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INSIDE TODAY: East Coast, Midwest battered by strong storm systems / A3
FEB. 26, 2016
— FRIDAY —
JASPER, ALABAMA
WWW.MOUNTAINEAGLE.COM
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
INSIDE
Governor signs bill to block
local control of minimum wage
State Senate approves budget without
new money for Medicaid / A5
UA looking
for new QB
Quarterback competitions that get
settled in spring are
often competitions
in name only. / B1
BRIEFS
Chitlin supper
set for today
The 57th annual
Winston County
Chitlin’ Supper will
be held from 4:30
until 8 p.m. today at
the Meek Elementary School gym.
Gov. Robert Bentley is slated to
speak at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $8 for
adults, $5 for kids
5-12 and free for
kids 4 and under.
DEATHS
Rosie Lee Benson Sullivan,
76, Nauvoo
Annie Rose Louise Duncan
Vines, 80, Jasper
William R. “Monk” Powell,
78, Dora
Mrs. Ila Mae Dodd Herren,
98, White’s Chapel
Emuel Harrison “Jim”
Elkins, 94, Jasper
Wendell “Bubba” Muncher,
56, Empire
Beverly Fay Wolfe
Goodwin, 74, Dora
Larry J. Wood, 68, Cordova
Gov. Robert
Bentley
MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama’s governor and legislature Thursday blocked
Birmingham’s attempts to raise its minimum wage as they swiftly approved legislation to strip cities of their ability to set
hourly pay requirements.
The Alabama Senate passed the legislation on a 23-11 vote that largely broke
along party lines. Gov. Robert Bentley
signed the bill into law about an hour later.
The legislation voids a Birmingham city
Auburn coaching
legend Pat Dye
entertains at
Scouting fundraiser
By JOHNATHAN BENTLEY
Daily Mountain Eagle
Pat Dye has a unique perspective on the Alabama-Auburn football rivalry.
Having coached on both sides —
at Alabama as an assistant and at
Auburn as the head coach — Dye
knows where each program
stands.
“They’ve both won championships. Alabama’s won 100 and
we’ve won two,” Dye said. “And
we’re proud of those two.”
Dye was the guest speaker at
the Fourth Annual Larry Drummond Friends of Scouting Luncheon on Thursday at the
Community Health Systems Activities Center in downtown
Jasper. The event provides support for the Black Warrior Council
of the Boy Scouts of America.
By LEA RIZZO
See DYE, A5
5-day forecast / A2
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the company help the FBI
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accusing the federal government of seeking “dangerous power” through the
courts and of trampling on
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ordinance attempting to raise the city’s
minimum wage to $10.10, the city’s legal
department said Thursday afternoon.
Sen. Jabo Waggoner, R-Vestavia Hills,
said Thursday that an increased minimum
wage anywhere would stall economic development. He said business owners have
contacted him, worried they will have to
close their doors if compelled to pay employees more.
“We want businesses to expand and create more jobs — not cut entry-level jobs be-
Leave ‘em laughing
Former Auburn football coach Pat Dye was the guest
speaker at Thursday’s Friends of Scouting luncheon at the
CHS Activities Center in downtown Jasper. At left, Dye talks
with two ladies who attended the fundraising luncheon.
BEVILL STATE
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CARBON HILL — Carbon
Hill Police Chief Paul Agnew
sought the council’s permission
to purchase body cameras for the
police department at Thursday
night’s city council meeting.
Agnew explained that the
cameras were awarded through
a grant that would allow for the
city to purchase the cameras and
then be completely reimbursed
for the amount.
Agnew told Mayor Mark
Chambers that he hoped the
money would be given back to
the city in as soon as two weeks
but he would check into it to be
sure.
The cameras will allow officers
to record between four to 13
hours of footage, depending on
resolution.
The council unanimously approved allowing the police department to purchase the body
cameras.
In other business, council
members:
•heard from Agnew that the
police department had conducted a K-9 unit detail at the
school on Thursday, but nothing
had been detected.
•changed the first meeting in
March to Thursday, March 3.
•unanimously approved closing the Hazardous Duty Fund
account and moving the $800 in
it to the Court Fund.
See COUNCIL, A5
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Jaeden Henderson,
a seventh grader at
Phillips Academy in
Birmingham, joined
Alvin Garrett and
members of his band,
Just A Few Cats, on
stage during the final
performance of the
Black History Month
program Thursday at
Rowland Auditorium
on the Bevill State
Community College Walker College
Campus in Jasper.
FAFSA Night to
provide financial aid
application assistance
By NICOLE SMITH
Bevill State Community College will be hosting
a FAFSA night on March 1 to educate students
and parents on how to apply for post-secondary financial assistance.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA) Night 2016 will be held at the Jasper,
Sumiton, Fayette and Hamilton campuses, as well
as the Pickens County Education Center from 5:30
See FAFSA, A5
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Annie Rose Louise Duncan Vines, 80, of Jasper, passed
away Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016.
Visitation will be today, Feb. 26, 2016, from 6 until 7
p.m. at Faith Chapel Funeral Home. Funeral services will
be held Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, at noon at Greater Shiloh
Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Drive in Jasper.
The Rev. Alex Washington will officiate.
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to be with the Lord on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, at Birmingham Rehabilitation East in Birmingham.
A memorial service will be held today, Feb. 26, 2016,
from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the chapel at Wilson Brothers
Funeral Home in Carbon Hill. Tim Evans will officiate.
Sullivan was preceded in death by her three husbands,
James Richard Pitts, Tex Carpenter and Ralph Sullivan;
and parents, Hazell Lee Benson and Jeff Benson.
She is survived by four children, Lavanda Parrish and
her husband, Gary Sr., Richard J. Pitts and his wife,
Pamela, Yvonne Lee Spooner and her husband, Larry,
and Cora Jean Thrift and her husband, Jimmy; seven
grandchildren, Michelle, Pamela, Gary Jr., Robert,
Jonathan, Joanna and Karie; 12 great-grandchildren,
Taylor, Breanna, Ashley, Brandon, Christen, Aaron,
Chelsea, Alexis, Annslee, Zander, Jetten and Axel; sister,
Jean Boshell; and brothers, Leldon Ben Benson and Dean
“Woody” Benson.
Wilson Brothers Funeral Home,
Carbon Hill; 205-924-4147
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William R. ‘Monk’ Powell
William R. “Monk” Powell, 78, of Dora, passed away
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at his residence.
Powell was a member of Dora First Baptist Church,
was retired from Drummond Coal Company, having
worked at Mary Lee 2 and Shoal Creek mines, and was
formerly employed by BTNB Bank in Birmingham for 20
years.
Visitation will be today, Feb. 26, 2016, from 6 until 8
p.m. at New Horizon Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral
services will be Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, at 2 p.m. in the
New Horizon Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Lee Taylor, the
Rev. Preston Headrick and the Rev. Ken Mostella will officiate. Burial will follow at West Jefferson Freewill
Cemetery.
Powell was preceded in death by his daughter, Donna
Lynn Powell; parents, Walter and Jewel J. Powell; and
brother, Jimmy Powell.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Shirley Powell;
children, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ronny Powell of Austin, Arkansas,
Suzy Maske of Stockton and Stan Powell of Hoover;
grandchildren, Deena Blackstone (Nathan), Jill Powell,
Cody Maske (Alana), Danny Powell (Haley), Hailey Henderson (Greg), William Powell, Nicole Grieve (J.J.) and
Kelsey Powell; 10 great-grandchildren; several other family members; and many friends.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.newhorizonmemorial.com.
New Horizon Memorial Funeral Home,
Dora; 205-648-2323
Emuel Harrison ‘Jim’ Elkins
Emuel Harrison “Jim” Elkins, 94, of Jasper, born on
April 10, 1921, and passed away Monday, Feb. 22, 2016,
in San Antonio, Texas.
Visitation will be held Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, from
11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at Collins-Burke Funeral
Home. Graveside services will be held Saturday, Feb. 27,
2016, at 1 p.m. at New Prospect Cemetery. Jerry Boyd will
officiate.
Elkins was preceded in death by his father, Emmett M.
Elkins; mother, Dovie Lockhart Elkins; wife, Dorothy
Randolph Elkins; seven brothers; and one sister.
He is survived by his sons, James L. Elkins of San Antonio, Texas, and George Elkins of Hixson, Tennessee; sister, Edna I.V. “Dood” Hall; two grandchildren; and four
great-grandchildren.
Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571
Wendell ‘Bubba’ Muncher
Wendell “Bubba” Muncher, 56, of Empire, passed away
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at his residence.
Visitation will be Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, from 5 until
8 p.m. at Bell Funeral Home in Sumiton. Funeral services
will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, in the Bell
Sumiton Chapel, with burial at New Canaan Cemetery
in Empire. The Rev. Wayne Williams will officiate.
Muncher was preceded in death by his parents, Authur
Lee and Betty Muncher; brother, Mark Muncher; niece,
Heather Watson; and grandson, Liam Choate.
He is survived by his son, Ryan Muncher and his wife,
Amanda, of Jasper; daughters, Shae Muncher and Cortney Muncher, both of Jasper; sisters, Shanda Tidwell and
Connie Watson, both of Jasper; grandsons, Brodie
Muncher, Rye Muncher and Cash Muncher, all of Jasper;
and a host of other relatives and friends.
You may sign an online register or express private condolences to the family at BellSumiton.com.
Bell Funeral Home, Sumiton; 205-648-6611
Beverly Fay
Wolfe Goodwin
Beverly Fay Wolfe Goodwin, 74, of Dora, passed away
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. She was a member of New Temple Baptist Church and a retired bookkeeper from Country Gas Co.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016,
at 2 p.m. at New Temple Baptist Church. The Rev. J.J.
Creel will officiate. Cremation services are being provided.
Goodwin was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Goodwin; parents, John Henry and Bera Wolfe; and
sister, Charlotte Oliver.
She is survived by her daughter, Terra Fewell and her
husband, Scott; grandchildren, Bradley and Zac Fewell;
sister, Gloria Presley; nieces and nephews, Teresa Shivers, Sean and Dana Presley and John David Oliver; and
her best friend, Louise Ellis.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.newhorizonmemorial.com.
New Horizon Memorial Funeral Home,
Dora; 205-648-2323
Larry J. Wood
Larry J. Wood, 68, of Cordova, passed away Wednesday,
Feb. 24, 2016, at Cordova Health and Rehab in Cordova.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Bell FuIla Mae Dodd Herren, 98, of the White’s Chapel com- neral Home in Sumiton.
munity in Fayette County, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 23,
2016, in the Fayette Medical Center Long Term Care Unit
Bell Funeral Home, Sumiton; 205-648-6611
in Fayette.
Herren was born on Sept. 12, 1917, in Fayette County,
the daughter of Joe Cephus Dodd and Sleetie Whitehead
Dodd. She was a resident of the White’s Chapel Community in Fayette County most of her life, the widow of her
children’s fathers, Virgil Sims and C.S. Herren. She was
retired from Winfield Manufacturing and was a member
The Daily Mountain Eagle publishes obitof White’s Chapel Church of Christ.
uaries for a minimum $40 charge for a stanIn addition to her husbands and parents, she was predard obituary. The standard obituary
ceded in death by one son, Jimmy Sims; and all of her
includes the deceased’s complete name, age,
brothers and sisters.
occupation, date, cause and place of death,
Survivors include one son, Billy Joe Sims of Birmingtime and place of services and survivors. Phoham; eight grandchildren, Danny Sims, Sherry Malone
tographs of the deceased are welcome, but
(Jeff), Jill Morris (Bobby), Renae, Sandy, Tammy and
not required.
Tracy Sims, and Beth Aldridge; five great-grandchildren;
If the obituary exceeds standard space, adand several great-great-grandchildren and other reladitional charges may be incurred.
tives.
Information must be received from the fuVisitation will be Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, from noon
neral home handling the arrangements and
until 2 p.m. at White’s Chapel Church of Christ in Fayette
services.
County. Funeral services will be Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016,
at 2 p.m. at White’s Chapel Church of Christ. Bobby Dodd
will officiate. Burial will be in the adjoining church cemetery.
Ila Mae Dodd Herren
Jury deliberating in former
BP engineer’s oil spill trial
Obituary policy
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former BP engineer
awaited a federal jury’s verdict Thursday in his trial on
a charge of negligence that contributed to the 2010 Gulf
of Mexico oil spill.
Robert Kaluza was a rig supervisor aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig when it exploded, killing 11
workers and resulting in millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf and fouling wetlands and beaches.
Kaluza is charged with a single count of violating the
federal Clean Water Act.
Jurors began deliberations Thursday afternoon. It
was unclear if they would be able to reach a verdict before breaking for the night.
Prosecutors told jurors he and a former co-defendant,
Donald Vidrine, botched a crucial pressure test indicating oil and gas could be flowing from deep beneath the
sea floor into BP’s Macondo well, which was thought to
be securely plugged with cement and mud.
“All of the red flags in front of him should have told
him that it was a bad test,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary
Winters told jurors after showing them projected imMiles Funeral Home, Winfield; 205-487-6405
ages of smoke billowing from the flaming, crippled rig,
followed by pictures of oil-coated coastal land.
Defense attorney Shaun Clarke cast Kaluza as a
scapegoat. He said federal prosecutors failed to make
their case.
Clarke said Vidrine, who has pleaded guilty in the
case, was the rig leader who declared the test a success
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) —
‚Äî after Kaluza’s watch aboard the rig had ended.
“The Macondo well was under control during every A county sheriff said
Thursday it is possible “as
single second of his watch,” Clarke said.
many” as three to four people are dead, including a
suspect, and up to 20 people may be injured after a
series of shootings in
south-central Kansas.
