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investigating
Reed Ridge Local florist delivers flowers,
Circle shooting joy out of house on the hill
No suspects in custody;
victim in hospital
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT

Starkville police are looking for

suspects in an early-morning shoot-
ing on Reed Ridge Circle, Public In-
formation Officer Brandon Lovela-
dy told The Dispatch this morning.
SPD responded to a call of shots
fired outside a residence at 4:43
a.m., Lovelady said. The victim
was taken to a hospital outside
Starkville for further treatment for
their injuries.
Lovelady said the victim is a
29-year-old male.
No arrests have been made at
this time.
Anyone with information on the
shooting is asked to call SPD at
662-323-4131 or Golden Triangle
Crime Stoppers at 800-530-7151.

UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME

Analysis: Public
health officials Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff
Monti King, owner of Flowers by the Bunch in Starkville for 15 years, poses for a portrait in her workshop Wednes-
under strain day afternoon. Monti and her husband, Jason, run the shop out of a house on the hill near the intersection of
Louisville Street and Highway 12. Passionate about floral design, Monti said she enjoys seeing fresh life in the
amid pandemic store every day. “Every flower is different,” she said.

Mississippi had about Monti King: ‘Every

4,000 coronavirus single day is different’
deaths by late last week BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com

BY EMILY WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mis-
sissippi public health
officials are working
long hours during
the coronavirus pan-
demic, providing
information about
caseloads and giving
warnings that many
Dobbs
people choose to simply ignore.
The strain has been evident for
months on the face of the state
health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs,
an infectious disease specialist who
served as Mississippi’s state epide-
miologist before being named to
the top job in the state Health De-
partment in 2018.
Like many at the Health Depart-
ment, Dobbs has had little time off
work since the first coronavirus
cases were found in Mississippi in
March. He and the current state ep-
idemiologist, Dr. Paul Byers, have
appeared at dozens of news confer-
ences to answer questions about
COVID-19 — sometimes with Gov.
Tate Reeves and sometimes with
other physicians from the Missis-
sippi State Medical Association.
During an online news confer-
ence last week, a reporter from
WTVA-TV in Tupelo said a local
physician had questioned the accu-
racy of the rapidly rising numbers
of coronavirus cases by suggesting
that one person being tested three
times counts as three cases. The
See ANALYSIS, 3A
M
onti King bent down and
extended her hand to put
Todd at ease. The 4-year-
old Chihuahua stood at the door
and stared back at his owner, his
paws scratching the door frame.
“He’s telling us, ‘It’s time to go
home,’” King said of Todd, giggling.
Todd was looking forward to
the closing hour Wednesday of
Flowers by the Bunch, a Starkville
floral shop King and her husband,
Jason, have owned for 15 years. The
couple started the business togeth- Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff
Monti King pets her 4-year-old Chihuahua, Todd, who she said is looking
er out of a storefront on Jackson
forward to going home at sundown Wednesday afternoon. King jokingly
Street, Monti said, which had been
calls Todd “fat cat” and “sweet boy.”
a 25-year balloon shop named “Bal-
loons by Chi Chi.”
makeshift workshop. What used to the solution to an algebra problem.
At the time, she said, her young-
be a bedroom is now a walk-in cool- The teacher, however, told her to
est son, Micah, was only six weeks
er, where Monti stores fresh flowers pay attention.
old.
she orders weekly from Miami. “She pointed her finger and she
“He came to the flower shop with
“We are kind of secluded, but it’s said, ‘Monti, I’ve gone over that
us,” Monti said.
worked perfectly for our business problem three times. You should
Three years later, the Kings
model,” Monti said. have listened,’” Monti said. “After
moved their business to where it
is right now — a yellow house on class, I went up to her and I said
the hill on Louisville Street near its Nurturing: From children … ‘I have dyslexia and it doesn’t
intersection with Highway 12. Until to flowers always come easy. I promise I was
the couple bought it, the house Monti found floral design unex- listening. Could you go over it one
used to be her sons’ day care, Monti pectedly. Diagnosed with dyslexia more time?’”
said. at the age of 5, she dreamed of be- The confidence to confront her
It is out of that very yellow house coming a special education teacher teacher, Monti said, came from
where Monti designs floral arrange- for children with learning disabili- her mother, Frankie Winston, who
ments for weddings, birthdays, fu- ties — a dream born out of her own cheered her on, studied with her
nerals and holidays and hands them struggle. and told her she was capable of
to Jason for delivery. Compared to “Anything to do with learning success. That was something she
a common gift shop, Monti said the was hard,” Monti said. hoped to pass onto her students and
house is reclusive — but sufficient. Monti remembers asking her kids, she said.
The room facing west is now a seventh grade teacher to explain See KING, 6A

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Clouds and sun
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Senator says Trump, McConnell

likely to back COVID-19 relief
Package, which won’t include $1,200 payments to on Friday had expressed hope that
a second wave might come after
most Americans, attached to a year-end spending weekend negotiations.
But senators involved in the talks
bill needed to avert a government shutdown said the checks won’t be included
as part of the compromise, even as
BY HOPE YEN mistic that both those leaders will Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and oth-
The Associated Press come on board.” ers said that could cause them to
With time running out, lawmak- oppose the measure.
WASHINGTON — A proposed ers from both parties were closing Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the
COVID-19 relief bill is expected to in on the final language that would second-ranking Democrat, indicat-
get backing from President Donald provide roughly $300 in extra feder- ed that excluding the checks while
Trump and Senate Majority Leader al weekly unemployment benefits, assuring small-business aid and
Mitch McConnell but it won’t in- leaving the issue of cash payments renters’ assistance was the only
clude $1,200 in direct payments to for President-elect Joe Biden to way to reach agreement with Re-
most Americans, a Republican sen- wrestle over with a new Congress publicans who are putting firm lim-
ator involved in the bipartisan talks next year. its on the bill’s final price tag.
says. The package to be released Mon- “The $1,200 check, it cost we
“President Trump has indicated day would be attached to a larger believe nationally $300 billion, to
that he would sign a $908 billion year-end spending bill needed to give you an idea,” he said. “The
package — there’s only one $908 avert a government shutdown this Democrats have always wanted a
billion package out there and it’s coming weekend. larger number, but we were told we
ours,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said The direct payments were popu- couldn’t get anything through the
Sunday. “The pain of the American lar when they were first distributed Republicans, except this $900 bil-
people is driving this, and I’m opti- after the pandemic hit, and Biden lion level.”

GOP White House hopefuls wait to see what Trump does next
‘Trump is delaying the start of the
2024 campaign in a significant way’
Republican operative Alex Conant
BY JILL COLVIN of courting fundraisers,
The Associated Press building networks and vis-
iting early-voting states
WASHINGTON — as communications direc-
— the usual campaign
When a party loses the
planning steps — for fear
White House, a new crop
of angering Trump and
of presidential hopefuls
risking turning off his
typically begin moving
large and loyal base.
quickly to lay the ground-
And that’s just the
work for a run in the next
way the president likes
campaign. it, ensuring he stays in
Not this year. the spotlight and gener-
President Donald ating the cash and media
Trump’s increasingly coverage he craves. But
overt flirtations with run- strategists say Trump is
ning again in 2024 are essentially leaving the
freezing the potentially party in a holding pattern,
vast field of Republican with could-be-candidates
candidates. GOP White unable to prepare as they
House hopefuls are essen- try to avoid crossing a
tially left to watch what notoriously unforgiving
Trump does next instead president who has an
enormous Twitter bull-
horn and little tolerance
for perceived disloyalty.
“Trump is delaying the
start of the 2024 campaign
in a significant way,” said
Alex Conant, a Republi-
can operative who served
tor to Florida Sen. Marco
Rubio’s 2016 presidential
campaign. In a normal
campaign cycle, Conant
said, “you would see po-
tential presidential can-
didates in Iowa and New
Hampshire this month.”
This year, “That’s not go-
ing to happen because no-
body wants to be seen as
challenging Trump.”
Grover Cleveland was
the last — and so far only
— president to win the
White House after being
defeated for reelection,
and that was more than a
century ago. Trump has
been increasingly vocal
about his desire to follow
that path.
“I don’t want to wait till
2024. I want to go back
three weeks,” he said at
a rally Saturday evening
in Georgia. That followed
comments during a White
House Christmas par-
ty this past week when
Trump said, “We’re trying
to do another four years.
Otherwise, I’ll see you in
four years.”
Such overtures are
particularly problematic
for the current and for-
mer administration offi-
cials considered among
the likely contenders,
including Vice President
Mike Pence, Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo and
Trump’s former ambassa-
dor to the United Nations,
Nikki Haley.
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Schools confront ‘off the rails’ numbers of failing grades

