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State Briefs
Two dead, 14 hurt
in van crash
LaGRANGE (AP) - Two
women were killed and 14
injured when a van carrying
20 Hispanic women crashed
in west Georgia.
State troopers said it
happened about 11 a.m.
Sunday, two miles south of
Hogansville.
Identities of the dead were
being withheld pending noti
fication of relatives, Coroner
Jeff Cook said Monday.
Authorities were told
that the women, who didn’t
speak English, were return
ing to the Norcross area
from a trip to Florida. The
2001 Dodge Ram van went
off the northbound lanes
and crashed into some pine
trees.
One passenger said a tire
blew out, but there was
no evidence of that, state
trooper Chris Norman said.
All the tires still had air in
them, Norman said.
The driver, identified as
Maria Mejica-Melgar, 41, of
Norcross was conscious at
the scene.
Seven women were flown
by helicopter and seven
others went by ambulance
to West Georgia Medical
Center, Columbus Medical
Center and Grady Hospital
in Atlanta.
Hogansville is 51 miles
southwest of Atlanta, about
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Brunswick 52 47 rain
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midway between Atlanta
and Columbus.
Suspects create
explosion diversion
STOCKBRIDGE (AP)
- Four men exploded swim
ming pool chemicals at a
Wal-Mart as a distraction to
avoid a shoplifting arrest,
creating a cloud that sent
four people to the hospital,
authorities said.
The men apparently were
trying to shoplift a toy on
Sunday evening. A store
employee saw one of the
young men put a toy inside
his pants.
While the employee was
trying to get help, the men
went to the area where
swimming pool chemicals
were stocked and mixed a
chlorine-based chemical
with another item.
It caused a small explosion
and released white cloud
inside the store, said Lt.
Jason Bolton of the Henry
County police.
“They made their escape
in the chaos that ensued,”
Bolton said. “It’s just hard
to believe they did some
thing like this to shoplift
something as insignificant
as a toy.”
Four people, including
an employee, were taken to
the hospital for respiratory
problems. Three others were
treated by emergency work
ers outside the store.
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Houston 44 32 frz rain
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Miami 79 69 rain
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New York 30 24 sunny
Bolton said the men turned
a shoplifting misdemeanor
into more serious charges,
including “one of terroristic
acts.]’
New ethics rules
face stiff test
ATLANTA (AP) - A scan
dalous ethics complaint filed
against the leader of the
Georgia House could be the
first true test of a new sys
tem formed to handle allega
tions targeting legislators.
When Gov. Sonny Perdue
pushed through his ethics
reform law in 2005, legis
lators insisted on policing
themselves rather than
allowing an independent
body to weigh complaints.
Now the Joint Legislative
Ethics Committee - which
has yet to hear a single com
plaint - is poised to make its
first case a memorable one.
It could soon debate an
accusation from the Georgia
Democratic Party claim
ing that Republican House
Speaker Glenn Richardson
had “an inappropriate rela
tionship” with an unnamed
lobbyist and co-sponsored
legislation benefiting the
lobbyist’s company.
Eric Johnson, the Senate
Republican leader who leads
the committee, said he would
take the complaint seriously,
and he turned heads this
week when he said the fledg
ling group would have the
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legal authority to call wit
nesses.
Democrats remain skep
tical. Dußose Porter, the
House’s top Democrat,
vowed he wouldn’t let the
issue go away until fully
investigated. Bobby Kahn,
the party’s state chairman,
warned the commission
should “not make up rules
as it goes along in order to
escape giving it the atten
tion it deserves.”
Ethics oversight groups,
meanwhile, consider
this a test case for ruling
Republicans. “It’s an oppor
tunity for them to show
they are serious about polic
ing themselves,” said Bill
Bozarth, the head of gov
ernment watchdog group
Common Cause.
The complaint, filed last
week on the opening day
of the legislative session,
claimed that the unnamed
lobbyist worked for Atlanta
Gas Light, which was push
ing legislation that would
have passed along the costs
for a S3OO million pipe
line project to ratepayers.
Richardson was co-spon
sor of the measure, which
passed in the House but died
in the Senate.
Yet the written complaint
provided no evidence of a
relationship, noting simply
that it was “common knowl
edge” around the state
Capitol.
