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Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area people: Caroline Lieb and Steven Turner, Misty McCurdy and David Ly, Brandon Wu, Vivian Douglas.

Inside SEVEN CHARGED: The U.S. indicted seven Iranianlinked hackers accused of cyberattacks on dozens of banks and a small dam near New York City./Page 3 1949-2016: Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian pioneered a pretend brand of selffocused docudrama with “The Larry Sanders Show,” died Thursday at age 66./Page 4 JUDGE FINED: Pennsylvania’s judicial ethics court on Thursday fined former Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin $50,000 for his role in a scandal over lewd emails./Page 5 CHATBOT ABUSED: Artificial-intelligence software designed by Microsoft to tweet like a teenage girl has been suspended after it began spouting offensive remarks./Page 7 GENOCIDE CONVICTION: A U.N. war crimes court on Thursday convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for orchestrating the carnage./Page 9 MOTIVATIONAL FUEL: Angel Piccirillo is using a close loss in the NCAA Championships as a springboard into her spring season at Villanova University./Page 11

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Deaths Obituaries on Page 4 BRODSKY, S. David, 90, Thornton, Colo., formerly of Indiana SHENANDOAH, Marcus Lee, 46, Tampa, Fla., formerly of Indiana

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Cooking show set for April 5 will benefit ICCAP food bank

By MARGARET WEAVER

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People who work with food as a career, such as chefs or dietitians, have something they want you to know — not all the food they consume at home is complicated to fix with special ingredients that are hard to find.

Like the rest of us, sometimes they need an easy meal to throw together quickly on a busy day.

But quick doesn’t need to mean unhealthy or tasteless, and that’s where this year’s Indiana’s Cookin’ show, sponsored by The Indiana Gazette, comes in.

With a theme of Making it Easy, this year’s show highlights how to prepare good food with a minimal amount of work.

“You can have good food made simply,” said Debbie Palmer, the Gazette’s creative director. “It doesn’t have to be hard to be good.”

Indiana’s Cookin’, which benefits the Indiana County Community Action Program’s food bank, is set with two shows at 4 and 7 p.m. April 5 in the Toretti Auditorium of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

Doors open at 3 p.m. for the vendor sale, with more than 20 vendors from Continued on Page 10

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Cookin’ supplement to meet the interns, culinary students and chefs who are involved in this year’s show.

Good Friday speaker tells of new life after shooting “SO FOR me to go through what I’ve gone through and not have a spiritual awakening would be irresponsible.”

By RANDY WELLS

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Through Christ’s death and his resurrection three days later, “God made the impossible possible,” Brett Parks said this morning at the Indiana County YMCA. Speaking to about 240 guests at the Y’s annual Good Friday Breakfast, Parks told the story of how God’s intervention, too, reversed a nearimpossible situation in his own life.

In October 2012, Parks was a Navy flight engineer and certified personal fitness trainer in Jacksonville, Fla., when, without hesitation, he responded to screams for help and chased down a mugger. The attacker fired a gun from inside his sweatshirt pocket, and a bullet tore through Parks’ kidney, his intestines and the largest vein in his body.

As a medical team struggled to save Parks’ life, his wife received the bleak news that her husband had virtually no chance of surviving, and that their unborn daughter and young son likely would grow up without their father. Parks was hospitalized four months, was in a coma nearly three weeks and had 14 surgeries in 20 days. To save him, surgeons amputated part of his right leg.

“God took that and flipped it,” Parks said this morning.

He survived the near-death experience and his doctors dubbed him “the miracle man.”

And he said that because of his miraculous recovery, his Continued on Page 10

Brett Parks

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2 from U.S. died in terror attacks

By MATTHEW LEE

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BRETT PARKS spoke this morning at the YMCA while his dog Freedom lay on the stage.

BRUSSELS — At least two Americans have been confirmed killed in the Brussels attacks, a U.S. official said today, as Secretary of State John Kerry visited the stricken city to express condolences and defended Belgium’s counter-terrorism efforts against “carping” by critics.

Speaking after meeting Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, Kerry said the “United States is praying and grieving with you for the loved ones of those cruelly taken from us, including Americans, and for the many who were injured in these despicable attacks.”

Kerry did not offer specific details, but a senior official said the families of two Americans had been informed of their deaths in the attacks Tuesday. The official, who was not authorized to speak to the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, did not have further details. The bombings killed 31 people and wounded 270.

However, the family of two New York City siblings confirmed that authorities confirmed they died in the terrorist bombings in Brussels.

Belgian authorities and the Dutch Embassy positively identified the remains of Alexander and Sascha Pinczowski.

The information was issued today by James Cain on behalf of the Pinczowski family. Cain is the father of Alexander’s fiance, Cameron Cain.

He said the family is “grateful to have closure on this tragic situation.”

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Fire guts post office in Coral

Gazette earns seven awards from PNA

By CHAUNCEY ROSS

The Indiana Gazette has won seven awards in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Keystone Press Awards.

The Gazette garnered three first-place awards, two second-place awards and two honorable mentions in various categories in the annual contest, which measured newspapers’ work in 2015 against other Pennsylvania papers in each respective division.

Award winners were: • Tony Coccagna, first place in the special project category for The Road to Evansville, a supplement about the IUP men’s basketball team’s road to the Elite Eight, published March 24 • Jamie Empfield, first place, feature photo, for “Cowgirl struggle,” printed Aug. 31. The image showed Ryeley States, 2, of Rochester Mills, trying to control her goat at the Indiana County Fair.

• Tony Coccagna, second place for sports column, for columns published on March 29 (“Good story, sad end”), Continued on Page 10

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CORAL — Fire raced through a two-story building housing the local post office Thursday evening, forcing the U.S. Postal Service to make new arrangements for area residents to get their mail.

The fire started in a one-and-ahalf-story addition that served as a garage and storage space for the building along First Street, but the cause wasn’t immediately determined, said Fire Chief Sam McAdams of the Coral-Graceton volunteer fire company.

No one was reported to be injured. McAdams said the building appeared to be destroyed.

“It looked like it started back there, and that was the part that was on fire when we pulled in,” McAdams said. “It was already starting to spread into the second story.

In my opinion it is a total loss.”

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FIREFIGHTERS USED a ladder truck Thursday night to spray water into the fire at the Coral Post Office.

The fire was reported about 9:45 p.m. to the Indiana County 911 center. Dispatchers sent a half dozen fire departments to the scene and alerted several others to standby status.

The fire spread quickly to an unoccupied second-floor living area and the post office sustained severe smoke and water damage.

But firefighters saved the mail, said Postal Inspector Tammy Mayle, of Pittsburgh.

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“The best news is we were able to secure and recover all the mail,” Mayle said this morning. “And there was a letter in the blue box out front.”

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PAGE 2 • Firefighters were also busy Thursday with a blaze along Knox Street in White Township.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL Loretta Lynch, accompanied by FBI Director James Comey, spoke Thursday during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington.

U.S. indicts seven Iranian hackers

By TAMI ABDOLLAH and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The seven Iranian hackers charged with attacking dozens of banks and a small dam near New York City may never see the inside of a courtroom, but U.S. officials hope their “name and shame� tactic sends a message to foreign governments that support such attacks.

Indictments announced Thursday by the Justice Department portrayed Tehran-linked hackers reaching into the U.S. infrastructure and disrupting its financial system. It was the first time the FBI attributed a breach of a U.S. computer system that controls critical infrastructure to a hacker linked to a foreign government.

None of the individuals is in American custody and it’s unclear if they’ll ever be arrested or whether criminal indictments in absentia effectively combat such crimes. Publicly naming and shaming such crimes linked to foreign governments is a tactic focused on by the Justice Department since 2012.

The hackers are accused of infecting thousands of people’s computers with malware to create a network of computers to overwhelm servers of major institutions and knock them offline. Targets included the Bank of America, Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. “The attacks were relent-

less, systematic and widespread,� said Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “They threatened our economic well-being and our ability to compete fairly in the global marketplace,� which she said “are directly linked to our national security.�

The seven defendants are Ahmad Fathi, 37; Hamid Firoozi, 34; Amin Shokohi, 25; Sadegh Ahmadzadega, 23; Omid Ghaffarinia, 25; Sina Keissar, 25; and Nader Saedi, 26. Firoozi is charged alone for hacking the dam.

Shokohi received credit from the Iranian government toward his mandatory military service for his work in the attacks, the U.S. alleges.

One of the alleged hackers, Firoozi, is accused of repeatedly gaining access to the control system of the Bowman Avenue Dam, a small flood-control structure in Rye Brook, about 20 miles north of New York City.

Officials termed his access “a frightening frontier on cybercrime,� and said the hacker could have operated a digitally controlled sluice gate, potentially flooding portions of the city of Rye, if the gate had not been disconnected for maintenance at the time.

The hacker still gained information about the dam’s operations, including its water level, temperature and the sluice gate.

While that attack did no harm, one official said the hacker obtained knowledge about the computer system that could be used on other dams and infrastructure.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Corporations expressed disappointment and the NCAA vowed to monitor what North Carolina does next now that the state has banned any local government measures protecting people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

American Airlines, which operates its second-largest hub in Charlotte; IBM and Biogen, which have facilities in the state’s Research Triangle; and payments processor PayPal, which had announced plans to hire 400 people in Charlotte only last week, were among major employers condemning the new law Thursday.

The Legislature called a special session Wednesday to void a Charlotte ordinance that would have enabled transgender people to legally use restrooms aligned with their gender identity, and would have provided broad protections against discrimination in public accommodations in the state’s largest city.

The new law now prevents the state’s cities and counties from passing their own antidiscrimination rules, and instead imposes a statewide standard that leaves out sexual orientation and gender identity.

North Carolina is the first state to require public school and university students to use only those bathrooms that match their birth certificates, according to the National Conference on State Legislatures.

The state law “is a clear step backwards. Sad day,� tweeted Jim Whitehurst, chief executive of Raleighbased open-source software company Red Hat. The economic impact will take time to quantify. There were no immediate threats to withdraw business from the state, which has seen booming growth and an influx of “knowledge workers� in Charlotte and Raleigh, even as rural towns lag behind economically.

Other businesses have voiced support for the measure Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed into law late Wednesday, a spokesman for

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PEOPLE PROTESTED outside the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday. his re-election campaign said. Spokesman Ricky Diaz did not respond when asked which businesses backed the governor’s decision.

About 200 protesters blocked a downtown Raleigh street in front of the state’s Executive Mansion Thursday evening. Police said in a statement that five people were arrested after they sat down in the street and refused orders to disperse.

McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor, stays in the mansion while in the state capital but was not there at the time of the protest, spokesman Josh Ellis said.

Demonstrators like Alex Berkman complained that lawmakers acted quickly before Charlotte’s example could be adopted by other communities. “The way that these things work is that one place will pass a law and then another place will pass a law and then we start to build momentum,� said Berkman, 29, of Raleigh.

Democrats warned that North Carolina risks losing billions in federal education dollars by conflicting with Title IX anti-discrimination regulations that apply in public schools. Republican lawmakers downplayed the threat Wednesday.

The NCAA, which is scheduled to hold men’s basketball tournament games in Greensboro in 2017 and Charlotte in 2018, said it takes diversity into account

when it chooses its event sites. The National Basketball Association said it is too early to know if the new law will affect Charlotte hosting the league’s all-star game in 2017.

Supporters say the new law protects all people from having to share bathrooms with people who make them feel unsafe.

Advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights say it demonizes them with bogus claims about bathroom risks. “The disappointment, anger and fear many are feeling today is beyond words.

What’s worse is this will likely not be our last defeat,�

Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin wrote in an online column Thursday.

Bathroom use has proved to be a potent wedge issue across the country since Houston’s anti-discrimination law was overwhelmingly voted down in a referendum last year, but LGBT advocates have had some victories, too.

South Dakota’s Legislature failed to override Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s veto of a bill requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their birth gender, and a similar bill in Tennessee bill died Tuesday.

The LGBT movement won’t likely table the bathroom issue to focus on other areas

of discrimination, said Katherine Franke, a Columbia university law professor and director of the school’s Gender and Sexuality Law center. “The issues of discrimination and violence against transgender people in the context of bathrooms are so overwhelming, that to them it is a cutting-edge problem,� she said. “Overwhelmingly, it’s transgender people who are the victims of violence in the bathroom setting. ... This is a basic human need.�

Instead, advocates will likely try to win more acceptance from society about transgender people and their particular challenges, said Dru Levasseur, director of Transgender Rights Project at the civil rights group Lambda Legal. “The LGBT movement is right now focusing its efforts on educating people about who transgender people are, and that is the antidote to this battle,� Levasseur said.

The issue won’t likely go away as North Carolina’s Democratic Attorney General, Roy Cooper, tries to unseat McCrory in November.

Republicans see the law as protecting business owners who have a religious objection to gays and lesbians, and political differences with liberal local governments. Democrats see the law as proof that the GOP won’t protect minorities.

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2 from U.S. die in terror attacks Continued from Page 1 The siblings were on the phone with a relative at Brussels airport when the phone went dead.

They were Dutch nationals, according to officials in the Netherlands, but both apparently had lived in the U.S. for some time.

Kerry’s hastily arranged visit to Brussels today came the day after at least six people were detained in raids linked to Tuesday’s attacks on the Brussels airport and subway system. Belgian prosecutors were expected to decide later today whether to charge or release them, and other raids were reportedly underway today.

Belgian state media reported today that two explosions were heard and one person was detained in police raids in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek.

It is not clear whether the raids are linked to the investigation into Tuesday’s attacks. At least one suspect in those attacks is at large, and it is unclear whether there were other accomplices.

State broadcaster RTBF reported multiple police operations were underway in Schaerbeek, and one person was been detained. It reported one explosion was heard at the start of the operation and cited witnesses describing gunfire.

Police earlier this week found a large stash of explosives in an apartment in Schaerbeek believed to have been used by suicide bombers in Tuesday’s attacks.

And French counterterrorism police detained a man Thursday who officials say was in the advanced stages of an attack plot.

Officials told The Associated Press that the suspect, Reda Kriket, 34, had a past Belgian terrorism conviction and was linked to the suspected ringleader of November’s Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

Kerry said all governments must consistently improve their strategies to fight terrorism, but maintained that Belgium had made significant improvements over the past year despite failing to

stop Tuesday’s attacks. He noted that Belgium had actively sought additional assistance and that 10 or 11 FBI agents are now in Brussels helping with the investigation.

Kerry’s comments came as top members of Belgium’s embattled government face lawmakers amid heightened criticism of the country’s counterterrorism efforts since — and before — the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people and which authorities believe were plotted from Belgium.

Turkey announced this week that it had warned Belgium last year that one of the Brussels attackers, Ibrahim El Bakraoui, had been flagged as a “foreign terrorist fighter.” The attacks have laid bare intelligence shortcomings that have prompted European authorities to call for quicker and more efficient cooperation.

“People are jumping to conclusions,” Kerry said of critics. “I think they are looking for things that just sometimes are very difficult to analyze in the immediate aftermath of something.”

“I don’t know what all the circumstances were, I don’t know if some events or evidence or opportunities were missed specifically,” he told reporters at the residence of the U.S. ambassador to Belgium. “That will come over a period of time, but I think all this carping four days later is a little bit frantic and inappropriate.”

Kerry said that prior to the recent attacks, the U.S. and other countries had already scheduled a number of meetings with Belgium about specific improvements they could make to their laws, intelligence collection and attempts to blunt the radicalization of youth in particular.

He said the reason the Islamic State group “is resorting to actions outside the Middle East is that its fantasy of a caliphate is collapsing before their eyes; its territory is shrinking. Its leaders are decimated. Its revenue sources are dwindling, and its fighters are fleeing.”

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Hit-and-run State police reported a truck driven by Richard Ondo, of Homer City, hit a parked pickup truck owned by Samuel Dunmire, of Homer City, at 3:15 p.m. March 11 on Mazza Street.

Ondo, 62, left the scene of the accident and later was cited with hit-and-run and two other summary traffic violations, according to police.

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Drug charges State police said they charged three people with possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia at 12:09 p.m. Tuesday at Resort Plaza Drive along Route 22.

Police did not name the three suspects, a 36-year-old Jeannette man, a 32-year-old Ruffs Dale man and a 24year-old Ruffs Dale woman. Troopers said they stopped the vehicle for an equipment violation and a search of the vehicle revealed drugs and paraphernalia.

Property abandoned A man who appeared to be middle-aged left a backpack on a chair in the lobby of Hampton Inn at 5:25 a.m. Thursday, state police reported.

Investigators found several unspecified items but no identification inside the backpack, according to a report.

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Theft Someone stole a 2004 Suzuki all-terrain vehicle between June 1 and Sept. 1 from 132 Setree Drive and sold it without the owner’s permission, state police reported Wednesday.

Troopers withheld the name of the suspect and the ATV owner who raised the allegations.

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Drug offenses State police charged three people with narcotics violations following a traffic stop at 5:14 p.m. March 16 on Route 28, according to a report.

The driver, Michael Anthony, 44, of Kittanning, was charged Monday with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of a controlled substance and five summary traffic infractions.

Blake Copenhaver, 21, of Rural Valley, a passenger, was charged with possession of heroin and related paraphernalia.

Troopers reported Maudie Cochran, 26, of Kittanning, also was charged with possession of heroin and paraphernalia, and was lodged at Armstrong County Jail for a probation violation.

Hearings for Anthony and Cochran are scheduled for May 3. No court action has been scheduled on the charges against Copenhaver.

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Scattering rubbish Robert L. Heitzenrater, 53, of Punxsutawney, faces a citation of scattering rubbish after state police said he disposed of 25 bags of garbage along Lenyok Road between Yates and Sportsburg roads between Dec. 1 and Dec. 7.

OBITUARIES S. David Brodsky S. David Brodsky, 90, of Thornton, Colo., formerly of Greensboro, N.C., and Indiana, died Thursday, March 24, 2016, from renal and congestive heart failure at the Villas at Sunny Acres Hospice in Thornton, Colo.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Oct. 15, 1925, Mr. Brodsky was raised in Canton, Ohio, and Indiana, where he graduated from Indiana High School in 1943, and enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He briefly attended Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., as part of the Air Corps pilot training, before formally graduating with a degree in business education from Indiana State Teachers College in 1949.

He worked for Allied Department Stores in New York City and Cincinnati before returning to Indiana to assist in the family scrap metal and new steel business, Brodsky & Company, where he would remain as vice president until 1978.

Mr. Brodsky then partnered with his late wife Charlotte at Aztec Travel Service in Indiana, and would later serve as a regional chapter president of SKAL, an international association of travel professionals.

He was a member of the Lions Club, Coudersport Consistory of Free Masons, Jaffa Mosque, Beth Israel Synagogue, Indiana Country Club and The Cardinal Golf & Country Club in Greensboro, serving on the latter’s homeowners’ board of directors.

He was a proud supporter of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Duke University athletics.

He is survived by his son, Stefan Brodsky, and wife Roberta, of Thornton, Colo.; grandson Michael MedinaBrodsky and his wife, Danielle Larson, of Longmont, Colo.; great-grandchildren Mika and Dominic Medina, both of Longmont, Colo.; loving niece Gail Bleckman and her husband, Marshall, of Canton, Ohio; and numerous other nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends.

Mr. Brodsky was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph and Sarah Brodsky; his wife, Charlotte D. Brodsky; son Joshua Brodsky; and siblings Helen Goldfarb, Irene Schwartz and Stanley Brodsky.

At Mr. Brodsky’s request, no funeral or formal services are planned. Cremation was handled by Aspen Mortuaries, Lakewood, Colo.

Jessica Gess Jessica Marie Gess, 17, of Home, became an Angel way too soon on Saturday, March 19, 2016.

Jessica attended ICTC, where she studied in the health occupations field. She aspired to become a surgical assistant.

She was also an avid horse enthusiast. She participated in summer horse camps where she enjoyed trail riding, showing and jumping.

Jess was also a gifted athlete and participated in four volleyball and three softball leagues. These coaches, fellow athletes and equestrians were Jess’s extended family.

She is surely hitting home runs, spiking volleyballs and jumping horses over the pearly gates of heaven.

She will be greatly missed by her mom; brothers Glenn and Gauge; and all who she touched with her smile on the court and field and off.

Her brother Glenn referred to her as his “Little Buddy” as she was to many.

She was preceded in death by her dad, Glenn B. Gess Jr.;

a pap, Glenn B. Gess Sr.; great-grandmother Mary Long; and several aunts and uncles.

A memorial service will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday at the Summit Church, 2707 West Pike, Indiana. Please wear purple, Jess’s favorite color, and bring pictures, posters, PowerPoint presentations and stories to share.

McCabe Funeral Home, 300 W. Third Avenue, Derry, is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences may be made to www.mccabe funeralhomespa.com.

