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Newtown buries its dead At least nine funerals and wakes conducted Wednesday for Sandy Hook shooting victims

Snowstorm hits Rockies, Midwest A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow in the Rocky Mountains was causing problems for travelers as it spread across the Plains on Wednesday. The main eastwest route across Colorado, Interstate 70, was closed from east of Denver to the Kansas line because of poor visibility due to blowing snow. Smaller highways were also closed in eastern Colorado. Drivers in Iowa and Nebraska are being warned to be careful or stop driving altogether starting Wednesday evening as the Plains gets its first major winter storm of the season.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — One by one by one by one, each with fresh heartbreak, hearses crisscrossed two New England towns on Wednesday, bearing three tiny victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre and a heroic teacher in a seemingly never-ending series of funeral processions.

“The first few days, all you heard were helicopters,” said Dr. Joseph Young, an optometrist who attended one funeral and would go to several more. “Now at my

office all I hear is the rumble of motorcycle escorts and funeral processions going back and forth throughout the day.”

As more victims from the slaughter of 20 children and six adults were laid to rest, long funeral processions clogged the streets of Newtown, where Christmas trees were turned into memorials and a season that should be a time of joy was marked by heart-wrenching loss.

At least nine funerals

and wakes were held Wednesday for those who died when gunman Adam Lanza, armed with a military-style assault rifle, broke into the school Friday and opened fire on their classrooms. Lanza killed his mother at her home before the attack and committed suicide at the school as police closed in.

At St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, mourners arrived for Caroline Previdi,

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Mourners embrace outside the Clark Associates Funeral Home in Katonah, N.Y., for the wake of Anne Marie Murphy Wednesday. Murphy, who grew up in Katonah, was one of the teachers killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14.

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which offers classes that coincide with advanced placement courses, are offered to students at a reduced rate. The cost of the dual enrollment classes through Urbana are paid by parents and the students themselves.

In order to reduce the two-year, off-campus costs, Rappold said he would like to see how many more parents and their students would be interested in dual enrollment at the

A handful of property owners met with City Engineer Deborah Swan and other city staff earlier this week to review blueprints of the upcoming million North $1.75 Market Street improvement project.

Feedback from the meeting was overwhelmingly positive, said councilwoman Robin Oda, who was in attendance with other members of council.

“I thought it was a great opportunity to see maps and ask questions one-onone with the city engineer and her staff,” Oda said.

“I’m surprised more people didn’t take advantage of it, but maybe they didn’t have many questions.”

She added, “I told Deborah, it’s good to see the whole project laid out like this. I encourage people to go in and look at them if they have concerns.”

Residents may still view the blueprints by contacting Director of Public Service and Safety Patrick Titterington this week, as Swan is out of the office.

(City offices will be closed Dec. 24-25 for Christmas.)

“Anybody who was not there or who was there and has more questions is invited to come to city hall, give us a call or email us — whatever they want to do — and we will answer their questions,” Titterington said.

Finfrock Construction is the contractor for the project, which will stretch from Staunton Road to Foss Way/Kirk Lane. The work will be divided by phases, but the timetable is still being worked out.

“As soon as get contracts finalized, there may be some preliminary work during the winter, depending on weather. We’ll start fully once asphalt plants open up in the middle of the first quarter,” Titterington said.

Tami Baird Ganley, coowner and president of Baird Funeral Home at 555 N. Market St., said she appreciated that the city took the time to meet with concerned property

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Robert Bork dies at 85 Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon’s behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural fights over abortion, civil rights and other issues, has died. He was 85.

Robert H. Bork Jr. confirmed his father died Wednesday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. The son said Bork died from complications of heart ailments. See Page 5.

Amish cook shares recipe The gathering will be at Timothy sister’s Miriam near Maysville, Kentucky. It is a seven-hour drive one way, so she won’t be home until Sunday sometime. The house will seem empty with her not around.

If you have heard of shoofly pie, try this recipe for shoofly cake. See Page 6.

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Jenny Zapadka, left, and Lauren Gau take time out of their day Wednesday to look through each of the decorated rooms at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. The center will continue its holiday exhibit themed, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” through Jan. 6.

East BOE seeks grant approval Part of the funding would be used to purchase propane-powered buses

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com Miami East Local Schools are hoping two grants will be approved in the near future to help with transportation costs.

Dr. Todd Rappold discussed the grants at the regular board of education meeting Monday.

One grant for $30,000 was for a bus rebate grant, while the other was through the EPA for the purchase of up to four propane powered buses and propane fuel station for more than $350,000.

Rappold said the district should know the results of the grant by the end of January.

“The district has not replaced a bus in five years,” Rappold said, adding that the EPA’s $350,000 propane fuel bus grant would include everything but a fueling station which he said the district has most of the equipment to use.

“We hope that already having the infrastructure in place will help us,” he said.

The district passed the first round of grant applications for the EPA grant and currently is waiting results from the second round.

Rappold also reported the Miami County Public Transit has contacted the district about placing a communication antenna on top of the district’s water tower.

Rappold said the district often 6 gets offers from a variety of groups

CASSTOWN to place antennae on the tower, but are not financially beneficial to the district. So far, he said the Miami County Public Transit’s offer has been the most financially viable presentation with a potential income of $200 a month for service.

“Miami County Public Transit has been looking for a place for antennae for better reception,” Rappold said. “It’s the first time a person has approached us and the deal didn’t cost us. “ Rappold said if the district approves a contract with Miami County Public Transit it would not interfere with the district’s bus communication and the district would not have to purchase the equipment for the organization.

Rappold also presented information about the district’s dual enrollment options for high school students. He said he is gathering information to make the dual enrollment option with Urbana University and other universities to make the process more financially appealing to students and parents to keep students on campus and lower the district’s costs of community college tuition.

Rappold said more than 50 students took part in off-campus classes at two-year colleges which cost the district approximately $60,000.

He said the current dual enrollment option with Urbana University,

Supper to benefit family of David Stace CASSTOWN — The Miami East High School’s National Honor Society recently hosted a spaghetti supper and silent auction to benefit the family of David Stace.

Stace passed away after suffering a 70-foot fall while on a trail in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia as part of a men’s backpacking trip from Grace Baptist Church in Troy.

Stace was an Upper Valley Career Center math teacher. He and his wife Tammy, of Fletcher, had three children.

The Miami East High School National Honor Society will be presenting its fundraiser check of more than $12,000 to the Stace family before the start of the varsity boys’ basketball games at the high school on Friday.

The game is set to begin at 7:30 p.m.

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

Corn Month Bid Change Dec 7.1300 - 0.1700 Jan 7.1700 - 0.1700 NC 13 5.7350 - 0.0950 Soybeans Month Bid Change Dec 14.2200 - 0.2900 Jan 14.2200 - 0.2900 NC 13 12.3100 - 0.0900 Wheat Month Bid Change Dec 7.6500 - 0.0550 NC 13 7.9800 - 0.0600 You can find more information online at www.troyelevator.com.

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

Symbol Price Change AA 8.64 -0.27 CAG 29.96 -0.25 CSCO 20.27 -0.11 EMR 53.18 +0.07 F 11.73 +0.06 FITB 14.95 -0.13 FLS 144.95 +0.26 GM 27.18 +1.69 ITW 61.39 -0.40 JCP 20.88 +0.71 KMB 85.00 -1.16 KO 36.78 -0.50 KR 26.50 -0.25 LLTC 34.14 -0.21 MCD 89.71 -0.81 MSFG 12.13 +0.06 PEP 69.88 -0.65 9.35 -0.14 SYX TUP 64.71 -0.94 USB 32.20 -0.37 VZ 43.38 -0.49 WEN 4.81 +0.01 WMT 68.52 -0.98

Discounts abound as stores try to salvage season NEW YORK (AP) — When it comes to fat holiday discounts, better late than never.

This holiday shopping season, many stores haven’t been offering the same blockbuster deals as they did last year. Instead, they’ve dangled offers of free shipping and no-fee layaways to lure shoppers.

But during the final weekend before Christmas, shoppers should expect to see more “70 percent off” and “buy one, get one free” signs as stores try to salvage a season that so far has been disappointing.

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Amid tragedy, scam artists creep in NEWTOWN, Conn.

(AP) — The family of Noah Pozner was mourning the 6-year-old, killed in the Newtown school massacre, when outrage compounded their sorrow.

Someone they didn’t know was soliciting donations in Noah’s memory, claiming that they’d send any cards, packages and money collected to his parents and siblings. An official-looking website had been set up, with Noah’s name as the address, even including petitions on gun control.

Noah’s uncle, Alexis Haller, called on law enforcement authorities to seek out “these despicable people.”

“These scammers,” he said, “are stealing from the families of victims of this horrible tragedy.”

It’s a problem as familiar as it is disturbing.

Tragedy strikes be it a natural disaster, a gunman’s rampage or a terrorist attack and scam artists move in.

It happened after 9/11.

It happened after Columbine. It happened after Hurricane Katrina.

And after this summer’s movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.

Sometimes fraud takes the form of bogus charities asking for donations that never get sent to victims.

Natural disasters bring another dimension: Scammers try to get government relief money

they’re not eligible for.

“It’s abominable,” said Ken Berger, president and CEO of Charity Navigator, which evaluates the performance of charities. “It’s just the lowest kind of thievery.”

Noah Pozner’s relatives found out about one bogus solicitation when a friend received an email asking for money for the family.

Poorly punctuated, it gave details about Noah, his funeral and his family.

It directed people to send donations to an address in the Bronx, one that the Pozners had never heard of.

It listed a New York City phone number to text with questions about how to donate. When a reporter texted that number Wednesday, a reply came advising the donation go to the United Way. The Pozner family had the noahpozner.com website transferred to its ownership.

Victoria Haller, Noah’s aunt, emailed the person who had originally registered the name. The person, who went by the name Jason Martin, wrote back that he’d meant “to somehow honor Noah and help promote a safer gun culture. I had no ill intentions I assure you.”

Alexis Haller said the experience “should serve as a warning signal to other victims’ families.

We urge people to watch out for these frauds on

high school if the district would help pay for part of the classes if they were fiscally reasonable in comparison to the offcampus options.

Rappold said two-year community colleges are able to offer a wider variety of classes, yet transportation and scheduling conflicts often make students miss out on high school experiences.

The Urbana University agreement uses a current high school teacher for the class and teachers follow the criteria for the classes.

Grades and credit are posted for both college and high school.

“Students are finding dual enrollment transfer easier than two-year local colleges,” Rappold said.

“We’re looking at several different options.

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Students are finding dual enrollment transfer easier than two-year local colleges.

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Davis said he supported the district’s expansion of the dual enrollment “as long as it transfers.”

Board president Kevin Accurso said he supports the decision to keep students at the high school.

“Public education can’t sit on the sidelines and not adapt to the changes,” Rappold added.

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The government later set up the National Center for Disaster Fraud to try to root out such scams in the federal relief programs administered after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. It has since expanded its mandate to other disasters.

The cases brought since then by the Justice Department sketch a colorful picture of fraud: A woman who filed for small-business disaster benefits after the 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill, even though she’d sold the business before the accident.

A judge and a commissioner in Texas who, after Hurricane Ike, were accused of awarding debris removal contracts to a company in return for kickbacks.

The judge also commandeered a 155-kilowatt generator meant for the county to power his convenience store, according to the government.

A pastor who submitted inflated claims to a government-funded program that reimbursed groups sheltering Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

Bob Webster, spokesman for the NASAA, knows the sad pattern.

“We know cons try to cash in on headlines, and any who would even think about stooping to capitalize on the tragedy in Newtown are the lowest of the low,” he said.

father, said that on the morning of the shooting, Mark Barden taught his son to play a Christmas song on the piano.

“They played foosball and then he taught him the song and then he walked him to the bus and that was their last morning together,” Stamberg said.

At Caroline’s funeral, mourners wore pink ties and scarves her favorite color and remembered her as a New York Yankees fan who liked to kid around.

“Silly Caroline” was how she was known to neighbor Karen Dryer.

“She’s just a girl that was always smiling, always wanting others to smile,” Dryer said.

Across town, at Christ the King Lutheran Church, hundreds gathered for the funeral of Charlotte Helen Bacon, many wearing buttons picturing the 6-yearold redhead.

Speakers, including her grandfather, told of her love of wild animals, the family’s golden retriever and the color pink.

She was “a beautiful little girl who could be a bit stubborn at times, just like all children,” said Danbury resident Linda Clark as she left the service.

And in nearby Stratford, family and friends gathered to say goodbye to Victoria Soto, a first-grade teacher hailed as a hero for trying to shield her students, some of whom escaped. Musician Paul Simon, a family friend, performed “The Sound of Silence” at the service.

“She had the perfect job.

She loved her job,” said Vicky Ruiz, a friend since first grade.

Every year, Soto described her students the same way, Ruiz said.

“They were always good kids. They were always angels,” she said, even if, like typical first-graders, they might not always listen.

In Woodbury, a line of

colleagues, students and friends of slain Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung, 47, wrapped around the block to pay their respects to the administrator, who rushed the gunman in an effort to stop him and paid with her life. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan attended the service.

“She loved kids. She’d do anything to help them and protect them,” said Joann Opulski, of Roxbury.

In emotion-charged Newtown, tempers flared as residents of the town of 27,000 navigated the hordes of reporters and camera crews that descended on the town.

Some shouted at reporters outside the funerals Wednesday, urging them to leave their town in peace.

Cynthia Gubitose said the shooting and its aftermath have jolted what she described as a quintessential “Norman Rockwell, New England community.”

“Nobody knew about Sandy Hook,” Gubitose said as she placed flowers at a memorial with bouquets stacked chest-high.

“Many of the people that live here like it that way.”

The symbol of Christmas took on a new meaning in the town, where one memorial featured 26 Christmas trees one for each victim at the school.

Edward Kish said he bought a Christmas tree two days before the shooting but hasn’t had the heart to put it up or decorate it.

“I’ll still put it up, probably,” he said. “It doesn’t seem right, and it doesn’t seem like Christmas.”

Mourners from across the country came to offer condolences.

A jazz band from Alabama played at the main memorial site as local children played with a team of trained therapy dogs brought in to provide comfort.

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“It’s sad to see the little coffins,” said the Rev. John Inserra, a Catholic priest who worked at St. Rose for years before transferring to a church in Greenwich.

He returned to his old parish to comfort families wondering how a loving God could permit such carnage and has attended several of the funerals.

“It’s always hard to bury a child,” Inserra said of the seemingly unrelenting cycle of sorrow and loss.

“God didn’t do this. God didn’t allow this. We allowed it. He said, ‘Send the little children to me.’

But he didn’t mean it this way.”

Hundreds of firefighters formed a long blue line outside the church for little Daniel’s funeral. Two of his relatives work at the Fire Department of New York, and the gap-toothed redhead had wanted to join their ranks one day.

“If me being here helps this family or this community just a little bit, it’s worth it,” said Kevin Morrow, a New York firefighter and father of two young girls. “He wanted to be a firefighter, as any young boy wants to be.”

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In 2006, the FBI warned about an email widely circulated after the Sago, W.Va., mine explosion, which claimed to be from a doctor treating one of the survivors and asking for donations to cover medical bills.

“As was learned after the tragic events of 9/11/01, the tsunami disaster, and more recently with Hurricane Katrina, unscrupulous cyber criminals have shown the desire and means to exploit human emotion by attempting to defraud the public when they are perceived to be most vulnerable,” the FBI said at the time.

This fall, the police in Aurora, Colo., accused a local woman of trying to profit off the deadly movie theater rampage by a gunman who killed 12 people.

The woman told people that she was the caretaker for a little girl named Kadence, whose mother had died in the shooting.

The police said the child was made up.

The scam unraveled when a donor got a phone call from what seemed to be a woman imitating a child’s voice.

When the government doled out disaster aid after Hurricane Katrina, scammers asked for money to rebuild houses they never lived in or to pay benefits for relatives who never existed.

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Consumer groups, state attorneys general and law enforcement authorities call for caution about unsolicited requests for donations, by phone or email. They tell people to be wary of callers who don’t want to answer questions about their organization, who won’t take “no” for an answer, or who convey what seems to be an unreasonable sense of urgency.

“This is a time of mourning for the people of Newtown and for our entire state,” Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said in a statement this week.

“Unfortunately, it’s also a time when bad actors may seek to exploit those coping with this tragedy.”

But scam artists know that calamity is fertile ground for profit, watered by the goodwill of strangers who want to help and may not be familiar with the cause or the people they’re sending money to.

After the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., scammers asked for credit card donations for victims’ families.

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Edison State College has announced recipients of the Graduate Academy Scholarship.

The Graduate Academy is an intensive training program designed to develop more effective directors, leaders, board members, staff, and volunteers of non-profit organizations.

This program consists of five, day-long, workshops beginning Jan. 16 and concluding May 15 with the Mosaic of Community Leadership Conference.

“We’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Graduate Academy program,” said Chris Norman, Vice President of Institutional Advancement.

“In the past decade, more than 200 local leaders and organizations have benefited from this exceptional local

training program. Edison State sees The Graduate Academy as part of our mission and duty to the community to make our non-profit sector more effective.”

