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Storm hits Plains Thousands without power

Check out this week’s iN75 Cooper’s Farm in Ludlow Falls is hosting a bridal expo in January. Also, there is still time to see the decorations at the Hayner Center, and nominate someone special to win a salon makeover. Read about it in this week’s iN75.

D.A.: Victim’s body hidden in a closet An ex-convict killed a friend, tried to cut his head off with an ax and hid the body in his bedroom closet for nearly a week while keeping relatives and acquaintances at bay, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Aston Barth was being held without bail after pleading not guilty to murdering next-door neighbor Jason Campbell, Newsday reported. Barth’s lawyer, Paul Barahal, declined to comment; Barth’s mother said he had a long history of mental illness.

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NYE is just a bit overrated With New Year’s Eve a week away, I hope you have your best sparkly outfit picked out and a bottle of champagne chilling.

Or you could settle for pajamas and ordering Chinese takeout the day of.

Either will do, because the night the ball drops and glitter rains down on New York City has got to be the most overly anticipated event we celebrate. You can either go all out or resign yourself to a laid back evening with your flat screen. Or in my case, a TV that juts out in the back. See Page 5.

INSIDE TODAY Advice ............................9 Calendar.........................3 Classified......................12 Comics .........................10 Deaths ............................6 Willard E. Phipps Lois White Christine D. Reich Dixie L. Smith Anna M. Newnam James F. Schrubb Horoscopes ..................10 Opinion ...........................5 Sports...........................15 TV...................................9

OUTLOOK Today Snow, rain High: 35° Low: 29°

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A winter storm packing freezing rain, sleet and snow slid across Oklahoma and into Arkansas on Christmas Day, setting off a 21-vehicle pileup that tied up two cross-country interstates and killing an Oklahoma woman who was riding in a car on a slippery highway.

Forecasters posted blizzard warnings for northSTAFF PHOTOS/ANTHONY WEBER eastern Arkansas, expectStore Manager Teresa Widener discusses HoneyBaked Ham warming instructions with Troy residents Cindy and ing up to 10 inches of snow Jack Arthur Friday at The Honeybaked Ham Co. and Cafe located at 771 West Market Street in Troy. and 40 mph wind gusts in a band from near Little Rock to the Missouri Bootheel. A blizzard warning for southwestern Oklahoma was dropped but was replaced by a wind-chill advisory that warned of readings of minus-11.

A multivehicle accident near downtown Oklahoma City slowed traffic on Interstates 35 and 40. A 28-year-old woman died in a crash on U.S. 412 near Fairview.

Power outages mounted

BY NATALIE KNOTH rapidly in Arkansas as Staff Writer freezing rain clung to trees nknoth@tdnpublishing.com and utility lines that snapped as winds gusted With Christmas right around the above 30 mph. At least corner, the timing couldn’t be any bet100,000 customers lost ter to open a HoneyBaked Ham locaelectricity. As a changeover tion in Troy earlier this week. from freezing rain to snow Rick Schulte opened the store — swept eastward, the his second — at 771 chances of further power W. Market St., where TROY disruptions increased.

Jersey Mike’s Subs The snow line reached stood previously.

Little Rock early Tuesday HoneyBaked Ham is distinguished evening, marking the first for its high-quality hams, said Kris measurable Christmas Stout, who oversees bookkeeping and Day snowfall in the capital billing at both stores. since 1926, according to “All of our hams are hand-glazed the National Weather — literally every one is specially Service in North Little done,” Stout said. “The glaze is specifRock. ic to HoneyBaked (Ham). Most of the Interstate 40 west of others are just shiny, but ours has a Little Rock became slick, crispy, sweet covering that we do inforcing numerous store.” motorists to try to find HoneyBaked ensures that hams shelter for the night. Jerry are sold a couple of days after prepaWall, a worker at Love’s ration, she added.

Travel Stop in Morrilton, “They sit on the shelf for only two ordinarily a 45-minute days, while others in stores might be drive from Little Rock, said a week or two weeks,” she said. “We the restaurant was packed anticipate what our sales will be, so if about 5 p.m. we have glazed ham, it would be on “All of our booths are the shelf no more than two days, past full. I can’t see an empty Sunday.” parking spot. They’re Brooklyn Rapp reloads a shelf of Honeybaked Hams Friday at the store in • See HONEYBAKED on Page 2 Troy.

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Firemen’s killer left chilling note WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — An excon killed two firefighters with the same caliber and make militarystyle rifle used in the Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighborhood and “do what I like doing best, killing people,” police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman’s missing sister, was found.

William Spengler, 62, who served 17 years in prison for manslaughter in the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother, set his house afire before dawn Christmas Eve before taking a revolver, a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle to a sniper position outside, Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.

The death toll rose to three as police revealed that a body believed to be the killer’s 67-year-old sister, Cheryl Spengler, was found in his fire-ravaged home.

Authorities say he sprayed bullets at the first responders, killing two firefighters and injuring two others who remained hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition, awake and alert and expected to survive.

He then killed himself as seven houses burned on a sliver of land along Lake Ontario.

Police recovered a military-style .223-caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppression, the same make and caliber weapon used in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26, including 20 young children, Pickering said.

The chief said it was believed the firefighters were hit with shots from the rifle given the distance but

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the investigation was incomplete.

“He was equipped to go to war, kill innocent people,” the chief said.

The two- to three-page typewritten rambling note left by Spengler did not reveal what set off the killer or provide a motive for the shootings, Pickering said. He called the attack a “clear ambush on first responders.”

He declined to reveal the note’s full content or say where it was found. He read only one chilling line: “I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people.”

Pickering said it was unclear whether the person believed to be Spengler’s sister died before or during the fire.

“It was a raging inferno in there,” Pickering said.

A next-door neighbor said Spengler hated his sister and they lived on opposite sides of the house.

Roger Vercruysse said Spengler loved his mother, Arline, who died in October after living with her son and daughter in the house in a neighborhood of seasonal and yearround homes across the road from a lakeshore popular with recreational boaters.

As Pickering described it and as emergency radio communications on the scene showed, the heavily armed Spengler took a position behind a small hill by the house as four firefighters arrived after 5:30 a.m. to extinguish the fire: two on a fire truck; two in their own vehicles.

They were immediately greeted by bullets from Spengler, who wore

dark clothing. Volunteer firefighter and police Lt. Michael Chiapperini, 43, driving the truck, was killed by gunfire as the windshield before him was shattered. Also killed was Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, who worked as a 911 dispatcher.

Several firefighters went beneath the truck to shield themselves as an off-duty police officer who was passing by pulled his vehicle alongside the truck to try to shield them, authorities said.

The first police officer who arrived chased and exchanged shots with Spengler, recounting it later over his police radio.

“I could see the muzzle blasts comin’ at me. … I fired four shots at him. I thought he went down,” the officer said.

At another point, he said: “I don’t know if I hit him or not. He’s by a tree. … He was movin’ eastbound on the berm when I was firing shots.”

Pickering portrayed him as a hero who saved many lives.

The audio posted on the website RadioReference.com also has someone reporting “firefighters are down” and saying “got to be rifle or shotgun high-powered … semi or fully auto.”

Spengler had been charged with murder in his grandmother’s death but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter, apparently to spare his family a trial. After he was freed from prison, Spengler a felon who wasn’t allowed to possess weapons had lived a quiet life on Lake Road on a narrow peninsula where Irondequoit Bay meets Lake Ontario.

Storm • CONTINUED FROM 1

parking on the sides, across the street,” Wall said. “It had been sleeting and it’s snowing now. It’s coming down pretty good.”

The business reserved nearby hotel rooms for its workers, Wall said.

In Oklahoma, the large pileup began about 3 a.m. Tuesday when a semitrailer jackknifed on I-40 on a bridge over the Oklahoma River, state Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said.

Other vehicles hit the semi and other semis slid into the vehicles, sandwiching them, she said.

In all, there were 10 separate crashes involving 21 vehicles and three tractor-trailers.

“Some of them, it took the entire top of the car off, like they slid under a semi,” Randolph said.

Amanda Sue Goodman died in a crash in Major County.

The OHP report said the two-lane road was snowy about 10 a.m.

The SUV Goodman was riding in collided with a tractor-trailer.

Another adult and a 4year-old child in the SUV were ejected from the vehicle and had head, arm and internal injuries.

The snow had largely stopped in Oklahoma by open a new store, Stout said.

• CONTINUED FROM 1 late afternoon, and high“The closest ones are only in way officials said early Trotwood, Springfield and Centerville,” But despite the name, HoneyBaked Tuesday evening that she said. “We just thought it was a Ham doesn’t sell only ham. Glazed roads in Oklahoma City turkey and chicken breasts, meat roasts great location, with the median income were clear, though and barbecue products are also sold, in and center location. People in this area motorists should still be had to drive very far north or very far addition to meat and cheese party wary of slick spots. But trays, side dishes, salads, soups, sauces, south, or go to Springfield,” she the Oklahoma explained. desserts and more. Signature and Department of She added, “We’ve had a really good made-to-order sandwiches are available Transportation advised turnout, with what little advertising during lunchtime, she added. people to stay off the HoneyBaked Ham has more than 30 we’ve had.” roads, some of which A coupon will be included in the Troy were slick and had snow stores and 30 kiosks in Ohio, including Daily News Dec. 22, 23 and 26, Stout four in the Dayton area. Schulte owns drifts. said. another location in Springfield, and The state’s snowfall Store hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. both are managed by Debbie Winters. totals were modest from a during the holidays, including 10 a.m.

While the new location is the first tenth of an inch to 2 inchstand-alone in Troy, HoneyBaked Ham to 4 p.m. Christmas Eve. Nine employes, according to Daryl did have a kiosk in Kroger last year ees were hired for the holiday season.

Williams, a forecaster during the holiday season.

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“The wind is blowing around so hard that it’s going to be hard to get any accurate readings for snowfall totals,” Williams said.

Strong winds were forecast overnight, creating blizzard-like conditions with blowing snow and wind chills falling into the single digits, particularly in south-central and southwest Oklahoma, he said.

As the system reached Arkansas, rain fell and temperatures dropped, making for hazardous driving conditions in the western part of the state, especially from Fayetteville southeast.

A blizzard warning remained in place for northeast Arkansas, where National Weather Service forecaster Joe Goudsward said 10 inches of snow could accumulate. In Little Rock and much of the rest of central and north Arkansas, 3 to 6 inches of snow was forecast, with greater amounts in higher elevations.

The weather service reported late Tuesday that a foot of snow had fallen in the southwestern Arkansas town of Vandervoort.

The storm also brought power outages to central Arkansas.

Entergy Arkansas, the state’s largest electric utility, said about 92,000 customers were in the dark, and about 40,000 of those were in the Little Rock area.

Garland County had about 11,000 customers in the dark, and First Electric Cooperative says there are more than 8,000 customers out across 11 central Arkansas counties.

About 5,000 customers each were out in Hot Spring, Jefferson and Saline counties, on the heels of last week’s wind storm that knocked out electricity.

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

• FEEDERWATCH: Project Feederwatch will be offered from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton.

Count birds, drink coffee, eat doughnuts, share stories and count more birds. The bird count contributes to scientific studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out the Cornell web site at www.bird.cornell.edu/ pfw for more information.

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• FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 753-1108.

• SEAFOOD DINNER: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, a threepiece fried fish dinner, 21-piece fried shrimp, or a fish/shrimp combo with french fries and coleslaw for $6 from 6-7:30 p.m.

Frog legs, when available, are $10.

• FISH DINNER: The Sons of AMVETS will offer an all-you-can-eat

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fish dinner with fries, coleslaw and bread from 5:30-8 p.m. for $8 at the AMVETS Post No. 88, 3449 Lefevre Road, Troy.

• FEEDERWATCH: Project Feederwatch will be offered from 9:3011:30 a.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Count birds, drink coffee, eat doughnuts, share stories and count more birds. The bird count contributes to scientific studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out the Cornell web site at www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for more information.

• FULL MOON WALK: A full moon walk, under the Big Winter Moon, will be offered from 6:30-8 p.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton.

• FISH DINNER: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer all-u-can-eat fish and fries or sausage

and sauerkraut from 67:30 p.m. for $7.

SATURDAY • KARAOKE NIGHT: The Tipp City American Legion, North Third Street, will offer Papa D’s Pony Express Karaoke from 7 p.m. to close. The event is free.

