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RED RIBBON WEEK
Drugs,
crime still
a problem
with youth
BY ALVA JAMES-JOHNSON
ajjohnson@ledger-enquirer.com
I first met Eugene Thomas at
Project Rebound on Francis
Street. The encounter had a lot
of promise, I could tell, but I
wasnt quite sure where it would
lead.
At the time, I was looking for
someone who could help me
explore why we have so much
crime in Columbus, especially
among young black men.
J. Aleem Hud, the director at
Project Rebound, arranged for
Thomas and me to meet, along
with Ang Li, a videographer at
the Ledger-Enquirer.
This week, the newspaper
published the result of that pro-
ject, which ends today with this
column. If you missed the series,
you can still read the stories
online.
As a youth, Eugene sold crack
on the streets of Columbus be-
fore going to prison for 21 years.
Hes now a manager at Ches-
ters Barbecue trying to rebuild
his life. Still, there are far too
many young people trapped in
the world that he left behind.
On Thursday, I stopped by the
Government Center to interview
Juvenile Court Judge Warner
Kennon. When asked what
crimes hes seeing these days,
he picked up Thursdays docket
and rattled off a long list.
Burglary in the first degree.
Simple battery on a public
school employee. Disorderly
conduct. Obstruction hindering
a police officer. Disrupting a
public school. Violation of pro-
bation.
We have a lot more car
SEE YOUTH, 4A
I cant imagine he did
something of that nature
Teddy Keaton, who coached
Bryant Mosley at Stillman
College, said he was shocked
to hear the allegations accusing
him of body-slamming
13-year-old Montravious
Thomas so severely his right leg
was amputated below the knee.
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The Aflac corporate headquarters tower on Wynnton Road in Columbus.
Aflac reports $629M
profit, upgrades
full-year outlook
BY TONY ADAMS
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S
upplemental insurer
Aflac reported a profit of
$629 million in the third
quarter of this year,
while also sweetening the pot
with an upgrade of its full-year
outlook for operating earnings
per share.
Aflac, headquartered on
Wynnton Road in Columbus,
revised its diluted operating
earnings projection from a range
of $6.17 to $6.41 per share to the
loftier expectation of between
$6.40 to $6.60 per share.
Having completed the first
nine months of the year, I am
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BY MARK RICE
mrice@ledger-enquirer.com
Bryant Mosley, the former
college football lineman ac-
cused of body-slamming a
13-year-old boy at a Columbus
alternative school so severely
that his right leg was amputated
below the knee, was an excel-
lent kid, a leader, mild-
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overall results, Aflac Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
Dan Amos said in a statement.
We believe those results, com-
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growth, our expectation is to
increase spending in the fourth
quarter, particularly related to
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The $629 million in net earn-
ings ($1.54 per diluted share)
were nearly 11 percent higher
than the $567 million ($1.32 per
share) posted by the supple-
mental health and life insurer in
the same July-September quar-
mannered and the type of
person you would want your
son to be, one of his coaches
told the Ledger-Enquirer.
In fact, former Stillman Col-
lege coach Teddy Keaton said
he never saw or heard of Mosley
being hostile off the field during
the one season they were in the
football program together, 2011,
when Mosley graduated from
the college in Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
that December.
Thats why Im shocked to
hear that, Keaton told the Led-
ger-Enquirer after hearing a
summary of the allegations
against Mosley. He was very
smart. He did what he was sup- video of the incident, 5A.
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year ago.
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all financial picture through the
lens of operating earnings,
which take out one-time events
such as investment gains and
losses, hedging costs, and other
such items. In that vein, it re-
ported operating earnings of
$748 million, which were 11.3
percent above the $672 million
it saw in the same period a year
ago. Operating earnings per
diluted share in the quarter
were $1.82, up 16.7 percent from
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