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Mansour death ups optimism of Afghans By LYNNE O’DONNELL and MIRWAIS KHAN Associated Press

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama walked past Vietnam’s president, Tran Dai Quang, after a joint press conference today at the International Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Obama lifts decades-old arms ban on his first visit to Vietnam By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam — U.S. President Barack Obama today lifted a halfcentury-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner in a region that he has tried to place at the center of his foreign policy legacy. Obama announced the full removal of the embargo at a news conference where he vowed to leave behind the troubled history between the former war enemies and em-

brace a new era with a young, increasingly prosperous nation. Obama steered clear of harsh condemnation of what critics see as Vietnam’s abysmal treatment of dissidents, describing instead modest progress on rights in the one-party state. Activists said his decision to lift the embargo destroyed the best U.S. leverage for pushing Vietnam on abuse. “At this stage, both sides have established a level of trust and cooperation, including between our militaries, that is reflective of common interests and mutual respect,”

Obama said. “This change will ensure that Vietnam has access to the equipment it needs to defend itself and removes a lingering vestige of the Cold War.” Obama also had more current motivations. His move was the latest step in a yearslong and uneven effort to counter China’s influence in Asia. Obama’s push to deepen defense ties with a neighbor was certain to be eyed with suspicion in Beijing, which has bristled at U.S. engagement in the region and warned officials not to take sides in the heated territorial Continued on Page 4

End-of-life counseling gets boost from Medicare change By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer

HACKENSACK, N.J. — The doctor got right down to business after Herbert Diamond bounded in. A single green form before her, she had some questions for the agile 88-yearold: about comas and ventilators, about feeding tubes and CPR, about intense and irreversible suffering. “You want treatments as long as you are going to have good quality of life?” Dr. Manisha Parulekar asked. The retired accountant nodded. “And at that point,” she continued, “you would like to focus more on comfort, right?” There was no hesitation before his soft-spo-

ken reply: “Right.” Scenes like this have been spreading across the U.S. in the months since Medicare started paying for conversations on endof-life planning. Seven years after that very idea spurred fears of “death panels,” supporters hope lingering doubts will fade. “The more and more that that happens, the more patients, families and doctors will become comfortable with it,” said Dr. Joe Rotella, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. “Any distrust people have about ‘What is this?’ really disappears when patients sit down and find out this is about empowering them.” The Centers for Medi-

care and Medicaid Services quietly tucked the change allowing for payment for end-of-life counseling into a massive package of regulations last summer, with billing permissible as of Jan. 1. To date, CMS has not released any data on how many people have taken part in the sessions, but a survey released last month suggests it may be off to a slow start. Three nonprofits — the California Health Care Foundation, Cambia Health Foundation and John A. Hartford Foundation — fielded a poll of 736 doctors who see patients 65 and older. Only 14 percent said they had already billed Medicare for the Continued on Page 12

KABUL, Afghanistan — The killing of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour in a U.S. drone strike was greeted Sunday by Kabul’s political leadership as a game-changer in efforts to end the long insurgent war plaguing Afghanistan. In a rare show of unity, President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah both welcomed the news of Mansour’s death as the removal of a man who unleashed violence against innocent civilians in Afghanistan and was widely regarded as an obstacle to peace within the militant group. Mansour, believed to be in his 50s, was killed when a U.S. drone fired on his vehicle in the southwestern Pakistan province of Baluchistan, although there were conflicting accounts whether the airstrike occurred Friday or Saturday. He had emerged as the successor to Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar,

whose 2013 death was only revealed last summer. Mansour “engaged in deception, concealment of facts, drug-smuggling and terrorism while intimidating, maiming and killing innocent Afghans,” Ghani said in a statement on his official Twitter account. “A new opportunity presents itself to those Taliban who are willing to end war and bloodshed,” he added. Mansour was “the main figure preventing the Taliban joining the peace process,” said Abdullah, speaking live on television as he chaired a Cabinet meeting. “From the day he took over the Taliban following the death of Mullah Omar, he intensified violence against ordinary citizens, especially in Afghanistan.” Ghani and Abdullah serve in a so-called national unity government brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry following a divisive 2014 election. As president and chief executive, the two rarely see eye-to-eye on even the most important decisions for a country Continued on Page 12

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Egypt sends submarine to hunt for crashed jet’s black boxes By HAMZA HENDAWI and AHMED HATEM Associated Press

CAIRO — Egypt sent a submarine Sunday to join the hunt for the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean and killed all 66 people aboard, while hundreds

of Coptic Christian mourners filled a church in Cairo to pray for their relatives among the dead. Mounting evidence pointed to a sudden and dramatic catastrophe that led to Thursday’s crash of Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, although Egyptian President AbdelFattah el-Sissi said it “will take time” to establish what happened

aboard the Airbus A320. In his first public comments since the crash, el-Sissi cautioned against premature speculation. “It is very, very important to us to establish the circumstances that led to the crash of that aircraft,” el-Sissi said in remarks broadcast live on Egyptian TV. “There is not one scenario that we

can exclusively subscribe to. ... All scenarios are possible.” A submarine belonging to the Oil Ministry was headed to the site about 180 miles north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria to join the search, el-Sissi said. The vessel can operate at a depth of 9,800 feet, he said. After starting his comments

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DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Sen. Bernie Sanders held a town hall meeting May 16 at the Luis Munoz Marin Foundation in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico.

Sanders splits Obama on Puerto Rican debt By KEN THOMAS Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is breaking with the Obama administration and House lawmakers over a plan to restructure Puerto Rico’s $70 billion in debt, saying the legislation would make “a terrible situation even worse.� The Vermont senator wrote in a letter released today that the deal reached last week between the White House and House Republicans and Democrats would empower an “unelected and undemocratic oversight board� and allow the governor of Puerto Rico to slash the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour for up to five years. “We must stop treating Puerto Rico like a colony and start treating the American citizens of Puerto Rico with the respect and dignity that they deserve,� Sanders wrote in a letter to Senate colleagues. “At a time when the people of Puerto Rico are suffering, the legislation introduced in the House would make a terrible situation even worse,� he wrote. Sanders trails Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the presidential primaries and both are competing in the upcoming June 5 Puerto Rican caucuses. Clinton has outperformed Sanders among Latino voters during the primaries. Sanders has been virtually absent from Senate proceedings during his lengthy primary campaign but his opposition could complicate the measure’s future after careful negotiations between the White House and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan, R-Wis., has said the bill would avoid an eventual taxpayer bailout and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has called it a “tough bipartisan compromise.� House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi also supports the agreement. Puerto Rico, which has struggled to overcome a lengthy recession, has missed several payments to

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OBITUARIES Edna Campbell Edna Campbell, 95, of Indiana, passed away Friday, May 6, 2016, at the Homestead Nursing Home, Garden City, Kan. She was born in 1921 in Brush Valley Township to Robert Jefferson and Clara M. Deyarmin McCormick. Mrs. Campbell was a charter member of the Calvary Evangelical Free Church, Indiana. She was employed as a seamstress at Campus Sportswear for several years and had worked as a caregiver and baby sitter for many years in the area. Edna was also a farm wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She also enjoyed quilting and puzzles. Edna is survived by two daughters and three sons: Marjorie Campbell, Niles, Ill.; Kenneth Campbell and wife Barbie, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Paul Campbell and wife Dianne, Homer City; Karen Kyler and husband John, Garden City, Kan.; and Keith Campbell and wife Martha Joy, Canton, Mich.; 11 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; a sister, Mildred Cochran and husband Art, Brush Valley; and sister-in-law Jean McCormick, Indiana. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 64 years, H.

Wayne Campbell, who passed in 2005; a granddaughter-in-law; two brothers, Edward and Clyde McCormick; and a sister, Fannie Lowther. Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana, where a funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday with the Rev. Gino Cosentino officiating. Interment will be made in the Bethel Church Cemetery, Clyde. Memorial contributions may be made to: Children’s Ministry Outreach, Calvary Evangelical Free Church, 100 Ben Franklin Road South, Indiana, PA 15701; or the Linsz Ministry Fund 036938, SIM USA, P.O. Box 7900, Charlotte, NC 28241. www.bowserminich.com

TOMORROW’S FUNERALS DOMINO, Evelyn“Gloria,”11 a.m., C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City VERBA, Frank J., 10 a.m., Holy Family Church, Seward, Richard C. Stuart Funeral Home, Armagh

Allen Peterson Allen J. Peterson, 89, formerly of Conemaugh Township, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, May 20, 2016, in the Elmcroft Personal Care Home, Beaver Falls. Born Dec. 2, 1926, in Wheelwright, Ky., he was the son of the late James and Edith (Coursin) Peterson. Allen served our country with the United States Army during World War II and was the recipient of the Meritorious Award and World War II Victory Ribbon. He lived in Robinson as a young child, attended school and went to work in the coal mines. Allen later worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He partnered with his parents to open a small grocery store and later moved to Saltsburg in 1955 to take over the Red and White Super Market, where he retired after 18 years in 1973. Allen continued for a short time at Acme Super Markets as a meat cutter, then took a job driving a school bus for the Saltsburg School District. Allen was well-regarded as a self-educated man in biblical studies and Native American history. He spoke at schools and historical societies and served as the former president of the Saltsburg Historical Society. Allen was a lay pastor at Laurel Swap Union Church, taught Sunday school at the Saltsburg Baptist Church and Blairsville Baptist Church, and served as deacon, and on several church boards. The last church he attended was the Blairsville

Baptist Church. He loved the outdoors and was fond of fishing, hunting and boating. In addition to his parents, Allen was preceded in death by his loving wife, Gladys R. (Bloom) Peterson, who passed away on Oct. 4, 2011. He is survived by his children, Dennis A. (Kimberly) Peterson, of Beaver Falls, and Joyce A. Shawley, of Saltsburg; grandchildren Lonnie Gabrielson, Robin (Kelly) Hamm, Crystal Shawley, Bree (John) Shivler, Brooke (Joshua) Talys, Aaron Peterson and Tess Peterson; and great-grandchildren Jordan, Mary, Mathias, Myka, Christian, Josiah, Tegan, Asa, Isabella, Malachi, Eden and Hayden. At Allen’s request, all visitation and services are private and have been entrusted to the Curran Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Saltsburg, with interment in Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg, at the convenience of the family. To send an online condolence to the family, visit www.curranfuneralhome. com.

Obama lifts decades-old arms ban on his first visit to Vietnam Continued from Page 1 disputes in the South China Sea. Obama claimed the move had nothing to do with China, but made clear the U.S. was aligned with the smaller nations like Vietnam. The United States and Vietnam had mutual concerns about maritime issues and the importance of maintaining freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, he said. While Washington doesn’t take sides, he said, it does support a diplomatic resolution based on “international norms” and “not based on who’s the bigger party and can throw around their weight a little bit more,” a reference to China. China outwardly lauded the lifting of a U.S. arms embargo, saying it hoped “normal and friendly” relations between the U.S. and Vietnam are conducive to regional stability. A spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said bans are a product of the Cold War and shouldn’t have existed. China itself remains under a weapons embargo imposed by the U.S. and European Union following 1989’s bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

For Vietnam, lifting the arms embargo was a psychological boost for leaders. The United States partially lifted the ban in 2014, but Vietnam pushed for full access as it tries to deal with China’s land reclamation and military construction in nearby seas. It was unclear whether striking the ban would quickly result in a boost in arms sales. Obama said that each deal would be reviewed case by case and evaluated based on the equipment’s potential use. But there would no longer be a ban based on “ideological division,” he said. “There’s been modest progress on some of the areas that we’ve identified as a concern,” Obama said, adding that the U.S. “will continue to speak out on behalf of human rights we believe are universal.” Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang embraced the chance to enter a new era in U.S-Vietnamese relations. He praised the expansion in security and trade ties between “former enemies turned friends” and, standing next to Obama before reporters, called for more U.S. investment. Ahead of the visit, in what was seen as a goodwill gesture, Vietnam granted early release from prison to a prominent dissident

Catholic priest. Some U.S. lawmakers and activists had urged the president to press the communist leadership for greater freedoms before lifting the arms sale embargo. Vietnam holds about 100 political prisoners and there have been more detentions this year. In March, seven bloggers and activists were sentenced for “abusing democratic freedoms” and “spreading anti-state propaganda.” Hanoi says that only lawbreakers are punished. “In one fell swoop, President Obama has jettisoned what remained of U.S. leverage to improve human rights in Vietnam — and (has) basically gotten nothing for it,” said Phil Robertson, with Human Rights Watch. Obama’s arrival in Hanoi late Sunday made him the third sitting president to visit the country since the end of the war. The trip comes four decades after the fall of Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, and two decades after President Bill Clinton restored relations with the nation. Obama also made the case for stronger commercial and economic ties, including approval of the 12nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that is stalled in Congress and facing strong opposi-

tion from the 2016 presidential candidates. The deal, which includes Vietnam, would tear down trade barriers and encourage investment between the countries that signed it. Critics worry it would cost jobs by exposing American workers to low-wage competition from countries such as Vietnam. Obama and Quang earlier attended a signing ceremony touting a series of new commercial deals between U.S. and Vietnamese companies valued at more than $16 billion. The deals included U.S. engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney’s plans to sell 135 advanced engines to Vietnamese air carrier Vietjet, and Boeing’s plans to sell 100 aircraft to the airline. Obama’s agenda also included separate meetings with prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and Communist Party General Secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong. At a luncheon for officials, the president offered thanks for all who came before to “help our nations reconcile.” He singled out U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who served in the Vietnam War, for special mention. He said veterans on both sides had showed “hearts can change and peace is possible.” AP writer Nancy Benac contributed to this story.

Pope meets with Al-Azhar imam By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis today embraced the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the prestigious Sunni Muslim center of learning, reopening an important channel for Catholic-Muslim dialogue after a fiveyear lull and at a time of increased Islamic extremist attacks on Christians. As Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib arrived for his audience in the Apostolic Palace, Francis said that the fact that they were meeting at all was significant. “The meeting is the message,” Francis told the imam. The meeting came five years after the Cairo-based Al-Azhar froze talks with the Vatican to protest comments by then-Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict had demanded greater protection for

Christians in Egypt after a New Year’s bombing on a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria killed 21 people. Since then, Islamic attacks on Christians in the region have only increased, but the Vatican and Al-Azhar nevertheless sought to rekindle ties, with a Vatican delegation visiting Cairo in February and extending the invitation for el-Tayyib to visit. Francis and el-Tayyib spoke privately for 25 minutes in the pope’s private library, bidding each other farewell with an embrace. El-Tayyib and his delegation then had talks with the Vatican cardinal in charge of interreligious dialogue. The Vatican said the meeting held a “great significance” for Catholic-Muslim dialogue. In a statement, spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Francis and el-Tayyib dis-

cussed the need for “authorities and the faithful of the world’s great religions to show a common commitment to peace in the world.” They also discussed the rejection of violence and extremism, and the plight of Christians “in the context of conflicts and tensions in the Mideast and their protection,” the statement said. After the audience, elTayyib traveled to Paris to open a Muslim-Catholic conference on East-West relations. The Vatican’s relations with Islam hit several bumps during Benedict’s papacy. He outraged Muslims with a 2006 speech quoting a Byzantine emperor as saying some of the Prophet Muhammad’s teachings were “evil and inhuman.” The subsequent suspension of talks with Al-Azhar

institutionalized the bad blood. El-Tayyib, however, sent a message of congratulations to Francis upon his 2013 election and said he hoped for renewed cooperation. Francis responded, and has made clear over the course of his three-year pontificate that relations with Islam are a top priority. In a recent interview with the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, Francis took a conciliatory line toward Islam, saying “I sometimes dread the tone” when people refer to Europe’s “Christian” roots. “It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam,” he said. But he added that Christianity, too, had its “triumphalist” undertones. “It is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.”

Charles Robert Reed Charles Robert “Chuck” Reed, 73, of Marion Center, Grant Township, died Saturday morning, May 21, 2016, at the Indiana Regional Medical Center in Indiana. The son of Arthur Reed and Emma (Henry) Reed, he was born and raised in the Blairsville area and attended Indiana High School. Chuck worked for many years at Robertshaw Controls in Indiana as a machinist before the company moved out of Indiana. He also worked as a Grant Township supervisor for several years and as a school bus driver for the Purchase Line School District. He loved being in the outdoors where he enjoyed mowing grass and watching the variety of wild animals and birds around his country home and in the surrounding areas. Chuck also loved going to the Odd Fellows Club of Rochester Mills and playing cards with his mutual club member friends. Chuck is survived by his wife, Patricia Joann (Burns) Reed, to whom he was married for almost 52 years; his son, Charles Robert Reed, Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth Fechner Reed, of East Fallowfield; three grandchildren: Alexandra, Emma and Eric; his sister Jean (Reed) Ewing and her husband, Ray, of Mentor-onthe-Lake, Ohio; his sister Wilma (Reed) Manzel, of Tallmadge, Ohio; his grand-

sons, Chas Sedore, of Hebron, Ill., and Eric Schultz, of Algonquin, Ill.; a greatgranddaughter, Aleiysha Schultz, of Algonquin, Ill.; and his sisters-in-law, Kate Reed, of Homer City; Mary Lou McKee, of Pinehurst, N.C.; Dolores Jean Blazek, of Hiram, Ohio; Darlene Sugar, of Swartz Creek, Mich.; Janet Brown, of Indio, Calif.; and Dianna Burns, of Marion Center. He was preceded in death by his parents; his daughter, Sheila J. Reed, of Hebron, Ill., who passed away Feb. 16, 2007; his brothers, Al Reed, of Indiana, and Jack Reed, of Homer City; and his sister Joanne (Reed) McCombs, of Commodore. Family and friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the RairighBence Funeral Home in Clymer, where his funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Interment will follow in East Mahoning Cemetery, Purchase Line. Online condolences may be made at rbfh.net.

