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Shoe Briefs
Sex offender
caught in secret pit
ST. MARYS (MNS) - A
violent sex offender being
sought by Virginia authori
ties was arrested Tuesday
after police found him hid
ing in a secret pit behind
an elementary school in St.
Marys.
Timothy D. Primrose, 50,
of Virginia Beach, was cap
tured by St. Marys police
investigators while he was
hiding in a 6-foot-deep hole
he had dug behind Mary Lee
Clark Elementary School on
Mickler Drive. Primrose was
convicted in October 1996
on attempted rape, forcible
sodomy and taking inde
cent liberties with children
charges and was listed as a
registered sex offender with
Virginia authorities, accord
ing to investigators involved
with the arrest.
St. Marys investigators had
been watching Primrose’s
daughter, Sheila Primrose,
the past week after getting a
tip from area residents that
she was helping her father
hide from authorities and
was delivering food to him,
according to an arrest report
by St. Marys police.
Lt. Frank Thornal, a
spokesman with the St.
Mary Police Department,
said investigators followed
a vehicle they believed was
occupied by Primrose’s
daughter and at least one
other person to the wood
ed area behind the school
Monday night. Investigators
are still trying to determine
the identity of the occupants
in the vehicle.
100 soldiers
return from Iraq
SAVANNAH (MNS)
- Little Maddox Guildoo
was six months old when
his father left for a year
long combat tour in Iraq last
October.
On Tuesday, having just
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mastered the word “da-da,”
Maddox and his 5-year
old sister Shealyn were
swept up into the arms of
Spc. Loyde Guildoo. The
North Carolina native was
among about 100 soldiers
of the 473rd Quartermaster
Company welcomed by
cheering families at Hunter
Army Airfield.
“This ought to be inter
esting,” said Guildoo’s wife
Kristen. “He doesn’t quite
know his dad yet.”
The 3rd Infantry Division
unit spent a year in Mosul,
Iraq, providing laundry ser
vices, running a dining facil
ity and conducting convoy
security as it moved supplies
throughout the country.
“We did an outstand
ing job,” said Capt. James
George, company command
er. “It feels good seeing sol
diers back together with
their families.”
Five arrested In
sting hi NE Georgia
GAINESVILLE (AP)
- A federal grand jury has
indicted five men for selling
guns without licenses at a
flea market.
Agents with the'Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives arrested four
of the men Saturday at the
Jackson County flea market.
The fifth suspect surren
dered, ATF Special Agent
Marc Jackson said.
The arrests came after
a 17-month investigation.
Undercover agents bought
guns sold illegally, and at
least one agent told a seller
he was not a Georgia resi
dent, according to indict
ments unsealed Monday
in U.S. District Court in
Gainesville.
Some of the unlicensed
dealers also sold weapons to
convicted felons and illegal
immigrants, the indictments
say.
The men arrested at the
flea market are Thomas
Hallman, 77, of Athens; Jack
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and lows in the mid
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Sunrise Sunset
7:34 AM 7:IIPM
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Sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s and lows
in the upper 40s.
Sunrise Sunset
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City Lo Cong.
Dalton 75 51 pt sunny
Dillard 70 45 pt sunny
Dublin 87 53 t-storm
Duluth 77 52 pt sunny
Gainesville 76 54 pt sunny
Helen 73 49 pt sunny
Lagrange 81 54 pt sunny
Macon 83 55 pt sunny
Marietta 77 52 pt sunny
Milledgeville 82 54 t-storm
Houston 93 67 mst sunny
Los Angeles 70 55 mst sunny
Miami 86 77 t-storm
Minneapolis 64 55 pt sunny
New York 59 52 windy
Prough, 62, of Winder; Albert
Stephens, 72, of Greensboro;
and Charles Murphy, 63, of
Canon. Gerald Barnes, 65,
of Maysville, surrendered to
authorities after learning he
was wanted, the ATF said.
