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Mississippi Army veteran develops

governor wants taste for baking
scrutiny of
prison spending
‘I am, if nothing else,
a budget hawk. I
hate spending other
people’s money.’
Gov. Tate Reeves
BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press

JACKSON — Mis-
sissippi Republican
Gov. Tate Reeves has
ordered a thorough
review of spending in
the state Department
of Corrections, ques-
tioning whether mon-
Reeves
ey has been wasted
in a prison system that has been
plagued by violence and shoddy liv-
ing conditions for some inmates.
“I am, if nothing else, a bud-
get hawk,” Reeves told reporters
Thursday in Jackson. “I hate spend-
ing other people’s money.”
Reeves inherited a mess with
the prison system when he took
office last month. It’s one partly of
his own making because he was
lieutenant governor the past eight Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
years and had a significant role in Nicole Huff ices a red velvet birthday cake in the backroom of her shop, Southern Flour Bakery, on Friday afternoon.
writing laws and setting state bud- Huff has been baking for almost 30 years, and talks about the intricacies involved in making today’s wedding cakes.
gets.
At least 15 inmates have died Huff spends days designing, baking, decorating She began baking custom
cakes from home, while selling
in Mississippi prisons since late
December. Most of the deaths hap- elaborate cakes for weddings, other occasions breads and cookies at local farmers
markets to get her name out, and
pened at the Mississippi State Pen-
itentiary at Parchman, and many BY ISABELLE ALTMAN out here and I’ll always go back finally was able to open her first
happened during outbursts of vio- ialtman@cdispatch.com to the white,” she said, gesturing bakery, this one with her husband,
in Clarksdale, Tennessee about 20

lence. Some were suicides.
Health inspectors have also
documented problems for years at
Parchman, including broken toilets
and moldy showers.
Mississippi Department of Cor-
rections leaders repeatedly told
budget writers in recent years that
the department was having trou-
ble hiring enough prison guards
because the pay is low and the job
is stressful. Reeves and other bud-
get writers cut the amount of state
money going to corrections.
Elected officials started working
months ago on a Mississippi state
government budget for fiscal year
2021, which begins July 1.
Reeves was still lieutenant gov-
ernor and on the 14-member Joint
See ANALYSIS, 3A
W
hen it came to baking,
Nicole Huff’s “first chal-
lenge” was a white velvet
birthday cake for her mom.
“The first really intricate cake I
did, I made her (into) a character,”
she said. “I made her out of sugar,
sitting on the cake with some flow-
ers. That was probably the first one
I ever did that I was scared of. “
That was when Huff started
“messing with” the rich white
velvet cake recipe, made with sour
cream and butter. It’s ideal for wed-
ding cakes — and it’s Huff (and her
mom’s) favorite flavor.
“We have all these fancy flavors
at the array of breads, cookies
and cupcakes at Southern Flour
Bakery, which she owns with her
father off Highway 45 in Columbus.
Huff’s journey to becoming
a baker, from the heart-shaped
cinnamon rolls she sells for Val-
entine’s Day to elaborate three-di-
mensional wedding and grooms’
cakes, began almost 30 years ago
when she was a member of the
U.S. Army and she started making
birthday cakes and other goodies
for her kids, Army buddies and
church functions. She ended up
liking it so much that when she left
the Army, she used her G.I. bill
benefits to go to school for baking.
years ago.
Valentine’s Day and Christmas
are her two busiest times of the
year, Huff said. She also bakes a lot
of cakes for special occasions — es-
pecially wedding cakes, a process
that has changed over the years
as trends and styles change and
couples request more elaborate
designs.
“They’re just more intricate,”
Huff said. “… An average wed-
ding cake can take 18 to 24 hours.
Those are tough.
“Usually two weeks prior to
even baking the cake, we’ll already
See HUFF, 3A

Investigators will look at window bars in Mississippi fire

Early Saturday blaze in Clinton killed a mother and her six children
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLINTON — Fire officials
will investigate whether bars on
the windows of a central Missis-
sippi home prevented a mother
and her six children from escap-
ing a fire, a city spokesman said.
The bars were intended to
keep burglars out. Investigators
will also be looking for smoke
alarms at the home, Clinton City
spokesman Mark Jones told
news outlets.
The father was the lone sur-
vivor of the blaze early Saturday
morning in Clinton, a city of
about 26,500 people just outside
the capital city of Jackson.
Neighbors and friends said
they are devastated.
“It’s just horrible,” West
Browning, a childhood friend of
the father, told WLBT. WLBT
identified the father as Jake
Presley.
Browning said he couldn’t
imagine what his friend was go-
ing through.
Officials identified the dead
as: Brittany Presley, 33, and her
children Landon Brookshire,
15; Lane Presley, 13; Lawson
Presley, 12; Grayson Presley, 6;
Malcom Presley, 4; and Felicity
Presley, 1.
The father tried unsuccess-
fully to save family members
and suffered smoke inhalation,
burns, cuts and bruises, accord-
ing to Jones.
Allen Short, a neighbor, said
Jake Presley’s hair was singed
and he had a big cut on his arm
where he broke a window trying
to get into the home.
“The kids were really nice
and the whole neighborhood is
just destroyed about this whole
thing,” Short told WLBT.
Brittany Presley was an ele-
mentary school teacher, the Can-
ton Public School District said in
a statement on Facebook.
Four of the children attend-
ed Clinton area schools, Clinton
Public School District Superin-
tendent Tim Martin said. He said
the parents were very involved.
“Clinton is a very close-knit
community, so when something
so tragic like this happens, it
affects the entire community,”
Martin told the Clarion Ledger.

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NH poses a last chance for some

struggling 2020 Democrats
‘There is the
opportunity in New
Buttigieg on defense as rivals
Hampshire, especially aim to blunt his momentum
after such a muddled BY THOMAS BEAUMONT
The Associated Press

result in Iowa, to sort
of start the race anew’
2020 Democratic candidate and
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet
BY MICHAEL CASEY
The Associated Press
PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Bounding
onto a stage at a conference center in
New Hampshire, tech entrepreneur
Andrew Yang beamed a smile to a
cheering crowd and launched into his
pitch for votes heading into Tuesday’s
first-in-the nation primary.
Yang didn’t mention his poor
showing in Iowa, his back-of-the-pack
polling in New Hampshire or the fact
his campaign recently laid off an un-
disclosed number of people. Instead,
he recalled a conversation he had in
Washington in which he was told that
he needed to “create a wave in other
parts of the country and bring that
wave crashing down on our heads in
D.C.”
“I said challenge accepted,” Yang
said of his decision to run for presi-
dent. “Here we are Plymouth and you
are that wave.”
Yang is among a handful of can-
didates who are polling in the single
digits as New Hampshire’s primary
nears. He joins Colorado Sen. Mi-
chael Bennet, former Massachusetts
Gov. Deval Patrick, billionaire activ-
ist Tom Steyer and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi
Gabbard near the bottom of most sur-
veys. For most of them, a poor show-
ing on Tuesday could force them to
rethink their campaigns.
Only Yang and Steyer qualified for
Friday’s presidential debate.
Rather than dwelling on potential
disappointment, these candidates
are soldiering on with scores of town
halls, house parties as well as break-
fasts and dinners with supporters.
DOVER, N.H. — Pete Buttigieg has been on defense all weekend as
his Democratic presidential rivals attacked him on everything from his
struggle to connect with black voters to accepting campaign contribu-
tions from large donors in an effort to blunt any momentum heading
into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who essentially tied with Buttigieg
in last week’s Iowa caucuses, blasted the former mayor of South Bend,
Indiana, for taking contributions from the very wealthy, suggesting
Buttigieg won’t stand up to “Wall Street tycoons” or “the corporate
elite.” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren voiced similar criticism,
telling ABC’s “This Week” that “the coalition of billionaires is not ex-
actly what’s going to carry us over the top.” Former Vice President Joe
Biden told the same program that Buttigieg hasn’t been able to “unify
the black community.”
The volley of criticism Sunday was fresh evidence that Buttigieg,
who was virtually unknown in national politics a year ago, has become
an early front-runner in the battle for the Democratic presidential nom-
ination. The developments usher in a new phase of the campaign that
will test how Buttigieg responds to the pressure, especially as the con-
test moves to more racially diverse states where he has struggled to
gain traction.
It’s all in service to the idea that New said a six-day, 1,000 mile bus tour
Hampshire voters might surprise the demonstrated there were plenty of
pundits. undecided voters up for grabs. He
Speaking on the sidelines of a Uni- reached a wider audience with a CNN
versity of New Hampshire event on town hall Thursday night, where he
college costs, Bennet claimed that he acknowledged he needed “to beat ex-
had spent more time in New Hamp- pectations here.”
shire than any other candidate and “Almost all the people I met are
was hoping to finish third or fourth. still undecided and I think what that
He was in the midst of a tour that in- means is that people aren’t satisfied
cluded 50 town halls and a rally Satur- with the rest of the field,” Patrick said.
day in Manchester with Democratic “I’m not surprised by that. When they
operative James Carville. hear someone who has actually deliv-
He also picked up an endorsement ered on an agenda that others are just
from Democratic Rep. Jared Golden talking about or that they have plans
of Maine, the first member of Con- for, when they hear what it takes to
gress to endorse Bennet in his cam- deliver those progressive outcomes,
paign for president. we are winning support.”
“There is the opportunity in New For Steyer, getting his message
Hampshire, especially after such a out meant braving snow and freezing
muddled result in Iowa, to sort of start rain to greet UPS workers arriving to
the race anew.” Bennet told reporters. a Manchester warehouse Thursday.
“It’s very important, very important He was asked how long he would re-
to do well in New Hampshire. It’s vital main in the race.
for me.” “I’m going stay in the race, because
Patrick, who entered the race late, I think I’m going to win,” he said.

Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget

proposal revisits rejected cuts
BY ANDREW TAYLOR no chance, even before
The Associated Press Trump’s impeachment
scorched Washington. Its
WASHINGTON — cuts to food stamps, farm
President Donald Trump subsidies, Medicaid and
is offering a $4.8 trillion student loans couldn’t
election-year budget plan pass when Republicans
that recycles previously controlled Congress,
rejected cuts to domes- much less now with liber-
tic programs to promise al House Speaker Nancy
a balanced budget in 15 Pelosi, D-Calif., setting
years — all while boosting the agenda.
the military and leaving Pelosi said Sunday
Social Security and Medi- night that “once again
care benefits untouched. the president is showing
Trump’s fiscal 2021 just how little he values
plan, to be released Mon- the good health, financial
day, promises the govern- security and well-being of
ment’s deficit will crest hard-working American
above $1 trillion only for families.”
the current budget year “Year after year, Pres-
before steadily decreas- ident Trump’s budgets
ing to more manageable have sought to inflict
levels. devastating cuts to criti-
The plan has virtually cal lifelines that millions
of Americans rely on,”
she said in a statement.
“Americans’ quality, af-
fordable health care will
never be safe with Presi-
dent Trump.”
Trump’s budget would
also shred last year’s
hard-won budget deal be-
tween the White House
and Pelosi by imposing
an immediate 5 percent
cut to non-defense agency
budgets passed by Con-
gress. Slashing cuts to the
Environmental Protection
Agency and taking $700
billion out of Medicaid
over a decade are also
nonstarters on Capitol
Hill, but both the White
House and Democrats are
hopeful of progress this
spring on prescription
drug prices.

