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Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area people: Dr. Lynne Alvine, Julia Smyers, Clare Thomas, Jacob Winters.

Inside ZOO WARNED: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ordered Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium to stop using dogs to help control its elephants and protect human handlers./Page 3 DIFFICULT FATE: Foreign recruits who find themselves disillusioned with the Islamic State soon discover that it’s a lot harder to leave than to join, risking death at its hands or jail in their homelands./Page 5 SIGNALING FLEXIBILITY: The man tapped to be the next Pentagon chief says he would consider changing the current plans for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year if security conditions worsen./Page 7 DOUBLE PERFECTION: A Missouri high school senior earned a perfect score on both the SAT and ACT exams./Page 8 CALL OF DUTY: A Marine who volunteered his name for a bone marrow registry during his time in the military recently was contacted to donate his stem cells to an Australian woman./Page 9

SECTION CHAMPS: The Indiana High School girls’ basketball team beat Greensburg Salem on Monday to claim at least a share of the WPIAL Section 3-AAA title./Page 11

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Former treasurer charged with extortion

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paign, according to court papers filed Monday. The papers include a plea agreement signed by McCord, and a guilty plea is set for Feb. 17, said McCord’s lawyer, Robert Welsh. Prosecutors filed two charges of extortion in connection with McCord’s dealings with a Philadelphia-

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HARRISBURG — Just-resigned Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord plans to plead guilty to federal extortion charges for using his office to threaten potential donors into contributing money to his failed gubernatorial cam-

based law firm and a western Pennsylvania-based property management firm. The maximum penalty for each charge is 20 years in prison, and Welsh said it will be up to the judge to decide the punishment. The firms were not named, but in the few details revealed Continued on Page 10

CENTER TOWNSHIP

Supervisors clarify positions on changing burn ordinance By CHAUNCEY ROSS

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GRACETON — A full house of Center Township residents crowded the municipal building for the board of supervisors’ meeting Monday afternoon, most in response to an announcement last month that the township’s ordinance regulating outdoor burning might be tightened. Residents offered a mix of support and criticism of the idea after the supervisors devoted time to clarifying the issue and their positions. The heavy turnout “I THREW that out prompted the supervisors to move their at the January meeting from the ofmeeting. ... And fice to the maintenance garage. I’m glad I did, Chairman John because it stirred Bertolino has proposed tougher penalup a hell of a lot ties for violating the orof people. And I’m dinance that now alglad it stirred you lows residents to burn only untreated wood up ... because the and paper products between 5 and 9 p.m. people that are Wednesday violating this burn Monday, and Friday. He recomordinance are mended a warning for a first offense, then a sitting at home fine of $100 or more for laughing at us a second offense. He also proposed altoday.” lowing property owners to burn brush and John Bertolino, other vegetation after township supervisor clearing their land, but requiring them to first obtain permits and notify the nearest fire department before burning. Bertolino emphasized there would be no restrictions on campfires or backyard cookouts using “fire rings.” Revisions to the ordinance are only suggestions, he said. Nothing has been put in writing or formally adopted, Bertolino said, and any changes would be made in the form of an amendment to the present ordinance rather than in a new ordinance. And Bertolino took ownership of the proposal as his idea after fellow supervisor Robert Pozik distanced himself from the suggestion. “When one of us is talking up here, you need to find out if it’s that person’s comments or the board,” Pozik said, directing his comments to reporters. “When this all started, we never discussed this before, during or since. … To be fair to myself or any of us who are not in agreement, it’s not the board that made a decision.” Pozik said Monday that he does not know exactly what changes Bertolino has proposed, and that he would not decide whether to support any Continued on Page 4

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PRESIDENT OBAMA delivered remarks Monday on his budget proposal for the 2016 fiscal year at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C.

Can Republicans, Obama find common ground? Budget breakdown To simplify, if you think of the budget plan as just $100, here’s where most of the money would go. • Health and human services: $26.88 • Social Security: $24.87 • Defense Department: $16.03 • Treasury Department: $14.19 • Veterans: $4.07 • Labor Department: $1.96 • Education Department: $1.81 • Housing and Urban Development Department: $1.19 Source: Associated Press

By JIM KUHNHENN WASHINGTON — There are reasons President Barack Obama and his aides will argue that his new budget can be the start of a negotiation with the Republican-controlled Congress. For one, some of his proposals are thematically in the same sphere as those of the GOP. For another, he can block their initiatives. Wielding a hockey stick given to him by the National Hockey League champions, the Los Angeles Kings, Obama on Monday bit his lower lip and swung. “This is even better than a veto pen,” he declared just hours after sending his budget to Congress. “You don’t want to mess with somebody who’s got one of these.” No doubt Obama’s ability to veto is a power that can be just as conducive to deals as it is to gridlock. But Obama’s priorities and those of Republicans find overlapping common ground on proposals to increase defense spending, upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure and fix the corporate tax system. Agreement on any one of those is a long shot; there are significant differences between Obama and Re-

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Long tenures are nothing new for Rodney Ruddock. He retired as a U.S. Army Reserve major general after 37 years of service. For 35 years he was a teacher and administrator in the Indiana Area School District. And he has been an Indiana County commissioner nearly 12 years. Ruddock said Monday he doesn’t intend to stop yet. He announced he will seek reelection this spring to a fourth term as commissioner. Ruddock, a Republican, was elected in 2003 and reelected in 2007 and 2011. He’s been the chairman of the commissioners since a few

days after he first took office in 2004. “I really enjoy what I do in the county,” he said. “I really think it’s probably the best job I’ve ever had because I get a chance to help build an infrastructure in which our county can excel, particularly on the economic side. “Everything we’ve tried to do over the last number of years has been with an economic focus, with long-range strategies” that will eventually allow the county to move on to other issues that are important, especially workforce development, he said. “I think that is a critical piece of our next step for the county, is to make sure our workforce is prepared to move forward along with what our region is demanding.”

publicans over scale and scope in each of their intersecting interests. How far apart could begin to become evident today when Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and White House budget office director Shaun Donovan testify before key congressional committees about the president’s budget. Obama is also meeting with his Cabinet today, with the budget as a top agenda item. Here’s a look at key areas of Obama’s budget that could be opening bids in talks with Republican congressional leaders.

INCREASED SPENDING Obama wants to loosen the budget cuffs on military and domestic programs that Congress applied as part of a budget deal in 2011. Deficits had hit $1.4 trillion in 2009 and cutting spending was a top political priority. Now deficits are nearly a third of that high-water mark and Obama has declared he wants to move away from “mindless austerity.” Continued on Page 10

Man gets ARD in stabbing case

Ruddock seeking fourth term as commissioner By RANDY WELLS

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ROD RUDDOCK ... county commissioner

PAGE 4 • An incumbent is running for re-election as register and recorder in Armstrong County. When Ruddock ran for reelection four years ago, he said some of his goals were to provide better local health care for military veterans, expand broadband Internet service to more areas of the county, improve the safety of the county’s magisterial court office in Blairsville and create Continued on Page 10

A former Indiana University of Pennsylvania student charged with stabbing an Indiana man in September has been placed in a fast-track court program to resolve the charges against him. William Rivera, 22, of Reston, Va., was admitted Monday to the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program at a hearing in Indiana County Common Pleas Court. Approval to the program required Rivera to plead guilty to aggravated assault — a seconddegree felony — and a misdemeanor count of tampering with physical evidence. Rivera’s acceptance to the program qualifies him to have the charges erased from his permanent court record. WILLIAM Judge William Martin placed Rivera under supervision of the Indiana County RIVERA probation department for 12 months, required him to enroll in an anger-management class and to perform 20 hours of community service, and ordered him to pay $1,554.99 of restitution. The ARD program usually is offered to first-time defendants accused of nonviolent offenses, but Martin said Rivera qualified for the program because he had been Continued on Page 10

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By The Indiana Gazette HOMER CITY — Charges against an Indiana man accused of trying to stab another man in an Indiana bar in December were waived to court Monday at a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Susanne Steffee, in Homer City. Brandon Jones, 27, of 931 Centennial Drive, was charged by Indiana police with aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, disorderly conduct and possession of a small amount of

marijuana. According to a criminal complaint filed by police, Jones confronted Christian Newsome, of Philadelphia, in Brunzies Bar, 470 Philadelphia St., at 4:51 p.m. Dec. 2, and threatened Newsome with a box cutter. Witnesses in the bar told police that Jones chased Newsome around the bar, and the bar’s security video corroborated their statements. On the video, Newsome is seen dodging a punch thrown by Jones and Newsome trying to shield himself

Arraignment set in robbery, assault An arraignment was scheduled today in front of District Judge Susan Steffee for a man accused of threatening employees at Walmart in Burrell Township on Jan. 27. Paul R. Good IV, 33, was committed to the Westmoreland County Prison on Wednesday. He faces two felony robbery charges, felony charges of aggravated assault and retail theft, and misdemeanor charges of terroristic threats, theft, receiving stolen property,

simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. Police said in a Jan. 27 news release that Good attempted to steal 28 DVDs when he was spotted by Walmart employees. Good dropped the DVDs, then ran outside, police said, and when employees tried to stop him he pulled out a knife and threatened to stab and bite the employees if he wasn’t released. Good fled to the rear of the store and fled the scene with two other people in a vehicle, police said.

Shed fire kills chickens By The Indiana Gazette A chicken shed burned this morning along Route 259 in Brush Valley Township. Chief Ed Altemus, of the Brush Valley Township volunteer fire department, said four or five chickens died in the blaze. He said an electric heater shorted out, causing the fire.

Crews were on scene for about an hour, Altemus said, from the time of the call at about 5 a.m. The Homer City and Armagh & East Wheatfield Township volunteer fire departments assisted at the scene. Altemus said no one was injured, and there was no damage other than the small shed.

911 REPORT From the log of the Indiana County Emergency Management Agency:

MONDAY • 1:53 a.m.: Miscellaneous, Montgomery Lane, Armstrong Township. Elderton fire department dispatched to assist medic unit with four wheel drive. • 6:12 a.m.: Vehicle accident, South Ben Franklin Road, White Township. Indiana fire department and state police dispatched, no injuries. • 12:33 p.m.: Pumping de-

tail, West Church Street, Homer City Borough. Homer City fire department dispatched. • 1:24 p.m.: Odor investigation, East 11th Street, Homer City Borough. Homer City fire department dispatched. • 10:37 p.m.: Miscellaneous, Derry Township, other county. Blairsville fire department dispatched to assist medic unit. • 11:20 p.m.: Odor investigation, Luciusboro Road, Center Township. Coral Graceton fire department dispatched.

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behind a bar stool, according to the complaint. Police said Newsome ran out of Brunzies with Jones chasing him, then ran back in with Jones again chasing him around the bar with the box cutter. When the bar’s owner told Jones the police were on the way, Jones fled and was arrested a short time later in nearby Grub’s Sports Bar, according to court papers. Police said two officers had their weapons pointed at Jones before he obeyed their orders to show them his hands and get on

Alcohol offenses Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus police cited IUP student Connor B. Garrison, 19, of Perkasie, with underage drinking on Jan. 25. Police said they observed Garrison to be intoxicated at Suites on Pratt at 2:26 a.m. A summary trial is scheduled for Feb. 25. ❏❏❏ Taylor L. Hetrick, 18, of Freeport, was cited by IUP campus police with public drunkenness and underage drinking on Jan. 25. Police said they saw Hetrick fall into the construction fence along Pratt Drive at 12:22 a.m. The officers said when they tried to make contact with her she slipped and fell on the road.

Device fraud IUP campus police charged IUP student Komeh N. Lansana, 19, of Philadelphia with access device fraud, theft and receiving stolen property on Jan. 26 after an investigation at the Hadley Union Building. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 12. Lansana was placed in the Indiana County Jail on Monday on a $5,000 straight detainer. Court records show Lansana had been unable to post bail as of this morning.

Theft IUP campus police said they received a report that an iPhone charger was taken

the floor. In Jones’ pockets the officers found the box cutter and a knotted baggie of marijuana, according to the complaint. Also according to the criminal complaint, Jones told the arresting officer that Newsome had assaulted Jones twice, and although the attacks were reported to police, there had been no resolution. So, Jones told police, when he saw Newsome at the bar, he decided to take the matter into his own hands. Jones is free on bond.

from a room at University Towers on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

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Burglary State police in Indiana said a revolver was taken from a residence at 18750 Route 403 sometime between Dec. 20 and Jan. 19. Police said the revolver belonged to Charles E. Miller, 32, of Smicksburg, and it was taken from the residence of Tosha L. Miller, 31, of Dixonville.

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Burglary State police in Greensburg said someone forced open a basement door at a residence along Lincoln Street but left without taking anything on Jan. 16 between 12 and 5 p.m. Police said the residence belonged to Joseph Hood, of Bolivar. Police asked that anyone with information about the incident contact them at (724) 3571960.

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Criminal mischief State police in Indiana said someone drove through the Black Lick baseball field along Park Drive between 5:30 p.m. Sunday and 5 a.m. Monday, leaving ruts in the field’s soil. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the state police barracks at (724) 3571960.

ACCIDENTS SOUTH MAHONING TOWNSHIP One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident on Friday at 2:40 p.m. along Mahoning Road near Wilson Road, according to state police in Indiana. Police said Donald C. Wheeler Jr., 20, of Marion Center, failed to negotiate a

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curve in the road and struck the driver’s side of a vehicle driven by William A. Clark Jr., 47, of Saltsburg. Clark suffered minor injuries but did not require EMS transport. Clark’s car was heavily damaged and required towing, police said. Wheeler and his 16-yearold male passenger were not injured, police said.

LOTTERY HARRISBURG (AP) — These Pennsylvania lotteries were drawn Monday: Cash 5: 01-04-26-29-42 Match 6 Lotto: 10-11-1229-32-37 Pick 2 Day: 2-7 Pick 2 Evening: 3-6 Pick 3 Day: 0-5-0 Pick 3 Evening: 0-5-6 Pick 4 Day: 5-7-8-6 Pick 4 Evening: 9-6-5-8 Pick 5 Day: 9-3-5-1-4 Pick 5 Evening: 1-4-6-8-0 Treasure Hunt: 02-05-0916-20

HOSPITAL NOTES INDIANA Jan. 29, 2015 Birth Kristen Faith Stiles and Jeff Szenyo, Homer City, a girl Feb. 2, 2015 Birth Lacey Lynn Shearer, Saltsburg, a girl Admissions Larry William Akins, Clymer; Margaret Jean Cunningham, Indiana; Merle Franklin Sexton Jr., Indiana; Lacey Lynn Shearer, Saltsburg; Patricia A. Simkins, Indiana Discharges Baby Boy Aiello, Indiana; Russell W. Harvey, Blairsville; Anita Maxine and Baby Boy Ranochock, Indiana; Baby Girl and Rosemary Spadafora, Indiana; Lois Ann Stiver, Indiana

Teddy “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor (born this date in 1811, died in 1872)

CORRECTION Professional golfer Steve Wheatcroft, who was born in Indiana, is the son of Dan and Barbara Ogden Wheatcroft. Incorrect information was contained in a column published Sunday.

CORRECTION POLICY The Gazette corrects factual errors as soon as they are brought to our attention. If you see an error or omission, call Eric Ebeling, executive editor, at extension 269.

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Feds order zoo to stop using dogs with elephants By JOE MANDAK Associated Press

PITTSBURGH â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The federal government has ordered the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium to have its human handlers stop using cattle dogs to cause â&#x20AC;&#x153;behavioral stressâ&#x20AC;? to its elephants. The inspection report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture was released Monday by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA complained about the practice late last year and trumpeted the USDA decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When elephants, dogs, and human handlers freely mix, everyone is in danger,â&#x20AC;? Delcianna Winders, a lawyer for PETA, said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;PETA is calling on the Pittsburgh Zoo to switch to safe and modern elephant-management methods â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or, better yet, to retire the elephants to an accredited sanctuary where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be free from harassment for the rest of their lives.â&#x20AC;? According to the Jan. 7 inspection report, the zoo was ordered to immediately stop using the dogs in ways that upset the elephants. Barbara Baker, the zooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president and CEO, issued a statement saying: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dogs read the behavior of the animals and alert the keepers to any disruption in the herd, preventing potential safety concerns for the staff and elephants. This method of animal management, in

the livestock field, is referred to as a low-stress method.â&#x20AC;? Officials with the USDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service visited the zoo on Jan. 6 and asked an unnamed manager to demonstrate how the dogs are used, according to the report. The manager called one dog â&#x20AC;&#x153;to create a barrier between the husbandry staff and an elephant which had reached its trunk through the enclosure bars,â&#x20AC;? the report said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dog showed aggressive behavior, growling and lunging at one elephant and entering its enclosure before being called back by the manager.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The manager also reported the dogs having bitten the elephants during the course of their work,â&#x20AC;? the report said. A television news clip from May, which was verified by zoo officials, â&#x20AC;&#x153;showed the elephants exhibiting signs of distress when charged by one of the dogs, including ear flapping, trumpeting, and turning and running away,â&#x20AC;? the report said. The USDA report said the zoo must control the elephants without causing them â&#x20AC;&#x153;behavioral stressâ&#x20AC;? and ordered the change â&#x20AC;&#x153;from this point forward.â&#x20AC;? The USDA didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t return calls seeking additional comment on the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s findings. Baker said that during the

inspection, â&#x20AC;&#x153;our elephant manager demonstrated a drill simulating the dogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; response to a keeper being in an extreme and unlikely situation. We showed how valuable the dogs can be should a keeperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety be in question.â&#x20AC;? Zoo officials started using Australian cattle dogs to help handlers control the elephants in 2012 and Baker said that, since then, no dogs, elephants or handlers have been harmed. But PETA contends zoos should use barriers to separate handlers and elephants at all times and use only positive reinforcement to control elephants. Zoo officials have said they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t punish their elephants for not complying with human handlers and use only positive reinforcement to control their behavior. Baker said the zoo has also begun working with the USDA on a study â&#x20AC;&#x153;that examines a variety of facets regarding the welfare of elephants, including a unique examination of stress.â&#x20AC;? The USDA also noted that a sea lion at the aquarium had swollen corneas from too much chlorine in her water, and that a zoo veterinarian determined most â&#x20AC;&#x153;marine mammals have had issues with corneal diseaseâ&#x20AC;? likely caused by too much chlorine. The zoo was supposed to have addressed that by Jan. 21, the report said.

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Woman indicted for identity thefts HARRISBURG (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A New York woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania with using stolen identity information to steal $138,000 from PNC Bank branches in several states, including $9,000 from two branches in central Pennsylvania. Online court records donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t list an attorney for Njeri Bowen, 26, who was charged last week with conspiracy, bank fraud and identity fraud by a grand jury in Harrisburg. Federal prosecutors said Bowen worked with others who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t named to withdraw the money from 25 branches in Pennsylvania, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia. Bowen allegedly withdrew $4,500 from each of two PNC branches in State College on July 9, 2013. Investigators say the scam ran from April 2013 until April 2014. It was not immediately clear whether Bowen was in custody.

Motorist dies after tree falls on car RADNOR (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A motorist has died after a tree fell onto his car in Radnor Township. Police said they received a report of a car crushed by a tree at Sproul Road and Sunny Hill Lane shortly before 5 p.m. Monday. Emergency responders had to cut the roof off the car to remove the man, who was not identified. He was taken to Paoli Hospital with head injuries and died there a short time later. An investigation determined that after the tree

struck the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car, it hit another vehicle. The occupants of that vehicle were not injured.

WJAC anchor Brown to retire JOHNSTOWN (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A longtime news anchor at an NBC station in western Pennsylvania is retiring at the end of the month. WJAC-TV in Johnstown reported Bill Brown will leave the station after more than 32 years on the air. Brown joined the station in 1982 and has anchored the 6 News at Sunrise show since it began 29 years ago. He has also been the stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noon anchor for 30 years. Brown said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;been my privilege to work with an incredible group of professionals here at WJAC and to have served the wonderful people in this region.â&#x20AC;?

Police: Missing boy was hiding DUNCANSVILLE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A 10-year-old Pennsylvania boy wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t missing as his mother feared, but was simply found hiding under his down bed, apparently while playing hide-and-seek, police said. Blair Township police re-

ported that the boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother called for help Friday night when she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find the boy for an extended time. Police began summoning a search-and-rescue team early Saturday before they learned the boy had been found â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by a sibling, hiding under his own bed. Officer Benjamin Shanholtz said the boy was found by another sibling, not the brother he had been playing with when he was last seen. Nobody is in any legal trouble as a result of the search. Police couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately be reached for more details Monday.

Boot-eating dog undergoes surgery PHILADELPHIA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Veterinarians said a dog is recovering after surgery to remove parts of a pair of calf-high leather boots the animal had eaten. The Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center in Philadelphia said the 4year-old mixed breed named Vince ate parts of both boots on Friday. Specialists said the volume consumed was so large that the dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stomach was unable to pass the material into the small intestines, so the pet underwent surgery Saturday.

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CHRISTINE ANDERSON, executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, sat in the control room at Spaceport America in Upham, N.M., in December.

CEO: Virgin Galactic on track toward space trips By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press

UPHAM, N.M. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The only thing interrupting the creosote and mesquite that makes up one of New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most remote stretches of desert is a pristine runway where Virgin Galactic plans one day to launch the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first commercial space line. In the four years since its completion, however, the runway has seen little use. No constant roar of jet engines. No screeches from landing gear. Just promises, year after year, that it would shuttle paying passengers to the edges of Earth. Virgin Galactic had proclaimed 2015 was finally going to be the year. That was until the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rocketpowered spacecraft broke apart over Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mojave Desert during a test flight last fall, killing one pilot and igniting speculation about the future of commercial space tourism and Spaceport America. Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides said things are on track now and testing will take off again this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re turning the corner,â&#x20AC;? Whitesides said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone through one of the toughest things a company can go through and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still standing, and now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really moving forward with pace.â&#x20AC;? He said the company and its investors arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t backing down from the goal of making space accessible. Virgin Galacticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manufacturing crew is about twothirds done with building a new spacecraft, and the operations team is ramping up for a test-flight program that will serve as one of the last major hurdles to getting off the ground. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our company has spent a lot of time and money to get to the point where we can carry out successful commercial operations at Spaceport America. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still committed,â&#x20AC;? he said. Whitesides has always been reluctant to attach a timeline to the milestones the company needs to reach, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certain test flights

will resume later this year. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what New Mexico taxpayers want to hear. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already funneled nearly a quarter of a billion dollars into the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first purpose-built spaceport, and state lawmakers are being asked for nearly $2 million more this year to make up for the lost fees stemming from the delay in Virgin Galacticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commercial flights. Some lawmakers have called for pulling the plug, adding fuel to criticisms that the project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; first initiated by former Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, and British billionaire Richard Branson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is a boondoggle. Others, including Republican Gov. Susana Martinezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration, say the state has a chance to carve out a new niche for economic development and position itself on the front end of space tourism. New Mexico has struggled to rebound from the recession, creating only 14,000 jobs over the past year while neighboring states have bounced back to 2008 employment levels. Whitesides visited Spaceport America in December. The runway was quiet, but workers inside the massive, futuristic hangar continued to outfit it for the day Virgin Galactic opens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the edge of something truly in-

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OBITUARIES Robert Bella Robert J. Bella, 69, of Coal Run, died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at Scenery Hill Manor, Indiana. He was born June 15, 1945, in Indiana, a son of John and Frances G. (Smicklo) Bella. Bob retired from Warden Asphalt Company in Harrisburg. He was the owner, along with his wife, of Piney Hill Nursery, Coal Run. He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served during the Vietnam War. He was a member of the VFW of Indiana, and a charter boat captain in Everglades National Park, Florida. He loved fishing, traveling and hiking in national parks. He also enjoyed painting landscapes and still life. He was a member of the Police Athletic Boxing League in New Jersey. He enjoyed racing hot rods, playing chess and reading.

Bob is survived by his wife of 14 years, Kathy (Maples) Bella, Coal Run; a niece, Michele Redington and husband Steve, of Pittsburgh; great-nieces, Kathryn and Allison; and a great-nephew, Stephen. He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, John M. Bella and David F. Bella. Visitation will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday at James F. Ferguson Funeral Home Inc., Blairsville, where his funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday with the Rev. Herb Phar officiating. VFW Post #5821 and American Legion Post #0407 will conduct military services Friday morning in the funeral home. Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery, Indiana. www.jamesfergusonfuneral home.com

Kenneth Brumbaugh Kenneth Delvin Brumbaugh, 89, of Dayton, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, at his home surrounded by his daughters. A son of Clyde Delvin Brumbaugh and Fannie Sarah (Simpson) Brumbaugh, he was born Aug. 13, 1925, in Dayton, on his family farm where he lived all his life. Kenneth served in Italy with the U.S. Army during World War II as a member of the 350th infantry regiment, 88th infantry division Blue Devils. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service to his country. He was a lifetime member of Belknap United Church of Christ and Dayton American Legion Post 995. He retired as a supervisor from P&N Coal Company of Punxsutawney, while also maintaining his family farm. Kenneth enjoyed woodworking in his spare time and will be remembered for being a wonderful dad and “Pop-Pop.” He was the proud father of Marcia Green and husband Richard, of Ford City; and twins, Melinda Bekic, of Girard; and Melissa Lightner and husband Kenneth, of Smicksburg. He had no greater joy than his grandchildren: Sara Green, of Ford City; Philip Green and wife Jennifer, of Butler; and Laura Lightner, of Smicksburg; his great-grandchildren, Brady and Cole Green; and his furry grandchildren, Polly and Spiffy. Kenneth is also survived by his sister-in-law, Lorraine Jordana, of Virginia Beach, Va.; his nephew who provided many hours of companionship and loving care, Jerry Quinn and wife

Dorothy Norman Dorothy L. (Stair) Norman, 80, of Clymer, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at Select Specialty Hospital, Johnstown. Family and friends will be received from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Rairigh-Bence

Funeral Home, Clymer, where Dorothy’s funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Interment will be made in the Marion Center Cemetery. A guest book is available at www.rbfh.net.

Jean Sherwood Jean Louise Sherwood, 82, of Indiana, died Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, at her home. She was born in 1932 in East Wheatfield Township to Jacob “Earl” and Nora Anne Rager Ressler. Jean was self-employed as a custom tailor for many years. She was a 1994 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania with an Associate of Arts degree. She was an intensely artistic and creative person of many talents. Jean is survived by one daughter and one son: Bonnie J. Smithson and husband Brian, of Sunnyvale, Calif.; and William Sherwood and

wife Judy, of Nanty Glo; two nephews: Larry HyDrew, of Marblehead, Ohio; and Gary HyDrew, Cleveland; and one brother, Kenneth Ressler, of Medina, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents; her companion and business partner, Nickolas Von Altimus; three brothers: Earl, Ralph and Mervin Ressler; and three sisters: Violet HyDrew, Freda Rowe and an infant sister, Odessa Ressler. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana, with Pastor Kathy Mihoreck officiating. www.bowserminich.com

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Judy, of Kennett Square; and many other nieces, nephews and cousins. The family would also like to thank Roy Cogley, who checked on Dad daily, allowing him to stay on the farm. A special thank-you also goes out to Judy Walter from Three Rivers Hospice for her compassion and care for our dad. Kenneth was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Joanne; an infant son, Matthew; sisters Ruth Quinn and Evelyn Patterson; a brother, Lewis “Bud” Brumbaugh; and his dog Buddy. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until the celebration of life service at 11 a.m. Saturday at Belknap United Church of Christ, 1185 SR 1018, Dayton. Contributions can be made in Kenneth’s honor to the Belknap United Church of Christ Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 386, Dayton, PA 16222. Arrangements are being handled by Bauer-Bly Funeral Home Inc. To send a condolence to Kenneth’s family or view a tribute honoring his life, visit www.bauerfuneral.com.

