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Board rolls back stipend cuts Payments now reduced by 25 percent; consultant says school district needs loan BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com
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After exiting executive session Monday night, the Sumter School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a recommendation to reduce all stipends
by only 25 percent of their annual amount. On Jan. 12, the board had approved Superintendent Frank Baker’s emergency financial plan, which cut all stipends in the district by 50 percent. The response by the board Monday at its regularly scheduled work
session came after much public outcry concerning the stipend cuts. Also at Monday night’s meeting, the outside financial consultant recently hired by the board updated the board on his work to date and goals.
Since starting with the district on Jan. 10, Scott Allan of School Support Inc., has conducted a 12month cash-flow analysis and determined the district will need a loan, or tax-anticipation note,
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Breaking ground on the Public Safety Complex
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Sumter city and county officials as well as promoters of the 2014 Penny for Progress campaign don hardhats with a penny to symbolize the groundbreaking of a Public Safety Complex funded through the ballot question. The $10.6 million complex, on the east side of Lafayette Drive between Loring Drive and Calhoun Street, will house a 36,000-squarefoot headquarters building for Sumter Police Department and a 21,600-square-foot headquarters for Sumter Fire Department as well as a four-bay fire station. Engineers predicted it will take about 14 months to complete the project. Shovels with hardhats await Sumter city and county dignitaries to break ground on a new public safety building on Monday.
Sumter Police Chief Russell Roark, left, and City of Sumter Fire Chief Karl Ford don hardhats for the ceremony on Monday.
Recent area retiree gets help through Fireside Fund
Crime Stoppers provides resource for public to help solve cases in community BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com
BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Kevin Howell, crisis relief director for Sumter United Ministries, said Fireside Fund has provided the ministry with the resources to address urgent heating needs and to make a lasting impact. Recently, a senior visited the Crisis Relief Ministry and needed assistance with a propane account, Howell said. The woman is from Pinewood, he said, which is one of the many smaller communities Sumter United Ministries assists throughout the county. “She has used electric space heaters in the past but has access to propane in her home and felt it would be a more
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cost-effective heat source,” Howell said. “She recently retired at 71 years old but had hopes of receiving some additional income, which never materialized.”
Her income is extremely modest, he said. “She owns her home, which is a great benefit to her,” Howell said. “However, with no house payment, her living expense totals cause her to be disqualified from some forms of assistance that she greatly needs.”
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DEATHS, B4 Lucille Y. Pechinka Travis Lee Barger George W. Clemmons Michael P. Tennant
Cynthia Maple-Hudson Ruth Johnson Wesley Kind Timothy T. Brooks
The Crime Stoppers organization was created in 1976 after information from the public was used to solve a murder case in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a monetary reward was advertised on TV. Sumter Crime Stoppers, the first Crime Stoppers program in South Carolina, was organized in October 1981. Marie Hodge, Sumter Crime Stoppers coordinator and latent print examiner at Sumter Police Department, said the organization receives about 10 cases per month from calls and solves about two calls
each month. Calls are answered by a secretary in the police department’s investigation division during the day on weekdays, and 911 dispatch answers calls on weeknights and during the weekend, Hodge said. Tips called in to the state number are sent to the appropriate law enforcement agency by email, she said. Most of the tips Crime Stoppers receives lead to the arrest of fugitives, she said. Some really good calls come in, Hodge said. About four years ago, a tip helped solve a three-year-old cold case, she said.
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Sumter man charged with criminal sexual assault Sumter police officers placed Marcus Carlo Garrick, 43, of 1 Peach St., in custody Friday after he was identified in the assault of a woman earlier in the week and in an unrelated attempted assault of another woman the previous month. Garrick is charged with criminal sexual conduct, first degree; assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct; and kidnapping. He is being GARRICK held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center. Bond has been denied on each charge. Police were called after 6 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, when an injured woman went to an area convenience store. Garrick, who was also injured, was later found sitting inside a disabled car in his driveway. He, however, said he did not remember what led to his injuries. The 32-year-old victim, a friend of the suspect, said she was held against her will and assaulted after asking Garrick to take her home. Both the victim and suspect were treated for injuries and released from Palmetto Health Tuomey. During the investigation, Garrick was accused of an unrelated attempted sexual assault of another woman in December. Investigations into both incidents are continuing.
CORRECTION In Bob Reagan’s extended obituary published in the Sunday edition of The Sumter Item, the year of his birth was incorrect. Reagan was born in 1937.
Downtown launches marketing campaign ‘We want people to realize the construction is making downtown better. There is a lot going on. Downtown is still the place to come. We’re just in a transition phase.’
BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com There is a lot going on in Downtown Sumter, and that doesn't refer only to the construction, although a new public service initiative takes its title from the work that seems to some to cover the area. Dig It! Downtown has been created to let residents know what's going on in the center of town and that nothing is stopping because of the construction. City of Sumter Communications and Tourism Director Shelley Kile said Dig It! Downtown will soon be accessible online and will emphasize that "even though there seems to be a lot of construction, that doesn't mean businesses or streets are closed. We want people to continue coming downtown, and Dig It! will be a resource for them." The city's webmaster, Matthew Morse, has created the website where Dig It! Downtown will be accessible to the public as well as to downtown businesses. "We want people to realize the construction is making downtown better," he said. "There is a lot going on. Downtown is still the place to come. We're just in a transition phase." Morse said the website digitdowntown.com should launch sometime in the next week. Kile said people will soon see
MATTHEW MORSE City webmaster signs across the city that read "Dig It! Downtown" and information highlighting downtown businesses on the website. In addition, there will be a variety of promotions online, and downtown businesses will be listed by category with a link to the city's calendar listings. "Dig It! will be strong in social media," she said, "and there will be maps online and available in print. Businesses can list daily specials, for example, and we'll keep adding to it." Many people don't realize that some businesses offer much more
than they're primarily known for, Kile noted. "For example, what you can get from Naomi and Warner. It's not just a wedding or gift shop; you can get lunch there, for example. We'll post photos of the inside of businesses, not just their entrances. " Downtown Development Coordinator Leigh Newman, whom Kile describes as "the driving force behind Dig It! Downtown," said there will soon be about six construction sites downtown, but that there will be parking and business will go on as usual during the next 18 months to two years of construction. Events such as 4th Fridays concerts will continue, as will the concerts and other entertainment at the Sumter Opera House, Newman said. Already, she said, plans are being made for several new events, a new restaurant will soon begin construction, new office space is being created and other initiatives are coming up. All will be on the Dig It! website. "We want Dig It! to be the place people go to online when they're looking for something to do or a good meal. We don't want anything to be pared down," Kile said. "We want to beef up. We want a lot more going on downtown because of the construction. It's a positive thing." The website digitdowntown.com is expected to launch within a week.
WILLIAM T. ‘BILLY’ FORT • 1938-2017
Local businessman known for fairness, loyalty, ethics William Thomas "Billy" Fort, who died Jan. 14, was owner of Fort Roofing and Sheet Metal Works Inc. and a very accomplished businessman who made enormous contributions to his community; however, it is for his loyalty, caring nature and personality his friends and family remember him. Will Fort, who now runs Fort Roofing and is the oldest of Billy Fort's three sons, recalled his father's influence on him and FORT brothers Jeff and Andy. "When we were growing up on Adams Avenue," Will Fort said, "he let us do what we wanted to do, and we did a lot with him. We were good kids and never got in any big trouble." The brothers were close in age — they were all at Clemson University together for one year, in fact — and a lot of what they did was "family stuff," he said. His parents were also friends with the sons' Clemson friends. "They called them 'Billy T' and Jayne D,'" Will Fort said. "Dad was very active and loved the outdoors, and we all caught that from him. We made a good foursome, so we played golf a lot, went scuba diving,
offshore fishing ... ." In business, Will Fort said, "Dad let us make mistakes; he was not stern, but he made sure we learned from our mistakes so we didn't make them again." In addition to business and family, Billy Fort served his community on Sumter County Council and Sumter Rotary Club; First Presbyterian Church as deacon; his alma mater, Clemson University, as a member of the IPTAY (a scholarship fund, originally "I Pay Ten a Year") board of directors; and in numerous other ways. Family photos fill frames and bulletin boards in Will Fort's office. He stood up and pointed to one Billy Fort was especially proud of. "In 1989, Dad was president of the National Roofing Contractors Association, and he got to introduce the speaker, Ronald Reagan," he said. In the photo, Billy Fort is standing with Reagan and several others. Dr. Barney Williams grew up in Sumter with Fort. "As children, we played sports together, graduated from Edmunds High School and Clemson together, even dated together," Williams said. "Billy always liked everyone and made them comfortable with him. He was respect-
ed by all his friends. "He will be missed." Joanne Crowson went to work for Fort in 1971 and stayed until he retired in 2005. "It was my only full-time job," she said, "because he was so good to work for. If you needed something, he would bend over backwards to help you, and he was a great role model — I owe most of my work ethic to him. He was very fair, and he had a lot of long-time employees. Nobody wanted to leave him." Crowson said she actually delayed her own retirement because of Fort. Fort was also a good family man, she said, "and when you started work there (at Fort Roofing), you became part of the family." Like his sons Will and Jeff and his friend Dr. Williams, Crowson had high praise for Fort's gentility. "He was a true Southern gentleman" was a refrain the family heard from his friends during the past week. "It's like a part of my life is gone," Crowson said. "I miss him." Son Jeff described his father as "the kind of guy who had this gift that I think is rare. Anytime someone met him for the first time, after a short period they'd feel like they'd known him for a long time. He made people feel as
if they belonged with a story or a joke, a hand on the shoulder. It's a gift he carried with him all his life." As a father, Jeff Fort said, "He couldn't have been any better. Growing up in a small town like Sumter, there were so many family relationships across the generations. We spent a lot of time with family." Another trait Billy Fort possessed, Jeff Fort said, was his "old-school personality, his very personal approach. He enjoyed close relationships with all the people he knew — through the industry across the entire country, with people in all walks of life. They all came to appreciate his approach. He was a gentleman." William T. "Billy" Fort is survived by his wife of 54 years, Martha Jayne DuBose Fort, sons William Thomas Fort III (Kim) of Sumter, Jefferson DuBose (Suzanne) of Mount Pleasant and Andrew Carr (Heather) of Roswell, Georgia, and five grandchildren: DuBose, Craig, Carlie, Mary Bostic and Andrew. Memorial services were held in Clemson and Sumter. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22478, Oklahoma City, OK 73123. — Ivy Moore
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Bishopville hosts singer-songwriter at Opera House He’s recorded many himself, and others have been hits for such performers as Lady Antebellum and Darius Rucker. Davis has been performing since he turned 16, starting with his father Rusty’s band. Since then, he’s worked exclusively in the music business. Jewel’s CD, The Merry Goes Round, has 11 songs that are collaborations with Davis. In addition to his solo career touring the Southeast as a headlining act, he also regularly tours as a support act for Rucker, Jewel and others. His own album Red, White & Blue Jeans, features Jewel, Robert Randolph and
BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Lee County Arts Council continues its tradition of presenting an annual concert by Kershaw County native Patrick Davis at the historic Bishopville Opera House. Singer-songwriter Davis and his Midnight Choir will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday as part of the Ruth Josey Bell Performing Arts Series. Davis has had numerous songs hit No. 1 on the Billboard Country Music Charts. The University of South Carolina graduate has written thousands of songs since the age of 18.
Branford Marsalis. Arts council president Zack Medlin said those with season tickets to the Ruth Josey Bell series will be admitted at no extra charge. Medlin said that while Davis is performing at Bishopville Opera House for the seventh time, this is his first there with his Midnight Choir. Opening for Davis will be Big Machine Recording Artist Lauren Jenkins of Nashville. General admission tickets are $15 each, and VIP tickets are $30 each and admit you to the pre-show Meet and Greet, held just across the street from the Opera
House at the Lee County Chamber of Commerce; they include light hors d’oeuvres, soft and adult beverages and reserved seating for the concert. Students are admitted free because this is part of the concert series. The meet and greet begins at 6 p.m., and doors to Bishopville Opera House, 109 N. Main St., open at 6:30 p.m. with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Any concert series ticket holder can upgrade to a VIP ticket by paying an additional $15. For more information or for tickets, call Lee County Arts Council at (803) 4845090.
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Kershaw County native Patrick Davis, now a popular singer-songwriter living in Nashville, returns to Bishopville Opera House with his Midnight Choir for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday. VIP ticket packages as well as general admission tickets are available.
Trump moves to pull U.S. out of the Pacific-Rim trade deal WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump moved to pull the United States out of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact Monday, dealing a quick blow to Barack Obama’s legacy as the new chief executive began fulfilling campaign promises in his first full week in office. “Great thing for the American worker that we just did,” Trump said in brief remarks as he signed a notice in the Oval Office. The president also signed memorandums freezing most federal government hiring, though he noted an exception for the military, and reinstating a ban on providing federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. The regulation, known as the “Mexico THE ASSOCIATED PRESS City Policy,” has been a political volleyball, inPresident Donald Trump hosts breakfast with business leaders in the stituted by Republican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones since 1984. Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Monday.
