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1. Symphony Sing-Off organizers aim to raise twice as much as last year’s total. 2A
2. Kentucky lawmak-ers remain at an impasse on pensions. 3A
3. North Korea says it is canceling the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. 10A
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To the untrained eye, fi re trucks don’t seem to have changed much. Most departments keep the out-sides shiny and red, a symbol of protection and strength. On the inside, however, it’s a totally dif-ferent story.
“It’s almost like driving a car,” Paducah Fire Chief Steve Kyle said. “It drives just fi ne, but there have been a lot of internal chang-es.”
The City Commission will hear an ordinance Tuesday night to purchase two new pumper trucks for the Paducah Fire Department. The department has nine trucks — seven in active service and two
reserves — and actively replaces trucks as part of an overall plan. Kyle said the department has bought three new trucks since 2009. The trucks that will be re-placed are nearly 20 years old.
Kyle said the trucks will include more automated and computer-controlled features to make them more user friendly. The trucks’ combined cost is $832,354. The
commission will also hear an or-dinance to purchase a new street sweeper for the city, which would cost $180,576.
The commission will also hear the introduction of an ordinance stipulating the city-county agree-ment for payment for incentives to Teletech Services. Teletech will
Fire truck purchase tops busy agendaBY CORIANNE [email protected]
CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
Capt. Darryl Tubbs of the Paducah Fire Department checks equip-ment in a fire truck’s storage unit on Monday afternoon. The depart-ment will be receiving two new trucks as part of the city’s replace-ment plan.
Peggy Tippin doesn’t remember dy-ing. What she remembers is that Jan. 22 was a stressful Tuesday. It was the fi rst day back to classes for students at Daymar College and as the director of student services, Tippin was adjusting student schedules, signing people up for last-minute classes and putting out
other metaphorical fi res left and right.The 53-year-old mother of four
doesn’t remember walking into the main hallway and falling to the fl oor. She doesn’t remember the moment her heart stopped beating, or when Day-mar’s nurse Brandi Richardson and director of career services Ken Averill performed cardiopulmonary resuscita-tion until helped arrived. She doesn’t
remember the additional half-hour that doctors and emergency response personnel spent trying to revive her, both in the ambulance on the four-minute ride to Baptist Health Paducah and in the emergency room.
Doctors shocked Tippin with a defi -brillator six times to get her heart beat-
An opportunity to survive
BY CORIANNE [email protected]
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MARCELINE, Mo. — The tiny northern Missouri town of Marceline thought it was making a good deal in 2004 when it agreed to buy almost all of its electricity from the Prairie State Energy Campus. Instead, the contract has created a fi scal nightmare.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports
that Marceline is expected to lose al-most $1.4 million this year — equal to more than $600 for each of the city’s 2,200 residents. City Manager Luke Lewis wants to negotiate an exit with Prairie State but doesn’t rule out de-faulting on the contract.
“By October of this year we need to be done with this,” he said. “I can’t
budget for it next year. I can cut my en-tire city staff and I still wouldn’t be able to cover the losses.”
Paducah Power System began ob-taining its power from Prairie State in January.
U.S. Department of Energy data
Town wants out of electricity contractAssociated Press
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Peggy Tippin, director of Student Services at Daymar College, helps a student, Hazel Reed, plan for her Spring semester on Friday in the computer lab at the college. Tippin was declared brain dead in January after a cardiac arrhythmia stopped her heart. Therapeutic hypothermia brought her brain
back to life, and Tippin was able to get back to work a month later.
Therapeutic hypothermia gives second chances to patients
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“It’s almost like driving a car. It drives just fine, but there have been
a lot of internal changes.”
Steve Kyle Paducah fire chief
By this time next year, McCracken County’s Carson Park may be unveiling a new equestrian trail and ren-ovated outdoor arena thanks to funding support from the Fiscal Court. Commissioners voted on Monday to provide 50 percent matches — equaling $175,000 if the full amounts are approved — to the Carson Park Board of Directors for two state-issued grants.
Sandra DeWeese, board vice chairwoman, said the requests derive from plans to build an eques-trian trail along the perimeter of the park and ren-ovate and restore the existing outdoor arena.
The trail is slated to be built about a mile long and will include sensing items and obstacles, such as a bridge, gate and water feature. DeWeese explained that the sensing items will be part of the park’s ther-apeutic program for special needs children, which she said has been running for three years.
The renovations to the arena will include foot-ings, fencing and new and updated features.
The board is applying for $200,000 from the Recreational Trails Program for the trail and and $150,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the arena project. Both grants require 50 percent matches. If approved, the projects could be fi nished by March 2014, DeWeese said.
More applications are planned for additional im-provements to the park, DeWeese said.
“This is just the beginning of a whole lot of grants we hope to apply for,” she said.
The county has owned Carson Park, located on Joe Clifton Drive at 28th and Madison streets, for 76 years, with the property roots dating back to 1859, DeWeese said.
In other business on Monday, Judge-Executive Van Newberry set May 7 as the date for a wet-dry vote in the Maxon Road precinct. Tim Stonecipher, Sports Plex co-owner and general manager, petitioned to switch the precinct from dry to wet to accommodate parties interested in leasing space inside a planned commercial subdivision located in front of the sports complex on U.S. 60. The western McCracken pre-cinct covers the Sports Plex, new county high school, Barkley Regional Airport, and Pugh’s Midway.
Commissioners also passed an anti-bullying resolution during Monday’s regular meeting. Through the resolution, the Fiscal Court joined the Paducah City Commission in participating in and supporting anti-bullying initiatives and programs.
The Fiscal Court voted as well to support Paducah Economic Development in applying for a Community Development Block Grant for an un-named potential development project.
Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684.
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The Agenda is a listing of govern-ment meetings today.
■ Bardwell City Council — 5 p.m., City Hall.
■ Barlow City Council — 5:30 p.m., City Hall.
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Event organizers for The Symphony Sing-Off have decid-ed to set the bar higher — two times higher, to be exact — for the second year of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra’s signa-ture fundraising event.
Last year’s event raised $25,000, much of which went to the PSO’s youth program-ming, according to events chairman Kenn Gray. This year, the goal is set at $50,000.
During the Sing-Off, attend-ees give monetary votes to their favorite regional a cappella groups. Four groups will com-pete, and the one that raises the most money will win the prize of singing at the PSO’s annual Christmas concert.
Symphony Executive Direc-tor Daniel Sene said the PSO adult chorus will open the eve-ning, and that some chorus members will also sing in the a cappella groups competing that night.
“It should be fun. There’s a great local talent that pulled together,” he said. “Folks will be very entertained, and they’ll know that whatever money is raised that night goes to all our programs and services for the year.”
The Symphony Sing-Off will feature a sit-down gourmet meal, a silent auction, and one live auction item: the chance to conduct “Sleigh Ride” at the PSO’s annual Christmas con-cert, Sene said.
The PSO youth orchestra will also provide entertainment. Gray said that this was an im-portant element of the evening, as it gives guests a chance to see what programs their money will help fund.
Gray said that last year the PSO reached more than 12,500 children and youth through several youth programming ef-forts, including the Class Acts series and the Musical Chairs program. New this year is a youth summer camp, which Gray said has been funded with sponsorships from the Sym-phony Sing-Off.
To ensure guests have a memorable evening, Gray said he paid careful attention to the event’s production value, duplicating the set of the NBC show “The Sing-Off,” on which the PSO’s fundraiser is based. He hopes that the event’s at-mosphere will give guests the feeling that they’re attending a Hollywood awards show.
“We really wanted to set this event apart from so many of the other wonderful events,” he
said. “Everyone who went last year said it was one of the most entertaining and nicest events they’d been to.”
Gray will emcee the event, while Katie Stam, Miss Amer-ica in 2009, Laura Emerson, a news anchor from WPSD-Local 6, and saxophonist Reggie La-faye will serve as guest celebrity judges.
The Symphony Sing-Off will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in the Harrah’s Metropolis Event Center. Individual tickets cost $60, while tables are $500 for a group of 10.
Sponsorships at the $1,000 level are available until April 1. Businesses also have the oppor-tunity to purchase a $250 living ad, who will represent their company during the event.
To order tickets or for more information, call 270-444-
0065 or visit www.paducah-symphony.org.
Contact Laurel Black, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641 or follow @Lau-relFBlack on Twitter.
