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Taylor trial in full swing
Testimony includes never-publicized details of 21-year-old’s death
BY MALLORY PANUSKA
[email protected]
After the police brought
her daughter, Jasmine Taylor, home in a disheveled
and crazy state on Dec. 4,
2010, Jamie Taylor wanted
payback.
That is why she told 16 jurors on Monday that she and
her husband, Mark Taylor,
participated in torturing and
killing 21-year-old CaSondra
Evrard.
The jurors, 12 women and
four men, were seated Monday and began hearing the
first witness testimonies in
Mark Taylor’s murder and
kidnapping trial. He and
seven other defendants, including Jamie and Jasmine
Taylor, were charged in connection with Evrard’s death.
He faces the death penalty
as a maximum sentencing
option.
Assistant Commonwealth
Attorney Raymond McGee
said during his opening
statement that witnesses
will testify that the Taylor
family lured Evrard to their
trailer at 7400 Ogden Landing Road on the premise
that they were throwing a
cake and ice cream party for
Jasmine Taylor. Although
the girls had lost touch over
the years, McGee said they
still shared a bond as former
high school friends.
Jamie Taylor, who opened
up for the first time about the
incident after taking a plea
Please see TRIAL | 14A
Man faces
more charges
in homicide
BY CORIANNE EGAN
[email protected]
A Calvert City man pleaded not guilty to murder in
Marshall District Court on Monday, only hours after
additional charges were added to his offense list.
Billy Don Greer, 55, was arrested Friday after Marshall County detectives say he shot Darryl Dominigue,
32. Sheriff Kevin Byars said Dominigue and his
wife were visiting Greer’s Griggstown Road home
when Greer and Dominigue got into an argument.
Dominigue’s wife said she told her
husband to leave and was waiting
in the car when he came out of the
house. Greer shot him as he was
walking away, she told detectives.
Deputies searched Greer’s
home after he was arrested, and
Sheriff Kevin Byars said a light
bulb containing methamphetamine was found. Greer was additionally charged with possession of a controlled substance Greer
and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Byars said Dominigue’s wife told investigators
that Greer had shot at her husband twice, but originally it seemed as if only one of the shots had hit
Dominigue. A more detailed autopsy showed that
both shots connected — one in the lower thigh and
another in the upper torso — but only the gunshot
to the upper torso was fatal.
Byars said blood and urine samples were taken
when Greer was arrested. They have been sent to
the state’s crime lab for toxicology tests to determine if Greer was under the influence of methamphetamine or any other drug when the shooting occurred. Detectives originally said that alcohol may
have been a factor in the shooting.
Greer has a preliminary hearing set for Jan. 16.
MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun
Jurors watch as Ja mie Taylor cries while
delivering testimony
during the murder and
kidnapping trial of her
husband, Mark Taylor,
Monday in McCracken
Circuit Cour t, above.
Carla Cruse, CaSon dra Evrard’s mother,
testif ies during the
trial, right. Jamie Taylor pleaded guilty to
m u r d e r, k i d n a p p i n g
and tampering with evidence stemming from
the December 2010
death of 21-year-old CaSondra Evrard.
Contact Corianne Egan, a Sun staff writer, at
270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
Paducah man arrested following Sunday shooting
BY CORIANNE EGAN
[email protected]
A man was arrested Sunday night
after Paducah police say he shot someone at a home on Alben Barkley Drive.
Donald R. Patterson, 64, of
Paducah, was taken to McCracken
County Jail on Sunday and charged
with first-degree assault after Allen C.
Atkins, 19, also of Paducah, was shot.
Patterson was at Atkins’ Alben Barkley Drive home to pick up his grand-
son, who had gotten into an argument
with Atkins concerning a girlfriend,
police said.
Detective Sgt. Brian Laird said the
incident began with a domestic dispute on Saturday between Patter-
son’s grandson, Joseph Mullins, 20,
and Mullin’s girlfriend. Mullins went
to Atkins’ home the following day to
confront him again, and called PatPlease see SHOOTING | 3A
Patterson
Couple plans to restore former plant
BY ADAM SHULL
[email protected]
Economic life, and a familiar
neon sign, may soon return to the
former Coca-Cola bottling plant.
Meagan Musselman said she
and husband Edward Musselman
bought the vacant Paducah landmark at 3141 Broadway in a deal
that closed Friday.
“We want to revitalize the space
as quickly as possible,” Meagan
Mussleman said Monday. “We
have lots of design options out
there. We’re going to first wait
to see who wants to be on board
with this project before we finalize the use of space.”
Musselman said their immediate plans include replacing the
building’s windows and its roof,
as well as adding a neon sign to
the building’s front entrance.
A neon sign on the front of the
building had gone missing in
2008.
The couple has owned Musselman Properties LLC, a Paducah
real estate and property management firm, since 2003, but both
have full-time careers in other
fields.
Edward Musselman is a trainer
for Honeywell who was recently
moved to the company’s Virginia
plant.
Meagan Musselman is a former
seventh-grade science teacher
who teaches graduate courses at
Murray State University’s College
of Education.
She declined to provide the sale
price, as did real-estate agent Alberta Davis, who represented the
seller in the deal, Mississippibased Secured Loans Inc.
Secured Loans, which held
a mortgage on the plant when
Florida businessman Arvid Orbeck bought it in 2005, filed a
$1.17 million foreclosure lawsuit
in early 2008. The property had
been appraised for $800,000,
and Secured Loans bought it back
for $533,334 at public auction in
November 2008. In 2009, the
property listed for $1.1 million.
Musselman said the couple’s
plans are to add outdoor parking to the back of the property
after they tear down warehouse
space added to the plant during
the 1960s. She said they will work
with Chris Black of Ray Black &
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Son Inc. in Paducah on designs The former Coca-Cola bottling plant, which Edward and Meagan
and renovation work. The Mus- Musselman bought Friday, stands at 3141 Broadway in 2012. A
selmans were interested in pur- key land purchase in September led to the demolition of the building seen in the lower left. That purchase made way for the MusselPlease see COCA-COLA PLANT | 3A man’s deal.
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Today
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Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4
p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, 4428993. Learn to detect potential Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Report
errors or suspected fraud to SMP.
Paducah Lions Club, lunch, noon,
Walker Hall, 443-3122.
Mayfield Lions Club, noon, Rita’s
Cafe, 101 N. Seventh St., Mayfield.
Paducah Singles Connection, 7
p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, Eighth
and Broadway. 556-0625 or 4430595.
National Railroad Historical Society, Paducah Chapter, 7 p.m., second
floor meeting room, McCracken County Public Library. 442-4032.
Zonta Club of Paducah, 6 p.m.
at The Pasta House Co., 451 Jordan Drive. Email President Lisa
Hoppmann, [email protected], or
call 270-366-6183
Woodmen of the World, Lodge 2,
6:30 p.m., Knights of Columbus Hall,
3028 Jefferson St. 443-8263.
American Legion Chief Paduke
Post 31, Legionnaire and auxiliary
meeting, 7 p.m., 425 Legion Drive.
442-2525.
Wednesday
Lone Oak Kiwanis, 7 a.m., Lone
Oak Little Castle. 217-0402.
Papermill Retirees, Spouses, and
Friends, 8:30 a.m., The Parlor in
Lone Oak. 554-3492.
Disabled American Veterans, Miles
Meredith Chapter 7 of Paducah,
weekly Commander Coffee Call, 9
a.m. to noon. Service officer available.
McCracken County Genealogical
and Historical Society, 1:30 p.m.,
McCracken County Library. 5540878.
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Agenda
The Agenda is a listing of government meetings today.
■ Bardwell City Council — 5 p.m.,
City Hall.
■ Barlow City Council — 5:30 p.m.,
City Hall.
■ Cadiz City Council — 6 p.m., City
Hall.
■ Caldwell Fiscal Court — 8 a.m.,
courthouse.
■ Carlisle Fiscal Court — 9:30 a.m.,
courthouse.
■ Grand Rivers City Council — 5:30
p.m., City Hall.
■ La Center City Commission —
5:30 p.m., City Hall.
■ Paducah City Commission — 5:30
p.m., City Hall commission chambers.
■ Wickliffe City Council — 9 a.m.,
City Hall.
Correction
The telephone number to make
reservations for Thursday’s
Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce’s Power in Partnership breakfast is 270-443-1746. The number
was incorrect in Thursday’s paper.
Three of the Robertson clan
of “Duck Dynasty” fame will
present “Faith, Family and
Football” on Saturday, May
11, inside the Calloway County
High School gym. Tickets go on
sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan.
26 at the high school.
Willie Robertson; his father,
Phil Robertson; and Uncle Si
Robertson will greet fans and
discuss their religious and family values that are featured on
the family’s show, “Duck Dynasty,” which finished its second season on A&E in December.
The reality show follows the
exploits of the bearded and often camouflaged Robertsons
as they hunt, co-exist within a
large tight-knit family and run
a multi-million dollar Duck
Commander business that produces duck calls out of Louisiana.
The show’s second season finale aired Dec. 5 and became
A&E’s most-watched telecast
by drawing 6.5 million viewers.
A network release said new episodes will run early this year.
Doors open at 4 p.m. for the
May 11 event, with the meet-
Associated Press
Willie Robertson (from left), Phil Robertson and Si Robertson, stars of the A&E reality show
“Duck Dynasty,” are set to meet fans and speak at Calloway County High School on May 11. For
information about tickets, email Calloway County head football coach Brad Lawson at [email protected]
and-greet session beginning at
5 p.m. and the presentation at
6:30 p.m. General admission
tickets cost $60 with meetand-greet tickets costing $125.
About 2,400 tickets will be
available — 2,200 general admission, 200 meet and greet.
After the initial ticket sale
on Jan. 26, tickets can be purchased at the school during
regular hours from Chip Gray,
Graves County murder suspect fighting extradition
BY CORIANNE EGAN
[email protected]
A man facing murder charges
in Graves County is fighting his
transfer to Kentucky.
Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon said Monday
that Robert McConahie, 54,
refused extradition from Tennessee on Monday in Davidson County Criminal Court.
McConahie — who is facing a
charge of murder after his exwife, Wendy Cook, was found
murdered on New Year’s Day in
Wingo — is currently in jail in
Davidson County as a fugitive
of justice.
McConahie will face another
case review
in early February. Redmon said the
department
will start filling out paperwork to
receive a governor’s warrant, which
McConahie
will force McConahie to be
transferred to Graves County.
That process could take anywhere from 30 to 60 days, Redmon said.
McConahie was arrested
Thursday, only two days after
Cook’s body was found. Cook
had been baby-sitting two of
her grandchildren on New
Year’s Eve at her Baltimore
Church Road home. When
Cook’s daughter came to pick
her children up at about 11
a.m., she found Cook dead on
the floor. Redmon said that a
coroner estimated she had died
around 9 p.m., leaving the children in the house with her for
over 14 hours.
A day later, a full autopsy
showed Cook had died after being strangled.
Evidence, that including
defensive wounds on McConahie’s body and witness
Contact Corianne Egan, a Sun
staff writer, at 270-575-8652
or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.
Inspectors examine bridge after reported towboat strike
RAMP tabled again at planning commission
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesman Keith Todd said
engineers are conducting a detailed inspection of the U.S.
60-Tennessee River Bridge at Ledbetter, responding to a report
that a tow boat struck the bridge around 1:40 p.m. Monday.
According to members of a construction crew working on the
new Ledbetter Bridge, the Gladys Ford, a towboat hauling several
barges upstream, hit one of the piers on the existing bridge. Several KYTC engineers were working near the bridge when the incident was reported, allowing inspectors to be on-site within about
five minutes to start checking the bridge for possible damage.
After an initial check of the existing bridge, it was determined
that traffic could continue to cross while inspectors took a more
detailed look. Traffic was disrupted for only 15 minutes, Todd
said, and inspectors gave the bridge an all-clear two hours later.
The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing its investigation on the
incident.
The Paducah Planning Commission tabled its discussion on
the Renaissance Area Master Plan once more Monday evening.
The RAMP, which has been at the planning commission level
for nearly eight months, was the topic of discussion at the
commission’s 70-minute Dec. 17 meeting, and commissioners
originally slated it for continued discussion and a possible vote
at Monday’s bi-monthly meeting. Paducah Riverfront Development Authority Director Steve Doolittle said that PRDA has set a
meeting with Paducah Renaissance Alliance and other key players in the plan’s implementation to discuss changes that will
please all involved.
Doolittle said that PRA and PRDA members will meet in the
coming weeks — a date has not been set — to discuss four key
parts of the plan: the location of the binding, references to historic buildings, references to the town square, and options for
the city-owned parking lot on Second and Broadway streets.