POLICE BLOTTER STOLEN PROPERTY A Lennox air-conditioning unit valued at $4,800 was reportedly stolen from a residence in the 2200 block of Canadian Geese Drive between Jan. 13 and Jan. 15. According to an incident report from Sumter Police Department, $600 of freshly laid sod was damaged when a vehicle apparently drove through the yard during the incident. A tan 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe valued at $27,000 was reportedly stolen from the parking lot of an auto dealership in the 2500 block of Broad Street sometime after 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 14. A green 1999 Lowe aluminum boat valued at $3,000, an Evinrude 50-horsepower boat motor valued at $6,000 and a 1999 Magic Tilt trailer valued at $2,000 were reportedly stolen from a residence in the one block of Elkhorn Circle between 1:30 and 8 a.m. on Wednesday. According to an incident report from the police department, an undetermined amount of hunting and fishing equipment was inside the boat.
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‘Professional gypsy’ recalls life with Ringling Bros. CONWAY (AP) — Circus props, posters, memorabilia and costumes from the soon-defunct Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are packed away in a house in Conway. "As a performer, even 15, 20 years ago when I was on the show, you knew that it had a shelf life, and you knew that eventually trends were going to get a little too FULTON fast-paced for the circus for all that tradition, but I don't think anybody expected it to happen so soon," said Conway resident Bryan Fulton, who performed with the circus from 1996 to 2002. On Jan. 14, the company announced that the circus would shut down in May, citing lower attendance, high operating costs and changing public opinion on the use of animals in the circus. In May 2016, the company discontinued
the use of its elephants. The show has been running for 146 years. "Even now in 2017, we figured it had at least another 10 years," Fulton said. "It's sad, of course, but there's a bunch of good memories. Doctor Seuss said you shouldn't cry because it's over, but smile because it happened." Fulton attended a performing arts high school in Baltimore, Maryland. At 17, he had the chance to attend clown school, which led him to the circus. "I realized that I could always go to regular college," he said. "I just knew that if I didn't take this opportunity to at least try clown college, I would just regret it. I knew in my heart that I wouldn't always be able to do clown college. It's been one of the best decisions I ever made." Clown college taught Fulton some of the basic skills he would need in the circus: juggling, acrobatics, makeup and calisthenics. Less than a year later,
he auditioned for, and was accepted into, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The circus would perform about 500 shows a year in 45 to 50 cities, Fulton said. The operation traveled by train through the "backyard of America," and the performers would wave at the people who gathered to watch the train go by. Fulton said he used to tell his daughter "circus stories" before bedtime from whatever city she chose to hear a story about. "In New York this one time we were hanging out backstage, and we had a hippo on the tour, and the hippo used to drool," he said. "So we made a bet with somebody to see if they would be able to take a drink of a little bit of their drool and see if they would do it. People would not believe the stories I would tell because they're just thinking 'there's no way that that happened,' but in the circus, it was like everyday life."
But life as a "professional gypsy" wasn't as easy as making bets and riding a train, and after six years of being on the road, Fulton was ready to move on. "I look at some of my friends who have stayed on the road 15, 20 years, and I don't even know how they did it," he said. "I did six, I did a fraction of what they did, and they're still in the best shape of their lives. It definitely keeps you young, for sure." Fulton moved to Las Vegas after the circus and worked as a Blackjack dealer in the casinos. Later, he moved to the Myrtle Beach area when some of his circus friends got jobs at the old Pavilion. Fulton has stayed in touch with some of his circus friends through the years and still performs his act locally. "It is a family, and you don't ever really leave the circus," he said. "We never would say goodbye, we would always just say, 'See you down the road.'"
Farmers attend meetings, prepare for growing season January is a month when farmers make plans for the coming growing season, said Clemson Extension Agent David DeWitt. “We are gearing up for our annual winter meetings,” he said. As far as out in the fields, people are doing some land preparation, but recent moisture has limited the opportunity to get in the fields, he said. DeWitt said winter wheat is looking good. “It's been a pretty good winter for wheat other than the excess rain has some bottoms drowning out,” he said. Most farmers are starting to make plans for the coming year. At the annual meetings, agriculture officials encourage farmers to make their choices for the next season and introduce new technologies and products, DeWitt said. A good sign for farmers is that commodities markets have improved some recently, he said. “Corn, soybeans and cotton all went up a little bit,” he said. The cotton market has strengthened, he said, but the peanut market may be down. “There is a little bit of an oversupply on peanuts, so
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Residents pick up pieces after tornadoes leave 19 dead ALBANY, Georgia (AP) — Chuck Stafford was watching the Atlanta Falcons rout the Green Bay Packers for the NFC title when bad weather suddenly began to pound his mobile home in southern Georgia. Stafford, 74, had just gotten to head to the bathroom during Sunday's football game when the wind started whipping the mobile home park in Albany where he has lived for 31 years. His home started shaking violently. The gusts blew the windows out of Stafford's trailer, spraying shattered glass everywhere. But he was lucky. "I grabbed hold of my washer and dryer, got my legs spread apart and hunched over," Stafford said. "I guess I picked a good time to go to the bathroom." Stafford was among residents in Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina who were trying to pick up the pieces left behind by a powerful storm system that tore across the Deep South during the weekend, killing 19 people, including 15 in south Georgia. Rescuers were going through stricken areas Monday, searching for possible survivors. Dougherty County Coroner Michael Fowler said that a total of four people died Sunday in the county that includes Albany. Some 60 miles away, Coroner Tim Purvis in south Georgia's Cook County confirmed seven people died at the mobile home park in the rural community of Adel, where about half of the 40 homes were leveled. The 15 killed in south Georgia included two deaths each in the counties of Berrien and Brooks. In South Carolina, the National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes struck during the weekend, injuring one woman who was trapped in a mobile home that was damaged near Blackville. The weather service said a tornado touched down about 3:45 p.m. Saturday in Barnwell County and moved into Bamberg County. The other oc-
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Jenny Bullard carries a pair of boots from her home that was damaged by a tornado Sunday in Adel, Georgia. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in several counties, including Cook, that have suffered deaths, injuries and severe damage from weekend storms. curred in Orangeburg County a few minutes later. Weather experts say tornadoes can hit any time of year in the South — including in the dead of winter. Even north Florida was under the weekend weather threat. While the central U.S. has a fairly defined tornado season — the spring — the risk of tornadoes "never really goes to zero" for most of the year in the Southeast, explained Patrick Marsh of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. He said 39 possible tornadoes were reported across the Southeast from early Saturday into Sunday evening — none immediately confirmed. Of that, 30 were reported in Georgia, four in Mississippi and one each in Louisiana and
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She recalled waking up to the sound of hail and then heard her father, calling her name. "There was a bunch of stuff on top of him, and I just started throwing everything I could until I got to him," she said. Then she and her parents fled. The young woman went back through the debris for family photos and other belongings.
Bricks lay scattered about, alongside their possessions and furniture. Across the street, where the Bullards kept farm equipment in sheds, one shed was blown apart. Two grain silos were blown over. "It's a horrible tragedy. But all this stuff can be replaced," she said. "We can't replace each other. We're extremely lucky. My dad is lucky to be alive."
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Trump properties face global terror risk with presidency DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Businesses around the world bearing President Trump's name face an increased risk now that he is in the White House, security experts warn, especially as several are in areas previously targeted by violence. As Trump remains a brand overseas, criminal gangs or militants could target buildings bearing his name in gold, abduct workers associated with his enterprises for ransom or worse, they say. "They may kidnap a Trump worker and not even want to negotiate," aiming for publicity instead, said Colin P. Clarke, a political scientist with the RAND Corp. who studies terrorism and international criminal networks. Predicting an attack keeps police, intelligence agencies and security experts awake at night around the world — and, by its very nature, it remains speculative. U.S. brands have been targeted in overseas violence before, but they never belonged to a president. That's the difference. Trump becoming America's 45th president presents a unique challenge given the range of his international business interests. Asked about security issues, the Trump Organization said in a statement it has "extensive protocols in place at our Trump-owned and managed properties" in the United States and abroad. "Our team continues to work very closely with local law enforcement," the statement said. "We are also working in tandem with the local developers at Trump-branded properties worldwide
to ensure that all residents, guests and associates remain safe and secure." The organization did not elaborate. While Trump has said he will put his business assets in a trust and hand over management control of his company to his two adult sons and a longtime Trump Organization executive, it's still his name on the projects. That hasn't worried Kim Ok Kyu, who lives in a Trump-branded apartment tower in Seoul, South Korea. She said security at her building is quite good, with many guards and strict restrictions on outsiders entering the building. "Terror? I don't think about it. I just hope my home prices go up," Kim said. But other properties are in areas that have seen violence, like Trump Towers Istanbul, the Turkish city hit hard by a string of bomb and gun attacks carried out by the Islamic State group. Flags and banners around the site bear the president's name, while private security guards man X-ray machines and metal detectors at its entrances, a standard practice in the city. In Bali, where bombs planted by the Islamic extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah targeting bar-goers killed 202 people in 2002, Trump's organization has licensed the president's name to a planned luxury resort. Bali police spokesman Hengky Widjaja said no one had requested extra security for the property and authorities had no plans to increase their presence there. A Trump-named residential tower is under construction in the Indian city of Mumbai, which was hit by a 2008 terror
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Security experts warn that businesses around the world bearing President Trump’s name, such as Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, face an increased risk now that the businessman is in the White House. attack blamed on the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba that killed 166 people. Mumbai police spokesman Ashok Dudhe said he had no knowledge of any additional security around the tower. Another tower is being built in Manila in the Philippines, a nation where Abu Sayyaf militants conduct frequent kidnappings for ransom and where President Rodrigo Duterte wages a brutal crackdown on drug dealers that has killed thousands. Philippine police say they haven't monitored any specific threat toward Trump properties, though a tower rising in Manila sits in an area under an intensified security watch after Duterte declared a "state of lawlessness" following a September bombing. Even Trump's soon-to-open golf course in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates could be a target, despite the fact the Gulf Arab nation has largely escaped the violence gripping its Mideast neighbors. In the UAE's capital of Abu Dhabi, an American school teacher was stabbed to death in a mall bathroom by an extremist in December
2014. Authorities also have imprisoned others over disrupted terror plots in the country, which hosts some 5,000 members of the U.S. military. Dubai police have declined to discuss safety on the golf course while the developer says it plans no additional security there. The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi did not respond to questions about the golf course, which Trump's children are expected to soon visit. All of the Trump properties should be looked at by outside security consultants, said Christopher A. Hagon, a managing partner of The Incident Management Group and a former London police officer with experience in diplomatic security. However, he acknowledged such commercial properties can't be surrounded by concrete blast walls and controlled like a U.S. Embassy. "There is no complete answer to these things unless you've got a military encampment and you can do anything you like," Hagon said. "You've got to make compromises but hope those compromises won't weaken the overall approach."
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SOLVED FROM PAGE A1 The most well-known fact about Crime Stoppers is that callers can provide information anonymously. Sometimes people give their names when they call, Hodge said. If someone does give his or her name, Crime Stoppers is bound to provide that information to law enforcement, and the informant may be called to testify in court, she said. Callers who give credible information are given a code number and are advised to call back in a few weeks to check on the status of the case, Hodge said. If the information is not detailed enough, the caller will not get a code number, she said. Hodge said callers are asked how they know about the crime — if they were an eyewitness or received the information from another person. If the informant heard the tip from another person, it will need to be verified, she said. A person is not taken into custody immediately after a tip comes in, Hodge said. There is an investigation to corroborate the informant’s infor-
FIRESIDE FROM PAGE A1 Ministry volunteers interviewed the woman and assisted her with food and referrals, Howell said. “Most importantly, thanks to the generous support from the Fireside Fund, SUM provided the woman with propane for the majority of the remaining winter season,” he said. “It lifted a burden from her shoulders to know that she would have heat through the winter.” The woman has had to adjust to a much smaller income since retiring, but now she can focus on other priorities in her budget and know that she will have all of her necessities met, Howell said. “It is a rewarding experience to share hope with her and provide a critical need,” he said. “Your continued donations to the Fireside Fund make it possible — thank you!” This winter’s Fireside Fund is dedicated to the memory of Sumter philanthropist Phil Edwards, who died in 2016. Edwards’ generosity can
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mation, she said. It could take months for a crime to be solved, she said. Hodge said the amount of the reward depends on the type of crime; the perceived threat to the informant for giving the tip; the number of people arrested; and the amount of items, sometimes narcotics, seized. She said the Crime Stoppers 15-member board meets on the second Tuesday of every month to discuss calls and authorize rewards. During 2016, Hodge said the Sumter Crime Stoppers board authorized $3,000 in rewards. She said the board is made up of civilians who are in tune with what is going on in the community. To be considered for a position on the board, members of the public can go to Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce and let the contact there know that you are interested, she said. Rewards are provided through Sumter Crime Stoppers’ annual budget, which is about $10,000, Hodge said. She said the majority of the organization’s funds are collected during
be seen across Sumter and the South Carolina Midlands. From Sumter County Museum to the expansion of Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, the WilliamsBrice-Edwards Charitable Trust, set up by Edwards and his wife, Flora, continues to enhance our community. The recipient of this year’s Fireside Fund contributions is Sumter United Ministries. Fireside Fund was established in 1969 to help needy families and individuals pay heating bills, buy firewood or heating fuels and stay warm during the winter months. Since its founding, Fireside Fund has brought in more than $1.5 million in donations from generous readers. Anyone in need of assistance with heating costs may call Sumter United Ministries at (803) 775-0757. Donations can be mailed to The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, SC 29151
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Police Week, held each May when a pistol match, golf tournament and 5K run are held. The public can donate to Sumter Crime Stoppers at any time by sending contributions to Sumter Chamber of Commerce at 32 E. Calhoun St., c/o Crime Stoppers. After the case is solved, the informant is told to go to a specific bank to receive his or her reward, she said. The check will be made out to the code number, so the informant will only have to sign that number in order to get the reward, she said. Hodge said there are times when people do not take a code number because they are not concerned about a reward. If no one claims the reward before the suspension date, the money will go back into the Crime Stoppers funds, she said. Informants can receive a reward within a week of a crime being solved, Hodge said. It depends on if the board has already met to authorize a reward amount before the crime is solved, she said. Information can be given to Crime Stoppers at (803) 436-2718 or 1-888-2746372.
