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Hiroshima still echoes, Obama says

By NANCY BENAC and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press

HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Barack Obama paid tribute today to the “silent cry” of the 140,000 victims of the atomic bomb dropped 71 years ago on Hiroshima, and called on the world to abandon “the logic of fear” that encourages the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

Obama’s trip to Hiroshima made him the first U.S. president to visit the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, and he sought to walk a delicate line between honoring the dead, pushing his as-yet unrealized anti-nuclear vision and avoiding any sense of apology for an act many Americans see as a justified end to a brutal war that Japan started with a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor.

“Death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” Obama said, after laying a wreath, closing his eyes and briefly bowing his head before an arched stone monument in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park that honors those killed on Aug. 6, 1945. “The flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.”

In a carefully choreographed display, Obama offered a somber reflection on the horrors of war and the dangers of technology that gives humans then “capacity for Continued on Page 10

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LT. JOHN STEIGERT explained how fire equipment is used during a field trip by first-graders from East Pike Elementary School on Thursday to the Indiana Fire Association station along Water Street in Indiana. The students also visited the nearby county courthouse and the Indiana Free Library.

Martin: Retirement won’t overburden courts

By CHAUNCEY ROSS

The planned retirement of Judge Carol Hanna would leave President Judge William Martin and Judge Thomas Bianco to handle most of the work, Martin told the Gazette on Thursday.

But the county would still rely on Senior Judge Joseph

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Local court officials say the Indiana County court system is well prepared to handle the current criminal and civil caseload after one of the county’s three judges retires next month.

Nickleach, of Armstrong County, who has been Indiana County’s de facto fourth judge since 2010.

Hanna publicly announced Wednesday that she plans to retire on June 6 but shared her intentions with her fellow judges several weeks ago, Martin said.

“Judge Bianco, Court Administrator Christy Donofrio and I met and came up with a framework for a plan to split up the cases that are coming our way,” Martin said. “Judge Nickleach is going to continue to come over and help us out.”

Pa. woman has first U.S. case of drug-resistant superbug

By MIKE STOBBE

Judicial vacancies can be temporarily filled two ways.

A full-time, interim judge could be nominated by the governor and confirmed by a two-thirds majority vote of the state Senate. Or, a retired senior judge could be appointed on an as-needed basis by the Administrative

Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

Nickleach, the former president judge of Armstrong County Common Pleas Court, first was sent to Indiana in 2011 after Indiana County Judge Gregory Olson retired.

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DUCK, DUCK, CHOOSE

officials fear that if the resistance spreads to other bacteria, the country may soon see supergerms impervious to all known antibiotics.

“It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday.

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AP Medical Writer

NEW YORK — For the first time, a U.S. patient has been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort treatment, scientists said Thursday.

The patient — a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania — has recovered. But health

Trump clinches nomination

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press

DONALD TRUMP

BISMARCK, N.D. — Triumphantly armed with a majority of his party’s delegates, Republican Donald Trump unleashed a broadside attack Thursday on Hillary Clinton’s prescriptions for energy, guns, the economy and international affairs, shifting

abruptly toward the general election with his likely Democratic opponent locked in a divisive primary contest.

The New York billionaire shrugged off signs of discord in his party hours after sewing up the number of delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination, a feat that completed an unlikely rise that has upended the political Continued on Page 10

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LUKE FARABAUGH, 2, turned in his rubber duck Thursday at the Fireman’s Carnival in Homer City. He is the son of David and Audra Farabaugh, of Homer City. A parade is scheduled for 6 p.m. Saturday, and the festival wraps up later that night.

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ANNUAL MEETING

OBITUARIES Paul Bradway Byrne Paul Bradway Byrne, 83, of Indiana, formerly of Warren, N.J., died Thursday, May 19, 2016, at the Hershey Medical Center, surrounded by his wife and children.

Friends will be received from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at

the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Kent.

Interment will be held privately. www.bowserminich.com

Fabrizio Pirrone

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WELCOME TO INDIANA held its 26th annual meeting and tribute Thursday at the Rustic Lodge in White Township. The organization is responsible for various beautification projects throughout Indiana Borough and the establishment and maintenance of the six “Welcome to Indiana” signs at the main entrances to the community. Pictured, from left, are Frank Moore, WTI co-chairman of the committee; Nancy Bierwerth, co-founder of WTI; Sara Rutledge, incoming WTI president; Jim Struzzi, chamber of commerce president and a member of WTI board; and Linda Gibson, WTI president.

Road work becomes top priority

By CHAUNCEY ROSS chauncey@indianagazette.net

GRACETON — Road improvement work has become the top priority for Center Township street crews as the last weeks of spring approach, the township supervisors reported Thursday.

The work plans call for coating and sealing Crownover Road, short sections of Henry and Strong roads, and Hilltop Road between Bethel Church Road and Old Route 56 beginning after Memorial Day. Supervisor Chairman John Bertolino said the township would concentrate efforts on preparing Hilltop Road for an increased traffic load next year. The supervisors in 2017 plan to close Long Road for replacement of the bridge over Muddy Run and detour traffic onto Hilltop Road.

CENTER TOWNSHIP “That’s why we’re spending the time getting that road ready this summer, so it can handle that traffic,” Bertolino said. “That will probably be over 400 vehicles a day.”

In preparation for more roadside drainage improvement work this summer, the supervisors on Thursday awarded a materials contract to Pleasant Unity Supply, of Westmoreland County, for pipes and catch basins at a cost of about $31,040. The supervisors opened bids on May 12. The only other bidder, Chemung Supply, of Elmira, N.Y., only submitted prices for pipes.

In other business, Bertolino reported the supervisors are still abiding by a 60-day delay of a deadline to respond to the proposed transfer of a

liquor license from Creekside to Center Township.

The Sheetz chain wants to buy the long-idle license once assigned to Nanni’s Restaurant, to sell bottled beer with prepared food orders and offer six-packs for carryout at its convenience store along Route 119 near Lucerne Road.

But the company needs the township to complete a two-step process before Sheetz can apply for Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board approval.

According to the state liquor code, the supervisors must hold a public hearing, then pass a resolution agreeing to the transfer.

After hearing an emotional wave of objection to the proposal at a public hearing April 28 and more opposition at the supervisors’ business meeting May 2, the board agreed to extend its deadline for ac-

tion from May 22 to July 21.

In connection with discussion of the pending Sheetz license, Bertolino said the supervisors are interested in a move afoot in Harrisburg that would lift a state law banning the sale of beer and gasoline from the same location.

Sheetz officials, however, have said the Route 119 store is designed meet the strict, court-tested requirements for retailers to keep separate points of sale for gasoline and alcohol.

Gov. Tom Wolf this week lobbied the PLCB to grant beer sale permits for grocery and convenience businesses that sell gasoline.

The issue is unrelated to the intermunicipal license transfer, the public hearing and need for the supervisors to approve the transfer with a resolution.

Indiana earns ‘Playful City’ honor Indiana Borough has been honored with a 2016 “Playful City USA” designation, the fourth time the borough has been recognized by the national program that honors cities and towns for taking steps to create more play opportunities for kids.

The recognition comes from KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to giving children more play spaces.

Since 1996, KaBOOM! has collaborated with partners

to build, open or improve nearly 16,300 playgrounds, engaged more than 1 million volunteers and served 8.1 million kids.

Indiana Borough is now involved in several initiatives focusing on sustainable living and the rebuilding of neighborhood parks. The borough, Indiana County, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and White Township are working together on a multimodal corridor to expand biking and walking

opportunities.

In 2014 and 2015, “Playful Indiana” received funding from KaBOOM! to rebuild old playground equipment in two neighborhood parks. Additionally and most recently, the borough is involved in a WalkWorks program to encourage both adults and children to stay active in an easy and fun way.

KaBOOM! this year bestowed the “Playful City USA” designation on 257 American communities.

“We are thrilled to recognize these communities that have invested their time and efforts to put kids first,” said KaBOOM! CEO James Siegal. “Balanced and active play is crucial to the well-being of kids and the communities that they thrive in. By integrating play into cities, the leaders of Playful Cities USA are working to attract and retain the thousands of families that want homes in close proximity to safe places to play.”

State lifts avian activities ban

By The Indiana Gazette HARRISBURG — Individuals visiting upcoming fairs and the 2017 Farm Show will have a chance to see and experience live poultry exhibits and competitions again. After a yearlong suspension of avian activities at the state’s 109 county fairs and the 2016 Pennsylvania Farm Show, state officials today announced the ban will be lifted Wednesday.

Instituted in May 2015, the ban was put in place as a precautionary measure to protect Pennsylvania’s $13 billion poultry industry against the threat of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, virus.

While avian activities will be allowed to resume, if a positive case is confirmed in Pennsylvania or a contiguous state, the ban will be reinstated im-

mediately.

“We realize it was challenging for our exhibitors and visitors to have poultry missing from these events this last year,” said Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding. “It was a difficult decision but the right decision to protect our state against the HPAI virus.

“Through the efforts of many, we’re fortunate that Pennsylvania and the United States is not currently experiencing HPAI. This gives us the comfort level to lift the poultry ban,” Redding noted. “The prospect of another outbreak is always there, which is why we have to remain vigilant, have flock plans in place and continue practicing good biosecurity measures.”

Redding added that in conjunction with the lifting of the ban, the depart-

ment is instituting new testing protocols to protect against the virus.

“As we continue work to keep the virus at bay, we have now instituted a 30day testing protocol for entering poultry exhibits at county fairs,” Redding said. “Previously, poultry had to test negative for avian influenza at least six months prior to the exhibit date. Now, per the fair guidance, poultry must be tested within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition.”

Avian influenza, commonly known as “bird flu,” is caused by an influenza type-A virus. Avian influenza viruses occur naturally in birds. Wild bird species (such as ducks, swans and geese) can carry the virus, but usually do not exhibit symptoms.

Avian influenza diseases are very contagious and

some strains can make domesticated birds (including chickens, ducks, quail, pheasants, guinea fowl and turkeys) very sick or even cause death.

Until last year, about 800 birds were entered annually in dozens of poultry categories at the Indiana County Fair.

Indiana County is not a major poultry producer in Pennsylvania, but many local farms and families keep small flocks of chickens to supply their own poultry needs and eggs, according to Bob Pollock, a Penn State Extension educator in the service’s Indiana County office.

According to state department of agriculture statistics, Indiana County had about 5,000 laying hens in 2012, and the sales value of poultry and eggs in the county that year was $182,000.

Fabrizio Pirrone, 35, of Indiana, passed away May 23, 2016, at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

He was the son of Enzo and Nancy (Rubino) Pirrone and was born July 20, 1980, in Chicago.

Fabrizio started the F.A.B. (Fighting All Battles) Foundation, helping other people affected by leukemia.

He was employed by M.D. Sleppy Construction, Seven Springs, and previously owned his own car detailing business, Xtreme FX. Fab had an absolute zest for life and loved spending time with friends and family. He enjoyed making his famous crab dip and slinging pizzas at his family’s restaurant. In his spare time you could find him in the gym or “scootin’” on one of his motorcycles. Fabri was a world traveler who thrived off of meeting new people, dining out at restaurants and just living in the moment!

Fabrizio is survived by his best friend and wife, Shawna Sardone; mother Nancy, of Indiana; his siblings, Sibilla Pirrone Spearman and her husband, Jason, of Indiana; and Enzo Pirrone

Jr. and his wife, Rachel, of Highland, Ind.; nieces Josephina and Katelyn Pirrone; and his maternal grandmother, Maria Rubino, Leonforte, Italy.

He was preceded in death by his father, Enzo; maternal grandfather, Serafino Rubino; and paternal grandparents, Liborio and Rosaria Pirrone.

Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City. A funeral service will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Mary Jane Strittmatter Mary Jane Strittmatter, 84, of Indiana, passed away Thursday, May 26, 2016, at Indiana Regional Medical Center.

She was born 1932 in Saltsburg to William and Elsie Libengood Walter.

She married Thomas J. Strittmatter on July 15, 1950.

Mrs. Strittmatter was a homemaker, having resided in White Township for her entire married life.

She enjoyed cooking and baking and lived for her grandchildren.

Mary is survived by four sons and four daughters: John, of Williamsport; Mark and wife Lisa, of Indiana; Carol Strittmatter, of Columbus, Ohio; Patricia Barker and husband Bruce, of Palm Coast, Fla.; Rebecca Faulk, of Aurora, Ohio; Thomas A. and wife Beth, of Indiana; Kenneth and wife

Joyce, of Gilbert, Ariz.; and Jane Strittmatter, of Indiana; 18 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; the following siblings: Albert Walter and wife Connie, of Salmon, Ind.; and Verna Stephens, of Florida; and a sister-in-law, Iris Walter, of Delmont.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Thomas J. Strittmatter in 2009; two brothers, William and Robert Clair Walter; and two sisters, Eva Mae Apjok and Margaret Ford.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at the BowserMinich Funeral Home, Indiana. At Mary’s request, there will not be a funeral service.

Private interment will be made in St. Bernard Cemetery. www.bowserminich.com

TOMORROW’S FUNERALS BOWSER, James E. Sr., 3 p.m., Jehovah’s Witnesses, New Florence (Robinson-Lytle Inc., Indiana) LECHNAR, Rita C., 10:30 a.m., Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Uniontown (Kezmarsky Funeral Home, Uniontown) PATTERSON, John Gabriel, 3 p.m., Crossroads Fellowship Church, Clarksville, Tenn. (McReynolds-Nave & Larson Chapel, Clarksville, Tenn.)

PIRRONE, Fabrizio, 10 a.m., C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City

1 pleads, 1 balks in overdose deaths PITTSBURGH (AP) — One Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to supplying fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in at least two overdose deaths, but his co-defendant balked at a scheduled plea and opted to stand trial instead.

Homestead resident Romar Watts, 34, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to distribute the drug that resulted in the deaths of Stacey Shaw and Ray

Smith. An attorney for Pittsburgh resident Andre Higgs, 32, didn’t comment on his client’s change of heart. Shaw overdosed in the bathroom of a Cambria County convenience store in March 2015. Smith died at a home in Munhall in April 2015.

A third co-defendant, Ebensburg resident Brian Borruto, 40, pleaded guilty last week and will be sentenced in September.

Inseparable in life...forever together.

Justice Dept. launches review of Chester police CHESTER (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is launching a review of a suburban Philadelphia police department at the city’s request.

The city of Chester had asked for the review, the first fully independent

evaluation in its history.

The Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services announced the probe on Thursday. It comes as the department faces community criticism over use of force in the troubled city. A

number of police-involved shootings caused outrage earlier this year.

However, Police Commissioner Darren Alston has said the request was unrelated to any officer-involved shootings.

Following the two-year

assessment, a public report will be issued detailing the findings, and ways the department can improve. The agency will follow up in 18 months to see how the city has implemented the recommendations.

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Sore, happy feet on Calif. trail ON THE PACIFIC CREST busy, but on the trail we’re TRAIL, Calif. — Every beyond cellphone coverspring or summer, in lieu age or email reach and of professional help, I ditch we’re stuck with each civilization for the therapy other. of the wilderness. I’ve just So we talk. Even as we’re been backpacking with my disconnected, we recon18-year-old daughter on nect. And on rest breaks the Pacific Crest Trail in and at night, camping California, abandoning under the stars, we read our material world for an aloud to each other: On alternative reality in which this trip, my daughter and I the aim is to possess as lit- have been reading Adam tle as possible — because if Johnson’s brilliant Pulitzer you have it, you lug it.

Prize-winning novel, “The Our lives were downOrphan Master’s Son,” and sized to 10 pounds of postalking about what it sessions each, not countmeans. ing food and water. We No self-respecting carried backpacks, sleepteenage girl would noring bags, jackets, mally allow her hats, a plastic dad to read to groundsheet, a her, but out in tarp in case of the wilderness, rain, a water filit’s a bond we ter and a tiny share. roll of duct tape It’s true that for when things not everybody break. can get time off, Few problems the cost of in life cannot be equipment can solved with duct add up and it can tape. be a hassle to get OK, I know I’m to and from a supposed to use trail. (When I’ve my column to tried hitchhiking pontificate out, drivers see a about Donald bedraggled, unNicholas Kristof Trump and shaven hobo and global crises. speed up!) Still, writes a column But as summer costs are modest: for The New York beckons, let me While car campTimes. commend such grounds often wilderness escharge, backcapes to all of you, with packing in the great outyour loved ones, precisely doors is almost always to find a brief refuge from free. And day after day, the pressures of the world. there is simply nowhere to This isn’t for everybody; spend money. astonishingly, some folks I can’t pretend it’s glamprefer beaches and clean orous.

We’ve been sheets. But for me at least, scorched by the sun and a crazy jaunt in the out- chilled by rain, hail and doors is the perfect anti- snow. Sure, in trail converdote to the absurdity of sations we bare our innermodern life. most thoughts, but we also In the 21st century, we spend plenty of time whinoften find ourselves spin- ing about blisters, ratning on the hamster tlesnakes and 20-mile wheel, nervously jockeying stretches without water. for status with our peers — We curse trail designers for Is my barbecue bigger than PUDS, or pointless ups my neighbor’s? Is my car and downs. flashier? — even as we’re And let’s be blunt: I stink. too busy to barbecue any- When you’re carrying thing. We’re like dogs chas- everything on your back, ing after our tails. you don’t pack any That’s why I find it so changes of clothing. We cathartic to run away from bathe our feet in creeks home. My parents took me (hoping that anyone drinkbackpacking beginning ing downstream is using a when I was about 7, and water filter), and on this my wife and I took our trip we luxuriated in the three children on Deep Creek hot springs beovernight hikes as soon as side the trail. We commisthey could toddle. erate together, and we Don’t tell Child Protec- exult together in America’s tive Services, but when my cathedral of the wild, our daughter was 4, I took her stunning common heron an overnight trip on itage and birthright.