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Ruth Naomi (Jacoby) Stuchell, 86, of Indiana, formerly of Dixonville and Creekside, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, at the Communities at Indian Haven, Indiana. The daughter of Charles L. and Laura M. (Isenberg) Jacoby, she was born Dec. 30, 1928, in Indiana. Ruth was a member of Twolick Baptist Church in Dixonville and had attended Iselin Union Church, Iselin, both of which were churches where her late husband, the Rev. Walter N. Stuchell, had served as the pastor. When she was younger, she attended the Salvation Army Church in Indiana. In her spare time, she enjoyed working with puzzle books. Ruth married her late husband, the Rev. Walter N. Stuchell, on Oct. 17, 1953. She is survived by her three children: Brenda Shelstad, of Marion Center; David Stuchell, of Commodore; and Neil Stuchell and wife Carol Anne, of Cherry Tree; three grandchildren: LeVerne “Chip” Shelstad, Laurie Shel-

stad and Lane Shelstad; three great-grandchildren: Sunnie and Rain Shelstad and Jacob R. Scott; one step-grandson, James “Jimmis” H. Rice; her sister, Jane Jacoby Wilson and husband Edward, of Ohio; and a sister-in-law, Jane Taylor Jacoby, of Indiana. Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on Aug. 28, 1995; a granddaughter, Bunny Shelstad; a stepgrandson, Jay L. Buterbaugh; and a brother, Charles “Chuck” “Bun” Jacoby. At Ruth’s request, there will not be a visitation. Instead, friends and family will be received from 1:30 to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Rairigh Funeral Home Ltd. in Hillsdale. A 2 p.m. committal service with Pastor Calvin Duvall will immediately follow the gathering time at the funeral home. Private interment will be at the Rowley Cemetery, Hillsdale. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Salvation Army, 635 Water St., Indiana, PA 15701.

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DISTRICT COURT DOCKET By The Indiana Gazette The following defendants were named in criminal charges filed before Magisterial District Judges Jennifer Rega and Daniel George of Blairsville. Criminal complaints and affidavits of probable cause are not evidence of guilt in a criminal case. Defendants are entitled to legal representation and have the right to question the witnesses and evidence presented against them during preliminary hearings in the district court and at trials in the county court of common pleas. Named are: • Brad Michael Hebert, 27, Violet, La., charged Sept. 6 by state police with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a suspended license and three summary traffic violations at 3:24 a.m. Sept. 6 near Route 422, White Township. Police did not report a blood alcohol content in court papers. Hebert waived his right to a preliminary hearing and will

face the charges in court. • Michele Neuner, 53, Lookout Point Drive, Seward, charged Sept. 11 by state police with DUI and two summary traffic violations at 9:54 p.m. July 9 at Route 22 near Clark Lane, East Wheatfield Township. Neuner had a BAC of 0.12 percent, court records show. She waived her right to a preliminary hearing and will face the charges in court. • Rachel Elizabeth Winslow, 33, Oakland Avenue, Indiana, charged Sept. 12 by state police with DUI and three summary traffic violations at 2:10 a.m. Sept. 12 at Shelly Drive, White Township. Winslow refused a blood test after a traffic stop, according to court documents. She waived her right to a preliminary hearing and will face the charges in court. • William Charles Stoner, 32, Old Indiana Road, Josephine, charged Oct. 9 by state police with DUI, driving without a license and four summary traffic violations at 10:55 p.m. Oct. 23 at Clarksburg and Newport roads, Conemaugh Township. Ston-

er had a BAC of 0.213 percent, according to court records. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing and will face the charges in court. • Zachary George Clawson, 22, Hill Road, Blairsville, charged Oct. 14 by state police with possession of drug paraphernalia, careless driving, driving with a BAC of more than 0.02 with a suspended license and a summary traffic violation at 2:30 a.m. Sept. 25 at Clarksburg Road, Conemaugh Township. Prosecutors withdrew charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana and DUI, and Clawson will face the remaining charges in court. • Natalie Marie Boggio, 30, Catalpa Street, Blairsville, charged Oct. 14 by state police with possession of a controlled substance (suboxone) and possession of drug paraphernalia at 8:41 p.m. May 24 at Route 119 near Elm Street, Burrell Township. She waived her right to a preliminary hearing and will face the charges in court. • Thomas Charles Hall, 20,

Route 286, Saltsburg, charged Oct. 22 by Blairsville police with DUI and two summary traffic violations at 12:09 a.m. Aug. 30 at East Market Street, Blairsville. Hall had a BAC of 0.137 percent, according to court records. Prosecutors withdrew a charge of possession of alcohol by a minor, and Hall will face the remaining charges in court. • James Isaiah, 19, Chicago, charged Oct. 23 by state police with theft by deception at 10:24 p.m. May 16 at Route 286 West, Conemaugh Township. The charge was held for court. • Ian Michael South, 18, New Alexandria, charged Oct. 29 by Blairsville police with resisting arrest, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct at 1:58 a.m. Oct. 26 at East Market Street, Blairsville. Prosecutors withdrew two felony charges of aggravated assault on an officer, and South will face the remaining charges in court after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing.

Hileman to seek re-election in Armstrong County Marianne Hileman has announced that she is seeking re-election for her third term as register and recorder of Armstrong County. She maintains three offices: recorder of deeds, which deals with land records and military discharges; register of wills,

consisting of the probate of estates and guardianships; and orphans’ court for adoptions and marriage applications. She was president of the Pennsylvania Recorder of Deeds Association in 20122013. Reports of income and recordings from her office

are sent out through the media annually. Hileman has implemented e-recording and worked with the Veterans’ Administration in the annual resolutions for veterans to file their discharges. She plans to continue to update the office to its fullest extent to more easily

serve the public, she said in a press release. “It truly has been a blessing to have been able to serve Armstrong County and I look forward to another four year term,” she said in the release. She resides in Manor Township with her husband of 35 years, Tom.

Supervisors clarify positions on burn ordinance Continued from Page 1 changes until they’re presented in writing. “We didn’t discuss any of this. John just pulled this out at that meeting and that’s his opinion,” Pozik said. After reports portrayed that “the board” discussed the issue in January, Pozik said, he was unfairly “pounded” by the public. Supervisor David “Butch” Smyers said he also didn’t know about the proposals before the January board meeting, but he said Monday he would support the idea of advance notice and permits for burning vegetation. Bertolino said people have complained to the supervisors for years about people who burn items other than wood and paper, and set fires during prohibited hours. “I threw that out at the January meeting ... as a thought of where we might need to go if we do not get this burning under control,” Bertolino said. “And I’m glad I did, because it stirred up a hell of a lot of people. And I’m glad it stirred you up … because the people that are violating this burn ordinance are sitting at home laughing at us today. Because we’re going to fight to keep it so they can keep on doing what they’re doing. “I need all of you folks to get on board with us. And when you see your neighbor … you need to go and tell him ‘if you keep this crap up, none of us are going to be able to burn.’” Where Bertolino, Pozik and Smyers said they agreed Monday is that residents need to abide by the current rules. “We have an ordinance, but our problem is enforcing it,” Pozik said. The township’s two ordinance officers work other jobs and often cannot immediately respond when residents report violations, he said, and the township cannot afford to hire a full-time enforcement officer. Ordinance enforcement officer Robert White said he agreed. “The guys are right. I have a full-time job,” he explained. “If enforcement is the thing, maybe it is time to take it to the next level” by appointing someone full time. Bertolino said that since he proposed to toughen the burn ordinance, he has talked to 75 people about it, including two who made physical threats against him. He said he would consider an area farmer’s concern that vendors no longer let farmers return pallets and other package material for farm supplies, and farmers need to be allowed to burn them. Bertolino said he checked with other municipal officials to ask “how we put teeth in our ordinance.” Others recommended setting fines from $100 to $1,000 and another suggested $300 to $1,000. The Center Township ordinance now calls for a $25 fine. Bertolino said the township also has trouble making citations stand up in court because only the ordinance officers, not the supervisors, have legal standing to file citations. Many residents at the meeting said they could live with most current terms of the ordinance. Rich Brown asked if the permitted hours could be moved to 4 to 8 p.m. during winter, because it gets

dark earlier. Heather Rankin said she agreed with imposing fines and said there should be no warnings. Businessman Steve White, of Indiana, owner of Whitey’s Peetza & Eatery in Coral, asked the supervisors to keep the part of the ordinance that requires people to extinguish fires if the smoke is offensive to others. He suggested that the burning hours ought to be changed to early mornings rather than evenings, when people want to enjoy being outdoors. Cindy Andrie said fewer people would violate the ordinance by burning prohibited materials if they would take the time to recycle the various materials now accepted at the Indiana County Recycling Center. But some residents stood opposed to changing or strictly enforcing the ordinance. David Steiner said he would be forced to pay fees for commercial trash collection — an amount he said would equal an 8 mill property tax — if he couldn’t burn his rubbish. Enforcing the ban on burning anything other than wood and paper would trigger more dumping on back roads, Steiner said. And he was opposed to Bertolino’s plea for people to report violations. “You’re relying on neighbors turning in neighbors, and that does not create a good situation,” Steiner said. Ron Traister said he did not believe the level of violations deserved such reaction from the supervisors. White, the ordinance enforcement officer, said officers receive four or five burning complaints each month, and Traister estimated that at the rate of 60 complaints a year among a population of less than 4,800 residents, “that’s 2 percent who are doing wrong.” He presented a handful of petitions signed by people opposed to more restrictions. “The people who follow the rules should not have to pay for the sins of those who don’t,” Traister told the supervisors. In other business, the supervisors: • Reported that the township would soon consider an ordinance requiring property owners of the Cherry Run Road area, the Kunkle Development and Smith Road area, to connect their houses to a waterline extension that would be constructed, in part, with community development block grant (CDBG) funds. • Reported that three township government positions are up for election this year. Those are Smyers’ seat on the board of supervisors, Tony Maggio’s seat on the board of auditors, and the vacant constable position. • Approved an ordinance enabling the township to continue in the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) unemployment group trust fund. • Reported that they would consider at their Feb. 19 meeting an ordinance to remain enrolled in the PSATS trustees insurance plan for group life insurance. • Asked township residents who wish to speak at the supervisors’ meetings to contact the township office before noon on the day of the meeting to have their names and subjects for discussion added to the agenda.

Former NFL player to speak at Apollo-Ridge SPRING CHURCH — Former NFL tight end Darnell Dinkins, in partnership with Dynamite Sports, will be speaking about guiding the college-bound athlete Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Apollo-Ridge High School, Spring Church. After playing for nine seasons with four different organizations in the NFL, the

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The cost of leaving Islamic State: Death or jail By LORI HINNANT and PAUL SCHEMM

“(For many in France), they need to be punished. That’s it,” said Justice Minister Christian Taubira. “These are the people who can bear witness, who can dissuade others.” French lawyer Martin Pradel said his client is one of 10 men from Strasbourg who left for Syria last winter to take up arms on behalf of Syrian civilians. But they crossed into territory controlled by militants, who suspected they were spies or enemies. They were jailed for two weeks, then transferred and locked up for another three. Two of the French recruits died in an ambush. The men decided to leave, one by one so as not to draw attention. “They left at night, they ran across fields, they practically crept across the border,” Pradel said. His client surrendered to Turkish authorities. Since he lacked ID, he got temporary transit papers from the French embassy. He is now in jail in France, where the government accuses the Strasbourg men of running a recruiting ring for extremists.

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TUNIS, Tunisia — The man stands furtively on a street corner, his face masked by a hoodie, his tense eyes scanning the crowd for any hint of Islamic State militants. He was one of them before he left Syria a year ago, and he is afraid. Now he chain-smokes as he describes the indiscriminate killing, the abuse of female recruits, the discomfort of a life where meals were little more than bread and cheese or oil. He recounts the knife held to his throat by fellow fighters who demanded he recite a particular Quranic verse on Islamic warfare to prove himself. “It was totally different from what they said jihad would be like,” said the man, Ghaith, who asked to be identified by his first name only for fear of being killed. Ghaith eventually surrendered to Syrian soldiers.

WHILE FOREIGNERS from across the world have joined the Islamic State militant group, some find dayto-day life in Iraq or Syria much more austere and violent than they had expected. These disillusioned new recruits also soon discover that it is a lot harder to leave than to join. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the Islamic State group has killed 120 of its own members in the past six months, most of them foreign fighters hoping to return home. Even if they manage to escape, former fighters are considered terrorists and security risks in their own countries. Thousands of returnees are under surveillance or in jail in North Africa and Europe, where former militants massacred 17 people last month in terror attacks in Paris. “Not everyone who returns is a budding criminal. Not everyone is going to kill — far from it,” said France’s top anti-terror judge, Marc Trevidic. “But it’s probable that there is a small fringe that is capable of just about anything.” The Associated Press talked to more than a dozen former fighters, their families and lawyers about life in and escape from Islamic State, many of whom spoke only on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. YOUSSEF AKKARI used to spend

IBRIHIM DOGHRI smoked a cigarette in December in his low-income neighborhood of Mhamdiya, Tunisia, and talked about how his friends went to fight in Syria. hours in his room in Tunisia listening to religious chants and reading, according to his brother, Mehdi Akkari. One day the family received a message that he was going to Syria. But he lost his glasses and couldn’t fight, his brother said, so he was put in charge of preaching jihad to new recruits instead. After seven months he began to plot his escape, along with two brothers. The brothers were discovered and killed. Youssef turned himself in to Kurdish fighters and made his way back to Tunisia, where he felt trapped between police harassment and his terror of the vengeful militants. He returned to Syria and died in an airstrike in October.

THE ISLAMIC STATE group works to prevent recruits from leaving from the time they join. The first step is removing their passports and identity documents. Hamad Abdul-Rahman, an 18-yearold Saudi, said he was met at the Syrian border last summer by militants who escorted him to a train-

Jeep recalls 228K Cherokees By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer

DETROIT — Jeep is recalling more than 228,000 SUVs worldwide to fix a software problem that can cause side air bags to inflate for no reason. The recall, which covers Jeep Cherokees from the 2014 and 2015 model years, is the latest in a recent string of auto industry troubles with air bags that include deployment without a crash and inflation with so much force that the air bags spew shrapnel at drivers or passengers. Fiat Chrysler, which makes Jeeps, says there have been a small number of inadvertent air bag deployments in extreme maneuvers when drivers dramatically change the angle of travel. Canadian safety regulators say the problem occurred mainly in off-road situations. Sudden air bag inflation can startle drivers and cause crashes, but Chrysler says it’s not aware of any accidents or injuries. Most of the recalled vehicles are in the U.S. and Canada. Dealers will recalibrate the software to change the threshold for inflating the air bags. It’s the latest trouble reported with air bags that have saved millions of lives in accidents but are causing other problems for motorists. On Saturday, U.S. safety regulators said that more than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles need a second fix for air bags that may inadvertently inflate while the car is running. The recall includes some Acura MDX, Dodge Viper, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Honda Odyssey, Pontiac Vibe, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Avalon models made from 2002 to 2004. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said all the vehicles covered in Saturday’s announcement had already been under a recall for the faulty air bags. Carmakers originally tried to fix the defects by partially replacing the electronic control unit, made by TRW Automotive

Holdings Corp. of Livonia, Mich., but that fix didn’t always work. The new remedy — full replacement of the unit — will be available to all affected vehicles by the end of the year. However, the NHTSA is urging consumers with cars under the first recall to have the partial unit installed despite the fix’s failure rate, even if they have to return to the dealer under the second recall. About 39 air bags, or 15 percent, that had been replaced under the previous recall have deployed inadvertently again. The agency says about 1 million Toyota and Honda vehicles involved in the Saturday recall are also subject to a separate recall related to defective air bags made by Takata Corp. of Japan. Those air bags can deploy and rupture with enough force to cause injury or death. In nine cases, cars had problems that included both the inadvertent deployment and the Takata rupture. Three of those cases resulted in injuries, including eye injuries, scratches and burns. No death or injuries related to non-Takata air bag failures have been reported. Takata is under fire for air bag inflators that can explode, shooting out metal and plastic pieces. At least five deaths and dozens of injuries have been linked to the problem worldwide. Ten automakers have recalled about 12 million vehicles in the U.S. and about 19 million globally for problems with the air bags. The company is still trying to determine the exact cause of the problem.

ing camp in Tabaqa, Syria. “They took all my documents and asked me if I want to be a fighter or a suicide bomber,” Abdul-Rahman told AP from prison in Baghdad, where he was shackled, handcuffed and hooded. He chose to fight. There were a lot of foreigners in his camp, he said. The days included prayers, lessons in Sharia, or Islamic law, sports and combat training. In early September, he surrendered to Iraqi forces. An Iraqi defense ministry video shows Abdel-Rahman minutes after his arrest, identifying himself to soldiers. Another Tunisian recruit, Ali, escaped after he was made a courier in the winter of 2013. He made four courier trips between Syria and Tunisia in three weeks, taking back news, money and propaganda videos. On the last trip to Tunisia, he simply stayed. “I feel like I was a terrorist, I was shocked by what I did,” said Ali,

“IT’S NOT a revolution or jihad. It’s a slaughter.” Ghaith

former Islamic State militant

dropping his voice low and moving when people approached. His advice for would-be jihadis: “Go have a drink. Don’t pray. It’s not Islam. Don’t give your life up for nothing.”

THE PREDICAMENT for governments is to figure out whether a recruit is returning home to escape from the Islamic State or to spread its violence. France has detained 154 returnees and says about 3,000 need surveillance. Britain has arrested 165 returnees, and Germany considers about 30 of its 180 returnees extremely dangerous. There is no way to prove their intentions.

Lawmakers to vote on DNA modification By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer

LONDON — British lawmakers will vote Tuesday on whether to let scientists use controversial techniques to create babies from the DNA of three people — a move that could prevent children from inheriting potentially fatal diseases yet would make Britain the first country in the world to allow embryos to be genetically modified. The techniques — which aim to prevent mothers from passing on inherited diseases — involve altering a human egg or embryo before transferring it into the mother. British law currently forbids

any modification of embryos before they are transferred into a woman. The government published rules in December on how the techniques should be used. The U.K.’s chief medical officer, Dr. Sally Davies, said they should be legalized “to give women who carry severe mitochondrial disease the opportunity to have children without passing on devastating genetic disorders.” Defects in the mitochondria can result in diseases including muscular dystrophy, heart, kidney and liver failure and severe muscle weakness. Critics, however, say the techniques cross a fundamental scientific boundary,

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entists remove the nucleus DNA from the egg of a prospective mother and insert it into a donor egg, where the nucleus DNA has been removed. This can be done either before or after fertilization. The resulting embryo would end up with the nucleus DNA from its parents but the mitochondrial DNA from the donor. Scientists say the DNA from the donor egg amounts to less than 1 percent of the resulting embryo’s genes. Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a meeting to discuss the techniques and scientists warned it could take decades to determine if they are safe.

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IT WAS A similar escape for four Frenchmen from Toulouse, according to their lawyers. Pierre Dunac, the lawyer for Imad Jjebali, said the men went to Syria in hopes of helping civilians, but ended up in Islamic State territory and were thrown in jail. One day, Dunac said, their jailer gave them their papers. He told them, “I’m going to pray,” and he left them alone right by the door. “They understood that he was letting them leave,” Dunac said. “Why? It’s astonishing. ... They themselves didn’t understand why.” The men surrendered to Turkish soldiers and were deported to France. They are now in jail facing terrorism charges. In Tunisia, where close surveillance of 400 returnees is far more common than arrests, Ghaith is now a free man by most measures. But he does not act like one. He neck still bears a scar where his fellow fighters held the knife. “It’s not a revolution or jihad,” he said. “It’s a slaughter.” Hinnant reported from Paris. Associated Press writers Zeina Karam in Beirut, Nicolas Vaux-Montagny in Paris, Vivian Salama in Baghdad and Danica Kirka in London contributed.

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Immigration push snubs public’s view

allup recently asked spondents calling it an abadults around the coun- solute priority. try a very simple quesPublic opinion is not stoption about immigration: Are ping the administration from you satisfied, or dissatisfied, plowing ahead with the preswith the level of immigration ident’s decision to grant into the United States today? quasi-legal status, work perAre too many immigrants mits and federal benefits to coming? Too few? Or is the millions of immigrants here number just about right? illegally. Before giving the results, The recent confirmation it’s important to note what hearings of attorney general that number is. The U.S. nominee Loretta Lynch awards legal permashowed just how nent resident status determined the — a green card, president is. which means lifeEarly in the time residency plus hearing, Sen. Sesthe option of citisions asked zenship — to about Lynch, “Who has 1 million people per more right to a year, a rate Sen. job in this counMarco Rubio calls try — a lawful im“the most genermigrant who’s ous” on Earth. here, a green-card In addition, the holder or a citigovernment hands zen, or a person out more than a who entered the half-million student country unlawfuland exchange visas ly?” each year, tens of It’s a safe bet Byron York is thousands of most Americans refugee admissions, chief political would say the percorrespondent for son in the country and about 700,000 visas to temporary The Washington legally should get workers and their the job before a Examiner. The families. person here illeNewspaper The percentage of Enterprise gally. foreign-born people But not Lynch. Association in the U.S. popula“I believe that the tion is heading to- distributes his right and the obliward levels not seen column. gation to work is since the period of one that’s shared 1890 to 1910. by everyone in this country So is that too much, or too regardless of how they came little? Gallup found that 47 here,” she answered. percent of Americans believe Sessions went on to ask: the level of immigration What if an employer chose to should stay where it is. Thir- hire a person who is in the ty-nine percent want to see it country lawfully over an illedecreased. gal immigrant covered by the And just 7 percent want it president’s executive action? increased. (The remaining 7 Would the Justice Departpercent said they don’t ment take action against that know.) employer? Lynch wouldn’t Put another way, 86 per- answer. cent of Americans would like When the polling group immigration into this coun- Paragon Insights asked retry to remain at today’s level cently about the work-peror to decrease, versus 7 permits portion of the presicent who want to see it in- dent’s action, they found that crease. by 71 percent to 21 percent “Americans wish to see cur- — a 50-point margin — rent record immigration Americans would support rates lowered, not raised,” new legislation “that said the office of Republican strengthens the rules making Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has it illegal for businesses in the opposed comprehensive im- U.S. to hire illegal immimigration reform measures grants.” on Capitol Hill. “Yet the presNo matter. ident’s ‘Gang of Eight’ immiLast November, when Presgration bill ... doubles the ident Obama announced number of annual guest the unilateral executive acworkers and triples the num- tion on immigration, he ber of green cards over the noted that there are “good, next 10-year period.” decent people who are worGiven public opinion, it ried about immigration,” shouldn’t surprise anyone who particularly fear that the bill did not become that “immigrants take jobs law. from hardworking AmeriGallup did not ask about cans.” immigrants who are already “I hear them. And I underin the United States illegally. stand them,” Obama said. But a Wall Street Journal poll But the president explained touched on that question he “had to act” on behalf of just before the State of the the immigrants. Union speech, asking reObama knows the probspondents which issues lem, and he feels for those should be “an absolute prior- who might be hurt; he’s just ity for the Obama adminis- on the side of those here illetration and this year’s Con- gally. gress.” Many aspects of public On the list was “passing im- opinion favor opponents of migration legislation that comprehensive immigration would create a pathway to reform and of the president’s U.S. citizenship for foreign- unilateral action. ers who are currently staying Yet even with that advanillegally in the United States.” tage, those opponents someIt ranked 12th out of 15 pos- times seem unable to make sible priorities, with just their case effectively. 39 percent calling it a mustWith Republicans now in do. control of Congress, it’s an Another immigration-re- open question whether GOP lated option, passing reform lawmakers can craft legisla“that would do more to se- tion that moves the nation’s cure our southern border immigration policy forward with Mexico,” ranked much while still respecting public higher, with 58 percent of re- opinion.

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Mitt’s white horse pulls up lame SALT LAKE CITY — When the Mitt tary “Mitt” — by Mormon filmmaker Romney documentary premiered here Greg Whiteley — and felt that he could at the Sundance Film Festival last year, be Mitt “all the way,” as one friend put one member of the audience was espe- it, he was ready to run “a hell of a race.” cially charmed by the candidate up on Mormons learn firsthand that rejecthe screen. tion — as the young Mitt learned in That guy is great, Mitt Romney Paris on his mission when he got fewer thought to himself. That guy should be than 20 converts in 2½ years — doesn’t running for president. mean you should stop trying. It was an “Aha” moment that came to Recent polls had Romney ahead of him belatedly at age 66, after two failed Jeb Bush and other Republican conpresidential runs that cost tenders. He was more in demore than $1 billion. mand on the trail than PresiMitt had a revelation that dent Barack Obama during the he should have run his 2014 campaign. He had shied races as Mitt — with all the away in 2012 from explaining goofiness, Mormonism, the role of faith in his life, worself-doubt and self-mockried that Mormonism might ery thrown into the crazy still sound strange to voters if salad. he had to explain lore like the Some of his strategists white horse prophecy, that a had argued against the Mormon white knight would movie. But wasn’t it enride in to save the U.S. as the dearing, when the tuxedoConstitution was hanging by a clad Romney ironed his thread. own French cuffs while But, in the last few weeks, they were on his wrists? Romney had seemed eager to When he listened to “This take a Mormon mulligan. Less American Life” on NPR sensitive about his greatMaureen Dowd with his family? When he grandparents fleeing to Mexico wryly called himself a “flip- writes a column to preserve their right to pin’ Mormon”? When he for The New York polygamy, Romney began jokand Ann prayed on their Times. ing to audiences that when he knees just before the New learned about the church at Hampshire primary? When he went Brigham Young University, “Emma was sledding with his grandkids? Joseph Smith’s only wife.” He was himself as a moderate MassaIt was foolish to ever think he could chusetts governor. But when he ran for take his religion — which is baked into president in 2008, he was “severely every part of his life — and cordon it conservative,” as he would later awk- off. wardly brag, and that wasn’t him. In Park City on Wednesday, I talked to Jon Krakauer, the author of “Under the IN 2012, he was closer but still not Banner of Heaven,” a history of Mortruly himself, putting his faith and cen- monism, and executive producer of trist record off to the side. He had sur- “Prophet’s Prey,” a Showtime docurounded himself with Stuart Stevens mentary, which was premiering at and other advisers who did not have Sundance, about the most infamous faith that the unplugged Mitt could Mormon polygamous cult. win, and the candidate did not have “I don’t think he has a choice,” enough faith in himself to push back Krakauer said. “I don’t know how peoagainst them. ple will react, but he has nothing to be “It’s a sad story of discovery,” said a ashamed with, with his faith. And by Republican who is friends with him. not talking about it, it looks like he “He kept going through campaigns does.” and evolving closer to himself. Then he It was the same mistake Al Gore saw the documentary and it was liber- made in 2000 when he listened to adating, showing 100 percent of himself visers who told him he would seem too instead of 80. But it was too late. You tree-huggy if he talked about the envidon’t really get three shots.” ronment. When that was off-limits, Romney got bollixed up by dueling Gore lost the issue he was least likely to fears that the unkind arena would rage be wooden on; it was the one topic that at him if he put up his guard and rage made him passionate — not to menat him if he dropped it. He was haunt- tion prescient. ed by the collapse of his father’s 1968 IF MITT was 100 percent himself, he campaign for president after his father dropped his guard, telling a Detroit TV began to think this time, he could broadcaster that he thought he had move past the debacles of his 47 perbeen brainwashed into supporting the cent comment caught on tape and his Vietnam War by U.S. commanders and cringe-worthy 13 percent tax rate — both of which had made him seem like diplomats there. But after Romney saw the documen- the pitiless plutocrat conjured by De-

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mocrats. Two weeks ago, at a Republican meeting in San Diego, Romney talked about his decade as a Mormon bishop and stake president, working “with people who are very poor to get them help and subsistence,” finding them jobs and tending to the sick and elderly. He changed his residency to Utah and started building a house in a wealthy suburb of Salt Lake City. He got a broker for the luxe La Jolla oceanfront home with the four-car elevator. It was reported that a 2016 Romney campaign could be based here. Romney had been burning up the phone lines with donors and past operatives and was reassembling his old campaign team. But Jeb Bush popped Mitt’s trial balloon by peeling off the money and the talent.