or dropped off at the office, 36 W. Liberty St. Names, including groups, should be spelled completely. When making a donation in someone’s honor, the names will be printed as given. From Jan. 12-19, Sumter United Ministries Crisis Relief Ministry financially assisted 17 families for a total of $3,360.35 in assistance. Donations ending the week of Monday, Jan. 23: Shaw Air Force Base Firefighters’ Association Fund, $1,000; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marye, Sr., $250; in memory of Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Davis by the Davis family, $200; in memory of Turner A. Gus Green by Horace Curtis, $100; in memory of our parents by Perry and Mary Register, $100; Jacqueline Summers, $100; Judge and Mrs. Howard P. King, $100; Mrs. Paul Hoza, $100; Sumter County Republican Party, $50; Southside Baptist Church David Edens Mission Group, $50; Bush and
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DISTRICT FROM PAGE A1 earlier than usual because of its cash-flow needs. Typically, districts issue tax-anticipation notes in August or September, but Sumter will need it before June 30, according to Allan. Allan made his remarks to the board in open session. Allan said he also has just started analyzing what happened in the 2015-16 school year to cause a $6.2 million budget deficit and specifically up to 60 job positions that reportedly were not budgeted. He told the board he expects to have a full report on what caused the deficit by mid-February. An estimated crowd of 150 concerned residents attended the board’s work session Monday at the district office, 1345 Wilson Hall Road. More coverage from Monday night’s meeting will be in Wednesday’s edition of The Sumter Item.
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Harsh exchanges make for rocky start to latest Syria talks BY PHILIP ISSA The Associated Press ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Negotiators for the Syrian government and representatives of rebel factions traded accusations of terrorism after their first face-to-face meeting on Monday, as talks in Kazakhstan arranged by Russia and Turkey got off to a rocky start. The gathering in Astana, the Kazakh capital, is the latest in a long line of diplomatic initiatives aimed at ending the nearly six-year-old Syrian war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced half the country's population. The talks are expected to focus on shoring up a shaky cease-fire declared last month and not on reaching a larger political settlement, and Syria's bitter divide was on vivid display as the delegates emerged from a closed, hour-long session. Syria's U.N. envoy Bashar Ja'afari said the opposition delegation represented "terrorist armed groups," and denounced the opening address delivered by the chief rebel negotiator, calling it "provocative" and "insolent." The head of the rebel delegation, Mohammad Alloush, had described Syrian President Bashar Assad's government as a "terrorist" entity and called for armed groups fighting alongside it, including the Lebanese Hezbollah, to be placed on a global list of terrorist organizations, according to a video leaked by opposition delegates. "The presence of foreign militias invited by the regime, most notably the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iraqi Hezbollah ... contributes to the continuation of bloodshed and obstructs any opportunity for a ceasefire," Alloush said in the video. He added that such outfits were no different than the Islamic State group, which is excluded from the cease-fire. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura is mediating the talks, which are to be followed by more negotiations in Geneva next month. This time last year, he was shuttling between government and opposition delegations seated in separate rooms in Geneva, in talks brokered by the U.S. and Russia that led nowhere. The new U.S. administration is not directly involved in the current talks because of the "immediate demands of the transition," the State Department said Saturday. The U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan, George Krol, attended Monday's opening session held at the luxury Rixos President Hotel in Astana. The two sides were brought to the table by Russia and Iran, which have provided crucial support to the government, and Turkey, a leading sponsor of the opposition. Turkey has recently improved its ties with Moscow, raising hopes for a breakthrough. But the Syrian parties remain deeply divided about who is to blame for the repeated violations of the Dec. 30 cease-fire and whether it should apply to the al-Qaida-linked Fatah alSham Front, which fights alongside mainstream rebel factions. Ja'afari accused the opposition of "misinterpreting the idea of the cessation of hostilities" and defended a government offensive in the Barada Valley outside Damascus. The fighting there has cut off the water supply to millions of the capital's residents for more than a month. The government, which has always portrayed the conflict as a war on terrorism, is hoping to garner international support and potentially recruit rebel factions to help it battle extremist groups. A Syrian Cabinet minister, Ali Haidar, told The Associated Press in Damascus that the talks in Astana are a "juncture to test intentions" on the cease-fire. Osama Abo Zayd, a member of the rebel delegation, said the
Mohammad Alloush, head of a Syrian opposition delegation, attends talks on Syrian peace in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Monday. The talks are the latest attempt to forge a political settlement to end a war that has by most estimates killed more than 400,000 people since March 2011 and displaced more than half the country’s population.
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perform unusually rather than unnaturally well. PEDs mock the idea that winning is a just reward for praiseworthy behavior — submission to an exacting training regimen and the mental mastery of pressure, pain and exhaustion. Drugs that make sport exotic make it less exemplary; they drain sport of admirable excellence, which elevates spectators as well as competitors. Beyond this civic interest in honest athletics, there is a matter of justice. Many former ballplayers missed having major league careers, or longer major league careers with larger contracts, because they competed honestly against cheating opponents or lost playing time to cheating teammates. These handicapped-becausehonorable players could have leveled the playing field only by using dangerous PEDs, thereby jeopardizing their physical and mental health and forfeiting their integrity. And consider Fred McGriff, who in 19 sterling seasons during the steroid era hit 493 home runs, seven short of the 500 mark that has generally opened Cooperstown’s doors to eligible players (retired five years) not suspected of PED use. There is no suspicion that McGriff used PEDs, and if he had, he certainly would have hit many more than seven additional home runs. The closest he has come to Cooperstown’s 75 percent is 23.9 percent in 2012. (He received 21.7 percent Wednesday.) And there are players in Cooperstown whose careers were enhanced by amphetamines, which once were ubiquitous in baseball but now are banned. Until baseball’s steroid parenthesis, only one demarcation had disrupted the game’s continuity, that between the dead ball era and, beginning around 1920, the live ball era. The parenthesis has been closed, although the financial incentives to cheat are such that there always will be sinister chemists competing to concoct PEDs that defeat the efforts of other chemists to detect them. The incentives can, however, be decisively reordered by sufficiently severe penalties, which almost all players would favor. If Cooperstown is content, as perhaps it should be, to be merely a museum — not a negligible thing — then Bonds and Clemens belong there as important elements of the game’s story, and their story should be candidly told on their plaques. If, however, Cooperstown wants admission to mean enshrinement, it must embrace and articulate the Hall’s ethic. America has never more urgently needed the insistence that real success must be honorably achieved. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2017, Washington Post Writers Group
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WOULD RESPONSE TO DEFICIT HAVE DIFFERED IF BAKER WERE BLACK? After reading the recent articles about the condition our school district is in (deficit over $6 million), I can’t help but wonder what would happen to Superintendent Baker if he were black. Would he still have his job ... be forced to resign ... or given another pass to cover up his shortcomings? I know some of you are screaming, fired immediately whereas others are saying, “here goes the race card again.” But does anyone remember the many rallies that were held against Superintendent Bynum for simply asking for accountability? Does anyone remember the many signs posted around Sumter to remove Bynum? Where are the rallies and signs now? Where are the student protests now? $6 million, $1,000/day consultant, position cuts and one still is able to keep the position? Amazing. To those who feel me, we just shake our heads and say “nothing new.” But to those who are bothered by this, I only wish you could spend some time in my shoes, see things from my viewpoint and wonder why some can be crucified by others’ opinion of my job performance while others are getting “pats on the backs” for making a complete mess of a situation. I just wonder ... K. REID Sumter
BAKER IS IN CHARGE AND SHOULD SHOULDER ALL BLAME FOR CRISIS In response to Debbie Miller, Dr. Baker absolutely should shoulder the blame for the school district’s financial crisis. It happened on his watch. He is the person in charge. He is the person hired by the school board to operate the school district within the specified
and approved budget. If one comes up with a $6 million-plus deficit, and the person that had control of the financial purse strings is not responsible, then to whom should the taxpayers of Sumter be looking? Why has the finance office been without an executive director of finance since Mr. Mann left the district? Who, if not Dr. Baker, has been in charge of the finances? According to the district’s website, the budget was in balance as of the April 13, 2015, presentation. According to the 201617 General Fund budget, the district should have been able to meet its obligations without a deficit. These new shortages are on top of the deficits that were discovered as part of the district mergers. After that shortage, the school board asked for and was granted a tax increase to make up the difference. Now we find that Dr. Baker’s handling of the school district is once again beyond the budget available. If the school district is spending like it did last year, then my simple math would indicate that this year is probably already in a deficit situation to compound the amounts discovered during the audit. If the school board continues to do the same things that it has done thus far, then it will get the same results as last year. If the spending beyond the budget was done without Dr. Baker’s knowledge, then he is responsible for being derelict in his duties. If the spending was done with his knowledge or at his direction, then he was incompetent. It is past time for the elected members of the school board to do their jobs and exercise due diligence and oversight on this school district. It is also past time for Dr. Baker to give a full and public accounting of his actions. DANIEL TINDALL Sumter
WHO REPRESENTS YOU SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 Christopher Sumpter II 1200 Broad St., PMB 180 Sumter, SC 29154 DISTRICT 2 Artie Baker 3680 Bakersfield Lane Dalzell, SC 29040 803-469-3638 (home) DISTRICT 3 James Byrd Jr. 13 E. Canal St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 468-1719 (mobile) (803) 778-0796 (office) (803) 436-2108 (Fax) jbyrd@sumtercountysc.org DISTRICT 4 Charles T. Edens 760 Henderson St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 775-0044 (home) (803) 236-5759 (mobile) DISTRICT 5 Vivian Fleming-McGhaney 9770 Lynches River Road Lynchburg, SC 29080 (803) 437-2797 (home) (803) 495-3247 (office) DISTRICT 6 James T. McCain Jr. 317 W. Bartlette St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-2353 (home) (803) 607-2777 (mobile) DISTRICT 7 Eugene Baten P.O. Box 3193 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 773-0815 (home)
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MAYOR Joseph T. McElveen Jr. 20 Buford St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-0382 jmcelveen@sumter-sc.com WARD 1 Thomas J. Lowery 829 Legare St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-9298 tlowery@sumter-sc.com WARD 2 Ione Dwyer P.O. Box 1492 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 481-4284 idwyer@sumter-sc.com WARD 3 Calvin K. Hastie Sr. 810 S. Main St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 774-7776 chastie@sumter-sc.com WARD 4 Steven Corley 115 Radcliff Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 305-1566 scorley@sumter-sc.com
Rep. Grady Brown, D-Bishopville District 50 420 S. Main St. Bishopville, SC 29010 (803) 484-6832 (home) (803) 734-2934 (Columbia)
WARD 5 Robert Galiano 608 Antlers Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 469-0005 bgaliano@sumter-sc.com WARD 6 David Merchant 26 Paisley Park Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-1086 dmerchant@sumter-sc.com
Rep. J. David Weeks, D-Sumter District 51 2 Marlborough Court Sumter, SC 29154 (803) 775-5856 (business) (803) 734-3102 (Columbia)
Rep. Joe Neal, D-Hopkins District 70 P.O. Box 5 Hopkins, SC 29061 (803) 776-0353 (home) (803) 734-9142 (fax) (803) 734-2804 (Columbia) jn@schouse.org Rep. Dr. Robert L. Ridgeway III, D-Clarendon District 64 117 N. Brooks St. Manning, SC 29102 (803) 938-3087(home) (803) 212-6929 (Columbia) Rep. Murrell Smith Jr., R-Sumter District 67 P.O. Box 580 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 778-2471 (business) (803) 778-1643 (fax) (803) 734-3042 (Columbia) murrellsmith@schouse.gov
Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Darlington District 29 1216 Salem Road Hartsville, SC 29550 (843) 339-3000 (803) 212-6148 (Columbia)
Sen. Kevin L. Johnson, D-Manning District 36 P.O. Box 156, Manning, 29102 (803) 435-8117 (home) (803) 212-6108 (Columbia) Sen. J. Thomas McElveen III, D-Sumter District 35 P. O. Box 57, Sumter, 29151 (803) 775-1263 (business (803) 212-6132 (Columbia) NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Rep. Mick Mulvaney — 5th District 1207 Longworth HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-5501 531-A Oxford Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 327-1114 Rep. Jim Clyburn — 6th District 319 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-3315 1703 Gervais St. Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 799-1100 jclyburn@hr.house.gov Sen. Lindsey Graham 290 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-5972 Midlands Regional Office 508 Hampton Street, Suite 202 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 933-0112 (main) Sen. Tim Scott 167 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-6121 (202) 228-5143 (fax) 1301 Gervais St., Suite 825 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 771-6112 (803) 771-6455 (fax)
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AROUND TOWN a time slot by calling DaniEdmunds High School Class of elle Welch at (803) 651-0144. 1967 will hold a meeting at 7 Edmunds High Class of 1967 to meet p.m. today at 729 Creekside Area residents are invited to Drive, to form committees participate in a three-day public for decorating, food, set up, workshop and discussion about clean up, etc. for the 50th rethe Shot Pouch Greenway, a union that is planned for 3.5-mile trail stretching from April 21-22. If you have not Dillon Park to Swan Lake. received a “save the date,” The public events are schedcontact mplayer@gmail.com uled to be held at the Swan or call Meg at (803) 905-8095. Lake Visitors Center as follows: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, The Sumter County Education Public Visioning PresentaAssociation — Retired will meet at noon on Wednesday, tion; 9-10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, Property Owner DropJan. 25, at the North HOPE In; and 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. Center. Call Brenda Felder 2, Final Public Workshop PreBethune at (803) 469-6588. sentation. For more informaThe Ruach Bridal and Special tion about the Shot Pouch Events Show will be held from Greenway, contact Adams2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. Raczkowski at the Planning 29, at 245 Oswego Highway. Department, 12 W. Liberty Call (803) 775-5416 or visit St., (803) 774-1639, or email theruach.org. jadams-raczkowski@sumterMcElveen Manor Assisted Living sc.com. and Memory Care Community will host an American Red Cross The Campbell Soup friends lunch group will meet at 11:30 blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, at p.m. on Monday, Jan. 30, in Golden Corral. All former the conference room of Campbell Soup employees McElveen Manor, 2065 Mcare invited to share their Crays Mill Road. Walk-ins are memories as we celebrate welcome or you may reserve our 25th anniversary.