Oregon’s Eagle Creek Trail, My daughter and I have carrying her most of the now hiked across Washingfirst day on my shoulders, ton and Oregon and hunon top of my backpack. dreds of miles of CaliforThe next morning, I bribed nia, and eventually we’ll her: If she would walk by have limped the entire Paherself all 13 miles back to cific Crest Trail from Mexithe car, I would buy her a co to Canada. Nothing is as spectacular ice cream in different from my daily life, the nearest town. nor as treasured, and that So we set off for the car. is why I suggest the wilderAt every rest stop, we con- ness to friends. jured that ice cream and For members of my famhow cold it would be, and, ily at least, these spring fortified, we trundled on and summer hikes are a redown the trail beside glori- minder that what shapes ous waterfalls. When we us is not so much the posreached the car, we were sessions we acquire but both proud of her heroism, the memories we accumuand she beamed tiredly as I late, that when you scrape buckled her into her car away the veneer, what seat. gives life meaning is not When we arrived at an the grandest barbecue or ice cream shop 20 minutes the sportiest car. It’s each later, she was fast asleep. I other. couldn’t wake her.

Contact Kristof at Face Thus began our hiking book.com/Kristof, Twitter. partnership, sometimes com/NickKristof or by mail undertaken with the whole at The New York Times, 620 family, sometimes just the Eighth Ave., New York, NY two of us. At home we’re all 10018.

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Better way to run for president he frustration of many voters over the way presidential candidates are selected has come to a head with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the presumptive nominees of their respective parties.

If this is the best we can do, maybe we should consider a better way.

As of May 3, according to fairvote.org, while some states have seen a surge in primary voters over previous years, nationwide primary turnout remains low: “At this point in the process, 30.14 percent — less than one-third of eligible voters — have participated in a primary contest.

The last time both parties had competitive presidential nomination races was 2008, which saw 30.82 percent voter turnout after all states had participated.”

There is nothing about primaries or nominating conventions in the Constitution, so the process could be changed without causing additional damage to that great document. Most of what current election cycles produce is the result of rules established by each political party.

We can’t say we weren’t warned by some of our Founders about the consequences of extreme parti-

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sanship. They may not Democratic-Republican have had the Internet, but members of Congress they knew history and un- nominated a single candiderstood human nature in date from their party, but ways many of us seem to by 1824 that system colhave forgotten. lapsed and since 1832 the In Federalist Papers 9 national convention has and 10, Alexander Hamilbeen the preferred mechaton and James Madison, nism for nominating presirespectively, dential candiwarned of the dandates. gers of political facIt wasn’t until tions. Thus, in the 1901 that Florielections of 1789 da became the and 1792, which sefirst state to lected George conduct a Washington, the presidential Electoral College primary with took care of the voters allowed nominations and to select deleelections. gates pledged Hamilton and to the candiMadison didn’t hold date of their on to their highchoice. Other minded method of states soon folselecting presidents lowed with eifor long. Both ther primaries Cal Thomas quickly embraced or, in a few partisanship with cases, caucuswrites a Hamilton becoming column es. the leader of the The chaotic distributed by Federalist Party and Tribune Media 1968 DemoMadison teaming cratic ConvenServices. up with Thomas Jeftion in Chicago ferson to form the changed everyDemocratic-Republican thing. Though he didn’t Party. win a single primary under Beginning with the 1796 his own name, Vice Presielection, presidential can- dent Hubert Humphrey didates were selected by won his party’s nominatheir respective congres- tion. sional parties, or a party Subsequently, a panel caucus convened by state commissioned by the legislatures. Before 1820, Democratic National Com-

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mittee and led by Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., recommended that states adopt new rules to assure wider voter participation.

Most opted for presidential primaries and the Republicans soon followed. By 1992, Democrats had primaries in 40 states and Republicans in 39.

In the current election cycle, there were a number of intelligent, experienced and articulate candidates who did not carry the heavy baggage of the two who emerged as front-runners. The result makes the old smoke-filled room approach of selecting candidates seem appealing.

Perhaps a coalition of historians, former presidents and former members of Congress, who are not known for extreme partisanship, could get together and design a new system by which we choose the nominees. It might be an idea that entices more people to turn out and vote during primary season, or it could eliminate the current system entirely and replace it with one that gives us better options.

Clearly the process we have now is not working.

We should be able to do better.

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Time for third-party candidate here’s a meme floating in Philadelphia, further dearound the Internet: If laying Clinton’s attempts to Donald Trump and coalesce the party around Hillary Clinton are in a boat her. and it capsizes, who wins?

Clinton’s persistent trouAmerica. bles arising from her use of A year ago, it was almost a private email server durunthinkable that the Reing her time as secretary of publican Party’s presidenstate continue to plague tial nominee would be the her campaign and keep bombastic real her “honest and estate mogul, estrustworthy” pecially given the ratings at emparty’s deep barrassing lows. bench and the The Republistrength and talcan and Demoent of its field. cratic parties are As many punboth in turmoil, dits have exsharply divided plained, Trump’s over the candiviews and past dates who have statements belie survived the prithe claim that he mary season. is Republican at And come Noall. vember, AmeriLies, it seems, can voters will are Trump’s curface a choice berency. tween two of the Even six most dishonest, Cynthia M. Allen months ago, it is a columnist for disliked and corwas laughable rupt candidates the Fort Worth that Vermont in modern politiStar-Telegram.

Sen. Bernie cal history.

Her column is Sanders would Which is why distributed by the not only still be in Tribune News the calls for a the race by now third-party run Service. but would also be are not only giving the likely Democrat- compelling, but such a ic nominee, Clinton, a run candidacy may represent for her money. the only acceptable choice Sanders is still drawing for millions of Americans. huge numbers of devoted While many anti-Trump supporters to his rallies conservatives began floatand has vowed not to sus- ing the idea of an independ his campaign before pendent run after Trump the party’s July convention started collecting dele-

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gates, support has increased in recent weeks.

Several names have been suggested, including an unabashed Trump critic, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and former Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, both Republicans.

But the most probable candidate for a third-party claim is Mitt Romney.

Romney’s name isn’t necessarily associated with victory — he failed to earn the Republican nomination in 2008 and lost a disappointing general election race to President Barack Obama in 2012.

Criticized for his stiffness and capacity for making politically tone-deaf comments, Romney did not garner enough enthusiasm in his own party to defeat a strong incumbent.

But he quickly proved that charisma is not the equivalent of leadership or wisdom.

In the ensuing years, Romney has become a respected party elder, in part because, as writer David French explains, he’s been vindicated by events.

While he was roundly mocked for his declaration that Russia posed the greatest geopolitical threat to the U.S., Romney correctly predicted the failure of Obama’s “reset” strategy with Russia and the subsequent rise of its president,

Vladimir Putin.

Perhaps more important, Romney possesses integrity, a virtue lacking in both front-runner rivals.

In March, Romney addressed the Republican Party passionately, detailing why Trump was not acceptable to represent the GOP in the general election.

He opted not to endorse any of the candidates who remained in the field but made clear that even with Clinton as a rival, conservatives should feel uncomfortable voting for Trump.

To be clear, were Romney to stage a third-party run, he’d likely endure vilification within his own party.

Still, a recent Washington Post-ABC poll tested a hypothetical three-way race and found that among registered voters, Clinton gets 37 percent, Trump 35 percent and Romney 22 percent — without Romney even entering the race.

With so much at stake this election cycle, and sadly no good choices available, little time remains for an alternative candidate.

Still, a Romney run would represent a better option for conservatives and a better option for America than either of the current candidates. cmallen @star-telegram.com

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Official: Plane’s beacon located

Navy fighter jets crash off N.C. coast

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Four Navy aviators ejected from two fighter jets “at a high rate of speed” after their aircraft got into trouble in the air and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast, one of the rescuers said.

The F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighters, based in Virginia Beach, crashed Thursday around 10:40 a.m. off the coast of Cape Hatteras, following an “inflight mishap” that happened during a training exercise, said Lt. Cmdr.

Tiffani Walker, a spokeswoman for Naval Air Force Atlantic. Walker did not have any further details.

The four crew members suffered only minor injuries.

A safety investigation will be carried out to determine the cause of the accident, Navy spokesman Ensign Mark Rockwellpate said.

CAIRO — A French vessel that joined the search for the EgyptAir plane that crashed last week killing all 66 people on board arrived today in the crash area, as Egyptian officials said search teams in the Mediterranean have picked up a beacon believed to be from the doomed aircraft.

According to Egyptian security officials, the French ship is carrying equipment that can find flight data and cockpit voice recorders — the so-called “black boxes.” French officials could not be immediately reached to confirm the ship’s whereabouts.

Meanwhile, the chief investigator in Egypt said search teams in the Mediterranean have picked up a beacon believed to be from the EgyptAir Flight 804. Locating a beacon has narrowed the search to a 3mile radius, said Ayman al-Moqadem, stressing that this doesn’t

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mean the black boxes have been found, which he said requires highly sophisticated technology.

The signal that was picked up came from one of the devices on the plane transmitting its location, said al-Moqadem, who spoke to reporters on Thursday.

Eight days after the plane crashed off Egypt’s northern coast on a Paris-to-Cairo flight, the cause of the tragedy still has not been determined. Ships and planes from Egypt, Greece, France, the United States and other nations have been searching the Mediterranean north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria for the jet’s voice and flight data recorders, as well as more bodies and parts of the aircraft.

Small pieces of the wreckage and human remains have already been recovered while the bulk of the plane and the bodies of the passengers are believed to be deep under the sea.

A Cairo forensic team has received the human remains and is

carrying DNA tests to identify the victims.

Egypt’s civil aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, has said he believes terrorism is a more likely explanation than equipment failure or some other catastrophic event. But no hard evidence has emerged on the cause, and no militant group has claimed to have downed the jet.

Earlier, leaked 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 French air accident investigation agency, the BEA, said in a statement that the Laplace ship left Thursday from Corsica for the zone of the crash, with two BEA investigators aboard. The Laplace is equipped with three detectors made by the Alseamar company designed to detect and localize signals from the flight recorders, believed to be about 9,840 feet underwater.

France may also send an un-

G-7 leaders support action on economies

19 rescued after Kentucky cave floods HORSE CAVE, Ky. (AP) — Flash flooding threatened to trap a group of college students inside a Kentucky cave Thursday, but they navigated through neckdeep water to safety, authorities said.

The 19 people who escaped had to clutch onto a rope to handle the swift currents of floodwaters near the entrance of Hidden River Cave.

The group that spent more than six hours inside the cave included Clemson University students on a field trip, four tour guides and two police officers who got trapped when they tried to rescue the group, Kentucky State Police Trooper B.J. Eaton said.

There was no communication between the stranded cavers and the more than 150 emergency personnel at the scene.

Authorities didn’t know exactly where the missing cavers were underground, and the only light the group had came from headlamps they wore.

GM recalls 2.2M cars in China BEIJING (AP) — General Motors Co.’s main Chinese joint venture is recalling 2.2 million cars to deal with insufficient corrosion resistance on crankcase valves.

The recall was ordered after Shanghai-GM received complaints about engine damage, according to the country’s product quality regulator. The automaker is a joint venture between GM and stateowned Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp.

The recall applies to Buick Excelle sedans and Chevrolet Cruzes, Epicas and Aveos. The product quality agency said GM will replace affected valves for free.

Police: Man used front-loader in theft ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska police said a man used a stolen frontend loader to break into a liquor store and then led officers on a low-speed chase early Thursday.

A witness flagged down Anchorage police about 3:20 a.m. to report a frontloader with forklift attachments had ripped off most of the front entrance to a Brown Jug, an Alaska liquor store chain.

The witness saw the driver go inside, take bottles, then hop back on the front-loader and drive east.

During a 15-mph chase, police followed the driver into a recreational vehicle park and blocked the only exit with patrol cars.

Police said alcohol bottles were found inside the front-loader, which had been stolen from a construction site.

Joseph Martin is being held on suspicion of criminal mischief, burglary, felony driving while intoxicated and other counts.

manned submarine and deep-sea retrieval equipment, the statement said. The BEA is involved in the search because the crashed plane was an Airbus, manufactured in France.

Because of the difficulties in finding the black boxes, Egypt has contracted two foreign companies to help locate the flight data recorders of the plane.

One of the companies is Alseamar, which has equipment aboard the French vessel. Egyptian officials have said the second company is called Deep Ocean Search. Also, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah elSissi said earlier that a submarine would join the search for the plane’s data recorders.

However, al-Moqadem told reporters that the submarine is not equipped to detect signals from the black boxes.

All Egyptian officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press

JACQUELYN MARTIN/Associated Press

NIHAR JANGA, 11, of Austin, Texas, and Jairam Hathwar, 13, of Painted Post, N.Y., held up the trophy after being named co-champions Thursday at the 2016 National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Md.

Spelling Bee co-champions include youngest ever

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The words were tougher. The final rounds lasted longer. The result was the same.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie for the third consecutive year Thursday night, with Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga declared co-champions after a roller-coaster finish.

Jairam, 13, is the younger brother of the 2014 co-champion, Sriram Hathwar. Nihar, at age 11, is the youngest winner of the bee on record.

“I’m just speechless. I can’t say anything,” Nihar said as he hoisted the trophy. “I mean, I’m only in fifth grade!”

Scripps made the bee tougher after two consecutive ties, forcing the last two spellers to get through three times as many words as in years past.

Jairam, of Painted Post, N.Y., misspelled two words. But both times, Nihar, of Austin, Texas, followed up with a miss and the bee continued. Sriram also got a word wrong during his bee, but his eventual co-champion,

Ansun Sujoe, flubbed his chance at the solo title.

“I thought it was over, because Nihar is so strong, such a great speller,” Sriram said.

Each will receive a trophy and $45,000 in cash and prizes.

Nihar celebrated by imitating the touchdown dance of his favorite athlete, Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant, who sent a tweet congratulating the young speller. Jairam, meanwhile, took inspiration from golfer Jordan Spieth, particularly his ability to bounce back after bad shots.

“When I missed those two words, I didn’t let them get to my head, and I just focused on the next word,” Jairam said.

In another change, bee organizers didn’t stick to a predetermined list of “championship words” for the last two or three spellers. No one will know whether the bee had harder words in reserve, but former spellers said Jairam and Nihar nailed the toughest words in recent memory.

Because the best spellers become fluent in Latin and Greek roots, the bee went to words derived from trickier or more ob-

scure languages, including Afrikaans, Danish, Irish Gaelic, Maori and Mayan.

Jairam’s winning word was Feldenkrais, which is derived from a trademark and means a system of body movements intended to ease tension. Niram won with gesellschaft, which means a mechanistic type of social relationship.

Among the words they got right: Kjeldahl, Hohenzollern, juamave, groenedael, zindiq and euchologion.

At his best, Nihar wowed the crowd by shouting out definitions immediately after the words were announced. He looked unbeatable. But given two chances to hold the trophy by himself, he stumbled.

Nihar was in his first bee and would have had three more years of eligibility, but he can’t compete again since he won. This was the 89th bee, and while Scripps’ records from early years are incomplete, the youngest known champion was Wendy Guey, who won 20 years ago at age 12. The last to win in his first attempt was Pratyush Buddiga in 2002.

Implant to curb addiction OK’d

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials on Thursday approved an innovative new option for Americans struggling with addiction to heroin and painkillers: a drug-oozing implant that curbs craving and withdrawal symptoms for six months at a time.

The first-of-a-kind device, Probuphine, arrives as communities across the U.S. grapple with a wave of addiction tied to opioids, highly addictive drugs that include legal pain medications like OxyContin and illegal narcotics like heroin.

Roughly 2.5 million Americans suffer from addiction disorders related to the drugs, according to federal estimates.

The implant from Braeburn

Pharmaceuticals is essentially a new, long-term delivery system for an established drug, buprenorphine, which has long been used to treat opioid addiction.

But its implantable format could help patients avoid dangerous relapses that can occur if they miss a medication dose.

The matchstick-size implant slowly releases a low dose of buprenorphine over six months.

Previously the drug was only available as a pill or film that dissolves under the tongue. It is considered a safer, more palatable alternative to methadone, the decades-old standard for controlling opioid addiction.

Probuphine is intended for patients who have already been stabilized on low-to-medium doses of buprenorphine for at least a half year. Braeburn esti-

mates that one-fourth, or 325,000, of the 1.3 million patients currently taking buprenorphine meet that criterion.

The FDA previously rejected Probuphine in 2012, judging the drug’s dose was too low to reliably help the broad range of opioid-addicted patients.

Braeburn and partner Titan Pharmaceuticals resubmitted the product with additional data and it received a positive endorsement from federal advisers earlier this year.

The FDA said Thursday that Probuphine should be used as part of a multipronged addiction treatment program that includes counseling and other forms of support.

Doctors who implant the device must also receive special training to safely insert and remove the device.

SHIMA, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed success today in winning support for his approach to fighting off a possible economic crisis from fellow leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations, despite mounting evidence the formula is failing to yield promised results in Japan.

In meetings at an isolated seaside resort renowned for its crayfish and pearls, Abe appealed for more action to stave off a downturn, insisting that an earlier lack of urgency contributed to the financial crisis of 2008-09.

Wrapping up the gathering with a sweeping declaration and several additional “action plans,” the leaders acknowledged increasing risks for the global economic outlook, including terrorism, legions of displaced people, and conflicts that “pose a se- SHINZO ABE rious threat to the existing rule-based international order.”

But they said their countries had strengthened policies to avoid relapsing into crisis.

Abe said the commitment by the leaders to “use all policy tools — monetary, fiscal and structural” was an endorsement of his own “Abenomics” threepronged strategy for reviving Japan’s sluggish growth.

“We agreed to mobilize all our resources and launch three ‘arrows’ of monetary, fiscal and structural reform measures,” Abe said. “We will be launching Abenomics to the world.”

“In order to avoid risks of the world economy falling into crisis, Japan will also do its utmost to cooperate and take leadership, mobilizing all possible resources, and boost the engine of Abenomics,” he said.

More than three years after Abe took office vowing to “Bring Japan Back!” from more than two decades of economic doldrums, his formula has yet to deliver the desired results: rising wages, business investment and a sustained recovery that places the world’s third-largest economy into a “virtuous cycle.”

After a slight uptick in growth earlier this year, economists say conditions in Japan have deteriorated, partly due to the slowdown in China and other emerging economies.

But backing from his G-7 counterparts may give Abe a boost as his ruling Liberal Democratic Party heads into a July parliamentary election. It also could embolden him to put off an unpopular increase in the national sales tax, to 10 percent from 8 percent.

