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Ross defendants
offered deals
SAVANNAH (MNS) - Two
of the three men indicted on
murder charges in the death
of a 19-year-old debutante
that spotlighted the racial
divide and crime in this
coastal city are being offered
plea agreements in exchange
for their testimony against
the alleged shooter, accord
ing to lawyers involved in
the case.
Kevin Huckabee, who
Savannah-Chatham
Metropolitan Police detec
tives say drove the get
away car after the Dec. 24
shooting of Jennifier Ross
off Orleans Square, was
arraigned Tuesday before
Superior Court Judge Penny
Haas Freesemann.
Huckabee pleaded not
guilty during the hearing to
charges that include malice
murder, aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon and
theft by receiving stolen
property.
Assistant District
Attorney Christy Barker
said Huckabee has until
Aug. 25 to accept the plea
offer, details of which were
not revealed in court.
A jury trial for all three
is tentatively scheduled for
early December.
Chief Assistant District
Attorney David Lock would
not comment on details of the
proposed deal. Huckabee’s
attorney, Public Defender
Michael Edwards, was trav
eling following Tuesday’s
hearing and could not be
reached for comment.
Attorney Richard Darden,
representing alleged gun
man Michael Thorpe, said
the plea offer has also been
extended to co-defendant
Webster Wilson.
Corbitt quits chair
in Ware County
WAYCROSS (MNS) -
Ware County Commission
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Chairman Carlton Corbitt
stunned his fellow com
missioners Tuesday with
an abrupt resignation
announcement.
Citing the loss of the
ability to do his duties as
chairman, Corbitt said he is
resigning effective Monday.
He leaves less than halfway
through his four-year term,
and a special election must
be held to replace him.
Corbitt said in a letter that
he was fulfilling a promise to
step aside should he no lon
ger be effective as chairman.
That time had come, he said.
Commissioners can operate
efficiently only if the “mem
bers are collegial and treat
their fellow members with
respect and deference,” he
said in the letter.
“We have lost those prin
ciples in Ware County.
I have been effectively
removed from the Board of
Commissioners and the pros
pects for ever again being
allowed to do my duty and to
meet my obligations to the
citizens are, in my view, slim
to none,” Corbitt wrote.
“It’s shocking,”
Commissioner Carlos Nelson
said. “Just came out of the
blue. I never thought he
would resign.”
Commissioner Joe
Cornelius said he learned of
the resignation while run
ning a tractor on his family
farm.
“I kind of didn’t know
what to think,” Cornelius
said.
The resignation ends a
long-running battle between
Corbitt and the other four
commissioners.
Mother sentenced
lor cutting son
McDonough (ap> - a
mother accused of cutting
off part of her son’s toungue
with hot scissors avoided a
5-year prison sentence and
was sentenced to 10 years
probation.
But before going on proba-
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Lagrange 95 73 t-storm
Macon 98 75 t-storm
Marietta 95 73 t-storm
Milledgeville 99 76 t-storm
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Los Angeles 80 65 pt sunny
Miami 87 79 t-storm
Minneapolis 91 70 sunny
New York 82 73 t-storm
STATE BRIEFS
tion, Samantha J. Davis, 33,
will serve 60 to 180 days in a
detention center.
Judge Wade Crumbley
also told Davis to complete
a 26-week parenting class, a
nonviolence class and have
only supervised visits with
her son. Henry County pros
ecutors had recommended
that Davis serve five years in
prison. But the boy’s father
testified Tuesday that he
did not want her to go to
prison.
“He told the judge she is a
good woman, and he doesn’t
feel his son is unsafe around
her,” Davis’ lawyer, Rickey
L. Richardson, said.
Davis heated a pair of scis
sors on a stove in August
2004 and held it to her 6-
year-old son’s neck before
cutting off a piece of his
tongue as punishment for
talking back, authorities
said. Her estranged hus
band, Toby Davis reported
the injuries to police and she
was arrested.
The child has been in his
father’s custody since then.
Davis pleaded guilty in June
to two child cruelty charges.
But the state’s case was
hampered when Toby Davis
filed court papers refusing to
cooperate with the prosecu
tion and asking that charges
be dropped. The boy also
signed an affidavit saying
he did not want his mother
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Perry 97 75 t-storm
Rome 96 73 t-storm
Savannah 96 75 t-storm
St. Simons Island 93 78 t-storm
Statesboro 100 78 t-storm
Thomasville 93 74 t-storm
Valdosta 91 74 t-storm
Warner Robins 98 76 t-storm
Waycross 96 73 t-storm
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San Francisco 72 57 pt sunny
Seattle 78 56 mst sunny
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prosecuted. Henry District
Attorney Tommy Floyd
said he did not know if the
father’s refusal affected the
sentence.
