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Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area people: Helen Yeager, Alexander Barkey, Nick Mimis, Rusty Muir, George Jones and Vivian Pagano.

Inside PROTECTING ARTIFACTS: A Philadelphia museum is taking extra steps to protect its archaeological treasures because of a massive demolition project next door./Page 3 STANDING THEIR GROUND: North Koreans have their own take on the rise of tensions and the possibility of more sanctions for their recent H-bomb test and rocket launch, and it’s not apologetic./Page 5 HOSPITAL DESTROYED: An airstrike in Syria today destroyed a makeshift clinic supported by an international aid group, killing and wounding several people, activists and the group said./Page 7 TRICKY TALKS: A colorful cast, including a coup leader and a ruthless prime minister with 31 years on the job, will be dinner guests when President Barack Obama welcomes Southeast Asian leaders for a shirt-sleeves summit in California starting today./Page 10 YOUTH RULES: Chase Elliott, 20, became the youngest driver to win the pole for the Daytona 500 on Sunday./Page 11

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Coming up TUESDAY: Doctors say a mysterious brain disorder, primary progressive aphasia, can be confused with early Alzheimer’s disease./Health

For young readers THE MINI PAGE: In honor of Presidents Day, learn about the 100 portraits Gilbert Stuart painted of our first president, George Washington./Page 17

Deaths Obituaries on Page 4 ANDERSON, Orrin Leonard “Andy,” 103, Blairsville TAYLOR, Jack Lloyd, 62, Homer City

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By LAURIE KELLMAN and DAVID WARREN Associated Press

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A WOMAN watched as Pope Francis blessed the child she was holding Sunday during his visit to the Federico Gomez Pediatric Hospital in Mexico City.

Pope condemns drug trade’s ‘dealers of death’ in Mexico

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JACOBO GARCIA Associated Press

ECATEPEC, Mexico — Pope Francis condemned the drug trade’s “dealers of death” and urged Mexicans to shun the devil’s lust for money as he led a huge open-air Mass for more than 300,000 people Sunday in this violence-riddled city.

“Let us get it into our heads: With the devil, there is no dia-

logue,” the pope said at the biggest scheduled event of his five-day visit to Mexico.

Francis brought a message of encouragement on the second full day of his trip to residents of Ecatepec, a poverty-stricken Mexico City suburb of some 1.6 million people where drug violence, kidnappings and gangland-style killings, particularly of women, are a fact of life.

“He’s coming to Ecatepec because we need him here,” said

Ignacia Godinez, a 56-year-old homemaker. “Kidnappings, robberies and drugs have all increased, and he is bringing comfort.

His message will reach those who need it so that people know we, the good people, outnumber the bad.”

In a clear reference to the drug lords who hold sway in the city’s sprawling expanses of cinderblock slums, Francis focused Continued on Page 10

A FLUE FIRE caused extensive damage to the parsonage of the Mentcle Wesleyan Methodist Church along Glenn Lane, Pine Township, Sunday morning.

Volunteers from five fire companies fought the blaze. No one was hurt.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes and no autopsy was necessary, a judge has told The Associated Press.

Chris Lujan, a manager for Sunset Funeral Homes in Texas, said the 79-year-old jurist’s body was taken from the El Paso facility late Sunday afternoon and was to be flown to Virginia, although he had no details. Scalia’s family didn’t think a private autopsy was necessary and requested that his remains be returned to Washington as soon as possible, Lujan said.

Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara told The Associated Press on Sunday she consulted with Scalia’s personal physician and sheriff’s investigators, who said there were no signs of foul play, before concluding that he had died of natural causes. He was found dead in his room at a West Texas resort ranch Saturday morning. Guevara says the declaration was made around 1:52 p.m. Saturday.

Terry Sharpe, assistant director for operations at El Paso International Airport, said a private plane carrying Scalia’s body departed around 8 p.m. EST Sunday. Scalia’s body was accompanied to the airport by U.S. marshals, he said. The body was returned to Virginia late Sunday.

Scalia’s weekend death was as much of a shock to those at the ranch as it was to the rest of the nation.

The owner of Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa, where Scalia died, said the justice Continued on Page 10

Court vacancy raises the stakes in 2016 race

By JULIE PACE

AP White House Correspondent

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Fire damages Pine Township home

By The Indiana Gazette MENTCLE — No one was hurt when a fire extensively damaged the split-level home at 131 Glenn Lane, Pine Township, Sunday morning.

Amy Muir, a captain with the Pine Township Volunteer Fire Department, said the home is the parsonage for the Mentcle Wesleyan Methodist Church. The Rev.

Roger Whippo and his wife and daughter were in the home when the fire started.

Muir said the fire apparently started in the home’s flue and then extended out into the building. Muir said the damage was “extensive” to the home’s basement and attic, and there was smoke and water damage to the home’s main floor.

The first alarm sounded at 10:48

a.m. Sunday for the Pine Township, Cherryhill Township and Clymer fire departments.

The fire companies from Nicktown and Vintondale were dispatched to the fire a few minutes after the first companies were alerted.

Firefighters at Brush Valley, Nanty Glo and Marion Center were placed on standby for the departments at the fire scene.

WASHINGTON — The presidential election just got real.

The unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — and the immediate declaration from Republicans that the next president should nominate his replacement — adds even more weight to the decision voters will make in November’s general election.

For months, the candidates have espoused theoretical, sometimes vague, policy proposals. Now, the prospect of President Barack Obama’s successor nominating a Supreme Court justice immediately after taking office offers a more tangible way for voters to evaluate the contenders.

Candidates in both parties moved quickly to reframe the election as a referendum on the high court’s future.

“Two branches of government hang in the balance, not just the presidency, but the Supreme Court,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in the latest GOP debate, held in South Carolina just hours after word filtered out Saturday about Scalia’s death in Texas. “If we get this wrong, if we nominate the wrong canContinued on Page 10

Study: Blood-boosters may give preemies developmental edge

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO — Two bloodbuilding drugs injected soon after birth may give tiny preemies a lasting long-term edge, boosting brain development and IQ by age 4, a first-of-its-kind study found.

The study was small but the implications are big if larger, longer studies prove the drugs help even the play-

ing field for these at-risk children, the researchers and other experts say.

Babies who got the medicine scored much better by age 4 on measures of intelligence, language and memory than preemies who didn’t get it. The medicine group’s scores on an important behavior measure were just as good as a control group of 4year-olds born on time at a normal weight.

The results are “super exciting,” said Dr. Robin Ohls, the lead author and a pediatrics professor at the University of New Mexico. She said it’s the first evidence of long-term benefits of the drugs when compared to no bloodboosting treatment.

Even though the treated youngsters didn’t do as well as the normal-weight group on most measures, their scores were impressive and

suggest greater brain development than the other preemies, Ohls said.

They scored about 12 points higher on average on IQ tests than the untreated kids but about 10 points lower than the normalweight group. On tests measuring memory and impulsive behavior, the treated kids fared as well as those born at normal weight.

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ences would show up in a preschool setting: The untreated group would be the kids who struggle a little in class, while the those who got the medicines would do OK but not as well as those born at a normal weight, said Dr. Michael Schreiber, a prematurity expert at the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital.

Survival of extremely tiny Continued on Page 10

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Demolition sends vibrations through museum

By KATHY MATHESON Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — An archaeology museum in Philadelphia has moved thousands of ancient treasures offsite and is using vibration sensors to monitor delicate items still on display while an earth-shaking demolition project continues next door.

The Penn Museum — which houses mummies, a Sphinx, pottery and other historical pieces excavated worldwide — has also modified exhibits to prevent damage to fragile objects and ensure they can remain on view.

“We’ve tried to minimize our impact on the visitors, so that we’re keeping things up as long as we can and as much as we can,” said head conservator Lynn Grant.

The museum is part of the University of Pennsylvania,

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ALEXIS NORTH, left, a project conservator at Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and Jacqui Bowen, collections technician, secured an ancient Egyption artifact in January. which has been dismantling a nearby 850-car parking garage and 23-story medical

office tower to make room for a new hospital pavilion.

Demolition should be fin-

ished by August, said Patrick Dorris, an associate vice president for the university’s

Police release names of 3 killed in I-78 crash FREDERICKSBURG (AP) — Authorities on Sunday released the names of the three people killed in a pileup of scores of vehicles on a central Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall that also sent more than 70 people to hospitals.

Kenneth J. Lesko, 50, of Bethpage, N.Y.; Francisca V. Pear, 54, of Bridgewater, N.J.; and Alfred Dean Kinnick, 57, of Limestone, Tenn., were all pronounced dead at the scene of Saturday morning’s crash on Interstate 78, state police in Lebanon County said Sunday.

The crash shortly before 9:30 a.m. Saturday occurred in what drivers reported as whiteout conditions, with

very low visibility and a lot of drifting snow, Trooper Justin Summa said.

“People were saying they couldn’t see past the front bumpers of their cars,” Summa said Sunday.

The major crash along one stretch of I-78 in Bethel Township involved 64 vehicles, including a dozen commercial vehicles such as tractor-trailers and box trucks, but there were also “numerous secondary crashes” behind that as traffic backed up, Summa said. A total of 73 people were taken by four medical helicopters and by ambulance for treatment at 11 hospitals. At least one remained in critical condition Sunday, but Penn State Her-

shey Medical Center said two others taken to the hospital with critical injuries had improved and most of the 13 people brought to the hospital had been discharged.

The interstate reopened Sunday morning following the pileup, which left tractortrailers, box trucks and cars tangled together across three traffic lanes and into the snow-covered median.

Jenny Privitera and her husband, Jason, who weren’t injured, told the Lebanon Daily News that they were on their way to the Outdoor Show in Harrisburg when the crash happened.

“It was on and off sunny and cloudy, and all of a sudden there was just a white-

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The campaign for a planned memorial at the site of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people is getting closer to completion, as survivors of the blaze and family members of those killed held a memorial service Sunday to mark the 13th anniversary of the fire on Feb. 20.

Organizers of the memorial at the site of The Station nightclub in West Warwick announced on Sunday that they have now raised $1.6 million of their $2 million goal.

Construction has begun on the memorial, and they say workers are on track to complete it by October.

“We are on a mission,” said Gina Russo, president of the Station Fire Memorial Foundation and a survivor of the fire. “Fingers crossed that it will be done by October and we can celebrate a park instead of an empty space.”

The fire was sparked by pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White, which set fire to flammable foam used as soundproofing inside the club. More than 200 people were injured. The lot where the club once stood was turned into a temporary memorial with handmade crosses and other mementoes.

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Police said more than 70 people were taken to a warming shelter operated by the American Red Cross at a firehouse in the area. The center closed Saturday night after stranded motorists were given an opportunity to get rental vehicles or hotels.

Among those caught in the pile-up was the Penn State Lehigh Valley men’s basketball team’s chartered bus, which was heading to a game in New Kensington, when it was hit by a tractor-trailer.

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No timeline has been set, Dorris said.

Vibrations from heavy machinery “can really mess with the integrity of the artifacts” and cause some to move within their exhibits, said museum special projects coordinator Robert Thurlow.

The museum cares for about 1 million items, but only a small percentage is displayed to its more than 160,000 annual guests. The rest are in storage, on loan or being studied in labs by students and researchers.

Officials with the museum and health system, which is paying the yet-to-be-calculated moving and storage costs, have been coordinating closely for more than a year. The ongoing changes are large and small, both visi-

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Visitors won’t notice that much of the Egyptian collection in onsite storage has been moved off the premises.

They won’t see the new, shock-absorbing layer of material under the case housing 1,400-year-old horse figurines from the Tang Dynasty. They probably won’t realize that glass shelves in some displays have been replaced by sturdier wood or acrylic boards.

Guests will notice the walls of the ancient Egyptian tomb chapel of Kaipure have been disassembled, and the closure of the Islamic Near East gallery. In June, they’ll see that workers have removed a pair of 500-year-old Buddhist murals made of mud plaster that have adorned the museum’s signature Chinese rotunda for nearly a century.

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MIT working to cut suicide rate

By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — After seven suicides in two years, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking for their own solutions to prevent more deaths.

The school unveiled a sweeping plan to bolster mental health last fall, adding staff psychologists and expanding counseling hours, among other measures. But students have added their own ingenuity in recent months, starting a wave of grass-roots projects intended to defuse the stress of campus life before it leads to a crisis.

One group of students launched a texting hotline called Lean On Me this month, letting students chat anonymously with trained student volunteers about anything that’s troubling them. Other students plan to install artificial light boxes on campus, meant to treat depression that can take hold during dreary months.

By her count, sophomore Izzy Lloyd has handed out more than 4,000 specially made wristbands that say TMAYD. It’s short for “tell me about your day,” a message that aims to get students talking with one another.

Lloyd started the project last year after two of her freshman classmates took their own lives in the same week.

“It’s suicide prevention by community building,” said Lloyd, 19. “We’re showing people who may feel like they have nothing left that they have a world of people who do care about them.”

Other projects take a lighter tone, like the new

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ANDY TRATTNER, of Portland, Ore., a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, displayed a wristband with the acronym TMAYD, for “tell me about your day.”

MIT Puppy Lab that will bring therapy dogs to campus this semester.

Campus officials recently awarded almost $50,000 in grants to support campus projects meant to improve mental health. They say the new work is a reflection of MIT’s culture, marked by a drive to solve problems. But students said they’re also meeting a demand for services that were missing on the campus of 11,000 students.

“If we really solved the problem, we wouldn’t be running into this same cycle of mental illness that we’ve been seeing,” said Nikhil Buduma, who graduated last year and founded Lean On Me with two current students. The hotline, he added, lets students get help anonymously and avoid stigmas tied to mental illness.

Across the country, experts say, college students are playing a bigger role in suicide prevention. And more often, schools wel-

come that kind of help.

“We have found time and again that students listen to students before they listen to anyone else,” said Nance Roy, clinical director at the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit group based in New York that works to prevent suicide among college students. “These issues can no longer just fall to the counseling center.”

Roy said there’s no evidence that elite schools have disproportionately high suicide rates. But a national study suggests that MIT’s rate was above average last year.

The average suicide rate among college students was seven for every 100,000 students between 2004 and 2009, according to research from the University of Rochester. Three MIT students took their lives last year, translating to almost 27 for every 100,000. There have been at least seven student suicides since 2014, according to reports from the school’s student newspaper.

Some students and alumni say that MIT’s culture pushes students to extremes, sometimes at the expense of a social life or emotional health.

“It’s heroic and glorified to push oneself to the point of our boundaries, of our physical or bodily needs,” said Sahar Hakim-Hashemi, a 2013 graduate who’s filming a documentary called “Sleep is for the Strong,” exploring mental health at MIT and ways to improve it. “It’s like it shows how hardcore and strong someone is.”

And while students come with big ambitions, MIT officials said, they don’t always have the skills to cope with the pressure.

“We recognize that a lot of kids coming in today are not as well-prepared for these challenges,” said Rosalind Picard, a professor of media arts and sciences who leads the school’s campaign to support mental-health projects.

Picard says the new work on campus is a turning point. Beyond treating mental illness, she said, there’s a new focus on preventing problems.

Meanwhile, some of the new student projects have begun drawing interest elsewhere. Six other schools have bought Lloyd’s TMAYD wristbands for their students, and dozens more have said they’re interested.

The team behind Lean On Me has received inquiries about the texting hotline from outside MIT, and they hope to bring it to other schools.

“It’s not a product built only for MIT students,” Buduma said. “Our goal is really just to help people feel like they belong to a community.”

Bush brothers to stump in South Carolina

By BILL BARROW and SERGIO BUSTOS Associated Press

GREENVILLE, S.C. — George W. Bush won a bruising South Carolina presidential primary on his way to the Oval Office, as his father did before him.

Now it’s his brother’s turn, and for Jeb Bush, the most consequential foreign policy decisions of his brother’s time in office are suddenly front-and-center in his bid to keep alive his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination — thanks to Donald Trump.

The former president had already announced plans to campaign for his younger brother today in South Carolina, marking his most direct entry into the 2016 race to date, when the GOP front-runner used the final debate before the state’s primary Saturday as an opportunity to excoriate George W. Bush’s performance as

commander-in-chief.

The former president, Trump said, ignored “the advice of his CIA” and “destabilized the Middle East” by invading Iraq on dubious claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

“I want to tell you: They lied,” Trump said. “They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none.”

Trump didn’t let up as Bush tried to defend his brother, dismissing his suggestion that George W. Bush built a “security apparatus to keep us safe” after the 9/11 attacks.

“The World Trade Center came down during your brother’s reign, remember that,” Trump said, adding: “That’s not keeping us safe.”

The onslaught — which Jeb Bush called Trump enjoying “blood sport” — was the latest example of the billionaire businessman’s pen-

chant for mocking his rival as a weak, privileged tool of the Republican Party establishment, special interests and well-heeled donors.

But the exchange also highlighted the former Florida governor’s embrace of his family name and history as he jockeys with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to emerge from South Carolina as the clear challenger to Trump, who won the New Hampshire primary, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the victor in Iowa’s caucuses.

The approach takes away from Bush’s months-long insistence that he’s running as “my own man,” but could be a perfect fit for South Carolina.

Noted South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who ended his GOP presidential campaign in December and endorsed Jeb Bush in January, said: “The Bush name is golden in my state.”

George W. Bush retains wide appeal among Repub-

licans, from evangelicals to chamber of commerce business leaders and retired members of the military. All are prominent in South Carolina, with Bush campaign aide Brett Foster going so far as to say that George W. Bush is “the most popular Republican alive.”

After the debate, some Republicans again suggested Trump had gone too far.

Bush wasn’t alone on stage leaping to his brother’s defense, with Rubio coming back to the moment to say, “I thank God all the time it was George W. Bush in the White House on 9/11 and not Al Gore.”

The attack on George W. Bush carries risk for Trump, given the Bush family’s long social and political ties in South Carolina and the state’s hawkish national security bent, bolstered by more than a half-dozen military installations and a sizable population of veterans who choose to retire in the state.

DISTRICT COURT DOCKET

By The Indiana Gazette The following defendants have been named in criminal charges filed before Magisterial District Judge Guy Haberl, of Indiana.

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 were: • Ryan S. Betts, 24, Slaughterbeck Road, Armagh, charged Dec. 1 by state police with forgery and theft by unlawful taking at noon Oct. 18 at 91 Indiana St., Armagh.

Police investigated a report that Betts had purchased merchandise worth $178 from Mack’s Mini Mart using three personal checks belonging to another person.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

• Heather L. Shaffer, 32, and Matthew J. Patterson, 35, both of Green Valley Drive, Indiana, charged Dec. 28 by state police with recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of children at 4:21 a.m. Nov. 28 at the intersection of Warren Road and Malia Lane. Shaffer was also charged with DUI. Police observed a vehicle

cross over a double yellow line and initiated a traffic stop. Upon contact, the driver, Shaffer, displayed signs of impairment. Shaffer failed field sobriety tests.

While being placed under arrest, Shaffer and Patterson told police a child was home alone.

Shaffer and Patterson waived their right to hearings and opted to face action in Indiana County Court.