DEC. 30 • BREAKFAST SERVED: Breakfast will be offered at the Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, from 8-11 a.m. All breakfasts are made-toorder and everything is a la carte.

• BREAKFAST SET: The Legion Riders of American Legion Auxiliary, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will present an all-you-can-eat breakfast from 8-11 a.m. Items available will be eggs, bacon, sausage, sausage gravy, biscuits, pancakes, waffles, french toast, hash browns, toast, cinnamon rolls, fruit and juices. Meals will be $6.

DEC. 31 • YEAR END: Elizabeth Township will have a special year end meeting at 10 a.m. at the township building.

JAN. 2 • ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING CHANGED: The Elizabeth Township Trustees have resched-

uled the Jan. 2 organizational and regular meeting to Jan. 7 at the township building with the organizational meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m., and the regular meeting following at 7 p.m.

a brief overview of the YMCA’s operations, followed by a tour of the facility. A boxed lunch will be provided for $10.

For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

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

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

• TURKEY SHOOT: The Troy VFW Post No. 5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, Troy, will offer a turkey shoot with signups beginning at 11 a.m. The shoot will begin at noon. An allyou-can-eat breakfast, by the auxiliary, will be available from 9 a.m. to noon for $6.

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JAN. 8 • LITERACY COUNCIL MEETING: The Troy Literacy Council, an all-volunteer organization, will meet at the Hayner Cultural Center in Troy at 7 p.m. Adults seeking help with basic literacy or wish to learn English as a second language, and those interested in becoming tutors, are asked to contact our message center at (937) 6603170 for further information.

JAN. 9 • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Miami County YMCARobinson Branch. Jim McMaken, YMCA executive director, will offer

• ANNUAL INVENTORY: Elizabeth Township will have its annual inventory meeting at 7 p.m. at the township building.

JAN. 16 • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club. Dave Pinkerton will give a demonstration of handbell ringing with information on its history and manufacturing. For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

JAN. 23 • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club. Lindsay Woodruff,

outreach coordinator of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley will speak about her work and the program in Miami County. For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

JAN. 30 • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club. Steve Skinner, curator of the Miami Valley Veterans Museum in Troy, will give an overview of the museum’s mission and offerings. For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

FEB. 2 • SPAGHETTI DINNER: The Troy Post No. 43 baseball team will offer an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner from 3:30-7 p.m. at 622 S. Market St., Troy. The meal also will include salad bar, rolls, dessert and soft drink or coffee.

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

FEB. 10 • TURKEY SHOOT: The Troy VFW Post No. 5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, Troy, will offer a turkey shoot with sign ups beginning at 11 a.m. The shoot will begin at noon.

An all-you-can-eat breakfast, by the auxiliary, will be available from 9 a.m. to noon for $6.

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Band seeking senior-citizen musicians

Hopkins for Main Street, Tipp City. Funding for this exhibit and prizes was made possible in part by the Ohio DAYTON — The Humanities Council with University of Dayton support by the National New Horizons Band will Endowment for the be starting the spring Humanities. term Jan. 17, with pracRe-photography is the tices from 8:45-10 a.m. at act of taking a photoTemple Beth Or in graph of the same site, Kettering. previously photographed Anyone 50 and older many years prior — a has the opportunity to “then and now” view. learn a musical instruThere were 12 images ment or re-learn, for from the 1930s and 40s those who have been out of specific locations of practice for years. throughout the Miami Instruments include County area. The photogoboe, flute, clarinet, saxo- raphers revisited these phone, trumpet, French locations and shot horn, trombone, tuba, unique, and current bassoon and percussion. visions of the spot.

The jazz band is also This contest took seeking members and place during Hayner’s will meet from 10:30photography contest 11:45 a.m. Thursdays at “Through Our Eyes 9” Temple Beth Or in but was a separate small Kettering. exhibit and a spin-off on To obtain additional the Ohio Humanities information or to Council exhibit “Images register, call the of the Great Depression University of Dayton in Ohio: Documentary Special Programs and Portraits Revisited” that Continuing Education was on display at The office at (937) 229-2347 Troy-Hayner Cultural or call director Linda Center this summer.

Hartley at (937) 229The Troy-Hayner 3232.

Cultural Center is supported by the citizens of the Troy City School Photography District through a local tax levy in addition to winners donations made to the announced Friends of Hayner.

Hayner’s open hours TROY — Troy-Hayner are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Monday through contest “Then and Now Thursday and 1-5 p.m.

— How Do You See It?” Sunday. Hayner is closed The first place winner on holidays. was Noel Bair, for the For additional inforcity building, Troy; secmation, call the center at ond place was Terry (937) 339-0457 or visit Glass for the city hall, Hayner’s website at Tipp City; and third www.troyhayner.org. place was Cheryl

Tuey R. T. Eustache PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. — Marine Corps Pfc. Tuey R. T. Eustache, a 2012 graduate of MiltonUnion High School, West Milton, earned the title of United States Marine after graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

For 13 weeks, Eustache stayed committed during some of the world’s most demanding entry-level military training in order to be transformed from civilian to Marine instilled with pride, discipline and the core values of honor, courage and commitment.

Training subjects included close-order drill, marksmanship with an M-16A4 rifle, physical fitness, martial arts, swimming, military history, and customs and courtesies. One week prior to graduation, Eustache endured The Crucible, a 54-hour final test of recruits’ minds and bodies. Upon completion, recruits are presented the Marine Corps emblem and called Marines for the first time.

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An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.

The capstone event of boot camp is “Battle Stations.” This exercise gives recruits the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the fleet.

“Battle Stations” is designed to galvanize the basic warrior attributes of sacrifice, dedication, teamwork and endurance in each recruit through the practical application of basic Navy skills and the core values of honor, courage and commitment. Its distinctly ”Navy” flavor was designed to take into account what it means to be a sailor.

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Army National Guard Sailors typically simuStaff Sgt. William J. late some aspects of damMiller has returned to age control procedures the U.S. after being during conventional deployed overseas at a training scenarios such as charging hoses or elec- forward operating base to serve in support of trically isolating a comOperation Enduring partment but the DC Olympics gave sailors the Freedom.

Operation Enduring chance to use a live hose, Freedom is the official or attempt to patch a pipe that has water actu- name given to anti-terrorism military operaally leaking.

Six teams participated tions involving U.S. troops and allied coaliin the DC Olympics. tion partners. Active duty Each team was comand reserve component prised of members from the different repair lock- members from all branches of the U.S. ers aboard the ship. armed forces have been Farragut is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of deployed to support the responsibility conducting war against global terrormaritime security opera- ism outside the borders of the United States. U.S. tions, theater security troops serve in South, cooperation efforts and Southwest and Central support missions for Asia, the Arabian peninOperation Enduring sula, the Horn of Africa, Freedom. islands in the Pacific, and Platfoot is a 2007 Europe. graduate of Sidney High Miller is a squad School and joined the leader assigned to the Navy in July 2007.

1484th Transportation Company in North Jake L. Finfrock Canton. The staff serPARRIS ISLAND, S.C. geant has served in the military for 27 years.

— Marine Corps Pfc. He is the son of Jake L. Finfrock, son of William J. Miller Sr. of Diana S. and Kevin L. Troy and is a 1976 gradFinfrock of West Milton, earned the title of United uate of Troy High School. the Air Force.

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PERSPECTIVE

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

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ANALYSIS

GOP policies led to fiscal cliff blowup WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans seem shocked by their party’s meltdown on the so-called fiscal cliff. They shouldn’t be.

The uncompromising conservatives who blocked Speaker John Boehner’s tax bill were merely sticking to policies that Boehner and nearly all other GOP leaders have pushed, without reservation, for years: It’s always wrong to raise tax rates on anyone, no matter how rich. The nation’s big deficit is entirely “a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” And in any deficit-reduction plan, spending cuts must overwhelm new revenues, by 10-to-1 if not more.

To be surprised by Boehner’s failure is to assume one of two things.

Either House conservatives didn’t really believe their party’s bedrock principles; or they would compromise after seeing President Barack Obama win re-election on a deficit-reduction plan that called for higher taxes on the wealthy.

Neither was true. And now the Republican Party is reeling from unbending fealty to its core principles.

Congress’ structure makes compromise essential, and the nation once lionized the 19th century senator and congressman Henry Clay as “the Great Compromiser.” But the modern Republican Party is heavily energized by the tea party movement, which sees compromise as a triumph of flabby pragmatism over courageous conviction.

All these threads weaved themselves into a knot late Thursday that strangled Boehner’s bid to position his party behind a tiny concession on tax hikes. Whereas Obama campaigned to raise tax rates on couples making more than $250,000 a threshold he offered to raise in postelection negotiations Boehner asked his House Republican colleagues to accept higher rates only on millionaires.

When an undisclosed number refused, Boehner had to abruptly send Congress home for the holidays and face reporters asking if he will lose his speakership.

“We had a number of our members who just really didn’t want to be perceived as having raised taxes,” even on millionaires, Boehner explained Friday.

And with good reason, many would say. The Republican establishment has long embraced activist Grover Norquist’s drive to persuade nearly every GOP lawmaker to pledge never to raise taxes on anyone, no matter how big the gap between federal revenue and spending.

Even though conservative heroes such as President Ronald Reagan raised taxes at times, the anti-tax pledge became the Republican Party’s “brand,” as Norquist often said.

Norquist on Wednesday said Boehner’s proposed tax on millionaires would not technically violate the pledge. But it was too late, or too little, for many House Republicans.

“We made a pledge not to let taxes go up,” said Rep. Joe Barton, RTexas. Barton entered Congress 24 years before the tea party’s birth, proof that unyielding tax aversion runs deep.

Such intransigence in the face of a narrowly divided U.S. electorate dismays Republicans who say compromise can be vital to a party’s survival.

The collapse of Boehner’s tax effort “weakens the entire Republican Party,” said Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, who is retiring after 18 years.

“It’s the continuing dumbing down of the Republican Party,” he said, “and we are going to be seen more and more as a bunch of extremists that can’t even get a majority of our own people to support policies that we’re putting forward. If you’re not a governing majority, you’re not going to be a majority very long.”

Republican consultant and writer Craig Shirley told The Washington Post: “The national GOP is now simply a collection of warring tribal factions.”

LETTERS

Sadness abounds for lost children To the Editor: In due respect to our Heavenly Father, we know the sadness that occurs in the Heavens for his little children that was taken from the home of their birthplace on Earth.

No child should ever have to face a gun pointed at them in a classroom where they learn knowledge from the almighty God. In this world we live in is much like a sour apple full of worms. A bite of it lets the worms crawl around to destroy the beauty that God created for eternity.

Any human that puts out the pilot light before it’s time has created an act of evil so peace on Earth may not prevail.

Our government in this country this of thee are responsible for the weapons that occur in public stores for humans to buy.

I wonder sometimes who is who as life goes onn. Man or God. God gave us life as the Heavenly Father to take care of his Earth so all could enjoy his wealth he left on it.

When you let money and enjoyment come before the little children that God gave life to live and help to bring forth the fruits of his world so he could see the gifts he gave unto them for his purpose.

Now he will never get to see what he gave to 20 little bright children in society.

When will this country stand up for God with his love and not the greenbacks?

Greed is the problem in this country and around the world.

I always heard as I grew up the poor keeps the rich.

Noble people should follow the leaders as he steps first for the good of all concerned.

Are blessings come from our creator so may God bless his country tis of thee and wake up the sleeping spirits to a better peace to live upon peace on Earth and goodwill toward men.

— Beulah Gibson Troy

DOONESBURY

NYE: The most overrated holiday ever Troy Troy With New Year’s Eve a week away, I hope you have your best sparkly outfit picked out and a bottle of champagne chilling.

Or you could settle for pajamas and ordering Chinese takeout the day of.

Either will do, because the night the ball drops and glitter rains down on New York City has got to be the most overly anticipated event we celebrate.

You can either go all out or resign yourself to a laid back evening with your flat screen. Or in my case, a TV that juts out in the back.

I think my obsession with the movie “When Harry Met Sally” has ruined my appreciation for ordinary New Year’s celebrations.

For anyone who’s never seen it (really pathetic, people), Harry sprints down the street to meet up with Sally when he realizes he’s been a jerk and wants to spend the rest of his life with her. We’re talking romantic comedy at its finest.

Anyway, the party where Harry finds Sally is your picturesque holiday gathering.

Everyone counting down the new year, wearing their best cocktail-

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I think what I cherish most about New Year’s isn’t the parties or the holiday itself, but the expectation that life just keeps getting better — if we actively try to make it better.