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Comedian Shandling dies in L.A. at 66 LOS ANGELES (AP) — While Garry Shandling’s fellow comedians fought to host a late-night show, he brushed away the prospect.

“I would not do a show where you just sit and talk to somebody,” the humorist said in 1993 when he was courted by NBC to succeed David Letterman on “Late Night.”

He’d blown up the format with “The Larry Sanders Show,” the HBO series about the making of a fictional talk show that drew on his own neurotic self-absorption — and that of Hollywood — for exquisite satire.

Doctors said that Shandling, 66, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack, according to Alan Nierob, his spokesman. Shandling, who was taken to a hospital after paramedics were dispatched to his Brentwood home, had no history of heart trouble, Nierob said.

Coroner’s Lt. David Smith said it appeared Shandling died of natural causes but an official cause of death determination had not yet been made.

No autopsy was planned, but officials would determine Shandling’s cause of death based on medical records and his medical history.

His death prompted an outpouring of respect and affection from the comedy community.

“Garry Shandling was one of the most brilliant people I have ever known,” Billy Crystal tweeted. Steve Martin lauded Shandling’s “beautifully unpredictable mind” in a Twitter post.

Shandling had a face and voice made for comedy, with pillowy lips that delivered punchlines in a tone that

verged on whining.

In a 2009 interview with The Associated Press, he explained his perspective on his art.

“The answer isn’t gonna be in the facts,” he said. “It’s gonna be in intuition. That’s how I work creatively. I’m always teaching people that the answer to that creative question is right here, in the room, between us here.”

More to the point, it was dealing with the questions he confronted in himself.

Born on Nov. 29, 1949, in Chicago, Shandling was raised in Tucson, Ariz. On arriving in Los Angeles as a young adult, it was a short hop from a brief stint in the advertising business to comedy writing and stand-up.

Then in the 1980s, he began to experiment with TV comedy, and to toy with the sitcom form, with his first series, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” a Showtime project that made no bones about its inherently artificial nature: The actors in this otherwise standard domestic comedy routinely broke the fourth wall to comment on what they were up to. Even the theme song began with the explanatory lyrics, “The theme to Garry’s show ...”

Then, in August 1992, Shandling created for HBO his comic masterpiece with “The Larry Sanders Show,” which starred him as an egomaniacal late-night TV host with an angst-ridden showbiz life behind the scenes.

It was just three months after Johnny Carson had retired from “The Tonight Show,” where Shandling had appeared as a stand-up and occasional Carson stand-in.

It seemed a wry but deeply felt homage to the King of Late Night.

Helen Marcozzi Helen C. Marcozzi, 89, of Murrysville, died Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at Autumn Ridge Assisted Living, Monroeville.

Visitation will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the James F. Ferguson Funer-

al Home Inc., Blairsville, the time of services with Pastor Tom Spiker officiating.

Interment will be in SS. Simon & Jude Cemetery, Blairsville. www.jamesfergusonfuneral home.com

William McCracken William “Bubba” J. McCracken, 58, of Indiana, passed away Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at Indiana Regional Medical Center.

He was born 1957 in Indiana, to Earl and Mary Vuckovich McCracken.

He was first employed with his father and brother at L.E. McCracken & Sons Building Contractors for many years.

He was also employed by R&P Coal Co. for nine years and by Gorell Windows and Doors LLC for 13 years.

Bubba enjoyed sports, especially watching his nieces and nephews play baseball and football and dance. He was always the quarterback at the annual family Turkey Bowl.

Bubba is survived by his wife, Barbara M. Rabickow Ploskunak, of Indiana; a special nephew, Kyle Kunkle, of Pawleys Island, S.C., who acted as a caregiver during his illness; four sisters and

one brother: Maureen Mock and husband Jeffery, of Homer City; Kathy McClelland, of Pawleys Island, S.C.; David McCracken and wife Deborah, of Homer City; Mary Lou Moreau and husband James, of Finleyville; and Bridget McCracken and companion Nick Teck, of Indiana; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and by a nephew, Bryan Baudet.

Friends will be received on Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana, where a funeral service will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Scott Rising officiating. Interment will be made in the Oakland Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 510 Pellis Road, Suite 203, Greensburg, PA 15601. www.bowserminich.com

Marcus Lee Shenandoah Marcus Lee Shenandoah, 46, of Tampa, Fla., passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, March 10, 2016, at the Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, New Port Richey, Fla., with his sister Terry Lea Pepin and family friend Shawn Brown by his side.

Marc was born in Euclid, Ohio, to Rosanne Elaine Shenandoah, of Tampa, Fla., and the late Leroy Shenandoah. He lived most of his childhood in Indiana and attended Indiana Senior High School.

Marc was an accomplished 9-ball player and competed in pool tournaments around the country. He also had a love of the game of golf and played extensively as a young man. His major source of pride and happiness were his three wonderful children.

He was a great man of faith and we know he is now in the arms of the Lord and at peace.

He is survived by his daughter, Brittany Nicole, wife of Jesse Dyer, of Elizabethtown; his granddaughter Hailey Dyer; son Benjamin

Shenandoah, of Mountville; and sisters Terry Lea Pepin, of Tampa, Fla., and Jill Shenandoah Edwards, of San Clemente, Calif.

He was preceded in death by his youngest daughter, Brianne Shenandoah; his grandson Camden; his sister Victoria Gavin; and brother James Pitzerell Jr. Family and friends are invited to attend a service at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at The Mill, 813 Rothsville Road, Lititz, followed by interment at Witness Park Cemetery in Lititz.

Blaze tears through post office in Coral Continued from Page 1 The Coral post office is open four hours a day as a customer service office, where residents in ZIP code 15731 can pick up their mail from post-office boxes each day.

Customers will now pick up their mail at the Homer City post office. Mayle said it is uncertain whether the postal service will replace the Coral facility, or whether the pickup arrangement at Homer City will be permanent.

Gary and Linda Alsop own the building. Gary Alsop, an assistant chief of the CoralGraceton fire department, said he has insurance coverage on the building.

The blaze left a gaping hole on the second floor of the north side of the building, where vinyl siding melted and dripped from the structure.

Another hole appeared on the south side of the second floor, where siding appeared to have been pulled away in pieces.

Jason Lawson, a resident in a house about 70 to 80 yards

to the north, said the building was well engulfed in fire as he arrived home.

“The Homer City firetrucks were pulling in about the same time and they started pouring water on my house, because the embers were blowing over here,” Lawson said. Dozens of Coral-Graceton area residents lined First Street to watch the firefighters at work.

Some of the fire crews were dismissed from the scene at about 11:30 p.m. The post office had personnel stationed at the scene overnight to keep constant watch.

The Coral-Graceton, Black Lick, Homer City, Blairsville, Brush Valley and Coal Run/ McIntyre fire departments, Indiana and Clyde fire department tank trucks, Indiana County rapid intervention team and Citizens’ Ambulance Service were dispatched to scene; the Indiana, Iselin/ West Lebanon, TunneltonConemaugh Township, Saltsburg, Derry and Clyde fire departments were placed on standby.

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ARTUR SAMARIN, right, arrived for his preliminary hearing Thursday in Harrisburg.

Court drops ID theft charge against accused Ukrainian

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press

HARRISBURG — A 23year-old Ukrainian man accused of faking his age while attending a Pennsylvania high school and having sex with an underage girl saw an identity theft charge dropped against him on Thursday, but a judge delayed ruling on his request for lower bail.

A district judge in the Harrisburg suburbs decided there was enough evidence against Artur Samarin to send a count of unsworn falsification to county court for trial. Those allegations involve an application he submitted for admission to a citizens’ police academy. The prosecutor said he would refile the identity theft charge.

Samarin still awaits a preliminary hearing on separate charges of theft, identity theft, conspiracy, tampering with public records, statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors.

Dressed in a yellow prison jumpsuit, handcuffed and wearing glasses, Samarin spoke briefly with reporters on his way out of the hearing, and responded in English to a Ukrainian television reporter’s questions in their native tongue. “I just want to have a better life,� he said.

Swatara Township Police Chief Jason Umberger testified that he first met Samarin, who called himself Asher Potts, while volunteering in December 2014 at a “shop with a cop� event that pairs economically disadvantaged children with police officers to spend $100 buying Christmas presents for the children’s families.

Umberger said Samarin expressed interest in the educational citizens’ police academy his department runs but was too young to participate. When they encountered each other in January at an anti-violence event in Harrisburg, Samarin said he had turned 18 and remained interest-

ed, so Umberger sent him an application.

Umberger told Dauphin County prosecutor Fran Chardo he would not have admitted Samarin to the program if he knew he had given him a fake name and age. “That would have been dishonest and misleading, and part of our application process is that we admit people who are at least honest about their identity,� the chief said.

Lt. Darrell Reider, a detective, told the judge that Samarin apologized for lying the day in February when he was arrested. “He said to me ... I apologize for that, I know that I disappointed Chief Umberger and I respect him very much,� Reider said.

A search for others named Asher Potts turned up a man named Gabriel Asher Potts in Alabama, who told Reider two days ago that he was a victim of credit card fraud from Pennsylvania, Reider said, but authorities have not found any evidence linking him to Samarin.

In a separate and very brief proceeding earlier in the day, a few miles away, a county judge said she would consolidate two other remaining sets of charges against Samarin for a preliminary hearing, and at that time consider his request to lower bail, currently set at $240,000.

A bail bondsman willing to put up the money and friends who would let Samarin stay with them attended the hearing, but it’s unlikely he will be a free man any time soon.

Samarin’s attorney, Adam Klein, said federal immigration authorities have ordered him held under allegations he stayed in the United States illegally after his tourist visa expired in 2013. Klein said posting bail would allow Samarin to be transferred about 25 miles away to York, where immigration officials operate a facility inside the county prison.

Moody’s: Pa. budget ignores fiscal challenges HARRISBURG (AP) — A credit rating agency on Thursday welcomed the end of Pennsylvania’s ninemonth budget stalemate but said the spending package doesn’t resolve the state’s structural budget deficit or address its looming pension crisis.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf backed off a veto threat and agreed to permit a Republican-penned $6.6 billion supplemental spending package to become law, saying he relented because it was “time to move on� and start work on the next budget.

Moody’s said Thursday that while the budget represents an improvement over “political gridlock,� it fails to address the state’s longterm fiscal challenges. “The approved budget ... casts no light on the government’s ability to reach compromise on its longterm fiscal challenges,�

Moody’s said in a statement.

Noting Pennsylvania faces sharply higher pension costs, the agency said the budget fails to fully fund

public employee pensions.

It said Pennsylvania’s willingness to address the pension crisis “in spite of what could be slow tax revenue growth will be a major factor in the commonwealth’s credit profile.�

The agency also said it expects Pennsylvania’s economy to “underperform due to weak demographics and poor fiscal conditions over the long term.�

The budget includes a 3 percent increase in overall spending, but it does so without a multibillion-dollar tax increase that Wolf had sought to deliver a record boost in aid to public schools and wipe out a long-term deficit that has damaged Pennsylvania’s credit rating. Democrats said the budget would add hundreds of millions of dollars to a $2 billion structural deficit for 2016-17.

The lengthy budget fight threatened to shutter schools and forced layoffs at social services agencies.

Moody’s predicted a new budget stalemate for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s judicial ethics court fined a former state Supreme Court justice $50,000 on Thursday, one week after he resigned because of his role in a sweeping scandal over lewd and objectionable emails exchanged within the state’s law enforcement circles.

The court expressed “disgust,� saying former Justice Michael Eakin “dramatically lessened public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the entire judiciary.�

They said his punishment would have been more severe if he had not stepped down and taken responsibility. His lawyer said the decision means Eakin will keep his state pension, with an estimated annual value of $140,000.

They ruled he failed to conduct himself in a manner that promotes confidence in judges’ integrity and impartiality, saying he sent emails that “mocked minorities and placed women in submissive sexual stereotypes.� “The common thread of

the emails, with their imagery of sexism, racism and bigotry, is arrogance and the belief that an individual is better than his or her peers.

Such beliefs are antithetical to the privilege of holding public office, where the charge is to serve, not demean, our citizens,� according to the unanimous sixjudge opinion .

Eakin’s lawyer, Bill Costopoulos, said the decision closes the matter and the former justice will pay the fine within the six months allotted. The court said the amount was meant to be akin to a six-month unpaid suspension. “It has been a very difficult ordeal and process for him personally and for his family and we’re all glad that it’s over,� Costopoulos said.

Large numbers of emails with obscene and denigrating content were first uncovered during an internal investigation launched by Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane into how her office had handled the Jerry Sandusky child molestation investigation before she took office. That probe found no evidence of politi-

cal calculation in decision making over the prosecution of the former Penn State assistant football coach, but it did reveal that dozens of people in the agency had been trading inappropriate emails.

Eakin’s name surfaced in connection to those emails in late 2014, about the time the high court suspended Democratic Justice Seamus McCaffery, who soon abruptly retired. Eakin reported to ethics officials at that time that McCaffery had threatened to expose his own emails, but a review by the Judicial Conduct Board, which investigates and prosecutes judges in ethics cases, cleared Eakin. The case was reignited last fall, as Eakin and the other justices voted to suspend Kane’s law license after she was charged criminally with leaking secret grand jury material and lying about it under oath. (That case is scheduled for trial in August, and Kane is not seeking re-election this year.)

Kane contacted the conduct board with new emails, leading to charges against Eakin, his tearful testimony in December at a preliminary

hearing, his decision to retire last week and now the fine. “The pattern evidenced by the body of all the emails demonstrated a misjudgment by (Eakin), both in his understanding of how electronic communications work, as well as the substantive content,� the court wrote.

The judges noted Eakin’s behavior was not criminal and said his judicial service had otherwise been exemplary. “It has always been important to former Justice Michael Eakin to impress upon the Court of Judicial Discipline and the court of public opinion that, while he was on the bench for 20 years, every case he participated in was in accordance with the facts and the law,� said Costopoulos, his lawyer.

Eakin, 67, is a Republican who first joined the Supreme Court in 2002 following service on the intermediate Superior Court and as elected district attorney in Cumberland County, near Harrisburg. He has promised the court he will not seek or be appointed to any judicial office in the future.

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Small Pa. drillers challenge new rules PITTSBURGH (AP) — A trade group that represents small, independent gas and oil producers in Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit challenging new state regulations for conventional drilling.

The Pennsylvania Independent Petroleum Producers Association of Bradford says the rules would be financially ruinous.

The Pittsburgh PostGazette reported Thursday that the suit argues the Department of Environmental Protection unfairly grouped conventional drillers, which target shallow formations, with unconventional drillers that concentrate on the deeper Marcellus shale.

The trade group is trying to block the rules before April 21, when a review board is

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The suit was filed in Commonwealth Court. A DEP spokesman declined comment.

Four charged with pot trafficking HARRISBURG (AP) — A former deputy sheriff, former U.S. postal worker, and two others have been indicted in what federal prosecutors say was a $500,000 drug-trafficking operation that shipped about 200 pounds of marijuana through the mail between northern California and York County.

The indictment, announced Thursday by the federal prosecutor in Harrisburg, says the four residents of Oroville, Calif., conspired to make and distribute marijuana and to launder drug proceeds between Septem-

ber 2014 and Jan. 7 of this year.

Indicted were Christopher Mark Heath, 37, a former Yuba County, Calif., deputy sheriff; Ramona Marcel Long, 56, Heath’s mother-inlaw who worked in the Oroville post office; her son, Tyler Neil Long, 32; and Ryan Jay Falsone, 27.

The York Dispatch reported that lawyers for the three men declined to comment.

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Terrorists, tubs and snakes

re terrorists more of a Trump suggesting that it is a threat than slippery hoax invented by China to bathtubs?

President harm the American economy Barack Obama, er, slipped (he now says that last point into hot water when The At- was a joke). lantic reported that he freThe upshot is that Brussels quently suggests to his staff survived this week’s terrorist that fear of terrorism is attacks, but it may not suroverblown, with Americans vive climate change (much of more likely to die from falls the city is less than 100 feet in tubs than from attacks by above sea level). terrorists.

Doesn’t it seem prudent to The timing was awkward, invest in efforts to avert not coming right before the only shoe bombers but also Brussels bombings, but the drowning of the world’s Obama is roughly right on low-lying countries? his facts: 464 people “We have a political system drowned in the U.S. in tubs, that engages quickly and sometimes after falls, in powerfully in response to 2013, while 17 were killed terrorism and security risks,” here by terrorists in 2014 notes Daniel Esty, an envi(the most recent years for ronment expert at Yale Law which I could get figures). Of School, “but doesn’t seem course, that’s not an argucapable of galvanizing action ment for relaxing vigilance, on climate change and other for at some point terrorists risks that are less visible and will graduate from spread over time explosives to nuand space.” clear, chemical or The reason biological weapons seems to be — that could be far how do I put this more devastating politely? — that we than even 9/11. But evolved in ways it is an argument that leave us irrafor addressing tional. global challenges a When we spot a little more rationalharmless garter ly. snake, our brains The basic problight up with activlem is this: The ity as we process human brain the “threat.” That’s evolved so that we because as prisystematically mismate brains judge risks and evolved over tens Nicholas Kristof how to respond to of millions of writes a column them. years, poisonous for The New York Our visceral fear snakes were a of terrorism has re- Times. threat that we are

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peatedly led us to adopt policies that are expensive and counterproductive, such as the invasion of Iraq. We have ramped up the intelligence community so much that there are now seven times as many Americans with security clearances (4.5 million) as live in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Donald Trump responded to the Brussels attacks with crowd-pleasing calls for torture or barring Muslims that even Republican security experts agree are preposterous.

On the same day as the attacks, a paper by James E. Hansen and other climate experts was released arguing that carbon emissions are transforming our world far more quickly than expected, in ways that may inundate coastal cities and cause storms more horrendous than any in modern history.

The response? A yawn.

Hansen is an eminent former NASA scientist, but he’s also an outlier in his timing forecasts, and I’m not qualified to judge whether he’s correct.

Yet whatever the disagreement about the timeline, there is scientific consensus that emissions on our watch are transforming our globe for 10,000 years to come. As an important analysis in Nature Climate Change put it, “The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far.”

To put it another way, this year’s election choices may shape coastlines 10,000 years from now. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have both mocked the idea of humancaused climate change, with

highly adapted to address, with special brain cells that are extremely sensitive to snake images.

Unfortunately, our brains are not well adapted to most of the biggest threats we actually face in the 21st century. Warn us that climate change is destroying our planet, and only a small part of our prefrontal cortex (which worries about the future) will glimmer; then we’ll go back to worrying about snakes or their modern equivalent — terrorists.

Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard, says that the kind of threats that we evolved to deal with are those that are imminent rather than gradual, and those that involve a deliberate bad actor, especially one transgressing our moral code. Explaining our lack of concern for global warming, he noted, “Climate change is caused by the burning of fossil fuels, not flags.”

In short, our brains are perfectly evolved for the Pleistocene, but are not as well suited for the risks we face today. If only climate change caused sharp increases in snake populations, then we’d be on top of the problem!

Yet even if our brains sometimes mislead us, they also crown us with the capacity to recognize our flaws and rectify mistakes.

So maybe we can adjust for our weaknesses in risk assessment — so that we confront the possible destruction of our planet as if it were every bit as ominous and urgent a threat as, say, a passing garter snake.

Contact Kristof at Face book.com/Kristof, Twitter. com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.

Unless labeled as a Gazette editorial, all opinions on the Viewpoint page are those of the authors.

‘Apology tour’ comes full circle

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t the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama traveled to Cairo, Europe and the United Nations to “apologize” for past American actions and attitudes, which he claimed helped create divisions between countries. At a town hall meeting before a mix of French and German citizens in Strasbourg, France, on April 3, 2009, the president said the United States was partially to blame for increased tensions with Europe following the Iraq war: “There have been times where America (has) shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive” toward Europe.

Mitt Romney and other critics quickly dubbed these and similar remarks his “apology tour.”

With the president’s visit to Havana, Cuba, that tour has come full circle. In response to a question about Cuba’s human rights policies during a joint news conference, Cuban President Raul Castro criticized the United States for what he asserted was America’s violation of human rights. Castro engaged in a form of moral equivalency when he assert-

ed that the denial of health release them immediately.” care and education for all The reporter didn’t have a and “equal pay” for women list, but several human was somehow similar to the rights organizations do. jailing of political dissidents. Given Cuba’s record of opCastro claimed Cuba pays pression (an estimated 50 women the same as men. human rights advocates Yes, and it is called were arrested equally shared poverprior to Presity, which is a good dent Obama’s definition of the comvisit and a munist form of gov“women in ernment and its ecowhite” demonnomic policies. stration was In response to this broken up by smear, President police), the reObama said, “I perlease of anyone sonally would not from Cuba’s nodisagree with him.” torious prisons Score another propais about as likeganda victory for ly as a democommunist Cuba. cratic political Responding to a resystem sproutporter’s question ing up in the about political priscountry to chaloners, Castro seemed Cal Thomas lenge the comto channel “Baghdad writes a munist dictaBob,” the spokesman column torship. for Saddam Hussein, distributed by President who claimed U.S. Tribune Media Obama promforces were not in ised aid to Services.

