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of Bill Clinton
BY JOSH LEDERMAN AND CATHERINE LUCEY
Associated Press
DAVID ZOELLER | The Sun
Dorothy “Dutch” Thurman and her husband, Charles, are closing the long-time family business, Schmidt Farms, located on Cairo Road north of Paducah. The business has operated in
one form or another for 95 years, first by Lewis Schmidt, Dutch’s grandfather, then her father,
Louis Schmidt, and finally the Thurmans.
Closing of Schmidt Farms
ends a 95-year-old tradition
BY DAVID ZOELLER
[email protected]
For 40-plus years, Charles
and Dorothy “Dutch” Thurman have been operating Schmidt Farms, a thirdgeneration family business in
the Paducah area for nearly a
century.
They were planning to retire in January, but moved the
date up to this month after
Charles began showing some
stroke-like symptoms from a
fall inside the Schmidt Farms
market in July. He hit his head
and needed surgery to relieve
pressure on his brain.
While he is recovering nicely, both agreed getting ready
for fall activities would be too
much of a strain.
“It moved it (the decision)
forward,” said Charles, noting,
“Things we do in the fall really
loomed large.”
October was always busy
at Schmidt Farms, located on
Cairo Road north of Paducah.
“Fall is such a key time,”
said Dutch. “It’s a big deal for
the kids. We have a lot of kindergarteners come on field
trips. Almost every day in October we’ve had kids come out
and take wagon rides. We always did a wagon ride to the
Lexington Herald Leader
LEXINGTON — About 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Attorney General
Andy Beshear received what he
called an unsolicited text message from Gov. Matt Bevin.
It said: “I would strongly suggest that you get your house in
order. Your office is becoming
an increasing embarrassment
to the Commonwealth.”
Misleading,
Bevin
said
Wednesday a few hours after
Beshear released the text message.
“The attorney general who,
it should be noted, is the top
law enforcement officer in Kentucky, also manipulated the
text he received from the gov-
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Train crash injures
over 100, kills one
BY DAVID PORTER AND KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press
ernor and then released the
altered version he created
to the press in an attempt to
mislead them,” said Bevin’s
press office in an email.
Bevin said Beshear “conveniently and intentionally”
left out of the text message
he made public Bevin’s link
HOBOKEN, N.J. — A rush hour commuter train crashed
through a barrier at the busy Hoboken station and lurched
across the waiting area Thursday morning, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others in a grisly wreck
that renewed questions about whether long-delayed automated safety technology could have prevented tragedy.
People pulled chunks of concrete off pinned and bleeding victims, passengers kicked out windows and crawled to
safety and cries and screams could be heard in the wreckage as emergency workers rushed to reach the injured in
the tangle of twisted metal and dangling wires just across
the Hudson River from New York City.
The New Jersey Transit train ran off the end of the track
as it was pulling in around 8:45 a.m., smashing through
a concrete-and-steel bumper. As it ground to a halt in the
waiting area, it knocked out pillars, collapsing a section of
the roof.
“The train didn’t stop. It just didn’t stop,” said Tom Spina, who was in the terminal and rushed to try to help the
victims.
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Bevin’s text to Beshear: Your
office becoming ‘embarrassment’
BY JACK BRAMMER AND
LINDA BLACKFORD
BEDFORD, N.H. — Donald Trump abruptly resurrected
Bill Clinton’s impeachment on Thursday, adding the former president’s infidelities to the already-rancorous 2016
campaign. Trump warned voters in battleground New
Hampshire that a Hillary Clinton victory would bring her
husband’s sex scandal back to the White House.
It was Trump’s latest effort to bounce back from Monday
night’s debate performance, which has been widely panned
as lackluster. In contrast, Clinton has delivered a mostly
positive message in the days since her debate performance
re-energized her candidacy.
Clinton is stressing that her plans will solve the kind
of kitchen-sink problems facing American families — the
high cost of childcare, mounting student debt burdens and
unpaid family leave. Trump, though promising lower taxes
and “jobs, jobs, jobs” for American workers, has intensified
the dire warnings and personal attacks that have defined
his outsider presidential bid.
He took it a step further on Thursday.
“The American people have had it with years and decades of Clinton corruption and scandal. Corruption and
scandal,” Trump charged. “An impeachment for lying. An
National
Coffee Day
LBL tornado cleanup
now topic of dispute
Pastor Sara Tate
of Fountain Avenue
United Methodist
Church (left) and friend
Allison McGullion, business professor at West
Kentucky Community
and Technical College,
take a moment to celebrate National Coffee
Day together at Pipers Tea and Coffee on
Thursday.
BY JOHN PFEIFER
[email protected]
The July 6 F-2 tornado that struck the northern end
of Land Between the Lakes has renewed opposition by
a coalition against logging and burning at LBL.
Jan Bush, public affairs officer at LBL, said that the
July 6 tornado and accompanying rain “caused more
than $1 million in road damage that we’re still cleaning up.”
Bush said improvements that were made in February were “washed away” by the July storm.
Tina Tilley, area supervisor for LBL, said in a letter
last month, “Approximately 230 acres were impacted
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Tim Longmeyer was sentenced Thursday to
nearly six years in prison for orchestrating a
kickback scheme.
Angry lawmakers heaped another
round of criticism on Wells Fargo’s CEO
Thursday, pressing for details about what
senior managers knew about allegations
of illegal sales practices.
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The Lineup
Today
BY KAT RUSSELL
Saturday
Wickliffe Masonic Lodge
breakfast, 6 to 10 a.m., Buck
Road. The cost is $7.
Legos in the library for children, 1 p.m., second floor in
McCracken County Public Library. Free to the public.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 1191, Karaoke, 8 p.m.
to midnight, 1727 Washington
St.; 270-442-6783.
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Murder defendant faces new charge
[email protected]
Senior Medicare Patrol,
8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1400 H.C.
Mathis Drive. Learn to detect
potential Medicare errors,
fraud and abuse. Report errors
or suspected fraud to SMP.
270-442-8993.
Ballard-Carlisle Historical
and Genealogical Society, 257
Fourth St., Wickliffe, 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Volunteers will help with
your family research. 270-3355059.
Paducah Senior Center, free
low-impact exercise for people
60 and older, 10–11 a.m.,
1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, second floor.
Steak night, 5 to 8 p.m.,
River City Eagles Aerie 3686,
1919 Cairo Road.
Dance, 7 to 10 p.m., American Legion Post 26, Mayfield.
Band: Kentucky Road Show
Band.
Local
Joseph Cunningham, a
Paducah man accused of
murder in Marshall County
and arson, burglary and
theft in McCracken, was
arraigned on yet another
charge Thursday morning in McCracken Circuit
Court.
This time, Cunningham,
38, pleaded not guilty to a
persistent felony offender
charge. Cunningham’s previous charges include second-degree arson, first-degree burglary, two counts
of theft by unlawful taking
and two counts of seconddegree animal cruelty.
McCracken Sheriff Jon
Hayden said those charges
stem from a series of events
that occurred on March
24, involving a blaze that
morning at a Schneidman
Road residence and items
stolen later that day from
Paducah Shooter’s Supply
on Cairo Road.
McCracken
detective
Sarah Martin testified June
17 at Cunningham’s
preliminary
hearing.
On
the
morning of
March
24,
Cunningham
“went to 4102
Schneidman
Cunningham
Road,
entered the residence and intentionally set it on fire,” the
detective said.
Martin said Cunningham
had been living in the residence with girlfriend Kristy
Keener, 40, who is also
charged with theft in the
Shooter’s Supply heist, but
they had been evicted some
time before the fire.
The homeowner’s two cats
were in the home when the
fire was set, Martin said. One
of the cats, which Martin said
was locked in the bathroom
attached to the home’s master bedroom, was killed in the
fire.
The second cat survived,
she said.
In court Thursday, the status of the arson case was also
discussed. Cunningham’s attorney, Andrea Moore, asked
the court to delay any further
proceedings for at least six
months, saying Cunningham’s murder case in Marshall County required her full
attention.
The murder charge stems
from the death of Gary J.
Lambert, whose body was
found March 25 near an
abandoned house on Dalton
Lane in Possum Trot.
In addition to murder,
Cunningham is charged with
first-degree robbery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, tampering with
physical evidence, and second-degree persistent felony
offender
During a preliminary hearing April 27, Marshall Detective Matt Hilbrecht said Cunningham and Lambert met
McCracken
County
Indictments
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Boaz man
wanted on
felony warrant
Staff report
McCracken deputies are looking for a Boaz man who was
indicted in early September for
felony non-support, or failure
to pay child support.
The
McCracken County
Sheriff’s Department said James
I. Samples, 43,
has
previous
Samples
convictions for
stalking, violating an emergency
protective order, assault, theft
and contempt of court.
Anyone with information as
to his whereabouts can contact
the sheriff’s department at 270444-4719 or another local law
enforcement agency.
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at a strip club in Paducah in
the early morning hours of
March 25.
Hilbrecht said Cunningham tried to sell Lambert a
gun when he noticed Lambert was holding a pistol.
That was when Cunningham
shot Lambert in the head
with a 20-gauge shotgun, the
detective said.
The detective said Cunningham thought Lambert
was going to rob him. It
wasn’t until after Lambert
was dead that Cunningham
realized the pistol Lambert
was holding was not loaded,
Hilbrecht said.
Cunningham and Keener
then fled to Illinois, where
they were arrested the next
morning.
McCracken Circuit Judge
Craig Clymer set a status
hearing in the arson case for
Feb. 20. From there it will
be decided whether the McCracken case will proceed or
wait until the Marshall case is
adjudicated.
Submitted photo
‘Pinked up’ cruiser
The Paducah Police Department has “pinked up” one of its cruisers in recognition of
October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “We just want to show our support
to breast cancer survivors and those currently battling breast cancer, and remember
those who have lost their battle,” said Community Resource Officer Gretchen Morgan. The police department said on Facebook that people should “feel free” to stop
by and take a selfie when they see the cruiser around town.
Baptist Health to be naming
sponsor of ice skating rink
Staff report
Paducah
Convention
and Expo Center has announced Baptist Health
will be the naming sponsor
of the ice skating rink coming to Paducah this winter.
The 60 by 120 foot indoor rink, Baptist Health
Ice in the Expo, will be
open to the public, as well
as available for private
events, Nov. 18-Jan. 21 in
the Schroeder Expo Center.
“Baptist Health is honored to sponsor this project
as our gift to the region,”
said hospital president
William A. Brown. “This
is a wonderful holiday and
winter gathering place for
families and friends, where
they can enjoy the season
and get some good exercise
at the same time.”
Chuck Tate, director of
operations for the Paducah
Convention and Expo Center, said the ice skating rink
is one of Paducah’s more
popular holiday attractions.
The center has contracted with Magic Ice, of Miami, to install the rink in
mid-November.
“We are grateful to Baptist Health for sponsoring
this great community partnership opportunity,” Tate
said.
Besides
open
skating hours for the public,
the rink will offer special
events, such as character
skates, figure skating lessons, birthday parties,
company parties, and private rentals for schools and
churches.
Other sponsorships will
be sold.