— Staff report
— Staff report
Graves woman appears on manslaughter charge
Exhibition shows more work for 20th anniversary
A Mayfield woman appeared in court to face a first-degree
manslaughter charge in Graves District Court
on Monday.
Lisa Evans was arrested Thursday after a
two-month investigation into the drug overdose
death of Kevin W. Prince. Prince died Nov. 18
with what Mayfield police called a fatal amount
of morphine in his system. Evans admitted
providing the pills to Prince on more than one
occasion, police said.
She also faces two counts of trafficking prescription pills that are related to the incident.
She will have a preliminary hearing on Jan. 16.
Evans
The Yeiser Art Center will host the 20th annual Teen Spirit Exhibition from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20.
The Teen Spirit exhibition will be bigger than ever. Juror Paul
Aho has selected 174 works from 147 artists representing 14
schools. Nearly 500 pieces of work were entered for judging.
The Yeiser will be displaying the art in the salon style:
stacked, sometimes two or three pieces high, on the wall.
“The additional goal of showcasing a far greater number of
works has been met by hanging the works salon style, rewarding the efforts of more young artists and encouraging their
continued creativity,” Aho said. “Yet despite the increase in the
number of works, the works in the show are uniformly very good
and on many occasions quite exceptional.”
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statements putting him in the
Wingo area on New Year’s Eve,
brought a three-detective investigative unit to Nashville,
Tenn., where they questioned
McConahie. Redmon said he
was uncooperative with detectives questioning him, and was
arrested.
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Davidson County Jail until
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Brothers enter plea Armed deputies on duty in schools
in Mayfield stabbing
BY BRUCE SCHREINER
Associated Press
[email protected]
Two brothers face assault charges stemming
from a Sunday stabbing in
Mayfield,
while
a
man rem a i n s
hospitalized
in
critical
condition.
Derek
C u m mings,
35,
and D. Cummings
BeMosely
Cummings, 44, were in
Graves District Court on
Monday on first-degree assault and tampering with
physical evidence charges.
They will return for a preliminary hearing on Jan. 16.
The stabbing occurred
about 8:40 a.m. Sunday at
the Garden Apartments,
606 Oak Cove, according to
Detective Lt. Brent Farmer.
Officers arrived to find Derek Shaffer, 27, of Mayfield,
stabbed multiple times
around
his torso,
b a c k ,
arms and
legs. Shaffer
was
flown to
Vanderbilt University
B. Cummings
Medical
Center
in Nashville, Tenn., for
life-threatening
injuries,
Farmer said. He is alive, the
detective said, but is in the
hospital’s trauma unit.
Police investigators questioned the brothers, who
live in the Oak Cove apartment below Shaffer’s. Detective David Clark said
investigators found a knife
they believe was used in the
stabbing inside the Cummingses’ apartment. They
also found bloody clothes
and wash clothes, he said.
BeMosely
Cummings
also had been hurt in an altercation. The Cummingses
were taken to Graves County Detention Center.
SHOOTING
CONTINUED FROM 1A
terson during the verbal altercation to come pick him
up, police said. When Patterson arrived, he got out of
the car and began arguing
with the group, then pulled
out a .22 revolver and shot
Atkins, Laird said.
Laird said witnesses told
him Atkins was apparently
arguing with Mullins before
the shot. There was some
distance between the two
and there was no physical
altercation, Laird said, but
it is unclear what prompted
the use of a gun.
Patterson left the scene
after the shooting, but officers later caught up to
him during a traffic stop
only blocks away. Inside of
the car, officers found the
revolver. He was called in
for questioning and Laird
said Patterson admitted to
shooting Atkins.
Atkins is in an Evansville,
Ind., hospital, reportedly in
good condition. Patterson
was taken to McCracken
County Regional Jail and
charged with first-degree
assault. He pleaded not
guilty to all charges in district court Monday. He will
have a preliminary hearing
on Jan. 15.
Contact Corianne Egan, a
Sun staff writer, at 270575-8652 or follow @
CoriEgan on Twitter.
CONTINUED FROM 1A
chasing the former plant
site years ago, and Meagan
Musselman said it was a recent neighboring property
purchase that opened the
door to last week’s deal.
Musselman said Secured
Loans had owned the plant
site as well as a tract of land
across the street along Jefferson and 32nd streets,
which she said the company had not been interested in selling separately.
That changed in September
when
Owensboro-based
Independence Bank purchased the 3000 block of
Broadway in two tracts:
the Secured Loans tract for
$500,000 and one along
Broadway and LaBelle Avenue from Alberta Davis for
$535,000.
Musselman said she
is interested in hearing
from potential investors
or property managers who
may want to own or lease
space inside the former
plant.
“We have our own ideas
as well as those of the architect and design team,”
Mussleman said. “We’re
certainly welcoming other
ideas. We don’t want to
limit the potential of the
property.”
Contact Adam Shull, Sun
business editor, at 270575-8653 or follow @adamshull on Twitter.
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Teen Spirit was created
in 1993 as a part of an effort to support the area’s
art programs and to recognize the talented youth of
the region.
Aho is the dean of the
Paducah School of Art at
West Kentucky Community
& Technical College. He
previously taught photography at WKCTC and was
chief program officer at
the Palm Beach Photographic Centre.
Participating schools include Ballard County High
School, Calloway County
High School, Cape Central
High School, Community
Christian Academy, Dogwood Valley Academy and
other homeschools, Heath
High School, Johnston
City High School, Livingston Central High School,
Lone Oak High School,
Marion High School, Mas-
BY ROGER ALFORD
FRANKFORT — From reforming the state’s tax code
to shoring up the pension
plan for government retirees, lawmakers will face
some hefty issues after they
convene a legislative session on Tuesday.
The load could grow
even bigger if lawmakers
tack on the always-divisive
issue of legislative redistricting, which they didn’t
get finished last year.
“It will be tough, but we
can get it all done if we get
in there and roll our sleeves
up,” said state Rep. Steven
Rudy, R-Paducah. “I hope
we can work together and
find common ground. All
of the issues that are out
there, we all know we have
to address them.”
For the past year, lawmakers have been focused
on the state’s pension system, trying to find a way
to deal with a $33 billion
unfunded liability. A legislative task force that spent
months studying the issue
recommended pumping
in more money without
saying where the money
would come from.
That task force rejected
a proposal by the Pew Center on the States to issue
bonds to cover the cost. But
its members suggested two
options that could help:
repealing
cost-of-living
increases for retirees and
moving state employees to
a hybrid plan similar to a
401(k) that blends defined
benefits with defined contributions.
Gov. Steve Beshear said
he’s taking a closer look at
the proposed hybrid plan.
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It also diversified the
range of works submitted,
in that much of what gets
Mallard Fillmore
considered reflects class
work assigned by a now
broader range of instructors,” said Aho. The Yeiser Art Center,
200 Broadway, is open
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday.
Admission is free and
open to the public. The
Yeiser Art Center is wheelchair accessible.
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only ones unlocked during
the school day. Another
parent, Zac Horch, said
he’d like to see a law enforcement officer posted at
the school throughout the
day.
“Taxpayers spend a lot of
money on a lot of different
things,” he said. “I don’t
see why we couldn’t afford
to do that. That’s something I’d rather spend my
tax money on.”
School safety expert Jon
Akers said having a law enforcement officer at school
“is a preferred practice,” if
a community can afford it.
In the past school year,
241 resource officers were
assigned at Kentucky
public schools, said Akers, executive director of
the Kentucky Center for
School Safety. Those officers are sworn law enforcement officers with additional training to work in
school settings.
“Anytime we can have a
show of law enforcement
at a school to serve as a
deterrent, it’s certainly
preferred and we certainly
endorse that,” he said in a
phone interview.
However, his group
frowns on arming security
guards or even principals
in schools.
The National Rifle Association’s response to the
Connecticut school massacre envisions, in part,
having trained, armed volunteers in every school in
America.
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As Hull stood at the side
of a classroom, kindergarten teacher Lauren Doyle
told her class that the officers are their friends.
“They’re just making
sure we’re all safe,” she
said.
Parents and teachers
praised the sheriff for his
commitment to school
safety.
“That’s my only baby,”
Amy Combs said after
helping her son, a kindergartener, take off his jacket
in the hallway before he
headed to class.
Combs said she’d favor
installing metal detectors
at the front doors near the
office at Straub Elementary. Those doors are the
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they made security rounds
that are becoming routine
in this northeastern Kentucky community.
Mason County Sheriff Patrick Boggs has assigned his 11 full-time deputies to spend four hours
each week at local public
and private schools in the
county 140 miles northeast of Louisville. The initiative follows last month’s
massacre at a Connecticut
elementary school that
claimed the lives of 20
children and six school
staff.
“I think it’ll help just for
a sense of security,” Boggs
said. “It’s sad for the reasoning behind it. What
happened in Connecticut
could happen anywhere.”
Boggs and Deputy Ryan
Hull hugged and highfived pupils at Straub Elementary in Maysville as
school resumed following
the holiday break. They
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most frequent being what
was all that stuff on their
duty belts. And they occasionally told kids their
shoes were untied.
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ONE MIND
Al Jazeera, Gore share
more than first name
When Al Gore put Current TV
on the market, conservative radio
commentator Glenn Beck was
among those who inquired about
buying it.
Gore rejected the inquiry
within 15 minutes. News
accounts quote a person close to
the negotiations explaining why:
“The legacy of who the network
goes to is important to us, and
we are sensitive to networks not
aligned with our point of view.”
So who does share Current’s
“point of view”? Al Jazeera, the
pan-Arab satellite television
network sometimes referred to
as the “Terror Network” because
of the anti-American slant of its
news coverage.
Beck said Al Jazeera was not
the highest bidder but the one
that most aligned with Gore’s
thinking. Don’t trust Beck’s
account? Here’s what Gore
himself said: “When considering
the several suitors who were
interested in acquiring Current,
it became clear to us that Al
Jazeera was founded with the
same goals we had ... to give voice
to those whose voices are not
typically heard; to speak truth to
power.”
ruth? A Middle East
Quarterly article titled “The
Two Faces of Al Jazeera”
said the network continues to
“inflame Arab resentments in its
promotion of anti-Americanism,
Sunni sectarianism and, in recent
years, Islamism.” Al Jazeera’s
owner is the emir of Qatar, who
donated $400 million to Hamas
and supports Hezbollah, both
terror organizations.
Al Jazeera is also the network
that broadcast Osama bin Laden’s
T
propaganda videos threatening
the U.S.
A spokesman for the Middle
East Research Institute said Al
Jazeera’s English broadcast is
a “soft version” and “less antiAmerican than in the past,” and
the network will “try to prove
that they are a professional
channel that’s objective.” How
comforting.
urrent TV is the voice
of the blame-Americafirst left. But selling to
Al Jazeera was too much even
for some of Current’s most
prominent faces. Immediately
after the sale became public,
former New York Gov. Elliot
Spitzer, host of Viewpoint,
announced he was leaving the
network. So did former Michigan
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, host of
The War Room.
In addition, Time-Warner
dropped Current from its cable
lineup.
Gore, whose many mansions
and conspicuous energy
consumption belies his
commitment to reducing carbon
emissions, once again proved his
hypocrisy. Qatar is the world’s
wealthiest nation measured on
a per capita basis, thanks to
abundant gas and oil reserves.
The ruler of Qatar owns Al
Jazeera. That means Current TV
was paid for with oil money.
Qatar is also an absolute
monarchy, a dictatorship where
citizens don’t dare “speak the
truth to power.”
Gore’s share of the sale was
$100 million, doubling his net
worth. Now he’ll be able to buy
a bigger jet to fly to the next
climate change summit.
C
Middle class at heart of budget battle
WASHINGTON — Defeat is
usually an orphan. This one
had many proud fathers.
In the “fiscal cliff” agreement, President Barack
Obama secured his vanishingly narrow electoral
mandate to raise tax rates
on a sliver of the wealthiest.
House Speaker John Boehner
staved off a revolt within his
caucus, secured passage of
a version of his own “Plan
B,” and lived to fight another
day. The Senate earned its
reputation as the slightly less
dysfunctional portion of the
federal government. Vice
President Joe Biden stepped
up to negotiating duties that
the president apparently
finds distasteful.
The left got the largest tax
increase in a generation —
not that there is much competition. Supply-siders, at the
moment of greatest liberal
leverage, got the permanent
codification of about fourfifths of George W. Bush’s tax
cuts.
The only big political losers
were tea party conservatives
who had thought that 2010
was the beginning of the end
of Obamaism. Even among
the truest of believers, the
reality now sinks in that a
House majority does not
govern the country.
