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January 13, 2012 It’s Where You Live!

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Accident victim faces drug charges Nearly 7 pounds of marijuana found in car, house

BY MELODY VALLIEU Staff Writer vallieu@tdnpublishing.com

Alaska hit by another blast of heavy snow The worst winter anyone can remember in Alaska has piled snow so high people can’t see out the windows, kept a tanker in ice-choked waters from delivering fuel on time and turned snow-packed roofs into sled runs. See Page 10.

A man injured in an accident Monday will face drug charges upon his release from the hospital.

Michael W. Mowery, 62, of Troy, was hit by a pickup truck Monday on Fenner Road and sent over a guardrail into a ravine, to Miami according

TROY County Sheriff ’s Office Chief Deputy Dave Duchak. Mowery was taken by CareFlight to Miami Valley Hospital where he remains in fair condition, according to a hospital spokesperson.

However, upon investigation of Mowery’s vehicle, deputies found more than

a pound of marijuana in the Jeep. Based on the marijuana recovered from the vehicle, a search warrant was requested for Mowery’s Iddings Road residence while he remained hospitalized.

At the residence, in excess of 6 more pounds of marijuana were found. In addition, drug paraphernalia, weighing scales and approximately $5,300 in

cash also was seized, according to Duchak.

“Based on what was recovered from the vehicle it created probable cause to apply for a search warrant, which was granted, and that is when the additional contraband was found,” Duchak said.

The sheriff’s office will seek an indictment for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute against • See CHARGES on Page 2

PIQUA

Post-holiday pickup

New beetle threatens Ohio trees

Judge declares Holloway legally dead A judge signed an order Thursday declaring Natalee Holloway dead, more than six years after the American teenager vanished on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Judge Alan King signed the order at the end of a hearing in a Birmingham courtroom that was attended by the missing woman’s divorced parents, David and Beth Holloway.

BY BETHANY J. ROYER Ohio Community Media broyer@dailycall.com

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Romney’s GOP critics will get more heat Mitt Romney’s back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire will force his weakbut-still-standing GOP rivals to make a crucial decision: Keep eviscerating the man that many see as the inevitable nominee, or temper their criticisms and dampen whatever hopes they have of overtaking him.

“President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. In the last few days, we have seen some desperate Republicans join forces with him,” Romney said in his victory speech Tuesday night. See Page 5.

INSIDE TODAY Advice ............................8 Calendar.........................3 Classified......................11 Comics ...........................9 Deaths............................6 Evelyn M. Pritchard Dirky R. Dillon James Couchman Alice Askins Bernard B. Selanders Margaret Heberding Linda Zollinger Barbara M. Myers Horoscopes ....................9 Movies ............................7 Opinion...........................5 Sports...........................15 TV...................................8

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Mowery, who is currently on federal parole, D u ch a k s a i d .

D u ch a k s a i d MOWERY Mowery is wellknown to county law enforcement for an array of

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Workers from the City of Troy Street Department — including Bobby Sims — continue picking up used Christmas trees Wednesday throughout the downtown Troy area.

While creepy and kooky looking, mysterious but not really spooky, they are certainly devastating — the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB).

“This is a big, big problem,” said Piqua City Urban Forester, Bob Graeser, while speaking about Piqua’s 2011 Tree City USA application, adding that the Asian insect’s presence in the state of Ohio is “really a big concern right now.”

Back in May, Graeser discussed another destructive insect, the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a beetle that measures about 10-11 millimeters in length, with a metallic green coloration and is a native of Asia.

This small insect, assumed to have been transported to U.S. shores in the 90s, was first discovered in northwestern Ohio in 2003. It poses a threat to nearly 3.8 billion ash trees, with no natural defense against it.

The ALB has a similar history, which was presented via a video sent to Graeser by the Department of Natural Resources. The video was created by Joe Boggs, an Ohio State University extension office educator from Hamilton county.

Compared to the EAB, the Asian Longhorned Beetle is 0.75 to 1.50 inches in length with a very long black and white banded antennae where it derives its name.

The body is glossy black with irregular white spots.

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Two Bethel BOE members retire Whitaker, Bowman combine for 42 years of service

BY JOYELL NEVINS Ohio Community Media jnevins@tcnewsnet.com

an a Buckeye and a Boilermaker get Saturday Snow late along? In the case High: 23° of former Bethel Board of Low: 12° Education members Carl Bowman and Don Complete weather Whitaker, the answer was information on Page 10. a surprising yes.

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BRANDT his Purdue sweater to the board meeting that week.

He and Bowman even crossed the state line once to see the two schools play each other, although it was too tramatic of an event to repeat again, they tell tongue-in-cheek.

Two decades of experience Bowman and Whitaker retired this December after a collective 42 years of experience on the board.

Whitaker grew up in Indiana, but followed his wife’s family to Ohio in the late ‘80s. They chose to live in Bethel Township so their son could attend school at Bethel. Although he had experience as a teacher and administrator, Whitaker didn’t join the board until 1994, after his youngest son had already

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Don Whitaker and Carl Bowman debate which team is better — the Boilermakers or the Buckeyes. They both retired from the Bethel Board of Education this year after two decades of service. graduated.

“I could look from a non-biased standpoint,” Whitaker said.

Bowman had already been on the board for a term before Whitaker started. Bowman was actually appointed rather than elected, due to two board members quitting

mid-term. His two boys were in elementary school at the time, and he had seen his father serve on the board of education as well.

“I always had an appreciation for what goes on with Dad being on a board,” he said.

Bowman has also

learned to appreciate Whitaker, despite his Indiana roots.

“What I’ve been so impressed with is how he befriends and encourages the kids all the way through,” Bowman said of Whitaker. “He’s amazing.

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Bowman called Whitaker a “good role model” and a great example of what service means.

In addition to the board, Whitaker has been a Camp Kern chaperone several times, where he slept on a hard bunk bed right next to the fifth graders (one of which was Bowman’s son).

Whitaker also works with Overtime, a youthoriented ministry of West Charleston Church of the Brethren. Overtime is like an after-prom party for certain home basketball games; students can go to the other gym to play games, eat and hang out in a healthy environment.

“I think it’s important to help kids every way you can,” said Whitaker.

While Whitaker is involved with the kids on the inside, he pointed out that Bowman takes care of much of the outside work.

Bowman helped put in the soccer field, and works with the drainage system and mowing the fields.

“To me, Carl’s been a great contributor to Bethel schools,” said Whitaker.

The men also are impressed by the willingness of Bethel parents to get involved, even after many of their kids have graduated. “They want to make sure their neighbor’s kids have a great experience,” Whitaker said.

Bethel students also get the benefit of a great staff and faculty, according to the retired board members.

“The staff put their heart and soul into it; it’s amazing what they’re able to accomplish,” said Whitaker.

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Working with the board Over the decades, the two men have seen many board members come and go. While they acknowledge that not everyone joins for the right reasons, Bowman and Whitaker feel that most of the board have had the community at heart.

“In Bethel, the school is the community,” said Whitaker.

Bowman agreed.

“A strong school makes a strong community — you can’t have one without the other.”

They pointed out that any personal agendas are soon swept aside.

“People would quickly see you can’t have a narrow spectrum view,” Bowman said. “You only have one vote, so it has to be a corporate decision.

The focus has to be on all kids, not on one kid.”

Whitaker feels that having a wider view is one of Bowman’s strengths.

“Carl can see the big picture, where something is not as big an issue as some of us think,” Whitaker said, “That’s a rare attribute, and he excels at that.”

One of the issues they had to deal with that was a big problem was back in the early ‘90s, when Benzene was found in a neighboring well. Before either of them were on the board, there had been a gas spill. The gas had gotten into the well, and the water started to smell.

“It was a tough time to figure out because none of us had dealt with it before,” said Bowman.

The school hauled in water to the residents across the street, and put in monitoring systems to keep an eye on their own water supply. Although no Benzene was ever found in Bethel’s well and they now get their water from the county, the monitors are still in place and checked regularly. The whole process cost the school almost $800,000.

“It was a whale of a problem,” said Bowman.

Another whale of a problem has been dealing with the nationwide economic recession. State funds have continued to

dry up, regardless of Bethel’s performance.

“None of us have created this situation — the whole state, the United States, the world is in a tough financial spot,” Whitaker said.

The financial crisis is an ongoing situation, so there’s not much Bowman and Whitaker could have done to fix it before they left. They do regret, however, not being able to build a new school for the kids.

“The biggest disappointment is we were not able to get new facilities,” said Bowman, “We couldn’t convince voters.

People didn’t see the need.”

He relates the current building to having a home built in 1920.

“What worked great in 1920 doesn’t work as great in 2010,” he said, “The maintenance starts eating you alive.”

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Maples are also ranked high in nursery stock, a $5 billion industry that employs 240,000 in Ohio.

What makes the ALB so much more of a concern compared to the EAB is not only the expanse of host trees, but also the challenge of eradication.

While both insects larvae stage is the destructive phase, feeding on a tree, the EAB larvae stays to ash, feeding off the phloem part of the tree.

The phloem provides the tree with nutrition, making systemic insecticides affective in killing EAB and thus saving the tree.

ALB larvae is different.

The ALB larvae burrows deep into the tree, much further than the phloem, feeding off the xylem, the wood portion that we use to make homes and furniture. This feeding makes systemic insecticides ineffective.

For all its destruction, the ALB does not kill a tree quickly either, so rather than looking for a thinning canopy to determine a new infestation and that a tree is in trouble, the pros look to broken branches that reveal all the channels made in the xylem by the ALB larvae.

While being proactive by keeping an eye out for the ALB, city leaders have their eye on the removal of some 180 trees in the area that have been affected by the EAB that first was discovered in Piqua at a reststop along I-75 back in 2006.

Fortunately, and unfortunately, the 180 trees area a small loss in comparison to the city of Troy that will need to remove some 1,200 ash trees affected by the EAB. For the complete video on the ALB presented by the OSU extension office, visit www.clermontcountyohio.gov

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In June, the Ohio Department of Agriculture announced, along with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), that an infestation of ALB was discovered in Bethel Township in Miami County with a second linked infestation in Monroe Township.

These areas have been quarantined and are small in comparison to areas of infestation where the ALB was first discovered in the United States. Those locations being Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1996, that included a number of other neighboring infestations. Another infestation was discovered in and around Chicago, Ill., in 1998.

As explained in the OSU presentation, what is typically found is a main infestation with small ones linked to it in neighboring vicinities. Both Brooklyn’s main and the Chicago sites have Working with the kids declared eradication of the The men have also ALB. seen the entrance of the Moving ahead to 2003, technological age, but an infestation was discovthey say the kids themered in Canada and is now selves haven’t changed. considered close to eradi“Kids are kids, educacation, while a western tion is education,” said Massachusetts infestation, Bowman, “You just have found in 2008, has been a to change the modality.” source of great concern “Basically they all due to its size. want to be known. If you According to Boggs in meet them, respect them, the video presentation, if a if they know you care good thing is to be found, about them, they’ll is that these infestations respond to that,” are clustered and can be Whitaker said. quarantined, as is the While kids may not more recent discovery in change, sometimes a Bethel Township. board needs to. Bowman So what does a tiny beeand Whitaker are retiring partly because they think tle have to do with Piqua or the state of Ohio overits important to have all? Plenty when this fresh blood and new world-traveling bug left its ideas.

“You need new people, home in China, through shipping. However, unlike new ideas, new inputs,” the EAB that has a taste Whitaker said. for ash trees, the ALB “The present board shows a taste for maples. members are strong, and The Norway, red, silver the new members are and the popular sugar willing,” Bowman added. maple, to be specific, and “I hope they can care about the Bethel kids and as a close relation, buckeyes, elms and willows do their utmost to help make a good host for the keep it strong.”

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Although he’s retiring The outcome of being from Bethel, Bowman host to ALB results in only won’t completely leave the school board environ- one thing for these trees, death, which means the ment. He is on the board potential economic affects for the Miami County of the ALB’s path of Educational Service destruction cannot be Center, which provides underestimated. special education to a Of Ohio’s hardwood consortium of schools.

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in the accident, Scott Goubeaux, was trapped in the vehicle for some time and also suffered nonlife threatening injuries.

Each driver had a dog in the car, while Mowery’s Doberman pinscher received serious injuries.

The accident remains under investigation.

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Charles Cox was one of the first officers on the crime scene.

Mowery later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.

He served 13 years in an Ohio prison and was released in 1986.

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charges, including drugs.

His life of crime dates back as far as 1972 when he was involved in a murder case at age 24.

According to court records, Mowery was arrested on firstdegree murder charges for the

July 28, 1972, murder of 20-yearold Troy resident Terry Smith in Troy.

Mowery — a deserter from the U.S. Army — is said to have walked up to Smith outside a downtown bar, the Arbor Bar, and shot him once in the chest.

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life, enjoy some refreshments and join members of the BNC Bird Club from 2-4 p.m.

• SOUP-ER WALK: The and learn to identify BNC’s Miami County Park District feathered friends. The rosewill hold its Soup-er Walk C o m m u n i t y breasted grosbeaks have Series program from 7-9 already been reported at p.m. at Hobart Urban Calendar feeders in Ohio this month.

Nature Preserve, 1400 • TURKEY SHOOT: A Tyrone, off of Dorset Road CONTACT US turkey shoot will be offered in Troy. Weather permitat the West Milton VFW No. ting, participants are invit8211. Sign ups will be at 11 ed to come enjoy a guided a.m. and shooting will begin hike led by a park district Call Melody at noon. naturalist followed by a • BREAKFAST Vallieu at warm crackling campfire OFFERED: The Post No. 88 440-5265 to and a hot cup of soup de Sons of AMVETS will serve jour. Hikers are encourlist your free an all-you-can-eat breakfast aged to bring a canned 8:30-11:30 a.m. Meals from calendar good for donation to a local will be $6 each. items.You food pantry. Registration is • SPEAKER SERIES: A encouraged by sending an can send Winter Speaker Series, email to register@miamiyour news by e-mail to “Nature Photography in countyparks.com or call vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. Namibia and Botswana,” (937) 667-1286, Ext. 115. with speaker John Dupps will • FILM SERIES: The be at 2:30 p.m. at Aullwood Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 1000 Audubon Center’s free film series Lets Go to the Movies will continue at 7:30 Aullwood Road, Dayton. In 2011 John Dupps, local wildlife photographer, joined a p.m. with a 1963 film starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau and David Niven as two-week photo safari to Botswana.

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the Phantom. The evening will start out with an introduction of the film. After viewing the film, a short discussion will follow. There will be cafe-style seating with popcorn and soda pop. The film series is intended for adult viewership and may not be appropriate for children under 13. For more information, call 339-0457.

• BAKED SPAGHETTI: The Sons of the American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. Third St., will offer a baked spaghetti dinner beginning at 6 p.m. for $7 each. The meal also will include salad, roll, butter and dump cake. Proceeds will be used to purchase a picnic table for the post.

• FRIDAY NIGHT JAMBOREE: A Friday night jamboree will be from 7-11 p.m. at 1530 N. Market St., Troy. The event will include country, bluegrass and gospel music and is smokie- and alcohol-free. For more information, call Dottie at (937) 6062106.

• CHICKEN DINNER: The Sons of AMVETS will offer a four-piece chicken dinner with baked potato or fries, coleslaw, roll and pudding and fruit for $7 from 5:307:30 p.m.

• PROJECT FEEDERWATCH: Project FeederWatch will be offered from 9:3011:30 a.m. at Aullwood. Participants are invited to count birds, drink coffee, eat doughnuts, share stories and count more birds. This bird count contributes to scientific studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out the Cornell web site at www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for more information.

SATURDAY • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be from 9 a.m. to noon at the Ludlow Falls Christian Church, 213 Vine St., Ludlow Falls. Individuals with eligibility questions are invited to email canidonate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388GIVE or make an appointment at www.DonorTime.com.

• FISH FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer an all-you-can-eat fish fry and smelt dinner with french fries, baked beans and applesauce for $8 from 5-7 p.m.

• DAR MEETING: The Piqua-Lewis Boyer Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, Troy. This is a joint meeting with the Fort Pickawillany Society Children of the American Revolution about “Living the American Dream.” The Fort Pickawillany Society will be presenting the meeting. Hostesses are Lora Larck, Nancy Eppleston and Annette Stewart. Guests and children and students up to age 21 are invited to attend.

• RECYCLING EVENT: January’s Monroe Township recycling event will be from 8:30-11:30 a.m. at the maintenance facility on Michaels Road. Always held the second Saturday of each month, the recycling event accepts recyclables such as glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, tin and aluminum. This month Angie’s Shred of Troy will be on site so local residents can participate in the document shredding process that carries a 10 cents per pound charge.

• COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: A community breakfast will be offered from 7:3010 a.m. at the Masonic Lodge dining room, 107 W. Main St., Troy, second floor (elevator available). The meal will include baked sausage, sausage biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, hash browns, juice and coffee. Proceeds go to high school scholarships and other charities.

SUNDAY • DOG SOCIAL: The Miami County Park District will have its monthly dog social from 1-3 p.m. at Hobart Urban Nature Preserve, 1400 Tyrone, off of Dorset Road, Troy. If your dog is nice and plays well with others, bring them to the park. Participants can enter the “Catch the Snowball Contest,” “Hide the Treat in the Snow” and “Bury the Dog in the Snow Competition.” Remember owners are responsible for their dogs and must cleanup after their pet. Meet at the entrance next to the parking lot. For more information, visit the park district’s website at www.miamicountyparks.com.