Symphony Sing-Off aims highBY LAUREL [email protected]
Want to go?What: The Symphony
Sing-OffWhen: 6 p.m. Saturday,
April 13Where: Harrah’s Metrop-
olis Event Center.Tickets cost $60 a per-
son or $500 per table of 10. They are available by calling 270-444-0065 or by visiting paducahsym-phony.org.
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A Benton resident is one of two students in Kentucky of-fered appointments to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Nominated by U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfi eld (R-Ky.) were Hardin Cosner of Benton and Philip Crawford of Auburn.
“It is my honor to nominate these two outstanding individ-uals for appointments to West Point,” Whitfi eld said. “As these two young men now pre-pare to begin their promising careers serving their country, I am confi dent that they will represent the Commonwealth with diligence, honor and class. I couldn’t be more proud of Mr. Crawford and Mr. Cosner and I wish them well.”
Cosner will graduate from Marshall County High School in May. He currently holds a 3.92 grade-point average.
His accomplishments in-clude obtaining the rank of
Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America, where he was also awarded the Boy Scout Life Saving Award. and compet-ing on the Marshall County High School football and track teams.
He is a member of both the National Honor Society and the Marshall Militia. He is the son of Scott and Christa Cosner.
Crawford will graduate from Russellville High School in May.
He currently holds a 4.0 grade-point average.
His accomplishments in-clude being a 2012 member of the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program; serving as the fi eld commander of Rus-sellville High marching band; competing on the Russellville High tennis team, and serv-ing as a group leader at Pearce Memorial United Methodist Church.
He is the son of Darrell and Anne Crawford.
Marshall senior receivesWest Point nomination
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GRAY — Under rainy skies on Monday, fi re investigators sifted through the charred re-mains of a house where seven people died in a weekend fi re, while offers of support ranged from free funeral services to donations left in an empty bubble gum container.
The fi re Saturday morning killed an engaged couple and fi ve children, including two friends who were spending
the night. Authorities hadn’t deter-
mined the cause or released the victims’ names Monday.
“It’s heartbreaking losing them kids like that. Those kids were helpless,” said Bobby James Disney, whose nephew was one of the adults killed.
At the nearby J&G Mar-ket convenience store, which doubles as a coffee shop and community gathering point, clerk Amy Weddle said: “Ev-erybody’s just so sad.”
Money, funeral services given for house fire victimsBY BRETT BARROUQUERE
Associated Press
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FRANKFORT — The House Speaker on Mon-day declared Kentucky’s industrial hemp bill dead, although proponents of the measure insist it’s not too late to revive it in the waning days of the ses-sion.
The proposal would let Kentucky quickly license hemp growers if the fed-eral government lifts its ban on the plant. Hemp thrived as a crop in Ken-tucky generations ago, but has been banned for decades by the federal government after it was classifi ed as a controlled substance related to mari-juana.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonburg, told reporters time ran out on the bill. He said it’s stuck in a committee and too late for a vote based on General Assembly rules. Three days remain in this year’s legislative session.
House Leader Jeff Hoover, R-Jamestown, said Stumbo’s claim is un-true. He countered on the House fl oor that Stumbo could simply suspend the rules and put the bill to a vote.
Stumbo’s opposition to the bill isn’t new. He’s pre-viously doubted its pas-sage, saying it has a lot of “problems.” For instance, Stumbo said, the propos-al’s fee on hemp growers amounts to a revenue-generating measure — and such legislation must orig-inate in the House.
The proposal has al-ready cleared the Senate and a House committee. And it is supported by high-profi le politicians such as U.S. Senator Rand Paul.
Agriculture Commis-sioner James Comer, who supports the measure, has said the crop could be an economic boon for Ken-tucky.
Besides creating an-
other crop for the state’s farmers, Comer said hemp could lead to manufac-turing jobs that produce products ranging from pa-per to cosmetics.
But the bill has been unpopular with law en-forcement offi cials. They say hemp could be used to camoufl age marijuana, which has similar leaves but far less potency. Hemp has a negligible content of THC, the psychoactive compound that gives mar-ijuana users a high.
Comer, the agriculture commissioner, blasted Stumbo on Monday in a news release.
“Speaker Stumbo is a tone-deaf, one-man band trying to kill the only jobs bill this session,” Comer said. “This bill has come to symbolize everything wrong with Frankfort, and I hope Stumbo’s fellow Democrats recognize the backlash that will result if they follow their leader on this one.”
Stumbo says time out for industrial hemp bill
BY BEN FINLEYAssociated Press
bring 450 jobs — 150 into the Commerce Center and 300 into a new building at the Paducah Commerce Park — averaging $9.50 an hour with full benefi ts.
The agreement stipu-lates that the three parties — Paducah, McCracken County and Paducah Eco-nomic Development — will contribute money into a
construction fund account. City Manager Jeff Peder-son will be in charge of the project’s disbursements. Both the city and the coun-ty will contribute $1.38 million to the project, while PED will add $250,000 to the pot.
The city is also prepared to announce a contract for the Noble Park Pool spray pad. The spray pad will be phase three of the project,
with repairs to the main pool and the concession stand proceeding. The low-est bid for the feature was $188,466 by Murtco of Paducah. That brings the project total to $1.17 mil-lion. It is expected to be completed in May.
Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
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ing again. But it had been nearly 45 minutes without blood to her brain and Tip-pin’s prognosis was bleak.
“I was asked to come down and test to see how bad the neurological dam-age was,” said Dr. Joseph Ashburn, neurologist at Baptist Health Paducah. “When we did the tests there were no brain waves. She didn’t respond to any stimuli, no pupil dilation, no movement in her arms and legs, no gag refl ex. She was brain dead.”
Ashburn had Tippin’s family agree to try one last thing: therapeutic hypo-thermia.
The drastic procedure began with injecting Tip-pin’s veins with iced saline to bring her body tempera-ture down to 33 degrees Celsius, which is 91 degrees Fahrenheit. When the brain doesn’t receive oxy-gen, it begins to produce a toxin and self-destructs, causing brain damage, Ashburn said. Cooling the body stops the toxin pro-duction.
Only 12 hours into the procedure — which nor-mally takes from 24 to 48 hours — Ashburn allowed the paralytic drug that stops patients from shiver-ing to wear off.
Within a few hours, and still with tubes running down her throat, Tippin used sign language skills to ask her family why she was so cold and what had happened to her. The form of communicating was not unexpected. Tippin stud-ied sign language for eight years and was one class away from an interpreter’s license when she became pregnant with her fi rst child.
Three days later, her memory began to clear and she started back to-ward her normal self. Doc-tors diagnosed her with a heart arrhythmia, which momentarily stopped her heart, and she was given an internal defi brillator to prevent it.
Tippin returned to work, living her normal life, even though just three weeks be-fore doctors believed her clinically dead. Her electro-encephalogram — or EEG, a test used to measure brain waves — had showed no brain activity at all, and Tippin now is fully func-tioning at her job. Coming back to life left Tippin with
a renewed faith and per-spective.
“The things I thought were a big deal are no lon-ger a big deal,” Tippin said. “I have seen a change in my priorities, and realized it’s more about my legacy and what I am going to leave behind. Life is a gift, and I am going to live it that way.”
Tippin’s family was well aware of her prognosis. Her daughter, Ashleigh Pickett, later told Tippin that she had already made peace with the thought of losing her mom. Her co-workers had seen Tippin limp, watched her skin turn purple and never be-lieved she would return to work. Tippin had no prior health problems. She de-scribed herself as active and healthy before the ar-rythmia.
Therapeutic hypother-mia is used in patients who have gone into cardiac ar-rest and are likely to suffer brain damage from a lack of oxygen. The procedure should be done usually within a 20 to 30 minutes, said Dr. Kenneth Ford, a Baptist Health Paducah cardiologist. Studies are under way to test if cooling could also treat victims of stroke or those who have suffered traumatic injury to the brain or spinal cord. Newborns who didn’t get enough oxygen during birth are now routinely cooled to protect them from brain in-jury.
“We’ve done this sev-eral times over the last two years,” Ford said. “The dif-ference is, we have had two very successful cases in the last two months. They are people who may not have had a chance to survive if
we didn’t try this route.”Ford performed another
therapeutic hypother-mia procedure on David Foglesong, who had been in cardiac arrest when he arrived at Baptist Health. Foglesong, 72, was unload-ing drywall in February and suffered a heart attack because of a 90 percent blockage in one of his main arteries. Ford put in two stents and stabilized Fogle-song before performing therapeutic hypothermia to make sure his brain func-tion returned.