only need to have minimum Palmetto Health Tuomey Hoscomputer experience and the pice is in need of volunteers. A hospice volunteer application desire to help local taxpayers. Volunteer at www.aarpcan be found online at www. foundation.org/taxaide. Call palmettohealth.org/giving/ Ms. King at (803) 316-0772 if volunteer-programs/homecSeveral volunteer availyou have questions. are-and-hospice volunteers.opportunities able Hospice volunteers are an inMake-A-Wish South Carolina is tegral part of the Palmetto seeking volunteers to help Health Tuomey Hospice make wishes come true for team. Medicare requires 5 children across the state. Bipercent of the total patients lingual volunteers are especare hours of all paid hospice cially needed. Interest webiemployees be provided by nars are offered at 6:30 p.m. volunteers. Volunteers are on the second Wednesday of needed for both direct paeach month. Preregistration tient care and administrative is required. Contact Brennan duties. If you can provide Brown at bbrown@sc.wish. support, respite, companionorg or (864) 250-0702 extenship, friendship, acts of kindsion 112 to register or begin ness, file, answer the phone, the application process. do data entry, or mailings to Hospice Care of Sumter LLC is in families, please consider carneed of volunteers in Sumter ing for one patient by giving and surrounding counties. your time, talents, or gifts of Opportunities available for kindness. Call the Rev. B.J. you to use your time and talDrayton at (803) 773-4663. ents to be of assistance inSumter County AARP Foundation clude reading, musical talTax-Aide is in need of volunteers ents, companionship, light for the upcoming tax season. housekeeping, etc. Call (803) No tax preparation experi883-5606 or hospicecareofence is needed. Volunteers sumter@yahoo.com.
PUBLIC AGENDA SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL Today, 6 p.m., Sumter County Council Chambers GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Wednesday, noon, chamber office
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Learn as you EUGENIA LAST go. Your dedication and desire to do your best will be praised by some but shunned by those who are jealous of you. Don’t let anyone interfere with your progress. Disagreements will only slow you down.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Foolish spending or selling yourself short when negotiating a deal will be apparent if you don’t take your time and consider unique ways to get the most out of your dollar, your time and your effort. Don’t settle for less. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotions will take over, leading to disruption if you aren’t aware of all sides of a situation. Take a step back and consider what’s best for everyone, and do your best to make it happen. Avoid demanding people. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Live by your rules. Make suggestions and paint a colorful picture of the way you see your future unfolding. Honesty and integrity will help you avoid being trapped in a situation that doesn’t live up to your expectations. Romance is featured.
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Gaffney 63/39 Spartanburg 63/39
Greenville 64/41
Columbia 67/41
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Sumter 65/41
IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 64/39
SUMTER CITY-COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, 3 p.m., fourth floor, Sumter Opera House, Council Chambers SUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT BOARD Thursday, 7:30 a.m., Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce boardroom, 32 E. Calhoun St.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Be careful how you handle friends and relatives. A diplomatic and disciplined approach to suggestions will help you avoid getting into a dispute. If you want to bring about change, offer incentives and choices. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Listen and learn. Share your experience and knowledge. This is a great day for discovery and putting new plans in motion. Children, friends and lovers will play a major role in your life and the decisions you make moving forward.
Charleston 67/44
Today: Pleasant with plenty of sunshine. High 62 to 68. Wednesday: Plenty of sun; pleasant in southern parts. High 66 to 72.
SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY
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62° 46° 55° 32° 79° in 1974 13° in 1960
LAKE LEVELS Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100
Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree
SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest. 356.22 74.52 73.34 98.18
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0.28" 4.51" 2.96" 4.51" 2.09" 2.96"
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NATIONAL CITIES
REGIONAL CITIES
Today City Hi/Lo/W Atlanta 60/44/s Chicago 44/37/c Dallas 76/42/s Detroit 44/37/c Houston 81/63/s Los Angeles 58/43/c New Orleans 71/58/s New York 41/37/r Orlando 72/47/s Philadelphia 43/35/r Phoenix 55/38/pc San Francisco 54/41/pc Wash., DC 51/39/pc
City Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville
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Myrtle Beach 63/46
Manning 66/43
Today: Mild with plenty of sunshine. Winds south-southwest 4-8 mph. Wednesday: Partly sunny and pleasantly warm. Winds southwest 6-12 mph.
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Florence 65/42
Bishopville 65/42
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MCLEOD HEALTH CLARENDON BOARD OF TRUSTEES Today, 6 p.m., hospital board room
DAILY PLANNER
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Flood 7 a.m. stage yest. 12 9.51 19 6.00 14 7.28 14 4.08 80 76.41 24 9.33
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24-hr chg +0.05 +1.80 +0.27 +1.25 +0.74 +4.21
City Florence Gainesville Gastonia Goldsboro Goose Creek Greensboro Greenville Hickory Hilton Head Jacksonville, FL La Grange Macon Marietta
Today Hi/Lo/W 65/42/s 71/42/s 63/40/s 60/41/s 68/44/s 60/39/s 64/41/s 59/37/s 68/48/s 69/42/s 62/42/s 65/39/s 58/40/s
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Low 12:34 a.m. 1:21 p.m. 1:20 a.m. 2:06 p.m.
Today Hi/Lo/W 59/36/s 68/47/s 63/46/s 66/43/s 67/46/s 59/42/s 63/40/s 64/40/s 67/44/s 63/39/s 68/43/s 62/42/s 59/39/s
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PICTURES FROM THE PUBLIC Lilian Peter comments on her photos, “In the land of little rain, in the Mojave Desert in Southern California, is the Joshua Tree National Park. Scattered across the park’s wilderness are rugged rock formations. The jumble of stacked boulders are like careless piles of toy rocks. Nestled among them are the twisted Joshua trees. The trees grow 40 feet tall at a leisurely pace of an inch a year.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Listen to sound advice. It’s best to take time to mull over what you want to do or say before you jump into action. Delays will arise while traveling, or confusion will set in regarding domestic issues. Avoid confrontations. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Secrets will be revealed due to emotional outbursts. Be prepared to take care of any damages that occur as a result of someone’s lack of discretion. Keep your plans simple, honest and within reason to avoid controversy. Make love, not war.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t get angry — get moving. Look for alternatives. Don’t feel the need to stay put if you are bored. A partnership you form with someone will offer a little extra income and a chance to be your own boss.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Be the one to bring about positive change. Get involved in events that will give you the platform you need to raise awareness. It takes reason, common sense and an astute ability to get things done properly and on time.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Set up shop and get things done. Don’t linger when a timeline is in force. Stretch your imagination and you will discover ways to make your life easier. Surprise someone who is expecting you to fall short. Romance is encouraged.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Proceed with caution. Trying to fit too much into your day will bring few results. It is best to concentrate on whatever will bring the highest returns. Getting emotionally caught up in someone else’s affairs will be to your detriment.
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USC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
USC BASKETBALL
Carolina women keep rolling
Gamecocks move up in Top 25 poll Loss to No. 5 Kentucky doesn’t hurt USC FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
South Carolina forward A’ja Wilson (22) and Mississippi State center Chinwe Okorie (45) react to an official’s call during the first half of a game on Monday in Columbia. The Lady Gamecocks held on for a 64-61 victory over the previously unbeaten Lady Bulldogs.
Wilson leads No. 5 South Carolina past No. 4 Bulldogs BY PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA — A’ja Wilson tied her season high with 26 points, Allisha Gray had 16 of her 17 points in the final two quarters and No. 5 South Carolina held off previously undefeated No. 4 Mississippi State 64-61 in a Southeastern Conference showdown Monday night.
The Gamecocks (17-1, 7-0 SEC) trailed 35-28 at halftime and were still down 48-46 with less than two minutes left in the third period. But behind Wilson and Gray, South Carolina pushed forward for its ninth straight win over the Bulldogs (20-1, 6-1) and grabbed control of the conference as it tries for a fourth straight SEC title. Mississippi State had several chances
to win. Victoria Vivians could’ve tied the game at 62 after getting fouled on a 3-pointer with 18.6 seconds left. But after hitting the first two free throws, Vivians’ final attempt rattled away and the ball went out of bounds off the Gamecocks. Blair Schaefer’s 3-pointer from the
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PRO FOOTBALL
Patriots vs. Falcons, Brady vs. Ryan BY HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer A season that began with Tom Brady serving a four-game suspension will end with him in the Super Bowl, where his New England Patriots will take on Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons. While much of the attention between now and the NFL championship game on Feb. 5 in Houston will be focused on Brady vs. Ryan, the truly key matchup could be Atlanta’s score-at-will offense, which produced the most points during the regular season, against the unheralded defense of New England, which allowed the fewest. And these two teams are playing their best football at the most important time. AFC champion New England (16-2) has won nine consecutive games — and hasn’t even trailed since Nov. 27. NFC champion Atlanta (13-5) has won its past six in a row, scoring at least 33 points in each. “We’ll enjoy this,” Ryan said after earning his first Super Bowl trip in his ninth season, “but we’ve got some work to do.” Brady and coach Bill Belichick will
SEE BOWL, PAGE B3
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The University of South Carolina men’s basketball team split two games with teams ranked ahead of it in The Associated Press Top 25 last week. Not only did the Gamecocks remain in the poll, but they moved up a spot as well. USC is ranked 23rd after beating then No. 19 Florida 57-53 at home on Wednesday and losing to then No. 5 Kentucky 85-69 on Saturday in a road contest. The Gamecocks, 15-4 overall and 5-1 in the Southeastern Conference, play host to Auburn today at 6:30 p.m. in a game that will be televised on the SEC Network. Carolina travels to Missouri on Saturday. Villanova and Kansas remain the top two teams in the poll while Gonzaga moved up to third. The Wildcats (19-1) beat Seton Hall and Providence last week and received 35 firstplace votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday. This is the seventh week on top this season for Villanova. Kansas (18-1) was No. 1 on 28 ballots. Last week, the Jayhawks had 32 first-place votes, compared with 28 for Villanova. Gonzaga (19-0), the last unbeaten team in Division I, got the other two first-place votes and moved up one spot to third, the Zag’s highest ranking of the season. Kentucky and Baylor both moved up one place to fourth and fifth, while Florida State jumped from 10th to sixth, the Seminoles’ highest ranking since February 1993, when they also were sixth. Arizona had the week’s biggest jump, going from 14th to No. 7 with its win at UCLA on Saturday. The loss knocked the Bruins from third to No. 8. North Carolina and Oregon rounded out the Top Ten. Butler was 11th followed by Virginia, Louisville, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Creighton — which fell from a tie for seventh — Duke, West Virginia — which also fell from a tie for seventh — Cincinnati and Purdue. The last five teams were Saint Mary’s, Maryland, USC, Xavier and Florida. The teams tied for seventh last week had the worst drops. West Virginia, which lost to Oklahoma and Kansas State, fell 11 spots while Creighton, which lost to Marquette in its first game since point guard
Atlanta’s Matt Ryan walks off the field after the Falcons’ 44-21 victory over Green Bay in the NFC championship game on Sunday in Atlanta.
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CLEMSON BASKETBALL
Allen’s 17 leads Virginia Tech over Clemson 82-81 BY PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer CLEMSON (AP) — Seth Allen thought Virginia Tech’s toughness carried the Hokies against Clemson. His stellar play in the second half didn’t hurt either. Allen scored 15 of his 17 points after halftime as hot-shooting Virginia Tech held off Clemson 82-81 on Sunday, sending the Tigers to their sixth straight Atlantic Coast Conference loss. The Hokies (15-4, 4-3 ACC) shot 60.9 percent (14 of 23) in the second half and 54.7 percent overall to win for the third time in the past four games.