Iraq as TV cameras Cuba, from showed them adhelp in convancing on Baghdad behind necting its citizens to the Inhim. Castro denied Cuba ternet, to trade. holds political prisoners, Business leaders who acbut then told another re- companied the president on porter, “Give me a list of the the trip are anxious to build political prisoners and I will hotels and conduct other

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business in Cuba. The upside of this is that it might produce more openness in a society that has been closed for more than 50 years. The downside is that any prosperity will be used by the Cuban government to underwrite revolutions throughout Latin America; just as giving Iran its frozen assets will most assuredly facilitate the growth of terrorism throughout the world.

While the light of democracy can dispel the darkness of dictatorship, a light can be extinguished if its power source dims. So far, the U.S. has received nothing in return for the president’s initiative and his claim of a “new beginning” in the U.S.Cuban relationship.

The “new beginning” President Obama pledged for the Middle East in his Cairo speech has not reversed or even slowed the old turmoil that never seems to end. Will it be different in Cuba? From Raul Castro’s remarks and the president’s partial agreement with him, the signs do not provide cause for optimism.

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

What do you expect from Jesus?

It is hard to comprehend that Jesus enters Jerusalem at the beginning of the Easter week carried by a colt, crowds crying “Hosanna,” spreading palm branches and garments on the road, and at the end of the week he leaves carrying a cross with the crowds crying, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”

In the time of Christ, few, if any, understood the purpose of his coming. Some believed he was the messiah, they had seen his miracles and power, but expected this would all lead him to an earthly throne, not a cross.

John 6:15 says, “When Jesus therefore perceived

that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.”

They expected Jesus to bring a political shakedown, to overthrow the Roman government and become king.

They expected Jesus to fix this world. They did not understand. Most still do not understand.

Jesus did not come to fix this world. People expect Jesus to take away all the problems.

Jesus said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” (John

16:33) Jesus did not come to fix our world, but to save us from our world. He did not come for our temporal need, but our eternal need.

Think of our world as a great cruise ship. It has decks that are crude and those with all the plush luxuries. But this great ship with all of its grandeur is slowly sinking. Many refuse to believe it and pray, “God, give me a nicer cabin.” Some see it sinking, but believe someone will fix it; they pray, “God, make me famous and rich.” A few realize that everything on this ship is going to be lost and pray, “God, send someone to save us.”

This is why Jesus came.

This world is like that great cruise liner. Some live in very crude conditions, others have the finest this world offers, but all are on a ship that is sinking.

Jesus said, “For the Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost.”

(Luke 19:10) Those who look at this world like the cruise liner, wanting God to give them the finest of the ship, will soon walk away from him.

Those who want the savior more than the ship will stay.

What do you expect from Jesus?

Ron Westover Cherry Tree

Integrity and values in the candidates As we struggle to decide which candidate to support in the upcoming election, we have to judge if their campaign rhetoric is consistent with their actions and words. Unfortunately, those who have already been in office several terms have accepted campaign contributions from special interests and are beholden to them, no matter what they say in their speeches. Big money contributors strongly influence candidate votes.

Bill Shuster claims to be pro-life. He knows that there are many well-run women’s health clinics that provide

more services than Planned Parenthood without any government support. Why is he not speaking out against singling out Planned Parenthood for government funding when they have repeatedly broken the law banning late-term abortions, and the sale of baby parts for profit?

Why are they not being prosecuted for this?

He insults our intelligence by sending out glossy brochures at election time that provide little or no information on his voting record on the issues that matter to conservatives, such as freedom to worship

without being forced to support abortions (the brutal taking of innocent life), as well as gay marriage, which redefines the traditional view of marriage as one man and one woman.

To prevent our candidates from being bought, we need to have campaign reform to provide all candidates with a funding pool so that they are almost equal in their campaign finances.

This might also help to lessen the amount spent on vicious attack ads, which only serve to discourage good people from running for office and dishearten the

voters. We also need to institute term limits. It would not be possible for donors to get so cozy with establishment candidates if they were swapped out after two terms.

For my money I am supporting Art Halvorson against Bill Shuster because he is new to the political scene, he has strong family values, has served in the military and has not yet been corrupted by the special interest groups such as the energy lobby.

Signed: angry voter.

Mary Micco Indiana

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Russian military plans buildup MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is to beef up its military forces all the way from its western border to the Pacific islands amid ongoing strains with the West, the military said today.

While announcing the buildup, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the deployment of NATO forces near Russia’s borders has caused concern. As part of a response, he said new units in the Western Military District, including two new divisions, will be formed.

The military forces in western Russia will receive 1,100 new weapons systems, including warplanes, helicopters, tanks and other armored vehicles.

In the far east, the military will deploy state-ofthe art Bal and Bastion anti-ship missile systems and new drones to the southern Kurils, a group of islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories and claims as its own.

12 Portuguese killed in bus crash PARIS (AP) — French authorities say 12 Portuguese travelers have been killed in a bus crash in central France.

The interior and transport ministries said the crash occurred early today on a national road in the Allier region and near the small town of Montbeugny, about 185 miles from Paris.

In a statement, the Interior Ministry said bodies were being gathered in the local meeting hall.

Gendarmes were investigating the circumstances that led to the accident.

The Portuguese consulate in Paris told journalists 11 of the dead had been identified and that they were between 7 and 63 years of age and that all were residing in Switzerland.

‘Man in Tree’ skips court appearance SEATTLE (AP) — A man who transfixed Seattle — and the Internet — by perching near the top of an 80-foot sequoia tree in a downtown shopping district for more than a day would not leave a jail cell for his first court appearance Thursday.

Cody Lee Miller, 28, was arrested on suspicion of malicious mischief after climbing down from the conifer Wednesday. A judge found probable cause to hold Miller while prosecutors decide whether to file charges and rescheduled a bail hearing for today.

Miller spent about 25 hours in the tree, ignoring police efforts to coax him down for much of it and hurling apples and branches at responders.

Police: Robber left wallet at scene PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Investigators say a robber helped them out when he apparently dropped his own wallet with his identification in it as he and two accomplices tried to take money from men outside a Florida Panhandle bar.

Devonte Levoris Pace, 28, was arrested in Panama City on Tuesday following the armed robbery on Jan. 16.

The (Panama City) News Herald reported that Pace and two other suspected robbers were captured on surveillance video robbing the men, who were in a vehicle outside the bar.

According to Panama City police reports, the trio walked up to the men, pulled a gun and demanded their wallets. About $600 in cash was stolen.

The wallet left behind helped police arrest Pace.

It wasn’t immediately known whether Pace had an attorney to contact for comment or whether the other men had been arrested.

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press

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FAMILIES OF victims looked Thursday at the Germanwings plane crash site in Le Vernet, France, one year after the crash. Hundreds of people attended the commemoration that began with a private ceremony and a minute of silence. Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the jet into the French Alps on March 24, 2015, while en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, killing all 150 people on board.

Official: U.S. Marines expanding Iraq role

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The American combat role in Iraq appeared to expand on Thursday as U.S. Marines operating from a small outpost provided targeting assistance and artillery fire to support Iraqi troops inching forward to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants.

A senior U.S. official said the Marines fired illumination rounds to help the Iraqi forces locate IS fighters, and also fired artillery rounds in support of the operation, as Iraqi troops took control of several villages on the outskirts of Makhmour, southeast of Mosul.

The official was not authorized to discuss the operation publicly and requested anonymity.

Earlier this week, U.S. military officials confirmed the creation of the Marine outpost, dubbed Fire Base Bell. It’s the first such base established by the U.S. since it returned forces to Iraq in 2014. But they insisted that the nearly 200 Marines were only there to provide security for Iraqi forces and U.S. advisers at the nearby Iraqi base in Makhmour.

American fighter jets also participated in Thursday’s operation, launching multiple airstrikes on at least two locations, hitting enemy rocket and mortar positions, the official said. The U.S.-led coalition has routinely been launching airstrikes across Iraq against the Islamic State group.

A second U.S. official on Thursday said the Marines provided the artillery fire in response to a request from the Iraqi government and that U.S. leaders don’t believe this to be an expanded combat mission. The

official, who was not authorized to discuss the operation publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was considered expanded support for the Iraqis.

Army Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad, told Pentagon reporters on Monday that Fire Base Bell should not be considered a combat outpost because it is located behind the front lines and is not initiating combat with the militants.

On Thursday, however, the use of illumination rounds and artillery to support the forward advance of the Iraqi troops appeared to expand the Marines’ role from purely security to more direct combat action, although the Marines were not on the front lines with the Iraqis.

The White House has ruled out a ground combat role for the U.S. in Iraq, and is intent on avoiding the appearance of any expansion in military operations there — more than four years after President Barack Obama pulled U.S. troops out of the country.

So officials have been walking a fine line as they describe the operations of the Marine artillery unit, insisting everything is related to “force protection” of the Iraqi and U.S. forces at the Makhmour base.

The key difference Thursday was that the Marines were not firing artillery to protect Iraqis and U.S. advisers at the base but were helping the Iraqis in an offensive operation against the Islamic State militants.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter has said the U.S. is looking at a number of options to “accelerate” the fight against IS. Those options are still

under discussion in the Pentagon and have not yet officially been submitted to the White House for approval. The range of options could include sending additional U.S. forces to Iraq, using Apache helicopters for combat missions, deploying more U.S. special operations forces or using American military advisers in Iraqi units closer to the front lines.

The White House has capped the number of U.S. forces in Iraq at about 3,870, but that total doesn't include as many as 1,000 troops who are there but exempt because of the military's personnel accounting system. For example, troops sent to Iraq for temporary, short-term assignments are exempt.

The Marines at Fire Base Bell are part of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which has been based on the USS Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship that has been deployed in the region.

Their movement into Iraq comes as the Iraqi forces formally begin their push to retake Mosul.

Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, spokesman for Iraq's Joint Military Command, announced Thursday that the Iraqi forces had launched their campaign for Mosul.

But U.S. officials have described it more as early operations that are aimed at clearing a path and eventually setting the stage for a Mosul offensive.

It's not clear how long it would take to recapture Mosul. U.S. military and defense leaders have declined to say when the actual move to retake the city will begin or if the IS militants could be ousted from the Mosul by the end of the year.

SEOUL, South Korea — An American detained in North Korea said he had spied against the country and asked for forgiveness at a media presentation today, nine days after a U.S. tourist was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion.

Kim Tong Chol told a press conference in Pyongyang that he had collaborated with and spied for South Korean intelligence authorities in a plot to bring down the North’s leadership and tried to spread religious ideas among North Koreans.

Describing his acts as “shameful and ineffaceable,” Kim said he feels sorry for his crime and appealed to North Korean authorities to show him mercy by forgiving him.

He was born in South Korea and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. In an interview with CNN in January, Kim said he lived in Fairfax, Va., before moving in 2011 to Yangji, a city near the Chinese-North Korean border. He said he commuted daily to Rason, a special economic zone in North Korea, where he was president of a trade and hotel services company.

He said in the Pyongyang press conference that he was detained in Rason last October.

North Korean authorities often arrange press conferences for U.S. and other foreign detainees in which they read statements to acknowledge their wrongdoing and praise the North’s political system. Those detainees have said after their releases that they were coached or coerced on what to say.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, the country’s main spy agency, said Kim’s case wasn’t related to the organization in any way and offered no further comment.

On March 16, North Korea’s highest court sentenced Otto Warmbier, a 21year-old University of Virginia undergraduate, to prison after he confessed he tried to steal a propaganda banner as a trophy for an acquaintance who wanted to hang it in her church. He tearfully confessed at his press conference to the attempted theft, which would be grounds in North Korea for a subversion charge.

The U.S. government condemned the sentence and accused North Korea of using such American detainees as political pawns.

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KIM TONG CHOL, a U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, spoke today as he was presented to reporters in Pyongyang.

Microsoft yanks chatbot after offensive tweets

By BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — OMG! Did you hear about the artificial intelligence program that Microsoft designed to chat like a teenage girl? It was totally yanked offline in less than a day, after it began spouting racist, sexist and otherwise offensive remarks.

Microsoft said it was all the fault of some really mean people, who launched a “coordinated effort” to make the chatbot known as Tay “respond in inappropriate ways.” To which one artificial intelligence expert responded: Duh! Well, he didn’t really say that. But computer scientist Kris Hammond did say, “I can’t believe they didn’t see this coming.”

Microsoft said its researchers created Tay as an experiment to learn more about computers and human conversation. On its website, the company said the program was tar-

Cruz, Trump spat takes nastier turn

geted to an audience of 18- to 24year-olds and was “designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation.”

In other words, the program used a lot of slang and tried to provide humorous responses when people sent it messages and photos. The chatbot went live on Wednesday, and Microsoft invited the public to chat with Tay on Twitter and some other messaging services popular with teens and young adults.

“The more you chat with Tay the smarter she gets, so the experience can be more personalized for you,” the company said.

But some users found Tay’s responses odd, and others found it wasn’t hard to nudge Tay into making offensive comments, apparently prompted by repeated questions or statements that contained offensive words. Soon, Tay was making sympa-

DANE, Wis. (AP) — Ted Cruz branded Donald Trump a “sniveling coward” Thursday as the feud between the Republican presidential contenders over their wives took a nastier turn.

After an earlier and vague threat to “spill the beans” about Heidi Cruz, Trump stoked the spat on Twitter when he retweeted side-by-side images of Cruz’s wife, with an unflattering grimace, and his wife, Melania, in a gauzy, glamorous pose.

thetic references to Hitler — and creating a furor on social media.

“Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay’s commenting skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways,” Microsoft said in a statement.

While the company didn’t elaborate, Hammond says it appears Microsoft made no effort to prepare Tay with appropriate responses to certain words or topics. Tay seems to be a version of “call and response” technology, added Hammond, who studies artificial intelligence at Northwestern University and also serves as chief scientist for Narrative Science, a company that develops computer programs that turn data into narrative reports.

“Everyone keeps saying that Tay learned this or that it became racist,” Hammond said. “It didn’t.” The program most likely reflected things it

“No need to spill the beans,” said the caption. “The images are worth a thousand words.”

Ted Cruz, campaigning in Wisconsin, was livid.

“Leave Heidi the hell alone,” Cruz said, speaking through reporters to Trump.

“Donald does seem to have an issue with women,” he said. “Donald doesn’t like strong women. Strong women scare Donald.”

was told, probably more than once, by people who decided to see what would happen, he said.

The problem is that Microsoft turned Tay loose online, where many people consider it entertaining to stir things up — or worse. The company should have realized that people would try a variety of conversational gambits with Tay, said Caroline Sinders, an expert on “conversational analytics” who works on chat robots for another tech company. (She asked it not be identified because she wasn’t speaking in an official capacity.) She called Tay “an example of bad design.”

Instead of building in some guidelines for how the program would deal with controversial topics, Sinders added, it appears Tay was mostly left to learn from whatever it was told.

“This is a really good example of machine learning,” said Sinders. “It’s learning from input. That means it needs constant maintenance.”

Trump was set off this week when a group that opposes him released an ad before the Utah presidential contest raising questions about the propriety of Melania Trump becoming first lady. The ad showed a provocative, decade-old magazine photo of her when she was a model and before she married Trump.

Trump wrongly attributed the ad to the Cruz campaign and warned on Twitter: “Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”

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Karadzic convicted of genocide, gets 40-year sentence

By AIDA CERKEZ and MIKE CORDER Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A U.N. war crimes court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges on Thursday for orchestrating a campaign of terror that left 100,000 people dead during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, the worst carnage in Europe since World War II. Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in Serb atrocities that included the Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in Europe’s worst mass murder since the Holocaust, and for directing the nearly four-year siege of Sarajevo.

In pronouncing the verdict, presiding Judge O-Gon Kwon said Karadzic and his military commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, intended “that every able-bodied Bosnian Muslim male from Srebrenica be killed.�

Karadzic, the judge said, was the only person in the Bosnian Serb leadership with the power to halt the genocide, but instead gave an order for prisoners to be transported from one location to another to be killed.

In the carefully planned 1995 operation, Serb forces moved Muslim men and boys to sites around the Srebrenica enclave in eastern Bosnia and gunned them down before dumping their bodies into mass graves.

Upon hearing the sentence, the 70-year-old Karadzic slumped slightly in his chair, but otherwise showed little emotion.

He plans to appeal the con-

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BOSNIAN SERB wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, second from right, listened Thursday to the reading of his verdict at The Hague in the Netherlands. victions. The former leader, who was arrested in Serbia in 2008 after more than a decade in hiding, is the highest Bosnian Serb official to be sentenced by the Netherlands-based court.

Although 20 years in coming, the trial is hugely significant for the development of international law. Karadzic’s conviction will likely strengthen international jurisprudence on the criminal responsibility of political leaders for atrocities committed by forces under their control. “Victims and their families have waited for over two decades to see Karadzic’s day

of reckoning,� Param-Preet Singh, senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “The Karadzic verdict sends a powerful signal that those who order atrocities cannot simply wait out justice.�

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s deputy spokesman, Fanhan Haq, told reporters the judgment “sends a strong signal to all who are in positions of responsibility that they will be held accountable for their actions and shows once again that fugitives cannot outrun the international community’s collective re-

solve to make sure that they face justice according to the law.�

Karadzic had faced a total of 11 charges and a maximum life sentence. However, the court acquitted him of a second genocide charge, for a campaign to drive Bosnian Muslims and Croats out of villages claimed by Serb forces.

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence, but the court’s chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, said 40 years amounted to the same thing for the aging Karadzic. “Overall, we are satisfied with the outcome,� Brammertz said, adding that pros-

ecutors would carefully study the judgment before deciding whether to appeal the one genocide acquittal.

Karadzic had insisted he was innocent and claimed throughout the six-year court proceedings that his wartime actions were intended to protect the Serbs.

Peter Robinson, part of Karadzic’s legal team, said he would appeal. “Dr. Karadzic is disappointed. He’s astonished,� Robinson told reporters. “He feels the trial chamber took inference instead of evidence in reaching the conclusions that it did.�

The verdict and sentence were met with expressions of relief and satisfaction from Bosnian Muslims and anger

by Serb nationalists, thousands of whom took to the streets of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, to protest.

In Sarajevo, Amra Misic, 49, said: “I took a day off to watch the verdict as I was waiting for this for 20 years. I wish him a long life.�

In Bosnia, which has remained ethnically divided since the war, posters displaying Karadzic’s photo and saying “We are all Radovan� were plastered on walls in several towns in the Serbcontrolled part of the country. “This was only the first half of the process,� said Karadzic’s daughter Sonja, expressing the prevailing sentiment among the Serbs that the U.N. court and the West in general are highly biased against them.

Bosnia’s president, Bakir Izetbegovic, whose father led the Muslims during the war, said the verdict against Karadzic is a verdict to a “horrific ideology and poli-

cies.� He said it was a “judgment about the past that is important for the future.�

Izetbegovic said the ruling confirmed that crimes in Bosnia were systematically planned and executed. “There is no punishment that can give any satisfaction to the victims, but the civilized world has still shown that they understand their suffering,� he said. “The world has sent a message that no one will be cleared of responsibility for crimes.�

Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, accused of fomenting deadly conflicts across the Balkans as Yugoslavia crumbled in the 1990s, died in his cell in The Hague in 2006 before judges could deliver verdicts in his trial.

Karadzic was indicted along with his military chief, Ratko Mladic, in 1995, but evaded arrest until he was captured in Belgrade in July 2008.

At the time, he was posing as a New Age healer, Dr. Dragan Dabic, and was disguised by a thick beard and shaggy hair.

Karadzic’s trial was one of the final acts at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. The court, set up in 1993, indicted 161 suspects. Of them, 80 were convicted and sentenced, 18 acquitted, 13 sent back to local courts and 36 had the indictments withdrawn or died.

Three suspects remain on trial, including Mladic and Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj.

Eight cases are being appealed and two defendants are to face retrials. The judgment in Seselj’s case is scheduled for Thursday.

Obama: U.S. slow to speak out for human rights in Argentina

By PETER PRENGAMAN and JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — As many Argentines paused to remember loved ones killed during their country’s brutal dictatorship, President Barack Obama said Thursday that America was slow to speak out for human rights during that painful period and promised an honest accounting going forward.

Obama’s comments, sure to reverberate in Argentina and beyond, came 40 years to the day that a 1976 coup opened a period of military rule in Argentina that continues to have repercussions today.