“Abenomics is not a failure at all,” Abe told reporters, declaring he would “rev up the engine of Abenomics to the highest level possible.”

While they did not formally concur with Abe that the world is poised on the brink of crisis, the G-7 leaders did claim a special responsibility for beefing up their own economic policies.

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, also said the world was “no longer in a 2008 moment.”

“We are out of the crisis but we are suffering the legacy of the crisis,” Lagarde said, pointing to bad loans on the books of companies and banks as one of the biggest causes of concern.

But she said, “Many countries can do quite a lot and some more than they are currently doing.”

The G-7 summit brought together the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.

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ELDERTON MATH FAIR

TOM PEEL/Gazette

ELDERTON ELEMENTARY recently held a math fair organized by sixth-grade teacher Senta Zelenski. Pictured are the top three students in each homeroom in grades three and four.

Kneeling, from left, are Grace Williamson, Meghan Shoop, Marlo Mellish, Lily Ohler, Timothy Kimmel and Allyson Tutak. Standing are Kristen Bower, Maggie Byers, Alaina Horgan, Hannah Barker, Cody Sprinkle and Andrew Plavi.

TOM PEEL/Gazette

THE TOP three students in each homeroom in grades five and six are, sitting, from left, Carina Warr, Ian Morgan, Danielle Testut, Zach Swartz and Emily Spencer. Kneeling are Erika Stadtmiller, Morgan Long, Rachel Adamson, Kailey Tirpak and Kamden Eddy. Standing are Seth Barker and Kadence Milliken.

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GRADUATIONS

Indiana County Technology Center The Indiana County Technology Center held graduation ceremonies Thursday at Indiana Area Junior High School.

The following students have graduated.

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY Gregory John Boyer, Bradley R. Clawson, Dean Haight, Ada, Jashinski, Daniel Joseph, Eric Kranik, Bradley Leasure, Hunter McCloskey, Zachary McQuiston, Dylan McRoberts, Jarred Richardson, Michael Whedbee

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ICTC HELD graduation ceremonies Thursday. Pictured are, from left, Vicki Smith, chairwoman for the Joint Operating Committee; Michael McDermott, ICTC principal; graduates Gregory John Boyer and Macey Bates; Eric Palmer, ICTC administrative director; and Dr. Tammy Whitfield, superintendent of record.

Justin A. Saunders, Samantha Shank, Cody Weaver

CARPENTRY Tonia Bruner, Shane Hines, Kolt Jarvis, Justin Lee Ludwig, Brandon Lydic, Johnathan Maderer, Shawn Pearce, Shawn Smith, Charles R. Weaver, Joseph Weaver, Kyle Weston

COLLISION REPAIR TECHNOLOGY Aaron Adam Ankney, Richard Todd Ankney, Stephanie Michelle Bozo, Aaron Tyler Bruner, David Lute, Tyler Maher, Ryan Michaels, Bradley C. Mowery, Tyler Peiffer, Austin Piper, Michael A. Ritchie, Benjamin Rudd,

COSMETOLOGY McKenzie Dawn Boord, Glenda Elliot, Hailey Ellis, Trina Lingenfelter, Rosemarie Mack, Kylee Martin, Alexa Rager, Kayla Sprankle, Samantha Tucker

COMPUTER SYSTEMS Brendan Chesebrough, Benjamin Crawford, Brandon Dickert, Alison Feight, Amber L. Gray, Roman Reschini, James Rudnik, Darren Weber

CULINARY ARTS Amber Chew, Richard Fennell, Heather Ferringer, Zoe G. Kirkwood, Tiffany Pearce, Justin Weaver, Morgan Wells

DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY Macey Bates, Hanna Chero, Juliet Davis, Kevin Goss, Sydney Hutchison, Kaitlynn McKendrick, Alec Russell, Christopher Schmidt, Victoria Thomas

ELECTRICAL OCCUPATIONS Joshua P. Blystone, Kevin Condrick, Chanler Polisky, Noah Shannon

Seeds of Faith Seeds of Faith Christian Academy held graduation ceremonies Thursday at Summit Church, 2707 West Pike, White Township.

The class valedictorian is Jasmine Kendall, and the salutatorian is Karl Wolfe.

Members of the Class of 2016 are: Jasmine Kendall, Emily Oaks, Dennis Patterson and Karl Wolfe.

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Continued from Page 1 Other countries have already seen multi-drug resistant superbugs that no antibiotic can fight. So far, the United States has not. But this sets the stage for that development, CDC officials said.

The woman had gone to a military clinic in Pennsylvania last month and was treated for a urinary tract infection. Initial tests found she was infected with E. coli bacteria, a common variety of germ seen in the gut that often makes its way to the bladder.

But the tests showed this E. coli was resistant to antibiotics commonly used first for such infections. She was successfully treated with another kind of antibiotic.

But while she has recovered, further testing completed in the last week confirmed that the E. coli was carrying a gene for resistance against the drug colistin.

Colistin is an old antibiotic. By the 1970s, doctors had mostly stopped using it because of its harsh side effects. But it was brought back as other antibiotics began losing their effectiveness.

It’s used against hard-to-treat bacteria that resist one of the last lines of defense, antibiotics called carbapenems. If those germs pick up the colistin-resistance gene, doctors may be out of treatment options, health officials say. “This is another piece of a really nasty puzzle that we didn’t want to see here,� said Dr. Beth Bell, who oversees CDC’s emerging infectious diseases programs.

The CDC is working with Pennsylvania health officials to interview the woman and her family to try to figure out how she might have picked up the strain.

The woman had not traveled outside of the country recently, officials said.

The colistin-resistant gene has been seen in animals and people in China, Europe and Canada. Federal officials said Thursday that colistin-resistant E. coli has also been found in a pig in the United States, but there was nothing to link the finding to the Pennsylvania case.

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who have pleaded not guilty.

Casey said he got about PHILADELPHIA — 200 job requests as Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Obama took office in Casey testified for the 2009, perhaps because he prosecution Thursday in had been an early supthe trial of a congressman porter of the Democratic accused of trying to land U.S. senator from Illinois. an ambassadorship for a The indictment alleges friend in exchange for a that Fattah buttonholed bribe. the president Casey said he reabout Vederman ceived a letter when he got the from Democratic chance.

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District apologizes for yearbook quotes

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NORRISTOWN (AP) — Lawyers for Attorney General Kathleen Kane have refiled a motion to throw out her criminal charges after an earlier motion was thrown out on a technicality.

Kane’s lawyers made the filing Thursday in Montgomery County court.

Montgomery County Judge Wendy DemchikAlloy had given Kane’s lawyers 10 days to refile it after saying an April 26 filing didn’t adhere to rules of criminal procedure.

Kane is charged with perjury, obstruction and other counts for allegedly leaking secret grand jury information to a reporter to discredit a rival prosecutor and lying about it under oath.

Kane’s motion says she is the victim of “selective and vindictive prosecution� in an “extraordinary� leak prosecution. Prosecutors say the claims are frivolous and want the judge to reject them.

Trial is scheduled for Aug. 8.

LEETSDALE (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district has apologized after quotes from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and an Islamic State leader were printed in the graduating class section of this year’s high school yearbook. “Though the content of the quotes was reviewed thoroughly, the attributions clearly were not,� Quaker Valley School District officials said in a statement Wednesday. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review first reported the situation.

The Hitler quote is “Words build bridges into unexplored regions.� Stalin’s statement is more menacing: “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, so why would we let them have ideas?�

The third quote is from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: “Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant. Keep your word, even to your enemies.�

Students can get a refund on the books, or stickers to cover up the quotes.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has agreed to pay $1.35 million in a settlement to the family of a woman who died during a mold outbreak at the hospital, according to court records.

The $850,000 and $500,000 payouts will go to the family of Tracy Fischer, 47, who died in October 2014 after contracting a fungal infection at UPMC Presbyterian hospital in Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.

Fischer, of Erie, was treated in the same room of the hospital’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit, where two other heart transplant patients with fungal infec-

Speeding van lands in lake, killing three PRESTON (AP) — Police said a driver lost control of a speeding van and crashed into a Pennsylvania lake, killing three summer camp workers. The crash occurred just after midnight Thursday in Lake Como, near the Pocono Mountains in northeast Pennsylvania.

Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards said the two men and one woman who were killed were seasonal workers from Camp Shoshanim in Lakewood. She said the driver was among the dead.

Two other people escaped from the van and are being treated at hospitals.

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Killer avoids death penalty PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man convicted of killing two sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole after a jury deadlocked on whether he should get the death penalty.

In Pennsylvania, a jury must unanimously recommend a death sentence or a life term is automatically imposed.

The same jury on Monday had convicted Allen Wade, 45, of first-degree murder, burglary and other crimes for the Feb. 6, 2014, killings of Susan Wolfe, 44, and Sarah Wolfe, 38.

They were the sisters of Democratic Iowa state Rep. Mary Wolfe, who attended the trial but was not in court Thursday.

Wade, the victims’ nextdoor neighbor, shot the women in the head after accosting them as they returned home, separately, from work that night, authorities said. Wade did that apparently to steal a bank card he used to withdraw $600 from an automatic teller machine hours later — money he needed to pay his rent and avoid eviction, prosecutors said.

Judge Edward Borkowski imposed two consecutive life terms, as well 30 to 60 years on top of that for the robbery and burglary counts.

Borkowski asked if Wade had anything to say. Wade replied, “At the advice of my counsel, no, I do not.�

His public defender could not immediately be reached for comment.

At trial, witnesses testified that Wade had an absentee father and a close

relationship with a grandmother who died in 2000.

They also said he suffered from depression and had a head injury in the weeks leading up to the killings.

The victims’ father thanked prosecutors for their work on the case and lamented the deaths of his daughters. “Their loss is a tragedy to our family,� Jack Wolfe said after the sentencing. “We really appreciated the hard work and attention given to this by the people of Pennsylvania.�

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Trump clinches GOP nomination

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With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe standing by his side and an iconic bombed-out domed building looming behind him, Obama urged the world to do better. “We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell,�

Obama said. “We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent cry.�

A second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki three days after Hiroshima, killed 70,000 more. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945, ending a war that killed millions.

Obama hoped Hiroshima would someday be remembered not as the dawn of the atomic age but as the beginning of a “moral awakening.� He renewed his call for a world less threatened by danger of nuclear war. He received a Nobel Peace Prize early on in his presidency for his anti-nuclear agenda but has since seen uneven progress. “Among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them,�

Obama said.

Abe, in his speech, called Obama’s visit courageous and long-awaited. He said it would help the suffering of survivors and he echoed the anti-nuclear sentiments. “At any place in world, this tragedy must not be repeated again,� Abe said.

Critics believe Obama’s mere presence in Hiroshima would be viewed as an apology for what they see as a bombing that was needed to stop a Japanese war machine that had brutalized Asia and killed many Americans. But Obama’s decision

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PRESIDENT OBAMA laid a wreath today at the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan. also drew praise from those who see it as a long overdue gesture for two allies ready to bury a troubled past.

Obama’s remarks showed a careful awareness of the sensitivities. He included both South Koreans and American prisoners of war in recounting the death toll at Hiroshima — a nod to advocates for both groups who publicly warned the president not to forget their dead.

Obama spoke broadly of the brutality of the war that begat the bombing — saying it “grew out of the same base instinct for domination or conquest that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes� — but did not assign blame.

After his remarks, he met with two survivors. Although he was out of ear shot of reporters, Obama could be seen laughing and smiling with 91-year-old Sunao Tsuboi. He embraced Shigeaki Mori, 79.

Later, Tsuboi told reporters he was struck by how Obama held his hand and listened carefully. He told the U.S. president he will be remembered as the one who “listened to the voice of survivors like us.� “You should come visit Hiroshima from time to time and meet lots of people. That is what is important,� Tsuboi said.

Obama’s visit, which lasted just under two hours while most Americans were sleeping, was crafted for close scrutiny in Asia, a region he’s tried to put at the center of his foreign policy legacy. Obama and Abe

strode together along a treelined path, past an eternal flame, toward a river that flows by the domed building that many associate with Hiroshima.

They earlier went to the lobby of the peace museum to sign the guest book: “We have known the agony of war. Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons,�

Obama wrote, according to the White House.

The president’s call for a nuclear-free world was a long way from the optimistic rallying cry he delivered as young, newly elected president. Obama did not employ his campaign slogan — “Yes, we can� — as he did in a speech in Prague in 2009. Instead, the president spoke of diligent, incremental steps. “We may not realize this goal in my lifetime but persistent effort can roll back the possibility of catastrophe,� he said. “We can chart a course that leads to the destruction of these stockpiles.�

He touched down in Hiroshima after completing talks with world leaders at an international summit in Shima, Japan.

Hiroshima’s peace park is a poignant place, with searing images of the burnt, tattered clothing of dead children and the exposed steel beams on the iconic A-bomb dome.

The skeletal remains of the exhibition hall have become an international symbol of peace and a place for prayer.

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It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. Trump has reached 1,239 and will easily pad his total in primary elections on June 7.

Many on the right have been slow to warm to Trump, wary of his conservative bona fides. Others worry about his crass personality and the lewd comments heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made about women.

Trump said during a press conference Thursday that he would â&#x20AC;&#x153;absolutelyâ&#x20AC;? end his habit of attacking fellow Republicans now that the nomination is effectively his.

But that truce appeared to be short-lived.

Speaking later at a rally in Billings, Mont., Trump said 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who has refused to endorse him, had â&#x20AC;&#x153;failed so badly.â&#x20AC;?

Still, millions of grass-roots activists, many of them outsiders to the political process, have embraced Trump as a plainspeaking populist.

Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an unbound delegate who confirmed his support of Trump to the AP, said he likes the billionaireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s background as a businessman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leadership is leadership,â&#x20AC;? House said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If he can surround himself with the political talent, I think he will be fine.â&#x20AC;?

Still, Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pivotal moment comes amid a new sign of internal problems.

Hours before clinching the nomination, he announced the departure of political director Rick Wiley, who was leading the campaignâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s push to hire staff in key battleground states. In a statement, Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign said Wiley had been hired only until the candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organization â&#x20AC;&#x153;was running full steam.â&#x20AC;?

His hiring about six weeks ago was seen as a sign that party veterans were embracing Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign. The White House contender ignored questions about internal problems on Thursday and instead took aim at Clinton.

He told a Bismarck audience that Clinton has â&#x20AC;&#x153;declared war on the American worker,â&#x20AC;? that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;going to abolish your right to own guns,â&#x20AC;? and that she created a foreign policy legacy â&#x20AC;&#x153;of total chaos.â&#x20AC;?

He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The choice in November is a choice between a Clinton agenda that puts donors first or an agenda that puts America first: my agenda.â&#x20AC;?

Trump also entered a new phase on the fundraising front. Having bashed donors for much of the past year, he hosted his first major campaign fundraiser the night before: a $25,000-per-ticket dinner in Los Angeles.

Continued from Page 1 landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t close the deal,â&#x20AC;? Trump crowed during an appearance in North Dakota. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had tremendous support from almost everybody.â&#x20AC;?

Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good news was tempered by ongoing internal problems. Those include the sudden departure of his political director and continuing resistance by many Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, to declaring their support for his outsider candidacy.

At the same time, Clinton faced fresh questions about her use of a private email server while secretary of state, even as she fought to pivot toward Trump, who she warned would take the country â&#x20AC;&#x153;backward on every issue and value we care about.â&#x20AC;?

The State Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspector general released a report a day earlier concluding that Clinton did not seek legal approval for her private email server, guaranteeing the issue will continue nagging her campaign for a second summer. She insisted Thursday that she had done nothing wrong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was allowed. And the rules have been clarified since I left about the practice.

Having said that, I have said many times, it was a mistake. And, if I could go back, I would do it differently,â&#x20AC;? Clinton said, according to an interview transcript provided by ABC News.

Campaigning before union workers in Las Vegas, she decried Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-union comments and his proposal to deport millions of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. She said he is an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unqualified loose cannonâ&#x20AC;? who should never be president.

Complicating her election challenge, Clintonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Democratic rival Bernie Sanders embraced the possibility of a one-on-one debate with Trump. The Republican said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d â&#x20AC;&#x153;love to debate Bernie,â&#x20AC;? but would want the debate to raise at least $10 million for charity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem with debating Bernie,â&#x20AC;?

Trump noted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to lose.â&#x20AC;?

Sanders, appearing on ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jimmy Kimmel Live,â&#x20AC;? kept alive the notion of a debate, saying that he and Trump have â&#x20AC;&#x153;very differentâ&#x20AC;? views of the world.

Sanders said â&#x20AC;&#x153;the goal would be to have it in some big stadium here in California.â&#x20AC;?

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Memorial Day, festivals, Fab, serving To whom it may concern —

from 5 to 11 p.m. A parade will start at 6 p.m. at the high school and end on Church Street. Entertainment for that evening is 13 Stories, with Rummel, Rich Topeka and Bill Citeroni.

Food and beverages will also be available.

The Memorial Day weekend is upon us, signaling the unofficial start of summer as the schoolchildren eagerly await the final days of class.

For those of you brave enough to take the plunge, Mack Park Pool in White Township opens at noon Saturday.

Hours this weekend are noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and from 2:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.

Then, it’s on to the regular summer hours of 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday through Friday and noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

A VARIETY OF music festivals will also be in full swing.

Saturday is the third annual Delaney Chevrolet Westsylvania Jazz & Blues Festival from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. at IRMC Park on North Seventh Street in Indiana. The festival is free.

And in Blairsville, the inaugural Blairsville Riverfront Music Festival will be from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday at Blairsville Riverfront Park. The event will feature live music, food vendors, crafts and more.

Admission to the festival is free.

THOUGH THE weather might not cooperate — the National Weather Service is calling for a chance of showers every day — there is an abundance of outdoor activities on tap this weekend.

The Central Indiana County Fire Departments (Aultman, Brush Valley and Homer City) are in the middle of a carnival celebration at Fireman’s Field in Homer City.

Events started Tuesday and continue through Saturday.