• Frederick J. Moran, 25, Sugar Avenue, Shelocta; Sean M. Painter, 20, Cove Forge Road, Williamsburg; and Ashley N. Simms, 23, Cheese Run Road, Indiana, charged Dec. 28 by state police with theft by deception and receiving stolen property at 2:25 p.m. Nov. 1 at 2334 Oakland Ave. Moran and Painter were also charged with retail theft and conspiracy to retail theft.

Police responded to a report of a retail theft. Employees at JC Penney’s told police that Moran and Painter were seen in the store with a 13-piece cookware set, valued at $300, that they didn’t purchase. Later, Simms came into the store and attempted to return the set. When the item was scanned, it was shown as not purchased.

Preliminary hearings are scheduled for Thursday.

• Barbara A. Dickie, 64, Third Street, Indiana, charged Dec. 28 by state police with DUI and two summary driving infractions at

1:15 a.m. Nov. 24 at the intersection of Third and Water streets.

Police observed a vehicle traveling without headlights illuminated and initiated a traffic stop. Dickie showed signs of impairment and failed field sobriety tests.

Dickie had a blood alcohol content of 0.128 percent, court papers show.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

• Brian J. Barr, 41, Morris Street, Clymer, charged Dec. 29 by state police with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment at 5 p.m.

Dec. 29 at 950 Lilac St. Police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance. Two witnesses told police that Barr struck a woman multiple times. Barr was found to be carrying a marijuana pipe and a clear plastic bag containing 29 white pills marked “WW455.”

Barr waived his right to a hearing and opted to face action in Indiana County Court.

• Rodney J. Wagner, 20, Oakland Avenue, Indiana, and Kristen A. Fletcher, 19, Tearing Run Road, Homer City, charged Dec. 31 by state police with conspiracy — possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a small amount of marijuana

and possession of drug paraphernalia at 12:13 a.m.

Dec. 31 at 860 Route 110, White Township.

Police observed an occupied vehicle after hours in the parking lot of Frye’s Antique Mall and made contact. Due to a strong smell of marijuana, police searched the vehicle. Police found a mason jar containing marijuana, clear Ziploc sandwich baggies and an electric scale.

Wagner and Fletcher pleaded guilty to possession of a small amount of marijuana and were ordered to pay $715.50 each in fines and costs. Their remaining charges were withdrawn.

• Frank D. Romano, 18, Maple Avenue, Blairsville, charged Dec. 30 by Blairsville police with aggravated assault, simple assault, terroristic threats, underage drinking, harassment and public drunkenness at 10:04 p.m. Dec. 30 at 81 Maple Ave., Blairsville.

Police responded to a report of an assault. The victim told police Romano pushed, shoved, punched and held a knife to his throat. Romano later left the victim a voice mail threatening to kill him. Upon arrest, police found a stainless folding knife on Romano’s person.

Romano waived his right to a hearing and opted to face action in Indiana County Court. The aggravated assault charge was withdrawn.

Two arrested in Clarksburg robbery

By The Indiana Gazette CLARKSBURG — Two suspects have been arrested and charged in connection with a robbery one week ago at the Sunoco station along Route 286 in Clarksburg.

State police at Indiana said the arrested suspects are Richard Malarkey Jr., 39, of Blairsville, and Christopher Kaufman, 30, of Saltsburg.

Malarkey was charged with aggravated assault, two counts of robbery, theft and receiving stolen property.

Kaufman was charged with robbery, theft and receiving

stolen property.

Police last week said a masked man wielding a knife robbed the Sunoco station about 6 :07 p.m. Feb. 8.

Troopers said the robber, wearing a bright blue ski mask and a dark green Nike hooded sweatshirt that was turned inside out, entered the store, threatened an 18-year-old clerk with the knife and kicked him in the head.

The robber fled toward Clarksburg Road with various denominations of U.S. currency, according to police.

OBITUARIES Orrin ‘Andy’ Anderson Orrin Leonard “Andy” Anderson, 103, of Blairsville, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at Ligonier Gardens, Ligonier.

He was born March 1, 1912, in Mount Pleasant, to the late Leonard and Esther (Nelson) Anderson.

Andy was a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Blairsville. He was a tax consultant in Blairsville since 1956. He was a member of the Acacia Lodge #355 since 1954 and was a member of the Ligonier Country Club since 1954; he was the oldest member of the club.

He is survived by brothers Edwin Anderson and wife Jane, of Glen Allen, Va., and Carl Anderson, of Scottdale; stepdaughter, Peggy Sullinger and husband Glenn, of New Castle; grandchildren Janice Welson and Jill Brihardt; and his best friends, Joe Rellick, Ernie and Carol Howard, and Paul Fish.

In addition to his parents, Andy was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret “Peg” Anderson; brothers Vernon and Frank Anderson; and sisters Agnes Hamilton, Eleanor Anderson and Geraldine Driscoll.

In keeping with Andy’s wishes, there will be no visitation. A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 38 W. Campbell St., Blairsville, with the Rev. Arthur C. Dilg officiating.

Interment will be in Blairsville Cemetery, Blairsville.

If so desired, memorial donations may be made to the St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 38 W. Campbell St., Blairsville, PA 15717.

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Jack Taylor Jack Lloyd Taylor, 62, of Homer City, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, at UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh.

The son of the late Alfred “Jack” and Dolores M. (Warren) Taylor, he was born Nov. 7, 1953, in Indiana.

Jack worked as a self-employed carpenter and enjoyed his Harley.

He is survived by his brothers and sisters Bonnie Hanna, of Indiana; Janice (Scott) Taylor, of Lucernemines; David W. (Danna) Taylor, of Homer City; Terry P. (Sheri) Taylor, of Stephens City, Va.; and Jeffrey G. Taylor, of Black Lick. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews and great-nieces and -nephews.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother Douglas W. Taylor

and his sister Carol Morini Spicher.

Memorial services will be held at a later date at the convenience of the family.

The C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

TOMORROW’S FUNERAL STORMER, Edward C., 8 p.m., C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City

Airplane impounded in Zimbabwe after body found HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean aviation authorities impounded a U.S.registered cargo jet, a senior official said today, after a dead body later believed to be a stowaway and millions of South African rand were found on board.

The Herald, a state-run newspaper, reported that the MD-11 trijet was traveling from Germany to South Africa “with millions of rands.” At today’s exchange rate, 1 million rand is worth $62,500.

Authorities here learned the money belonged to the South Africa Reserve Bank.

Police planned to issue a statement later today.

Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe general manager David Chawota said the

plane had landed in Harare for refueling. He said the jet, registered with Western Global Airlines, was impounded at Harare International Airport on Sunday. A website says Western Global Airlines is based in Estero, Fla. The crew did not know there was someone else on the plane, according to a police officer, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press. It appears from photos on social media that the dead person had sneaked into the plane’s landing gear, which severed his arm when it contracted, causing blood to splatter onto the fuselage and arousing suspicion of the ground crew when the flight landed here.

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Feds seek borehole test for potential hot nuke waste burial

By BETSY BLANEY Associated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas — The federal government plans to spend $80 million assessing whether its hottest nuclear waste can be stored in 3mile-deep holes, a project that could provide an alternative strategy to a Nevada repository plan that was halted in 2010.

The five-year borehole project was tentatively slated to start later this year on state-owned land in rural North Dakota, but it has already been met with opposition from state and local leaders who want more time to review whether the plan poses any public danger.

“It should be a statewide decision,” said Jeff Zent, spokesman for North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, adding that a resolution from state legislators is a possibility.

The Department of Energy wants to conduct its work just south of the Canadian border on 20 acres near Rugby, N.D. — in part because it’s in a rural area not prone to earthquakes — but is prepared to look elsewhere if a deal can’t be reached.

Some sites in West Texas and New Mexico have expressed interest in becoming interim sites for above-ground nuclear waste storage, but it’s not clear if they would be considered for borehole technology.

Project leaders say the research will require months of drilling deep into the earth but will not involve any nuclear waste. Instead, dummy canisters without radioactive material would be used in the project’s third and final phase.

“It’s to confirm the viability and concept,” said Robert J. MacKinnon, a technical

manager on the project at DOE’s Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. The research team will look at deep rock to check its water permeability, stability, geothermal characteristics and seismic activity — a central concern with burying the hot radioactive waste deep underground.

If nearby earthquakes occur, the crystalline rock could slip and allow for water and radioactive material to migrate away from the site, said Stephen Hickman, director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center.

Rugby site has very little seismic activity, he said.

If the technology proves successful and the government moves forward with deep borehole disposal, there must be no fracking-related injection wells in

the vicinity.

North Dakota was one of the country’s hot spots for fracking before the price of oil began to drop. Most of the fracking occurred in the state’s western half, and there is no fracking done within about 75 miles of the project site near Rugby, which is in the eastern half of the state.

“That would also create a problem,” Hickman said of the injection wells, which some research has linked to seismic activity.

Currently, high-level radioactive waste — both from government sources and utilities’ nuclear power plants — is without a final burial site. The waste at power plants is stored on site in pools of water or in heavily fortified casks, while the government’s waste remains at its research labs.

The Department of Energy said even if deep borehole

N. Korea remains defiant over threats

By ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press

PYONGYANG, North Korea — The United States and Japan have already announced plans for new sanctions over North Korea’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch, and the U.N. Security Council is likely to deliver more soon. Cross-border tensions with Seoul are escalating quickly and even China is starting to sound more like an angry neighbor than a comrade-in-arms.

But with a storm brewing all around them, North Koreans have their own take on things — and it’s decidedly unapologetic.

Pyongyang started off the new year with what it claims was its first hydrogen bomb test and followed that up with the launch of a satellite on a rocket condemned by much of the world as a test of banned missile technology.

When Seoul responded by closing down an industrial park that is the last symbol of cooperation between the two rivals, Pyongyang lashed back, expelling all South Koreans from the site just north of the Demilitarized Zone and putting it under military control.

Each move brought a new round of international outrage. But while the motives of Kim Jong Un’s regime are — as usual — a matter of speculation, ask a North Korean what’s going on and the reply is swift, indignant and wellpracticed.

It’s America’s fault.

“It’s not right for the U.S. to tell our country not to have nuclear bombs,” Pak Mi Hyang, a 22-year-old children’s camp worker, told The Associated Press as she walked with a friend near Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Sunday. “The U.S. has a lot of them and tells us not to have any. It’s not fair. We’ve been living with sanctions for a long time and we are not afraid.”

Candor in street interviews is rare in North Korea. Pak and others who agreed to be interviewed by the AP were mindful of the fact that speaking out of turn can have severe repercussions, especially when talking to an American journalist with his North Korean escort.

“We have a lot of hatred toward Americans,” Pak said, politely, before walking on.

NORTH KOREAN men put up a propaganda poster on Sunday in Pyongyang.

It’s hard to discern exactly how much of that is political correctness, North Korean style.

But anti-U.S. sentiment in this country does run deep, for good reason.

That is partly because the relentless propaganda that depicts Washington — which has made no secret of its desire for regime change — as its biggest existential threat.

But it also reflects the brutality of the Korean War, which left millions of Koreans dead and most of North Korea’s cities and industrial base in ruins.

Though called the “Forgotten War” in America, it is anything but forgotten in North Korea. It is used by authorities to rally the nation around anti-U.S. feeling and a common outside enemy, and it also resonates with

many North Koreans who remember wartime suffering or have family or friends who died in the fighting, which the North says was started by the United States and South Korea. And since the 1950-53 war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, the U.S. is still technically and literally “the enemy.”

Reflecting that sentiment, Kim Cho Yong, a 49-year-old who works at the ministry of coal mining industry, said he feels “proud of the H-bomb.”

“We made a big step in making bombs so we are not afraid of any attacks from the enemies,” he said. “No enemy can attack us because we have an H-bomb.”

North Korea’s media has also tried mightily to show the public that nuclear tests, rocket launches and other acts condemned by the U.S.

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Duane Johnston is on the Pierce County Commission.

He said he doesn’t entirely trust the government.

“Sure it’s an experimental, we know that,” Johnston said. “But it could be suitable for nuclear waste. That’s what bothers us. You never know about the government.”

Earlier this month, Pierce County officials discussed the issue with the governor and state attorney general, with the county commission ultimately placing a moratorium on the project. The commission says it and the county’s planning board must agree before the freeze is lifted.

The county is holding a public hearing Tuesday in Rugby, a community of about 3,000 people 15 miles north of the site.

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and its close allies are seen by countries outside Washington’s sphere of influence as symbols of national pride, socialist progress and strength. Every day brings new praise from places like Guinea and Bangladesh or political organizations such as the Workers’ Party of Hungary and the Group of Youth for the Study of Kim Jong Il Juche Idea in Vienna.

Even so, Pyongyang’s message has always been twofold: North Korea has every right to defend itself against a U.S. government bent on bringing it down, but if Washington would give up its hostile policies, it would be willing to seek peace, too.

The only realistic way to turn the situation around on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang has long said, is for Washington to remove its troops from the South — or at least stop its huge annual war games there — and start talks toward normalizing relations and negotiating a peace treaty.

“The U.S.’s ceaseless military threat and nuclear blackmail against the DPRK are precisely the reason why the nuclear issue in the Korean Peninsula was spawned and still remains unsettled,” the official Minju Joson newspaper said in an editorial Sunday using the acronym for the country’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “The only solution to it is to put an end to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.”

disposal were to be greenlit and become reality, it would still want to construct a traditional geologic repository that could replace the proposed Yucca Mountain site in Nevada.

But the 16,000-foot-deep boreholes could be used for high-level radioactive waste from the department’s decades of nuclear work originally slated to go to Yucca, including nearly 2,000 canisters of cesium and strontium now being stored in water at the department’s Hanford site in Washington state.

An independent federal oversight agency charged with examining how nuclear waste is handled has concerns the project will distract the department from pursuing another project similar to Yucca. And state and local officials aren’t gung-ho about the $35 million borehole pro-

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Should we register women for draft?

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en. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, and Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, both testified this month that because all combat roles are now open to women, women should register for the selective service as all American men must do when they Ben Boychuk, left, associate editor of turn 18.

Although Republi- the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, is a conservative with a cans have long opcontrarian streak; Joel Mathis, posed women servassociate editor for Philadelphia ing in combat, several GOP candidates Magazine, is a liberal with a libertarian streak. Red-Blue America is for president, indistributed by McClatchy-Tribune cluding former News Service.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, endorsed the idea ahead of the New Hampshire primary.

Is this equality realized? Or equality gone too far? Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis, the Red-Blue America columnists, weigh in.

JOEL MATHIS Women? In the military? Fighting wars? If I had pearls, I’d clutch them.

The debate we’re suddenly having about drafting women is very silly, for two reasons. First, you may have noticed that we don’t actually draft people anymore — modern American conscription ended in January 1973.

America has fought a few wars since then. A couple of them — both in Iraq — were kind of big. In fact, the first Gulf War took place my senior year in high school. I remember old hippies offering lessons in how to avoid the draft, if it were reinstated, but it never was. The war came and went, the troops came home, and the emergency faded away.

The second invasion and occupation of Iraq might have justified a draft. That war stretched our military — along with reserve and National Guard units — to the breaking point, making it increasingly difficult for the all-volunteer military to recruit and retain, ahem, the volunteers. Still, renewal of the draft was never a serious likelihood.

Absent some big change in our political mindset, then, a draft is only likely if civilizational survival is truly at stake — if the barbarians really are at the gates. If that ever becomes the case, it won’t matter much whether the hands holding weapons belong to men or women.

The other reason the argument is silly? Women already fight and die in our wars. Roughly 140 — different sources offer different counts — died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. You really didn’t hear all that much about it. Our hatred of seeing women come home in caskets, it seems, is more theoretical than proven.

Listen: The draft is an awful tool. It rips people away from their families to go kill and risk being killed for causes they may or may not support. It has always fallen most heavily on poor and working class men. If we’re only now disturbed by the prospect of conscription, it doesn’t necessarily mean we hold women in esteem. It probably just means we value the lives of poor men too little.

BEN BOYCHUK What kind of man would think it a good idea to compel a woman to fight and die in a war? What sort of man would put somebody’s daughter or mother harm’s way before himself?

It’s bad enough when the elite consensus no longer objects to women in combat, in practice let alone in theory. Political expediency demands that women have the opportunity to serve on the frontlines. Politics will also require the armed services to change the standards to make sure they do.

Still, it’s one thing to let American women volunteer for an infantry or armored unit, assuming the standards remained untouched. The question is whether they should be compelled to serve and fight.

Of course they shouldn’t.

(To anticipate an objection: Yes, Israel requires men and women of a certain age to serve in the military. Israel is also a country roughly the size and population of New Jersey, surrounded by enemies that would kill every man, woman and child given half a chance. We aren’t Israel.)

Say what you will about Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, but his response to his fellow Republican presidential candidates who lent their support to this Selective Service scheme was precisely right: “Are you guys nuts?”

“I’m the father of two little girls. I love those girls with all my heart. They are capable of doing anything in their hearts’ desire,” Cruz said. “But the idea that their government would forcibly put them in the foxhole with a 220-pound psychopath trying to kill them doesn’t make any sense at all.”

Not only that. We hear so much about the “rape culture” that supposedly permeates America’s college and university campuses — a crisis so great that the Obama administration has made combating campus sexual assault a top priority. Yet this same government would subject women to rape, torture and slaughter at the hands of an enemy because equality somehow demands it. Strange.

Extending the draft to women isn’t about fairness or equality. It’s madness born of forgetfulness. We’re forgetting what it means to be men and women. We’re forgetting why our daughters and sisters should be protected, not made into cannon fodder. We’re forgetting what it means to be a civilization worth defending in the first place.

Reach Ben Boychuk at bboychuk@city-journal.org, Joel Mathis at joelmmathis@gmail.com.

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When Hillary killed feminism

he Clinton campaign is shell- was when he usurped her place. shocked over the wholesale rejecBernie has a clear, concise “we” mestion of Hillary by young women, sage, even if it’s pie-in-the-sky: The younger versions of herself who do not game is rigged and we have to take the relate to her. country back from the privileged few Hillary’s coronation was predicated and make it work for everyone. Hillary on a conviction that has just gone up in has an “I” message: I have been abused smoke. The Clintons felt that Barack and misunderstood and it’s my turn.

Obama had presumptuously snatched It’s a victim mindset that is exhaustwhat was rightfully hers in 2008, glid- ing, especially because the Clintons’ ing past her with his pretty words to messes are of their own making. make history before she could.

On the trail in New Hampshire, So this time, the Clintons asMadeleine Albright made sumed, the women who had the case that it was a bedeserted Hillary for Barack, in trayal of feminist ideals to Congress and in the country, support Bernie against owed her. Democrats would Hillary, noting that “there’s want to knock down that seca special place in hell for ond barrier. women who don’t help Hillary believed that there each other.”

