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November 28, 2012 It’s Where You Live!

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Elderly woman mauled by dogs

Protests in Egypt continue More than 100,000 people flocked to Cairo’s central Tahrir square on Tuesday, chanting against Egypt’s Islamist president in a powerful show of strength by the opposition demanding Mohammed Morsi revoke edicts granting himself near autocratic powers.

Waving Egypt’s red, white and black flags, crowds of protesters marched across Cairo to stream into the iconic plaza, as opposition to the decrees issued last week turned into a broader expression of anger against the rule of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. See Page 9.

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com

Arafat’s body exhumed for investigation Yasser Arafat’s political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader’s remains as part of a long-shot attempt eight years after his mysterious death to determine whether he was poisoned. See Page 7.

City gets bill for protection improvements By the time the next hurricane season starts in June of 2013, the city will take control of much of a revamped protection system of gates, walls and armored levees that the Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $12 billion building. The corps has about $1 billion worth of work left.

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INSIDE TODAY Advice ..........................11 Calendar.........................3 Classified......................14 Comics .........................12 Deaths ............................6 Bruce Hollis Ellen M. Hatfield Carol M. Jameson Mary Kathleen Roush Michael Boehringer Mary Elizabeth Guskey Marian Hamaker Ellen M. Kneisly Horoscopes ..................12 Menus.............................6 Opinion ...........................5 Sports...........................18 TV.................................11

OUTLOOK Today Mostly sunny High: 42° Low: 22° Thursday Sunny, cool High: 48° Low: 25°

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Troy Civic Theatre actors Kayleigh Gleason (as Annie) and James Trzeciak (as Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks), rehearse a scene Monday for the upcoming production of “Annie” at the Barn in the Park in Troy.

Cast of ‘Annie’ a family affair TCT’s presentation of popular musical set to open Friday

BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@tdnpublishing.com articipating in a musical is undoubtedly rewarding, but it entails a big commitment and hours upon hours of time away from family and friends. But thankfully some of the cast of TROY the Troy Civic Theatre’s “Annie” have rehearsed alongside loved ones.

Director Barrie Van Kirk said the production — slated for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as Dec. 7, 8, 9, 14 and 15 — features a remarkable number of family members. James Trzeciak, playing Daddy Warbucks, is acting alongside daughter Riley, who is one of the orphans. Two of the Boylan sisters are a mother-daughter pair — Sarah Jordan and Kali JordanDeBruin — and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and orphan Tessie are father-daughter. The musical cast

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Van Kirk said the show is expectand crew features a handful of other ed to attract a tight-knit audience real-life kin. just like the group producing it.

Times for the show are 8 p.m.

“It’s advertised as a community, Fridays and Saturdays and 4 p.m.

Sundays at Barn in the Park, across from Hobart Arena.

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Small riot erupts at Miami County Jail Incident stemmed from a change in bunk bed assignments

BY WILL E SANDERS Ohio Community Media wsanders@dailycall.com

It took 20 corrections officers and deputies to quell a small inmate riot at the Miami County Jail, 201 W. Main St., Home Delivery: early Sunday morning after 335-5634 five men became upset regarding sleeping arrangements of a Classified Advertising: bunk bed.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” cabinet members — including cast members (front row) Jason Studebaker as Louis Howe, Kevin Glover as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Josh Lurie as Harold Ickes; (back row) Barrie Van Kirk as Henry Morganthau and Jessica Carson as Doris Perkins — rehearse a scene from “Annie.”

A 93-year-old woman is listed as in serious condition after she was found in a pool of her own blood, lying on the floor of her home by her son Tuesday morning from an apparent attack by one or two Boston terriers in Bethel Township.

Elizabeth Hirt, 93, was listed in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Miami Valley Hospital Tuesday after she was transported by CareFlight from her home due to injuries she sustained in the attack.

Miami County Sheriff’s officials are investigating the incident involving the woman, who elderly appeared to have been attacked by one, or possibly two, Boston terriers at her residence while under the care of her daughter.

Officers found Hirt lying on the floor, covered in blood. Officers observed that both of her hands were severely chewed up and missing large chunks of flesh. Officers also found the calf area of both of her legs also were chewed upon.

According to the initial report, Jerome Hirt, 67, said he found his mother lying on the floor with several serious wounds and bite marks. Hirt said he lives next door to his 93year-old mother and checked on his mother and his sister, Jennifer Dickensheet, 66, of New Carlisle, who had been staying with her mother to help care for her on Tuesday.

He initially found Dickensheet trying to get control of the dogs. After containing the dogs in another room, Jerome Hirt called 911 at approximately 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. According to Jerome Hirt’s statement to officials, he pointed to his sister passed out on the couch, and said she was drunk and held up an

TROY Aaron J. Reynolds, 19, of Piqua; Kody A. Francis, 18, of Troy; Chase R. Underwood, 19, of Piqua; and Julio C. Deleon, 19, of Troy.

All five men were arraigned in municipal court this week and each had their bonds increased, most of them by $10,000, for their new criminal charge.

The inmates were housed inside of cell block 305 and were told one of the inmates would need to move from the bottom bunk to a top bunk due to another inmate suffering

Five arrested for drinking and driving over holiday weekend

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com Miami County Sheriff’s cited at least five people for driving under the influence during its annual Thanksgiving blitz.

Sheriff’s officials also cited two individuals for driving under a suspended license. Officials recorded no fatalities during the holiday on the county’s roadways.

According to Troy Police Department, two people were cited for DUI during the same time period. According to Troy Police Department Capt. Joe Long, one of the department’s DUI citations was issued for Michael Boyd, 51, of Troy who eluded both Troy police and

MIAMI COUNTY Miami County Sheriff ’s officials at 2:20 a.m. Nov. 22.

B o y d refused to stop when police attempted to pull him over after he almost struck the police cruiser BOYD from behind and the officer clocked Boyd often traveling at 80 miles per hour. Police officials signaled with lights and

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Boyd failed to stop and a pursuit was made from Arthur Street and Dorset, to State Route 718, Wilson and Peebles roads before eventually ending at the AAA office on South Dorset.

Boyd was charged with OVI, marked lanes, driving under suspended license, unauthorized use of a vehicle and third-degree felony of failure to comply.

Boyd is incarcerated at the Miami County Jail on a $50,000 cash bond.

John Cruse, 32, of Troy also was cited for OVI on Nov. 22 by Troy Police in a separate incident handled

by Troy Police Department.

BUSINESS ROUNDUP • The Troy Elevator The grain prices listed below are the closing prices of Tuesday.

Corn Month Bid Change Nov 7.7500 + 0.1275 J/F/M 13 7.8400 + 0.1275 5.9750 + 0.0850 NC 13 Soybeans Month Bid Change Nov 14.2400 + 0.2450 J/F/M 13 14.2900 + 0.2450 NC 13 12.4100 + 0.1475 Wheat Month Bid Change Nov 8.4800 + 0.2400 NC 13 8.5750 + 0.2325 You can find more information online at www.troyelevator.com.

Ohio State Patrol The Ohio State High Way Patrol’s Piqua post’s holiday enforcement recorded zero fatalities from midnight Nov. 21 through midnight on Nov. 25.

State numbers released today by the OSP showed fewer motorists were killed

• Stocks of local interest Values reflect closing prices from Tuesday.

Symbol Price Change AA 8.28 -0.03 CAG 29.63 +1.34 CSCO 18.96 +0.04 49.20 +0.34 EMR FITB 14.55 -0.18 FLS 138.76 -0.44 ITW 60.54 0.00 JCP 17.52 +0.29 KMB 85.58 -0.80 KO 37.42 +0.06 KR 24.86 +0.25 LLTC 32.32 -0.10 MCD 85.92 -0.32 MSFG 11.81 +0.01 PEP 70.11 +0.11 SYX 9.74 -0.25 TUP 63.98 -0.48 USB 32.10 -0.29 VZ 42.98 -0.32 4.65 -0.04 WEN WMT 69.50 -0.41 — Staff and wire reports

on Ohio’s roadways this Holiday, Thanksgiving with 11 recorded fatalities in 2012. Officials state that this is a decrease from 17 fatalities during the same period in 2011; 18 in 2010 and 20 in 2009.

According to Piqua post’s Sgt. Vee Witcher Jr., no fatalities were recorded during the holiday blitz for both Miami and Shelby counties.

The Piqua post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol also serves as headquarters of the 11-county district in western Ohio. Witcher said nine people were cited for OVI during the holiday period.

Other citations included 124 enforcement tickets, 215 non-enforcement tickets nine traffic crashes with zero fatalities, seven seat belt violations, seven aggressive driving violations, 103 warnings, 38 vehicle defect citations, and 59 assists were calculated through the blitz.

According to the Ohio State High Patrol’s press release, even though fatalities were on the decline this

holiday weekend, all of those killed in motor vehicle crashes were not wearing a safety belt.

During the initial hours of the holiday reporting period, four people were killed when they were ejected during a single vehicle crash in Warren County in which alcohol is suspected. “We are encouraged by the reduction of fatalities this weekend; however, motorists need to remember that wearing a safety belt is the single most important thing they can do to protect themselves during a crash,� said Colonel John Born, patrol superintendent. “Simple things like wearing a safety belt or designating a sober driver can go a long way in ensuring these tragedies don’t occur.�

The Patrol arrested 459 drivers for OVI during the holiday weekend statewide.

A complete statistical analysis of the patrol’s enforcement activity over the holiday weekend is available online at statepatrol.ohio.gov.

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Hirt said his mother was physically in good shape, but had symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Hirt said he had checked on both is mother and sister at noon Monday and both were fine. Hirt noticed the blinds were still closed when he took his grandson to school Tuesday morning. When he stopped to check on them, he found

Dickensheet trying to put up the dogs in another room and his mother on the floor.

Hirt said after the dogs were contained, Dickensheet drank the bottle of Listerine. Hirt said Dickensheet was intoxicated when he arrived but able to move around.

Miami County Sheriff’s officials are still investigating the incident. The Boston terrier dogs were taken into custody for observation.

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Lori Robinson, as Miss Agatha Hannigan, and Joe Meyer, as Daniel “Rooster� Hannigan, rehearse Monday for the upcoming Troy Civic Theatre production of “Annie.�

Annie • CONTINUED FROM 1 family-oriented event — for the family, by the family,� said Van Kirk, who will be appearing as Bert Healy (Eddie), after Josh Lisec became sick with triple bronchitis. Van Kirk, along with several other actors, will be playing multiple smaller roles, too.

The mix of different ages — from 5 years old to 65 — has been “refreshing,� Van Kirk said, adding that the musical provides a funny outing for all ages and interests. “Especially with it being Christmastime, you don’t have to drive far and it’s inexpensively priced.

It’s a nice Christmas gift that makes for great memories,� Van Kirk said.

Both actresses playing Annie will have the chance to perform the lead role, as

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Van Kirk said he wanted to give both girls the chance. Kayleigh Gleason, cast as Annie, will play the adorable singing sensation the first weekend, while understudy Riley Trzeciak takes to the stage the second weekend.

Assisting with the show are stage manager Tammy Gass, producer Barb Lurie and vocal coach and choreographer McKenzie Stotler.

For more information and for tickets, visit troycivictheatre.com.

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The inmates refused to stop and threatened corrections officers with bodily harm if they entered. Some inmates used racial slurs directed at certain corrections officers, who had to call road deputies in from patrols to end the small riot, reports state.

In his narrative of the incident Norman added that the five inmates began “yelling at the adjacent cell block, 304, and imploring them to join in with them and cause more problems.�

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THURSDAY • MOM AND BABY: A Mom and Baby Get Together support group for breastfeeding mothers is offered weekly on Thursdays at Upper Valley Medical Center. The meetings are 9:30-11 a.m. at the Farmhouse located northwest of the main hospital entrance. The meetings are facilitated by the lactation department.

Participants can meet other moms, share about being a new mother and learn more about breastfeeding and their babies. For more information, call (937) 4404906.

• QUARTER AUCTION: The Piqua Optimist Club’s annual quarter auction fundraiser will be at 7 p.m. at Z’s Second Floor Lounge. Doors open at 6 p.m. A limited supply of tickets are available for $3 each, and must be purchased in advance to enter the quarter auction. They are available from any Piqua Optimist member or at John Bertke State Farm Insurance, 520 N. Main St., Piqua.

• TACO SALAD: The American Legion Auxiliary, Tipp City, will offer taco salad for $4 from 6-7:30 p.m. Euchre will start at 7 p.m.

• BAKED STEAK: American Legion Post No. 43, 622 S. Market St., will offer dinner from 5-7:30 p.m. The meal will include baked steak, mashed potatos and green beans or corn, for $8.

• DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will lead walkers as they experience the wonderful seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars.

FRIDAY • RESERVATION DEADLINE: Today is the last day for those 60 and older and living in the Miami East School District to register for the school’s annual senior citizens’ Christmas dinner. The meal

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Community Calendar CONTACT US Call Melody Vallieu at 440-5265 to list your free calendar items.You can send your news by e-mail to vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. will be at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 3 in the high school’s cafeteria. Parking will be in the back of the building and enter through the back door. For reservations, call 335-7070, Ext. 3001.

• 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.

• SEAFOOD DINNER: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a three-piece fried fish dinner, 21-piece fried shrimp, or a fish/shrimp combo with french fries and coleslaw for $6 from 67:30 p.m. Frog legs, when available, are $10.

• HOLIDAY CONCERT: The Tippecanoe Community Band, directed

by Gail Ahmed, will present its first free concert of the Christmas season at 7:30 p.m. at Tipp City’s Zion Lutheran Church, corner of Main Street and 11 N. Third Street. Enter at the north doors to the fellowship hall. Santa arrives in a real velvet suit. Light refreshments will be offered. For more information, call 335-1178.

• INFORMATION FAIR: An Edison Community College Nursing Program and Upper Valley Medical Center RN to BSN information fair will be offered from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Emerson Center of the Piqua campus.

• BAKED TENDERLOIN: The American Legion Auxiliary, Tipp City, will present a baked tenderloin dinner with au gratin potatoes, whole kernel corn, salad, rolls, butter and dessert for $7 from 6-7:30 p.m.

SATURDAYSUNDAY • OPEN HOUSE: The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main St., will present its 36th annual Holiday Open House from 1-5 p.m.

All activities are free and open to the public. The TroyHayner Cultural Center Holiday Open House will present nine designer holiday showrooms, music in the house, refreshments and a full day of children’s programming. Visit www.TroyHayner.org for complete details.

Edison brings donors, recipients together PIQUA — The longstanding benefits of a college education can sometimes be a goal that seems unattainable to some due to the financial strain that getting a degree can bring.

As student loan debt continues to grow, more students are reaching out for assistance through scholarship programs.

