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New Hope resident Jimmy Cook adjusts an inflatable Santa decoration at his home at the intersection of Ben Christo-pher Road and Fondren Drive Tuesday night. Every year Cook and his family decorate his yard with hundreds of lights and dozens of inflatables and other decorations, even opening the yard for two nights for visitors to walk through.
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In her spirited address at the dedi-cation ceremony honoring Esther Har-rison, state Rep. Omeria Scott recited a long list of honors the late Columbus legislator had received over the years, everything from state government and civil rights to her alma maters, Alcorn State and Mississippi University for Women, and her church.“These accolades were not empty trib-utes,” Scott told thecrowd of about 80 people who gathered Wednesday at the Mu-nicipal Complex in Co-lumbus for the unveiling of a road sign that willdesignate the portion of Highway 182 between Martin Luther King Drive and Lehmberg Road as the Esther M. Harrison Memorial Highway. “In each and every one of these groups, Esther Harrison earned those honors. She was a worker. That’s what she did.”Harrison represented Lowndes County and the city of Columbus as
Portion of highway dedicated to Esther Harrison
Late legislator memorialized with piece of Highway 182 between MLK and Lehmberg Road
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Family mem-bers of the late Esther Harrison — her daughter Aubra Givens and grandson, Alexander, and Aubra’s husband Andrew, left, — unveil a highway marker that will be erected on Highway 182 between Martin Luther King Drive and Lehmberg Road in Colum-bus as “Esther M. Harrison Me-morial Highway.”
A Christmas tradition in New Hope
BY ISABELLE ALTMAN
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Jimmy Cook was standing in the check-out line in Walmart a few days ago when a woman he didn’t know approached him to ask him when he was going to put his Christmas lights up.It’s not an uncommon question for Cook to receive, from friends, family, ac-quaintances or even strangers. Cook and his family have become somewhat famous around Lowndes County thanks to their Christmas decorations — a display in- volving hundreds of lights and dozens of inflatable figures and buildings, taking up at least two yards and lighting up the intersection of Ben Christopher Road and Fondren Drive in New Hope.
Visitors can walk through family’s large light display during ‘open yard’ event this weekend
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“The North Pole” at 32 Fondren Dr. features decorative igloos, polar bears, penguins and more than one inflatable Santa Claus. Home-owner Jimmy Cook and his family decorate his yard for Christmas every year and open it to the public for two nights.
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BY JEFF AMY AND EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
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JACKSON — A northern Missis-sippi sheriff was arrested Wednes-day on a dozen felony charges involving guns, drugs, sex with inmates and threatening sheriff’s department employees if they told anyone about the crimes. Webster County Sheriff Timothy Seth Mitchell was arrested Wednes-day morning at his home in Eupora, said District Attorney Doug Evans, and jailed in Lafayette County await-ing a Thursday court appearance in Eupora. Evans said he knew of no attorney representing the 53-year-old. The second-term sheriff is charged with two counts each of embezzlement, trafficking in stolen firearms and furnishing an inmate with weapons, a cellphone and nar-cotics. Mitchell is also charged with one count each of attempting sex with an inmate; tampering with ev-idence and permitting possession or sale of a controlled substance in ail; and three counts of retaliation against a witness. A sworn statement from Missis-sippi Bureau of Investigation agent Mark Steed accuses Mitchell of mul-tiple crimes beginning in November 2017, when he’s accused of illegally buying pills from an informant.Beginning this spring, Mitchell is accused of seeking sex with two women in his jail. He’s also accused of ordering a deputy to remove four guns from his department’s evidence locker and selling or giv-ing at least some to a department employee and an inmate. Mitchell also provided that same inmate with illegal drugs and a cellphone, Steed says, while ordering the deputy to remove illegal drugs from evidence.
Webster sheriff arrested on a dozen felony charges
Sheriff’s charges involve guns, drugs, sex with inmates and threatening sheriff’s department employees
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Columbus barber Bobby Jordan. Jordan’s Barber Shop is celebrating 50 years of business.