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Protesters in Brazil keep pressure on new president By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brazil’s two biggest cities Sunday to protest against acting President Michel Temer, trying to keep up pressure on his interim administration only 10 days after he was sworn in. At least 2,000 protesters in Sao Paulo tried to march to Temer’s residence but were blocked by police on neighboring roads. Led by the country’s homeless movements, many decided to camp out only 300 yards from the house. The interim president had left for Brasilia hours earlier. In Rio de Janeiro, about 1,000 protesters staged a march calling for Temer to resign. Some protesters want suspended President Dilma Rousseff back. Temer replaced her after the Senate voted to suspend the president and put her on trial for allegedly breaking fiscal laws. If 54 of the 81 senators agree that she should be impeached, she would be permanently removed from office and Temer could hold the presidency through 2018. Opinion polls say a majority of Brazilians want Rousseff and Temer impeached. Some of the protesters Sunday called for new elections, a mechanism that is not in Brazil’s electoral law at the moment. Speaking near Temer’s residence, homeless movement leader Guilherme Boulos said, “Mr. Temer’s street is under siege by the Brazilian peo-

ple and there will be no break until he is out.” “We will camp out as long as we need. This might be a fancy neighborhood, but now it will be all ours,” Boulos told supporters over a speaker. Temer has faced daily protests in Brazil’s main cities since he took office. Artists, intellectuals and politicians both left-leaning and moderate have also rejected him acting as president, not only for their opposition to Rousseff’s impeachment but also for Temer’s naming of an all white-male Cabinet that is trying implement more conservative policies. Protesters who have occupied a federal government building in Rio for a week has staged daily concerts against Temer and his administration. Among those that appeared are Grammy award-winner Caetano Veloso and “City of God” actor and singer Seu Jorge. Neither are supporters of Rousseff’s Worker’s Party. Sao Paulo also saw protests by artists in concerts organized this weekend by the administration of Mayor Fernando Haddad, a Rousseff ally. Even when singers did not call for Temer’s resignation, those in the audience did. Even before Temer took office, a poll said 58 percent of Brazilians wanted him impeached, too. A Supreme Court justice has ruled Temer could face impeachment proceedings for signing decrees of the same kind as those that led to the impeachment proceedings against Rousseff, but that decision has yet to be ratified by a full court session.

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LATROBE (AP) — Officials said a teenager is dead after an all-terrain vehicle he was riding crashed during a race. It happened Friday night at Latrobe Speedway Motorsports in Westmoreland County. Authorities said Andrew Kraemer, 16, of Elizabeth Township, died of blunt force trauma to the chest at a Pittsburgh hospital. Kraemer had been ejected from his ATV as it went over a jump. He hit a large tractor tire that company officials said was about 15 feet from the edge of the track. The tire was supposed to act as a buffer around a steel light pole. Kraemer was wearing protective safety equipment. Kraemer was a student at Elizabeth Forward High School. His funeral is planned for Thursday.

STATE COLLEGE (AP) — A central Pennsylvania coroner says a Penn State student who fell off the roof of a home died of electrocution. State College police said Shannon Mathers, 21, of Warrington, grabbed a high-voltage wire when she and friends were on the roof of the three-story home Friday. She was taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Coroner Scott Sayers said after an autopsy Saturday that she fell onto the sidewalk after trying to reach the line which was close to the roof. The death is being called accidental. Centre LifeLink EMS paramedic and supervisor Frank Cianfrani said Mathers was studying biobehavioral health and was also a volunteer EMT.

YORK (AP) — A central Pennsylvania high school student barred from attending prom at her Catholic high school because she wore a suit rather than a dress has had her prom night — at a different school. Aniya Wolf, a student at Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, attended William Penn High School’s prom Saturday at a banquet hall in York. Wolf said she learned at the last moment that girls were required to wear dresses to Bishop McDevitt’s prom. She went anyway but was thrown out. The school said the dress code was sent to parents three months earlier. William Penn Principal Brandon Carter said he invited Wolf because “we do embrace all.�

AUBURN, Mass. (AP) — The man accused of killing a Massachusetts police officer during an early-morning traffic stop was later shot to death after exchanging gunfire with police and wounding a state trooper, officials said. The suspect, identified as 35-year-old Jorge Zambrano, burst out of a bedroom closet and opened fire on officers Sunday evening as they approached him inside a duplex apartment in Oxford, investigators said at a news conference. Oxford is about 7 miles south of Auburn, where the police officer was fatally shot hours earlier. “The suspect appeared from inside a closet and fired on the troopers, striking one of them,� said State Police Col. Richard McKeon. “The STOP (State Police Special Tactical Operations) team returned fire and struck the suspect.� Zambrano, who authorities said had a criminal history, was taken to a hospital, where he died. The violent end to the manhunt came nearly 18 hours after Officer Ronald Tarentino was shot dead by Zambrano during a traffic stop at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday in Auburn, authorities said. The injured trooper suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder and was scheduled to undergo surgery late Sunday night. He

Texas police say criminals often using imitation guns By DAVID WARREN Associated Press

DALLAS — Police in Texas say more crimes are being committed with imitation weapons like BB guns, likely because they’re cheap, easy to obtain and criminals may believe — mistakenly — that if they’re caught, they’ll avoid the severe punishment that can come with illegally possessing a real one. Police Lt. Christopher Cook in the Dallas suburb of Arlington says his officers are being told by arrested suspects of their preference for the imitation weapons. They can be purchased for as little as $25 and no background check is required. But if the victim of a crime in Texas believes a weapon pointed at them is real, that’s enough to warrant a first-degree felony charge — and a maximum sentence of life in prison. New Jersey has a similar law, though the punishment is less harsh, while others states, including California, draw a greater distinction between real and imitation weapons. Arlington police this year have seen at least half a dozen instances where gang members were found in possession of a BB, air, toy or some other kind of imitation gun, Cook said. Officers have also responded to at least five armed robberies where the suspect was armed with one. In the most recent case, police caught a teenager Thursday night who robbed an Arlington store using an imitation handgun, he said. Houston police say they, too, have seen a rising use of imitation weapons that peaked a couple of years ago, spokeswoman Jodi Silva said. “They’re easily accessible and they’re cheap,� Silva said. John Convery with the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association said he hasn’t heard of many court cases involving defendants found with a fake weapon. But he noted that many Texas residents are licensed to carry handguns, so it could be lifethreatening to commit a crime while brandishing a weapon, fake or real. “If it looks like a gun and acts like a gun,� he said, “the victim is going to believe it’s a gun.� Cook noted that officers have fired on armed suspects who they later learned were carrying an imitation gun. Earlier this month in El Paso, police

fatally shot a man after he ran toward them waving what turned out to be a BB gun. “There’s no training in the world that will allow officers to make split-second decisions on the difference between real guns and fake guns,� Cook said, adding that his department may lobby for a state law that places restrictions on imitations firearms. “We just don’t believe there’s a legitimate reason to manufacture them in a way that makes them look so real,� he said. Cleveland officials last month reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center. The pellet gun, which Tamir borrowed from a friend, was

missing the orange tip that federal regulations require on imitations to distinguish them from real firearms. “All they have to do is pull the little orange cap off and it’s very realistic,� Silva said. Some states have imposed stiffer restrictions. New York announced in December that 30 online retailers had agreed to stop selling realistic imitation guns in the state, where a law requires that fake or toy guns be brightly colored or have colored striping down the barrel. California adopted similar measures in 2014. Ten other states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., also have passed legislation regarding imitation firearms, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Texas is not among them.

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Weakend at Bernie’s

illary Clinton is the Democratic nominee. Really. Just ask her. She should have been able to finally savor shattering that “highest, hardest glass ceiling” — the one she gloried in putting 18 million cracks in last time around — when she attends her convention in Philadelphia in July. Instead, she is reduced to stomping her feet on CNN, asserting her dominance in a contest that has left her looking anything but dominant. Once more attempting to shake off the old socialist dude hammering her with a sickle, Clinton insisted to Chris Cuomo on Thursday: “I will be the nominee for my party, Chris. That is already done, in effect. There is no way that I won’t be.” It’s a vexing time for the Clintons. As Bill told a crowd in Fargo, N.D., on Friday, it’s been an “interesting” year: “That’s the most neutral word I can think of.” After all, why should Bernie Sanders get to be the Democratic nominee when he isn’t even a Democrat? And how is Donald Trump going to be the Republican nominee when he considers being a Republican merely a starting bid? It must be hard for Hillary to look at all the pictures of young women swooning over Bernie as though he were Bieber. She assumed that the fix was in, that she and the DNC had arranged for the coronation that she felt she was robbed of in the tulip craze of 2008. Everyone just laughed when Sanders, a cranky loner from VerMaureen Dowd mont with a nondescript Senate writes a column record, decided to challenge Queen for The New York Hillary. Clinton and her aides inTimes. toned — wink, wink — that it would be healthy to have a primary fight with Sanders and Martin O’Malley. But Bernie became the surprise belle of his side’s revolutionary ball. And now he has gotten a taste of it and he likes it and he won’t let it go. He’s bedeviling the daylight out of Hillary. Hillary and her allies are spinning a narrative that Bernie is less loyal to the Democratic cause than she was with Obama. And Trump does delight in quoting Bernie’s contention that Hillary lacks the judgment to be president. On Friday, when he accepted the endorsement of the NRA at its convention, Trump mischievously urged Sanders to run as a third-party candidate and said he would love to have a debate with both Hillary and Bernie onstage. Hillary says Sanders needs to “do his part” to unify the party, as she did in 2008. But even on the day of the last primaries in that race, when she was the one who was mathematically eliminated unless the superdelegates turned, she came onstage to Terry McAuliffe heralding her as “the next president of the United States.” She then touted having more votes than any primary candidate in history as her fans cheered “Yes, she will!” and “Denver!” Seeing Trump’s soaring negatives, Sanders thinks, if he could just get past Hillary, he could actually be president. The Bernie bro violence — chair throwing, sexist namecalling and feral threats — at the Nevada state party convention was denounced as “a scary situation” by his Senate colleague Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Sanders condemned the violence while stoking the outrage, urging the Democratic Party to “open the doors, let the people in.” He flashed a bit of Trump, so sure in his belief that the system is rigged that he fed off the nasty energy. Boxer had to call Sanders several times before he called back. She and other Democratic Senate women are fed up with his crusade, feeling enough is enough. I’ve talked to several former Clinton and Obama White House aides who don’t enjoy checking in with the joyless Clinton campaign in Brooklyn. “It’s the Bataan Death March,” one says. Hopeful acceptance of Hillary has shifted to amazed disbelief that she can’t put away Bernie. Given dynasty fatigue and Hillary’s age, many Democrats assumed that their front-runner would come out of the gate with a vision for the future that gave her campaign a fresh hue, instead of white papers tinkering around the edges. She should have been far over her husband’s bridge to the 21st century and way down the highway by now. Instead, her big new idea is to put Bill in charge of the economy again (hopefully, with less Wall Street deregulation). Again with the two for the price of one. And please don’t deny us the pleasure of seeing Bill choose the china patterns. Hillary’s Bataan Death March is making Republicans reconsider their own suicide mission with Trump. More are looking at Clinton’s inability to get the flashing lights going like her husband, and thinking: Huh, maybe we’re not dead here. Maybe Teflon Don could pull this off. The 2016 race is transcendentally bizarre. We have two near-nominees with the highest unfavorables at this point in the race of any in modern history. We seem to have a majority of voters in both parties who are driven by the desire to vote against the other candidate, rather than for their own. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., tries to herd young women to Hillary by raising the specter of Roe v. Wade being overturned. And former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Trump’s obsession with “10s” and D-cups would “come back to haunt him” and give Democrats wins because “there are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women.” Hillary can’t generate excitement on her own so she is relying on fear of Trump to get her into the White House. And Trump is relying on fear of everything to get him into the White House. So voters are stuck in the muck of the negative: What are you most afraid of?

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he contest to be the Democratic presidential nominee hit an ugly new low recently, when Nevada supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders reportedly threw chairs and made threats against a senior state party official after 64 Sanders delegates were disqualified at the state convention. Sanders said he does not support violence, but there are now worries the party’s convention in Philadelphia could face similar incidents. Why can’t Hillary Clinton wrap up the nomination? Is the process rigged? Should we worry about political violence? Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk, the Red-Blue America columnists, debate the issue.

JOEL MATHIS Is there a way to call off this election? Anything in the Constitution that allows for a deferral, a do-over, a second chance — starting again next year, maybe, after everybody in the country has had a chance to take a remedial civics course? No? Well that stinks. This whole election just stinks. As long as the violence and the threats were contained to Trump rallies, we liberals could at least comfort ourselves with a bit of moral superiority: We’re not like those guys, right? But the thrown chairs and threats in Nevada make it difficult to hold the high ground. We’ve all forgotten how to do democracy, apparently — forgotten that sometimes in a democracy you lose, and that the correct response to losing is to work harder and better at persuading people you have the right ideas. Now the secret to winning is apparently this: Make people afraid of what you’ll do if they don’t join you. This isn’t democracy. It’s thuggery. And it should be embarrassing to all of us. Here’s a text the chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party received from a Sanders supporter: “We know where you live, where you work, where you eat. ... Where your kids go to school/grandkids. We have everything on you. We are your neighbors, friends, family, etc.” And another: “Someone will hurt you.” And another: “May retribution

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Ben Boychuk, left, associate editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, is a conservative with a contrarian streak; Joel Mathis, associate editor for Philadelphia Magazine, is a liberal with a libertarian streak. Red-Blue America is distributed by Tribune News Service. come fully and harshly upon you. I CURSE YOU.” Scary, right? And these are just the messages we can print in a family newspaper. We’ve been moving steadily toward this moment for at least two decades: George H.W. Bush — Ronald Reagan’s successor — is the last president I can remember who wasn’t widely depicted as wholly evil by his opponents. Bill Clinton was accused of murder. George W. Bush didn’t even win a majority of voters in his first term. Barack Obama is a Kenyan-Muslim, et cetera, et cetera. We’ve reached the limits of such rhetoric. Fists and threats and maybe worse are next. Can we step back? Do we even want to? We’re about to find out.

BEN BOYCHUK Remember when everyone thought the Republicans were the suicidal party? With the media focused on Donald Trump’s incredible rise, few people seemed to notice the Democrats were self-destructing. Here’s the truth: Hillary Clinton cannot wrap up her party’s nomination because a sizable minority of Democratic primary voters simply doesn’t like her. They don’t trust her. They believe

she’s corrupt. That she’s part of the moneyed and powerful. That she doesn’t really care about them. And they’re right. Trump has already started referring to Clinton as “Crooked Hillary.” Expect the nickname to stick. Bill and Hillary Clinton have become millionaires many times over by selling access to foreign and domestic corporations through their allegedly “charitable” foundation. As a result, a federal grand jury is reportedly investigating the foundation’s activities. Investigators might be interested in the work of Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel. Last week, he released a series of reports alleging the Clinton Foundation has skirted state and federal disclosure laws and has never submitted to a required independent audit. It sure would be nice if somebody got to the bottom of that before November. But even if the Clinton Foundation comes out looking squeaky clean — or, at least, not hopelessly corrupt — it’s far from obvious that Clinton can close the deal with voters. She’s an awful politician. How many times has Clinton rebooted her campaign so far? Four? Five? Here’s a headline from The New York Times last April: “Hillary Clinton Re-emerges, by Design (but Also by Surprise)” And here’s the Times again, in September: “Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say.” And here’s a headline from the Hill newspaper in March: “Hillary Clinton takes new tack to boost her image.” If at first you don’t succeed, maybe after the third or fourth time you should stop trying. Many Democrats know the system is rigged. Bernie Sanders was never supposed to come this far. Clinton controls most of the so-called superdelegates — top party officials who are free to vote for any candidate they like, regardless of what voters say. When the outcome is predetermined from the start, wouldn’t you be angry? How can the Democrats call themselves democrats? Reach Ben Boychuk at bboychuk@ city-journal.org, Joel Mathis at joelm mathis@gmail.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Challenge to fundraising expectations On the April 24 episode of “60 Minutes” was a segment called “Dialing for Dollars.” The segment detailed a Republican congressman’s bid for reelection. David Jolly from Florida was elected in November 2014 and began to fundraise for re-election in April 2015. A 2010 decision by the Supreme Court called Citizens United prompted this chain of events. According to the CBS report, as soon as Jolly took office, Republican Party officials took him aside, as they do all freshmen congressmen, and laid out the rules. By November he had to raise $2 million if he wanted support from the Republican National Congressional Committee. This would be done by going to the Republican call center and doing te-

dious work, raising $18,000 per day. He was given scripts and a timeline to follow — 40 hours a week would need to be allocated to phone work in contrast with 20 hours doing his actual job. Rep. Jolly’s ill-fated legislative proposal to end this folly, called the “Stop Act,” was roundly criticized and quickly killed. Too many congressmen were buried too deep in corporate pockets. I can’t say for sure if these strict schedules are applied in Harrisburg, but constant fundraising is vital to staying in office. I do know that campaign reform is possible and that there is currently a strong candidate for state Senate who wants to make it happen — a smallbusiness owner and devoted family man who dares to think outside the

box. He strongly believes in fundraising through small donations and strict term limits. This would prevent the boondoggle that results from legislators who prioritize re-election over actually, you know, doing their jobs. Many people who would normally vote are so disillusioned now by the whole quagmire that they simply stay home, thinking they have no voice. When a state candidate comes along, however, who speaks the same beliefs that you espouse, your voice is there. Tony DeLoreto will speak his voice, your voice, in opposition to the status quo rhetoric from all of the career politicians who are simply taking up space. Please see it in your heart to let Tony be your voice. Daniel Vavrek White Township

Political debates provide little comfort What has happened to the America we once knew? Year after year legislators have implemented laws to keep peace and preserve our safety, until recent administrators have questioned and rewritten history to what they deem to be more progressive. The disregard in our laws has unfortunately set the tone and in a lot of

ways condones behavior that is now out of control. It is no wonder we see such arrogance and disrespect toward one another while watching presidential candidates. How encouraging it would be to hear a candidate mention needing God’s leadership in making decisions for our country. I find no comfort listening to these

debates, because, thankfully, my comfort comes from God, who doesn’t make promises he can’t or won’t keep. How many presidents make empty promises yet we trust them? How about trusting God? I can guarantee you he is the real deal. Vera Mock Saltsburg

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Bayer makes $62B offer for Monsanto BERLIN (AP) — German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG announced today that it has made a $62 billion offer to buy U.S.-based crops and seeds specialist Monsanto. The proposed combination would create a giant seed and farm chemical company with a strong presence in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Bayer said the all-cash offer values shares of Monsanto at $122 each. That compares with a closing price Friday of $101.52 and is 37 percent higher than the closing price of $89.03 on May 9, the day before Bayer made a written proposal to Monsanto. Both companies are familiar brands on farms around the globe. Bayer’s farm business produces seeds as well as compounds to kill weeds, bugs and fungus. Monsanto has some 20,000 employees and produces seeds for fruits, vegetables and other crops including corn, soybeans and cotton, as well as the popular weed-killer Roundup.