Through the generosity of donors from throughout the region, many students at Edison Community College have found the resources necessary to take their dreams and make them a reality. At the annual Scholarship Recognition Dinner held in Edison’s Robinson Theater on Nov. 8, students and their families were given the opportunity to connect with the donors who have helped shape their futures.

Edison student Natasha Flaugher, recipient of two scholarships and currently pursuing her degree in nursing, addressed the audience following the opening reception and dinner.

“Without these scholarships, a lot of the students here would have a great burden on their shoulders,” said Flaugher, who received scholarships from the Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce and Miami County Safety Council.

“Getting a scholarship has been a great motivator for me personally, because I know someone has put a lot of faith in me and I don’t want to let them down.”

Donors like Linda Long and Carol Wood believe in those students, and see the

to school and taking care of family members.

Statistically, the average opportunity in providing a number of students scholarship to a deserving receiving some form of student as a way of honor- financial aid at Edison is ing the memory of a loved just around 70 percent, one. The Holly Hahn compared to other major Memorial Scholarship is schools in Ohio where the set up to provide financial number is more than 90 assistance to a student for percent. whom English is a second Offering resources language, a cause that was such as the Postvery close to the former Secondary Enrollment Edison professor’s heart Option Program, which when she passed away in allows qualifying stu2005. dents to take college “She had a passion and credit courses while still love for teaching,” said in high school tuitionLong, who started the free, helps students and scholarship seven years families reduce future ago with Wood. “She costs while easing the worked with students in transition into a higher the Czech Republic, Russia education institution. and this area teaching “We have more than English as a second lan600 students attending guage and serving as a Edison now as PSEOP language tutor.” students,” said Chris Edison President Dr. Norman, vice president of Cris Valdez spoke to the institutional advanceaudience on the imporment. “Annually, that’s tance of recognizing the helping to save more than many individual donors 1 million dollars in and organizations that tuition costs for stuwork through the coldents.” lege’s foundation to help Parents like Kim students succeed.

Maniaci, whose two “We’re building and daughters Brittany and creating a culture of phi- Gabrielle both attend lanthropy here that Edison and were recipistarts with our donors,” ents of scholarships, said Valdez. “Not everyexpressed her gratitude one has the financial to the donors and institumeans to contribute and tion that have provided a we are very appreciative strong foundation for of those that do. We know their academic success. that higher education “Edison has been very opens up so many oppor- helpful in finding scholartunities to students.” ships to continue their As an institution, education,” she said. “As a Edison strives to provide single parent, it has benthose opportunities, all efitted all of us financialthe while understanding ly. We are very fortunate that many of its students to have Edison here in are working while going the community.”

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State FFA president makes stop Recently, Ohio FFA State President Shelby Faulkner came to visit the members of the Miami East FFA Chapter.

She spent the day in their classroom teaching them about personal values and FFA opportunities with the agriculture, food and natural resources classes.

In the animal science classes and the business management classes, she taught a lesson on using personal strengths but understanding personal weaknesses.

Faulkner is taking a year of leave from The Ohio State University where she is majoring in agricultural education.

She is a graduate of Graham High School and has earned her American FFA Degree.

CASSTOWN She will spend one year serving the members of the Ohio FFA Association via camps, conferences and conventions.

Faulkner’s visit was a result of the “purchase” of her visit at the 2012 Ohio FFA Camp Muskingum Children’s

Hospital Benefit Auction.

The Miami East FFA Chapter made a donation to Children’s Medical Center of Dayton and in return, Faulkner conducted a chapter visit.

The Miami East Agricultural Education Department is a satellite program of the Miami Valley Career Technology Center.

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SATURDAY • ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW: Brukner Nature Center’s annual Winter Arts & Crafts Show will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Brukner. Admission is free. The event will include juried artisan projects from jewelry to soy candles and everything in between, including a Pies for Possums booth. All proceeds will benefit the wildlife ambassador and rehabilitation programs.

• PRAYER BREAKFAST: The Troy Men’s Community Prayer Breakfast will be offered at 7:30 a.m. at First United Church of Christ, Canal and Market streets, Troy.

• SPAGHETTI DINNER: The Troy Post No. 43 baseball will offer an all-you-caneat spaghetti dinner from 3:30-7 p.m. at 622 S. Market St., Troy. The meal also will include salad bar, rolls, dessert and soft drink or

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• RACHEL’S CHALLENGE: While her life was tragically cut short during the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999, Rachel Joy Scott’s shining example lives on. Come at 7 p.m. at Miami East Junior High auditeria to hear the inspiring true story of one girl’s dream being fulfilled over a decade after her death. The program is free. For more information, call 335-7070.

• COMMISSION MEETING: The Miami County Veterans Service Commission will meet at 3 p.m. at 510 W. Water St., Suite 140, Troy.

• KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club. John Terwilliger will speak about the newly created Troy High School Athletic Hall of Fame. For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

• STORY HOUR: Story hours for children 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.

• BOARD MEETING: The Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services will hold its monthly board of directors meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the Tri-County Board Office, Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Suite 4000, Troy. For more information, call 335-7727.

• FULL MOON WALK: An Aullwood naturalist will lead a walk from 6:30-8 p.m. in the light of the Mad Buck Moon at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton.

coffee. Meals will be $6.75 for adults and $4 for children under 12.

• PORK CHOPS: The VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a stuffed pork chop dinner and mashed potatoes and gravy and a side for $9 from 5-7 p.m.

• TENDERLOIN OR WINGS: The Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St., will offer a Texas Tenderloin or wings dinner with fries and coleslaw for $8 from 5:30 -7 p.m.

• PANCAKE BREAKFAST: The Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ will hold its final monthly pancake and sausage breakfast from 8-11 a.m. At the church, one block west of the intersection of State Route 48 and State Route 718. The meal will be complementary, but donations will be accepted for Sierra Flanary. The menu will include pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, toast, juice and coffee, tea and milk.

The meal will be all- youcan-eat pancakes with live music. Contact the church office at (937) 676-3193 for more information.

• KARAOKE: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will present Papa D’s Pony Express karaoke for free from 7 p.m. to close.

• COOKIEWALK: A Cookiewalk will be offered beginning at 9 a.m. at the Tipp City United Methodist Church, 9 W. Main St., Tipp City. Homemade cookies and candy will be sold by the pound. All profits go to local charities.

• MEMBERSHIP SALE: Memberships to the Miami County Agricultural Society, at $25 each, go on sale today at the Miami County Fairgrounds. Through May, office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. Membership sales end Aug. 8.

• LOLLIPOP PROJECT: School-age children and their families are invited to come by the Troy-Miami County Public Library anytime between 1-3 p.m. to make cute snowmen using a plastic spoon, a lollipop and some craft supplies.

Each person will make one to keep and three or four to be distributed at the UVMC emergency room during the holidays. No registration is necessary.

• EMPTY BOWLS: Artists Against Hunger will offer a Empty Bowls event, where participants, for a suggested donation of $10, can purchase a ceramic bowl, made by local students and artists, and fill it with donated soup and also enjoy pizza, breads, sandwiches, cheese, desserts and beverages at no additional cost. The event will be from 5-8 p.m. at Troy Christian High School and there is no obligation to buy a bowl. The meals are free.

One hundred percent of the proceeds will stay in Miami County to support programs that help fight childhood hunger.

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Contact us David Fong is the executive editor of the Troy Daily News. You can reach him at 440-5228 or send him e-mail at fong@tdn publishing.com.

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PERSPECTIVE

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Herald of Rock Hill on immigration reform needed: Sen. Lindsay Graham among first Republicans to make call for immigration fix.

At least one Republican U.S. senator is ready to try to tackle the politically controversial problem of immigration reform. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said this month that, with the poor showing his party made among Hispanic voters in the presidential election, other Republicans should be eager to join him.

It is not surprising that Graham would be among the first to step forward in favor of comprehensive changes to the nation’s immigration laws. He was among the most vocal champions of the reform plan proposed by President George W. Bush in 2006.

That bill included a provision to legalize an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, most from Latin America, and to create a temporary worker program sought by business groups. But it also featured tougher border security and workplace enforcement measures, including an extra $4.4 billion for more border enforcement.

As I In the end, though, the bill fell short in the See It Senate with 37 Republicans opposing it.

■ The Troy While unemployment is high now, as more and Daily News more baby-boomers retire, the nation is likely to welcomes suffer a shortage of workers in key jobs. We will columns from need more immigrant workers, not fewer. our readers. To The nation also needs to find ways to encourage submit an “As I the best foreign students attending U.S. colleges See It” send and universities to stay in this country and use your type-writtheir skills here. ten column to: The hard anti-immigrant stance taken by many ■ “As I See It” Republicans might have appealed to some in the c/o Troy Daily party’s base, but it was not a winning formula at News, 224 S. the polling booths. Graham thinks Republicans Market St., Troy, OH 45373 can remain true to their values but also embrace immigration reform — and attract Hispanic voters ■ You can also e-mail us at to the GOP in the process. editorial@tdnpu We hope more of those from his side of the aisle blishing.com. will join like-minded Democrats to find a lasting ■ Please fix to the problem of illegal immigration. It would include your full be both good for the nation and smart politics. name and teleThe Telegraph, Macon, Ga., on U.S. being phone number.

No. 1 producer of oil and gas: The headline on the report from the International Energy Agency proclaimed that the United States would be, by 2017, the world’s top oil producer, stepping ahead of Saudi Arabia. The report also predicts the United States will be the world’s largest producer of natural gas in three years surpassing Russia.

Seems impossible doesn’t it? The report goes on to say that in about two decades America would be “self-sufficient,” meaning we couldn’t be held hostage by the Middle East for our energy needs.

Don’t feel too sorry for Saudi Arabia, while we won’t have them to blame for gas prices anymore, there is still a healthy market for their crude. Instead of it being shipped here, it will head to China and India. Will we be able to name our own price for gas? Well, no. That’s set on the world market and even though we will be self-sufficient we will still be vulnerable to the ups and downs of the global marketplace, At the base of the predictions by the IAE are increased mileage standards and the sobering realization that as long as we depend on fossil fuels — here and abroad — that there will be more freakish storms such as Hurricane Sandy. The message that we will be selfsufficient should not slow efforts to discover and refine new energy resources not tied to oil and gas.

LETTERS

Sometimes there is no justice To the Editor: In 2008 I loaned a lady $5,000 to buy a vehicle and she promised me faithfully that she would pay me back so much a month till it was paid for — no taxes, no interest.

And here it is 2012, getting ready to go into 2013. I took

her to small claims court in Shelby County. The judge said he would render his decision in 10 days. I have heard nothing at all on this matter, so I began to ask questions about the whereabouts of this person and someone told me she was in Miami County.

So, I begin to have someone to check a few things for me. I called a certain lawyer in Troy,

which is in Miami County about a few things. He said he could not represent me on this case or tell me anything about her because she was his client.

Here I am again — the good protects the bad. Where’s the justice for the innocent person like myself?

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DOONESBURY

Finding perfect gifts is truly a special gift ‘Tis better to give than to receive yada yada. You know what’s even better? Finding killer gifts for your friends and accidentally-on-purpose finding killer gifts for yourself. (And then, days later, succumbing to feelings of regret and returning said items.)

You get that warm fuzzy feeling of doing good for another human being while simultaneously fulfilling that selfish urge within.

Please tell me I’m not the only one.

Target is the worst/best place ever for holiday offenders like me.

So many glorious cheap gifts, so little time. I’ll be picking out $3.99 jewelry for friends and then get this pang in my stomach, thinking, I love this so much and will be forever jealous if I have to see my friend wearing it. It’s sort of like setting your friend up with a great guy and then having to watch them together. Ugh, horrible.

And so I buy two: one for myself and one for my friend.

Buying gifts for close gal pals can be surprisingly expensive work. The more I like you, the more we have in common, the more money I’ll spend. This isn’t me being particularly generous.

Ironically, I’m being greedy. That perfect gift for you happens to be the perfect gift for me — that’s why we’re friends. Two peas in a

Natalie Knoth Troy Daily News Columnist pod. Too bad if you don’t want us to look like twins. You, my friend, can return it.

I think Target has the whole psychology-of-buying-gifts thing down pat, right down to those inexpensive trinkets enticing you next to the doors and registers.

You know, those “must-haves” like reindeer and mistletoe headbands.

Also, Chinese takeout boxes decked out in festive designs.

Because you never know when the next holiday shindig might be.

Totally and completely practical.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m not completely selfish. I don’t always tack on a gift pour moi. This mostly has to do with the fact that many of the people I shop for do not share my common interests.

People like my family. Specifically, my dad and brother.

Women, what in the world do you buy the men in your life?

— Gaylord Gates Piqua

Cologne? That can be a small fortune. Socks? How boring. Plus you’ll probably end up picking them up off the floor. Golf balls?

That’s literally a lost cause. Why buy something that seemingly disappears in the air?

Of course you could settle for one of those “experience” type gifts. For example, tickets to a sports game. In my case, just make sure you clarify that the plus-one is not, in fact, you. Maybe it would be better to go with movie tickets or a gift certificate to a restaurant.

I guess the good old generic gift card is a safe alternative. A bigbox retailer, bookstore, iTunes…now we’re talking. The problem is, it screams, “I don’t know you too well” or “I’m too lazy to dream up a marvelous gift.” On the other hand, when the post-holiday blues or seasonal affective disorder strike in January, I imagine it can be comforting to spend money that is not your own.

Also, now that I’m older, I can finally understand the genius that is gas gift cards. I remember rolling my eyes whenever my mom would propose such a lame gift for the family white elephant brouhaha. Are you KIDDING me? Who in the world would want that?!

Preposterous. But I finally get it.

Filling up your gas tank can easily

cost $50, and a $30 gift card can offset a decent portion. How practical. For some people, a basket full of fruity, floral or vanilla shower gel, lotion, baby powder, hand sanitizer, loofa and whathave-you just ain’t practical. To those people, I say you don’t know how to live.

Sometimes a good respite to all this madness is participating in an “adopt a child” program or another charity. I’m not just saying this to dissuade any ideas that I am an utterly greedy young person only concerned with my own well-being.

Not that I haven’t incriminated myself. But helping to make another person’s Christmas a little brighter — whether by buying items off a child’s list or donating a warm winter coat — is important in and of itself. And it really truly does make you realize that material things — when they satisfy a need or represent who a person is or spur an individual’s curiosity — can make all the difference.

I’ll try to remember that the next time my selfish side is tempting me. “Try” is the key word there…

Natalie Knoth appers every other Wednesday in the Troy Daily News

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MICHAEL JAMES BOEHRINGER COVINGTON — Michael James Boehringer, 49, passed away at his home Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012.

He was born June 16, 1943, to the late James Boehringer and Judy Boehringer, who survives.