The following arrests
were made by Lowndes
County Sheriff’s Office:
n Tommie Jones, 34,
was charged with pos-
session of methamphet-
amine, expired tag and
suspended driver’s li-
cense.
n Damien Griffin, 28,
was charged with cyber-
stalking.
n Cheyenne Flowers,
24, was charged with
commercial burglary.
n Stephanie Craven,
26, was charged with
possession of metham-
phetamine, three counts
of seatbelt violation and
burglary breaking and
entering a dwelling.
n Jaylyn White, 24,
was charged with felony
taking of a motor vehicle.
n Aisha Thomas, 27,
was charged with cyber-
stalking.
n Joshua Pumphrey,
23, was charged with
commercial burglary.
n Lucas Parker, 33,
was charged with felony
taking of a motor vehicle.
n Sara Kerlee, 32, was
charged with felony intent
to defraud via credit card,
possession of a controlled
substance and two counts
failure to appear.
n Bobby Stafford, 40,
was charged with bur-
glary breaking and enter-
ing a dwelling.
n Valareio Harris, 37,
was charged with bur-
glary of a commercial
burglary and shoplift-
ing-less than $250.
n Phillip Adkins, 49,
was charged with com-
mercial burglary.
n Mark McCoy, 55,
was charged with aggra-
vated assault with a weap-
on.
n Terrius Armistad,
19, was charged with do-
mestic violence/aggravat-
ed assault and burglary of
an occupied dwelling.
n Dakota Holcomb,
27, was charged with
two counts grand larce-
ny-more than $500 and
nine counts commercial
burglary.
n Joshua Akers, 33,
was charged with pos-
session of methamphet-
amine.
The following arrests
Huff
Continued from Page 1A
make flowers or if they
have characters that
we’re putting on it,” she
added. “Sometimes I’ll
have to make a person
out of chocolate or… flow-
ers, rank, flags, airplanes
… There are all kinds of
things.”
The designs range
from elaborate arrays of
flowers to geode cakes
— cakes designed to
look like rocks that have
been “busted open and
crystallized” — to gold
cakes made real 24-karat
gold powder mixed with
vodka.
“Twenty years ago,
nobody was putting real
gold on cakes,” Huff said.
“Now you can buy it in a
really fine powder.”
Her favorites are
Analysis
Continued from Page 1A
Legislative Budget Com-
mittee in December, when
the committee released
its initial set of spending
proposals for the coming
year. The plan included a
2.3 percent reduction in
state spending for correc-
tions, a drop of about $7.4
million. The reduction
came partly from elimi-
nating money for jobs that
have been vacant at least
six months.
As governor, Reeves
released a separate set of
state budget recommen-
dations on Jan. 31, weeks
after the prison violence
drew widespread condem-
nation. Reeves suggest-
ed that the corrections
system receive the same
amount of money in the
coming year as it is receiv-
T. Jones Griffin
Harris Adkins
Perry Bishop
Roberson R. Reed
Spivey Martin
were made by the Oktib-
beha County Sheriff’s
Office:
n Matthew Hodges,
33, was charged with
false pretense.
n Matthew Williams,
36, was charged with a
circuit court order.
n Jason Mann, 37, was
charged with possession
of a controlled substance.
n Jevin White, 20, was
charged with possession
of a schedule II drug.
n David Perry, 59, was
charged with aggravated
assault and shooting in or
at a vehicle.
n Terion Bishop, 19,
was charged with three
counts credit card fraud.
n Derek Cunningham,
25, was charged with bur-
glary of a residence.
n Cameron Robinson,
29, was charged with a
three-dimensional de-
signs popular for grooms’
cakes. She’s done a red
velvet armadillo inspired
by the groom’s cake in
the movie “Steel Magno-
lias,” along with football
fields and footballs, even
a truck designed to look
like the actual old truck
the groom was restoring
at the time of his wed-
ding.
She pulled up a picture
of a cake baked to look
like a toy RV, complete
with a small chocolate
picnic table, dog and
other toy-sized props.
Those props and
characters like are made
out of modeling choco-
late, which she said has a
consistency like clay, so it
can easily hold its shape.
ing in the current year.
Reeves said Thursday
that an initial review of
spending practices found
the Department of Cor-
rections might have giv-
en compensatory time
payments to people on
the higher end of its pay
scale. He also questioned
whether the department
needs the 60 vehicles he
said it has.
Budget writers are sup-
posed to agree on an over-
all state spending plan be-
fore the legislative session
ends in early May. The
new governor said Mis-
sissippi could spend more
than currently suggested
on the prison system.
“I’m willing to invest
here because it’s worth
it, because lives are at
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AREA ARRESTS
Flowers Craven
McCoy Armistad
Cunningham C. Robinson
D. Reed Cornwall
Ivy Hudson
bench warrant.
n Larry Nance III, 30,
was charged with aggra-
vated domestic assault,
burglary other than a
dwelling and expired driv-
er’s license.
n Author Parrish Jr.,
34, was charged with
grand larceny.
n Dontavious Lucious,
18, was charged with
grand larceny.
n Josh McCarter, 20,
was charged with receiv-
ing stolen property and
accessory after the fact.
n Henry Brown, 31,
was charged with a bench
warrant.
n J.D. Jackson, 52, was
charged with DUI fourth
offense.
n Lee Roberson, 63,
was charged with DUI
third offense.
n Rachel Reed, 32, was
“I can use clay tools
with it, if I’m carving out
a face,” she said. “It’ll
melt a little bit in my
hands, so it’s easier for
me to smooth.”
Those more elaborate
cakes may take 12 hours
to decorate — and that’s
after baking and letting
it sit overnight — but
Huff doesn’t mind. She
says she’ll often be
at work at 2 or 3 a.m.,
decorating in the quiet
of her shop without the
phone ringing or other
distractions.
Of course, that’s all
aside from the typical
running of the shop,
for which Huff credited
her employees, some of
whom, like her manager
Rissa Perrigin, have
stake,” Reeves said.
“What I’m not willing to
do is ask for a random
increase in funds just be-
cause it sounds good.”
Some of the recent vi-
olence erupted in Parch-
man’s Unit 29. In early
January, when Republican
Phil Bryant was in the
final days of his second
term governor, the state
entered a 90-day contract
and moved 375 inmates
from Parchman to a pri-
vately run prison nearby.
In Reeves’ State of the
State address on Jan. 27,
he said he had instructed
the Department of Cor-
rections to take steps to
shut down Unit 29. Offi-
cials have not said how
long that will take.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2020 3A
Ja. White Thomas Pumphrey Parker Kerlee Stafford
Holcomb Akers Hodges Williams Mann Je. White
Nance III Parrish Jr. Lucious McCarter Brown Jackson
Malone Prewitt S. Jones Riekhof Young Jr. Lott
Rigsby Cox Wise Dotson Mullins Miller
charged with credit card 35, was charged with a charged
fraud and MDOC hold. bench warrant. with hold
n Demetruis Reed, n Simon Lott, 33, was for another
44, was charged with pos- charged with DUI third agency.
session of a weapon by a offense. n Ash-
felon. n Keith Spivey, 46, ley Wise,
n Stephen Cornwall, was charged with DUI 32, was
24, was charged with sale fourth offense. charged
of methamphetamine. n Wayne Martin, 43, with a cir- Jackson Jr.
n Jermarrio Robin- was charged with a circuit cuit court
son, 30, was charged with court order. order.
burglary of a vehicle. (No n Rachel Ivy, 28, was n Kaya Dotson, 18,
photo available.) charged with burglary of was charged with cyber-
n Zadarus Malone, a residence. stalking.
19, was charged with bur- n Jeremiah Hender- n Taketa Mullins, 33,
glary of a residence. son, 24, was charged with was charged with a bench
n Jerome Prewitt, 49, possession of a stolen warrant.
was charged with non- firearm. (No photo avail- n Christopher Mill-
compliance. able.) er, 31, was charged with
n Sylvester Jones, 38, n Patrick Hudson, 29, hold for another agency,
was charged with domes- was charged with a circuit expired tag and expired
tic violence, bond jumping court order. driver’s license.
and no driver’s license. n John Rigsby, 26, was n Norvell Jackson
n James Riekhof, 25, charged with four counts Jr., 34, was charged with
was charged with grand sale of marijuana and sale possession of a stolen fire-
larceny. of a controlled substance. arm, DUI and possession
n Franklin Young Jr., n Stefhon Cox, 24, was of marijuana.
begun making elaborate to Southern Flour. spending her weekends
tiered cakes as well. “The opportunity to decorating three-dimen-
Perrigin said she work for (Huff) came sional RV cakes, she said
got into baking when up and I couldn’t resist the Army taught her a
she was 9 years old and that,” she said. “Work for lot that’s been helpful in
“made better pies than a small town, answer to running a business, from
my mom.” Right out of one person.” organizational skills to
college, she worked as While Huff admits it’s managing employees.
a baker for companies a strange journey to go “I really enjoy it,”
like Baskin Robbins and from being in the Army she said. “I wouldn’t do
Walmart before coming to owning a bakery and anything else.”
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4A MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2020
POSSUMHAW
Woodchucks, whistle pigs, land beavers
“Old ground-
hog stretched
in his leafy bed.
He turned over
slowly and then
he said, ‘I won-
der if spring is
on the way. I’ll
go and check the
weather today.’”
Author un-
known
Shannon Bardwell
A little over
a week ago I was headed to town when
I spied a funny creature sitting on his
hind legs beside a road running along
the Tombigbee River. At first, I wasn’t
sure what the critter was. He was
brown, furry and looked somewhat like
a large squirrel. Then I realized it was
a groundhog, only the second I’ve ever
seen. Perhaps that day he was prac-
ticing to see if he’d see his shadow, as
Groundhog Day was fast approaching.
Groundhog Day is always on Feb. 2, and pitched, shrill sound to alert groundhog
this past Groundhog Day Punxsutaw- neighbors of approaching danger.
ney Phil did not see his shadow. The Groundhogs burrow in extensive, elab-
prediction is that we will have an early orate burrow systems and spend most
spring, which may also be predicted by of their lives underground. They are
the warmer temperatures and massive known as nuisance critters as they are
displays of daffodils. quite efficient at digging, be it in your
A few tidbits on groundhogs: They yard or under the garage.
are also called woodchucks, whistle
pigs and land beavers. I figure the whis- six years in the wild. Turns out preda-
tle pig is because they make a high- tors are hawks, foxes, coyotes, bobcats,
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Voice of the people
Concerned about local trash practices
In a recent letter, Mr. Fortenberry de-
plored the trash situation in Columbus. I
have been concerned as well for various rea-
sons and I wonder where the problem comes
from. It’s almost as if many or most members
of the community accept trash as a “natural”
part of the local scenery, as it seems to be ev-
erywhere. Some of the worst places I’ve seen
have been on Officer’s Lake Road, Lincoln
Road, Bluecutt Road, near the Soccer fields,
and on the “beautiful” Riverwalk.
Why doesn’t the city devote more time
and effort to cleaning up the community?
What effect does this unsightly mess have on
people passing through, considering moving
here, or considering staying here? Is there
no pride in community? I’ve visited other
cities such as Denver where there is little to
no trash and there seems to be a widespread
ethic to avoid trashing the community.
It’s interesting that China has now banned
single-use plastic containers. Why can’t we
do that here in the USA? The Tenn-Tom Wa-
terway is like a plastic bottle sewer, sending
probably tens of thousands of these bottles
and other junk south to the Gulf of Mexico.
Our oceans have already become dumps
for all this trash coming down rivers from
cities around the world. Ocean life is being
harmed and destroyed by all this junk. One
of the most poignant examples I’ve seen was
a nesting albatross trying to feed its young
on a Pacific island, but couldn’t because a
toothbrush was caught in its throat. Animals
like these which have long life spans and
low levels of reproduction are particularly
vulnerable to declines in population size and
eventual extinction from our junk entering
the oceans.
Part of my point is that careless disposal
of plastic, metal, and Styrofoam containers
and other such objects is not just a local prob-
lem but that there are far-reaching global
effects as well. As presumably intelligent
and caring individuals, we need to be aware
of the costs of both local and global trash and
take some responsibility to minimize our
negative impact. It isn’t that hard.
Bill Parker
Columbus
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The
dogs, humans and motorized vehicles.
We have all of those here in the Prairie.
Speaking of predators, one night I
heard loud and clear the howls and yips
of coyotes. The cats, Harry and Wil-
helmina, were outside. I bolted out the
door, cupped my hands over my mouth,
and yelled, “You better get out of here!”
The poor fellows only live three to It was so loud the echo reverberated.
Sam stepped out and said I was prob-
ably waking the neighbors two miles
MUSINGS
The trashing of the presidency
It’s Sunday morning was the President, he
in New York. Ordinarily made speeches on the
I’d be snuggled down radio and we gathered
with the Times, coffee or ‘round to listen. He lived
watching birds splashing in the White House,
in the last of the rain. But from whence cometh the
I can’t get comfortable. policies that kept me and
Another coffee won’t do my family safe. We lived
it, nor will a glass of juice. in a Democracy which
I’ve pushed the paper guaranteed us that safety
aside as if it contributes and respect would follow
to my discontent, and so us wherever in the world
it does. So would the TV Marion Whitley we might be.
coverage if I dared go I felt pride, a kind of
there. participation in having
Whereas the president is being immigrant ancestors, and sought
charged with obstruction of justice out their ports of departure for the
and of congress, my discontent new world. I felt a chill thinking how
is with a side, but vital issue, the brave they were facing that ocean...
accompanying charges against THE In New York, I found the manifests
PRESIDENCY! To my knowledge of the ships on which they sailed.
I’m alone in this. Thanks to them, I was a citizen of
Without a doubt, a quid pro quo the best country in the world. A false
was intended in that infamous July pride? Naive? I don’t think so, never
phone call. I see the criminality of did.
inviting foreign involvement in our In childhood, and due to pictures,
elections, but along with that there’s the safety and pride in being a citi-
the undeclared “criminality” to THE zen of the United States, came more
PRESIDENCY. from The White House than from
From first grade I saluted the the Constitution. Once established
stars and stripes with an awakening in New York, I hastened to bring my
pride in some “ceremony” I couldn’t parents to the big city, not only for
have explained, but it made me stand the Empire State Building, riding
taller. I liked being a tiny part of that the subway to a ball game at Yankee
thing called “patriotism.” It made Stadium, but for a full day, sleep-
me feel good, and you know what? over and all, in Washington D.C. to
It’s never changed. I have rendered include a guided tour of the White
respect to all Presidents, largely House, itself.
assuming they were “good” people, Set aside the question of crimi-
never mind political affiliation. If he nality in withholding military aid to
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away. Then all went silent.
Groundhogs eat vegetations and love
the sweet taste of fruit like cantaloupe,
peaches, strawberries and corn, as well
as peas and string beans. A gardener’s
nightmare. They are called “diurnal”
creatures since they come out in early
mornings or late afternoons. They can
climb and swim. In very cold climates
they hibernate and live off their fat
reserves. Litters are usually two to four
kits, and they stay with their moms for
two months.
There’s a group that would like to
see Punxsutawney Phil retired and
replaced by an animatronic groundhog
with artificial intelligence. That’s more
or less a sophisticated computerized
groundhog toy. The group claims the
computer groundhog would be more
accurate and Punxsutawney Phil could
live a normal life in peace. I don’t know.
I think Punxsutawney Phil probably
lives a good life like Harry and Wil-
helmina. They pretty much have it
made, no scrounging around for food,
complete medical attention and vita-
mins. A warm bed at night with no pred-
ators to worry about. Not to mention,
what’s the fun in watching a computer-
ized groundhog unless you’re under 5
years old? In 117 years Punxsutawney
Phil has been right 65 percent of the
time. I suggest we keep him.
Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of
Columbus at msdeltachild@msn.com.
Ukraine, I cry out at the criminal-
ity against The OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENCY! I cry out at calling
the Times a “failing” newspaper,
at tossing rolls of paper towels to
hurricane victims, at the separation
of families risking their lives to
gain entry to the United States of
America. I cry out at the vulgarity
of the Access Hollywood tapes, of
withheld tax returns, uncountable
lies, and the directive to “get rid of
her” in recalling our Ambassador
from Kiev. That such language, such
behavior, fills the halls of the White
House, keeps on reaching the ears
of world, besmirching the UNITED
STATES PRESIDENCY, keeps on
undoing my Sunday morning with
new foreboding.
While granting the throes around
legal definitions of obstruction of
justice and of Congress, where are
those who also lament the obstruc-
tion, the trampling, of truth and
common decency? Clearly, that ob-
struction doesn’t reach the threshold
of criminality that warrants investi-
gation in light of the greater dangers
we’re in. But down the road, when
Democracy is back on firmer ground
and no one is above the law, can we
still remember what truth feels like,
and stand taller when saluting the
flag?
Marion Whitley, who grew up in
Caledonia and Columbus, lives in
Manhattan where she reads, writes
and remembers. Her email address is
Whijmar8@aol.com.
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US says 2 soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Afghanistan attack