Foglesong went home after a week, said Angie Kinsey, a hospital spokes-woman.
He now says he feels only the mild aftereffects of a heart attack, and a month later is able to take walks.
“I am feeling fi ne,” Fogle-song said. “I don’t remem-ber any of it. I don’t know what happened. But it has changed the way I think a little.”
Ashburn said Tippin’s 45 minutes was one of the longest periods a patient was brain dead at Baptist Health Paducah and able to come back so well. These recent successes and the heightened awareness may lead to performing thera-peutic hypothermia more often, he said, adding that the procedure doubles a patient’s chances of sur-vival.
“There are dramatic re-sults,” Ashburn said. “It’s not about who lives and dies, it’s about who lives and walks away with mini-mal defi cits.”
Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun
Peggy Tippin, director of Student Services at Daymar College, puts up a newsletter for students to view on Friday in the hallway of the college. Tippin was de-clared brain dead in January after a cardiac arrhythmia stopped her heart. Therapeutic hypothermia brought her brain back to life, and Tippin was able to get back to work a month later.
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FRANKFORT — Week-end discussions on fi xing the fi nancially troubled pension plans for state and local government re-tirees elicited starkly dif-ferent reactions from the legislative leaders who at-tended.
Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Monday the latest meeting yielded no resolution and no plans to appoint a con-
ference committee to work through differences.
“It would be useless; we’re so far apart,” Stumbo told reporters. “I think if we keep meeting, we can fi nd some middle ground.”
Meanwhile, Republican Senate President Robert Stivers said he believes an agreement could be near.
“I think a lot of good discussions took place,” he said of a meeting on Sunday with Gov. Steve Beshear and House Demo-
crats. “I think the governor weighed in to a certain ex-tent and moved us closer to a resolution, but not a total resolution at this point in time. I think it is possible that we could come up with a resolution sometime very soon.”
The Democratic-con-trolled House and Republi-can-led Senate have been at odds on proposed fi xes to the pension system, which has a $33 billion unfunded liability.
Lawmakers remain at impasse on pension plan differences
BY ROGER ALFORDAssociated Press
GALLATIN, Tenn. — A jury was seated Monday in the trial of a woman charged with fi rst-degree murder in the smothering of her newborn twin boys, and opening arguments were scheduled to begin Tuesday.
Attorneys for 26-year-old Lindsey Lowe of Hen-dersonville previously had requested a change of venue. Sumner County Criminal Court Judge Dee David Gee had held off on ruling on that re-quest, saying he would allow the change only if a local jury could not be seated.
The court summoned 180 potential jurors to appear in court on Mon-day and attorneys spent a full day asking ques-tions aimed at determin-ing whether the potential jurors could be impar-tial.
Many of the questions
concerned how much the potential jurors already knew about the case, but other questions touched on more personal matters, such as whether any of the potential jurors had ever lost a child or experienced a diffi cult childbirth.
After the jury of seven men and fi ve women was sworn in, along with three alternates, Judge Gay ruled to deny the change of venue.
Lowe has told police she hid her pregnancy from everyone before giving birth at home on Sept. 12, 2011. Lowe said she cov-ered the boys’ mouths to prevent her parents from hearing their cries.
Lowe’s father found one of the babies in a laundry basket two days later and called police. Authori-ties said they found the second baby in the same basket.
Police say the babies’ father was not Lowe’s fi -ance, but a family friend.
Trial starts for woman charged with killing newborn twin sons
BY TRAVIS LOLLERAssociated Press
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The White House, angling for another tax increase, has tried to make the sequester cuts as painful as possible.
The administration was embarrassed last week by a leaked Department of Agriculture memo instructing an agency official looking for ways to minimize the sting of sequester to instead make sure the cuts hurt as much as the administration threatened they would: “(Y)ou need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”
Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., said, “The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the sequester cuts for political gain.”
Gene Sperling, the top economic advisor in the White House, admitted, “Our hope is, as more Republicans start to see this pain in their own districts, they will choose bipartisan compromise over this absolutist position.”
The GOP’s “absolutist position” is that the tax hike they just gave the
president in January is the last one he’s going to get until he agrees to his part of the bargain — meaningful spending cuts.
The American people are aware of all the waste, duplication and inefficiency in the federal government. For households in this economy being forced to make real cuts — not just reductions in the rate of growth, like the government —
there is not much sympathy for Washington’s wailing over the sequester.
The administration canceled tours of the White House and blamed it on sequestration. The move saved taxpayers $74,000 a week.
Yet the president, even as he was warning last fall of looming cuts to
services, spent just under $1 million on a single state dinner for visiting Mexican President Felipe Calderon that included a performance by Beyonce.
The Obama family’s December vacation to Hawaii cost the taxpayers more than $4 million. The president has reportedly scheduled yet another multi-million-dollar vacation to Martha’s Vineyard for this summer. His single round of golf three weeks ago with Tiger Woods cost taxpayers more than $1 million.
Commentator Charles Krauthammer said: “The President’s travel expenses alone for the golfing outing with Tiger Woods would pay for a year of White House (tours).”
But the president is doing his part; he has not yet hit the links this month.
The administration said the cuts would include: 70,000 kids kicked out of Head Start, 600,000 losing nutrition assistance, 10,000 teachers losing their jobs, less airline security, less fire protection. Oh, and no more White House tours.
That’s your share of the sacrifice. The president’s share? A little less golf.
WASHINGTON — When they wrote “Immigration Wars” last year, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick were pushing the boundaries of the GOP’s in-ternal policy debate. The book is a tight, effective brief for comprehensive reform, mak-ing the case that a humane, orderly immigration system would increase the American stock of human capital, add to economic growth, address de-clining fertility and affi rm our national character. A Repub-lican candidate making those arguments during a primary debate last season would have risked being hooted off the stage.
But it is amazing what a good shellacking will do. In 2004, the Republican candi-date lost the Hispanic vote by 9 percentage points; in 2012, by 44 points. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as part of the Gang of Eight, subsequently embraced a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers. In his book, Bush recommends a path to per-manent noncitizen resident status. On publication day, the avant-garde seemed old guard.
“It is really not surprising,” Bush told me. “The book was written last year in a certain environment. The goal was to persuade people against immigration reform to be for it. Since that time, eight of 100 senators have moved, and not much in the House. ... When we were working on this, Marco Rubio wasn’t for a path to citizenship.”
The most instructive ele-ments of these two approach-es are where they agree. Both would offer illegal immigrants — after appropriate screenings and penalties — a permanent legal status. Both would also require illegal immigrants to join the line behind legal im-migrants seeking citizenship
(with Bush requiring them to return to their native coun-tries fi rst).
This is the real conservative sticking point in the current immigration debate. Many Republicans — at least Repub-lican leaders — no longer ob-ject to the idea of permanent status, even earned citizen-ship, for undocumented work-ers. But they are concerned that a system giving illegal immigrants advantages over those waiting patiently in line will simply re-create current problems down the road. “If there are incentives to come here illegally,” Bush tells me, “we’ll be the same place we were, fi ve years from now.”
Bush has designed his plan to remove those incentives, while making the “regular order” system a more realistic prospect for legal immigrants. This requires “effectively creating a line, which does not currently exist. The line to come in from the Philippines is something like 160 years.” So Bush would adopt what he calls a “normal defi nition of family unifi cation” — nar-rowed to bringing over only a spouse and minor children instead of including broth-ers, sisters and older parents — which would “dramatically increase other categories” of legal immigration. “If we don’t change the system, coming here illegally will be the only way available.”
Bush’s primary concern is the incentives of the system, not the details of a path to citizenship. “If there is a way
to deal with it that isn’t as onerous for people who have come here illegally,” he says, “I’m for that. We’re writing a book, not a law.” Which is the reason that Rubio’s ideas are the main starting point for the Republican policy debate. He will help write the law.