Number of students failing classes has risen with many keeping their camer-
as off during Zoom sessions.
struggling students for in-per-
son learning and in some cases
were told to give 50s instead of
0s to make it less punitive for
by as many as two or three times — with The increase in failing grades
has been seen in districts of all
changing grading policies and
giving students more time to
disengaged students, eighth-
grade English teacher Jody
English language learners and disabled and sizes around the country. complete assignments. Stallings said. “I’m an English
At Jespersen’s school in the Jespersen said his school be- teacher, not a math teacher, but
disadvantaged students suffering the most Salem-Keizer Public School gan to see grades improve after I’ve learned zeros are very, very
district, hundreds of students bringing groups of 300 students devastating to an average,” he
BY CAROLYN THOMPSON us, and that was obviously very initially had not just Fs, but into the building in small co- said.
The Associated Press alarming,” said Erik Jespersen, grade scores of 0.0 percent, in- horts to receive support from Most of the failing grades he
principal of Oregon’s McNary dicating they simply were not teachers, although that recently gives out come from missing
The first report cards of the
High School, where 38 percent participating in school at all. In stopped because of the region’s assignments, not assignments
school year are arriving with
of grades in late October were New Mexico, more than 40 per- rising coronavirus cases. Advi- that were turned in with a lot of
many more Fs than usual in a
failing, compared with 8 per- cent of middle and high school sory teams increased contact wrong answers.
dismal sign of the struggles
students are experiencing with cent in normal times. students were failing at least with students, and teachers “You talk to them later and
distance learning. Educators see a number of one class as of late October. In were asked to temporarily stop they say, `You know I just didn’t
School districts from coast to factors at play: Students learn- Houston, 42 percent of students assigning graded homework. do it. I didn’t know the answer
coast have reported the number ing from home skip assign- received at least one F in the Parents of Hispanic students so I just didn’t do it,’” said Stall-
of students failing classes has ments — or school altogether. first grading period of the year. were invited for a session to ings, who teaches most of his
risen by as many as two or three Internet access is limited or Nearly 40 percent of grades for learn how to access their chil- students in person and the rest
times — with English language inconsistent, making it difficult high school students in St. Paul, dren’s grades online. online simultaneously at Moul-
learners and disabled and disad- to complete and upload assign- Minnesota, were Fs, double the In Charleston, South Caroli- trie Middle School. “When you
vantaged students suffering the ments. And teachers who don’t amount in a typical year. na, administrators and teachers have a kid in person, he’s going
most. see their students in person In response schools have are raising the possibility of to take the test ... Even if he
“It was completely off the have fewer ways to pick up on been ramping up outreach ef- adjusting grading the way they doesn’t know anything, he has
rails from what is normal for who is falling behind, especially forts, prioritizing the return of did in spring, where instructors a chance.”

The following arrests

were made by Lowndes
County Sheriff’s Office:
n Kendrick Bowden,
28, was charged with bur-
glary.
n Joshua Eads, 40, was
charged with possession
of methamphetamine.
n Mark Franklin, 30,
was charged with posses-
sion of methamphetamine,
improper equipment and
failure to appear.
n Jamal Halbert, 27,
was charged with fleeing
or eluding in a motor ve-
hicle.
n Anthony Harton, 39,
was charged with posses-
sion of cocaine.
n Christopher James,
32, was charged with pos-
session of methamphet-
amine and public drunk-
enness.
n Tykeasia Miller, 19,
was charged with felony
stalking.
n John Reeves, 36, was
charged with felony con-
spiracy to commit a crime
and burglary.
n Justin Sanders, 30,
was charged with bur-
glary.
n Johnathan Shumak-
er, 30, was charged with
possession of a weapon by
a felon and possession of
paraphernalia.
AREA ARRESTS
EPA says flood control
project not subject
to previous veto
Bowden Eads Franklin Halbert Harton James New environmental impact
statement reverses the Corps’
own previous report that had said
the project would hurt wetlands
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press
Miller Reeves Sanders Shumaker Williams Jones
JACKSON — The U.S. Environmental Protec-
tion Agency does not object to a revised proposal
for a massive flood-control project to pump water
from parts of the Mississippi Delta, a regional ad-
ministrator for the agency says.
That’s significant because the EPA vetoed the
Yazoo Backwater Project in 2008.
On Oct. 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Young Howard Cooper McCoy Ward Smith published a draft of a new environmental impact
statement that supports the project, reversing the
n Earnest Williams, resisting arrest and pos- na. Corps’ own previous report that had said the proj-
28, was charged with pos- session of marijuana. n Earnest Cooper, 48, ect would hurt wetlands.
session of meth with in- n Jeremy Young, 23, was charged with pos- Mary S. Walker, an EPA regional administrator
tent to distribute. was charged with posses- session of controlled sub- in Atlanta, wrote Monday that the Corps of En-
sion of a stolen firearm, stance. gineers’ new proposal “provides information and
The following arrests DUI first offense and pos- n Dkerius McCoy, 22, analysis regarding a similar but different Yazoo
were made by the Oktib- session of marijuana. was charged with robbery. Pumps Project than was previously analyzed.”
beha County Sheriff’s Of- n Demarcus Howard, n Kenney Ward, 34 Walker wrote that the current version of the
fice: 30, was charged with sale was charged with aggra- project, which calls for pumps at Deer Creek north
n Kyle Jones, 25, was of cocaine, sale of meth- vated domestic assault. of Vicksburg, is not subject to the EPA’s 2008 veto.
charged with disorderly amphetamine, possession n Jennifer Smith, 34, The vetoed plan proposed pumps in other loca-
conduct on school prop- of controlled substance was charged with a circuit tions.
erty, disorderly conduct, and possession of marijua- court order. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in
April 2019 that the agency would reconsider the
decision that blocked the project. The Corps of
Engineers’ recent impact statement said new re-
search shows the project is “not anticipated to con-

