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Julie Harris, executive director of the River Discovery Center in Paducah, announces the Dragon Boat Festival to Paducah at the riverfront on Wednesday. The festival will include paddleboat races and is slated for Sept. 22.

All it took was a drum roll by Paducah Tilghman’s drum line and a colorful 25-foot dragon to bring in Paducah’s next big fes-tival.

Julie Harris, executive direc-tor of the River Discovery Cen-ter, announced Wednesday that Paducah will host its fi rst Drag-on Boat Festival in late Septem-ber. Harris said she hopes the Saturday event, which will take place on Sept. 22 and feature races in paddleboats decorated like dragons, will become an an-nual event.

“We really rely on the com-munity’s support, and this is

slated to be our biggest yearly fundraiser,” Harris said. “And it’s an all-inclusive event. We are really hoping people will get on board and come down and have fun.”

Harris said the center has worked with 22 Dragons, a company that travels over the United States and Canada to help nonprofi ts raise money with dragon boat races. The festival will allow corporations and community members to team for a 200-yard race. Each team gets to race three times. When asked what ages it is geared toward, 22 Dragons co-founder Mark Robert was pretty straight-forward.

“Anyone from 12 to 99 and has a heartbeat,” Robert told the crowd.

The Dragon Festival will take place one week before Pa-ducah’s Barbecue on the River Festival, and Mayor Bill Paxton said it will further enhance the city’s festival schedule.

“When Julie came to explain this to me, I was very excited,” Paxton said. “It’s something that is unique and will raise money but it’s still fun. Septem-ber will be a great month for Paducah.”

Call Corianne Egan, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.

Museum adds Dragon Boat FestivalBY CORIANNE EGANcegan@paducahsun.com

FANCY FARM — An injured woman told deputy sheriffs two men visiting a home on Rule Shack Road got into an argument with people staying there, leading to three people being shot. One later died.

“It was apparently a disagree-ment over something, and she wasn’t for sure what,” Graves

County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon said Wednesday.

The woman said she knew one of the men, Redmon said. She identifi ed the other from a photo lineup, he said.

Deputies arrived moments af-ter the 10:45 p.m. Tuesday shoot-ing because an uninjured person called 911 from another room after hearing gunshots, Redmon said. Dispatchers immediately

relayed information that they be-lieved Jacob Carder, 28, of Wingo was fl eeing the scene as well as descriptions of vehicles he owns. Sheriff’s Capt. George Workman spotted Carder’s Red Lincoln coming toward him on Ky. 339 and gave chase.

At 1867 Rule Shack Road, Red-mon found a man lying on the couch and a woman lying on the living room fl oor. Another wom-

an had already had a friend pick her up and take her for treatment.

Redmon identifi ed the woman on the fl oor as Ashley N. Lam-bert, 25, of Dublin. She died about 1 p.m. Wednesday at Van-derbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. The other two victims were in critical condition at an out-of-state trauma cen-ter, Redmon said. He declined to provide their names because

of diffi culty reaching some fam-ily members and to protect their safety, he said.

2 arrested, 1 dead after triple shooting

CarderAndrews

BY SHELLEY BYRNEsbyrne@paducahsun.com

Please see SHOOTING | 3A

Members of a committee studying a Paducah-McCracken County merger will tentatively decide May 1 whether to place the option on the November ballot.

Tom Garrett, vice chairman of the Charter County Government Commission, and McCracken Judge-Executive Van New-berry said 14 mem-bers of the 21-member group met Tuesday and made three changes to a 14-section draft plan that maps out the details of a poten-tial merger. It was the fi rst meeting since the group concluded the last of four public fo-rums, held Feb. 16, de-signed to educate the public about the plan.

Garrett said the changes the group made clarifi ed the role of the transition committee that will be appointed if a merger vote passes as only an advisory board, changed the scheduling for the election of new government representatives from 2013 to 2014 to avoid a special election and added an out clause in case the new government does not work.

He said members talked extensively about possi-bly changing the number of representatives from 13 to 10, but decided not to. The plan calls for a chief executive, nine district members and three at-large

Tentative May vote may decide merger optionRevised merger plan to be published, reviewed before November election

BY MALLORY PANUSKAmpanuska@paducahsun.com

“We had a good debate

and ultimately, like anything

else, it’s up to voters to make that decision.”

Van NewberryMcCracken judge-

executive

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It’s common to fi nd a picture of a heart on a hospital’s cardiac fl oor. But upon closer inspection of this particu-lar piece of heart-work hanging in a local hospital, the artist’s obvious mes-sage emerges.

That’s because unlike other pieces of artwork, this drawing’s message is as clear as day: “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.”

Known as lyric art, the anatomically correct depiction of the heart is made up entirely of the biblical proverb re-peated hundreds of times as part of an

art project for Community Christian Academy senior Abbey Adler.

“It just kind of clicked,” Adler said, but little did she know how far her drawing’s message would go.

Presented in the school’s lobby

Student’s artwork inspires cardiac patients

A message from the heart

Proverbs 4:23 — “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life” — is repeated hundreds of times to create an image of an anatomically correct heart structure. Drawn by Abbey Adler, a senior at Commu-nity Christian Academy High School, the image will hang in Western Baptist Hospital’s Cardiac Telemetry floor to encourage patients’ recovery.

WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

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LEDBETTER — Markets totaled 696 head. Compared to last week: Slaughter cows and bulls, $2 to $3 higher; feeder steers, $4 to $5 higher; with 300 and 600 weights, $3 lower; feeder heifers under 400 lbs., $2 to $3 lower; over 400 lbs., $1 to $6 higher.

Slaughter cows: breaker, 75 to 80 per-cent lean, 800 to 1200 lbs., $75 to $82; high dressing, $86; low dressing, $70; boner, 80 to 85 percent lean, 800 to 1200

lbs., $70 to $80; high dressing, $81 to $81.60; lean, 85 to 90 percent lean, 800 to 1200 lbs., $61 to $69; high dressing, $72.

Slaughter bulls yield grade 1: 1500 to 3000 lbs., $102.50 to 107.50.

Feeder steers medium and large 1-2: 100 to 200 lbs., $240 to $245; 200 to 300 lbs., $212 to $231; 300 to 400 lbs., $196 to $210; 400 to 500 lbs., $187 to $198; 500 to 600 lbs., $167 to $184;

600 to 700 lbs., $143 to $158; 700 to 800 lbs., $133.

Feeder heifers medium and large 1-2: 100 to 200 lbs., $194; 200 to 300 lbs., $184 to $187; 300 to 400 lbs., $170 to $186; 400 to 500 lbs., $168 to $188; 500 to 600 lbs., $151 to $164; 600 to 700 lbs., $130 to $137.50; 700 to 800 lbs., $131; 800 to 900 lbs., $110 to $118.