For more information,
phone 270-408-1346 or
see Paducah Convention
and Expo Center’s page on
Facebook.
2 arrested in prostitution, drug probe
Staff report
McCracken
detectives
conducted an investigation
after receiving a complaint
regarding possible prostitution and drug activity.
During the investigation,
detectives said, they communicated with a woman,
on the phone and via text
message, who used the
pseudonym “Riley.” Detectives said the woman
agreed to meet them in Reidland.
About 4 p.m. Wednesday, detectives said “Riley”
arrived in a vehicle driven
by another woman. Detectives learned the vehicle
was driven
by 39-yearold
Menalie
N.
Jones
of
Jackson,
Tennessee.
The vehicle
was uninsured and Wingham
had a fake
Tennessee
registration,
they said.
Detectives said they
searched the vehicle and
found
heroin,
heroin
paraphernalia, including
needles, and prescription
medication. Detectives determined “Riley” was actu-
ally 28-year-old Kristy L.
Wingham of Brookport, Illinois. Detectives said they
also noticed both women
had marks on their arms
from drug use.
Both women were arrested and jailed.
Wingham was charged
with possession of heroin,
possession of drug paraphernalia and third-degree
possession of a controlled
substance. Jones was
charged with possession
of heroin, possession of
drug paraphernalia, thirddegree possession of a controlled substance and traffic offenses.
Sept. 9
Ian T. Willoughby, 31, 16744 U.S. 68,
Hardin — first-degree possession of
a controlled substance, methamphetamine, first offense; possession of drug
paraphernalia. Devin Z. Davis, 21, 3310 Bullard St.,
Paducah — firearm-enhanced firstdegree possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, first offense;
firearm-enhanced possession of drug
paraphernalia. Joshua H. McClain, 28, 231 Ky. 2839,
Dixon — receiving stolen property, over
$500 but less than $10,000. James E. Tanner, 37, 727 Joe Clifton
Drive, Paducah — failure to comply with
sex-offender registry, first offense. David Price, 42, 2270 Olivet Church
Road, Paducah — 21 counts of possession of or viewing matter portraying a
sexual performance by a minor; distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, first offense. Quintin D. Jones, 27, 820 S. 12th St.,
Mayfield — first-degree promoting contraband. Michael D. Sampson, 42, 820 Leiberman St., Paducah — speeding 26
mph over the speed limit; seven counts
of disregarding a stop sign; three counts
of disregarding a traffic control device or
traffic light; first-degree fleeing or evading
police; five counts of first-degree wanton
endangerment; operating a motor vehicle on a suspended or revoked operator’s license; operating a motor vehicle
while under the influence of alcohol or
drugs, second offense; third-degree criminal mischief; reckless driving; carrying
of a concealed deadly weapon by a prior
deadly weapon felony offender; failure to
produce an insurance card; no or expired
Kentucky registration receipt. Richard J. Brock, 35, 2201 Broadway,
Paducah — first-degree possession of
a controlled substance, methamphetamine, second offense; possession of
drug paraphernalia.
Alzheimer’s
Association’s
walk coming
Saturday
Staff report
Area residents will unite to
raise awareness and funds at the
Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk
to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday
Registration begins at 9 a.m.
and the walk begins at 10 a.m.
at the Carson Center, 100 Kentucky Ave. Join a team at act.alz.
org/paducah.
Participants will learn about
Alzheimer’s disease, advocacy
opportunities, clinical studies
enrollment, and support programs and services. Walk participants also honor those affected by Alzheimer’s with the
Promise Garden ceremony at
9:30 a.m.
In 2015, the Purchase Area
Walk to End Alzheimer’s raised
over $56,000, contributing to
more than $77.5 million raised
nationwide for care, support,
and research efforts for those
impacted by Alzheimer’s.
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The Paducah Sun • Thursday, September 29, 2016 • 3A
Police officer arrested in prostitution probe
BY BRUCE SCHREINER
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE — An
investigation into an alleged prostitution ring
in Kentucky was traced
to a veteran officer in
the Oak Grove police department, where the patrol supervisor was arrested on rape, sodomy,
assault and other charges as he reported for his
night shift, authorities
said Wednesday.
Oak Grove Police Sgt.
Benjamin R. Walden,
an overnight supervisor
in the town bordering
the Fort Campbell Army
post, seemed stunned
when Kentucky State
Police troopers took him
into custody late Tuesday at the city’s police
department, his chief
said.
“I told him to come
in (early), that I needed
some extra help for a
warrant,” Oak Grove police Chief Dennis Cunningham said in a phone
interview.
“I didn’t tell him that
it was his warrant. He
showed up and he was
taken into custody when
he walked in the door.”
Two alleged accomplices were arrested five
days before Walden,
state police said.
The investigation began when state police
were tipped off by an
alleged victim, Trooper
Sean Wint of the state
police said. Troopers
found that three adult
women were being held
against their will and
forced to have sex with
men at an Oak Grove
motel, he said.
Walden joined the
Oak Grove police force
as a patrolman in 2012
and was promoted
to sergeant in 2015.
Walden worked for the
nearby
Hopkinsville
police department from
1996 until 2011.
Walden, 43, of Clarksville, Tennessee, faces
multiple charges, including first-degree sodomy, first-degree rape,
fourth-degree assault,
permitting
prostitution, retaliating against
a participant in a legal
process and tampering
with a witness, state police said.
Other charges against
him include official
misconduct, terroristic
threatening and intimidating a participant in a
legal process.
“During the investigation and speaking with
the victims, we were
able to get a lot of information on some incidents that had occurred
that made those charges
appropriate for him,”
Wint said. He didn’t
rule out the possibility
of more arrests as part
of the continuing investigation.
Also arrested in the
case were Michael Helton, 34, of Oak Grove,
and Kiersten Napodano,
22, of Joelton, Tennessee, state police said.
They are charged with
unlawful imprisonment,
human trafficking and
promoting prostitution,
Wint said.
Helton also is charged
with possession of a
handgun by a convicted
felon.
All three have pleaded
not guilty and are being
held in jail. Their attorneys didn’t immediately
return calls seeking
comment Wednesday.
Cunningham, the Oak
Grove police chief, said
state police contacted
him Tuesday about
Walden’s alleged involvement. He said his
department is cooperating fully with investigators.
The chief described
Walden as a “good officer” and said the arrest
didn’t reflect badly on
his 15-officer depart-
ment in the town of
about 8,000.
“Regardless of what
your job is, you’re still
expected to act within
the law,” Cunningham
said, adding that his officer is innocent until
proven guilty. “Just because you carry a badge
for a living doesn’t put
you above that.”
Walden’s arrest comes
nearly two weeks after a
former Oak Grove police
officer and another man
were acquitted in the
slayings of two brothel
workers 22 years ago.
The two men were acquitted of murder in the
cold-case deaths of two
women who were shot
and stabbed New Life
Massage Parlor in Oak
Grove in 1994.
Champion Homes looks to hire 75 Florida woman
hits pedestrian,
auto parts store
BY VENITA FRITZ
Marshall County
Tribune-Courier
BENTON — Champion Home Builders in
Benton, which officially
began operations on
July 18, plans to hire
up to 75 more employees, Plant Manager Tom
Stoneburner said recently during the Venture Lane facility’s ribbon cutting and grand
opening.
Currently, the plant
employs 69 and Stoneburner said daily hires
are being added.
Gov.
Matt
Bevin
was in attendance last
week for the ribbon-cutting at the $6.3 million
manufacturing facility,
calling Champion’s employees “builders of the
American Dream.”
“Someone is going to
walk their wife over the
threshold of one of these
homes. Some child is
going to lose a tooth in
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Marshall County Tribune-Courier
Gov. Matt Bevin helped cut the ribbon at the $6.3 million Champion Home
Builders manufacturing plant in Benton on Sept. 20, calling Champion’s employees “builders of the American Dream.” Plant Manager Tom Stoneburner
said the plant currently employs 69 and plans to hire up to 75 more.
a home you are building.
A small child is going to
keep his bike in a room
of one of these homes.
You aren’t just building
homes. You are building
dreams,” Bevin said.
Keith Anderson, CEO
of Champion Homes,
said the company has
high hopes for the Benton plant.
“All we can see ahead
of us is all the opportunity,” said Anderson.
“We truly have a lot of
plans for this great facility.”
Chicago teachers set Oct. 11 strike date
Associated Press
CHICAGO — The Chicago Teachers Union on
Wednesday threatened
to strike if no agreement
is reached on a contract
with Chicago Public
Schools by Oct. 11.
Saying it’s time to
move contract talks
along, union president
Karen Lewis said teachers will “withhold our
labor” if an agreement
isn’t reached to replace
a contract that expired
more than a year ago.
The union’s approximately 25,000 members walked out in 2012
for 10 days and staged
a one-day walkout in
April.
Although a strike date
has been set, teachers
can opt to stay in the
classroom if talks show
progress.
Lewis wouldn’t say if
the sides are close to an
agreement.
Before the union announced its deadline,
the cash-strapped Chicago Board of Education
authorized a $15 million
emergency plan to shelter and feed students if
teachers walked off the
job.
Union vice president
Jesse Sharkey said in
addition to pay, the
union’s stance is partially motivated by cuts
in school staffing, including librarians, and
services such as special
education experts.
“We will continue to
listen, continue to negotiate and continue to do
everything possible to
avoid an interruption to
our students’ learning,”
schools CEO Forrest
Claypool said.
“A strike would harm
the children we’re all
here to serve.”
PRINCETON — A
Florida woman was
injured Tuesday afternoon when the vehicle
she was driving struck
an auto parts store
and a pedestrian in
the parking lot.
The crash occurred
about 2:15 p.m. at
Coleman Auto Parts,
West Main and Plum
streets.
The incident involved a 2000 Jeep
driven by Donna S.
Stewart, 59, of Naples,
Fla., and owned by her
brother, Larry Granstaff of Princeton,
Princeton police said.
Preliminary
investigation indicates
Stewart was eastbound on West Main
and apparently experienced a medical
emergency, causing
her to lose control
of the vehicle. The
Jeep traveled into
the NAPA lot, where
it struck 51-year-old
Brian Towe of Dawson
Springs.
Towe had been
standing in the parking lot and began to
move out of the way
as the vehicle approached; police said
the Jeep’s mirror
clipped Towe’s arm
Alabama justice faces possible ouster over gay marriage
BY KIM CHANDLER
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala.
— Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore should
be removed from office
again, this time for defying the U.S. Supreme
Court on gay marriage,
lawyers for a disciplinary commission argued
on Wednesday.
Testifying under oath,
Moore called the latest
charges “ridiculous.”
The ethics case involves an administrative
order Moore sent six
months after the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled
that gays can marry in
every U.S. state. Moore
said then that because
the Alabama Supreme
Court had not rescinded
the state’s gay marriage
ban, the state’s probate
judges remained bound
by it.
The outspoken Republican jurist, now 69,
was removed from office
in 2003 for violating judicial ethics by refusing
to remove a Ten Commandments statue, but
voters later re-elected
him.
“We are here 13 years
later because the chief
justice learned nothing
from that first removal.
