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Pentagon war
power grows
under Trump
BY LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
RYAN HERMENS | The Sun
Tater tradition
A crowd of people walk by vendors Saturday on Main Street in Benton during the 174th annual
Fair and Tater Day Festival. The Tater Day Parade is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday along Main
Street. (For more photographs, see 8A.)
Health Park aiming for
a mid-summer opening
BY LAUREL BLACK
[email protected]
Work to install safety surfacing in a portion of the Health
Park near the Fountain Avenue
neighborhood could be completed by mid-summer, opening
the majority of the park to residents, Parks Department Director Mark Thompson said.
The park, located at 421 N.
13th St., is in the first of two construction phases.
Wilkins Construction Company is completing the first phase,
which includes grading, drainage, irrigation, a one-third mile
walking trail, lighting, an expansion of the community garden,
and a fitness area for $619,169.
The park is already home to the
volunteer-built, 4,000-squarefoot Rotary Playground, which
was completed last summer.
“It will become a wonderful
backyard for everybody. It’s go-
ing to help people get active,
grow food and play all day, if
they want to,” Thompson said.
A mild winter allowed construction to move further
ahead than anticipated, but
recent rains are putting a
damper on the progress, he
said.
Much of the ground within
the park has been overturned,
[email protected]
Young women from Paducah
Tilghman High School met Saturday to become not only career-ready, but life-ready.
The Life 101 seminar, held at
Baptist Health Heart Center, invited female students to discuss
dreams, potential and a good
plan of action.
During the four-hour meeting,
Mayor Brandi Harless spoke on
the value of being confident in
pursuing your goals as she reflected on her life and recent
election.
“It matters what we (tell) ourselves,” Harless said. “Remember when you’re finding that curiosity in life, it has to be coupled
with confidence in who you are.”
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Senate heading for
judicial showdown
BY ERICA WERNER AND MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
Event coordinator Monica
Bilak said after consulting
work with various companies, she wanted to share the
same practical motivation
with high-schoolers. She organized the conference with the
help of Cherry Woodburn of
Winston-Salem, North Caro-
WASHINGTON — The Senate is headed for a tense
showdown over President Donald Trump’s Supreme
Court nominee that could have far-reaching consequences for Congress, the high court and the
nation.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and
his Republicans are determined to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch within the week.
But to do so, they will likely have to override Democratic objections and unilaterally change Senate rules so that Gorsuch
can be confirmed with a simple majority
in the 100-seat chamber, instead of the Gorsuch
60-voter threshold.
Though it may seem arcane, the approach is known on
Capitol Hill as the “nuclear option,” because it strikes at
the heart of the Senate’s traditions of bipartisanship and
collegiality.
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Seminar helps students get ‘life-ready’
BY MASON BLANFORD
WASHINGTON — Week by week, country by country,
the Pentagon is quietly seizing more control over warfighting decisions, sending hundreds more troops to war
with little public debate and seeking greater authority to
battle extremists across the Middle East and Africa.
This week it was Somalia, where President Donald
Trump gave the U.S. military more authority to conduct
offensive airstrikes on al-Qaida-linked militants. Next
week it could be Yemen, where military leaders want to
provide more help for the United Arab Emirates’ battle
against Iranian-backed rebels. Key decisions on Iraq,
Syria and Afghanistan are looming, from ending troop
number limits to loosening rules that guide commanders
in the field.
The changes in President Donald Trump’s first two
months in office underscore his willingness to let the
Pentagon manage its own day-to-day combat. Under the
Obama administration, military leaders chafed about
micromanagement that included commanders needing
approval for routine tactical decisions about targets and
personnel moves.
But delegating more authority to the Pentagon — and
combat decisions to lower level officers — carries its own
military and political risks. Casualties, of civilians and
American service members, may be the biggest.
The deepening involvement in counterinsurgency battles, from the street-by-street battles being fought in Iraq
right now to clandestine raids in Yemen and elsewhere,
‘Power
of One’
Wickliffe store keeps
river cooks cooking
BY JOHN PFEIFER
[email protected]
Tugboats traversing the
Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi rivers don’t stop
along their route to take
on fuel or pick up food and
equipment for their crews.
Those things come to them.
Economy Boat Store in
Wickliffe has been delivering groceries, including
Yolantha HarrisonPace of Danville
— a performing arts
specialist, author,
playwright, poet and
missionary — speaks
Saturday night at the
Paducah-McCracken
County NAACP “The
Power of One” Rosa
M. Parks Celebration
at Broadway United
Methodist Church. fresh meat and produce, for
decades from its location
on the lower Mississippi
River, 2 miles south of the
confluence with the Ohio.
“We’re a SuperWalmart
on the river,” said Heather
Gough, office manager at
Economy. “Anything that
they need, they can call and
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WORLD
KFC NO LONGER MOST VALUABLE BRAND
RIVERS OVERFLOW IN COLOMBIA
Kentucky Fried Chicken, long acknowledged
as the state’s most recognizable brand, has
lost its status as the most valuable brand in
Kentucky.
An avalanche of water from three
overflowing rivers tore through a small
city in Colombia while people slept,
destroying homes, sweeping away cars
and killing over 190 people.
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2A • Sunday, April 2, 2017 • The Paducah Sun
The Lineup
Monday
Allied/Honeywell retirees,
breakfast, 7:30 a.m., The Waffle Hut on old Cairo Road, near
Interstate 24, Exit 3.
Paducah Senior Center, free
low-impact exercise for individuals age 60 and older, 10-11
a.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive,
second floor.
Veterans and families,
lunch, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., back
room of The Station Burger
Co., Southside. Sandy Hart,
270-210-2452 or 270-3353128.
Hospice Grief Support
Group, 5-6:30 p.m., Lourdes
North Plaza, 911 Joe Clifton
Drive. Frank Queen, 270-4153636.
Graves County Public Library, Lego program, 5 p.m.
270-247-2911.
Grief Support Group, Parents, 5:30-7 p.m., Franciscan
Room at Lourdes hospital (hallway for Coffee Beanery). Nancy
Litchfield, 270-519-3491.
Lourdes Little Miracles
Childbirth Classes, 6-8:30
p.m., Lourdes Marshall Nemer
Pavilion, Borders Community
Room. Four-week free course.
Season of Honor Support
Group meeting, Caring for your
Aging Loved One, 6:30 p.m.,
First Baptist Church Fellowship
Hall, 2890 Broadway, Paducah.
Birthing Center’s Childbirth
Classes, 4-week classes
scheduled today, April 10, 17
and 24, 6-8 p.m., Borders
Community Room (by main
entrance of Marshall Nemer
Pavilion) 270-444-2243.
WoodmenLife Chapter No.
57, 6 p.m., St. Matthew Lutheran Church. Bring sides
and dessert. Guests: Paducah
Cooperative Ministry and River
City Mission.
Baptist Health Paducah
Stroke Support Group, 3-4:30
p.m., Baptist Heart Center conference room. Mary Legge at
270-575-2880 to register.
AARP with the IRS offers
free tax service to low- and
moderate-income individuals,
special special attention to
those age 50 and older, 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m., Paducah-McCracken
County Senior Center, 1400
H.C. Mathis Drive. Call 270443-8578 for appointment.
Bring 2015 tax return.
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days in advance. Mail to:
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P.O. Box 2300, Paducah, KY
42002-2300; fax the newsroom at 270-442-7859; or
email [email protected].
Announcements are published
day of event. Information:
270-575-8650.
Reunion
• The 68th annual Cuba-Pilot
Oak Alumni dinner will be Friday, April 14, at Cuba Baptist
Church. Registration is at 5
p.m., followed by dinner at 6
p.m. The Class of 1967 will be
the honored 50-year class and
the Class of 1957 the honored
60-year class. Cost of the catered meal is $13.50 per person with reservations no later
than Monday, April 10, by calling either Sheila Clark at 270328-8710 or 270-970-1034;
Sammie Carter at 270-4685816; or Ann Rushing at 270554-3726 or 270-217-4202.
Saturday’s lottery
Kentucky
Pick 3-midday: 5-3-8
Pick 3-evening: 0-0-1
Pick 4-midday: 7-8-0-4
Pick 4-evening: 7-0-8-7
Cash Ball: 7-8-30-32 CB 24
5 Card Cash: 9H-JD-JH-3S-KS
Powerball: 9-32-36-44-65
PB 1 PP 3
Illinois
Pick 3-midday: 7-1-5 FB 3
Pick 3-evening: 2-7-2 FB 4
Pick 4-midday: 5-1-7-4 FB 6
Pick 4-evening: 1-0-7-4 FB 9
Lucky Day-midday: 9-11-40-43-45
Lucky Day-evening: 2-15-20-28-33
Lotto: 4-8-12-13-45-48 ES 13
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Early April is trophy
largemouth bass time
BY LEE MCCLELLAN
Kentucky Afield Magazine
Now that the Kentuckybased teams are no longer
in the NCAA basketball
tournament, the Final
Four isn’t nearly as exciting, and somewhat depressing, to watch.
The best cure for any
bruised feelings left by
March Madness is to get
out in early April and
chase largemouth bass.
A huge largemouth bass
shaking its head vigorously trying to throw your
white spinnerbait soothes
any broken basketball
heart.
Water
temperatures
range from 52 degrees at
Lake Cumberland in the
east to 58 degrees on Kentucky Lake in the west. In
other words, it is prime
time.
