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November 21, 2012 It’s Where You Live! Volume 104, No. 273

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Multiple positive presentations put Troy City Schools’ Board of Education in the mood for Thanksgiving a few days early at its regular board meeting Monday.

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Just a few months ago, the parking lot at Jacob Riis Park on New York City’s Rockaway seashore was filled with happy beachgoers. Now, it is home to a mountain of misery from Superstorm Sandy — a growing pile of garbage containing everything from mangled appliances, splintered plywood and sodden drywall to shreds of clothing and family photos. See Page 12.

Superintendent thanks community for levy support

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Last week’s story about the Artists Against Hunger “empty bowls” event should have stated that 100 percent of proceeds for the $10 soup bowls benefit hungry children in Miami County. Local artists also will be selling other work, with 20 to 30 percent of proceeds going to the cause.

The Miami East Local School Board of Education thanked the community for its renewal of its 3.5-mill levy passed Nov. 6 during its regular meeting Monday. Dr. Todd Rappold thanked the community for the renewal and the community’s continued support of the district. “Very pleased for the continued support of the renewal,” Rappold said. Rappold expressed concern for the latest mandate of teacher evaluations, which are to be completed twice a school year to the Ohio Department of Education. Rappold said with limited support staff and three building principals, the

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El Sombrero owner Ruben Pelayo transfers juice from several turkeys into another container Monday at the Troy location. El Sombrero has offered a free Thanksgiving Day meal every year since it opened its door. This year’s meal will be offered from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at both locations: 1700 N. County Road 25-A, Troy, and 1274 E. Ash St., Piqua. The meal, dine-in only, will feature a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

Suspects in animal cruelty case skip arraignment Magistrate orders bench warrants for Bixler, Lee BY WILL E SANDERS Ohio Community Media wsanders@dailycall.com

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mal cruelty and failure to license a dog. A sheriff’s deputy patrolling on foot near the bridge found the four puppies after a vehicle pulled up and dumped them earlier this month. The four puppies were later adopted out to good homes by the Miami County Animal Shelter. The mother dog, Precious, was surrendered by Lee on Nov. 13. She was adopted out to a good home, too. Lee claimed she was unable to care for the four puppies.

Design for EMS station renovation approved BY CECILIA FOX For the Troy Daily News editorial@tdnpublishing.com The design for the renovation of the Tipp City Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Station, which includes new living space and a new bay just for EMS equipment, has been finalized. Council met with representatives from Michael Schuster Associates Architects on Monday to review the plans for the Fire and EMS Station expansion and renovation project one last time before the project goes out to bid. “The existing facilities are a combination of two structures: a building that was built in 1959, which is on the east end, and then a 1978 addition,” Nestor Melnyk, one of the architects on the project, detailed. He said that the current station was better suited to a smaller, all-volunteer department.

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Board member William Lutz was not present. Katy Weaver, Kyle Elementary Schools’ principal, publicly thanked Mainsource Bank’s representative Diana Davis for the company’s business

partnership and its recent donation of $3,000 for Kyle Cares for Kids account. “We’re very thankful for that,” Weaver said, noting many needs for students are as basic as socks and other basic clothing. The money also will go toward a teacher’s fund to bring Boonshoft

Museum of Discovery exhibits to the elementary school as well. Davis said she has enjoyed working with Weaver and is “happy to give a donation to work for children.” Troy High School Principal Bill Overla presented to the board the high school’s Extreme Bots club and its members.

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Ansonia man enters guilty plea in sex case BY WILL E SANDERS Ohio Community Media wsanders@dailycall.com

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An Ansonia man who authorities accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a Piqua juvenile waived a grand jury’s consideration of his charge in common pleas court Monday. Joshua K. Mendenhall, 19, entered a plea

of guilty to a lone charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a felony of the fourthdegree. Judge Christopher Gee continued Mendenhall’s recognizance bond and set a sentencing hearing for Mendenhall for Jan. 7.

Authorities say Mendenhall had sexual relations with a then 13-year-old male juvenile at a Piqua residence located along West North Street in September and October 2011. He faces up to 18 months in prison at his sentencing hearing and also will be labeled as a sex offender and required to register as such annually at least for the next 15 years, possibly longer.

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Renovation • CONTINUED FROM 1 “There are no sleeping quarters in there for 24/7 personnel, the kitchen is inadequate, the dayroom is inadequate, a lot of inadequacies,” he said. The plans for the renovation have changed since council reviewed them with the architects in April. Originally, the plan was to incorporate both the original 1950s facility and the 1978 addition, but now it appears the 1978 building will need to be replaced. The 70s addition is currently used for office and living space, but it is too small and lacks sleeping quarters. The back of the building also appears to be sinking, causing cracks in the walls. “You can literally see where the building is pulling away from the apparatus bay,” Melnyk said. The new parts of the station will include sleeping quarters, updated kitchen and bathrooms, offices, and training/conference room. A new apparatus bay will also be added on the west side of the building to house ambulances and other EMS gear. The original 1950s apparatus bay needs only minimal upgrades, including roof repairs. The original design included an entirely new roof for the bay, but further study showed that roof only needs repairs and has another 10 to 15 years left. “We’re keeping everything durable, low maintenance, simple, nothing extravagant,” Melnyk said. Several parts of the project will be bid as alternates, including the roof of the new building. The architects suggested that the new building have a metal roof, which is more durable and lasts much longer than asphalt shingling. It also costs more, about $15 per square foot versus $6 for asphalt

shingles. Bidding the roof separately from the rest of the project will give the city more time to weigh the pros and cons of both options and make a decision. But the first step in the renovation process will be enlarging one of the bay doors so that the city’s new ladder truck can fit inside the bay. This project is scheduled to begin in the next few weeks and the new truck is expected to arrive before Christmas. Contract renewals At the meeting, council adopted two resolutions that renewed the city’s contracts with Monroe Township for ambulance services and with Tipp-Monroe Community Services. The first contract extends the city’s ambulance services to the township for two more years. As part of that contract, the township will contribute 26 percent of the cost of new ambulances and equipment during that two years. The city’s ambulances are scheduled to be replaced in 2013, for about $150,000, and in 2014, for $170,000. The second resolution renews the city’s contract with Tipp Monroe Community Services (TMCS) for another year at a cost of $17,000. That money will be used to continue TMCS’s recreational and educational programs for area youth and adults. “I’m not willing to lay the burden of someone else’s recreation at the feet of the taxpayer. Particularly at a time when we’re actually going to be spending more than we’re taking in,” said Councilman Bryan Budding, who voted against continuing the contract. Council President John Kessler defended the decision to extend the contract, saying that TMCS’s programs “take care of far more of our citizens than we ever take advantage of.”

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• CONTINUED FROM 1 task may be difficult to complete by the end of the school year, not only at Miami East but around the state. “My fear … is the volume of evaluations to get through the end of the year,” Rappold said. “I’m not sure how they are going to get to all of these completed on time.” Rappold said many districts around the state have expressed similar time and personnel crunches. Rappold said numerous letters and phone calls will be made to the Ohio Department of Education to change the requirements. The district also celebrated its 2012 Battelle for Kids SOAR award for significant progress. The award is given to the top 2 percent of school districts in Ohio who demonstrate exceptional growth. Rappold said it was nice to capture a state title (in high school girls’ volleyball) on a Saturday and receive the SOAR award on a Monday. District treasurer Lisa Fahncke was given verbal permission for the district to start a STAR-Plus cash deposit program which will draw 0.25 percent interest for funds, an increase from the 0.15 percent of the current program. Fahncke said the STAR-Plus program makes funds more liquid and is protected by the FDIC insurance deposit program by spreading out the cash deposits among several bank institutions. Fahncke also said the risk is minimal due to the FDIC coverage and the district doesn’t need deposit agreements with every bank. “It’s liquid and not

School counselors Chris Shaw and Sandy Finkes presented a video of “Rachel’s Legacy,” which returns to the district at Monday’s meeting. The Rachel’s Challenge Program will return to the district Nov. 28. The first part of the Rachel Scott program, “Rachel’s Challenge” was presented in the district in 2010. The programs are based on the life of the first victim of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, which claimed the lives of 12 students, including Scott, and a teacher. The program will be presented to students from grades 5-12. The program also includes a community evening event beginning at 7 p.m. and lasts about one hour. The evening program is open to parents and community members and will be held at the elementary/junior high auditeria. For additional information, visit www.miamieast.k12.oh.us. locked in to a long time CD,” Fahncke said. “It follows our investment policy.” In other news: • The board approved a 36-month lease agreement for the 20 acres of farmland with Brian Francis for $150 per acre. • The board approved the display case donated by the Miami East Elementary PTO with an estimated value of $2,000.

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Troy Junior High School Principal Dave Dilbone presented Clark Shipley to the board as the Troy Chamber of Commerce’s 2012 Teacher of the Year. Shipley is a teacher through the Career Based Intervention Program of Upper Valley Career Center. THE CBIP program targets at-risk students and employs them throughout the district to build career skills along with academics. District treasurer Craig Jones along with Superintendent Eric Herman explained the major changes in paying athletic support individuals like announcers and others who must now be paid through the district office. For more information about Troy City Schools, visit www.troy.k12.oh.us.

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• STORY HOUR: Story hours for children ages 3-5 and their caregiver will be at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library. Programs will include puppet shows, stories and crafts. • NATURE CLUB: Brukner Nature Center’s Home school Nature Club will feature “Exciting Ecosystems,” focusing on the animals of Ohio’s ecosystem and how they are preparing and adjusting to changes from 2-4 p.m. The fee is $2.50 for BNC members and $5 for non-members. Registration and payment are due by 5 p.m. Nov. 19.

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THURSDAY • COMMUNITY MEAL: El Sombrero restaurants, located at 1700 N. County Road 25-A, Troy, and 1274 E. Ash St., Piqua, will offer a free community Thanksgiving meal to the public from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The meal will include all of the traditional makings of a traditional turkey dinner with all of the trimmings.

FRIDAY • FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 753-1108. • GRAND ILLUMINATION: The 2012 Hometown Holiday Celebration will take place beginning at 6:30 p.m. in downtown Troy. A parade, grand illumination, phone calls to the North Pole, visits with Santa, carriage rides, holiday music, refreshments, shopping and Mayor Beamish’s special holiday reading all will be part of the evening. For more information, visit www.troymainstreet.org or call 339-5455. • FISH DINNER: An allyou-can-eat fish dinner will be offered from 5:30-8 p.m. at AMVETS Post No. 88, 3449 LeFevre Road, Troy. • SOUP AND SANDWICH: The Troy Order of the Eastern Star will offer a soup and sandwich dinner, along with a vendor sale, beginning at 6 p.m. At the Masonic Temple, second floor, Troy. The building is handicapped accessible. The menu will include hot dogs, coney dogs, barbecue, chili, potato and chili soup, hot chocolate and coffee. • FISH OR SAUSAGE: American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will host an all-youcan-eat fish and fries or sausage and kraut dinner from 6-7:30 p.m. for $7.

SATURDAY • STEAK FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a T-bone steak dinner with salad, baked potato and a roll for $11 from 5-7 p.m. • NANOWRIMO: Are you an aspiring novelist? Join others from 12:30-4:30 p.m. at the Troy-Miami County Public Library for National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo is a month-long novel writing program designed to help participants brainstorm, plot and write their next novel. Bring your laptop or writing tools and the library will provide refreshments and resources to help you get started. • BREAKFAST WITH SANTA: First United Church of Christ will offer its second annual Breakfast with Santa from 9-10:30 a.m. at the corner of Market and Canal streets. The breakfast will feature pancakes and sausage, cereal along with juice, milk, hot chocolate and coffee. There alos will be a special activity for all the children who meet Santa. The church is handicapped accessible. Enter at the Canal Street entrance. For more informa-

tion, call 339-5871. • CHICKEN FRY: The Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St., will offer a chicken fry from 5:30-7 p.m. for $7. The meal will include four pieces of chicken, fries, coleslaw and roll. • KARAOKE: American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will present Papa D’s Pony Express karaoke for free from 7 p.m. to close. • CANDLE DIPPING: Candle dipping will be offered at 1:30 and 3 p.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. The cost is a general admission fee of $5 for adults and $3 per child, plus $1 for each candle made. Call (937) 890-7360 for reservations.

SUNDAY • SKATE-A-THON: The Troy High School Hockey Team and the Troy Bruins Youth Hockey program will host a skate-a-thon benefit for the Michael Walter family. He is suffering from metastatic bone cancer. His son, Michael, is a senior on the THS hockey team. The public is invited to support the cause by donating and/or skating from 6:458:45 p.m. at Hobart Arena. Donations will be accepted at the door and skate rental is available for $2.50. For more information, contact Sharon Morgan at 272-6774 or sharonggarden@aol.com. • BREAKFAST SERVED: Breakfast will be offered at the Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, from 8- 11 a.m. All breakfasts are made-toorder and everything is a la carte. • FAMILY QUEST: The Miami County Park District will have its monthly Family Quest Day “Rock Hounds Fun with Fossils” program between 1-4 p.m. at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City. This series of fun, family activities in the park is designed for busy families; drop in anytime between 1-4 p.m. at your convenience. A roving naturalist will be onsite. Participants can investigate real fossils and all different kinds of strange rocks. Dress for the weather and meet at the falls. Pre-register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104. For more information, visit www.miamicountyparks.com. • DIABETES TALK: A “Type 1 Talk,” a group of type 1 diabetics, will meet from 24 p.m. at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. The meetings serve as times for those with type 1 and their loved ones to get to know each other and discuss the many aspects of the disease in a friendly, non-judgmental environment. For more information, contact Jennifer Runyon at 397-7227. • BREAKFAST SET: American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will have an all-you-caneat breakfast by the Sons of the American Legion from 811 a.m. for $6. Items available will be eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, waffles, toast, biscuits, sausage gravy, french toast, hash browns, fruit, cinnamon rolls and juices. • ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING: The American

Legion Auxiliary, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will host an organizational meeting of all young women under the age of 18 eligible and interested in becoming junior members of the American Legion Auxiliary at theTipp City Post at 2 p.m. To be eligible you must be a daughter, sister, granddaughter or greatgranddaughter of a veteran who is a member of an American Legion or who plans to join, or a deceased veteran who served during certain periods of time, set by the UInited States Congress. Step relatives are eligible also. • CANDLE DIPPING: Candle dipping will be offered beginning at 2:30 p.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. The cost is a general admission fee of $5 foe adults and $3 per child, plus $1 for each candle made. Call (937) 8907360 for reservations.

MONDAY • BOOK LOVERS: Join the Troy-Miami County Book Lovers Anonymous adult book discussion group at 6 p.m. Members will be reading and discussing “The Devil All the Time,” by Donald Ray Pollock for the month of November. Light refreshments will be provided. • CRAFTY LISTENERS: The Crafty Listeners, a group of women who get together on Mondays from 1-2:30 p.m., will meet at the Milton-Union Public Library. Participants listen to an audio book and work on a project, such as needlework or making greeting cards. • TRAVEL ABROAD: Dr. Vivian Blevins will speak about the college’s Travel Abroad program and answer questions about the itinerary and logistics of the group’s upcoming trip to England at 7 p.m. in the college’s library. • ROWDY MEETING: The Fort Rowdy Gathering will have its “Gold Medallion” ceremony at 7 p.m. in the Covington City Building. The event will honor the 2012 volunteers. • TENDERLOIN SANDWICH: American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer a tenderloin sandwich and fries for $5 from 6-7:30 p.m.

Sheriff’s office puts extra deputies on road The Miami County Sheriff ’s Office will be deploying extra deputies working a combined 70 hours in overtime for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The extra deputies have already began the traffic enforcement details, which will run through Sunday. The added enforcement will be for the sole purpose of enforcing all Ohio traffic statutes. Special emphasis will be placed on removing impaired drivers, seatbelt enforcement, speeders, stop

sign violators and other crash causing infractions. The deputies will be deployed throughout the county at various time frames. There will be a zero tolerance for violators during this time frame with no warnings being issued in an attempt to limit crashes on Miami County roadways and ensure everyone has a safe Thanksgiving holiday. The Thanksgiving holiday weekend has tradition-

ally seen a dramatic increase in crashes and crashes in which at least one driver has been drinking. The sheriff ’s office urges all motorists to have a designated driver if they choose to drink. The extra traffic enforcement is being made possible through a grant the sheriff’s office received this year from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. The grant funds the overtime for the deputies and pays some fuel costs.

M-U BOE waiting on the results of vote recount By JOHN BADEN Ohio Community Media johncbaden@gmail.com Even though the levy renewal of Milton-Union Schools failed at the polls two weeks ago by less than 1 percent, its board of education still very much wants the levy to pass. At a team management meeting last week, the board decided to have a recount with provisional votes added after a 14-vote difference between opposing and supporting voters on Election Day. According to the Miami County Board of Elections, the final vote tally will not be revealed until next Monday. If the levy still does not pass, Klein said that the board will place the same

WEST MILTON levy renewal back on the ballot for a vote in May 2013 after doing additional community outreach. While nothing is set in stone, Klein said that ideas on outreach that were tossed around included using social media and having a couple board members available one evening for questions at a local restaurant. If residents vote yes in 2013, the school will not miss any tax collections. The five-year, 10.9 mill levy, which was first passed in 2003, is used for operating costs for teachers, gas and electric, and transportation and would not increase taxes on area residents.