Natalie Knoth Troy Daily News Columnist party looks and dancing the night away as that “should old acquaintance be forgot” song plays. It’s lovely and quaint and perfect, basically. One day I will attend a party that fabulous.

Needless to say, any real-life celebration is going to look lackluster by comparison.

Still, I’m pretty excited for the last day of ’12.

Like 2011, I’m planning on going out with friends for a kind of anti- New Year’s party of sorts.

Yes, we get all dolled up in sequins and high heels and drink and be merry. But it’s completely spontaneous and not at all fancy.

Last year a group of us went out for dinner at a neighborhood Mexican restaurant looking

ridiculously overdressed. And then we went to a bar (of course), where we watched the ball drop on TV. I remember my friend telling me to be quiet because I was talking during the entire thing. Sorry, I guess I’d rather be chatting about all the shenanigans of last year than watching a giant disco ball usher in the new year.

I also remember having to catch a flight early in the morning, which was obviously the best timing ever. I’ll be working the next day this year, so I better keep the festivities in check still.

I think what I cherish most about New Year’s isn’t the parties or the holiday itself, but the expectation that life just keeps getting better — if we actively try to make it better. I’m not a

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fan of resolutions because my idea of a workout is dancing to my favorite songs as I get ready in the morning. I also have no intention of depriving myself of my favorite foods. (I’m eating a chocolate cake brownie for breakfast as I write this — a treat from last night’s holiday baking session.)

But I do plan to put one piece of advice in motion, which I found online last week: “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anyone or anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

I think everyone could take that advice to heart.

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Jack Klugman, 90, dies in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV’s “The Odd Couple” and the crime-fighting coroner in “Quincy, M.E.,” died Monday, a son said. He was 90.

Klugman, who lost his voice to throat cancer in the 1980s and trained himself to speak again, died with his wife at his side.

AP “He had a great life and In this Dec. 3, 1992 file photo, Jack Klugman, left, and he enjoyed every moment of Tony Randall laugh at a news conference for a oneit and he would encourage night benefit performance of Neil Simons play, “The others to do the same,” son Odd Couple,” in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Adam Klugman said.

Adam Klugman said he Klugman told CNN: “A world Edwards’ “Days of Wine and was spending Christmas without Tony Randall is a Roses” and an early televiwith his brother, David, and world that I cannot recog- sion highlight was appearing with Humphrey Bogart and their families. Their father nize.”

In “Quincy, M.E.,” which Henry Fonda in a production had been convalescing for ran from 1976 of “The Petrified Forest.” His some time but had to 1983, performance in the classic apparently died sudK l u g m a n 1959 musical “Gypsy” denly and they were played an ide- brought him a Tony nominanot sure of the exact alistic, tough- tion for best featured (supcause. minded med- porting) actor in a musical.

“His sons loved ical examiner He also appeared in several him very much,” who tussled episodes of “The Twilight David Klugman with his boss Zone,” including a memosaid. “We’ll carry on by uncovering rable 1963 one in which he in his spirit.” evidence of played a negligent father Never anyone’s murder in whose son is seriously idea of a matinee cases where oth- wounded in Vietnam. idol, Klugman KLUGMAN ers saw natural His other TV shows remained a popular included “The Defenders” star for decades simply by causes.

“Everybody said, ‘Quincy’ll and the soap opera “The playing the type of man you could imagine running into never be a hit.’ I said, ‘You Greatest Gift.”

In a 1987 interview in the at a bar or riding on a sub- guys are wrong. He’s two way with gruff, but down to heroes in one, a cop and a doc- New York Daily News, he earth, his tie stained and a tor.’ A coroner has power,” said, “once I did three hourlittle loose, a racing form Klugman said. “He can tell long shows in 2 weeks. Think under his arm, a cigar in the police commissioner to we’d do that now? Huh! But hand during the days when investigate a murder. I saw then it was great. I did sumthe opportunity to do what I’d mer stock, played the classmoking was permitted.

His was a city actor ideal gotten into the theater to do sics. Me!” Throat cancer took away for “The Odd Couple,” which give a message.

“They were going to do his raspy voice for several ran from 1970 to 1975 and was based on Neil Simon’s cops and robbers with years in the 1980s. When he play about mismatched ‘Quincy.’ I said, ‘You promised was back on the stage for a roommates, divorced New me I could do causes.’ They 1993 revival of “Three Men Yorkers who end up living said, ‘Nobody wants to see on a Horse,” The Associated together. The show teamed that.’ I said, ‘Look at the suc- Press review said, “His voice Klugman the sloppy sports cess of “60 Minutes.” They may be a little scratchy but writer Oscar Madison and want to see it if you present it his timing is as impeccable as ever.”

Tony Randall the fussy pho- as entertainment.’”

For his 1987 role as 81“The only really stupid tographer Felix Unger in the roles played by Walter year-old Nat in the Broadway thing I ever did in my life Matthau and Art Carney on production of “I’m Not was to start smoking,” he Broadway and Matthau and Rappaport,” Klugman wore said in 1996. Seeing people Jack Lemmon in the 1968 leg weights to learn to shuffle smoking in television and film. Klugman had already like an elderly man. He said films, he added, “disgusts me, had a taste of the show when he would wear them for an it makes me so angry kids he replaced Matthau on hour before each perform- are watching.”

In his later years, he Broadway and he learned to ance, “to remember to keep guest-starred on TV series roll with the quick-thinking that shuffle.”

The son of Russian Jewish including “Third Watch” Randall, with whom he had worked in 1955 on the CBS immigrants, he was born in and “Crossing Jordan” and series “Appointment with Philadelphia and began his appeared in a 2010 theatriacting career in college cal film, “Camera Obscura.”

Adventure.”

Klugman’s wife, actress“There’s nobody better to drama (Carnegie Institute of improvise with than Tony,” Technology). After serving in comedian Brett Somers, Klugman said. “A script the Army during World War played his ex-wife, Blanche, might say, ‘Oscar teaches I, he went on to summer in the “Odd Couple” series.

The couple, who married Felix football.’ There would be stock and off-Broadway, four blank pages. He would rooming with fellow actor in 1953 and had two sons, provoke me into reacting to Charles Bronson as both Adam and David, had been estranged for years at what he did. Mine was the looked for paying jobs.

He made his Broadway the time of her death in easy part.”

They were battlers on debut in 1952 in a revival of 2007.

In February 2008, at age screen, and the best of friends “Golden Boy.” His film credits in real life. When Randall included Sidney Lumet’s “12 85, Klugman married longdied in 2004 at age 84, Angry Men” and Blake time girlfriend Peggy Crosby.

Durning, king of character actors, dies LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through DDay and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.

His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar- DURNING nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in “Tootsie.”

Durning, who died

and friend, Judith Moss, told The Associated Press that he died of natural causes in his home in the borough of Manhattan.

“Not only was Charlie a World War II hero but he was also a hero to his family.

Charlie loved Christmas and if he could have chosen a time to pass, he would have chosen this day,” said a statement from his stepdaughter, Anita Gregory, released Tuesday by Ana Martinez, spokeswoman for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

“He loved that holiday and played Santa Claus many times in films and TV shows,” Gregory said.

“Charlie lived the spirit of Christmas each and every day of his life. He taught me to believe that nothing was impossible. He brought joy and a smile to everyone’s life.”

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LOIS WHITE DAYTON — Lois White died Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, at age 85 after suffering a stroke at her home. She died at Hospice of Dayton.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ted, and her son, Samuel.

Lois was born in rural Overton County Tennessee on April 1, 1927. She was the sixth and last child of Ova Clementine Key and Thomas Shirley Speck. After the death of her mother Ovie when Lois was 4, her father Shirley married Dallas Bowman and had six more children.

In 1944, when Lois was 17, she left home with her sister Emma and moved to Dayton.

Lois worked several jobs after the war, including factory work and as a dance instructor for Arthur Murray. In that era, being a great dancer was WHITE a way to get dates with eligible men. Lois was successful, meeting her future husband Tedford Robert White, who was an Army veteran and University of Dayton college student.

Lois and Ted were married Nov. 4, 1950, during halftime of the UD football game taking place that day. As was the convention of the time, Lois stopped working when she began her marriage.

She commenced two projects after her wedding day. First, she began educating herself. She read voraciously, including the textbooks of all of Ted’s college courses. She continued her self-education her entire life and had a wide range of interests and wide knowledge. She also began her family. Her son Tedford Karl White was born in 1951 (married Cris Tina Shoup), her son Samuel David White was born in 1953 (died in 1957 of Muscular Dystrophy), and her son Timothy Robert White was born in 1955

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In 1952, Lois moved with her family to Tipp City, where she and Ted lived for more than 20 years. They were very social and had many friends in Tipp.

When her children were school age, Lois took up golf.

Over the decade of the 1960’s, she steadily improved her game. By the early 1970’s she had worked her way through all of the lower competitive flights to the Championship Flight in the citywide competition between the Miami Shores Golf Club and the Troy Country Club. In 1970 she won that tournament to become the top woman golfer in the Troy-Tipp area.

When her husband Ted retired from manufacturing to open a Watch and Clock shop in Dayton, Lois began studying clock making through the American Watchmaker’s Institute in Cincinnati.

In 1978 she passed the test to become a Certified Clockmaker. Lois lived the last 35 years of her life in Dayton.

Although Lois endured numerous health challenges the last years of her life, she was fortunate to maintain her full personality and intellect. She lived independently in her home until her death.

Lois is survived by her sons, Tedford and Timothy, grandchildren, Emily, Tedford, Samuel and Meagan, as well as one great-grandchild, Alexander.

A gathering of family and friends will take place at a future date.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 32 W. Main St., Tipp City, Ohio. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.fringsandbayliff.com.

Christine D. ‘Chris’ Reich TROY — Christine D. “Chris” Reich, 64 of Troy, Ohio, passed away Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, at Upper Valley Medical Center after a brief illness.

She was born Feb. 16, 1948, in Toledo, Ohio, to the late Robert and Ardythe (Vanvorce) Anderson. She is survived by her loving husband of 31 years, Raymond Reich; children, Tina and her husband Mark Lemmon of Cincinnati, Ohio, Jeff and his wife Anna Marie Reich of Swainsboro, Ga., Sean and his wife Crystal, Reich of Hilliard, Ohio, and REICH Shannon and her husband Rob Baker of Owensville, Ohio; along with her sister, Sue Kanally of Cleveland, Ohio; and six grandchildren, John, Emily, Keegan, Breanna, Abbey and Zach.

Chris was a graduate of the University of Dayton, and a member of St.

Christopher Catholic Church, Vandalia, Ohio. She had retired from Dayton City Schools after teaching elementary school for 35 years. Chris was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother and was very family oriented.

She loved shopping and special holidays and adored her puppy dogs — Buddy and Bully.

A funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City, Ohio, with Father Bob Monnin officiating.

Burial will follow in Maple Hill Cemetery, Tipp City.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the time of service at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Contributions may be made in memory of Christ to St. Vincent-DePaul.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.fringsandbayliff.com.

DIXIE L. SMITH PIQUA — Dixie L. Smith, 58, of Piqua, died at 3:35 a.m. Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at the Koester Pavilion.

She was born July 31, 1954, in Sturgis, Mich. to the late John and Lucille (McNutt) Denman. She married Norval Frank Smith, who preceded her in death.

Survivors include a daughter, Amanda S. (John) Apple of Piqua; a son, David (Christy) Smith of Troy; four grandchildren, Justin, Patty, Sue and David; and three brothers, Andrew Hoke, John Denman and Lowell Denman, all of Michigan.

She was preceded in death by a sister,

Vivian Sprow, and a brother, Louis Denman.

Mrs. Smith was a certified nursing assistant specializing in home health care.

Private services are being provided to her family through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, Inc., P. O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373.

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

ANNA M. NEWNAM PIQUA — Anna M. Newnam, 91, of Piqua, died at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, at Piqua Manor.

She was born April 1, 1921, in Miami County, to the late Fred and Lola (Hissong) Furlong. She married Edward E. Newnam in July 1940, and he preceded her in death in 1972.

Survivors include three children, Ronald (Bonnie) Newnam of Piqua, Joyce Garbig of Piqua, and Linda NEWNAM Welbaum of Piqua; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by eight brothers; three sisters; and a son, Robert

Newnam.

