to 38 -29 in the third quarter. But Boston had a basket and four foul shots to re-estab-lish South Carolina’s lead.

Big pictureTennessee: The Lady

Vols seem to be on the right track under former star guard and first-year coach Harper. But Tennessee is still searching for the depth

it needs to match up with the country’s best teams, averaging only 48 points in losses to Stanford, South Carolina and UConn this season.

South Carolina: The Gamecocks look every bit the equal to the 2017 nation-al champions. There are still tests ahead, including UConn at home on Feb. 10.

Happy birthdayStaley made sure to bring

up that reserve Destanni Henderson had 12 points on her birthday.

“We win all the games on birthdays,” Staley said. “We’re into that.”

Up nextTennessee returns home

to face No. 9 Mississippi State on Thursday night.

South Carolina goes to No. 25 Arkansas on Thurs-day night.

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bilt, Ole Miss and Au-burn, the Bulldogs aver-aged 14.3 turnovers per game compared to their season mark of 13.3 per night. Similarly, it took a 22-2 fourth quarter run to down the Commo-dores and a 27-13 third quarter to find breathing room against the Tigers in games that profiled as potential blowouts on paper.

Despite the recent downturn, Schaefer has received encouraging

play from sophomore forward Xaria Wiggins and freshmen guards Aliyah Matharu and JaMya Mingo-Young of late.

While Matharu and Ming-Young were sty-mied in the win over Au-burn, both scored dou-ble-digits against South Carolina. A 10-point outburst three nights later from Matharu also helped the Bulldogs sur-vive a trip to Nashville and defeat Vanderbilt.

Wiggins has also seen a recent uptick in min-utes — averaging 21 per game over the past three contests compared to her season average of 13.9. In a more prolific role, the Virginia Beach, Virginia native has de-livered — notching 26 points on 9 of 18 shoot-ing over her past four games.

“I think we have to bring a lot of energy coming off the bench — that’s out job,” Min-

go-Young said last week. “You can’t have a down-fall when you come off the bench, so I’m happy for Aliyah — that kid, she’s so tough — but we’ve just got to embrace the role and whatever coach needs us to do we’ve got to go out there and do it.”

Sitting precariously behind South Carolina for a shot at the SEC reg-ular season title, MSU’s game against Georgia becomes all the more im-

portant as games against No. 22 Tennessee, No. 13 Kentucky and No. 15 Texas A&M loom over the next two weeks. And as the Bulldogs learned in Athens, anything short of a complete game could leave them out of the mix for a third-straight regular season conference champion-ship.

“Look I learn some-thing new about them every day,” Schaefer said Friday. “And so I think

what we’ve seen is how well they can play and we’ve also seen the f lip side of it — how they’ve struggled at times. My job is to get that consis-tency from them every day in practice and ev-eryday in a game when the lights come one and that’s the challenge. But I think the one thing we are and we’re going be tomorrow is we’re talent-ed, we’re skilled. We’ve got to continue to think the game a little bit.”

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the Chiefs 35, Mahomes found a wide-open Tyreek Hill 44 yards downfield for a first down that set up the score — the key play in the comeback.

“We were in a bad sit-uation,” Mahomes said. “Tyreek made a really great play and that got us going there.”

On Kansas City’s next drive, Mahomes zipped the ball around — for 13 yards to Kelce and 3 to Hill, before toss-ing a perfectly placed rainbow pass to Sammy Watkins down the right sideline for 38 yards to get the ball to the 49ers 10.

Three plays lat-er, Mahomes threw a 5-yard pass to Damien

Williams, who reached over the goal line — and it stood after a video re-view — to put Kansas City up 24-20 with 2:44 remaining.

Mahomes flexed both arms in front of him and shouted in celebration, letting loose three quar-ters of frustration, sens-ing a Super Bowl title.

“We have heart,” Ma-homes said. “That’s just from Day One. Coach pushes us to be the best people that we can be, and we never give up.”

After Kansas City stopped Jimmy Garop-polo and the 49ers on fourth down, Williams ran up the middle for 4 yards. Then he sealed the win by zipping 38 yards into the end zone

for a 31-20 lead with 1:12 left.

It was reminiscent of the divisional round when Kansas City fell behind early against Houston before Ma-homes led the Chiefs back from a 24-point deficit to pull off the greatest comeback in franchise history.

They weren’t in near-ly as big a hole in this one, but the 49ers were making it tough all night for Mahomes to get in a rhythm.

“They’re one of the best defenses that I’ve been up against in my career so far,” he said. “We weren’t executing at a high enough level and when you play a de-fense like that, you’re

not going to have suc-cess.”

Mahomes was inter-cepted by Fred Warner in the third quarter, and was picked off by Tarvar-ius Moore to short-cir-cuit Kansas City’s next drive. It marked the first time Mahomes threw multiple interceptions in a game since Week 11 of the 2018 season against the Los Angeles Rams, when he tossed three in a 54-51 loss.

But Mahomes led Kansas City to its third straight comeback from a double-digit deficit in this year’s postseason.

“He kept firing, that’s what he did,” Reid said. “And the guys around him just believed in him. ... Nobody lost their

poise. They just kept rolling.”

Mahomes finished 26 of 42 for 286 yards and the two scores, and also had a 1-yard touchdown run against the 49ers.

“You know, Pat Ma-homes, like I’ve been saying all year, man: I’ll take that quarterback over any quarterback,” defensive end Frank Clark said. “There’s none like him.”