Sheriff T. Walton said at
a news conference Thurs- Main Office day evening there are “a
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East Coast, Midwest battered by strong storm systems
WAVERLY, Va. (AP) —
Tornadoes tore through
towns as far north as
Pennsylvania, heavy snow
canceled hundreds of
flights in the Midwest and
power outages left tens of
thousands of residents
from the Carolinas to New
England in the dark as severe weather raked across
a broad swath of the country for a third day.
The storms Wednesday
claimed at least a halfdozen lives, three of them
in the tiny town of Waverly, Virginia, where a 2year-old child and two
men, ages 50 and 26, were
killed during the storm,
said Virginia State Police
spokeswoman
Corinne
Geller. Their bodies were
found about 300 yards
from their mobile home.
At least five structures
were damaged in the town
of approximately 2,000
and roads leading into
town had to be closed because of downed trees and
debris tossed by winds
gusting to 60 mph, Geller
said.
In Appomattox County, a
tornado left an 8- to 10mile path of destruction,
injuring seven people and
killing a 78-year-old man,
state police said. Edward
Keith Harris was found
outside his home in Evergreen late Wednesday,
Sheriff Barry Letterman
told a news conference
Thursday.
At least 15 structures
were destroyed and 25 injuries were reported when
the storm passed through
Essex County and the
town of Tappahannock,
about 45 miles northeast
of Richmond, state police
said. The injuries ranged
from minor to serious, but
there were no confirmed
fatalities.
In Waverly, witnesses
said the storm swept
through with little warning.
Timothy Williams said a
friend had just come by to
take his new car for a drive
when the storm hit.
“It picked the car right
off the ground, and put it
right back on the ground,”
said Williams, 44. He said
Photo by Blaine Shahan/LNP Media Group via AP
Debris from two chicken houses that were leveled
in a severe storm is strewn along Millwoood Road
in Gap Pa. Wednesday. The roof was blown off the
house in the background.
said it was hoped the
1,200-square-foot,
onestory school could be reTornado damage along Richmond Highway in Appomattox County is shown built
in
a
week.
Photo by The News & Advance/News & Daily Advance via AP
Emergency management
officials said they had no
reports of deaths or injuries.
on Wednesday. State police say at least seven people have been injured
in Appomattox County, where a funnel cloud left an 8- to 10-mile path of destruction.
AP Photo
A chain of people pass poultry amongst the debris
of a farm in the aftermath of a storm Thursday in
Gap, Pa. Crews in central and eastern Pennsylvania are working to restore electricity after strong
storms moved across the state and possibly
caused some tornadoes.
they remained in the car
until the storm passed.
The storm blew down
electrical wires “in a big
ball of fire, thrashing all
about
each
other,”
Williams said. He said
they both escaped shaken
but uninjured.
Virginia Gov. Terry
McAuliffe declared a state
of emergency Wednesday
night.
In southern Michigan, a
6-year-old girl died following a three-vehicle crash.
State police say Harlyn
Radley died after the crash
Wednesday afternoon near
Battle Creek when a car
driven by the child’s
mother lost control and
collided with another vehicle. A third vehicle then
struck the wreckage. Police say speed and heavy,
wet snow were factors in
the crash.
In South Carolina, Darlington County Corner
Todd Hardee said in a
statement that Michael
Gaines Sr., 58, had stopped
on a road near his home
Wednesday to remove debris from the road when a
pine tree fell on him. Sheriff Wayne Byrd said the
victim was being a good
Samaritan when he was
killed.
The line of storms
moved across Pennsylvania and the New York City
area Wednesday night,
bringing strong winds and
heavy rains that knocked
down trees and caused
scattered power outages.
At least two tornadoes
blew through Pennsylvania, ripping off rooftops,
collapsing homes and leveling an Amish schoolhouse in rural eastern
Lancaster county and
damaging several buildings near Wyalusing in
Bradford County.
A crew was already at
work Thursday rebuilding
the Amish schoolhouse,
which roofer Derek Cummings said looked like it
had been hit by a bomb. He
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Therapist: Sportscaster depressed after stalker released
NASHVILLE,
Tenn.
(AP) — A psychotherapist
has testified that sportscaster and TV host Erin
Andrews was anxious and
depressed after a man
who stalked her and
posted secretly recorded
nude videos of her on the
Internet was let out of
prison.
Loren Comstock told a
jury in Davidson County
Circuit Court on Thursday
that Andrews came for
therapy in 2012 because
she promised her parents
that she would seek help
after the stalker was released.
Michael David Barrett
was sentenced to 2 1/2
years in prison after admitting to stalking Andrews in three different
cities, altering peepholes
in hotel rooms and secretly recording nude
videos.
Andrews has filed a $75
million lawsuit against
Barrett, West End Hotel
Partners, which is the
franchise owner of the
Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University and
Windsor Capital Group,
which manages the hotel.
Comstock, whose video
deposition
testimony
played before the jury, said
Andrews was worried the
videos would hurt her career.
At the time of the stalking, Andrews was working
for ESPN and staying in
the Nashville hotel to help
cover a college football
game for the network. She
now works for Fox Sports
and is a host for the TV
show “Dancing with the
Stars.”
“She told me that she
had aspired to be a sportscaster from the time she
was little girl and that she
had worked hard to establish herself, and that she
was concerned that this
incident made a mockery
of her and it would impact
people being able to take
her seriously,” the therapist said.
Comstock described Andrews as obsessed, saying
she checked the Internet
every day to see what was
being said about her. Andrews, the therapist said,
did not want to be defined
by the videos.
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Sportscaster and television host Erin Andrews,
right, stands with attorney Scott Carr as the jury
enters the room during her civil trial Thursday in
Nashville, Tenn.
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Happy Birthday: You
have more going for you
than you realize. Put
your trust in your intelligence and insight and
you will find a way to
reach your goals.
ARIES (March 21April 19): Share your
uniqueness and glory
with the people you
enjoy being with the
most.
TAURUS (April 20May 20): Unexpected
changes will catch you
off guard. Take action
quickly to ensure that
you don’t suffer a loss
due to a lack of insight.
GEMINI (May 21June 20): Aim high
when it comes to professional gains and personal relationships.
CANCER (June 21July 22): Don’t limit
what you can achieve.
LEO (July 23-Aug.
22): Plan to be pampered
or to relax in the company of someone who
rocks your world. Don’t
let a misunderstanding
ruin your day. Offer fun
and laughter instead of
debate and criticism.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22): Take on an interesting task that will allow
you to use your talents
in a new and exciting
way.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
22): Show your emotions
and discuss your plans
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23Nov. 21): Make changes
at home that will give
you the freedom to follow
your heart and your
dreams.
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22-Dec. 21): Don’t renege on the promises you
make. Your reputation is
at risk, and someone will
correct you if you embellish a situation to avoid
conflict.
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22-Jan. 19): You won’t
please everyone with
your choices. Find out
how your intentions will
influence the lives of the
people around you before
you proceed.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): Take matters
into your own hands. You
can close deals, sign contracts and invest time
into something you enjoy
doing.
PISCES (Feb. 19March 20): Take partnerships seriously and
don’t risk the chance to
get ahead by being difficult to get along with. If
you want to be popular
with your peers and considered for a leadership
position, try to be a team
player.
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DEAR PAPERPUSHER: When someone asks that question,
you might smile and respond, “You know, I’m
having such a great
time in retirement, I
can’t really recall what
I did there!” Or, if
you’re feeling mischievous, you could call out
after the person, “Just
kidding! I was the
CEO.” And if the person turns to come back,
turn YOUR back and
walk away because, if
your perception is correct, you have been
conversing with someone who has terrible
manners and no class.
OHCOP
By Chance Brown
DEAR ABBY: As an
older male retiree, I frequently encounter people
at social gatherings who
tilt their heads back, narrow their eyes and ask,
“Exactly what was it that
you did at XYZ Corporation?” When they find out
I was what they consider
to be “just a paperpusher,” they abruptly
turn their backs and walk
away. Can you suggest an
appropriate response to
this form of snobbery?
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DEAR UP HERE: No.
As you are probably already aware, anyone’s
nipples can become
rigid if there’s a
change in the temperature. It doesn’t necessarily signal arousal. If
you are comfortable,
then keep dressing the
way you do. This appears to be your
mother’s problem. Do
not let her anxiety rub
off on you.
by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
DEAR ABBY: In my
mother’s opinion, I have a
problem. I have prominent nipples that show
through shirts. I wear a
padded bra, but it doesn’t
help. I don’t want to wear
a heavier padded bra because I am big-busted already. Honestly, the
situation doesn’t bother
me. It’s part of being me
and no different than having a unibrow or ears that
stick out. It’s not sexual.
Should I worry about
what others think about
this?
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DEAR NEWLY SEPARATED: You are allowing your illness to rule
your life, and that’s not
a prescription that’s
healthy for anyone.
Many people suffer
from health problems,
but they don’t cut
themselves off from relationships as you
have. Yes, you can date.
If it looks like there
could be a future, you
should bring up the
subject of your health
at that time. But in the
meantime, my advice is
to make every effort to
enjoy the time you
have.
BY JOHN ROSE
DEAR
ABBY: I
have just
separated
from my
wife. I
don’t plan
on dating
anytime
soon, but I
Dear Abby
will eventually. I
By Abigail
Van Buren
have a
disease
that caused my immune
system to destroy my liver
cells. There is no way to
predict whether my liver
will fail in five days or
five years. Would it be
wrong to date knowing I
have this disease? There
is no cure, just a liver
transplant if my liver fails
completely. Also, if it’s OK
to date, when should I tell
someone about my illness?
I have no friends because
at some point they will
see me jaundiced and
sick, and I would have to
burden them with my
health issues or lie.
— NEWLY SEPARATED
IN MONTANA
By Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers
Inevitable
illness
overshadows
man’s personal
relationships
BY JIM DAVIS
ELECTION 2016
Anxious to slow
Trump, both Rubio,
Cruz go after him
HOUSTON (AP) — Brawling from the get-go, Marco
Rubio and Ted Cruz aggressively went after Donald
Trump in Thursday night’s Republican debate over
the front-runner’s positions on immigration, his privileged background and more.
The two men trailing Trump in the GOP campaign
showed the increasing urgency of their effort to take
him down before the billionaire businessman becomes
unstoppable, criticizing him in an intensely personal
manner. The debate took place just days before the
Super Tuesday round of mega-voting that could all but
lock up the nomination.
When Trump faulted Rubio on a deal to buy a
$179,000 house, the Florida senator shot back that if
Trump “hadn’t inherited $200 million, you know
where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling
watches in Manhattan.”
In the night’s first rough exchange, Rubio accused
Trump of shifting his position on deportation, hiring
people from other countries to take jobs from Americans and being fined for worker violations. Joining in,
Cruz criticized Trump for suggesting he alone had
“discovered the issue of illegal immigration.”
Trump shot back at Rubio: “I hired tens of thousands of people. You’ve hired nobody.”
As for Cruz, Trump took a more personal tack, touting his own ability to get along with others and
adding: “You get along with nobody. ... You should be
ashamed of yourself.”
Both Rubio and Cruz said that Trump had had to
pay a $1 million fine for illegal immigration hiring.
Rubio was the principal aggressor early on. Taking
on Trump’s declaration that he’d build a wall on the
Mexican border, Rubio declared: “If he builds a wall
the way he built Trump Tower he’ll be using illegal immigration to do it.”
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From A1
to 7 p.m. on March 1.
Anyone seeking education after high school is
encouraged to attend and
learn about financial assistance that may be
available by submitting a
FAFSA.
People will also be on
hand to help complete
applications for financial
aid.
Those who submit a
FAFSA application may
qualify for grants, loans
and/or work-study.
Grants available include the Federal Supplemental
Educational
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Grant, TEACH Grant
and
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Applicants may also
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PLUS loans and Perkins
loans.
Those assisting applicants on FAFSA Night
will educate on all loan
and grant options available, based on need and
circumstance.
FAFSA night will be offered at the following locations:
•Jasper campus, Wade
Hall, Room 116
•Sumiton
campus,
Building 1400, Room
1405
•Fayette campus, Main
Building, Grimsley Auditorium
•Hamilton
campus,
Main Building, Room
A31
•Pickens County Education Center, Room 109
For more information
on FAFSA and the various forms of aid available, visit fafsa.ed.gov or
studentaid.ed.gov.
Council
From A1
•tabled the proposal for AirEvac services for the
city, after it was presented at the last council meeting.
•unanimously approved a total of $781 for the city
to replace the pipes and check the gas meter at the
Blue Gym. The city’s utility board is going to furnish
the labor for free.
•tabled discussion of the Pre-Trial Diversion Account.
•tabled approving permits and licenses under the
bingo ordinance until the council can gather more information.
•approved having the city attorney amend the
wording of the bingo ordinance in accordance with the
guidelines set by the state, county and city.
•unanimously approved the minutes from the Feb.
11 council meeting.
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will celebrate her 102nd
birthday today, Feb. 26,
2016. She has two children, Gary Fletcher of
Jasper and Joe Fletcher
of Great Falls.
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The exhibition hall at the CHS Activities Center was packed for the annual Friends of Scouting Luncheon Thursday. Below, the family of the late Steve Byars was presented the fourth annual E.A. “Larry”
Drummond Award to honor Byars for his support of Scouting throughout his life.
Dye
Dye is the third winningest coach in Auburn
football history behind
Ralph “Shug” Jordan and
Mike Donohue. Like Jordan and Donohue, Dye,
who was 99-39-4 at
Auburn, is in the College
Football Hall of Fame. He
was inducted in the Class
of 2005.