With her husband, Anna owned and operated Mr. Ed’s Gulf Station in Piqua for many years, where everyone affectionately knew her as “Mrs. Ed.” A funeral service to honor her life will be conducted at 1 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 28, at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Miami Memorial Park, Covington. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

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He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as he heard the audience laughing.

He told The Associated Press in 2008 that he had no plans to stop working. “They’re going to carry me out, if I go,” he said.

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Mittens with a message sent to Newtown

NEW YORK (AP) — Imagining the horror for Sandy Hook Elementary students when they walk into their new school for the first time, a Connecticut mom is relying on Chester of the children’s classic “The Kissing Hand” and the busy fingers of her fellow knitters to ease their way.

Kim Piscatelli of East Hampton, Conn., hit on the idea of sending a copy of the book for each of the kids and a pair of handmade mittens adorned with a heart in one palm, signifying the reassuring kiss left there by the mother of scared, sad Chester in the story written by Audrey Penn.

Piscatelli, a 40-minute drive from Newtown, sent out a call to her friends, who called on their friends.

The project she thought up just Sunday spread quickly on Facebook and websites for knitters and crafters, with the first shipment of books and mittens scheduled to land in Newtown the first week of January.

“I thought, how are those families ever going to get back in a routine of sending their children to school? If there ever was a town that needed to know about that book, it was Newtown,” said an overwhelmed Piscatelli, who now has a warehouse stacked with 1,600 copies of the book and plenty of volunteers to sort, pack and ship.

Others are hurriedly making mittens, from California and Canada to Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands, in time for the start of classes in a onceshuttered school in nearby Monroe. A knitters’ group in Georgia pulled an allnight “knitathon” for the cause, Piscatelli said.

The book’s publisher, Tanglewood Press, has donated the books, along with enough copies of a sequel dealing with Chester’s loss of a playmate for teachers to read aloud.

In “The Kissing Hand,” the tearful boy is heading off to school for the first

time, but he begs his mother to stay home. She spreads his tiny fingers and kisses him square in the palm and tells him “whenever you feel lonely and need a little loving from home, just press your hand to your cheek and think, ‘Mommy loves you.’”

The story was first published in 1993 by the Child Welfare League of America, a Washington, D.C.-based coalition of agencies and organizations helping children at risk.

Penn had tried and failed for years to get her story of Chester published, until a league official heard Penn read it and decided to take it on.

“At first, no bookstore, no wholesaler would carry it,” said Peggy Tierney, who worked at the league and took Penn with her after starting Tanglewood. “Then kindergarten teachers discovered it, word spread, people started going into stores trying to find copies, then everyone started carrying it, and by 1999 it was on the New York Times best-seller list.”

One of Piscatelli’s first stops in getting her mitten project off the ground was to contact Penn, who lives in Durham, N.C. She recalled reading the story to her own three kids when they were younger.

Penn, who lost a brother to drowning when she was 13, signed off on the combined book-mitten project as soon as Piscatelli contacted her.

“When I saw the news, my heart was just torn in half. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t breathe. Enough is enough is enough,” the writer said.

Penn’s 2009 sequel, called “Chester the Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories,” has Chester the boy raccoon working through the death of a friend, Skiddil Squirrel, who has an accident. Chester’s teacher tells his class Skiddil won’t return to school, so Chester and his mother venture to a butterfly pond where the squirrel loved to play to discover some acorns Skiddil left there have sprouted into young trees.

“I’ve been involved with so many parents who have lost children,” Penn said.

“They just seem to reach out to me and say we love your book and your book has been a comfort.”

The writer hopes the children of Sandy Hook will “get a sense of some

kind of security” from the mitten project. “They’ll have a way of keeping in tangible touch with someone at home, someone they feel very secure with.”

Meantime, Piscatelli and dozens of knitters who have contacted her through the project’s Facebook page are pressing on to get the books and mittens in the students’ hands. About 600 kids attended Sandy Hook when Lanza opened fire, but Piscatelli plans to share mittens and books with all the schoolchildren of Newtown.

“The original request was for hand-knit mittens with a heart knit in, embroidered on or sewn on,” she said. “The reality is we have people sewing polar fleece mittens, mittens made from recycled sweaters, store-bought mittens. Every pair of handmade or store-bought mittens will have a heart

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Dear Annie: I have been dating "Stan" for five years. We are both in our 60s. When we started dating, I was absolutely certain that I did not want to get married.

But Stan and I have been through so much these past few years with various illnesses and the like. We have always stood by each other, and I have come to realize that I would like to be married to this man and have said so to him.

Stan still has responsibilities to a surviving parent. Both Stan and his mom seem so dependent on each other that I feel like the proverbial third wheel. When I discuss this with Stan, there is a slight change, but only for a brief period of time, and then things go right back to the way they were, with me essentially on my own.

I don't want to walk away from Stan, but I need more than I am getting and want to know how to get my point across. I would hate for Stan to lose out on having a wonderful life with me at this stage of our lives. — So Confused Dear Confused: You cannot force Stan to see the benefits of marriage through your eyes. His relationship with his surviving parent takes precedence over his relationship with you, and right now, Stan interprets marriage as an abandonment of Mom. In addition, you have changed the rules midstream by wanting marriage when you initially precluded it. You would do better to absorb Mom into your life, making a commitment toward her care part of your relationship. And although that doesn't promise marriage, it will make Stan more favorably disposed. Only you can decide whether the relationship with Stan the Man is worth keeping without the legal papers.

Dear Annie: My husband, "Bob," rarely washes his hands after using the bathroom. My son and I are really disgusted with this behavior and worry about the lingering germs that his hands pass on to everything else he touches.

Bob claims we are germophobes, and that a little bacteria is good for you. He thinks we overdo the hand washing, getting rid of the "good" germs. I have asked him to pose this question to his doctor, but he refuses. Please help settle this argument. — Irritated in Indiana Dear Indiana: It's true that over-sanitizing can be a problem, but some degree of hygiene is necessary because not all bacteria are harmless. And we transfer these less helpful germs primarily through our hands, not only via contact with multiple surfaces that others have touched (or will), but also by rubbing our eyes, scratching our noses and covering our mouths with these same bacteria-laden hands. This is how easily diseases such as meningitis, flu and hepatitis can get passed around. If your husband wants to swim in a swamp to see whether it boosts his immune system, that's up to him. But he shouldn't subject the rest of his family to his quirks.

Dear Annie: This is in response to "No State," whose 23year-old cousin is now a police officer and brags that he can give out tickets to those who annoy him.

A police officer who abuses his authority not only makes himself look bad, but also damages the reputation of his department and all the other hardworking and dedicated officers who put their life on the line day in and day out.

Most police officers try to do their very best in difficult circumstances. It is often a thankless job, but one we willingly accept. Trust me, other police officers do not like to see these abuses of power. "No State" should talk to this officer's superiors. — Retired Kentucky Trooper Dear Trooper: We suspect this cousin is all talk, but it might not take much for him to cross a line.

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Adding spice to pumpkin pie: Give this recipe a try Dear Heloise: I read your column every day in the (Rochester, Minn.) Post-Bulletin. I know you printed a recipe for pumpkin pie spice, but I lost it. Could you please reprint it? — Anna F. in Minnesota This is a good recipe to have during the holidays, because it makes enough spice for one pumpkin pie. Feel free to double or triple it if making more than one pie. Gather the following ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/8 teaspoon allspice 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg Store the spice blend in a labeled container until ready to

Hints from Heloise Columnist use. I like to make my own spice mixes at home, which is why I created my Heloise’s Seasonings, Sauces and Substitutes pamphlet. To receive a copy, send $3 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (65 cents) envelope to: Heloise/SSS, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001.

Need just a touch of milk, but

have none on hand? Mix some water and coffee creamer together. — Heloise DRY MILK Dear Heloise: I live alone and sometimes have a problem of wasting food due to having to purchase more than I need because of packaging. Cereal is the only thing I need low-fat milk for, but I can use only a cup or so out of a quart, with the rest going bad after a while. I got a small box of dry milk, and I make 1 cup, which is sufficient for the cereal. I don’t know if all brands use the same ratio, but I use heaping 1/4 cup dry milk to 1 cup cold water and stir well!

— Dena in Silver Spring, Md.

EASY POUR Dear Heloise: I always liked the syrup dispenser with a spring-loaded lever found on the table at my favorite breakfast restaurant. I was so excited when I saw a couple for sale at a garage sale! I, of course, keep syrup in one, but I have milk in the other to add to my morning coffee! — Betty G. in New Jersey I love these dispensers, too! I bought one in a thrift store, and I keep milk or creamer in it for my coffee, just like you do. It is so convenient!

If you can’t find one in a thrift store, garage sale or specialty kitchen store, go online to buy one. — Heloise

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) All group activities will be upbeat and energetic. Gym classes and physical sports really appeal in the next six weeks. Nevertheless, arguments with a friend are likely. Show patience and kindness to others.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your ambition will be aroused as never before until well into February. You’re definitely going to go after what you want — but hey, why not?

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Travel plans look very exciting for most of you. However, the next two months are also a good time to explore opportunities in publishing, higher education, medicine and the law.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Disputes about shared property, inheritances and anything you own jointly with others might arise in the next six to eight weeks. Do your homework. Be prepared.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) With Mars opposite your sign until February, you will be quite impatient with partners and close friends. Therefore, be aware of this. Try to be tolerant. (It’s you, not them.) Lighten up!

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You’re gung-ho to work and get better organized. This wonderful influence lasts into February. Give yourself the best tools to do a great job. Ya think?

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) A playful month ahead awaits you. In fact, parties, vacations, fun sports events and romantic escapades will delight you until February. Lucky Libra!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Increased activity, chaos and tension at home are likely in the month ahead because of renovations, residential moves or visiting relatives. Summon all your patience.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You’ll be unusually convincing in all your communication for the next six weeks. Without intending to, you’ll be competitive, aggressive and persuasive!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’ve decided it’s time to knuckle down and work hard to boost your earnings, if possible. This enthusiasm will last well into February. Good luck!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Mars is now in your sign for the first time in two years, energizing you, quite literally. Mars rules aggression, confidence, ego and even your muscles.

(Oh my.)

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Secret love affairs might be taking place for some of you in the next six weeks. You seem to be very involved in some behind-the-scenes activities.

(Something is all very hush-hush.)

YOU BORN TODAY You like to make a contribution. You are generous to others, in part because you are sensitive to their pain. You generally choose a vocation where you feel useful or of service. Many of you develop particular techniques or talents that you use.

In the year ahead, something you’ve been involved with for about nine years will diminish or end to make room for something new.

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................34 at 1:27 p.m.

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Wednesday, Dec. 26, the 361st day of 2012. There are five days left in the year. The sevenday African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 26, 1972, the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Mo., at age 88.

On this date: • In 1776, the British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. • In 1799, former President George Washington was eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his

countrymen.”

• In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first African-American boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.

• In 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, the embattled U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium, was relieved by units of the 4th Armored Division.

• In 1966, Kwanzaa was first celebrated.

• In 1980, Iranian television footage was broadcast in the United States, showing a dozen of the American hostages sending messages to their families.

• In 1996, 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colo. (To date, the slaying remains unsolved.)

• In 2004, some 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a tsunami triggered by the world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the Indian Ocean.

• Today’s Birthdays: “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh is 67.

Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk is 65. Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith is 58. Rock musician Lars Ulrich (Metallica) is 49. Actor-singer Jared Leto is 41. Rock singer Chris Daughtry is 33.

Northern California having wet Christmas likelihood of any major flooding. He expected isolated shower activity through Wednesday.

Still, with the ground saturated from previous storms, officials were planning to keep an eye on rivers and streams.

“Hopefully, it’s of a duration that won’t create huge problems,” Benjamin said.

The region was slammed by rain and snow over the weekend, bringing welcome moisture to the snowpack-dependent state but dangerous avalanche conditions to popular ski areas.

Authorities say a 49-year-old snowboarder died Monday at Donner Ski Ranch after he was buried under 2 to 3 feet of snow.

A veteran ski patroller at neighboring Alpine Meadows also died after being buried in a slide that had been intentionally set with an explosive device.

The resort announced the patroller’s death on Tuesday.

He was buried in a slide that had been intentionally set with an explosive device by a senior member of the ski

patrol team. The team was doing avalanche control in an area closed to the public on the back side of the resort.

The severe storms have given a much-needed boost to reservoirs and kept the grass green for cattle feeds, San Joaquin County Agriculture Commissioner Scott Hudson said Monday.