Yet Bush is making his own contribution. He calls im-migration reform a “gateway issue for those with connec-tion to the immigrant experi-ence. It is an initial test of tone and message.” But turning the Hispanic and Asian votes around, he argues, will require a proactive message, setting out “our version of health re-form. How we would embrace innovation and dynamism; re-form our schools so everyone has the capability to rise. How we deal with poverty that em-powers people to pursue lives of purpose, not dependence. We have stopped being the party that offers solutions.”
Bush does not approach these issues as a moderate, or even as a Jack Kemp-like bleeding-heart conservative. “Expanding government to empower people? I haven’t been in favor of that. Forty percent of GDP [consumed by government] is the most I can take.” His primary focus is the reform of institutions, particularly the immigration system, public education and Medicare. “Government is mired in the 1970s,” he says, “with huge cost structures and poor outcomes. Every other institution has gone through a transformation. Government hasn’t.”
This approach has its limits. The GOP not only has a policy gap, it has an empathy gap, which will not be closed mere-ly by talking about modern-izing antiquated structures. But empathy means little without effective policy — an argument in favor of Bush’s bracing, reformist rigor.
WASHINGTON — Excuse me while I roll my eyes over the latest “mommy war.”
It’s not that I don’t care about the sub-stance, but because I’ve lived long enough to know how it turns out. Some wars can’t be won because to the victor go spoils no one really wants. And the children always lose.
The most recent skirmish is taking place at the great and once-powerful Yahoo under the leadership of new CEO Marissa Mayer, the fi fth in fi ve years. The preceding sentence should be read as: “OMG, do whatever you have to do to fi x this!”
Thus, Mayer issued orders that tele-commuting employees start showing up at the offi ce. You’d have thought she had called for the sacrifi ce of everyone’s fi rst-born. What kind of woman does such a thing? Doesn’t she know that balancing work and family was a joke until technol-ogy made it possible to work from home?
If she knew it, she didn’t care. And therein lies the rub. Mayer not only irked her employees; she did the unthinkable. She boinked the sisterhood.
Mayer was already familiar with the fallout that comes from acting as an individual rather than as a member of the collective. When she appeared on the
cover of Fortune magazine last fall as one of the 50 most powerful women — looking a little too svelte for someone who had just had a baby — the blogo-sphere lit up. Apparently, Mayer’s critics wanted her to have been photographed while pregnant, conveying the message that pregnant women are also strong and powerful.
Whatever.Everything is about messaging these
days, except when one doesn’t like the content of the message, such as: Hire a baby sitter and get to work. Business is business, after all, and nothing is less sensitive than the bottom line.
I am not as tough as I sound. No one is more sympathetic to working mothers than I. (And, no, sorry, most fathers are not tending the young the way mothers do, and this is because they are not moth-ers. If you’re having trouble with this, put on your Clearasil and go to bed.)
My sympathy stems from having de-cided long ago to work from home upon realizing that my child needed me more than my employer did. But I am fortu-
nate. Mine is the sort of work that can be accom-plished from home — and, most important, I have a husband. Highly recom-mended.
It is thus understand-able why Yahoo workers are dismayed — and why others who hoped for such civilized options for others — are disappointed. Add-
ing to the insult is that Mayer has built a nursery for her own child — out of her own pocket — next to her offi ce.
Such tidy solutions obviously are avail-able to few and the fear is that all women now will be held to the impossible stan-dard set by Mayer.
Let’s be clear: Mayer is one rare bird. But should she be? Aren’t we supposed to say “More power to her” right about now? By what dictum must Mayer conduct her life — and her company — to please others? She crashed the glass ceiling and we’re upset that she made a mess?
This is how mommy wars get started and why they’ll never end. There’s no winning because, except for the best edu-cated and wealthiest, it isn’t possible to reach the top of the corporate ladder and
also take care of babies. In a saner world, we wouldn’t try.
Meanwhile, Mayer is doing what is right for her and what she thinks will improve her company’s performance. She clearly believes that making her talented work-ers convene in the same physical space is crucial to improving performance.
She is probably not wrong to imagine that pooling talent will engender greater creativity, synergy and all those other happy buzzwords of successful enter-prises if people talk to each other in person. The Internet may be a universe of free-ranging thought, but there’s nothing like the chemical combustion of human contact that leads to the birthing of ideas. Here’s one:
Why not build a state-of-the-art day care center at Yahoo for all those employ-ees who, though their minds may be pres-ent, will have left their hearts at home? Mayer, who obviously sees the benefi t to her own child, could send a long-overdue message to corporate America: Hav-ing children nearby makes workers less stressed and more productive. Call it “The Bassinet-Bottom Line Initiative.”
If innovation plus compassion leads to profi t, who knows? We may fi nally declare a truce after all.
Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961
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DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of corruption charges and then sent to jail to await his prison sentence in yet another dramatic setback for a man who once was among the nation’s youngest big-city leaders.
Jurors convicted Kil-patrick of a raft of crimes, including racketeering conspiracy, which carries a maximum punishment of 20 years behind bars. He was portrayed during a fi ve-month trial as an unscrupulous politician who took bribes, rigged contracts and lived far be-yond his means while in offi ce until fall 2008.
Kilpatrick wore a sur-prised, puzzled look at times as U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds read the jury’s verdict: guilty of 24 charges, not guilty on three and no consensus on three more. Kilpatrick declined to speak to reporters as he left the courthouse.
Four hours later, he was handcuffed and led to jail after prosecutors asked the judge to revoke his bond. Edmunds said it was a “close call” but agreed that the scale un-der federal law tipped in
favor of the government.Prosecutors said Kilpat-
rick ran a “private profi t machine” out of Detroit’s City Hall. The govern-ment presented evidence to show he got a share of the spoils after ensuring that Bobby Ferguson’s excavating company was awarded millions in work from the water depart-ment.
Business owners said they were forced to hire Ferguson as a subcontrac-tor or risk losing city con-tracts. Separately, fund-raiser Emma Bell said she gave Kilpatrick more than $200,000 as his personal cut of political donations, pulling cash from her bra during private meetings. A high-ranking aide, Der-rick Miller, told jurors that he often was the middle man, passing bribes from others. Internal Revenue Service agents said Kilpat-rick spent $840,000 be-yond his mayoral salary.
The names of jurors were not released by the court. Eleven agreed to speak to reporters but de-clined to give their names.
“I saw a lot that really, really turned my stom-ach,” said a female juror, a Detroit resident who had voted twice for Kilpatrick when he ran for mayor. “I couldn’t believe this type of thing was going on.”
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BY ED WHITEAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — Sen-ate Democrats are prepar-ing a catchall government funding bill that denies President Barack Obama money for implementing signature fi rst-term accom-plishments like new regula-tions on Wall Street and his expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic pri-orities like health research.
The measure expected to be released Monday is the product of bipartisan negotiations and is the leg-islative vehicle to fund the day-to-day operations of government through Sept. 30 — and prevent a gov-ernment shutdown when current funding runs out March 27.
Passage in the Senate this week would presage an end to a mostly overlooked bat-tle between House Repub-licans and Obama and his Senate Democratic allies over the annual spending bills required to fund fed-eral agency operations.
The bipartisan measure comes as Washington girds for weeks of warfare over the budget for next year and beyond as both House and Senate Budget Com-mittees this week take up blueprints for the upcom-ing 2014 budget year.
The fi rst salvo in that bat-tle is coming from House
Republicans poised to re-lease on Tuesday a now-familiar budget featuring gestures to block “Obam-acare,” turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees and sharply curb Medicaid and domes-tic agency budgets. Such ideas are dead on arrival with Obama and Demo-crats controlling the Senate, but will — in concert with new taxes on the wealthy enacted in January — allow Republicans to propose a budget that would come to balance within 10 years.
“We think we owe the American people a bal-anced budget,” House Bud-get Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Senate Democrats are countering on Wednesday with a budget plan mixing tax increases, cuts to the Pentagon and relatively modest cuts to domestic programs. The measure would not reach balance, but it would undo automat-ic budget cuts that started taking effect this month and largely leaves alone rapidly growing benefi t programs like Medicare.
“We need to make sure that everybody participates in getting us to a budget that deals with our debt and our defi cit responsi-bly,” Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Monday eve-ning.
The upcoming debate
over the long-term bud-getary future promises to be stoutly partisan, even as Obama is undertaking outreach to rank-and-fi le Republicans in hopes of sowing the seeds for a bi-partisan “grand bargain” on the budget this year after two failed attempts to strike agreement with House Speaker John Boeh-ner. Obama’s budget is al-ready weeks overdue and Press Secretary Jay Carney defl ected questions about it Monday, other than to promise that it would “for a period of time” bring defi -cits below 3 percent of gross domestic product, a mea-sure that many analysts say is sustainable without dam-aging the economy.