A former All-American
linebacker at the University of Georgia, Dye
started his coaching career under Paul “Bear”
Bryant at Alabama.
Dye had just finished a
two-and-a-half year stint
in the military in 1965
and was unsure if he
wanted to continue his
playing career in the
Canadian Football
League, or take up coaching.
“Coach (Gene) Stallings
had left Alabama and
went to Texas A&M. I had
heard about it,” Dye said.
“I had played against
Coach Bryant for three
years and I knew his
team was the best prepared. I loved the way
they played.”
That’s when Dye decided to make contact
with Bryant.
“I sent him a letter. I
said, ‘Coach, I’m still
playing football, but if I
had the chance to come to
Alabama, I would give up
playing for an opportunity to coach there.’ A few
days later, I got a letter
back from him. He said, ‘I
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kind of coach I want to
hire, but if I decide to
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In the end, Bryant
reached out to Dye prior
to the 1965 season, hiring
the 26-year-old as the
Tide’s linebackers coach.
“I went in for the interview and he said, ‘If we
hire you, we’ll just let you
watch the linebackers
and recruit over there in
Georgia.’ So I watched
the linebackers there for
nine years and recruited
in Georgia,” Dye said.
Dye took his first head
coaching job at East Carolina in 1974. After six
years with the Pirates
and a year at Wyoming,
Dye was named Auburn’s
head football coach in
1981.
He was on the sideline
against his mentor in
1982 when Auburn defeated Alabama 23-22,
snapping Alabama’s ninegame winning streak in
the series.
Dye recalled a Florida
State-Auburn game in
1984 where the Tigers
not only had to play the
Seminoles, but a pair of
biased officials — at least
according to the coach.
In a back and forth
game, the Tigers faced a
first-and-10 from the
Florida State 12-yard
line.
After a clipping penalty
negated a touchdown,
Dye was hit with two 15yard penalties following
heated debates with the
officiating crew.
“I looked (at the scoreboard) and it was firstand-55,” Dye said. “I
Legislature
looked over at Jack
Crowe and I said, ‘Jack,
do you have a good firstand-55 call?’”
Auburn won the game
42-41.
Following Dye’s remarks, the family of
Steve Byars was presented with the fourth
annual E.A. “Larry”
Drummond Award. Byars,
who passed away in late
2015, was a longtime supporter of Scouting in
Walker County.
Also, J.T. Chapman was
presented the Whitney M.
Young Service Award,
which recognizes outstanding service by an individual for involvement
in the development and
implementation of Scouting opportunities for
youth from rural or lowincome urban backgrounds.
From A1
cause a patchwork of local minimum
wages causes operating costs to rise.
Our actions today will create predictability and consistency for Alabama’s economy, which benefits
everyone,” Waggoner said Thursday
after the bill’s passage.
Alabama has no state minimum
wage and uses the federal minimum
of $7.25.
Democrats argued that the federal
minimum wage is too low for the
working poor to provide for their
families.
“Somebody has to recognize that
we have a working-poor class of people that are not just in Birmingham,”
Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison,DBirmingham. “We don’t move until
we’re forced to move. ... For once, I’d
like for this legislative body to be the
leader.”
Birmingham city officials and
GOP legislators have been in a race
ever since city officials voted last
year to raise the minimum wage in a
two-step increase.
In August 2015, the City Council
called for an increase to $8.50 by
July 1 and $10.10 by July 2017. The
plan was approved just two weeks
after the council voted to increase its
own base salaries.
When legislators began work on a
repeal bill in February, the City
Council came back and expedited the
increase in an attempt to get ahead
of the legislature.
Council members Tuesday voted to
make the jump to $10.10 effective
immediately, but it could not take effect until the ordinance was published Sunday, according to the
mayor’s office.
Birmingham is Alabama’s largest
city, with 212,237 residents whose
per-capita income was about $19,650
between 2009 and 2013, according to
U.S. Census Bureau data.
“It’s a sad day for the people of Alabama. The Republican supermajority has made a decision that is not in
the best interest of the working poor
and middle class of this state,” said
Joe Keffer, a community advocate
with Raise Up Alabama.
Bentley had named poverty as a
chief problem facing Alabama in his
State of the State address earlier
this month. A spokeswoman said he
signed the bill for the sake of wage
consistency.
“The governor believes the minimum wage should be uniform across
every area in Alabama,” Bentley
Communications Director Jennifer
Ardis said.
Meanwhile, some legislators expressed concern about a precedent of
state government control of local legislation.
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my district needs something none of
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Paul Bussman, who voted against
the bill, said in committee Wednesday. “Does that mean you’ll come in
and prevent that?”
State Senate approves
budget without new
money for Medicaid
MONTGOMERY (AP) — The Alabama Senate has approved a lean
General Fund budget that could
mean cuts to Medicaid services in
the state.
Senators approved the $1.8 billion
spending bill Thursday on a 24-10
vote, sending it to the Alabama
House for consideration.
The Senate-passed budget does
not provide additional money for
Medicaid. Medicaid Commissioner
Stephanie Azar says the agency
needs an additional $100 million to
maintain services and continue a
transition to managed patient care.
Budget committee chairman Trip
Pittman described the spending plan
as a work-in-progress intended to
spark conversation about a funding
solution.
Senators rejected a proposal by
Gov. Robert Bentley to shift education dollars to the general fund.
Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Democrat from Birmingham, said he
feared the Medicaid reductions could
become reality.
OPINION
Friday,
Feb. 26, 2016
A6
EDITORIALS
Cheap gas no boon, but we’ll take it
Don’t know about you, but we could
get used to filling up our gas tank for
$23.
Did anyone believe we would see
gasoline for sale around $1.60 a gallon
again?
Think back to the spring of 2012:
Everyone’s talking about TV’s “Mad
Men,” Mitt Romney is fending off Rick
Santorum in the Republican primaries
and a gallon of gasoline costs more than
$4.
Remember the pain of high gas
prices? Another Romney challenger,
Newt Gingrich, pledged that if elected
he’d give Americans gasoline for $2.50
a gallon. People scoffed, but it’s a funny
thing: Gingrich would have made good
on his pledge.
Obviously, Americans don’t have
would-be president Gingrich to thank,
or President Barack Obama, either. The
price of oil, the major component in
gasoline, is determined by complex
global forces of supply and demand beyond the direct control of any White
House occupant. The other funny thing
about Gingrich’s dream is how unsatisfying it turned out to be: Now that
cheap gas is here, we should feel a lot
better than we do. While every visit to
the pump produces a giddy feeling of
savings, those extra dollars are not jolting the economy.
Filling up the car for $25 instead of
$70, however, represents more a
breather from managing other bills
than an excuse to splurge. Economists
disagree on what percentage of the savings at the pump is being spent rather
than saved or used to pay down bills,
but no one can dispute that the big picture looks weak and unsettled.
John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,
said that when the U.S. imported much
of its petroleum, a big drop in oil prices
acted like a fat tax cut. Instead of sending money to the Middle East, cash
went into the pockets of consumers who
could spend it on new refrigerators or
dinners out. Then the U.S. went deeper
into the energy business, fracking for oil
to get the U.S. closer to energy independence. About one-quarter of the petroleum consumed by the United States
is imported.
Sounds great, but the 70-percent
plunge in oil prices since 2014 is killing
the U.S. energy sector and putting pressure on banks that lent to it. Oil and gas
companies are cutting investment, laying off workers and taking a chunk of
GDP growth with them. At best, cheap
oil now looks to be a wash: Any boost by
consumer spending is offset by the energy recession.
It’s smart to be less dependent on foreign oil; but even if the cheap gasoline
prices do no more than cushion against
the energy recession, we’ll take it.
— The Jacksonville Daily News
Liberal policies coincide with greatest inequality
A new study on income inequality
finds that some parts of the state are
much more unequal than others, and
the worst offenders are not where progressives might expect them to be.
The largest income gaps were in the
San Francisco, Los Angeles and San
Jose metropolitan areas, while Vallejo,
Riverside-San Bernardino and Yuba
City had the smallest disparities, the
study from the California Budget and
Policy Center, a liberal think tank, concluded.
“Ironically, the highest levels of income disparity found in the report are
in coastal regions that consistently vote
Democratic, while the lower levels are
in inland areas which tend to be more
conservative in their voting patterns,”
the Sacramento Bee incredulously
noted.
But there is nothing ironic about it.
State tax, regulatory and landuse/housing policies have been disproportionately hurting the middle class
for years, driving many individuals,
families and businesses away from the
expensive urban centers that most ardently implement progressive policies
toward more lower-cost, rural areas - or
out of the state entirely.
In 2014, a report from San Francisco’s
Human Services Agency similarly
found that the city had been suffering
from a shrinking middle class, and that
its income inequality ranked lower than
that of Rwanda.
As we have noted previously, income
inequality studies are notoriously
skewed by assuming that “the wealthy”
are always the same group of people,
when, in fact, there is a high degree of
turnover. Moreover, regardless of the
spread in incomes, it is much better to
be poor in San Francisco than it is to be
poor in Rwanda. Finally, income equality should not necessarily be an end in
and of itself. An equally poor society, for
example, is certainly nothing to aspire
to, unless, perhaps, you are a communist.
Nonetheless, state and local governments should recognize that high-tax,
anti-business and restrictive land-use
policies exacerbate the bad kind of inequality by punishing - and, ultimately,
displacing - productive members of the
middle class. The rich can afford to suffer these burdens, and many of the poor
are all too happy to be the beneficiaries
of the wealth redistribution, but without a thriving middle class the economy
as a whole is stunted and the rungs to
the top of the economic ladder are cut
off.
— The Orange County Register
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Trump as his own apostle
A few words about
Donald Trump’s faith.
It was, as you know,
called into question
last week by Pope
Francis. Aboard the
papal plane returning
from a visit to Mexico,
the pontiff was asked
about the mercurial
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candidate who has
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vowed to build a wall
along America’s border with Mexico and somehow make the
Mexicans pay for it.
The pope’s response: “A person who
thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building
bridges, is not Christian.”
Somehow, the Vesuvius of Id that is
Trump did not erupt (”This pope is a
loozah! Worst pope ever!”). Instead,
Trump confined himself to calling the
pope’s words “disgraceful” and suggested Francis would want him to be
president if ISIS ever stormed the Vatican. By his standards, that was downright restrained.
This being the Bizzaro World campaign of 2016, this contretemps was
soon subsumed by others. But let’s not
move on without thanking the pope for
saying what has needed saying for a
while. After all, Trump’s inauthenticity
is hardly a revelation, given how
painfully awkward have been his attempts to pass himself off as a man of
faith.
We are talking about a guy who tap
dances like Sammy Davis when discussing the Bible, who when asked his
favorite verse, declined to give it “because to me, that’s very personal,” who
replied “probably equal” when asked if
he prefers the New Testament or the
Old.
Then there’s his mangling the name
of the Bible book containing the Apostle
Paul’s second letter to the church at
Corinth: Did he really call it “Two
Corinthians”!? Don’t even most atheists
know that it’s called Second Corinthians?
Generally one should avoid questioning another person’s religious conscience. But Trump merits an
exception. Faith, after all, is an act of
surrender, the subordination of human
ego to divine will. It is, putting it mildly,
difficult to imagine this fellow ever subordinating his ego to ... anything. Donald Trump’s greatest faith has always
been in Donald Trump.
Yet his threadbare impersonation of a
Christian seems not to have hurt him a
bit. That’s startling given that faith has
always been a primary litmus test of
American politics. Indeed, every major
elective office might as well have a sign
at the door: The Non-Religious Need
Not Apply.
Yet the respected political blog
FiveThirtyEight reports that in romping over the rest of the GOP field in last
weekend’s South Carolina primary,
Trump commanded 34 percent of the
evangelical Christian vote, considerably
better than the more believably Christian Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Jeb
Bush.
The apparent willingness of evangelical voters to give him a pass leaves you
wondering if perhaps a candidate’s faith
no longer matters so much to them. Or
maybe it’s that his anger matters more.
Maybe those voters have opted for expedience over religious purity. Maybe they
are unhappy with the social and demographic changes the country is undergoing, and he represents their last best
hope of forestalling that change or, failing that, their primal scream of protest.
Fine. But let’s not call that faith.
As the pope said, faith is about
bridges, not walls. It is potting soil for
the things we hope. It is an obligation to
serve and protect “the least of these.”
And it is an assurance that at the end
of the day, no matter how bad it looks,
we win.
You see little of that in politics. And
the pope was right: You see none of it in
Trump.
Monday night found him campaigning in Las Vegas when a man in the audience apparently staged some kind of
demonstration. Donald Trump, man of
faith, watched as security guards
hauled the protester out.
“I’d like to punch him in the face,” he
said.
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. His
email is lpitts@miamiherald.com.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, Feb.
26, the 57th day of 2016.
There are 309 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 26, 1916, actorcomedian Jackie Gleason
was born in Brooklyn,
New York.
On this date:
In 1815, Napoleon
Bonaparte escaped from
exile on the Island of Elba
and headed back to
France in a bid to regain
power.
In 1919, President
Woodrow Wilson signed a
congressional act establishing Grand Canyon
National Park in Arizona.
In 1929, President
Calvin Coolidge signed a
measure establishing
Grand Teton National
Park in Wyoming.
In 1952, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill announced that Britain had
developed its own atomic
bomb.
In 1966, South Korean
troops sent to fight in the
Vietnam War massacred
at least 380 civilians in
Go Dai hamlet.