Afghan defense ministry official said shooter
was an Afghan soldier who had argued with
the U.S. forces before opening fire
BY RAHIM FAIEZ
AND K ATHY GANNON
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two
U.S. soldiers were killed and six
wounded in a so-called insider
attack in eastern Afghanistan’s
Nangarhar province late Satur-
day when an Afghan dressed
in an Afghan army uniform
opened fire, the U.S. military
said.
Afghanistan’s defense minis-
try said one Afghan soldier was
also killed and three injured in
the assault.
A member of Nangarhar’s
provincial council, Ajmal Omer,
told The Associated Press that
the gunman was killed. Nei-
ther the U.S. military nor the
Afghan defense ministry have
confirmed the attacker’s fate.
The U.S. Department of De-
fense released later in the day
the names of the dead Amer-
ican soldiers. They are Sgt.
Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, 28; and
Sgt. Antonio Rey Rodriguez,
28.
There have been numerous
attacks by Afghan national
army soldiers on their allied
shooter was an Afghan soldier
who had argued with the U.S.
partners during 18 years of
America’s protracted war in Af-
forces before opening fire. He
was not a Taliban infiltrator, the
ghanistan.
Six U.S. service members
official said.
In a statement, the U.S. mil-
have been killed in Afghanistan
itary said “an individual in an
since the start of 2020, includ-
Afghan uniform opened fire on
ing Saturday’s casualties. Last
year, 22 U.S. service personnel the combined U.S. and Afghan
force with a machine gun. We
died in combat there.
An Afghan defense ministry are still collecting information
official, who was not identified and the cause or motive behind
because he was not authorized the attack is unknown at this
to speak to the media, said the time.”