On Feb. 6, 2013, a 17-year-old Mahomes tweeted: “I bet it feels amazing to be the quar-terback who says ‘I’m going to Disney World’ after winning the Super Bowl.”

Well, Mahomes is the youngest player to be named The Associ-

ated Press NFL MVP and win a Super Bowl in his career. He’s also the youngest quarterback to be selected the Super Bowl MVP.

It was exactly this type of moment the Chiefs envisioned when they drafted Mahomes with the 10th overall pick in 2017.

The confetti. The Lombardi. The joyful tears.

All with Mahomes leading the way.

“This fan base has accepted me since Day One and they’ve sup-ported me to the maxi-mum,” Mahomes said. “To get that trophy back to Kansas City is amaz-ing.”

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Chiefs defense comes through in Super Bowl triumphTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Kansas City Chiefs were staring at a double-digit deficit for the third time in three post-season games.

This time with less than 15 minutes left against the San Fran-cisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, when defensive end Frank Clark sauntered onto the field in Hard Rock Stadium and began to talk some trash.

He had that much con-fidence in his team. He had that much confidence in his defense.

“I went out there and told them, ‘You guys are going to go home like everybody else,’” Clark recalled. “I told George Kittle he was going home. I told Joe Staley he was going home. I told all of those guys, they were go-ing home.”

The Chiefs indeed sent them home with a stun-ning 31-20 defeat.

Leading the way? A defense that was rebuilt

from the ground up after its AFC championship game collapse a year ago, and that had struggled all night to pick up the fiz-zling Kansas City offense.

The defense forced the 49ers into a pair of punts in the fourth quar-ter, giving Patrick Ma-homes a chance to rally the Chiefs to their first title in 50 years, and the young quarterback came through with touchdown passes to Travis Kelce and Damien Williams to give his team the lead.

“I knew we weren’t in the ideal situation,” Mahomes said, “but I be-lieved in my defense to get stops and they did.”

The 49ers still had a chance after Williams reached over the pylon with 2:44 left, and a video review upheld the touch-down call that gave Kan-sas City the lead.

But after allowing a first down, a defense that carried a newfound sense of purpose — “swagger,” safety Tyrann Mathieu

called it — made four con-secutive plays when they needed it most.

Jimmy Garoppolo threw three straight in-completions, then the 49ers quarterback was sacked by Frank Clark, the $105.5 million offsea-son acquisition. That gave the Chiefs the ball back, Williams got loose for a long touchdown run and Kendall Fuller picked off a desperation heave to put an exclamation point on the comeback.

“There were great ex-pectations coming into this season,” Mathieu said, “but we knew we had the pieces in place. It was a great challenge de-fensively going into this game. I’m proud that we kind of shut them down.”

Back in Kansas City, a fanbase that hadn’t cel-ebrated a title since the Nixon administration was finally able to exhale.

“I think those people are so happy, and obvi-ously, we’re so grateful we were the group to kind of bring it back to those

people,” Mathieu said. “Those people have been supporting us all year long. It’s kind of cool to end as a champion.”

The Chiefs’ defense has been the bane of the organization for years — especially in the post-season. There was their memorable 38-31 divi-sional loss to the Colts after the 2003 season in which nobody punted in the game, and the 45-44 collapse in Indianapolis in the wild-card round after the 2013 season when the Chiefs blew a 31-10 halftime lead and the pressure and ridicule mounted on coach Andy Reid that he would never win the big one.

The most heartbreak-ing loss, though, was the one that spurred the Chiefs to make wholesale changes last offseason.

They took the New En-gland Patriots to overtime before losing the coin toss, and their defense failed to get Tom Brady and his bunch off the field. The Chiefs lost with-

out giving Mahomes and the NFL’s best offense an opportunity with the ball.

The famously loy-al Reid decided to fire then-coordinator Bob Sutton and bring in Steve Spagnuolo, whose switch to a 4-3 scheme required new personnel across the board. The Chiefs trad-ed for Clark and signed him to a big deal, added Mathieu in free agency, then added a supporting cast that gave Reid con-fidence they could hang with just about anyone.

The first eight games were a struggle. The fi-nal eight games were a lesson in dominance. And that rebuilt defense that couldn’t get the Patriots off the field last postsea-son? It got the 49ers off the field when it mattered Sunday night.

The Chiefs held Garop-polo to 219 yards passing with a touchdown and two interceptions. It held one of the NFL’s best ground attacks to 141 yards rush-ing. And it finally quit biting on trick plays and

end-arounds that caused them fits the entire first half, playing the kind of defense down the stretch that Kansas City has sought for years.

When the final sec-onds finally ticked off the clock, Clark ripped off his helmet and ran the length of the field, falling to his knees and staring into the sky. Mathieu pranced around in celebration, his own roller-coaster jour-ney reaching its climax.

The defensive line that consistently put pressure on Garoppolo down the stretch looked like giddy schoolchildren as they hugged amid the flying confetti, the celebration five decades in the mak-ing finally playing out on a field in Miami.

“I told Coach Reid we’re not leaving without a ring. We’re not going to get on that bus without a ring,” Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones said. “If the defense makes stops, Pat will make some-thing happen. We made a stop and they sailed.”

Column: Reid wasn’t going to let this Super Bowl slip awayTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Andy Reid hugged Patrick Ma-homes early, and every-one else moments later. Good practice, because all of Kansas City wants to hug him now.

Reid wasn’t about to let this Super Bowl slip away. Not with the bril-liant Mahomes under center, and not after 21 years of working late ev-ery night to get it right.

The big guy finally got his biggest win. And a city that has waited 50 years to celebrate can’t wait to welcome him home.