In 1970, National Public Radio was incorporated.
In 1986, Pulitzer Prize-
winning poet and author
Robert Penn Warren was
named the first poet laureate of the United States
by Librarian of Congress
Daniel J. Boorstin.
In 1993, a truck bomb
built by terrorists exploded in the parking
garage of New York’s
World Trade Center,
killing six people and injuring more than 1,000
others.
In 2012, Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot to death
in Sanford, Florida, during an altercation with
neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who said he’d acted
in self-defense. (Zimmerman was subsequently acquitted of second-degree
murder.)
Ten years ago: On the
final day of the Turin
Winter Olympics, Sweden
beat Finland 3-2 to win
the men’s hockey gold.
Germany finished first in
overall medals with 29
and golds with 11, while
the Americans won 25
medals overall, nine of
them gold.
Five years ago: In a
statement, President
Barack Obama said
Moammar Gadhafi had
lost his legitimacy to rule
and urged the Libyan
leader to leave power immediately. Space shuttle
Discovery arrived at the
International Space Station, making its final visit
before being parked at a
museum.
One year ago: Internet
activists declared victory
over the nation’s big cable
companies after the Federal Communications
Commission voted 3-2 to
impose the toughest rules
yet on broadband service
to prevent companies like
Comcast, Verizon and
AT&T from creating paid
fast lanes and slowing or
blocking web traffic.
Today’s Birthdays:
Singer Fats Domino is 88.
Actress Marta Kristen
(TV: “Lost in Space”) is 71.
Singer Michael Bolton is
63. Sen. Tim Kaine, DVa., is 58. Singer Erykah
Badu is 45. Rhythm-andblues singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 37.
Thought for Today:
“If you have it and you
know you have it, then you
have it. If you have it and
don’t know you have it,
you don’t have it. If you
don’t have it but you think
you have it, then you have
it.” — Jackie Gleason
(1916-1987).
Police didn’t expect violence at eviction despite man’s past
BAILEY, Colo. (AP) —
Authorities brought numbers this time in case of
trouble, but they never expected a long-delayed eviction would turn into a
deadly shootout with a
Colorado man who peacefully refused to leave his
foreclosed home two years
earlier.
Martin Wirth ranted
against law enforcement
corruption and beat a murder charge more than 20
years ago, but officers who
followed him inside the
mountain house did not
expect he would turn his
rifle on them. When the
smoke
cleared, three
deputies had been shot,
one fatally, and Wirth was
dead.
The 58-year-old was a
political activist whose life
was pocked with violent
outbursts and run-ins with
the law that culminated in
Wednesday’s bloodshed.
But the eight officers who
came to oust Wirth were
more concerned he would
run away than shoot at
them, Sheriff Fred Wegener said Thursday.
“We did not force a violent confrontation yesterday,” said Wegener, who
joined deputies at the
scene of the botched-eviction. “Mr. Wirth did.”
The shootout shocked
the community of Bailey
where the slain deputy,
Cpl. Nate Carrigan, was a
familiar face. It also
stunned some of Wirth’s
friends, who recalled him
as a well-intentioned activist worn down by years
of fighting for his home.
“He definitely had an
angry streak,” said fellow
activist Chris Mandel, who
shot a video of Wirth
government was out to get
him. Nothing was his
fault, it was always someone else’s,” said Dan Spykstra, who got a protection
order against Wirth in
2005 after he made violent
threats at a court-ordered
drug and alcohol counseling program.
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Lamon Chapel
United Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
AP Photo
A law enforcement officer works at the scene where a man opened fire on
several sheriff’s deputies before the officers returned fire, killing the man,
outside Bailey, Colo., Wednesday. Authorities say the man, who lost ownership of his home two years ago, opened fire on the officers trying to serve
an eviction notice.
posted on the website of
the Colorado Foreclosure
Resistance Coalition, an
organization aligned with
the Occupy Denver movement. “He was very idealistic. He really hated the
injustice of the world.”
In the video, Wirth said
he refused to pay his mortgage because he claimed
lenders were criminals
who had defrauded homeowners. The governmentcontrolled
mortgage
company Fannie Mae took
ownership of his home in
2014.
It was not clear why
Wirth was allowed to remain for two more years.
Wegener said a previous
attempt to evict Wirth in
2014 ended peacefully
after he talked to the sheriff’s office. Deputies finally
posted the eviction notice
on his door on Feb. 16, the
sheriff said.
They returned Wednesday, instructed to remove
Wirth and his property, a
Jan. 25 court order shows.
The sheriff said they
were aware of Wirth’s
prior confrontations with
law enforcement, including his January arrest for
eluding a police officer, obstructing a law enforcement animal and driving
without insurance and a li-
cense. They considered his
eviction “high-risk.”
He also was acquitted of
second-degree murder in
1994 after fatally shooting
his 24-year-old neighbor
during an argument over a
chess game.
Wirth testified that the
man provoked him and
lunged for his revolver before he shot him twice in
the chest in Fort Collins,
The Coloradoan newspaper reported.
He wrote disparagingly
of the government and police in seething posts on
his Facebook page.
“He was a person who
was constantly saying the
Grand jury questions arise in deputy shooting case
FORT LAUDERDALE,
Fla. (AP) — Questions
arose Thursday about possible irregularities surrounding
the
secret
proceedings of a grand jury
that indicted a Florida
deputy
charged
with
manslaughter in the shooting of a man carrying an
air rifle.
Defense attorney Eric
Schwartzreich said at a
hearing that one grand
juror might have been biased against Broward
Sheriff’s Office Deputy
Peter Peraza because his
daughter
was
facing
drunken-driving charges
while the case was being
presented.
Schwartzreich also questioned how shooting victim
Jermaine McBean’s family
obtained witness statements and evidence for a
federal wrongful death
lawsuit while the criminal
investigation was ongoing.
Typically such material is
kept under wraps until
charges are filed.
“I want to know what
happened here. Was this a
fair shake?” Schwartzreich
said. “I’m not looking to go
on an inquisition.”
Peraza has pleaded not
guilty in the 2013 shooting
of McBean, a 33-year-old
Spykstra, who was running the program at the
time, said he confronted
Wirth after Wirth went off
on an employee. Wirth
threatened to put a bomb
in Spykstra’s mailbox and
said, “I have you in my
crosshairs,” according to
Spykstra.
information
technology
worker with chronic mental problems who was carrying an authentic-looking
air rifle outside his apartment complex. McBean’s
family has said he was
probably listening to music
through earbuds and did
not hear deputies’ commands to drop the weapon.
McBean was black. Peraza
is white.
Peraza, 37, faces 30 years
in prison if convicted. He is
the first Florida law enforcement
officer
in
decades to be charged with
a crime for an on-duty
shooting. His indictment
comes amid an ongoing national debate about police
use of force, particularly
against African-Americans.
Schwartzreich
had
sought to force the grand
juror whose daughter had
the DUI charge — and
whose wife had a previous
DUI conviction — to testify
about possible bias at a
hearing next week. Both
cases involved Broward
Sheriff’s Office personnel,
although only in support
roles and Peraza was not
part of either case.
But Assistant State Attorney Tim Donnelly said
there was no legal authority for the juror to be subpoenaed to testify, and
Circuit Judge Michael
Usan agreed. The juror’s
name has not been made
public.
“What goes on in there is
permanently secret,” Donnelly said of grand jury proceedings.
The daughter’s pending
case was switched to
Miami-Dade County to
avoid any possible conflict
with her father’s grand
jury service, Donnelly said.
The order transferring the
case was signed by Gov.
Rick Scott.
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BEVILL STATE, Jasper
will offer a Pre-License Real
Estate Class on
Tuesdays/Thursdays & two
Saturdays beginning March 7
through May 12 from 6 to 9 pm.
Cost is $275 plus book.
Contact Robin at
(205)387-0511 ext:5779
CDL DRIVER needed to haul
Power-poles. Must have Flatbed
experience & a good MVR
(205)522-5971.
CDL DRIVERS Needed Now!
Live Chicken Haul
Dry-Bulk
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LIVE HAUL & PNEUMATIC
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ALL SHIFTS (Full-time &
Part-time). Excellent benefits
and pay along with a great
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NEED SMALL Engine Mechanic. Must pass Criminal
Background & Drug Test. Call
(205)265-8834, leave message
if no answer.
PART-TIME POSITION
available @ local cleaners.
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SEAMSTRESS THAT makes
Custom Drapes. Call Nell
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STUDIO 64 Salon & Spa is now
seeking two full-time cosmetologist! Booth Rent or Commission!
Also looking for someone to be
a full-time personal assistant,
receptionist, and shampoo tech!
Hourly and Commission! Drop
off resumes at 1307 2nd Street
NE Jasper, AL 35501
TRI COUNTY
AIR SYSTEMS, INC.
Immediate opening for experienced Installer. Pay and benefits based on experience. Valid
driver's license and drug screen
required. Apply in person, 30
Jim Banks Road, Jasper, between 8am & 4pm.
007 Emp. Wanted
I WILL SIT with your loved
ones. Days/Nights/Weekends.
References. Will clean houses.
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and pups, pregnant dog, brown
(F) dog, litter of pups. Call/text
identifying info to 205-717-0794.
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FOUND: SMALL White dog,
beige spot on right hip & left
shoulder. Friday 2/19 on Pineywoods Sipsey Road
(past Pleasant Hill Church)
205-221-7614
LOST: (M) Chow-Lab mix.
Black, white whiskers on chin,
brown eyes, bushy tail. Went
missing 1 week ago from Emma
Lane, off Old Tuscaloosa Road.
REWARD if found.
(205)388-1939
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GRAVEL: Crushed Stone,
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060 Boats & Marine
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205-275-2783.
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RED OAK Firewood, $35 per
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(1) SINGLEWIDE 3BR/2BA
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$550mo. Good Rental Ref's.
(205)823-3301/(205)213-0916.
1BR GARAGE Apt- Kitchen,
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(1209 Alabama Ave.) $650mo.
(205)534-0956 (205)841-1444
2BR APARTMENT @ Walston
Bridge. $600 month.
(205)717-1929
2BR DUPLEX (Jasper) $50 Application fee. $625 deposit $625
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115 Rent or Lease
NOW AVAILABLE! 2BR/2BA
Duplex. New Construction. Includes: Stove, refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave. All
lawn-care. Handicap accessible.
No Pets. No Smoking. $750mo.
plus deposit. (205)522-5966
SMALL CAMPER/TRAILER.
Private-lot. Queen bed.
All utilities plus cable.
$150/week, $600/month.
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MH for Rent: 2BR/1BA Mobile
Home. Fridge, Stove, garbage
pickup and lawn maintenance
will be furnished. $400 month
$400 Security Deposit. NO
PETS. Located on Alexander
Tubbs Rd , Jasper, AL 35503.
Call for more information (205)
522-0075
UPGRADED '97 16x80 MH
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Separate lot. $550mo.
plus deposit. (205)435-5112
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124 Land for Sale
SMITH LAKE, ALABAMA
10.3 Acres Direct Dockable
Waterfront
Was $69,900 NOW $59,900
Reduced for Quick Sale!
Established lakefront community
Abuts Bankhead National Forest. Utilities in place and ready
for building!
Call 888-214-6978
125 Real Est. Sales
135 ACRES, Walker County.
80 acres, 4yr old pine plantation. 40 acres 7yr. old pine plantation. 15 acres 15yr. old pine
plantation. $1200 per acre,
OBO; (205)932-4822
(205)932-9133
2 HOUSES and 20 Acres,
Holly Grove Road. $135,000;
(205)300-5590
FOR RENT: 1403 5th Avenue,
Jasper
35501.
2BR./1BA.,
kitchen, LR area. 205-522-7555
GOLF CLUBS FOR SALE
Adams "Blue" Driver
(9.5-degree) & 3-Wood. Great
Condition! Driver $125.
3-Wood $75
Or both for $175
Call Jack at 205-388-6997
LARGE LOADS of
Seasoned/Green Oak/Hickory
Bar-B-Q firewood. Delivered
everyday. Even Holidays. $85;
Tree work & Stump Grinding
also; Insured.
(205)435-1715,leave message.
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MILLICAN'S
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CASE KNIFE'S
Millican's Hardware & Plumbing
JASPER, 1BR. Efficiency. No
kitchen. Carport. All utilities furnished. Central H/A. 607 18th
Street East. $500/mo.
(205)534-0956 205-841-1444.
MINI-WAREHOUSE UNITS
Now Available from 5x10 to
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Security.
U-Stor-It Hwy.78E between
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ABANDONED
VEHICLE NOTICE
Pursuant to the provisions of the
Alabama Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act, Section 32-13-1, Code
of Alabama, 1975, notice is
hereby given that the following
described vehicles were abandoned on the property of Kilgore
Wrecker Service, L.L.C., 65
Bennie Knight Road, Jasper, AL
35501, to-wit:
1999 Ford Taurus, Green
Vin # 1FAFP53U5XA326856
Tag # DCB5175
(Burnt)
1995 Ford Taurus, Gold
Vin # 1FALP52U6SA303194
Tag # N/A
(Abandoned)
1985 Chevy C10, Blue & Gold
Vin # 1GCDC14HXFF419817
Tag # N/A
(Stolen)
2005 Chevy Silverado, Gold
Vin # 1GCEK14TX5Z188362
Tag # 1861AL7
(Burnt)
2000 Chevy S-10 Blazer, Red
Vin # 1GNDT13W2Y2231844
Tag # VKU2222
(Stolen)
2005 Nissan Maxima, Maroon
Vin # 1N4BA41E75C806548
Tag # 64BY503
(Wrecked)
2004 Mazda 6, Gray
Vin # 1YVFP80D545N14016
Tag # 5190AL6
(Wrecked)
1993 BMW 7-Series, Black
Vin # WBAGD4324PDE64144
Tag # N/A
(Abandoned)
If not claimed within ten (10)
days prior to date of sale said
vehicles will be sold at public
outcry to the highest bidder for
cash on the 29th day of March,
2016 at 10:00 a.m.