Mr. Boehringer also is survived by his wife, Toni Boehringer; two step children, Jessica and Steven Critz of Covington and Daniel and Katie Parker of Fort Hood, Texas; three step grandchildren, Aliyah and Katie Critz and Madalynn Parker; brothers, Scott

Boehringer and nephew, Ryan Boehringer, both of Covington, and Kyle and Dawn Boehringer and their children, Paige and Owen Boehringer, all of Covington.

He was preceded in death by his father, James.

Mr. Boehringer enjoyed fishing and Ohio State football. He will be dearly missed by friends and family.

A memorial gathering will be conducted from 5-8 p.m. today at the Covington Eagles.

Former baseball union head Miller dead at 95 NEW YORK (AP) — Marvin Miller was a labor economist who never played a day of organized baseball. He preferred tennis. Yet he transformed the national pastime as surely as Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, television and night games.

Miller, the union boss who won free agency for baseball players in 1975, ushering in an era of multimillion-dollar contracts and athletes who switch teams at the drop of a batting helmet, died Tuesday at 95. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer in August.

“I think he’s the most important baseball figure of the last 50 years,” former baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent said.

“He changed not just the sport but the business of the sport permanently, and he truly emancipated the baseball player and in the process all professional athletes. Prior to his time, they had few rights. At the moment, they control the games.”

In his 16-1/2 years as executive director of the Major League Players Association, starting in 1966, Miller fought owners on many fronts, not only achieving free agency but making the word “strike” stand for something other than a pitched ball.

Over the years, his influence was widely acknowledged if not always honored.

Baseball fans argue over whether he made the game fairer or more nakedly mercenary, and the Hall of Fame repeatedly rejected him in what was attributed to lingering resentment among team owners.

Players attending the union’s annual executive board meeting in New York said their professional lives are Miller’s legacy.

“Anyone who’s ever played modern professional sports owes a debt of gratitude

to Marvin Miller,” Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Chris Capuano said. “He empowered us as players. He gave us ownership of the game we play. Anyone who steps on a field in any sport, they have a voice because of him.”

Major League Baseball’s revenue has grown from $50 million in 1967 to $7.5 billion this year.

At his last public speaking engagement, a discussion at New York University School of Law in April marking the 40th anniversary of the first baseball strike, Miller said free agency and resulting fan interest contributed to the increase. And both management and labor benefited, he said.

“I never before saw such a win-win situation in my life, where everybody involved in Major League Baseball, both sides of the equation, still continue to set records in terms of revenue and profits and salaries and benefits,” Miller said. He called it “an amazing story.”

Miller, who retired in 1982, led the first walkout in the game’s history 10 years earlier, a fight over pension benefits.

On April 5, 1972, signs posted at major league parks simply said: “No Game Today.” The strike, which lasted 13 days, was followed by a walkout during spring training in 1976 and a midseason job action that darkened the stadiums for seven weeks in 1981.

Miller led players through three strikes and two lockouts. Baseball has had eight work stoppages in all.

Slightly built and silver-haired with a thick, dark mustache, Miller operated with an eloquence and a soft-spoken manner that belied his toughness. He clashed repeatedly with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn.

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Peter A. Jameson and Julie A. and Robert Carey all of Milwaukee, Wisc., Sarah A. and Ross Marett of Sydney, Australia, Matthew H. and Brenda Jameson of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Margaret A. and David Short of Columbus; brother and sister-in-law, Neil A. and Marge Heinen of Milwaukee, Wisc.; eight grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; and many close and dear friends.

all of Piqua; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Linda Crans of Belgrade, Montana, Kris and Don Nash of Piqua, and Kelly and Paul Schmidt of Saginaw, Mich.; and two grandchildren, Jackson and Hunter Hollis of Covington.

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Susan Dankworth and Paula “Petey” Sorrell.

Bruce graduated from Piqua Central High School.

He was a member of Piqua Eagles No. 614 and the Troy Fish and Game.

TROY — Ellen M. Hatfield, 84, of Troy, passed away Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, at the Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy.

She was born March 2, 1928, in St. Paris, Ohio, to the late Walter and Glenna (Babington) Brown.

HATFIELD In addition to her parents, Ellen was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph L. Hatfield on Oct. 11, 1996; one daughter, Anna May Zimmerman; three brothers, Charles, Francis and

Virgil Brown; and by one sister, Opal Boyder.

Ellen is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Sandra and William Grody of Bradford and Daris and Kevin Spurgeon of Troy; two sons, Walter Hatfield of Bradford and Kenneth Hatfield of Troy; two brothers and sisters-inlaw, Clyde and Dorothy Brown of Tipp City and Clarence and Patricia Brown of Jupiter, Fla.; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren;

Bruce worked for Piqua Eagles for 30 years and worked for Salvation Army Store, Piqua for five years.

He had also worked at Dayton Metals in Piqua.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, with the Rev. Fr. Angelo Caserta officiating. Friends may call from 5-8 p.m.

Thursday at the funeral home. Piqua Eagles No. 614 will be presenting a service at 7:45 p.m.

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Memorial contributions may be made to MelcherSowers Funeral Home, 646 W. High St., Piqua, OH 45356, to help defray the cost of the funeral.

ELLEN M. HATFIELD and by her extended family and many friends.

Ellen was affiliated with the Lutheran faith.

She loved stock car races at Shady Bowl and Winchester, Ind. She was a homemaker and loved cooking.

The family will be receiving family at friends from 9-10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at FisherCheney Funeral Home, 1124 W. Main St., Troy.

A graveside service will follow at 11 a.m. at the Dayton National Cemetery, 4100 W. Third St., Dayton.

Condolences may be left for the family at www.fishercheneyfuneralhome.com.

ELLEN M. (MUMMA) KNEISLY ENGLEWOOD — Ellen M. (Mumma) Kneisly, 74 of Englewood, passed away on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012.

Ellen was a 1956 graduate of Fairview High School and a 1960 graduate of Otterbein College.

She retired from Upper Valley Medical Center as a registered medical technologist.

Ellen was a member of Fairview United Methodist Church where she was part of the womens group. She also was a member of the Otterbein College Womens Club.

She is survived by her

husband of 52 years, L. Douglas Kneisly; children, Jennifer (Douglas) Amheiser of Piqua, Janet (Robert) Lybarger of Troy, and David (Lori) Kneisly of Columbus; sister, Robyn Hamlington of Tennessee; grandchildren, Abigael, Rebecca, Matthew, Robby and Joshua; relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Katharine (Myers) Mumma, and a sister, Joanna Shelton.

Funeral services will be at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at the

Fairview United Methodist Church (828 W. Fairview Ave.) with Rev. Barbara Weichel officiating.

The family will receive friends from 11:30 a.m. until time of services Thursday.

A Graveside service also will also be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Park Cemetery in Dayton.

If desired, memorial contributions may be made to Fairview United Methodist Church.

Online condolences may be made to the family at www.kindredfuneralhome.com.

FUNERAL DIRECTORY • Marian Marie Hamaker SIDNEY — Marian Marie Hamaker, 81, of Sidney, Ohio, died Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Sidney. Private memorial services to be held at Salm-McGill and Tangeman Funeral Home on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Salm-McGill and Tangeman Funeral Home in Sidney is handling arrangements.

• Mary Elizabeth Guskey GRAYSON, Ky. — Mary Elizabeth “Ebbie” Guskey, 77 of Grayson, Ky., passed away Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012 at Spring Creek Nursing Home, Huber Heights, Ohio, after an extended illness. A Celebration of Life service will be conduct-

ed Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, Tipp City.

• Mary Kathleen Roush PIQUA — Mary Kathleen Roush, 87, formerly of Piqua, died at 10 a.m.

Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at Heartland of Piqua. Private funeral services are being conducted through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

• Joseph R. Spain SIDNEY — Joseph R. Spain, 79, of Sidney, passed away at 9:03 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 in his residence.

Services are pending with Suber-Shively Funeral Home, 201 W. Main St., Fletcher.

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Carol was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, Troy.

She was an avid Bunko player, card player and loved crossword puzzles.

A celebration of life will be from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Baird Funeral Home, Troy.

Carol will be remembered at a future mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church.

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

BRUCE PATRICK HOLLIS PIQUA — Bruce Patrick Hollis, 58, of Piqua, died at 5:37 a.m.

Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy.

He was born in Piqua on April 27, 1954, to the late Paul and Rosemary (Hemm) Hollis.

HOLLIS Bruce is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Charlie W. and Kari Hollis of Covington; fiancé, Leigh Ann Keller of Piqua; Leigh Ann’s children, Steven and Alexis Keller; two brothers and sisters-inlaw, Jack and Vicki Hollis and Ted and Teresa Hollis,

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TROY — Carol M. Jameson, 82, of Troy, Ohio, passed away peacefully Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy.

She was born Nov. 8, 1930, in Milwaukee, Wisc., to the late Herb Heinen and Gladys (Raasch) Heinen Schultz.

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“Chicago,” has died after battling cancer, his publicist said Tuesday. He was 80.

Publicist Judy Jacksina said Richards died Monday.

The marquees of Broadway theatres will be dimmed in his memory Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Richards’ shows won 36 Tonys during his five decades producing plays and musicals.

“The popularity of his shows has brought many generations to Broadway. He was an admirer of talent, and we were an admirer of his,” Charlotte St. Martin said.

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Experts exhume remains of Palestinian leader RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Yasser Arafat’s political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader’s remains as part of a longshot attempt eight years after his mysterious death to determine whether he was poisoned.

Arafat died in November 2004 at a French military hospital, a month after suddenly falling ill at his West Bank compound, at the time besieged by Israeli troops.

The immediate cause of death was a stroke, but the underlying reasons were unclear, leading to widespread belief in the Arab world that Israel poisoned the 75-year-old symbol of Palestinian nationalism.

Israel has denied involvement in Arafat’s death.

The exhumation began before dawn Tuesday, under the cover of huge sheets of blue tarpaulin draped over Arafat’s mausoleum in his former government compound in the Bank city of West Ramallah. By mid-morning, the grave was reclosed, and officials from Arafat’s Fatah movement and the Palestine Liberation Organization laid wreaths at the mausoleum.

Palestinians had launched an investigation after Arafat’s death, but made no progress. The probe was revived this summer when a Swiss lab detected elevated traces of a lethal radioactive substance, polonium-210, in biological stains on his clothing.

The lab said the tests were inconclusive and that it needed to examine the remains for a clearer picture.

Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, authorized the exhumation despite strong cultural and religious taboos against disturbing a gravesite, apparently to avoid any suggestion that he was standing in the way of a thorough investigation.

Abbas was absent during Tuesday’s proceedings, instead heading to the United Nations to seek a General Assembly acceptance of Palestine as a nonmember observer state.

Abbas has said the request, strongly opposed by the U.S. and Israel, is meant to strengthen his leverage with Israel.

In Ramallah, workers have been drilling through thick layers of concrete encasing the tomb since mid- November. The grave was opened before dawn Tuesday, said Tawfik

Tiraqi, head of the Palestinian team investigating Arafat’s death.

A Palestinian official initially said some of the remains were moved to a nearby mosque. However, Palestinian Health Minister Hani Abdeen later said samples were taken without having to move the remains to another location.

The exhumation was attended by experts from Switzerland, France and Russia who will examine the samples in their home countries, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the exhumation. Earlier, samples were also taken from Arafat’s bedroom, office and personal belongings, he said.

Dr. Abdullah Bashir, a member of the Palestinian investigative team, said it would take at least three months for results to come back.

Public reaction in the West Bank was mixed.

Nidaa Younes, a Palestinian government employee, said it was unnecessary to dig up the remains. “Our religion forbids exhuming graves. It is not nice at all to do this, even if religion permits it in some cases,” she said, adding that she believes Israel was responsible for

Arafat’s death.

Ramallah resident Tony Abdo said he supports the exhumation, expecting it to prove that Arafat did not die a natural death.

Suspicions about Arafat’s death flared again over the summer, when the Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera took some of Arafat’s belongings, provided by his widow Suha, to a Swiss lab for testing. The belongings included what Mrs. Arafat said were her husband’s fur hat and a woolen cap with some of his hair, a toothbrush, and clothing with his urine and blood stains.

The Institute of Radiation Physics discovered elevated traces of polonium-210, the same substance that killed Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer turned Kremlin critic, in 2006.

Mrs. Arafat urged the Palestinian Authority, the West Bank-based self-rule

government headed by Abbas, to exhume her husband’s remains and also asked the French government to launch a separate investigation. Eventually, Abbas also requested that Russia join the probe.

But the exhumation and the testing of the remains might not resolve the mystery. Polonium-210 decomposes rapidly, and some experts say it is not clear whether any remaining samples will be sufficient for testing.

For decades, Arafat was the symbol of the Palestinians’ struggle for an independent state.

After returning from exile to the Palestinian territories in the early 1990s, as part of interim peace deals with Israel, he zigzagged between leading negotiations with Israel and condoning violence as a means of obtaining political goals.

Arafat, along with two

Israeli leaders, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for his commitment to work toward peace with Israel. He later presided over the Palestinians as they waged a violent uprising against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories they seek for an independent state.

Israel accused him of ordering attacks against Israelis, and confined him to his Ramallah compound. He stayed there for more than two years before falling ill.

In his later years, Arafat also faced criticism at home, with some accusing his political circle of corruption and the pocketing of large amounts of aid. But he remains a widely revered figure in the Palestinian territories, and his portrait frequently appears in government offices and street posters.

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Zuniga was detained in western Mexico in late 2010 along with seven men, some of them suspectdrug traffickers. ed Authorities found a large stash of weapons, ammunition and $53,300 with them inside a vehicle.

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Higuera said two other members of the drug gang were killed and four were detained.

The shootout began when the gunmen opened fire on a Mexican army patrol.

Soldiers gave chase and cornered the gang at a safe house in the town of Mocorito.

The other men escaped, and the gunbattle continued along a nearby roadway, where the gang’s vehicles were eventually stopped.

Six vehicles, drugs and weapons were seized following the confrontation.

It was at least the third instance in which a beauty queen or pageant contestants have been linked to Mexico’s violent drug gangs, a theme so common it was the subject of a critically acclaimed 2011 movie.

In “Miss Bala,” Mexico’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of this year’s Academy Awards, a young woman competing for Miss Baja California becomes an unwilling participant in a drug-running ring, finally getting arrested for deeds she was forced into performing.

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The body of Maria Susana Flores Gamez was found Saturday lying near an assault rifle on a rural road in a mountainous area of the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa, the chief state prosecutor said Monday. It was unclear if she had used the weapon.

“She was with the gang of criminals, but we cannot say whether she participated in the shootout,” state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera said. “That’s what we’re going to have to investigate.”

The slender, 5-foot-7inch brunette was voted the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in a beauty pageant in February. In June, the model competed with other seven contestants for the more prestigious state beauty contest, Our Beauty Sinaloa, but didn’t win. The Our Beauty state winners compete for the Miss Mexico title, whose holder represents the country in the international Miss Universe.