Analysis
Continued from Page 1A
station reported that the
person making this as-
sertion was the director
of some urgent care clin-
ics in Tupelo — someone
who, it turns out, is not a
physician but does work
in the health care indus-
try.
Dobbs responded loud-
ly, with anger and frustra-
tion in his voice.
“What a bunch of bull
crap,” Dobbs said. “How
many times do I have to
tell people? ... One person
is a case. If you tested a
person 3,000 times, it’s
one case. Quit buying
into crazy nonsense. This
is dangerous. People are
dying. Quit making up
stupid excuses, all right?
... We’re working here all
night and people are mak-
ing up B.S. Unbelievable.”
Dobbs has repeatedly
expressed frustration at
people’s insistence on at-
tending social events and
extracurricular school ac-
tivities, including sports
competitions.
“Our hierarchy of pri-
oritization is extreme-
ly stupid,” Dobbs said
during a Nov. 13 briefing
with the medical associa-
tion. “‘We’re prioritizing
youth sports, not only
over academics. We’re ac-
tually prioritizing it over
community health, just to
be honest.
“And I’m not saying
there’s no intrinsic value
to sports,” Dobbs said. “I
love sports. ... But some-
times we’ve got to take
a break. Sometimes we
have to modify our stuff.
And, you know, people
lost their minds when
you couldn’t have ... stadi-
ums full of football folks.
Please, everybody do a
little soul searching and
understand: are we mak-
ing the right decision
with this? We are all con-
nected.”
Mississippi’s popula-
tion is just under 3 million,
and the state had about
4,000 coronavirus deaths
by late last week. That’s
more than one death for
every 1,000 residents —
a grim marker the state
passed weeks ago.
The Mississippi State
Medical Association is-
sued a statement Nov. 25
supporting physicians
vert any wetlands into non-wetlands.”
Environmental groups remain opposed to the
Yazoo Backwater Project. They’ve said for de-
cades that it would be an expensive boondoggle
that would hurt wetlands to help agribusiness.
who have called on the that the mask conversa-
American Rivers, Audubon Mississippi,
governor to reinstate a tion is distracting from Healthy Gulf and Mississippi Sierra Club said in a
statewide mask mandate. the real threat” — people joint statement Wednesday: “The EPA’s last-ditch
“The COVID-19 pan- carrying on with parties effort to modify the veto and greenlight the Yazoo
demic has impacted and other nonessential pumps project defies the science, sidesteps the law,
health care delivery at ev- activities while the virus and undermines critical protections Americans
ery level,” said Dr. Claude
is rampant. hold dear for all of our nation’s natural resources.”
Brunson, the association
director. “Our state’s
health care system can-
not continue to bear the
overwhelming strain of
the outbreak at its current
state.”
From early August
through late September,
Reeves had an executive
order requiring people
in all parts of Mississippi
to wear masks in public
places. Since the order ex-
pired, the Republican gov-
ernor has required masks
in counties with the high-
est rates of virus trans-
mission. By last week, he
had a mask mandate in 54
of the 82 counties.
Dobbs, as head of
the Health Department,
works closely with the
governor and has not
publicly second-guessed
Reeves on mask policies.
During the news confer-
ence with Byers last week,
Dobbs said: “I’m worried
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4A MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020
POSSUMHAW
Shake up your space
“I like houses to be cozy,
comfortable, and personal.
Not cluttered, but filled with
interesting objects and toys
and as many jokes as I can
get away with.”
— Candice Bergen,
American actress
H
ere at the Prairie
house we’ve been
sheltering for about
nine months now. It’s not Shannon Bardwell
particularly hard when you
enjoy being a homebody.
Some days pass slowly, but not many.
Perhaps we move slower and find
ourselves in projects we hadn’t intend-
ed. Then before you know it the sun is
sinking and the sunroom starts to feel
a bit chilly. It’s time to pull out a book,
a newspaper, a magazine, or one of a
zillion of catalogs found in the mailbox
each day. The days have also given time all very simple and drawn from items
for observing things around the house
needing attention. Sam noticed water
pooling in the corner of the upstairs
shower only to find some rotting wood
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
In response to Boden letter
to the editor and claims
of widespread voter fraud
Your letter wasn’t addressed to
me, but your questions have a lot to
do with our democracy, and moreso
with free elections, which I believe
Trump won’t stop at anything to
tear down, including weakening or
poisoning our democracy, or even
starting a war to stay in power. So,
I’m responding.
It’s a fact that most Republicans
believe what Trump says, and I don’t
believe anything he says, because he
is a proven pathological liar.
Roger Stone, who went to jail for
lying to the FBI, one of Trump’s allies
that he pardoned, still being loyal to
Trump, said North Korean boats de-
livered ballots through a Maine har-
bor, as Trump boosts fraud claims.
Of 50-plus cases Trump and his
lawyers have tried to prove voting
fraud, they’ve only won one, which
made no difference in the count; 30
have been dismissed with the rest
still pending.
Statement by Boden: Trump had
no more chance of winning Georgia
than local FDR-era Democrats had of
influencing the votes in this area.
The votes have been counted
three times in Georgia, and officials
in Georgia said it reaffirmed what
they already knew: Georgia voters
selected Joe Biden to be their next
president.
Trump, on a phone call to the
Georgia governor, asked him to help
subvert (steal) election. Proves his
niece was correct when she said
Trump has never been where he
couldn’t lie, steal, cheat or buy him-
self out of a problem until now.
Trump and his allies paid the state
of Wisconsin $3 million to recount
votes in two counties, and Biden
gained 72 votes.
You questioned the surveillance
camera video in Fulton County, Geor-
gia, after poll watchers were told the
counting had ended for the night and
sent home. But the counters didn’t
leave.
They proceeded to remove suit
case after suit case, filled with illegal
ballots, from beneath a table for con-
tinued counting.
The video showed regular ballot
containers on wheels, not suitcases,
and both a state investigator and
an independent monitor observed
counting until it was done for the
night, finding no evidence of improp-
er ballots, state and county officials
said on Friday.
Here’s a Google search that may
help: How Trump supporters spread
false claims.
Another search: Republican law-
maker likens Trump vote fraud circus
to the search for Bigfoot.
James Hodges
Steens
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beneath. The project result-
ed in moving all the daily
accoutrements from the
shower to the guest bath-
room. The move and the use
of another bathroom felt like
we were a guest in our own
home. Not really a bad thing,
as it broke up a little of the
daily humdrum.
Further investigation
of the shower leak proved
the problem needed to be
addressed from beneath
the shower floor which
would involve removing a portion of the
ceiling from the breakfast nook below.
The breakfast table was removed to the
sunroom. The dining experience now
included a view of nature through the
windows on three sides. Tablecloths
were changed to reflect Thanksgiving,
followed by a Christmas setting. It was
we already had, but the changes in
the physical appearance and the daily
schedule gave a little pep to the day, a
break from nine months of monotony.
WASHINGTON
Trump’s first victim — truth
T
he photo looks faked.
It’s so heavy-handed.
A grinning Austra-
lian soldier, his insignia
clear as day on his helmet
and arm, stands on the
Australian flag holding a
small, barefoot Afghan child
in front of him. He grasps a
bloody knife to the child’s
throat. The caption reads
“Don’t be afraid, we are
coming to bring you peace!” Mona Charen
This not particularly
well-disguised piece of propaganda (it’s
the work of Chinese graphic artist Fu
Yu, aka Qilin) was posted to Twitter
by the government of China, part of a
broad-based campaign China is waging
against Australia. Why? Simple: Austra- duce phony images and doctored videos
lia has told the truth.
Marise Payne, Australia’s foreign
minister, delivered a scathing speech
to the U.N. Human Rights Council in
September outlining China’s many
human rights abuses, including the mal- — which is why we have much damage
treatment of Uighurs and the repressive to our own standing to repair.
measures China has lately adopted
toward Hong Kong. This has infuriated
Beijing, which has retaliated by impos-
ing sanctions against a lengthening
list of Australian products, and now, a
disinformation attack.
The ammunition was supplied,
indirectly, by Australia itself. Like other it’s no coincidence that his term, “fake
free countries, Australia investigates it- news,” has become a favorite of thugs
self, and a recent report found that Aus- worldwide.
tralian soldiers had killed 39 Afghan
civilians. Upon the report’s release,
Angus Campbell, chief of the defense
forces, apologized to the Afghan people because of the free press. The media
and to the Australian people, and the
Australian government is looking into
paying compensation to the families of
those wrongly killed.
China took the nugget of truth —
Australian forces had committed war
crimes — and transformed it into a
ghoulish image of a rapacious Aussie
about to sacrifice an innocent child.
Dispatch
The
A paragraph from Chic Simple Home
states, “memory and wit are qualities
that personalize space. In a world of
mass-produced products and televi-
sion-defined lifestyles, a room designed
with a sense of your own signature is
crucial. References to personal history
and a shared
past make a
place unique.
Humor in the
shape of some-
thing unexpect-
ed always has
a welcoming
effect ... a wall
stencil that
subtly pulls the
room together
to an oversized
piece of art
or poster that
rivets immediate attention. A well-bal-
anced room should not only function
but delight.” I was finding delight in
the subtle changes, knowing when the
project was ended all would find its way
back to its place.
I said at the start that the
photo looks faked — who
poses for war crimes pic-
tures on a flag tableau? And
yet, in our time, truth has
become more elusive than
ever. Technology presents
real challenges. How many
people in China and around
the world will view that
photo and believe it’s real?
And we keep hearing about
the “deep fakes” — doctored
video images — that are
around the corner. How many would
believe a fraudulent video image of
say, Hunter Biden confessing to child
abuse?
In an era when technology can pro-
of real people doing and saying things
they never did or said, the question of
how to find truth becomes ever more
urgent.
Credibility comes down to reputation
President Donald Trump’s assault
on truth and his insistence that all news
critical of him is fake is reminiscent
of the world’s worst regimes. The first
thing to go when the jackboots come is
the free press. Trump’s attacks on the
press were rhetorical, not literal. But
During the Cold War, it was under-
stood that the West, for all its flaws, was
more honest than the Communist bloc
in the old USSR was full of cheerful
workers exceeding their quotas and
ruddy farmers luxuriating in golden
fields of wheat. The late Daniel Patrick
Moynihan had a succinct summation of
the state of play. “When we travel about
the world and come to a country whose
newspapers are filled with bad news we
feel that liberty lives in that land,” he
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The use of an oversized piece of
art reminded me of a wall hanging in
a neighbor’s home. The home would
probably be regarded as a tiny house
yet there on the wall was a painting
about 5 feet by 7 feet. It appeared to
be abstract splashes of vibrant paint
colors. The owner
asked, “What do
you see?” It was
not until he asked,
“Do you see
Jesus?” that the
portrait became
obvious and de-
lightful.
At home Sam
continued to wind
up his project, cre-
ating an extraor-
dinary ceiling
covering over the
breakfast room. Chic Simple Home
suggests “The ceiling offers the chance
for a purely visual gesture, something
pleasing to always look up to.”
Email reaches Shannon Bardwell of
Columbus as msdeltachild@msn.com.
quipped, “When we come to a country
whose newspapers are filled with good
news, we feel differently.”
The governments of free countries,
of course, attempt to lie. But at least the
free press can often expose them, and
fear of exposure keeps them in check to
some degree.
Reputation matters. It’s why China is
so incensed that Australia has had the
temerity to criticize it. Why do we trust
Canberra more than Beijing? Because
the Australians are free and account-
able. They’ve admitted their war crimes
and agonized over them. The Chinese
have never acknowledged their far more
massive human toll. Even without going
back to the Great Leap Forward — the
most devastating catastrophe in China’s
history, causing between 18 million
and 45 million starvation deaths — we
have the Tiananmen massacre within
living memory, the rape of Tibet, and,
of course, the widespread infanticide
accompanying the One Child policy.
Our own reputation for honesty has
taken a severe hit under Trump. How
will other nations trust the word of the
U.S. when we elected someone who
supported the lies of Kim Jong Un and
other corrupt and cruel dictators, and
valorized our own war criminals? What
does it tell the world when our presi-
dent conducts a nonstop jihad against
the press? Who can respect this nation
when our president expressed his
belief, in defending Vladimir Putin, that
we commit just as many sins?
Australia is showing courage by
standing up to China, and paying a
price. The White House has announced
this week that it will be serving Aus-
tralian wine, which would have been
a better gesture if this president had
not allied us with the world’s liars and
criminals for four years.
In the post-Trump era, the most im-
portant restoration will be that of truth.
Mona Charen is a Senior Fellow at
the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Religious right eyes Biden warily after Trump’s good favor

Pastor Robert Jeffress: Christians are obliged ‘to pray for what appears
to be President-elect Biden. If he succeeds, all of America succeeds.’
BY ELANA SCHOR
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Conser-
vative evangelical Christians
have proven some of Donald
Trump’s staunchest allies
during his presidency. As his
administration draws to a close,
some of those backers are ap-
proaching President-elect Joe
Biden with skepticism, but not
antagonism.
Christian conservatives
who stood by Trump through
moments of crisis and success
are hardly comfortable with
his loss, and several have yet
to fully acknowledge Biden
as the winner of the election
amid ongoing, unfounded fraud
claims by the president. But
they’re largely not echoing the
harsh tone Trump directed
toward his Democratic rival
during the campaign, when he
claimed baselessly that Biden is
“against God.”
Texas-based megachurch
pastor Robert Jeffress, a stal-
wart evangelical booster of
Trump, said Christians are
obliged “to pray for what ap-
pears to be President-elect
Biden. If he succeeds, all of
America succeeds.”
Jeffress described himself
as “deeply disappointed” by the
apparent loss of a president he
considers “a friend,” but added
that he would respond to any
outreach attempt by Biden,
just as he did with Trump. The
possibility that Biden could “be
pulled away from extremist
positions” held by other Dem-
ocrats, Jeffress said, is “a plus
not just for conservative Chris-
tians, but for all of America.”
It’s highly unlikely that
Christian conservatives could
develop a close relationship
with Biden, whose support for
abortion rights and stances on
other issues stand in stark dis-
agreement with the religious
right. However, the lack of a
combative tone from pro-Trump
religious conservatives could
create space for some common
ground between the Catholic
president-elect and other evan-
gelicals who have not tied them-
selves as directly to Trump.
“If Joe Biden is the president,
if that’s what it turns out to be,
then we need to do everything
we can to support him, where
we can,” the Rev. Franklin Gra-
ham said in a recent interview.
Graham, who leads the
Christian nonprofit founded by
his late father, the Rev. Billy
Graham, is a Trump support-
er who offered prayers at his
inauguration and this year’s
Republican National Conven-
tion. But while he underscored
that his opposition to abortion
is one of several fronts where
there could be no compromise,
Graham said “we certainly can
work with” Biden on other is-
sues.
During the Obama admin-
istration, Graham attended a
conversation Biden convened
among faith-based advocates
about gun legislation. The
pastor also visited the White
House in 2014 to discuss the
Ebola crisis after a doctor at
his global relief charity, Samari-
tan’s Purse, successfully fought
the deadly disease.
Still, conservative Christians
like Graham exerted scant
influence over the Obama ad-
ministration’s agenda — and
pro-Trump evangelicals are ex-
pecting a similar sideline role
under Biden.
Family Research Council
president Tony Perkins, a long-
time Trump partner, said that
during Obama’s presidency, “I
didn’t go to that end of Penn-
sylvania Avenue, because I was
never invited.”