Obama paid tribute to the victims of Argentina’s “Dirty War� by visiting Remembrance Park and tossing a wreath into the Rio de La Plata river near a memorial bearing thousands of names. “We’ve been slow to speak out for human rights and that was the case here,� said Obama, standing alongside Argentina’s new president, Mauricio Macri.

Obama said it takes courage for a society to address “uncomfortable truths� about its past, but that doing so is essential to moving forward.

Prominent human rights groups shunned an invitation to attend, arguing that the presence of an American president on such an important date was disrespectful to the thousands who died.

Nora Cortinas of the iconic Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo group called Obama “a representative of death.� “What would victims say if they saw (us) hugging and paying homage to a president from a country responsible for state terrorism?� she

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA watched Thursday as Argentine President Mauricio Macri tossed roses into a river at Remembrance Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina. told a local radio station hours before the event.

The anniversary is always a sensitive time for the nation of 41 million, as many families are still searching for the remains of loved ones who disappeared and are presumed dead.

Even decades later, the dictatorship is a topic of national importance. It shapes mainstream political ideologies and spawns debates over whether the government should continue to try perpetrators so many years later or spend millions on searching for remains.

Obama said his administration will endeavor to make amends by declassifying even more documents that could shed light on what role the U.S. may have played in one of the region’s most repressive dictatorships. The release likely will come after Obama leaves office next year.

Thousands of State Department documents were declassified in 2002, but they don’t paint a full picture of what the U.S. knew or its possible role in bloodshed.

The most suggestive document is a series of notes from a late 1976 meeting between Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Argentina’s foreign minister. “If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly,� Kissinger said, according to a transcript, suggesting an implicit green-lighting of a clampdown on dissidents.

The new classification, which the Obama administration first announced last week, will include military and intelligence papers for the first time. Human rights groups have long demanded those documents, and historians say they could include grisly accounts of abuses and possibly more information

about a U.S. role.

Rights groups believe U.S. backing for authoritarian regimes in Latin America extended to Argentina during the 1976 to 1983 period known as the “Dirty War.�

Some 13,000 people were killed or disappeared during the brutal rule of “the generals,� according to government estimates. Rights groups put the number closer to 30,000.

Yet even Obama’s promise of a full accounting hasn’t quelled concerns. As Obama met with Macri on Wednesday, protesters gathered in Buenos Aires to express anger at his visit.

A large march took place Thursday afternoon to commemorate the 40th anniversary. Protests and a commemorative march also took place late Thursday in Bariloche, a picturesque city in southern Argentina where Obama spent the afternoon with his family before returning to Washington.

Macri thanked Obama for visiting “on this very special

day for us� and called for a renewed commitment to democracy and human rights. “Every day, somewhere in the world, they are jeopardized,� he said in Spanish.

The son of one of Argentina’s richest businessmen, Macri has been criticized for being oblivious to the need for U.S. accountability as he pursues closer ties with

Washington. He declined Wednesday to say what he expects the new records will reveal.

Macri’s decision to pursue such a document dump could help him politically as he enacts many unpopular changes, like cutting subsidies for the poor, which are in line with the reforms that have put him in America’s good graces.

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SHINING A LIGHT The Indiana community is invited to help shine a light on autism on April 2, designated as “Light it Up Blue” Day through the national organization Autism Speaks.

April is Autism Awareness Month, and the staff of New Story Schools in Indiana wants your support.

Autism is the fastest-growing diagnosis in the U.S., identified in one out of every 68 children, according to the organization.

On April 2, area businesses are asked to light up in blue by decorating storefronts, wearing blue and offering promotions that raise awareness and funds for the cause.

Businesses interested in reaching out to participate should contact Laura Vossen-Weyant at (724) 4635390, ext. 223, or by email at lvossen@newstory.com.

New Story is a system of private schools that provide a therapeutic environment for students with autism and other emotional/behavioral disorders.

BUSINESS BYTES Indiana native David Rapach and his wife, Amanda, both graduates of IUP, recently opened a business in Pittsburgh that specializes in sensory deprivation, or as David calls it, “floating,” according to his mother, Mary Ann Rapach.

Mary Ann tells us the business is called LEVITY, and was recently featured in Pittsburgh Magazine and the Tribune-Review.

At LEVITY, customers relax in a “calming float pod,” where “over a thousand pounds of Epsom salts” have been dissolved in 10 inches of water, according to the website. The density of the water “allows you to float like a cork,” and gives your body a chance to decompress.

This experience benefits the body, mind and soul, they say, and offers improved sleep, relief of minor aches and pains, increased creativity and reduced anxiety.

LEVITY is on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill. For more information, visit www.floatlevity.com or visit LEVITY’s Facebook page.

FIGHTING FOR FAB Downtown Indiana tavern owner Shane Caylor said a portion of the proceeds from sales at the Firehouse Brewing Co. craft beer pub at 547 Philadelphia St. will be donated to help cover medical expenses for cancer patient Fabrizio Pirrone.

A community effort to support Pirrone’s fight against acute lymphoblastic leukemia goes by the name Team F.A.B. It’s tied to Fab Pirrone’s own efforts over the past years to help other people facing life-threatening illnesses through his Fighting All Battles Foundation.

Caylor said Firehouse Brewing patrons need only mention “Team Fab” or their support for Pirrone to have a percentage of their tab earmarked for him.

The campaign at Firehouse is part of the tavern’s commitment to give back to the community, Caylor said, and it will run through April 9. He

INSIDE INDIANA plans to tie in other promotions to encourage donations, and to hold a benefit pool tournament at the adjacent Boomerang’s Bar on the final weekend of the fund drive.

RELAYING THE MESSAGE The Indiana County Relay for Life team Stuchell Stampede is teaming up with Whitey’s Peetza in Coral to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

The benefit day on Sunday, April 3, will be from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., when 10 percent of the day’s proceeds will be donated.

The annual Relay for Life is set to start at 4 p.m. May 13 at the White Township Recreation Complex.

So far, 35 teams have raised about $38,000, according to the Relay for Life website.

And IUP’s Relay for Life starts at noon April 23 at the Memorial Field House at IUP. For that event, 22 teams have raised more than $4,000.

BETTER TO GIVE Friends and family of Jessica Gess, 17, who was killed in an accident Saturday in South Mahoning Township, are raising money to offset the cost of a funeral through a GoFundMe account.

The account has raised about $4,000 of its $5,000 goal.

Jessica was a student at the Indiana County Technology Center, where she studied health occupations and aspired to become a surgi-

cal assistant, according to her obituary. She also loved horses and was a gifted athlete.

To donate to the fund, visit www.GoFundMe.com and search for “Jessica Gess funeral and family.”

SAVE THE DATE Family Fun Fest, through the Children’s Advisory Commission of Indiana County, is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 2 at the Indiana Mall.

The 13th annual event offers free games and activities, a parent/child lookalike contest and informational displays from more than 50 human service and child-related agencies.

A life-size human Hungry, Hungry Hippos game will take place at the former Dingbats, as well as life-size Candyland at the former Finish Line.

The theme this year is “Game On.”

GIVING A LIFT The friends and congregation of Faith OPC Church in Indiana need the community’s help to raise money for Darlene Snyder, their pastor’s wife, who is fighting cancer.

Darlene has been battling cancer for about five years, according to organizers. It started in her breast and has moved to her brain. Darlene was treated with radiation, and lesions are still there but no longer active.

Shortly thereafter, though, it spread to her bones.

“Darlene’s faith has remained strong and so had her kind heart and love for others,” organizers wrote. “She is truly a living testament to all that know her.”

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RYELEY STATES, 2, gave it her all to keep her goat Caleb under control during the Indiana County Fair. (First place, feature photo)

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DOROTHY MARTIN, 91, made her daily trek to get the mail at the Martin Brothers Farm along Geesey Road. She and husband William owned the farm until 2000 when their sons took over the operations. (Second place, feature photo)

Speaker thankful for new life Continued from Page 1 life has new meaning and a new purpose.

Parks told the breakfast audience that immediately after he was wounded he thought, “I cannot believe I just got shot. … I’m going to die today.” His thoughts then turned to who would care for his wife and children. And he said he thought about how mad his wife would be at him for getting shot.

While lying on the ground waiting for medical attention, he prayed to God, “I need you now more than ever,” and kept recalling a Bible verse: “If you need me, I’ll answer.”

Parks said he also experienced spiritual warfare during his crisis. He’s still haunted by a nightmare, horrible visions he had during his coma.

“Satan was wrestling with God for my soul,” he told the breakfast crowd.

Parks believes God had his hand in his recovery.

Today he tells people it was as though God said to him, “You’re not done yet.

You have things to do.”

Parks said that before his brush with death he was in the best physical shape of his life but his spiritual life was weak.

He admits he did not always respond to God’s calls for obedience.

“I heard him calling to me, but I had

SINGING SIGN-UPS The Miracle League of Indiana County at the YMCA is seeking singers for the national anthem and “God Bless America” during the spring season games.

Interested? Contact Judy Smith at (724) 388-5463 for more details.

SHOP TALK AT SIX Gas prices at most Indiana service stations were running at $2.19 a gallon today, compared to $2.12 statewide and $2.04 nationwide (www.pennsylvaniagasprices.com). … Willie, our ex-shoeshine boy, finds inspiration in this quote from author Clarence W. Hall: “Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”

Good evening!

This column is compiled by Gazette staff writer Margaret Weaver.

Email items for submission to mweaver@indianagazette.net.

Cooking show set for April 5

Gazette earns seven awards Continued from Page 1 July 31 (“Chance made a wrong decision”) and Oct. 13 (“Shortstops need some protection”) • Tom Peel, second place, feature photo, for “Memory Lane,” published Aug. 28. His photo was a silhouette of Dorothy Martin, 91, making her daily trip to get the mail at her home along Geesey Road.

• Bob Fulton, honorable mention in news feature story for “Punxs’y Phil made impression during long-ago visit to N.Y,” printed on Feb. 1 • James Nestor and Sean Yoder, who earned both first place and honorable mention in the video story category for the videos “John Burkhart: Surely out of necessity” and “Lewis Fogle: A life regained, a death unsolved,” respectively The video and a companion story on Burkhart, of Indiana, detailed his rebound from financial struggles after he gave up a lucrative career to care for his ailing parents. It was published on Aug. 15. The video and story can be found at http://bit.ly/1RwsUTF. The video and related story about Fogle, which appeared on Dec. 4, chronicled Fogle’s efforts to prove his innocence after 34 years in prison on charges that he murdered a teenage girl near Cherry Tree in 1976. They can be found at http://bit.ly/1UN5H2n.

“It’s always gratifying to earn acknowledgement from our peers for journalistic excellence,” said Eric Ebeling, the Gazette’s executive editor. “These awards are an indication of the staff’s commitment and dedication to the readers we serve each and every day.”

The Keystone Press Awards reinforce excellence by individuals in the newspaper profession by recognizing journalism that consistently provides relevance, integrity and initiative in serving readers, and furthers First Amendment values, according to the state newspaper association.

In the last three years, the Gazette has collected 29 Keystone Press Awards.

This year the contest involved about two dozen newspapers, each with a daily circulation less than 20,000. The awards will be presented at a banquet in Harrisburg on May 21.

Due to Darlene’s bone loss, she cannot walk up or down stairs, which limits her access at home.

Aging Services Inc. will provide a standard stair lift, but she needs an angled lift at a cost of an additional $4,000.

Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated and are being accepted to help with the cost.

Checks should be made to Faith OPC Church, c/o Pat McConnell, 250 Main St., Shelocta, PA 15774.

Organizers ask you to keep her in your prayers.

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BERNIE McQUOWN served as master of ceremonies at this morning’s breakfast. something else going on,” Parks said.

“My Christian life was good, but it could have been better.”

He emerged from his coma and began a long and challenging recovery. While he lost his leg during the experience, he gained a second chance at life.

“So for me to go through what I’ve gone through and not have a spiritual awakening would be irresponsible,” Parks said. “I’d be a fool to say, ‘Thanks, God, but no thanks. I’m going to do my own thing.’ So I feel my sole purpose in my life is to tell my story and glorify him

through it. … Through tears of thankfulness, I told the Lord I would go wherever He led me.”

During his recovery, Parks wrote a book, “Miracle Man,” which describes his new “purpose-filled life.” And he founded “Second Shot Ministry” to share his story. He travels around the nation speaking to schools, businesses and churches about hope, faith and how he was saved from near-certain death.

Because of his heroic actions in trying to apprehend the mugger, Parks was awarded the Medal of Merit, presented

by Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

Parks has won several medals in the Department of Defense’s Warrior Games and was recently in training to qualify for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

He has been selected to represent America in Prince Harry’s Invictus Games, an international adaptive sporting competition for injured active duty and veteran military service members, to be held in May in Orlando, Fla. This morning’s Good Friday Breakfast was the 60th sponsored by the YMCA in commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In addition to Parks’ inspirational message, the breakfast also served up fellowship, Scripture readings and music.

Continued from Page 1 caterers to decorators until 7 p.m.

Tickets are $8 each and available at the Gazette, KCAC box office, Valeski’s BiLo, Tate’s and www.indianagazette.com. Online tickets are $9.

For the show, the IUP Academy of Culinary Arts and IUP’s Department of Food and Nutrition will join forces to provide an entertaining evening with master of ceremonies Sam Kusic, who hosted the show last year.

Diane Wagoner, formerly of IUP’s Department of Food and Nutrition, will join Dr. Idamarie Laquatra in providing demonstrations with students from the department.

Chefs John Kapusta and Anthony J. Battaglia will demonstrate with students from the culinary academy.

Each of the shows will have two segments.

For the first half, culinary students will show how to make dinner with recipes that feature minimal ingredients, highlighting how to prepare for and expect the unexpected, such as dropin guests.

Kapusta will facilitate as students make breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées plus a side and dessert simultaneously at different stations.

Wagoner, Laquatra and the food and nutrition students will host “Fast and Fab,” a segment highlighting recipes such as Cod in Tomato Pepper Sauce, Chicken Stir Fry, Beans and Greens, and Blueberry and Peach Galette.

The segments will be shown on screens live as they happen, thanks to student videographers from the Clarion University Department of Communication, under the director of Lacey Fulton, assistant professor.

There are raffles and prizes, and everyone in attendance will receive a

cookbook and gift bag.

Six people will be selected by raffle to be VIP tasters, who will get a taste of nearly everything prepared at the show.

The rest of the audience will receive samples of at least one of the dishes.

Always popular are the “Winner Takes All” tables, now in the fifth year, where participants win all the items on tables decorated with different themes and donated by various businesses.

Each table has a value of at least $200, Palmer said.

New this year to the Winner Takes All raffle is a $20 gift card per month for a year to HomeMade Restaurant in Home, PA BBQ in White Township and University Stylists in Indiana.

The grand prize at each show is a $250 gift certificate to Dixon Meats.

One hundred percent of the drawings and raffles are donated to ICCAP, as well as the proceeds from a mini auction at the end, to be conducted by Mark Dixon.

Also helping to raise funds for the food bank through Candemonium were students from IUP’s Student Life organizations, under the direction of Betsy Sarneso, and Laquatra’s Food and Nutrition students.

They collected funds at various locations in Indiana, and so did employees at Valeski’s BiLo in Indiana and Tate’s in Clymer.

The students and grocery stores all exceeded their goals, with the total to be announced at the show.

Palmer encouraged people to attend.

“There is no way that you could ever get more value for $8 than this,” she said.

“You have a chance at the best prizes we’ve ever offered, and it’s all for a great cause.”

Last year, the event raised funding for nearly 50 tons of food for ICCAP.

More of Pa.’s interstates to get 70 mph limit HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Transportation says 70 mph speed limits will be coming to the Pennsylvania Turnpike and interstate highways in May. For now, PennDOT and the turnpike commission are studying where to increase the speed limits.

It probably won’t happen in more urban areas where the limit is now 55 mph instead of 65 mph. Generally, areas already posted 65 mph with mostly straight

highway and few sharp curves will feature the new, higher speed limit.

The turnpike commission approved the higher speed limit earlier this month. Turnpike officials say a 70 mph test on a 100mile stretch between Morgantown and Blue Mountain found that there wasn’t a noticeable increase in the actual average speed of vehicles, and there was a decrease in traffic accidents despite an increase in traffic.

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NHL: Devils 3, Penguins 0

Rookie shuts out Penguins

By DAN SCIFO

Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — An early save on Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby helped give New Jersey Devils rookie goaltender Scott Wedgewood the confidence to reach another career milestone.

Kyle Palmieri scored twice in the first period and Wedgewood stopped 39 shots for his first career shutout as the Devils beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 on Thursday night.

“It was the second shot of the game, I had one knee down on the side of the post, it wasn’t a high-scoring chance, but the puck hit my pad and I said to myself, ‘Well, I stopped Crosby,” Wedgewood said. “(Phil) Kessel had a one-timer on the power play. Just joking and having fun, I was like, ‘Well, I stopped two high-scoring NHL players right now. Obviously, it was enjoyable.”

Wedgewood, 23, is filling in for starting goaltender Cory Schneider, who hasn’t played since injuring his knee

March 4. Schneider recently returned to practice and could play again next week.

Wedgewood spent the season in the ECHL and mainly the AHL before an emergency recall earlier this week. He allowed one goal in his NHL debut against Columbus on Sunday, stopping 27 shots to become the first Devils goaltender to win in his debut since Martin Brodeur in 1992.

Wedgewood, New Jersey’s third-round pick in 2010, followed his initial win Continued on Page 13

FLO NATIONALS WRESTLING

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DEVILS GOALIE Scott Wedgewood stopped a shot by the Penguins’ Nick Bonino in the first period.

NCAA TOURNAMENT

Lessons Learned Past pain helps teams make runs to regional finals

By TERESA M. WALKER KEVIN STIFFLER/Gazette

WRESTLERS DUELED on 12 mats at the KCAC on Thursday.

Going with the Flo

Wrestlers aim to make most of opportunity

By DUSTIN FILLOY

dfilloy@indianagazette.net

The sting of getting ousted prematurely from this year’s postseason hadn’t yet subsided, but Stone Kepple and Robby Patrick planned to speed up that healing process by flourishing in an even more cutthroat arena, the Flo Nationals wrestling tournament.

Although Kepple of Derry and Patrick of Ligonier Valley fell out of the winners’ bracket, they advanced to the second and final day of the event for the first time in their careers Thursday at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

The area’s other three participants competing in the seventh annual edition of the college-rules tournament — Marion Center’s Mike Turner and Charlie Beatty and Blairsville’s Noah Sleasman — were eliminated.

The top eight finishers in each weight division will earn Flo Nationals AllAmerica status. The entire tournament is being streamed online at www.flowrestling.org.

The championship rounds of the

high school tournament will begin at 4:45 p.m. today. The middle school and elementary school tournaments will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday.

“It feels pretty good, but I’ve got to keep it going,” Kepple said. “I didn’t do as well as I thought this season, so I’m using that as fuel to come in here motivated. This is my last high school tournament, so I plan on going all out.”

Competing for the fourth straight year in the event, the unseeded Kepple blanked Elijah Murphy of Northwestern (Md.), 4-0, in the opening round, before falling to third-seeded Hunter Ladnier of St. Edward (Ohio), 11-3, in the second round. Ladnier is a Harvard recruit, a state champion and a Walsh Ironman Tournament champion.

Kepple regained his footing by scoring back-to-back 11-2 major decisions in his second- and third-round consolation bouts.

After qualifying for the state tournament in his sophomore and junior seasons, Kepple fell one win shy of making his third trip to Hershey this year. He finished his career with 135 wins.

Kepple, who will wrestle at Seton Hill

next year, can guarantee himself AllAmerica status with back-to-back wins today.

“I’m definitely excited,” Kepple said.

“Usually I’m nervous and worried about things at tournaments, but since it’s my last one I’m just trying to have fun.”

The 11th-seeded Patrick opened the tournament with a pair of impressive falls. He first decked Anthony Renforth of South Range (Ohio) in 3:56 in the first round before pinning Ronnel Best of Hazel Park (Mich.) in just 28 seconds in the second round.

Patrick, a sophomore, then dropped a hard-fought 5-2 decision to sixthseeded Jake Douglas of Lake Stevens (Wash.) in the round of 16. Douglas is a four-time state medalist who was a state runner-up last year and a thirdplace finisher this year.

Like Kepple, Patrick saw a promising season come to an unexpected halt in the postseason.

Patrick won his second straight District 6 and PIAA Southwest Regional tournament titles to punch his second Continued on Page 13

ON CAMPUS

Frustration turns to motivation Narrow loss in NCAA final fuels Piccirillo for outdoor season

• EDITOR’S NOTE: On Campus features graduates of area high schools who are performing athletically in college, and it appears periodically during the school year. If you know of someone who could be featured here, contact Dustin Filloy by email at dfilloy@indiana gazette.net or at (724) 465-5555, ext.