• VIEW FROM THE VISTA: Come discover Brukner Nature Center’s vista bird

MONDAY • MLK EVENT: The annual holiday celebration honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Troy will begin at 9 a.m. with a symbolic march that will form in the southwest quadrant of the Public Square in downtown Troy, led by the Rev. Charles Carnes. A memorial service, with the theme “Living Harmoniously; with Dignity, Grace, and Honor, will begin at 10 a.m. where the march ends, at St. John’s United Church of Christ, 130 S. Walnut St. Keynote speaker will be the Rev. Howard Collier. The Miami County Community Choir will lead multiple choral selections.

The entire community is invited and encouraged to participate in the march and to attend the memorial service. This celebration promotes community unity and displays our respect for the history of Miami County and the United States of America.

• OFFICES CLOSED: City of Troy offices will be closed in observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. However, city refuse collection and curbside recycling will be on schedule. Troy City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, January 17, at 7:00 p.m.

• CELEBRATE PEACE: All ages are invited to visit from 1-3 p.m. at the TroyMiami County Public Library for crafts as to recognize a day of peace in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. No registration is needed.

• MEETING CHANGED: Habitat for Humanity of Miami County’s regular monthly board meeting has been changed due to Martin Luther King Day. Instead of meeting today, the board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23 Girl Scouts of Western Ohio • ZUMBA CLASS: The A.B. Graham Memorial Center, 8025 E. U.S. Route 36, Conover, will offer a Zumba class from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for six weeks. For more information, call (937) 368-3700.

TUESDAY • EXPLORATION HIKE: The Miami County Park District will have an Adult Nature Walking Club hike at 9 a.m. at Honey Creek Preserve, 4536 State Route 202, east of Tipp City. Join naturalists or a volunteer leader as they head out to explore nature. Walks are not strenuous or fast-paced. Walks are held the first Tuesday of every month. For more information, visit the park district’s website at www.miamicountyparks.com.

• CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE: Those interested in the Civil War are invited to attend a meeting of the Stillwater Civil War Round Table at 7 p.m. Joe Bellas history teacher at Tippecanoe High school will start the talk on “Why we should be intrested in the Civil War?” He and his students visited Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry and Antietam last year. Some of his high school students will give their impressions of these battlefield visits. So come and set down for an interesting look at these battlefields. The event is free.

Board re-elects president Staff Reports

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Newton Local School board of education reelected Dave Welbaum as president of the board during its annual reorganization meeting Jan. 9.

Lolitia Schutlz was tapped as vice-president.

During the board’s regular meeting,the board accepted donations from Covington Eagles and Pleasant Hill Summer Rec. Covington Eagles donated more than $5,000 and Pleasant Hill Summer

Rec donated approximately $2,000 to the district.

The board also approved Kirk Kadel as varsity softball coach, Tiffany McBride as junior high track coach, Nick Rhoades varsity track coach and Greg Carnes as varsity baseball coach.

The board approved an out of state trip for the Art Club to Chicago from March 28-31 and for FFA members to attend the

National Farm Machinery Show and Tractor Pull in Louisville, Ky. Feb. 15-16 at no cost to the board.

The board adjourned to executive session to consider the employment of a public employee(s) or official(s) at 7:45 p.m. and reconvened and adjourned at 9 p.m.

The next regular board of education meeting is set for Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. at the board of education room.

For more information, visit www.newton.k12.oh.us.

Winter P.E.E.P to be offered For the Troy Daily News

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Registration for the next six-week session of Brukner Nature Center’s Preschool Environmental Education Program (P.E.E.P.) will begin Jan. 22.

The Winter II session runs the week of Feb. 21 through the week of March 30.

This program offers a unique opportunity for children ages 3-5, to get outdoors and learn through hands-on

exploration. Students attend one day a week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday mornings from 9:30– 11:30 a.m. or Friday afternoon from 12:30–2:30 p.m. The fee is $45 for BNC Members and $60 for non-members. All fees are due upon registration. Class size is limited to 12 children.

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Tippecanoe Historical Society to offer annual appraisal fair TIPP CITY — The Tippecanoe Historical Society’s annual appraisal fair will be Jan. 21 at the American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. Third St. The doors will be open at 12:30 p.m. and the appraisals will begin at 1 p.m.

Bob Honeyman, well-known Miami County auctioneer, will use his experience to provide as much information as he can on whatever items are brought in. Attendees may have two items for a fee of $5 (additional items will be charged separately and be appraised as time permits).

This event, a fund raising activity for the society, is open to anyone interested in attending.

There is no admission fee. Even if you don’t have an item for appraisal, you are

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invited to join us for an interesting afternoon. This facility is handicapped accessible.

Refreshments will be available for purchase from the Ladies Auxiliary of Post No. 586.

Kids Read Now to expand TROY — Employees at Troy-based One Call Now kickoff the company-sponsored Kids Read Now summer reading program at their annual meeting held recently.

Kids Read Now launched in 2011, raising summer-end reading scores for children in grades kindergarten through third grade, and giving away 10,000 books to 950 students at seven Troy schools.

Goals for 2012 include giving away 35,000 books to 5,000 students in 75 schools throughout the U.S., including Troy and surrounding districts.

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• TEAM MEETING: The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Miami County will have a team meeting at 6:15 p.m. at Hobart Corp., 701 S. Ridge Ave., Troy. Teams can pick up and turn in forms from 5:45-6:15 p.m. Plans for upcoming fundraisers such as the chili cook-off in January and the February Outback luncheon will be discussed. For more information about registering a team, contact Dawn.Vanover@hobartcorp.com or Debbie Weikert at (937) 332-7116.

• KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Lunch is $10. The Troy High School Show Choir will perform. For more information, contact Kim Riber, vice president, at (937) 974-0410.

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A woman waits to cross the street at the corner of Linden Avenue and Main Street on Wednesday in Memphis, Tenn.

Board approves naming street for MLK MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis officials on Thursday approved naming a city street after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., nearly 44 years after the civil rights leader was killed in the city.

The 10 members of the Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board voted unanimously to re-name a nineblock downtown stretch as Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue. Previously called Linden Avenue, it runs in front of the FedExForum, where the Memphis Grizzlies play their home games, and parallel to Beale Street, the famous tourist drag.

The street also runs near the Clayborn Temple, where King rallied with striking sanitation workers days before he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968. King also led a march on Linden Avenue during the strike.

The city already had a section of Interstate 240 dedicated to King, but the naming of a prominent street in the city’s tourist district is being seen as a symbol that the city is finally taking steps to heal

the wound caused by the assassination A ceremony is planned for April 4 to honor King and unveil the new street signs. About 900 U.S. cities already have city streets named for King.

“The world was looking at Memphis to make its mark,” said Berlin Boyd, a former city councilman who made the proposal to rename Linden Avenue The board’s vote is final, but there still may be more work to be done.

Gregory Grant, a member of the National Action Network, said he supported extending King Avenue beyond the nine blocks approved Thursday. Leaders of churches that sit along Linden Avenue east of the nine-block section also support an extension.

“It would be an act on the part of this committee that shows we are healing,” Grant told the board.

A question still remains as to what the street signs will say. There is a concern that “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.” would be too long, and it is possible the name could be truncated to “Dr. M. L. King Jr. Ave.”

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge signed an order Thursday declaring Natalee Holloway dead, more than six years after the American teenager vanished on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Judge Alan King signed the order at the end of a hearing in a Birmingham courtroom that was attended by the missing woman’s divorced parents, David and Beth Holloway.

David Holloway told the AP judge in September he Beth Holloway, second from right, is pursued by believed his daughter had reporters following a hearing in Birmingham, died and he wanted to stop Ala.,Thursday. payments on her medical insurance and use her The teen’s mother origi- dence has been found $2,000 college fund to help nally objected, but her Natalee Holloway is alive,” her younger brother. lawyer, Charlie he told the judge, noting Thursday’s hearing was DeBardeleben, said she that exhaustive searches, scheduled before a suspect subsequently changed her blanket international questioned in Holloway’s mind once she understood media coverage and even disappearance, Dutchman her husband’s intentions. the offer of rewards had Joran van der N a t a l e e turned up nothing new.

Sloot, pleaded King had ruled in Holloway’s parguilty Wednesday ents were September that Dave in Peru to the divorced in 1993 Holloway had met the legal 2010 murder of a and Beth presumption of death for woman in Lima.

Holloway sat in his daughter and it was up N a t a l e e the back row of to someone to prove she Holloway disapthe courtroom, didn’t die on a high school peared on a high mostly staring at graduation trip. school graduation He had set the hearing her hands in her trip to Aruba on lap during the now to allow some months May 30, 2005. h e a r i n g for anyone to come forward.

The 18-year- HOLLOWAY Dave Holloway said he Thursday afterold was last seen had expected to hear the noon. leaving a bar with van der She declined comment, judge would declare his Sloot early that day. but her attorney said, daughter dead because he Her body was never “She’s ready to move on had no doubt about that. found and the case gar- from this.”

“We’ve been dealing nered intense media scrutiMark White, an attorney with her death for the last ny and international atten- for Dave Holoway, told the six and a half years,” he tion. judge just before he said.

King acted on a petition announced his decision, He added that the

by David Holloway to have that there was no evidence judge’s order closes one the missing 18-year-old that Holloway was alive. chapter in a long story, but declared dead.

“Despite all that no evi- added: “We’ve still got a long way to go to get justice.

Authorities have long worked from the assumption that the young woman was dead in Aruba, where the case was officially classified as a homicide investigation.

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ANALYSIS

Romney’s GOP critics will get more heat WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney’s back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire will force his weak-but-still-standing GOP rivals to make a crucial decision: Keep eviscerating the man that many see as the inevitable nominee, or temper their criticisms and dampen whatever hopes they have of overtaking him.

“President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. In the last few days, we have seen some desperate Republicans join forces with him,” Romney said in his victory speech Tuesday night, chastising his critics while acting as though he is already the nominee. “This is such a mistake for our party and for our nation.”

The former Massachusetts governor’s easy win in the New Hampshire primary comes just as two of his opponents have opened the most scathing line of attack yet in the Republican contest. Seizing on Romney’s record at the venture capital firm Bain Capital, they are painting him as a heartless profit-seeker who shuttered dozens of workplaces in the 1980s and ’90s, laying off thousands of workers.

The attacks have delighted President Barack Obama’s backers as they brace for an election focused on jobs. They planned all along to bash Romney with the Bain legacy and are happy to see Republicans get it started.

But the events have alarmed a cross section of establishment Republicans and conservative leaders who feel Romney can beat Obama next fall if he’s not badly bloodied in a nominating process he has led from the start.

With New Hampshire over, the campaigning now moves to South Carolina. It has a history of brutal, even nasty campaigning in GOP primaries. It also has a much higher unemployment rate than Iowa and New Hampshire. Both factors might make the state fertile ground for rivals to depict him as a millionaire politician who vacuumed money out of companies and tossed them aside.

“We are quickly approaching the moment when GOP leaders will announce or reaffirm their support for the front-runner and call for a civil tone in the debate so the focus can be directed toward the current officeholder,” said Republican consultant Danny Diaz.

A group backing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich plans to air TV ads showing distraught people who say they lost their jobs to Bain’s restructuring practices during Romney’s tenure years ago. Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday likened Bain to vultures that ruin people’s lives.

And former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who finished third in New Hampshire, has taken a similar line of attack. He berated Romney for telling a breakfast group Monday: “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.”

Romney was talking about underperforming insurance companies.

But his ill-timed remark played into the Bain narrative of a tycoon who doesn’t mind killing jobs in the name of efficiency and profits.

The exchanges have triggered an intraparty debate about free enterprise. That debate should not be allowed to scorch the party’s frontrunner, Romney’s allies say.

“It’s a sad day in South Carolina and across this country if Republicans are talking against the free market,” said South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. “The free market is being able to hire and fire and do what you need to in terms of being a business or a consumer.”

GOP consultant Terry Holt, said, “the last 48 hours have been about skinning Romney. But he comes out of New Hampshire stronger and looking more like the nominee, not less.”

New Hampshire voters, Holt said, “might have helped inoculate Romney from future Bain Capital attacks.”

Gingrich may be the central player in the drama. Friends say he has every right to fume over hard-hitting attack ads that seriously damaged him in Iowa.

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, on North Korea’s future: North Korea held a state funeral on Dec. 28 and a memorial ceremony on Dec. 29 in Pyongyang for its leader Kim Jong Il, who died on Dec. 17 at age 69.

Representatives of every field of endeavor voiced ardent support for the deceased leader’s third son, Kim Jong Un, as their new leader and called on the young Kim to “carry on the great undertaking of the revolution.”

The new Kim Jong Un regime has started in North Korea with the world watching anxiously, wondering in what direction the hermetic country

will move now.

Kim will have no choice but to depend on a coterie of close aides, at least for the time being. But there will be few fresh faces among his advisers.

The country’s negotiations over its nuclear arms programs and talks to establish a diplomatic relationship with the United States have been led effectively by the same officials for nearly two decades.

But North Korea cannot map out a better future if the new regime, under the control of a hidden and privileged elite, just keeps avoiding changes and continues the dictatorship that has ruled the nation for decades.

North Korea should first change such an attitude.

The North should join the international community as a respectable member and use its new relations with other countries to begin effective efforts to revive its dilapidated economy and raise the people’s living standards.

The country should realize that it cannot hope to carve out a decent future for itself unless it switches to realistic policies and builds friendly and cooperative ties with the rest of the world.

We have already learned a lot from Pyongyang’s “brinkmanship diplomacy.” The secluded regime will no longer be able to change the situation it is in by conducting nuclear and missile tests.

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Winter weather wonderland … for kids anyway Finally! Winter has showed up here in Miami County. While taking my mid-afternoon adult time-out (OK, let’s just call it what it is — a nap) Evan woke me up out of my daze.

“Mom! It’s snowing! It’s finally snowing!” as he jumped to the window and gazed at towards all the endless possibilities of snowfill fun.

He may see sledding and snow forts, but all I see is a giant pain in the brain for me to continue to function as a pseudoproductive adult despite the elements.

So of course, in true Twinfashion, I stayed up all night waiting for a delay, or worse, school being cancelled. And in true 7 year old boy fashion, Evan stayed up all night waiting for a delay, or even better, school being canceled.

Seeing as this is my first winter out here, there’s one thing that I’ve noticed about living out here in the Great Beyond, is the wind.

Actually a few weeks ago I lost my first (and probably not the last) storm door on the back porch. It was all my fault that I

Melanie Yingst Troy Daily News Executive Editor didn’t make sure it was latched tight and I woke up at 2 a.m. to see my door fly by the dining room window. It was my Wizard of Oz moment, minus the cows and Toto.

Believe me, the worse part was making the phone call to my landlord.

Actually I even try to bribe friends and family to make the maintenance call for me. But all has been restored in the world of my door and there’s no place like home.

I’m now acutely aware that next time I’ll be the one paying to restore the door. Mother Nature 1. Twin 0.

Now that I no longer live mere blocks away from the office, I’ve also become quite

aware of how far I am from emergency services — like the liquor store. All kidding aside, I know the accumulation isn’t nearly that bad this time around, but I’m sure in true Ohio fashion, I’ll truly be snowed in eventually.

While most people would flock to the stores to stock up on milk, eggs, bread and snow shovels and salt, this isn’t the case with your favorite Friday columnist.

Here are the following places I visit prior to Ohio’s inclement weather hits.

1. My mom’s house. Why go to a grocery store when your parents live right around the corner.

Saves gas, saves money and besides, their oven works.

Also, they have satellite television to keep the cabin fever at bay. Free food, MTV’s Teen Mom 2 marathons and brownies in the oven. Who needs to brave the icy roads to town when this all can be accessed by four-wheeler?

I could really get used to this.

2. Library. OK so I can only watch rich people buy multimillion dollar vacation homes in the tropical corners of the earth for

so long. Before Mother Nature cramps my style, I try to stock up on movies and books before the storm comes through. I really miss living two doors down from one of my favorite places in the world. If you wonder who has checked out all the Shaun the Sheep movies, you know where to find me.

3. My Grandmother’s House.

Now sometimes I can wear out my welcome at my mom’s place, but that’s OK. I’ll just head over to Norma Jean’s where she always has chocolate chip cookies and the heat set at somewhere between the Caribbean and the southern tip of Florida.

We always try to stop by to warm-up and grab a “Let’s Make a Deal” session and of course, her award winning chocolate chip cookies.

So folks, this storm may not be the worse of the worse of 2012, but I already have my snow day plans set. And my door firmly shut.

“Twin” Melanie Yingst appears on Fridays in the Troy Daily News. The door’s always open at her house.

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EVELYN M. PRITCHARD vives.

PIQUA — Evelyn M. Evelyn is survived by Pritchard, 84, of Piqua, three sons and died at 2:25 p.m. daughter-inMonday, Jan. 9, law, Carl and 2012, at Upper Linda Valley Medical Pritchard, Center, Troy.

Ralph Pritchard She was born and Robert in Quincy, Ohio, Pritchard, all of on July 1, 1927, Piqua; two to the late daughters and William and son-in-law, Rachel (Norris) Rose Pritchard Chester.