“Nobody deserves this trophy more than Andy Reid,” Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said as Mahomes and his teammates celebrated around him.

Criticized for losing the big game once be-fore with conservative play calling, Reid went the other way on this magical night in Flor-

ida. He let Mahomes be Mahomes, and that was enough to rally the Chiefs with three touch-downs in the last 6:13 for a 31-20 win.

The coach who had won more games than any other without win-ning a Super Bowl now has one on his resume. A city that hadn’t held the Super Bowl trophy aloft in half a century can now proudly do it once again.

All thanks to a coach who kept plugging away and plugging away, cer-tain he would one day have a winner no matter what anyone said.

“This is what it ’s all about,” Reid said. “What a great team, great coaches. Appreciate ev-ery bit of it.”

For a time in the fourth quarter it seemed like history was repeat-ing itself for a coach who kept winning games — but couldn’t win the biggest game. The Chiefs were down

20-10 and facing a third-and-15 with a little more than seven minutes left when Mahomes found Tyreek Hill open for a 44-yard gain that turned the game around.

Mahomes had strug-gled before then, throw-ing two interceptions. But if the Chiefs were going down, they were going to go down throw-ing.

“Coach Reid told me after both (intercep-tions) to keep firing,” Mahomes said. “Keep believing in your eyes, keep throwing it. He gives me the confidence to go out there no mat-ter what I do, and we worked out well in the end.”

Up against a wunder-kind in San Francisco’s Kyle Shanahan, Reid used the wisdom gained in 21 years of coach-ing in Philadelphia and Kansas City for a fourth quarter that will live long in Chiefs lore.

Then again, it doesn’t

take all that much wis-dom to hand Mahomes the ball and tell him to find someone to catch it.

“Pat Mahomes and all his boys on defense tak-ing care of business, the coaches, man, a great job of keeping things right at the right time,” Reid said. “And it was a beautiful thing.”

It was Reid and his staff who saw the po-tential in Mahomes, trading up to make him the 10th pick in the 2017 draft despite having a perfectly capable quar-terback in Alex Smith. After letting Mahomes sit and learn for a year, Reid linked his for-tunes to the talents of his young charge. His faith was rewarded with three touchdowns in the final minutes.

And a Lombardi Tro-phy.

If he didn’t totally erase the memories about what happened 15 years ago when the Eagles lost to New En-

gland, he at least has some new ones to take their place.

“He’s one of the great-est coaches of all time,” Mahomes said. “I don’t think he needs the Lom-bardi Trophy to prove that, but I think it takes all doubt away.”

It was the first Super Bowl for Mahomes, who could have been over-whelmed over getting the opportunity of his lifetime. At times on Sunday he seemed just that, misfiring early and throwing a pair of inter-ceptions — his first in five postseason games — that could have prov-en costly.

But Reid’s greatest strength — besides his incredible work ethic — might be his ability to let his players be them-selves. That’s true not only with Mahomes, but seemingly every other player on a team that came agonizingly close to the Super Bowl a year earlier.

“We’ve got a great leader in Pat (Ma-homes) and then you put the mastermind Andy Reid behind that, it ’s ab-solutely unbelievable,” Chiefs tackle Eric Fish-er said. “So much hard work paid off.”

The hardest work-er of all was Reid, the coach who comes in hours before everyone else and leaves hours af-ter. Reid has done it his entire career, even when one of his sons died of a drug overdose just as he was taking over the Chiefs seven years ago.

His players see it and want to work harder themselves.

“He’s there at 3 in the morning and there to 11 at night,” Mahomes said. “I don’t think he sleeps. He works hard-er than anyone I’ve ever known.”

The hard work finally paid off.

And now he’s a Super Bowl champion.

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HoroscopesTODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb.

3). This solar return will be a self-esteem booster, a spiritual uplift and a real-world advocate. The fates favor you, and you pay it forward. Because of the ad-venture that is friendship, you’ll wind up where you never imag-ined you’d be. In spring, your professionalism and passion go hand in hand toward promotion. Scorpio and Cancer adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 30, 2, 33 and 1.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Though you may do your best work under the pressure of peo-ple watching, it is important to work alone, too. Solo repetition is how your muscles (including emotional and intellectual mus-cles) get their memory. Practice!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You thought you knew what you wanted out of life, and that framework was right for then. Things are different now. Ask yourself some questions today aimed at figuring out what is going to serve you best in the next 10 weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). “My job is keeping faces clean, and nobody knows de stubble I’ve seen.” — Burma-Shave advertisement, circa 1950. Relatedly, your job will revolve around keeping faces clean, or saving them, and you’ll be mighty good at it.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Emotions drive thoughts as much as thoughts drive emotions. You can chip away at this from both sides. Decide to feel better, smile, sing a little,

hug yourself. Also, tell yourself you’re doing mighty fine, be-cause you are.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). To prioritize current wants in such a way that they infringe on tomorrow’s happiness — that’s the stuff of child’s play. Maturity offers the sort of well-rounded focus that keeps you from steal-ing from future you for a little pleasure now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The look of things matters to you. This isn’t shallowness; in fact, it couldn’t be further from it. The visual is a communica-tion, and you care enough to make sure it’s communicating the right thing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It feels like you don’t have time to do the regiment you want to do, but the bottom line is exercise gives you more energy than it takes. It’s a keystone habit that holds you in good stead. Move and be happy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Ideally, you believe in your ability to permanently solve the problem, even if it’s a deeply engrained habit. If you don’t believe, that’s fine. Just act as though you do believe and one day you will.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). What allows you to be your best self? A fair amount of structure and a solid routine. Being in control of one sector of life gives you the confidence to learn, grow and take risks in other sectors.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You get to choose what to believe. Some thoughts are trash drifting in with the tide. Some thoughts have been delib-erately assembled and secured to form lighthouses of the mind. Some thoughts are destiny.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The funny part about a rev-olution is that sometimes you don’t know you’re in one. It’s like standing in a wave current and feeling that first tug: gentle enough, and yet, it’s already too late.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Movements are not always progress. As it is in dance, movements can just as easily take the body back to an earlier position. In fact, a good dance will do this, as patterns are a key element in organization.