“The levy raises about $1,700,000, and we will be in deep financial difficulty if it is not renewed,” Klein said. Demolition update While abatement will not be done until the middle of January, fencing will be put up next month on Jefferson Street around the old high school building, which was being used as locker rooms during the football season. The current goal in the demolition process at 112 Spring St. is removing the leftover rubble from the former elementary and middle school buildings. This week, a two-hour dust inspection will be done on the property as construction workers crush the remaining concrete and bricks at the site.

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Historical society Newton offers elects officers senior dinner COVINGTON — The

Covington Newberry Historical Society will not meet in December, but will meet again Jan. 14. Election of officers was held during the November TUESDAY meeting. Mary Landis was named president, Dwayne • ANNUAL MEETING: Bagwell was named vice The Elizabeth Township Historical Society will host its president, Eileen Yaney was voted as secretary and annual membership meetKate Smith as secretary ing in the multipurpose and corresponding secreroom of the Elizabeth Township Community tary combined. Center. Following a short business meeting, a presentation will be made entitled “the Roaring ’20s through the Carver’s Eyes.” Sue Curtis, board member of the ETHS, will provide excerpts from the George Carver journals covering the decade 19201930. The social events of the period as well as fashion, commerce, fads and transportation will be shared.

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PLEASANT HILL — Reservations are due Dec. 6 for Newton's announce 21st annual Senior Citizen’s Christmas Dinner, to be held at 5:30 p.m. Dec.12. The menu will consist of turkey with all the trimmings. Entertainment will be provided. A brief message from the superintendent will be followed by food, fellow-

ship and fun. If you are a resident of Newton School District, age 60 and up, call the school at (937) 673-2002.

Soup, sandwich meal offered TROY — The Troy Order of the Eastern Star will offer a soup and sandwich dinner, along with a vendor sale, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, second floor, Troy. The building is handicapped accessible.

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W. Va., on election gender gap: Women have been voting in presidential elections since the 1920s, but rarely have their ballots been more decisive than the recent election. President Barack Obama won with a slim 51 percent of the popular vote, in part because he had strong support from women voters. According to tracking surveys by the Gallup Poll, women favored Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney 56 percent to 44 percent. On the other hand, Romney was favored by men 54 percent to 46 percent. That 20-point gender gap is the largest ever measured by Gallup, which began compiling votes by subgroups in 1952. That is up from a 14point gender gap when Obama was first elected in 2008. The next highest gender gap was 18 points in 1984. In that case, men and women were on the same side, favoring Ronald Reagan over Walter Mondale, but Reagan had a 28-point advantage with men and only a 10point advantage with women. This election, the gender gap was one of the factors that made a difference, along with several other interesting factors. Exit polling shows that Obama gained support from women, the poor, people of color, urbanites, young voters and those who worship infrequently. Romney gained from men, rural Americans, senior citizens and those who worship regularly. … Clearly after the results from the election, political parties and their candidates are going to be more mindful of these issues and listening more closely to the concerns of women voters. The Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise on the postelection GOP: Republicans were stunned with the defeat of Mitt Romney because they truly thought they had the better candidate and a winning message. They didn’t, however, and if they don’t accept this reality, they will face many more gloomy election nights. Early indications suggest that Republicans are recognizing that they have to make some changes. Retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison admitted that the party was hurt by “stupid things” said by some candidates, like insensitive comments about rape. Fox News host Sean Hannity, not a Republican official but a highly influential conservative, said he has “evolved” on immigration and recognizes the need for a sensible solution. Republicans need more rethinking like that if they want to win more elections. They will still be conservative, of course, but they don’t have to be unreasonable extremists who demand ideological purity on every issue. If this keeps up, the only people worried might be Democrats.

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock, on bureaucratic impulses: Business hasn’t been all that great the past four years in America. But, never fear, our president has noticed — even if it’s taken him a while. His solution: a new U.S. secretary of business. That’s right. A whole new federal department would consolidate and coordinate the current six federal agencies dealing with trade and commerce so American businesses would need to contact only one, overbranching organization for help. Voilà! Problem solved. The proposed change is supposed to simplify matters. Why do some of us suspect it would only complicate them? … Now one more government agency would be added to the mix. It’s all supposed to help American business. … If this administration were serious about wanting to help, it would have got serious some time ago about cutting the taxes and red tape that burden American business, especially small business. Not add another layer of bureaucracy to all that. Besides, doesn’t the country already have a secretary of commerce with full department to match? Is this a reform or just duplication? Here’s hoping the president was just rolling out another campaign ploy the other day — an instant solution to a problem he could no longer ignore, at least not before Election Day. Let’s hope so. Because this brilliant idea sounds more like an awful one.

Be thankful for more than just material things It’s that time of year — the time of year when I start getting more emotional than usual, as well as more philanthropic than usual. It’s Thanksgiving week, already. The time has flown by this year. At this time last year I wrote about how most people say how thankful they are for all the things we should be, but we really mean we are thankful for our phones, our cars and our houses. Well this year is different. While I am always thankful for the things I should be, it is for some reason multiplied this year. I think it’s because I have been the typical progression of a child to a grown adult. You all know what I mean. Going from the point where you love your family, then you become too cool for school and then you get knocked down a couple of notches and realize you are exactly where you need to be thanks to those people who knocked you down to where you needed to be. Last Friday I spent the day with my parents. While it is a

Katie Yantis Troy Daily News Columnist day that happens every year for a special occasion I don’t always get to go like I would like. This year it hit home really hard that life is moving faster and faster each year and we have to work harder and harder to maintain the relationships with our family and friends that we should. As I listened to my dad give a speech on our family and the medical conditions of many in our family, it was like a blow to the heart. As my dad fought back emotions talking about my late grandpa and grandma and my mom was fighting back tears as well, I sat there in awe and again realized how lucky I am and how thankful I am to have them in my life. We may not always see eye to eye and

we may get in arguments, but I am more thankful for my parents. I am thankful for their lessons they have taught me, the love they have given and continue to give unconditionally and the morals and values they have instilled upon me. Moving forward I am able to make good decisions because of what my parents have taught me. I am the person I am because of my parents. Sometimes, I think I am too emotional, too caring and too loving, but I realize that God made me that way and my parents kept me that way and I am thankful for every ounce of it. Aside from my family, which is of the utmost importance, I am thankful for Key. He is an answered prayer. He is my second chance. When I was ready to give up, I found a new friend that became more, my best friend and my love. I am also thankful for my new circle of friends and family I have grown to know and love through Key. They are such warm souls that have changed my perspective on a lot of

things. His family has become an integral part of my life and heading into a new year I can’t wait to see what is in store for us. Above all , as I look at our world and everything happening in it — I am thankful for all my basic necessities. I am thankful for my renewed relationship with the one that is in control. I am thankful for my apartment. I am thankful for my job. I am thankful for a safe community, food on the table and clothes on my body. Don’t take them for granted as you go shopping this weekend. As Americans we tend to think we need a whole lot more than what we really do. If you start to get angry over not being able to get that smart phone or third or fourth jacket, remember there are some not only in other nations but maybe right down the street from you that would die for one jacket and one sweater and a meal that day.

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MICHAEL JAY MILLER, SR. TROY — Michael Jay Miller, Sr., of Troy, Ohio, died at 8:12 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, as a result of an automobile accident in Miami County, Ohio. He was born on June 1, 1977, in Piqua, Ohio, to Garry Miller of Piqua, and Doreen K. (Sweitzer) Snell of Troy. In addition to his parents, Michael is survived by his stepfather, William M. Snell of Troy; girlfriend, Carrie Belcher of Troy; two daughters, Raven Bolden and Rylee Miller both of Sidney; one son, Michael Jay Miller, Jr. of Piqua; brother, Jeremy Miller of Piqua, Ohio; sister MILLER and brother-in-law, Dawn and Joshua Martin of Troy; grandparents, Harold and Lillian Sweitzer of Tamarac, Florida; aunts, Diana Jones

and Patricia Curtner both of Piqua, and Candi Miller; uncle, Craig Miller; niece, Olivia Martin; and nephew, Ethan Martin. He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Patricia Sweitzer; and uncle, Carl Sweitzer. He was a 1995 graduate of Piqua High School and loved working around the house. He liked fishing, camping and working on cars. He was employed at Wendy’s restaurant, Troy, Ohio. Services will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, at Baird Funeral Home, Troy. Friends may call from 5-7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

MARY CATHERINE TEETERS MARKLE, Ind. — Mary Catherine Teeters, 81, of Markle, Ind., formerly of Piqua, died at 8:09 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, at Lutheran Hospital, Ft. Wayne, Ind. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 28, 1931, to the late Lawrence and Helen (Dill) Armstrong. On Aug. 19, 1949, in Columbus, she married Bertram A. Teeters. He preceded her in death on Jan. 21, 1997. Mary is survived by two sons, Bert Teeters of Columbus, and Robert A. Teeters of Piqua, Ohio; one daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Glenn McGillvary of Markle, Ind.; four grandchildren, Rodney McGillvary of Ft. Wayne, Ind., Stacy Thomas of Ft.

Wayne, Ind., Ben Teeters of Pleasant Hill, Ohio, and Eileen Teeters of Piqua; and three great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two brothers. Mary was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, Piqua. She was a loving homemaker. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, 2012 at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, Ohio, with Rev. Ronald A. Shreffler officiating. Burial will follow in Miami Memorial Park, Covington, Ohio. Friends may call from noon until 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sower.com.

JOSEPH M. ‘JOE’ AKINS PIQUA — Joseph M. “Joe” Akins, 44, of Piqua, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, at his residence. He was born Sept. 30, 1968, in Piqua. Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Janet Galligan-Dent and Mark Dent of Logan; his grandmother, Dorothy Galligan of Piqua; a sister, Melinda Akins of Columbus; a nephew Caleb Akins; two aunts, Connie Martin and Karen (Randy) Eisenzimmer AKINS of Piqua; and numerous cousins and extended family members. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Joseph Galligan. Joe attended Piqua Central High

School and the Upper Valley JVS. He had previously worked at the former Medalist-Allen A Company. Graveside services will be conducted at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23, at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000 Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38101-9908. Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

OPAL M. BOYER TIPP CITY - Opal M. Boyer, 92, of Tipp City, passed away at her home on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. She was born Oct. 23, 1920, to Walter and Glenna Mae (Babbington) Brown. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, William T. Boyer in 1998; daughter, Glenna Sparks; and brothers, Virgil, Charles BOYER and Francis Brown. She is survived by her children, Rosezetta (Jamie) Craig of Tipp City, Marjorie Watts of Ohio; and step son, Charles “Sonny” Boyer; brother, Clyde “Bean” (Dorothy) Brown of Tipp City, Clarence (Pat) Brown of Jupiter, Fla., and Ellen Hatfield of Troy; 16 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchil-

dren; and several nieces and nephews. Opal was an Army WAC during World War II, a member of the American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, and was a loving and devoted, wife, mother and homemaker. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City. Burial will follow in Maple Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Contributions may be made in memory of Opal to Hospice of Miami County. Online condolence may be made to www.fringsandbayliff.com.

DEATHS OF NATIONAL INTEREST • Bonita Lynn Fields Elder RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Former Mouseketeer Bonita Lynn Fields Elder, an agile dancer who showcased those skills on the 1950s children’s show, has died in Indiana at age 68. Fields’ cousin, Robbin Myers, of DeBary, Fla., said Tuesday that Fields died Saturday at a Richmond hospital following a two-year battle with throat cancer. She said Fields moved to Indiana a few years ago to care for her

ailing, now-deceased mother. Fields was 12 when her dancing abilities helped her win a slot on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in 1957 in the show’s third season. She auditioned in California, where her family had moved from Indiana when she was 9. Myers says Fields went by the name Lynn but adopted the stage name “Bonnie,” a shortened version of her first name, for the show.

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Elliott Ludlow, Sarah and Jennifer DAYTON — James W. Schuyler, 78, of Dayton, passed away, Sunday, Nov. Small; aunts, Alma Wicker and Alta Taulbee; uncle, Clayton Miller; special 18, 2012. He was born Dec. 30, 1933, in Dale, sister-in-law, Sandy Taylor; numerous Ky., to the late Oral Wages and Bessie other relatives and many good friends. He was preceded in death by his first Roberts (Keeton). wife, Fleeta M. Schuyler. Jim was a past member of the Toast Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Master’s Club in Springfield, a member of the Central United Methodist Church Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, at Newcomer in Springfield and the American Legion Funeral Home (4104 Needmore Road) where funeral services will be Post 598 in Kettering. conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, He managed SREPCO Electronics in Nov. 24, 2012. Dayton and Springfield for 33 years In lieu of flowers, donations made to and worked as the electronics managthe American Heart Association or er for Meijer’s on Harshman Road for American Red Cross. many years. To send the family a special mesJim is survived by his wife, Sharon Schuyler; children, James R. (Loraine) sage, please visit www.NewcomerDayton.com. Jim was a Schuyler, Robin (Donald) Ludlow and loving father and husband and will be defense but opposed expensive, high- Tracy (Dan) Holbrook; grandchildren, greatly missed by his family and Michael (Christine), Phillip and tech weaponry. friends. Nicholas Schuyler, Kyle, Kristina and The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act was approved in 1985. It was designed to end federal deficits by 1991 and required LOIS I. DUDLEY automatic spending cuts if annual deficit targets were missed. Most of all she will be remembered OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — Lois I. Congress rolled back the timetable (White) Dudley, 93, of Old Saybrook, as loving our Lord. each year, and the 1991 budget that was passed away on Sunday, Nov. 18, Lois is survived by her children, Mary supposed to be balanced carried the sec- 2012, at Gladeview Healthcare Center L. Doerk of Fort Benton, Mont., Chris ond-highest deficit in history. In 1995, 10 in Old Saybrook after a period of D. Carroll of Centerbrook, Conn. and years after the law went on the books, declining health. Anne Hopping of Mount Dora, Fla. Rudman lamented what could have Beloved wife of the late Wray E. She also is survived by her been. godson, George Meeker of Troy, Ohio; Dudley, who died in 2006, Lois was “Had we stuck to that plan, had the born in Denver, Ind., daughter of the as well as her five grandchildren, Congress not failed to follow it through late Rev. Alvin F. and Stella C. Andrew D. Carroll, Christina A. Carroll, in fact, had presidents not failed to fol- (Baer)White. Stephen Doerk, Cathy Hopping and low through we would not be where we She was a 1940 graduate of Leah Hopping; and two great are today,” Rudman said. grandchildren, Caitlin and Conor Oklahoma University, was an avid He said balancing the budget would golfer and bridge player, she was Carroll. require making wealthy retirees pay known for her graciousness, fun and Funeral services will be conducted at more of their medical costs, slowing the athleticism. She even sang with Frank 10 a.m. Wednesday at Robinson, growth of discretionary spending, cut- Sinatra on stage and sang on the radio Wright & Weymer Funeral Home, 34 ting waste in some agencies and elimi- with her sisters for years. Main St., Centerbrook, Conn. nating unnecessary agencies. Interment will be private. She retired to Tubac, Ariz. and lived He continued the fight after leaving there for 22 years until relocating to To share a condolence with Lois’s family please visit us at rwwfh.com. the Senate. He and former Democratic Old Saybrook in 2007. Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts founded the Concord Coalition, which FUNERAL DIRECTORY campaigns for a balanced budget. During the biggest scandal of the A Mass of Christian Piqua, Ohio, died at 9:38 Reagan years, Rudman, an outspoken • Tyler T. Ebersole Burial will be conducted p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, member of the Senate’s Iran-Contra BRADFORD — Tyler T. Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, Committee, said key administration offi- Ebersole, 22, of Bradford, 2012, in his residence. Arrangements are pend- at Visitation Catholic cials had showed “pervasive dishonesty” died Friday, Nov. 16, Church in Eaton. ing at Melcher-Sowers and disdain for the law by selling 2012. Private services Barnes Funeral Homes Funeral Home. are being provided to his weapons to Nicaraguan rebels. in Eaton is assisting the During the 1987 hearings, he lectured family through the family. • Anna Mae Halderman Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. 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Police executed a search warrant at 1305 Brook St., Piqua, Tuesday morning and made two arrests of suspects who lived at the residence. Taken into custody were Tara R. Carnes, 32, pictured above, and Brandon D. Swan, 27, who were charged with trafficking and possession of drugs. Authorities found heroin, marijuana and prescription pills inside the home in small quantities. Police say the search was the result of a prior investigation.