When was an implicit understanding Sanders handily won the with the sisters of the world that women’s vote on Tuesday, now was the time to come back David Axelrod noted dryly home and vote for a woman. that they were going to (The Clintons seem to have need to clear out a lot of conveniently forgotten how space in hell. outraged they were by identity And in a misstep for the politics when black leaders defeminist leader who got faserted them in 2008 to support mous by going undercover Obama.) as a Playboy bunny, Gloria Maureen Dowd This attitude intensified the Steinem told Bill Maher unappetizing solipsistic subtext writes a column that young women were of her campaign, which is for The New York flocking to Bernie to be “What is Hillary owed?” It Times. where the boys are. Blamturned out that female voters ing it on hormones was seem to be looking at Hillary as a can- odd, given the fact that for centuries, it didate rather than as a historical im- was widely believed that women’s biolperative. And she’s coming up drasti- ogy made them emotionally unfit to be cally short on trustworthiness. leaders.

What the three older women seemed AS OLIVIA SAUER, an 18-year-old col- to miss was that the young women lege freshman who caucused for supporting Sanders are living the femiBernie Sanders in Ames, Iowa, told a nist dream, where gender no longer reNew York Times reporter: “It seems like stricts and defines your choices, where he is at the point in his life when he is girls grow up knowing they can be anyreally saying what he is thinking. With thing they want. The aspirations of ’70s Hillary, sometimes you get this feeling feminism are now baked into the culthat all of her sentences are owned by ture. someone.”

The interesting thing about the specHillary started, both last time and tacle of older women trying to shame this, from a place of entitlement, as younger ones on behalf of Hillary is though if she reads her résumé long that Hillary and Bill killed the integrity enough people will surrender. And of institutional feminism back in the now she’s even angrier that she has ’90s — with the help of Albright and been shown up by someone she con- Steinem. siders even less qualified than Obama Instead of just admitting that he had

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had an affair with Monica Lewinsky and taking his lumps, Bill lied and hid behind the skirts of his wife and female Cabinet members, who had to go out before the cameras and vouch for his veracity, even when it was apparent he was lying.

Seeing Albright, the first female secretary of state, give cover to President Clinton was a low point in women’s rights. As was The New York Times oped by Steinem, arguing that Lewinsky’s will was not violated, so no feminist principles were violated. What about Clinton humiliating his wife and daughter and female cabinet members? What about a president taking advantage of a gargantuan power imbalance with a 22-year-old intern?

What about imperiling his party with reckless behavior that put their feminist agenda at risk?

IT RANG HOLLOW after the Anita HillClarence Thomas hearings. When it was politically beneficial, the feminists went after Thomas for bad behavior and painted Hill as a victim. And later, when it was politically beneficial, they defended Bill’s bad behavior and stayed mute as Clinton allies mauled his dalliances as trailer trash and stalkers.

The same feminists who were outraged at the portrayal of Hill by David Brock — then a Clinton foe but now bizarrely head of one of her “super PACs” — as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty,” hypocritically went along when Hillary and other defenders of Bill used that same aspersion against Lewinsky.

Hillary knew that she could count on the complicity of feminist leaders and Democratic women in Congress who liked Bill’s progressive policies on women. And that’s always the ugly Faustian bargain with the Clintons, not only on the sex cover-ups but the money grabs: You can have our bright public service side as long as you accept our dark sketchy side.

Young women today, though, are playing by a different set of rules. And they don’t like the Clintons setting themselves above the rules.

Let’s hear it for DDT

arrior greenies, get out of the matic happened, giving them an enorway. You’ve done enormous mous break. hurt in this world, you appear Rachel Carson happened. Her factuprepared to keep it up and it’s time to ally challenged book, “Silent Spring,” allow people their health, their lives happened. The book said DDT, then and a chance to fight back more effec- being widely sprayed to protect crops, tively against mosquitoes that have would kill off birds, fish and other been having at us from ancient times wildlife and that some spring morning to right this minute. you’d wake up without hearing a single Those insects are doing tweet but maybe having their egregious harm in a been cursed with cancer. new, emphatic way in Brazil That was in 1962. By 1971, and more than 20 other Latin Zubrin observes in a NationAmerican countries and teral Review article, we had the ritories. They are biting peoEnvironmental Protection ple and infecting them with a Agency, a seven-month inpathogen called Zika. The vestigation and a judge rulvirus has been around for ing that DDT would not decades but for the first time commit the alleged harms. It is believed to be causing a didn’t matter. The EPA birth defect shrinking the banned its use anyway, and skulls and damaging the another agency said we brains of babies. It may also wouldn’t fund foreign projcause a syndrome that paraects that used DDT. Other lyzes people and it has even Western countries jumped in sneaked into the United with one kind of ban or the States. The reported estimate other and it became harder is that 4 million people could Jay Ambrose, a and harder for malariabe hit with Zika by the time columnist living plagued African countries to in Colorado, is we get to 2017. get the pesticide as some Time to use DDT maybe? syndicated by the African scientists signed on Absolutely. As the scientist McClatchyin thinking its threats outRobert Zubrin has noted, Tribune News weighed its benefits. here is a pesticide that was Service.

The cost, some contend, used during World War II and has not been just a few lives, later to kill mosquitoes and wipe out but millions upon millions of lives, malaria and other diseases in the Unit- mostly African children, even though ed States, Europe, Latin America and the spraying would be slight and inside Asia, saving hundreds of millions of homes and present no wildlife danlives. Mosquitoes, fighting back, man- gers. For empirical evidence, consider aged to develop resistance to it in some South Africa. It banned DDT in 1996 areas, but then something more dra- and within a matter of years malarial

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cases had increased by thousands, causing 460 deaths in the year 2000. It reintroduced DDT and had brought malarial deaths down to 94 by 2014.

It’s true that some other heedful countries have had less success with DDT, sometimes because of inadequate funding, and have had good success with other techniques. It’s true, too, that more potential ill effects of DDT have been noted, although there is still not the slightest hint of anything anywhere comparable to what malaria does. What’s clear is that DDT is now needed in South America. As noted in The New York Times, one person who favors such weaponry against Zika is Dr. Lyle Petersen, not exactly someone in the uninformed sector of the population. He is the director of vectorborne diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The people who have so fiercely objected to DDT are radical environmentalists who too often push the movement in awry directions and are now doing that on another issue. Some activists are reported by Reason Magazine to be protesting a Key West, Fla., experiment in which the offspring of genetically modified male mosquitoes are born dead. Brazil is pushing ahead with a program that’s succeeding, and meanwhile there’s another GMO program that might produce mosquitoes that no longer transport diseases in the first place.

Thank heavens for environmentalism — it has done enormous good — but also for the people who fight back against its extremists. speaktojay@aol.com

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U.N.: Afghan casualty rate rises KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Civilian injuries in Afghanistan’s long war with the Taliban rose last year, with women and children again bearing the brunt of the violence, the United Nations said in a report on Sunday.

A total of 3,545 civilians were killed in 2015 as a result of the war, the U.N. report said, with another 7,457 wounded.

The figures mark a 4 percent drop in civilian deaths, but a 9 percent rise in civilian injuries, compared to 2014.

The U.N.’s Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said 2015 had the “highest number of total civilian casualties recorded by UNAMA since 2009.”

It also said that 10 percent of civilian casualties were women, up 37 percent from the year before. It says 25 percent were children, up 14 percent.

“The most important finding in the report is that 11,002 Afghans — civilians, noncombatants — have died or been injured in 2015; this figure surpasses by 4 percent the same figure for 2014,” said UNAMA head Nicholas Haysom.

Strike destroys Syria hospital Reports: Several killed in attack on MSF-supported facility

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press

BEIRUT — An airstrike in the northern Syrian province of Idlib destroyed a makeshift clinic supported by an international aid group today, killing and wounding several people, activists and the group said.

In the neighboring Aleppo province, a missile struck a children’s hospital in the town of Azaz, killing at least five people and wounding dozens today. And in a nearby village, an air raid hit a school, killing seven and wounding others.

Doctors Without Borders — also known by its French acronym, MSF — said in a statement that the hospital in the town of Maaret alNuman in Idlib province was hit four times in at least two attacks. It said the attacks

were minutes apart, adding that at least eight members of staff are currently missing.

“This appears to be a deliberate attack on a health structure, and we condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms,” said Massimiliano Rebaudengo, MSF’s mission chief.

“The destruction of the hospital leaves the local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict.”

The aid group said the hospital had 30 beds, 54 staff members, two operating theaters, an outpatients department and an emergency room. The statement added that MSF has been supporting the hospital since September and covered all its needs, including providing medical supplies and running costs.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian warplanes targeted the makeshift hospital, destroying it and killing nine people.

The Observatory, which tracks the casualties in Syria’s five-year civil war, said dozens were also wounded in the attack.

Over the past week, Syrian troops have been on the offensive in the country’s north under the cover of Russian airstrikes.

The ground offensive has been focused on the northern province of Aleppo while today’s airstrike struck the clinic in the nearby Idlib province.

“The entire building has collapsed on the ground,” said opposition activist Yahya al-Sobeih, speaking by telephone from Maaret alNuman. He added that five people were killed near the clinic and “all members of the medical team inside are believed to be dead.”

Paramedics and volunteers

were now working on removing the rubble, he added. The four-story building once was a cement company but had served as a makeshift clinic during the war, said alSobeih.

In the missile attack in Azaz near the Turkish border, five were killed at the hospital and more than 30 were wounded, the Observatory said. Activist Bahaa al-Halaby, who is based in the northern city of Aleppo, says it was a ballistic missile, adding that it killed 10. The Observatory said the dead include three children and a pregnant woman.

In Turkey, the private Dogan news agency reported that more than 30 of those wounded in Russian airstrikes in Azaz, primarily children, were transferred to a hospital in southern Turkey. It showed footage of ambulances arriving at the Kilis State hospital and medical personnel unloading children on stretchers and a girl wrapped in a blanket as

well as a handful of adults “They hit the school, they hit the school,” wailed a Syrian woman who was unloaded from an ambulance onto a wheelchair.

The Observatory and alHalaby also reported an air raid on the village of Kaljibrin near Azaz. Al-Halaby said the air raid hit a school, killing seven and wounding others while the Observatory said five were killed.

Meanwhile, in Brussels, European Union officials today called on Turkey to halt its military action in Syria after Turkish forces shelled positions held by a U.S.backed Kurdish militia over the weekend.

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said that “only a few days ago, all of us including Turkey, sitting around the table, decided steps to de-escalate and have a cessation of hostilities.”

She said more fighting “is obviously not what we expect.”

Australia seizes $900M in drugs SYDNEY (AP) — Australian law enforcement agencies discovered $900 million worth of methylamphetamine hidden in imported boxes of silicon bra inserts and art supplies in the country’s largest haul of the illicit drug in its liquid form, officials said today.

Four Hong Kong passport holders were arrested in Sydney last month over the import from China of 190 gallons of the drug, commonly known in Australia as ice, police said in a statement.

The liquid could have made about 1,100 pounds of high-grade crystal meth, Australian Federal Police Commander Chris Sheehan said. Officials also seized 4.4 pounds of the crystalized form of the drug.

Man fined after skipping work MADRID (AP) — The case started with confusion over where a civil servant in southern Spain worked.

Now a court has ruled he must pay back nearly $30,500 in wages because for years he actually didn’t work at all.

The employee of a water utility owned by the Spanish city of Cadiz didn’t appear at its office for up to six years and “did absolutely no work” for three years prior to his retirement in 2011, said the ruling issued last month and provided to The Associated Press on Friday.

It didn’t explain why the worker, who cannot be named under Spanish law, went undetected until his case was discovered in 2010, shortly before he was due to receive a plaque recognizing him for 20 years of service.

Teen buys flowers for girls at school SMITHFIELD, Utah (AP) — Every girl at a Utah high school got flowers for Valentine’s Day thanks to the generosity of a male classmate.

Hayden Godfrey, 17, spent $450 on 900 carnations, ensuring that all 834 females at Sky View High School in Smithfield would get one.

He handed the flowers out Thursday to 50 classrooms.

Godfrey has randomly passed out flowers for Valentine’s Day since he was a freshman but never to this scale.

The senior told The Herald Journal of Logan that many girls feel depressed if they don’t get anything on Feb. 14.

He told school administrators about the plan a year and a half ago.

The teen worked as a cook and dishwasher at various fast food restaurants to save up enough money.

MACEDONIAN ARMY vehicles moved Sunday along a path between two lines of fence reinforced with razor wire on the border with Greece near the southern town of Gevgelija.

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Anti-migrant force builds in Europe

By VANESSA GER Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland — So where should the next impenetrable razorwire border fence in Europe be built?

Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban thinks he knows the best place — on Macedonia’s and Bulgaria’s borders with Greece — smack along the main immigration route from the Middle East to Western Europe.

He says it’s necessary because “Greece can’t defend Europe from the south” against the large numbers of

refugees pouring in, mainly from Syria and Iraq.

The plan is especially controversial because it effectively means eliminating Greece from the Schengen zone, Europe’s 26-nation passportfree travel region that is considered one of the European Union’s most cherished achievements.

Orban’s plan will feature prominently today at a meeting in Prague of leaders from four nations in an informal gathering known as the Visegrad group: Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Visegrad group, formed 25 years ago

to further the nations’ European integration, is marking that anniversary today. Still, it has only recently found a common purpose in its unified opposition to accepting any significant number of migrants.

This determination has emboldened the group, one of the new miniblocs emerging lately in Europe due to the continent’s chaotic, inadequate response to its largest migration crisis since World War II. The Visegrad group is also becoming a force that threatens the plans of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who wants to resettle newcomers

across the continent while also slowing down the influx.

At today’s meeting, leaders from the four nations were to be joined by Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov so they can push for the reinforcements along Greece’s northern border. Macedonia began putting up a first fence in November, and is now constructing a second, parallel, fence.

Poland has indicated a willingness to send dozens of police to Macedonia to secure the border, something to be decided at today’s meeting.

Into the mosh pit: GOP campaign talk gets nastier

By NANCY BENAC Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In 2011, eyebrows shot up when former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used a salty acronym — WTF — to mock the policies of President Barack Obama.

How quaint.

Five years later, Donald Trump has blown right past acronyms in a profanitylaced campaign for the Republican nomination that has seen multiple candidates hurl insults and disparaging remarks at one another and their critics.

In recent days, Trump has publicly lip-synced the Fbomb, blurted out the Sword more than once, hurled an offensive term for coward at rival Ted Cruz and fired a steady string of put-downs at other candidates whom he labels pathetic, liars, losers, nasty, evil and more.

While Trump started it, other GOP candidates have jumped right into the rhetorical mosh pit, readily trading versions of “liar, liar” in Saturday night’s venomous debate.

Cruz has said Trump is “losing it,” called out his “Trumpertantrums” and dismissed the billionaire’s insults as “hysterical.”

Before exiting the race, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie predicted that he could beat Hillary Clinton in a debate, promising, “I’ll beat her rear end on that stage,” and tormented fellow Republican Marco Rubio as a fragile “boy in the bubble.”

Even Jeb Bush, whose 90year-old mother recently complained that he was too polite, belatedly joined in.

Bush, a favorite target of Trump’s taunts, tweeted back: “You aren’t just a loser, you are a liar and a whiner.”

This, after weeks of calling him a “jerk.”

It’s not that politicians are typically paragons of proper speech and etiquette.

They’ve just tended to keep their name-calling and coarseness off-mic.

Now, it’s on the podium — and by design.

“There’s a general taboobreaking that allows more and more of it to happen faster and faster,” says Robert Lane Greene, author of “You

Are What You Speak,” a book about the politics of language. “The first time somebody does it, eyebrows go up and people get concerned, but then the next person doing it is less eye-opening.”

The Democratic nomination contest has been tame in comparison with the Republicans’: Hillary Clinton complained of a “low blow” when Bernie Sanders said she was a progressive only on “some days.”

Sanders, in turn, rejected Clinton’s accusation that his campaign had engaged in an “artful smear” by insinuating that she was beholden to Wall Street.

As for the GOP campaign, Trump is playing to voters who have a disdain for anything associated with the establishment, including the whole idea of appearing “presidential,” says Norman Ornstein, an American Enterprise Institute scholar who’s been watching presidential politics for decades.

That makes it hard for Trump’s rivals to fight back using traditional tactics.

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DONALD TRUMP

TED CRUZ

... amping up GOP campaign rhetoric Queensberry rules and you’re coming up against a mixed martial arts guy who doesn’t even abide by the rules of mixed martial arts, do you sink to that level?”

Ornstein asks. “There’s no easy way to respond, because if you’re trying to show you’re different from this vulgar guy, then he’s going to beat you up.”

Greene sees the coarseness of the GOP campaign as evidence that “the contest to become the alpha male in the room has become more obvious this time than in previous elections.”

That seems to be just fine with the voters who have put Trump at the top of the polls and handed him a victory in New Hampshire’s first-inthe-nation primary.

About a quarter of Republican voters in New Hampshire said “telling it like it is” was the most important quality to them in selecting a candidate, and two-thirds of

those voters went for the potty-mouth guy who tells it like no one else.

“He’s real, right?” said Joanne Galvin, an independent voter from Pelham, N.H., explaining her vote for Trump.

She dismissed his use of a vulgarity about Cruz at a big rally by saying Trump was simply repeating what someone in the audience had shouted out.

Trump has offered a similar defense and promised he’ll tone things down if he gets closer to the presidency, saying, “when you’re president, or if you’re about to be president, you would act differently.”

Asked during Saturday’s debate about his penchant for profanity, Trump pledged to knock it off, saying, “I will not do it again. ... Not using profanity is very easy.”

But also made clear he has no intention to rein in his personal attacks and insults.

Family

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EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE DEAR MARY: I’m writing in response to a recent column in which you gave a tip on washing dirty potatoes in the dishwasher.

At first thought this sounds like a good idea.

But I see two reasons why it’s a bad idea.

Firstly, there is still a chemical clearing agent released during the rinse cycle.

Also, there is Email often questions or food tips to trapped mary@every in the daycheap food filskate.com or ter. DishEveryday washers Cheapskate, were 12340 Seal never deBeach Blvd., signed to Suite B-416, wash Seal Beach, CA food for 90740. human consumption. There are always residual chemicals left behind. Terrible idea. Check with the manufacturer.

I’m sure they never intended for their dishwasher to be used as a food prep device. — Robert DEAR ROBERT: Points well-taken. However, isn’t the purpose of a dishwasher to sanitize dishes, glasses and utensils to handle food for human consumption? If dishes are treated with the same rinse agent and come out perfectly sanitized and ready for human use, then wouldn’t the potatoes be sanitized for human consumption? If a product like Jet-Dry were toxic, would any of us be comfortable using it to clean the utensils and glasses we use to eat and drink?

As for the food filter, I believe that should be cleaned daily. But if not, wouldn’t any residual food or bacteria be sanitized by the heat of 150F (recommended final rinse temperature for residential dishwashers, per dishwasher and detergent manufacturers) each time we run a cycle? For the record, Finish, which manufactures Jet-Dry, recommends washing potatoes or even steaming salmon (wrapped in foil) in the dishwasher. That being said, (can you tell I love a good debate?) I trust that my readers will take my words as advice and taking all points into consideration before dishwashing a load of spuds.

