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Man pleads guilty to trying to extort $9 million from Babyface INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A man claiming to be Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds' illegitimate son will spend six months in a halfway house after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor intimidation charge for trying to extort $9 million from the Grammy-winning musician. John Travis Clark, 24, also was sentenced to six months probation as part ot the plea agreement tiled Thursday in Marion Superior Court. Clark, who has already spent 98 days in jail since his arrest in May, was charged this spring after he contacted an attorney for the singer and threatened to go public with his story. He offered to "keep his mouth shut" in exchange for $20 million, according to court documents. Clark later lowered his demand to $9 mil lion and met with attorney William Briggs at an tnaianapous restaurant on May i v. During the meeting, Clark read and signed a fake but detailed 8 page non-disclosure statement the attorney had drawn up. He then accepted a bogus check for $9 million and was arrested as he left. Clark will get credit toward his sentence for the three months he's spent in jail awaiting a trial. "I want to make it emphatically clear that John Clark is not my son," Edmonds, who did not attend the hearing, said in a statement. "John Travis Clark sought to ruin my reputation by broadcasting his lies to the entire country, which would not only destroy my family but would resonate loudly in the music industry." Edmonds' hits as a singer include Whip Appeal and Change the World. He has also written hits for Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige. Mariah Carey, Bobby Brown and others. Man who harassed black neighbor ordered to move CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A white St. Albans man who waved a gun at his black neighbor, yelled racial slurs and threatened to njn him off has agreed to move. In signing a consent order, Romie Larry Dailey admitted making racially motivated threats against Bryan W. Smith and violating court orders to stay away from Smith's family. The decree filed Monday in Kanawha Circuit Court safeguards the Smith family and sends a message to racists, said state Deputy Attorney General Paul Sheridan. "1 think this proves that the system, over the course of time, can provide protection to the victims of racism," Sheridan said. The harassment began in 2004 after Smith and his fiancee, Sharmin Kilgore, moved into a house owned by Kilgore's parents out side St. Albans. The consent decree requires Dailey to stay at least a quarter mile away from Smith and his family, complete an anger management pro gram and pay a $500 fine. Sheridan said it is unusual for a civil rights order to require some one to move away, but Dailey was unwilling to live peacefully next to a black neighbor. Lawsuit filed in shootout of Proof DETROIT (AP) - The family of Army veteran Keith Bender has sued the estate of rapper Proof for the shootout that left both men dead. Proof, 32, whose legal name was Deshaun Holton, had allegedly eot into a fist fieht with Bender at the CCC. an after-hours club on Detroit's Eight Mile Road, and it escalated when shots were fired. In the suit filed last week in Wayne County Circuit Court, Benders family said that Proof is liable for attacking and fatally wounding 35-year-old Bender in the April 1 1 incident. He died a week later. The suit does not name a specific amount sought for the alleged damages. , An earlier suit filed in the incident was dismissed. Prosecutors say Bender's cousin Mario Etheridge, fatally shot Proof in an act of self defense after Proof killed Bender. Proof, who died that night, was a member of D12 and Eminem's best friend. Black churches aid Norfolk State NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Black church support was critical to NorfoBt State University's founding. Now the churches are pitch ing in again. Five black congregations in Portsmouth and Norfolk have pledged a total of $232,500 to the publicly funded univtrsity over the next five years, aiding in a $15 million capital campaign at the historically black university. ? "We think their role is critical for the success of the cam paign," said Phillip D. Adams, associate vice president for devel opment at Norfolk State. The participating churches in Norfolk are First Baptist Church on East Berkley Avenue and Second Calvary Baptist Churcti and First Baptist Church on East Bute Street. Third Baptist Church and Grove Baptist Church are in Portsmouth. Local black pastors helped organize the school in 1935 as the Norfolk branch of Virginia Union University, a Richmond institu tion with Baptist connections. According to a school lore, black congregations raised scholar ships for the first students, clergy taught biblical literature courses, and faculty spoke to black congregations at Sunday services to promote the school. In the 1940s, the school became independent and publicly sup ported - typically something that spells an end to any church ties. Representatives at nearby Old Dominion University and The College of William and Mary said they don't target the faith com munity for financial support. But some in area black churches see aiding the campuses that educate their youth as a duty. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pin and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual subscription price is $30.72. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 Infamous rapper discusses past Campbell now coaching young people BY ADRIAN SAINZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ? t MIAMI LAKES, Fta. - Luther Campbell's fame has long been intertwined with raunch. From his days as the leader of the rap outfit 2 Live Crew - whose sexually explicit songs tested the limits of decency all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court - to his solo albums and burgeoning porn business, Campbell is not what you would think of as family friendly. So it may surprise people to see him walk on a neighborhood football field to oversee a bunch of kids in hi* new National Youth Football League. He has joined forces with the Orange Bowl's youth foundation to cre ate the league, which Campbell hopes will grow beyond his home in Miami-Dade County. On a recent evening, about 750 people were watching the first two games, and almost everybody there knew Campbell; People lined up to take pictures with him and he doled out advice to 10-year-olds wearing helmets and shoulder pads who know him only as Uncle Luke. But there is another side of Uncle Luke - which Campbell details with the recently I D *gy Nl Photo by Kathy Hutchins / Huichins Phoio Luther Campbell at last year's MTV Video Music Awards in Miami. released "Uncle Luke: My Life & Freaky Times," an audio book which also comes with a CD soundtrack. The tales he tells on the disc are certainly not for children's ears - some adults may not be able to stomach all the exploits he describes in graphic detail. But approve or disapprove of his lyrics and music videos, few can accuse Campbell of holding back or censoring him self. AP: I told some friends I was going to your house for an See Campbell on A9 Patrick tries to make Massachusett history Former Clinton Administartion officials is running for governor BY GLEN JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - As a child growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Deval Patrick used to rotate beds nightly with his mother and sister. They'd go from top bunk to bottom bunk to bed room floor in the apartment they shared with grandparents. As a student at Harvard, Patrick lived with his friends in a suite overlooking die Charles River. In a former era, it came staffed with a valet. As an adult, Patrick and his wife. Diane, live in a $1 .8 million home in Milton. They're also building a hilltop vacation house on 77 acres in the Berkshires. Over the course of his 50-year life and career, Deval Patrick has overcome long odds to achieve great success, but the former Clinton administration official is still casting himself as a longshot amid his first campaign for elec tive office. It remains his rallying cry despite polls consistently showing him atop the Democratic field for Massachusetts governor as the pace quickens toward the Sept. 19 primary. If he succeeds this fall, he would become the first black elected governor in Massachusetts and only the second black elected governor in the nation. "We, through you, have built the broadest, deepest, most ener gized, most effective grass-roots organization this state has ever seen," Patrick said recently as he addressed about 100 supporters celebrating the opening of his western Massachusetts campaign office. "But you know and I know that on the day that on your behalf I take the oath of office next January, there will still be people saying, 'He can't Kin.'" The crowd laughed, but Deval Patrick Patrick said such doubts are emblematic of a political culture he's trying the change with his campaign, which has adopted the slogan, 'Together, we can." It's also emblematic of the way he has overcome life's chal lenges, and of the manner in which he hopes to govern. "Standing on the brink of an uncertain future, with all the chal lenges we face today in Massachusetts, all I know how to See Patrick on A9 Why go to the video store? START it whenever you're ready. 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