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in hospital after positive virus test

Former New York mayor was admitted to Georgetown
University Medical Center in Washington on Sunday
BY A AMER MADHANI
AND JONATHAN LEMIRE
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — was praying for Giuliani.
President Donald Trump
says his personal attor-
ney Rudy Giuliani has
tested positive for the
coronavirus, making him
the latest in Trump’s in-
ner circle to contract the
disease that is now surg-
ing across the U.S.
Giuliani was exhibit-
ing some symptoms and
was admitted Sunday to
Georgetown University
Medical Center in Wash-
ington, according to a
person familiar with the
matter who was not au-
thorized to speak public-
ly.
The 76-year-old former
New York mayor has trav-
eled extensively to battle-
ground states in an effort
to help Trump subvert his
election loss to Joe Biden.
On numerous occasions
he has met with officials
for hours at a time with-
out wearing a mask.
Trump, who an-
nounced Giuliani’s posi-
tive test in a Sunday after-
noon tweet, wished him a
speedy recovery.
“Get better soon Rudy,
we will carry on!!!” Trump
wrote.
Giuliani did not im-
mediately respond to a
request for comment,
but on Sunday evening
he retweeted Trump’s
announcement of his di-
agnosis. He also tweeted
thanks to a conservative
writer who had said he
Giuliani on Thursday
attended a hearing at the
Georgia Capitol, where
he went without a mask
for several hours. Several
state senators, all Repub-
licans, also did not wear
masks at the hearing.
On Wednesday night,
Giuliani was in Lansing,
Michigan, to testify in
a highly unusual 4 1/2-
hour legislative hearing
in which he pushed Re-
publican lawmakers to
ignore the certification of
Biden’s Michigan victory
and appoint electors for
Trump. He did not wear a
mask, nor did lawyer Jen-
na Ellis, who was sitting
next to him. He asked one
of his witnesses, a Detroit
election worker, if she
would be comfortable re-
moving her mask, but leg-
islators said they could
hear her.
Giuliani traveled on
Monday to Phoenix,
where he met with Re-
publican legislators for
an hourslong hearing in
which he was maskless.
The Arizona Republican
Party tweeted a photo of
Giuliani and several state
GOP lawmakers standing
shoulder-to-shoulder and
maskless. The Arizona
legislature announced
Sunday, after Giuliani’s
diagnosis became public,
that it would close for a
week out of an abundance
of caution “for recent cas-
es and concerns relating
to COVID-19.”

Gene-editing treatment shows promise for sickle cell disease

Painful, inherited blood disorders plague millions worldwide
BY MARION RENAULT
The Associated Press
Scientists are seeing
promising early results
from the first studies test-
ing gene editing for pain-
ful, inherited blood disor-
ders that plague millions
worldwide, especially
Black people.
Doctors hope the one-
time treatment, which
involves permanently al-
tering DNA in blood cells
with a tool called CRISPR,
may treat and possibly
cure sickle cell disease
and beta thalassemia.
Partial results were
presented Saturday at an
American Society of He-
matology conference and
some were published by
the New England Journal
of Medicine.
Doctors described 10
patients who are at least
several months removed
from their treatment. All
no longer need regular
blood transfusions and
are free from pain crises
that plagued their lives
before.
Victoria Gray, the first
patient in the sickle cell
study, had long suffered
severe pain bouts that of-
ten sent her to the hospi-
tal.
“I had aching pains,
sharp pains, burning
pains, you name it. That’s
all I’ve known my entire
life,” said Gray, 35, who
lives in Forest, Mississip-
pi. “I was hurting every-
where my blood flowed.”
Since her treatment a
year ago, Gray has weaned
herself from pain medica-
tions she depended on to
manage her symptoms.
“It’s something I moglobin, the substance
prayed for my whole life,”
she said. “I pray every-
one has the same results
I did.”
Sickle cell affects mil-
lions, mostly Black people.
Beta thalassemia strikes
about one in 100,000 peo-
ple. The only cure now is
ry oxygen well. They can
stick together and clog
a bone marrow transplant small vessels, causing
from a closely matched pain, organ damage and
donor without the disease strokes.
like a sibling, which most
people don’t have.
Both diseases involve
mutations in a gene for he-
in red blood cells that car-
ries oxygen throughout
the body.
In sickle cell, defective
hemoglobin leads to de-
formed, crescent-shaped
blood cells that don’t car-

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No local jury for Mississippi

man’s trial in police killing
Marquis Flowers, charged with capital murder in
deaths of two officers, is due back in court Jan. 26
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BROOKHAVEN — A judge
ruled Thursday that a jury from a
different part of Mississippi will
hear the death penalty trial of a
man charged in the 2018 shooting
deaths of two Brookhaven police
officers.
Marquis Flowers is charged
with capital murder in the deaths
of Cpl. Zach Moak, 31, and patrol
officer James White, 35. They were
shot to death Sept. 29, 2018, while
responding to a call about shots be-
ing fired at a home.
The Daily Leader reported that
Circuit Judge Richard W. McKen-
zie on Thursday granted a request
by Flowers’ attorney for a change
of venue, either by moving the tri-
al or by choosing jurors elsewhere
and taking them to Lincoln Coun-
ty.
McKenzie said he would let
prosecutors, defense attorneys and
court administrators decide what
to do. The judge suggested they
look at the northernmost counties
of Mississippi. Lincoln County is in
the southwestern part of the state,
near the Louisiana state line.
Flowers, who turns 28 this
week, is due back in court Jan. 26,
when attorneys are expected to tell
McKenzie about their venue deci-
sion and possible trial dates.
Flowers was on parole for a vehi-
cle burglary conviction when Moak
and White were killed. Flowers
was arrested and charged shortly
after the officers were killed, and
he was sent to the state prison sys-
tem to finish serving that sentence.
Flowers was moved March 23 from
Central Mississippi Correctional
Facility to a county jail.
On Oct. 28, 2019, Flowers was
indicted on two counts of capital
murder and possession of a fire-
arm by a convicted felon. He plead-
ed not guilty to all three counts on
Nov. 12, 2019.

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“She always taught me:
‘You are not dumb, you
are not stupid. You are
capable of doing anything
you want to do,’” she said.
But Winston was also
worried Monti would
burn out from being a
teacher. She encouraged
Monti to take floral
design classes when she
was attending Mississippi
State University, where
she eventually earned a
bachelor’s degree in floral
design in 1999.
“(Mom) just thought
it would be something
that I’d really enjoy, not
knowing that that would
be what I’d go into,” Monti
said.
The floral shop now
allows her to deliver joy
to others while receiving
some in return, she said.
“Every single day is
different. You don’t know
whose birthday it might
be. You don’t know (if it’s)
an anniversary. You don’t
know whether babies are
going to be born or cem-
etery pieces need to be
made,” she said. “That’s
the best part of this job.”
‘It’s family’
Dedicated to her
business, Monti said her
aim is not to sell fancy
gifts but to offer quality
customer service.
“We may not be the
fanciest flower shop, and
we don’t have the fanciest
things in here,” she said.
“Our main goal is to take
care of our customers and
make our customers feel
like they are loved.”
Over the years, the
shop has attracted many
regulars, she said. A
woman from Texas orders
arrangements for her par-
ents’ grave two or three
times a year. Another
woman visits the store Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff
every Friday to pick up Monti King checks the floral arrangement she is about
flowers for her husband’s to deliver to a customer Wednesday afternoon. At her
business, Flowers by the Bunch, King designs floral
grave. arrangements for weddings, birthdays, funerals and
Monti remembers all holidays.
their names.
“They’ve always called, to be able to have people
‘Monti, you know what I who can depend on you.
need,’” she said. “It’s nice It’s family.”

