TRUSTEES OFFER DEAL TO OLE MISS CHANCELLOR Inside, See page 3A ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM 50 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY FRIDAY | MARCH 27, 2015 Champ addresses Columbus youth William Browning/Dispatch Staff Railroad cars stand on a South Rail Corpora- tion track near Lehmberg Road this morning following a derailment. Railroad investigating Columbus derailment No injuries reported after four- car derailment this morning BY ZACK PLAIR [email protected] Clean-up efforts are ongoing from a train de- railment in Columbus early this morning. Four cars from an Alabama Southern Rail- road train derailed from a track near Alabama and South Lehmberg streets, according to Communications Director Tracy Vanbecelaere of Watco — the Kansas-based railroad compa- ny’s operator. Vanbecelaere said three of the four cars were Mark Wilson/Dispatch Staff empty, while the fourth contained non-hazard- Deontay Wilder, WBC World Heavyweight Champion, waits to speak to student-athletes during a visit to Colum- ous material. Only a single axle from each car bus Middle School with his son 3-year-old son, Dereon, on Thursday. Wilder is a Tuscaloosa native. derailed, she said. None of the cars tipped over. Crews had already rerailed one of the cars Wilder: ‘It’s important to get their patch students in the Golden Triangle can relate to his by 9 a.m., Vanbecelaere said, and the others background. His message was clear: If you’re going to See DERAILMENT, 8A attention while they’re young’ do anything, give it your all. The students managed to sit through a series of BY ANDREW HAZZARD preambles given by various members of the Deontay [email protected] Wilder celebration committee, a group of local lead- ers and boxing enthusiasts who helped get Wilder to Compared to the standard “don’t do drugs” talk, speak Thursday. Still no arrest Thursday’s guest speaker at Columbus Middle School Mayor Robert Smith welcomed Wilder with the was a knock-out. keys to the city and formally declared it to be “Deon- following Student-athletes from Columbus Municipal School tay Wilder Day” in Columbus. The master of ceremo- District and nearby counties were addressed by WBC nies, WCBI’s Steve Rogers, led through a procession Heavyweight Champion of the World Deontay Wilder, of brief speakers from the committee, including local shooting in and they listened. boxing trainer and gym owner Oliver Miller, and lo- Wilder grew up in Tuscaloosa. He told The Dis- See WILDER, 8A Columbus park Investigators say two of four DSU president: ‘We’re alive and well’ victims out of hospital DISPATCH STAFF REPORT LaForge talks about new programs Becky Maur- er, left, pres- A week after a shooting at implemented at Delta university ident-elect Sim Scott Park that left four of the people injured, Columbus po- BY ISABELLE ALTMAN Exchange lice still have not arrested any [email protected] Club, and suspects. Elton Thom- Columbus Police Depart- Delta State University president Bill LaForge as, right, ment Capt. Brent Swan said spoke at the meeting of the Columbus Exchange listen to Thursday that two of the four Club at Lion Hills on Thursday. Delta State shooting victims have been re- Swan President LaForge spoke about the successful programs leased from Baptist Memorial Bill LaForge Delta State has implemented in the last few years Hospital-Golden Triangle. Police said all four and in particular in the two years since he became at Lion Hills Center and had been admitted with non life-threatening president. He said Delta State strives to push out- Golf Course injuries. of-classroom extracurriculars that make a univer- on Thursday. Swan did not comment on whether CPD See DELTA STATE, 8A Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff See SHOOTING, 8A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC MEETINGS 1 What country is sometimes called Today, March 27 Saturday, March 28 the Land of Fire and Ice? March 31: Lown- ■ MUW Homecoming ■ International Fiesta: des County Su- 2 What weekend retreat saw Me- This annual multicultural recital: Mississippi Univer- pervisors, County nachem Begin and Anwar Sadat event featuring, music, food sity for Women presents a courthouse, 9 hammer out an Israeli-Egyptian peace and more is 11 a.m.-3 p.m. accord in 1978? Homecoming recital at 8 a.m. p.m. in Poindexter Hall on on the Mississippi State 3 What is the English title of the University Drill Field. 662- March 31: CMSD Jabari Sims French adventure novel “Le tour du campus. Free to the public. Town Hall Meeting Second grade, Franklin Aca. 325 -7491. monde en quatre-vingts jours”? ■ “Chronicles of Blue and on “Pathways” 4 What type of internal combustion Today and Saturday, Gray”: As part of Columbus’ program, Boy’s High 57 Low 34 engine has one upward stroke and March 27-28 75th Spring Pilgrimage, the and Girl’s Club, 6 Mostly sunny one downward stroke to every power Columbus Choral Society, p.m. ■ EMCC Benefit Rodeo: Full forecast on stoke? with area choirs and the April 6: Lowndes College rodeo competition page 2A. 5 What A-word means the same as Starkville-MSU Symphony County School toxophilite? with nine schools compet- Orchestra, presents John Board, 11 a.m. Answers, 8B ing at Eagle Ranch in West Purifoy’s “Chronicles of April 6: Colum- Point. Tickets are $5 for Blue and Gray” at 8 p.m. in bus-Lowndes INSIDE children and $10 for adults. 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