“HE THOUGHT there was more interest than there was,” one strategist close to Romney said. “There wasn’t a big groundswell. The donor-activist-warlord bubble had moved on. It’s a tough world. Mitt didn’t want to claw and slug.” Or as his 2008 presidential campaign adviser Alex Castellanos put it, “Mitt Romney found he had walked out on stage without his pants.” At an appearance Wednesday in Mississippi, where he seemed to be honing talking points and attack lines for a possible run, he said Hillary Clinton had “cluelessly” pushed the reset button with Russia. He blamed the news media and voters for concentrating on the wrong things. “It would be nice if people who run for office, that their leadership experience, what they’ve accomplished in life, would be a bigger part of what people are focused on, but it’s not,” he said. “Mostly it’s what you say — and what you do is a lot more important than just what you say.” But both in what he said and did, Romney came across as clueless in 2012. He was hawking himself as a great manager, but he couldn’t even manage his campaign. His own advisers did not trust him to be himself. They did not adapt what the Obama team had taught everyone in 2008 about technologically revolutionizing campaigns. His own campaign was in need of a Bain-style turnaround and he was oblivious. The reel Mitt could have told the real Mitt, as Romney said in the documentary, that the nominee who loses the general election is “a loser for life.” He seemed shocked, the night of the election, to learn that his white horse was lame. But how could he have won? The wrong Mitt was running.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The fallacy of blaming both sides In political letters to the editor, writers often say “both sides” in Washington are at fault. Writers see the major issues that divide us, but do they know the history behind policies Democrats are trying to protect or change? Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan talked about “small government.” He said, “Government is the problem, not the solution.” He initiated “trickle-down” policy — big tax cuts for the rich, which were supposed to trickle down to the rest of us. The trouble is, nothing trickled down. Wages remained stagnant. Reagan also initiated an attack on unions, further killing wage increases. Reagan said anybody wanting higher education should pay for it. How does one do that when his wages remain stagnant and there’s no union or fair minimum wage to help? These failed policies can now be judged as terribly flawed. Reagan’s and

Bush 1’s terms ended in recession. Bush 2 doubled down on “trickledown,” and his terms ended in a near depression. Yet Republicans cling to these failed policies that keep middle class wages stagnant and college student debt rising to now surpassing $1 trillion. Democrats Carter and Clinton also adopted policies that years later proved to be bad, but, believe it or not, government grew smaller under Democratic presidents, including President Obama. Republicans only talk “small government”; government actually grew under Reagan and G.W. Bush but without wage growth. The cost of government was pushed down to the average worker, making what he has left the real barometer of tax unfairness. President Clinton adopted policies the opposite of “trickle down,” and the 1990s’ economy boomed, so why do Republicans keep going back to

Reaganomics? This reminds me of the definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again despite the same negative results. Republicans want “trickle down” to work so badly that they continually throw our economy and the middle class under the bus. Republicans blame government growth on entitlements, while Democrats blame it on military spending. Democrats prefer diplomacy to war and want to spend more money on our own people. Republicans expect you to keep yourself afloat and hope that help will trickle down from tax breaks for the rich. Reagan policies were/are devastating to the middle class and need to be abandoned. Policies that worked should be resurrected, such as GlassSteagall. It’s clear that Democrats are fighting for this, and they are not compromising — thank God. Everett Dembosky Home

America must once again seek God’s help During the Civil War it was said that a guest in the White House heard Lincoln in the next room praying for God to guide him in handling the affairs of the nation. It appears Lincoln desired to do things God’s way. I have been thinking about the problems that exist in our country that seem to have no resolution and wish

our president would be overheard praying for guidance as well. God is the Lord of all changes if we trust him. Russia is using its powers in the Middle East, and China is becoming a world power. America must seek God’s help and turn away from a sinful way of living. Early Christians set an example of Christian living, but we failed to follow

and as a result we are reaping what we’ve sowed. We need to put God in control again and let him guide our nation. When Christ returns, we want to be ready and make sure our heart is right with him and our name is known in heaven. Vera Mock Saltsburg

Elsewhere News from the nation, world

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Parks’ archive opening to public WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, reflected later on how it felt to be treated less than equal and once feistily wrote of how tired she was of being “pushed around” — parts of her history long hidden away. Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time. The collection will provide what experts call a more complex view of a woman long recalled in history for one iconic image — that of a nonviolent seamstress who inspired others to act at the dawning of the civil rights era. A protracted legal battle between her heirs and friends had kept the collection from public view for years. But in 2014, philanthropist Howard Buffett bought the collection and placed it on long-term loan at the national library.

8 on trial for Paris jewelry heists PARIS (AP) — Eight men charged with one of the world’s biggest jewel heists went on trial today in Paris, accused of stealing more than $113 million worth of luxury watches, necklaces, earrings and other valuables from a Harry Winston boutique in two operations. Many of the jewels have never been found. Charges against the men included armed robbery in an organized gang, association with a criminal enterprise and receiving stolen goods. Four men dressed as building painters entered the store near the ChampsÉlysées, a popular tourist area, by a service entrance in 2007, tying up staff and stealing 360 items of jewelry and 120 watches, according to judicial documents. A year later, the store was targeted again. Four men — three wearing wigs and dressed as women — walked in the main entrance and stole 297 pieces of jewelry and 104 watches in less than 20 minutes, according to the documents.

Defense nominee signals flexibility on Afghan plan By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The president’s nominee to be the next Pentagon chief says he would consider changing the current plans for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year if security conditions worsen. In written comments to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ashton Carter responded “yes” when asked if he would consider recommending changes to the current pace and size of the drawdown plan to address security concerns. He also said he is aware of reports that Islamic State militants may try to expand into Afghanistan, and said he will work with coalition partners to ensure that doesn’t happen. Carter’s comments were included in his answers to a committee questionnaire that was obtained by The Associated Press. They come as Afghan leaders express concerns about the U.S. troop withdrawal and worry that local forces may not be ready to secure the country on their own. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and chairman of the committee, has repeatedly questioned the wisdom of setting and announcing a hard end date to the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. And military commanders have told Congress that they would have preferred a “more ambiguous” withdrawal schedule that

would not tell the enemy exactly when U.S. forces would be gone. The committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday to consider Carter’s nomination, and while he likely will face some pointed questioning during the session, he is expected to easily get confirmed. The questionnaire provided a vivid preview of some of the more challenging subjects senators will raise, pressing him on U.S. national security strategy in hotspots around the globe. Carter largely toed the administration line in the 91-page, 328-question document, as he answered queries on Russia, China, North Korea, Yemen and the ongoing military operations in Iraq and Syria. Asked about Iraq, Carter said he would encourage efforts to arm and integrate Sunni tribal forces into the Iraqi military to help fight Islamic State militants who have taken control of large sections of the country. He reiterated persistent complaints from military and defense leaders about the potential effects of more budget cuts on the armed services. He said U.S. forces can still defeat one regional enemy, battle another and conduct various counterterrorism operations at the same time, but the risks are growing. Any additional budget cuts would require more reductions in the size of the military, he said. In other comments: • Carter said that as the U.S. begins to normalize relations with Cuba,

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there is an opportunity to carefully consider whether to expand defense relations with the island nation. • He was asked whether women should be subject to a military draft if one was ever implemented. Carter said that since “most military career fields are now open to women, a review of the military selective service act would be prudent.” He added, “this is not solely a defense issue, but rather part of a much broader national discussion.” • He said he is worried that the Pentagon is not providing enough resources to bolster its missions in Latin America. He said that, if confirmed, he would direct his team to look at whether the department can do more to help fight corruption, battle criminal organizations and assist countries in securing undergoverned areas. Known as a policy wonk, Carter worked in the Defense Department under two Democratic presidents. He held the No. 2 job at the Pentagon from October 2011 to December 2013, and prior to that served as the technology and weapons-buying chief. During the Clinton administration, he was the assistant secretary for international security policy. If confirmed, he would be Obama’s fourth defense secretary, replacing the current chief, Chuck Hagel, who resigned under pressure in December but has stayed on until Carter is in place.

Manson marriage license to expire FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The marriage license of mass murderer Charles Manson and a 26-year-old devotee who believes in his innocence is set to expire without a wedding taking place, prison officials said Monday. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Jeffrey Callison said weekend visiting for inmates passed without Manson getting married. Afton Elaine Burton and Manson, 80, obtained a 90day marriage license late last year. It expires Thursday, making this past weekend the couple’s final opportunity to hold a wedding inside a visiting room at California State Prison, Corcoran. If the wedding is to happen, the couple must register for a new Kings County marriage license.

Frozen chicken barbecued in crash INDIO, Calif. (AP) — A big-rig hauling frozen chicken collided with a truck carrying bees in Southern California, igniting a fireball that quickly cooked the chicken. The California Highway Patrol says the crash on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs occurred shortly after 7 a.m. Monday. The truck with the chickens burst into flames and was incinerated, but the driver escaped with minor injuries. The driver hauling the bees was not hurt, although highway patrol officers on the scene reported bees buzzing everywhere. Photos, meanwhile, showed chunks of blackened, highway-roasted chicken.

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A CHILD waited on a bus today to leave the town of Debaltseve in Artemivsk, Ukraine.

U.N. criticizes Ukraine fighting tactics, raises toll to 5,358 By PETER LEONARD Associated Press

ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The United Nations today sharply criticized both the Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian rebels for turning bus stops, schools, markets and hospitals into battlegrounds where civilians are getting killed. Indiscriminate shelling and an escalation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine have killed at least 224 civilians in the past three weeks alone, the U.N. said, raising the overall death toll to 5,358 people since April. Hostilities between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops resumed with a vengeance in January after a month of relative calm. The latest peace talks broke down

Saturday, with both sides blaming the other for prolonging the fighting. “Bus stops and public transport, marketplaces, schools and kindergartens, hospitals and residential areas have become battlegrounds ... in clear breach of international humanitarian law,” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said, adding that 545 civilians were wounded in the last three weeks as well. He blamed the high civilian death toll on “the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas in both governmentcontrolled territory and in areas controlled by the armed groups.” The U.N. estimates more than 5 million people still live in the conflict zone. Rebels in the separatist stronghold

of Donetsk said today that artillery fire killed at least eight people and wounded 22 others in the past day, while Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said five servicemen had been killed and 27 wounded in the same period. The rebels’ main offensive is now directed at Debaltseve, a railway junction between the rebel-held cities of Luhansk and Donetsk. Separatists last week captured the nearby town of Vuhlehirsk, but say they are not planning to storm Debaltseve itself because of the potential for civilian casualties. Donetsk rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko was quoted as saying his fighters were helping to evacuate Vuhlehirsk because of the heavy fighting.

New Fidel Castro photos published By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press

HAVANA — Cuba has published the first photos of Fidel Castro in more than five months, showing the 88-year-old former leader engaged in what appears to be a lively conversation with a university student. Nearly two dozen images were published virtually simultaneously on the websites of Cuba’s main state media outlets around midnight Monday. In them, Castro is seated and discussing current events with the head of the main Cuban student union. A first-person account by student leader Randy Perdomo Garcia says the meeting took place on Jan. 23. The photos are the first images of the revolutionary leader since a set of photos came out in August showing him talking with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Perdomo said in a lengthy article accompanying the photos that he and Castro met for more than three hours in the former leader’s house after an event celebrating the 70th anniversary of Castro starting his studies at the University of Havana. The student leader said Castro said that he is keeping abreast of the news and performing daily exercises, and he engaged Perdomo in a wide-ranging discussion of topics including international politics, agriculture, astronomy and even Namibia’s donation of animals to Cuba’s National Zoo. Perdomo said the two men discussed the release of three Cuban intelligence agents as part of the Dec. 17 declaration by Cuba and the United States that they would move to re-establish full diplomatic relations. The photos show Castro examining a newspaper report on their release. “I’m about to go but he continues a conversation about new ways of fighting some diseases, including diabetes, with the production of natural foods; about Cuba’s relations with Africa, from its contribution to those countries’ independence to the end of apartheid; and the current contribution of Cuban doctors to the fight against Ebola,” Perdomo wrote. Castro did not issue a public statement for nearly a month after the announcement that Cuba and the U.S. were moving to re-establish full diplomatic relations. Castro’s public appearances and statements have become increasingly infrequent since he stepped down from duties as president after a serious illness in 2006 and handed over leadership to his younger brother Raul. His unusually lengthy silence after the Dec. 17 announcement sparked intense speculation about his health.

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A SCREENSHOT of Cuba’s website Cubadebate showed a photo today of Fidel Castro with the head of the main Cuban student union, Randy Perdomo Garcia, in Havana.

U.N. court rules Serbia, Croatia didn’t commit genocide By MIKE CORDER Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United Nations’ top court ruled today that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against each other’s people during the bloody 1990s wars sparked by the breakup of Yugoslavia. The ruling could help put to rest lingering animosities between the

Balkan neighbors. The International Court of Justice said Serb forces committed widespread crimes in Croatia early in the war, but these did not amount to genocide. The 17-judge panel then ruled that a 1995 Croat offensive to win back territory from rebel Serbs also featured serious crimes, but did not reach the level of genocide.

Fighting in Croatia from 1991-95 left around 10,000 people dead and forced millions from their homes. Today’s decision was not unexpected, as the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, a separate court also based in The Hague, has never charged any Serbs or Croats with genocide in one another’s territory. Croatia brought the case to the world court in 1999, asking judges to

order Belgrade to pay compensation. Serbia later filed a counterclaim, alleging genocide by Croat forces during the 1995 “Operation Storm” military campaign. Rejecting both cases, court President Peter Tomka stressed that many crimes happened during fighting between Serbia and Croatia and urged Belgrade and Zagreb to work together toward a lasting reconciliation.

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EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE Sometimes it is the simplest things that bring the most joy. Like knowing how to chill a can of soda, a bottle of beer or wine — from room temperature to icy cold in just a couple of minutes! Seriously, I love this. QUICK CHILL: Need to chill wine, beer or soda in a hurry? Get a bowl or other vessel that will acEmail commoquestions or date the tips to item eimary@every ther as it daycheap stands or skate.com or lies on its Everyday side. Cheapskate, First, P.O. Box 2135, place the Paramount, item to CA 90723. be cooled into the bowl or pan. Next add a good amount of ice plus one or two tablespoons of table salt (or rock salt if you have it). Fill with enough water so the item is covered. Stir to distribute the salt. This will thoroughly chill a can of soda or beer in just two minutes, or up to five minutes for a bottle of wine. ZERO-SUM GAME: Deposit your paycheck in your checking account and immediately start telling every dollar where to go. If you give every dollar a job to do, you’ll be less likely to experience money drains. At the end of the month, move whatever amount remains into savings to zero out your account, instead of seeing it as some kind of found money you can just blow. The goal is to create a zero-sum plan where you leave no dollar “unspent.” TRAVEL LIGHT: If you’re preparing for a trip, clean out your wallet down to the bare necessities, keeping two credit or debit cards with you. Keep one card in the hotel safe or well-hidden in your room so you have a way to pay for things if the card you’re carrying is stolen. PRIMARILY STORE BRAND: Change your grocery shopping mindset to always opting for the generic or store brand. Acquiesce to the name brand only when you have compelling evidence, experience or information that leads you to believe that it really is superior and worth the extra cost. These days, most generic or store brand items are the same product inside. Only the packaging is different. HARD TO CHARGE: If you are hesitant to carry your credit card with you for fear you might use it — but you’re more uncomfortable leaving it at home in case you have an emergency — there’s a solution. Place the credit card into a small envelope and seal it. On the envelope in large red letters write “For Emergency ONLY!” and below that, “Remember Your Debt.” This plan should stop you from using plastic impulsively, but give you assurance that you have it in the face of a true emergency. MIND CONTROL: Before you walk into a store, pause and concentrate on your mission. Determine that you will go in, accomplish your goal and get out as quickly as possible. Stick to your list because that is all you need. Assure yourself that if you see something you simply must have that is not on the list, you can come back later. (You probably won’t.) Mary invites questions, comments and tips at mary@everydaycheap skate.com, or c/o Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com , a personal finance member website and the author of “Debt-Proof Living,” released in 2014.

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4-H holding plant sale

BOOK BREAKFAST The New Century Club/ Friends of the Library invites the public to attend a Book Breakfast review and discussion of “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd. The breakfast will take place at 9:15 a.m. on Thursday in the Bristol Court dining room at St. Andrew’s Village, 1155 Indian Springs Road, White Township. Reserved, marked parking is available at the end of the parking lot. Set in early 19th century Charleston, S.C., Kidd’s historical novel tells the story of a young woman born to wealth and privilege and the

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young female slave who was given to her on her ninth birthday. Kidd’s story of the relationship of these two very different women offers a compelling look at the early years of the abolitionist movement and the life of those times. Dr. Lynne Alvine, retired Indiana University of Pennsylvania English professor, will be the reviewer. Alvine taught in the English department at IUP from 1990 to 2014. The cost for non-subscribers to the series is $5. Subscriptions for the entire series can be purchased for

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The Indiana County 4-H program is opening its strawberry plant sale to the public. Plants come from a reputable company and originate from virus-indexed, tissue-cultured mother plants. There are 25 plants in each bundle and seven varieties to choose from, including ever-bearing plants and plants that will produce during various times of the season. Each bundle will cost $11. Plants will be available in mid- to late April and can be picked up at the Indiana County Extension Office, 827 Water St. Order forms are available by calling the 4-H office at (724) 465-3880. Orders must be received by March 9.

$45. A continental breakfast, donated by St. Andrew’s, will be served. All proceeds from these breakfasts are donated to the Indiana Free Library.

Student earns perfect scores on SAT, ACT By JESSICA BOCK

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS — For Parkway North High School senior Abby Lammers, 2,400 plus 36 equals double perfection. Just a tiny fraction of test takers earn top scores on both the SAT and ACT, according to the college entrance exam organizations. It was a college counselor that persuaded Lammers, 17, to take the SAT again after getting a 2,220 the first time. “She basically said I had nothing to lose,” Lammers said. Still, Lammers was “completely shocked” when she got the results. She said she had a tutor for a few weeks, and would consistently miss a few questions. Lammers, the daughter of Jim Lammers and Vicki Platke, of Creve Coeur, Mo., said she didn’t tell anyone for a few weeks in December as she and her friends were

hearing about college acceptances. She considers getting into a top school a more significant achievement than doing well on a test. Nationally, the actual number of students earning a composite score of 36 varies each year, but, on average, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn the top score, according to Katie Wacker, a spokeswoman with ACT. Among test takers in the high school graduating class of 2014, only 1,407 of nearly 1.85 million students earned a composite score of 36. In Missouri, there were 46 students who earned perfect ACT score of 48,865 graduating seniors last year. Six of the 2,719 students in the Missouri class of 2014 who took the SAT achieved the highest possible score of 2,400, according to the College Board.

Lammers, named a National Merit Semifinalist last year, plans to attend Northwestern University to study environmental engineering and economics. She was on a team of students that helped expand a composting program districtwide after presenting the idea to Parkway leaders. The composting program was started two years ago in Parkway’s 28 schools. The district received the Missouri Recycling Award for its efforts. Last year, she and her team took first place and a $15,000 award in the Lexus Eco Challenge, a national environmental competition for a project focused on landfill waste. Lammers also is involved in other activities, including the marching band, mock trial, the academic challenge contest and Mu Alpha Theta, the national math honors society.

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • John Avolio, Indiana • Jamie Deitman, Commodore • Sherry Fosnick, Iselin • Randy Lewis, Indiana • Gaberille Leysock, Homer City • Sandy Pardee, Rochester Mills • Ashley Patterson, Blairsville • Tiffany Pearce, Marion Center • Devin Pribesh, Dayton • Jim Pugh, Dixonville • Andrew Rupp, Marion Center • Julia Smyers, Brush Valley • Clare Thomas, Latrobe • Jacob Winters, Indiana The Gazette would like to wish you a “Happy Birthday!” To have a name added to the list, call (724) 465-5555, ext. 265. If you leave a message, be sure to spell out the first and last name of the person celebrating their special day and remember to tell us the day and the town where they live. Messages left with incomplete information will not be run on the list.

COMING EVENTS BLOOD DRIVE: An American Red Cross community blood drive will be held from noon to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in the social hall at Christ Our Savior Orthodox Church, 6768 Tanoma Road, Rayne Town-

ship. To schedule an appointment, call (800) REDCROSS or visit redcross blood.org and enter COSOC. Walk-ins are also welcome. DANCE: An old-time round

and hoedown square dance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Towne Hall, Route 422, Elderton. Music will be provided by the Ken Burkett Band. People of all ages are welcome.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions may be mailed to The Indiana Gazette, 899 Water St., Indiana, PA 15701; faxed to (724) 465-8267; or emailed to family@indianagazette.net. For more information, call (724) 465-5555, ext. 265, or visit http://bit.ly/IGsubmissionguidelines

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Did you know volunteer work is real work? Volunteer service can enhance a résumé. Not looking for employment? Retired? Looking to change career fields? Want to give back to your community? Or just love volunteering? Indiana County has numerous opportunities for adults to volunteer. Where does your interest lie?

ANIMALS • Four Footed Friends can use your help with animal care, walking dogs and as a foster parent. (724) 349-1144 • Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to bathe, groom and walk the animals. (724) 465-7387/3977

CLERICAL • American Red Cross needs help with front desk/clerical support. For more information, call (724) 4655678. • Community Guidance Center needs volunteers to file and do data entry. Contact Kerry Ray at (724) 4655576, ext. 128. • Four Footed Friends is looking for a volunteer receptionist. (724) 3491144 • Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) needs volunteers to answer the phones, type and do filing. (724) 465-2657 or (724) 2489555 • Indiana County Humane Society can use assistance with filing, mailing and answering the phone. (724) 465-7387/3977

DISASTER ASSISTANCE The American Red Cross is looking for volunteers for the Disaster Action Team Health and for safety instructors. (724) 465-5678

EDUCATION • ARIN has a need for tutors to work with adults to improve basic math and reading skills in preparation for the GED. Also, tutors are needed for the English as a Second Language Program. (724) 463-5300, ext. 2329 • Indiana Free Library needs volunteers to reshelve books from 3-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Contact John Swanson at (724) 465-8841. • Torrance State Hospital needs a library aide, GED and literacy tutors and computer tutors. Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464. • Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County is looking for a library volunteer. Contact Roberta

Ryan at (724) 463-9600.

MEDICAL/SOCIAL WORK/ CHILD CARE • accessAbilities Inc. is looking for volunteers who can provide companionship for their consumers by making crafts, playing cards or board games, reading or doing small home repairs. (724) 465-6042 • Aging Services Inc. is looking for volunteers who can help with group activities such as crafts, reading, music and card games; and provide friendly one-on-one visits. Contact Jim McQuown at (724) 349-4500. • Alice Paul House is seeking volunteers to provide crisis intervention and counseling to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, juvenile offenders, and other crime. By completing a training course in paraprofessional crisis intervention counseling, volunteers will be able to assist and empower individuals in crisis first hand by answering the crisis hotline and interacting with shelter residents and clients. For more information, contact Whitney Mottorn at (724) 349-5744. • Aging Services Inc. is looking for ombudsman volunteers. If you have two hours of free time a month to help ensure the quality of life and care of long-term care residents, they need you. Call (724) 349-4500 for more information. • Aging Services Inc. is looking for APPRISE volunteers to assist older adults with services and information on health insurance benefits, Medicare and Medicaid eligibility, claims filing, benefits counseling, telephone assistance, consumer protection, referral to other resources, and advocacy. Call (724) 349-4500. • Communities at Indian Haven needs volunteers to assist residents in wheelchairs, assist residents with activities and religious services; bring appropriate pets to visit, share craft ideas/skills and join the adopt-agrandparent program. (724) 4653900 • Indiana County Community Action Program needs mentors and child care providers at its shelters. (724) 465-2657 or (724) 248-9555 • The St. Vincent de Paul Society needs volunteers for their “Adopt an Elder” program, who will share at least 30 minutes of their time per month to visit an elderly person in a local nursing home or personal care home. Ongoing commitment is needed. For more information, contact

Chuck Spadafora at (724) 801-6029. • Big Hearts Little Hands Mentoring Program, a program of the YMCA of Indiana County, is in need of positive, caring adults to provide guidance, care and emotional support to one of Indiana County’s youth in need. Those interested must be 18 years of age or older to be a Big. For more information, call (724) 463-9622

VNA • VNA Family Hospice needs volunteers to assist with grief support and companionship for patients and their families, respite relief, running errands for families and other activities. Contact Mary Edith Cicola at (724) 463-8711. • CareNet, a service of the Visiting Nurse Association, is looking for volunteers to provide friendly visits, transportation or shopping assistance to the elderly and disabled in the community. Those interested may contact Lisa Davis, volunteer coordinator, at (724) 463-6340. • Hopeful Hearts, a service of VNA family hospice, needs peer support group facilitators, family greeters and food servers. Contact Diane Giever at (724) 349-3888.

OUTDOORS • Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County is looking for building and grounds volunteers to help with upkeep and janitorial tasks. Contact Roberta Ryan at (724) 4639600. • Evergreen Conservancy is looking for volunteer board members and environmental educators to teach children at the Tanoma AMD Wetlands outdoor classroom and other locations; and water monitors to install water probes in streams, download data from data loggers, help with maintenance of data loggers and obtain water samples for testing. For more information, call (724) 4716020 or (724) 463-8138.

WEB/TECH • Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County could use an experienced IT volunteer. For details, contact Roberta Ryan at (724) 463-9600.

OTHER • Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) can use your assistance in the food warehouse. For details, call (724) 465-2657 or (724) 248-9555. • The Indiana County Humane So-

ciety is looking for volunteers to assist with grant writing and publicity. For more information, call (724) 4657387. • Evergreen Conservancy is looking for volunteer board members who will attend board meetings the first Thursday of every other month and committee meetings (the opposite month), and work with their accounts to track day to day expenditures and revenues, chair the finance committee, etc. (724) 4716020 or (724) 463-8138. • The St. Vincent de Paul Society is looking for volunteers to work in their Thrift Store, helping to organize and display donated items, customer services and cashier duties. Must be able to work a minimum of three hours per week, can be flexible. For more information, contact Nick Kolb at (724) 465-2440.

SPECIAL EVENTS • accessAbilities is in need of volunteers to assist with 5K Run/Walk and a murder mystery dinner. For more information, call (724) 4656042. • The American Red Cross needs volunteers at blood drives to serve as walkers, greeters or canteen workers. For more information call (724) 4655678. • Four Footed Friends needs special event volunteers. Call (724) 3491144 for details. • ICCAP can use help with Care and Share Day and other special events. For more information, call (724) 4652657 or (724)248-9555. • Indiana County Humane Society is looking for volunteers to assist with the county fair, school presentations and fundraising. Call (724) 4657387/3977 for details. • Historical & Genealogical Society needs a collections assistant and special events volunteer. Contact Roberta Ryan at (724) 463-9600. • Torrance State Hospital needs assistance for special events (picnic, auction, holiday events) through the year. Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464.

SENIOR CORPS is a national volunteer organization. It provides volunteers age 55 and over with volunteer opportunities in nonprofit agencies. Benefits include free accident, personal liability and access automobile insurance while volunteering. Contact Janeen Love at (800) 648-3381, ext. 236, or at jlove@jccap.org for more information.

Health

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Doctors take novel approach to tumor removal Head By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON — Doctor after doctor said removing the tumor causing Pamela Shavaun Scott’s unrelenting headaches would require cutting open the top of her skull and pushing aside her brain. Then one offered a startling shortcut — operating through her eyelid. The idea: Make a small incision right in the crease and sneak past the eyeball into the hard-to-reach center of the head. “The nice thing about it is, we have to saw off much less of your head,” is how Dr. S. Tonya Stefko of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center explained it. Less invasive brain surgery isn’t common but surgeons are working out different ways to get to tumors, aneurysms and other problems without as much trauma in hopes that patients recover faster. But Scott’s experience shows how difficult it can be for patients to learn about alternative options like the eyelid approach — performed by a small number of highly specialized surgical teams — or even to know what to ask. Scott knew that major medical centers often offer second-opinion consultations for long-distance patients, and started hunting — aided when her husband used a 3-D printer to create a life-size model of her skull with her tumor, a meningioma growing behind her left eye, for surgeons to examine. “The sad thing is that people don’t know there are other options than what their small-town doctor is telling them,” said Scott, 56, who traveled from her home in Morro Bay, Calif., to Pittsburgh for the surgery. “I feel like a walking miracle.” Reaching that spot above and behind the eyes, the underside of the brain, is a challenge. Traditional surgery

trauma can affect vision

Options to surgery By The Associated Press Health advocates advise a second opinion when major surgery is recommended. Here are tips on searching for options: • Start with the doctor recommending the traditional surgery, asking what will happen if you don’t have the operation and if there are alternative treatments, either medical or surgical. • Ask your primary care doctor to help you find hospitals or surgeons that specialize in your condition. • Major medical centers may offer second-opinion consultations for long-distance patients with certain conditions. Ask what medical records they need and if your insurance will cover any charge. • In comparing options, ask surgeons how many times they have performed a particular operation; their patients’ average hospital stay; about the type and frequency of surgical complications; and how long the different options take in the operating room.

means a large opening in the skull to give doctors plenty of room to maneuver. But they must move painstakingly past sections of healthy brain, and Scott was warned that because her tumor was in such a tough location, vision or even cognitive damage was a risk of that topdown surgery. Sometimes, surgeons can snake their tools through the nasal passages instead, a straighter shot through a natural opening. Now the eye is offering some paths into this difficult region, too. Think of the eye socket like an ice cream cone, with the tip pointing back toward the brain’s center, said Dr. Paul Gardner, director of UPMC’s Center for Skull Base Surgery. Entering through the eyelid crease, surgeons can follow that cone to just the right spot to access the brain — removing a bit of bone about the size of two postage stamps from the inside. Entering the socket at a different angle, doctors also can make a cut in the crow’s feet at the corner of the eye. Or they can hide an incision in the eyebrow, making a small hole in the skull just above the eye.