Thank you for forcing all of us to exercise our critical thinking.

DEAR MARY: I am an avid walker and cyclist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. A beautiful province famous for its rain. I need advice on how to best waterproof a jacket and my expensive nylon and suede hiking boots. Thank you. — Meg DEAR MEG: There are many waterproofing products out there. However, my own experience and research shows that the best products (meaning, don’t even consider others because they do not work well) are in the Kiwi line. The Kiwi Boot Protector works for any leather or fabric including boots, tents, tarps, sleeping bags, backpacks and any other rugged outdoor camping gear.

To waterproof suede, however, you must use Kiwi Suede Protector.

Both protectors have a very strong odor when applied, but they dry clear and odorless. You will be amazed and thrilled with the outcomes provided you follow the instructions carefully.

DEAR MARY: I recall reading about your favorite kitchen trash can in a past column, but now I can’t find that information. Can you please provide it again? — Theresa DEAR THERESA: Sure thing! My favorite kitchen trash can is the simplehuman 30-liter, 8-gallon, round step can. The column is “My Perfect Kitchen Trash Can and Perfectly Cheap Bags, Too!”

VALENTINE ROYALTY

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85TH BIRTHDAY Helen Yeager, of Indiana, formerly of Glen Campbell, will celebrate her 85th birthday on Tuesday, Feb. 16.

She enjoys cooking and baking, shopping, watching TV, growing flowers, visits from family and friends, and attending family events.

Helen has five children: Walter Jr., Sheryl (Beers), Karen (Bilbo), Elmer and Sharon (Freno). She has 14 grandchildren and six

MARY HUNT

MOOREHEAD PLACE held its Valentine’s Day party on Saturday. George “Bill” Jones and Vivian Pagano were crowned as the king and queen of the event. Entertainment was provided by Ebony and Ivory.

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WWII vet reunites with wartime girlfriend after 70 years apart SYDNEY (AP) — A 93-yearold World War II veteran from the United States embraced his wartime girlfriend in Australia in their recent reunion after more than 70 years apart.

Norwood Thomas and 88year-old Joyce Morris laughed as they wrapped their arms around each other after Thomas flew from Virginia to the southern Australian city of Adelaide to reconnect with his long-lost love.

“This is about the most wonderful thing that could have happened to me,” Thomas said, in a reunion

broadcast on Channel 10’s “The Project.”

“Good,” Morris replied with a laugh. “We’re going to have a wonderful fortnight.”

Morris was a 17-year-old British girl and Thomas was a 21-year-old paratrooper when they first met in London shortly before D-Day. After the war, he returned to the U.S. The pair wrote letters to each other, and Thomas asked Morris to come to the U.S. to marry him. But somehow Morris misunderstood and thought he’d found someone else, so she stopped writing.

The two eventually mar-

ried other people. Thomas’ wife died in 2001; Morris divorced her husband after 30 years.

Last year, Morris asked one of her sons to look for Thomas online, and they found his name featured in an article about D-Day that ran in The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot newspaper.

Thomas and Morris reconnected via Skype. After their story went public, hundreds of people made donations to help fund Thomas’ trip to Australia from his hometown in Virginia Beach.

The two spent Valentine’s Day together.

HUMAN SERVICES CALENDAR FAMILY SUPPORT • Advisory Board on Autism and Related Disorders Family Support Group, through Family Behavioral Resources, meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. the first Monday of the month at the Airport Professional Center, Suite 524, 1380 Route 286, White Township. A social skills group meets in conjunction with the support group. Children of all ages and developmental skills are welcome. For more information or to register, call (724) 465-0369.

• Arthritis Aquatics Program is held at the YMCA of Indiana County, White Township and at Laurel Highlands Health Center. For dates, times, cost or other information, call the Arthritis Foundation at (800) 522-9900.

• Myasthenia Gravis Association offers monthly face-to-face support group meetings. For dates and times, call (412) 566-1545 or visit www.mgawpa.org. A virtual support group is available at www.facebook.com/ mgawpa.

• National Alzheimer’s Association Greater PA Chapter provides referrals to meetings, services and agencies. For more information, call (800) 272-3900.

• Parkinson’s Disease Support Group meets from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Greensburg. For more information, call Excela Health at (877) 771-1234.

• The Alice Paul House offers a safe place and support for victims of sexual abuse, domestic violence and other violent crimes. For support or more information, call (724) 3494444.

• Spinal Cord Injury Support Group meets at 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month at the HealthSouth Harmarville Rehabilitation Hospital. For more information, call (412) 828-1300.

COMING EVENTS • Update or create a résumé that employers will notice at a PA CareerLink résumé workshop from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Tuesday. For more information, call (724) 471-7220.

• Get support for a healthier and happier you at Empower3 Yourself and Your Heatlh, a free monthly wellness workshop from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in IRMC’s private dining room.

For more information and to register, call (724) 427-2763. The workshop is for those ages 18 to 64 who do not have health insurance.

GRIEF SUPPORT • Adult Grief Support is offered in six-week sessions. Dates and locations vary. For more information, call Excela Health Call Center at (877) 771-1234.

• Bowser-Minich Bereavement Support Services offers lectures and grief seminars to public groups upon request.

Call (724) 349-3100 or (888) 923-5550.

• C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City, offers support services through an interactive website for bereavement and

grief support literature at www.bowser fh.com.

• Curran Funeral Home Grief Support Group, 701 Salt St., Saltsburg. Call (724) 6393911 for dates, times and location.

• Graystone Church GriefShare is a 13week seminar and support group for people who are grieving the death of someone close to them. Sessions are offered in the spring and the fall. Registration is not necessary and participants may join at any time in the series. Call (724) 349-5556 for the next session.

• GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing) helps families and individuals who are grieving due to a substance misuse death and provides support via phone and private meeting.

For more information, call (724) 762-3344, email atskelly17839@gmail.com or visit www. grasphelp.org.

• John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home, White Township, offers a bereavement support group open to the public. For more information, call (724) 463-4499.

• Hopeful Hearts, a service of the VNA of Indiana County, is a child-focused family bereavement support center that provides peer support at no cost for all family members when someone close to the family has died.

Families meet biweekly in a safe, caring and confidential environment.

For more information about this program or volunteer opportunities, call (724) 3493888 or (877) 349-3888.

• Pregnancy Loss Support Group provides support for families who are grieving the loss of their baby through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or newborn death. Call (877) 771-1234.

• Rairigh-Bence Caring and Sharing Grief Support Group offers a support group, in addition to a bereavement lending library with booklets, videos, etc. For time and date, call (724) 349-2000.

• Richard Shoemaker Funeral Home Support Group, Blairsville, offers information and support by phone. Call (724) 459-9115.

• Resolve Through Sharing Bereavement Services are offered at Indiana Regional Medical Center, Obstetric Unit, for those suffering a neo-natal loss, miscarriage or tubal pregnancy. Trained counselors provide counseling and support and are available for private consultations by appointment. For more information, call (724) 357-7060.

• SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Support meets from 7 to 9 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at Riverfront Place, 810 River Ave., Suite 160, Pittsburgh. Private meetings are also available by calling (412) 322-5680, ext. 4 or at skelly17839@gmail.com.

For more information, visit www.grasp help.org.

• VNA Grief Support is open to all of those coping with grief and loss. The group meets at 2:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at VNA, 850 Hospital Road, White Township. For more information, contact the Rev. Spiker at (724) 463-6340.

HELEN YEAGER great-grandchildren, with two more due before summer to round out her family circle.

Lenten luncheons, fish fries to be held Soup luncheons open to the entire community will be held from noon to 1:15 p.m., beginning Tuesday, and for the ensuing four Tuesdays during Lent at Zion Lutheran Church, Sixth and Church streets, Indiana. Three different soups, including a vegetarian selection, will be offered, along with Carol Guba’s artisan bread and dessert.

Takeouts will be available.

Diners will be asked to make free-will offerings to benefit the church’s Community Food Pantry.

Tuesday’s soup menu features asparagus leek chowder (vegetarian), zesty turkey soup and cabbage roll soup. ❏❏❏ DERRY — The Derry Area Ministerial will hold Lenten

luncheons from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays, starting next week. Each luncheon will be followed by a short worship service. The schedule follows: • Wednesday — St. Martin Catholic Church • Feb. 24 — Alpha Lion’s Den • March 2 — Derry First United Methodist Church • March 9 — St. Joseph Catholic Church • March 16 — Derry Presbyterian ❏❏❏ St. Bernard Regional Catholic School will hold its annual Lenten fish fries from 4 to 7 p.m. Fridays, through March 18, in the social hall at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church, 200 Clairvaux Drive, White Township.

COMING EVENTS MEETING: The Herb Study Group of Indiana County will hold its first meeting of the season at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Indiana Red Cross Building, 610 Kolter Drive, White Township. Cindy Rodgers will speak on different kinds of peppers. Refreshments will be served and door prizes awarded.

AUCTION: Miller Mart auctions will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Seward Area Community Center, 1218 Seventh St., Seward. The kitchen will be open. For more information, call (814) 446-4146.

ROLL SALE: A nut, poppy seed and apricot roll sale will be held March 14 and 15 at St. Mary’s Holy Protection Byzantine Catholic Church, 279 Yellow Creek St., Homer City. No pickups before 3 p.m.

The cost is $10 each. To order, call (724) 840-7673, email judyholliday@gmail. com or contact Judy on Facebook on or before March 9. Please leave a phone number.

CANDY EGG SALE: The Hopewell Methodist Ladies are making their annual candy Easter eggs, available in the following varieties: peanut butter, maple nut, coconut and all-nut.

They are available in either milk chocolate or white chocolate. The cost is $9.50 for one pound and $5 for a half pound. To order, call Jodi Cunkelman at (724) 459-0127 or Elaine Harris at (724) 459-6803.

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Alexander Barkey, Dixonville • Greg Coulter, Blairsville • Eve Fiala, Indiana • Donna Fry, Creekside • Jessie Gess, Marion Center • Katy Houser, Creekside • Stephanie LaMantia, Indiana • Jessica Lashinsky, Heilwood • Jon Mabon, Home • Nick Mimis, Homer City • Rusty Muir, Commodore • Lucas Murray, Robinson • Gladys Neal, Indiana • Heather Camp Reed, White Township • Dan Ryen, Penn Run • Gerri Sansonetti-Fossetta, Blairsville • Mary Sibley, Clymer • Julia Snickles, Marion Center 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.

Et Cetera

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TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press

Today is Monday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2016. There are 320 days left in the year.

This is Presidents Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.

On this date: In 1764, the site of presentday St. Louis was established

by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.

In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.

In 1944, Allied bombers destroyed the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy.

In 1952, a funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain’s King George VI, who had died nine days earlier.

In 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.

In 1971, Britain and Ireland “decimalised” their currencies, making one pound equal to 100 new pence instead of 240 pence.

In 1982, 84 men were killed when a huge oil-drilling rig, the Ocean Ranger, sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a fierce storm.

In 1986, the Philippines National Assembly pro-

claimed Ferdinand E. Marcos president for another six years, following an election marked by allegations of fraud. (Marcos ended up being ousted from power.)

In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention.

In 1995, the FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick, its “most wanted hacker,” and charged him with cracking security for some of the nation’s most protected computers. (Mitnick ended up serving five years behind bars.)

In 2002, a private funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain’s Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier at age 71.

Ten years ago: Vice President Dick Cheney accepted blame for accidentally shooting a hunting companion, calling it “one of the worst days of my life,” but was defiantly unapologetic in a Fox News Channel interview about not publicly disclosing the incident until the next day. Testifying before the Senate, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff acknowledged delayed aid and fumbled coordination in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Five years ago: Protesters swarmed Wisconsin’s Capitol after Gov. Scott Walker proposed cutbacks in benefits and abolishing bargaining rights for most public employees. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial on charges he’d paid a 17-yearold Moroccan girl for sex and then used his influence to cover it up. (Berlusconi was found guilty, but had his conviction overturned.)

One year ago: A video purporting to show the mass be-

heading of Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages was released by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group. Russell Westbrook scored 41 points to lead the Western Conference to a 163-158 win over the East in the NBA All-Star Game. Foreign correspondent and news executive Arnaud de Borchgrave, 88, died in Washington.

Today’s Birthdays: Former Illinois Congressman John Anderson is 94. Actress Claire Bloom is 85. Author Susan Brownmiller is 81. Songwriter Brian Holland is 75.

Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 72. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 72.

Actress-model Marisa Berenson is 69. Actress Jane Seymour is 65. Singer Melissa Manchester is 65. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 63. “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening is 62. Model Janice Dickinson is 61. Actor Christopher McDonald is 61. Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 57. Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 57.

Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 56. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Darrell Green is 56. Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 52. Actor Michael Easton is 49. Rock musician Stevie Benton (Drowning Pool) is 45. Actress Renee O’Connor is 45.

Actress Sarah Wynter is 43.

Olympic gold medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is 43. Actress-director Miranda July is 42. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 40. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 40.

Singer-songwriter-musician Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) is 36. Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 33. Blues-rock musician Gary Clark Jr. is 32.

Actress Natalie Morales is 31.

Actress Amber Riley is 30.

Working mom feels tug of guilt for leaving her son at home DEAR ABBY: I have been working for four years. I need to work to help my husband financially. However, over the last few months, I’ve felt torn about not being a stay-athome mom.

My grandmother, who is in her 70s, has been taking care of my son full time while I work, but her health isn’t the greatest now. I don’t trust any of the day care in my area Dear Abby is and can’t written by afford one Abigail Van anyway.

Buren, also I really known as want to be a Jeanne stay-atPhillips, and home was founded by her mother, mom, but still feel obPauline ligated to Phillips. help bring in money. How do I get over my guilt for not wanting to work outside the home full time? — STUCK IN DELAWARE DEAR STUCK: You are not the only mother who feels this kind of ambivalence.

Many others are as torn as you are.

Perhaps it would help if you focus harder on thinking about this rationally rather than emotionally. When your grandmother’s health no longer allows her to care for your son, you may have to cut back on your schedule to be with him — or your husband may need to take a second job. Also, some people manage to work from home, and you may want to explore those opportunities.

DEAR ABBY: My son is more than likely going to win a trip to the Dominican Republic through his employer.

He’s planning to take his wife with him. Their two children will stay with me or their other grandma.

With the way the world is now, I wouldn’t go on a vacation with my husband, fly to another country and leave my children behind. I would let him go alone so that in case something happens, my kids would have at least one parent left.

I understand that we should not give in to fear and give up what we like to do,

DEAR ABBY

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DEAR ABBY: I love attending religious services on Sundays and the Communion during them. I quit drinking

alcohol almost 18 months ago. Our church serves wine (not grape juice) during Communion, and I have been told not to drink anything alcoholic. How do I cope with this situation? — SOBER AND PROUD OF IT DEAR SOBER: Congratulations on your sobriety. This is something to discuss with your clergyperson.

If you have been warned that tasting the Communion wine could sabotage your sobriety, perhaps you should consider partaking only of the bread.

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DiCaprio, ‘The Revenant’ take top BAFTA honors

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press

LONDON — The U.K. film industry showered Valentine’s Day love on “The Revenant” Sunday, awarding the endurance epic five prizes, including best picture and best actor, at the British Academy Film Awards.

Leonardo DiCaprio cemented his Oscar-favorite status by taking the bestactor trophy for playing a bear-battling fur trapper in a brutally wild American West. Alejandro G. Iñárritu was named best director for what he called a “human and tender story,” and “The Revenant” also won prizes for cinematography and sound.

DiCaprio, who has been nominated three times before at the British awards without winning, said in his acceptance speech that he was “absolutely humbled” to beat “The Martian” star Matt Damon, “Trumbo”’s Bryan Cranston, Michael Fassbender for “Steve Jobs,” and Eddie Redmayne for “The Danish Girl.”

He cited the influence on his work of British actors including Tom Courtney, Peter O’Toole, Daniel Day Lewis and his “Revenant” co-star Tom Hardy, and sent thanks and greetings to his mother, whose birthday fell on Sunday.

The British awards, known as BAFTAs, are considered a portent of success at Hollywood’s Feb. 28 Academy Awards. “The Revenant” has earned DiCaprio his sixth Oscar nomination — and, many believe, his best shot at finally winning.

DiCaprio said it was out of his hands, but expressed pride in what he called “not just a film, but an epic journey we all went on.”

“We put our heart and soul into this movie. ... It’s up to the world now and voters to decide,” he said at a post-ceremony news conference.

The best-actress trophy went to Brie Larson as a mother trying to shield her son from a terrible reality in “Room.”

She won out over Alicia Vikander for “The Danish

Girl,” Cate Blanchett for “Carol,” Maggie Smith for “The Lady in the Van” and Saoirse Ronan for “Brooklyn.”

Supporting performer prizes went to Mark Rylance, a soft-spoken Soviet agent in “Bridge of Spies,” and Kate Winslet, an Apple executive in “Steve Jobs.”

“The Revenant” beat several popularly favored awards contenders, including Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller “Bridge of Spies” and Todd Haynes’ lesbian romance “Carol.” Each had nine BAFTA nominations, but “Bridge of Spies” won only for Rylance’s performance, while “Carol” was shut out.

The Irish emigrant saga “Brooklyn” was named best British film, a distinct category, while the documentary prize went to “Amy,” a powerful portrait of the rise and fall of singer Amy Winehouse.

George Miller’s dystopian thrill ride “Mad Max: Fury Road” took four prizes: editing, production design, costume design, and hair and makeup.

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Pope condemns ‘dealers of death’ Continued from Page 1 his homily on the danger posed by the devil.

“Only the power of the word of God can defeat him,” the pope said.

In a final prayer, he urged Mexicans to make their country into a land of opportunity “where there will be no need to emigrate in order to dream, no need to be exploited in order to work, no need to make the despair and poverty of many the opportunism of a few, a land that will not have to mourn men and women, young people and children who are destroyed at the hands of the dealers of death.”

The faithful lined the pope’s motorcade route to the huge field where the Mass took place, tossing flower petals as he passed

nation against women.

“I still feel that he owes us these words,” she said.

Conchita Tellez, 65, from the border city of Mexicali, held out hope that Francis can help ease the troubled soul of the country.

“The pope comes to Mexico at a very ugly moment,” Tellez said, “and he comes to pray for us and for all those who lost hope and have submerged the country in blood and violence.”

Francis’ grueling schedule seemed to be taking a toll on him on Saturday, when the 79-year-old pontiff appeared to nod off at an evening Mass and also lost his balance and fell into a chair set up for him.

He appeared much livelier Sunday, beaming and waving at the crowds along his route.

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MARIACHIS PLAYED in front of street art depicting Pope Francis as they waited for the popemobile to pass following the end of Mass Sunday in Ecatepec, Mexico. by and cheering with pompoms in the yellow and white of the Vatican flag.

Vendors sold T-shirts, plates with Francis’ image on them, pins, bandanas and cardboard-cutout figures of the pope.