He continues to defy
law,” attorney John Carroll told the Court of the
Judiciary as he argued
on behalf of the Judicial Inquiry Commission, which is seeking
Moore’s removal.
Moore said his January memo simply provided a status update to
judges who had questions because the Alabama Supreme Court
had not acted to reverse
the state ban.
“I don’t encourage
anyone to defy a federal court or state court
order,” Moore said. “I
gave them a status in the
case, a status of the facts
that these orders exist.
That is all I did.”
Moore’s lawyer, Mat
Staver, told the court
that Moore “did not
order them to disobey
anything.”
But Moore did acknowledge in a testy
cross-examination that
his administrative order told probate judges
to follow the very same
state court ban that a
federal judge specifically said they could no
longer enforce.
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“His order sowed confusion. It did not clear it
up. He urged defiance,
not compliance,” another lawyer for the commission, R. Ashby Pate,
told the court.
The
nine-member
court now has 10 days to
rule on whether Moore
violated judicial ethics,
and what punishment
he should face if so. A
decision to remove him
from the bench must be
unanimous. The chief
judge, Michael Joiner,
said a decision was not
likely Wednesday, but
will come “as soon as
possible.”
Moore stands accused
during a season of political upheaval Alabama.
The house speaker was
removed from office this
summer for ethics violations, and a legislative
committee will decide
if evidence supports impeaching Gov. Robert
Bentley after he was accused of having an affair
with a top staffer.
by Bruce Tinsley
and knocked him into
another vehicle.
The Jeep then struck
an unoccupied 1994
Toyota, owned by Jimmy Winters of Princeton,
parked in the lot. Stewart’s vehicle then hit a
brick wall at the front of
the store.
Stewart was treated
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NO-BRAINER
Bipartisan insurance act
will benefit families
The following editorial is
republished from the Sept.
16 Southern Illlinoisan,
Carbondale:
It’s always nice to look at
Springfield now and then
and see accomplishment.
It’s even better when
that accomplishment is
bipartisan.
Illinois State Treasurer
Michael Frerichs visited The
Southern’s Editorial Board
to talk about a problem he
saw with life insurance.
Namely, that some
companies were holding on
to more than $550 million
in unpaid claims since 2011.
Frerichs said when
someone dies, sometimes
there would be policies
the beneficiaries wouldn’t
know about and, because
they didn’t directly ask the
company about the specific
policy, the money would
just stay in the hands of
a corporation and not the
bereaved. So it boiled down
to, “Oh, we never gave you
the money your mother put
aside for you? Well, you
didn’t ask about it .”
Yikes. There’s nothing
wrong with wanting to
make money, but this just
felt really slimy. It’s one
thing if a company does
their best to reach out to
people, leaving multiple
messages for them and the
family just never claims the
benefits. It’s another to do
this.
e gave the example
of a woman who died
in a car accident,
leaving behind two children
with learning disabilities.
The children were adopted,
but their new guardian had
no idea their late mother
had taken out an insurance
policy to help pay for their
needs, should anything
happen to her. Well, the
adoptive mother didn’t ask,
so no money.
Frerichs said another
example of this tactic is
when church members took
H
out insurance policies for a
pastor and the church, not
telling them so it would be a
nice surprise after they had
passed away. No one from
the church asked about it, so
it was unpaid as well, until
a church member found the
policies on the unclaimed
property check on the
Treasurer’s website.
rerichs claimed that
some companies
played coy so that
unpaid claims would
improve profit margins.
When he audited companies
to find if this behavior
was taking place, there
was some resistance to his
efforts and some lawsuits
with accusations that the
office was overreaching its
power.
The Unclaimed Life
Insurance Benefits Act
required companies to
use the Social Security
Administration’s Death
Master File database to
confirm payment of life
insurance benefits.
A short time after
Frerichs, a Democrat,
met with The Southern’s
editorial board, our
Republican Gov. Bruce
Rauner signed the act into
law. Illinois is the 23rd state
to pass such a law and they
have been championed by
Democrats and Republicans
alike throughout the
country.
We applaud Frerichs for
championing the cause
and we applaud Rauner
for signing it into law.
Supporting a law that
makes sure families receive
the money their deceased
loved ones set aside for
them seems like a nobrainer. Being the man or
woman who scoffs at such
a law seems like it could be
political suicide. But even
though supporting the law
seems safe, it’s always nice
in Illinois to see Democrats
and Republicans agree on
something and get it done.
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No debating Trump’s incompetence
WASHINGTON — My
heart went out to Donald
Trump Monday night
when it appeared that he
was under the weather.
What could be worse
than to be sick, sniffling
through his first presidential debate just days after
he was challenging Hillary Clinton’s health and,
during the debate, taunting her lack of stamina.
Trump’s own stamina was
not, shall we say, in abundance Monday. Wearyeyed and gulping water, he
looked as though he might
fall asleep were it not for
the lectern’s support.
Could his malady perhaps explain his utter incoherence? Might whatever
was drying out his mouth,
but not his nose, explain
his childish, running commentary as Clinton was
answering a question?
As karma would have it,
Clinton seemed perky by
comparison. Pitch-perfect
throughout the debate,
she was never at a loss for
a coherent answer or a rebound. She even managed
to conquer her habitual
impulse to nod her head affirmatively when someone
else is talking.
Otherwise, she smiled
through her contempt for
Trump’s inane responses
or nonresponses. In the
course of the evening,
she seemed to get him to
admit to not paying any
federal taxes, which Trump
appeared to confirm by
saying, “That makes me
smart.” Moderator Lester Holt’s question about
Trump’s birther crusade
elicited not only a defense
of his efforts but a declaration of pride that he,
Trump, had forced Obama
to present his birth certificate.
“I think I did a good job,”
he said.
This is false, as any serious news consumer knows.
But these two examples
illustrate two key components of Trump’s character
— braggadocio and preening pride. Translation:
Kathleen Parker
insecurity and weakness.
He was proud of two things
— paying no taxes and racist pandering — for which
most people of conscience
would feel shame.
Sure, if you’re someone
whose career is built on
gaming the system, you
might gloat about being
the best gamer. But is this
whom you want for president?
As for racist pandering,
that’s what birtherism was.
It was never really about
Obama’s birthplace, no
matter who thought of it
first. Democrats aren’t any
more virtuous than Republicans when it comes to foul
play; Republicans are just
better at it.
In Sniffles’ hands,
the birther issue was an
instrument to mine the
subliminal racist attitudes
that Trump knew were out
there. His strategy was to
constantly remind voters of
Obama’s Kenyan heritage,
thus building a rapport
with a certain segment of
the population that ultimately would catapult him
onto the debate stage. He
subsequently reinforced his
monument to infamy by
marginalizing other darkerskinned groups, including
Mexicans and Muslims of
Middle Eastern extraction.
Thusly was Trump’s
presidential campaign
launched. His made-for-TV
descent on the escalator of
New York’s Trump Tower
was merely a dramatization
of the direction he would
lead his acolytes and, if
elected, the nation.
During his part of the
“debate,” Trump did manage to make a couple of
points, notably that Clinton
is a career politician while
he’s a builder and job
creator. Noted. Otherwise,
he was often if not mostly
a Donny-brook of babbling
nonsense. At one juncture, criticizing Clinton for
posting her anti-Islamic
State plan on her website
(as opposed to not actually having a plan), he said
with rough conviction: “No
wonder you’ve been fighting ISIS your entire adult
life.”
Asked by Holt what he
would do to prevent cyberattacks, Trump replied:
“As far as the cyber ...
we should be better than
anybody else, and perhaps
we’re not. I don’t think
anybody knows it was
Russia that broke into the
DNC [Democratic National
Committee]. She’s saying
Russia, Russia, Russia.
... Maybe it was. ... But
it could also be China,
it could also be lots of
other people. It also could
be somebody sitting on
their bed that weighs 400
pounds.”
What came next was,
well, this: “You don’t know
who broke in to DNC,
but what did we learn
with DNC? We learned
that Bernie Sanders was
taken advantage of by your
people. By [former DNC
Chair] Debbie Wasserman
Schultz. Look what happened to her.”
As a matter of fairness,
I would include similarly
confused responses by
Clinton, but there were
none. When the worst criticism is that you’re “overprepared,” as some have
accused Clinton, you’re in
pretty good shape, debatewise. Meanwhile, the global
marketplace may tell the
larger story. As the evening
concluded, thanks to Clinton’s obvious dominance,
as well as her assertion that
a Clinton presidency would
honor U.S. commitments
abroad, the Asian market
recovered, the peso rallied,
and Dow futures added
100 points. That’s nothing
to sneeze at — or sniffle
about.
Region/Nation
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Lawmakers heap criticism on Wells Fargo CEO
BY MARCY GORDON
AND KEN SWEET
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Angry lawmakers heaped
another round of blistering criticism on Wells
Fargo’s CEO, pressing Thursday for details about what senior
managers knew about
allegedly illegal sales
practices and when any
concerns were disclosed.
Chief Executive John
Stumpf, newly stripped
of tens of millions in
compensation, told the
House Financial Services Committee that the
bank is expanding its
review of accounts and
will evaluate executives’
roles. But as during the
grilling he received last
week from a Senate panel, Stumpf remained on
the defensive.
Several
lawmakers,
both Republican and
Democrat, alleged that
Wells Fargo’s sales prac-
tices may have violated
federal laws, including
the federal racketeering laws, which would
constitute a criminal
offense. Federal regulators have not said if they
have referred the Wells
Fargo case to the Department of Justice.
“Fraud is fraud. Theft
is theft,” committee
head Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, told
Stumpf.
The panel’s senior
Democrat, Rep. Maxine
Waters of California,
was adamant that the alleged abuses show that
the second-largest U.S.
bank is too big for senior executives to keep
track of what’s going on.
“I have come to the conclusion that Wells Fargo
should be broken up,”
she said.
Stumpf reiterated his
previous words, that he
was “deeply sorry.” He
said the bank was look-
ing at accounts further
back, to 2009, and that
an inquiry by Wells Fargo’s outside directors
will review executives’
roles “across the board.”
U.S. and California
regulators have fined
San
Francisco-based
Wells Fargo $185 million, saying bank employees trying to meet
sales targets opened up
to 2 million fake deposit
and credit card accounts
without
customers’
knowledge. Regulators
said they issued and activated debit cards, and
signed people up for
online banking without
permission. The abuses
are said to have gone on
for years, unchecked by
senior management.
Stumpf finally shared
some basic information about the potential
victims, saying those
affected
skewed
to
younger Wells customers. When questioned by
lawmakers, Stumpf also
gave some state-by-state
breakdowns, including
for Georgia, Delaware,
Texas, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
When asked by The
Associated Press for a
complete state-by-state
count, a Wells spokeswoman declined to
share that information.
The bank says customers already have
been refunded $2.6 million in fees from unauthorized products.
Wells Fargo also was
hit with more penalties
Thursday. The Justice
Department and the
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced a total of $24.1
million in civil penalties
against the company for
alleged violations of a
law intended to protect
military service members from predatory financial practices.