Higuera said Flores Gamez was traveling in one of the vehicles that engaged soldiers in an hours-long chase and running gun battle on

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Authority-East. “We can’t let pieces of this system die away. We can’t be parochial about it.”

On Nov. 6, New Orleans voters were faced with one of their first challenges on

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Bob Bea, a civil engineer at the University of California, said the region must find additional money to keep the system working properly. “If you try to operate it and maintain it on a shoestring, then it won’t provide the protection that people deserve.”

Many locals remain uneasy, even though Turner’s agency is a welcome replacement for local levee boards that were previously derided.

“It’s scary,” said C. Ray Bergeron, owner of Fleur De Lis Car Care, a service station in the Lakeview neighborhood where water rose to rooftops after levees collapsed during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

Before Katrina, Bergeron said the local levee boards were complacent. “They told everybody everything was fine, ‘oh yeah, it’s fine.

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“It’s not like the corps’ budget is flush.”

The nation has spent lavishly on fixing the system in the seven years since Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and left 1,800 people dead.

“It is better than what the Dutch have for the types of storms we have,” said Carlton Dufrechou, a member of the board of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, which monitors local environmental issues.

Ensuring it remains that way could be tricky.

The biggest headaches are several mega-projects with lots of moving parts, all needing constant upkeep.

The corps is building them across major waterways that lead into New Orleans.

Take for instance the 1.8-mile-long, 26-foot-high surge barrier southeast of the French Quarter that blocks water coming up from the Gulf of Mexico across lakes and into the city’s canals. Water from this direction doomed the Lower 9th Ward and threatened to flood the French Quarter.

Maintaining this giant wall alone will cost $4 million or more a year.

“You have to get out there and do exercises, do the preventive maintenance, change out equipment over time on a particular schedule,” Turner said, enumerating the challenges. “There are a lot of cases where a single thing goes wrong and that can create a failure, a complete failure where you can’t close the system.”

There is a mounting list of to-dos.

Already, lightning has knocked out chunks of wall.

Grass hasn’t grown well on several new stretches of levee. Louisiana State University grass experts have been called in to help seed them.

There are recurring problems with vibrations and shuddering on a new floodgate at Bayou Dupre in St. Bernard Parish. The corps has plans to overhaul the structure in the spring before handing it over to local control.

And there will be the inevitable sinking of levees and structures, as always happens in south Louisiana’s naturally soft soils. Over time, levees will have to be raised.

Col. Ed Fleming, the New Orleans corps commander, said his outfit will work to ensure the transition to local control is smooth.

“This happens with corps civil projects all over the country. That’s the way it works in Iraq, Afghanistan,” he said. “We have authority to build, but we have no authority to do operations and maintenance.”

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Congressional investigations found the old Orleans Levee Board more interested in managing a casino license and two marinas than looking after levees.

Inspections were ceremonial, millions of dollars were spent on a fountain and overpasses rather than on levee protection.

And there was confusion over who was responsible for managing the fragmented levee system, U.S. Senate investigations revealed.

Still, experts generally agree the old levee board’s failings did not cause the levees to collapse during Katrina. Poor levee designs by the corps and the sheer strength of Katrina get the lion’s share of the blame.

Since the Flood Control Act of 1936, the Army Corps has given local or state authorities oversight of water-control projects, whether earthen levees in the Midwest or beach walls in New England.

“That’s been the eternal problem with flood-protection systems,” said Thomas Wolff, an engineer at Michigan State University.

“You build something very good and then give it to local interests who are not as well-funded.”

New Orleans is an unusual case because the area is inheriting the nation’s first-of-its-kind urban flood control system.

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The Army Corps estimates it will take $38 million a year to pay for upkeep, maintenance and operational costs after it’s turned over to local officials.

Local flood-control chief Robert Turner said he has questions about where that money will come from. At current funding levels, the region will run out of money to properly operate the high-powered system within a decade unless a new revenue source is found.

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Egypt mass protests challenge Islamist president CAIRO (AP) — More than 100,000 people flocked to Cairo’s central Tahrir square on Tuesday, chanting against Egypt’s Islamist president in a powerful show of strength by the opposition demanding Mohammed Morsi revoke edicts granting himself near autocratic powers.

Waving Egypt’s red, white and black flags, crowds of protesters marched across Cairo to stream into the iconic plaza, as opposition to the decrees issued last week turned into a broader expression of anger against the rule of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.

Shortly after nightfall, Tahrir birthplace of the uprising that toppled authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak nearly two years ago was filled with a crowd that appeared to easily exceed 100,000, even before the arrival of thousands more still marching there.

The protest was comparable in size to the daily Tahrir rallies during last year’s 18-day uprising.

Ringing out at the square was the central chant of the 2010-2011 Arab Spring revolts: “The people want to bring down the regime,” and “erhal, erhal” Arabic for “leave, leave.”

“Suddenly Morsi is issuing laws and becoming the absolute ruler, holding all powers in his hands,” said protester Mona Sadek, a 31-year-old engineering graduate who wears the Islamic veil, a hallmark of piety. “Our revolt against the decrees became a protest against the Brotherhood as well.”

Even as the crowds swelled in Tahrir, clashes erupted nearby between several hundred young protesters throwing stones and police firing tear gas on a street off Tahrir leading to the U.S. Embassy. Mist-like white clouds caused by the tear gas hung close to the ground at the area. Clashes have been taking place at the site for several days, fueled by anger over police abuses, separately

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The strong turnout for the rallies which also took place in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and other cities escalates a standoff between Morsi and the opposition over his declaration last week of new powers for himself. So far, Morsi has shown no sign of backing down to demands he rescind the edicts, which effectively neutered the judiciary, the only government branch capable of balancing the presidency.

The edicts have energized the liberal and secular opposition after months of divisions and uncertainty while Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups rose to dominate the political landscape. The backlash over the edicts has also been further fueled by broader anger over what critics see as the Brotherhood’s monopolizing of power after its election victories the past year for parliament and the presidency.

Workers raise 1st section of new Chernobyl shelter CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — Workers have raised the first section of a colossal arch-shaped structure that eventually will cover the exploded nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power station.

Project officials on Tuesday hailed the raising as a significant step in a complex effort to clean up the consequences of the 1986 explosion, the world’s worst nuclear accident. Upon completion, the shelter will be moved on tracks over the building containing the destroyed reactor, allowing work to begin dismantling the reactor and disposing of radioactive waste.

Suma Chakrabati, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which is leading the project, called Tuesday “a very significant milestone, which is a tribute to the ongoing commitment of the international donor community, and an important step toward overcoming the legacy of the accident.”

The shelter, shaped like a gargantuan Quonset hut, will be 843 feet by 492 feet when completed and at its apex will be higher than the Statue of Liberty.

The April 26, 1986, accident in the then-Soviet

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At least 28 people have died of acute radiation sickness from close exposure to the shattered reactor and more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer have been reported.

Officials who showed reporters around the construction site Tuesday were clearly delighted at the colossus taking shape before them, but concerned about the challenges ahead. The shelter is to be moved over the reactor building by the end of 2015 a deadline that no one wants to miss given that the so-called sarcophagus hastily built over the reactor building after the 1986 explosion has an estimated service life of about 30 years.

The arch now under construction is only one of two segments that will eventually form the shelter, and so far it’s only been raised to a height of 72 feet.

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Raafat Magdi, an engineer, said, “We want to change this whole setting. The Brotherhood hijacked the revolution.”

“People woke up to his (Morsi’s) mistakes, and in any new elections they will get no votes,” said Magdi, who was among a crowd of around 10, 000 marching from the Cairo district of Shubra to Tahrir to the beat of drums and chanting against the Brotherhood. Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradie led the march.

Former presidential candidate Amr Moussa, now a prominent opposition leader, said the protest showed “where the nation’s political forces stand on the constitutional declaration.”

“Wisdom dictates that the declaration must be reconsidered,” Moussa, a former Arab League chief, told the private CBC TV station by telephone.

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“We are not rescinding the declaration,” he said.

Morsi says the decrees are necessary to protect the “revolution” and the nation’s transition to democratic rule.

His declaration made all his decisions immune to judicial review and banned the courts from dissolving the upper house of parliament and an assembly writing the new constitution, both of which are dominated by Islamists. The decree also gave Morsi sweeping authority to stop any “threats” to the revolution, public order or state institutions.

The powers would last until the constitution is approved and parliamentary elections are held, not likely before spring 2013.

El-Haddad said the decrees “cemented the way forward” by protecting the assembly and upper house.

In a series of Tweets, the Brotherhood dismissed the rallies, saying even while the square was packed that the turnout was “low” and showed a lack of support for the opposition.

Morsi’s supporters canceled a massive rally they had planned for Tuesday in Cairo, citing the need to “defuse tension” after a series of clashes between the two camps since the decrees were issued Thursday. Morsi’s supporters say more than a dozen of their offices have been ransacked or set ablaze since Friday. Some 5,000 demonstrated in the southern city of Assiut in support of Morsi’s decrees, according to witnesses there.

The opposition says the decrees give Morsi near dictatorial powers by neutralizing the judiciary at a time when he already holds executive and legislative powers. Leading judges have also denounced the measures.

But many who joined Tuesday’s protests lashed out more broadly against the rule of Morsi, who came to office in June as Egypt’s first freely elected president. For months, criticism has been growing that Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists are monopolizing power in the government and trying to dictate the next constitution while not doing enough to tackle the country’s multiple economic and security woes.

Reda Hassan, owner of a car parts shop, said he voted for Morsi in this past summer’s election, but “he fooled us. He did nothing since he was elected. …

Now Tahrir says go away.”

A fellow protester, Saad Salem Nada, said, “I am a Muslim and he made me hate Muslims because of the dictatorship in the name of religion. In the past, we had one Mubarak, now we have hundreds,” referring to the Brotherhood.

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He is also abnormally close to me and doesn't like to leave my side.

Now that he is a teenager, people comment that it is not normal and he should be out with his friends.

It is very easy for people to judge without knowing what it's like to have a child who struggles with life. I do agree with your answer, though, that the family needs ongoing counseling. — SFIP Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Do you choose the real thing?

Dear Readers: Do you use real or imitation vanilla extract in your kitchen?

What is the difference? The first difference is cost!

Real vanilla is more expensive because of the time it takes for the plant to grow and the way it is harvested.

Imitation vanilla is easily manufactured at a cheaper cost.

Real vanilla is made from natural vanilla beans, while imitation generally is a combination of real vanilla and other ingredients that are both natural and artificial. Real vanilla lists alcohol as an ingredient, while imitation does not contain

Hints from Heloise Columnist any alcohol.

Finally, there is a taste difference. There are those who think the imitation vanilla is bitter, but many cooks use it in baking with no noticeable aftertaste.

More-experienced cooks, however, will keep several different bottles of both real and imita-

tion on hand for specific foods they are cooking and baking. — Heloise Visit my website, www.Heloise.com, for links to my Facebook and Twitter pages — hints, fun facts and more!

Come see photos and check out what’s happening.

PEST PLUNGE Dear Heloise: I’ve got mosquitoes swarming my kitchen. I used your mom’s old hint of letting them collect on the walls and then sucking them up with the hose attachment on the vacuum, but they just keep showing up! We don’t keep any doors or windows open, so I think they

might be in our pipes. Help! — Ainsley in Michigan Mother had the right idea for catching the loose mosquitoes flying around, because if you were to swat them, they’d stain the walls! First, check around the house for any standing water in plant saucers or other areas. If you don’t find anything, then it is possible that these pesky insects are coming from the drain in your sink. To remedy this, plug the sink and fill it with the hottest tap water. Pull the plug using kitchen tongs, and the force of the water will flush away bugs and any larvae.

Mosquito-free! — Heloise

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a great day for romantic intimacy. You’ll enjoy flirting with others and having fun with your main squeeze. Gifts, goodies and favors from others might come your way.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a wonderful day to schmooze with everyone, especially partners and close friends. People are in a good mood, and everyone’s energy is high.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You can get a lot done at work today; however, avoid important decisions.

Just stick to business as usual. Coworkers will be fun-loving and supportive.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a wonderful, playful, flirtatious day! Enjoy sports events, a movie, parties, long lunches, happy hour and fun times with children. (It’s a poor day to shop.)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You’ll love entertaining at home today.

Invite the gang over for good food and drink. Discussions about real estate could be interesting; however, make no important decisions today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Conversations with siblings and relatives will be friendly. People are in a good mood today. Short trips and lighthearted adventure will appeal; however, spend money on food and nothing else.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) This is not a good day for important financial decisions. It’s also not a good day to shop for anything except food.

(You have to eat.) Resist the temptation!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Enjoy activities with others today. You might want a night out on the town.

This is a fun-loving, high-energy day, but not a day to spend money or make important decisions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You’ll enjoy solitude in beautiful surroundings today, because you need to catch your breath. It’s been a busy pace because people are so attracted to you now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Friends and people in group situations are very responsive to you today. If you want to rally the troops, you will!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Some of you might develop a crush on your boss today. Don’t be surprised if someone asks for your creative input about something. Just say yes!

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Travel for pleasure will please you today. You’re eager for adventure and a chance to “get away from all this.”

Enjoy good times with others, especially people from different backgrounds; however, avoid important decisions and major purchases.

YOU BORN TODAY You often provoke others because you are passionate and interested in everything around you.

You get a reaction out of people because you see yourself as a defender of the truth. You have a wonderful imagination, which, combined with your often-brazen confidence, leads to exciting situations! You are entering a new cycle in the coming year. Open any door!

Birthdate of: Ryan Giggs, footballer; Louisa May Alcott, author; Diane Ladd, actress. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Monday’s Answer

GARFIELD

BABY BLUES

FUNKY WINKERBEAN

CRANKSHAFT

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Juneau Kansas City Key West Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Milwaukee Nashville New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh St Louis San Diego San Francisco Seattle Washington,D.C.

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................36 at 3:06 p.m.

Low Yesterday..............................26 at 8:14 a.m.

Normal High .....................................................45 Normal Low ......................................................30 Record High ........................................74 in 1990 Record Low...........................................0 in 1930

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m................................0.0 Month to date ................................................0.79 Normal month to date ...................................3.06 Year to date .................................................28.82 Normal year to date ....................................37.60 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Wednesday, Nov. 28, the 333rd day of 2012.

There are 33 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 28, 1942, nearly 500 people died in a fire that destroyed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston.

On this date: • In 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

• In 1861, the Confederate Congress admitted Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after

Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union.

• In 1885, at the end of the Third Anglo-Burmese War, British troops occupied Mandalay.

• In 1912, Albania proclaimed its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

• In 1922, Captain Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public skywriting exhibition, spelling out, “Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200” over New York’s Times Square; about 47,000 calls in less than three hours resulted.