Dr. Robert Harbaugh, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, cautioned that transorbital approaches haven’t been formally studied to compare ultimate outcomes, including safety, to traditional open surgery. “This is worth exploring,” he said. But, “because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s necessarily better.” The surgery is only for carefully selected patients, stressed Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon who co-authored one of the first medical journal reports on the eyelid method a few years ago. Tumors can’t be too big. No important nerves can be in the way; he also turns away people with large sinuses, to be sure there’s room to get by. He calls infection the main risk. And it can only be done by a specialized team with experience in both the eye and the brain, added Gardner, who will present some of Pittsburgh’s cases at a medical meeting this month. Stefko, UPMC’s director of orbital and oculoplastic surgery, has the job of protecting the eyeball, making the

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PAMELA SHAVAUN SCOTT, of Morro Bay, Calif., held a 3-D printer model of her skull after her brain tumor was removed through her eyelid, rather than cutting open her skull from the top. corridor for the neurosurgeons to work. Those kinds of multidisciplinary teams are rare, limiting wider adoption of these techniques, said QuinonesHinojosa. “You really have to learn how to be co-captains. Medicine and surgery hasn’t been, traditionally, like that,” he said. For California’s Scott, it took a few hours longer to remove her meningioma — a benign tumor that started in the brain’s protective covering and grew into the bone and near her optic nerve — through the small opening. But she awoke with essentially a black eye, and was back at work in her psychotherapy practice in two weeks, wearing sunglasses. In Indianapolis, dentist

Deborah Boyer underwent a similar months-long search to treat a meningioma growing around critical nerves and blood vessels, threatening her vision and motor function. She wanted both a brain and an eye specialist. So she read medical journals online and hunted designated “centers of excellence.” Pittsburgh’s Gardner initially planned to cut through the side of her skull, a smaller operation than other doctors offered, but later decided the corner of her eye offered a good path. Boyer said it took twice as long as regular surgery, but she was discharged in four days pain-free. “People need help to try to get connected more quickly, and to know what those options are,” she said.

Study: Radiation for cancer not always beneficial By TOM VALEO

Tampa Bay Times

According to a study published more than 10 years ago, many women over 70 who are treated for earlystage breast cancer receive no additional benefit from radiation treatments, but a new study finds that nearly two-thirds of them continue to receive radiation treatment. For some of those women, radiation may be appropriate, according to the authors of the new study, published in the journal Cancer. But for others, especially those who face additional health risks, radiation does not appear to reduce the recurrence of

cancer or increase survival. “We know that having a lumpectomy plus radiation reduces recurrence by 70 percent,” said lead author Dr. Rachel C. Blitzblau, assistant professor of radiation oncology at Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, N.C. “It has a very big impact, so if you have a lumpectomy you should have radiation. Also, there are women over 70 who face a much higher risk of breast cancer, and we would never think of leaving radiation out for them.” Blitzblau suspects that many doctors continue to administer radiation for older breast cancer patients because studies that show it confers no significant benefit

generally follow women for only five years. Maybe after 10 or 15 years those who received radiation would show lower rates of recurrence and longer survival. That’s a reasonable concern, Blitzblau said, and in fact she recommends radiation for older breast cancer patients who are extremely healthy and stand a chance of living another 20 or 25 years. “It’s not uncommon now for women to live into their 90s,” she said. “For those women, early-stage breast cancer may still be the most threatening medical problem they face, so it may still be reasonable to consider radiation. Such women might get a huge reduction in their

risk of recurrence.” However, older women who have diabetes, heart disease, dementia or other medical problems likely to shorten their lives would receive little, if any, benefit from radiation. Besides, older patients are more likely to develop “indolent” breast cancer, which is less aggressive and poses a smaller threat. Above all, doctors should consider the wishes of each patient, Blitzblau said. “I can report the results of trials to two women and they’ll respond very differently,” she said. “One might say, ‘I hear you saying there’s a small benefit to the radiation and it won’t improve survival, so I

don’t want to do it,’ while the other woman says, ‘I’d like my recurrence risk to be 2 percent rather than 9 percent in 10 years.’” So given this new information, what should women do? “I think the most important thing for patients is to ask their doctor what kind of benefit they can expect from treatment, and what side effects to expect,” Blitzblau said. “In cancer treatment, we’re always trying to decide if treatment will help the patient or be outweighed by side effects. If patients ask questions, they can weigh the pros and cons for themselves.”

Marine vet donates stem cells to Australian woman By TOM COLLINS

(LaSalle) News Tribune

LASALLE, Ill. — Somewhere during his long stint in the U.S. Marine Corps, Brad Vogelgesang, of LaSalle, volunteered his name for a bone marrow registry. And then he forgot all about it — put it out of his mind completely. But somewhere Down Under is a woman who’s very glad he put his name in. Vogelgesang is awaiting word on whether his stem cell donation helped out an anonymous recipient in Australia. All he’s been told is the patient is a 63-year-old woman with leukemia. Vogelgesang was happy to oblige, and his boss eagerly consented to the time off, but the call itself came completely out of left field. “It caught me off guard,” he said. “It was something that hadn’t been in my mind for a couple of years.” A few weeks before Christmas, Vogelgesang flew to Washington, D.C., for a sixday stay in which doctors harvested stem cells and then handed a secure package to a waiting courier to catch the next flight to Australia.

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BRAD VOGELGESANG, with his wife, Genevieve, and son, Henry, of LaSalle, Ill., has donated stem cells to aid a leukemia patient in Australia. Now comes the waiting game for the recipient and her physicians, though Vogelgesang isn’t betting on any kind of update from anybody. By rule, the recipient alone decides who is and isn’t apprised of her medical condition. “There’s a chance I may never know anything about her, or even if any of this helped,” Vogelgesang shrugged. “It would be interesting to know,” he mused. “At the same time, I know it’s a private matter and I would completely understand and respect that if she chose to be anonymous.”

Vogelgesang urged others to sign up for such registries, noting that the stem-cell extraction is neither painful nor debilitating and could well save another’s life. He doesn’t remember when during his eight-year stint in the service that he signed up, but years passed before he got calls indicating he might be somebody’s match. Most of the early calls were false starts that came to nothing. But it became clear in 2014 that additional comparisons led doctors to conclude he might be the woman’s perfect match.

He got the OK to take the time off for a Dec. 5-11 stint at Georgetown University Hospital. There, doctors gave him a series of filgrastim injections to elevate his platelet count. “Filgrastim causes mild muscle discomfort and flu like symptoms,” he recalled, “but I was still able to function normally while receiving these treatments.” Once the injections were complete, doctors opted on Dec. 10 for a peripheral blood stem-cell harvest, as opposed to the traditional withdrawal of bone marrow performed under anesthesia. The harvest takes up to eight hours, but Vogelgesang completed his in four, during which he was bored but never uncomfortable. “It wasn’t painful,” he said. “I was back to work the next day.” A former Arlington woman said she hopes others follow Vogelgesang’s courageous lead and submit their names in hopes they, too, may someday give a potentially life-saving donation. Edna Rivera, now of Champaign, lost her mother, Maria Rodriguez, in May of 2012 after a long battle with cancer. Rodriguez received a bone marrow transplant

that, while ultimately unsuccessful, gave her and her family much-needed hope. Rivera noted that the match was found within Rodriguez’s large family and noted soberly that most recipients couldn’t draw from a large pool of potential matches. “A lot of people had a hard time finding a match,” Rivera said. “My mom had seven or eight siblings and only found one match. People should donate because it could help someone.”

Vision disturbances after a concussion are very common. Vision can be easily affected. Visual symptoms may be temporary or may still be there after other problems have resolved. Symptoms of post-concussion vision problem may include: • Blurry or unstable vision • Double vision • Sensitivity to light • Trouble reading or viewing your computer • Dizziness driving or in the supermarket • Lack of depth perception Post-concussion vision disturbances can affect all of our daily activities including work, school, sports and social life. Most vision Dr. Rebecca disturWincek bances Bateson, an after a optometrist, concushas a private practice at 678 sion can be Philadelphia treated St. and you should seek treatment as soon as you or others notice a problem. Without treatment, visual problems may limit your success in recovering from a concussion. The most common changes after concussion are difficulty teaming our eyes together for near work such as reading or computer use and loss of the ability to make print clear. Known as convergence insufficiency and accommodative dysfunction, they can be diagnosed by an optometric professional who specializes in traumatic brain injury. Treatment may include eyeglasses for near work such as reading or computer use, rehabilitation therapy to rebuild your visual skill, or specially tinted lenses to reduce light sensitivity. Treatment is designed to relieve your symptoms and to help you return to your daily activities. Optometric professionals that specialize in concussions are available to help you and can diagnose and treat visual processing problems that appear after brain injury. They can work closely with your rehabilitation team, such as occupational, physical and speech therapists, so your visual problems will not limit your success in recovering from your brain injury. Remember, there is hope and there is help for the hidden vision problems that frequently accompany brain injury. Doctors and therapists are here to maximize your recovery. To learn more or find NORA (neuro-optometric rehabilitation association) professionals in your area, go to https://nora.cc/.

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February Is Heart Month

By Rob Kasisky, R.PH.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. As with men, women may experience pain, tightness or discomfort in the chest during a heart attack. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/ vomiting, pain in one or both arms, cold sweats, feeling lightheaded, back or jaw pain, and unexplained fatigue or weakness. For some women, symptoms may be present a month or so before their actual heart attack. If you experience symptoms of a heart attack, call 911 immediately!

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could lead to a lobbying frenzy that halts the process in its tracks. Republicans want to reduce the top rate to 25 percent. Obama would reduce it to 28 percent, but set it at 25 percent for manufacturers. Rep. Paul Ryan, the new Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has indicated he is open to negotiations. In a potential sticking point, Obama wants a 19 percent tax on the overseas profits of U.S. companies, with a credit for taxes paid in the foreign country where they were earned. Republicans and many in the business community object to foreign earnCORPORATE ings being subject to JACK LEW TAX SYSTEM taxes abroad and in the U.S. Obama and ReThe United States. publicans both say is one of only a few they want to overcountries that rehaul the U.S. corpoquire corporations rate tax system. The to pay taxes at home nation’s top rate of for their overseas 35 percent is the earnings. highest among deOrganized labor veloped economies, leaders, meanwhile, even though tax say Obama’s tax plan breaks significantly doesn’t go far reduce the tax burenough. AFL-CIO den on some indusPresident Richard tries. Trumka said MonBoth sides say they SHAUN DONOVAN day that corporawould be willing to tions would still eliminate tax breaks to bring down rates and make have incentives to shift jobs or the system more equal for all profits overseas. “The actual industries. But finding what tax proposals in President Obama’s breaks and incentives to elimi- budget don’t match the rhetonate and which ones to retain ric,” he said.

President Barack Obama’s blueprint for the 2016 budget year calls for spending nearly half a trillion dollars more than the government is projected to take in. REVENUE: $3.5 TRILLION

Individual income taxes:1000 $1.6 trillion

OBAMA BUDGET: $4 TRILLION DISCRETIONARY

Continued from Page 1 Obama would boost spending by $74 billion — divided equally between the military and domestic programs — in 2016. Republicans have voiced interest in increasing only the defense side of the equation. But Obama’s veto pen could force a deal. On the domestic side, Obama wants free community college for up to 9 million students and expanded child care for low- and middleincome families. “I will not accept a budget that severs the vital links between our national security and our economic security,” Obama said. “Those two things go hand in hand.”

Breaking down the Obama budget

Social Security taxes: $801 billion Corporate taxes: $473 billion 3000 Medicare: $245 billion

Defense: $585 billion Non-defense: $569 billion

Social Security: $1 trillion

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Other taxes: $358 billion

Medicare/Medicaid: $1 trillion

Other mandatory: $615 billion

Deficit: $474 billion

Debt interest: $283 billion

NOTE: Numbers are rounded and may not add up. SOURCE: AP analysis of White House figures

INFRASTRUCTURE Obama’s budget proposes spending $478 billion over six years on upgrading highways, bridges and ports and modernizing transit systems. Lawmakers, most of whom have a public works needs in their districts or states, have been struggling to find ways to increase spending on infrastructure. Obama would cover half of his spending with a mandatory, one-time 14 percent tax on the nearly $2 trillion in profits that U.S. companies have already accumulated overseas. That would generate about $238 billion, with the remaining $240 billion coming from the federal Highway Trust Fund, which is financed with a gasoline tax. The former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, now-retired Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., proposed a similar idea last year with a lower mandatory tax, but the

plan did not make headway in Congress. A bipartisan group of House and Senate members support a plan that would allow companies to bring their overseas profits to the U.S. tax free in exchange for purchasing infrastructure bonds. And Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., have proposed paying for highway and bridge fixes by letting companies voluntarily pay taxes on foreign earnings at a one-time low rate of 6.5 percent. The White House staunchly opposes such voluntary “tax holidays,” however, and critics say that without broader tax fixes, such holidays simply encourage companies to park their foreign profits overseas. Other lawmakers have proposed boosting the Highway Trust Fund with a higher gasoline tax, an idea considered more palatable now that gas prices are low.

Ex-treasurer facing up to 40 years Continued from Page 1 about the case, it appeared clear that McCord’s telephone conversations were being recorded. At the time, McCord was trailing badly to the eventual Democratic primary winner, Tom Wolf, and he was quickly burning through his campaign cash with about a month before the primary election. In an April 21 phone call, McCord complained to an unnamed lawyer that his law firm’s managing partner had not pledged more than $5,000 to McCord’s campaign, despite McCord’s entreaties. The managing partner was a supporter of Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican who was seeking re-election, and a likely supporter of someone else for governor in 2018, McCord noted. “And that’s fine, but you also run a law firm, so if you are not going to hedge your bet, don’t think that I am so stupid that I am not going to read the riot act down the road,” McCord told the lawyer. “You know what I mean?”

McCord also encouraged the lawyer, who was a neighbor in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Mawr, to speak to the managing partner to let him know that a $25,000 contribution would be acceptable, even if through another conduit, such as the lawyer or the lawyer’s wife. And he urged the lawyer to tell the managing partner that McCord could use his position as treasurer to hurt the law firm if he did not get a satisfactory donation. “You can say to him, ‘my concern is that if he loses and you stiffed him, every time you are trying to get something done through state government you are going to have the state treasurer looking to screw you, you know,’” McCord told the lawyer. The law firm had billed the state for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal services in recent years. McCord made similar statements to the lawyer and the managing partner in the following two weeks. In an April 14 conversation

with someone helping him raise money, McCord encouraged the fundraiser to pressure a property management company whose principals, he felt, had not delivered on a promise to give him a substantial campaign check. The company had received benefits and incentives from the state government in the past, the court papers said. “And you get what I am saying on the ... hazard side. I just want ’em to realize like, you know, I could take an upside and turn it into a downside here, you know,” McCord told the fundraiser. McCord, 55, had been midway through his second term as state treasurer when he resigned Friday and said he planned to plead guilty to federal charges accusing him of using his office to threaten potential campaign donors last year. He apologized in a video released by his lawyers Friday and said he accepted responsibility for his actions. He said in the video that he

had “stepped over the line” by telling two potential campaign contributors that, as treasurer, he “could make things difficult for them” if they did not donate. “I essentially said that the potential contributors should not risk making an enemy of the state treasurer,” McCord said in the video. “Clearly that was wrong, I was wrong. It was a mistake. I stand ready to pay the price for that mistake.” As treasurer — one of three elected row offices in Pennsylvania, along with attorney general and auditor general — McCord oversaw a massive financial operation that holds state funds, handles state government investments and pays its bills and employees. The man who had been McCord’s chief counsel, Christopher Craig, has been running Treasury since Friday as executive deputy state treasurer. Wolf will nominate someone to finish the last two years of McCord’s term. The state Senate must confirm the appointment.

Man gets ARD in stabbing case Continued from Page 1 acting in self-defense. Rivera surrendered at Indiana District Court on Sept. 16, two days after he was accused of stabbing Giovanni Brown, 21, on a driveway between Oakland Avenue and the Specialty Tires of America plant on the southwest corner of Indiana. Investigators said Rivera, a back-seat passenger in a car that was stopped on the road, had slashed and stabbed Brown’s arm after Brown, who was standing outside the car, reached in through the window. With a wound gushing blood, Brown fled to Oakland Avenue near Monro Muffler & Brake Service and briefly staggered onto the street. Passers-by helped Brown to the Papa John’s Pizza restaurant and called 911. Citizens’ Ambulance Service paramedics took Brown to Indiana Regional Medical Center,

where doctors sent him on a medical helicopter for surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Brown was admitted to the hospital in serious condition but was quickly upgraded after undergoing surgery and was discharged after his recovery. Rivera’s defense attorney, Robert Muir, said Rivera was not the instigator in the confrontation. “Mr. Brown was standing outside the car, and reached in and punched William and caused contusions to his face and eye,” Muir said, following the ARD hearing. On his smartphone, Muir showed photos that he said depicted Rivera’s facial injuries. “He was acting to protect himself in the vehicle,” Muir said. “He was locked in and had nowhere else to go. So he pulled out his pocket knife to defend

himself, and when that fist kept coming in, Mr. Brown made contact with the knife.” Indiana Borough police said Rivera and two other men fled in the car after Brown was wounded, and witnesses gave police the license plate number of the car. A registration check led investigators to IUP student Ebnell Barnett, of Phoenixville, Chester County, and police located the car a few hours later in the driveway at Barnett’s local residence along Carter Avenue. Barnett and IUP student Devin Peak, who had been riding in the front seat of the car, told police that Rivera had stabbed Brown. Rivera told police he had discarded his knife in an alley near Barnett’s apartment, and gave officers directions to find it, court records show.

No charges were filed against Brown, Barnett or Peak. At the ARD hearing Monday, Martin told 17 defendants that they would be charged $30 a month in supervision fees. Most were first-time offenders charged with driving under the influence, who also would be assessed $1,130 for the cost of the program. Defendants facing other charges, including Rivera, would have to pay $950 to be placed on ARD. “The defendant is appropriate to be admitted to the program,” Martin said when Rivera’s case came up for review. “The court has met with the district attorney and the defense attorney, because it is not normal to consider felony charges for ARD. But based on the strength of the defendant’s defense in this case, that he acted in self-defense, he is being accepted.”

Kurdish forces seize villages near Kobani BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish forces and their Syrian rebel allies have seized a belt of villages around Kobani from Islamic State militants, a senior official said today, days after they drove the extremists from the Syrian border town. IS militants overran large parts of Kobani and surrounding

areas in mid-September, forcing tens of thousands of Kurds to flee to neighboring Turkey. For months Kurdish forces fought to retake Kobani, assisted by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition. The battle was seen as a major test of whether the airstrikes

could halt the extremists’ advance across Syria and neighboring Iraq. The Islamic State group has blamed coalition airstrikes for its defeat in Kobani. “Most of the villages close to Kobani have been liberated,” said senior Kurdish official

Anwar Muslim. “The rest will be liberated soon,” he said. Muslim said Kurdish forces and their allies had secured a diameter of 6 to 9 miles around Kobani. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported similar information.

Ruddock seeking fourth term Continued from Page 1 more industrial sites where businesses could start and generate jobs. He believes those campaign goals have been substantially met. “I’m very proud of where we’ve gone with each of those programs,” he said. “There’s been a wide range of engagement of other county organizations to help move those projects along. … I’m extremely proud of where we are with the new veterans’ clinic (at Regency Mall). … As commissioners we’re very excited it’s up and running. … We still have to build the clientele for the facility. What we need to do is have the ability to start bringing in some additional resources” so it can offer some specialty medical services. He also wants to see the apartment complex for homeless veterans under construction in White Township completed. “I’d like to still be part of that decision-making process to make sure we get what we’re looking for,” he said. “As a next step … we want to set up a similar kind of facility to take care of those on domestic issues,” particularly a new building to serve as the Alice Paul House. The commissioners are looking for sources of state and federal funds for that project. “I think that is a communityneeded service. If we can in any way help move that along, I think we have a responsibility to do that,” he said. The county’s property reassessment — the first since 1968 — is also nearly finished. “We have tried in our best way to educate the public on the need for the tax reassessment,” Ruddock said. “The school districts in many cases have indicated to us their concern that we have not done a reassessment. … We waited for the opportune time to do it once we got some of the other projects completed.” He acknowledged a reassessment, generally, is not a popular issue. “But, the practical sense is you cannot defer what needs to be done. And it makes sense to do what’s right,” he said. “I would think the citizens of Indiana County understand the rationale for a reassessment. They understand that it needed to be done. … So far it’s gone very, very well.” He’s also proud of the enhancements made to the county’s public safety radio network. “I have to commend what our leadership of emergency management has done, particularly Tom Stutzman. He’s taken it from ground zero when we started and it is now an 800 MHz system that is now in the hands of just about every first responder in Indiana County and has been extended to other organizations as well,” he said. “It has done a great job to improve the quality of responses on the part of our firefighters, our police and our emergency medical teams. “The responsibility we have as county commissioners is for the security and safety of everyone in the county,” Ruddock said. “And we depend so much on our volunteer firefighters. They provide an invaluable service to all of us. We have done what we can to provide them with a communications system that I think is second to none. … What I’m hearing is that they’re very satisfied with the system. … And we stayed within budget. All of the projects we have undertaken have stayed well within budget.” He said the commissioners extended the fiber optic part of the radio system into rural parts of the county so that it may eventually give rural residents improved Internet broadband service. “That’s a service we believe is critically important if we’re to grow Indiana County through our rural connectors,” he said. Also as part of the radio system upgrade, the commissioners put up four additional radio towers to help spur cellular phone service in the county. “I would say Indiana County is very well prepared to move forward to a new age of economic development,” he said. “If you talk to other counties, they’re all looking at how we do business, particularly from economic development. … Financially, Indiana County has moved forward.” Twelve years ago when he took office, the county did not have a reserve account. The commissioners have since put a software system in place to help track and manage county finances and brought in some financial planners to help. “Right now, we are as good as any county in the state in terms of our financial stability,” he said. “We now have a reserve account that will at least take care of about 10 percent of our operational requirements each year. … Our investment portfolio has grown” and the county’s pension program is fully funded. “There’s not one part of Indiana County that I have not been exposed to and I can almost talk about any part of Indiana County and have something good to say about it,” he said. A skill he uses as a commissioner is to engage people with varying expertise and interests to provide him with good information on which to base decisions. “How blessed I have been as a county commissioner to have teamed up with people like Bernie Smith, Dave Frick, Patty Evanko and now Mike Baker — each one has an interest to make Indiana County better,” he said. “The best thing we can do as a team of commissioners is to collectively take advantage of that energy and move it to the right focus and the right direction. And we’ve done that. I think that’s been the strength of our commissioners’ office. We’ve worked as a team to try to find out what best fits and then work toward getting it done as quickly as we can within our financial wherewithal.” Evanko, a Democrat, announced earlier this year that she will not run for re-election; Baker, a Republican, has announced that he will run in November. Ruddock is a past chairman of the Southwest Pennsylvania Commission, the 10-county region’s forum for collaboration, planning and public decision making. He is also a past chairman of the Community and Economic Development Committee of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania and recently was asked to serve as chairman of the association’s Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. In the last primary election for commissioner in 2011, Ruddock also ran a successful write-in campaign for a Democratic nomination and received 596 votes — nearly six times the minimum needed — from his supporters who were registered Democrats. He said he does not plan to actively seek a Democratic nomination this spring.

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Indiana 72, Greensburg Salem 43

It Never Gets Old

By JOHN BRANCH

By TONY COCCAGNA

It isn’t vengeance the IUP women’s basketball team seeks on Wednesday. The Crimson Hawks play host to California, the only team to beat them this season. Now IUP seeks redemption for that 73-68 loss in overtime on Jan. 10. IUP (18-1, 14-1 PSAC West) had one of its poorest performances that afternoon at California in terms of taking care of the basketball and rebounding. IUP had a seasonhigh 26 turnovers, and while the Crimson Hawks were outreboundCALIFORNIA ed by only two, they vs. IUP gave up 18 Wednesday offensive Women: 5:30 p.m. rebounds. Men: 7:30 p.m. California (17-3, 14-2) converted the 26 turnovers and offensive boards into 43 points. Taking care of the ball and rebounding have been two of IUP’s strengths. The Crimson Hawks enter the game averaging 14.2 turnovers per game and have a rebounding margin of plus-11. California averages 23 forced turnovers per game and had a rebounding margin of plus-1.5. Continued on Page 12

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Panthers survive a scare By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — Faced with the prospect of taking an entire week off in the middle of the season, Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon instead opted to throw unheralded Bryant PITT 72 onto the to BRYANT 67 schedule keep his players in a rhythm. It nearly backfired. Jamel Artis scored a careerhigh 32 points, and the Panthers needed every one of them in a 72-67 win over the upstart Bulldogs on Monday night. “This game shouldn’t have been close,” Artis said. Continued on Page 12

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MARITA MATHE and the IUP women hope to atone for their only loss when they play California on Wednesday.

SUPER BOWL XLIX

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CELEBRATION SCENES: Indiana coach Dave Woodall (top) welcomed Emily Wagner to the bench on Senior Salute; the Indians held hands (middle left) as the clock ticked down; Zoe Zahorchak (middle right) cut down the net after Indiana clinched a share of the section title; and senior Lucy Bujdos (bottom) got a hug from Bridget Bock after coming out of the game.

