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Egyptian helicopters strike suspected militants CAIRO (AP) — Smoke billowed in the sky as Egyptian helicopter gunships rocketed suspected Islamic militant hideouts in the lawless northern Sinai Peninsula for a second day on Sunday, part of the largest military offensive in the region in years, military officials said.

They say the assault aims to drive out al-Qaida inspired groups from several villages of the restive border region, where Islamic militants have established strongholds and stockpiled an unprecedented amount of weapons.

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US: Proven link of Assad to gas attack lacking WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House asserted Sunday that a “common-sense test” dictates the Syrian government is responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response. But Obama’s top aide says the administration lacks “irrefutable, beyond-areasonable-doubt evidence” that skeptical Americans, including lawmakers who will start voting on military action this week, are seeking.

“This is not a court of law. And intelligence does not work that way,” White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said during his five-network public relations blitz Sunday to build support for limited strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“The common-sense test says he is responsible for this. He should be held to account,”

McDonough said of the Syrian leader who for two years has resisted calls from inside and outside his country to step down.

Asked in another interview about doubt, McDonough was direct: “No question in my mind.”

The U.S., citing intelligence reports, says the lethal nerve agent sarin was used in an Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus, and that 1,429 people died, including 426 children.

The number is higher than that, said Khalid Saleh, head of the press office at the anti-Assad Syrian Coalition who was in Washington to lobby lawmakers to authorize the strikes. Some of those involved in the attacks later died in their homes and opposition leaders were weighing releasing a full list of names of the dead.

But Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,

which collects information from a network of anti-government activists, says it has so far only been able to confirm 502 dead.

The actual tally of those killed by chemical weapons is scant compared to the sum of all killed in the upheaval: more than 100,000, according to the United Nations.

In an interview Sunday, Assad told U.S. journalist Charlie Rose there is not conclusive evidence about who is to blame for the chemical weapons attacks and again suggested the rebels were responsible. From Beirut, Rose described his interview, which is to be released Monday on the CBS morning program that Rose hosts, with the full interview airing later in the day on Rose’s PBS program.

Asked about Assad’s claims there is no evidence he used the weapons, Secretary of State John

Kerry told reporters in London: “The evidence speaks for itself.”

At the same time, Obama has planned his own public relations effort. He has scheduled six network interviews on Monday and then a primetime speech to the nation from the White House on Tuesday, the eve of the first votes in Congress.

Obama faces a tough audience on Capitol Hill. A survey by The Associated Press shows that House members who are staking out positions are either opposed to or leaning against Obama’s plan for a military strike by more than a 6-1 margin.

“Lobbing a few Tomahawk missiles will not restore our credibility overseas,” said Rep. Mike McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee.

He’s gone country Local artist signs recording deal

Colin Foster

Associate Sports Editor

Small California city welcomes doomsday bunkers LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the backyard of his remote Southern California home, Bernie Jones is etching an unconventional blueprint: a construction plan to build his underground survival shelter. It won’t be the typical, cramped Cold War-era bunker. It will hold 20 people.

Part of a small but vocal group of survivalists in Menifee, some 80 miles east of Los Angeles, Jones, 46, has pushed for the right to build a bunker on his 1-acre property for nearly a year. He wants to be ready for anything, be it natural disaster or a nuclear attack.

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INSIDE TODAY Calendar....................3 Entertainment...........10 Deaths.......................5 Doris P. Tamplin Dora Eileen Powell Whitmer Paul E. Deal Ralph ‘Ed’ Langston Helen P. (Speaks) Marshall Nicodemus Mazetta ‘Etta’ Dale Clossman Opinion......................4 Sports.......................13 - 16 Health.........................6

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Clark Manson is the typical small-town kid with big dreams.

Over the summer, his dream of becoming a signed country recording artist came true, though he’s not one to brag about it.

“I don’t want to be that (guy) who says he has a record deal,” said Manson, a 2009 Covington High School grad, in a text message.

The fact of the matter is he does — and Manson’s stock on the countrymusic radar has started to rise ever since his ‘media guy,’ Weston Bakos, created a Twitter page (@ ClarkManson) in August.

A little over a month later, Manson’s account has already reached 16,000 followers – and he has been getting compliments from people all over the country.

“Social media is basiPhoto provided by Weston Bakos cally everything when it Local performer Clark Manson performs at a recent concert. comes to getting your before going to Nashville in and musicians who played music heard,” Manson play a show.

“I’m blessed to be in the late September to work on and worked on the record,” said. “My media guy, Manson said. “We then Weston Bakos, started the position I am in right now the finishing touches.

From July 28 to Aug. laid down the instrument Twitter page at the begin- — and so excited for all my 4, Manson spent time tracks to the nine songs ning of August and we are fans to hear the record.”

Manson signed the deal recording his album in the on the album. We had already up to over 16,000 followers. It’s mind blow- in early July, which funded country music capital of some of the best players in ing on how involved the the entire recording pro- the world, Nashville. He Nashville play on the record followers get and how cess for his album, titled was backed up by a new who have credits on Jake excited they are to hear “Running With the Night.” group of musicians, some Owen’s, Kacey Musgraves’ the new record. It feels It is due out at some point of whom have experience and Kelly Clarkson’s new surreal to have people in October, but he will playing alongside many records, as well as many more big artists.” from all around the coun- spend the next few weeks popular country acts.

Not bad company.

“Basically on that trip try giving me support and traveling back and forth hoping that we will make between Cleveland and (to Nashville) I met with • See MANSON on page 2 a stop in their town to Columbus for vocal work the producers, engineers

Adkins to play ‘Christmas Show’ at Hobart Arena

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Country singer Trace Adkins will be in Troy Dec. 3 for “The Christmas Show” at Hobart Arena.

Few voices command attention the way Trace Adkins’ deep baritone grabs a crowd. Which makes the popular country singer an ideal fit for delivering holiday cheer.

The 51-year-old, Grammy-nominated singer has announced that Troy will be part of his upcoming holiday tour — The Christmas Show — with a 7:30 p.m. performance set for Dec. 3 at Hobart Arena.

The tour will take Adkins across the country to a variety of smaller, intimate venues and will include a 12-piece ensemble, female vocalists and a variety of traditional instruments.

“This is the first tour

that he’s done like this, and we understood that he has been wanting to do this for several years,” said Hobart Arena Director Ken Siler. “We had done a survey earlier in the year and he was one of the top country music acts that folks indicated they wanted to see. And, since his holiday album is coming out in October, we thought it would be a great opportunity to be included on his first holiday tour.”

Known for his rich voice and country hits ranging from “You’re Gonna Miss This” and “Songs About Me,” to “Hot Mama” and his chart-topping duet with Blake Shelton, “Hillbilly Bone” — Adkins’ holiday tour will alternate between

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More parents joining the opt-out movement DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — While his eighth-grade classmates took state standardized tests this spring, Tucker Richardson woke up late and played basketball in his Delaware Township driveway.

Tucker’s parents, Wendy and Will, are part of a small but growing number of parents nationwide who are ensuring their children do not participate in standardized testing. They are opposed to the practice for myriad reasons, including the stress they believe it brings on young students, discomfort with tests being used to gauge teacher performance, fear that corporate influence is overriding education and concern that test prep is narrowing curricula down to the minimum needed to pass an exam.

“I’m just opposed to the way high-stakes testing is being used to evaluate teachers, the way it’s being used to define what’s happening in classrooms,” said Will Richardson, an educational consultant and former teacher. “These tests are not meant to evaluate teachers.

They’re meant to find out what kids know.”

The opt-out movement, as it is called, is small but growing. It has been brewing for several years via word of mouth and social media, especially through Facebook.

The “Long Island opt-out info” Facebook page has more than 9,200 members, many of them rallying at a Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., high school last month after a group of principals called this year’s state tests — and their low scores — a “debacle.”

In Washington, D.C., a group of parents and students protested outside the Department of Education.

Students and teachers at a Seattle high school boycotted a standardized test, leading the district superintendent to declare that city high schools have the choice to deem it optional. In Oregon, students organized a campaign persuading their peers to opt out of tests, and a group of students in Providence, R.I., dressed like zombies and marched in front of the State House to protest a requirement that students must achieve a minimum score on a state test in order to graduate.

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9/11 responders far from NYC seek compensation NEW YORK (AP) — They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and health benefits being given to New Yorkers who got sick after toiling for months in the toxic ruins of the World Trade Center.

Federal officials say at least 91 people who were at those two crash sites have applied so far for payment from a multibilliondollar fund for people with an illness related to the attacks. That includes 66 people who fought fires and cleaned up rubble at the Pentagon and 25 who responded to the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Those numbers are minuscule compared to the more than 24,000 firefighters, police, construction workers and others who applied for compensation in New York after developing illnesses possibly linked to long hours spent in ground zero’s constant fires and drifts of pulverized concrete and glass.

But the Pentagon or Shanksville applicants are notable because, to date, no medical study or environmental survey has suggested that people who responded to either site were exposed to similar health hazards. They were on the scene for days rather than months. And there have been no reports of a strange rash of illnesses.

Responders at those sites were given eligibility by Congress mostly out of a sense of fairness, without any clear indication that anyone was sick.

A separate program administered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health expects as many as 1,500 Virginia and Pennsylvania responders to apply for free health monitoring and treatment. So far, just 19 have applied.

The trickle of people signing up for compensation includes Alexandria Fire Department Capt.

Scott Quintana, who dug through feet of scorched rubble at the Pentagon to find bodies in 2001.

He was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of cancer, in 2010.

Research has suggested

AP Photo Alexandria, Va., firefighter Capt. Scott Quintana, who has chronic Myeloid leukemia that was diagnosed in 2010, show the equipment he uses at his fire station in Alexandria, Thursday. Quintana was a first responder to the Pentagon on 9/11 and doesn’t know if the illness is related to his work at the Pentagon, but has applied to the 9/11/ victim compensation fund.

that the genetic mutation that causes his type of cancer might be triggered by some environmental toxins. But even Quintana acknowledged it’s unlikely his leukemia was caused solely by the few days he spent at the Pentagon.

“It’s part of a long exposure to triggers that create this in your body,” Quintana said. “Could I absolutely tie it to 9/11?

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law that presumes that any firefighter diagnosed with cancer got it from an onthe-job exposure.

No such presumption exists for people applying to the victim compensation fund. The fund’s special master, Shelia Birnbaum, said claims coming in from Pentagon and Shanksville responders have yet to be reviewed, so she couldn’t say how many might be granted.

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n Continued from page 1 fireside storytelling and performances of classic carols such as “We Three Kings,” “Silent Night” and “Little Drummer Boy.” The tour will complement the upcoming release of “The Kings’ Gift” — Adkins’ new Celtic-flavored Christmas album.

Special early VIP tickets will be available Tuesday starting at 10 a.m. — online (www.hobartarena.com), by phone (3392911) or at the arena box office — while all other tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

Meet & Greet VIP ticket prices ($225) include one reserved ticket in the first four rows, an exclusive Meet & Greet and photograph with Adkins, attendance at a special Q&A session with Adkins, access to the pre-show sound check, a limited edition vinyl copy of

Absolutely not. Can I tie it to my career in the fire service? Yes.” What that means for his compensation claim isn’t entirely clear.

“If they are making an award, I’ll take it. If they don’t, I’m not going to cry about it,” Quintana said, adding that his $8,000-permonth chemotherapy bill is already covered by insurance, thanks to a Virginia

“It has to be an injury that is related to your exposure at that site,” she said. That means that applicants, to start with, will need to have a doctor fill out a form verifying that their illness was caused, or worsened, by a harmful exposure during the 9/11 rescue and recovery.

Initially, compensation was only available for a limited list of health conditions linked to the unique blend of toxins and caustic agents in the trade center dust, most notably respiratory illnesses. But the program has since been expanded to include anyone suffering from many common types of cancer, which has raised the possibility that the $2.78 billion appropriated for the program won’t be enough to cover claims.

As of late August, the pool of 24,000 applicants included 967 cancer claims.

Birnbaum said she anticipated getting some cancer claims from the Pennsylvania and Virginia sites but was concerned about authorizing big payouts for common illnesses that might be unrelated to the terror attacks.

n Continued from page 1 Adkins’ new holiday album, a collectible tour lithograph, an autographed photo, a tour merchandise item and a digital download of the singer’s upcoming album.

The Christmas Show Tour package ($150) includes one reserved ticket in rows 4-7, a collectible tour lithograph, a limited edition vinyl copy of Adkins’ new holiday album, a tour merchandise item, and a digital download of the singer’s upcoming album.

In addition to VIP packages, ticket prices will be $32.50, $44.50 and $67.50.

For more information about Adkins, visit his website at www.traceadkins.com.

To learn more about upcoming events at Hobart Arena, go to www.hobartarena.com. jdavis@civitasmedia.com

The Clark Manson Band won the Newport Hall Battle of the Bands and reached the state final of the Texaco Country Showdown within four months of forming. In the past, Manson, alongside bandmates Jason Rhoades (age 33, lead guitar), Adam Hardy (27, drums), Matt Seskevics (27, keys) and Nick Christian (26, bass), played several large-scale area venues, like the Miami Valley Music Festival, along with many area establishments. During that time, Manson and his band built some momentum.

“I couldn’t ask for a better group of guys,” said Manson about his band. “They are all amazing players and we have a lot of fun together; but when we hit the stage or rehearsal space it’s all business.”

Since last November, it has been a collaborative writing

process between Manson and 2002 Covington grad and Dusty Blythe, who currently resides in Troy. Blythe co-wrote six of the nine songs on the upcoming record, including the first single “I Love It When You Drive”.

“Dusty is an amazing writer and we always seem to be on the same page, which allows us to crank out tunes left and right,” Manson said. “When we were writing songs for the “Clark Manson Project” we really wanted to touch base with the party feel. We wanted to write a album you could put on with your buddies while your drinking beer and not have to worry about skipping the slow sad song.”

Manson will play a show Saturday at W.O. Wrights in Beavercreek. You can find out more about Manson by checking out his website clarkmanson.com. For booking purposes,

visit the web page to fill out a submission form or email him directly at clarkmansonbooking. gmail.com.

With the support of a good producer and creative band, Manson said he likes the direction his album is headed.

“Running With The Night” will be available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.

In the future, Manson said he hopes to have a song playing on the radio, and he even hinted at the possibility of having his music on satellite radio in the upcoming months.

“The record is like crazy; it sounds like (something) that would play on the radio,” said Manson.

For now, though, Manson will just continue to put in the work – living the dream can come later. colinfoster@civitasmedia.com

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“I’m opposed to these tests because they narrow what education is supposed to be about and they lower kids’ horizons,” said Jesse Hagopian, a teacher at the Seattle school. “I think collaboration, imagination, critical thinking skills are all left off these tests and can’t be assessed by circling in A, B, C or D.” For many parents and students, there have been few to no consequences to opting out of testing.

Most parents are choosing to take their younger children out of testing, not older students for whom it is a graduation requirement. It’s unclear if things will change when the Common Core Curriculum and the standardized tests that will accompany it are implemented in the 2014-15 school year.

Some states were granted waivers for No Child Left Behind, which requires districts to have at least 95 percent of students participate in standardized testing or

be at risk of losing funding.

Kristen Jaudon, a spokeswoman for the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, said the test Seattle deemed optional is not required by the state. Ninety-five percent of students in a given school must take standardized tests that are required by state law. She said parents who pull their children out of testing wouldn’t be able to identify if a student was having problems in a particular subject and the move would deny educators the chance to see if the curriculum is working.

“We are bound by state law to test kids in our state. It’s not optional,” she said.

Tustin Amole, a spokeswoman for the Cherry Creek School District in Centennial, Colo., said 95 percent of students in the district take standardized tests. If a child stays home on testing day, she said, it’s difficult to know if

the parent is opting the child out or if the child is home for personal reasons, such as being sick.

“We encourage parents to have their kids take the test, but there are no consequences of any kind,” she said. “There’s no formal process for opting out. They can keep their child home that day and write an excuse.”

Maria Ferguson of the Center on Education Policy said she thinks the practice of parents pulling their kids out of standardized tests is symbolic.

“I think it shows that people are very scared and very confused by tests,” she said. “I think it’s representative that testing has a branding problem.”

Julie Borst of Allendale, N.J., didn’t want her rising ninth-grader to take state standardized tests last year because she has special needs and isn’t learning at her grade level. Borst is also concerned about the corporate influ-

ence of testing on education.

Borst said the school and superintendent asked the New Jersey Department of Education for guidance. Rather than staying home, Borst’s daughter had to go into the principal’s office each morning of the test and refuse to take it. Borst then drove her home.

“It was kind of convoluted and kind of a dance you do, and the result is the school district, they don’t get dinged,” Borst said.

Michael Yaple, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Education, said about 98 percent of New Jersey students take standardized tests.

“Keeping a child home from testing does no favor to the child or the school,” he said.

Morna McDermott, a Baltimore college professor who is a board member of United Opt Out, likens the battle against standardized testing to a fight for corporate reform.

“Ultimately this is an act of civil disobedience,” McDermott said.

“If this is going to change, it has to fundamentally be grassroots.”

Darcie Cimarusti of Highland Park, N.J., didn’t like that her twin daughters would have to agonize over a standardized test as firstgraders so she worked out an agreement with the principal to move them into a kindergarten class during testing time.

“My goal is that my daughters never take a standardized test,” Cimarusti said. “I see less and less value in it educationally and it being used more and more to beat teachers over the head.”

Peggy Robertson, a teacher in Centennial, Colo., who is also an Opt Out board member, said she only expects the movement to grow.

“You can feel the momentum,” she said. “I think we’re headed for a full-on revolt next year.”

on the committee’s website.

But McDonough conceded the United States doesn’t have concrete evidence Assad was behind the chemical attacks.

Recent opinion surveys show intense American skepticism about military intervention in Syria, even among those who believe Syria’s government used chemical weapons on its people.

Congress, perhaps, is even more dubious.

“It’s an uphill slog,” said Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who supports strikes on Assad.

“I think it’s very clear he’s lost support in the last week,” Rogers added, speaking of the president.

Complicating the effort in the Senate is the possibility that 60 votes may be required to authorize a strike.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said he would consider a filibuster, but noted the delay tactic was unlikely to permanently nix a vote. Paul

would, however, insist his colleagues consider an amendment to the resolution that would bar Obama from launching strikes if Congress votes against the measure.

Still, Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, has predicted authorization and McDonough, too, on Sunday telegraphed optimism.

“They do not dispute the intelligence when we speak with them,” McDonough said, of members of Congress.

But while the public discussion lacks a direct link between Assad and weapons, the private briefs are no better, two lawmakers said.

“The evidence is not as strong as the public statements that the president and the administration have been making,” said Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich. “There are some things that are being embellished in the public statements. … The briefings have actually made me more skeptical about the situation.”

Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif.,

said “they have evidence showing the regime has probably the responsibility for the attacks.”