PRITCHARD and Daisy and On Sept. 3, Bill Brewer, all of Piqua; 1949, in Lockington, she two brothers, Joe married Ralph H. Chester and Elden Pritchard; and he sur-

JAMES C. ‘JIM’ COUCHMAN Chester, both of Sidney; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by four sisters, two grandsons and one daughter.

A memorial service will be at 6: p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, with Pastor Lincoln Robinson officiating.

Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sowers.com.

ALICE JOAN ASKINS PIQUA — Alice Joan Askins, 61, of 4201 Versailles Road, Piqua, died at 11:34 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, at Kettering Medical Center.

She was born Jan. 26, 1950, in West Liberty, Ky., to the late Floyd and Edna (Cox) ASKINS Lewis. She married a wonderful husband, Robert B. Askins Jr. July 31, 1987 in Troy; and he survives.

Other survivors include a beautiful daughter, Nicole Fessler of Piqua; a wonderful little (K-9) boy, Navidad Perro; three sisters, Jewel Young, Joyce (Dan) LeMaster, Jan

Jones; three sisters-in-law, Sharon Lewis, Leova Lewis, Grace Lewis; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Kermit Lewis, Paris Lewis, Kennel Lewis, and Bill Lewis.

Mrs. Askins was a high school graduate and was a wonderful homemaker, wife, mother and friend to many. She was a member of St. Boniface Catholic Church and enjoyed some of God’s greatest gifts of family, sitting in the sun, visiting lakes, walking and gardening. To quote her “Remember me with

CASSTOWN — Dirky Ross Dillon, 50, of Casstown, Ohio, passed away at 5:12 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, at Kettering Memorial Hospital.

He was born July 20, 1961, in Dayton, Ohio, to Donald and Egie O.

(Muncy) Dillon.

In addition to his parents, Dirky is survived by two brothers, Michael Dillon of Piqua and Barry Dillon of Troy; and two nieces.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, at Baird Funeral Home, Troy, with

laughter for that’s how I’ll remember you. If you can only remember me with tears, don’t remember me at all.”

A private gathering to honor her life is planned for a later date.

Arrangements are being handled through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Miami County Humane Society, 1190 N. County Rd. 25-A, P. O. Box 789, Troy, OH 45373 or the Shelby County Animal Shelter, 1100 Clem Rd., P. O. Box 923, Sidney, OH 45365.

Condolences to the family may also be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

DIRKY ROSS DILLON Ronald Curry officiating.

Interment will follow at Casstown Cemetery, Casstown.

Friends may call one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

HENRY C. JONES CASSTOWN — Henry C. Jones, 80, of Casstown passed away at 4 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy. He was born on March 23, 1931, in Heidelberg, Ky., JONES to the late Conley and Cordelia (Brown) Jones.

Henry married Dianna G. Davis on Dec. 24, 1959, and she survives him.

He is also survived by his son and daughter-inlaw, the Rev. Dr. Brian and Kelly Jones of Columbus; three grandchildren, Benjamin,

Rachel, and Rebekah Jones; brother and sisterin-law, Jack and Louise Jones of Heidelberg, Ky. In addition to his parents he is also preceded in death by one brother and seven sisters.

Henry was a member of First Baptist Church, Tipp City and United Workers Local Union No. 87. He retired in 1991 from General Motors Inland Division after 33 years of service.

Hi hobbies included fishing, hunting, and gardening.

A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy with his son, the Rev. Dr. Brian Jones and the Rev. Gary Boggs officiating.

A visitation will be from 9 a.m. until time of service on Monday at the funeral home.

Interment will follow the service at Casstown Cemetery, Casstown.

Contributions may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church, 1581 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, OH 43212.

Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.fisher-cheneyfuneralhome.com

OBITUARY POLICY In respect for friends and family, the Troy Daily News prints a funeral directory free of charge. Families who would like photographs

and more detailed obituary information published in the Troy Daily News, should contact their local funeral home for pricing details.

U.S., Taliban both talk of peace and war about the possibility of peace talks between the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan and the Taliban in the Gulf nation of Qatar.

On Wednesday, Clinton gave the strongest indication yet of progress toward opening a political representative office for the Taliban in Qatar, whose role as would-be host for peace talks has gained reluctant approval from Karzai.

Even Thursday’s emergence of an Internet video depicting U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters didn’t appear to dampen hopes for negotiations. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta promised Karzai a full investigation and condemned the behavior as “entirely inappropriate” for members of the U.S. military.

Asked about possible implications for peace talks, Clinton said the U.S. remained strongly committed to supporting Afghan efforts.

The United States and its coalition allies are preparing to withdraw most of their forces and end combat operations in 2014, with responsibility for security transferring to the greatly expanded Afghan army and police.

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worked at Hobart Corp for 25 years. He was a member of the American Legion Post 43, Amvets Post 88, VFW Post 5436, and Troy Fish and Game.

A funeral service will be at 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy with the Rev. Fr. James Duell officiating. Visitation will be from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Monday the day of the service at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Miami Memorial Park, Covington.

There will be a military service at the graveside by the Veterans Memorial Honor Guard of Troy.

Contributions may be made to Hospice Miami County, P.O. Box 503 Troy, OH 45373.

Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.fisher-cheneyfuneralhome.com.

BERNARD B. SELANDERS Scott; five great-grandchilHOUSTON — Bernard dren; two brothers, Ron B. Selanders, 85 of 4499 Selanders of Dawson Road.

Covington, Houston, passed Lester away Wednesday, Selanders of Jan. 11, 2012, at Bradford, and the Miami Valley one sister, Hospital. He was Mrs. Margaret born in Mercer Stephan of County, Ohio, on Piqua. He was May 1, 1926, the preceded in son of the late death by two LeRoy and brothers, Florence SELANDERS Edward and (Wagoner) Robert and one Selanders. sister, Lucille.

On Oct.3, 1947, he Mr. Selanders married Jean T. was a Seaman Gephart who preced1st Class, U.S. ed him in death Oct. Navy Veteran 29, 2005. He is surserving his vived by one son, James Selanders and his country from 1944 untill wife Joyce of Minster; two 1946. During his military career he was awarded grandsons, Jamie and

the Victory Medal and the Phillippines Liberation Ribbon with two Stars.

Bernard worked at the former Val Dekker Packageing plant for many years until their closing.

Funeral Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan.16, from the Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S. Main Ave. with the Rev. Joe Pumphrey officiating.

Burial will be at Shelby Memory Gardens in Sidney.

The family will receive friends from 1-3 p.m.

Sunday at the funeral home.

Condolences may be expressed to the Selanders family at our website, www.cromesfh.com.

FUNERAL DIRECTORY • Rhetta J. Bennett PIQUA — Rhetta J. Bennett, 71, of Piqua passed away Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, at Upper Valley Medical Center.

Arrangements are entrusted to FisherCheney Funeral Home, Troy.

• Margaret S. Heberding TROY — Margaret S. “Peg” Heberding, 89, of Troy, Ohio passed away on Thursday, morning, Jan. 12, 2012, at the Caldwell House, Troy.

Services are pending at Baird Funeral Home, Troy.

• Linda Russell Zollinger LOGAN, Utah — Linda Russell

Zollinger, 52, of Houston, Texas, formerly of Logan, Utah and Piqua, passed away Friday, Jan. 6. 2012, at her home.

Services will be conducted Saturday at Allen-Hall Mortuary, 34 E. Center, Logan, Utah, with burial in Logan Cemetery.

• Barbara M. Myers SIDNEY — Barbara M. Myers, 77, formerly of Troy, passed away at 1:07 p.m.

Thursday at the Dorothy Love Retirement Community in Sidney.

Private services and arrangements are entrusted to Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy.

Ohio panel sticks to pool sign ruling COLUMBUS (AP) — A Cincinnati landlord who claimed a black girl’s hair products clouded an apartment complex’s swimming pool discriminated against the child by posting a poolside “White Only” sign, an Ohio civil rights panel said Thursday in upholding a previous finding.

The Ohio Civil Rights Commission voted 4-0 against reconsidering its finding from last fall. There was no discussion.

The group found on Sept.

29 that Jamie Hein, who is white, violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act by posting the sign at a pool at the duplex where the teenage girl was visiting her parents.

The parents filed a discrimination charge with the commission and moved out of the duplex in the racially diverse city to “avoid subjecting their family to further humiliating treatment,” the commission said in a release announcing its finding.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and the Taliban each voiced readiness Thursday to enter peace talks while pledging to carry on with a decade of military conflict in Afghanistan until their rival objectives are met.

The separate statements by senior U.S. and Taliban officials illustrated the improved environment for Afghan reconciliation efforts as well as the daunting task ahead. Despite the possibility of some trust-building measures in the near future, such as the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar and the transfer of some Afghan detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, both sides remain committed to the fight.

“We don’t have any idea standing here today what the outcome of such discussions could be,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters. The U.S. supports Afghan negotiations toward peace, she said.

But everyone, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai, is going into the talks with “a very realistic sense of what is possible,” she said.

For the past month, rumors have swirled

TROY — James C. “Jim” Michael Farris III, and Alexander Farris; two sisCouchman, 72, of Troy ters, Mary passed away Sammons of 1:05 p.m.

Piqua and Wednesday, Kathleen Jan. 11, 2012, Couchman of at Upper Valley Seattle, Wash.; Medical Center. brother, He was born Richard Nov.18, 1939, to Couchman of the late Claude Storre, Calif. and Mabel He is also sur(Reese) vived by numerCouchman. He COUCHMAN ous relatives and was married on friends. In addition Dec. 30, 1962, to to his parents Jim Constance (Wolfe) was preceded in Couchman. death by his sisIncluding his wife ters Carol Ault, Constance, other Nancy Evans, survivors include Marilyn Redinbo, his daughter, Teresa Couchman of Troy; brother Michael son, James C. Couchman Couchman and granddaughter, Shelly Farris.

II of Colorado Springs, Jim attended Piqua Colo.; two grandchildren, Catholic High School, Michael (Angela) Farris and Amanda Farris; three was a Vietnam Veteran with eight years in the great-grandchildren, U.S. Air Force and he Allison Slaybaugh,

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Ronnell Tomlinson, left, housing enforcement coordinator with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, address the commission as Michael Gunn, second right, of Cincinnati and Elizabeth Brown, right, executive director of Housing Opportunities Made Equal, look on during a hearing by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday.

Swimming Pool, White Only,” the commission statement said.

Several witnesses confirmed that the sign was posted, and the landlord indicated that she posted it because the girl used chemicals in her hair that would make the pool “cloudy,” according to the commission.

The girl’s father, Michael Gunn, in brief comments Thursday, described his shock last spring when venturing out for a lunch break by the pool.

“My initial reaction to seeing the sign was of shock, disgust and outrage,” Gunn said.

He also told the commission that his daughter was saddened months later to learn they moved from the apart-

ment complex “was in a way related to the color of her skin.”

Gunn declined to speak with reporters.

Hein has repeatedly declined to comment and did not attend the hearing.

Messages were left at her lawyer’s office Wednesday and Thursday.

“I was trying to protect my assets,” she told the commission’s housing enforcement director in a Sept. 27 interview.

Racial discrimination has particular resonance in Cincinnati, whose population is 45 percent black, far higher than the rest of Ohio, which is about 12 percent black.

Surrounding Hamilton County is 26 percent black.

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AP MOVIE REVIEWS CONTRABAND: Yes, this follows the tried-and-true One Last Job formula. Yes, Mark Wahlberg is nestled deep within his comfort zone as a former master criminal who’s lived a dangerous life and gone straight.

Still, this is a solid genre picture that knows exactly what it is, has no delusions of grandeur and carries out its task in entertaining and occasionally even suspenseful fashion. Based on the 2008 Icelandic film “Reykjavik-Rotterdam” and directed by that movie’s star, Baltasar Kormakur, “Contraband” features Wahlberg as Chris Farraday, a one-time expert smuggler who’s now living a quiet life as a security consultant in the New Orleans suburbs with his hairstylist wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and their two young sons. When Kate’s younger brother (Caleb Landry Jones) botches a run for a volatile local drug dealer (Giovanni Ribisi, tatted, high-pitched and squirrelly) while pulling into the Port of New Orleans, Chris must come out of retirement to make up the loss to this madman. His scheme involves shipping down to Panama City to bring back millions in counterfeit bills; not only does this not go according to plan, it spins wildly out of control. Meanwhile, back in the bayou, Kate and the kids increasingly become targets of the drug dealer’s wrath. Kormakur relies too heavily on shaky-cam tricks and quick, needless zooms to pump up the tension, but some of his set pieces do play out in visceral fashion. R for violence, pervasive language and brief drug use. 109 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. — Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic AP PHOTO

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN: For Lynne Ramsay, motives are vague, sometimes unknowable things. In the Scottish director’s films — “Ratcatcher,” ”Morvern Callar” and this one — characters act out awkwardly and unpredictably, baffled and nullified by deadly predicaments that are, in some measure, their own making. “Kevin,” Ramsay’s first film in nearly 10 years, is about a woman wracked by the trauma of having mothered a mass-murdering teenage son. Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton) is a suburban wife to a cheerful, oblivious husband, Franklin (John C. Reilly), whose waking nightmare is enforced by constant flashbacks, mulling over her mothering of Kevin (as a teen, played by Ezra Miller) from infancy and up until the fateful high school massacre. It is, to be sure, a parent’s horror story. The origin of this real-life demon is traced back to birth and even earlier, a pondering of the arrival of a bad seed and his subsequent nurturing. The script by Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear, adapting Lionel Shriver’s acclaimed novel, artfully blends these two timelines evoking Eva’s interior consciousness, where every moment recalls a precursor to the tragedy, and a debate of her role in it.

But the film fails to grasp the “why.” Perhaps this is as it should be: The formation of such a monster can only be a mystery. But this thoroughly well-crafted if rigidly conceived film could use a little more talking — or at least some therapy — about Kevin. R for disturbing violence and behavior, some sexuality and language. 112 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

— Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer

Drawing class to be offered through Hayner For the Troy Daily News The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main Street, will host a drawing class taught by instructor, Mary Bower, this season.

Bower offers Beginning Drawing 2 for students who attended her fall beginning drawing class or have previous drawing experience.

Students will continue to work with line, shading, and gestural techniques and also learn about drawing people, still life, and perspective.

For ages 13—adult, this class will be on five Mondays beginning Feb. 6 from 5:30—6:30 pm. The fee is $ 75 and includes supplies.

Bower also offers additional classes in art including sculpture experience for beginners,

TROY “Drawing Generations Together,” and Igniting your Creative Self. Complete information on these classes are available on Hayner’s website.

Fees are due upon registration.

Checks should be made payable to the instructor.

For more information or to register, visit the website www.troyhayner.org, or call 339-0457.

Those interested can also visit the center’s Facebook through the home page of the website.

The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center is proudly supported by the citizens of the Troy City School District through a local tax levy and generous gifts to the Friends of Hayner.

From left, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, Valerie Bertinelli, and Betty White accept the award for favorite cable TV comedy for “Hot in Cleveland” during the People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday, in Los Angeles.

Perry, ‘Potter’ win big Among top winners at People’s Choice Awards LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katy Perry is in the popular clique now.

The singer-actress won the most People’s Choice Awards at Wednesday’s 38th annual fan-favorite extravaganza, but viewers wouldn’t have known it from watching the ceremony.

An absentee Perry was honored in five categories, including favorite female artist, tour headliner, song of the year for “E.T.” with Kanye West, music video for “Last Friday Night” and TV guest star for “How I Met Your Mother.”

Despite originally being touted by the show’s organizers as among the nominees expected to attend, Perry told fans on Twitter earlier this week that she wouldn’t make it to the show but that “I want to thank u all for voting for me, fingers crossed!” It would have marked Perry’s first public appearance since British actor-comedian Russell Brand filed for divorce from Perry last month after 14 months of marriage.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the final installment

of the magical film series starring Daniel Radcliffe, followed behind Perry with four wins for favorite movie, action movie, book adaptation and ensemble movie cast, but the film’s stars also weren’t present at the ceremony, leaving more screen time on the CBS broadcast for other winners in the show’s 43 categories honoring TV, film and music.

Ellen DeGeneres, Nina Dobrev, Chloe Grace Moretz, Adam Levine, Lea Michele and Demi Lovato, who performed “Give Your Heart a Break,” were among the winners on hand to accept their awards selected by Internet votes.

“For all the Rachel Berrys out there, this one’s for you guys,” said Michele, who won as favorite comedy TV actress for her “Glee” role.

Emma Stone and Johnny Depp — another no-show — won two trophies at the ceremony, which was hosted by “The Big Bang Theory” star Kaley Cuoco. Depp and Stone, respectively, won the favorite movie actor and actress awards, while Depp was also honored as favorite animated movie

voice for “Rango,” and Stone was selected as favorite comedic movie actress.

“I moved to L.A. eight years ago this week with my mom, who’s right there,” Stone said while accepting her pair of crystal trophies. “It is so insane to be standing up here right now. It is hard to describe to you.”

Among the TV winners were “How I Met Your Mother” for TV comedy, “Two Broke Girls” for new TV comedy, “Hot in Cleveland” for cable TV comedy, Neil Patrick Harris for TV comedy actor, “Supernatural” for TV drama and sci-fi/fantasy show, “Person of Interest” for new TV drama, “Pretty Little Liars” for cable TV drama and Nathan Fillion for TV drama actor.