Drugs fail to slow decline Gunman ambushes

in inherited Alzheimer’s disease NYC police twice in 12
More than 5 million people in the
United States and millions more
worldwide have Alzheimer’s disease
BY MARILYNN
MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
Two experimental
drugs failed to prevent
or slow mental decline in
a study of people who are
virtually destined to de-
velop Alzheimer’s disease
at a relatively young age
because they inherited
rare gene flaws.
The results announced
Monday are another
disappointment for the
approach that scien-
tists have focused on for
years — trying to remove
a harmful protein that
builds up in the brains of
people with Alzheimer’s,
the leading cause of de-
AROUND THE WORLD
Mainland China virus cases rise again after earlier decline
Doctor: Warmer weather will reduce
the virus’s ability to spread and bring
people out of enclosed spaces where
it is transmitted more easily
BY JOE MCDONALD
The Associated Press
BEIJING — Mainland
China has reported anoth-
er rise in cases of the new
virus after a sharp decline
the previous day, while
the number of deaths
grow by 97 to 908, with at
least two more outside the
country.
On Monday, China’s
health ministry said an-
other 3,062 cases had
been reported over the
previous 24 hours, raising
mentia.
“We actually don’t
even know yet what the
drugs did” in term of re-
moving that protein be-
cause those results are
still being analyzed, said
study leader Dr. Randall
Bateman at Washington
University in St. Louis,
Missouri.
But after five years on
average, the main goal
of the study was not met
— people on either of the
drugs scored about the
same on thinking and
memory tests as others
given placebo treatments.
More than 5 million
people in the United
States and millions more
the Chinese mainland’s
total to 40,171.
Earlier, France closed
two schools after five Brit-
ish visitors contracted the
virus at a ski resort. Ma-
laysia, South Korea and
Vietnam reported one
new case each.
Meanwhile, the moth-
er of a physician who died
last week in the hard-
est-hit city of Wuhan said
she wants an explanation
from authorities who
reprimanded her son for
worldwide have Alzhei-
mer’s. Current drugs only
temporarily ease symp-
toms and do not alter the
course of the disease.
The study tested so-
lanezumab by Eli Lilly
& Co., and gantenerum-
ab by Swiss drugmaker
Roche and its U.S. sub-
sidiary, Genentech. Both
drugs gave disappointing
results in some earlier
studies, but the doses in
this one ranged up to four
to five times higher and
researchers had hoped
that would prove more ef-
fective.
The study was funded
by the U.S. National In-
stitute on Aging, the Alz-
heimer’s Association and
some foundations.
It involved about 200
people in the United
States, Europe and else-
where with flaws in one of
three genes.
warning about the virus.
Monday’s rise was a
turnaround from a sig-
nificant reduction in new
cases reported Sunday,
2,656, down by about 20
percent from the 3,399
new cases reported in the
previous 24-hour period.
That had prompted opti-
mism that the “joint con-
trol mechanism of differ-
ent regions and the strict
prevention and control
measures have worked,”
in the words of a spokes-
man for the National
Health Commission, Mi
Feng.
Also Sunday, new cas-
es were reported in Japan,
South Korea, Vietnam,
Malaysia, the U.K. and
Spain. More than 360 cas-
“If you get one of these
genetic mutations you’re
hours, spawns outrage
almost guaranteed to get
Alzheimer’s,” typically in
BY SOPHIA ROSENBAUM AND DEEPTI HAJELA
The Associated Press
your 30s, 40s or 50s, said
Dr. Eric McDade, another NEW YORK — A gunman was arrested after
study leader at Washing- he ambushed police officers in the Bronx twice in
ton University. 12 hours, authorities said, wounding two in attacks
People like this ac- that brought outrage from officials who blamed the
count for only about 1 per- violence on an atmosphere of anti-police rhetoric.
Robert Williams, 45, of the Bronx, was captured
cent of Alzheimer’s cases,
after he walked into a police station in the Bronx
but their brain changes
and started shooting shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday,
and symptoms are similar
police said. His shots struck a lieutenant in the arm
to those who develop the
and narrowly missed other police personnel before
disease at a later age. That
he ran out of bullets, lay down and tossed his pistol,
gives a unique chance to
officials said.
test potential treatments.
That attack came just hours after Williams ap-
“We know everyone proached a patrol van in the same part of the Bronx
will get sick and we know and fired at two officers inside, wounding one be-
about what time that is” in fore escaping on foot, police said.
their lives, Bateman said. All of those shot are expected to recover, au-
Most study partici- thorities said.
pants already had signs “It is only by the grace of God and the heroic
of the harmful protein in actions of those inside the building that took him
their brain even if they into custody that we are not talking about police
were showing no symp- officers murdered inside a New York City police
toms when the study precinct,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said
started. at a news conference.
Williams is being charged with attempted mur-
der, criminal weapon possession and resisting ar-
rest, police said in an email late Sunday identifying
him as the suspect. He was hospitalized Sunday
evening, the Bronx prosecutor’s office said. It
wasn’t clear whether he had an attorney to speak
for him.
Williams had been upset since his own son died
after being shot in the Bronx, the suspect’s grand-
mother told the New York Post.
es have been confirmed
outside mainland China.
“Dramatic reduc-
tions” in the pace of the
disease’s spread should
begin this month if con-
tainment works, Dr. Ian
Lipkin, director of Colum-
bia University’s Center
for Infection and Immuni-
ty, said in an online news
conference on Sunday. He
assisted the World Health
Organization and Chi-
nese authorities during
the outbreak of SARS, or
severe acute respiratory
syndrome.
Warmer weather will
reduce the virus’s ability
to spread and bring peo-
ple out of enclosed spaces
where it is transmitted
more easily, Lipkin said.

Thailand mourns victims of country’s deadliest mass shooting

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAKHON RATCHA-
SIMA, Thailand — As
mourning began for the
victims of Thailand’s
worst mass shooting,
the country counted its
losses: a mother shot
dead at the wheel of her
car as her son sat beside
her, a 13-year-old stu-
dent gunned down as he
was riding his motorbike
home and more than two
dozen other people.
Authorities said the
attack was carried out
by a single gunman — a
disgruntled soldier who
opened fire on strangers
before he was fatally shot
Sunday at a shopping
mall. Another 58 people
were wounded.
The dead were mourn-
ed Sunday night in Nak-
hon Ratchasima, a hub for
Thailand’s relatively poor
and rural northeastern
region. More than 1,000
people turned up for the
vigil led by Buddhist
monks. They lit candles
and prayed and chanted wildly along the way at
in the town square featur- people inside and outside
ing a statue of Thao Sura- the building.
nari, a governor’s wife
who is revered for leading
troops against invaders
from Laos two centuries
ago.
Officials said the gun-
man was angry over a fi-
nancial dispute with his
commanding officer. He
made Col. Anantarote
Krasae his first victim
before stealing guns from
an army camp and head-
ing to the mall, shooting
Gretchen Orr
Visitation:
Monday, Feb. 10 • 10-11 AM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Services:
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Deluge in Australia drenches fires and eases 3-year drought
BY NICK PERRY
The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New
Zealand — Drought, wild-
fires and now flooding
have given Australia’s
weather an almost Bib-
lical feel this year. The
good news is that a recent
deluge in eastern parts of
the country has drenched
deadly fires and helped
ease a crippling drought.
But experts say it
will take some time yet
to know to what extent
the rainfall has replen-
ished dried-up rivers and
quenched parched soil in
some inland areas most
affected by the 3-year
drought.
Quentin Grafton, an
economics professor and
water expert at Austra-
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Burial
Friendship Cemetery
lian National University
in Canberra, said the rain
Berlin Tuttle
had broken the drought in Incomplete
some towns but had not 2nd Ave. North Location
fallen evenly across all the
affected areas.
“At this stage, it’s very
good news, and certainly
much more than people
could have wished for or memorialgunterpeel.com
expected,” he said of the
rainfall. “There are some
very happy people.”
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Education
SALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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READING FUN: On Jan. 21, the 100th day of school, all first-grade students at Sale Elementary School in Co-
lumbus received a copy of “Rocket’s 100th Day of School” from My Book of Lowndes County. My Book volun-
teer board member Debbie Swartz is pictured with students, from left, Austin Crowder, Elizabeth Marquez and
Delylah Carrithers.

WEST LOWNDES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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WARM GESTURE: Madison McCarter of Charity Mission Full Gospel Baptist Church presents West Lowndes Ele-
mentary School Principal Robert Sanders with winter coats for students who may need one. McCarter is playing
her part of Paying It Forward.

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‘YOU COULD NOT KILL OUR WILL’

Jim Lytle/Special to The Dispatch

Mississippi State head coach Vic Schaefer, center hugs Jayla Hemingway (00) and Myah Taylor (1) as Rickea Jackson (5) looks on after defeating Texas A&M in their NCAA
college basketball game Sunday in Starkville.

No. 8 MSU women survive slugfest with No. 16 Texas A&M

BY BEN PORTNOY tively exploded in approv- cancer awareness day, sika Carter also contin- Scoring 14 of her game- Leaving the locker
bportnoy@cdispatch.com al as the fiery eighth-year the wiry plastic was left ued her recent inability to high 21 points in the first room out of the break,
head coach and his youth- mostly at bay through stay on the floor, collect- half, Jackson earned her Schaefer’s bunch showed
STARKVILLE — Vic signs of life as the pink
ful No. 8-ranked MSU the game’s opening 20 ing two fouls in the first third 20-point outing in
Schaefer lost it.
squad (22-3, 10-1 SEC) minutes as the Bulldogs half for the fifth time in four contests and col- pom poms began flailing
Racing off the side-
downed the visiting No. slogged through the first seven contests — forcing lected 10 rebounds for around Humphrey Coli-
line with the thunderous
16 Aggies (18-5, 6-3 SEC) half Sunday. junior college transfer her second career dou- seum.
thump of his dress shoes
69-57. Normally sure-handed Yemiyah Morris into nine ble-double. Sophomore forward
crashing into the hard-
“We believed in these senior guard Jordan Dan- major minutes in which “I just knew I had to at- Xaria Wiggins gave MSU
wood floor beneath him,
Schaefer threw high fives days, like today,” Schaefer berry fell silent from the she totaled two points and tack them,” she said. hope early as she drained
that mimicked haymak- said of his mindset when floor, going scoreless in five rebounds. Despite Jackson’s ef- two third quarter 3-point-
ers as Mississippi State he left Texas A&M for the opening two frames While Carter and Dan- forts the Bulldogs com- ers to keep the Bulldogs
celebrated a three-point Starkville in 2012. for the second-straight berry struggled to find bined for six of their 11 within striking distance.
fourth quarter lead over With a collection of game and was benched their footing, freshman turnovers in the second Freshman guard Jay-
Texas A&M Sunday. pink pom poms envelop- for nearly 12 minutes in guard Rickea Jackson quarter as the Aggies out- la Hemingway — whose
In unison, the 8,400 ing Humphrey Coliseum the second half. balanced the Bulldogs’ scored their hosts 26-14 playing time has been
fans in attendance collec- as MSU celebrated breast Sophomore center Jes- fleeting chance at victory. in the frame. See WBB, 3B