Allen made five of his six shots — including three 3-pointers — in the final 20 minutes and had a critical steal with 90 seconds left to keep Virginia Tech out front. “It was just a huge win because I thought it was the most together we’ve played in a long time,” said Allen, Tech’s senior point guard. It looked like Clemson (11-8, 1-6) had seized control with an 8-2 run with fewer than 11 minutes left to lead 6260. But Allen tied things with two foul shots, Ahmed Hill had a layin and Allen added a jumper as the Hokies took a lead they would not give up. “Even when they took the lead, I remained calm,” Allen said. “I think
that our togetherness has made us stick through the whole game.” Hokies coach Buzz Williams thought Allen looked tired approaching the stretch. Instead, he was active on both ends of the floor, first with a steal with 90 seconds left and Virginia Tech up by four. Then with a no-doubt 3-pointer with 29.8 seconds left that put the Hokies ahead 76-71. Clemson got within 80-78 with 5.9 seconds left on Jaron Blossomgame’s 3-pointer. But Justin Bibbs hit two foul shots to seal things. Blossomgame and Avry Holmes had 20 points each for Clemson, whose ACC losing streak is its longest since dropping seven straight to end the
2012-13 season. Holmes hit a 3-pointer for Clemson as time ran out to end the scoring. Zach LeDay had 16 points and Hill had 11 for the Hokies.
THE BIG PICTURE Virginia Tech: The Hokies came in as one of the ACC’s best shooting teams and Clemson’s defense could not slow them down early on as they made 15 of 30 shots. Tech also had a knack for taking off whenever the Tigers got close, a trait that could serve the Hokies well as league play continues. Zach LeDay led the way
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017
SCOREBOARD TV SPORTS
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Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Nashville, 8 p.m. St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Buffalo at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Vancouver at Arizona, 9 p.m. Edmonton at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
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TUESDAY’S GAMES Boston at Washington, 7 p.m. Chicago at Orlando, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Toronto, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Utah at Denver, 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Sacramento at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Houston at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Miami at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m. Golden State at Charlotte, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Toronto at Memphis, 8 p.m. New York at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
THURSDAY’S GAMES Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Indiana at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Utah, 10:30 p.m.
NHL STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP 48 45 50 44 48 47 46 48
W 28 25 23 21 20 20 19 21
L 13 15 21 14 19 19 18 22
OT 7 5 6 9 9 8 9 5
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GF 144 122 123 136 112 120 110 130
GA 121 120 129 131 133 136 128 142
OT 4 6 5 1 6 7 9 9
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GF 155 149 169 164 136 125 110 129
GA 106 100 134 125 154 131 136 133
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NFL PLAYOFFS By The Associated Press WILDCARD PLAYOFFS Saturday, Jan. 7 Houston 27, Oakland 14 Seattle 26, Detroit 6 Sunday, Jan. 8 Pittsburgh 30, Miami 12 Green Bay 38, N.Y. Giants 13
DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS Saturday, Jan. 14 Atlanta 36, Seattle 20 New England 34, Houston 16 Sunday, Jan. 15 Green Bay 34, Dallas 31 Pittsburgh 18, Kansas City 16
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday, Jan. 22 NFC Atlanta 44, Green Bay 21 AFC New England 36, Pittsburgh 17
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OT 5 5 7 5 4 9 2
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GA 106 122 122 147 151 151 148
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PACIFIC DIVISION Anaheim San Jose Edmonton Calgary Vancouver Los Angeles Arizona
GP 49 47 49 49 48 46 46
Sunday, Jan. 29 At Orlando, Fla. AFC vs. NFC, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
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N.Y. Rangers 1, Detroit 0, OT Pittsburgh 5, Boston 1 Columbus 7, Ottawa 6, OT Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT Chicago 4, Vancouver 2 Nashville 4, Minnesota 2 Monday’s Games Carolina at Washington, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Calgary at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Florida at Arizona, 9 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 9 p.m.
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Sunday, Feb. 5 At Houston Atlanta vs. New England, 6:30 p.m. (FOX)
NBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION Toronto Boston New York Philadelphia Brooklyn
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L 16 17 26 27 34
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CLEMSON FROM PAGE B1 for Virginia Tech, coming off the bench to score 12 points that included a 3-pointer and a three-point play. Clemson: Tigers coach Brad Brownell bases his program on tight defense. But Clemson has struggled in that department so far this year, eighth in ACC defense overall. Adjust for only league games and the Tigers are an embarrassing 11th giving up nearly 80 points a game this season.
NOT SO FOUL SHOOTING Virginia Tech finished hitting 16 of 17 free throws, including all nine in the second half and six straight in the final minute. “Those were all one-and-ones, too,” Clemson coach Brad Brownell said. “Not only did they make one, they made them both.” The Hokies entered the game eighth in the 15-team ACC in foul shooting.
Wolfpack stuns No. 17 Duke 84-82
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Golden State 118, Orlando 98 Dallas 122, L.A. Lakers 73 Phoenix 115, Toronto 103 Minnesota 111, Denver 108 Monday’s Games Washington at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Golden State at Miami, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. New York at Indiana, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 9 p.m.
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DURHAM, N.C. — Freshman Dennis Smith Jr. scored a season-high 32 points to help North Carolina State rally from 12 down late in the first half and stun No. 17 Duke 84-82 on Monday night. Abdul-Malik Abu added 19 points for the Wolfpack (14-7, 3-5 Atlantic Coast Conference), who earned the program’s first win at Duke’s famously hostile Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1995. N.C. State ran off a 20-5 run to erase a 68-59 deficit in the final 6 ½ minutes, then got one final stop when Jayson Tatum lost control of the ball before getting a shot off on Duke’s final possession.
FAMILY, FANS MOURN VENTURA LAS TERRENAS, Dominican Republic (AP) — Dozens of children wearing blue T-shirts with the name “Ventura” emblazoned on the back gathered around a coastal home on Monday to pay their respects to their idol: Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura. He died Sunday in a car crash in his native Dominican Republic, where he was known for practicing with his former youth baseball team every time he visited the Caribbean
PGA CHAMPIONS TOUR By The Associated Press Through Jan. 21
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP MONEY LIST 1, Bernhard Langer, (1), $300,000. 2, Fred Couples, (1), $165,000. 3, Kirk Triplett, (1), $120,000. 4, Olin Browne, (1), $85,000. 8, Rocco Mediate, (1), $55,000.
SCORING AVERAGE (ACTUAL) 1, Bernhard Langer, 64.50. 2, Fred Couples, 65.00. 3, Kirk Triplett, 65.50. 4 (tie), Olin Browne, Lee Janzen, David Toms and Duffy Waldorf, 66.00. 8 (tie), Rocco Mediate, Tom Pernice Jr. and Gene Sauers, 66.50.
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1, John Daly, 310.5. 2, Marco Dawson, 304.0. 3, Doug Garwood, 298.8. 4, Kenny Perry, 298.5. 5, Jeff Sluman, 297.5. 6, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 295.5. 7, Fred Couples, 291.0. 8, Joe Durant, 290.5. 9, Jesper Parnevik, 288.8. 10, Jeff Maggert, 288.0.
FROM PAGE B1 Maurice Watson Jr. suffered a season-ending knee injury, dropped nine places. Kansas has quite a week coming up. The Jayhawks are at West Virginia on
DRIVING ACCURACY PERCENTAGE 1, Joe Durant, 100.00%. 2 (tie), Olin Browne, Gene Sauers and Kirk Triplett, 92.86%. 5, David Frost, 89.29%. 6, Marco Dawson, 85.71%. 7 (tie), Hale Irwin, Jeff Maggert, Esteban Toledo and Paul Goydos, 82.14%.
GREENS IN REGULATION PERCENTAGE 1, Olin Browne, 91.67%. 2 (tie), Fred Couples, Gene Sauers, Kirk Triplett and Colin Montgomerie, 88.89%. 6, Duffy Waldorf, 86.11%. 7 (tie), Esteban Toledo, Joe Durant and Woody Austin, 83.33%. 2 Tied With Jerry Smith, 80.56%.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Columbus at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Detroit at Boston, 7 p.m. Calgary at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Buffalo at Nashville, 8 p.m. San Jose at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Tampa Bay at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
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TOTAL DRIVING 1, Marco Dawson, 8. 2, Joe Durant, 9. 3 (tie), Gene Sauers and Jeff Sluman, 16. 5, Jeff Maggert, 17. 6, Fred Couples, 18. 7, John Daly, 23. 8, Bernhard Langer, 24. 9 (tie), Lee Janzen and Kirk Triplett, 27.
PUTTING AVERAGE 1 (tie), Bernhard Langer and Jeff Maggert, 1.500. 3, Marco Dawson, 1.538. 4, Duffy Waldorf, 1.548. 5, Lee Janzen, 1.560. 6, Jay Haas, 1.565. 7, David Toms, 1.571. 8, Tom Pernice Jr., 1.600. 9, Fred Funk, 1.609. 10, Paul Broadhurst, 1.615.
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EAGLES (HOLES PER) 1 (tie), Olin Browne, Jay Haas, Lee Janzen and Doug Garwood, 18.0. 6 Tied With Jeff Maggert, 36.0.
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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Toronto at Detroit, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 9:30 p.m. Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
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1 (tie), Hale Irwin, Jerry Smith, Kirk Triplett, Marco Dawson, Joe Durant, Woody Austin and Paul Broadhurst, 100.00%. 8, Michael Allen, 75.00%. 9, Lee Janzen, 71.43%. 4 Tied With John Daly, 66.67%.
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1, Kirk Triplett, 63. 2, Marco Dawson, 67. 3, Bernhard Langer, 70. 4, Joe Durant, 72. 5, Jeff Maggert, 88. 6, Fred Couples, 89. 7 (tie), Lee Janzen and Duffy Waldorf, 94. 9, Olin Browne, 102. 10, David Toms, 104.
CLEMSON STRETCH Tigers coach Brad Brownell has made it clear what must happen for his players to turn things around. Now, it’s up to them. Clemson has lost six
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Others receiving votes: Syracuse 44, Kentucky 15, Texas A&M 13, Temple 13, Tennessee 11, Michigan 10, Marquette 8, Northwestern 7, California 3, Drake 3, Wyoming 2, Oregon 2, Harvard 1.
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The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 22, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (33) 18-0 825 1 2. Baylor 19-1 787 2 3. Maryland 19-1 743 3 4. Mississippi St. 20-0 734 4 5. South Carolina 16-1 702 5 6. Florida St. 19-2 657 7 7. Washington 19-2 616 8 8. Notre Dame 18-3 576 6 9. Louisville 18-4 545 9 10. Stanford 17-3 515 10 11. Oregon St. 18-2 506 11 12. Texas 14-4 460 12 13. UCLA 15-4 434 13 14. Duke 17-3 405 15 15. Ohio St. 17-5 384 16 16. Arizona St. 14-5 271 18 17. Miami 14-5 254 14 18. NC State 15-5 247 21 19. Virginia Tech 16-3 221 17 20. Oklahoma 15-5 202 20 21. DePaul 16-5 159 19 22. West Virginia 15-5 104 24 23. South Florida 15-3 102 23 24. Green Bay 17-2 90 25. Kansas St 15-5 54 22
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Rules of engagement: Williams reaches QFs, speaks MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — For three rounds and more than a week, Serena Williams wanted to keep all the focus on her primary objective in Australia. She hasn’t worn an engagement ring at the Australian Open, and hasn’t really wanted to elaborate much on the marriage proposal from Alexis Ohanian — which she made public late last month by posting a poem on news website Reddit. The six-time Australian Open champion is in Melbourne aiming for an Open-era record 23rd Grand Slam title. Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, has been at her matches. After her toughest match at the tournament this year, a 7-5, 6-4 win over No. 16-seeded Barbora Strycova on Monday, she was relaxed enough to reflect on her engagement. She’d just reached the Australian Open quarterfinals for the 11th time, and said she had nothing to lose after struggling with her misfiring serve — she was broken four times, including her first two service games — and making 46 unforced errors. The 35-year-old Williams was asked, again, about her engagement in a postmatch news conference — this time by an Italian journalist who wanted to clarify the reference to Rome in her poem. “What did I say? I said I was whisked away to Rome?” she said, explaining how Ohanian took her back to where they first met to propose. Were they introduced, or was it happenstance? “Literally by chance. It was just -- I was sitting down, and he sat next to me,” Williams said. “Yeah, that doesn’t happen anymore, right? “I live in a movie and in a fairytale in my mind, so I guess eventually it was bound to happen.” Still, she’s not planning the wedding just yet. As she said to all previous questions about the engagement, she’s
BOWL FROM PAGE B1 be seeking their — and the Patriots’ — fifth Lombardi Trophy, and second in three years. This will be the franchise’s league-record ninth appearance in the Super Bowl, including titles in the 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2015 editions. “This team showed a lot of mental toughness over the course of the year,” Brady said. The Falcons have never won the Super Bowl. This will be Atlanta’s second trip to the big game; it lost to Denver in 1999. The club’s never had a quarterback quite as good as Ryan, though. The guy nicknamed “Matty Ice” went 27 for 38 for 392 yards, four touchdowns and zero interceptions, while adding a rushing TD, to boot, leading Atlanta past Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers 44-21 on Sunday in the NFC championship game. “We did exactly what we’ve been doing all year and it feels really good,” Ryan said after becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for at least three TDs in four consecutive postseason games. “We’ll be ready to go. That’s for sure.” Later Sunday, the 39-yearold Brady tied Hall of Famer Joe Montana’s record with a ninth three-TD postseason game, helping the Patriots beat Ben Roethlisberger 36-17 for the AFC championship. Oddsmakers didn’t even wait for the second game to end before making New England a 3-point favorite over Atlanta in the Super Bowl.
