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State Briefs
Woman cleared of
homicide charges
DOUGLAS (MNS) - The
parents of four of five chil
dren killed in an all-terrain
vehicle accident in Coffee
County said they were sad
dened that a jury found the
motorist who collided with
the ATV not guilty of charg
es of homicide by vehicle.
“It’s another blow,” said
David Varnedore Jr., who
lost a son and daughter in
the Sept. 20, 2003, accident.
“You think you’ve got your
feet back under you after
three years and then you get
them knocked back out from
under you.”
The Coffee County Superior
Court jury began hearing
evidence and testimony Aug.
22 and deliberated about
four hours Saturday before
finding Amanda Troupe of
Ambrose not guilty of 15
counts of homicide by vehi
cle. However, the jury found
her guilty of driving under
the influence.
The accident occurred on
Smith Cemetery Road near
Ambrose while Corrane
Meagan Nelson took friends
and relatives who were
attending her 14th birthday
party on a ride on her fami
ly’s Yamaha Bear Tracker.
The children headed out
Smith Cemetery Road in the
dark and collided a short dis
tance away with a Lincoln
LS driven by Troupe, who
had babysat Nelson when
the child was younger.
Nelson was killed, along
with Kayla Varnedore,
13, Dustin Varnedore, 11,
Lindsay Joyner, 13, and
Nelson’s cousin, Courtney
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Atlanta 83 68 t-storm
Augusta 83 70 t-storm
Bainbridge 90 73 t-storm
Brunswick 90 76 rain
Cartersville 84 67 t-storm
Chattanooga,TN 81 66 t-storm
Columbus 89 71 t-storm
Cordele 91 71 t-storm
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Boston 71 60 mst sunny
Chicago 74 59 sunny
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Barrow, Burns
battle at debate
MILLEDGEVILLE
(MNS) - Independence,
influence and immigration
took center stage Monday in
the first showdown between
U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-
Ga., • and former Rep. Max
Burns, the Republican who
preceded Barrow and hopes
to follow him.
In a twist for a year when
Democrats are expecting an
anti-GOP tide to sweep them
into office, Barrow down
played his party ties while
Burns used them to hammer
the freshman congressman.
“I ran on the promise of
being an independent voice
in Congress for the people
I represent,” Barrow said,
adding it was a promise he
believed he had fulfilled.
But relying on a recent
survey of members’ sway,
Burns suggested Barrow
wasn’t a very influential
congressman.
“He is the least effective
member of the Georgia dele
gation, right behind Cynthia
McKinney,” Burns said.
Burns also attacked
Barrow, during and after the
debate, for being a member
of a party that wants to offer
a path to citizenship for 11
million illegal immigrants.
“They’re going to swamp
or Social Security system,
swamp our health-care sys
tem,” Burns said after the
debate, referring to the
Democratic Party and its
plans.
STATE AND REGION
Sat
9/2
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Mix of sun and
clouds. Highs in the
upper 80s and lows
in the mid 60s.
Sunrise Sunset
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Dalton 85 68 t-storm
Dillard 77 62 t-storm
Dublin 90 69 t-storm
Duluth 82 66 t-storm
Gainesville 82 69 t-storm
Helen 80 65 t-storm
Lagrange 86 67 t-storm
Macon 87 70 t-storm
Marietta 83 66 t-storm
Milledgeville 87 70 t-storm
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City
Houston 95 72 pt sunny
Los Angeles 83 65 sunny
Miami 87 79 t-storm
Mkrneaaedis 80 60 sunny
New Yatoti 76 63 pt sunny
Municipal judge
laces gun charges
COLUMBUS (AP) - A
municipal court judge from
Columbus is headed to state
court as a defendant on
charges of pointing a gun at
two motorists.
Columbus Municipal Court
Judge Haywood Turner, 62,
waived a preliminary hear
ing Monday on two misde
meanor charges of pointing
or aiming a gun or pistol at
another. The charges stem
from an alleged altercation
Wednesday on J.R. Allen
Parkway, where Turner is
accused of brandishing a gun
after a nearby vehicle moved
erratically around him.
Muscogee County State
Court Solicitor General Ben
Richardson said he believes
the case will come to his
office because the counts
against Turner are misde
meanors. Felony charges
go the Muscogee County
District Attorney’s Office.
Cleland treated for
trauma disorder
WASHINGTON (AP)
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Peachtree City 85 66 t-storm
Perry 89 70 t-storm
Rome 86 68 t-storm
Savannah 89 72 rain
St. Simons Island9o 76 rain
Statesboro 90 75 rain
Thomasville 92 73 t-storm
Valdosta 91 72 t-storm
Warner Robins 89 70 t-storm
Waycross 93 71 rain
| City
Phoenix 101 82 t-storm
San Francisco 74 57 sunny
Seattle 72 53 sunny
St. Louis 83 66 sunny
Washington, DC 78 64 rain
- Former U.S. Sen. Max
Cleland, who has battled
bouts of depression since los
ing three limbs in Vietnam,
is being treated for post
traumatic stress disorder.
