TDN 07/12/2013

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Frydell Memorial Tennis Tournament continues in Troy PAGE 14

It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com July 12, 2013

Volumune 105, No. 163

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Crash probe continues SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Passengers who called 911 minutes after a Boeing (NYSE:BA) 777 crashed at San Francisco International Airport said not enough help had arrived and they were doing their best to keep the critically injured alive, according to 911 calls that portray a scene of desperation. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed Saturday when it came in too low and too slow, killing two passengers and injuring others as it skittered and spun 100 feet. Most of the injured suffered minor injuries.

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Ohio St. president slow to apologize

COLUMBUS (AP) — Former Ohio State jabbed in Dec. 5 remarks to the university’s University President Gordon Gee took his Athletic Council. Those apologies included time apologizing for remarks he made that a May 21 trip to Notre Dame to meet in were critical of the University of Notre person with the university’s president, the Dame, Roman Catholics and Southeastern Rev. John Jenkins, according to the calendar Conference schools, among severand officials at Ohio State and other al of his targets during off-the-cuff universities. comments last year, records show. The university declined to directly Although university trustees address the delay and instead referred directed Gee in a March 11 letter to the events detailed by the calendar. to begin issuing personal apolo“Dr. Gee made his apologies as outgies “promptly,” he didn’t make lined,” said university spokeswoman the first of those apologies until Gayle Saunders. May 20 during a previously schedThe apologies began after the uniuled meeting with the bishop of versity reviewed the AP’s May 13 the Roman Catholic Diocese of E. Gordon Gee request for the audiotape and just Columbus, according to a copy of days before the AP first reported on Gee’s calendar obtained by The the remarks on May 30. Saunders Associated Press through a records request. wouldn’t comment on that timing. Gee, 69, retired July 1. He will remain Gee followed that meeting with a series of apologetic phone calls to presidents and at the university as a law professor, but other officials at several universities he details of his retirement package haven’t

been released. Ohio State, one of the country’s biggest universities with 65,000 students, has named provost Joseph Alutto as interim president. “The university continues our focus on the strategic direction of the university under the leadership of Interim President Alutto,” said Saunders, who said she was speaking for the university and Gee. Asked for comment, Gee deferred to Saunders in an email Thursday. In the audiotaped remarks to the Athletic Council, Gee criticized Notre Dame, saying the university was never invited to join the Big Ten because the school’s religious leaders are not “good partners.” Gee, a Mormon, also jokingly referred to “those damn Catholics,” lampooned the academic integrity of the University of Louisville

• See APOLOGIZE on page 2

Hugs Heal

Singing in the Hills

Local man on the receiving end with a benefit in his honor this Saturday

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By Melanie Yingst Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com

England going gaga over royal baby LONDON (AP) — It’s a royal bonanza — but for Britain’s souvenir makers, also a royal headache. The upcoming birth of Prince William and his wife Kate’s first child is a golden opportunity that comes with a mystery: the name and gender of the baby. It all means that, while merchants have known for months that the future heir to the throne is due in mid-July, they’ll be sent into a mad dash to create, or at least put finishing touches on, royal baby memorabilia. See page 10

INSIDE TODAY Business..................2 Calendar....................3 Crossword.................8 Deaths.......................5 Ernest P. Bryant Betty H. Carney Robert E. Deeter James R. Orme Lester Selanders Opinion......................4 Sports........................14

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Country music singer Jake Owen performs at the 33rd annual Country Concert on Thursday in Fort Loramie. The country music festival will continue through Saturday.

CASSTOWN — The healing power of a warm embrace through a hug helped David Gawronski through some dark times in his life. Now the community he has wrapped his arms around, lifting them their own dark periods, is embracing Gawronski with a benefit in his name on Saturday. Gawronski, 49, of Casstown, recently was diagnosed with cancer and his friends and family are hosting a “Hugs for Dave” dinner and auction Saturday at the Troy Fish and Game. Gawronski is known for putting together benefits and fundraisers for others and now local friends and family are pulling together to help Gawronski, said longtime friend Jennifer Baldwin-Henley. Gawronski “He has a heart of gold, holding and attending fundraisers for all kinds of folks throughout the Greater Dayton/ Miami County area,” said Baldwin-Henley. “He has helped struggling families that need help during a medical problem, car accidents, veterans, you name it.” Baldwin-Henley said Gawronski is constantly serving others through his work with CarTeens, USO, local veterans groups and volunteers at local hospitals and will drop everything to hug someone in need. “He’s always giving support to others,” she said. “He always is asking others how he can help and now he needs help so we are doing these benefits for him.” Gawronski is no stranger to personal tragedy. His son David Jr. was involved in a car accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). “My son was touch and go. You feel helpless and hopeless and just want to curl up in a corner,” he said. “But it’s those who stand by your side and hug and hold you up that get you through each day. That is where your strength comes from a hug that heals. The hardest part is you go through the injuries and the sickness alone, just you and God. (You are) hoping for healing and not knowing the future for your loved one and it can be a road that never ends

• See HEAL on page 2

Jury in Zimmerman trial may consider lesser charge SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — In an unmistakable setback for George Zimmerman, the jury at the neighborhood watch captain’s second-degree murder trial was given the option Thursday of convicting him on the lesser charge of manslaughter in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Judge Debra Nelson issued her ruling over the objections of Zimmerman’s lawyers shortly before a prosecutor delivered a closing argument in which he portrayed the defendant as an aspiring police officer who assumed Martin was up to no good and took the law into his own hands. “A teenager is dead. He is dead through no fault of his own,” prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda told the jurors. “He is dead because a man made assumptions. … Unfortunately because his assumptions were wrong, Trayvon Benjamin Martin no

longer walks this Earth.” Because of the judge’s ruling, the six jurors will have three options when they start deliberations as early as Friday: guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of manslaughter and not guilty. Zimmerman attorney Don West had argued an all-or-nothing strategy, saying the only charge that should be put before the jury is second-degree murder. “The state has charged him with second-degree murder. They should be required to prove it,” West said. “If they had wanted to charge him with manslaughter … they could do that.” To win a second-degree murder conviction, prosecutors must prove Zimmerman showed ill will, hatred or spite — a burden the defense has argued the state failed to meet.

• See TRIAL on page 2

AP Photo

George Zimmerman, right, talks to jury consultant Robert Hirschhorn during the final stages of jury selection for his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Thursday. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

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