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Man sentenced in
toddler's death
AUGUSTA (MNS) - A
Grovetown man will spend
five years in prison after
pleading guilty Thursday in
the death of a toddler last
October.
Morris Edward Perkins,
59, of Eisenview Drive,
pleaded guilty to first-degree
vehicular homicide and driv
ing under the influence.
Superior Court Judge
William M. Fleming Jr. sen
tenced Mr. Perkins to five
years in prison, followed
by five years of probation,
$2,000 in fines and 260 hours
of community service.
Police say Mr. Perkins was
driving under the influence
along Interstate 20 on Oct.
11 when he struck a stalled
vehicle, killing 18-month
old Taylor Brooklyn Hegree.
The toddler was inside the
vehicle as the mother, Casey
Hegre, of Dodge Lane in
Grovetown, was trying to
move the car onto the shoul
der.
SSM from state to
fund new pig digs
ATHENS (MNS) - The
hardest part of designing
a research-sized pig pen is
keeping pregnant sows from
fighting each other.
Gestating sows, if they are
housed in groups more
humane than housing them
in small, separate pens -
will fight each other as part
of their natural instincts
to survive, said Rick Jones,
University of Georgia ani
mal and dairy science proj
ect coordinator.
“They are big animals and
can do a lot of damage to
each other,” Jones said.
UGA received $5 million
in state funds to build a
new, high-tech livestock
facility on the western
edge of Oglethorpe County
to replace its dilapidated
facilities on South Milledge
Avenue.
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Brunswick 91 79 t-storm
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Chattanooga,TN 86 71 t-storm
Columbus 90 75 t-storm
Cordele 94 74 t-storm
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Chicago 89 69 t-storm
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University System of
Georgia facility officials will
post a request for proposals
for a designer within a week,
said system spokesman John
Millsaps.
As part of the Animal and
Dairy Science Department’s
rebuilding efforts, Jones
spent his summer visiting
university swine facilities
across the country to find
successful methods for bal
ancing the animals’ health
and their living conditions.
“It’s tricky - nobody’s
found a patent answer,” he
said.
Robert Stewart, animal
and dairy science extension
coordinator and emeritus
professor, said it all began in
October 2002, when coun
try singer Kenny Rogers,
after 15 years of leasing his
Oglethorpe County land to
UGA for some of its hors
es, gave a 30-day notice to
vacate because he was going
to sell. Since then, the South
Milledge animal facilities
that now house sheep, swine,
horses and cattle have been
crowded and lack the space
to house the smallest herd
needed for research, Stewart
said.
Animal science faculty use
the swine facility to study
how to better balance pork
production, odor control and
waste management.
Two of the swine units are
dilapidated, pushing plan-
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Dalton 89 73 t-storm
Dillard 84 67 t-storm
Dublin 94 72 t-storm
Duluth 85 71 t-storm
Gainesville 85 73 t-storm
Helen 85 69 t-storm
Lagrange 87 72 t-storm
Macon 89 74 t-storm
Marietta 85 71 t-storm
Miljedgeville 90 74 t-storm
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Los Angeles 80 65 mst sunny
Miami 87 81 t-storm
Minneapolis 86 62 mst sunny
New York 85 75 pt sunny
STATE BRIEFS
ners to begin the move to
Double Bridges Farm with
the new swine facility, he
said. Preserving greenspace
in the mostly rural but quick
ly developing Oglethorpe
County is another benefit of
moving the livestock opera
tions there, Jones said.
Agriculture college offi
cials have worked with
Oglethorpe County planners
on the project and, in a few
weeks, will request a rezon
ing for Double Bridges Farm
from general agriculture to
intensive agriculture, said
Steve Nickerson, head of the
UGA animal and dairy sci
ence department.
Jury awards
patient over error
ATLANTA (AP) - A jury
has awarded $250,000 to a
patient whose doctor irradi
ated the wrong side of her
face during treatments.