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DEAR ABBY: Our 24-year-old grand-

son “Raffy,” a college grad from a respected tech-nical institution, couldn’t find a job for a year after graduation. He has been living with us for more than six months without paying rent because we wanted to help him get on his feet. Currently, his only respon-sibility is helping somewhat after dinner. He now has a good job.

I should mention that Raffy tends to be narcissistic. He frequently wears his baseball hat to meals, even though I have asked him not to. He can also be difficult to deal with, attacking me when there’s a difference of opinion or if he’s angry about something.

We live in a three-bed-room condo. What rules are legitimate for me to require? Can I ask him to keep his room straight and take his hat off at meals or when going out for dinner? How much room and board should we ask for?

We have frequent guests

— family, our friends, his friends — be-cause we live close to the beach in Florida. Space gets to be a big issue, and he refuses to allow visiting cousins to sleep in his room, even though there are two double beds. I welcome your input, Abby. — OUT OF CON-TROL IN FLORIDA

DEAR OUT OF CONTROL: You seem to have forgotten that the condo Raffy lives in belongs to you. Because it is your home, and he has been living rent-free, you should be making the rules. It’s time to sit him down and tell him together that if he wants to continue living there, he will:

1. Keep his room neat at all times.

2. Remove his hat during the meals he shares with you.

3. Allow the visiting cousins to use the extra bed in “his” room — which is really your guest room.

4. I hesitate to suggest you ask him for money because if you turn the arrangement into

a business deal, you may lose leverage. But I do think you should set a deadline for your gainfully employed (but diffi-cult) grandson to leave. With the money he has been sock-ing away on rent, he should be able to accumulate enough to afford a place of his own.

DEAR ABBY: As kids, we were taught not to kiss on the mouth (unless a spouse or romantic partner). We never kissed our children on the mouth and felt disgusted when we witnessed it.

We see it happen all the time now, especially on TV. It never happened in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Is my family wrong? — HOLDING BACK IN HAMIL-TON, OHIO

DEAR HOLDING BACK: It’s a matter of personal prefer-ence and upbringing. Giving a family member a peck on the lips is neither right nor wrong, and I have certainly never considered a parent or sibling showing affection in this way to be shocking or disgusting. Readers, what do you think?

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Shanahan must answer for another Super Bowl collapseTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Kyle Shanahan will now have another Su-per Bowl collapse to an-swer questions about.

After being peppered all week by reporters seeking to rehash that blown 28-3 lead to New England three years ago when Shanahan was of-fensive coordinator in Atlanta, Shanahan’s first trip to the Super Bowl as a head coach ended in another late-game melt-down.

The 49ers became the third team in Super Bowl history to give up a 10-point lead in the sec-ond half when they blew

a 20-10 advantage and lost 31-20 to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night.

“Those guys are hurt-ing in there, just like I am,” Shanahan said. “We all are (hurting) right now. It’s tough when you lose a Super Bowl, but I’m so unbelievably proud of those guys, what they’ve done all year. I’ve been coaching a while and it’s as special a group as I’ve ever been around. It’s tough that it had to end to-day in the way it did.”

In two trips to the Su-per Bowl, Shanahan’s teams have been out-scored 46-0 in the fourth quarter and overtime and he can only think about what went wrong to cost

him two championships.Shanahan has now had

seven drives as a play-call-er in the fourth quarter of Super Bowls and his teams have four punts, two turnovers, one failed fourth down and only six first downs.

“We just didn’t get it done when we got the ball,” Shanahan said. “Came up short on a just couple plays. ... We had our chance a little bit there at the end, and they made some good plays, and we just missed them.”

The 49ers appeared to be firmly in control when they intercepted Patrick Mahomes for a second time with 11:57 to play and a 10-point lead.

But then the coach known as perhaps one of the league’s most innova-tive play-callers couldn’t dial up the right plays to help the 49ers seal the win.

Jimmy Garoppolo com-pleted a 12-yard pass to George Kittle to give the Niners a first down with less than 11 minutes to play. But Raheem Mo-stert was stopped for 1 yard, Garoppolo threw an incompletion on second down and then was forced into a short scramble on third down following a false start on Joe Staley.

That forced a punt and Mahomes led an 83-yard drive that got the Chiefs right back into the game.

“The turning point is we got a turnover and didn’t execute on of-fense,” Kittle said. “We gave the ball right back.”

The Niners still had a chance to seal it with a productive drive on of-fense but a first down run followed by two incom-pletions, including one batted at the line by Chris Jones gave the Chiefs the ball back again.

Mahomes led anoth-er TD drive to give the Chiefs a 24-20 edge, set-ting the stage for Garop-polo to lead a late-game comeback in the final 2:39.

The Niners managed to move the ball across midfield following the

two-minute warning before two straight in-completions. Emmanuel Sanders then broke open deep on third down but Garoppolo just overthrew him.