Democrats prepare funding billBY ANDREW TAYLOR
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CHICAGO — A cellphone video showed the attack in grainy but gruesome de-tail: A mob overwhelmed a South Side teen shortly after he left school, merci-lessly kicking and stomping on him, then hitting him in the head with a wooden plank.
Long before Chicago’s latest spasm of gun violence claimed 15-year-old Had-iya Pendleton, the honors student who was killed not far from President Barack Obama’s home, there was Derrion Albert, another honors student slain in 2009. His killing came to symbolize the dangers fac-ing young people in the na-tion’s third-largest city.
But if the 16-year-old’s death illustrates how little things have changed since then, it also helps tell a different story — how one of America’s most notori-ous schools succeeded in restoring calm and defus-ing many confrontations. As other districts across the country grapple with
security issues, Fenger High School shows how determined school offi cials curbed violence by deploy-ing “peace circles” and in-school suspensions as much as police and armed guards.
Now those precious gains could be lost because many of the new initiatives were paid for using federal stim-ulus money that will run out at the end of the school year. The principal has no idea where she will turn for more funding.
“Could things return the way they were?” asked Eliz-abeth Dozier, the principal who arrived at the school 16 days before the boy was killed. “In a heartbeat.”
This year, there have been fewer than a dozen arrests — a fraction of the 200 that occurred in the 2009-10 school year.
That Fenger led the way is all the more remarkable considering the conditions when Dozier arrived two weeks before Albert was killed. Back then, the cam-pus looked like the set of a movie about out-of-control
teens. Despite the daily presence of police, students fl ashed gang signs that routinely triggered brawls. Some tried to smuggle knives and box cutters in-side. And judging by the smell, offi cers did little to deter students from smok-ing marijuana on school grounds.
“When I came here, we were like, ‘Oh, Lord, we’re going to get robbed. Oh no, we’re going to get shot.’ No lie,” recalled senior Geneva Harris.
By the time the fi nal bell rang, students knew there was going to be a fi ght. Min-utes after it started a few blocks from the school, Al-bert lay mortally wounded. When the hallway melees got worse, Dozier started handing out suspensions. Flash a gang sign or shove another kid: Stay home for 10 days. Next, she sought to change the way students dealt with one another, giv-ing them a role in solving their own problems.
Under the umbrella of “restorative justice prac-tices,” she launched initia-
tives that included “peace circles,” in which students and staffers meet to discuss an incident or disagree-ment. Lee McCollum, who acknowledges he was a gang member when he ar-rived at Fenger in 2009, served multiple suspen-sions for fi ghting. When he sat down in a peace circle with another teen, he thought the process would surely end with the brawl he’d been itching for.
Instead, the two students talked and “found out we were fi ghting for no rea-son,” said McCollum, who once believed it was only a matter of time before he dropped out. He’s now cap-tain of the basketball team with plans to play next year in college.
Notorious Chicago school makes turnaroundBY DON BABWIN
Associated Press
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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., House Budget Committee chairman, leaves a Republican caucus on Capitol Hill on Jan. 1 in Washington.
CHICAGO — They live un-derwater, eat bloodworms, and are promoted on pet websites. But African dwarf frogs can carry salmonella.
An outbreak tied to the frogs sickened nearly 400 people, mostly children, from 2008 to 2011. Since these miniature amphibians can live up to 18 years, some linked to the outbreak may remain in U.S. home aquari-ums.
That’s according to gov-ernment researchers in a Monday report from the journal Pediatrics.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ad-vises washing hands after touching the frogs or their aquarium water .
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WASHINGTON — A fed-eral judge sounded skepti-cal Monday of former Sen. Larry Craig’s claim that he properly used $217,000 in campaign funds for his le-gal defense after his arrest in a 2007 airport bath-room sex sting.
Craig contends that the airport bathroom trip fell under his offi cial, duties as senator because he was traveling between Idaho and Washington for work, and therefore the legal fees could be paid for with campaign money. But at a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that such a broad reading of offi cial travel could be taken to extremes. What if a law-maker was arrested in an airport for robbing a kiosk or consorting with a pros-titute, she asked.
The Federal Election Commission sued Craig last year, arguing his legal problems had nothing to do with campaigning for
federal offi ce.The Idaho Republican
was arrested by an under-cover police offi cer con-ducting a sting operation against men cruising for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. An undercover offi cer said Craig tapped his feet and signaled un-der a stall divider that he wanted sex. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly con-duct and paid a fi ne. After his arrest later became public, he tried unsuccess-fully to reverse his convic-tion.
Jackson pointedly re-minded Craig’s lawyer, Andrew D. Herman, of his client’s guilty plea.
“That had no connec-tion to his duties, other than being in an airport,” she said.
Jackson pointed out a letter Craig’s lawyers wrote to the Senate Ethics Committee in 2007 de-scribing Craig’s arrest and conviction as “purely per-sonal conduct unrelated to the performance of of-fi cial Senate duties.”
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BY FREDERIC J. FROMMER
Associated Press
WARREN, Ohio — Inves-tigators on Monday tried to piece together what eight teenagers crammed into a stolen SUV were up to before the vehicle fl ipped over into a pond, killing six of them.
Authorities gave few de-tails on where the group of friends had been and why they were out around day-break Sunday, speeding down a two-lane road.
On Monday, the SUV’s owner met with police and fi led a stolen-car report; police said none of the teens was related to the owner or had asked to use the vehicle.
Whether all the teens knew the SUV was stolen wasn’t clear. Neither was their whereabouts before the crash.
While the father of one of the dead said the teenagers were coming home from a sleepover at a friend’s house, the mother of an-other boy killed said that her son and his best friend had lied about staying over at each other’s homes that evening. She said she
thinks they went to a party.“If only he had listened,”
said Lisa Williamson, mother of 14-year-old Brandon Murray. “I told him, ‘Don’t you go no-where.’ But they’re kids.”
The SUV hit a guardrail in an industrial section of town and landed upside down in about 5 feet of wa-ter, fi lling up within min-utes, State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt said. Five boys and a young woman, ages 14 to 19, were killed.
Two boys smashed a rear window, wriggled out of the wreckage and swam away, then ran a quarter-mile to a home to call 911, authorities said. Brian Henry, 18, and Asher Lew-is, 15, suffered only minor injuries.
Investigators said they believe excessive speed was a key factor in the crash, which took place in a 35 mph zone alongside a steel mill near what’s known in the neighborhood as “Dead Man’s Curve.”
Authorities did not say how fast the SUV was go-ing. They were also await-ing the results of drug and alcohol tests.
SUV in deadly Ohio crash was stolenBY JESSE WASHINGTON
Associated Press
NEW YORK — It wasn’t too long ago that America had a love affair with soda. Now, an old fl ame has the country’s heart.
As New York City grap-ples with the legality of a ban on the sale of large cups of soda and other sug-ary drinks at some busi-nesses, one thing is clear: soda’s run as the nation’s beverage of choice has fi z-zled.
In its place? A favorite for much of history: Plain old H2O. For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consump-tion peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest. Americans drank just 42 gallons a year of water at the time.
But over the years, as soda increasingly came un-der fi re for fueling the na-
tion’s rising obesity rates, water quietly rose to knock it off the top spot.
Americans now drink an average of 44 gallons of soda a year, a 17 percent drop from the peak in 1998. Over the same time, the av-erage amount of water peo-ple drink has increased 38 percent to about 58 gallons a year. Bottled water has led that growth, with con-sumption nearly doubling to 21 gallons a year.
Stephen Ngo, a civil de-fense attorney, quit drink-ing soda a year ago when he started running triath-lons, and wanted a healthi-er way to quench his thirst.
Ngo, 34, has a Brita fi l-ter for tap water and also keeps his pantry stocked with cases of bottled water.
“It might just be the pla-cebo effect or marketing, but it tastes crisper,” said Ngo, who lives in Miami.
The trend refl ects Ameri-cans’ ever-changing tastes; it wasn’t too far back in his-tory that tap water was the top drink.
