Did nuns An A&M

give Giants ‘project’

a hand? C1
comes of
Delta Air Lines to close Huntsville
reservation call center. E1 age. F1
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REMEMBERING STORM VICTIMS

Local
Alabama A&M University
trustees could discuss the
future of the school
President Dr. Robert
Jennings when they gather
on campus today for sub-
committee meetings. B1

The Madison school board

After terror, grief
addresses a couple of hot
topics in a work session: A
proposed drug-testing
policy and the possibility of
building a second high
school. B1

State
A former Madison County
sheriff’s investigator testifies
that Brian Butler fatally shot
Grant Police Chief Verlon
Lemaster and then tried to
shoot him. B2

Sen. Charles Bishop, R-

Jasper, says he won’t sue
over the Senate taking dis-
ciplinary action against him
for punching Sen. Lowell
Barron, D-Fyffe. B2

Nation
Congress passes an emer-
gency plan that rushes
rebates of $600 to $1,200 to
most taxpayers and $300
checks to disabled veterans,
the elderly and other low-
income people. The checks
could begin arriving in May.
A4

The space shuttle Atlantis

launches on an 11-day
mission to the International
Space Station. A5 Eric Schultz/Huntsville Times
Opal Frost comforts Micah Devaney, brother of tornado victim Becky Coleman, as he searches through the rubble of her home for any sentimental items.
A gunman storms a city
council meeting in suburban
St. Louis, killing two police
officers and three other
Little consoles Neighbor’s
people before law enforcers
fatally shoot him. A11

Business
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+ 46.90 + 14.28 + 10.46
Huntsville’s Q-Track Corp.,
formed in 2002, has a
number of patents in the
U.S. and also has secured
related patents in Europe
and China. E1
Sports
Grissom is in second place
and Bob Jones fifth after
the first day of competition
at the state wrestling
championships. F1
Alabama outside lineback-
ers coach Lance Thompson is
named the 2008 Recruiter
of the Year by Rivals.com. F1
family that heroics unable
lost a mother to save woman
By CHALLEN STEPHENS
Times Staff Writer
By PATRICIA C. McCARTER
Times Staff Writer
challen.stephens@htimes.com patricia.mccarter@htimes.com
PISGAH – Linda Tinker carried the phone into FAIRFIELD – Despite the heroism of a selfless
the center-most room of her house early Wednes- young neighbor, Faye Nell McCullough became the
day, telling her daughter that she would be all right. fifth North Alabama victim of Wednesday morning’s
“She did what she was supposed deadly tornado outbreak.
to do,” said her daughter, Leslie Moments after a massive tornado ripped through
In today’s Bell. southeastern Lawrence County, 86-year-old McCul-
lough’s next-door neighbor, Jade Eddy, came to check
Times Sometime after they talked, a Erin Musland/Huntsville Times
• Baby twister raced for 10.9 miles from on her. It was dark, raining and windy, and McCul-
Mike Tinker and Leslie Bell, son and daughter of lough had been thrown from her trailer, which had
found alive Pisgah to Rosalie in Jackson tornado victim Linda Tinker, embrace at the site
among County. According to the Nation- been blown from its base and landed across County
of her home in Pisgah. Road 186.
tornado al Weather Service, the tornado
debris. A5 stretched a half mile at its widest “When I got here, I just couldn’t find her,” Ron- McCullough was breathing, barely.
• Gov. Eddy, 24, found McCullough in the yard. She could-
Riley tours as winds topping 180 mph bowled nie Shelton said Thursday, hands deep in his pock-
over several homes on Sand n’t locate a blanket to place on the elderly woman to
devastated ets, choking back sobs for his sister. shield her from the cold rain, so she lay down on top
areas. B1 Mountain and took Tinker’s life. Shelton lived in a log cabin down the hill from Tin- of her.
Tinker, 60, had lost her husband
ker’s home. After the tornado passed, he emerged to With wind and rain whipping around them, Eddy
a few years ago to lung cancer. Her
children had grown up and moved, raising their own screams. His most immediate neighbors, the Gilberts, held the woman and recited the Lord’s Prayer.
children. She was home alone when the tornado tore had survived unharmed in their basement, although The young woman – who works at Moulton Nurs-
her entire house clear of the foundation.
Please see MOTHER on A12 Please see SAVE on A12

Full weather, E4
Forecast:
Mostly sunny.
High today
Illegal immigrant Father is
58
Low tonight
dying of cancer falls
through the cracks
charged in
boys’ deaths
37 She can’t get aid
without a Social
Security number
Want to help?
An account has been
set up at Compass Bank
Green accused of
killing his son, 10,
and 13-year-old
By NIKI DOYLE
What’s inside to accept donations for Times Staff Writer
Abby/C6 Editorials/A10
By CHALLEN STEPHENS Katarina under the name niki.doyle@htimes.com
Times Staff Writer of the Golden Angel
Bridge/C6 Horoscope/C6 challen.stephens@htimes.com Medical Fund. Checks can
Tu e s d a y
Business/E1 Life/C1
At the age of 15 and five be mailed to: Compass night, Kishon
Classifieds/D1 Lotteries/A2
months pregnant, Katarina Bank, P.O. Box 127, Green threw
Comics/C7 Movies/C8 Huntsville, AL 35804. Glenn Baeske/Huntsville Times back a few
People/C6 walked across the U.S. border
Crossword
and into the Arizona desert. “Katarina,” an immigrant from Guatemala, holds one of her shots with
puzzles/C6, D3 Sports/F1 “Boogie”
Seven years later, she rests in sons at Huntsville Hospital. She was diagnosed with acute
Cryptoquote/C6 Sudoku/D9 Dr. Richard Gualtieri, her on- leukemia last month. Hatcher and
Deaths/B3 Television/E4 a bed in Huntsville Hospital,
her hair thinning from a first cologist at Huntsville Hospital: celebrated
cycle of chemotherapy. “You don’t have any govern- time, they are humans.” pital doesn’t withhold care landing a job
Huntsville, Alabama ment services. You can’t fit into The problem isn’t emer- from illegal immigrants. interview. He Suspect
Her doctors say she could die
Vol. 98, No. 323, 48 pages
Contents © 2008, The Huntsville Times soon for want of a valid Social an indigent program. You’re gency care. Huntsville Hospi- “The problem we’re having told his friend Kishon Green
Security number. stuck.” tal reported $50 million in serv- is, what to do when she leaves that he want-
Without that number, said “These individuals are illegal ices for patients without in-
aliens,” he said, “but, at the same surance last year. And the hos- Please see CANCER on A11 Please see KILLING on A12