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2B THE CLARION-LEDGER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2006 CLARIONLEDGER.COM MetroState Inlfolfcln Plfe) STOB.YtL. IDEAS Man wanted in Coast slaying overdosed; police say Questionable government spending. A stalled criminal investigation. A public agency whose way of doing business doesn't seem quite right. If you have something you want us to investigate, let us know.

We can look into it. Send an e-mail to: storyideasclarionledger.com The Associated Press Fitts, who was well known to her neighbors and friends as a woman active in the community and church, likely knew her attacker, police said. Police said it is important that people notify authorities when someone is soliciting for money. "If someone comes to your door, begging for money, we need to know about that," Weatherfordsaid. He said Henegan will remain there under police custody until he recovers.

Weatherford said there are no other suspects in the slaying, but the investigation is ongoing. Henegan is originally from Broadmoor, the same neighborhood where the slaying took place, and he had returned there after some time away, Weatherford said. tified Henegan as the suspect in the death of Delphia Fitts, who was found Wednesday beaten to death in her home. Authorities had obtained an arrest warrant on a capital murder charge, and had been on the lookout for Henegan. Police said Henegan had been begging for money in Fitt's neighborhood around the time of the slaying.

GULFPORT Henegan was found Thursday about 2:30 a.m., when medical personnel and police responded to an emergency call. Weather-ford said an officer on the scene recognized the unconscious man to be Henegan. Henegan was in critical condition, but Weatherford would not say where he was being treated. GULFPORT A man wanted in the beating death of a 61-year-old woman was hospitalized Friday from an apparent drug overdose, police said. Mark Alan Henegan, 45, was found early Thursday unconscious between two trailers in Gulfport, Police Chief Alan Weatherfordsaid.

Weatherford had earlier iden VICKSBURG I lift from Gran dma at the playgroun in death sought by family Two years later, relative wants resolution for victim's 11 -year-old daughter The Associated Press .4 v. v-f: -4 JACKSON Displaced New Orleans residents set meeting Displaced families from New Orleans living in Jackson are invited to attend a town hall meeting Dec. 2 on the future of their former city. The meeting will be at the Jackson Medical Mall from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

in the Community Room. It is sponsored by the United New Orleans Plan, with support from the nonprofit AmericaS-peaks. Hospital plans seminar for survivors of cancer Central Mississippi Medical Center will offer a free breast cancer survivor seminar on Dec. 1 2 at 5:30 p.m. in Sorella, at the Comprehensive Breast Health Center in the Medical Office Buildings at 1860 Chadwick Drive.

The seminar is for those who have undergone or are still going through surgery and treatment as well as for their family members and guests. For more information, contact the mammography department at (601) 376-1748. Clinton woman killed in two-car accident A Clinton woman died Thursday following a car accident on U.S. 80 just west of Wiggins Road in Jackson, Jackson Police Sgt. Jeffery Scott said Friday.

JoJuanna Fay Whigham, 32, of 107 Clinton Blvd Apt. H4, died from blunt force trauma, Scott said. Whigham was the driver of a Chevy Lumina that collided with a Dodge Intrepid driven by Antonio 0. Berry, 26, of Jackson at 6:4 1 a.m. Berry was still listed in critical condition at the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Friday afternoon.

The cause of the accident had not been determined. CLEVELAND State justice to speak on selection of judges Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James E. Graves Jr. will speak at a public forum at Delta State University in Cleveland on Tuesday at Graves' topic is "Rethinking the Judicial Selection Process in These Contentious Times." The event will be in the Bologna Performing Arts Center. PETAL School band to march in Hollywood parade Petal High School's marching band left New Orleans on Friday to perform in a Christmas parade Sunday night in Hollywood, Calif.

The trip will cost $175,000, with band boosters, parents, and students in the city in Forrest County teaming up for a series of fundraisers to make it happen. There are 156 members in the Petal band. JASPER COUNTY Highway closing for train-crossing repair About 8 a.m. Monday, a section of Mississippi 528 at the railroad crossing near Bay Springs will be closed to allow Kansas City Southern Railway Co. personnel to repair the railroad crossing.

The closure will last until 1 p.m., according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation. For the most up-to-date information in your area, visit www.mstraffic.com or www.gomdot.com. WAVELAND Cleanup work planned at state park on Coast Workers will remove 8,000 fallen trees as part of the first phase of cleanup at Buccaneer State Park in Hancock County. Restoration of the Hurricane Katrina-damaged park is expected to cost $14 million. Most of the reconstruction should be complete in about two years, but park officials have not yet established a target date for a total reopening.

