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State Briefs
Plains man gets 23
years in shooting
ALBANY (AP) - A fed
eral judge has sentenced
a Sumter County man to
nearly 23 years in prison for
drug and firearms offenses
and for attempting to shoot
a U.S. marshal during his
arrest last year.
U.S. District Judge W.
Louis Sands sentenced
Darren Cantrell Miller, 23,
of Plains to 188 months for
intent to distribute more
than 5 grams of cocaine and
attempted assault on a fed
eral officer, and 84 months
for carrying a firearm in fur
therance of a crime.
Miller pleaded guilty to the
charges and appeared before
the judge on Friday.
His legal problems began
in June 2005 when agents
of the Sumter Drug Task
Force raided an Americus
house and found ecstasy tab
lets, cocaine, marijuana and
a handgun. Cantrell agreed
to help the agents arrest
other drug dealers, but dis
appeared after his release.
The case was transferred
to federal jurisdiction and
local and federal authorities
located him last September
in a Montezuma mobile
home. While they attempt
ed to arrest him, Cantrell
attempted to shoot the fed
eral agent, but his revolver
misfired four times, officials
said.
Two killed, two
injured in wreck
ADEL (AP) - Two teenag
ers were killed and two more
critically injured after their
car crashed into a tree early
Saturday morning in Cook
County.
Brandon Nugent, 16, and
Brian Kohler, 17, died from
injuries sustained in the
accident, which involved no
other vehicles. Kohler was
pronounced dead at the
scene of the accident, and
Nugent, who was driving
the car, later died at South
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Georgia Medical Center.
The two survivors were not
identified. Sgt. Don Whitaker
with the Georgia Highway
Patrol’s Tifton office said
Nugent lost control of the
vehicle, which likely flipped
several times before hitting
the tree. He said he does not
believe alcohol played a role
in the crash.
R.E.M. highlights
hall inductions
ATLANTA (AP) - The four
original members of R.E.M.
gave a rare performance
Saturday night, as the band
that launched Athens, Ga.
into the spotlight as an inde
pendent rock hotbed was
inducted into the Georgia
Music Hall of Fame.
“This is going to be loud,”
lead singer Michael Stipe
said as the group, which
formed in the college town
in 1980, launched into
“Begin the Begin” from their
1986 album “Life’s Rich
Pageant.” The group, which
has won three Grammys and
sold over 70 million records,
has performed as a quartet
only a handful of times since
1997, when drummer Bill
Berry left the group after
suffering a brain aneurysm
onstage in 1995.
Saturday’s performance,
though, was by far the larg
est and the first that had
been publicized in advance.
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Many of the roughly 1,500
people at the Georgia hall’s
black-tie induction ceremo
ny clearly were there to see
the group.
“It’s been a sellout and the
buzz has been going on for
many weeks now,” said Lisa
Love, director of the Georgia
Music Hall of Fame. “R.E.M.
is one of the most influential
bands in the world; they’re
up there with U 2 and some
of the other greatest bands
ever in terms of the impact
they’ve had.”
Love said several R.E.M.
fans from outside the United
States bought tickets for the
ceremony. The three remain
ing members - Stipe, Peter
Buck and Mike Mills - have
continued to tour and record
without naming an official
drummer. In their three
song set, R.E.M. also per
formed their top-ten single
“Losing My Religion” and
“Man on the Moon,” a song
they dedicated to former
Texas Gov. Ann Richards,
who died Wednesday at age
73 of cancer.
Also inducted to the hall
Saturday were Allman
Brothers founder Greg
Allman, writer-producers
Dallas Austin and Jermaine
Dupri and the late Felice
Bryant who, along with her
husband, Boudleaux Bryant,
wrote country and rock
standards including “Rocky
Top,” Wake Up Little Susie”
and “Love Hurts.”
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Meteorologist
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Taylor proposes tax cut
By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
COLLEGE PARK - Mark
Taylor promised Saturday
he would cut $76 million in
property tax that the state
charges homeowners.
For a house valued at
$150,000 on the market,
that would save the owners
$14.50 per year.
“When Mark Taylor is gov
ernor, there will be no state
property tax in Georgia,”
he told delegates at the
Democrats state_ convention.
As he was formally accept
ing the Democratic nomina
tion for governor that he
won in the July 18 primary,
Taylor announced he would
eliminate the small property
tax the state levies on resi
dences.
The tax, collected by coun
ty tax collectors, is 1/4 mill,
or 25 cents on SI,OOO of
assessed value. Properties in
Georgia are assessed at 40
percent of their fair-market
value.
Taylor’s opponent, Gov.
Sonny Perdue announced a
tax cut of his own when
addressing a Republican
fund-raising dinner
Wednesday.
His $142 million cut would
come by eliminating the
state income tax on senior
citizens. Earlier in the year,
he signed into law a GOP
bill to exempt seniors from
property tax.
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Perdue’s spokesman
Derrick Dickey pooh-pooheq
Taylor’s proposal.
“He will no doubt promise
every Georgian a Porsche
and a shiny new toaster b_v
election day,” Dickey saidl
“Nobody believea _ Mark
Taylor’s promises' any
more.”
Taylor’s own staff esti.
mates his promises so fat
have totaled between $392.2
million and $427.2 miK
lion. Taylor, though, said by
imposing more popular prii
orities he would be able t<3
carry out all of his promises
without raising taxes. I
“With a SSBO million sur:
plus, that was basically built
by cutting the schools, cuts
to universities and cuts t<3
healthcare, that we should
use part of that surplus t<J
provide property tax relief t<3
every Georgia homeowner,- v
he said.
Perdue, in reaction to
slumping tax collections in
the first three years of his
term, under funded the per
pupil formula for grades 1-12,
cut appropriations to higher
education and restricted the
eligibility to state health
plans for the needy.
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