Tonight, carnival rides are open from 6 to 11 p.m. A car cruise will be on Main Street from 6 to 10 p.m., complete with a DJ spinning tunes all night near Fox’s Pizza.

Live entertainment for the evening is Hollerback, featuring David Rummel, of Homer City.

On Saturday, rides are open

CONDOLENCES The Indiana community is mourning the death of Fabrizio Pirrone, 35, who passed away Monday in Seattle at the University of Washington Medical Center.

Fab, whose battle against cancer and efforts to help others appeared frequently in Inside Indiana and other articles, had been in Seattle for experimental CAR-T Cell therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, funded in part by a massive community fundraising effort.

mother Nancy, of Indiana; siblings Sibilla Pirrone Spearman and Enzo Pirrone Jr.; and many other family members and friends.

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Diagnosed in 2013 as his late father, Enzo, was in treatment for cancer, Fab didn’t let it get him down. Instead, he founded the Fighting All Battles foundation, dedicating his time and energy to others struggling with life-threatening conditions.

Just before Thanksgiving in 2015, he received news that his cancer had returned, and a stem-cell treatment from his brother, Enzo Jr., was unsuccessful. He traveled to Seattle in the hopes he would recover.

Fab’s battle played out publicly on his Facebook page, where he updated friends, family and the community. Condolence messages poured in there and elsewhere on social media, telling the tale of a person who obviously touched many lives.

According to his obituary, Fab “had an absolute zest for life and loved spending time with family and friends.”

He loved “scootin’” on his motorcycles, and over the Christmas season could be spotted on Philadelphia Street driving a motorcycle and dressed as Santa Claus.

He also enjoyed traveling, dining out and cooking, and was a staple working out at uPtown Fitness.

Fab is survived by “his best friend and wife,” Shawna Sardone;

A new furniture store has opened in Smicksburg and offers “rustic Amish furniture with our twist of western style,” according to the store’s Facebook page.

Our Twist of Country has a 3,000square-foot showroom with items such as tables and chairs, outdoor benches and furniture, bed frames, decorative items and more.

The store is owned by Cory Mumford and is located at 57 Eileen Drive, Smicksburg.

A soft opening was held last week.

FORE! St. Bernard School will offer a golf outing July 10 at Meadow Lane golf course, where the shotgun start begins at 1 p.m. Registration is from noon to 1 p.m.

Cost is $60 per golfer or $240 per foursome and includes golf, a cart, food, beer and snacks.

Sponsorship opportunities are also available.

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SHOP TALK AT SIX Gas prices in the Indiana area today were running at $2.49 a gallon, compared to $2.47 statewide and $2.33 nationally (www.penns ylvaniagasprices.com). … Willie, our ex-shoeshine boy, says World War II Gen. George S. Patton captured the spirit of Memorial Day: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

Good evening!

This column is compiled by Gazette staff writer Margaret Weaver. Email items for submission to mweaver@indianagazette. net.

PSU offers tuition breaks to freshmen

JACK JULIN, 10, showed off his Delaware “shoebox float” during the state float competition Thursday at Eisenhower Elementary. Students researched assigned states and used the information to create a float in a shoebox.

They include the state map, bird and tree along with tourist sites and other data.

By The Associated Press STATE COLLEGE — Penn State University has a popularity problem.

The school expects a record 8,600 freshmen at University Park this fall. So Penn State hopes a few hundred students will accept tuition breaks to study at one of its 18 other campuses instead.

They would save about $10,000 on in-state tuition and $15,000 off of out-of-state tuition.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported the savings reflect the lower tuition there and special scholarships being offered. Students can save another $5,000 if they live at a campus offering housing.

Penn State has sent the offer to about 2,800 freshmen with higher tuition bills.

Tuition at University Park tops $17,500 for Pennsylvania residents and $31,000 for nonresidents.

Room, board and other costs add another $12,000 and up.

Joanny Rodriguez, of Charlotte, N.C., says the discount was enough to steer her toward the Altoona campus. She still plans to visit University Park on weekends

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Retirement won’t burden courts caseload, so that is why we have utilized Judge Nickleach.”

The visiting judge may be a more common sight the next year and half in the county courthouse, just as he was in 2011. That year, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille discouraged the appointment of interim judges by the governor and Senate.

Martin said the local vacancy this year may be handled the

Continued from Page 1 Even after Bianco was elected as Olson’s permanent successor, Nickleach has regularly assisted in Indiana, working an average of one day a week.

“He handles almost all of our child custody trials, and he handles arraignments, summary appeals and criminal nonjury trials,” Martin said. “We are the largest sixth-class county in the state and we have the largest

ing, set for June 4, “is shaping up to be quite a big event,” according to organizers.

From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. that day, teams will provide much-needed services to nonprofit organizations, schools, nursing homes and more. The event has been organized the past two years by Pastor Robert Carpenter, of Indiana Alliance Church.

The current number of volunteers has surpassed 300, according to organizers.

If you or a group are interested in participating or know someone in need of service, contact Carpenter at (724) 463-0862. A fee of $10 per person for volunteers benefits the Alice Paul House.

same way.

“I’ve been through this before when Judge Olson retired and we were able to manage without an appointment,” Martin said. “Justice Castille imposed a moratorium on appointments. This time we’ll wait and see.”

A permanent replacement for Hanna would be chosen by Indiana County voters in the next municipal election in November 2017.

and take Air Force ROTC there.

“This is what is going to make it possible for me to go to Penn State,” she said of the offer. “It’s a lot of money. As long as I end up at University Park somehow, that’s what really matters to me.”

Cindy Whitley and her daughter, Lauren, realized the $15,000 in savings would amount to $150 a month for 10 years in loan payments. Her daughter decided to go for it.

“Then it was real to her. She understood,” said Whitley, who lives in Norristown and works in the financial aid office at Montgomery County Community College.

Nearly a third of students offered admission accepted by the May 1 deadline, which amounts to about 600 more students than last year.

“It’s definitely better than the alternative,” said Clark Brigger, executive director of undergraduate admissions.

He’s not sure what triggered the surge, similar to ones that occurred in 2006 and 1996. The university hopes 400 to 500 students will take the offer.

They are guaranteed the right to move to the main campus during their sophomore year.

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Golden State stays alive in Western finals.

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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Juniata Valley 12, Homer-Center 5

Hornets oust Wildcats

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THE PENGUINS celebrated after beating Tampa Bay 2-1 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night.

Pens beat Lightning in Game 7

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — The hours before the biggest game of Bryan Rust’s life were restless. The nap he tried to sneak in never materialized. The Pittsburgh Penguins forward’s mind was simply too busy.

“I was just sitting up there looking at the ceiling,” Rust said.

Yet even those daydreams didn’t compare to the reality: The rookie who began training camp hoping just to make the team scored both Pittsburgh goals in a 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thurs-

day night.

Pittsburgh will play host to Western Conference champion San Jose in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals on Monday night.

In a building littered with stars, it was the relentlessness of the 24-year-old Rust and the steadiness of 22-year-old goaltender Matt Murray that provided the difference as the Penguins reached the final for the first time since 2009.

“I’m in that mode where I’m getting the bounces and the breaks right now,” Rust said.

They are bounces and breaks Rust and his teammates are

earning. The Penguins rallied from a 3-2 deficit by controlling the final two games of the bestof-seven series, winning 5-2 in Tampa Bay in Game 6, then backing it up with what coach Mike Sullivan said “might have been the most complete 60-minute effort we had.”

In disarray in December when Sullivan took over for Mike Johnston, the Penguins have sprinted through April and May and will head into June with a chance to win the franchise’s fourth Cup, one that would serve as a bookend to its last triumph seven years ago when stars Sid-

ney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were still in their early 20s.

They’re older and wiser now and undaunted by a series of postseason failures that made it seem the window of their primes were closing. Yet here they are after dispatching the New York Rangers in five games, the Presidents Trophy-winning Washington Capitals in six and the defending Eastern Conference champion Lightning in seven.

“They played better hockey than us the whole series,” said Tampa Bay defenseman Anton Stralman, who lost a Game 7 for the first time after starting his career 7-0.

Continued on Page 17

Sullivan transforms Pens

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — During his first day on the job in mid-December, Mike Sullivan looked around the Pittsburgh Penguins’ dressing room and saw a couple MVPs, a handful of All-Stars and millionaires in abundance.

He also saw a group languishing in the bottom of the Eastern Conference. No life. No momentum. And — at the time, it seemed — little hope for a quick fix.

“I said, ‘I think we have great players. Our challenge is to make a great team,’” Sullivan said.

Five months later, the collection of seemingly mismatched parts Sullivan inherited has evolved into a juggernaut. The Penguins skate. They shoot. They defend. Then they skate and shoot and play defense some more. Sullivan calls it “playing the right way,” a system that when work-

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“I SAID, ‘I think we have great players.

Our challenge is to make a great team.’”

Bucs finish sweep of Arizona

Mike Sullivan, Penguins coach, on taking over in mid-December

ing properly can suffocate opponents the way Pittsburgh did in a 2-1 victory over Tampa Bay in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night.

“They were on top of us pretty good,” Lightning forward Brian Boyle said.

And they didn’t let up. The Penguins outshot the Lightning 39-17 while winning a Game 7 on home ice for the first time in 21 years, receiving a Continued on Page 17

By ALAN SAUNDERS Associated Press

MIKE SULLIVAN took over as the Penguins’ head coach in December.

Rust picks perfect time to shine Bryan Rust picked the biggest finals. The victory completed a moment to shine. comeback from a 3-2 series deficit But then, he is a Golden and propelled the Penguins Domer. into the Stanley Cup finals for Yes, all the Pitt and Penn the first time since 2009. They State fans out there who follow open the finals Monday night the Pittsburgh Penguins have at home against the San Jose to show a little love for a Sharks. product of the University of Rust, who turned 24 earlier Notre Dame and its hockey this month, is a rookie. He program. wasn’t even on the roster at Rust became a Pittsburgh the start of the season. But legend on Thursday night, that has been one of the scoring both goals in the BRYAN RUST biggest stories of this Penguins second period of a 2-1 win team, which has received over the Tampa Bay Lightning in major contributions from a handful of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference players who were laboring for the

CENTER TOWNSHIP — With a higher seed, home-field advantage and its top pitcher on the mound, Homer-Center never envisioned it would be working from behind in the semifinals of the District 6 Class A playoffs on Thursday.

But after allowing four runs in the first inning against Juniata Valley, that was exactly where the Wildcats found themselves.

Third-seeded Homer-Center allowed too many early runs, left too many runners on base and couldn’t climb back in a 12-5 loss to seventh-seeded Juniata Valley at First Commonwealth Field.

“I’m not sure if we were nervous or if we were tight,” Homer-Center coach Scott Bauer said. “One thing with those guys is that they’ve been in this situation for the last three years. Maybe experience was tilted in their favor a little bit. We just were tight. I’m not sure what happened. It’s definitely not the start we envisioned.”

The Wildcats (15-6) put top pitcher Alex Arone on the mound, but things quickly unraveled as the Hornets plated four runs in the top of the first inning off three walks and two hits. Homer-Center did its best to answer in the bottom of the inning, loading the bases with one out, but Juniata Valley pitcher Jack Johnson worked his way out of trouble after allowing just one run.

The Hornets (14-8) plated four more runs in the top of the fourth off three hits, a walk and a hit batsman to stretch their lead to 8-1. The Wildcats answered with two runs in the Continued on Page 15

AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins when the NHL season began.

“I love what he brings to this team and couldn’t be happier for him for his effort and his contribution as far as how he’s helped this team win for four or five months now,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. “To see him get rewarded with a couple goals is a thrill for all of us because he’s such a great kid and he plays so hard.”

Count Conor Sheary, Tom Kuhnhackl and, of course, Matt Murray among the rookies who have made a major impact on this team.

Continued on Page 17

PITTSBURGH — An illness kept Josh Harrison out of the starting lineup, but he didn’t let it stop him from being a big part of a win for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Harrison came off the bench to hit a two-out, tworun double in the bottom of the sixth inning Thursday that put the Pirates ahead to stay in an 8-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks that completed a sweep of the three-game series.

“I was hurting, let’s just leave it at that. I wasn’t feeling good at all,” Harrison said. “I felt good enough to pick up the bat today. Yesterday, I couldn’t pick it up at all.”

Harrison’s clutch pinch hit bailed out reliever A.J. Schugel (1-1), who earned his first major league win despite allowing two runs and giving up Continued on Page 14

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MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP

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BREWERS OUTFIELDER Ryan Braun slid safely back into first base under the tag of the Braves’ Freddie Freeman during Thursday’s game in Atlanta.

Astros set strikeout record

By The Associated Press With his team having already set the major league record for strikeouts in a three-game series, adding more to the pile was the last thing on Houston Astros reliever Ken Giles’ mind.

Pitching for a third straight day, an exhausted Giles focused on finishing Houston’s sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with a 4-2 win Thursday night.

Houston starter Lance McCullers (1-1) allowed just one hit — a home run to Mark Trumbo — and had 10 strikeouts in five innings, helping the Astros break the major league record for strikeouts in a three-game series with 52. The previous mark was 47 by Washington earlier this season.

Houston, which finished with 15 strikeouts, became the first club since 1913 to have at least that many in three consecutive games. After a miserable opening month, the Astros finally have their first three-game winning streak of the season.

Giles gave up an RBI single to Manny Machado in the ninth before getting Chris Davis to ground out to end the game.

George Springer’s homers, which came against Baltimore starter Kevin Gausman, went 430 and 443 feet, respectively. His first came on the second pitch of the game for the Astros’ seventh leadoff homer of the season.

The previous six were hit by Jose Altuve.

Gausman (0-2) allowed four runs and five hits — including three homers — in five innings.

Luis Valbuena hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning for his fifth of the season.

BLUE JAYS 3, YANKEES 1: J.A. Happ pitched seven strong innings, Edwin Encarnacion and Devon Travis had two-out RBIs, and Toronto beat New York win the three-game series.

CC Sabathia was the tough-luck loser for New York, allowing just two unearned runs. Alex Rodriguez went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts in his first

game since going on the disabled list May 4 with a strained right hamstring.

Happ (6-2) allowed one run on three hits in seven innings with five strikeouts and three walks. He has given up three earned runs or fewer in 19 of his last 20 starts.

Sabathia (3-3) retired the first seven batters before an error by shortstop Didi Gregorius on Travis’ grounder with one out in the third. Roberto Osuna pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save.

NATIONAL LEAGUE NATIONALS 2, CARDINALS 1: Bryce Harper hit a slump-busting home run, Danny Espinosa also went deep and Washington got seven strong innings from right-hander Joe Ross in a win over St. Louis.

Washington trailed 1-0 in the sixth inning before Harper ended a 4-for33 skid with a no-doubt-about-it shot into the upper deck, far beyond the wall in right field. It was his 12th homer of the season, the first since May 13.

The light-hitting Espinosa snapped the tie in the seventh with a drive to right.

Batting eighth, Espinosa came in with a .199 batting average and three home runs.

Both homers came off Mike Leake (3-4), who won his previous three starts while allowing only two runs over 21 innings.

Ross (4-4) gave up one run and six hits over seven innings.

BREWERS 6, BRAVES 2: Ryan Braun and Jonathan Villar homered and Milwaukee earned its first sweep in Atlanta.

The Brewers began the three-game series with a 6-14 road record, but they found the right matchup at Turner Field. Atlanta is 2-20 at home, worst in the majors.

Wily Peralta (3-5) gave up seven hits and Carlos Torres pitched the last two innings to earn his second save.

Braves starter Matt Wisler (2-4) had

a tough fourth, intentionally walking Martin Maldonado with two outs to get to Peralta, whose two-run bloop single made it 2-2.

Wisler allowed six hits, three runs, two walks and struck out seven in six innings.

INTERLEAGUE ROCKIES 8, RED SOX 2: Carlos Gonzalez, Trevor Story and Dustin Garneau hit two-run homers and Colorado stopped Jackie Bradley Jr.’s 29-game hitting streak in a win over Boston.

The win ended a three-game losing streak by Colorado and it ended a four-game winning streak for the Red Sox. Bradley’s major league-best streak was halted when he went 0for-4 after moving up to the leadoff spot for the first time this season.

Jon Gray (2-2) gave up a two-run home run to David Ortiz in the first, but pitched six scoreless innings before leaving in the eighth.

Clay Buchholz (2-5) took the loss.

He pitched three perfect innings before things came apart in the fourth, when he gave up Gonzalez’s homer with the other two coming the following inning.

MARLINS 9, RAYS 1: Jose Fernandez struck out 12 in seven innings and won his sixth straight start for Miami.

Fernandez (7-2) struck out eight of the last 10 Tampa Bay batters he faced and struck out every hitter in the Rays lineup at least once. The 23year-old right-hander from Tampa gave up six hits in beating his hometown Rays for the first time in three tries.

Adeiny Hechavarria and Chris Johnson homered for the Marlins, who won three of four in their annual series against the Rays.

Hechavarria’s third home run drove in the final two runs of a three-run second inning off Rays starter Drew Smyly (2-6), who gave up five runs on six hits while striking out four in six innings.

Johnson made it 5-0 with his second homer an inning later, Johnson’s first hit in 22 interleague at bats.

Banister eager to face former team

By STEPHEN HAWKINS

the leaderships skills, he cares about people. The words match the actions,” Hurdle said. “The game needs ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas a man like him involved in the Rangers manager Jeff Banister will be dugout.” facing his past when he looks across The Rangers were coming off an the field this weekend at American League-high 95 something he has never seen losses in 2014 when Banister in more than three decades in was hired. But they won the professional baseball.

AL West in his debut, even “It’ll be odd to see the black after starting 8-16 and being and gold in another dugout,” 9½ games out of first place a Banister said. month into last season.

When the Rangers open a Texas and Pittsburgh both three-game interleague series have won 27 games this seaat home tonight against the son and are in second place Pittsburgh Pirates, it will be a in their respective divisions.

JEFF reunion of sorts for Banister.

The Rangers trail AL WestHe spent 29 seasons in the orleading Seattle by 1½ games BANISTER ganization as a player, coach while the Pirates are 4½ and instructor at all levels before be- games back in the NL Central behind coming a first-time manager in the the Chicago Cubs, who have the best major leagues last season. record in the majors.