Iraqi forces battle IS outside Fallujah BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi government forces today pushed Islamic State militants out of some agricultural areas outside of Fallujah as they launched a military offensive to recapture the city from the extremists, officials said. Backed by U.S.led coalition airstrikes and paramilitary troops, Iraqi government forces launched the long-awaited military offensive late Sunday. The city, located about 40 miles west of Baghdad, has been under the militants’ control since January 2014. The commander of the Fallujah operation, Lt. General Abdul-Wahab alSaadi, could not say how long the offensive would take, citing terrain, the number of civilians in the city and bombs planted by the militants. Al-Saadi added that the first phase aims to surround and bomb IS positions.

Man dies after falling from hotel balcony OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after they said a Pennsylvania man died after falling from an eighth-floor balcony at an Ocean City hotel. Ocean City police said in a statement that Jordan M. Hess, 29, of Chambersburg, died shortly after crews arrived to the scene Saturday evening at the Stowaway Grand Hotel. Officials believe the fall was accidental. The medical examiner’s office will determine Hess’ official cause and manner of death.

Cat credited with alerting family to fire LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-area couple is crediting their cat to alerting them to a fire in their home. KTNV-TV in Las Vegas reported that a fire broke out at a home in the Summerlin community around 2 a.m. Sunday. The husband and wife told fire officials they were asleep when they got woken up by the cat scratching kitchen cabinets. The husband said he went to check on the cat and found a fire in the garage. They immediately called 911 and evacuated the home with a nephew they were baby-sitting and the cat. Firefighters said no injuries were reported. The damage to the home was confined to the garage. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

SYRIANS LOOKED at the remains of burned vehicles today at the site of a bombing in the coastal town of Tartus.

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Blasts kill more than 80 across Syria By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press

BEIRUT — A series of rare explosions including suicide bombings rocked coastal government strongholds in Syria today, killing more than 80 people and wounding 200 others, state media and opposition activists said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks. The deadly blasts in the normally quiet pro-government cities of Tartus and Jableh were the first of their kind targeting civilians in those areas in the course of Syria’s civil war, now in its sixth year. The targets included bus stations and a hospital, and marked an escalation in the conflict as world powers struggle to restart peace talks in Geneva. Several rounds of talks were held in the Swiss city earlier this year, although there was no breakthrough and the talks never really took off. The TV reports said at least one suicide bomber followed by a car-laden with explosives tore through a packed bus station in Tartus, minutes apart. More than 33 were killed and many injured in the bombings. Separately, Syria’s SANA news agency reported that four explosions rocked Jableh, south of Latakia city. The attacks included three rockets, and a suicide

bomber at the emergency entrance of the Jableh national hospital, the state media said. Jableh News Network, an opposition activist media group, said among those killed at the hospital is a nurse, Huda al-Houshi. The network is reporting using video that one of the suicide attackers is suspected to be a woman. Video shows a woman, naked, cut in two with the impact around her chest. Footage aired by the state-run Ikhbariya TV showed several cars on fire, thick black smoke billowing in the air. It also showed the charred remains of cars and minivans in what appears to be a bus station in Jableh. Russia keeps a naval base in Tartus and an air base in Latakia province. Insurgents maintain a presence in rural Latakia. The coordinated and near-simultaneous attacks marked a major security breach of government strongholds that have remained calm throughout the war. Tartus and Jableh are home to thousands of internally displaced people from violence-stricken areas across Syria. The bombings unleashed an immediate backlash against the refugees, with families of the victims attacking IDP shelters. One shelter, al-Karnak, was burned down. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an op-

position monitoring group based in Britain, put the death toll at more than 100. It said there were seven explosions that ripped through both locations simultaneously: four in Jableh, including three suicide bombings and one car bomb, and three in Tartus, including two suicide bombers and one car bomb. In Jableh, dozens were killed when a car bomb went off near a bus station, followed by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosive belt inside the station. Meanwhile, two men blew themselves up at the electricity company and outside the emergency entrance of a city hospital. Dozens more were killed in Tartus when a car bomb went off in the bus station, and then two men blew themselves up when people gathered, according to the Observatory. “We will not be deterred ... we will use everything we have to fight the terrorists,” said Syrian Cabinet Minister Omran al-Zoubi on Syrian TV. A news agency linked with the Islamic State group said the group’s militants were behind the multiple attacks. The one-sentence report by the IS-linked Aamaq news agency, which routinely carries the group’s news and claims, offered no details. Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria contributed to this report.

Yemen attacks leave 45 dead By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press

SANAA, Yemen — A pair of suicide bombings carried out by Islamic State militants killed at least 45 people in Yemen’s southern city of Aden today, security officials said. They said the bombings targeted young men seeking to join the army. One suicide car bomber targeted a line outside an army recruitment center, killing at least 20. A second bomber on foot detonated his explosive vest among a group of recruits waiting outside the home of an army commander, killing at least 25. Scores of others were wounded, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. The local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group claimed responsibility for both attacks in a statement posted on social media networks by sympathizers. It said the bombing at the residence of the commander killed more than 30 and was carried out by a native of Aden it identified as Abu Ali al-Adani. It did not give casualty figures for the attack at the

army recruitment center, which it said was carried out by an explosive device, not a suicide car bomb as the officials said. There was no explanation immediately available for the discrepancy. Yemen has for nearly two years been gripped by a war pitting the internationally recognized government against Shiite rebels who control the capital, Sanaa, and are allied with forces loyal to a former president. The country is also home to active al-Qaida and Islamic State group affiliates. Today’s blasts underline the precarious security situation in Aden, the country’s main port on the Arabian Sea, several months after government forces and allied militiamen backed by a Saudi-led coalition retook the city from the Shiite rebels, also known as the Houthis. The city has in recent months seen a series of suicide bombings and assassinations mainly targeting army and security forces. Contributing further to the instability in Aden is recent the eviction of northern Yemenis, the work of suspected separatists who seek an independent south.

3 climbers die, two go missing on Everest By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An Indian climber has died while being helped down Mount Everest, just a couple of days after a Dutch and an Australian died near the peak. Two other Indian climbers are missing, and experts say some of the tragedy may have been avoidable. Poor planning and overcrowding on the world’s tallest peak may have led to bottlenecks that kept people delayed at the highest reaches while waiting for the path to clear lower down, Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association said today. “This was a man-made disaster that may have been minimized with better management of the teams,” he said. “The last two disasters on Everest were caused by nature, but not this one.” Many had hoped this year’s climbing season would bring success and restore confidence in the route, after deadly disasters canceled climbing the previous two years. But as hundreds of eager climbers, joined by local Sherpa guides and expedition experts, scrambled to take advantage of good weather to make it to the peak, reports of tragedy began trickling down the mountain. First, a 35-year-old Dutch man,

Eric Arnold, died on his way down from the peak from altitude sickness. Hours later, a 34-year-old Australian woman, Maria Strydom, died near the top, also after apparently suffering from altitude sickness. Subhash Paul, of India, today was reported as the third death after succumbing to altitude sickness overnight as he was being helped down the mountain by Sherpa guides, said Wangchu Sherpa of the Trekking Camp Nepal agency in Kathmandu. An Indian woman from Paul’s team, Sunita Hazra, was resting at a lower-altitude camp after becoming ill higher up. But two other Indian climbers — Paresh Nath and Goutam Ghosh — have been missing since Saturday. Wangchu Sherpa said it was unlikely they would be able to survive Everest’s hostile conditions. Dozens of other climbers have developed frostbite or become sick near the summit in recent days, including the Australian woman’s husband, Robert Gropal, who was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu today for treatment. Tshering said the competition between expedition organizers has become so fierce that they are dropping their prices, which can lead to compromises in hiring equipment, oxygen tanks and ex-

perienced guides to help get climbers to the top. “Teams are hiring raw guides that have no knowledge of responding to situations of emergency,” he said. Belgian climber Jelle Vegt, who reached the peak on May 13, said that he made his attempt when there were fewer climbers on the narrow route snaking to the top, but that bad weather then forced many others to wait a few days. Then, “a lot of people tried to go on the same weather window,” the 30-year-old from Deldermond said after returning to Kathmandu. Since Everest was first conquered by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, more than 4,000 climbers have reached the 29,035-foot-high peak. Nearly 400 of those climbers reached the summit since May 11. Nepal’s government had issued permits this year to 289 climbers, each of whom paid $11,000 to the government, plus another $25,000 to $50,000 to an expedition company that provides guides, equipment and, often, bottled oxygen to use at high altitudes where the atmosphere is thin. The climbers are accompanied on the mountain by around 400 local Nepalese Sherpa guides. Nepal and the Everest climbing

community had been anxious for a successful season this year. The industry brings more than $3 million from permit fees alone into the poor, Himalayan country each year, and thousands of locals depend on the climbing season for secondary work as porters, hotel keepers or cooks. Last year, a devastating earthquake unleashed an avalanche that killed 19 people at Base Camp, effectively ending all attempts at the peak for 2015. A year earlier, a massive ice fall on a glacier that is part of the route to the top killed 16 and rendered the route impassable for the season. Before that, the worst disaster had been caused by a fierce blizzard in 1996 that killed eight climbers and was memorialized by Jon Krakauer in the book “Into Thin Air.” But while hundreds have died trying to reach the top of Everest due to avalanches, altitude sickness, exposure and other dangers, the use of bottled oxygen and better equipment had helped reduce the number of deaths each year. Satellite communication equipment and better medical facilities have also helped prevent tragedy. Yet, some criticize expedition companies for taking novice climbers without any mountaineering experience.

Family

Page 8 — Monday, May 23, 2016

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NEW OFFICERS

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday:

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THE INDIANA Ballroom Dance Club is getting ready for its 28th year after installing officers Thursday during a dinner-dance at the Indiana Country Club. The officers are, front row, from left, Sherry Kuckuck, secretary; Susan Pickering, treasurer; Terry Kelly, president; Elaine Palmer, vice president; and Donna Good, Carmy Carranza and Jane Blaney, board of directors; standing, Jerry Pickering, treasurer; David Kelly, president; Jim Palmer, vice president; and LeRoy Good and Jose Carranza, board of directors. Ted Kuckuck, who was absent from the photo, will also serve as secretary. Members and guests danced to the big band music of the Tommy Phillips orchestra. Plans for the new year will be announced soon. For information on joining the club and attending dances, call David and Terry Kelly at (412) 889-5008 or (724) 493-4349 or connect on the Web at inddanceclub.wordpress.com.

• Thomas Blystone Jr., Homer City • Bill Dailey, Indiana • Karen Dentici, Girty • Dorinda Eckenroad, Blairsville • Donna Foose, Plumville • Russell Harvey, Florida • Jason Kovalchick, Shelocta • Chris McGee, Indiana • Joan Rougeaux, Creekside • Alicia Stewart, Blairsville • Jessica Wagner, Creekside The Gazette would like to wish you a “Happy Birthday!” To have a name added to the list, call (724) 4655555, ext. 265. If you leave a message, be sure to spell out the first and last name of the person celebrating their special day and remember to tell us the day and the town where they live. Messages left with incomplete information will not be run on the list.

Young mom turns her focus to college degree By KATHRYN MCNUTT

The (Oklahoma City) Oklahoman

NORMAN, Okla. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports only about half of teenage mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22. Dominique Hall was a good student when she became pregnant in ninth grade, but a school counselor suggested she drop out for a while. “That first talk — that teen mothers usually don’t finish — made me want to prove her wrong,” Hall said. Besides, she would be responsible for someone else, and she needed an education to provide for him. The CDC says children of teen moms are more likely to drop out of high school, to have more

health problems, to be incarcerated during adolescence, to give birth as a teenager and to face unemployment as a young adult. “I knew the statistics,” Hall said. “That’s not what I wanted for my son.” Edwin, now 7, recently got to see his mom graduate from the University of Oklahoma, where she majored in supply chain management and minored in accounting. Hall, 23, is excited to begin work on her next degree, a Master of Business Administration. “OU has taken great care of me and my son,” she said. “I see no reason to leave yet.” “Dominique is pretty amazing,” said Mary Hill, OU assistant professor of accounting. “It’s a wonder how she juggles all that she juggles.”

This semester Hall worked 20 hours a week and took 16 credit hours, in addition to her commitments as a mom and a member of the Air Force Reserve. Hill said Hall was able to prioritize tasks and assignments as deadlines approached and get everything done on time. She asked questions in class, faced challenges with determination and exemplified high academic integrity, Hill said. “It was a joy having her in class,” she said. “She is a remarkable person. She definitely has dealt with some low points. She just kept pressing forward.” Hall began a pattern of doing that after becoming a mother at 15. “I was a baby having a baby,” she said. Still, she graduated on time

from Westmoore High School and went on to Oklahoma City Community College. During that time, she lived for a year in a group home for women and single mothers. She didn’t like being there, but it helped her save money to get an apartment. In 2013, she joined the Air Force Reserve and took a year off from college. Hall said her father has been in the U.S. Air Force for 34 years, and it has allowed him to take good care of his family. The military has impacted Hall in many ways, including paying her tuition. “I learned respect from the military and my father,” she said. Hall chose to major in business “so my son can have a really good life.” “Being a single mom, I knew I had to make sure I had money

and understood numbers,” she said. But she doesn’t plan to be a businesswoman. Her goal is to earn her doctorate and become a professor, dean and eventually president of a community college. Hall said her life experiences will help her relate to students who are struggling with financial issues, being single mothers, or returning to college as veterans or adults. “I love being around students,” she said. Her plans also include making sure Edwin goes to college and has that “really good life.” Hall said her parents have helped her a lot, and she wants to always be there for her son. “I’m responsible for him,” she said. “It’s scary. It always will be.”

HUMAN SERVICES CALENDAR FAMILY SUPPORT • Alzheimer’s Support Group, sponsored by Hillsdale Nursing & Rehabilitation, meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at Clymer Family Medicine Health Education Center, 533 Franklin St., Clymer. For more information, contact Kim Neff at (814) 743-6613 or at kneff@hills dalerehab.com. • Brain Injury Support for those with brain injuries and their family and friends is held at 6 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at Indiana Regional Medical Center, private dining room 2. For more information, call (724) 357-8088. • A Gluten-free Support Group at Indiana Regional Medical Center teaches participants how to manage diet, and provides recipes and resources that may be useful to those on a gluten-free diet. For more information, call (724)3578088. • Living with Diabetes is a recurring series that provides diabetes management information. Most insurance companies cover

the costs. A physician referral is required. For more information, call the Excela Health Diabetes Center at (877) 771-1234. • Mothers of Preschoolers meets from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. the first and third Wednesday of the month (September through May) at Blairsville Free Methodist Church and at 9:30 a.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at The Summit Church, Indiana. There is a $25 registration fee to join Mothers of Preschoolers International. Scholarships are available. Call (724) 459-6209 for more information. • National Alzheimer’s Association Greater PA Chapter provides referrals to meetings, services and agencies. For more information, call (800) 272-3900. • Pediatric Diabetes Support Group meets twice a year at Indiana Regional Medical Center. For more information, call (724) 3577164. • “Tea Time with the Nurse Navigator” is an individualized hour to ask questions and discuss concerns about breast cancer be-

fore, during or after breast cancer treatment. For more information, call (724) 357-8309.

GRIEF SUPPORT • Adult Grief Support is offered in six-week sessions. Dates and locations vary. For more information, call Excela Health Call Center at (877) 771-1234. • Bowser-Minich Bereavement Support Services offers lectures and grief seminars to public groups upon request. Call (724) 349-3100 or (888) 9235550. • C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City, offers support services through an interactive website for bereavement and grief support literature at www. bowserfh.com. • Curran Funeral Home Grief Support Group, 701 Salt St., Saltsburg. Call (724) 639-3911 for dates, times and location. • GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing) helps families and individuals who are grieving

due to a substance misuse death and provides support via phone and private meeting. For more information, call (724) 762-3344, email atskelly17839@gmail.com or visit www.grasphelp.org. • John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home, White Township, offers a bereavement support group open to the public. Call (724) 463-4499. • Hopeful Hearts, a service of the VNA of Indiana County, is a child-focused family bereavement support center that provides peer support at no cost for all family members when someone close to the family has died. Families meet biweekly in a safe, caring and confidential environment. For more information about this program or volunteer opportunities, call (724) 349-3888 or (877) 349-3888. • Pregnancy Loss Support Group provides support for families who are grieving the loss of their baby through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or newborn death. Call (877) 7711234.

• Rairigh-Bence Caring and Sharing Grief Support Group offers a support group, in addition to a bereavement lending library with booklets, videos, etc. For time and date, call (724) 349-2000. • Richard Shoemaker Funeral Home Support Group, Blairsville, offers information and support by phone. For more information, call (724) 459-9115. • Resolve Through Sharing Bereavement Services are offered at Indiana Regional Medical Center, Obstetric Unit, for those suffering a neo-natal loss, miscarriage or tubal pregnancy. Trained counselors provide counseling and support and are available for private consultations by appointment. For more information, call (724) 357-7060. • VNA Grief Support is open to all of those coping with grief and loss. The group meets at 2:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at VNA, 850 Hospital Road, White Township. For more information, contact the Rev. Spiker at (724) 463-6340.