Winners in the movie categories included Hugh Jackman for action star, “Bridesmaids” for comedy movie, “Water for Elephants” for drama movie, Adam Sandler for comedic movie actor and Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern for favorite superhero.

Morgan Freeman was bestowed with the first-ever favorite movie icon award.

Golden Globes get ball rolling LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s first big show on the road to the Academy Awards will help determine if silence is golden this season.

The black-and-white silent film “The Artist” leads contenders for Sunday’s Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best musical or comedy, directing and writing honors for Michel Havanavicius and acting slots for Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo.

Though still playing in narrow release, the film has found enthusiastic audiences and has been a critical darling since premiering at last May’s Cannes Film Festival, positioning it as the first silent movie with serious

Descendants” and the literary adaptation “The Help,” both competing for best drama.

Also in the running for best drama: Martin Scorsese’s family adventure “Hugo”; Clooney’s political thriller “The Ides of March”; Brad Pitt’s sports tale “Moneyball”; and Steven Spielberg’s awards prospects since the in a musical or comedy for World War I epic “War first years of the Oscars in his role as a silent-era Horse.” star whose career the late 1920s.

For best musical or implodes when talkies In an age of elaborate comedy, “The Artist” is up computer effects and digi- take over. “It’s a new visu- against: Joseph Gordonal and emotional experital 3-D projection, “The Levitt’s cancer story ence for people. … It’s Artist” is such a throw“50/50”; Kristen Wiig’s back to early cinema that really strange and rare to wedding romp it comes off as something not hear anything in the “Bridesmaids”; Woody theater.” entirely fresh.

Allen’s romantic fantasy Tied for second-place at “Midnight in Paris”; and “It’s very relaxing for the Globes with five nomi- Michelle Williams’ people to actually go to this movie,” said Dujardin, nations each are George Marilyn Monroe tale “My Clooney’s family tale “The Week with Marilyn.” nominated for best actor

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It’s very relaxing for people to actually go to this movie. It’s a new visual and emotional experience for people...It’s really strange and rare to not hear anything in the theater — Jean Dujardin

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Walker set to perform at Hayner Center For the Troy Daily News The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main Street presents Hal Walker at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28. The concert is presented free and open to the public.

Hal Walker is a musical breath of fresh air for the whole family. He’s a singer, a songwriter and a musical explorer. A veteran solo performer, Walker is truly one-of-a-kind.

His warm, passionate style engages audiences of all ages. With a soaring baritone voice, he sings soul-searching songs that celebrate community, diversity and the creative

TROY process. He improvises and composes on unique musical instruments that you’ve probably never seen before.

Among them, the khaen, a long, bamboo-fashioned wind instrument from Northeast Thailand and grandmother of the harmonica and the banakulas, two gourd shakers tied together with a string that children in West Africa walk down the street playing, one in each hand.

Hal Walker grew up in Kent, blowing a harmonica along the banks of the Cuyahoga River.

He traveled around the United States playing his

music and even tried his hand in the big-time scene of New York City. But life on the road eventually led him back home to Ohio.

And his love of the Buckeye state is sincere. His album “Home in Ohio” bears witness to that fact.

“I write songs about connection,” he says. “I think that’s the interesting thing about my music. It engages people across cultures and across ages. I feel we live in this world that tends toward isolation. We stay in our cars and in our closed worlds, and I believe the solution for me is connecting with people.”

The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center is Troy’s

tax supported community center, located in the historic home of Mary Jane Hayner.

Additional information about this seminar and all of the events offered by the center is available at www.troyhayner.org.

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JOYFUL NOISE: If some incarnation of “Glee” were to be developed for the Christian Broadcasting Network, it would probably look a lot like this. You’ve got your squeaky-clean reworkings of pop tunes from various decades, which are intended to please viewers of all ages; some romance, although nothing too hot and heavy; and a large dollop of prayer, as the characters struggle to find answers with the Lord’s help. It’s really rather canny the way writer-director Todd Graff’s film caters to these large, wholesome audiences — ones that are largely underserved in mainstream multiplex fare — all at once. But that doesn’t mean it’s effective as entertainment.

Especially during the musical numbers — which theoretically should serve as the most rousing source of emotion, since the film is about a gospel choir — there’s a weird disconnect, a sense that the songs are simultaneously overproduced and hollow, and repeated cutaways to reaction shots of singers nodding and smiling further undermine their cohesion. Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton co-star as longtime enemies battling for control over a small-town Georgia church choir. Keke Palmer and Jeremy Jordan play teens sharing a forbidden love … through song. Graff jumps around awkwardly among catfights, performances and surreptitious snuggle sessions between the two young stars. PG-13 for some language, including a sexual reference. 118 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. — Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

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Don’t interfere with guy’s dating life Dear Annie: I recently moved into an apartment with three other guys. We get along well and have fun together.

One of my roommates is a serious player and has no qualms about dating six women at the same time.

With each one, he implies that the relationship is exclusive. He told me he does this because he got burned once. I told him that's a risk in any relationship and that he should stop being part of the problem.

Now he brings his various girlfriends to the apartment. They think he's a great guy who seems so genuine. I have to interact with them and feel horrible lying, smiling and pretending I don't know what's really going on.

What should I do? If I expose him, it will sour our relationship. At the same time, I can't keep pretending that his womanizing is OK. Do I really have to move again? — New Yorker Dear New Yorker: You cannot become involved in every roommate's issues, nor can you be every woman's protector, although bless you for trying. These women are responsible for their own character judgments, good or bad. You have told The Snake how you feel about his behavior, and we think you should do so again, more forcefully, pointing out that he has become the type of person he detests. And when he brings a girlfriend over, we recommend you vacate the premises or retreat to your bedroom. You should not be forced to put on a phony face for his benefit.

Dear Annie: My son recently married his longtime girlfriend. My wife and I paid for the rehearsal dinner and the honeymoon, and the bridal couple paid for the rest. The reception was small, and the ceremony even smaller. They also wanted no children younger than highschool age. We would have liked to expand the guest list, but it wasn't our money, and we didn't push.

My sisters felt that their young children should have been invited, and one boycotted the wedding in protest. Then, two months later, our cousin married, opting for a destination wedding. Neither my sisters nor I could make it. Afterward, the couple held a local reception and specifically said "no children." The same sister who boycotted my son's wedding was perfectly OK attending this childfree reception.

My son is moving out of state next year, and my wife and I are retiring to Florida. I would just as soon write off that branch of the family, but my wife wants to make a big deal out of this snub. Your suggestions? — Put Out in Peoria Dear Put Out: The two weddings are not exactly comparable in that your son is a closer relation to your sister's young children than your cousin's child is, and she was not as offended by their exclusion.

However, boycotting your son's wedding was petty and selfish. You need not make a big deal out of this or write them off. Moving away will take care of any regular contact while leaving open the possibility of reconciliation down the road.

Dear Annie: "Worried Driver in Lafayette, Ind." asked for a universal sign to get people to stop talking on their cellphones while driving.

Despite all the hysteria, the fact is that in the 15 years that cellphones have become widespread, traffic accidents and fatalities have decreased 25 percent, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. — Hawaii Dear Hawaii: The problem with quoting statistics is that you have to put them in context. Overall traffic fatalities did dip, but "distracted driving" accidents (e.g., eating, drinking, adjusting the radio and cellphone use) increased by up to 16 percent.

Also, even though hand-held phone use decreased by 5 percent and is against the law in more states, 18 percent of distracted-driving fatalities involved cellphone use.

Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045. To find out more about Annie's Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Look toward your fan to save Dear Readers: Want to save money on your energy bill? Have you thought about your ceiling fans lately? To use your fan in the wintertime is smart — it can help make you more comfortable.

The correct setting for a ceiling fan in winter is clockwise (when looking up), so the fan can push the warm air (hot air rises) down into the room.

A properly set ceiling fan can keep you and your family more comfortable and help you save on your energy bill.

There is a switch on most ceiling fans that will change the direction of the blades. Check it out! You also can check the owners manual for guidelines the manufacturer suggests. — Heloise

Hints from Heloise Columnist P.S.: Join me on Facebook and Twitter by going to my website, www.

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TRAVEL HINT Dear Heloise: Like Netter from California, I also type up a baggage list for my luggage, including all my makeup items. I tuck the list in my purse in case my luggage is lost

(which has happened!). Did you ever try to reconstruct a list after the fact?

I also type the brand name and color of the luggage on the list, then take a digital photo with my camera of the luggage I am taking. The airlines will need that information. — Barb M., Erie, Pa. FURNITURE SPOTS Dear Heloise: My “favorite hint” was in your column recently. You suggested putting mayonnaise on white spots on furniture. I used it on a spot on my piano that had been there for about two years.

I left it on overnight and wiped it off the next morning, and voilà — the spot was gone! What a great hint! Thank you so much. — Lucy

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Something had to be done.

I got an idea while in a dollar store. I saw stick-on tiles that came in all colors and designs. I told my husband, and he thought it was a great idea to use them to replace the shelf lining.

He cut the tiles and placed them in all the cabinets and drawers. Now all I have to do is wipe them clean with a wet cloth. — Ann A., Staten Island, N.Y.

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HOROSCOPE Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 An unfulfilled ambition of yours has a good chance of being gratified in the year ahead, but only if you stick with it. Where you previously met with defeat, you may now get a new opportunity that will grant you success.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You could emerge victorious if you aren’t afraid to take a well-calculated risk. In order to accomplish your aims, you might have to be a bit more assertive than usual.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — A condition that is imbued with negative overtones can be altered in your favor.

Someone who has much more experience than you will be the liberating factor.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — A job or project that you can’t handle on your own can be achieved with the help of another party. The aid will come from somebody with whom you have worked previously.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If you see something you could do but that has not been asked of you, don’t ignore it, do it. Special acknowledgement and/or rewards will be given to the person who does good work and goes the extra furlong.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — This could be an especially good day socially for you. If you are fortunate enough to get an invitation to an event where you could meet new people, grab your hat and spats and get moving.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — If the entire family pulls together when a financial issue threatens to rock the boat, you can withstand any untoward effects that would have otherwise come of it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — In order to feel satisfied, you could need to seek out some active mental and physical outlets. Don’t make any commitments that you can’t wriggle out of; keep your day open for sudden treks.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you run across a channel that could bring you more money, give it your top priority immediately. Current conditions favor adding to your income.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Whether it’s normal for you or not, you’ll have excellent managerial skills, so don’t back off if someone tries to tell you otherwise. You’re right, the other person is wrong.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — There may be someone whom you’d like to help, but in order to do so, you might have to let this person feel that he or she is helping you. Some people have too much pride to accept assistance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Rubbing shoulders with people who have clout in your field of endeavor could be beneficial. As long as you don’t foist your plans on anybody, business can be combined with fun.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You’re apt to be in a stronger position than you realize where your career is concerned. Be alert, because opportunities are breaking out in several directions simultaneously.

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Sunday

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Rain or snow showers High: 38° Low: 30°

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday...........................44 at 12:20 a.m.

Low Yesterday..............................29 at 4:31 p.m.

Normal High .....................................................34 Normal Low ......................................................20 Record High ........................................68 in 1890 Record Low........................................-16 in 1918

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2012. There are 353 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: • On Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River after taking off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived. (Half an hour after the Air Florida crash, a Washington Metro train

derailed during rush hour, killing three passengers.)

On this date: • In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, S.C., while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.

• In 1794, President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later

reduced to the original 13.)

• In 1864, composer Stephen Foster died impoverished in a New York hospital at age 37. (In his pocket: a note which read, “Dear friends and gentle hearts.”)

• Today’s Birthdays: Actress Frances Sternhagen is 82. TV personality Nick Clooney is 78.

Comedian Rip Taylor is 78. Actor Billy Gray is 74. Actor Richard Moll is 69. Rock musician Trevor Rabin is 58. Rhythm-and-blues musician Fred White is 57.

Big storm hits Alaska as weary residents dig out “The scary part is, we still have three more months to go,” said Kathryn Hawkins, a veterinarian who lives in the coastal community of Valdez, about 100 miles southeast of Anchorage. “I look out and go, ‘Oh my gosh, where can it all go?’”

The city has seen more than 26 feet of snowfall since November. Snow is piled 8 feet high outside Hawkins’ home and she can’t see out the front or back of her house. Her 12year-old son has been sliding off the roof into the yard.

In the nearby fishing community of Cordova, the Alaska National Guard is out helping clear snow from streets and roofs. The city already been buried under 172 inches of snow since November; snow began falling again after midnight Wednesday.

“You actually get to a

point where it almost becomes it’s expected, that it’s going to be snowing,” said Teresa Benson, a Cordova resident and district manager for the National Forest Service.

The city is struggling with a place to put the snow that has already fallen before dealing with more. Front-end loaders are taking scoop after scoop of snow from large dump piles to a snow-melting machine.

“That’s our big issue, getting our snow dumps cleared for the next barrage of snow,” Cordova spokesman Allen Marquette said.

More than 186 inches of snow has fallen in Cordova this season, including 59 inches for the first 10 days of January alone, according to the National Weather Service. The seasonal record of 221.5 inches was set in 1955-56.

Anchorage had 81.6

inches fall as of Wednesday more than twice the average snowfall of 30.1 inches for the same time period.

The weather service counts July 1 through the end of June as a snow season.

This year’s total already broke the record 77.3 inches that fell during the same time period in the 1993-94 season, and another 3 inches has fallen since midnight Wednesday. If it keeps up, Anchorage is on track to have the snowiest winter ever, surpassing the previous record of 132.8 inches in 1954-55.

The massive snowfall is the result of two atmospheric patterns “that are conspiring to send an unending series of storms into Alaska,” said Jeff Masters, a meteorologist who runs Weather Underground, a meteorology service that tracks strange and extreme weather.

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western Wisconsin and western Iowa before moving eastward and to start blanketing Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago, which was expected to get up to 8 inches by Friday morning.

In the ice-choked frozen waters of the Bering Sea, a Russian tanker loaded with 1.3 million gallons of fuel is progressing steadily toward Nome, following the path being painstakingly plowed by a Coast Guard icebreaker. Thick ice, wind and unfavorable ocean currents had initially slowed the vessel’s progress, but as of 2 p.m. Thursday the tanker and the icebreaker were 46 miles from Nome and likely to arrive Friday, said Coast Guard spokesman David Mosley.

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For the second winter in a row, the Pacific weather phenomenon known as La Nina is affecting the weather. But instead of plentiful snow in the Lower 48, Alaska is getting slammed because of a second weather pattern. That’s called the Arctic Oscillation and it has been strong this year, changing air patterns to the south and keeping the coldest winter air locked up in the Arctic.

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While most of the nation has gone without much seasonal snow, the state already known for winter is buried in weather that has dumped more than twice as much snow as usual on its largest city, brought out the National Guard and put a run on snow shovels.

As a Russian tanker crawled toward the iced-in coastal community of Nome to bring in much-needed fuel, weather-weary Alaskans awoke Thursday to more of the white stuff more than a foot was expected to fall in Anchorage and said enough was enough.

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Appraised at Ninety Thousand and 00/100 ($90,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Ellen L. Fornash, Attorney 1/6, 1/13, 1/20-2012 2247480

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-743 Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger with both BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP, and Countrywide Bank, NA vs.

Frank M. Price, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D08-034630 Also known as: 1496 Croydon Road, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Eighty Thousand and 00/100 ($80,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

George J. Annos, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012 2249510

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-727 Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

Candace M. Ryan aka Candace Ryan, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D08-027940, D08-027930, & D08027950 Prior Deed Reference: Warranty Deed, Book 685, page 261, filed March 11, 1998 Also known as: 307 East Staunton Road, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Ten Thousand and 00/100 ($110,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Robert R. Hoose, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012 2249513

SHERIFF SALE NOTICE OF SALE UNDER JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE OF LIENS FOR DELINQUENT LAND TAXES MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS COURT Case No.: 11-560 Jim Stubbs, Treasurer of Miami County, Ohio Plaintiff vs.

Roger Collins, et al Defendants WHEREAS, JUDGMENT HAS BEEN RENDERED AGAINST CERTAIN PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY FOR TAXES, ASSESSMENTS, PENALTIES, COSTS, AND CHARGES AS FOLLOWS:

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-712 PNC Bank, NA vs.