An estimated 100,000 people have been killed and 27,000 have disappeared in gangland violence since President Enrique Peña Nieto’s predecessor launched an offensive against drug cartels shortly after taking office in late 2006.

At least 1,554 women have vanished in Mexico state since 2005, according to the National Observatory on Femicide, and last year the government issued an alert over the killings of women in Ecatepec and other parts of the state.

Nevertheless, women who came to see Francis said they felt safe, thanks in part to the huge security presence.

The government assigned more than 10,000 police, soldiers and members of the presidential guard to protect the motorcade and Mass.

“I’m protected by my faith and the joy of seeing the pope up close,” said Graciela Elizalde, 35, who arrived at the field Saturday evening and spent the night on the street, “and the thugs know that we the good people have come out to take the streets.”

She added: “The pope is not going to change things, but at least he will touch the hearts of those who do harm and are trying to destroy the country. He is the ‘messenger of peace’ because that’s exactly what Mexico needs, not just Ecatepec.”

However, Maria de la Luz Estrada, coordinator of the National Observatory on Femicide, said she was disappointed that Francis didn’t directly condemn violence against women or offer support to families of victims, saying that at the very least he could have made reference to discrimi-

As Francis drove down a main boulevard before adoring faithful in central Mexico City, dozens of emotional nuns rushed the metal barricades to salute the popemobile and a group of lay missionaries, mostly teenagers, sang the traditional Mexican folk song “Cielito Lindo.”

At his last stop, a pediatric hospital, one girl performed a heartfelt rendition of “Ave Maria” for the pope.

Another presented Francis with a handmade Valentine’s Day card with a big heart on the front.

“You made this?” Francis asked as he accepted it.

“Gracias.”

The pope bent down and kissed dozens of sick kids, playfully mussing the hair of the older ones. Some posed for selfies with the pope.

Several rose from their wheelchairs to embrace him. Francis also played doctor to one little boy, administering medicine from a dropper.

Pope Francis is celebrating Mexico’s Indians today with a visit to heavily indigenous Chiapas state, where he will preside over a Mass in three native languages thanks to a new Vatican decree approving their use in liturgy.

But the visit, at the midway mark of Francis’ fiveday trip to Mexico, is also aimed at boosting the faith in the least Catholic state in Mexico.

History’s first Latin American pope has already issued a sweeping apology for the Catholic Church’s colonial-era crimes against the continent’s indigenous.

Today, he’ll go further by celebrating their culture in ways the local church hierarchy has often sought to play down, in a clear demonstration of his belief that Indians have an important role to play in Mexico today.

Associated Press writers Maria Verza, Mark Stevenson and Peter Orsi contributed to this report.

Scalia’s death ruled natural Continued from Page 1 seemed his usual self at dinner the night before he was found “in complete repose” in his room.

John Poindexter told reporters Scalia was part of a group of about 35 weekend guests. He arrived Friday around noon.

The group had dinner Friday night and Scalia was his “usual, personable self,” Poindexter said. Scalia retired around 9 p.m., saying he wanted a long night’s sleep, according to Poindexter.

A procession that included about 20 law enforcement

officers arrived in the early hours Sunday at the funeral home more than three hours from the ranch, Lujan said.

Kristina Mills, a history teacher at nearby Chapin High School, came to the funeral home to pay her respects and brought flowers.

“Recognizing his contribution to serving our country just compelled me to come,” she said. “I wanted to do yellow roses because for him dying in Texas. I didn’t want his family to have bad memories of Texas.”

In the nation’s capital, where flags flew at half-staff

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Clarence Thomas said, “It is hard to imagine the court without my friend.”

President Barack Obama ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at the high court, where Scalia served for three decades, and other federal buildings throughout the nation and U.S. embassies and military installations throughout the world.

Warren reported from Dallas. Associated Press writers Sarah Rankin in Chicago and Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Texas, contributed to this report. AP videographer John L. Mone in El Paso, Texas, also contributed.

Court vacancy raises the stakes in 2016 race Continued from Page 1 didate, the Second Amendment, life, marriage, religious liberty, every one of those hangs in the balance.”

Democrat Hillary Clinton painted a similarly stark scenario.

“If any of us needed a reminder of just how important it is to take back the United States Senate and hold onto the White House, just look at the Supreme Court,” Clinton said.

Clinton has said she would have “a bunch of litmus tests” for potential nominees, including a belief that the Citizens United ruling clearing the way for super political action committees and unlimited campaign contributions should be overturned.

She also said the court’s makeup is crucial to preserving abortion rights and the legality of gay marriage nationwide.

Bernie Sanders, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination, has raised opposition to Citizens United as a requirement for any Supreme Court nominees.

Scalia, a hero of conservatives during his nearly 30 years on the Supreme Court, was found dead Saturday at a resort ranch in Texas. The court now is divided between

four liberal and four typically conservative justices, putting the ideological tilt up for grabs.

Obama pledged to nominate a replacement in “due time,” even after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that responsibility should fall to the winner of the 2016 election.

Obama could try to ram a nominee through the Senate this year, taking a high court vacancy off the next president’s immediate to-do list.

Even if that were to happen, a confirmation vote probably would be months away, leaving the Supreme Court in the center of the campaign during the nomination process.

With three other justices over the age of 75, the next president could have other vacancies during his or her tenure, even if Obama fills Scalia’s seat.

It’s unclear how the new focus on the Supreme Court might affect voters’ decisions in an election that has seen surprising and unconventional candidates such as Donald Trump and Sanders challenge their parties’ establishments.

Previous political thunderbolts that were supposed to push voters toward more traditional candidates, such as last fall’s terrorist attacks in Paris and California, passed

without any negative impact on Trump and Sanders. In fact, Sanders has gotten stronger since then, with the economic-focused Vermont senator handily defeating Clinton in the New Hampshire primary and finishing a close second in the Iowa caucuses.

Trying to counter Sanders’ momentum, Clinton has urged voters to consider which candidate is most electable in November. With the balance of the Supreme Court now potentially on the line, Clinton and her allies are certain to increase their warnings about the risk of sending a self-declared democratic socialist to face a Republican in the fall.

“For any Democrat thinking about casting a protest vote for Sen. Sanders, this should serve as a wake-up call for what’s exactly at stake,” said Jim Manley, a former aide to top Democratic senators.

Among Republicans, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and John Kasich are casting themselves as candidates who could appeal to swing voters in the general election and put the GOP in position to guide the next court nominations.

But that could open them up to questions from Republican primary voters about

the ideological purity of their judicial choices.

Cruz is using the potential vacancy to build on his longstanding argument that Republicans should select a nominee with the most conservative credentials. An uncompromising conservative since arriving in the Senate, Cruz vowed to put “principled constitutionalists” on the Supreme Court. He contends Trump could not be trusted to do the same.

“Donald Trump is president, he will appoint liberals,” said Cruz, noting the billionaire’s past support for Democratic politicians.

Trump was alone among the candidates in naming specific justices he would consider nominating.

He singled out Diane Sykes and William Pryor, federal judges appointed by former President George W. Bush.

During Saturday’s debate, Kasich bemoaned that Washington and presidential candidates had “run so fast into politics” following Scalia’s death.

But if anything, the speed at which politics did take over portends a furious fight to come over which candidate gets to put his or her imprint on the court.

Associated Press writer Ken Thomas contributed to this report.

Study: Blood-boosters may give preemies edge Continued from Page 1 preemies has improved dramatically in the past 50 years, but treatment for medical problems and developmental delays linked with prematurity has not kept pace, Schreiber said. He was not involved in the study.

He said larger studies including more diverse patient populations are needed to determine if the drugs can help a broader range of preemies.

The study involved 53 children, most white or Hispan-

ic, born more than a month premature and weighing less than 3 pounds at hospitals in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. Two dozen normalweight children were also included.

Results were published today in Pediatrics.

Shortly after birth the preemies were randomly assigned to receive injections of either erythropoeitin (EPO), three times weekly; darbepoetin once a week for several weeks; or no treatment. The drugs build red

blood cells and are approved to treat anemia caused by cancer treatment or resulting from other conditions.

Preemies lack the ability to make new red blood cells and often need frequent blood transfusions to replace blood taken for lab tests. The drugs are now sometimes used to try to reduce their need for transfusions, in doses similar to the ones studied.

The drugs can increase endurance by boosting oxygen levels in the blood, and have

been implicated in some sports doping scandals.

Dr. Sandra Juul, a University of Washington pediatrics professor, is leading a larger multi-center study of both drugs in preemies and said it’s too soon to recommend the medicines for treating developmental delays.

Still, since almost half of infants born extremely early have significant developmental problems, any treatment that could improve their lives “is incredibly important,” Juul said.

Strongmen to predominate at SE Asia summit

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A coup leader with a penchant for song. A sultan with a taste for the high life. A ruthless prime minister with 31 years on the job. A former furniture salesman. A communist politburo veteran. A prime minister trying to shake off a $700 million financial scandal.

When President Barack Obama welcomes Southeast Asian leaders for a shirtsleeves summit set to begin today in California, he’ll have some interesting dining companions.

U.S. officials say the unprecedented gathering, running through Tuesday, is the culmination of Obama’s seven-year effort to engage with the Asia-Pacific, a strategic push that China views as an attempt to

contain its rise.

For the first time, the American president has invited to the United States all the leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a diverse and democratically challenged 10-nation grouping. The meeting place is the sprawling Sunnylands estate where Obama hosted an ice-breaking summit with China’s president, Xi Jinping, in 2013.

During two days of discussions and a working dinner, the leaders plan to discuss economic cooperation and trade, and security issues.

ASEAN was founded in the 1960s as an anti-communist bloc. It now straddles all of Southeast Asia and has become a fulcrum of U.S. outreach in Asia. That includes its push for adherence to international law in the South China Sea, where disputes

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at the White House and Supreme Court, the political sniping soared, raising the prospect of a court shorthanded for some time.

The Senate’s Republican leader, backed largely by his party’s White House candidates, essentially told a Democratic president in his final year in office not to bother asking lawmakers to confirm a nominee for the lifetime seat.

Scalia’s colleagues praised his brilliance and grieved his death. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she and Scalia “were best buddies” for more than 30 years. Justice

between China and its neighbors have stoked tensions.

But the U.S. faces an uphill battle to forge unity among ASEAN’s members, which includes poor nations such as Cambodia and Laos that are heavily influenced by China and are not party to the dispute. Others members such as Vietnam and the Philippines have been strongly critical of China after confrontations near contested islands.

James Clapper, the director of U.S. national intelligence, told Congress last week that ASEAN cohesion is challenged by “varying threat perceptions of China’s regional ambitions and assertiveness in the South China Sea.” Another challenge for the U.S. lies in promoting a “rules-based order” in a region with a very mixed

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Several of the invitees have not come to power through free and fair elections.

They include Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who took power in a May 2014 coup, has cracked down on critics and dissidents, and repeatedly pushed back the date for new elections. In the meantime, he has penned the lyrics to a tune called “Returning Happiness to the People,” often played on state-controlled media.

Hun Sen from neighboring Cambodia is making his first official U.S. visit as leader, although he’s been prime minister since 1985. He has used a combination of guile and brute force to stay in power, including a violent coup in 1997. In recent months he has intensified pressure on the political opposition.

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20-year-old Elliott takes Daytona pole

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Chase Elliott was too young to really remember celebrating in victory lane with his father, dressed in a shirt that matched Bill Elliott’s firesuit and a little finger pointed toward the sky because daddy was No. 1.

But here’s a father-son snapshot Chase can savor forever: “Awesome Bill”

waiting with a big embrace Sunday at Daytona International Speedway for the son who proved he’s capable of following in some Hall of Fame footsteps.

Elliott kept the No. 24 Chevrolet on the pole for the second straight Daytona 500, with the rookie becoming the youngest driver to land the top spot in NASCAR’s biggest race.

“I don’t know if this opportunity has sunk in yet, much less sitting on the

pole for the Daytona 500,” Elliott said.

The 20-year-old has the ride of a lifetime, taking the seat from retired fourtime champion Jeff Gordon at Hendrick Motorsports. Gordon was in the broadcast booth at Daytona, calling the shots as the No. 24 went around the track without him for the first time since 1992.

Elliott has some practice following the great ones: His father, Bill, is a two-time Daytona 500 champion.

“The manner which he went about his Continued on Page 12

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: North Carolina 85, Pitt 64

Carolina routs Panthers

By AARON BEARD

IUP BASKETBALL

Hawks stake their claim

By TONY COCCAGNA

tonyc@indianagazette.net

Last year’s team that played in the national championship game didn’t do it.

Back in December, it looked like this year’s team wouldn’t do it either.

The IUP Crimson Hawks wrapped up the PSAC West title Saturday even though they lost to Slippery Rock, ending their 13-game winning streak. They clinched the nineteam division and a first-round bye and secondround home game in the conference tournament earlier in the day when Mercyhurst lost to Pitt Johnstown.

IUP (19-6, 16-4 PSAC) claimed the division championship for the sixth time in seven years, including five outright titles.

“We’ve been spoiled over the years,” IUP coach Joe Lombardi said. “That’s six in seven years with nine teams — and four private institutions — and that’s something GERRY BROOME/Associated Press

NORTH CAROLINA’S Brice Johnson (11) and Theo Pinson defended against Pitt’s Michael Young during Sunday’s game in Chapel Hill.

Bryant says All-Star goodbye

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer

TORONTO — Kobe Bryant exited the All-Star Game for the final time to watch Russell Westbrook and Stephen Curry wrap things up with 3-pointers.

Bryant’s gone, and these young guys are good.

Bryant said his All-Star Game goodbye and the next generation of the West’s best sent him off a winner, rolling to a record-setting 196-173 victory over the East on Sunday night.

“It was fun,” Bryant said. “I had a blast playing with those guys, laughing and joking with them on the bench.”

The first All-Star Game outside the U.S. was the highest-scoring ever.

Bryant didn’t provide much of the offense but many of the memories.

“To see him now, it’s like the passing of a generation,” West coach Gregg Popovich said. “He’s been such an iconic figure for so long, and he passes it on to that other group of young guys that you saw out there tonight.”

Bryant finished with 10 points, so few that he lost his career lead in All-Star scoring to LeBron James.

But Westbrook scored 31 points in his second straight All-Star MVP performance and Curry added 26 — the final three on a 42-footer. Anthony Davis had 24 on 12-for-13 shooting and Kevin Durant chipped in 23.

Paul George finished with 41 for the East, tying Westbrook’s total from last year in New York that was one off Wilt Chamberlain’s record. John Wall added

CHASE ELLIOTT posed with his parents, Bill and Cindy, after winning the Daytona 500 pole.

IUP makes improbable run to PSAC West title

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina spent two weeks on a tough road trip that included two losses, a struggle against the Atlantic Coast Conference’s last-place team and a scary moment for its Hall of Fame coach.

Sunday’s dominating performance eased some concerns and pressure that had built over that stretch.

Brice Johnson scored 19 points and the ninth-ranked Tar Heels shot 59 percent to beat Pittsburgh 85-64 in the team’s best performance in weeks. They had plenty of balance, shared the ball and got out in transition. They even pleased coach Roy Williams with their defensive attention.

A bad showing on the glass was the only hiccup in what senior Marcus Paige called “as close as we’ve played to a complete game in a long time.”

“This felt good,” he said, “this effort defensively and our efficient offense was back.”

The Tar Heels (21-4, 10-2) finished with 26 assists on 32 baskets, 24 points off turnovers and 16 fast-break points — more than they had in their last three games combined — against the Panthers (17-7, 6-6).

Quite a way to go into a midweek rivalry game with Duke.

The Tar Heels were at home for the first time in two weeks after a road trip that started with losses at Louisville and Notre Dame after an 8-0 ACC start. Then came Tuesday’s game at Boston College, where Williams briefly collapsed in a Continued on Page 12

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KOBE BRYANT hugged his daughter Gianna, 10, prior to Sunday’s All-Star Game.

22 points.

James finished with 13 points, just enough to move ahead of Bryant for most ever in the All-Star Game. James has 291, while Bryant, who is retiring after this season, leaves with 290.

He checked out with 1:06 left to cheers and hugs from his fellow AllStars who now put up points in bunches the way Bryant did for so long.

Bryant had seven assists and six rebounds, but shot 4-for-11 in a game where there isn’t really much defense and had never been less. The 369 combined points were 48 more than last

year’s record, and both clubs blew away the previous individual team record of 163.

But people just wanted to see Bryant play, not necessarily play well.

“We all at one point in our life wanted to be Kobe in our driveways somewhere,” the East’s Dwyane Wade said.

“We watched him growing up and we wanted to pay respect to him.”

The pregame was a celebration first of Canada, then of Bryant.

A video message via hologram from Dr. James Naismith, the Canadian who invented basketball in the early 1890s, was followed by player introductions by two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash and Grammy winner Drake. Canadian Nelly Furtado sang her country’s national anthem.

Then it was time for two video tributes for Bryant, whose 18 All-Star selections are second only to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 19.

Bryant thanked his millions of fans as the other All-Stars lined up in the background to salute him.

“I know it’s been overwhelming for him over this year, but our fans across the world and here in the States and here in Toronto, as well, has just been paying so much respect,” James said.

“It’s all well-deserved.”

Toronto hosted the very first NBA game on Nov. 1, 1946. Neither Naismith nor anyone who saw that game would recognize the way it looked Sunday.

Curry and Durant launched shots from spots where only buzzer-beating heaves were once attempted, and Westbrook put together another combination of speed and force that turned it into a rare All-Star blowout in the second half.

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we value. The regular season is a long grind. We played our first conference game back in November so we’re going on three months competing night in and night out and we’ve played 20 games in the conference. So being able to beat out eight teams is something these guys need to be applauded for.”

As mid-December approached, IUP was 6-5 overall and 3-3 in the conference, and its starting center was hurt.

The Crimson Hawks had already lost to Mercyhurst and the two PSAC East leaders, West Chester and Kutztown. At the time, it looked like Mercyhurst and Edinboro, possibly even Clarion and Pitt Johnstown, would be the teams fighting for supremacy in the division.

Then IUP beat California at home and won at Edinboro to take a modest two-game winning streak into Christmas break. The Crimson Hawks came back in January Continued on Page 15

Women find offense on road

By JUSTIN GERWICK

jgerwick@indianagazette.net

The IUP women’s basketball team made two big statements with a couple dominating road wins Wednesday and Saturday. No longer are the Crimson Hawks struggling away from home, and no more are they working through an offensive funk.

The Crimson Hawks have scored more than 70 points in three consecutive games and have earned double-digit wins in each outing. Saturday’s 90-75 win at Slippery Rock was the highest point total IUP has put together since Feb. 14, 2015, in a 91-81 win at Edinboro, and it was the second straight road win for the Crimson Hawks following a skid of three consecutive losses away from home.

With Gannon (16-7, 14-5) idle on Saturday, the win gave IUP (18-6, 15-5) sole possession of second place in the PSAC West, a half-game back of first place California (185, 15-4). Gannon plays host to California on Wednesday. If the Crimson Hawks defeat Pitt Johnstown on Wednesday, their standing will improve regardless of who wins the California-Gannon matchup.

