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One killed, two
injured in shooting
CARROLLTON (AP) - A
woman is dead and two oth
ers injured after a shooting
during an apparent robbery
attempt.
The shooting hap
pened Wednesday night at
Elizabeth Village mobile
home park.
Four men came to a home
and tried to rob the family
that was living there, wit
nesses said. The men opened
fire after a man who lived
there told them he did not
have any money. A woman
was shot and died at the
scene. The man was shot
along with a 9-year-old girl.
The man and girl were
taken to a hospital and were
expected to survive.
Police have not released
the names of the people
involved. No arrests have
been made.
Austell woman dies
in night house fire
AUSTELL (AP) - A woman
was killed in a house fire
that began in a bedroom.
The fire began Wednesday
night in the bedroom of
the 59-year-old woman.
Authorities did not immedi
ately release her name.
Two other adults and
four children in the house
escaped.
The fire was found when
the children smelled smoke
and opened the door to the
woman’s bedroom. That’s
when the smoke alarm
went off, officials said.
Firefighters say when they
arrived the smoke was smol
dering inside the bedroom.
The woman was in a hos
pital bed and had an oxygen
tank in the room, fire offi
cial said. They were trying
to determine whether she
was smoking at the time the
fire broke out.
An autopsy will be con
ducted on the woman’s
body.
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Woman arrested
for poisoning dogs
ATHENS (AP) - Police
have arrested a woman who
is accused of killing a neigh
bor’s dog with antifreeze
tainted food and causing
another dog to get sick.
Rosa Marie Daniel was
arrested Tuesday on animal
cruelty charges.
Daniel, 58, poisoned a
neighbor’s dogs by lacing
fish with antifreeze, police
said. The first dog, a spring
er spaniel named Allison,
died in January. A neigh
bor found the fish in the
dog owners’ back yard and a
University of Georgia chem
ist found it was contami
nated with antifreeze.
Neighbors suspected
Daniel might be involved in
the dog’s poisoning because
she made it known she
“hated” animals, yet kept
containers of food in her
yard, according to Athens-
Clarke police Detective
Rebecca Taft.
Taft said Daniel logged
about 45 complaints to
Athens-Clarke Animal
Control and police over the
past three years.
After the first dog died,
a neighbor took one of the
containers and gave it to
police. A chemist found it
contained fish that had been
tainted with antifreeze, Taft
said.
Officers were called to
the neighbor’s home Friday
after another dog, a mix
breed Labrador retriever
named Samson, became ill,
possibly after eating food in
Daniel’s yard, police said.
Police searched Daniel’s
house that afternoon and
seized containers of food
for a chemist to test. They
also seized two containers of
antifreeze, one from a stor
age shed and another from
a bathroom.
Daniel was booked into
Clarke County Jail on a felo
ny animal cruelty charge for
Allison’s death and a misde
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allegedly making the other
dog sick.
One in lour would
defy evacuation
ATLANTA (AP) - One
in four people in Southern
coastal states said they
would ignore government
hurricane evacuation orders,
according to a Harvard
University survey done ear
lier this month.
The most common rea
sons respondents gave for
not evacuating were confi
dence that their home is
well-built, belief that roads
would be too crowded and
concern that evacuating
would be dangerous.
“Public officials have to
realize a substantial group
of people are going to remain
and be very dependent on
rescue efforts after a storm
hits,” said Robert Blendon,
the Harvard health policy
professor who directed the
survey.
The telephone survey, of
2,029 people, was conducted
from July 5 to July 11.
All participants were 18 and
older and lived in counties
within 50 miles of the coast
line in the states of Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina and North
Carolina.
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Nearly 50 percent said
they had evacuated because
of a hurricane. “These are
people with a lot of experi
ence with storms,” Blendon
said.
When asked if they would
evacuate if government offi
cials said a major hurricane
was going to hit in the next
few days, 67 percent said
they would, 24 percent said
they would not and the rest
said they didn’t know or it
would depend on the cir
cumstances.
If it turned out they later
needed rescuing, 75 percent
of those who would or might
stay voiced confidence they
would be saved.
“I think the rescue thing
was a surprise,” especially
in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, Blendon said.
Katrina hit the Gulf
Coast on Aug. 29, devas
tating southern Mississippi
and flooding much of New
Orleans.
The storm killed more
than 1,500 people in one of
the largest natural disasters
in modern American his
tory.