Nicholas R. Carpenter, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Tipp City, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G15-021-048 Also known as: 3540 Heathwood Drive, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Seventeen Thousand and 00/100 ($117,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Canice J. Fogarty, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012

TOTAL COST:

$12,536.63

WHEREAS, SUCH JUDGMENT ORDERS SUCH REAL PROPERTY TO BE SOLD BY SAID SHERIFF TO SATISFY THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SUCH JUDGMENT. NOW, THEREFORE, PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I, CHARLES A. COX, SHERIFF OF MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO, WILL SELL SUCH REAL PROPERTY AT PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR CASH, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER OF AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE JUDGMENT AGAINST EACH PARCEL BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 10:00 AM AND 10:15 AM IN THE LOBBY OF THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, SAFETY BUILDING, TROY, OHIO, ON WEDNESDAY, THE 1st DAY OF FEBRUARY 2012, AND IF ANY PARCEL DOES NOT RECEIVE A SUFFICIENT BID, IT SHALL BE OFFERED FOR SALE UNDER THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FIRST SALE AND AT THE SAME TIME OF DAY AND AT THE SAME PLACE, ON WEDNESDAY, THE 15th DAY OF FEBRUARY 2012, FOR AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE JUDGMENT AGAINST THE PARCEL. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ALL SUCH REAL PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC AUCTION MAY BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL TAX LIEN THAT MAY NOT BE EXTINGUISHED BY THE SALE AND PURCHASERS OF ANY SUCH REAL PROPERTY ARE URGED TO SEARCH THE FEDERAL TAX LIEN INDEX THAT IS KEPT BY COUNTY RECORDER TO DETERMINE IF NOTICE OF A FEDERAL TAX LIEN HAS BEEN FILED WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUCH REAL PROPERTY. DEFENDANT HAS REDEMPTION RIGHTS PURSUANT TO 5721.25 O.R.C. Gary Nasal, Prosecuting Attorney of Miami County, Ohio Charles A. Cox, Sheriff of Miami County, Ohio 12/30/2011, 1/6, 1/13-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-534 U.S. Bank, National Association, as Successor Trustee to Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Ownit Mortgage Loan Trust, Ownit Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-4 vs.

Jeffrey S. Eads, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 8, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Monroe, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G12-049800 Also known as: 7080 Peters Road, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Fifty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($159,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Stan C. Cwalinski, Attorney 1/6, 1/13, 1/20-2012 2247479

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO Case No.: 11-775 Judge: Christopher Gee U.S. Bank National Association Plaintiff,

The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Executors, Administrators, Spouses and Assigns and the Unknown Guardians of Minor and/or Incompetent Heirs of Thomas L. Trigg Defendants.

LEGAL NOTICE IN SUIT FOR FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Executors, Administrators, Spouses and Assigns and the Unknown Guardians of Minor and/or Incompetent Heirs of Thomas L. Trigg, whose last known address is unknown, and cannot by reasonable diligence be ascertained, will take notice that on the 9th day of November, 2011, U.S. Bank National Association filed its Complaint in the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio in Case No. 11-775, on the docket of the Court, and the object and demand for relief of which pleading is to foreclose the lien of plaintiff's mortgage recorded upon the following described real estate to wit: Property Address: 2851 Huntington Drive, Troy, OH 45373, and being more particularly described in plaintiff's mortgage recorded in Mortgage Book 1768, page 739, of this County Recorder's Office.

The above named defendant is required to answer within twenty-eight (28) days after last publication, which shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks, or they might be denied a hearing in this case.

LERNER, SAMPSON & ROTHFUSS Attorneys for Plaintiff P.O. Box 5480 Cincinnati, OH 45201-5480 (513) 241-3100 attyemail@lsrlaw.com 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012 2247401

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DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $500/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

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We pay for the best caregivers! (419)501-2323

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Union Savings Bank has an opportunity for an immediate placement of a Part Time Teller position in the Troy area. We are seeking a friendly, service oriented individual with a professional demeanor and appearance. Position requires reliability along with attention to details and basic use of a computer system, training will be provided. Cash handling experience preferred but not required. Hours will vary and will include Saturday commitments.

Send resume with cover letter to: Accounting Clerk PO Box 1176 Piqua, Ohio 45356

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TROY, 2 bedroom townhomes, 1.5 baths, 1 car garage, ca, w/d hook up, all appliances, $685

2 BR duplexes & 2 BR townhouses. 1.5 baths, 1 car garage, fireplace, Great Location! Starting at $625-$675.

(937)335-1443 NEWLY DECORATED Troy, 2 bedroom apartment, CA, new furnace.

Water, sewage, trash paid. (937)238-2560.

Only $475 2 Bedroom 1.5 Bath Now Available Troy Crossing Apartments (937)313-2153

PIQUA, 1 bedroom, downstairs. Stove, refrigerator, all utilities furnished. $520 or $130 weekly. (937)276-5998 or (937)902-0491 PIQUA, 1 bedroom, upper, new carpet, utilities paid, 212 South Main, $465 month /deposit. (937)657-8419 PIQUA, Large, 2 bedroom, 401 Boone St., downstairs, stove, refrigerator, heat included, $550, (937)418-8912

(937)216-5806 EversRealty.net 1 OR 2 BEDROOM 332 West Market, $500 month, $500 deposit.

2 1/2 car garage. 1 year lease, no pets. W/D hookup, Stove, water/ trash furnished.

(937)335-8084 2 BEDROOM, 410 West Ash, stove, refrigerator, no pets, $515, (937)418-8912 2 BEDROOM, 421 West Ash, stove, refrigerator, no pets $475 (937)418-8912 2 BEDROOM condo. 1.5 bath, washer/ dryer hookup, private parking/ patio, good area. $575.

(937)335-5440 2 BEDROOM in Troy, Stove, refrigerator, W/D, A/C, very clean, cats ok. $525. (937)573-7908

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 10-431 The Bank of New York Mellon fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders CWABS, Inc., Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-12 vs.

Jordan Ritchie aka Jordan P. Ritchie, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D08-052090 Prior Deed Reference: Book 647, page 464 Also known as: 917 Frontier Drive, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Forty Five Thousand and 00/100 ($45,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than twothirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Carrier L. Rouse, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012 2249516

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-161 United States of America vs.

Angie R. Parson, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 8, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of West Milton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L39-012259 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 784, page 265 on May 22, 2007 in the Miami County Records Also known as: 416 Park Avenue, West Milton, Ohio 45383 All taxes and assessments that appear on the Tax Duplicate filed with the Miami County Treasurer will be deducted from proceeds from the sale. This includes taxes and assessments for all prior years yet unpaid and delinquent tax amounts. The successful bidder will be responsible for any subsequent taxes or assessments that appear on said tax duplicate after the date of the sale of property.

A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Start at Min Bid $26,550.00 Dollars TERMS OF SALE: 10.5% of winning bid at time of sale.

Balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Stephen D. Miles, Attorney 1/6, 1/13, 1/20-2012 2247483

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Super clean & QUIET. NO DOGS. $540 (937)545-4513.

TROY: SPECIAL DEALS 3 bedroom townhome, furnished & unfurnished.

Call (937)367-6217 or (937)524-4896.

TROY, 1 & 2 Bedrooms, appliances, CA, water, trash paid, $425 & $525 month. $200 Deposit Special!

(937)673-1821 TROY, 2 bedroom, $535/month + deposit.

W/D hookup, water/garbage paid, stove/ refrigerator, off-street parking, energy saver, central air (937)418-2281 TROY, 2 bedroom ranch with garage, deck, very clean, appliances, AC, W/D hookup, no pets, 1 year lease plus deposit. $635 (937)339-6736 or (937) 286-1199 TROY, 535 Stonyridge, 2 bedroom, stove, refrigerator, NO PETS. $450 month, $450 deposit.

(937)418-8912.

320 Houses for Rent 2 BEDROOMS, half double, $300/ month plus deposit, Metro approved.

(937)778-0159 3 BEDROOM duplex. 209 Rolling Acres Dr. Tipp City. $700 monthly. No pets. (937)541-9121 3 BEDROOM Ranch, 2 bath, 2.5 car garage, appliances included, located on Willow Glen in Tipp City, (937)335-5223 COVINGTON RURAL, 8893 Covington-Gettysburg. 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1 1/2 story. Metro ok, $600 (937)570-7099

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320 Houses for Rent

425 Houses for Sale

560 Home Furnishings

577 Miscellaneous

580 Musical Instruments

PIQUA, 1701 South St., 3 Bedroom, 1 bath, central air, dishwasher, 2 car garage, $675, (937)418-8912

TROY, 2555 Worthington, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, great room, appliances, 1646 sq ft. $164,000, financing available, also will rent $1,300 per month, (937)239-0320, or (937)239-1864, www.miamicountyproperties.com

FURNITURE 3 piece, matching, couch, loveseat and wingchair. Beige, silky finish upholstery.

Sparingly used. No children, not laid on. Excellent condition. $550.

(937)492-7464

TREADMILL, Pro-form Crosswalk 390. Only used four times! Purchased at Sears $750 will sell for $300 OBO. (937)492-1091

UPRIGHT PIANO, free for the hauling.

(937) 572-7662

PIQUA, 4 Bedroom, 410 S Main Street, no pets, stove, refrigerator, 2 car garage, $625 (937)418-8912 PIQUA, 520 Miami Street, small 2 bedroom, 1 car garage, central air, $550, (937)418-8912.

PIQUA, 923 Falmouth, 3 bedroom, 1 Car garage, stove refrigerator, no pets, $625, (937)418-8912 TROY, 1/2 double, 2 bedroom, garage, C/A, nice.

All appliances, washer and dryer. $650 plus deposit. (937)339-2266 TROY, 2507 Inverness, $700 a month. 2474 Thornhill, $710 a month.

1221 Skylark, $725 a month. Plus one month deposit, no metro.

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325 Mobile Homes for Rent NEAR BRADFORD in country 2 bedroom trailer, washer/dryer hookup. $375.

(937)417-7111, (937)448-2974

330 Office Space DOWNTOWN, TROY Executive Suite. Utilities, kitchenette, included.

Nice (937)552-2636

TROY, Charming 2 bedroom, near downtown and Senior Center, well maintained with a deck, garage. $550 a month.

(937) 478-1854

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510 Appliances APPLIANCES, I have what you need! Refrigerator, stove, washer & dryer Almond color, serious inquires only, call (937)497-0061 REFRIGERATOR, Frigidaire, Black 2007 model.

18.5 cubic and electric glass top stove. Both clean, like new, hardly used. $325 for each or $600 for the pair. Troy, Ohio. (937)216-9307.

For Sale 425 Houses for Sale TROY, 2507 Inverness. $82,900. 2474 Thornhill, $83,900. 1221 Skylark, $84,900. Will finance, will coop.

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SLEIGH, 1 horse, $200, (937)216-0860.

570 Lawn and Garden LAWN TRACTOR, Sears, snow blade, cab, chains, weights, 42" mowing deck, $1400.

(937)368-2220

577 Miscellaneous FISHING Antique Fishing Lure & Tackle Clinic includes FREE identifications, evaluations & appraisals. Jan.17-22 8640 N. Dixie Dr. 45414 Dayton,OH 937-475-7997

545 Firewood/Fuel

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565 Horses/Tack & Equipment

530 Events

335 Rooms for Rent ROOM FOR RENT, large nice house with owner, all utilities furnished. $350 month (937)418-1575

LIFT CHAIR $400 OBO. Golden Technologies Regal Signature Series Model PR-751 lift chair in Excellent Condition. Purchased in March, 2011 used very little. Features 3 pillow waterfall back with dual open arm construction, foldable tray, storage compartments and full luxury chaise pad.

Set of 3 brown cherry matching end tables with a coffee table in very good condition. Will sell set for $100 for all or $30 each. Hide a bed sofa $40. (937)638-1164.

FIREWOOD, $125 a cord pick up, $150 a cord delivered, $175 a cord delivered and stacked (937)308-6334 or (937)719-3237 SEASONED FIREWOOD $170 per cord. Stacking extra, $135 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available (937)753-1047

560 Home Furnishings LOVESEAT, used, rocking, $40. Used Lane cedar chest $150 (937)552-7236.

CRIB COMPLETE, cradle, changing table, PackN-Play, basinet, PortaCrib, saucer, walker, car seat,high chair, blankets, clothes, gate, tub good condition (937)339-4233 KIMBALL ORGAN, Paradise model with all extras, good condition, $150, Computer Hutch, like new, $125, (937)492-5655 METAL. Wanting anything that contains metal.

Will haul away for FREE. Call (937)451-1566 or (937)214-0861.

TOWNECRAFT COOKWARE (12 piece), never used, plus electric skillet. $650 OBO. CRAFTMATIC BED, full size bed divides into 2 twin beds.

Controls to raise/ lower head/ foot and massage also. $600 OBO. Call (937)552-7811.

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592 Wanted to Buy 805 Auto

WALKER folds adjusts with or without wheels, tub/shower benches, commode chair, toilet riser, grabbers, canes wooden and four footed, good condition (937)339-4233

CASH, top dollar paid for junk cars/trucks, running or non-running. I will pick up.

Thanks for calling (937)719-3088 or (937)451-1019

2005 CHEVY Silverado 1500 4 wheel drive extended cab pick up. Excellent condition. $10,500 OBO (937)778-0802

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Patricia M. Quillen Clerk-Treasurer 01/13/2012 2248873

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-431 The Bank of New York Mellon fka The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2007-6, Mortgage Pass Through Certificates, Series 2007-6 vs.

Deborah Couch, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 8, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Elizabeth, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: E09-008865 Also known as: 3191 Gearhart Road, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Two Hundred Ninety Thousand and 00/100 ($290,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Kyle E. Timken, Attorney 1/6, 1/13, 1/20-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-103 CitiFinancial, Inc vs.

James F. Frederick, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Bethel, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: A01-031910 Also known as: 7790 East Staley Road, New Carlisle, Ohio 45344 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Twenty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($129,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Erin M. Laurito, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 06-607 Chase Home Finance LLC vs.

Stanley D. Young, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Huber Heights, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: P48-000381 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 0750, page 537 on June 17, 2004 Also known as: 9976 Olde Park Drive, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Seventy One Thousand and 00/100 ($171,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Peter L. Mehler, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-137 Fifth Third Mortgage Company vs.

Dale Pottenger, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Monroe, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G12-007000 Also known as: 4201 Crane Road, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Thousand and 00/100 ($60,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Kriss D. Felty, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-039 Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs.

Robin E. Eads aka Robin E. Weaver, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 8, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Newton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: I20-028805 Also known as: 1635 Harshbarger Road, Covington, Ohio 45318 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Eighty Five Thousand and 00/100 ($85,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Susana E. Lykins, Attorney 1/6, 1/13, 1/20-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-215 United States of America vs.

Jacqulyn L. Walters, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Tipp City, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G15-016780 Also known as: 619 Barbara Drive, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Ninety Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($99,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Stephen D. Miles, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 08-970 Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. vs.

Earl Duane Johnston, Trustee of the Elizabeth E. Johnston Living Trust, Created by Agreement dated January 18, 2005, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D08-042210 Also known as: 773 Bristol Road, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Ten Thousand and 00/100 ($110,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

C. Scott Casterline, Attorney 1/13, 1/20, 1/27-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-603 JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association vs.

Tina J. Davis, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 1, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Tipp City, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G15-000790 Prior Deed Reference: D.B. 693/ 729 Also known as: 19 South First Street, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Thousand and 00/100 ($60,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Bethany L. Suttinger, Attorney 12/30/2011, 1/6, 1/13-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-520 JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association successor by merger to Chase Home Finance, LLC vs.

Melisa M. Maston aka Melisa M. Davis, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 1, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township or Bethel, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: A01-084209 Prior Deed Reference: Deed Book Volume 768, page 815 Also known as: 9845 East Haskett Lane, Dayton, Ohio 45424 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($69,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than twothirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Matthew I. McKelvey, Attorney 12/30/2011, 1/6, 1/13-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-353 Bank of America, NA vs.

Mary Ann Bogart, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Tipp City, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G15-017460 Prior Deed Reference: Deed Volume 740, page 432 Also known as: 536 Michael Place, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Twenty Thousand and 00/100 ($120,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

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CONTACT US ■ Sports Editor Josh Brown (937) 440-5231, (937) 440-5232 jbrown@tdnpublishing.com

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■ Girls Basketball

• BASKETBALL: Tickets are now available in the Troy High School athletics department office for the Trojans’ Flyin’ to the Hoop against Hamilton Southeastern High School (Ind.) at 4:45 p.m. Saturday at Fairmont High School’s Trent Arena. General admission tickets at a price of $12 are good for all day on Saturday, featuring six games of national, regional and local talent. Student tickets are $6.

• BASKETBALL: The Miami East boys basketball team will be playing Fairmont High School in the Flyin’ to the Hoop tournament at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday at Fairmont’s Trent Arena.

Presale tickets are available in the Miami East athletic office during school hours. The price for students is $6 and is $12 for adults. All tickets at the door, if available, will be $12. Presale tickets are good for Sunday only.

• BASKETBALL: The Tippecanoe Red Devil basketball program is having its annual “Chicken Dinner” Jan. 21 at the high school.Tickets are available from any player grades 7 through varsity. Tickets are $7, and dinner is catered

by Hickory River Smokehouse. Later that night, at halftime of the varsity game against Greenon, the1967 district champion team will be recognized.This team went 21-3, which was the most wins by a Red Devil team until 2006.

• BASKETBALL: The Knights of Columbus will host a free throw contest at 1 p.m. Jan. 22 at the St. Patrick Parish Center at 420. E. Water St. in Troy. All boys and girls age 10-14 as of Jan. 1 are eligible. Please bring proof of age. Call Joe Hartzell at 615-0069 with any questions.

• WRESTLING: Tippecanoe High School wrestling will host its annual spaghetti dinner at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at the high school — with the youth wrestling club competing against Vandalia and Covington at 6 p.m..

Admission is $2, and the dinner is $6 — but admission is free with purchase of a dinner. Tickets can be purchased either from a high school wrestler or coach or at the door.

• BASEBALL: Tippecanoe High School is hosting the U.S. Baseball Academy camp beginning Feb. 5 for six consecutive Sundays for grades 1-12.