Mississippi National Guard

promotes 2-star general
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and will attain the official and brigade levels. He
designation of Assistant also has two deployments
JACK- Adjutant General of the to Iraq and is a veteran of
SON — The Mississippi Army Nation- Operation Desert Storm.
Mississippi al Guard, WLBT-TV re- Since July 2015, Kelly
National ported. also has served as con-
Guard, in a Kelly is a native of gressman for Mississip-
ceremony Union, Mississippi and pi’s First District. There
S a t u r d a y, has served more than 35 he serves on the House
promoted years in the military as an Armed Services Commit-
Kelly
Brig. Gen. engineer officer in numer- tee, the House Commit-
John “Trent” Kelly. ous leadership and com- tee on Agriculture and
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Fauci’s plea ‘Wear a mask’ tops list of 2020 notable quotes

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW HAVEN, Conn.
— A plea from Dr. An-
thony Fauci for people to
“wear a mask” to slow the
spread of the coronavirus
tops a Yale Law School li-
brarian’s list of the most
notable quotes of 2020.
The list assembled by
Fred Shapiro, an associate
director at the library, is
an annual update to “The
Yale Book of Quotations,”
which was first published
in 2006.
Also on the list is “I
can’t breathe,” the plea
George Floyd made re-
peatedly to police officers
holding him down on a
Minneapolis street corner.
Several quotes from the
presidential campaign ap-
pear including Joe Biden
telling a student: “You’re
a lying dog-faced pony sol-
dier.”
Shapiro said he picks
quotes that are not nec-
essarily admirable or elo-
quent, but rather because
they are famous or par-
ticularly revealing of the
spirit of the times.
The list
1. “Wear a mask.” —
Dr. Anthony Fauci, CNN
interview, May 21.
2. “I can’t breathe.” —
George Floyd, plea to po-
lice officer, Minneapolis,
May 25.
3. “One day — it’s like
a miracle — it will disap-
pear,” President Donald
Trump, referring to the
coronavirus in remarks at
an African American His-
tory Month reception at
the White House, Feb. 27.
4. “I see the disinfec-
tant that knocks it out in a
minute, one minute. And
is there a way we can do
something like that by in-
jection inside or almost a
cleaning?” — Trump, in
remarks at a White House
Coronavirus Task Force
news briefing, April 23.
5. “I will never lie to
you. You have my word
on that.” — White House
Press Secretary Kayleigh
McEnany, at her first
press briefing, May 1.
6. “My most fervent
wish is that I will not be
replaced until a new pres-
ident is installed.” — Su-
preme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, state-
ment dictated to grand-
daughter Clara Spera,
September.
7. “If you have a prob-
lem figuring out whether
you’re for me or Trump,
then you ain’t Black.” —
Joe Biden, in an interview
with “The Breakfast Club”
radio program, May 22.
8. “The science should
not stand in the way of
this.” — McEnany, refer-
ring to school reopenings
in a news briefing, July 16.
9. “You’re a lying dog-
faced pony soldier.” —
Biden, in a remark to stu-
dent at campaign event,
Hampton, N.H., Feb. 9.
10. “We are all Lakers
today.” — Los Angeles
Clippers coach Doc Riv-
ers, in a remark to report-
ers after the death of Kobe
Bryant, Orlando, Fla., Jan.
26.
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STARK VILLE — Ja-
len Mayden is looking
for a chance.
After entering the
transfer portal earlier
this fall, The Dispatch
caught up with the for-
mer Mississippi State
signal caller and one-
time four-star recruit to
gauge how his recruit-
ing process has gone
since leaving Starkville.
Here’s an exclusive
look at what Mayden
had to say:
Mississippi State athletics
This interview has
Jalen Mayden is one of two quarterbacks to have left Mississippi State since the
beginning of the 2020 season. He’s currently whittling down his choices before been edited for clarity
making a final selection during the early signing period later this month. and length.
Ben Portnoy: So ob- in-person?
viously you’re transfer- JM: “Most of the
ring in the middle of a schools have a site where
season, middle of a pan- you can just go and look,
demic, how have things and they literally take
gone for you since you you to every detail part
entered the portal? of the campus or stadi-
Jalen Mayden: um or any place that you
Some of it’s kind of like want to go. So kind of
high school with all the getting the feel through
coaches calling you and looking at those.
stuff like that. But the BP: All that said, why
pandemic, you can’t did you decide that you
take visits and stuff like wanted to transfer from
that. So kind of just over Mississippi State and
the phone with it. what went into your de-
BP: You mention cision?
stuff being over the JM: “I just think it
phone, have you been was just one or two of
able to do any of the vir- the games where I felt
tual visits? What were like, if Will was the sec-
those like compared to See MAYDEN, 3B

Hill HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

throws
2 TD
How West Point handled COVID-19 to
passes, avoid ‘the season that never was’
Saints
hold off
Falcons
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA —
Taysom Hill finally
threw a touchdown
pass.
Two of them, in fact.
The New Orleans de-
fense finally gave up a
touchdown.
But not two, which
ensured the Saints are
headed back to the play-
offs for the fourth year
in a row.
Hill won another
start filling in for in-
jured Drew Brees and
New Orleans got the big
defensive stop it needed
in the closing minutes
to preserve a 21-16 vic-
tory over the Atlanta
See SAINTS, 3B

Jones
bolsters
Heisman
case; No. West Point coach Chris Chambless accepts the runner-up trophy after the MHSAA 5A State Championship football game against West
jim Lytle/Special to The Dispatch

1 Alabama Jones Saturday night in Jackson.

beats LSU BY THEO DEROSA

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BATON ROUGE,
La. — If Alabama quar-
terback Mac Jones and
receiver DeVonta Smith
wind up as Heisman
Trophy finalists, they
can thank one another.
And the way they
combined to spearhead
a rout of LSU will be a
prime example of why.
Jones and Smith con-
nected eight times for
231 yards and three
touchdowns, including
two scoring passes lon-
ger that 60 yards, and
No. 1 Alabama rolled
to a 55-17 victory over
LSU on Saturday night
to clinch the SEC West
and lock in a date with
No. 6 Florida in the con-
ference title game.
“We did a fantastic
job offensively, con-
trolled the tempo of the
game,” said Alabama
coach Nick Saban, who
was back on the side-
line after a bout with
COVID-19 kept him
See ALABAMA, 3B
tderosa@cdispatch.com
JACKSON — West Point
football coach Chris Chamb-
less knows it could have been
“the season that never was.”
If the Green Wave didn’t
take the COVID-19 pandemic
seriously, Chambless knew,
there were no guarantees they
would be able to complete —
or even start — a 2020 season
in which they would be going
for their fifth straight MH-
SA A Class 5A championship.
But as long as they had
a shot, West Point would be
ready.
“We knew that if all possi-
ble — if there was a chance
we’d get to play — we would
still play,” Chambless said.
Play, West Point did — the
Green Wave reached the title
game for the fifth straight
season. But their off-the-field
battle with the virus proved
nearly as important in getting
there.
“The bottom line is, every-
body is so self-aware and con-
scious about it,” Chambless
said. “That helps. The par-
ents, the administrators, the
teachers, coaches — we’re all
looking out for each other.”
West Point took the neces-
sary precautions and escaped
unscathed by COVID-19 in a
season when so many others
couldn’t. Among area teams,
New Hope, Noxubee County
and Oak Hill Academy had
to cancel games because of
issues with the virus; nearly
every school had at least one
game on its schedule affected.
But not the Green Wave,
who played the maximum
number of games allowed by
their 10 -game regular-season
schedule — 14 games in 14
weeks.
Teams like Shannon, Lafay-
ette and Tupelo couldn’t say
the same. All three schools
had to forfeit playoff games
because of the pandemic, end-
ing their seasons before they
got a say on the field. Cham-
bless knows West Point was
lucky to avoid a similar fate.
“It would have been devas-
tating just like it was for those
guys,” he said.
To avoid getting to that
point, the Green Wave fol-
lowed the “very exhaustive”
precautions in place within
the West Point Consolidated
School District: Routine hand
sanitizing. Mask-wearing. So-
cial distancing in team meet-
ings and in practice as much
as possible. Temperature
checks and COVID-19 screen-
ings every day.
“It’s completely changed
the way we do things around
here, but we’re able to still
keep results to get to where
we want to get to,” Chambless
said.
The latter precautions
proved an effective safeguard,
as West Point sent players
home from practice sever-
al times to err on the side of
caution. Chambless knows it’s
not always possible to have ev-
eryone at practice and would
rather have a slightly lower at-
tendance there than be miss-
ing multiple players at games
because of contact tracing.
“It’s a huge part of it,”
Chambless said. “With all
your players, you don’t want
to go play unless you’ve got
them all.”
Ensuring that means mak-
ing sure each Green Wave
player follows the same pro-
tocol as to not bring the virus
into the West Point clubhouse.
Chambless and his staff tell
their players to adhere at
home to the same rules that
apply to them at practice and
games: avoid large crowds
and wear masks.
West Point’s players — all
of them — listened, Chamb-
less said.
“It’s either buy in or don’t
play,” he said. “Everybody
bought in completely.”
Still, the worries persist.
West Point had a scare over
the summer when multiple
players showed symptoms
similar to COVID-19; they ul-
timately tested negative, but
the Green Wave couldn’t let
its guard down.
“You’re always concerned
about an outbreak,” Chamb-
less said Tuesday. “I’m con-
cerned this week about an
outbreak.”
But Friday after Friday,
that feared outbreak never
came. Chambless admitted
West Point “dodged some bul-
lets” — luck was a factor, too
— but they made it through.
And each time they take
the field, the Green Wave are
thankful they’ve been able to
do so.
“I think it’s just opened the
kids’ and coaches’ eyes to be
grateful that we are getting to
play,” Chambless said.
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Mayfield throws 4 TDs in 1st half, Browns beat Titans 41-35