“It’s much better than what it was at this time last year when we were fairly dry,” Hudson said. “This year’s rain has come in intervals where it’s keeping us saturated, but not flooded.”

noting that it wasn’t clear whether the victim was dead when Barth took an ax to his neck.

Barth wrapped the victim’s body in a blanket, put it in the closet and told his family, “‘Don’t go into my room,’” Kurtzrock said.

Meanwhile, some of Campbell’s friends went to Barth’s house, starting the day Campbell disappeared, to ask whether Barth knew where Campbell was, a friend said. The two had gone to high school together.

“He said, ‘I haven’t seen him. It’s crazy that he’s missing,’” Campbell’s friend Sean Epps told Newsday.

Barth’s relatives finally found Campbell’s body Monday and called police.

Barth initially told detectives he was worried about a potential death sentence, Kurtzrock said. After Barth was told that couldn’t happen

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Barth’s mother, Connie Barth, told Newsday he has been treated for mental illness since childhood but refused help in recent years.

“I’m so sorry,” she told the newspaper. “My son needed medication but he wouldn’t take it. He would say, ‘I can do this’ without medication.”

Barth was paroled in July 2011 after serving three years on a robbery conviction, state records show; the case stemmed from charges that he held up a Central Islip bank while wearing a woman’s skirted suit and blond wig. He had previously served three years on an attempted robbery conviction.

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Aston Barth was being held without bail after pleading not guilty to murdering next-door neighbor Jason Campbell, Newsday reported.

Barth’s lawyer, Paul Barahal, declined to comment; Barth’s mother said he had a long history of mental illness.

Barth, 33, told investigators he choked Campbell, 35, while the two argued in Barth’s Central Islip bedroom Dec. 18, Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Glenn Kurtzrock said. Barth tried to slice off Campbell’s head but either decided against it or realized he couldn’t, the prosecutor said,

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TODAY’S TIPS

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• 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.

Miami edges OKC James scores 29 in 103-97 win MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James finished with 29 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, Dwyane Wade scored 21, and the Miami Heat survived a frantic finish to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 103-97 in an NBA Finals rematch on Tuesday.

Mario Chalmers scored a season-high 20 for the Heat, who matched the franchise’s best 25game start at 19-6. Chris Bosh added 16 for Miami, which has beaten the Thunder five straight times going back to last June’s title series.

Kevin Durant scored 33 points and Russell Westbrook AP PHOTO added 21 for Oklahoma City, but Miami Heat’s LeBron James (6) dunks as Oklahoma City both Thunder stars missed Thunder’s Russell Westbrook (0) and Heat’s Mario Chalmers potentially game-tying 3-point attempts in the final seconds.

(15) watch during an NBA game Tuesday in Miami.

Serge Ibaka and Kevin Martin each added 15 for the Thunder, who have dropped two straight for the first time this season.

The Heat went 19 for 19 from the foul line, the second-best effort in franchise history. They were 30 for 30 at Boston on March 24, 1993.

And it was a wild finals rematch one that lived up to expectations.

There was a fast start by the reigning champions, a one-handed dunk by James on an offensive rebound that will be added to his copious highlight reel, a scrum after a hard foul that led to double-technicals on Wade and Ibaka early in the fourth, an

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THURSDAY Boys Basketball Tippecanoe at Troy (7:30 p.m.)

Piqua Holiday Classic Lehman vs. Russia (5:30 p.m.)

Piqua vs. Covington (8:30 p.m.)

Girls Basketball Tri-Village at Miami East (7 p.m.)

Newton at National Trail (7 p.m.)

Piqua Holiday Classic Lehman vs. Russia (4 p.m.)

Piqua vs. Covington (7 p.m.)

Bowling Graham at Troy (10 a.m.)

FRIDAY Boys Basketball Sidney at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.)

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

Miami East at Versailles Invite (TBA) Piqua Holiday Classic Consolation game (8 p.m.)

Bradford Holiday Tourney Troy Christian vs. Riverside (6 p.m.)

Bradford vs. New Miami (8 p.m.)

Girls Basketball Fort Recovery at Troy (7:30 p.m.)

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

Piqua Holiday Classic Consolation game (6:30 p.m.)

Bradford Holiday Tourney Troy Christian vs. Bradford (4 p.m.)

Wrestling Troy, Covington, Piqua at GMVWA (11 a.m.)

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

Hockey Troy at Springboro (at South Metro) (8 p.m.)

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rebound as better runners than they were before getting hurt.

Pagano’s fight started three months ago when it was disclosed he had cancer, forcing the first-year Colts coach to take time off for chemotherapy treatments. He returned to work this week, taking the reins from assistant Bruce Arians, who guided the team to a surprising playoff berth in his absence.

“When I asked for Bruce to take over, I asked for him to kick some you-know-what and to do great. Damn Bruce, you had to go and win nine games?” Pagano said. “Tough act to follow.”

If all goes well at practice this week, Pagano will be on the sideline for the regular-season finale against Houston. That’s a final tuneup for the AFC wild-card

Like just about everybody else on the team, rookie wide receiver Josh Gordon was practically invisible the last two games.

Gordon caught one pass for six yards on Sunday when the Browns were throttled, 34-12, by the Broncos. A week earlier he was held to three catches for 27 yards by the Redskins. The Broncos have an excellent defense. The Redskins do not.

If Gordon’s well isn’t dry, it’s down to a slow drip. Mike Wilson, the Browns wide receiver’s coach, thinks he knows why.

“This kid stepped up and surprised some people,” Wilson said recently. “We’re not getting as many opportunities to stretch the field and get him down the middle like we had because safeties are deep. What used to be 12 yards, the free safety is now 18 to 20 yards deep and they’re taking it away.

Underneath stuff is open and we’re finding other ways to get him the ball.”

Gordon, with 44 catches and five touchdowns, has only one touchdown catch over the last eight games. Still, Wilson says “The sky’s the limit” for Gordon, and Wilson should know; Jerry Rice was his teammate in San Francisco, he coached Tim Brown in Oakland and he coached Larry Fitzgerald plus Anquan Boldin in Arizona.

By now, most fans know the Cliff Notes version of Gordon’s path to the Browns. He started at Baylor and in 2010 caught 42 passes for 714 yards and seven touchdowns. He tested positive for marijuana twice, got kicked off the football team and transferred to Utah in 2011.

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Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano speaks during a news conference Monday in Indianapolis. Pagano returned to the team after undergoing successful leukemia treatment.

Year of the comeback Manning, Peterson, Pagano: 2012 a year to remember DENVER (AP) — From Peyton Manning overcoming four neck surgeries to Adrian Peterson’s rebound from a shredded knee to Chuck Pagano’s fight with leukemia, this has been the Year of the Comeback in the NFL. A season besmirched by tragedies, replacement officials and a bounty scandal also will go down as one in which some of the game’s greats not only regained their old form but somehow surpassed it.

There are always feel-good stories about those who overcome long odds and broken bodies to regain at least a sliver of their past glory. This season provided an abundance of them.

When the season started, who could have expected Manning to recapture his MVP play so quickly with a new

team? Or for Peterson to come back less than nine months after shredding his left knee. Or for Jamaal Charles to return better than ever after suffering a similar injury.

Then there’s Pagano beating the biggest opponent of his life.

A year ago, Manning was in the midst of four neck operations to fix a nerve injury that had caused his right arm to atrophy and had sidelined him for an entire season. Soon, he would say a tearful farewell to Indianapolis, a city he’d put back on the NFL map, and hook up with John Elway in Denver.

Peterson’s left knee was still swollen after he’d shredded it on Christmas Eve, an injury similar to the one Charles suffered earlier last season. Yet both would defy medicine and conventional wisdom alike to

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Optimistic year for O’Brien, Penn State

Eagles’ Avant turns his life around Jason Avant raises his hands to the sky after every reception in celebration for much more than catching a ball.

Playing football for the Philadelphia Eagles doesn’t define Avant. After everything he’s endured, the 29-year-old wide receiver is not your ordinary professional athlete. See Page 16.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Star linebacker Michael Mauti’s college football career had just come to an end in November when he spotted the next generation of Penn State football players.

So, he decided to do what Mauti had done time and again during his Nittany Lions career: He helped others, and imparted some inspirational words along the way.

Adam Breneman, one of the top tight end prospects in the country, is one of them, and he listened intently. Mauti indeed passed the torch of leadership to Breneman and some other high school seniors on recruiting trips to Happy Valley that day, setting the tone for a critical offseason at Penn State.

Indeed, there is no bowl game to rally around this season. No sunny destination dancing around in the Nittany Lions’ heads. No fun-filled

reward for all of their hard work in this season of recovery at Penn State.

But there is hope. There is optimism. And there is Year 2 of the Coach Bill O’Brien era to sculpt.

No better time than the present.

Under O’Brien, Penn State finished an overachieving 8-4 with a second-place finish in the Big Ten Leaders Division. The Nittany Lions went 6-2 in conference, and likely would have been a lock for a New Year’s Day bowl game. As it is, Penn State is not in a bowl for the first time in eight seasons.

But there is much to build on.

An emotional 24-21 overtime win, for instance, over Wisconsin in the finale sent the program into the offseason on a high note.

And O’Brien will need that in his first full offseason to secure a recruiting class amid scholarship cuts. The sanctions levied in July

for the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal limit Penn State’s recruiting classes to no more than 15 a year for the next four years, starting with the 2013 class to be signed in early February. Most teams can sign 25. There is also a four-year postseason ban to digest.

O’Brien will also need to find new leaders. Mauti was one of a group of seniors who helped keep most of the team together in the frenzied weeks after the NCAA announced the punishment.

Breneman, a highly touted senior from Cedar Cliff High in Camp Hill, Pa., has a chance to be in that leadership mix someday. He has been part of a contingent of recruits who have been vocal about keeping their commitments despite the penalties.

“Now, it’s our turn to come in, and, in a couple years, lead the program,” Breneman said recently,

recounting Mauti’s postgame words to him. “That was definitely very motivating to talk to him.

“It’s a huge thing. Big shoes to follow up.”

Breneman, coming off a right knee injury that sidelined him for his senior season, plans to enroll at Penn State in January after finishing his prep work a semester early.

That will enable him to participate in spring practice.

There’s an extra benefit for Penn State if players officially join the program in January, instead of waiting until early February to declare their college choices.

January enrollees count against 2012, when there are no scholarship limits. That means the 2013 team could have more 15 new scholarship players while still meeting the NCAA sanction guidelines.

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Andruw Jones arrested on battery charge

Eagles’ Avant turns from gang life to religion PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jason Avant raises his hands to the sky after every reception in celebration for much more than catching a ball.

Playing football for the Philadelphia Eagles doesn’t define Avant. After everything he’s endured, the 29-yearold wide receiver is not your ordinary professional athlete.

Avant was 12 when he started selling drugs. He went to elementary school drunk and high. As a teenager, he belonged to one of Chicago’s notorious gangs called the “Gangsters Disciples.” Dodging bullets and running from the police were common for him.

Yet somehow Avant escaped that life and avoided ending up dead or in jail like some of his friends. Now he’s one of the most respected players in the NFL. “When I lift my hands up, it’s me saying ‘Lord, I know where I could be and I thank you for where I am,’” Avant recalled last week. “There were times when I was growing up when I didn’t have enough to scrounge up a quarter to get an ICEE. I remember the times our house was shot up. I remember when I didn’t have any avenues, when I sold drugs. So I lift my hands up and thank the Lord for all He has done for me.”

Avant grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a neighborhood riddled with gangs, drugs and violence. He was abandoned by his mother as a kid and was raised by his grandmother because his father was in and out of jail.

It’s no wonder Avant got caught up with the wrong crowd. He lived in the same house with 12 to 14 relatives and was influenced by his cousins.

But his grandmother Lillie wanted a better life for young Jason and she refused to give up on him. She used the power of prayer to steer him in the right direction.

“She was a great woman, a saved woman,” Avant said with a big smile as he talked about “Granny.”

“She would pray for me every night.

‘Lord, let him be different. Let his life change.’ I was her favorite and everybody knew it. We didn’t have much money, so I would sleep in the same room as my grandmother. She would lay her hands on me for an hour at night and just pray for me.”

Avant would go to church with his grandmother on Sundays and return to the streets to sell drugs with his gang friends. However, words from the service would be ringing in his ears the whole time.