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Obituaries
BLANCHE THOMPSON
CENTERVILLE r Blanche Thompson, 93, died Saturday.
Survivors include her daughters, Beverly Ann Thomas, Snow
Camp, N.C., and Norma Grace Watson, Centerville. Services
will be held today at 2 p.m. at McCullough Funeral Home
with entombment following in Magnolia Park Mausoleum.
Memorials may be made to Joy in the Journey, Central
Baptist Church 1120 Lake Joy Road, Warner Robins, GA
31088 or to Hospice Care Options 1125 Walnut Street,
Macon, GA 31201.
WARNER ROBINS - Cynthia M. Kinard, 65, passed
away Friday. Survivors include her children, Cecilia Cohen
(Brian), Guyton; Nancy Jaindl (Chris), Gray; Del McDowell
(Ronnie), Elko and Cindy Felch (Shawn), Warner Robins;
13 grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and her aunt,
Jeanette Harrison of Macon. Go to www.mcculloughfh.com
to sign the Online Registry for the family. McCullough
Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
MLK's oldest daughter: 'We must
keep reaching across the table'
ATLANTA (AP) - The
eldest daughter of Martin
Luther King Jr. and Coretta
Scott King evoked the civil
rights movement while
reminding those remem
bering her parents that
America has not yet reached
the promised land of peace
and racial equality.
“We must keep reaching
across the table and, in the
tradition of Martin Luther
King Jr. and Coretta Scott
King, feed each other,”
Yolanda King said Sunday
at Ebenezer Baptist Church
during a presentation that
was part motivational
speech, part drama.
King, 51, spoke a day
before Monday’s celebration
of the civil rights leader’s
birthday, the first since the
death last year of Coretta
Scott King.
Yolanda King told The
Associated Press the holiday
provides an opportunity for
everyone to live her father’s
dream, and that she has her
mother’s example to follow.
“I connected with her spir
it so strongly,” she said when
asked how she is coping with
her mother’s loss. “I am in
direct contact with her spir
it, and that has given me so
much peace and so much
strength.”
The stage and television
actress performed a series
of scenes that told stories
including a girl’s first ride
on a desegregated bus and a
college student’s recollection
of the 1963 desegregation
of Birmingham, Ala. After
the performance _ attended
by members of the extended
family and Yolanda’s sis
ter, the Rev. Bernice King
Yolanda King and her
aunt, Christine King Farris,
signed copies of their books,
and Bernice King posed for
photographs with attendees.
On Monday, Ebenezer
Baptist Church, where King
preached from 1960 to 1968,
was to be the venue for more
remembrances and speech
es. The keynote speaker was
to be Dr. Otis Moss Sr., pas
tor of Olivet Institutional
Baptist Church.
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efforts were to mark the
King holiday, some invoking
the Iraq War, the conflict
in Sudan and local tensions
surrounding, the fatal police
shooting of a black groom.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
the Rev. A 1 Sharpton and
Gov. Eliot Spitzer were
expected to attend a forum,
joining Nicole Paultre-Bell,
whose fiancee was killed by
police in a barrage of 50 bul
lets in November.
The Rev. Herbert Daughtry,
the national minister of the
House of the Lord Churches,
said he would lead an act
of civil disobedience outside
the Sudan Mission in New
York.
New Yorkers also planned
to volunteer on the holiday
in a spirit of service, such
as knitting blankets for
babies born to mothers with
HIV/AIDS, painting murals,
building homes, revitalizing
their community and mak
ing fleece scarves for the
homeless. This year’s holi
day comes on the day King
would have turned 78. King
was assassinated while
standing on the balcony of a
hotel in Memphis, Tenn., on
April 4, 1968. His confessed
killer, James Earl Ray, was
arrested two months later in
London.
Coretta Scott King died
last year on Jan. 31 at age 78.
An activist in her own right,
she also fought to shape and
preserve her husband’s lega
cy after his death.
Shortly after his death, she
founded what would become
the Martin Luther King Jr.
Center for Nonviolent Social
Change. For years, she
worked to establish Jan. 15
as a federal holiday, which
became a reality in 1986.
“When you see the com
mitment my parents exhib
ited ... it was not for fame or
fortune,” Yolanda King said.
“The best sermons are those
that are lived.”
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