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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Au-thorities say a southwest Ohio highway pileup involving at least 86 vehicles has left a 12-year-old girl dead.
The Interstate 275 crash was one of at least four pileups that snared dozens of vehicles in the state on Monday. Parts of the
state saw scattered snow show-ers, with isolated pockets of heavier snowfall.
The girl died in the I-275 pile-up near the Cincinnati suburb of Colerain Township. At least 20 injured people were taken to hos-pitals.
The State Highway Patrol says an estimated 50 vehicles were in
a pileup on I-75, between Middle-town and Monroe. Minor injuries were reported.
And the patrol says four semi-trailers and about 20 cars were involved in an afternoon pileup on I-71 near Mansfi eld.
Lanes of I-270 have been re-opened following a multi-vehicle crash near Columbus.
Scores of vehicles snared in Ohio highway pileups; 1 reported dead
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It was just over a mile walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial on a hot August day in 1963 to hear an infl uential man speak about his dream. On Monday, Paducah’s annual March to the Monument spanned the same distance 50 years later to honor that same man.
“The walk reminds us of sacrifi ce,” the Rev. Charlene Boone of Birch Chapel said. “But it’s commemorative and remembers and honors the marches and speeches that Dr. King made.”
More than 100 people, including Mayor Gayle Kaler and members of the City Com-mission, were on hand Monday morning for a wreath-laying ceremony at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument in Paducah. Before the ceremony, the group
marched down Martin Luther King Drive to 19th Street, singing and joyfully cel-ebrating the life of King and his legacy.
“Dr. King paid the ultimate price for race to have a place in this nation,” Kaler told the crowd. “We have a lot of diversity
Annual monument marchpunctuates historic day
BY CORIANNE [email protected]
CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
A crowd, including Mayor Gayle Kaler and City Commissioners, bow their heads to pray during the annual March to the Monument celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Lu-ther King Jr. The walk was followed by a luncheon, where visitors were able to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON — Turning the page on years of war and reces-sion, President Barack Obama summoned a divided nation Monday to act with “passion and dedication” to broaden equality and prosperity at home, nurture democracy around the world and combat global warming as he em-barked on a second term before a vast and cheering crowd that spilled down the historic National Mall.
“America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands,” the 44th president declared in a second inaugural address that broke new ground by assigning gay rights a prominent place in the wider struggle for equality for all.
In a unity plea to politicians
Obama takes oath 2nd time
BY DAVID ESPOAssociated Press
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President Barack Obama receives the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts as first lady Michelle Obama looks on at the ceremo-nial swearing-in Monday at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington.
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Semi-trucks and other vehicles in-volved in a multi-car crash are strewn across westbound In-terstate 275 between Colerain Avenue and Hamilton Avenue on Monday in Cincinnati. The wreck left about 20 people injured. There were three sep-arate highway pileups involving dozens of vehicles in Ohio. Au-thorities say as many as 50 vehicles were involved in a pileup on Interstate 75 in southwest Ohio.
President makes plea for unity in second term
“We have a lot of diversity in our city,
and we want that diversity represented
on our boards and in our government.”
Gayle KalerMayor
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Walker Hall. 443-3122. Interracial Women’s Group of
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Mayfield Lions Club, noon, Rita’s
Cafe, 101 N. Seventh St., Mayfield. Concord Lions Club, 6:30 p.m.,
Concord Fire Station. Paducah Singles Connection,
7 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Eighth and Broadway. 556-0625 or 443-0595.
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Lone Oak Kiwanis, 7 a.m., Lone Oak Little Castle. 217-0402.
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Local BriefsPaducah Improv sets dates for studio series
Paducah Improv announced the dates for its studio series, which focuses on long-form improv comedy, with a short-form improv comedy jam at the end of the performance.
Tickets cost $5 and are available only at the door of the Mar-ket House Studio Theatre, 120 Market House Square, on the evening of the performance. Performances are 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on the last Saturday of the month.
Performances of the studio series are scheduled for Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 30, April 27, May 25, and June 29. The May 25 date is subject to change.
— Staff report
Free workshops offered for visual, performing artists
The Kentucky Arts Council is sponsoring workshops Friday in Paducah for visual, craft and performing artists.
Two workshops — one for performing artists and one for visu-al and craft artists — will be held. Topics for performing artists include programs available through the arts council, marketing and promotional tips and an open panel discussion with profes-sionals about working in the performing arts arena. Workshops for visual and craft artists include an overview of the Kentucky Crafted program and how to apply for it, and grants available to Kentucky artists.
“Kentucky artists interested in applying for arts council grants or those looking for new ideas to expand their careers should consider joining us to learn about the opportunities available for them through the arts council,” said Lori Meadows, executive director of the arts council.
The performing artist workshop will be 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday. The visual and craft artist workshop is scheduled from 12:30 to 3:15 p.m. the same day. Both workshops will take
place at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center, 100 Kentucky Ave.
Workshops are free and open to any interested artist. Reg-istration is required. For more information or to register, visit http://artscouncil.ky.gov/Opportunities/WorkshopsJan2013.htm.
— Staff report
MSU art department chairman holds exhibition
The Paducah School of Art and West Kentucky Community & Technical College will present “Intimate Paintings,” a selection of works by Dick Dougherty, chairman of the department of art and design at Murray State University.
The exhibition will be presented in the Clemens Gallery at Clemens Fine Arts Center on Thursday through Feb. 22, and an opening reception will be hosted 5-7 p.m. Thursday. The exhibi-tion is free and open to the public.
A highly respected educator, Dougherty has taught paint-ing and drawing at the college level since 1976. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and has held fac-ulty and administrative positions at Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Mass., University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and Murray State University. Dougherty is an active exhibitor, with 14 solo exhibitions and numerous other exhibitions to his credit. He is retiring from Murray State University at the end of this academic year.
Clemens Gallery is located in the Clemens Fine Arts Center on the campus of West Kentucky Community & Technical Col-lege at 4810 Alben Barkley Drive in Paducah. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.
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Fueled by a series of report-ed concerns from McCracken County citizens regarding loose dogs in their neighborhoods, Fiscal Court commissioners may soon consider a county-wide leash law.
Commissioner Jerry Beyer said that he takes a call a week, on average, from citizens con-cerned about dogs running loose in the county. But with no leash law in place outside of Paducah city limits, Beyer says the commissioners’ hands are tied in addressing the com-plaints.
“The only thing the county has is a nuisance law, if an ani-mal is found to be a nuisance, “ he said. “I think that’s a rather broad term.”
The calls Beyer has taken came from residents in county subdivisions who have wit-nessed neighbors’ dogs on their properties doing things such as knocking over garbage cans, he said.
“Some people I talk to in sub-divisions think animals should be restricted, especially at night,” he said.
Judge-Executive Van New-berry said a dog is considered a nuisance when it makes people feel unsafe. He said that the county ordinance covers dogs that growl, bark and create sig-nifi cant property damage, but not dogs that are just running loose. Newberry said animal control offi cers typically have to witness a dog acting as a nui-sance to pick it up.
A Paducah city ordinance re-quires all dogs to be restrained with a leash while in public, and fenced or chained in on private properties. The ordinance also permits animal control offi cers to pick up dogs running at large in city limits.
Beyer said that he has a copy of the city ordinance and has requested copies of leash laws from other counties as exam-ples. At the Fiscal Court’s last meeting, held Jan. 14, Beyer suggested scheduling a public
workshop on the subject of a leash law, and the other com-missioners were receptive to the idea. He said that he plans
to bring it up again at the next meeting, slated for Monday.
“I just want to ask and see if the other commissioners are in-
terested in having a workshop to help get some public input to see how the public feels about it,” Beyer said. “It would be up to what the public wants us to do.”
Newberry said that a work-shop will likely be set up an hour before an upcoming Fiscal Court meeting. He said the idea is in the preliminary stages and the informal meeting would gauge the public’s interest and opinions about it.
Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or follow @Mal-loryPanuska on Twitter.
McCracken may consider leash lawBY MALLORY [email protected]
MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun
McCracken County resident Andrea Brandon stands with her dog, Maya, a year-and-a-half-old Siberian husky, on Monday at Paducah’s dog park located inside Stuart Nelson Park. Although no ordinance exists regulating at large dogs in county limits where Brandon lives, she said that she does not ever let Maya run loose. Fiscal Court commissioners may schedule a workshop to gauge public input on a potential countywide leash law.
“I just want to ask and see if the other commissioners are interested in having a workshop to help get some public input to see how the public feels about it.
It would be up to what the public wants us to do.”
Jerry BeyerCommissioner
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in our city, and we want that diversity represented on our boards and in our government.”