*February 26, March 4, 2016
ABANDONED
VEHICLE NOTICE
Pursuant to the provisions of the
Alabama Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act, Section 32-13-1, Code
of Alabama, 1975, notice is
hereby given that the following
described vehicles were abandoned on the property of
Booger's
Towing/Harold's
Wrecker Service, LLC, 2211
Commerce Avenue, Jasper, AL
35501, to-wit:
2005 Honda Accord, Gray
Vin # 1HGCM56785A073848
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Vin # KM8SC13E26U103091
Tag # 64AT762
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Vin # JTDKDTB3XF1096678
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Vin # JTEZU14R658030876
Tag # 64BT725
2010 Ford Fusion, White
Vin # 3FAHP0HA2AR157452
Tag # 64BC828
If not claimed within ten (10)
days prior to date of sale said
vehicles will be sold at public
outcry to the highest bidder for
cash on the 29th day of March,
2016 at 10:00 a.m.
*February 26, March 4, 2016
MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness
secured by that certain mortgage executed by Stephen L.
Mayfield and Mary A. Mayfield,
husband and wife, originally in
favor of American General Financial Services of Alabama,
Inc., on the 22nd day of February, 2008, said mortgage
recorded in the Office of the
Judge of Probate of Walker
County, Alabama, in DML Book
2117 Page 302; the undersigned U.S. Bank National Association As Indenture Trustee
For Springleaf Mortgage Loan
Trust 2013-, Mortgage-Backed
Notes, Series 2013-3, as Mortgagee/Transferee, under and by
virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, will sell
at public outcry to the highest
bidder for cash, in front of the
main entrance of the Courthouse at Jasper, Walker County,
Alabama, on April 12, 2016, during the legal hours of sale, all of
its right, title, and interest in and
to the following described real
estate, situated in Walker
County, Alabama, to-wit:
A part of the SW 1/4 of the NW
1/4 of Section 26, Township 12
South, Range 6 West, Walker
County, Alabama described as
follows:
Commence at the Northwest
corner of said SW 1/4 of the NW
1/4; thence S 88 degrees 51
minutes 04 seconds E along the
North boundary of said SW 1/4
of the NW 1/4, 584.22 feet to a
point on the South right of way
of Boardwalk Way and the point
of beginning; thence S 88 degrees 51 minutes 19 seconds E
along the North boundary and
South right of way, 311.29 feet;
thence S 01 degrees 32 minutes
55 seconds W along the West
right of way of said Boardwalk
Way, 80.44 feet; thence S 03
degrees 55 minutes 12 seconds
E along said West right of way
45.81 feet; thence N 88 degrees
50 minutes 44 seconds W,
298.55 feet; thence N 00 degrees 31 minutes 25 seconds
W, 125.00 feet to the point of
beginning,
containing
0.86
acres, more or less, as the
same is depicted by that certain
survey for FOC Corporation by
George F. Kennedy, R.L.S Number 17253, dated 2/14/2005.
Property street address for informational purposes: 97 Boardwalk Way, Jasper, AL 35504
THIS PROPERTY WILL BE
SOLD ON AN “AS IS, WHERE
IS” BASIS, SUBJECT TO ANY
EASEMENTS,
ENCUMBRANCES, AND EXCEPTIONS
REFLECTED IN THE MORTGAGE AND THOSE CONTAINED IN THE RECORDS OF
THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE
OF
PROBATE
OF
THE
COUNTY
WHERE
THE
ABOVE-DESCRIBED
PROPERTY IS SITUATED. THIS
PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD
WITHOUT WARRANTY OR RECOURSE, EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED AS TO TITLE, USE
AND/OR ENJOYMENT AND
WILL BE SOLD SUBJECT TO
THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION
OF ALL PARTIES ENTITLED
THERETO.
Alabama law gives some persons who have an interest in
property the right to redeem the
property under certain circumstances. Programs may also
exist that help persons avoid or
delay the foreclosure process.
An attorney should be consulted
to help you understand these
rights and programs as a part of
the foreclosure process.
This sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness
secured by said mortgage, as
well as the expenses of foreclosure.
The Mortgagee/Transferee reserves the right to bid for and
purchase the real estate and to
credit its purchase price against
the expenses of sale and the indebtedness secured by the real
estate.
This sale is subject to postponement or cancellation.
U.S. Bank National Association
As Indenture Trustee For
Springleaf Mortgage Loan Trust
2013-, Mortgage-Backed Notes,
Series 2013-3,
Mortgagee/Transferee
Rebecca Redmond
SIROTE & PERMUTT, P.C.
P. O. Box 55727
Birmingham, AL 35255-5727
Attorney for
www.sirote.com/foreclosures
381449
*Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 4, 2016
NOTICE OF SALE
UNDER POWER
FORECLOSURE NOTICE
secured by that certain mortgage executed by DERRICK
TERNELL
LYONS
AND
SPOUSE, PAULA A. LYONS, to
MORTGAGE
ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS
INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GSB
MORTGAGE INC., on the 19th
day of November, 2012, said
mortgage recorded in the Office
of the Judge of Probate of
Walker County, Alabama, on
November
20,
2012,
in
Deed/Mortgage Book 2319,
Page 481, Walker County, Alabama Records, said Mortgage
having
subsequently
been
transferred and assigned to
FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION,
by
instrument
recorded in the aforesaid Probate Office; notice is hereby
given that the undersigned
as
Mortgagee/Transferee,
under
and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in said mortgage,
will sell at public outcry to the
highest bidder for cash, in front
of the main entrance of the
Courthouse in Jasper, Walker
County, Alabama, on March 18,
2016, during the legal hours of
sale, all of its right, title, and interest in and to the following described real estate, situated in
Walker County, Alabama, to-wit:
LOT 62 OF WILLOWBROOK,
1ST SECTOR SUBDIVISION
AS RECORDED IN MAP BOOK
6 PAGE 120, IN THE OFFICE
OF THE JUDGE OF PROBATE
OF WALKER COUNTY, ALABAMA.
MINERALS
EXCEPTED.
Said legal description being
controlling, however the property is more commonly known
as
2202
CHARTER
RD,
JASPER, AL 35504.
This property will be sold on an
"as is, where is" basis, subject
to any easements, encumbrances, and exceptions reflected in the mortgage and
those contained in the records
of the Office of the Judge of Probate in the county where the
above-described property is situated. This property will be sold
subject to the right of redemption of all parties entitled thereto
and subject to any outstanding
ad valorem taxes (including
taxes which are a lien, whether
or not now due and payable).
This sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness
secured by said mortgage, as
well as the expenses of foreclosure. The Mortgagee/Transferee
reserves the right to bid for and
purchase the real estate and to
credit its purchase price against
the expenses of sale and the indebtedness secured by the real
estate. This sale is subject to
postponement or cancellation.
THE BELOW LAW FIRM MAY
BE HELD TO BE ACTING AS A
DEBT COLLECTOR, UNDER
FEDERAL LAW. IF SO, ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL
BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
Rubin Lublin, LLC,
Attorney for
100 Concourse Parkway,
Suite 125,
Birmingham, AL 35244
Telephone Number:
(877) 813-0992
Case No. LNC-15-06852-1
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STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF WALKER
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE
secured by that certain mortgage and security agreement
executed by CHADWICK E.
THAXTON and SUSAN M.
THAXTON, husband and wife,
on the 3rd day of August 2011,
to VANDERBILT MORTGAGE
AND FINANCE, INC., as
recorded in DML Book 2268,
Page 316, in the office of the
Probate Judge of Walker
County, Alabama; VANDERBILT
MORTGAGE AND FINANCE,
INC., as Mortgagee, by reason
of such default having declared
all of the indebtedness secured
by said mortgage and security
agreement due and payable and
such default continuing, notice
is hereby given, that acting
under the power of sale contained in said mortgage and security agreement, and as
authorized by Section 7-9A604(a)(2) of the Code of Alabama of 1975 as amended,
VANDERBILT
MORTGAGE
AND FINANCE, INC., as Mortgagee, will sell at public outcry,
for cash to the highest bidder, in
front of the Courthouse door, in
the City of Jasper, Walker
County, Alabama, during the
legal hours of sale on March 16,
2016, the following described
real and personal property situated in Walker County, Alabama, to-wit:
A parcel of land lying in the SE
1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 12,
Township 13 South, Range 7
West in Walker County, Alabama, being more particularly
described as follows:
Commence at the Northwest
corner of the above said 1/4 –
1/4; thence run East for a distance of 295.24 feet to an iron
pin found (1/2” pipe), said point
also being the POINT OF BEGINNING of the following described parcel; thence turn an
interior angle left of 75°48’36”
and run Southwesterly for a distance of 312.22 feet to the right
of way margin of Sunlight Road;
thence turn an interior angle
right of 72°01’50” and run Easterly along said right of way and
through a curve with an arc
length of 339.76 feet and a radius of 1624.82 feet for a chord
distance of 339.14 feet to an
iron pin set; thence turn an interior angle right of 92°35’06” and
leaving said right of way run
Northerly for a distance of 73.06
feet to an iron pin found (2”
axle); thence turn an interior
angle right of 129°43’26” and
run Northwesterly for a distance
of 332.79 feet to the POINT OF
BEGINNING, said parcel containing 1.50 acres more or less.
INCLUDING a security interest
in one (1) 2011 Clayton manufactured home, Serial No.
CS2012479TNAB;
together with the hereditaments
and appurtenances thereunto
belonging and all fixtures now
attached to and used in connection with the premises herein
described.
This property will be sold on an
“as is, where is” basis, subject
to any easements, encumbrances, and exceptions reflected in the mortgage and
those contained in the records
of the office of the Judge of Probate of the county where the
above-described property is situated. This property will be sold
without warranty or recourse,
expressed or implied as to title,
use and/or enjoyment and will
be sold subject to the right of redemption of all parties entitled
thereto.
Said sale will be made subject
to any existing Federal Tax Lien,
if any, and/or Special Assessments, if any, which might adversely affect the title to the
subject property.
Said sale will be made for the
purpose of paying the indebtedness secured by the above-described mortgage, and the
proceeds thereof will be applied
as provided by the terms of the
said mortgage. This sale is subject to postponement or cancellation; contact Margery Oglesby
at the phone number shown
below prior to attending the
sale.
Robin E. Pate
Attorney for Vanderbilt Mortgage
and Finance, Inc.
ROSEN HARWOOD, P.A.
2200 Jack Warner Pkwy
Ste 200
P.O. Box 2727
Tuscaloosa, AL 35403
(205) 344-5000
*Feb. 26, Mar. 4, 11, 2016
formed is, in general, as follows:
The work included by these
specifications consists of furnishing all labor, equipment, and
materials required in performing
all operations necessary in connection with temporary and permanent
pavement
marking
requires after routine asphalt
resurfacing or new construction
of streets and parking lots at
various locations within City.
The City estimates ten (10)
miles of striping needed.
Project will consist of but not
limited to the following:
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Dotted White, Class 1 Type A
Traffic Stripe (6 inch)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Dotted White, Class 2 Type A
Traffic Stripe (6 inch)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Solid White, Class 1 Type A
Traffic Stripe (6 inch Wide)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Solid White, Class 2 Type A
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Solid Yellow, Class 1 Type A
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Solid Yellow, Class 2 Type A
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Broken Yellow, Class 1 Type A
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Directional Arrow, White
(class 1)
UNIT: EA.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Directional Arrow, White
(class 2)
UNIT: EA.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Street Messages
(Merge, School, R/R Crossing)
UNIT: EA.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Single solid blue, 4 inch wide
(Handicap marking)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Solid white or yellow, 4 inch
wide, (Parking Stalls)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Thermoplastic Street messages
UNIT: EA.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Temporary Dotted White, Class
1 Type A Traffic Stripe (6 inch)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Temporary Solid White, Class 1
Type A Traffic Stripe
(6 inch Wide)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Temporary Solid Yellow, Class 1
Type A Traffic Stripe
(4 inch Wide)
UNIT: LF
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Temporary Directional Arrow,
White
UNIT: EA.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Temporary Street Messages
(Merge, School, R/R Crossing)
UNIT: EA.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Road Pavement Markers
UNIT: EA.
The project mentioned above
must be bid on a per unit basis
as specified by the bid sheet. A
map or list of locations is not
available at this time. Please
use the estimated amounts
listed above. The City reserves
the right to add or remove locations as needed. After the one
hundred eighty (180) day period, the contract may be extended for an additional one
hundred eighty (180) calendar
days with the same pricing,
terms and conditions and
agreement by both parties.
Bid packages may be secured
at Jasper City Hall, Purchasing
Dept. 400 19th Street W,
Jasper, Alabama 35501. Contact person Derleda Abrom,
205-221-2100.
The attention of all bidders is
called to the provisions of State
Law governing "General Contractors" as set forth in the 1975
Code of Alabama. Said law will
govern bidders insofar as it is
applicable. The above mentioned provisions of the Code
provides that no one is entitled
to bid and no contract may be
awarded to anyone who does
not possess a valid General
Contractors Permit or License
as provided by the foregoing
section of the Code. Please
place license number on the
outside of bid envelope. All bidders must supply proof of Workers Compensation and General
Liability Insurance that meet requirements.