“We missed some shots downfield, some plays we usually make,” Garoppolo said. “We just didn’t make some of the plays we normally make.”

A fourth-down sack ended the chance for Shanahan to join his fa-ther, Mike, as the only father-son Super Bowl champion coaches.

The Chiefs added a late TD and then Garop-polo’s desperation inter-ception ended any come-back chance for the 49ers.

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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLIN PETI-TIONERS

VERSUS

JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICES RESPOND-ENTS

CAUSE NO:2019-0006-S

SUMMONS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT

THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion for Adoption at 9:00o’clock a.m., on Monday, the2nd day of March, 2020, in theLowndes County ChanceryCourt, at the Oktibbeha CountyCourthouse, Starkville, Missis-sippi, and in case of your fail-ure to appear and defend, ajudgment will be enteredagainst you for the money orother things demanded in saidPetition.

You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 28th day ofJanuary, 2020.

Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Shantrell W. Granderson

PUBLISH: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLIN PETI-TIONERS

VERSUS

JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICES RESPOND-ENTS

CAUSE NO:2019-0007-S

SUMMONS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT

THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion for Adoption at 9:00o’clock a.m., on Monday, the2nd day of March, 2020, in theLowndes County ChanceryCourt, at the Oktibbeha CountyCourthouse, Starkville, Missis-sippi, and in case of your fail-ure to appear and defend, ajudgment will be enteredagainst you for the money orother things demanded in saidPetition.

You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 28th day ofJanuary, 2020.

Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Shantrell W. Granderson

PUBLISH: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLIN PETI-TIONERS

VERSUS

JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICES RESPOND-ENTS

CAUSE NO:2019-0007-S

SUMMONS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT

THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion for Adoption at 9:00o’clock a.m., on Monday, the2nd day of March, 2020, in theLowndes County ChanceryCourt, at the Oktibbeha CountyCourthouse, Starkville, Missis-sippi, and in case of your fail-ure to appear and defend, ajudgment will be enteredagainst you for the money orother things demanded in saidPetition.

You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 28th day ofJanuary, 2020.

Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Shantrell W. Granderson

PUBLISH: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF JOSEPHINE H. JONES,DECEASED

CAUSE NO. 2020-0006

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Letters Testamentary havingbeen issued to the under-signed by the Chancery Courtof Lowndes County, Missis-sippi on the 9th day of January,2020 as Executrix of the Es-tate of Josephine H. Jones, de-ceased.

NOTICE is hereby given to allpersons having claims againstsaid estate to have the sameprobated, registered, and al-lowed by the Clerk of the Courtwithin ninety (90) days from thedate of first publication of thisnotice, and failure to do so, willforever bar said claim orclaims.

This the 9th day of January,2020.

ANN H. VANLYDEGRAF, EXEC-UTRIX OF THE ESTATE OFJOSEPHINE H. JONES, DE-CEASED

J. KIZER JONESATTORNEY AT LAWPOST OFFICE BOX 117HOLLY SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI38635PHONE: 662-252-3788

PUBLISH: 1/20, 1/27, &2/3/2020

Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLIN PETI-TIONERS

VERSUS

JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICES RESPOND-ENTS

CAUSE NO:2019-0258-S

SUMMONS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT

THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion to Terminate ParentalRights at 9:00 o’clock a.m., onMonday, the 2nd day of March,2020, in the Lowndes CountyChancery Court, at the Oktib-beha County Courthouse,Starkville, Mississippi, and incase of your failure to appearand defend, a judgment will beentered against you for themoney or other things deman-ded in said Petition.

You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 28th day ofJanuary, 2020.

Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Shantrell W. Granderson

PUBLISH: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLIN PETI-TIONERS

VERSUS

JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICES RESPOND-ENTS

CAUSE NO:2019-0259-S

SUMMONS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT

THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion to Terminate ParentalRights at 9:00 o’clock a.m., onMonday, the 2nd day of March,2020, in the Lowndes CountyChancery Court, at the Oktib-beha County Courthouse,Starkville, Mississippi, and incase of your failure to appearand defend, a judgment will beentered against you for themoney or other things deman-ded in said Petition.

You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 28th day ofJanuary, 2020.

Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Shantrell W. Granderson

PUBLISH: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLINAND JONATHAN SANDLIN PETI-TIONERS

VERSUS

JOSHUA W. EGLER AND COM-MONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYCABINET FOR HEALTH ANDFAMILY SERVICES RESPOND-ENTS

CAUSE NO:2019-0259-S

SUMMONS

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whosewhereabouts are unknown

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT

THE DOCUMENT THAT IS AT-TACHED TO THIS SUMMONS ISIMPORTANT AND YOU MUSTTAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.

Your are summoned to appearand defend against the Peti-tion to Terminate ParentalRights at 9:00 o’clock a.m., onMonday, the 2nd day of March,2020, in the Lowndes CountyChancery Court, at the Oktib-beha County Courthouse,Starkville, Mississippi, and incase of your failure to appearand defend, a judgment will beentered against you for themoney or other things deman-ded in said Petition.

You are not required to file andAnswer or other Pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and sealof said Court, this 28th day ofJanuary, 2020.

Chancery Court Clerk ofLowndes County, MississippiCindy E. GoodeBy: Shantrell W. Granderson

PUBLISH: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF M D MORGAN, DE-CEASED

CAUSE NO.2019-0667-F

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LOWNDES

Letters Testamentary havebeen granted and issued to theundersigned upon the Estate ofM D Morgan, Deceased, by theChancery Court of LowndesCounty, Mississippi, on the10th day of January, 2020.This is to give notice to all per-sons having claims againstsaid estate to probate and re-gister same with the ChanceryClerk of Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi, within ninety (90) daysfrom the first publication dateof this Notice to Creditors. Afailure to so probate and re-gister said claim will foreverbar the same.