• In 1961, President John F. Kennedy dedicated the original per-

manent headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. Ernie Davis of Syracuse University became the first African-American to be named winner of the Heisman Trophy.

• In 1964, the United States launched the space probe Mariner 4 on a course to Mars.

• Today’s Birthdays: Recording executive Berry Gordy Jr. is 83.

Singer Randy Newman is 69. Actor Ed Harris is 62. Actress S. Epatha Merkerson is 60. Comedian Jon Stewart is 50. Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead is 28. R&B singer Trey Songz is 28.

$9B storm prevention plan proposed for NYC ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants huge electrical transformers in commercial buildings hauled to upper floors and wants the ability to shutter key tunnels, airports and subways from floodwaters as part of a $9 billion plan to safeguard New York City from the next superstorm.

He also wants to require health facilities to have backup power on high ground instead of on lower floors or in basements.

The outline of Cuomo’s $9.08 billion plan was part of briefing materials provided to The Associated Press on Tuesday. The plan is part of the briefing Cuomo gave to New York’s congressional delegation on Monday detailing $32.8 billion in damage and losses suffered by the state and the city. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city suffered $19 billion of that.

Cuomo, a Democrat, is forcing the issue into the traditional discussion that’s usually focused on a request for federal aid to cover basic recovery after a disaster. He said

Tuesday government must also take preventive measures to avoid future loss of life and billions of dollars more in damage.

“Why don’t you spend some money now to save money in the future?”

Cuomo said. “And that’s what prevention and mitigation is.”

The briefing includes what Cuomo considers the highest-priority prevention and mitigation needs. Further measures such as a sea wall to knock down hurricanedriven waves before they erode beaches and create a destructive surge into the city and on Long Island are being considered by Cuomo’s NYS 2100 Commission.

Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican, said it’s something that needs to be pursued.

“Now, how much we’re going to get, we have to see,” he said. “But I think if we can show it will save money, it makes more sense.”

King said the hurdles in Washington include the coming fiscal cliff Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration hope to avoid and

“

Why don’t you spend some money now to save money in the future?

And that’s what prevention and mitigation is.

— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

other states that had disasters but didn’t get aid to fend off future disasters.

Other cities have taken similar measures, such as a medical campus in Houston that has 100 submarine doors to cut off floodwaters, elevated subway entrances and flood gates in Bangkok and steel walls in Washington that can block a 17-foot rise in the Potomac River.

Cuomo is taking a chance on pushing for the unconventional preven-

tion aid, particularly at a time when Washington is facing its own fiscal crisis.

The federal government traditionally covers only the cost to a state to get through and recover from disaster.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat and a key to the disaster funding effort, on Monday said it won’t be an easy task.

“This will be an effort that lasts not weeks but many months, and we will

”

not rest until the federal response meets New York’s deep and extensive needs,” he said.

The more immediate priorities include $2.7 billion to elevate massive electrical transformers in commercial buildings.

The record storm surge from Superstorm Sandy last month flooded a hospital and many Manhattan buildings with their electrical components in basements and on ground floors, con-

tributing to power losses and delaying restorations.

Cuomo proposes another $5.8 billion to prevent flooding in key tunnels and keep saltwater from sensitive subway signal and power systems.

Additional transportation priorities include building improvements to airports after LaGuardia Airport was underwater and closed for days.

Cuomo also would require secondary power sources for key health care facilities statewide and relocate generators to safer ground at hospitals and nursing homes.

The high priorities also include permanent protection for beaches, not just replenishing eroded sand. That along with better protecting Yonkers and Long Island sewage treatment plants is estimated at $407 million.

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LOST CAT, black male, mitten paws, answers to Salem (937)335-1260

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

555 Garage Sales/Yard Sales

COVINGTON 3815 Rench Road Saturday only 10am-2pm Homestead Craft Show, homemade signs, scarves, hair clips, wreaths, BandHura beads, Scentsy, Paparazzi, Thirty-One, Mary Kay, Stamping-Up, and more.

Santa will be there so bring your camera.

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AIRLINES ARE HIRINGTrain for hands on Aviation Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified - Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877-676-3836

ELECTRICIAN NEEDED

Journeyman industrial, commercial, residential service electrician. Full time with benefits.

Apply in person at: Hiegel Electric 3155 Tipp-Cowlesville Road, Troy

NOW HIRING: Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home.

No selling, any hours. $500 weekly potential.

Info: (985)646-1700 Dept. OH-6011.

200 - Employment

100 - Announcement

235 General ADMINISTRATIVE & PAYROLL SPECIALIST

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HOLLOWAY SPORTSWEAR is having a repeat of our decorated apparel RUMMAGE SALE! Saturday, December 8, 2012 from 9am-3pm. This sale is open to the public and will be held at 2260 Industrial Drive, Sidney (behind Cenveo Inc.). Decorated excess merchandise will be available and nothing is over $5. CASH ONLY. m a r k e t ing@hollowayusa.com.

High energy person to multi-task in Accounting office, 40 hours December - May, up to 30 hours June - November, only Associates degree or higher, includes payrolls/ payroll tax compliance for multiple clients minimum 3 years experi ence in Accounting office, proficient in Microsoft Word/Excel, Quickbooks, Peachtree; reply with salary history to: HR Manager PO Box 603 Troy, OH 45373

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Part Time positions available at an automotive manufacturer in Anna 2 days per week 2nd shift only

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

245 Manufacturing/Trade

WANTING A CAREER IN THE ELECTRICAL FIELD?

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!!!

Opportunity Knocks...

Apply at:

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Twins are handled as two (2) separate photos

Resumes must be received by 4:30 p.m. of December 7th, 2012.

Forward resumes to: Dorothy Crusoe, Director Community Housing of Darke, Miami & Shelby Counties 1100 Wayne Street Suite 4001 Troy, OH 45373

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SPORTS WRITER

275 Situation Wanted

NURSING CARE needed, must be LPN or RN, for my son. Must be Independent provider.

(937)606-2025, Lisa.

Ready for a career change?

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280 Transportation DUMP TRUCK DRIVER Part-time/ full time.

Class B CDL, dump truck experience required. Knowing the area is a plus. Local hauls. Perfect for semiretiree. (937)339-6861.

Deadline: Dec. 7th

Class A CDL required

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

DEDICATED ROUTES/HOME DAILY FULL BENEFITS INCLUDING 401 K, DENTAL & VISION PAID VACATIONS & HOLIDAYS

GARAGE/ STORAGE $65 monthly, (937)778-0524

CDL CLASS A REQUIRED 2 YRS EXPERIENCE GOOD MVR

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From: ______________________________________________________________ Your Name: __________________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________ City:_____________________ State:_____ Zip:________ Phone:_________________ J Please mail my photo back to me in the SASE provided. We cannot be responsible for photos lost in the mail.

J I will pick up my photo after December 20, 2012. We only hold pictures for 6 months after publication.

Credit Card #:__________________________________ Exp. Date:_____________________________________ Your Signature:_________________________________

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PIQUA, Parkridge Place.

Roomy 2 bedroom, 1.5 baths, CA, stackable washer/ dryer furnished, $525, no animals!

(419)629-3569.

TROY, 2 bedroom townhouse, water and trash paid, all appliances, no pets, $525 plus deposit (937)845-8727

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

(937)673-1821

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SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday

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

CDL Grads may qualify

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

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2 & 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS Troy ranches and townhomes. Different floor plans to choose from.

Garages, fireplaces, appliances including washer and dryers.

Corporate apartments available.

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Salary range is $22,000 to $30,000 with a full benefit package including PERS.

Christina Chalmers, Editor

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Sidney Daily News Attn: Baby’s First Christmas 1451 North Vandemark Rd. Sidney, Ohio 45365

Knowledge, training, or education in mental illness, drug, alcohol and medication use and abuse and general knowledge of eligibility for and applicable State programs entitlement preferred. Works from a Recovery Model.

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Community Housing of Darke, Miami and Shelby Counties is seeking a full-time professional to coordinate and provide residential services for individuals with a mental illness in the tri-county region. Duties include outreach, on-call, effective communication and planning and property management.

Community Housing and the Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Services are Health equal opportunity employers.

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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.

250 Office/Clerical

LABORS: $9.50/HR

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125 Lost and Found

GENERAL INFORMATION

All Display Ads: 2 Days Prior Liners For: Mon - Fri @ 5pm Weds - Tues @ 5pm Thurs - Weds @ 5pm Fri - Thurs @ 5pm Sat - Thurs @ 5pm Miami Valley Sunday News liners- Fri @ Noon

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

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.

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CAUTION Whether posting or responding to an advertisement, watch out for offers to pay more than the advertised price for the item. Scammers will send a check and ask the seller to wire the excess through Western Union (possibly for courier fees).

The scammer's check is fake and eventually bounces and the seller loses the wired amount.

While banks and Western Union branches are trained at spotting fake checks, these types of scams are growing increasingly sophisticated and fake checks often aren't caught for weeks.

Funds wired through Western Union or MoneyGram are irretrievable and virtually untraceable.

If you have questions regarding scams like these or others, please contact the Ohio Attorney General’s office at (800)282-0515.

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DEADLINES/CORRECTIONS:

To Advertise In The Classifieds That Work Call 877-844-8385 305 Apartment TROY, 1633 Brook Park, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, appliances. $695.

(937)335-0261.

TROY, 2/3 bedrooms, near I-75, nice neighborhood, some appliances.

1607 Henley Road, $575 monthly. (937)339-8259.

TROY, 567 Stonyridge, 2 bedroom, stove, refrigerator, NO PETS. $450 month, $450 deposit.

Credit check required, (937)418-8912.

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, 910 New Haven.

3 bedroom, 1.5 car, CA, fenced yard. $850, deposit.

(937)778-9303, (937)604-5417.

PIQUA AREA, 511 Electric, 2 bedroom, metro approved, washer/dryer hook-up. $550 + ( 9 3 7 ) 7 7 8 - 9 3 0 3 (937)604-5417

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

500 - Merchandise

577 Miscellaneous

WALKER, wheel chair, tub, shower and transfer benches, commode chair, toilet riser, grab bars, canes, entertainment center and more (937)339-4233

583 Pets and Supplies

PET RAT, free to good home, cage, bedding, food included (937)451-9522

800 - Transportation

583 Pets and Supplies

CHIHUAHUA PUPPY, AKC, 1 male, White, 8 weeks old, just in time for the Holidays! $200.00 Call (937)448-0522.

805 Auto

PERSIAN KITTENS, CFA registered, 8 weeks old. $275 and up. Serious calls only (937)216-4515

1923 CHEVY, Touring car, 4 door, redone, storage 25 years, runs and drives, $15,000 will trade for toy hauler, (937)658-1946

925 Public Notices

925 Public Notices Legal Notice

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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810 Auto Parts & Accessories

1989 CHEVY Silverado. A lot of new parts. $2500.

(937)497-8485

CAR DOLLY, accommodates most cars and small SUVs, $400 and deluxe ladder rack made by Adrian Steel in the USA, has clamping assembly, $200 (937)308-7423

1998 FORD Ranger Splash. Books for $4000 online, $3500 OBO. (937)492-9130

2001 OLDSMOBILE, 4 door sedan. Great condition. 115,000 miles, sun roof, no rust, no dents, new tires. $4800 OBO. (937)622-2844

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COUNTY: MIAMI

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 APPLICATION OF TITLE V PERMIT

PUBLIC NOTICE

This shall serve notice to James P. Coffey that the property located at 250 South Union Street, Troy, Ohio, is in violation of the City of Troy Codified Ordinance 521.08, trash and debris.

The property owner will have three (3) days from publication of this notice to remove said offense. If said offense is not removed within the three (3) days, the City of Troy will remove said offense and assess the property ownerʼs property taxes for the cost of removal.

The property owner will have five (5) days from publication of this notice to remove said offense. If said offense is not removed within the five (5) days, the City of Troy will remove said offense and assess the property ownerʼs property taxes for the cost of removal.

This will serve as the only notices given for the 2012 season.

Any questions, contact Aloka Roy, City of Troy Engineering Department.

Sue Knight Clerk of Council 11/28/2012

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DIVORCE NOTICE

JEREMY M. TOMB KLEIN, TOMB & EBERLY LLP 124 W. MAIN STREET TROY, OH 45373

TROY LAMINATING AND COATING, INC. 421 S. UNION ST. TROY, OH ACTION DATE: 11/14/2012 FACILITY DESCRIPTION: AIR IDENTIFICATION NO.: A0045554 Title V Renewal Application

APPLICATION RECEIVED FOR AIR PERMIT

SUNSET CLEANERS 25 S. ELM ST. TROY, OH ACTION DATE: 11/13/2012 FACILITY DESCRIPTION: AIR IDENTIFICATION NO.: A0046137 renewal of an existing PTO for a Perc. drycleaning facility

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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

CHUN KIM (Defendant) Whose last known place of residence was 2059 Artesia Blvd., Apt. 89, Torrance, CA 90504.

Will hereby take notice that on the 9th day of November 2012 Julia A. Kim (Plaintiff), filed HER Complaint against HIM in the Court of Commons Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations of Miami County, Miami County Safety Building, 201 West Main Street, 3rd floor, Troy, Ohio 45373.

Being Case No 12DR430 on the docket of said Court, praying for a decree of divorce from HIM on the grounds of PARTIES ARE INCOMPATIBLE, AND UNABLE TO LIVE TOGETHER AS HUSBAND AND WIFE. That said case is entitled JULIA A. KIM, PLAINTIFF VS CHUN KIM, DEFENDANT. Said CHUN KIM (Defendant) will further take notice that HE is required answering said complaint on or before January 2, 2013 the expiration of six weeks, from the date of the first publication of this notice.

FIREWOOD, All hardwood, $150 per cord delivered or $120 you pick up, (937)726-2780.

JULIA A. KIM (Plaintiff) JEREMY M. TOMB (Attorney for Plaintiff)

YOU

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(937)559-6623.

Thank you!

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CITY OF TROY COPY OF LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Director of Public Service and Safety, City Hall, 100 South Market Street, Troy, Ohio, 45373-7303, until 12:00 Noon on Wednesday December 12, 2012 for the:

Just Found the

NORTH MARKET STREET RENOVTION

Missing

project in accordance with the plans and specifications now on file in the office of the Director of Public Service and Safety. The bidding documents may be reviewed in the office of the City Engineer located in City Hall and obtained for a nonrefundable fee of $30.00 payable to the City of Troy, Ohio.

Piece.

577 Miscellaneous

3 & 1 PLAYER, Black with pink roses, very good condition, $35, Call before noon or after 7pm, (937)615-9496

Each proposal must contain the full name of the party or parties submitting the proposal and all persons interested therein. Proposals shall be submitted on the forms furnished by the City and must be enclosed in sealed envelopes endorsed by the Bidder and marked “Bid – NORTH MARKET STREET RENOVATION” Bids may be submitted by mail to the Director of Public Service and Safety, 100 South Market Street, P.O. Box 3003, Troy, Ohio, 45373-7303. Each Bidder must submit evidence of his experiences on projects of similar size and complexity.