here to win another title. With topseeded Angelique Kerber already out, she also has the chance to regain the No. 1 ranking. Next up, she’ll face 2016 semifinalist Johanna Konta, who beat Ekaterina Makarova 6-1, 6-4 to make it fourthround victories over the Russian in back-to-back years. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni was an emerging talent when Serena and Venus Williams were first making an impact, reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1999 when she was 17. After a long, difficult time off the tour, she has returned to the quarterfinals of a major for the first time since. Lucic-Baroni beat American qualifier Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-2 and will next play U.S. Open finalist Karolina Pliskova, who had a 6-3, 6-3 win over Daria Gavrilova. Whatever comes of it, the 34-year-old Lucic-Baroni said she’d make the most of the moment. “I felt kind of a little bit of unfinished business,” she said. “I still wanted to play on a stage like this ... Come out, play, have these wins, be in a quarterfinal of a Slam.” Rafael Nadal is coming back from two months off to rest his injured left wrist, and was delighted to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the 30th time with his 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over Gael Monfils. It was Nadal’s first win over a top-10 player at a Grand Slam since his French Open victory in 2014 — the last of his 14 major titles. “Being in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam after couple of years not being there is very special for me,” said Nadal, who last progressed this far at the 2015 French Open. Nadal went up a break early in the first two sets, had his chances in the third before Monfils rallied, and then traded breaks in the fourth before breaking the acrobatic Frenchman in
New England opened the season with a 3-1 record despite using two backup quarterbacks while playing those games without Brady after he went through a lengthy court battle in an unsuccessful bid to have his ban overturned for what became known as “Deflategate.” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Brady because the league said it determined the Patriots intentionally underinflated footballs used in an AFC championship game victory two years ago. During Sunday’s game in Foxborough, Massachusetts, spectators mocked Goodell by chanting “Where is Roger?” — he chose to attend the game in Atlanta instead. And as well as Brady played — 32 for 42 for 384 yards, those three scores and zero interceptions — it was the way New England’s defense played that stood out. Right from the get-go, too: On Pittsburgh’s first two drives, nine plays yielded a total of 26 yards. Then there was the stand late in the second quarter, when the Steelers had first-and-goal at the 1-foot line and wound up settling for a field goal. And, by
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Serena Williams makes a forehand return to Barbora Strycova during their fourth-round match in the Australian Open on Monday in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday. Williams won by the scores of 7-5, 6-4. the last game to win. Overall, he converted six of 17 break-point chances. He next plays third-ranked Milos Raonic, the Wimbledon finalist and highest-ranked man still in the tournament after upset losses for top-ranked Andy Murray and defending champion Novak Djokovic. No. 15 Grigor Dimitrov closed with an ace to hold off wild-card entry Denis Istomin, who upset Djokovic in the third round, 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2, 6-1. The Bulgarian will next play No. 11 David Goffin. Raonic had a 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over No. 13 Roberto Bautista Agut, hitting 33 aces and 75 winners. But he also had nine double-faults and 55 unforced errors, and didn’t really get on a roll until after spiking his racket into the court in frustration in the third set.
game’s end, the Patriots had forced two turnovers. New England ranked No. 1 in the NFL in points allowed per game at 15.6, and it gave up only 326.4 yards per game, eighth-best. MVP favorite Ryan, meanwhile, directed a unit orchestrated by offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan — expected to be hired after the season as San Francisco’s new head coach, he’s the son of twotime Super Bowl champion coach Mike Shanahan — that topped the league in scoring (33.8) and ranked second in yards (415.8). Brady, a three-time Super Bowl MVP and two-time league MVP, and the Patriots also own a pretty effective offense, even after losing star tight end Rob Gronkowski to an injury. New England ranked fourth in yards (386.2) and third in points (27.6). Another thing these teams have in common is that neither hurts itself with turnovers: They tied for the fewest in the regular season, with 11. That could be part of why bookies are expecting a highscoring game, with most setting the over-under at 58 points.
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The Canadian is conscious he is the highest-ranked player still in the draw, but also of what lies ahead. “It sort of crosses your mind,” Raonic said. “But it’s very insignificant because there’s a lot for me to even get past that point where it would have been to play potentially against those guys. I’m pretty intent on staying in that moment.” That’s something Williams is counting on, too. “I feel like it was really good for me to win on probably not my best day,” Williams said of her wayward serve. “Sometimes you rely on one shot and if it goes off, and then, like, what happens now? “It was really good for me to almost lose that so I know my other game is going pretty good, too.”
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early, mid-season, and late cultivars available from which you can Actually, summertime blues doesn’t choose. Clemson has a really helpful fact have to mean that your heart is brosheet on this subject -- just search ken ‘cause your sweetheart has found someone new. Blueberries are Clemson hgic blueberries (hgic a summertime treat that’s perfect for stands for Home & Garden Information Center) that lists cultimost backyards in South Carolina. vars that fall into each category. Also, Long, long lived and productive, with proper pruning, blueberries are you’ll find such details as the color, relatively pest and disease free. Lots size and flavor of the different offerof people freeze the extra fruits they ings. Pruning blueberries is easy even for pick over the season and have berheight-challenged people like me – ries to put on their cereal all winter you don’t need a ladder! Once your long. The key to being successful is doing bushes are mature, go in each year a little homework up front. Although and remove one-fourth to one-third fall is the best time to plant in South of the oldest canes at ground level so you’ll have new, vigorous replaceCarolina, it’s hard to find a wide choice of varieties of blueberries (or ments which produce the most fruit. Most important is to take a soil test. other fruit trees) to plant until the Blueberries are really finicky about catalogues come out in late winter. soil pH, requiring a pH lower than Blueberries fall into several categories. For most of South Carolina, we your vegetable garden. So do take a need to select rabbiteye cultivars, as soil test right now and bring it our office on the fifth floor of the white they perform best in our soils and building next to the downtown temperatures. There’s a lot of hype library. You don’t need to get the soil about highbush cultivars but these sample bag first – read directions on have requirements that are difficult how to soil test by once again searchfor a non-professional to supply – ing “Clemson hgic soil test” and putstick with rabbiteyes. ting two cups of the mixed results Blueberries are monoecious; with male and female reproductive struc- into a Ziploc bag. tures produced on the same flower. Clemson University Cooperative Extension However, they’re not good at selfService offers its programs to people of all ages, fertilization. That’s why you should regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national plant at least two different cultivars origin, disability, political beliefs, sexual orienthat belong to the same flowering tation, marital or family status and is an equal period. Fortunately, there’re lots of opportunity employer.
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TODAY 2 p.m. — College Football: Senior Bowl Practice from Mobile, Ala. (NFL NETWORK). 3 p.m. — Professional Golf: Web.com Tour Bahamas Great Abaco Classic Third Round from Great Abaco, Bahamas (GOLF). 6:05 p.m. — Talk Show: Sports Talk (WPUB-FM 102.7). 6:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Auburn at South Carolina (SEC NETWORK, WDXY-FM 105.9, WNKT-FM 107.5, WDXY-AM 1240). 7 p.m. — College Basketball: Southern Illinois at Wichita State (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 7 p.m. — College Basketball: Purdue at Michigan State (ESPN). 7 p.m. — College Basketball: Kansas at West Virginia (ESPN2). 7 p.m. — College Basketball: Louisville at Pittsburgh (ESPNU). 7 p.m. — NBA Basketball: San Antonio at Toronto (NBA TV). 7 p.m. — NHL Hockey: St. Louis at Pittsburgh (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 7 p.m. — Professional Tennis: Australian Open Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Melbourne, Australia (TENNIS). 7 p.m. — College Basketball: St. Joesph’s at St. Bonaventure (TIME WARNER 1250). 7:55 p.m. — International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Coras vs. Santos (UNIVISION). 8 p.m. — College Basketball: Villanova at Marquette (FOX SPORTS 1). 8:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Arkansas at Vanderbilt (SEC NETWORK). 9 p.m. — College Basketball: Tulane at Houston (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 9 p.m. — College Basketball: Kentucky at Tennessee (ESPN). 9 p.m. — Professional Tennis: Australian Open Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Melbourne, Australia (ESPN2). 9 p.m. — College Basketball: Kansas State at Iowa State (ESPNU). 9 p.m. — College Basketball: Ball State at Eastern Michigan (TIME WARNER 1250). 9:55 p.m. — International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Atlante vs. Guadalajara (UNIVISION). 11 p.m. — College Basketball: Utah State at New Mexico (ESPNU). 3 a.m. — Professional Tennis: Australian Open Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Melbourne, Australia (ESPN2).
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SUNDAY’S GAMES
TUESDAY’S GAMES Boston at Washington, 7 p.m. Chicago at Orlando, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Toronto, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Utah at Denver, 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Sacramento at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Houston at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Miami at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m. Golden State at Charlotte, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Toronto at Memphis, 8 p.m. New York at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
THURSDAY’S GAMES Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Indiana at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Utah, 10:30 p.m.
NHL STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP 48 45 50 44 48 47 46 48
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OT 7 5 6 9 9 8 9 5
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GA 121 120 129 131 133 136 128 142
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GA 106 100 134 125 154 131 136 133
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NFL PLAYOFFS By The Associated Press WILDCARD PLAYOFFS Saturday, Jan. 7 Houston 27, Oakland 14 Seattle 26, Detroit 6 Sunday, Jan. 8 Pittsburgh 30, Miami 12 Green Bay 38, N.Y. Giants 13
DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS Saturday, Jan. 14 Atlanta 36, Seattle 20 New England 34, Houston 16 Sunday, Jan. 15 Green Bay 34, Dallas 31 Pittsburgh 18, Kansas City 16
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday, Jan. 22 NFC Atlanta 44, Green Bay 21 AFC New England 36, Pittsburgh 17
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SUNDAY’S GAMES
Sunday, Feb. 5 At Houston Atlanta vs. New England, 6:30 p.m. (FOX)
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CLEMSON FROM PAGE B1 for Virginia Tech, coming off the bench to score 12 points that included a 3-pointer and a three-point play. Clemson: Tigers coach Brad Brownell bases his program on tight defense. But Clemson has struggled in that department so far this year, eighth in ACC defense overall. Adjust for only league games and the Tigers are an embarrassing 11th giving up nearly 80 points a game this season.
NOT SO FOUL SHOOTING Virginia Tech finished hitting 16 of 17 free throws, including all nine in the second half and six straight in the final minute. “Those were all one-and-ones, too,” Clemson coach Brad Brownell said. “Not only did they make one, they made them both.” The Hokies entered the game eighth in the 15-team ACC in foul shooting.
Wolfpack stuns No. 17 Duke 84-82
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Golden State 118, Orlando 98 Dallas 122, L.A. Lakers 73 Phoenix 115, Toronto 103 Minnesota 111, Denver 108 Monday’s Games Washington at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Golden State at Miami, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. San Antonio at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. New York at Indiana, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 9 p.m.
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DURHAM, N.C. — Freshman Dennis Smith Jr. scored a season-high 32 points to help North Carolina State rally from 12 down late in the first half and stun No. 17 Duke 84-82 on Monday night. Abdul-Malik Abu added 19 points for the Wolfpack (14-7, 3-5 Atlantic Coast Conference), who earned the program’s first win at Duke’s famously hostile Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1995. N.C. State ran off a 20-5 run to erase a 68-59 deficit in the final 6 ½ minutes, then got one final stop when Jayson Tatum lost control of the ball before getting a shot off on Duke’s final possession.
FAMILY, FANS MOURN VENTURA LAS TERRENAS, Dominican Republic (AP) — Dozens of children wearing blue T-shirts with the name “Ventura” emblazoned on the back gathered around a coastal home on Monday to pay their respects to their idol: Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura. He died Sunday in a car crash in his native Dominican Republic, where he was known for practicing with his former youth baseball team every time he visited the Caribbean
PGA CHAMPIONS TOUR By The Associated Press Through Jan. 21
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP MONEY LIST 1, Bernhard Langer, (1), $300,000. 2, Fred Couples, (1), $165,000. 3, Kirk Triplett, (1), $120,000. 4, Olin Browne, (1), $85,000. 8, Rocco Mediate, (1), $55,000.
SCORING AVERAGE (ACTUAL) 1, Bernhard Langer, 64.50. 2, Fred Couples, 65.00. 3, Kirk Triplett, 65.50. 4 (tie), Olin Browne, Lee Janzen, David Toms and Duffy Waldorf, 66.00. 8 (tie), Rocco Mediate, Tom Pernice Jr. and Gene Sauers, 66.50.
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1, John Daly, 310.5. 2, Marco Dawson, 304.0. 3, Doug Garwood, 298.8. 4, Kenny Perry, 298.5. 5, Jeff Sluman, 297.5. 6, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 295.5. 7, Fred Couples, 291.0. 8, Joe Durant, 290.5. 9, Jesper Parnevik, 288.8. 10, Jeff Maggert, 288.0.