“With water temperatures in the mid-50s, the
big female largemouth
bass are staging,” said Jeff
Ross, assistant director of
Fisheries for the Kentucky
Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources. “They
are moving from their
deeper winter locations to
spawning locations in the
shallows. They definitely
work their way shallow in
stages, but a cold front can
push them back for a short
period.”
At this time of year, the
male largemouth bass
move shallow first to build
nests, followed by the female bass to lay their eggs.
“Recently, I caught a lot
of largemouth bass, but
they were all small male
bass,” said Easton Copley,
aquatic education program coordinator for Kentucky Fish and Wildlife.
“When you look at their
lips, they were roughed up
and bloodied. They looked
like they had lipstick on
them from making spawning beds.”
Copley
recommends
looking for those staging
areas to catch the large
female largemouths. Female largemouth bass
stage where large mud
flats drop-off into deeper
water. This is especially
true on smaller stateowned lakes.
“At this time of year, I
am not looking for numbers of bass,” Copley explained. “I am fishing for
big females.”
Ross said to hit the secondary points or ledges
near shallow water on the
larger reservoirs, such as
Kentucky Lake or Barren
River Lake. “When the
Staff report
Deputies: Dog causes
crash on Interstate 24
A Paducah woman crashed
her car Saturday on Interstate
24 after her dog distracted her
and caused her to lose control of the vehicle, McCracken
County deputies reported.
Deputies said Kathalena
Jackson, 30, of Paducah, was
driving eastbound at 11:35
a.m. in a 2003 Nissan Maxima.
Between the 14- and 15-mile
markers, her dog jumped from
the backseat into her lap,
causing her to swerve and
hit a cable barrier, according
to deputies.
Jackson was taken to
Lourdes hospital for minor injuries, deputies said. One eastbound lane on I-24 was closed
for about 45 minutes.
— Staff report
Road closure starting
Monday in Livingston
KDFWR photo
Keith Brown of Farmington holds three reasons why
Kentucky Lake is considered one of the best largemouth
bass lakes in the southeastern United States. April is a
prime month to hook up with some hogs like these.
Copley’s favorite lake is
females hit those secondary
points in spring, they are south-central Kentucky’s
pretty close to spawning,” he Green River Lake. He also
likes 784-acre Cedar Creek
said.
Copley said when water Lake in Lincoln County.
temperatures climb to 60 “Guist Creek Lake near
degrees, the larger female Shelbyville has lots of big
bass move into their shal- fish, but can be tough to
low water spawning areas. fish because of high fishing
“I look for rocky banks and pressure,” he said.
Kentucky Lake and Lake
transitional banks from
rocky to mud,” he said. “If Barkley ranked number 4
you can find a laydown tree in the Southeast Region
on this kind of bank, all the for 2016 on Bassmaster Magazine’s Best Bass
better.”
Copley throws a variety of Lakes in the Country ranklures when spawning bass ings. These lakes offer arare up shallow. “I’ve caught guably the best chance in
a lot of bass on a square- Kentucky to catch largebilled crankbait in the Sexy mouth bass 4 pounds and
Shad color,” he said. “I also larger
“We have many lakes
catch quite a few on jigs.
Black and blue is my go-to where you don’t need a 20jig color for lakes with some foot bass boat to catch a
color to the water. In clear big bass,” Ross explained.
water, I like the Cumberland “Our smaller state-owned
Craw color for my jigs at this lakes, such as Kincaid
Lake in northern Kentucky
time of year.”
White spinnerbaits with a and Lake Malone in westwhite and chartreuse trailer ern Kentucky, are trophy
also draw strikes from shal- largemouth bass lakes.
low spring largemouth bass. Both of these lakes have
“When the bite gets tough, excellent facilities for anI pull out a Shakey head glers at Lake Malone State
with a black and blue 7-inch Park and Kincaid Lake
straight-tailed worm,” Co- State Park. Beshear Lake,
pley said. Anglers who plan mainly located inside Pento release their catch need nyrile State Forest in westto release the female large- ern Kentucky, is always a
mouth bass back to the big bass producer. Cranks
same area during the spawn. Creek Lake in southeast“Take a photo and get them ern Kentucky also has
back in the water as soon as some huge bass in it.”
The Final Four may be a
possible so they can get back
to their spawning,” Copley bummer for Kentuckians
this year, but warm days
said. “They are full of eggs.”
Kentucky anglers have and trophy largemouth
oodles of options to catch bass will put the NCAA
spring largemouth bass. tournament in the rearCheck the 2017 Fishing view mirror.
Remember to buy your
Forecast for productive
largemouth bass lakes near 2017-2018 fishing license
if you haven’t already.
you.
Lourdes Hospice day camp
offers help for grieving kids
Lourdes Hospice is committed to providing support for both patients and
their families during times
of transition, illness, death
and grief. For more than
10 years, Lourdes Hospice
has offered Camp Robin,
a day camp that provides
support and counseling
to children affected by
the loss of a loved one or
friend. This year’s camp
will be from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. April 29 at Heartland
Worship Center. Registration begins at 8:45 a.m.
Camp Robin consists of
therapeutic activities in a
fun, safe environment to
help children (ages 4-17)
deal with grief. The camp
is offered free to children and their parents or
guardians living in West-
Local
ern Kentucky and Southern
Illinois. Campers will enjoy
Animal Tales, Pet Therapy
with LOAL dogs and Cassidy’s Cause horses, a free
lunch, arts and crafts, story
and letter writing time and
a memorial ceremony with
a balloon send-off at 1:45
p.m. to end the day. Sessions available for parents
or guardians that will be offered include “How to Help
Yourself” and “Helping Children Grieve.”
“We continually work to
improve our camp and the
techniques that will most
benefit those who attend,”
said Shannah D. Poindexter, community relationship manager. “Our teen
program, like the other agegrouped sessions, focuses
on specific needs that teens
face. Just being around oth-
ers your same age who
have experienced loss enables an open atmosphere
and the understanding
that ‘I am not alone.’ This
year we have a group of
teen volunteers who will
help and further enhance
the idea of kids helping
kids.”
Camp Robin was named
to honor a Lourdes Hospice patient who passed
away in the fall of 2005;
she died at 13.
For registration information or volunteer
opportunities,
contact
Shannah Poindexter at
270-415-3636 or [email protected] or stop
by Lourdes Hospice at
911 Joe Clifton Drive. You
can also register online
at http://www.elourdes.
com/camprobin.asp.
Parts of Ky. 866 and Paradise Road in Livingston County
will be closed starting Monday and will last until Friday.
A contractor for the Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet is in the
final stages of constructing the
Gum Creek Fork Bridge. The closure starts at the Ky.
93/Luka Road intersection and
will not have a marked detour.
— Staff report
Tartan Day celebration
planned in Paducah
Paducah will celebrate National Tartan Day on Thursday
at 6 p.m. at the Artisan Kitchen
Café, 1704 Broadway.
Honor Paducah’s Celtic heritage with bagpipes, Celtic music, traditional Scottish food, a
nip of the barrel and featured
speaker Kentucky Supreme
Court Justice Bill Cunningham.
Tickets are $25 per person.
For more information, contact
Gayle Kaler at 270-556-7218.
— Staff report
Tree giveaway Wednesday
at extension office
On Wednesday, the McCracken County Civic Beautification
Board is giving away trees at
the McCracken County Cooperative Extension Service office
beginning at 10 a.m. until they
are gone.
There will be willow oak and
pecan trees. The limit is two
trees per McCracken County
family. The extension office is located at 2025 New Holt Road.
— Staff report
McCracken
District Court
Jan. 26
Lequita J. Smith, 47, 1246 Vasseur
Ave., Paducah — violation of Kentucky
emergency protective order or domestic
violence order; 60 days with one day
credit for time served, two-year conditional discharge, no further offenses, abide
by emergency protective order or domestic violence order.
Dustin A. Alderice, 35, 11819 Ky. 339
North, Melber, violation of Kentucky emergency protective order or domestic violence order; 30 days with two day credit
for time served. Contempt of court; 10
days, consecutive.
Evan M. Fields, 22, 1433 Gage Road,
La Center, theft by unlawful taking or displacement — shoplifting, under $500;
60 days, serve three with one day credit
for time served, two-year conditional discharge, no further offenses, stay out of
Kentucky Oaks Mall, pay $195.
Adam M. Spraggs, 32, 2855 Ricky Blvd.,
West Paducah, fourth-degree assault, domestic violence, minor injury; 365 days,
two-year conditional discharge, no further
offenses, drug and alcohol assessment,
follow through with recommendations,
domestic violence assessment, follow
through with recommendations, no contact with victim, abide by emergency protective order, pay $470.
Robert M. Oliver, 32, 7248 Mayfield
Road, Wickliffe, second-degree possession of a controlled substance, drug unspecified; 10 days, two-year conditional
discharge, no further offenses, forfeit
items seized, pay $395.
James S. Hamilton, 34, 526 Oaklawn
Drive, Paducah, theft by unlawful taking or
displacement — shoplifting, under $500;
45 days, serve 10, two-year conditional
discharge, no further offenses, stay out
of JCPenney in McCracken County, restitution.
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The Paducah Sun • Sunday, April 2, 2017 • 3A
KFC no longer state’s most valuable brand
Staff report
In what may be seen as
symbolic of changing attitudes, Kentucky Fried
Chicken (KFC), the
fast food chain that has
long been the Bluegrass
State’s most recognizable brand, has lost its
status as the most valuable brand in Kentucky
– to Louisville-based
health insurance provider Humana, according to Brand Finance,
a leading valuation
and strategy consultancy who evaluates the
brands of thousands of
the world’s biggest companies each year.