Laura man upgraded to serious Staff Report A 49-year-old Laura man has been upgraded to serious condition following a single-vehicle crash on Horseshoe Bend Road on Sunday. Robert Gordon was traveling eastbound at about

8:30 a.m. when he veered off the road going south and struck several trees before being ejected. “If you took a saw and cut across the vehicle, that’s how it looked,” said Sergeant Lee McCartney of the 1986 Chevy Camaro.

Alcohol is suspected to have played a role in the crash. Gordon was transported to Miami Valley Hospital and was initially listed in critical condition. He was upgraded to serious condition about noon Monday.

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1 dead, 9 hurt in Arizona bus crash Driver of truck dies in head-on collision CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — A pickup truck going the wrong way on a rural Arizona interstate struck a charter bus head-on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring nine others, authorities said. The pickup truck burst into flames, and the driver was declared dead at the scene on Interstate 10 in Casa Grande, about 50 miles south of Phoenix. Authorities couldn’t immediately say if he died on impact or in the ensuing fire. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials identified the driver as Francis Wilkens Gibson Jr., 78, of Casa Grande. They said the cause of the crash remained under investigation and “nothing has been ruled out at this point.� DPS Capt. Brian Preston said investigators will be working to determine whether drugs or alcohol were a factor. Nine of the 15 passengers on the bus were injured, but none of the injuries was considered lifethreatening, DPS said. Two passengers were flown to Casa Grande Regional Medical

Hospital, and the other seven were taken to the same facility by ground ambulance. The bus driver was conscious and walking around when authorities arrived, Preston said. “Generally when you have a vehicle going the wrong way on an interstate, you’d think it would be much worse than this,� he said. The charter bus was owned by TBC Connexion and was travelling from Mexico to Phoenix, according to authorities. The names, ages and hometowns of the bus driver and passengers weren’t immediately released. Calls to TBC Conexion’s offices in Phoenix and Tucson weren’t returned Tuesday evening. DPS officials said that about two minutes before the 2:15 p.m. crash, they received two 911 calls about a driver on I-10 the main route from Phoenix to Tucson travelling east in the westbound lanes. “We were responding when the accident occurred,� said DPS spokesman Bart Graves.

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Police inspect a tour bus on the side of Interstate 10 about 50 miles south of Phoenix following a head-on collision with a pickup truck driving the wrong way on Tuesday, in Casa Grande, Ariz. The driver of the pickup truck was killed. The fiery crash closed the westbound lanes of the freeway near Interstate 8 for hours, backing up traffic for miles until one lane was reopened Tuesday

evening. The bus still sat on the side of the freeway, its front end crumpled from the impact, and several windows blown out. Graves said an 18-wheeler

jackknifed at the accident scene and hit the side of the bus, but the main damage was done by the pickup truck. The driver of the tractor-trailer wasn’t injured.

Turkey, pie and politics? T-Day family friction saw as moving rightward, and now considers himself a political moderate with liberal positions on issues like gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana he supports both and conservative positions on foreign and fiscal policies. Each Thanksgiving, Davidson typically loads up his family and makes the 130-mile drive to his parents’ house. This year, Davidson will take the kids to wife Kim’s family instead, but even that could be tricky: They are conservative as well. So Brian and Kim will try to avoid any topics that could lead, they say, to “an Obama rant� around the table. “Anything can cause it,� Brian says. “We’re just going to suck it up.� For some families, it’s not necessarily the presidential race that divided them. The Cox family in Colorado has long been split over the legalization of marijuana ever since

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family in Alabama. In fact, things have gotten so tense over politics between Brian Davidson, a 40-year-old attorney in Helena, and his father, 130 miles away in Russellville, that they’ve changed plans, forgoing their usual gathering. “We’re not even going,� says Brian, who voted for Barack Obama, and describes his father as “a little to the right of Glenn Beck.� Better to skip this one, he says, than suffer “a non-recoverable blowup.� Davidson, a Boy Scout leader and the father of two school-age sons, once was firmly conservative, even serving as an officer in the Young Republicans Club at the University of North Alabama. His parents particularly Dad always taught him and his brother to think for themselves, he says. And so he did. Davidson eventually realized he no longer fit in with the Republican Party, which he

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Syrian rebels seize base, arms trove BASE OF THE 46TH REGIMENT, Syria (AP) — After a nearly two-month siege, Syrian rebels overwhelmed a large military base in the north of the country and made off with tanks, armored vehicles and truckloads of munitions that rebel leaders say will give them a boost in the fight against President Bashar Assad’s army. The rebel capture of the base of the Syrian army’s 46th Regiment is a sharp blow to the government’s efforts to roll back rebels gains and shows a rising level of organization among opposition forces. More important than the base’s fall, however, are the weapons the rebels found inside. At a rebel base where most of the haul was taken after the weekend victory, rebel fighters unloaded half a dozen large trucks piled high with green boxes full of mortars, artillery shells, rockets and rifles taken from the base. Parked nearby were five tanks, two armored vehicles, two rocket launchers and two heavy-caliber artillery cannons. Around 20 Syrian soldiers captured in the battle were put to work carrying munitions boxes, barefoot and stripped to the waist. Rebels refused to let reporters talk to them or see where they were being held. “There has never been a battle before with this much booty,” said Gen. Ahmad al-Faj of the rebels Joint Command, a grouping of rebel brigades that was involved in the siege. Speaking on Monday at the rebel base, set up in a former customs office at Syria’s Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, he said the haul would be distributed among the brigades.

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Syrian fighters celebrate the victory on top of a tank they took after storming a military base in Aleppo, Monday. For months, Syria’s rebels have gradually been destroying government checkpoints and taking over towns in the northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo along the Turkish border. Rebel fighters say that weapons seized in such battles have been essential to their transformation from ragtag brigades into forces capable of challenging Assad’s professional army. arms Cross-border smuggling from Turkey and Iraq has also played a role, although the most common complaint among rebel fighters is that they lack ammunition and heavy weapons, munitions and anti-aircraft weapons to fight Assad’s air force. It is unclear how many government bases the rebels have overrun during the 20-month conflict, mostly because they rarely try to hold captured facilities. Staying in the captured bases would make them sitting ducks for regime airstrikes.

“Their strategy is to hit and run,” said Elias Hanna, a retired Lebanese army general and Beirutbased strategic analyst. “They’re trying to hurt the regime where it hurts by bisecting and compartmentalizing Syria in order to dilute the regime’s power.” The 46th Regiment was a major pillar of the government’s force near the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s economic hub, and its fall cuts a major supply line to the regime’s army, Hanna said. Government forces have been battling rebels for months over control of Aleppo. “It’s a tactical turning point that may lead to a strategic shift,” he said. At the 46th Regiment’s base, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Aleppo, the main three-story command building showed signs of the battle its walls punctured apparently from rebel rocket attacks. The smaller barracks buildings scattered around the compound, about 2.6 square kilometers (1 square mile)

in size, had been looted, with mattresses overturned. A number of buildings had been torched. Reporters from The Associated Press who visited the base late Monday saw no trace of the government troops who had been defending it other than the dead bodies of seven soldiers. Two of them, in camouflage uniforms, lay outside the command building. One of them was missing his head, apparently blown off in an explosion. The rest were in a nearby clinic. Four dead soldiers were on stretchers set on the floor, one with a large gash in his arm, another with what appeared to be a large shrapnel hole in the back of his head. The last lay on a gurney in another room, his arms and legs bandaged, a bullet hole in his cheek and a splatter of blood on the wall and ceiling behind him as if he had been shot where he lay. It could not be deter-

mined how or when the soldiers had been killed. The final assault that took the base came after more than 50 days of siege that left the soldiers inside demoralized, according to fighters who took part. Working together and communicating by radio, a number of different rebels groups divided up the area surrounding the base and each cut the regime’s supply lines, said Abdullah Qadi, a rebel field commander. Over the course of the siege, dozens of soldiers defected, some telling the rebels that those inside were short of food, Qadi said. The rebels decided to attack Saturday afternoon when they felt the soldiers inside were weak and the rebels had enough ammunition to finish the battle, Qadi said. The battle was over by nightfall on Sunday. Seven rebel fighters were killed in the battle, said al-Faj of the rebels’ Joint Command. Other rebel leaders gave similar numbers. It remains unclear how many soldiers remained in the base when the rebels launched their attack and what happened to them. Al-Faj said all soldiers inside were either killed or captured. He said he didn’t know how many were killed, but that the rebels had taken about 50 prisoners, all of whom would be tried in a rebel court. Aside from the 20 prisoners seen at the rebel’s Bab al-Hawa base, the AP was unable to see any other captured soldiers. The Syrian government does not respond to requests for comment on military affairs and said nothing about the base’s capture. It says the rebels are terrorists backed by

foreign powers that seek to destroy the country. Disorganization has plagued the Syrian opposition since the start of the anti-Assad uprising in March 2011, with exile groups pleading for international help even when they have no control over those fighting inside of Syria. A newly formed Syrian opposition coalition received a boost Tuesday, when Britain officially recognized it as the sole representative of the Syrian people. The National Coalition of the Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces was formed in the Gulf nation of Qatar on Oct. 11 under pressure from the United States for a stronger, more united opposition body to serve as a counterweight to more extremist forces. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday the body’s members gave assurances to be a “moderate political force committed to democracy” and that the West must “support them and deny space to extremist groups.” The United States and the European Union have both spoken well of the body but stopped short of offering it full recognition. Key to the body’s success will be its ability to build ties with the disparate rebel groups fighting inside Syria. Many rebel leaders say they don’t recognize the new body, and a group of extremist Islamist factions on Monday rejected it, announcing that they had formed an “Islamic state” in Aleppo. Anti-regime activists say nearly 40,000 people have been killed since Syria’s crisis started 20 months ago.

Israel-Hamas cease-fire remains elusive Fighting continues to rage on both sides of border JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the Hamas militant group edged closer to a cease-fire Tuesday to end a weeklong Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, but after a day of furious diplomatic efforts involving the U.S. secretary of state, U.N. chief and Egypt’s president, a deal remained elusive and fighting raged on both sides of the border. Israeli tanks and gunboats pummeled targets in Gaza in what appeared to be a last-minute burst of fire, while at least 200 rockets were fired into Israel. As talks dragged on near midnight, Israeli and Hamas officials, communicating through Egyptian mediators, expressed hope that a deal would soon be reached, but cautioned that it was far from certain. “If there is a possibility of

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has not responded to some demands, which delayed the deal,” Hamas official Izzat Risheq said. Hamas officials refused to discuss the remaining sticking points. Israeli media quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak as telling a closed meeting that Israel wanted a 24-hour test period of no rocket fire to see if Hamas could enforce a truce. Palestinian officials briefed on the negotiations said Hamas wanted assurances of a comprehensive deal that included new border arrangements and were resisting Israeli proposals for a phased agreement. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Although Israel claims it has inflicted heavy damage on militants’ capabilities, its roughly 1,550 airstrikes and shelling attacks have failed to halt the rocket fire.

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The Christmas Secret ('00) Richard Thomas.

A Town Without Christmas Patricia Heaton.

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The Stepfather ('09) Dylan Walsh. Shadow of Fear ('12) Will Estes.

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Love, Lies and Murder ('91) John Ashton, Clancy Brown. CookThin Mom Cook Airline (R) Airline (R) Among the Dead (R) psychic "Round 4" (R) Airline (R) Airline (R) Among the Dead (R) (LRW) (4:) Runway Road (R) The Conversation (R) PoliticsNation Hardball The Ed Show Rachel Maddow The Last Word The Ed Show Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) Hardball '70s (R) '70s (R) '70s (R) To Be Announced To Be Announced (MTV) '70s (R) NBC Sports Talk Basketball NCAA Miami vs William & M. (L) To Be Announced NFL Turning Point NFL Turning Point Sports Illustrated Show (NBCSN) Pro Football Talk HellHigh "Do or Die" (R) Border Wars (R) Wars "Traffic" (R) Wars "War Games" Hell on the Highway (N) Wars "War Games" (R) Hell on the Highway (R) (NGEO) Wars "Traffic" (R) Yes Dear Yes Dear Friends (R) Friends (R) Friends (R) Friends (R) (NICK) Sponge (R) Sponge (R) Victori. (R) Victori. (R) Figure Out Figure (R) All That (R) K & Kel (R) Hollywood Heights Law & Order: C.I. (R)

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Hero ('92) Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman.

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The laws of leftovers — just in time for thanksgiving Dear Readers: Tomorrow is thanksgiving, and that means there likely will be leftovers for your family for a few days. Here are some hints to help you safely consume and store leftovers: • Make sure to freeze or refrigerate all leftover items within two hours of finishing the meal. The Food and Drug Administration recommends “discarding any perishables (foods that can spoil or become contaminated by bacteria if unrefrigerated) left out at room temperature for longer than two hours.â€? • Take turkey off the bone before storing, and you can

Hints from Heloise Columnist keep the turkey meat in the freezer for up to six months. • Store stuffing for three to four days in a refrigerator, or for a month in a freezer. • When reheating leftover gravy or sauces, make sure to bring the gravy to a rolling boil before serving to prevent illness from eating gravy that

may contain bacteria. • Any cooked side dishes (including mashed potatoes) should keep in the refrigerator for three to four days, and then should be thrown away. • Mashed potatoes can be kept in the freezer for up to 10 months when stored in an airtight container. • When it is trash day, take all leftovers that haven’t been eaten for three days after Thanksgiving meal and throw away. — Heloise CAPERS DEFINED Dear Heloise: What exactly are capers, and how are they used in cooking? — Amanda T., via email

A staple in many Mediterranean meals, capers are actually pickled flower buds harvested from a bush in the area. They are interesting little round, green “balls,� found in jars in the olive section of most grocery stores. The smaller, or nonpareil, caper is most commonly used in chicken piccata and pasta dishes, adding salty flavor. Another hint: Capers will keep indefinitely in the refrigerator. Just make sure to store them in the brine they are packed in. Take out only the capers needed, and leave behind the rest in the remaining brine. — Heloise

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Don’t lend money or make important decisions today. Even though you feel sympathetic and generous toward others, wait until tomorrow to make firm decisions. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Relations with partners and close friends are warm and lovey-dovey today. Everything is pie-in-the-sky, pleasant and enjoyable. Relax with loved ones. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Romance with a co-worker or a flirtation that is job-related is likely today. You’ll enjoy making something look better at work or even decorating your workspace. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today you’re in a romantic mood, which means you could fall in love with anyone. Just be aware that you’re wearing rose-colored glasses and that things look better than they really are. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Family gatherings will be fun and pleasurable today. You’ll also enjoy redecorating or fixing up where you live. However, do not sign real-estate deals or spend money. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You might spend today daydreaming or fantasizing about things. Don’t worry — it’s that kind of day. Do not sign important papers. (Ya think?) LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is a poor day to make major purchases of anything other than food. You’re tempted to spend money on luxury and elegance — don’t do it. Wait until tomorrow. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Relationships that begin today will be illusory even if you feel you have met your soul mate. It’s easy to deceive yourself, because you have Vaseline on your lens. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You might feel great compassion for someone who is less fortunate or suffering. If you can do anything, by all means do so; but remain realistic and don’t make promises. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Creative activity with others, especially in group situations, will be productive and abundant. It’s easy to think outside the box today; plus, everyone wants to cooperate with one another. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You might develop a crush on your boss or strike up a romance with someone older, richer or more experienced. Don’t get too carried away, because you probably have pixie dust in your eyes. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) If you feel yourself being swept away by a charismatic teacher, be on your guard. Today you are very susceptible to persuasive discussions about religion and politics. YOU BORN TODAY Your freedom-loving nature makes you grab life with gusto. You relish excitement and enthusiasm! One of the ways you keep yourself free is that you have the ability to ignore what others think of you. You are interested in people from all walks of life. Your ideals include improving the lives of those around you. In the year ahead, an important choice will arise. Choose wisely. Birthdate of: William Kotzwinkle, writer; Jamie Lee Curtis, actress; Billie Jean King, tennis champion. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Today

Tonight

Mild, clearing skies High: 58°

Thursday

Mostly clear Low: 42°

Friday

Mild temps High: 62° Low: 38°

Saturday

Rain likely, colder High: 52° Low: 32°

Sunday

Partly cloudy High: 38° Low: 25°

Partly cloudy High: 44° Low: 25°

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Low: 8 at Alamosa, Colo.

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Dayton 59° | 43°

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Cleveland 55° | 36°

Toledo 59° | 34°

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................58 at 3:56 p.m. Low Yesterday..............................42 at 6:30 a.m. Normal High .....................................................49 Normal Low ......................................................33 Record High ........................................73 in 1942 Record Low.........................................11 in 1914

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m.............................trace Month to date ................................................0.76 Normal month to date ...................................2.22 Year to date .................................................28.79 Normal year to date ....................................36.76 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Wednesday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2012. There are 40 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 21, 1942, the Alaska Highway, also known as the Alcan Highway, was formally opened at Soldier’s Summit in the Yukon Territory. On this date: • In 1920, the Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians. • In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of

Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. • In 1931, the Universal horror film “Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff as the monster and Colin Clive as his creator, was first released. • In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate. • In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev. • One year ago: Detroit’s Justin

Verlander became the first starting pitcher in a quarter-century to be voted Most Valuable Player. • Today’s Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial is 92. Actress Marlo Thomas is 75. Singer Dr. John is 72. Actress Juliet Mills is 71. Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 68. Comedian-director Harold Ramis is 68. Actress Goldie Hawn is 67. Gospel singer Steven Curtis Chapman is 50. Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 49. Singeractress Bjork (byork) is 47. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman is 46. MLB All-Star player Ken Griffey Jr. is 43.