To share tips and ideas, contact Metro Editor Grace Simmons Fisher at (601) 961-7250, fax to 961-7211 or e-mail gsimmonsclarionledger.com. It's been two years since Angela Schultz Shiers Barrentine went missing, and a relative who helped find her body in a truck in the Big Black River wants resolution for the woman's 11-year-old daugnter. "I am raising her child, and I don't know what to tell her," Stacy Hartley, Barrentine's sister, said. "She's had a lot of questions. She wants to know what happened to her mama.

She misses her mama." Barrentine's body was pulled from a 1 997 Ford F-150 truck the night of Aug. 2, 2005, about eight months after she was last seen Thanksgiving Day 2004. Hartley said living the past two years with the ongoing investigation into Barrentine's death has been "really bad." "Everybody knows what it's like to lose a loved one," she said. "But not everyone knows what it's like to lose a loved one (when) they don't know what happened." There's no indication how the truck left the road and went into the river but her sister says authorities are clear that they suspect foul play, and she's sure her sister wouldn't have taken her own life. Barrentine, then 27, was last seen in Edwards, which is in Hinds County, near Belknap and Military roads driving and alone in the pickup.

She was supposed to be at her grandparents' house that day for dinner. When she did not show, family members alerted the Vicksburg Police Department that she was missing. About a month later, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said his department was asked by the family to get involved. The Hinds County Sheriff's Department joined the case when the investigation showed Barrentine was last seen in Edwards. "From Day 1, this investigation led to Hinds County," Pace said.

"She was seen there, and we can prove that. Hinds County has been an important role since early in this investigation." Calls to Sgt. Eddie Robinson of the Hinds County Sheriff's Department went unanswered. Pace said the FBI has provided "technical assistance," but he declined to say more about where evidence is taking authorities. "We're just still continuing to beat the streets looking for leads," he said.

x. J.D. Schwalm The Clarion-Ledger Abby Blanks, 3, of Madison gets a lift from her grand- on Friday. The mild temperatures drew dozens of families mother, Becky Blanks of Jackson, during their visit to the to the popular park. The pair try to visit the playground a Dr.

Hugh G. Ward Children's Playground in Jackson least once per week. Court: Hotel chain not liable in patron's death Mississippi State touting power of supercomputer The Associated Press Choice Hotels International cannot be held responsible for the death of a Texas man who was killed when two men burst into his Gulfport motel room, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has ruled. The ruling came in the appeal of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Darlene Allen, whose husband, William, died from a gunshot wound in the back after two men broke into the couple's room at the Comfort Inn in Gulf-port in 1996. Darlene Allen sued R.C.P.

Enterprises, which was doing business as Comfort Inn, the franchisee, and R.D. Patel, its managing partner, and against Choice Hotels International, the franchisor. Choice Hotels International Sun Microsystems Inc. Each of the model X2200 M2 servers has two Opteron 2218 processors manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices. Because existing computers currently used by HPC2 are operating at capacity, the Raptor is expected to greatly strengthen the MSU research unit's efforts in solving problems related to automotive crash simulations, weather and ocean modeling, and the design of more efficient jet engines.

"The computational capability of this new system is sometimes hard to grasp," said Trey Breckenridge, high performance computing resources and operations administrator at HPC2. "Raptor" expected to make elite world list Special to The Clarion-Ledger A new supercomputer at Mississippi State University can perform more than 10 trillion calculations per second at its peak and is expected to rank among the 100 most powerful computers in the world. MSU's High Performance Computing Collaboratory has installed a 2,048 processor computing cluster, named "Raptor," which is more than four times faster than the most powerful system currently housed at the site, an IBM model called "Maverick." "It is anticipated that this STARKVILLE computer will be among the 100 most powerful computers in the world when the next Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list is released next month by the University of Tennessee and the Uni-versity of Mannheim (Germany)," said Colin Scanes, MSU's vice president for research and economic development. "The system also likely will be among the 15 most powerful computers at any university in the country," he said. The new computing cluster, which connects 512 smaller computers together, uses servers made by Santa Clara, GULFPORT franchises hotels under many names including Comfort Inn, Quality and Sleep Inn.

Allen alleged the defendants did not provide reasonable security to protect guests at the hotel, which led to her husband's death. In 2004, a Harrison County judge dismissed Choice Hotels as a defendant. The judge ruled Choice was not liable because it did not control or have the right to control the day-to-day operation of the hotel. On appeal, Darlene Allen argued among other things that Choice exercised control over security at the hotel because it required room doors have a peephole, deadbolt locks and security bars on any sliding doors. i.