“I was the worst drug dealer in the world,” he said. “I had too much of a conscience from going to church, and sitting there hearing the songs would always make me cry because I knew I was selling drugs. But God had a different plan for me.”

Avant’s grandmother eventually sold her house after it was raided twice by police. A third raid would’ve meant the state would seize the house and evict the family. So the cousins scattered and Avant ended up moving in with his Aunt Shirley. Like Granny, she encouraged Avant to go to church and stay in school.

“I quit selling drugs because I was away from my cousins and I got into basketball,” Avant said. “Wherever I was going, my grandmother’s prayers stayed with me.”

Avant’s dad, Jerry, took him in whenever he was released from prison, only to have to send him back after getting arrested again. Three times, Avant

ATLANTA (AP) — Jail records show that former Atlanta Braves star center fielder Andruw Jones is free on bond after being arrested in suburban Atlanta on a battery charge.

Around 1:30 a.m.

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Gwinnett County Detention Center records say Jones was booked into the county jail around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday and had been released on $2,400 bond by 11 a.m.

No one was available at

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Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Jason Avant (81) makes a catch against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Dec. 9 in Tampa, Fla. moved to Decatur, Ill., with his father, then went back to Chicago. He had no stability in his life and struggled terribly with his grades.

Avant had a tough time finding a high school to start his sophomore year.

He ended up at Carver, which was in the middle of the projects.

“There were dead bodies, metal detectors, drugs in lockers, all that type of stuff,” Avant said. “A teacher got killed and her body was found in a dumpster all cut up. A guy I played basketball with got shot.”

Sports and prayer helped Avant stay free from harm. Avant was a talented basketball player. His coach, Willie Simpson, also coached the football team and told him he had to play both sports or neither.

Avant’s first day at football practice didn’t go so well. They put him at linebacker and ran a fullback straight at him. Avant, only 175 pounds at the time, got flattened.

“He wanted to see if I was tough enough, so I quit,” Avant said. “But my grandma and dad talked me into going back.”

Avant was switched to fullback, where he got more carries than the starting running back. He moved to wide receiver his junior year and quickly became the top-ranked prep player in Illinois and one of the highest-rated players in the country.

Scholarships poured in from several high-profile universities. Avant chose Michigan.

Still, there were obstacles. The NCAA questioned his eligibility

because of his grades. Some of his school records got lost in all the shuffling. Avant feared he’d lose his scholarship. He prayed with his grandmother for a solution, and it was resolved with him only having to sit out one game.

When Avant got to Ann Arbor, his roommate, running back Alijah Bradley, was a pastor’s son. Avant and Bradley were typical college freshmen on a big campus, living it up and having fun.

But when Bradley got hurt during the spring before sophomore year, he decided he needed to go to church.

Avant went with him. For two months, they would go each week.

On May 4, 2003, Avant’s life changed forever. He was listening to Pastor Lovell Cannon’s sermon at True Worship Church in Detroit when images from his life started flashing in his mind.

“The Lord began to replay all the times my was house was shot up when I was selling drugs. The bullet hole right where my grandmother sits and she wasn’t in the chair. All the times the bullets just missed me or the shooters didn’t see me,” Avant said. “I was in places where I had 15 guys running after my car with bats, weapons and all this stuff. God is replaying this through my mind and the last thing he says: ‘I made a way for you to go to school.

After all I have done for you, Jason, you can’t surrender your life to me?’ It was a miracle for me to go to school. I needed everything to go right. So I surrendered my life to him.”

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■ CONTINUED FROM 15 easy rally by the Thunder from an early double-digit deficit, and even a jawing match between Durant and James in the final minutes.

Lakers 100, Knicks 94 LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant engineered a second-half comeback, helping the Los Angeles beat the New York Knicks 100-94 on Tuesday and extend the Lakers’ winning streak to five games while lifting them to .500.

Bryant scored 34 points in his NBA-record 15th Christmas Day game and Metta World Peace added 20 points and seven rebounds while defending Carmelo Anthony, whose 34 points led the Knicks.

Bryant, the league’s leading scorer, has topped 30 or more points in nine straight games.

The Lakers improved to 14-14 9-9 under new coach Mike D’Antoni and upped their holiday record to 21-18, including 13-9 at home.

the Gwinnett County sheriff’s office to give details about the circumstances surrounding his Christmas Day arrest.

Once one of the premier players in the big leagues, Jones broke into the majors with the Atlanta Braves in 1996 and won 10 consecutive Gold Gloves from 1998-07 as their center fielder. He has 434 career home runs over 17 seasons in the majors.

Jones signed a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League earlier this month.

The Knicks controlled most of the game behind Anthony and J.R. Smith, who had 24 points. But they struggled offensively in the fourth, when Anthony was limited to seven points and Smith had five.

Smith’s 3-pointer pulled New York to 96-94.

After Pau Gasol made one of two free throws, Smith missed another 3 that would have tied the game at 97 with 32 seconds left.

Celtics 93, Nets 76 NEW YORK — Rajon Rondo scored 19 points in his first full game against Brooklyn this season, and the Boston Celtics beat the Nets 93-76 on Tuesday in another game with some heated moments between the division rivals.

Rondo, hurt in the first meeting and thrown out of the second after shoving Nets forward Kris Humphries into the courtside seats, outplayed counterpart Deron Williams and helped the Celtics take control early.

■ CONTINUED FROM 15 playoffs that nobody saw coming for the Colts so soon after cutting ties with Manning, who switched teams, coaches, cities and colors and didn’t miss a beat in 2012.

Despite a new supporting cast and a 36-year-old body he insists continues to confound him, the quintessential quarterback has had one of the best seasons in his storied career.

Manning set franchise or NFL records just about every week while completing 68 percent of his passes for 4,355 yards with 34 TDs and just 11 interceptions.

And yet, he insists he’s not anything close to what he used to be, that all he can do is maximize what’s left in a body that’s been slowed by so many surgeons’ scalpels, and trips around the sun.

“I know you don’t believe me when I say this; I’m still learning about myself physically and what I can do, it’s still the truth,” Manning said after guiding Denver

to its 10th straight win. “I still have things that are harder than they used to be, so (there’s) things I have to work on from a rehab standpoint and a strength standpoint. That’s just the way it is and maybe that’s the way it’s going to be from here on out, I don’t know.”

Maybe Manning’s being modest, maybe he’s suckering opponents into blitzing him more often so he can burn them again. Either way, it’s a remarkable rebound for a man whose right arm was so weakened after one of his neck surgeries that he could hardly throw the football 15 yards.

Long before Manning ever dreamed he’d be wearing the orange-mane mustang on his helmet instead of the blue and white horseshoe, Manning met up with college buddy Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies for a workout during last year’s NFL lockout. They retreated to an indoor batting cage at Coors Field with a trainer in tow, and Manning’s first pass nosedived so badly that Helton

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Bengals have acquired wide receiver Dane Sanzenbacher on waivers from the Chicago Bears and placed firstround draft pick Dre Kirkpatrick on injured reserve.

Sanzenbacher was released this week by the Bears and was picked up

Tuesday by the Bengals.

He played in five games with one catch for 7 yards this season.

Kirkpatrick, the 17th overall selection in the 2012 draft, has been sidelined with a knee injury.

He played in five games this season, with two tackles on defense and two on special teams.

■ National Football League

Gordon ■ CONTINUED FROM 15 Gordon had to sit out a year because of the NCAA transfer rule and instead of playing college football in 2012 decided to enter the supplemental draft. The Browns put in the highest bit — a 2013 second-round draft pick.

“He came in and really was a young, green player,” Wilson said. “This game is a lot faster than the college game. You’re dealing with cornerbacks that are the premier cornerbacks. All of a sudden you have a Joe Haden climbing all over you. With his quickness and speed, that was new for Josh.”

Wilson said Baylor’s offense was simple, so not only did Gordon have to shake off the rust of a year without playing and grow familiar with NFL cornerbacks. He also had to master routes he never ran before and he had to learn them in training camp because he wasn’t with the Browns during their offseason program.

Gordon’s inexperience was evident in preseason when he failed to run the basic comeback route proper-

ly. His mistakes led to Brandon Weeden throwing interceptions. They went on Weeden’s ledger, but they were Gordon’s mistakes.

“He’s still on a learning curve,” Wilson said. “He’s not there yet, but I’m happy with his development. He has really deceptive speed. We drafted Travis Benjamin thinking he would be that stretch guy.

Josh can fly also. It’s beautiful to have two young rookies developing. Both those guys will only get better.”

One of the repercussions of firing Pat Shurmur, if that is what CEO Joe Banner decides, is the assistant coaches could be swept out the door — especially if an experienced head coach such as Nick Saban is the replacement and chooses his own trusted assistants.

Wilson is in his second year with the Browns. Senior Assistant — Offense Nolan Cromwell is in his first season. They deserve credit for nurturing Gordon and pushing the right buttons to turn Greg Little into a very reliable second receiver. Little scored the Browns’ only touchdown in Denver.

told him to quit goofing around.

Manning wasn’t messing with him. He was dead serious. His arm was shot, his future in football in doubt. A few days later, he underwent spinal fusion surgery and would miss the entire 2011 season.

If doctors had told him that was it, Manning said he would have called it a career without regret. But they gave him a bit of hope and that’s all he needed to embark on his comeback in Colorado.

Coach John Fox, never one to lobby for awards, suggested this week that Manning deserves a fifth MVP honor for the numbers he’s put up, the obstacles he’s overcome, the shift of culture he’s engineered.

Manning isn’t interested in talking about MVPs or comeback awards. He just wants enough wins to get a shot at hoisting another Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans in six weeks.

Peterson, on the other hand, is unabashedly clear in his desire for some recog-

nition after overcoming torn anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee, requiring the kind of reconstructive surgery that usually turns dominant players into ordinary ones.

There’s a long, long list of players who had shortened careers because of such injuries. But Peterson returned to the Vikings lineup less than nine months after his operation, and with a league-high 1,898 yards, he’s 207 yards shy of Eric Dickerson’s single-season record. He can topple it with another big game Sunday when Minnesota faces Green Bay with a playoff berth on the line for the Vikings.

With typical unflinching confidence, Peterson said in a recent interview with The Associated Press he’s expecting to win the comeback award.

“I kind of have that in the bag, especially how I’ve been telling people I’m going to come back stronger and better than ever,” he said.

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England11 4 0 .733 529 331 7 8 0 .467 288 289 Miami 6 9 0 .400 272 347 N.Y. Jets Buffalo 5 10 0 .333 316 426 South W L T Pct PF PA 12 3 0 .800 400 303 y-Houston x-Indianapolis 10 5 0 .667 329 371 Tennessee 5 10 0 .333 292 451 Jacksonville 2 13 0 .133 235 406 North W L T Pct PF PA y-Baltimore 10 5 0 .667 381 321 x-Cincinnati 9 6 0 .600 368 303 7 8 0 .467 312 304 Pittsburgh Cleveland 5 10 0 .333 292 344 West W L T Pct PF PA y-Denver 12 3 0 .800 443 286 6 9 0 .400 326 329 San Diego Oakland 4 11 0 .267 269 419 Kansas City 2 13 0 .133 208 387 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Washington 9 6 0 .600 408 370 8 7 0 .533 358 372 Dallas N.Y. Giants 8 7 0 .533 387 337 Philadelphia 4 11 0 .267 273 402 South W L T Pct PF PA 13 2 0 .867 402 277 y-Atlanta New Orleans 7 8 0 .467 423 410 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 367 377 6 9 0 .400 313 325 Carolina North W L T Pct PF PA y-Green Bay 11 4 0 .733 399 299 Minnesota 9 6 0 .600 342 314 9 6 0 .600 349 253 Chicago Detroit 4 11 0 .267 348 411 West W L T Pct PF PA x-San Francisco10 4 1 .700 370 260 10 5 0 .667 392 232 x-Seattle St. Louis 7 7 1 .500 286 328 5 10 0 .333 237 330 Arizona x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Saturday's Game Atlanta 31, Detroit 18 Sunday's Games Green Bay 55, Tennessee 7 Indianapolis 20, Kansas City 13 New Orleans 34, Dallas 31, OT Minnesota 23, Houston 6 Carolina 17, Oakland 6 Miami 24, Buffalo 10 Cincinnati 13, Pittsburgh 10 New England 23, Jacksonville 16 Washington 27, Philadelphia 20 St. Louis 28, Tampa Bay 13 San Diego 27, N.Y. Jets 17 Denver 34, Cleveland 12 Chicago 28, Arizona 13 Baltimore 33, N.Y. Giants 14 Seattle 42, San Francisco 13 Sunday, Dec. 30 Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

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

Miami at New England, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Houston at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

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

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 4:25 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 BYU 23, San Diego State 6 Friday, Dec. 21 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. UCF 38, Ball State 17 Saturday, Dec. 22 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 43, East Carolina 34 Las Vegas Bowl Boise State 28, Washington 26 Monday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU 43, Fresno State 10 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 New York 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. State (8-4) vs.