Jackson said he did not
know if the men worked
together or separately at the
flea market.
Among the accusations,
the indictment says Hallman
sold a .38-caliber revolver
and a Norinco SKS semiau
tomatic rifle to customers
he knew were in the United
States illegally. He is also
accused of selling another
revolver to someone he knew
was a convicted felon.
One of the illegal guns
Prough is accused of selling
was a .22-caliber Magnum
Derringer, a small, easily
concealed weapon belonging
to a special class of firearms,
like machine guns and silenc
ers, that must be registered
with the ATF, Jackson said.
All five suspects appeared
Monday in federal court.
Each was granted SIO,OOO
bond and released, a court
clerk said. They are to be
arraigned Friday.
Arrest made in
death of woman
COLLEGE PARK (AP) _
Police have arrested a man
in the death of woman whose
body was found in her apart
ment bathtub.
Leroy Mitchell Knox, 21,
was arrested Tuesday night
near his mother’s home in
Decatur, police said.
Kimberly Jacobs, 26, was
found partially clothed and
face down in a tub of water
last week. An autopsy found
she had been strangled.
There were signs of a
struggle in the apartment.
The shower curtain was torn
down and the curtain rod
was bent, Clayton County
Police Assistant Chief Jeff
Turner. Also, Jacobs’ shirt
had apparently been torn
off.
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Statesboro 89 57 t-storm
Thomasville 93 62 pt sunny
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Warner Robins 84 55 t-storm
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San Francisco 62 52 pt sunny
Seattle 58 45 rain
St Louis 69 48 mst sunny
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Nichols could face
more charges
ATLANTA (AP) - Brian
Nichols, accused of killing a
judge and three others after
fleeing from custody while
on trial for rape, could face
more charges for allegedly
trying to intimidate a key
witness against him and
plotting another escape, a
prosecutor said Tuesday.
“It may possibly lead to
indictment,” Assistant
District Attorney Michele
McCutcheon said during an
emergency hearing on the
new allegations, which were
made Friday.
Defense lawyer Gary
Parker shook his head in
disbelief at McCutcheon’s
statement, and another
defense lawyer, Henderson
Hill, told Superior Court
Judge Hilton Fuller that
while Nichols made a call
to the woman he’s accused
of raping, he never tried to
intimidate her. Hill did not
address the escape plot alle
gation during the hearing,
but defense lawyers said in
a motion Friday that claims
by another inmate facing a
murder charge that Nichols
plotted with him about an
escape are unreliable. Hill
also said that Nichols has
exhibited “growth and
maturity” since the March
11, 2005, shootings at the
Fulton County Courthouse.
“I have never been more
proud of a client than I was
with him,” Hill said.
Assistant District Attorney
Christopher Quinn chal
lenged that contention.
“As far as Mr. Hill hav
ing good feelings about his
client, I’m sure March 10 a
lot of people had a good feel
ing about his client,” Quinn
said.
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Obituaries
DEBORAH WHITEHEAD __ |
WARNER ROBINS - Deborah Whitehead, 52, passed 1
away Monday. A memorial service will be held at 10:3(1
a.m. Saturday in the chapel of McCullough Funeral Home.
Interment will be private. Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to
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Voters turned off
by ad wars in Bth
By BEN EVANS
Associated Press Writer
MACON - Voters from
both parties here say
they’re disappointed in the
tit-for-tat attack ads being
exchanged by the campaigns
of Democratic Rep. Jim
Marshall and his Republican
challenger, former Rep.
Mac Collins, in the battle
over middle Georgia’s Bth
Congressional District.
While the claims made
in the ads have sometimes
been technically accurate,
each candidate has mischar
acterized or exaggerated the
other’s positions, a fact that
isn’t lost on those who will
ultimately decide who repre
sents them in Congress for
the next two years.
“It’s all half-truths, spin
ning, lying,” said Leonard
Sletto, an Air Force civil
service retiree, while tak
ing in a high school foot
ball game Friday night in
Warner Robins, a military
town that’s home to the dis
trict’s main economic engine,
Robins Air Force Base.
