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State Briefs
Woman sought for
hitting patrons
ATHENS (MNS)-Police
are still searching for a dis
gruntled McDonald’s cus
tomer who ran into two
other customers with her
car after a dispute over who
was next in line to order
breakfast.
Ataboutß:3oa.m. Saturday,
Melinda Ann Thomas, 34,
and Linda Ann Thomas, 51,
were standing in a crowded
line at the McDonald’s on
Gaines School Road waiting
to order breakfast, accord
ing to Athens-Clarke police.
When a cashier opened a
new line, they zipped to the
front of it -- a move that
drew the ire of at least one
customer waiting for her
chance at a McGriddle that
morning.
According to the report,
an unidentified woman,
who had been in front of
the Thomases in the origi
nal line, started yelling at
them for cutting in line and
threatened to kill them for
the offense.
The woman, who was
described as white with
brown hair in her mid-20s,
about 5 feet 10 inches tall
and weighing 150 pounds,
left the restaurant before
the Thomases and stayed in
the parking lot, sitting in her
dark blue Jeep Cherokee,
according to witnesses cited
in the report. The vehicle’s
license plate number was
not noted in the report, but
witnesses said the Jeep had
fog lamps.
As the Thomases made
their way to their car, wit
nesses said the woman
pulled out of her parking
space, backed up and then
sped toward the ladies
striking them both with the
passenger side of the Jeep.
According to the report,
neither victim was injured
severely.
The woman now is being
sought by police on charges
of aggravated assault.
YOUR WEATHER TEAM!
TODAY’S
Today's Weather
Local 5-Day Forecast
Thu
8/17
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92/72
Partly cloudy,
chance of a thunder
storm.
Sunrise Sunset
7:02 AM 8:18 PM
Wed
8/16
94/72
Scattered thunder
storms. Highs in the
mid 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:OIAM 8:19 PM
Georgia At A Glance
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Area Cities
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Albany 96 72 t-storm
Athens 91 70 t-storm
Atlanta 89 70 t-storm
Augusta 92 72 t-storm
Bainbridge 97 74 t-storm
Brunswick 89 77 t-storm
Cartersville 90 70 rain
Chattanooga,TN 86 68 t-storm
Columbus 95 74 t-storm
Cordele 96 72 t-storm
National Cities
Atlanta 89 70 t-storm
Boston 82 66 sunny
Chicago 84 64 sunny
Dallas 105 81 mst sunny
Denver 82 60 t-storm
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Macon woman dies
in house fire
MACON (AP) - A woman
who was smoking in bed
died in a house fire, authori
ties said.
Thelma Leslie, 76, was pro
nounced dead at her home
after the Saturday night
fire, Bibb County Coroner
Leon James said.
“She was smoking in bed,”
Jones said.
Carl Goolsby, who lives
across the street, said he was
up late cleaning Saturday
night when his nephew
came in and said someone
across the street was burn
ing trash.
“I looked outside and her
whole living room was glow
ing orange,” Goolsby said of
Leslie’s home.
He called 911 and then
ran over and tried to put the
fire out with Leslie’s front
yard water hose.
Macon-Bibb County Fire
Department officials said
the damage to Leslie’s home
was in the den and bed
room. Her body has been
sent to the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation’s crime lab
in Macon for an autopsy.
Hre burns old
warehouse in Rome
ROME (AP) - Firefighters
brought a large fire under
control at a warehouse
Sunday afternoon.
Firefighters from sev
eral stations responded to
the blaze at the abandoned
warehouse, said Chief Curt
Pierson of the Rome Fire
Department.
Pierson said the build
ing was already “heavily
involved” when firefighters
arrived. The fire department
used defensive tactics to
keep the blaze from spread
ing to surrounding buildings
and allowed the fire to burn
itself down, he said. The
cause of the fire remained
under investigation.
Fri
8/18
94/71
Isolated thunder
storms. Highs in the
mid 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:02 AM 8:17 PM
TFIEIMT WILLMON
a little more livin’
\tky i4l Lo Cond.
Dalton 91 70 rain
Dillard 85 64 t-storm
Dublin 96 70 t-storm
Duluth 89 69 t-storm
Gainesville 88 71 t-storm
Helen 88 67 t-storm
Lagrange 92 70 t-storm
Macon 94 72 t-storm
Marietta 89 69 t-storm
Milledgeville 95 72 t-storm
Houston 97 75 pt sunny
Los Angeles 78 65 sunny
Miami 90 81 t-storm
Minneapolis 86 68 pt sunny
New York 86 70 sunny
'Daylight Rapist 1
seeks new trial
ATHENS, (AP) - A man
sentenced to six consecutive
life sentences in 2000 for
multiple rapes is asking for
another trial.
Poneil Carruth, 51, known
as the “Daylight Rapist,”
will go before Clarke County
Superior Court Judge Lawton
Stephens on Friday. Carruth
filed a motion July 25 con
tending that Stephens, who
presided over the original
trial, influenced jurors by
telling them to pay attention
during testimony.
Jurors found Carruth
guilty of raping four women
between late May and mid-
June of 1996. He abducted
two of his victims during the
daytime and broke into the
homes of the other two late
at night. He was convicted
on four counts of rape, three
counts of armed robbery,
two counts of kidnapping,
two counts of burglary and
one count of robbery.