“They raised me up, they got me In his only major league at-bat, married, they helped me deliver kids, Banister got an infield single as a and buried my grandparents, and my pinch-hitter for Pittsburgh on July dad and everything else,” he said. 23, 1991 — five years after the Pirates “There’s a lot of history in that uni- drafted him in the 25th round out of form. ... There’s still a lot of really the University of Houston. That was good friends, fresh memories.” his only game as a player in the maBanister’s final four seasons with jors. the Pirates (2011-14) were as bench There were 515 games played in coach for manager Clint Hurdle, who Pittsburgh’s minor league systems before that was part of the Rangers’ from 1986-93, and his coaching cafirst World Series in his only season reer began as a player-coach at Douas their hitting coach in 2010. Banis- ble-A Carolina in 1993. He later had ter had also been a candidate for stints as a minor league manager, Pittsburgh’s top dugout job then, and field coordinator for the Pirates and Hurdle helped prepare him for his their minor league field coordinator. chance to be a manager.

Banister this week recalled going to “He’s got the baseball IQ, he’s got watch 2013 NL MVP center fielder AP Sports Writer

Andrew McCutchen play in high school on his home field in Fort Meade, Fla., with cattle and cows just on the other side of the chain-link outfield fence while McCutchen pitched that game.

“Watched him grow up, watched him become MVP,” Banister said of the 2005 first-round draft pick who made his MLB debut in 2009.

McCutchen is still there with the Pirates, as are Hurdle and most of the coaching staff that Banister worked with. There are also players like righthander Gerrit Cole and infielders Jordy Mercer and Josh Harrison.

“I’m definitely excited to have the chance to see him. He played a big role in my development,” said Cole, who pitched Thursday and won’t face the Rangers. “He really coached me up, helped teach me how to be a better professional, understand the running game and how to slow it down. The biggest thing of all is you always know he has your back and that’s really important in any coachplayer relationship.”

While the two keep contact through texts and phone calls, Hurdle, too, looks forward to seeing Banister. But Hurdle said the sentimentality will only go so far since they will be in opposite dugouts for three games.

“I’m sure we’ll talk and there will be some pride on my part to see him managing on the other side,” Hurdle said. “We also have games to play, though, and we’ll be trying to beat each other.”

When: 8:05 p.m. Friday, 7:15 p.m. Saturday and 3:05 p.m.

Sunday Where: Globe Life Park, Arlington On the air: Root and WCCS-1160 AM All-time series: Rangers lead 10-5.

Last meeting: The Pirates swept the Rangers in a threegame road series last year. Gerrit Cole, Francisco Liriano and A.J. Burnett earned the wins for the Pirates.

Managers: Pirates: Clint Hurdle (sixth season with Pirates, 458-398). Rangers: Jeff Banister (second season with Rangers, 115-94).

About the Pirates: The Pirates are 27-19 after sweeping the Diamondbacks in a home series. Pittsburgh has won four games in a row and nine of 11. ... Gregory Polanco has reached base safely in 12 of his last 13 games, a stretch in which he is batting .412 with 11 extra-base hits, 10 RBIs and 14 runs scored. ... Josh Harrison missed starts Wednesday and Thursday with an illness. He pitch hit Thursday and is expected to return to the lineup today. ... Andrew McCutchen has raised his batting average 28 points in May, batting .294 with nine extra-base hits, 10 RBIs and 14 runs scored. ... Tony Watson has held opponents scoreless and allowed just one hit over his last nine appearances. During that span, the left-hander has struck out eight batters over nine innings.

About the Rangers: The Rangers are 27-20 after winning two of three games in a home series agains the Angels. Texas has won five of its last six games. ... Yu Darvish will make his season debut Saturday. Darvish missed some of last season and the beginning of this season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. The right-hander went 10-7 with a 3.06 ERA last season. ... The ruling on the appeal for Rougned Odor’s eight-game suspension stemming from a May 15 brawl with the Blue Jays has been reduced to seven games. Odor will begin serving the suspension today. ... Prince Fielder has yet to find his stroke. Fielder, who has averaged a .284 batting average and 28 home runs per season throughout his career, is batting just .193 with two home runs. ... Cole Hamels has yet to take a loss this season. In nine starts with the Rangers, Hamels is 5-0 and has struck out 62 over 57 1-3 innings.

Probable starters • Jon Niese (4-2, 4.75) vs. Cole Hamels (5-0, 2.83) • Juan Nicasio (4-3, 4.46) vs. Yu Darvish (0-0, 0.00) • Francisco Liriano (4-3, 4.30) vs. Martin Perez (2-4, 3.13) Projected lineups Pirates Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. John Jaso 1B .303 3 15 2. Andrew McCutchen CF .254 8 20 3. Gregory Polanco RF .316 6 29 4. Jung Ho Kang 3B .298 5 14 5. Starling Marte LF .314 3 18 6. Francisco Cervelli C .266 0 20 7. Josh Harrison 2B .319 2 25 8. David Freese DH .277 3 14 9. Jordy Mercer SS .296 1 18 Bench: Chris Stewart (C), Sean Rodriguez (utility), David Freese (INF), Matt Joyce (OF), Cole Figueroa (INF).

Bullpen: Mark Melancon (R, closer), Tony Watson (L), Neftali Feliz (R), Jared Hughes (R), Wilfredo Boscan (R), A.J. Schugel (L).

Rangers Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. Ian Desmond CF .294 6 27 2. Elvis Andrus SS .296 1 17 3. Prince Fielder DH .193 2 24 4. Adrian Beltre 3B .264 7 31 5. Nomar Mazara RF .320 8 21 6. Mitch Moreland 1B .226 4 17 7. Ryan Rua LF .282 2 8 8. Hanser Alberto 2B .176 0 3 9. Bryan Holaday C .230 1 8 Bench: Bobby Wilson (C), Joey Gallo (1B/3B), Jared Hoying (OF), Jurickson Profar (INF), Rougned Odor# (INF). #Serving suspension Bullpen: Sam Dyson (R, closer), Jake Diekman (R), Tony Barnette (R), Shawn Tolleson (R), Cesar Ramos (L), Alex Claudio (L), Matt Bush (R), Luke Jackson (R).

Next: The Pirates travel to Marlins Park for a four-game series with the Miami Marlins, Monday through Thursday.

Bucs finish sweep of Diamondbacks Continued from Page 13 the lead he had inherited from starter Gerrit Cole in the top half of the sixth.

“I have a few people to thank for that one, mostly (Harrison) and the offense,” Schugel said after his milestone victory. “Cole pitched his butt off and I wish I could have thrown a scoreless one for him.”

Arizona starter Patrick Corbin (2-4) took the loss.

He was responsible for both runs that scored on Harrison’s double, which came off reliever Jake Barrett.

From the beginning of the game, Cole did not have his best stuff — at least on the mound.

He nearly hit Jean Segura with the first pitch of the game and allowed Segura and Michael Bourn to hit back-to-back doubles to open the first inning for a 10 Arizona lead. He was able to hold the Diamondbacks to that one unearned run over five innings, but he extricated himself from jams in the first three innings, stranding eight runners.

He finally settled in, retiring six straight over the fourth and fifth innings, but his pitch count reached 106, and his day came to a premature end with the Pirates holding a 3-1 lead.

“It’s no secret I wasn’t that sharp, but you’re going to have days like that,” Cole

said. “In the third inning, we started to get some traction with moving the ball inside and out, up and down, but at that point, I think it was probably like 50 pitches through two innings.”

His bat was much sharper. In the third inning, Cole helped his own cause with a 409-foot, three-run home run to left-center field with Francisco Cervelli and Gregory Polanco aboard. He added a double in the fourth inning to finish 2for-2 and raise his batting average to .200 on the season.

The Diamondbacks took advantage of Cole’s replacement, Schugel. With two outs in the top of the sixth, two singles and a walk loaded the bases for Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt, who came through with a two-run single to tie the game at 3.

After Harrison’s double, the Pirates added three insurance runs in the eighth inning. Andrew Chafin loaded the bases and then gave way to Evan Marshall, who gave up a two-run double to Jung Ho Kang and an RBI double to Starling Marte.

Rob Scahill, Neftali Feliz and Mark Melancon pitched scoreless innings in the seventh, eighth and ninth, respectively.

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Juniata Valley ousts Wildcats Continued from Page 13 bottom of the inning, but Juniata Valley stretched the lead to 10-3 with two runs in the top of the fifth.

Every time the Wildcats tried to rally, the Hornets answered with an offensive outburst. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were able to squash our rallies,â&#x20AC;? Bauer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a lot of good things, they just did a few things better.â&#x20AC;?

The Hornets collected 10 hits and caused trouble for Homer-Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitchers throughout the game. Arone lasted just 3 2-3 innings and allowed eight runs on five hits and four walks.

Jesse Lee came on in relief and was tagged for two runs on two hits and two walks in an inning of work. Austin Perry surrendered two more runs on a hit and a walk over 1 2-3 innings before Nate Davis came on to get the last two outs of the seventh inning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the score is 4-1, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manageable,â&#x20AC;? Bauer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8-1, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so manageable. We have to find a way to keep up. We had a couple opportunities to squash their rallies, and they found a way to get four more runs across and stretch it out to seven.â&#x20AC;?

Johnson continually worked his way out of trouble, and Bryce Hensor followed up with more of the same when he came on in relief. The Wildcats had 11 hits, but they left 13 runners on

AROUND THE AREA

By The Indiana Gazette

Ligonier Valley exits district playoffs PHILIPSBURG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Philipsburg-Osceola outhit Ligonier Valley 10-4 and advanced to the district championship game for the sixth time in seven years by rolling to a 6-2 win in a District 6 Class AA softball semifinal-round playoff game Thursday.

Top-seeded PhilipsburgOsceola (20-2) will face third-seeded Bald Eagle Area in the championship game Wednesday at Nittany Lion Softball Park at Penn State. Fourth-seeded Ligonier Valley, the Heritage Conference champion, concluded its season with a record of 18-4.

Philipsburg-Osceola broke open a tied game by scoring four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to take a 6-0 lead.

Winning pitcher Kam Harris allowed two runs in the fourth before holding the Rams scoreless in the last three innings.

Ligonier Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lexie Petrof fanned three, walked one and allowed 10 hits and three earned runs in a complete-game effort.

IUPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hampel earns academic honor IUP senior Alex Hampel has been named to the 2015-16 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Track and Field/Cross Country Team.

The CoSIDA Academic All-District teams recognize the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top studentathletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.

Hampel is a nursing and biology double major who graduated with a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average earlier this month. He is one of only two of the 10 members of the District 2 team to boast a perfect cumulative GPA. The district is made up of schools from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Mountain East Conference.

This is Hampelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third academic award of the year.

He was named the NCAA Division II Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross Country Elite 90 winner and the PSAC Champion Scholar for menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country.

base, including stranding multiple runners in each of the first, second, third and seventh innings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I liked our resiliency,â&#x20AC;? Bauer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We put traffic on the bases. What we were missing was that timely hit. You load the bases with nobody out or one out. You have to get the hits at the right time. We did a good job at getting the traffic and drawing walks. We just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find a way to drive in the runs when we needed them.â&#x20AC;?

Levi Bruner led the Wildcats with three singles. Matt Alexander, Tim Alcon and Jesse Lee had two hits apiece. Lee stroked two doubles and drove in three runs, and Alcon smacked a double. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We pounded the ball at them, and they made the plays,â&#x20AC;? Bauer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A ball gets through or a ball finds its way into a gap, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different. But they were able to squash our rallies. We did a lot of good things, they just did a few things better.â&#x20AC;?

Johnson worked through four innings to earn the win. He allowed three runs on six hits and three walks.

Hensor gave up two runs on five hits and two walks in three innings of relief.

Juniata Valley punched its third straight ticket to the District 6 Class A championship with wins over No. 10 Northern Cambria, No. 2 Ferndale and Homer-Center. The Hornets won

DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS

By The Indiana Gazette Blairsvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ben Doak smacked a grand slam and drove in five runs to lift the host Colts to an 11-2 win over Apollo in an Indiana County League baseball game Thursday at One River Field.

The Colts were clinging to a one-run lead when Doak clubbed a grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning to make the score 7-2.

Nick Draghi singled twice and doubled for the Colts.

Bobby Thompson went 3for-4, and Doak and Jordan Truscott each finished 2for-3.

Winning pitcher Scott Harsh fanned four and walked none in two innings of scoreless and hitless relief. Neal West struck out three and walked none in one inning of scoreless and hitless relief, and Romulus Marino fanned four, walked one and allowed one hit and one run in two innings of relief.

Both teams play Sunday.

Blairsville plays host to West Lebanon, and Apollo travels to Bovard.

NEW DERRY 4, WEST LEBANON 3: New Derryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tyler Pakos ripped an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning to power the Tigers to a win over West Lebanon at New Derry Field.

The game was tied at 3 when Jordan Giannini singled to lead off the eighth for New Derry. Giannini stole second and then scored the game-winning run on Pakosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; two-out single.

For New Derry, Lou Downey went 3-for-4, and Pakos finished 2-for-4.

Winning pitcher Mike Kelly struck out one, walked one and allowed two hits and no runs in two innings of relief.

West Lebanonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tyler Beitel struck out six, walked five and allowed nine hits in a complete-game effort. Beitel also singled and drove in two runs.

West Lebanon travels to Blairsville on Sunday, and

New Derry plays host to Bovard on Tuesday.

SENIOR LEGION KOVACIK INSURANCE 5, YOUNG TOWNSHIP 4: Young Township mounted a late rally and nearly pulled off an improbable comeback for the second time in three days.

But just like they did in Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss to Armstrong, the Renegades once again came up a run short, this time falling to Kovacik Insurance in an Indiana County Senior Legion baseball game at Bertolino Field.

The Renegades were trailing 5-0 when Jared McComb cracked a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning to make the score 5-2. Devin Fairman then hit a two-out RBI triple before Caddis Coscarelli ripped an RBI single to score Fairman on the following at-bat to make the score 5-4. But with Coscarelli on first, Kovacik Insurance reliever Zack Olechovski got Noah Whanger to ground out to end the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were down again but we just kept on going at them,â&#x20AC;? Young Township coach Barry Thomas said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was nip-and-tuck, and one of our best hitters, Brady Neal, was on deck, so we had a chance. But just like the other night it just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen.â&#x20AC;?

Ricky Shirley and Olechovski smacked two singles apiece to lead the Giants.

Winning pitcher Corey Ramsden struck out two, walked three and allowed two hits in 5 1-3 innings, and Josh Daugherty pitched two innings of scoreless and hitless relief.

CLASS AA Quarterfinals Bedford 11, Forest Hills 1, 5 innings Central 1, Mount Union 0 Bishop McCort 4, Juniata 0 Philipsburg-Osceola 8, Richland 14 Semifinals Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Central 7, Bedford 3 Bishop McCort 7, Philipsburg-Osceola 0 Championship Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game at Peoples Natural Gas Field, Altoona Central (17-5) vs. Bishop McCort (17-5), 7 p.m.

CLASS AAA Quarterfinal Bellefonte 12, Johnstown 2 Semifinals Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Bellefonte 2, Somerset 0 Hollidaysburg 4, Huntingdon 3 Championship Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game at Peoples Natural Gas Field, Altoona Bellefonte vs, Hollidaysburg, 4 p.m.

CLASS AAAA Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Semifinals Central Mountain 10, Altoona 0 Mifflin County 6, State College 0 Championship Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game at Peoples Natural Gas Field, Altoona Central Mountain vs. Mifflin County, 4 p.m.

THURSDAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOX SCORE JUNIATA VALLEY 12, HOMER-CENTER 5 Juniata Valley â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12 S.Derugen 3b 3-2-0-0, Zinoble 2b 4-2-3-0, Henson ss-p 4-3-0-0, J.Houck c 2-1-0-1, Stewart 1b 3-2-0-1, Watson rf 3-1-3-2, H.Houck lf 4-0-2-4, Johnson p 3-0-0-0, Harker cf 0-0-0-0, N.Richner dh 3-1-1-0, K.Derugen pr 0-0-0-0, Morrison pr 0-0-0-0, Hess 3b 1-01-0, D.Richner 1-0-0-0, Totals 30-12-10-8 Homer-Center â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 5 Alexander ss 3-2-2-0, Alcon c 4-0-2-1, Cavalier 2b 5-1-1-0, Lee 3b-p 2-0-2-3, Arone p-3b-1b 4-0-0-1, Novak 1b-rf 3-0-0-0, Davis rf-p 3-0-1-0, Orsargos lf 3-0-0-0, Bruner cf 41-3-0, Popovich pr 0-1-0-0, Moore pr 0-0-0-0, Perry p 1-0-0-0, Totals 32-5-11-5 Juniata Valley 400 420 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12 10 0 Homer-Center 100 201 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 5 11 3 2B â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lee 2, Alcon.

W â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Johnson 2 K, 3 BB. L â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arone 3 K, 4 BB.

Fairman and Coscarelli belted two singles apiece.

Losing pitcher Tanner Yard struck out three and allowed six hits in 5 1-3 innings.

Both teams play Saturday.

Young Township (0-2) plays host to Marion Center, and Kovacik Insurance (1-0) travels to Punxsutawney for a doubleheader.

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ARMSTRONG 14, MARION CENTER 2: Josh Leighton tossed a one-hitter and went 4-for-4 to lead Armstrong to a lopsided win over host Marion Center in a game that was shortened to five innings due to the mercy rule.

Leighton struck out six, walked five and allowed the lone hit, a single by Dylan Johnston, in the bottom of the third inning.

He also singled three times, doubled and drove in two runs.

Tyler Johnson and Derek Grafton each singled twice and drove in four runs for Armstrong. Nick Veri went 2-for-4, and Tanner Bordick and Josh Hepler scored three runs apiece.

Both teams play Saturday.

Armstrong (2-0) plays host to Indiana Legion, and Marion Center (0-1) travels to Young Township.

CLASS A Quarterfinals Claysburg-Kimmel 5, Bishop Carroll 2 Southern Huntingdon 12, West Branch 1 Glendale 4, Northern Cambria 1 Semifinals Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game Conemaugh Valley 8, Claysburg-Kimmel 1 Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game Southern Huntingdon at Glendale, 4 p.m.