Mississippi 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 (102), 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 (9-3), 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 20 8 .714 Brooklyn 14 13 .519 Boston 14 13 .519 Philadelphia 13 15 .464 Toronto 9 19 .321 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 19 6 .760 Atlanta 16 9 .640 Orlando 12 15 .444 Charlotte 7 20 .259 Washington 3 22 .120 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 15 11 .577 Indiana 16 12 .571 Milwaukee 14 12 .538 Detroit 9 21 .300 Cleveland 6 23 .207 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 21 8 .724 Memphis 18 7 .720 Houston 14 12 .538 Dallas 12 16 .429 New Orleans 5 22 .185 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 21 6 .778 Denver 15 13 .536 Minnesota 13 12 .520 Utah 15 14 .517 Portland 13 13 .500 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 21 6 .778 Golden State 18 10 .643 L.A. Lakers 14 14 .500

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Scores AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Little Caesars Pizza Bowl at Detroit, Western Kentucky vs. Central Michigan SOCCER 9:55 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Newcastle at Manchester United

THURSDAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL 3 p.m. ESPN — Military Bowl at Washington, San Jose State vs. Bowling Green 6:30 p.m. ESPN — Belk Bowl at Charlotte, N.C., Cincinnati vs. Duke 9:45 p.m. ESPN — Holiday Bowl at San Diego, Baylor vs.

UCLA MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 9 p.m. ESPN2 — New Mexico at Cincinnati NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. TNT — Dallas at Oklahoma City 10:30 p.m. TNT — Boston at L.A. Clippers Phoenix 11 17 .393 10½ 9 18 .333 12 Sacramento Monday's Games No games scheduled Tuesday's Games Boston 93, Brooklyn 76 L.A. Lakers 100, New York 94 Miami 103, Oklahoma City 97 Houston at Chicago, 8 p.m.

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

Wednesday's Games Miami at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Washington, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

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

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 10 p.m.

Thursday's Games Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

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

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. 23, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: Pts Pvs ............................Record 1. Duke (30).............11-0 774 1 2. Michigan (1) ........12-0 745 2 3. Louisville..............11-1 682 4 3. Arizona ................11-0 682 5 5. Indiana.................11-1 648 6 6. Kansas ................10-1 642 8 7. Syracuse .............10-1 559 3 8. Cincinnati.............12-0 543 11 9. Missouri ...............10-1 537 12 10. Ohio State ...........9-2 480 7 11. Florida..................8-2 406 9 12. Creighton...........11-1 395 13 13. Gonzaga............11-1 391 14 14. Minnesota..........12-1 345 16 15. Illinois.................12-1 330 10 16. San Diego State11-1 327 15 17. UNLV .................11-1 240 18 18. Georgetown.......10-1 217 21 19. Michigan State ..11-2 207 19 20. Notre Dame.......12-1 181 22 21. Butler ...................9-2 136 25 22. Oklahoma State 10-1 129 24 23. Kentucky..............8-3 108 23 97 — 24. Pittsburgh ..........12-1 25. N.C. State ............9-2 87 — Others receiving votes: New Mexico 62, North Carolina 34, Kansas State 22, VCU 22, Wyoming 20, UConn 6, Oregon 6, Temple 5, Colorado 3, Maryland 3, Wichita State 3, Colorado State 1.

The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 23, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: ............................Record Pts Prv 1. Duke (63).............11-0 1,623 1 2. Michigan (2) ........12-0 1,551 2 3. Arizona ................11-0 1,463 4 4. Louisville..............11-1 1,422 5 5. Indiana.................11-1 1,383 6 6. Kansas ................10-1 1,309 9 7. Missouri ...............10-1 1,157 12 8. Cincinnati.............12-0 1,144 11 9. Syracuse .............10-1 1,140 3 10. Ohio St. ...............9-2 965 7 11. Minnesota..........12-1 878 13 12. Illinois.................12-1 875 10 13. Gonzaga............11-1 824 14 14. Florida..................8-2 772 8 15. Georgetown.......10-1 674 15 16. Creighton...........11-1 589 17 17. San Diego St.....11-1 557 18 18. Butler ...................9-2 512 19 19. Michigan St. ......11-2 416 20 20. UNLV .................11-1 382 21 21. Notre Dame.......12-1 337 22 22. Oklahoma St. ....10-1 318 24 23. NC State..............9-2 264 25 24. Pittsburgh ..........12-1 189 — 25. Kansas St............9-2 152 — Others receiving votes: New Mexico 66, Kentucky 37, Temple 36, Wyoming 28, North Carolina 16, VCU 16, Wichita St. 11, Maryland 7.

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. 24, 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 (26) .......11-0 769 1 2. UConn (4)............10-0 744 2 3. Baylor (1)...............9-1 717 3 4. Duke ....................10-0 680 4 5. Notre Dame...........9-1 645 5 6. Kentucky..............10-1 619 6 7. Georgia................12-0 581 7 8. California ...............9-1 529 9 9. Maryland................8-2 523 8 10. Penn State.........10-2 483 10

11. Purdue...............11-1 447 12 12. Louisville............11-2 414 13 13. Oklahoma State ..9-0 402 14 14. Dayton ...............12-0 376 15 15. Tennessee ...........7-3 373 11 16. South Carolina ..11-1 301 17 17. Oklahoma............9-2 268 18 18. UCLA...................7-2 182 16 19. Nebraska.............9-3 152 21 20. Kansas ................9-2 150 19 21. Texas....................7-2 120 23 22. Texas A&M ..........8-4 114 22 23. North Carolina...11-1 106 25 89 24 24. Ohio State ...........8-3 86 — 25. Florida State......10-1 Others receiving votes: West Virginia 38, Colorado 34, Miami 27, Iowa State 23, Syracuse 22, Arkansas 15, St. John's 7, Duquesne 6, Rutgers 6, UTEP 6, Vanderbilt 6, DePaul 5, Toledo 5, Gonzaga 3, Villanova 2.

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. 23, 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. Stanford (24) .......11-0 982 1 2. UConn (14)..........10-0 964 2 3. Baylor (2)...............9-1 931 3 4. Duke ....................10-0 883 4 5. Notre Dame...........9-1 824 5 6. Georgia................12-0 790 6 7. Kentucky................9-1 774 7 8. California ...............9-1 687 8 9. Maryland................8-2 671 9 10. Penn St..............10-2 621 11 11. Purdue...............11-1 537 13 12. Louisville............11-2 522 14 13. Tennessee ...........7-3 517 10 14. Oklahoma St. ......8-0 466 15 15. Dayton ...............12-0 454 16 16. North Carolina...11-1 349 17 17. UCLA...................7-2 307 12 18. Oklahoma............9-2 286 18 19. South Carolina ..11-1 254 21 20. Texas....................8-2 195 20 21. Florida St...........10-1 183 23 22. Kansas ................9-2 162 19 23. Colorado............10-0 156 25 24. Texas A&M ..........8-4 118 22 25. Arkansas ...........10-1 107 — Others receiving votes: Nebraska 52, Iowa St. 39, Miami 32, Ohio St. 25, West Virginia 23, Vanderbilt 20, Duquesne 19, Michigan St. 14, Michigan 11, Syracuse 10, Villanova 6, Iowa 4, Toledo 2, UTEP 2, Utah 1.

BASEBALL Remaining Free Agents NEW YORK (AP) — The 101 remaining free agents (x-signing club, if different, would lose draft pick): AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (6) — Endy Chavez, of; Bill Hall, of; Nick Johnson, dh; Joe Saunders, lhp; Jim Thome, dh; Randy Wolf, lhp.

BOSTON (4) — Aaron Cook, rhp; Daisuke Matsuzaka, rhp; Vicente Padilla, rhp; Scott Podsednik, of CHICAGO (7) — Brian Bruney, rhp; Orlando Hudson, 2b; Francisco Liriano, lhp; Jose Lopez, c; Brett Myers, rhp; A.J. Pierzynski, c; Dewayne Wise, of.

CLEVELAND (3) — Travis Hafner, dh; Casey Kotchman, 1b; Grady Sizemore, of.

DETROIT (2) — Jose Valverde, rhp; Delmon Young, of-dh.

HOUSTON (1) — Chris Snyder, c.

LOS ANGELES (2) — LaTroy Hawkins, rhp; Jason Isringhausen, rhp.

MINNESOTA (2) — Matt Capps, rhp; Carl Pavano, rhp.

NEW YORK (6) — Pedro Feliciano, lhp; Freddy Garcia, rhp; Raul Ibanez, of; Derek Lowe, rhp; x-Rafael Soriano, rhp; x-Nick Swisher, of.

OAKLAND (2) — Stephen Drew, ss; Brandon Inge, 3b.

SEATTLE (2) — Kevin Millwood, rhp; Miguel Olivo, c.

TAMPA BAY (3) — Kyle Farnsworth, rhp; J.P. Howell, lhp; Luke Scott, dh.

TEXAS (4) — x-Mark Lowe, rhp; Mike Napoli, c; Roy Oswalt, rhp; Yoshinori Tateyama, rhp.

TORONTO (5) — Jason Frasor, rhp; Kelly Johnson, 2b; Brandon Lyon, rhp; Carlos Villanueva, rhp; Omar Vizquel, 2b.

NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIZONA (3) — Henry Blanco, c; Matt Lindstrom, rhp; Takashi Saito, rhp.

ATLANTA (8) — Jeff Baker, of; Miguel Batista, rhp; x-Michael Bourn, of; Matt Diaz, of; Chad Durbin, rhp; Chipper Jones, 3b; Lyle Overbay, 1b; Ben Sheets, rhp.

CINCINNATI (2) — Miguel Cairo, 1b; Scott Rolen, 3b.

COLORADO (2) — Jason Giambi, 1b; Jonathan Sanchez, lhp.

LOS ANGELES (6) — Bobby Abreu, of; Todd Coffey, rhp; Adam Kennedy, inf; Juan Rivera, of-1b; Matt Treanor, c; Jamey Wright, rhp.

MIAMI (5) — Chad Gaudin, rhp; Austin Kearns, of; Carlos Lee, 1b; Juan Oviedo, rhp; Carlos Zambrano, rhp.

MILWAUKEE (3) — Alex Gonzalez, ss; Shaun Marcum, rhp; Francisco Rodriguez, rhp.

NEW YORK (6) — Ronny Cedeno, inf; Scott Hairston, of; Ramon Ramirez, rhp;

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Jon Rauch, rhp; Kelly Shoppach, c; Chris Young, rhp.

PHILADELPHIA (2) — Jose Contreras, rhp; Brian Schneider, c.

PITTSBURGH (2) — Rod Barajas, c; Chad Qualls, rhp.

ST. LOUIS (3) — Lance Berkman, 1b; Brian Fuentes, lhp; x-Kyle Lohse, rhp.

SAN FRANCISCO (5) — Aubrey Huff, 1b; Guillermo Mota, rhp; Brad Penny, rhp; Freddy Sanchez, 2b; Ryan Theriot, 2b.

WASHINGTON (5) — Mark DeRosa, of; Mike Gonzalez, lhp; Edwin Jackson, rhp; xAdam LaRoche, 1b; Chien-Ming Wang, rhp.

Free Agent Signings NEW YORK (AP) — The 64 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract.The contract information was obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources. For players with minor league contracts, letter agreements for major league contracts are in parentheses: AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (1) — Re-signed Nate McLouth, of, to a $2 million, one-year contract.

BOSTON (6) — Re-signed David Ortiz, dh, to a $26 million, two-year contract; signed David Ross, c, Atlanta, to a $6.2 million, two-year contract; signed Jonny Gomes, of, Oakland, to a $10 million, twoyear contract; signed Shane Victorino, of, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $39 million, three-year contract; signed Koji Uehara, rhp, to a $4.25 million, one-year contract; signed Ryan Dempster, rhp, Texas, to a $26.5 million, two-year contract.

CHICAGO (1) — Signed Jeff Keppinger, 3b, Tampa Bay, to a $12 million, three-year contract.