A brand’s strength is
assessed (based on factors such as marketing
investment,
familiarity, preference, sustainability and margins) to
determine what proportion of a business’s revenue is contributed by the
brand. This is projected
into perpetuity to determine the brand’s value.
America’s 500 most
valuable brands, classified by both their industry and their state, are
featured in the Brand
Finance U.S. 500.
The fact that it was
a health insurer that
usurped KFC’s top spot
is fitting, as KFC’s struggles are largely attributable to consumers who
are increasingly moving
away from fast food and
toward healthier and
fast casual alternatives.
The company is taking
steps to reverse its fortunes, having appointed
a new head of U.S. operations this month. It has
a big task on its hands
— KFC’s brand value decline of 27 percent was
the largest of any restaurant chain in the US 500
list.
Humana, meanwhile,
has positioned its brand
around the #StartwithHealthy
campaign,
which targeted seniors
through TV advertising,
focusing on the benefits
of being healthy. The
Louisville-based firm is
now the fifth-most valuable U.S. health insurer,
behind
UnitedHealth
Group, Anthem, Aetna
and Medtronic.
Nationally, the same
trend was evident in
many others in the
fast food industry. The
brand values of McDonald’s, Taco Bell,
Pizza Hut, Subway and
Domino’s all feel due to
heavy competition in an
increasingly fragmented
market, with healthier
challenger brands offering greater choice for
consumers.
In 2017 Apple has seen
nearly $40 billion wiped
off its brand value. Apple over-exploited the
goodwill of its customers by failing to maintain its technological advantage and delivering
tweaks to existing products rather than new innovation. Brand value
has fallen 27 percent
since early 2016 to $107
billion, meaning that for
the first time in over five
years, America (and the
world) has a new most
valuable brand.
Six years after it last
held the title in 2011,
Google is now the world’s
most valuable brand
with a value of $109 billion. Google remains
largely unchallenged in
its core search business,
the mainstay of its advertising income. However, as Brand Finance
CEO David Haigh said,
“the recent controversy
over Google’s place-
ment of customers’ ads
alongside undesirable
content illustrates that
even companies with
apparently
dominant
market positions must
be conscious of the risks
to their most valuable
asset, their brand.”
Amazon is growing
strongly; its brand value
is up 53 percent year on
year. With a brand value
only fractionally behind
Apple and Google, Amazon could easily become
the most valuable brand
in the U.S. in 2018,
Haigh said.
To view the full list
of America’s 500 most
valuable brands visit
www.brandirectory.
com.
Mayor wants to remain face Trump’s rollback of rules
of embattled Missouri town electrifies coal workers
BY JIM SALTER
Associated Press
BY MEAD GRUVER
FERGUSON, Mo. —
Ferguson’s leadership
has changed drastically
since the 2014 shooting
of Michael Brown put
the St. Louis suburb at
the center of the debate
over the treatment of
blacks by the nation’s
police forces.
The one constant
has been Mayor James
Knowles III, who is asking voters for another
three years on Tuesday
in what surely has become one of the toughest
political jobs in America.
Knowles, who is finishing his second term,
is running against Ella
Jones, a city council
member and retired
businesswoman who is
hoping to become the
first black mayor of predominantly black Ferguson.
It’s not for the money
or power that Knowles
and Jones want the job
— it pays $4,200 annually and the city manager runs day-to-day
operations in the city of
roughly 20,000. It’s the
love of their community
and the opportunity to
be its face to the outside
world, or to continue
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Associated Press
Ferguson, Mo., Mayor James Knowles III speaks
Thursday during a mayoral forum. Ferguson voters
will head to the polls this week to pick between
Knowles and challenger Ella Jones.
being it, in the case of
Knowles, who grew up
in Ferguson.
“These past three
years have been very difficult, but I’ve been the
one who has shown I
can lead through tough
times,” said Knowles.
“That I can take the
heat but also make the
changes, the reforms
necessary to make the
community move forward.”
Since the killing of
Brown, an unarmed
black teenager, by a
white police officer following a struggle in Au-
gust 2014, Knowles has
borne the brunt of a lot
of anger, as Ferguson
went from a mostly unheard-of St. Louis suburb to a flash-point on
racial unrest.
After months of protests
following
the
shooting, people rioted
that November when a
grand jury declined to
charge the officer, who
resigned that month.
There was further unrest the following March
when the U.S. Department of Justice cleared
the officer of wrongdoing.
Police seek man who stole minivan
Staff report
Authorities are on the
lookout for a man who
allegedly stole a minivan from the Lourdes
hospital parking lot, according to the Paducah
Police Department.
Police said an employee reported at 4:55
p.m. Saturday that the
man got into a parked
2010 Chrysler Town and
Country minivan and
fled the area.
The employee described the man as white
— early or mid-20s —
with brown hair and
tattoos covering his left
arm. He was wearing a
white T-shirt and blue
jeans.
The minivan was later
found parked and empty
in the roadway at Pecan
Drive and Alben Barkley
Drive.
Paducah Police are
seeking any information
relating to the identity
and whereabouts of the
suspect.
GILLETTE, Wyo. —
This
hardscrabble
Wyoming city of about
30,000 people proclaims itself the “Energy Capital of the Nation” on the mayor’s
blue blazer and even
the parking ticket payment boxes.
Nearby are some
of the world’s largest
open-pit mines, where
dump trucks the size
of houses haul out
more than 40 percent
of the coal produced
in the U.S. The windy,
wide-open landscape
around Gillette also
has substantial reserves of natural gas,
oil and uranium.
So when President
Donald Trump lifted
a federal coal leasing moratorium and
ordered a review of
greenhouse gas regulations, the announcement electrified many
workers here who depend on fossil fuels for
their livelihood. After
years of layoffs and
corporate bankruptcies, they are optimistic that jobs and a better economy will soon
return.
“It’s not all rosy
right now. But anytime you can see the
future and know that
the United States,
you know, is working
with you rather than
against you, that alone
is nice,” Gillette Mayor
Louise Carter-King said.
She predicts the community will “come out
of this bigger and better than ever” thanks to
clean-coal technology
and overseas exports.
But the skepticism
expressed by many
economists and energy
experts throughout the
campaign has not eased.
They say the global coal
market has little room
for additional coal from
Wyoming and especially
from Appalachia, where
mines are not just scaling back but closing altogether.
Nationwide, the coal
industry has shed some
60,000 jobs, or more
than 40 percent of its
non-office
workforce,
since 2011. “Utilities
are just staying away
from coal. So that hasn’t
changed. That didn’t
change after the election,
and it hasn’t changed
since the executive order,” said Rob Godby,
director of the Center
for Energy Economics and Public Policy at
the University of Wyoming. “The problem is
that with the stroke of a
pen, the president can’t
change market conditions very easily.”
Academics with doctorates aren’t dampening Gillette’s newfound
optimism for Trump’s
order.
“I think it’s freaking
great,” said Scott Baysinger, operations manager of Baysinger Trucking, which supplies
dump trucks and other
heavy machinery to the
coal industry. “Last year
was a horrible year for
us. This year already is
better. We’ve been better all year long.”
Last year, in fact, was
the worst for U.S. coal
production since 1978.
Utilities continued to
switch to cheaper and
cleaner-burning natural
gas to generate electricity, and the cost of wind
and solar energy continued to decline.
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Editorial
JACKPOT
Be on alert for mischief
with Volkswagen money
Gov. Matt Bevin vetoed
part or all of four bills
passed by the Kentucky
General Assembly during
the 2017 session. Last week
lawmakers overrode every
one of those vetoes.
This was a bit unusual
in terms of recent history.
There hasn’t been a veto
override since 2013. But
it is probably not that
surprising given that all of
the measures Bevin vetoed
originally passed by large
margins.
The topic gaining the most
media attention is Bevin’s
veto of a portion of a bill
saying that the Legislature
alone may decide how to
spend up to $100 million the
state anticipates receiving
from a legal settlement with
Volkswagen. The windfall
is the result of a multistate
action against the automaker
for cheating on emissions
tests.
Bevin says he vetoed
the provision because the
Legislature is not in session
most of the year and he
wanted flexibility on the
money. We tend to side with
the Legislature on this one.
Constitutionally it does have
the power of the purse. It is
different in our mind from
Bevin’s effort last year to cut
the budget by not spending
money that had been
appropriated.
That’s not to say the
retention by the Legislature
of this pot of money gives
us comfort however.
Kentucky has a bad history
of irresponsibility with such
windfalls.
he most striking
example is the
national tobacco
litigation settlement of
2000. The theory of that
litigation was that states
suffered substantial direct
harm from tobacco in the
form of elevated Medicaid
costs. Kentucky, which had
one of the highest smoking
rates in the nation, was
particularly affected.
The result was $3.5 billion
in payments to Kentucky
over a 25-year period. One
would think the state would
have applied that money
T
to its Medicaid program
to reduce the burden on
taxpayers. And of course,
one would be wrong.
Instead the General
Assembly signed off on
then-Gov. Paul Patton’s plan
to devote only 25 percent of
the money to health care.