There remains only one
problem: The outcome of
the fiscal cliff negotiations is
almost entirely disconnected
from the actual needs of the
country. It is probably a drag
on short-term economic
growth. It is nearly irrelevant
to the long-term fiscal challenge. We have witnessed the
working of a creaky, complex machine — greased and
repaired again and again on
the verge of breakdown — but
irrelevant to the purposes
for which it was designed.
The machine avoided selfdestruction. Nothing more.
of $50,000). But the Alternative Minimum Tax will
be permanently patched to
help the middle class. It is a
summary of public priorities
— and, not coincidentally, a
good description of where the
most votes can be found.
The problem is that deMichael Gerson mographic realities make current public promises to the
middle class, particularly the
The fiscal cliff was an
artificial crisis — produced at baby boomer middle class,
unsustainable. The number
the confluence of Bush-era
of seniors will roughly double
tax policy and the last round
over the next three decades.
of kick-the-can fiscal policy
— intended to rouse political The average senior takes
seriousness on real problems. more than twice as much
out of Medicare as he or she
Both Obama and Boehner
pays in. The result is the most
desired a grand bargain that
predictable, precisely quanincludes entitlement cuts,
tifiable economic crisis in
revenue increases and tax
reform. Twice now they have American history.
There are only two responsfailed to secure it, leaving
es. The conservative approach
little hope they ever will.
(which I share) is to change
Some of the fault lies in
the entitlement system so the
personalities and parties.
federal government does not
Obama is a poor negotianeed to vastly increase taxes.
tor — often mocking when
This would involve focusing
he should be cajoling, and
public benefits on the poor
consistently misjudging
Boehner’s red lines. Boehner while requiring the wealthy
and middle class to accept a
is undermined by a fractious
greater share of their health
Republican caucus, prone to
costs. The liberal approach is
expressing ideological printo increase the percentage of
ciples without consideration
the economy taken in taxes
of a political endgame.
well above historical norms
But the primary obstacle
to support the commitments
to agreement is larger than
of an essentially unreformed
personality, and even larger
entitlement system. But this
than ideology. The most
can’t be done without taxing
powerful force in American
the middle class.
politics is not liberalism or
A politically realistic soluconservatism; it is middle
tion would probably involve
classism. In the economic
both approaches — the reorimythology of both parties,
the middle class exists only as entation of entitlement programs, and broadly increased
the victim of unfair burdens.
revenues (achieved in the
Consider the tax provisions
context of tax reform). The
of the fiscal cliff agreement.
fiscal cliff deal involved neiThe very wealthy (families
making more than $450,000 ther. Democrats and Republicans are divided on most
a year) will see a rate inthings. They remain united
crease. The payroll tax will
also rise, imposing a particu- in their refusal to provoke
larly regressive burden on the the middle class with policies
that fund sustainable benefits
working poor (a $1,000 tax
increase on a median income with sufficient taxes.
Technology marches on, but will never replace the feel, smell of a book
HASHTAG, America — It is comforting
to think of death as a passing rather than
an end. In that vein, I prefer to think of
Steve Jobs’ final words as editorial commentary: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
If the Afterlife were unpleasant,
wouldn’t he have said something more
profane?
Similarly, I have forced myself to think
of the last print edition of Newsweek
magazine as a transition rather than yet
more evidence of The Death of Print. The
last hard copy, which left the presses a
few days ago, is merely the magazine’s
passing from this life to the next.
Dust to dust; paper to digital?
It isn’t quite as poetic as our earth-toheaven transmogrification, but it will
have to do. What’s the alternative? We
printosaurs can mourn the loss of our
medium, or we can frolic in fresh clover.
Or so “they” — the blogger-twitter hordes
— keep telling us.
Still. Frolic as we may, the celebratenew-media prescription falls short of
palliative. This is because, notwithstanding the obvious benefits of new vehicles
for old passengers, there is something
uniquely sublime about print that has
nothing to do with content. Hard copy is a
full-on sensory experience.
memories is of reading with
Yes, the words are the
my father, who taught me
same, whether perceived
not only to love words but
on paper or on a small, ilalso to appreciate the smell
luminated screen. But the
of a book. Even today, I
experience is not. One can
judge a book by its smell
read “One Hundred Years
and am always surprised
of Solitude” on a Kindle
when others don’t employ
or an iPad, but one cannot
this obvious method of
see, hear, feel and smell
the story in the same way.
Kathleen Parker criticism.
Smell is fundamental to
I’m unlikely to race to the
sofa, there to nuzzle an
our being from our first
electronic gizmo, with the same anticipa- moments. Babies use smell to recognize
tion as with a book. Or to the hammock
and bond with their mother; memories
with the same relish I would with a new
can be jarred by smell; and cognitive
magazine. Somehow, napping with a gad- functioning has been tied to olfactory
get blinking notice of its dwindling power stimulation. With near certainty, I can
doesn’t hold the same appeal as falling
predict that no future adult will fondly
asleep in the hammock with your paperrecall the scent of a favorite, childhood
back opened to where you dozed off.
laptop.
This is not mysterious. Paper, because
Smell is also connected to what we now
it is real, provides an organic conneccall Old Journalism. Ask anyone with
tion to our natural world: The tree from
decades’ experience in a print newsroom
whence the paper came; the sun, water
and they’ll likely confess a love affair with
and soil that nourished the tree. By conthe newsroom itself — a sensory universe
trast, a digital device is alien, manmade,
that once included the smells of cofhard and cold to human flesh.
fee, cigarettes, ink and paper, including
Future generations may never know
carbon paper. It was, above all, a people
the satisfaction of print, nor, likely, miss
place that over time has become someit — a recognition that is both sad and
thing else — more efficient, perhaps, but
startling. One of my earliest and fondest
less human.
Tension between man and machine is
an old science-fiction plot that just happens no longer to be fictional. The more
digitally entrenched we become, the less
human our interactions. Social media
replace human gatherings; online porn
becomes a substitute for relationships;
email is less trouble than dialing a number and making small talk. Everything at
the click of a button has made it less likely
we’ll take the trouble to exchange pleasantries with a fellow human.
I am hardly immune to some of these
digital conveniences. I order out, shop
online, have groceries delivered, and
resent the phone. I read newspapers and
magazines online because it’s easier,
cleaner and I can stay in bed. Still. There’s
no substitute for opening one’s front door
the morning after a blizzard and finding
a rolled newspaper wrapped in plastic,
reassuring us once more that no matter
what nature doles out, human beings will
deliver the paper.
Of course, this same newspaper was the
product of digital processes for which we
are ever grateful. Likewise, we’ll cheer the
next technological advances as we mourn
the passing of old ways. Even true believers grieve the death of loved ones, no
matter how “wow” their parting.
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Republicans scoff at Obama’s
‘no-negotiation’ vow on debt
BY CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, meet
Congressman Michael Burgess.
The president says he absolutely will not let Republicans threaten a national
debt ceiling crisis as a way
to extract deeper federal
spending cuts.
Burgess’ take?
“It’s the most preposterous thing I’ve ever heard,”
the Texas Republican says.
“He’s going to have to negotiate.”
Both sides may be bluffing, of course. They may
reach an agreement before
the debt-limit matter becomes a crisis in March, or
possibly late February.
But the tough talk suggests this year’s political
fight could be even nastier
and more nerve-grating
than the recent “fiscal cliff”
showdown, or the July 2011
brinkmanship that triggered the first-ever ratings
downgrade of the nation’s
credit-worthiness.
Asked about the White
House’s apparent assumption that Republicans will
back down, Burgess said:
“I’m not going to foreclose
on anything, but that’s just
it needs to keep paying its
bills, including interest on
foreign-held debt.
“I will not have another
debate with this Congress
over whether or not they
should pay the bills that
they have already racked
up through the laws that
they passed,” the president
said last week. “If Congress
refuses to give the United
States government the
ability to pay these bills on
time, the consequences for
the entire global economy
would be catastrophic.”
It once was fairly routine
for Congress to raise the
government’s borrowing
limit every year or two, to
keep paying bills in times
of deficit spending. But the
exercise became fiercely
partisan in 2011.
Republicans threatened
to block a debt ceiling hike
unless Obama and congressional Democrats agreed to
large but mostly unspecified spending cuts. Obama
negotiated furiously. In
hopes of a far-reaching
“grand bargain,” he offered
to raise premiums, co-payments and the eligibility
age for Medicare, and to
slow the cost-of-living increases for Social Security
benefits.
not going to happen.”
He is hardly alone.
On NBC’s “Meet the
Press” Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., repeatedly
declined to say he would
rule out a government
shutdown, prompted by
a debt-ceiling impasse, in
the effort to force Obama
to swallow large spending
cuts. “It’s a shame that we
have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress” to
force the White House to
negotiate, he said.
In fact, congressional Republicans of all stripes say
Obama has no choice but to
accept spending cuts they
want in exchange for a hike
in the debt ceiling, which
will reach its limit in about
two months.
Said McConnell: “We
simply cannot increase the
nation’s borrowing limit
without committing to
long-overdue reforms to
spending programs that
are the very cause of our
debt.”
Obama says he’s willing
to discuss spending cuts in
some programs. But that
discussion, he says, must
not be tied to GOP threats
to keep the government
from borrowing the money
Nation Briefs
Clinton back at work
after hospitalization
diak Island bay.
The Kulluk was lifted off
rocks at 10:10 p.m. SunWASHINGTON — Cheers, day.
It reached its anchora standing ovation and a
gag gift of protective head- ing point about 12 hours
later in Kiliuda (kih-LOO’gear greeted Secretary
dah) Bay, where it’s out
of State Hillary Rodham
of the worst of waves and
Clinton as she returned
wind offered by the Gulf of
to work on Monday after
Alaska.
a monthlong absence
Shell incident commandcaused first by a stomach
virus, then a fall and a con- er Sean Churchfield says
the vessel came off the
cussion and finally a brief
grounding relatively easy
hospitalization for a blood
under tow by the 360-foot
clot near her brain.
anchor handler Aiviq.
A crowd of about 75
Salvors reported swells
State Department officials
of 15 feet, which dimingreeted Clinton with a
ished after the vessels
standing ovation as she
reached protected waters.
walked in to the first seThe trip covered about
nior staff meeting she has
45 nautical miles at about
convened since early December, according to those 4 mph.
The Kulluk was attached
present. Deputy Secretary
to a second vessel, a tugof State Thomas Nides,
boat, after it reached the
noting that life in Washbay.
ington is often a “contact
sport, sometimes even
— Associated Press
in your own home” then
presented Clinton with a
Retired pastor standing
gift — a regulation white
trial in wife’s death
Riddell football helmet
emblazoned with the State
STROUDSBURG, Pa. — A
Department seal, officials
retired Pennsylvania pastor
said.
charged with killing both of
— Associated Press his wives is on trial in the
death of his second wife.
Drilling barge pulled
Arthur “A.B.” Schirmer,
from rocks off island
64, is charged with killing Betty Jean Schirmer
in 2008 and staging a car
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —
accident to cover it up. A
A Royal Dutch Shell PLC
panel of 12 jurors and four
drill vessel pulled from
alternates was chosen
rocks off a remote Alaska
Monday. Opening stateisland reached shelter
ments are expected TuesMonday morning in a Ko-
day at the Monroe County
Courthouse in Stroudsburg.
Schirmer also stands
accused of killing his first
wife, Jewel, in 1999. A trial
date hasn’t been set.
A grand jury has said
Schirmer likely used blunt
objects to kill his wives.
The retired clergyman,
who led churches in Lebanon and Reeders, Pa., denies hurting either woman,
and his adult children have
said they support him.
The trial will likely center
on Schirmer’s claim that
his 56-year-old wife died
as the result of a Pocono
Mountains car crash.
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State tax-cut plans
tempered by caution
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
— Emboldened by big majorities and eager to lure
businesses,
Republican
legislators and governors
across the Midwest and
South are planning to pursue hundreds of millions
of dollars of tax cuts in the
new year.
Oh yeah, they might
raise some taxes, too.
In many states, the exuberance to cut taxes during the 2013 legislative
session suddenly has been
chilled by worry about the
potential consequences.
Cautious state officials
are now talking about the
need for “thoughtfulness,”
warning that they’ll “have
to see how their numbers
work out” and suggesting
that tax cuts in one area
may need to be offset with
increases in another.
The change in tune
comes as Republicans
struggle to balance a core
belief in lower taxes and
bold campaign promises
against the practical need
to pay their governments’
bills. Political obstacles are
less of a problem. A party
that swept into power in
many statehouses in the
2010 elections won even
bigger majorities in 2012.