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CLASS AA Quarterfinals Philipsburg-Osceola 9, Westmont Hilltop 0 Ligonier Valley 3, Forest Hills 1 Bald Eagle Area 9, Bishop McCort 2 Central 13, Marion Center 0 Semifinals Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Philipsburg-Osceola 6, Ligonier Valley 2 Bald Eagle Area 8, Central 5 Championship Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game At Penn State Philipsburg-Osceola vs. Bald Eagle Area, 7:30 p.m.

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Sullivan transforms Pens into contender Continued from Page 13 pair of goals from rookie Bryan Rust and sweeping bodies out of 22-year-old goaltender Matt Murray’s crease.

The team criticized for being too reliant on stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin during six fruitless springs since that giddy June night in Detroit in 2009 in which the Penguins won the franchise’s third Cup is suddenly deep, resilient and surging as it prepares to face Western Conference champion San Jose in Game 1 of the Cup Final on Monday night.

“I know there’s a lot of stories that surround this group, but the greatest story of all is the group itself,” Sullivan said.

It’s a group that has spent the last six weeks evening scores in a sense. The Penguins took out the New York Rangers in five games to open the postseason, knocked out Presidents Trophy winners Washington in six and withstood defending Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay by wearing the Lightning down.

“Throughout the playoffs, we’ve played different styles, different teams and been able to adjust and get to our game,” Crosby said. “The biggest challenge is ahead of us.”

Maybe, but maybe not. The Penguins spent the better part of 18 months in a funk after losing to the Rangers in the Eastern Conference semifinals in 2014, a series in which they blew a 3-1 lead, a meltdown that cost general manager Ray Shero and popular coach Dan Bylsma their jobs. Jim Rutherford took over in the front office and hired professorial Mike Johnston, whose acumen as a tactician failed to generate much enthusiasm on his star-laden roster.

With the Penguins mired near the bottom of the Metropolitan Division in December, Rutherford brought in Sullivan, who spent a decade as a grind-it-out center and an extended period as John Tortorella’s top lieutenant in New York and Vancouver. Sullivan cut through the noise and challenged his players to become accountable to each other. He played no favorites while going over video, calling out mistakes regardless of status.

The turning point may have come on New Year’s Eve in Detroit. The Penguins trailed 2-0 after the first period, any minimal steps of progress made with Sullivan on the bench suddenly gone.

“We were mad,” forward Patric Hornqvist

said earlier this month.

And the Penguins went out and played like it. Displaying an urgency it often lacked under Johnston, Pittsburgh poured in five goals over the final 40 minutes to win going away. The Penguins reached .500 with a romp over the New York Islanders two days later and took off, fueled by Crosby’s resurgence and a series of moves designed to put an emphasis on speed. Rutherford acquired smooth-skating Trevor Daley and tireless Carl Hagelin in trades and called up forwards Conor Sheary, Tom Kuhnhackl and Rust permanently.

“I think the young kids are bringing the energy and the enthusiasm,” Sullivan said.

“The older guys have been great mentors for these kids.”

It helps that the kids can play. Rust was so pumped before Game 7 he scrapped his pregame nap because he couldn’t keep his eyes closed, instead staring at the ceiling and imagining the possibilities. Yet even he didn’t imagine this, scoring twice — and nearly completing a hat trick — while skating alongside Malkin and Chris Kunitz.

That’s heady territory for a guy who began the year simply hoping he’d survive the final cuts of training camp.

“I was hoping to make an impact here and I guess this is how it happened,” Rust said with a laugh.

Ditto Murray, who began the season in the AHL and found himself elevated to No. 1 when Marc-Andre Fleury sustained a concussion on March 31. The 22-year-old has been in net for 11 of Pittsburgh’s 12 playoff wins and didn’t pout when Sullivan briefly went back to Fleury in Game 5 against the Lightning in part because Sullivan made it explicitly clear it wasn’t a benching so much as a chance to get a look at Fleury after a lengthy absence.

When Fleury struggled late in a 3-2 loss, Sullivan went back to Murray, who responded by helping Pittsburgh to the league’s biggest stage.

Sullivan’s transparency kept Murray engaged. Now Pittsburgh will spend the weekend preparing for the franchise’s fifth — and by far most unlikely — Cup Finals appearance.

“We’re not finished yet,” Sullivan said.

“We’ve got to re-energize and get ready for the next round. That’s the most important one of all.”

Rust shines at right time Continued from Page 13 For that matter, Sullivan was coaching those guys in the minors before he was summoned back to the NHL in mid-December to coach the floundering Penguins.

Rust and the other rookies were called on at midseason and began to find their form in February and March when the Penguins surged from playoff hopeful to Stanley Cup contender. Rust, a 5-foot-11, 192-pound right wing, played in 41 regular-season games and totaled 11 points on four goals and seven assists. Throw in the 14 games he played last season, and he has five goals in 55 regular-season games.

He has that many in 17 playoff games, including two goals and an assist in the elimination game against the New York Rangers in the first round. On Thursday he became only the eighth rookie in the history of the league to score multiple goals in a Game 7.

The youngsters will never outshine the superstars and veterans on this team, but they are making their mark. Rust, Sheary, Kuhnhackl and Brian Dumoulin have accounted for 27 points in the playoffs. Rust and Sheary add more speed to the lineup, and neither shows any fear when going to the boards to dig out and possess the puck.

Dumoulin, who played all of 14 games in two previous seasons before making the roster this year, has been solid on defense.

Murray, of course, has been the toast of the town while going 11-4 with a .924 save percentage and 2.21 goals against average in the playoffs.

Depth has been a key ingredient to this run, and it’s going to be a necessary part of the mix moving forward into the Stanley Cup finals.

• How about Nick Bonino?

The Penguins center had to be helped off the ice and into the dressing room early in the third period after he suffered a leg injury while blocking a shot.

In the end, though, there he was, controlling three straight crucial faceoffs in the defensive zone in the final 44.2 seconds after the Lightning had pulled their goalie. Bonino played all three faceoffs back to the boards, where the Penguins converged and ate up precious time. The Lightning never got off a shot.

On the second faceoff, with 14.9 seconds left, Bonino atoned for a mistake he made

only seconds earlier when he flipped a puck out of the defensive zone rather than skate it out. It went for icing, and the third and final faceoff was brought back to the Penguins zone.

• Ben Lovejoy had a pretty solid series.

How awful would he have felt had the Lightning come back to tie the game after the final faceoff with 10.4 seconds left?

Lovejoy was watching the action from the bench when a clearing shot deflected off his stick. Carl Hagelin gathered in the loose puck and shot it into an empty net with what appeared to be the series-clincher, but play had been stopped when one of the officials spotted the puck making contact with Lovejoy’s stick.

Bonino cleared the final faceoff back to the boards and the Penguins killed the clock.

• Penguins defenseman Ian Cole is also a Notre Dame product.

• The Penguins and Sharks played twice this season. San Jose won 3-1 in Pittsburgh on Nov. 21, and the Penguins won 5-1 on the road on Dec. 1.

• At least the games in the finals won’t run particularly late. The games in San Jose have been scheduled for 8 p.m. rather than 9.

The series could very well be determined by which team handles the coast-to-coast trips better. The NHL has built in two days between games when the series shifts from coast to coast.

• Here’s a quick look at the Sharks in the postseason: Logan Couture is the leading scorer in the playoffs with 24 points, and Joe Pavelski is the leading goal scorer with 13. Brent Burns in the top scoring defenseman in the playoffs with 20 points.

Joe Thornton (18), Patrick Marleau (12), Joel Ward (11), Marc-Edouard Vlasic (11) and Tomas Hertl (10) also have doubledigit points.

Goalie Martin Jones is 12-6 with .919 save percentage and 2.12 goals against average in the playoffs.

The Sharks lead the playoffs in scoring at 3.5 goals per game. The Penguins are second at 3.22.

San Jose has converted on 27 percent (17for-63) of its power-play opportunities. The Penguins are at 23.4 percent (15-for-64).

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BRYAN RUST pounded the glass after scoring on Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy in the second period.

Pens advance to Cup finals Continued from Page 13 Jonathan Drouin scored his fifth goal of the playoffs for the Lightning and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 37 saves, but it wasn’t enough to send Tampa Bay back to the Cup Final for a second straight year.

Captain Steven Stamkos had two shots in 11:55 in his return from a two-month layoff while dealing with blood clots, his best chance coming on a breakaway in the second period that deflected off Murray and trickled wide. One of Murray’s teammates deftly guided the puck out of harm’s way, emblematic of Tampa Bay’s inability to keep the puck in Pittsburgh’s end with any sort of consistency.

“I thought I beat him,” Stamkos said. “It just went through him and out the other side. It was close, but we didn’t generate enough offensively in order to win a game.”

That’s mostly because the Penguins didn’t let them.

It’s part of what Sullivan calls “playing the right way,” a way abetted by the influx of speed brought in by general manager Jim Rutherford. That group includes Rust, who forced his way onto the roster thanks to feverish skating and a selfconfidence that belies his nondescript 5-foot-11 frame.

That effort — or “desperation level” as Crosby calls it — provided the Penguins with the boost they needed to overcome a bit of unfortunate history and the return of Stamkos. Pittsburgh had dropped five straight Game 7s at home, including a 1-0 loss to Tampa Bay in 2011 in a series that Crosby and Evgeni Malkin missed due to injury.

That loss had become symbolic of the franchise’s postseason shortcomings following that gritty run to the Cup in 2009 that culminated with a Game 7 win in Detroit that was supposed to be the launching pad of a dynasty.

Seven long years later,

with an entirely new cast around mainstays Crosby, Malkin, Kris Letang, Chris Kunitz and Marc-Andre Fleury, the Penguins have returned to the league’s biggest stage.

“We’ve always believed in one another,” Crosby said.

“Trying to get back, it’s not easy.”

Not by a long shot.

Vasilevskiy, a revelation while filling in for injured Vezina Trophy finalist Ben Bishop, spent most of the night facing barrage after barrage as Pittsburgh controlled the puck and the pace of play for long stretches.

The Penguins finally broke through behind Rust, who managed all of five goals in 55 regular-season games, a total he’s matched in just 17 games during the postseason. He gave the Penguins the lead 1:55 into the second when he raced down the slot, took a feed from Kunitz and beat Vasilevskiy over his glove.

Drouin’s fourth goal of the series tied it at 9:36 of the second, a wicked wrist shot from the circle that zipped

by Murray and seemed to blunt Pittsburgh’s momentum.

Only it didn’t.

All of 30 seconds later, the Penguins were back in front. Ben Lovejoy’s slap shot from the point caromed off the end boards to the right of the net. Rust jabbed at it, squeezing it between Vasilevskiy’s left arm and his body.

Their season on the brink, the Lightning recovered but Murray never wavered. His teammates in front of him kept Tampa Bay from getting in his way and when the final horn blared, Pittsburgh’s metamorphosis was complete.

“The biggest challenge is ahead of us,” Crosby said.

“We have to finish it off the right way.”

NOTES: The Penguins went 0-for-5 on the power play. The Lightning were 0for-1. ... The team that scores first is now 124-42 all-time in Game 7s, including 5-0 this year.

Warriors return to form, stave off elimination

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. — “We ain’t going home! We’re not going home!” Stephen Curry screamed at the top of his lungs.

No, his Golden State Warriors are going back to Oklahoma City, after keeping their title reign and the winningest season in NBA history alive for at least one more game.

Curry scored 31 points, raising his arms in the early moments to fire up Golden State’s raucous crowd, and the defending champions staved off elimination with a 120111 victory over the Thunder on Thursday night in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals.

For all the speculation about the current state of Curry’s beat-up

NBA PLAYOFFS body — that troublesome ankle, sore knee or tender elbow — he did it all.

Led by Curry, the Warriors looked like their old winning selves again.

The MVP made a snazzy layup late and dished out six assists, while Klay Thompson added 27 points as Golden State sent the best-of-seven series back to Oklahoma City for Game 6 on Saturday night. The Warriors trail 3-2 and are trying to become just the 10th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit.

Kevin Durant scored 40 points and Russell Westbrook added 31 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and five steals for the Thunder, trying for the fifth NBA Finals appearance in franchise histo-

ry and first championship since moving from Seattle.

The record-setting, 73-win Warriors, coming off their first back-toback defeats all season, had been blown out in two losses at Oklahoma City by a combined 52 points.

Durant’s 3-pointer with 4:34 left got the Thunder within 103-98, then Curry answered with a threepoint play.

Curry scored seven points in a 58second stretch of the second quarter and hit more big shots late, but the Thunder didn’t go away easily.

Trailing 58-50 at halftime, Oklahoma City came out of the break with a 9-2 run. Westbrook’s 3-pointer with 6:06 left in the third put Oklahoma City ahead 68-67 for its first lead of the night. But Golden State led 81-77 going into the fourth

and began the final period with an 8-0 burst.

Curry shot 9-for-20 and also had five steals, while Thompson had his 11th 20-point game for the second straight postseason despite shooting 2-for-9 from 3-point range.

After struggling the past two games, Draymond Green had 11 points and 13 rebounds.

Andrew Bogut delivered with a playoff career-high 15 points and 14 rebounds for his second doubledouble this postseason and seventh of his career.

Golden State made 31 of 34 free throws.

With his 1,248th career postseason point in the third, Curry passed Wilt Chamberlain (1,246) for second place on the franchise’s playoff scoring list.

First it was Serena Williams’ turn to overpower an opponent 6-2, 6-1 on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

Shortly after that was over Thursday, her older sister Venus entered the very same French Open arena and won by the very same score.

A bit like old times, n’estce pas?

“It’s a little surreal sometimes, because it has been so long. They’ve both been out here almost 20 years,” said their sister, Isha Price, who was in the stands for both matches.

“It was nice to have them play back-to-back and not have to move,” Price added with a laugh. “It’s so interesting that their scoreline was the same. It was really nice to be there for that.”

Back in 2002, when neither was yet 22, the American siblings contested the final at Roland Garros, one of their eight all-in-thefamily Grand Slam title matches — and they haven’t played each other at any stage in Paris since.

That’s due in part to Venus’ troubles at the claycourt tournament, where, now nearly 36, she moved into the third round for the first time since 2010 by relinquishing only three games in 54 minutes against American qualifier Louisa Chirico. Defending champion Serena’s similarly simple victory against 81st-ranked Teliana Pereira of Brazil lasted 12 minutes longer.

The sisters — No. 1-seeded Serena, No. 9 Venus — even got a chance to cross paths and catch up briefly between their nearly identical matches. Serena faced one break point; Venus zero. Serena compiled a 316 edge in winners; Venus’ margin was 22-6. Serena made 17 unforced errors; Venus 15.

Each Williams next plays a French opponent: Serena against No. 26 Kristina Mladenovic, Venus against unseeded Alize Cornet.

It would take three more victories apiece, but — on the half of the draw already missing No. 3 Angelique Kerber and No. 5 Victoria Azarenka — there is the potential for a Williams vs.

Williams semifinal next week. They have not met that deep into a major tournament in seven years, although Serena did defeat Venus in the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September.

Milos Raonic moved into the fourth round of the French Open for the second time in three years.

The eighth-seeded Canadian converted his fifth match point to get past 133rd-ranked “lucky loser” Andrej Martin of Slovakia 76 (4), 6-2, 6-3 at Court 1 on Friday.

Raonic, treated by a trainer in the third set, was hampered by a hip muscle problem at the Australian Open in January and the Indian Wells tournament in March.

Still, the 2014 French Open quarterfinalist compiled a 43-22 edge in winners.

Martin was trying to become the first man from Slovakia to reach the fourth round at Roland Garros since Dominik Hrbaty was a semifinalist in 1999.

Simona Halep rallied from a set down to beat 18year-old Naomi Osaka 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 and advance to the fourth round at the French Open.

The 2014 French Open runner-up says the 101stranked Japanese teen “played unbelievable.”

The sixth-seeded Halep broke Osaka at love for a 5-3 lead in the third set on Court Suzanne Lenglen and served out the win.

Garbine Muguruza is the first player into the fourth round of the French Open, making it at least that far for the third year in a row.

The fourth-seeded Spaniard played nearly flawlessly while beating Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-3, 6-0 on Court Philippe Chatrier.

Muguruza converted all six break points she accumulated against Wickmayer and had an impressive ratio of 19 winners to only 11 unforced errors.

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Latest â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;X-Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; satisfies in superhero summer

By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit of bad timing for â&#x20AC;&#x153;X-Men: Apocalypseâ&#x20AC;? coming third in this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superhero lineup.

Director Bryan Singer invigorates his latest X-Men film with vintage 1980s charm in an origin story about how the mutant supergroup unites and divides in response to the villain Apocalypse. And while battles between heroes are an X-Men tradition, warring among the ranks has become a superhero trope this season, at play in both â&#x20AC;&#x153;Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Captain America: Civil War.â&#x20AC;?

Like similarly dressed beauties in celebrity magazines, it becomes a case of who wore it better, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unfair burden on what is ultimately a satisfying conclusion to the rebooted trilogy. Even with an ensemble that includes Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Fassbender and Poe from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Warsâ&#x20AC;? (Oscar Isaac, unrecognizable as Apocalypse), it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t match the magic of the latest Avengers movie, with multiple characters carefully inter-developed over a dozen films. â&#x20AC;&#x153;X-Men: Apocalypseâ&#x20AC;? is also a prequel, so the fate of its characters isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a mystery.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say â&#x20AC;&#x153;Apocalypseâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a fun flick on its own. It has a grand scope, great special effects and

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STARRING IN â&#x20AC;&#x153;X-Men: Apocalypseâ&#x20AC;? are, above from left, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, James McAvoy, Lucas Till and Nicholas Hoult. Below is Michael Fassbender. doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require knowledge of its predecessors to enjoy.

Those who know the characters get even more payoff.

As hinted at during the credits for 2014â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;X-Men: Days of Future Past,â&#x20AC;? this film brings on Apocalypse, a super-powered mutant who can transfer his essence from one being to another and was revered as a god when he existed millennia ago. Resurrected in 1983 after centuries of lying dormant, Apocalypse is disgusted at the state of the world. He wants to wipe out

greedy, intolerant humans and restore the mutants to their deified status. He magnifies the power of any mutant who sides with him.