But that’s not enough to start military strikes. “They haven’t linked it directly to Assad, in my estimation,” said McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

McDonough, an Obama foreign policy adviser dating back to his 2008 presidential campaign, said the dots connect themselves.

The material was delivered by “rockets which we know the Assad regime has and we have no indication that the opposition has.”

Congress resumes work Monday after its summer break, but a heated debate about Syria is already underway.

Vice President Joe Biden planned to host a dinner Sunday night for a group of Senate Republicans.

Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, plans to discuss Syria in a speech Monday at the New America Foundation and later meet with

members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Bipartisan, classified briefings for Congress are set for Monday and Wednesday.

McDonough plans to meet Tuesday with the House Democratic Caucus.

Obama planned to address the nation on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s first showdown vote in the Senate over a resolution that would authorize the “limited and specified use” of U.S. armed forces against Syria for no more than 90 days and barring American ground troops from combat. A final vote is expected at week’s end.

A House vote appears likely during the week of Sept. 16.

McDonough spoke with ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’ “Face the Nation,” NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CNN’s “State of the Union” and “Fox News Sunday.”

McCaul and Sanchez were on NBC. Cruz appeared on ABC. Rogers and Amash spoke to CBS. Paul was interviewed on Fox. McKeon was on CNN.

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Added Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif.: “For the president to say that this is just a very quick thing and we’re out of there, that’s how long wars start.”

Almost half of the 433-member House and a third of the 100-member Senate remain undecided, the AP survey found.

“Just because Assad is a murderous tyrant doesn’t mean his opponents are any better,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

But some of Assad’s opponents are pleading for aid.

“The world is watching, and Syrians are wondering: When is the international community going to act and intervene to protect them?” said Saleh.

On Saturday, a U.S. official released a DVD compilation of videos showing attack victims that the official said were shown to senators during Thursday’s classified briefing. The graphic images have become a rallying point for the administration.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, also posted videos

Troy Daily News • www.troydailynews.com TODAY TUESDAY-THURSDAY • WORD CLASS: A class to introduce • AUDITIONS SET: Troy Civic users to Microsoft Word, the most versatile Theatre will have auditions for the cast of Microsoft products, will be from 7-8 p.m. of “Nuncrakers,” by Dan Goggin at 7 :30 at the Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main p.m. each night at the Barn in the Park on St. Learn how to open, create, customize, Adams Street across from Hobart Arena. save and share spreadsheets. Registration is The Christmas musical is family musical required by calling (937) 667-3826. with lots of parts, no matter the experience.

• BOOK CLUB: The Mystery Lovers For more information, call Barrie at (937) Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the Tipp 554-4646.

City Public Library, 11 WEDNESDAY E. Main St., to discuss • CLASS LUNCH: “Monday Mourning,” by The Troy High School Kathy Reichs. Copies of class of 1962 will meet for the book are available an informal lunch gatherat the circulation desk, ing at 1 p.m. at Marion’s and refreshments are Piazza, 1270 Experiment provided.

Farm Road, Troy. All • CRAF TY classmates and their LISTENERS: The spouses are invited to Crafty Listeners will attend. For more informameet from 1-2:30 p.m. at tion, call Sharon Mathes the Milton-Union Public at 335-1696 or Esther CONTACT US Library. Participants lisJackson at 339-1526. ten to an audio book • STORY TIME and work on various SET: The Little Call Melody craft projects.

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Advisory Committee • STORY HOUR: will meet at 7 p.m. at The Milton-Union Public Library story the Tipp City Government Center. hours will be offered at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 • Covington Village Council will meet at p.m. Story hour is open to children ages 7 p.m. at Town Hall.

3-5 and their caregivers. Programs include • The Police and Fire Committee of puppet shows, stories and crafts. Contact Village Council will meet at 6 p.m. prior to the library at (937) 698-5515, or visit the council meeting.

Facebook or the website for details about • Laura Village Council will meet at 7 weekly themes. p.m. in the Municipal building.

• CHICKEN AND NOODLES: The • Brown Township Board of Trustees Pleasant Hill VFW Post 6557, 7578 W. will meet at 8 p.m. in the Township Building Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer chickin Conover. en and noodles, salad and dessert for $7 • The Union Township Trustees will from 6 p.m. until gone. meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Township Building, • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis 9497 Markley Road, P.O. Box E, Laura. Call Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m.

698-4480 for more information. at the Troy Country Club. Jessica Echols, TUESDAY executive director of Partners in Hope, • PAWS TO READ: Families and chil- will give insight on the ways this organizadren can drop in to read to a Miami Valley tion impacts the local community. Contact Pet Therapy dog at 6:30 p.m. at The Tipp Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418City Public Library. These furry friends 1888. will happily listen as you sit beside them • ALUMNI LUNCH: The Staunton and read.

School alumni will meet again at Friendly’s • BUSY BOOKWORMS: Busy in Troy at 11:30 a.m. Call Shirley Palsgrove Bookworm’s Story time will be offered at (937) 335-2859. at 10:30 a.m. or 6 p.m. at The Tipp City • BOE MEETING: The Newton Local Public Library for ages 3-5. Children will Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. in enjoy weekly themed books, songs and the board of education room. craft. Registration is required. Call (937) THURSDAY-SUNDAY 667-3826 to register.

• BOOK SALE: The semi-annual book • TINY TOTS: The Tiny Tots program sale will be offered at the Milton-Union will be offered from 1-1:30 p.m. at the Public Library. Thursday begins the fall book Milton-Union Public Library. This interac- sale with Friends night from 4-8 p.m. Friday tive program is for infants and toddlers and and Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. their caregivers.

Sunday is bag sale day from noon to 2 p.m.

• FORGOTTEN COMMUNITIES: A THURSDAY “Forgotten Communities of Miami County” • GO RED: The 2013 Go Red North program will be at 6:30 p.m. by Doug Luncheon and Health Expo will be at the Christian at the Milton-Union Public Fort Piqua Banquet Center, 308 N. Main Library. Christian takes a look into the St., Piqua. Registration and pre-luncheon past when small communities developed activities will be from 10-11:15 a.m., folto provide necessary goods and services to lowing by lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. surrounding neighbors. With improvement Join the American Heart Association/Heart in roads and increase use of automobiles Fund for health screenings, a heart healthy many of the communities were abandoned. lunch and inspiring stories. Meet Holly • HISTORY RECORDINGS: The first Hoffman, motivational speaker and former of the spring oral history recording ses- contestant on “Survivor.” Individual tickets sions will be at 1 p.m. at the West Milton are $35. For more information or to reserve Municipal Building on South Miami Street. a seat, contact Cris Peterson at (937) 853The topic will be farming through the years 3111 or cris.peterson@heart.org. and the panel will be Kenny Kauffman, • EVERYTHING CHOCOLATE: Jerry Jackson, Joe Jackson, Jan Strawser, Students in grades fourth and fifth are Preston Mote, Ty Hissong and possibility invited to sign up to taste chocolates, play others. The sessions are open to the public chocolate games, make fudge and have fun and audience participation is encouraged. at The Tipp City Public Library at 4:30 p.m.

The sessions air on local access Channel 5 Register by visiting the Tipp City Public at various times. DVDs of all the recording Library or call (937) 667-3826. sessions are available for purchase, and at • BOARD MEETING: The Miami the Milton-Union Library on loan. For more Metropolitan Housing Authority will meet information, call Barb at (937) 698-6559 or at 8 a.m. at 1695 Troy-Sidney Road, Troy, in Susie at (937) 698-6798. the small conference room.

• INFORMATIONAL MEETING: The • BOARD MEETING: The Community Girls Scouts of Western Ohio and cur- Action Council board meeting will be at rent volunteers will offer a parent infor- 9:30 a.m. at 1695 Troy-Sidney Road, Troy, mational meeting from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at in the large conference room. the Troy-Miami County Public Library in • COMMITTEE MEETING: The Fort the multi-purpose room. Those from Troy Rowdy Gathering will have a committee City Schools, Troy Christian School, Miami meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Covington City Montessori and St. Patrick Catholic School Building. are invited to participate.

• DISCOVERY WALK: A morning dis• REUNION MEETING: The 1964 class covery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30 of Miami East High School will meet for a reunion planning meeting at 7 p.m. at Bob a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Evans, Troy. For more information, call Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, Lou Ann Jess at 335-1165 or Jerry Ely at education coordinator, will lead walkers as they experience the wonderful seasonal 216-0092.

• SUPPORT GROUP: A support group changes taking place. Bring binoculars.

Civic agendas for people affected by breast cancer will • The Lostcreek Township Board of meet at the Farmhouse located at the Trustees meet at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday UVMC/Upper Valley Medical Center campus, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. of each month at Lostcreek Township The group is sponsored by UVMC Cancer Building, Casstown.

Sept. 13-15 Care Center. The group’s mission is to • VINTAGE FLY-IN: The WACO empower women to deal with the day-today realities of cancer before, during and Vintage Fly-In will be at WACO Airfield, after treatment. Social time begins at 6:30 Troy. The event will include rides in WACO p.m. followed by the meeting at 7 p.m. This planes (for a fee), exhibits, RC demonstramonth’s speaker is Mark Kaufman of the tions and a candy drop. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for students and children American Cancer Society.

• AWARENESS GATHERING: A under 6. For more information, visit www.

Suicide Memoriam and Awareness wacoairmuseum.0rg or call (937) 335-9226.

Sept. 13 Gathering, sponsored by the Mental Health • FRIDAY DINNERS: Dinner will be Coalition, will be from 6:30-8 p.m. at Hollow offered from 5-8 p.m. at the Covington VFW Park dining hall, Scott Drive off of East Ash St. and Interstate 75, Piqua. The gathering Post 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington. will offer an opportunity for loved ones and Choices will include a $12 New York strip community members of suicide victims steak, broasted chicken, fish, shrimp and to remember their loss with a community sandwiches, all made-to-order.

• SURF ‘N TURF: The Pleasant Hill remembrance candle(s) table and memoriam message board. For more information, VFW Post 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, contact Karen Dickey at Karen@mhcohio. Ludlow Falls, will offer a New York strip steak, choice of shrimp cocktail or org or call (937) 332-9293. grilled shrimp, curly fries and a tossed Civic agendas • The village of West Milton Council will salad for $11 from 6-7:30 pm. Presale meet at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers. orders are required by Sept. 10.

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Community college provides wealth of knowledge

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a five-part series of stories highlighting Edison Community College as it celebrates its 40th year of service. Focusing on Edison’s mission, this piece was written and is being submitted by Edison President Cristobal Valdez.

PIQUA — Community colleges are an American invention, which place publicly funded higher education opportunities in close-to-home facilities. The first community college started nearly 100 years ago and since then community colleges have made their reputation by being inclusive institutions which welcome all students who desire to learn, regardless of wealth, heritage, or previous academic experience. Similarly, Edison Community College was established in 1973 to provide access to educational opportunities for the the college has recently instituted local residents of Darke, Miami a Linking and Learning initiative, and Shelby counties. in which the board of trustees hold The community college’s mismeetings off-campus at industry sion is the fountain from which locations such as Upper Valley all of its activities flow. It is the Medical Center, Emerson Climate lifeblood of all that is done and Technologies, Honda of America, it directs and motivates the coland Midmark. These meetings lege to serve students and develop have allowed Edison to develop pathways for their success. In sim- Cristobal Valdez stronger relationships with local plest terms, the mission of the business and industry leaders, community college is to provide educa- increase knowledge of their respective tion for individuals, many of whom are industries, and align curriculum with adults, in its service region. Like most industry needs to provide qualified gradcommunity colleges, Edison Community uates ready for employment.

College’s mission includes basic comIncluded in the comprehensive nature of mitments to: serve all segments of soci- Edison’s mission is to provide educationety through an open-access admissions al pathways to prepare area high school policy that offers equal and fair treatment student for higher education including to all students; provide a comprehensive providing opportunities for high school educational program; serve its region as juniors and seniors to participate in dual a community-based institution of higher enrollment courses at their high school education; and provide lifelong learning or attend at one of Edison’s campuses via opportunities through the teaching and the Post-Secondary Enrollment Option learning process.

Program and receive both high school To further guide staff in serving commu- and college credits for their studies. nities and students, Edison Community Further, Edison provides opportunities College has created Core Values for its for its current students to transfer to educational programs and environment area and regional universities. Edison which include: Communication, Ethics, has established numerous articulation Critical Thinking, Human Diversity, agreements in the areas of business, Inquiry/Respect for Learning and engineering, education, and nursing, to Interpersonal Skills/Teamwork. These name a few, that ensure graduates seamvalues are reflected in every aspect of less entry into a baccalaureate program. the college. Students’ educational experiFor all of the college’s existence, Edison ences incorporate the core values at all has focused on providing the learning levels, so that a student who completes opportunities that enable and empower a degree program at Edison Community citizens, commerce, and communities College has not only been introduced to in Darke, Miami, and Shelby counties. all of these values, but has had them rein- Edison will continue that commitment forced and refined at every opportunity. and strive daily to provide “A personal Recently, all higher education institu- experience, a rewarding education” to all tions, including Edison, have been chal- of our students and to be a resource for lenged to incorporate a “student success all the communities it serves. agenda,” calling for higher rates of stuNext week, the focus will shift to dent retention, success and graduation. Edison’s programs and services over the Edison is committed to aligning student past forty years, including academic success with future opportunities for programs and services, information continued career success. To this end, technology, and student services.

Public meeting set for fence dispute

Discuss block party requests For the Troy Daily News

MONROE TOWNSHIP — The Monroe Township Trustees have set a public hearing for 7 p.m. Sept.

16 for the Snyder/Bentley fence dispute on Peters Road that was discussed at the board’s meeting on Aug. 19 and most recently at the trustees’ meeting on Sept. 3.

Per the Ohio Revised Code, the trustees were required to set an onsite meeting “to view the fence or premises where the fence is located or is to be built” after the board received a written complaint by a Peters Road property owner who alleged that the existing fence was inadequate for containing cattle on an adjacent and neighboring property.

The board will be gathering information about this fence line dispute beginning with an on-site inspection of a private property perimeter fence on September 4, and continuing with trips to the Miami County Recorder’s Office and the Miami County Prosecutor’s Office that will help with a legal decision of this situation before the public hearing on Sept. 16.

Also at their Sept.

3 meeting, the trustees discussed recent requests for block parties in the Meadowview subdivision. The trustees asked the Miami County Prosecutor’s Office for a legal opinion regarding the blocking of a street in the township and also regarding the use of electronically amplified music in a residential subdivision.

The opinion from the prosecutor’s office stated that under the Ohio Revised Code, no township road can be closed by the township unless it is for “safety purposes, including, but not limited to fire, police activity, gas leak, or road damage, or for maintenance purposes such as roadway, repair and repaving.” Likewise, the plan for amplified music at these parties would be in violation of the township’s noise regulation that protects neighbors from such loud activities.

As a reminder, the Monroe Township Water and Sewer District will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. today in the township meeting room, 6 E. Main St. This board also has announced a public meeting at 7:30 p.m. Sept.

26 in the township hall basement, 4 E. Main St.,

when the board will present its recommendation for centralized water and sewer services to the residents of Country Estates East. Residents of this area are urged to attend this meeting since the district board stated they will be “making final decisions on the development ‘s centralized system based upon residents input.”

In other communications noted at the recent meeting, the Miami County Township Association will be meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday and is being hosted by Newberry Township at the Covington Fire House.

Bills paid at the Sept. 3 township meeting equaled $72,562.96. The board also accepted the financial status reports of August 2013 and the bank reconciliation on July 31 as presented by the township fiscal officer.

Other news noted at the board meeting included the groundbreaking of a dedicated bikeway bridge Tuesday that will be named the Robert J. Shook Bikeway Bridge. Shook was a former Concord Township trustee and was instrumental in the progress of the bikeway in that part of Miami County.

CONTACT US David Fong is the executive editor of the Troy Daily News. You can reach him at 440-5228 or send him e-mail at dfong@civitasmedia.com

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Question: Do you think the United States should take military action against Syria?

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down sends a dangerous message to friend and foe alike.

Last week we wrote about how the United States needed to take the time to get the facts on Syria before launching an attack.

We noted that the lessons of Iraq remain all too fresh. That our government’s ardent claims of weapons of mass destruction as a pretense for invading Iraq were false. Nearly 4,500 American troops were killed, along with well over 100,000 Iraqi civilians. Bloody unrest continues, raising the question of what was accomplished other than destabilizing the place — and coming off as the world’s biggest bully.

Then came President Barack Obama’s “walk in the woods” and an epiphany that, yes, he needed to slow things down before taking military action against Syria for using chemical weapons against its own people. By all appearances on the brink of ordering missile strikes, he unexpectedly stepped back over the weekend to say he would seek approval from Congress, which is in a summer recess.

Now we are faced with a much different image problem.

An emboldened Syrian President Bashar Assad is spinning the whole thing as a victory for his regime, calling Obama “weak” and lobbing volley after volley of threats in hopes of further swaying public opinion and keeping the world out of his affairs.

And he might very well succeed. It appears the bully has been punched in the nose and stands bleeding profusely — and whining and waffling — for all the world to see.

Obama does indeed come off as weak. After showing a willingness to spank less dangerous Middle Eastern regimes, it appears he has ditched Big Stick Diplomacy in favor of speaking harshly and passing the stick to Congress.

Not the best way to deal with a Middle East powder keg like Syria.

You want to project strength in dealing with this dangerous region, not weakness.

As we stated last week, taking the time to get our facts straight is prudent. And consulting Congress is probably a wise course of action as a matter of policy. But to lead the world to think you’re about to mete out imminent punishment for such an abhorrent breach of human morality as the gassing of hundreds of innocent civilians and then back

The Clarion-Ledger on Syria: Regardless of motives, President Barack Obama made the right decision in seeking congressional support for a military response to Syria’s (alleged) use of weaponized gas on rebels.

While history and precedent provide a clear enough path for the president to make the decision himself, this particular incident at this particular time holds tremendous importance for the future of the Middle East and for the direction of our country.

Syria is but a minor player among Arab nations, but its allies are strong.

Furthermore, we have seen all too well how American intervention without well-planned strategies for post-success actions can make matters far worse than before. Look to Iraq. Look to Egypt.

Compound this with the increasing reports of a strengthening al-Qaida presence in Syria, and we must be more vigilant than ever in vetting any military response that leaves Syrian power in place — which is the extent of any military reaction that most even would consider supporting.

At home, the divide among our national leaders is clear, and it worsened by the divide among our people. If the backlash against former President George W. Bush was bad after his decision to invade Iraq, the backlash against Obama for launching a military action against Syria could be devastating to our domestic agenda.

With Great Britain unlikely to join us in a military response and with the United Nations deciding against any retaliatory action, Obama would be unwise to move forward alone. Congress must be his ally in this action, or this action must not take place.

Congress, however, now has a bigger job to do.

There is no good decision, no right and no wrong. And while the president could have made it himself, he was right to heed the calls of congressional leaders and many Americans who said he should seek the approval of Congress.

This will now be an American decision, one made by all we have elected to represent us, lead us and protect us.