The ceremony included prayers and a speech by Boone. Afterwards, the crowd returned to the Rob-ert Cherry Civic Center for an annual luncheon and to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The ceremony and the lun-cheon marked the end of a weekend-long local cele-bration of King’s work, but Boone was careful to em-phasize how important the civil rights leader’s mes-sage is on a daily basis.
“This isn’t a one-day
event, it’s an obligation that we have,” Boone said. “You can’t talk about education if you aren’t trying to edu-cate. You can’t talk about social problems in a com-munity if you aren’t trying to address them. You can’t just wait for one day and
make a speech and think it’s over with. It’s some-thing you should think about year-round.”
Contact Corianne Egan, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
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A Paducah police cruiser leads the March to the Monument down Martin Luther King Drive on Monday morning. More than 100 people braved the cold to march to the statue honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on 19th Street in Paducah.
LOUISVILLE — A small Appalachian college is dan-gling an appealing offer in front of its freshmen: Get good grades and volunteer and you can skip paying tu-ition your fi nal semester as a senior.
Union College President Marcia Hawkins sees the offer as a way to boost stu-dent retention and gradu-ation rates at the private liberal arts school in Bar-bourville in southeastern Kentucky. It amounts to about $10,500 in savings based on current tuition rates.
Slightly more than 55 percent of its freshmen generally return to campus as sophomores and only 14 percent graduate within four years, the school says. Nearly a third of its stu-
dents graduate within six years.
The offer is aimed at putting more emphasis on spring graduation rates than fall enrollment num-bers, said Hawkins, who is in her fi rst full year at the nearly 1,400-student school affi liated with the United Methodist Church.
“We talk so much about ... getting that (freshman) class in,” Hawkins said in a recent phone interview. “You hear that conversa-tion on every campus: are we going to make the fall numbers? Obviously that’s extremely important. But I want to turn the conversa-tion on our campus more to — how do we get the students out in their fourth year. It’s really more about that than getting them in.”
She hopes the tuition-free offer is the perfect in-
ducement. But it comes with conditions.
To qualify for the full tu-ition waiver, students must graduate in four years, maintain a 3.5 grade point average, participate in at least one extracurricular activity and volunteer at least 75 hours of commu-nity service.
“It’s not just to fi nish in four years, but to get the most out of their experi-ence here,” Hawkins said.
Students with less-ster-ling grades can qualify for lower amounts of waivers. Students with GPAs of 3.0 to 3.49 can have three-fourths of their tuition paid. Students with GPAs be-tween 2.5 and 2.9 can have a waiver for half of their fi -nal semester tuition bill.
Union freshman Dono-van Spann said he’s excited at the prospect of shaving thousands of dollars off his college expenses.
“It’s going to save a lot of money come the end of my term here,” said Spann, a computer information technology major from Flemingsburg in northern Kentucky. “As long as I keep my head in the right direction, I should be able to pull that out.”
Spann said that “some jaws dropped” when fresh-men learned of the offer, though some students later sounded skeptical about maintaining a minimum 3.5 GPA for three and a half years to qualify for the full waiver.
“If you’re in college for the right reason, you shouldn’t have a problem with it,” he said.
On average, students at-tending Kentucky univer-sities and colleges pile up more than $22,000 in loan debt, said Ted Franzeim, a
vice president with the Ken-tucky Higher Education As-sistance Authority, which administers the state’s stu-dent aid programs.
He applauded Union College’s offer to ease debt loads and encourage gradu-ation within four years.
“I think anything that a college can do to make college more affordable is great,” he said. “This has a lot of positive incentives for students to make it more af-fordable and to give some-thing back” to the campus and community.
Hawkins said she doesn’t expect the waiver to cause a revenue shortfall for Union when the offer kicks in. She hopes that higher stu-dent retention in the next three years will more than offset revenue losses when the current freshman class cashes in on the offer.
Small private college makes tuition-free offerBY BRUCE SCHREINER
Associated Press“But I want to turn the conversation on our campus more to — how do
we get the students out in their fourth year.
It’s really more about that than getting them in.”
Marcia HawkinsUnion College President
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Missouri not-for-profi t group would like to see the state’s schools rated on an individual ba-sis — instead of by entire districts — and have a let-ter grade attached to each school’s performance.
The Children’s Educa-tion Alliance of Missouri (CEAM), based in St. Louis, seeks to implement a ratings system for every public school in the state in addition to ratings giv-en to school districts.
“There should be rat-ings assigned to individual schools so that parents will know how the school they send their kids to is per-forming,” said Kate Casas, state director of CEAM.
As part of their annual accreditation process, public school districts across the state supply the Department of El-ementary and Secondary Education with informa-tion that is used to evalu-ate a district’s adherence to state standards. Based on that, a district receives a rating of “accredited,” ‘‘provisionally accredited” or “unaccredited.”
According to Casas, just because a district has re-ceived accredited status doesn’t mean there aren’t problems within that dis-
trict’s schools.“Many people believe
their school district is fi ne if it receives an accredited rating,” she said. “But when a top-rated district has a school where only 25 per-cent of its students are read-ing on grade level, district ratings don’t mean much.”
CEAM advocates an un-derstandable rating sys-tem. The proposed “A-F School Rating System” would be based on infor-mation already being col-lected by DESE, such as attendance, graduation rates and test scores. A top-rated school would receive an “A,” a middle-performing school would receive a “C’’ and an un-derperforming school would receive an “F.”
“It’s simply a matter of reporting how individual schools in Missouri are performing,” Casas said. “It’s also about transpar-ency and accountability.”
Included with the rating would be a report from DESE that would pro-vide information about student performance and growth. The high school report cards would give information about gradu-ation rates and college-readiness levels.
Casas said the proposed rating system has been adopted by 12 states, and she is aware implement-
ing the system in Missouri could take time.
“We’re working with DESE about making the change,” she said, “and we’re also talking to leg-islators about getting the system codifi ed into law. It could take awhile, but CEAM will be in this for as long as it takes”
Sarah Potter, commu-nications coordinator for DESE, said she was famil-iar with CEAM’s proposal but said DESE has no plans to implement it at this time.
Group touts giving Missouri schools individual letter grades
BY KEITH LEWISAssociated Press
AUGUSTA — Two North-ern Kentucky Univer-sity graduate students are working on a fi lm about a Civil War battle and count-ing on internet donations to complete the project.
Steve Oldfi eld and Sean Thomas are using the philanthropic web-site Kickstarter to raise at least $10,000 for their documentary, “Hurrah for Kentucky: The Fierce, For-gotten Fight for Augusta,” The Ledger Independent reported.
Thomas is pursuing a master’s degree in pub-lic history from North-
ern Kentucky University and is also overseeing a long-term project on the Underground Railroad in New Richmond, Ohio and surrounding communi-ties.
Oldfi eld, a broadcast journalist who teaches at the University of Cincin-nati, said about year ago at NKU he heard the historian Bill Baker speak about the Battle of Augusta and Old-fi eld suggested a project on the 1862 battle.
Together, Thomas and Oldfi eld fi rst created a DVD and walking tour of the battle site using QR Smart-phone capabilities.
In their Kickstarter in-troduction online, they explain the history of the battle and their interest in expanding the footage they acquired into a quality doc-umentary.
“We had probably an hour of interesting foot-age from every person we spoke with about the im-portance of the battle,” said Oldfi eld, who is also fi nish-ing up a master’s of public history degree from NKU. “Augusta’s story and the battle is the story of what the whole country was go-ing through and showed what a tragedy it was dur-ing the Civil War.”
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U.S. oil production surged almost 14 percent in 2012, despite falling domestic consumption. Production is projected to further accelerate in 2013.
The American Petroleum Institute reported that the average daily output of crude oil jumped 779,000 barrels a day last year, the biggest increase in history. New technologies, especially hydraulic fracturing, have opened up vast, previously inaccessible oil deposits for extraction.
At the same time, domestic oil consumption fell in 2012 to the lowest level in 16 years, according to The Wall Street Journal, which attributed the decline to the sluggish economy and stricter fuel economy standards. Also, oil imports fell 6.9 percent in 2012
As a result of the converging trends, the U.S. became a net exporter of petroleum products in 2011 for the first time since 1949, according to the Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy.
The U.S. is becoming less dependent on foreign energy sources. That’s a good thing.
Energy independence is not just an economic issue but a security issue, as the
armed siege in Algeria last week makes clear. Terrorists believed to be affiliated with al Qaida seized a remote natural gas installation and took dozens of hostages. Algerian news reports that 38 hostages, including three Americans, were killed. Algerian forces launched a series of assaults on the complex over the weekend, during which scores of hostages were rescued or escaped, including seven Americans.
The gas complex, with its remote location and large number of foreign workers, made an attractive target for the terrorists, who are beginning to assert themselves in the African region. Some security analysts think the Algerian attack might be just a preview of what’s to come. North African
and Middle Eastern oil and gas installations are vulnerable because of their remote locations and minimal security. Striking them could be a way to disrupt global energy supplies, to the perceived detriment of the West, which has all but neutralized terrorism’s more favored tactic — attacks on commercial airlines.