BERNINA 810 sewing machine, Covington, (937)251-9643.

COMPUTER Compaq, Windows XP, 17' monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers and Cannon scanner.

Excellent condition. All set up. Asking $185 for everything.

Piqua (937)451-5145

All Contractors and Subcontractors involved with the project will, to the extent practical, use Ohio products, materials, services, and labor in the implementation of this project.

Each Bidder is required to furnish, with his proposal, a Bid Guaranty in accordance with Section 153.54 of the Ohio Revised Code as a guarantee that if the proposal is accepted a Contract will be entered into. The Bid Guaranty shall be in one of the following forms: A certified check, cashiersʼ check or letter of credit in an amount equal to 10% of the total bid amount, payable to the City of Troy, Ohio, or; A bid bond in the amount of 100% of the bid amount, payable to the City of Troy, Ohio.

If the Bid Guaranty is furnished in Bond form, it shall be issued by a Surety Company or Corporation licensed in the State of Ohio to provide said surety.

CRIB, changing table, cradle, swing, doorway swing, high chair, booster chair, pack-n-play, travel bassinet, tub, child rocker, clothes, blankets (937)339-4233

DESK, Roll top desk, small dark oak, good shape, $35, call before noon or after 7pm, (937)615-9496

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Size 7 (937)335-4081 FREE MOTOROLA Hi-Fi Stereo System works great and computer console, both wooden.

(937)335-0417

The City of Troy, Ohio is in compliance with ADA. Patrick E. J. Titterington Director of Public Service and Safety

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The City of Troy reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any irregularities in the bids when to the advantage of the City and to select the best bid in his opinion.

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Private Party Special for Merchandise FOR SALE*

20 Words • Sidney Daily News, Troy Daily News, Piqua Daily Call = 10 days Weekly Record Herald = 2 weeks

HOLIDAY CASH CRUNCH?

925 Public Notices

This shall serve notice to James P. Coffey that the property located at 250 South Union Street, Troy, Ohio, is in violation of the City of Troy Codified Ordinance 521.11, noxious weeds.

in

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2001 FORD EXPLORER XLT

Red, 4 door, all wheel drive, automatic, towing package, moon roof, excellent condition, 102k miles, ready for winter, $5295 OBO

2003 FORD RANGER EDGE

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2005 FORD EXPLORER XLT

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

Call (937)538-0026

2007 BUICK LUCERNE

Nice and loaded! 77,000 miles. $9900.

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2009 CHEVY SILVERADO Extended cab, red with black interior, locking rear differential, Reese hitch, chrome step rail, 17,000 miles, $16,000.

Call (937)524-6656

2011 FORD FUSION SE

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18 November 28, 2012

TODAY’S TIPS

■ College Football

• 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 needs to contact Dale Pittenger at dlpittenger@tippcity.k12.oh.us for more information.

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No rest for the wicked

UPCOMING Sport ....................Start Date Boys Basketball ...........Friday Wrestling ......................Friday Gymnastics..................Dec. 3

Meyer hopes Buckeyes stay angry COLUMBUS (AP) — The very last thing Urban Meyer wants from his second Ohio State team is for it to rest on the laurels of his first one.

“If they’re not angry but complacent, this team is as average as dirt,” Meyer said Monday when discussing what he wants from his 2013 team.

The Buckeyes ended their season prematurely on Saturday PHOTO COURTESY LEE WOOLERY/SPEEDSHOT PHOTO with a 26-21 victory over archriOhio State’s Nathan Williams and a host of Buckeye teammates val Michigan, running the table scramble to cover up a Michigan fumble Saturday at Ohio Stadium. in Meyer’s first season back in

his home state and back in coaching after a one-year hiatus.

Ohio State isn’t going anywhere in the postseason due to NCAA sanctions stemming from the tattoo scandal which rocked the program of deposed coach Jim Tressel.

One thing Meyer will not abide in 2013 is a team that doesn’t have an ‘edge’ to it. That’s where this year’s bowl ban might just enter the conversation.

■ Girls Basketball

■ Bowling

■ See BUCKEYES on 20

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Girls Basketball Centerville at Troy (7:30 p.m.)

Piqua at Fairborn (7:30 p.m.)

Bowling Troy at Tecumseh (4 p.m.)

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

Milton-Union at Madison (7:15 p.m.)

Miami East at Arcanum (7 p.m.)

Bethel at Franklin Monroe (7 p.m.)

Newton at Tri-Village (7 p.m.)

Covington at Bradford (7 p.m.)

Troy Christian at New Bremen (7:30 p.m.)

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

Bowling Troy at Fairmont (4 p.m.)

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Trojans have big dreams

FRIDAY Boys Basketball Troy at Centerville (7:30 p.m.)

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

Miami East at Northwestern (7:30 p.m.)

Piqua at Wapakoneta (7:30 p.m.)

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

Swimming Troy Christian Pentathlon (7 p.m.)

Hockey Troy at Olentangy Orange (at Chiller North) (8 p.m.)

Troy boys open with win, girls fall to Urbana

SATURDAY Boys Basketball Troy at Tecumseh (7:30 p.m.)

Newton at Houston (7:30 p.m.)

Troy Christian at New Bremen (8 p.m.)

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

Girls Basketball Troy at Miami East (7:30 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Carlisle (1:15 p.m.)

Xenia Christian at Newton (1:30 p.m.)

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

Troy Christian at Arcanum (noon) Urbana at Piqua (7:30 p.m.)

Lehman at Minster (1 p.m.)

Wrestling Troy, Miami East at Sidney Duals (9 a.m.)

Troy Christian at Edison Invite (10 a.m.)

Piqua at Wazie Classic (9 a.m.)

Bowling Troy at Columbus Kickoff Tourney (1 p.m.)

Hockey Troy at Olentangy Liberty (at Chiller North) (3 p.m.)

Swimming Troy, Tippecanoe at Mason Invite (8:45 a.m.)

BY COLIN FOSTER Sports Writer cfoster@tdnpublishing.com Every year, the Troy Trojans enter the season with a set of goals in mind.

And every year, the goals are the same.

TROY “Our goals are the same for the boys and girls every year,” Troy coach Rob Dever said. “We want to win the GWOC (Greater Western Ohio Conference) North and we want to win the overall GWOC. We want to make it out of sectionals and advance to district. We want to get out of district and make it to state. And once we get to state — we want

SUNDAY Hockey Troy at St. Francis DeSales (at Chiller North) (11:30 a.m.)

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WHAT’S INSIDE Scoreboard ............................19 Television Schedule..............19 National Football League .....20 Local Sports..........................20

■ Girls Basketball STAFF PHOTOS/COLIN FOSTER

Troy Christian’s Morgan Haddad goes up for a shot during a game against Newton Tuesday in Troy.

The first step Eagles beat Indians 35-25 to open season

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com The past two seasons have been rough on Troy Christian’s seniors, and returning coach Dick Steineman wants to see that change.

Thad Matta jokes that he has a secret weapon going into No. 4 Ohio State’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge showdown on Wednesday night at No. 2 Duke.

Greg Paulus, in his second year as the Buckeyes’ video coordinator, was one of the Blue Devils’ patented scrappy point guards from 2006-09. He’s diagrammed where all the dead spots are on the floor at legendary Cameron Indoor Stadium. See Page 20.

Staff Reports BRANDT — The Bethel Bees jumped out to a 17-2 first quarter lead and never looked back, blowing out Emmanuel Christian 54-29 Tuesday in Brandt.

Bethel (1-0) was paced by Jill Callaham’s 14 points and freshman Tia Koewler’s 10. Brianna Ellish and Breanna Whetstone each added eight points.

BRANDT The Bees open Cross County Conference play Thursday night, traveling to take on Franklin Monroe.

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Amanda Slone helped the Eagles take the first step.

Slone was disruptive on defense during the first half Tuesday night, keeping Newton’s offense from getting into anything that resembled a rhythm and helping Troy Christian build a nine-point halftime lead. And even though the Indians turned up the defensive pressure in the Newton’s Trelissa Lavy drives to the basket against Troy

■ See TC-NEWTON on 20 Christian’s Sarah Campbell Tuesday in Troy.

Emmanuel Christian — 29 Roe 4-3-11, Oliver 4-2-10, Patterson 1-02, Harris 2-0-6. Totals: 9-5-29.

Bethel — 54 Mongaraz 3-0-6, Whetstone 2-1-8, Callaham 7-0-14, Weinert 2-0-4, Ellish 3-28, Tia Koewler 4-2-10, Floyd 2-0-4. Totals: 23-5-54.

Score By Quarters EC ................. 2 5 10 29 Bethel ................. 17 22 44 54 3-point goals: EC — Harris (2). Bethel — Whetstone.

Records: Bethel 1-0.

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 8 3 0 .727 407 244 5 6 0 .455 211 226 Miami 4 7 0 .364 221 290 N.Y. Jets Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 243 319 South W L T Pct PF PA 10 1 0 .909 327 211 Houston Indianapolis 7 4 0 .636 230 273 Tennessee 4 7 0 .364 238 335 Jacksonville 2 9 0 .182 188 308 North W L T Pct PF PA 9 2 0 .818 283 219 Baltimore Pittsburgh 6 5 0 .545 231 210 6 5 0 .545 282 247 Cincinnati Cleveland 3 8 0 .273 209 248 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 8 3 0 .727 318 221 4 7 0 .364 245 237 San Diego Oakland 3 8 0 .273 218 356 Kansas City 1 10 0 .091 161 301 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 7 4 0 .636 305 226 Washington 5 6 0 .455 295 285 Dallas 5 6 0 .455 242 262 Philadelphia 3 8 0 .273 184 282 South W L T Pct PF PA 10 1 0 .909 294 216 Atlanta Tampa Bay 6 5 0 .545 310 254 New Orleans 5 6 0 .455 308 304 3 8 0 .273 214 265 Carolina North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 8 3 0 .727 277 175 Green Bay 7 4 0 .636 273 245 6 5 0 .545 248 249 Minnesota Detroit 4 7 0 .364 267 280 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 8 2 1 .773 276 155 6 5 0 .545 219 185 Seattle St. Louis 4 6 1 .409 205 254 4 7 0 .364 180 227 Arizona Thursday's Games Houston 34, Detroit 31, OT Washington 38, Dallas 31 New England 49, N.Y. Jets 19 Sunday's Games Denver 17, Kansas City 9 Chicago 28, Minnesota 10 Cincinnati 34, Oakland 10 Cleveland 20, Pittsburgh 14 Indianapolis 20, Buffalo 13 Jacksonville 24, Tennessee 19 Atlanta 24, Tampa Bay 23 Miami 24, Seattle 21 Baltimore 16, San Diego 13, OT St. Louis 31, Arizona 17 San Francisco 31, New Orleans 21 N.Y. Giants 38, Green Bay 10 Monday's Game Carolina 30, Philadelphia 22 Thursday, Nov. 29 New Orleans at Atlanta, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 2 Seattle at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Arizona at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

New England at Miami, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Denver, 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 3 N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:30 p.m.

The Associated Press Top 25 College Football Poll The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 24, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: ...........................Record Pts Pv 1. Notre Dame (60)12-0 1,500 1 2. Alabama...........11-1 1,400 2 3. Georgia ............11-1 1,331 3 4. Ohio St.............12-0 1,294 4 5. Florida..............11-1 1,262 6 6. Oregon .............11-1 1,242 5 7. Kansas St. .......10-1 1,079 7 8. Stanford ...........10-2 1,061 11 9. LSU..................10-2 1,056 8 10. Texas A&M .....10-2 1,043 9 11. South Carolina10-2 916 13 12. Oklahoma.........9-2 834 14 13. Florida St. ......10-2 764 10 14. Nebraska........10-2 704 17 15. Clemson.........10-2 667 12 16. Oregon St. .......8-3 528 16 17. UCLA ...............9-3 505 15 18. Kent St. ..........11-1 355 23 19. N. Illinois ........11-1 349 24 20. Utah St...........10-2 274 25 21. Michigan...........8-4 217 20 22. Northwestern ...9-3 189 NR 23. Texas................8-3 185 18 24. Oklahoma St. ...7-4 174 22 25. Boise St. ..........9-2 145 NR Others receiving votes: San Jose St. 78, Louisville 73, TCU 67, Penn St. 61, Rutgers 50, Vanderbilt 48, San Diego St. 15, Fresno St. 12, Southern Cal 7, Arkansas St. 5, Arizona 4, Cincinnati 3, Ball St. 1, Mississippi St. 1, North Carolina 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 24, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: ...........................Record Pts Pvs 1. Notre Dame (56)12-0 1,469 1 2. Alabama (2) .....11-1 1,398 2 3. Georgia (1).......11-1 1,341 3 4. Oregon .............11-1 1,277 4 5. Florida..............11-1 1,265 6 6. LSU..................10-2 1,124 7 7. Kansas State....10-1 1,114 8 8. Texas A&M .......10-2 1,076 10 9. Stanford ...........10-2 1,008 11 10. South Carolina10-2 972 12 11. Oklahoma.........9-2 878 13 12. Florida State ..10-2 829 5 13. Nebraska........10-2 765 14 14. Clemson.........10-2 720 9 15. Boise State ......9-2 479 22 16. UCLA ...............9-3 445 16 17. Oregon State....8-3 410 17 18. Northern Illinois11-1 377 23 19. Kent State ......11-1 337 25 20. Northwestern ...9-3 314 NR 21. Texas................8-3 312 15 22. Utah State ......10-2 264 NR 23. Louisville ..........9-2 184 18 24. Michigan...........8-4 158 20 25. Rutgers ............9-2 152 19 Others receiving votes: Oklahoma

State 129; San Jose State 105; Vanderbilt 94; Fresno State 39; TCU 34; San Diego State 28; Cincinnati 17; Arizona State 13; Arkansas State 13; Mississippi State 11; Middle Tennessee 7; Central Florida 5; Louisiana Tech 5; Arizona 3; Toledo 2; Baylor 1; Southern California 1.

College Football Schedule All Times EST (Subject to change) Thursday, Nov. 29 EAST Louisville at Rutgers, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 30 MIDWEST MAC Championship, N. Illinois vs.

Kent St. at Detroit, 7 p.m.

FAR WEST Pac-12 Championship, UCLA at Stanford, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 1 EAST San Diego at Marist, Noon Kansas at West Virginia, 2:30 p.m.

Cincinnati at UConn, 3:30 p.m.

SOUTH Louisiana-Lafayette at FAU, 3 p.m.

SEC Championship, Alabama vs.

Georgia at Atlanta, 4 p.m.

Pittsburgh at South Florida, 7 p.m.