The OCC, a division
Associated Press
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., House Financial
Services Committee member, questions Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf on Capitol Hill in Washington
Thursday during a hearing investigating Wells Fargo’s opening of unauthorized customer accounts.
of the Treasury Department, said its $20 million penalty is for Wells
Fargo’s failure to honor
an interest cap and other violations. In a settlement with the Justice
Department, the bank
is paying $4.1 million
to resolve allegations
it repossessed 413 cars
owned by service mem-
bers without obtaining
court orders.
For more than five
hours Thursday, Stumpf
came under a sustained
assault from lawmakers.
He insisted that Wells
Fargo had taken actions
prior to 2013 to bolster
its legal compliance and
maintain high ethical
standards.
Johnson faces new ‘Aleppo moment’ 837 sexual assaults
reported by UK
students in year
BY JOSH LEDERMAN
AND PATRICK MAIRS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Call
it a brain freeze or another “Aleppo moment,”
but Gary Johnson has
stumbled again in his
quixotic
presidential
campaign.
The third-party candidate, in a television
appearance Wednesday,
was unable to produce
the name of a single foreign leader he respected.
Prodded to come up
with something, he finally settled on a former
president of Mexico —
but couldn’t recall his
name.
“I guess I’m having
an Aleppo moment,”
Johnson said, referencing an episode earlier
this month in which he
was ridiculed after he
came up blank when
questioned about the
besieged city that has
become a focal point of
Syria’s civil war.
Johnson’s latest misstep played out during
an extraordinary and
awkward 50 seconds of
live television on MSNBC, where Johnson
and running mate William Weld were appear-
BY LINDA
BLACKFORD
Lexington Herald Leader
Associated Press
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks during a campaign
rally in Des Moines, Iowa. Johnson had another self-described “Aleppo moment” on Wednesday, after he couldn’t come up with a name when asked by
MSNBC host Chris Matthews who his favorite foreign leader is.
ing in a town hall. Host
Chris Matthews ticked
through a list of regions,
hoping to jog the Libertarian Party candidate’s
memories, but to no
avail. “You’ve got to do
this,” Matthews said.
“Anywhere, any continent: Canada, Mexico,
Europe, over there, Asia,
South America, Africa.
Name a foreign leader
that you respect.”
Johnson hung his
head slightly — “I’m
having a brain freeze”
— before Weld came to
his rescue, offering the
names of three former
Mexican
presidents.
Johnson settled quickly
on Vicente Fox, calling him “terrific” before
Weld named his own
favorite foreign leader:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As the slip-up ricocheted on social media,
Johnson took to Twitter
on Thursday in an ap-
parent attempt to poke a
bit of fun at himself.
“It’s been almost 24
hours,” Johnson wrote,
“and I still can’t come
up with a foreign leader
I look up to.”
Johnson’s candidacy
has attracted interest
from members of both
major parties who say
they’re dismayed about
their choices this year
of Republican Donald
Trump or Democrat
Hillary Clinton.
Obama flies to Israel for Peres’ memorial
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Both
were Nobel Prize laureates who labored for
peace in the Middle East
but failed to achieve it.
Now, their joint efforts
are at an end as President Barack Obama
prepares to pay a final
tribute to Shimon Peres
in Jerusalem.
Obama boarded Air
Force One on Thursday afternoon to fly to
Israel to join dozens of
other world leaders at
the funeral of Peres, the
former prime minister, president and elder
statesman who died at
age 93.
The two leaders shared
similar visions for a twostate solution to resolve
the
Israel-Palestinian
conflict. Peres’ son-inlaw and personal physician, Dr. Rafi Walden,
said Obama had called
the family overnight
on Wednesday during
Peres’ final hours and
spoke to Peres’ daughter, Tzvia.
Obama awarded Peres
the Medal of Freedom,
the United States’ highest civilian honor, in
2012, saying “Shimon
teaches us to never settle
for the world as it is.”
In turn, Peres bestowed the Medal of
Distinction on Obama,
making him the first
sitting U.S. president
to receive Israel’s high-
Gov. Rauner’s deficit projection
$2.4 billion less than lawmakers’
Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. —
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s
says the state’s budget
deficit will be $5.4 billion.
The figure announced
Thursday is far below
the $7.8 billion that the
Legislature’s bipartisan
Commission on Government Forecasting and
Accountability projects.
The Republican gover-
nor and lawmakers have
been unable to agree on
a budget. Court-ordered
spending
continues,
outstripping revenue.
The governor’s office says there’s about
$1 billion in federal reimbursements and another $800 million the
commission counted as
spending but it didn’t
count an equal amount
of revenue that would
come in. The governor’s
office says it expects Illinois to spend $250 million less than planned
and a state law reduces
Illinois’ cost for the Affordable Care Act by
$150 million.
Commission Executive Director Dan Long
says he could not comment because he hasn’t
seen a detailed description.
est civilian honor. “This
award speaks to you,
to your tireless work to
make Israel strong, to
make peace possible,”
Peres said in 2013.
LEXINGTON — University of Kentucky
students
reported
slightly fewer sexual
assaults on campus
in the second annual
campus safety survey,
but a high number of
them are still not reported to the UK authorities.
Of the 23,000 students who responded
to the Campus Attitudes Toward Safety
(CATS) survey for
2015-2016, 837 reported some kind of
sexual assault, compared to 1,050 the year
before.
Only 20 percent
reported to any UK
source, including campus police, the VIP
counseling center or a
faculty or staff member. Just over 1 percent went to the Lexington police and the
vast majority, about
60 percent, told a
friend or family member.
About 30 percent
of those reporting assault said it wasn’t serious enough to report
to authorities, while
26 percent said they
felt it was a private
matter.
About 730 students
reported the location of
the assault, with 36 percent occurring on UK
property or trips and
64 percent occurring off
campus.
About 68 percent of
studentreports said the
assailant was affiliated
with UK.
The survey was given
to all students in the
spring 2016 semester,
and 23,133 students responded. Approximately
56 percent were female.
This is the second year
of a planned five-year
study on campus sexual
assault and campus safety.
“We entered into this
task of data collection
and analysis with the
goal of listening to our
students and acting on
their feedback about the
things we do well and
where we have work to
do,” said UK President
Eli Capilouto.
“This is an intentional,
constant improvement
process, and we’ve made
progress since the first
survey, but our second
year of data collection
indicate that there is
more work we must do
in creating a safe and
supportive environment
for reporting, raising
awareness about sexual
assault, and providing
support for victim survivors.”
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Firefighters hailed as heroes in school shooting
BY KATE BRUMBACK
AND JAY REEVES
Associated Press
TOWNVILLE,
S.C.
— When two volunteer
firefighters rolled up to
an elementary school
shooting, they said they
found only a wrecked
black pickup truck at the
playground. There was
no gunman, and no one
inside the truck.
Within
minutes,
though, they performed
actions that led to them
being hailed as heroes
throughout their tightknit South Carolina
hometown: One went
inside to help treat the
wounded and the other
searched for the shooter.
“This was more than
just another call to us.
This incident occurred
in the school where our
children and the children of the community
attend,” Townville Fire
Chief Billy McAdams
said Thursday during a
news conference, pausing to collect himself as
he recalled the harrowing events of the day before.
Authorities say the
teen shot his father at
their home before driv-
Associated Press
Fire Chief Billy McAdams speaks with reporters
about a school shooting during a news conference
in Townville, S.C., on Thursday. McAdams was
among the first two officials to arrive on the scene
of the shooting, which injured two students and a
teacher at a rural elementary school.
ing the pickup 3 miles thorities said.
down a country road
Bullets struck two stulined
with
chicken dents and a first-grade
houses and pine trees to teacher, and the buildTownville Elementary ing was immediately
School. He only had to placed on lock down.
One of the wounded,
make two turns to arrive
at the red brick school, 6-year-old Jacob Hall,
where he crashed the remained in critical contruck, got out and fired dition Thursday and was
at a door as it was being said to be fighting for his
opened for recess, au- life. A sign outside a din-
er conveyed the sentiments of an entire community: “Pray for Jacob.
Pray for Townville.”
The teacher who was
shot in the shoulder and
another student who
was hit in the foot were
treated and released
from a hospital, officials
said. The teen was arrested minutes after the
shooting and a Family
Court hearing was set
for Friday to determine
if he should remain in
jail or be released.
The shooter never made it inside the
school, and no one else
was hurt, Anderson
County District 4 Superintendent Joanne Avery
said.
“I am tremendously
proud of our injured
teacher who put her
own life at risk to rush
her students to safety,”
Avery wrote on the district’s website, saying
the students and staff
have been through active-shooter
training
over the past few years.
Classes are scheduled to resume at the
school Monday, but
second-grader Mattie
LeCroy doesn’t want to
go. Asked whether she
was scared to return to
school, the blond-haired
7-year-old simply nodded her head “yes” after
dropping off flowers for
Jacob with her mom at
the town’s fire station.
The violence was a
punch in the gut to people around Townville,
where residents say
some families have lived
on the same land since
before the Civil War.
Outside a church where
workers offered counseling and other aid to
residents, both U.S. and
Confederate flags decorate graves in the burial
yard.
“It’s just a shock. Why
in the world would that
boy do that?” said Douglas Ayers, who lives on
the road linking the
Osborne home and the
school.
Authorities said they
don’t yet know a motive for the shooting and
they were not sure if the
students and teacher
were targeted or shot
randomly.
Anderson
County
Sheriff John Skipper
said the teen had been
homeschooled, but the
reason isn’t clear.
The fire chief said he
and firefighter Jamie
Brock were working on
his farm when they got
the call about an active
shooter at Townville Elementary. They rushed
to the school and found
the empty pickup.
Teachers told them
there were wounded
inside, and Brock suggested to the fire chief
that he go inside to
help because he was a
paramedic. Alongside a
school nurse, the chief
attended to Jacob, who
was the most seriously
injured.
In the meantime, law
enforcement swarmed
the school and Brock
looked for the shooter,
finding him near the
back of the school building.
“Feeling it was imperative to the safety of
the students, the teachers and all the responders that were on site, he
immediately confronted
and subdued that shooter,” the chief said. “He
was able to keep him
on the ground until law
enforcement could place
him into custody.”
White House lashes out at Rescue at sea renews interest
Congress for 9/11 bill vote about unsolved 2013 killing
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
White House lashed out
at Congress on Thursday, a day after Republicans and Democrats
overwhelmingly overrode President Barack
Obama’s veto of a bill to
allow families of the 9/11
victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The White House
turned to mockery as top
GOP leaders expressed
buyer’s remorse and
vowed to fix the bill.
House Speaker Paul
Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell both
said the measure, the
only law enacted over
Obama’s veto in his
eight years as president,
needed repairs. McConnell said the law may
have “unintended ramifications,” while Ryan
said “there may be some
work to be done” to
make sure it doesn’t lead
to U.S. service members
overseas being sued.
“Everybody was aware
of who the potential
beneficiaries were but
nobody really had focused on the downside
in terms of our international relationships,”
McConnell told reporters at a Capitol Hill news
conference.