That’s all the more reason for the U.S. and Canada to continue increasing
their own oil production. The technologically driven resurgence of domestic oil production has the potential to make the Middle East almost irrelevant to America’s energy supply by 2025 and thus neutralize this newest terror tactic.
Developing our own energy reserves also is producing jobs and reviving the economy. Case in point: North Dakota, where there are actual worker shortages now that fracking has opened up the Bakken shale oil deposit.
This is an historic opportunity the U.S. must not squander. Unfortunately, the usual band of environmental zealots, including some who hold sway in the EPA, appear to be doing all they can to strangle the initiative.
As a sop to his supporters, President Obama blocked the Keystone XL pipeline over trumped-up environmental concerns, costing thousands of jobs and keeping millions of barrels of less-expensive Canadian oil out of U.S. refineries and gas tanks.
Meanwhile the EPA seems determined to do to fracking what it has done to coal: regulate it out of existence. The anti-fracking movement, absent any scientific foundation, is gaining momentum with the help of a few Hollywood stars who have lent their names to the cause. Such efforts threaten America’s ability to achieve energy independence and, though unintentional, aid al Qaida’s goals.
WASHINGTON — Just before noon on Jan. 14, Mitch Daniels ceased to be governor of Indiana. By 2 p.m. he was in West Lafayette conducting a meeting as the soon-to-be president of Purdue Univer-sity. A true Hoosier calls that a promotion. But his elevated new stage is a smaller one. And as national Republicans contemplate the second half of the Obama era, they wonder what might have been.
Daniels pronounces himself “at peace” with his decision not to run for president — the sort of thing a man says after many restless nights. “I made the right decision,” he tells me. The objection of his family was “a showstopper, in and of itself.” And remaining on the job as governor “allowed me to fulfi ll a commitment, to get some big stuff done right to the end.”
Even his strongest critics don’t deny that “big stuff” has been achieved. Daniels was arguably the most ambitious, effective conservative gover-nor in America. He managed to ride a recession that bucked other leaders — balancing a series of budgets without increasing taxes. He left Indiana with a $500 million yearly surplus and $2 billion in reserves while awarding taxpayers a substantial refund on his way out the door. During eight years in offi ce, he shed 6,800 state govern-ment jobs — 19 percent of the total — while improving public services. He passed legislation ending mandatory union dues. He created the largest school choice program for low-income parents in the country. He privatized a toll road and the state lottery, and busted cable monopolies.
In the process, Daniels demonstrated two paradoxes
of conservative governance. First, it often requires a strong executive to encourage limited government. Margaret Thatcher, for example, used executive power to break up existing arrangements favorable to calcifi ed liberal-ism. Daniels came into offi ce promising a “freight train of change” directed at state bureaucracies that had grown comfortable in dysfunction and mediocrity.
Second, Daniels demon-strated that a smaller, more focused government can restore the reputation of gov-ernment. Grasping, ineffective bureaucracies cultivate public disdain. Daniels is a man of libertarian leanings who im-proved the public standing of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Rev-enue by making them more effi cient and responsive.
He said, “Skepticism about big government is as Ameri-can as can be. But we must never allow skepticism about big government to become contempt for all government. We can disagree about the scope of government activity. But a free society requires a consensus that government is operated by people of good will achieving reasonable results.”
Daniels’ parting obser-vations on the state of the Republican Party are broadly consistent with a rising gener-ation of conservative reform-
ers. On immigration, the GOP needs an approach “that em-braces those who are here, not castigates them.” He remains an advocate for a “truce” on social issues — “leaving aside some irreconcilable debates to focus on a few priorities, such as the fi scal crisis” — and notes that most Republicans have implicitly adopted this approach already. And he believes Republicans should be speaking more directly to “people seeking to rise. To young people. To poor people. I never went to a GOP dinner without saying: ‘We should be proud of the success of people in this room. But we re-ally need to do something for people who would like to come to dinners like this someday.’”
Daniels is just the sort of leader most needed in a Republican revival: an upbeat, tolerant, conviction politi-cian. And the most compelling GOP critic of the red men-ace. “I stubbornly adhere to the view,” he told me, “that Americans can be talked to like adults about the defi cit problem. They can be told the pure arithmetical facts of life — the injustice that current policies are doing to the poor, the young and minorities.”
But Daniels seems resigned that political arguments are no longer his to make. “I’m in a new chapter in life,” he says, “and I owe all my loyalty to this place (Purdue). This isn’t a partisan endeavor, and I’m comfortable with that.”
Returning quietly to private life after public service is hon-orable and admirable. But this doesn’t change one fact. The best Democratic politician in America just took his oath as president of the United States. The best Republican politi-cian will soon be president of Purdue.
EDITOR:They will start out full bore and then at-
tempt to whittle their efforts down for the sake of argument. Do not delude yourselves. The end of the Bill of Rights and our constitu-tional rights as written is their goal.
President Obama has as his goal the com-plete subjugation of our rights and privileges to his dictates. He has already treated the populace of our country as though we are a nation of fools.
It would seem as though a great number of our citizenry deserve it. The presidential loy-alty to our country and what it stands for is to my mind questionable when you look at the treatment enjoyed by “Hasan,” the Islamist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood.
I shall soon have lived in our fair land 87 years, paid my taxes, served my country and endeavored to be a decent citizen. I am mys-tifi ed that the American people have elected a confi rmed socialist as president of our coun-try. He has shown how little respect he has for our constitutional rights in his attitude.
He has surrounded himself with his cabi-net, who worship his dictates. He has never served his country’s military nor in any way shown his love and respect for it, nor its citizenry.
Obama’s politics are only meant to garner political support for himself and his political ambitions to socialize this country. The dicta-torial powers he is assuming are the result of
these efforts.I do not believe the American people are
going to let a confi rmed dictator destroy what our forefathers gave us. The price paid for it is too great to allow this to happen. If we lose our Second Amendment rights we shall certainly lose all the rest.
ELMER L. HENDERSONPaducah
Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961
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Attack on Second Amendmentprelude to voiding all the others
EDITOR:Recently, new McCracken County school
board member Jerry Shemwell mentioned placing metal detectors at our schools. I think he’s right on. I would add to that we could put in place visible and invisible fencing. Visible fences direct visitors to one place of entrance where metal detectors would be used. Invis-ible fences made from lasers would detect intruders and sound really loud horns as well as alert security forces.
All doors to classrooms, libraries, cafeterias and gyms would automatically lock and only be unlocked by security personnel.
We all know America and society as a whole has mental health issues, too many guns, violent video games, lack of parental control, bullying. Building lines of defense like fences and metal detectors will help protect our chil-dren and grandchildren and their teachers. To do nothing is unthinkable.
ROBERT SMITHPaducah
Metal detectors, other high-techmeasures could secure schools
Mitch Daniels: Th e one who got away
Michael Gerson
SECURITYNow’s no time to stranglegains in domestic energy
paducahsun.com Region The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 • 5A
ST. LOUIS — Stan Mu-sial’s fan base will get a couple of opportunities this week to say goodbye to the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer, the team said Monday.
The Cardinals an-nounced visitation, fu-neral and burial plans for Musial, who died Satur-day at age 92 at his home in St. Louis County after several years of declining health.
A public visitation will be 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thurs-day at Cathedral Basilica, the elaborate Catholic church in St. Louis’ Mid-town area. A private fu-neral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the same cathedral.
Immediately after the Mass, a funeral procession
will travel to Busch Sta-dium where the family will lay a wreath at the base of the Musial statue that’s in front of the ballpark.
The Cardinals will re-lease the procession route later, a route that could draw thousands of fans given Musial’s enormous popularity. A private buri-al is planned.
Three high-ranking Catholic leaders will of-fi ciate the Mass: New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, a longtime friend of the Musial family; St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson; and Bishop Rich-ard Stika.
Musial was a seven-time National League batting champion and three-time MVP.
He played 22 seasons, all with the Cardinals, and had a lifetime .331 batting
average. His nickname was simply “The Man,” and he retired from base-ball in 1963.
But in the wide-ranging area of the country where the Cardinals are popular, he was just as beloved for his gentle nature and gen-erous spirit.
After his death, former teammates recalled how Musial would often visit sick children in hospitals, even on road trips, never publicizing the visits. He happily gave out auto-graphed cards — an idea his friend John Wayne suggested — and would shake hands and pose for pictures for hours after appearances.
He was a joyous fi gure around St. Louis, often breaking out his harmon-ica for renditions of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”
Visitation, funeral plans announced for Musial
BY JIM SALTERAssociated Press
DANVILLE — The chal-lenges most college stu-dents face on a day-to-day basis include writing pa-pers, running late to class and choosing what to eat at the caffeteria, but Cen-tre College sophomore Danielle Wahl has set a challenge for herself that reaches beyond the college norm.