This the 29th day of January,2020.

/s/ Marilyn Michelle ButlerMARILYN MICHELLE BUTLER,Executrix

PUBLISH: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF FLOYD WELLS, DE-CEASED

RAINA WELLS, ADMINISTRAT-RIX

CAUSE NO.: 2018-260-PDE

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

TO: All Unknown Heirs-at-Law ofFloyd Wells, deceased, and AnyUnknown Parties In Interest

You have been made a defend-ant in the Petition for Adjudica-tion of Heirs-at-Law [Doc. No.16] filed by the Administratrix,Raina Wells, on January 13,2020, seeking to determinethe heirs-at-law of Floyd Wells,deceased. Other than you, theonly other interested parties inthis action are Raina Wells andCrystal Wells.

You are summoned to appearand represent your interestsagainst said Petition before theHonorable Paula Drungole-Ellis,Chancellor of the 14th Chan-cery District at 9:30 a.m. onthe 12th day of March 2020,at the Oktibbeha County Court-house in Starkville, Missis-sippi, and in case of your fail-ure to appear your interest inthis matter will not be con-sidered.

You are not required to file ananswer or other pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and theseal of said Court, this the16th day of January 2020.

CINDY GOODE, CHANCERYCLERKLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

(SEAL)BY: /s/ Shantrell W. Grander-son, D.C.

PUBLISH: 1/20, 1/27, &2/3/2020

Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF FLOYD WELLS, DE-CEASED

RAINA WELLS, ADMINISTRAT-RIX

CAUSE NO.: 2018-260-PDE

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

TO: All Unknown Heirs-at-Law ofFloyd Wells, deceased, and AnyUnknown Parties In Interest

You have been made a defend-ant in the Petition for Adjudica-tion of Heirs-at-Law [Doc. No.16] filed by the Administratrix,Raina Wells, on January 13,2020, seeking to determinethe heirs-at-law of Floyd Wells,deceased. Other than you, theonly other interested parties inthis action are Raina Wells andCrystal Wells.

You are summoned to appearand represent your interestsagainst said Petition before theHonorable Paula Drungole-Ellis,Chancellor of the 14th Chan-cery District at 9:30 a.m. onthe 12th day of March 2020,at the Oktibbeha County Court-house in Starkville, Missis-sippi, and in case of your fail-ure to appear your interest inthis matter will not be con-sidered.

You are not required to file ananswer or other pleading, butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and theseal of said Court, this the16th day of January 2020.

CINDY GOODE, CHANCERYCLERKLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

(SEAL)BY: /s/ Shantrell W. Grander-son, D.C.

PUBLISH: 1/20, 1/27, &2/3/2020

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

PALMER HOME FOR CHILDRENPLAINTIFF

vs

MICHAEL DAVID SIMPSON ANDCRYSTAL GAIL PUTNEY DE-FENDANTS

CAUSE NO CV2014-0427

SUMMONS(Service by Publicatlon)

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

TO: CRYSTAL GAIL PUTNEY,whose address, PO Box andwhereabouts. is unknown afterdiligent search and inquiry

You have been made a Defend-ant in the suit filed in thisCourt by Palmer Home for Chil-dren seeking Modification ofCustody and Other relief. A de-fendant other than you in thisaction is Michael DavidSimpson.

You are summoned to appearand defend the complaint orpetition filed against you in thisaction at 9:00 O'clock a.m. onthe 6th day of March, 2020, atthe Oktibbeha County Court-house, located in Starkville,Mississippi, and in case ofyour failure to appear and de-fend a judgment will be enteredagainst you for the money orother things demanded in thecomplaint or petition.

You are not required to file ananswer of other pleading butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and theseal of said Court, this the27th day of January, 2020.

Cindy E. Goode, Chancery ClerkClerk of Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi(SEAL)By: Tina Fisher, D.C.Deputy Clerk

Publish: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

PALMER HOME FOR CHILDRENPLAINTIFF

vs

MICHAEL DAVID SIMPSON ANDCRYSTAL GAIL PUTNEY DE-FENDANTS

CAUSE NO CV2014-0427

SUMMONS(Service by Publicatlon)

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

TO: CRYSTAL GAIL PUTNEY,whose address, PO Box andwhereabouts. is unknown afterdiligent search and inquiry

You have been made a Defend-ant in the suit filed in thisCourt by Palmer Home for Chil-dren seeking Modification ofCustody and Other relief. A de-fendant other than you in thisaction is Michael DavidSimpson.

You are summoned to appearand defend the complaint orpetition filed against you in thisaction at 9:00 O'clock a.m. onthe 6th day of March, 2020, atthe Oktibbeha County Court-house, located in Starkville,Mississippi, and in case ofyour failure to appear and de-fend a judgment will be enteredagainst you for the money orother things demanded in thecomplaint or petition.

You are not required to file ananswer of other pleading butyou may do so if you desire.

Issued under my hand and theseal of said Court, this the27th day of January, 2020.