The law gives victims’
families the right to sue
in U.S. court for any
role that elements of the
Saudi government may
have played in the 2001
attacks. Courts would
be permitted to waive a
claim of foreign sovereign immunity when an
act of terrorism occurred
inside U.S. borders.
Supporters said the
families of 9/11 victims
should be able to pursue justice against Saudi
Arabia for its alleged
backing of the attackers.
Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11
hijackers were Saudis.
Nearly 3,000 people in
New York, the Washington, D.C., area, and
Pennsylvania died in the
terror attacks.
U.N. warns of ‘merciless abyss’
in besieged districts of Aleppo
Associated Press
BEIRUT — Syrian
government forces continued their push into
rebel-held districts of
Aleppo on Thursday as
international officials issued dire warnings of an
ongoing humanitarian
disaster in Syria’s largest city.
The U.N.’s humanitarian chief Stephen
O’Brien told the Security
Council that the conditions in eastern Aleppo,
which is besieged and
assaulted by all sides
by government forces,
had descended into the
“merciless abyss of humanitarian
catastrophe.”
Speaking to the Security Council via video link
from Geneva, O’Brien
painted a grim picture
of the conditions in the
war-wracked
eastern
part of the city, where
at least 320 civilians
including 100 children
have been killed in the
past week. An additional
765 have been wounded.
O’Brien’s report noted
that the U.N. now calculates that 861,200
Syrians are trapped in
sieges — a nearly 50 percent increase from the
last estimate of 586,200.
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“She was convinced he
had nothing to do with
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Police, however, were
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to a news story Tuesday about allegations of misconduct by an attorney
general’s office investigator in Boyle
County in a Medicaid fraud case.
“Is it any wonder that multiple employees who work for the attorney
general’s office have so little regard
for the truth and the rule of law?
Their poor example clearly comes
from the attorney general himself,”
said Bevin’s statement.
The governor’s press office added:
“Beshear is once again misleading
the media and the people of Kentucky. The governor was correct. The
deceitful behavior of the attorney
general and a number of his staff
are an increasing embarrassment to
Kentucky. We all deserve better.”
Beshear spokesman Terry Sebastian, in response, said, “The governor has now admitted to sending a
nasty text to the attorney general’s
personal cellphone. Surely we expect
more from a governor. Now caught,
his response is to attack.
“The general’s cellphone received
the governor’s unnecessary comments in a separate message than
the link. The governor can spin his
actions all he wants. The fact remains
that instead of working with our office, the governor chose to spend his
time sending an attacking text to the
attorney general instead of governing the Commonwealth. This action
is beneath the office of the governor
and Kentuckians deserve better.”
The text message is the latest in the
war of words between the Republican governor and the Democratic
attorney general who is challenging
Bevin’s authority in the courtroom.
Beshear now leads 2-0 over Bevin
in that increasingly fierce legal war
that has become personal.
Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd sided with Beshear
Wednesday, saying Bevin was wrong
in abolishing the University of Louisville board of trustees and appointing a new board because he believed
the university needed a fresh start.
It was Bevin’s second legal loss to
Beshear in a week.
The Kentucky Supreme Court
ruled last Thursday that Bevin did
not have the authority to cut 2 percent of funds that the legislature gave
to state universities and colleges in
the state budget for 2015-16. Bevin
is weighing whether to ask the high
court for a rehearing.
Beshear, a Democrat who has sued
the Republican governor three times
in the 10 months they’ve both been
in office, said after that ruling that he
hoped Bevin would “stop attacking,
and to instead join me in building a
better Kentucky.”
impeachment for lying.
Remember that? Impeach.”
That was a reference
to Bill Clinton. After an
investigation by an independent counsel, the
House approved formal
impeachment charges in
late 1998 in connection
with President Clinton’s
testimony about his affair with a White House
intern, Monica Lewinsky, and other matters.
He was acquitted of the
impeachment charges
by the Senate.
Trump’s team said he
had been prepared to
bring up the Lewinsky
scandal during Monday
night’s debate but decided otherwise because
the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, was in the
room. Trump did not
bring up Lewinsky by
name on Thursday.
Shortly
before
Trump’s remarks, Clinton offered a more optimistic message to supporters in Iowa’s capital
city.
Asked Thursday about
the possibility that
Trump would raise her
husband’s infidelities,
Clinton said, “He can
run his campaign however he chooses. That’s
up to him. I’m going to
keep talking about the
stakes in this election.”
Her aides argue that
a summer barrage of attack ads against Trump,
along with the candidate’s own controversial
statements, have driven
his negative ratings to
historic levels, leaving
them little ability to do
more. That leaves her
the choice of trying to
win over undecided voters and Republicans
concerned about Trump
by emphasizing a positive vision for America.
Indeed, at her Des
Moines rally, Clinton
offered a hopeful message to contrast with
the
doom-and-gloom
themes that have been
staples of Trump’s campaign. As she often does,
she recounted her own
background of working
on children’s issues and
her father’s struggles as
a small businessman.
“I know so much of
this campaign has been
about, you know, whatever my opponent said
and who he attacked and
who he denigrates — and
the list is long,” Clinton
said. “But it’s not about
that, it’s about you. It’s
about your families and
your future, and each of
us should be telling you
what we intend to do in
the job.”
With Election Day less
than six weeks away,
early voting already
is underway in Iowa
and some other places.
Trump and Clinton remain locked in a tight
contest.
Trump has included
hopeful lines in his own
remarks. But the New
York businessman has
not deviated far from
his aggressive approach
defined by insults that
helped him win a crowded Republican primary
election.
stems from a proposal
made more than 18
months ago to convert
more than 5,160 acres
of Pisgah Bay land from
wooded areas to oak
grassland or savannahtype environment. Opposition to that proposal
grew, and it was eventually scrapped by the Forest Service.
LBL’s Bush emphasized that they are now
focusing “on smaller
projects that people can
get their heads around.”
She said the LBL is more
conscious of “taking
people along” through
the process and emphasized the need “to give
people an opportunity to
understand the science.”
Charles Ruffner, professor of forestry at
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale,
is skeptical of that approach. He visits LBL
with his forestry classes
regularly and is familiar with the ongoing
dispute between LBL
management and what
he described as “a very
vocal outcry” from some
groups.
“LBL caved to public pressure last year,”
Ruffner said, “because
the public doesn’t want
to listen to the science.
I think the science used
in the original (last February’s) proposal was
sound and it was shouted down.”
A final decision on the
proposed Birmingham
Ferry Salvage Project
will be made following
a review of public feedback.
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by tornadic activity. We
propose to mechanically
treat 120 acres of this
salvage area.”
The letter went on
to say, “The proposed
ground-based mechanical treatment would
involve the removal of
dead, damaged or dying
trees. The larger project
area of approximately
230 acres is needed to
provide access to the
concentrated areas of
down and damaged
trees.”
The proposed action
was in accordance with
Forest Service policy,
and LBL solicited public feedback for the past
several weeks.
But representatives of
a coalition opposed to
any additional logging
or burning at LBL say
the 230-acre Birmingham Ferry Salvage Project will do more harm
than the original storm.
Lyon County JudgeExecutive Wade White,
who with Trigg JudgeExecutive Hollis Alexander organized the coalition last year, said the
plan to build temporary
roads is unnecessary
and damaging to the
recreation area.
“Any areas that can
be seen from a road and
cleaned up from a road
should be taken care of,”
Wade said.
“But logging additional trees to build temporary roads will be more
destructive than the
original storm.”
U.S. Forest Service
Environmental
Stewardship Manager John
Westbrook spoke last
Friday to a group of
about 30 from the Coalition for the Preservation
of LBL and stressed that
LBL would only take action after hearing from
the public.
Westbrook said that
following the public
comment period, the
project would either
proceed as planned, be
altered or shelved entirely.
Coalition leader White
was
complimentary
of Westbrook, saying,
“He’s actively trying to
rebuild trust, and at this
point we’re going to give
him the benefit of the
doubt.”
Much of the opposition to this latest project
“I was the one that followed Dad around so ...
I worked on the farm,”
she said.
It was from her father
that she acquired the
nickname Dutch.
“Being a farmer, when
he’d come in his hands
would be all dirty, and
he’d wash in Dutch
cleanser,” she said. “So,
being a little 2-year-old,
he’d say ‘get the Dutch,’
and it stuck.”
Dutch went to college
to be a music teacher.
“When I went to college I worked at Sears,
and that’s where I found
him,” she says, pointing
at Charles.
Charles was actually
working for the state,
“so Dad convinced him
he needed to come and
work on the farm,”
Dutch said.
The couple married
in 1971. Dutch taught
music for seven years,
and while she “always
loved the kids, I lived
for the weekends (on the
farm),” she said.
Believing that “God
works things out,” the
couple added a greenhouse in front of the
barn. They also were the
ones who opened the
market, which they have
operated since 1976.
The couple also started what became known
as the Pumpkin Patch.
Her father did not immediately take to the
idea.
“We told him we were
going to pick them and
put them on a hill over
there (on the property).
He said that was the
most stupid thing he’d
ever heard,” she says,
grinning.
“We did it, and every
time we came back there
was a longer line (of
people waiting). By the
end of the day, he said,
‘That’s the best idea
you’ve every had.’ “
Charles,
80,
and
Dutch, 67, are working
to get rid of some inventory as they consider the
future.
“It will definitely be
up for sale,” Dutch said.
“We’re still looking at
prospects.”
“We’ve had four or
five inquiries from people who are interested,”
Charles said. “Some to
carry on the same thing
and some to do something else.”
They both agree they’ll
miss it.
“We have things to
do to keep busy,” Dutch
said.
A painter, she has recently become president
of the Paducah Painter’s
Alliance. Charles, a beekeeper, will probably
maintain the hobby he
has enjoyed.
“We want to thank our
customers,” said Dutch.
“We’re going to miss it,
in a bittersweet way. It
was a lot of pressure and
stress, but it was fun. I
miss the customers ...
‘cause I talk a lot.”
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SCHMIDT
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Pumpkin Patch.”
Preparing the Black
Cat Cave, a tunnel built
out of straw, was also a
time-consuming task,
according to Dutch.
“And
cider
time
was coming up,” said
Charles, with Dutch
adding, “That’s very labor-intensive, to make
cider and sell it.”
Schmidt Farms began
with Lewis Schmidt,
Dutch’s
grandfather,
purchasing the farmland
in 1921.
“His brother-in-law
did flowers, and he grew
all the fruits and vegetables,” Dutch said. Her
father, Louis Schmidt,
bought the farm around
1943.
“He had cattle when
I was growing up, and
greenhouses,”
Dutch
said. “He was one of the
first that had plasticcovered
greenhouses,
experimenting with the
University of Kentucky.”
During her father’s
tenure was also when
Schmidt Farms began
making apple cider.
“In the 1960s, he
planted peach orchards
and apple orchards,”
Dutch said. “He loved
doing the orchards.”
Dutch was the youngest of Louis Schmidt’s
three daughters.
While
her
sisters weren’t that interested in farming, Dutch
really took to it.