DETROIT (2) — Signed Torii Hunter, of, Los Angeles Angels, to a $26 million, twoyear contract; re-signed Anibal Sanchez, rhp, to an $80 million, five-year contract.

HOUSTON (1) — Signed Carlos Pena, 1b, to a $2.9 million, one-year contract.

KANSAS CITY (3) — Re-signed Jeremy Guthrie, rhp, to a $25 million, three-year contract; signed George Sherrill, lhp, Seattle, to a minor league contract; signed Xavier Nady, of, San Francisco, to a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES (4) — Signed Ryan Madson, rhp, Cincinnati, to a $3.5 million, one-year contract; signed Joe Blanton, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $15 million, two-year contract; signed Sean Burnett, lhp, Washington, to an $8 million, two-year contract; signed Josh Hamilton, of, Texas, to a $123 million, five-year contract.

MINNESOTA (1) — Signed Kevin Correia, rhp, Pittsburgh, to a $10 million, two-year contract.

NEW YORK (5) — Re-signed Hiroki Kuroda, rhp, to a $15 million, one-year contract; re-signed Andy Pettitte, lhp, to a $12 million, one-year contract; re-signed Mariano Rivera, rhp, to a $10 million, oneyear contract; signed Kevin Youkilis, 3b, Chicago White Sox, to a $12 million, oneyear contract; re-signed Ichiro Suzuki, of, to a $13 million, two-year contract.

OAKLAND (1) — Re-signed Bartolo Colon, rhp, to a $3 million, one-year contract.

SEATTLE (1) — Re-signed Oliver Perez, lhp, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY (3) — Re-signed Joel Peralta, rhp, to a $6 million, two-year contract; signed James Loney, 1b, Boston, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Roberto Hernandez, rhp, Cleveland, to a $3.25 million, one-year contract.

TEXAS (2) — Re-signed Colby Lewis, rhp, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Joakim Soria, rhp, Texas, to an $8 million, two-year contract.

TORONTO (2) — Signed Maicer Izturis, inf, Los Angeles Angels, to a $10 million, three-year contract; signed Melky Cabrera, of, San Francisco, to a $16 million, twoyear contract.

NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIZONA (4) — Signed Eric Hinske, 1b, Atlanta, to a $1.35 million, one-year contract; signed Eric Chavez, 3b, New York Yankees, to a $3 million, one-year contract; signed Brandon McCarthy, rhp, Oakland, to a $15.5 million, two-year contract; signed Cody Ross, of, Boston, to a $26 million, three-year contract.

ATLANTA (3) — Signed Gerald Laird, c, Detroit, to a $3 million, two-year contract; signed B.J. Upton, of, Tampa Bay, to a $75.25 million, five-year contract;re-signed Reed Johnson, of, to a $1.75 million, oneyear contract.

CHICAGO (4) — Signed Scott Baker, rhp, Minnesota, to a $5.5 million, one-year contract; signed Dioner Navarro, c, Cincinnati, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract; re-signed Shawn Camp, rhp, to a $1.35 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Feldman, rhp, Texas, to a $6 million, one-year contract.

CINCINNATI (2) — Re-signed Jonathan Broxton, rhp, to a $21 million, three-year contract; re-signed Ryan Ludwick, of, to a $15 million, two-year contract.

COLORADO (1) — Re-signed Jeff Francis, lhp, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract.

LOS ANGELES (2) — Re-signed Brandon League, rhp, to a $22.5 million, three-year contract; signed Zack Greinke, rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $147 million, three-year contract.

MIAMI (2) — Signed Juan Pierre, of, Philadelphia, to a $1.6 million, one-year contract; signed Placido Polanco, 3b, Philadelphia, to a $2.75 million, one-year contract.

NEW YORK (1) — Re-signed Tim Byrdak, lhp, to a minor league contract ($1 million).

PHILADELPHIA (1) — Signed Mike Adams, rhp, Texas, to a $12 million, twoyear contract.

PITTSBURGH (2) — Signed Russell Martin, c, New York Yankees, to a $17 million, two-year contract; re-signed Jason Grilli, rhp, to a $6.75 million, two-year contract.

ST. LOUIS (2) — Signed Randy Choate, lhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $7.5 million, three-year contract; signed Ty Wigginton, inf, Philadelphia, to a $5 million, two-year contract.

SAN DIEGO (1) — Re-signed Jason Marquis, rhp, to a $3 million, one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO (3) — Re-signed Jeremy Affeldt, lhp, to an $18 million, three-year contract; re-signed Angel Pagan, of, to a $40 million, four-year contract; re-signed Marco Scutaro, inf, to a $20 million, three-year contract.

WASHINGTON (2) — Re-signed Zach Duke, lhp, to a $700,000, one-year contract; signed Dan Haren, rhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $13 million, one-year contract.

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■ College Football

W. Kent. to play CMU in Detroit DETROIT (AP) — Before the Bobby Petrino era begins at Western Kentucky, there’s a bowl game to play the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl against Central Michigan.

The game at Ford Field on Wednesday night is in Detroit, not far from the campus of the Chippewas (6-6). The Hilltoppers (75) will be run by interim coach Lance Guidry.

Petrino’s hiring has almost overshadowed the play of the Hilltoppers.

They are in their first bowl since becoming a top-tier college football school in 2009.

Petrino is returning to coaching less than a year after he was dismissed at Arkansas. He had hired his former mistress to work in the Razorbacks’ football department.

Guidry, who was the team’s defensive coordinator, says his players are ready.

“These kids are really hungry,” Guidry said.

“Really been having some great practices, although they’ve been going through a lot of different things with the head coaches.”

Guidry was appointed interim coach Dec. 8, a day after Willie Taggart left to coach South Florida. Two days later, Western Kentucky hired Petrino to be Taggart’s full-time replacement in a stunning move that didn’t seem to shake up the players much because familiar faces were still around.

“Even though Coach Taggert is gone, the coaches are still here with us,” Western Kentucky junior running back Antonio Andrews said. “They’ve been here since Day One.” Dan Enos has been leading the Chippewas since 2010. Enos was hired soon after Central Michigan played in and won its last postseason game, beating Troy in the GMAC Bowl with a team put together by former coach Butch Jones, who is now coaching at Tennessee.

Central Michigan won its last three games this year to be eligible for a bowl. After going 3-9 in each of Enos’ first two seasons, his players are excited to still be playing.

■ NBA

Cavaliers claim G Livingston CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cavaliers claimed guard Shaun Livingston on waivers from Washington.

To make room on their roster, the Cavs waived guard Donald Sloan, who appeared in 20 games for Cleveland this season.

Livingston made four starts for the Wizards this season. He was waived on Sunday by Washington and the Cavs had until 5 p.m. Tuesday to claim him. He averaged 3.7 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 17 games.

The 6-footer has appeared in 341 career NBA games.

Sloan has appeared in 53 games 11 starts for Cleveland, which signed him from the Development League in March.

The Cavs play at Washington on Wednesday night. They’ll be without center Anderson Varejao, the league’s top rebounder, who will miss his fourth straight game with a bruised right knee.

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SPORTS

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

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Sad stories rocked the sports world in 2012 TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer

Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his life in prison, Penn State football played under NCAA sanctions and Joe Paterno passed away.

Lance Armstrong abandoned his fight against doping allegations.

Roger Clemens won his court battle, despite lingering skepticism over whether he used steroids. The impact of early-stage dementia forced Pat Summitt to step down from her coaching perch.

Again and again, it seemed, the sports world in 2012 saw the end of long tales with tragic or, at best, bittersweet endings.

And in so many cases, off-thefield news overshadowed what happened on it: • In State College, Pa., where the Sandusky mess at Penn State destroyed lives and radically changed the face of a proud football program.

• In Washington, where Clemens emerged from court a winner, after a mistrial the first time around on charges he lied to Congress about performance-enhancing drug use.

• In Kansas City, Mo., where Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend, then drove to the team’s facility in the Arrowhead Stadium complex, thanked his coach and general manager, and turned the gun on himself.

• In Austin, Texas, where the news broke that Armstrong decided to give up his long fight against doping charges, saying “enough is enough” but acknowledging no wrongdoing. The move began the cyclist’s swift fall from his spot as cancer-fighting sports hero in the public eye. And though he maintains he was victimized by a “witch hunt,” Armstrong still was stripped of all seven of his Tour de France victories.

“We must create a culture in which people are not afraid to speak up, management is not compartmentalized, all are expected to demonstrate the highest ethical standards, and the operating policy is open, collegial and collaborative,” Penn State President Rodney Erickson said the day the NCAA levied massive sanctions against the Nittany Lions including a four year postseason ban.

Erickson was speaking of his own school.

But in 2012, at least some of those lessons could have applied to any number of topics.

Sure, there were amazing

AP PHOTO

In this July 31 photo, United States’ Michael Phelps poses with his gold medal for the men’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Phelps has the most medals in history with 22. moments to remember and savor.

Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian in history, adding to his enormous swimming haul with six more medals at the London Games, where the United States topped the winning charts once again. Usain Bolt became the first man to win the 100- and 200meter dashes at consecutive Olympics, Eli Manning and the New York Giants reigned supreme in the NFL, San Francisco stormed its way to the World Series title, the Los Angeles Kings hoisted the Stanley Cup (no telling if any other team will anytime soon) and LeBron James and the Miami Heat silenced doubters by winning the NBA title.

Yet in a year like this, such times of achievement and triumph seemed few and far between.

Take March 21, for example. That was the day when Tim Tebow was traded by Denver to the New York Jets, a huge story simply for the Tebowmania factor — and one that wasn’t even the biggest in the NFL that day, not with the announcement that New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton would serve a yearlong suspension for his role in the bounty scandal.

Try August 15, when baseball got to experience a rarity — Felix Hernandez pitching the first perfect game in Seattle Mariners’ history — and an all-too-common occurrence, that being someone testing positive

AP PHOTO

In this Oct. 9 photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, and a deputy, after being sentenced in Bellefonte, Pa. for something, in this case San Francisco’s Melky Cabrera basically forfeiting any shot at the MVP or the NL batting title by being suspended 50 games following a positive test for testosterone.

Or Oct. 10, when Raul Ibanez showed off a flair for the dramatic — twice — by hitting tying and winning home runs as the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 to take a 2-1 lead in the AL Division Series, an enormous moment by any measure. Of course, those blasts came on the same day

that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a report in which Armstrong was portrayed as the lead of the “most professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”

As stunning as Armstrong’s fall was, what went on at Penn State continued to dominate the sports lexicon.

Sandusky was arrested in November 2011, but resolution didn’t really begin until 2012 — part of why the case was voted the top sports story of the year by The

Associated Press, based on balloting

by U.S. editors and news directors.

The longtime Penn State defensive coordinator was convicted of 45 counts of abuse involving 10 boys, and later sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison, which means Sandusky is likely to die behind bars.

Paterno succumbed to lung cancer in January, and a statue of his likeness outside Beaver Stadium was removed six months later, one day before the NCAA announced a $60 million fine and four years of scholarship reductions. Still to come: civil suits brought by Sandusky’s victims and the trials of former school administrators accused of neglecting their duty to report allegations.

Paterno is still considered by many as a sympathetic figure, and still revered as a role model by some.

Clemens’ legacy doesn’t seem to resonate the same way with sports fans. It’s almost like his courtroom win was one that many did not expect to see happen, and it may be his last big victory for a while.

Clemens — the only seven-time Cy Young Award winner — is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this year, and a recent survey of voters by the AP shows that he is likely to fall well short of the number of votes necessary for induction in 2013.

Clemens was accused by former personal trainer Brian McNamee in the Mitchell Report on drugs in baseball of using steroids and HGH, allegations Clemens denied before Congress. Eventually, after a Justice Department investigation looked into whether Clemens lied under oath, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of perjury, three counts of making false statements and one count of obstructing Congress.

He was acquitted of all the charges on June 19 after a 10-week trial.

Armstrong’s fight lasted even longer than that.

The testicular-cancer survivor won the Tour de France seven times, all while dogged by the stigma of hemust-be-cheating. Armstrong was never caught by a drug test, but rather was ultimately done in largely by the words of his former teammates. Armstrong continues to deny doping, but simply said his fight had gone on long enough.

Giving up has come with a price.

Armstrong cut ties to his well-known charity, Livestrong, and longtime sponsor Nike — among other corporations — cut ties with him.

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