Another 25 percent was
diverted to fund a Patton pet
program — early childhood
development (which
happened to be Patton’s
daughter’s career choice).
he remaining
50 percent was
distributed via a
new Patton creation: the
Kentucky Agriculture
Development Board. The
governor himself chaired the
panel and he appointed 11 of
its 15 members. The panel
oversaw distribution of $180
million in settlement money
over the next two years for
such ventures as catfish and
prawn ponds and an ill-fated
fish processing facility. It
was patronage writ large.
And it was a travesty.
An ironic side note: While
neighboring Illinois used its
tobacco windfall to cut taxes
by $350 million in 2000,
Kentucky saw fit to raise
taxes to the tune of $170
million that year.
Our main point however
is that regardless of who
controls this new settlement
money in Frankfort, the
temptation for mischief will
be great. It is obvious where
this $100 million windfall
needs to go. It should be
used to mitigate Kentucky’s
$30 billion-plus public
employee pension shortfall.
But we predict lawmakers
will be sorely tempted to
instead divvy the money
up for goodies that can be
handed out in their home
districts around election
time, reviving a sordid
tradition killed off by the
tight budgets of recent years.
Legislators have made
one thing clear: They and
they alone will decide how
to spend this jackpot. At a
minimum we hope Bevin
will use his bully pulpit to
shame them out of the sort
of misbehavior that has
marked the past.
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TV, avoiding arrest and more
Most Americans now
day he was going to be in
spend an average of five
Florida,” a sheriff’s deputy
hours a day in front of a
said.
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television, studies have
found.
If the success of college
While there are worse adbasketball teams correlated
dictions, there’s little doubt
with their coaches’ pay,
that the massive amount
Monday’s NCAA title game
of time we devote to TV
would match Louisville
comes at the expense of
against Kentucky.
Steve Wilson Louisville’s Rick Pitino
doing other things. Many of
us have vowed to cut back,
Executive Editor and UK’s John Calipari
only to find the pledge too
ranked at the top of the list
hard to keep.
of highly paid college basketball coaches,
Teal Burrell, a young woman who lives
USA Today reported this week. Pitino’s pay
in Washington, D.C., is an exception. Three package totaled $7,769,200, and Calipari’s
years ago, she decided to keep her eyes off was second at $7,435,376.
TV entirely for a year and managed to stick
The distance between those two and the
with it.
next highest paid coaches was wide. Duke’s
In a Washington Post piece last week,
Mike Krzyzewski made $5,550,475, and
she explained how staying away from TV
Bill Self of Kansas collected $4,932,626.
made a notable difference in her life. It not
Ten days ago, Calipari signed a contract
only helped her finish a Ph.D. in neurosci- extension to 2024 with UK that will raise
ence, it also gave her more time to train for his total guaranteed compensation to $7.75
her goal of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic million for the 2017-18 season and $8 miltrials in the marathon, which she did.
lion for each of the following seasons.
■■■
“For all the time we spend with it, TV
doesn’t repay us very nicely,” she wrote.
This week I came across words that have
“People who watch more television are
long puzzled me by the poet T.S. Eliot
generally unhappier, heavier and worse
— “April is the cruellest month” — and
sleepers.”
decided to read up on how such a bright
When she started her no-TV year, one of man (he won a Nobel Prize in Literature in
the first things she noticed was how much
1948) could have come to such a dubious
more she liked weeknights. Sans television, conclusion.
she had more time for reading or houseApril is usually the most beautiful month
hold chores or social activity, and she got
in my book, and that’s especially true in
to bed earlier.
this region, which will look its absolute
“I didn’t automatically collapse on the
best in the days ahead.
couch only to look up hours later, surEliot was living in England when he
prised so much time had passed,” she
wrote that line at the beginning of “The
wrote.
Waste Land,” a long and complex poem.
Her husband wasn’t willing to join her
April may not be quite as beckoning there
experiment, but he cooperated by wearas it is here, but it would be close.
ing headphones whenever he watched TV
I found three different explanations for
around her.
his put-down. One is that April’s mix of
She now allows herself to watch a few
weather can be cruel — teasing us with
shows but is convinced that “TV is better in sunshine, flowers and warmth one day
small doses, not turned on instinctively to
before rain, mud and chills the next.
channel-surf or fill the silence.”
Another is that he was reacting against
■■■
what one critic called “the cheerfulness,
Police reports don’t often offer advice to smoothness and obviousness of preceding
poets.” Eliot was still in the early part of
people about how to stay out of trouble,
but the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in his career and wanted to boldly separate
Florida provided a good tip a few days ago. himself from others.
Yet another holds that he was mildly deIts comment accompanied a report on
the arrest of Alden Whiteside, a University pressed, coping with health problems and
an unhappy marriage. The vitality and joy
of Alabama student who was pulled over
of April stood in sharp contrast to the way
on Interstate 10.
he was feeling, and the sense of renewal
“If you’re only 19 years old and heading
often associated with the month would go
to spring break in Destin with seven 30unfulfilled for him.
pack cases of beer in your truck, mariWhatever his thinking, he was mistaken.
juana in the center console, and an altered
April typically turns out to be the most
driver’s license to make your age 24, you
refreshing, colorful and alluring month of
probably don’t want to be speeding and
the year as the next four weeks will once
driving recklessly on Interstate 10.”
again show.
The student apparently planned on doReach Steve Wilson at
ing some serious drinking.
[email protected].
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Snow hits New England
during April Fools’ Day
BY WILSON RING
Associated Press
Colombian Army Photo via AP
Soldiers and residents work together during rescue efforts Saturday in Mocoa, Colombia, after an avalanche of water from an overflowing river swept
through the city as people slept.
At least 193 dead
after rivers overflow
BY CHRISTINE
ARMARIO
Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia —
An avalanche of water
from three overflowing
rivers tore through a
small city in Colombia
while people slept, destroying homes, sweeping away cars and killing
at least 193 unsuspecting residents.
The incident triggered
by a sudden, heavy rainstorm happened around
midnight in Mocoa, a
provincial capital of
about 40,000 tucked between mountains near
Colombia’s
southern
border with Ecuador.
Muddy water quickly
surged through the city’s
streets, toppling homes,
ripping trees from their
roots and carrying a
torrent of rocks and debris downstream. Many
residents did not have
enough time to flee.
According to the Red
Cross, 202 people were
injured and 220 believed
missing. President Juan
Manuel Santos declared
a state of emergency and
said the death toll will
likely rise but warned
against
speculating
about how many are
dead. Late Saturday, he
said the toll had reached
193.
“We don’t know how
many there are going
to be,” he said of the fatalities when he arrived
at the disaster zone to
oversee rescue efforts.
“We’re still looking.”
Eduardo Vargas, 29,
was asleep with his wife
and 7-month-old baby
when he was awoken by
the sound of neighbors
banging on his door.
He quickly grabbed
his family and fled up
a small mountain amid
the cries of people in
panic.
“There was no time for
anything,” he said.
Vargas and his family
huddled with about two
dozen other residents as
rocks, trees and wooden
planks ripped through
their neighborhood below.
They waited there
until daylight, when
members of the military
helped them down.
When he reached the
site of his home Saturday, nothing his family
left behind remained.
“Thank God we have
our lives,” he said.
Most Americans support
independent Russia probe
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A slim
majority of Americans
favor an independent
investigation into the
Trump campaign’s ties
with the Russian government, according to
a new poll by The Associated
Press-NORC
Center for Public Affairs
Research that showed
public views about the
controversy
driving
congressional investigations are sharply divided
along party lines.
Amid questions swirling in Washington that
have forced the resignation of one top Trump
official and the scrutiny
of several others, most
Americans say they’re
at least somewhat concerned about the possibility that the Republican
businessman’s
campaign had inappropriate contacts with the
Russian
government,
but less than half say
they’re very concerned.
More than three-quarters of Democrats favor
an independent investigation into Trump’s
Russian ties while only
one-quarter of Republicans do. Overall, 52 percent of Americans favor
such a probe, while 23
percent are opposed.
Another 22 percent say
they neither favor nor
oppose an investigation.
Asked if they favor an independent investigation
into the issue of Moscow’s meddling in the
2016 campaign, Americans broke along similar
margins.
“Russia has always
been an enemy of the
United States and of
democracy across the
world. Our politicians
have no business making secret deals with
them. That’s not the
America I know,” said
John Dodd, 68, who
runs a bowling alley in
Big Spring, Texas.
Questions
about
possible ties between
Trump’s
associates
and Russian officials
have dogged the White
House.
Since July, the FBI
has been conducting a
counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s
interference in the election and possible coordination with Trump
associates. House and
Senate intelligence committees, led by Republican lawmakers, are
also investigating. Some
Democratic leaders have
called for an independent investigation, say-
ing the congressional
probes, particularly the
House investigation, has
been tainted by political
interference from the
White House.
MONTPELIER, Vt.
— It’s April Fools’
Day, but this is no
joke: People across
northern New England woke up to a foot
of heavy, wet snow on
parts of the region Saturday and conducted
weekend business as
more fell throughout
the day.
The storm caused
power outages and numerous highway accidents. By evening, the
number of electric customers without power across Vermont,
New Hampshire and
Maine had dropped
to close to zero from
overnight totals that
reached into the tens
of thousands. The
winter storm warning
for Vermont and New
Hampshire expired,
but remained in place
for parts of Maine until 8 p.m.
“This is Mother
Nature’s idea of an
April Fools’ joke,” said
meteorologist
Eric
Schwibs of the National Weather Service in
Gray, Maine.