Rubble cleanup a massive task in NY, NJ boats so the rebuilding can begin. Three weeks in, it is an effort that has strained the resources of sanitation departments and landfill operators, and caused headaches and heartache for thousands of families in the sprawling disaster zone. The lucky have only had to empty their basements of soggy belongings. Others have been forced to strip their flood-ravaged homes down to the studs and pile drywall, furniture, clothing and appliances on the sidewalk. “We’ve seen people put virtually all their worldly possessions at the curb,” said Mike Deery, a spokesman for the town of Hempstead, ®

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IMMEDIATE POSITIONS FOR

240 Healthcare

FULL–TIME DRIVERS

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Billing Position

available in busy physician office. Experience preferred. Please email resume to: mms.mwend@yahoo.com

OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED In observance of the

Thanksgiving Holiday

the Classifieds Dept. of the Sidney Daily News Troy Daily News Piqua Daily Call and Weekly Record Herald will be closed on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 We will be available on Monday, November 26 at 8am to assist you with classified advertising needs.

Any cancellations made by voicemail will be effective with the November 28 edition.

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WANTING A CAREER IN THE ELECTRICAL FIELD?

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Dayton based contractor currently seeking applicants for an electrical helper position. Applicants must possess good work ethics, be able to pass a pre-employment physical and drug screen, and have reliable transportation. No prior electrical experience is requited. This full-time position includes benefits like paid-time off and educational assistance. If interested, apply in person: 1885 Southtown Blvd. Dayton, OH 45439 between the hours of 8:00am-11:00am & 12:30pm-4:00pm Monday-Friday. SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY!!!

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Classifieds that work 280 Transportation 125 Lost and Found

LOST CAT, black and white male neutered Please call if see (937)339-1744

MISSING BOSTON TERRIERS (1) male and (1) female (937)689-0880

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OTR DRIVERS CDL Grads may qualify

DEDICATED ROUTES/HOME DAILY FULL BENEFITS INCLUDING 401 K, DENTAL & VISION PAID VACATIONS & HOLIDAYS CDL CLASS A REQUIRED 2 YEARS EXPERIENCE GOOD MVR

CALL (419)733-0642

DRIVERS $0.40/mile

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Continental Express in Sidney, OH has immediate openings for CDLA drivers.

Great Pay & Benefits!

4 weeks vacation/ year Home weekly Health/ Dental/Vision Assigned Truck Direct Deposit $0.40/mile

Must have CDLA and recent OTR experience. If less than 1 year experience can be teamed with another driver. Call Dave during the week at 800-497-2100 or on the weekend/ evenings at 937-726-3994 or www.ceioh.com

Call (937)454-9035 between 9am-3pm, Monday - Friday only All calls outside these hours will not be considered RN Supervisors Casual 1st & 2nd shifts LPN's Casual ~ All Shifts STNA's FT ~ 2nd & 3rd PT ~ All Shifts Dietary Assistants Full time 1st and 2nd Shifts We are looking for experienced people. Come in and fill out an application and speak with Beth Bayman, Staff Development. Koester Pavilion 3232 North County Road 25A Troy, OH 45373 (I-75 at exit 78) 937.440.7663 Phone 937.335.0095 Fax

2 & 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS Troy ranches and townhomes. Different floor plans to choose from. Garages, fireplaces, appliances including washer and dryers. Corporate apartments available. Visit www.firsttroy.com Call us first! (937)335-5223 DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $500/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

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NOTICE

Writing and photography

Better Business Bureau 15 West Fourth St. Suite 300 Dayton, OH 45402 www.dayton.bbb.org 937.222.5825

Christina Chalmers, Editor

◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ NOW HIRING! ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆

LABORS: $9.50/HR

CDL Drivers: $11.50/HR

APPLY: 15 Industry Park Ct., Tipp City (937)667-6772

235 General

MANURE SPREADER, International Model 550 manure spreader with optional slop gate. $2500 may trade. (937)489-1725 TROY, 1 & 2 Bedrooms, appliances, CA, water, trash paid, $425 & $525 monthly. $200 Deposit Special! (937)673-1821

TROY, 1633 Brook Park, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, appliances. $695. (937)335-0261.

TROY area, 2 bedroom townhouses, 1-1/2 bath, furnished appliances, W/D hookup, A/C, No dogs $475. (937)339-6776.

320 Houses for Rent

PIQUA, 307 Fourth Street. 3 bedroom. $500 month, $250 deposit. (937)214-0431

PIQUA, 910 New Haven. 3 bedroom, 1.5 car, CA, fenced yard. $850, deposit. (937)778-9303, (937)604-5417.

PROPANE TANK, 1000 gallon propane tank, good condition. $1250 (937)489-1725

545 Firewood/Fuel

FIREWOOD, $125 a cord pick up, $150 a cord delivered, $175 a cord delivered and stacked (937)308-6334 or (937)719-3237 FIREWOOD, All hardwood, $150 per cord delivered or $120 you pick up, (937)726-2780.

FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, $120 you pick up. ( 9 3 7 ) 8 4 4 - 3 7 5 6 (937)844-3879 FIREWOOD seasoned and split. $150 cord delivered, $80 half cord delivered. (Miami County). Call (937)559-6623, Thank you.

TROY MeadowLane ranch with basement, just completely remodeled, $875 month or possible land contract (937)308-0679

SEASONED FIREWOOD, $120 a cord you pick up, $140 a cord delivered. (937)339-5198 or (937)552-1303

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INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS

WANTED WANTED Drivers must have: Valid drivers license Reliable transportation State minimum insurance

Please call 937-440-5263 or 937-440-5260 and leave a message with your name, address and phone number. Your phone call will be returned in the order in which it is received.

skills required.

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Please send resume to:

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240 Healthcare

240 Healthcare

cchalmers@dailyadvocate.com Deadline: Dec. 7th

Delivering exceptional care begins with experienced people. At Wilson Memorial Hospital, you will find that every day is a fresh opportunity to make a difference. Join the Wilson team and become part of our friendly, caring staff.

Daily Advocate 428 S. Broadway, Greenville, OH 45331

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SIDNEY DAILY NEWS DISPLAY DEADLINE Friday, 11/16, 5pm Friday, 11/16, 5pm Monday, 11/19, 5pm Tuesday, 11/20, Noon Tuesday, 11/20, Noon

DISPLAY DEADLINE Tuesday, 11/20, 5pm

LINER DEADLINE Tuesday, 11/20, 3pm Tuesday, 11/20, 3pm Wed., 11/21, Noon Wed., 11/21, 3pm Wed., 11/21, 5pm

LINER DEADLINE Wed., 11/21, 3pm

LINER DEADLINE Tuesday, 11/20, 3pm Tuesday, 11/20, 3pm Wed., 11/21, Noon Wed., 11/21, 3pm Wed., 11/21, 4pm Wed., 11/21, 5pm

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MIAMI COUNTY ADVOCATE DISPLAY DEADLINE Tuesday, 11/20, 5pm

LINER DEADLINE Wed., 11/21, 4pm

Please be advised our offices will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23. We will re-open on Monday, November 26 at 8am.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: 877-844-8385 SHELBY COUNTY RETAIL ADVERTISING: 937-498-5980 MIAMI COUNTY RETAIL ADVERTISING: 937-440-5252

Casual Casual Part Time (30 hours per week) Full Time Casual Full Time Casual Casual Casual Casual

Apply on-line at www.wilsonhospital.com

TROY DAILY NEWS / PIQUA DAILY CALL DISPLAY DEADLINE Friday, 11/16, 5pm Friday, 11/16, 5pm Monday, 11/19, 5pm Tuesday, 11/20, Noon Tuesday, 11/20, Noon Tuesday, 11/20, Noon

Current openings include the following:

Acute Care – Patient Care Tech Acute Care – RN Behavioral Health – Mental Health Tech CCU – RN Health Health & Hospice – STNA Microbiology Section Head Radiology Tech Sleep Lab Athletic Trainer Housekeeper

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ISSUE Monday, 11/26

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535 Farm Supplies/Equipment

our editorial team.

548-3151

ISSUE Wednesday, 11/21 Thursday, 11/22 Friday, 11/23 Saturday, 11/24 Sunday, 11/25 Monday, 11/26

TIPP/ TROY, super clean! NEW: carpet, tile paint, appliances 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, no dogs, no prior evictions $525 (937)545-4513.

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We are looking for drivers to deliver the Troy Daily News on Daily, Sundays, holidays and on a varied as needed basis.

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PIQUA OR Troy, Studio Senior apartment, $449 Monthly, all utilities included, No Pets, (937)778-0524

The Daily Advocate is looking

Investigate in full before sending money as an advance fee. For further information, call or write:

ISSUE Monday, 11/26

TROY, 2 Bedroom with attached garage, LR, DR, FR, appliances, W/D, A/C, screen porch, very clean, no pets, one year lease, $650 (937)339-6736 or (937)286-1199

COMMUNITY MERCHANT Located on the Upper Valley Medical Center Campus

2 BEDROOM in Troy, Move in special, Stove, refrigerator, W/D, A/C, very clean, no pets. $525. (937)573-7908

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for a sports enthusiast to join

ISSUE Wednesday, 11/21 Thursday, 11/22 Friday, 11/23 Saturday, 11/24 Monday, 11/26

877-844-8385 We Accept

1273 CAMARO Court, 2 Bedroom, luxury apartment, garage, kitchen appliances. $600 Monthly, available now! (937)570-3288.

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TROY, 2 Bedroom Townhomes 1.5 bath, 1 car garage, $695

PIQUA, 2200 Navajo Trail, 3 bedroom townhouse, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage, 1850 sqft, $975 month, one month's deposit. Available 11/1. (937)335-9096.

THE

Full time position, Troy area. • Basic computer knowledge • Clean background / drug test

EVERS REALTY

PIQUA, Parkridge Place. Roomy 2 bedroom, 1.5 baths, CA, stackable washer/ dryer furnished, $525, no animals! (419)629-3569.

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom, Houses & Apts. SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday

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RECEPTIONIST / SECURITY OFFICER

305 Apartment

Troy Daily News

POLICY: Please Check Your Ad The 1st Day. It Is The Advertiser’s Responsibility To Report Errors Immediately. Publisher Will Not Be Responsible for More Than One Incorrect Insertion. We Reserve The Right To Correctly Classify, Edit, Cancel Or Decline Any Advertisement Without Notice.

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For Rent

Our drivers enjoy:

Call Jon Basye at: Piqua Transfer & Storage Co. (937)778-4535 or (800)278-0619

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We're growing.... And creating new jobs Class A CDL Driver Regional and OTR positions. Solo and team. Palletized. Truckload. Vans. 2 yrs experience required. Diesel Mechanic All shifts and experience considered. Call us today 1-800-288-6168

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THESE COMPANIES ARE HIRING!

Keep on Truckin' Who’s driving those big wheels?

DRIVERS - $0.40/mile Continental Express in Sidney, OH has immediate openings for CDLA drivers. Our drivers enjoy: • 4 weeks vacation/year • Home weekly • Health/ Dental/Vision • Direct Deposit Must have CDLA and recent OTR experience. If less than 1 year experience can be teamed with another driver.

Call Dave on the weekend or evenings at 937-726-3994 or during the week at 800-497-2100 or apply at www.ceioh.com

We’ve all been there, hot frustration roiling within as wet rail an 18-wheeler, laboring slowly up a hill on a two-lane highway. Rarely do we think about what is in that truck or who is driving it.

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) reports that there are over 3.4 million professional truck drivers nationwide – delivering the goods U.S. consumers need everyday of the year.

Professional truck drivers are more essential to the national economy than ever before and they are delivering America's freight safely and on time every day. Let's not forget

REGIONAL DRIVERS NEEDED

is growing!

in the Sidney, Ohio Terminal. O/O's welcome.

We Are Hiring Experienced

O/O’s get 75% of the line haul. • 100% fuel surcharge. Fuel discount program.

Diesel Technicians

Drivers are paid weekly. Drivers earn .38cents per mile for empty and loaded miles on dry freight. .40cents per mile for store runs. .42cents per mile for reefer & curtainside freight. No Hazmat. • Full Insurance package. Paid vacation. • 401K savings plan. • 95% no touch freight. Compounding Safety Bonus Program. Drivers are paid bump dock fees for customer live loads and live unloads.

Kirk NationaLease is a local, privately owned company with over 200 employees in 9 states. We are currently hiring in Sidney, Troy, Lima, Marysville and Columbus, OH. In addition, we need skilled people in Bluffton, Indianapolis, and Marion, IN. Requirements: • 2+ yrs. experience with diesel repair • Own tools • Clean driving record (CDL A preferred but not required) • ASE certifications or industry training is helpful

For additional info call Crosby Trucking

866-208-4752

Benefits include: Health & Life insurance, 401K, Uniforms paid, CDL paid, Holidays, Vacation, and weekly payroll.

Apply in person, or mail resume to HR Dept: 3885 W. Michigan Ave., P.O. Box 4369, Sidney, OH 45365 E/O/E •

1-800-860-2181 • www.knl.cc

A dictionary doesn’t define what a truck driver is.

OTR Truck Drivers Are You Looking For:

YOU do.

Based out of Jackson Center, Ohio

Come join us at Pohl Transportation

Up to 39 cpm w/ Performance Bonus $3000 Sign On Bonus 1 yr OTR – CDL A

Non-Automotive freight Home 3 out of 4 weekends Medical, Dental, Life, Disability 401k & Profit Sharing Vacation after 6 months Safety & Performance bonus $1,000 sign on bonus Starting pay .36 cpm to .41 cpm

HL PnO sportatio

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Call 1-800-672-8498 or visit: www.pohltransportation.com

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Apply on-line: www.whiteline-express.com

Whiteline Recruiter 1-888-560-9644

that everything we eat, everything we wear, and everything in our home came in a truck, and even though most of us are frustrated by the traffic they may cause, they play a major role in keeping America moving. Drivers on average log over 432 billion miles per year to bring fresh produce and frozen foods to distribution centers all over the continent. ATA numbers show that trucks delivered 10.7 billion tons of freight in 2007, or 69 percent of total U.S. freight tonnage. Today is the perfect time to offer a little drive-by salute to the truckers you share the road with. Remember, too, that trucks have several blind spots that make it hard for them to see you at all times. Be patient with them as they are big and slow and need lots of space. If you get annoyed by them and cut them off or jam the breaks, you are only playing with your own safety. Drive smart and share the road with them as they are the ones who are making your lifestyles possible.

To Advertise In The Classifieds That Work Call 877-844-8385 545 Firewood/Fuel

SEASONED FIREWOOD, $150 cord split/delivered, $80 half cord, stacking $25 extra. Miami County deliveries only. (937)339-2012 SEASONED FIREWOOD $155 per cord. Stacking extra, $125 you pick up. Taylor Tree Service available (937)753-1047

560 Home Furnishings

CAPTAINS BED, Twin, 3 drawers, bookcase headboard, Ohio made, solid wood, white, $100, (937)335-5454

570 Lawn and Garden

LAWN TRACTOR, Sears, snow blade, cab, chains, weights, 42" mowing deck, $1100. (937)368-2220 leave phone number in message.