The case study for the
new mood — caution
mixed with conflicting impulses — is Kansas. The
Republican-dominated
state slashed income taxes
in 2012, enough to save
taxpayers a projected $4.5
billion over six years. Now
it’s facing a self-inflicted
budget gap of roughly
$300 million for the fiscal
Associated Press
Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey,
R-St. Peters, appears Sept. 6 before the Senate convened for the first day of the special legislative session in Jefferson City. Emboldened by big majorities
and eager to lure businesses, Republican legislators
and governors across the Midwest and South are
planning to pursue hundreds of millions of dollars of
tax cuts in the new year.
year that starts July 1 and
wrestling with whether to
cut services or extend a
sales tax hike that is scheduled to expire. In neighboring Missouri, Republican
supermajorities in the Legislature are under intense
pressure to pass their own
tax cuts out of fear that
businesses and employees
will flow across the border.
“We don’t live in a vacuum. It is ever more pressing that we are responsive,
because other states are
being much more aggressive than the state of Missouri is,” said incoming
Senate President Pro Tem
Tom Dempsey. But he added: “This philosophy of,
‘OK we’ll cut the taxes and
people will come’ — it takes
a lot more thoughtfulness.”
Tax code changes could
be on the agenda in more
states than usual in 2013
because more legislatures
will be dominated by likeminded members. The
number of states in which
one party controls both
chambers will be at its
highest mark in decades,
and half the state legislatures will have veto-proof
majorities.
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Lottery winner died from cyanide poisoning Unusual respite
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Urooj Khan, 46, of Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, appears with a winning lottery ticket. The Cook
County medical examiner said Monday that Khan was
fatally poisoned with cyanide July 20, 2012, a day after
he collected nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings.
said he was so overjoyed he
ran back into the store and
tipped the clerk $100.
“Winning the lottery
means everything to me,”
he said at the June 26 ceremony, also attended by his
wife, Shabana Ansari; their
daughter, Jasmeen Khan;
and several friends. He
said he would put some of
his winnings into his businesses and donate some to
a children’s hospital.
Instead of the full $1
million over installments,
Khan opted to take his winnings in a lump sum of just
over $600,000. After taxes, the winnings amounted
to about $425,000, said
lottery spokesman Mike
Lang. The check was issued
from the state Comptroller’s Office on July 19, the
day before Khan died, but
was cashed on Aug. 15,
Lang said. If a lottery winner dies, the money typically goes to his or her estate,
Lang said.
Khan was pronounced
dead July 20 at a hospital, but Cina would not say
where Khan was when he
fell ill, citing the ongoing
investigation.
No signs of trauma were
found on Khan’s body during an external exam and
no autopsy was done because, at the time, the Cook
County Medical Examiner’s Office didn’t generally
perform them on those 45
and older unless the death
was suspicious, Cina said.
The cutoff age has since
been raised to age 50.
A basic toxicology screening for opiates, cocaine and
carbon monoxide came
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pert, 29, of Lake City, Fla.,
straps for a friend when
survived the jump and was
caught in a tree or lost in
the animal attacked.
It then ran out of the
the forest, he likely died of
GLENDALE, Calif. — A
hypothermia, a King Counbomb threat prompted the garage and bit Mundell’s
15-year-old nephew on the ty sheriff’s sergeant said.
evacuation of hundreds
“We just don’t think he
arms and back.
of children from a SouthMundell and his wife
survived at this point,” Sgt.
ern California elementary
pinned the cat to the
Cindi West said Monday.
school Monday while poground and shot it dead.
Dozens of searchers
lice searched buildings to
Mundell, his nephew and were out four days “calling
make sure the campus
his wife, are being treated and calling,” West said. “If
was safe.
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It snowed Thursday
Elementary School in Glen- blood on her.
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and said there was a bomb Police took the bobcat to
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at the campus, police Sgt. have it tested for rabies,
steep and heavily forested
which they think is likely
Tom Lorenz said.
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The school’s 880 stumiles east of Seattle.
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Searchers covered 9
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square miles before the
about a block away and
Missing skydiver
ground search was susparents were allowed to
thought to be dead
pended Sunday. Fog on
take them home for the
Monday prevented a heliday, Lorenz said. No bomb
copter search.
was found and the all-clear
SEATTLE — The search
Ruppert was taking turns
was given around midday.
for a wing suit-wearing skyKlara Esposito, who
diver in the Washington Cas- with two friends who were
waiting at the grassy landlives a block from the
cade foothills will continue
campus, received a call
by helicopter as the weather ing zone when he jumped
out of a helicopter at 6,500
from the school and came allows, but officials don’t
feet and disappeared.
to pick up her two chilexpect to find him alive.
dren, 10-year-old Tony and
No one saw a parachute
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spending in check for three
years in a row, the government reported Monday, an
unusual respite that could
linger if the economy stays
soft or fade like a mirage if
job growth comes roaring
back.
The nation’s health care
tab stood at $2.7 trillion in
2011, the latest year available, said nonpartisan
number crunchers with
the Department of Health
and Human Services.
That’s 17.9 percent of the
economy, which averages
out to $8,680 for every
man, woman and child,
far more than any other
economically
advanced
country spends.
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same rate as the economy is
affordable; one that surges
ahead is not.
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tighter cost controls this
year, if they can manage
to reach a broader agreement on taxes and spending. Health care spending
is projected to spike up
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CHICAGO — With no
signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the
sudden death of a Chicago
man just as he was about
to collect nearly $425,000
in lottery winnings was initially ruled a result of natural causes.
Nearly six months later,
authorities have a mystery
on their hands after medical examiners, responding
to a relative’s pleas, did an
expanded screening and
determined that Urooj
Khan, 46, died shortly after ingesting a lethal dose
of cyanide. The finding has
triggered a homicide investigation, the Chicago Police
Department said Monday.
“It’s pretty unusual,” said
Cook County Medical Examiner Stephen Cina, commenting on the rarity of cyanide poisonings. “I’ve had
one, maybe two cases out of
4,500 autopsies I’ve done.”
In June, Khan, who
owned a number of dry
cleaners, stopped in at a
7-Eleven near his home
in the West Rogers Park
neighborhood on the city’s
North Side and bought a
ticket for an instant lottery
game.
He scratched off the
ticket, then jumped up
and down and repeatedly shouted, “I hit a million,” Khan recalled days
later during a ceremony in
which Illinois Lottery officials presented him with
an oversized check. He
back negative, and the
death was ruled a result of
the narrowing and hardening of coronary arteries.
Cyanide can get into the
body by being inhaled,
swallowed or injected.
Deborah Blum, an expert
on poisons who has written
about the detectives who
pioneered forensic toxicology, said the use of cyanide
in killings has become rare
in part because it is difficult to obtain and normally
easy to detect, often leaving
blue splotches on a victim’s
skin.
“The thing about it is that
it’s not one of those poisons that’s tasteless,” Blum
said. “It has a really strong,
bitter taste, so you would
know you had swallowed
something bad if you had
swallowed cyanide. But if
you had a high enough dose
it wouldn’t matter, because
... a good lethal does will
take you out in less than
five minutes.”
Only a small amount of
fine, white cyanide powder can be deadly, she said,
as it disrupts the ability of
cells to transport oxygen
around the body, causing
a convulsive, violent death.
“It essentially kills you
in this explosion of cell
death,” she said. “You feel
like you’re suffocating.”
A relative came forward
days after the initial cause
of death was released and
asked authorities to look
into the case further, Cina
said. He refused to identify
the relative.
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families listen to police testimony in mass shooting states
BY DAN ELLIOTT
BY EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press
CENTENNIAL, Colo. —
The officers struggled to
hold back the tears as they
recalled the Colorado theater shooting: discovering
a 6-year-old girl without
a pulse, trying to keep a
wounded man from jumping out of a moving police
car to go back for his 7-yearold daughter, screaming at
a gunshot victim not to die.
“After I saw what I saw
in the theater — horrific —
I didn’t want anyone else
to die,” said Officer Justin
Grizzle, who ferried the
wounded to the hospital.
A bearded, disheveled
James Holmes, the man
accused of going on the
deadly rampage, didn’t appear to show any emotion
as Grizzle and the other officers testified Monday in a
packed courtroom as survivors and families of those
who died watched quietly.
At one point, a woman buried her head in her hands
when an officer recalled
finding the 6-year-old girl.
“He’s heartless. He really
is. He has no emotion. He
has no feeling. I don’t know
anybody can live that way,”
said Sam Soudani afterward.
His 23-year-old daughter
survived after being hit by
shrapnel from an explosive
device at the theater.
On the first day of a hearing that will determine
whether there’s enough
evidence to put Holmes on
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Chantel Blunk (left) leaves with a family member following a preliminary hearing for James Holmes Monday at
the courthouse in Centennial, Colo. Blunk’s husband,
Jon, was killed in the shooting.
trial, the testimony brought
back the raw emotions
from the days following the
July 20 attack at the suburban Denver theater that left
12 people dead and dozens
wounded.
The massacre thrust the
problems of gun violence
and mental illness into
the forefront before they
receded in the ensuing
months. Now, just weeks
after a shooting spree at a
Newtown, Conn., elementary school left 20 children
and six adults dead, prosecutors are laying out their
case with the nation embroiled in a debate over gun
violence and mental illness.
Any new details to
emerge this week — including Holmes’ mental
state — will come amid the
discussion over an array of
proposals, including tougher gun laws, better psychiatric care and the arming of
teachers.
The hearing is the first
extensive public disclosure
of the evidence against
Holmes. Other information
has come out, including details about how he legally
bought his guns in person
and purchased thousands
of bullets and body armor
online as well as a notebook
that he sent to a psychiatrist he had seen.
A district judge forbade
attorneys and investigators
from discussing the case
publicly, and many court
documents have been under seal.
Obama administration spent $18 billion
on immigration enforcement last fiscal year
BY ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Obama
administration
spent more money on immigration enforcement in
the last fiscal year than all
other federal law enforcement agencies combined,
according to a report on the
government’s enforcement
efforts from a Washington
think tank.
The report on Monday
from the Migration Policy
Institute, a non-partisan
group focused on global immigration issues, said in the
2012 budget year that ended in September the government spent about $18
billion on immigration enforcement programs run by
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, the US-Visit
program, and Customs and
Border Protection, which
includes the Border Patrol.
Immigration enforcement
topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration
and U.S. Secret Service by
about $3.6 billion dollars,
the report’s authors said.
Since
then-President
Ronald Reagan signed
the Immigration Reform
and Control Act in 1986
— which legalized more
than 3 million illegal immigrants and overhauled immigration laws — the government has spent more
than $187 billion on immigration enforcement.
According to the report,
“Immigration
Enforcement in the United States:
The Rise of a Formidable
Machinery,” federal immigration-related
criminal
prosecutions also outnumber cases generated by the
Justice Department.
The 182-page report
concludes that the Obama
administration has made
immigration its highest law
enforcement priority.
“Today, immigration enforcement can be seen as
the federal government’s
highest criminal law enforcement priority, judged
on the basis of budget allocations, enforcement actions and case volumes,”
MPI Senior Fellow Doris
Meissner, a co-author of
the report, said in a statement released with the report.
Critics are likely to bristle
over its findings, especially
those who have accused
the administration of being
soft on immigration violators.
WASHINGTON — People who lived in the two
states that saw the most
deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012 were less enthusiastic about buying
new guns at the end of the
year than those in most
other states, according to
an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data.
The latest government
figures also reflect huge
increases across the U.S.
in the number of background checks for gun
sales and permits to carry
guns at the end of the year.
After President Barack
Obama’s re-election in
November, the school
shooting in Connecticut
last month and Obama’s
promise to support new
laws aimed at curbing
gun violence, the number of background checks
spiked, especially in the
South and West. In Georgia, the FBI processed
37,586 requests during
October and 78,998 requests in December; Alabama went from 32,850
to 80,576 during the same
period.
Nationally, there were
nearly twice as many
more background checks
for firearms between November and December
than during the same time
period one year ago.
Background
checks
typically spike during the
holiday shopping season,
and some of the increases
in the most recent FBI
numbers can be attributed to that. But the number of background checks
also tends to increase af-
Associated Press
Handguns are displayed Friday in the sales area of
Sandy Springs Gun Club and Range in Sandy Springs,
Ga. In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most
deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were
less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end
of the year than in most other states.
ter mass shootings, when
gun enthusiasts fear restrictive measures are imminent.
“It’s a fear there will
be a crackdown,” said
Thomas Wright, who runs
Hoover Tactical Firearms
near Birmingham, Ala.
Wright said he took on
more employees to handle the sales crush after
20 young students were
shot to death in Newtown,
Conn. “We used to have
what was called our wall
of guns. It’s pretty much
empty now.” Every highcapacity magazine in his
store was sold out.
The government’s figures suggested far less interest in purchasing guns
late in the year in Connecticut and Colorado, where
12 people were shot to
death in a movie theater.