LETTERS

Thank you for your support To the Editor: The Troy community welcomed visitors, musicians and production teams from the Gentlemen of the Road tour with warmth, enthusiasm and pride. The downtown businesses pulled out all the stops with elaborate decorations, special products and events.

Thousands of volunteers worked long hours ensuring that the event ran with minimal inconveniences and waits. Troy has been revealed to the world in the best possible light, and will reap untold benefits for years to come.

I am grateful for the community leaders who had the courage and foresight to embrace the opportunity that was offered, the downtown businesses who made the magic happen, the 1,500 volunteers who worked in sweltering heat, the partners who selflessly offered up their space, parking lots, expertise, products and staff to the cause, volunteer coordinators Carri Walters and Will Harrelson, who donated 1,000 hours of their time, community members who lifted me up with kindness, sustenance, and encouragement, and my staff, Heather Taylor, Andi Trzeciak and Dustin Fisher — who worked impossibly long hours and endured with grace and humor.

Thank you City of Troy, Troy School District, Miami County Visitors Bureau, Jam Productions and Jay Goldberg Events and Entertainment and the entire community for your support!

— Karin Manovich Troy Main Street Executive Director WRITE TO US: The Troy Daily News welcomes signed letters to the editor. Letters must contain your home address and a telephone number where you can be reached during the day. Letters must be shorter than 500 words as a courtesy to other writers. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. MAIL: 224 S. Market, Troy, Ohio, 45373: E-MAIL: editorial@tdnpublishing.com; FAX (937) 440-5286; ONLINE: www.troydailynews.com (“Letters To The Editor” link on left side.)

Doonesbury

I’m losing the way against my garden and my grass Back in February, when it was cold and gray and there was snow on the ground, I was thinking about flowers. And tomatoes.

Won’t it be great, I thought, to see them in my flower beds?

It is now September and I am ready for a little snow. Many of you probably have seen a movie at one time or another where plants somehow start working together and attack humans, being stopped only by a timely arrival of someone with bombs loaded with Roundup or Agent Orange. Well, that’s my garden.

Here’s what happened. Last year, my sons came over, fired up a chainsaw and whacked down two gigantic bushes that threatened to eat my house. This activity left some holes in the ground, so this spring I went back to my compost pile and brought some dirt up to fill the holes.

Apparently, I brought dirt up from where I dumped last year’s cherry tomato plants. This dirt was filled with little invisible tomato seeds. In fact, I used this dirt to fill in various holes around my yard.

After the first couple warm days of spring, tomato plants started springing up all over the place. I was pulling them out of the flower beds in the front yard

and around my patio. I have a and see them growing taller and gravel driveway, and they were taller, reaching out toward me. even coming up in there. They My only hope is for an early had to go. But I let them grow freeze. in the side yard where we pulled As for my flower beds, well, the bushes out. I figured a few back in May and June I watched extra tomato plants can’t hurt. carefully for any sign of weeds. I Help! That part of my yard is jumped on them as soon as they now a tomato plant mounpopped up, tearing the littain. I reach in there to tle devils out by their roots. pull a few tomatoes out No weed was safe from my and plants start wrapvigilance. ping themselves around But now it’s September. my arms. Small animals I’ve pretty much lost interhave disappeared in there est in fighting that war. We and never come out. On have some fabulous flowers Friday, I pulled a couple David blooming, but now there hundred cherry tomatoes Lindeman are some pretty big weeds off the plants without real- Troy Daily hiding in there, too. I see ly trying very hard. This is News Guest them, but it’s 80 degrees in addition to my normal Columnist out, and I’m tired, and I tomato plants, which have figure I’ll get the weeds had a bumper year. tomorrow. Or the next day.

My wife made pizza sauce. This happens every year. Early She made tomato sauce. She in the year, I’m a regular garrefuses to make any more sauce. dening superhero, planting and We are giving tomatoes away to fertilizing and wiping out those our friends, our enemies, anyone evil weeds. Somewhere in the who happens to come down the summer I go on vacation and get street. I’m going to start throw- behind a little. By the end of the ing tomatoes at cars as they summer the weeds are out their drive by. taunting me and I don’t even The tomato plants have crept care. They’ll get theirs when the out into the yard. I have to chop temperature drops. them down with the mower to Then there’s the grass. For keep them from taking over. I most of the summer, I’ve been look out my bedroom window scrambling to keep it cut and

looking at least respectable. But now parts of my lawn aren’t growing and parts are starting to look like the African savannah.

There could be lions or tigers in that deep stuff and I’d never know, but I’m just not motivated to cut it all and keep it all looking uniform. When it gets cooler and things green up again, I’ll be ready to go. But right now? Well, it’s a good time to be a weed or tall grass.

As for the tomatoes, well, I have a confession to make: I don’t really like tomatoes all that much. They’re great when you make them into sauce but we already have jars and jars of that in the freezer. They’re good on sandwiches but even I can eat only so many BLTs. But I can’t bear to yank them out when they’re still producing.

That would be a waste. So I keep harvesting them and trying to give them away. In the meantime, the plants are so thick and there are so many of them that quite a few of the tomatoes go unnoticed and drop the ground.

You know what that means? Next year there’s a good chance I’ll be fighting this war all over again.

I suppose in the middle of February that won’t seem like such a bad thing.

L ocal

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Obituaries PAUL E. DEAL Paul E. Deal, 87, of Piqua, went to be with his Lord and Savior Sunday September 8, 2013 at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born December 6, 1925 in Miami County to the late Merle and Margaret Irene (Tamplin) Deal. He married Viola Mader November 29, 1947 in Lena, a marriage that would grow for over sixtysix years; and she survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Jerilyn L. (Jim) Hershey of Troy, Merilee F. Deal of Piqua; three sons, Randy P. (Karen) Deal of Piqua, Mark A. (Carolyn) Deal of Casstown, and Deron G. (Gail) Deal of Piqua; seventeen grandchildren; twentynine great grandchildren; seven great great grandchildren; three sisters Joy (Albert) Mader of Troy, Viola Neves of Piqua, Marilyn Everett of Versailles; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a sister Janice Lillicrap, two brothers Lynn Deal, Gene Deal and a granddaughter Ginger Reed.

Mr. Deal attended Piqua Central High School was employed at the former Val Decker Meat Processing Plant for thirty years and retired from the Ohio Department of Transportation District 7. Mr. Deal was blessed with an abundance of musical talent which he loved to share. Prior to his employment he played Country music as a professional musician with best friends Herb Adams, Jack Rodgers, Ray & Belle Birt and was a member of the initial Band featured on W P T W Radio. His music became a ministry that enabled him to serve as the Choir Director for the Union Baptist Church for sixty years, founded the

DORA EILEEN POWELL WHITMER

Choir Festival of area churches for twenty-seven years and encouraged others to share their talents for the Lord. As an active member of the Union Baptist Church he also served as a Deacon and Sunday School teacher. In recent years he played Blue Grass with Bill Purk and the Muleskinner’s and the Rum River Band at several venues including the Heritage Festival, Covington Ft. Rowdy Days and the Tipp Roller Mill. He enjoyed traveling across Ohio to numerous churches sharing Gospel music with his family and friend Gene Boehringer. He also enjoyed vacations in Tennessee with his family and singing with his sister Joy Mader. Additionally, he was known as the “Train Man” at the Miami Valley Centre Mall where he ran its railroad for eighteen years during his retirement. He was known to have the voice of an angel and he will be deeply missed by his loving wife, children, family and friends. His memory will continue in the lives of those he touched in a positive and spiritual way.

A service to honor his life will begin at 10:00 am Wednesday September 11, 2013 at the Union Baptist Church, Troy with Pastor Dale Adkins officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:008:00 pm Tuesday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to Union Baptist Church, 1833 E. Peterson Rd., Troy, OH 45373 or Wilson Hospice.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

Funeral Directory • RALPH “ED” LANGSTON

Ralph “Ed” Langston, 60, of Piqua died at 8:26 am Saturday September 7, 2013 at the Piqua Manor Nursing Home. His funeral arrangements are pending though the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

• HELEN P. (SPEAKS) MARSHALL NICODEMUS

Helen P. (Speaks) Marshall Nicodemus, age 91, formerly of Saint Paris passed away on Sunday, September 08, 2013 at 4:25 a.m. in Koester Pavilion, Troy.

Graveside funeral services will be held on Thursday in the Upper Honey Creek Cemetery, S. Elm Tree Road. Atkins-Shively Funeral Home, Saint Paris, Ohio is in charge of the arrangements.

• MAZETTA “ETTA” DALE CLOSSMAN

Mazetta “Etta” Dale Clossman, age 93, of Troy, Ohio, passed away on Sunday, September 8, 2013 at the Koester Pavilion, Troy, Ohio. Services are pending at Baird Funeral Home, Troy, Ohio

Obituaries may also be viewed online at www.troydailynews.com

Dora Eileen Powell Whitmer, 88, of Covington, passed away at 4 a.m.

Friday, September 6, 2013 at Heartland of Piqua.

She was born July 27, 1925, in Covington, the daughter of Daniel E. and Jessie Williams Powell. She and her husband of 68 years, Carrol E. Whitmer, were married January 30, 1945. He died December 29, 2011.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; her daughter, Jennie Lynn Wolfe; brothers Robert E. Powell and his wife Virginia, and Ted R. Powell; and sisters and their husbands, Glenna M. and Marvin Kraus and Janet E. and Teba Cain.

Surviving are her daughter, Diana (Bill) Heath, Covington; son-in-law Ed (Carolyn) Wolfe, Covington; grandchildren: Marshall (Jennie) Heath, Troy, Marcy (Randy) Hartman, Cincinnati, Penny (Hank) Coffey, Batavia, Jessie (Artie) Parker, Piqua, Heather Wolfe (Jeremy Ward), Covington, and Rusty Carder and Alicia (Rike) Miller, Covington. Also, great-grandchildren Jordan and Meredith Wolfe, Covington, Brooke and Zack Hartman, Cincinnati; Jenna and Corryn Parker, Piqua; Rachel and Matthew Spar and Jacob, Caitlin and Colbie Coffey, all of Batavia; Eliana, Samuel and Nicholas Heath, Troy; great-great-granddaughter Kensleigh Thompson, Batavia; sister, Peggy (Melvin) Longendelpher, Covington; and sister-in-law Pauline (Jim) Whitmer, Bradford, plus numerous nephews, nieces and friends.

A 1943 graduate of Covington High School, Dora first was employed at Lear

Avia in Piqua. Later, she was a recorder for 25 years in the Miami County Recorder’s office, retiring in 1985. She was a lifelong member of the Covington Church of the Brethren, beginning a lifetime of service as a helper for her mother when the Cradle Roll was established. She and her husband served many years as youth advisors for the Tri County C.O.B. Youth Fellowship. They also served on the church’s disaster relief teams, volunteering at numerous disaster-torn sites in other states.

Dora was active in Ladies Aid and Women’s Fellowship, was an auxiliary representative at the Brethren Retirement Community and helped promote the Heifer Fund. She and her husband also hosted three exchange students through the Lions Club organization and an “earn and serve” student through the church. Dora loved all her family and especially enjoyed taking the grandchildren fishing and traveling.

Funeral services will be Thursday, September 12, at 10:30 a.m. at the Covington Church of the Brethren, corner of Wright and Wall Streets, Covington, with Pastor Michael Yingst officiating. Burial will follow at Greenville Creek Cemetery on Buckneck Road, west of Covington. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions can be made to the Covington Church of the Brethren or the Heartland Hospice program. The Bridges-Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be left for the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

DORIS P. TAMPLIN Doris P. Tamplin, age 92, formerly of Troy; more recently of the Mennonite Home Communities of Bluffton, Ohio passed away on Saturday, September 7, 2013 in Bluffton, Ohio. She was born on May 22, 1921 in Tipp City, Ohio to the late Glenn Pearson and Bertha (Oakes) Pearson. Doris was married to Parke H. Tamplin and he preceded her in death on June 10, 1992. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Charles W. and Allison Tamplin of Keller, Texas; daughter, Nancy Neuenschwander of Ada, Ohio; sister, Susan Kinsey of Mims, Florida; brother-in-law, Dr. Robert Price of Tipp City, Ohio; three grandchildren, Daryl Neuenschwander, Kristina Tamplin, and Tyler Tamplin; four greatgrandchildren, Courtney, Bailey, Jules, and Cooper.

In addition to her parents and her

husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Robert and Bernard Pearson and sister, Marilyn Price.

Doris was a graduate of Tippecanoe High School. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Troy.

She enjoyed traveling, playing bridge and collecting shoes.

The funeral service will be held 1:00PM on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at the Baird Funeral Home, Troy, Ohio with interment to follow in the Riverside Cemetery, Troy, Ohio. The family will receive friends from 11:00AM – 1:00PM on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Parkinson Foundation, 325 North Third Street, Fairborn, Ohio 45324. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

Small California city welcomes doomsday bunkers LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the backyard of his remote Southern California home, Bernie Jones is etching an unconventional blueprint: a construction plan to build his underground survival shelter. It won’t be the typical, cramped Cold War-era bunker. It will hold 20 people.

Part of a small but vocal group of survivalists in Menifee, some 80 miles east of Los Angeles, Jones, 46, has pushed for the right to build a bunker on his 1-acre property for nearly a year. He wants to be ready for anything, be it natural disaster or a nuclear attack.

“The world is taking a change,” he says.

“I want to be prepared. I want my family to survive.”

Residents of the small city once known for its farming and mining can begin applying for permits to build their subterranean housing this month after the City Council passed a hotly contested ordinance allowing the practice.

Americans have been building underground bunkers for decades, their interest in such shelters waxing and waning with current events. Many dug backyard fallout shelters during the Cold War, fearing a nuclear war.

This next generation of bunkers comes as many survivalists face heightened concerns of a terrorist attack, economic meltdown and for some, even solar flares or meteor showers.

“The bunker is a type of security blanket,” says Stephen O’Leary, an expert in apocalyptic and end-of-the-world theories at the University of Southern California.

Atlas Survival Shelters owner Ron Hubbard shows a shelter made of galvanized corrugated pipe at his plant in Montebello, Calif.

The City Council in Menifee in Riverside County has approved a controversial ordinance that will allow residents to build underground bunkers on their properties.

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“They are concerned with what’s happening in the world on a massive scale.”

The move to allow below-ground bunkers has created waves among city officials who are concerned with earthquake faults in the area, safety of police and first responders answering emergency calls and the potential for owners to hide criminal activity, such as drug manufacturing.

“Most people are going to use their bunkers for good reason, but you do have some sick people out there,” Deputy Mayor Wallace Edgerton says. “Children have been held in bunkers.”

In February, a 5-year-old boy was held hostage for six days in an Alabama underground bunker, which was rigged with explosive devices.

City Councilman Tom Fuhrman calls the

ordinance a victory for property rights, not for those looking to break the law.

“Criminal activity isn’t going to be stopped by not allowing people to build bunkers,” Fuhrman says. “A criminal will find a place to commit crime.”

There are signs survival bunkers are making a comeback throughout the country.

Ronald Hubbard, who runs Atlas Survival Shelters near Los Angeles, ships his luxury bunkers out of state. Unlike Cold War-era shelters, he builds ones that are half the length of a basketball court and have a master bedroom, dining nook and a couch to watch a 47-inch flat screen TV. Hubbard says his phones rang nonstop last December as people attempted to prepare for the end of the world that never came. A 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan

calendar passed by, sans disaster.

The Perseid meteors soaring through the sky last month had customers calling him constantly, looking for a way to stay safe in case one hit Earth — even though it’s an annual celestial event. He insists his customers are practical people — not radical doomsday preppers.

“I’m not fear mongering,” Hubbard said, standing beside a $65,000 shelter in his warehouse. “Why do we buy insurance?

Just in case.”

The Vivos shelter networks in Indiana and Kansas offer the equivalent of doomsday timeshares in underground communities in the event of the apocalypse. The network aims to protect its inhabitants for up to a year from myriad catastrophes, including a nuclear disaster.

Schools learn to roll out red carpet for parents and three full-time employees.

“They are exposing a lot of the districts across the state to best practices, and they are incentivizing best practices,” Mapp said.

“We know that family engagement makes a difference. The question is how do we cultivate more of it?”

A key strategy is the partnership with The Ritz-Carlton, which has signed on as a sponsor for a state contest designed to recognize schools making gains and provide special training that can be shared with others in their district.

Statewide, 1,600 public schools that serve a large share of lowincome families are eligible for the competition, which honored three schools in 2012 and four this year.

Research shows that when parents are involved with school staff, students earn higher grades, perform better on tests, and have better social skills and behavior, according to Mapp. There’s also a link to students finishing high school and heading to college.

Sandrock travels to national confer-

ences to talk about Georgia’s efforts.

She tells a story about a parent who received a visitor badge every time she went to her child’s school.

“The problem is that I’m not a visitor. I’m a parent, and this is my school too,” Sandrock said.

An easy fix was to print badges labeled “parent” instead of “visitor.” Now, as teachers walk by, they may thank the parent for being involved, and the parent feels appreciated. It may seem minor, but Sandrock says there are endless small steps schools can take for a more welcoming environment.

That’s where The Ritz comes in.

On a recent weekday, a dozen or so principals and support staff traded a classroom for a day at one of two Ritz-Carlton hotels in Atlanta.

It’s the first year that representatives from each winning school were brought in for hands-on training at the Ritz. The company helps fund the awards program and donated meeting space, food and rooms to educators who had to drive in for the training.

AP Photo Diana Oreck, vice president of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company’s Learning Center and program instructor, waiting to be introduced to the training participants, in Atlanta.

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stop what they are doing, come over and clap for you.”

The Ritz-Carlton has long been known for rolling out the red carpet for its guests, with a dedication to customer service and satisfaction. It’s those lessons that educations officials hope to bring from the hotel to the classroom.

“All organizations can benefit from providing good customer service,” said Sue Stephenson, a Ritz-Carlton vice president who oversees the company’s community outreach programs. “It’s not just running a luxury hotel. It is about service. It’s about feeling welcome and valued. And that’s what makes people go back.”

Georgia is a national leader in finding innovative ways to build familyfriendly schools, according to Karen L. Mapp with Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

Mapp said most states don’t have a coordinated effort on the state level.

In 2009, the Georgia Department of Education established a parent engagement program, which now has an annual budget of $300,000

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The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. uses the “wall of applause” to show appreciation — a central message during a recent training session with Georgia education officials working on a broad initiative to create family-friendly schools.

With research showing a clear link between parent engagement and student success, education officials say it’s essential that parents are involved, and they must make sure families feel welcome at schools that can sometimes feel like fortresses.

“Often people will say ‘thank you’ or ‘we appreciate you,’ but there’s that old adage of actions speak louder than words,” said Michelle Sandrock, who oversees the state’s parent engagement program and coordinated the recent training at The Ritz. “It’s one thing to have someone say ‘thank you,’ but it’s another to have someone

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Adding gardens to health-care facilities to promote healing SHNS — Alyssa Mgeni cried.