It’s noteworthy that 25
percent of the evacuation
ignoring respondents would
not count on a rescue, said
Dr. Irwin Redlener, direc
tor of Columbia University’s
National Center for Disaster
Preparedness.
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MAE K WALTERS
WARNER ROBINS - Mae K. Walters, 101, passed away
Tuesday, July 18, at her home in Warner Robins after an
extended illness. She was bom in Milford, lowa and moved
to Warner Robins in 1992. She was best known by family
and friends as “Great”. She is preceded in death by her hus
band Ken Walters and son Jack Walters. Survivors include:
daughter Betty J. Herndon and husband Jack D. Herndon
of Warner Robins, grandchildren Crystal J. Flanders of
Byron Chip Herndon of Pensacola, Fla., Melody Stuckey
of Warner Robins, Karen Wagy of Byron, Lisa Bender of
Yakima, WA and Diane Gaudette of Yakima, Wash., six great
grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Service
will be at 3 p.m. today in the chapel of Heritage Memorial
Funeral Home with burial in Parkway Memorial Gardens.
Chaplain Thomas Qualls officiated.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be
made to the Heart of Georgia Hospice at 103 Westridge Dr.,
Warner Robins, GA 31088. The family will receive friends at
the home of Melody and Alan Stuckey at 1228 Candlewyck
Dr., Warner Robins. Heritage Memorial Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Perdue-Taylor race
expected to get dirty
By SHANNON McCAFFREY
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Democratic
nominee Mark Taylor enters
the general election cam
paign for governor as an
underdog with a packed to-do
list. Raise lots of money fast.
Unite his fractured party.
And figure out a way to cut
into Gov. Sonny Perdue’s
GOP support.
Political experts said that
if Georgians thought the pri
mary race between Taylor
and Secretary of State Cathy
Cox was mean they should
hold onto their hats.
“This race may set a record
for a new level of nastiness
in a Georgia campaign,”
University of Georgia politi
cal science professor Charles
Bullock said Wednesday.
Taylor will likely go on the
attack first if he hopes to
gain ground against Perdue
in the less than four months
left before the Nov. 7 general
election.
“I think it’s guaranteed
it’s going to be dirty,” Larry
Sabato, director of the Center
for Politics at the University
of Virginia, said. “Taylor
knows he cannot get elected
in a purely clean fight.”
“Perdue had better put his
armor on.”
But Merle Black, a political
scientist at Emory University,
warned that a bare-knuckles
offensive could backfire. But
Perdue has also demonstrat
ed that he won’t shy away
from a fight. One of the most
enduring images from his
2002 upset of Democratic
Gov. Roy Barnes is the “rat
video.” The video clip por
traying Barnes as “King
Roy” - a giant, marauding
rat - appeared only on the
Internet but generated wide
spread buzz.
In Perdue, Taylor faces
a GOP governor in a state
that has been tilting more
and more Republican and
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strong support for President
Bush. Recent polls show
Perdue with healthy approv
al ratings.
“The plurality of Georgians
think of themselves as
Republicans. So for Taylor
uniting the Democratic party
isn’t enough anymore,”
Bullock said.
Still, Perdue’s Republican
primary challenger, conser
vative Ray Mcßerry, had
almost no money and drew
more than 48,000 votes
Tuesday, or some 12 percent
of the vote. Mcßerry’s core
constituency are conserva
tives from Southern nation
alist groups who embraced
Perdue’s 2002 bid for office.
But many are upset that he
failed to follow through and
allow a vote on returning
the old Confederate battle
symbol to Georgia’s flag.
If the race is close that
could hurt Perdue.
ButPerduewillbenefitfrom
former Christian Coalition
leader Ralph Reed’s loss in
his Republican bid for lieu
tenant governor. Reed had
been dogged by questions
about his association with
convicted Washington lob
byist Jack Abramoff. Perdue
would have faced messy
questions about whether to
endorse Reed or steer clear
of his fellow Republican.
Taylor’s camp said
Wednesday that he was
reaching out to Cox sup
porters in an effort to unite
the party. He was also rais
ing money to replenish his
campaign warchest. Filings
made just before the July
18 primary showed Taylor
with sl.l million cash on
hand and Perdue with $9.1
million.
The Republican Party also
has millions of dollars in the
bank, a large part of which
will be spent on the race for
governor.
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