In June, Wahl, who is from Colorado Springs, Colo., will attempt to swim the English Channel, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between England and France that will constitute a non-stop swim of about 21 miles.
As a member of Centre’s swimming and diving team, Wahl is no stranger to the water. However, she noted that “open water swim-ming is completely differ-ent from pool swimming” and not only because of the lack of lanes and chlo-rine. There will be massive waves, sea animals, ocean currents and boat traffi c to contend with, and she will have to take breaks to eat in the water.
If it’s so dangerous, why make the attempt?
“I’ve wanted to swim the English Channel for a while,” Wahl said. “It’s a big item on my bucket list.”
She also comes from an extremely athletic family: both of her brothers have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest mountain in Africa, and one brother has competed in Iron Man marathons. Wahl already has made her mark by swimming to success in
high school and college — in October, she was named Swimmer of the Week by collegeswimming.com — but swimming the Eng-lish Channel will push the boundaries of that success.
Wahl has been training since August and feels pre-pared to tackle the English Channel head-on.
“I’m only a little nervous ... I know that if I train the right way I’ll be alright,” she said.
Her biggest obstacle will be a mental rather than physical one; she will have to psychologically over-come the fact that she will be swimming for hours in water as cold as 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
To give herself extra motivation, Wahl plans to donate money to Save the Children — a foundation that aims to help children fi ght poverty, hunger, il-literacy and disease — for every mile she completes. If she cannot complete the full goal, Wahl said, “I will look at the factors as to why I wasn’t successful, regroup, and try again next summer!”
Wahl’s friends and fam-ily are supportive. Both her assistant coach at Centre, Nick Thompson, and her father will be following her swim by boat. Thompson noted that swimming the
English Channel is some-thing one grows up hear-ing about in the swimming community, but that actu-ally meeting someone at-tempting it was special.
He said, “I’m highly im-pressed about her goal to swim the Channel and the way she hasn’t simply made it a goal but is following through with something she wants to accomplish.”
Her Centre teammates are also incredibly sup-portive. During a prelimi-nary swim of six hours at a beach in the Gulf of Mexi-co, about 10 of her team-mates (who were there for pre-season training) also jumped in the water and swam alongside her for the last hour. Their jokes and the tight-knit, family-like feel of the team were what got her through the task, Wahl said.
Centre swimming and diving coach Dean Brown-ley is confi dent in Wahl’s abilities to reach her goal. “She has a great work ethic,” he said. “She is a hard worker, sees things through, and has a great at-titude.”
In his 41 years of coach-ing, Brownley has never had a swimmer attempt such a goal, but he is hon-ored to have Wahl on the team and said, “We’re be-hind her 100 percent.”
Centre College student training to swim across English Channel
BY ELISE MURRELLAssociated Press
“I’ve wanted to swim the English Channel
for a while. It’s a big item on my bucket list.”
Danielle WahlCentre College sophomore
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MINER, Mo. — Two police officers in a small south-east Missouri town are being credited with a big assist — helping a woman deliver her baby.
Taylor Northern was visiting her sister near Miner on Saturday when she went into labor.
The baby’s father, Joe Turcotte, hurried to Miner from Cape Girardeau and they began driving to a hos-pital.
But the baby wasn’t waiting — the head began to crown. Turcotte pulled into the Miner Police parking lot while holding the baby’s head. His daughter and a friend went inside to alert police.
Officers Kyle Rodgers and Darrin Skinner went to the car and helped deliver the girl, named Jersey Rose.
Southeast Missouri officers help deliver baby
— Associated Press
LOUISVILLE — Kentucky temperatures are tumbling and some spots might not get above freezing for most of the week.
At Paducah, the extremes are expected to be 33 and 15 degrees while Jackson expects 34 and 11. Pikeville should be a bit warmer, with a Monday high of 41 and an overnight low of 14. Lexington has an expectation of 30 and 9 degrees.
Cold week, precipitation expected across state
— Associated Press
LOUISVILLE — A crowd at the Muhammad Ali Center rose as President Barack Obama took the oath of of-fice for a second term, then erupted in applause while watching on a giant TV screen in an auditorium at the downtown Louisville attraction.
Keith Buckner of Louisville said Monday’s ceremony holds extra significance by coming on the same day the country honors civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Buckner says Obama’s presidency shows the strides made in fulfilling King’s dream of racial equality.
Buckner calls it “a wonderful time in the history of the United States.”
Muhammad Ali Center crowd applauds Obama
— Associated Press
Associated Press
A statue of former St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Stan Musial stands Sunday outside Busch Stadium Sunday in St. Louis. The Cardinals announced visitation, funeral and burial plans for Musial, who died Saturday.
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TOKYO — Japanese and U.S. investigators began a probe into the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing’s ground-ed 787 jets.
Tsutomu Nishijima, a spokesman for GS Yuasa, the battery manufacturer, said investigators visited the company’s headquar-ters in Kyoto, Japan, on Monday and that Yuasa was cooperating with the probe.
All 50 of the 787 Dream-liners that Boeing has de-livered to airlines were grounded after an over-heated battery forced the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways 787 fl ight last week in western Japan. Boeing has halted deliveries of new planes until it can address the electrical problems.
Monday’s investigation involved an introduc-tory meeting and factory tour, with deeper studies into product quality and other issues to follow as the probe continues, said Tatsuyuki Shimazu, the chief air worthiness engi-neer at the Civil Aviation Bureau’s Aviation Safety Department.
Two investigators from the U.S. Federal Avia-tion Administration and
an investigator from Ja-pan’s government were conducting the probe into how the batteries are made and assembled and into any quality issues, he said.
“We are in the midst of collecting information, so as to whether there is a problem or not has not yet been determined,” Shimazu said.
Nishijima of GS Yuasa said he could not com-
ment on details of the in-vestigation.
The burned insides of the ANA battery showed it received voltage in ex-cess of its design limits. However, a battery that caught fi re in a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 in Boston earlier this month was found not to have been overcharged.
U.S. government inves-tigators said there could still be problems with
wiring or other charging components.
In the U.S., investiga-tors from the National Transportation Safety Board planned to meet Tuesday with offi cials from Securaplane Tech-nologies Inc., manufac-turer of the charger for the 787s lithium ion bat-teries, at the company’s headquarters in Tucson, Ariz., board spokeswom-an Kelly Nantel said.
Boeing investigation turns to battery makerBY ELAINE KURTENBACH
Associated Press
BRUSSELS — The Dutch fi nance minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, was elected Monday as the new presi-dent of the group of euro area fi nance ministers.
Dijsselbloem, 46, who has only been the Neth-erlands’ fi nance minister since November, will now face one of the world’s most daunting fi nancial tasks — helping to lead the group of 17 European Union coun-tries that use the euro back to fi nancial stability.
Some EU leaders feel the corner has been turned in the effort to save the euro currency.
But at a press conference after the meeting of the eu-rozone fi nance ministers in Brussels, at which he was elected, Dijsselbloem cau-tioned against overconfi -dence.
“The job isn’t done yet,” he said.
He promised to focus on growth and further inte-gration.
“The completion of the banking union is essen-
tial,” he said.Dijsselbloem replaces
Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxem-bourg, who held the job for eight years. The Dutch-man, who is 46, has been fi nance minister only since November.
Despite his inexperi-ence, he will face immedi-ate challenges, including the need to negotiate a bailout for Cyprus, reduc-ing high national debt in some countries as well as crushing unemployment, and growing opposition to austerity in some eurozone countries.
Dijsselbloem had broad support at the fi nance min-isters meeting, but Spain did not vote in favor of him. Dijsselbloem said the Spanish fi nance minister, Luis de Guindos, offered no explanation for his lack of support.
Dijsselbloem (DIE-sell-bloom) served in the Dutch parliament as a member of the center-left Labor party for most of the past decade until being named fi nance minister a bit over two months ago.
Dutchman elected chief of eurogroup ministers
BY DON MELVIN AND JUERGEN BAETZ
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House leaders on Monday un-veiled legislation to permit the government to continue borrowing money through May 18 in order to stave off a fi rst-ever default on U.S. obli-gations. It is slated for a vote on Wednesday.
The measure marks a change in strategy for House Republicans, who have backed off demands that any extension of the government’s borrowing authority be accompanied by stiff spending cuts.
The legislation is also aimed at prodding Sen-ate Democrats to pass a budget after almost four years of failing to do so. It would withhold the pay of lawmakers in either House or Senate if their chamber fails to pass a budget this year. House Republicans have passed budgets for two consecu-tive years, but the Sen-
ate hasn’t passed one since President Barack Obama’s fi rst year in of-fi ce.
