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Stcte Briefs
Prosecutors:
Mchols In plot
ATLANTA (AP) - The rape
defendant accused of kill
ing four people in a shoot
ing rampage that started
at a courthouse called the
alleged victim in the case
that touched off the violence
from jail and tried to intimi
date her, prosecutors said in
an emergency motion filed
late Friday.
The motion, which
asks that Brian Nichols
be ordered not to intimi
date witnesses, also alleges
that the defendant has had
access to a cell phone from
his jail cell and has been
plotting with other inmates
on future escape attempts.
The motion asks that he be
barred from having contact
with other inmates.
The motion does not elabo
rate on the plot, but a defense
motion filed almost simulta
neously seeks to bar a fellow
inmate whose cell was next
to Nichols at the jail from
testifying about an alleged
plot to escape from the jail
first hatched in 2005.
Prosecutors are asking for
a judge to order the sheriff
to appear at an emergen
cy hearing Saturday or the
first available opportunity to
explain the methods used to
maintain security of Nichols
at the jail.
“Due to the nature of the
charges in this case, includ
ing the murder of two per
sons involved in the prior
trial of this defendant
in another case, the state
expressed concerns about
the defendant contacting
witnesses with the intent to
intimidate or terrorize,” the
motion says.
The call to the woman
Nichols was accused of rap
ing was allegedly made
Thursday night. The woman
told prosecutors she hung up
the phone after hearing that
the call was from Nichols.
“I felt that the phone call
was inappropriate and was
shocked that I received it,”
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the woman said, according
to the motion. “It made me
feel uneasy.”
The woman told authori
ties Nichols had made
threats to her in the past.
“Brian Nichols indicated
to me on the date he raped
me ... that if I turned him in
that he would haunt me and
my family,” the woman told
authorities, according to the
motion. “I felt the phone call
was a continuation of this
type of threatening mental
ity.”
Ex-coach arrested
for molestation
SAVANNAH (MNS)
Frank Williams, a lan
guage-arts teacher and for
mer boys basketball coach,
was arrested Thursday and
charged with two counts of
child molestation and one
count of sexual battery.
Williams spent seven sea
sons as an assistant coach
at Savannah High School
before he accepted the head
coaching job at Beach in
2003. During his tenure,
the Bulldogs posted a 74-
16 record and advanced to
the state semifinals twice,
including an appearance
in the Class AAAAA state
championship game last
season that Beach lost to
Norcross, 66-49.
He is accused of inap
propriately touching a 17-
year-old female Beach High
School student on May 5.
He surrendered to cam
pus police Thursday at the
Chatham County Sheriffs
Complex. Williams was
accompanied by his attorney
as he was taken into cus
tody at the Chatham County
Detention Center.
After processing, Williams,
47, was released on bond
with conditions set by the
Chatham County Recorders
Court. He would not com
ment on any of the charges.
In May, Williams was
placed on administrative
leave while the school system
investigated the student’s
allegation. He was placed on
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leave with pay, pending the
outcome of an investigation
by the campus police and
the school system’s human
resources office.
“Pending the outcome of
the investigation, Williams
was transferred to anoth
er department within the
school system preventing
any further direct access to
children,” said school system
spokesman Bucky Burnsed
in a Thursday news release.
Small plane lands
on 1-75, no one hurt
MACON (AP) - A small
plane lost power over
Interstate 75 in Macon but
the pilot managed to bring it
down, hitting only the guard
rail so that nobody was hurt,
authorities said.
The single-engine
Beechcraft plane ended up
in the median around 12:30
Friday afternoon, Bibb
County Sheriffs spokesman
David Davis said. A man
and his wife were the only
people on board, Davis said.
The couple from Brooksville,
Fla., were traveling from
there to Lawrenceville.
Aside from a cracked
windshield, there didn’t
seem to be much damage to
the plane, said woman who
works at a nearby bank. She
declined to give her name.
She said the pilot and pas
senger walked away from
the craft.
Eddie Sayed, who works at
a nearby filling station, said
he saw the plane as it went
down. It wasn’t smoking or
making unusual noises, he
said.
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PAM UPSHAW KEZAR
ELKO - Pam Upshaw Kezar, 38, died unexpectedly at her
residence on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. A lifelong resident
of Houston County, she is survived by her husband, Chuck
Kezar; children, Summar Haslam of Kathleen, Hydee
Kezar and Hollee Kezar, both of Elko; parents, Jack and
Pat Grimes Upshaw of Kathleen; sisters, Kathy Stewart of
Kathleen and Rhonda Dimsdale of Byron. Please sign the
online register at watsonhunt.com.
ROBERN SCOTT PRIEST
Robern Scott Priest, 34, passed away Aug. 24. Priest was
born Nov. 15, 1971 at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo., and
spent most of his youth traveling in a military family. He
graduated from Auburn University in 1995. He had worked
in the construction industry on the Peninsula over the past
year with Outback Construction of Poquoson. He was a
member of Woodland Heights Baptist Church in Richmond,
but had been attending Liberty Baptist Church in Newport
News. Priest is survived by his parents Col. (USAF retired)
Bob and Pam Priest (Yorktown, Va.); his sister Stacy (Jeff)
Nadeau and their sons lan and Eric (Canton, MI); grand
mother Mary Priest and aunt and uncle Wayne and Marsha
Buzzell (Warner Robins); grandparents Greg and Leola
Gregory (Oklahoma City, Okla.); and numerous cousins.
He is preceded in death by his grandfather Lt. Col. (USAF)
Gordon S. Priest.
A graveside service was conducted Sept. 24 at Peninsula
Memorial Park with the Rev. Terry Green officiating.
Arrangements were by Weymouth Funeral Home, Newport
News, Va.
Perdue: Managed
care will go lorward
By Brandon Larrabee
Morris News Service
ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny
Perdue delivered a detailed
defense Friday of his initia
tive to move more than a
million patients on taxpayer
funded health-care plans to
managed-care organizations
as doctors continue to com
plain about the new system.
In a speech to the Medical
Association of Georgia,
Perdue vigorously defend
ed moving Medicaid and
Peach Care recipients to care
management organizations,
or CMOs, as the main thrust
of a reform effort that has
so far proven to be contro
versial.
He also rejected calls from
MAG and some of its mem
bers to delay the care-man :
agement transition, though
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2006
that is largely a moot point
now that the program has
rolled out across the state.
“I don’t have that option,
folks,” Perdue said. “And
we’re going to move ahead
and we’re going to do it
right.”
During the often blunt
speech, Perdue recalled that
the CMO plan was hatched
at a time when state rev
enues were expected to start
growing at about five per
cent while health-care costs
were increasing far more
rapidly.
“In our case, it was taking
dollar for dollar away from
education, transportation,
(the) environment and other
things that we have to do
for the citizens of Georgia,”
he said. “And we had to do
something, qpd we did it
through our CMOs.”
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