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Victim
recovers
after bullet
hits foot
Mighty Mississippi
ebbs and flows
Davenport man was shot outside
Col Ballroom on Saturday night
By Brian Wellner
[email protected]
A Davenport man who is recovering after being
shot over the weekend was reminded of the day his
twin sister was killed in a drive-by shooting.
Vincent Lee Howard, 24, was one of four people
shot, one fatally, late Saturday after a fight erupted
inside the Col Ballroom during a rap concert.
“I was thinking I didn’t want nothing to happen
like what happened to my sister,” Vincent Lee
Howard, 24, said Monday about his sister,
Vincelina Howard.
Vincelina Howard was 19 years old when she was
killed in front of her grandmother’s home on 12th
Street in Davenport the night of Aug. 19, 2006.
Vincent Howard said he was standing next to her
that day as gunfire rang out from a passing van.
He found himself “at the wrong place at the wrong
time” Saturday, saying he was picking up his mother
at the rap concert when the shooting happened.
— SHOOTING | A6
Mark Humphrey/AP
Clyde Thomas of the Shelby County (Tenn.) Health Department sprays for mosquitoes in a flooded neighborhood in Memphis, Tenn, on Monday, as the Mississippi River was expected to crest at a near-record level.
Brian Wellner/QUAD-CITY TIMES
Vincent Lee Howard is recovering at a relative’s home in Davenport after being shot in
the foot on 4th Street late Saturday. Michael
Elijah Gabrie Williams, 19, of Davenport was
killed in the shooting.
Memphis:
Quad-Cities:
Residents brace
for major flooding
Cleanup nears
completion
The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD — Bakeries could be exempt from
an artificial trans-fat ban now moving through the
Illinois General Assembly.
So far, the Illinois House has approved the measure, and it now goes to the Senate for
further debate, where it might be
changed to leave baked goods
out, after complaints from bakery owners.
Some bakery owners have
been concerned that a transfat ban in Illinois would negatively affect the taste of their
products. The addition of a baked
goods exemption to the legislation
would put them at ease.
Susan Lillybeck, owner of Donut Delite in Moline,
said shortening containing trans fat is ideal for frying doughnuts. Other options, she added, would
taste different and be more pricey.
“What they’re trying to do is bad for small business,” she said of a more complete ban.
State Rep. La Shawn Ford, a Chicago Democrat
and the House sponsor, said he was disappointed the
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The
Mississippi crept toward the
highest level ever in the
river city, flooding pockets
of low-lying neighborhoods
and forcing hundreds from
their homes, though the
water was not threatening
the music heartland’s most
recognizable landmarks,
from Graceland to Beale
Street.
As residents waited for
the river to reach its peak as
early as Monday night —
several inches short of the
record mark set in 1937 —
those downstream in Mississippi and Louisiana evacuated prisoners and
diverted water from the
river in an attempt to stave
off catastrophic flooding in
a region prone to such disasters.
In Memphis, emergency
officials warned the river
still was dangerous and
unpredictable, but they
were confident the levees
would hold and there were
no plans for more evacuations. Sandbags were put up
in front of the 32-story tall
Pyramid Arena, but the former home of college and
professional basketball
teams was thought to be
safe. Also out of the way
were Stax Records, which
launched the careers of Otis
Redding and the Staple
Singers, and Sun Studio,
which helped make Elvis the
— DOUGHNUT | A6
— MEMPHIS | A3
D’oh! Trans-fat
ban would change
doughnut taste
Proposed Illinois law would
hurt business, bakers say
By Kiera Manion-Fischer
Times Bureau
89 67
HIGH
LOW
BUSINESS . . . . . . . . . . .A7
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . .C3
CROSSWORD . . . . . . . .C7
By Kurt Allemeier
[email protected]
Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES
A bicyclist rides through mud left behind as the
Mississippi River floodwaters retreat near Modern
Woodmen Park in Davenport.
BY THE NUMBERS
48
15.35
Today’s expected Mississippi
River crest at Memphis, Tenn.,
0.7 feet shy of a 1937 record.
Mississippi River level at Lock
and Dam 15, just above flood
stage at 15 feet.
RECORD TEMPS HEADED HERE
Today’s weather could challenge a century-old record high temperature, according to the National Weather Service.
After weeks of soggy cool weather, a stretch of dry warm
weather could peak with a forecast high of 90 degrees. That
would edge out the previous record of 89 degrees, set in 1911.
The sultry spring day comes about a week after frost warnings
spread across the area and less than a month after a record cool
high of 45 degrees on April 18. See weather, PAGE A10.
NATION/WORLD . . . . . .A5
OBITUARIES . . . . . . .B4-B5
OPINION . . . . . . . . . . . . .A9
Q-C AREA . . . . . . . . . . .B1
RECORD . . . . . . . . . . . .B2
SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . .D1
As Mississippi River
flooding continues to surge
southward, public works
employees in the QuadCities are washing away
remnants of their fight with
the wayward water.
On Monday in Davenport,
crews were working outside
Modern Woodmen Park,
clearing off Beiderbecke
Drive and part of the park
that was exposed to the
river. Cleanup at Credit
Island to remove Hesco barriers and clean off the
causeway is expected to
begin later this week.
The Mississippi River at
Lock and Dam 15 is at 15.35
feet, just above the flood
stage of 15 feet. It is forecast
to drop below flood stage on
Thursday. In LeClaire, the
river is at 10.32 feet and
expected to drop below the
10-foot flood stage Thursday.
Workers used a crane to
remove the floodwall panels
at Rock Island’s Schwiebert
Riverfront Park, although
four pumps remain in operation along the city’s floodwall.
“Thank goodness we’re
not Memphis,” Rock Island
Public Works Director Bob
Hawes said. “When we
started, we were talking
about possibly a record
flood. We got lucky it wasn’t
here.”
— CLEANUP | A3
TV GRID . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
WEATHER . . . . . . . . . .A10
WUNDRAM . . . . . . . . . . .A2