While it might be
disheartening to see
snow so late in the
Associated Press
A woman walks with an umbrella as snow falls
Saturday in Boston.
season, it’s not unusual.
The record for Portland,
Maine, was 15 inches (38
centimeters) on April 10,
1906.
Winter
already
brought more snow than
normal to northern New
England this year. Portland recorded 84.4 inches of snow, 2 feet above
normal for the city; Concord, New Hampshire,
had 73.8 inches, about
15 inches above normal.
While the storm may
have sent some people
back to bed, friends from
Massachusetts on a visit
to Maine were reveling
in the snow.
“If you live in New
England, you have to
expect Mother Nature to
keep you on your toes,”
said Erik Lustgarten, of
Newburyport.
“It couldn’t be on a
better day, April Fools’,”
Tracy Neff said. “I think
it’s fabulous. It’s beautiful, it’s fun, everyone’s
festive.”
Bradford, New Hampshire, about 20 miles
west of the capital, Concord, reported 18 inches
(46 centimeters) of snow
while the nearby town of
Washington reported 17
inches.
Snow-related crashes
were reported on the
Maine Turnpike.
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lina, who’s spent decades working with
school systems as a process and performance
consultant.
“Kids (also) need to
know who they are and
have a sense of themselves,” said Bilak, business and community
relations consultant for
Paducah Public Schools.
She added that Life
101 was meant to complement programs funded by the Work Ready
Skills Initiative Grant
— $3.8 million recently
bestowed to Paducah
Public Schools to help
students prepare for college and the workforce.
“They’re not going to
know what to do with
their lives at age 16, but
we can give them a compass and some tools so
they’re at least heading
in the right direction,”
she said.
Several students present were members of the
B.A.B.E.S. (Becoming
Accomplished Beautiful
Excellent and Successful) mentoring group,
sponsored by the Tornado Alley Youth Services
Center at Tilghman.
“Our main focus is to
It would allow all future Supreme Court nominees to be confirmed without regard to the objections of the minority party. And senators of both
parties say that proceeding with the rules change
could ultimately lead to complete elimination of
the minority party’s ability to block legislation via
filibuster, one of the few remaining mechanisms
that force bipartisan cooperation in Congress.
“Once you go down this path it’s awful easy just
to keep going, and that is not a good thing,” said
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., a senior lawmaker.
Nevertheless, Republican senators are fully
prepared to take the step, blaming Democrats for
forcing them into it by preparing to filibuster a
well-qualified nominee.
And Democrats are just as ready to push the
GOP to pull the trigger, even as they argue that
McConnell and Republicans will have only themselves to blame.
“He can prove that he cares about the Senate by
not changing the rules,” Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer of New York told The Associated Press,
referring to McConnell.
As of now, Gorsuch claims support from 54
senators — the 52 Republicans, along with two
moderate Democrats who are up for re-election in
states Trump won, Joe Manchin of West Virginia
and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. One by one,
most of the other Democrats have lined up against
Gorsuch, citing his rulings in favor of corporations or his vague answers during his confirmation
hearings. Though Democrats remain a handful shy
of the 41 votes that would be required to mount a
filibuster and trigger a rules change, it is the widely
expected outcome.
“I remain very worried about our polarized politics and what the future will bring, since I’m certain
we will have a Senate rule change that will usher in
more extreme judges in the future,” Democratic
Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said Friday.
MASON BLANFORD | The Sun
Mayor Brandi Harless met with Paducah Tilghman High School students
Saturday for Life 101 — a seminar inviting young women from all walks of
life to discuss their dreams and how to achieve them. Monica Bilak (top left),
business and community relations consultant for Paducah Public Schools, coordinated the event with Cherry Woodburn (next to Bilak), who’s worked with
school systems for decades as a process and performance consultant. Also
pictured is event organizer Lakilia Bedeau (top right), director of Tornado Alley
Youth Services at PTHS.
teach them communication and leadership
skills,” director Lakilia
Bedeau said. “The soft
skills many teachers
don’t have time to (cover) because of so many
other obligations.”
Freshman
Alexis
Jernigan, 15, took the
event to heart — specifically, Harless’ message.
“She had some positive,
encouraging
words,” Jernigan said.
“She seems like she’s
been through things and
gotten through them. As
long as you can dream it,
you can do it.”
At the end of the
seminar, other students
discussed what they
learned. “People see me
as timid, and I want to
be different than how
people see me,” said
sophomore Angel Kirby,
17. “I’ve learned a lot
about myself, and how
I want my future to be.”
Senior Nakitia Finch,
17, realized that pushing her limits doesn’t
mean anxiety has to
rule her life. “It might
sound funny, but today I
learned how to breathe,”
Finch said. “I stress out
about things that don’t
really deserve it, but I do
feel like I want to expose
myself to things that
make me more uncomfortable.”
forts against similarly
inspired groups.
Similarly,
allowing
lower level commanders to make more timely
airstrike decisions in
densely populated areas
like the streets of Mosul,
Iraq, can result in more
civilian deaths. The
U.S. military already
is investigating several
bombings in Mosul in
mid-March that witnesses say killed at least
100 people. And it is
considering new tactics
and precautions amid
evidence suggesting extremists are smuggling
civilians into buildings
and then baiting the
U.S.-led coalition into
attacking.
Alice Hunt Friend, a
senior fellow at the Cen-
ter for Strategic and International Studies, cited yet another concern:
Military operations becoming “divorced from
overall foreign policy”
could make both civilian
leaders and the military
vulnerable to runaway
events.
But top military leaders say they need to
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increases the chances of
U.S. troops dying. Such
tragedies could raise the
ire of the American public and create political
trouble with Congress at
a time when the Trump
administration is trying
to finish off the Islamic
State group in Iraq and
Syria and broaden ef-
be able to act quicker
against U.S. enemies.
And
they’ve
been
staunchly supported by
Trump, who has promised to pursue Islamic
extremists more aggressively and echoed the
view of Pentagon leaders
that the Obama administration’s tight control
over military operations
limited effectiveness.
Explaining his request
for more leeway in Somalia against al-Shabab
militants, Gen. Thomas
Waldhauser, head of
U.S. Africa Command,
told
Congress
this
month that more flexibility and “timeliness”
in decision-making process was necessary.
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order.”
Economy has full
hardware and grocery
warehouses as well as its
own butcher shop.
“If they want a 2-inch
pork chop,” Gough said,
“we’ll get it for them.”
River cooks place their
orders from a standard
three-page form, usually
getting enough food to
feed a crew of eight to 10
for a week.
“There’s a limit to
freezer and refrigeration
space on a boat,” Gough
said. Although she said
they’d prefer that orders be placed 24 hours
before they’re needed,
“We’ve had them need
things in as little time as
an hour or two.”
Economy stocks everything on their order
form, but custom orders
and special requests are
a daily occurrence.
“Some of the Cajun
boats order things we’ve
never even heard of,”
Gough said, which often results in a Google
search to find out exactly what a cook wants.
“Anything the cook
needs, we can get.”
When orders contain
items that it doesn’t
stock, Economy dispatches one of its “runners” to find them.
Gough said runners go
to Paducah daily, making up to 10 stops and
finish by picking up requested perishable food
items.
“We try to use local
growers and suppliers whenever we can,”
Gough said of the store’s
efforts to get cooks fresh
fruits and vegetables.
Custom orders have
Photo submitted by Economy Boat Store
The Economy Boat Store crew makes a midstream
grocery delivery on the lower Mississipi River.
to be balanced with staples, however, because
each cook has a budget they’re required to
operate within. American Commercial Barge
Line senior cook Doris
Peal said her budget is
$7.59 per meal, per crew
member.
“We develop a really
good relationship with
our cooks,” Gough said.
In addition to delivering
fuel and food, Economy
delivers crew members
and cooks to their tugboats at the beginning
and end of their 28-day
shifts.
Economy is open 247, running three daily
shifts of dispatcher and
crew.
“There are times when
our boats are running
non-stop,” Gough said.
By 9 a.m. last Wednesday its boats had already
made 16 midstream deliveries since midnight,
including eight with a
full grocery order.
The Wickliffe store is
one of Economy’s three
full service locations,
along with the original
store in Wood River,
Illinois, and a store in
Memphis, Tennessee.
Economy originated in
1936 and began midstream refueling in 1951
before expanding services to grocery and hardware delivery a decade
later. Weather sometimes makes midstream
deliveries difficult.
“Fog is the biggest impediment,” Gough said,
and high winds require
deliveries to be limited
to immediately in front
of the store. They usually
operate within a 5-mile
radius of the store.
A severe storm disrupted Economy’s operations on March 7, when
powerful winds tore the
roof off of its main office
and warehouse buildings.
Gough said the store
lost two days of grocery
deliveries, and its offices
were relocated to portable trailers.
A vacant building was
converted to serve as the
primary grocery warehouse, and its butcher
shop service has temporarily shifted to the
Memphis store.
“We’ll probably be operating out of these trailers for close to a year,”
Gough said, “but it won’t
have any effect on the
services we provide.”
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he added, because of concrete, rebar and other materials left over from the
years when the park was
a Paducah Housing Authority development.
As for the park’s surroundings, a roughly
150-foot area off Martin
Luther King Jr. Drive has
been reserved for private reinvestment, which
could take the form of
a mix of residential and
commercial development.
Plans for a $7 million
private housing development along two sides of
the park have been suspended, Planning Director Steve Ervin said.
The city also has retained property across
14th Street for future
residential infill development, but the city hasn’t
yet put out any requests
for proposals.