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By DUSTIN FILLOY

dfilloy@indianagazette.net

The few tears Angel Piccirillo shed after falling less than a second short of winning her first NCAA title weren’t tears of joy.

The Villanova senior only remembers getting hit with a wave of frustration after watching Oklahoma State’s Kaela Edwards pass her late in the race to claim the NCAA Division I women’s indoor track and field title in the mile on March 12 in Birmingham, Ala. Although the Homer-Center graduate knew she let a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip through her hands, Piccirillo ultimately realized that the heartbreaking ending to her final indoor postseason will fuel her during her last season on the outdoor scene.

“That was probably the best I’ve ever competed on a national stage, but it was also the most bittersweet second place I’ve ever experienced,” she said.

New Hampshire’s Elinor Purrier led for the bulk of the race ANGEL PICCIRILLO before Piccirillo, who was in second place the majority of the event, made a move with roughly 400 meters to go.

Piccirillo passed Purrier and appeared on her way to her first NCAA title when Edwards, who was in third place for most of the race, came on strong in an outside lane around the 40-meter mark.

Edwards then outkicked Piccirillo for the last 30 meters and edged her by a few paces to narrowly claim her first national title. Edwards finished the race in 4 minutes, 35.62 seconds, and Piccirillo crossed the finish line at 4:36.26.

“I definitely didn’t walk off the track with a smile on my face. It was probably more tears than anything,” Piccirillo said. “It’s just really disappointing when you feel like you executed a plan

to perfection and you still come up short, especially after working for four years and having everything come down to that race. I was so close, but that’s definitely going to be motivation for the outdoor season. It’s time to get some redemption.”

In the final race of her indoor career, Piccirillo placed 13th in the 3,000 to garner a second-team All-America honor in the event.

Piccirillo had competed in the 3,000 on only one previous occasion in her career, a first-place finish at the Penn State National on Jan. 29.

Despite the fact that she became a six-time indoor All-American with her 13th-place finish, Piccirillo still expressed frustration with her performance in the 3,000.

“I feel like halfway through it I was just feeling the mile in my legs and wasn’t feeling super-great,” she said. “I definitely didn’t run as well as I could have and it obviously didn’t go the way I wanted it to, but I still learned a lot.

These performances will help me manage my emotions. I think I needed it to happen that way. I didn’t want it to end like that, but I needed it to motivate me more for the outdoor season.”

Unlike some of her teammates who Continued on Page 13

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Losing in the NCAA Tournament is downright painful. Several teams still in the hunt for the title are using the unpleasant memories of the past as good lessons that have helped them move into the Elite Eight.

The Villanova Wildcats know the misery well. They lost their second game each of the past two tournaments, while their seniors were around for an opening loss in 2013.

Rather than letting those memories haunt them, the Wildcats adjusted and reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2009.

“What you’re seeing is a team that’s learned a lot from those games, and that is experience,” Villanova coach Jay Wright said Thursday night after a 92-69 rout of No. 3 seed Miami in the South Region semifinal.

“They’ve been there twice.

They’ve lost. They don’t fear

it. They don’t fear losing in the second round, they don’t fear losing in the Sweet 16.

They just are driven to advance. And I think having no fear is what we’re seeing.”

Other teams are making a similar play, Oklahoma also is in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2009 after early exits each of the past three seasons, while Kansas hadn’t gotten to a regional final since 2012.

Oregon hasn’t played past the opening weekend since 2013, and now the Ducks are a game away from their first Final Four since 1939, when they won the title.

“We went through those early exits,” Villanova junior guard Josh Hart said. “We went through that heartache, and it was tough. But we learned from it. ... We’re just using that as momentum, using that experience to get us through these games.”

All four advanced Thursday night with pretty impressive performances, too.

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Boeheim doesn’t care what others think CHICAGO — Jim Boeheim was in his underwear.

This was not Thursday afternoon, when the longtime Syracuse coach settled behind a microphone to preview the Orange’s Midwest Regional semifinal against Gonzaga and wound up speaking candidly for the better part of a half-hour about his sometimesunorthodox approach to Jim Litke is a the game. sports Instead, columnist for The Associated that notquite-fullyPress. Email: jlitke@ap.org. clothed scene took place in Boeheim’s office back in Syracuse in October 2003, as he changed from jacket and slacks into a tracksuit. It was the day that Boeheim began practice and the defense of his first and so-far only national title the previous April by granting a reporter a behindthe-scenes look.

But the point in both cases was the same: The man rarely worries about what other people think.

At the end of his 40th year in the business and what

JIM LITKE

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JIM BOEHEIM might be his most tumultuous season ever, Boeheim has Syracuse back in a familiar place: the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

It was how the Orange arrived there that proved even more newsworthy.

Boeheim was suspended for nine games over a nearly five-week stretch and then slammed when 21-13 Syracuse squeaked into the field after a 1-5 finish and quick exit from the ACC Tournament.

If either of those blows to his reputation caused any lingering damage, you wouldn’t have known it when Boeheim followed players Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney at the podium.

Not a half-hour earlier, Gonzaga coach Mark Few preceded all three of them Continued on Page 12

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Spieth earns second victory

From Gazette wire services

RGIII signs with Browns CLEVELAND (AP) — Robert Griffin III is getting a chance to revive a career that once seemed unstoppable.

One of the NFL’s brightest and flashiest stars just a few years ago, Griffin signed a two-year contract with the Cleveland Browns, a franchise on a perpetual mission to find a quarterback.

Griffin hasn’t been the same since his dazzling rookie season in Washington in 2012, when RG3 — possessed with a rocket arm, a tailback’s speed and endless swagger — burst onto pro football’s stage.

By The Associated Press Jordan Spieth had another stress-free day in the Dell Match Play, avoiding some of the drama the 18th hole provided Thursday.

So did Jason Day, whose back felt strong enough to drive the first green at 381 yards with a helping wind.

Fifteen matches went the distance at Austin Country Club, and there was no shortage of surprises. Daniel Berger never finished against Phil Mickelson when his club hit a rock structure on the way down. Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler escaped with halfpoints.

It all set the stage for today when all but 16 players from the 64-man field leave town.

Already, 22 players have been mathematically eliminated.

Spieth again built a big lead and lost only one hole in a 5and-4 victory over Victor Dubuisson of France. He has played 30 holes in his two victories, and needs only to halve his match today against Justin Thomas to reach the round of 16.

Day ended any suspense about his back injury — first by showing up, then by hitting his opening drive to 12 feet on the 381-yard first hole. He was headed to a 5and-3 victory over Thongchai Jaidee, which put him in the same position as Spieth.

Rory McIlroy also got through in a wild match with Smylie Kaufman in which they didn’t halve a hole until No. 7. McIlroy won on the 17th hole.

For others, the 18th hole was pivotal.

Mickelson was all square on the last hole when Berger drove left next to a rock structure that forms the 10th tee box. Berger struck the rocks before his club reached the ball. He dropped the club, grabbed his left wrist and looked over to Mickelson to concede the match.

Mickelson moves on to a winner-take-all match against Patrick Reed.

Sergio Garcia was poised to win his second straight match until Ryan Moore knocked in a 25-foot putt from behind the 17th green to square the match, and then hit wedge to a foot on the final hole for a 1-up victory.

LPGA: Inbee Park shot a 5under 67 for a share of the lead in the LPGA Tour’s Kia Classic, the final event before the major ANA Inspiration next week in Rancho Mirage.

Park played the back nine at Aviara in 4 under in her afternoon round, making her final birdie on the par-5 17th.

She hit 11 of 14 fairways in regulation, 14 of 18 greens, and had 27 putts.

The second-ranked South Korean player withdrew because of a back pain after a first-round 80 in the opener in the Bahamas and has struggled to regain that form that carried her to two major titles and five victories last year. She tied for 30th in Thailand and Singapore and missed the cut in the Founders Cup in Phoenix.

Morning starters Brittany Lang, Jodi Ewart Shadoff and Ai Miyazato matched Park at 67, and top-ranked Lydia Ko was another stroke back along with Jane Park and Mi Jung Hur. PGA: Rafael Compos shot an 8-under 64 in front of his home fans to take the firstround lead in the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open.

Compos, 27, had eight birdies in a bogey-free round at Coco Beach. He made four straight birdies on Nos. 9-12, added another on the par-5 15th and parred the final three holes.

George McNeill, the 2012 winner, was a stroke back. He had six birdies in a sevenhole stretch and closed with a bogey on the par-4 ninth.

Defending champion Alex Cejka was at 66 along with Aaron Baddeley, Frank Lickliter and Will MacKenzie.

English stars Luke Donald and Ian Poulter are playing after failing to qualify for the Match Play event in Texas.

Donald opened with a 69, and Poulter shot 71.

Turner dies from ALS

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KANSAS GUARD Wayne Selden Jr. shot over Maryland defender Jake Layman during Thursday’s game in Louisville, Ky.

Kansas puts rout on Terps

By The Associated Press Perry Ellis scored 27 points, Wayne Selden Jr. added 19 and top-seeded Kansas topped No. 5 Maryland for a 79-63 NCAA Tournament South Region semifinal victory Thursday night. The win put the Jayhawks back into the Elite 8 for the first time since 2012.

It took time for the Jayhawks (33-4) to get going, but once they finally seized the lead late in the first half everything else fell into place for their 17th straight victory. They emerged from the break to make their first six shots and steadily take control behind senior forward Ellis, who made 10 of 17 from the field.

Selden was right there with 7-of-16 shooting to help Kansas earn a berth in Saturday’s regional final against Villanova.

The Terrapins (27-9) dictated the early tempo and briefly engaged in a back-and-forth game with the Jayhawks before eventually falling behind the tournament favorite.

Rasheed Sulaimon led Maryland with 18 points.

NO. 2 VILLANOVA 92, NO. 3 MIAMI 69: Ryan Arcidiacono and Kris Jenkins each scored 21 points, and Villanova never trailed in routing Miami 92-69 in the South Region semifinal.

The Wildcats (32-5) are back in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2009, when they reached the Final Four.

It’s their third trip to the regional final with coach Jay Wright. They turned in quite the offensive performance with former coach Rollie Massimino, who led Villanova to the 1985 national championship, sitting nearby.

Villanova will play Kansas on Saturday in the regional final.

Daniel Ochefu added 17 points, and Josh Hart had 14 for Villanova, which shot 62.7 percent (32 of 51).

Miami (27-8) now is 0-3 in this round and 0-2 with coach Jim Larranaga.

Sheldon McClellan scored 26 points for Miami, and Angel Rodriguez added 13.

WEST REGION NO. 2 OKLAHOMA 77, NO. 3 TEXAS A&M 63: Jordan Woodard scored 22 points and Buddy Hield had 17 points and 10 rebounds to lead Oklahoma to a romp over cold-shooting Texas A&M in the West Regional semifinal.

The Sooners (28-7) advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2009. They’ll play Saturday against Oregon.

The Sooners blew open a close

game by going on a 19-4 run during the last 7:42 of the first half to take a 45-26 lead.

The Sooners forced the Aggies into bad shots and turnovers, and Woodard was the catalyst on the offensive end.

Tyler Davis scored 17 for A&M (289), which reached the Sweet 16 with a thrilling double-overtime victory against Northern Iowa after rallying from 12 points down in the final 44 seconds of regulation.

NO. 1 OREGON 82, NO. 4 DUKE 68: Dillon Brooks scored 19 points and Oregon advanced to the brink of its first Final Four in 77 years with a victory over defending national champion Duke in the West Region semifinal.

Elgin Cook had 16 points and nine rebounds for the top-seeded Ducks (31-6), who will meet Oklahoma on Saturday.

After a season-long rise in the Pacific Northwest, the Pac-12 champion Ducks emphatically arrived on the national stage with a strong second-half rally to beat the mighty Blue Devils (25-11) for the first time in school history.

Freshman Brandon Ingram scored 24 points, but Duke fell short of its third Elite Eight trip in five years. The Blue Devils lost five of their final 10 games.

Past pain helps teams make runs Continued from Page 11 ’NOVA SHOOTING: The Wildcats lost to North Carolina State in 2015 and Connecticut in 2014 in their second NCAA games. In 2013, it was an opening loss to North Carolina. Villanova came into this tournament having spent three weeks as the nation’s top-ranked team for the first time in program history. Now the Wildcats are showing just how good they might be, shooting better in each of their first three games.

Villanova never trailed against Miami, scoring the first eight points.

The Hurricanes got within one at 3130 before Villanova finished the game hitting 62.7 percent of its shots and a season-high 66.7 percent (10 of 15) beyond the arc. They even hit their first 15 free throws before finishing 18 of 19 at the line to earn their third regional final under Wright and seventh all-time.

“If they go 10 of 15 and 18 of 19, you know nobody’s going to beat them,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

CHALK IT UP JAYHAWK: As the top of the No. 1 seeds, Kansas was expected

to reach Saturday night’s South Region final. The Jayhawks know only too well expectations and seedings mean little in this tournament after losing to Wichita State in their second game last year and to Stanford in 2014. Reaching the Sweet 16 proved no help in 2013 with a loss to Michigan.

Maryland stuck around long enough in the first half to give fans a few jitters. Kansas took a 36-34 halftime lead and opened the second half hitting its first six shots to seize the lead.

The Jayhawks turned in what Self called a “superb” performance in the second half in pushing that lead to as much as 16 for a 79-63 win and first Elite Eight since 2012.

SOONER TIME: No. 2 seed Oklahoma romped over third-seeded Texas A&M 77-63 in the West Regional semifinal with five Sooners in double figures. They now are in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2009 after losing in a regional semifinal a year ago with opening losses to North Dakota State in 2014 and San

Diego State in 2013.

Having Buddy Hield helps. Oklahoma blew open a close game with a 19-4 run to close the first half, not letting the Aggies closer than 14 in the second half.

Memories of that loss to Michigan State a year ago did, too.

“Got asked a lot of questions about how we felt last year, so we just wanted to make sure we had a greater focus this game and make it to our ultimate goal,” Jordan Woodward said.

ORE-NOT GONE YET: So much has been made of Oregon’s No. 1 seed in the West, and the Ducks lost to Wisconsin each of the past two tournaments. They lost to Louisville in their last regional semifinal in 2013. Not even playing the defending national champions could shake Oregon this time around as the Ducks took a double-digit lead early in the second half and never flinched in downing Duke 82-68 for the first time in school history.

Oregon now is in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2007.

Boeheim doesn’t care what others think Continued from Page 11 on that same stage and tantalizingly said about Boeheim, “He’s a really, really good guy. I wish you guys could see that side of him.”

“He’s not the surly curmudgeon,” Few added quickly, “you all think he is.”

Boeheim can be stubborn, and we’re not talking just about his clinging to the 2-3 zone defense, a scheme nearly all his contemporaries abandoned long ago because it demands hard work and an attention to detail few players in this era of instant gratification will expend.

Boeheim can be grating, too, whether that means needling players he feels are shorting him on effort, or lecturing reporters whose depth of knowledge he considers too far beneath his own.

But on this day, after two very general answers about how Gbinije, a 6foot-7, 200-pounder who looks nothing like a point guard, wound up taking over that role for the Orange, someone asked Boeheim how he and Few became close friends.

“He jumped into our card game and got his butt kicked and he took it well,” he chuckled.

“He took his beating like a man,” Boeheim continued through a widening smile. We’ve been friends, really, ever since.”

The man is nothing, if not loyal, a fact that was only too apparent in Syracuse’s tourney wins over Dayton and Middle Tennessee. Both were achieved with the same thin rotation — six players deep, seven at most — that Boeheim has relied on forever.

He’s always had to fight for his share of All-American recruits, first in the highly competitive Big East and now in the ACC, and the one thing he learned right away is that stars want to be on the floor.

But whatever accommodations Boeheim made in terms of playing time came with equal measures of accountability. And so alongside all the wins, the roster of glittering names that have passed through campus during Boeheim’s stay — Rony Seikaly, Sherman Douglas, Derrick Coleman, Pearl Washington and Derrick Coleman — all likely have stories involving less-glamorous moments, too.

“There’s nobody that doesn’t push,” Boeheim said about his fellow coaches. “Some do it a little easier

and some a little nicer maybe, but we all push, and that’s the way the players get better and at the end of the day they want that.

“Derrick Coleman told me I was pushing him too much, and he’d never come back to see me again,” he added with a smirk. “Now he’s back more than my sons are. So they understand eventually.”

Exactly what keeps Boeheim pushing himself these days is tough to say.

He’s 71 and a member of the Hall of Fame since 2005.

He trails only his close pal, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, for most wins as a college coach and with the number of wins vacated along with the NCAA suspension (and previous violations) still being argued over, there’s little chance Boeheim will catch up. In the meantime, he’s not likely to change.

“I never curse at a player. I never have,” Boeheim said when the motivation question came up at another juncture. “I mean, I threw something at a player once, but I wasn’t aiming at him.

“That was a long time ago — 30 years ago,” he added chuckling softly.

“Probably couldn’t do that anymore.”

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Former NFL and Alabama fullback Kevin Turner died at the age of 46 after battling Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Turner’s father released a statement on Facebook announcing the death of the former Crimson Tide standout, which was also posted to the Kevin Turner Foundation’s website.

Turner was drafted by the New England Patriots and went on to play for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1995-1999. He was diagnosed with the neurological disease ALS in 2010.

Patrick, Busch fined for violations CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Danica Patrick has been fined $20,000 by NASCAR for walking near the race track after a crash.

Kyle Busch has been fined $10,000 for failing to meet media obligations at California.

Patrick was also placed on probation for four races. Contact with Kasey Kahne in Sunday’s race at Auto Club Speedway caused her to wreck, and she violated a rule that says no one can “approach any portion of the racing surface or apron” when she gestured at Kahne.

Busch has also been placed on probation through April 27 for failing to report to the media center following Saturday’s Xfinity Series race.

Tallent in line to claim gold MOSCOW (AP) — Four years later, Jared Tallent can call himself Olympic champion.

When the Australian race walker was beaten to the gold medal at the 2012 London Games by Sergei Kirdyapkin, Tallent believed the Russian was cheating. Last year, Kirdyapkin was handed a retroactive threeyear doping ban. But the sanction imposed by the Russian anti-doping agency didn’t cover his results at the Olympics, letting him keep the 50-kilometer gold that Tallent considered should be his.

The Russian ruling was overturned Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, putting Tallent in line to finally claim his gold. All that is left now is for the International Olympic Committee to formally reallocate the medal and for Tallent to get his own belated medal ceremony.

Soccer star Cruyff dies at 68 UNDATED (AP) — Johan Cruyff, a soccer star who brought a smile to the face of anyone who watched him play, died. He was 68.

Family spokeswoman Carole Thate told The Associated Press that Cruyff died in Barcelona after a five-month battle with lung cancer.

Ranked alongside such global stars as Pele, Diego Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer and Lionel Messi, Cruyff was one of the best footballers of all time. He learned his trade at Ajax Amsterdam before joining the great Barcelona, and played 48 times for the Netherlands, scoring 33 goals.

NBA concerned about N.C. law NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA said it is “deeply concerned” about a North Carolina law it views as discriminatory toward gays and said it doesn’t know if it can successfully play host to the All-Star Game in Charlotte next season.

The league joined those opposing the state’s “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act,” which has been criticized because it allows businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

In a statement, the league says the law “runs counter to our guiding principles of equality and mutual respect.”

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Devils rookie shuts out Penguins Continued from Page 11 with his first career shutout against a Penguins team that ranks third in the league in scoring since Mike Sullivan took over as head coach in December. He has stopped 66 of the 67 shots he has faced in the NHL. “It hasn’t really hit me yet,” Wedgewood said. “I’m more excited to get the win, coming in here, playing a good team and guys that have a lot of skill. I’m feeling confident in my game, and the guys around me are making it easy to play at this level.”

Palmieri, who set career highs with 29 goals and 52 points, has a fourgame points streak. He scored twice early and Wedgewood held off the Penguins until Adam Henrique sealed the win with his 27th of the season midway through the third period.

New Jersey has now won five of seven and remains within reach of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with eight games remaining.

“I think our group is having a lot of fun trying to string some wins together in a playoff race,” Palmieri said.

“Some people have counted us out, but we haven’t been eliminated yet.”

Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 21 saves as Pittsburgh’s season-high sixgame winning streak ended. The Penguins ended a run of nine straight games against Metropolitan Division opponents at 7-2.

They remained four points behind the second-place New York Rangers in the division — and home-ice advantage in a first-round playoff series. The Islanders are one point back in fourth place and hold the Eastern

Conference’s first wild card spot.

Crosby saw a 12-game point streak come to an end. Crosby scored six goals and 20 points during a streak that was the longest active in the league.

“We didn’t play well enough here,” Crosby said. “We have to focus on making sure we’re better. I think we know we have to bounce back here next game.”

Palmieri opened the scoring 26 seconds into the game on a breakaway.