Cindy E. Goode, Chancery ClerkClerk of Lowndes County, Mis-sissippi(SEAL)By: Tina Fisher, D.C.Deputy Clerk

Publish: 2/3, 2/10, &2/17/2020

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF SHIRLEY ANN BAR-RETT, DECEASED

STANLEY BARRETT, PETITION-ER

NO. 44CH1:19-pr-00145-JNS

PETITION TO ESTABLISH HEIRSAT LAW

Comes now Stanley Ann Bar-rett, Administrator of the Es-tate of Shirley Ann Barrett, de-ceased, and files this his Peti-tion to declare Stanley Barrettand Christopher Barrett, soleheirs at law of Shirley Ann Bar-rett, deceased, pursuant toMississippi Code Annotated§91-1-27 (1972) and asamended, and in support there-of would show the following:

1. Petitioner is adult residentcitizen of Lowndes County,whose address is 50002 Birch-wood Drive, Caledonia, Missis-sippi.

2. The deceased, Shirley AnnBarrett died on April 26, 2019.At the time of her death, thesaid Shirley Ann Barrett was anadult resident of and had afixed place of residence inLowndes County, Mississippi.

3. Shirley Ann Barrett died in-testate and possessed no realproperty and very little person-al property located in LowndesCounty, Mississippi. At thetime of her death Shirley AnnBarrett was a party plaintiff inan action to recover personalinjury damages pending in theUnited States District Court forthe Northern District of Missis-sippi – Aberdeen Division,styled as Shirley Barrett andStanley Barrett vs. PamelaShaw, New Prime, Inc., andJohn Does, 1-10; In the UnitedState District Court for theNorthern District of Missis-sippi, Aberdeen Division, CivilAction No.: 1:18-cv-00003-GHD-DAS (hereinafter “the per-sonal injury action”). The es-tate and the beneficiaries havean interest in this unliquidatedclaim for damages. Shirley AnnBarrett’s death was due tocauses unrelated to thepending lawsuit.

4. The names and/or identit-ies of the unknown heirs at lawof Shirley Ann Barrett, de-ceased, are unknown to the Pe-titioner.

5. Stanley Barrett, the surviv-ing spouse of Shirley Ann Bar-rett, and Christopher Barrett,the only surviving adult child ofShirley Ann Barrett, are uponinformation and belief, the onlyheirs at law of Shirley Ann Bar-rett and the only persons en-titled to share in her estate un-der the laws of Descent andDistribution in the State of Mis-sissippi, pursuant to Missis-sippi Code Annotated §91-1-1,et seq. (1972).

WHEREFORE, Petitioner praysthis Court enter an Order de-claring and recognizing StanleyBarrett and Christopher Barrettas the sole heirs at law and be-neficiaries of Shirley Ann Bar-rett, deceased.

Petitioner further prays for suchfurther and general relief towhich he may be entitled in thepremises.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Stanley BarrettSTANLEY BARRETT

STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LEE

Personally came and appearedbefore me, the undersigned au-thority in and for the jurisdic-tion aforesaid, the withinnamed, STANLEY BARRETT,who having been by me firstduly sworn, and stated on theiroath that the matters con-tained and set forth in theabove and foregoing Petitionare true and correct as thereinstated.

/s/ Stanley BarrettSTANLEY BARRETT

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBEDbefore me this the 2nd day ofDecember, 2019.

/s/ Bobby SeaneyNOTARY PUBLICMy Commission Expires: April2, 2021(SEAL)

/s/ Roger K. DoolittleRoger K. Doolittle, Esq.Attorney at Law460 Briarwood DriveSuite 500Jackson, MS 39206Ph: (601) 957-9777Fax: (601) 957-9779Email: rogerkdoolittle@aol.comATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER

PUBLISH: 1/20, 1/27, &2/3/2020

Legal Notices

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFLOWNDES COUNTY, MISSIS-SIPPI

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF SHIRLEY ANN BAR-RETT, DECEASED

STANLEY BARRETT, PETITION-ER

NO. 44CH1:19-pr-00145-JNS

PETITION TO ESTABLISH HEIRSAT LAW

Comes now Stanley Ann Bar-rett, Administrator of the Es-tate of Shirley Ann Barrett, de-ceased, and files this his Peti-tion to declare Stanley Barrettand Christopher Barrett, soleheirs at law of Shirley Ann Bar-rett, deceased, pursuant toMississippi Code Annotated§91-1-27 (1972) and asamended, and in support there-of would show the following:

1. Petitioner is adult residentcitizen of Lowndes County,whose address is 50002 Birch-wood Drive, Caledonia, Missis-sippi.

2. The deceased, Shirley AnnBarrett died on April 26, 2019.At the time of her death, thesaid Shirley Ann Barrett was anadult resident of and had afixed place of residence inLowndes County, Mississippi.

3. Shirley Ann Barrett died in-testate and possessed no realproperty and very little person-al property located in LowndesCounty, Mississippi. At thetime of her death Shirley AnnBarrett was a party plaintiff inan action to recover personalinjury damages pending in theUnited States District Court forthe Northern District of Missis-sippi – Aberdeen Division,styled as Shirley Barrett andStanley Barrett vs. PamelaShaw, New Prime, Inc., andJohn Does, 1-10; In the UnitedState District Court for theNorthern District of Missis-sippi, Aberdeen Division, CivilAction No.: 1:18-cv-00003-GHD-DAS (hereinafter “the per-sonal injury action”). The es-tate and the beneficiaries havean interest in this unliquidatedclaim for damages. Shirley AnnBarrett’s death was due tocauses unrelated to thepending lawsuit.

4. The names and/or identit-ies of the unknown heirs at lawof Shirley Ann Barrett, de-ceased, are unknown to the Pe-titioner.