Meanwhile, Professor X (James McAvoy) has renewed his focus on his School for Gifted Children, where Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) and Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) are among the students learning to control their powers. The professorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend and rival, Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Fassbender), put his mutant powers

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;X-Men: Apocalypseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; RATED: PG-13 for sequences of violence, action and destruction, brief strong language and some suggestive images RUN TIME: 147 minutes RATING: Two and a half stars out of four

Marty McFly who provides both playful comedy and zippy action sequences.

Magneto also inspires awesome special-effects action, imploding and pulverizing historic sites.

Simon Kinbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screenplay is guilty of a few lame lines at key moments (â&#x20AC;&#x153;He thought that you were going to make a difference in this world, maybe even change itâ&#x20AC;?), but otherwise keeps the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement brisk and backstories clear, though the cast is big and includes several new faces.

The X-Men had a lot to accomplish in this film before Captain America and his crew swooped in with their own movie a couple weeks earlier.

And even if the Avengers may have worn it better, the X-Men are doing just fine.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Country star Dierks Bentley may be known for his boozy party songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drunk On a Planeâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;5-1-5-0,â&#x20AC;? but as a singer, he loves going dark.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even named his new album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sad country music is way better than happy country music,â&#x20AC;? the Grammy-nominated Bentley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happy country music is good for the live show. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for driving your car to work. The greatest country music is the sad stuff. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where you learn stuff. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you get through stuff.â&#x20AC;?

The 40-year-old singer named the album, out today, after his wife Cassidyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maiden name, which he loved so much he tried to convince her to keep it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we got married, I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You should just keep the name Cassidy Black, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so cool,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Bentley, who often takes the stage in a plain black Tshirt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll change my name to Dierks Black. I just like the color black.â&#x20AC;?

The title track is one of Bentleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexiest songs of his career, a sultry bedroom ballad that allowed him to frame the entire album around the storylines of love, loss and heartache. He explores the self-doubt that comes while watching someone slip out of a relationship on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Do I Feelâ&#x20AC;? and cheating lovers meeting in secret on a duet with Maren Morris on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Be the Moon.â&#x20AC;?

But Bentley also has learned from previous albums that fans, and radio stations, still want the fun Dierks, too.

His first single, the summery â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somewhere on a Beach,â&#x20AC;? hit No. 1 on Billboardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hot country chart, and his next single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Different for Girls,â&#x20AC;? features poprocker Elle King. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just hit it off with her right away,â&#x20AC;? Bentley said of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Ohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? singer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just really self-deprecating and funny, but a great singer.â&#x20AC;?

More than a decade into his career, Bentley, who recently hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards with Luke Bryan, is adept at finding the balance on

aside to live as a family man in Poland. But when personal tragedy strikes, he goes on a destructive streak.

Magneto and other disillusioned mutants â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Angel (Ben Hardy) and Psylocke (Olivia Munn in a very tiny outfit) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; join forces with Apocalypse.

Professor X and his protĂŠgĂŠs, including Raven/ Mystique (Lawrence) and fellow blue person Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee), unite to try to stop them.

A muscular, muttonchopped X-Man â&#x20AC;&#x201D; here referred to as Weapon X â&#x20AC;&#x201D; isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t part of the fight, but thrills in a brief, shirtless cameo.

McAvoy is all charm as Professor X. Fassbender brings gravitas to Magneto.

Lawrence, though, seems like she might be over this kind of big franchise fare.

The standouts, in both character and performance, are Jean Grey and Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver (Evan Peters).

Jean seems even more confident and powerful here than when Famke Janssen plays her in the previous/later â&#x20AC;&#x153;X-Menâ&#x20AC;? films, plus she utters the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best self-referential barb. In talking about trilogies, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;At least we can all agree the third oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always the worst.â&#x20AC;?

Peters shines as Quicksilver, a dorky-cool, ultra-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s

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DIERKS BENTLEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blackâ&#x20AC;? hits stores today. albums now.

He is the country joker, the bluegrass picker, the love song singer and the stadium rocker all packaged together. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If people want to go buy a single and go party to it, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great,â&#x20AC;? Bentley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am trying to make a record for me as much as I am trying to make a record for my fans.â&#x20AC;?

So he has no regrets about ending the album on a sad note, an acoustic guitar ballad called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Be Replaced,â&#x20AC;? in which he sings about his aging 15-year-old dog Jake, who has been with him since before he had a wife and kids and became a star. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The very first song I ever put out to country radio, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What Was I Thinking,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; had a picture of Jake on the cover and had a big dobro

solo in that song,â&#x20AC;? Bentley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kinda like the perfect bookend to the last eight records and really to his life.â&#x20AC;?

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SPECIAL DONATIONS

MONICA CAYLOR and THOMAS HART

ENGAGEMENT

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THE INDIANA Hospital Nurses Alumni Association recently presented Indiana Regional Medical Center $3,500 for the purchase of new chairs for the nurses’ stations. The association also donated $500 to the Visiting Nurse Association of Indiana County, $500 to the Alice Paul House and $250 each to the Indiana County Care-Net and Hopeful Hearts programs. Pictured, from left, are Heather Harkleroad, Indiana Healthcare Foundation; Diane Petras, president of the Indiana Hospital Nurses Alumni Association; Donna Flinko, treasurer of the Indiana Hospital Nurses Alumni Association; and Beverly Lydick, executive secretary of administration of Indiana Regional Medical Center.

John Caylor Jr., of Creekside, has announced the engagement of his daughter, Monica Jean Caylor, to Thomas Edward Hart, son of Thomas and Sandra Hart, of Home.

Miss Caylor is also the daughter of the late Sharon Caylor, who is truly missed during this joyous occasion.

The bride-to-be is a 1992 graduate of Marion Center Area High School and is

employed as an assistant teacher at Indiana County Head Start.

The future groom is a 1990 graduate of Marion Center Area High School and is employed as a boilermaker for Local Union 154.

Both the bride-to-be and the prospective groom reside in Marion Center.

A summer wedding is being planned for June 3, 2017, with close family and friends.

Growing minds with a garden

By DANIEL NEMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS — The kids could not have been more enthusiastic.

I spent a good part of the morning recently on a tour of the gardens outside the Mallinckrodt Academy in the Northampton neighborhood. The tour guides were a happy group of third-graders who were eager to share their knowledge of the garden.

“My favorite is the orchard, because we get to see how the plants are doing and how the fruit does on trees,” said 9-yearold Lilly Jean-Baptiste, who, like the others, is in a class taught by Anne Mayes.

That’s right, an orchard grows outside Mallinckrodt Academy, a public elementary school for gifted students. It’s a small orchard — four apple trees, plus a few pear trees, peach, wild plum and currants — but it is growing in the school’s front yard.

And even though the trees will not begin to bear significant amounts of fruit until after the students leave the school, the students say they are happy knowing that the work they do today will benefit those who come after them. Apple trees were chosen to be planted at the students’ request. They came in second, after bananas. That’s why there are apples. A local orchard donated the still-young apple trees, and parents donated the others.

But there is much more to the garden — officially known to the school’s administration as the Outdoor Instructional Classroom — than trees.

One raised bed after another overflows with lettuce, fennel, sage, cabbage, garlic, potatoes and kale. One bed grows peas,

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Gary Mack, Rossiter • Adam Shotts, Creekside • Alivia Skinner, Indiana • Shirley Zundel, Indiana DANIEL NEMAN/St. Louis Post-Dispatch

GIA DOSHI, Jonathan Binder and Olivia Finley, third-graders at Mallinckrodt Academy of Gifted Instruction Elementary School, posed with cabbage in the school’s garden classroom. which have been ravaged by rabbits, and onions, which were planted in an unsuccessful attempt to deter the rabbits. Strawberries grow in another.

“You can see that critters come in and try to eat the strawberries,” explained Amelia Marquart, 9.

And mint, as it is wont to do, has almost completely taken over another bed.

The students are encouraged to eat the mint to keep it from getting out of control.

“It reminds me of toothpaste, and I think it is fun to eat because it tingles my tongue,” opined 9-year-old Faith Johnson.

The garden has a specific instructional purpose: “We’re bringing the outside inside,” said school Principal DeAndre Thomas.

So it’s not just learning how to plant things and take care of them. One part of the school grounds, the pollinator garden, is filled with plants that specifically attract insects involved

in pollination, such as bees and butterflies. The students also keep journals tracking their observations, keeping note of the birds and insects they have found and even coming up with acrostics for words such as “garden.”

The educational benefits of the garden spread well beyond the realm of science, said Mayes, the teacher. It helps with English, when the students write about what they see.

They can understand concepts in math better when they measure the perimeters of the raised beds and calculate the area inside them. And their appreciation of social studies can blossom, too, when the students are assigned to form a mini-society. The students have to decide which items to market, how to market them and how to set the prices, she said.

Guiding the students through their learning is Punita Patel, the education liaison with Gateway

Greening. Patel meets with each class a couple of times a month, helping the students both work in the garden and learn from it.

Gateway Greening runs 21 such gardens at schools in the city, both public and private, and has a total of 55 in the region. Much of the budget for this work comes from the Monsanto Fund, which this year provided a grant of $205,000 for the youth garden program.

You can’t argue with the results. The students at Mallinckrodt seem thoroughly engaged in the garden and are wide-eyed about what they learn.

Some of the typical backyard pests are kept at bay at the school’s garden, largely because of a voracious red-tailed hawk that perches in the trees and keeps a sharp eye out for squirrels. So Patel asked the students what keeps the squirrels away.

One girl knew the answer. She eagerly said, “Lawn mowers!”

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Grand gestures from grandparents QUESTION: Two years ago, my son moved to Florida with his wife and decided he no longer wanted a relationship with his father, brother or me. My granddaughter was born 18 months ago. We have been allowed to see her twice: when she was a month old and again this winter. My son now allows us to FaceTime with our granddaughter once a week. But he will not speak to us or initiate the calls. My husband thinks if we stop the calls, my son’s attitude toward us will change. My brother says I am a glutton for punishment. But I want my granddaughter to know I love her. Should I continue with FaceTime? — Cecilia, New York ANSWER: In a word that even a 2-year-old will understand: Yes! I disagree with your husband and brother. Canceling the calls and moving into “show-

SOCIAL Q’s down at the O.K. Corral” mode is not going to improve relations with your son. If there is any way to make strides here, it will involve more communication, not less. Do not try to push him into a corner.

I don’t see these FaceTime calls making you a “glutton for punishment,” either.

Even though your son has severed ties with you, he seems to value your regular presence in his daughter’s life.

That’s good! His failure to appear onscreen is a technicality. The baby is not yet 2. Unless she is a mini-Mark Zuckerberg, someone is handling the laptop for her.

Keep calling. And don’t act injured by her parents or the situation. Let “cheerful” be your watchword.

Which brings me to my grand finale: a pitch for

family counseling — in New York or Florida — among your nearest and not so dearest. We don’t know why your son has cut you off, though I suspect you have asked him many times. And you have not been able to solve this on your own. But sometimes a family conversation, moderated by a neutral professional, can help everyone feel heard — which may be the first step on the long road to Disney World with your son and granddaughter. What have you got to lose?

QUESTION: A friend gave us a $200 gift card from a small home-goods boutique. It was generous, and we feel terrible because we lost it. I am sure our friend will eventually ask what we bought. I called the store; they said they don’t keep records of gift cards. Do we purchase something so our friend thinks we used it? Or

do we say nothing and hope she forgets? — Anonymous ANSWER: You left out the obvious solution: Get Stephen Hawking to build you a time machine so you can travel backward and take better care of the gift card. Or just tell your friend the truth: “Thanks so much for your gift. Like fools, we went and lost it. But we really appreciate your thinking of us.”

We all lose things. It’s no knock on your affection for your friend. The truth may also do some practical good here: Perhaps the shop gave your friend a copy of the gift card? Or will reissue one with a credit card receipt?

But even if not, go with the truth when possible. Fewer fibs to remember that way.

QUESTION: I have a friend who is going through a divorce. Before she split up with her husband, they booked a vacation at a re-

sort. Now she has a resort credit. Initially, she invited a man she was dating, but he had a family commitment when she proposed going.

Then she invited me. But we had a hard time finding dates. A few months later, I stopped working, so my schedule is more flexible now.

But when I proposed revisiting the vacation, she said she’s decided to bring a new man she is dating. I feel resentful about this. We have been friends for 20 years, and I helped her through her divorce.

Should I say something? — Anonymous, Oakland, Calif.

ANSWER: Like what? That 20 years of friendship and some divorce support entitle you to a free vacation, and you want it now? Your pal invited you, and you weren’t available. So, she moved on, which is her right. Get over it.

QUESTION: My more experienced officemate often coaches me — in real time — when I am on the phone with clients, telling me what she thinks I ought to be saying. It is annoying and distracting. But I know she’s only trying to help, so I don’t want to be rough on her. — Jack, New York ANSWER: You and your officemate sound like Julia Roberts and George Clooney in “Money Monster.” She speaks to him through an earpiece while he is doling out financial advice on an overcooked cable TV show. I loved it in the movie, but I can see where it would be annoying in real life.

Your call: Go to newscaster school, or tell your colleague: “I appreciate your help, but having two conversations at once is one too many. Can you wait to talk until after I’m off the phone?”

Et Cetera

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Friday, May 27, 2016 — Page 21

Give thanks on Memorial Day Rapper charged during moment of remembrance in venue shooting DEAR ABBY: Americans are at their best when they unite around a noble purpose. On Memorial Day, that purpose is the National Moment of Remembrance.

On that day, all Americans are asked to pause Dear Abby is wherever written by they are Abigail Van at 3 p.m.

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Greater Love, a patriotic organization, was founded by a woman named Carmella LaSpada.

It initiated the National Moment of Remembrance in 1997, which was later established by Congress in

DEAR ABBY

2000. The Moment is observed by thousands of Americans at major league baseball games across the country.

For more than 40 years, the AFL-CIO, North American trade unions, ironworkers, sheet metal, air, rail and transportation workers along with No Greater Love have honored our fallen, our troops, our veterans and their families. Our union members are proud to support the National Moment of Remembrance.

As one nation under God, we should join together to honor those who died for our freedom — each one an American treasure. — ERIC DEAN, GENERAL PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS DEAR MR. DEAN: I am aware of the loyal and generous support the unions have given to No Greater Love and the families who have lost beloved family members in wars and military conflicts.

For that I thank you.

Readers, it is my sincere hope that you will take a moment from your busy day to join us at 3 p.m. in honoring our fallen military men and women on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30. — LOVE, ABBY DEAR ABBY: My mother died in her sleep last year at our home.

She was 97.

We cleaned the carpets and repainted the room, removed the hospital bed and replaced it with a brand-new one.

We recently asked some friends to stay overnight at our house, and they called back to ask if they would be staying in the room Mama had died in. We have a second guest room, although it’s smaller and so is the bed (full, not a queen). They seemed hesitant.

After the call I found myself feeling offended. I keep thinking that if the shoe was on the other foot, would they shut down a room of their home if someone had died there?

We have had other houseguests who didn’t mind staying in the room.

These people are supposed to arrive soon.

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By The Associated Press Today is Friday, May 27, the 148th day of 2016.

There are 218 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History: On May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. Amid rising world tensions, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” during a radio address from the White House.

On this date: In 1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill. In 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, N.J. In 1933, the Chicago World’s Fair, celebrating “A Century of Progress,” officially opened. Walt Disney’s Academy Awardwinning animated short “The Three Little Pigs” was first released.

In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v.

United States, unanimously struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act, a key component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” legislative program.

In 1936, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York. The first Aer Lingus flight took place as a de Havilland Dragon carried five passengers from Dublin to Bristol, England.

In 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).

In 1942, Navy Cook 3rd Class Doris “Dorie” Miller became the first AfricanAmerican to receive the Navy Cross for his “extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety” during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

In 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist play “Huis clos” (known in English as “No Exit”) was first performed in Paris.

In 1962, a dump fire in Centralia, Pa., ignited a blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to burn this day.

In 1964, independent India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.

In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification for an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997.

In 1998, Michael Fortier, the government’s star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.

(Fortier was freed in January 2006.)

Ten years ago: A 6.3magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed some 5,800 people.

Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, was born in Namibia, where the family had traveled for privacy.

Five years ago: Astronauts Mike Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff made history as the final spacewalkers of NASA’s 30-year shuttle program, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension pole.

Rich countries and international lenders said at a Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, they were aiming to provide $40 billion in funding for Arab nations trying to establish democracy, starting with Egypt and Tunisia. President Barack Obama, visiting Poland, honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis.

Gil Scott-Heron, 62, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap music, died in New York.

Actor Jeff Conaway died at a hospital in Encino, Calif.; he was 60.

One year ago: The U.S. government launched an attack on what it called deep-seated and brazen corruption in soccer’s global governing body, FIFA, indicting 14 influential figures on charges of racketeering and taking bribes.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, an aggressive advocate for conservative family values, launched a 2016 Republican White House bid.

Nebraska’s Legislature abolished the death penalty over the objections of Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican supporter of capital punishment.

Today’s Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning

novelist Herman Wouk is 101. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 93.

Former FBI Director William Sessions is 86. Author John Barth is 86. Actress Lee Meriwether is 81.

Musician Ramsey Lewis is 81. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 80.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 77.

Country singer Don Williams is 77. Actor Bruce Weitz is 73. Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Christopher Dodd is 72.

Singer Bruce Cockburn is 71. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 66.

Actor Richard Schiff is 61.

Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 59. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 58.

Actress Peri Gilpin is 55.

Actress Cathy Silvers is 55.

Comedian Adam Carolla is 52.

Actor Todd Bridges is 51.

Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 50.

Actor Dondre Whitfield is 47. Actor Paul Bettany is 45.

Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 45. Country singer Jace Everett is 44. Actor Jack McBrayer is 43. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 41.

Rapper Jadakiss is 41. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 41. Altcountry singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson is 40.

Actor Ben Feldman is 36.

Actor Michael Steger is 36.

Actor Darin Brooks is 32.