This year’s scholarship recipients include Jayne Smith, Shelby County United Way, and Tiffany Wildermuth, Raise The Roof For The Arts, sponsored by The Community Foundation of Shelby County; Kelli Early, Partners In Hope, and Randy Earl, American Red Cross of Northern Miami Valley, sponsored by The Troy Foundation; Rebecca Crow, Brukner Nature Center, and Marcia Florkey, The New Path, Inc., sponsored by The Miami County Foundation; Nancy Stiefel, Shelby County Board of Developmental Disabilities,

sponsored by the Edison Foundation.

Based on the book, The Board Member's Guide, course topics include the fundamental practices of board recruitment, planning, staffing, budgeting, evaluation, board meetings, and community awareness. These workshops are designed to help individuals make a difference on their boards and in their community.

“This is a perfect fit with the college’s education and training mission along with one of its key values which is community engagement. It’s important for Edison to serve as a resource to our community,” said Norman.

Registration for this year’s Graduate Academy is still available, however spaces are limited. For further information on this event, contact Helen Wilcox at (937) 778-7864.

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The Miami County YMCA is hosting a 10week weight loss program.

The program is intended to give the education and knowledge needed to make the appropriate lifestyle changes in order to lose weight successfully.

The Winter Meltdown program officially starts Jan. 7, with a fitness assessment on

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The program includes pre- and post-fitness assessment, nutritional guidance, weekly emails, personal training sessions and weekly prizes.

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RICHMOND, Ky. — Approximately 400 students are members of the nationally prominent Honors Program at Eastern Kentucky University.

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Heidelberg University TIFFIN — Thirty Heidelberg University students have committed to service on campus and in the community as members of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity. Among the members of Heidelberg’s APO chapter are the following local residents: • Kaitlynn Caldwell of Conover, a sophomore majoring in education.

• Emily Sorauf of Troy, a sophomore majoring in biology.

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• EXHIBIT OPENING: • FEEDERWATCH: Brukner’s annual the Project Feederwatch will be “Nature though the Lens” • END OF THE WORLD offered from 9:30-11:30 a.m. exhibit, which will feature the PARTY: The Tipp City at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood work of both adult and youth American Legion Post No. Road, Dayton. Count birds, participants that have cap586, 377 N 3rd St, Tipp City drink coffee, eat doughnuts, tured the beauty on the BNC will host a “PARTY LIKE share stories and count grounds, will open. The THERE’S NO TOmore birds. The bird count exhibit also will be open to MAYAN!!!!.” Join us for a contributes to scientific studthe public during Interpretive “Survive the End of the ies at the Cornell Lab of Center hours and will run World Party” from 6 p.m.

Ornithology. Check out the through March 17. A peruntil the end of the world or Cornell web site at centage of the sales of these closing time, whichever www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for works will support the miscomes first. There will be more information. sion of Brukner. food, tacos, burritos and • FULL MOON WALK: A • CRAFTS FOR Mexican style snacks, full moon walk, under the SCHOOL AGE KIDS: music, games and prizes.

Big Winter Moon, will be School-age children accom- Please bring a snack to panied by an adult are invit- share and one canned good offered from 6:30-8 p.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood ed to come by the Troyfor charity. The cost is $6 Road, Dayton.

Miami County Public Library per person. The public is anytime between 10 a.m. to welcome.

DEC. 29 noon to create a gift for someone special. No regisSATURDAY tration is necessary.

• KARAOKE NIGHT: • CHESS CLUB: Have The Tipp City American • KARAOKE NIGHT: you ever played chess or Legion, North Third Street, The Tipp City American wanted to learn how to play will offer Papa D’s Pony the game of chess? Whether Legion, North Third Street, Express Karaoke from 7 will offer Papa D’s Pony you are a chess master or p.m. to close. The event is Express Karaoke from 7 an amateur, the Troy-Miami free.

County Library’s Checkmate p.m. to close. The event is Chess Club invites all types free.

DEC. 30 • BREAKFAST SET: The of players at 6:30 p.m. Play American Legion Auxiliary, against your friends and fam• BREAKFAST ily or sit back and watch oth- 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will SERVED: Breakfast will be ers capture the pieces. Learn present an all-you-can-eat offered at the Pleasant Hill new strategies to controlling breakfast from 8-11 a.m.

VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 Items available will be eggs, the board and defeating your W. Fenner Road, Ludlow bacon, sausage, sausage opponent.

Falls, from 8- 11 a.m. All gravy, biscuits, pancakes, • BOARD MEETING: The breakfasts are made-towaffles, french toast, hash regular meeting of the order and everything is a la Lostcreek Township Board of browns, toast, cinnamon carte. rolls, fruit and juices.

Meals Trustees has been canceled • BREAKFAST SET: will be $6. and a year-end meeting is The Legion Riders of scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 27.

American Legion Auxiliary, • DISCOVERY WALK: A SUNDAY 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will morning discovery walk for present an all-you-can-eat adults will be from 8-9:30 • BREAKFAST breakfast from 8-11 a.m. a.m. at Aullwood Audubon SERVED: Breakfast will be Items available will be eggs, Center, 1000 Aullwood offered at the Pleasant Hill bacon, sausage, sausage Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 gravy, biscuits, pancakes, education coordinator, will W. Fenner Road, Ludlow waffles, french toast, hash lead walkers as they experi- Falls, from 8- 11 a.m. All browns, toast, cinnamon ence the wonderful seasonal breakfasts are made-torolls, fruit and juices. Meals changes taking place. Bring order and everything is a la will be $6. binoculars. carte.

• AMERICAN LEGION DEC. 31 DINNER: The Troy Post MONDAY American Legion Post No. • YEAR END: Elizabeth 43, 622 S. Market St., is hav• TENDERLOIN AND Township will have a special ing a dinner from 5 until 7:30 FRIES: The American year end meeting at 10 a.m. p.m. The meal will include Legion, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp at the township building. chicken and noodles, Jan. 2 mashed potatoes and green City, will offer a tenderloin sandwich and fries for $5 • ORGANIZATIONAL beans or corn for $7. from 6-7:30 p.m.

MEETING CHANGED: The • CANDLELIGHT SERV- Elizabeth Township Trustees FRIDAY ICE: Full Gospel Community have rescheduled the Jan. 2 Church, 212 S. Mulberry St., organizational and regular • FRIDAY DINNER: The Troy, will offer a candlelight meeting to Jan. 7 at the Covington VFW Post No. Christmas Eve service at 6 township building with the 4235, 173 N. High St., p.m. The event will include organizational meeting Covington, will offer dinner music and fellowship. For beginning at 6:30 p.m., and from 5-8 p.m. For more more information, call (937) the regular meeting followinformation, call 753-1108. 570-5273. ing at 7 p.m.

• COUNTRY FRIED STEAK: The Pleasant Hill DEC. 27 JAN. 5 VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, will offer • DISCOVERY WALK: A • SPAGHETTI DINNER: chicken fried steak with morning discovery walk for The Troy Post No. 43 basemashed potatoes and a adults will be from 8-9:30 ball will offer an all-you-canside from 6-7:30 p.m. for a.m. at Aullwood Audubon eat spaghetti dinner from $7.

3:30-7 p.m. at 622 S. • CHICKEN AND NOO- Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton.

Tom Hissong, Market St., Troy. The meal DLES: The AMVETS also will include salad bar, education coordinator, will Ladies Auxiliary, 3449 lead walkers as they experi- rolls, dessert and soft drink LeFevre Road, Troy, will ence the wonderful seasonal or coffee. offer chicken and noodles Meals will be $6.75 for changes taking place. Bring from 5:30-8 p.m. for $7. adults and $4 for children binoculars.

Meals also will include under 12.

• FEEDERWATCH: mashed potatoes, corn and Project Feederwatch will be dessert. offered from 9:30-11:30 a.m. JAN. 9 • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be from 11 at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Miami Road, Dayton. Count birds, • KIWANIS MEETING: drink coffee, eat doughnuts, The Kiwanis Club of Troy County YMCA, 3060 S. share stories and count County Road 25-A, Troy, will meet from noon to 1 and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. more birds. The bird count p.m. at the Miami County contributes to scientific stud- YMCA-Robinson Branch. at Voss Honda, 155 S. ies at the Cornell Lab of Garber Drive, Tipp City.

Jim McMaken, YMCA execOrnithology. Check out the Those who register will utive director, will offer a receive a free “Blood Donor Cornell web site at brief overview of the — Saves Lives” knit scarf in www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for YMCA’s operations, folscarlet and grey. Individuals more information. lowed by a tour of the faciliwith eligibility questions are ty. A boxed lunch will be invited to email canidoDEC. 28 provided for $10. nate@cbccts.org or call For more information, (800) 388-GIVE. Make an contact Donn Craig, vice • FRIDAY DINNER: The appointment at president, at (937) 418Covington VFW Post No. www.DonorTime.com.

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“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 Winston-Salem Journal on the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission: As the days dwindle before the U.S. government reaches its fiscal cliff, there is a place where both parties should be looking to find a compromise.

The Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission provides an outline for how Democrats and Republicans can come together and avoid the kind of mess to which we’ll wake on New Year’s Day if they fail to do so.

Their plan itself is not quite the answer, for reasons we will state later. But the process through which Erskine Bowles, a veteran of the Clinton White House, and former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming reached their agreement is.

Both are smart men who are experts in government budgets. …

And Bowles and Simpson know how to reach a settlement among competing sides.

A recent analysis by The Washington Post explains why a plan that sounds so good when summarized — it significantly shrinks the federal deficit by spreading the pain evenly — is politically unacceptable. It proposes $2.6 trillion in tax increases over 10 years. That’s more than Obama, $1.6 trillion, and the House GOP, $800 billion, combined. And the ratio of tax cuts to spending cuts is almost one-to-one, with cuts only slightly higher.

With dire consequences staring at us from the other side of the holidays, the American people need a few statesmen to step forward. This is never easy in a negotiation.

No bargainers want to crack first and give away too much of what they consider important.

That’s where Bowles and Simpson can come in.

If drawn into the process, they can help shape alternative proposals that will reflect that both sides are winning on key points while also sacrificing on others.

The fact that they have done this kind of bargaining with each other clearly demonstrates that they are right for the job.

The Seattle Times on the U.S. Supreme Court accepting samesex marriage cases: As hundreds of Washington same-sex couples eagerly awaited the opportunity to exchange wedding vows recently, the nation’s highest court accepted two cases regarding such unions.

The nine justices are encouraged to review the photographs from those joyous ceremonies to understand where the country is headed, and how far politics, public opinion and, yes, the law has come.

One case involves the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which sought to put the federal imprimatur on marriage defined as an institution between one man and one woman.

With nine states and the District of Columbia now recognizing samesex marriage, the federal law denies legally married couples rights and access to hundreds of benefits and prerogatives.

The United States got by for 200-plus years without federal interference in defining a valid marriage. The Defense of Marriage Act was an intrusion.

Eliminating DOMA touches on many issues for gay and lesbian families, from taxes to Social Security benefits. Another less-recognized benefit is immigration law related to married couples.

Repeal of that law, by California’s Proposition 8, was also accepted for review. The judicial matrix for same-sex marriage, and arguments for marriage as a fundamental right, could get more legally complex.

The high court could defer to lower court findings and agree that Proposition 8 overstepped, but say the ruling applies only to California.

The court could decide that Proposition 8 violates the Constitution and puts the laws in some 31 states that ban same-sex marriage at risk.

The court could also recognize life as it is in the 21st century.

Marriage is a fundamental right, and a group of citizens and their families have been discriminated against. Do the right thing.

A ruling is expected in June, traditionally a great month for weddings. Perfect.

LETTERS

Thank you, Santa Claus To the Editor: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!”

I had a flat tire and a man with a long, white beard stopped, changed my tire, would

take no money, hugged me and drove off.

I hadn’t asked him his name, but I just wanted to say again, “Thank you, Santa!”

brought news of the evil that exists.

But in our hearts, we’ll feel 20 new cherubs are in the heavenly choir, along with the new angels that cared for them.

— Virginia Hoover Our wish for 2013, prayerfulCassown ly expressed, is, “Peace on Earth and goodwill to men from God, P.S. — That evening the TV our Heavenly King!”

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It’s the end of the world as we know it ...

If the ancient Mayans are to be believed — and if we are going to take our cues from anyone, it probably ought to be the ancient Mayans – this column could be the last thing you ever read.

Think about that — all the great works of literature you could have been reading before the planet got sucked into a black hole or hit by an asteroid, and instead you’re stuck with this.

Don’t worry, however, you aren’t the only one who will be going out tomorrow with regrets.

As has been the case my entire life in this planet, I have waited until the last minute — assuming the world really is ending tomorrow — to try to get my affairs in order. In doing so, I’ve discovered plenty of things I wish I had done more of — or, in some cases, less of — before Armageddon.

If the planet weren’t exploding tomorrow and I did have a chance to do it all over again, I think I would have: Played football at Troy High School. Don’t get me wrong, I never would have left the bench, but I think it would have been pretty special to be a part of something that means so much

David Fong Troy Daily News Executive Editor to the community. It would have been a thrill to be a part of a team and contribute, in some small way, to something much bigger than myself. Also, people may not find it so weird that I know the names, jersey numbers, heights, weights and homecoming dates of every Troy football player in the past 20 years had I actually played on the team.

Laughed more. It’s a funny world we live in — most of the time, however, we miss it because we are too preoccupied by things that don’t matter. We put way too much emphasis on being politically correct and doing and saying all the right things in front of all the right people. Forget about public perception — I wish I had told more dirty jokes along the way.

Eaten more White Castle hamburgers. Now that I’m older,

I worry about things like my weight, blood pressure and cholesterol. Having control of those things isn’t going to do me much good when the apocalypse hits, now is it? Forget about the diet — it’s good to have a few greasy hamburgers along the way. When doomsday arrives, nobody is going to care what your body mass index was, anyway.

Spent more time with my kids. If there’s anything the sickening massacre at Shady Hook Elementary School has taught us, it’s that there’s no such thing as spending too much time with our kids. I wish I had turned off more football games on the television to go outside and play games with my kids. I wish I hadn’t skipped out on my daughter’s swimming lessons because there was a “story that I absolutely had to write.” I wish I hadn’t told my kids to be quiet and go to sleep when they were trying to tell me the same story for the millionth time.

Gone to church more. I’ve been to church quite a bit, but with imminent doom a mere 24 hours away, I can’t help but think it wouldn’t have hurt to hedge by bets in the afterlife a little more by popping in to church a little more frequently.

Told people “I love you” far more often. In the daily grind, I think it’s awful easy for us to take for granted the people who mean the most to us — and just assume they know we love them.

I wish I would have ended every phone conversation with my wife or mother or friends with “I love you” instead of “Talk to you later.” Because now that the end is upon us, there will be no “Talk to you later.” I wish I had told my wife, my kids, my family, my co-workers and my friends “I love you” a lot more than I have.

Because I truly do love them with all my heart and soul. Even you, Randy.

Of course, I suppose there is a chance the Mayans had it all wrong and I actually will get a chance to do most of those things (except play football for Troy High School — at age 39, that would just be kind of weird).

Maybe this will all blow over and we’ll all get a chance to right a few wrongs.

Maybe I’ll see you here again next week.

Troy’s very own David Fong appears on Thursdays in the Troy Daily News. If the world should happen to end tomorrow — thanks for reading.

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Juanita Francis of TROY — Freida Mae Springfield and Glen Trucksis, 89, of Troy, Francis of Troy. passed away Tuesday, She was preceded in Dec. 18, 2012, in the care death by her son Harold of her home.

“Gene” Trucksis and She was born Sept. 19, grandson, Jeremy Eugene 1923, in Troy, to her parTrucksis; five ents Marion H. brothers; one and Myrtle sister.

(Ford) Francis The family and celebrated would like to her 29th birththank her sisday for 60 ter, Addie and years. special friend, Freida married Margie Harold “Jake” Clevenger for Trucksis on Feb. all their love 6, 1946, and and support. together they A special raised their family TRUCKSIS thanks to and shared a life Hospice of Miami County for more than 66 years. for their amazing care.

She retired from Spectra Funeral services for Physics and was a memFreida will be held 11 a.m. ber of the First Baptist Saturday at the First Church of Tipp City and Baptist Church of Tipp the Tipp City Senior City, 6533 S. TippCitizens.

Cowlesville Road, Tipp She will be missed and remembered by her loving City 45371. husband Harold; daughter, Pastor Gary Boggs will officiate, with interment Cathy J. Jacobs of Troy; following at Miami grandchildren, Lisa and Memorial Park, Covington.

Marvin Reynolds of Troy, The family will receive Jasen and Jenny Phelps friends from 9-11 a.m. of Greenwood, Ind. and Saturday at the church.

Ben Trucksis of Holiday, In lieu of flowers, memoFla.; great-grandchildren, rial contributions may be Kadin Trucksis, Madeline made to Hospice of Miami Phelps, Masen Phelps County or the First Baptist and Nathaniel Reynolds; Church of Tipp City. sisters, Mary June Oaks Online memories may be of Vandalia and Addie left for the family at Henry of Del City, Okla.; www.jackson-sarver.com. brothers, Adrian and

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In this Sept. 15, 1987 file photo, former President Gerald Ford, left, introduces Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Robert Bork, as the Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings on the nomination on Capitol Hill. Ford praised Bork as being “uniquely qualified” for the post. At right is Sen. Robert Dole, R-KS, who also made a statement on Bork. national experts on antitrust law, Bork became much more widely known as a conservative cultural critic in the years that followed.

His 1996 book, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,” was an acid indictment of what Bork viewed as the crumbling ethics of modern society and the morally bankrupt politics of the left.