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Learn to embrace rather than avoid Achilles’ heel
I appear to have an
Achilles’ heel that can
cause me to fall flat on
my face at any given
moment. I am brutally
honest here about my
failures, mistakes, and
weaknesses, but I’m not
going to confess this
one.
I do wonder, though,
if we all have a vulnerable spot, as did Achilles.
In case you’ve forgotten the details, Achilles
is a mythological Greek
warrior and leader in
the Trojan War who was
killed by an arrow penetrating his only vulnerable spot, his heel. I’ve
got more than one weak
area in my character
but there is one MVP, or
most vulnerable place. I
have a spiritual Achilles
heel.
It is something that
can send me spiraling
downward, no matter
how high I thought I
climbed or how strong
I felt I was the day before. One’s spiritual life
is usually a series of ups
and downs, peaks and
valleys. If you know
someone who always
seems to be on an everupward spiritual high —
never hitting a low spot
— well, the cynic in me
wants to suggest they
are either delusional
or an Academy Awardwinning performer.
Most people I know
agree there are mountain highs and valley
The difficult
and challenging
times may drag
you down into
dark valleys
but they
eventually lead
you back up,
drawing you
closer to God.
lows. The difficult and
challenging times may
drag you down into dark
valleys but they eventually lead you back up,
drawing you closer to
God. The low valleys
can provide the courage
and endurance to climb
the higher mountains.
I’m beginning to see
this is also true with
those flying arrows
that whiz by me, sometimes piercing my heel.
Every time I get hit, I
learn from God a new
way to remove that
wicked stick and dress
the wound. He shows
me how I can trust Him
more completely and
deeply. I haven’t yet
found armor that protects that weak spot,
and it appears it won’t
soon go away, but I am
learning better ways
to safeguard against
the damage that arrow
does. It still hurts, and
I still bleed, but I’m getting better at tolerating
the pain and learning
from it.
You would think I’d
find the right boot or
medieval-style
chain
mail socks to stop the
impact of that arrow.
But if I did, then I’d just
be hiding this tender
spot and not addressing
the real issue. So, I leave
it naked and open, waiting for the next time,
Church Calendar
Anniversary
St. John Missionary Baptist Church,
Bardwell, is having its
145th Church Anniversary Sunday, Oct. 2. At
11 a.m. the Rev. Hulon
Scates, associate pastor at Johnson Chapel
Missionary Baptist
Church in Hickman, will
be guest speaker. Following at 3 p.m. will be
the Rev. Jesse Johnson
of Greater Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
in Fulton. Dinner will
be served at 1:30 p.m.
at the Bardwell Community Center, U.S. 51
S. The Rev. Wendell D.
Gray is the host pastor.
The United Church
of the Living God, 609
Martin Luther King Jr.
Drive, Fulton, is having
its 10th Pastoral Anniversary honoring Elder
Margaret Pettigrew at
3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2.
Guest speaker will be
the Rev. Michael McClure of Turning Point
Ministry in Hickman.
Everyone is welcome.
Special Services
Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church,
300 Fountain Ave.,
Paducah, is having a
Service of Holy Communion as part of a World
Communion Celebration
at 10:45 a.m. Sunday,
Oct. 2. For more information: 270-443-1724.
Grace Episcopal
Church, 820 Broadway,
Paducah, will host its
annual Blessing of the
Animals at 10 a.m. Sun-
day, Oct. 2. Pet owners
are invited to bring their
pets on a leash or in
a carrier. Deceased
pets, represented by
a picture, ashes, etc.
will receive special
prayers. Ceremony will
be outside but inside if
it rains. All are invited
to dress informally
and bring lawn chairs.
Curbside parking is on
Broadway or the parking lot entrance on Kentucky. Refreshments,
along with pet treats,
will be after the service.
For more information:
Rev. Charles Uhlik at
270-443-1363.
The West Kentucky
Christian Alliance will
sponsor their Fall Christian Festival at Wilson
Stage at the foot of
Broadway in Paducah
from 10 a.m. Saturday,
October 8 to 11 a.m.
Sunday, Oct. 9. There
will be singing, speaking, food (some free)
and booths. For information or to participate
in any of the events,
call 270-994-3230.
Mount Zion Baptist
Church, 9701 Blandville
Road, West Paducah,
s having its Missions
Celebration Weekend
at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
15. Enjoy worship with
East to West band and
a free celebratory dinner (RSVP).
Guest speakers
include Gilbert Hovsepian with Voice of
Martyrs and Hovsepian
Ministries, Ari Hauben
with Chosen People
Ministries and Pastor
Eric Ngum representing Cameroon, Africa.
From 9 to 10 a.m.
Sunday, Oct. 16, guest
speakers Ari Hauben
and Eric Ngum will lead
services. At 6 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 17, we
will close with Q&A for
all ministries. Contact
Mount Zion before Oct.
10 at 270-554-0518,
for more information.
Fellowship
Maple Spring United
Methodist Church,
9614 U.S. 68 E., Fairdealing is having a Country Ham Breakfast from
6:30 to 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1. The meal
includes country ham,
sausage, eggs cooked
to order, homemade
biscuits and gravy,
pancakes, coffee and
orange juice. Proceeds
will benefit the U.M.
Men’s Club Mission
Fund. Adults only $5
and children under 12
only $2.
St. Matthew by the
Lake, 3966 U.S. 641
N., outside of Draffenville. Community country breakfast, 7 to 9
a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8.
Join us for a delicious
meal. Adults $5, children $2.50. All profits
go back into the community.
Homecomings
New Bethel Freewill
Baptist Church will
celebrate its Homecoming Service at 3 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 2. Guest
speaker will be the Rev.
Benny Heady of Mace-
St James Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church
“TEACH ME ABOUT HEAVEN & ETERNAL LIFE”
Saturday,
Oct. 8, 2016
@ 1pm
*Refreshments
will be served
after Seminar
Dr. Kenneth Sullivan of Indianapolis, IN is an
ordained minister in the Churches of God in
Christ, Educator and Author.
The community is invited to meet and hear
this renowned Author, of over 8 books, as he
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donia Baptist Church
of Brownfield, Illinois,
helping to celebrate
122 years of service
to the community and
God’s work. Elder Ronnie White, pastor. Contact Lynda White for
more information: 270443-2802.
Radio Ministry
First Christian
Church, 415 Audubon
Drive, Paducah. Morning worship is broadcast every Sunday at
10:45 a.m. on 1560
AM WPAD or 99.5 FM.
The Rev. Bob Franz is
speaker.
“Words to Ponder a
Second Time Around”
with minister JoAnn
Green on LifeTalk 1450
AM, 11 a.m. Saturdays.
Thirty minutes of inspirational words and music praising God. Also
listen online at westkentuckystar.com.
Items for the Church
Calendar must be
received by email by
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name, location, physical address, date and
time of the event, along
with contact information.
ping, that arrow comes
flying through the air. I
kick and scream and cry
in pain, and then I finally quiet down and say,
“OK, now what, God?”
Then He reaches down,
gently takes my bleeding foot into His hand,
and gives me a comfortable place to rest it. I
feel Him in a very real
way at those times when
I question Him most.
My time of weakness is
His time of strength.
“A crutch!” some
might say. “I’ve always
said religion is a crutch.”
I remember a conversation with two people at
a cocktail party where
religion was characterized as both a crutch
and a “coping mechanism.” Call it that, if you
will. But, as I told the
two people I was speaking with, I’m sure everyone has something they
lean on whether they
realize it or not. I don’t
mind leaning on the entity I believe is Creator
of this universe. That
seems logical to me.
Please let me know if
you find someone more
qualified.
But first, think about
your own Achilles heel.
Because I’ve found that
knowing what it is, listening for that arrow
as it’s released from
the bow, and spotting
it as it flies to the bullseye painted on my heel,
helps me better cope
with the moment of impact.
Jaletta Albright Desmond is a columnist
who writes about faith,
family, and the fascinatingly mundane aspects of daily life. She
lives in North Carolina
with her family. Contact
her at [email protected].
Pope urges greater
efforts for peace
in the Middle East
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY —
Pope Francis is urging
the world not to look
the other way from war
and suffering in the
Middle East and appealed to leaders “for
greater and renewed
efforts to achieve peace
throughout the Middle
East.”
The pope made the
remarks Thursday during an audience with
Catholic charity workers helping to alleviate
the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq and
neighboring countries.
Also present was the
U.N. special envoy to
Syria, Staffan de Mistura.
The pope remarked
that despite great efforts in the last year
“the logic of arms and
oppression,
hidden
interests and violence
continues to wreak
devastation.”
Francis has kept
the war in Syria at the
center of his attention, condemning on
Wednesday airstrikes
in Aleppo that have followed the collapse of a
cease-fire deal.
Church Directory
Broadway Church of Christ
www.broadwaycoc.com
2855 Broadway, Paducah • 270-443-6206
Sunday Morning Worship 9:30 am • Bible Study 10:45 am
Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 pm
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 pm
Concord United Methodist Church
www.concord.church
5178 Hinkleville Road
270-443-2669
Sunday Worship at 8:15 & 10:30 am
9:30 am Sunday School
Sunday morning childcare provided
The Paducah Seventh Day
Adventist Church
paducah22.adventistchurchconnect.org
5320 Kentucky Dam Road • 270-898-3010
Sabbath School 9:30 am, Church 11:00 am
Vegetarian meal first Sabbath of every month
Cecil Precinct, Do You Know
(Hinkleville Rd off Exit 4/Concord area)
Wet/Dry Vote, October 4th
Please vote
NO!
Thank You.
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A L Walls
LEBANON, Tenn. — A
L Walls, 88, of Lebanon,
formerly of Paducah,
Kentucky, passed away
at 8:32 a.m. Monday,
September 26, 2016,
at his daughter’s residence in Lebanon.
Mr. Walls retired
from GAF of Calvert
City as a Material Handler. He was veteran
of the Army in the Korean War, a member
of Southland Baptist
Temple and Folsomdale Masonic Lodge
No. 283.
He is survived by his
loving wife of 66 years,
Theada (Strong) Walls
of Lebanon; three sons,
Michael Walls and wife,
Melissa of Morris, Illinois, Patrick Walls and
Timothy Walls and wife,
Belinda, all of Paducah,
Kentucky; one daughter, Tammy Bryan and
husband, Charlie of
Lebanon; 10 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and several
nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in
death by his parents,
Walter O. and Mary
(Council) Walls; three
brothers, James Walls,
William Pell Walls and
Raymond Walls; three
sisters, Mary Lorene
Yarbrough, Effie Mae
“Tootie” Rives and Wilma Rodgers.
Funeral services will
be held
Saturday, October 1,
2016, at
1 p.m. at
Walls
Hughes
F u neral Home located
in Paducah, Kentucky.
The
Revs.
Jimmy
Franks and Bobby
Strong will officiate.
Burial will follow at
Liberty Cemetery in
Graves County, Kentucky.
Pallbearers will include Charlie Bryan,
Cody Bryan, Josh Bryan, Walter Rodgers,
Darin Walls and Danny
Walls.
Visitation will be
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday at the funeral
home.