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Trump pulling all US troops from Syria, declaring IS defeat
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASH-INGTON — Presi-dent Donald Trump is pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, of-ficials announced Wednes-day as the president sud-denly declared victory over the Islamic State, con-tradicting his own experts’ assessments and sparking surprise and outrage from his party’s lawmakers who called his action rash and dangerous. The U.S. began air-strikes in Syria in 2014, and ground troops moved in the following year to battle the Islamic State, or ISIS, and train Syrian rebels in a country torn apart by civil war. Trump abruptly declared their mission accomplished in a tweet.“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” he said as Vice President Mike Pence met with top leaders at the Pentagon. U.S. officials said many details of the troop with-drawal had not yet been finalized, but they expect American forces to be out by mid-January.Later Wednesday, Trump posted a video on Twitter in which he said is “heartbreaking” to have to write letters and make calls to the loved ones of those killed in battle. “Now it’s time for our troops to come back home,” he said. A senior administration official, speaking to report-ers on condition of ano-nymity, said Trump made the decision based on his belief that U.S. troops have no role in Syria beyond combatting Islamic State, whose fighters are now be-lieved to hold about 1 per-cent of the territory they did at the peak of their power. The president informed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of his de-cision in a telephone call, the official said. Turkey has recently warned that it would launch combat oper -ations across its southern border into northeastern Syria against Kurdish forc-es who have been allied with the U.S. in the fight against the Islamic State.
BY JESSE J. HOLLAND
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A rare bipar-tisan deal in Congress to overhaul federal sentencing laws passed af-ter a few black ministers, leaders and lawmakers forged an alliance with President Donald Trump, who some have condemned as racist for the last two years. The reforms could offer a path to freedom for hundreds of black and Latino inmates who were sent to prison by a justice system that critics say has long been stacked against minorities.“It’s like threading a needle politically,” said Marc Morial, the National Urban League’s president and CEO. “It’s been very delicate to get us to the point where we are right now.”Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Belts- ville, Maryland, still gets questions from fellow African-Americans ask-ing him why he and other conser- vative black ministers went to the White House over the summer to talk about the issue with Trump.“People are still mad at us about that,” Jackson said.But the end result could be worth it to address what Jackson called “the defining civil rights is-sue of this era,” even as detractors complain that the legislation did not go far enough and could invite new problems for minority communi-ties. The bill, which is expected to go to Trump soon for his signature,gives judges more discretion when sentencing some drug offendersand expands prisoner rehabilita-tion efforts. It also reduces the life sentence for some drug offenders with three convictions, or “three strikes,” to 25 years. Another provision would allow about 2,600 federal prisoners sen-tenced for crack cocaine offensesbefore August 2010 the opportunity to petition for a reduced penalty. That will be a win for minorities who were caught up in a sentenc-ing system that made crack cocaine a more serious offense than other types of cocaine, said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a potential Dem-ocratic presidential candidate in2020.“When you correct an injusticein a biased system, it dramatically helps the marginalized people,”Booker said. “That provision alone, 96 percent of the people who arehelped by that, are black or Latino.”
Black leaders forged alliance with Trump on sentencing deal
‘When you correct an injustice in a biased system, it dramatically helps the marginalized people’
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s loyal supporters cried “Build the wall!” throughout his 2016 presidential cam-paign. Come 2020, they may well still be chant-ing for Trump to make good on his signature campaign promise as prospects dim for him to deliver on a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump appears likely to give up his last, best chance to secure money from Congress for the “beautiful” wall he’s long promised to construct, as he backs away from his threat to partially shut down the government on Friday. Now, with the Sen-ate having passed a tem-porary funding measure to keep the government open through Feb. 8, Trump’s mission will go from difficult to near-im-possible when Democrats take control of the House on Jan. 3. The unfulfilled pledge also threatens to hang over his re-election cam-paign, potentially de-pressing his base and dealing his political rivals a powerful talking point.“I thought if you’re go-ing to have a fight, now’s the time to have it,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of the president who warned that it’s only going to get more difficult to get the money when Democrats take over.“When you draw linesin the sand like this, it ends up haunting you inthe future,” the South Car-olina Republican warned.Rep. Mark Meadows,R-N.C., called on Trumpto veto the temporary funding bill, warningthat it would cause “ma- jor damage” to the presi-dent’s re-election effort.“The base will just gocrazy,” he said, referringto Trump’s most loyalbackers. Trump is hardly thefirst president to be con-fronted with the chal-lenges of passing a leg-islative priority throughCongress, but the lack of progress on an issue soclosely identified with hisbid for the White Housemay prove to be a costly failure. He had promisedto begin working on an“impenetrable physical wall” along the southernborder on his first day inoffice, but little headway has been made. A Marchfunding bill includedmoney for 33 miles of bar-rier construction in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley,but work there has yet to begin. Other work hasmerely replaced existingbarriers that had beendeemed “ineffective,” not added miles.
