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Supes seek funds to improve lake dam

Board will hold public hearing on levee a warning at
the time and
going to say, ‘OK, we’re going to
write you a check for the entire

at chancery courthouse on Feb. 24 reduced it to a

BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
Supervisors voted 3-2 Tues-
day for a measure to potentially
foot half the bill for about $8 mil-
lion of construction at the coun-
ty lake dam — “the most press-
ing issue in Oktibbeha County,”
District 3 Supervisor Marvell
Howard said.
The board also voted to hold
a public hearing at the chan-
cery courthouse on Feb. 24 to
hear people’s concerns about
the state of the levee, which
showed early signs of breaching
last week. A breach would have
forced about 250 people to evac-
uate at least 130 households and
flooded 17,500 acres of nearby
land, from the area immediate-
ly around the lake northwest of
Starkville all the way to parts of
southwest Clay County.
The water level in the dam
and the pressure on the levee
continue to lower thanks to four
pipes installed Jan. 14 and six
diesel-fueled pumps installed
Friday night. The county issued
watch Monday
after the water
level had gone
down four feet.
Howard,
who lives just
behind the le- Howard
vee, said he
appreciated the county’s “swift
and direct action” to remedy the
problem but hoped the board
would consider preventing the
problem from recurring its top
priority.
The project would involve
completely removing the exist-
ing dam and building a new one
Miller Montgomery
with larger control valves so the
county can control the water
level more easily. It would also
involve building a new emergen-
cy spillway and a temporary de-
tour road below the levee, How-
ard said.
“This is a big-ticket item,”
he said. “There’s nobody that’s
thing.’”
The U.S. Department of Ag-
riculture has a funding source
with a low interest rate “that can
be stretched out over 40 years,”
Howard said, and the consultant
who lobbies the federal govern-
ment on behalf of Oktibbeha
County wanted the board to
pass a resolution to pay for half
the project so the chances of a
positive response would “in-
crease tremendously.”
Supervisor Bricklee Miller of
District 4 and Board President
John Montgomery of District 1
said they were hesitant to dedi-
See Oktibbeha lake, 3A

SMART sees
20.5-percent Crawford gym renovation underway
rise in ridership
in 2019
City routes alone
logged almost 280K
passengers
By Zack Plair
zplair@cdispatch.com

The Starkville-
MSU Area Rapid
Transit system saw
increased ridership
in 2019 for its campus
and city routes, direc-
tor Jeremiah Dumas
reported to the board
of aldermen Tuesday. Dumas
Systemwide,
SMART vehicles
carried more than
770,000 riders in
2019, up 20.5 percent
from 2018. The city
routes, alone, saw a Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff

more than 15-per-
cent increase — with Spruill
279,358 riders last year compared to
235,943 in 2018.
Average daily ridership in 2019
peaked in September, the first full
month of MSU’s fall semester, with
6,314. Its lowest average daily rid-
ership was 516 in July, according to
Dumas’ report.
“The thing we’re most pleased
with that’s consistently growing are
the city routes,” Dumas said during
a public hearing for SMART that
was part of the board of aldermen’s
recess meeting.
SMART, which is an expansion
of the on-campus transit system at
Mississippi State University, began
offering buses and routes in the city
in 2014, funded primarily through a
Federal Transit Authority grant. An
annual public hearing is one of the
grant’s requirements.
MSU provides the lion’s share of
the grant’s local match, with the city
providing $50,000 annually since
the grant for expansion was first
awarded in 2012. Oktibbeha County
began also contributing $50,000 last
year.
Riders can use the system for
free.
“Numbers aside, we’re impacting
See SMART, 3A
The Crawford Elementary School gym is under renovation and is scheduled to reach completion by May, Lowndes
County Parks and Recreation Department Director Roger Short said. The construction will start with roof repairs,
he said, and the floors will be replaced.
Project expected to be complete by summer
By Yue Stella Yu
syu@cdispatch.com
Long before she became an al-
derman of Crawford, Sabrina Wash-
ington was a basketball player for
the Crawford Jaguars, the local ele-
mentary school basketball team, in
the 1980s.
And she was a good one, recalled
Washington, who played in the old
Crawford Elementary School gym
where the then burgandy-and-white
floor matched the color of her school
mascot.
Washington’s best friend,
now-Crawford City Clerk Beverly
Hairston, described herself as too
shy to play on the team. But when
Washington played, Hairston would
cheer for her from the balcony, sing-
ing, “We are the mighty, mighty Jag-
uars!”
Even after the school was torn
down, the gym remained as a way
for her to relish the good old days,
Washington said. That’s why she
was thrilled to finally see the gym
undergo renovation as Lowndes
County supervisors gathered with
city officials to tour the site on Tues-
day morning.
County District 4 Supervisor Jeff
Smith, a longtime ad-
vocate for the project
located in his district,
told The Dispatch last
week that he looks for-
ward to the comple-
tion of the renovation.
Smith said he hopes
that the revamped Smith
gym would turn out to
be a “real wholesome, quality public
facility for the community.” Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff
The gym will not only be for Crawford Mayor Deane Parson
Crawford, but also for communities asks the construction crew about
in Artesia and Plum Grove. the renovation process at the gym
Tuesday morning. Parson said she
“We’re in this together,” Smith is glad to learn that the gym would
said Tuesday. reopen in May in time for summer
The county received $350,000 in activities for kids from Crawford
See Crawford, 8A and nearby towns.

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Tuesday with the setback for Repub-
lican Senate leader Mitch McCon-
nell and the president’s legal team,
but it ended near 2 a.m. Wednesday
with Republicans easily approving
the rest of the trial rules largely on
their terms. The result is Trump’s
historic trial, unfolding amid a
watchful public in an election year.
“We have a great case,” Trump
said as he began his second day at
a global economic forum in Davos,
Switzerland. He said he thought his
legal team was doing a “very good
job.”
The trial is now on a fast-track
tial justice.” No cellphones or other
electronics were allowed.
As the day stretched deep into
the night, lawyerly arguments gave
way to more pointedly political ones.
Tempers flared and senators paced
the chamber. Democrats pursued
what may be their only chance to
force senators to vote on hearing
new testimony.
After one particularly bitter
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admonishing both the Democratic
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of Maine, join Democrats. But it, too,
was rejected, 52-48.
“It’s not our job to make it easy
for you,” Rep. Adam Schiff, the
chairman of the House Intelligence
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it hard to deprive the American peo-
ple of a fair trial.”

Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war

Virginia rally attracted thousands
of people and ended peacefully
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Base detained in federal
The Associated Press custody.
But the 27-year-old
COLLEGE PARK, Canadian national didn’t
Md. — A hidden camera
know investigators were
captured members of a
watching and listening
white supremacist group
when he and two other
expressing hope that vio-
group members talked
lence at a gun rights rally
in Virginia this week could about attending the Rich-
start a civil war, federal mond rally in the days
prosecutors said in a court leading up to Monday’s
filing Tuesday. event, which attracted
Former Canadian tens of thousands of peo-
Armed Forces reservist ple and ended peacefully.
Patrik Jordan Mathews Last month, a ing civilians and police of-
also videotaped himself closed-circuit television
advocating for killing peo- camera and microphone
ple, poisoning water sup- installed by investigators
plies and derailing trains, in a Delaware home cap-
a prosecutor wrote in urg- tured Mathews talking
ing a judge in Maryland about the Virginia rally as
to keep Mathews and two a “boundless” opportunity.
other members of The “And the thing is you’ve
got tons of guys who ...
should be radicalized
enough to know that all
you gotta do is start mak-
ing things go wrong and if
Virginia can spiral out to
(expletive) full blown civil
war,” he said.
Mathews and fellow
group member Brian
Mark Lemley Jr., 33, of
Elkton, Maryland, dis-
cussed the planning of
violence at the Richmond
rally, according to pros-
ecutors. Lemley talked
about using a thermal im-
aging scope affixed to his
rifle to ambush unsuspect-
ficers, prosecutors said.
“I need to claim my
first victim,” Lemley said
on Dec. 23, according
to Tuesday’s detention
memo.
“We could essentially
like be literally hunting
people,” Mathews said,
according to prosecutors.
“You could provide over-
watch while I get close to
do what needs to be done
to certain things.”
Lemley talked about
ambushing a police officer
to steal the officer’s weap-
ons and tactical gear, say-
ing, “If there’s like a PoPo
cruiser parked on the
street and he doesn’t have
backup, I can execute him
at a whim and just take his
stuff,” according to prose-
cutors.
FBI agents arrested
Mathews, Lemley and Wil-
liam Garfield Bilbrough
IV, 19, of Denton, Mary-
land last Thursday as part
of a broader investigation
of The Base. Authorities
in Georgia and Wisconsin
also arrested four other
men linked to the group.

At 90, Alaska Native woman is first counted in US Census

Decennial U.S. census has started what it means to be an el-
der.”
On Tuesday, Steven
Dillingham, director of the
in rural Alaska, out of tradition and The decennial U.S.
census has started in ru-
census bureau, conducted
the first interview after rid-
necessity, ever since the U.S. bought ral Alaska, out of tradi- ing on the back of a snow-
tion and necessity, ever mobile from the airport to
the territory from Russia in 1867 since the U.S. purchased Chimiugak’s home.
the territory from Russia “The 2020 Census has
By MARK THIESSEN 10 years to apportion rep- in 1867. The ground is begun,” he told reporters
The Associated Press resentation in Congress still frozen, which allows after conducting the first
and federal money. easier access before the interview with Chimiugak,
TOKSOOK BAY, Alas-
“Elders that were be- spring melt makes many a process that lasted about
ka — Lizzie Chimiugak
fore me, if they didn’t die areas inaccessible to trav- five minutes. “Toksook
has lived for 90 years in
too early, I wouldn’t have el and residents scatter to Bay isn’t the easiest place
the windswept western
wilds of Alaska, born to been the first person subsistence hunting and to get to, and the tempera-
a nomadic family who counted,” Lizzie Chimi- fishing grounds. The mail ture is cold. And while
lived in mud homes and ugak said, speaking Yup’ik service is spotty in rural people are in the village,
followed where the good language of Yugtun, with Alaska and the internet we want to make sure ev-
hunting and fishing led. family members serving connectivity unreliable, eryone is counted.”
Her home now is an as interpreters. “Right which makes door-to-door Dillingham was hours
outpost on the Bering now, they’re considering surveying important. late getting to Toksook
Sea, Toksook Bay, and on me as an elder, and they’re The rest of the nation, Bay because weather de-
Tuesday she became the asking me questions I’m including more urban ar- layed his flight from the
first person counted in the trying my best to give an- eas of Alaska, begin the hub community of Bethel,
U.S. Census, taken every swers to, or to talk about census in mid-March. about 115 miles away.

Backatcha: Thunberg returns Trump’s climate jibe

By PAN PYLAS
and JAMEY KEATEN
The Associated Press
DAVOS, Switzerland —
Greta Thunberg isn’t easi-
ly intimidated.
The 17-year-old Swed-
ish activist wasted little
time on Tuesday to push
back against U.S. Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s de-
scription of climate cam-
paigners as “the perennial
prophets of doom” who
predict the “apocalypse.”
Though Trump didn’t
mention her directly in
his speech at the World
Economic Forum in the
Swiss Alpine resort of Da-
vos, it was clear he had his
sights on Thunberg, who
shot to fame a year ago by
staging a regular strike at
her school and sparked
a global environmental
movement. She then beat
the U.S. president to re-
ceive Time Magazine’s
award as the 2019 Person
of the Year.
“The facts are clear,
but they are still too un-
comfortable for you to ad-
dress,” she told business
and political leaders in
Davos just after Trump’s
speech, also without di-
rectly mentioning the
president. “You just leave
it because you think it’s
too depressing and people
will give up, but people
will not give up. You are
the ones who are giving
up.”
Thunberg brushed
aside Trump’s announce-
ment that the U.S. would
join the economic forum’s
initiative to plant 1 trillion
trees across the globe to
help capture carbon diox-
ide from the Earth’s atmo-
sphere.
“Planting trees is good
of course but it’s nowhere
near enough,” Thunberg
said. “It cannot replace
mitigation,” she added, re-
ferring to efforts to drasti-
cally cut emissions in the
near term.
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Around the state

5 Mississippi men charged with
murder in 2018 party killing
PASCAGOULA — Five men in
Mississippi have been indicted on
murder charges in what authorities
described as a deadly, gang-related
home invasion during a 2018 Super
Bowl party.
The Sun Herald reported the
men, scheduled to appear in court
Tuesday, were Robert “S.J.” Jackson;
Darrian Dontae “Kreole K” Cooks;
Tykice “Kreole Ty” Laddel Watts;
Sirmarrion “SBM” Davis; and Mi-
chael Anthony Doss.
Fabian Dwight Dailey, 50, was
killed and two others injured by
gunshots in the Feb. 4, 2018, attack
in Moss Point after masked intrud-
ers broke into a home where people
were playing cards and watching the
football game. Dailey was shot to
death when he tried to wrestle a gun
away, officials said.
Moss Point Police Chief Brandon
Ashley said the victims were target-
ed in a “gang-related” attack.
Among the evidence, an FBI
agent said in a sworn affidavit that
police interviewed a man who
claimed he allowed Watts to borrow
a semi-automatic handgun used in
the attack. The FBI agent said shell
casings from the scene matched the
handgun.
Defense attorneys have criticized
prosecutors and law enforcement of-
ficials for reportedly failing to collect
any fingerprints or physical evidence
to tie the suspects to the crime.
College students scramble to exit
bus fire in Mississippi
HATTIESBURG — Dozens of
college students had to scramble for
safety after their charter bus return-
ing from a fraternity event burst into
flames on the side of a Mississippi
highway.
The bus was heading to Alabama
on Sunday afternoon, carrying Uni-
versity of Alabama students who had
attended a fraternity formal in New
Orleans, according to multiple news
outlets.
First responders said the bus
driver ran over something in the
road that sparked the fire on Inter-
state 59 near Hattiesburg.
After the driver evacuated the
29 passengers, flames engulfed the
bus, with thick black smoke shoot-
ing into the sky. Only a burned-out
shell of the bus remained after fire
crews extinguished the blaze.
No injuries were reported.
3 Mississippi prison guards
charged with sexual battery
YAZOO CITY — Three guards
at a Mississippi prison have been ar-
rested.
The guards, whose names have
not been released, work at Yazoo
County Regional Correction Facili-
ty. The three are charged with sex-
ual battery after being accused last
month of having sexual contact with
two female inmates, WLBT-TV re-
ported.
One guard is charged with three
counts of sexual battery; the oth-
er two are charged with one count
each.
The guards were placed on ad-
ministrative leave when the investi-
gation began. It was unknown if any
of them have an attorney who could
speak on their behalf.
Coroner: 2 new
Mississippi inmate
deaths were from beating
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Two inmates were beaten to
death in a fight with other inmates in an under-
staffed Mississippi prison that has been shaken
by other deadly violence in recent weeks, a cor-
oner said.
The state Department of Corrections on Tues-
day confirmed the men died at Mississippi State
Penitentiary at Parchman and said officials are
investigating.
“Both victims appear to have died from blunt
force beating injuries,” said Sunflower County
Coroner Heather Burton.
The department originally said the inmates
died Monday night, but Burton later clarified that
they died early Tuesday. Department spokes-
woman Grace Simmons Fisher said the injuries
occurred late Monday as the two inmates fought
with other prisoners.
“At this moment, it appears to be an isolated
incident — not a continuation of the recent retal-
iatory killings,” the Department of Corrections
said Tuesday.
Violence is a recurring problem in Mississippi
prisons, where many jobs for guards are unfilled.