Police arrested Carruth in
2000 after investigating the
rapes for four years with few
leads. The break in the case
came when a fingerprint
from the scene of a home
invasion matched Carruth’s
print.
Prosecutors also used
DNA evidence that linked
Carruth to the rapes.
Cabbie's body found
at Fort Benning
FORT BENNING (AP)
- Investigators have identi
fied a body found at Fort
Benning as that of a missing
taxicab driver, and say his
death is being investigated
as a homicide.
The victim, whose body
was found Friday, was Gold
Star cab driver Jack L. Home
Jr., post spokeswoman Tracy
Bailey said Saturday.
The case was turned over
to the FBI, Columbus Police
STATE AMP REGION
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Sat
8/19
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Times of sun and
clouds. Highs in the
low 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:03 AM 8:16 PM
Moon Phases
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number scale, with a higher UV Index
showing the need tor greater skin pro
tection o y* - < mmm 11
fsity Hi Lo Cond.
Peachtree City 90 69 t-storm
Perry 95 72 t-storm
Rome 91 70 rain
Savannah 93 73 t-storm
St. Simons Islandß9 77 t-storm
Statesboro 97 76 t-storm
Thomasville 96 72 t-storm
Valdosta 95 72 t-storm
Warner Robins 95 72 t-storm
Waycross 95 71 t-storm
| City Hi Lo Cond.
Phoenix 101 85 t-storm
San Francisco 69 55 pt sunny
Seattle 74 57 pt sunny
St. Louis 90 67 mst sunny
Washington, DC 91 70 sunny
Sgt. Stuart Pratt said. He
declined to describe how
Home died and referred all
questions to the FBI, which
did not return repeated
phone calls for comment.
Horne’s body was sent
to the state crime lab for
an autopsy. A funeral can
not be set until the body is
returned, Gold Star owner
Jerry Halicki said.
Horne, 55, gave his last
radio report to the cab com
pany at about 1 a.m. on Aug.
6 after dropping off a pas
senger.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Destruction of records: Students with Disabilities
The Houston County School System, Student Services for Excep
tional Children, intends to destroy specific records that were
collected, maintained, or used in the provision of a free appropriate
public education for students with disabilities. This notice in
compliance with all policies and procedures that were approved as
part of the Georgia Special Education State Program Plan that are
not Inconsistent with the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act. (20U.S.C. 14111420)
Special Education records set to be destroyed are those for students
who were enrolled in a special education program and have birthdays
that are from September 2, 1978 thru September 1, 1979, and are no
longer needed for education purposes. Speech records for students
who were enrolled in speech only programs with birthdays that are
from January to December, 1979 are also no longer needed for
education purposes are also set for destruction. The system plans
to destroy these records September 10, 2006, unless there has been
a request for a due process hearing. If you as the student or parents
of the student want copies prior to destruction, you should contact
the Office of Dr. Ruth O’Dell, Assistant Superintendent of Student
Services, at 478-988-6153.
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8/20
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Obituaries
CLARENCE CRAYTON ROGERS. JR.
MACON - Clarence C. Rogers, Jr., 64, passed away
Wednesday. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., today
at First Baptist Church in Kathleen. Rogers was bom Aug.
16, 1941. Survivors include his wife Deborah Louise Rogers
and children, 24 grandchildren and five great grandchil
dren.
LUCIE LATIMER TRQN
WARNER ROBINS - Lucie Latimer Tron, 94, passed away
Thursday. Tron was bom on June 23, 1912 in Wilkinson
County.
Her husband, Henry Peter Tron and her parents, Joel
Leander Latimer and Lucy Butler Latimer, preceded her in
death.
Survivors include her siblings, nieces and nephews, 15
great nieces and nephews.
Peach Care lacing
major cash crunch
By BRANDON
LARRABEE
Morris News Service
ATLANTA - The state’s
health-insurance program
for a quarter of a million
low-income children is fac
ing a cash crunch and could
run out of critically impor
tant federal funding by Jan.
1, state officials say.
Gov. Sonny Perdue and
officials at the Department
of Community Health are
working with the state’s
congressional delegation to
urge the federal government
to address what they say is
a problem in the way money
for the low-income health
programs is divided among
the 50 states.
The funding gap is in
Peach Care, the joint federal
state program for children in
families whose income is too
high for traditional Medicaid
but still too low to pay for
private insurance.
For example, a family of
four making $47,000 would
qualify for coverage in
Georgia.
Almost three-quarters of
the funding for Peach Care
comes from the federal gov
ernment. But the formula
used to decide how much the
state gets for the program is
actually punishing Georgia
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for getting more families to
sign up.
Under federal law, the
amount of money flowing to
the state is decided by how
many uninsured children
Georgia has, a relic from
the proposal’s roots as a way
to get coverage for those
children. But those covered
by the program count as
insured children.
“The more children we
move into (Peach Care),
the smaller our pool is,”
said Community Health
Commissioner Dr. Rhonda
Medows.
Perdue press secretary
Heather Hedrick said the
federal government doled
out the funding in five-year
increments and that early
estimates for how many chil
dren would be enrolled grew
larger than expected.
“It’s reflective of the suc
cess of the Peach Care pro
gram that we insured many
more children than we antic
ipated,” she said, pointing
out that the numbers were
set during former Gov. Roy
Barnes’ administration.
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