“I could see that being
a row of townhomes,” Ervin said.
The second phase of
the park’s development
will involve the expansion
of the fitness area, the
spray pad and restrooms.
One corner of the park is
planned to offer a plaza
for farmers markets and
other events.
Thompson said the
city expects the total cost
for that phase to be between $850,000 and
$950,000, with the spray
pad being the most expensive element at about
$500,000.
“We will be looking at
opportunities to fund-
raise,” he said.
Much of the Health
Park has been funded
with grant money and
private donations.
The project in 2014 received a $75,000 Land
and Water Conservation
Fund Grant, which the
city matched.
The Foundation for a
Healthy Kentucky granted $400,000 toward
the park’s development,
while Baptist Health
Paducah and Lourdes
hospital each contributed
$25,000.
“In my experience it
is rare that you get this
much grant funding,” said
Sheryl Chino, city grants
administrator.
“We’ve
had a lot of public-private
cooperation,
especially
locally.”
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The Health Park near the Fountain Avenue neighborhood is currently in
the first of two construction phases – which includes grading, drainage,
a walking trail, fitness area and expansion of the community garden.
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Prairie, Mo., watches the
Fire Ball ride loop around
its track during the 174th
annual Fair and Tater Day
Festival on Saturday in
Benton.
Below, AJ Haddock, 2, of
Paducah bounces on a
trampoline while his father,
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watches.
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Obituaries
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Funeral notices
Paid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Thomas Aaron Butler Sr.
December
13,
1937-March 31, 2017
Thomas Aaron Butler
Senior, 79, of Paducah,
passed away on March
31, 2017, at the Ray
and Kay
Eckstein
Hospice
Care Center.
He
was born
in Martin, TN to
Fred and
Maurine
Butler
Butler
on December 13, 1937.
Butler graduated from
North Side High School
in Jackson, TN and received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Union
University in 1961. His
career in broadcasting began as a play-byplay announcer during
his high school years at
North Side and continued as a DJ at WTJS in
Jackson, TN.
Butler began his career in television in 1962
at WPSD-TV and retired
as Vice President of
News/Anchor in 1997.
During his career, he
interviewed presidents,
covered monumental local and national events,
mentored many upand-coming outstanding journalists and was
welcomed into thousands of homes nightly.
As a result of his passion, natural talent and
journalistic integrity, he
will be inducted into the
Kentucky
Journalism
Hall of Fame on April
28, 2017.
Butler, a devout Christian, served as Choir Director/Music Minister at
East Baptist Church for
42 years. In addition, he
served as a Deacon for
over 30 years and Chairman of the Deacons for
25 years. Butler was
elected as a Delegate to
the Kentucky Baptist
Convention and in 2000
was nominated as President of the organization.
His familiar baritone
singing voice was often
heard at local and regional churches and the
WPSD Telethon of Stars.
Butler served as President of the Community
Concert
Association
of Paducah for several
years. He was an avid
golfer and was a familiar
sight on his favorite golf
course, Paxton Park.
Tom and Janice Butler
were married in 2005.
They traveled extensively, sang together and
enjoyed time with their
church family.
Butler was devoted to
his family. He was preceded in death by his
wife of 31 years, Phyllis.
Together they had two
children, Tom Jr. and
Amy. He was also preceded in death by his parents, Fred and Maurine
Butler; and sister, Betty
McCleary. Butler is survived by his wife Janice;
son, Tom Butler Jr. and
wife Gail; daughter, Amy
Leigh Butler; grandchildren, Lauren Michelle
Barrow, Randall E. (R2)
Barrow, Shawn Chester
and Tony Chester; greatgrandson Aaron Chester; brothers, Jimmy
Butler, Larry Butler, and
Rod Butler. He will also
be missed and lovingly
remembered by nieces,
nephews,
colleagues,
and friends.
Services will be held at
1 p.m. Tuesday, April 4,
2017, at Heartland Worship Center. Visitation
will be held at Heartland on Monday, April
3, 2017, from 4 p.m. to
8 p.m. and from 10 a.m.
to 12 p.m. on Tuesday.
Lindsey Funeral Home
is in charge of arrangements.
The family requests
that expressions of sympathy be made in the
form of donations to the
Ray and Kay Eckstein
Hospice Care Center at
P.O. Box 7100 Paducah,
KY 42002.
Richard Musgrave
William Richard Musgrave, 93, of Paducah
died Friday, March 31,
2017, at Lourdes hospital.
He retired after 20
years of service with the
North Marshall Water
District.
He honorably served
his country in the U.S.
Army during World
War II in Europe. He
was awarded two Purple
Heart medals for injuries sustained during his
service. He was a member of Bethel Baptist
Church.
Mr. Musgrave is survived by his wife of 27
years, Irene (Williams)
Musgrave of Paducah;
five children, Linda
Clark of Martinsville,
Indiana,
Michael
Musgrave of Gilbertsville, Ray Musgrave
of Paducah, Rebecca
Turner of Benton, and
Lisa Buford of Calvert City; nine grandchildren, and several
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in
death by his wife, Geraldine Musgrave; and
two sisters. His parents were Jacob Ray
Musgrave and Opal
(St. John) Musgrave.
Collier
Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
No services or visitation will be scheduled
at Mr. Musgrave’s request.
Harold Edwards
ALMO — Harold
Douglas Edwards, 76,
of Almo died Friday,
March 31, 2017, at Ray
and Kay Eckstein Hospice Care Center in
Paducah.
Mr. Edwards was of
the Baptist faith.
He is survived by his
wife, Gayle Richards
Edwards; two sons,
Michael D. Edwards
of Benton and Mark
D. Edwards of Flower
Mound, Texas; two sisters, Linda Faye Steele
of Lone Oak and Carolyn Bryl Jones of Hardin; one brother, Carl
D. Edwards of Benton;
four grandchildren, and
one great-grandchild
He was also preceded in death by his
first wife, Judy Jackson
Edwards. His parents
were Chester Edwards
and Beryl Mae (Luckett) Edwards.
Services will be at 11
a.m. Tuesday, April 4,
2017, at Collier Funeral
Home. Interment will
be at Gore Cemetery in
Benton.
Friends
may
call from 5 to 8 p.m.
Monday, April 3, 2017,
at the Collier Funeral
Home chapel.
Contributions may
be sent to New Bethel
Baptist Church, 4045
Mayfield Hwy., Benton,
KY 42025.
Curtis Edward Russell
EDDYVILLE — Curtis
Edward Russell, age 70,
of Eddyville, Kentucky,
formerly of Paducah,
Kentucky, passed away
at his home earlier this
year after a lengthy illness.
He was preceded in
death by his parents,
Ernest and Alta (Willoughby) Russell of
Paducah.
Mr. Russell leaves his
wife of 51 years, Marguerite (Warner), and
son, Craig Russell, both
of Eddyville; their son,
Brian Russell, along
with wife Janine (Fires)
and their children, Layla
and Landon, of Covington, Kentucky; a sister,
Joyce Burnett (Robert),
as well as nieces and
nephews, all of Atlanta,
Georgia.
He was a member of
Bellview Baptist Church
in Paducah and had
retired
f r o m
Calvert
C i t y
Metals
and Alloys after more
than 40
years’
Russell
service.
A memorial service
will be held on his birthday, Saturday, April
8, at Bellview Baptist
Church in Paducah with
visitation at 2 p.m. and
the service following at
3 p.m.
The family requests
that no flowers be sent.
Expressions of sympathy may be sent to
the American Diabetes
Association, the American Heart Association
or Bellview Baptist
Church. Lindsey’s Funeral Home assisted
with arrangements.
Ricky Joe Henson
BENTON — Ricky Joe
Henson, 64, of Benton,
KY passed away at 5:49
a.m. Friday, March 31,
2017, at Ray & Kay Eckstein Hospice Care Center at Lourdes.
Ricky was the former
manager of Gordon Hargrove’s Chevron Service
Station and of the Baptist
faith. He was known for
always carrying around
a Mountain Dew, and
being hospitable to all he
came into contact with.
Ricky always wanted to
feed you and make sure
you had plenty to drink.
He is survived by his
wife, Jeanna Hyatte
Henson of Benton, KY;
one son, Michael and
Lisa Henson of Benton,
KY; three daughters,
Holli Henson and Shelby Williams of Calvert
City, KY, Melissa Henson and Tony Peyton
of Calvert City, KY and
Cheyenne and Justin
Walker of Aurora, KY;
one stepson, Chris and
April Bell of Paducah,
KY; his grandchildren,
Whitney Henson Eakes,
Payton Henson, Tanner
Evans, Madison Evans,
Shann o n
Boss,
Dylan
Jones,
Sierra
Jones,
Keegan
Peyton,
Nolan
Henson
B e l l ,
Gunner
Blankenship,
Maddi Bell and Maverick Bell; two greatgrandchildren, Bentley
Eakes and Emerson
Eakes; one brother,
James Louis Henson of
Benton, KY; two sisters,
Janice Kay Hamlet Aden
and Carol Burkhart both
of Benton, KY; and his
constant furry companions, Scooter and Harley.
Ricky was preceded
in death by his parents,
Gaylon Henson and Lerlene (Kirk) Henson Coplen.
Celebration of Life will
be held at a later date.
Filbeck-Cann & King
Funeral Home & Crematory is in charge of all arrangements. Condolences may be sent at www.
filbeckcannking.com.
