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Youth charged in
murder of visitor
COLUMBUS (AP) - Police
have charged a 19-year-old
in the robbery-murder of a
Missouri real estate agent
who had come to town to
attend a basic training
graduation at nearby Fort
Benning.
Joseph Allen Curry, 19,
of Columbus was arrested
Wednesday evening and
charged with murder
ing James Hallam, 49, of
Springfield, Mo., who was
gunned down Dec. 14 while
unloading his rental SUV in
a motel parking lot, police
said.
Hallam, his girlfriend, her
sister and at least two chil
dren were visiting Columbus
to watch the girlfriend’s son
graduate from basic train
ing. He was unpacking their
vehicle about 11 p.m. when
Curry and possibly two oth
ers approached him, robbed
him and shot him dead with
a 9 mm pistol, police said.
The assailants left Hallam
face down in the parking lot
with a gunshot wound to the
back of his neck, police said.
In addition to murder,
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Atlanta 61 52 rain
Augusta 73 61 rain
Bainbridge 76 59 t-storm
Brunswick 73 59 pt sunny
Cartersville 63 52 rain
Chattanooga.TN 62 44 rain
Columbus 71 58 rain
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Curry was charged with two
counts of armed robbery, one
count of aggravated assault
and two counts of possession
of a firearm during the com
mission of a crime, his arrest
report stated.
The additional armed rob
bery and possession charg
es stem from the shooting
of Juan Martinez, 23, in
Columbus about 30 minutes
before Hallam was killed.
Martinez was walking
home about 10 p.m. when
he was approached by
three men. He was robbed,
pushed to the ground then
shot in the face, police said.
According to Curry’s arrest
report, Martinez “suffered
serious life-threatening, life
changing injuries.”
Republicans want
tn change name
ATLANTA (AP) - A
Republican lawmaker is try
ing to strip an honor from a
politician named McKinney
- but this time it’s not the
controversial congresswom
an.
Rep. Rich Golick, R-
Smyrna, Gov. Sonny
Perdue’s floor leader in the
House, has filed a bill that
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Dublin 75 57 rain
Duluth 60 51 rain
Gainesville 60 56 rain
Helen 63 52 rain
Lagrange 69 53 rain
Macon 71 57 rain
Marietta 61 51 rain
Milledgeville 70 57 rain
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Los Angeles 68 45 pt sunny
Miami 80 71 mst sunny
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would remove the designa
tion of 1-285 as the James E.
“Billy” McKinney Highway
in Cobb County.
McKinney, a former long
time state lawmaker, is the
father of U.S. Rep. Cynthia
McKinney, who lost her re
election bid in July.
State Rep. Len Walker,
a Republican who repre
sents Gwinnett and part
of Walton County, has also
filed legislation to switch
Cynthia McKinney Parkway
in DeKalb County back to
its original name, Memorial
Drive.
State lawmakers passed
legislation in 2000 designat
ing a stretch of 1-285 as the
James E. “Billy” McKinney
Highway.
Goliek’s resolution would
end the designation of the
Billy McKinney Highway
at the Chattahoochee River
- leaving part of Fulton
County but eliminating the
part of Cobb County it cur
rently covers.
Golick told the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution he
wants to name the Cobb
County portion for Joe Lee
Thompson, a Cobb County
commissioner and former
state senator.
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Savannah 79 58 t-storm
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Statesboro 78 56 t-storm
Thomasville 78 59 t-storm
Valdosta 79 58 t-storm
Warner Robins 72 57 rain
Waycross 80 58 t-storm
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Seattle 46 35 rain
St. Louis 57 44 pt sunny
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2006 ♦
National mourning for
Ford began Friday
By A LLISON HOFFMA N
Associated Press Writer
PALM DESERT, Calif. -
The nation’s six days of for
mal mourning of Gerald R.
Ford, starting Friday after
noon with a private service
for his family, will include a
day of silence on Wall Street,
with the major stock mar
kets closed.
The New York Stock
Exchange announced Friday
that it would join the Nasdaq
in closing on Tuesday, the
day of Ford’s state funeral in
Washington, D.C.
The Wall Street tradition
dates to the 1885 burial of
President Grant and was
last observed after President
Reagan’s death in 2004.
Other U.S. financial markets
were expected to close for at
least part of the day Tuesday
to honor Ford.
In California, tight secu
rity and traffic detours
surrounded St. Margaret’s
Episcopal Church, where
Ford and his family had
worshipped for years after
leaving the White house. A
family prayer service was
scheduled there before the
start of a public viewing that
was expected to draw thou
sands to the resort town of
Palm Desert, 110 miles east
of Los Angeles. Former first
lady Betty Ford, 88, and her
four grown children were to
receive Ford’s casket from
a military honor guard at
the church, where the cou
ple sat in “The President’s
Pew” every Sunday starting
in 1977. Former President
George H.W. Bush and his
wife, Barbara, among oth
ers, had joined the Fords
there over the years.
Mrs. Ford will then
accompany her husband’s
body across the nation for
a series of ceremonies that
includes two funeral services
in Washington and anoth
er in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
where he will be entombed
Wednesday.
Ford died Tuesday at age
93 with his family at his
bedside.
He assumed the presi
dency when Richard Nixon
resigned in 1974 amid the
Watergate scandal, but was
defeated by Jimmy Carter
in the 1976 election. The
Fords began attending St.
Margaret’s after retiring to
Rancho Mirage.
Tight security was planned
at the church, with the
entire campus locked down
for Secret Service sweeps
and surrounding residen
tial streets blocked off. In a
nod to Ford’s Navy service,
a sailor was deputized to fly
the presidential seal from an
ebony staff as Ford’s casket
is taken from the hearse.
People hoping to pay their
respects to the nation’s 38th
president during the public
repose will be shuttled to the
church from a tennis cen
ter several miles away, and
will not be allowed to bring
personal items including
cameras, cell phones, purses
or flowers. After arriving at
Andrews Air Force Base on
Saturday, the coffin will be
taken to the Capitol in a
funeral procession, then car
ried up the steps of the East
Front of the House by a mili
tary escort.
It will then lie in repose
in front of the House cham
ber ahd be carried into the
Rotunda for a ceremony
and public viewing before
being moved to the National
Cathedral for funeral ser
vices there Tuesday. Some
of the most regal touches
of a full state funeral are
being bypassed, by request
of his family and, most like
ly, according to Ford’s own
wishes. In Washington, a
hearse rather than a horse
drawn caisson will drive
Ford’s casket to the Capitol.
Fighter jets will do a fly
over with a “missing man”
maneuver only in Grand
Rapids, where Ford will be
interred on a hillside north
of his presidential museum.
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