925 Public Notices

925 Public Notices

To: Bidders Subject: Purchase of School Bus For: The Board of Education of the Tipp City Exempted Village School District

Sealed proposals will be received by the Tipp City Exempted Village School District, 90 S. Tippecanoe Dr., Tipp City, Ohio, 45371 on, December 3, 2012 until 12:00 PM (EST) and at that time opened and publicly read by the Treasurer, Joseph Smith of the Tipp City Exempted Village Board of Education, as provided by Section 3313.46 of the Revised Code of the State of Ohio. Bids will be accepted for a new - 72 passenger transit bus. Specifications may be obtained from the Board of Education Office at 90 S. Tippecanoe Dr., Tipp City, Ohio, 45371. All bus bids must state that the bus, when assembled and prior to delivery, comply with all safety regulations and current Ohio Minimum Standards for School Bus Construction of the Department of Education adopted by and with the consent of the Director of Highway Safety pursuant to Section 4511.76 of the Revised Code and all other State and Federal provisions of law. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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COUNTY: MIAMI

925 Public Notices

The following applications and/or verified complaints were received, and the following draft, proposed and final actions were issued, by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) last week. The complete public notice including additional instructions for submitting comments, requesting information or a public hearing, or filing an appeal may be obtained at: http://www.epa.ohio.gov/actions.aspx or Hearing Clerk, Ohio EPA, 50 W. Town St. P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, Ohio 43216. Ph: 614-644-2129 email: HClerk@epa.state.oh.us FINAL APPROVAL OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS

NAWA P.O. BOX 145 TIPP CITY, OH ACTION DATE: 11/05/2012 FACILITY DESCRIPTION: COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION NO.: 898427 This final action not preceded by proposed action and is appealable to ERAC. Detail Plans for PWSID: OH5553612 PLAN NO: 898427 Regarding Delphi Corporation, Vandalia, OH Potable Waterline Extension

11/21/2012

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Call 877-844-8385

2001 FORD EXPLORER XLT

Red, 4 door, all wheel drive, automatic, towing package, moon roof, excellent condition, 102k miles, ready for winter, $5295 OBO (937)676-3230

925 Public Notices

CITY OF TROY DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SERVICE City Hall, Troy, Ohio COPY OF LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Director of Public Service and Safety, City Hall, Troy, Ohio, until 12 o’clock, noon, Wednesday, December 5, 2012, for the removal of lime softening sludge residuals from the East Lime Sludge Lagoon at the Troy Water Treatment Plant, per the specifications on file in the Office of the Director of Public Service and Safety, City Hall, Troy, Ohio. A bid guaranty as follows is required to accompany each proposal as a guarantee that if the proposal is accepted a contract will be entered into: A bid bond in the amount of 100% payable to the City of Troy, or A certified check, a cashier’s check, or a letter of credit in the amount of 10% payable to the City of Troy. Proposal forms and specifications MUST be obtained upon application at the office of the Director of Public Service and Safety, City Hall. The potential bidder shall pay for any mailing or shipping of proposal and specifications. Submission of copies or facsimiles may be deemed as a non-responsive bid. The City of Troy, Ohio is in compliance with ADA. Patrick E. J. Titterington Director of Public Service and Safety 11/14, 11/21-2012 2339563

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Picture it Sold

4x4, ZR2 package, well maintained, 127K miles, new tires, all power, V6 auto, runs very good.

925 Public Notices

Legal Notice

To advertise in the Classifieds That Work

2001 CHEVROLET BLAZER

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2003 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY LX Silver w/ grey int, 102k miles, front wheel drive, 6 cyl, 3.8, 4 sp auto, quad seat, pwr tail gate & door, $5495. (937)867-0104 wgarlow@woh.rr.com

2004 CHRYSLER SEBRING GTC CONVERTIBLE

48,500 miles 2.7L engine. Power locks and windows. AC, AM-FM CD radio. Very Good Condition $6900. (937)526-3073

2004 PONTIAC GRAND AM SE

101k miles, great condition, asking $4250. Call (419)628-1320

2005 FORD EXPLORER XLT

Loaded, 96k, Excellent condition, asking $11,500

2006 SAAB 9.3 AREO

75,000 miles, leather, 6 speed manual, sunroof, alloy wheels, excellent condition, $13,750 (937)473-3293

Call (937)538-0026

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ANY GROOM New or Regular Client Nov. 3rd - Dec. 24th

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715 Blacktop/Cement

675 Pet Care

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NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT Pursuant to O.R.C. Section 5301.56

E. L. Lavy & Sons, an Ohio Partnership, of 6305 E. Casstown Clark Road, Casstown, Ohio 45312, hereby gives notice pursuant to Ohio Revised Code § 5301.56 to the below named mineral interest holders, their unknown heirs, successors and assigns, that the mineral interest described below has been abandoned.

The names of the mineral interest holders are: William Jones Leasehold Partnership, and its unknown heirs, successors and assigns, if any, (collectively referred hereafter as the “Interest Holder”). The address of William Jones Leasehold Partnership is care of Kimmco Energy Corp., Suite 4550, 9 West 57th Street, New York, New York, 10019. The addresses of the unknown successors and assigns of William Jones Leasehold Partnership, if any, are unknown and cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained. The real property to which this Notice pertains is described as follows:

TRACT ONE (containing an area of 43.485 acres, more or less): Situated in the County of Miami, in the State of Ohio and in the Township of Elizabeth: Being and lying within the bounds of the northwest quarter of Section 4-T2-R10, MRS, and as shown by a survey filed in Volume No. 22 at Plat No. 182 of the Miami County Engineerʼs Record of Land Surveys, and being more particularly described as follows: From a railroad spike heretofore driven down with the intersection of the Alcony-Conover Road with the LeFevre Road, to re-establish the corner common to Sections Numbered 4, 5, 10 and 11-T2-R10, measure along the centerline of the Alcony-Conover Road and the west line of Section 4, S 04° 05' W, 1307.80 feet to an iron pin which establishes the beginning point of this description and the extreme northwest corner of the parcel of land to be described; the point also marks the extreme northwest corner of the original 78.50 acre tract of land which this parcel is a part; Thence from the point of beginning and continuing with the road and section line, S 04° 05' W, 820.43 feet to an iron pin; thence with the centerline of a joint use lane, S 86° 15' 45" E at 30.00 feet passing an iron pin in all 1287.33 feet to an iron pin driven down at the end of the lane; thence N 23° 44' 30" E, 59.38 feet to an iron pin; thence N 04° 03' 30" E, 75.30 feet to an iron pin; thence N 56° 26' E, 23.11 feet to an iron pin; thence S 83° 24' E 153.07 feet to an iron pin; thence N 03° 10' 15" E, 16.75 feet to an iron pin; thence S 86° 49' 45" E, 788.22 feet to an iron pin; thence N 76° 03' 45" E, 381.23 feet to an iron pipe in the east line of the quarter section; thence with the one-half section line, N 04° 07' E, 517.04 feet to an iron pin; thence N 85° 42' 15" W at 2599.15 feet passing an iron pipe, in all 2629.15 feet to the place of beginning, containing an area of 43.485 acres, more or less. Reserving off the south side of the above parcel a strip of land 1287.33 feet long by 13.50 feet wide to be used in common with the owners of the 39.354 parcel of land lying adjacent and contiguous on the south, when coupled with a like strip off the north side of their tract, thereby forming a lane or driveway 27.00 feet in width, which will provide unobstructed access to the Alcony-Conover Road. As a further consideration of this conveyance, the grantee is provided a right-of-way 10.0 feet in width on which to construct and maintain an underground natural gas line; the centerline of the narrow strip of land to be routed as follows: Beginning in the centerline of the 27.00 feet wide lane, at a point N 86° 15' 45" W, 7.0 feet distant from the extreme east end thereof; thence S 05° 18' E, 58.35 feet to a point; thence N 89° 30' E, 126.72 feet to the service connection and the terminal point of the rightof-way. Subject, however, to the right-of-way for the public road as now located, and more particularly subject to an easement heretofore granted to the Dayton Power & Light Company for a pipe line right-of-way, the grant being recorded in Deed Book 374 at Page 615 of the Deed Records of Miami County, Ohio. EXCEPTING THE FOLLOWING THEREFROM: Being a 10.627 acre tract located in the northwest quarter of Section 4, Town 2, Range 10 BTMRS, Elizabeth Township, Miami County, Ohio, and being part of a 43.485 acre tract acquired by E.L. Lavy and Sons by Official Record Volume 31, Page 09 of the Miami County Recorderʼs Official Records and further bounded and described as follows: Commencing for reference at a mag nail found at the southwest corner of northwest quarter of Section 4, said mag nail also being on the centerline of Alcony-Conover Road, North 03° 50' 47" East for 497.68 feet along the centerline of Alcony-Conover Road and the west line of Section 4 to a PK nail set over an iron pin found marking the true place of beginning; thence North 03° 50' 47" East for 330.00 feet along the centerline of Alcony-Conover road and the west line of Section 4 to a PK nail set; thence South 86° 29' 58" East for 1475.43 feet along a new division line to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set, witness passing a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set at 20.00 feet; thence South 02° 56' 02" West for 192.55 feet along a new division line to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence North 83° 38' 13" West for 153.07 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence South 56° 11' 47" West for 23.11 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence South 03° 49' 17" West for 75.30 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence South 23° 30' 17" West for 59.38 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence North 86° 29' 58" West for 1287.33 feet to the PK nail set marking the place of beginning, witness passing an iron pin found at 1257.33 feet. Containing a total of 10.627 acres, and subject to all legal easements, rights-of-way and restrictions of record. According to a field survey performed by Michael W. Cozatt, Professional Surveyor #6001, 2784 S. County Road 25A, Troy, Ohio 45373, on November 19, 2009, and filed in Volume 52, Page 119 of the Miami County Engineerʼs Record of Land Surveys.

TRACT TWO: Situated in the County of Miami, in the State of Ohio and in the Township of Elizabeth:Being and lying within the bounds of the northwest and northeast quarters of Section 4, T 2, R 10, MRS and as shown by a survey filed in Volume No. 22 at Plat No. 182 of the Miami County Engineerʼs Record of Land Surveys, and being more particularly described as follows: From a railroad spike heretofore driven down within the intersection of the Alcony-Conover Road with the LeFevre Road to re-establish the corner common to Sections Numbered 4, 5, 10 and 11 T2-R10, measure along the centerline of the Alcony-Conover Road and the west line of Section 4, S 04° 05" W at 1307.80 feet passing the extreme northwest corner of the original 78.50 acre tract of land of which the ensuing parcel is a part, in all 2128.23 feet to an iron pin which establishes the beginning point of this description and the extreme northwest corner of the parcel of land to be described; thence from the point of beginning and continuing with the road and section line, S 04° 05' W, 481.34 feet to an iron pin; the southwest corner of the quarter section bears S 04°05' W, 16.50 feet distant; thence parallel with and 16.50 feet distant from the half section line, S 85° 37' E at 16.00 feet passing an iron pipe, in all 2622.27 feet to an iron pin in the east line of the quarter section; thence S 04° 34' W, 16.50 feet to an iron pipe which identifies the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of Section 4; thence with the south line of the northeast quarter, S 85° 28' E, 231.40 feet to an iron pipe; thence N 03° 58' 30" E, 810.22 feet to a point; thence N 86° 44' W, 223.10 feet to an iron pipe driven down in the half section line; thence S 76° 03' 45" W, 381.23 feet to an iron pin; thence N 86° 49' 45" W, 788.22 feet to an iron pin; thence S 03° 10' 15" W, 16.75 feet to an iron pin; thence N 83° 24' W, 153.07 feet to an iron pin; thence S 56° 26" W, 23.11 feet to an iron pin; thence S 04° 03' 30" W, 75.30 feet to an iron pin; thence S 23° 44' 30" W, 59.38 feet to an iron pin driven down at the extreme east end of a joint use land; thence with the centerline thereof, N 86° 15' 45" W at 1257.33 feet passing an iron pin, in all 1287.33 feet to the place of beginning, containing an area of 39.354 acres, more or less. Of this amount, 4.21 acres are located within the bounds of the northeast quarter of the section. Reserving off the north side of the above parcel, a strip of land 1287.33 feet long by 13.50 feet wide to be used in common with the owners of the 43.485 acre parcel of land lying adjacent and contiguous on the north, when coupled with a like strip off the south side of their tract, thereby forming a lane or driveway 27.00 feet in width, which will provide unobstructed access to the Alcony-Conover Road. Further reserving out of the above tract of land, a 10.0 feet wide right-of-way which will accommodate the construction and maintenance of an underground natural gas line to serve the tract lying adjacent on the north; the centerline of the narrow strip of land to be routed through the premises as follows: Beginning in the centerline of the 27.00 feet wide lane, at a point N 86° 15' 45" W, 7.0 feet distant from the extreme east end thereof; thence S 05° 18' E, 58.35 feet to a point; thence N 89° 30' E, 126.72 feet to the service connection and the terminal point of the right-of-way. Subject, however, to the right-of-way for the public road as now located, and more particularly subject to an easement heretofore granted to the Dayton Power & Light Company for a pipe line right-of-way, the grant being recorded in Deed Book 374 at Page 615 of the Deed Records of Miami County, Ohio. The survey of the above parcels of land was made in May, 1971 by Carl F. Swartzbaugh, Professional Land Surveyor, Ohio Registration No. S-02644.

EXCEPTING THE FOLLOWING THEREFROM: Being a 10.784 acre tract located in the northwest quarter of Section 4, Town 2, Range 10 BTMRS, Elizabeth Township, Miami County, Ohio, and being part of a 39.354 acre tract acquired by E.L. Lavy and Sons by Official Record Volume 31, Page 09 of the Miami County Recorderʼs Official Records and further bounded and described as follows: Commencing for reference at a mag nail found at the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of Section 4, said mag nail also being on the centerline of Alcony-Conover Road, North 03° 50' 47" East for 197.68 feet along the centerline of Alcony-Conover Road and the west line of Section 4 to a PK nail set marking the true place of beginning; thence North 03° 50' 47" East for 300.00 feet along the centerline of Alcony-Conover Road and the west line of Section 4 to a PK nail set over an iron pin found; thence South 86° 29' 58" East for 1287.33 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set, witness passing an iron pin found at 30.00 feet; thence North 23° 30' 17" East for 59.38 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence North 03° 49' 17" East for 75.30 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence North 56° 11' 47" East for 23.11 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence South 83° 38' 13" East for 153.07 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence South 02° 56' 02" West for 437.47 feet to a 5/8" dia. capped iron pin set; thence North 86° 29' 58" West for 1485.46 feet to the PK nail set marking the place of beginning, witness passing an iron pin found at 1465.46 feet. Containing a total of 10.784 acres, and subject to all legal easements, rights-of-way and restrictions of record. According to a field survey performed by Michael W. Cozatt, Professional Surveyor #6001, 2784 S. County Road 25A, Troy, Ohio 45373, on November 19, 2009, and filed in Volume 52, Page 119 of the Miami County Engineerʼs Record of Land Surveys. The above described real property is hereafter referred to as the “Real Property”. The owner of the surface of the Real Property is E. L. Lavy & Sons, an Ohio Partnership (hereafter the “Surface Owner”). The Surface Owner acquired its interest in the Real Property by a Warranty Deed from Herbert C. Davis and Anna N. Davis, husband and wife, dated May 7, 2009 and filed for record in the office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio on May 7, 2009 at 3:47 p.m. at Volume 31, Page 9 of the Official Records of Miami County, Ohio. The mineral interest which has been abandoned consists of a leasehold interest in all oil, gas and minerals underlying the Real Property (the “Mineral Interest”). The document on which the Mineral Interest is based is described as follows: Lease Agreement between Herbert C. Davis and Anna N. Davis, as “Lessor”, and Ohio Oil and Gas, R.D. #1, Fowler, Ohio 44418, as “Lessee”, dated December 3, 1980 and filed for record in the office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio on January 15, 1981 at Volume 29, Page 338 of the Lease Records of Miami County, Ohio. The Lesseeʼs interest in said lease was assigned by said Lessee to William Jones Leasehold Partnership by Assignment Of Oil And Gas Lease dated September 19, 1981 and filed for record in the office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio on October 26, 1981 at Volume 30, Page 178 of the Lease Records of Miami County, Ohio. The Surface Owner states and attests, that within the twenty year period immediately preceding the service or publication of this Notice, the following: The Mineral Interest has not been the subject of a title transaction which has been filed in the office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio; The Interest Holder has not produced or withdrawn minerals from the Real Property or from land pooled, unitized or included in unit operations with the Real Property; The Mineral Interest has not been used by the Interest Holder in underground gas storage operations; No drilling or mining permit has been issued to the Interest Holder; No claim to preserve the Mineral Interest has been filed in accordance with Ohio Revised Code § 5301.56(C); and, No separately listed tax parcel number has been created for the Mineral Interest in the County Auditorʼs tax list or the County Treasurerʼs tax duplicate in Miami County, Ohio. It is the intent of the Surface Owner to file an Affidavit of Abandonment with respect to the Mineral Interest in the office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio at least 30 but not later than 60 days after the date on which this Notice is served or published. Faust, Harrelson, Fulker, McCarthy & Schlemmer, LLP Attorneys for E. L. Lavy & Sons By: William J. Fulker P. O. Box 8 12 S. Cherry Street Troy, Ohio 45373 Phone: (937) 335-8324 Facsimile: (937) 339-7155 e-mail: wjfulker@woh.rr.com 11/21/2012 2341451

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In the Court of Common Pleas, Civil Division, Miami County, Ohio 201 West Main Street, Troy, Ohio 45373 Case No. 12 CV 00613

The Board of Trustees of Monroe Township, Ohio, vs. The Feghtly Lutheran Home.