He took a pass from Travis Zajac off the boards and squeezed a wrist shot through Fleury’s pads to give the Devils the early lead.

Palmieri scored 8 seconds into a Devils power play later in the period as his slap shot from the left point beat Fleury to the glove side.

Wedgewood took care of the rest.

“Sometimes you can see nerves getting to people, but he’s done a phenomenal job of settling everything down,” Palmieri said. “He’s played tremendous for us, starting with his first NHL game and then against one of the most high-powered offenses in the game. It’s pretty impressive and hopefully he keeps it up.”

The Penguins play at Detroit on Saturday afternoon.

NOTES: Patric Hornqvist and Eric Fehr each played in their 500th NHL game. ... Penguins forward Beau Bennett returned to the lineup after missing 42 of the previous 43 games. ... Devils forward Blake Pietila made his NHL debut. ... Pittsburgh scratched defensemen Ben Lovejoy and Derrick Pouliot, center Oskar Sundqvist and goalie Jeff Zatkoff.

Close loss fuels Piccirillo Continued from Page 11 didn’t compete in the indoor season, Piccirillo won’t compete in this weekend’s Penn Challenge in Philadelphia. Instead, she’ll rest up and either make her debut at the Colonial Relays on Thursday or at the Hurricane Alumni Invitational on April 9.

“I’m approaching (the outdoor season) the same way I approach indoor,” Piccirillo said. “I don’t want to put too much pressure on the situation because I don’t need any added pressure on my shoulders, but the goals are the same. I obviously would like to win an NCAA title in outdoor, but we also have the Penn Relays, and the (Olympic) Trials are in July. There are a lot of big races coming up this year, and the goals will be the same.”

Piccirillo broke the all-time collegiate record in the 1,000 at the Big East championships with a time of 2:40.82 on Feb. 27. She trimmed nearly two seconds off the previous school record, which was set by Villanova coach Gina Procaccio at the 1987 NCAA championships.

Piccirillo was named the Most Outstanding Track Performer at the Big East championships, helping the Wildcats notch a third-place finish.

RYAN SLONIGER (Penn State, baseball): Sloniger, a Punxsutawney native, made an unforgettable debut with the Nittany Lions when he went 3-for-4 in the second game of a doubleheader sweep of Army in the Penn State Baseball Tournament on Feb. 20.

Sloniger doubled, drove in four runs and scored three runs in Penn State’s 11-0 win in Game 2 of the twinbill.

The freshman catcher has started in 11 of the Nittany Lions’ 19 RYAN games.

He has six SLONIGER hits, including three doubles, in 33 at-bats.

Sloniger has committed just one error and has a .986 fielding percentage. He has thrown out five of 13 base runners who have attempted to steal on him.

The Nittany Lions hold a 9-10 overall record, including a 4-1 mark at home. Penn State opens its Big Ten schedule when it travels to Illinois today.

GUS YAHNER, ANDREW DOWNEY, J.T. HORWAT, DAN LEARN AND DARTAGNAN SUCHAR (Pitt Johnstown, men’s track and field): It didn’t take Yahner long to solidify himself as Pitt Johnstown’s goto pole vaulter.

In fact, the sophomore and Northern Cambria graduate has already set GUS YAHNER team records in the event in indoor and outdoor.

After breaking the indoor school record on Jan. 24, Yahner set another school record with a height of 14 feet, 9½ inches in what was a

third-place finish at the PSAC indoor championships on Feb. 28.

In the outdoor season opener, Yahner broke the outdoor school record with a mark of 14-5¼ in what was a fifth-place finish at the Coastal Carolina Invitational on March 12. The mark qualified Yahner for the PSAC outdoor championships.

Suchar, a Northern Cambria graduate, paced the Mountain Cats’ 1,600 relay team to a pair of sixth-place finishes at the Youngstown State Invitational and the Bucknell University Bison Open, respectively, on Jan. 22 and Jan. 30. He then paced the same relay team to a ninth-place finish at the PSAC indoor championships.

Suchar also scored several times in the 400 in the indoor season before scoring in the 400 at the Coastal Carolina Invitational.

Learn guided the Mountain Cats’ 3,200 relay team to an eighth-place finish at the PSAC indoor championships. The Purchase Line alum also scored in the 800 at the Coastal Carolina Invitational.

Horwat, a Penns Manor graduate, placed fourth in the 3,000 steeplechase at the Juniata Invitational on Saturday. Horwat also scored in the 1,500 at the Coastal Carolina Invitational.

Downey, a Derry graduate, led the 400 relay team to a fourthplace finish at the Juniata Invitational.

Ligonier Valley graduate Carlos Chavez is also on the Mountain Cats’ roster but has yet to score in an event.

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By The Indiana Gazette

ANDREW DOWNEY

J.T HORWAT

DAN LEARN

DARTAGNAN SUCHAR

Gould gets game-winner in split

By The Indiana Gazette Megan Gould stroked a game-winning single to lift IUP to a 2-1 win over Lock Haven in a doubleheader split in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference softball action Thursday at Ruth Podbielski Field.

IUP dropped the opener, 8-6. The Crimson Hawks are 11-7 overall and 1-1 in the PSAC Central.

Gould, a sophomore, had two hits in the win, and freshman Lauren Zola gave up one earned run in a complete-game effort. Zola struck out four and scattered four hits to improve to 4-3 on the year.

IUP opened the scoring in the fourth inning on Rachel Francis’ RBI triple that scored Lauren Goetz. Lock Haven tied the game in the fifth with a sacrifice fly.

In the bottom of the seventh, Francis led off with a walk and advanced to second on Mackenna Miller’s sacrifice bunt. Lock Haven pitched around Hannah Mercer, who drew a walk, and both runners moved into scoring position on a wild pitch. Gould, a left-hander, followed by slapping a single down the left field line.

IUP ROUNDUP In the opener, IUP took a 4-0 lead on the strength of a three-run first inning highlighted by Francis’ two-run double.

Miller led off the second with her first career home run.

Lock Haven scored three in the third before each team scored in the fourth and fifth, with IUP getting RBI base hits from Miller and Amanda Parrish to take a 6-5 lead into the sixth. After a scoreless inning, Lock Haven tallied three in the seventh on five hits to take a two-run lead.

IUP’s Amy Fairman and Allison Viguers stroked back-to-back singles in the seventh, and the Crimson Hawks went on to load the bases with two outs before stranding all three runners.

IUP plays host to Bloomsburg on Saturday.

BASEBALL: Sophomore right-hander Michael Klingensmith struck out eight batters in five innings, and senior outfielder Hunter Bigler drove in four runs in IUP’s 17-5 win over Penn State

DuBois at Showers Field on Wednesday.

Klingensmith, a Punxsutawney High School graduate, allowed two earned runs and six hits and improved to 2-1 on the season.

Bigler went 4-for-5 and drew two walks and scored three times.

Chris Calliari finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs, and Cory Wheeler went 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs scored.

IUP snapped an eight-game losing streak and improved to 7-14.

IUP plays at Clarion today.

TENNIS: IUP racked up its eighth win without a loss in the spring season in a 9-0 romp over Slippery Rock in their Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division opener on Wednesday.

IUP’s top doubles teams of Jarka Petercakova and Luise von Agris, Raquel Gonzalez and Rachel Wood, and Claudia Menes and Alanna McFail scored victories.

Petercakova, Gonzalez, von Agris, Sophie Butland, Menes and Wood won singles matches.

IUP plays Chestnut Hill at Wexford today.

IHS, Saltsburg advance to finals Indiana and Saltsburg advanced to the championship game of the 47th annual Indiana Optimist Club Underclass Basketball Tournament on Thursday.

Indiana beat HomerCenter, 80-56, and Saltsburg cruised past Penns Manor, 85-50, in the semifinals Thursday at Fifth Street Gym. They will meet for the title at 2 p.m.

Saturday.

Tom Arbuckle scored a game-high 17 points to lead Indiana. Carlos Carter added 16 points, and Jake Benhart had 12.

Jesse Beacker scored eight points for HomerCenter.

Dan Shirley scored a game-high 18 points to lead Saltsburg. Nick Porter scored 16 points, Frank Plowman had 14, and Derek Feiling added 11.

Tom Hamilton scored 10 points to pace Penns Manor.

Girls’ and boys’ all-star games featuring this year’s seniors will be played at 3:30 and 5 p.m., respectively, on Saturday.

West Shamokin drops opener FREEPORT — Freeport scored 12 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning in a 16-1 rout of West Shamokin in a WPIAL non-section baseball game Thursday.

Freeport was leading 4-1 before plating 12 runs on eight hits, three walks and an error in the fourth to take a 16-1 lead and enforce the 15-run mercy rule. Jason Beale and Nevin DeCroo each hit two-run home runs in the inning.

West Shamokin’s Devin Fairman went 2-for-2 and ripped a solo homer in the fourth inning.

Losing pitcher Ben Vicini struck out four and walked one in three innings.

West Shamokin (0-1) travels to Leechburg on Tuesday.

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THURSDAY’S BOX SCORE FREEPORT 16, WEST SHAMOKIN 1

West Shamokin — 1 Orlosky ss-p 2-0-0-0, Townsend 3b 20-0-0, Fairman c-p-ss 2-1-2-1, Gray lf 20-0-0, Nosal 1b 2-0-0-0, Fraley 2b 1-0-00, Vicini p 1-0-1-0, Allen pr 0-0-0-0, Manarelli c 0-0-0-0, Gresk rf 1-0-0-0, Julius cf 1-0-0-0, Totals 14-1-3-1 Freeport — 16 Brestensky ss 4-3-2-2, DeCroo cf 4-31-2, Beale 3b 3-3-2-4, Pastorek p 2-2-2-2, Jones lf 3-1-1-1, Flemm rf 3-1-2-3, Stefko c 3-1-1-1, Westendorf 2b 2-1-1-0, Stokes 1b 2-1-1-0, Totals 28-16-13-14 West Shamokin 000 1 — 1 3 3 Freeport 103 (12) — 16 13 0 2B — Flemm, Pastorek, Jones. HR — DeCroo, Beale, Fairman.

W — Pastorek 6 K, 0 BB. L — Vicini 4 K, 1 BB.

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ORIOLES 6, PIRATES 5

SARASOTA, Fla. — J.J. Hardy, Jonathan Schoop and Mark Trumbo all homered as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 on Thursday.

Trumbo hit a two-run homer and Schoop’s was a solo shot off Pittsburgh starter Jonathon Niese. Hardy connected off Jorge Rondon.

Niese worked six innings, allowing four runs on six hits. It was just the third official Grapefruit League start for

Niese, who hadn’t pitched since March 8.

“I’m still preparing,” Niese said.

“Today was just get to that 100-pitch mark. I felt I was pretty efficient. Made a couple mistakes that during the season, when I go over hitters before the game, I probably don’t make those mistakes. I can’t say never, but more than likely won’t.”

The Orioles’ Tyler Wilson allowed Matt

Joyce’s home run in the first. He gave up the run on two hits in three innings.

Joey Rickard’s ninth-inning RBI single won the game.

The Pirates’ Michael Morse left the game in the fourth inning with an injury to his right leg.

“I felt a little grab while running,” Morse said. “It’s nothing big. It’s one of those spring training things where they take you out to play it safe.”

Pirates right-hander Ryan Vogelsong starts against the Boston Red Sox today.

Wrestlers aims to make most of opportunity Continued from Page 11 straight ticket to the state tournament.

But a year after finishing the runner-up at 145, Patrick lost back-to-back bouts on Day 2 of the state tournament to go home empty-handed.

Patrick can guarantee himself a place on the podium with back-to-back wins today.

First-time competitors and sophomores Turner (113), Beatty (126) and

Sleasman (145) each lost their first two matches and were eliminated. Turner and Beatty qualified for the regional tournament for the first time this year.

“I’ve seen them wrestle a lot better than they did today,” Marion Center coach Chris Stewart said, “but I’m still very proud that they stepped up, paid to register and put it on the line here. It’s not like the district tournament or any of the dual meets in this area. These kids

are coming from all over the United States, and they aren’t flying from Wyoming because they took fourth in their district. They’re the best of the best. I encouraged everyone on our team to compete, just like I do with freestyle, and Mike and Charlie were the only ones who signed up. You’re not going to get better sitting on the couch talking about it, so my hat’s off to those two.”

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ENGAGEMENTS Gail Fry McCurdy and Don Fleming, of Indiana, are pleased to announce the engagement of Misty Caitlin McCurdy to David Ly, son of Binh and Mai Ly, of Murrysville. Misty is also the daughter of the late William McCurdy.

The future bride is a 2006 graduate of Indiana Area Senior High School. Misty is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in art education. She is employed with Prince William County Schools, located in historic Manassas, Va., as an art teacher.

The future groom is a 2002 graduate of Franklin Regional Senior High School.

He completed his undergraduate degree at Penn State University and his master’s degree at Chatham University. David is em-

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INDIANA AREA Senior High School students participated in the 2016 PMEA District 2, 3, 5 Orchestra Festival held in Meadville in January. Participants were, front row, from left, Scylla Humbert, Hamzah Wahi, Amy Varner and Jason Herrington; second row, Julianne Laird, Indiana Area Senior High School orchestra director; Brandon Wu, Joanna Li, Gloria Lo and Jennifer Han; and third row, Gary Davis, guest soloist, and Jason Seber, guest conductor. The Indiana Area School District will be hosting the event in January 2017 at the junior high.

Letter repays a father’s kindness

By SCOTT SEXTON

Winston-Salem Journal

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Amy MacDonald — she was Amy Schehr then — was late for school one fine spring day during her senior year and knew she was in trouble.

“Unfortunately, typical,” she said.

She was waiting for a “tardy” sheet that she’d need to get into her physics lab at the old Bishop McGuinness High on Link Road when a friend ran up to show her an article in that morning’s newspaper that she would remember for the rest of her life.

MacDonald’s father, Ray Schehr, had written her a letter on the occasion of her 18th birthday and managed to get it published for the world to see. She only had time to glance at it before class, but when she got there, her teacher instructed her to go out into the hallway to read it quietly.

“She told me to take as much time as I need and to savor it,” MacDonald said.

She did more than just savor. A lovely gesture by a doting father left such a deep and lasting impression that she now wants to repay his kindness as he recovers from an illness.

In the original, published May 15, 1985, Schehr noted eloquently the feelings all fathers of little girls (should) feel as they approach a milestone birthday.

“A slightly sad look in your face coupled with a trace of a tear inevitably reduced my legs to jelly,” he wrote.

“There was never any contest as to who was really in charge.”

He continued, as most fathers would, by sharing some of the wisdom that comes with age and life experience.

“We would, if we could, protect you from all pain and sorrow. But I believe that would be a mistake. It is the trials and difficulties in life that make us stronger and more able to cope with our future challenges.”

Naturally enough, MacDonald kept that letter and preserved it in a frame. It grew in stature about a month ago when Schehr was admitted to Forsyth Hospital. He stayed in intensive care, MacDonald said, for nearly two weeks before moving to a rehab center on his 81st birthday.

“I almost lost him just a few weeks ago and all I could think about was the regret I had in not letting him know how much he has meant to me all my life,”

MacDonald said.

Thus, an idea was born.

She’d write her own letter and find a way for the world to learn a little something about her dad.

It arrived as an attachment in an email, along with a photo of Schehr taken at his 80th birthday; no need for postage or envelopes.

“Only a few weeks ago, we stood around your bedside in the ICU and said goodbye, thinking the next time we met (it) would be in heaven,” she wrote. “But God wants you here. Maybe he wants me to tell you exactly how much I love you before it’s too late.”

In her letter, MacDonald remembers fondly many of the things her dad wrote about in the original — memories already made and those he knew were still to come.

She (and he) wrote of things large and small. A horse named Just Precious, broken hearts, a wedding day and little moments that carried big meaning as a young woman made her way through the world.

“I think about showing up at my dorm room after classes at college to find a bouquet of flowers or some cheese and crackers and a sweet note on my door from you,” she wrote.

It’s easy to picture a father and a daughter through the years by reading her words.

A love of music and an enduring sense of adventure are but two gifts handed down across generations.

MacDonald continued, as we all would (or should), by thanking her father for a lifetime of love, protection, sacrifice and advice that paid dividends over and over and over.

“You taught me well, Dad,” she wrote. “And even more importantly, I have the confidence to trust in myself, just as you trusted in me so many years ago.”

The most important thing — the one thing MacDonald wanted communicated — comes across most clearly in her closing sentences.

“Please know I could not have asked for a better father,” she wrote. “I feel extremely blessed to have had you lead our family. And so lucky indeed to still have you with us so I can tell you so.

“I love you Dad! Happy Birthday!”

More than 30 years have passed since Ray Schehr brought his daughter to tears of joy outside a high school classroom. I’m thinking that daughter might well have done the same for her father.

Sibling revelry, threatened

By PHILIP GALANES The New York Times

SOCIAL Q’s

QUESTION: We are a family of four siblings. We always got along pretty well, then our luck ran out. Last year, Siblings 1 and 3 (in birth order) had a huge blowout. The other two of us don’t know what was said, and we are staying out of it. But Sibling 3 was so hurt and angry that he skipped the Christmas holidays, which put a damper on things. Soon, Sibling 2 will be celebrating a milestone birthday. I’m afraid that Sibling 3 will skip that, too. I’d like to encourage him to put aside his feelings for one day and not let selfishness ruin her big day. How would you approach this? — ANONYMOUS ANSWER: Speaking of birth order, am I the only one who’s amazed that the baby of the family is assuming some responsibility here? In my clan, No. 4, your sole job would consist of being carried to the party on soft cushions.

I was with you until your penultimate sentence. Minimizing your brother’s hurt feelings, or worse, labeling him selfish, is no way to induce him to attend the birthday gala. You have been wise to stay out of this blood feud.

Still, it is possible to insert yourself supportively: “I’m sorry that you and Danny are having a rough time. We

missed you so much at Christmas. Will you let me know if there’s anything I can do to make it easier for you to come to Jane’s big birthday?

We really want you there, but we want to respect your feelings, too.”

Then listen. Unless this milestone birthday is a Sweet 16, it’s safe to assume that the nasty fireworks were decades in the making. If so, only time and a desire to mend things will help your enemy-combatant siblings. Beyond kindness, there’s not much you can bring to that party.

QUESTION: An old school friend came to town last week. I suggested we have dinner. When the check came ($140), I produced my card. He exclaimed, “Thank you very much!” I was startled by this and paid. But it left a bad taste in my mouth (that didn’t come from the meal). Should I have done something differently? — A.P.S. ANSWER: Forget turning James Corden’s delightful Carpool Karaoke bit into a weekly show, CBS! What viewers really want (judging from my mailbag) is a forensic restaurant show: splitting checks with heavy drinkers; screaming toddlers in the next booth; tipping — need I say more?

You might have said, “Shall

we split it?” when the bill was presented, before flourishing your credit card. But just because your old pal misunderstood your gesture doesn’t mean you couldn’t have corrected him: “Oh, I was thinking we’d split it,” in response to his thanks. Better to address the awkward moment than to think badly of your chum for an innocent mistake, right?

QUESTION: My mother, who lives two plane flights away, is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. She lives on her own, but we hired someone, for a few hours a week, to help manage her medications. A social worker at the local hospital told me $9 per hour would be a fair wage.

When I suggested this to the woman, she said, “I was expecting $25 an hour.” Immediately, I felt ashamed and agreed to pay. Since then, she let my mother’s pills run out once and accepted a gift from my mother (who adores her). I would be more comfortable paying $15 per hour.

I found a home health service that charges $19 an hour.

Is there a way around this? — JOY, MAINE ANSWER: I’m sorry for you and your mom. Try to reweight the elements of the story. The fact that your mother adores this caretaker is huge. (My mother rejected every helper we found after 15 minutes.) If she’s well

enough to live on her own, she can certainly give someone she likes a modest gift.

And you don’t seem primarily motivated by the caretaker’s letting the pills run out once.

No, your discomfort seems rooted in the wage negotiation and relatively small overpayment of the caretaker. (I bet there’s a healthy dose of feeling out of control, too, being far away from your mother.)

Short of enrolling in Trump University, after it emerges from federal court, for expert negotiating tips, you may say: “A local agency charges $19 an hour for your services.

Would you consider matching that rate?” But personally, I would leave well enough alone. By accident, you have invited someone into your mother’s life whom she really likes. Good on you!

QUESTION: Several times a week, walking around my neighborhood, I see a woman that I am almost positive is the actress Ellen Burstyn. Would it be rude to ask her if she is? — JEANNE ANSWER: Approach the woman gingerly (but never in a restaurant) and say, “Ms. Burstyn?” If she isn’t, apologize and resume your constitutional. But if she says yes, please tell her that she is killing it on “House of Cards” this season! I can’t get her whelping, “I am the mother!” out of my head.