Immersion therapy for mobile-phone droppers The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District released a public service announcement with data suggesting that 75 percent of people admit to having used Email their phones in questions or the bathroom. tips to What’s worse, 19 mary@every percent of those daycheap surveyed admitskate.com or ted they’ve Everyday dropped their Cheapskate, phones in the 12340 Seal toilet. I’m not Beach Blvd., sure why the Suite B-416, sewer agency Seal Beach, CA was curious 90740. about this matter, but the facts did come to my mind when this letter washed up on my desk: DEAR MARY: A week ago, I

EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE dropped my smartphone in the toilet. I tried to rescue it, but I had to get a new phone. The salesman said that someone comes to the store every day with the same problem. Now I’m wondering if there is some kind of waterproof case I can get to protect my phone in case this happens again. Also, how do you fix a wet phone? My method (I immediately wiped it off, took it apart and stuck it in a bag of rice) didn’t work. — Bev DEAR BEV: There are steps you can take to try to rescue a waterlogged mobile phone, but there are no guarantees. Generally, you should get the phone out of the water and turn it off immediately. Lay it on a soft cloth or paper towels. Unless it’s an iPhone, quickly remove the

battery cover and battery. Next, remove the SIM card (if your phone has one). Do not take the phone apart beyond that. Instead, carefully dry it off with that soft cloth, removing as much water as possible from every little port and opening. For noniPhones, cleaning the inside with rubbing alcohol will displace the water, which could remedy the problem. Do not use a hair dryer to try to dry the phone. That will only drive moisture inside the crevices and intricate parts of the phone. Put the phone into a substance that has the ability to draw out moisture, like desiccant. Or if you have a packet of silica gel, put the phone and that packet into a ziptype bag and close it. If you don’t have either of these materials, submerge the soggy phone in a bag of uncooked rice and leave it overnight. Or lay the phone on an absorbent towel and set it in a sunny place to dry out complete-

ly. Test it after 24 hours, or when the phone appears to be completely dry. Good luck! LifeProof makes a waterproof case for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus (for around $40 on Amazon). The case has gotten hundreds of positive reviews. LifeProof also makes cases for other iPhone makes and models, as well as Samsung, LG and Motorola phones. For a specific water activity, like a boating or fishing outing, a JOTO Universal Waterproof Dry Bag (about $8) will keep your phone completely dry, even if submerged for an extended period of time. Now, all that being said, to make sure this doesn’t happen again at home, I suggest installing some kind of handy shelf or designating a specific place in the bathroom to act as a clear reminder to Place Phone Here. Make sure you put your phone there every time — the first thing

you do before anything else. Force yourself to do this, and in just a short amount of time, it will become a habit. As for when you’re at work or out and about, create another habit: Put your phone away before you go into a restroom. Give it a rest during your bathroom break. Mary invites questions, comments and tips at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or c/o Everyday Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Suite B-416, Seal Beach, CA 90740. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website and the author of “Debt-Proof Living,” released in 2014. To find out more about Mary and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

World

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Monday, May 23, 2016 — Page 9

Wild U.S. election fascinates Iran after nuclear deal By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — After decades of officially imposed detachment from the “Great Satan,” Iranians are this time transfixed by the wild U.S. presidential campaign, mindful that the next White House occupant could have direct impact on their lives. At the heart of the matter is last year’s deal with world powers, which eased the country’s isolation and removed many economic sanctions in exchange for a curtailing of the Iran nuclear program. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has bitterly criticized the accord, which is rather popular here, and says he would rework it. Iran and America have not restored the official diplomatic ties that were cut after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and U.S. Embassy takeover. But the high stakes — combined with Iranian state media’s renewed attention to news from the West — have made the election the talk of barbershops, living rooms and street corners. “It reminds me of fighting between heavyweight boxers for a championship — with a lot of boasting,” said Reza Piltan, an electrical engineer who has been following the campaign. Although there are no polls about Iranians’ views on the U.S. presidential campaign, there is a sense of apprehension regarding Trump, even though some consider his criticism mostly bluster. There are also concerns about Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who many consider to have struck a relatively hard line on Iran during her time as Secretary of State. State television, which paid scant attention to previous U.S. presidential campaigns before last year’s nuclear accord, has

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A BOOK SELLER arranged U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s book “Hard Choices,” translated to Farsi, during Tehran’s International Book Fair May 10. closely followed the race. Its main focus is also the potential impact on the nuclear deal. The station makes a point of airing comments by Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, focusing on racial injustice and social inequality. That taps into a narrative often advanced by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who in 2011 predicted the Occupy Wall Street protests would “thrive to the extent that the capitalist system of America and the West will be completely razed to the ground,” according to his website. Trimming a customer’s hair, barber Hossein Pourebrahim said he wanted Trump to win — but out of enmity to the United States. “He’s destroying America while not listening to anybody that could change his mind,” Pourebrahim cheerily calculated. In Tehran’s Revolution Square, popular with booklovers, a book co-authored by Trump has been avail-

able for years. Merchants blame declining sales on Trump’s criticism of the nuclear deal. Copies of Clinton’s book “Hard Choices” also sit on display. Fayyaz Zahed, a Tehranbased political analyst, warns that a Trump victory would be “disastrous” and would embolden nationalists in both countries.

Iranians “may turn to a military, extremist and hard-line figure” in their own 2017 presidential elections, Fayyaz told Arya, a conservative news website. It would work against Iran’s current president, Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate whose administration championed the nuclear deal.

Ali Khorram, a former Iranian envoy to the United Nations, wrote in the proreform daily newspaper Etemad that Trump would “not have the same positive and good will that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have toward Iran and the deal.” But others see more complex dynamics at play. Nasser Hadian, a professor of international relations at Tehran University, argued that Trump would actually be more amenable than Clinton. “Trump will remain loyal to the deal since he is a businessman and businessmen do not violate contracts unilaterally,” Hadian said in an interview with pro-reform newspaper Shargh. Also, he argued, Trump “lacks the interna-

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tional legitimacy to impose sanctions on Iran or to violate the deal.” Morteza Amani, strolling the streets of Tehran with two teenage children, expected that a President Trump would “continue to surprise” and actually make relations with Iran “better than ever. ... He is criticizing Iran only for collecting votes.” Iranian officials have refrained from comment on the race and are sticking to the position that opponents of the nuclear deal are influenced by longtime foe Israel. Meanwhile, Iran has conducted ballistic missile tests criticized by the U.S., briefly captured 10 American sailors and carried out other naval maneuvers criticized by the U.S. in the Persian Gulf in recent months.

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Food

Page 10 — Monday, May 23, 2016

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How to build a better taco AFTER YEARS of preparing — and eating — tacos, Nick Kindelsperger of the Chicago Tribune has come up with some helpful tricks to improve your taco game at home. After all, all most people want is to eat better tacos more often, right? First, a strict definition: tacos equals tortilla + filling + salsa. Any so-called taco missing one of these components is a fraud. Tacos are temporal. Don’t sit around and idly chat while hot tacos sit in front of you ready to be devoured. Eat them immediately. Tacos taste better standing up. I don’t know why. Don’t let inflexible ideas of authenticity get in the way of deliciousness. Here’s the breakdown on making them at home: By NICK KINDELSPERGER Chicago Tribune

TORTILLAS Tortillas are the soul of the taco. You can’t have a great taco with a terrible tortilla. In a battle of sturdiness, flour tortillas beat corn tortillas every time. Use flour tortillas for larger, messier tacos. The slight structural deficiency of corn tortillas pales in comparison to the superior flavor and fragrance they lend to each bite. I use corn tortillas 99 percent of the time. Corn tortillas are simple to make at home, but frustratingly hard to master. Feel no shame in purchasing top-quality corn tortillas for most of your taco needs. Buy them the same day you plan to use them. One of the main reasons I live in Chicago is the concentration of quality tortilla factories. (I am only partly joking.) Warm corn tortillas until soft, supple and fragrant. Place tortillas in a heavy skillet set over mediumhigh until you notice steam wafting off. Flip and wait until you spot steam again. At this point, the tortilla should be very soft. If not, continue heating for a few more seconds. Wrap warmed tortillas in a towel when done, and let them hang out for a few minutes to further steam. Heating tortillas on top of the grate over an open flame of a gas stove is also a great idea. One tortilla is usually enough. Some saucier taco fillings will soak through one, thus requiring two, but there is nothing automatically better about doubling up. If anything, two tortillas make it harder to appreciate the filling.

FILLINGS Free your mind of what constitutes a taco filling. Veggie tacos are a thing, and they are exceptional. If I can advance one, ahem, opinion here, it is that vegetables make incredible taco fillings. Great vegetables for tacos: zucchini, mushrooms, kale, squash blossoms, potatoes, Swiss chard, huitlacoche (a prized corn fungus), refried black beans, poblanos, butternut squash and pumpkin. I love griddled steak tacos, too, but you can braise beef shoulder for barbacoa or cure round for cecina. Heck, you can eat tongue, intestines, brains and all kinds of other fun parts of the cow. And that’s just one kind of animal! Chorizo is the bacon of the taco world; it makes everything taste better, but it needs a partner. A taco with only chorizo is like a cake made entirely out of frosting.

OTHER TACO THOUGHTS

Grilled fish tacos are almost always mushy. Fried fish tacos are great but messy to make on a weeknight. Don’t forget about shrimp tacos. Adding rice is almost always a terrible idea.

The problem with the pre-fried U-shaped shells — the kind made famous by Taco Bell and Old El Paso — is that when you bite in, the filling slides out the side too easily. Plus, they are usually structurally unsound, crumbling apart after one bite. But fried tacos can be amazing. You just need to fry the tortilla with the filling already inside. Try fried potato tacos (see recipe). Break any of these rules if you want. The goal is not to adhere strictly to these tips but simply to eat more tacos. Experiment. Cook. Repeat.

SALSA Salsa isn’t optional. Salsa separates tacos from wraps and other tepid creations. Salsa requires chilies. Chilies bring excitement and vibrancy to our dull, drab lives. Make roasted tomatillo salsa. I’ve got nothing against fresh pico de gallo (made with plump summer tomatoes, of course), but tomatillo salsa is what I usually make, because it’s acidic and flavorful, and tomatillos are available year-round. (See recipe.) The broiler and blender are your best salsa friends. If you want to go hardcore authentic, you could toast all the ingredients on a comal and then grind them by hand using a stone molcajete. Or you could replicate this process in a 10th of the time by broiling the vegetables and then processing them in a blender. You can combine salsa and the filling into one dish. If you braise chicken and tomatillos together (which you should), there’s no need to waste time making a completely different salsa. Guacamole counts as a salsa. Most canned salsas suck. Rick Bayless’ Frontera brand does not. Hot sauce is different from salsa. Its main purpose is to add a final flash of intense heat, which is quite convenient if you’re serving tacos to a group of people with varying levels of spice tolerance. Quick and biased hotsauce guide: Valencia > Cholula > El Yucateco > Tapatio > Tabasco

ROASTED TOMATILLO SALSA Prep: 10 minutes Cook: 10 minutes Makes: about 1 cup 8 ounces tomatillos, husked, rinsed 1 to 2 serrano chilies 2 cloves garlic, unpeeled ½ teaspoon salt 1 handful fresh cilantro, chopped ½ white onion, chopped Place tomatillos, serranos and garlic cloves on a foillined baking sheet. Cover garlic with an additional layer of foil. Place under a hot broiler and cook until tomatillos are blackened on top, about 6 minutes. Flip tomatillos and serranos; blacken on the other side, about 5 minutes. Remove baking sheet from oven; allow everything to cool. Stem serranos and peel garlic. Transfer tomatillos, serranos garlic and salt to a blender. Process until almost smooth. Taste, and season with more salt if necessary. Transfer to a bowl; stir in cilantro and onion. Nutrition information per serving: 9 calories, 0 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 2 g carbohydrates, 1 g sugar, 0 g protein, 73 mg sodium, 1 g fiber

ZUCCHINI, CHORIZO and Almond Tacos, above, start with steamed soft tacos, right, and tomatillo salsa, below, made with blackened peppers and green tomatoes.

TACO CONSTRUCTION Small tacos are usually better than large tacos. It’s tempting to stuff each tortilla with as much as possible, but always consider proportion. You want to get a bite with all the components, which is hard if you can barely fold the tortilla over the mass of fillings and toppings. Better to make a slim and satisfying taco, and eat more of them. Additional toppings are completely optional but can separate a good taco from an exceptional one. Great toppings: pickled red onions, pickled jalapeños, shredded cabbage, radishes, queso fresco. Boring toppings: lettuce, chopped tomatoes, pre-shredded “Mexican” cheese, canned black olives. Chopped white onions and cilantro are great toppings but unnecessary if you’ve included both in your salsa.

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FRIED POTATO TACOS Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 20 minutes Makes: 12 tacos 1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, cubed into ½-inch pieces 1 teaspoon salt 12 corn tortillas 1 cup vegetable oil Roasted tomatillo salsa, see recipe ½ head red cabbage, thinly sliced ½ cup queso fresco 3 limes, quartered Heat a medium saucepan of water over high heat until boiling. Add cubed potatoes; reduce heat to a strong simmer. Cook until tender, 8-10 minutes. Drain potatoes in a colander. Transfer to a bowl, add salt and use a fork to mash until smooth. Heat a large skillet over medium. Warm the tortillas for a few seconds on each side

until pliable. Spoon 2 tablespoons of mashed potato into each tortilla. Fold each tortilla over, pressing firmly to close. Heat the oil in the same skillet over medium-high heat. Add as many tortillas as will fit in one layer, usually three. Cook until lightly browned on the bottom, 12 minutes; flip and brown on the other side, 1-2 minutes. Transfer tacos to a plate lined with paper towels. Repeat with remaining tortillas. Serve tacos topped with salsa, a handful of sliced cabbage, queso fresco and a wedge of lime. Nutrition information per taco: 141 calories, 6 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 2 mg cholesterol, 18 g carbohydrates, 1 g sugar, 3 g protein, 251 mg sodium, 3 g fiber ZUCCHINI, CHORIZO AND ALMOND TACOS Prep: 25 minutes Cook: 15 minutes Makes: 12 tacos 8 ounces fresh Mexican chorizo 1 large white onion, sliced 1 pound zucchini, ends trimmed, thinly sliced crosswise 2 cloves garlic, minced ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground cumin Salt and pepper ½ cup slivered almonds 12 corn tortillas 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped 3 limes, quartered Roasted tomatillo salsa, see recipe Add chorizo and onion to a large skillet set over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft and translucent and chorizo is starting to brown, 8-10 minutes. Add zucchini, garlic, cinnamon and cumin; stir well. Cook, stirring often, until zucchini softens, about 5 minutes. Taste, and season with salt, if necessary — usually about teaspoon — and pepper to taste. Meanwhile, toast almonds in a dry skillet over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until lightly browned, 3-5 minutes. Transfer to a bowl. Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Add a tortilla; warm until you notice steam rising off, 5-10 seconds. Flip and warm until very soft, another 10 seconds. Wrap in a towel and repeat with remaining tortillas. Spoon some of the filling into the tortilla; top with a sprinkle of almonds, cilantro, a squeeze of lime and roasted tomatillo salsa. Nutrition information per serving: 180 calories, 10 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 17 mg cholesterol, 16 g carbohydrates, 1 g sugar, 7 g protein, 440 mg sodium. 3 g fiber

Eggplant Parm from the grill By SARA MOULTON Associated Press

This little gem combines my love of grilling with my endless search for new summer vegetarian entrees. Turns out that eggplant parmigiana, that staple of Italian cuisine, is a wonderful candidate for the grill, cooking up quickly and cleanly. And — bonus! — grilling this dish not only requires less oil than the traditional recipe, it ends up imparting a smokiness it could never claim before. These days you can buy eggplants in any size, but for this recipe you want one of those big old-fashioned massive beauties. At the supermarket, make sure that your eggplant’s skin is smooth and its flesh is firm. That’s how you’ll know it’s

fresh. You want to cut the eggplant into sturdy rounds about 3/4 inch thick. This allows each slice to hold its shape during the cooking process. Traditional eggplant parmigiana calls for tomato sauce, but here I went with fresh tomatoes to give the dish a fresher, more summery taste. Here’s how it’s done. GRILLED EGGPLANT PARMIGIANA Servings: 4 1 large eggplant (1½ to 1¾ pounds) Kosher salt ¾ pound plum or small round tomatoes 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for brushing on the eggplant 1 teaspoon minced garlic ½ teaspoon red pepper

flakes (optional) ½ cup panko bread crumbs 1½ ounces freshly grated Parmesan cheese 6 ounces mozzarella cheese, coarsely grated Fresh basil, shredded Peel the eggplant, then slice it crosswise into ¾inch-thick rounds. Salt both sides of each slice, then set the slices aside for 45 minutes. Slice the tomatoes crosswise into 1/3inch-thick rounds. Salt both sides of each slice and transfer the slices to a rack to drain until the eggplant is ready. Prepare a grill for medium heat, direct and indirect cooking. For a charcoal grill, this means banking the hot coals to one side of the grill. For a gas grill, this means turning off one or

more burners to create a cooler side. Meanwhile, in a medium skillet over medium-low, combine the 2 tablespoons of oil and garlic. Cook, stirring, until quite fragrant. Add the red pepper flakes, if using, and panko. Increase the heat to medium and cook, stirring, until the crumbs turn golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, stir in the Parmesan cheese, then set aside. Pat the eggplant slices dry and brush one side of each slice with olive oil. Add to the grill and cook over the hotter side until the slices are nicely browned on the bottoms, 5 to 6 minutes. Brush the top sides with more oil, turn the slices over and grill until browned on the second side, about another 5 minutes. While

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EGGPLANT PARMIGIANA makes a summery sandwich. the eggplant is grilling, pat dry the tomato slices. Transfer the eggplant slices to the cooler side of the grill, then top each slice with enough tomato slices to just cover the top. Top the tomatoes with 2 tablespoons of the panko mix-

ture, then divide the cheese evenly among the slices. Cover the grill and cook for 4 to 6 minutes, or until the mozzarella is melted. Transfer 2 slices to each of 4 plates and top each portion with some of the basil. Per serving: 320 calories.