A lot.

“She’s seeing 10 doctors a day,” said her mother, Aubrey Rahn.

“Every time a doctor comes in, she cries.”

But 3-year-old Alyssa, who was admitted to Children’s Hospital St. Paul (Minn.) in June for medical testing, was all smiles on the hospital’s new rooftop garden.

She pushed a button to activate the fountain, and giggled as water trickled over her hand and flowed into the colorful, fanciful basin.

“I use it as a reward,” Rahn said of the garden, to help Alyssa get through new hurdles. “I tell her, ‘Afterwards, you get to come up here and explore.’?”

There are lots of places to explore at the CHA (Children’s Hospital Association) Storybook Garden, which covers about 6,000 square feet off the pediatric intensive-care unit on the fourth floor.

In addition to the interactive fountain, there’s playground equipment for climbing, little cars for driving and even a “talking tube” where kids can speak into the ear of a deer statue, and the sound comes out of a giant sculpted pink flower.

There are plenty of real flowers, too — lush tropicals in big containers, and beds of succulents and colorful blooms growing in built-in planters on the fountain structure.

But the rooftop garden isn’t all play. It’s part of the healing process.

“A lot of hospitals now are realizing the importance of green space and gardens to help with healing,” said Dr. Bruce Bostrom,

SHNS photos Alyssa Mgeni, left, and her mom Aubrey Rahn, tested out a new interactive fish fountain on the new rooftop garden playground at Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.

a hematologist and oncologist at Children’s. Spending time in a garden gives patients and their families a place to stretch their legs, get some fresh air, sunshine and vitamin D, he noted.

Just getting out of a clinical setting and into a parklike environment, even for a few minutes, can be therapeutic.

“The mind-body connection is huge,” Bostrom said. “When patients can relax and take off stress, it certainly improves healing and outcomes.”

There’s something about interacting with nature that is inherently therapeutic, said Leonard Gloeb, a master gardener and

Alyssa Mgeni, and her mom Aubrey Rahn, met Lucy, a female black lab therapy dog.

longtime volunteer with the hospital’s Little Green Friends program. Over two decades and 15,000 volunteer hours, he’s seen anxious, withdrawn young patients relax and open up after they’ve spent time potting and tending their own little seedlings.

One patient’s mother was inspired to become a master gardener after seeing the change in her daughter. “Before you came in, she wouldn’t talk to anyone,” the woman told Gloeb. “But after you left, she started talking to the nurses. It was just like a miracle.”

“I see little miracles every time I’m down here,” Gloeb said.

Children’s had a more conventional ground-floor garden before, but it was dug up to make room for an addition to the hospital. The new rooftop garden, funded by hospital donors, was designed with many therapeutic features, said Erin Keifenheim, communications consultant, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.

There’s a labyrinth for walking and meditation. The play structures are used not just to encourage kids to exercise, but also for rehabilitation. A spongy surface beneath the structures keeps kids from getting hurt if they fall off, and walking on different surfaces is also good for rehabilitation, Bostrom noted.

“It’s much more exciting to walk in a beautiful garden than the

halls of the hospital.”

The fountain was designed with sweet little details, such as hidden beetles, that make great targets in a game of “I Spy.” (The design of the fountain also limits pooling water, which can harbor germs.) And the fanciful speaking tube can be used in speech therapy, Keifenheim said.

The horticultural elements of the garden, which are tended by the hospital’s maintenance staff, were designed and installed by Bachman’s, which had great leeway with plant selection, according to Tara Yost, senior sales consultant.

“They had already purchased the pots,” she said. “Basically, they told us, ‘Make this look beautiful.’?”

The rooftop location dictated many of the plant choices, Yost said. “The rooftop gets full sun — hot, baking sun. Heat reflects off the building and the rubber floor. We needed plants that could tolerate that, that were both heat-tolerant and droughttolerant.”

She chose tropicals and succulents — “things that would naturally grow in those conditions” — but that were safe for children. That meant no cactus, because the spines could injure kids at play. Nothing poisonous.

And nothing that would attract bees and butterflies. “They’re fun for kids, but could be dangerous for kids with allergies,” Yost said.

Look at your next visit If you or a loved one is hospitalized in the near future, chances are good you’ll find some kind of garden on-site.

The popularity of gardens at health-care facilities has exploded in recent years, in response to research showing a link between nature and healing, including relief from symptoms, stress reduction and improvement in overall sense of well-being and hopefulness.

Humans are “hardwired” to find nature engrossing and soothing, according to the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing.

“All those things we know as gardeners, but now there’s empirical research to back it up,” said Jean Larson, a horticultural therapist who teaches at the center and heads the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum’s Therapeutic Horticulture and Recreation Services.

Access to nature is a key factor in reducing patient and staff stress and leads to better outcomes, according to the Center for Health Design.

The Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospitals even recommends that “patients and visitors should have opportunities to connect with nature through outside spaces, plants, indoor atriums and views from windows.”

The terms “healing garden” and “therapeutic garden” are sometimes used interchangeably, but they mean different things in the horticultural world, according to Larson.

“All gardens are essentially healing gardens,” she said, but the term “healing garden” generally refers to gardens in healthcare settings.

And there are a lot of them being installed these days because many hospitals were built during the 1960s and are now being renovated, she said.

Just about every new or newly renovated healthcare facility now includes some type of garden or natural element.

Healing gardens at hospitals and other healthcare facilities are beneficial for patients, families and staff alike, while therapeutic gardens are more specific, designed to help a particular population with a particular health challenge, such as increasing range of motion, delivering a measurable outcome, Larson said. “The design has to be thoughtful and intentional.”

New concerns about caffeine Is it really vital to stretch SHNS — The increasing use of caffeine as an additive in many foods and drinks has attracted considerable scrutiny from regulators and researchers. So have proposals to add the stimulant to such items as toothpaste or body sprays.

The Institute of Medicine last month spent two days hosting a forum on the potential health hazards of caffeine consumption at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which in turn is trying to decide if limits need to be imposed on how much of the stimulant can be added to various products.

That may take some time and more research. The conference revealed many gaps in scientific research into how caffeine delivered in new ways — such as in gum — may affect a person’s total daily intake, and how various doses may affect athletes, young people and others.

There have been some reports of deaths tied to consumption of energy drinks.

The government says the products were linked to

some 20,000 emergencyroom visits in 2011.

Right now, the FDA only regulates caffeine that’s added to a food, drug or other product, but not when it occurs naturally. So, for instance, caffeine in pain relievers and cold pills is labeled, but the amounts contained in chocolate in candy bars are not. Neither are the amounts of caffeine included in energy drinks sold as dietary supplements.

Although people have been consuming caffeine for thousands of years, no one can be entirely sure what amounts to a safe or unsafe dose of caffeine, although for most people, the drug’s effects are mild and transient. Definitive answers on the possible benefits caffeine can bring are also far off.

At the extreme, scientists have set a toxic dose at somewhere around 10,000 milligrams. The average 8-ounce cup of coffee has 80 to 125 milligrams. A moderate dose is considered two to four cups a day.

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The stimulant can be dangerous for people with heartrhythm problems and high blood pressure, among other medical conditions.

And an estimated 20 percent of the population is thought to be caffeine-sensitive, to the point that just a few milligrams can produce the jitters or other problems.

On the flip side, the compound’s effects on the nervous system may benefit short-term memory.

Several studies have found a decreased risk of liver disease among those who consume a four-cup dose of caffeine on a daily basis.

Some studies have linked an increase in caffeine consumption with a higher risk of miscarriage among pregnant women. The FDA advises pregnant women to avoid or limit caffeine intake.

Even if you want to monitor your caffeine intake from drinks, it can be difficult.

The amount can vary depending on how long or by what process a beverage is steeped or brewed. And since the effects of caffeine we ingest are usually felt within about 45 minutes, hot drinks that are sipped may have a different impact than cooler beverages that might be gulped or chugged.

Half the caffeine a person takes in gets eliminated in five or six hours, but men and smokers process it faster than women and nonsmokers.

Women on oral contraceptives break it down more slowly than others, while menstrual cycles may also play a role. Some studies have found lower estrogen levels in women who drink more than 200 mg a day.

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SHNS — Everyone who makes an effort to exercise has heard fitness enthusiasts herald the benefits of stretching before and after working out. But is it really vital to stretch first?

“Recent research has shown that static stretching — holding onto a muscle in an elongated, fixed position — could be detrimental to performance,” said Monica Schick, wellness director at the Francis Family YMCA in Temperance, Mich.

“This is contrary to the gym days of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s where everybody stretched before a workout. Your teacher said, ‘Hold your toes for 15 seconds.’ Now we know that it could decrease production in the muscle and actually increases the risk of injury.”

The issue has been discussed in the scientific community for several years because of findings from such groups as the American College of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Strength and Conditioning.

Note, for example, these remarks published in a February 2012 article on the University of Florida Sports Performance Center website: “The benefits of stretching include improving the range of motion and reducing the risk of injury. Though there is certainly evidence that supports these benefits, some show that static stretching prior to exercise may actually impair performance by reducing muscle force production. In fact, the current American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) guidelines recommend the removal of static stretching from a warmup routine.”

And as is the case in most of these types of controversial issues, not all fitness pros and institutions agree with that position.

The website further states: “Despite ACSM’s call for the removal of preexercise stretching, it appears that static stretching may be used as part of a warmup prior to exercise requiring strength, power or speed-related tasks. The duration of stretch for a particular muscle group should not exceed 45 seconds if exercise performance is a concern.”

Schick said that while warming up is

typically the most important aspect of exercise, there are two types of warm-ups.

“The first is the general warm-up. If you are at a gym, hop on the treadmill or elliptical trainers for five or 10 minutes,” she said. “And the second type is a specific warm-up, that takes you through the motions of your exercise. So if you are a runner, do high knees, … a general warmup is fine; just enough to break a sweat.”

Schick’s view is that stretching could put a person at risk of injury. Moreover, research involving athletes who stretch first has shown that they don’t perform quite as well because of the lengthened state of the muscle, she said.

“Static stretching is best done after your workout,” she added. “Hold your muscle for 15 to 30 seconds for each muscle group. That flexibility is one of the components of complete fitness. Total fitness includes cardiovascular health, strength and flexibility, and it’s important to be balanced in all three.”

Dr. Matthew Fourman, medical director of the Toledo, Ohio-based St. Vincent Mercy weight-management center and a certified strength trainer, agrees that stretching “won’t make you run a faster mile or swim faster. It really comes down to what your fitness goals are. Any stretching before a workout can decrease performance. If you are stretching, you are tearing muscle tissue.”

Also taking note of the difference in active and passive stretching, Fourman said active stretching, “moving around, loosening up, that’s good before a workout and will help avoid post workout soreness.”

“If you’re doing a lot of passive (stretching) before a workout, it can impair your performance,” he added. “If your goal is to improve your bench press, then a lot of stretching before is not a good thing.

If your goal is to improve overall fitness, then improving overall fitness by stretching is valuable.”

Contact Rose Russell at rrussell@theblade.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.

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9, the 252nd day of 2013. There are 113 days left in the year.

On this date: In 1543, Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scots at Stirling Castle, nine months after she was born.

In 1776, the second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."

In 1850, California became the 31st state of the union.

In 1919, some 1,100 members of Boston's 1,500-man police force went on strike. (The strike was broken by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge with replacement officers.)

In 1926, the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was incorporated by the Radio Corp. of America.

In 1932, the steamboat Observation exploded in New York's East River, killing 72 people.

In 1943, Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.

In 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that ended up claiming 43 lives.

In 1976, Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.

In 1986, Frank Reed, director of a private school in Lebanon, was taken hostage; he was released 44 months later.

In 1997, Sinn Fein (shin fayn), the IRA's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future. Actor Burgess Meredith died in Malibu, Calif., at age 89.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Sylvia Miles is 79. Actor Topol is 78.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Luther Simmons is 71. Singer Inez Foxx is 71. Singer Dee Dee Sharp is 68.

Rock singer-musician Doug Ingle is 67. Country singer Freddy Weller is 66. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Joe Theismann is 64. Rock musician John McFee (The Doobie Brothers) is 63. Actor Tom Wopat is 62.

Actress Angela Cartwright is 61.

Musician-producer Dave Stewart is 61. Actor Hugh Grant is 53. Actorcomedian Charles Esten (formerly Chip) is 48. Actress Constance Marie is 48. Actor David Bennent is 47. Actor Adam Sandler is 47. Rock singer Paul Durham (Black Lab) is 45. Model Rachel Hunter is 44.

Actor Eric Stonestreet is 42. Actor Henry Thomas is 42. Actor Goran Visnjic (VEEZ'-nihch) is 41. Popjazz singer Michael Buble' (booBLAY') is 38.

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Nyad’s team responds to skeptics doubting her swim MIAMI (AP) — Diana Nyad’s 110mile swim from Cuba to Florida has generated positive publicity and adoration for the 64-year-old endurance athlete — along with skepticism from some members of the small community of marathon swimmers who are questioning whether she accomplished the feat honestly.

On social media and the online Marathon Swimmers Forum, longdistance swimmers have been debating whether Nyad got a boost from the boat that was accompanying her — either by getting in it or holding onto it — during a particularly speedy stretch of her swim. They also question whether she violated the traditions of her sport — many follow strict guidelines known as the English Channel rules — by using a specialized mask and body suit to protect herself from jellyfish.

“When you know how hard it is, you kind of want those details,” said Andrew Malinak, a Seattle long-distance swimmer who crunched the data available from the GPS positions tracked on Nyad’s website and concluded that he didn’t trust what he saw.

Nyad’s navigator and one of the swim’s official observers told The Associated Press this weekend that Nyad didn’t cheat and that she was aided during the rapid part of her swim by a swift current. And neither Nyad nor her team ever said she would follow English Channel rules, developed for swimming the waters between England and France. Those rules outlaw neoprene wetsuits and contact with a support boat. Nyad wore a full non-neoprene bodysuit, gloves, booties and a silicone mask at night, when jellyfish are a particular problem, and removed the suit once she got over the reef on her approach to Key West.

According to Nyad’s team, she finished the swim Monday afternoon after roughly 53 hours in the water, becoming the first to do so without a shark cage. It was her fifth try, an endeavor apparently free from the boat troubles, bad weather, illnesses and jellyfish encounters that have bedeviled Nyad and other swimmers in recent years.

Nyad’s progress was tracked online via GPS by her team, and some critics say they think information is missing.

AP Photo/provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau Diana Nyad, positioned about two miles off Key West, Fla., swims towards the completion of her 111-mile trek from Cuba to the Florida Keys.

Many wonder about a roughly seven-hour stretch when Nyad apparently didn’t stop to eat or drink, recalling her 2012 attempt when she got onto the boat for hours during rough weather. Nyad eventually got back into the water to try finishing, but her team was criticized for delaying the release of that information to the public.

Malinak said the hours-long spike in Nyad’s speed after 27 hours of swimming is particularly questionable — she went from her normal pace of roughly 1.5 mph to more than 3 mph, then slowed down again as she approached Key West.

Nyad’s spokeswomen did not immediately return telephone calls this weekend, but her navigator and Janet Hinkle, one of the official observers for the swim, told the AP that Nyad didn’t cheat.

Navigator John Bartlett said the increased speed was due to the fastmoving Gulf Stream working in her favor, nothing more.

“At some points we were doing almost 4 miles an hour,” Bartlett said. “That’s just the way it works. If the current is in your favor at all, that explains it.”

The data collected by Bartlett and two observers will be submitted to three open-water swimming associations and the Guinness World Records for verification, Bartlett said.

An oceanographer not affiliated with Nyad’s team said the swimmer

couldn’t have picked a more perfect current to get from Havana to Key West.

Mitch Roffer of Melbourne-based Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service Inc. said he got an email questioning whether Nyad’s swim was a hoax, so he decided to look at the charts for himself. What he saw convinced him that she could do it.

“Many times that current runs west-east and you’re constantly fighting the current if you’re swimming north. In this case, it was in the shape of an S, and the angle was almost exactly from Havana to Key West,” Roffer said.

Janet Hinkle, a Key West boat captain and acquaintance of Nyad’s, was called to be an observer for the swim when Steve Munatones, a former U.S. national open-water coach, was unable to make it. “I can say unequivocally she swam every stroke without question,” Hinkle said.

Critics have said Hinkle was too close to Nyad to be an independent observer of her swim. Hinkle has in the past helped Nyad by providing housing for her when the swimmer stayed in the Florida Keys, but she said she remained on the periphery of Nyad’s team. “I think anyone who knows me knows me as a person of high integrity. I believe that’s why Diana asked me, and I took my job very seriously,” Hinkle said. “She was giving her all and I would give her my best.”

Band of Republicans pushes immigration in U.S. House GROVELAND, Fla. (AP) — In the five weeks since he declared his support for a comprehensive immigration overhaul, U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster has gotten an earful.

One constituent told the second-term Republican that immigrants carry disease. Another said immigrants would steal jobs away from Americans.

“You cannot stop illegal immigration by rewarding it,” another man said at a recent town hall-style meeting in Groveland, a rural community west of Orlando. “Amnesty is a reward.”

As Congress returns to work this week after its summer break, Webster faces perhaps an even tougher crowd: fellow Republicans.

Webster is among about two dozen GOP lawmakers who support an eventual path to citizenship for millions of people who are living in the U.S. illegally. These Republicans are facing the daunting challenge of trying to persuade colleagues to follow them.

Most Republicans oppose this approach on citizenship, and there is little political incentive for them to change their minds. Only 24 of 233 Republicans represent districts where more than one-quarter of their constituents are Hispanic.

Even so, some in the Republican Party argue that its future hinges on whether the House finds a way to embrace an immigration overhaul, which is a crucial issue for the country’s fast-growing bloc of Hispanic voters.

Supporters of a path to citizenship point to demographic changes and business backing that have helped sway Webster, who for years opposed immigrant-rights legislation, as potential motives for wavering lawmakers to sign on.

“I think as a country we need to do something,” Webster said in an interview, echoing the rhetoric of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and other prominent Republicans. “Doing nothing is amnesty.”

The small but growing band of Republicans is trying to strike a balance between conservative activists who want border security and immigration

advocates who want a path to citizenship.

Many come from swing districts with sizable Hispanic populations that could make a difference in next year’s elections, tipping the balance of power in the GOP-controlled House. The lawmakers also feel the pressure from business interests that rely on immigrant labor.

At the same time, conservative taxpayer groups who typically fund GOP primary challenges have remained largely silent on immigration. Antiimmigration activists have failed to organize large-scale demonstrations or generate the kind of public backlash that killed Congress’ last attempt to remake immigration policy, in 2007.

Immigrant advocates, on the other hand, have waged a well-funded, aggressive campaign to push for the legislation.

“Congresspeople who may have been on the fence are realizing it’s safe to get in the water,” said Ana Navarro, a GOP strategist who led Hispanic outreach for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008. “There is safety in numbers.”