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
— Baker Mayfield and
the Cleveland Browns
can do more than just run
the ball, and the NFL’s
longest active playoff
drought is moving closer
to an end after 18 sea-
sons.
They just need to fin-
ish what they start a bit
better.
Mayfield threw for a
season-high 334 yards
with all four of his touch-
down passes in the first
half, and the Browns
scored the first 17 points
before holding on to win
their fourth straight, 41-
35 over the Tennessee Ti-
tans on Sunday.
With both chasing
AFC playoff berths, the
Browns looked like the
team leading a division
— they are second in the
AFC North behind the un-
beaten Pittsburgh Steel-
ers — as they improved to
9-3 for the first time since
1994. Cleveland has only
won nine games in a sea-
son three times in its ex-
pansion era, which began
in 1999.
“I think people know
we are a good team now
when we play well, and
that’s what we did today,”
Browns running back
Nick Chubb said.
The Titans (8-4) came
in leading the AFC South
and left tied after the
Colts beat Houston 26-20,
though Tennessee still
has the better division re-
cord. The Titans fell apart
after a bad fourth-down
spot on their opening
drive. NFL rushing lead-
er Derrick Henry lost his
first fumble this season
on the next drive.
“Things kind of snow-
balled,” Titans coach
Mike Vrabel said.
Mayfield kept the
Browns from needing the
NFL’s top rushing offense
in what had been expect-
ed to be a run-game show-
down against the Titans
and Henry. The Browns
had their best-scoring
half ever, leading 38-7 at
halftime, topping the 35
points scored in the sec-
ond half at Cincinnati in
2004.
The Titans made it in-
teresting late, outscoring
the Browns 28-3 in the
second half.
Kenny Vaccaro picked
up a fumble by Mayfield
on fourth-and-1 and ran it
53 yards with 48 seconds
left. Ryan Tannehill hit
Cam Batson for an 8-yard
TD pass with 28 seconds
to go, but Andy Janovich
recovered the onside kick
to seal the victory.
“Obviously if I hold
onto the damn football,
it’s not going to be close
— or as close as it should
have been,” Mayfield
said.
Mayfield became the
first Browns quarter-
back to throw four TDs
in the first half since Hall
of Famer Otto Graham
in 1951. Mayfield, who
threw four of his five TDs
in the second half of a win
against Cincinnati on Oct.
25, had only two touch-
down passes over the past
four games combined.
Nobody else in the
NFL has thrown four TD
passes in a half this sea-
son, and Mayfield had
290 yards by halftime,
just off his season high of
297 yards.
This time, Mayfield
completed passes to eight
receivers with a TD pass
apiece to Jarvis Landry;
backup tackle Kendall
Lamm, who became the
first Browns lineman to
catch a TD pass since
2001; a 75-yarder to Don-
ovan Peoples-Jones; and a
17-yarder to Rashard Hig-
gins.
“Baker was on fire,”
said Chubb, who also had
a 1-yard TD run. “That’s
the guy that I know.
That’s the guy that the
Cleveland Browns know
who he is. He came out,
had a great game and led
us to a victory.”
The Browns stopped
Henry ran on fourth-
and-1 on the Titans’ open-
ing drive. He appeared
to pick up the first down,
but officials marked him
short of the marker. Vra-
bel unsuccessfully chal-
lenged the spot.
Tennessee opened the
second half scoring back-
to-back touchdowns with-
in the first six minutes.
First, Tannehill threw a
22-yard pass to MyCole
Pruitt. The tight end
picked up A.J. Brown’s
fumble on a 16-yard catch
and ran 3 yards for a TD
on the next drive to pull
the Titans within 38-21.
The Titans came in
with a league-low five
turnovers. Cleveland
forced three, the last at
the end of the third quar-
ter. Adam Humphries,
playing his first game
since Nov. 1 because of
a concussion, bobbled a
pass from Tannehill that
was picked off by corner-
back M.J. Stewart at the
Browns 9.
“Everything would’ve
had to have been right,
and it rarely ever is in
football and in life,” Vra-
bel said of the Titans’
would-be comeback.
Garrett’s back
Myles Garrett got a
sack of Tannehill early in
the fourth quarter, giving
him 10 1/2 for the season.
He came in tied for sec-
ond in the league despite
missing two games. He
led the league in sacks
when he went on the
COVID-19 list.
Ground game
Chubb and the Browns
outran the Titans 118-
62 in this matchup of
league’s top rushing of-
fenses. Chubb finished
with 80 yards on 18 car-
ries, while Henry had 60
yards on 15 carries.
Career game
Tennessee’s Corey Da-
vis had career highs of
11 catches for 182 yards,
including a touchdown
catch, as the Titans tried
to rally through the air in
the second half.
Injuries
Browns: LB Mack Wil-
son was checked for a
concussion.
Titans: Brown went
down in the first half with
an apparent right ankle
injury but returned.
Up next
The Browns host the
Baltimore Ravens on
Monday, Dec. 14.
The Titans visit Jack-
sonville next Sunday.

Packers withstand late rally to outlast Eagles

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREEN BAY, Wis.
— On a day when Green
Bay’s Aaron Rodgers and
Davante Adams reached
personal milestones, the
Packers needed a long
run from Aaron Jones to
put the Eagles away.
Jones rushed for 130
yards and delivered a
game-clinching 77-yard
touchdown with 2:36 left
as the Packers produced
seven sacks and with-
stood a fourth-quarter
comeback attempt to de-
feat Philadelphia 30-16 on
Sunday.
“We ran a similar play
the play before, and I felt
like I was close to break-
ing it, somebody just got
a hand on me,” Jones
said of his career-long
burst. “A-Rod called a
similar play in the hud-
dle, and I knew if I see a
little crease, I’d be able to
break it.”
Rodgers and Adams
provided much of the
highlights early in the
game as Green Bay (9-3)
built a 23-3 lead before
the Eagles (3-8-1) scored
two touchdowns in a span
of just over a minute.
Philadelphia’s comeback
started after rookie quar-
terback Jalen Hurts took
over for an ineffective
Carson Wentz.
“We needed a spark,”
Eagles coach Doug Ped-
erson said. “We need-
ed something to go our
way, so I put Jalen in the
game.”
Rodgers connected
with Adams on two of his
three touchdown passes
to increase his career to-
tal to 400, becoming the
seventh player to join that
fraternity.
The only other players
with at least 400 touch-
down passes are Tom
Brady, Drew Brees, Pey-
ton Manning, Brett Favre,
Dan Marino and Philip
Rivers.
Rodgers got to No. 400
in his 193rd career game,
faster than any other play-
er. He has 36 touchdown
passes this year and is
the first player to throw
at least 35 in five separate
seasons. Rodgers also did
it in 2011 (45), 2012 (39),
2014 (38) and 2016 (40).
“Those are fun mile-
stones for sure,” said
Rodgers, who went 25 of
34 for 295 yards. “I’m not
sure how long I’m going
to be able to hold on to the
second one. There’s some
really good young quar-
terbacks who I’m guess-
ing are amassing some
numbers in that vicinity.”
After catching Rod-
gers’ 400th touchdown
pass, Adams made sure
the two-time MVP got
the ball back. Rodgers
doesn’t have the footballs
from his 100th, 200th or
300th touchdown passes.
James Jones, who caught
No. 100, tweeted Sunday
that he threw the ball in
the Georgia Dome stands.
Adams, who caught 10
passes for 121 yards, has
scored in seven straight
games to tie Hall of Fam-
er Don Hutson’s franchise
record. Hutson had a pair
of seven-game TD recep-
tion streaks in 1941-42
and 1943-44.
“To be breaking or ty-
ing records that have been
around for 60-70 years,
it’s special, man,” Adams
said. “I’m just trying to
play ball. I’m just trying
to do whatever it takes to
win these games.”
Rodgers put the Pack-
ers ahead for good with a
1-yard pass to Adams on
fourth down in the sec-
ond quarter. He threw a
25-yarder to Robert Ton-
yan later in the second.
His 400th touchdown
pass was a 9-yarder to Ad-
ams that capped a 99-yard
drive in the third period.
Philadelphia’s rally
started with Hurts’ 32-
yard touchdown pass to
Greg Ward on fourth-
and-18. Jalen Reagor’s
73-yard punt return cut
the lead to 23-16 with 6:30
left, though Jake Elliott
missed the extra point.
The Eagles forced a
second straight three-
and-out, but couldn’t
move the ball and punt-
ed. That’s when Jones put
away the game.
Jones ran through a
big hole in the middle of
the line, broke an attempt-
ed ankle tackle and head-
ed downfield as a second
defender made an unsuc-
cessful diving attempt to
stop him. He raced down
the left sideline, eluded a
defender inside Philadel-
phia’s 30-yard line and
worked his way through
traffic to reach the end
zone.
“If it’s up to me, I’m
taking every one to
the house,” Jones said.
“That’s my goal on every
run. I know if I’m able to
get a crease or break an
arm tackle or something
like that, it can turn into
a big run.”
Hurts was 5 of 12 for
109 yards with an inter-
ception to go along with
his touchdown pass.
Wentz was 6 of 15 for 79
yards. An offensive line
using its 11th different
starting combination in tor, to interim coach.
12 games struggled to “It was a crazy, amaz-
protect both of them. ing week,” Bevell said. “I
“Obviously, that’s frus- just couldn’t be happier
trating as a competitor,” with how they did today.”
Wentz said of his removal. Detroit trailed 30-20
“I want to be the guy out early in the fourth peri-
there. At the end of the od after Trubisky threw
day, we lost. As a team, we an 11-yard touchdown to
lost, and that’s what I’m Cole Kmet on a bootleg.
most frustrated about.” Chicago’s Bilal Nichols
then intercepted a short,
Injury report sidearmed pass intended
Eagles: Linebacker for Jesse James.
But the Lions turned
Davion Taylor (knee) and
things around down
guard Jason Peters (foot)
the stretch, sending the
didn’t finish the game.
Bears (5-7) to their sixth
Cornerback Darius Slay
straight loss.
injured his knee in the
second half.
Packers: Tight end
Jace Sternberger (concus-
sion), running back/kick
returner Tyler Ervin (an-
kle) and defensive tackle
Billy Winn (triceps) left
the game. Defensive back
Raven Greene injured
his shoulder and wide re-
ceiver Equanimeous St.
Brown was evaluated for a
concussion.
Up next
The Eagles host the
New Orleans Saints.
The Packers visit the
Detroit Lions.
Stafford throws 3 TDs,
Lions rally to beat
Bears 34-30
CHICAGO — Darrell
Bevell had a hard time
processing everything
from his first game as an
NFL coach.
He watched as the
Detroit Lions wiped out
a 10-point deficit in the
fourth quarter, recov-
ered a strip-sack in the
closing minutes to set up
the go-ahead touchdown,
and squeezed out a 34-30
victory over the Chicago
Bears.
“My emotions right
now, I can’t even think
straight,” Bevell said. “I’m
just trying to wrap my
head around this whole
thing on what just hap-
pened.”
So were the Bears.
Adrian Peterson
scored from the 5 after
Romeo Okwara strip-
sacked Mitchell Trubisky
with about two minutes
left, capping the come-
back. Matthew Stafford
threw for 402 yards and
three touchdowns, and
the Lions (5-7) came away
with a wild win following
a major shakeup after
a Thanksgiving loss to
Houston. They fired gen-
eral manager Bob Quinn
and coach Matt Patricia
while elevating Bevell,
their offensive coordina-