Patricia E. Thomas
MAYFIELD — Mrs. Patricia E. Thomas, age 85,
a resident of Mayfield,
passed away at 8:28 a.m.
Saturday, April 1, 2017,
at the Jackson Purchase
Medical Center in Mayfield.
She was a member
of St. Joseph Catholic
Church and a homemaker.
She is survived by seven sons, Evan Thomas,
Mayfield, Kevin B. (Mary
Ann) Thomas, Schaumburg, IL, Norman K.
Thomas, Northampton,
PA, Everette A. (Susan)
Thomas, Hickory, Troy
(Jennifer) Thomas, Mt.
Airy, N.C, Denton G.
(Christine)
Thomas,
West Paducah, Donald C. (Sherri) Thomas,
Cape Girardeau, MO; six
daughters, Patricia G.
(Frank) Tomaszewski,
Des Plaines, IL, Beverly
A. (Mike), Sarasota, FL,
Sandra C. Hatchett, Plano, Ill., Juliana (Gerald)
Hayden, GA., Tyea J.,
(Eric) Hoffman, Mayfield, Lesa M. Wright,
Lone Oak; one sister,
Florence
McPherson,
Lone Oak; one half sister,
Loretta Leyhue, Greenfield, TN; two brothers,
Butch Booker, Cunningham, Mike Tankersley,
West Paducah; one half
Thomas
brother,
T o n y
Booker,
C u n n i n g ham; 26
grandchildren;
and seven greatgrand-
children.
She was preceded
in death by her husband, George Bernard
Thomas; parents, James
Robert Booker, Jr. and
Selma Byrd Booker; one
daughter, Joan Marie
Thomas; one son, William Dennis Thomas;
two brothers, Tolley
Booker and James Booker; and a half brother,
Gary Booker.
A Memorial Mass will
be held at 1 p.m. Monday
at the Brown Funeral
Home in Mayfield with
Father Eric Riley officiating.
Interment will be in
the St. Charles Cemetery.
Friends may call from
11 a.m. until the funeral
hour on Monday at the
Brown Funeral Home in
Mayfield.
Memorial contributions may be made to
the Wounded Warrior
Project.
Ollie D. Hearell
daughMARION — Mr. Ollie
ter, BritD. Hearell, 94, of Marit a n y
on, KY, passed from this
Hearell;
life on Saturday, April 1,
t w o
2017, at Salem Springbrothers,
lake Health and RehaClaude
bilitation in Salem, KY.
a n d
Mr. Hearell was a
Rudell
farmer, employee of RM
Hearell;
Phillips
Construction Hearell
and his
Company, and retired
from the State Highway parents, Willie and Ethel
Department. He was a (Boswell) Hearell.
Funeral services will
member of Barnett Chabe at 11 a.m. Wednespel Baptist Church.
He is survived by his day, April 5, 2017, in the
wife of 69 years, Blanche chapel of Boyd Funeral
(Tharp)
Hearell
of Directors and Cremation
Marion; one son, Lar- Services.
Burial will follow at
ry (Debra) Hearell of
Marion; two brothers, White’s Chapel CemCarl and Bill Hearell; etery.
Friends may call on
grandchildren,
Dusty
(Rebekah) Hearell, Tif- Tuesday, April 4, 2017,
fany (Jordan) Roberts, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
and Stacie Hearell, all of in the chapel of Boyd
Mary E. Haneline
Marion; and one great- Funeral Directors and
granddaughter, Maddie Cremation Services in
MAYFIELD — Mrs. Waggoner, all of May- Hearell.
Salem, KY.
Mary E. Haneline, age field, KY.
Condolences may be
He was preceded in
She was preceded in death by a daughter, left at boydfuneraldirec86, of Mayfield passed
away on Friday, March death by her husband, Brenda Hearell; a grand- tors.com.
31, 2017, at Anna Mae Donald E. Haneline; one
Owen Residential Hos- sister, Mabel Douglas;
pice House in Murray, one brother, Edward
Bob Russell Dennis
Bouland; and her parKY.
She was a member ents, Isaac and Myrtie
BARLOW — Bob Rus- nis of Silver Spring,
of Farmington Baptist Arnett Bouland.
sell Dennis, age 74, died Maryland, Justin King of
Funeral services for Friday, March 31, 2017 Wickliffe, KY, Grayson
Church and a homeMrs. Mary E. Haneline at Lourdes hospital in King of Wickliffe, KY,
maker.
Mrs.
Haneline
is will be 11 a.m. on Tues- Paducah, Kentucky.
Kyler Dennis of Wicksurvived by two sons, day, April 4, 2017, at
Bob was a member liffe, KY, and Melanie
Keith (Cindy) Haneline Byrn Funeral Home in of First Baptist Church Dennis of Paducah, KY.
of Mayfield, KY, and Mayfield, KY, with the of Barlow, Kentucky,
He was preceded in
Kent (Samantha) Hane- Rev. Ben Stratton will where he served as a death by his father, John
line of Murray, KY; one officiating.
Deacon for many years. Dennis and his brother,
Interment will follow He also served as a Dea- Dick Dennis.
daughter, Anita (Butch)
Weatherly of Mayfield, at Chapel Hill Cemetery. con at First General BapVisitation will be MonPallbearers will be tist Church for several day evening after 5 p.m.
KY; four grandchildren,
Dustin (Robyn) Hane- William Haneline, Jason years. He was a member at Morrow Funeral Chaline of Mayfield, KY, Weatherly, Dennis Bou- of Local Iron Workers pel in La Center, KY.
Rayla Haneline of May- land, Joseph Waggoner, Union #782 for 25 years.
Funeral services will
field, Alex Haneline of Steve Douglas and KenBob is survived by his be Tuesday, April 4,
New York, NY, and Wil- neth Black.
wife of 51 years, Shirley 2017, at 11 a.m. at MorVisitation will be 5 Dennis of Barlow, KY; row Funeral Chapel in
liam Haneline of Murray, KY; and three sis- p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, his mother, Catherine La Center, KY, with the
ters, Maxine Chapman, April 3, 2017, at the fu- Dennis of La Center, KY; Rev. Scott Fickes officiMargie Black and Betty neral home.
two sons, Robert Den- ating. Interment will folnis and his wife, Lesley low at Barlow Cemetery.
Memorial contribuof Silver Spring, MaryBetty Mitchell
Barry Imus
land, and Mark Den- tions may be sent to
nis of Barlow, KY; one St. Jude Children’s Redaughter, Leslie King search Hospital, 501
Betty Mitchell, 87, of
MURRAY — Barry
Paducah died Saturday, Imus, 62, of Murray
and her husband, Todd St. Jude PL, Memphis,
of Wickliffe, KY; two sis- TN 38105-9959 or First
April 1, 2017, at Parkview died Friday, March 31,
ters, Janet Trevathan of Baptist Church of BarNursing and Rehabilita- 2017, at Murray-CalloBarlow, KY, and Geor- low Youth Group.
tion Center.
way County Hospital.
Morrow Funeral Chagia Bean of Barlow, KY;
Arrangements
were
Arrangements were
seven
grandchildren, pel is handling the arincomplete at Milner incomplete at Imes
Haley Dennis of Boston, rangements. Condolenc& Orr Funeral Home and Funeral Home and
Massachusetts, Ethan es for the family may be
Cremation Services of Crematory.
Dennis of Silver Spring, left online at morrowfuPaducah.
Maryland, Zachary Den- neralchapel.com.
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Venezuela restores congress’ power Dylan receives
his Nobel Prize
comes to respecting the
Constitution,” said moderate leader and former
presidential candidate
Henrique Capriles.
At the same time, critics celebrated the reversal as proof that cracks
are beginning to show
in Maduro’s control
of a country spiraling
into chaos, with his approval ratings dipping
below 20 percent amid
the worsening economic
and humanitarian crisis.
Opposition
leaders
recast a planned Saturday protest as an open
air meeting. Hundreds
of supporters joined
congress members in a
wealthy Caracas neigh-
reinstated congress’ authority.
It was a rare instance
of the embattled socialist president backing
away from a move to increase his power. Opposition leaders dismissed
the reversal as too little
too late.
They said the clarification issued by the judges
only proved yet again
that Maduro controls
the courts and there is
no longer a real separation of powers in Venezuela.
“The dire situation
we’re living through in
Venezuela remains the
same. There is nothing to “clarify” when it
Associated Press
CARACAS,
Venezuela — Venezuela’s president and Supreme Court
backed down Saturday
from an unprecedented
move to strip congress
of its legislative powers
that had sparked widespread charges that the
South American country
was no longer a democracy.
President
Nicolas
Maduro asked the Supreme Court in a latenight speech to review
a ruling nullifying the
branch of power that set
off a storm of criticism
from the opposition and
foreign
governments.
The court on Saturday
borhood to celebrate the
rare victory.
Later, soldiers fired
tear gas on activists who
attempted to march
on government offices
downtown and blocked
their path with barricades and armored cars.
Some of the protesters even jumped atop
the military vehicles and
made triumphant gestures.
“It’s not clear exactly
how wounded the government is. This is the
first time since the opposition won the National Assembly in 2015
that they have managed
to get the president to
reverse a decision.
BY DAVID KEYTON
Associated Press
STOCKHOLM
—
Bob Dylan finally has
his hands on his Nobel Literature diploma
and medal.
Klas Ostergren, a
member of the Swedish Academy, said the
75-year-old American
singer-songwriter received his award during a small gathering
Saturday afternoon at
a hotel next to the conference center where
Dylan was performing a concert later that
night.