For more information and to register, visit www.USBaseballAcademy.com or call (866) 622-4487.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Boys Basketball Troy at Piqua (7:30 p.m.)

Stebbins at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Waynesville (7:30 p.m.)

Tri-Village at Miami East (7:30 p.m.)

Emmanuel Christian at Bethel (7:30 p.m.)

Newton at National Trail (8 p.m.)

Ansonia at Covington (8 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Dayton Christian (7:30 p.m.)

Bradford at Arcanum (8 p.m) Bowling Piqua at Bearcat Tourney (7 p.m.)

Hockey Troy at Thomas Worthington (7:10 p.m.)

Wrestling Piqua at Top Gun (7 p.m.)

SATURDAY Boys Basketball Troy at Hamilton Southeastern (at Trent Arena) (4:45 p.m.)

Bethel at Xenia Christian (7:30 p.m.)

Covington at New Bremen (8 p.m.)

Madison Senior at Bradford (7:30 p.m.)

Lehman at Bath (7:30 p.m.)

Girls Basketball Tippecanoe at Tecumseh (7:30 p.m.)

Tri-County North at Bethel (2:30 p.m.)

Bradford at Newton (2:30 p.m.)

National Trail at Covington (1:30 p.m.)

Beavercreek at Piqua (1 p.m.)

Versailles at Lehman (1:30 p.m.)

Bowling Trotwood at Troy (10 a.m.)

Gymnastics Troy at Mason Comet Cup (TBA) Hockey Troy at Springfield (11:50 a.m.)

Swimming Troy, Tippecanoe, Miami East, Piqua, Lehman at Southwest Classic (TBA) Wrestling Tippecanoe at Lima Invite (9 a.m.)

Piqua at Top Gun (9 a.m.)

Lehman at Panther Invite (10 a.m.)

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3 Tide players headed for NFL National champion Alabama will once again try to keep rolling after losing three underclassmen to the NFL draft.

All-Americans Trent Richardson, Dont’a Hightower and Dre Kirkpatrick said Thursday they’re leaving school to start pro careers. See Page 16.

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■ Girls Basketball

Indians hold off Trojans Bulldogs, Eagles struggle against leagues’ top guns Staff Reports ARCANUM — Newton heated up in the third quarter on a cold Thursday night, turning a onepoint halftime lead into a 27-18 edge after three, and Marina Snipes iced the game from the free throw line in the fourth to cap off a 46-35 victory by the Indians.

Fourteen of Snipes’ game-high 16 points came from the free throw line — 12 of those in the fourth quarter.

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Miami East’s Trina Current goes up for a shot between Covington’s Julianna Simon (40) and Caitlyn Crawford (42) Thursday night at Miami East.

“We had a nice third quarter, and Marina made 12 free throws in the fourth that helped seal it for us,” Newton coach Ken Ford said.

Aryn Doseck added 13 points and Andee Welbaum chipped in 10 as the Indians improved to 75 on the season and 4-4 in the Cross County Conference.

“The girls all played well,” Ford said. “We had some JV players move up and contribute.

Everyone played well.”

Newton hosts Bradford

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All the pieces Devils ■ Bowling

Vikings use a bit of everything in win over Buccs

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Miami East gets credit for a lot of things — for its defense, its play in the post … for just being big and tall.

One thing that gets overlooked often, though, is the Vikings’ guards’ play around the perimeter.

sweep Knights Staff Reports Tippecanoe capped off a backand-forth week full of falling records with a run-of-the-mill — by comparison, at least — sweep Thursday afternoon, with the Red Devil boys blowing out Alter 2,603-2,031 and the girls rolling to a 2,259-1,846 win.

“It was a good way to end the week,” Tippecanoe coach Clay Lavercombe said. “The girls got back to their good habits, and the boys bowled well in a solid win.”

CASSTOWN Ashley and Trina Current outscored Covington on their own by combining for 28 points, seeing nothing but crisp entry passes both in half-court sets and on the fast break coming from the guards in a 57-23 Cross County Conference victory Thursday night at home.

Most of those points came on a 19-point first-half run that took the score from a 6-6 tie to a 25-6 lead for Miami East (11-1, 8-0 CCC).

“I thought that first quarter was a clinic on keeping your head up, seeing the whole floor and finding seams,” Miami East

MIAMI COUNTY Ryan Rittenhouse led the boys (9-3) with games of 216-238 for a 454 series, and Luke Nimer had a 247 game and a season-high 451 series. Logan Banks had a 248 game and a 396 series, Steven Calhoun had a 202 game and 370 series and Jordan Vollmer had a 167 game and 302 Covington’s Shelby Kihm goes up for a layup in the first quarter

■ See VIKES-BUCCS on 17 Thursday at Miami East.

■ See BOWLING on 17

■ College Football

Home sweet home Meyer revitalized with Buckeyes COLUMBUS (AP) — The newest member of Ohio State’s alumni association shouldn’t have any problem paying the annual dues.

Urban Meyer, who picked up his master’s degree in 1988 from Ohio State, has coached all over the country as a head coach at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida, and also at Illinois State, Colorado State and Notre Dame.

But he’s finally working where he picked up a diploma and where he gets $4 million a year to coach football.

“I joined the alumni association,” he said Thursday. “As we AP PHOTO were going through the paperOhio State head coach Urban Meyer answers a question during a work and everything, (I realized) press conference to introduce his new assistant coaches that’s the first time in 20-some Thursday in Columbus. years, other than when I was a

graduate assistant, that I’ve coached where I’m a graduate.”

He added, “Oh, it feels great. I can’t wait to put the sticker on my car. It’s kind of cool to be able to say that.”

The Buckeyes, coming off a dreadful 6-7 season, began conditioning workouts on Monday. The new coaching staff is still getting adjusted to the players, and the players are adapting to the new coaches.

Meyer, who received his bachelor’s degree from Cincinnati, was asked what he thought of the team’s work ethic so far.

“It’s average right now. We’ll see,” he said of the players’ commitment to conditioning. “I don’t want to jump over the top but three days into it, this third day,

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Saints have edge in experience SANTA CLARA, Calif.

(AP) — Center Jonathan Goodwin has been going around San Francisco’s locker room offering bits of veteran insight here and there.

Playoff knowledge, Saints knowledge.

The NFC West champion 49ers have eight players who have been to the postseason previously. The New Orleans Saints? A whopping 39 before their victory over Detroit last weekend.

“I think some of the guys who didn’t get a chance to go to the playoffs in the past, they’re hungry,” 49ers tight end Vernon Davis said.

“They’re really hungry. I don’t know what it’s going to be like, I just know I’m playing in the playoffs. I try not

to get too excited because I want to keep myself under control.”

That’s where Goodwin comes in.

Among the key offseason acquisitions for San Francisco, Goodwin is one of those playoff-tested guys for the Niners (13-3). He won a Super Bowl ring with the Saints two years ago.

“Should be pretty fun,” Goodwin said. “Hopefully my experiences seeing that defense a lot during training camp and sometimes during the season will be valuable.”

When the 49ers head into their first postseason appearance in nine years Saturday afternoon against Drew Brees and the highpowered Saints (14-3), quar-

terback and 2005 No. 1 draft pick Alex Smith will be just one of many San Francisco regulars making postseason debuts and taking their most significant steps yet onto the NFL’s big stage.

Of the eight 49ers who have been to the postseason before, one is little-used wide receiver Brett Swain, another is long snapper Brian Jennings and also record-setting kicker David Akers. Jennings is the only player still around from the 49ers’ 2002 playoff season, when San Francisco rallied to stun the New York Giants 39-38 in their NFC wildcard game.

From star linebackers Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman, to Davis, running

back Frank Gore and left tackle Joe Staley, punter Andy Lee and even safety Donte Whitner, this will be a monumental first.

What a difference from the dominating Saints, with almost an entire roster of men who have played such important games before this year. The 49ers are considered an underdog again a role first-year coach Jim Harbaugh relishes this week despite playing at home in sold-out Candlestick Park.

San Francisco earned the NFC’s No. 2 seed over the Saints, who did their share of scoreboard watching late in the season in hopes of stealing the second spot and a first-round bye.

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New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marques Colston (12) scores a touchdown reception in front of Carolina Panthers free safety Sherrod Martin (23) during the second quarter in New Orleans Sunday, Jan. 1.

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Brady’s real competition

Meyer

Pats’ QB to renew hostilities with Bronco CB Bailey ENGLEWOOD, Colo.

(AP) — The last time the Broncos and Patriots met in the playoffs, Champ Bailey returned an interception 100 yards, sparking a big Denver win and handing Tom Brady his first postseason defeat after 10 wins and three titles.

Six years later, they meet again this weekend, both men a lot longer in the tooth but just as transcendent.

At 33, Bailey was just named to his 11th Pro Bowl, extending his record for cornerbacks. He helped the Broncos (9-8) reach the playoffs for the first time in six seasons.

“He’s really a playmaker for them,” Brady said. “He’s a great leader. He’s everything you look for in a football player.”

That’s pretty much what Bailey said about Brady.

“He’s smart, accurate, he has all the tools,” Bailey said. “He’s tough, confident.

Everything you want in a player.”

At 34, Brady threw 39 touchdown passes, the second-highest total of his brilliant career, and he led the Patriots (13-3) to the top seed in the AFC by winning his last eight starts, including a blowout at Denver on Dec. 18.

The heavily favored Patriots are 8-2 in home playoff games under Brady, whose 14-5 postseason record is tied with Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw for the best mark in league history.

Bailey and the Broncos, however, will be out for their seventh win in 10 tries against him. No other team has had that much success against the two-time MVP and perennial Pro Bowler.

Still, the Broncos’ captain readily acknowledges he doesn’t particularly enjoy facing Brady.

“It’s more frustrating when you’re out there because he’s so good. He’s one of the best ever,” Bailey

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Left: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) warms up before a game against the Philadelphia Eagles Nov. 27, 2011 in Philadelphia. Right: Denver Broncos defensive back Champ Bailey (24) reacts during a against the Oakland Raiders Sept. 11, 2011 in Denver. the call, saying the ball flew took a fellow Georgia said. “I think a lot of people misery.

Trying to become the out of the end zone, not at Bulldogs alum to chase him want to find out who’s going to be the next guy, but he first team to win three the 1, which would have down.

“If anybody’s going to do always reminds everybody straight Super Bowls, the given New England the ball it,” Bailey cracked, “it’d betPatriots were driving for the back on a touchback. he’s still the best.”

The challenge was ter be a guy from Georgia.”

Brady said he’s not go-ahead score in the third Bailey’s big play was one thrilled to see Bailey again, quarter. But on third down unsuccessful, and Mike from the Denver 5, Bailey Anderson scored to give of five turnovers by the either.

“I wish I could have him stepped in front of Troy Denver a 17-6 lead on its Patriots that day. The on our team and not play Brown in the end zone for way to a 27-13 triumph, the Broncos might need similar against him. I’m tired of the pick. He sprinted down Broncos’ first playoff win circumstances to upset New since John Elway’s second England on Saturday night. playing against him,” Brady the Broncos’ sideline.

The Broncos selfWith the goal line almost Super Bowl victory in 1999. said. “He definitely chal“Considering how much destructed in a 41-23 loss to lenges us. He is a huge fac- in reach, Bailey, huffing and tor in every game that we puffing, slowed and was they won the previous years, the Patriots in Denver last play against them. I have a bringing the ball down to they were pretty much month, committing a trio of ton of respect for him and his hip when tight end Ben unbeatable,” Bailey recalled. turnovers in the second you always have to be care- Watson caught up and “To get a play like that and quarter that New England ful throwing the ball to his knocked him down, sending to change the game, to get a turned into 13 points, erasthe ball flying out of bounds win against a team like ing what remained of an side of the field.”

That’s what happened at the 1 or was it through that, yes, it’s a special early nine-point deficit.

“I expect us to play betmoment.” back on Jan. 14, 2006, when the end zone?

Still, Bailey cringes a bit ter, make it a little more difWith Bailey lying on his Bailey made the play that ended New England’s domi- back, grimacing and gasp- at the thought of getting ficult for them,” Bailey said. nating dynasty along with ing for air, Patriots coach caught, although he joking- “But it’s Tom Brady. He’s Denver’s years of playoff Bill Belichick challenged ly takes solace in knowing it good for a reason.”

■ CONTINUED FROM 15 you walk around saying, ‘That was decent.’ The first day, you kind of had a sick feeling to your stomach, like, ‘What was that I just watched?’ So it’s getting better.”

Meyer was hired in late November to take over the NCAA-sanctioned Buckeyes. He had stepped down briefly as head coach at Florida in 2009 and then for a year after the 2010 season. He has been out of coaching for a year, serving as a TV analyst.

Those who know him best say he’s taking better care of himself than he did at Florida.

“He is 100 percent juiced and revitalized. It’s great to see,” said Mickey Marotti, Meyer’s strength and conditioning coach at Florida who now has the title at Ohio State of Assistant AD for Football Sports Performance and will have four fulltime staffers working beneath him just for football. “You just could see over time.

He’s told you his story. He looks great. The year being out of football or being away from coaching, it kind of re-energizes you.”

Meyer said his health couldn’t be any better.

“I feel as good as I’ve felt in many, many years,” he said. “Revitalized is a strong word and it’s an appropriate word for where I am right now.”

His offensive staff includes offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tom Herman, who was at Iowa State last year; co-offensive coordinator and line coach Ed Warinner, who came from Notre Dame along with tight ends and fullbacks coach Tim Hinton; wide receivers coach Zach Smith, the grandson of former Ohio State head coach Earle Bruce and a coach at Temple last year; and a holdover from interim coach Luke Fickell’s Buckeyes staff, Stan Drayton, in charge of running backs.

■ College Football

3 Tide players rolling to NFL

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Alabama’s Trent Richardson holds up the winning trophy after the BCS National Championship game against LSU Monday in New Orleans. Richardson, along with two other members of the Crimson Tide, said Thursday that he was skipping his senior season to enter the NFL draft.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — National champion Alabama will once again try to keep rolling after losing three underclassmen to the NFL draft.

All-Americans Trent Richardson, Dont’a Hightower and Dre Kirkpatrick said Thursday they’re leaving school to start pro careers, three days after helping the Crimson Tide to its second national title of their careers.

“To leave a legacy like me and Dre have left here, to have two national championships in three years, I think that’s pretty big for us and our family and for the University of Alabama,” said Richardson, a Heisman Trophy finalist and Doak Walker Award winner as the nation’s top running back.

Richardson and Kirkpatrick, a cornerback, attended a news conference announcing their decisions, while middle linebacker Hightower issued a statement afterward.

Richardson and Kirkpatrick are both projected as potential top 10 picks and Hightower is also regarded as a potential first-rounder.

Alabama had a schoolrecord four first-round selections last year, including underclassmen Marcell Dareus, Julio Jones and Mark Ingram. The Tide came back and went 12-1, moving to 36-4 over the past three years.

Richardson set school single-season rushing records with 1,679 yards and 21 touchdowns in his lone season as a fulltime starter after running

behind the 2009 Heisman winner Ingram.

He and Hightower were first-team AP All-America selections while Kirkpatrick was a secondteamer.

The Tide beat LSU 21-0 in Monday night’s national title game when the nation’s top defense yielded only 92 total yards.

Richardson ran for 96 yards and scored the game’s only touchdown in the fourth quarter after topping 100 as a freshman in the first title game against Texas.

Richardson said he wanted to be able to take care of his mother who he says has Lupus and still works at a seafood restaurant and two young daughters.

“It really took a toll on me to make sure my momma doesn’t have to

work anymore or my grandma,” said Richardson, who lost two aunts to cancer in the last year. His grandmother had retired, but returned to driving a school bus.

Richardson said he made the decision Wednesday night after sitting down with his uncle and brothers. He went home to Pensacola, Fla., from the national championship game in New Orleans to discuss his future with family.

Richardson said he received motivation from a childhood in a tough neighborhood where he lost “quite a few friends” to early deaths, drugs or prison.

“This place has changed my life,” Richardson said.

“It really turned me from a teenager to a man, and a grown man at that.”

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■ Girls Basketball

■ Girls Basketball

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■ CONTINUED FROM 15 coach Preston Elifritz said. “(Point guard) Madison Linn has been playing better for us. She’s been really Lindsey aggressive.

Brookhart came off the bench and had some phenomenal entry passes and Tori Nuss came in and played some quality minutes.”

Abby Cash — more of a gurad/forward for the Vikings — led the team with six assists, Linn had three, Brookhart and Ashley Current had two apiece and Nuss had one as Miami East connected for 15 assists on its 20 field goals in the game.

“The thing is, we have a lot of size — but our size knows how to distribute the ball,” Elifritz said.

“Abby played a great game.

She only scored four points, but she dished out 12 more of our 53 points.

It’s very important that we have good passers.”

“They’re just a very nice team,” Covington coach Besecker said.

Chris “Preston does a great job with them. They execute well, and they run the floor well. It’s hard to keep up with them and still have enough energy to defend in the half court.”

Shelby Kihm — who led the Buccaneers (6-4, 4-2 CCC) with 13 points and eight rebounds — benefited from some nice entry passes from Hannah Pond early, scoring Covington’s first three baskets to keep the score at 6-6 early.

“We played well tonight,” Besecker said.

“We had some silly turnovers early, but other than that we played well.

We took good shots — we just weren’t getting them to fall after the first few.”