The Feghtly Lutheran Home and The Board of Trustees of the Feghtly Lutheran Home, the last known address of which is 300 West Main Street, Tipp City, Ohio 45371, and the current address, location, and whereabouts of which is unknown and cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained, and the unknown successors and assigns of either said entity will take notice that on September 18, 2012, the Board of Trustees of Monroe Township, Miami County, Ohio, filed its Complaint and on September 24, 2012, filed its Amended Complaint in the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio, Civil Division, in Case Number 12 CV 00613 of said Court. The object of and demand for relief in said action is to Quiet Title in the said Board of Trustees of Monroe Township, Miami County, Ohio, as to certain cemetery lots and easements located in the Maple Hill Cemetery, including portions of Lots 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, and 276, as described and identified in said Complaint in which said parties may claim an interest; to determine that any claims as to the same by any other party have been abandoned and to extinguish the same; and to award all right, title, and interest thereto to the said Plaintiff. Said above-named Defendants will take further notice that they are required to Answer the Amended Complaint on or before the 19th day of December, 2012.

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• HOCKEY: The Troy High School hockey team and the Troy Bruins Youth Hockey program are hosting a Skatea-thon benefit for the Michael Walter family. Walter is suffering from metastatic bone cancer. His son, Michael, is a senior on the THS hockey team. The public is invited to support the cause by donating and/or skating from 6:45-8:45 p.m. on Nov. 25 at Hobart Arena. Donations accepted at the door and skate rental is available for $2.50. For more information contact Sharon Morgan at (937) 2726774 or sharonggarden@aol.com. • BASKETBALL: The Tippecanoe basketball team will be honoring the 1973 SWBL champions on Jan. 19, 2013. The Red Devils face Versailles that night at 7:30 p.m. Any member of the team, cheerleaders or coaches need to contact Dale Pittenger at dlpittenger@tippcity.k12.oh.us for more information. • LACROSSE: The Dayton Lacrosse Club will be holding a free informational seminar and clinic. Information to be covered at the seminar includes differences in boys and girls lacrosse, length of season, and also it will include a question and answer session for parents, among other topics. The hands on clinic is for boys and girls grades K-12. The Dayton Lacrosse Club’s goal is to field teams in Miami County for 2013 and to educate parents and students about the sport. The event will be held at No Limit Sports Academy, which is located at 650 Olympic Drive in Troy, 2 p.m Sunday. It will last between 60-90 minutes. RSVP is encouraged, but not necessary. RSVP to daytonlacrossetroy@gmail.com. Visit www.daytonlacrosse.org for more information. • SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@tdnpublishing.com or Colin Foster at cfoster@tdnpublishing.com.

Pearce: ‘Now I understand’ Citing family reasons, Bulldog coach resigns after 13 seasons BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Sometimes, it just has to happen to you. Just ask Bret Pearce. “I always though that it sounded lame in the past when coaches said that, that they were leaving to spend more time with their families. But I get it now. I find myself in that situation, and now I understand.” Pearce announced to his team on Monday that he was retiring after 13 years as coach of the

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SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY No events scheduled THURSDAY No events scheduled FRIDAY Girls Basketball Troy at Bellefontaine (at Wapakoneta) (6 p.m.) Butler at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.) Bradford at Newton (8 p.m.) Houston at Covington (7:30 p.m.) Piqua at Graham (7:30 p.m.) Riverside at Lehman (6 p.m.) Hockey Troy at CVCA (at Kettering) (11 a.m.)

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Big Ten continues to grow Maryland, Rutgers joining conference

UPCOMING Sport ....................Start Date Girls Basketball............Friday Ice Hockey ...................Friday Swimming ..................Nov. 26 Boys Basketball .........Nov. 30 Wrestling ....................Nov. 30 Gymnastics..................Dec. 3

seasons, the Bulldogs made their way to the postseason — the first of six such trips under Pearce. He finished his tenure with the Bulldogs with a 77-63 record, going 75-45 after the first two years and reaching the playoffs four out of six seasons between 2002 and 2007. He also piled up five postseason victories, including regional runner-up finished in both 2006 and 2012. “I think every coach wants to leave a program better off than they found it,” Pearce said. “We

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Ohio State fans celebrate with Carlos Hyde after the Buckeyes beat Wisconsin 21--14 in overtime Saturday in Madison, Wis. Hyde scored the game-winning touchdown.

Bowl-game bull OSU fans upset unbeaten team can’t play in postseason games COLUMBUS (AP) — Any other year Ohio State is unbeaten and ranked No. 4 coming into its annual rivalry game with Michigan, its fans would be trolling the internet for the best airfares to the BCS title game. Not this time. Due to NCAA sanctions, Ohio State is banned from playing for the Big Ten championship next week and going to a bowl, and isn’t a factor in the national title picture. So a wondrous and surprising season 11-0 heading into Saturday’s home game with the 20th-ranked Wolverines will come to an abrupt and premature end on Saturday. Many of the faithful blame

Ohio State director of athletics Gene Smith, left, talks to coach Jim Tressel, right, April 23, 2011 before their spring game in Columbus. A lot of Ohio State fans are angry that their 11-0 football team can't play for the Big Ten championship, can't go to a bowl game and isn't in the conversation for the national title. A lot of them are angry at Smith, the who handled the university's case with the NCAA over infractions which occurred under the regime ■ See BUCKEYES on 20 of deposed coach Tressel.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — As the Big East was being picked apart, Rutgers was looking for a way out and a new place to show off a football program that has been resurrected in the past decade. Not only did Rutgers find that escape hatch, the Scarlet Knights ended up in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in college sports. Rutgers joined the Big Ten on Tuesday, leaving the Big East behind and cashing in on the school’s investment in a football team that only 10 years ago seemed incapable of competing at the highest level. The move follows Maryland’s announcement a day earlier that it was heading to the Big Ten in 2014. The additions give the Big Ten 14 schools and a presence in lucrative East Coast markets. Rutgers announced its decision Tuesday at a campus news conference attended by Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, Rutgers President Robert Barchi and athletic director Tim Pernetti. “The Big Ten is really where Rutgers belongs,” Barchi said. “This is not just a good fit for us athletically, it’s a good fit for us academically and as an institution.” Rutgers has been competing in the Big East since 1991. But the league has been torn up by conference realignment, losing three key members last year. Pernetti had insisted all along that Rutgers would land on its feet, that being a member of the prestigious American Association of Universities and residing in the largest media market in the country would ensure the school wouldn’t be cast aside as the landscape of college sports changed. The Scarlet Knights landed in the best possible spot. A spot that seemed unthinkable a decade ago when Rutgers football was a Big East cellar-dweller. “It’s a transformative day for

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NHL, union to resume talks today Irving sidelined for month with injury Kyrie Irving couldn’t handle playing with just one hand. Now, it’s the Cleveland Cavaliers turn. Irving will be sidelined for the next month with a broken left index finger, the latest injury to the NBA’s reigning rookie of the year and a devastating blow to the rebuilding Cavs, who have lost six straight and must face playing without their talented star point guard. See Page 20.

NEW YORK (AP) — This time, NHL owners and players are staying apart for just one day. Negotiations aimed at ended the league’s lockout will resume in the morning today at the NHL office, the players’ association said in a statement Tuesday. Before Monday night’s 90minute bargaining session, it had been eight days since the sides got together. Whether the players’ association will bring a new complete proposal, as requested by the NHL on Monday, to the next

round of talks remained uncertain. But the union huddled for internal conversations after negotiations ended, and continued talking on Tuesday pushing further bargaining back a day. “It looks like tomorrow,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press in an email Tuesday. “No other details at this point.” The lockout entered its 66th day Tuesday and already has wiped out 327 games. More cancellations could be coming soon without a new deal. While neither side offered

much insight following Monday night’s talks, there didn’t seem to be any of the anger that reportedly existed when the previous negotiations ended a week earlier. Both sides looked forward to when they would reconvene to try to reach the elusive deal that would end the lockout that has already shortened the season and threatens scrap it completely. “We talked about various things,” union executive director Donald Fehr said Monday. “No new proposals were made, they were not expected to be made.

We had hoped to engage them in a discussion about the playercontracting issues that are so important to the players. At least (Monday) they were unwilling to do that.” The prevailing question is when will one side say something the other really wants to hear. These negotiations have been going for a while, yet there hasn’t been any kind of breakthrough to pave the way to a new collective bargaining agreement. Both sides know the lockout

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 7 3 0 .700 358 225 4 6 0 .400 202 241 N.Y. Jets 4 6 0 .400 230 299 Buffalo Miami 4 6 0 .400 187 205 South W L T Pct PF PA 9 1 0 .900 293 180 Houston Indianapolis 6 4 0 .600 210 260 Tennessee 4 6 0 .400 219 311 Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 164 289 North W L T Pct PF PA 8 2 0 .800 267 206 Baltimore Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 217 190 5 5 0 .500 248 237 Cincinnati Cleveland 2 8 0 .200 189 234 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 7 3 0 .700 301 212 4 6 0 .400 232 221 San Diego Oakland 3 7 0 .300 208 322 Kansas City 1 9 0 .100 152 284 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 6 4 0 .600 267 216 5 5 0 .500 211 224 Dallas Washington 4 6 0 .400 257 254 Philadelphia 3 7 0 .300 162 252 South W L T Pct PF PA 9 1 0 .900 270 193 Atlanta Tampa Bay 6 4 0 .600 287 230 New Orleans 5 5 0 .500 287 273 2 8 0 .200 184 243 Carolina North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 7 3 0 .700 263 207 Chicago 7 3 0 .700 249 165 6 4 0 .600 238 221 Minnesota Detroit 4 6 0 .400 236 246 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 7 2 1 .750 245 134 6 4 0 .600 198 161 Seattle Arizona 4 6 0 .400 163 196 3 6 1 .350 174 237 St. Louis Thursday's Game Buffalo 19, Miami 14 Sunday's Games Dallas 23, Cleveland 20, OT N.Y. Jets 27, St. Louis 13 Houston 43, Jacksonville 37, OT Cincinnati 28, Kansas City 6 Washington 31, Philadelphia 6 Green Bay 24, Detroit 20 Atlanta 23, Arizona 19 Tampa Bay 27, Carolina 21, OT New Orleans 38, Oakland 17 Denver 30, San Diego 23 New England 59, Indianapolis 24 Baltimore 13, Pittsburgh 10 Open: Minnesota, N.Y. Giants, Seattle, Tennessee Monday's Game San Francisco 32, Chicago 7 Thursday, Nov. 22 Houston at Detroit, 12:30 p.m. Washington at Dallas, 4:15 p.m. New England at N.Y. Jets, 8:20 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25 Denver at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m. Oakland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Seattle at Miami, 1 p.m. Baltimore at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. San Francisco at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26 Carolina at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m. AP Top 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 17, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Pts Pv ..............................Record 1. Notre Dame (60) 11-0 1,500 3 2. Alabama.............10-1 1,399 4 3. Georgia ..............10-1 1,316 5 4. Ohio St. ..............11-0 1,292 6 5. Oregon ...............10-1 1,246 1 6. Florida ................10-1 1,171 7 7. Kansas St...........10-1 1,064 2 8. LSU ......................9-2 1,048 8 9. Texas A&M ...........9-2 1,028 9 10. Florida St..........10-1 1,026 10 11. Stanford..............9-2 991 14 12. Clemson...........10-1 874 11 13. South Carolina ...9-2 795 12 14. Oklahoma...........8-2 734 13 15. UCLA..................9-2 624 17 16. Oregon St...........8-2 599 15 17. Nebraska............9-2 559 16 18. Texas ..................8-2 498 18 19. Louisville ............9-1 362 20 20. Michigan.............8-3 282 23 21. Rutgers...............9-1 265 22 22. Oklahoma St. .....7-3 240 NR 23. Kent St. ............10-1 155 25 24. N. Illinois...........10-1 144 NR 25. Mississippi St. ....8-3 82 NR 25. Utah St. ..............9-2 82 NR Others receiving votes: Boise St. 20, Northwestern 20, Washington 20, Arizona 13, Southern Cal 12, Tulsa 10, San Jose St. 8, Fresno St. 7, Louisiana Tech 4, Wisconsin 4, San Diego St. 2, Baylor 1, Iowa St. 1, TCU 1, Vanderbilt 1. USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 17, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: ...........................Record Pts Pvs 1. Notre Dame (56) 11-0 1,469 3 2. Alabama (2) .......10-1 1,386 5 3. Georgia (1).........10-1 1,348 4 4. Oregon ...............10-1 1,227 1 5. Florida St............10-1 1,199 6 6. Florida ................10-1 1,166 7 7. LSU ......................9-2 1,062 8 8. Kansas St...........10-1 1,056 2 9. Clemson.............10-1 1,029 9 10. Texas A&M .........9-2 994 10 11. Stanford..............9-2 934 13 12. South Carolina ...9-2 853 11 13. Oklahoma...........8-2 798 12 14. Nebraska............9-2 654 14 15. Texas ..................8-2 593 15 16. UCLA..................9-2 590 16 17. Oregon St...........8-2 563 17 18. Louisville ............9-1 453 18 19. Rutgers...............9-1 408 20 20. Michigan.............8-3 289 23 21. Oklahoma St. .....7-3 258 24 22. Boise St..............9-2 243 22 23. Northern Illinois10-1 149 NR 24. Mississippi St. ....8-3 99 NR 25. Kent St. ............10-1 86 NR Others Receiving Votes: Utah State 74; Northwestern 59; Louisiana Tech 36;

Washington 36; Southern California 14; Tulsa 14; San Jose State 7; San Diego State 6; Arizona 5; Vanderbilt 4; Wisconsin 4; Fresno State 3; Middle Tennessee 3; Arkansas State 2; Cincinnati1; Texas Tech 1.

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OHSAA Football State semifinals Pairings The regional final pairings below include the seeds and won-lost records of the qualifiers. Neutral sites were selected by the OHSAA. Home teams are listed first and appear at the top of the brackets at OHSAA.org. Division I State Semifinals, Sat., Nov. 24: Mentor vs. Tol. Whitmer Pickerington N. vs. Cin. Colerain Division I State Championship: Saturday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Division II State Semifinals, Fri., Nov. 23: Aurora vs. Toledo Central New Albany vs. Trotwood-Madison Division II State Championship: Friday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Division III State Semifinals, Sat., Nov. 24: Akr. SVSM vs. Dover Bellevue vs. Day. Thurgood Marshall Division III State Championship: Saturday, Dec. 1, 11 a.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Division IV State Semifinals, Fri., Nov. 23: Creston Norwayne vs. St. Clairsville Cols. Hartley vs. Clarksville ClintonMassie Division IV State Championship: Friday, Nov. 30, 3 p.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Division V State Semifinals, Sat., Nov. 24: Kirtland vs. Baltimore Liberty Union Findlay Liberty-Benton vs. Coldwater Division V State Championship: Saturday, Dec. 1, 3 p.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Division VI State Semifinals, Fri., Nov. 23: Mogadore vs. Newark Cath. McComb vs. Maria Stein Marion Local Division VI State Championship: Friday, Nov. 30, 11 a.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium

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BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct GB W L New York 7 1 .875 — 6 2 .750 1 Brooklyn 6 4 .600 2 Philadelphia 6 5 .545 2½ Boston 3 7 .300 5 Toronto Southeast Division Pct GB W L 8 3 .727 — Miami 5 4 .556 2 Atlanta 5 4 .556 2 Charlotte Orlando 3 7 .300 4½ 0 9 .000 7 Washington Central Division Pct GB W L 6 3 .667 — Milwaukee Chicago 5 5 .500 1½ 5 7 .417 2½ Indiana 2 8 .200 4½ Cleveland 2 9 .182 5 Detroit WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB 8 2 .800 — Memphis 8 3 .727 ½ San Antonio 6 6 .500 3 Dallas New Orleans 3 5 .375 4 Houston 4 7 .364 4½ Northwest Division Pct GB W L 8 3 .727 — Oklahoma City Minnesota 5 4 .556 2 Utah 6 6 .500 2½ 5 5 .500 2½ Portland 5 6 .455 3 Denver Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 8 2 .800 — 6 5 .545 2½ Golden State 5 5 .500 3 L.A. Lakers 4 7 .364 4½ Phoenix Sacramento 2 8 .200 6 Monday's Games Charlotte 102, Milwaukee 98 Indiana 96, Washington 89 Atlanta 81, Orlando 72 Denver 97, Memphis 92 Golden State 105, Dallas 101, OT L.A. Clippers 92, San Antonio 87 Utah 102, Houston 91 Tuesday's Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. New York at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Wednesday's Games Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Toronto at Charlotte, 7 p.m. New Orleans at Indiana, 7 p.m. Detroit at Orlando, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m. San Antonio at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Houston, 8 p.m. Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m. New York at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Portland at Phoenix, 9 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Brooklyn at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Tuesday's College Basketball Scores EAST Army 67, St. Francis (NY) 59 Baruch 64, Brockport 58 Bentley 62, Merrimack 56 Bloomsburg 88, Chestnut Hill 86, OT CCSU 83, UMBC 82, OT Columbia 75, Villanova 57 James Madison 69, Youngstown St. 68 La Salle 64, Hartford 51 Marywood 91, PSU-WorthingtonScranton 75 N. Dakota St. 57, Duquesne 43 NY Tech 73, Caldwell 68 Pitt.-Johnstown 89, Bluefield St. 62 Rutgers 81, Boston U. 79 Scranton 60, Misericordia 57 Springfield 87, Lyndon St. 60 Tufts 67, Regis (Mass.) 36 Ursinus 85, McDaniel 74 Utica 97, SUNY-IT 80 MIDWEST Cincinnati 91, Campbell 72 Davenport 91, Cornerstone 85 IPFW 92, Judson 22 Indiana St. 68, Ball St. 48 Kent St. 69, Bethune-Cookman 68 Lourdes 53, Michigan-Dearborn 31 Northwestern 69, Delaware St. 50 Ohio 75, Hampton 67 Walsh 106, Wilberforce 73 Washburn 74, Rockhurst 56 Wisconsin 88, Presbyterian 43 SOUTH