Background checks in
those two states increased
but not nearly as much as
in most other states. The
numbers of checks in Colorado rose from 35,009
in October to 53,453 in
December; checks in Connecticut went from 18,761
to 29,246 during the same
period. Only New Jersey
and Maryland showed
smaller increases than
Colorado in December
from one month earlier.
In Connecticut, people were having second
thoughts about whether
it’s a good idea to have a
gun in the home after the
Newtown shooting, the
governor’s criminal justice adviser, Michael Lawlor, said.
The gunman, 20-yearold Adam Lanza, first shot
and killed his mother at
their home using weapons
she had legally purchased
before he drove to the
school.
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for New York City slayings
Judge: Release unredacted
priest files in California
NEW YORK — A California serial killer
who left a trail of brutalized women’s
bodies in his wake was sentenced Monday in New York to an additional 25 years
to life in prison after pleading guilty to
murdering two young women here in the
1970s.
Rodney Alcala said last month he
wanted to plead guilty to the two New
York murder counts so he could get back
to California, where he was sentenced
to death for convictions on five other killings, to pursue an appeal there.
He had complained that his jailers in
New York wouldn’t give him access to a
laptop computer and legal records.
Family and friends of Cornelia Crilley
and Ellen Hover filled the courtroom in
State Supreme Court in Manhattan, having waited decades since the losses of
their loved ones for this day.
Crilley, 23, was found strangled with a
stocking in her Manhattan apartment in
1971.
Hover, also 23, was living in Manhattan
when she vanished in 1977. Her remains
were found the next year in the woods on
a suburban estate.
LOS ANGELES — A judge on Monday ordered the release of thousands of pages
of personnel files that would identify Roman Catholic priests accused of child molestation and their leaders in the church.
The ruling by Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias contradicts a previous order in
2010 by another judge that allowed the
Archdiocese of Los Angeles to redact the
names of church higher-ups.
Attorneys for the archdiocese previously said they planned to make the
confidential files public by the middle of
this month with the names of the church
hierarchy blacked out.
It was unclear how long it would take
to adhere to the new ruling. Church attorneys expressed concern about combing
through 30,000 pages of documents.
Elias continued to meet with attorneys
following the hearing.
The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times intervened in the case in December and argued in court papers that
the redactions would prevent the public
from learning which church officials knew
about abusive priests, how much they
knew and how they handled it.
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of Murray at the market, 107 S. Second St., on Saturday. Smart said she plans to visit the Kentucky
Crafted exhibition in Lexington this March to pick up some new items and get a feel for what shoppers
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For many, the phrase “arts and crafts” brings
to mind images of a kindergarten classroom, or
retiree-populated sewing circles.
But participants in the Kentucky Crafted program have long been turning such notions on
their heads.
The Kentucky Arts Council sponsors Kentucky
Crafted, which is devoted to giving qualified artisans and craftspeople across Kentucky better
opportunities to market their work.
Two Paducah residents — illustrator Tracey
Buchanan and ceramic artist Michael Terra — will
participate in the program’s annual wholesale
and retail showcase in March in Lexington.
Buchanan represents the most recent local
addition to the Kentucky Crafted roster. Her acceptance in November placed her among more
than 400 participants who were selected for their
artistic excellence and the marketing potential of
their work.
Buchanan describes her ink and watercolor illustrations as whimsical and optimistic. Her “flutterbies” — which incorporate snippets of overheard conversation or inspirational sayings — are
meant to help people look at the world in a more
lighthearted way, she said.
While the Market seeks to incorporate as many
quality artists as possible, the selection process
is rigorous, said Emily Moses, Kentucky Arts
Council communications director.
Of the 121 artists who completed applications in 2012, only 32 were accepted into the
program.
Kentucky Crafted: The Market will run from
March 1-3 at the Lexington Convention Center,
430 W. Vine St., Lexington. It is open to the pub-
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Q Step 2: Touch the paper clip to the bottom
of the magnet.
QStep 3 Gently pull down on the string so
that there is space between the magnet and
the paper clip.
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as the paper clip is within the magnet’s magnetic field. Once the paper clip moves beyond
the magnet’s magnetic field, gravity will pull the
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lic that Saturday and Sunday.
that until 2:45 a.m.”
At 3:13 a.m., the Damrons welcomed their first
son — weighing 3 pounds, 9 ounces — and his
brother, weighing 2 pounds, 8 ounces, a minute
later.
The twins were in Western Baptist Hospital’s
neonatal intensive care unit.
Last year’s first births also needed special attention after arriving early.
“The NICU is designed for babies that need
that extra care,” said Cindy Devine, maternalchild coordinator. “Many times it’s for babies
who come a little earlier. Before we opened the
unit here we would have to send them to Cape
Girardeau (Mo.) or St. Louis.”
Devine said the environment of the unit is
normally kept dark and quiet to allow babies to
adjust more easily.
Slylock Fox
For the second consecutive year, Paducah welcomed twin brothers as the first babies born in
the region in the new year.
Erika Damron and husband Derrick Damron of
Barlow said they arrived at Western Baptist Hospital and were surprised to find their sons would
be born nine weeks early due to concerns about
blood circulation.
The Damrons weren’t expecting to meet their
boys until March 2.
“We had no intention of having babies yesterday,” Erika said Jan. 1. “We came in for an ultrasound ... and they told us we weren’t going to be
able to leave. They started the induction and did
Mom goes viral with son’s
phone code of conduct
Michael Dwyer | Associated Press
Janell Burley Hofmann (right) stands with her son Gregory at their home Friday in Sandwich, Mass. Janell holds a copy of the contract
she drafted and that Gregory signed as a condition for receiving his first Apple iPhone.
ing TV.
Hofmann’s first order of business: “1. It is my
phone. I bought it. I pay for it. I am loaning it to
you. Aren’t I the greatest?”
She included caveats that some parenting and
tech addiction experts consider crucial in easing new entrants onto Facebook, Instagram and
shiny new mobile devices:
You must share passwords with a parent, answer their calls, hand over said device early on
school nights and a little later on weekends. You
must avoid hurtful texts and pay for a replacement if your phone “falls into the toilet, smashes
on the ground, or vanishes into thin air.” Of the
latter Hofmann advises her teen, “Mow a lawn,
stash some birthday money. It will happen, you
should be prepared.”
Hofmann said in an interview that she decided
on the contract as she pondered the power of
the technology she and her husband were about
to plop into their son’s world. She was looking
for a way to be present in his phone use without
being a “creeper,” his word for stalky, spying parents.
She wasn’t surprised that her list, which Greg
agreed to, resonates with other parents.
Hofmann was looking for a way to open the
conversation with her son.
Hofmann also urges her boy to, “Keep your
eyes up. See the world happening around you.
Stare out a window. Listen to the birds. Take
a walk. Talk to a stranger. Wonder without
googling.”
And her final word: “You will mess up. I will
take away your phone. We will sit down and talk
about it. We will start over again. You & I, we are
always learning. I am on your team. We are in
this together.”
‘It is my phone ... I am loaning it to you. Aren’t I the greatest?’
Associated Press
BY LEANNE ITALIE
NEW YORK — Janell Burley Hofmann honored
her 13-year-old son’s “maturity and growth” at
Christmas with his first iPhone, but it came with
strings attached.
Eighteen strings, to be exact, in a written
code of conduct that placed the mommy blogger
at the center of the debate over how parents
should handle technology in the hands of their
teens, especially younger ones just entering
the frenetic world of social networks and smartphones.
Thousands of people, including those bemoaning too much helicopter parenting, commented
and shared the funny, heartfelt agreement posted at the holiday by the Cape Cod, Mass., mom
of five. The interest crashed her website and led
her to appear with her eldest, Gregory, on morn-
Nation
paducahsun.com
The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, January 8, 2013 • 11A
Obama digs in for a fight on Hagel, Brennan picks
BY JULIE PACE
John Brennan
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Digging in for a fight, President
Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some
Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former
senator and combat veteran
Chuck Hagel to lead the
Pentagon and anti-terrorism chief John Brennan as
the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Hagel and Brennan, in
separate Senate confirmation hearings, will face sharp
questions on a range of contentious issues, including
U.S. policy about Israel and
Iran, targeted drone attacks
and harsh interrogation tactics. Of the two men, Hagel
is expected to face a tougher
path, though both are likely
to be confirmed.
Hagel would be the first
enlisted soldier and first
Vietnam veteran to head
the Pentagon.
“These two leaders have
dedicated their lives to protecting our country,” Obama
said, standing alongside
them and the men they
would succeed during a ceremony in the White House
East Room. “I urge the Senate to confirm them as soon
as possible so we can keep
our nation secure and the
American people safe.”
For Obama, a pair of
combative
confirmation
hearings could turn into a
distraction as he opens his
second term. But the president signaled he was ready
to take that risk.
Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska,
has been criticized as hostile toward Israel and soft
on Iran. Opponents also
have highlighted his 1998
comments about an ambassador nominee whom he
called “openly, aggressively
gay” — a comment for which
AGE-BIRTH DATE — 57; Sept. 22, 1955.
EDUCATION — Bachelor’s degree, political science,
Fordham University, 1977; master’s degree, government, University of Texas at Austin, 1980.
EXPERIENCE — Assistant to the president for
homeland security and counterterrorism, 2009-present; president and CEO of The Analysis Corporation,
McLean, Va., 2005-08; interim director of the National
Counterterrorism Center, 2004-2005; director of the
Terrorist Threat Integration Center, 2003-2004; CIA
deputy executive director, 2001-2003.
FAMILY — Wife, Katy Pokluda Brennan; three children.
QUOTE — “Unfortunately, sometimes you have to
take life to save lives, and that’s what we’ve been able
to do to prevent these individual terrorists from carrying out their murderous attacks.” — Brennan in 2012
on ABC’s “This Week.”
— Associated Press
Associated Press
Current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks in the East Room of the White
House on Monday in Washington. President Barack Obama announced that he is
nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan (right) as the new CIA director and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck
Hagel (left) as the new defense secretary.
he recently apologized.
Brennan, a 25-year CIA
veteran, was under consideration to run the agency
after Obama won the 2008
election but withdrew his
name amid criticism from
liberal activists who questioned his connection to
the harsh interrogation
techniques used by the CIA
during the George W. Bush
administration.
One of Hagel’s toughest critics, Sen. Lindsay
Graham, R-S.C., called his
former colleague’s foreign
policy views “outside the
mainstream” and said he
would be “the most antagonistic secretary of defense
toward the state of Israel in
our nation’s history.”
Perhaps even more concerning for Hagel’s prospects has been the tepid
response from some Democrats. Sen. Chuck Schumer
of New York said Hagel had
earned the right to a full and
fair confirmation hearing,
but he reserved judgment
on whether he would back
him. And Maryland’s Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin said
he and other lawmakers
“have questions that have to
be answered” specifically on
Hagel’s views on Iran and
Israel.
Obama called Hagel “the
leader our troops deserve”
and someone who could
make “tough fiscal choices”
in a time of increasing austerity. The Pentagon is facing
the potential of deep budget
cuts in the coming months.
The 66-year-old former
senator has defended his
record on Israel and Iran. In
an interview Monday with
the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal
Star newspaper, Hagel accused his opponents of having “completely distorted”
his views.
Hagel has criticized discussion of a military strike
by either the U.S. or Israel
against Iran. During his
tenure in the Senate, he
voted against unilateral
economic sanctions on Tehran, though he supports the
joint international penalties
Obama also prefers. Hagel
also irritated some Israel
backers with his reference
to the “Jewish lobby” in the
United States.
The White House focused
instead Monday on the military record of Hagel, who
was awarded two Purple
Hearts.
“Chuck knows that war is
not an abstraction,” Obama
said. “He understands that
sending young Americans
to fight and bleed in the dirt
and mud, that’s something
we only do when it’s absolutely necessary.”
Chuck Hagel
AGE-BIRTH DATE — 66; Oct. 4, 1946.
EDUCATION — Graduate, Brown Institute for Radio and
Television, Minneapolis, 1966; bachelor’s degree, history,
University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1971.
EXPERIENCE — Chairman of the Atlantic Council and
the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration
Advisory Committee; co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and member of the Defense Policy
Board. U.S. senator, 1997-2009; president, McCarthy &
Co., an investment banking firm based in Omaha, Neb.,
1992-1996; president and chief executive officer of the
Private Sector Council, a nonprofit business organization in
Washington, D.C., 1990-1992; co-founder, director and executive vice president of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. and
chairman of Communications Corporation International LTD,
1985-1987; co-founder, director and president of Collins,
Hagel & Clarke Inc., an international consulting, marketing
and investment company involved in cellular telecommunications, 1982-1985; deputy administrator, U.S. Veterans
Administration, 1981-1982; manager of government affairs,
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 1977-1980; assistant to Rep.