Feeder bulls medium and large 1-2: 300 to 400 lbs., $190 to $201; 400 to 500

lbs., $180 to $186; 500 to 600 lbs., $164 to $172; 600 to 700 lbs., $141 to $155; 700 to 800 lbs., $122 to $130; 800 to 900 lbs., $106.

Stock cows: Cows 4 to 9 years old, 4 to 8 months bred $800 to $1,050 per head.

Stock cow/calf pairs: Cows 3 to 10 years old with calves at side $990 to $1,490 per pair.

Baby calves: beef breeds, $130 to $230 per head.

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Maiden Alley Cinema ex-ecutive director Landee Bryant wasn’t too concerned about pushing the community to vote for the latest bullying docu-mentary, “Bully,” to come to Paducah. She intended to get the movie anyway, because she thought it was served a pur-pose.

“Then I thought about it, and I realized it couldn’t hurt to try,” Bryant said. “The response has been amazing. Everyone has been pushing it through Facebook and through emails.”

The creators of “Bully” — which sends a strong anti-bul-lying message by examining the lives of three children and two sets of parents who lost their children because of bullying —

launched a national campaign called “Demand It” that allows community members to vote to bring the movie to their area. Paducah is currently third in voting, about 700 votes behind Cleveland.

McCracken County Schools Superintendent Nancy Wal-drop said schools and parents can never focus too much on the safety of children. She said the district works hard to get the message out, and is behind any anti-bullying message.

“We will be most successful in this community if all of us work together,” Waldrop said.

Only a week ago Paducah sat at 134 in the poll. Through email blitzes and Facebook ads the city has moved to third, ris-ing above Houston, Indianapo-lis, Washington, D.C., and Dal-las/Fort Worth.

If Paducah eclipses Cleve-land for the top spot, director Lee Hirsch will make a visit to the city with the movie. The top 10 cities in voting will receive a movie screening. Voting ends at 2 p.m. Friday.

Call Corianne Egan, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.

Community votes to screen bullying documentary

BY CORIANNE EGANcegan@paducahsun.com

The president of the Kevil Fraternal Order of Eagles has pleaded guilty to allowing gam-bling and alcohol sales at the club and must pay $385 in fi nes.

Randall Lowery had been scheduled for arraignment Wednesday in McCracken Dis-trict Court, according to the cir-cuit clerk’s offi ce. Instead, it was moved up, and Lowery pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced at his arraignment March 22.

According to the circuit clerk’s offi ce, Lowery pleaded guilty to one count each of illegal sale of

alcohol in a dry territory and promoting gambling. He re-ceived a two-year sentence for each offense, but the sentences were conditionally discharged. According to the plea agree-ment, Lowery must refrain from committing more offenses and must forfeit all items seized and must pay a $285 fi ne for the alcohol conviction and $100 for the promoting gambling con-viction.

If he violates the conditions, he could serve two years on each offense, with the requirement that 30 days be served consecu-tively for each conviction.

On Jan. 21, a member serving as an informant went to the club with an undercover state police detective, Sheriff Jon Hayden said previously. The detective was able to purchase alcohol and play electronic gambling machines and saw others doing the same, he said. Deputy Sher-iff Ryan Norman said a club employee told the detective the club was not allowed to sell al-cohol or permit gambling and even advised him what to say to police if asked about it.

Deputy sheriffs obtained a search warrant the same day and seized more than 1,700

containers of alcohol and al-cohol mix-ins, gambling ma-chines, documentation on the machines, documentation concerning the alcohol sales, and about $5,000 believed to be the proceeds from alcohol and gambling, Norman said. In a follow-up investigation, deputies seized an additional $6,000. They also discovered the club had not had a business license since 2006.

Although the club has a Kev-il address, it is located at the corner of Woodville and Rice Springs roads in far west Mc-Cracken County.

Eagles Club president gets fine, discharged sentenceSun staff report

Contributed photo

Stills from the movie “Bully” illustrate the documentary on bullying in America. The film’s creators are running a “Demand It” campaign that pushes community members to vote for the movie to make it to their city. About 1,000 Paducah residents have voted for “Bully” to come to Paducah.

As the new veterans coor-dinator for West Kentucky Community & Technical College, Kristen Amaya thought it would be most appropriate to fi nish wom-en’s history month by in-volving local female veter-ans.

The open panel discus-sion included four local veterans, including Amaya, who is in the Navy Reserve. Each panelist brought the particulars of her time in service, spanning countries, specialties and decades.

Amaya said women have played a larger part in a mostly male-dominated community over the years. By refl ecting their own ex-perience, women can con-tinue the strong heritage in the armed forces, she said.

“We are afforded some great opportunities that were not available to our predecessors,” she said. “It’s not just about press-ing forward for women to have more roles in the mili-tary, but learning from each other.”

Panelists discussed their motivations for serving, difference in experience for women, life as a female vet-eran and entertained audi-ence questions. The women spoke candidly about both

the rewarding and trying experiences through their service.

Dr. Kathryn Glass, for-merly a Navy doctor and currently with Lourdes Hospital Primary Care

Clinic and medical director for Medical Spa 7, got to ex-perience life in Guantana-mo Bay, Cuba, in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks. Her career as a doctor al-lowed her to work directly

with civilians and soldiers.Carolyn Colles, WKCTC

Student Veterans Club treasurer, served in the U.S. Army from 1983-1985. Colles, like her peers on the panel, feel as though they can serve in a unique capacity to empower vet-erans, especially those who have no home, no job or no family.

Laura Durbin, former Army nurse and WKCTC faculty member, agreed with Colles. Durbin said though she served, she feels like she could have done more. She said many veter-ans are now homeless and

impoverished, and they need help from those who have served and those who haven’t.

“The needs of these in-dividuals, I don’t think it has been fathomed yet by our country, by our govern-ment, by the agencies that serve our veterans,” she said.

Durbin, like the other panelists, said she hopes to be part of the healing pro-cess for needs that haven’t been met.

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

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members. He said mem-bers decided it is important to keep more representa-tives to maintain a closer relationship between coun-cil members and the con-stituents they represent.

“The commission just felt sure there was a broad rep-resentation in the county and districts would be the way to go,” Garrett said. “They felt the districts maintained a good mix of urban and suburban ar-eas.”

All of the changes origi-nated from comments and concerns community members expressed during the forums. Newberry said members participated in a good debate to come to the

conclusions they did for the changes.

“We had a good debate and ultimately, like any-thing else, it’s up to voters to make that decision,” he said.

Garrett said the chang-es were minimal enough that the commission is not planning any more forums to publicize the revised plan. The new plan will be distributed to all the com-mission members and pub-lished on the city and coun-ty’s websites for the public to view. Newberry said cop-ies will also be made avail-able for viewing at his offi ce inside the courthouse and at the McCracken County Public Library.