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Murder trial for ‘Shield’ actor set to begin in L.A. By ANTHONY McCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — Two years after Michael Jace shot and killed his wife in their Los Angeles home, the actor is scheduled to go on trial today in a case that will explore several unanswered questions about what led to the killing. Jace, who played a police officer on the FX series “The Shield,” turned himself in

DEAR ABBY

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to police immediately after the shooting and has been behind bars ever since. Few details about the slaying have been released, although a prosecutor has said the actor shot April Jace in the back and then shot her again while their young children looked on. The actor’s attorneys have said his state of mind on the day of the killing will be a key element of his defense in the murder case.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry has said jurors will be told April Jace was having MICHAEL an affair, JACE but that limited details would be discussed during the week-

long trial. April Jace, 40, was a financial aid counselor at Biola University and had two sons with her actor husband. The boys were both under the age of 10 when she was killed. Jace called his fatherin-law to pick up the children after the shooting, according to a 911 call released by fire officials. Her family called her death a “senseless act of do-

mestic violence” in a statement. Neighbors described the actor as a doting father after his arrest. They said they never saw or heard signs of trouble coming from the Jaces’ home in Los Angeles’ Hyde Park neighborhood. A prosecutor has said there was no evidence of previous domestic violence by Jace toward his wife. Michael Jace, 53, worked

steadily in small roles in films such as “Planet of the Apes,” “Boogie Nights,” “Forrest Gump” and the television series “Southland.” The actor had been experiencing financial difficulties and filed for bankruptcy in 2011 and had fallen behind on payments just months before the shooting. If convicted, he faces 50 years to life in prison.

Couple’s counseling should occur together DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend and I have been together for three years and have a 1-yearold daughter. Unfortunately, our fights have become more frequent now. She suggested counseling, which I agree with. However, she insists I’m the one who is causing the problem and I should go first. Sometimes we fight about finances, since I work to support our family while she looks after our daughter. We are a mixed-race couple and sometimes race comes into play. She accuses me of making demands on her because of my ethnicity (e.g., “You want

an obedient partner because you’re Chinese”). To me, that’s racist, and I have told her so. Of course she disagrees. Needless to say, that’s my version of the story. Where can I find a good therapist? — ROBERT IN NEW YORK DEAR ROBERT: I agree you and your girlfriend could use some counseling, but you should get it together. That your girlfriend drags race into your financial disagreements is unfair to you. Ask your physician if he or she knows a good counselor, check with your health insurance company for a referral, or visit the New York State Psychological Association

website (nyspa.org) to find someone who is licensed to practice in your state. DEAR ABBY: I am writing about all the letters you’ve printed that assume every relationship must end in marriage — or at least living together — in order to work. It isn’t so. Robert Parker, noted author of the Spenser novels, and his wife lived on separate floors of a duplex for decades. I have been with my significant other for 20 years, and the only thing that keeps us together is living apart. In our case, we aren’t married and we live in the same condo complex, a minute’s walk apart.

After we had spent about 10 years as a couple, the neighbors stopped asking me when we would be married. I’m a 59-year-old woman; he’s a 64-year-old man. He needs absolute minimalism in his home, as opposed to my need to have things out so I don’t forget them. In short, we have different living styles. I have met many other women who envy my living situation. They love their husbands, but find living together to be too stressful. Comments, Abby? — CINDY IN NAPLES, FLA. DEAR CINDY: My only comment would be that I’m

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press

Today is Monday, May 23, the 144th day of 2016. There are 222 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La. On this date: In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English. In 1533, the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void. In 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1814, a third version of Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” had its world premiere in Vienna. In 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary during World War I. In 1939, the Navy submarine USS Squalus sank during a test dive off the New England coast. Thirty-two crew members and one civilian were rescued, but 26 others died; the sub was salvaged and recommissioned the USS Sailfish. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide by biting into a cyanide capsule while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany. In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was established. In 1967, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships, an action that precipitated war between Israel and its Arab neighbors the following month. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeals of former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell in connection with their Watergate convictions. In 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in nonsmokers. “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” starring Harri-

son Ford, was released by Paramount Pictures. In 1991, talk show host Johnny Carson stunned an NBC affiliates’ meeting in New York by announcing his retirement from “The Tonight Show” effective in one year. Ten years ago: In a recording posted on the Internet, a voice purported to be that of Osama bin Laden said Zacarias Moussaoui — the only person convicted in the U.S for the 9/11 attacks — had nothing to do with the al-Qaida operation. ABC appointed Charles Gibson to replace Elizabeth Vargas as anchor of “World News Tonight.” (Gibson stepped down as anchor in December 2009; he was succeeded by Diane Sawyer.) Former U.S. senator, vice-presidential candidate and Treasury secretary Lloyd Bentsen died in Houston at age 85. Five years ago: President Barack Obama opened a six-day European tour in Ireland, where he paid tribute to his Irish ancestors before heading to Britain. The European Union imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad over the continuing crackdown on anti-government protesters. Pakistani commandos recaptured a major naval base from Taliban attackers after a bloody 18hour standoff. One year ago: Cleveland patrolman Michael Brelo, who fired down through the windshield of a suspect’s car at the end of a 137-shot barrage that left the two unarmed black occupants dead, was acquitted of criminal charges by a judge who said he could not determine the officer alone fired the fatal shots. Salvadorans rejoiced as Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, slain by an assassin in 1980, was declared a martyr for the faith. John Forbes Nash Jr., 86, a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” and his wife, Alicia Nash, 82, were killed in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. Actress-comedi-

an Anne Meara, 85, whose comic work with husband Jerry Stiller helped launch a 60-year career in film and TV, died in New York. Jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, 78, died in Ann Arbor, Mich. Today’s Birthdays: Bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman is 91. Actress Barbara Barrie is 85. Actress Joan Collins is 83. Actor Charles Kimbrough is 80. International Tennis Hall of Famer John Newcombe is 72. Actress Lauren Chapin is 71. Country singer Misty Morgan is 71. Country singer Judy Rodman is 65. Chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov is 65. Boxing Hall of Famer Marvelous Marvin Hagler is 62. Singer Luka Bloom is 61. Ac t o r- c o m e d i a n - g a m e show host Drew Carey is 58.

Actress Lea DeLaria is 58. Country singer Shelly West is 58. Actor Linden Ashby is 56. Actress-model Karen Duffy is 55. Actress Melissa McBride is 51. Rock musician Phil Selway (Radiohead) is 49. Actress Laurel Holloman is 48. Rock musician Matt Flynn (Maroon 5) is 46. Singer Lorenzo is 44. Country singer Brian McComas is 44. Actor John Pollono is 44. Singer Maxwell is 43. Singer Jewel is 42. Game show contestant Ken Jennings is 42. Actress Kelly Monaco is 40. Actor D.J. Cotrona is 36. Actor Lane Garrison is 36. Actor-comedian Tim Robinson is 35. Actor Adam Wylie is 32. Movie writer-director Ryan Coogler is 30. Folk/pop singer/songwriter Sarah Jarosz is 25.

glad you and your significant other have found a lifestyle that works for you and fosters your relationship. I hope you have many happy years together and apart. DEAR ABBY: If I take my wife out for a nice dinner, is it rude for her to excuse herself a couple of times during dinner to go outside and smoke a cigarette? — DINNER FOR TWO DEAR D.F.T.: This isn’t a question of rudeness. Your wife is severely addicted to nicotine. If she could make it through the meal without a fix, I’m sure she would. How sad!

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Death ups optimism Continued from Page 1 beset by war for almost 40 years, including appointments to key security posts. On Sunday, at least, they seemed to be on the same page. Kerry hailed the news of Mansour’s demise even before it was officially confirmed — an indication of how much Washington has wearied of the Taliban’s 15-year war with Kabul. “Peace is what we want. Mansour was a threat to that effort,” Kerry said, speaking from Myanmar. “He also was directly opposed to peace negotiations and to the reconciliation process. It is time for Afghans to stop fighting and to start building a real future together.” President Barack Obama said today that Mansour’s death should send a “clear signal” to anti-American extremists that “we’re going to protect our people.” Obama also said Mansour’s death was an “important milestone” in the years-long effort to bring peace to Afghanistan. “It has been confirmed that he is dead,” Obama said today during his first visit to Vietnam. “He is an individual who, as head of the Taliban, was specifically targeting U.S. personnel and troops inside of Afghanistan” who Obama sent there to help counter terrorism and help train Afghan troops. Obama authorized the attack and was briefed before and after it was carried out, aides said. Obama said the fatal attack on Mansour did not represent a change in U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, which is to help train Afghan forces. Obama ended the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014. “We are not re-entering the day-to-day combat operations that are currently being conducted by Afghan security forces,” Obama said. “Our job is to help Afghanistan secure its own country, not to have our men and women in uniform engage in that fight for them.” “On the other hand, where we have a highprofile leader who has been consistently part of plans and operations to potentially harm U.S. personnel and who has been resistant to the kinds of peace talks and reconciliation that ultimately could bring an end to decades of war in Afghanistan, then it is my responsibility as commander in chief not to stand by, but to make sure that we send a clear signal to the Taliban and others that we’re going to protect our people. “And that’s exactly the message that has been sent,” Obama said. His death clears the way for a succession battle, the movement’s second in less than a year. Whoever wins that battle will largely determine the direction for both the Taliban and the beleaguered Afghan peace process. Mansour leaves behind a checkered history during his brief reign. He ascended to the leadership shrouded in controversy and accusations from many of his own senior commanders. That internal bitterness stemmed from the revelation last summer of Mullah Omar’s death more than two years earlier — a fact that Mansour and his clique seem to have hidden not only from the outside world but from other senior Taliban commanders. Mansour’s subsequent formal coronation as Taliban leader prompted open revolt inside the group for several months, with members of Mullah Omar’s family rebelling and Taliban ground forces splitting into factional warfare. But Mansour patiently mended the rift, appointing as his deputy Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of the powerful semi-independent al-Qaida-affiliated Haqqani network faction. Haqqani helped bring Mullah Omar’s brother

and son back into the fold in exchange for senior leadership positions. While he played peacemaker inside the Taliban, Mansour pursued an aggressive line with the Kabul government, shunning all overtures for peace and launching a series of bold attacks. In September 2015, Taliban fighters surprised Afghan security forces and overran the northern city of Kunduz — the first time since their regime was overthrown in the 2001 U.S. invasion that they had captured a provincial capital. They held the city for four days before retreating in the face of a coordinated U.S.-backed government assault, but the end result was an enduring embarrassment for Ghani’s government. In the aftermath, Mansour boasted about the prowess of his men and promised that the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul was only a matter of time. Mansour’s death inside Pakistan could further damage the already deeply suspicious relationship between Kabul and Islamabad. Afghan and U.S. officials have repeatedly accused Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency of keeping the Taliban leadership safe in cities across the porous and lawless border. A senior Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, complained before Mansour’s death was announced that Taliban fighters were being taken from the battlefields of Afghanistan to Pakistani hospitals. In a statement late Sunday, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry repeated the country’s protest of drone attacks on its territory. It also repeated Pakistan’s preference to settle the protracted war in Afghanistan through talks, calling on the Taliban to renounce violence in favor of negotiations. “While further investigations are being carried out, Pakistan wishes to once again state that the drone attack was a violation of its sovereignty, an issue which has been raised with the United States in the past as well,” it said. Ghani has not hidden his own frustrations with Islamabad. His government initially embraced Pakistan’s role as a liaison to the Taliban and engaged in four-nation meetings with Pakistan, China and the U.S. seeking to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table. But he has publicly soured on Islamabad: At the most recent quartet meeting, Kabul declined to send a high-level delegation and was represented only by the ambassador to Pakistan. Political analyst Haroun Mir noted Mansour’s apparent confidence in moving around the Pakistani province of Baluchistan in an unarmored car with no convoy, decoys or other security precautions. That shows “the Taliban are active and move freely with the support of the Pakistani authorities,” Mir said. Mansour’s death could open a new chapter in Kabul’s quest for enduring peace with the Taliban, Mir said. The time has come, he added, for “the Afghan government to get some benefit out of this, in bringing the Taliban into the peace process.” Whether the Taliban will be open to those fresh overtures depends on who succeeds Mansour. Afghan officials say meetings have already begun in the Pakistani city of Quetta among the Taliban elite to discuss the direction the movement will take. Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez in Kabul, Afghanistan; Kathy Gannon in Islamabad; and Matthew Lee in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, contributed to this report.

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HERBERT DIAMOND, 88, of Fort Lee, N.J., spoke with Dr. Manisha Parulekar about his end-of-life preferences.

End-of-life counseling gets boost Continued from Page 1 new counseling, though the survey was conducted Feb. 18 through March 7, meaning the earliest participants only had about six weeks from the start of the benefit. Altogether, 95 percent of doctors in the poll expressed support for the Medicare benefit and a big majority considered such conversations important. Some doctors had already incorporated end-of-life planning into regular visits, and certain private insurers began offering reimbursement for it before Medicare announced its change. But because Medicare is the single largest payer of health care in the U.S., this could stand to be one of the most significant developments in end-of-life care ever seen in the country. It also gives Americans a glimpse into something many only knew through the lens of controversy. Diamond arrived for his appointment at Hackensack University Medical Center on a mundane day in which he had reviewed investments, had a dentist appointment and ate a couple slices of pizza for lunch. In his last visit with Parulekar, she gave him a copy of “practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment,” or POLST, a doctorsigned document that makes end-of-life preferences known. “Did you have a chance to look at the form?” she asked. He had, and they set out to review it as Parulekar filled it out. “I wish to live a full and long life but not at all costs,” she wrote as a goal of care, repeating language common in living wills, something Diamond long ago completed. This document will go further in its specificity and authoritativeness. It serves as a medical order to dictate the response to a health crisis should patients no longer be able to make their own

decisions known. The doctor calmly addressed questions as they moved through the document with Diamond: How long would he feel comfortable being on a feeding tube? If hope seems lost, should CPR be performed anyway? Would you want to be put on a respirator? “I wouldn’t want to be on a machine for the rest of my life, that’s for sure,” Diamond told her. All told, it was only about 20 minutes before Diamond shuffled out of the room and the appointment was over. He was to review the paperwork with his two daughters before signing it, but he said he had looked forward to the session simply because it was a new experience. Diamond said he saw it as both necessary and comforting. Medicare reimbursements for the appointments vary by region and the type of facility, but on average, an initial 30minute session in a doctor’s office costs $86. As those experiences proliferate, the topic of discussing end-oflife care may return to the relatively uncontentious mantle it once enjoyed. For years before the Affordable Care Act was written, there was bipartisan consensus on the value of helping people understand their desires at the end of their lives and make those wishes known. A 1991 law passed under President George H.W. Bush requires hospitals and nursing homes to help patients who want to prepare living wills and advance directives and similar efforts gained particular resonance after the 2005 death of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose family fought for years over whether she’d want to be kept alive in a vegetative state. In 2008, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation requiring doctors to

discuss issues like living wills with new Medicare enrollees. And just months before being tapped as Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin signed a proclamation recognizing Healthcare Decision Day to spread word of a statewide campaign about the importance of advance directives. That history dissipated in an instant in 2009 as President Obama’s health care proposal spurred angry protests. Early drafts of the bill included a provision to pay for voluntary end-oflife conversations. Palin claimed it amounted to creating “death panels” and said it would allow government officials to decide whether sick people get to live. “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care,” she wrote in a Facebook post at the time. Palin hammered the “death panel” idea. Her staff made clear she was specifically addressing advance-care planning. And the controversy led to the proposal being dropped from the bill. With the Medicare change in sight, at the close of 2015 Politico penned an obituary for “death panels.” But fears stoked by the idea — which PolitiFact named the “Lie of the Year” in 2009 — still remain. Obama even made light of the lingering impact in addressing the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last month, noting his own impending retirement and joking : “Eight years ago, I was a young man, full of idealism and vigor. And look at me now: I am gray, grizzled, just counting

down the days till my death panel.” A March 2016 poll by Public Policy Polling, commissioned by Ari Rabin-Havt for his book “Lies, Incorporated,” found 29 percent of respondents believed the health reform law established “death panels,” with an additional 31 percent unsure. Among Republicans, 45 percent said they believed the law established “death panels.” Requests for comment from Palin via her political action committee went unanswered. “Lies are very sticky,” Rabin-Havt said, “and this is yet another example of how sticky lies are and the damage they can do.” Hackensack University Medical Center, where Diamond had his session, is taking part in an advancecare planning campaign to educate and encourage people to put their preferences in writing. Linda Farber Post, the hospital’s director of bioethics, said the goal was to have all doctors, not just those treating the elderly or dying, to have such discussions with their patients. “This is not something where doctors should be saying, ‘Let’s just leave it to the geriatricians and the palliative care folks,’” she said. Diamond said all the men on both sides of his family died before they reached 65, and so he never expected to live as long as he has. But years ago, when his wife was hospitalized, dying with lymphoma, he recalled an old man in a bed next to her hooked up to all kinds of paraphernalia, in seeming misery. It was a lesson to him to make sure he never found himself in the same place. “It just seemed quite apparent to this layman that he was suffering and yet his family couldn’t let go,” he said. “I would never want that for me.”

Egypt sends submarine for black boxes Continued from Page 1 debris from the aircraft, including its flight data and cockpit voice recorders. Some wreckage, including human remains, have been recovered already. Egypt’s aviation industry has been under international scrutiny since Oct. 31, when a Russian Airbus A321 traveling to St. Petersburg from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people aboard. Russia said the crash was caused by a bomb planted on the plane, and the local branch of the Islamic State claimed responsibility, citing Moscow’s involvement in Syria. Thursday’s crash will further damage Egypt’s tourism industry, already reeling from years of political turmoil.

The nation of 90 million people has been in crisis after crisis since a popular 2011 uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Since then, it has seen a dramatic surge in attacks by Islamic militants, bouts of deadly unrest, a battered economy and the steady decline in the value of its currency. El-Sissi spoke a day after the leak of flight data indicated a sensor detected smoke in a lavatory and a fault in two of the plane’s cockpit windows in the final moments of the flight. The data was published by The Aviation Herald. Authorities say the plane lurched left, then right, spun all the way around and plummeted 38,000 feet into the sea, never issuing a distress call. Investigators have been studying the passenger list

and questioning ground crew at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, where the airplane took off. In Cairo, several hundred mourners attended a memorial service for nine Coptic Christians killed in the crash, including 26year-old flight attendant Yara Tawfik. The service was held in the Boutrossiya Church, located inside Cairo’s St. Mark Cathedral, the seat of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church. Relatives sobbed and prayed as Bishop Daniel, the senior cleric who led the service, offered words of comfort on behalf of Pope Tawadros II, leader of the Coptic church. “The church, the pope, the state and its representatives are very moved by this painful incident and are all standing together in offer-

ing their condolences to these families,” Daniel said. “They’ve ascended to heaven.” Nader Medhat, a cousin of Tawfik, said Saturday he was still trying to come to terms with the disaster. “We hear about such accidents, a plane falls or explodes, but it is always far away from us, it was always so far-fetched until it happened to us,” he said. A service was held Saturday in a Cairo mosque for co-pilot Mohamed Mamdouh, 25, another of the 30 Egyptians among the dead. “The funeral service was so packed with people there was no place for anyone to stand,” said Ahmed Amin, Mamdouh’s childhood friend. “It was really heartwarming.” Associated Press writers Salma Shukrallah and Amr Nabil contributed.