John Y. McCollister, R-Neb., 1971-1977; newscaster and
talk-show host in Nebraska, 1969-1971; Army, including
service in Vietnam, 1967-1968.
FAMILY — Wife, Lilibet; two children.
QUOTE — “We are each a product of our experiences,
and my time in combat very much shaped my opinions
about war. I’m not a pacifist; I believe in using force, but
only after following a very careful decision-making process.”
— Hagel in an October interview with Vietnam Magazine.
— Associated Press
Obituaries
12A • Tuesday, January, 2013 • The Paducah Sun
Funeral notices
Paid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Joan A. Rosa
CALVERT CITY — Joan
A. Rosa, 81, of Reidland,
formerly of Calvert City,
born in
Keokuk,
Iowa,
passed
away at
12:45
a . m .
Sunday,
January
6,
2013, at
Rosa
Lourdes
h o s pital. Mrs. Rosa was a
homemaker, a member of
St. Frances de Sales Catholic Church and a former
member of Calvert City
Woman’s Club.
Mrs. Rosa is survived
by her husband, Richard
“Dick” Rosa; two sons,
Richard “Rick” Mark
Rosa and wife DeVona of
Calvert City and Michael
Allan Rosa and wife Chris
of Reidland; four grandchildren, Jared Rosa and
wife Maria, Lauren Bazzell and husband Micah,
Chad Rosa and wife Dianna and Erica Rosa; six
great grandchildren; one
brother, Carl J. Adams of
Port Townsend, Wash.;
Eunice Effie McCracken
and several nieces and
nephews.
She was preceded in
death by a sister, Mary
Lou Quick. Her parents
were Carl Vincent Adams
and Ruth Ireland Adams.
A funeral Mass will be
held at noon Wednesday,
January 9, 2013, at St.
Frances de Sales Catholic
Church with the Rev. Brian Roby officiating.
Burial will follow in
Marshall County Memory
Gardens.
The Rosa family will receive friends from 5 p.m.
until 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at Milner
& Orr Funeral Home of
Paducah. Prayers will be
said at 7:30 p.m.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form
of contributions to: Alzheimer’s
Association
Grater Kentucky Chapter,
6100 Dutchman’s Lane,
Suite 401, Louisville, KY
40205; and to St. Frances de Sales Catholic
Church, 116 South 6th St.,
Paducah, KY 42001.
You may light a candle
of remembrance and leave
a message of sympathy at
www.milnerandorr.com.
Carolyn Burkett
WINGO — Carolyn Sue
Alford “Mouse” Burkett,
57, of Wingo, died January 6,
2013, at
Jackson
P u r chase
Medical
Center
in Mayfield.
S h e
attendBurkett
ed the
Church
of God in South Fulton,
Tenn., and had been a
checker for the Fulton
Wal-Mart store. She has
also been a foster parent
for children and had lived
in this area most of her
life.
She is survived by two
sons, Robert Richardson
of Palmersville, Tenn.,
and Lee Gream (Lisa Betz)
of Murray; her father
and stepmother, Johnny
Hassell Alford and Mary
Jane Alford of Dukedom,
Tenn.; two brothers,
Johnny Neil (Darlene)
Alford of Tri-City and
Jacky (Belinda) Alford
of Dukedom, Tenn.; two
nephews; two nieces; and
several cousins. Also a
close friend, Janice Terry
of Bardwell.
She was preceded
in death by her mother, Betty Miller; and a
brother, Bobby Raymond Alford.
A memorial service will
be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, January 12, 2013,
at Pleasant View Baptist Church in Dukedom,
Tenn. Visitation will also
be at the church from 11
a.m. Saturday until the
hour of service. Rev. Danny Walker will officiate.
She was born on March
25, 1955, in Fulton County, Kentucky.
Hornbeak
Funeral
Chapel is in charge of
arrangements.
Online
tributes:www.hornbeakfuneralchapel.com
Eunice Effie McCracken, 66, of Bardwell, a loving and devoted wife and
mother,
departed
this life
and become an
angel in
Heaven
at 3:30
p . m .
Sunday,
January
McCracken
6, 2013,
at
her
home.
Mrs. McCracken was
of the Baptist faith and
retired after 25 years as
a chef for Luhr Brothers
Bargeline Company.
She is survived by her
husband, Donald McCracken of 42 years; three
daughters, Juanima Renee Blackmon of Henderson, Tammy Jo McCracken of Henderson,
and Kelly Dawn Franklin and husband Mark of
Bardwell; one son, Terry
Lee Draper of Paducah;
six sisters, Vaeda Carter, Ozie Carter, Loretta
Shelbie Robinson Stalions
Shelbie
Robinson
Stalions, 76, of Paducah
died at 3:15 p.m. Saturday,
January
5,
2013, at
Kindred
Jewish
Hospital
in Louisville, Ky.
S h e
was
a
homeStalions
maker
and
a
member of Salt & Light
Church of God.
She is survived by one
daughter, Lynn (Jeff)
Hobbs of Calvert City, Ky.;
two sons, Terry Stalions of
Paducah, Ky., and Barry
Stalions of Smithland,
Ky.; two sisters, Martha
Nell Campbell of Mt. Juliet, Tenn., and Wanda
Sue Huff of Reidland, Ky.;
three grandchildren, Keaton Wooley of Calvert
City, Ky., Nathan Stalions
of Louisville, Ky., and Em-
Ricky Parmer
METROPOLIS, Ill. —
Mr. Ricky Parmer, 60, of
Metropolis, Ill., passed
a w a y
Saturd a y ,
January
5, 2012.
F u neral
services
will be
held at
1 p.m.
WednesParmer
d a y ,
January 9, 2013 at AikinsFarmer Funeral Home
with Bro. David Siere officiating. Burial will follow at Seven Mile Baptist
Church Cemetery in Metropolis.
Ricky was a police officer for the City of Metropolis for 31 years and
retired as a sergeant.
Ricky is survived by his
wife, Mary Elizabeth; son,
Ricky Parmer of Metropolis; daughters, Crystal
Carter, Audrey Carter,
Peggy Carter, Lisa Stephens; nine brothers,
Charles Carter, Thomas
Carter, Laymon Carter,
Odes Carter, Marty Carter, Floyd Carter, Lloyd
Carter, Willis Carter,
and Darrell Carter; four
grandchildren,
Lauren
Christian, Mason Jones,
Kaiden Stimson, and Paul
Baranek; and two greatgrandchildren,
Xandra
Draper and Rosalie Christian.
Mrs. McCracken was
preceded in death by her
parents, William Roscoe
Stephens and Vernon Bone
Carter; and one sister, Audrey Carter.
Funeral services will
be held at 1 p.m. Friday
at Milner & Orr Funeral
Home of Bardwell with
burial to follow in Roselawn Cemetery.
Visitation will be held
after 5 p.m. Thursday at
the Funeral Home.
You may leave a message
of sympathy and light a
candle at www.milnerandorr.com.
Story and husband Jack
of Princeton, Angie Renee Parmer of Ledbetter,
and Cassey Wilkins and
husband Travis of Metropolis; four grandchildren, Megan Story, Ashley
Story, Ricky Allen Parmer
III, Wrigley Wilkins; and
three brothers, Mike Parmer and wife Angie, Kelly
Parmer, Nathan Parmer,
all of Metropolis.
Ricky is preceded in
death by his parents,
James and Mary (Mizell)
Parmer;
stepmother,
Shirley Parmer; sister
and brother-in-law, Beverly and Scott Worthen;
and a brother, Jimmy
Parmer.
Friends may call to the
Aikins-Farmer
Funeral
Home on Tuesday, January 8, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Pallbearers — Justin
Parmer, Brandon Parmer,
Kelly Parmer, Mike Parmer, Travis Wilkins, Jim
Farley.
Roger Plante
Bobby Ray
MAYFIELD — Roger L.
Plante Jr., 55, of Mayfield
died Sunday, January 6,
2013, at his home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Byrn Funeral
Home.
CLINTON — Bobby Ray
Jr., 51, of Clinton died Monday, January 7, 2013, at his
home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Brown Funeral
Home in Clinton.
ily Stalions of Smithland,
Ky.; along with several
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in
death by her parents,
Charles and Ethel Smith
Robinson; two sisters,
Thelma Thompson and
Mary Catherine Robinson;
six brothers, Forrest Robinson, Merle Don Robinson, Charles Robinson,
James Robinson, Billy Joe
Robinson and Fred Mac
Robinson.
Funeral services will be
at 11 a.m. Friday, January 11, 2013, at the Milner
& Orr Funeral Home of
Paducah with Kerry Robinson officiating. Burial
will follow at Rosebower
Cemetery.
Friends may call from
5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday,
January 10, 2013, at the
Milner & Orr Funeral
Home of Paducah.
You may light a candle or
leave a message of sympathy at www.milnerandorr.
com.
Keith Brandon
Cleva Scarborough
MURRAY — Keith Brandon, 82, of Murray died
Sunday, January 6, 2013, at
Spring Creek Health Care in
Murray.
Mr. Brandon retired from
B.F. Goodrich and was coowner of Brandon Rentals.
He was a member of South
Pleasant Grove United
Methodist Church and also
attended Poplar Springs
Baptist Church.
He is survived by his
wife, Hazel Jean Rushing
Brandon; one son, Cary Lee
Brandon of Murray; two
grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; and several
nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death
by two sisters and two
brothers.
His parents were Toy and
Murla Brandon.
Services will be 1 p.m.
Thursday, January 10,
2013, at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with the Revs.
Eugene Nichols and Glenn
Hill officiating.
Burial will follow in
South Pleasant Grove Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5
p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday,
January 9, 2013, at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to South
Pleasant Grove United
Methodist Church, 5671
Crossland Road, Murray,
KY 42071.
MURRAY — Cleva Jean
Scarborough, 75, of Murray died Sunday, January 6,
2013, at her home.
She was a member
of Spring Creek Baptist
Church.
She is survived by her
husband, R.W. Scarborough; three sons, Randy
Scarborough of Dexter,
and Ricky Scarborough
and Louie Sieting, both of
Murray; four daughters,
Wanda McClaughlin of
Sandusky, Ohio, Mary Ann
Buie and Kay Davidson,
both of Murray, and Jeania Adkisson of Mayfield;
one brother, Glen Lee of
Dexter; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by one sister. Her
parents were Elvin and
Maydell Byars Lee.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Friday, January 11, 2013, at
Imes-Miller Funeral Home
with the Rev. Kerry Lambert officiating.
Burial will follow at
Murray Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call from
9 a.m. until the funeral
hour Friday at the funeral
home.
Expressions of sympathy
may take the form of contributions to Hospice of Murray, 300 S. Eighth St., Murray, KY 42071.
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Darryl Domingue
Charles Reams
WICKLIFFE
— Services for Darryl Charles
Domingue, 32, of Wickliffe
will be at
7 p.m. today, January
8,
2013, at
FilbeckC a n n
&
King
Funeral
H o m e
and Crematory in
Domingue
Benton.
Joe D. Thorn will officiate.
Mr. Domingue died at
4:27 p.m. Friday, January
4, 2013, at the Marshall
County Hospital in Benton.
He was employed by
James Marine.
He is survived by his wife,
Carrie Sams Domingue of
Benton; and four children,
Whitney Green of Benton, and Emily Green, Kyle
Sams and Cory Sams, all of
Calvert City.
Friends may call after
4 p.m. today, January 8,
2013, at the funeral home.
SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. —
Charles Edward Reams, 93,
of South Fulton, Tenn., died
Monday, January 7, 2013,
at Martin Healthcare Center in Martin.
Mr. Reams was a member of First United Methodist Church in Fulton, Ky.,
and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He
was the owner-manager of
the former Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in Fulton,
served as former South Fulton city manager and was a
farmer. He was a member
of the Fulton-South Fulton
Lions Club, Kiwanis Club,
Gideons and also formerly
served as an Obion County
commissioner.
He is survived by his wife,
Carolyn Atkins Reams; a
daughter, Peggy Lohaus of
Fulton; a granddaugher,
Alecia Lohaus of Franklin,
Tenn.; and a sister, Kelly
Rice of Lewisburg, Ohio.
He was preceded in death
by his mother, Gladys Bruce
Reams; his father and stepmother, Horace E. and
Elizabeth Kelly Reams; a
granddaughter; two brothers; and a sister.
A graveside service will
be 1 p.m. Wednesday, January 9, 2013, at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Weakley
County. There will be no
visitation held at the funeral
home and friends are asked
to meet at the cemetery at
the hour of service.