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cate $4 million in taxpayer
dollars without public in-
put and with other multi-
million-dollar projects on
the horizon for the next
few years, including a new
building for the county
health department. Both
voted in the minority
against Howard’s propos-
al, with supervisors Or-
lando Trainer of District
2 and Joe Williams of Dis-
trict 5 voting with Howard
in favor.
“I would like to know
for sure that we have to do
this,” Montgomery said.
“I’m with Supervisor How-
ard, I’m for safety issues
when it comes to the lake,
I’m right there with you. I
will say, however, that I’m
somewhere in the middle
(since there are) other
projects out there.”
Both Miller and Mont-
gomery said they were
under the impression
that the danger would be
over as soon as the pumps
reduced the water level
by the county Emergen-
cy Management Agen-
cy’s goal of five feet and
engineers could cut off
the dam’s primary outlet
valve. Howard said the
solution would not suffice
if heavy rains filled up all
the lake’s tributaries, like
the ones that preceded
last week’s breach warn-
ing.
Some residents of the
area around the lake evac-
uated at the county’s rec-
ommendation last week,
and several called Howard
to express their concerns,
he said.
“Nobody (else) sitting
around this table had to
go home and wonder if
they’d be safe overnight,”
he said. “I’m not giving
you this sob story, but
what I’m trying to tell you
is that you’ve got people’s
lives at stake.”
Miller suggested wait-
ing until the next meeting
to pass the resolution, but
Howard said the only way
he would wait was if the
motion was voted down.
U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly
(R-1st District) and Rep.
Michael Guest (R-3rd Dis-
trict) sent local staff to the
meeting in support of the
search for funding to re-
place the levee.
“I’d hate to be them
and listen to a conver-
sation coming from this
board (saying) we don’t
know if we think this is
important enough,” How-
ard said. “If they’re sitting
here listening to that and
saying, ‘You want us to
beg for some money and
you’re not even willing to
put skin in the game,’ that
doesn’t bode well. That
doesn’t speak well to this
board.”
Howard, District 2 Su-
pervisor Orlando Trainer
and District 5 Supervi-
sor Joe Williams voted
in favor of the resolution
to fund half of a future
dam project, and Miller
and Montgomery voted
against it. Miller suggest-
ed holding a public hear-
ing, and the board unani-
mously agreed.
The fire coordinator
search
The board also agreed
to interview applicants
for a part-time county fire
services coordinator at its
next meeting on Feb. 3.
The chiefs of six of the
seven fire departments in
the county, not including
Starkville and Mississip-
pi State University, want
to keep the position as a
part-time contract posi-
tion for the next year or
two before considering
changing it to a full-time
salaried job, East Oktib-
beha Chief Greg Ball said.
Current coordina-
tor Kirk Rosenhan an-
Five inmates were killed and an undisclosed
number of others inmates were injured during an
outbreak of violence in Mississippi’s prison sys-
tem between Dec. 29 and Jan. 3. Three of those
nounced his retirement in five deaths were at Parchman.
December and is serving In addition to those deaths and the two on
as interim coordinator Tuesday, another inmate was found hanging in
his cell Saturday night at Parchman. Burton said
until the board chooses
she was called Sunday to the prison, where Ga-
his successor. The fire
briel Carmen was found hanging the night be-
services coordinator is
fore.
responsible for “planning,
directing, and coordinat-
ing all operational duties
involving direct supervi-
sion of fire departments
responding outside mu-
nicipal boundaries,” ac-
cording to the official
job description provided
by Rosenhan to The Dis-
patch.
The job pays $600 per
month, and Ball said the
board should consider
raising the pay.
The chiefs have al-
ready interviewed three
applicants, and the board
asked the chiefs to share
their opinions on the ap-
plicants with them individ-
ually outside of meetings.
“The important things
are getting the right can-
didate that’s qualified and
able to work with our fire
chiefs and volunteer fire-
fighters, and compensat-
ing them enough to the
point where we’re not go-
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ing to be doing this again
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in a year or two or three,”
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quality of life and meet-
ing a need that was sig-
nificantly unmet before,”
Dumas told The Dispatch
after Tuesday’s meeting.
“… We (have conducted)
surveys that show 35 to
40 percent of our riders
on the city routes are car-
less. So we’re providing an
option for transportation
they otherwise would not
have.”
That’s especially true
with Paratransit, Du-
mas said, a door-to-door
transportation option for
citizens with disabilities
that’s ridership nearly
doubled in 2019 — to 6,177
from 3,977 in 2018.
Through Paratransit,
residents must have a dis-
ability or medical need, fill
out an application and give
SMART 24-hour notice
for when and where they
need to be picked up. Du-
mas said expanding the
Paratransit fleet from one
to three vans in 2019 and
hiring new drivers creat-
ed more reservation slots
that could be filled.
Plus, though SMART’s
regular routes only run in
the city limits and on cam-
pus, qualifying residents
throughout the county
have had access to Para-
transit since August, and
Dumas said SMART has
already logged 100 Para-
get to fund such things as
operations and new buses
to replace aging vehicles
in the system.
SMART has also
banked, through MSU
parking and transit auxil-
iary funds, the 20 percent
match necessary to apply
for a $4.5 million grant
from the Mississippi De-
partment of Transporta-
tion to build a new com-
mand center on campus
at the corner of Buckner
Lane and Hail State Bou-
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design is complete, and
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some of that fueled by
has several riders.
“It’s coming together,”
she added. Cost: 80¢/lb.
claims buses with no pas-
sengers were clogging the
streets. Now, she said, the
numbers are speaking for
themselves.
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SMART project,” Spruill
told The Dispatch. “It’s
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Science Says: What to know about the viral outbreak in China

China has identified 440 cases and nine deaths
The Associated Press
Health authorities are close-
ly watching an outbreak of
respiratory illness caused by
a new virus that originated in
China. Governments are step-
ping up surveillance of airline
passengers from central China
and taking other steps to try to
control the outbreak.
Here’s what you should know
about the illness:
What is the new virus?
Scientists have identified
it as a new coronavirus. The
name comes from the Lat-
in word for crowns or halos,
which coronaviruses resemble
under a microscope. The coro-
navirus family has many types
that affect people. Some cause
the common cold while others
originating in bats, camels and
other animals have evolved into
more severe illnesses such as
SARS — severe acute respi-
ratory syndrome — or MERS
— Middle East respiratory syn-
drome.
Where did it come from?
The first cases appeared
last month in Wuhan, a city in
central China’s Hubei province.
Many of the first people infect-
ed had visited or worked at the
Huanan Seafood Wholesale
Market in Wuhan, which has
since been closed for an investi-
gation. Chinese health officials
say they believe the illness first
spread from animals to people.
They now say it can spread be-
tween people.
How widespread is it?
China has identified 440 cas-
es and nine deaths, most of the
illnesses and all of the deaths
in Hubei province. Cases have
also been confirmed in Thai-
land, South Korea, Japan, the
U.S. and Taiwan. The outbreak
coincides with China’s busiest
travel season as people visit
their families or go abroad for
the Lunar New Year holiday.
That travel rush is expected to
spread the disease more wide-
ly.
Washington man is first in US to catch new virus
By CARLA K. JOHNSON and MIKE STOBBE virus’ overall risk to the American public re-
The Associated Press mained low.
“This is not a moment of high anxiety,” Gov.
SEAT TLE — The U.S. on Tuesday reported
Jay Inslee said.
its first case of a new and potentially deadly vi-
The hospitalized U.S. resident had no symp-
rus circulating in China, saying a Washington
state resident who returned last week from the toms when he arrived at the Seattle-Tacoma
outbreak’s epicenter was hospitalized near Se- airport last Wednesday, but he started feeling
attle. ill on Thursday and went to a doctor on Sunday
with a fever and a cough, officials said. Lab test-
The man, identified as a Snohomish County
resident is in his 30s, was in good condition and ing on Monday confirmed he had the virus.
wasn’t considered a threat to medical staff or “The gentleman right now is very healthy,”
the public, health officials said. Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the CDC said Tues-
U.S. officials stressed that they believe the day.
What are the symptoms? the virus, but no vaccine to pre- lieve the new virus can spread
vent an infection. Patients with from person to person in close
Common symptoms include
the virus have been isolated in contact through the respiratory
a runny nose, headache, cough
hospitals or homes to prevent tract.
and fever. Shortness of breath,
spreading it. The symptoms
chills and body aches are as-
sociated with more dangerous
are treated with pain and fever Could it be as bad as SARS?
medication, and people are ad- So far, the virus appears
kinds of coronavirus, accord- vised to drink plenty of liquids
less dangerous and infectious
ing to the U.S. Centers for Dis- and rest while they recover.
than SARS, which also started
ease Control and Prevention.
in China in 2002-03 and killed
In serious cases, the virus can
cause pneumonia.
How is it spreading? about 800 people. However,
Many coronaviruses can viruses can mutate into more
spread through coughing or dangerous and contagious
How is it treated? sneezing, or by touching an forms, and it’s too early to say
There is a test to identify infected person. Scientists be- what will happen with this one.

So-called conversion therapy banned in conservative Utah

Conversion therapy is a discredited practice used to try
to change sexual orientation or gender identity
By Lindsay
Whitehurst
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY —
The discredited practice
of conversion therapy for
LGBTQ children is now
banned in Utah, making it
the 19th state and one of
the most conservative to
prohibit it.
Supporters navigated
a winding path to pas-
sage and some dissent
remains, but barring it in
Utah could give a boost
to similar efforts in oth-
er right-leaning states,
said Shannon Minter,
legal director for the Na-
tional Center for Lesbian
Rights.
“It’s really given people
a lot of hope,” said Minter,
whose group has pushed
for bans around the U.S.
Virginia is considering a
ban, and the issue could
also come up in this year
in Texas and Kentucky,
he said.
made by conservative
lawmakers. State officials
through it say it deepened
feelings of depression and
with their kids. The rule
could become an issue
confirmed the rule be-
came final late Tuesday.
increased thoughts of sui-
cide. The new rule bans
during the 2020 legisla-
tive session.
The change in Utah The original sponsor Utah therapists from sub- Utah’s predominant
comes after the state of the proposal, GOP jecting LGBTQ minors faith, known widely as
hammered out a regu- Utah Rep. Craig Hall, ap- to the practice that the the Mormon church, op-
latory rule that had the plauded the rule going American Psychologi- poses same-sex marriage
support of the influential into effect, saying in a cal Association has said and teaches that intimate
Church of Jesus Christ of statement that it prohib- is not based in science same-sex relationships
Latter-day Saints. Lead- its dangerous practices and is harmful to mental are a sin. But it also urges
ers had opposed a pre- while protecting health- health. members to be kind and
vious version because it care professionals. Still, the ban has drawn compassionate to LGBTQ
didn’t have certain excep- “This measure will tru- pushback in Utah. Oppo- people. The religion holds
tions for clergy. ly save lives,” he said. nents argued it would pre- tremendous influence in
Republican Gov. Gary Conversion therapy is vent parents from getting Utah, where the majority
Herbert took the unusual a practice used to try to help for children with “un- of state lawmakers and
step of calling on regula- change sexual orientation wanted” gay feelings and nearly two-thirds of the
tors after a proposed law or gender identity. Many keep therapists from even state’s 3.1 million resi-
was derailed by changes people who have been talking about sexuality dents are members.

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STARKVILLE —
Archie Dempsey “A.D.”
Langston Jr. died Jan.
20, 2020, at his resi-
dence.
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11:30 a.m. Thursday at
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instructor for electrical
cooperatives with the
Industrial Education
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and in the maintenance
department at First
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formerly self-employed
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member of First Baptist
Church.
In addition to his par-
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in death by his sisters,
Ruth Bowen, Mildred
Langston, Gaye Bran-
ton and Joye Spears.
He is survived by
his wife, Dorothy “Dot”
Jean Laird; children,
Stephen Jay Langston,
Charles Dempsey
Langston, Judy
Langston White and
Debbie Lea Dearmon;
six grandchildren; and
16 great-grandchildren.
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Rocker Ozzy Osbourne announces Parkinson’s diagnosis

The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Rocker Ozzy
Osbourne says that he’s been di-
agnosed with Parkinson’s disease,
a nervous system disorder that af-
fects movement.
The 71-year-old Grammy winner
and former vocalist for the metal
band Black Sabbath said during an
interview on “Good Morning Amer-
ica” that aired Tuesday that the di-
agnosis came after a fall last year.
Osbourne had to cancel tour
dates last year due to health trou-
bles. Osbourne said he really wants
to get well and get back to perform-
ing because he misses his fans.
His wife, Sharon Osbourne, told
GMA that the diagnosis “was not a
death sentence by any stretch of the
imagination,” but he had good days
and bad days.
Osbourne and his family, in-
cluding his children and wife, were
the stars of their own reality show
called “The Osbournes.”
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Southern burger chain

Krystal files for bankruptcy
Company said it owed between $50M and $100M
to food suppliers, equipment companies and others
By JAY REEVES
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Krystal
Co., the Georgia-based restaurant
chain known for tiny hamburgers
and late-night service across the
Southeast, has filed for bankrupt-
cy, but said Tuesday that all of its
locations would remain open.
Federal court documents
showed Krystal sought Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection in Atlanta
on Sunday. The company said it
owed between $50 million and $100
million to food suppliers, equip-
ment companies and others.
Krystal has about 300 restau-
rants in 10 states, 182 of which
employ 4,890 people and are oper-
ated by the company, restructuring
officer Jonathan M. Tibus said in a
court filing. Another 116 are run by
franchisees, he said.
The company previously closed
more than 40 restaurants, includ-
ing 13 that shut down in Decem-
ber, over the past year, according
to court documents. Shifting con-
sumer tastes, growing costs, tight
labor markets and the growth of
online food ordering all contribut-
ed to the company’s financial prob-
lems, Tibus said.
“The actions we are taking are
intended to enable Krystal to estab-
lish a stronger business for the fu-
ture and to achieve a restructuring
in a fast and efficient manner,” the
company said in a statement Tues-
day.
In November, Krystal an-
nounced the hiring of two new se-
nior executives, chief operating of-
ficer Tim Ward and chief financial
officer Bruce Vermilyea, during
what it called a revitalization plan.
Founded in Chattanooga, Ten-
nessee, in 1932 during the depths
of the Great Depression, Krystal is
best known for little, square ham-
burgers served with steamed buns
and chopped onions. The company,
which calls itself the South’s oldest
fast-food chain, moved its head-
quarters to metro Atlanta in 2013.
Many of its restaurants are open
24 hours a day or until the early
morning hours, making Krystal a
favorite stop for many after a night
of partying. A huge Krystal located
on Bourbon Street in New Orleans
often has long lines after midnight.
Krystal was founded by Rody
Davenport Jr. and Glenn Sherrill
about 11 years after White Castle
opened in the Midwest selling a
nearly identical type of small ham-
burger.
Krystal said in a court docu-
ment that it has restaurants in Ala-
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Tennessee.