Eighth-grade ‘phenom’ Na’Kaiyla Mason leads Bulldogs win NFCA

midseason turnaround for Noxubee County girls
BY THEO DEROSA The coach had seen
tderosa@cdispatch.com
eighth grader Na’Kaiyla
Mason stand out in her
MACON — It was time on the B.F. Liddell
mid-January, and the Middle
Noxubee County girls S c ho ol
basketball team needed team. As
a spark. soon as
The Tigers, an inex-
the mid-
perienced team with just
dle school
one senior, were 2-11.
s e a s on
They’d lost their first ended, Lid-
10 games of the season,
dell-W hite Mason
and only three of those
brought
contests were within 10
Mason up
points. Noxubee County
to the varsity team, hop-
needed a turnaround —
ing the eighth grader’s
badly.
talent could buoy the Ti-
So Tigers coach Glen- gers during a tough sea-
da Liddell-White turned
son.
to her secret weapon.
Leadoff Classic
BY THEO DEROSA sissippi State its fourth
Right away, the coach No. 1 seed in this week’s tderosa@cdispatch.com
straight victory to start
realized Mason would do district tournament.
the season and earned
a lot more than that. It’s clear that less Chloe Malau’ulu got
than a month in, Lid- the Bulldogs the cham-
In her first game, a things started, Candace
dell-White’s move has pionship
Jan. 17 road contest at Denis ended them, and
paid off just as she ex- trophy for
Houston, Mason came Grace Fagan excelled
pected, as the talented the NFCA
in and blew the competi- in between to give the
Mason has assumed an Leadoff
tion away. She scored 29 Mississippi State soft-
integral leadership role Classic,
points to lead the Tigers ball team a 9-0 win over
with the Tigers already. based on
to a 50-34 win, and it North Carolina State
wasn’t a fluke. “It really sparked,” the on Sunday at the NFCA their plus-
coach said. “It really did. 5.5 aver-
In less than two Leadoff Classic in Clear-
If she’s not going, they’re age run Ricketts
weeks, the eighth grader water, Florida.
not going.” dif feren-
scored at least 20 points Denis’ three-run ho-
tial.
four more times as the Ti- mer in the bottom of the
‘What grade is she in?’ “I saw a lot of really
gers turned a lost season fifth put the Bulldogs
Zacaree Rupert and good things from our
into a saved one. Noxu- (4-0) over the eight-run
Jakeia Walker already team this weekend,”
bee County finished its threshold for the mercy
district schedule with a knew. rule, summarily ending head coach Samantha
See SOFTBALL, 3B
3-1 record, earning the See MASON, 3B the game. That gave Mis-
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BRIEFLY AP source: Dodgers, Twins, Sox divvy Betts deal into 2 swaps
College Basketball THE ASSOCIATED PRESS this summer — 67th The 21-year-old four seasons for the 10 through 190, and
overall — and a minor Graterol, who can Dodgers, but their $750,000 for 200. The
Ole Miss women continue slide against Vanderbilt MINNEAPOLIS — leaguer to the Dodg- touch triple digits on deep rotation allowed deal includes a $1 mil-
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team could not Moving Mookie Betts ers for $10 million and the radar gun with them to put him in the
overcome a big first-half run by Vanderbilt, falling to lion assignment bonus
out of Boston proved a minor leaguer to set- his fastball, missed bullpen occasionally, each time he is traded.
the Commodores, 63-47, at Memorial Gymnasium on
Sunday evening.
to be quite the task for tled their portion of time last season for too, and his desire has To build their rota-
Both teams were about evenly matched on the the cost-cutting Red the trade. Double-A Pensacola been to be a full-time tion behind ace José
stat sheet, but a 19-2 run in the first quarter and big Sox. Graterol was first with a shoulder inju- starter. The 31-year- Berríos, the Twins re-
games from Chelsie Hall (21 points, five rebounds, The trade wound up headed for the Red ry. The right-hander old didn’t make his
four assists, two steals) and Koi Love (17 points, six taking all week — and signed Jake Odorizzi
Sox as part of a three- recovered in time to major league debut
rebounds, one assist, one steal) helped Vanderbilt being divvied into two and Michael Pineda
team swap agreed to make his major league until age 27 when he
(13-10, 3-7 SEC) keep its edge as the Rebels made a different deals. Tuesday that moved debut with the Twins came over from the earlier this winter and
second-half charge. signed free agents
The Minnesota Betts, a four-time and pitch in the post- Hiroshima Carp. His
Ole Miss (7-16, 0-10 SEC) shot 48.1 percent Homer Bailey and
in that back half and were led by strong outings
Twins agreed Sunday All-Star, and starting season. The Twins $25 million, eight-year
from Jayla Alexander (13 points, seven assists, five to send bullpen pros- pitcher David Price confirmed last month contract was written Rich Hill. Pineda can’t
rebounds, two assists, two steals) and Dominique pect Brusdar Grater- to the Dodgers. But their intent to focus heavily with incen- pitch until mid-May
Banks (11 points, three rebounds, one assist, three ol to the Los Angeles the Red Sox, as first on developing him as tives that could make because of a remain-
blocks), but also committed 22 turnovers and were Dodgers for starting reported by The Ath- a reliever, rather than it worth as much as ing suspension for a
out-rebounded, 46-36. pitcher Kenta Maeda, letic, raised questions a starter. $106.2 million. That’s banned diuretic, and
For Alexander, this marks her second career according to a person about the health of the Maeda, who spent because the Dodg- Hill won’t be ready un-
game with at least seven assists. In SEC play, Alexan-
with direct knowl- hard-throwing Grater- his first four major ers discovered in his til mid-summer after
der is averaging 3.2 dimes per game after averaging
only 2.1 in non-conference play. Banks, who now edge of the deal, five ol’s arm. league seasons with physical at the time elbow surgery. Mae-
owns 51 blocks on the year, is on pace to end up with days after the initial The resulting rene- the Dodgers after “irregularities” in his da’s arrival, then, will
the third-most blocks in a single-season with 64 at her Betts-headlined trade gotiation was resolved coming over from Ja- elbow. significantly reduce
average of 2.2 rejections per game. with the Red Sox was with the Red Sox and pan, likely will slide Maeda’s deal enti-
Also recording solid games were Deja Cage (nine
the number of starts
held up. Dodgers conducting into the middle of tles him to $6.5 mil-
points, one rebound, one assist, two steals) and Mimi the Twins will have
The person spoke their own trade involv- Minnesota’s rotation. lion annually based
Reid (five points, four rebounds, five assists). to give to more inex-
to The Associated ing Betts and Price. The right-hander has on starts: $1 mil-
Ole Miss remains on the road this Thursday (Feb.
Press on condition of The Twins and Dodg- a 3.87 ER A with 641 lion each for 15 and perienced candidates.
13) at Florida. Randy Dobnak, Devin
Source: From Special Reports anonymity because ers technically now strikeouts in 589 ca- 20, and $1.5 million
the deals had not yet have a separate deal, reer innings, includ- apiece for 25, 30 and Smeltzer and Lewis
been announced. The the person said. The ing some late-season 32 starts. He can earn Thorpe, who all de-
Twins also agreed to trades, of course, are and postseason stints $3.5 million annual- buted as rookies last
CALENDAR send one of their draft subject to medical re- in relief. ly based on innings year, will be given the
picks in the compet- views before finaliza- Maeda made 103 pitched: $250,000 for longest looks in spring
Today itive balance round tion. starts over the last 90 and each additional training.
Prep Boys Soccer
Heritage Academy at Starkville Acade-
my, 5:30 p.m.
Women’s College Basketball
Campbellsville University Harrodsburg No. 1 Gamecocks, Staley seeking end to UConn losing streak
at MUW, 5:30 p.m.
Northwest Mississippi Community THE ASSOCIATED PRESS No. 1 in 2015 — and know.” cocks’ program truly not how we play. Peri-
College at East Mississippi Community 22-0 — when it lost South Carolina took flight in the 2014- od,” said Christyn Wil-
College, 5:30 p.m. COLUMBIA, S.C. to the second-ranked point guard Tyasha 15 season, Staley knew liams, tied for second
Men’s College Basketball — Dawn Staley has Huskies 87-62. UConn Harris, a freshman that playing UConn on UConn with 15.5
Northwest Mississippi Community accomplished many has been the higher starter for the 2017 each year would be a points a game.
College at East Mississippi Community things in her 12 sea- ranked team every oth- national champs, does showcase for the sport UConn’s Megan
College, 7:30 p.m. sons as coach at South er time. not dwell on the past and a barometer of Walker leads four dou-
Carolina. Beating This time, though, UConn wins in the se- how far South Carolina ble-digit scorers for
Tuesday UConn, the game’s
Men’s College Basketball the Gamecocks appear ries. had to go to reach the her team at 19.5 points
Mississippi State at Ole Miss, 6 p.m.
most dominant pro- to have the more com- She has been fo- top. a game. Olivia Nel-
College Softball
gram in that stretch, is plete team. Freshman cused on getting her “You want to mea- son-Adoda is tied for
Shelton State Community College at
not among them. Aliyah Boston, who teammates — eight of sure yourself and they fourth nationally with
East Mississippi Community College,
Staley and the top- chose South Carolina 11 players on the ros- were the best team in 75 blocked shots, 10
doubleheader, 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. ranked Gamecocks over UConn, leads the ter are freshmen or the country and the more than South Caro-
Prep Girls Basketball (22-1) look to end that team at 13.3 points sophomores — locked decade,” Staley said. lina’s Boston.
Columbus vs. West Point at district 0-7 run against the and nine rebounds a in to playing this group “What better way to do Walker believes
tournament, Grenada, 4 p.m. fourth-ranked Huskies game. Another highly of Huskies. that.” she’s got to penetrate
Prep Boys Basketball (20-2) when the teams regarded freshman, “They’re just really South Carolina has more early on to open
Columbus vs. Grenada at district tour- meet Monday night. guard Zia Cooke, has precise,” Harris said. done well this season things up on the out-
nament, Grenada, 8:30 p.m. Losing to UConn averaged 12.4 points a “They do everything in the biggest games. side.
has not sat well with game. to a T.” It’s lone loss came to “If I can score in
Wednesday Staley, who has won UConn was throt- Boston, who had then-No. 17 Indiana on the lane, it will open
College Softball four Southeastern tled a week ago by 18 points and 15 re- Thanksgiving. Since up my jump shot. I’ve
Alabama State at Mississippi State, 4 Conference regu- No. 3 Oregon at home, bounds in Thursday’s then, it has beaten sev- got to do more of that,”
p.m. lar-season and tour- 74-56. Huskies coach game against No. 25 en ranked opponents said Walker, who shot
Thursday nament titles and the Geno Auriemma be- Arkansas, thinks the in its 16 -game win- 3 of 16 against Oregon
Women’s College Basketball 2017 national champi- lieves his team has im- Gamecocks have done ning streak, including for a season-low eight
Ole Miss at Florida, 5 p.m. onship. proved since then. a great job blocking defending national points.
MUW at Tougaloo College, 5:30 p.m. “Who likes to keep “One of these days out the enormity of champ Baylor and last Staley likes that her
College Softball losing?” Staley said all of these guys are UConn’s history in year’s SEC champion, team leads the SEC
Ole Miss at Colorado State and Utah Sunday. going to make huge women’s hoops in Mississippi State. averaging 83 points
in Puerto Vallarta College Challenge, 6 Even worse for Sta- shots and big plays in preparations the past The Huskies are a game and can put
p.m. and 8:30 p.m. ley, South Carolina has a huge game and big few days. eager to show the pressure on UConn at
Friday not been competitive moments and then,” “We really know country they’re not every spot on the floor.
College Baseball in most of the defeats, Auriemma said, “ev- what we’re trying to the same team that got “Hopefully, the tide
Wright State at Mississippi State, 4 falling by an average of erything will be right focus on doing,” she blown out by Oregon. has turned,” she said,
p.m. 21 points. in the UConn world. said. “How we played “and we’re able to
Louisville at Ole Miss, 4 p.m. South Carolina was When is that? I don’t When the Game- (against Oregon) is bring one home.”
College Softball
East Mississippi Community College at
MUW, doubleheader, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Prep Boys Soccer

