Ky. House approves Joiner, UK bill to limit tanning topple WKU bed use by teens in softball LOCAL/STATE A6 SPORTS B1 THURSDAY Thursday, March 22, 2012 | 75 cents, 51 cents average home delivery cost WWW.KENTUCKYNEWERA.COM 20 pages, 2 sections | Volume 125, Number 90 | Hopkinsville, Ky. Est. 1869 Man gets 10 years in choking death “other roles played that night” Defendant says he just wanted and that he was protecting him- self, but consequently, hurt his best friend. Commonwealth’s Attorney his ‘best friend’ to calm down Lynn Pryor said the 10-year sen- tence was not the best-case sce- BY BENJAMIN JOUBERT ment in which he said, “Not a day nario, but considered it an NEW ERA STAFF WRITER goes by that I don’t miss my appropriate resolution to the case. The incident was “tragic for friend.” everyone involved,” Pryor said. Seneca Moore, 33, calls Terry Apologizing to Yocum’s family, Yocum, the man he choked to In late January, Moore took a Moore said that the two had had plea agreement that amended his death during a fight in April, his too much to drink the night of charge from murder to second- “best friend.” Yocum’s death and that he “just degree manslaughter. Moments before a Christian wanted (Yocum) to calm down” During the plea hearing, Pryor Circuit Court judge sentenced so they could talk. said Moore could possibly get a BENJAMIN JOUBERT | KENTUCKY NEW ERA him to 10 years in prison Wednes- In addition, Moore told Judge longer sentence if the case went Seneca Moore and his attorney, Jack Faust, talk to each other during Moore’s sentencing day, Moore read a prepared state- Andrew Self that there were SEE DEATH, PAGE A5 Wednesday afternoon. More of the Martians Judge’s wife, Cissy Atkins, dies from chronic illness BY NICK TABOR and she worked at the Penny- NEW ERA STAFF WRITER royal Mental Health Center for years. More recently she was a Virginia “Cissy” Atkins, the homemaker, John Atkins said. wife of Circuit Judge John The couple had their 21st an- Atkins, died Wednesday morn- niversary last week. Virginia ing at Jennie Stuart Medical Atkins was stepmother to John Center. Atkins’ daughter, Jill, and John She was 51. was stepfather to her son, She had struggled with a Austin. They had a third child, chronic infection for many Read, together. months, John Atkins said. Her She routinely contributed to immune system effectively shut fundraisers at their church, St. down just before she died at 1:42 John’s United Methodist — for a.m., he said. instance, she arranged baskets She earned a master’s degree for silent auctions — and she from the University of Ten- nessee’s School of Social Work, SEE ATKINS, PAGE A5 Employers scout soldiers at job fair BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Harold Riggins, director of Fort Campbell’s Army Career FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — and Alumni Program, said More than 100 national and PHOTO SUBMITTED they are expecting 120 em- Construction has begun on a 37-foot-wide flying saucer that will be shown at this year’s Little Green Man Days. local employers will be at Fort ployers to be at Fort Campbell Campbell seeking potential over the next two days in a plained. “That’s when we will recruits among the Army sol- wide range of careers. Some Festival expands have the big solar eclipse. This diers who will soon be leaving employers, like CSX Railroad will be the best location in all military service. and BNSF Railway, have the world to view it.” The two-day job fair at Cole made a commitment to hire Brown added that moving the space and time Park Commons will host na- veterans and others are look- BY DAVID SNOW event’s location gives it three tional and international em- times more space. ing for dependable leaders FOR THE NEW ERA ployers Wednesday and local The entertainment will grow like those coming out of the employers today. Among the as well. American Idol contest- military. Following last year’s success employers attending are Boe- “Our service members have of the Little Green Men Days ant Kayla Nettles, who sang the GRAPHIC SUBMITTED National Anthem at last year’s ing, CSX Railroad, Macy’s, intangible skills like leader- festival, organizers are expand- This is a T-shirt design for this year’s Lit- festival, will return to perform Hemlock, Tennessee Depart- ship, teamwork, integrity and ing the event in more ways than tle Green Men Days. on Aug. 17. A performance by ment of Corrections and HCA. one. ingenuity,” he said. “They are Aron Houdini, “the world’s With planned military diverse, loyal, dependable and The festival in Kelly, which only living Houdini,” will com- budget cuts looming, the Festival organizer and presi- adaptable.” celebrates the anniversary of plete that evening’s entertain- Army plans to reduce its total dent of the Kelly Community Riggins said about 300 to 500 the 1955 UFO sighting by Cecil ment. A two-time Magician of size by 80,000 soldiers over the “Lucky” Sutton, will grow from Organization Inc., Frank troops from Fort Campbell the Year, Houdini is the great- next five years and civilian fed- one day to two days this year — Brown said this year’s expan- leave active duty service each great-nephew of Harry Hou- eral employees and contrac- Aug. 17 and 18 — and will move sion won’t be the end of the dini and has been named month and they are looking from the small field between event’s growth. tors will also be facing job Entertainer of the Year three losses. SEE FAIR, PAGE A5 U.S. 41 and Old Madisonville “We’re going to be moving to- times. Road to a larger area on the east wards 2017, when it’s going to side of Old Madisonville Road. be a four-day event,” he ex- SEE MARTIANS, PAGE A5 INDEX WHO WE ARE: Rachel Daley, 42, Hopkinsville MORE INSIDE OBITUARIES A2 When Rachel Daley was 10 other away from her four kids — www.facebook.com/ ASK AMY A2 growing up in Montevallo, friends and one of whom is now grown kentuckynewera MY ANSWER A2 Ala., about 35 miles south of family — and to strengthen family or follow us on Twitter: LOTTERY A3 Birmingham, her father members, bonds. they camp twitter.com/kentuckynewera LOCAL/STATE A6 worked on NASCAR cars. Since Davey Allison died by He worked with her fa- for a few OPINION A8 crashing his helicopter in vorite driver, Davey Allison. days and 1993, Daley’s favorite driver WEATHER A10 watch the She now lives in Hop- now is Jeff Gordon. TV B4 kinsville because her hus- races. They’ve done this for about COMICS B5 band is stationed at Fort Last chance Campbell. But every October, 16 years, she said. Last year Is there someone you know who deserves CLASSIFIEDS B6 Daley and her brother and sis- they camped for nearly a attention? We’d like to know. Contact us at Girl Scouts wrapping up THATS THE TICKET! B10 ter converge at the racetrack week. 270-887-3238 or visit kentuckynewera.com. cookie sales. in Talladega, Ala. With nine or It gives her a chance to get We’ll take it from there. NEWS A3 ©2012 Kentucky New Era. All rights reserved. All property A2 Thursday, March 22, 2012 | OBITUARIES | www.kentuckynewera.com rights belong to the Kentucky New Era and no part may be reproduced without prior written consent. Published Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings by the Kentucky New Era, P.O. Box 729, Hopkinsville, Ky. 42241, 1618 E. Ninth St., Hopkinsville, Ky. 42240. Periodical postage paid at Hopkinsville, Ky. 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