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side 0 it Tax rV fit BOYS Carlisle 65, Fulton City 57 Ballard 58, Mayfield 55 Marshall GO, Murray 53 Caldwell 76, Trigg 53 GIRLS Hickman 70, Carlisle 57 Lone Oak 69, Heath 47 St Mary 52, Mayfield 48 Crittenden 48, Livingston 38 if 'Tho Sopranos' return to 'family' values Sunday. cuts House panel passes Bush's tax plan, but party split i L. sets bad omen. A Wl 1 .4 tine 1898 Vol. 105 No.

61 March 2, 2001 Paducah, 42002 Affirmative action no longer makes sense Column, 4A Blackmae retires amid probe 1 Marketing group to promote Purchase to prospective businesses from studies to be released this month. Perked police Officer. leaves old cruiser in church lot in '99, went unmissing investigation was completed. The investigation expanded in January when Potts sent a second The Mayfield police chief had planned to retire later this year. The department faces a state police investigation and a whistle-blower suit By J.

Bradley Copyright 2001, The Paducah Sun MAYFIELD, Ky. Mayfield Police Chief Richard Blackrnan retired Thursday, effective immediately, amid a Kentucky letter, this time directly to the state police, outlining possible misuse of the police department's drug fund. State police Capt. Mike Sapp, who heads the Lear special investigations unit based in for year and a half. State Police investigation of the department including alleged misuse of its drug fund and the filing of a whistle-blower lawsuit by a city police officer.

i Bowling Green, confirmed the scope of the investigation Thursday but declined to comment further. He said the investigation will be completed within "a couple of months." Lear was interviewed for 90 minutes Thursday by the investigators, according to his attorney, Dennis Null of Mayfield. The investigators at Mayfield City Hall declined to comment or identify themselves. Null said most of the? questioning was about Lear selling a VCR that was evidence in a theft case: Please see MAYFIELD 2A Potts I if Richard Blackrnan -Retires as police chief Commonwealth Attorney David Hargrove requesting an investigation of Assistant Chief Ronnie Lear and Detective Sgt Tracy House in. the mishandling of evidence.

Hargrove said he forwarded the request to the state police and requested that he be notified when the Minutes after Blackrnan tendered his resignation to Mayor Wayne Potts, he was interviewed by two state police special investigators. The probe began November when Potts sent a letter to Graves BARKLEY THIELEMANThe Sun Empty Office: The office of former Police Chief Richard Blackrnan remained empty Thursday. Pecsn farmer? Ex-senator diplomat now wants to try her hand as farmer in Alabama. Schools9 SEEK ftm Districts' Funds of the state Department of Education. SEEK is a formula that awards a base amount of money for each child attending a district's schools.

The surplus was calculated using a $63 per child base multiplied by a district's average daily attendance. Larger districts such as Jefferson County got $5,244,077, while smaller districts such as Fulton City schools Please see SEEK 12A utility bills to come. Any windfall we get, we're grateful for. We're just glad that the (education) commissioner, the legislature and the governor were able to work this out." The funds will be distributed in coming months, with the first installment to be added Tuesday or Wednesday to the regular check received through the SEEK program (Supporting Education Excellence in Kentucky), said Lisa Gross By Molly Harper The Paducah Sun The stress of mounting gas bills has eased with word that Kentucky school districts can expect their shares of nearly $37 million in surplus state funds by next week. "With the escalating costs of heating, this is going to help us get through," McCracken County Superintendent Tim Heller said.

"We still have a few months of Ballard County $85,952 Caldwell County $127,966 Calloway County $190,169 Carlisle County $47,613 Fulton Independent $34,528 Fulton County $57,329 Graves County $246,775 Hickman County $50,705 Livingston County $82,643 Lyon County $57,994 Marshall County $274,149 Mayfield Independent $90, 359 McCracken Coimty $385,518 Murray Independent $86,426 Paducah Public $198,697 Trigg County $123,319 Your Hometown Forecast Aldermen: Revisit old rnnrlhlnrk Ad sales by public TV entity criticized By Cal Sisto NewsChannel 6 Chief Meteorologist Today: Partly sunny with highs in mid to upper 50s. Tonight: Most cloudy with lows in the mid to upper 30s. Today ordinance i Two Metropolis aldermen say they never supported new limits on their votes were recorded wrong in the 7-1 decision. By Darwin Campbell The Paducah Sun METROPOLIS, III. Two Metropolis aldermen say they will fight changes to.an ordi- nance limiting charitable from soliciting donations.

'j Mm We supported the" changes to the original ordinance, said Alderman Dannie Cole, chair- Murray State will reach farther by simulcasting with Paducah's WQWQ, which also concerns private broadcasters. By Matt Sander The Paducah Sun The Kentucky Broadcasters Association still opposes the sale of advertising by Murray State University's low-power television station, now also broadcast in Paducah, but apparently is powerless to do anything but voice concern. Since Kentucky has no law regulating public university-owned television stations, there are no legal grounds to halt the advertising sales, said KBA chairman Ed Mas-trian of Lexington. Without legal footing, the association plans no action against WQTV, the university's station, Mastrian said. Murray State holds a low-power commercial television license that permits the sale of advertising, according to Stan Marinoff, WQTV station manager.

Marinoff defended the practice, saying the commercial TV station gives students practical experience Tonight idex 8A Business 4C Classified IDA Comics SC Deaths 4A Editorial 2D TV Listings 2A Lottery Associated Press Watching and waiting: Rep. Larry Clark, D-Louisville, checks his watch while waiting to testify as Public Service Commissioner Martin Huelsmann appears before the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee to discuss garbage collection legislation. Details, 6A. man of the city's ordinance com-" mittee. 'Charities help a lot of peo-; pie, and supporting roadblocks helps these good things happen j' Please see ALDERMEN 12A Clinton advisers say they opposed pardon Waxman of California directly asked all three whether there was a "quid pro quo" of donations for pardons, including $450,000 in con- trihutmns Rirh's former wife has 1 Lindsey told a House committee Thursday they strongly opposed his pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc, Rich and thought it would never happen.

"The staff informed the president that it was our view that the pardon should not be granted," Podesta told the House Government Reform Committee, which is investigating whether political and other donations or payments influenced the pardon of the Rich. Ranking Democrat Henry By Deb Rlechmann Associated Press WASHINGTON Former President Clinton's closest advisers White House chief of staff John Podesta, counsel Beth Nolan and senior aide Bruce made to Clinton's presidential Please see CLINTON 2A Please see AD 12A I.