Indians celebrate another WPIAL section crown By ELI NELLIS

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Indiana won three section championships in a row, from 2009 to 2011, with teams that, if they needed to, could have gotten by on talent alone. These last two have taken a lot of elbow grease. Indiana, a team without superstars, claimed at least a share of the WPIAL Section 3AAA girls’ basketball title, its second straight, by doubling down on Greensburg Salem standout Claire Oberdorf and blowing by the Lions, 72-43, on Senior Salute on Monday at Fifth Street Gymnasium. “It’s just hard work,” said Indiana coach Dave Woodall, who, admittedly, did not know what to expect from his group entering the season. “Anytime you get five kids, or 10 kids in a rotation, working hard, good things are going to happen. They’ve dedicated themselves to basketball during the season and they work hard. Good things happen to kids that work hard.” “It means so much, especially being a senior and being with my favorite people in the

world,” Indiana point guard Abbey Karcher WPIAL STANDINGS said. “It’s great to be able to share this moSECTION 3-AAA ment together, and I think that’s why it means so much this year, being seniors.” Team Conf. All 12-0 18-1 Indiana (18-1, 12-0 section) limited Ober- Indiana 10-2 13-6 dorf to 10 points — and just one field goal — Mount Pleasant 8-5 13-8 after she went off for 41 points in the teams’ Greensburg Salem 7-6 8-11 Jan. 9 meeting in Greensburg, a 61-52 Indiana Derry Uniontown 6-7 10-10 win. Indiana has won 14 games in a row. A Laurel Highlands 4-9 7-13 victory in either of its final two section Southmoreland 3-9 7-12 games, at Southmoreland on Wednes- Yough 0-12 0-18 Monday’s Scores day or at Derry on Thursday, would Indiana 72, Greensburg Salem 43 give the Indians an outright title. “That’s always the goal, winning Southmoreland 58, Derry 44 Mt. Pleasant 63, Laurel Highlands 22 the section championship,” Uniontown 53, Yough 5 Woodall said. “We want to finish Today’s Game and be undefeated in the section. Mount Pleasant at Yough Wednesday’s Game It certainly helps your seeding in Indiana at Southmoreland the playoffs.” Thursday’s Games “The whole day in general was Indiana at Derry pretty emotional, it being our Senior Salute,” Mount Pleasant at Greensburg Salem forward Lucy Bujdos said. “It’s our last game Southmoreland at Yough ever played in this gym, which is pretty crazy. Uniontown at Laurel Highlands It means the world to us. It really does. I would’ve never been able to do it without my ON PAGE 13 teammates and my coaches.” • Monday’s scores. Continued on Page 13

Darrell Bevell was 20 miles from home, but he really just wanted to go 1 yard. That was how far the Seattle Seahawks were from the winning touchdown in the final seconds of Sunday’s Super Bowl. How they got there was Bevell’s decision. As a teenager, Bevell and his father, Jim, would watch film of games together, pushing the button to make it go DARRELL forward and back and BEVELL forward again, analyzing what worked and what did not. Jim Bevell was the coach at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Darrell Bevell was his star quarterback. “To be able to play in a Super Bowl here, you couldn’t even dream it up this good,” Darrell Bevell, 45, said last week. And now here he was, with the game’s key calculation, the ball at the 1-yard line, the fourth-quarter clock ticking into the final half-minute, the NFL’s toughest running back on the field. But Bevell did not call for a handoff to Marshawn Lynch. Through the headset he called a pass play, as coach Pete Carroll wanted. Quarterback Russell Wilson was intercepted, and the Seahawks lost, 28-24. Bevell became the goat, not the hometown hero. “That was the worst play call I’ve seen in the history of football,” Emmitt Smith, the former Dallas Cowboys running back, wrote on Twitter. Countless critics were equally exasperated by Bevell’s decision not to give the ball to Lynch, nicknamed “Beast Mode,” who had rushed for four yards on the previous play and 102 in the game. Former NFL running backs now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, like Smith, were most indignant. “Worst Call Ever. Beast Mode in the backfield and you throw it?” former Rams back Eric Dickerson tweeted. Carroll took responsibility (“There’s really nobody to blame but me,” he said), and Wilson admitted that he did not make his best throw. But second-guessing flooded past them and washed over Bevell, in charge of Seattle’s offense for four years, including during last year’s 438 Super Bowl victory over Denver. History appears determined to cement the interception as a play-calling blunder as head-shaking as any. Continued on Page 15

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MALCOLM BUTLER intercepted this pass that sealed New England’s win in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

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IUP BASKETBALL PREVIEW CALIFORNIA (12-9) at IUP MEN (18-3) When and where — 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, KCAC. About IUP — The Crimson Hawks, ranked 21st in NCAA Division II, are second in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division at 12-3, a half-game behind Gannon (13-3), a half-game ahead of Mercyhurst (12-4) and 2½ ahead of Slippery Rock (10-6). They are 6-3 against division teams with wins over Seton Hill (82-64, 71-56) Clarion (87-72), Pitt Johnstown (88-73), Edinboro (79-69) and California (69-45) and losses to Slippery Rock (75-71), Gannon (61-56, OT) and Mercyhurst (65-62) and the loss to California. About California — The Vulcans, tied for fifth with Edinboro at 8-8 in the PSAC West, have lost five of their last six, the lone win coming over first-place Gannon (63-58, OT) on Jan. 22. They are 3-7 in the division, with their other wins coming over Pitt Johnstown (74-65) and Edinboro (69-63) and their losses coming to Edinboro (68-59), Mercyhurst (58-57, 60-55), Slippery Rock (64-62), Seton Hill (63-59), IUP (69-45) and Clarion (70-63). Last meeting — IUP won 69-45 at California on Jan. 10. Brandon Norfleet led four IUP players in double figures with 20 points, and the Hawks led the rebounding by 16, 43-27. Drew Cook scored 16 points for California, and Jake Jacubec, who averages double figures, did not play due to an injury. All-time series — IUP leads 107-72. Coaches — IUP: Joe Lombardi (ninth season, 191-73). Bill Brown (18th season, 345-169). Broadcast — WQMU-FM 92.5 and www.u92radio.com. Next — IUP plays host to Gannon at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. IUP Probable starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 3 Devante Chance 5-10 Sr. G 14.9 4.0 23 Brandon Norfleet 6-5 Jr. G 12.7 4.4 22 Shawn Dyer 6-0 Gr. G 12.1 5.4 44 Daddy Ugbede 6-6 Jr. C 11.4 4.2 11 Jeremy Jeffers 6-6 Sr. F 8.3 2.8 Key reserves 10 Tevin Hanner 6-5 Jr. F 6.5 3.4 21 Devon Cottrell 6-7 Jr. C 4.4 4.4 1 Manny Yarde 6-4 So. G 3.9 2.3 California Probable starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 11 Khalil Jabbie 6-0 Jr. G 12.8 2.6 21 Richard Smith 6-9 Jr. F 11.8 8.8 5 Jake Jacubec 6-0 Jr. G 11.2 2.6 22 Tony Richardson 6-8 Fr. F 6.6 4.2 10 Drew Cook 6-1 So. G 6.2 2.1 Key reserves 15 Arman Marks 6-4 Sr. G 9.0 5.0 23 Daniel Sapp 6-4 Fr. G 4.7 3.1 35 Calvin Brown 6-9 Jr. F 4.3 4.4 1 Josh Dombrosky 6-6 Jr. F 2.4 1.2 Team per game averages IUP C 76.5 Points scored 70.4 61.5 Points allowed 67.4 .492 Field goal percentage .432 .402 3-point field goal percentage .332 .772 Free throw percentage .706 .407 Field goal percentage defense .401 .323 3-point field goal percentage defense .294 +4.3 Rebounding margin +4.8 16.5 Assists 12.1 13.1 Turnovers 16.2

CALIFORNIA (17-3) at IUP WOMEN (18-1) When and where — 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, KCAC. About IUP — The Crimson Hawks, ranked fifth in NCAA Division II, hold first place in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division at 14-1, a half-game ahead of California (14-2) and Gannon (14-2) and California (13-2) and 3½ ahead of Edinboro. They are 8-1 against division teams with wins over Seton Hill (73-64, 71.56), Pitt Johnstown (79-60), Slippery Rock (73-48), Edinboro (86-60), Gannon (74-51) and Mercyhurst (65-45) and a loss to California (71-66, OT). About California — The Vulcans are tied for second with Gannon in the PSAC West at 14-2, a half-game behind IUP. They have won three straight and six of their last eight and handed IUP its only loss, 73-68 in overtime, on Jan. 10. They are 9-1 in the division with wins over Edinboro (75-48, 76-48), Mercyhurst (72-46, 69-57), Slippery Rock (74-63), Seton Hill (73-65), Pitt Johnstown (83-60), Clarion (72-61) and IUP and a loss to Gannon (71-63). Last meeting — California won at home, 73-68 in overtime, on Jan. 10. IUP committed a season-high 26 turnovers that led to 28 California points, and the Vulcans grabbed 18 offensive rebounds. Marita Mathe led IUP with 21 points, Lindsay Stamp scored 19, and Ashley Stoner had 15. California’s Emma Mahady scored a game-high 26 points, Miki Glenn had 19, and Kaitlyn Fratz scored 17. All-time series — California leads 40-34. Coaches — IUP: Tom McConnell (second season, 36-11). California: Jess Strom (third season, 53-19). Broadcast — WQMU-FM 92.5 and www.u92radio.com. Next — IUP plays at Gannon at 5 p.m. Saturday. IUP Probable Starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 3 Lindsay Stamp 5-10 Sr. G 20.3 8.5 0 Ashley Stoner 6-1 Sr. F 14.2 6.5 12 Leslie Stapleton 5-10 Jr. G 9.9 3.4 5 Marita Mathe 5-7 Sr. G 8.5 4.2 24 Amy Fairman 5-10 Sr. G 7.7 3.8 Key reserves 15 Zhané Brooks 5-10 Jr. F 6.1 5.8 10 Marina Wareham 5-3 Jr. G 3.1 0.6 14 Alexis Aiken 5-8 Jr. G/F 3.0 1.9 30 Megan Smith 6-0 Fr. G/F 1.9 2.5 California Probable Starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 21 Miki Glenn 5-7 So. G 15.8 4.9 2 Emma Mahady 5-11 Sr. G/F 16.0 6.0 11 Kaitlynn Fratz 5-5 Sr. G 12.8 2.4 22 Irina Kukolj 5-11 Sr. G/F 9.1 4.0 12 Lana Doran 5-10 Jr. G 5.1 5.0 Key reserves 5 Seairra Barrett 6-0 Fr. F 6.6 5.2 23 Precious Martin 6-0 So. G/F 2.3 1.3 32 CeCe Dixon 5-11 So. G/F 2.3 1.9 Team per game averages IUP C 78.6 Points scored 73.2 56.4 Points allowed 60.0 .460 Field goal percentage .427 .357 3-point field goal percentage .297 .708 Free throw percentage .728 .365 Field goal percentage defense .417 .259 3-point field goal percentage defense .346 +11.0 Rebounding margin +1.7 19.5 Assists 12.2 14.2 Turnovers 14.9

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IUP COACH Tom McConnell knows his team will have to play better if it is to beat California on Wednesday. The Vulcans are the only team to beat the No. 5 Crimson Hawks this season.

Hawks get their shot at Cal Continued from Page 11 “In order to beat Cal you just have to take good care of the basketball,” IUP coach Tom McConnell said. “They force you to play fast and make decisions to be tough with the basketball. So if you take care of the basketball, you give yourself a chance to be successful. And you have to really compete on the glass. They’re a very physically, tough, athletic team.” The first matchup was a game of runs. IUP bolted to a 16-2 lead, and California answered with a 17-2 run. IUP recovered before halftime and took a 35-29 lead into the break. In the second half, California outscored IUP 23-7 and held a 10-point lead with seven minutes to go. The Crimson Hawks came back with an 18-8 run to forge a tie and had two chances to win in regulation, the first when Ashley Stoner went to the free throw line with 1.8 seconds left, tying the game before missing the second free throw. Lindsay Stamp rebounded that miss and got up a shot that didn’t fall. California then outscored IUP 13-8 in

overtime. The Vulcans’ Emma Mahady hit a 3-pointer with 1:14 left that broke a tie, and IUP never recovered. “We just want to do what we do and do it better than we did the last time,” McConnell said. “If we can do those two things, we give ourselves a chance to be successful.” The other factor in the first game was the physical play. The referees established early that they were going to let the teams go at each other, and California took advantage of that, particularly in the second half. “We’ve shown time and time again that we have the toughness and mettle to compete at a very high level and rise to the challenge,” McConnell said. “I’m hopeful and confident we’ll do that this time.” IUP is ranked fifth in NCAA Division II. California is unranked after falling from the poll following a 71-63 loss to Gannon on Jan. 22. More importantly, IUP holds sole possession of first place in the PSAC West. IUP needs a win to hold on to first place and create a two-game separation from

California. Gannon (15-4, 14-2), which is tied for second with California, plays at fourth-place Edinboro (14-6, 11-5) on Wednesday. California is coming off a 75-48 win over Edinboro. IUP beat Seton Hill, 7156, on Saturday. The Hawks shot only 33.8 percent but held Seton Hill to 29.7, and they led the rebounding by 18, 5638. “Seton Hill did a good job defensively,” McConnell said. “We accomplished all the defensive goals we had for that game. We played well enough defensively, but we weren’t efficient offensively. We didn’t shoot it as well as we had hoped to. We came out and shot it better in the second half. Whenever you’re knocking down shots things go better and the offense looks good.” IUP’s Zhané Brooks, a 6-foot junior reserve forward/center, missed Saturday’s game with a foot injury. She was cleared to practice Monday. “She’ll practice a little bit (Monday) and a little bit more (Tuesday),” McConnell said, “and hopefully she’ll be able to play on Wednesday.”

Pitt survives scare from Bryant Continued from Page 11 “We probably underestimated them.” Probably. Artis made 11 of 17 field goals — most of them on midrange jumpers after finding soft spots in Bryant’s zone defense — and knocked down the clinching free throws with two seconds left as the Panthers (15-8) avoided a major letdown barely 48 hours removed from a rousing upset of Notre Dame. Chris Jones drilled a baseline jumper with 1:12 to go to put Pitt in front for good as Pitt won its 30th straight nonconference game at the Petersen Events Center. Dan Garvin poured in a career-high 24 for the Bulldogs (10-11). Dyami Starks added 17 but missed a 3-pointer from the top of the key that would have tied the game with six seconds left as the Northeast Conference school fell to 1-8 all-time against the ACC. Bryant made the Panthers work for it. There were eight ties and eight lead changes as Bryant hit shots early and hung around until the end. “Pitt may say ‘We didn’t play well,’” Bryant coach Tim O’Shea said. “But give some credit to Bryant for coming in and

taking it to them.” The Bulldogs, in just their third season as a full-fledged member of Division I, shot 51 percent from the floor, outscored Pitt 30-24 in the paint and led for several stretches. “Most of you are probably surprised,” O’Shea said. “You shouldn’t be. Teams at our level can play.” Artis single-handedly kept Pitt in it, scoring 14 points during one stretch in the second half as Pitt turned a 41-35 deficit into a 52-44 lead. The Bulldogs, playing their third game in five days, continued to fight back by repeatedly getting into the lane on a series of drives by Garvin and backdoor cuts by Starks and Shane McLaughlin. Starks hit a lay-up to put Bryant in front 67-66 with 2:25 left but the Bulldogs would not score again. Jones stepped in front of a McLaughlin pass with 1:05 to go and Bryant couldn’t corral a rebound off a missed free throw by James Robinson. The Panthers ran down the shot clock and Cameron Wright’s jumper from the elbow gave Pitt a three-point cushion. Starks’ ninth 3-point attempt of the game missed badly and Pitt escaped.

“We’ve got to find ways (to win),” Dixon said. “We’ve got to become better defensively.” The Panthers revived their season by slipping past the Irish on Saturday, the kind of résumé -building victory they believe could propel them through a daunting stretch that includes games against Syracuse, No. 9 Louisville, No. 12 North Carolina and No. 3 Virginia over the next two weeks. Whatever momentum Pitt carried over from nipping the Irish vanished in the first 20 minutes against Bryant. Now the Panthers have three days to get ready for the Orange, who will provide a more physical test Pitt needs to pass if it wants to generate a real push for an NCAA tournament berth. Jones scored all four points by Pitt’s increasingly thin bench. The sophomore was plagued by back issues that forced him to miss practice on Sunday. He managed to play 20 minutes while fellow reserves Ryan Luther, Sheldon Jeter and Derrick Randall played eight minutes combined. “We’ve got to have more guys out there,” Dixon said. “Our defense is suffering because of it.”

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Division II coach aims to join 1,000 win club

Malcolm Brogdon scored 17 points and No. 3 Virginia’s defense locked down in the second half to beat No. 12 North Carolina 75-64 on Monday night. Justin Anderson added 16 for the Cavaliers (20-1, 8-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who responded to their first loss of the season by blowing open TOP 25 a tight game at halftime for an impressive road win. ROUNDUP Coming off Saturday’s loss to Duke in one of the program’s biggest home games in years, Virginia erased a 33-32 halftime deficit by shooting 50 percent while holding the Tar Heels (17-6, 7-3) in check to build an 18-point lead and improve to 8-0 in true road games this year. After shooting 52 percent in the first half, UNC went just 11-for-29 (38 percent) after halftime while preseason ACC player of the year Marcus Paige struggled for open looks against Brogdon’s constant defensive harassment.

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and a Naismith Hall of Fame coach in a city with deep basketball roots. PHILADELPHIA — Make He became the school’s room in the 1,000-win club, head coach in 1967, and he Coach K. led it to a national champiHerb Magee is about to onship in 1970. join some rarified air Against Wilmingamong coaching ton tonight, he could milestones, become the second achieved without coach in NCAA the national spotmen’s basketball hislight, a seven-figure tory with 1,000 wins. salary or a designer Magee leaves a suit for gameday. giant imprint on the Just nine days after game every few seaDuke coach Mike sons when he Krzyzewski earned records another 100 HERB his 1,000th career wins or passes a MAGEE win, Magee can hit coaching giant in the the same mark for Division record book. Magee’s 903rd II Philadelphia University. win in 2010 helped him Magee is a Philly U lifer. pass former Indiana coach Magee, 73, has earned Bobby Knight and become every victory at tiny — for a short time — the Philadelphia U and has be- winningest men’s coach in come a local hoops icon NCAA history. AP Sports Writer

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NO. 9 KANSAS 89, NO. 15 IOWA STATE 76: Wayne Selden Jr. scored 19 points in a hot-shooting second half to spark Kansas past Iowa State. Selden, after missing all three of his shots and scoring only one point in the first half, drilled four of his first five 3-pointers after intermission, often finding himself virtually unguarded on the right wing, as the Jayhawks (19-3, 8-1 Big 12) padded their lead in the Big 12 race to 1½ games. Georges Niang had 24 points for Iowa State (16-5, 6-3), which dropped out of a second-place tie with West Virginia. Leading 35-28 after a seesaw first half, the Jayhawks reeled off a 14-6 run the first 4 minutes, 45 seconds after intermission, with Selden scoring eight points, including two uncontested 3-pointers. Iowa State called time out and tried to regroup after Selden’s second 3-pointer put Kansas on top 49-34 but never got the lead under nine points.

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IYHA team wins two straight The Pee Wee Red team of the Indiana Youth Hockey Association won a pair of games over the weekend. Korbin Wilson collected five points to lead Indiana to an 8-4 win over the Altoona Trackers on Sunday. Wilson had three goals and two assists, Jack Cikowski added two goals and an assist, and Gracie Agnello tallied a goal and three assists. Zachary Brody netted two goals, and Vince Belice and Wade Plowman each dished out two assists. Corbin Murdick made 11 saves in goal. In a game played Saturday, Wilson notched a hat trick to lift Indiana to a 7-0 win over the Butler Valley Dawgs. Nick Beitel added two goals and an assist. Plowman added three assists, Brody had a goal and an assist, and Belice scored a goal. Cikowski, Jake Igo, Daniel McAnulty and Ethan Muir had an assist apiece, and Wilson added an assist. Murdick made 11 saves. • Zach Eisenhower had a hat trick to power the Pee Wee Major Gold team to a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Aviators on Sunday. Nate Petro scored a goal and dished out two assists. Tanner Agnello netted a goal, and Danny Williams had an assist. Ethan Agnello made 13 saves in goal.

Indiana boys win in overtime MOUNT PLEASANT — Indiana outlasted Mount Pleasant, 47-40 in overtime, in a ninth-grade boys’ basketball game Monday. Indiana made 9 of 10 free throws in overtime and outscored the Vikings 12-5. Trajan Jones posted a double-double for Indiana with 18 points and 15 rebounds. Danny Millen added 11 points. Indiana plays host to Hempfield on Thursday.

IHS drops rifle match Indiana fell to Hempfield, 798-62x to 785-39x, in a WPIAL Section 3 rifle match Monday. Hunter Edmiston led Indiana by firing a 100-6x. Indiana (1-9, 0-6) plays host to Plum today.

Weightlifting contest slated PITTSBURGH — Sons of Thunder Powerlifting will hold the Steel City Teen Bench Press and Deadlift Classic on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Legends of Pittsburgh Fitness at the Pittsburgh Mills Mall. Competitors ages 14 to 19 are eligible to participate. Check-ins will begin at 9 a.m., and weigh-ins will start at 10:15 a.m. A competitor meeting will be held from 10:15 a.m. to 10:35 a.m., and the competition will start at 11 a.m. The fees for the bench press and deadlift divisions are each $20. The fee for both divisions is $35. For information, call Rick Balbo at (412) 3671971, email him at rick balbo@yahoo.com or visit www.sonsofthunderpl. org.

Marion Center sets registration MARION CENTER — Marion Center Little League will hold registration from 6 to 8 p.m. today and Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the McCreery Elementary School Library. Boys and girls ages 6 to 14 who reside in the Marion Center School District are eligible to play baseball and softball. The fee is $40. For information, contact Adam McCoy at (724) 599-5979. Sports hours 8 to 11 p.m.

Edmonton finally wins in California By The Associated Press

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THE UNITED sixth-grade girls’ basketball team won the Saltsburg tournament on Jan. 24. Team members are, first row, from left, Maizee Fry, Maddy Duplin, Brooklynn Murlin, Myla Ingalls and Tianna Hinton; and second row, Tressa Mack, Katie Peters, Riley Payne, Kylee Rodkey and Michaela Bevard.

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Continued from Page 11 Indiana came out in a 3-2 zone defense and held Oberdorf in check. She didn’t get on the board at all in the first quarter, and she ended up doing her only real damage at the free throw line, making 8 of 11 foul shots. “It’s not too often you see us come out in a zone, that’s for sure,” Woodall said. “You knew it had to be a special moment, and she’s a special player. To hold her to one field goal when she burned us for 41 (points) down there, it was pretty good. You can’t give her any room out there. She gets to the line very often, and she’s hard to play in a man-to-man by yourself. We made some adjustments, played the zone, doubled her as much as possible and did a good job.” “It’s what we worked on in practice, because we knew we had one player we really wanted to shut down,” Karcher said. “Everyone knew what they needed to do, and they just got it done.” Meanwhile, Indiana came out of the

gates fast on offense, shooting 48.3 percent (14 of 29) from the floor, including 6 of 12 on 3-pointers, in the first half. Bujdos made the first 3-pointer a couple minutes in. Shortly after, Katie Ray, typically a reserve but starting on Senior Night, nailed another. “That just set everybody off,” Woodall said of Ray’s 3-pointer. Karcher and Jess Stever each hit three 3-pointers and scored 17 points apiece. Bujdos had a team-high 19 points. Abby Myers scored seven points off the bench. “It was really clear that we’ve all played together for such a long time,” Bujdos said. “We all know how to work together.” Alyssa Short scored 16 points to lead Greensburg Salem (13-8, 8-5). The Lions cut their deficit to 12 with two 3-pointers in the final minute of the third quarter, but Indiana didn’t let them get any closer, forcing turnovers on three consecutive possessions early

in the fourth, the first two leading to fast-break layups. “We’re so close as a team, we all kind of feel it together — Hey guys, they’re coming back,” Karcher said. “That brings you back all of a sudden,” Woodall said. “It was 18 — boom, all of a sudden it’s 12. But we responded so well. Then we really did some nice work, hit a couple more shots. I’m just very proud of them.” With weather-related cancellations, Indiana hadn’t played in six days. The Indians are set to conclude the regular season in the next two — a non-conference game with Slippery Rock, set for Saturday, was canceled. “Tonight showed me a lot of positive things,” Woodall said. “The Uniontown game, last game, I thought, oh, boy, we didn’t play really well. This game, though, we really picked it up and did a nice job. That zone just adds one more thing to our collection defensively that we can play and be effective with.”

Hawks’ win streak ends at 19 games NBA

By The Associated Press The Atlanta Hawks’ franchise-record 19-game winning streak was snapped Monday night in a 115-100 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. Anthony Davis had 29 points and 13 rebounds to help New Orleans win for the sixth time in seven games. Jeff Teague scored 21 for Atlanta. Eric Gordon scored 20 points for New Orleans. Tyreke Evans scored 15 points and tied a season high with 12 assists. CAVALIERS 97, 76ERS 84: Kyrie Irving scored 24 points, LeBron James added 18 points and 11 assists, and Cleveland staggered to its 11th straight win by beating Philadelphia. The winning streak is Cleveland’s longest since reeling off 13 in a row — a franchise record — in 2010, the last season of James’ first stint with the club. THUNDER 104, MAGIC 97: Russell Westbrook’s second triple-double of the season and 10th of his career helped Oklahoma City defeat Orlando without the injured Kevin Durant. Westbrook, an All-Star point guard, had 25 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds. Durant sat out with a sprained big toe

on his left foot. Victor Oladipo scored 22 points and Nikola Vucevic scored 20 points for the Magic, who lost their ninth straight. HORNETS 92, WIZARDS 88: Al Jefferson had 18 points and 12 rebounds to lead Charlotte past Washington. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist added 13 points and 13 rebounds, Brian Roberts scored 18 points, and Gerald Henderson put in 17 for the Hornets. BUCKS 82, RAPTORS 75: Khris Middleton scored 25 points, Giannis Antetokounmpo had 12 points and 12 rebounds in Milwaukee’s win over Toronto. Reduced to nine players when guard Brandon Knight was ruled out before the game with a quadriceps injury, Milwaukee lost another body when guard O.J. Mayo was ejected after picking up a double technical at 4:07 of the second. NETS 102, CLIPPERS 100: Jarrett Jack made a tiebreaking jumper with 1.3 seconds left, and Brooklyn used a late rally to beat Los Angeles. The Nets ended a seven-game home

LOCAL SCOREBOARD BOYS

Belle Vernon 58, Ringgold 44 California 80, Mapletown 22 Erie Strong Vincent 73, Erie East 54 Fort Cherry 53, Carlynton 50 Port Allegany 49, Kane 44 Rockwood 61, Turkeyfoot Valley 60 Waynesburg Central 62, Frazier 56

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Avonworth 50, Freedom 46 Baldwin 46, Moon 37 Beaver Area 51, Ambridge 44 Belle Vernon 64, West Mifflin 49 Bethel Park 58, Canon-McMillan 44 Bethlehem Center 49, Washington 23 Bishop Canevin 63, Wilkinsburg 19 Blackhawk 74, New Castle 25 Brentwood 58, Burgettstown 48 Burrell 60, West Shamokin 28 California 52, Fort Cherry 18 Cambridge Springs 53, Cochranton 42 Carlynton 73, Northgate 18 Charleroi 60, Bentworth 50 Chartiers Valley 47, Keystone Oaks 23 Cornell 61, Aliquippa 58 Elizabeth Forward 62, South Park 42 Ellwood City 50, Hopewell 40 Frazier 56, Carmichaels 31 Greensburg C.C. 80, East Allegheny 45 Hampton 66, Kittanning 38 Indiana 72, Greensburg Salem 43 Mount Lebanon 69, West Allegheny 43 Mount Pleasant 63, Laurel Highlands 22 North Catholic 69, Eden Christian 34 O.L.S.H. 57, South Side Beaver 17 Penn-Trafford 80, Albert Gallatin 19 Pine-Richland 62, North Hills 51 Quaker Valley 54, Quigley Catholic 35 Riverside 70, Winchester Thurston 25 Riverview 67, St. Joseph 53 Serra Catholic 57, Jeannette 30

Seton-LaSalle 55, Chartiers-Houston 38 Sewickley Academy 54, Rochester 45 South Fayette 59, McGuffey 51 Southmoreland 58, Derry 44 Thomas Jefferson 55, Brownsville 46 Trinity 56, Montour 13 Turkeyfoot Valley 53, Rockwood 33 Uniontown 53, Yough 5 Upper St. Clair 58, Peters Township 52 Villa Maria 53, Girard 34

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MAVERICKS 100, TIMBERWOLVES 94: Monta Ellis scored 23 points and Dallas won its first game without injured point guard Rajon Rondo, beating Minnesota in the first game in nearly three months for Timberwolves guard Ricky Rubio. J.J. Barea had 10 points while starting in Rondo’s place. Barea was only 4-for14 shooting but had the first and last field goals by Dallas along with two free throws with 17 seconds left. Rubio, sidelined since severely spraining his left ankle Nov. 7, had 10 points on and four assists in 21 minutes. GRIZZLIES 102, SUNS 101: Jeff Green converted a three-point play with 4.5 seconds left, and Memphis rallied from seven down in the final 1:35 to beat Phoenix for the seventh straight time. The Grizzlies, who won their seventh in a row overall and 11th in the last 12 games, scored the final eight points after Isaiah Thomas’ 3-pointer put Phoenix up 101-94 with 1:49 to play. Mike Conley led Memphis with 23 points.

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FLAMES 5, JETS 2: Brandon Bollig and Raphael Diaz scored their first goals of the season as Calgary beat Winnipeg. With a one-goal lead heading into the third period, the Flames struck on the power play at 4:24, making it 3-1 when Diaz let a rocket go from the blue line that found the top corner. Bollig made it 4-1 at 7:23, converting a pass from Joe Colborne for his first goal in 61 games. David Jones, Mason Raymond and Sean Monahan also scored for Calgary. Blake Wheeler and Bryan Little had the goals for Winnipeg.

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Greensburg Salem — 43 Oberdorf 1 8-11 10, Short 6 0-0 16, Kepple 1 1-2 3, Kallock 2 0-0 5, Rullo 1 00 2, Bronson 2 0-0 6, Fennell 0 1-2 1, Stoner 0 0-0 0, Phillip 0 0-1 0, Totals 13 10-16 43 Indiana — 72 Karcher 7 0-0 17, Bujdos 5 8-10 19, Ray 1 0-0 3, McKirgan 1 0-0 2, Wagner 2 0-0 4, Myers 3 1-2 7, Stever 5 4-8 17, Kunkle 0 1-2 1, Franks 0 0-0 0, Zahorchak 1 0-0 2, Bock 0 0-0 0, Totals 25 14-22 72 Greensburg Salem 10 8 18 7 — 43 Indiana 19 16 13 24 — 72 3-point field goals: Short 4, Bronson 2, Kallock, Karcher 3, Stever 3, Bujdos, Ray. JV score: Indiana, 37-21.

RANGERS 6, PANTHERS 3: Dan Boyle scored a deflected goal 8:10 into the third period, Rick Nash and Mats Zuccarello added insurance late, and New York beat Florida. Boyle flipped a shot from the left point that hit the stick of veteran Florida defenseman Willie Mitchell and bounded past surprised goalie Roberto Luongo. Zuccarello made it 5-3 with 4:02 left. Carl Hagelin was stopped by Luongo on a penalty shot with 3:19 remaining to keep it a twogoal game, but Nash scored into an empty net at 18:07. Aleksander Barkov, Dave Bolland and Brandon Pirri had goals for the Panthers.