The current debt limit is $16.4 trillion. The leg-islation does not set a specifi c limit; rather it would automatically in-crease the limit by the amount required to fund U.S. government obliga-tions through May 18.
But that date is not a hard deadline, because the Treasury would retain the limited ability to exer-cise so-called extraordi-nary measures and juggle certain accounts to buy limited additional time before a default on U.S. obligations. Such steps could buy several addi-tional weeks beyond May 18.
The measure also con-tains a “no budget, no pay” provision that with-holds pay for lawmakers if the chamber in which they serve fails to pass a congressional budget res-
olution by April 15. That’s a provision designed to press the Senate to pass a budget.
On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Senate would do just that and would use it to call for follow-up legislation that would increase rev-enues.
Under Congress’ ar-cane budget procedures, a congressional budget resolution is a nonbind-ing measure that tries to set parameters for future legislation setting agency budgets and curbing fed-eral benefi t programs like Medicare.
Democrats have gener-ally reacted coolly to the three-month extension, which would take the debt limit issue off the ta-ble for several months but leave other choke points in place, including sharp, across-the-board spend-ing cuts that would start to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs
alike on March 1 and the possibility of a partial government shutdown with the expiration of a temporary budget mea-sure on March 27.
But failing to meet those deadlines would have far less serious consequences than defaulting on U.S. obligations like payments to bondholders.
“We should not be do-ing this three months at a time. We should re-solve these issues, and we should not be playing games with the debt ceil-ing,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
Republicans hope the need to deal with issues like the across-the-board cuts will cause Demo-crats and Obama to agree to spending cuts. Obama vowed he would not bar-gain over the debt limit. If the debt cap is not raised, the government would default on its obligations by as early as Feb. 15, Treasury says.
House to vote Wednesday on raise in federal debt limitBY ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
Southwest: Flyers can pay $40 to board first
DALLAS — Want to board first on a Southwest Airlines flight? Now you can pay $40 for the privilege.
Southwest Airlines will let people pay to be part of their first boarding group, group “A.” The airline does not have assigned seating and lets passengers board in three groups, A, B and C.
Currently, passengers can ensure they board first by buying a special business class ticket or joining a loyalty program. Now, everyone will have that option if spots are available. Passengers will be able to pay at the gate starting 45 minutes before a flight leaves.
Facing higher fuel and other costs, airlines have sought to boost revenue in a variety of ways including charging extra to check a bag or sit next to a loved one.
Video game maker Atari files for bankruptcyNEW YORK — Video game maker Atari’s U.S. opera-
tions have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in an effort to separate from their French parent compa-ny, which is filing a similar motion separately in France.
In a statement, Atari says the move is necessary to secure investments it needs to grow in mobile and downloadable video games.
Atari’s U.S. operations have shifted to focus on digital games and licensing, including developing mo-bile games, and have become a growth engine for its owner. France’s Infogrames Entertainment first took a stake in Atari in 2000.
It acquired the remaining stake in 2008 and changed its name to Atari S.A.
Associated Press
Cars are parked in front of the headquarters of GS Yuasa Corp., the maker of lithi-um-ion batteries used in Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” on Monday in Kyoto as Japanese and U.S. investigators conduct a probe of the maker. Tsutomu Nishijima, a spokes-man for GS Yuasa, said Monday that the investigators visited the company’s head-quarters in Kyoto, and that Yuasa was cooperating with the probe.
SEA BRIGHT, N.J. — Su-perstorm Sandy, one of the nation’s costliest natural disasters, is giving new ur-gency to an age-old debate about whether areas repeat-edly damaged by storms should be rebuilt, or wheth-er it might be cheaper in the long run to buy out vulnera-ble properties and let nature reclaim them.
The diffi culty in get-ting aid for storm victims through Congress — most of a $60 billion package could get fi nal approval next week — highlights the hard choices that may have to be made soon across the coun-try, where the federal, state and local governments all say they don’t have unlimit-ed resources to keep writing checks when storms strike.
But the idea of abandon-ing a place that has been home for years is unthink-able for many.
“We’re not retreating,” said Dina Long, the mayor of Sea Bright, N.J., a chroni-cally fl ooded spit of sand
between the Atlantic Ocean and the Shrewsbury River only slightly wider than the length of a football fi eld in some spots. Three-quarters of its 1,400 residents are still homeless and the entire business district was wiped out; only four shops have managed to reopen.
Despite a rock and con-crete sea wall and pumping equipment in the center of town, Sea Bright fl oods re-peatedly. It is the go-to spot for TV news trucks every time a storm roars up the coast. But as in many other storm-damaged communi-ties, there is a fi erce will to survive, to rebuild and to restore.
“Nobody has come to us and said we shouldn’t ex-ist,” she said. “It is anti-thetical to the Jersey mind-set, and particularly to the Sea Bright mindset. We’re known for being strong, for being resilient, for not back-ing down.”
The story is different in the Oakwood Beach sec-tion of Staten Island, N.Y., where despite 20 years of
fl ood protection measures, Sandy’s 12- to 14-foot-storm surge inundated the com-
munity, forcing some resi-dents to their attics or roofs to survive. Three people
died.“Building again and again
in this very sensitive fl ood plain will only achieve the same results — fl ood-ing, and possibly untimely death,” homeowner Tina Downer told about 200 of her neighbors who gathered to discuss a potential buy-out program last week. “It is not safe for anyone to live there.”
The problem has wors-ened in recent decades with an explosion of devel-opment near the nation’s shorelines. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that in 2003, approximately 153 million people — 53 percent of the nation’s population — lived in coastal counties, an increase of 33 million peo-ple since 1980. The agency forecasts 12 million more to join them by 2015.
Scientists say that putting so many people in the most vulnerable areas is a recipe for disaster.
Jon Miller, a professor of coastal engineering at New Jersey’s Stevens Institute
of technology, said retreat-ing from the most vulner-able areas makes scientifi c sense. But he adds that the things that were built there — beach clubs, boardwalks and amusement piers — give communities their character, and fuel tourism and business.
If buyouts did occur, he predicted they would hap-pen in areas with lower property values because of the high cost of buying up prime coastal real estate. That could have the unin-tended consequence of plac-ing the shore off-limits to all but the wealthy, he said.
“I grew up in Rahway and I remember the controversy when several properties along the Rahway River were bought out due to re-petitive fl ood losses,” Miller said. “It was painful and caused dissension in the community.”
Residents feared not only being forced from their homes but also not getting enough money to purchase a suitable home in the same community, Miller said.
Should worst-flooded areas be left after Sandy? BY WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press
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A beachfront bar & grill sits in ruins on Nov. 15, two weeks after Superstorm Sandy devastated Sea Bright, N.J. The entire business district was wiped out (four shops have since re-opened) and 75 percent of resi-dents are still homeless.
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and opportunities for our kids,” Treece said. “We
do a lot of homew
ork help in the afternoon. We
also do a lot of recreation and art programs. W
e try to take them
on trips and provide opportuni-ties to things they w
ouldn’t normally have access
to.”Treece said the club averages about 120
youth daily.
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oliday Celebration at Lourdes hospital attracted
more than 7
5 people on Friday afternoon, to
carry on an idea that has been front-and-center
for 50 years.
“We do it to really carry on the idea of his
dream,” said M
artha Argotte-Thom
as, chairwom
-an of Lourdes’ D
iversity Council. “That dream
, of justice and equality, is som
ething we are all still
striving for today.”
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ith King’s
dream in m
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nurse for 25 years and currently w
orks with
Lourdes Hom
ecare. The celebration included a visit from
Lourdes President and C
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teven Grinnell, as w
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cripture reading, and Dun
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event, started in 20
05. The group brings in other
speakers throughout the year and also puts on a C
inco de Mayo celebration in M
ay.“W
e try to promote unity in the com
munity both
in and outside of Lourdes,” Argotte-Thom
as said. “This is probably the largest event w
e have.”
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Attendees sing “Lift E
very Voice and Sing” on Friday at Lourdes hospital’s 2
2nd annual D
r. Martin Luther K
ing Jr. Holiday C
elebration. The program
kicked off several weekend events, culm
inating with a w
alk Monday to the K
ing Mem
orial on Park Avenue.C
ollaboration between M
cCracken C
ounty students and local engineering leaders could ex-pand as part of an outreach effort.
Lone Oak H
igh School students on Friday
showcased studies for a group of com
munity
mem
bers and University of K
entucky College of
Engineering faculty. The high school program is
a mix of principles and application, from
learning the basics of design to building and program
-m
ing robots.B
rian Dill teaches the courses from
curriculum
developed by Project Lead the Way. D
ill said m
any of the concepts he teaches mirror w
hat students learn during freshm
an and sophomore
years of college.“W
e’re interested in developing a relationship w
ith the UK
College of Engineering,” D
ill said. “W
e thought this would be a good tim
e for us to show
what our high school students are doing
and what they w
ill be doing next year.”The engineering program
will expand to include
students from R
eidland and Heath high schools
next year following the planned consolidation.