Some Republicans seem to have little choice.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado won election in 2008 in a conservative district by campaigning against an immigration overhaul. But an unfavorable redrawing of his district after the 2010 census left him in Democraticleaning territory that President Barack Obama won last year and where Hispanics make up nearly 20 percent of the population. He is now pushing for a “compassionate” approach to immigration.

U.S. Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada also has seen the Hispanic population grow in his swing district in suburban Las Vegas. Heck has said the path to citizenship outlined in bipartisan legislation passed by the Senate is “reasonable.” The state GOP gave him political cover by becoming the first in the country to endorse comprehensive immigration changes.

Political analysts said reluctant House members should take note of the country’s changing demographics.

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Egyptian helicopters strike suspected militants CAIRO (AP) — Smoke billowed in the sky as Egyptian helicopter gunships rocketed suspected Islamic militant hideouts in the lawless northern Sinai Peninsula for a second day on Sunday, part of the largest military offensive in the region in years, military officials said.

They say the assault aims to drive out al-Qaida inspired groups from several villages of the restive border region, where Islamic militants have established strongholds and stockpiled an unprecedented amount of weapons.

Gen. Osama Askar of the 3rd Army told reporters troops had seized at least 10 shoulder-fired Sam-7 anti-aircraft missiles a day earlier. They were found in a mosque and in homes of suspected militants in the town of Sheikh Zuweyid, near the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Western officials say thousands of shoulderlaunched missiles went missing from Libyan arsenals since that country’s 2011 civil war. Egyptian authorities say Libyan missiles have been smuggled into the Sinai, and some of those have gone on through underground tunnels to Gaza.

Sunday’s airstrikes targeted the villages of elMahdiya and el-Moqataa on the outskirts of Rafah and Sheikh Zuweyid. One official said U.S.-made Apache helicopters hit shacks, houses, olive farms and cars used by militants.

The strikes paved the way for a ground offensive, he

added, allowing troops backed by armored vehicles to sweep homes of suspected militants. A total of nine suspected militants have been killed and nine others arrested since Saturday, he said.

In a new statement Saturday, Armed Forces spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said that helicopters had provided air cover for what was “the biggest security operation” in the northern Sinai in years. He said troops arrested at least nine suspected militants in at least seven villages on Saturday.

Ali’s statement, posted on his official Facebook page, also said that 118 houses and farms used as hideouts had been demolished in the operation by Saturday.

A second military official in Cairo told Associated Press that the military was surprised by the amount and type of weapons found in the areas.

“We found heavy weapons, explosive belts for suicide bombers, mortars, RPGs, anti-aircraft missiles and maps with positions of the military in the region,” he said. “They were waging a war against us.”

He declined to give a timeframe for the offensive, saying that the military will not leave until it has driven out the militants. He added that the military has a long list of wanted militants.

Residents witnessed columns of trucks and armored vehicles pouring into the area on Saturday. Some said they hadn’t seen foot soldiers in their villages in

A Palestinian Hamas security guard, left, walks near an Egyptian watch tower, right, on the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday.

Egypt’s military bulldozed at least 20 homes along the Gaza Strip border and caved in tunnels beneath them as a prelude to the possible creation of a buffer zone to reduce weapon smuggling and illegal militant crossings.

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decades. Communications were jammed for hours, as authorities seized control of two telephone exchanges. All roads leading up to the northern region of the peninsula have been sealed off and troops have encircled a dozen villages.

Some local tribal leaders have expressed relief over the operation, but others remain skeptical, saying innocent men have been arrested arbitrarily.

Over the past weeks, the military has also bulldozed homes along the Gaza border and caved in tunnels beneath them in preparations for creating a buffer zone to reduce weapon smuggling and militant crossings.

Officials say the wanted militants are believed to

be responsible for a series of attacks in a region they overran after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Since the overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi on July 3, Sinai has witnessed a spike of deadly and near-daily attacks.

The Cairo-based military official accused Morsi of giving militants free reign to stockpile weaponry by making deals with them to cease attacks when he was in office in return for amnesty and a halt of military action against them.

The militants, the officials say, belong to a number of well-known al-Qaidainspired groups that seek the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate in the northern Sinai.

The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

In Cairo, a virtually Islamist-free panel tasked to amend the country’s nowsuspended 2012 constitution convened for the first time as authorities push to roll back Morsi’s legacy and implement a transition plan to democracy.

With presidential and parliamentary elections planned for early next year, Islamists have seen their clout drastically reduced in Egypt’s near future — a radical reversal from the initial post-Mubarak period when they formed new political parties and won five successive elections.

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The panel has only two months to finalize constitutional amendments already proposed by 10 experts before the public votes on the text.

“I feel optimism as we are paving the road for a new era where the constitution will be its base,” Moussa said after being elected. The session was aired live on state TV. It will be the third time since Egypt’s 2011 uprising against Mubarak that the constitution has been amended.

A military-appointed panel amended the constitution after Mubarak’s overthrow, before a new charter was adopted in 2012 under Morsi. Liberals and secularists said their objections to much of the text were ignored.

This time around, Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood — many of whose leaders have been rounded up in a mass crackdown — is not represented on the panel.

Gehad Haddad, a group spokesman, reiterated its rejection of the interim leaders’ transition plan and vowed to continue protests against it. The group now stages only small protests across the country in order to avoid the crackdown.

The ultraconservative Salafi al-Nour party, the only religiously based party that supported Morsi’s overthrow, will participate in the panel, however, its leader said, despite earlier objections.

“There was opposition within the party but after taking votes, the majority agreed to participate,” Younis Makhyoun told The Associated Press.

“We wanted to have a voice to defend the revolution and to defend the identity articles,” he said, referring to Islamist fears that a secular majority on the panel will remove articles that could give Islamic law a bigger role in legislation.

He criticized interim president Adly Mansour for giving only one seat to Islamists on the panel.

“This is a blatant and outrageous exclusion of the Islamist parties by the current ruling government,” he said.

Al-Nour has suffered internal division after siding with the military and liberals in Morsi’s removal. Many of its members are believed to have split from the party and joined pro-Morsi protest camps that security forces broke up violently on Aug. 14.

Hundreds were killed at the sit-ins and during the ensuing days of violence across the country.

The panel includes three representatives from Al-Azhar, the Sunni world’s premier religious authority.

Professional unions, universities and the arts are also represented.

Four panel members come from youth groups involved in the protests that toppled both Morsi and Mubarak, and three Christian clerics are also members although no private Christian citizens.

Only five women are on the panel.

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Fair Venus is moving opposite your sign today to stay for the next month, smoothing all your relations with partners and close friends. Artistic people will come into your life.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Relations with co-workers will improve in the next month. Ask for support from others. You also might want to make your workplace look more attractive.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Slip away on a vacation if you can, because you want to party during the next six weeks. Pleasure, fun and games, the arts, sports events and playful times with children will be tops on your menu.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) During the next month, you will redecorate your digs and make where you live look more attractive. In fact, the next six weeks are perfect for entertaining!

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Writers, teachers, actors and salespeople will be smooth and diplomatic during the next six weeks, because Venus will sweeten your speech. It's a good time to make money from writing!

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) The next month is excellent for business and commerce. However, you might spend too much money on beautiful things -- clothes, jewelry and art. It's so tempting.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Fair Venus moves into your sign today, where it will stay for the next month. This window of time is perfect to shop for wardrobe goodies, because you like what you see in the mirror.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Secret love affairs will be taking place for some of you in the next six weeks. Others will escape the limelight by hiding and seeking solitude.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) A friend might become a lover in the month ahead. Certainly, all your relations with others will be particularly warm and cozy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) People in authority might approach you in the next month for advice about creative projects. They'll ask about design, layout, furniture arrangement, gardening -- whatever.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Travel for pleasure will delight you in the coming month. In fact, some of you might strike up a long-distance romantic relationship.

YOU BORN TODAY You excel at what you do, but you don't want to call attention to yourself, because you like to fit in. You're passionate about what you do and always give it your best. (In this respect, you sometimes find it difficult to strike a happy balance between work and family or play.) Look for ways to learn something new this year. You'll be glad you did.

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Strong showing for Navalny in Moscow mayoral race MOSCOW (AP) — Two exit polls in Moscow’s mayoral election predicted a strong showing Sunday for opposition leader Alexei Navalny, putting him behind the Kremlinbacked incumbent but with the race far closer than expected.

But as election results began to trickle out more than two hours after polls closed, showing incumbent Sergei Sobyanin with a clear majority, Navalny said the slowness in reporting the results and the lack of an official turnout figure raised suspicions that the vote was being manipulated.

“We don’t recognize the results that are currently being announced, and I would like to say that we won’t give up one vote that we received,” Navalny told reporters at his campaign headquarters. “I call on the Kremlin and the mayor’s office to restrain themselves from falsifications.”

The election has energized Russia’s small opposition in ways that could pose a risk to the Kremlin in the days and years ahead.

It also could determine Navalny’s fate. He faces time in prison after being convicted of embezzlement in a case seen as part of a Kremlin effort to sideline him, but a strong showing could lead to a shortening of his five-year sentence, if the Kremlin felt this would help defuse discontent.

The exit polls by pollsters FOM and VTsIOM, which are both usually seen as favoring Kremlin candidates, put incumbent Sergei Sobyanin in the lead with about 53 percent.

FOM predicted Navalny

would get 29 percent, while VTsIOM showed him even higher, at 32 percent. This is far more than expected.

A week before the election, a poll by the independent Levada Center predicted Navalny would get 18 percent, compared to 58 percent for Sobyanin. Four other candidates trailed far behind.

As the official results came in, the percentage for Navalny rose gradually from 22 percent in the early going to 26 percent, with more than 20 percent of the ballots counted, while Sobyanin’s total dropped from 57 to 53 percent.

Getting above 50 percent would allow Sobyanin to avoid a runoff, but if he is seen as squeaking through unfairly because of vote-rigging, it could set off protests. It was reports of widespread fraud in a national parliamentary election in 2011 that triggered the unprecedented demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin’s rule.

Navalny’s campaign said its own exit polls showed Sobyanin below 50 percent.

Arriving at his local polling station early on Sunday with his wife and children, Navalny said he hoped there would be no voterigging at the polls so that voters could choose “the political space they need for a new Moscow.”

Golos, Russia’s leading independent election monitor, said the voting appeared to have gone smoothly, but there were fears that election officials would artificially increase the turnout to allow them to add votes for Sobyanin.

Israeli labor bill for settlers sparks uproar JERUSALEM (AP) — At first glance, a proposed new bill asking Israel’s parliament to extend Israeli labor law to the West Bank and protect women against unlawful dismissal seems innocuous enough.

But critics say that under the guise of woman’s rights, the bill’s true intent is to further entrench Israeli control over occupied territory the Palestinians seek for their future state.

The debate sheds light on the complex and distinct legal system Israel has cultivated during its 46-year control of the West Bank. Since Israel has never annexed the territory, it technically remains under military rule, creating a bewildering legal reality.

For the 340,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, most of Israel’s criminal and civilian laws apply.

They vote in Israeli elections, enlist for compulsory military service, pay their taxes to the state and get speeding tickets from Israeli police.

But these core laws are applied on a personal rather than a geographic basis, meaning they apply to Israelis because of their citizenship and regardless of their location.

To get around accusations of de facto annexation, Israel relies heavily on military decrees, rather than parliament, to enforce laws on settlers geographically. A third party is Israel’s Supreme Court, which steps in when loopholes in this patchwork arrangement emerge.

Palestinians, meanwhile, are often subject to a different set of laws, adding to the confusion — and often inequality.

Orit Strock, a lawmaker from the pro-settler Jewish Home party and a settler herself, said she proposed the latest legislation after learning of female settlers who she said had been unfairly fired from their jobs. She insists she has no other motive.

“So long as people live here, they need to live a

normal life,” she told The Associated Press. “It is unconceivable that people who pay taxes and serve in the military will be devoid of rights.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced support for the new bill, saying all Israeli women must “receive equal rights.”

But critics say the legislation would change the rules in the West Bank.

A parliamentary vote in favor of the bill could be construed as another step by Israel toward de facto annexation, which is particularly problematic at a time when the country is in peace talks with the Palestinians over the future status of the territory.

A Cabinet vote on the bill has been put off indefinitely after dovish government minister Yaakov Peri objected to it. He said protecting women’s rights is important, but that the bill would be a sign of bad faith to the Palestinians.

Legal experts say settlers already enjoy the same rights as other Israelis by virtue of their citizenship, calling Strock’s legislation a political stunt. Her party opposes the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, the idea underlying the current negotiations.

The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

In that war, Israel also captured the Golan Heights from Syria.

Israel has annexed east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, steps not recognized by the international community. Israelis living in these areas, as well as Arab residents, are subject to Israeli laws and privileges. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

The Cabinet has asked the attorney general to look into the creation of a military decree on the labor rights of women in the settlements by next month. The military decrees allow Israel to extend its laws to the settlements without the political ramifications.

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TODAY’S TIPS • BASKETBALL: There will be a fall boys basketball league from Monday to Oct. 28 at the Miami Valley School in Dayton. Game will be on Sunday nights, with the grade school division (grades 4-5) and middle school division (grades 6-8) playing at 6 p.m. and the high school division (grades 9-12) playing at 7 p.m. For more information, email Ken Laake at ken.laake@hotmail.com.

• SOFTBALL: Fall slowpitch softball leagues at Duke Park are now forming.

Leagues will begin play Tuesday, with a co-ed league on Tuesday nights and a men’s league on Wednesday nights. For more information, contact Brian Robbins at bwr40@aol.com or call (937) 418-7535.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Boys Golf Piqua at Troy (3:30 p.m.)

Springfield Shawnee at Tippecanoe (4:30 p.m.)

Covington at Miami East (4 p.m.)

Mississinawa Valley at Bethel (4 p.m.)

Bradford at Newton (4 p.m.)

Lehman at Temple Christian (4:30 p.m.)

Girls Golf Troy at Beavercreek (4 p.m.)

Covington at Miami East (4 p.m.)

Boys Soccer Northwestern at Tippecanoe (7:15 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Dixie (6 p.m.)

Bethel at Xenia Christian (5 p.m.)

Girls Soccer Bellbrook at Troy (7 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Northwestern (7:15 p.m.)

Dixie at Milton-Union (6 p.m.)

Bethel at Xenia Christian (5 p.m.)

Xenia at Piqua (7 p.m.)

Tennis Urbana at Troy (4:30 p.m.)

Eaton at Tippecanoe (4:30 p.m.)

Lehman at CJ (4 p.m.)

Volleyball Dixie at Milton-Union (7 p.m.)

Bethel at Fairlawn (7 p.m.)

Bradford at Houston (7 p.m.)

TUESDAY Boys Golf Troy at CJ (4 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Madison (4 p.m.)

Miami East at Arcanum (4:30 p.m.)

Covington at Ansonia (4 p.m.)

Franklin Monroe at Bethel (4 p.m.)

Tri-County North at Newton (4 p.m.)

Mississinawa Valley at Bradford (4 p.m.)

Marion Local at Lehman (4 p.m.)

Girls Golf Miami East at Arcanum (4:30 p.m.)

Boys Soccer Troy at Greenville (7 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Dayton Christian (5 p.m.)

Piqua at Butler (7 p.m.)

Girls Soccer Newton at Botkins (5 p.m.)

Tennis Troy at Trotwood (4:30 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Kenton Ridge (4:30 p.m.)

Madison at Milton-Union (4 p.m.)

Greenville at Piqua (4:30 p.m.)

Lehman at St. Marys Memorial (4:30 p.m.)

Volleyball Greenville at Troy (7 p.m.)

Indian Lake at Tippecanoe (6:30 p.m.)

Bradford at Miami East (7 p.m.)

Franklin Monroe at Covington (7 p.m.)

Bethel at Mississinawa Valley (7 p.m.)

Ansonia at Newton (7 p.m.)

Butler at Piqua (7 p.m.)

St. Henry at Lehman (7 p.m.)

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49ers beat Packers to open season Frank Gore scored a go-ahead, 1-yard touchdown with 5:47 remaining, Colin Kaepernick threw for a career-high 412 yards and three touchdowns, with 13 completions to Anquan Boldin, and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers 34-28 on Sunday.

Boldin had 208 yards receiving in a spectacular San Francisco debut and Vernon Davis caught a pair of touchdown passes from Kaepernick, who marched his team 80 yards on five plays to take the lead late. The 49ers answered after Packers rookie Eddie Lacy put Green Bay ahead on a 2-yard run with 8:26 left.

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Costly mistakes CHICAGO (AP) — The Cincinnati Bengals lost their lead, their cool and the game.

They’ll have to do better if they want to live up to the lofty preseason expectations.

Andy Dalton threw two interceptions and Rey Maualuga got called for a penalty near the end to wipe out any chance at a comeback, sending the Bengals to a 24-21 season-opening loss to the Chicago Bears after blowing an 11-point lead on Sunday.

“We had our chances,” Dalton said. “We had the lead.

All we had to do is score one more time and our chances of winning the game would have increased a whole lot. But we had turnovers and it was hard to get it done.”

Jay Cutler passed to Brandon Marshall for the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter, helping the Bears give Marc Trestman a victory in his first game as an NFL head coach.

Dalton threw for 282 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. A.J. Green had 162 yards receiving and

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two touchdowns, including a 45-yarder.

But it was a disappointing opener for a team coming off back-to-back playoff appearances for the first time since 1981 and 1982.

“They didn’t stop us one time,” Green said. “They didn’t really stop us on offense. We were doing whatever we wanted. The biggest thing we had was turnovers.”

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Via finishes off County title at Miami Shores

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TROY — Brad Via figured missing a little NFL football wouldn’t hurt anything.

So the Troy golfer made his return to the Miami County golf tournament in six years in impressive fashion. His eight-under par 136 total was good for an 11-shot victory and the third County title of Via’s career.

“I usually don’t play in the tournament because it is the first week of the NFL season and I like to watch the games,” Via said. “But I was just playing so well, I decided I should play.”

Via had already won the Troy City, Miami Shores Club Championship and the match play tournament this summer. And he didn’t slow down this weekend.

He opened with a blazing five-under par 67 at Echo Hills Saturday, before shooting a three-under pat 69 at Shores, his home

course, Sunday.

“I played really well at Echo Hills, which surprised me,” Via said.

“I hadn’t played at Echo in six years and had never broken 70 there.

“I couldn’t even tell you what my low score before Saturday was there. Probably 71 or 72.”

Via did it by owning the par-5s.

He was five-under par on the par-5s alone. That included two eagles.

“I hit it stiff on both five and 12,” Via said.

“The two eagle putts were three feet. I hit a 7-iron in on five and a 6-iron in on 12. And I two-putted nine for birdie.

“I shot 67 and had two bogeys. You can do that when you have two eagles.”

That gave him a three-shot lead over Brian Deal heading to his home course for the final round.

“I was hoping to just shoot par at Echo and then try and shoot a 67 at Shores,” he said.

quarter, only to have Chicago rally down the stretch.