The race is seen by both
parties as critical in the fight
over control of Congress.
Republicans, who say it
represents one of their best
opportunities to knock off
a sitting Democrat, took
the offensive first, trying
to undermine Marshall’s
reputation as a conservative
Democrat who bucks his
party as often as he sup
ports it.
The National Republican
Congressional Committee
and a California group called
the Economic Freedom
Fund have been particularly
aggressive, buying a flurry
of television ads, mailers and
recorded telephone messages
casting Marshall as a liberal
who “turned his back” on
Georgia.
Collins, whose ads ini
tially focused on his blue
collar background as a
trucking company operator,
more recently ran ads say
ing Marshall “let us down.”
In a typical television spot,
Collins says Marshall “joined
his liberal leader Nancy
Pelosi and voted to waste
our tax dollars printing elec
tion ballots in Spanish.”
“Muchas gracias, Senor
Jim Marshall,” the ad con
cludes.
Marshall _ whose ads had
not mentioned the chal
lenger until Collins aired
his attacks _ responded
with television spots defend
ing his record and accusing
Collins of spreading “flat
out lies.” He also took a
shot at Collins, accusing the
Republican of supporting
amnesty for illegal immi
grants, citing a speech in
which Collins said he would
allow some migrant workers
to stay in the United States
for up to two years before
being deported.
“That’s amnesty, Senor
Mac,” the narrator quips.
Collins, who gave up his
congressional seat for an
unsuccessful Senate bid in
2004, wouldn’t comment on
the outside groups that have
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attacked Marshall. And he
denied that he’s running a
negative campaign, saying
he is simply pointing out
differences between the can
didates.
“If you don’t do a contrast,
people have no idea why
they should look at either
candidate,” he said.
Collins’ ad on Spanish-lan
guage ballots, for example,
is a reference to Marshall’s
vote this summer support
ing the renewal of the 1965
Voting Rights Act, which
among other things calls for
some jurisdictions to print
ballots in foreign languages.
Marshall supported the
measure, but so did an
overwhelming majority of
Republicans. The extension
passed the Senate unani
mously and cleared the
House with a 390-33 vote.
President Bush signed it
shortly thereafter.
Collins said he would have
opposed its renewal.
In other ads, the NRCC
charged that Marshall
opposed the creation of med :
ical savings accounts aimed
at cutting health care costs.
But Marshall has consistent
ly supported such accounts,
and his campaign claimed a
victory last month when it
said it successfully lobbied
to get the ad taken off the
air. The NRCC said it sim
ply changed out the ad as
scheduled.
Collins also has accused
Marshall of supporting food
stamps for illegal immi
grants, an allegation that
Marshall calls a “flat-out
lie.”
“You cannot permit some
body to put something on the
air that attacks you falsely
and just leave it there unan
swered,” Marshall said. “You
have to respond.”
Marshall, a Vietnam War
veteran first elected to
Congress in 2002, defend
ed his characterization of
Collins’ immigration posi
tion as amnesty.
Marshall said he opposes
Collins’ proposal for a tempo
rary worker program, argu
ing that it would encourage
more immigrants to enter
the country.
Collins’ spokesman Bill
Hagan said the Republicaii
does support a temporary
program with input from
businesses who need labor.
But while some immigration
hard-liners have said that
position constitutes amnes
ty, Hagan insisted it does not
because it would not allow
illegal immigrants to win
citizenship.
“It is the most false and
misleading ad I have seen,”
Hagan said. “When I first
heard about it, I almost fell
out of my chair laughing.”
With the election still more
than a month away, voters in
the district are already tired
of it all.
“It’s getting to be a nui
sance,” said Mildred Cline, a
Warner Robins resident who
voted for President Bush
but said she’s turned off by
the Republican attacks on
Marshall. “I don’t believe
half of what I hear on TV”
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