But Dariel Hunt’s attor
ney called the Thursday ver
dict disappointing.
Hunt had sought $1 mil
lion after undergoing 13
radiation treatments to the
wrong side of her face.
Radiation oncologist Dr.
Frederick Schwaibold, who
ordered the 2003 treat
ments at Piedmont Hospital,
acknowledged the mistake
but never described how it
happened. His lead attor-
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Statesboro 96 77 t-storm
Thornasville 94 74 t-storm
Valdosta 93 73 t-storm
Warner Robins 90 74 t-storm
Waycross 95 73 t-storm
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Seattle 82 59 mst sunny
St. Louis 99 77 pt sunny
Washington, DC 88 77 pt sunny
ney, Jack G. Slover Jr., urged
jurors to compensate the
patient but suggested a fig
ure closer to $150,000.
Hunt’s attorney, James
Poe, tried to convince jurors
that Hunt, 61, will continue
to suffer from dry mouth
that wakes her up because
the unnecessary treatment
destroyed her right parotid
gland, one of the producers
of saliva. He also told jurors
that food tastes bland and
she is more likely to have
digestive problems, receding
gums and lose her teeth.
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Ag. candidates
stump on change
By VICKY ECKENRODE
Morris News Service
ATLANTA - Both Gary
Black and Brian Kemp,
Republican candidates for
the office of state agriculture
commissioner, have empha
sized their desires to update
and modernize the function
ing of the office.
Essentially, both men
already are stumping
against longtime Agriculture
Commissioner Tommy Irvin,
a Democrat who has held
the post for 37 years and
is seeking re-election for
his final term in office. But
Republican voters will decide
Tuesday in the primary run
off election whether it will
be Black or Kemp who gets
to try out the “new blood”
approach against Irvin.
Black until recently worked
as president of the Georgia
Agribusiness Council, and
Kemp served as state sena
tor for the Athens area for
the past four years.
Black goes into Tuesday
with the confidence that he
snagged 42 percent of the
vote during the July 18 pri
mary. Not enough to avoid a
runoff, but enough to point
out that he won in 137 of
the state’s 159 counties that
night.
Kemp can counter by hav
ing the support of the two
other Republican agricul
ture candidates after they
fell out of the race and the
expectation of turning out
his base on Tuesday. A low
voter turnout overall could
play a role in which way the
ballots turn.
Black, who has served
on the Rural Development
Council and now lives in
Commerce, said his experi
ence with federal agencies
and Georgia’s congressional
delegation sets him apart
from Kemp.
Black said that during his
time as Georgia Agribusiness
Council president, he has
seen several reauthoriza
tions of the federal farm bill,
which is up for renewal next
year.
“This time it’s going to
be particularly important
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(for Georgia) with trade
issues, with cotton and pea
nuts, being so important in
Georgia,” he said, adding
that the biofuels industry
that the state is trying to
develop also could play a
heavy role. “I think there’s
going to be a tremendous
interaction with the farm
bill this time with the ener
gy aspects of it.”
Black said his decades-long
experience working with dif
ferent commodity groups in
the state as well as shar
ing information with federal
agencies would qualify him
to start work immediately if
he were elected agriculture
commissioner.
Kemp, who lives in Athens,
also touted his diverse areas
of experience, from state leg
islator to successful small
businessman. He said the
business background is espe
cially important considering
the agency handles an annu
al budget of more than SSO
million between state and
federal money.
Kemp said he wants to
make the office leaner.
“I think the biggest con
trast is we’ve come out with
a plan through performance
audits to reduce spending
by 10 percent over a 10-
year period with cutting out
wasteful spending and being
more efficient and provide a
better service to the farmers
mid the consumers of the
state,” he said.
Kemp said he would like
to make the agency more
accessible to consumers with
ideas like allowing people to
sign up for automatic e-mail
alerts in cases of food prod
uct recalls.
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