“Opportunities for teenagers to engage in sex are … more frequent than previously; much of it takes place in homes that are now empty because the mothers are working,” Bork wrote then. “The modern liberal devotion to sex education is an ideological commitment rather than a policy of prudence.”

Bork, known until his death as “Judge Bork,” served a relatively short tenure on the bench. He was a judge on the nation’s most prestigious appellate panel, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, from 1982 until 1988, when he resigned in the wake of the bitter Supreme Court nomination fight.

Earlier, Bork had been a private attorney, Yale Law School professor and a Republican political appointee.

At Yale, two of his constitutional law students were Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham.

“I no longer say they were students,” Bork joked long afterward. “I say they were in the room.”

Nixon named Bork as solicitor general, the administration’s advocate before the Supreme Court, in January, 1973.

Bork served as acting

attorney general after Richardson’s resignation, then returned to the solicitor general’s job until 1977, far outlasting the Nixon administration.

Long mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee, Bork got his chance toward the end of Ronald Reagan’s second term. He was nominated July 1, 1987, to fill the seat vacated by Justice Lewis F. Powell.

Nearly four months later the Senate voted 58-42 to defeat him, after the first national political and lobbying offensive mounted against a judicial nominee.

It was the largest negative vote ever recorded for a Supreme Court nominee.

Reagan and Bork’s Senate backers called him eminently qualified a brilliant judge who had managed to write nearly a quarter of his court’s majority rulings in just five years on the bench without once being overturned by the Supreme Court.

In a written statement Wednesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who voted to confirm Bork, called him “a true lion of the law.”

“After many years in public service, Judge Bork thankfully remained a teacher and educated countless students of the law about what it means to take the Constitution seriously.

He was a dear friend who deserved to be on the Supreme Court,” Hatch said.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, DMass., summed up the opposition at the time by saying, “In Robert Bork’s America there is no room at the inn for blacks and no place in the Constitution for women.”

Critics also called Bork a free-speech censor and a

DEATHS OF NATIONAL INTEREST

• Peter Struck BERLIN — Former German Defense Minister Peter Struck, a vehement opponent of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died Wednesday following a heart attack. He was 69.

His family said Struck, a plain-spoken politician who was a leading lawmaker for Germany’s center-left Social Democrats for almost three decades, died in a Berlin hospital.

Struck served as Germany’s defense minister from 2002 to 2005.

While an opponent of the Iraq war, he oversaw the early years of Germany’s military engagement in Afghanistan, famously announcing that “German security is being defended in the Hindu Kush” mountains.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a statement that “Peter Struck’s death fills me with great sorrow.”

Merkel, who originally came to power in a socalled grand coalition with Struck’s party in 2005, called him “a great parliamentarian” who strongly defended his positions but was always a reliable partner.

“With his death Germany is losing a steadfast and authentic personality, who embodied like almost no one else the country’s defense policy,” said Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere.

“He liked the soldiers and they liked him,” he added.

Since 2010 Struck had led the Friedrich-EbertStiftung, a major foundation affiliated with his party.

A colorful personality, Struck was often pictured smoking a long-stemmed pipe, and had a penchant

for riding his motorcycle boasting in a 2011 interview that he’d put 65,000 kilometers (more than 40,000 miles) on it over three years.

He was a lawmaker from 1980 to 2009, serving the Social Democrats for many years as chief parliamentary whip and caucus leader.

Struck is survived by his wife Barbara, three children and several grandchildren.

• Ben Lujan ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ben Lujan, the speaker of New Mexico’s House of Representative and the father of U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, died late Tuesday, a spokesman for his son said. The longtime state lawmaker was 77.

The Santa Fe Democrat

PATRICIA M. ‘PATTIE’ PERRY

COVINGTON — Patricia M. “Pattie” Perry, 67, of Covington, passed away at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy.

Patricia was born Jan. 10, 1945, in Dayton, to the late Thomas and Mary (Keener) Jett. She was married to James C. Perry on June 17, 2000, and he survives.

Patricia is also survived by three sons and daughter-in-law. Ernest PERRY Purvis Jr. of Covington, Daniel and Madonna Purvis of Hollansburg and Dennis Purvis of Covington; one son-in-law and daughterin-law, Scott and Sonya Hill of Hollansburg; one step-daughter, Belinda Perry of Independence, Ky.; one son-in-law, Tony Maloy of Union City, Ohio; and 13 grandchildren, Andrew Purvis, Cory Purvis, Justen Shepherd, Kody Purvis, Kasey Purvis, Sidney Purvis, Katherine Purvis, Kayla Purvis, Noah Purvis, Christina Perry, Breanna Ewing, Brandon Ewing, and James Maloy.

She was preceded in death by her former husband Ernest Purvis Sr. of Hollansburg; one son, Thomas Purvis of spent nearly 40 years in Palestine; and one daughthe chamber before he ter, Robin Maloy of Union announced on the openCity. ing day of the 2012 sesPatricia was a 1963 sion that he would not graduate of Patterson Coseek re-election. He OP in Dayton and a 1987 shocked fellow lawmakers graduate of Edison and others then as he Community College with a disclosed his stage four business degree. She was lung cancer diagnosis, a member of the VFW but he did not miss a Auxiliary 4235 in House session this year Covington, AMVETS 66 in as he went against docCovington, Eagles 3621 in tors’ advice and presided Greenville, Moose Lodge over every one.

Auxiliary 2283 in Troy, and “Some doctors didn’t OBITUARY POLICY even want me to show up,” for the session, Lujan In respect for friends and said in February. “… But I think the good Lord had a family, the Troy Daily News prints a funeral directory free different mission for me.” of charge. Families who would He died at about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday after a brief like photographs and more stay at CHRISTUS St. Vincent’s hospital in Santa Fe, Andrew Stoddard, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Lujan, said early Wednesday.

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• Amnon Lipkin-Shahak JERUSALEM (AP) — Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Israeli military chief who later became a Cabinet minister, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 68.

Revered in Israel as the ultimate “officer and gentlemen,” Lipkin-Shahak was a daring commando, admired general and moderate peace negotiator.

Even while still serving in uniform, he was tasked with talking to Israel’s bitterest enemies and later in life became a staunch supporter of peace with Syria and the Palestinians.

danger to the principle of separation of church and state.

Bork’s opponents used his prolific writings against him, and some called him a hypocrite when he seemed to waffle on previous strongly worded positions.

Despite a reputation for personal charm, Bork did not play well on television.

He answered questions in a seemingly bloodless, academic style and he cut a severe figure, with hooded eyes and heavy, rustic beard.

Stoic and stubborn throughout, Bork refused to withdraw when his defeat seemed assured.

The fight has defined every high-profile judicial nomination since, and largely established the opposing roles of vocal and well-funded interest groups in Senate nomination fights. Bork would say later that the ferocity of the fight took him and the Reagan White House by surprise, and he rebuked the administration for not doing more to salvage his nomination.

The process begat a verb, “to bork,” meaning vilification of a nominee on ideological grounds. In later years, some accused Bork of borking Clinton nominees with nearly the zeal that some liberal commentators had pursued him.

Bork denied any animus, and said he was happy commenting, writing and making money outside government. Even friends did not entirely believe that.

“He was very embittered by the experience,” said lawyer Andrew Frey, a longtime friend who worked for Bork in the solicitor general’s office.

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the United Church of Christ in Covington, where she held a spot on the search committee. She held various titles in her lifetime from legal secretary and council member to tax preparer. She worked at General Films for the last 12 years in Covington.

Mom found the most joy in her children and grandkids.

She was so proud of Daniel getting his buck this year. She traveled all over the U.S. and going to Alaska was her favorite trip. She also cherished the trip she took to the Titanic Museum in Gatlinburg, Tennessee with her daughter and son-in-law, Robin and Tony.

A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the United Church of Christ, 115 N. Pearl St., Covington, with Pastor Steve Nierman and the Rev. Dr. Charles Carnes officiating. Family and friends may call at the church from 6-8 p.m.

Friday. There will be special services by the VFW Auxiliary, AMVETS, Eagles, and Moose Lodge Auxiliary on Friday during calling hours. Interment will be in Hollansburg Cemetery, Hollansburg.

Arrangements are entrusted to FisherCheney Funeral Home, 1124 W. Main St., Troy.

Contributions may be given to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, Ohio 45373, in her memory.

Condolences may be left for the family at www.fisher-cheneyfuneralhome.com.

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MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon’s behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural fights over abortion, civil rights and other issues, has died. He was 85.

Robert H. Bork Jr. confirmed his father died Wednesday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. The son said Bork died from complications of heart ailments.

Brilliant, blunt and piercingly witty, Robert Heron Bork had a long career in the law that took him from respected academic to a totem of conservative grievance.

Along the way, Bork was accused of being a partisan hatchet man for Nixon when, as the third-ranking official at the Justice Department, he fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973. Attorney General Elliot Richardson had resigned rather than fire Cox. The next in line, William Ruckelshaus, refused to fire Cox and was himself fired.

Bork’s drubbing during his Senate nomination hearings made him a hero to the right and a rallying cry for younger conservatives.

The Senate experience embittered Bork and hardened many of his conservative positions, even as it gave him prominence as an author and long popularity on the conservative speaking circuit.

Conservative legal scholars lauded Bork as an intellectual leader of the move toward originalism, which calls for the Constitution to be interpreted as it was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Eugene Meyer, president of The Federalist Society, where Bork cochaired the board of visitors, described Bork as “a truly kind and decent man” who helped mentor a generation of conservative law professors and practitioners.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia called his former appeals court colleague “one of the most influential legal scholars of the past 50 years. His impact on legal thinking in the fields of antitrust and constitutional law was profound and lasting.”

Known before his Supreme Court nomination as one of the foremost

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Great party mixes for New Year’s Eve JANET K. KEELER St. Petersburg Times New Year's Eve gettogethers tend to be grazing affairs of finger-friendly appetizers. This year, consider making cereal party mix to take along or serve at your own soiree. Chex markets many pre-made varieties, but you can save money and tailor the melange to your taste when you make it yourself.

Besides cereal party mixes, spiced nuts and trail mixes that don't require cooking make tasty additions to the celebratory food table.

Most recipes make oodles of mix. Don't cut them in half: I've done that and have been unhappy with the results. For some reason, halving the spices leaves the mixes a bit wan. If the name is Asian Firecracker Party Mix, I want to taste the explosion. Make the full recipe and give some away if there's too much for your purposes.

Mixes also keep in the refrigerator for weeks if tightly covered. Heating the spices develops flavors but can also mellow them, so you might want to sprinkle more cayenne pepper at the end.

To boost the color and zip of the Asian Firecracker mix, I added more wasabi peas after it had cooled. (Find the peas in your grocer's Asian food aisle.)

Some party mix recipes call for baking. Use a sheet with a lip, like a jellyroll pan; watch carefully and stir the mix every 15 minutes.

Trail mix is all about balancing sweet and salty with different textures and shapes. You need some softness and some crunch. My favorites always have nuts and chocolate. Yogurt- or chocolate-coated raisins are a nice touch. Dark chocolate and dried apricots take trail mix out of its backpack mode.

The bulk bins at natural or specialty food shops offer lots of ideas for mixing and matching. Peruse them for ideas.

It's the last night of 2012.

Once the calendar turns, so does our behavior.

That's when we mix the Chex cereal with skim milk.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER MUNCHIES 5 cups Corn Chex cereal

2 cups pretzel sticks, broken in half 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1 bag (11.5 ounces) milk chocolate chips 1 cup powdered sugar 1 cup candy-coated milk chocolate candies, such as M&Ms Cover 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper. In very large bowl, mix cereal and pretzels.

In medium microwave-safe bowl, microwave butter, peanut butter and chocolate chips uncovered on high 45 seconds; stir. Microwave 15 to 45 seconds longer or until mixture can be stirred smooth. Immediately pour over cereal mixture, stirring until evenly coated. Spread evenly on cookie sheets.

Refrigerate uncovered about 20 minutes or until set.

Break into bite-sized pieces. Divide mixture evenly into two resealable 1-gallon food-storage plastic bags.

Add 1/2 cup powdered sugar to each bag. Seal and shake each bag until well coated.

Add 1/2 cup candies to each bag. Seal and gently shake each bag to mix. Store in sealed bags in refrigerator up to 4 weeks.

Makes 10 cups.

Source: Chex.com CRANBERRY WALNUT SNACK MIX 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1/3 cup honey 1/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 cups square oat cereal 1 cups old-fashioned oats 1 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup dried cranberries 1/2 cup chocolate or yogurt covered raisins In a saucepan or microwave-safe bowl, combine the first five ingredients; heat until the butter is melted.

Stir until the sugar is dissolved.

In a large bowl, combine cereal, oats and nuts. Drizzle with butter mixture and mix well. Place in a greased 15by 10-inch baking sheet with a lip. Bake, uncovered, at 275 degrees for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in cranberries and chocolate-covered raisins. Store in an airtight container.

Makes about 6 cups.

Shoofly cake is delicious Nice and sunny but cold day. After a few cloudy days we welcome the sun even more. When our batteries on our solarpowered freezer start blinking low, we are even more happy to see the sun.

It seems like one sunny day always recharges it for awhile.

We are still glad we invested in the solar-powered freezer. Since having it installed, we haven’t had to pay a cent to keep it going. With the propane prices high, it is good to not be buying for the freezer yet. Our refrigerator, stove, lights and water heater run off of propane.

Also, our water is powered by a propane motor. Last week we had a problem with the motor not kicking in when the water supply in the house was low.

Susan and I wanted to do the laundry and there wasn’t any water. We decided to see if we could start it manually and it worked until the next time.

My husband Joe checked it out and called the man who installed it and asked if it could be the starter batteries. We bought a new battery and it fixed the problem. It has been almost six years, so that battery lasted its money’s worth. I told Joe I guess we are spoiled now thinking we always have hot and cold water in the house. Before our move to Michigan almost nine years ago, we always had to pump and carry our water. If we wanted hot water we had to heat it.

Our motor for the water is in an outside building and the water runs to the house underground. We had two storage tanks and when the pressure got low the motor automatically kicked in.

Joe also installed a new gas light in the boys bedroom on Saturday. They haven’t had a light in their bedroom since the fire in May, so they were happy.

At this time of the year it works as a heater as well.

I think now, except for a few doors, we have to paint we have everything normal from the fire we had. Although since get-

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Asian Firecracker Party Mix for your New Year’s party.

Source: squidoo.com ASIAN FIRECRACKER PARTY MIX 5 cups Rice Chex 2 cups sesame sticks (see note) 1-1/2 cups wasabi peas, divided (see note) 1 cup chow mein noodles 1 cup honey roasted peanuts 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 teaspoon ground ginger 3/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 250 degrees. Combine cereal, sesame sticks, 1 cup wasabi peas, chow mein noodles and peanuts in large bowl. Whisk butter and soy sauce in small bowl, then drizzle over cereal mixture. Sprinkle evenly with ginger, garlic powder and cayenne and toss until well combined. Spread mixture over rimmed baking sheet and bake, stirring every 15 minutes, about 45 to 60 minutes, or until crisp. Cool to room temperature on paper towels.

Note: To increase heat, add the additional half-cup of wasabi peas to the mix after the mixture has cooled.

Baking the mixture cools the horseradish-flavor of the peas quite a bit. Sesame sticks can be found in the bulk food bins of some specialty and natural

food stores Makes about 10 cups.

Source: Food.com DEVILED CHEX MIX (Chex.com supplied this recipe.)

2 teaspoons sugar 1 tablespoon paprika 1 teaspoon ground chili powder 1 teaspoon curry powder 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 cup assorted unsalted nuts, such as peanuts, almonds, walnuts, pecans 3 cups Rice Chex cereal 3 cups Corn Chex cereal 3 cups Wheat Chex cereal 1 cup miniature cheese crackers 1 cup miniature pretzels In small bowl, mix sugar, paprika, chili powder, curry powder, cumin, coriander, pepper and salt; set aside.

In large microwave-safe bowl, combine oil and nuts.

Microwave uncovered on high about 2 minutes or until fragrant. Stir in cereals, crackers and pretzels until evenly coated. Stir in sugar mixture until evenly coated.

Microwave uncovered on high 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every minute, until mixture is thoroughly heated. Spread on paper towels to cool. Store in airtight container. Makes 12 cups.

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Lovina Eicher Troy Daily News Guest Columnist ting more coats out for the cold weather we are starting to see how many of our extra coats were burned. It was our extra coat storage closet too. We are thankful that it was all replaceable things we lost.

I am trying to sew new outfits to give to the children for Christmas. It is getting closer and I am not sure if I will get them done. Daughter Elizabeth helps sew me when she gets home from the factory.

Daughter Susan is doing most of the housework and laundry the past few days so I can keep sewing.

Today Susan is baking two batches of outrageous chocolate chip cookies to take along to church services on Sunday. Elizabeth leaves on Friday evening with Timothy’s family to attend his family’s Christmas gathering.

The gathering will be at Timothy sister’s Miriam near Maysville, Kentucky.

It is a seven-hour drive one way, so she won’t be home until Sunday sometime. The house will seem empty with her not around.

If you have heard of shoofly pie, try this recipe for shoofly cake.