ACC Championship, Georgia Tech vs. Florida State at Charlotte, N.C., 8 p.m.

MIDWEST C-USA Championship, UCF at Tulsa, Noon Texas at Kansas St., 8 p.m.

Big Ten Championship, Nebraska vs. Wisconsin at Indianapolis, 8:15 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Oklahoma St. at Baylor, Noon Oklahoma at TCU, Noon Middle Tennessee at Arkansas St., 3 p.m.

New Mexico St. at Texas St., 4 p.m.

FAR WEST Nicholls St. at Oregon St., 2:30 p.m.

Boise St. at Nevada, 3:30 p.m.

South Alabama at Hawaii, 11 p.m.

FCS Playoffs Second Round New Hampshire at Wofford, 2 p.m.

Central Arkansas at Georgia Southern, 2 p.m.

Coastal Carolina at Old Dominion, 2 p.m.

Illinois St. at Appalachian St., 2 p.m.

Cal Poly at Sam Houston St., 4 p.m.

South Dakota St. at North Dakota St., 4 p.m.

Wagner at E. Washington, 6 p.m.

Stony Brook at Montana St., 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 8 EAST Army vs. Navy at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

FCS Playoffs Quarterfinals South Dakota State-North Dakota State winner vs. New HampshireWofford winner, TBD Arkansas-Georgia Central Southern winner vs. Coastal Carolina-Old Dominion winner, TBD Stony Brook-Montana State winner vs. Cal Poly-Sam Houston State winner, TBD Illinois State-Appalachian State winner vs.

Wagner-Eastern Washington winner, TBD OHSAA Football State Championship Pairings Home Teams Listed First Division I – Saturday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Toledo Whitmer (14-0) vs.

Cincinnati Archbishop Moeller (11-3) Division II – Friday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Toledo Central Catholic (13-1) vs.

Trotwood-Madison (12-2) Division III – Saturday, Dec. 1, 11 a.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary (12-2) vs. Bellevue (13-1) Division IV – Friday, Nov. 30, 3 p.m., Canton Fawcett Stadium St. Clairsville (14-0) vs. Clarksville Clinton-Massie (14-0) Division V - Saturday, Dec. 1, 3 p.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Kirtland (14-0) vs. Coldwater (14-0) Division VI - Friday, Nov. 30, 11 a.m., Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Newark Catholic (12-2) vs. Maria Stein Marion Local (12-2)

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct GB W L Brooklyn 9 4 .692 — New York 9 4 .692 — Philadelphia 9 6 .600 1 Boston 8 6 .571 1½ Toronto 3 12 .200 7 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 10 3 .769 — Atlanta 8 4 .667 1½ Charlotte 7 6 .538 3 Orlando 5 8 .385 5 Washington 0 12 .000 9½ Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 7 5 .583 — Chicago 6 7 .462 1½ Indiana 6 8 .429 2 Detroit 4 11 .267 4½ Cleveland 3 12 .200 5½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 10 2 .833 ½ San Antonio 12 3 .800 — Houston 7 7 .500 4½ Dallas 7 8 .467 5 New Orleans 4 9 .308 7 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 11 4 .733 — Denver 8 7 .533 3 Utah 8 7 .533 3 Portland 6 8 .429 4½ Minnesota 5 7 .417 4½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 8 6 .571 — L.A. Clippers 8 6 .571 — L.A. Lakers 7 7 .500 1 Phoenix 7 8 .467 1½ Sacramento 4 9 .308 3½ Monday's Games San Antonio 118, Washington 92 Brooklyn 96, New York 89, OT Detroit 108, Portland 101 Milwaukee 93, Chicago 92 Memphis 84, Cleveland 78 Oklahoma City 114, Charlotte 69 Utah 105, Denver 103 New Orleans 105, L.A. Clippers 98 Tuesday's Games

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Virginia at Wisconsin NBCSN — George Washington at James Madison 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Michigan St. at Miami 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Georgia Tech at Illinois 9:30 p.m. ESPN — Ohio St. at Duke SOCCER 2:55 p.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, West Ham at Manchester United

THURSDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Louisville at Rutgers GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — Sunshine Tour, Nedbank Challenge, first round, at Sun City, South Africa (same-day tape) 3 p.m. TGC — World Challenge, first round, at Thousand Oaks, Calif.

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Kentucky at Notre Dame 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Marquette at Florida NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. TNT — San Antonio at Miami 10:30 p.m. TNT — Denver at Golden State NFL FOOTBALL 8 p.m. NFL — New Orleans at Atlanta

FRIDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. FOX — Pac-12 Conference, championship game, UCLA vs. team TBD, at site TBD GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — Sunshine Tour, Nedbank Challenge, second round, at Sun City, South Africa (same-day tape) 3 p.m. TGC — World Challenge, second round, at Thousand Oaks, Calif.

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6:30 p.m. ESPN — Tennessee at Georgetown 8:30 p.m. ESPN — Syracuse at Arkansas MEN'S COLLEGE HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — Boston College at Boston U. 10 p.m. NBCSN — Wisconsin at Denver NBA BASKETBALL 10:30 p.m. ESPN — Denver at L.A. Lakers PREP FOOTBALL 10 p.m. FSN — Teams TBA

THE BCS RANKINGS As of Nov. 25 Rk 1 1. Notre Dame 2. Alabama 2 3 3. Georgia 5 4. Florida 4 5. Oregon 6. Kansas St. 6 7 7. LSU 8 8. Stanford 9. Texas A&M 9 10. South Carolina10 11. Oklahoma 11 13 12. Nebraska 13. Florida St. 12 14 14. Clemson 15. Oregon St. 15 16. UCLA 16 17. Kent St. 18 20 18. Texas 23 19. Michigan 20. Boise St. 17 21. N. Illinois 19 22. Northwestern 21 23. Oklahoma St. 25 24. Utah St. 22 25. San Jose St. 28

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Phoenix 91, Cleveland 78 Philadelphia 100, Dallas 98 Houston 117, Toronto 101 Minnesota at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

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

Wednesday's Games San Antonio at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Portland at Washington, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Houston at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

New York at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

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

Thursday's Games San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.

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

The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 25, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: ...........................Record Pts Prv 1. Indiana (47)........6-0 1,606 1 2. Duke (18) ...........6-0 1,554 5 3. Michigan ............5-0 1,421 4 4. Ohio St...............4-0 1,416 3 5. Louisville ............5-1 1,347 2 6. Syracuse ............4-0 1,323 6 7. Florida................5-0 1,227 7 8. Kentucky ............4-1 1,180 8 9. Arizona...............3-0 1,076 10 10. Kansas .............4-1 937 12 11. Creighton .........6-0 926 14 12. Gonzaga ..........6-0 854 17 13. Michigan St. .....5-1 818 15 14. North Carolina..5-1 718 9 15. Oklahoma St. ...5-0 668 20 16. Missouri ...........5-1 665 13 17. Cincinnati .........6-0 571 22 18. NC State ..........4-1 553 16 19. Colorado ..........5-0 478 23 20. Georgetown......4-1 257 — 21. Minnesota ........6-1 197 — 22. Illinois...............7-0 185 — 23. San Diego St....4-1 182 25 24. UNLV................3-1 175 18 25. New Mexico......6-0 141 — Others receiving votes: Alabama 108, Wichita St. 99, UConn 93, UCLA 85, Pittsburgh 55, Oregon 44, Notre Dame 42, Memphis 23, Butler 20, Wisconsin 16, California 12, Florida St. 10, Saint Joseph's 9, Ohio 8, Marquette 7, Murray St. 5, Temple 5, Baylor 4, Tennessee 3, Colorado St.

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USA Today Pts Pct 1469 .9959 1398 .9478 1341 .9092 1265 .8576 1277 .8658 1114 .7553 1124 .7620 1008 .6834 1076 .7295 972 .6590 878 .5953 765 .5186 829 .5620 720 .4881 410 .2780 445 .3017 337 .2285 312 .2115 158 .1071 479 .3247 377 .2556 314 .2129 129 .0875 264 .1790 105 .0712

Computer BCS Rk Pct Avg Pv 11.0000 .9979 1 3 .8700 .9236 2 4 .8600 .8911 3 2 .9600 .8882 4 5 .8500 .8626 5 6 .7900 .7735 6 8 .7000 .7357 7 6 .7900 .7299 8 11 .6200 .6861 9 8 .7000 .6689 12 10 .6500 .6129 13 12 .5800 .5393 14 19 .2700 .4645 10 14 .3800 .4570 11 13 .5200 .3790 15 15 .3700 .3304 17 18 .2800 .2512 23 17 .3400 .2492 16 15 .3700 .2094 19 30 .0000 .2030 22 23 .1100 .1936 NR 21 .1800 .1865 NR 19 .2700 .1646 21 28 .0200 .1171 NR 21 .1800 .0974 NR

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USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 25, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: Pts Pvs ...........................Record 1. Indiana (27)........6-0 769 1 2. Duke (4) .............6-0 723 5 3. Michigan ............5-0 691 4 4. Ohio State..........4-0 689 3 5. Syracuse ............4-0 630 6 6. Louisville ............5-1 615 2 7. Florida................5-0 573 8 8. Kentucky ............4-1 557 7 9. Arizona...............3-0 520 10 10. Kansas .............4-1 484 11 11. Creighton .........6-0 463 12 12. Gonzaga ..........6-0 440 16 13. North Carolina..5-1 355 9 14. Michigan State .5-1 320 19 15. Missouri ...........5-1 319 14 16. Cincinnati .........6-0 295 20 17. Oklahoma State5-0 261 22 18. N.C. State.........4-1 240 15 19. Colorado ..........5-0 172 — 20. UNLV................3-1 144 18 21. San Diego State4-1 139 25 22. Illinois...............7-0 103 — 23. New Mexico......6-0 68 — 24. UCLA ...............4-2 62 13 25. Georgetown......4-1 56 — Others receiving votes: Minnesota 48, Pittsburgh 41, Alabama 38, UConn 38, Notre Dame 36, Florida State 26, Wisconsin 24, Memphis 16, Wichita State 16, California 14, Murray State 13, Kansas State 12, Oregon 12, Ohio 10, Saint Joseph's 10, Saint Mary's 8, Butler 5, Tennessee 5, Marquette 4, Baylor 3, Maryland 2, VCU 2, Colorado State 1, Davidson 1, Mississippi 1, Texas 1.

Tuesday's College Basketball Scores EAST Baruch 91, Hunter 62 Bucknell 62, Dartmouth 49 Cortland St. 84, Ithaca 67 Hampden-Sydney 83, Wesley College 75 John Jay 81, CCNY 61 Lehigh 77, Quinnipiac 66 NJIT 98, Lyndon St. 42 Penn St.-Harrisburg 72, Susquehanna 67 Pittsburgh 70, Howard 46 Providence 61, Holy Cross 42 Vermont 85, Harvard 78

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Westfield St. 72, Regis 60 MIDWEST Bowling Green 70, Detroit 65 Butler 97, Hanover 73 Concordia (Wis.) 59, Marian (Wis.) 58 Dubuque 80, North Central (Minn.)

65 Ill.-Chicago 58, N. Illinois 46 Lakeland 79, Edgewood 65 Michigan 79, NC State 72 Rockford 72, Dominican (Ill.) 70 St. Francis (Ill.) 56, Spring Arbor 44 Wis.-La Crosse 67, Bethany Lutheran 55 SOUTH Alabama 75, Lamar 47 Barton 94, Lees-McRae 63 Elizabeth City St. 82, Washington Adventist 54 Limestone 89, Pfeiffer 65 Minnesota 77, Florida St. 68 Mississippi St. 60, Alcorn St. 42 NC Central 70, Utah Valley 52 North Florida 71, BethuneCookman 65 Presbyterian 97, Toccoa Falls 38 Sewanee 87, Emory & Henry 59 Southern Miss. 61, Denver 50 Tulane 69, Loyola NO 57 UAB 75, Troy 55 Virginia Tech 95, Iowa 79 SOUTHWEST Texas 65, Sam Houston St. 37 The Women's Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 25, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: ...........................Record Pts Prv 1. Stanford (21) ......6-0 953 1 2. UConn (17) ........5-0 944 2 3. Baylor (1) ...........5-1 901 3 4. Duke ..................4-0 861 4 5. Notre Dame........4-0 802 5 6. Penn St. .............5-0 752 6 7. Louisville ............6-0 742 7 8. Georgia ..............7-0 701 8 9. Kentucky ............4-1 656 9 10. California..........5-0 615 11 11. Maryland ..........3-1 602 10 12. Oklahoma.........5-1 459 13 13. Texas................5-0 453 15 14. Purdue .............5-1 374 14 15. Ohio St.............4-1 366 16 16. Tennessee ........4-1 328 20 17. St. John's .........4-1 314 18 18. Oklahoma St. ...3-0 294 21 19. UCLA ...............3-1 274 19 20. Kansas .............5-0 265 22 21. Nebraska..........5-1 185 23 22. North Carolina..6-0 181 25 23. Dayton..............6-0 177 24 24. Iowa St. ............4-0 102 — 91 12 25. West Virginia ....3-2 Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 72, Florida St. 49, Miami 31, Syracuse 30, Delaware 18, Rutgers 15, South Carolina 15, Vanderbilt 12, Virginia 12, Georgia Tech 7, DePaul 6, Iowa 6, Middle Tennessee 4, Chattanooga 3, Gonzaga 2, Utah 1.

USA Today/ESPN Women's Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN Women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 26, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: Pts Pvs ...........................Record 1. Stanford (21) ......6-0 765 1 2. Connecticut (9)...5-0 748 2 3. Baylor (1) ...........5-1 716 3 4. Duke ..................4-0 675 4 5. Notre Dame........4-0 647 5 6. Louisville ............7-0 611 6 7. Penn State .........5-0 584 7 8. Kentucky ............4-1 547 8 9. Georgia ..............7-0 527 9 10. Maryland ..........3-1 496 10 11. California..........5-0 476 11 12. Oklahoma.........5-1 383 13 13. Purdue .............5-1 363 12 14. Tennessee ........4-1 361 15 15. St. John's .........4-1 286 16 16. Ohio State ........4-1 285 17 17. Oklahoma State4-0 272 18 18. Texas................4-0 218 21 19. Nebraska..........5-1 205 20 20. Kansas .............5-0 151 23 21. UCLA ...............3-1 137 22 22. Dayton..............6-0 113 25 23. West Virginia ....3-2 93 14 24. South Carolina .7-0 88 — 25. Texas A&M .......3-3 70 24 Others receiving votes: North Carolina 47, Iowa State 43, Syracuse 38, Florida State 36, Gonzaga 20, Miami 17, Middle Tennessee 14, Vanderbilt 12, DePaul 9, Rutgers 6, Chattanooga 4, Minnesota 4, Virginia 4, Green Bay 2, Georgetown 1, South Florida 1.