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losing streak by erasing a nine-point deficit in the final 1:35. Brook Lopez scored 24 points and Johnson had 22 for the Nets.

Jordan Eberle scored twice in regulation and Rob Klinkhammer scored in the 13th round of the shootout to help the Edmonton Oilers snap a 15game losing streak in California by beating the San Jose Sharks 5-4 on Monday night. Justin Schultz tied the game with 2:37 remaining and Derek Roy also scored for the Oilers, who last won in the Golden State on April 1, 2012, when they beat Anaheim 2-1. Viktor Fasth made 33 saves, robbing Joe Pavelski of a potential hat trick in the closing seconds of regulation and stopping 12 of 13 shots in the shootout. Scott Hannan and Matt Tennyson also scored for the Sharks, who had a three-game winning streak snapped.

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Scoreboard SCHEDULE High school basketball games listed at 6 and 6:30 p.m. are junior varsity start times, with varsity to follow; all other times are varsity start times.

TODAY BASKETBALL

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

Apollo-Ridge at South Allegheny, 6 p.m. Yough at West Shamokin, 6 p.m. Calvary Baptist at Bible Baptist, 6 p.m. Ligonier Valley at No. Cambria, 7:15 p.m. Greensburg Salem at Indiana, 7:30 p.m. Blairsville at Marion Center, 7:30 p.m. Homer-Center at United, 7;30 p.m. Penns Manor at Purchase Line, 7:30 p.m. Derry at Southmoreland, 7:30 p.m. Punxsutawney at St. Marys, 7:30 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

Ligonier Valley at Homer-Center, 7 p.m. Latrobe at Derry, 7:30 p.m. St. Marys at Punxsutawney, 7:30 p.m.

RIFLE

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS

Plum at Indiana, 3:30 p.m.

WRESTLING

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS Ligonier Valley at Berlin Brothersvalley, 4 p.m. United at Indiana, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY BASKETBALL COLLEGE MEN

California at IUP, 7:30 p.m. Penn State at Maryland, 8:30 p.m.

COLLEGE WOMEN

California at IUP, 5:30 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

Penns Manor at Blairsville, 6:30 p.m. Ligonier Valley at Homer-Center, 6:30 p.m. Indiana at Southmoreland, 7:30 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

Claysburg-Kimmel at Harmony, 6 p.m. Ligonier Valley at No. Cambria, 7:15 p.m. Blairsville at Marion Center, 7:30 p.m. Homer-Center at United, 7:30 p.m. Penns Manor at Purchase Line, 7:30 p.m. Varsity only Indiana at Southmoreland, 6 p.m.

RIFLE

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS

Indiana at Penn-Trafford, 3:30 p.m.

WRESTLING

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

Ligonier Valley at Shaler, 6 p.m. Shade at Blairsville, 7 p.m.

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TODAY

BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — College: Indiana at Wisconsin, ESPN 7 p.m. — College: Georgia at Kentucky, ESPNU 7 p.m. — College: St. John’s at Butler, FS1 7:30 p.m. — High school boys: Greensburg Salem at Indiana, WDAD-AM 1450 7:30 p.m. — High school boys: Blairsville at Marion Center, WLCY-FM 106.3 7:30 p.m. — High school boys: Penns Manor at Purchase Line, WQMU-FM 92.5 8 p.m. — College: West Virginia at Oklahoma, ESPN2 9 p.m. — College: Florida at Vanderbilt, ESPN 9 p.m. — College: Virginia Tech at Syracuse, ESPNU 9 p.m. — College: Seton Hall at DePaul, FS1 HOCKEY 8 p.m. — NHL: Blackhawks at Wild, NBC Sports SOCCER 2:30 p.m. — FA Cup, round 4, Cambridge at Manchester United, FS1 WINTER SPORTS 1 p.m. — Skiing: World Alpine Championships, women’s Super G, NBC Sports

WEDNESDAY BASKETBALL 5:30 p.m. — College women: California at IUP, WQMU-FM 92.5 6:30 p.m. — College: Temple at South Florida, ESPN News 7 p.m. — College: Georgia Tech at Duke, ESPN2 7 p.m. — College: East Carolina at UConn, ESPNU 7 p.m. — College: Marquette at Villanova, FS1 7:30 p.m. — College men: California at IUP, WQMU-FM 92.5 7:30 p.m. — High school girls: Blairsville at Marion Center, WLCY-FM 106.3 8 p.m. — NBA: Bulls at Rockets, ESPN 8:30 p.m. — College: TCU at Baylor, ESPN News 9 p.m. — College: Washington at Oregon, ESPN2 9 p.m. — College: Kansas State at Texas Tech, ESPNU 9 p.m. — College: Creighton at Xavier, FS1 10:30 p.m. — NBA: Mavericks at Warriors, ESPN HOCKEY 8 p.m. — NHL: Penguins at Oilers, Root 8 p.m. — NHL: Bruins at Rangers, NBC Sports SOCCER 2:30 p.m. — FA Cup, round 4, Liverpool at Bolton, FS1 WINTER SPORTS 1 p.m. — Skiing: World Alpine Championships, men’s Super G, NBC Sports

BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE CALENDAR Feb. 19 — Voluntary reporting date for pitchers, catchers and injured players. Feb. 3-20 — Salary arbitration hearings, St. Petersburg, Fla. Feb. 24 — Voluntary reporting date for other players. March 3 — Mandatory reporting date. March 18 — Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days. April 1 — Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2014 salary. April 5 — Opening day, St. Louis at Chicago Cubs. Active rosters reduced to 25 players. June 8 — Amateur draft begins. July 14 — All-Star game, Cincinnati.

UPCOMING PIRATES SCHEDULE April 6 April 8 April 9 April 10 April 11 April 12 April 13 April 14 April 15 April 17 April 18 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 22 April 23 April 24 April 25 April 26 April 27 April 28 April 29 May 1 May 2 May 3 May 5

(Subject to change) at Cincinnati 4:10 p.m. at Cincinnati 7:10 p.m. at Cincinnati 12:35 p.m. at Milwaukee 8:10 p.m. at Milwaukee 7:10 p.m. at Milwaukee 2:10 p.m. Detroit 1:35 p.m. Detroit 7:05 p.m. Detroit 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee 1:35 p.m. Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs 12:35 p.m. at Arizona 9:40 p.m. at Arizona 8:10 p.m. at Arizona 4:10 p.m. at Chicago Cubs 8:05 p.m. at Chicago Cubs 8:05 p.m. at Chicago Cubs 8:05 p.m. at St. Louis 8:15 p.m. at St. Louis 2:15 p.m. at St. Louis 2:15 p.m. Cincinnati 7:05 p.m.

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COLLEGE

EAST American U. 57, Holy Cross 50 NJIT 86, Hampton 67 Pittsburgh 72, Bryant 67 Siena 79, Rider 72 SOUTH Catawba 82, Chowan 80, 2OT Coppin St. 80, Morgan St. 67 Fort Valley St. 60, Morehouse 58 Howard 83, Md.-Eastern Shore 74 Jackson St. 69, Ark.-Pine Bluff 45 MVSU 68, Grambling St. 65 McNeese St. 73, SE Louisiana 60 NC Central 85, Florida A&M 43 Nicholls St. 67, New Orleans 55 Spring Hill 51, Miles 45 Union (Ky.) 96, Berea 72 Virginia 75, North Carolina 64 Winthrop 77, Charleston Southern 55 Xavier (NO) 56, Edward Waters 45 MIDWEST Ferris St. 96, Grand Valley St. 85, OT Findlay 71, Wayne (Mich.) 67, OT Green Bay 71, Wright St. 58 Kansas 89, Iowa St. 76 Lake Superior St. 76, Northwood 72 N. Michigan 67, Michigan Tech 62 Saginaw Valley St. 59, Hillsdale 56 SOUTHWEST Alabama St. 73, Prairie View 71 College of Faith 76, McMurry 72 Houston Baptist 77, Abilene Christian 61 Sam Houston St. 79, Lamar 50 Texas Southern 68, Alabama A&M 65, OT Texas-Dallas 68, Hardin-Simmons 62

WOMEN EAST Bryant 73, St. Francis (Pa.) 71 CCSU 68, LIU Brooklyn 54 Robert Morris 71, Fairleigh Dickinson 58 St. Francis (NY) 52, Mount St. Mary’s 46 Washington (Md.) 52, Swarthmore 50 SOUTH Ark.-Pine Bluff 57, Jackson St. 49 Campbell 62, Winthrop 52 Charleston Southern 70, UNC Asheville 57 Chattanooga 64, ETSU 56 Duke 66, Louisville 58 Florida St. 62, Syracuse 52 Furman 78, UNC-Greensboro 70 Gardner-Webb 50, Presbyterian 47 Grambling St. 62, MVSU 31 High Point 77, Longwood 63 Howard 92, Md.-Eastern Shore 90, OT LSU 74, Missouri 65 Liberty 75, Radford 39 Mercer 74, Samford 59 Miles 70, Spring Hill 63 Morgan St. 62, Coppin St. 53 NC Central 59, Florida A&M 48 Wofford 59, W. Carolina 49 Xavier (NO) 70, Edward Waters 57 MIDWEST Hillsdale 67, Saginaw Valley St. 49 Indiana 72, Purdue 55 Michigan Tech 57, N. Michigan 49 Northwood 69, Lake Superior St. 54 Ohio St. 76, Michigan St. 62 Wayne (Mich.) 93, Findlay 70 SOUTHWEST Alabama St. 73, Prairie View 65 Hardin-Simmons 64, Texas-Dallas 57 Texas Southern 67, Alabama A&M 54 Wayland Baptist 63, McMurry 48 FAR WEST California 57, Washington St. 54 Oregon 63, Southern Cal 57 Oregon St. 82, UCLA 64 Stanford 82, Washington 69

PITT MEN’S BOX SCORE PITTSBURGH 72, BRYANT 67 BRYANT (10-11) Kostur 3-6 2-4 9, Scocca 1-3 0-0 2, Garvin 10-16 3-4 24, McLaughlin 4-7 2-3 10, Starks 6-17 2-2 17, Ware 2-2 0-0 5, Williams 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-51 9-13 67. PITTSBURGH (15-8) Artis 11-17 7-10 32, Young 4-10 2-4 10, Robinson 1-6 2-2 4, Wright 5-9 1-2 11, Newkirk 4-11 0-0 11, Luther 0-1 0-0 0, Randall 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 2-4 0-1 4, Jeter 01 0-0 0. Totals 27-59 12-19 72. Halftime—Bryant 36-34. 3-Point Goals—Bryant 6-14 (Starks 3-9, Ware 1-1, Garvin 1-2, Kostur 1-2), Pittsburgh 6-15 (Artis 3-4, Newkirk 3-9, Robinson 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Bryant 29 (McLaughlin 8), Pittsburgh 30 (Young 11). Assists—Bryant 18 (McLaughlin 10), Pittsburgh 22 (Robinson 9). Total Fouls— Bryant 13, Pittsburgh 14. A—7,749.

PSAC STANDINGS MEN West Division Conf. Overall Gannon 13-3 14-7 IUP 12-3 18-3 Mercyhurst 12-4 15-6 Slippery Rock 10-6 15-7 California 8-8 12-9 Edinboro 8-8 11-9 Pitt Johnstown 7-9 10-10 Clarion 5-10 7-11 Seton Hill 5-11 6-14 East Division Conf. Overall East Stroudsburg 12-4 14-6 Kutztown 10-6 13-9 West Chester 9-7 11-11 Shippensburg 7-8 11-8 Millersville 7-9 11-11 Lock Haven 6-9 6-13 Bloomsburg 5-11 9-11 Mansfield 5-11 7-13 Cheyney 1-15 2-19 Wednesday’s Games California at IUP, 7:30 p.m. Seton Hill at Clarion Gannon at Edinboro Mercyhurst at Slippery Rock Lock Haven at West Chester Cheyney at Kutztown Millersville at Mansfield Shippensburg at East Stroudsburg Saturday’s Games Gannon at IUP, 7:30 p.m. Pitt Johnstown at Seton Hill Clarion at California Edinboro at Mercyhurst East Stroudsburg at Bloomsburg Mansfield at Lock Haven Shippensburg at West Chester Kutztown at Millersville

WOMEN West Division Conf. Overall IUP 14-1 18-1 California 14-2 17-3 Gannon 14-2 15-4 Edinboro 11-5 14-6 Pitt Johnstown 6-10 9-11 Mercyhurst 5-11 8-14 Seton HIll 5-11 8-13 Slippery Rock 4-12 8-12 Clarion 1-14 2-18 East Division Conf. Overall Bloomsburg 15-1 17-2 West Chester 12-4 16-4 Shippensburg 9-6 13-8 East Stroudsburg 8-8 9-11 Millersville 7-9 10-11 Kutztown 7-9 8-12 Lock Haven 6-9 7-12 Cheyney 3-13 3-18 Mansfield 1-15 2-18 Wednesday’s Games California at IUP, 5:30 p.m. Seton Hill at Clarion Gannon at Edinboro Mercyhurst at Slippery Rock Lock Haven at West Chester Cheyney at Kutztown Millersville at Mansfield Shippensburg at East Stroudsburg Thursday’s Game Bloomsburg at Philadelphia Saturday’s Games IUP at Gannon, 5 p.m. Pitt Johnstown at Seton Hill Clarion at California Edinboro at Mercyhurst East Stroudsburg at Bloomsburg Mansfield at Lock Haven Shippensburg at West Chester Kutztown at Millersville

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The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 1, 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. Kentucky (65) 21-0 1,625 1 2. Gonzaga 22-1 1,503 3 3. Virginia 19-1 1,470 2 4. Duke 18-3 1,416 4 5. Wisconsin 19-2 1,381 5 6. Arizona 20-2 1,338 6 7. Villanova 19-2 1,209 7 8. Kansas 18-3 1,177 9 9. Louisville 18-3 1,114 10 10. Notre Dame 20-3 1,072 8 11. Iowa St. 16-4 892 15 12. North Carolina 17-5 861 13 13. Utah 17-4 824 11 14. N. Iowa 20-2 792 18 15. West Virginia 18-3 779 17 16. Wichita St. 19-3 678 12 17. Maryland 18-4 508 16 18. VCU 17-4 479 14 19. Baylor 16-5 420 20 20. Ohio St. 17-5 358 — 21. Oklahoma 14-7 312 24 22. Butler 16-6 250 25 23. SMU 18-4 221 — 24. Georgetown 15-6 162 21 25. Texas 14-7 106 19 Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 40, Seton Hall 22, Arkansas 21, Indiana 18, San Diego St. 18, Colorado St. 11, Dayton 9, Tulsa 8, Xavier 8, Stephen F. Austin 5, Providence 3, Stanford 3, Louisiana Tech 2, Murray St. 2, Oklahoma St. 2, Temple 2, Georgia 1, Michigan St. 1, Rhode Island 1, Valparaiso 1.

THE AP TOP 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 1, 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. South Carolina (26) 21-0 842 1 2. UConn (8) 20-1 824 2 3. Baylor 20-1 776 3 4. Notre Dame 21-2 748 4 5. Maryland 19-2 680 5 6. Tennessee 19-3 676 6 7. Oregon St. 19-1 650 7 8. Louisville 19-2 629 8 9. Florida St. 20-2 561 9 10. Arizona St. 20-2 528 11 11. Kentucky 17-5 481 10 12. Stanford 16-5 437 12 13. North Carolina 18-4 408 16 14. Texas A&M 17-5 395 12 15. Duke 15-6 356 17 16. Iowa 17-4 303 20 17. Mississippi St. 22-3 296 18 18. Princeton 19-0 288 19 19. Nebraska 17-4 265 15 20. Texas 15-5 201 14 21. Rutgers 16-5 168 22 22. Georgia 17-5 138 21 23. Chattanooga 18-3 92 25 24. George Washington 19-2 69 — 25. Syracuse 15-6 60 23 Others receiving votes: Seton Hall 57, Green Bay 49, South Florida 20, Oklahoma 10, Florida Gulf Coast 9, California 8, LSU 8, Dayton 4, James Madison 4, Middle Tennessee 3, Minnesota 3, Gonzaga 2, DePaul 1, Fresno St. 1.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 33 16 .673 — Brooklyn 19 28 .404 13 Boston 16 30 .348 15½ New York 10 38 .208 22½ Philadelphia 10 39 .204 23 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 40 9 .816 — Washington 31 18 .633 9 Miami 21 26 .447 18 Charlotte 21 27 .438 18½ Orlando 15 36 .294 26 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 30 19 .612 — Cleveland 30 20 .600 ½ Milwaukee 26 22 .542 3½ Detroit 18 30 .375 11½ Indiana 17 32 .347 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 36 12 .750 — Houston 33 15 .688 3 Dallas 33 17 .660 4 San Antonio 30 18 .625 6 New Orleans 26 22 .542 10 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 32 16 .667 — Oklahoma City 24 24 .500 8 Denver 19 29 .396 13 Utah 17 30 .362 14½ Minnesota 8 40 .167 24 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 37 8 .822 — L.A. Clippers 33 16 .673 6 Phoenix 28 22 .560 11½ Sacramento 17 29 .370 20½ L.A. Lakers 13 35 .271 25½ Monday’s Games Charlotte 92, Washington 88 Cleveland 97, Philadelphia 84 Milwaukee 82, Toronto 75 Brooklyn 102, L.A. Clippers 100 New Orleans 115, Atlanta 100 Oklahoma City 104, Orlando 97 Dallas 100, Minnesota 94 Memphis 102, Phoenix 101 Today’s Games Denver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Miami at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Boston at New York, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Portland, 10 p.m. Golden State at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Indiana, 7 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Denver at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Chicago at Houston, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Miami at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Orlando at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Memphis at Utah, 9 p.m. Dallas at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

LACROSSE NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Toronto 4 1 .000 Buffalo 3 3 .500 Minnesota 2 2 .500 New England 2 2 .500 Rochester 2 2 .500 West Division W L Pct Colorado 3 1 .750 Edmonton 2 2 .500 Vancouver 2 3 .400 Calgary 0 4 .000 Saturday’s Games Toronto 12, Calgary 11 Rochester 17, Buffalo 11 Vancouver 16, Colorado 13 Friday, Feb. 6 Rochester at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7 Buffalo at Calgary, 9 p.m.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 51 32 15 4 68 166 133 N.Y. Islanders 49 32 16 1 65 158 139 Montreal 49 32 14 3 67 130 111 Pittsburgh 50 28 14 8 64 145 129 Detroit 50 29 12 9 67 149 129 N.Y. Rangers 48 29 15 4 62 145 115 Boston 50 27 16 7 61 134 124 Washington 50 25 15 10 60 147 129 Florida 48 21 17 10 52 118 138 Philadelphia 51 22 22 7 51 140 151 Ottawa 48 20 19 9 49 136 136 Toronto 51 22 25 4 48 144 156 New Jersey 50 19 22 9 47 113 138 Columbus 48 21 24 3 45 120 151 Carolina 49 17 26 6 40 105 129 Buffalo 50 14 33 3 31 94 179 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 49 32 11 6 70 149 115 Anaheim 50 32 12 6 70 147 134 St. Louis 49 32 13 4 68 160 120 San Jose 51 27 17 7 61 143 140 Chicago 50 31 17 2 64 155 115 Calgary 51 28 20 3 59 149 131 Winnipeg 52 26 18 8 60 144 137 Vancouver 48 27 18 3 57 131 124 Los Angeles 49 21 16 12 54 134 132 Dallas 49 23 19 7 53 157 159 Colorado 50 21 18 11 53 131 141 Minnesota 49 23 20 6 52 135 140 Arizona 50 18 26 6 42 116 170 Edmonton 51 14 28 9 37 120 170 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Monday’s Games Edmonton 5, San Jose 4, SO N.Y. Rangers 6, Florida 3 Calgary 5, Winnipeg 2 Today’s Games Ottawa at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Washington, 7 p.m. Arizona at Columbus, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Toronto at Nashville, 8 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Colorado at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Carolina at Anaheim, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m. Pittsburgh at Edmonton, 8 p.m. San Jose at Calgary, 10 p.m. Thursday’s Games St. Louis at Buffalo, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Washington at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m. Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Detroit at Colorado, 9 p.m. Carolina at Arizona, 9 p.m. San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Named Frank Robinson senior adviser and the honorary president of the American League. Suspended Boston minor league SS Ricardo Cubillan (LowellNYP) 76 games after testing positive for a metabolite of Nandrolone; free agent minor league INF Wilson Betemit 50 games and San Francisco minor league RHP Ethan Miller (Salem-NWL) after testing positive for Amphetamine; and free agent minor league 1B Tanner Norton 50 games following a second positive test for a drug of abuse; all violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with RHP Garrett Richards on a oneyear contract. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Signed RHP Ronald Belisario, INF Alexi Casilla and LHP Robert Zarate to minor league contracts. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with C Gerald Laird on a minor league contract. CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with LHP Paul Maholm on a minor league contract. NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with 1B Lucas Duda on a one-year contract. Named Ryan Ellis short-season hitting coordinator, Benny DiStefano outfield coordinator, Lamar Johnson hitting coordinator. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with 1B Brandon Belt on a one-year contract and with RHP Cory Gearrin, LHP Braulio Lara, RHP Curtis Partch, LHP Nikolas Turley, INF Carlos Triunfel and OF Justin Maxwell on minor league contracts. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Casey Janssen on a one-year contract. Designated RHP Eric Fornataro for assignment. California League RANCHO CUCAMONGA QUAKES — Announced the resignation of manager P.J. Forbes. Named Bill Haselman manager. American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Sold the contract of C Chris Bianchi to Los Angeles (NL). SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released INF Stephen Branca. Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed OF and hitting coach Lew Ford. Frontier League FRONTIER GREYS — Signed INF Zach Tanner. GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed RHP Richard Barrett, OF Richard Seigel and RHP Tyler Thompson to contract extensions. JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed OF R.J. Fuhr. RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed 3B Taylor Ard. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Signed RHP Miguel Ramirez and OF Marquis Riley to contract extensions. WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Named Brent Metheny hitting coach. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Signed G John Lucas III to a 10-day contract. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS—Signed F James Michael McAdoo to second 10-day contract. Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Signed G Tanisha Wright, C Carolyn Swords and F Rebecca Allen. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Named Dan Quinn coach. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed OT Matthew O’Donnell. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Robb Akey defensive line coach. Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Signed DB Derricus Purdy. Traded C Zack Williams to Las Vegas Outlaws for the No. 1 overall pick in the waiver claim order. HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Recalled D Jyrki Jokipakka from Texas (AHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled F Jacob de la Rose from Hamilton (AHL). ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Traded F Anthony Collins from Quad City for future considerations. SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Announced MF Tim Cahill has left the team by mutual agreement. NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed F Adam Nemec. TORONTO FC — Announced F Sebastian Giovinco was transferred from Juventus (Serie A-Italy) COLLEGE CHATTANOOGA — Named Danny McBride women’s assistant soccer coach. UTAH — Announced running backs coach Dennis Erickson was named assistant head football coach; quarterbacks coach Aaron Roderick and offensive line coach Jim Harding were named co-offensive coordinators, and recruiting coordinator Morgan Scalley will coach special teams. Named John Pease defensive coordinator and defensive line coach and Justin Ena linebackers coach.

SCORING LEADERS Through Monday GP G 51 17 49 28 50 25 50 16 46 15 50 15 45 19 49 25 49 15 49 17 50 31 49 23

Jakub Voracek, Phi Tyler Seguin, Dal Patrick Kane, Chi Claude Giroux, Phi Sidney Crosby, Pit Nicklas Backstrom, Was Evgeni Malkin, Pit Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Ryan Getzlaf, Anh Tyler Johnson, TB Alex Ovechkin, Was John Tavares, NYI

A 41 28 31 36 37 37 32 25 35 32 17 25

Pts 58 56 56 52 52 52 51 50 50 49 48 48

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ON THIS DATE FEB. 3 1944 — Syd Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores six goals in a 12-6 victory over the New York Rangers. 1980 — Larry Bird hits the first 3-point shot in the history of the NBA All-Star Game. Bird’ 3 came in overtime as the East team outscores the West 16-8 in the overtime for a 144-136 win. 1982 — Skier Steve Mahre, twin brother of overall champion Phil Mahre, becomes the first American man to win a gold medal in Olympic or world championship competition when he edges Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark by 0.51 seconds in the giant slalom. 1990 — Bill Shoemaker, the world’s winningest jockey, finishes fourth on Patchy Groundfog in his final ride at Santa Anita. The 58-year-old Shoemaker finishes his 40year career with $123,375,524 in earnings, a record 8,833 wins, 6,136 seconds and 4,987 thirds in 40,350 starts. 1996 — Visiting teams are 7-0, marking the first time in NBA history road clubs go undefeated on a day with more than five games. Expansion Toronto beats the Los Angeles Clippers 119-113 in overtime, Seattle defeats Houston 104-103 in overtime, Boston downs Miami 100-99, Portland tops Philadelphia 96-85, Sacramento defeats Detroit 94-85, Cleveland tops Milwaukee 111-88 and Minnesota downs Dallas 105-96. 2000 — World Wrestling Federation mastermind Vince McMahon unveils his latest creation: the XFL, a new pro football league. 2001 — One year later, the XFL muscles its way onto the national sports scene with its first two games. With exuberant cheerleaders and trash-talking players sharing center stage, the Las Vegas Outlaws beat the New York/New Jersey Hitmen 19-0 while the Orlando Rage beat the Chicago Enforcers 33-29 before a crowd of 35,603 in Orlando. 2006 — Martin Brodeur becomes the third goaltender in NHL history to reach 100 shutouts when New Jersey blanks Carolina 3-0. Brodeur joins Terry Sawchuk (115) and George Hainsworth (102). 2011 — LeBron James has 51 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, including a team-record 23-point first quarter, to lead the Miami Heat to a 104-100 victory over the Orlando Magic. 2013 — The Baltimore Ravens survive a power outage at the Super Bowl to edge the San Francisco 49ers 34-31. Jacoby Jones returns the second-half kickoff 108 yards, a Super Bowl record, to give Baltimore a 286 lead. Moments later, lights lining the Superdome fade. When action resumes 34 minutes later, Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers score 17 consecutive points, getting as close as 31-29. Baltimore stops San Francisco on fourth-and-goal from the 5 with under two minutes left when Kaepernick’s pass sails beyond Michael Crabtree in the end zone.

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BOXING FIGHT SCHEDULE Friday At Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, Biloxi, Miss. (ESPN2), Abie Han vs. Sergio Mora, 12, for Taylor’s IBF middleweight title. Feb. 13 At the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. (ESPN2), Boxcino Quarterfinals-Junior Middleweights: Cleotis Pendarvis vs. Ricardo Pinnell; Stanyslav Skorokhod vs. Michael Moore; Brandon Adams vs. Alex Perez; Vito Gasparyan vs. Simeon Hardy. Feb. 20 At Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. (ESPN2), Boxcino Quarterfinals-Heavyweights: Donovan Dennis vs. Steve Vukosa; Razvan Cojano vs. Ed Fountain; Andrey Fedosov vs. Nate Heaven; Mario Heredia vs. Lenroy Thomas. Feb. 21 At Monte Carlo, Monaco (HBO), Gennady Golovkin vs. Martin Murray, 12, for Golovkin’s WBA Super World-WBC WorldIBO middleweight tiles; Hekkie Budler vs. Jesus Silvestre, 12, for Budler’s WBA-IBO minimumweight titles; Lee Haskins vs. Omar Lamiri, 12, for the vacant EBU bantamweight title; Hughie Fury vs. Andriy Rudenko, 10, heavyweights. At O2 World Arena, Berlin, Arthur Abraham vs. Paul Smith, 12, for Abraham’s WBO super middleweight title; David Price vs. Irineu Beato Costa Junior, 10, heavyweights. Feb. 27 At Paramount Theatre, Huntington, N.Y. (ESPN2), Cletus Seldin vs. Johnny Garcia, 10, junior welterweights; Delvin Rodriguez vs. Eliezer Gonzalez, 10, junior middleweights. At Fantasy Springs Casino, Indio, Calif., Randy Caballero vs. Alberto Guevara, 12, for Caballero’s IBF bantamweight title. Feb. 28 At Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Carl Frampton vs. Chris Avalos, 12, for Frampton’s IBF super bantamweight title. At O2 Arena, London, Dmitry Chudinov vs. Chris Eubank Jr., 12, for the interim WBA middleweight title; Tyson Fury vs. Christan Hammer, 12 for Fury’s WBO international heavyeweight title; Liam Walsh vs. Joe Murray, 12, for Walsh’s British and Commonwealth junior lightweight titles; Frank Buglioni vs. Ivan Jukic, 12, for Buglioni’s WBO European super middleweight title; Ahmet Patterson vs. Glenn Foot, 10, welterweights.