SHOOFLY CAKE 2 cups flour 1 cup brown sugar 1 /2 cup butter, softened 1 cup boiling water 1 /2 cup molasses 1 teaspoon baking soda Combine flour, sugar and butter by hand to make fine crumbs. Reserve ¾ cup crumbs to put on top of the cake. Mix together water, molasses and baking soda.

Add to the crumb mixture and combine. Put in a 9 X 13 greased pan and sprinkled with reserved crumbs.

Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes or until done.

A warming — and simple — broccoli and pasta dish

BY SARA MOULTON Associated Press Whenever I have too little time and too few ingredients on hand or when I’ve been eating too much meat I cook up some broccoli pasta.

Which means I make it for dinner about once every 10 days! It’s delicious, healthy, inexpensive and

easy to prepare. The recipe, in fact, is a cinch, consisting of just a few ingredients pasta, chicken broth, Parmigiano-Reggiano, olive oil and a large head of the namesake crucifer. I always have four of those ingredients in house, so all I need to do is run out and pick up some broccoli.

Another of this recipe’s

charms is its flexibility. I can swap in vegetable broth for chicken broth, spaghetti for the angel hair pasta, and any other grated hard cheese for the ParmigianoReggiano. Sometimes I’ll even lose the broccoli in favor of roasted cauliflower or Brussels sprouts.

But what makes the dish so popular in my house is its

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broccoli in olive oil over very high heat until it was quite brown around the edges. The problem with this method is that the broccoli quickly soaked up all the olive oil and I always ended up having to add quite a bit more. I switched to oven-roasting it, which helps to decrease the amount of olive oil necessary.

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Cut the broccoli, including the stems, into 2-inch pieces.

Peel any thick stem pieces to remove the thick skin.

On a rimmed baking sheet, arrange the broccoli in a single layer. Drizzle with the oil, then sprinkle with salt to taste and toss well. Place on the top oven rack and roast for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the broccoli is crisp tender and slightly brown at the edges.

Transfer the broccoli to a large skillet, add the pepper flakes and the chicken broth, then bring to a boil over mediumhigh heat.

When the water in the large pot comes to a boil, add a hefty pinch of salt and the pasta. Stir and cook for 2 minutes, or until the pasta is limp but not quite cooked through.

Drain the pasta and transfer it to the broccoli pan. Simmer for 2 minutes, or until the pasta is al dente. Stir in the Parmigiano-Reggiano and salt to taste.

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Hopefully, family is keeping an eye on the situation Dear Annie: My 50-something male cousin has brought a 20-something female cousin to live with him. He calls it "mentoring." The poor girl is learning disabled.

They are the only two people living in the house, and the arrangement has caused concern for his parents and children. Is this normal? What's your take on the situation? — Just Wondering Dear Just: We don't know what kind of learning disability would require that a 20-year-old live with her older cousin — or anyone. If you mean that the girl is mentally disabled, then someone needs to check on the situation and intervene should the older cousin be taking advantage of her.

Because the girl is over 18, it may require legal intervention.

If, however, the 20-year-old is perfectly capable of managing her own life and chooses to live with this cousin, there's not much you can do. We hope her family is keeping an eye on things.

Dear Annie: We recently lost our dear pet dog, "Buster," and are considering getting another dog. I want to find one who is the same breed and color, call him "Buster" and go on as if his predecessor had not died, but rather had a stroke and needed to be retrained.

My wife thinks I'm crazy.

What do you think? — RH Dear RH: We don't think you're crazy, but you do seem to be in denial. You should properly grieve for Buster. Pretending another dog is still the same one after a stroke doesn't do justice to your feelings. It also doesn't allow you to love your new dog for his own sake.

Even with "retraining," you will continue to expect him to respond to you and behave as Buster did. Please take a little time to mourn the original Buster before you make any decisions about a new dog.

Dear Annie: You printed a lot of responses to "Looking for a Relationship, Too," who asked where to meet men. What a waste of time to read all of those suggestions. If you are serious about finding someone, the Internet is the best place to look.

Just find a reliable dating service online.

Be sure to have a pleasant picture of yourself, and if you can't figure out how to get online, ask any 6th grader to do it for you.

Don't be too picky about your preferences, and then go out and have fun meeting all sorts of people. Brief first-time meetings for coffee in a public place are best, so neither has to stay long or incur expensive meals. Quit wasting your valuable time looking in all the wrong places. — Content in California on Match.com Dear Content: The Internet is one way to meet people, but it isn't the only way (or necessarily the best way), and it is only a preliminary step. Here's another take on the subject: Dear Annie: The various suggestions for where to go to meet someone all sound extremely dangerous to me.

Whatever happened to single people letting their married friends know they would like to meet someone? I would never take seriously a potential date who didn't come "pre-screened" for suitability and safety.

As a single woman, I cannot imagine getting into the car of a man I had met on a hike, in a class or even at church. I've been at the same church for more than 30 years, and I know plenty of single men and women there.

Believe me, I wouldn't introduce any one of them to a friend as a potential mate. — Cautious in Los Angeles 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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The Jacksons: An American Dream Lawrence Hilton Jacobs.

Ghost Whisperer (R) Charmed (R) Charmed (R) Mary Mary (R) Mary Mary (N) Mary Mary (R) Mary Mary (R) Mary Mary (R) (WE) Chris (R) Chris (R) Funniest Home Videos Mother (R) Mother (R) Mother (R) Mother (R) WGN News at Nine Home Videos (R) Rules (R) Rules (R) (WGN) Law & Order: C.I. (R) PREMIUM STATIONS Fight (R) Project Nim (N) :45 1stLook Atlantic City Hooker (:05)

Die Hard (HBO)

Contagion ('11) Matt Damon. (:45) Johnny English Reborn Rowan Atkinson. (:35) The Sitter ('11) Jonah Hill.

The Brave One ('07) Jodie Foster.

End of Days ('99) Gabriel Byrne, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

(MAX) (4:00)

Pulp Fiction Fightville ('11) Tim Credeur. (:25)

Source Code Drive Angry ('11) Amber Heard, Nicolas Cage.

Old Porn Reality (N) Old Porn NextStop (SHOW) (4:15) Meek's Cutoff (:15)

The Perfect Score Scarlett Johansson.

Loosies ('12) Peter Facinelli.

Cocktail ('88) Tom Cruise.

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Celebrity ('99) Hank Azaria.

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

HINTS FROM HELOISE

Spinning sheets is a good idea to keep bedding fresh longer Dear Heloise: I sleep on a queen bed, but only half of it.

The other half is empty now, after more than 50 years. For clean sheets, I pull up the four fitted corners, spin all bedding 180 degrees and pull the corners back down. I reposition the top sheet and anything else, change the position of the pillows, and I’m ready for another week of clean sheets.

— H.P.K. in Colorado A clever idea! Although experts recommend washing bedsheets and pillowcases once a week to help decrease the allergens in your home, two weeks should be just fine, since in your case, you are sleeping

Hints from Heloise Columnist on the “clean” side. You might want to do the pillowcases every week because of facial and hair oil that gets on them.

Next time you wash your sheets, give your laundry a little something extra by adding 1/2 cup of baking soda along with your regular detergent!

You can find more helpful hints

in my baking-soda pamphlet.

To order one, send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (65 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. Have a stuffed animal that you’re nervous about putting through the wash?

Sprinkle baking soda on the “fur” and let sit. Follow with a gentle brushing. You’ll be shocked by how much grime you’ll remove!

Baking soda is cheap and environmentally friendly, so stock up! — Heloise PET DOOR Dear Heloise: We recently installed a doggie door in our

sliding door, which has an east exposure. When the slider/screen was open for fresh air, there was a gap where flying insects could come in, plus the doggie door let in too much sun. For only a few dollars and a trip to the dollar store, our problems were solved in minutes. A table runner taped at the top of the doggie door blocked out the sun.

Then, by fitting a water “noodle” in the gap between the doggie door and the screen door, we were able to handle both problems. The noodle can be cut easily with a serrated knife. — Marcia M. in Washington

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MUTTS

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

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FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI AND LOIS ZITS

BEETLE BAILEY FAMILY CIRCUS

DENNIS the MENACE

ARLO & JANIS

HOROSCOPE

BY FRANCES DRAKE For Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Because your appreciation of beauty is heightened today, give yourself a chance to enjoy beautiful places. Visit parks, museums, art galleries, beautiful buildings and lovely gift shops.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You feel sympathetic to the needs of others today, especially if you’re sharing something. You will go overboard to make sure others are treated fairly.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Conversations with partners and close friends will be smooth today because each party can sense what the other wants or needs. Your Spidey sense is tingling.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) It’s easy to feel sympathetic toward a co-worker today. This is why you will do anything you can to help a job-related acquaintance. True generosity is giving what is needed.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You are in touch with your Muse today, which is why this is a great day for artists or any of you who are involved in creative projects. Romance is the stuff of fairy dust.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) If you can help a family member in need today, you will. In fact, you’ll find it rewarding to be able to do so. (Family is gold.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You might spend time daydreaming today because your imagination is wired. However, this is a great day for writers, poets, songwriters and people who want to explore new ideas.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Elegant, expensive luxuries might appeal to you today. Most likely, you have champagne tastes on a beer wallet.

You just have to accept it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You feel very sympathetic to others today. However, in addition, you feel idealistic and romantic. This is why you might idolize someone or develop a crush on someone who is beyond your reach.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Time spent alone will be comforting to you today. With so much going on in your life now, you need a little time for reflection.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You’ll find it gratifying to join forces with others in a charitable cause or to work for those in need. Your sympathies are roused, and you want to do whatever you can to make a difference.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You can make a great impression on people in authority today. They see you as sympathetic and caring. They also see you as highly intuitive when dealing with others.

YOU BORN TODAY Your physical presence is so powerful, even your silence makes a statement. This is why you can appear determined and convincing to others. Personally, you’re a private person. You choose not to divulge much information about yourself. Nevertheless, you can project such power that people try to please you. An important decision will arise in your year ahead. Choose wisely.

Birthdate of: Frank Zappa, musician; Kiefer Sutherland, actor; Julie Delpy, actress/screenwriter. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................45 at 3:40 p.m.

Low Yesterday..............................33 at 8:13 a.m.

Normal High .....................................................37 Normal Low ......................................................23 Record High ........................................60 in 1924 Record Low..........................................-7 in 1963

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m................................0.0 Month to date ................................................1.91 Normal month to date ...................................1.89 Year to date .................................................30.73 Normal year to date ....................................39.82 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Thursday, Dec. 20, the 355th day of 2012. There are 11 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 20, 1812, German authors Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of the first edition of their collection of folk stories, titled “Children’s and Household Tales.”

On this date: • In 1790, the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, R.I. • In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was formally

transferred from France to the United States.

• In 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union as all 169 delegates to a special convention in Charleston voted in favor of separation.

• In 1864, Confederate forces evacuated Savannah, Ga., as Union Gen. William T. Sherman continued his “March to the Sea.” • In 1972, the Neil Simon play “The Sunshine Boys” opened on Broadway.

• In 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples

were entitled to the same benefits and protections as wedded couples of the opposite sex.

• Today’s Birthdays: Actor John Hillerman is 80. Rock musician Peter Criss is 67. Producer Dick Wolf (“Law & Order”) is 66. Rock musician Alan Parsons is 64. Actress Jenny Agutter is 60. Actor Michael Badalucco is 58. Actress Blanche Baker is 56. Rock singer Billy Bragg is 55. Rock singer Chris Robinson is 46. Actress Nicole deBoer is 42.

Movie director Todd Phillips is 42.

Singer David Cook (“American Idol”) is 30. Actor Jonah Hill is 29. Singer JoJo is 22.

Storm wreaks havoc in Rockies, Midwest DENVER (AP) — A storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow in the Rocky Mountains was causing problems for travelers as it spread across the Plains on Wednesday.

The main east-west route across Colorado, Interstate 70, was closed from east of Denver to the Kansas line because of poor visibility due to blowing snow. Smaller highways were also closed in eastern Colorado.

Drivers in Iowa and Nebraska are being warned to be careful or stop driving altogether starting Wednesday evening as the Plains gets its first major winter storm of the season.

Light snow is also expected at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Thursday and strong winds could make visibility poor. That, combined with low clouds, could cause delays at the nation’s second-busiest airport. National Weather Service forecaster Jamie Enderlen said.

Iowa officials advised drivers to avoid most roads from Wednesday night through noon Thursday, but native Laurie Harry, a manager at a Casey’s General Store, expects to drive to work Thursday morning.

“If I need to get into work, I’ll be here,” she said. “We’ve had snow before. Iowans know what to expect. We’re used to it.”

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Mutual of Omaha employees clean their vehicles of snow before leaving on their drive home during the evening commute Wednesday in Omaha Neb. Conditions improved in Denver by midday Wednesday.

At the height of the storm, Denver’s airport, the nation’s fifth-busiest, reported delays averaging 30 minutes because of snow and ice, but operations have since returned to normal.

Delta and United Airlines reacted by announcing plans to allow many affected travelers across the nation to change

schedules without incurring fees.

The snow is a gift for ski resorts in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah ahead of the busy holiday week. The weather might also tempt backcountry skiers but prompted avalanche warnings in Colorado and Utah.

Colorado officials near Vail, about 90 miles west of Denver,

planned to trigger some small snow slides in order to remove larger threats.

In Utah, a backcountry skier triggered a slide near a Park City ski resort. Authorities said no one was injured.

In Nebraska, officials have closed parts of Interstate 80 in the western and south central parts of the state. Nebraska State Patrol Deb Collins said

one vehicle fatality was reported near North Platte and there were reports of numerous car accidents and slide offs.

The moisture is also a relief after an extended wildfire season in Colorado. Drought conditions persist especially in the mainly agricultural eastern half of the state.

Farmer Fred Midcap welcomed the snow even though 25 mph winds were blowing some of it away from his land near Hudson in northeastern Colorado.

“The snowflakes are mostly going sideways,” he said.

Midcap doesn’t plow his land, a move intended to help improve the soil, and said the stubble leftover from this year’s weak millet crop will help hold some of the snow in place, hopefully setting up for a better growing season next year. If the snow keeps coming, it will also provide some welcome insulation to his winter wheat crop before the coldest weather of the season.

In Arizona, two recent storms had combined to blanket the mountains north of Flagstaff with 2 feet of snow, and about 20 inches in Flagstaff and along the Mogollon Rim. The storm is also expected to hit Wisconsin and Michigan, where up to a foot of snow was forecast in the north by Friday.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Donaldson arrested for DUI

She’s nominated for Best Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. He also co-hosted “PrimeTime Live” with Diane Performance by an Actress in a LEWES, Del. (AP) — ABC News vet- Sawyer and the ABC News Sunday Television Series for her work on eran and former correspondent Sam Showtime’s “Homeland.” morning broadcast “This Week with Donaldson is facing a drunken driving Up next, Dancy stars in NBC’s Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts.” charge in Delaware.

“Hannibal,” an adaptation of Thomas Police in the southern coastal town of Danes, Dancy welcome baby Harris’ novel “Red Dragon.”

Lewes say the 78-year-old Donaldson NEW YORK — Claire Danes and was stopped Dec. 1 for a traffic violation.

Mubarak back in prison Hugh Dancy’s “Homeland” just got bigPolice say the officer determined CAIRO — Egypt’s ousted president Donaldson had been drinking and gave ger.

Hosni Mubarak was returned to his Danes’ rep confirms the couple welhim field sobriety tests. comed a baby boy named Cyrus Michael prison Wednesday after he was transDonaldson was arrested and later ferred to a Cairo military hospital Christopher. released. An arraignment is set for briefly for an X-ray of his head, a secuPeople.com first reported Monday’s Friday. rity official said. birth.

A phone call to Donaldson’s home in For months, there have been conflictIt’s the first child for 33-year old McLean, Va., on Wednesday was not ing reports about the health of the 84immediately returned. McLean is about Danes and 37-year-old Dancy. They year old Mubarak, who was sentenced were married in 2009.

110 miles west of Lewes.

There’s no word yet whether the new in June to life in prison for failing to Donaldson was twice chief White stop the killing of hundreds of protestmom will attend the Golden Globe House correspondent for ABC News, ers during last year’s uprising. He is Awards on Jan. 13. covering Presidents Jimmy Carter,

the first Arab president to serve a prison sentence.

Gen. Mohammed Ibrahim, the deputy interior minister, said that Mubarak was returned to prison after the X-ray.

Mubarak fell in the prison bathroom on Saturday injuring his head and chest. The hospital is located in a Cairo suburb of Maadi. Mubarak’s family and lawyer appealed to authorities to keep him in the hospital, citing prison poor facilities.

While he was in power, Mubarak’s health was treated almost as a state secret.

Since his ouster, Mubarak’s supporters have released details of his failing health in what critics say is an attempt to gain sympathy from the public and appeal for leniency from the courts.

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TIPP CITY, Nice 2 bedroom, 1 bath, AC, appliances included, W/D hookup, garbage disposal, dishwasher. $490 month, $450 deposit. No pets, Metro accepted, (937)902-9894.

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!

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TROY, 1633 Brook Park, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, appliances. $695.

(937)335-0261.

320 Houses for Rent

EXECUTIVE HOME, 3 bedroom. Custom built ranch with basement, pool & clubhouse, upscale with all amenities, 1341 Paul Revere, Troy, $1700 monthly, (937)335-6690, www.hawkapartments.net

PIQUA, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1 car garage, 421 Summit Street, $550 monthly, $250 deposit, (937)214-0431.