Tuesday's Women's Basketball Scores EAST American U. 85, UMBC 57 Baruch 66, Hunter 44 Boston U. 54, Rhode Island 29 Canisius 61, Binghamton 48 Fairfield 51, Vermont 47 Ithaca 53, Cortland St. 33 John Jay 66, CCNY 51 Northeastern 80, Dartmouth 45 RPI 77, Utica 67 Rider 68, Lafayette 64 MIDWEST Iowa St. 87, Drake 45 Mary 69, Valley City St. 42 Wichita St. 62, Grambling St. 44 SOUTH Barton 71, Lees-McRae 52 Bellarmine 74, Berea 33 Berry 67, Covenant 50 Bethel (Tenn.) 89, Brescia 62 Cumberlands 76, Columbia (Mo.) 63 Hanover 74, Centre 72 IUPUI 61, Belmont 53 Johnson C. Smith 46, Chowan 41 Lee 71, Trevecca Nazarene 65 Liberty 76, UNC-Greensboro 56 Limestone 87, Pfeiffer 50 McNeese St. 90, Centenary 33 Mississippi 62, MVSU 60 Mount Olive 60, King (Tenn.) 56 N. Kentucky 66, Youngstown St. 64 Pikeville 71, Alice Lloyd 64 SC-Upstate 51, W. Carolina 48 Samford 62, Auburn-Montgomery 24 Tennessee Tech 74, Alcorn St. 57 Transylvania 77, Spalding 70 UAB 58, High Point 53 Washington (Md.) 53, Johns Hopkins 51 Xavier (NO) 58, Mobile 53 SOUTHWEST Baylor 89, Rice 49 Houston 55, UTSA 42 Texas-Arlington 77, Houston Baptist 71

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■ Bowling

Bowling ■ CONTINUED FROM 18 to win.”

That is what Dever and boys coach Cevin Wagner call a goal ladder, and despite losing three boys and six girls from last years’ teams — who both won GWOC North and overall GWOC titles — both teams return bowlers capable of putting up high scores.

Two years removed from winning state, the Troy boys were hit hard by graduation, losing a pair that went on to bowl in college in Brad Johnson (Morehead State) and Jared Sierra (Wright State), along with Kyle Never.

This year, three regular rotation players return.

Senior A.J. Bigelow — who averaged 220 in 51 games last season — is expected to be a leader of the team, while fellow senior Cameron Hughes is also back after bowling in 34 varsity games and averaging 200. Junior Andrew Spencer bowled in 46 games last season and averaged 204.

Those three are the core of Troy’s team, while five others will fight for the final two spots.

Senior D.J. Burghardt, juniors Michael Barkett, Alex Prouty and Austin Eidemiller and sophomore Corey Shilz — all of whom bowled JV last year — will be vying for the remaining spots.

“All five are in the 175 to 190 range right now,” Dever said. “We’re hoping two of them can step up and fill in around are three core bowlers from last year.”

And if you ask Dever, Troy’s success will hinge heavily on the performance of the fourth and fifth bowlers.

“I think we can be strong again this year,” Dever said.

“But I think the whole season is going to depend on how our four and five guys join our core guys. If they can move up to about 200, I think that would help solidify our team.

“If we can get those final two spots to improve by 10 to 15 pins, I think we can make another runs at state.

I think we can make another run at the GWOC title.”

And that was the case in their opener Tuesday. The Trojans overcame a 100-pin deficit in the final two baker games to defeat Urbana 2,648-2,618 at Troy Bowl.

Troy was led by Spencer with games of 215-206 for a 421 series. Bigelow shot a high game of 202 and finished with a 398 series.

Burghardt had the single high game for the Trojans with a 226.

The girls team has two returning starters — and two good ones at that — in junior Courtney Metzger and sophomore Allie Isner.

Last season, Metzger averaged 185 compared to Isner’s 184 average.

They will be joined by a talented young player in freshman Rachel Darrow and a senior who bowled JV last year in Rahney Schmitz.

“Rachel will be a solid bowler for us,” Dever said. “I expect her to average 180 plus.

“It’s only Rahney’s second year bowling, but she really improved quite a bit after playing JV last year.”

Junior Natalia Sainz and sophomore Rachel Wagner are also expected to be in the varsity rotation.

“Three girls will probably be rotating in the final spots,” Dever said. “I think if we can get them into the 150 to 160 range, we will be making strides.”

The girls dropped their opener against Urbana 2,432-2,309. They trailed by 151 going into baker play and, despite posting two 200-plus games, didn’t have enough to catch up.

Isner was high for the Trojans with games of 191183 for a 374 series.

Metzger rolled a 172 game and 319 series. Sainz added a 174 game and Darrow contributed a 171.

The Trojans travel to Tecumseh today.

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■ College Football

Buckeyes ■ CONTINUED FROM 18 “My concern here is complacency. We have to make sure that doesn’t take place,” he said. “We need an angry team next year. If we have to manufacture that, we will.

Whether it’s something was taken from them, we’re going to use that.

We’re going to try to push the right buttons to get an angry team.”

He added, “Just like any team, if you don’t have a chip on your shoulder, you’ll lose like that.” For emphasis, he snapped his fingers twice.

Meyer has already met with his staff about how to light a fire under those returning from a surprising team that posted only the sixth perfect season in school history.

Incredibly, it followed a year in which the Buckeyes were only 6-7, the most losses at the school in a season since ‘97 1897.

Many of the players those who have used up their eligibility and those with plenty of time left look at the season just completed as a waystation more than a milestone.

■ College Basketball

“It sets the standard pretty high,” departing wide receiver/tight end Jake Stoneburner said. “I don’t think anyone thought coach Meyer would come in and turn it around like he did. It’s crazy to think we went undefeated.”

The Buckeyes lose at least six starters on defense and three on offense, plus punter Ben Buchanan.

The major losses on offense are right tackle Reid Fragel and Stoneburner. On defense, Ohio State must replace lineman John Simon and

fullback/linebacker Zach Boren whom Meyer has called “the heart and soul of the team” along with fellow linemen Garrett Goebel and Nathan Williams, linebacker Storm Klein, safety Orhian Johnson and cornerback Travis Howard.

“We have almost the whole offense coming back,” linebacker Ryan Shazier said. “We’re looking at a lot of new guys on defense but we have a lot of guys who are rotating in so it’s not like we’re throwPHOTO COURTESY LEE WOOLERY/SPEEDSHOT PHOTO ing in a new, fresh person Ohio State’s Christian Bryant sacks Michigan quarterin there.” back Denard Robinson Saturday at Ohio Stadium.

■ Girls Basketball

TC-Newton

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Ohio State’s Aaron Craft (4) drives around Missouri-Kansas City’s Estan Tyler (11) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday in Columbus

No. 4 OSU prepared for No. 2 Duke COLUMBUS (AP) — Thad Matta jokes that he has a secret weapon going into No. 4 Ohio State’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge showdown on Wednesday night at No. 2 Duke.

Greg Paulus, in his second year as the Buckeyes’ video coordinator, was one of the Blue Devils’ patented scrappy point guards from 2006-09. He’s diagrammed where all the dead spots are on the floor at legendary Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“He’s got it all mapped out,” Matta said, trying to hold back a grin. “There’s a big chart with pins stuck in it.”

Instead of the nuances of the old gym, the Buckeyes are concerned more with how they play and how that measures up against the mighty Blue Devils in a key game for both teams.

To get ready for the trip and for a date with Cameron Indoor’s famously loud and boisterous students Matta had crowd noise blaring during practice this week. That’s about the only concession the Buckeyes have made to the game beyond a series of hard practices.

Hanging over the matchup is the specter of last year’s meeting between the teams.

When No. 3 Duke played at second-ranked Ohio State, the Buckeyes could do no wrong and the

Blue Devils could do no right.

Ohio State scored the first 11 points, led by 19 at the half and was on top by as many as 25 in what ended up as an 85-63 landslide. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said his team was tired and overwhelmed.

“Sometimes you just get your butt kicked,” Krzyzewski said after the blowout. “We were getting our butt kicked. I’ve had my butt kicked before.

We’ve kicked some butt.

Tonight my butt’s sore.”

As forgettable as that night was for the Blue Devils, it became a constant reminder to the Buckeyes (4-0). Throughout a 31-8 season that took them all the way to the Final Four, when things got tough they would fall back on what they did against Duke.

“I wouldn’t say that game was easy,” guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. said. “I just think it was a defining moment for our team.

Coach (Matta) talks all the time about five guys being connected. It doesn’t matter what team we would have played that game. I don’t think anybody could have beaten us we were so connected. No one cared about anything other than winning that basketball game.

“Everybody had a job to do and everybody was focused on their job only.”

■ CONTINUED FROM 18 second half, the Eagles were able to hang on for a 35-25 victory at Troy Christian in the first game of Steineman’s return.

“This whole year is about the seniors,” said Steineman, who last coached Troy Christian in 2005. “The last two years, this team has lost 32 games. These seniors have endured some rough years.

“We want to change the culture here to a winning one.”

Turning a 35-point loss from last season’s opener against Newton to a 10point win is a good start.

And it all began with Slone’s defense on the perimeter. The senior had her hand in Newton’s passing lanes the entire first half, piling up five steals and tipping and disrupting countless other passes around the outside. The Indians turned the ball over 16 times in the first half, helping Troy Christian (1-0) turn a twopoint lead after one quarter into a 20-11 edge at the break.

“Amanda really stepped up to the plate tonight,” Steineman said.

“We had some really bad passes tonight, some in the half-court,” Newton coach Neal Hans said. “They weren’t because of pressure. We just threw passes when we thought people were going to be there.”

But Newton (1-1) began pressing — and in the second half, that started to take its toll.

The Eagles — who only turned it over eight times in the first half — coughed it up 10 times in the third quarter alone and ended up with 25 turnovers to Newton’s 26 for the game.

“I saw Newton play Friday night, and I was worried,” Steineman said.

“They’ve got a nice team over there, and coach Hans does a nice job with his girls. We have to work on our press-breaker still. A lot of our girls are still getting their basketball legs under them and their timing down.”

Still, the Indians couldn’t capitalize on their chances, at one point blowing two straight chances all alone under the basket on the break after turnovers.

Freshman point guard Sarah Campbell then beat Newton back down the court and hit Amanda Benjamin for an easy layup that gave the Eagles their biggest lead of the night at 12.

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Troy Christian’s Amanda Slone drives to the basket during a game against Newton.

“We struggled making layups at times,” Hans said. “We did get shots under the basket, but we just missed them. We need to work a lot on our shooting.

“In the third and fourth quarter, we turned up the pressure and played aggressive. But it seemed like every time we did something good, every time we had worked our butts off to get something done, they’d answer right back with something easy.”

Newton never got closer than nine in the fourth as the game turned into a free-throw war.

Troy Christian was 15 for 27 from the line, while Newton was 9 for 22.

Megan Rutledge led the Indians with 15 tough points inside and nine rebounds, fighting her way through an Eagle defense that blocked nine shots in the game. Point guard Trista Lavy added seven points and five rebounds.

Slone finished with a team-high 14 points, eight rebounds and six steals, while Lydia Demmitt added 10 points and nine rebounds.

Benjamin chipped in five points and Morgan Haddad added four.

“The girls have only been together, after soccer, for about two weeks now,

Newton’s Madison Mollette weaves her way through the Troy Christian defense Tuesday in Troy. but the girls responded,” Steineman said. “For an opener, this was really good. I’m proud of how hard the kids worked.”

The next step for the Eagles comes Thursday at New Bremen, while Newton travels to TriVillage the same night.

Newton — 25 Madison Tebics 0-0-0, Trelissa Lavy 0-0-0, Madison Mollette 0-00, Trista Lavy 1-5-7, Marissa Kleman 0-0-0, Kasey Thompson 10-2, Megan Rutledge 6-3-15, Allison Wise 0-1-1. Totals: 8-9-25.

Troy Christian — 35 Sarah Campbell 1-0-2, Semayet Campbell 0-0-0, Morgan Haddad 2-0-4, Amanda Benjamin 1-3-5, Lydia Demmitt 3-4-10, Rebecca Lybarger 0-0-0, Katie Poteet 0-0-0, Amanda Slone 3-814, Meredith Haddad 0-0-0, Jordane Varvel 0-0-0, Allyssa Donald 0-0-0. Totals: 10-15-35.

Score By Quarters Newton . . . . . . .5 11 17 25 TC . . . . . . . . . . . .7 20 27 35 3-point goals: Newton — none. Troy Christian — none.

Records: Newton 1-1. Troy Christian 1-0.

Reserve score: Newton 31, Troy Christian 22.

■ National Football League

Bengals finally get running game moving CINCINNATI (AP) — The Bengals’ offense is developing into a lot more than just Dalton-to-Green, one of the main reasons they’re back in the playoff chase.

Finally, they’ve figured out how to run the ball.

Cincinnati has won three lopsided games in a row largely because the running game has finally gotten in gear. After struggling to find running room for the first half of the season, BenJarvus GreenEllis has put together 100-

yard rushing games the last two weeks.

Green-Ellis ran for a season-high 129 yards during a 34-10 win over the Raiders on Sunday that included the two longest runs of his career 48 and 39 yards.

The difference is noticeable.

“Confidence plays a big role,” offensive coordinator Jay Gruden said. “Those guys love to run the ball and it takes the pressure off the quarterback. When you have success running

the ball, guys come off (the snap) harder.

“You can see our running game fluctuates from week to week, but they are buying into the system and doing a great job.”

The Bengals (6-5) head to San Diego this weekend trying to stay in the mix for a playoff spot. They’re tied with Pittsburgh for the AFC’s second wild card, although the Steelers won their head-to-head meeting at Paul Brown Stadium this season.

It should be a much

tougher test in San Diego.

The Bengals ran for a season-high 189 yards overall in a 28-6 win over Kansas City, which has only one victory all season. They followed that with 221 yards rushing against the Raiders, who have lost four straight and given up the most points in the NFL. The Chargers are tied for fifth-best run defense in the league, along with the Steelers.

“We’ve got to keep this going,” quarterback Andy

Dalton said. “The running game has done a great job the last two weeks. We’ve got to keep the balance.”

The run game has improved as the middle of the line has developed.

The Bengals suffered two significant injuries on the line during preseason.

Left guard Travelle Wharton suffered a season-ending knee injury during the first preseason game. Center Kyle Cook hurt his right ankle in the final preseason game and needed surgery. Rookie

Kevin Zeitler was given the starting job at right guard in preseason.

Cincinnati signed center Jeff Faine only 10 days before the opener. When he suffered a hamstring injury, rookie Trevor Robinson took over.

With all the changes, the running attack suffered. Green-Ellis was held under 70 yards in five of the first eight games, forcing Dalton to look for Pro Bowl receiver A.J. Green more than the Bengals would have liked.