Not less than minimum wage as
required by applicable regulatory agencies shall be paid to all
skilled and unskilled labor employed under this contract.
The contractor shall comply with
the Department of Labor, Safety,
and Health Regulations for construction promulgated under the
Occupational
Safety
and
Health Act, the Anti-Kickback Act, and the Contract Work
Hours Standards Act (PL 9154).
Bids may be held by the Owner
for a period not to exceed sixty
(60) days from the date of the
opening of bids for the purpose
of reviewing and investigating
the qualifications of bidders prior
to awarding of the contract. Bidders shall furnish to the Owner
all such documents and information, as the owner deems
necessary for qualification review upon written request by the
Owner. The Owner shall begin
review with the lowest responsive responsible Bidder.
The Owner reserves the right to
reject any or all bids or to waive
any informality in the bidding.
The City of Jasper, Alabama
By: Derleda Abrom,
Purchasing Agent
*February 26, 2016
REQUEST FOR BIDS
The City is currently soliciting
bids to establish a contract for
the furnishing and installation of
pavement marking as needed.
The City of Jasper, Alabama will
receive bids for the City of
Jasper Pavement Marking 2016
until 11:00 AM, local time, March
30, 2016 at the City Hall of The
City of Jasper, 400 19th Street
W, Jasper, Alabama 35501 at
which time and place all bids will
be publicly open and read
aloud.
The work proposed to be per-
REQUEST FOR BIDS
The City of Jasper, Alabama will
receive bids for the City of
Jasper Street Repair & Resurfacing 2016 until 11:00 AM, local
time, on March 29, 2016 at the
City Hall of The City of Jasper,
400 19th Street W, Jasper, Alabama 35501 at which time and
place all bids will be publicly
open and read aloud. The City is
seeking pricing on alternative
methods of street repairs for this
project. Based on the pricing received the City will decide which
method or combination of methods will best meet its needs.
The work proposed to be performed is, in general, as follows:
RESURFACING
all operations necessary in connection with street resurfacing at
various locations within the City.
It is anticipated that the work
performed shall consist of
milling, repair or replacing of all
soft or sunken spots indicated in
the pavement and/or base, placing of base and binder if needed
and putting in place of approximately 3,000 – 5,000 tons of
1- 1/2 inch overlay of 429A
ALDOT wearing surface and
milling of approximately 1500
square yards. Surface adjustment of City manhole rings, as
requested by the City will also
be required.
PATCHING
all operations necessary in connection with patching at various
locations within the City. It is anticipated that the work performed shall consist of removal
of and disposal of all 4 to 6
inches excavated materials,
placement of base and binder if
needed and putting in place of
approximately 2 inch overlay of
429 A ALDOT wearing surface
for Between an estimated
5,000 – 12,000 square feet.
The contract will be based upon
items from a prioritized list selected by the City Engineer and
approved by the City Council.
The City will require all work to
be performed within forty-five
(45) calendar days from receipt
of Notice to Proceed with a five
hundred (500) dollar a day liquidated damage clause for each
calendar day over the forty-five
(45) day completion time.
The project mentioned above
must be bid on a per unit basis
as specified by the bid sheet. A
map or list of locations is not
available at this time. Please
use the estimated amounts
listed above. The City reserves
the right to add or remove loca-
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tions as needed. Bidders are
not required to bid on every
item listed. Bids will be evaluated by item and/or total and
may be awarded by item,
group or total whichever is in
the best interest of the City.
After the one hundred eighty
(180) day period, the contract
may be extended for an additional one hundred eighty
(180) days with the same pricing, terms and conditions and
agreement by both parties.
Bid packages may be secured
at Jasper City Hall, Purchasing
Dept. 400 19th Street W,
Jasper, Alabama 35501. Contact person Derleda Abrom,
205-221-2100.
The attention of all bidders is
called to the provisions of State
Law governing "General Contractors" as set forth in the 1975
Code of Alabama. Said law will
govern bidders insofar as it is
applicable. The above mentioned provisions of the Code
provides that no one is entitled
to bid and no contract may be
awarded to anyone who does
not possess a valid General
Contractors Permit or License
as provided by the foregoing
section of the Code. Please
place license number on the
outside of bid envelope. All bidders must supply proof of Workers Compensation and General
Liability Insurance that meet requirements.
Not less than minimum wage as
required by applicable regulatory agencies shall be paid to all
skilled and unskilled labor employed under this contract.
The contractor shall comply with
the Department of Labor, Safety,
and Health Regulations for construction promulgated under the
Occupational Safety and Health
Act, the Anti-Kickback Act, and
the Contract Work Hours Standards Act (PL 91-54).
Bids may be held by the Owner
for a period not to exceed sixty
(60) days from the date of the
opening of bids for the purpose
of reviewing and investigating
the qualifications of bidders prior
to awarding of the contract. Bidders shall furnish to the Owner
all such documents and information, as the owner deems
necessary for qualification review upon written request by the
Owner. The Owner shall begin
review with the lowest responsive responsible Bidder.
The Owner reserves the right to
reject any or all bids or to waive
any informality in the bidding.
The City of Jasper, Alabama
By: Derleda Abrom,
Purchasing Agent
*February 26, 2016
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ORLANDO, Fla.
(AP) — Stephen
Curry scored 51
points and set an
NBA record with a 3pointer in his 128th
consecutive game
as the Golden State
Warriors beat the
Orlando Magic 130114 on Thursday
night.
A night after scoring 42 in a six-point
victory at Miami,
Curry made 20 of 27
shots from the field,
including 10 3-pointers. The Warriors
pulled away in the
closing minutes of
the third quarter,
with Curry banking
in a 44-foot shot at
the buzzer for a 9991 lead.
Curry surpassed
Kyle Korver’s mark
of 127 straight
games with a 3,
which he tied while
making six 3s at
Miami on Wednesday night.
The Warriors improved to 52-5, the
best 57-game start
in league history.
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SPORTS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Who’s
the QB?
Alabama seeks
new signal caller
By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
Quarterback competitions that get settled in spring
are often competitions in name only.
The ones with real drama almost always get resolved in August, but that does not mean some quarterbacks won’t assert themselves during the spring.
Last season, Ohio State’s star-studded QB contest
was one of the stories of the offseason and not until
November was it settled. The Buckeyes have no quarterback competition this season, but several teams
that hope to contend for a playoff spot do.
———
ALABAMA
For the third straight season Alabama has no clearcut starting quarterback.
Cooper Bateman is the presumptive front-runner
after he lost out to Jake Coker last year. Blake Barnett is the five-star future franchise QB. David Cornwell was a four-star recruit who could play at dozens
of FBS schools.
Three of Alabama’s national championships have
come with a first-year starter behind center as Nick
Saban has proved the best way to develop a quarterback is to surround him with future NFL players.
———
FLORIDA STATE
Sean Maguire ended last season as the Seminoles’
starter, but he will have serious competition underclassmen with more upside. Redshirt freshman Deondre Francois was one of the top dual-threat
quarterbacks coming out of high school in 2015 and
five-star freshman Malik Henry has enrolled early to
take part in spring practice. Henry has said he has no
plans to redshirt. Jimbo Fisher might have other
plans.
SEE QB, B4
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Alabama quarterback Cooper Bateman (18) tries to escape a Wisconsin defender during last year’s season opener. Bateman will be in the mix to replace Jake Coker at quarterback this season.
Vols AD stands by embattled football coach
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee
athletic director Dave Hart stood by
his embattled football coach Thursday and said his department doesn’t
interfere with the school’s disciplinary process, two weeks after a lawsuit alleged that the university
mishandles sexual assault complaints against athletes.
“I trust Butch Jones implicitly,”
Hart said. “I know who he is. I know
what his work ethic is. I know what
he’s meant to this university, well beyond the department of athletics, and
I know how he’s represented the university.”
Jones was at the center of an
amended complaint filed Wednesday.
The complaint stated former Tennessee football player Drae Bowles
assisted a woman who said she had
been raped by two other players and
that later he was attacked by teammates and told by Jones he had “betrayed the team.”
The coach has said he only tried to
assist Bowles.
Hart, who said he couldn’t address
the specifics of the lawsuit, did say he
has tremendous empathy and sympathy for alleged victims and all victims
of sexual assault across the country.
“It is simply an unacceptable act,”
Hart said, adding that university
Chancellor Jimmy Cheek has made
this his top priority. “This has to gain
the attention of everyone.”
Hart added that Tennessee athletes
WALKER’S ROYSTER SIGNS WITH CUMBERLAND
Spain Park rallies
past Lady Vikings
By JOHNATHAN BENTLEY
Eagle Sports Editor
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signed a letter-of-intent with Cumberland University. He will run cross country, indoor
track and outdoor track at the NAIA school located in Lebanon, Tenn. Coaches and
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Spain Park picked up a
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Walker led 4-1 with
one out in the fifth inning before Spain Park
started its rally. The Lady Jaguars put the
game away with a seven-run sixth inning.
For Walker, Mabry Norris got the start and
suffered the loss. She struck out four and
walked two batters in 4 1/3 innings. Skylar
Birdyshaw went the final 1 2/3 innings with
one strike out and one walk.
Birdyshaw was a perfect 4 for 4 at the plate
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Schefter for posting records
NEW YORK (AP) — Giants defensive end
Jason Pierre-Paul filed a lawsuit Wednesday
against ESPN and reporter Adam Schefter for
posting his medical records last summer.
The lawsuit, filed in Miami Dade County in
Florida, alleges that Pierre-Paul’s privacy was violated — as was the state’s medical records statute
— by the report after the player severely injured
his right hand in a fireworks accident on July 4.
The New York Post first reported the lawsuit
Wednesday night.
The lawsuit doesn’t specify how much money
Pierre-Paul is seeking, other than it “is an action
for damages in excess of $15,000.”
According to Pierre-Paul’s lawyers, Mitchell
Schuster and Kevin Fritz, Schefter “improperly obtained” the defensive end’s medical chart, which
showed he had his right index finger amputated at
Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
Browns open to suspended WR
Gordon returning to team
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — If Josh Gordon is reinstated by the NFL, the Cleveland Browns appear
ready to have the wide receiver return to the team.
Sashi Brown, the Browns’ executive vice president of football operations, said Thursday at the
NFL combine that a meeting involving himself,
new coach Hue Jackson and Gordon would help
determine Gordon’s future in Cleveland.
Gordon was suspended for the 2015 season for
violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. He applied for reinstatement last month and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will rule on that
application. According to league policy, for Gordon
to be reinstated he will have to demonstrate sustained abstinence during his suspension.
MLB
Cubs, Dexter Fowler agree to
one-year contract
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Outfielder Dexter Fowler
agreed to stay with the Chicago Cubs, agreeing
Thursday to a one-year contract that includes a
mutual option for 2017.
The 29-year-old hit .250 in 156 games last year
and set career highs in many offensive categories
as the Cubs reached the NL Championship Series. He had 102 runs, 17 homers, 149 hits and 84
walks. The speedy, switch-hitting Fowler is a career .267 hitter over eight major league seasons.
Fowler had turned down a $15.8 million, oneyear qualifying offer from the Cubs in November.
To make room for Fowler on the 40-man roster,
the Cubs placed left-hander Zac Rosscup on the
60-day disabled list due to left shoulder inflammation.
LOCAL DIGEST
•The Oakman Little League will hold baseball/
softball registration on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 10
a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Oakman Middle School
gym. Registration fees are: $55/first child,
$45/second child, third child is free. A copy of the
child’s birth certificate and a recent photo are required at the time of registration. For more information, call Barry Thomason at 388-1488 or Amy
Gant 275-4612.
•Parrish Park and Recreation is now holding
registration for youth baseball and softball for ages
3-12 through Feb. 25. The fee is $40 per child with
discounts provided for families with multiple children. The registration will be held at the old Parrish High School or those interested may also pick
up a registration form at Parrish Town Hall. For
more information, 205-724-8015.
Semi-pro Football
•The P-Town Wreckaz adult football season will
start on March 5 with the team going to Panama
City Beach, Fla., to play the Coastal Destroyers at
7 p.m. The team is selling program ads for $25,
$50 or $100. The program will include the history
of the Parrish High School football with games,
scores and statistics. For additional information,
call 205-724-8015.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Comeback trail: Chubb, Russell
among rehabbing spring stars
By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
Detailed and accurate information
about players returning from injuries is often difficult to dig up during spring practice.
Many coaches treat that sort of intelligence as classified and occasional updates are usually spun
toward the positive. Plus, players on
the mend tend to be placed in handle-with-care jerseys. Don’t expect to
see you favorite team’s healing star
taking — or giving out — hits during the spring game.
So fans will be sifting through a
stream of coach-speak for nuggets of
news about their comeback candidates.
Six players who will be asked
about a lot over the next two
months:
Nick Chubb, RB, Georgia
Chubb blew out his left knee in
the sixth game of last season, depriving the Bulldogs of one of the
best running backs in the country.
New coach Kirby Smart has been
cautious about making predictions
regarding Chubb’s return and you
can all but guarantee the running
back will spend more time riding a
stationary bike at spring practice
than carrying a ball. If you’re a
Georgia fan, as long as the word setback is nowhere near in any reporting about Chubb, consider it good
news.
———
Tarean Folston, RB,
Notre Dame
Folston tore the ACL in his right
knee in the second game of last season, and the Fighting Irish proved to
have the depth (C.J. Prosise and
AP Photo
Georgia’s Nick Chubb rushes in
for a touchdown against Southern last season.
Josh Adams) to withstand the loss.