Garrett said the group set its next meeting for May 1

and members may vote on whether to place the merger option on the Nov. 6 General Election ballot. The merger commission voted June 30 to delay the vote for ballot placement for 120 days to educate the public on the contents of the draft plan. If the com-

mission votes not to place the plan on the ballot it will not move forward, but if they do, voters will decide whether to enact it and merge the city and county.

Call Mallory Panuska, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684.

CONTINUED FROM 1A

MERGER: Revisions too minimal to need public viewing, Garrett says

At the intersection of Ky. 339 and Ky. 1748 in Dub-lin, Carder lost control of his car, Workman said. It ran through a yard, hit the side of a trailer and a pile of branches, ran over a bushhog, jumped a ditch and landed against a tree. Neighbors came outside in time to see two people bail out, but couldn’t see much else in the thick under-brush and the dark. May-fi eld police, state police, the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Re-sources all came to help, bringing search dogs and infrared cameras, but they had no luck.

About 3 a.m., neighbor Jimmy Viniard let his dog out and heard it barking. He looked out to fi nd the dog had cornered a man later identifi ed as Kenon

Andrews, 29, of Water Valley, Workman said. Viniard called 911, and deputies quickly arrested Andrews.

About 11:45 a.m., they arrested Carder after someone saw a man walk-ing along railroad tracks near Rhorer Road, Red-mon said.

Carder faces one charge of murder and two of at-tempted murder. An-drews faces three charges of attempted murder, but Redmon said one count would be upgraded to murder Thursday. Both men remained in custody Wednesday afternoon at the Graves County Jail. District Judge Deborah Crooks arraigned An-drews on Wednesday morning and set his bond at $1 million.

Call Shelley Byrne, a Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8667.

SHELLEY BYRNE | The Sun

Yellow crime tape flutters on the ground among the flowers and statue of the Virgin Mary at 1867 Rule Shack Road. Graves County deputy sheriffs arrested two men Wednesday after three people were shot at the home about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday. One person, Ashley N. Lambert, 25, of Dublin, died about 1 p.m. Wednesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. The two others remained in critical condition.

CONTINUED FROM 1A

SHOOTING: Both Andrews, Carder remain in custody in Graves County

alongside other drawings — including a depiction of Martin Luther King Jr., created by his “I Have a Dream” speech — Linda Harper, art teacher, said the drawings have touched many people.

“It’s a witness to that par-ticular image, but it’s also a witness to perseverance be-cause it took them up to six weeks to complete them,” Harper said.

Sophomore Clay Knight’s depiction of the resurrec-tion was entirely created with the words of Brad Pais-ley’s “When I Get Where I’m Going,” a message that inspired him. Another art-ist’s drawing of brothers was created from the words of a childhood song sung by their mother.

It was Adler’s ink drawing in particular that caught the attention of a passing par-ent, Stacy Johnson. Moved by the image, Johnson sought out Western Bap-tist Hospital, which agreed to display the image, to be hung at the crossroads of the hospital’s Cardiac and Telemetry fl oor.

Elisha Richardson, R.N. and coordinator of the unit, said the placement pro-vides an encouragement, as

well as a means to hearten patients’ drive to get out of bed.

“The message is very true and very dear to our hearts if you work in this area,” Richardson said.

Johnson: “That’s what I would call the right place at the right time. When some-thing is accurately placed to do the most good, to me

that’s divine.”Pursuing a future in the

medical fi eld, Adler said she’s still unsure what area she’d like to focus. Wheth-er that be cardiovascular health, dermatology or oto-laryngology, she remains ever enthusiastic about knowing she’s helping peo-ple.

“It’s really honoring,”

she said. “To know that it’s something patients can look at, a piece of art that they can enjoy when physi-cal therapists walk them by it, and it gives (the patient) a distraction from their sit-uation.”

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

WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

Abbey Adler, a senior at Community Christian Academy High School, and her art teacher, Linda Harper, discuss the ‘lyric art’ of fellow students on display in the school’s lobby. Students were tasked with creating an image using only text, with most passages taken from scripture, song or personal messages.

CONTINUED FROM 1A

CARDIAC: Adler plans future in medical field, wants to help people

Female veterans discuss service, needs at WKCTCBY REBECCA FELDHAUS

rfeldhaus@paducahsun.com

REBECCA FELDHAUS | The Sun

Carolyn Colles (left) listens as Laura Durbin discusses her experience in the U.S. Army at West Kentucky Community & Technical College’s Matheson Library on Wednesday. The four-person panel openly discussed experiences of women in the military to commemorate the end of women’s history month.

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If you already think the federal government wastes your tax dollars, then be warned: What follows may leave you steamed.

The Environmental Protection Agency sent U.S. taxpayer funds to China so officials there could study swine manure treatment. More EPA funds went to China to reduce coal mine methane. The agency sent money to Poland to train officials how to contain landfill gas, to Kenya and Ethiopia to teach clean cooking technology, to Ecuador for “methane recovery,” and to Russia for “technical assistance.”

At a time when the federal government is running up trillion-dollar deficits every year, the EPA is sending millions to other countries — $27 million since 2009. A new congressional report revealed that the agency has awarded 320 overseas grants totaling $100 million over the past decade, and that doesn’t include money to Canada and Mexico or indirect overseas grants channeled through American universities working in other countries.

This is not humanitarian aid sent to feed hungry children, treat AIDS

victims or supply malaria tents. These grants are awarded under the Clean Air Act, legislation the EPA has stretched far beyond its original scope. The agency uses the act to give itself license to spend American taxpayers’ money on anything it deems important, even outside the country where the Clean Air Act has no jurisdiction or practical

effect.Two Kentucky lawmakers

are trying to put a stop to it. First District Congressman Ed Whitfield and Sen. Ran Paul have introduced legislation in their respective chambers to bar EPA’s grants to other countries.

Paul said, “Sending tens of millions of dollars overseas in grant

allocations under the Clean Air Act is irresponsible and another instance of an out-of-control EPA.”

Defending the grants, EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said, “Pollution doesn’t stop at international borders.” But the EPA’s authority does.

Gilfillan said, “The local and national environmental issues of the past are now global challenges. ... For instance, many of these grants are related to EPA’s Global Methane Initiative, which aims to limit pollution before it can cross U.S. borders.”

Talk about hubris. It is a flight of fantasy for the EPA to presume it has authority to meddle in or the ability to significantly affect the air quality standards of other nations. It’s bad enough that the agency handcuffs American energy companies at every turn — now the agency apparently fancies itself the international environmental police.

The EPA’s overseas grants are but a drop in the bucket of Washington’s wasteful spending. Eliminating them won’t erase the deficit. But it would be a step toward fiscal sanity that also reins in a rogue agency.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ali Bokhari, now 39, emigrated from Pakistan in 2000 and eventually settled here as a taxi driver, and soon expe-rienced a quintessentially American itch, a nagging sense that “I cannot grow.” But he had an idea: “I can build a better business model for something Nashville has been missing.” He built it, and now knows that no good deed goes unpunished by today’s political model — collusion be-tween entrenched businesses and compliant government.