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MEXICO SECOND BASEMAN Jose M. Rodriguez tried to catch a line drive during a Caribbean Series baseball game against Cuba on Monday. Mexico won the game, 2-1.

BRIEFS From Gazette wire services

Nationals, Janssen finalize deal WASHINGTON (AP) — Casey Janssen and the Washington Nationals finalized a one-year contract that includes a mutual option for 2016 and guarantees the reliever $5 million. Janssen had spent his entire big league career with the Toronto Blue Jays, going 29-24 with 90 saves and a 3.52 ERA since 2006. The right-hander had 25 saves in 30 chances with a 3.94 ERA last year but struggled following a stomach illness during the second half of the season, believed to be caused by food poisoning or a virus. Washington was in the market for a late-inning arm after trading Tyler Clippard and Ross Detwiler and allowing Rafael Soriano to become a free agent. Drew Storen is expected to be the closer.

Robinson will be senior adviser NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famer Frank Robinson is leaving his job as executive vice president for baseball development in the commissioner’s office to become a senior adviser to Commissioner Rob Manfred. Robinson also was appointed honorary president of the American League in place of former Angels owner Jackie Autry. She had held the job since its inception in 2001, after then-Commissioner Bud Selig persuaded owners to eliminate the league offices. The 79-year-old Robinson hit 586 homers from 1956-76, won the American League Triple Crown with Baltimore in 1966 and became the first player to win MVP awards in both leagues, with Cincinnati in 1961 and the Orioles five years later.

Janowicz rallies for win in France MONTPELLIER, France (AP) — Fifth-seeded Jerzy Janowicz of Poland served 14 aces as he rallied to beat Dustin Brown of Germany 2-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 in the first round of the Open Sud de France on Monday. Janowicz, who dropped serve three times and saved five break points, next plays either Frenchman Benoit Paire or 169th-ranked Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia. Seventh-seeded Joao Sousa of Portugal had little trouble getting past wild-card entry Laurent Lokoli, beating him 6-2, 6-4 in just over one hour. He next faces Germany’s Tobias Kamke, who overcame wild card Vincent Millot of France 2-6, 63, 7-5 in a scrappy contest. Neither managed to serve an ace and they dropped serve six times each.

Skiing champ is ready to race BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Bode Miller said his surgically repaired back is healthy again and he’s ready to race at the world championships. The six-time Olympic medalist hopes to compete in the super-G, downhill and possibly even the super-combined. First, though, U.S. men’s coach Sasha Rearick has to pick him for one of the team’s spots in each of the events. Asked if Miller would be in the starting gate for the super-G on Wednesday, Rearick responded, “Yes.” Same answer when asked about the downhill race Saturday. It will be Miller’s first competitive races of the season. The 37-year-old Miller underwent surgery in November to fix a herniated disk. He recently took some training runs in Switzerland and Austria. In regard to his recovery, Miller said, “everything went as well as I could’ve hoped.”

IndyCar won’t reschedule event SAO PAULO (AP) — IndyCar said it will not schedule another race to replace the canceled season-opener that was expected to take place in Brazil in early March. Monday’s announcement comes four days after Brazilian officials canceled the event, saying it would be too costly for the local government. Brazilian promoters had been looking for options to replace the Brasilia race, but acknowledged “it would be very complicated” to find another track capable of hosting the event on March 8, the original date set for the opener. Race promoter Band TV said Monday it will “definitely try to find other venues” to try to keep Brazil on the series’ calendar, without elaborating. Local media said organizers were looking into the possibility of racing in the neighboring city of Goiania, which recently renovated its track.

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Bevell’s call will haunt Seattle Continued from Page 11 “I mean, shoot, it didn’t turn out the way I hoped it would, so of course I am sitting here saying, ‘Could I do something different?’” Bevell said after the game. His father, now retired and still living in Scottsdale, was among the family and friends in attendance at University of Phoenix Stadium. Days before, Darrell Bevell, married with three daughters, had allowed himself to dream of a winning ending. “That would be extra special,” he said. “You get to share it with your friends and your family a little bit. It is right here in your backyard. Everyone gets to say, ‘Yeah, I remember when he went to Chaparral.’ It is really cool and exciting to be back.” Seattle had a 10-point lead before New England quarterback Tom Brady led the Patriots on two fourth-quarter touchdown drives. The Seahawks, suddenly losing, 28-24, got the ball with 2 minutes, 2 seconds remaining. Wilson led the Seahawks to a first down at the 5-yard line, and he called a timeout with 1:06 left. Bevell called to hand the ball to Lynch, who ran to the left for four yards. The clock ticked. The Patriots could have called a timeout, to give themselves more time on offense if Seattle scored. They could have let the Seahawks score immediately for the same reason. “We would have used our timeouts if that had been a running play,” coach Bill Belichick said. The championship would rest on whether the Seahawks would score a touchdown. “We wanted to be really conscious about how much time was on the clock,” Bevell said. “We wanted to use as much of it as we could. We had one timeout left, so we ran it on first down and changed the personnel up quick from it.” The clock ticked toward 30 seconds. The Patriots inserted their goal line defense, front-loaded with stout linemen. The Seahawks had Lynch in the backfield and three receivers. Bevell, speaking into a headset connected to Carroll and Wilson, called for a pass. It was what Carroll wanted, too. “I told him to throw it, because of the matchup,” Carroll said. Kearse and Lockette were lined up to the right, covered by two Patriots. The ball was snapped to Wilson, in the shotgun formation, with 26 seconds left. Kearse was jammed by one defender. Lockette cut inside along the goal line and appeared to be open. Wilson threw. He did not anticipate how quickly Butler would surge forward from a few yards deep in the end zone. “I thought it was a touchdown, honestly,” Wilson said. Lockette never saw Butler, either. Just as the ball arrived to Lockette’s hands, Butler snared it from the air. “In retrospect, we could have easily run it and we wouldn’t be talking about this,” Carroll said. “We might have got stuffed on third and fourth down. I don’t know. This is what happened.” Butler stole the game. Bevell had questions to answer. It is a part of being the offensive coordinator. “I know I have a hard job because I think everybody feels like they can call plays, whether it’s the guy in his living room or the people in the stadium,” Bevell told The Seattle Times in January 2014. “But there is a rhyme and reason why we do everything.” He added: “And really, I’m my own worst critic. I like to go back and look at everything I do. Why did I do that? I know there are situations where I wouldn’t want to do that again.”

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NFL BRIEFS By The Associated Press

Super Bowl sets TV ratings record NEW YORK — An estimated 114.4 million people watched New England’s thrilling win over Seattle, making it the fifth time in six years that a Super Bowl game has set a record as the mostwatched event in U.S. television history. The Nielsen company said the game’s viewership exceeded the record of 112.2 million set last year, when Seattle beat Denver. The game also set records for social media reach. A stirring comeback by New England and game-saving interception in the final minute kept viewers glued to the set. PATRICK SEMANSKY/Associated Press

TOM BRADY, left, celebrated with fullback James Develin after taking a knee on the final play of the Super Bowl on Sunday night.

QB Brady is set on winning more titles By BARRY WILNER

AP Pro Football Writer

PHOENIX — Tom Brady knows what’s next: more Super Bowl wins. At least he hopes so. The most successful quarterback of his era was still riding the high of his fourth NFL championship on the morning after New England’s 28-24 victory over Seattle. Brady had every right to look back at his four touchdown passes against the NFL’s top-ranked defense and beam. Instead, he was looking ahead. “I am still kind of in the midst of my career,” Brady said Monday before being presented with a car and his third Super Bowl MVP trophy, tying him with his boyhood idol, Joe Montana. “I just love the game. I love playing. I love representing our team.” That team — or previous versions of the Patriots he has quarterbacked — won three Super Bowls in four years, then lost in its next two trips to the big game. Brady knows how close the Patriots came to a third straight flop against the NFC champion, needing an interception with 20 seconds to go to clinch the crown. “We’ve been on the other end of this two times in the last seven years, being ahead late in the game with the chance to win it, and not closing it out,” Brady said of losses in 2008 and 2012 to the New York Giants. “I’m glad we had the opportunity to do it. Coach talked all week about how it was going to take all 60 minutes and it certainly did. “It never broke our will. We were down 10 in the fourth quarter and (Seattle) being on the 1-yard line with 20 seconds left, but the guys never gave up. And you fight until the end and great things happen.” Brady knows all about great things, obviously. A two-time league MVP, he threw for four touchdowns against the NFL’s stingiest defense, and led a comeback from a 10point deficit through three quarters. He connected on all eight of his throws on the decisive drive that ended with a 3-yard TD pass to Julian Edelman.

Brady is 37 and has said he hopes to play well into his 40s, and he works hard to stay in top physical shape. So he doesn’t see his winning toss to Edelman as his final Super Bowl moment. But he certainly recognizes how difficult the journey is. “Yeah, absolutely,” he said. “I was a young kid when we won those first three. I know in ‘04 after we beat the Eagles, I was like, ‘I’m just ready for this to be over, get the offseason started,’ just because we had experienced it. Obviously, with some perspective of that game, it’s a hard thing to get here and then it’s a hard thing to win the game. “Playing against the other best team, obviously, one play here, one play there, all things change, and we’ve been on the other end of that, too. So I’m just proud that we really got a chance to finish it out.” His coach, Bill Belichick, recognizes the value of a likely first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterback running his offense. When the Patriots were being dominated by the Seahawks in the third quarter Sunday, Belichick understood that if they could keep it close, they had the closer. “He’s a great player,” Belichick said. “It’s been a great privilege to coach Tom for the last 15 years, 14 years as starting quarterback. We have a great relationship. We meet on a regular basis weekly several times. “I can’t think of a more deserving player than Tom to be the recipient of the accolades that he has this week, and particularly last night and today here. He’s our leader. He competes as well as any player I’ve ever coached. He’s well-prepared. He has great poise and great presence. He may not always be perfect, as it is for any of us. We all have our moments, but Tom, like many other players on our team, is the guy that fights to the end and competes until the end. “There’s no player I respect more for that than Tom. That’s been a great pillar of strength for our football team for the past decade and a half.” And, according to Brady, for a while into the future.

Browns’ Manziel goes to treatment center By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer

CLEVELAND — Johnny Manziel has sought help to change his off-field lifestyle. Following a rough rookie season in the NFL, Manziel has entered a treatment program for unspecified reasons, an adviser for the Browns quarterback said in a statement released by the team on Monday. “Johnny knows there are areas he needs to improve on to help him be a better family member, friend and teammate, so he decided to take this step in his life during the offseason,” Manziel adviser Brad Beckworth said. Beckworth said the former Heisman Trophy winner entered the unnamed facility last week. He said Manziel’s family is asking for privacy until he rejoins the team. Beckworth’s statement did not indicate reasons for Manziel needing treatment. However, the 22-year-old QB’s penchant for partying followed him from college into the pros and Manziel’s nightlife has been wellchronicled by both social and mainstream media. The location of the facility where Manziel is staying is not immediately known. Browns general manager Ray Farmer said in a statement that the team fully supports Manziel and respects his initiative in entering treatment. The team will respect Manziel’s privacy during treatment, he said. “Our players’ health and well-being will always be of the utmost importance to the Cleveland Browns,” Farmer said. “We continually strive to create a supportive environment and provide the appropriate resources, with our foremost focus being on the individual and not just the football player.” Citing privacy laws, a Browns spokesman declined to provide any further information about Manziel’s situation. Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins offered his support to Manziel on Twitter. “Much love and support to my brother Johnny,” Hawkins wrote. “Proud of him, big step. Football is secondary. God Bless!”

NBA superstar LeBron James, who is both a friend and business partner of Manziel’s, also expressed his support for the young QB. “I haven’t talked to him,” James said after the Cavaliers won their 11th straight game. “As a friend I support him. I want him to get better. As friends and family we all believe in him and this is a good step if this is the route he’s going to take.” After he was drafted in May by the Browns in the first round, Manziel was repeatedly photographed drinking alcohol during weekend trips to Las Vegas. A photograph of Manziel floating on an inflatable swan raft swigging a bottle of champagne went viral. The Browns became increasingly concerned about Manziel when a photo surfaced of Manziel holding a rolled bill in a bathroom. Manziel often dismissed criticism about his behavior, insisting he wasn’t going to let others dictate to him how to live his life. However, following the season, Manziel seemed embarrassed by some of his choices and vowed to change his ways. “It’s about actions,” he somberly told reporters on Dec. 29. “It’s about being accountable and doing what I’m going to say. ... I’m either going to learn or I’m going to be finding something else to do.” Manziel’s alma mater released a statement offering its support, stating “Johnny will always be an Aggie, and we wish him well in another step in his journey.” Manziel spent the majority of last season as starter Brian Hoyer’s backup before coach Mike Pettine switched their roles with the team still in the playoff hunt. Manziel was fined by the Browns for missing a medical treatment before the season finale at Baltimore. Manziel promised he would change following the season, apologizing to Cleveland’s fans and his teammates for being a distraction. But hours after apologizing, he was photographed in Miami Beach and over the next few days there were photos of him on Instagram in a Houston nightclub and in Aspen, Colo.

Sherman played with torn ligaments PHOENIX — Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman played the Super Bowl with torn ligaments in his left elbow and will likely need Tommy John surgery in the offseason. Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Monday before the team left Arizona that it was his understanding that Sherman would need the surgery after the All-Pro cornerback was injured in the NFC championship game against Green Bay. Sherman is not the only Seattle star who could be facing offseason surgery. All-Pro safety Earl Thomas may need to have the labrum in his left shoulder repaired and strong safety Kam Chancellor may need knee surgery.

Falcons hire Quinn as head coach ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons’ long wait for new leadership on the field finally ended when Seattle defensive coordinator Dan Quinn was named the team’s coach. The Falcons said Quinn will be introduced at a news conference today. The team did not release details of the deal, but a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that Quinn agreed to a five-year contract. The Falcons exercised patience while waiting for Quinn, who could not be offered a job until after Seattle’s 28-24 Super Bowl loss Sunday night to the New England Patriots. Meanwhile, the NFL is trying to determine if the Falcons pumped fake crowd noise into the Georgia Dome for home games the past two years. The Falcons could be fined or penalized with the loss of a draft pick if found to have added fake crowd noise during the opposing team’s huddles when trying to call a play.

Colts sign son of Hall of Famer INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts made their first big offseason splash, signing former CFL receiver Duron Carter. Terms of the deal were not announced, but the 6-foot-5, 205-pound receiver was considered one of the top talents coming out of Canada this year. He is the son of Hall of Fame receiver Cris Carter.

With veterans Reggie Wayne and Hakeem Nicks both set to become free agents next month, Indianapolis needed to reinforce its receiving corps. In two seasons with Montreal in the CFL, Carter had 124 receptions, 1,939 yards and 12 touchdowns.

Chargers’ center set to retire SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Chargers said 11-year veteran center Nick Hardwick will announce his retirement today. Hardwick had been the Chargers’ starter since his rookie season of 2004. Hardwick started all 136 games he played in, including 67 straight. He suffered a neck stinger in the 2014 opener and was placed on season-ending injured reserve. The Chargers clearly missed his veteran leadership. Due to injuries, four other players started at center last season. The 33-year-old Hardwick was in the final year of his contract. He contemplated retiring last offseason before deciding to come back.

Ravens DT charged with animal cruelty BALTIMORE — Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle Terrence Cody was indicted Monday on animal cruelty charges, some of which stem from the death of his dog and possession of an alligator, according to prosecutors and online court records. His agent called the charges ludicrous and said Cody is an animal lover. Cody, 26, was indicted on two counts of aggravated animal cruelty; 10 counts of animal cruelty; and one count each of possession of an alligator, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. The aggravated animal cruelty charges are felonies. Baltimore County Deputy State’s Attorney John P. Cox said some of the charges stem from the death of a presa Canario mastiff, which died at a veterinarian’s office on Jan. 19. It’s not clear how the dog died. Alligators are banned from being imported into Maryland, he said. The felony counts carry a maximum sentence of 3 years in prison and a $5,000 fine, Cox said.

Sapp arrested, then terminated PHOENIX — Former NFL lineman and Hall of Famer Warren Sapp was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute and allegedly assaulting two women, Phoenix police said. Hours later, the NFL Network announced that it had terminated its contract with Sapp, who had worked as an analyst for the network since 2008 and was in Arizona for Sunday’s Super Bowl in suburban Glendale. Sapp, 42, was taken into custody at a downtown Phoenix hotel and booked into jail, police said. He made his initial appearance late Monday afternoon before a Phoenix Municipal Court judge and was released pending a Feb. 23 court date.

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Tough time of year It is hard to imagine how dire the days were, when digging out a hibernating groundhog for a winter food source was necessary. Obtaining food today is much simpler than it was for the early settlers, and despite the horrid conditions on Monday, many watched Phil see his shadow. The weather certainly is conducive to hibernating, and any thoughts I had of seeing the Groundhog Day festivities were forgotten after I woke up to an ice luge of a driveway. Oak leaves drifted off the limbs as February winds whistled violently in Zeke Wilson the first covers the distant signs outdoors for of spring. The Indiana It is hard to Gazette. Email: sports@ believe, but seeing indiana groundhogs gazette.net out on their own account toward the end of the month is possible. Early groundhog hunting is cut all too short by the start of spring gobbler season. Spotting woodchucks on the newly emerging vegetation is easy early on. A new scope and bipod have me ready to try out a few woodchuck recipes before the big-game seasons open. Porcupine tracking conditions are good, and focusing on known denning areas is the best way to locate one. Often following a track will lead you to a den, but only every once in a while does it end with the bark of a gun. Butchering in the field and burning the quills reduces the risk of yourself or another animal getting stuck. While organizing the garage, I was faced with a decision when I discovered ice fishing gear I had purchased at a flea market during the summer. With winter half over, I had yet to consider the sport despite the newly acquired equipment. Trapping beavers through the ice is something I gave up several years ago when I realized I just wasn’t as tough as the mountain men. Perhaps I am tough enough, but intelligence allows for the quick identification of potential threats, and hypothermia is certainly one when water and winter are combined. With that in mind, I put the ice fishing gear up for sale and found an eager buyer within 24 hours. Selling seasonal items during the season in which they are used is always easier. Selling a used deer rifle at this point in the year is difficult, but in early November one can almost name the price. The snow crust is now supporting most critters other than deer, which are focusing their efforts on wind-swept high points. My time afield yesterday showed where deer had fed on cabbage early in the morning and then bedded just 200 yards away. Sadly, my walk jumped the deer, and I could only watch as they bounded through a flooded stream and climbed the opposite hillside. Any harassment burns precious calories, and coyotes or stray dogs can make short work of deer at this point in the year. Turkeys are walking on top of the snow, but they must follow the deer or plowed gas-well roads to see any bare ground. With hope, the wildlife will be able to hunker down and ride out this weather pattern. With coyote hunts approaching, many predator hunters will begin to spend more time looking for tracks and attempting to locate them by sound. Sirens and howls can get coyotes to light up, but simply listening after midnight will often reveal unprovoked yips and yaps, if they are present. When I have been afield this year, coyote sign has been frequent where game was plentiful, but in general coyotes are hard to pin down to a specific location. Each coyote harvested is one fewer that will prey on game, but as long as there is food and habitat, the coyote will remain part of the food chain despite man’s efforts.

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KSTU to hold fly-tying round robin at Elks The Ken Sink Chapter of Trout Unlimited will hold its annual fly-tying round robin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Indiana Elks on 13th Street in Indiana. There is no charge, and the event is open to the public. All tiers are welcome. For information, call (724) 479-9584.

Todd Bird Club to meet tonight at Blue Spruce ERNEST — The Todd Bird Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Blue Spruce Lodge at Blue Spruce County Park. D.J. McNeil, a second-year graduate student who is studying biology at IUP, will describe his studies of private forestland management and the response of the goldenwinged warbler and other birds that require similar habitats. McNeil’s presentation will explore nesting success, territory attributes and post-fledgling habitat use. Refreshments will be provided. The meeting is open to the public. For information, visit www.toddbirdclub.org.

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Trio of shooters lead winter archery league JEFF KNAPP

EVEN THOUGH Lake Erie’s smallmouth population isn’t as strong as it was 15 to 20 years ago, it’s still one of the country’s top spots for big brown bass.

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CLYMER — Jerod Nichol, Nichole Pavelchick and Lecinda Yevchak topped the ranks in the fourth week of competition in the RC Indoor Archery winter league on Sunday. Nichol shot a 244 to top the men’s shooters, and Pavelchick Yevhcak tied at 226 to lead the women’s. Dan Luzier leads the men’s standings at 980. He is followed by Ryan Caldwell at 976, Tanner Dishong at 974 and Jared Mason at

967 and Nichol at 964. The top team in Week 4 was Like A G5 at 1,073.2. Team members are Eddie Deitman, Keven Leasure, Brandon Dobson and Jeff Hudak. In the team competition, Greg Buterbaugh, Ken Misko, Ryan Hickok and Dishong of Competition ? lead the standings at 4,278.7. The Rack Attack team of Adam Hauzie, Deana Hauzie, Rege Thomas and Kevin Cunningham is second at 4,225.6, and the Whack ’Em and Stack ’Em team of Bill McCunn, Jim Craig, Bradley McCunn and Don Craig is third at 4,221.7.

Blackleggs group slates monthly meetings YOUNG TOWNSHIP — The Blackleggs Trout Nursery and Watershed Association will hold its regular monthly meeting the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Saltsburg Sportsman Club. For information, contact Art Grguric at (724) 972-8675 or Becky DiCriscio at (724) 454-6982.

Game Commission sets big-game scoring session HARRISBURG — Successful hunters who are looking to have their trophies officially scored can do so at a public, big-game scoring session to be held on Saturday, Feb. 14, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s headquarters in Harrisburg. Deer, bear and elk that have been harvested in Pennsylvania are eligible for entry into the “Pennsylvania Big GameRecords” book. Hunters need to register by Monday. To register, call Patty Monk at (717) 787-4250, ext. 3312. For information, contact Bob D’Angelo at (717) 787-4250, ext. 3311.

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Exceptional fishing expected to continue By JEFF KNAPP

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Lake Erie provides exceptional fishing for a host of species, including walleye, yellow perch and smallmouth bass. Many of the fish are produced in Ohio waters (walleyes in particular). To get a sense for how things are looking for this year’s fishing, I recently spoke with Jeff Tyson of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. Tyson is the agency’s Lake Erie fish management program administrator. WALLEYE: The outlook for walleye is a good one. Anglers should be able to tap into walleyes from several different age groups this summer. “We’re still going to have some of those 2013 year class fish out there,” Tyson said, referring to the boom hatch of a dozen years ago. “We haven’t yet come up with harvest estimates from last season, but I suspect that a fair percentage of the 2014 harvest was made up from 2013 walleyes. The year prior the 2013 contribution was around 30 percent. In addition we will have fish from the 2007 year class and the 2010 year class, both of which were about average. “We have some younger fish coming into the fishery from 2013. It should be a nice mix of fish, similar to what we had last year. We had some really big fish throughout the season. And a smattering of walleyes from those other hatches as well.” YELLOW PERCH: Yellow perch are an extremely popular fish with Lake Erie anglers. Even on days when walleyes are being tight-lipped, or difficult to locate, anglers can typically catch enough perch to keep them happy. “With yellow perch, it depends somewhat on where you are,” Tyson reported. “Down east — Ashtabula, Conneaut, the Fairport area — that fishery has been performing phenomenally with a really good size grade and a really good catch rate. In 2014 we were seeing catch rates of four to five fish per hour in that area, which is

really good. “The farther west you move, the catch rates and the size grade has been lower. But we do have two back-to-back year classes in the western basin which will be coming on. 2013 and 2014 were both pretty decent hatches. So things should soon start to look up in the western basin. Maybe not so much this year, because those fish will still be relatively small fish. But by the following year those perch should grow in to the fishery.” BASS: “My sense is that smallmouth bass catch rates have been improving through recent times,” Tyson said. “We have seen a bump up over the previous five to 10 years. Catch rates have been right around a half to one fish per hour. It isn’t nearly as high as what we saw back in the mid to late ’90s. But we’re seeing catch rates creep up. “We have a real good age distribution of fish in the population and harvest as well. There will some fish down in the 14-inch range, right at the cut off for our minimum size limit. But we’ll also have some bass over 20 inches.” Though it’s natural to think smallmouth when considering Erie bassin’, largemouths are becoming more and more common, adding to the diversity of the angling options. “We started a near-shore largemouth bass assessment program several years ago, using electrofishing gear to get in to the real shallow areas, not only the harbors and bays but along the main lake shoreline as well,” Tyson noted. “We are seeing lots of largemouth bass. “The fisheries, especially down west, have really taken off. We are seeing catch rates of 1½ to two fish per hour, which is really good for a bass fishery. And we’re seeing more of a targeted effort for largemouth.” Additional information on Lake Erie’s fishing can be obtained by visiting the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ website at wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/, and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s website at www.fishandboat. com.

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Actors, directors aging gracefully into their 80s By STEVE PERSALL Tampa Bay Times

Making movies is a strenuous art, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refreshing whose movies got attention during awards season: Two directors nearly as old as talkies. On the surface, Clint Eastwood and Jean-Luc Godard have little in common except filmmaking and that both turn 85 this year. Eastwood is an American icon, Godard a founder of the French New Wave. At this stage in life, they choose what is improbable, if not impossible, for others their age. They keep doing what they do best, and better than people half their age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making movies is so deeply ingrained in their bloodstreams,â&#x20AC;? said Variety film critic Scott Foundas, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know what to do with themselves if they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t making movies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woody Allen, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a wee bit younger than these guys â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll turn 80 this year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; expressed that exact sentiment to me in interviews over the years: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing else heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather be doing. And I think in all three cases you could say these filmmakers have done some of their best work in recent years.â&#x20AC;? Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current awards contender is â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Sniper,â&#x20AC;? based on the memoirs of U.S. Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle. The two-time Oscar winner recently earned a Directors Guild of America nomination for the movie, his second 2014 release, after adapting the jukebox musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jersey Boysâ&#x20AC;? for the screen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Sniperâ&#x20AC;? is nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture. Godardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest film, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goodbye to Language,â&#x20AC;? the 117th of his career, recently was named the best of 2014 by the National Society of Film Critics. Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Magic in the Moonlightâ&#x20AC;? didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t click with audi-

ences or many critics last summer. But over the past two years he won a third Academy Award for screenwriting (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Midnight in Parisâ&#x20AC;?), and directed Cate Blanchett to an Oscar in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue Jasmine.â&#x20AC;? Each filmmaker isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitant to take on fresh challenges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jersey Boysâ&#x20AC;? was Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first musical, despite the fact he composed scores for several of his films. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goodbye to Languageâ&#x20AC;? was Godardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first excursion into 3-D technology. Allen recently announced an online comedy series heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll write and direct for Amazon, the latest trend in distribution. Old dogs, new tricks. Eastwood and Godard lead a parade of celebrities turning 85 this year. Allen carries the flag for octogenarians. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look now, but another wave of aging icons is on the way. This year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also note the 75th birthdays of a pair of Corleone brothers (Al Pacino, James Caan), a classic sex symbol (Raquel Welch), a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Trekâ&#x20AC;? captain (Patrick Stewart) and the original â&#x20AC;&#x153;Easy Rider,â&#x20AC;? Peter Fonda. The calendar for 2015 is filled with milestones for these landmark stars: Gene Hackman (turned 85 Jan. 30): Clint Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oscar-winning â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unforgivenâ&#x20AC;? co-star hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been in a movie since 2004â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lame comedy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome to Mooseport,â&#x20AC;? not the capper his storied career deserves. Hackman GENE lives in HACKMAN Santa Fe, N.M., with his wife, Betsy, staying busy writing five novels. His latest, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pursuit,â&#x20AC;? was released in November. When asked by yahoo.com if fans will ever see him act again, Hackman replied: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Only in reruns.â&#x20AC;? Robert Wagner (turning 85

Feb. 10, ): The debonair actor is still newsworthy, and not only for his performances. The mystery surrounding the 1981 drowning of his wife Natalie Wood occasionally resurfaces. (Wagner has never officially been named a suspect.) ROBERT The star of WAGNER â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hart to Hartâ&#x20AC;? still works in television (â&#x20AC;&#x153;NCIS,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hot in Clevelandâ&#x20AC;?) and direct-to-video movies, but he is known best by todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audiences as â&#x20AC;&#x153;No. 2â&#x20AC;? in the Austin Powers spy spoof trilogy. Joanne Woodward (turning 85 Feb. 27): Not everyone on this list is escaping the problems of turning 85. Woodward reportedly struggles with Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. She lives in Westport, Conn., where she resided with her late husband, Paul JOANNE Newman. WOODWARD An Oscar winner for â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Three Faces of Eve,â&#x20AC;? Woodward has performed a few voice roles in recent years and was a figurehead executive producer for 2013â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lucky Them,â&#x20AC;? a project of Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s before his death in 2008. Stephen Sondheim (turning 85 March 22): Arguably the finest Broadway lyricist ever, Sondheimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wordplay is also hot in Hollywood, with the big-screen version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Into the Woodsâ&#x20AC;? currently filling multiplex seats. In November, Sondheim was announced as a Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree but could not attend the ceremony. He is reportedly working on a musical based on Luis

BuĂąuelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s films â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Exterminating Angelâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.â&#x20AC;? Clint Eastwood (turnSTEPHEN ing 85 May SONDHEIM 31): The former â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man With No Nameâ&#x20AC;? made one for himself over a storied half-century in Hollywood. In 2014, Eastwood directed his first musical, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jersey Boys,â&#x20AC;? and the Oscarnominated â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Sniper.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to repeat what I did in the last decade or the decade CLINT before that,â&#x20AC;? EASTWOOD he recently told Foundas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two pictures in one year is enough. Next year, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see where life is.â&#x20AC;? Gena Rowlands (turning 85 June 19): One of the finest actors to never win an Academy Award, Rowlands isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t through trying. Her latest movie, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks,â&#x20AC;? briefly filmed in the Tampa area and opened in December to qualify for an Oscar nomination that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t materialize. The GENA widow of inROWLANDS dependent film pioneer John Cassavetes also has her share of young fans after co-starring as the elder version of Rachel McAdams in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Notebook.â&#x20AC;? Sean Connery (turning 85 Aug. 25): The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous Scotsman â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the greatest James Bond ever â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

New â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fresh off the Boatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shows promise By DAVID WIEGAND

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Restaurateur Eddie Huang was angry about ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial marketing for the new sitcom based on his memoir â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fresh Off the Boat,â&#x20AC;? premiering Wednesday with two episodes (at 8:30 and 9:31 p.m.) before settling into its regular Tuesday slot next week (8:30 p.m.). He had good reason to be angry about the original promo for the show, which the network immediately yanked off the air because it was astoundingly offensive, given the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme. If he only saw Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pilot, he might have more reason to be angry. Fortunately, ABC airs a second episode an hour later that suggests no matter how steeped in stereotypes the pilot is, there is, indeed, nuanced character development, humor and legitimate promise down the road in the show about a Chinese American family moving from Washington, D.C., to Orlando in 1995. The showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title traditionally refers to immigrants, of course, but in this case, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about young Eddie Huang (Hudson Yang) feeling out of place in his new overwhelmingly white neighborhood and school.