Ben and Sue Lieb, of Cherry Tree, are pleased to announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Caroline Bridget, to Steven Earl Turner, son of Ed and Kim Turner, of Mahaffey.

The bride-to-be is a 2007 graduate of Purchase Line High School and a 2010 graduate of Penn State University with a degree in human development and family studies. She is currently pursuing a second degree in early childhood and special education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and works for the Evergreen Boys and Girls Club at Purchase Line Elementary.

The future groom is a 2010 graduate of Purchase Line High School, a 2012 graduate of Triangle Tech with a degree in welding and fabrication, and is currently employed with the Boilermakers Union.

MISTY McCURDY and DAVID LY ployed with Alexandria City Public Schools in Alexandria, Va., as a mathematics teacher.

A September 2016 wedding is being planned in northern Virginia.

CAROLINE LIEB and STEVEN TURNER The couple share a love for all things hunting and fishing, so appropriately, Steven proposed at the Great American Outdoor Show. Their wedding is planned for Sept. 17, 2016, at Chetremon in Cherry Tree.

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Jay Davidson, Aultman • Cathy Degenkolb, Marion Center • Vivian Douglas, South Fork • Brayden Johnson, Valier • Jean Keith, Cherry Tree • Sue Mack, West Bolivar • Anna Mosco, Blairsville • Bently Schultz, Indiana • Margie Salva, Homer City • Janet Stoner, Home • Rose Waechter, Indiana The Gazette would like to wish you a “Happy Birthday!”

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Moscow Festival Ballet to present â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Swan Lakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

By JAN SHELLENBARGER news@indianagazette.net

The Moscow Festival Ballet brings the legendary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Swan Lakeâ&#x20AC;? to Indiana University of Pennsylvaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fisher Auditorium at 7 p.m. Monday.

Performed to the glorious music of Peter Tchaikovsky, the tale tells a story of a prince and his love for a beautiful Swan Queen, who was trapped by an evil curse.

The Moscow Festival Ballet was founded in 1989 when the legendary principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Radchenko, sought to realize his vision of a company that would bring together the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies in an independent new company within the framework of Russian classic ballet.

Alexander Daev, who serves as the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant artistic director, ballet master and one of the principal dancers, said his mother insisted that he take dance lessons to keep him off of the streets and out of the military. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was her way of pro-

tecting me,â&#x20AC;? Daev said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I began to enjoy ballet after a while and now it is my whole life.â&#x20AC;?

Since its inception, the Moscow Festival Ballet has completed two tours of Europe with extraordinary receptions in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.

Two tours of the United Kingdom, including capacity audiences at Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed Coliseum, have resulted in re-engagements for four seasons.

The company has also performed with great success in Turkey at the Istanbul Festival and in Greece at the Athens Festival and recently completed a two-month tour of Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong.

While visiting different countries may be considered a bonus, Daev said they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t often get to do much sightseeing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very busy on tour,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our routine is a new place each day to perform.â&#x20AC;?

When he does get the opportunity to relax, one of Daevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite places is San Diego, where the company

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THE CLASSIC â&#x20AC;&#x153;Swan Lakeâ&#x20AC;? will be presented by The Moscow Festival Ballet at 7 p.m. Monday in Fisher Auditorium on the IUP campus. recently spent a few days during the current tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the weather and the beaches,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and would like to go back sometime.â&#x20AC;?

In order to allow all ages to

have the opportunity to enjoy Swan Lake, Hank Knerr, executive director of the Lively Arts, scheduled the performance to begin early. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First, Mr. Radchenko will be holding a question and an-

swer session at 6 p.m. for ticket holders.â&#x20AC;?

The presentation, hosted

by IUP dance professor Joan Van Dyke, will also include interpretation by Galiya Nasertdinova, a Russian ex-

change student studying at IUP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Following Mr. Radchenkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation, we will have a family-friendly start time of 7 p.m. for the performance,â&#x20AC;? Knerr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The show should be finished by approximately 9:10 p.m.â&#x20AC;?

Tickets for the Moscow Festival Balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance of Swan Lake are available either online at IUPTickets. com or the Lively Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ticket site at https://iuplivelyarts. secure.force.com/ticket.

They can also be purchased at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or by calling the HUB ticket office at (724) 357-1313.

Seats remaining will be sold at the door starting one hour prior to the performance.

Tickets are priced at $40 for regular admission, $34 for seniors and groups, and $18 for students and children.

For more information on the performance, the preshow talk, and other events from the Lively Arts, call (724) 357-2787 (ARTS) or email lively-arts@iup.edu.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; disappoints

By JAKE COYLE

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Zac Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thundering and grim â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceâ&#x20AC;? offers the kind of blunt, mano-amano faceoff usually reserved for Predators, Godzillas and presidential candidates.

And just as has often been said of this election year, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Supermanâ&#x20AC;? takes a once almost charming tradition and plunges it into the gutter.

Long gone are the telephone booths, corn fields or any other such tokens of innocence. And given the prevailing climate, Snyder may have judged the rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;emsockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;em moment wisely.

Gentlemen, keep your fists up and your capes neatly tucked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Superman,â&#x20AC;? as heavy and humorless as a Supreme Court decision, is an 18-wheeler of a movie lumbering through a fallen world. It hurtles not with the kinetic momentum of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mad Max: Fury Roadâ&#x20AC;? nor the comparatively spry skip of a Marvel movie, but with an operatic grandeur it sometimes earns and often doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

This is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paradise Lostâ&#x20AC;? for superheroes. It twists and grinds two of the most classic comic heroes, wringing new, less altruistic emotions out of them until their dashing smiles turn to angry grimaces.

After a handsome, impressionistic montage of Bat-

Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action throughout and some sensuality Running time: 151 minutes Rating: â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;½

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STARRING IN â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceâ&#x20AC;? are, from left, Henry Cavill as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and Ben Affleck as Batman. manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iconic childhood, the film picks up where Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Superman reboot â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man of Steelâ&#x20AC;? left off but from a different perspective. Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) is driving through the falling debris of Metropolis while Superman (Henry Cavill) careens carelessly above.

Snyder has channeled the backlash over the high death-toll finale into Wayne, who bitterly watches Superman from the dust-filled air on the ground â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a cheap evocation of Sept. 11 designed to add solemnity where there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any.

Months later, the two are still distrustfully circling each other. Snyder, working from a script by Chris Terrio (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Argoâ&#x20AC;?) and David Goyer (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man of Steelâ&#x20AC;?), delves into their opposite natures: one a

godlike power from another planet who favors primary colors, the other a wellequipped human prone to a darker palette.

At a party thrown by Lex Luthor (the badly miscast Jesse Eisenberg), the billionaire-inventor whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secretly weaponizing Kryptonite, their two alter-egos are surprisingly passive aggressive.

Kent, the reporter, queries Wayne about â&#x20AC;&#x153;the bat vigilante problem,â&#x20AC;? while Wayne, citing the laudatory coverage of Superman in the Daily Planet, voices his distaste for â&#x20AC;&#x153;freaks who dress like clowns.â&#x20AC;?

Both are combating a new environment for superheroes best articulated by none other than astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who, on TV, describes super-

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Y&Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; leads Daytime Emmy nods NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CBS led with 77 nominations overall while its daytime drama â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restlessâ&#x20AC;? led with 27 nods when nominations were announced Thursday for the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy awards. The awards ceremony will air May 1.

TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remaining trio of soap operas, â&#x20AC;&#x153;General Hospitalâ&#x20AC;? (24 nominations), â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bold and the Beautifulâ&#x20AC;? (23 nominations) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Days of Our Livesâ&#x20AC;? (16 nominations) are the other series with the most potential trophies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restlessâ&#x20AC;? joined CBSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bold and the Beautiful,â&#x20AC;? NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Days of Our Livesâ&#x20AC;? and ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;General Hospitalâ&#x20AC;? among nominees for best soap opera.

Best actress nominees for daytime drama are Kassie DePaiva and Mary Beth Evans of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Days of Our Lives,â&#x20AC;? Finola Hughes and Maura West of â&#x20AC;&#x153;General Hospitalâ&#x20AC;? and Tracey E. Bregman of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restless.â&#x20AC;?

Best actor nominees for a soap are Anthony Geary and Tyler Christopher of â&#x20AC;&#x153;General Hospital,â&#x20AC;? and Christian LeBlanc, Justin Hartley and Kristoff St. John of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restless.â&#x20AC;?

Nominees for supporting actress are Linsey Godfrey of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bold and the Beautiful,â&#x20AC;? Jessica Collins and Lauralee Bell of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restless,â&#x20AC;? and Peggy McCay and Melissa Reeves of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Days of Our Lives.â&#x20AC;?

Supporting actor nominees are Sean Blakemore of â&#x20AC;&#x153;General Hospital,â&#x20AC;? Steve Burton and Bryton James of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restless,â&#x20AC;? and Dominic Zamprogna of â&#x20AC;&#x153;General Hospital.â&#x20AC;?

Nominees for best game show are â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Wants to be a Millionaireâ&#x20AC;? (syndicated), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jeopardy!â&#x20AC;? (syndicated), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Make a Dealâ&#x20AC;? (syndicated), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monopoly Millionairesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Clubâ&#x20AC;? (syndicated) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Price is Rightâ&#x20AC;? (CBS).

men as altering manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assumed supremacy in the universe like Copernicusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; discoveries did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re criminals, Alfred,â&#x20AC;? Batman, fresh from torturing a foe, tells his butler (Jeremy Irons, adding an icy flare to the character). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been criminals.â&#x20AC;?

Luthorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plot gradually brings the heroes into the same orbit, along with Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot). But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the genuine rigor of Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s engagement with the psychology of Superman and Batman that keeps the film grounded and the rivalry plausible.

Seeing the two warp toward villainy may be a trick, like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seinfeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? Jerry and Kramer switching apartments, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Supermanâ&#x20AC;? is serious about con-

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templating the curious positions these all-powerful beings occupy in a world that has grown to resent their might.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in some ways an ideal film for Snyder, an exceptionally un-subtle filmmaker with the sensibility of a car crash. But as the director of â&#x20AC;&#x153;300,â&#x20AC;? he knows his way around a ramming collision.

And unlike Marvel films, DC Comic adaptations have, for better (Christopher Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dark Knightâ&#x20AC;? trilogy) and worse (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man of Steelâ&#x20AC;?), been works of distinct directors.

Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s command is less sure when it comes to, well, normal life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Supermanâ&#x20AC;? would rather spend its lengthy running time in the throes of myth than somewhere like the offices of the Daily Planet, where the eminently pert Amy Adams (Lois Lane) breezes in and out.

As for the much discussed casting of Affleck, Keaton and Bale have little to worry about.

But Affleck is a worthy heir to the part, albeit with a chin thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dead giveaway in the

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suit. If anything, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only so much room for individual performance here; when armored, Affleckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already beefed-up Batman looks like a tank.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an elemental fun in positing the winners of superhero square-offs. Is the Flash faster than Superman?

Is Aquaman or Wonder Woman the better tipper?

Is everybody just kind of weirded out by the Silver Surfer?

Such debates are predicated on their inherent silliness, something the self-serious â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Supermanâ&#x20AC;? ignores.

Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s task is considerable in that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marrying the realistic crime world of Batman and the more fantastical realm of Superman, plus providing the requisite cameos (including Jason Momoaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aquaman and Ezra Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flash) to tease movies to come.

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Martin, Brickell perform at Broadway opening

By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Broadway fans were treated to a surprise performance by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell at the end of their new musical, “Bright Star.”

The cast had already taken their bows to a standing ovation when a part of the set was rotated to reveal Martin and Brickell to thunderous applause at the show’s opening Thursday night at the Cort Theater. After taking their bows, director Walter Bobbie walked on stage and handed Martin a banjo.

After strapping it on, they launched into “Sun’s Gonna Shine,” with Brickell and the show’s star, Carmen Cusack, trading verses as the audience clapped along.

Martin and Brickell have recorded two albums together, including the 2013 Grammy-winning “Love Has Come For You,” but “Bright Star” is their first musical. The idea was sparked by the common love they share for musical

theater. Martin joked about their tastes at the shows after party.

“For Edie, it was ‘The Sound of Music,’ and for me it was ‘Music Man’ and ‘West Side Story.’ I have better taste,” Martin said.

Martin elaborated on how influential musical theater was for him, and why he wanted to write “Bright Star” with Brickell.

“When you think of ‘Carousel’ — with songs like ‘My Boy Bill,’ or ‘Soliloquy’ as it’s called — or ‘Oklahoma,’ I grew up on those songs, and I thought everything was here,” Martin said raising his hand above his head. “And the rest of the music world was down here. They were so emotive and expressive, and we had a longing to give it a shot.”

The pair complement one another nicely, but at this point, Martin feels like he’s the only one using his words.

“I’m talking a lot, and you’re nodding,” he said to the soft-spoken Brickell, who

told him: “But I agree with you.”

Then she added: “We wanted to honor the musicals we know and love, and try to write on in the tradition that we love.” ❏❏❏ HAVANA — The Rolling Stones arrived in Cuba’s capital Thursday, on the eve of the rock band’s historic free concert in a country where its music was once silenced.

Mick Jagger offered a brief greeting in Spanish and said he was happy to be on the island.

Tonight’s concert will come three days after President Barack Obama wrapped up a visit to the communist-run island during which he declared an end to the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.

The band’s private plane flew into Jose Marti airport with the four British rockers and about 60 technical workers and family members. The concert will be at Havana’s Ciudad Deportivo.

‘Crossroads’ looks at fateful twists that changed history

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH Associated Press

BOSTON — You’ve probably never heard of John Frederick Parker, but he lives on in infamy as the thirsty bodyguard who left Ford’s Theatre — and President Lincoln’s side — to get a drink at the bar across the street.

If Parker hadn’t bailed on Lincoln during intermission, would assassin John Wilkes Booth have managed to fire the fatal shot?

Such seemingly innocuous moments are examined in “Crossroads of History,” a new series airing Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. as part of the History Channel’s “Night Class.”

“Moments like that are so insane to me,” said creator Elizabeth Shapiro, who grew up near Boston. “It’s been easy to find the humor in these moments because the characters involved are so deliciously unaware of how significant their place in history is about to be.”

Another infamous coincidence that got the Shapiro treatment dates from the

Civil War era. The Union was losing the war against the Confederacy. But the tide turned when Union soldier Barton W. Mitchell, walking around Best Farm in Maryland, found three cigars wrapped in a piece of paper that would later become known as Special Order 191.

“It really was 99 percent that the Confederates were going to win,” Shapiro said.

“Then this amazing thing happened.”

The paper contained Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s detailed instructions for his army’s next moves. After gaining the intelligence, the Union scored a victory at the Battle of Antietam, known as the bloodiest day in American history and a turning point in the war.

Shapiro, a Chelsea, Mass., native now living in Los Angeles, said the inspiration to create “Crossroads of History” stemmed from a skit she wrote about the young Adolf Hitler’s rejections from art school.

“No one could know this at the time, but the fate of the 20th century had been

sealed,” she said.

Shapiro grabbed some fellow comedy friends who helped film the skit. Then she started working on an expanded series.

“There’s no shortage of these moments,” she said.

Women’s suffrage, for example, which it turns out almost didn’t happen in 1920.

Harry Burn, a first term congressman in Tennessee, is known for casting the deciding vote in favor of the 19th Amendment. But before the amendment could become law, 36 states needed to pass it. Burn was squarely opposed — that is, until a letter from his mother arrived advising him to change positions. Because of that vote from an obedient son, Tennessee became the decisive 36th state to ratify.

“Crossroads of History” premiered on Feb. 25 and runs through June.

“We have to be careful with what we do in the world because the actions of one moron can completely send the world spinning in the wrong direction,” Shapiro said.

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Wife’s weight loss draws looks from wrong direction DEAR ABBY: I’m 39 and have been married for nine years.

Three years into our marriage I got sick and lost a lot of weight.

I now turn heads everywhere I go.

All except the head I want to turn — my husband’s.

He drives a truck and all he does is talk to and sext larger, unattractive Dear Abby is older written by women.

Abigail Van He has Buren, also gone to known as counselJeanne ing and Phillips, and 12-step was founded by her mother, meetings, and I’ve Pauline told him Phillips. to get out numerous times.

Nothing has helped.

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ous marriage turns 18? — TURNS THE WRONG HEADS DEAR TURNS: If I told you it was wrong, would you stop doing it and remain in an unhappy marriage? I doubt it. If your husband is attracted to other women and acting on it, you should absolutely prepare yourself for the day you declare your independence. It’s far more sensible than being unprepared.

DEAR ABBY: My brother got married a year ago after dating for less than a year.

His wife started calling my parents Mom and Dad from the get-go. I didn’t realize how much it would bother me, but it does and, frankly, I resent her for it.

I’m very close to my parents, and I view our bond as sacred. To me, Mom and Dad aren’t names you use lightly, to be cute or as a term of endearment. The relationship is earned and unique.

I would never think of calling my husband’s parents Mom and Dad, and I don’t feel that I’m offending them by not doing so. Is there a proper way to discuss this with my brother and sister-in-law without hurting feelings or creating tension? — ANNOYED SISTER-IN-LAW

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DEAR ABBY: I have been in a relationship with a really great guy for five years.

He is wonderful to my son and treats him as his own.

The problem is, I don’t think I am capable of truly being in love with anyone. I care deeply about him — as much as I am capable of loving.

My question is, would it be unfair to him if I agree to marry him knowing he loves me more than I love him? — TO MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY DEAR T.M. OR N.T.M.: I’m not sure many couples love each other equally. More often one loves the other more. If you think you can be a good wife to this man, then marry him. Obviously, you have a high degree of compatibility, or he wouldn’t be considering marriage to you.

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Today is Friday, March 25, the 85th day of 2016. There are 281 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 25, 1776, Gen. George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was awarded the first Congressional Gold Medal by the Continental Congress.

On this date: In 1306, Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scots.

In 1865, during the Civil War, Confederate forces attacked Fort Stedman in Virginia but were forced to withdraw because of counterattacking Union troops.

In 1911, 146 people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.

In 1947, a coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., claimed 111 lives.

In 1954, RCA announced it had begun producing color television sets at its plant in Bloomington, Ind. In 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people to the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. Later that day, civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit homemaker, was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen.

In 1975, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.

(The nephew was beheaded in June 1975.)

In 1985, “Amadeus” won eight Academy Awards, including best picture, best director for Milos Forman and best actor for F. Murray Abraham.

In 1990, 87 people, most of them Honduran and Do-

minican immigrants, were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New York City.

In 1991, “Dances with Wolves” won seven Oscars, including best picture, at the 63rd annual Academy Awards; Kathy Bates won best actress for “Misery” while Jeremy Irons received best actor for “Reversal of Fortune.”

In 1996, an 81-day standoff by the anti-government Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.

In 2001, at the 73rd Academy Awards, “Gladiator” won best picture; its star, Russell Crowe, was named best actor; Julia Roberts received the best actress Oscar for “Erin Brockovich”; Steven Soderbergh won best director for “Traffic.”

Ten years ago: In Los Angeles, half a million people marched to protest federal legislation to make illegal immigration a felony and build more walls along the border.

In Seattle, Aaron Kyle Huff opened fire in a house full of ravers, killing six of them before killing himself. Kimmie Meissner won the ladies’ World Figure Skating Championships title in Calgary, Alberta. Country music star Buck Owens died in Bakersfield, Calif., at age 76. Movie director Richard Fleischer died in Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 89.

Five years ago: Canadian opposition parties brought down the Conservative government in a no-confidence vote, triggering an election that gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper a clear Conservative majority in Parliament. Olga Ulyanova, 89, a chemist and niece of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin who’d written several books

praising her uncle and family, died in Moscow.

One year ago: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani thanked the U.S. Congress for billions of American tax dollars and vowed his war-wracked country would be self-reliant within the decade. British singer Zayn Malik shocked his fans by announcing he was quitting the chart-topping band One Direction.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie reviewer Gene Shalit is 90.

Former astronaut James Lovell is 88. Feminist activist and author Gloria Steinem is 82. Singer Anita Bryant is 76.

Singer Aretha Franklin is 74.

Actor Paul Michael Glaser is 73. Singer Elton John is 69.

Actress Bonnie Bedelia is 68.

Actress-comedian Mary Gross is 63. Actor James McDaniel is 58. Former Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., is 58.

Movie producer Amy Pascal is 58. Rock musician Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) is 56. Actress Brenda Strong is 56. Actor Fred Goss is 55.

Actor-writer-director John Stockwell is 55. Actress Marcia Cross is 54. Author Kate DiCamillo is 52. Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton is 52. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is 51.

Baseball Hall of Famer Tom Glavine is 50. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Debi Thomas is 49. Actor Laz Alonso is 45. Singer Melanie Blatt (All Saints) is 41. Actor Domenick Lombardozzi is 40. Actor Lee Pace is 37. Actor Sean Faris is 34. Auto racer Danica Patrick is 34. Actresssinger Katharine McPhee is 32. Singer Jason Castro is 29.

