[Clark said he reviewed local data on black farmers and USDA lending patterns by race, and figured out how much Miller could have made if he had received the same loans as neighboring white farmers.] I looked at a similarly situated white farmer, ... His growth trends compared to Mr. Miller's growth trends. [The white farmer] was a lot further along.

The appearance pf the streets that have been gated is already starting to improve as residents start to fill them with planters, confident that they won't be spoiled by vandals.

Short of bringing back the stocks, there's not much more we could do.

For her to come home sick is unusual.

It's a good thing because I have to use mine all the time. It's the only way I have to communicate with the outside world.

Why should drunks who cannot restrain themselves in public cause problems for everyone else?

We've had four tournaments this year, and, if we just have a couple breaks go our way, we'd be qualified for state already. We've been four or five strokes out every time, and that's not much when you have five golfers.

The total count won't come in until next week but we were well over $100,000 when we quit at 12 am.

Golf has always been a passion for me, ... Football is a very intense sport, and golf is considered a 'gentlemen's game.'

You don't know how grateful I am, ... that people like you are concerned about people like us.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, the boys are always giving me a hard time about that.

We will assist you financially, with needed bottled water and other products and an offer of our community's friendship and emotional support.

The danger is it's so much like an intestinal flu. The kidneys start to shut down before you know it.

But the official tally could double that very easily and I fully expect that the tally is going to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of a quarter of a million dollars.