The Bengals would have had one last chance to win or tie it, but Maualuga com• See BENGALS on page 15

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Texas, USC fall out of AP rankings

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Brad Via sinks a putt on his way to the Miami County golf tournament champions flight title Sunday at Miami Shores Golf Course in Troy.

Ben Gover chips out of the rough during the • See CONTROL on page 14 Miami County golf tournament Sunday at Miami Shores.

NEW YORK (AP) — Breaking down The Associated Press college football poll after Week 2 of the regular season.

OUTTA HERE. These are troubling times for Texas and Southern California. Eight seasons after the Longhorns and Trojans played one of the greatest games in college football history for the national championship in the Rose Bowl, they now appear to be in crisis.

After ugly losses Saturday night, both dropped out of the AP Top 25 on Sunday, yet another indignity for two proud programs searching for answers.

The Longhorns (1-1) were stomped 40-21 by BYU. The Cougars ran for 550 yards, the most ever allowed by Texas. And this coming on the heels of last season when the Texas defense was one of the worst in school history, a mess of missed tackles and blown assignments.

The debacle at BYU led Texas coach Mack Brown to fire defensive coordinator Manny Diaz on Sunday and replace him with former Texas defensive coordinator Greg Robinson.

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Browns bashed in 23-10 loss to Dolphins CLEVELAND (AP) — There was smoke and flames during a new, flashy pregame introduction as the Browns welcomed another season.

Then, they went out and lost the opener.

It’s become a tradition.

Brandon Weeden was sacked six times, Cleveland’s offense didn’t make nearly enough plays and the Browns lost their opener for the ninth straight season when they fell 23-10 against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.

This one was supposed to be different. With a new owner and coaching staff and an improved, though young roster, notoriously jaded Cleveland fans were brimming with optimism.

It was mostly gone by half-

time. The Browns laid another egg.

“It’s not a good feeling at all,” cornerback Joe Haden said.

Weeden threw three interceptions — two on passes that bounced off receivers’ hands — and the second-year quarterback didn’t do much to quiet his critics as the Browns fell to 1-14 in Week 1 since 1999.

Following the game, Weeden, who by official count was hit 16 times, talked to reporters before he headed to the trainers’ room for evaluation.

It’s not known if Weeden is injured, but he was definitely hurting after the Browns’ offensive line was manhandled

by Miami’s defensive front.

Dolphins end Cameron Wake had 2½ sacks, beating secondyear right tackle Mitchell

Schwartz almost at will.

“He’s obviously a good player, his resume speaks for itself,” Schwartz said of Wake.

“I just have to do a better job against him. I tried to execute the game plan based on what I saw in film and I just didn’t do a good enough job.”

He wasn’t alone. The Browns had issues on both sides of the ball and special teams. They didn’t do much to make anyone think this season will be better than so many previous ones.

First-year coach Rob Chudzinski tried to spin things forward following his debut, but it’s obvious one of the NFL’s youngest teams has a lot of growing up to do.

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Miami’s Ryan Tannehill, surrounded by more offensive weapons in his second NFL season, passed for 272 yards and a touchdown.

Tannehill threw a 34-yard TD pass to Brian Hartline in the third quarter, and completed 6 of 7 passes for 78 yards on the Dolphins’ clinching TD drive in the fourth. Tannehill easily outplayed Weeden, who posted similar stats to Miami’s QB last • See BROWNS on page 15

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S. Williams beats Azarenka for 5th U.S. Open title NEW YORK (AP) — Fussing with her skirt and flubbing her shots, Serena Williams was troubled in the U.S. Open final by the swirling air and the strong play of Victoria Azarenka.

After one miss, Williams declared, “I can’t play in this wind.” After blowing a big second-set lead, Williams chucked her racket toward the sideline, and it bounced back onto the court.

In the end, Williams pulled herself together, as she usually does when it matters the most. Facing her only test of the past two weeks, the No. 1-seeded Williams overcame No. 2 Azarenka 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-1 on Sunday for a fifth championship at Flushing Meadows and second in a row.

Williams, who turns 32 on Sept. 26, raised her Grand Slam singles title count to 17, the sixth-most in history and one shy of Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. Williams collected a $3.6 million prize, including a $1 million bonus for producing the best results during the North American summer hard-court circuit leading up to the U.S. Open.

Helped by nine aces, one at 126 mph, Williams improved to 67-4 with a career-best nine titles in 2013. Since a first-round exit at the 2012 French Open, Williams is 98-5 with 14 titles, winning four of the past six Grand Slam tournaments.

“Vika’s such a great opponent, such a great fighter,” Williams said, “and that’s why she’s been able to win multiple Grand Slams. That’s why it was never over until match point.”

Yes, this one did not come easily, even though it appeared to be nearly over when Williams went ahead by two breaks at 4-1 in the second set.

Williams served for the match at 5-4 and 6-5 — only to have the gutsy Azarenka break each time.

This was a rematch of last year’s

final, also won by Williams in three sets, and two-time Australian Open champion Azarenka provided another challenge with her big swings off both wings.

“It is a tough loss, but to be in the final and play against the best player — who deserves to win today — it’s incredible,” said Azarenka, who is from Belarus. “I gave it all today. We showed our hearts. We fought hard.”

Four times, Azarenka was only two points from taking the opening set.

At one such moment, with Williams serving at deuce after a double-fault, she was called for a foot fault, erasing what would have been a 121 mph ace. There was another foot-fault call in the second set, too. They brought back memories of the American’s loss to Kim Clijsters in the 2009 semifinals, when Williams was docked a point, and later fined, for a tirade against a line judge over a foot-fault call.

There was no such outburst directed at officials this time, although there was that racket toss. After the call in the match’s 10th game, Williams simply put a hand to her face, composed herself, and won the point with a down-the-line backhand she celebrated with a fist pump, some foot stomping and a yell of “Come on!”

Williams wound up holding there with a 104 mph ace, part of what seemed to be a match-altering stretch.

She won five consecutive games and 16 of 18 points to take the first set and go up a break in the second.

Her lead grew to 4-1 in the second set, before Azarenka made things competitive again. Azarenka is responsible for two of Williams’ four losses this season. And entering Sunday, Azarenka was 31-1 on hard courts this season, and she showed why for portions of the final, playing

far better than she had in her preceding six matches in New York.

But she simply could not keep pace with Williams, who eventually adjusted to her opponent and the wind that topped 15 mph. Williams put aside her issues to finish with a 36-17 edge in winners.

The first time Williams served for the championship, at 5-4, Azarenka hit a cross-court forehand winner for break point, then forced a backhand long. Williams came right back to break for a 6-5 edge. But on her second chance to serve it out, she double-faulted to get broken for the fourth time Sunday.

A year ago, they played the first three-set women’s final in New York since 1995. And they went the distance again, a total of 2 hours, 45 minutes, because Azarenka was superior in the tiebreaker.

When it came time to close the deal, Williams shined. She has six of the eight winners in the third set, forced Azarenka into 15 miscues, and soon enough, was hopping up and down after finishing with a service winner.

Azarenka faltered late, the way she did when losing the last four games in the 2012 final. She hit two of her seven double-faults while getting broken to 3-1 in the third set, then could only watch as Williams hit a pair of aces in the next game.

No. 1-seeded Novak Djokovic faces No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the men’s final Monday. It’s the first time since 1996 that both U.S. Open singles finals are 1-vs.-2 matchups.

On Sunday, with former President Bill Clinton among the announced crowd of 23,584 in Arthur Ashe Stadium, and Williams’ older sister Venus in a front-row seat, the fans were largely cheering for the American.

I shot 45 on the back, I was going to win. I expected to play well — I never expected to win by that many shots.”

Deal finished second with a 147 total, while Ben Gover was third at 149. Brian Robbins (150) and Jeff Poettinger (151) rounded out the top five.

Mark Allen cruised to a 12-shot victory in the seniors, with a oneover par 145 total on rounds of 72 and 73. Jim Sass won a playoff with Tom Marsh for second.

Mike Butsch fired a two-under par 70 on Sunday to win the Super Seniors by two shots with a 147

total. Brent Adkins was second with 149.

Blake Stradling broke open a close competition with a one-under par 71 Sunday, to defend his first flight title with a 12-shot victory.

Stradlin shot 81 in the opening round to finish with a 152 total, while Ray Stuchell was second with 164.

Rob Kiser rode an opening round 81 at Echo Hills to win the second flight title with a 169 total.

Mick Johns took second with 177, eight shots back.

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n Continued from page 13 After a rare bogey on the par-5 first hole, Via birdied the next three holes, ending any drama.

“I made a mistake hitting into the greenside bunker on the first hole,” Via said. “I was thinking what a way to start the round.

“But I made a 10-footer for birdie on two and hit it stiff on three and four. That got me back to twounder after four, which is what I usually expect to be.”

Via shot 3-under par 33 on the front, before coasting to a 36 on the back.

“I had a six-shot lead at the turn,” he said. “So I figured unless

Jackie Chen watches his shot Sunday at Miami Shores.

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NASCAR investigating Bowyer spin at Richmond CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — With one suspicious snap of the steering wheel, Clint Bowyer changed the outcome of a race and maybe the championship, too.

Accidental or intentional, his spin in the closing laps at Richmond International Raceway set in motion a chain of events that has shrouded the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship and raised many questions about the potential for a race team to manipulate pivotal moments of a race.

Now NASCAR is reviewing evidence to determine if Michael Waltrip Racing deliberately altered Saturday night’s race, potentially costing both Ryan Newman and Jeff Gordon spots in the Chase, to benefit MWR driver Martin Truex Jr. NASCAR President Mike Helton told The Associated Press before Sunday’s Truck Series race at Iowa that officials in the scoring tower did not immediately see anything to believe Bowyer’s spin with seven laps remaining at Richmond was suspicious. The spin came while Newman was leading and brought out the caution that set in motion a chain of events that cost Newman both the race and a berth in the 12-driver Chase field.

He was battling Truex for the final spot.

“We didn’t see anything that indicated that anything like that was taking place. And it’s natural when everything was as close as it was between who was going to get in and not go in to scratch your heads and try to figure out and wonder why,” Helton said. “But we didn’t see anything initially (Saturday) night that indicated that, but certainly we’ll go back through all the video and everything to be sure, because we take the responsibility very serious to be sure that it’s — that everybody has had a fair chance.”

But an ESPN replay that included communication between Bowyer and his team implied the spin was deliberate.

Bowyer was shown the video after the race and denied he spun intentionally, a claim he repeated throughout the post-race activities.

“We had a flat tire or something. It just snapped around,” Bowyer said, later adding, “I know it’s a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead if you want to, get creative.

But don’t look too much into it.”

In-car audio framed the situation as his crew goading him into spinning his car to bring out the yellow in an effort to prevent Newman from winning the race.

“Thirty-nine is going to win the race,” Bowyer was told over his radio.

“Is your arm starting to hurt?” crew chief

Brian Pattie asked.

After a pause, Pattie said, “I bet it’s hot in there. Itch it.”

Bowyer’s car then spun.

NASCAR did not have access to that footage until well after the race, and it is presumably among the materials Helton was reviewing Sunday.

Also, it became apparent early Sunday morning that Bowyer and teammate Brian Vickers further aided Truex by taking a dive over the final three laps.

When the race resumed with three laps to go, four-time series champion Jeff Gordon was poised to claim the 10th spot in the Chase, and Joey Logano was ahead of Truex in position to claim the second wild-card.

But Bowyer and Vickers both made pit stops in the final three laps that allowed Logano to improve his finishing position and move ahead of Gordon to claim the 10th Chase berth. That bumped Gordon from contention and freed the wild card for Truex. Gordon was not eligible for the wild card.

The AP reviewed team communications for both Bowyer and Vickers on Sunday, and Vickers was told by MWR general manager Ty Norris to pit because “we need that 1 point.”

“We’re probably going to pit here on green,” Norris says.

“Are you talking to me?” a surprised Vickers asks.

Vickers continued to question the call, at one point asking, “I don’t understand, pit right now?”

“You’ve got to pit this time. We need that 1 point,” Norris replies.

“10-4. Do I got a tire going down?” Vickers asked.

Vickers then pitted as the field went green.

When he asked after if his crew found anything with the tire, Norris replied, “I’ll see you after the race, Brian, I owe you a kiss.”

Bowyer’s radio communication was not as verbose, but he had already pitted twice after his spin, once to change the tire and once for Pattie to double-check for any damage. The team then called him down pit road a third time with no explanation just as the field went green.

It’s not uncommon in NASCAR for teammates to help each other with track position, so on its face, the calls for the two MWR drivers to pit aren’t that egregious. But added with Bowyer’s spin, fans were crying foul over MWR’s actions, especially since it cost both Gordon and Newman spots in the 10-race Chase that begins Sunday at Chicago.

Waltrip, calling the Truck race Sunday at Iowa for Fox Sports 1, declined to comment to AP.

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n Continued from page 13 “Our performance on defense last night was unacceptable, and we need to change that,” Brown said.

Everybody around the Texas program has acknowledged this is an important season for the Longhorns and Brown, who is in his 16th season in Austin. He’s won a national title and been one of the most successful coaches in the country.

But the past three seasons Texas is 23-17.

USC (1-1), coming off a season in which the Trojans went from preseason No. 1 to unranked, looks helpless offensively and Trojans fans are blaming fourth-year coach Lane Kiffin after a 10-7 loss at home to Washington State.

As Texas was futilely trying to stop one bunch of Cougars on Saturday night, USC was struggling to even get a first down against another. Fans of each

team raged on social media.

There is plenty of season left for Brown and Kiffin to turn it around.

The Longhorns play No. 25 Ole Miss at home on Saturday. The Trojans face Boston College. But there was no denying Saturday night felt like a tipping point for the current regimes at Texas and USC. MOVING UP: The conventional wisdom about Michigan this season was the Wolverines are a next-year team, talented but with many underclassmen and few key seniors. Michigan’s 41-30 victory against Notre Dame not only jumped the Wolverines six spots in the rankings to No. 11, but it also hinted the future might be now in Ann Arbor.

Devin Gardner, with four touchdown passes and a TD run, fits offensive coordinator Al Borges’ system better

than Denard Robinson ever did, and those youthful Wolverines now have a few weeks of winnable games (Akron, at UConn and Minnesota) to grow up for what could be an interesting second half of the season.

MOVING DOWN: No. 21 Notre Dame and No. 13 South Carolina both dropped seven spots after losing the week’s biggest games. The Gamecocks were beaten 41-30 at Georgia. The Fighting Irish and Gamecocks ranked seventh and 11th in the nation, respectively, in total defense last season and feature some of the best defensive linemen in the country, most notably South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney and Notre Dame’s Derrick Nix. Despite the big names, both units have work to do.

“We’re struggling on defense,” South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said. “It’s

sort of sad watching.”

MOVING IN: Miami is ranked for the first time since November 2010.

The Hurricanes jumped all the way to No. 15 after beating Florida 21-16.

The Gators slipped six spots to No. 18.

The big win and return to the rankings represents a turning point for Miami in coach Al Golden’s third season. The ‘Canes are 15-11 under Golden, but have yet to go to the postseason, thanks to a self-imposed ban the school put in place as punishment for the improper benefits investigation that the NCAA has yet to rule on. Until that cloud lifts, Golden’s rebuilding efforts at Miami will be stunted.

No. 25 Mississippi also moved into the poll, the first time it has been ranked since the final 2009 poll.

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49ers get past Packers 34-28 Saints edge Falcons 23-17 in NFC showdown

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Frank Gore scored a go-ahead, 1-yard touchdown with 5:47 remaining, Colin Kaepernick threw for a career-high 412 yards and three touchdowns, with 13 completions to Anquan Boldin, and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers 34-28 on Sunday.

Boldin had 208 yards receiving in a spectacular San Francisco debut and Vernon Davis caught a pair of touchdown passes from Kaepernick, who marched his team 80 yards on five plays to take the lead late. The 49ers answered after Packers rookie Eddie Lacy put Green Bay ahead on a 2-yard run with 8:26 left.

Aaron Rodgers threw for 333 yards and three touchdowns, but the Packers departed from Candlestick Park with another defeat eight months after losing 45-31 in the NFC divisional playoffs.

SAINTS 23, FALCONS 17 NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees passed for 357 yards and two scores, and the Saints held on for the win in coach Sean Payton’s return from his bounty ban.

Roman Harper secured the win when he intercepted a tipped fourthdown pass in the end zone with under a minute left.

Brees connected with Marques Colston for a 25-yard touchdown pass during which the receiver also set a franchise mark for catches with 533. Brees also hit tight end Jimmy Graham for a 7-yard score in the third quarter.

Matt Ryan passed for 304 yards and touchdown passes to Tony Gonzalez and Julio Jones. He also

drove Atlanta to the Saints 3 in the final minute before falling just short.

CHIEFS 28, JAGUARS 2 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alex Smith threw two early touchdown passes, Kansas City’s defense dominated all day and the Chiefs began the Andy Reid era with a victory at Jacksonville.

Jamaal Charles ran for 77 yards and a touchdown before leaving the game with a quadriceps injury, but that was about the only negative for the Chiefs.

Jacksonville advanced past its own 36-yard line just once, a stunning display of offensive futility for the rebuilding franchise. The Jaguars finished with 178 yards, but for most of the game were challenging the team low of 117 yards set last year against Houston.

PATRIOTS 23, BILLS 21 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Stephen Gostkowski hit a 35-yard field goal with 5 seconds left to send New England to the road win.

Tom Brady set up the decisive score by leading a 49-yard, 12-play drive during which he twice completed passes to convert third downs. It was Brady’s 36th career victory in which the Patriots were tied or trailed in the fourth quarter.

Brady finished 29 of 52 for 288 yards passing and two touchdowns in helping the Patriots win their season opener for the 10th straight season.

The new-look Bills nearly pulled off a stunning upset in the first game under coach Doug Marrone and rookie quarterback EJ Manuel, who completed 18 of 27 passes for 150 yards and two

AP PHOTO San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore (21) runs against the Green Bay Packers during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game Sunday in San Francisco.

touchdowns.

COLTS 21, RAIDERS 17 INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck ran 19 yards for the winning touchdown, giving Indianapolis its first opening-day win since 2009.

Luck was 18 of 23 for 178 yards with two touchdown passes, but earned his eighth career fourth-quarter comeback by scrambling for a score with 5:20 to go.

Oakland started Terrelle Pryor at quarterback. He was 19 of 29 for 217 yards and one TD, and he broke the Raiders’ rushing record for a quarterback with 13 carries for 112 yards.

But he also threw two interceptions in the red zone, the second coming with 25 seconds left in the game.

LIONS 34, VIKINGS 24 DETROIT — Reggie Bush turned a short pass into a 77-yard touchdown in the third quarter and finished with 191 yards of offense to help Detroit pull away from Minnesota.

Joique Bell ran for two TDs, including a go-ahead score that gave the Lions their first lead early in the third quarter.

Matthew Stafford was 28 of 43 for 357 yards with two TDs. His last score was a 1-yard lob to rookie tight end Joseph Fauria with 6:47 left that sealed the win.