Cleland, who represent
ed Georgia in the Senate
from 1997 to 2003, said
he believes the condition
- cases of which are increas
ing rapidly among Vietnam
war veterans - was in part
triggered by the ongoing vio
lence in Iraq.
“I realize my symptoms
are avoidance, not wanting
to connect with anything
dealing with the (Iraq) war,
tremendous sadness over the
casualties that are taken, a
real identification with that.
... I’ve tried to disconnect
and disassociate from the
media. I don’t watch it as
much. I’m not engrossed in
it like I was,” Cleland said in
an interview with WSB-TV
in Atlanta.
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Obituaries
D.K. “DOT” HOUGHTON
PERRY - D. K. “Dot” Roughton, 86, died on Thursday,
Aug. 24, 2006 at his residence. Memorial Services will
be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sep. 1, 2006 at Watson - Hunt
Funeral Home with Horace Woodruff, Billy Powell and Dr.
Billy Key officiating. Internment will be private. Please omit
flowers and make donations to the charity of your choice.
“Dot” was a lifelong resident of Perry. He was a WW 11
Army Veteran, a member of the Perry United Methodist
Church and the Men’s Bible Class.
Survivors include a sister, Eunice Covington of Stone
Mountain; brothers, Rawlings Roughton of Marietta and
Dick Roughton of Perry; stepchildren, April Bowen of
Ellaville, Vanoe Shepherd of Warner Robins and Patti
Jackson of Tallahassee, Fla.; 12 step granchildren. Please
sign the online* register at watsonhunt.com
NANCY EVELYN EDWARDS
PERRY - Nancy Evelyn Edwards, 62, died on Monday.
Graveside Services were held Tuesday at Evergreen
Cemetery. Nancy was the daughter of the late Ernest Ervin
and Evelyn Young Edwards. Please sign the online register
at watsonhunt.com.
Georgia climbs
in SAT rankings
By DORIE TURNER
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia
crawled out of last place
this year for SAT college
entrance exam scores despite
a three-point drop in the
state’s mean score for read
ing and math.
Gov. Sonny Perdue and
state schools Superintendent
Kathy Cox touted Georgia’s
rise in the rankings as a sign
of progress.
But just how far Georgia
rose in the rankings depends
on whether the new writ
ing portion of the exam is
included.
Georgia ranks 49th among
states based on the combined
reading and math mean
score, according to state test
results released Tuesday.
The state’s combined mean
score in reading and math
fell to 990, with the highest
possible score at 1,600.
Perdue and Cox, however,
said that when the new writ
ing portion is considered,
Georgia now ranks 46th.
“Compared to our nation
al peers, we’ve jumped over
Florida, South Carolina,
Pennsylvania and Hawaii
and nobody’s going to take
that away from us,” Perdue
said.
Georgia’s combined mean
score on all three portions
was 1,477 out of a possible
2,400.
Because the writing por
tion is new, writing scores
cannot be compared to last
year’s. But combined read
ing and math scores can.
South Carolina and the
District of Columbia - which
were at the bottom of the list
with Georgia last year - saw
bigger drops than Georgia in
this year’s combined read
ing and math. The District
of Columbia ranks last this
year in combined reading
and math, with a mean score
of 959, while South Carolina,
which ranks next to last,
scored a 985.
Georgia fell just a few
points shy of the scores in
Hawaii, which had a 991, and
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Florida and Pennsylvania,
which both had a 993.
North Dakota topped
the list with 1,227, fol
lowed closely by lowa with
a 1,215.
The high school class of
2006 recorded the sharpest
drop in SAT scores in 31
years, in part because some
students took the newly
lengthened test only once
instead of twice, accord
ing to the test’s adminis
trators, the College Board.
The national score fell seven
points to 1,021.
The College Board discour
ages the use of the test scores
to compare education from
state to state because the
percentage of students who
take them varies widely.
But that hasn’t stopped
politicians and some educa
tion officials from using the
scores prominently when
talking about state schools.
During the 2002 guber
natorial campaign,' * Perdue
blasted then-governor' Rby
Barnes for low SAT scopes.
Perdue aired television com
mercials claiming that the
scores showed Barnes’s
aggressive education reforms
had been a failure and ham
mered at the issue during
debates.
When scores bumped
along at roughly the same
level during Gov. Perdue’s
tenure, never getting bet
ter than 49th in the nation,
he shifted his focus - high
lighting last year’s six-point
score increase, for example.
Last year, he said Georgia
scores “bode very well for
the future.”
Democrats, meanwhile,
have blasted the lack of
marked improvement, say
ing Perdue made SAT scores
a litmus test for education,
then failed to significantly
improve them.
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