PIQUA, 8394 Piqua-Lockington Road, 2 bedroom, fenced in yard, detached garage, $600 + deposit, (937)206-7754 PIQUA, 910 New Haven.

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

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

TROY, 2514 Inverness, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, $785 + deposit.

(937)440-9325

TROY, 1142 Lee Road, 3 bedrooms, garage. $750 month + deposit.

Available 1/1, (937)552-9644.

WEST MILTON, w/d hookup, no smoking, no pets, 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, ranch, $825.

(937)608-6219.

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RETAIL/ OFFICE Space available, Corner West Market/ Lincoln, ample parking, great location, call Dottie (937)335-5440

350 Wanted to Rent

WANTED farmground to rent/lease. Paying up to $250/acre.

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510 Appliances

240 Healthcare

WASHER/DRYER, na, light use, (937)773-4016

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Part-time Customer Service position available at the Troy Daily News/Piqua Daily Call Customer Call Center.

Hours are for Weekends only from 8am-Noon on Saturday and Sunday on a rotating schedule.

Looking for a multi-task oriented person for our busy Call Center.

Interested candidates may fill out an application at the Troy Daily News Office at 224 S. Market St., Troy, OH from 8-5pm Monday through Friday.

This is an ideal position for retirees.

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MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN Wilson Memorial Hospital is seeking a qualified candidate to fill a full-time position on 2nd shift to perform routine or complex laboratory procedures. ASCP certification required.

ASCP certification required.

REGISTERED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST This is a full-time position on night shift (7pm – 7am). Qualified candidates will have successfully completed a program in an AMA approved educational program for Respiratory Therapy Technicians and be certified or registered by the NBRC or be eligible. Must be licensed by the State of Ohio and have two years recent and relevant experience. Current BLS/ and ACLS certification required.

Apply on-line at www.wilsonhospital.com

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COMPUTER SET, Windows XP, loaded, CDROM, DSL Internet, USB. 90 day warranty on parts, $100. Ask about laptops.

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

FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, $120 you pick up. ( 9 3 7 ) 8 4 4 - 3 7 5 6 (937)844-3879

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HARDWOOD, Seasoned hardwood for sale. $125 a cord.

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SEASONED FIREWOOD $150 per cord. Stacking extra, $120 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available, (937)753-1047

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BEDROOM SETS (2), foosball table, love seat, 1 wool rug 8x10, and more call for price and details (937)332-9176 SOFA & LOVESEAT, like new. Call in mornings or email, $650, amvirgint@gmail.com (937)308-8687.

577 Miscellaneous

AIR COMPRESSOR, Craftsman, 5 HP, 25 gal. tank, very good condition, $195 (937)773-4016

ARC WELDER, Sears 230 amp electric, new helmet, works good, $125 (937)552-7752

BERNINA sewing machine, good condition, make offer (937)251-9643

BICYCLE, New Womens Mongoose 24inch, 18 speed, make good Christmas present, Paid $135 and $23 for new seat, $75 firm, (937)606-2345

DOLLS, Cabbage Patch, Real Babies, Bratz, Barbies, My Size Barbie, doll furniture, Boyd and Care Bears, TY Buddies, animated Santa Claus and phones, movies, more, (937)339-4233

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT Ab circle, $150 (NEW!) and A-frame, $40.

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RIFLE, Winchester Model 94 SE, large loop lever, 30-30, 1987, never been fired, original box, saddle model. Barrels only 16". $600. (937)698-6362

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GOOD STUFF Cheap for Christmas, Lead Crystal Compote, plus and others; oil painting 32x27; new and used- mens Burberry coat, London Fog jacket, all weather, silk and cashmere scarves; womens cardigan and pullover pure wool sweaters, Lambskin short coat; Beautiful China 10 place settings plus; William Rogers silverware 12 place settings plus, Swiss blue Topaz AAA necklace 8.5 ct, earrings 2.5 ct. each, all items fraction of retail, details, pricing, appointment, cell (937)497-1929 evening or later

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LEATHER JACKET, Cleveland Browns, size XXL, $250. Serious inquiries only, (937)339-4608.

SOFA BED, Serta, print, like new, Washer & Dryer, Homedic heated massager, used $75, (937)308-4986

Floral $350, $75, back twice,

STOVE TOP Frigidaire ceramic stove top, white $200. (937)698-6362

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WHEELCHAIR, Manual, supports up to 600 lbs. $350. (937)698-6362

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583 Pets and Supplies

CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES born November 7th. 1 male, 3 females. $100 each. (937)489-1866

LAB PUPPIES, 5 purebred black, vet checked, health papers, first shots, wormed, ready to go (937)670-0851 PUPPIES, Bishon Frise, Miniature Poodle, YorkiePoo, Morkie, males $275, (419)925-4339

WEIMARANER PUPPY AKC, 8 weeks old, vet checked, tails, nails and have been wormed. First shots, ready for good homes. (1) Blue, (2) Silvers, (3) females, Parents on premises. $600.

(937)658-0045

YORKIE-POO PUPPIES. 1 female, 3 males. Small, non-shedding pups. Will be ready January 10th.

Taking deposits now. $250, (419)582-4211.

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WE PAY cash for your old toys, antiques, and collectibles! Star Wars, GI Joes, Magic the Gathering postcards, pre-1980's comics, much more, (937)606-0405.

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1989 FORD VAN club wagon, good condition, new parts, runs good, $1600 OBO (937)552-7752 1993 HONDA Accord, 2 door beige sporty coupe, runs and shifts smoothly, automatic, $1500 (937)552-9986

1994 JEEP Wrangler, 4x4, nice, clean, mostly redone, low miles, great on gas, 4 cycle, 5 speed manual, $4500 OBO cash only, no trades (937)776-9789 (Piqua)

1996 HONDA ACCORD LX Manual transmission, 156,000 miles. $2950.

Call (937)214-2373

1998 DODGE DAKOTA, well maintained, low mileage per year, $3750 OBO (937)773-4016

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2001 FORD Mustang, blue, 157,000 miles. V6, auto, well-loved and wellmaintained! Pony Package, power everything, TCS, cruise control. $3500. (937)903-4010

895 Vans/Minivans 2002 DODGE Grand Caravan Sport, 186k Miles, $2850, (937)214-5798

925 Public Notices Notice is hereby given that a copy of the unauBethel Local dited School Districtʼs “General Purpose Financial Statement” for fiscal year ended June 30, 2012 is available for viewing in the Treasurerʼs office at 7490 S. St. Rt. 201, Tipp City, OH between 8:00a.m. and 4:00p.m. MondayFriday.

Karen S. Newman Treasurer

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SPECIAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that public hearing, as required by the Charter of the Municipality of Tipp City, Ohio, will be held in the Council Room in the Government Center, 260 S. Garber Drive, Tipp City, Ohio, at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, January 7, 2013 on the following proposed ordinances, the first reading of which was given on December 17, 2012.

Ordinance No. ___-13 Sponsored by: President Kessler An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of notes in the maximum principal amount of $550,000, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of paying the cost of improving Main Street between certain termini by removing existing sidewalks, curbing, and pavement, constructing concrete and brick sidewalks, tree pits, new curbing and pavement, and installing frames and grates, street lighting, signage and landscaping, together with all necessary appurtenances thereto.

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SPECIAL NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the Charter of the Municipality of Tipp City, Ohio, that the following legislation was adopted by the City Council of the Municipality of Tipp City, Ohio on December 17, 2012. The full texts of the following legislation is on file in the Government Center, 260 South Garber Drive, Tipp City, Ohio.

Ordinance 34-12 By: Mr. Budding An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of notes in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of paying the cost of various public infrastructure projects.

Ordinance 35-12 By: Mayor Gillis An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of notes in the maximum principal amount of $1,500,000, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of paying the costs of improving the Cityʼs municipal sewer system by improving the Main Street Sanitary Sewer Lift Station and constructing a new gravity feed sanitary sewer line, together with all necessary appurtenances thereto.

Ordinance 36-12 By: Mr. McDermott An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of notes in the maximum principal amount of $290,000, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of paying the costs of improving Walnut Street between certain termini by installing a water line, together with all necessary appurtenances thereto.

Ordinance 37-12 By: President Kessler An ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of notes in the maximum principal amount of $500,000, in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of paying the costs of improving the Cityʼs municipal waterworks system by rehabilitating the Harmony Drive water tower, together with all necessary appurtenances thereto.

Resolution 68-12 By: Mr. Budding A resolution authorizing the City Manager to amend an agreement with Choice One Engineering Corporation to add design elements for the reconstruction of Main Street, including streetscape enhancements, as part of the Downtown Utilities Project for an additional $78,462.

Resolution 69-12 By: Mr. Hale A resolution declaring personal property owned by the City of Tipp City to be surplus property and no longer useful in the general operation of the City.

Resolution 70-12 By: President Kessler A resolution authorizing the City Manager to utilitze the equitable powers of the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio in order to abate uncorrected violations of Section §94.44.

Dated at Tipp City, Miami County, Ohio this 18th day of December, 2012.

Janice Bates Clerk of Council 12/20/2012

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TODAY’S TIPS

■ Girls Basketball

• COACHING SEARCH: Troy Christian Schools has two coaching positions available. It is looking for a head varsity softball coach and is accepting applications until Jan. 16, 2013 for the position, as well as a head varsity volleyball coach with an application deadline of Feb. 20, 2013.

Applications can be found on the Troy Christian Schools website at http://troychristianschools.org/fileadmin/content/athletics/documents/Employment_ Application.pdf. A resume and references should be attached with the applications. For more information, contact Athletic Director Mike Coots at mcoots@tcmail.org or (937) 339-5692.

• COACHING SEARCH: Newton High School is looking for a reserve and varsity volleyball coach for next year (2013). If interested, please contact Bob Huelsman or Larry Powell at Newton High School at (937) 6765132, or by e-mail at bob_heulsman@newton.k12.oh.us or larry_powell@newton.k12.oh.us.

• BASKETBALL: The Tippecanoe basketball team will be honoring the 1973 SWBL champions on Jan. 19.

The Red Devils face Versailles that night at 7:30 p.m. Any member of the team, cheerleaders or coaches need to contact Dale Pittenger at dlpittenger@tippcity.k12.oh.us for more information.

• VOLLEYBALL: The Troy Recreation Department is sponsoring a co-ed power volleyball league on Monday and Tuesday evenings beginning in January. Parties interested in registering a team can call Carrie Slater at the recreation department at 339-5145.

• BASEBALL: Extra Innings Troy is hosing a two-day Pro Player Camp from noon-5 p.m. Dec. 29-30. The staff for this camp will include Reds Hall of Famer Tom Browning, along with former Reds players Jeff Shaw and Jeff Branson. Other members of the instructional staff are local professional baseball players. For more information, contact Extra Innings at (937) 3393330 or at www.extrainnings-troy.com.

• SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@tdnpublishing.com or Colin Foster at cfoster@tdnpublishing.com.

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

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

Miami East at Newton (7 p.m.)

Ansonia at Bethel (7 p.m.)

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

Ridgemont at Troy Christian (7 p.m.)

Twin Valley South at Bradford (7 p.m.)

Wrestling Troy, Kenton Ridge, Indian Lake at Sidney (6 p.m.)

Tippecanoe tri (6 p.m.)

Covington/Brookville at Mechanicsburg (5 p.m.)

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

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

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

Covington at Miami East (8 p.m.)

Bethel at National Trail (8 p.m.)

Newton at Arcanum (8 p.m.)

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

Mississinawa Valley at Bradford (8 p.m.)

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

WHAT’S INSIDE National Football League .....14 College Football ...................14 Scoreboard ............................15 Television Schedule..............15 Local Sports..........................16

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■ Bowling

Season bests for Devils Staff Reports The Tippecanoe Red Devils bowling teams both turned in season highs Wednesday, with the boys defeating Greenville 2,712-2,239 to stay undefeated and the girls falling 2,004-1,754.

Ryan Rittenhouse led the Devils (7-0) with games of 238225 and a 463 series. Jack Bauder rolled 193-225—418, Logan Banks rolled 186-206— 392, Josh Bellas rolled 158-178— 336, Jordan Vollmer rolled a 175 game and Steven Calhoun rolled a 151.

TROY Jenny Korleski led the girls (0-7) with games of 148-133 for a 281 series, Sarah Rhoades rolled 122-138—260, Sarah Marshall rolled 144-110—254, Kaitlin Timmons rolled 109-123—232, Jazmine Fletcher rolled a 125 game and Catherine Timmons rolled an 87.

Tippecanoe is off until after the new year, when the Devils travel to Bellefontaine on Jan. 3, 2013.

■ Girls Basketball

STAFF PHOTOS/ANTHONY WEBER

Tippecanoe’s Halee Printz works her way into the paint against Indian Lake Wednesday night.

Tipp ends skid Devils snap 4-game losing streak, run past Lakers

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Four straight losses can be a burden.

Just ask Tippecanoe. In the process of falling behind 14-2 to Indian Lake after six minutes of play, it seemed like the Red Devils were playing while carrying boulders on their backs.

Freshman Carly Clodfelter came in, though, and gave the Devils exactly what they needed.

Clodfelter — who scored nine points in the game — gave TIPP CITY Tippecanoe a boost of energy on both ends of the floor, sparking a 22-point run that gave the Devils control and then another 13-point run after Indian Lake rallied to tie the game early in the second half as the Devils (3-5) cruised to a 5837 victory Wednesday night at Pat Wampler Gymnasium.

“Falling down 14-2 in the first, that’s what we’re looking for — anything that can be a spark,” Tippecanoe coach Aaron Jackson said. “We’ve got a lot of players on the team that can provide a

Indians win 2nd straight Staff Reports There was no slow start for the Piqua girls basketball team Wednesday night at Garbry Gymnasium.

After having to rally from a 196 deficit against Stebbins Monday, the Indians made it two in a row by leading from the start in a 51-22 win over Springfield.

PIQUA Christy Graves led Piqua with 19 points and five rebounds. Macy Yount scored 11 points.

Tippecanoe’s Chelsea Clawson passes the ball

■ See DEVILS on 16 on the fast break Wednesday.

Springfield — 22 Dinah May 1-0-2, Nina McKey 1-0-2, Megan Smith 0-0-0, Shonte Williams 4-312, Kanesha McDavid 1-0-2, Aneen Shelton 0-0-0, Le Ajaa Goodwin 0-0-0, Kiara Merriweather 0-1-1, Ida May 0-0-0, Ja Nai Mitchell 0-3-3, Zoe Alexander 0-0-0. Totals: 7-7-22.

Piqua — 51 Frannie Haney 1-0-3, Macy Yount 1-911, Katie Allen 2-0-4, Tasha Potts 2-4-8, Christy Graves 6-5-19, Morgen Grunkemeyer 1-0-2, Janise Hummel 0-0-0, Hannah Went 0-0-0, Heidi Strevell 0-2-2, Teija Davis 0-0-0, Danajhe Clemons 0-0-0, Chelsea Hill 0-1-1, Ale Painter 0-1-1.

Totals: 13-22-51.

Score By Quarters Springfield .............................5 12 20 22 Piqua ....................................17 28 45 51 3-point goals: Springfield — Williams.

Piqua — Haney, Graves 2.

Records: Springfield 1-6. Piqua 4-6.

Reserve score: Piqua 48, Springfield 11.

■ College Basketball

Crosstown friendly UC tops Xavier in tamer game

Dalton looks to snap out of slump Andy Dalton needs to play much better than he has in the past few weeks if the Bengals are going to pull off a franchise rarity.

Dalton was indecisive and repeatedly missed throws during a 34-13 win in Philadelphia that was set up by the Eagles’ fumbling. Despite their struggles on offense, the Bengals (8-6) moved into playoff position with the victory last Thursday. See Page 14.

CINCINNATI (AP) — No technical fouls. No flying elbows.

No rubbing it in. In a new setting, the city’s annual crosstown basketball game was back to being a good old rivalry.

And a rather amicable one at that.

Sean Kilpatrick scored 25 points and led a second-half surge that carried No. 11 Cincinnati to a 60-45 victory over Xavier on Wednesday night, renewing their rivalry one year after it was marred by a brawl.

Cincinnati (11-0) won its 18th straight game at a downtown arena that is the rivalry’s stage for the next two years, an attempt to take the nasty edge off the annual game. The first one met most expectations.

“I thought it was great,”

Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said. “If it’s the city’s game, we’ve got to play in downtown Cincinnati and let the fans come.

I’m also a firm believer that what happened last year, anybody that’s been around the game saw it coming for three years.

“It eliminates the hatred that gets spewed in the on-campus environment and keeps it positive for everybody.”

The game was moved downtown and given a new name the Crosstown Classic instead of the Crosstown Shootout after last year’s ugly finish.

Xavier was unbeaten and AP PHOTO ranked No. 8 when it beat the Bearcats 76-53 on the Cincinnati guard Cashmere Wright (1) drives against Xavier guard Dee Davis (11) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game ■ See CROSSTOWN on 16 on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Cincinnati.

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Penn State scandal voted Sports Story of Year NEW YORK (AP) — The Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by U.S. editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press.

The news broke in November 2011, with a grand jury report outlining charges against Jerry Sandusky, and the outrage that followed led to the firing of Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno. But the aftershocks were felt long into 2012: Sandusky was convicted in June of assaulting 10 boys, and the NCAA handed down brutal sanctions in July.