US women beat Canada 3-0 in Olympic qualifying final

Heritage Academy at Bayou Academy,
3 p.m.
College Softball
Tulsa and North Alabama at Mississippi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS beat Mexico 4-0 in ond half we came out And despite the think they did too
State in Bulldog Kickoff Classic, 3 p.m.
one semifinal and with a little bit more defensive stand, Can- much to adjust. We
and 5:30 p.m. CA RSON, Calif. — eighth-ranked Cana- energy, we moved ada did have its op- made three individu-
Ole Miss at California Baptist, 12:30 Lynn Williams and da edged Costa Rica the ball a little faster, portunities. Jessie al mistakes, and gave
p.m. the rest of the U.S. in the other game on which ultimately re- Fleming, a standout
women sensed it was them three goals,”
Friday. sulted in a goal.” at UCL A, had an at-
ON THE AIR just a matter of time The U.S. has been Andonovski start- tempt that went over Sinclair said. “I
before they wore to every Olympics ed Williams and Jessi- the goal and into the thought we played a
Today down Canada. since women’s soc- ca McDonald, giving netting. pretty even first half,
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)
6 p.m. — Colgate at Boston, CBSSN Williams broke cer was included in Tobin Heath the day Press’ blast in obviously they domi-
6 p.m. — Florida State at Duke, ESPN open a scoreless 1996, and has won off. Rapinoe came in the 32nd minute hit nated possession. But
8 p.m. — Baylor at Texas, ESPN stalemate with a goal four gold medals. But as a substitute. Other the crossbar. A few
8 p.m. — Texas Christian at Texas against a team like
in the 61st minute the Americans were veterans on the bench moments later, she
Tech, ESPN2 that, you can’t give
8 p.m. — Southern at Jackson State, and the United States knocked out in the for the match includ- caught Canada goal-
them goals, and we
ESPNU beat Canada 3-0 on quarterfinals by Swe- ed defenders Becky keeper Stephanie
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) Sunday in the title den four years ago in Sauerbrunn and Kel- Labbe far out in front did that tonight.”
6 p.m. — Michigan at Minnesota, BTN match of the CONCA- Brazil, the team’s ear- ley O’Hara. of her net, but the at- Both teams went
6 p.m. — Connecticut at South Caroli- undefeated in the
na, ESPN2 CA F Women’s Olym- liest Olympic exit. Julie Ertz wore the tempt from distance
6 p.m. — Missouri at Louisiana State, pic qualifying tourna- Canada has made captain’s armband for sailed over the goal. run-up to the final
SECN ment. the field in the past her 99th appearance Christine Sinclair’s match, with Canada
8 p.m. — Michigan State at Northwest- “We have a great three Olympics, win- with the team. Chris- attempt on a break-
ern, BTN scoring 23 goals and
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS (WOMEN’S)
front line, we have a ning the bronze med- ten Press started and away in the 38th min- the United States
8 p.m. — Washington at Stanford, great midfield. The al in the last two. her streak of scoring ute was stopped by scoring 22.
PAC-12N defenders were doing It was the fourth in six straight games U.S. goalkeeper Alys-
COLLEGE HOCKEY (MEN’S) their job in the first Sinclair became
time the teams have ended. Press was the sa Naeher.
6:30 p.m. — The Beanpot Tournament: half, so now it was met in the final of the fifth U.S. woman with Williams finally the all-time leading
Northeastern vs. Boston, Champion- international goal
ship, Boston, NHLN our turn to get the job region’s qualifying a scoring streak at broke through Can-
NBA BASKETBALL done in the second tournament, with the least that long, join- ada’s defense with a scorer during the
7 p.m. — Sacramento at Milwaukee, half,” Williams said. United States win- ing Mia Hamm, Mi- blast into the upper group stage. She cur-
NBATV Lindsey Horan and ning all four. chelle Akers, April corner for a 1-0 lead.
9:30 p.m. — Phoenix at LA Lakers, rently has 186 goals;
NBATV Megan Rapinoe also “In the first half, Heinrichs and Car- Horan doubled it 10 retired U.S. star Abby
NHL HOCKEY scored for the Unit- throughout the whole li Lloyd. It was the minutes later when Wambach had 184.
6 p.m. — NY Islanders at Washington, ed States, which ex- game, they were very longest such streak she dribbled around
NBCSN tended its undefeated Canada has won
organized, very disci- for the U.S. since two defenders and
TENNIS streak to 28 games. plined. They’re one of Lloyd scored in seven finished with a per- just three times in
2 a.m. — ATP/WTA: Rotterdam-ATP, the 60 -match series
St. Petersburg-WTA, Hua-Hin-WTA Early The U.S. did not con- the best teams in the straight in 2014. fectly placed shot that
Rounds, TENNIS cede a goal in five world, top 10 in the As expected, Can- Labbe couldn’t reach. against its North
5 a.m. — ATP/WTA: Rotterdam-ATP, qualifying matches, world, so it’s not go- ada coach Kenneth A fter her late goal, American rival.
St. Petersburg-WTA, Hua-Hin-WTA Early and scored 25 times. ing to be easy, if you Heiner-Moller em- Rapinoe struck her
Rounds, TENNIS Attendance was
11 a.m. — ATP: Rotterdam-ATP & New The U.S. and Can- sit back it will be re- phasized defense victory pose with announced at 17,489
York-ATP Early Rounds, TENNIS ada had both already ally hard,” U.S. coach against his offen- both arms raised to- at Dignity Health
6:30 p.m. — ATP: The New York Open, secured the region’s Vlatko Andonovski sively proficient op- ward the crowd, a
Early Rounds, Uniondale, N.Y., TENNIS Sports Park, home of
two spots in the Tokyo said. “I think in the ponent, starting five move made famous
2 a.m. (Tuesday) — ATP/WTA: Rotter-
Games with victories first half we weren’t defenders. The ap- last summer when the the L A Galaxy. The
dam-ATP, St. Petersburg-WTA, Hua-Hin- United States hasn’t
WTA Early Rounds, TENNIS in the semifinals. The patient enough and proach worked well United States won the
5 a.m. (Tuesday) — ATP/WTA: Rot- United States, ranked not sharp enough. throughout the first World Cup. lost on home soil
terdam-ATP, New York-ATP, St. Peters- No. 1 in the world, But I think in the sec- half. “I actually don’t since July 2017.
burg-WTA & Hua-Hin-WTA Early Rounds,
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Taylor handles the wind, Mickelson to win at Pebble Beach
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PEBBLE BEACH, Ca-
lif. — Nick Taylor knew
the odds were not in his
favor Sunday at Pebble
Beach.
Already nervous about
facing Phil Mickelson for
the first time with only
a one-shot lead, Taylor
found himself watching
Lefty’s short-game high-
light show on the eve of
their final-round pair-
ing at the AT&T Pebble
Beach Pro-Am.
“I was just curious,
to be honest. And he hit
some amazing shots,”
Taylor said. “I’m like,
‘Well, I don’t know if he
can keep that up. If he
can, great.’ But if I keep
doing what I’m doing,
plugging along ... then try
to make the guys behind
me try to beat me.”
Taylor created his own
short-game highlights
for a victory that will stay
with him a long time.
He holed a bunker
BUBBLE WATCH: Purdue makes push for NCAA bid-securing finish
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Purdue is positioned
to chase down an NCAA
Tournament bid, thanks in
part to the Big Ten’s depth
of quality teams.
The Boilermakers had
10 losses by the end of Jan-
uary and are one game bet-
ter than .500 in conference
play. Yet they are ranked
No. 26 in the NCAA’s NET
rankings as of Sunday and
play in KenPom’s top-rated
league, which ranks well
ahead of the Big 12 and Big
East conferences.
That means Purdue will
have plenty of chances to
keep bolstering its resume,
even with relatively little
room for error through its
final seven regular-season
games.
“We’re going to keep
getting tough matchups,”
Mason
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After Mason trans-
ferred into the district
from Kemper County
when she was a seventh
grader, the two fresh-
men on Noxubee Coun-
ty’s varsity team teamed
up with her on A AU
teams over the summer.
They saw the eighth
grader’s talent shine
through right away.
“She’s really good,”
Rupert said. “She’s very
consistent with her
work. She can do every-
thing.”
Sophomore cheer-
leader TaQuira Peterson
played with Mason in
middle school, too, and
Peterson quickly saw
someone she knew she
could follow.
“She always wanted
to be a leader, and that’s
what she did,” Peterson
Softball
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Ricketts said in a news
release from the school.
“I really like what our
pitching staff did. I
thought Coach Josh
[Johnson] and them
have really been work-
ing hard. He called a
great game, and they’ve
really bought in and
WBB
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mostly limited to the wan-
ing minutes of blowouts
this year — recorded just
her 13th field goal of the
season to pull the Bull-
dogs within two points
with 9:09 remaining in
the fourth quarter.
Finally, it was sopho-
more guard Myah Taylor
that anchored the Bull-
dogs’ herculean come-
back effort.
Flashing a shifty first
step and an ability to beat
shot for eagle that carried
him to a five-shot lead at
the turn. And when that
lead shrunk to two shots
in 40 mph gusts, Taylor
chipped in for a birdie on
the 15th hole that all but
sealed it.
Turns out Taylor had
more trouble with the
wind than Mickelson, and
the Canadian managed
both just fine. He never
lost the lead and closed
with a 2-under 70 for a
four-shot victory over
Kevin Streelman.
Mickelson, going for
a record sixth time at he
Pebble Beach Pro-Am,
faded to third with a 74.
“It’s disappointing cer-
tainly to have not won, but
I got outplayed,” Mickel-
son said. “I mean, Nick
played better than I did.
He holed a couple of great
shots. That eagle on 6, the
putts he made on 4, 5 and
7 ... he just really played
some great golf.”
The rewards were
more than Taylor could
junior center Matt Haarms
said after Saturday’s win
at Indiana. “Every game
in the Big Ten is a tough
one, continue to play tour-
nament-caliber teams, and
we want to show that we
belong in the tournament.”
After getting within a
game of last year’s Final
Four, Matt Painter’s Boil-
ermakers lost noncon-
ference games to Texas,
Marquette, now-No. 8 Flor-
ida State and now-No. 19
Butler before Christmas.
Then they stumbled to
five league losses in seven
games in January to stand
at 11-10.
But Purdue (14-10, 7-6)
has won three straight,
including Wednesday’s
home rout of No. 17 Iowa
followed by Saturday’s
win at Indiana. Both are
Quadrant 1 wins that top
said.
Mason’s talent stood
out right away, and
when the time came for
her promotion to varsi-
ty, Rupert and Walker
were already waiting for
her.
“It feels good for me
to boost my game up
and get stronger,” Ma-
son said. “Playing var-
sity, I thought it might
help.”
The eighth grader
proved that for good in
her first varsity game,
pouring in 29 to help the
Tigers beat the Hilltop-
pers. Peterson said she
had never seen another
high school player drive
to the basket with the
fearlessness of Mason
in the contest.
“I’ve never seen a
child like her before,”
were mixing speeds and
locations.”
Fagan allowed just
one hit in five shutout
innings in the circle,
walking two batters and
striking out eight.
Malau’ulu crushed a
grand slam with none
out in the first inning to
her defender off the drib-
ble, Taylor recorded 16
points over the game’s fi-
nal 12 minutes and didn’t
record a turnover in back-
to-back games for the
first time this season.
“The energy from ev-