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Falcons on Sunday.
The Saints (10-2) clinched a play-
off berth with their ninth straight
victory and Chicago’s 34-30 loss to
Detroit.
“Our work’s not done yet,” defen-
sive end Trey Hendrickson said.
Hill connected with Tre’Quan
Smith on a 15-yard touchdown in
the opening quarter — the quarter-
back’s first scoring pass since his se-
nior year at Brigham Young in 2016.
He added another before half-
time, zipping an 11-yard pass to tight
end Jared Cook in tight coverage.
“I don’t care as much as people
might think,” said Hill, who im-
tion. But as long as we’re winning
football games, I’m happy.”
Hill was 27 of 37 for 232 yards
passing. He tacked on 83 yards
rushing on 14 carries, including a
43-yard scamper that was the lon-
gest run of his career, setting up his
first TD pass.
“I thought his performance was
strong,” coach Sean Payton said.
“He made a lot of throws.”
If there was one flaw in Hill’s
game, it was hanging on to the foot-
ball. He had a couple of fumbles, the
first coming deep in Atlanta territo-
ry to spark the Falcons’ comeback.
Atlanta drove 85 yards capped
lowed a touchdown since the open-
ing drive of a game against San
Francisco on Nov. 15, a span of 14
quarters without one.
The Falcons (4-8) got the ball
back and again pushed deep into
New Orleans territory. On sec-
ond-and-2 at the Saints 13, Todd
Gurley was stuffed for no gain. He
got the ball again on third down for
a sweep around the left end, but De-
mario Davis caught him for a 7-yard
loss.
Ryan threw into the end zone on
fourth down, but the pass fell incom-
plete to finish off the home team’s
best chance at pulling off an upset.
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Alabama
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home for last weekend’s
Iron Bowl win over
Auburn. “Mac played
well. Smitty had a great
game.”
Smith, who went to
the same high school
(Amite) as Louisiana
Gov. John Bel Edwards,
capped a pair of three-
play, 75-yard scoring
drives with touchdowns
of 65 and 61 yards. On
his third touchdown
catch, from 20-yards out,
he shed tight coverage
from top LSU cornerback
Derrick Stingley Jr. and
made a twisting, leaping,
one-handed catch high
over his head before land-
ing on his back.
“I love Smitty,” Saban
said. “He’s probably done
as much this year for our
team as any player that
we’ve ever had.
“He had some chal-
lenges out there today
because they were try-
ing to take him out of
the game,” Saban add-
ed, mentioning how fre-
quently Smith was dou-
ble-covered or shadowed
by Stingley. “He still per-
formed well.”
Najee Harris rushed
for 145 yards and three
touchdowns on 21 car-
ries for Alabama (9-0, 9-0
SEC), juking, shedding
and even leaping over
LSU defenders along the
way.
LSU (3-5, 3-5) showed
signs of life in the second
quarter, scoring on a pair
of long plays.
One nearly didn’t
happen when receiver
Kayshon Boutte caught a
43-yard pass from TJ Fin-
ley and released the ball
in celebration just before
crossing the goal line.
Luckily for LSU, Jontre
Kirkland was following
the play and picked the
ball up in the end zone
to complete LSU’s first
scoring play against Al-
abama in Tiger Stadium
since 2014.
Later, John Emery ran
for a 54-yard touchdown,
the longest run allowed
by Alabama this season.
Each score pulled LSU as
close as two touchdowns,
but the Tide answered
each with the two deep
connections between
Jones and Smith.
After the second
Smith TD, Orgeron
stomped along the side-
line, gesticulating and
hollering angrily in the
direction of defensive co-
ordinator Bo Pelini while
also throwing his headset
on the ground.
“Our plan was to dou-
ble team Smith and that
was one of the times we
didn’t,” Orgeron said.
“Frustrating to see one
is to place numbers 7 4 9 8 3 6 5 2 1
grid
1 to 9with
in theseveral
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only once. The difficulty 9 8 1 3 6 2 4 7 5
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level increases from
half.” driving to the Alabama column and each 6 7 5 9 4 8 2 1 3
Monday
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Jones, who finished 15, briefly enlivening the
with 385 yards passing, socially distanced crowd the same number only once. The difficulty level
had 338 yards and all of 22,349 in 102,000-seat increases from Monday to Sunday.
four of his TDs passing Death Valley, only to
by halftime, when Smith come up short on third
had seven catches for 219 and 1 and fourth and 1
yards. Smith’s third TD — both rushes by Tyrion
shortly before the half Davis-Price.
gave the Crimson Tide a Two plays later, Ala-
45-14 lead. bama was inside LSU’s
“It was all right,” 20 and scored on Harris’
Smith said of his perfor- short run.
mance. “There was some Jones found wide-open
stuff I left out there, that tight end Jahleel Billing-
we left out there, that I sley for a 24-yard score Sunday’s Cryptoquote:
wish I could have done that made it 21-0 before
different, but we won so the first quarter ended.
that’s all that really mat-
ters.” The takeaway
Alabama: Alabama put
up the highest point total
Resume building in the 85 games these
Jones now has 3,113
teams have played since
yards and 27 TDs pass-
1895. If anything, the
ing this season. He has
four-touchdown spread
completed 75.7% of his
underestimated the gulf
passes and thrown just
between Alabama and
three interceptions.
an LSU program that
Smith has 80 catches
has fallen far since last
for 1,305 yards and 15
season’s Tigers finished
TDs. He has had gains of
as unbeaten national
20 or more yards 25 times champs.
this season. LSU: The young and
rebuilding Tigers’ exe-
Quick start cution was inconsistent
Aided by an LSU off- and seemingly no mis-
side penalty on third take went unpunished
and 3, Alabama drove 75 by an Alabama squad
yards in seven plays on that came in outscoring
the opening series, tak- opponents by an average
ing a 7-0 lead on Harris’ of 30 points this season.

Mayden
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ond string, they would have put
him without hesitation and when
I was second string, they kind of
hesitated and didn’t do it. So I felt
like that was the statement of I
didn’t have any future there. They
had pretty much chosen who they
had in mind. So I figured it’d give
me more time to get out earlier.”
BP: You mention wanting to
get out earlier, was that in an ef-
fort to give yourself a little more
time to go through the process?
JM: Yeah a little bit more
time to go through the process. I
mean, a lot of people were saying
wait till after the season, but pret-
ty much then everybody’s got the
recruits that they want to have
signed early with the early Sign-
ing Day. I just didn’t want to have
to rush anything.”
BP: In terms of that, we’ve
seen tons of quarterbacks na-
tionwide transfer in recent years.
What’s it been like for you being
a free agent of sorts, and particu-
larly at the quarterback position?
JM: “I’ve kind of just watched
a whole bunch of college football.
Looked at teams that, no (disre-
spect to) the players, but look like
they need a quarterback and then
kind of reach out to those coach-
es if they haven’t already reached
out to you and just try to build a
relationship.”
BP: How has that been trying
to manage building relationships
virtually versus in-person like
you did in high school?
JM: “With the whole school
thing being over, I mean, it’s pret-
ty much just workouts and stuff
like that. I pretty much got all
day to talk to coaches. It’s been
easy for me. Other quarterbacks
that haven’t left are probably still
in school so they still have to deal
with school work and trying to
get all that stuff done. But I pretty
much have a lot of free time.”
BP: Have you just been work-
ing out at your high school?
ACROSS
1 Seize
JM: Yes, sir. We get to do that coaches came in both of them had 5 Useful skill
and then a lot of JUCO kids are spin offs from my high school. So 10 Take the bus
still around right now. And they like, Coach Leach’s is more what 11 Frightens
all know that I’m back in town I did in high school, because my 13 High cards
so we always go get some work coaches were big, Baylor, Texas 14 Arizona city
in ‘cause their season is in the Tech, and every year they would famed for its red
spring and they’re obviously go to those coaching conventions rocks
working out right now. So almost and come back with that style. 15 Navy rank
every day, twice a day, they’ve And then my senior year, we add- 17 Sonar user
been trying to hit me up to get ed a new (offensive coordinator), 18 Consign
out there. But I just came back and he was more like Coach Moor-
19 Angry state
from watching my homie at Texas head with the (Run-pass options).
20 Baseball’s
State — they got blown out — but So I really got to play in both. So
other than that it’s been a grind. when we got Leach, I was real ex-
Mel
21 South African
BP: With the work you’re put- cited because they’ll be the same
farmer Sunday’s answer
ting in day-to-day, what are you plays and stuff like that, and they
really keying in on or focusing on were the exact same plays from 22 — acids denial 16 Car
and trying to take the next step my high school.” 25 Flexes 40 Transmits 21 Oscar cate-
with? BP: Having seen all of those 26 “Phooey!” 41 Dreary shade gory
JM: Really just trying to en- different offensive schemes, how 27 Slight, in DOWN 22 Words to the
vision game-like plays, trying to much does that help you when slang 1 Effortless wise
make decisions — even routes on going through the recruiting pro- 28 DVR’s fore- charm 23 Vowel marks
air — trying not to look at one per- cess again now and selling your- runner 2 Puerto — 24 Close enough
son. I’m trying to act like there’s self as being a guy that can fit in a 29 Moves with 3 Skilled to hit
some type of read or some type of couple different systems? speed 4 “Hang in 25 Robin or wren
progression and just making sure JM: It definitely prepared me 33 Lyricist there!” 27 Washington
I keep my base. Sometimes I over- how to study for a new playbook, Gershwin 5 Help out airport
stride or when I move up in the how not to look at the whole play- 34 Sailor 6 Fragrance 29 Hunting dog
pocket, I might just let my feet get book at once, but to break it down 35 Roman 7 Despondent 30 Bright beam
a little wild sometimes. So trying in sections. Know what each play magistrate 8 Canyon creator 31 Carl’s wife in
to make subtle movements and be is designed for — not every play 37 Norway’s 9 Like some “Up”
accurate with it. is designed for a touchdown. capital
BP: In terms of what you Some plays are three yard gains
profs 32 Hardhearted
38 Car part 12 Cavalry 36 Confession
went through at MSU, you com- or just a first down. Like a hook/
39 German swords topic
mitted to Dan Mullen, played for slant concept is not something
Joe Moorhead and then spent a you want to hold the ball. It’s
chunk of this year under Mike something where you want to an-
Leach, what was that like as a ticipate the linebacker flowing, or
quarterback to go through all is he not flowing, and then taking
those different schemes? what the defense gives you.
JM: “You kind of get nervous So just being able to break
at first, because you’re like,’OK, down each and every play, see
who are they gonna hire?’ Then what it’s designed for — that’s
you’re like, ‘I hope the offensive one of the many things that I’ve
scheme fits.’ And then once that noticed I’ve grown from with all
happens, you’re like, alright well the new coaching staffs.
you’ve got to do the best you can BP: Now closing in on the ear-
to try to make an impression and ly signing period, do you have
learn the offense as quick as you any top schools or a timeline for
can since everybody is pretty your decision?
much starting on ground zero. JM: “I don’t really have any
If there’s a starter last year, top schools as of now, but I know
he’s pretty much still going to be I’ve got two or three more weeks
the guy. But when either of the before I’ve got to make a decision.