“The judge didn’t say,
‘This is why I’m doing what
I’m doing.’ I know the father
was very reluctant to pros
ecute and we feel he influ
enced the child,” Floyd said.
In the meantime,
Richardson said Samantha
Davis was relieved by the
sentence.
“She was hoping for
straight probation but at
least it isn’t the five years
in prison the state wanted,”
he said.
Pair sentenced for
abandoning child
CARROLLTON (AP) - A
mother and her boyfriend
have been sentenced to five
years in prison for abandon
ing the woman’s 2-year-old
son on the side of the road.
Martha Velazquez Lopez,
23, and her boyfriend
Dionicio Fuentez Lorenzo,
23, both from Columbus,
were sentenced Tuesday.
The couple was charged
with abandoning Lopez’s 2-
year-old son Jorge Enrique
Lopez on the side of a Carroll
County road road in 2005.
The toddler was later found
by motorists.
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OBITUARIES
JENNIE MAE ROBERTS (KNOT)
PERRY - Jennie Mae Roberts (Knot) died Sunday. Service
will be held at 11 a.m. today at New Hope Baptist Church
with burial in the Smyrna Cemetery. Survivors, children,
Rosie Gray, Dorothy, Edna, Margaret and Willie Roberts;
several siblings and grandchildren. Richardson Funeral
Home of Perry has charge.
JOAN M. EUBANKS
PERRY - Joan M. Eubanks, 86, passed away on Sunday,
July 30, 2006. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday
in the chapel of Watson - Hunt Funeral Home. Interment
will follow in Perry Memorial Gardens. The Reverend
Roland Fall will officiate. The family will receive friends
from 6:30-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Eubanks, a native of Ontario, Canada, was the daughter
of the late Edward and Violet Langridge. Educated in busi
ness administration she spent her career in government
service starting with the Canadian Government in Ottawa,
Ontario, then the war years in Washington, D.C., with the
British Admiralty Delegation. Following the war she served
in Wiesbaden, Germany with the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Association where she met and married her
husband, Wayne who predeceased her in 1984. After return
ing to the U.S. and obtaining U.S. citizenship she re-entered
government service and retired from Robins Air Force Base
in 1983. She was a member of Susannah Wesley Class at
Perry United Methodist, the Delphian Club, Book Browsers
Club and the Perry Country Club.
Survivors include her brother-in-law, Aaron Eubanks
(Shirley), Memphis, Tenn., nephew, David Eubanks (Shirley)
Muncie, Ind., neice, Carol (Bob) Riccardi, St. Louis, Mo.,
two grand neices; Megan Eubanks, Indianapolis, Ind.,
and Elizabeth Bruning of St. Louis, Mo., grand nephew,
Jonathan Bruning, Auburn, Mass. Please sign the online
register at watsonhunt.com.
Space shuttle Atlantis
heads to launch pad
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
- Space shuttle Atlantis was
hauled to the launch pad
early Wednesday, a major
step toward a mission to
resume construction of the
international space station
for the first time in three
years.
The pre-dawn trip to the
launch pad was delayed twice
this week because of stormy
weather. The four-mile trek
from the Vehicle Assembly
Building started shortly after
1 a.m. and took under eight
hours. In the next few days,
fuel and power lines will be
hooked up to the" vehicle,
the shuttle’s auxiliary power
units will be test-fired and
cargo will be loaded onto the
shuttle.
Next week, Atlantis’ crew
arrives at the Kennedy Space
Center for a week of dress
rehearsals that include a
practice launch countdown,
an exercise to practice escap
ing from the launch pad and
instruction on using emer
gency equipment.
Atlantis hasn’t flown since
October 2002, and there
has been no construction on
the international space sta
tion since December 2002.
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During the 11-day mission,
Atlantis’ six astronauts are
scheduled to conduct three
spacewalks and deliver and
install a 35,000-pound addi
tion with giant solar arrays
that power the space sta
tion. The deadly Columbia
accident in early 2003 halted
all expansion of the orbit
ing space lab and forced a
reduction in the crew size
from three to two. The crew
size returned to three mem
bers last month after space
shuttle Discovery delivered
European Space Station
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ing Atlantis starts ’Aug. 27
and lasts until Sept. 13, but
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Atlantis’ launch will be the
second of the year, and only
the third shuttle mission
since the Columbia disaster
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