Rapper Big Sean is 28. Rap DJ/producer Ryan Lewis is 28. Actor Matthew Beard is 27. Actress-singer Aly (aka Alyson) Michalka is 27. Actor Kiowa Gordon is 26. Actress Seychelle Gabriel is 25.

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Your $1 enables the Food Pantry to purchase

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NOTICE UNITED SCHOOL DISTRICT BID ADVERTISEMENT The United School District is requesting proposals for school food service management services. The Food Service Management Company will provide management services according to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations and guidelines, as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Education policies and guidelines.

Sealed Bids should be sent in an envelope marked “Food Service Management Bid” to: United School District, Business Office, 10780 Rte. 56 Hwy. East, Armagh, PA 15920.

All proposals must be submitted no later than 1:00 p.m. on April 21, 2016.

A walk-through meeting is scheduled for April 7, 2016 at 10:45 a.m. at United School District, Business Office, 10780 Route 56 Hwy. East, Armagh, PA 15920.

The United School District Board of Education reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all proposals or to accept the proposal that it finds, in its sole discretion, to be in the best interest of the school district.

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NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on April 5, 2016, the Indiana County Zoning Hearing Board will meet to consider an application from John and Kimberly Domer for a special exception use permit to construct a pavilion at the Cherrywood Golf Course in the Yellow Creek Park Zoning District.

The hearing is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. in the 1st Floor Conference Room of the Indiana County Courthouse Annex (827 Water Street, Indiana, PA), and is open to all concerned citizens.

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NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Homer-Center School District is accepting sealed bids for Trash Removal and Recycling Services needed at the Homer-Center School District.

Bid specifications may be obtained from Gregory K. Cessna, Business Manager, Homer-Center School District, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Phone 724-479-3601).

Bids must be received at the Homer-Center School District Central Office by 12:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Bid opening is set for Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. in the Board Room, Homer-Center School District, 65 Wildcat Lane, Homer City, PA 15748. The Homer-Center School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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NOTICE

A single audit of Marion Center Area School District for the year ended June 30, 2015 has be completed by a Certified Public Accountant and is available for public inspection at the Business Office of the District at Marion Center, Pennsylvania. The audit report has been filed on March 23, 2016and the same will be confirmed absolutely unless an appeal is taken there from within thirty days after the filing thereof.

Marcia J. Conner Board Secretary

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NOTICE NOTICE OF FILING AN APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that on March 25, 2016, First Commonwealth Bank, with its principal place of business located at 601 Philadelphia Street, Indiana, PA 15701, filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities an application for a Letter of Authority to establish a branch at 601 Hancock Avenue Westmoreland County Vandergrift, PA 15690 All interested persons may file comments regarding this application, in writing, with the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities, Corporate Applications Division, 17 North Second Street, Suite 1300, Harrisburg PA 17101-2290. In order to be considered, comments regarding this application must be received by the Department of Banking and Securities no later than ten (10) business days after the date of publication of this notice.

Any person wishing to comment on this application may file his or her comments in writing with the Regional Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at its regional office at 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1200, New York NY 10118-0110, not later than April 9, 2016. The nonconfidential portions of the application are on file in the regional office and are available for public inspection during regular business hours. Photocopies of the nonconfidential portion of the application file will be made available upon request.

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NOTICE Sealed proposals will be received by the East Mahoning Township of Indiana County at P.O. Box 164, 12052 Route 119 Hwy, Marion Center, Pa. 15759 until 10:30 A.M., on April 5, 2016 for the following: 1. 3000 Ton #8 Aggregate Washed 2. 4000 Ton #8 Aggregate 3. 3000 Ton #67 Aggregate 4. 3000 Ton 2RC Aggregate 5. 1500 Ton Rip Rap #4 6. 3000 Ton DSA (Driving Surface Aggregate) 7. 20,000 Gallon RS-2/CRS-2 (E-2/E-3) 8. 10,000 Gallon MS-2/CMS-(E-3/E-4) 9. 5000 Gallon E-1 Prime 10. 10,000 Gallon MC 70 11. 3500 Ton Anti Skid State approved 12. 6000 Gallon Diesel Fuel All are more or less Delivered to Townshp building Liquidated Damages Apply Proposals must be upon the forms furnished by the Municipality.

The bid must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond in the amount of 10% of the bid, made payable to the municipality.

The Municipality reserves the right to reject any or all proposals.

East Mahoning Twp. BY: Bertha Ackerson 3/21, 3/25

The United School District Board of Education has scheduled the following meeting to be held in the Central Office Board Room located in the High School Building: a Budget Meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, 2016, a Work Session at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, and a Regular Board Meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, 2016.

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STERLING HILLS Development, Indiana - Lots starting at $25,000 with Public Utilities. Call (724) 349-4914.

In Memory of Robert Buchleitner March 25, 2003 As some people journey through life, they leave footprints wherever they go— footprints of kindness and love, courage and compassion, humor and inspiration, joy and faith Even when they are gone, we can still look back and clearly see the trail they left behind—a trail bright with hope that invites us to follow.

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BRIDGE ♥♣♠♣

Bjorn Borg said, “To win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that’s the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player.”

Many bridge players get nervous when contemplating a slam. But often playing in one is straightforward because you cannot afford (m)any losers.

The main keys for a good slam are fit and controls. To make a grand slam with no fit, you will need most of the 40 highcard points. But with a good fit — or, even better, a double fit — you will win more tricks than your

combined pointcount would suggest.

Also, you must know that the opponents cannot immediately defeat your contract.

How do you uncover a double fit?

By bidding carefully.

What about controls?

With (Roman Key Card) Blackwood, often supplemented by control-bidding.

In today’s deal, after South’s onespade response is raised, he immediately thinks about a slam. But the diamond king is a big card. He can find out if partner holds it by rebidding three diamonds.

North will think this is a help-suit game-try, and if he has the diamond king, he will probably jump to four spades; but without that card, he will settle for three spades. Here, after hearing four spades, South uses RKCB to learn that North has the spade king and club ace, but not the spade queen.

Against six spades, West leads the heart queen. South wins with his ace, draws two rounds of trumps, cashes the diamond king, plays a diamond to his ace, and continues with the diamond queen, discarding dummy’s heart loser. Then he can claim, conceding one trump trick.

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3 BDRM In town, residential neighborhood, garage, W/D, appliances, AC, $750. 724-388-3512 ATTRACTIVE 3 bdrm. Indiana, $675/mo. plus util., non smoking, no pets, Call (724) 388-3337 NICE 3 bdrm home in Boro, unfurnished, No pets, $900/mo + utilities Call (412) 289-8822

RANCH, 2 Bedroom, garage, basement, yard, washer/dryer hookup central air, gas heat. $775/mo plus sec. dep., no pets, non smoking.

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HOME FOR SALE - C CHERRY HE HILL TWP. 1391 Cemetery Rd, Clymer, PA Appraised Value:

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Built in 2011 • 4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms 2 fireplaces • 2 car garage Full Basement (1,760 sq. ft.)

Above ground living space (3,928 sq. ft.)

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by Phillip Alder

THE TRY MIGHT BE FOR SLAM, NOT GAME

Help Wanted

DIESEL TECH For heavy duty truck shop. Must have experience in troubleshooting, repairing, and overhauling mechanical and electronic diesel truck engines, transmissions, rearends, and clutches.

Send resume or pick up application at: Penn View Equipment Co., Inc. 592 Penn View Road Blairsville, PA 15717.

(724) 459-6057

FIELD REPRESENTATIVES U.S. Census Bureau is hiring Field Representatives in Indiana Co., PA! Pay is $12.33 to $20.33 per hour. Please call (866) 564.5420 for more information and to be scheduled for testing.

The Census Bureau is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities

FOSTER families wanted.

Complete in home training, support and compensation provided. If you like young people and enjoy being a parent, call FCCY at: 1-800-747-3807. EOE. ACTION. Place your “Items for sale” ad in the Gazette Classifieds and get some quick Action at little or no cost to you. Call us at (724) 349-4949 for details.

FIELD Service Mechanic for Local Machine Shop.

Experience in Field Welding, portable boring, and field mechanics on heavy equipment is necessary.

Must have CDL. A top grade benefit package is included.

Wages commensurate with experience.

Send resumes to: Box 2929 c/o The Indiana Gazette P.O. Box 10, Indiana, PA 15701

Help Wanted

NURSES AIDE FT Nurses Aide positions available, afternoon shift, 35+ hours plus per week, Benefits available, Vacation & Sick Time . Apply in person at Maple Valley Personal Care Home.

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Now accepting application for: Doorman/Bartender, Must be 21years old.

Apply in person.

REGISTERED NURSE Needed for Full-Time oncall position in Hospice.

Work 5 evenings and 2 weekend days out of 14 day pay period. Offering competitive salary, benefit package and mileage reimbursement. 1 year Hospice experience required.

Contact Kim Ondrizek at VNA of Indiana County at 724-463-8711 or kondrizek@ vnaindiana.org

For questions or to submit resumé.

WOOD Chevrolet, Plumville is accepting application for Janitor and Lot Attendant. Position available immediately. Inquire in person.

ASTROGRAPH ❂✵✪ ❂ Your Birthday SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2016

by Eugenia Last Strive for perfection. Don’t let problems fester.

Take a serious approach to life and what you have to offer. Don’t limit your potential or downplay your abilities. It’s up to you to present and promote your abilities and potential. Be a participant.

ARIES (March 21April 19) — Take care of errands without being told to do so.

Disappointment will lead to a stressful impasse with someone you work or play with.

See matters through to completion and collect your reward.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Focus on getting along with others.

Take a position of leadership and strive to be your best. A creative suggestion will win favors and respect.

Add romance to your life.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — You can offer help, but don’t pay for someone else’s mistake. Find a way to minimize costs and still reach your goal. Keep your relationships with others simple and maintain a positive outlook.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — New acquaintances can be made if you attend an event. Treat yourself to something special. Love is in the stars and romance will improve your personal life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Emotional matters will escalate.

Deal with complaints aggressively so that you can put more time and effort into preparing and executing your plans.

Expand your circle of friends and interests.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — A change

will spark enthusiasm in something unique and exciting. Love is heading your way and romantic plans will help make your day special. Find ways to improve your living arrangements.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Concentrate on contracts, money and medical issues. Don’t leave anything to chance. If you look for an innovative way to deal with ongoing matters, you will establish a spotless plan.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Take care of unfinished business so that you can follow your dreams. If you use your imagination, you will find the balance and stability you have been searching for.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — An idea of yours will result in a positive personal change.

Show interest in someone who has something to contribute to your plan.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Spontaneity and charm will lead to getting what you want.

Let your intuition help you discover the perfect way to please someone you love.

Passion is highlighted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — You will gain information that will bring you closer to your dream job or project. Hard work will pay off, and updating your appeal, resume or attitude will bring good results.

PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — Offer help, but don’t give everything you’ve got for nothing. You need to raise your expectations.

Romance and commitment are in the stars.

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CALL Kevin Huston at 724-349-3434 ext. 117 or email resume to khuston@gazetteprinters.com

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The individual must possess knowledge and understanding of vehicle maintenance, repairs, and preventa ve maintenance on diesel and gasoline engines. A class “7” inspec on license and a CDL license with “P” and “S” endorsements is preferred or the willingness to obtain these licenses and endorsements would be considered.

Please contact Lemmon Dishong by calling 724-254-4080, ext. 2101; or visit us on the web at www.tricountytrans.com to fill out an applica on.

Send applica on to: Tri County Transporta on 18065 Rte. 286 Hwy. E. Marion Center, PA 15759

Employment opportunities now available at

RETAIL LOAN UNDERWRITER (Downtown Indiana office) The individual filling this role will be responsible for performing the underwriting duties to support consumer and mortgage loan functions within the bank. Ideal candidates should have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in underwriting and be proficient in reading, writing, grammar and math skills. A thorough knowledge and understanding of all applicable federal and state lending laws and regulations will also be necessary to fulfill the duties of the job. High school diploma with a minimum of 3 years’ experience preferred.

TELLERS (Full Time & Part Time) (Indiana & Blairsville offices) Ideal candidates must be customer service oriented, have proven cash handling experience, possess good basic math skills, and be able to work in a fast-paced environment. Previous bank teller experience is preferred. High school diploma or equivalent is required.

Please apply on line at www.infirstbank.com or pick up an application at any of our offices.

Please direct inquiries to: Human Resources Indiana First Bank 935 Philadelphia St., Indiana, PA 15701 EOE/AA/M/F/Disability/Vet

PRO 1 PAVING Residential & Commercial Paving • Sealing Line Striping

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Household Goods

Kenmore Washing Machine, heavy duty , super capacity , 5 speed combination, good working condition. asking $175 OBO. Call (724) 549-9655 RIVAL 4 qt electric ice cream maker, used only once, great condition. $25.00 (724) 459-6359

SUPERIOR YARDSCAPES Great Mowing Specials for New Clients in 2016.

Call (724) 388-3313 or email: superyard2016yahoo.com for more information.

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Building Supplies

12 BUNDLES Of new Tamko Black Roofing shingles, $180 for all.

(724) 354-2729

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Machinery & Tools

Barbie Jammin Jeep, new used twice, asking $150.

Call (724) 349-2789

Appliances For Sale

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

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Pets & Supplies For Sale

BIRD CAGE, large, 3 ft tall with 28 in. high stand.

Excellent condition. Asking $100. (724) 354-2992

Your beloved pet deserves a loving, caring home.

The ad for your free pet may draw response from individuals who may sell your pet for research or breeding purposes.

Please screen respondents very carefully when giving away your pet.

Your pet will thank you!

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BB Gun: Remington Airmaster77, few scuffs but in great shape, comes with pellet trap for target practice. $50. (724) 349-0491

CARD Table and 2 blue folding chairs: Good condition $50.

(724) 465-0342 Coffee table & 2 end tables, light wood w/ glass inserts, excellent condition, asking $150, can text pictures. Call (724) 459-9349 DINETTE SET: formica top table with leaf, 6 chairs, newly upholstered, chrome frame, excellent condition. $150.

Call (724) 463-3289 DINING ROOM Sturdy solid wood table w/6 chairs, newly upholstered cushion seats, 65” X 44”, 2 leaves. $195. Can email photo. 724-349-1289 Dining Room Suite, Table w/ extension leaf, 6 chairs, lighted china cabinet, light wood, excellent condition. asking $600 can text pictures. Call (724) 459-9349

PART TIME INSIDE SALES &

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED

The Indiana Gazette Advertising Department is looking for a self-motivated individual who can thrive in a fast paced environment.

Monday through Friday 9-3; this person will take inbound calls for our classified department, make outbound sales calls to assist in various sales initiatives, and must have good data entry skills. All interested candidates can call Jarrod at 724-465-5555 or email jlash@indianagazette.net

DRIVE BACK Tub & shower chair, holds up to 400 pounds, orginal cost $149.95 Asking $45. (724) 349-1934 FREE- Firewood- Indiana Curbside, no splitting, cured, (412) 289-3207 Indiana Gazette Classifieds...(724)349-4949.

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ADS FOR FREE PETS

BASS Pro Extreme casting rod & reel, 7’ left hand. $75.00 Call (724) 859-5765

Air Conditioner, 110volts, white , 26”w x 17”h, good condition, asking $50, Call (724) 463-0412

Miscellaneous For Sale

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VERY Large old vise, weight 40 pounds, $100 obo. (724) 840-8111 or 724-465-4907

116 RECORD Albums, rock and roll, All for $35.

(724) 248-1714

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AIR HOCKEY table, full size, comes with pucks, and handle pads in good condition. $50.00 Call (724) 354-3917

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2 PAIR Lined curtains, pinch plated with valances, 42” length, ivory print, $40.

(724) 459-7702

Winchester M70 .264 Magnum Rifle, Made in Usa, unfired in box, asking $925, Call (724) 762-7710

Class Action ads really get results at little or no cost to you. Just call the Gazette Classifieds (724) 349-4949 for more details

CRAFTSMAN Wood lathe with table extended bed, use very little. $150.

Call after 5p.m. (724) 463-8238

Household Goods

SIMMS Guide’s Fly fishing vest, very good condition. $45 Firm. (724) 349-1418

9’x8’ Raised pannel, redwood garage doors,also a 30 gallon aquarium. Call (724) 422-5463

Clothing

WEDDING GOWN: (1990 circa) size 10, worn once, excellent condition, with size 9 shoes. $125. (724) 427-5154

Sports Equipment For Sale

WOODEN Office desk, dark walnut, 6 drawers, good condition, $30.

(724) 726-8044

724-694-8011

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BRUSH VALLEY: 835 Cameron Rd, Mar. 25 & 26, 8am-? Books, toys, hunting clothes, oak cedar chest, houseware, Christmas and more.

AUCTION Sat., March 26 @ 10 AM

#250 Wren St., Indiana, PA 15701 *(North 4th St./Rt. 119. Watch for signs at Hamill Rd. Pleasant Hills Development)

NOTE: HOME IS SOLD! Be On Time. Very few small items.

“You will appreciate the quality of furnishings, contained within this newer built home.”

HOUSEHOLDS COLLECTIBLES Check past Wednesday’s ad.

For Details, Contact:

QUIC-SALE www.quic-sale.com

724-726-5462

Mark E. Dixon III • Realtor & Auctioneer Lic. #2410

ESTATE AUCTION Mon., March 28 @ 4 PM Rt. 422 West of Indiana, PA; turn onto Parkwood Rd., To The Event Hall (#4670)

COINS (Sold First - See Web For Listing) LYMAN (Deerstalker FLINT LOCK RIFLE New In Box HOUSEHOLDS: Furnishings, Kitchenware, Dinette Set, Interior Items, Patio Furniture, Double Suede Loveseat Recliner, Curio Cabinet, Chest Freezer, TV’s, Audio Stands, Rocking Chair, Bakeware, Small Appliances, Lamps, Holiday Decorations, Tea Cart, Beddings, Picnic Coolers, Etc. ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: Sterling Silver, Lithographs, Violin, Accordions, Costume Jewelry, Crocks, Oil Lamps, Glassware, Pottery, Milk Cans, German Cuckoo Clocks, Organ Stools, Avons, Radios, Atari, Decanters, Singer Sewing Machines, Country Collectibles, Toys, Lanterns, Miner’s Items, Player Piano Rolls, Etc. GARAGE & OUTDOOR ITEMS: Umbrella Table Set, Tent, Tools, Hardware, 250 Amp Lincoln Welder, Bench Drill Press, Tow Behind Spreader, Etc. Watch For Details or Contact:

QUIC-SALE www.quic-sale.com

724-726-5462

Mark E. Dixon III • Realtor & Auctioneer Lic. #2410

Miscellaneous For Sale

LOG SPLITTER, older with new motor, can see work. $350.

(724) 479-8610 RING: Men’s Simulated tiger eye ring, yellow gold plated with 2 foil back diamond stones. Size 10, $43. New, never worn.

(724) 541-1489

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

1981 SUZUKI GS450T new battery, $900. Also 1981 Honda Passport scooter, $400. Day (724) 349-6550, evening (724) 726-5102

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2014 Shanghai Scooter, 150cc, like new, black, rode very little, requires permit or license to operate, asking $950 Call (724) 549-9655

Autos For Sale

2013 Subaru Impreza, 5,000 miles, $16,000 firm, Call (724) 349-2722 after 5:00 pm.

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BUYING Junk cars. Call us McCarthy Auto. (724) 349-2622 WANTED Christmas Trees, Fraser Fir, Concolor or what have you.

Call (412) 678-7300

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

MOPAR tri-fold tonneau cover 6’ 4” bed, new. Call (724) 479-0665

LAWN FARM

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Lawn & Garden Tools For Sale

Motorcycles For Sale

TIRES: Dunlop Grand Trek AT 20 P265/65R17 Pair, only 12 mos of wear. Off 2013 Toyota Tacoma TDR. $200.

Leave message. (724) 479-5588

SWORD: King Arthur, 44” long, authentic, $80. (724) 459-0241 Wanted to Buy

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Motorcycles For Sale

1979 HONDA Custom 500. Good condition. $1,500. (724) 541-3347 or (724) 397-4098

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ATV For Sale

OLDER 160 Suzuki 4 wheeler, runs good, plastic good, needs sprokets. $350. (724) 479-8610

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CUB Cadet, handle bar 0 turn mower, 23hp, Kawasaki , 46” cut, like new, asking $2,200, call (724) 762-1103 or (724) 599-7855 Huskee small gas engine cultivator, less than 1 year old, $125 firm, Call (724) 762-7710 ROTOTILLER: Troy-Bilt, Electric, $100. (724) 464-9443

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