Trump thanks farmers for backing him through trade war

‘You never even thought of giving up and we got it done.’
President Donald Trump speaking at the American Farm
By DARLENE
SUPERVILLE
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — President
Donald Trump thanked
farmers Sunday for sup-
porting him through a
trade war with China as
he promoted a new North
American trade agree-
ment and a separate one
with China that he said
will massively benefit
farmers.
“We did it,” Trump
said, recalling his cam-
paign promises to im-
prove America’s trading
relationships with other
countries.
At one point during his
address to the American
Farm Bureau Federation’s
convention, Trump said
he has strong support
among farmers following
his signing last week of
a preliminary trade deal
with China.
When Trump spoke
to the American Farm
Bureau Federation’s last
year, he urged farmers
to continue supporting
him even as they suffered
financially in the fallout
from his trade war with
China and a partial shut-
down of the federal gov-
Bureau Federation’s convention Sunday
ernment.
His follow-up speech
Sunday at this year’s con-
vention in Austin, Tex-
as, gave him a chance to
make the case to farmers
that he kept promises he
made as a candidate to
improve trade with China
and separately with Cana-
da and Mexico.
He thanked farmers
for staying “in the fight.”
“You were always with
me,” Trump said. “You
never even thought of giv-
ing up and we got it done.”
The Republican presi-
dent wants another term
in office and is seeking to
shore up support among
his base, including farm-
ers.
Trump announced he
is taking steps to protect
the water rights of farm-
ers and ranchers by di-
recting the Army Corps
of Engineers to immedi-
ately withdraw a new wa-
ter supply rule and allow
states to manage water
resources based on their
own needs and what the
agricultural community
wants.
“Water is the lifeblood
of agriculture and we will
always protect your water
which he said will “mas-
sively boost exports” for
farmers, ranchers, grow-
ers from “North to South”
supply,” Trump said. and “from sea to shining
Trump signed a prelim- sea.”
inary trade deal with Chi- NAFTA had triggered
na at the White House last a surge in trade among
the three countries, but
Wednesday that commits
Trump and other crit-
Beijing to boosting its
ics blamed it for U.S. job
imports of U.S. manufac-
losses brought about
turing, energy and farm
goods by $200 billion when American factories
this year and next. That moved production south
includes larger purchas- of the border to take ad-
es of soybeans and other vantage of low-wage labor
farm goods expected to in Mexico.
reach $40 billion a year, The House passed the
the U.S. has said, though U.S.-Mexico-Canada deal
critics wonder if China in December. Trump said
can meet the targets. he would sign it after he
In Austin, Trump de- returns from a trip to Eu-
scribed the trade agree- rope this week.
ment with China as
“groundbreaking” and
said, “We’re going to
sell the greatest product
you’ve ever seen.”
Also last week, the Sen-
ate voted overwhelmingly
in favor of the U.S.-Mex-
ico-Canada Agreement,
a successor to the 1994
North American Free
Trade Agreement. The
administration designed
the new agreement to re-
turn some factory produc-
tion to the United States,
mostly automobiles.
Trump said in Austin
that U.S. farmers will also
benefit under USMCA,

Harvey Weinstein trial set to open in NYC

By MICHAEL R. SISAK
and TOM HAYS
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Har-
vey Weinstein spawned
the #MeToo movement.
Now, the former film ti-
tan is starring in the big-
gest trial of its era — a
landmark moment in a
global reckoning that has
empowered women while
shining a light on power
dynamics in workplaces
from Hollywood Boule-
vard to Main Street.
Opening statements
and the first witness
testimony are expect-
ed Wednesday in Wein-
stein’s New York City
rape trial, where the pos-
sibility of life in prison
looms for the once-cel-
ebrated “Pulp Fiction”
producer now vilified as
a predator by scores of
women.
Weinstein’s accusers
include some well-known
actresses who plan to tes-
tify or attend the trial and
others who are looking
to the New York case for
a form of justice because
their allegations hav-
en’t resulted in criminal
charges.
“This trial is so import-
ant because the enormity
of Harvey Weinstein’s
international power and
fame offers an opportu-
nity to shine a spotlight
on the rampant abuse of
power that permeates our
culture on a global level,”
actress Jessica Barth said
Tuesday.
“Not only the outcome
of this trial, but the trial
as a whole, is precedent
setting,” said Barth, a
star of the “Ted” films
who says Weinstein once
invited her to his hotel
suite and demanded a na-
ked massage.
Weinstein’s trial could
take more than a month,
Judge James Burke said.
Judging from an arduous
two-week jury selection
that netted a panel of sev-
en men and five women, it
could be a hotbed of pro-
tests and intense media
coverage.
Extra court officers
have been lining the front
of the Manhattan court-
house where Weinstein,
67, has been ambling in
and out with a walker that
his lawyers say was ne-
cessitated by a summer
car crash and subsequent
back surgery.
In a failed last-min-
ute push to get the trial
moved, Weinstein’s law-
yers said a flash mob’s
chanting “the rapist is
you!” at street level could
be heard in the court-
room, 15 floors above.
Adding to the drama,
actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
is due at the same court-
house Wednesday for a
hearing in a case in which
several women have ac-
cused him of groping.
He’s denied all allega-
tions of wrongdoing.

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6A Wednesday, January 22, 2020
IMPEACHMENT
Trump’s acquittal
will have an asterisk
D
ear Mr. So-Called
President:
A few words in
advance of your upcom-
ing acquittal.
That that’s how your
impeachment trial will
end is, as we all know, a
foregone conclusion. The
proverbial fix is in.
Senate Majority Lead-
er Mitch McConnell told
us as much in December Leonard Pitts
when he announced he
was coordinating with
the White House on your defense. “I’m not an
impartial juror,” he said. Then, one month later,
he takes a solemn oath to be an impartial juror.
Such is public integrity in the Age of Trump.
So yes, this trial is rigged like a Russian elec-
tion, and you’re about to be acquitted. But it will
be an acquittal with an asterisk.
If you wonder what that means, you should
ask O.J. Simpson, who did not commit murder.
Of course, he did commit murder, at least inso-
far as the court of public opinion is concerned.
A 2015 poll found that most Americans — in-
cluding a majority of African Americans — be-
lieve Simpson did, in fact, savagely butcher his
ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend,
Ronald Goldman, in 1994.
After a sensational trial that began 25 years
ago this week, he was acquitted by a jury of his
peers. But a quarter century later, one is struck
by how little that means.
Yes, the verdict had the not-insignificant
effect of saving Simpson from prison. But it did
not vindicate him, did not restore him to the
public’s good graces. Simpson, a once-beloved
athlete, actor and TV pitchman, remains more
loathed than flesh-eating bacteria. The stink of
what he legally did not do permeates his Twitter
feed when he tries to opine on football (“Killer
post, O.J.” goes a typical response). It will be the
first line of his obituary.
That’s not just because of the murders. In a
way, it’s not even just because of the acquittals.
No, the other reason O.J. Simpson will never be
redeemed is that he was acquitted even though
people could see with their own two eyes over-
whelming evidence of his guilt.
You see, folks don’t like it when you pour
dishwater on their heads and tell them it’s rain.
They take that personally. So his will always be
an acquittal with an asterisk. As will yours.
You face vastly different circumstances than
he did as you go on trial for trying to strongarm
Ukraine into helping you smear Joe Biden and
then obstructing Congress as it tried to inves-
tigate. But this much is the same: We can see
with our own two eyes overwhelming evidence
of your guilt. It’s there in testimony, text mes-
sages and even that telephone transcript you
keep insisting is “perfect.” New evidence is
pouring out daily like the jackpot from a slot
machine.
Yet McConnell has already announced that
he and his fellow Republicans have a tub of dish-
water at the ready.
Fine. It is what it is. But understand this: A
preordained acquittal isn’t much of an acquittal
at all. Granted, as Simpson was spared confine-
ment in public housing, you’ll be spared eviction
from same. As with him, this is not an insignifi-
cant victory.
But it is a deeply defective one — the only
kind this corrupted process has to offer. What
you don’t get is that the Senate verdict is not the
only one being rendered here. In some ways, it
is not even the most important. No, in a sense,
the most important verdict will be rendered by
jurors in the court of public opinion, still wet
from dishwater pretending to be rain. That ver-
dict is unlikely to be kind.
Something to think about when you send out
the all-caps tweet with the dubious spelling,
crowing about beating the rap. You’re going to
think you’ve been vindicated, but you won’t be.
And you never will.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer
Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Mi-
ami Herald. Email him at lpitts@miamiherald.
com.
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Celebrates sanctity of human life day
Happy Sanctity of Human Life week to every-
body. I can say that because on January 13, 1984,
President Ronald Reagan, a conservative pro-life
Republican, issued a proclamation designating
January 22, 1984 as the first National Sanctity of
Human Life Day. And because a decade earlier, the
first March for Life in D.C. was founded by a great
conservative lady, Nellie Gray. She wanted to start
it on the first anniversary of legal abortions brought
about by the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision
on January 22, 1973, while Democrats were in
control of our U.S. Congress. Also, let us give a big
shout out to the brave pro-life Republican women
who started the first Walk for Life in San Francisco
on January 22, 2005. All these have been annual
events since their beginning. These marches are
done each year to protest the practice of abortion
and its legality. Sad to say but very few Democrats
ever support and attend these marches. I know
that Sunday’s Dispatch contained a misleading
letter which led it’s readers to believe the hands of
Democrat leaders in our government were blood-
free and that it is the Republicans who are to blame
for the killing of innocent baby humans. Not so.
Although it was written by someone who is in no
doubt a liberal Democrat, he agrees inadvertently
in the letter that life begins at conception. How
about that. The letter mentioned a decision made
in 1992 related to Planned Parenthood but it failed
to say that Planned Parenthood was founded in
1916 by Margaret Sanger who was trying to save
our society from the unfit. No matter how hard the
letter writer tried to spin it, the Democrats were
still in the majority in Congress in ‘92, however in
the final decision of the ‘92 case the Court ruled
that every state — where the responsibility should
lie — may put limits on abortion and ever since then
millions of lives have been saved in the many states
who have actually made laws to limit abortions. I
say proudly that Mississippi is one of those states.
Thanks to Governor Bryant and a Republican-led
legislature. Yes, I say a big thank you to Governor
Bryant who, after signing the abortion ban bill, said,
“I want to tell the Lord I fought for innocent babies.”
It’s a scary thought to think that all those who stand
for abortion and support and vote for pro abortion
candidates will be held accountable on that day.
Raymond Gross
Columbus
Responses to pro-Trump Lollar letter
Lee Roy Lollar wrote in his January 21 letter to
The Dispatch that “the light you see is the Trump
train.” It’s a phrase he’s used before, and the impli-
cation is, again, that we should all hop on and enjoy
the ride.
I wish Mr. Lollar would apply the same scruti-
ny to the President’s behavior that he does to the
actions of Mayor Smith and the Columbus City
Council. I can just see his reaction if he happened to
find out that Mayor Smith was delaying the transfer
of city funds to, oh, say, the Golden Triangle LINK,
making the release contingent upon the LINK’s
ponying up some dirt on the Mayor’s next election
opponent.
I hasten to point out that there are other trains
out there and I suspect this Trump ride, especially
if the President wins re-election this fall, will come
closer and closer to the ride we’d experience on
the Putin train, if only the President were as smart.
Since he isn’t, I suspect it would come closer to a
Six Flags-esque “Mr. Trump’s Wild Roller Coaster”
ending in a dramatic splash down somewhere none
of us wants to be.
But Mr. Lollar bends and twists and manages to
avoid that. To me, he is dancing on quite the ethical
pinhead.
Tell Senators Wicker and Hyde-Smith to put on
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their adult pants and support an impeachment trial
complete with, gasp, evidence, both old and new.
Otherwise, they provide tacit support for a Presi-
dent who values his own power and wealth far more
than he could ever care about anything of yours.
Paul Mack
Columbus
I read with a startling realization Lee Roy Lollar’s
letter to the editor Tuesday that many people are
blind to what is going on around them. How similar
his words were to those uttered by Germans during
the rise of their country under Hitler. They didn’t
care it didn’t realize that marginalized citizens were
being abused! They were being taken care of and
that is all they cared about. Did they know Jews
were being exterminated? We do not know for sure
but the signs were there. As I continued reading his
glowing reports of Trump I couldn’t help but think
to myself he sounded like a German citizen during
the Nazi regime as atrocities were being performed
all around him. If we continue to let this President
ignore the law we are headed for a bleak future.
Jerry Fortenberry
Columbus
Responds to Buchanan column
Patrick J. Buchanan: A malicious indictment that
Mitch should toss out.
This coup has been in the works for three years.
It’s not hard to understand why.
A majority of the people believe Russia and Putin
helped Trump win the election and that he is an ille-
gitimate president. Even “crooked” Hillary received
three million more votes than Trump.
Pat: “But the forum to be entrusted with the de-
cision “should Trump go?” is not a deeply polarized
Senate, but with those the Founding Fathers entrust-
ed with such decisions ­— the American people.”
The latest poll on impeaching Trump came out
January 20, with 51 percent of the people want
Trump convicted and removed from office, against
45 percent who don’t. Trump’s overall approval rat-
ing is 43 percent against 53 percent who disapprove.
When Clinton was impeached, his approval was
71 percent. It’s beyond me why you would encourage
Americans to put their trust in the hands of a patho-
logical liar. Surely you were taught better than that
in your upbringing.
The Washington Post says Trump has lied or
made misleading claims over 16,241 times since
becoming president. I heard this guy on Ameri-
can Family Radio say recently that the Democrats
said Trump lies a lot, but I don’t believe it. Yea, he
believes it. He knows he cannot defend Trump by
telling the truth.
Just read about Putin’s new plan presented to his
people to hold power forever. I heard Trump say he
wanted to be president forever, too. Seems they both
have something in common.
It seems the Republicans are helping him by
saying they would be in order to vote to dismiss im-
peachment charges against him, even as 69 percent
of the people want to hear from witnesses during the
trial.
During the House procedure, the Republicans
complained because most of their witnesses had
second-, third- and fourth-hand information.
Now, they have a chance to hear first hand infor-
mation from Bolton, and they say there will be no
way Bolton will testify. It’s a real cover-up. Don’t you
think so? Sure it is, pure and simple.
Sure looks like a dictator in the making to me.
With statistics like those above, you can “moth-
ball” those red hats. If you see somebody wearing
one, it’s a “hoax!”
All this bodes well for the Democrats in 2020.
Trump is bad for America, really bad!
James Hodges
Steens