Dill hopes to open those expanded classes to
include mentoring from
college engineering stu-
dents.D
ill said the relationship could help better pre-
pare students entering college.D
ill’s students began working Jan. 5
on an in-
ternational robot building competition entry.
The six-week com
petition will culm
inate Feb. 19
in St. Louis.
David S
ilverstein, director of the extended cam-
pus program, attended the m
eeting with profes-
sor Bill M
urphy.S
ilverstein said the college works w
ith dis-tricts to prom
ote outreach efforts and more
possibilities remained w
ith McC
racken County
schools.S
ilverstein said he was im
pressed with w
hat he saw
at Lone Oak.
“It’s using the best ways of teaching students,
which is actually doing it,” S
ilverstein said. “It will
unavoidably inspire students to look at careers they m
ight not have.”
“We do it to really carry
on the idea of his dream.
That dream, of justice and
equality, is something w
e are all still striving for today.”
Martha A
rgotte-Thomas
Chairw
oman, Lourdes’ D
iversity Council
Staff report
Engineering showcased at Lone Oak High School
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paducahsun.com Obituaries The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 • 9A
Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Anna Vurdean Smith, 81, of West Paducah passed away peacefully at 3:45 a.m. Sunday, Janu-ary 20, 2013, at Lourdes hospital in Paducah.
Mrs. Smith was a mem-ber of the Homemakers Club in Kevil, and loved to spend her time gardening and quilting.
Surviving are one son, Douglas (Karla) Smith of West Paducah; one daughter, Gail Hefl in of Kevil; one brother, Harry Lynn (Judy) Long of Sa-lem; two sisters, June (Bill) Brasher of Grand Rivers and Paula Stinnet of Smithland; three grandchildren, Jeffery McBride, Dakota Smith and Beau Smith; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and neph-
ews.She was preceded in
death by her husband, Minus Smith; and one brother. Her parents were Joe and Alberta Long.
Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at Roth Funeral Chapel, with Bro. Keith Tilford offi ciating.
Burial will follow at Ma-plelawn Park Cemetery.
Visitation will be 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 22, 2013, at Roth Funeral Chapel.
Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the West McCracken Rescue Squad, 9340 Og-den Landing Road, West Paducah, KY 42086.
Online condolences may be left at www.roth-funeralchapel.com
Anna Vurdean Smith
MURRAY — Johnnie Burton Lane, 86, of Mur-ray died Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.
Mr. Lane was a retired backhoe operator and an Army veteran of World War II. He was of the Pentecos-tal faith.
He is survived by a daughter, Carrie Crawford of Murray; fi ve grandchil-dren; six great-grandchil-dren; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Ollie Mae Dil-lon Lane; a son, Johnnie L. Lane; and several sisters and brothers.
His parents were Vonnie and Mary Crass Lane.
Services will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with the Rev. Sam-my Cunningham offi ciat-ing.
Burial will follow in Hicks Cemetery.
Friends may call 5-8 p.m. today, Jan. 22, 2013, at the funeral home.
Johnnie Lane
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Mr. Kevin Wayne Little, age 49, of Metropolis, Ill., passed away at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, January 18, 2013, at Massac Memo-rial Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, January 25, 2013, at the Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home in Metropolis.
Rev. Lauren Ley will of-fi ciate.
Kevin enjoyed spend-ing time with his family, especially his grandchil-dren.
He was an Air Force veteran and an on-site foreman for Hunter Sand and Gravel.
Kevin is survived by his wife, Katherine Little of Metropolis; his children, Kevin Andrew Little, Me-gan Little, David Greer, Bethany McHaney and Marlena Moss; his grand-
children, Caden Newman, Caleb Newman, Heather Moss, Hope McHaney, Griffi n Greer, Damon McHaney, and Brody Greer; his brothers, Har-vey Little and Stanley Lit-tle; his sisters, Sara Kim-mel, Karen Friese, and Paulette Stokes; and sev-eral nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Har-old Little; two brothers, Andrew Perry Little and Kevin Hausman; and his stepfather, Paul Haus-man.
Friends may call at the Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Janu-ary 24, 2013.
Pallbearers — Stanley Little Jr., Chris Little, Alan Heal, Deric Haus-man, David Hausman, Rick Cruse, Phillip McHaney.
Kevin Wayne Little
CALVERT CITY — Roy William Butler, 94, of Cal-vert City died at 9:40 p.m.
S u n d a y , Jan. 20, 2013, at Marshall C o u n t y Hospital.
He was of the B a p t i s t faith, and was a re-tired su-perv isor
for the National Vinegar Company in Alton, Ill.
He is survived by his wife, Mildred Butler; two daughters, Anita Fogg of Calvert City and Carolyn Gray of Benton; one sister, Gracie Phillips of Bethalto, Ill.; fi ve grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchil-dren.
He was preceded in death by his fi rst wife, Norma Yates Helmes; fi ve broth-ers; and three sisters. His parents were John William Butler and Linnie Crick Butler.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at Collier Funeral Home in Benton with the Rev. Charles Frazier offi ciating. Interment will follow at Marshall County Memory Gardens.
Friends may call 5-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Brenda McClaran, 510 W. Ninth St., Benton, KY 42025.
Roy Butler
Cecelia Brown Hromyak passed away on January 19, 2013.
C e -lie was born on October 31, 1940, in Mur-ray, Ken-tucky, to William B r a d y a n d L u c i l l e Moore-
fi eld Brown. She was a 1958 graduate of Paducah Tilghman High School. She received a B.S. in Medical Technology from the Uni-versity of Kentucky in 1963, where she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta Sorority. She worked as a medical technologist at the Univer-sity of Kentucky and Good Samaritan Hospitals.
She lived in California, Alabama, and Ohio, com-ing to live in Frankfort in 1978. She established the Capital Gallery of Contem-porary Art, was one of the founders of Frankfort’s Candlelight Tour, was a gifted collector of art and antiques, and was a tire-less advocate for art and culture in the community. She was a member of the Changing Seasons Garden Club. She was a talented horticulturist, quilter, mu-sician, and cook, and her home was the center of activity for her entire ex-tended family and friends, whom she would enter-tain at a moment’s notice. She raised three children, Laura, Georgie, and Jenny, and was a mother to any-one who passed through her door. She was a doting grandma, and took loving care of her four grand-children. She was blessed with a sweet and sensitive soul, a brilliant mind, and a sharp wit.
Celie leaves as her leg-acy her children: George F. Hromyak, III; Jennifer Brady Hromyak Schen-kenfelder (Brian); and Laura Hromyak Hendrix
(Doug). She loved her grandchildren Alexander Brady Schenkenfelder, and Madeleine Brady, Sydney Paige, and Cooper Walden Hendrix. She also cherished her four sib-lings: Ernest Brown (Bar-bara), Paducah, Kentucky; Ellen Glasgow (James G.), Frankfort, Kentucky; James E. Brown, Holly-wood, Florida; and Be-linda Gaye Hurt, Dalton, Georgia. Her nephews and nieces are Jamie Glasgow (Martina), Boyd Brady Glasgow (Grace), Evan Brown (Karen), Claire Brown Elder (Brian), Me-lissa Brown Otto (Mat-thew), Tracy Brown Mat-tingly, Erik Hurt, Cori Anne Faulkenberry, Ryan Hurt, and Bryn Hurt Ara-na (Armando). She will be missed by her twelve great-nephews and nieces as well. She was preceded in death by her parents. The family would like to thank the congregation of First Baptist Church by the Singing Bridge for their love and support of Celie during her time of need, as well as the physicians, nurses, and staff at Frank-fort Regional Medical Cen-ter, Golden Living Center, Home Instead, and Ho-sparus Louisville.
Funeral services will be held at LeCompte Johnson Taylor Funeral Home, 1725 Louisville Road, Frankfort, Kentucky, Friday, Janu-ary 25, 2013, at 11 a.m., with interment to follow at Frankfort Cemetery. Visi-tation will be Thursday, January 24, 2013, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Doug Hendrix, Brian Schenkenfelder, Boyd Glasgow, Evan Brown, Erik Hurt, and Ryan Hurt. Jamie Glasgow is an hon-orary pallbearer. Flow-ers are welcomed, as are memorial contributions to Hosparus of Louisville, 3532 Ephraim McDowell Drive, Louisville, Ken-tucky, 40205. Guestbook @ ljtfuneralhome.com
Cecelia Brown Hromyak
Butler
KEVIL — Janice H. Moy-nahan, age 69, of Kevil, went home to be with the Lord
at 3 a.m. S u n d a y , J a n u a r y 20, 2013, from her residence.