In both years, the scandal was picked as the top sports story, the first time since the AP began conducting its annual vote in 1990 that the same story was selected twice in a row. The results of this year’s tally

The Penn State saga were announced Wednesday.

Even before the received 1,420 points and Sandusky trial, the State 109 first-place votes. The No. College community had 2 sports story, Lance absorbed another huge blow Armstrong stripped of his as Paterno died Jan. 22 at seven Tour de France titles, had 10 first-place age 85 of lung votes and 1,008 cancer. points.

The year Football’s popuended with a larity, college and small step to norpro, was unmismalcy joy on the takable with seven football field. of the top 10 stoUnder new coach ries. But only two Bill O’Brien, the of them involved Lions Nittany the action on the won eight of their field. last 10 games to SANDUSKY Here are 2012’s finish 8-4, capped by an overtime victory at top five stories: 1. PENN home over Wisconsin.

STATE There were 157 ballots Sandusky, the former submitted from U.S. news organizations. The voters defensive coordinator whose were asked to rank the top crimes led to such devasta10 sports stories of the year, tion for his victims and for with the first-place story his former employer, was getting 10 points, the sec- found guilty on 45 of 48 ond-place story receiving counts. In October, the 68year-old was sentenced to 30 nine points, and so on.

to 60 years in prison. His conviction provided some closure, but a messy aftermath remained. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh released the results of his investigation July 12, saying Paterno and other top school officials covered up allegations against Sandusky. The NCAA used that report as a basis for its sanctions announced later that month, which included a $60 million fine, a four-year bowl ban and scholarship reductions.

2. LANCE ARMSTRONG In February, federal prosecutors closed an investigation into whether the star cyclist doped. That turned out to be only a temporary reprieve for a once-revered figure. In June, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency accused him of using performanceenhancing drugs, and in August, when he dropped

his fight against the charges, USADA ordered his record seven Tour titles wiped out. A report released in October laid out vivid details of the evidence. The year ends with Armstrong dropped by many of the companies he endorsed and no longer formally involved with the cancer charity he founded, Livestrong.

3. NFL BOUNTIES This much is clear: Saints coach Sean Payton was suspended for the entire season and New Orleans started 0-4 to quickly fall out of playoff contention.

Much else about the bounty scandal remains in dispute.

Players deny the NFL’s assertions of a pay-for-injury program. On Dec. 11, former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue overturned his successor’s suspensions of four players but endorsed the findings of the investigation under Roger Goodell.

4. FOOTBALL CONCUSSIONS The deaths of NFL greats Alex Karras who suffered from dementia and Junior Seau who committed suicide were grim reminders of the angst over head injuries in the sport and their possible consequences. Thousands of retired players have sued the league, alleging the NFL failed to protect them from the dangers of concussions.

5. LONDON OLYMPICS Michael Phelps retired from swimming after setting an Olympic record with his 22nd medal at a Summer Games bursting with memorable performances. Usain Bolt became the first man to successfully defend both the 100- and 200-meter dash titles. And the host country racked up 65 medals in an Olympics so successful for Britain that it barely even rained.

■ National Football League

■ National Football League

Good time to end skid

Richardson: Saban not coming to NFL

Slumping Dalton hasn’t beaten Steelers in career CINCINNATI (AP) — Andy Dalton needs to play much better than he has in the past few weeks if the Bengals are going to pull off a franchise rarity.

Dalton was indecisive and repeatedly missed throws during a 34-13 win in Philadelphia that was set up by the Eagles’ fumbling.

Despite their struggles on offense, the Bengals (8-6) moved into playoff position with the victory last Thursday.

They can clinch a spot on Sunday by beating the Steelers (7-7) in Pittsburgh, something that’s been very tough for them to do. A lot of it will come down to whether Dalton pulls out of his recent slump.

“I’ve had chances and I haven’t hit them,” Dalton said on Wednesday. “I expect to play better myself, and I’m going to play better.”

The second-year quarterback is 0-6 against Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

During the three losses to Pittsburgh, he has completed only 40 of 82 passes and never thrown for more than 170 yards in a game. The Bengals have only 38 first downs in the three games.

Dalton has been on a downturn in the last three games wins at San Diego and Philadelphia, as well as a home loss to Dallas. His passer ratings of 65.2, 76.1 and 74.2 are his lowest for a three-game stretch this season. He has thrown for three touchdowns, been intercepted three times and gotten sacked 12 times.

Offensive coordinator Jay Gruden said some of the sacks have been the result of Dalton holding onto the ball too long. He was 13 of 27 for 127 yards with six sacks in the loss at Philadelphia, one of the worst showings of his career.

“We expect to see progress and not regression, and he kind of took a step back,” Gruden said. “That’s disappointing. But in fairness to him, it’s a road game, a Thursday night game against a pretty good defensive front and they have two good cornerbacks and they did a good job. They played hard and spirited and took it to us.

“But we had some plays that should have been made

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Cincinnati Bengals’ Andy Dalton, right, is sacked by Philadelphia Eagles’ Brandon Graham, left, and Fletcher Cox in the second half on Thursday in Philadelphia. that weren’t.”

Dalton’s passer rating has been lower only one other time this season. He was 14 of 28 for 105 yards with a game-turning interception and a 56.4 passer rating during a 24-17 loss to Pittsburgh at Paul Brown Stadium on Oct. 21. Dalton managed only one completion to A.J. Green as the Steelers took away quick throws to the Pro Bowl receiver.

Dalton and Green never got comfortable against Pittsburgh’s defense.

“There were a couple of opportunities,” Green said on Wednesday. “But their scheme is so good it’s hard to guess what they’re doing.”

The rematch is a decisive game for both teams.

A loss would eliminate the Steelers. The Bengals would clinch at least a wild card berth with a victory and make a little franchise history. Only once during

their 44 previous seasons have they gone to the playoffs in back-to-back years.

They were a wild card last season as well, losing to Houston in the opening round.

Only twice in franchise history have the Bengals followed a playoff appearance with a winning record the next season. A victory in Pittsburgh would mark the third time it’s happened.

Cincinnati finishes the season at home against Baltimore (9-5), which leads the AFC North and has already clinched a playoff spot.

If the Bengals lose to the Steelers, they would have the same record but Pittsburgh would have the head-to-head tiebreaker by sweeping the season series.

Essentially, the season comes down to this game.

“There’s really not much else to say except we’ve got to come play our best,”

Dalton said. “And we’ve got to do whatever it takes to win the game.”

NOTES: Some players wore hats with Chris Henry’s No. 15 and had photos of the former Bengals receiver in their lockers on Wednesday. Henry died in December 2009 after falling out of a pickup truck driven by his fiance. His former teammates do something every December in his memory. … Josh Brown will likely do the kicking for the third straight game. K Mike Nugent said Wednesday he’s still bothered by a strained right calf that has prevented him from kicking a ball hard. “You don’t want to have something react and kind of go through the whole process for another however many days,” Nugent said.

“One of those things just being very patient with it.”

Brown has made all of his six field goal attempts, including a 52-yarder.

BEREA (AP) — Trent Richardson would be surprised if Nick Saban followed him from Alabama to the Cleveland Browns.

Saban, who will lead the Crimson Tide against Notre Dame in the BCS national championship game in Miami on Jan. 7, has been mentioned as returning to the NFL, perhaps with the Browns if second-year coach Pat Shurmur is fired at season’s end.

“I can’t see him coming to the NFL,” Richardson said Wednesday. “I would be very shocked.”

And Richardson knows the coach quite well. After all, he was a standout running back for Saban at Alabama before being selected in the first round by Cleveland in April. Richardson ran for 1,679 yards last season SABAN for the Crimson Tide.

“How can you get tired of winning,” Richardson asked. “He’s got so much going there. He has no reason to leave. He gets what he needs and he treats his program like the NFL (anyway). He makes sure his players are prepared for the game and prepared for the next level when the time comes.”

Any exit to the NFL wouldn’t be foreign to Saban, who led Alabama to national titles in 2009 and 2011. He left his post at LSU, in fact, to become coach of the Miami Dolphins in 2005. After going 15-17 in two seasons there, he went back to the SEC, this time in Tuscaloosa, Ala. “I can see him staying at Alabama,” Richardson said, “and retiring at Alabama.”

Saban, who played and coached at Kent State, has Cleveland roots, as well. He was the Browns defensive coordinator from 1991-94, which has helped to spark the speculation.

“I don’t believe it,” Richardson said. “Rumors are rumors. I don’t buy into it and that’s one thing he taught me to do not buy into rumors.”

Richardson is more concerned with playing the

playoff-bound Denver Broncos (11-3) on Sunday.

The No. 3 overall pick is 46 yards shy of surpassing Hall of Fame standout Jim Brown’s 55-year-old team rookie rushing record of 942 yards for the Browns (5-9).

“I’m ready for a big day,” Richardson said. “Anytime Jim Brown’s name is mentioned, it is big for me.

Huge.”

Richardson, who missed all of training camp after having minor surgery on his left knee in July, has already set a new franchise rookie mark with 11 rushing touchdowns. Overall, he has 258 carries for 897 yards.

“I’m good to go,” he said. “No issues with the knee.

None.

With the ribs, I am not going to stop playing ball.

I am going to keep on going no matter what.”

All that said, he did reveal for the first time that he occasionally had trouble breathing in his first few games with the injury. He has adjusted his mindset to ignore the pain.

He doesn’t anticipate difficulty in Denver’s mile-high thin air.

“I’ve never played there, but I’ll be OK,” he said. “If I need oxygen, I’ll take it and go play.”

Shurmur has not considered resting Richardson, either.

“He’ll play,” he said.

“None of us are 100 percent right now. I think that’s fair to say at this time of year.

Guys are playing through things.”

NOTES: DB Dmitri Patterson, released by Cleveland on Monday, landed with Miami. Shurmur declined to say why Patterson was cut: “I’m not going to talk about the whys or what-fors there. I will say this though, I’m happy for him that he’s going to be able to finish out the year in Miami. That will be great for him.” … TE Jordan Cameron (head) and DL Frostee Rucker (groin) did not practice. …

WR Jordan Norwood practiced for the first time since sustaining a foot injury Oct. 7. He’s not on the active roster.

■ College Football

Notre Dame’s Kelly named AP Coach of Year SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — After two seasons as Notre Dame coach, Brian Kelly decided he wasn’t spending enough time doing the best part of his job: coaching players.

Kelly changed that in 2012, and he shuffled his staff. Then, with Kelly more in tune to his team and the assistants in sync with the head coach, Notre Dame went from unranked to topranked.

For leading the Fighting

Irish to the BCS championship for the first time, Kelly was voted Associated Press college football coach of the year.

“When you’re talking about the coach of the year, there’s so many things that go into it,” Kelly said. “I know it’s an individual award and it goes to one guy, but the feelings that I get from it is you’re building the right staff, that you’ve got the right players and to me that is a validation of the

program. That you put together the right business plan.”

Kelly received 25 votes from the AP college football poll panel. Penn State’s Bill O’Brien was second with 14 votes. Stanford’s David Shaw (four), Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin (three), Kansas State’s Bill Snyder (two) and Alabama’s Nick Saban (one) also received votes.

Kelly is the first Notre Dame coach to win the AP

award, which started in 1998.

Of course, the Irish haven’t played for a national championship since 1988 and spent much of the past two decades trying to find a coach who could restore a program that was becoming a relic of its proud past.

It turns out Kelly was the answer.

He arrived in 2010 after two decades spent climbing the coaching ladder and winning big everywhere he

worked. But in the world of college football, Notre Dame is a long way from Grand Valley State where Kelly won Division II national titles and Cincinnati, his previous stop, for that matter.

“I think the job tends to distract you,” Kelly said earlier this week. “There are a lot of things that pull you away from the primary reason why you want to be head coach of Notre Dame, and that is graduate your play-

ers and play for a national championship.

“Now, to do that you have to have the pulse of your football team and you’ve got to have relationships with your players. If you’re already going around the country doing other things other than working with your football team, it’s hard to have the pulse of your team.”

Kelly said he made a point of spending more time with the team this year.

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England10 3 0 .769 472 274 6 7 0 .462 245 306 N.Y. Jets 6 8 0 .429 264 279 Miami 5 9 0 .357 306 402 Buffalo South W L T Pct PF PA y-Houston 12 2 0 .857 394 280 Indianapolis 9 5 0 .643 309 358 Tennessee 4 9 0 .308 271 386 2 12 0 .143 219 383 Jacksonville North W L T Pct PF PA 9 5 0 .643 348 307 x-Baltimore Cincinnati 8 6 0 .571 355 293 Pittsburgh 7 7 0 .500 302 291 Cleveland 5 9 0 .357 280 310 West W L T Pct PF PA 11 3 0 .786 409 274 y-Denver 5 9 0 .357 299 312 San Diego 4 10 0 .286 263 402 Oakland Kansas City 2 12 0 .143 195 367 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA 8 6 0 .571 381 350 Washington 8 6 0 .571 327 338 Dallas 8 6 0 .571 373 304 N.Y. Giants Philadelphia 4 10 0 .286 253 375 South W L T Pct PF PA 12 2 0 .857 371 259 y-Atlanta New Orleans 6 8 0 .429 389 379 6 8 0 .429 354 349 Tampa Bay 5 9 0 .357 296 319 Carolina North W L T Pct PF PA y-Green Bay 10 4 0 .714 344 292 Minnesota 8 6 0 .571 319 308 8 6 0 .571 321 240 Chicago 4 10 0 .286 330 380 Detroit West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 9 3 1 .731 316 184 Seattle 9 5 0 .643 350 219 St. Louis 6 7 1 .464 258 315 5 9 0 .357 224 302 Arizona x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday's Game Cincinnati 34, Philadelphia 13 Sunday's Games Green Bay 21, Chicago 13 New Orleans 41, Tampa Bay 0 Minnesota 36, St. Louis 22 Houston 29, Indianapolis 17 Atlanta 34, N.Y. Giants 0 Washington 38, Cleveland 21 Miami 24, Jacksonville 3 Denver 34, Baltimore 17 Carolina 31, San Diego 7 Arizona 38, Detroit 10 Seattle 50, Buffalo 17 Oakland 15, Kansas City 0 Dallas 27, Pittsburgh 24, OT San Francisco 41, New England 34 Monday's Game Tennessee 14, N.Y. Jets 10 Saturday, Dec. 22 Atlanta at Detroit, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 23 Tennessee at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

New England at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

San Diego at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

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

San Francisco at Seattle, 8:20 p.m.

College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Arizona 49, Nevada 48 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah State 41, Toledo 15 Thursday, Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego San Diego State (9-3) vs. BYU (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 21 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Ball State (9-3) vs. UCF (9-4), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 22 New Orleans Bowl East Carolina (8-4) vs. LouisianaLafayette (7-4), Noon (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl Boise State (10-2) vs.Washington (7-5), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU (6-6) vs. Fresno State (9-3), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Central Michigan (6-6) vs. Western Kentucky (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Washington Bowling Green (8-4) vs. San Jose State (10-2), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Duke (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Baylor (7-5) vs. UCLA (9-4), 9:45 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Louisiana-Monroe (8-4) vs. Ohio (8-4), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Rutgers (9-3), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Minnesota (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth,Texas Rice (6-6) vs.Air Force (6-6), 11:45 a.m.

(ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Arizona State (7-5) vs. Navy (7-4), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN2) Pinstripe Bowl At NewYork Syracuse (7-5) vs. West Virginia (7-5), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio

Texas (8-4) vs. Orgeon State (9-3), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN) Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Michigan State (6-6) vs. TCU (7-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville,Tenn.

Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso,Texas Georgia Tech (6-7) vs. Southern Cal (75), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis,Tenn.

Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta LSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At DallasPurdue (6-6) vs. Oklahoma State (7-5), Noon (ESPNU) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Northwestern (9-3), Noon (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3), 1 p.m. (ABC) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. South Carolina (10-2) vs. Michigan (84), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (8-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl At Miami Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Florida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington,Texas Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 8 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Mississippi (6-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Kent State (11-2) vs. Arkansas State (93), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 19 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 26 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, TBA (NFLN) NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 24 Wagner 31, Colgate 20 Coastal Carolina 24, BethuneCookman 14 South Dakota State 58, Eastern Illinois 10 Stony Brook 20, Villanova 10 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 1 Wofford 23, New Hampshire 7 Georgia Southern 24, Cent. Arkansas 16 Old Dominion 63, Coastal Carolina 35 Illinois St. 38, Appalachian St. 37, OT North Dakota State 28, South Dakota State 3 Sam Houston State 18, Cal Poly 16 Eastern Washington 29, Wagner 19 Montana State 16, Stony Brook 10 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 7 Sam Houston State 34, Montana State 16 Saturday, Dec. 8 Georgia Southern 49, Old Dominion 35 North Dakota State 14, Wofford 7 Eastern Washington 51, Illinois State 35 Semifinals Friday, Dec. 14 North Dakota State 23, Georgia Southern 20 Saturday, Dec. 15 Sam Houston State 45, Eastern Washington 42 Championship Saturday, Jan. 5 At FC Dallas Stadium Frisco,Texas North Dakota State (13-1) vs. Sam Houston State (11-3), 1 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 19 6 .760 Brooklyn 13 12 .520 Boston 13 12 .520 Philadelphia 12 14 .462 Toronto 8 19 .296 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 16 6 .727 Atlanta 15 8 .652 Orlando 12 13 .480 Charlotte 7 18 .280 Washington 3 20 .130 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 14 10 .583 Milwaukee 13 10 .565 Indiana 14 12 .538 Detroit 7 21 .250 Cleveland 5 22 .185 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 16 6 .727 San Antonio 19 8 .704 Houston 13 12 .520 Dallas 12 13 .480 New Orleans 5 19 .208 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 21 4 .840 Denver 14 12 .538 Minnesota 12 11 .522 Utah 14 13 .519 Portland 11 12 .478

GB — 6 6 7½ 12 GB — 1½ 5½ 10½ 13½ GB — ½ 1 9 10½ GB ½ — 5 6 12½ GB — 7½ 8 8 9

Scores AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. ESPN — Poinsettia Bowl, BYU at San Diego St. NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. TNT — Oklahoma City at Minnesota 9:30 p.m. TNT — Miami at Dallas Pacific Division W L Pct GB 18 6 .750 — L.A. Clippers 17 8 .680 1½ Golden State L.A. Lakers 12 14 .462 7 11 15 .423 8 Phoenix Sacramento 7 17 .292 11 Tuesday's Games Toronto 113, Cleveland 99 Atlanta 100, Washington 95, OT Utah 92, Brooklyn 90 Miami 103, Minnesota 92 Chicago 100, Boston 89 Milwaukee 98, Indiana 93 Dallas 107, Philadelphia 100 Denver 112, San Antonio 106 Golden State 103, New Orleans 96 L.A. Lakers 101, Charlotte 100 Wednesday's Games New York 100, Brooklyn 86 Toronto 97, Detroit 91 Indiana 104, Utah 84 Orlando 90, Washington 83 Boston 103, Cleveland 91 Oklahoma City 100, Atlanta 92 Houston 125, Philadelphia 103 Phoenix 121, Charlotte 104 Milwaukee at Memphis, 9:30 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday's Games Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Miami at Dallas, 9:30 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 10 p.m.

Friday's Games Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

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

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

The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 16, 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 Prv .................................Record 1. Duke (62)................9-0 1,622 2 2. Michigan (3)..........11-0 1,543 3 3. Syracuse.................9-0 1,465 4 4. Arizona....................8-0 1,371 8 5. Louisville .................9-1 1,362 6 6. Indiana ....................9-1 1,321 1 7. Ohio St....................8-1 1,249 7 8. Florida .....................7-1 1,163 5 9. Kansas....................8-1 1,110 9 10. Illinois ..................12-0 1,044 10 967 11 11. Cincinnati............10-0 886 12 12. Missouri ................8-1 730 13 13. Minnesota...........11-1 14. Gonzaga.............10-1 710 14 579 15 15. Georgetown..........9-1 548 17 16. New Mexico........11-0 17. Creighton............10-1 530 16 18. San Diego St........8-1 493 18 361 — 19. Butler.....................8-2 343 19 20. Michigan St...........9-2 21. UNLV.....................8-1 315 20 291 22 22. Notre Dame..........9-1 256 21 23. North Carolina......8-2 244 24 24. Oklahoma St. .......8-1 25. NC State...............7-2 198 25 Others receiving votes: Oregon 176, Pittsburgh 158, Kentucky 41, Wyoming 14, Marquette 8, VCU 7, Wichita St. 6, Murray St. 4, UConn 4, Miami 3, Maryland 2, Bucknell 1.

USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 16, 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 Pvs 1. Duke (30)................9-0 774 2 2. Michigan (1)..........11-0 743 3 3. Syracuse...............11-0 695 4 4. Louisville .................9-1 640 6 5. Arizona....................8-0 632 8 6. Indiana ....................9-1 627 1 7. Ohio State...............8-1 595 7 8. Kansas....................8-1 552 9 9. Florida .....................7-1 532 5 10. Illinois ..................12-0 482 10 11. Cincinnati............10-0 460 12 12. Missouri ................8-1 451 11 13. Creighton............10-1 351 13 14. Gonzaga.............10-1 339 14 15. San Diego State...8-1 296 15 16. Minnesota...........11-1 273 16 17. New Mexico........11-0 219 20 18. UNLV.....................8-1 216 17 19. North Carolina......8-2 187 18 19. Michigan State......9-2 187 19 21. Georgetown..........9-1 180 21 22. Notre Dame..........9-1 125 24 23. Kentucky ...............7-3 98 22 24. Oklahoma State ...8-1 94 23 25. Butler.....................8-2 89 — Others receiving votes: N.C. State 84, Pittsburgh 74, Oregon 45, VCU 11, Wyoming 8, UConn 6, Wichita State 5, Murray State 3, Oklahoma 2.

Wednesday's College Basketball Scores EAST Bloomfield 89, Caldwell 81 Bucknell 71, Marist 65 Canisius 72, Temple 62 Chestnut Hill 76, Goldey Beacom 62 Coppin St. 64, Towson 61 Duquesne 71, W. Michigan 66 Milligan 101, King's (NY) 79 New Haven 77, Concordia (N.Y.) 60 Pittsburgh 71, Delaware St. 43 Post (Conn.) 94, Felician 70 Seton Hall 79, Longwood 61 St. Bonaventure 97, The Citadel 57 St. Peter's 80, LIU Brooklyn 67 UMass 85, Ohio 76 West Virginia 76, Oakland 71 MIDWEST Bradley 77, MVSU 42 Cincinnati 60, Xavier 45

Cleveland St.77, Notre Dame (Ohio) 66 Concordia (St.P.) 76, Waldorf 70 Creighton 71, Tulsa 54 DePauw 76, Kalamazoo 46 Drake 72, NC Central 69 Green Bay 49, Marquette 47 Hillsdale 84, Michigan-Dearborn 50 Illinois St. 74, Dayton 73 Indiana 93, Mount St. Mary's 54 Iowa 90, SC State 46 Iowa St. 76, UMKC 61 Lake Erie 58, Northwood (Mich.) 56 Lake Superior St. 64, Ashland 56 Notre Dame 85, Kennesaw St. 57 Ripon 70, Monmouth (Ill.) 55 SE Missouri 94, New Orleans 71 SIU-Edwardsville 81, Robert MorrisChicago 49 Saint Louis 72, E. Illinois 45 South Dakota 85, Morehead St. 75 St. Norbert 69, Carroll (Wis.) 55 Viterbo 71, Lakeland 64 Wayne (Mich.) 70, Malone 59 Wright St. 67, Miami (Ohio) 59 SOUTH Belmont 76, S. Dakota St. 49 Charlotte 68, Radford 52 Christian Brothers 74, LeMoyne-Owen 52 Coastal Carolina 69, Clemson 46 Concordia (Wis.) 80, Mount St. Vincent 64 Detroit 74, Alcorn St. 58 Duke 88, Cornell 47 E. Mennonite 79, Mary Washington 71 Florida 82, SE Louisiana 43 Limestone 75, Catawba 67 Louisville 79, FIU 55 Marshall 64, Savannah St. 48 Mount Olive 83, Wingate 78 NC A&T 78, E. Kentucky 67 Nova Southeastern 70, Blue Mountain 64 Pepperdine 66, Alabama St. 58 Randolph-Macon 77, Salisbury 55 Roanoke 70, Marymount 65 Samford 75, UT-Martin 62 South Carolina 74, Appalachian St. 69 Tulane 76, Texas-Pan American 49 UNC Wilmington 87, UNC Greensboro 73 Virginia 75, Morgan St. 57 Young Harris 84, Anderson (SC) 70 SOUTHWEST Alabama 66, Texas Tech 62 Murray St. 61, Arkansas St. 54 Oklahoma St. 69, Texas-Arlington 44 Rice 63, Chicago St. 60, OT Sam Houston St. 89, Huston-Tillotson 53 UTEP 91, Oregon 84, 3OT FAR WEST Colorado St. 78, CS Bakersfield 58 Gonzaga 74, Campbell 52 Montana 62, N. Arizona 56 New Mexico 68, New Mexico St. 63 Utah Valley 67, Troy 64, OT TOURNAMENT Don Lane Classic Second Round Transylvania 86, Franklin & Marshall 73 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 Dec. 16, 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 Prv .................................Record 978 1 1. Stanford (22)...........9-0 2. UConn (16).............8-0 967 2 3. Baylor (2) ................8-1 931 3 884 4 4. Duke........................8-0 821 5 5. Notre Dame............6-1 6. Georgia.................11-0 789 6 773 7 7. Kentucky .................8-1 663 10 8. California.................7-1 9. Maryland.................7-2 641 9 10.Tennessee.............7-1 602 13 595 11 11. Penn St. ................9-2 539 14 12. UCLA ....................7-1 13. Purdue ................10-1 495 15 14. Louisville ...............9-2 491 8 440 16 15. Oklahoma St. .......7-0 16. Dayton.................10-0 395 17 17. North Carolina....10-1 317 19 18. Oklahoma .............8-2 285 12 19. Kansas..................9-1 215 22 20.Texas .....................7-2 197 18 21. South Carolina ...10-0 152 24 22.Texas A&M............6-3 139 23 23. Florida St. .............8-1 126 — 24. West Virginia.........7-2 101 25 25. Colorado ...............9-0 99 — Others receiving votes: Arkansas 94, Miami 58, Nebraska 52, Iowa St. 41, Ohio St. 37, Delaware 15, Vanderbilt 15, Michigan 10, Michigan St. 9, Chattanooga 7, Duquesne 7, Syracuse 6, Iowa 5, Villanova 5, Toledo 2, Gonzaga 1, Rutgers 1.

USA Today/ESPN Women's Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN Women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 17, 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 Pvs 1. Stanford (25)...........9-0 767 1 2. UConn (6)...............8-0 746 2 3. Baylor ......................8-1 716 3 4. Duke........................8-0 681 4 5. Notre Dame............6-1 645 5 6. Kentucky .................8-1 617 6 7. Georgia.................11-0 581 7 8. Maryland.................7-2 515 9 9. California.................8-1 497 11 10. Penn State............9-2 493 10 11.Tennessee.............7-1 467 12 12. Purdue ................10-1 410 14 13. Louisville ...............9-2 405 8 14. Oklahoma State ...8-0 384 15 15. Dayton.................10-0 334 16 16. UCLA ....................7-1 303 17 17. South Carolina ...10-0 271 18 18. Oklahoma .............8-2 234 13 19. Kansas..................9-1 184 21 20. West Virginia.........7-2 140 22 21. Nebraska ..............8-3 103 24 22.Texas A&M............6-3 100 25 23.Texas .....................6-2 96 20 24. Ohio State.............7-3 86 19

Thursday, December 20, 2012 81 — 25. North Carolina....10-1 Others receiving votes: Florida State 71, Syracuse 32, Iowa State 20, Miami 18, Arkansas 15, St. John's 14, Colorado 13, Gonzaga 12, Chattanooga 9, Middle Tennessee 4, Vanderbilt 4, Rutgers 3, South Florida 2, UTEP 1, Toledo 1.

Wednesday's Women's Basketball Scores EAST Bloomfield 64, Caldwell 55, OT Bowling Green 64, UMass 61 Bucknell 75, Towson 62 Goldey Beacom 66, Chestnut Hill 52 La Salle 70, CCSU 46 Manhattan 58, Ohio 49 Merchant Marine 64, NJ City 45 Seton Hall 82, New Orleans 35 Stony Brook 65, St. Francis (NY) 52 UConn 97, Oakland 25 Wilkes 71, Curry 63 MIDWEST Ashland 80, Lake Superior St. 41 Benedictine (Ill.) 57, Elmhurst 56 DePauw 63, Messiah 49 Hope 56, Olivet 44 Iowa 97, Missouri St. 43 Loras 71, Beloit 66 Marquette 73, Navy 65 Memphis 65, Saint Louis 58 Minot St. 77, Midland 64 Monmouth (Ill.) 56, Ripon 51 N. Illinois 48, E. Illinois 38 Northwood (Mich.) 53, Lake Erie 40 Princeton 67, Illinois St. 50 Spring Arbor 68, Alma 59 St. Norbert 64, Carroll (Wis.) 50 Urbana 81, Findlay 77, OT W. Kentucky 84, Wright St. 67 W. Michigan 70, Valparaiso 69 Walsh 44, Notre Dame (Ohio) 42 Wayne (Mich.) 83, Malone 58 Wis.-LaCrosse 57, Concordia (Wis.) 45 SOUTH Auburn 53, Chattanooga 40 Bethune-Cookman 59, Georgia Southern 48 Campbellsville 72, Puerto RicoMayaguez 44 Charleston Southern 69, W. Carolina 61 Florida A&M 69, St. Francis (Pa.) 65 Florida Gulf Coast 70, Richmond 62 Florida St. 94, Mercer 42 Gardner-Webb 62, Wofford 57 Georgian Court 66, Wilmington (Del.) 55 LSU 90, Grambling St. 59 Lincoln Memorial 63, Queens (NC) 58 Louisiana-Lafayette 65, Tulane 64, OT Marymount 54, Berry 37 Mount Olive 65, Brevard 30 Norfolk St. 60, Chowan 56 North Carolina 76, East Carolina 67 North Florida 69, Coastal Carolina 58 SC-Aiken 63, Anderson (SC) 59 Stanford 53, South Carolina 49 Stetson 74, UNC Asheville 47 UCF 55, South Alabama 54 UNC-Greensboro 49, NC Central 39 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 99, MVSU 42 Arkansas St. 66, Nicholls St. 58 Georgia 72, TCU 59 SMU 71, Stephen F. Austin 62 Texas Southern 64, UMKC 53 FAR WEST Cumberlands 56, Doane 50 Michigan St. 49, Oregon St. 35 Notre Dame 100, Alabama A&M 39 Old Dominion 85, UNLV 67 San Diego St. 90, Fresno Pacific 41 Texas A&M 83, Kansas St. 60 Utah Valley 65, Carroll (Mont.) 53 Wednesday's Scores Boys Basketball Chagrin Falls 60, Wickliffe 50 Cin. Hillcrest 52, Cin. Immaculate Conception 24 Cin. Summit Country Day 73, Cin. Woodward 36 Cornerstone Christian 67, Middlefield Cardinal 56 Goshen 70, Morrow Little Miami 59 Hebron Lakewood 51, JohnstownMonroe 42 Kenton 61, Mt. Blanchard Riverdale 49 Maple Hts. 63, Lorain 62 Sharon, Pa. 62, Ursuline Academy 53 St. Bernard 60, Cin. Riverview East 53 Wednesday's Scores Girls Basketball Akr. Manchester 66, Navarre Fairless 43 Avon 45, Bay Village Bay 37 Bellefontaine 59, Urbana 54 Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan 55, Spring. Shawnee 28 Berlin Hiland 100, Newcomerstown 21 Bowerston Conotton Valley 42, Malvern 35 Brecksville-Broadview Hts. 66, Berea 60 Cin. Anderson 39, Cin.Turpin 28 Cin. Glen Este 67, Loveland 32 Cin. Oak Hills 44, Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 34 Cin. Princeton 42, Cin. Colerain 39 Clarksville Clinton-Massie 66, London 10 Cle. Hts. 47, Bedford 33 Cle. St. Joseph 60, Mentor Lake Cath.

46 Cols. Watterson 47, Cols. Ready 29 Cols. Wellington 50, Ridgeway Ridgemont 25 Coshocton 55, Uhrichsville Claymont 50 Crooksville 48, New Concord John Glenn 41 Cuyahoga Falls CVCA 56, Zoarville Tuscarawas Valley 49 Day. Meadowdale 76, Cin.Taft 20 E. Cle. Shaw 36, Warren Harding 24 Eaton 64, Richmond, Ind. 60 Fairfield 60, Hamilton 46 Gates Mills Hawken 63, Cornerstone Christian 39 Geneva 58, Willoughby S. 41 Greenville 64, Clayton Northmont 60 Harrison 41, E. Central, Ind. 36 Independence 67, Cardington-Lincoln 30 Jackson 65, Gallipolis Gallia 27 Kent Roosevelt 58, Akr. Springfield 33 Kettering Fairmont 85, Xenia 29 Kings Mills Kings 43, Milford 37 Lakewood 55, Elyria Cath. 38 Mason 79, Middletown 36 Mayfield 57, Strongsville 39 McArthur Vinton County 72, Southeastern 34 McConnelsville Morgan 58, Zanesville W. Muskingum 44 Medina 45, Brunswick 35 Middleburg Hts. Midpark 51, Avon Lake 28 Mogadore Field 42, Streetsboro 35 New Carlisle Tecumseh 81, St. Paris Graham 33 New Philadelphia 39, Zanesville 27 Norton 64, Mantua Crestwood 40 Olmsted Falls 32, Amherst Steele 31 Painesville Riverside 50, Eastlake N. 40 Peninsula Woodridge 47, Rootstown 36 Pomeroy Meigs 69, Stewart Federal Hocking 43 Portsmouth 54, Chillicothe 42 Portsmouth Notre Dame 50, Piketon 39

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Ravenna 56, Akr. Coventry 38 Ravenna SE 68, Garrettsville Garfield 45 Richfield Revere 46, Copley 19 Riverside Stebbins 53, Spring. NW 33 Rocky River 50, N. Ridgeville 8 Rocky River Lutheran W. 53, Brooklyn 30 Solon 66, Mentor 48 Spring. Kenton Ridge 67, Spring.