CLUBS
n AARP COLUMBUS
AARP meets the first Wednes-
day of each month at 10 a.m.
in the Community Room of
Regions Bank, Main Street, Co-
lumbus. Programs are geared
to the needs and interests of
seniors 50 and up. For more in-
formation, call 662-889-9496.
n AARP STARKVILLE
AARP Starkville meets the first
Thursday of each month at 10
a.m. in the Community Room
of Cadence Bank, West Main
Street, Starkville. Speaker will
be Richard Harkness with MSU
Department of Plant and Soil
Science. For information, call
Eileen Carr-Tabb, 662-312-
3431.
n EAST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus East Lions Club
meets every second and fourth
Monday of the month at 65
Airline Road. For more infor-
mation, call 662-549-3421 or
662-574-7552.
n HOST LIONS CLUB
The Columbus Host Lions Club
meets every Friday at noon
at EMCC Lion Hills Center for
a buffet lunch and business
gathering.
n POSSUM TOWN
TOASTMASTERS
Possum Town Toastmasters
meet every Friday at 7 a.m. at
the Church of Christ, Co-
lumbus. To become a better
communicator and leader, call
662-549-3483.
n POSSUM TOWN
QUILTERS
Possum Town Quilters meet
at 9:30 a.m. the second and
fourth Saturdays of each
month at the Rosenzweig Arts
Center (lower level), 501 Main
St., Columbus. Check us out at
possumtownquilters.blogspot.
com.
n LOWNDES REPUBLICAN
WOMEN
Lowndes County Republican
Women meets the second
Tuesday of each month at the
Lion Hills Center, 2331 Military
Road. Buffet line opens at
11:15 a.m., with call to order
at noon.
n GT QUILTERS GUILD
The Golden Triangle Quilters
Guild meets at 5:30 p.m. every
third Thursday at the Starkville
Sportsplex Activities Building.
■ BREAKFAST WITH THE
BULLDOGS
MSU alumni, friends are invited
to Breakfast with the Bulldogs
on second Thursdays each
month at Starkville Café. Dutch
treat breakfast 7:30 a.m.
Contact Carol Moss Read at
carolmoss@bellsouth.net or
662-312-0637.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly
No. 288 meets Tuesdays at
Community Baptist Church,
Yorkville Road East, Columbus.
Weigh-in begins at 5:30 p.m.
Contact Pat Harris, 662-386-
0249.
n TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly No.
270 meets Thursdays at 4370
Cal-Kolola Road, Caledonia.
Weigh-in begins at 5-5:30 p.m.
Contact Michelle Holliman,
662-386-3650.
n SENIOR CRAFTS
Senior Crafts meets at the
Starkville Sportsplex Tuesdays,
10-11:30 a.m. Crafts provided
by the parks department. For
information, call Lisa Cox, 662-
323-2294.
n QUILTING CLUB
Quilting Club meets in the
activities room adjacent to the
multi-purpose facility at the
Starkville Sportsplex Thurs-
days 10 a.m.-noon. Bring your
own project to work on. For
information, call Lisa Cox, 662-
323-2294.
Cold air invades South, bringing
below-freezing temperatures
The Associated Press
A blast of cold air drove
temperatures below
freezing in many south-
ern states.
In Atlanta, the chilly
weather system brought
temperatures down to the
mid-20s early Tuesday,
prompting city officials to
open a warming shelter.
In the north Georgia
mountains, the tempera-
tures were even chillier: A
U.S. Forest Service weath-
er station near Brasstown
Bald, the state’s highest
peak, recorded a low tem-
perature of 16 degrees
early Tuesday morning.
In Alabama, Auburn
was among the coldest
spots in the state early
Tuesday with a low tem-
News About Town
Health Notes
n FREE MAMMOGRAMS
Baptist Golden Triangle offers
free mammogram screenings
to area women who are 35 or
above, have no insurance cover-
age, live in Lowndes, Oktibbe-
ha, Clay, Monroe or Chickasaw
counties. Walk-ins accepted.
To see if you qualify or for more
information, call 662-244-2979.
n CPR CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers
6 p.m. CPR classes for the
community in the Patient Tower.
Preregistration required. Call
the Education Department,
662-244-2498.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Baptist Golden Triangle offers
Childbirth and Breastfeeding
classes each month, 6 p.m.,
in room 6, near the Gift Shop,
$20. For information or to regis-
ter, call 662-386-5592.
n CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
Emerson Family Center in
Starkville offers childbirth
classes from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
every Tuesday. For more infor-
mation, call 662-320-4907.
n CANCER SUPPORT
Baptist Cancer Center hosts
a support group for cancer
survivors and their families,
noon-1 p.m. the third Friday of
every month. Lunch provided.
For information and location,
call 662-244-2923.
■ DIABETES SUPPORT
Baptist Golden Triangle hosts
day classes for Diabetes
Support on third Wednesdays
of each month, 10-11 a.m.
in Patient Tower room 6. For
information, call Lacy Smith,
662-244-1392.
n CARING FOR THE
CAREGIVER
This caregivers support group
meets at 11:30 a.m. every
fourth Thursday at First United
Methodist Church, 602 Main
St., Columbus. Adult Psychi-
atric-Mental Health Nurse
Practitioner Patricia Malone
of Baptist-Golden Triangle is
the speaker Jan. 30. All are
welcome. A study of the book
“No Act of Love is Ever Wasted:
The Spirituality of Caring for
Persons with Dementia” is
underway.
n ABUSE RECOVERY
GROUP
A Domestic Abuse Recovery
Group meets Thursdays at 6
p.m. through Safe Haven Inc.
Group counseling for rape
recovery is available. For infor-
mation, call 662-327-6118.
n BAPTIST VOLUNTEERS
Baptist Golden Triangle
seeks caring, compassion-
ate volunteers to help in a
variety of hospital settings. For
information, call Lisa Bow-
ers,662-244-1165.
n DRUG/ALCOHOL
INTERVENTION
Narconon offers drug and
alcohol interventions. For free
screenings or referrals, call
1-800-431-1754.
n GOLDEN TRIANGLE AA
Golden Triangle AA meets daily
for support. If you want to drink,
that is your business. If you
want to stop drinking, that is
our business. For information,
call 662-327-8941.
n AL-ANON MEETING
The Columbus Al-Anon Family
Groups meet Mondays and
Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. When
you don’t know where to turn
because someone drinks too
much, we can help. For informa-
tion, call 888-425-2666 or go
to msafg.org.
OTHER EVENTS
n BASEBALL/SOFTBALL
REGISTRATION
Registration for the Lowndes
perature of 22 degrees
just before dawn. The
National Weather Service
says it was 23 degrees in
Birmingham and 24 in
Huntsville as the sun was
coming up. Below-freez-
ing weather early Tuesday
stretched all the way to
Mobile, where the mercu-
ry dipped to 31 degrees.
In Mississippi, multi-
ple shelters were opened
in the capital city of Jack-
son, WJTV-TV reported.
A freeze warning Tues-
day morning covered
large parts of southern
Mississippi and south-
east Louisiana, where
sub-freezing tempera-
tures were common. The
National Weather Service
warned residents in those
The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com Wednesday, January 22, 2020 7A
Recreation Summer Baseball
and Softball Programs is
Monday of each month at the
Starkville Public Library, 326
open through Feb. 22 at the University Drive.
Recreation office, 17 Airline n ENVIRONMENTAL
Road (rear of Driver’s License MEETING
Building). Wee-Ball for ages Memphis Town Community
3-12, T-ball, coach-pitch, Action Group meets fourth
baseball and fast-pitch softball Tuesdays at 6 p.m. to discuss
available. $60/$70 online issues related to the Kerr-Mc-
registration. All games at Lake Gee site. For information,
Lowndes State Park. For infor- contact Leon Hines, 662-574-
mation, call 662-328-0885 or 6109.
visit lowndesrecreation.com.
n 50 DRESSES MINISTRY
n SAVE RURAL AMERICA Reach1 Teach1 Ministries’ 50
CONFERENCE Dresses Ministry Program to
The Unlimited Community the Golden Triangle area helps
Agricultural Cooperative Save those in need of a dress or
Rural America Conference is suit for a job search. Dona-
noon Jan. 24 at 16th Sec- tions accepted. Call Regional
tion MB Church Life Center, Coordinator Cequeila Bigbee,
5480 Old West Point Road,
870-627-2859 or e-mail 1deliv-
Starkville. For information, con-
eredin2014@gmail.com.
tact Latrice Todman, 662-446-
n WALKING GROUP
2423, or email tarieltwcshc@
J.L. King Center’s Families
gmail.com; or Orlando Trainer,
First of Oktibbeha County
662-769-0071, or orlandotrain-
invites the community to join
er@hotmail.com.
its Walking Group at 6:30
n FARMERS/ a.m. Monday-Friday at West-
LANDOWNERS side Park, 700 N. Long St.,
CONFERENCE
Starkville.
The Mississippi Farmers
and Landowners Conference
n EFFECTIVE PARENTING
Family Resource Center, Co-
on Heirs’ Property is 8 a.m.
lumbus campus, 1575 Second
Jan. 25 at North Mississippi
Ave. N., offers free effective
Agribusiness Center, 30010
parenting classes, with insight
Shephard Drive E. in Okolona.
For information, call Carolyn
on child safety, appropriate
Jones, 662-213-2433 or email
discipline, effective communi-
cation and more. For informa-
msmfa2008@gmail.com.
tion, call 662-368-3603.
n JOB/LIFE SKILLS
TRAINING n FREE COMPUTER
CLASSES
The Christian Women’s Job
Emerson Family Center,
Corps-Golden Triangle, 207
Starkville, offers free computer
S. Lafayette St., Starkville, is
accepting applications for its
classes 1-3 p.m. Tuesdays.
Call 662-320-4607.
spring semester of job and life
skills training. Classes begin n FREE TUTORING
Feb. 4. For more information, Family Resource Center, 1575
call 662-722-3016 or email Second Ave. N., Columbus,
cwjcgt@hotmail.com. offers free tutoring, computer
use and printing services for
n VALENTINE’S GALA
pre-K-eighth grade. Limited
The Stephen D. Lee Foundation
slots. Call 662-368-3603.
hosts its 10th Valentine’s Day
Gala from 7-10 p.m. Feb. 14 n PARENT CAFÉ
at the Stephen D. Lee Home, Emerson family Center,
316 Seventh St. N., Columbus, Starkville, offers Parent Café
featuring special desserts and meetings 11 a.m.-noon every
floral arrangements. Contact Monday. For more information,
Eulalie Davis, 662-328-3088, call 662-418-5193 or visit
for information and reserva- fcp-parentcafe.com.
tions. n TENN-TOM WATERWAY
n SAFE HAVEN
MUSEUM
VOLUNTEERS
The Tennessee-Tombigbee
Safe Haven Inc. seeks commu- Waterway Transportation
nity volunteers. Volunteer Train- Museum, 318 Seventh St. N.,
ings are available every three Columbus, is open for tours
months. If you or someone you Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
know would like to volunteer, School field trips, civic clubs,
contact Joyce Tucker, 662-327-
church groups encouraged.
6118, Cequeila Bigbee, 662- For group tours, call 662-328-
435-1806, or email 1delivere- 8936 or 662-574-5794.
din2014@gmail.com.
n MINORITY CAUCUS
SCHOLARSHIPS
The Mississippi Association of
Supervisors is accepting schol-
arship applications through
March 15 from all graduating
high school seniors for the
Minority Caucus Scholarship.
For applications or information,
visit mssupervisors.org/minori-
ty-caucus.
n JA SCHOLARSHIPS
Junior Auxiliary of Columbus
is accepting scholarship appli-
cations from Lowndes County
graduating high school seniors
through Feb. 7. For applica-
tions or more information, visit
jacolumbus.org/applications
or email jacolumbusscholar-
ships@gmail.com.
n JIM SPRUIELL
SCHOLARSHIP
The Health Care Foundation of
North Mississippi is accepting
applications for the Jim Pruiell
Memorial Scholarship from
high school seniors preparing
to enter college or individuals
currently in the workforce,
who are pursuing a career in
emergency health care. For ap-
plications or information, visit
nmhs.net/youth-education.
n BOOK SALE
The Friends of the Starkville
Library Book Sale is the first
areas to take steps to pre-
vent pipes from freezing
such as wrapping them
or allowing faucets to drip
slowly.
A similar freeze warn-
ing was in place for parts
of southeast Georgia and
northern Florida early
Tuesday.
On Wednesday, a light
mix of wintry precipita-
tion — including snow,
sleet and rain — will be
possible in southeast
Oklahoma and western
Arkansas, according to
the National Weather Ser-
vice in Shreveport, Louisi-
ana. That should happen
from early Wednesday
morning through noon
Wednesday, forecasters
said.
8A Wednesday, January 22, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Columbus City Council rejects

Southside historic designation
Unbudgeted grant
match of up to $10K
proves sticking point
in 4-2 vote
By Yue Stella Yu
syu@cdispatch.com

COLUMBUS
— Despite strong
support from many
Southside residents,
Columbus City Coun-
cil voted 4-2 Tuesday
against applying for a
federal grant to sur-
vey buildings in the Boggess Photo courtesy of City of Columbus

neighborhood, the
first step to designat-
ing the neighborhood
as a Local Historic
District.
It appears the coun-
cil rejected the mea-
sure over what would
have been an out-of- Miller
pocket expenditure
capped at $10,000,
though it likely would
have ranged between
$5,000 and $6,000.
The Columbus
Historic Preservation
Commission recom-
mended the desig- Box
nation for the area
from the Mississippi
University for Women
campus to First Street
and from College
Street to Seventh Ave-
nue. Designating it as
a Local Historic Dis-
trict would have ulti- Mickens
mately required a city
ordinance that would have regulated
certain exterior changes to homes in
the neighborhood.
The designation would have made
Southside the city’s second neigh-
borhood to earn the status after the
downtown district became the first
in 1996. Joe Boggess, member of
the Columbus Historic Preservation
Commission, said districts in 2,300
towns and cities across the country
have earned the designation, includ-
ing 55 in Mississippi.
The status would help elevate the
city’s image and boost the economy,
he said.
“We want to keep the old neigh-
borhood properties from becoming
gradually torn down one by one,”
Boggess said.
Columbus Arts Council Execu-
tive Director Jan Miller, who spoke
to the council Tuesday as a South-
side homeowner of 40 years, said
Local Historic District status helps
maintain property values within the
district and preserve the neighbor-
hood’s integrity.
“If someone wants to come in
and tear down a historic property
because they want to build a metal
building, they can (without the sta-
tus),” Miller said. “There’s no pres-
ervation ordinance that would keep
them from doing that.”
Miller said the grant application
would only kickstart the process to
earn the status, and it would be at the
city’s discretion whether to take the
next steps.
The grant, once awarded, would
require a 50-percent match, capped
at $10,000, from the city to conduct
the survey of properties in the pro-
posed area. Boggess estimated be-
tween 300 and 400 buildings would
be surveyed at a rate of $32 per build-
ing — a range of $9,600 to $12,800
for which the city would be responsi-
ble for half.
That money, which Chief Operat-
Doran Johnson was sworn in at Tuesday evening’s city council meeting
as the new assistant chief for the police department. Johnson previous-
ly served as the chief school resource officer for Columbus Municipal
School District.
Photo courtesy of City of Columbus
Rick Jones, former administrator of Lowndes County Adult Detention
Center, was sworn in Tuesday evening to lead the city police department’s
Criminal Investigation Division. Police Chief Fred Shelton told The Dispatch
that those hires would bring the department back to a full command staff.
ing Officer David Armstrong said is had come to that,” Jones said. “We
not included in the city’s Fiscal Year were just applying for the grant, not
2020 budget, was a sticking point for to spend the money.”
several council members. Boggess said he was “disappoint-
Ward 3 Councilman Charlie Box, ed” by the council’s decision.
who voted against applying for the “Maybe the council didn’t realize
grant, said making exceptions for un- how broad of a support it had in the
budgeted expenses merely months neighborhood,” he said. “We had a
into the new fiscal year (which start- big petition that was signed by over
ed in October) would be problematic. 100 houses (in support).”
“That’s what’s got us in trouble The majority of the crowd gather-
with finances before …, doing things ing at a Columbus Historic Preser-
that we didn’t budget for,” Box said. vation Commission meeting in early
“We’ve got the money. It’s just the January also voiced support for the
principle of the thing.” designation, Boggess said.
Councilman Joe Mickens of Ward Ward 6 Councilman Bill Gavin
2, who also voted in opposition, said he is in favor of the idea of his-
agreed. toric preservation, and the commis-
“The city is just getting back on sion meeting had left him with the
its feet,” Mickens said, referring to impression that most Southside res-
consecutive years in 2017 and 2018 idents liked the idea. But, he said, he
in which the city’s general fund op- received several phone calls in oppo-
erated at significant deficits, trigger- sition thereafter.
ing a “spending freeze” on unbudget- “By applying for the grant, we are
ed items in Fiscal Year 2019. pretty much accepting the grant,”
“I don’t feel like we need to be Gavin said. “I would like to have
spending unnecessary money at this heard from all the citizens in that
time,” Mickens said. “We are trying area to find out if they really did want
to be frugal with our spending. … this or not.”
We need to be. Miller said, if the city had applied
“We’re not saying we can’t do that for the grant, it would have at least
for later on,” he added. “But right kept the conversation going.
now, our income is coming in pretty “It’s a travesty,” Miller said of the
good, and we want to keep it flowing.” vote. “I hate that it happened, be-
cause now we don’t even have the op-
‘It’s a travesty’ portunity to have the public input or
But grants are rarely budgeted, to have the discussion. We ended the
said Miller. discussion tonight with the no-vote.”
“Grants come available as per the In other business, the council
money comes available,” she said, hired Doran Johnson as assistant
“You don’t know that you are going police chief and Rick Jones as cap-
to apply for a grant until you apply for tain of investigations. Johnson had
it.” previously served as chief school re-
Councilman Stephen Jones of source officer for Columbus Munici-
Ward 5, who along with Ward 1’s Eth- pal School District. Jones has worked
el Taylor Stewart voted in favor of the part-time for CPD since 2017.
grant application, said it would have Conflict disclosure: Managing Ed-
given the city more time to gather itor Zack Plair took part in editing
public opinions while waiting for the this article. He is currently involved in
money to be approved. legal proceedings with the city of Co-
“We could amend the budget if it lumbus.