Trump on verge of giving up best chance to secure wall money
BY JULIET LINDERMAN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Trump administra-tion is setting out to do what this year’s farm bill didn’t: tighten work re-quirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thurs-day is proposing a rule that would restrict the ability of states to exempt work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment to receive food stamps. The move comes just weeks after lawmakers passed a $400 billion farm bill that reauthorized agri-culture and conservation programs while leaving the Supplemental Nutri-tion Assistance Program, which serves roughly 40 million Americans, virtu-ally untouched.Passage of the farm bill followed months of tense negotiations over House efforts to significantly tighten work require-ments and the Senate’s refusal to accept the pro- visions.Currently, able-bodied adults ages 18-49 without children are required to work 20 hours a week to maintain their SNAP ben-efits. The House bill would have raised the age of re-cipients subject to work requirements from 49 to 59 and required parents with children older than 6 to work or participate in job training. The House measure also sought to limit circumstances under which families that qual-ify for other poverty pro-grams can automatically be eligible for SNAP.None of those mea-sures made it into the fi-nal farm bill despite being endorsed by President Donald Trump. Now the administration is using regulatory rulemaking to try to scale back the SNAP program. Work-eligible able-bod-ied adults without de-pendents, known as ABAWDs, can currently receive only three months of SNAP benefits in a three-year period if they don’t meet the 20-hour work requirement. But states with an unemploy-ment rate of 10 percent or higher or a demonstrable lack of sufficient jobs can waive those limitations.States are also allowed to grant benefit exten-sions for 15 percent of their work-eligible adult population without a waiv-er. If a state doesn’t use its15 percent, it can bank the exemptions to distributelater, creating what Agri-culture Secretary Sonny Perdue referred to as a “stockpile.”
USDA moves to tighten restrictions on food stamps
Proposal would restrict the ability of states to exempt work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment to receive food stamps‘When you draw lines in the sand ... it ends up haunting you in the future’
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Oktibbeha improving chancery, justice court security
BY ALEX HOLLOWAY
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Oktibbeha County is looking to strengthen security at what’s been described as a “very dan-gerous” courthouse as it prepares to house two chancery judges for the first time in years.Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Brett Watson said he’s reviewed security at the county courthouse, at the intersection of Main Street and Douglas L. Connor Drive, which houses the chancery court, as well as the jus-tice court building on Fe-lix Long Street near the county Extension Service office.County supervisors this week approved up-grades at both buildings — with an estimated cost of $12,213 at the chancery courthouse and $14,115 at the justice courthouse — after Watson presented recommendations to bet-ter fortify the facilities. Watson said he didn’t want to publicly discuss some steps the sheriff’s office has considered. However, he proposed camera systems for both courthouses, as neither currently has cameras now. He said he’s working to get a system in place that will allow Lt. Robert Elmore to monitor the camera system from the sheriff’s office, chancery courthouse or circuit courthouse annex.“The circuit court is pretty secure and they have multiple levels you have to get through to get to the back offices,” Watson said. “These two courthouses, up until this point, have not had that.” Watson said a back stairwell at the chancery courthouse is a particular point of concern.“It’s traditionally al- ways been an open access and that access gives you the ability to get to the entire top floor, including back to where the judges’ offices are,” he said.Chancery Clerk Sharon Livingston said the open access to the courthouse has been concerning.“Our chancery court has really gotten very dan-gerous here lately,” Liv-ingston said. Watson’s recommen-dations included the ad-dition of two security doors to restrict access to the back hallway and the main courtroom and its judge chambers. At the justice court, Watson said the three judges have requested a security door to restrict access to their chamber. Watson also rec-ommended installing a glass barrier at the main desk to put a barrier be-tween the court clerks and the general public. Watson added he’s looking at modeling a se-curity response plan after the 10th and 14th circuit districts.