5. Stanley Barrett, the surviv-ing spouse of Shirley Ann Bar-rett, and Christopher Barrett,the only surviving adult child ofShirley Ann Barrett, are uponinformation and belief, the onlyheirs at law of Shirley Ann Bar-rett and the only persons en-titled to share in her estate un-der the laws of Descent andDistribution in the State of Mis-sissippi, pursuant to Missis-sippi Code Annotated §91-1-1,et seq. (1972).

WHEREFORE, Petitioner praysthis Court enter an Order de-claring and recognizing StanleyBarrett and Christopher Barrettas the sole heirs at law and be-neficiaries of Shirley Ann Bar-rett, deceased.

Petitioner further prays for suchfurther and general relief towhich he may be entitled in thepremises.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Stanley BarrettSTANLEY BARRETT

STATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF LEE

Personally came and appearedbefore me, the undersigned au-thority in and for the jurisdic-tion aforesaid, the withinnamed, STANLEY BARRETT,who having been by me firstduly sworn, and stated on theiroath that the matters con-tained and set forth in theabove and foregoing Petitionare true and correct as thereinstated.

/s/ Stanley BarrettSTANLEY BARRETT

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBEDbefore me this the 2nd day ofDecember, 2019.

/s/ Bobby SeaneyNOTARY PUBLICMy Commission Expires: April2, 2021(SEAL)

/s/ Roger K. DoolittleRoger K. Doolittle, Esq.Attorney at Law460 Briarwood DriveSuite 500Jackson, MS 39206Ph: (601) 957-9777Fax: (601) 957-9779Email: rogerkdoolittle@aol.comATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER

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RENTALSADS STARTING AT $25

Apts For Rent: South

TWO 1BR/1BA APTS

located at 121 5th St. S.$700/mo. 662−328−8655.

Apts For Rent: West

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1−2 BR Apt: $350−3951−2BR TwnHome:

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Apts For Rent: Other

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662-329-23232411 HWY 45 N

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Commercial Property For Rent

FOR RENT LOCATED NEAR

DOWNTOWN. 3,000 sq. ft.truck terminal, 9,500 sq.ft. shop & 3,200 sq. ft.office/shop. Buildings canbe rented together orseparately. All w/ excellentaccess & Hwy. 82 visibility.662−327−9559.

Houses For Rent: North

3BR/2BA BRICK Home,ch/a, stove, dw, & fridgefurn. Fenced backyard.1204 6th St. N. $785/mo+ dep. 662−352−4776.

Houses For Rent: North

COLONIAL TOWNHOUSES.

2 & 3 bedroom w/ 2−3bath townhouses. $625 to$675. 662−549−9555.Ask for Glenn or text.

Houses For Rent: East

4BR/2.5BA BRICK HOME

located on large lot w/ 2car garage. Fresh paint &tile floors in kitchen &bathrooms. Located at495 Emerald Dr. $1,100/mo + $1,000 dep. AvailFeb 1. 770−658−7726.

Mobile Homes for Rent

2BR MOBILE HOME $400mo./$400 dep. In betweenWest Point & Columbus onHwy. 50. 662−275−0666.

RENT A CAMPER!

CHEAPER THAN A MOTEL!

Utilities & cable included,from $145/wk − $535/month. Columbus & CountySchool locations. 662−242−7653 or 601−940−1397.

Office Spaces For Rent

OFFICE SPACE FOR

LEASE. 1112 Main St.,Ste. 5. 3700 sq. ft.Plenty of private parking.662−327−9559.

REAL ESTATEADS STARTING AT $25

Houses For Sale: North

FSBO: 3BR/2BA, 3304 5thSt N. Fenced back yard w/sm shop. Great neighbor−hood. $110,000. 662−356−4764 or 901−848−0051.

Houses For Sale: New Hope

16 WIDNER IN NEW HOPE

Newly remodeled. 3BR/2BA home. Approx. 1,500sq. ft. Has 25’x30’ wiredmetal shop w/ roll−up front& side door. $164,900.662−549−9298.

Houses For Sale: Caledonia

FSBO: 3BR/2BA ON 2.5

ACRES. 1600 sqft.Completely remodeled.$178,000. 662−386−7113.

Lots & Acreage

WINTER SPECIAL. 1.75acre lots. Good/bad credit.10% down, as low as$299/mo. Eaton Land.662−361−7711.

MERCHANDISEADS STARTING AT $12

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General Merchandise

ESTATE SALE − ONGOING

FEB 1−29. ALL MUST GO!662−435−0641. 548 Hwy.45 N. Frontage Rd. 10−till.By appt: 662−352−4460.Furn, home decor, linens,Tonneau cover, comm kit

items, etc. No junk.

Over 100 pairs of Name

Brand Women’s Shoes for

Sale Sale starts February 6−8! I have over 100 pairsof Name Brand Women’sShoes for Sale starting aslow as $9.99! Some arenew in the box! Location;Meeting Room, 303Shoney Drive Columbus,MS, 39705. $10.00 662−889−8928

PROFORM TREADMILL

$300. Call 662−549−4560 or 662−240−1507.

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PCs & Laptops.Hardware & Software.

Windows, MacOS, Linux.Call Kevin @ 773−231−

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Sporting Goods

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Over 50 years experience!Repairs, cleaning,refinishing, scopesmounted & zeroed,handmade knives.

Located: Hwy 45 Alt, Northof West Point, turn right onYokahama Blvd, 8mi & turnleft on Darracott Rd, see

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COMMUNITYADS STARTING AT $12

Instruction & School

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Pets

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