A native of Ballard County for over 30 years, Jan-ice owned and oper-ated her
own child care business from her home. She was a member of the Schneidman Road Baptist Church, where her husband is the pastor.
Janice is survived by her husband of 47 years, Rev. Mike Moynahan; her son, Brian M. Moynahan of Kevil; her two daughters, Tammy M. Chapman, and her hus-band, Jim of West Paducah, and Melissa M. Duren, and her husband, Ryan of Kevil; along with two grandchil-dren, Abigayle Duren, and Reed Duren; and three step-grandchildren, Cameron Chapman of Harrisburg, Ill., Rachel Chapman of Me-tropolis, Ill., and Danielle
Thweatt of Fairbanks, Alas-ka. She is also survived by two sisters, LeWanda Crews of Kevil and Ruthie McCabe of Paducah; three brothers, Jerry Hargrove of Barlow, Joe Hargrove of Kevil, and Roy Hargrove of Statesville, N.C. Additional survivors include her mother-in-law, Alberta Edgerton Moynahan of Danville, Ky.; and a num-ber of nieces and nephews and great-nieces and neph-ews.
A celebration of the life of Janice H. Moynahan, will take place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at the Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Frank Queen offi ciating. Burial will fol-low in the Bethel Christian Church Cemetery.
Friends may visit with the family after 5 p.m. Tuesday, January 22, 2013, at the Mil-ner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to the Gideon’s International, P.O. Box 10, Kevil, KY. 42053
You may light a candle or leave a message of comfort at www.milnerandorr.com.
Janice H. Moynahan
SYMSONIA — Lillard Dunn, Jr., 87, passed away January 20, 2013, surrounded by his chil-dren.
He was born April 3, 1925, to Lillard, Sr. and Vera Bogle Dunn in Carlisle County, Ky. He was saved June 6, 1943, surrendered to preach May 20, 1956, and or-dained to preach Febru-ary 2, 1958; he pastored 9 churches during his 40 years of ministry and was a member of the Symsonia Baptist Church.
He served his country while in the Army during WWII from June 1943 to January 1946 with Bat-tery B 126 AA Artillery Gun Battalion and was engaged in 5 major bat-tles including the Battle of the Bulge.
He achieved a Bachelor of Science degree from Bethel College in 1962, and a Master of Science degree from Murray State University in 1978.
During his working years he was a carpen-ter, English and history teacher, health inspec-tor, carpentry teacher, and principal of the Ful-ton County Vocational School.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Mary Margaret Ballard Dunn, with whom he had 6 children.
He is survived by his son, Tim (June) Dunn of Symsonia; daugh-ters, Mareda Stairs of Mt. Juliet, Tenn., San-dra (Boyce) Crowley of Symsonia, Cathy Dunn (Lee Ann Mikels) of Creal Springs, Ill., Te-resa (Craig) Beckham of Hickory, Lisa (John)
McManus of West Paducah. Also surviving are grandchildren, Kevin (Melissa) Stairs, Cory (Lisa) Crowley, Jodi (Sergio) Weiberg, Jer-emy (Rachel) Crowley, Sean (Jennifer) Beck-ham, and Joshua McMa-nus.
He is also survived by 11 great-grandchildren, Lynsey, Logan, and Lu-cas Stairs, Sydney and Bennett Weiberg, Shel-by, Katie, Jaxon, and Eli Crowley, and Peyton and Andrew Beckham.
He is survived by two sisters, Inez Reddick and Ruby Hobbs; and a brother, Billy Dunn, all of Carlisle County. Survivors also are Leta Dunn, for-mer wife and her daugh-ter, Angelita Hendrick-son.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Keith and Bobby Dunn.
Services for Mr. Lillard Dunn, Jr. will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at Byrn Funeral Home in Mayfi eld, Ky., with Rev. Rick Miller of-fi ciating.
Interment will follow at Highland Park Cem-etery.
Those serving as pall-bearers will be Kevin Stairs, Sergio Weiberg, Cory Crowley, Jeremy Crowley, Sean Beckham, John McManus, Craig Beckham and Joshua Mc-Manus. Boyce Crowley will be the Honorary pall-bearer.
Friends may call on the family after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, January 22, 2013, at the funeral home.
Military graveside rites will be conducted by American Legion Post 0026.
Lillard Dunn
GOLCONDA, Ill. — Earl Melvin Gaskins, 84, went to live with his Lord Sun-day, January 20, 2013, at the Hardin County Hospi-tal, Rosiclare, Ill.
Earl was born to Cressie Gaskins and Gertrude Conley on April 19, 1928, in Golconda, Ill.
He married Norma Jeanne Gullett Decem-ber 25th, 1946. They have three sons, Gregory (Amy), Richard (Chiquita), of East Moline, Ill., and Douglas (Mary) of Houston, Texas. They have fi ve grandchil-dren, Heidi, Carrie, Richie, Zachary, and Max. They have four great-grandchil-dren.
Earl graduated from Bush Diesel School of St. Louis, then moved to East Moline, Ill., and worked at John Deere Harvester, East Moline as a mechanic.
He was an active member and Deacon of Wildwood Baptist Church in East Moline.
In 1999, Earl returned to his hometown of Golcon-da, Ill., and was a member of First Baptist Church of Golconda. He loved his Lord, as well as his friends at church, Rotary and The Golden Circle.
Preceding him in death were his parents; and brother, Carroll Gaskins.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at the First Bap-tist Church, Golconda, Ill., at 11 a.m. with Reverend Jeremiah Burdon offi ciat-ing.
Burial will be at IOOF Cemetery, Golconda. Visi-tation will be at the Aly Funeral Home in Golcon-da, Tuesday, January 22, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Earl Melvin Gaskins
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SEDALIA — Lula Mae Wilford Galloway, 96, of Sedalia died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at her home.
Mrs. Galloway was a homemaker. She was a member of Burnett’s Chapel United Methodist Church and the Burnett’s Chapel Homemakers Club.
She is survived by a daughter, Carolyn Whit-low of Jacksonville, Fla.; three sons, Kenneth “Pete” Galloway, Bobby Galloway and Ronnie Galloway, all of Sedalia; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee Galloway; two sons, John Walter Galloway and Ger-ald Lee Galloway; one sister; and two brothers. Her par-ents were James Walter and Cora Ann Darnell Wilford.
Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at Byrn Funeral Home in May-fi eld with Sid Easley, Ned Wilford and Dan Wilford of-fi ciating. Interment will fol-low in Burnett’s Chapel Cem-etery. Friends may call 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at the funeral home.
Lula Galloway
GRAND RIVERS — John Harper, 78, of Grand Rivers died at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at his home.
Services were incomplete at Smith Funeral Chapel in Smithland.
John Harper
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and the nation at large, he called for “collective action” to confront chal-lenges and said, “Progress does not compel us to set-tle centuries-long debates about the role of govern-ment for all time — but it does require us to act in our time.”
Elected four years ago as America’s fi rst black presi-dent, Obama spoke from specially constructed fl ag-bedecked stands outside the Capitol after reciting oath of offi ce that all presi-dents have uttered since the nation’s founding.
The events highlighted a day replete with all the fan-fare that a security-minded capital could muster — from white-gloved Marine trumpeters who heralded the arrival of dignitaries on the inaugural stands to the mid-winter orange fl owers that graced the tables at a traditional lunch with law-makers inside the Capitol.
The weather was rela-tively warm, in the mid-40s, and while the crowd was not as large as on In-auguration Day four years ago, it was estimated at up to 1 million.
Big enough that he turned around as he was leaving the inaugural stands to savor the view one fi nal time.
“I’m not going to see this again,” said the man whose political career has been meteoric — from the Illinois Legislature to the U.S. Senate and the White House before marking his 48th birthday.
On a day of renewal for democracy, everyone
seemed to have an opin-ion, and many seemed ea-ger to share it.
“I’m just thankful that we’ve got another four years of democracy that everyone can grow in,” said Wilbur Cole, 52, a postman from suburban Memphis, Tenn., who spent part of the day visiting the civil rights museum there at the site where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assas-sinated in 1968.
The inauguration this year shared the day with King’s birthday holiday, and the president used a Bible that had belonged to the civil rights leader for the swearing-in, along with a second one that been Abraham Lincoln’s. The president also paused inside the Capitol Rotunda to gaze at a dark bronze
statue of King.Others watching at a
distance were less upbeat than Cole. Frank Pinto, 62, and an unemployed con-struction contractor, took in the inaugural events on television at a bar in Hartford, Conn. He said because of the president’s policies, “My grandkids will be in debt and their kids will be in debt.”
The tone was less overt-ly political in the nation’s capital, where bipartisan-ship was on the menu in the speechmaking and at the congressional lunch.
“Congratulations and Godspeed,” House Speak-er John Boehner, a Repub-lican, said to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as he presented them with fl ags that had fl own atop the Capitol.