Prosise is gone but Adams flashed
star potential as a freshman and the
Irish appear to have other promising
young players in the mix. Folston
may only be part of a rotation for the
Irish, but as coach Brian Kelly found
out last season, depth at tailback is
more necessity than luxury.
The Irish are also looking forward
to the return of quarterback Malik
Zaire (leg), which will set up one of
the most interesting quarterback
competitions of the offseason.
———
Darius Hamilton, DL, Rutgers
How bad was last season for Rutgers? Having the most talented defensive player on the team play 15
snaps because of an apparent knee
injury was probably not among the
three worst things to happen to the
Scarlet Knights in 2015. There was
speculation Hamilton would leave
for the NFL, but he returned to rebuild his value and give new coach
Chris Ash at least one player with
the potential to remind him of the
defensive linemen he had at Ohio
State the last two seasons.
———
Seth Russell, QB, Baylor
Russell has been cleared to begin
football activities after neck surgery
cost him most of last season. Those
activities will likely be very limited
when the Bears crank up spring
ball, regardless of how Russell is
feeling. Still, coach Art Briles does
need to come out of spring having
some idea if Russell can be counted
on this fall.
———
Eddie Vanderdoes, DT, UCLA
In a season that was littered with
injuries to talented and high-profile
players, few teams were hit as hard
as the Bruins. Vanderdoes was yet
another player felled by a torn ACL.
With defensive tackle Kenny Clark
off to the NFL, UCLA needs a
healthy Vanderdoes to anchor its defense.
———
Mike Williams, WR, Clemson
Williams injured his neck running
into the goal post on the opening
drive of last season. The Tigers
reached the national title game
without their best receiver. Thanks,
Deshaun Watson. Still, getting back
the 6-foot-3 Williams, who had 1,030
yards receiving and six touchdowns
in 2014, sets up Clemson to have an
even better offense in 2016. Coach
Dabo Swinney has said Williams
won’t be hit during the spring, but
everything else seems a go.
Major League Baseball bans rolling
block slides in wake of Utley play
RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK — Baseball
made its call on the Chase
Utley slide: out.
Major League Baseball
and the players’ union
have banned rolling block
slides to break up potential
double plays, hoping to
prevent a repeat of the
takeout by Utley that
broke the leg of New York
Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in last year’s playoffs.
Under the rules change
announced Thursday, a
runner must attempt a
“bona fide slide,” defined as
making contact with the
ground ahead of the base,
being in position to reach
the base with a hand or
foot and to remain on it,
and sliding within reach of
the base without changing
his path to initiate contact
with a fielder.
An umpire can call both
the runner and batter out
for a violation. Baserunners may not elevate or
kick a leg above the
fielder’s knee or throw his
arm or upper body.
A runner who makes a
permissible slide cannot be
charged with interference,
even if he makes contact
with a fielder.
“Our goal in amending
the slide rule was to enhance player safety, reduce
incidents of injury and to
do it in a way that respects
and preserves the bona-
fide hustle plays that are
integral to our game,”
union head Tony Clark
said in a statement. “I am
optimistic that this new
rule will accomplish those
goals.”
Utley barreled into Tejada at Dodger Stadium in
the NL division series last
year. Tejada missed the
World Series and Utley
was suspended for two
games, which is still under
appeal. Chances are, fans
will call this the Chase
Utley Rule.
“Did Chase catch him
good? Yeah. Could Tejada
have maybe done a couple
things to get out of the
way? Yeah. Neither of
those things happened, so
now we have something to
talk about,” said Philadelphia infielder-outfielder
Cody Asche, a former Utley
teammate.
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT
Associated Press
DALLAS — Dallas police said Thursday they
have referred their domestic violence case against
Johnny Manziel to a grand
jury, which will consider
whether to charge the
troubled
Cleveland
Browns quarterback on allegations that he attacked
his ex-girlfriend.
Police released a statement saying they have
asked the Dallas County
District Attorney’s Office to
present a misdemeanor assault case to the local
grand jury. Such a charge
carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail
and a $4,000 fine.
Manziel’s
attorney,
Bradley Beckworth, didn’t
immediately return an
email seeking comment
Thursday. Manziel’s agent
and marketing agency
have both dropped him,
and the Browns have indi-
cated they will release
Manziel as early as March
9, when the league begins
its new calendar year.
The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner and Texas
A&M star was accused by
ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley of hitting her and
threatening to kill her during a night out on Jan. 30.
Crowley said Manziel accosted her at a Dallas hotel
and later struck her when
they drove back to her
apartment in Fort Worth.
Crowley said in court
documents that he hit her
so hard, she temporarily
lost hearing in one ear.
Crowley requested and
was granted a protective
order against the 23-yearold quarterback that prevents him from seeing her
for two years. The order
also requires Manziel to
stay at least 500 feet from
her home and place of
work, and that he pay
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Crowley alleged she and
Manziel had a confrontation in a Dallas hotel room,
which eventually continued downstairs to the valet
station.
The two eventually
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parked in front of a Dallas
bar, she said in an affidavit. She accused Manziel
of getting into the driver’s
seat and beginning to drive
her.
She said she tried to
jump out, but he stopped
the car, dragged her back
inside and hit her.
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ROLL TIDE ROLL
Williams leads UAB to
95-91 win over Marshall
BIRMINGHAM (AP) —
Dirk Williams sank four 3pointers and scored 19
points to lead AlabamaBirmingham past Marshall 95-91 on Thursday
night and give the Blazers
a two-game advantage
atop the Conference USA.
Nick Norton added 17
points, Chris Cokley had
16 and Robert Brown 13
for UAB (23-5, 13-2), which
shot 47 percent and had 19
assists to go with its 31
field goals. William Lee
collected 10 rebounds to go
with nine points.
Tied 49-49 at the break,
Lee put UAB on top for
good with a 3-pointer that
made it 78-76 with 5:32
left. Marshall (15-13, 11-4)
twice sliced the gap to a
Vols
single point in the final
three minutes before
Williams sparked a 6-2
burst with a 3-pointer to
pad the advantage 91-87
with 18 seconds left. Hakeem Baxter and Nick
Norton sealed it from the
free-throw line.
Stevie Browning’s 23
points led five Marshall
players in double figures.
Money&Markets
1,960
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16,720
Dow Jones industrials
1,880
Close: 1,951.70
Change: 21.90 (1.1%)
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administration’s and athletic department’s deliberate indifference to the clear
and present danger of sexual assaults by
UT athletes.” The amended complaint
submitted Wednesday included a signed
declaration from Rogers confirming the
accuracy of statements made about him.
“My response (to Hart’s comments) is
read the lawsuit, read the declarations
under oath under penalty of perjury, and
we’ll go from there,” said David Randolph
Smith, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs.
Hart said he was proud of the athletic
department’s culture but acknowledged
improvement is needed.
“We should take a leadership role in
trying to address (sexual assault),” Hart
said. “That has been our intent and will
remain our intent. We’re not perfect.
We’re far from it. I think anybody that
would claim they’ve got everything under
control is probably drifting around with
blinders on.”
O
StocksRecap
From B1
who have allegedly committed a crime
don’t get treated any differently than
general students facing the same circumstances.
“We are not the judge and jury,” Hart
said. “We have to remember that each
person is entitled to due process. We don’t
engage in that. We don’t engage in the investigations that take place, be they with
law enforcement or student conduct.
That’s not our role.”
The lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 9 in
Nashville, states Tennessee has violated
Title IX regulations and created a “hostile sexual environment” through a policy
of indifference toward assaults by athletes. It also states the school interfered
with the disciplinary process to favor
male athletes. The suit now includes
eight unidentified women as plaintiffs.
According to the suit, Tim Rogers
stepped down as Tennessee’s vice chancellor in 2013 “in protest over the violation of Title IX and the UT
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Salesforce.com
CRM
Close: $69.42 6.90 or 11.0%
The customer-management software developer gave a strong outlook for 2016.
$100
80
40
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52-week range
$52.60
———
GEORGIA
Among 2016 freshman
quarterbacks, Georgia’s
Jacob Eason would be
voted most likely to start
immediately. He is already
enrolled, will take part in
spring practice and new
coach Kirby Smart’s other
options are ... limited.
Brice Ramsey is the only
returnee with experience,
but an argument could be
made he is a better punter
(41.9-yard average) than
passer (two picks and one
touchdown pass in 35 attempts).
———
MICHIGAN
The Wolverines rode
graduate transfer Jake
Rudock to 10 wins in coach
Jim Harbaugh’s surprisingly good first season in
Ann Arbor. Next in line appears to be another transfer. John O’Korn came over
from Houston, where he
was the American Athletic
Conference freshman of
the year in 2013 and demoted to second string in
2014. He is not a lock to
win the job. Former fivestar recruit Shane Morris
figures to be his main competition, along with last
year’s backup, Wilton
Speight. A couple of freshmen will get a look, too.
———
NOTRE DAME
DeShone Kizer saved
Notre Dame’s season after
Malik Zaire broke his
ankle in Week 2. Kizer
passed for 2,884 yards and
21 touchdowns, ran for 10
TDs and threw 10 interceptions. Kizer, a sophomore, was so good it
almost makes you forget
that the junior Zaire was a
clear No. 1 going into last
season. Brian Kelly also
second-year man Brandon
Wimbush, who could be
the most talented quarter-
Prep
back on the roster. Maybe
Kelly can call Urban
Meyer for some advice?
Then again, maybe not a
good idea.
———
STANFORD
Now that Kevin Hogan’s
10-year career at Stanford
(at least it seemed that
way) is over, the Cardinal
have a vacancy. Conventional wisdom is the job is
Keller Chryst’s to lose. The
son of former 49ers offensive coordinator Geep
Chryst and nephew of Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst
played sparingly as the
No. 2 last year, but being
second on the depth chart
meant he beat out Ryan
Burns, this season’s main
competition.
Highly touted freshman
K.J. Costello will join the
competition in August, but
for spring it will be Chryst
and Burns taking just
about all the reps.
From B1
Lockhart added an RBI
double and Nina Tucker
had a triple.
Walker (1-1) opens play
in the Lynn Lady Bears
Invitational today. The
Vikings play pool games
against both Carbon Hill
(2 p.m.) and Lynn (3:30
p.m.) today.
———
Haleyville 8, Carbon
Hill 7, 9 innings
Haleyville scored a run
in the bottom of the ninth
inning to hand Carbon Hill
an 8-7 road loss in nine innings on Thursday.
The Lions trailed 8-5
going into the bottom of
the sixth, but scored three
runs to notch the score.
Neither team was able to
break the deadlock until
the ninth inning.
For Carbon Hill, Alayna
Ivie was 2 for 4 with two
runs, two RBIs and a
stolen base, Katie Moore
was 2 for 5 with two runs,
Karlie Ratliff was 2 for 3
with an RBI, Abby Martin
was 1 for 4 with a run,
Alyssa Dutton was 1 for 4,
Adison Alexander was 1
for 5, Makindle McGough
had two RBIs and Anna
Grace Martin scored a run.
Ratliff suffered the loss
in the circle, allowing 12
hits and seven earned
runs in nine innings.
Carbon
Hill
plays
Walker at 2 p.m. and Lynn
at 5 p.m. today in the Lynn
Lady Bears Invitational.
———
Gordo 4, Oakman 1
Oakman dropped its
season opener on the road
Thursday, losing to Gordo
4-1.
Riley Brown led the
Wildcats at the plate,
going 2 for 3. Chante
Williams finished 1 for 2
with a run and Samantha
Kelly was 1 for 3 with a
run.
Peyton Willcutt took the
loss. She allowed 11 hits
and struck out three.
Gordo won the JV game
6-3. For Oakman, Iyana
Canada was 2 for 3 and
both Tori Robertson and
Autumn Custred added
hits.
Oakman plays Carbon
Hill at 5 p.m. and Lynn at
8 p.m. today in the Lynn
Lady Bears Invitational.
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Stocks of Local Interest
Stocks rose Thursday, helped
by a recovery in the price of oil
and bank stocks, which have
been hit hard this year. Investors were also encouraged that
orders for long-lasting goods
improved, a sign that businesses are still investing in their operations.
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$82.90
Vol.: 18.2m (3.1x avg.)
Mkt. Cap: $46.09 b
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Vol.: 8.4m (0.8x avg.)
PE: ...
Mkt. Cap: $19.14 b
Yield: 0.5%
NFX
Close: $24.41 0.99 or 4.2%
The oil and gas company reported a
bigger-than-expected profit and said
it will cut capital spending by more
than half.
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30
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$20.84
F
$41.34
Vol.: 6.5m (1.5x avg.)
Mkt. Cap: $3.99 b
HP
PE: ...
Yield: ...
HPQ
Close: $10.34 -0.48 or -4.4%
The PC and printer maker reported
a smaller-than-expected quarterly
profit.
$14
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$8.91
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$35.60
Vol.: 35.6m (1.8x avg.)
PE: 4.2
Mkt. Cap: $17.85 b
Yield: 4.8%
Ensco
ESV
Close: $7.88 -0.40 or -4.8%
The drilling rig company cut its
quarterly dividend and said it will retire more of its rigs to cut costs.
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$28.40
Vol.: 15.5m (2.0x avg.)
PE: ...
Mkt. Cap: $1.82 b
Yield: 7.6%
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60.33
37.37
11.78
729.12
62.38
555.15
96.76
12.32
24.16
44.16
147.90
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1.67
97.70
95.65
6.80
135.98
12.17
41.61
12.39
5.31
126.86
11.07
30.36
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Div Yld PE
IBM
5.20
IntPap
1.76
Kroger s .42f
Lowes
1.12
MktVGold .12e
McDnlds 3.56f
Microsoft 1.44
NorthropG 3.20
Penney
...