Bokhari bought a black Lin-coln sedan and began offering cut-rate rides — an average of $25 — to and from the airport, around downtown, and in neighborhoods not well served by taxis. After one year he had 12 cars. Now he has 20, and 15 independent contractors with their own cars, and a website, and lots of customers. He also has some enemies, including the established taxi and sedan companies, and a city govern-ment that is, as interventionist governments generally are, devoted to regulations that protect the strong by preserv-ing the status quo.

With the quiet support of the taxi companies, which have not raised rates since Bokhari and some similar entrepreneurs went into busi-ness, the limo companies got regulators to mandate a $45 minimum charge for any ride. Not content with that gross injury, government added crippling insults: It limited the age of cars and number of miles on them — regardless of the cars’ conditions — and forbade dispatches from cell-phones, which is how startup limo companies operate.

Represented by the Austin, Texas, offi ce of the Institute for Justice, the nation’s only libertarian public interest law fi rm, Bokhari is seeking judicial recognition of his con-stitutional right to economic

liberty. Since the New Deal, courts, with no textual or any other constitutional basis, have distinguished between economic and non-economic liberty. Giving the former scant protection, courts have permitted any government infringement of it that can be said to have a “rational basis.” This absurdly permissive test has produced a charade of judging — a dereliction of the judicial duty to protect liberty. The courts’ dereliction of duty has been presented as noble deference to popular govern-ment.

But the Constitution, and especially the 14th Amend-ment, is supposed to protect the individual’s liberty, includ-ing economic liberty, from government’s depredations. One purpose of that amend-ment’s protection of “the privileges or immunities” of American citizenship was to defend the economic liberties of freed slaves from laws re-stricting entry into trades and businesses — laws written to insulate white Southern busi-nessmen from competition. But the amendment protects all the “privileges or immuni-ties” of all Americans.

In 1873, in a 5-4 decision in the Slaughterhouse Cases, the Supreme Court, without any warrant from legislative history of the 14th Amend-ment, construed “privileges or immunities” so narrowly as to make it a nullity. Now, however, Bokhari may help catalyze a reconsideration of the constitutional basis of economic liberty.

In 2002, the 6th U.S. Cir-cuit Court of Appeals struck down a Tennessee law that prohibited anyone without a license from selling caskets. The court said the law did nothing to protect the public and merely shielded licensed funeral directors from compe-tition: “Protecting a discrete interest group from economic competition is not a legitimate governmental purpose.” This victory was achieved by the Institute for Justice.

In 2004, however, the 10th Circuit upheld an Oklahoma law requiring online casket retailers to have funeral direc-tor’s licenses, which require several years of course work, a one-year apprenticeship, the embalming of 25 bodies, and two written exams. The court did not dispute that this is protectionism for funeral directors, but breezily wrote that “while baseball may be the national pastime of the citizenry, dishing out special economic benefi ts to certain in-state industries remains the favored pastime of state and local governments.”

The 10th Circuit is right about the practice but is disgracefully tolerant of treating economic liberty as a plaything of politicians, who should be forbidden from favoring some interests and disfavoring others. The 6th Circuit is correct that govern-ment acts illegitimately when it abets “transfer seeking” — the use of laws to transfer wealth from the disfavored to the favored. The Supreme Court, which is supposed to resolve such contradictions among the circuits, should seize the opportunity to cor-rect a 139-year-old error.

Fortunately, immigrants such as Bokhari often remind this nation, which they have embraced, of the national principles that drew them here. Unfortunately, the na-tion often needs reminding.

I’ve been waiting for it: the inevitable comparisons between the Massachusetts governor who ran for president (with my help) in 1988 and the former Massachu-setts governor on his way to being the 2012 Republican nominee.

Now, I’ll admit that there is almost certainly something in the water in my old home state that leads every politician — or at least every senator and governor — to see a president in the mirror when they shave in the morning. There was Jack Kennedy, of course, and Sen. Ted Kennedy and the late Sen. Paul Tsongas, and don’t forget Richard Nixon’s running mate in 1960, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge.

And now Mitt Romney joins the crowd most notable for its (literally) singular success.

But whether Romney ends up winning or losing (which would be my bet), his problems are very different from the last Massachusetts governor to top a ticket.

People forget, but Mike Dukakis was actually a pretty great primary candidate. He had a bad moment early on in Iowa, comparing their farming issues to the cranberry growers in Massachusetts, and he hated going on the attack (even then). But he had no problem connecting with regular people in the sort of intimate cam-paigning that defi nes the early contests.

Dukakis lived in a du-plex. As governor of Mas-sachusetts, he took the “T” — the subway — to work. He bought his clothes at the old Filene’s Basement. He liked traveling coach and staying at cheap hotels and eating a tuna sandwich for lunch. He didn’t want Secret Service protection. He fought with me about getting new suits for presidential debates. His wife, Kitty, didn’t drive a Cadillac, much less two of them.

He was a liberal. He was, as he put it, a “card-carrying member of the ACLU.” Willie Horton (for those who forget or never knew, the murderer who raped a woman while out on furlough) wasn’t a problem for Dukakis in the primaries, because primary voters weren’t about to abandon him for having a “too lenient” furlough policy. They attacked then-Sen. Al Gore the one time he raised the Horton issue, in New York, for something akin to racism.

No one ever asked whether Dukakis was “liberal enough” to be the nominee of a party dominated, in the primaries and caucuses, by liberals. It was only in the general election that he faced the question

of being too liberal, and to his credit (or discredit, depending on your point of view), he answered it by upholding his views, stick-ing with his positions and refusing to become an at-tack dog who shifted all of the attention away from his own perceived weaknesses and onto George Bush’s. It was a terrible political

strategy — but it also was a refl ection of who he really was, and is, in terms of prin-ciples and policies.

In almost every way, Romney is differ-ent. As a primary candidate, he does face the question of whether he is conserva-tive enough, and he’s answered it with some pretzel twists designed to appeal to conservative voters. That probably will get him to Tampa, but it will almost certainly create its own set of problems when he leaves with the Republican nomination.

You can see the ads: Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up? Will it be the guy from the Massachusetts days, who trumpeted his liberal credentials and his mother’s courage in taking a pro-choice position, or the conservative Romney, who has been out there trying to beat back the Santorum challenge. The “Etch A Sketch”

comment by one of his aides created a furor it never would have in Dukakis’ case precisely because Romney watchers are on to the pretzel politics and alert for new twists to come. It would have been far easier for Dukakis to move to the middle than it will be for Romney, who has al-ready done so much moving around and will almost certainly try anyway.