Greenon 46 St. Bernard 51, Cin. Riverview East 19 Stow-Munroe Falls 48, Shaker Hts. 36 Thornville Sheridan 54, Philo 41 Tipp City Tippecanoe 58, Lewistown Indian Lake 37 Twinsburg 68, Hudson 48 Vandalia Butler 38, Huber Hts. Wayne 35 W. Chester Lakota W. 53, Cin. Sycamore 52 W. Lafayette Ridgewood 62, Tuscarawas Cent. Cath. 14 Wadsworth 55, Tallmadge 19 Warsaw River View 37, Zanesville Rosecrans 33 Washington C.H. 42, Greenfield McClain 40 Wickliffe 59, Garfield Hts.Trinity 55 Wilmington 50, Cin. Mt. Healthy 44 Windham 51, Mogadore 49 Zanesville Maysville 46, Dresden TriValley 33

TRANSACTIONS Wednesday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL C O M M I S S I O N E R ' S OFFICE_Suspended free agent minor league RHP Kyle Pelchy 50 games for refusing to take an off-season drug test.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES_Agreed to terms with 1B Travis Ishikawa, LHP Daniel Schlereth and LHP Zach Braddock on minor league contracts.

BOSTON RED SOX_Agreed to terms with RHP Ryan Dempster on a two-year contract.Designated RHP Pedro Beato for assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS_Designated OF Russ Canzler for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Joe Martinez and C Brian Jeroloman on minor league contracts.

DETROIT TIGERS_Released LHP Adam Wilk. Assigned LHP Matt Hoffman outright to Toledo (EL).

HOUSTON ASTROS_Named Meg Vaillancourt vice president of community relations and executive director of the Astros In Action Foundation. Traded LHP Rob Rasmussen to the L.A. Dodgers for RHP John Ely. NEW YORK YANKEES_Agreed to terms with OF Ichiro Suzuki on a two-year contract. Designated RHP Jim Miller for assignment.

SEATTLE MARINERS_Traded LHP Jason Vargas to the L.A. Angels for 1B/DH Kendrys Morales.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS_Agreed to terms with 2B Lance Zawadzki on a minor league contract. Claimed RHP Mickey Storey off waivers from Houston.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS_Named Steve Sax first base coach and Turner Ward assistant hitting coach.Named Greg Gross hitting coach of Reno (PCL); Andy Green manager and Jacob Cruz hitting coach of Mobile (SL); Bill Plummer manager and Gil Heredia pitching coach of Visalia (Cal); Jason Camilli hitting coach of South Bend (MWL); Robby Hammock manager, Doug Bochtler pitching coach and Wilson Valera hitting coach of Missoula (Pioneer); and Luis Urueta manager of the Arizona League Diamondbacks.

COLORADO ROCKIES_Agreed to terms with LHP Jeff Francis on a one-year contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS_Agreed to terms with RHP Alfredo Figaro on a minor league contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS_Released TE Steve Skelton from the practice squad.

BALTIMORE RAVENS_Released LB D.J. Bryant from the practice squad.

Signed RB Lonyae Miller to the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS_Signed WR Kevin Elliott and LB Brian Smith to the practice squad.

CAROLINA PANTHERS_Placed C Zack Williams on injured reserve. Signed G Hayworth Hicks from the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS_Signed G Reggie Stephens to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS_Signed TE George Bryan to the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS_Released DE Robert Rose from the practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS_Placed CB Jacob Lacey on injured reserve. Signed CB Rob Bartell. Signed DB Ross Weaver to the practice squad. Placed DT Nick Fairley on injured reserve. Signed DT Ogemdi Nwagbuo.

GREEN BAY PACKERS_Signed CB Otis Merrill to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS_Released G Robert Griffin from the practice squad.

Signed T Lee Ziemba to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS_Placed RB Daniel Thomas on injured reserve. Signed DB Julian Posey from the practice squad.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS_Placed CB Corey White on injured reserve. Signed WR Saalim Hakim from the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS_Placed WR Stephen Hill on injured reserve. Signed DB Donnie Fletcher from the practice squad.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES_Placed TE Clay Harbor on injured reserve.

P I T T S B U R G H STEELERS_Reinstated RB Rashard Mendenhall from the suspended list.

Placed G Willie Colon and CB DeMarcus Van Dyke on injured reserve. Signed DB Justin King.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS_Signed LB Kyle Knox and DE Monte Taylor to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS_Signed TE Drake Dunsmore and LB Joe Holland to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS_Released LB Kourtnei Brown from the practice squad.

COLLEGE OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN_Named Neil Hilton women's assistant soccer coach.

ST. CATHERINE_Promoted women's interim basketball coach Sean Pinkerton to head coach.

SETON HILL_Named Isaac Collins football coach.

STANFORD_Agreed to terms with football coach David Shaw on a long-term contract extension.

SYRACUSE_Announced media director Roger Springfield is no longer employed by the school.

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SPORTS

Thursday, December 20, 2012

■ College Basketball

■ Girls Basketball

Crosstown

Devils

■ CONTINUED FROM 13 Musketeers’ home court last season. With 9.4 seconds left, words were exchanged, the basketball was flung and fists started flying the darkest moment in the rivalry’s 80-game history.

For a while, the schools considered calling off the annual game. Instead, they moved it off-campus.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center also became a partner, emphasizing the game’s place in the community.

“Last year was something that’s not going to happen again,” Xavier guard Brad Redford said.

“Both of these teams have a lot of respect for each other. So I guess it’s good to get last year’s game off our backs. I’m glad they allowed us to play each other.”

The game drew 14,528 fans to the arena, which seats 16,264 for basketball. Having fans from both teams in the stands gave it a different feel.

“I loved it, personally,” said Cincinnati point guard Cashmere Wright, who had 15 points. “You’ve got the two sides. They scored, their crowd went crazy. We scored, our crowd went crazy. It kept going back and forth. For the first time that this happened, it was a great experience.”

The schools’ presidents, athletics directors and mascots met courtside before the game, shaking hands while photographers snapped away. They jointly presented a check for $50,000 to the Freedom Center.

Xavier and Cincinnati fans were seated on opposite sides of the arena. The schools’ dance teams performed together at halftime.

Both schools hoped for a clean, exciting game so they could finally get past last year’s ugliness.

They got it.

The Bearcats got the better of it in the second half behind Kilpatrick, who scored nine points in a 17-4 run that put them ahead to stay. Travis Taylor led Xavier (7-3) with 12 points.

Cincinnati had a lot in its favor. The Bearcats play at the downtown arena regularly. They also have a much deeper lineup, a lot more experience and a high-scoring offense driven by their three guards.

Xavier took away the Bearcats’ fast-break offense at the outset and turned it into a half-court game that was more the Musketeers’ style. And, for

most of the first half, they got the best of it.

Cincinnati opened in a 4-for-25 shooting slump, missing five shots in the paint on one possession.

Three-pointers by point guard Dee Davis and Redford gave the Musketeers a 16-11 lead.

Xavier wasted chances to stretch the lead by missing all of its six free throws in the half, but stayed ahead for the last 13 minutes and led 24-22 at the break.

Kilpatrick, Cincinnati’s leading scorer, was only 3 of 12 from the field in the first half. He led the way as the Bearcats took control to start the second half.

Kilpatrick had two steals and scored nine points during the 17-4 run that opened the second half and made it 39-28.

The Bearcats increased their defensive intensity, forcing four turnovers during their go-ahead run.

Xavier had only seven turnovers in the first half.

“When I saw lanes, I just started driving and whatever happened, happened,” said Kilpatrick, who was 10 of 27 from the field. “They were cutting off certain angles, so my spin move was working. I was just being aggressive.”

Illinois State 74, Dayton 73 DAYTON — Jackie Carmichael scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as Illinois State held off Dayton 74-73 Wednesday night.

The Redbirds (8-3) led 74-67 with 1:59 to go, but the Flyers scored six straight points, capped by Devin Oliver’s layup with 35 seconds left.

After Illinois State’s Johnny Hill missed a free throw with 29 seconds remaining, Dayton (8-3) set up for the final shot.

Oliver missed a 3-point attempt with 2 seconds left and teammate Khari Price rebounded, but his one-handed push shot would not fall at the buzzer.

Price was in for leading scorer Kevin Dillard, who left the game with 4:19 to go due to back spasms.

UMass 85, Ohio 76 AMHERST, Mass. — Jesse Morgan hit seven 3pointers en route to a career-high 35 points and Massachusetts won its third straight game, beating Ohio 85-76 Wednesday.

Morgan, who had a previous career-high of 19, made 12 of 18 from the field, including 7 of 10 from beyond the arc. His scoring total fell just shy of the UMass (6-3) record (41) set by Billy Tindall in 1968.

■ CONTINUED FROM 13 spark when we need one.

And Carly was definitely our spark tonight.”

After a 3 by Erica Comer ended the run, Tippecanoe turned the ball over, only to have Clodfelter steal the ball and go in for a layup.

Another Clodfelter steal led to a 3 by Halee Printz that made it a 14-10 game, then Clodfelter blocked a shot and raced the other way to finish off a fast break to cut the Lakers’ lead to two after one.

After a jumper by Chelsea Clawson tied the score to start the second quarter, Printz and Clodfelter converted backto-back three-point plays to put the Devils up by six. Clodfelter then stole the ball and hit Sarah Janosik for a layup, then Janosik swiped it again and hit another layup to make it 24-14 before a pair of Indian Lake free throws ended the run.

But Indian Lake (6-5) — which had won three straight coming into the game — rallied to tie the score at 27-27 early in the third quarter, but the Devils had another burst left in them. A Printz drive, a Comer 3 and a Clodfelter jumper in transition put Tippecanoe up by seven again, then Printz went to the ground to steal the ball and passed up to Clodfelter, who hit Clawson for another fast-break layup.

“That hustle play, that’s what we preach,” Jackson said. “And we’re starting to see it. We’re going to have to outhustle people.”

Printz finished with a team-high 15 points and 11 rebounds, Clawson added 14 points and five steals and Comer scored 11 points — eight in the second half.

By the time Indian Lake scored again, Tippecanoe led 40-29 — with 35 of those points coming on its two long runs.

And those streaks led to the end of the Devils’ four-game losing streak.

All four of those losses — to Ben Logan, Fairborn, Tecumseh and Bellefontaine — came on the road.

On the flip side, the Devils are now 3-1 at home, the only loss a 6562 defeat to Versailles.

“We got behind against Bellefontaine — it was almost identical to this game,” Jackson said. “We were down 19-4, cut it to six at the end of the first half and even took the lead for a while in the

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Tippecanoe’s Erica Comer looks to pass on the baseline Wednesday night against Indian Lake. third. But Bellefontaine has a good team, and their seniors have been on varsity all four years. They’ve got the experience.

“When you play teams like Fairborn, Tecumseh, Bellefontaine, and you’re battling with those teams but still lose, you tend to let it weigh on you a little more. Going into games against Springfield Shawnee and Troy, we needed to go in on an up note.”

The Devils are back on the road Saturday at Shawnee.

And they won’t be carrying around the weight of four straight losses anymore.

Indian Lake — 37 Ashley Franks 0-0-0, Jordan Keckler 0-1-1, Haley Bobers 1-14, Hannah Dye 0-0-0, Sydney Miller 1-2-5, Taylor Dixon 0-0-0, Lindsey Chismer 0-0-0, Leslie Reichert 1-0-2, Mikaela Oyer 64-16, Claie Maier 2-5-9, Allison Knief 0-0-0. Totals: 11-13-37.

Tippecanoe — 58 Kayla Vath 0-0-0, Cassie Gingerich 0-0-0, Erica Comer 41-11, Ali Muse 0-0-0, Carly Clodfelter 4-1-9, Sarah Janosik 2-0-4, Jessica Wise 0-1-1, Clawson 7-0-14, Chelsea McKensie Logan 1-0-2, Lindsey Murray 0-0-0, Cassidy Wasson 0-

Tippecanoe’s McKensie Logan controls the basketball Wednesday against Indian Lake.

0-0, Halee Printz 6-2-15, Aubrey Cox 1-0-2. Totals: 25-5-58.

Score By Quarters IL ......................14 24 33 37 Tipp ..................12 27 46 58

3-point goals: Indian Lake — Bobers, Miller. Tippecanoe — Comer 2, Printz.

Records: Indian Lake 6-5.

Tippecanoe 3-5.

■ College Basketball

Top-ranked Duke rides 23-point run to easy win DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Seth Curry scored 20 points, Mason Plumlee added 18 and No. 1 Duke reeled off 23 straight points in an 88-47 rout of Cornell on Wednesday night.

Freshman Rasheed Sulaimon had 16 points and Quinn Cook had a career-high 12 assists for the Blue Devils (10-0).

Playing as a top-ranked team for the 210th time under Mike Krzyzewski but the first since February 2011 they posted two key season highs, shooting 56.7 percent and forcing 26 turnovers, while holding the Big Red scoreless for an 8-minute stretch when the game got away from them.

Shonn Miller had 14 points to lead Cornell (4-7), which fell to 0-4 all-time against No. 1 teams.

No. 5 Louisville 79, Fla. International 55 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Peyton Siva had career highs of five 3-pointers and 12 assists for Louisville in the first meeting between Cardinals coach Rick Pitino and Richard Pitino, his son and FIU counterpart.

The younger Pitino, 30, served two stints as a

Louisville assistant before taking over for Isiah Thomas at FIU this season.

Siva finished with 15 points in posting his first double-double since the season opener and was selected game MVP. Wayne Blackshear tied his career best with 18 points for the Cardinals and Chane Behanan added 14 points and 11 rebounds for his first double-double this season.

The Cardinals (10-1) shot 49 percent and hit 12 3-pointers, tying a season high. They committed just 11 turnovers in winning the 11th annual Billy Minardi Classic, named for Pitino’s brother-in-law who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Tymell Murphy scored 12 points and 12 rebounds for FIU (3-5).

No. 6 Indiana 93, Mount St. Mary’s 54 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Cody Zeller finished with 16 points and six rebounds, and Christian Watford added 15 points and eight rebounds to lead Indiana.

The Hoosiers (10-1)

looked like a team ready to make amends four days after its first loss of the season.

Five players scored in double figures for Indiana, which had a huge rebounding edge over the Mountaineers (4-5). The Hoosiers shot 70.6 percent the fourth-best mark in school history.

Mount St. Mary’s was led by Rashad Whack with 17 points and Josh Castellanos and Sam Prescott added 10 each.

The Mountaineers trailed 30-26 with 5:38 left in the first half, but Indiana closed the half on a 9-0 run, opened the second half on an 18-2 run to make it 64-31 and never let the Mountaineers get closer than 31 points again.

No. 8 Florida 82, SE Louisiana 43 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mike Rosario scored a season-high 20 points to go along with six rebounds and four assists for Florida.

The Gators (8-1) bounced back from a loss at No. 4 Arizona four days earlier, winning their only home game over a 40-day span.

Rosario made 8 of 13 shots, including 4 of 8 from 3-point range, and enjoyed his best game since transferring to Florida from Rutgers after the 2009-10 season. It came on the heels of a 16-point night against the Wildcats.

The Lions (1-8) have lost five straight.

No. 17 Creighton 71, Tulsa 54 OMAHA, Neb. — Avery Dingman had 14 of his career-high 21 points in the second half, and Doug McDermott overcame a slow start to score 16 for Creighton.

Gregory Echenique added 15 points and eight rebounds for the Bluejays (11-1), who won their fifth straight.

James Woodard had 15 points and 10 rebounds to lead Tulsa (6-5), which shot 38 percent and committed a season-high 25 turnovers.

Dingman was good on his first seven shots and made a career-high five 3pointers, getting friendly bounces off the rim and backboard on his third and fourth tries. Dingman also had three steals to go with three rebounds.

McDermott, averaging 23.7 points and coming off games of 30 and 34 points, was just 4 of 9 from the field but made 7 of 8 free throws.

No. 22 Notre Dame 85, Kennesaw St. 57 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Jack Cooley scored 14 points and pulled down 13 rebounds to lead Notre Dame.

It was Cooley’s fifth double-double in the past seven games, and he is tied for second nationally in that statistic.

Notre Dame’s Jerian Grant also scored 14 points in a game that got away from the Owls early in the second half.

The Owls (1-9) closed out the final 4 minutes of the first half on a 9-4 run, capped off by Markeith Cummings’ 3-pointer as the first-half buzzer sounded, cutting the lead to 3428.

But Notre Dame (11-1) started the second half on a 17-5 run over the first 8:18, leading 53-33 after that span. The run included six points from Grant, four from Garrick Sherman, four from Cooley and a 3 by

freshman Cameron Biedschied.

Aaron Anderson led Kennesaw State scorers with 16 points and Cummings had 15.

No. 24 Okl. St. 69, Texas-Arlington 44 STILLWATER, Okla. — Markel Brown scored 17 points and Phil Forte added 13 to lead Oklahoma State.

Le’Bryan Nash and Marcus Smart both had 10 points and Philip Jurick pulled down 10 rebounds for the Cowboys (9-1).

Reserve Jamel Outler had 14 points and Kevin Butler added 11 for the Mavericks (5-3), who committed 31 turnovers.

Texas-Arlington committed 20 turnovers in the first half, four in the first 4 minutes, and Oklahoma State built a 13-3 advantage on the way to a 36-17 halftime lead.

The visitors did not hit the 20-point mark until Drew Charles’ short jumper with 14:20 remaining in the game.

Forte hit three 3-pointers in the final 6 minutes, the third putting the Cowboys up 26 points with just under 4 minutes left.