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early January as part of a
bond package approved by
the state Legislature last
year, said Parks and Recre-
ation Department Director
Roger Short. The reno-
vation should cost about
$300,000 and is expected
to be finished by May, he
said.
The process will be
divided into five phases,
Short said. The first step
will revamp the outside
walls and roofs, which
will be followed by renova-
tions of the lobby, front en-
trance, restrooms and the
basketball court. A new
hardwood-like gym floor
will be installed as the last
step, he said Tuesday.
Wooden bleachers with-
in the gym will be replaced
with aluminum ones,
Short said, and the four
lights above the balcony
will be replaced to match
the others that were put in
place two years ago.
The interior structure
will be largely left the
same, Short said, but the
balcony will be torn down.
Air conditioners, which the
gym never had, will also be
put in place, he said.
The money left after the
renovation, if any, could be
used to build a new pavil-
ion and renovate the play-
ground area outside the
gym, Short said. However,
the surplus is not guaran-
teed.
“What we really want is
a top-notch renovated facil-
ity,” District 5 Supervisor
Leroy Brooks said.
Crawford Mayor Deane
Parson said the new gym
will give children from
Crawford and nearby
towns a venue to hold tour-
naments and other events.
The renovation would be
completed just in time for
the summer day camp pro-
gram in town, she said.
“By the summertime
when this opens up,” Par-
son said, “we are gonna
be blooming in the town of
Crawford.”
Sammy White, a pas-
tor at the Oakland Mis-
sionary Baptist Church,
shares Parson’s high
hopes. White, a Crawford
Elementary alum, used to
play basketball on the “dirt
court” outside the school
before the gym was even
built.
“When I was growing
up, we didn’t have this,”
White said. “All of this
right now is improving the
quality of life (in the com-
munity).”
Washington, now 50,
passed her passion for bas-
ketball — and the gym —
on to her family. Not only
did her son play in the gym
during the summer, she
said, her 7-year-old grand-
son, Akeem Brown, just
won a free throw tourna-
ment at the gym last Oc-
tober.
“I think he’s awesome,”
Washington whispered
with a smile. “I want my
grandkids to enjoy the
thing that I enjoy.”
Sports
Bulldogs hope to continue hot streak against Arkansas
Mississippi State’s Nick Weatherspoon (0) drives to the basket and around Georgia’s Sahvir Wheeler (15) during the first half of their NCAA college basketball game
Saturday in Starkville.
By Garrick Hodge
ghodge@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — The
start of conference play
for the Mississippi State
men’s basketball team
brought up a bit of histo-
ry no one affiliated with
the program wanted to
remember.
Following losses to Au-
burn, Alabama and LSU,
MSU fell to 0-3 in the SEC
for the first time since
2015, the first year of the
Ben Howland era.
Then, last week put
the Bulldogs back on the
Mississippi State women finding continuity in rotation
By Ben Portnoy
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — The
puzzle pieces to Vic Schae-
fer’s 2020 Mississippi
State women’s basketball
team have begun falling
into place.
Entering a year in
which the Bulldogs had
to replace three starters
in Teaira McCowan, Jazz-
mun Holmes and Anriel
Howard, Schaefer brought
six newcomers to this sea-
son’s squad — four fresh-
men, junior college cen-
ter Yemiyah Morris and
Michigan State transfer
forward Sidney Cooks —
in an effort to bridge the
gap.
And while finding con-
tinuity amongst the fresh Mississippi State head coach Vic Schaefer gets an explanation of a call from
faces and MSU’s talented game official Douglas Knight during the first half of their NCAA college basket-
See wbb, 3B ball game against Louisiana State Thursday in Starkville.
MISSISSIPPI STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
right side of a historical
statistic, recording back-
to-back victories of a mar-
gin of at least 27 points for
the first time since 1946.
MSU defeated Missou-
ri 72-45 on Jan. 14, then
took down Georgia 91-59
Saturday with both victo-
ries coming at Humphrey
Coliseum. MSU (11-6, 2-3
SEC) hopes to continue
its dominance when it
wraps up its three-game
homestand against Ar-
kansas at 6 p.m. Wednes-
day in Starkville.
“There’s no question
that our defense is play-
ing the best it’s played
all year, and we’re doing
a better job than we’ve
done,” Howland said. “
… So, they work hand-
in-hand. Offense feeds
the defense, and the de-
fense feeds the offense.
You have to have a good
balance at both ends and
be effective at both ends.
We’ve done a good job
at that the last couple
games.”
Arkansas (14-3, 3-2
SEC) is a defense-first
team, allowing the fewest
3-pointers allowed by an
opponent nationally (23.4
Jim Lytle/Special to The Dispatch
THE DISPATCH n CDISPATCH.COM n WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020
percent) and is the 11th-
most efficient defense in
the country according to
KenPom.com.
“They do a great job
of helping defensively,
and they really pressure,”
Howland said. “They’re
going to get out, get into
the ball and create havoc,
but they don’t gamble. It’s
very solid. They’re using
their hands, but they’re
still keeping their body
in front of the ball. When
you drive, they’re collaps-
ing. They do a great job.”
Three Arkansas play-
ers average double fig-
SPORTS LINE
662-241-5000
B
SECTION
Jim Lytle/Special to The Dispatch
ures, including Mason Tyson Carter. The move
Jones (18.2 ppg), Isaiah was made for a variety of
Joe (17.5) and Jimmy reasons.
Whitt Jr. (14.8). The Ra- First, Howland want-
zorbacks are coming off ed to take pressure off
a 73-66 home loss to Ken- Carter as the Starkville
tucky and have yet to lose native worked his way out
back-to-back games un- of a shooting slump. He
der first-year coach Eric
did just that against Mis-
Musselman.
souri and Georgia, finish-
ing with double figures in
Stewart adjusting to each contest.
starting lineup “I don’t know (if com-
In MSU’s last two ing off the bench busted
games, redshirt fresh- him out of the slump), but
man guard D.J. Stewart I’m sure am happy that
was moved into the start- he’s playing the way he’s
ing lineup in lieu of senior See msu, 3B
Former MSU wideout
Wilson reportedly
killed in Birmingham
By Ben Portnoy inside the home. Per Bir-
bportnoy@cdispatch.com mingham P.D., officers
found information inside
STARKVILLE — For- the house that led them
mer Mississippi State to investigate the crime
wide receiver De’Runn-
as a homicide. The inves-
ya Wilson
tigation is ongoing.
was report-
During his three-
edly found
year career in Starkville,
dead Tues-
Wilson was a key cog in
day morn-
ing in Bir- MSU’s historic 2015 sea-
mingham, son. A second-team All
A labama SEC performer that year,
per a re- Wilson he ranked second in the
lease from league with 10 touch-
the Birmingham Police down receptions while
Department. He was 25 notching 60 catches for
years old. 918 yards.
Investigators received Current Dallas
information from an un- Cowboy Dak Prescott
named relative that Wil- and Wilson’s quarter-
son was unresponsive See wilson, 3B
2B Wednesday, January 22, 2020 The Dispatch • www.cdispatch.com