erybody — the bench, the
fans, everything — it all
just ties into that moment,
that one play,” Taylor said.
“So I just fed off of it and
I knew my team needed
that so I did whatever I
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digest.
He won in his fourth
start as a PGA Tour rook-
ie at the 2015 Sanderson
Farms Championship in
Mississippi, at the time an
opposite-field event that
didn’t feature any of the
top players. He went 146
starts on the PGA Tour
until his next victory, and
it was a big one.
“That was amazing,”
Taylor said. “I believed I
could do it because I’ve
done it before. But to do
it in that fashion, playing
with Phil, gives me a lot
of confidence going for-
ward.”
The victory gets him
into the Masters for the
first time, along with the
PGA Championship up
the coast at Harding Park
in May. In his sixth year
on tour, the 31-year-old
Canadian has played only
two majors as a pro.
One of those was last
summer at Pebble Beach,
after which Taylor an-
nounced he and his wife,
an NCAA Tournament re-
sume, joining a 29-point
win against preseason No.
1-ranked Michigan State
in mid-January and a No-
vember neutral-court win
against VCU.
Overall, Purdue is
4-7 against opponents
in Quadrant 1, defined
as home games against
top-30 teams in the NET,
neutral-site games against
top-50 teams and road
games against top-75
teams. The Boilermakers
also have a 29-point win
against reigning national
champion Virginia for a
Quadrant 2 victory, while
a December loss at Ne-
braska is their only Quad-
rant 3 loss.
As of midday Sunday,
Purdue was headed for a
No. 10 seed in BracketMa-
trix.com’s average of 89
Peterson said. “She’s
different.”
Six days later, Mason
flashed her prowess at
attacking and scoring
against Okolona, scor-
ing 29 points in the Ti-
gers’ 80 -43 home win
and wowing the crowd.
“‘What grade is she
in?’” Noxubee County
fans in attendance asked
Liddell-White. They
were shocked by the an-
swer.
As Mason’s perfor-
mances kept coming —
23 against Aberdeen; a
season-high 30 points
against Potts Camp; 25
against Choctaw County
— so did the wins, and
Mason’s name swept
around the high school,
too. Peterson said class-
mates, teachers and
even the principal were
give Mississippi State a
lead it never gave up.
Denis added a sac-
rifice fly in the fourth
inning, and Anna Kate
Segars doubled home
a run in the fifth before
Denis came up and end-
ed things immediately
afterward.
had to do to get the win.”
“I saw a kid with a pres-
ence tonight on the floor,”
Schaefer added. “It isn’t
easy, but she was special
tonight.”
Now having won sev-
en-straight games against
his former employer and
mentor in Texas A&M
coach Gary Blair, Schae-
fer took his time mean-
dering off the floor at
Humphrey Coliseum Sun-
day afternoon.
Andie, were expecting
their first child. They
were waiting for him be-
yond the 18th green at
Pebble.
“You couldn’t write it
much better,” Taylor said.
The final chapter was
more than five hours of
jumbled emotions. Taylor
figured he would have
been more nervous with
a larger lead at the start,
and then he had one in
the middle. He regained
the lead with a 15-foot
birdie on No. 4, matched
birdies with Mickelson on
the par-3 fifth, holed the
bunker shot on the par-5
sixth to seize control and
made a 7-foot birdie on
No. 9 to head to the back
nine with a five-shot lead.
Mickelson contributed
to Taylor’s advantage, go-
ing long over the eighth
green and chipping so
strong that it caught the
slope and rolled back to
the fairway, leading to
double bogey. He made
bogey on No. 9, a two-shot
tournament projections,
with the Boilermakers ap-
pearing in 70 mock brack-
ets for the 68-team field.
And there are still five
Quadrant 1 games ahead,
including Tuesday at
home against No. 22 Penn
State (No. 19 in NET), Sat-
urday at Ohio State (17th)
and a road rematch with
the Hawkeyes (28th) on
March 3.
A strong finish could
get the Boilermakers com-
fortably clear of the bub-
ble by Selection Sunday,
which is five weeks away.
Rising
Arizona State: The
Sun Devils (15-8, 6-4
Pac-12) have won five of
six, including Quadrant 1
wins against Arizona and
Washington.
talking about the break-
out star.
“All people at the
high school talk about
is ‘that eighth grader,’”
Peterson said. “‘I want
to see that eighth grader
for myself.’”
‘The sky is the limit’
As good as Mason
is, Liddell-White knows
her team’s new star has
a ways to go — and she’s
got plenty of time to do
it.
On Friday, Starkville
High adjusted to Ma-
son’s strengths, forcing
her to go left and drib-
ble with her weaker left
hand.
“Once she gets stron-
ger with both hands,
that’s when she’s gonna
be really hard to stop,”
Starkville coach Kristie
“I think it was a really
good weekend,” Ricketts
said. “It was good for our
confidence. We’re trying
to get them to under-
stand that we’re going
to perform like an elite
team, and that’s what we
want to do. Teams are
going to come at us with
With Kool & The
Gang’s “Celebration”
echoing throughout The
Hump, the one-time Ag-
gie who has since traded
shades of maroon made
the rounds down the
baseline and up the side-
line, shaking hands with
those MSU fans that re-
mained in their courtside
seats.
Behind Schaefer, the
5-foot-7 Taylor was lifted
airborn by a collection of
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2020
swing.
And then the wind ar-
rived, so strong that it was
hard work to make bogey.
Mickelson chipped away
with a birdie at No. 10 and
two pars, and he picked
up another shot with a
bogey on the par-5 14th,
where the wind was so
strong it blew Taylor’s cap
off his head as he faced
227 yards to the green —
for his third shot.
Taylor made double
bogey. The lead was two
with four holes to play.
“I had to remind my-
self I still had the lead, I
knew I was swinging it
well and just needed to hit
that fairway,” Taylor said.
He came up short of
the green, but had a sim-
ple chip that turned out
perfectly and dropped for
birdie. His final act was an
8-iron to 6 feet for birdie
on the 17th.
Taylor finished at
19-under 268 and earned
a two-year exemption,
valuable for a guy who has
Oklahoma: The Soon-
ers (15-8, 5-5 Big 12) have
been up and down, though
Saturday’s win against No.
13 West Virginia is their
third — and best — Quad-
rant 1 win.
Rhode Island: The
Rams (18-5, 10-1 Atlantic
10) are surging, winning
10 straight to go from 91st
in the NET as of Jan. 6 to
No. 35 as of Sunday. There
are two big games ahead
against sixth-ranked Day-
ton, the first coming Tues-
day.
Wisconsin: The Bad-
gers (14-10, 7-6 Big Ten)
are in a similar position
to league-mate Purdue,
though their win Sunday
against Ohio State im-
proved them to 7-7 against
Quadrant 1 teams after en-
tering the day at No. 37 in
the NET.
Williams said.
The Jackets’ defense
Friday frustrated Ma-
son, who missed more
shots at the rim than
usual and didn’t put up
the big scoring num-
bers she usually enjoys.
Starkville beat Noxubee
County 60 -34 — just the
second loss for the Ti-
gers since Mason joined
the varsity squad.
“She wasn’t on her
game tonight,” Lid-
dell-White said. “She
usually drives the team.
… Every game, she
comes in trying to make
a play.”
To get to a point
where she can become a
true star, Liddell-White
said, Mason needs to de-
velop her outside shot so
defenses can’t box her
in and keep up her hard
their best effort. I want
them to be confident in
themselves and each
other when they’re out
there and play like it.”
The Bulldogs defeat-
ed Missouri State, Lib-
erty, Louisville and NC
State in the tournament.
Mississippi State lost
teammates near the scor-
er’s table in an attempt to
carry her off the court.
On a day in which the
Bulldogs were, in Schae-
fer’s words, “taken to the
woodshed,” MSU added
another line to its NCA A
Tournament resume and
reminded onlookers of
their place amongst the
SEC’s elite.
“I thought you could
not kill our will tonight,”
Schaefer said, choking up
3B
been fighting to keep his
card the last few years.
Mickelson wasn’t the
only player who strug-
gled. Dustin Johnson shot
a 78. Matt Every, in the
third-to-last group, shot
80. Jason Day closed with
a 75.
The best round and
best finish belonged
to Jordan Spieth, who
chipped in to save par on
his final hole for a 67. It
was the low round of the
day and enabled Spieth
to finish in a tie for ninth.
That narrowly moves him
back into the top 50 and
makes him eligible for
a World Golf Champion-
ship in Mexico City in two
weeks.
Streelman also leaves
with a trophy. He teamed
with Arizona Cardinals
receiver Larry Fitzgerald
to easily win the pro-am
for the second time in
three years.
Sliding
Cincinnati: The
record looks good for
the Bearcats (15-8,
8-3 American Athletic
Conference), but Sun-
day’s loss at Connecti-
cut dropped them to
1-5 against Quadrant 1
teams with three Quad-
rant 3 losses (Colgate,
Bowling Green and Tu-
lane) to sit at 46th in the
NET. They also have just
one Quadrant 1 opponent
remaining (at No. 25
Houston on March 1).
Florida: The Gators
(14-9, 6-4 Southeastern
Conference) are going
in the wrong direction.
Ranked sixth in the pre-
season AP Top 25, Flor-
ida has lost four of six
after Saturday’s loss at
Mississippi.
work — both in the class-
room and on the court.
“She has the poten-
tial,” Liddell-White said.
“She has the skill set. If
she does that, the sky is
the limit.”
Mason has aspira-
tions of playing Division
I basketball, and Wil-
liams, too, can already
tell that her talent could
make that possible.
“When she gets to
about her junior or se-
nior year, she’s gonna
be one of the top players
in the state if she con-
tinues to develop her
game,” Williams said.
“To be an eighth grader
and come and do some of
the things that she’s do-
ing already, you can tell
she’s got a knack for the
game. She’s just gotta
continue to work hard.”
Friday’s exhibition game
with Team USA 4-0, but
the defeat did not count
in the official standings.
The Bulldogs will
host Alabama State at 4
p.m. Wednesday at Nusz
Park in Starkville, the
team’s home opener for
the 2020 season.
with each ensuing word.
“As bad as it got, I just
know that they tried to
kill our will — and they
certainly had us on the
chopping block -- but at
the end of the day we kept
getting off the chopping
block and wouldn’t let
them kill our will — and
that is the sign of a great
team. I’m not saying
they’re great right now,
but man they’re trying to
grow up.”
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Jones wins crash-fest at Daytona to open NASCAR season
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DAYTONA BEACH,
Fla. — The first race of
the NASCAR season was
a demolition derby that
turned Daytona Interna-
tional Speedway into a gi-
ant junkyard.
The Busch Clash?
More like the Busch
Crash.
Erik Jones won Sun-
day’s race that left a
multi-million dollar
trail of destruction and
masked the fact the Clash
was a made-for-TV exhi-
bition race. Only 18 cars
were entered and only six
were on track when the
checkered flag flew at the
end of a third overtime.
Jones crossed the fin-
ish line in a Toyota with
a crumpled hood after a
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ZITS
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CANDORVILLE
BABY BLUES
BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
huge push from Joe Gibbs
Racing teammate and de-
fending Daytona 500 win-
ner Denny Hamlin.
“I’ve got to give a huge
thanks to Denny there ...
he stuck with us there that
whole last lap,” Jones said.
“It wasn’t the fastest car I
don’t think left in the race,