Romney has yet to fi gure out how to “seem” authentic (only in politics would we talk about “seeming authentic”) to average voters. Dukakis was the son of im-migrants, an honest-to-goodness Ameri-can-dream story. Romney is a multimil-lionaire son of a governor.

On the other hand, we know for a fact that Romney won’t lose a second of sleep running a negative campaign. On that score, for better or worse, depending on your calculus, he is certainly no Dukakis.

But the bottom line may be the same. During the darkest days of the Dukakis campaign, I remember studying grim polls with our beloved pollster, the late and bril-liant Tubby Harrison, and trying to fi gure out what to do. Tubby said, more than once, that for all the fl aws and mistakes and the rest, our candidate didn’t have any problem that just a few more points of un-employment wouldn’t solve. I expect that could be true this time around, as well.

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

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Local/Region BriefsFederal money to cover bridge span repair

U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield’s office announced Wednesday the U.S. Department of Transportation would award a $9 million grant for replacing a span of the Eggner’s Ferry bridge along U.S. 68 over Kentucky Lake.

The span was destroyed on Jan. 26 when struck by a cargo ship.

Whitfield said the aid would come from the Emergency Relief Program of the Federal Highway Administration.

Keith Todd, public information officer of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, said the grant would allow state funds allocated for the bridge repair to be used for other projects. “Repairs will cost $7 million,” Todd said. “The other $2 million will go to other expenses like rewiring lights and power lines, inspections, extra security.”

Todd said the date for the bridge to reopen remains May 27. If Hall Contracting misses that deadline, it will face a $50,000 per day penalty.

— Staff report

Animal shelter operator pleads not guilty

A former Graves County animal shelter operator pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of animal cruelty.

Shannon Lacewell ran the Paws, Claws and More Res-cue/Transport in Wingo before her arrest in February. Sheriff Dewayne Redmon alleged many animals at the shelter were starving, living in filth or already dead when his department searched Lacewell’s shelter on Feb. 14.

Lacewell is due back in court in Mayfield at 9 a.m. Wednesday for a pretrial conference.

— Staff report

2nd man arrested in Brewers home invasion

Police have arrested a second man in connection with a home invasion last week in Brewers.

They identified the man in a news release as Blane See-ber, 18, of Paris, Tenn. Marshall County sheriff’s deputies say Seeber and Mitchell Saddoris, 22, of Kirksey entered the home of Jack Thompson early March 19, kicking in a door. When Saddoris opened Thompson’s bedroom door, Thompson shot him in the chest with a pistol and then in the shoulder with a shotgun after the pistol jammed. Both men ran, but Saddoris collapsed on the back porch.

Saddoris continues to receive treatment at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Sheriff Kevin Byars said previously Saddoris would be charged upon his release from the hospital.

Authorities in Henry County, Tenn., arrested Seeber, who remains in jail in Paris. He is charged with first-degree burglary in Kentucky and as a fugitive from justice in Ten-nessee. He is awaiting extradition to Marshall County. His bond is set at $250,000 cash.

Byars said he believes the home invasion was the result of a burglary gone wrong.

— Staff report

Ex-guard appears in court on plotting charges

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A former correctional officer was in court Wednesday on charges related to a plot to break out Tennessee’s lone female death row inmate, Christa Gail Pike.

Justin Heflin, of Chattanooga, was indicted last month on bribery, official misconduct, conspiracy to commit

escape and facilitation to commit escape. The former correctional officer at the Tennessee Prison for Women is accused of taking money and gifts from another man, Donald Kohut, of Flemington, N.J., to help in a scheme to let Pike escape.

Heflin, who has been released on bond, did not speak during his arraignment in Nashville on Wednesday, but his attorney, James R. Potter, of Clarksville, said his client re-served entering a plea.

Kohut, who was arrested last week in New Jersey, has not yet been extradited to Tennessee.

— Associated Press

Beshear calls for lawmakers to pass budget

FRANKFORT — With time running out in this year’s leg-islative session, Gov. Steve Beshear on Wednesday called on lawmakers to reach an agreement on competing bud-get proposals so that he won’t have to call them back to Frankfort to finish their work.

“I think the one thing the people of Kentucky would not accept is the legislature leaving town without a budget,” Beshear said. “And so I feel confident that they all under-stand that, and they’re going to work hard to make that happen.”

But House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Wednesday that budget talks have stalled, and he raised the specter of adjourning the legislative session without reaching an agreement.

Negotiations have been underway since Monday be-tween House and Senate leaders to try to reach a com-promise on a $19 billion budget that requires sharp cuts to most government agencies and programs. The nego-tiators face a self-imposed 2 a.m. Thursday deadline for reaching an agreement so that it can be voted on by the full House and Senate by Friday evening, which is the last day for lawmakers to vote on bills.

— Associated Press

Senate considers unemployment insurance bill

FRANKFORT — Kentucky employers could avoid having to pay millions of dollars in unemployment insurance tax under a House bill that’s expected to be voted on Thurs-day in the Senate.

The proposal by House Speaker Pro Tem Larry Clark, D-Louisville Democrat, would allow the state to borrow money to pay the interest on approximately $960 million in federal loans that kept the state’s unemployment insur-ance program afloat during the recession.

After the bill was discussed in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning, the Senate sponsor, Sen. David Givens, R-Greensburg, met with Education and Workforce Development Cabinet Secretary Joseph Meyer and reached an agreement, which was brought back be-fore the committee Wednesday afternoon. The bill was amended and placed on the Senate’s calendar for Thurs-day, to be voted on without discussion.

Clark’s original bill would have allowed the state to sell a revenue bond to provide money to make the interest payments for 2011-13. If the state doesn’t make those payments by Sept. 30, Clark said, the unemployment insurance tax per employer would increase from $63 to $422 per worker next year.

The bill passed the House by a vote of 97-0 on March 14.

— Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Politicians love to talk about the importance of education. In Illinois, leg-islators go a step further and personally award scholarships to state uni-versities — sometimes to friends, donors and politi-cal allies.

For a century, each Il-linois legislator has had the power to hand out a few scholarships every year without regard to students’ needs or quali-fi cations, which fi t com-fortably in the state’s tra-dition of favors for people with connections.

In recent years, a state lawmaker helped a politi-cal backer’s four children with $94,000 worth of tuition waivers. Another gave a scholarship to the son of a Chicago alder-man.

Federal investigators are also looking into cases of recipients with suspi-cious addresses.

Now, after the failure of repeated efforts to end the $13.5 million-a-year program, opponents are making a new push to eliminate the waivers as Illinois offi cials try again to clean up the state’s im-age after two consecutive governors wound up in prison.

The Illinois House vot-ed last week to get rid of the freebie program; the big question is whether Senate Democrats will al-

low a vote on what Gov. Pat Quinn calls “political scholarships.”

Supporters insist the scholarships are a way to help poor but promising students.