But in the 1980s, carbon-ated soft drinks overtook tap as the most popular drink, with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo putting their marketing muscle behind their colas with celebrity endorsements from the likes of pop star Michael Jackson and comedian Bill Cosby.
Americans kept drinking more of the carbonated, sugary drink for about a
decade. Then, soda’s magic started to fade: Everyone from doctors to health ad-vocates to government of-fi cials were blaming soft drinks for making people fat. Consumption started declining after hitting a high in the late 1990s.
At the same time, people started turning to bottled water as an alternative. Its popularity was helped by the emergence of single-serve bottles that were easy to carry around.
Bottled water now America’s preferred beverageBY CANDICE CHOI
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Deanna Behner (left), mother of victim Kirklan Behner, is comforted by her daughter, Samantha, during a prayer service Monday in Warren, Ohio.
“It might just be the placebo effect or marketing, but it tastes crisper.”
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Leprechaun goop
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l for the lep-
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This week in history: A
lbert Einstein
paducahsun.com Obituaries/World The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, March 12, 2013 • 9A
Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished
to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
METROPOLIS, Ill. — J.D. Holley, age 86, of Metropolis, Ill., passed
a w a y at 7:28 p.m. on Sunday, M a r c h 1 0 , 2 0 1 3 , at the S o u t h -g a t e Nursing and Re-habilita-
tion Center in Metropolis, Ill.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednes-day, March 13, 2013, at the Aikins-Farmer Funer-al Home in Metropolis. Ron Gulley of Park Street Church of Christ will offi -ciate.
Burial will follow in the Metropolis Memo-rial Gardens with military rites.
J.D. was born on April 7, 1926, in Benton, Ky., to Delbert and Mad-eline (Johnson) Holley. J.D. was a member of the Park Street Church of Christ in Metropolis, a veteran of the United States Army serving dur-ing World War II, had previously served as an alderman for the City of Metropolis representing Ward 3, and was a retired milk distributor for Prai-rie Farms. J.D. loved to race stock cars, go carts, and most anything with a
motor on it, but his true passion was to ride his motorcycle.
J.D. is survived by a son, Jimmie Dale Holley and wife Anna; a daugh-ter, Debra Ann Lewis and husband Gary; his grand-children, James Holley and wife Lisa, William Holley and wife Julie, Lisa Werner and hus-band Kevin, Karen Jones and husband Chris, Bry-an McManus and wife Lindy, Jason McMa-nus and wife Christina, Justin McManus, Chad Lewis and wife Jessica, and Cale Lewis; and his great-grandchi ldren, Ashley and Kyle Holley, Jared Medley, Dalton Werner, Adam Jones and wife Emily, Myles, Josey, Cameron, Hunter, and Aubry McManus, Lydia, Hudson, and Holden Lewis; nephews, Bradley Joe Holley and Adrian Henley.
J.D. was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 55 years, Shir-ley (Ogden) Holley; two brothers; one infant sis-ter; and one nephew.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday evening, March 12, 2013, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home in Metropolis.
Pallbearers will be Jar-ed Medley, Carl Medley, Earl Hunerkoch, Tom Burnham, Billy Comer, and Bob Griffey.
J.D. Holley
R.J. (Bull Winkle) Pit-tman, age 79, of Paducah passed away at 10:20 p.m.
Sunday, M a r c h 10, 2013, at the Parkview Nursing and Re-h a b i l i -t a t i o n C e n -ter of Paducah.
M r . Pittman was a native of Missouri. He was a mem-ber of the Paducah Ma-sonic Lodge 127 F &AM and a member of High-land Baptist Church. He was also a U.S. Army vet-eran.
Surviving are his three sons, Dale Pittman and wife Sherry, Frank Pit-tman, and Ronnie Pitt-
man, all of Paducah, and one grandson, Jason Pit-tman of Paducah.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Linda Sue Pittman; one brother, and one sister. His par-ents were Roscoe Pittman and Clara Peterson Pitt-man.
A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at the Keeling Fam-ily Funeral Home with the Rev. Royce Dukes offi ciat-ing.
Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens.
Friends may visit with the family Tuesday, March 12, 2013, from 5:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. at the fu-neral home. Masonic rites will be held at 7 p.m. per-formed by Paducah Lodge #127.
R.J. (Bull Winkle) Pittman
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Betty Jo Bowman of Me-tropolis, Ill., passed away on Sunday, March 10, 2013, at her home.
Funeral services will be held at noon on Thursday, March 14, 2013, at Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home with Rev. Frank Forth-man offi ciating.
Burial will be in the Me-tropolis Memorial Gar-dens.
Betty was a member of the Metropolis First Bap-tist Church.
Betty is survived by two sons, Kent Bow-man and wife Becky of Metropolis, Ill., and his children, Josh Bowman and wife Jessica of Me-tropolis, and Jennifer Bowman and friend Josh Coble of Metropolis; and Eric Bowman of Spring, Texas, his children, Tyler Bowman and wife Amber of Trenton, Texas, Joseph Travis Bowman of Hous-ton, Texas; two sisters, Roma Smith and Sheila Carver and husband Don; and one brother, Bill Wil-
liams and wife Sherry, all of Metropolis; three great-grandchi ldren, Emma and Wyatt Bow-man of Metropolis and Landry Bowman of Tren-ton, Texas; two sisters-in-law, Peggy Swancey and husband of Dunwoody, Ga., and Barbara Lee Bowman of Metropolis, and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband of over 46 years, Joe Bow-man; her parents, J.P. (Pal) and Ola (Travel-stead) Williams, and one brother, Kenneth Wil-liams.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, March 14, 2013, from 10 a.m. until noon at the Aikins-Farm-er Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may take the form of do-nation to Metropolis First Baptist Church, 306 Mas-sac Creek Rd., Metropolis, IL 62960 or the Alzheim-er’s Association Southern IL Chapter, 402 E. Plaza Dr., Carterville, IL 62918.
Betty Jo Bowman
Holley
Pittman
ROSICLARE, Ill. — Bob-by Goins, 82, of Rosiclare died at 6:34 a.m. Monday, March 11, 2013, at Hardin County Hospital.
Arrangements were in-complete at Aly Funeral Home in Golconda.
Bobby Goins
WICKLIFFE — Betty June Tharp Warren, 71, of Wick-liffe died at 4:05 a.m. Mon-day, March 11, 2013, at Van Ayer Manor Nursing Center in Martin, Tenn.
She was a member of Full Gospel Temple.
She is survived by an aunt, Barbara Brunston of Wickliffe.
She was preceded in death by two sisters. Her parents were Thomas C. and Katie Ouida Gentry Tharp.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Wickliffe with the Rev. Dwain Warren offi ci-ating. Burial will follow in Bethlehem Cemetery.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at the funeral home.
Betty Warren
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ill. — Helen Hobbs, 85, of Eliza-bethtown died Thursday, March 7, 2013, at her home.
She is survived by four daughters, Judith McClus-key, Peggie Hobbs, Alice Kaylor and Robin Jenkins; one son, Stephen Hobbs; two sisters, Clara Gordan and Martha Williams; four brothers, Bill Clanton, Joe Clanton, Danny Clan-ton and David Clanton; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ray-mond T. Hobbs; one daugh-ter, Angela Beth Hobbs; one sister; and three broth-ers. Her parents were John Clanton and Gladys Dutton Clanton.
Memorial services will be at 7 p.m. Friday, March 15, 2013, at Cox Funeral Home with the Rev. Stan Pennell offi ciating.
Friends may call from 5-7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Helen Hobbs
MAYFIELD — Ronnie Kinnis, 53, of Mayfi eld died at 1:07 a.m. Sunday, March 10, 2013, at his home.
He was a member of Trace Creek Baptist Church and a fi nance man-ager.
He is survived by his wife, Karen J. Morrill Kinnis; two sons, James W. Kinnis and Chad M. Kinnis, both of Mayfi eld; one daughter, Kadie J. Kinnis of Mayfi eld; his mother, Betty Kinnis of Marion; one brother, Brian Kinnis of Marion; and one sister, Lisa Crider of Mari-on.
He was preceded in death by his father, James Elmer Kinnis.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at Trace Creek Bap-tist Church with the Revs. Ronnie Stinson Sr. and Keith Allred offi ciating. In-terment will follow in Trace Creek Cemetery.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. today, March 12, 2013, at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfi eld and from noon until the hour of service Wednesday at the church.