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INDIANA COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME: INDUCTION BANQUET

It’s all about love of the game for ’16 class By CARLY KROUSE

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One thing is certain: None of the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame inductees got into the athletics scene for recognition. Each of the seven reiterated with their words — and their personas — that it was all about the love of the game for the Class of 2016. Their efforts and successes in

their respective sports led them to Sunday evening, where they were welcomed into the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame in front of family, friends and members of the community at the 33rd annual Induction Banquet. Although they didn’t do it all for the accolades, all seven inductees expressed extreme gratitude. “When I think back on my up-

bringing in Indiana, I’m overwhelmingly thankful,” said Melissa Stewart, who was a standout track and field athlete at Indiana High School. “I’m thankful for family, friends and the support of the community. I’m thankful for the opportunities that were provided — athletically, academically and beyond.” The inductees echoed the words “honored” and “humbled” while recounting their years on and off area fields of play.

“Watching is a real highlight for me,” said Bill Otto, a radio sportscaster and the public address announcer at IUP football and basketball games. “It has been a true honor to be involved in Indiana County with you good folks and all the players.” While many laughs were shared through old memories, there was one very special and emotional moment. Inductee Chris Edwards, who

EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS, GAME 5: Lightning 4, Penguins 3 (OT)

On the Brink

Pens fall behind 3-2 in series By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — Tyler Johnson turned toward the net, wary of taking another shot to his already battered face. The puck off Jason Garrison’s stick found him anyway, and this time he didn’t even feel it. He was too busy celebrating lifting the Tampa Bay Lightning to within one win away from a return trip to the Stanley Cup Finals. Garrison’s wrister smacked off Johnson’s back and into the Pittsburgh Penguins net 53 seconds into overtime on Sunday night, giving the Lightning a 4-3 victory and a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. A year after falling to the Chicago Blackhawks in the Cup finals, Tampa Bay can head back to the championship round with a win in Game 6 at home on Tuesday. “I was just battling in front,” Johnson said. “I saw Garry starting to shoot it, thought he was going for my head again, so I turned around.” Just in time for his seventh — and most important — goal of the playoffs. The Lightning are 12-1 in the last 13 postseason games in which Johnson has scored, his fortunate bounce Sunday coming two days after he received stitches and lost some teeth after a puck smashed into his face during warmups before Game 4. He didn’t miss a shift that night. He didn’t miss the net in overtime 48 hours later, even if he wasn’t technically aiming for it. “He’s a winner, that’s what winners do,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said of Johnson. “They don’t back down.” Even on the road. Even down a pair of goals. Even trailing by one heading into the third period against a team that began the night 46-0 on the season when leading after two. Yet Tampa Bay survived by consistently and expertly counterpunching every time the Penguins provided an opportunity. Nikita Kucherov scored twice to boost his postseason total to an NHLbest 11 — including a wraparound that beat Marc-Andre Fleury and tied it at 3 with just 3:16 left in regulation. Alex Killorn picked up his fifth of the playoffs as the Lightning handed the Penguins consecutive losses for the first time since January. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 31 shots to outplay Fleury, who returned to the lineup for the first time in more than seven weeks. Fleury finished with 21 saves, but couldn’t protect leads of 2-0 and 3-2. “It wasn’t the best I have felt in a game,” Fleury said. “Still, I have been practicing a lot, so I should have been better.” Brian Dumoulin, Chris Kunitz and Patric Hornqvist scored for the Penguins, who appeared to be in firm control at certain points only to find

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PENGUINS DEFENSEMAN Brian Dumoulin skated away as Lightning players celebrated their overtime victory on Sunday in Pittsburgh. themselves on the brink of elimination. “This is the first time we’ve been in this position,” coach Mike Sullivan said. “I know our guys will respond the right way. They have for four months, five months now.” If the Penguins want to play at least one more game in Pittsburgh this season, they don’t really have a choice. While the Penguins have peppered Vasilevskiy for the better part of five games, the Lightning keep finding ways to create quality chances around the Pittsburgh net, though Garrison’s flick toward Johnson might not exactly qualify. “No shot’s a bad shot in overtime,” Garrison said with a laugh. Back in his customary starting spot for the first time in 52 days after dealing with a concussion that coincided with the rise of rookie Matt Murray, Fleury appeared to be plenty fresh. Continued on Page 17

Tony Coccagna is sports editor at The Indiana Gazette. Email: tonyc@indiana gazette.net.

Two long streaks came to an end late Sunday night. The Pittsburgh Penguins were 46-0 this season when leading after the second period. They are now 46-1 after losing 4-3 in overtime to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Penguins had not lost back-to-back games since mid-January. Now they have, and those losses came at the worst time. Streaks like that don’t go on forever. Those two came to an end, and quite possibly the Penguins’ Stanley Cup hopes melted with them. The Penguins now trail the Lightning 3-2 in the best-ofseven Eastern Conference

PIRATES vs. ROCKIES: Postponed

Bucs have plan to fix bullpen By The Associated Press

first eight starts. Huntington credited the hard PITTSBURGH — On the work that Taillon put in off diamond, Juan Nicasio the field during his rehab demonstrated part of the for his fast start. problem with Pittsburgh’s “This young man took rotation, allowing a pair of advantage of those two quick extra-base hits Sun- years,” Huntington said. day. “He bristles when someOff the field, general one mentions that he lost manager Neal those two years. Huntington talked He didn’t lose two about a potential years; he just solution to the Piwasn’t pitching for rates’ pitching a year and a half.” problem: the With Taillon progress of topmaking big rated prospect strides, the continJameson Taillon in ued struggles of Triple-A. Pirates’ starters in The game bethe majors has beJAMESON tween the Colcome more of a TAILLON orado Rockies and hot-button topic. Pirates was postGerrit Cole is the poned because of rain team’s only starter with an after one inning. The ERA below 4.00. Rockies led 1-0 on Nolan Adding Taillon to the roArenado’s RBI triple when tation could help the the game was called after team elsewhere, too. a wait of 3 hours, 37 min- Nicasio, who was originalutes. ly slated for a relief role The teams were sched- before winning a starting uled to play the makeup job in spring training, game today at 12:35 p.m. could return to the Taillon was the second bullpen, which currently overall pick in the 2010 sits 13th in the National draft and was on a mete- League with a 4.33 ERA. oric path through the PiStill, Huntington isn’t rates’ minor league sys- rushing his top prospect. tem before Tommy John “We’d love to give our surgery and a hernia in- guys more experience in jury derailed his 2014 and Triple-A than we have in 2015 seasons. the past,” he said. “I think Back on the mound, the the results — when we’re 24-year-old Taillon is able to give guys a signifiturning heads, posting a cant amount of experi1.82 ERA with 51 strike- ence in Triple-A — show. outs and five walks in his Continued on Page 17

INDIANAPOLIS 500

Hinchcliffe earns top spot in field By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer

PENGUINS vs. LIGHTNING

Best-of-7 x-if necessary Lightning lead series 3-2 All Games at 8 p.m. Game 1: Lightning 3, Penguins 1 Game 2: Penguins 3, Lightning 2 (OT) Game 3: Penguins 4, Lightning 2 Game 4: Lightning 4, Penguins 3 Game 5: Lightning 4, Penguins 3 (OT) Tuesday: Penguins at Lightning x-Thursday: Lightning at Penguins

Streaks come to end in OT loss

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was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1980, talked of being inducted into the Hall of Fame, which also welcomed his father, Lewis “Sonny” Edwards, posthumously in 1989. “I remember how proud I was at the time of his induction, so I can only imagine how proud he would’ve been tonight,” Edwards said. “I was obviously the recipient of his athletic genes, and I’m very thankful to be his son.” Continued on Page 15

finals. Tampa Bay needs one more win to advance to the Stanley Cup finals for the second straight season. The Penguins have to win the last two games of the series to keep alive their chance of playing for the Stanley Cup for the first time since the championship season of 2009. In the Penguins’ latest setback, they gave away a 2-0 lead in quick fashion in the second period. They gave up a 3-2 lead with under four minutes to play in the third. They gave up the game-winning goal less than one minute into overtime. The Penguins have talked all year about their resiliency. It

will be tested to the max now. They have to win two games against a group that has been even more resilient. The Lightning have come back from a 2-1 series deficit following two losses in which they were badly outplayed. They have done that without their captain and one of their best players, Steven Stamkos, and with their backup goalie in the net. The Lightning’s best players stepped up Sunday night. Nikita Kucherov scored two goals, giving him a playoff-high 11, and helped set up the game-winner. Alex Killorn scored his fifth of the playoffs, and Tyler Johnson netted the Continued on Page 17

INDIANAPOLIS — All James Hinchcliffe wanted this week was a good car. Turns out, he’ll have the best view in this year’s Indianapolis 500 field. The Canadian driver, who started second in the race in 2012 and 2014, edged out American Josef Newgarden on the final qualifying attempt of the weekend to claim his first IndyCar pole. Hinchcliffe posted a four-lap average of 230.760 mph, barely ahead of Newgarden, who came in at 230.700. “It was a great run. The car was stellar,” Hinchcliffe said after winning the fourth-closest pole contest in the race’s 100year history. “We have the best seat in the house for the biggest race in history.” Hinchcliffe, who drives for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, turned one of the most chaotic qualifying weekends in recent memory into one of the most heartwarming stories of the year. A year ago, Hinchcliffe watched the 500 from a hospital bed after a broken suspension part

punctured him in the left leg. The ensuing injury required life-saving surgery and forced one of the series’ most popular drivers to miss the season’s final 11 races as he fought his way back to racing. But Hinchcliffe is only part of an incredible story. Team owner Sam Schmidt, like Hinchcliffe, was a popular IndyCar driver when he was seriously injured in a 2000 crash at Walt Disney World, which rendered Schmidt a quadriplegic. The next year, Schmidt started an Indy Lights team and now he has expanded what was once a low-budget team into a real contender by claiming three of the top 10 spots in this year’s 33-car starting field Russia’s Mikhail Aleshin and Spain’s Oriol Servia, Schmidt’s other drivers, qualified seventh and ninth. “It was an incredible day,” Schmidt said, noting he had won the 2011 Indy pole with Alex Tagliani exactly five years earlier. “I didn’t think anything would get better than five years ago. I had three cars in the top then and to come out here today...” Continued on Page 15

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Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame The Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame held its 33rd annual induction banquet Sunday evening at the Rustic Lodge. Seven individuals were inducted, 21 honorees were recognized and 18 scholar-athletes were presented with scholarships.

HONOREES: First row, from left, Kelsey Heckert and Katie McLaughlin; and second row, Kellen Short and John Appolonia. All four played tennis at Indiana High School.

THE CLASS OF 2016: First row, from left, Melissa Stewart, Nicole Sinclair-Torre and Jim Meighan; and second row, Chris Edwards, Bill Otto, Garry Wurm and R.K. Shoemaker.

SCHOLAR-ATHLETES: First row, from left, Mariah Laird, Apollo-Ridge; Allyson Smathers, Blairsville; and Logan Everett, Indiana; and second row, Hanna Beer, Marion Center; Micayla Parfitt, Penns Manor; Ashley Goodlin, Purchase Line; Kassidy Richards, Saltsburg; and Hannah Rensko, United. Absent from photo: Elizabeth Ginter, Homer-Center.

HONOREES: First row, from left, Leslie Stapleton, IUP women’s basketball; and Taya Whitfield, Marion Center cross country; and second row, Sam Cunkelman, Homer-Center cross country; Dylan Stapleton, Indiana basketball; and David Houser, USA Archery. Absent from photo: Alison Simmons, Bates College rowing; Evan Henderson and Robert Henderson, University of North Carolina wrestling; Tre Tipton, Apollo-Ridge track and field; and Duane Brown, Apollo-Ridge football.

Inductees profess love of the game

SCHOLAR-ATHLETES: First row, from left, Christian Havens, Apollo-Ridge; Austin McLean, Blairsville; Jacob Zilinskas, Indiana; and second row, Erik Hicks, Marion Center; Beck Branton, Penns Manor; Jonah Nichols, Purchase Line; Tanner Yard, Saltsburg; and Noah Walls, United. Absent from photo: John Capitosti, Homer-Center.

HONOREES: First row, from left, Greg Pack, Purchase Line girls’ volleyball; and Karen Conrad, Purchase Line boys’ cross country; and second row, Garet Weston, Indiana swimming; Ed Peterson, Marion Center softball; Bob Rado, Homer-Center boys’ basketball; and Bill Martin, special honoree. Absent from photo: Bill Packer, Penns Manor football.

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Continued from Page 13 But then Edwards, who is also a four-time club championship winner at Meadow Lane Golf Course, lightened the mood for the rest of the night. “As age became an issue and my body started to fall apart, I turned to golf,” Edwards said. “It’s a game I loved, but wasn’t always really good at.” Jim Meighan, a longtime assistant football coach at Blairsville, followed with a tale of his own. “I tried to turn to golf also. I started when I was 60, and I found out that I think I’m the worst golfer in Pennsylvania,” he laughed. The inductees spoke not only to their family and friends, but also a large group of high school student-athletes, 20 honorees and a special honoree, William J. Martin, president judge of the Indiana County Court of Common Pleas. The 18 student-athletes — two from each county school — were presented with a $250 scholarship to help them with future endeavors. Nicole Sinclair-Torre, a star basketball player during her time at Indiana High School, offered some advice to the near-capacity crowd at Rustic Lodge. “Whatever you want to do, whether it’s excelling at a sport, your career, or just life, the impossible is possible. Set your goals high be-

cause you are your harshest critic. You can be the champion of your life,” she said, before quoting lyrics from Iggy Azalea’s song ‘Impossible is Nothing.’” Like the other inductees, Meighan thanked the people who helped him along the way. “As I look back on my 45plus years of coaching, I’ve realized that there is a tremendous amount of people that helped bring me to this podium this evening,” he said. Between jokes and reminiscing on his baseball career, Garry Wurm, who signed with the Pirates as a free agent and still takes the mound in the Indiana County League, said it was the people who make it all worth it. “What I got out of this are the friendships, the relationships,” he said. “I didn’t make good friends over the years, I made great, great friends. Lifelong friends.” But one thing held true as they each took turns addressing everyone in attendance — they were passionate about their endeavors. “I was definitely not one of the best athletes on my team growing up, and a lot of these coaches would recognize that,” said R.K. Shoemaker, a standout offensive lineman at Blairsville. “But I think I worked hard enough, and everything worked out.”

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Thunder romp over Warriors By CLIFF BRUNT

NBA PLAYOFFS

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the Thunder gave the Warriors as complete a beating as they experienced during their record-setting season. Suddenly, a second straight title seems to be anything but a given for Golden State. Now the Warriors are just trying to survive. Durant scored 33 points, Westbrook had 30 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds, and Oklahoma City rolled to a 133-105 victory on Sunday night to take a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference finals. The Warriors, who set an NBA record with 73 victories in the regular season, trailed by 41 points, their largest deficit this season. “We got what we deserved,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. Durant made 10 of 15 shots and Westbrook was 10 of 19. It was the first time this postseason both players shot better than 50 percent from the field. Serge Ibaka added 14 points and eight rebounds for the Thunder, who matched a franchise record for most points scored in a playoff game. Oklahoma City outrebounded the War-

riors in its Game 1 victory, but the Warriors won the battle of the boards in Game 2 and beat the Thunder 118-91. Oklahoma City reasserted its dominance on the glass on Sunday, outrebounding Golden State 5238. Westbrook said the Thunder also needed to make the hustle plays that add to the rebounding totals. “That’s one thing we slipped up on in Game 2, and I think tonight, we did a good job of getting loose balls and finding ways to get 50/50 basketballs and give ourselves extra possessions,” he said. Golden State will be in an uncomfortable position heading into Game 4 on Tuesday in Oklahoma City, but the Warriors remain confident. Golden State trailed Memphis and Cleveland 2-1 in playoff series last year and won both on its way to claiming the NBA title. “Both times, we got blown out in Game 3, and we responded well, so we have that memory,” Kerr said. “I’m confident we’re going to come out and play a really good game in Game 4.” The last time Golden State’s Stephen Curry had played in Oklahoma City, he

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scored 46 points, tied an NBA record with 12 3-pointers and hit a game-winning, 37footer. This time, the league MVP finished with 24 points on 7-for-17 shooting. Golden State’s Draymond Green, who kicked Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams in the groin and has become Thunder fans’ No. 1 target because of some questionable tactics, struggled and finished with six points on 1-for-9 shooting. The Warriors were outscored by 43 points when he was in the game. With 5:57 left in the second quarter, Green kicked Adams after a foul. It was the second time in the series Green hit Adams there — he hit him with a knee in Game 2. The crowd chanted “Kick him out! Kick him out!” but Green was issued a flagrant 1 foul and remained in the game. Green said he wasn’t trying to hurt Adams. “I thought it would probably get rescinded,” he said. “I followed through on a shot. I’m not trying to kick somebody in the midsection. Somebody wants to have kids someday. I’m not trying to end that on the basketball court.” Seemingly energized after Green’s foul, the Thunder outscored the Warriors 24-7 the rest of the half, with many of the baskets coming against Green.