Adrian Peterson ran for a 78-yard TD on his first carry and scored on a 4-yard run to give Minnesota a 14-6 lead in the second. He ended up with 93 yards rushing.

RAMS 27, CARDINALS 24 ST. LOUIS — Greg Zuerlein kicked a 48-yard field goal with 40 seconds left to lift St. Louis to the comeback victory.

It was Zuerlein’s fourth field goal of the game for the Rams, who trailed 24-13 after three quarters.

Larry Fitzgerald caught two touchdown passes from new quarterback Carson Palmer and Arizona’s defense had a TD. Jared Cook had two touchdown catches in his

Rams debut. The tight end fumbled a potential third TD, a 55-yarder that would have opened the scoring, when rookie Tyrann Mathieu punched the ball free at the 8 and the play resulted in a touchback.

JETS 18, BUCCANEERS 17 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Nick Folk kicked a 48-yard field goal with 2 seconds remaining after Lavonte David’s personal foul penalty kept New York’s drive alive, and the Jets pulled out an improbable opening victory.

With the Jets trailing 17-15 and time running out, rookie Geno Smith scrambled for 10 yards — and was shoved while he was out of bounds by David.

The 15-yard penalty gave the Jets the ball at the Buccaneers 30 and set up Folk’s winning field goal on the next play.

Things appeared dim for the Jets just moments earlier when Rian Lindell kicked a 37-yard field goal with 34 seconds left.

Smith, making his first NFL start with Mark

Sanchez out with a shoulder injury, made some mistakes — a fumble that led to a score and an interception — but was mostly solid while going 24 of 38 for 256 yards with a touchdown.

TITANS 16, STEELERS 9 PIT TSBURGH — Tennessee’s revamped defense sacked Ben Roethlisberger five times and the Titans shut down the Steelers.

Chris Johnson ran for 70 clock-chewing yards, Jackie Battle bulled his way to a 3-yard touchdown in the second quarter, and Rob Bironas kicked three field goals for the Titans. Tennessee’s newlook defense did the rest.

SEAHAWKS 12, PANTHERS 7 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Russell Wilson threw for 320 yards for Seattle, including a 43-yard touchdown pass to Jermaine Kearse in the fourth quarter.

The Seahawks managed just two field goals before Kearse beat cornerback Josh Thomas down the right sideline for the go-ahead score with 10:13 left.

The Panthers held Marshawn Lynch to 43 yards rushing, but Wilson picked up the slack by completing 25 of 33 passes.

The Panthers threatened to take the lead late, but safety Earl Thomas forced DeAngelo Williams to fumble at the Seattle 8. Defensive tackle Tony McDaniel recovered with 5:25 left. The Seahawks ran out the clock from there.

Carolina’s Cam Newton was held to 125 yards passing and one touchdown, a 3-yard strike to Steve Smith in the first half.

Bengals

n Continued from page 13 a personal foul away from the play when Cincinnati stopped Michael Bush after a short gain on third-and-6 at the Cincinnati 45 with a little over a minute left.

The unnecessary roughness penalty kept the drive going and allowed Cutler to take a knee twice, ending the game.

“We had a lot of guys unfortunately lose composure today,” Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said. “We can’t do that.”

For the Bears, it wasn’t quite the performance they were looking for after making some big changes in the offseason.

But they made the most of a handful of big plays by Cutler and repeated mistakes by the Bengals.

Cutler threw for 242 yards behind a line with four new starters. Marshall had eight catches for 104 yards, and the

Browns

offense pulled it out after struggling most of the way.

The Bengals led by 11 in the third quarter and were up 21-17 early in the fourth when Tim Jennings jarred the ball from Mohamed Sanu following a reception and made the recovery.

Chicago took over at its 19 and got an 8-yard run from Matt Forte on fourth-and-inches at the Bengals 27 to keep the drive going.

Cutler then found Marshall in the front corner of the end zone for a 19-yard touchdown with 7:58 remaining.

The Bears made big changes in the offseason, parting with star linebacker Brian Urlacher and hiring Trestman to replace the fired Lovie Smith with the idea that he could spark the offense and lead them to the playoffs after missing out five

of the past six years.

The offense seemed stuck most of the afternoon but came through in the end, with Cutler completing 21 of 33 passes. He also had two touchdowns to go with an interception.

Charles Tillman matched a career high with two interceptions, giving him 35 overall for Chicago.

And Robbie Gould set a franchise record with a 58-yard field goal at the end of the first half following some questionable clock management by Cincinnati.

“I think it tested us and our backbone because it didn’t go the way we wanted it to go, certainly, in the first half,” said Trestman, who coached the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes the past five seasons.

“But the guys hung in there together, at halftime pulled

themselves together and the team went out and played every play and were able to come out on top.”

Up 14-10 at the half, the Bengals started the third quarter with an 80-yard scoring drive.

Tillman got called for interference on a deep pass to Green that put the ball on the 1, and BenJarvus Green-Ellis plowed in from the 5, making it 21-10.

But the Bears responded with an 80-yard drive that ended with Forte running it in from the 1 to get them back within four.

Vontaze Burfict intercepted Cutler near midfield early in the fourth quarter, taking a shot to the right knee from Chicago’s Kyle Adams.

Cincinnati took over at the Bears 40, but Sanu’s fumble at the 17 led to a big swing.

And Marshall couldn’t believe he was one on one with Reggie Nelson on the go-ahead touchdown.

“I didn’t understand it. You know?” Marshall said. “Fourth quarter, put a safety on me one on one? You can only ask for that and dream about that.”

NOTES: Burfict said his knee was bruised. … Green hurt a finger at one point, but Lewis said he’s fine. … Bengals LT Andrew Whitworth, recovering from offseason surgery on his left knee, was inactive. … Gould held the previous Bears record with a 57-yard field goal against Denver on Dec. 11, 2011. … Trestman joined Hall of Famer George Halas (1920), Neill Armstrong (1978) and Dick Jauron (1999) as the only coaches to win their Bears debut.

n Continued from page 13 season but showed many of the same problems he had last season, when he forced passes into tight coverage and seemed slow in making decisions.

Weeden finished 26 of 53 for 289 yards and threw a 7-yard TD pass to tight end Jordan Cameron, but the 29-year-old was plagued by several drops and he didn’t get enough protection from his line.

“It’s not the way we drew it up,” Weeden said. “We’re all going to learn from this.

There’s no reason to point any fingers. We just have to get better as a unit and execute better and do the things we are coached to do.”

It didn’t help that Weeden was missing his top receiver as Josh Gordon served the first game of his two-game suspension for violating the

NFL’s drug policy. Without Gordon, the Browns lacked a vertical threat to keep Miami’s secondary honest.

But even if Gordon had suited up, Cleveland’s line wasn’t able to give Weeden enough time to throw.

Right guard Oneil Cousins, filling in because Jason Pinkston and Shawn Lauvao are out with ankle injuries, was called for four penalties — two holding calls, a false start and a hands-to-the-face violation.

The Browns committed nine penalties overall.

“Nobody wants to get a penalty,” Cousins said. “We all are working out butts off for the opportunity to win.

I just got to focus on the next play and forget about that one and continue to get better.”

Cleveland still hasn’t won its first home game since

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Cleveland Browns tight end Jordan Cameron dives for an extra yard after a catch against the Miami Dolphins in the second quarter of an NFL football game Sunday in Cleveland.

2004, and with upcoming road games at Baltimore and Minnesota, it could be a while before they get their first of 2013.

“It’s just the first game,” Richardson said, trying to point out a positive after the disappointing loss.

“Don’t get it wrong. We’re

going to come back and play hard. This season ain’t over with.”

NOTES: Browns WR/ PR Travis Benjamin was

treated for an unspecified injury to his right leg after the game. He left the stadium walking gingerly. …

Browns S T.J. Ward sat out one series with a shoulder injury. He will undergo tests Monday. … One bright spot is Cleveland’s defense held the Dolphins to 20 rushing yards on 23 carries. …

DE Desmond Bryant, one of Cleveland’s biggest offseason acquisitions, had two sacks. LBs Paul Kruger and Quentin Groves, also free-agent signings, had one each. … The Browns are the first NFL team with eight undrafted rookies on their 53-man roster for the opener since Baltimore had nine in 2002. … Browns rookie LB Barkevious Mingo sat out as he continues to recover from a bruised lung. It’s not known when he will make his debut.

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Boston 87 58 .600 Tampa Bay 78 64 .549 Baltimore 76 66 .535 New York 76 67 .531 Toronto 67 76 .469 Central Division W L Pct Detroit 82 61 .573 Cleveland 76 66 .535 Kansas City 75 68 .524 Minnesota 61 80 .433 Chicago 57 85 .401 West Division W L Pct Oakland 83 60 .580 Texas 81 61 .570 Los Angeles 67 75 .472 Seattle 65 78 .455 Houston 47 96 .329 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Atlanta 85 57 .599 Washington 73 69 .514 Philadelphia 66 77 .462 New York 64 77 .454 Miami 53 88 .376 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 83 60 .580 Pittsburgh 81 61 .570 Cincinnati 81 62 .566 Milwaukee 62 80 .437 Chicago 60 82 .423 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 83 58 .589 Arizona 72 69 .511 Colorado 66 78 .458 San Diego 65 77 .458 San Francisco 63 79 .444

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GB WCGB — — 5½ 2 7 3½ 20 16½ 24½ 21

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday's Games Boston 13, N.Y. Yankees 9 Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 3, 10 innings Oakland 2, Houston 1 Cleveland 9, N.Y. Mets 4 Kansas City 4, Detroit 3 Toronto 11, Minnesota 2 L.A. Angels 8, Texas 3 Seattle 6, Tampa Bay 2 Sunday's Games N.Y. Yankees 4, Boston 3 N.Y. Mets 2, Cleveland 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Baltimore 2 Kansas City 5, Detroit 2 Toronto 2, Minnesota 0 Texas 4, L.A. Angels 3 Oakland 7, Houston 2 Tampa Bay 4, Seattle 1 Monday's Games Kansas City (E.Santana 8-8) at Cleveland (U.Jimenez 10-9), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 13-11) at Baltimore (Tillman 15-5), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 9-8) at Minnesota (P.Hernandez 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cole 6-7) at Texas (Darvish 12-7), 8:05 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 19-2) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 10-12), 8:10 p.m.

Houston (Cosart 1-1) at Seattle (T.Walker 1-0), 10:10 p.m.

Tuesday's Games Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Oakland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday's Games Cincinnati 4, L.A. Dodgers 3, 10 innings Milwaukee 5, Chicago Cubs 3 Cleveland 9, N.Y. Mets 4 Philadelphia 6, Atlanta 5 Washington 9, Miami 2 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 2, Colorado 1 Arizona 2, San Francisco 1 Sunday's Games N.Y. Mets 2, Cleveland 1 Washington 6, Miami 4 Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 2 St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 3, Chicago Cubs 1 Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

San Diego 5, Colorado 2 L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 8:05 p.m.

Monday's Games Atlanta (Medlen 12-12) at Miami (H.Alvarez 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 8-11) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 13-10), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 9-6) at N.Y. Mets (C.Torres 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cole 6-7) at Texas (Darvish 12-7), 8:05 p.m.

Arizona (Delgado 4-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Nolasco 12-9), 10:10 p.m.

Colorado (Chacin 13-8) at San Francisco (Lincecum 9-13), 10:15 p.m.

Tuesday's Games San Diego at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Sunday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston . .010 001001—3 9 0 New York .000 120001—4 11 0 Lester, Workman (9) and Saltalamacchia; Kuroda, Kelley (7), M.Rivera (8) and C.Stewart, Au.Romine.

W_M.Rivera 5-2.

L_Workman 5-3.

HRs_Boston, Middlebrooks (15).

Chicago . .010 120000—4 10 1 Baltimore 000 100001—2 6 0 Rienzo, Lindstrom (7), Veal (8), N.Jones (8), A.Reed (9) and Bry.Anderson; B.Norris, McFarland (5), Hammel (7), Patton (9), S.Johnson (9) and Wieters. W_Rienzo 2-1. L_B.Norris 10-11. Sv_A.Reed (37). HRs_Chicago, A.Dunn (31). Baltimore, A.Jones (31).

Toronto . .000 000020—2 7 0 Minnesota 000 000000—0 5 1 E.Rogers, Cecil (8), S.Santos (8), Janssen (9) and Arencibia; A.Albers, Burton (8), Perkins (9) and C.Herrmann, Pinto. W_E.Rogers 5-7.

L_Burton 2-9. Sv_Janssen (29).

Detroit . . .002 000000—2 6 0 Kansas City00013010x—510 0 Fister, Coke (7), Putkonen (7), Alburquerque (8) and Avila; B.Chen, K.Herrera (8), G.Holland (9) and Kottaras. W_B.Chen 7-2. L_Fister 12-8.

Sv_G.Holland (40). HRs_Detroit, Iglesias (3). Kansas City, Hosmer (16).

Texas . . . .100 010200—4 9 0 Los Angeles010200000—39 0

Tepesch, J.Ortiz (4), Ogando (5), Frasor (7), Cotts (7), Scheppers (8), Nathan (9) and G.Soto, Pierzynski; Vargas, Boshers (7), Kohn (7), D.De La Rosa (8), J.Gutierrez (9) and Conger.

W_Ogando 6-4. L_Kohn 1-2.

Sv_Nathan (39). HRs_Texas, Rios (16).

Los Angeles, Calhoun (6).

Houston .100 000100—2 8 0 Oakland . .007 00000x—7 11 1 Harrell, Bedard (4), De Leon (8) and Pagnozzi; Colon, Bre.Anderson (7) and Vogt. W_Colon 15-6. L_Harrell 6-16.

Sv_Bre.Anderson (3). HRs_Oakland, S.Smith (8).

Tampa Bay000000031—4 10 0 Seattle . . .010 000000—1 5 1 M.Moore, McGee (7), Jo.Peralta (8), Rodney (9) and Lobaton; E.Ramirez, Furbush (7), Medina (8), O.Perez (8), Noesi (9) and H.Blanco. W_McGee 4-3.

L_Medina 4-5. Sv_Rodney (33).

HRs_Seattle, K.Morales (20).

INTERLEAGUE New York .000 100001—2 8 0 Cleveland 000 001000—1 5 0 Matsuzaka, Black (6), Feliciano (8), F.Francisco (8), Hawkins (9) and Recker; Salazar, Hagadone (5), M.Albers (5), Allen (8), R.Hill (8), J.Smith (8), C.Perez (9) and C.Santana, Y.Gomes. W_F.Francisco 10. L_C.Perez 5-3. Sv_Hawkins (8).

HRs_New York, Ju.Turner (2).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Washington012021000—611 1 Miami . . . .030 001000—4 6 0 Strasburg, Storen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos; Ja.Turner, R.Webb (5), M.Dunn (7), A.Ramos (8), Cishek (9) and Brantly. W_Strasburg 79. L_Ja.Turner 3-6. Sv_R.Soriano (39).

HRs_Washington, W.Ramos (11), Zimmerman (20).

Atlanta . . .010 000100—2 2 1 Philadelphia20000001x—3 8 0 Maholm, Varvaro (7), D.Carpenter (8) and G.Laird; Hamels, Rosenberg (9) and Kratz. W_Hamels 7-13.

L_D.Carpenter 3-1. Sv_Rosenberg (1).

HRs_Atlanta, Gattis 2 (18).

Philadelphia, Ruf (13).

Pittsburgh 000 000002—2 4 1 St. Louis .230 04000x—9 12 2 Morton, Pimentel (2), Mazzaro (5), J.Hughes (5), Ju.Wilson (7), Farnsworth (8) and Buck, T.Sanchez; Wacha, Axford (8), S.Freeman (9), Salas (9) and Y.Molina, T.Cruz.

W_Wacha 3-0. L_Morton 7-4.

Milwaukee000 000300—3 8 0 Chicago . .000 010000—1 3 0 Gallardo, Kintzler (8), Henderson (9) and Lucroy; S.Baker, Grimm (6), Russell (7), Villanueva (8), H.Rondon (9) and Castillo. W_Gallardo 11-9.

L_Grimm 0-1. Sv_Henderson (24).

HRs_Chicago, Lake (6).

Colorado .001 100000—2 6 0 San Diego 000 01040x—5 8 1 Bettis, Oswalt (4), W.Lopez (7), Boggs (8) and Pacheco; Kennedy, Boxberger (6), Vincent (7), Stauffer (8), Street (9) and R.Rivera, Hundley.

W_Vincent 4-2. L_Oswalt 0-5.

Sv_Street (29).

Midwest League Playoffs All Times EDT (x-if necessary) First Round (Best-of-3) Quad Cities 2, Cedar Rapids 0 Wednesday, Sep. 4: Quad Cities 2, Cedar Rapids 1 Thursday, Sep. 5: Quad Cities 4, Cedar Rapids 2 South Bend 2, Great Lakes 0 Wednesday, Sep. 4: South Bend 3, Great Lakes 0 Thursday, Sep. 5: South Bend 5, Great Lakes 1 Fort Wayne 2, Bowling Green 0 Wednesday, Sep. 4: Fort Wayne 6, Bowling Green 1 Thursday, Sep. 5: Fort Wayne 9, Bowling Green 5 Beloit 2, Clinton 0 Wednesday, Sep. 4: Beloit 9, Clinton 6, 10 innings Thursday, Sep. 5: Beloit 6, Clinton 2 Second Round (Best-of-3) South Bend vs. Fort Wayne Saturday, Sep. 7: South Bend at Fort Wayne, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 8: Fort Wayne 5, South Bend 2 x-Monday, Sep. 9: Fort Wayne at South Bend, 7:05 p.m.

Quad Cities 1, Beloit 0 Saturday, Sep. 7: Quad Cities 3, Beloit 1 Sunday, Sep. 8: Quad Cities at Beloit, 7:30 p.m. x-Monday, Sep. 9: Quad Cities at Beloit, 7:30 p.m.