Ronnie KinnisFULTON — Edward R.
Holt, 81, of Fulton died Monday, March 11, 2013, at Haws Memorial Nursing & Rehabilitation Facility in Fulton.
Mr. Holt was a member of First United Methodist Church. He was a U.S. Army veteran, owner of the for-mer City Super Drug Store and a pharmacist. He was a member of South Fulton Lions Club and the Ameri-can Legion. He served on the First United Methodist Church board of directors, was a former den leader for the Cub Scouts, and former president of the Banana Festival.
He is survived by four daughters, Ann Holt New-ton of Bartlett, Tenn., El-len Reid I’Anson of Friend-swood, Texas, Denise Postell of Locust Grove, Ga., and Cathy Bennett of West Des Moines, Iowa; one son, C. Michael Coleman of Charlotte, N.C.; nine grand-children; and fi ve great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Caroletta Samu-els Holt; one daughter; and one son. His parents were Ernestine Reid and Simon R. Holt.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, March 15, 2013, at Greenlea Cemetery in Fulton. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Friday at Horn-beak Funeral Chapel.
Edward Holt
CADIZ — Irene Mary Al-len, 84, of Cadiz died Sun-day, March 10, 2013, at her home.
She was of the Baptist faith and was a retired waitress for the Cadiz Restaurant.
She is survived by three sons, Terry Allen and James Ray Allen, both of Cadiz, and Roger Allen of Hopkinsville; four daugh-ters, Wanda Sue Allen and Gloria Berkley, both of Ca-diz, Linda Morgan of Pem-broke, and Rita Barbee; one brother, Mervin Kent; 14 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one grandchild and one brother. Her parents were Frank and Virginia Kent.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at Goodwin Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Trigg Memory Acres in Ca-diz.
Friends may call after 4 p.m. today, March 12, 2013, at the funeral home.
Irene Allen
CAVE-IN-ROCK, Ill.— Bobby Dean Lewis, 80, of Nashville, Ill., formerly of Cave-in-Rock, died Satur-day, March 9, 2013, at his home.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara “Bobbie” Lewis of Nashville; two daughters, Debbie Jer-rels of O’Fallon and Terry Simmons of Lebanon; a son, Rodney Lewis of Marion; two sisters, Ger-aldine Hacker of Rosiclare and Mattie “Tommie” Col-lier of Cave-in-Rock; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers. His par-ents were Henry Milton and Della Mae Lewis.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at Potters Church in Cave-in-Rock with inter-ment in Cave Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at the church.
Memorial contributions may be made to SSM Hos-pice of Illinois at St. Mary’s Good Samaritan, 605 N. 12th St., Mount Vernon, IL 62864.
Gilbert Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-ments.
Bobby Lewis
CADIZ — Naomi Cor-neal, 60, of Cadiz died Sun-day, March 10, 2013, at her home.
She was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran serving in the Vietnam era, a for-mer teacher with the Trigg County School System and was of the Catholic faith.
She is survived by her husband, Marion “Chet” Corneal; her daughter, Jen-nifer Corneal of Mobile, Ala.; her father, Albert Prott of Rhinelander, Wis.; and two brothers, Phillip Prott of Chico, Calif., and Russ Prott of Herndon, Wis.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Anita Booher Prott.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16, 2013, at King’s Funeral Home with Rev. Kenny Rogers offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow later in the Kentucky Veterans Cem-etery. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, C/O Dan-nye Wagner, 218 Canton Lakeshore Drive, Cadiz, Kentucky 42211.
Naomi Corneal
Byron E. Edwards, 62, of Paducah died at 3:29 a.m. Monday, March 11, 2013, at Baptist Health Paducah.
Arrangements were in-complete at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.
Byron Edwards
Raygon Carrol Ramage, 74, of Paducah, formerly of Livingston County, died Saturday, March 9, 2013, at Lourdes hospital.
He was of the Methodist faith, a U.S. Air Force veter-an, and a retired supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service.
He is survived by his wife, Mika Overby Ramage; one daughter, Lori Ram-age Fleming of Benton; one son, Carrol Davant Ramage of Boaz; one stepson, Justin Pugh of Paducah; one sis-ter, Louise Ramage Brown of Paducah; one brother, Rubel Ramage of Paducah; fi ve grandchildren, and sev-eral nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by one brother, and one stepson, Josh Pugh. His parents were Ray and Veva Peck Ramage.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 2013, at Lone Oak Cha-pel of Milner & Orr Funeral Home with Rev. Don Pip-pin offi ciating. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Me-morial Gardens with mili-tary rites. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Raygon Ramage
NEW YORK — A char-acter actor who had mi-nor roles in “Tootsie,” ‘‘Taxi Driver” and dozens of other fi lms has died. Willy Switkes was 83.
His niece Ellen Switkes says he died of colon can-cer on Thursday at a hos-pice in Rockville, Md.
Willy Switkes was a na-tive of Washington, D.C., and a longtime New York City resident.
He appeared in Broad-way productions of “The
Cherry Orchard” and “A Thousand Clowns” and was an understudy to Buster Keaton during a 1960 tour of “Once Upon a Mattress.” His other fi lms include “The French Connection” and “Banan-as.”
His characters often were unidentifi ed, such as his “man at cab” credit for “Tootsie,” in which he’s thrown from a taxi after trying to cut in front of title character Dustin Hoffman.
‘Taxi Driver’ actor Switkes dies at 83
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Car-dinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to elect the next pope amid more upheaval and un-certainty than the Catho-lic Church has seen in decades: There’s no front-runner, no indication how long voting will last and no sense that a single man has what it takes to fi x the many problems.
On the eve of the vote, cardinals offered wildly different assessments of what they’re looking for in the next pontiff and how close they are to a deci-sion. It was evidence that Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation has continued to destabilize the church
leadership and that his fi nal appeal for unity may go unheeded, at least in the early rounds of voting.
Cardinals held their fi -nal closed-door debate Monday over whether the church needs more of a manager to clean up the Vatican’s bureaucratic mess or a pastor to in-spire the 1.2 billion faith-ful in times of crisis. The fact that not everyone got a chance to speak was a clear sign that there’s still unfi nished business on the eve of the conclave.
“This time around, there are many different candidates, so it’s normal that it’s going to take lon-ger than the last time,” Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz of Chile said.
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show Marceline’s average retail electric rates in 2011 were 14.4 cents per kilo-watt-hour, the highest in Missouri and more than 50 percent more than compet-ing Ameren Corp.’s Mis-souri rates.
For that reason, Marce-line continues to buy all of its electricity from Ame-ren and will do so through 2016. The city is reselling its share of Prairie State generation back to the grid at a substantial loss. City offi cials will not consider raising electric rates fur-ther to offset those losses, Lewis said.
Paducah Power switched to Prairie State from the Tennessee Valley Author-ity. The company is eyeing a rate increase and has a public hearing set Monday to discuss permanent bill changes stemming from a recent rate study.
Andrea Underwood, di-rector of community rela-tions and marketing for Paducah Power System, released a statement on behalf of the company on Monday regarding the re-ported issues in Marceline.
“While we’re not really familiar with their situa-tion, it appears Marceline purchased way more elec-tricity than it needed for a town of that size, hence their dire fi nancial situa-tion,” Underwood said.
The 1,600-megawatt Prairie State plant in southwestern Illinois was conceived more than a de-cade ago by Peabody En-ergy Corp. of St. Louis. It ended up costing about $4
billion to develop — twice the original estimate.
Peabody now holds a 5 percent stake in Prairie State, having sold the rest to a group of eight public power agencies.
But Peabody maintains the project is the most eco-nomical of any coal-fueled plant in the nation and will be “extremely competitive” with other fuels over its lifetime.
Advocates also say Prai-rie State will eventually prove benefi cial, and Mar-celine’s energy consultant, Robert Harbour, agrees. Harbour, of Springfi eld, Ill., was chief executive of the electric cooperative Prairie Power Inc. when it bought a stake in the plant. He said the economics will look more favorable as old-er coal plants are retired, natural gas prices move up and electricity demand in-creases.
“Prairie State will be a good deal,” he said. “In my opinion, it’s going to be two
or three years down the road.”