“I just think it’s a nice thing we’re doing. I really do,” said Rep. Monique Davis, a Democrat from Chicago. “Look, there was so-called corruption or whatever in the governor’s race, but we still have a governor’s offi ce. ... When we start abolishing every-thing where we fi nd some misdeeds, we might have to close up down here.”

Critics contend that if Illinois lawmakers want to help the state’s education system, they should sup-port programs that pro-vide aid to needy students. Or they could set up their own foundations and raise money for scholarships.

But picking and choos-ing which students get a free ride is a bad idea, said Joni Finney, a University of Pennsylvania professor who specializes in college access and affordability.

“I think it’s terrible. It is subject to such political corruption,” Finney said.

Illinois’ program is one of the few of its kind.

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Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — Con-cluding three days of fer-vent, public disagreement, a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology will now wrestle in private about whether to strike down key parts or even all of Presi-dent Barack Obama’s his-toric health care law.

The justices’ decision, due this June, will affect the way virtually every American receives and pays for care.

The court wrapped up public arguments Wednes-day on the overhaul, which is designed to extend health insurance to most of the 50 million Americans now without it. The fi rst and biggest issue the justices must decide is whether the centerpiece of the law, the requirement that nearly all Americans carry insurance or pay a penalty, is consti-tutional.

Wednesday’s argument time was unusual in that it assumed a negative answer to that central question. What should happen to other provisions, the jus-tices and lawyers debated, if the court strikes down the requirement? If the justices are following their normal practice, they had not even met to take a preliminary vote in the case before all argument concluded.

Questions at the court

this week days showed a strong ideological division between the liberal jus-tices who seem inclined to uphold the law in its en-tirety and the conservative justices whose skepticism about Congress’ power to force people to buy insur-ance suggests deep trouble for the insurance require-ment, and possibly the en-tire law.

The divide on the court refl ects a similar split in public opinion about the law, which Congress ap-proved two years ago when Democrats controlled both houses. The justices’ deci-sion is sure to become a sig-

nifi cant part of this year’s presidential and congres-sional election campaigns, in which Republicans have relentlessly attacked the law.

Both liberal and conser-vative justices appeared on Wednesday to accept the administration’s argu-ment that at least two im-portant insurance changes are so closely tied to the must-have-coverage re-quirement that they could not survive without it: pro-visions requiring insurers to cover people regardless of their existing medical problems and limiting how much those companies can

charge in premiums based on a person’s age or health.

Less clear was whether the court would conclude the entire law, with its hun-dreds of unrelated provi-sions, would have to be cast aside.

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MIAMI — From the T-shirt and hoodie sales to trademarking slogans like “Justice for Trayvon” to the pass-the-hat rallies that bring in thousands, the case of an unarmed black teenager killed by a neigh-borhood watch volunteer is quickly turning into an Internet-fueled brand.

Websites are hawking key chains bearing Tray-von Martin’s likeness. His parents have bought two trademarks, saying they hope to raise money to help other families struck by tragedy. Trayvon clothes, bumper stickers, buttons and posters are up for grabs on eBay.

Vendors selling Martin T-shirts and hoodies have become fixtures at rallies in Sanford, the central Florida town where Mar-tin was shot last month. At one Sanford rally this week, a man had a variety of T-shirts laid out on the ground as marchers went by, yelling out, “I’ve got every size!”

A phenomenon on this scale is bound to be com-mercialized, said Donna Hoffman, a marketing pro-fessor at the University of California-Riverside.

“People can start to wear their feelings and emotions. It makes sense, even if there’s a profit motive,” Hoffman said. “There’s a legiti-mate interest in sharing the pain, and these prod-ucts do that.”

Van Johnson, who designs T-shirts and other apparel in Char-lotte, N.C., said he ini-tially wanted to come up with something for his 12-year-old son to show solidarity with Martin’s

supporters. He produced a color drawing based on a photograph of Martin wearing a hoodie, which the teenager was wearing on the night he was killed.

— Associated Press

Beyonce, tiny puppy, fit into spoon at birth

NEW YORK — Beyonce, a very tiny puppy, sits in-side a coffee mug, trying without success to es-cape by scratching its little paws against the slippery surface. In recent days, this famous dog has been placed alongside a variety of small objects — an

iPhone, a busi-ness card and a tape mea-sure, among other things — to demon-strate

just how tiny she really is.Beyonce is a female

dachshund mix who was born March 8 to a rescue dog that was found aban-doned, wandering the streets of San Bernardino, Calif. At birth, she weighed just 1 ounce and could fit

into a teaspoon. Her care-takers say she’s one of the smallest puppies ever born full-term — and her story of unlikely survival has captured the atten-tion of people all over the world.

“We had an ultrasound done, and they actually saw that there were five puppies, but one was probably going to be stillborn,” says Beth De-caprio, executive director of the Grace Foundation of Northern California, which rehabilitates abused and neglected animals. “It didn’t look like a viable baby.”

At 3 weeks old, Beyonce is now about the size of an iPhone, but she isn’t cowed by her much big-ger brothers and sisters. She crawled on top of the wriggling puppies as they nursed, trying to push them out of the way.

Beyonce, whose care-takers wanted to give her a “big” name, is not yet up for adoption, though the foundation has received hundreds of requests from people who want to take her home. When she’s stronger — and a bit big-ger — the foundation will decide whether to give her away.

— Associated Press

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Nation Briefs

With a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jack-pot up for grabs, plenty of folks are fantasizing how to spend the money. But do-ing it the right way — pro-tecting your riches, your identity and your sanity — takes some thought and planning.

Making sure you don’t blow the nation’s largest-ever lottery jackpot within a few years means some advice is in order before the Mega Millions drawing Fri-day, especially if you’re re-ally, really, really lucky.

Q: What do I do with the ticket?

A: Before anything else, sign the back of the ticket. That will stop anyone else from claiming your riches if you happen drop it while you’re jumping up and down. Then make a photo-copy and lock it in a safe. At the very least, keep it where you know it’s protected. A Rhode Island woman who won a $336 million Power-ball jackpot in February hid the ticket in her Bible be-fore going out to breakfast.

Q: What next?A: Relax; breathe; take

time to think about your next move. Don’t do any-thing you’ll regret for the next 30 years, like calling your best friend or every one of your aunts, uncles and cousins. It doesn’t take long to be overwhelmed by long-lost friends, charities and churches wanting to share your good fortune. You’ve waited a lifetime to hit the jackpot; you can wait a few days before go-ing on a spending spree.

Q: So whom should I tell fi rst?

A: Contacting a lawyer and a fi nancial planner would be a lot wiser than updating your Facebook status. Make sure it’s some-one you can trust and, it’s hoped, dealt with before. If you don’t have anyone in mind, ask a close family member or friend. Okla-homa City attorney Rich-ard Craig, whose fi rm has represented a handful of lottery winners, says it’s es-sential to assemble a team of fi nancial managers, tax experts, accountants and bankers.