But a Trina Current putback gave the lead back to East for good and Cash stole the ball and cashed in a layup on the break to force a Covington timeout.

Linn then hit Trina Current for another transition layup, and Ashley Current kicked back out to Linn for a 3. Cash hit Ashley Current inside, and a pair of Ashley Current free throws made it 19-6 after one.

A drive by Julianna Simon (10 points) with 5:30 left in the first half ended the run, but the Vikings blew the lead up to 31-9 at the break and coasted from there.

“We stayed aggressive,” Elifritz said. “A lot of teams want to slow us down a bit, but we were able to put pressure on them in transition. Our defensive effort early was phenomenal. It really set

■ CONTINUED FROM 15 Saturday.

Madison 64, Milton-Union 24 MIDDLETOWN — Milton-Union could do little to stop a potent Madison attack Thursday night, falling 64-24 in Southwestern Buckeye League Buckeye Division play.

“We played hard,” Milton-Union coach Richard Cline said. “It was just too much Madison. They’re a nice team.

“We’re not as big as they are or as athletic as they are, but we played well. We just didn’t make shots.”

Megan Ward led the Bulldogs with seven points and six rebounds, Brooke Falb added four and six rebounds and Danielle Vincent chipped in four points.

Brittany Shields scored 17 and Olivia Philpot added 13 for Madison (13-1, 7-0).

Milton-Union (5-7, 3-4) hosts Carlisle Thursday.

Dayton Christian 55, Troy Christian 27 DAYTON — Troy Christian struggled to contain Dayton Christian’s Lisa Weber and Megan Tolson Thursday night, falling 55-27 in Metro Buckeye Conference play.

“They’ve got a couple real nice players,” Troy Christian coach Jim Bolin

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Miami East’s Leah Dunivan pulls up for a shot against Covington Thursday.. the tone for the game.”

Trina Current finished with a game-high 15 points and four rebounds, while Ashley Current added 13 points and seven rebounds.

Linn chipped in eight points, Angie Mack hit a pair of 3s for six, Nuss scored three and Renee DeFord scored two.

We were able to utilize our bench a little more than against Urbana. It was good to get those kids to run with our bigs and handle the ball with our guards,” Elifritz said.

“We’ve got to get ready for a goof Fort Loramie team on Tuesday.”

Caitlyn Crawford scored two points and had eight rebounds and Pond added two points and three assists for Covington, which faces National Trail Saturday.

Bowling ■ CONTINUED FROM 15 series in his first varsity start of the season.

Jenny Korleski rolled games of 183-182 for a season-high 365 series, Rebecca Milas rolled a 200 game and a 346 series,

Selig gets 2year extension

Cash 2-0-4, Leah Dunivan 0-0-0.

Totals: 20-7-53.

Score By Quarters Cov .........................6 9 16 27 ME......................19 31 41 53 3-point goals: Covington —

Simon. Miami East — Nuss, Mack 2, Linn.

Records: Covington 6-4, 4-2.

Miami East 11-1, 8-0.

Reserve score: Miami East 49, Covington 15.

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Minnesota’s Austin Hollins (20) and Ralph Sampson III, right, vie with Indiana’s Verdell Jones III (12) and Cody Zeller for a rebound during the second half Thursday in Bloomington, Ind. Oladipo cut Minnesota’s lead to 71-68 with 40 seconds to play.

No. 8 Duke 61, No. 16 Virginia 58 DURHAM, N.C. — Mason Plumlee scored 12 points and No. 8 Duke held

on to beat No. 16 Virginia 61-58 on Thursday night to snap the Cavaliers’ 12game winning streak.

Austin Rivers and Seth Curry added 11 points apiece for the Blue Devils (14-2, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference).

No. 15 Murray St. 66, Jacksonville St. 55 MURRAY, Ky. — Donte Poole had 21 points and three steals to lead No. 15 Murray State past Jacksonville State 66-55 on Thursday night, giving the unbeaten Racers the best start in school history.

• Women’s Basketball No. 11 Ohio State 82, Northwestern 72 COLUMBUS — Tayler Hill scored 19 of her 24 points in the second half, eight during a 10-0 run that helped No. 11 Ohio State pull away from Northwestern for an 82-72 victory Thursday night.

Hill, the Big Ten’s leading scorer at 21.3 points per game, helped the Buckeyes (16-1, 3-1) increase a 55-54 lead with a 3-pointer and layup off a turnover. After Sasha Dobranic’s jumper, Hill made it 65-54 with a steal that resulted in a layup and foul shot with 6:56 to play.

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says he couldn’t resist the pleas of team owners for him to stay on the job. His wife Sue has said all along there was no way her husband would walk away from the game.

In the end, she was right.

Owners voted 29-1 on Thursday to give Selig a two-year contract extension through the 2014 season.

Selig has held the position since 1992, first as interim commissioner and then as commissioner since 1998. He will turn 80 in July 2014.

If he stays until September 2016, he would surpass Kenesaw Mountain Landis (192044) as the longest-serving baseball commissioner.

“I’ve often said, and I believe this, for me personally in my life there’s no higher honor than being the commissioner of baseball,” Selig said.

Selig’s contract had been due to expire this Dec. 31 and he had talked of doing some teaching after leaving the job. But he said he began hearing lately from owners who wanted him to stay on.

“I started hearing a couple of weeks ago that there was a groundswell movement to do this,” he said. “‘You can’t leave now.’ I’d hear from various owners.”

He said he reached the decision after thinking about it over the holidays, although he acknowledged his wife had been right when she said all along that he wouldn’t be stepping down this year.

‘In the end, doing what’s in the best interest of baseball if this many people believe that and feel that is something that I felt I should do,” he said.

Owners deferred a vote on the proposed transfer of the San Diego Padres from John Moores to Jeff Moorad, saying they need clarification on some financial information.

Because Selig’s extension wasn’t on the agenda for the meeting, owners took a unanimous consent vote to allow its approval.

Moores, upset that the Padres’ sale was not approved, voted no, a person in the room said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the details were supposed to remain confidential.

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Covington’s Heidi Snipes attempts a 3-pointer Thursday against Miami East.

Gophers upset No. 7 Indiana

two at home against Iowa.

Minnesota seemingly had Thursday’s game under control with a sixpoint lead and the ball in the final minute. But Zeller stole the inbounds pass, and a three-point play by

Caitlin Wolff had a 161 series and a 316 series, Chelsea Brown rolled a 155 game and 298 series and Jordan Amspaugh had a 140 game and 240 series.

Tippecanoe travels to Bellefontaine Tuesday.

■ Major League Baseball

■ College Basketball

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Austin Hollins scored a career-high 18 points to help Minnesota beat No. 7 Indiana 77-74 on Thursday night.

Indiana’s Christian Watford could have tied the score but he missed a 3pointer in the closing seconds.

Rodney Williams scored 14 points and Julian Welch added 10 for the Golden Gophers (13-5, 1-4 Big Ten), who had lost four straight.

Minnesota shot 6 of 13 on 3-pointers in the first half to take the lead, then maintained it by scoring in the paint and grabbing 12 offensive rebounds in the second half.

Indiana freshman Cody Zeller matched a season high with 23 points for the Hoosiers (15-2, 3-2). Jordan Hulls scored 13, Will Sheehey 12 and Victor Oladipo 10 for Indiana, which had won three straight.

The Hoosiers were 11-0 at home, including victories over then-No. 1 Kentucky and then-No. 2 Ohio State.

Minnesota had been close in three of its four Big Ten losses. The Gophers lost in overtime at Illinois, by five at Michigan and by

said. “They had a one-two punch that was real active from the outside, and they had nice dribble penetration. We just didn’t have the personnel to keep up.”

Weber scored 22 points and Tolson added 13 for Dayton Christian (9-2, 40).

Benjamin Amanda scored 12 points to lead the Eagles.

Troy Christian (5-6, 22) hosts Emmanuel Christian Monday.

National Trail 67, Bethel 23 NEW PARIS — Makayla Abner scored 23 points Thursday and National Trail (9-5, 7-1 Cross County Conference) jumped all over Bethel early in a 67-23 victory.

Katelyn Cripps and Mandy Shoopman scored six points apiece to pace Bethel (0-13, 0-6), which fell behind 16-2 after the first quarter and never recovered.

Bethel hosts TriCounty North Saturday.

Miss. Valley 57, Bradford 45 BRADFORD — Mississinawa Valley held off a scrappy Bradford team Thursday night, winning 57-45 in Cross County Conference play.

Brooke Dunlevy scored 14 points and Alisha Patty added 11 for the Railroaders.

Bradford travels to Newton Saturday.

■ Bowling

SPRINGFIELD

Covington — 27 Heidi Snipes 0-0-0, Jessie Shilt 0-0-0, Hannah Pond 1-0-2, Julianna Simon 4-1-10, Caitlyn Crawford 1-0-2, Shelby Kihm 5-313, Brittanie Flora 0-0-0, Rachel Carder 0-0-0, Morgan McReynolds 0-0-0. Totals: 11-427.

Miami East — 53 Sam Skidmore 0-0-0, Lindsey Brookhart 0-0-0, Tori Nuss 1-0-3, Renee DeFord 1-0-2, Emily Kindell 0-0-0, Angie Mack 2-0-6, Katelyn Gardella 0-0-0, Madison Linn 3-1-8, Ashley Current 5-313, Trina Current 6-3-15, Abby

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National Football League Playoff Glance All Times EST Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 7 Houston 31, Cincinnati 10 New Orleans 45, Detroit 28 Sunday, Jan. 8 New York 24, Atlanta 2 Denver 29, Pittsburgh 23, OT Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 14 New Orleans at San Francisco, 4:30 p.m.

Denver at New England, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 15 Houston at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 4:30 p.m.

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 22 TBD Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 29 At Honolulu NFC vs. AFC Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5 At Indianapolis

National Basketball Association All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct GB W L Philadelphia 7 3 .700 — 6 5 .545 1½ New York 4 5 .444 2½ Boston Toronto 4 7 .364 3½ 2 9 .182 5½ New Jersey Southeast Division Pct GB W L Miami 8 3 .727 — 7 3 .700 ½ Orlando Atlanta 8 4 .667 ½ 2 9 .182 6 Charlotte 1 9 .100 6½ Washington Central Division Pct GB W L Chicago 10 2 .833 — 7 3 .700 2 Indiana Cleveland 4 5 .444 4½ 4 6 .400 5 Milwaukee Detroit 2 9 .182 7½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB 7 4 .636 — San Antonio Dallas 6 5 .545 1 4 6 .400 2½ Memphis Houston 3 7 .300 3½ 3 7 .300 3½ New Orleans Northwest Division Pct GB W L Oklahoma City 10 2 .833 — Portland 7 3 .700 2 7 4 .636 2½ Denver Utah 6 4 .600 3 3 7 .300 6 Minnesota Pacific Division Pct GB W L L.A. Lakers 8 4 .667 — 5 3 .625 1 L.A. Clippers 4 5 .444 2½ Phoenix Sacramento 4 7 .364 3½ 3 6 .333 3½ Golden State Wednesday's Games Indiana 96, Atlanta 84 Sacramento 98, Toronto 91 New York 85, Philadelphia 79 Chicago 78, Washington 64 Oklahoma City 95, New Orleans 85 Dallas 90, Boston 85 San Antonio 101, Houston 95, OT Denver 123, New Jersey 115 L.A. Lakers 90, Utah 87, OT Orlando 107, Portland 104 L.A. Clippers 95, Miami 89, OT Thursday's Games Atlanta 111, Charlotte 81 Memphis 94, New York 83 Milwaukee 102, Detroit 93 Cleveland at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Orlando at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Friday's Games Detroit at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Houston, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Boston, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Miami at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday's Games Minnesota at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Portland at Houston, 8 p.m.

New York at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Utah, 9 p.m.

Sacramento at Dallas, 9 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Temple 37, Wyoming 15 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Ohio 24, Utah State 23 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 32, San Diego State 30 Tuesday, Dec. 20 Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall 20, FIU 10 Wednesday, Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU 31, Louisiana Tech 24 Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State 56, Arizona State 24 Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Southern Mississippi 24, Nevada 17 Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Missouri 41, North Carolina 24 Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Purdue 37, Western Michigan 32 Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State 31, Louisville 24 Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Toledo 42, Air Force 41 Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas 21, California 10 Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State 18, Notre Dame 14 Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor 67, Washington 56 Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas BYU 24, Tulsa 21 Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Rutgers 27, Iowa State 13 Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State 23, Wake Forest 17 Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma 31, Iowa 14 Saturday, Dec. 31 Meinke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M 33, Northwestern 22 Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Utah 30, Georgia Tech 27, OT Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Cincinnati 31, Vanderbilt 24 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Illinois 20, UCLA 14 Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Auburn 43, Virginia 24 Monday, Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Houston 30, Penn State 14 Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. South Carolina 30, Nebraska 13 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Michigan State 33, Georgia 30, 3OT Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida 24, Ohio State 17 Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Oklahoma State 41, Stanford 38, OT Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Michigan 23, Virginia Tech 20, OT Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl At Miami West Virginia 70, Clemson 33 Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Arkansas 29, Kansas State 16 Saturday, Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. SMU 28, Pitt 6 Sunday, Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Northern Illinois 38, Arkansas State 20 Monday, Jan. 9 BCS National Championship At New Orleans Alabama 21, LSU 0 Saturday, Jan. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, TBA, (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Feb. 5 Texas vs. Nation At San Antonio Texas vs. Nation, 2 p.m. (CBSSN)

The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Pts Prv .............................Record 1. Syracuse (60) ....17-0 1,618 1 2. Kentucky (5).......15-1 1,558 2 3. North Carolina ...14-2 1,476 3 4. Baylor.................15-0 1,436 4 5. Ohio St...............15-2 1,347 6 6. Michigan St........14-2 1,263 10 7. Indiana ...............15-1 1,217 12 8. Duke...................13-2 1,186 5 9. Missouri .............14-1 1,096 7 10. Kansas.............12-3 1,005 14 11. Georgetown .....13-2 990 9 12. UNLV................16-2 852 17 13. Michigan ..........13-3 715 16 14. Louisville ..........13-3 704 11 15. Murray St. ........16-0 628 19 16. Virginia .............14-1 607 21 17. UConn..............12-3 535 8 18. Kansas St. .......12-2 482 23 19. Florida..............12-4 463 13 20. Mississippi St. ..13-3 362 15 21. Gonzaga ..........13-2 347 25 22. San Diego St. ..13-2 313 24 23. Creighton .........13-2 236 — 24. Seton Hall ........14-2 205 — 25. Marquette.........12-4 170 20 Others receiving votes: Wisconsin 97, Alabama 40, Vanderbilt 37, West Virginia 33, New Mexico 28, Saint Mary's (Cal) 18, Harvard 16, Illinois 14, Arkansas 11, Stanford 9, Saint Louis 7, Dayton 2, Iowa St. 1, Wagner 1.

The Women's Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: .............................Record Pts Prv 1. Baylor (39) .........15-0 975 1 2. Notre Dame .......15-1 935 3 3. UConn................12-2 879 2 4. Stanford .............13-1 863 4 5. Maryland............16-0 825 5 6. Tennessee..........12-3 769 6 7. Duke...................12-2 744 7 8. Rutgers ..............13-2 673 10 9. Kentucky ............14-2 631 11 10. Texas Tech........14-0 609 13 11. Ohio St.............15-1 572 8 12. Texas A&M .......10-3 532 9 13. Miami ...............12-3 460 12 14. Green Bay........13-0 435 17 15. Nebraska .........14-1 389 19 16. Louisville ..........13-3 346 14 17. Purdue .............13-3 344 18 18. Georgetown .....13-3 332 15 19. Georgia ............13-3 300 16 20. Delaware..........12-1 285 21 21. DePaul .............13-3 197 20 22. North Carolina .12-3 180 25 23. Gonzaga ..........14-2 106 — 24. South Carolina.14-2 93 — 25. Vanderbilt .........13-2 60 24 Others receiving votes: Penn St. 59, LSU 34, Georgia Tech 15, Kansas St. 13, Michigan St. 7, Kansas 4, Michigan 4, St. John's 2, Texas 2, St. Bonaventure 1.

SCOREBOARD

Scores AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY BOXING 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Junior featherweights, Teon Kennedy (17-1-0) vs. Chris Martin (23-1-2), at Las Vegas GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Joburg Open, second round, at Johannesburg (same-day tape) 7 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Sony Open, second round, at Honolulu MEN'S COLLEGE HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. NBCSP — Minnesota-Duluth at NebraskaOmaha MOTORSPORTS 1:30 a.m. NBCSP — Dakar Rally, Arequipa to Nasca, Peru (delayed tape) NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ESPN — Chicago at Boston 10:30 p.m. ESPN — Miami at Denver

SATURDAY GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Joburg Open, third round, at Johannesburg (same-day tape) 7 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Sony Open, third round, at Honolulu MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 11 a.m. ESPN2 — UConn at Notre Dame Noon ESPN — Kentucky at Tennessee 1 p.m. ESPN2 — Texas at Missouri 2 p.m. ESPN — North Carolina at Florida St. FSN — UAB at Southern Miss.