Marceline is among doz-ens of mostly small cities and rural communities in eight states that bought into power projects at a time when energy markets and the economy looked far different than today. Hannibal, Mo., has like-wise sustained losses. The Chicago exurb of Batavia, Ill., even tried to sell most of its share of Prairie State output, the St. Louis news-paper reported.
Marceline has had big losses in part because it made a big commitment to the plant. It bought four megawatts from Prai-rie State power per year, enough generating capacity to run the city most of the year. By contrast, the town of Centralia, Mo., nearly twice the size of Marceline, locked into only two mega-watts.
Federal securities regu-lators are taking a look. Peabody said in an annual
report last month that it re-ceived a Securities and Ex-change Commission sub-poena in January seeking information about Prairie State.
The company said it would cooperate with the SEC, but didn’t provide further details.
It is also unclear whether any other parties involved
with the project received SEC subpoenas.
Paducah Sun staff writ-
er Mallory Panuska con-tributed to this report.
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SEOUL, South Korea — A state-run newspaper in North Korea said Monday the communist country had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, following days of in-creased tensions over its latest nuclear test.
A U.N. spokesman said later in the day, however, that North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the ar-mistice.
North Korea also fol-lowed through on another promise: It shut down a Red Cross hotline that the
North and South Korea used for general commu-nication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families’ reunions.
Enraged over the South’s current joint military drills with the United States and last week’s U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang for its Feb. 12 nuclear test, North Korea has piled threat on top of threat, in-cluding a vow to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S.
Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert. Tensions on the divided peninsula have reached their highest level since North Korea rained
artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.
The North Korean gov-ernment made no formal announcement on its re-peated threats to scrap the 60-year-old armistice, but the country’s main news-paper, Rodong Sinmun, reported that the armi-stice was nullifi ed Monday as Pyongyang had said it would.
The North has threat-ened to nullify the armi-stice several times before, and in 1996 it sent hun-dreds of armed troops into a border village. The troops later withdrew.
Despite the North Kore-an report, U.N. spokesman
Martin Nesirky said the ar-mistice is still valid and still in force because the armi-stice agreement had been adopted by the U.N. Gen-eral Assembly and neither North Korea nor South Korea could dissolve it uni-laterally.
“The terms of the armi-stice agreement do not al-low either side unilaterally to free themselves from it,” said Nesirky, the spokes-man for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Ban urged North Ko-rea “to continue to respect the terms of the armistice agreement as it was ap-proved by the General As-sembly,” Nesirky said.
Enraged North Korea says it cancels 1953 armisticeBY FOSTER KLUG AND
HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press
Associated Press
South Korean Marines patrol Tuesday on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. North Korean state media said Monday that Pyongyang had carried through with a threat to cancel the 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War.
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Athens 66 49 s 67 55 cBeijing 50 30 c 48 27 pcBerlin 36 15 pc 34 18 sBuenos Aires 71 56 pc 68 52 pcCairo 90 70 pc 89 71 sHong Kong 77 68 pc 79 66 pcJerusalem 81 61 pc 81 61 sLondon 39 30 pc 44 29 pcManila 93 77 pc 91 76 sMexico City 86 50 pc 75 47 pcMoscow 20 12 pc 22 15 snParis 39 26 sn 40 28 sRome 57 45 r 57 45 rSeoul 54 39 sh 46 30 rSydney 82 71 s 84 70 sTokyo 64 50 s 68 45 pcWarsaw 36 18 c 27 20 snZurich 46 35 sh 44 25 sn
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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50/29Mostly sunny,
breezy and warmer
High 55°
Mostly clear and cold
Low 29°
Mostly sunny
High47°
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Partly sunny
High50°
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Pleasant and warmer
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Sunrise today ................................. 7:10 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 6:59 p.m.Moonrise today ............................... 7:19 a.m.Moonset today ................................ 8:13 p.m.
24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.40”Month to date ......................................... 0.66”Normal month to date ............................. 1.30”Year to date .......................................... 12.41”Last year to date ...................................... 7.72”Normal year to date ................................ 8.89”
High/low .............................................. 52°/38°Normal high/low .................................. 57°/36°Record high .................................. 79° in 2006Record low .................................... 16° in 1998
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Kentucky: Breezy today with clouds and sun. Mostly sunny and warmer in the west; cooler in the north and east.
Illinois: Windy today with some sun. A couple of fl urries in the north; a rain or snow shower in east-ern parts.
Indiana: Windy today with a bit of snow and rain, but dry in the south.
Missouri: Windy and warmer today with sun and some clouds. Mainly clear tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
Arkansas: Mostly sunny and warmer today. Clear and chilly tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Tennessee: Mostly sunny and warmer in the west today; sunny to partly cloudy in central parts.
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Albuquerque 61 38 s 67 40 sAtlanta 61 37 s 58 32 sBaltimore 60 36 r 53 29 pcBillings 44 37 c 66 42 sBoise 62 43 pc 67 48 pcBoston 53 41 r 51 33 pcCharleston, SC 70 45 r 65 34 sCharleston, WV 50 32 pc 41 24 sfChicago 38 25 sf 35 21 pcCleveland 44 27 pc 34 21 sfDenver 50 29 pc 64 37 sDes Moines 36 18 pc 35 23 pcDetroit 41 26 sf 36 21 sfEl Paso 71 44 s 73 47 sFairbanks 13 -16 s 10 -20 sHonolulu 80 64 sh 78 63 shHouston 70 44 s 72 43 sIndianapolis 44 28 pc 39 23 pcJacksonville 72 42 sh 67 35 s
Las Vegas 75 56 s 78 55 sLos Angeles 79 54 s 83 58 sMiami 82 65 pc 78 56 pcMilwaukee 35 24 sf 33 20 pcMinneapolis 30 16 sf 31 19 pcNew Orleans 64 47 s 65 44 sNew York City 55 39 r 50 32 pcOklahoma City 60 37 s 65 40 sOmaha 38 19 pc 39 26 pcOrlando 77 52 t 73 44 sPhiladelphia 57 37 r 52 31 pcPhoenix 82 59 s 88 63 sPittsburgh 44 30 c 36 21 sfSalt Lake City 56 38 pc 62 41 pcSan Diego 72 53 s 75 56 sSan Francisco 66 47 s 69 47 pcSeattle 56 49 r 58 49 rTucson 80 52 s 83 57 sWashington, DC 60 38 r 53 31 pc
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Belleville, IL 48 29 pc 45 24 sBowling Gn., KY 55 34 s 49 25 sBristol, TN 54 33 s 44 22 sfC. Girardeau, MO 53 29 s 48 27 sCarbondale, IL 53 29 s 46 25 sCharleston, WV 50 32 pc 41 24 sfChattanooga, TN 57 34 s 53 29 sClarksville, TN 56 32 s 48 25 sColumbia, MO 46 26 pc 43 26 pcEvansville, IN 50 29 s 45 23 sFt. Smith, AR 60 35 s 61 36 sHopkinsville, KY 54 32 s 48 25 sIndianapolis, IN 44 28 pc 39 23 pcJackson, KY 50 31 pc 43 22 pcJackson, TN 57 30 s 50 26 sJoplin, MO 52 30 s 52 34 pcKansas City, MO 46 26 pc 46 30 pcKnoxville, TN 55 33 s 49 26 pcLexington, KY 48 29 pc 42 21 pcLittle Rock, AR 60 37 s 58 34 sLondon, KY 51 30 pc 44 21 pcLouisville, KY 50 31 pc 47 27 sMemphis, TN 59 39 s 53 32 sNashville, TN 56 32 s 49 27 sPeoria, IL 40 26 pc 38 22 pcSt. Louis, MO 48 30 pc 44 25 sSpringfi eld, IL 44 27 pc 40 20 sSpringfi eld, MO 52 27 s 50 29 pcTerre Haute, IN 44 29 pc 40 22 s
National Summary: Rain and thunderstorms will stretch along much of the Atlantic coast today, marking the end of recent warmth. Cold air, gusty winds and snow showers are in store for the Midwest. Much of the Plains will be dry. Much of the West has building warmth and sunshine in store. Clouds and rain will affect part of Washington state and Idaho.
Cairo 40 28.26 +0.99
Paducah 39 24.03 +0.94Owensboro 38 27.70 +3.62Smithland Dam 40 23.83 +1.16
Lake Barkley 354 355.00 -0.15Kentucky Lake 354 354.57 -0.16
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.