In lieu of flowers the
family requests donations be made to Southland
Baptist
Temple, 927 Yarbro Ln.,
Paducah, KY 42003; or
Concord Christian Fellowship Church, 3661
James-Sanders Blvd.,
Paducah, KY 42001.
You may leave a message at hughesfuneral.
com. Hughes Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Paul McClay
GILBERTSVILLE
— Paul McClay, 71, of
Gilbertsville, formerly of
South Fulton, Tennessee, died Monday, September 26, 2016, at his
residence.
He had been a safety
occupational
officer
for the former Stanley
Jones Mechanical Contractors, attended Murray State University
and lived in this area all
of his life.
Mr. McClay is survived
by two sons, Tim McClay
and wife, Jill of Goshen
and Brian Craven and
wife, Amy of Corinth,
Mississippi; and four
grandchildren, Jessica
and Josh McClay of Goshen, Courtney Craven of
Oxford, Mississippi, and
Nick Craven of Corinth,
Mississippi.
He was preceded in
death by his parents, J.P.
and Frieda Jones McClay.
Memorial
services
will be at 2 p.m. Friday,
September 30, 2016, at
Hornbeak Funeral Chapel in Fulton.
Visitation will be from
noon to 2 p.m. Friday at
the chapel. Memorials
may be made to St. Jude
Children’s
Research
Hospital, P.O. Box 1000,
Dept. 142, Memphis, TN
38101-9908.
Wade Dishinger
METROPOLIS, Ill. —
Wade Drew Dishinger,
54, of Metropolis, formerly of Grand Chain,
died at 10:23 a.m. Tuesday, September 27,
2016, at his home.
Mr. Dishinger was
a member of the Metropolis Garden Club.
He served in the
U.S. Coast Guard and
was an over-the-road
commercial truck driver
for several years.
He is survived by his
parents, Eric and Shirley Casey Dishinger of
Metropolis; one brother, Kirt Lee of Karnak; one son, David
Diehl of Pennsylvania;
one daughter, Michelle
Nicole of Kyle, Texas;
13 nieces and nephews;
and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in
death by his maternal
and paternal grandparents.
Services will be at
11:30 a.m. Monday, October 3, 2016, at Wilson Funeral Home in
Karnak. Pastor Tammy
Horn will officiate. Interment will follow at
Mound City National
Cemetery with military
honors by the Coast
Guard.
Burial Detail Team
and area veterans.
Friends may call from
10 to 11:30 a.m. Monday
at the funeral home.
Contributions may be
made to the Disabled
American Veterans Association, 3725 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring,
KY 41076.
Betty Pyle
MAYFIELD — Betty
Pyle, 85, of Mayfield died
at 4 p.m. Wednesday,
September 28, 2016, at
her home.
Funeral arrangements
were currently incomplete at Brown Funeral
Home located in Mayfield.
Brayden Eastep
MAYFIELD — Brayden
Nikolas Eastep, the infant son of Deborah
Birdwell and Joshua
Eastep of Mayfield, died
at 1:16 a.m. Thursday,
September 29, 2016, at
Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfield.
Funeral arrangements
were currently incomplete at Brown Funeral
Home located in Mayfield.
Verona Stermon
ARLINGTON — Verona Stermon, 88, of Arlington passed away at 2
a.m. Thursday, September 29, 2016, at Jackson
Purchase Medical Center.
She attended Kirbyton
Baptist Church and was
a member of Carlisle
County Homemakers.
She was a seamstress for
Curlee Clothing Company and then later for
Mayfield Manufacturing.
She is survived by
one
niece,
Wendy
Brenningmeyer
and
husband, Larry of Arlington; one nephew,
William Stermon and
wife, Jackie of Arlington; one great-niece, Allie Byars and husband,
Zach of Fancy Farm; and
one great-great-nephew,
Owen Lee Byars.
She was preceded in
death by her parents,
Hillary D and Georgia
Lee Holder Stermon;
and two brothers, Wil-
liams
Bowers
S t e r mon and
Malcolm
“Buddy”
S t e r mon.
SerStermon
vices will
be at 11
a.m. Saturday, October
3, 2016, at Milner & Orr
Funeral Home of Arlington.
The Rev. Michael Lee
will officiate. Burial will
following in Arlington
Cemetery.
Visitation will be at 5
p.m. Friday, September
30, 2016, at the funeral
home.
Donations may be
made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas
Place, Memphis, TN,
38105.
You may go online to
light a candle or leave a
message for the family at
milnerandorr.com.
Rudy Dwayne Cobb
BURNA
—
Rudy
Dwayne Cobb, 51, of
922 Cedar Grove Road,
Burna, Kentucky, was
called home after a tractor-trailer accident on
Tuesday, September 27,
2016.
He is survived by
one son, Bryan J. Cobb
(who he was very proud
of); his mother, Sandra (Sandy) Cobb; one
aunt, Connie Kitchens;
two great-aunts, Myra
Wiggins and Carleen
Edelman; two cousins,
(who called him Uncle
Rudy), Tara McCleane
and Ryan Kitchens; and
many second cousins.
Mr. Cobb was a career
truck driver who loved
hunting, shooting and
spending time with his
son. He was “giving” to a
fault. He made everyone
laugh and was always
helping
someo n e .
He had
m a n y
friends
w h o
loved
him. His
Cobb
family
was very
proud of him and his accomplishments, and he
was adored and loved to
the max by his mother.
Funeral services will
be at 2 p.m. Saturday,
October 1, 2016, at Boyd
Funeral Directors in Salem. Burial will follow in
Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Visitation will be at 10
a.m. Saturday, at the funeral home.
Arrangements have
been entrusted with
Boyd Funeral Directors
in Salem, Kentucky.
Kevin Woodson Sr.
Kevin S. Woodson
Sr., 59, of Paducah died
at 2:20 a.m. Thursday,
September 22, 2016, at
his home.
Mr. Woodson was of
the Baptist faith and
attended Paducah Tilghman High School.
He was a manager and
worked at Tyler Mountain Water.
He is survived by his
wife, Joyce Buchanan
Woodson; three daughters, Victoria Hunt,
Mary Buckingham and
Ke-Onna Buckingham,
all of Paducah; three
sons, Kevin S. Woodson Jr. and T’Angelo
Henderson, both of
Paducah and Allen
Gilbert of Nashville,
Tennessee; two sisters,
Sharon Hamm and Jo
Ann Kindle, both of
Paducah; three brothers, Jerome Young, Larry Young and Robert
Young, all of Paducah;
eight
grandchildren;
and one great-grandson.
Services will be at 1
p.m. Saturday, October
1, 2016, at Pettus-Rowland Funeral Home.
The Rev. Fred Ford will
officiate. Burial will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah.
There will be no visitation.
Barbara McKendree
BENTON — Barbara
June McKendree, 81, of
Benton died Wednesday, September 28,
2016, at her home.
Mrs.
McKendree worked with her husband in their ceramic
tile business. She was a
member of Brooks Chapel United Methodist
Church and American
Hemerocalles
Daylily
Society and was a winner of the Master Conservationist Award.
She is survived by one
son, Brad McKendree;
one daughter, Tonia
Doom; two sisters, Jean
Ross and Anne Siress;
five grandchildren; and
six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
The Paducah Sun • Friday, September 30, 2016 • 9A
death by her husband,
Joe Tom; and two infant sons, Michael and
Bruce. Her parents were
Toy and Lola (Burkeen)
Jones.
Services will be at 1
p.m. Saturday, October
1, 2016, at Collier Funeral Home in Benton.
The Rev. Sam Chambers
will officiate. Interment
will follow in Brooks
Chapel Cemetery.
Friends
may
call
from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday,
September 30, 2016,
at the funeral home.
Contributions
may
be made to Brooks
Chapel Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Eddie
Ramsey, 2034 Roosevelt
Road, Dexter, KY 42036.
GREEN
VALLEY,
Ariz. — Virginia Evelyn Jones Henson, 94,
of Green Valley, died
at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday,
September 13, 2016, at
her home.
She is survived by
her husband of 71
years, Artel Rural
Henson; two sistersin-law, Betty Earlene
Henson West and
Almeda Sue Henson Sutton, both of
Benton,
Kentucky;
two brothers-in-law,
James Howard Henson of Green Valley
and Kenneth Neal
Henson of Cecelia,
Kentucky; and several
nieces
a n d
nephews.
S h e
was preceded
in death
by her
Henson
son, Erik
Christian Henson; one sister;
and one brother.
Mrs. Henson’s parents
were Ethan and Margie
Jones.
Burial was in Dunn
Cemetery.
Filbeck-Cann & King
Funeral Home in Benton is handling arrangements.
Jennifer Blythe
Jennifer Ann Blythe,
33, of Paducah died at
11:51 p.m. Thursday,
September 22, 2016,
at Ray & Kay Eckstein
Hospice Care Center
of Paducah.
Mrs. Blythe was of
the faith religion and
was
self-employed.
She graduated from
Smyrna High School
and received her Associates Degree from
Belmont University in
Nashville, Tennessee.
She is survived by
her mother, Januas
Blythe of Paducah;
her father, Paul Smith
of Nashville, Tennessee; six brothers, Steve
Wilson and Janerus
Criss, both of Paducah,
and Paul Edward
Smith Jr., Maurice
Corakus Smith, Ro-
driceus
Robert
Smith
a n d
Steven
Smith,
all
of
Nashville,
Blythe
Tennessee; and
three sisters, LaQuisha
Swader, Chamise Akins
and NyKeria Da’Tranece
Smith, all of Nashville,
Tennessee.
She was preceded in
death by one brother.
Graveside
services
will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 1, 2016, at
Peaceful Valley Cemetery in Mayfield. Thomas Todd will officiate.
Pettus-Rowland Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
Megan Ervin
NASHVILLE,
Tenn.
— Megan J. Ervin, 30,
of Nashville, formerly
of Paducah, Kentucky,
died at 9:50 p.m. Saturday, September 24,
2016, at Vanderbilt
University
Medical
Center in Nashville.
Mrs. Ervin was a
member of Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, where she
sang in the youth choir
and served in the Youth
Ministries. She received her Bachelors of
Arts Degree in Corporate Communications
from Western Kentucky University and
her Master’s Degree
from Bethel University
in Business Administration and previously
served as an administrator for the state of
Tennessee. She was a
member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.,
Gamma Sigma Sigma
and served as treasurer.
S h e
is survived
by her
p a r ents,
Drebon
Tyrone
a n d
Ervin
Helene
Ervin of Paducah,
Kentucky; one brother, Zachary Ervin of
Louisville, Kentucky;
one stepbrother, Roderick Ervin of Union
City; two nieces; and
several aunts, uncles,
and cousins.
Services will be at 3
p.m. Saturday, October
1, 2016, at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist
Church. The Rev. Calvin R. Cole Sr. will officiate. Entombment will
follow in Maplelawn
Park Cemetery. There
will be no visitation.
Pettus-Rowland Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
Shirlene Dunning
PRINCETON
—
Shirlene Dunning, 83, of
Princeton died Wednesday, September 28, 2016,
at Princeton Health and
Rehab Center.
She was of the Baptist
faith.