3 p.m. ESPN2 — Oklahoma St. at Baylor 3:30 p.m. CBS — National coverage, Oregon at Arizona 4 p.m. FSN — Colorado at Stanford NBCSP — UNLV at San Diego St. MOTORSPORTS 9:30 p.m. SPEED — AMA Supercross, at Phoenix 1:30 a.m. NBCSP — Dakar Rally, Nasca to Pisco, Peru (delayed tape) NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. WGN — Toronto at Chicago NFL FOOTBALL 4:30 p.m. FOX — NFC Divisional Playoffs, New Orleans at San Francisco 8 p.m. CBS — AFC Divisional Playoffs, Denver at New England NHL HOCKEY 12:30 p.m. NBC — Chicago at Detroit RUNNING 3 p.m. NBC — Olympic Marathon Trials, at Houston (same-day tape) WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon FSN — Oklahoma at Oklahoma St.

Thursday's Scores Boys Basketball Archbold 42, Swanton 40 Bellevue 50, Galion 46 Bryan 40, Hamler Patrick Henry 38 Caledonia River Valley 52, Cardington-Lincoln 48 Edgerton 47, Defiance Tinora 43 Genoa Area 59, Tontogany Otsego 47 Gorham Fayette 68, W. Unity Hilltop 36 Haviland Wayne Trace 60, Defiance Ayersville 32 Holgate 27, Antwerp 26 Maple Hts. 55, Cle. St. Martin De Porres 27 Marion Elgin 65, Galion Northmor 52 Marion Pleasant 51, Sparta Highland 43 Millbury Lake 76, Elmore Woodmore 48 Mt. Gilead 42, Delaware Buckeye Valley 40 Pataskala Licking Hts. 79, Millersport 60 Richwood N. Union 63, Morral Ridgedale 32 Upper Sandusky 55, Tiffin Columbian 49 Wauseon 52, Liberty Center 20 Willard 68, Marion Harding 38 Thursday's Scores Girls Basketball Akr. Firestone 82, Akr. Buchtel 24 Akr. SVSM 69, Akr. Kenmore 50 Anna 54, Ft. Loramie 21 Ashland Mapleton 43, New London 29 Athens 64, Wellston 40 Beaver Eastern 64, New Boston Glenwood 50 Bellbrook 78, Franklin 21 Belmont Union Local 52, Cadiz Harrison Cent. 27 Berlin Center Western Reserve 43, N. Jackson Jackson-Milton 31 Bethel-Tate 44, Batavia Clermont NE 33 Bluffton 51, Spencerville 34 Bridgeport 45, Barnesville 44 Brookville 49, Pitsburg FranklinMonroe 28 Burton Berkshire 48, Middlefield Cardinal 30 Canfield 56, Poland Seminary 46 Canfield S. Range 48, Columbiana 41 Carlisle 44, Day. Northridge 40 Casstown Miami E. 53, Covington 27 Celina 51, Wapakoneta 43 Chesapeake 52, Coal Grove Dawson-Bryant 38 Cin. Princeton 57, Ursuline Academy 44 Cin. Sycamore 64, Cin. St. Ursula 59 Cin. Withrow 63, Cin. Woodward 12 Clyde 55, Castalia Margaretta 36 Columbiana Crestview 70, Mineral Ridge 38 Columbus Grove 46, Paulding 40 Convoy Crestview 45, Van Wert Lincolnview 30 Cortland Lakeview 62, Girard 47 Cortland Maplewood 53, Kinsman Badger 48 Creston Norwayne 42, Apple Creek Waynedale 26 Day. Belmont 45, Day. Ponitz Tech. 34 Day. Chaminade-Julienne 48, Kettering Alter 43 Day. Christian 55, Troy Christian 27 Day. Meadowdale 50, Day. Dunbar 30 Day. Thurgood Marshall 46, Day. Stivers 23 DeGraff Riverside 47, Marion Cath.

24 Delaware Christian 41, Madison

Christian 31 Delphos Jefferson 37, Lima Cent.

Cath. 32 Delphos St. John's 32, St. Henry 28 Doylestown Chippewa 57, Rittman 37 Eaton 50, Day. Oakwood 21 Fairfield 56, Cin. Hughes 40 Felicity-Franklin 58, Batavia 39 Findlay Liberty-Benton 61, Leipsic 38 Ft. Recovery 45, Coldwater 41 Gahanna Christian 58, Northside Christian 16 Georgetown 61, Lees Creek E. Clinton 45 Germantown Valley View 42, Monroe 27 Greenfield McClain 49, Washington C.H. Miami Trace 47, OT Greenwich S. Cent. 72, Ashland Crestview 18 Grove City Cent. Crossing 52, Galloway Westland 35 Hilliard Davidson 47, Hilliard Darby 32 Hubbard 59, Lisbon Beaver 50 Jackson 48, Chillicothe Unioto 31 Jamestown Greeneview 59, Spring.

Shawnee 44 Lafayette Allen E. 53, Ada 44 Lima Bath 51, St. Marys Memorial 36 Lima Perry 53, Ridgeway Ridgemont 40 Lima Shawnee 61, Kenton 53 Lima Sr. 54, Findlay 45 Lucasville Valley 60, McDermott Scioto NW 41 Madonna, W.Va. 47, Steubenville Cath. Cent. 27 Malvern 46, Kidron Cent. Christian 34 Mansfield Sr. 70, Mansfield Madison 57 Maria Stein Marion Local 52, Versailles 42 McDonald 40, Salineville Southern 30 McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 67, Waynesfield-Goshen 59 Mechanicsburg 83, Sidney Fairlawn 36 Middletown 77, Day. Jefferson 23 Middletown Madison 64, MiltonUnion 26 Millersburg W. Holmes 54, Lexington 34 Minster 64, Rockford Parkway 22 N. Baltimore 61, Kansas Lakota 25 N. Lewisburg Triad 64, Cedarville 29 Nelsonville-York 72, Albany Alexander 40 New Knoxville 45, New Bremen 25 New Madison Tri-Village 96, W. Alexandria Twin Valley S. 30 New Middletown Spring. 55, E. Palestine 42 New Paris National Trail 67, Tipp City Bethel 23 New Riegel 62, Fremont St. Joseph 24 Newark 40, Lancaster 30 Newton Falls 69, Campbell Memorial 11 Newton Local 46, Arcanum 35 Northwood 48, Tol. Maumee Valley 21 Norwalk St. Paul 56, Collins Western Reserve 43 Notre Dame Academy 74, Tol. Cent.

Cath. 43 Oak Hill 68, S. Webster 29 Oregon Stritch 53, Gibsonburg 32 Ottawa-Glandorf 54, Defiance 27 Ottoville 63, Continental 28 Pandora-Gilboa 57, Dola Hardin Northern 31 Peebles 50, Manchester 33 Plymouth 41, Monroeville 37 Portsmouth 50, Cle. St. Joseph 22 Portsmouth Clay 52, Willow Wood Symmes Valley 30 Portsmouth Notre Dame 44, Portsmouth Sciotoville 32

TROY DAILY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM Portsmouth W. 46, Wheelersburg 42 Rayland Buckeye 58, Martins Ferry 54 Richmond Edison 66, St. Clairsville 51 Sardinia Eastern 60, Leesburg Fairfield 31 Seaman N. Adams 55, FayettevillePerry 53 Shadyside 45, Hannibal River 30 Smithville 40, Dalton 28 Spring. Emmanuel Christian 50, Centerville Spring Valley 29 Steubenville 48, Weir, W.Va. 38 Struthers 69, Niles McKinley 24 Tol. Whitmer 59, Fremont Ross 28 Union City Mississinawa Valley 57, Bradford 45 Van Wert 62, Elida 36 Vandalia Butler 37, Greenville 32 W. Liberty-Salem 59, Bellefontaine 32 W. Salem NW 47, Jeromesville Hillsdale 45 Warren Howland 55, Austintown Fitch 17 Warren Lordstown 51, Thompson Ledgemont 41 Warsaw River View 45, Cambridge 36 Waverly 33, Minford 29 Waynesville 43, Camden Preble Shawnee 22 Wellsville 47, Sebring McKinley 42 Wintersville Indian Creek 59, Bellaire 46 Woodsfield Monroe Cent. 45, Sarahsville Shenandoah 40 Wooster 55, Bellville Clear Fork 36 Youngs. Liberty 46, Jefferson Area 44 Youngs. Mooney 60, Youngs.

Boardman 49 POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS Crown City S. Gallia vs. Stewart Federal Hocking, ppd.

Pomeroy Meigs vs. McArthur Vinton County, ppd.

Proctorville Fairland vs. S. Point, ppd.

Bidwell River Valley vs. Ironton Rock Hill, ppd.

Corning Miller vs. Waterford, ppd.

Latham Western vs. Franklin Furnace Green, ppd.

HOCKEY National Hockey League All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 41 27 10 4 58118 86 Philadelphia 42 26 12 4 56142124 New Jersey 43 24 17 2 50119124 Pittsburgh 42 21 17 4 46124112 N.Y. Islanders41 15 20 6 36 98129 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 40 28 11 1 57148 77 Boston 45 24 15 6 54143144 Ottawa 42 22 15 5 49135131 Toronto Buffalo 42 18 19 5 41107123 43 16 20 7 39110119 Montreal Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 42 21 13 8 50109116 Washington 41 22 17 2 46119120 Winnipeg 43 20 18 5 45112126 Tampa Bay 42 17 21 4 38115146 Carolina 45 15 23 7 37118150 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 44 26 13 5 57144127 Chicago 43 25 12 6 56112 92 St. Louis 43 27 15 1 55138101 Detroit Nashville 43 24 15 4 52118117 Columbus 42 11 26 5 27101142 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 45 28 14 3 59147110 Minnesota 44 22 16 6 50103110 45 23 20 2 48117127 Colorado Calgary 44 20 19 5 45109127 Edmonton 42 16 22 4 36112121 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 40 24 11 5 53118 94 Los Angeles 43 21 15 7 49 93 95 41 23 17 1 47114119 Dallas 44 20 17 7 47111114 Phoenix Anaheim 41 13 22 6 32104135 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday's Games Washington 1, Pittsburgh 0 New Jersey 2, Edmonton 1, OT Thursday's Games Detroit 3, Phoenix 2, SO Boston 2, Montreal 1 Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Ottawa 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 Carolina 5, Tampa Bay 2 Vancouver 3, St. Louis 2, OT Nashville 3, Colorado 2, OT San Jose 2, Winnipeg 0 Chicago 5, Minnesota 2 Anaheim at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.

Dallas at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Friday's Games Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday's Games Chicago at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 3 p.m.

New Jersey at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 10 p.m.

GOLF World Golf Ranking Through Jan. 9 1. Luke Donald..............Eng 2. Lee Westwood ..........Eng 3. Rory McIlroy ...............NIr 4. Martin Kaymer...........Ger 5. Steve Stricker...........USA 6. Adam Scott ...............Aus 7. Webb Simpson.........USA 8. Dustin Johnson........USA 9. Charl Schwartzel .......SAf 10. Jason Day ...............Aus 11. Matt Kuchar ...........USA 12. Graeme McDowell....NIr 13. Nick Watney ...........USA 14. K.J. Choi...................Kor 15. Phil Mickelson ........USA 16. Justin Rose .............Eng 17. Hunter Mahan........USA 18. Sergio Garcia ..........Esp 19. Ian Poulter...............Eng 20. Paul Casey..............Eng 21. Alvaro Quiros ..........Esp 22. Bubba Watson........USA 23. Kim Kyung-Tae.........Kor 24. Bill Haas.................USA 25. Tiger Woods...........USA 26. Louis Oosthuizen.....SAf 27. Robert Karlsson .....Swe 28. Simon Dyson ..........Eng 29. Bo Van Pelt ............USA

10.21 7.92 7.65 6.43 6.00 5.41 5.40 5.17 5.16 4.99 4.79 4.63 4.60 4.55 4.37 3.92 3.83 3.83 3.81 3.65 3.62 3.60 3.58 3.56 3.54 3.50 3.48 3.46 3.45

30. David Toms ............USA 31. Keegan Bradley .....USA 32. Rickie Fowler .........USA 33. Martin Laird.............Sco 34. Bae Sang-moon.......Kor 35. Jason Dufner .........USA 36. Brandt Snedeker....USA 37. Anders Hansen.......Den 38. Thomas Bjorn .........Den 39. Francesco Molinari....Ita 40. Geoff Ogilvy ............Aus 41. Fredrik Jacobson....Swe 42. Zach Johnson ........USA 43. John Senden...........Aus 44. Peter Hanson .........Swe 45. Miguel Angel JimenezEsp 46. Aaron Baddeley.......Aus 47.Y.E.Yang...................Kor 48. Ryo Ishikawa ...........Jpn 49. G. Fernandez-CastanoEsp 50. Retief Goosen .........SAf 51. Darren Clarke ...........NIr 52. Jonathan Byrd........USA 53. Gary Woodland......USA 54. Jim Furyk ...............USA 55. Ben Crane..............USA 56. Ryan Moore ...........USA 57. Mark Wilson ...........USA 58. Matteo Manassero ....Ita 59. Greg Chalmers........Aus 60. Robert Allenby ........Aus 61. Toru Taniguchi..........Jpn 62. Joost Luiten .............Nld 63. Alexander Noren ....Swe 64. Edoardo Molinari.......Ita 65. Rory Sabbatini.........SAf 66. Vijay Singh.................Fji 67. Kevin Na ................USA 68. Ernie Els..................SAf 69. Hiroyuki Fujita..........Jpn 70. Chez Reavie ..........USA 71. Lucas Glover..........USA 72. Ryan Palmer ..........USA 73. Jeff Overton ...........USA 74. Nicolas Colsaerts.....Bel 75. Pablo Larrazabal .....Esp

3.42 3.41 3.25 3.25 3.25 3.17 3.14 3.13 3.12 3.10 3.07 3.04 3.04 2.99 2.93 2.91 2.85 2.85 2.78 2.71 2.71 2.70 2.68 2.66 2.66 2.43 2.31 2.30 2.29 2.27 2.27 2.18 2.13 2.13 2.12 2.12 2.10 2.10 2.09 2.08 2.03 1.99 1.97 1.94 1.92 1.91

TRANSACTIONS Thursday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB_Announced club owners voted to extend the contract of Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig through the 2014 season.

American League CLEVELAND INDIANS_Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Ray on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES_Named Rick Down minor league roving hitting instructor and Tom Nieto manager of the Gulf Coast League Yankees.

TAMPA BAY RAYS_Agreed to terms with 1B-OF Luke Scott on a one-year contract.

National League MIAMI MARLINS_Agreed to terms with 1B Greg Dobbs on a two-year contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS_Agreed to terms with OF Carlos Gomez and LHP Manny Parra on one-year contracts.

BASKETBALL Women's National Basketball Association TULSA SHOCK_Acquired G Temeka Johnson from Phoenix for G Andrea Riley.

FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS_Named Bill Callahan offensive line coach and offensive coordinator and Jerome Henderson secondary coach.

NEW YORK JETS_Signed LB Matthias Berning.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS_Named Raheem Morris defensive backs coach.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS_Released OL Patrick Kabongo, WR Chris Bauman and DB Wopamo Osaisai.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS_Recalled F Jordan Caron from Providence (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS_Recalled LW Dane Byers from Springfield (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS_Recalled F Cody Eakin from Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League SOUND BRIDGEPORT TIGERS_Signed D Brandon Gentile.

C H A R L O T T E CHECKERS_Announced D Derek Joslin was recalled by Carolina (NHL).

Recalled D Chris Murray from Florida (ECHL).

HAMILTON BULLDOGS_Recalled G Peter Delmas from Wheeling (ECHL).

WORCESTER SHARKS_Promoted Kristen Moore to marketing coordinator.

Named Jess Higham administrative and events coordinator and Brett Sawin community development coordinator.

CENTRAL HOCKEY LEAGUE ALLEN AMERICANS_Announced Lake Erie (AHL) assigned G James Reid to the team.

DAYTON GEMS_Waived F Ryan Hohl.

MISSOURI MAVERICKS_Traded F Nathan O'Nabigon to Arizona.

TULSA OILERS_Suspended F Tyler Sheldrake for one game.

SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY_Loaned F Robbie Keane to Aston Villa (Premier).

NEW YORK RED BULLS_Signed D Markus Holgersson.

PORTLAND TIMBERS_Traded F Kenny Cooper to New York for a 2013 first-round draft pick and allocation money.

COLLEGE ALABAMA_Announced junior RB Trent Richardson, junior CB Dre Kirkpatrick and junior LB Dont'a Hightower will enter the NFL draft.

ARKANSAS_Announced the resignations of linebackers coach Reggie Johnson, and graduate assistant coaches Richard Owens and Brandon Sharpe, to take coaching positions at Alabama-Birmingham.

BOSTON COLLEGE_Announced DE Max Holloway will enter the NFL draft.

CLEMSON_Announced the resignation of defensive coordinator Kevin Steele.

PENN STATE— Named Stan Hixon assistant head coach/wide receivers coach, Larry Johnson defensive line coach, Charles London running backs coach, Mac McWhorter offensive line coach, John Strollo tight ends coach and Ron Vanderlinden linebackers coach RUTGERS_Named Meredith Long field hockey coach.

TEXAS TECH_Suspended freshman Terran Petteway for a game after he elbowed a Kansas player Wednesday.

TOLEDO_Anounced junior WR Eric Page will enter the NFL draft.

WYOMING_Signed football coach Dave Christensen to a five-year contract through 2016.