Q: Remind me, how much did I win?

A: As it stands now, the Mega Millions will pay out a lump sum of $359 million before taxes. The annual payments over 26 years will amount to just over $19 million before taxes.

Q: How much will I pay in taxes?

A: This partly depends

on where you live. Fed-eral tax is 25 percent; then there’s your state income tax. In Ohio, for example, that’s another 6 percent. And you might need to pay a city tax depending on the local tax rules. So count on about a third of your win-nings going to the govern-ment.

Q: Should I take the cash payout or annual pay-ments?

A: This is the big ques-tion, and most people think taking the lump sum is the smart move. That’s not always the case. First, spreading the payments out protects you from be-coming the latest lottery winner who’s lost all their money. Don McNay, au-thor of the book “Son of a Son of a Gambler: Win-ners, Losers and What to

Do When You Win the Lot-tery,” says nine out of 10 winners go through their money in fi ve years or less. “It’s too much, too fast,” he says. “Nobody is around them putting the brakes on the situation.”

Q: But what if I’m good at managing the money?

A: Invested properly, the lump sum option can be a good choice. There’s more planning that you can use to reduce estate taxes and other fi nancial incentives. Others, though, say that with annual payments, you are taxed on the money only as it comes in, so that will put you in a lower tax bracket rather than taking a big hit on getting a lump sum. And you still can shel-ter the money in tax-free investments and take ad-vantage of tax law changes

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Johnny Maroun sells Mega Millions lottery tickets to a customer Wednesday at the family’s Marathon service station in Moreland Hills, Ohio. Friday’s multistate drawing could leave a ticketholder with over a half a billion dollars.

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Seeking a new Syria, the Obama administration hopes glimmers of diplomatic progress from U.N. mediator Kofi Annan will accelerate the end of President Bashar Assad’s year of extreme repression.

But as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton re-turns to the region to search for a strategy with America’s Arab and European partners, Syria is stuck in the same conflict between a brutal government and an armed re-bellion that no nation is certain it wants to support. And it’s unclear what Annan can do to end the bloodshed.

With no clear path to ending the crisis and Assad’s mili-tary clearly in control, the debate among Washington and its allies over how to support Syria’s opposition is taking on added urgency. Saudi Arabia and some others say it’s time to arm the rebels or set up buffer zones for them to operate. President Barack Obama has publicly challenged Assad to leave power, but has refused to entertain U.S. military options to achieve that end.

Clinton said the U.S. and its allies would spend the next few days helping Syria’s primarily Sunni opposition refine its vision of an inclusive democracy, to assure minorities still supportive of the government that they’d have a place in a post-Assad future. She said Washing-ton hoped for progress on that front this weekend.

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HAVANA — Pope Bene-dict XVI demanded more freedom for the Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba and preached against “fanaticism” in an unusually political ser-mon Wednesday before hundreds of thousands at Revolution Plaza, with President Raul Castro in the front row.

Before the pope’s depar-ture, he met with the presi-dent’s brother, revolution-ary leader Fidel Castro. Castro grilled the pontiff on changes in church litur-gy and his role as spiritual leader of the world’s Cath-olics, a Vatican spokesman said.

Benedict’s homily was a not-so-subtle jab at the is-land’s leadership before a vast crowd of Cubans, both in the sprawling plaza and watching on television. But he also clearly urged an end to Cuba’s isolation, a reference to the 50-year U.S. economic embargo and the inability of 11 American presidents and brothers Fidel and Raul Castro to forge peace.

“Cuba and the world need change, but this will occur only if each one is in a position to seek the truth and chooses the way of love, sowing reconcilia-tion and fraternity,” Bene-dict said. The remark built upon the famed call of his predecessor, John Paul II, who said in his ground-breaking 1998 visit that Cuba should “open itself

up to the world, and may the world open itself up to Cuba.”

With the country’s leadership listening from front-row seats, Benedict referred to the biblical ac-count of how youths per-secuted by the Babylonian king “preferred to face

death by fi re rather than betray their conscience and their faith.”

He said all people share a desire for “authentic freedom,” without which the truth that Christianity offers cannot be found.

“On the other hand there are those who wrongly in-

terpret this search for the truth, leading them to ir-rationality and fanaticism; they close themselves up in ‘their truth’ and try to impose it on others,” he said from the altar, backed by an image of Cuba’s rev-olutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Pope urges greater openings in CubaBY ANNE-MARIE GARCIA AND NICOLE WINFIELD

Associated Press

Associated Press

Cuba’s President Raul Castro (left) speaks during a farewell ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday at the end of the pope’s visit at the airport in Havana, Cuba.

“Cuba and the world need change, but this will occur only if each one is in a position to seek the truth and chooses the way of love, sowing reconciliation and

fraternity.”

Pope Benedict XVI

BAGHDAD — Arab lead-ers gathering here Thurs-day will call for Syria to implement a cease-fi re, but there’s little faith that Presi-dent Bashar Assad will do anything to halt his crack-down on the year-old upris-ing. That could set the stage for Gulf Arab nations, eager to see Assad’s downfall, to take stronger action on their own.

Arab governments are di-vided over how strongly to intervene to stop the blood-shed in Syria, and their divi-sions illustrate how the con-fl ict has become a proxy in the region’s wider rivalry — the one between Arabs and powerhouse Iran.

Sunni-led nations of the Gulf such as Saudi Ara-bia and Qatar — hoping to break Syria out of its alli-ance with Shiite Iran — are believed to be considering arming the Syrian rebels to fi ght back against Assad’s forces. But other Arab na-tions are reluctant to openly call for that step yet.

Iraq is in a particularly tight spot because its Shiite-led government has close ties to Iran, Assad’s top ally. Given the divisions, foreign ministers meeting here Wednesday laid out a mid-dle-ground for their leaders to issue at the summit. The draft resolution they put to-gether would reject foreign intervention in Syria while voicing support for the Syr-

ian people’s “legitimate as-pirations to freedom and democracy.” It would call on Assad to implement a cease-fi re and let in humanitar-ian aid, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press.

The leaders also “de-nounce the acts of violence, killings ... and remain com-mitted to a peaceful settle-ment and national dia-logue,” it said.

It also supports the mis-sion of joint U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, who has put forward a peace plan to end the regime’s crackdown that the U.N. es-timates has killed more than 9,000 people since the up-rising began in March 2011 as part of the Arab Spring.

Arab summit appears divided over SyriaBY HAMZA HENDAWI

Associated Press

Associated Press

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (right) meets with Kuwaiti counterpart Sheik Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah on Wednesday in Baghdad. Foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League meeting in Baghdad will ask their heads of state to urge the Syrian regime to halt its crackdown on civilians and allow humanitarian groups into the country.