French Open gets off to wet start By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

TENNIS

PARIS — It all started with what Nick Kyrgios insisted was an innocuous, if admittedly loud, directive to a ball kid to retrieve a towel between points — shouted above the din of spectators at the French Open’s cozy Court 1. Chair umpire Carlos Ramos considered Kyrgios’ bark during a first-set tiebreaker Sunday too forceful and assessed a code violation warning for unsportsmanlike conduct. That led to a long-running, and occasionally curse-filled, argument from the 21-year-old Australian, who at one point said the official was “unbelievably biased.” Much as the 17th-seeded Kyrgios made of the disagreement at the time — he could have been docked a point for his colorful language — he managed to set it aside eventually and worked his way through a 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6), 6-4 victory over 124thranked Marco Cecchinato of Italy with the help of 16 aces, providing a bit of a spark on an otherwise dreary, drenched Day 1 at Roland Garros. “It didn’t put me off too much,” Kyrgios said of his flap with Ramos. “With someone like me that’s pretty emotional, it can frustrate me a little bit, but I felt like I dealt with it pretty well.” Of the 32 matches on Sunday’s schedule, his was one of only nine completed before showers created a rain delay of more than

2½ hours in the afternoon, interrupting matches involving No. 5 Kei Nishikori, No. 23 Jack Sock and others. Poor weather played havoc with the schedule today as well. Showers over Paris today forced organizers to delay the start of play by 1½ hours. Tuesday’s forecast is grim but a break in the weather could allow matches to go ahead early in the afternoon. Winners Sunday included two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, who acknowledged feeling “kind of down mentally” and was one game from bowing out against 59th-ranked Danka Kovinic of Montenegro before taking the final three for a 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 escape. Also advancing was No. 19 Benoit Paire of France, who needed five sets to get past 137th-ranked qualifier Radu Albot of Moldova. Right after the ruling that bothered him, Kyrgios asked whether he was being sanctioned for raising his voice in the direction of the ball kid, explaining that “the crowd was too loud for him to hear me.” Ramos nodded. “Really?” Kyrgios asked. “It’s not that you said, ‘Towel!’ too loud,” Ramos said. “It’s the way you said it.” Moments later, Kyrgios raised the topic again, insisting to Ramos, “I did nothing wrong” and referring to an episode this month at the Italian Open, when No. 1-

ranked Novak Djokovic reached out to grab the arm of an official who had stepped onto the court to examine a disputed ball mark. “When Djokovic pushed the line umpire out of the way, he gets nothing,” Kyrgios said, punctuating the complaint with a swear word. At his news conference afterward, Kyrgios was asked about the Djokovic reference and replied: “I mean, I think we all know, in this room, if that was me that did that, it would be an absolute circus. But if he did it, you know, nothing really happened of it. It speaks for itself.” He also offered a hint of a conciliatory tone, saying “it’s not an easy job out there” for chair umpires and that he “might have to be a bit more patient” with ball kids. Kyrgios is known for spectacular play — he’s beaten Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer and twice reached Grand Slam quarterfinals — and boorish behavior. He was placed on probation by the ATP last year, with the risk of a 28-day suspension, for comments toward 2015 French Open champion Stan Wawrinka during a match in Montreal. Not everything came easily against Cecchinato. Kyrgios converted just 1 of 11 break points. He slipped on the damp court in the sixth game and tumbled into the net, staying down until Cecchinato offered a hand. And Kyrgios was forced to save two set points in the second tiebreaker.

Garcia wins Nelson tourney in playoff By The Associated Press Sergio Garcia made a par on the first playoff hole at the Byron Nelson on Sunday to beat Brooks Koepka for his ninth career PGA Tour victory, matching the late Seve Ballesteros for the most by a Spanishborn player. Garcia, 36, shot a 2-under 68, making six birdies and four bogeys, to get to 15-under 265. He was two groups ahead of the final pairing of hometown favorite Jordan Spieth and Koepka, who bogeyed the 14th and 15th holes and just missed a birdie chance at 18. When they went back to 413-yard 18th again for the playoff, Koepka went first and drove into the water before taking his drop and leaving his approach short of the green. Garcia hit a drive of more than 300 yards and followed with a wedge to about 17 feet. Garcia also won the 2004 Nelson and is the first two-time winner in the 34 tournaments since the event moved to TPC Four Seasons in 1983. Koepka closed with a 71. Matt Kuchar was a stroke out of the playoff at 14 under after a 65. Spieth, the world’s No. 2-ranked player,

GOLF had two bogeys in his first five holes Sunday and went on to shoot 74. He finished tied for 18th at 10 under. PGA EUROPEAN: Rory McIlroy eagled the final hole for a 3-under 69 and a threestroke victory in the Irish Open, his home tournament where he has famously struggled, and won for the first time this year.. The third-ranked McIlroy, from Northern Ireland, finished at 12-under 276 at The K Club. He hit a 276-yard approach to 3 feet on the 18th to set up the eagle. Wales’ Bradley Dredge (66) and Scotland’s Russell Knox (68) tied for second. PGA CHAMPIONS: Bernhard Langer ran away with the Regions Tradition for his sixth senior major and 27th PGA Tour Champions title. Langer birdied four of six holes starting on No. 12 to pull away for a six-stroke victory over Olin Browne. The 58-year-old German finished with a 5-under 67 at Greystone for a 17-under 271 total. Langer matched Gary Player and Tom Watson with the third-most major cham-

Hinchcliffe takes Indy pole Continued from Page 13 Newgarden will start second with Ryan Hunter-Reay, the 2014 race winner, on the outside of the first row. Roger Penske’s top qualifier was Will Power in sixth, ending the team’s streak of winning the pole in all five of this season’s previous races. Here are some things we learned from qualifying: HONDA POWER: The Honda cars have been better all week and, thanks to Hinchcliffe, the engine-manufacturer has its first Indianapolis pole since 2011. Now comes the real test: Which engine will perform better in race conditions? TOUGH MONTH: Chip Ganassi’s team has struggled all month and they’re hoping a quicker-than-expected engine change could be the turning point. The trouble began when 2013 race winner Tony Kanaan was knocked out of the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in a first turn crash. That was followed by rookie Max Chilton’s crash in practice Saturday, poor speeds in Saturday’s qualifying which kept them out of the pole shootout and Scott Dixon’s engine problem late in Sunday’s practice.

Dixon is the team’s highest qualifier at No. 13 after crew members switched engines in 64 minutes, a job that normally requires three hours. PAYING TRIBUTE: Stefan Wilson of England will make his first career start Sunday after qualifying 30th. But this race will be about a lot more than a rookie. Wilson is driving the Driven2SaveLives car as a tribute to his late brother, Justin, who was killed when debris hit him in the head in Pocono last August. Wilson also is wearing a helmet that bears his colors on one side and his brother’s colors on the other. FAMILY TIES: Rookie Matt Brabham became the latest third-generation driver to make the race by qualifying 27th. His father, Geoff, made 10 starts at Indy, finishing fifth as a rookie in 1981. Jack Brabham, Matt’s grandfather, made four starts in the 500 and finished a career best ninth as a rookie in 1961. HISTORY LESSON: Tagliani, the 2011 Indy pole winner, will start 33rd after crashing the No. 35 car during his warmup lap. Tagliani was not seriously injured but he will be the first driver since 1924 to start the race with no official qualifying speed.

pionships on the 50-and-over-tour, behind Hale Irwin’s seven and Jack Nicklaus’s eight. The German opened the day with a four-stroke lead, lost a couple of strokes and closed emphatically with the birdie binge. Tommy Armour III, Joey Sindelar and Kirk Triplett tied for third at 10 under. LPGA: Ariya Jutanugarn won the Kingsmill Championship by one shot for her second consecutive victory on the LPGA Tour. Jutanugarn, 20, became the first Thai winner in tour history two weeks ago in Alabama. On Sunday, she closed with a 4under 67 to finish at 14-under 270 on the River Course. Su Oh was second after a 65. Gerina Piller (66) and Sei Young Kim (66) were 12 under. WEB.COM: Richy Werenski won the BMW Charity Pro-Am for his first Web.com Tour title, shooting his second straight 6-under 65 at the Thornblade Club for a two-stroke victory. Werenski, the 24-year-old former Georgia Tech player who won the Golf Channel’s “Big Break” series last year, finished the three-course event at 21-under 265.

BRIEFS From Gazette wire services

Cavs’ Jones draws suspension NEW YORK (AP) — Cleveland’s Dahntay Jones has been suspended for one game by the NBA for striking Toronto’s Bismack Biyombo in the groin. The league also fined Raptors coach Dwane Casey $25,000 on Sunday for his criticisms of the officiating. Biyombo remained on his knees on the court after time expired in Game 3 on Saturday night after Jones hit him with 17.6 seconds remaining. The little-used reserve will miss Game 4 of the series Monday night. Casey’s comments, including his belief that Biyombo isn’t getting enough calls, came in his postgame press conference following the Raptors’ 99-84 victory. Cleveland leads the series 2-1.

Gay group criticizes Padres SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus is criticizing the San Diego Padres for mishandling the group’s scheduled performance of the national anthem before a game. The chorus said on its Facebook page that it gathered to perform the song when the Padres instead played the recorded voice of a woman singing the anthem. Their statement said no attempt was made to stop the recording and the group received “homophobic taunts” while being escorted off the field. Chorus members want an investigation into whether anyone intentionally played a woman’s voice “with the purpose of denigrating and/or ridiculing gay men.” The Padres issued a statement Saturday night saying a mistake was made that prevented the chorus from performing and that “we apologize to anyone in the ballpark who this may have offended.”

Discrimination suit gets new life AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former University of Texas track coach’s sex and race discrimination lawsuit has new life, and her lawyers are still pursuing long-sought testimony from former football coach Mack Brown and prominent current and former administrators as they dig into one of college sports’ highest-profile athletic departments. Former women’s track coach Bev Kearney sued the school for at least $1 million in damages in 2013 after she was ousted over a romantic relationship with one of her sprinters a decade earlier. School officials said Kearney “crossed the line” between a head coach and athlete. But Kearney, who is black, argues she was more harshly punished than a white male assistant football coach who was reprimanded, but not fired, over “inappropriate” conduct with a student trainer on a bowl game trip. Bolstered by a recent court ruling in Kearney’s favor, her lawyers said they’ll vigorously push for sworn statements from Brown, former athletic director DeLoss Dodds, former school president Bill Powers and current women’s athletic director Chris Plonsky over how school officials handled both cases.

Kalitta claims third straight win TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Doug Kalitta overcame an ill-handling car Sunday in the NHRA Kansas Nationals to race to his third consecutive Top Fuel victory. The season leader’s dragster lost traction at the hit of the throttle and got sideways two times as he worked the steering wheel to cross the finish line before fellow finalist Antron Brown. Kalitta finished in 5.452 seconds at 238.85 mph for his 41st career victory, while Brown’s dragster also lost traction and posted a 5.687 at 298.60. Matt Hagan won in Funny Car, and Jason Line topped the Pro Stock field. Hagan’s Dodge Charger also lost traction early in the final round, but he managed to get on and off the throttle just enough to finish in front of Jack Beckman in a replay of the Atlanta final last weekend. Hagan finished in 5.724 at 179.04, while Beckman’s Dodge also smoked the tires on the run and trailed with a 6.560 at 146.75. It was Hagan’s 20th career victory. Line raced to his fifth win of the season in his eighth consecutive final, outrunning teammate Greg Anderson. Line finished in 6.664 at 207.85 in his Chevy Camaro, and Anderson’s Camaro trailed with a 6.687 at 207.02. Line has 42 career victories.

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NATIONALS INFIELDER Danny Espinosa slid safely into home plate before Marlins catcher Jeff Mathis fielded the throw on Sunday in Miami.

Bumgarner wins fifth straight By The Associated Press

Madison Bumgarner pitched 7 2-3 dominant innings and doubled in a run in the fifth to lift the San Francisco Giants over the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on Sunday night. The Giants won for the 11th time in 12 games and took two of three from a Cubs team with the best record in baseball. Bumgarner (6-2) struck out six and allowed three hits and two walks while winning his fifth straight decision. The Giants have won each of the left-hander’s last six starts. The Giants won despite a persistent problem hitting with runners in scoring position. They were 0-for-7 in that department and have 16 hits in their last 98 at-bats with runners in scoring position. Bumgarner’s run-scoring double to left off Kyle Hendricks (2-4) followed Gregor Blanco’s leadoff walk. Giants closer Santiago Casilla pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save. DODGERS 9, PADRES 5: Yasiel Puig hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with the bases loaded and one out in the 17th inning and Los Angeles beat San Diego to snap a four-game losing streak. The game started in afternoon sunshine and ended at dusk, taking 5 hours, 47 minutes. The Dodgers started the four-run rally off rookie Luis Perdomo when Howie Kendrick hit a leadoff double that bounced over the wall in rightcenter field. Adrian Gonzalez was intentionally walked and reliever Ross Stripling advanced them with a groundout. Joc Pederson was intentionally walked to load the bases, and then Puig singled up the middle. Pederson scored on a wild pitch and Carl Crawford hit an RBI grounder. Stripling (2-3) pitched three innings for the win. Perdomo (1-1) was the hard-luck loser after pitching five innings. METS 3, BREWERS 1: Noah Syndergaard (5-2) struck out 11 in seven overpowering innings, allowing an unearned run and six hits, and New York beat Milwaukee. Michael Conforto homered in the third off Chase Anderson (2-6) as New York completed a three-game sweep. Asdrubal Cabrera broke a fourthinning tie with a two-run single that sent the Mets to their 12th victory in their last 16 home games. Alex Presley grounded into a gameending double play against Jeurys Familia, who pitched for the third day in a row and earned his 15th save. NATIONALS 8, MARLINS 2: Max Scherzer (5-3) struck out eight while giving up two runs and six hits in eight innings with no walks, and Washington defeated Miami. Scherzer has 38 strikeouts in his past three starts, including a recordtying 20 against Detroit. Justin Bour ended Scherzer’s shutout bid with a two-run homer in the seventh. Washington won the three-game series and took a 7-6 edge in the season series. The NL East foes don’t

meet again until Sept. 19. Adam Conley (3-3) allowed six runs and walked seven, three intentionally, in 5 1-3 innings.

ning, John Gibbons got the early exit from crew chief Joe West in the fifth — the fourth ejection of the year for the Toronto manager.

PHILLIES 5, BRAVES 0: Jerad Eickhoff (2-6) pitched five-hit ball over seven innings for his first win since April 13, and Philadelphia avoided a threegame sweep with a win over Atlanta. Eickhoff had lost his previous five decisions. Cameron Rupp homered for the Phillies, and Maikel Franco had two RBIs. Casey Kelly (0-1) allowed three runs over five innings in his first start this season for Atlanta, an NL-worst 12-31.

WHITE SOX 3, ROYALS 2: Todd Frazier tied for the AL lead with his 13th home run, Melky Cabrera drove in two runs and Chicago avoided what would have been the first sweep against Kansas City this season. Carlos Rodon (2-4) allowed two runs and eight hits in six-plus innings for his first victory since April 13. David Robertson got three outs for his 11th save, helping the AL Central leaders win for just the third time in 11 games. Lorenzo Cain and Paulo Orlando had two hits apiece for the World Series champions, who had won six of their previous eight. Yordano Ventura (4-3) gave up three runs and six hits in six innings.

DIAMONDBACKS 7, CARDINALS 2: Zack Greinke (5-3) won for the fifth time in six starts, allowing one run and five hits in eight innings as Arizona defeated St. Louis. Paul Goldschmidt drove in a pair of runs and Michael Bourn had three hits as Arizona won a series in St. Louis for the first time since April 1820, 2003. Jaime Garcia (3-4) gave up five runs and 10 hits in 2 1-3 innings. AMERICAN LEAGUE RED SOX 5, INDIANS 2: David Ortiz went 4-for-4 with a solo home run and a double that sent a fan flying, Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his hitting streak to 27 games and Boston beat Cleveland for its 10th win in 14 games. Bradley singled in the fifth inning and has the longest hitting streak in the majors since a 28-gamer by Colorado’s Nolan Arenado in 2014. Ortiz drove in three runs. His RBI double in the second put the Red Sox ahead 3-2, and when the ball bounced over Boston’s bullpen, a fan came charging from his seat and fell into a fence trying to retrieve the souvenir. Ortiz was a triple short of a cycle when another ground-rule double bounced into the bullpen near the center-field triangle. Rick Porcello (7-2) allowed two runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings, and Craig Kimbrel got three outs for his 12th save. Danny Salazar (4-3) gave up four runs in 4 1-3 innings.

RANGERS 9, ASTROS 2: Cole Hamels (5-0) won his career-best 12th straight decision. He fanned a season-high 11 in eight innings, allowing two runs — one earned — and five hits as Texas completed a threegame sweep of Houston. Texas has won six straight from Houston and 14 of 16. The Astros have lost four straight overall. Dallas Keuchel (2-6) gave up seven runs and nine hits in six innings, losing his fifth straight decision. ANGELS 10, ORIOLES 2: Jered Weaver (4-3) took a shutout into the seventh inning to win for the first time since April 26, and Carlos Perez homered, had three hits and drove in a careerhigh five runs as Los Angeles got past Baltimore. Weaver allowed five hits in seven innings and struck out a season-high six, giving up Jonathan Schoop’s tworun homer in the seventh. Ubaldo Jimenez (2-5) gave up six runs and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings.

TIGERS 9, RAYS 4: Jordan Zimmermann (7-2) left with a strained right groin after allowing two runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings. Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez homered for Detroit, which has won six of seven. Cabrera also left early with a left knee bruise after being hit by a pitch in the seventh. Chris Archer (3-5) gave up six runs and eight hits in three innings.

YANKEES 5, ATHLETICS 4: Michael Pineda (2-5) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings to win for the first time since his opening start this season, Starlin Castro hit a tiebreaking, two-out single in the sixth off Jesse Hahn (1-2) and New York extended a winning streak to five for the first time since winning seven straight from last June 1-9. Brian McCann and Jacoby Ellsbury homered for the Yankees (21-22), who swept the four-game series over Oakland. Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning each to complete a six-hitter, with Chapman getting three straight outs for his sixth save.

BLUE JAYS 3, TWINS 1: Jose Bautista and Josh Donaldson started the game with back-to-back home runs in a three-run first inning against Phil Hughes (1-7), who leads in the major leagues in losses, and Toronto got past Minnesota. Marcus Stroman (5-1) allowed one run and three hits in 7 2-3 innings, one start after giving up career-highs of seven runs and 13 hits in a loss to Tampa Bay. Roberto Osuna got four straight outs for his ninth save. A day after Donaldson was ejected by umpire Toby Basner in the first in-

INTERLEAGUE MARINERS 5, REDS 4: Leonys Martin got four hits, Robinson Cano drove in two runs and Seattle completed a three-game sweep that extended Cincinnati’s losing streak to seven. Wade Miley (5-2) shook off a rocky first to allow four runs and eight hits in six innings. He is 5-0 over his last six starts, all Seattle victories. Steve Cishek pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save. Alfredo Simon (1-5) gave up five runs and nine hits in five innings.