Memorials may be made
to the Gideon’s International, P.O. Box 1325, Fulton, KY 42041; First United
Methodist Church, 200
Carr St., Fulton, KY 42041;
or Walnut Grove Church,
c/o Lawan Speight, 3402
Reed St., Fulton, KY 42041.
Hornbeck Funeral Home
is in charge of arrangements.
Arnold Wynn
EDDYVILLE — Arnold
Wynn, 80, of Eddyville died
Sunday, January 6, 2013, at
Murray-Calloway County
Hospital.
Mr. Wynn was a retired
carpenter and had also retired from the Kentucky
State Penitentiary after 15
years of service. He was a
member of Lamasco Baptist
Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Carolyn Wynn; a son, Jeff
Wynn of Gallatin, Tenn.;
five grandchildren; nine
great-grandchildren; and
three
great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by a daughter, a brother
and three sisters. His parents were Fay Allen Wynn
and Mary Stone Wynn.
Services will at 2 p.m.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013,
at Goodwin Funeral Home
with the Rev. Dean Ray officiating. Burial will follow
at Caldwell Blue Spring
Baptist Church Cemetery in
Caldwell County.
Ann Darnell
KIRKSEY — Ann F. Darnell, 91, of Kirksey died
Monday, January 7, 2013,
at her home.
She was a member of
Hickory Grove Church of
Christ but recently attended Union Grove Church of
Christ.
She is survived by three
daughters, Carol Chapman
of Kirksey, Marilyn Bazzell
of Kirksey, and Phyllis Price
of Murray; one sister, Sue
Wilkerson of Union City,
Tenn.; four grandchildren;
and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her husband, Clay
C. Darnell; four brother;
and three sisters. Her parents were Harvey L. Parker
and Johnnie Farless Parker.
Services will be 1 p.m.
Friday, January 11, 2013,
at Heritage Family Funeral
Home. Burial will follow in
Murray Cemetery.
Family will receive visitors after 5 p.m. Thursday,
January 10, 2013, at the funeral home.
Barbara Jones
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Barbara Bormann Jones, 64,
of Metropolis died at 7:25
a.m. Monday, January 7,
2013, at Lourdes hospital in
Paducah.
Services will be at 4 p.m.
Sunday, January 13, 2013,
at Trinity Presbyterian
Church in Metropolis with
the Rev. Dan Whitfield officiating.
Other arrangements are
pending at Miller Funeral
Home in Metropolis.
Christine Monroe
HICKORY — Christine
Monroe, 88, of Hickory
died Saturday, January 5,
2013, at Mills Health and
Rehabilitation in Mayfield.
She was a member of Liberty Baptist Church and a
retired clerical employee of
National Fireworks.
She is survived by a son,
Mike Monroe of Owensboro; a daughter, Elizabeth
Fuqua of Mayfield; a sister,
Ruby Wilkins of Lone Oak;
five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Howard Milton Monroe;
and a brother. Her parents
were Jewell Ward and Bertha Clark Jones.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, January 9,
2013, at Byrn Funeral Home
Chapel in Mayfield with the
Revs. Wayne Berry and Ben
Stratton officiating. Burial
will follow in Woodlawn
Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call on the
family 5-8 p.m. today, January 8, 2013, at the funeral
home.
Daisy Lee
HARDIN — Daisy V. Lee,
89, of Hardin died Monday, January 7, 2013, at her
granddaughter’s home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Filbeck-Cann
& King Funeral Home and
Crematory in Benton.
Linda Jones
Linda M. Jones, 59, of
Paducah died at 2:40 p.m.
Sunday, January 6, 2013, at
her sister’s home in Springfield, Ill.
Arrangements were incomplete at Hughes Funeral Home.
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Ricky Turner
Lula Edmonds
MURRAY — Ricky Turner, 49, of Murray died Sunday, January 6, 2013, at his
home.
Mr. Turner received his
associate’s degree from
West Kentucky Community
& Technical College.
He is survived by his
mother, Mary Francis Grogan Turner of Murray; two
sisters, Reva Freeman of
Murray and Robin Runyon
of Almo; and three nephews.
He is preceded in death
by his father, Allen Thomas
Turner; a brother; and a sister.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, January 9,
2013, at Imes-Miller Funeral Home. Burial will follow
at Barnett Cemetery.
The family will receive
visitors 5-8 p.m. today, January 8, 2013, at the funeral
home.
SMITHLAND
— Lula
Rachael Edmonds, 81, of
Smithland died at 1:15 a.m.
Sunday, January 6, 2013,
at Lourdes hospital in
Paducah.
She is survived by one
daughter, Judy Long of
Salem; one son, Maurice
Dickerson of Burna; one
stepson, Robert Marley of
Smithland; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by two husbands and
14 brothers and sisters.
Services will be 2 p.m.
Wednesday, January 9,
2013, at Keeling Family Funeral Home with
the Rev. Carri Cowell officiating. Burial will be
at Hampton Cemetery in
Hampton.
Friends may call from
5-8 p.m. today, January 8,
2013, at the funeral home.
Zellia Stone
FULGHAM — Services for
Zellia Quinn Stone, 91, of
Fulgham will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, January 9,
2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Arlington
with the Rev. Max Anderson officiating. Burial will
be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery.
Mrs. Stone died at 11:45
p.m. Saturday, January 5,
2013, at the Clinton-Hickman County ICF Nursing
Home.
She was a member of
Pleasant Valley Baptist
Church and retired from
Clinton Hospital.
She is survived by a
daughter, Wanda Price
of Wingo; two sons, Gene
Stone of Denver and Gerald Stone of South Fulton,
Tenn.; three sisters, Hazel
Brown of Hornbeak, Tenn.,
Clair Mae Jordan of Troy,
Tenn., and Juanita Morgan of Union City, Tenn.;
four grandchildren; and six
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her husband, Elbert Stone; two sisters; and
four brothers. Her parents
were Bennie and Emma
Renfro Quinn.
Friends may call after 11
a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy
may take the form of contributions to Clinton-Hickman County ICF Memorial
Fund, 366 South Washington St., Clinton, KY 42031.
Martha Brandon
MARION — Graveside
services for Martha Lee
Brandon, 69, of Marion will
be at 1 p.m. today, January
8, 2013, at Rosebud Cemetery.
Mrs. Brandon died Saturday, January 5, 2013, at
Lucy Smith King Care Center in Henderson.
She worked in retail sales
and was a member of Life in
Christ Church.
She is survived by a
daughter, Charity Dersheimer of Owensboro;
three sons, David Brandon of Henderson, Robert
Brandon of Eddyville and
Mark Brandon of Marion;
a brother, Jerry Miller
of Morganfield; a sister,
Jackie Piner of Asheville,
N.C.; six grandchildren;
and four great-grandchildren.
Her parents were Herman and Laurel Mayes
Miller.
Friends may call from 11
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today,
January 8, 2013, at Myers
Funeral Home in Marion.
Donald Bondurant
Donald Bondurant, 82, of
Paducah died at 10:11 a.m.
Monday, January 7, 2013,
at Western Baptist Hospital.
Arrangements were incomplete at Hughes Funeral Home in Paducah.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Edith Gayle
Camp.
His parents were James
Frank Camp and Ruth Elizabeth Wells Camp.
Services will be at 6
p.m. Wednesday, January 9, 2013, at Lakeland
Funeral Home with the
Rev. Roger Waters officiating.
Friends may call from
4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at
the funeral home.
Eugene McCormick
CADIZ — Eugene McCormick, 82, of Cadiz died
Sunday, January 6, 2013,
at his daughter’s home in
Cadiz.
Mr. McCormick was a
lineotype operator for The
Cadiz Record from 19531972, and retired from
Lake Barkley State Resort
Park, where he was the
front desk supervisor from
1973-1993.
He operated the Kentucky Theatre in Cadiz in
the 1960s. He was of the
Christian faith and was a
Kentucky Colonel.
He is survived by a
daughter, Jeannie Boyd of
Women bring rape awareness to light
BY MUNEEZA NAQVI
Associated Press
NEW DELHI — Preeti
Singh worries each time
her 20-year-old daughter
has a late night at the hospital where she’s a medical
student. If her daughter
has to stay late, Singh tells
her to wait for daylight to
come home.
“I was brought up with
the fear that once it’s dark
you should be at home,”
says Singh, a 43-year-old
kindergarten teacher in
Bangalore, India’s technology hub. “I can’t shake
that fear.”
Across India, women
tell similar stories. Now
there is hope for change.
For decades, women
have had little choice but
to walk away when groped
in a crowded bus or train,
or to simply cringe as
someone tosses an obscene comment their way.
Even if they haven’t experienced explicit sexual
abuse themselves, they
live with the fear that it
could happen to them or a
loved one.
The gang rape and beating of a 23-year-old university student on a moving bus in India’s capital
has taken sexual violence
— a subject long hidden
in the shadows of Indian
society — and thrust it into
the light.
Following the Dec. 16 attack in New Delhi, which
resulted in the woman’s
death, hundreds of thousands of Indians — both
men and women — poured
onto the streets of cities
across the country, holding candlelight vigils and
rallies demanding that
authorities take tougher
action to create a safe environment for women.
“At least now people are
talking,” says Rashmi Gogia, a 35-year-old recep-
Associated Press
Indian women carry placards as they march to mourn the death of a gang rape
victim Wednesday in New Delhi, India. The gang rape and beating of a 23-year-old
university student on a moving bus in India’s capital has taken sexual violence — a
subject long hidden in the shadows of Indian society — and thrust it into the light.
tionist in a New Delhi law
office.
Associated Press journalists interviewed women across India, from the
northern cities of Lucknow and Allahabad, to
Bangalore in the south,
and from the eastern cities of Patna and Gauhati
to Ahmadabad in the west.
The outrage sparked by
the heinous attack has given women at least a measure of hope that the country of 1.2 billion people
will see meaningful improvement in how women
are treated, though most
realize any change is likely
to come slowly.
“These protests have
at least given women the
confidence to talk about
sexual violence,” says
Singh, the kindergarten
teacher in Bangalore. “For
too long, women have
been made to feel guilty
for these things.”
Like every woman in
India, Singh has her own
rules for her daughter’s
safety. “We make sure
she messages us when
she reaches (the hospital)
and when she leaves for
home,” she says.
Women who were willing to talk about an unwelcome touch or a crude
remark they’d experienced
said they had learned to ignore it. Most said they convinced themselves to shrug
off these routine assaults
and humiliations to avoid
angering their attackers, or
for fear of bringing shame
upon themselves and their
families.
“What can you do? You
have to work, you have to
commute,” says Yasmin
Talat, a 20-year-old graduate student and career
counselor in Allahabad
whose parents do not allow her to go out alone after 7 p.m.
Cadiz; two grandchildren;
and four great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by his mother, Lena McCormick; two brothers; and
a sister.
Services will be 11 a.m.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013,
at East End Cemetery with
the Rev. Gene Johnson officiating.
Goodwin Funeral Home
is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions
can be made to Pennyroyal Hospice, 220 Burley Ave., Hopkinsville, KY
42240.
“Sometimes I do get angry and say something,”
she says, “but I’m also
scared. You never know
what could anger these
men.”
Aparna Dasa, a 35-yearold saleswoman at a
Gauhati department store,
said whenever she gets
into a crowded bus men
try to hold her hand as she
grasps the overhead support bar. “They try and
touch at every opportunity.”
“When I’m on a crowded bus and someone says
something bad to me, in
my heart I want to give
him a tight slap, but I’ve
learned to ignore it,” says
Gogia, the New Delhi receptionist. “What’s the
use? All the blame always
comes back to the woman.
“We stay silent from a
sense of shame,” she adds,
“or are made to stay silent.”
State of Palestine name change shows limitations
BY KARIN LAUB
AND MOHAMMED
DARAGHMEH
Associated Press
James Camp
EDDYVILLE — James
Douglas Camp, 75, of Eddyville died Sunday, January 6, 2013, at his home.
Mr. Camp was retired
from Wicks Lumber Company and was a member of
Bethany Baptist Church.
Survivors include one
son, James T. Camp of
Eddyville; one daughter,
Missy Adams of Crofton;
one brother, John Camp of
McKenzie, Tenn.; and two
grandchildren.
The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, January 8, 2013 • 13A
RAMALLAH, West Bank
— With U.N. recognition
of a Palestinian state in his
pocket, President Mahmoud Abbas wants official
documents to carry a new
emblem: “State of Palestine.”
But scrapping the old
“Palestinian
Authority”
logo is as far as Abbas is
willing to go in provoking
Israel. He is not rushing to
change passports and ID
cards Palestinians need to
pass through Israeli crossings.
The very modesty of
Abbas’ move to change
official stationery underscores his limited options
so long as Israel remains
in charge of territories the
world says should one day
make up that state.
