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State Briefs
State stopping new
Peach Care patients
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia’s
community health commis
sioner announced Thursday
that the state will stop
enrolling new children in its
Peach Care health insurance
program for low-income
families due to a shortfall in
federal funds.
Rhonda Medows, head
of the Department of
Community Health, said she
made the announcement
of the freeze with “a heavy
heart.”
“The children already in
the program will continue
to receive services as long as
the funding lasts,” she said
at a board meeting.
“We have not given up,”
Medows added. She said she
hoped Congress would still
work to provide the needed
money.
Gov. Sonny Perdue trav
eled to Washington recent
ly to lobby for additional
funds. The state is facing a
sl3l million shortfall in fed
eral money. President Bush’s
budget did not include the
extra funds.
State officials have said
the program could run out
of money as soon as next
month. Key state lawmak
ers have said they will pro
tect the program even if it
requires an infusion of state
cash.
Georgia is one of at least 14
states facing a federal short
fall for its state Childrens
Health Insurance Program.
Lawmakers push
for protection
ATLANTA (AP) - Vowing
to protect Georgia’s coast
al resources, lawmakers
unveiled two measures on
Wednesday that would bar
construction near tidal
marshes and preserve state
owned Jekyll Island as a
resort for average residents.
The pair of proposals join a
growing number of measures
expected to be considered by
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lawmakers faced with strik
ing a balance between explo
sive growth along Georgia’s
coast and preserving the
delicate marsh ecosystem.
The first proposal would
ban developers from build
ing too close to marshland
by placing a 50-foot buffer
along the tidal land.
The measure, sponsored
by Republican state Rep.
Harry Geisinger, follows
a surprising decision last
month by the board of the
state Department of Natural
Resources to drop a plan to
limit the marsh protections
to 25 feet after environ
mentalists warned it wasn’t
strong enough.
The second plan aims
to preserve Jekyll Island
as a place where average
Georgians can visit “without
taking out a mortgage on
their home,” said state Rep.
A 1 Williams, a Democrat
from southeast Georgia who
sponsored the resolution.
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Charges dropped in
rescue case
LAGRANGE (AP) - A
west-Georgia prosecutor has
decided not to pursue false
imprisonment and aggravat
ed sodomy charges against a
man who had been accused
of sexually abusing a teenag
er he met over the Internet.
But Ted Roy Williams, 59,
of Hogansville, still faces
charges of sexual exploita
tion of children and attempt
ed child molestation that
stem from two other cases,
authorities said.
Pete Skandalakis, dis
trict attorney of the Coweta
Judicial Circuit, and chief
assistant Monique Kirby
said there was “insufficient
reliable evidence” to pursue
the imprisonment and sod
omy charges.
“We had evidence that
could not be substantiated,”
Skandalakis said Tuesday,
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noting that the alleged vic
tim was 17 and came to
Georgia voluntarily from
Massachusetts.
But Williams was indicted
Monday on four counts of
sexual exploitation of chil
dren. Agents said they found
four photos depicting minors
“engaged in sexually explicit
conduct.”
A judge has ordered the
photos sealed to protect the
children.
Williams also was indicted
on attempted child molesta
tion charges because of a
July 2005 incident in which
he allegedly propositioned a
14-year-old boy in a rest
room at LaGrange Mall.
Williams was arrested in
September after a 17-year
old Massachusetts boy he
met on MySpace.com sent
a text message to his family
claiming he was being held
against his will on the man’s
west Georgia sheep farm,
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Obituaries
CLAUDINE POWELL SMITH
WARNER ROBINS - Claudine Powell Smith, 78, passed
away Tuesday. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m.
today in the chapel of Heritage Memorial Funeral Home.
Burial will be private. Smith was born in Cleveland, Tenn.
Survivors include her daughters: Charlotte (Phillip) Bell
of Warner Robins and Lisa Smith of Kennesaw, four siblings,
a grandson and two great grandsons.
GABY J. HOWARD
BONAIRE - Gary J. Howard, 57, passed away Tuesday.
Graveside funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at
Parkway Memorial Gardens. Howard was born in Salina,
Kansas to the late James and Bertie Williams Howard.
Survivors include his siblings: Fred (Linda) Howard of
Bonaire, Donna (Bruce) Baldwin and Barbara Howard all of
Warner Robins.
HAZEL SOLOMON COLLINS
PERRY - Hazel Colomon Collins died Saturday. Service
will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Greater Word of Deliverance
with interment at King Chapem Cemetery.
Survivors include son Darryl and four siblings.
Norwood leaving Washington
for hospice care in Augusta
WASHINGTON (AP)
- Rep. Charlie Norwood
said Wednesday he is leav
ing Washington to receive
hospice care at home in
Augusta, declining further
treatment for lung cancer
that has spread to his liver.
Norwood's spokesman,
John Stone, said the seven
term Republican is not resign
ing his seat in Congress, but
he said Norwood has decided
to be home with his fam
ily and “put it in the Lord’s
hands.”
“He has spent three
months just sick as a dog
and finally just said, ‘That’s
it. I’m going home,”’ Stone
said. “The goal now is to
make him as comfortable as
he can be ... for as long as
the Lord will let him stay
with us, and nobody knows
how long that will be.”
Stone said Norwood would
re-evaluate the situation
after returning home and
that he was not ruling out
further treatment if he feels
better. Norwood’s congres
sional office will continue
operating “as if he’s sitting
in the next room,” Stone
said.
Norwood, 65, is fighting
his second bout with cancer
since receiving a lung trans
plant in 2004. He suffers
from idiopathic pulmonary
fibrosis, a chronic lung dis
ease.
The cancer is believed to be
a side effect of immune sup
pression drugs he takes as a
result of the transplant.
Last year, doctors dis
covered a small cancerous
tumor on his non-trans
planted lung. They removed
the cancer with surgery, but
then discovered more cancer
on his liver when Norwood
returned to Washington
after the November election,
in which Norwood easily
won re-election.
In a press release, Stone
said Norwood will leave
Washington as soon as
an air ambulance flight
can be arranged, possi
bly by Thursday. The fam
ily requested continued
prayers.
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