IUP has two games remaining in the regular season, Wednesday at home against Pitt Johnstown (7-18, 4-15) and the following Wednesday at Seton Hill (13-12, 9-10).

After California and Gannon go toe to toe, the Golden Knights finish the regular season with games at Slippery Rock (11-14, 712) and at home versus Mercyhurst (12-13, 10-9). The Vulcans wrap up their regular season at Mercyhurst and at home versus Edinboro (18-8, 13-7).

The top two seeds from the East and the West receive a first-round bye and a second-round home playoff game in the PSAC playoffs. The top seed in the West plays host to the semifinals and finals, so the Crimson Hawks have some extra incentive to try to work for one of the top two seeds.

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Elliott takes Daytona pole Continued from Page 11 business, I think is really special,” Chase said.

Without showing the pressure on the track that comes with the ride, Elliott’s top speed was 196.314 mph and he outran 43 others in frontrow qualifying Sunday. He also showed that Hendrick cars could be contenders again after taking a backseat to Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Penske in 2015.

Nonetheless, the Gibbs cars continued their strong opening to Speedweeks by putting Matt Kenseth on the front row for the Daytona 500. It came on the heels of Denny Hamlin’s victory in Saturday night’s exhibition race and showed that the team hasn’t lost a step since Kyle Busch claimed the Sprint Cup title in November.

Busch was fourth fastest in Sunday’s time trials, with Carl Edwards ninth and Hamlin 10th. JGR was the only multicar team to put all of its cars in the top 10.

But Gibbs cares little about the buildup to Sunday’s season opener. Year after year, his drivers prove to be the best of the bunch during Speedweeks but come up empty in the main event. He reminded Hamlin of that in victory lane Saturday night.

“I said, ‘Try and get us a 500, will you?’” Gibbs said.

“It’s been 23 years since we were able to win one.”

JGR won its only Daytona 500 in 1993 with Dale Jarrett, and Gibbs doesn’t miss an opportunity to remind his current drivers of the drought.

“I’ve got to tell you, the 500 is just hard to win,” Gibbs said. “That’s where we come at it. So many things can happen. You can have really good cars, and we feel like we have had those, but it’s a tough race to win. I’d love to get another one.”

Elliott won the pole at 20 years, 2 months and 17 days, besting 2014 pole-sitter Austin Dillon’s mark of 23 years, 9 months and 27 days.

The Elliotts became the fourth father-son combination to earn the Daytona 500 pole, joining Richard Petty (1966) and Kyle Petty (1993), Bobby Allison (1981) and Davey Allison (1991), and Dale Earnhardt (1996) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2011). Bill Elliott, a two-time Daytona 500 champion, landed the pole in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 2001.

Gordon already sounded like a seasoned pro in the Fox Sports broadcast booth, asking his replacement how he could keep his momentum headed into “The Great American Race.” Gordon was a three-time Daytona 500 winner and won a pair of poles in the 24. Elliott’s speed earned team owner Rick Hendrick his 10th overall pole in the Daytona 500.

NASCAR ditched its knockout group qualifying format for Daytona for single cars making one qualifying lap.

After 44 drivers had a scheduled turn, the 12 fastest advanced to the second round. The two fastest drivers in the second round set the front row.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kenseth, Elliott, Kyle Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Austin Dillon, Jimmie Johnson, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch and Joey Logano advanced.

Other things to know about qualifying: Wood Brothers driver Ryan Blaney and BK Racing’s Matt Dibenedetto secured spots in the Daytona 500 as the two fastest open team drivers.

NASCAR’s new charter system, which guarantees 36 cars a starting spot in each race, shut out the Wood Brothers because it had been 10 years since it ran a full season. Blaney ran 16 races for the Woods last year and failed to qualify for three others because rain washed out the session. He won’t have to worry about a spot next week.

With two spots remaining, Josh Wise, Michael McDowell, Reed Sorenson, Robert Richardson Jr., David Gilliland and Cole Whitt all have to race their way into the field. The top open finisher in each qualifying race will make the Daytona 500.

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VAUGHN TAYLOR worked back from a six-stroke deficit to earn a victory at Pebble Beach on Sunday.

Drama by the Sea Taylor pulls off unbelievable victory over Mickelson at Pebble Beach

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The celebrity portion of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was supposed to end on Saturday. And then came a script right out of Hollywood, starring Vaughn Taylor as himself.

His victory over Phil Mickelson — also playing himself in this drama by the sea — sounds like pure fiction.

Taylor is a 39-year-old who had gone just more than 10 years since his last victory and had not held a full PGA Tour card for the last three years. He once played in a Ryder Cup. Now he was trying to find his way back on the Web.com Tour, which included trips to Panama and Colombia the last two weeks, where he packed a golf bag with a kickstand because it was lighter and would spare him excess baggage fees.

Yes, that’s life in the other world of golf.

Taylor was so sick last week in Colombia from something he ate that he was throwing up in his hotel room, praying for it to stop. He withdrew the next day and flew to Pebble Beach — it was cheaper than going home to Augusta, Ga. — to see if he could get in the tournament as an alternate.

He did. And he played well. Starting the final round, he was six shots behind Mickelson and hopeful of a top 10 so he could get into the next PGA Tour event in Los Angeles without having to rush down there and try to qualify Monday.

“Just wanted a place to play,” Taylor said.

If all that makes it hard to believe, consider the finish.

He ran off four straight birdies starting on the 13th hole, the last one a 30-foot putt on the tough 16th green that sent Taylor running around the green and highfiving whoever was in his way. It was the first time he had the lead.

Taylor closed with a 7-under 65 after missing birdie chances of 12 feet and 10 feet on the final two holes. He had a feeling it would cost him, especially when Mickelson birdied the 17th with a clutch putt and was just short of the green on the par-5 18th in two, 60 feet from the hole.

He chipped to 5 feet and needed that birdie putt to force a playoff.

Taylor was standing behind the 18th green next to the ocean, a peaceful setting until one’s career was on the line. He was listening for the cheers of Mickelson’s

birdie. He was expecting the cheers. Instead, he heard groans when Mickelson’s short putt spun out on the left edge of the cup.

There’s your winner. Go figure.

“Just absolutely amazing,” Taylor said of his one-shot victory over Mickelson, a five-time major champion already in the World Golf Hall of Fame. “Didn’t know if it would ever happen again, to be honest.

And I can’t believe it actually happened today.”

It was a sad ending for Mickelson, the 45-year-old who was poised to tie the record with his fifth victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and his first victory since he won the British Open at Muirfield in 2013.

But he let his two-shot lead get away after only five holes, and it might have gotten out of hand if Mickelson had not made tough par saves in the 8-foot range on No. 3 and No. 9.

Mickelson was on the verge of losing all hope until he made a 10-foot par save on the 16th hole to stay two shots behind, made a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole to pull within one shot and then looked like a shoo-in to birdie the final hole.

But he missed and shot 72.

“It never crossed my mind that I wouldn’t make that one,” Mickelson said.

Mickelson ends the West Coast portion of his schedule by finishing four shots behind in Palm Springs (tie for third) and six shots behind in Phoenix (tie for 11th). He was hitting the ball great most of the week.

His putting was superb, and it wasn’t awful on Sunday except that he put too much stress on his putter with too many par putts.

So there was disappointment, and some measure of encouragement.

“It’s certainly disappointing, but it makes me more determined to get back to work and get this thing right,” he said. “I know that I’m close to being where I want to be. But if I was there, I would have been able to finish it off.”

As for Taylor, the good life awaits.

The victory sends him to the Masters for the first time since 2008, and while it’s a big deal for any golfer, it’s even better for residents of Augusta.

“Playing in the Masters is my Super Bowl,” Taylor said.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is mentioned in the lawsuit a group of women filed against the University of Tennessee last week in which they said the school violated Title IX regulations in the way it has handled reports of sexual assaults by student-athletes.

The lawsuit was filed by six unidentified women and focuses on five cases that were reported between 2013 and 2015, but it also references incidents involving Tennessee student-athletes dating to 1995.

One paragraph in the 64page document includes a sexual harassment complaint made by a Tennessee trainer in 1996 involving an incident that occurred in a training room while she was treating Manning.

The trainer, Jamie Ann Naughright, settled in 1997, but sued Manning for defamation in 2002 after he discussed the incident in a book. The lawsuit was settled in 2003.

Manning played for Tennessee from 1994-97.

Naughright’s sexual harassment claim involved a 1996 incident in which Manning exposed his buttocks as

Naughright, then known as Jamie Whited, bent over to examine his foot in a training room. Manning said at the time it was a prank intended for another athlete. The Title IX lawsuit says Manning had “sat on her face” while she was assessing the extent of an injury.

The New York Daily News released a 74-page document Saturday that Naughright’s lawyers had filed on her behalf in 2003 while the defamation suit was still in litigation.

The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday says Tennessee created a “hostile sexual environment” through a policy of indifference toward assaults by student-athletes. The plaintiffs say Tennessee’s policies made students more vulnerable to sexual assault and that the school had a “clearly unreasonable response” after incidents that caused the women making complaints to endure additional harassment. The suit also states the university interfered with the disciplinary process to favor male athletes.

Bill Ramsey, a lawyer representing the school, said in a statement the university “acted lawfully and in good faith” in the situations outlined in the complaint.

North Carolina routs Panthers

Continued from Page 11 second-half huddle after an attack of vertigo and spent the rest of the game in the locker room.

Williams was back in the office on Wednesday’s day off, returned to practice Thursday and told reporters Friday he was fine while cracking jokes about his twodecade history with vertigo dating to his Kansas years.

Getting back home helped everyone else feel better, too.

“It feels a lot better to get a win like that and just be able to put that behind you,” Johnson said. “Because people were starting to look like, ‘Oh they might be going downhill.’ ... or (it’s ) the turning point of our season.”

Michael Young and James Robinson each scored 15 points for the Panthers, who shot 37 percent and committed 19 turnovers.

“It was a bad performance in pretty much every facet,” Pitt coach Jamie Dixon said.

Young didn’t start for the first time this season. Dixon said afterward it was “nothing major but something that just had to be addressed” without elaborating further.

Second-leading scorer Jamel Artis scored five points

on 2-for-8 shooting.

Pitt made 9 of 21 3-point attempts but just 5 of 13 free throws. Pitt finished with a 41-29 rebounding advantage, including 19-1 on the offensive glass, but fell to 14-2 when outrebounding its opponents.

The Panthers had lost three of four since a 5-2 league start, including 65-63 on a late tip-in at No. 12 Miami on Tuesday.

Now they have failed to crack 65 points in three straight games.

“I thought really our halfcourt defense was pretty sound,” Dixon said. “But it’s the 19 turnovers. And the shot selection was atrocious.

So really our offense was a big cause of our defensive breakdowns because it’s hard when you turn it over that many times, a lot of live-ball turnovers as well.

“We could sit here and analyze it all day long. We just got manhandled.”

North Carolina’s Justin Jackson scored 14 points, and UNC had five players in double figures. Jackson and Theo Pinson had six assists each.

Pitt plays host to Wake Forest on Tuesday.

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Dukes lose in OT Iowa holds off Minnesota to Minutemen TOP 25 ROUNDUP

By The Associated Press Peter Jok scored 27 points and Jarrod Uthoff had 24 points, 15 rebounds and six blocked shots to help fourth-ranked Iowa hold off skidding Minnesota 75-71 on Sunday night.

Iowa rebounded from Thursday’s loss at Indiana to regain sole possession of first place in the Big Ten. Nate Mason had 14 points to lead Minnesota, which has lost 14 straight games.

Uthoff overcame a slow start shooting by recording a big dunk, three blocks and a pair of free throws in the final 1:17 to help secure the victory for the Hawkeyes.

Jok shot 8 of 14 and hit four 3-pointers.

Minnesota (6-19, 0-13) cut Iowa’s lead to 66-64 on two free throws by Joey King with 2:58 remaining, but the Gophers went 2for-8 from the field in the final 2 minutes.

Uthoff’s 15 rebounds were a career best.

He became the first Hawkeyes player with 20 points and 15 rebounds in a game since 2003.

NO. 8 MICHIGAN STATE 88, INDIANA 69: Denzel Valentine had 30 points and 13 assists, and Matt Costello scored a careerhigh 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in Michigan State’s victory over Indiana.

The Spartans (21-5, 8-5 Big Ten) closed the first half with a 9-0 run to take a onepoint lead, and then they used a 24-3 run to go ahead by 17 midway through the second half.

Indiana’s Yogi Ferrell was limited to nine points, eight below his scoring average and one more than his season low.

Max Bielfeldt scored 10 of his 15 points in the first half, and Robert Johnson had 11 points for the Hoosiers (20-6, 10-3).

NO. 12 MIAMI 67, FLORIDA STATE 65: Sheldon McClellan scored 20 points and Miami fought off a second-half rally from Florida State.

The Hurricanes led by four with less than a minute remaining when Dwayne Bacon’s 3-pointer brought the Seminoles to 66-65.

After Davon Reed missed a 3, Florida State had a chance to go ahead but Devon Bookert was short on a 3-pointer from the corner.

Ja’Quan Newton hit one of two free throws for Miami, leaving Florida State one last chance, but Malik Beasley missed a 30-footer that would have won it.

Reed had 14 points and Angel Rodriguez scored 11 for the Hurricanes (20-4, 9-3 Atlantic Coast Conference).

The Hurricanes secured their fourth 20win season in Jim Larranaga’s five years as coach.

Bookert led Florida State (16-9, 6-7) with 14 points.

NO. 17 ARIZONA 86, NO. 23 USC 78: Gabe York scored 17 points and Arizona moved into a tie for first place in the Pac-12 by beating Southern California.

Allonzo Trier scored 12 of his 14 in the second half as the Wildcats (21-5, 9-4) held off a rally by the Trojans (18-7, 7-5), who were swept over the weekend in the desert.

Bennie Boatwright, scoreless in Friday night’s loss at Arizona State, had 18 points for the Trojans.

Arizona led by as many as 19 in the first half and was up 16 at halftime. USC rallied to cut it to 70-68 with 6:40 to play, but the Trojans missed their next nine shots and the Wildcats pulled away.

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L.G. Gill added 20 points.

Jabarie Hinds scored a career-high 37 points, and Massachusetts outlasted WOMEN Duquesne in overtime 108NO. 7 OHIO ST. 77, PENN ST. 99 on Sunday.

63: Ameryst Alston hit eight UMass hit its first three 3-pointers and finished with shots in the extra ses26 points as Ohio sion, including State beat Penn State Hinds’ 3-pointer with for its ninth straight 3:04 left, which put win. the Minutemen up Kelsey Mitchell 92-86. Duquesne’s added 17 points and Micah Mason hit a Alexa Hart chipped in jumper to make it a 12 points and 14 refour-point game, bounds for the Buckthen the Dukes reeyes, who remain sorted to fouling. But atop the Big Ten MICAH UMass (11-13, 4-8 Atstandings with four MASON lantic 10) made 16 of games left.

20 from the line in Lindsey Spann led the last 2:43 to proPenn State (9-16, 4hibit a comeback.

10) with 21 points Duquesne went up while Brianna Banks by two with 1:55 to go added 14. in regulation on a The Buckeyes (21-4, pair of free throws by 13-1) looked like they Mason, but didn’t would have trouble score again. Donte keeping their win Clark’s free throws streak going. Penn with 41 seconds left State bounced back tied it to prompt from a 37-30 halftime LINDSEY overtime. deficit with a 12-6 run SPANN Hinds was 13 of 20 to pull within a point from the field with seven 3- midway through the third pointers. Trey Davis scored quarter. But the Buckeyes 26 points, while Clark and pulled away with a 17-6 run.

Antwan Space had 17 apiece.

Ohio State pulled down 41 Space added 17 rebounds, a rebounds to Penn State’s 30 career high. and scored 18 points off 16 Mason led Duquesne (15- Penn State turnovers.

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George returns to All-Star form

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI

down and out, but just stayed with it.â&#x20AC;?

Thanks to Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emerTORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; So many of gence as one of the NBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paul Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All-Star team- bright young stars, the Pacers mates and opponents were had climbed up the Eastern on the floor 18 months ago, Conference ladder to assert the night his career was put themselves as legitimate in peril by a gruesome leg in- challengers. George had a jury in a scrimmage with great chance to be in Team USA Basketball.

USAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans for the London It has been a long, Olympics, but his leg difficult road back to snapped grotesquely the rising star he was and had many, inbefore a bone in his cluding George himright leg popped self, wondering if he through his skin on would ever play that August night in again.

Las Vegas. SurroundHe missed all but ed by so many of six games last season, those elite faces but his ability to reagain in Toronto on turn even for the end Sunday night, George PAUL GEORGE of the season was a has never looked shock in and of itself. more like the player that has Playing in those games gave made the Indiana Pacers rel- him a chance to get a little bit evant again. Truth be told, he of confidence back, to belooked even better. lieve that returning to basGeorge led all players with ketballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest level was 41 points and made nine 3- possible, and he took off like pointers in the Eastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 196-173 a rocket at the start of this loss to West, finishing one season. basket shy of breaking Wilt While he was injured, Chamberlainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s single-game George worked on two of his All-Star scoring record. gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weaknesses â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ballâ&#x20AC;&#x153;For me to be here just handling and perimeter being back as an All-Star was shooting. He returned this special. But to be able to put season a more well-rounded on a show and have fun and player and averaged 29.5 enjoy this moment, get back points, 8.2 rebounds and 4.3 to playing how I played pre- assists in the first month of injury is special,â&#x20AC;? George the season. Those numbers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just been blessed. have dipped expectedly as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very thankful and very the season has worn on, but grateful.â&#x20AC;?

George has his swagger back.

Oklahoma City guard RusOn a night where all eyes sell Westbrook won the MVP started on Lakers star Kobe award with 31 points in the Bryant in his 18th and final victory, but it was George All-Star game, they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t who stood out above all of help but drift on to George as the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best players, just the shots kept falling and the like he did before his right leg ball kept finding him. awkwardly hit the basketball Sitting on 41 points, stanchion in that USA scrim- George had the ball on the mage, bringing tears to his right wing, needing one teammatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eyes. bucket to surpass Chamberâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a hard-fought sum- lainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mark set in 1962. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mer, hard-fought rehab when Golden State Warriors year,â&#x20AC;? George said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was forward Draymond Green just a very upward climb. It got right in Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face, took every day and really hounding him all over the every moment of rehab to get court in the only possession through it. There were a lot of of defense played the entire days where I felt like I was game.

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THE INDIANA High School hockey team recently presented a $1,500 donation to the Veterans Parsonage Shelter. The shelter for homeless military veterans is located in front of the Indiana Church of the Brethren on Oakland Avenue. The hockey team and the Red Line Club raised the funds at the inaugural Salute to the Miltary in November at S&T Bank Arena. Pictured are, first row, from left, Indiana players Matt Swatsworth, Tyler Mulac, Ethan Boyer and Jacob Clark; and second row, parsonage board members Mike Weaver, Kevin Lazor, Kevin Smith, Richard Morris and Indiana County Sheriff Robert Fyock.