World Briefs

BEIRUT — Syrian activists said Wednesday a govern-ment offensive in northern Syria during which troops over-ran a major opposition stronghold has left behind scenes of destruction, with corpses in the streets, homes burned to the ground and shops that have been pillaged and looted.

The reports of 40 people dead in Saraqeb since Sunday come as Arab leaders meeting in Baghdad remain deeply divided over how to help solve Syria’s yearlong crisis. Presi-dent Bashar Assad said he has accepted a six-point U.N. plan to resolve the conflict, including a cease-fire, but the opposition is deeply skeptical that he will carry it out.

The fall of Saraqeb, a large town on the main highway linking the northern city of Aleppo with the Syrian capital, was the latest in a string of opposition strongholds to fall to ruthless assaults by the better-equipped Syrian military. Most of those strongholds and areas around them have since seen renewed flare-ups in violence, reflecting the re-siliency of the uprising and the military’s inability to firmly put down the revolt.

Destruction continues in wake of Syrian forces

— Associated Press

— Associated Press

US hopes diplomacy ends Syrian year of violence

Today Fri.

Athens 66 50 s 70 50 sBeijing 68 40 pc 55 35 pcBerlin 54 36 c 53 41 shBuenos Aires 75 55 s 75 59 sCairo 73 53 pc 71 60 sHong Kong 77 70 pc 79 66 shJerusalem 56 42 pc 55 43 pcLondon 68 45 pc 65 46 pcManila 84 77 r 84 76 shMexico City 79 48 t 79 50 tMoscow 36 32 sn 38 25 snParis 64 41 s 65 45 pcRome 65 47 s 67 50 sSeoul 63 45 pc 54 37 rSydney 78 66 sh 75 65 pcTokyo 59 48 s 65 52 pcWarsaw 52 35 sh 48 39 shZurich 65 40 s 58 35 pc

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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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Mostly cloudy, a t-storm possible

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Sunrise today ................................. 6:44 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 7:14 p.m.Moonrise today ............................. 11:00 a.m.Moonset today ................................ 1:00 a.m.

24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.00”Month to date ......................................... 4.00”Normal month to date ............................. 3.49”Year to date ............................................ 9.74”Last year to date ................................... 13.24”Normal year to date ............................... 11.21”

High/low .............................................. 81°/62°Normal high/low .................................. 63°/41°Record high .................................. 81° in 2012Record low .................................... 25° in 1955

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Kentucky: Partly sunny today. A shower or thunder-storm in spots in the west; pleasant elsewhere.

Illinois: Partly sunny today.

Indiana: Mostly sunny today; pleasant in the south. A thunderstorm in the area tonight.

Missouri: Clouds and sun today; a couple of thun-derstorms; however, a few strong thunderstorms in the west.

Arkansas: Partly sunny and warm today; a thunder-storm in spots in the north and east.

Tennessee: Partly sunny today. A thunderstorm in spots, but dry in the east; very warm in the west.

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Albuquerque 72 47 s 71 48 sAtlanta 81 60 pc 79 61 pcBaltimore 62 39 pc 62 44 pcBillings 66 43 pc 72 47 pcBoise 56 47 c 64 49 cBoston 47 33 sh 50 36 sCharleston, SC 85 59 pc 83 62 pcCharleston, WV 65 38 s 78 58 tChicago 54 44 pc 58 39 rCleveland 50 34 pc 52 39 rDenver 73 40 s 78 46 pcDes Moines 69 56 t 71 53 pcDetroit 52 34 s 48 35 rEl Paso 81 55 pc 81 57 sFairbanks 34 10 pc 37 15 pcHonolulu 83 70 s 82 70 pcHouston 82 62 t 78 63 tIndianapolis 63 47 s 71 47 cJacksonville 84 58 s 83 62 pc

Las Vegas 75 60 s 79 65 sLos Angeles 70 54 pc 74 56 pcMiami 82 68 s 83 68 sMilwaukee 51 42 pc 51 37 rMinneapolis 55 46 t 62 48 pcNew Orleans 83 65 pc 81 66 tNew York City 57 38 pc 57 42 pcOklahoma City 85 60 pc 83 61 pcOmaha 71 49 t 76 53 pcOrlando 85 63 s 86 63 pcPhiladelphia 60 38 pc 59 44 pcPhoenix 84 62 s 87 64 sPittsburgh 51 32 pc 57 44 rSalt Lake City 64 46 pc 73 49 sSan Diego 64 57 pc 66 59 pcSan Francisco 63 51 c 63 51 cSeattle 51 38 r 45 37 rTucson 81 55 s 83 55 sWashington, DC 65 38 pc 64 55 pc

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Belleville, IL 75 58 pc 84 53 cBowling Gn., KY 76 54 pc 82 57 tBristol, TN 73 39 s 80 53 tC. Girardeau, MO 81 57 pc 83 53 cCarbondale, IL 79 57 pc 83 51 cCharleston, WV 65 38 s 78 58 tChattanooga, TN 83 54 pc 84 57 pcClarksville, TN 79 54 pc 83 59 pcColumbia, MO 78 62 t 78 53 cEvansville, IN 74 52 pc 81 54 tFt. Smith, AR 87 60 pc 83 59 tHopkinsville, KY 80 58 pc 83 58 pcIndianapolis, IN 63 47 s 71 47 cJackson, KY 70 49 s 78 60 tJackson, TN 82 57 pc 86 60 pcJoplin, MO 85 63 t 83 59 tKansas City, MO 80 59 t 80 58 pcKnoxville, TN 79 48 pc 81 58 tLexington, KY 68 49 s 77 55 tLittle Rock, AR 83 60 pc 84 61 tLondon, KY 72 46 s 81 56 tLouisville, KY 71 51 s 80 58 tMemphis, TN 86 64 pc 86 64 cNashville, TN 80 56 pc 85 60 pcPeoria, IL 65 54 pc 69 47 tSt. Louis, MO 74 62 pc 82 56 cSpringfi eld, IL 70 55 pc 73 50 tSpringfi eld, MO 84 60 t 82 56 tTerre Haute, IN 67 48 pc 76 47 t

National Summary: A fresh push of chilly air will invade the Northeast today, while warmth holds in the Deep South with spotty showers. Locally severe thunderstorms are in store for the central Plains with showers farther north and spotty thunderstorms over Texas. Drenching rain and moun-tain snow will push inland over the Northwest.

Cairo 40 33.15 -0.88

Paducah 39 22.35 -1.46Owensboro 38 10.50 none

Lake Barkley 356.7 355.20 +0.10Kentucky Lake 356.7 355.30 +0.22

Washington65/38

New York57/38

Miami82/68

Atlanta81/60

Detroit52/34

Houston82/62

Chicago54/44

Minneapolis55/46

Kansas City80/59

El Paso81/55

Denver73/40

Billings66/43

Los Angeles70/54

San Francisco63/51

Seattle51/38

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.