FROM PAGE B1 Maurice Watson Jr. suffered a season-ending knee injury, dropped nine places. Kansas has quite a week coming up. The Jayhawks are at West Virginia on
DRIVING ACCURACY PERCENTAGE 1, Joe Durant, 100.00%. 2 (tie), Olin Browne, Gene Sauers and Kirk Triplett, 92.86%. 5, David Frost, 89.29%. 6, Marco Dawson, 85.71%. 7 (tie), Hale Irwin, Jeff Maggert, Esteban Toledo and Paul Goydos, 82.14%.
GREENS IN REGULATION PERCENTAGE 1, Olin Browne, 91.67%. 2 (tie), Fred Couples, Gene Sauers, Kirk Triplett and Colin Montgomerie, 88.89%. 6, Duffy Waldorf, 86.11%. 7 (tie), Esteban Toledo, Joe Durant and Woody Austin, 83.33%. 2 Tied With Jerry Smith, 80.56%.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Columbus at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Detroit at Boston, 7 p.m. Calgary at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Buffalo at Nashville, 8 p.m. San Jose at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Tampa Bay at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
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TOTAL DRIVING 1, Marco Dawson, 8. 2, Joe Durant, 9. 3 (tie), Gene Sauers and Jeff Sluman, 16. 5, Jeff Maggert, 17. 6, Fred Couples, 18. 7, John Daly, 23. 8, Bernhard Langer, 24. 9 (tie), Lee Janzen and Kirk Triplett, 27.
PUTTING AVERAGE 1 (tie), Bernhard Langer and Jeff Maggert, 1.500. 3, Marco Dawson, 1.538. 4, Duffy Waldorf, 1.548. 5, Lee Janzen, 1.560. 6, Jay Haas, 1.565. 7, David Toms, 1.571. 8, Tom Pernice Jr., 1.600. 9, Fred Funk, 1.609. 10, Paul Broadhurst, 1.615.
BIRDIE AVERAGE
EAGLES (HOLES PER) 1 (tie), Olin Browne, Jay Haas, Lee Janzen and Doug Garwood, 18.0. 6 Tied With Jeff Maggert, 36.0.
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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Toronto at Detroit, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 9:30 p.m. Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
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1 (tie), Hale Irwin, Jerry Smith, Kirk Triplett, Marco Dawson, Joe Durant, Woody Austin and Paul Broadhurst, 100.00%. 8, Michael Allen, 75.00%. 9, Lee Janzen, 71.43%. 4 Tied With John Daly, 66.67%.
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1, Kirk Triplett, 63. 2, Marco Dawson, 67. 3, Bernhard Langer, 70. 4, Joe Durant, 72. 5, Jeff Maggert, 88. 6, Fred Couples, 89. 7 (tie), Lee Janzen and Duffy Waldorf, 94. 9, Olin Browne, 102. 10, David Toms, 104.
CLEMSON STRETCH Tigers coach Brad Brownell has made it clear what must happen for his players to turn things around. Now, it’s up to them. Clemson has lost six
straight — four of those by a combined 13 points — for its longest losing streak against ACC opponents in four seasons. “We’re going to turn it around when my guys want to
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Others receiving votes: Kansas St. 41, SMU 33, Northwestern 28, UNC Wilmington 14, Iowa St. 12, Virginia Tech 7, Dayton 6, Southern Cal 6, Akron 1, Illinois St. 1, Middle Tennessee 1, Utah 1
Others receiving votes: Syracuse 44, Kentucky 15, Texas A&M 13, Temple 13, Tennessee 11, Michigan 10, Marquette 8, Northwestern 7, California 3, Drake 3, Wyoming 2, Oregon 2, Harvard 1.
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The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 22, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (33) 18-0 825 1 2. Baylor 19-1 787 2 3. Maryland 19-1 743 3 4. Mississippi St. 20-0 734 4 5. South Carolina 16-1 702 5 6. Florida St. 19-2 657 7 7. Washington 19-2 616 8 8. Notre Dame 18-3 576 6 9. Louisville 18-4 545 9 10. Stanford 17-3 515 10 11. Oregon St. 18-2 506 11 12. Texas 14-4 460 12 13. UCLA 15-4 434 13 14. Duke 17-3 405 15 15. Ohio St. 17-5 384 16 16. Arizona St. 14-5 271 18 17. Miami 14-5 254 14 18. NC State 15-5 247 21 19. Virginia Tech 16-3 221 17 20. Oklahoma 15-5 202 20 21. DePaul 16-5 159 19 22. West Virginia 15-5 104 24 23. South Florida 15-3 102 23 24. Green Bay 17-2 90 25. Kansas St 15-5 54 22
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Going medieval seems to be the norm on ‘Outsiders’ BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Returning for a second season, “Outsiders” (9 p.m., WGN, TV-MA) is insane. And that’s what makes it hard to resist. You have to admire this tale of the feral Farrell clan for not holding back. In fact, it piles one weirdness on top of another. It’s one thing to have the Farrells isolated on top of a Kentucky mountain. It’s quite another to have them speak their own specific language and follow old-time religious rites complete with shamanistic powers. Thomas M. Wright stars as Sheriff Wade Houghton, the local authority caught in the middle when the state gives a green light to a giant energy company to evict the Farrells and exploit the billions of dollars’ worth of coal beneath their ancient homestead. Wright’s own family lore includes the fact that his father had been struck by lightning at the top of that mountain. As the first season concluded, he was convinced that the Farrells and police were involved in a battle right out of “Vikings.” As season two begins, he learns that his nightmare was just that. But he’s not convinced that it won’t come true. It’s curious that History’s “Vikings” features a ninthcentury king beginning to doubt the power of animistic potions and spells, the very things that give the tribal leaders on “Outsiders” their control. If anything, some of the Farrells seem dirtier, hairier and more ornery than the gang on “Vikings.” Although some of them just ride all-terrain vehicles and make a lot of noise, just to bug their fellow Farrells. Like I said, this show is insane. • “American Experience: Rachel Carson” (8 p.m., PBS, TVPG, check local listings) offers a two-hour profile of the reclusive scientist and bestselling author whose 1962 book “Silent Spring” rocked the chemical and pesticide industries and challenged common assumptions about the relationship between humans and nature. In many ways, Carson, who died at 56 in 1964, was the mother of ecological awareness and the environmental movement that flourished a
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Taylor Kinney stars as Kelly Severide in the “Who Lives and Who Dies” episode of “Chicago Fire,” airing at 10 p.m. today on NBC. decade after “Silent Spring.” Actress Mary-Louise Parker provides the voice of Rachel Carson in this “Experience” that celebrates the power of ideas disseminated in a popular book by a passionate writer.
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Big Sean is booked on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Oprah Winfrey and Pretty Yende are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS, r) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Mike Myers, Tim Ferriss, Steve Aoki and Louis Tomlinson on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Retta, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Darren King visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, and Iliza Shlesinger appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r). Copyright 2017 United Feature Syndicate
CULT CHOICE Eleanor Parker and Agnes Moorehead star in the 1950 shocker “Caged” (8 p.m., TCM), part of a nightlong festival of films about women behind bars.
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TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A convict’s wife seeks revenge on “Bull” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14). • Too many candles to blow out on “This Is Us” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • The three-night miniseries “The New Edition Story” (9 p.m., BET) recalls a Bostonbased boy band popular in the 1980s. • Deep water sabotage on “NCIS: New Orleans” (10 p.m.,
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510 - Hood, Lavetta 558 - Lawrence, Michael 709 - Gamble, Quaran 724 - Casteel, Damon 747 - Fegins, Shamara 1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153 B016 - Fleming, James B078 - Watcher, Robert B082 - James, Shauna C022 - Bennett, Tequalli C037 - Walker, Vanessa C038 - Fidiaj, Brenda C042 - Harrison, Diane D004 - Lawson, Jacory D008 - Wheeler, Lakisha E004 - Selitte, Mario E031 - White, Matthew E039 - Belcher, Sabrina F045 - Burroughs, Virgil H005 - Rhodes, Kierra J010 - Dixon, Nicholas 3785 Broad St, Sumter, SC 29154 0142 - Nelson, Gretta 0249 - Williams, Lorenzo 0403 - Demmons, Dante 0411 - Rex, Candy 0431/2 - Carraway, Cheryl 0531 - Lane, Loriel 0728 - Lovely, Andria 0736 - Brown, Danesha Purchase must be made with cash only and paid for at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to adjournment.
STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES PETITIONER IN THE MATTER OF: KEYSHON ROBINSON NELSON, DOB: 06/29/99 FILE NO. 2012-JV-590 A CHILD UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE ORDER FOR PUBLICATION
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Joseph T. McElveen, Jr. Mayor NOTICE OF SUMTER BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS PUBLIC HEARING
BOA-16-16, 3350 N. Main St. (County) The applicant is requesting Special Exception approval in order to allow for a Liquor Store (SIC 592) as required per Article 3; Section I General Commercial Zoning District; 3.i.4.e Special Exceptions - Liquor Stores; Exhibit 5 and Article 5; Section B; 5.b.1 and 5.b.2.i of the Sumter County Zoning Ordinance. The property is located at 3350 N. Main St., represented by Tax Map # 244-00-01-001, and zoned General Commercial (GC).
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim. Estate:/Elizabeth Grubb #2016ES4300001 Personal Representative Grandy Grubb 1904 West Oakland Avenue Sumter, SC 29150
Estate:/Zane Dale Wright #2016ES4300030 Personal Representative Mary W. Martin C/O William C. Coffey, Jr. PO Box 29102 Manning, SC 29102
Estate:/Willie Jean Munn #2016ES4300013 Personal Representative Gale M. Doggette 46 Chamblee Road Walterboro, SC 29488
Estate:/Patsy Hopkins #2016ES4300038 Personal Representative Leonard E. Hopkins 2155 N. Kings Hwy. Dalzell, SC 29040
Estate:/Thomas D. Carty #2016ES4300710 Personal Representative Douglas W. Carty 6185 Carty Lane Wedgefield,SC 29168
Estate:/Joseph Gardner Gore Jr #2016ES4300028 Personal Representative Ann H. Gore C/O Thomas Player, Jr. Attorney at Law PO Drawer 3690 Sumter, SC 29151
It appearing to the Court from the allegations of the Petition for Termination of Parental Rights, Motion for Service by Publication and the Affidavit of Diligent Search that the whereabouts of the Respondent, TAMIKO ROBINSON, Mother of KEYSHON ROBINSON NELSON, is unknown and cannot be ascertained by diligent search, therefore, the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon Respondent, TAMIKO ROBINSON, Mother of KEYSHON ROBINSON NELSON.
BOA-17-02, 4395 Camden Hwy. (County) The applicant is requesting a variance of 1300sqft from the maximum allowed of 1100sqft per the Sumter County Zoning Ordinance Article 4,Exhibit 8A Maximum Square Footage of Residential Accessory Structures Based on Gross Acreage in order to allow a 2400 sq. ft. detached structure. The property is located at 4395 Camden Hwy., represented by Tax Map #151-14-02-08 and zoned Agricultural Conservation (AC).
It is, therefore, ORDERED that said TAMIKO ROBINSON, Mother of KEYSHON ROBINSON NELSON be served by publication of the following notice for four (4) consecutive weeks in THE SUMTER ITEM, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed in the State of South Carolina and distributed throughout Sumter County, South Carolina and by publication of the following notice for four (4) consecutive weeks in The Sumter Item, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed in the State of South Carolina.
Documents pertaining to the proposed request(s) are on file in the Office of the Sumter City-County Planning Department and are available to be inspected and studied by interested citizens.
Personal Representative William H. Rittle 1043 Nottingham Dr. Sumter, SC 29153
SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL James T. McCain, Chairman Mary Blanding, Clerk
Personal Representative Timothy Dixon 2650 Edmunds Dr. Sumter, SC 29154
It is further ORDERED that if the TAMIKO ROBINSON, Mother of KEYSHON ROBINSON NELSON does not enter an appearance or otherwise Answer the Petition, further personal service or service by further publication shall be dispensed with and service of any future notices, motions, orders or other legal documents in this matter may be made upon the TAMIKO ROBINSON, Mother of KEYSHON ROBINSON NELSON, by filing same with the Juvenile Court Clerk of Sumner County, Tennessee.
Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.
NOTICE TO RESPONDENT, TAMIKO ROBINSON
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BOA-17-01, 343 Pinewood Rd. (City) The applicant is requesting a variance from Article 8, Exhibit 8-5 Maximum Sign Area for General Commercial Zoning District to allow for an additional 473.26 sq. ft. of signage on the front of the building. The property is located at 343 Pinewood Rd., represented by Tax Map #206-12-02-044 and is zoned General Commercial (GC).
The Sumter City-County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers located on the Fourth Floor of the Opera House (21 North Main Street, Sumter, South Carolina). The following requests are scheduled for public hearing:
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The Sumter City-County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers located on the Fourth Floor of the Opera House (21 North Main Street, Sumter, South Carolina). The following request is scheduled for public hearing:
Documents pertaining to the proposed request(s) are on file in the Office of the Sumter City-County Planning Department and are available to be inspected and studied by interested citizens.