His younger brothers, Evan (Ian Chen) and Emery (Forrest Wheeler), fit in just fine. They arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ostracized by their classmates for bringing pungent Chinese noodles to school for lunch instead of ubiquitous Lunchables. Eddie, whose life heroes are African-American basketball stars and rappers, tries to make friends with an African-American kid at school, who is only glad Eddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there because now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer the biggest outcast in the school. When Eddie gets into a fight with another kid for calling him a â&#x20AC;&#x153;chink,â&#x20AC;? his mother, Jessica (Constance Wu), instantly establishing herself as a stereotypical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tiger Mother,â&#x20AC;? swoops down on the school for failing to punish the white kid for using the slur. As much as Jessica is the Tiger Mother, her husband Louis (Randall Park) is so eagerly accommodating, he borders on being the stereotype of the obsequious Asian functionary. He has opened a restaurant in Orlando â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not a Chinese restaurant, but that most â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americanâ&#x20AC;? of eating establishments, a Westernthemed steakhouse. Fretting that business is bad because there are no white faces working at the

Cattlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ranch, he hires Mitch (Paul Scheer) to dress up in cowboy gear as one of the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two waiters. The first episode focuses far too much on these stereotypes. On top of that, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even funny. But what a difference a second episode makes. The stereotypes are still there and, in some cases, even more in your face. At the start of the episode, parents are gathered together to hear a warning from the principal about a guy distributing drugs to kids at school. Any questions? Jessica raises her hand: When do report cards come out? When the kids come home with excellent grades, Jessica determines that the school is too easy and augments her kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; education with her own version of a Chinese Learning Center, an afterschool program epitomizing the stereotype of Asian parents overly concerned with their kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pursuit of excellence at the expense of everything else in their young lives. The real difference between the first and second episodes, though, is not just that the stereotypes are eventually turned upside down, but that the characters are no longer just those stereotypes.

We see Jessicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humanity, her partial realization that there should be more to her sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives than academic excellence, and that her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genuine affection for others isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a sign of a weak character. The performances are adequate in the pilot, but understandably better in the second episode because the actors have more to work with. Yang (son of culture critic Jeff Yang) is especially good as Eddie, injecting a winning sense of â&#x20AC;&#x153;real-life kidâ&#x20AC;? into the role. Huang himself is one of the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s producers and contributes a â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Goldbergsâ&#x20AC;?like (or, for you older viewers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wonder Yearsâ&#x20AC;?-like) voiceover that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add anything much to the show but doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t harm it either. If you only watched the first episode, you might conclude that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to see other Asian Americans carrying a new show because Mindy Kaling must have been getting lonely, but that the quality of any show is about more than just diversity. With the second episode, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fresh Off the Boatâ&#x20AC;? begins to demonstrate that truth, belatedly delivering the promise missing from the pilot.

doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t visit for long in his homeland now. Connery is a tax exile living in the Bahamas, celebrating his 40th anniversary this year with his wife, Micheline. Like Hackman, he left acting on a sour note, with the SEAN 2003 flop CONNERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.â&#x20AC;? His friend Michael Caine told a reporter in 2013: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The movie business retired him because he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to play small parts about old men.â&#x20AC;? Jean-Luc Godard (turning 85 Dec. 3): A founding father of the French New Wave in the 1950s, Godard remains as relevant as ever for cinephiles. His latest film of signature bafflement, the 3-D experiment â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goodbye to Language,â&#x20AC;? recently was named 2014â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best JEAN-LUC by the NaGODARD tional Society of Film Critics. In return, the reclusive artist jotted a shakily handwritten thank-you note, which included a modest claim that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;still learning.â&#x20AC;? Charles Grodin (turning 80 April 21): His movie career, which stretches back to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rosemaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baby,â&#x20AC;? is resurging lately. He is performing CHARLES in new GRODIN movies costarring Al

Dierks Bentley expresses admiration for Lambert GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dierks Bentley says there wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any hard feelings if childhood friend Miranda Lambert takes home the Grammy for best country album. Bentleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Riserâ&#x20AC;? and Lambertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Platinumâ&#x20AC;? are both nominated in that category on Sunday. He says if Lambertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is called, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be happy for her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any time she wins or performs, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m usually the first one standing up and applauding,â&#x20AC;? Bentley said before performing for fans Sunday at the official Super Bowl Tailgate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A win for her is a win for everyone.â&#x20AC;? Lambert is already a Grammy owner, but Bentley is still waiting for his

first win. The singers toured together and collaborated on music, even earning a Grammy nomination for their song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bad Angelâ&#x20AC;? at the 2011 awards show. Bentley says his feelings toward Lambert havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed over the years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just feel that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same Texas girl that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been,â&#x20AC;? he said. Meanwhile, the 39-yearold Bentley received seven nominations at the Academy of Country Music Awards, to be presented April 15. He is the second mostnominated act, a notch behind Lambert, who earned eight nods. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really blew my mind that they nominated me at all, let alone seven,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Williams’ wife, children fight over estate PEOPLE

By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Robin Williams’ children and wife have gone to court in a fight over the late comedian’s estate. In papers filed in December in San Francisco Superior Court, Williams’ wife, Susan, says some of the late actor’s personal items were taken without her permission and asks the court to exclude the contents of the Tiburon home that she shared with Williams from the jewelry, memorabilia and other items Williams said the children should have. The children — Zachary, Zelda and Cody — counter that Susan Williams is “adding insult to a terrible injury” by trying to change the trust agreement and rob them of the late actor’s clothing and other personal items. “The Williams’ children are heartbroken that Petitioner, Mr. Williams’ wife of less than three years, has acted against his wishes by challenging the plans he so carefully made for his estate,” attorneys for the children said in court papers. James Wagstaffe, an attor-

ney for Susan Williams, said Monday that his client was only seeking guidance from the court about the meaning of certain terms in the trust. “This is not ugly,” he said. “I would not say this is anticipated to be a highly contested proceeding.” An attorney for the children, Allan Mayer, declined to comment. Williams died at his Tiburon home in August. The coroner ruled his death a suicide that resulted from asphyxia caused by hanging. Susan Williams has said the actor and comedian was struggling with depression, anxiety and a recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. Williams had publicly acknowledged periodic struggles with substance abuse, and he had entered a substance abuse program shortly before his death. According to the coroner’s report, his wife told an investigator that Williams did not go there because of recent drug or alcohol abuse, but rather to reaffirm the princi-

ples of his rehabilitation. Williams’ trust granted his children his memorabilia and awards in the entertainment industry and some other specific personal items, according to court documents. Susan Williams says that because he wanted her to continue to live at the Tiburon home, it makes sense that he intended only for his children to have the specific personal items he delineated that were kept at another home he owned in Napa. “Any other interpretation would lead to Mrs. Williams’ home being stripped while Mrs. Williams still lives there,” her attorneys wrote. The children dispute that interpretation, saying there were no specific limits on the location of those items. ❏❏❏ LOS ANGELES — Marion “Suge” Knight, the former hip-hop mogul now charged with murder, attempted murder and hitand-run, is expected to appear in court today. Prosecutors filed the charges against Knight on Monday, alleging he intended to run down a friend and another man after an argu-

ment on a movie set on Thursday. He is scheduled to appear in court to be arraigned on four felony counts, which include murder in the death of 55-year-old Terry Carter, “attempted, willful, deliberate and premeditated murder” involving 51-year-old victim Cle “Bone” Sloan, plus two charges of hit-andrun. Knight’s attorney, James Blatt, said Knight accidentally ran over the men as he tried to escape a vicious attack. He turned himself in the following day. Also Monday, Knight’s $2 million bail was revoked after a court commissioner agreed with authorities that he was a potential flight risk and could intimidate witnesses. The ruling came after homicide detectives told the bail commissioner that the 49-year-old founder of Death Row Records could face a lengthy prison sentence because of a violent criminal past, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida. Knight was out on bail in a separate robbery case when the men were hit.

Stepmom insulted by others’ views on role DEAR ABBY: I’m a 42-year-old divorced woman with no children. My ex-husband has a son whose life I was a part of for 18 years. When people ask if I have kids, my reply is, “Yes, I have a stepson.” Why do people think it’s OK to say things like, “That’s not the same as having your own,” or, “That doesn’t count”? Then they usually go Dear Abby is on to ask why I don’t written by have children of my Abigail Van own. Buren, also My response is a big known as fat lie. I say, “It just Jeanne never happened.” Phillips, and The truth is my ex was founded by her mother, didn’t want any more children. What can I Pauline say to these people to Phillips. let them know that they need to stop and think about what

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they say and ask, because their word choice in this circumstance is hurtful to the point of tears? — STEPMOM IN CALIFORNIA DEAR STEPMOM: A person who would downplay your role as a parent is rude, thoughtless and not worth your time. As to asking why someone is childless, I have addressed this subject in my column before. While many folks start conversations by asking whether someone has children, it can be a dangerous question. I learned my lesson and stopped asking after having received an answer from one man that his son was doing life in prison as an accomplice to murder. Another man told me he had two children, a daughter and an estranged son who was also serving a long sentence — for selling narcotics. Neither person was happy to have been asked. After that, I stopped asking. I see no reason why you shouldn’t simply tell the truth about why you are child-free. Not having (or wanting) children is nothing to be ashamed of — it’s a personal choice that an increasing number of couples have

opted for without regret. DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been together for 18 months. Last night we were talking about doing more in the bedroom, and he told me that he is bisexual. I have nothing against the LGBT community, but finding this out after so long shocked me. I’m worried now, and I can’t seem to wrap my head around the fact that he has sex with guys. I just can’t quite look at or think of him the same way. I really do love him and can still see a future with him. I just don’t know how to handle this big news. Please, Abby, you’re my only hope. — LIZ IN TEXAS DEAR LIZ: I would be curious about why your boyfriend waited so long to tell you. Because someone is bisexual does not mean the person is unfaithful and sleeping with both sexes at the same time. It simply means the person is attracted to members of both sexes. You need to have further discussion with your boyfriend regarding his attitude about his commitment to you before deciding what to do about his “big” news.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2015. There are 331 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens held a shipboard peace conference off the Virginia coast; the talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy. On this date: In 1783, Spain formally recognized American independence. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified. In 1924, the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington, D.C., at age 67. In 1930, the chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft, resigned for health reasons. (He died just over a month later.) In 1943, during World War II, the U.S. transport ship Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Greenland, sank after being hit by a German torpedo; of the more than 900 men aboard, only some 230 survived. In 1959, rock ’n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a smallplane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. An American Airlines Lockheed Electra crashed into New York’s East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board. In 1966, the Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first manmade object to make a soft landing on the moon. In 1969, “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt and his family were aboard an Eastern Airlines flight that was hijacked to Cuba. (Fellow passengers who recognized Funt thought the whole thing was a stunt for his TV show; in an article written for The Associated Press, Funt said the whole episode “looked like a bad movie.”) In 1972, the XI Olympic Winter Games opened in Sapporo, Japan. In 1989, Alfredo Stroessner, president of Paraguay for more than three decades, was overthrown in a military coup. In 1994, the space shuttle Discovery lifted off, carrying

Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft. In 1998, Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, 38, for the pickax killings of two people in 1983; she was the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. A U.S. Marine plane sliced through the cable of a ski gondola in Italy, sending the car plunging hundreds of feet, killing all 20 people inside. Ten years ago: Alberto Gonzales won Senate confirmation as attorney general. An interim report detailed conflicts of interest and flawed management in the U.N. oil-for-food program. An Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people crashed east of Kabul, killing all on board. Five years ago: A suicide bomber killed seven people in northwestern Pakistan, including three U.S. soldiers. Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested on manslaughter charges after three people died following a northern Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he’d led in October 2009. (Ray was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide and spent nearly two years in prison.) Actress Frances Reid, 95, died in Los Angeles. Today’s Birthdays: Comedian Shelley Berman is 90. Former Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., is 82. Football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton is 75. Actress Bridget Hanley is 74. Actress Blythe Danner is 72. Singer Dennis Edwards is 72. Football Hall of Famer Bob Griese is 70. Singer-guitarist Dave Davies (The Kinks) is 68. Singer Melanie is 68. Actress Morgan Fairchild is 65. Actress Pamela Franklin is 65. Actor Nathan Lane is 59. Rock musician Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) is 59. Actor Thomas Calabro is 56. Actordirector Keith Gordon is 54. Actress Michele Greene is 53. Country singer Matraca Berg is 51. Actress Maura Tierney is 50. Actor Warwick Davis is 45. Actress Elisa Donovan is 44. Reggaeton singer Daddy Yankee is 39. Musician Grant Barry is 38. Singer-songwriter Jessica Harp is 33. Actor Matthew Moy is 31. Actress Rebel Wilson is 29. Rapper Sean Kingston is 25.

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NOTICE Notice for a public meeting, public hearing and Advertisement for a Proposed Ordinance Authorizing the Refinancing of Loan Number 2728423019, Formerly Known as Loan Number 69000, Currently held be Green Township Municipal Authority and Guaranteed by Green Township. The Township of Green will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Township Building, 1492 Route 240 Hwy, Commodore, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of discussing the proposed Ordinance for refinancing loan number 2728423019, formerly known as loan number 69000. The Township of Green intends to consider the adoption of this ordinance at this regular meeting. The proposed Ordinance is available for public inspection, without charge, during regular business hours, at the Green Township Building, 1492 Route 240 Hwy, Commodore, Pennsylvania. Copies of the proposed Ordinance may be obtained for the cost of reproduction. Please call the Township Office, 724-254-9355, for additional information and/or questions. Green Township office hours are Monday and Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. The Ordinance shall be considered as a pending Ordinance upon the first advertisement. A summary of the provisions of the Ordinance are as follows: Loan number 2728423019, formerly known as Loan Number 69000 is held by the Green Township Municipal Authority and guaranteed by the Township of Green. The Township of Green, in conjunction with the Green Township Municipal Authority, proposes a refinancing of the aforementioned Note. The amount of refinancing shall not exceed $42,500. 2/3

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NOTICE The Plumville Borough Council meeting scheduled for Monday, February 2, has been rescheduled to Tuesday, February 10, 7:00 P.M. at the Plumville Fire Hall.

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PUBLISHERS NOTICE: All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.” We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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Dutch Acres, Indiana School District -lots starting at $28,500 with all Public Utilities. Call 724-388-1335 or dutchacres34@ gmail.com

OTTELIA Estates, Indiana School District -lots starting at $47,000 with all Public Utilities. Call 724-388-1335 or otteliaestates34@ gmail.com

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UPSTATE NEW YORK LAND BARGAINS Acreage, ponds and streams 42 acres w/pond, borders stateland- $59,995. 86 acres w/road and utilities, pond, borders stateland$89,995. 6 acres w/ deer river, borders stateland$19,995. 138 acres w/ small lake- $89,900. Financing available. Call now. 800-229-7843 OR www. LandandCamps.com Buy through the Indiana Gazette Classifieds.

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CHERRY TREE: 3 apartments house, off St parking, $75,000. Live in 1 & rent 2. (724) 254-4835

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1 BDRM, $385 & $425 plus gas & elec. No pets, Non smoking. Located N. of Indiana. 724-465-8521 1 ROOM Efficiencies, East Pike. $475-/mo. ALL UTIL. INCL., TV & Internet also. Call (724) 465-6161

Real Estate Transfers Carl R. Joiner AKA Carl Joiner and Bertena Joiner AKA Bertina Joiner to Joiner Family Farm Trust by TR, Pine Township, $1 William Zeigler and Carolyn Zeigler to Trinity United Methodist Church of Indiana, Indiana Borough, second ward, $30,000 Danielle L. Krevetski and Gregg A. Krevetski to David P. Sheriff and Lori A. Sheriff, East Wheatfield Township, $129,500 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas TR, Residential Accredit Loans Inc. and Mortgage Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006QS13 to Sharp Rentals LLC, Indiana Borough, third ward, $60,100 Fannie Mae by AIF AKA Federal National Mortgage Association to Mears Properties LLC, White Township, $90,000 Betty L. Hicks Revoc TR by TE to Ray Hicks, Budd Hicks, Jack Hicks, Roger Hicks, Larry D. White and Lon E. White, North Mahoning Township, $0 Heath Cunningham to HRC Investments LLC, Center Township, $315,000 Joseph H. Miller and Ida D. Miller to Dan M. Byler and Emma M. Byler, West Mahoning Township, $140,000 Serian Group LLC to Jennifer T. Faught, Cherry Tree Borough, $17,000 Mary M. Kurnocik Est. and Mary Kurnocik Est. to Thomas Richard Pitts and Monacca L. Pitts, Burrell Township, $127,000

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2/3 BDRS, available for Spring 2015, next to campus. (724) 349-0152 or runcorental@verizon.net THE Indiana Gazette. In print daily. Online always. www.indiana gazette.com AFFORDABLE / CLEAN Utilities included Call (724) 599-4725

INDIANA: near IUP starting at $400/mo. 1 bedroom, furnished, all utilities included free Dish TV & high speed internet. For Information or to schedule an appointment Phone (724) 471-2140

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1, 2 & 3 bdr - Indiana & 1 & 2 bdr - Blairsville, no dogs, Call (724) 422-1484 mmetil@verizon.net

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BORO: Very nice 2 bdr, $500/mo + utilities, non smoking, no pets. Call (724) 463-0339 CHERRY TREE: 2 Bdrm, 1st flr, water, sewage & garbage incl. Avail now! Inquiries Ph724-254-4835

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TAKE CARE WITHYOUR BEST ASSET The two — or deuce, if you prefer — is the lowest card in a suit, but sometimes it assumes high status. In today’s deal, how should South play in four spades after West leads a trump, East takes the trick with his ace and returns his trump jack, West following suit? South starts with five potential losers in his hand: one spade, two hearts and two diamonds. He begins with only eight winners: five spades, one heart and two clubs. Declarer can ruff his third heart in the dummy, but how will he find a 10th trick? If the heart finesse

is losing, West had better also hold the diamond ace, which is unlikely. If the heart finesse is winning, how does declarer get to the dummy to take it? (To cross in spades kills the later heart ruff.) At first, it looks as though West needs to have the diamond ace, but there is another chance. At trick one, South must play a high spade under East’s ace. Then, after winning the second trick, he unblocks (cashes) his two club winners before running the diamond jack (or, if West produces the queen, covers with dummy’s king). Here, East is stymied. If he returns a heart, declarer takes the finesse. If East continues diamonds, dummy’s king becomes a trick. Or if East leads his last club, South ruffs high, overtakes his carefully conserved spade two with dummy’s six and cashes the club winners. Then he takes the heart finesse to collect an overtrick. Finally, shed a crocodile tear for East. With 18 points, he never thought that his opponents had missed a game. So, instead of passing out one spade, he made the automatic takeout double. COPYRIGHT: 2015, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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ASTROGRAPH ❂✵✪ ❂ Your Birthday WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 by Eugenia Last Sharing your creative and novel ideas will help you attract the kind of people who are looking for innovative investments. Don’t be shy; promote your skills and pursuits in a confident and convincing manner. You have the talent to make this a profitable year. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Personal and professional relationships will improve if you participate in things instead of observing them. Talk to colleagues about positions opening up in your field. The more you learn, the better you will do. PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — You’ll be looking for a new challenge. Restlessness or boredom will lead to poor decisions. Don’t do or say anything that could impede your progress. ARIES (March 21April 19) — A compatible partnership is imminent. Make sure any agreements you develop are wellbalanced, or you may find yourself overworked and overwhelmed. A third party can offer helpful hints. TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Influential acquaintances will help you make a good financial move. Be prepared to act quickly when the right opportunity comes along. Moderation and determination will lead to success. GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Intimate time spent with a special someone will allow you to reconnect and revive your relationship. Clear up any outstanding items on your agenda and devote your attention to what you enjoy most.

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CANCER (June 21July 22) — Money or legal matters will turn in your favor. Changes at home will cause some tension, but everyone will benefit in the end. Clear up outstanding paperwork before starting a new project. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The key to a successful partnership depends on both parties making equal contributions. If you find that your partner isn’t pulling his or her weight, start a discussion before matters get worse. VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Be sensitive to the needs of others. Spend time with an elderly relative who offers interesting insight into your past and provides input about your future. LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Lady Luck is on your side. Your intuition is strong, and your decisions will be on the money. An interesting proposal will have far-reaching benefits. SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Self-doubt will be your downfall. Once you have compiled the relevant information, make a commitment to an investment opportunity. The results may not be rapid, but you will make money over the course of time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Finish what you start. A haphazard approach will cause chaos and leave you with lots of incomplete projects. Stay focused and follow through until each matter has been finalized. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Keep a close watch over the competition. You will save yourself a lot of work if you compare strategies and make any necessary adjustments to ensure that you will be successful. COPYRIGHT 2015 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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COLONIAL MANOR 1 bdr furnished. & unfurnished. 2 bdr unfurnished. Call for info. (724) 463-9290. 9-4pm. colonialmanorindianapa .com HOMER CITY 1 bedroom, No pets Royal Oaks Apts. Phone (724) 464-9708

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SMALL 1 bdrm S. 6th St., Ind. Boro, Srt term lease, Some util. $425/mo., bk ground ck. 215-284-1655 ACTION - Classified Action ads get results at little or no cost to you. Classified Action ads are a great way to sell items when you are downsizing or to sell items that you no longer use. Place your ad in the Gazette Classifieds and get some Action. Phone (724) 349-4949 for details on this exciting advertising opportunity.

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BLAIRSVILLE 3bdrm 1 bath, A/C. Call (724) 691-1786 anytime or (724) 600-4843 after 5 pm

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INDIANA Between Malls, Nice 2 bedroom ranch, $825/mo. plus utilities. (724) 840-2399

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NEWLY Remodeled, 1 bdrm apt in Homer City, No pets, includes all utilities, $560/mo plus security. (724) 349-0766

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ONE Bedroom. A/C, low traffic, laundry on-site, parking. No pets. One year lease. runcorental@verizon.net (724) 349-0152

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INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Walking Carrier Needed to deliver newspapers daily (7 days a week). •Blairsville Boro North Side North Spring North Liberty North Walnut (Approx. 40 papers) Start immediately If you are at least 12 years old, and you have dreamed of owning your own business. Call Joe (724) 465-5555 ext 222.

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EXPERIENCED Snow Plow Drivers Needed. Must have clean driving record. Call (724) 854-9200 Family Psychological Associates seeks part-time Licensed Therapist. Contact Jennifer 724-349-6320 REGISTERED NURSE Anew Home Health Agency is currently hiring for a part-time/ full-time RN. Applicant must have 2 yrs of medical-surgical experience; home health experience is a plus. Contact our office to apply: 724-465-9224

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Digital Media Consultant High energy, motivated, performance driven individual needed to work in the fastest growing segment of the news industry. As a member of this dynamic team you will: • Manage a given advertising territory of existing customers • Develop new advertising business via cold-calling networking, etc. • Collaborate with business owners to identify their needs. • Develop advertising campaigns to reach their target audience

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VARIETY Of little girls clothes, size 4, 5 & 6. Approximately 50 pieces. New with tags and brand name. $1.00-$5.00 (724) 254-4688 White rabbit fur jacket, genuine leather deer skin jacket w/fringe, size M $25 each Call (724) 459-8861

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MEN’S Size 9 cross country fiberglass ski with poles, $85. (412) 367-1752

ROCKING CHAIR: Fair condition, $25 obo. (724) 254-2343

ATLAS Power King table saw, mounted on movable stand. $85. Call (724) 463-0398

SECTIONAL: 3 piece tan leather, excellent condition. $600. Call Bob (724) 464-0198

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WILLIAMS Appliance, 30 years. Selling quality new & used. (724) 397-2761.

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Seasoned Split Firewood $85 half cord. Delivered. (724) 479-0845

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LINCOLN Welder: electric, 225 amp, ac, on wheels. $100 obo. Call (724) 479-8745

AUSSIE Pups: champ. bloodlines, health guaranteed, ready to go. Call (724) 840-8930

SNOW BLOWER: Craftsman 522, elect start, runs great. $225 Call (724) 349-7437

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SNOW BLOWER: Simplicity 524 2 stage, runs great, new battery, as is. $150.00 (724) 349-7437 SNOW BLOWER: Troy-Bilt 521 Snow Squal Blower, elec start, like new. $225 (724) 349-7437

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BED BOARD clean has nice finish, ready for use. $10.00 (724) 465-7566 or (724) 465-7554 CHINA: hand painted, 78 pieces, painted by E.E. Shaffer. $100. Call (724) 422-1168

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DINING ROOM Set: beautiful pine table 42x60, (2) 12” boards, 6 chairs, 60” long lighted hutch. $495. excellent shape. (724) 422-9595

STEREO Component System JVC Compact, model MX55MBK speakers, am/fm, 6 cd changer, dual cassette, 1992, nice shape $100 724-465-4350

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BX of Barbies & misc. items for Barbies. $10.00 Call (724)840-6646 FISH TANK: 30 gallon, with nice wooden stand, and all accessories. Good condition. $65. Call (724) 549-8266 JANITORIAL Equipment 4 scrubbers, shampooers, sweepers. Too much to list. (724) 801-0290 PIN: Swarovski Crystal stone angel pin, brand new, never worn, $20. (724) 541-1489 SAMSONITE Travel alarm clock, new never used. $16. Call (724) 541-1489 TOSHIBA 51” TV. Works great, built-in speakers, 50” tall, 25” deep. Free. (724) 463-0619 WALKER & CANE: good condition. $15 for both. Call (724) 471-2726

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BUYING Junk cars. Call us McCarthy Auto. (724) 349-2622

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LOW Cost spay/neuter services for your companion animal. Dogs done by weight. Female cats $50, males $40 Call Action For Animals. (724) 539-2544

NEW SNAP-ON solus ultra scanner w/case & xtras, works for vehicles from 1981-now, paid $4,000 new asking $2,500 Call (724) 465-0266

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FOR SALE 8 gun oak cabinet $500 firm Call (724) 762-9288

Autos For Sale

SNOW PLOW: like new, $3,200. Call for details. (724) 388-7505