PepsiCo 2.81
Pfizer
1.20f
PhilipMor 4.08
RegionsFn .24
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SunEdison ...
SynovusFn .48f
Textron
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TractSupp .80
US Bancrp 1.02
VerizonCm 2.26
WalMart 2.00f
Wendys Co .24
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Discount Rate
Federal Funds Rate
Treasuries
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6-month
5-year
10-year
30-year
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3.0
2.8
1.7
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3.9
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134.50
34.79
39.46
68.70
19.39
118.37
52.10
192.93
8.36
100.67
30.59
92.45
7.51
195.54
17.52
21.17
1.72
26.65
34.51
85.50
39.14
51.11
68.04
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Currencies
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Pvs Week
3.50
1.00
.25-.50
3.50
1.00
.25-.50
0.33
0.45
1.17
1.72
2.57
0.29
0.43
1.20
1.74
2.61
US $ in Foreign Currency
Australian Dollar
British Pound
Canadian Dollar
Chinese Yuan
Euro
Japanese Yen
Mexican Peso
Swiss Franc
Pvs Day
1.3805
.7154
1.3524
6.5346
.9059
112.81
18.1134
.9890
1.3886
.7187
1.3728
6.5314
.9077
111.65
18.1844
.9879
Mutual Funds
F
$95.94
Newfield Exploration
2.7
5.1
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3.6
...
2.1
1.6
...
3.2
3.0
...
...
4.0
1.5
16.8
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2.0
1.8
4.8
7.9
2.2
1.2
2.8
APC
60
D
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52-week range
Div Yld PE
AFLAC 1.64f
AT&T Inc 1.92f
AllegTch .32m
Alphabet A ...
Altria
2.26
Amazon
...
Apple Inc 2.08
BkofAm
.20
B iPVixST
...
CocaCola 1.40f
CrackerB 4.40a
CSVLgNG rs ...
CSVLgCrd rs ...
Cummins 3.90
Disney
1.42f
EgyTrEq s 1.14f
FedExCp 1.00
FstHorizon .24
Flowserve .76f
FordM
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FrontierCm .42
HomeDp 2.76f
iShJapan .13e
iShEMkts .84e
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Close: $37.64 1.43 or 3.9%
The oil and natural gas company
said it has sold, or signed agreements to sell, $1.3 billion in assets
this year.
$80
20
Name
Name
Total Assets
($Mlns) NAV
Total Return/Rank
Pct Min Init
Chg 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt
AB GlbThmtGrB m
10 65.13 +.89 +0.4 -13.5/D -1.0/E 4.00 2,500
AB GrB m
14 32.89 +.36 +2.3 -3.7/A +9.9/B 4.00 2,500
AB IntlGrB m
2 12.55 +.09 -0.4 -17.3/E -1.8/E 4.00 2,500
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219 27.64 +.40 +2.4 -3.7/A +10.6/A 1.00 1,000
American Century ValueInv
1,897
7.32 +.07 +6.1 -9.4/C +8.6/B NL 2,500
American Funds AmBalA m
48,214 23.34 +.17 +2.8 -2.9/A +8.5/A 5.75
250
American Funds CapIncBuA m
66,929 55.28 +.56 +3.7 -7.1/A +5.9/A 5.75
250
American Funds CpWldGrIA m
49,538 40.79 +.38 +2.1 -12.1/C +5.1/B 5.75
250
American Funds FnInvA m
42,264 48.07 +.47 +3.5 -5.8/A +8.9/C 5.75
250
American Funds GrthAmA m
68,237 37.98 +.30 +1.7 -7.4/B +9.2/C 5.75
250
American Funds IncAmerA m
68,651 19.85 +.19 +3.7 -6.2/B +7.2/A 5.75
250
American Funds InvCoAmA m
52,513 32.39 +.29 +4.7 -7.3/B +9.2/C 5.75
250
American Funds NewPerspA m 34,767 33.14 +.33 +0.7 -7.9/A +6.5/A 5.75
250
American Funds WAMutInvA m
47,650 37.16 +.42 +5.0 -6.0/A +10.3/A 5.75
250
Dodge & Cox Income
43,367 13.28 +.01 +0.3 -1.7/E +3.4/C NL 2,500
Dodge & Cox IntlStk
51,575 31.85 +.34 -0.6 -26.2/E -0.6/D NL 2,500
Dodge & Cox Stock
50,943 151.13 +1.51 +3.9 -12.3/D +8.7/B NL 2,500
Fidelity BlChGrow
14,218 62.31 +.73 +0.2 -9.2/C +10.9/A NL 2,500
Fidelity Contra
73,007 92.21 +1.17 +2.3 -4.6/A +10.3/B NL 2,500
Fidelity ContraK
29,923 92.15 +1.17 +2.3 -4.5/A +10.4/B NL
0
Fidelity Magellan
12,529 82.94 +1.01 +2.0 -7.4/B +8.1/D NL 2,500
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48,827 68.82 +.79 +4.3 -5.7/A +10.4/A NL 10,000
FrankTemp-Franklin IncomeA m 41,656
2.01 +.02 +3.1 -13.4/E +3.4/C 4.25 1,000
FrankTemp-Templeton Fgn A m
3,540
5.78 +.06 +1.8 -19.9/E -1.5/D 5.75 1,000
Harbor IntlInstl
35,375 56.02 +.78 +2.4 -15.0/C +0.6/C NL 50,000
Janus EnteprsT
1,996 82.04 +.90 +4.7 -7.0/A +9.6/A NL 2,500
Lord Abbett AffiliatA m
5,088 13.63 +.16 +5.3 -9.5/C +6.8/D 5.75 1,000
MFS GrowB m
130 55.19 +.75 +1.5 -4.3/A +9.9/B 4.00 1,000
MFS HighIncA m
396
3.07 +.02 +0.2 -8.4/C +3.2/C 4.25 1,000
MFS TNMuniBdA m
102 10.70
... +0.3 +3.4/B +4.7/D 4.25 1,000
MFS TotRetA m
4,398 16.93 +.14 +3.5 -3.7/A +6.9/A 5.75 1,000
Nuveen TNMuniBdA m
289 12.07
... +0.2 +3.8/B +5.6/A 4.20 3,000
Oppenheimer CapIncA m
1,671
9.36 +.04 +1.5 -3.4/A +4.8/A 5.75 1,000
Pioneer PioneerA m
4,184 30.77 +.35 +4.3 -6.8/B +7.5/D 5.75 1,000
Prudential Investmen BlendB m
12 15.59 +.22 +1.3 -13.6/E +5.0/E 5.00 2,500
Putnam EqIncomeA m
3,126 18.30 +.21 +4.9 -10.4/C +9.1/B 5.75
0
Putnam MultiCapGrA m
3,125 62.76 +.72 +2.5 -11.7/E +8.4/D 5.75
0
T Rowe Price GrowStk
35,670 48.39 +.60 +0.2 -6.6/B +11.2/A NL 2,500
Vanguard 500Adml
146,311 180.64 +2.07 +4.3 -5.7/A +10.4/A NL 10,000
Vanguard HltCrAdml
36,605 84.23 +.89 -1.7 -4.8/A +18.4/B NL 50,000
Vanguard IntlStkIdxAdm
35,932 22.45 +.24 +1.8 -16.3/D -0.7/D NL 10,000
Vanguard MuIntAdml
42,832 14.40
... +0.4 +3.9/A +4.9/B NL 50,000
Vanguard PrmcpAdml
35,771 96.40 +1.14 +2.3 -7.6/C +11.5/A NL 50,000
Vanguard STGradeAd
33,856 10.61 +.01 +0.5 +1.2/A +2.2/A NL 50,000
Vanguard TotBdAdml
62,206 10.84 +.02 +1.3 +1.4/A +3.6/B NL 10,000
Vanguard TotIntl
73,995 13.42 +.14 +1.8 -16.3/D -0.8/D NL 3,000
Vanguard TotStIAdm
120,312 48.26 +.54 +4.1 -7.7/C +9.9/B NL 10,000
Vanguard TotStIdx
92,592 48.24 +.55 +4.1 -7.7/C +9.7/B NL 3,000
Vanguard WellsIAdm
28,923 59.82 +.34 +2.9 +0.4/A +7.4/A NL 50,000
Vanguard WelltnAdm
65,584 62.12 +.48 +3.2 -4.2/A +7.8/A NL 50,000
Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late
filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50
percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within
the last year. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership.
Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset
value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.
Source: The Associated Press and Morningstar. Sales figures are unofficial.
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Lawyer: Cosby using courts
to bully accuser, witnesses
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
— Bill Cosby is using secret court filings to try to
bully and intimidate the
accuser and other witnesses in his criminal sexassault case, the woman’s
lawyers charged in a new
court filing.
Cosby filed a sealed lawsuit this month against accuser Andrea Constand
the day before a key pretrial hearing in the criminal case. He said the
Canadian massage therapist had violated the settlement
of
their
confidential 2005 civil suit
when she talked to police,
who reopened the criminal
case last year.
Cosby, 78, demanded
that Constand repay the
settlement money along
with interest and damages. The amount of the
2006 settlement remains
private.
The comedian and actor
also sued Constand’s
mother and lawyers, who
were likewise bound by
the confidential settlement.
The Feb. 1 suit was filed
a day before lawyers Dolores Troiani and Bebe
Kivitz testified against
Cosby in his bid to have
the
criminal
charges
thrown out.
“By repeated filings
‘under seal,’ Cosby has created a shadow court system, in which he is free to
make any inconsistent and
opposing allegations he
chooses without the deterrent of public scrutiny,”
Troiani wrote in a response filed late Monday
to the lawsuit.
She asked a federal
judge to void the confidentiality clause in the civil
settlement because, she
said, Cosby was abusing it.
“Cosby has used the
agreement as a means to
intimidate witnesses (and)
to conduct a media blitz in
an attempt to sway public
opinion while silencing
those most knowledgeable
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In this Dec. 30 file photo, Bill Cosby, center, accompanied by his attorneys Brian McMonagle, left,
and Monique Pressley, arrives at court to face a
felony charge of aggravated indecent assault, in
Elkins Park, Pa.
about his claims,” Troiani
wrote. “Cosby’s abuses of
the agreement merits its
total abrogation.”
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Apple asks judge to vacate
order on locked iPhone
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Apple Inc. on Thursday
asked a federal magistrate
to reverse her order that
the company help the FBI
hack into a locked iPhone,
accusing the federal government of seeking “dangerous power” through the
courts and of trampling on
its constitutional rights.
The filing represents
Apple’s first official response since the judge’s
order last week and builds
upon arguments voiced by
the company’s chief executive and supporters.
It marks the latest salvo
in a court fight that could
create meaningful precedent and establish new
legal boundaries in the policy between national security and digital privacy. “No
court has ever authorized
what the government now
seeks, no law supports such
unlimited and sweeping
use of the judicial process,
and the Constitution forbids it,” Apple said.
The Justice Department
is proposing a “boundless
interpretation” of the law
that, if left unchecked,
could bring disastrous
repercussions, the company
warned in a memo submitted to Magistrate Sheri
Pym that aggressively
challenges policy justifications put forward by the
Obama administration.
“The government says:
‘Just this once’ and ‘Just
this phone.’ But the government knows those statements are not true,”
lawyers for Apple wrote.
They said that if Apple
were required to build the
software the FBI wants,
“criminals, terrorists and
hackers will no doubt view
the code as a major prize
and can be expected to go
to considerable lengths to
steal it.”
A hearing is scheduled
for next month.
The dispute broke into
public view last Tuesday
when Pym directed Apple
to help the FBI gain access
to a phone used by one of
the assailants in the San
Bernardino, California, attacks.
Federal agents haven’t
been able to open the
phone of Syed Farook because they don’t know the
passcode. The Justice Department wants Apple to
create specialized software
for the iPhone that would
bypass some security features so that the FBI can
try as many passcodes as
possible without the data
being erased.
The filing was made the
same day that FBI Director
AP Photo
Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to a question during a news conference in New York in April 2015.
James Comey defended the
government’s
approach
during separate appearances on Capitol Hill,
where he stressed that the
agency was seeking specialized software for only
one phone as part of an investigation into an act of
terror that left 14 dead.
But Apple said the specialized software the government wants it to build
does not currently exist
and “would require significant resources and effort to
develop,” including the
work of six to 10 engineers
working two to four weeks.
The magistrate judge suggested in her ruling that
the government would be
required to pay Apple’s
costs.
Apple compared forcing
it to create software that
doesn’t exist to weaken the
iPhone’s locks to forcing a
journalist to publish false
information to arrest a
fugitive or forcing another
software company to implant a virus in a customer’s computer so the
government could eavesdrop. And it accused the
government of working
under a closed courtroom
process under the auspices
of a terrorism investigation
of trying “to cut off debate
and circumvent thoughtful
analysis.”
“The government wants
to compel Apple to create a
crippled and insecure product,” the company said.
“Once the process is created, it provides an avenue
for criminals and foreign
agents to access millions of
iPhones.”
Apple pointedly noted
the U.S. government itself
fell victim to hackers, when
thieves stole the personal
information of tens of millions of current and former
federal workers and their
family members from the
U.S. Office of Personnel
Management.
Maranatha Baptist Church
will host a
West Jasper Community Meeting
Friday, February 26th at 6pm
All elected officials and candidates
have a special invitation to attend.
A community clean-up and West
Jasper Day will be discussed.
Let’s make West Jasper a
BETTER Community!

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