“They actually have pretty serious plans as far as bailiff and courthouse response in place,” he said. “… I intend to have that plan in place by the time the (chancery) judg-es take residence here. Then we can schedule some drills and things to implement that plan as we need after that.”Chancery District 14, Place 3 judge-elect Pau-la Drungole-Ellis, who approached supervisors about security concerns at the Dec. 3 meeting and attended the board’s meeting again on Mon-day, told The Dispatch she is pleased to see the coun-ty taking steps to make the chancery court more secure. She said the new chancellors, including District 14, Place 1 judge-elect Rodney Faver, have discussed courthouse se-curity as a concern among themselves.“Judge Faver had the opportunity to do a walk-through last week,” she said. “He and I got togeth-er and discussed the secu-rity proposals, and both of us are very pleased with the progress that’s being made.” Watson said that chan-cery court, which han-dles a range of emotional-ly charged issues such as family court matters, can add increased strain on security. “When you go to jus-tice court (which mostly hears misdemeanors), you’re likely going to pay a fine,” Watson said.“When you go to circuit court (civil and felony criminal), most of the time you already know there’s a chance you’regoing to prison and it’s already in your mind. But when you walk into a chancery court, you don’t know if your kids are get-ting taken away, or any of that stuff happening right there during the day. This courthouse, to me, is a primary concern and I want to make sure it’s secured properly.”
Supes agree to $26K combined in upgrades to buildings
Alex Holloway/Dispatch Staff
Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Brett Watson talks about the security at the Oktibbeha County Courthouse and Oktibbeha County Justice Court on Monday. The county courthouse houses chancery court, and will soon house Chancery Judge-elect Paula Drungole Ellis, right, and Rodney Faver.
BY JEFF AMY
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Anoth-er unplanned outage at Mississippi’s Grand Gulf nuclear power plant is add-ing to regulators’ concerns over reliability problems at the largest single-unit nuclear power plant in the United States. The move is also heightening scrutiny over whether problems at Entergy Corp.’s plant may be affecting power mar-kets.Operators took the southwest Mississippi plant offline last week, citing problems with a turbine bypass valve. Last Wednesday’s outage came to light Tuesday when the federal Nuclear Reg-ulatory Commission an-nounced a special inspec-tion.“The reactor was safely shut down but some equip-ment issues occurred that the agency wants to better understand,” the agency said in a statement.It’s at least the sixth unplanned decrease in output at the plant in the last 15 months, according to NRC documents. The plant has been running at reduced or zero power out-put for much of the time since 2016, according to an analysis published earlier this month by E&E News.“Over recent years, Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nu-clear Station reliability record has not met the company’s standards,” spokesman Mark Sullivan wrote in an email Tuesday. He said the company has invested $265 million and hired about 200 employees seeking to improve opera-tions.Grand Gulf took a nearly six-month outage in 2016 and 2017 aimed at improving performance because the plant didn’t, in the words of Chief Nu-clear Officer Chris Bak-ken, “meet our standards of excellence.” There was more self-scrutiny during a planned refueling outage this spring, with Entergy CEO Leo Denault promis-ing investors in April that “we expect the reliability with the plant and its ca-pability factor to improve going forward.”Sullivan, though, says improvement will take time. The plant’s troubles come as President Donald Trump continues to sup-port plans to subsidize nu-clear power generation for reliability purposes. Sulli- van said the plant had re-started Tuesday and NRC figures showed its output was up to 18 percent.Grand Gulf, which be-gan generation in 1985, is 90 percent owned by Entergy and 10 percent owned by Cooperative En-ergy, a Mississippi group that supplies power to member-owned coopera-tives.
nother outage at Mississippi nuclear plant raises concerns
Grand Gulf plant has been running at reduced or zero power output or much of the time since 2016
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