Prep basketball roundup

BRIEFLY
Prep Soccer West Lowndes girls improve to 15-0 with throttling of Noxapater
Caledonia sweeps senior night By Theo Derosa have won 10 straight Starkville Academy boys led the Rams with — The Pickens Acad-
Both Caledonia soccer teams had a happy senior tderosa@cdispatch.com games. 19 points, while Will emy (Alabama) boys
night Tuesday. The girls dominated South Pontotoc Starkville will host
74, Winston Academy 37 Teague had 14 and Jon- team lost to Southern
13-0, while the boys picked up a 4-1 win. On the girls NOXAPATER — STARKVILLE — athan Peal had nine.
Greenville on Friday. Academy (Alabama)
side, all five Caledonia seniors scored: Blair Ward, The West Lowndes The Starkville Acade- For the Cougars,
Claire Benson, Clara Allen, Savannah Andrewsen, 67-58 in Tuesday’s
girls basketball team my boys team beat Win-
Emily Whisenhunt.
Seniors also led the boys, with Wes Rollins and
beat Noxapater 93-15 in Starkville girls 54, ston Academy 74-37 in
Ashton Huxford and
Wyatt Johnson each
home game.
Seth Peeks led the
Garrett Bergstrom scoring for Caledonia. Tuesday’s game in Nox- West Point 25 Tuesday’s home game. scored nine points, and Pirates with 24 points,
apater. STARKVILLE — Jawon Yarbrough Judah Buckner had
Starkville boys 4, Greenville 0 Hayden Dyer had 16,
For the Panthers The Starkville girls scored 23 points for eight.
Four different Yellow Jackets scored a goal as the and Rafe Brown had 10.
(15-0), Nenah Young beat West Point 54- the Volunteers. George The Rams will host
Starkville High boys defeated Greenville 4-0 Tuesday. Pickens Academy
Goals came from Brennon Wright, AP Behara, Christian had 16 points, Taka- 25 on Tuesday in Delp scored 14, and Winona Christian on (10-7) will host Patri-
Leach and Joshua Evaes. ra Givens had 14, and Starkville. Dre Frazier scored 10. Thursday, and the cian Academy (Ala-
Marvaysha Seals had Amaya Ford scored The Vols will host Cougars will play at
Other scores bama) on Thursday.
- Pillow Academy boys 1, Starkville Academy 0 13. West Lowndes will 25 points for the Yellow Heritage Academy on Starkville Academy on
- Starkville girls 10, Greenville 0 play at McAdams on Jackets in the victory. Thursday. Saturday.
- Kosciusko boys 8, West Point 1 Friday. Southern Academy
- Kosciusko girls 7, West Point 0
Shannon boys 73, Starkville Academy girls Starkville Christian (Ala.) girls 54, Pickens
Source: From Special Reports
West Lowndes boys Caledonia 58 38, Winston Academy 13 girls 43, Columbus Academy (Ala.) 34
CALENDAR 75, Noxapater 47 SHANNON — The STARKVILLE — Christian Academy 36
CARROLLTON, Ala.
NOXAPATER — Caledonia boys team The Starkville Acade- — The Pickens Acade-
Wednesday The West Lowndes STARKVILLE — my girls lost to South-
lost to Shannon 73-58 in my girls beat Winston The Starkville Chris-
Men’s College Basketball boys beat Noxapater Tuesday’s road game. Academy 38-13 on ern Academy 54-34 on
Arkansas at Mississippi State, 6 p.m. 75-47 in Tuesday’s road tian girls beat Colum- Tuesday in Carrollton,
Cooper McCleskey Tuesday in Starkville. bus Christian 43-36 on
Women’s College Basketball game. had 24 points for the Caroline Wood had Alabama.
Tougaloo College at MUW, 5:30 p.m. Jherquaveus Sand- Tuesday in Starkville. Jessi Latham led the
Confederates (12-7, 17 points for the Volun- Tanner Smith had 10
Prep Soccer ers had 20 points for 4-3 district), and Jarvis teers, and Lillee Alpe Pirates (10-5) with 10
Columbus at Mississippi School for the Panthers, Jataquist points for the Cougars, points and six rebounds.
Leigh scored 12. had 11. and Mary Driskell
Math and Science, 7 p.m. Brown had 16, and Mel- Pickens Academy trailed
Caledonia will host and Lana Ballard each
Thursday vin Crawford had 15.
Mooreville on Friday. Columbus Christian scored eight.
32-30 going into the
Prep Girls Basketball fourth quarter, but the
Academy boys 64, For the Rams, Ky-
Okolona at Noxubee County, 6 p.m. Starkville boys 81, Shannon girls 53, lie Emerson led with
Pirates were outscored
Heritage Academy at Starkville Acade- West Point 33 Starkville Christian 31 22-4 in the final period.
my, 6:30 p.m. STARKVILLE —
Caledonia 32 STARKVILLE —
11 points, and Cayden
Harding and CC DeVos
Winona Christian at Columbus Christian The Starkville High SHANNON — The The Columbus Chris- each had six. Other scores
Academy, 6:30 p.m. boys team beat West Caledonia girls lost to tian Academy boys beat n Hebron Christian
Prep Boys Basketball Point 81-33 in Tuesday’s Shannon 53-32 in Tues- Starkville Christian girls 45, Kemper Acade-
Okolona at Noxubee County, 7:30 p.m. home game. day’s game in Shannon. School 64-31 in Tues-
Southern Academy my 22
Heritage Academy at Starkville Acade- Coltie Young had Tenizia Lathan had day’s game at Starkville (Ala.) boys 67, Pickens n Kemper Academy
my, 8 p.m. 13 points for the Yel- 12 points for the ’Feds Christian. Academy (Ala.) 58 boys 37, Hebron Chris-
Winona Christian at Columbus Christian low Jackets (18-2), who in the setback. Lawson Studdard CARROLLTON, Ala. tian 36
Academy, 8 p.m.
Women’s College Basketball
Mississippi State at Vanderbilt, 8 p.m.
Ole Miss at Auburn, 6 p.m.
Women’s College Basketball
LSU at Mississippi State, 7 p.m.
Balanced scoring effort leads Heritage Academy boys Tuesday
Itawamba Community College at East By Theo Derosa out. They never re- left off. Naugher con- ficials, given another 11 points, and senior
Mississippi Community College, 5:30 tderosa@cdispatch.com turned. verted two three-point basketball from the Sydney Adair had an
p.m.
Heritage Academy’s plays, Koussih’s nine bench, tried to shoot it uncharacteristic night
Men’s College Basketball The Heritage Acad- bench held it down from points came on a trio out. His first attempt with just three points.
Champion Christian at MUW, 5 p.m. emy boys basketball there, giving the team’s of 3-pointers in the hit the bottom of the “I feel like Leake
Itawamba Community College at East team needed a break. beleaguered starters a third quarter, and Mack backboard and came is always known to be
Mississippi Community College, 7:30 After a blowout win rest as the Patriots (17- Howard, Gunnar Gale straight down amid that good, so you have
p.m. over East Rankin Acad- 7, 8-0 district) cruised and Whit Altmyer each laughter from the to work as a team in or-
Friday emy on Friday, a tough to a 68-23 win. connected on a 3-ball in stands. His second try der to play with them,”
Prep Girls Basketball loss to Madison-Ridge- Putt had 10 points the second half. freed the ball, push- Harris said. “We start-
Grenada at Columbus, 6 p.m. land Academy on Sat- to lead the team, se- The solid play of the ing it around the right ed out kind of slow,
Caledonia at Mooreville, 6 p.m. urday and a hard-fought nior Adam Koussih had Pats’ reserves was en- side of the rim and then we kind of got in
West Point at New Hope, 6 p.m. win over MHSAA Class 10 off the bench, and couraging for Putt and back onto the court. a rhythm, but against
Aberdeen at Noxubee County, 6 p.m. 4A opponent North Long, senior Steele Al- Heritage Academy’s For Heritage Acad- a team like that, you’ve
Greenville at Starkville, 6 p.m. Pike on Monday in the tmyer and freshman starters, watching ap- emy, it was a moment gotta come out strong
West Lowndes at McAdams, 6 p.m. Rumble in the South Trey Naugher each had provingly from the side- that proved to be sym- and stay with it. I
Oak Hill Academy at Winona Christian, tournament in Ridge- eight, providing the line. bolic of the night to think that’s where we
6:30 p.m. land, the Patriots were Pats with yet another “We don’t have to come. fell apart a little bit.”
Columbus Christian Academy at Newton understandably tired. balanced scoring effort. play the whole entire The Patriots (10 - Reed and Harris
Academy, 6:30 p.m. So when coach Russ “I know there was a game,” Putt said. “We 14, 3-5 district) had both found the Patri-
Hebron Christian at Grace Christian, Whiteside asked the game a couple weeks can go and play ’til their share of missed ots’ enthusiasm lack-
6:30 p.m. team to run a press ago where our scoring we’re tired, get a break shots and frustration ing Friday, perhaps a
Prep Boys Basketball defense in Tuesday’s went 11, 10, nine, nine, and then have good against a stellar Leake natural consequence
Grenada at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. home game against nine,” Whiteside said. players come off the team (24-1, 7-0), drop- of falling behind so
Caledonia at Mooreville, 7:30 p.m. Leake Academy, a tired “We’ve seen that a lot bench. That’s really big ping Tuesday night’s early. Heritage Acad-
West Point at New Hope, 7:30 p.m. starting five tried its because of the unself- for us. That’s one of the home game 67-30. emy didn’t score until
Aberdeen at Noxubee County, 7:30 best. ishness of all our guys.” most important things “They made us look Sharp split a pair of
p.m. “He was like, ‘I Putt knows Long and pretty bad tonight at free throws a few sec-
about us.”
Greenville at Starkville, 7:30 p.m. don’t know if y’all can senior Eli Acker are the times,” Heritage Acad- onds after the Pats’
After getting some
West Lowndes at McAdams, 7:30 p.m. do that after all these team’s two top scorers, emy coach Moe Reed 3-point attempt lodged
Oak Hill Academy at Winona Christian,
extra rest, the Patriots
games,’” senior guard but he’s happy to con- have a well-deserved said. in the corner of the
8 p.m. Carter Putt said. “We tribute when needed. Reed chalked that basket, making the
Columbus Christian Academy at Newton
day off before traveling
realized after about a “They’re our main to face rival Starkville up to Leake’s prodi- score 14-1; the Patriots
Academy, 8 p.m. quarter that we needed two offensive guys, gious talent and bas- never got any closer.
Hebron Christian at Grace Christian, 8 Academy on Thursday.
a break.” and they’re big down “Starkville’s always ketball knowledge as “Today, it didn’t feel
p.m. The Patriots still led low, but we’ve all gotta well as her own team’s like we had as much en-
Prep Girls Soccer a hard place to go play,”
17-8 after the opening guard, and we’ve all got- Whiteside said. “To- shortcomings offen- ergy,” Harris said. “We
Corinth at New Hope, 5 p.m. period, but they pushed ta play,” Putt said. sively. need more energy on
Columbus at Mississippi School for morrow will be a day
even harder to open up The Pats did that where we spend a lot of “We’ve gotta shoot and off the court and in
Math and Science, 5:30 p.m. the game. Pretty pass- in excellent fashion in better,” Reed said. practice.”
Starkville at South Panola, 5:30 p.m. time on Starkville and
ing orchestrated a 10-0 their 25-point second on getting our legs back “I told them, ‘We’ve Harris knows the
Shannon at Caledonia, 5:30 p.m. run to start the second quarter, which gave got open shots. We’ve Patriots will need that
under us.”
on the air quarter, and Heritage
Academy stretched the
them a 42-10 advantage
at the break. Pretty
gotta knock some of
those down. Espe-
intensity back when
they head to Starkville
Today floor and pushed the much everyone played Leake Academy girls 67, cially against a good on Thursday for a tough
COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) pace. Late in the sec- their role: senior point Heritage Academy 30 team. You’ve gotta road game against rival
5:30 p.m. — Georgetown at Xavier, FS1 ond, senior Jared Long guard Reid Huskison Four minutes into make free throws, Starkville Academy,
6 p.m. — Penn State at Michigan, BTN drove the lane and finding the open man, Tuesday’s girls game, and you’ve gotta make which beat Heritage
6 p.m. — St. Bonaventure at Dayton,
CBSSN dished to a wide-open Long leaping for re- with Leake Acade- shots outside.” Academy 60-34 on Jan.
6 p.m. — Syracuse at Notre Dame, Putt on the wing. Putt, bounds and scoring my leading Heritage Heritage Academy 7 in the Pats’ home
ESPN2 realizing his 3-point- with ease inside, Acker Academy 14-0, the made four 3-pointers gym.
6 p.m. — Cincinnati at Temple, ES- er was awry, called bullying Rebels out of Patriots hoisted up a on Tuesday to Leake’s “We always want
PNEWS “Bank!” audibly as the 3-pointer that wedged
6 p.m. — South Carolina at Auburn, the paint, Putt hitting six, with senior Bailey to bring energy with
ESPNU ball dropped in off the outside shots and Alt- between the left side Harris knocking down them anyway because
6 p.m. — Arkansas at Mississippi State glass, giving the Pats myer converting a nifty of the rim and the three long balls for the of the rivalry, and I feel
SECN an 38-10 lead. and-one. backboard, bringing Patriots. Harris and like we’ll take what we
7 p.m. — North Carolina at Virginia Leake Academy And Heritage Acad- the game to a sudden freshman Lucy Sharp learned tonight to
Tech, ACCN
7:30 p.m. — Providence at Seton Hall, called timeout, and the emy’s bench picked up stop. tied for the team bring into Thursday
FS1 Patriots’ starters came right where its starters One of the game of- lead the team with night,” Harris said.
8 p.m. — Rutgers at Iowa, BTN
8 p.m. — Creighton at DePaul, CBSSN
8 p.m. — Memphis at Tulsa, ESPNU
8 p.m. — Alabama at Vanderbilt, SECN

Tennessee wins 73-48 as Ole Miss suffers 6th straight loss

10 p.m. — Nevada (Las Vegas) at
Nevada (Reno), CBSSN
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
12:30 p.m. — The Senior Bowl: Prac-
tice, Mobile, Ala., ESPNU The Associated Press been one of the SEC’s lead as Ole Miss shot Devontae Shuler added had played well Satur-
3 p.m. — The Senior Bowl: Practice, biggest disappoint- 24.2% overall (8 of 33) 11 points for the Reb- day in an 80-76 loss to
Mobile, Ala., ESPNU KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ments thus far after and 18.2% from 3-point els. SEC leader LSU, but
NBA BASKETBALL — John Fulkerson earning a surprising range (2 of 11) over Tyree entered the they couldn’t put togeth-
6 p.m. — Philadelphia at Toronto, ESPN
8:30 p.m. — San Antonio at New Orle- scored a career-high NCA A Tournament the first 20 minutes. night with an SEC-lead- er the same kind of per-
ans, ESPN 18 points and matched berth last year in coach Ole Miss scored the ing 29.7 points per formance three nights
NHL HOCKEY a career high with 10 Kermit Davis’ debut first four points of the game in league com- later. Ole Miss couldn’t
7 p.m. — Detroit at Minnesota, NBCSN rebounds as Tennessee season. second half to get the petition, including a shoot all night and also
SOCCER (MEN’S)
1:25 p.m. — Premier League: Burnley trounced Mississippi Ole Miss shot just margin down to 15, but career-high 36 points had other issues, as
at Manchester United, NBCSN 73-48 on Tuesday night 30.2% (19 of 63) against Tennessee answered Saturday in an 80-76 starting forward Khad-
TENNIS to hand the Rebels a Tennessee team that with a 12-3 run and nev- loss to conference lead- im Sy played just 12
2 a.m. — The Australian Open: Second their sixth consecutive entered the night lead- er looked back. er LSU. Tyree was the minutes before fouling
Round, Melbourne, Australia, ESPN2
1 p.m. — The Australian Open: Second loss. ing the SEC in scor- Jordan Bowden and first Ole Miss player to out with 9:39 left. The
Round, Melbourne, Australia (taped), Tennessee (12- ing defense (59.6) and Josiah-Jordan James score at least 25 points schedule does Ole Miss
ESPN2 6, 4-2 Southeastern field-goal percentage each scored 11 points in his first three confer- no favors as it tries to
6 p.m. — The Australian Open: Second Conference) won for defense (.382). for Tennessee. Olivi- ence games of a season end this skid. The Reb-
Round, Melbourne, Australia, TENNIS since Joe Harvell did it
8 p.m. — The Australian Open: Second the fourth time in five Tennessee’s defense er Nkamhoua had 10 els visit Georgia, host
Round, Melbourne, Australia, ESPN2 games while Ole Miss was particularly effec- points. in 1992. No. 16 Auburn and go
2 a.m. (Thursday) — The Australian remained winless in tive early on. Ole Miss’ Breein back on the road for a
Open: Second Round, Melbourne,
Australia, ESPN2
SEC competition. The The Volunteers Tyree scored 18 points Big Picture rematch with LSU in
Rebels (9-9, 0-5) have built a 42-23 halftime but shot just 7 of 22. Ole Miss: The Rebels their next three games.