Bryant says goodbye in West victory Continued from Page 11 The West has won five of the last six even without longtime mainstay Bryant, who hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played since 2013 because of injuries.

But players like Westbrook, Durant and Curry are more than ready to shoulder the load.

At 37, Bryant has trouble keeping up with the youngsters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially the real young ones. Chris Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son stole the ball from him as Bryant warmed up for the second half.

But he was the star without playing a starring a role. He had said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want players forcing him the ball in an

effort to make him the MVP â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already got four of them in this game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but he was never far from the center of attention.

The West led 92-90 at the break, both teams surpassing the previous record of 89 points in a half.

The game goes back to the U.S. next year, and for the first time since 1997 wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have Bryant. He made his AllStar debut in New York in 1998, a game also remembered for Michael Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last with the Chicago Bulls.

Jordan, now chairman of the Hornets, was on hand Sunday for a ceremonial passing of the All-Star torch

from Toronto to Charlotte, the 2017 host.

Paul finished with 14 points and 16 assists and is the leader in All-Star assists per game. DeMar DeRozan scored 18 points for the East and Kyle Lowry had 14 points and 10 assists as both Raptors played well in front of their home crowd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think everybody got the feel of the energy that we witness every single night when we play as Raptors players,â&#x20AC;? DeRozan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think all the guys really got insight on how in tune the city of Toronto and all of Canada is to basketball.â&#x20AC;?

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LOCAL SCOREBOARD HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS

WPIAL PLAYOFFS

CLASS A BOYS

CLASS AAAA BOYS

First Round Today’s Games Portage vs. St. Joseph’s at Tyrone H.S, 7:30 p.m.

Conemaugh Valley vs. Moshannon Valley at Bishop Carroll H.S., 7:30 p.m.

Claysburg-Kimmel vs. Bishop Guilfoyle at Central Cambria H.S, 5 p.m.

Belleville Mennonite vs. Penns Manor at Central Cambria H.S., 8 p.m.

Quarterfinals Wednesday’s Games Sites, times TBA St. Joseph’s-Portage winner vs. HomerCenter Bishop Guilfoyle-Claysburg winner vs.

Ferndale Penns Manor-Belleville winner vs.

Saltsburg Moshannon Valley-Conemaugh Valley winner vs. Bishop Carroll Semifinals Monday, Feb. 22 Sites, times TBA Quarterfinal winners Consolation Wednesday, Feb. 24 Site, time TBA Semifinal losers Championship Thursday, Feb. 25 At Altoona High School Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

CLASS AA BOYS

First Round Tuesday’s Games Richland vs. Central Cambria at Bishop Carroll H.S., 7:30 p.m.

Central vs. Juniata at Tyrone H.S., 8 p.m.

Ligonier Valley vs. Westmont Hilltop at Central Cambria H.S., 8 p.m.

Quarterfinals Thursday, Feb. 18 Sites, times TBA Central Cambria-Richland winner vs.

Bellwood-Antis Bishop McCort vs. Tyrone Westmont-Ligonier winner vs. West Branch Juniata-Central winner vs. Penns Valley Semifinals Tuesday, Feb. 23 Sites, times TBA Quarterfinals winners Consolation Thursday, Feb. 25 Site, time TBA Semifinals losers Championship Friday, Feb. 26 At Altoona Field House Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

CLASS A GIRLS

First Round Today’s Games West Branch vs. Portage at Tyrone H.S., 6 p.m.

Glendale vs. Saltsburg at Homer-Center H.S., 7 p.m.

Conemaugh Valley vs. Homer-Center at Bishop Carroll H.S., 6 p.m.

Penns Manor vs. Claysburg Kimmel at Central Cambria H.S., 6:30 p.m.

Quarterfinals Wednesday’s Games Sites, times TBA Claysburg-Penns Manor winner vs.

Bishop Carroll Homer-Center-Conemaugh Valley winner vs. Juniata Valley Saltsburg-Glendale winner vs. Bishop Guilfoyle Portage-West Branch winner vs.

Blairsville Semifinals Monday, Feb. 22 Sites, times TBA Quarterfinal winners Consolation Wednesday, Feb. 24 Site, time TBA Semifinal losers Championship Thursday, Feb. 25 At Altoona High School Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.

CLASS AA GIRLS

First Round Tuesday’s Games Philipsburg-Osceola vs.

Central Cambria at Bishop Carroll H.S., 6 p.m.

Westmont Hilltop vs. Southern Huntingdon at Tyrone H.S., 5 p.m.

Purchase Line vs. Central Martinsburg at Tyrone H.S., 6 p.m.

Cambria Heights vs. Marion Center at Central Cambria H.S., 5 p.m.

Ligonier Valley vs. Bellwood-Antis at Central Cambria H.S., 6:30 p.m.

Quarterfinals Thursday’s Games Sites, times TBA Southern Huntingdon-Tyrone winner vs. Bishop McCort Philipsburg-Central Cambria winner vs.

Bellwood-Ligonier winner Marion Center-Cambria Heights winners vs. Tyrone Central-Purchase Line winner vs. Penns Valley Semifinals Tuesday, Feb. 23 Sites, times TBA Quarterfinal winners Consolation Thursday, Feb. 25 Site, time TBA Semifinal losers Championship Friday, Feb. 26 At Atloona Field House Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.

YOUTH BASEBALL Registration for the Indiana’s Youth Legion baseball teams will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the American Legion on Philadelphia Street. Players ages 13 to 15 are eligible to play. There is no fee to register. For information, or to register by email, contact Ryan Fritz at (724) 422-5010.

The Indiana Legion Senior Legion baseball team is seeking a manager for the 2016 season. Anyone interested should email post141baseball@gmail.com and include their name, phone number and experience.

SALTSBURG — Young Township Youth Baseball will hold registration for its teeball, coach-pitch and major league teams on Sunday at Saltsburg American Legion Post 57. The leagues are for players ages 5 through 12. For information, contact Patty Fairbanks at (724) 552-5819 or pfairbanks@hughes.net.

RUNNING The Indiana Junior High School’s Athena Club will hold the eighth annual Pick-A-Cause 5K and Kids’ Races at Blue Spruce Park on Saturday, March 19. The kids’ races For information or a race application, email race director Candice Lockard at clockard@iasd.cc.

Preliminary Round Franklin Regional 54, Mount Lebanon

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First Round Pine-Richland 62, Norwin 50 Pittsubrgh Central Catholic 73, Peters Township 67 Penn Hills 64, Butler 46 Plum 63, Penn-Trafford 60 Wednesday’s Games Franklin Regional vs. Latrobe at Gateway, 8 p.m.

Bethel Park vs. Gateway at North Hills, 8 p.m.

Chartiers Valley vs. Hempfield at Canon-McMillan, 8 p.m.

North Hills vs. Baldwin at North Allegheny, 8 p.m.

CLASS AAA BOYS

Preliminary Round Laurel Highlands 68, Southmoreland 60 Montour 49, Knoch 38 Thomas Jefferson 57, Yough 48 Trinity 73, Mount Pleasant 66 First Round Tuesday’s Games New Castle vs. Montour at Ambridge, 6:30 p.m.

West Allegheny vs. Ambridge at North Allegheny, 8 p.m.

Highlands vs. Trinity Fox Chapel, 8 p.m.

Hampton vs. Central Valley at Chartiers Valley, 8 p.m.

Beaver Falls vs. Thomas Jefferson at West Allegheny, 8 p.m.

Indiana vs. West Mifflin at Plum, 8 p.m.

Mars vs. Laurel Highlands at North Catholic, 8 p.m.

Steel Valley vs. South Fayette at Baldwin, 8 p.m.

CLASS AA BOYS

Preliminary Round East Allegheny 68, Elwood City 62 Chartiers-Houston 80, Chaleroi 59 Seton-LaSalle 86, Frazier 39 Shady Side Academy 89, Waynesburg Central 44 Wilkinsburg 66, Bethlehem Center 24 First Round Wednesday’s Games Aliquippa vs. East Allegheny at Ambridge, 8 p.m.

Washington vs. Laurel at West Allegheny, 8 p.m.

Greensburg Central Catholic vs.

Chartiers-Houston, 8 p.m.

Sacred Heart vs. Seton-LaSalle, 8 p.m.

Lincoln Park vs. Shady Side Academy, 6:30 p.m.

Avonworth vs. Neshannock at North Catholic, 8 p.m.

Quaker Valley vs. Wilkinsburg, 8 p.m.

Bishop Canevin vs. Brownsville at Trinity, 8 p.m.

CLASS A BOYS

First Round Clairton 71, Avella 37 Eden Christian 64, Trinity Christian 47 Jeannette 50, Cornell 36 North Catholic 65, Winchester Thurston

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Tuesday’s Games Monessen vs. Leechburg at Charleroi, 8 p.m.

Union vs. California at West Allegheny, 6:30 p.m.

Sewickley Academy vs. Springdale at Keystone Oaks, 8 p.m.

Vincentian Academy vs. West Greene at Canon-McMillan, 8 p.m.

CLASS AAAA GIRLS

First Round Bethel Park 49, Seneca Valley 47 Mount Lebanon 54, North Hills 45 North Allegheny 62, Penn-Trafford 30 Norwin 66, Gateway 33 Tuesday’s Games Peters Township vs. Hempfield at Charleroi, 6:30 p.m.

Pine-Richland vs. McKeesport at Fox Chapel, 6:30 p.m.

Penn Hills vs. Latrobe at Plum, 6:30 p.m.

Canon-McMillan vs. Fox Chapel at Baldwin, 6:30 p.m.

CLASS AAA GIRLS

Preliminary Round Ringgold 50, Laurel Highlands 47 Deer Lakes 62, Greensburg Salem 54 Belle Vernon 56, Central Valley 37 Keystone Oaks 49, Highlands 41 First Round Wednesday’s Games South Fayette vs. Ringgold at Peters Township, 6:30 p.m.

Chartiers Valley vs. Brownsville at Trinity, 6:30 p.m.

Blackhawk vs. Deer Lakes, 6:30 p.m.

Hampton vs. Mount Pleasant at Fox Chapel, 8 p.m.

Trinity vs. Belle Vernon, 6:30 p.m.

South Park vs. Beaver at Chartiers Valley, 6:30 p.m.

Ambridge vs. Keystone Oaks at North Catholic, 6:30 p.m.

Mars vs. Derry at Fox Chapel, 6:30 p.m.

CLASS AA GIRLS

Preliminary Round Apollo-Ridge 57, Frazier 42 Charleroi 43, Freedom 36 Greensburg Central Catholic 49, Avonworth 37 Mohawk 65, East Allegheny 54 Shenango 69, Bethlehem Center 30 First Round Tuesday’s Games Sacred Heart vs. Apollo-Ridge at Keystone Oaks, 6:30 p.m.

Washington vs. Chartiers-Houston at Peters Township, 6:30 p.m.

Bishop Canevin vs. Mohawk at Chartiers Valley, 6:30 p.m.

Neshannock vs. Charleroi at CanonMcMillan, 6:30 p.m.

Burrell vs. Shenango at North Catholic, 6:30 p.m.

Carlynton vs. West Shamokin at North Allegheny, 6:30 p.m.

Seton-La Salle vs. Greensburg Central Catholic at Peters Township, 8 p.m.

Riverside vs. Brentwood at Ambridge, 8 p.m.

CLASS A GIRLS

First Round Quigley Catholic 82, Imani Christian Academy 54 Winchester Thurston 41, JeffersonMorgan 33 Ellis School 82, Leechburg 79 Cornell 58, West Greene 35 Wednesday’s Games North Catholic vs. Aliquippa at Ambridge, 6:30 p.m.

Riverview vs. California at Gateway, 6:30 p.m.

Vincentian Academy vs. Fort Cherry at West Allegheny, 6:30 p.m.

Serra Catholic vs. Rochester at Northgate, 6:30 p.m.

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Hawks make improbable run Continued from Page 11 and swept eight games. They started February by rallying from seven points down with eight minutes to play to beat Mercyhurst and take the inside track to the title. Then they blew out Edinboro and rallied again for a win at Clarion.

“I’m really proud of them because back in early December they had an uphill battle to climb and they were able to climb it,” Lombardi said. “And a lot of it goes back to Brandon and Daddy and Tevin and Tony Rocco and Devon, even though he’s been hurt.”

Lombardi was referring to the team’s five seniors: Brandon Norfleet, Daddy Ugbede, Tevin Hanner, Anthony Rocco and Devon Cottrell.

They will be recognized prior to Wednesday’s last regularseason home game against Pitt Johnstown.

The quintet ushered the new players in the program, and with each passing week sophomore transfer Anthony Glover Jr., sophomore walkon CJ Rudisill, junior college transfer Brandon Spain and freshmen Jacobo Diaz and Dante Lombardi began to play greater roles.

They have followed the lead of Norfleet, who is averaging a conference-high 22.3

points per game and a teamhigh 4.3 assists.

Though it was a collective effort, Norfleet took the blame Saturday night when IUP’s winning streak ended.

The Crimson Hawks held a 10-point halftime lead but it slowly slipped away in the second half.

“I take full responsibility,” he said. “I feel like I didn’t get the guys ready to come out of the locker room to play in the second half. They came out more aggressive and I picked up dumb fouls. I’m in a really bad slump, but I can’t let that get in the way of my leadership. I felt like I let the team down and I’ve got to play better.”

Norfleet has been in a shooting slump the last three games, making only 32 percent of his shots (19-for-59) after shooting close to 50 percent most of the season.

“I think teams are doing a good job on him the second time we play them,” Lombardi said. “Some teams are playing him more aggressively and making him take tougher shots. … I do know he’s been terrific all year and carried us, and he’s going to go through stretches where he struggles. A big part of it is counting on some complementary guys to score the ball well.”

Women find their offense on road Continued from Page 11 “It would be great to be able to play at home and not go on the road,” IUP coach Tom McConnell said. “It’s a great environment in front of our fans, so that’s definitely something we would like to be able to do.”

BIG THREE: Saturday’s victory was largely fueled by historic performances from three IUP starters.

Leslie Stapleton, Zhané Brooks and Megan Smith combined for 78 of the Crimson Hawks’ 90 points, and each of them reached a career high in scoring.

Stapleton, a redshirt senior, scored a game-high 28 points on 6 of 12 shooting. She was 4-for-8 from 3-point range and a perfect 12-for-12 from the free throw line. Stapleton made eight free throws in the final two minutes of the game to seal the win Saturday and raised her season percentage to .938.

Brooks, a senior forward, tallied a career-high 25 points and nearly reached a triple-double with eight rebounds and eight assists.

Brooks has posted seven of her career 11 double-doubles this season.

Smith, a sophomore guard/forward, recorded a double-double with 25 points and 12 rebounds. She was 6-for-8 from 3-point range and reached 20 points for the second straight game.

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?: One problem that the Crimson Hawks might run into is running out of gas due to having a limited number of bodies.

Lauren Wolosik and Brittany Robinson were lost for the season with knee in-

juries, and freshman point guard Carolyn Appleby was ruled out Saturday after suffering a concussion in Wednesday’s win over Clarion.

Appleby is set to be re-evaluated today and McConnell hopes to have her back on Wednesday, but nothing is certain. With just nine available players, IUP is one of the few teams to empty its bench every game, and four of the Crimson Hawks’ five starters were forced to play more than 35 minutes Saturday.

“Our players did a really good job of coming together and being focused,” McConnell said. “Marina (Wareham) played nearly 40 minutes tonight and handled the ball and just ran the team.

That’s not easy to do against a talented team.”

PAYBACK TIME: The Crimson Hawks have some added flavor in Wednesday’s home matchup with Pitt Johnstown.

Not only is Wednesday senior night, but the Crimson Hawks also will have a chance to get some revenge against the Mountain Cats.

Pitt Johnstown stormed back from a double-digit deficit in the second half to earn an 87-86 victory in overtime over IUP on Jan. 13. The Crimson Hawks had won seven games in a row prior to that defeat and missed an opportunity to grab first place in the division.

“It’s going to be an important game for us,” Stapleton said. “Not only because of senior night, but also because Pitt Johnstown beat us down there. We’re definitely looking for some revenge at this point.”

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Simonsen, 19, wins PBA major INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Anthony Simonsen became the youngest major champion on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour, winning the U.S. Bowling Congress Masters on Sunday at 19.

Simonsen, from Princeton, Texas, beat Canadian amateur Dan MacLelland 245-207 in the title match, rolling strikes on eight of his first nine shots.

Simonsen, at 19 years, 39 days, broke Hall of Famer Mike Aulby’s mark of 19 years, 83 days set in the 1979 PBA National Championship.

MacLelland beat Wes Malott of Pflugerville, Texas, 216213 in the semifinal match.

Malott opened the stepladder final with a 258-189 victory over Tom Daugherty of Riverview, Fla., and beat Chris Loschetter of Avon, Ohio, 258-201 in the second match.

Shiffrin returns to win race CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin is back.

Two perfect runs saw the American win a women’s World Cup slalom by almost half a second today, in her first race after two months out with injury.

Leading after the first run, Shiffrin finished 0.45 seconds faster than France’s Nastasia Noens and 0.50 ahead of Canada’s Marie-Michele Gagnon.

It was Shiffrin’s first race since tearing a ligament in her right knee in December. The Olympic and world slalom champion started skiing again only two weeks ago.

Shiffrin won two slaloms this season — both in Aspen, Colo., and both by big margins — before the training mishap in Sweden. She has won her last six slaloms stretching back to last season.

Blackhawks put Hossa on injured list CHICAGO (AP) — The Blackhawks placed Marian Hossa on injured reserve and recalled center Vincent Hinostroza from Rockford of the American Hockey League.

Hossa was hurt when he was hit by Anaheim defenseman Hampus Lindholm on his lower left leg in the second period of Chicago’s 3-2 loss Saturday night. The 37-yearold forward, sitting on 496 career goals, had to be helped off the ice and went straight to the locker room.

Kenyans sweep Los Angeles Marathon SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Weldon Kirui pulled away in the final mile as Kenyan men swept the top three spots at the Los Angeles Marathon on a foggy Sunday.

Kirui, 27, raced shoulder-to-shoulder with Willie Koitile until making his surge over the final mile, winning in a time of 2 hours, 13 minutes, 7 seconds.

Nataliya Lehonkova, 33, of Ukraine led almost the entire way and won the women’s race in 2:30:40.

Koitile was second in 2:13:24, with defending champion Daniel Limo third in 2:13:52.

Serkalem Abrha of Ethiopia finished second to Lehonkova in 2:32:24, with Julia Budniak of Poland third at 2:44:44.

Kirui and Lehonkova each earned $100,000.

Ko shakes off quake in victory CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Unfazed by an earthquake just before she teed off, top-ranked Lydia Ko won the New Zealand Women’s Open for the third time in four years.

The magnitude 5.7 quake rattled the area about 10 minutes before Ko began play. She started the round on time and play wasn’t interrupted by the quake.