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

SPORTS ON TV TODAY GOLF 3 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, DP World Tour Championship, first round, at Dubai, United Arab Emirates MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Maui Invitational, fifth place game, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii 7 p.m. NBCSN — Miami (Ohio) at William and Mary 7:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Maui Invitational, third place game, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii 9:30 p.m. ESPN2 — NIT Season Tip-Off, semifinal, Pittsburgh vs. Michigan, at New York 10 p.m. ESPN — Maui Invitational, championship game, teams TBD, at Lahaina, Hawaii NBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN — L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City SOCCER 2:30 p.m. FSN — UEFA Champions League, Anderlecht vs. AC Milan, at Brussels 8 p.m. FSN — UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid at Manchester City (same-day tape)

THURSDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN — TCU at Texas GOLF 3 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, DP World Tour Championship, second round, at Dubai, United Arab Emirates MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, West Virginia vs. Marist, at Orlando, Fla. 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, Vanderbilt vs. Davidson, at Orlando, Fla. 4:30 p.m. ESPN2 — DirecTV Classic, first round, Drexel vs. Saint Mary's (Cal), at Anaheim, Calif. 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, UTEP vs. Oklahoma, at Orlando, Fla. NBCSN — Battle 4 Atlantis, first round, Memphis vs. VCU, at Paradise Island, Bahamas 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, first round, Clemson vs. Gonzaga, at Orlando, Fla. 9:30 p.m. NBCSN — Battle 4 Atlantis, first round, Louisville vs. N. Iowa, at Paradise Island, Bahamas 11:30 p.m. ESPN2 — DirecTV Classic, first round, Drake vs. California, at Anaheim, Calif. NFL FOOTBALL 12:30 p.m. CBS — Houston at Detroit 4:15 p.m. FOX — Washington at Dallas 8:30 p.m. NBC — New England at N.Y. Jets

THE BCS RANKINGS As of Nov. 18 Rk 1 1. Notre Dame 2. Alabama 2 3 3. Georgia 5 4. Florida 4 5. Oregon 6. Kansas St. 7 8 7. LSU 11 8. Stanford 9. Texas A&M 10 10. Florida St. 6 9 11. Clemson 12. South Carolina12 13. Oklahoma 13 14 14. Nebraska 15. Oregon St. 15 17 16. Texas 17. UCLA 16 19 18. Rutgers 20 19. Michigan 20. Louisville 18 21. Oklahoma St. 22 21 22. Boise St. 25 23. Kent St. 24. Arizona 31 25. Washington 30

Harris Pts 2863 2732 2573 2242 2483 2161 2077 1897 1909 2231 1953 1647 1530 1275 1202 1088 1144 756 575 898 425 426 196 21 53

Pct .9958 .9503 .8950 .7798 .8637 .7517 .7224 .6598 .6640 .7760 .6793 .5729 .5322 .4435 .4181 .3784 .3979 .2630 .2000 .3123 .1478 .1482 .0682 .0073 .0184

Albany (NY) 83, SC State 55 Coastal Carolina 96, Johnson & Wales (NC) 40 ETSU 59, Charleston Southern 57 East Carolina 82, Appalachian St. 72 Ferrum 71, Emory & Henry 66 Florida 58, Savannah St. 40 Georgia St. 59, Tennessee St. 57 Hampden-Sydney 86, Mary Washington 62 Louisiana Tech 71, Chattanooga 63 Middle Tennessee 75, UCF 61 Mississippi 76, McNeese St. 50 Monmouth (NJ) 73, South Alabama 71 NC Central 94, Toccoa Falls 40 Olivet 83, Union (Ky.) 80 Richmond 64, Wofford 58 South Florida 82, Bradley 63 Southern Miss. 69, UC Irvine 65 Troy 59, SE Missouri 56 Winthrop 59, Lenoir-Rhyne 35 SOUTHWEST St. Thomas (Texas) 63, Wayland Baptist 54 TCU 47, Navy 45 TOURNAMENT CBE Hall of Fame Classic Third Place Texas A&M 55, Washington St. 54 Cancun Challenge-Mayan First Round Austin Peay 72, W. Carolina 71 Gardner-Webb 55, Howard 43 Cancun Challenge-Riviera First Round Wichita St. 75, DePaul 62 EA Sports Maui Invitational First Round Marquette 89, Mississippi St. 62 Southern Cal 59, Texas 53, OT Progressive Legends Classic Third Place UCLA 60, Georgia 56

GOLF World Golf Ranking Through Nov. 18 1. Rory McIlroy................NIr 2. Luke Donald ..............Eng 3. Tiger Woods .............USA 4. Lee Westwood...........Eng 5. Adam Scott................Aus 6. Louis Oosthuizen.......SAf 7. Justin Rose ...............Eng 8. Jason Dufner............USA 9. Webb Simpson .........USA 10. Brandt Snedeker ....USA 11. Bubba Watson........USA 12. Phil Mickelson ........USA 13. Ian Poulter...............Eng

12.59 9.06 9.00 6.60 6.59 6.15 6.08 5.83 5.71 5.64 5.49 5.21 5.16

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USA Today Pts Pct 1469 .9959 1386 .9397 1348 .9139 1166 .7905 1227 .8319 1056 .7159 1062 .7200 934 .6332 994 .6739 1199 .8129 1029 .6976 853 .5783 798 .5410 654 .4434 563 .3817 593 .4020 590 .4000 408 .2766 289 .1959 453 .3071 258 .1749 243 .1647 86 .0583 5 .0034 36 .0244

Computer BCS Rk Pct Avg Pv 11.0000 .9973 3 3 .9100 .9333 4 6 .8200 .8763 5 2 .9600 .8434 6 7 .8000 .8318 2 4 .8400 .7692 1 8 .7500 .7308 7 5 .8300 .7077 13 10 .6200 .6526 8 17 .3200 .6363 10 15 .4400 .6056 11 11 .6100 .5871 9 9 .6300 .5677 12 12 .5500 .4790 14 12 .5500 .4499 16 14 .4900 .4235 15 16 .3500 .3826 17 21 .1900 .2432 22 19 .2800 .2253 21 26 .0300 .2165 19 18 .2900 .2042 24 30 .0000 .1043 NR 22 .1600 .0955 NR 20 .2400 .0836 NR 23 .1500 .0643 25

14. Steve Stricker .........USA 15. Keegan Bradley......USA 16. Nick Watney ...........USA 17. Matt Kuchar............USA 18. Dustin Johnson ......USA 19. Peter Hanson..........Swe 20. Ernie Els ..................SAf 21. Zach Johnson ........USA 22. Sergio Garcia ..........Esp 23. Bo Van Pelt.............USA 24. Graeme McDowell ....NIr 25. Hunter Mahan ........USA 26. Jim Furyk ...............USA 27. Paul Lawrie..............Sco 28. Rickie Fowler..........USA 29. Francesco Molinari ....Ita 30. Martin Kaymer .........Ger 31. Carl Pettersson.......Swe 32. Charl Schwartzel .....SAf 33. Fernandez-Castano Esp 34. Jason Day................Aus 35. Nicolas Colsaerts .....Bel 36. Bill Haas.................USA 37. John Senden ...........Aus 38. Branden Grace ........SAf 39. David Toms.............USA 40. Robert Garrigus .....USA 41. Ryan Moore............USA 42. Scott Piercy............USA 43. Matteo Manassero.....Ita 44. Thomas Bjorn..........Den 45. David Lynn ..............Eng 46. K.J. Choi...................Kor 47. Hiroyuki Fujita ..........Jpn 48. Jamie Donaldson.....Wal 49. George Coetzee ......SAf 50. Fredrik Jacobson ....Swe 51. Geoff Ogilvy.............Aus 52. Alexander Noren.....Swe 53. Rafael Cabrera BelloEsp 54. Thorbjorn Olesen ....Den 55. Martin Laird .............Sco 56. Richie Ramsay ........Sco 57. Shane Lowry ..............Irl 58. Marcus Fraser .........Aus 59. Miguel Angel JimenezEsp 60. Marcel Siem ............Ger 61. Bae Sang-moon .......Kor 62. Greg Chalmers ........Aus 63. Kevin Na.................USA 64. Anders Hansen .......Den 65. Bud Cauley.............USA 66. Padraig Harrington .....Irl 67. Bernd Wiesberger ....Aut 68. Simon Dyson...........Eng 69. Aaron Baddeley.......Aus 70. John Huh................USA 71. Henrik Stenson.......Swe 72. Kyle Stanley ...........USA 73. K.T. Kim ....................Kor 74. Jonas Blixt ..............Swe 75. Vijay Singh .................Fji

5.08 4.97 4.94 4.88 4.81 4.77 4.69 4.64 4.60 4.44 4.37 4.17 3.95 3.79 3.61 3.61 3.55 3.53 3.44 3.38 3.33 3.29 3.25 3.09 3.08 3.07 3.04 3.00 2.91 2.76 2.74 2.70 2.67 2.45 2.40 2.36 2.36 2.34 2.32 2.29 2.29 2.29 2.27 2.25 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.22 2.21 2.19 2.19 2.19 2.14 2.14 2.13 2.09 2.08 2.06 2.05 2.02 2.00 1.97

PGA Tour Money Leaders Final ...................................TrnYTD Money 1. Rory McIlroy ............16 $8,047,952 2. Tiger Woods.............19 $6,133,158 3. Brandt Snedeker......22 $4,989,739 4. Jason Dufner ...........22 $4,869,304 5. Bubba Watson .........19 $4,644,997 6. Zach Johnson..........25 $4,504,244 7. Justin Rose..............19 $4,290,930 8. Phil Mickelson..........22 $4,203,821 9. Hunter Mahan..........23 $4,019,193 10. Keegan Bradley .....25 $3,910,658 11. Matt Kuchar ...........22 $3,903,065 12. Jim Furyk...............24 $3,623,805 13. Carl Pettersson......26 $3,538,656 14. Luke Donald ..........17 $3,512,024 15. Louis Oosthuizen...19 $3,460,995 16. Ernie Els ................22 $3,453,118 17. Webb Simpson ......22 $3,436,758 18. Steve Stricker ........19 $3,420,021 19. Dustin Johnson......19 $3,393,820 20. Robert Garrigus.....26 $3,206,530 21. Rickie Fowler .........23 $3,066,293 22. Nick Watney...........26 $3,044,224 23. Bo Van Pelt ............24 $3,043,509 24. Lee Westwood.......15 $3,016,569 25. Adam Scott............16 $2,899,557 26. Ryan Moore...........24 $2,858,944 27. Scott Piercy ...........28 $2,699,205 28. John Huh ...............28 $2,692,113 29. Sergio Garcia ........16 $2,510,116 30. Ben Curtis..............19 $2,494,153 31. Graeme McDowell.16 $2,408,279 32. Kyle Stanley...........27 $2,351,857 33. Bill Haas ................23 $2,349,951 34. Jonas Blixt .............21 $2,255,695 35. Johnson Wagner....27 $2,225,007 36. Martin Laird ...........22 $2,172,883 37. Mark Wilson...........25 $2,144,780 38. Kevin Na ................25 $2,029,943 39. Brendon de Jonge.31 $2,015,252 40. Matt Every .............25 $1,972,166 41. Marc Leishman......23 $1,933,761 42. John Senden .........22 $1,916,651 43. Charlie Wi ..............25 $1,845,397 44. Bud Cauley ............28 $1,774,479 45. Ian Poulter .............15 $1,715,271 46. Ben Crane .............23 $1,701,365 47. David Toms ............19 $1,658,428 48. Jimmy Walker ........28 $1,638,419 49. Seung-Yul Noh.......28 $1,629,751 50. Jonathan Byrd .......21 $1,616,789 LPGA Money Leaders Final ...................................Trn 1. Inbee Park ...............24 2. Na Yeon Choi ...........22 3. Stacy Lewis .............26 4.Yani Tseng................24 5. Ai Miyazato ..............23 6. So Yeon Ryu ............24 7. Jiyai Shin .................18 8. Azahara Munoz .......26 9. Suzann Pettersen ....24 10. Shanshan Feng .....19 11. Mika Miyazato........20 12. Karrie Webb...........20 13. Amy Yang ...............22 14. Cristie Kerr.............23 15. Paula Creamer ......23 16. Angela Stanford.....26 17. Sun Young Yoo .......23 18. Catriona Matthew ..20 19. Anna Nordqvist......27 20. Chella Choi............27 21. Lexi Thompson ......23 22. Hee Kyung Seo .....25 23. Brittany Lincicome .24 24. Brittany Lang .........25 25. Sandra Gal ............26 26. I.K. Kim ..................21 27. Karine Icher ...........24 28. Candie Kung..........25 29. Haeji Kang.............24 30. Jenny Shin.............25 31. Julieta Granada .....26 32. Beatriz Recari........27 33. Se Ri Pak...............12 34. Hee Young Park .....25 35. Vicky Hurst.............27 36. Eun-Hee Ji.............25 37. Katherine Hull........26 38. Meena Lee ............26 39. Giulia Sergas.........22 40. Ilhee Lee................22 41. Jessica Korda ........20 42. Natalie Gulbis ........22 43. Karin Sjodin ...........23 44. Mina Harigae .........26 45. Morgan Pressel .....23 46. Hee-Won Han........25 47. Katie Futcher .........23 48. Gerina Piller...........23 49. Lindsey Wright.......17 50. Jennifer Johnson ...23

Money $2,287,080 $1,981,834 $1,872,409 $1,430,159 $1,334,977 $1,282,673 $1,234,597 $1,230,751 $1,182,860 $1,101,147 $1,098,749 $884,973 $844,305 $837,314 $815,574 $794,294 $781,587 $714,272 $688,703 $634,622 $611,021 $600,403 $581,631 $575,263 $574,323 $561,302 $541,532 $485,963 $456,425 $447,731 $445,685 $444,620 $430,338 $427,717 $401,457 $382,597 $376,192 $374,312 $362,659 $355,780 $339,320 $321,472 $310,599 $304,057 $271,548 $269,771 $262,576 $258,395 $257,052 $245,999

TRANSACTIONS Tuesday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Traded INF Robert Andino to Seattle for OF Trayvon Robinson. Selected the contracts of INF Jonathan Schoop and LHP Mike Belfiore from Bowie (EL). Assigned RHP Oliver Drake outright to Norfolk (IL). BOSTON RED SOX — Named Arnie Beyeler first base coach. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Selected the contracts of OF Jared Mitchell, C Josh Phegley, RHP Andre Rienzo, LHP Santos Rodriguez and RHP Charles Shirek from Charlotte (IL). CLEVELAND INDIANS — Selected the contracts of OF Tim Fedroff and RHP Chen-Chang Lee from Columbus (IL) and RHP Trey Haley and LHP T.J. House from Akron (EL). Assigned INF Matt LaPorta and INF Brent Lillibridge outright to Columbus. Designated RHP Fabio Martinez for assignment. DETROIT TIGERS — Selected the contracts of RHP Melvin Mercedes, RHP Bruce Rondon and SS Dixon Machado from Toledo (IL). Released OF Ryan Raburn. Assigned RHP Tyler Stohr outright to Toledo. HOUSTON ASTROS — Selected the contracts of RHP Jose Cisnero, RHP Jarred Cosart, LHP Brett Olberholtzer and RHP Ross Seaton from Oklahoma City (PCL); OF Robbie Grossman and INF Jonathan Villar from Corpus Christi (TL); and RHP Chia-Jen Lo from Lancaster (Cal). Assigned INF Scott Moore outright to Oklahoma City. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jeremy Guthrie on a three-year contract and C Brett Hayes on a one-year contract. Selected the contracts of LHP Chris Dwyer, LHP Donnie Joseph, LHP John Lamb, LHP Justin Marks, LHP Mike Montgomery and RHP J.C. Gutierrez from Omaha (PCL). Designated RHP Vin Mazzaro, LHP Ryan Verdugo, C Adam Moore, C Brayan Pena, INF Clint Robinson and OF Derrick Robinson for assignment. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Selected the contracts of RHP Ryan Brasier, LHP Brandon Sisk and OF Travis Witherspoon from Salt Lake (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Selected the contracts of LHP Caleb Thielbar, RHP Kyle Gibson and RHP Tim Wood from Rochester (IL); OF Aaron Hicks (New