Kyle Busch has 2 NASCAR titles and an eye on at least 5 more
The Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH,
Fla. — The way Kyle
Busch sees it, there is
a flaw in the champi-
onship ring NASCAR
awarded him last month.
It lacks any indica-
tion that the 2019 title
was actually his second
championship. Busch
wants it fixed so it dis-
plays exactly what he’s
earned. He has studied
the issue and knows the
New England Patriots
created a ring that show-
cases their six Super
Bowl victories.
When his career is
over, Busch wants just
one ring to encapsulate
his accomplishments.
He insists he will close
his career alongside
greats Richard Petty,
Dale Earnhardt and Jim-
mie Johnson.
But he doesn’t have
seven Cup Series titles.
“Not yet I don’t,” Bus-
ch said with a wink.
Busch’s bid for a third
championship doesn’t
begin until Feb. 16 at
the Daytona 500, a race
he desperately wants to
win. Busch is 0 for 14
in “The Great Ameri-
can Race” with a bitter
runner-up finish to Joe
Gibbs Racing teammate
Denny Hamlin in last
year’s 1-2-3 Gibbs sweep.
He has won at every
active NASCAR track
except The Roval at
Charlotte Motor Speed-
way yet his 56 career
Cup victories do not in-
clude the Daytona 500.
His warm-up begins this
weekend at the Rolex
WBB
Continued from Page 1B
but inexperienced re-
turners has been taxing,
Monday’s game against
South Carolina offered
a fuller look at what the
Bulldogs may trot out
come tournament time.
“If you’ve followed
us at all or paid atten-
tion you probably can’t
figure out my rotation
right now,” Schaefer
said at his midweek me-
dia availability Tuesday.
“Because from one game
to the next you’ve got
somebody that might
play 37 minutes and they
might’ve played two last
night, or three or four or
whatever it is.”
Through 19 games
this season, Schaefer has
been relatively consis-
tent in his starting line-
ups — having employed
just four different combi-
nations on the year. Fur-
ther, only the contingent
of senior Jordan Danber-
ry, junior Chloe Bibby,
sophomores Myah Tay-
lor and Jessika Carter
Wilson
Continued from Page 1B
back-to-receiver combi-
nation also ranked first in
school history as the pair
totaled 19 touchdowns.
A two-sport standout
out of Wenonah High
School, Wilson was
named the 2013 Mr. Bas-
ketball in the state of Al-
abama. Once at MSU, he
played on the Bulldogs’
basketball team for the
2013-2014 season, in addi-
tion to his exploits on the
football field.
MSU
Continued from Page 1B
playing right now for us,” Howland said. “He’s play-
ing with the confidence that he’s earned because of
all his hard work. No one has worked harder than
Tyson Carter – putting the time in, putting the count-
less hours in working on his shot, working on his
ball-handling and working on his game. You earn
confidence, and he earned it. So, I’m really excited
for him and happy for our team.”
The fifth-year MSU coach also wanted Carter to
run the point when junior guard Nick Weatherspoon
is on the bench instead of Iverson Molinar, allowing
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24 at Daytona, a twice- ness was often blamed
round-the-clock en- for fans hating the car.
durance race featuring Many fans found him ar-
champions from series rogant, entitled or whiny
all over the world. or a mix of all three.
The event is packed His career has been
with Indianapolis 500 golden: high-profile
winners, Le Mans win- rides first at Hendrick
ners and some of the Motorsports, then JGR,
most skilled drivers where he has been since
from global series. Bus- 2008. Busch has 208 vic-
ch is on hand to steal the tories across NASCAR’s
show. three national series,
His longtime partner- and some argue his tal-
ship with Toyota got him ly equals Petty’s record
the gig to drive a Lexus 200 Cup wins. He would
for the AIM Vasser Sul- undoubtedly have doz-
livan team, and Busch ens more if NASCAR
is the star attraction. had not set limits on how
He loves it, too, and at a much he can compete in
January team dinner he the lower series.
wore that ring. For one The dominating way
night, he seemed as if he he wins, his brash cele-
was that once-upon-a- brations, his disregard
time fun Kyle Busch. for those who boo him
He was just 16 when and all those wins have
he first came into NA- made Busch something
SCAR in 2001, right as of a villain, and that
the series was passing doesn’t always put him
a rule that sidelined him in the best of moods.
until his 18th birthday. Toss in a bad day at the
He was brash even then track, plus idle time
— it’s some chip he and each weekend because
older brother Kurt have NASCAR only allows
just always seemed to him a maximum of five
have, though he was Truck Series races (he
tame compared with went 5 for 5 last season)
Kurt, the 2004 champi- and seven in the Xfinity
on. Series (4 for 7), and Bus-
Kyle Busch has al- ch can be a real bear.
ways done his best to So it was a very long
speak the truth as he summer, and a 21-race
sees it, one sarcastic eye losing streak didn’t help.
roll, thumbs-up or one- He lashed out in the
word answer at a time. opening race of the play-
His opinions have offs last September when
not always been popu- he ran into the back of a
lar with NASCAR and lapped car and accused
it makes no difference some in the field of not
whether he was right. being qualified to race at
The series’ “Car of To- NASCAR’s top level.
morrow” was terrible, he Busch says that in-
was just the first to say cident is one of the rea-
so and his outspoken- sons he is running the
and freshman Rickea tion, Mingo-Young and
Jackson has been used Matharu provided in-
more than once — 16 stant offense for a Bull-
times to be exact. dog team that desperate-
And while he’s been ly needed it, trailing by
reticent to make whole- 12 after the first quarter.
sale changes in the start- In Matharu’s case,
ing lineups, Schaefer has her 10-straight points
been anything but when gave MSU a lead late
it comes to dipping into in the third quarter as
his bench. she flashed an ability
In MSU’s 16 wins this to beat her defender off
year, the Bulldogs have the dribble and get to
used all 12 available the hoop, in addition to a
players in 12 of those prolific 3-point shooting
victories. MSU has also stroke — a gunner men-
used less than 10 players tality that’s earned both
in a game just once this Schaefer’s praise and
year — a four point vic- maligning over the past
tory over LSU on Jan. 16. few weeks.
Monday’s game As for Mingo-Young,
against South Carolina she matched a ca-
backed up this approach reer-high 14 points on 6
— albeit in defeat — as of 10 shooting while also
the Bulldogs received notching three rebounds
major contributions from and two steals in a chal-
freshman guards Aliyah lenging defensive match-
Matharu and JaMya up against standout
Mingo-Young in limited South Carolina guard
minutes. Tyasha Harris.
Combining for 24 of “I think I handled
MSU’s 36 bench points it well, playing against
in 27 minutes of ac- somebody like her,” Min-
Following his junior with law enforcement.
season, Wilson went un- Wilson was arrested on
selected in the 2016 NFL drug charges in Andalu-
Draft. He did receive a sia, Alabama along with
workout with the Chica- three others in March
go Bears, but didn’t make 2015. He was released on
the team. $2,500 bail at the time.
After fizzling out in Wilson was also arrest-
the NFL, Wilson spent ed in August of 2016 when
a brief time in the Arena a patrolman found a bag
Football League with the of marijuana in the back
Albany Empire. seat near his foot. Follow-
Off the field, the for- ing the incident he was
mer MSU standout had charged with attempting
previously run into issues to destroy evidence when
the freshman to play his natural position at the two.
As for Stewart, the 6 -foot-6 Grace native is capa-
ble of scoring, but is relied on more at the defensive
end. Stewart averages 8.1 points per game, but was
held scoreless against Missouri and scored just two
points against Georgia Saturday. Yet, he was tasked
with guarding Georgia freshman phenom Anthony
Edwards and held him to 5 of 16 shooting.
“I’ve been enjoying it,” Stewart said of his starting
role. “I’m just taking it all in. It’s a little different for
me coming off the bench (versus) me starting. With
Rolex this weekend. His
Vasser Sullivan entry
is in the GT Daytona
class, where Busch will
be mired in traffic with
slower cars and inexpe-
rienced drivers with the
faster classes closing in
on him. It will be chaot-
ic.
“Cody Ware says he
can’t drive and watch
his mirrors?” Busch said
referring to the lapped-
car flap in September.
“Watch this.”
Busch then flipped
his middle finger.
Although Busch ran
into the lapped car of
Garrett Smithley at Las
Vegas, he was targeting
Ware, who wasn’t in that
playoff race. The entire
flap led to a heated dis-
cussion about on-track
etiquette, talent discrep-
ancies and drivers who
purchase their seats in
the big leagues. Ware
was scheduled to com-
pete in the Rolex 24 this
weekend but his team
pulled out late Monday.
In the Nov. 17 sea-
son finale, Busch beat
Gibbs teammates Ham-
lin and Martin Truex
Jr., as well as Kevin Har-
vick, to join Johnson as
the only active drivers
with multiple titles. Of
course, Johnson is tied
with Hall of Famers Pet-
ty and Earnhardt for the
record, but Johnson is
retiring at the end of the
year. Busch turns just
35 and has twice proven
he can rise through ad-
versity to finish the job
and doesn’t appear to be
going anywhere anytime
soon.
go-Young said Tuesday.
“I’ve got a lot of respect
for her and just not being
afraid of the moment and
just going out there and
seizing the opportunity
— that’s all I really want-
ed to do.”
This isn’t to say
MSU’s approach isn’t
without its faults. While
the Bulldogs boast a
deep supporting cast at
guard in Matharu, Min-
go-Young and sharp-
shooting junior Andra
Espinoza-Hunter, among
others, Schaefer’s bunch
remain thin in the front-
court.
With Cooks ineligible
this season due to NCA A
transfer rules, MSU has
leaned heavily on soph-
omore Jessika Carter to
eat minutes at center.
Through 19 appearanc-
es, Carter has averaged
28.7 minutes per game
— a nearly three-fold
uptick from her 10.8
minutes per night last
season.
he allegedly tried to swal-
low a Xanax pill at the Ok-
tibbeha County Jail, but
it fell on the floor accord-
ing to an affidavit. The
charges were ultimately
dropped.
Following the news
Tuesday, a number of
former teammates and
coaches voiced their sad-
ness over Wilson’s pass-
ing via social media.
Tim Brewster, MSU’s
wide receivers coach
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
He won his 2015
championship in a sea-
son where he missed 11
races because he broke
both his legs in a crash
the day before the Dayto-
na 500. His 2019 season
had its share of personal
struggles as Busch and
his wife, Samantha, have
been very public in their
battles with infertility.
Their only child, son
Brexton, was conceived
through IVF treatments
and their quest to give
him a sister suffered a
heartbreaking setback
when Samantha miscar-
ried the day of the 2018
awards ceremony in Las
Vegas. The couple tried
unsuccessfully again
during last season, and
Busch used a portion
of his championship
speech to address their
struggles.
“I’m right here with
you knowing how hard
its been to go through
multiple, yes multiple,
failed attempts of IVF
this year, to walk around
and try to face people
week to week, always
knowing in the back of
my mind how helpless I
feel in life knowing how
much I wanted to answer
your prayers in giving
you the gift of our baby
girl,” Busch told her.
Busch is typically able
to separate his personal
and professional lives,
but when things aren’t
going well in either area,
his temper can be short
and his sarcasm biting.
“Think about his
whole life. He’s got Sam
and Brexton, but other
than that, it’s racing,”
Behind Carter, Schae-
fer has been critical of
the play of Morris and
sophomore Promise Tay-
lor in relief — going as
far to say they were “lag-
ging behind” ahead of
SEC play.
Prepared or not, the
pair was forced into stop-
gap duty after Carter
picked up her second
foul with 1:09 remaining
in the first quarter. In a
mixed result, Morris and
Taylor combined for four
points and five rebounds
in 10 minutes played.
“I’d like to think
Promise and Yemiyah
had a little bit to do with
us staying in it but those
two, we’ve just got to
develop them better,”
Schaefer said. “We’ve
just got to get more out
of those two because
when Jessika went out,
(South Carolina) really
went to work on us.”
While MSU has now
equated its total losses
from last season’s Elite
during the 2012 season
and currently the assis-
tant head coach/tight
ends coach at North Caro-
lina, tweeted: “Absolutely
crushed to hear that (Wil-
son)has passed. Loved
him so much. Prayers
and (love) to whole fam-
ily in Birmingham. RIP
Bear.”
Former MSU quarter-
back Damian Williams
also voiced his sadness
via Twitter, writing,
me, I’m going to do whatever I can and help the team
win.”
Howland said after the Georgia victory he plans to
keep Stewart in the starting lineup moving forward.
Bulldogs in the rankings
Entering Wednesday’s matchup, MSU sits at 57th
nationally in the NET rankings, while KenPom.
com has the Bulldogs as the 42nd-ranked team in
the country. Meanwhile, Arkansas is 32 in the NET
rankings and 31st on KenPom.com.
3B
said Joe Gibbs. “And
when something goes
bad in racing for him,
think about how import-
ant that is, and it upsets
him. Normally, the next
day he’s a lot better.”
Busch has a legion of
fan support from “Row-
dy Nation,” the group he
bows to with the check-
ered flag after every vic-
tory. Busch appreciates
their backing beyond
words, especially when
he gets exhausted by
the politics of a new NA-
SCAR rules package and
the grind of the 38-race
schedule. Busch has
other things to worry
about, too: He owns the
best truck team in the
sport, and this year he
will launch “Rowdy En-
ergy” an energy drink
Busch says he helped
develop.
“Mine’s going to be
better, better for you and
better tasting,” Busch
insisted.
Busch has not been
this outwardly happy in
ages. Perhaps it comes
with being the champion
again, and the absolute
belief that he can be the
best NASCAR has ever
seen.
The Daytona 500 is
right around the cor-
ner, and a poor showing
there could just as quick-
ly send Busch scowling
through the garage. He
is always just one win
away from feeling invin-
cible.
Eight team, the Bulldogs
should be favored in ev-
ery regular season game
the rest of the season —
starting with Thursday’s
road trip to Vanderbilt
and Sunday’s home mati-
nee against in-state rival
Ole Miss. And though
Schaefer’s rotation con-
tinues to be a work in
progress, MSU’s show-
ing against South Caro-
lina proves the Bulldogs’
Final Four aspirations
should remain possi-
ble in 2020 with a touch
more consistency.
“This is a good, young
group,” Schaefer said
following MSU’s loss to
West Virginia Dec. 8. “I
love them and we’ll be
better — we’re going
to be ok. I know people
around here think the
sky is falling because
we lost a nonconference
game today, but it hap-
pens.”
“Sad day, rest in peace
(De’Runnya).”
Florida coach Dan
Mullen — who served
as Wilson’s head coach
at MSU — could not be
reached for comment by
The Dispatch as he is out
of the country per a UF
Athletics spokesperson.
Anyone with informa-
tion regarding the crime
are asked to contact the
Birmingham Police De-
partment at 205-254-1764.
4B Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Williams, Mays help LSU hold on against Florida
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE,
La. — L SU guard Sky-
lar Mays could afford to
have a sense of humor
after the Tigers nearly
blew a 10 -point lead in
the final 1:11 against
Florida, but escaped
with yet another narrow
victory.
“We’ve got to keep it
close,” Mays said with
a relieved smile. “It’s
worked for us, so why
not stick with it.”
Emmitt Williams
scored 19 points, Mays
capped an 18 -point per-
formance with two cru-
cial free throws in the fi-
nal 10 seconds, and L SU
remained unbeaten in
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SEC play with an 84-82 Luckily we were able to
victory over the Gators pull this one out.”
on Tuesday night. Javonte Smart scored
Keyontae Johnson 13 points and freshman
had 16 points for Florida Trendon Watford punc-
and briefly believed he’d tuated his 14-point night
forced overtime with a with a two-handed dunk
layup on a backdoor cut on a baseline cut to give
as time expired. But of- L SU (14-4, 6 -0) a 79 -
ficials determined on 69 lead with 1:20 to go.
video review that the Marlon Taylor had 10
half-second on the clock points and 11 rebounds
when the ball was put in for the Tigers, who’ve
play ran out before the won five straight by four
ball left Johnson’s hand. or fewer points.
“I’ve seen crazier Noah Locke scored 16
things happen in my points for Florida (12-6,
time here, but that was 4-2), which created a
just a great game,” Mays tense finish by scoring
continued, applaud- 13 points in the final
ing the Gators’ effort. 1:11 on Andrew Nem-
“Credit to them. They’re bhard’s layup, Locke’s 3,
a quality team. They’re two more 3s by Johnson
resilient, just like us. and a layup by Kerry
FAMILY CIRCUS
Blackshear.
“We probably shot
the ball more confident-
ly late, more than the
first 35 minutes, unfor-
tunately,” Florida coach
Michael White said.
“We could have just
packed it in out there,
but our guys fought to
the bitter end.”
Nembhard and Balck-
shear each finished with
15 points.
L SU led for the fi-
nal 14:08 and appeared
primed to pull away
when Mays hit a 3 with
4:02 remaining. He fol-
lowed that with a steal
from Nembhard and
Days pushed the Ti-
gers’ lead to 73-62 when
snagged the long re-
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
I just found
out my
husband of 18
years has been
going to “hook-
up” websites. He
says he was just
looking at the
pictures, but I
don’t believe him.
I have caught him
cheating twice in
the past, so it’s
hard to trust him.
My problem is,
he knows I can’t
leave him because Dear Abby
I have no job, no
skills, no money — nothing.
I went right from my parents’
house to living with him after
our wedding. We have six kids
and one on the way. He will con- divorced for 30 years. During
tinue to go to these websites
because he knows I am stuck.
What should I do? — SOON-TO-
BE MOTHER OF SEVEN
DEAR SOON-TO-BE MOTHER
OF SEVEN: The first thing you
should do is see your doctor
and be checked for STDs. If you
are well, thank your higher pow-
er. If you aren’t, get treatment,
get well and talk to a lawyer.
Your situation may not be as
hopeless as you think.
Have you any relatives or
friends you can stay with when
you leave, change your life
and become self-supporting?
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan.
22). Kurt Vonnegut said, “Ev-
erything is nothing with a twist.”
You savored many wins last
year, but there were also losses
that you’re still deciding how
to handle. You’re so close to
turning them into loads of good
fortune that all you need is said
“twist.” The year brings brilliant
creativity and personal achieve-
ment. Sagittarius and Capricorn
adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 8, 50, 33, 21 and 18.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
There are times to push your-
self, give yourself tough-love
talks and do the heavy lifting it
takes to be an emotional power-
lifter. Not today. You’ll go much
further with gentle compassion
bound from his missed
3 and drove past scram-
bling defenders for a
layup.
L SU coach Will Wade
responded by calling
a 30 -second timeout
to rest his defense and
stomped onto the court
triumphantly, pumping
both fists and hollering
approvingly at his play-
ers.
Little could Wade
know how close the Ga-
tors would make it after
that.
“We’ve been really
good coming from be-
hind in these situations.
Now we’ve got to be a
little better — make
some better decisions
— playing from ahead,”
It may require
job training and
time, but please
consider it.
I doubt your
husband will have
much time for
philandering if
he has six kids
to take care of
by himself in ad-
dition to his job.
I also doubt that
few, if any, wom-
en he might be
hooking up with
would welcome
becoming the
instant mother of
six. And one more
thing, from now on, please use
birth control.
DEAR ABBY: I have been
this time, my ex-wife has rarely
spoken to me, and in the last
10 years said not one word to
me. There have been many oc-
casions and events at my son’s
home to celebrate my grand-
daughter’s birthday, etc. My ex
and many other people attend,
but basically, no one speaks to
me. I am totally ignored.
I have a strong hunch that
during the divorce my ex told
people I hit or abused her. (Not
true!) She told my sister some-
thing to this effect. I believe it
was a ploy to distract from the
fact she had been cheating on
me. Regardless, this situation
and encouragement.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). Today’s life path is like a
17th-century stagecoach route,
and you’re being jostled ac-
cordingly. Try and relax into the
bumpy rhythm knowing that this
mode is what’s available now;
it’s as good as any; and you’ll
arrive soon enough.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
It sounds like a platitude, a
mediocre Pinterest infographic
that gets shared in moments
of halfhearted solidarity. But
what if it also happens to be
just plain true? You really do
deserve more.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
People don’t automatically
deserve to get all of you. There
Wade said. “That was
my fault.”
Florida briefly led by
as many as eight points
in the first half when
Scottie Lewis’ transition
3 capped a 12-6 surge
and made it 25 -17.
L SU responded by
pressing defensive-
ly and scored nine
straight, highlighted by
sequence in which Tay-
lor followed his 3 with
a steal and fast-break
dunk to put the Tigers
in front 26 -25.
The game remained
tight for the remainder
of the half, with Flori-
da taking a 36 -34 lead
into the break on Lewis’
jumper with 2 seconds
on the clock.
is extremely hurtful and un-
pleasant. Any ideas how to deal
with this? — OSTRACIZED AND
PARALYZED
DEAR O. & P.: Have you tried
to initiate a conversation? Have
you asked these people why
they give you the silent treat-
ment? They’re fair questions.
After 30 years, it is a little
late to correct the mindset
your ex may have caused these
relatives to have about you.
But if at this late date you try
to spread the word that she
was cheating, it will accomplish
nothing positive, and I don’t
advise it.
P.S. If the silence continues,
then I recommend you bring
someone — a friend or a date
— with you to these gatherings.
At least you will have someone
to talk to.
DEAR ABBY: I have an
acquaintance I see occasion-
ally. He recently told me he is
getting married. When I congrat-
ulated him, I wanted to ask who
the lucky groom is because I
have often thought he was gay,
but I found out he’s marrying a
woman. What’s the appropriate
way to ask this question nowa-
days since all of us can marry,
I am happy to say. — PONDER-
ING IN NEVADA
DEAR PONDERING: A subtle
way to ask that question would
be, “Congratulations! What’s
your lucky fiance’s (-ee’s)
name?”
are parts of your personality
that you put on hold when you’re
around people who don’t react
well to them. This is self-protec-
tion and completely within your
right.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The
burning question: Whatever
gave you the idea that your life
should be anything other than
how it is? The faster you can
stamp “WRONG” on that, the
more empowered, creative and
capable of change you will be.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Too bad what you really want to
say is not appropriate and will
not go over well. The good thing
is you have self-control on your
side, and some equivalent to
a diary that locks, so put it all
there.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Relationships are like any other
endeavor. If you work them the
same way too many times, the
routines get dull. The good news
is any change, however small,
will inject freshness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Pick yourself up from
that midday shake-up and get
right back to the plan. If you
don’t have a plan, get back
to the dreaming, thinking and
believing, and then come up
with a plan.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). It is said that suspicion
haunts the guilty mind. But it
also haunts the mind that’s
really good at critical thinking
and compelled to understand
the truth of the situation.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). There’s this friction going
on between thinking and feeling.
Seems simpler to give the reins
over to one school or the other.
Alas, it won’t work. The mind
and heart must each hold a
strap or this thing won’t gallop.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Plan A probably won’t work,
but the alphabet has 25 more
letters, give or take, depending
on your preferred language. If
there’s anything to get better at
now, it’s switching to the next
plan without much fuss.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). You have no intention of
talking about things that other
people don’t understand, and
yet it will happen unless you
keep checking in to be sure that
the last thing computed.
Sweet talk
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How can you make healthy food resolutions really stick?