Actor-singer Chris Colfer is 26. Actor Ethan Dampf is 22.

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NEW YORK — Fists were flying and then bullets inside a crowded New York City concert venue where four people were shot, one fatally, and now a rapper who police said was seen on surveillance footage firing a gun is facing attempted murder and weapons charges.

Roland Collins, who goes by the stage name Troy Ave, was arrested Thursday, a day after the deadly shooting at Irving Plaza, where hip-hop artist T.I. was set to perform. Police said a fistfight had broken out in a performers’ lounge at the venue.

The man who died, 33year-old Ronald McPhatter, was a member of Collins’ entourage and had been there to provide security, according to his family.

Collins, 30, suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, police said.

An eight-second video clip released by police shows the gunman bursting through the door of a VIP room in apparent pursuit of another man, who flees offscreen.

As concertgoers huddle under a counter and clutch each other, the gunman, who appears to be limping, stops and scans the room for a moment with his eyes.

Then, he spots something, raises his gun and fires.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene.

“Everyone was hysterical, I was having a panic attack during the shooting, and the woman next to me was covering my mouth with her hand to try to get me to stop screaming,” said Liv

Hoffman, 19.

There were nearly 1,000 people in the venue when the shooting began. One of the victims, Christopher Vinson, 34, was shot in the chest on the venue’s ground level after a bullet traveled through the floor, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said. Another bystander, Maggie Heckstall, 26, was shot in the leg, authorities said.

The exact circumstances of what prompted the fight were still under investigation.

In an interview with WCBS radio, Police Commissioner William Bratton blamed the shootings on “the crazy world of the socalled rap artists who are basically thugs that basically celebrate the violence that they live all their lives.”

That prompted an angry response from McPhatter’s relatives and a city lawmaker, who derided the comments as insensitive and divisive.

“When white people are doing this violence, I don’t hear the same language being used,” said City Councilman Jumaane Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat who said he had worked on anti-violence initiatives with McPhatter and his older brother, Shanduke McPhatter, a former gang member.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said afterward he believed Bratton was “talking out of frustration.”

Collins was in custody and couldn’t be reached for comment Thursday. It was unclear if he had an attorney.

A message left at a phone number listed for him wasn’t immediately returned.

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THE RULE WORKS IN SUITS ALSO Samuel Lover, an Anglo-Irish novelist, songwriter and painter who died in 1868, said, “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”

That is so true. In today’s deal, a wise declarer can benefit from applying perhaps the only bridge “rule” that always works.

What is the rule, and why might South not capitalize on it?

He is in four spades, and West leads a fourth-highest diamond seven. As a secondary issue, what were West’s more successful opening leads?

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five potential losers: two diamonds and three clubs. He has only eight winners: five spades and three hearts. So, he needs either one trick in each minor (West has the club ace) or two diamonds.

Many declarers, knowing that West would not be underleading (leading away from) the diamond ace against a suit contract, will immediately play dummy’s jack. Here, though, after East takes the trick with his ace, he can return any card but a club to defeat the contract.

Assuming West’s lead is fourthhighest, the Rule of Eleven must work.

Yes, it is much more commonly used in no-trump contracts, but it applies in suits as well. Seven from 11 is four. Since South can see three diamonds higher than the seven (dummy’s king-jack and his nine), he knows East has only one diamond higher than the seven, which must be the ace. So declarer should play dummy’s three at trick one.

Then he can get two diamond tricks to make his contract.

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724-388-4853 NURSE needed for Primary Care Physicans Office. LPN or RN considered. Previous experience in Dr’s Office a plus, but will consider other types of experience, This is a full time position, However can be flexible with scheduleing. To apply send cover letter & Resume to: Box 2943 c/o The Indiana Gazette P.O. Box 10, Indiana, PA 15701.

For 3-11 & 11-7:30. FT or PT Must have a diploma or GED. Stop in at Rose Haven between 9 and 3 for application.

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Farm Equipment For Sale

HAYBINE: Hesston 1120, A1, new guards. Price reduced.

Ph. 724-254-4884

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Farm Products For Sale

HOMEGROWN Strawberries, 891 Pearce Road Smicksburg

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Lawn & Garden Tools For Sale

2 WEEDEATERS (1) Feather Light Plus & (1) Ryobi, both work good, will together or seperate, asking $60.00. Call (724) 464-8195

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Farm & Lawn Services

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FREE ESTIMATE 724.954.2986 Locally Owned & Operated

Part-time Program Monitors Firetree, Ltd. a leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment programs has a need for Program Monitors at our inpatient facility located in Indiana, PA. Duties include: admission intakes, security checks, client accountability, supervise client activities and medication monitoring.

Minimum qualifications: high school diploma and experience in effectively dealing with the public. Must be willing to work different shifts and some weekends and holidays. Must pass required criminal background checks and drug screen.

Resumes will be accepted until suitable candidates are found.

or Fax: (724) 471-7105 e-mail: jduffey@firetree.com Firetree, Ltd. is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer

2 BDR w/ laundry room, 6.5 miles from Walmart, in Jacksonville, $450/mo + utilities.

(724) 422-7669

• Outdoor Living Spaces • Patios & Retaining Walls • Firepits & Fireplaces

INDIANA BORO: N. 7th St. 3 bdr, 1 ba, on quiet St., 3 unrelated individuals. permitted, off St. prkg, $700 mo + util.

(724) 422-9615

• Stonework • Rock Gardening • Ponds & Waterfalls QUALITY WORK ~ FULLY INSURED Commercial & Residential

Mobile Homes For Rent

3 BDRM, 2 bath, Burrell Township. 3/4acre private lot. $500/mo. + Sec. dep. and references. All utilities need paid. (724) 248-3817 or (724) 464-3405 CLYMER: Rural Setting, 2 bdrm. 1 bath, $500/mo. plus elec., incl. heat, sewage, water & garbage.

Sec Dep. Non smoking.

(724) 599-6999

ALTMAN: 14 Old Church Rd, Sat. 5/28; 9am-5pm.

Something for everyone!

CLEANED OUT THE ATTIC SALE !!

INDIANA: 10 Park Place (Near Memorial Park), Sat. 5/28 8-4, Victorian parlor set, spinning wheel, yarnwinder, blanket chest, vintent kitchen cabinet, child’s rocker, toy box, vintage shutters, nice holiday items, shelves, old glassware, stain glass items, old books, hunting books, women’s suits size 8 & 10, fishing items & lots more.

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Garage Sales

INDIANA BORO: 47 S. Coulter Ave., Fri. 5/27 & Sat. 5/28, 9-?, Yard Sale/Moving Sale, Lots of misc. Items.

INDIANA: 102 Madison Circle off Mansfield, Sat.; 8am-? Full weight bench set, corner computer desk, 4 exercise mach.

Missy small quality & XXL men’s clothing, many designer shoes size 7; many household, decorative & seasonal items.

MadererLandscapingInc.com Bob Maderer, Owner

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Garage Sales

INDIANA: 2594 Evergreen Dr, Sat 5/28; 9am4pm. Entire household contents, for complete listing w/photo visit Scottsoloestatesales. com.

INDIANA: 2741 W. Pike Rd. Sat (5/28) 8-2pm. Old glassware, oak TV stand, lots of tools, garden items, household, 18-24 mo. boy clothes & more.

INDIANA: 470 Maple St., Sat. 5/28, 8-1, boys & men’s clothing, bikes, household, baby grand piano, misc.

INDIANA: 1162 Mansfield Ave, Fri. & Sat; 8am-4pm.

Something for everyone!

COMMODORE: 89 Acorn Rd., Multi-Family, Sat. 5/28 , Sun. 5/29 & Mon. 5/30 , 9-5, furniture, baby items, households, clothing, and much more.

Don’t Miss This One!

INDIANA: 580 N. 6th St..

Sat. 5/28, 8-3, 32” Samsung Flat Screen TV, lots of misc.

INDIANA: 129 Eastwood Ct. Heritage Oaks, Sat. May 28th 8-noon, tween girl new/lightly used clothing, games, Concept2 exercise rower, household items, electronics, men’s watches & clothing, aquariums, much more!

CORAL: 1st St. beside Ch, Sat. & Sun; 8-4pm.

Clothes, home decor, collectibles, much more.

DERRY: 619 Beech St, just off Rt 217, Fri. & Sat; May 27 & 28; 8-4. Hand & power tools, gas edger, band saw, gas cooktop, welder, grinder, hydraulic press, jacuzzi tub, garden items, shell loading equip

INDIANA: 635 Virginia Ave, off 6th Street, 5/27 & 5/28, 8-?, clothes $1 or less, many misc items.

INDIANA: 75 E. Oak St., Fri. 5/27 & Sat. 5/28, 9-?

INDIANA: 841 Josephine Avenue in Chevy Chase, 5/28, 5/29, & 5/30. 9-3, furniture, dog cage, more!

INDIANA: 133 Marcoline Rd. May 27th-28th, 8am-4pm. Misc tools, household items, and more.

INDIANA: 1353 School, Sat., 9-5pm; Furniture, jewelry, household items.

Something for everyone!

INDIANA: Neighborhood Sale, S 5th Street, Locust to Maple, 6/11 & 6/12, 8-6, 12 + homes & churches

DIXONVILLE: Willow Rd, Fri. 9-6 & Sat. 9-2; Large variety of items.

INDIANA: Rear 1220 Philadelphia St., Fri. 5/27 8-5 & Sat. 5/28 8-2, tons of old & new items for everyone including kids!

GRACETON: Rte 119 Storage, Sat.; 8-Noon, Tools, doors, windows, big metal desk, antiques, toys, lots of good stuff!

HOME: 177 Griffith Drive(Across From Martin’s store) Fri. 5/27 & Sat. 5/28, 8-5, all sizes boys & girls clothing, propane grill, stroller, crib set., lots of misc.

HOOVERHURST: 23471 Rte. 286 Hwy E. (Glen Campbell) Fri 5/27, Sat 5/28 & Sun. 5/29 , 8-5, MOVING SALE, antiques, Something for everyone.

PA #055842

Office: 724-349-6696 Cell: 724-422-3333

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INDIANA: 106 Adams Circle (Fairfax), 5/27 & 5/28, 8-1, furniture, household, kids clothes & toys, much more misc.

COMMODORE: 2629 Allison Rd., Fri. 5/27 & Sat. 5/28, 9-3, tools & hardware, Lots of misc.

Conewago - Indiana Attn: Joseph Duffey, Director 2275 Warren Road Indiana, PA 15701

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CLYMER: 1 or 2 BDRS avail., can be furn or unfurn, $500/mo or $550/ mo incl. free heat, very clean. No pets, Non smoking. 724-254-4777

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HUNTER’S CREEK Development near Shelocta.

Fri. 5/27 & Sat. 5/28 8-3pm.

INDIANA: 1470 Bethel Church Road at Bethel Presb. Congregational Multi-Family Yard Sale, Sat. 6/4, 8am - 4pm

INDIANA: 176 Maple St, Sat. 5/28; 9-3pm. 4 Family! Large cookbook collection, lots of men’s summer shirts, shorts, etc. Women’s clothes, gadgets, household, bake goods, & lots more.

MARION CENTER: 1899 Steele Rd., Sat. 5/28 & Sun. 5/29, 9-?, HUGE Multi-Family Sale, 90cc Quad, adult motor63cross riding gear, furniture, antiques, horse saddles & lots more Misc.

INDIANA: 211 Saddlebrook Drive, Sat. 5/28 8-1, patio furn., worth youth baseball glove, womens lacrosse shoes & bag, large dog cage, women’s scrubs, gently used brand clothing, vintage wedding dress, Much more!

SHELOCTA: 30 Shelocta Rd.. Log A Fram behind Mumau Diesel on 422, 5/27 & 5/28, 9-5, Elvis Pressley Albums, old records, silk flowers & wreaths, women’s handerkerchiefs, clotheing buttons, golf cart, wheels & tires, 2 sets of patio doors, too much stuff too litlle house.

INDIANA: 2165 Philadelphia St., Sat. 5/28, 7-2, men’s hunting clothes & boots, stetson hats, horseback riding rain coat, pet crate, coats, more!

STARFORD: 3762 Starford Rd, Fri. & Sat; 9-5pm Indoor! Clothes men, women, kids; toys, home & seasonal decor.

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Miscellaneous For Sale

125 Gal. Fish Tank, 72” long, 22” high , 18” wide, comes with Tank hood, lights, filter stand and gravel, asking $400 obo.

Call (814) 257-8542 AIR CONDITIONER: window style, 26” w x 17” h, 110 volts, $75. (724) 463-0412 MARION CENTER: Propane Day at Home Farm Supply, Sat. 5/28, Special price fill up(724) 397-5502 MARLENA Evans doll.

New in box. $60. (724) 397-8124 STORM DOOR: 32” white insulated with frame, top half slides down to screen, $150.

(724) 349-8211

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Trains Magazines, asking $50. Call (724) 801-8007

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Swimming Pools For Sale

Pools: 19’ x 31’ above ground, $899 installed FREE- site prep extra.

1-800-548-1923

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Remodeling Services

PA# 1621

AN HONEST & REPUTABLE CONTRACTOR SERVING THE AREA FOR 28 YEARS! 7248402143 8147490584

“A CALL FOR QUALITY”

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Special Services

TREE MONKEYS

Professional Tree Service - Pruning and Removal - Stump Grinding We Specialize In Hazardous Trees

Fully Insured

724-465-4083 PA059590

BDR SERVICES Painting, Dry Walling, Mowing, Clean Up, Yard Maintenance, Power Washing Reasonable rates.

Fully insured.

Call (724) 599-0293

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Machinery & Tools

225 Lincoln Welder, 7” & 4” grinders, fusing machines, tool box’s, welding tables, plus other equipment, for info. call (724) 388-3038

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Household Goods

DINING Room Set, Oval Table w/ leaf, 4 chairs, lighted china/storage cabinet, asking $200/all, Call (724) 254-2395 GE Microwave, white, in excellent condition, remoldeling, asking $60.

Call (724) 354-2314 KOFFEE KING, Commercial Coffee Maker, 3 burners, good working condition, asking $75, Call (724) 349-2789 MAGIC CHEF, Gas oven & stove, in good condition, asking $100. Call (724) 388-0900 QUEEN Size Box Spring & Mattress, also a chest of Drawers, clean , good condition, In New derry Area asking $50/both.

Call (724)541-3998

PA#107457

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DR. VAC

VACUUM CENTER PARTS • BELTS BAGS • SUPPLIES

Repairing All Brands Kirby Specialist Authorized Dyson Parts Dealer OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN SERVICE & REPAIR

19 S. MAIN ST, HOMER CITY (724) 479-2021

HAULING Need your unwanted items hauled away. Call 724-463-8254.

PRO 1 PAVING Residential & Commercial Paving • Sealing Line Striping

724-694-8011

Appliances For Sale

2 Elelctric Dryers, Maytag $50 , Whirlpool $100.

Call (724) 254-7376

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Musical & Stereo Equipment For Sale

CASIOTONE Electronic keyboard. 49 keys, DC power or AC power adaptor. Like new. $65.

Call (724) 349-0410 Yamaha Electone organ, synchro start & ending rhythm, originally $15,000 asking $500, (724) 479-9409

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Pets & Supplies For Sale

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Antiques

VINTAGE 4 legged apple or grape press, wooden troft & bucket, hand cranked, 41” tall, 22 “ wide, excellent cond, asking $325. Call (724) 422-7450

TO start a subscription to the Indiana Gazette, phone (724) 465-5555 and ask for the circulation department.

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Bicycles For Sale

MONGOOSE, Men’s 21 Speed, 26”, like new, $100 obo, (724) 464-9629

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Miscellaneous For Sale

2 FISH Tanks and stands, -20gal. & 1-30gal, asking $10/both. Call (724) 840-9697 55 Gallon Barrels , 3 black, 3 white, w/cart with 4 barrel holders, $75/all.

Call (724) 422-7450

AU C T I O N GUNS, COINS & MORE

SAT., MAY. 28 9 AM PREVIEW • 10 AM START

SALTSBURG VFD RIVER HALL 313 Salt St., Saltsburg

Partial Listing as We are Still Unpacking Items...

Guns, Coins and Paper Money, 1952 Lionel Train Set, Some Military Items, Prepper Items, Collectables, Toys, Harley Saddlebags, Jackets, Hand and Power Tools, & Much More.

STILL UNPACKING!!

Please Check Friday for Complete Auction Setup!

Photos on www.auctionzip.com Julie Dunmire - Auctioneer AU005600

J Dunmire Auction Service 724-639-3522

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

4 Tires, 205-65-16, all season in good condition $100 Call (724) 422-0322 4 Tires, 225-55-17,all season, good condition. asking $40 For all. Call (724) 422-4945

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Autos For Sale

NOEL FORD

EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!

Prices Kelley Blue Book Suggested Retail ALL Reasonable Offers Considered!

2012 FORD F150 SC 4x4 Running Boards, V8, Auto., Air, $ 119,000 Mi. .......

19,742

2011 FORD TAURUS SEL 14,400 Mi. .........

$

17,976

2010 FORD ESCAPE HYBRID 4X4 60,000 Mi. ..........

$

15,372

724.543.1015

www.NoelFord.com 1996 Lincoln Town Car , 135k, Clean , runs great , asking $2400 obo., Call (724) 349-0138

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724-349-7007 201 S. Jefferson St. KITTANNING

724-545-2880 www.leewayrentals.com CLASSIFIED helpline: (724)349-4949.

When your ad is published, specify the hours you can be reached. Some people never call back if they cannot reach you the first time. Our classified staff is available to serve you from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m Monday thru Friday.

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Motorcycles For Sale

1981 SUZUKI GS450T new battery, $900. Also 1981 Honda Passport scooter, $400. Day (724) 349-6550, evening (724) 726-5102 Class Action ads really get results at little or no cost to you. Just call the Gazette Classifieds (724) 349-4949 for more details

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Motorcycles For Sale

2008 MOTORCYCLE/ Scooter, 250cc, Wildfire, 4,300 mi, elec. start, auto.

100 mpg, excel. cond. $900 obo.

(724) 422-7450

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Boating Needs

WANTED Boat with TwoLick Pass. Call (724) 349-4030

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