She is survived by six
daughters, Sharon Ward
of Fredonia, Karen Dunning, Lisa Jo Morse,
Gina Smith and Debra
Menser, all of Princeton,
and Melissa DunningStrobel of Lyon County;
two sons, Dennis Dun-
ning of Eddyville and
Jeff Dunning of Hopkins County; 16 grandchildren; and 18 greatgrandchildren.
Services will be at 2
p.m. Sunday, October
2, 2016, at Morgan’s Funeral Home. The Rev.
Tim Perdue will officiate. Burial will follow in
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
in Lyon County.
Friends
may
call
from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, October 1, 2016,
at the funeral home.
Chong Tanner
MURRAY — Chong
Tanner, 64, of Murray
died at 12:15 a.m. Thursday, September 29,
2016, at Spring Creek
Health Care Center in
Murray.
Funeral
arrangements were currently
incomplete at BlalockColeman & York Funeral
Home.
Michelle Collier
MAYFIELD — Michelle
Collier, 43, of Mayfield
died at 5 a.m. Thursday,
September 29, 2016,
at Lourdes hospital in
Paducah.
Arrangements
were incomplete at
Brown Funeral Home in
Mayfield.
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TRAIN
CONTINUED FROM 1A
Ross Bauer was sitting
in the third or fourth car
when the train entered
the historic 109-year-old
station, a bustling hub
for commuters heading
to New York.
“All of a sudden, there
was an abrupt stop and
a big jolt that threw
people out of their seats.
The lights went out, and
we heard a loud crashing noise like an explosion” as the roof fell, he
said. “I heard panicked
screams, and everyone
was stunned.”
The engineer, Thomas
Gallagher, was pulled
from the mangled first
car and was hospitalized, but officials said
he had been released by
evening.
He was cooperating
with investigators, Gov.
Chris Christie said.
A woman standing on
the train platform — Fabiola Bittar de Kroon,
34, of Hoboken, a former employee in the
legal department of the
business software company SAP in Brazil —
was killed by debris, and
108 others were injured,
mostly on the train,
Christie said.
Scores were hospital-
Brian Farnham via AP
People walk through a rail station after a commuter train crash on Thursday
in Hoboken, N.J. The train plowed into the bustling rail station during the
morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 people in a tangle of broken concrete, twisted metal and dangling cables, authorities said.
neer or something else.
Some witnesses said
they didn’t hear or feel
the brakes being applied
before the crash. Authorities would not estimate how fast the train
was going. But the speed
limit heading into the
station is 10 mph.
The National Transportation Safety Board
planned to pull one of
the black-box event re-
ized, some with serious
injuries including broken bones.
“The train came in at
much too high rate of
speed, and the question
is: ‘Why is that?’” Christie said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said investigators will determine
whether the explanation
was equipment failure,
an incapacitated engi-
corders Thursday evening from the locomotive at the back of the
train. The device contains information on the
train’s speed and braking.
But it wasn’t safe
enough yet for investigators to extract the
second recorder from
the engineer’s compartment because of the collapsed roof and the pos-
sibility of asbestos in the
old building, NTSB vice
chairwoman T. Bella
Dinh-Zarr said.
Gallagher, the engineer, has worked for NJ
Transit for 29 years, and
a union roster shows
he started as an engineer about 18 years ago.
Neighbors describe Gallagher and his family as
good people.
Investigators will examine the engineer’s
performance and the
condition of the train,
track
and
signals,
among other things, she
said. They also plan to
look into whether positive train control — a
system designed to prevent accidents by overriding the engineer and
automatically slowing or
stopping trains that are
going too fast — could
have helped.
None of NJ Transit’s
trains is fully equipped
with positive train control, which relies on radio and GPS signals to
monitor trains’ position
and speed.
The NTSB has been
pressing for some version of the technology
for at least 40 years, and
the industry is under
government orders to
install it, but regulators
have repeatedly extended the deadline at railroads’ request. The target date is now the end
of 2018.
“While we are just
beginning to learn the
cause of this crash, it
appears that once again
an accident was not
prevented because the
trains our commuters
were riding lacked positive train control,” said
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y. “The longer we fail to prioritize
investing in rail safety
technology, the more
innocent lives we put in
jeopardy.”
Cuomo, a Democrat,
and Christie, a Republican, said it was too soon
to say whether such
technology would have
made a difference.
Over the past 20 years,
the NTSB has listed the
lack of positive train
control as a contributing factor in 25 crashes.
Those include the Amtrak wreck last year in
Philadelphia in which
a speeding train ran off
the rails along a curve.
Eight people were killed.
Even without positive
train control, there are
still safeguards in place
at the Hoboken terminal.
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Today
Tonight
69°
Saturday
73°
53°
55°
Mostly cloudy with a
stray shower
Partly cloudy
Sunday
Monday
77°
53°
Variable clouds with
a shower
Partly sunny
Almanac
Paducah through 6 p.m. yesterday
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
Oct 22
6:50 a.m.
6:39 p.m.
6:23 a.m.
6:43 p.m.
UV Index Today
1
2
Warm with plenty
of sun
Carbondale
67/53
Cape Girardeau
69/54
Owensboro
67/56
Paducah
Cadiz
69/55
66/58
Mayfield
67/56
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0
80°
56°
Some sunshine
Sun and Moon
Full
Oct 15
2
1
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: Mostly cloudy today with a
shower.
Illinois: Showers today. A couple of showers tonight; however, dry in central parts of
the state.
Indiana: Cloudy today with a few showers; windy in the west and central parts of
the state.
Missouri: Partly sunny today. Mostly cloudy
in the east with a shower in spots; pleasant
elsewhere.
Arkansas: Partly sunny today; however,
sunnier in the west and south.
Tennessee: Mostly cloudy today; a shower
in spots in the west. Mostly cloudy tonight.
Sun and clouds tomorrow.
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.
Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Evansville
69/54
Precipitation
First
Oct 8
77°
53°
St. Louis
71/60
68°
49°
77°
52°
98° in 1953
39° in 1993
24 hrs ending 6 p.m. yest. 0.01”
Month to date
0.74”
Normal month to date
3.61”
Year to date
43.41”
Last year to date
41.41”
Normal year to date
36.22”
New
Sept 30
Tuesday
Around the Region
Temperature
High
Low
Normal high
Normal low
Record high
Record low
Around the Nation
Blytheville
75/55
Shown is
today’s
weather.
Temperatures
are today’s
highs and
tonight’s
lows.
Union City
70/55
Memphis
78/59
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
69/56/sh
68/55/sh
72/47/c
69/54/pc
67/53/sh
70/51/t
75/53/s
69/55/c
71/57/pc
69/54/sh
79/53/s
68/57/c
66/55/sh
68/52/c
74/53/pc
Nashville
72/55
Pulaski
72/49
Jackson
74/53
Today
Sat.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Clarksville
69/55
71/56/c
73/52/c
76/48/pc
72/53/c
69/52/c
78/52/c
80/55/c
72/52/c
72/55/c
72/53/sh
81/56/s
71/55/c
67/51/t
73/54/c
77/53/pc
City
Today
Sat.
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
72/50/s
72/53/s
73/50/c
68/53/sh
79/59/pc
68/48/c
67/58/sh
78/59/pc
72/55/c
67/56/sh
68/58/c
71/60/c
70/57/sh
71/53/pc
67/51/sh
74/53/s
72/55/pc
77/53/pc
70/52/sh
83/60/pc
72/50/c
71/56/sh
81/61/pc
75/54/pc
71/56/sh
70/54/c
74/60/c
74/54/c
73/53/pc
69/49/sh
National Summary: A storm will persist and continue to cause
areas of rain from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic coast, while
rain arrives in southern New England today. Coastal flooding
will occur in the mid-Atlantic. A few storms will dot the Florida
Peninsula and the Rockies. Spotty showers are in store for the
Northwest. Most other areas will be sunny.
Today
City
Hi/Lo/W
Albuquerque 77/55/pc
Atlanta
76/55/s
Baltimore
67/62/sh
Billings
81/55/s
Boise
85/56/pc
Boston
60/53/r
Charleston, SC 86/66/pc
Charleston, WV 70/51/t
Chicago
65/57/sh
Cincinnati
67/55/sh
Cleveland
72/59/r
Dallas
80/59/s
Denver
78/49/pc
Des Moines
70/58/s
Detroit
64/59/r
El Paso
81/60/pc
Fairbanks
52/32/s
Honolulu
86/73/sh
Houston
83/59/s
Indianapolis
66/55/sh
Jacksonville
87/65/pc
Las Vegas
91/72/s
Paducah
Owensboro
Through 7 a.m. yesterday (in feet)
Flood
24-hr Mississippi River
stage
39
38
Stage Change
15.80
12.48
+1.02
-0.02
24-hr
Full
Pool Elevation Change
Smithland Dam 40 12.41
Lake Barkley
359 354.60
Kentucky Lake 359 355.00
+0.30
-0.40
-0.30
Flood
stage Stage
Cairo
80/55/s
80/60/s
74/62/sh
80/51/s
72/44/pc
58/54/r
84/69/pc
78/52/c
67/54/c
67/52/t
72/57/t
82/61/s
80/50/pc
71/57/pc
69/56/r
87/62/s
54/35/s
84/75/pc
85/62/pc
67/51/t
88/68/pc
92/68/s
Today
City
Hi/Lo/W
Little Rock
79/59/pc
Los Angeles
86/64/s
Miami
88/76/t
Milwaukee
62/58/r
Minneapolis
69/55/pc
New Orleans 85/69/s
New York City 61/57/r
Oklahoma City 76/52/s
Omaha
74/52/s
Orlando
88/72/t
Philadelphia 66/61/r
Phoenix
96/76/s
Pittsburgh
69/56/t
Portland, OR 68/50/pc
Salt Lake City 80/59/pc
San Antonio
81/58/pc
San Diego
82/68/pc
San Francisco 66/55/pc
San Jose
70/53/pc
Seattle
64/51/pc
Tucson
90/65/pc
Wash., DC
69/65/sh
Sat.
Hi/Lo/W
83/60/pc
82/61/pc
88/77/pc
65/56/sh
69/55/pc
86/72/s
66/59/r
78/56/s
71/54/pc
89/73/t
71/64/sh
96/73/s
73/54/c
63/49/sh
78/56/t
82/62/pc
77/66/pc
70/54/pc
72/51/pc
62/48/r
91/65/s
77/66/sh
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Lakes and Rivers
Ohio River
Sat.
Hi/Lo/W
40
21.71
24-hr
Change
-0.63
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Cairo
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Manila
Mexico City
82/61/s
77/52/s
64/44/t
61/56/pc
91/71/s
84/78/s
79/62/s
64/48/sh
87/78/t
74/54/t
83/63/s
79/55/pc
61/48/t
68/57/pc
92/72/s
84/79/c
82/65/s
60/47/t
90/78/t
74/55/t
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Warsaw
Zurich
58/50/r
64/49/t
75/58/pc
74/61/c
68/53/sh
73/65/c
73/52/pc
73/50/s
57/46/pc
65/47/t
74/62/t
79/64/c
71/55/sh
73/68/sh
69/53/c
69/51/t