Experts: The key to lasting change is setting Researchers have found
“that we are notoriously bad at
goals that are small enough we won’t scrap estimating how many calories
we’re taking in,” Azarbad says.
them by Valentine’s Day “We tend to underestimate
what we’re eating, because we
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F
or many of us, January
is all about giving things
up: Maybe we’re going to
stop eating meat and embrace
a plant-based diet. Or we’re
ready to kick excess sugar to
the curb after a holiday season
awash in sweets. Or we’re com-
mitted to avoiding fast food.
Starting the year with
noble goals for eating well is
a modern rite of passage. But
it’s just as common to ditch
those grand plans within a few
weeks.
This year, how can we do
it right? If we’re pledging to
make better food choices,
which strategies can help us
stick with them?
Start small
The consensus among ex-
perts is clear: It’s tempting to
begin with dramatic gestures,
but the key to lasting change
is setting goals that are small
enough we won’t scrap them by
Valentine’s Day.
Manageable, measurable
goals can create long-term
change, says Leila Azarbad,
associate professor of psychol-
ogy at North Central College
in Naperville, Illinois. When
people set lofty goals, they can
get discouraged after a couple
weeks.
“Our self-efficacy, that belief
in our own ability, tanks,’’ she
says. “And that’s a huge predic-
change, you’re going to discon-
tinue trying.”
Picture this, says Dana
White, a sports dietitian and
clinical associate professor at
Quinnipiac University: You
want to lose 20 pounds and you
know that every afternoon you
visit the office vending ma-
chine for a snack to boost your
energy. So, begin packing a
healthy afternoon snack — not
something punitive, but some-
thing healthier that you’ll enjoy
— and have that instead of a
vending machine candy bar.
It’s a measurable, specific
change that won’t be unpleas-
ant. And if it eliminates 200
calories, that shift will make
a difference over the coming
weeks and months. Once that
new behavior is in place, you
can add another small but
meaningful change.
The same thinking works
if you’re eliminating animal
products: Rather than going
cold turkey (cold tofu?), begin
by replacing one dinner per
week with a vegetarian meal.
Plan it for a night when you
won’t be rushed and can make
an appealing recipe, or budget
for going out once a week to a
vegetarian restaurant.
Then track that change for
three weeks, says Anna Baker,
assistant professor of psychol-
ogy at Bucknell University,
who researches the connection
between behavioral factors
This Jan. 17 image shows a display of guacamole and chips and
blueberries in Allison Park, Pa. To eat healthier in the new year, try
making small and measurable changes, like bringing a healthy and
appealing snack to work.
such as self-management and
health outcomes.
“You hear that it takes 21
days to create habit. There’s
debate about whether it’s 21
exactly, but you need a certain
amount of time of continuing
to do something before it
becomes a habit,” Baker says.
“Once you do kind of get used
to that change and you’re doing
it regularly, then you can add in
another thing.”
If you make that one good
shift for three weeks, congrat-
ulate yourself. Then maintain
that behavior and add another
small change, like drinking
more water.
It’s tempting to try making a
half-dozen changes all at once,
White says. But by focusing on
individual, small, unhealthy be-
haviors and “really identifying
what the triggers are that lead
to those behaviors,” she says,
people “can have a tremendous
Ted Anthony via AP
amount of success without
torturing themselves.”
Be patient
If your goal is to lose 20
pounds, for example, it really
will take four or five months
— and it should, says Alex
Montoye, assistant professor of
clinical exercise physiology at
Alma College in Alma, Michi-
gan.
Losing a pound a week is
“really the maximum sustain-
able weight loss,” Montoye
says. Much as it surprises peo-
ple, “2 pounds a week is pretty
extreme.”
So aim to lose 5 pounds over
the next six weeks through
small behavioral shifts, and
measure your behavior along
the way. Apps and fitness
trackers can help, as can a
notebook where you list what
you’ve eaten.
times and those are calories.
Or we walk past our colleague’s
desk and they had a jar of
M&M’s and we took a few, but
those add up. That can be the
difference between you losing
a pound a week and you not.”
Don’t be too hard on yourself
Accept that mistakes are a
normal part of building a new
habit. If you know an event is
coming up where you’ll want to
divert from your eating goals,
accept that you may slip a bit
then.
Aim for “consistency, not
perfection,” says Baker. “You
have to plan in advance that
you’re going to screw up. We’re
not perfect.”
Enlist friends
Lastly, “tell everybody you
know that you’re doing this be-
cause social support is huge,”
Azarbad says.
“If you’re going out to eat
and they know you’re trying to
change your diet, they can help
choose a restaurant that will
accommodate you,” she says.
And the need to save face
may keep you on track.
“Once you put it out there
on social media and you tell
everybody that ‘I’m going to
do this. I’m going to lose 10
pounds by spring break,’’’ you
feel that people are watching,
Azarbad says. “We don’t want
other people to see us fail.”

Super Bowl
Continued from Page 5B
I suppose I’m sur-
prised to see the cocktail
weenie take the No. 1
spot in more states than
any other likely game
day food. The lil’ smok-
ies beat out baked hot
wings, barbecue wings,
sliders and baked na-
chos, and not just in Mis-
sissippi. Cheap and easy
cocktail weenies were
the most popular Super
Bowl food search in 10
other states — Colorado,
Connecticut, Indiana,
Michigan, Minnesota,
Nebraska, North Dakota,
Tennessee, Virginia and
Wisconsin. Who knew?
In honor of the dis-
tinction, two cocktail
weenie recipes with a
twist are included today
— pineapple smokies in
a tangy-sweet sauce, and
orange-glazed smokies.
In case you were won-
dering: Overall, a variety
of dips topped searches
in several states. Of
those, seven-layer dip
reigned supreme. Buffalo
chicken dip ran a close
second. Other foods that
topped various state
searches included pigs in
a blanket, party pin-
wheels, blue cheese dip,
buffalo chicken dip and
garlic Parmesan wings.
More reveals
As part of the same
study, this past Dec. 20-
21, 1,224 Americans were
surveyed, 53 percent
male, 47 percent female,
average age 37. Results
revealed that Americans
will shell out an average
of $174 hosting Super
Bowl festivities, most of
that on food.
There is more than
one way to watch the
game, of course. Of peo-
ple surveyed, 15 percent
plan to host a party; 43
percent plan to watch at
home. Thirty-six percent
expect to go to a party,
and seven percent will
watch at a bar or restau-
rant. Thirty-nine percent
believe the halftime show
is too long. A quarter of
respondents said they
will only be watching the
game to see the commer-
cials.
If you’ve ever thought
Super Bowl Sunday
should become Super
Bowl Saturday, you’re
not alone. It’s been on
Sundays since Super
Bowl I was played Jan.
15, 1967. But, 43 percent
of respondents were
in favor of changing to
Saturday. The extra day
of rest might allow for
super fans to recover, the
study shared, or prevent
fans from having to call
in sick for work the next
day — which 19 percent
admitted to doing.
PINEAPPLE SMOKIES
Prep/total time: 15 minutes
Makes about 8 dozen
1 cup packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose
flour
2 teaspoons ground mustard
1 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup white vinegar
1-1/2 teaspoons reduced-so-
dium soy sauce
2 pounds miniature smoked
sausages
n In a large saucepan,
combine the sugar, flour and
mustard. Gradually stir in the
pineapple juice, vinegar and
soy sauce. Bring to a boil
over medium heat; cook and
stir until thickened, about 2
minutes. Add sausages; stir
to coat. Cook, uncovered,
until heated through, about 5
minutes longer. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts: 1 sausage: 40
calories, 3g fat (1g saturated
fat), 6mg cholesterol, 100mg
sodium, 3g carbohydrate (3g
sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.
(Source: tasteofhome.com)
ORANGE-GLAZED
SMOKIES
Prep/total time: 15 minutes
Makes about 4 dozen
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1/4 cup thawed orange juice
concentrate
2 tablespoons prepared
mustard
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 package (16 ounces) minia-
ture smoked sausages
n In a large microwave-safe
bowl, combine the first five
ingredients. Add sausages;
stir to coat.
n Cover and microwave on
high for 3-4 minutes or until
bubbly, stirring three times.
(Editor’s note: This recipe
was tested in a 1,100-watt
microwave.)
Nutrition Facts: 5 piece: 236
calories, 12g fat (4g saturated
fat), 29mg cholesterol, 506mg
sodium, 26g carbohydrate
(25g sugars, 0 fiber), 6g
protein
(Source: tasteofhome.com)
SEVEN-LAYER
MEXICAN DIP
Serves 8
16-ounce can refried beans
2 cups sour cream n Spread beans in the bottom
1-1/4 ounce package taco of a 10-inch round or square
seasoning mix clear glass dish; set aside.
2 avocados, pitted, peeled n Combine sour cream and
and mashed seasoning mix; spread over
2 teaspoons lemon juice beans.
3 cloves garlic, minced n Mix avocados, lemon juice
2 cups shredded cheddar and garlic; layer over sour cream
cheese mixture. Sprinkle with cheese;
4 green onions, diced top with onions, olives and
1/4 cup black olives, sliced tomato. Serve with tortilla chips.
1 tomato, diced (Source: myrecipes.com/Goose-
Tortilla chips berry Patch)
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Pasta
Continued from Page 5B
1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground
black pepper
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup grated Parmesan
cheese
3 cups baby spinach leaves
1 cup halved cherry toma-
toes, for garnish
n Place removable pan inside
programmable pressure cook-
er. Using sauté function, cook
bacon, uncovered, until crisp.
Use slotted spoon to remove
bacon from pan. Drain bacon
on paper towels. Leave 1
tablespoon drippings in pan;
discard remaining.
n Add chicken to bacon drip-
pings in pan in two batches.
Using sauté function, stir-fry
chicken 2-3 minutes, or until
cooked through. Use slotted
spoon to remove chicken from
pan. Repeat until all chicken
Bowtie pasta and skinless chicken breasts blend with a
flavorful cast for this dish boasting a garlic cream sauce.
is cooked. Press cancel.
n Stir pasta, broth, gar-
lic, Italian seasoning and
familyfeatures.com
pepper into drippings in pan.
Secure lid and set pressure
release to sealing function.
Select high pressure setting
and cook 5 minutes. Press
cancel.
n Allow pressure to release
naturally 5 minutes. Move
pressure release to venting
function to release any re-
maining steam. Remove lid.
n Stir cream into pasta
mixture. Using sauté function,
cook and stir, uncovered,
until boiling. Boil, uncovered,
about 4 minutes, or until
sauce generously coats pas-
ta, stirring frequently. Press
cancel. Stir in chicken and
Parmesan cheese.
n Place spinach and bacon
in large bowl. Pour pasta
mixture over top. Toss until
combined. Ladle into serving
bowls. Top each serving with
tomatoes.
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Hummus
Continued from Page 5B
cut-side down on pan; drizzle
with 1 teaspoon olive oil. Bake
20-30 minutes, or until garlic
is soft. Once cool, squeeze
garlic from each clove.
n In large skillet over medi-
um-high heat, cook onion in 1
tablespoon olive oil. Stir onion
frequently until slices begin to
brown. Reduce heat to low and
continue cooking until onions
are soft and reach medium
brown color.
n Rinse and drain chickpeas;
reserve 3 tablespoons liquid.
n In food processor, blend
chickpeas, reserved liquid,
lemon juice, tahini, garlic, salt,
remaining olive oil and onions
until combined and smooth.
Serve with pita bread, veggies
or crackers.
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