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Rams move into tie for NFC West lead, beat Cardinals
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GLENDALE, Ariz. —
Jared Goff first shook off
his coach’s criticism and
then led his team to the
top of the NFC West.
The Rams’ fifth-year
quarterback bounced
back from last week’s
tough outing with one of
his best games of the sea-
son, completing 37 of 47
passes for 351 yards and a
touchdown in a 38-28 win
over the Arizona Cardi-
nals on Sunday.
“I responded exactly
how I expected to,” Goff
said. “I have been through
a lot of bad things in my
football career before
and I have consistently
responded and this was
no different. I just had to
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keep my head down and derson sliced through
keep working.” Arizona’s defense un-
Los Angeles (8-4) has touched for a 38-yard
won three of four and is TD run that pushed it to
tied for the division lead 31-21. Goff was steady in
with the Seahawks, who the fourth, just as he was
lost to the New York Gi- throughout the game,
ants 17-12. making big throws and
The Rams had a 24-14 avoiding mistakes.
lead early in the fourth Rams coach Sean Mc-
and looked like they were Vay was critical of Goff
going to pull away until after he threw two inter-
Nsimba Webster fumbled ceptions in a 23-20 loss to
on a punt return. The the 49ers last weekend,
Cardinals recovered at but he never lost confi-
the LA 15-yard line and dence in his quarterback.
quickly turned the mis- For his part, Goff took
take into a touchdown on his coach’s comments in
Kenyan Drake’s 4-yard stride, saying he was “a
run that pulled Arizona big boy” and that McVay
within 24-21. was correct.
Los Angeles respond- Instead of getting mad,
ed on its next drive, and Goff got better. McVay
the offense quickly moved had nothing but praise on
downfield. Darrell Hen- Sunday.
FAMILY CIRCUS
“He took great care of
the football, distributed,
got a lot of guys involved,”
McVay said. “We were ef-
ficient on third down. It
was tough sledding run-
ning the football but we
did get enough.”
The Cardinals (6-6)
have lost three straight
and four of their past
five. Second-year Arizona
quarterback Kyler Mur-
ray had an inconsistent
game, completing 21 of
39 passes for 173 yards
and three touchdowns.
He also lost a fumble mid-
way through the fourth
and threw a pick-6 to LA’s
Troy Hill, who ran it back
35 yards for a 38-21 lead.
The Rams also had a
big advantage in time of
possession, keeping the
Dear Abby
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EAR ABBY:
I am a
46-year-old
woman, about
to be married
for the second
time. My fiance
lives with me and
my two children
from my previous
marriage.
Other than
cooking breakfast
and some quick
snacks, he does
not contribute to
the household. My Dear Abby
issue is, I pay all
the bills, and he
complains about the tempera-
ture inside my home. My chil-
dren and I need it to be cooler.
If it’s too hot, we sweat and
become congested, which we
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I tell him to put on more clothes
if he is cold, but he complains
to the point that I turn off the
fans and air.
My question is, don’t I have
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our climate. Right? — HOT &
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The answers to your questions
are yes and yes. And your fian-
ce — not you — should invest
in a portable heater, which
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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec.
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ball about 39 minutes to
Arizona’s 21.
“They got it going
and kept our defense on
the field a lot of plays
and I think as the game
went on, it wore on those
guys,” Arizona coach
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more efficient offensively
and not keep those guys
on the field so much.”
Arizona opened the
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Murray to tight end Dan
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My dad passed
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My boyfriend proposed in
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As a girl, I dreamed my dad
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I would now like my uncle to
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a daughter who is older than I
am. She has been married for
many years. Out of respect, I
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but I feel asking her is the right
thing to do. I’m unsure how to
go about it. Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
— MARRYING IN MAINE
DEAR MARRYING: Con-
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with this sense of being the
and he was able to jog
into the end zone.
Los Angeles’ defense,
which has been among
the NFL’s best this sea-
son, tightened in a hurry.
The Cardinals didn’t get
another first down until
late in the second quar-
ter, and Murray finished
the first half 3-of-12
passing for 73 yards.
“You’re going to go
through slumps, you’re
going to have times
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as you like to be,” Kings-
bury said. “I still believe
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lot of points, make a lot
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weren’t very sharp to-
day.”
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to your uncle. I think your idea
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The discussion would be more
loving and productive if you con-
duct it in person or by phone
rather than a text or email. I
can see no reason why she
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her dad.
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to hang out. Or they insist on
becoming my friend on social
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IN NEW YORK
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 MAN (incorrectly identified as ure Sale. said Section 33; run thence

Classifieds
Patricia Holliman Hankins in
the deed of trust), a deed of
trust covering the property de-
scribed herein which is recor-
ded in Mortgage Book 2013 at
Page 20654 in the land re-
cords of Lowndes County, Mis-
sissippi.
There was a default in the pay-
ment of the indebtedness se-
cured by the deed of trust, and
the owner and holder of the
deed of trust requested the un-
dersigned to foreclose the
deed of trust and sell the prop-
erty described herein for collec-
tion of the indebtedness se-
cured and other allowed ex-
penses.
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North 87 degrees 52 minutes
On October 16, 2020, the Es- West a distance of 1324.7 feet
tate of Patricia H. Holliman, De-
ceased, assigned its interest in
the aforementioned Deed of
to an iron pin; run thence
South 41 degrees 39 minutes Ads appear in The Commercial Dispatch,
West a distance of 418.2 feet
Trust to Gene Douglas Holli-
man, Jr., Denise Holliman Gat-
lin, Dolores Holliman Davis,
to the point of beginning of the
herein described tract: The Starkville Dispatch and Online
Donna Holliman Vaughn, and Continue thence South 41 de-
Darren Lee Holliman, said As-
signment being recorded in
grees 39 minutes West a dis-
tance of 315.1 feet to a point;
To place ads starting at only $12,
Mortgage Book 2020 at Page
27019, in the land records of
run thence North 36 degrees
32 minutes West a distance of
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the Chancery Clerk of Lowndes 136.5 feet to a point; run
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the Chancery Court of Lowndes
Call us: 662-328-2424 County, Mississippi, as Cause
No. 2020-0038-JNS, and Gene
Douglas Holliman, Jr. and Dar-
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as Co-Executors.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE dersigned ELIZABETH F. JONES the Northeast Quarter of Sec- to be good, but I will sell only left on Darracott Rd, will
SALE as the substituted trustee by tion 33, Township 17 South, such title as is vested in me.
instrument dated October 16, Range 17 West, Lowndes see sign, 2.5mi ahead
On July 19, 2013, JOHNNY 2020, recorded in Mortgage County, Mississippi and more Witness my signature on this Apartments & Houses shop on left.
TYLER and wife, IDA MAE Book 2020 at page 27017 of particularly described as fol- the 19th day of November, Ads starting at $25 662−494−6218.
TYLER, Grantors, executed and the land records of Lowndes
delivered to George M. Vaughn, County, Mississippi, prior to
lows: 2020.
1 Bedrooms
Lots & Acreage
Trustee, for the use and bene- the posting and first publica-
fit of PATRICIA HANKINS HOLLI- tion of the Notice of Foreclos-
Commencing at the point mark- /s/ Elizabeth F. Jones
ing the Northeast corner of ELIZABETH F. JONES, Trustee 2 Bedroooms
MAN (incorrectly identified as
Patricia Holliman Hankins in
the deed of trust), a deed of
ure Sale.

On October 16, 2020, the Es-

said Section 33; run thence
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scribed herein which is recor- ceased, assigned its interest in South 41 degrees 39 minutes December 14, 2020 662−361−7711.
ded in Mortgage Book 2013 at the aforementioned Deed of West a distance of 418.2 feet December 21, 2020
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27019, in the land records of
tance of 315.1 feet to a point;
run thence North 36 degrees
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