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. FSN — Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore or Kansas City at Cleveland NFL FOOTBALL 6:55 p.m. ESPN — Philadelphia at Washington 10:15 p.m. ESPN — Houston at San Diego TENNIS 5 p.m. CBS — U.S. Open, men's championship, at New York

TUESDAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. FSN — Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati MLB — Regional coverage, Boston at Tampa Bay or N.Y.Yankees at Baltimore SAILING 3:30 p.m. NBCSN — America's Cup, race 5 and 6, at San Francisco SOCCER 8 p.m. ESPN — Men's national teams, World Cup qualifier, United States vs. Mexico, at Columbus, Ohio

WEDNESDAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 12:30 p.m. WGN — Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati 7 p.m. ESPN — Boston at Tampa Bay 10 p.m. ESPN — Arizona at L.A. Dodgers WNBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Phoenix at Chicago New England Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo South Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville North Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland West

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W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 28 2 Denver 1 0 0 1.000 49 27 San Diego 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Oakland 0 1 0 .000 17 21 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 0 0 0 .000 0 0 N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Washington 0 0 0 .000 0 0 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 1 0 0 1.000 23 17 Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 17 18 Carolina 0 1 0 .000 7 12 Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 17 23 North W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 34 24 Chicago 1 0 0 1.000 24 21 Green Bay 0 1 0 .000 28 34 Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 24 34 West W L T Pct PF PA St. Louis 1 0 0 1.000 27 24 Seattle 1 0 0 1.000 12 7 San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 34 28 Arizona 0 1 0 .000 24 27 Thursday's Game Denver 49, Baltimore 27 Sunday's Games New Orleans 23, Atlanta 17 Chicago 24, Cincinnati 21 New England 23, Buffalo 21 Tennessee 16, Pittsburgh 9 N.Y. Jets 18, Tampa Bay 17 Kansas City 28, Jacksonville 2 Seattle 12, Carolina 7 Miami 23, Cleveland 10 Detroit 34, Minnesota 24 Indianapolis 21, Oakland 17 San Francisco 34, Green Bay 28 St. Louis 27, Arizona 24 N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Monday's Games Philadelphia at Washington, 6:55 p.m.

Houston at San Diego, 10:20 p.m.

Thursday, Sep. 12 N.Y. Jets at New England, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 15 Dallas at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.

Washington at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Miami at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m.

Jacksonville at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 16 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 8:40 p.m.

AP College Football Top 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (57).........1-0 1,494 1 2. Oregon (1).............2-0 1,385 2 3. Clemson (1)...........2-0 1,332 4 4. Ohio St. (1) ............2-0 1,327 3 5. Stanford.................1-0 1,271 5 6. Texas A&M ............2-0 1,133 7 7. Louisville................2-0 1,105 8 8. LSU .......................2-0 1,075 9 9. Georgia .................1-1 1,036 11 10. Florida St.............1-0 1,011 10 11. Michigan..............2-0 872 17 12. Oklahoma St. ......2-0 834 13 13. South Carolina ....1-1 829 6 14. Oklahoma............2-0 675 16 15. Miami...................2-0 615 NR 16. UCLA...................1-0 488 18 17. Northwestern.......2-0 452 19 18. Florida .................1-1 405 12 19. Washington..........1-0 392 20 20. Wisconsin ............2-0 378 21 21. Notre Dame.........1-1 333 14 22. Baylor ..................2-0 295 23 23. Nebraska .............2-0 277 22 24. TCU .....................1-1 170 24

25. Mississippi...........2-0 78 NR Others receiving votes: Arizona St. 64, Fresno St. 26, Michigan St. 26, Texas 26, N. Illinois 21, Virginia Tech 15, BYU 14, Georgia Tech 10, Arizona 9, Illinois 9, Bowling Green 7, Penn St. 7, Boise St. 3, Tennessee 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (58).........1-0 1,545 1 2. Oregon (1).............2-0 1,447 3 3. Ohio St. (2) ............2-0 1,429 2 4. Stanford.................1-0 1,327 4 5. Clemson ................2-0 1,307 5 6. Texas A&M (1) .......2-0 1,242 7 7. Louisville................2-0 1,121 8 8. LSU .......................2-0 1,067 11 9. Florida St...............1-0 1,040 10 10. Georgia ...............1-1 1,021 12 11. Oklahoma St. ......2-0 866 14 12. Michigan..............2-0 860 17 13. Oklahoma............2-0 800 15 14. South Carolina ....1-1 788 6 15. Nebraska .............2-0 478 19 16. Northwestern.......2-0 473 20 17. UCLA...................1-0 471 18 18. Wisconsin ............2-0 455 21 18. Miami...................2-0 455 24 20. Florida .................1-1 410 9 21. Notre Dame.........1-1 348 13 22. Baylor ..................2-0 297 NR 23. Washington..........1-0 253 23 24. TCU .....................1-1 195 24 25. Mississippi...........2-0 91 NR Others Receiving Votes: Michigan State 74; Fresno State 59; Arizona State 48; Texas 38; Northern Illinois 27; Arizona 21; Brigham Young 18; Arkansas 16; Georgia Tech 12; Virginia Tech 8; Texas Tech 7; Central Florida 6; East Carolina 6; Southern California 5; Bowling Green 3; Illinois 3; Kansas State 3; Boise State 2; Tennessee 2;Utah 2;Utah State 2;Boston College 1.

GOLF Champions Tour-Montreal Championship Scores Sunday At La Vallee du Richelieu Rouville Sainte-Julie, Quebec Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 6,990; Par: 72 Final (x-won on third playoff hole) x-Esteban Toledo, $240,000 .......73-69-69—211 Kenny Perry (141), $140,800......70-71-70—211 Duffy Waldorf (115), $115,200....72-70-70—212 Michael Allen (73), $73,200........74-68-71—213 Anders Forsbrand (73), $73,200 72-69-72—213 David Frost (73), $73,200 ...........71-72-70—213 Bernhard Langer (73), $73,200..71-67-75—213 Loren Roberts (51), $51,200 ......72-72-70—214 Russ Cochran (35), $34,800 ......73-72-70—215 Bill Glasson (35), $34,800...........72-69-74—215 Scott Hoch (35), $34,800............76-69-70—215 Dick Mast (35), $34,800..............69-75-71—215 Tom Pernice Jr. (35), $34,800.....71-72-72—215 Rod Spittle (35), $34,800............72-72-71—215 Kirk Triplett (35), $34,800 ............77-67-71—215 Willie Wood (35), $34,800...........73-68-74—215 Jim Carter, $24,000.....................72-71-73—216 Dan Forsman, $24,000 ...............76-68-72—216 Sandy Lyle, $24,000....................76-71-69—216 Andrew Magee, $17,829.............74-73-70—217 Olin Browne, $17,829..................77-67-73—217 Brad Faxon, $17,829...................77-69-71—217 Jim Gallagher, Jr., $17,829.........74-69-74—217 Rocco Mediate, $17,829.............75-68-74—217 Peter Senior, $17,829..................72-71-74—217 Jeff Sluman, $17,829 ..................73-72-72—217 David Eger, $13,600....................76-70-72—218 Gary Hallberg, $13,600...............73-70-75—218 Chien Soon Lu, $13,600.............73-68-77—218 Steve Pate, $13,600....................74-71-73—218 Jay Don Blake, $10,560..............73-71-75—219 Jeff Brehaut, $10,560..................75-70-74—219 Tom Byrum, $10,560...................75-71-73—219 Mark Calcavecchia, $10,560 ......74-72-73—219 John Cook, $10,560....................76-72-71—219 Steve Lowery, $10,560................72-73-74—219 Larry Mize, $10,560.....................74-72-73—219 Mark Brooks, $8,000...................71-74-75—220 Fred Funk, $8,000 .......................74-74-72—220 Mike Goodes, $8,000..................75-74-71—220 Steve Jones, $8,000....................75-72-73—220 Neal Lancaster, $8,000...............74-76-70—220 Ted Schulz, $8,000......................74-73-73—220 Mark Mouland, $6,400................74-74-73—221 John Riegger, $6,400..................75-73-73—221 Scott Simpson, $6,400................79-71-71—221 Joey Sindelar, $6,400..................75-78-68—221 Joe Daley, $4,960........................73-75-74—222 Brian Henninger, $4,960.............75-73-74—222 Mike Reid, $4,960........................71-73-78—222 Gary Rusnak, $4,960..................77-73-72—222 Bobby Wadkins, $4,960 ..............76-73-73—222 Chip Beck, $3,680.......................73-74-76—223 Roger Chapman, $3,680 ............75-73-75—223 Barry Lane, $3,680......................74-71-78—223 Gene Sauers, $3,680..................75-75-73—223 Craig Stadler, $3,680...................76-74-73—223

TROY DAILY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM Tommy Armour III, $2,800 ..........80-72-73—225 Ken Green, $2,800......................73-72-80—225 Miami County Championship Golf Scores At Miami Shores Sunday Championship Flight Brad Via .............................67-69—136 Brian Deal .........................70-77—147 Ben Gover .........................73-76—149 Brian Robbins ................... 75-75—150 Jeff Poettinger ...................79-72—151 Justn Weber ......................78-74—152 Ryan Pearson ...................79-73—152 Jason Thompson ..............80-74—154 Dan Sutherly .....................79-76—155 Jeff Jennings .....................77-80—157 Matt Orr .............................79-79—158 Andrew Pittenger ..............86-78—164 Marty Stanaford .................81-87—168 Andrew Johnson ...............86-88—174 Mike Ford ...................................80-WD Dave Barnhart ................................WD Seniors Mark Allen .........................73-72—145 Jim Sass ............................78-79—157 Tom Marsh ........................81-76—157 Von Clendenen ................. 84-93—177 Jim Sarich ......................... 85-83—148 John Mutschler ..................85-80—165 Chris Boehringer .......................85-WD Super Seniors Mike Butsch .......................77-70—147 Brent Adkins ......................77-72—149 Doug Willoughby............... 75-77—152 Gary Weaver ..................... 84-72—156 Jim Waters .........................84-74—158 Marty Jackson ...................80-79—159 Jack Holtel .........................79-82—161 Barry Willoughby............... 80-81—161 Tom Fullmer ......................84-80—164 Marv Simmons ..................82-84—166 Brent Flinn .........................84-84—168 Dave Brown .......................91-84—175 Darrell Tron ........................95-84—179 Rich Steck .........................96-88—184 Doug Page ........................98-92—190 First Flight Blake Stradling ..................81-71—152 Ray Stuchell ......................85-79—164 Jim King............................. 82-85—167 Jim Howard .......................82-86—168 Ron Moore ........................83-85—168 Dwight Hughes .................86-87—173 Jackie Chen .......................89-84—173 Doug Harter ....................................WD Michael Simmons ........................... DQ Second Flight Rob Kiser........................... 81-88—169 Mick Johns ........................ 82-95—177 Bill Shattuck .......................89-89—178 Brian Stafford ....................91-87—178 Allan May ...........................87-93—180 Kevin Monroe ....................98-89—187

AUTO RACING NASCAR Camping World Truck-Fan Appreciation 200 Results Sunday At Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa Lap length: .875 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (3) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 212 laps, 116.6 rating, 47 points, $37,985.

2. (1) Ross Chastain, Ford, 212, 141.5, 44, $33,975.

3. (5) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 212, 123.7, 42, $18,445.

4. (25) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 212, 92.2, 40, $15,335.

5. (10) Darrell Wallace Jr., Toyota, 212, 99.8, 39, $15,410.

6. (18) German Quiroga, Toyota, 212, 87.8, 38, $11,785.

7. (12) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 212, 105.5, 37, $11,285.

8. (8) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 212, 92.1, 36, $11,060.

9. (2) Erik Jones, Toyota, 212, 91.9, 35, $11,010.

10. (9) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 212, 105.4, 35, $12,235.

11. (15) John Wes Townley, Toyota, 212, 79.5, 33, $10,910.

12. (6) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 212, 115.6, 33, $10,785.

13. (14) Max Gresham, Chevrolet, 212, 63.1, 31, $10,735.

14. (20) Miguel Paludo, Chevrolet, 212, 67.8, 30, $10,685.

15. (22) Ben Kennedy, Chevrolet, 211, 71.2, 29, $9,185.

16. (21) Dakoda Armstrong, Chevrolet, 211, 68.9, 28, $10,635.

17. (13) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 211, 74.4, 27, $10,335.

18. (23) Steve Wallace, Chevrolet, 210, 64.4, 0, $7,960.

19. (16) Justin Lofton, Chevrolet, 210, 56.7, 25, $10,110.

20. (11) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 210, 73.8, 25, $8,435.

21. (19) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 209, 57.9, 23, $9,910.

22. (24) Brennan Newberry, Chevrolet, 209, 51.1, 22, $8,560.

23. (31) Justin Jennings, Chevrolet, 207, 45, 21, $7,435.

24. (4) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, accident, 204, 87.8, 20, $8,360.

25. (17) Joey Coulter, Toyota, accident, 203, 67.2, 19, $7,485.

26. (32) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ram, brakes, 171, 38.2, 18, $7,310.

27. (28) Matt Kurzejewski, Chevrolet, accident, 155, 40.2, 17, $7,260 28. (34) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, rear gear, 107, 31.7, 16, $7,235.

29. (33) Steve Smith, Chevrolet, driveshaft, 104, 35.9, 15, $7,210.

30. (26) Jeff Agnew, Chevrolet, engine, 84, 46.1, 14, $7,685.

31. (7) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, accident, 35, 47.9, 13, $7,160.

32. (29) Chris Jones, Chevrolet, rear gear, 20, 36.6, 12, $7,135.

33. (27) Bryan Silas, Ford, rear gear, 16, 34.2, 11, $7,110.

34. (35) Mike Harmon, Chevrolet, overheating, 15, 29.2, 0, $7,085.

35. (30) Jimmy Weller III, Toyota, clutch, 8, 30.4, 9, $7,060.

36. (36) Chris Lafferty, Ram, handling, 5, 29.7, 8, $7,012.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 98.047 mph.

Time of Race: 1 hour, 53 minutes, 31 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.486 seconds.

Caution Flags: 6 for 35 laps.

Lead Changes: 12 among 6 drivers.

Lap Leaders: R.Chastain 1-41; T.Dillon 42-79; R.Chastain 80-121; T.Peters 122-124; R.Blaney 125-126; B.Jones 127-128; T.Dillon 129-136; R.Chastain 137-140; T.Peters 141173; R.Chastain 174-194; R.Blaney 195; R.Chastain 196-203; J.Buescher 204-212.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): R.Chastain, 5 times for 116 laps; T.Dillon, 2 times for 46 laps; T.Peters, 2 times for 36 laps; J.Buescher, 1 time for 9 laps; R.Blaney, 2 times for 3 laps; B.Jones, 1 time for 2 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. M.Crafton, 569; 2. J.Buescher, 532; 3. T.Dillon, 511; 4.

J.Burton, 503; 5. T.Peters, 495; 6.

M.Paludo, 494; 7. R.Blaney, 485; 8.

J.Sauter, 465; 9. D.Wallace Jr., 465; 10. B.Gaughan, 464.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

NASCAR Sprint Cup-Federated Auto Parts 400 Results Saturday At Richmond International Raceway Richmond, Va. Lap length: .75 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (26) Carl Edwards, Ford, 400 laps, 111.2 rating, 47 points, $281,275.

2. (2) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 400, 129.6, 43, $185,355.

3. (24) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 400, 100.9, 42, $181,443.

4. (7) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 400, 114.1, 41, $151,805.

5. (22) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 400, 90, 40, $140,701.

6. (5) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 400, 104.3, 39, $136,676.

7. (11) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 400, 87.8, 37, $125,310.

8. (1) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 400, 101.9, 37, $138,696.

9. (16) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 400, 75.9, 35, $131,360.

10. (21) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 400, 77.2, 34, $134,971.

11. (17) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 400, 92.1, 33, $129,996.

12. (9) Greg Biffle, Ford, 400, 99.3, 32, $99,360.

13. (14) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 81.8, 31, $98,285.

14. (18) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 400, 78.8, 30, $97,160.

15. (34) A J Allmendinger, Toyota, 400, 71.2, 29, $109,593.

16. (12) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 400, 81.5, 28, $108,799.

17. (3) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 400, 118.9, 29, $136,876.

18. (19) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 400, 97.2, 26, $89,135.

19. (13) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 400, 92.3, 25, $122,718.

20. (15) Aric Almirola, Ford, 400, 83.4, 24, $118,921.

21. (6) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 399, 73.3, 23, $96,835.

22. (8) Joey Logano, Ford, 399, 67.6, 22, $108,243.

23. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, 399, 60, 21, $96,218.

24. (20) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 399, 62.9, 0, $87,810.

25. (4) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 398, 104.5, 20, $124,543.

26. (25) Casey Mears, Ford, 397, 53.8, 18, $101,568.

27. (32) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 397, 56.6, 17, $106,399.

28. (33) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 397, 45.8, 16, $98,618.

29. (23) David Ragan, Ford, 397, 57.2, 15, $96,382.

30. (36) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 396, 39.1, 14, $79,710.

31. (40) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 396, 47, 13, $75,585.

32. (35) David Reutimann, Toyota, 395, 46, 12, $75,435.

33. (41) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 395, 36.6, 0, $75,310.

34. (28) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 395, 46.3, 0, $75,185.

35. (38) Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, 395, 34.1, 0, $83,035.

36. (43) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 393, 32.9, 8, $74,880.

37. (42) Ken Schrader, Ford, 393, 36.8, 7, $74,737.

38. (29) David Stremme, Toyota, 391, 30.8, 6, $69,725.

39. (31) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 388, 31.6, 0, $65,725.

40. (10) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 372, 46.8, 4, $110,661.

41. (27) Josh Wise, Ford, vibration, 142, 43, 0, $57,725.

42. (39) Reed Sorenson, Ford, brakes, 126, 25.8, 0, $53,725.

43. (30) Michael McDowell, Ford, brakes, 76, 31.9, 1, $50,225.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 105.028 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 51 minutes, 23 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.668 seconds.

Caution Flags: 5 for 29 laps.

Lead Changes: 17 among 9 drivers.

Lap Leaders: J.Gordon 1-49; B.Keselowski 50-65; Ku.Busch 66-94; J.McMurray 95-96; B.Keselowski 97104; M.Kenseth 105-109; Ku.Busch 110-137; J.McMurray 138-141; B.Keselowski 142-208; Ku.Busch 209-217; B.Keselowski 218-268; Ku.Busch 269; C.Bowyer 270-341; Ku.Busch 342-347; C.Edwards 348390; R.Newman 391-394; P.Menard 395-397; C.Edwards 398-400.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): B.Keselowski, 4 times for 142 laps; Ku.Busch, 5 times for 73 laps; C.Bowyer, 1 time for 72 laps; J.Gordon, 1 time for 49 laps; C.Edwards, 2 times for 46 laps; J.McMurray, 2 times for 6 laps; M.Kenseth, 1 time for 5 laps; R.Newman, 1 time for 4 laps; P.Menard, 1 time for 3 laps.

Top 12 in Points: 1. M.Kenseth, 2,015; 2. J.Johnson, 2,012; 3.

Ky.Busch, 2,012; 4. K.Harvick, 2,006; 5. C.Edwards, 2,006; 6. J.Logano, 2,003; 7. G.Biffle, 2,003; 8. C.Bowyer, 2,000; 9. D.Earnhardt Jr., 2,000; 10.

Ku.Busch, 2,000; 11. K.Kahne, 2,000; 12. M.Truex Jr., 2,000.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

TRANSACTIONS Sunday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX_Recalled RHP Allen Webster from Pawtucket (IL).

National League CHICAGO CUBS_Designated INF Cody Ransom for assignment.

Activated RHP Scott Baker fro the 60day DL. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES_Fired executive vice president and assistant general manager Jason Karmanos.

Announced vice president of hockey operations Ron Francis, and video scout and hockey operations assistant Darren Yorke will take over Karmanos' duties.