“At the end of the day,
the Palestinian Authority won’t cause trouble for
Associated Press
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves to the
crowd Dec. 2 during celebrations for their successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition. Palestinian
officials said Monday they will not rush to issue new
passports and ID cards with the emblem “State of Palestine” to avoid confrontation with Israel.
its people,” Nour Odeh, a
spokeswoman for Abbas’
self-rule government, said
of the need for caution.
Abbas won overwhelming U.N. General Assembly recognition for a state
of Palestine in the West
Bank, Gaza and east Jeru-
salem in late November,
a rare diplomatic victory
over a sidelined Israel.
The U.N. nod was important to the Palestinians because it affirmed
the borders of their future
state in lands Israel captured in 1967.
Recognition, however,
has not transformed the
day-to-day lives of Palestinians, and some argue
that it made things worse.
In apparent retaliation
for the U.N. bid, Israel in
December withheld its
monthly $100 million
transfer of tax rebates it
collects on behalf of the
Palestinian Authority, further deepening the Abbas
government’s
financial
crisis.
Since the U.N. recognition, Abbas has maneuvered between avoiding
confrontation with Israel
and finding small ways to
change the situation on
the ground.
Last week, his government press office urged
journalists to refer to
a state of Palestine, instead of the Palestinian
Authority, the autonomy
government set up two
decades ago as part of
interim peace deals with
Israel.
World Briefs
Cuba targets racy lyrics in crackdown
China starts building new nuclear power plant
HAVANA — Cuban authorities recently announced
restrictions reportedly declaring state-run recording
studios and broadcasts off-limits to songs with questionable lyrics.
They also prohibit such music in performance
spaces subject to government control.
The rules would theoretically apply to all genres,
but it’s reggaeton that leading cultural lights have
singled out for criticism in official media while
warning of new rules governing “public uses of music.”
Legislators are also studying a bill to regulate the
airwaves and performance spaces. Artists would
face potential sanctions for lyrics and performances
deemed too racy, although it’s not yet clear who
would be the official arbiters of taste or what penalties may be imposed.
BEIJING — A utility company says it has started building China’s first new nuclear power plant since Beijing
lifted a construction moratorium imposed on the industry to review safety following Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
The facility in the eastern coastal city of Rongcheng
will incorporate Chinese-developed safety features and
is due to start operation by the end of 2017, according to the state-owned Huaneng Shandong Shidao Bay
Nuclear Power Co.
China’s decision to press ahead with nuclear development runs counter to moves in other countries such as
Japan and Germany, which plan to scale back or shut
down their nuclear power industries.
China is the world’s biggest energy consumer, and
nuclear power is a key element in official efforts to curb
surging demand for fossil fuels.
— Associated Press
— Associated Press
World/From Page One
14A • Tuesday, January 8, 2013 • The Paducah Sun
paducahsun.com
TRIAL
deal on Dec. 12, testified
that it was her idea to lie
to Evrard about the party.
She also admitted to slitting Evrard’s throat outside of the trailer after she
said she and her daughter
and husband tortured Evrard in the bathtub of the
trailer.
It all stemmed from an
incident a week earlier, Jamie Taylor testified, when
a sheriff’s deputy brought
Jasmine Taylor, then 21,
home after finding her
wandering along the road,
confused and disheveled.
“She was completely bug
nuts,” Jamie Taylor said of
her daughter’s demeanor
that day.
Jasmine Taylor had attended a birthday party
the night before with several male friends. Three of
the party attendees testified on Monday that Taylor
was acting strange, running all over the house and
rubbing purple hair dye all
over her hands. The men,
now in their 20s, said they
decided to take her home
at around 2:30 a.m. They
all claimed that they never
touched her that night and
just wanted to take her to
her parents to get help.
They also said they barely
knew Evrard, that she was
not at the birthday party
that night and that all of
the males who attended
the party are gay.
But Jasmine Taylor told
her parents a different
story.
After five days in a local
mental ward, Jamie Taylor
said her daughter told her
and Mark Taylor that she
had been raped and that
Evrard, her one-time best
friend, drugged her and
collected money from the
boys who paid to have sex
with her.
“She
said
(Evrard)
drugged her on two different occasions and sold
her to be raped for $100 a
pop,” Jamie Taylor yelled
as she broke down in tears
on the stand.
Jamie Taylor repeated
that phrase multiple times
as she recounted details of
the day she said she and
her husband and other
family members got their
revenge on Evrard.
It began as a discussion,
Jamie Taylor said. She just
wanted to talk to Evrard to
find out what happened.
MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun
Destini Marshall becomes emotional while testifying on the stand during the murder and kidnapping trial of her uncle, Mark Taylor, in McCracken Circuit Court on
Monday. Marshall was one of the other six defendants charged in connection with
the December 2010 death of 21-year-old CaSondra Evrard.
She and several other family members found where
Evrard lived and brought
her back to the trailer,
where Jasmine Taylor
punched her, starting a
physical fight. The fight escalated, and Jamie Taylor
said she dragged Evrard by
her hair back to the bathroom, where she and Mark
Taylor began threatening
her with knives, demanding she admit that she hurt
their daughter.
“There was a knife on
the sink, I grabbed it and
put it on her throat,” Jamie Taylor said. “I wanted
to scare her.”
The threats quickly became lashes, Jamie Taylor
said, as she and Mark Taylor began cutting Evrard
until she screamed that
she did it. At that point,
Jamie Taylor said her husband told her it was too
late and they continued
with the ritual.
Jasmine Taylor came in
with a hammer, and Jamie
Taylor said Mark Taylor
replaced it with a knife.
Jasmine Taylor used the
knife to cut Evrard’s wrist
and face, Jamie Taylor testified. Mark Taylor then
began spraying bug spray
in Evrard’s face, so much
that Jamie Taylor said she
had to leave the room.
Mark Taylor then came
out of the bathroom, saying he “stuck her like a
pig,” Jamie Taylor said.
She took it to mean that
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Evrard’s body the next day
and traced the death back
to the Taylor trailer.
Jamie Taylor testified
that she stayed mum on
the details of the incident
until her plea last month,
from which she faces two
life sentences with parole
eligibility in 20 years. She
said that she even set up a
plan with the other co-defendants, who are mostly
the Taylors’ family members, to take the brunt of
the blame for what happened. Jamie Taylor said
she thought it would be
better than telling the
truth and implicating
Mark Taylor, whom she
testified she is still married
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BY AMY TEIBEL
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — President
Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel as the
next U.S. secretary of defense is causing jitters in
Israel, where some circles
view the former Nebraska
senator as unsympathetic
or even hostile.
Hagel’s positions on Israel’s two most pressing foreign policy issues — Iran’s
nuclear program and relations with the Palestinians
— appear to be at odds with
the Israeli government,
and critics here fear the appointment could increase
pressure on the Jewish state
to make unwanted concessions. The appointment
could also signal further
strains in what is already a
cool relationship between
President Barack Obama
and Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who
is expected to win re-election later this month.
“Because of his statements in the past, and his
stance toward Israel, we are
worried,” Reuven Rivlin,
the speaker of the Israeli
parliament and a member
of Netanyahu’s Likud Party,
told The Associated Press.
But, he added, the strategic partnership between
the U.S. and Israel is strong
and “one person doesn’t determine policy.”
Netanyahu’s office refused to comment on the
appointment, as did officials in the Israeli foreign
and defense ministries. But
Rivlin’s comments reflected
what has been a common
sentiment among analysts
and commentators here in
recent days.
In their evening news
broadcasts, Israel’s three
main TV stations on Monday all portrayed Hagel as
cool toward Israel.
Known as a maverick in
the Senate, Hagel has raised
eyebrows in Israel with a
series of comments and
actions over the years that
some here have deemed
insufficiently supportive of
the Jewish state.
Contact Mallory Panuska,
a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or
follow @MalloryPanuska
on Twitter.
National Cities
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MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun
Defense attorney Craig Newbern (front) stands with
client Mark Taylor during a recess on the first day of
testimony in Taylor’s murder and kidnapping trial Monday in McCracken Circuit Court. Taylor faces the death
penalty as a maximum sentencing option stemming
from the December 2010 death of 21-year-old CaSondra Evrard.
Evrard was dead.
The couple then took
Evrard’s lifeless body outside, where Jamie Taylor
admitted that she slit her
throat. She also said that
her niece, Brandi Marshall, began beating Evrard with a bat. That comment proved too much for
several members of Evrard’s family, who left the
courtroom crying.
Jamie Taylor said that
Mark Taylor put the body
in a trash can and took it
to a nearby dumpster. She
said the rest of the evidence was destroyed in a
fire pit. McCracken County sheriff’s deputies had
reported that they found
Hagel pick
unnerves
some
in Israel
to and still loves.
Defense attorney Jason
Pfeil told jurors during
his opening remarks to
ask themselves what they
think Mark Taylor would
do to protect his family.
Pfeil described Taylor as
a man with mental issues,
faced with the theory that
his daughter’s longtime
best friend had allowed
three boys to rape her and
leave her wandering on
the street in a disheveled
state.
Pfiel told a different
story about the events that
played out inside the Taylor’s trailer and lent fodder to the possibility that
Jamie Taylor, not Mark
Taylor, killed Evrard when
she slit her throat. He said
the only person who places
Mark Taylor at the scene
of Evrard’s death is Jamie
Taylor, whom he said has
nothing more to lose now
that she pleaded guilty.
Other witnesses who testified on Monday included
Evrard’s mother, Carla
Cruse, who said that she
went to the Taylors’ trailer
to look for her daughter
after she could not find
her on Dec. 10, 2010. She
said she became worried
when she did not answer
her texts. Cruse also said
that Mark Taylor gave her
a piece of paper with several boys names on it and
told her that he wanted
revenge on them for what
they did to his daughter.
Destini Marshall, Mark
Taylor’s niece, testified
Monday that she was told
to pick up the Taylors’ other
daughter, Jade Taylor, from
school that day and take
her to the mall. She became
emotional as she recounted
the details of that day.
Marshall was one of the
four other defendants who
pleaded guilty to complicity
to kidnapping in connection
with Evrard’s death. As part
of her plea, she agreed to be
called as a witness in the trials of the other defendants.
Jasmine Taylor is the only
other defendant whose case
is still pending. She faces a
March trial.
The state will continue
calling witnesses at 8:30
a.m. in McCracken Circuit
Court.
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54
32
23
24
33
58
33
27
27
26
27
27
33
-22
69
49
28
59
s
pc
s
pc
sn
pc
pc
pc
s
s
s
s
s
r
pc
s
t
s
pc
40
50
72
28
22
64
36
38
22
64
35
44
32
21
48
46
41
39
36
pc
s
pc
pc
pc
sh
s
c
pc
pc
s
pc
s
pc
s
s
r
pc
s
45
50
71
26
23
64
37
40
27
64
34
46
28
23
50
41
31
40
38
s
s
pc
s
pc
t
pc
r
s
pc
s
s
s
s
s
pc
r
s
s
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
National Weather
Union City
54/36
Blytheville
54/43
Today
City
Nashville
56/45
Jackson
56/43
Pulaski
56/42
Memphis
56/49
Regional Weather
World Cities
Kentucky: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow, but sunnier in the north.
City
Today
Hi Lo W
Wed.
Hi Lo W
Athens
Beijing
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Manila
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Warsaw
Zurich
43
31
40
87
66
64
50
52
91
72
19
50
56
30
104
50
28
47
46
32
43
83
57
63
42
49
86
74
11
45
55
23
76
47
32
48
Illinois: Times of clouds and sun today. Mainly clear
tonight.
Indiana: Partly sunny today, except sunnier in
southern parts. Clear to partly cloudy tonight.
Missouri: Times of sun and clouds today. Turning
cloudy tonight; however, mainly clear in the north
and east.
Arkansas: Clouds and sun today. A shower tonight,
except periods of rain in the south.
Tennessee: Sunny to partly cloudy today. Partly
cloudy tonight. Rain tomorrow afternoon, but dry in
the east.
32
13
37
69
49
57
36
45
75
48
8
34
40
10
68
35
22
31
pc
s
sh
pc
pc
c
sh
sh
pc
pc
c
c
pc
pc
s
s
c
s
32
16
37
68
45
54
34
34
75
45
-3
39
42
10
68
38
29
28
sh
s
r
s
sh
pc
r
pc
pc
s
c
r
pc
s
s
r
c
pc
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and
precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
National Summary: Rain and thunderstorms will continue to gather over central, South and West
Texas today. Showers will affect Florida’s east coast. Snow showers are in store over part of the
northern Plains. Heavy rain and inland snow are forecast for part of the Northwest. The area from
the coastal Northeast to California will be tranquil with some sunshine.