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MURRAY — Helen Kath-leen Hunt, 98, of Murray died at 11:55 p.m. Satur-day, Jan. 19, 2013, at Spring Creek Health Care.
Arrangements were in-complete at Blalock-Cole-man & York Funeral Home.
Helen Hunt
Pearl L. Bell, 67, of Paducah died at 1:08 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
Arrangements were in-complete at Pettus-Row-land Funeral Home.
Pearl Bell
WINGO — Robbie Bard Kell, 90, of Wingo died at 3:10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at Mills Health & Re-habilitation.
She was a member of Wingo Baptist Church and was a retired fl oral design-er.
She is survived by a daughter, Penny Murphey of Wingo; three grand-children, Kelly Laird, Kirk Murphey, and Ike Mur-phey; fi ve great-grandchil-dren; and a great-great-grandson.
She was preceded in
death by her husband, B.U. Kell; a daughter, Carolyn Laird; a sister; and four brothers.
Her parents were John Lee and Maggie Gore Hayden.
Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at Brown Funeral Home in Wingo with the Revs. Chris Clark and Ike Murphey of-fi ciating.
Burial will follow in Win-go Cemetery.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. today, Jan. 22, 2013, at the funeral home.
Robbie Kell
CADIZ — Sharon Lloy Norton Crutchfi eld, 76, of Cadiz died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at South Gate Nursing Home & Rehabili-tation in Metropolis, Ill.
She was the co-owner of Buffalo Auto Service in Delta Junction, Alaska, and was a member of the Church of Christ.
She is survived by a brother, Scott Norton of Tempe, Ariz., and a sister, Patti Norton Anderson of North Pole, Alaska.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Her-shel Edward Crutchfi eld, and a brother. Her parents were George N. and Ange-line Wilson Norton.
Private graveside services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at Palestine Cemetery in Fulton with Richard Crutchfi eld and Scott Norton offi ciating. Entombment will follow. King’s Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Ken-tucky & Southern Indiana Chapter, Kaden Tower, 6100 Dutchmans Lane, Suite 401, Louisville, KY 40205-3284.
Sharon Crutchfield
BARDWELL — Barbara Kay Whittaker Cloar, 58, of Bardwell died at 10:25 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City, Tenn.
She was a cook at Bap-tist Memorial Hospital in Union City. She was of the Baptist faith.
She is survived by a sister, Donna Holder of Bardwell; a brother, Robert Burns of Bardwell; and several niec-es and nephews.
Her parents were Dolphis C. Whittaker and Geraldine Galey Burns.
Services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Bardwell with the Rev. Robert Barnett offi ci-ating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Cemetery.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. today, Jan. 22, 2013, at the funeral home.
Barbara Cloar
FREDONIA — Mary Lou-ise Brown, 73, of Fredonia died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at her home.
She was a retired nurses aide and a member of Seven Springs Missionary Baptist Church.
She is survived by four sons, Everett Brown of Paris, Tenn., Ronald Brown of Joliet, Ill., Dan Brown of Crest Hill, Ill., and Da-vid Brown of Murray; two daughters, Barbara Smaijd of Biloxi, Miss., and She-lia Fraliex of Princeton; one sister, Sue Downing of Fredonia; 22 grandchil-dren; and 33 great-grand-children.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Mitchell Henry Brown; one daughter, Diane Brown; one great-grandson; one brother; and one sister. Her parents were Marion Franklin and Lucy Emma Brinkley Driver.
Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at Morgan’s Funeral home with the Rev. Lonnie Knight offi ciating. Burial will fol-low in Asbridge Cemetery in Crittenden County.
Friends may call 4-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Mary Brown
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Athens 64 51 sh 62 50 pcBeijing 35 19 pc 39 19 pcBerlin 26 18 c 25 19 cBuenos Aires 84 73 pc 87 74 cCairo 76 52 s 71 54 pcHong Kong 74 65 sh 70 62 pcJerusalem 71 46 s 59 46 pcLondon 37 30 pc 37 31 pcManila 86 73 pc 88 73 pcMexico City 71 50 t 70 47 pcMoscow 14 8 pc 15 2 pcParis 36 34 sh 36 27 cRome 53 38 sh 54 39 rSeoul 41 29 pc 37 27 cSydney 84 72 t 81 74 tTokyo 48 37 r 50 38 pcWarsaw 27 13 sn 17 15 snZurich 37 23 pc 35 23 pc
Five-Day Forecast for PaducahShown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
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22/14Cold with times of
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Partly cloudy and cold
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Partly sunny and not as cold
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Rain and ice possible in the a.m.
High42°
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Clouds giving way to some sun
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Bright and sunny, but chilly
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Paducah through 2 p.m. yesterday
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Sunrise today ................................. 7:04 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 5:09 p.m.Moonrise today ............................... 1:33 p.m.Moonset today ................................ 3:24 a.m.
24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.00”Month to date ......................................... 6.44”Normal month to date ............................. 2.48”Year to date ............................................ 6.44”Last year to date ..................................... 1.56”Normal year to date ................................ 2.48”
High/low .............................................. 34°/24°Normal high/low .................................. 43°/26°Record high .................................. 70° in 1986Record low ................................... -10° in 1985
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Kentucky: Very cold today with clouds and sun. Partly cloudy and bitterly cold tonight. Not as cold tomorrow.
Illinois: Rather cloudy and frigid today. Partly cloudy tonight. Cold; a fl urry in the north.
Indiana: Partly sunny and frigid today; snow show-ers near Lake Michigan.
Missouri: Times of sun and clouds today; very cold in the east. Partly cloudy tonight. Not as cold tomorrow.
Arkansas: Sunshine and patchy clouds today. Mainly clear tonight. Milder tomorrow.
Tennessee: Mostly sunny today; colder in the east. Partly cloudy tonight; cold. Partly sunny tomorrow; not as cold.
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Las Vegas 63 39 s 63 46 pcLos Angeles 79 51 s 79 54 pcMiami 77 63 pc 76 63 sMilwaukee 8 1 pc 20 5 pcMinneapolis 2 -6 c 10 -9 pcNew Orleans 58 44 pc 64 51 sNew York City 25 15 pc 22 14 pcOklahoma City 54 38 s 63 41 pcOmaha 20 12 c 33 10 sOrlando 70 45 pc 68 45 sPhiladelphia 26 14 pc 24 16 sPhoenix 76 47 s 77 55 sPittsburgh 14 5 sf 17 9 sfSalt Lake City 20 7 pc 29 29 pcSan Diego 75 48 s 74 55 pcSan Francisco 61 44 pc 54 46 shSeattle 44 37 c 44 36 rTucson 75 47 s 77 45 sWashington, DC 26 17 pc 26 19 pc
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Belleville, IL 22 13 pc 39 18 sBowling Gn., KY 26 16 pc 39 26 sBristol, TN 28 12 pc 32 22 sC. Girardeau, MO 28 17 pc 42 24 pcCarbondale, IL 26 15 pc 39 21 pcCharleston, WV 20 10 pc 27 15 pcChattanooga, TN 38 20 s 44 33 pcClarksville, TN 27 15 pc 41 27 pcColumbia, MO 26 16 pc 43 20 sEvansville, IN 22 14 pc 37 20 sFt. Smith, AR 45 33 s 58 43 cHopkinsville, KY 28 16 pc 42 27 pcIndianapolis, IN 15 6 pc 26 14 pcJackson, KY 22 12 pc 29 21 pcJackson, TN 35 20 pc 46 33 pcJoplin, MO 39 25 s 51 31 pcKansas City, MO 30 17 pc 44 18 sKnoxville, TN 32 17 s 39 28 sLexington, KY 22 9 pc 30 16 pcLittle Rock, AR 40 31 s 50 43 cLondon, KY 24 12 pc 33 21 sLouisville, KY 24 13 pc 33 20 pcMemphis, TN 39 30 s 48 40 cNashville, TN 30 16 s 42 32 pcPeoria, IL 15 7 c 29 11 pcSt. Louis, MO 23 17 pc 40 22 sSpringfi eld, IL 18 10 c 32 15 sSpringfi eld, MO 35 25 pc 49 30 pcTerre Haute, IN 18 6 c 29 16 pc
National Summary: Heavy snow will fall over part of New England today, while bands of heavy snow occur downwind of the Great Lakes. Arctic air will stretch from the northern Plains to much of the Northeast with cool to near-normal conditions over much of the South. More freezing fog will occur in the Northwest. The Southwest will be dry and sunny again.
Cairo 40 39.75 +0.22
Paducah 39 38.32 +0.36Owensboro 38 22.70 +0.70Smithland Dam 40 37.66 +0.41
Lake Barkley 354 355.25 -0.45Kentucky Lake 354 355.34 -0.26
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.