Pirates have plan to fix bullpen

Continued from Page 13 They make an easier transition. They tend to be able to adjust quicker at the major league level.” Chad Bettis retired the Pirates in order in the bottom half before the game was halted. The Pirates are scheduled to play at Colorado on June 9. That game was rescheduled from an earlier postponement. With manager Walt Weiss back in Colorado for his son’s high school graduation, bench coach Tom Runnells ran the Rockies. Runnells has previous major league managerial experience, as he skippered the Montreal Expos in 1991 and 1992. In fact, Sunday’s fill-

in appearance came exactly 24 years from his last day in charge of the Expos. While it may have been a special day to some, for the 61-year-old Runnells, it was just another day at the ballpark. “I manage the game every night, so nothing changes really,” he said. “I just don’t have the head guy sitting next to me. It’s no different. We all act as a team. There’s information being given from everybody. The only difference is that my buddy’s not here today to make the final decisions, so I’ll rely on myself. It’s fun, but it’s just another day.” Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang was held out of the starting

lineup after injuring his left hand while sliding into home plate in the fourth inning of the Rockies’ 5-1 win on Saturday. Rockies right-hander Jordan Lyles (1-1, 7.64 ERA) will make his first start since being recalled from TripleA Albuquerque. His last major league start was April 24 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, when he gave up seven runs and couldn’t get out of the third inning. Pirates right-hander Ryan Vogelsong (1-1, 4.12 ERA) will make a spot start in today’s makeup game. He has one start in his 11 appearances this season, when he went five innings without a decision against the Detroit Tigers on April 13.

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Lightning force Pens to brink

Continued from Page 13 He sprinted in full gear onto the Consol Energy Center ice for his 100th career playoff appearance and looked fine while making a split save on Johnson in the second period that few of his brethren can pull off. He was helped by teammates more than willing to get on their bellies. The Penguins blocked 22 shots before they even made it to the goal crease and continued their series-long dominance in creating pressure at the other end. Dumoulin’s first goal in 17 months in the final second of the first period put Pittsburgh in front. Hornqvist’s tap-in off Carl Hagelin’s feed made it 2-0 just 90 seconds into the second. The Lightning hardly panicked. Killorn drew Tampa Bay within a goal 13:15 into the second on a wrist shot from the left circle that went in and out of the goal so quickly play continued for a few seconds before referees pointed to the red goal light. Kucherov tied it 70 seconds later on an easy

one-timer. Kunitz’s rebound with 1:30 left in the second gave the Penguins another late-period boost. For the first time all year, it didn’t hold up. Ryan Callahan saw a shot ring off the far post and along the goal line — but not across it — with 3:50 remaining in what appeared to be Tampa Bay’s last best chance. Barely 30 seconds later, Kucherov was flying behind the Pittsburgh net to tie it up and set the stage for Johnson, who is putting off dental surgery until after the season — calling it an easy decision to make. NOTES: Former professional wrestler Shawn Michaels (nicknamed “The Heartbreak Kid”) watched from the fourth row. Michaels came at the behest of the Penguins, who have dubbed the highly effective line of Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Phil Kessel the “HBK” line. ... forward Beau Bennett made his postseason debut, replacing Conor Sheary on a line with Crosby and Hornqvist. ... Both teams were 0-for-3 on the power play.

Streaks come to end in OT loss Continued from Page 13 game-winner, even though his stick never touched the puck. If the Penguins are going to advance, they need their stars — Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin — to show up in a big way. The Penguins also have to be better on the forecheck. Creating turnovers was one of their trademarks in their two wins in the series. The Lightning had only one giveaway Sunday night. • How would you assess Marc-Andre Fleury’s return to goal in his first start since March 31, when he suffered a concussion and then did not play until the third period of Game 4 after the Penguins fell behind 4-0? He wasn’t the reason they lost the game, but he could have been the reason they won. He looked a little sluggish and slow at times. The first goal, Killorn’s slapper from about 25 feet, beat Fleury high on the stick side. It was a perfect shot, but certainly a play Fleury would like to have back. On the second goal, Kucherov’s first, Fleury was hung out to dry (read more on that later). On the game-tying goal in the third period, Fleury made the initial save, but Kucherov gathered in the loose puck, skated behind the net and beat Fleury with a wraparound. Fleury looked slow to react in trying to get from one side of the net to the other. The Penguins were lucky the game wasn’t tied a couple minutes earlier when a shot got behind Fleury, hit the post and slid along the goal line without going in. On the game-winning goal, Jason Garrison threw a shot at the net that ricocheted off Johnson’s back and into the net. It was a lucky bounce, and no one was going to stop that. The fault there was that Garrison was so wide open on the left wing to take a pass from Kucherov and that Johnson was allowed to post himself in front of the net. It was a total breakdown. Does Matt Murray make any of those saves? Who knows? But, there’s something to be said for riding

the guy that got you this far, and that was Murray. Fleury’s replacement has nine of the Penguins’ 10 wins in the playoffs and did nothing to lose his job. After the loss in Game 4, it was written here that Murray should have started again Sunday night. So what does Penguins coach Mike Sullivan do now? Fleury has to stay in goal. Otherwise, his confidence will be shot and he’ll be useless if the Penguins find a way to advance. Beau Bennett was in the lineup? Where did that come from? Conor Sheary has struggled of late, but Bennett is no upgrade. • Penguins defenseman Kris Letang needed to have his best game of the playoffs with Trevor Daley out, and he wasn’t even close. Letang was on the ice for all four goals, not that all four were his fault, and he had three of his team’s nine giveaways. On the second goal, however, Letang was slow with his stick and did nothing to prevent a cross-ice pass that set up a wide-open goal. Blame the first goal on an impotent Penguins power play. The Lightning held the puck in the Penguins’ zone for most of the last minute of the two-minute penalty kill and the goal came shortly thereafter. • Losing Daley to a broken ankle in Game 4 was a huge loss for the Penguins. Daley has been one of the Penguins’ best defensemen. Remember Game 2 of the Washington series when Letang was serving a one-game suspension? Daley stepped up, absorbed Letang’s minutes and helped the Penguins score a big win that evened the series at a game apiece. Olli Maatta, benched earlier in the playoffs when he looked slow after coming back from an injury, filled in Sunday night and had his best game of the postseason. He got an assist on the second goal and helped set up the third, even though he wasn’t credited with an assist. • Parting shot: Crosby, Malkin and Letang were not available to the media after last night’s loss. Man up.

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performs at concerts and ceremonial events as well. For instance, the band plays at the White House for the National Christmas Tree lighting, for the Easter Egg Roll and on Independence Day. Marine Band musicians appear at the White House about 200 times each year.

Joining the Marine Band

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Musicians must audition to join the Marine Band. First, a musician performs behind a screen so that the judges can’t see him or her. A committee from the band then interviews musicians chosen from the auditions. Once accepted, musicians join the Marine Corps. Members of this band are not asked to go into combat.

The uniform

The Sousaphone is named for John Philip Sousa.

Members of the U.S. Marine Band wear scarlet, or red, coats with blue or white pants or skirts. Their hats are white. These uniforms have been used since the Revolutionary War, when field musicians were used to send signals on the battlefield and in camp and needed to be easily recognizable. Along with a large bearskin hat, The drum major wears the drum major a special uniform and a wears a fancy sash large fur hat. across his chest called a baldric. He uses his mace, or staff, to signal directions to the musicians.

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Americans will celebrate Memorial Day on Monday, May 30. Memorial Day is a special day set aside to honor our servicemen and -women who have lost their lives while serving in the military. You might attend a parade or a concert where military bands play patriotic music. Military music has a long tradition. Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans used drummers to help the troops march in step at the same speed. Tod o ay the branches of our military have bands that play to entertain and inspire those in the armed services as well as civilians. Military musicians are on active duty. The U.S. Marine Band is our oldest professional musical organization, founded in 1798 by an act of Congress. It has grown from 32 members to about 130.

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7 Little Words Wo ords for Kids Use the letters in the boxes to make a word with the same meaning as the clue. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in the solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.

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‘The Angry Birds Movie’ Madonna, Wonder nests atop box office pay homage to Prince By LINDSEY BAHR

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Madonna paid homage to Prince by wearing his signature color and bringing another icon — Stevie Wonder — onstage to sing the classic “Purple Rain� at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards. Sitting atop a purple throne, Madonna kicked off the tribute with a version of “Nothing Compares 2 U,� which Prince wrote and Sinead O’Connor recorded. She was teary-eyed as she sang the song, videos and photos of Prince projected behind her. Wonder, in a purple scarf, later joined her for “Purple Rain� as the audience at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas sang along. “Most of all, thank you Prince Rogers Nelson for all that you’ve given us,� Madonna said after the performance. Prince died on April 21 at age 57. The icons collaborated on “Love Song� in 1989 and Madonna was met with criticism online when Billboard announced she would be the one to pay homage to The Purple One. Some felt she should not do the tribute alone, and others said a black artist should be involved. “All of us live in the land of music and his departure was an earthquake,� Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove� Thompson said before the performance. “I just want to take a moment to remember the great Prince Rogers Nelson.� The Weeknd, the night’s big winner with eight, dedicated an award to Prince and told the audience, “I love him so much. I didn’t know him, but he was so close to me. He will always be an inspiration.� However, The Weeknd lost the night’s big award — top artist — to Adele, who didn’t attend the show because she’s on tour. Celine Dion and Kesha, both in the midst of drama in their personal lives, gave emotional performances during the three-hour show. Dion sang Queen’s “The Show Must Go On� in strong form, sporting a shiny dress and backed by a powerful orchestra. Dion lost her husband and brother in the same week in January, and her son presented her with the Billboard icon award after her performance. “I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for crying. I want to be so strong for my family and kids ... I don’t want to cry in front of you,� a teary Dion said to Rene-Charles Angelil.

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THE WEEKND posed Sunday with his awards at the Billboard Music Awards at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Dion said her late husband, Rene Angelil, will “continue to watch over me from up above.� Kesha sang a heartwrenching cover of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe.� She stood still in a cream suit and was backed by a pianist and violinist, hitting all the right notes and growing teary-eyed near the end. She earned a standing ovation from the audience — a welcome response after the performance was initially nixed by her former mentor, Dr. Luke. The hit-making producer and his record label gave Kesha the OK to perform after she said she would not use the stage to discuss their ongoing lawsuit. They have been at odds since she accused of him of drugging, sexually abusing and emotionally tormenting her. Other performances were not as strong: Justin Bieber sang his hits “Company� and “Sorry� with the help of a backing track as bright laser lights beamed throughout the performance. He walked from side to side, performing a few dance moves but didn’t match the energy of his backup dancers. Britney Spears — clearly lip syncing — kicked off the show in a shimmery red number with a performance that featured several of her hits, from “I’m a Slave 4 U� and “Toxic.� Demi Lovato’s performance of “Cool for the Summer� was among the night’s best. She made a statement by wearing a shirt featuring an inclusive bathroom

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LOS ANGELES — “Captain America� has found a worthy competitor in a bunch of flightless birds. “The Angry Birds Movie� soared to $39 million in its debut weekend, knocking “Captain America: Civil War� off its first-place perch, while new adult comedies “Neighbors 2� and “The Nice Guys� struggled to get their footing, according to comScore estimates Sunday. Rovio Animation spearheaded the production of “The Angry Birds Movie,� which cost around $73 million to make, and it opened strong internationally last weekend. The film has already earned $150 million worldwide, according to estimates from Sony, which is distributing the film. “The Angry Birds Movie� features the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad and Danny McBride and has received mixed reviews from critics in its attempt to create a compelling story out of a fairly simplistic app-based game. But audiences under 25 gave the film an A CinemaScore, which should help the film continue to perform well over Memorial Day weekend. “It’s very difficult turning a video-game property into a successful movie,� said Josh Greenstein, Sony’s president of worldwide marketing and distribution. “To use a bad pun, we are flying high.� Video-game adaptations have not had the best track record, but comScore’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian notes that the success of “Angry Birds� likely has more to do with its family appeal and ingrained brand recognition. “Families are always looking for out-of-thehome content,� Dergarabedian said, noting also that this is the latest in a string of very successful PG-rated films including “The Jungle Book� and

“Zootopia.� “PG is the hot new rating now. There used to be a stigma that younger teens wouldn’t be interested,� he said. “The numbers prove that when you go after the broadest base possible, you can be highly successful.� The PG-13 rated “Captain America: Civil War� wasn’t too far behind, earning an additional $33.1 million this weekend for a second-place spot, which brings its domestic total to $347.4 million. And, even in its third weekend in theaters, the superhero proved mightier than a fresh batch of Rrated comedies, “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising� and “The Nice Guys,� both of which underwhelmed in their debuts. “Neighbors 2� brought in only $21.8 million — less than half of the first film’s $49 million opening in 2014. But the film from director Nick Stoller also cost only $35 million to make. “We’re really proud of ‘Neighbors 2,’� said Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. “We’re not just out there trying to go to the bank on something. It really is a different take.� Stars Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron all returned for the sequel, which puts a new spin on the frat-next-door idea by having the young family’s new neighbors be a sorority comprised of girls upset about the unequal rules for fraternities and sororities. The R-rated ’70s-set buddy comedy “The Nice Guys,� meanwhile, grossed $11.3 million for a fourth-place spot. Warner Bros. handled the domestic distribution for the Shane Black-directed film, which stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. It has been very well-received by critics, but it seemed to fly under the radar on this crowded weekend. While the comedy open-

ings might be less than hoped for, both could still provide decent counterprogramming to the spectacle-driven films opening on Memorial Day weekend, when mega productions “X-Men: Apocalypse,� which made $103.3 million internationally this weekend, and “Alice Through the Looking Glass� take over. Estimated ticket sales are for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to comScore. 1. “The Angry Birds Movie,� $39 million ($55.5 million international) 2. “Captain America: Civil War,� $33.1 million ($30.7 million international) 3. “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,� $21.8 million ($6 million international) 4. “The Nice Guys,� $11.3 million 5. “The Jungle Book,� $11 million ($7.4 million international) 6. “Money Monster,� $7.1 million ($2.8 million international) 7. “The Darkness,� $2.4 million 8. “Zootopia,� $1.7 million ($4.7 million international) 9. “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,� $1.2 million ($610,000 international) 10. “Mother’s Day,� $1.1 million ($485,000 international)

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NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the PENNSYLVANIA CLEAN STREAMS LAW, the PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Rules and Regulations, the SURFACE MINING CONSERVATION and RECLAMATION ACT, and the BITUMINOUS MINE SUBSIDENCE and LAND CONSERVATION ACT as amended, notice is hereby given that Rosebud Mining Company, 301 Market Street, Kittanning, PA 16201, has applied to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for renewing its existing underground coal mine CMAP #32951301, related NPDES permit #PA0215821 and related air quality permit # GP-12-32951301. The current permit was issued on May 30, 1996. This renewal does not contain any revisions. The operation is located in Burrell Township and Blairsville Borough, Indiana County and is known as the Toms Run Mine. The 4,835.4 acres of Underground Permit Area is located as follows: bounded on the north by Blacklick Creek and the village of Blacklick; on the east by the village of Palmerton, the village of Strangford and the Pine Ridge County Park; on the south by the Conemaugh River and the Borough of Blairsville; and on the west by SR 217. There are two Surface Activity Site Areas, The first site contains 47.8 acres and is known as Portal No. 1. The site is located 1,500 ft. due north of the intersection of SR 22 and Palmerton Road. The second site contains 19.0 acres and is known as Portal No. 2. The site is located 3,000 ft. due north of the intersection of Cornell Road and Campbells Mill Road. There are five NPDES outfalls that discharge into Weirs Run and/or Unnamed Tributary to Blacklick Creek. All of the described areas can be found on the Blairsville and Bolivar USGS, 7.5 minute series topographic maps. A copy of the application is available for public inspection, and copying for a fee, by appointment at the Department of Environmental Protection, District Mining Operations, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423. Written comments, objections, or a request for an informal conference may be submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection, District Mining Operations, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423, no later than thirty (30) days following the final (4th) publication of this notice and must include the person’s name, address, telephone number and a brief statement as to the nature of the objection(s). 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/31

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3 Bdrm, 1.5 bath. HCSD. Remodeled. Large yard $600 + SD. No Pets. Non Smoking (412) 728-2522 M-F after 6pm, Weekends Noon-6pm BLAIRSVILLE: 2bdr, garage , lg. yard, $650 mo + util. Call (724) 422-1225 HOMER CITY: 1 bdrm, $500 + security, utilities included. (724) 840-3530 HOMER CITY: 35 West Indiana St, 2 bdr, off St. parking, nice lawn, attic & basement, no pets, non smoking. $750/mo. util not incl. (724) 388-7308 HOMER CITY: 4 bdrm, $750/mo plus utilities and security. (724) 840-3530 Nice 2 bdr in Aultman, appliances included , $650/mo. (724) 840-2399 Nice 2 bdr, 10 minutes S. of Walmart, newly remodeled, $495/mo (724) 840-2399 ONE & 1/2 Story, 3 bdr, 1 bath. 1 Mile from YMCA. Phone 724-349-1780 PATIO home near Chestnut Ridge G.C. Amazing view, contemporary 2 bdrm, ceiling fans, AC, skylight. (724) 459-7514 THREE bedrooms - 2 baths, 2 story house in Homer City. No pets, ref. required. $550 month. + $200 security deposit, 724-422-6836 Leave name and phone number. VARIETY of Rentals, short or long term, furnished or unfurnished. $455/mo. to $1200/mo. (724) 463-9000

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STEELER Season Tickets, 2 Seats-Section III, Row P, Seats 12-13, Face Value $2,652, 4 SeatsSection 128, Row S Seats 15-18 Face Value $4,272. Parking Pass, Call Tom Zaucha 724-388-2616

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