Ko closed with a 2-under 70 for a two-stroke victory. The 18-year-old South Korean-born New Zealander finished at 10-under 206 at Clearwater Golf Club.

She also won the national championship in 2013 and 2015.

England’s Felicity Johnson, South Korean amateur Hye Jin Choi and Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen tied for second. Johnson shot 67, Choi 69, and Madsen 70.

The event was sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and Australian Ladies PGA. • NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Bernhard Langer won the Chubb Classic for his 26th PGA Champions Tour title, closing with a 1-over 73 for a three-stroke victory.

Seven strokes ahead after opening with rounds of 62 and 66, the 58-year-old German star finished at 15 under 201 at TwinEagles.

He also won in 2011 and 2013, was second in 2012 and tied for second in 2014.

Fred Couples had a 66 to finish second.

Langer completed his sixth wire-to-wire triumph. He’s third on the 50-and-over tour’s victory list, behind Hale Irwin (45) and Lee Trevino (29).

• PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel ran away with the Tshwane Open, shooting a 7under 63 for an eight-stroke victory.

Schwartzel finished at 16-under 264 in the European Tour event at Pretoria Country Club. Denmark’s Jeff Winther was second after a 64.

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Stuart never finished this portrait. He used it as a guide to make as many as 75 versions off it.

This painting was difficult to do because Washington had just been fitted for a new set of false teeth that made a bulge around his mouth.

In the painting at the left, Stuart painted the face during one sitting and asked someone else to “stand in” and pose for the rest of the figure.

Stuart’s paintings of Abigail and John Adams are thought to be the best ones to show their strong personalities.

George Washington, (The Athenaeum Portrait), jointly owned by the National Portrait Gallery y, Smithsonian Institution, Washingt a on, D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William Francis Warden Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Commonwealth Cultural Preservation Trust.

Thomas Jefferson was an author of the Declaration of Independence.

There are no Stuart portraits of his wife, who died before he was elected president.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Gift of Mrs. George S. Robbins

George Washington, The Lansdowne Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, acquired as a gift to the nation through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

Our first president, George Washington, was depicted, or shown, in 100 portraits by painter Gilbert Stuart. This week, in honor of Presidents Day, The Mini Page examines some of Stuart’s portraits of Washington and other famous Americans.

In Washington’s day, there were no photos, or TV or movies, so painted portraits showed what someone looked like.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III

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James Madison is known as the father of our Constitution because of the important role he played in the writing of this great document.

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A familiar face Gilbert Stuart painted the image of Washington that we see on the $1 bill.

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This full-length, life-size portrait of Washington is considered Gilbert Stuart’s greatest American portrait.

Beginning next month, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will begin conservation treatment on the portrait.

At the library: • “Dear Mr. Washington” by Lynn Cullen

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Amazon to debut series based on New Yorker magazine

By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; After working 18 years at â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Daily Show,â&#x20AC;? Kahane Cooperman had only a weekend off last summer before starting a job running Amazonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new video version of The New Yorker magazine.

In retrospect, she considers that a blessing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would have lost my nerve if I had more time to think about having to do justice to the institution that is The New Yorker magazine,â&#x20AC;? said Cooperman, who created the series with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going Clearâ&#x20AC;? filmmaker Alex Gibney and Conde Nast Entertainment chief Dawn Ostroff.

The New Yorker regularly features a formidable mix of deeply reported stories and profiles, fiction, slices of life, cultural coverage and cartoons.

Makers of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New Yorker Presentsâ&#x20AC;? achieved the small miracle of capturing the magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhythm and pioneering a â&#x20AC;&#x153;60 Minutesâ&#x20AC;?style newsmagazine with the work done by documentarians instead of news reporters.

Amazon is making two episodes a week available for five weeks, starting Tuesday, then will pause to assess the marketplaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reaction and decide whether to make more.

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Alex Gibney, left, and Kahane Cooperman participated in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New Yorker Presentsâ&#x20AC;? panel on Jan. 11 at The Amazon 2016 Winter TCA in Pasadena, Calif. ries of various lengths, anchored by a longer piece from filmmakers like Gibney, Steve James, Roger Ross Williams, Dawn Porter and Eugene Jarecki. Examples are a profile of the gay star of Mexican wrestling, stories on competitive bull riding and police pursuit of a legendary silver thief, and a look at intelligence agency infighting before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Shorter pieces include a skit with Charles Grodin and John Turturro as a psychiatrist and patient, a story on erotic art created by a Finnish advertising executive and people who tell, in a 12-step-style meeting, of odd encounters with Bill Murray.

Interstitials explore worlds within The New Yorker itself, like its cartoonists and fact checkers. Random Manhattan sites are visited, like a

hat maker in Harlem or the Morbid Anatomy Museum, where hipster girls skin rats.

Most of the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pieces are inspired by things in the magazine, but Gibney didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want video recitations of print articles. He asked filmmakers to focus on angles that interest them. One longer piece, Jareckiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at Cuba, came from nothing that had been in the magazine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What does The New Yorker magazine provide for people?â&#x20AC;? Cooperman asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What it really does in each issue is provide a window into many different worlds. And I thought this show could do something similar.â&#x20AC;?

It fills a void, too. Traditional newsmagazines, with the exception of â&#x20AC;&#x153;60 Minutes,â&#x20AC;? are scarce on network TV. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New Yorker Presentsâ&#x20AC;? and Viceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work with HBO are taking the format in new directions.

The involvement of Gibney and Cooperman sold David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, on an idea he initially regarded with wariness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a complicated customer,â&#x20AC;?

Remnick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything we do thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called The New Yorker, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to sound snobby, but I want it to be as good as the magazine, or at least how I imagine the magazine is.â&#x20AC;?

Not every piece works. An essay on elevators seems caught between sociology and history, and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfy on either level. But the batting average is high, and the show avoids stuffiness. It will appeal to the sensibility of the average New Yorker reader and, Remnick hopes, people who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t familiar with the magazine or website.

Most stories during the initial run were filmed last summer. One of the only real topical pieces, an Adam Gopnik essay on gun violence, was prepared in the aftermath of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting. Gibney said if the series continues heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to figure a way to make it more current and on top of the news. His dream is to make â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New Yorker Presentsâ&#x20AC;? available as often as â&#x20AC;&#x153;60 Minutes.â&#x20AC;?

Producers are also figuring out ways to take advantage of the magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural critics.

Remnick said he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been actively looking to expand into television. But given todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s media environment, he said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be foolish not to listen. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pleased with how the series has turned out, comparing it with the magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own infancy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New Yorker wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very good in 1925,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This program is good right off the bat and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge achievement.â&#x20AC;?

Reynoldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Deadpoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; earns $135M in opening weekend

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer

LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Rrated â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadpoolâ&#x20AC;? has taken the box office by storm, annihilating records with an eyepopping $135 million from its first three days in U.S. theaters, according to comScore estimates Sunday.

The Fox film, which stars Ryan Reynolds as the foulmouthed superhero, easily trounced last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recordsetting $85.2 million February debut of the erotic drama â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fifty Shades of Grey.â&#x20AC;? It also became the biggest R-rated opening ever, surpassing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Matrix Reloaded,â&#x20AC;? which opened to $91.8 million in May of 2003.

Analysts are predicting that the Tim Miller-directed film, which cost a mere $58 million to produce, could go on to make $150 million by the end of the holiday weekend.

As recently as Thursday, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadpoolâ&#x20AC;? was expected to pull in only $80 million across the three days, but the Marvel comic, often a bestseller, proved its popular appeal and then some â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to compromise with a PG-13 rating either. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This movie is the very definition of an expectationbuster. Nobody saw this coming,â&#x20AC;? said Paul Dergarabedian, comScoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior media analyst. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like a cookie-cutter superhero movie. It feels like something unique. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to sometimes take risks and go against conventional wisdom to come out a winner.â&#x20AC;?

IMAX screens accounted for an estimated $16.8 million of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadpoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? total.

The film, notably, was not released in 3-D. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadpoolâ&#x20AC;? also had a massive showing internationally, bringing in an estimated $125 million from 62 territories for a $260 million global total.

The debut is also a bit of a superhero redemption story for Reynolds, whose costly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Lanternâ&#x20AC;? adaptation disappointed audiences and

at the box office in 2011.

Coming in a distant second was last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 film, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kung Fu Panda 3,â&#x20AC;? with $19.7 million, which fell only 7 percent. The DreamWorks Animation film has earned $93.9 million in just three weeks in theaters.

In third place, the R-rated Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson rom-com â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Be Singleâ&#x20AC;? didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make any big waves with its $18.8 million out of the gates. The Warner Bros. film cost $38 million to produce and provided some counter programming to the hyper-violent â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadpool.â&#x20AC;?

The dismally reviewed Ben Stiller comedy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zoolander 2,â&#x20AC;? meanwhile, debuted in fourth place to only $15.7 million.

The Paramount film, which Stiller directed, cost around $50 million to make. The first film, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zoolander,â&#x20AC;? opened in 2001, just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, to a meek $15.5 million and went on to gross only $45.2 million in North America.

It found a second life on home video, though, and has become a quotable cultural staple. Audiences seem less enthusiastic this time around, though.

Dergarabedian thought that both â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Be Singleâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zoolander 2â&#x20AC;? could have seen a healthy uptick from the Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day

crowd Sunday. But overall, the box office is healthy, up an estimated 3.2 percent from last year and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all thanks to the snarky, fourthwall-busting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadpoolâ&#x20AC;? and its historic debut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are summer numbers,â&#x20AC;? Dergarabedian said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer in February.â&#x20AC;?

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to comScore.

1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deadpool,â&#x20AC;? $135 million ($125 million international) 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kung Fu Panda 3,â&#x20AC;? $19.7 million ($14.6 million international) 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Be Single,â&#x20AC;? $18.8

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NEW CONSTRUCTION. 5 minute drive from Downtown. 3 Bedroom 2.5 Bath 1,750 sq ft, 1 car integral, garage 2 driveway spots, finished basement, wood floors. $329,900. Call Racheallee Lacek (412) 225-3404

NEWLY Remodeled 4 bdr, with a full basement, 2.5 bath located in Homer City. 1 block from main street and walking distance to school. Asking $109,995. (724) 422-2183

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: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016

by Phillip Alder

COULD SOMEONE HAVE ALL FOUR TRUMPS? Albert SzentGyoergyi, a Hungarian-American physiologist who won a Nobel Prize in 1937, said, “Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.”

That relates to bridge, where you use your eyes and brain all the time, machines help with scoring in duplicates, and money is sometimes involved, either as an entry fee or because you play for small stakes.

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“four” is relevant to this deal. How should South plan the play in six diamonds after West leads the club jack?

North’s two-notrump response showed a balanced hand with eight points or more.

South’s four-club rebid was the aceasking Gerber convention. He then settled into six diamonds, a tad worried that in six no-trump a heart lead through his king-jack might give the defenders the first two tricks. (Here, the right line in six no-trump is the same as in six diamonds.)

The only danger is a 4-0 trump split. If West has all four, the contract is unmakable. But if East has them, he can be held to one trick with careful play. South should win the first trick in his hand and lead a high diamond.

Suppose East wins (it does not help to duck) and shifts to a spade. South takes the trick, plays a club to dummy’s king, and leads a diamond, capturing East’s nine with his jack. Back to the board with a heart, declarer leads another diamond through East to make his slam.

Always try to handle bad splits if you can.

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SPACIOUS One bdrm, Indiana. $490 month incl. sewage, garbage & water. (412) 289-0382 TWO Bdrm Apt. $625/mo & 2 Bdrm Apt., $575/mo + utilities, No pets. Security deposit. Credit check. 724-599-5902

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Indiana: Beauty Shop & 2nd Floor apartment, available immeadiatley, For Information Call (724) 357-8255

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OFFICE Space along busy Rte 422, Elderton, at the traffic light. Suitable for small office or salon type business. Call for details. (724) 354-3048 between 9am-noon.

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INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Walking Carrier Needed to deliver newspapers daily (7 days a week).

Indiana Boro and White Twp. If you are at least 12 years old, and you have dreamed of owning your own business.

Call Donna (724) 465-5555 ext 204.

ASTROGRAPH ❂✵✪ ❂ Your Birthday TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016

by Eugenia Last Keep life simple and your emotions under control, and make the lifestyle changes that you feel are best instead of bending to what others want you to do. Use your energy wisely and make every move and decision count. Offer your services to those in need.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Positive alterations will make it easier for you to pursue a dream, project or pastime.

Don’t let someone else take charge or you won’t get things done your way.

PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — You’ll create confusion with your changeable attitude and mood swings.

Money, fitness or legal matters can be improved if you are thrifty, healthconscious and orderly.

ARIES (March 21April 19) — Surprise someone by doing something out-of-theordinary or special.

Your kind gesture will bring you closer together.

Money matters can be resolved if you communicate openly.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Don’t let anger control you. If you don’t like the way things are being done, do them yourself.

Taking action is the best way to get ahead while getting what you want.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Use your charm and show your willingness to get things done. Set your priorities and follow through on your plans with discipline in order to bypass someone trying to give you a hard time.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Show a little passion and excitement about

life and the people you love. An original idea to please someone will go over well and win you favors.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Uncertainty in a relationship will help you recognize what you want. Make whatever changes are necessary to turn your intentions into reality. You will impress someone special with your thoughtfulness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Take a proactive approach to whatever you do.

Don’t feel that you have to do everything in a conservative manner. Sometimes it pays to think outside the box when it comes to bringing about change.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — If you put greater effort into moneymaking opportunities, contractual negotiations and your health, you will succeed.

Don’t procrastinate or wait for someone else to do things for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Use your energy wisely. A creative project will lead to greater recognition, as long as you are careful not to go over budget. Do the work yourself and save money.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You’ll be noticed one way or another. Be careful not to do something that makes you look bad or hampers your chance to advance.

All eyes will be on you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Time and patience will pay off.

Do everything you can to improve a situation with a friend, relative or neighbor.

Getting along with others will be the best way to go.

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TANNING SALON For sale. Perfect for owner/ operator. Can be expanded to hair, skin, nail salon, Email for info.

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Part/Full time experience cooks wanted. Hourly wage based on experience. Stop in to apply.

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Anew Home Health Agency REGISTERED NURSE Interviewing for a fulltime registered nurse position. Candidate must have two years of nursing experience; home health experience is not required. Benefits package available.

MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER

Accepting applications for a Medical Social Worker.

This is a casual position.

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MEDICAL MARKETING DIRECTOR Accepting applications for a Marketing position.

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DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL Fayette Resources, a local non-profit agency, is seeking caring individuals to work with adults who have intellectual disabilities in the Indiana County Area.

Full Time positions available. Fayette Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All interested applicants may apply in person at: Indiana West Shopping Plaza, Suite 900, 2450 Philadelphia St, Indiana, Pa 15801 or call 724-464-5270.

Open Interviews on Feb 17 from 10a - 3p

is seeking full time seasonal sales personnel.

Various positions available.

Knowledge of plants helpful but not a must.

Will train.

Bring resume and apply at the main office 1880 RT 119 HWY North Indiana, PA 15701

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IN home care giver for the elderly. 25 plus years experience. Honest & dependable.

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Only Chem-Dry® Carpet Cleaning uses “The Natural”® for a deep clean that’s also green and dries in 1-2 hours.

CALL BRENDA AT CHEM-DRY® OF INDIANA COUNTY

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HANDYMAN FOR HIRE, INC Home Remodeling, maintenance & repairs. handymanforhireonline.com

Is seeking a Part Time RN In Indiana County Must be able to work independently. Strong critical thinking skills are a must.

Must have a current PA nursing and drivers license.

Apply on line at: www.helpmatesinc.com or call 1-855-357-4122 EOE ACTION ADS Use Classified action ads to sell items you no longer need or want. Phone (724 ) 349-4949.

Marion Center Bank is seeking a courteous and outgoing customer service oriented individual able to fill a part-time teller position in the Clymer Office.

This position is for 20-24 hours per week.

Ideal candidate should have proven cash handling experience, possess good basic math skills and be able to work a flexible schedule.

Please send resume to: Marion Center Bank Human Resources Department PO Box 130, Indiana, PA 15701 EOE/AA/M/F/H/V

PARTTIME PROGRAM MONITORS Firetree, Ltd., a leading provider of drug & alcohol treatment programs has a need for Program Monitors at our inpatient facility located in Indiana, PA. Duties include: admission intakes, security checks, client accountability, supervise client activities and medication monitoring.

Minimum qualifications: high school diploma and experience in effectively dealing with the public. Must be willing to work different shifts and some weekends and holidays. Must pass required criminal background checks and drug screen.

Resumes will be accepted until suitable candidates are found.

Conewago - Indiana Attn: Joseph Duffey, Director 2275 Warren Road or Fax: 724-471-7105 e-mail: jduffey@firetree.com Firetree, Ltd. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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5 DESIGNER Mens Leather jackets with Thinsulate, size XL, $200.

(724) 459-7702

2 SMALL Electric heaters, 1 is $20 and 1 is $45.

(724) 465-4907 or (724) 840-8111

REAL beaver coat, 1930’s excellent condition, mize medium. $250.00 (724) 639-4056

ORECK Sweeper + 4 bags, good condition. $75. (724) 479-9683

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100 Cup Coffee Pot, asking $30, Call (724) 254-0325 Chest Of Drawers , 4 drawers, excellent condition, asking $50 Call (724) 464-8571 MECHANICAL Chair Lift, brown in color, Still new, will deliver, asking $700.

Call (724) 549-7858 VALENTINE Dishes 4 piece, 4 place setting, new in box’s, lots of extras available, Asking $65.

Call (724) 397-8124 WHITE Floral Sofa, in excellent condition, used very little, asking $300.

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Appliances For Sale

GE Refrigerator, 2 door, freezer on top, excellent working condition, asking $150. For Info. Call (724) 801-8708 WILLIAMS Appliance, 30 years. Selling quality new & used. (724) 397-2761.

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Complete Drum set, call for details to much to mention, asking $3000.

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VCR machine with remote, good condition. $25.00 (724) 459-8861

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

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Autos For Sale

1994 Ford Ranger, 3.0, standard, great for parts or can be inspected with a little work, asking $1000 OBO. Call (724) 549-4938 1996 Ford Ranger, 4x4, 4.0 v6, 5 speed, capped, inspection 1/17, 165k, $2500 OBO Call (724) 397-1120 WANTED old cars from 1930’s through 1970’s’.

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Muscle cars, street rod, wagon or anything unique.

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REPO 2005 Dodge Ram, 3500, Cummins turbo diesel, 6 speed manual, 190k miles, SLP. Bids excepted till 2/19. Call Ken at 724-464-2265 ext.

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LARGE Pet Porter for 80 lb plus dog, good condition, still woks. $25.00 Call (724) 349-3270

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As Seen On TV : Elevated Urban Rebounder, and a Air Climber Stepper, ranked urban best cardio equip., both include a mega workout dvd & books, asking $100/both.

(724) 762-1779 IMPEX 4000 Leisure Glide Exercise Machine. rowing type. Like new. $25. Call (724) 349-9068

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