but we brought it home. I
owe him one for that one,
for sure.”
Hamlin was a lap down
after a blown tire on the
previous overtime attempt
caused him to crash half
the cars remaining on
track, but he had enough
speed to push Jones along
the outside and give Gibbs
yet another win. The Gibbs
organization won 19 races
last year, went 1-2-3 in the
Daytona 500 and won the
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Cup Series title.
Joe Gibbs is now the all-
time winningest owner in
Busch Clash history with
nine victories.
Brad Keselowski was
among those incensed by
the aggressive late block-
ing. The race was fairly
anti-climactic until two
wrecks in the final nine
laps sent it into overtime,
and as Keselowski railed
against the racing that
ended his day, Hamlin got
a flat tire as the leader on a
restart and collected most
of the cars on track.
“Dumb, dumb racing,”
said Keselowski, who
slapped the side of an am-
bulance with both hands in
frustration. “We shouldn’t
be wrecking all these cars.
You’d think these guys
would be smarter than
that. It’s the same thing
over and over, somebody
throws a stupid block that’s
never going to work and
wrecks half the field.
“I don’t know. Maybe
we need to take the hel-
mets out of these cars and
the seat belts out. Some-
body will get hurt, and
then we’ll stop driving like
(expletive).”
Kyle Busch, collected
in the accident that ended
Keselowski’s day when
teammate Joey Logano
tried to block Busch, said
the crashes are a product
of superspeedway racing.
“Either you can race
or you can wreck,” Busch
said. “The reason why we
ride in single file (early in
the race) is because we
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
Our son
“Greg” has
come out as gay.
My husband can’t
accept it and
refuses to meet
Greg’s boyfriend.
Our other son is
getting married (to
a girl), and Greg
will be bringing
his boyfriend. My
husband says
he won’t come
to the wedding
because our son’s
boyfriend will be
Dear Abby
there. He says
it would “make a mockery” of
the wedding. He has not told
them yet.
I have tried everything I
can to convince my husband to
come. I told him this will destroy
our family and marriage. He
said he doesn’t care! I told him
this has nothing to do with the
wedding. He will embarrass
both sides of the family. He
finally admitted he just doesn’t
want to see Greg’s boyfriend. I
told him he doesn’t have to talk
to him, but no argument works.
I know our children will never
speak to him again. I cannot
stay married to him if he does
this. I have no idea what to do.
— SUPPORTIVE MOM IN NEW
YORK
DEAR MOM: Tell your hus-
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb.
10). Your presence! Many
will remark that you are more
strongly felt than ever, like a
lighthouse on the shore sending
a warm beacon to guide ships
to adventure or bring them
safely home. As for your own
agendas and ambitions, you’ll
find they come to fruition more
easily than ever. It’s quite sim-
ply your time. Gemini and Libra
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 4, 35, 44, 1 and 10.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Your life, which you feel should
be familiar to you by now, tears
off from the form, sprinting,
darting, circling back to offer
you a choice: Either get back in
step or see it so vividly that you
couldn’t possibly.
don’t know how to race.
Just a product of a few bad
decisions there and we’re
all crashed.”
The cars raced in Sun-
day’s exhibition event are
backups for the Feb. 16 sea-
son-opening Daytona 500.
The 75-lap event ended
up going 88 laps because of
the late crashes, making it
the longest in history.
Austin Dillon was sec-
ond in the new Chevrolet
Camaro and followed by
Clint Bowyer in a Ford for
Stewart-Haas Racing. Kyle
Larson was fourth for Chip
Ganassi Racing and Ryan
Newman, in a Roush Fen-
way Racing Ford, was fifth
and the last car on the lead
lap.
Hamlin in sixth had the
only other car running at
band, as calmly
as possible,
that the wedding
isn’t the only
milestone in his
sons’ lives he will
miss unless he
has an attitude
adjustment.
Skipping the
wedding will be
just the beginning
of his isolation
because he will
be absent from
other important
family milestones
— celebrations,
christenings,
birthdays, sporting events,
recitals and graduations. If that
doesn’t wake him up, nothing
will. However, if he still cannot
relent, whether you should end
your marriage isn’t something
you should decide on impulse
or out of anger. A licensed
marriage and family therapist
should be consulted.
DEAR ABBY: My sister, who
is estranged from our siblings,
has been diagnosed with
cancer. The more-than-three-
year estrangement wasn’t her
choice, and she was devastated
by it. She has requested that
they be kept ignorant about
her medical condition. We are
all (six of us) in our 60s, and I
don’t know how much time any
of us has left. I would hate for
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
There’s nothing more powerful
than loving a person who is not
behaving in a way you’d prefer.
The true test of a relationship
and of individual character is
the ability to set aside selfish
interests to do the right thing in
the moment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
You decide what to focus on,
and this choice takes care of
hundreds of other choices.
Magic happens when you
center yourself on the people,
activities and environments that
are most aligned with what you
want.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
If you judged it wrong, don’t
worry. There really is no better
way to get better at life. Clear
the end and ended up be-
ing a solid teammate.
“It’s so awesome,” Ham-
lin said. “I knew he needed
to strap in because, that
last lap, I was going to push
him. I didn’t care if I was
going to push him into a
wreck. I was just going to
push him. It was fun.”
Jones led just one lap,
the last one.
“I didn’t know it was that
bad to be honest with you
until now,” Jones said as
he looked at his crumpled
car. ‘But it sure feels good
to come out of here with
a win, especially in a race
with perseverance like
that. You don’t want to
give up, and when it pays
off in the end, it makes it
extra special.”
my siblings to regret not having
time with her, or to disown me
for keeping this secret. Do I be-
tray her trust and tell them? —
SIBLING DILEMMA IN NEVADA
DEAR SIBLING DILEMMA:
Do not betray your sister’s trust
and reveal her diagnosis to the
siblings who ostracized her. The
news is hers and hers alone
to convey. You are assuming
they would rush to her side
to support her, which isn’t
necessarily true. This could be
detrimental to her recovery, so
do not risk it.
DEAR ABBY: My daughter
expects that her children always
receive a “gift” from their four
grandparents on Valentine’s
Day. My wife and I are OK with
this, yet WE receive no cards,
gifts or phone calls from the
grandchildren or our children.
Are we old-fashioned, or is my
daughter’s expectation inappro-
priate? — OLD-FASHIONED
DEAR OLD-FASHIONED:
Your daughter’s expectations
are inappropriate. They are also
nervy. Your daughter should
be teaching her children that
exchanging holiday greetings is
a reciprocal endeavor. If your
daughter doesn’t want to buy
Valentine cards for her children
to give to you, the kids should
MAKE them for Grandma and
Grandpa. (They would make
precious keepsakes, framed
individually or as a collage.
thinking is a product of judging
things wrong time and again,
realizing the error and trying to
assess it another way.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Most
people fear loss more than they
desire gain, and this is why they
play it safe. Having very little to
lose is an excellent position and
the one that produces the most
exciting risk-taking.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You remember what happened
when emotions ran high,
because intense emotions are
like super glue for the pictures
we add to the scrapbook of the
mind. It’s really hard to remem-
ber things you don’t care about.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Opinions change all the time
in an environment in which
there’s not a lot of ego, identity
or punishment wrapped up in
the consequences of change.
Relatedly, it will be easier to
influence people one on one.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). While you prefer the
meaning of things to be
straightforward, as it makes
your decisions easier, there is
opportunity in ambiguity, which
requires more concentration
and more heart, and brings
commensurate reward.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). The day’s gifts will need to
be unwrapped. (Many will walk
past, leaving them on the table.
Incuriousness is a shame.)
Excellent questions are like deft
fingers peeling away at what’s
covering a surprise.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Nothing triggers obsessive
thoughts quite as effectively
as unrequited feelings. The
extension of energy left unmet
is like an open drain into which
feelings can flow, endlessly
wasting.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). This relationship has dy-
namics, some parts that feel so
much better to you than others.
It may help you to realize the
pattern and recognize it as a
larger set of emotions that will
be cycled through.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You walk your talk and are
really good at knowing who else
out there can be trusted. The
tricky part is the gray area of
new territory. People are experi-
menting. It could go either way.
The question is: Can you afford
the risk?
Leftovers
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Letters Testamentary have
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the Estate of Betsy B. Hardy,
deceased, by the Chancery
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sissippi, on the 3rd day of Feb-
ruary, 2020. This is to give no-
tice to all persons having
claims against said estate to
Probate and Register same
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Lowndes County, Mississippi,
within ninety (90) days after
the first publication of this No-
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KIMBERLY DAVIS SANDLIN
AND JONATHAN SANDLIN PETI-
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TO: JOSHUA W. EGLER, whose
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2nd day of March, 2020, in the
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case of your failure to appear
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entered against you for the
money or other things deman-
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Answer or other Pleading, but
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Issued under my hand and seal undersigned upon the Estate of
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January, 2020.
Chancery Court Clerk of
Lowndes County, Mississippi
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By: Shantrell W. Granderson
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Chancery Court of Lowndes
County, Mississippi, on the
10th day of January, 2020.
This is to give notice to all per-
sons having claims against
said estate to probate and re-
gister same with the Chancery
Clerk of Lowndes County, Mis-
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from the first publication date
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failure to so probate and re-
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