Ostergren told The
Associated Press that
the ceremony was a
small, intimate event
in line with the singer’s
wishes, with just academy members and a
member of Dylan’s
Fox backs O’Reilly after payout accusations
statement to his website after the Times report Saturday, and Fox
News’ parent company
21st Century Fox backed
him in a statement.
The newspaper reported that O’Reilly or
21st Century Fox have
paid $13 million to five
women since 2002 over
these complaints “in exchange for agreeing to
not pursue litigation or
speak about their accu-
BY TALI ARBEL
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Fox
News host Bill O’Reilly
said Saturday that he is
“vulnerable to lawsuits”
because of his high-profile job, in response to a
New York Times report
detailing payouts made
to settle accusations of
sexual harassment and
other inappropriate behavior.
O’Reilly posted the
sations against him.”
The story said more
than 60 people were
interviewed, including
current and former employees of Fox News or
its parent company and
people who know the
women behind the complaints or are close to
O’Reilly. Most demanded anonymity.
21st Century Fox,
which is still dealing
with the legal fallout
from sexual harassment charges against
former Fox News head
Roger Ailes, did not reply to questions about
the O’Reilly payouts or
whether any disciplinary action was taken
against O’Reilly. But the
company said in a statement that it had looked
into “these matters” in
the past few months and
discussed them with
O’Reilly.
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Paducah 5-Day Forecast
Today
Tonight
73°
Monday
71°
53°
58°
Some sun, then
clouds and warmer
Rain and a
thunderstorm
Tuesday
Periods of rain and a
t-storm
Wednesday
75°
48°
Pleasant with some
sun
Times of clouds and
sun
St. Louis
70/57
62°
45°
65°
42°
84° in 2012
26° in 1995
Cape Girardeau
71/56
Sun and Moon
Last
Apr 19
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
Apr 26
6:39 a.m.
7:19 p.m.
11:07 a.m.
12:38 a.m.
UV Index Today
3
6
Owensboro
70/58
Paducah
Cadiz
73/58
73/61
Mayfield
73/61
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
1
Rain and drizzle;
breezy, cooler
Evansville
68/56
Precipitation
Full
Apr 11
5
3
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High;
8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme
Regional Forecast
Kentucky: Partly sunny, pleasant and
warmer today. Becoming mostly cloudy with
rain and a thunderstorm tonight.
Illinois: A little rain today; arriving during
the afternoon in the north and central parts
of the state.
Indiana: Clouds and sun today. Warmer in
the south and east; an afternoon shower
near Lake Michigan.
Missouri: Mostly cloudy today with showers around. A steadier rain and thunderstorms at night.
Arkansas: Rather cloudy with a shower and
thunderstorm around today; some sun, then
clouds in the east.
Tennessee: Warmer today with some sun;
pleasant. Rain and a thunderstorm tonight,
except dry in the east.
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.
Temperature bands are highs for the day.
56°
41°
Carbondale
69/55
24 hrs ending 6 p.m. yest. 0.00”
Month to date
0.00”
Normal month to date
0.15”
Year to date
9.22”
Last year to date
14.67”
Normal year to date
11.67”
First
Apr 3
Thursday
Around the Region
Temperature
High
Low
Normal high
Normal low
Record high
Record low
Around the Nation
67°
53°
Almanac
Paducah through 6 p.m. yesterday
pital in Paducah.
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staff attending.
Other members of
the academy told Swedish media that Dylan
seemed pleased by the
award.
During his show hours
later, Dylan made no
reference to the Nobel
award.
Dylan had declined
the invitation to attend
the traditional Nobel
Prize banquet and ceremony on Dec. 10 — the
date of Alfred Nobel’s
death — pleading other
commitments.
But in order to receive the award worth
$894,800, Dylan must
give a lecture within six
months from Dec. 10.
He has said he will not
give his Nobel lecture
this weekend but a recorded version of it will
be sent later.
Blytheville
76/62
Shown is
today’s
weather.
Temperatures
are today’s
highs and
tonight’s
lows.
Union City
73/61
Memphis
80/64
Belleville, IL
Bowling Gn., KY
Bristol, TN
C. Girardeau, MO
Carbondale, IL
Charleston, WV
Chattanooga, TN
Clarksville, TN
Columbia, MO
Evansville, IN
Ft. Smith, AR
Hopkinsville, KY
Indianapolis, IN
Jackson, KY
Jackson, TN
69/55/sh
74/58/pc
75/48/s
71/56/pc
69/55/pc
67/49/pc
80/60/pc
75/58/pc
67/54/sh
68/56/pc
72/58/t
73/59/pc
62/50/pc
70/53/pc
79/61/pc
Nashville
79/61
Pulaski
78/58
Jackson
79/61
Today Mon.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Clarksville
75/58
66/51/r
73/56/r
70/55/r
68/52/r
66/51/r
71/56/r
73/58/r
71/55/r
62/48/r
70/53/r
72/49/r
71/55/r
65/51/r
70/55/r
72/54/r
City
Today Mon.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Joplin, MO
Kansas City, MO
Knoxville, TN
Lexington, KY
Little Rock, AR
London, KY
Louisville, KY
Memphis, TN
Nashville, TN
Owensboro, KY
Peoria, IL
St. Louis, MO
Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Terre Haute, IN
70/55/t
61/51/sh
77/56/pc
68/53/pc
73/60/t
73/54/pc
70/55/pc
80/64/pc
79/61/pc
70/58/pc
58/51/r
70/57/sh
62/54/sh
71/56/t
65/52/pc
63/47/r
62/45/r
73/58/r
71/55/r
73/52/r
68/55/r
72/55/r
73/55/r
74/58/r
71/56/r
58/47/r
66/53/r
63/50/r
62/44/r
66/50/r
National Summary: Severe thunderstorms will slam the Deep
South and central Gulf Coast with damaging wind gusts, torrential
downpours, large hail and even a few tornadoes today. Motorists
can expect rapidly changing weather conditions and should keep
alert for flooded roadways. Elsewhere, rain and snow showers will
dot the Rockies and northern New England.
Today
City
Hi/Lo/W
Albuquerque 61/39/pc
Atlanta
81/62/s
Baltimore
63/43/s
Billings
56/36/sh
Boise
56/30/pc
Boston
47/33/pc
Charleston, SC 78/60/s
Charleston, WV 67/49/pc
Chicago
61/46/r
Cincinnati
64/49/pc
Cleveland
60/46/pc
Dallas
71/56/t
Denver
61/34/s
Des Moines
57/48/r
Detroit
61/44/s
El Paso
70/51/pc
Fairbanks
45/17/c
Honolulu
85/73/s
Houston
78/61/t
Indianapolis
62/50/pc
Jacksonville
87/64/s
Las Vegas
81/58/s
Paducah
Owensboro
Through 7 a.m. yesterday (in feet)
Flood
24-hr Mississippi River
stage
39
38
Stage Change
21.20
25.84
+0.90
+0.34
24-hr
Full
Pool Elevation Change
Smithland Dam 40 20.87
Lake Barkley
354 355.80
Kentucky Lake 354 355.60
+1.43
+0.20
none
Flood
stage Stage
Cairo
68/42/pc
74/60/t
64/55/r
48/31/r
50/29/pc
48/37/pc
80/65/c
71/56/r
55/45/r
68/52/r
61/54/r
78/59/s
54/28/r
60/44/r
56/48/r
78/56/s
42/22/s
85/72/s
84/60/s
65/51/r
86/66/t
70/50/pc
Today
City
Hi/Lo/W
Little Rock
73/60/t
Los Angeles
76/54/s
Miami
87/75/pc
Milwaukee
53/42/r
Minneapolis
56/41/r
New Orleans 81/70/t
New York City 58/42/s
Oklahoma City 62/51/t
Omaha
57/42/c
Orlando
92/69/s
Philadelphia 61/43/s
Phoenix
83/60/s
Pittsburgh
61/47/pc
Portland, OR 56/36/pc
Salt Lake City 54/34/r
San Antonio
82/56/t
San Diego
70/57/pc
San Francisco 68/50/pc
San Jose
76/49/s
Seattle
53/37/pc
Tucson
78/51/s
Wash., DC
65/48/s
Mon.
Hi/Lo/W
73/52/r
68/53/pc
85/75/pc
48/41/r
57/40/c
81/61/t
55/48/pc
70/50/pc
63/43/pc
90/69/pc
63/52/pc
85/58/s
65/57/r
59/41/c
51/34/c
85/58/s
64/56/pc
67/50/s
73/48/s
53/40/pc
83/52/pc
67/58/r
Around the World
Lakes and Rivers
Ohio River
Mon.
Hi/Lo/W
40
27.92
24-hr
Change
+1.19
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
Athens
Beijing
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Manila
Mexico City
67/51/s
74/41/pc
64/43/c
74/65/r
75/56/c
73/66/s
58/46/sh
61/42/pc
89/76/pc
82/47/s
63/54/r
78/50/pc
57/39/c
74/66/sh
79/56/s
75/68/pc
63/48/pc
62/45/pc
89/77/pc
82/49/s
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Warsaw
Zurich
52/35/r
63/44/pc
62/46/t
57/39/s
69/60/sh
53/44/c
73/48/t
63/46/c
43/33/r
64/46/pc
68/45/sh
63/41/s
69/61/sh
58/46/s
60/45/c
61/43/t