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Britain), C Josmil Pinto (New Britain) and RHP B.J. Hermsen from New Britain (EL); and INF Danny Santana and RHP Michael Tonkin from Fort Myers (FSL). Agreed to terms with RHP Samuel Deduno, RHP Shairon Martis, RHP Luis Perdomo, RHP Esmerling Vasquez, RHP P.J. Walters, OF Brian Dinkleman, OF Wilkin Ramirez, INF James Beresford, INF Deibinson Romero, C Eric Fryer, RHP Tom Boleska and INF Jason Christian on minor league contracts. NEW YORK YANKEES — Claimed RHP Mickey Storey off waivers from Houston. Selected the contracts of LHP Manny Banuelos and LHP Francisco Rondon from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL); OF Ramon Flores, RHP Brett Marshall and LHP Nik Turley from Trenton (EL); and RHP Jose Ramirez from Tampa (FSL). Announced RHP Dave Herndon refused outright assignment and elected free agency. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Selected the contracts of RHP Arnold Leon, INF Grant Green and OF Shane Peterson from Sacramento (PCL) and RHP Michael Ynoa from Vermont (NYP). Assigned RHP Andrew Carignan outright to Sacramento. Designated RHP Jim Miller and INF Brandon Hicks for assignment. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with RHP Joel Peralta on a twoyear contract. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Named John Gibbons manager. Selected the contracts of SS Ryan Goins and C A.J. Jimenez from New Hampshire (EL). Designated 1B Mike McDade, INF Mike McCoy and RHP Cory Wade for assignment. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Selected the contracts of RHP Daniel Corcino, RHP Curtis Partch and RHP Josh Ravin from Pensacola (SL), RHP Carlos Contreras from Bakersfield (Cal) and LHP Ismael Guillon and OF Yorman Rodriguez from Dayton (MWL). COLORADO ROCKIES — Traded LHP Matt Reynolds to Arizona for INF Ryan Wheeler. MIAMI MARLINS — Selected the contracts of LHP Edgar Olmos, OF Kyle Jensen and C Kyle Skipworth from Jacksonville (SL), and OF Marcell Ozuna from Jupiter (FSL). MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Selected the contracts of RHP Hiram Burgos and OF Khris Davis from Nashville (PCL); INF Scooter Gennett and OF Josh Prince from Huntsville (TL) and RHP Nick Bucci from Brevard County (FSL). NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with LHP Scott Rice and RHP Carlos Torres on minor league contracts. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Selected the contracts of RHP Jonathan Pettibone from Lehigh Valley (IL); RHP Ethan Martin and RHP Trevor May from Reading (EL); and OF Zach Collier from Clearwater (FSL). Named Dave Brundage manager and Ray Burris pitching coach of Lehigh Valley (IL); Dave Lundquist pitching coach of Reading (EL); Bob Milacki pitching coach of Clearwater (FSL); Aaron Fultz pitching coach of Lakewood (SAL); Lino Connell coach and Les Lancaster pitching coach of Williamsport (NYP); Ramon Henderson coach of the Gulf Coast Phillies; Andy Tracy minor league hitting coordinator; Carlos Arroyo minor league roving pitching coach; and Jorge Velandia special assistant, player development. Fightin Phils Field Staff Announced for 2013 PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Selected the contracts of RHP Phil Irwin and C Tony Sanchez from Indianapolis (PCL) and RHP Victor Black, C Ramon Cabrera and RHP Hunter Strickland from Altoona (EL). ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Selected the contracts of RHP Michael Blazek, RH Keith Butler, RHP Eric Fornataro and LHP Kevin Siegrist from Springfield (TL). SAN DIEGO PADRES — Named Pat Murphy manager, Bronswell Patrick pitching coach and Tom Tornincasa hitting coach of Tucson (PCL); Jacque Jones hitting coach and Daniel Turner trainer of San Antonio (TL); Brian Lawrence pitching coach of Lake Elsinore (Cal); Morgan Burkhart hitting coach and Ricky Huerta trainer of Fort Wayne (MWL); Jim Gabella manager, Dave Rajsich pitching coach, Ivan Cruz hitting coach and Mitch Mattoon trainer of Eugene (NWL); Michael Collins manager, Nelson Cruz pitching coach, Carlos Sosa hitting coach and Wade Yamasaki trainer of the Gulf Coast Padres; and Miguel Serrato trainer and Jonathan Borges assistant strength coach of the Dominican Summer League Padres. BASKETBALL Women's National Basketball Association CONNECTICUT SUN — Fired coach Mike Thibault and assistant coaches Scott hawk and Bernadette Mattox. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Reduced the one-game suspension of Baltimore S Ed Reed to a $50,000 fine. ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed G Harland Gunn. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed WR Jordan Shipley. Waived FB Will Ta'ufo'ou. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed CB Malcolm Williams to the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Waived WR Jason Hill and LB Marcus Dowtin. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed WR Plaxico Burress. TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed LB Mike Mohamed to the practice squad. Waived LB Rico Council. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Jerome Murphy. Placed S Brandon Meriweather on injured reserve. HOCKEY National Hockey League EDMONTON OILERS — Promoted RW Toni Rajala and RW Cameron Abney from Stockton (ECHL) to Oklahoma City (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Signed D Dejan Jakovic. COLLEGE BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Announced Rutgers will become a member at a date to be determined. CALIFORNIA — Fired football coach Jeff Tedford. IDAHO STATE — Announced offensive line coach Derrick Roche, secondary coach Daniel Drayton, defensive line coach Todd Bates and linebackers coach Rudy Griffin will not return next

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■ College Football

Buckeyes former coach Jim Tressel learning in April 2010 that several players had likely received free tattoos and cash from the subject of a federal drug investigation. NCAA rules require coaches to notify the association or their superiors when they have any information that violations may have taken place, including improper benefits to athletes. Also, Tressel’s contract clearly specified that he was required to report any hint of wrongdoing. Yet he didn’t tell anyone. It was only after the Buckeyes had completed a 12-1 record, won the Big Ten and the Sugar Bowl, that investigators looking into another matter came across incriminating emails which proved that Tressel had

■ CONTINUED FROM 18 athletic director Gene Smith, who gambled and lost that the NCAA wouldn’t levy a bowl ban. Letters to the editor in the local newspaper, calls to sports talk shows and posts on fan websites all spew vitriol at Smith, who had served on the NCAA’s committee on infractions and believed the penalties he and Ohio State’s administrators had proposed would be sufficient to appease the ruling body of intercollegiate sports. “At the time we made the decision we felt confident that we would not receive the bowl ban,” Smith said on Tuesday. “Obviously, when we received it we were shocked and devastated.” The sanctions stem from

knowledge of potential violations. Tressel was forced to resign in late May 2011. Ohio State officials worked closely with the NCAA in a lengthy investigation that also turned up evidence of other violations. In July, roughly a month before Ohio State’s hearing before the NCAA’s committee on infractions, Smith said he believed the selfimposed sanctions, which included vacating the 2010 season, returning bowl money, five-game suspensions for several players, NCAA probation and recruiting limitations, would be enough to mollify the NCAA. He said there would be no bowl ban “unless something new arises.”

That proved to be prophetic. On the eve of the opening game of the 2011 season, with defensive assistant Luke Fickell taking over as interim coach, three players were suspended for each accepting $200 in cash from a booster at a charity event. Midway through the season, several more players were found to have been paid too much for summer jobs. Starting wide receiver DeVier Posey would end up sitting out 10 games due to violations. By late October of a mediocre season, of course, Ohio State taking itself out of a bowl wouldn’t have carried a whole lot of weight with the NCAA. When final sanctions were announced shortly

before Christmas, a month after Urban Meyer had been hired as coach, they included the 2012 bowl ban. “All I know is a lot of the seniors were pretty bummed out,” defensive lineman Garrett Goebel said. “A lot of the guys were pretty disappointed.” The NCAA does not explain its rulings. But it stands to reason that the violations which came to light after Ohio State’s hearing may have resulted in stiffer penalties. “I don’t know what (the NCAA was) thinking. I appreciate the question, but you’re asking me to project what they were thinking. And I can’t,” Smith said. “I still don’t think our case overall deserved the bowl ban.

“I’ve accepted that. I’ve moved on.” Meyer and the Buckeyes had some fits and starts but have won every game this season. Should they beat Michigan, it would mark only the sixth unbeaten and untied season in Ohio State’s 123 years of football. Fans look at the Buckeyes’ trip a year ago to the Gator Bowl where they lost to Florida, 24-17, to complete a dreary 6-7 season and wish Smith and Ohio State would have sacrificed that postseason trip to prevent losing the one this year. Now, one of only two unbeaten teams left in all of major-college football, Ohio State is resigned to sitting at home after its last regular-season game.

■ High School Football

■ National Basketball Association

Pearce

Irving out for a month

■ CONTINUED FROM 18 had hard-working kids that came from good families, they bought into our style and the things we were trying to do, they believed in us and they believed in each other — and good things happened. “Hopefully we built it back up into what MiltonUnion was back in the 1960s and 70s.” For Pearce, the best part of coaching the Bulldogs was the Bulldog players themselves — and saying goodbye was not easy. “I’ve been here for 13 years — and coaching years are like dog years.

They count for more than one,” Pearce said with a chuckle. “We told the kids on Monday when we were turning equipment in, and it was difficult. You never want to make teenage kids feel like you’re leaving them. “But if I waited until there was a group of kids that I didn’t like, I’d never leave. That’s what I’ll miss the most — the relationships I’ve built with the kids here over the years.” Eventually, though, the demands and rewards of coaching were no match for his own family. And there’s absolutely nothing lame about that.

■ College Football

Big Ten ■ CONTINUED FROM 18 Rutgers University, and transformative in so many ways,” Pernetti said. “This is about collaboration at every level, the perspective the Big Ten institutions have, the balance between academics and athletics, proving over decades and decades that athletics at the highest level and academics at the highest level can coexist. It’s the perfect place for Rutgers.” Rutgers left its entry date ambiguous, though clearly the Big Ten and the school would like it to line up with Maryland. The Big East requires 27 months’ notification for departing members. The Scarlet Knights will have to negotiate a deal with the Big East to leave early, the way Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia have done. “Although we are disappointed that Rutgers has decided to leave the Big East Conference, we wish them well,” Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco said in a statement. In an interview later, Aresco said that the conference would survive. “We’ll move judiciously to replace Rutgers, but we had already changed from the small, Northeast model,” he said. “We’re a national conference now. We became a

bigger and better football conference.” The Big East is trying to rebuild itself as a 12-team football league next season, with the addition of Boise State and five other schools. Now the conference is again on the defensive. Connecticut or Louisville could be next to go with the ACC looking to replace Maryland. Aresco said he had been in touch with the newcomers and they were still on board. He declined to speculate on other members leaving. Whenever Rutgers enters the Big Ten, it will be the culmination of one of the most remarkable turnarounds in college sports. In 2002, the Scarlet Knights football team went 1-11 under second-year coach Greg Schiano. The team, however, steadily improved as the university made the huge financial commitment necessary to support major college football. Facilities were upgraded, the on-campus stadium was expanded and as Schiano started to win, his salary began to rise into the millions. Not everyone on campus embraced the idea of turning Rutgers into a big-time football school, and it did come with a price.

Broken finger will sideline Cavs’ young star INDEPENDENCE (AP) — Kyrie Irving couldn’t handle playing with just one hand. Now, it’s the Cleveland Cavaliers turn. Irving will be sidelined for the next month with a broken left index finger, the latest injury to the NBA’s reigning rookie of the year and a devastating blow to the rebuilding Cavs, who have lost six straight and must face playing without their talented star point guard. “It’s frustrating,” Irving said Wednesday. “But we’re just going to get through it and just gotta stay positive.” Right now, that’s about all the 20-year-old can do. Irving suspected his finger was hurt badly on Saturday, when he inadvertently struck the foot of Dallas’ Darren Collison while trying to swipe the ball from the Mavericks guard. Irving returned to the game after X-rays came back negative. He played the rest of the game with his finger heavily taped and again on Sunday night at Philadelphia. But Irving wasn’t the same, and he struggled handling the ball while scoring a season-low 9 points on 4of-14 shooting. “I couldn’t hold onto the ball, especially at the end of the game when I’m at my best,” he said. “It was frustrating.” An MRI taken Monday revealed a hairline fracture, an injury he could play through but at the risk of doing more damage and missing several months. The Cavs aren’t taking any chances. “If he really gets this thing hit again, then it requires surgery and then instead of weeks, you’re talking about months,” Cavs coach Byron Scott said. “I don’t think we’re being overly cautious by saying, ‘Let’s shut it down and see how it looks in a couple weeks and go from there.’” The broken finger is the latest medical setback for Irving, who dismissed the

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Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving (2) shoots against Dallas Mavericks’ Shawn Marion in the fourth quarter on Saturday in Cleveland. Irving scored 26 points in the 103-95 loss to Dallas. idea he was injury prone when the Cavs opened training camp in October. Back then, he was returning from a broken right hand he sustained when Irving slammed a padded wall in frustration during a summer league practice. Last season, Irving missed 15 games with a shoulder sprain and concussion. His college career at Duke was limited to 11 games because of a serious foot injury that took nearly one year to completely heal.

“I’m just glad it’s not injuries, knock on wood, such as something that could keep me out for six months,” Irving said. “I’m going to miss a few games, I’m aware of that but you just gotta stay positive. Things happen in the game of basketball and obviously I can play, but I’m just being cautious right now.” As soon as he hurt his finger, Irving sensed it was serious. “I just knew it wasn’t a jammed finger,” he said.

“I’ve jammed almost every finger on my hand, so I just knew when it started turning black and blue. I just thought it was a bad sprain, but it turned out to be broken.” After sitting and watching practice, Irving, with his index and middle fingers taped together and braced by a splint, stayed on the floor and shot jumpers. Scott would prefer if Irving would stay off the court completely, but he knows better than to ask.

■ College Basketball

■ National Hockey League

Wright has career high in UC win

NHL

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cashmere Wright scored a career-high 28 points and No. 22 Cincinnati remained undefeated with a 91-72 win over Campbell on Tuesday night in the Global Sports Invitational. Jaquon Parker set a season high with 21 points, and Sean Kilpatrick added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Bearcats (4-0), who never trailed and led by as many as 25. Cincinnati is scheduled to play its first road game Friday against Iowa State as the GSI continues in Las Vegas. Darren White, who came in leading the Big South Conference with 25.5 points per game, bounced

back from scoring just three in the first half to finish with 22 for Campbell (23). Trey Freeman scored a season-high 17 for the Fighting Camels, the preseason favorite in the Big South’s North Division, while Darian Hooker added 13 and Reco McCarter finished with 10. The Bearcats dominated inside, outrebounding Campbell 50-28 and finishing with nine blocked shots to Campbell’s two. But Cincinnati continued to struggle with free throws. The Bearcats, who were shooting 53.3 percent (40 of 75) from the line coming in, went 18 of 34 (52.9 percent) in the first game

between the two teams. Ohio 75, Hampton 67 ATHENS — Walter Offutt scored 23 points, including 13 free-throw makes, as Ohio defeated Hampton 75-67 Tuesday night in a nonconference affair. Offutt’s output was his highest since netting 26 against North Carolina in last year’s Sweet 16. His previous best this season was 11 points against UNC Wilmington on Nov. 16. Kent State 69, Bethune-Cookman 68 KENT — Randal Holt made a jumper with 2 seconds to play to lead Kent State to a 69-68 victory over Bethune-Cookman on Tuesday in the Joe

Cipriano Nebraska Classic. Chris Evans had 14 points and 10 rebounds to lead Kent State (3-2), and Holt and Chris Ortiz scored 13 each. James Madison 69, Youngstown St. 68 PITTSBURGH — Rayshawn Goins scored 21 points and Charles Cooke knocked down two free throws with 8 seconds showing to help James Madison rally and beat Youngstown State 69-68 Tuesday. Alioune Diouf had 15 points, Cooke finished with 11 and Andre Nation added 10 for the Dukes in the subregional round of the 2012 Progressive Legends Classic.

■ CONTINUED FROM 18 has inflicted a lot of damage on the sport that produced record revenues of over $3 billion last season. Every day of lost time is hurting everyone, and at some point owners and players will have to decide how much of the losses each side will have to absorb. “I think every week is important in the process,” Daly said Monday. “I don’t attach a particular significance to this week over last week or next week. I want to play tomorrow.” The league contends it is waiting for the players to present a full proposal on all the major issues including core economics and player contracting,

which deals with the entry-level system, arbitration and free agency. After the request was made, the players’ association asked for a break and the meeting adjourned soon after. “We’ve never heard a full proposal from them,” Daly said. “They have given us a variation of the same proposal on economics a couple of times and there was no change in that position. They are still suggesting that they are moving in our direction on economics, but until we know exactly what their position is on economics now, we think it’s all tied together and would like to hear it all together.”

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