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The State of Tennessee, Department of Children's Services, has filed a petition against you seeking to terminate forever your parental rights to KEYSHON ROBINSON NELSON, who was born to TAMIKO ROBINSON on June 29, 1999 in Charleston County, South Carolina. The birth certificate is silent as to the identity of the biological father. It appears that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon you because your whereabouts are unknown. You are hereby ORDERED to appear in the Juvenile Court of Sumner County, Tennessee in Gallatin, Tennessee on the 21st day of December, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., to personally to answer the Petition for Termination of Parental Rights. Failing to appear for the hearing on this date and time, without good cause, pursuant to Rule 39(c)(3) of the Tenn. R. Juv. P. will result in the loss of your right to contest the petition to terminate your parental rights to the child listed above. You may view and obtain a copy of the Petition and any other subsequently filed legal documents at the Sumner County Juvenile Court Clerk's Office, 225 East Main Street, Gallatin, TN 37066. IT IS SO ORDERED. Entered this 18th day of October, 2016. BARRY BROWN, JUDGE APPROVED FOR ENTRY: STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES Robyn L. Taylor, BPR#026922 Assistant General Counsel 393 Maple Street, Suite 201 Gallatin, TN 37066 (615) 451-5818
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Trump signs orders on trade, abortion Among executive actions: Withdrawing the U.S. from Trans-Pacific Partnership Gregory Korte @gregorykorte USA TODAY WASHINGTON President Trump signed three presidential directives Monday, withdrawing U.S. support for a Pacific trade deal, imposing a hiring freeze in civilian agencies, and restoring the socalled Mexico City policy that prohibits U.S. aid from supporting international groups that promote abortion.
Along with an executive order signed Friday on Obamacare, Trump’s first-week executive actions signal a U-turn from Obama administration policies. “Everybody knows what I’m about to do,” Trump said before withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal signed by the Obama administration but not ratified by the Senate. “We’ve been talking about this for a long time. A great thing for the American worker, what we just did.” When Chief of Staff Reince
President Trump holds up an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the TransPacific Partnership after signing it alongside White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
“We’ve been talking about this for a long time. A great thing for the American worker, what we just did.” President Trump
Priebus handed him a memorandum directing a hiring freeze, Trump emphasized, “except for the military.” The hiring freeze is in line with similar actions taken by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush in their first days in office. Obama did not order a v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B
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TORNADOES SET DEADLY RECORD IN THE SOUTH At least 16 killed in worst January day since 1969
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The Southeast took stock Monday of the wide swath of destruction wrought by the deadliest January day for tornadoes in 48 years. With 16 deaths, Sunday became the USA’s worst January day for tornadoes since Jan. 22, 1969, when 32 people died, ac-
Dozens of tornadoes were reported through the weekend a time of year when storms of such power and destruction are rare. cording to the Storm Prediction Center. Such destructive storms are rare for January, and Sunday’s storm was particularly deadly,
killing 15 people in Georgia and one in Florida. It was also the deadliest day overall since April 27, 2014. Four people were killed Saturday in another tornado in Mississippi. January 2017 is now the second-deadliest January for tornadoes in the U.S. since accurate records began in 1950. Only January 1969 had more. Survey teams were examining damage Monday to determine
A rescue worker searches for survivors in the wreckage of a mobile home Monday after a tornado ripped through Albany, Ga.
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USA’s newest satellite: ‘Hi-def from the heavens’ GOES-16, a revolution in weather science, sends its first images Doyle Rice @usatodayweather USA TODAY
The USA’s newest weather satellite — GOES-16 — has sent back its first images of our planet, federal scientists announced Monday. The photos are of weather and Earth in high detail — at four
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GOES-16 captured this view of the moon from the satellite’s position 22,000 miles above the equator earlier this month.
times the image resolution of existing spacecraft. It’s like “high-definition from the heavens,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement. GOES stands for geostationary operational environmental satellite. “This is such an exciting day for NOAA,” says Stephen Volz, the director of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. “One of our GOES-16 scientists compared this to seeing a newborn baby’s first pictures — it’s that exciting for us. ... These images come from the most sophis-
ticated technology ever flown in space to predict severe weather on Earth.” And it’s fast: The satellite can scan the entire Western Hemisphere in just five minutes. “It will revolutionize how severe-weather forecasting is done,” says meteorologist Ryan Maue of WeatherBell Analytics. The school-bus-size satellite, known as GOES-R when it was launched in November, is in a geosynchronous orbit of Earth. This means it hovers in the same spot above the planet, about 22,000 miles above the equator, and matches Earth’s rotation.
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After TPP, Trump to focus on jobs Opinions split on effect pact would have had on growth Roger Yu @ByRogerYu USA TODAY
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was pitched as fuel for American exporters in their global competition. President Trump, by signing an executive order Monday to abandon the TPP, demonstrated that his priority is to slow the tide of jobs leaving the United States and experiment with other protectionist measures before providing a leg-up to American companies seeking cheaper labor abroad. The order on his first working day as president reverses decades of pro-trade policies pursued by his predecessors, who argued such deals boost U.S. exports, open markets for American companies and lead to more jobs. Trump argues these trade deals are costing U.S. workers their jobs, and that the TPP is filled with too many concessions to other nations The TPP is a trade pact among 12 Pacific Rim countries, excluding China, that was signed last year by President Obama after seven years of negotiation. But the Senate had not yet ratified it. The 30-chapter pact, which also needed to be ratified by other countries before Trump’s order Monday, aims to boost exports, remove tariffs, open access to more markets and usher in transparency in trade rules. Other countries part of the TPP are Australia, Canada, Japan,
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President Trump on Monday signs an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact fashioned under the Obama administration.
The TPP would have removed more than 18,000 taxes that have hindered the sale of U.S. products in foreign countries. Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, Chile, Brunei, Singapore and New Zealand. The pact “levels the playing field by setting the highest enforceable standards and by removing barriers to selling our goods overseas,” Obama wrote last year in an editorial for The Washington Post. A key selling pitch by Obama was that agreement would remove more than 18,000 tariffs that have hampered U.S. compa-
nies from selling their products in foreign countries. The TPP also includes rules about environmental standards, labor practices, the influence of state-owned enterprises, trade disputes, e-commerce policies, intellectual property protection and anti-corruption measures. ARGUMENT AGAINST TPP
Labor unions that oppose the deal are primarily concerned that the TPP inhibits domestic investment, particularly in manufacturing, by offering benefits to U.S. companies that relocate operations and jobs abroad. They say it also loosens restrictions on foreign companies that export to the United States, hurting domestic
competitors. For example, the agreement with South Korea requires that only 35% of the parts of products coming into the U.S. duty-free originate in Korea, which means the majority of parts could come from China or other places, according to the Communications Workers of America. The TPP could be used as a “backdoor” for Chinese products to come into the U.S. duty-free and hurt domestic competitors, it said. About 448,000 U.S. jobs could be lost if the TPP were enacted, according to a study by Tufts University’s Global Development And Environment Institute. Critics also say the TPP would be the latest in a string of failed trade policies that have contributed to wage stagnation in the U.S. Working-class Americans already lose about $1,800 annually because wages have been depressed by companies choosing to operate in countries with lower wages, according to the leftleaning Economic Policy Institute. “It’s a race to the bottom on wages,” said Robert E. Scott, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute. Obama has countered that the TPP offers benefits that would touch many sectors of the U.S. economy. “Building walls to isolate ourselves from the global economy would only isolate us from the incredible opportunities it provides,” he said. Jeffrey Frankel, professor of capital formation and growth at Harvard Kennedy School, said in an editorial for The Boston Globe that the TPP reduces tariffs and quotas. “It is true that the United States will not be lowering many such import barriers under TPP
because we don’t have many,” he said. “But other members around the Pacific Rim have lots. TPP will lower their trade barriers.” A NEUTRAL ASSESSMENT
In a report last year, the U.S. International Trade Commission, a non-partisan federal agency, had a more optimistic outlook, saying the agreement would result in a net increase of 128,000 full-time jobs in 15 years. But the agency estimated that the TTP would boost U.S. gross domestic product only by a modest 0.15%, or $42.7 billion, by 2032. Output in manufacturing, natural resources, and energy would drop of 0.1%, with the TPP agreement in place, the agency predicted. In 15 years, output would grow 0.5% in the agriculture industry and 0.1% in the services sector, the ITC said. The ITC concluded that the TPP would contribute to modest growth in American companies’ business abroad. U.S. exports and U.S. imports are projected to grow by 1% and 1.1%, respectively, in 15 years as a result of the TPP. The ITC said some details of the agreement — such as rules for protecting data flows and establishing standards for customs, sanitary conditions and intellectual property rights — would be more difficult to quantify but be just as beneficial to U.S. exporters. “TPP would generally establish trade-related disciplines that strengthen and harmonize regulations, increase certainty, and decrease trade costs for firms that trade and invest in the TPP region,” the ITC said. Contributing: Brent Snavely and Chrissie Thompson, USA TODAY Network
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CONTINUED FROM C1 how many tornadoes hit Georgia, the length of their path and their strength. The tornadoes and storms left dozens injured and destroyed homes, businesses and communities. President Trump pledged to aid Georgia’s recovery. “I just spoke with Gov. Nathan Deal,” Trump said at the White House. “Georgia is a great state, great people. … The tornadoes were vicious and powerful and strong, and they suffered greatly. So we’ll be helping out the state of Georgia.” The president also expressed condolences for victims in surrounding states. Deal declared a state of emergency Monday for 16 Georgia counties. He added that “all indications suggest” a request would be made for federal assistance. “These storms have devastated communities and homes in south central Georgia, and the state is making all resources available,” Deal said. About 4,700 Georgia residents were without power as of Monday evening, the state’s emergency management agency said. There were 37 preliminary reports of tornadoes from Friday through Sunday, said Patrick Marsh, warning-coordination meteorologist with the prediction center. An average January sees only 21 tornadoes. The all-time record number of January tornadoes is 212, set in 1999.
There is no more danger of severe weather or tornadoes anywhere in the USA for at least the next several days, according to the Storm Prediction Center. Elsewhere Monday, separate storms were slamming California and the Northeast with heavy rain and snow and howling winds. Flood watches and warnings were in effect from San Francisco to San Diego, and high-wind watches and warnings were posted in New England and portions
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Aretha Allen lost two members of her family in a tornado that devastated a mobile home park Sunday in Adel, Ga. of the Mid-Atlantic coast as a potent nor’easter cranked up. A hurricane-force wind warning was in effect for the waters south of Long Island, where gusts of up to 74 mph were forecast, the National Weather Service said, calling it “a dangerous storm for mariners.” “The wind along with the drenching rain and soft soil could knock down trees and power
lines,” AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rathbun said. “The coastal flood threat will be greatest at times of high tide.” Ferry service was halted Monday between Cape Cod and Nantucket in Massachusetts as wind gusts to 60 mph were expected. Snow was forecast for interior portions of the Northeast, where winter storm warnings were in effect. One to 2 inches of rain was forecast from Pittsburgh to Washington, New York and Boston by Tuesday night, AccuWeather said. In the West, yet another storm walloped California Sunday and Monday, dumping rain along the coast and a couple of feet of snow in the mountains. Two to 4 inches of rain fell on coastal Southern California on Sunday alone, which had first responders busy setting up roadblocks, rescuing people from the water, clearing debris and repairing power lines, AccuWeather said. Mammoth Mountain, a ski area in the Sierra, announced Monday that it set a record for its snowiest month on record, according to its website. So far in January, the ski area has picked up more than 20 feet of snow, “and it’s STILL DUMPING!,” Mammoth announced Monday. After lingering storms Tuesday, dry weather will settle over much of the western U.S. for the middle and latter part of this week and will stretch into early next week, AccuWeather said.
hiring freeze, but only a pay freeze for senior members of the White House staff. The White House did not immediately release the text of the directives, but Trump held up the trade order for a photo opportunity. “It is the policy of my administration to represent the American people and their financial well-being in all negotiations, particularly the American worker,” the memorandum said, according to an Agence France-Presse/Getty Images photo. None of the directives were executive orders, but rather presidential memoranda. Known as “executive orders by another name,” presidential memoranda became President Obama’s executive power tool of choice, signing more of them than any president in history. Trump ordered that all future trade deals be negotiated individually, country-to-country, and not part of regional trade pacts. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said it “ushers in a new era of trade policy,” and represents “a strong signal that the Trump administration wants free and fair trade around the world.” The Mexico City policy, referred to as the “global gag rule” by abortion rights groups, was first adopted by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and has been subject to presidential ping-pong ever since. Democratic presidents repeal it as one of their first acts in office; Republicans reinstate it. The text of President Trump’s Mexico City policy was not immediately available, but Bush’s version ordered that “taxpayer funds appropriated pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act should not be given to foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.” Spicer said the policy was intended to prevent “coercive abortion and forced sterilization practices.” “The president has made it no secret that he’s a pro-life president,” he said. He cast the decision as both a question of protecting life and taxpayer money. Trump already signed his first executive order on Friday, directing agencies to allow more flexibility to states, companies and consumers in carrying out the Affordable Care Act while the Republican-controlled Congress works to repeal it.
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GOOD DAY ‘STAR WARS’ FANS The Force has awakened yet again to tease more details about ‘Episode VIII.’ On Monday, Lucasfilm shared a teaser poster for the upcoming film and revealed that the latest installation in the ongoing Skywalker saga (due Dec. 15) will be titled ‘The Last Jedi.’
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BAD DAY ‘BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE’ AND ‘ZOOLANDER 2’ Batman, Superman and Derek Zoolander battled with movie critics — and lost. On Monday, ‘BvS’ and ‘Zoolander 2’ received nominations from the Razzie Awards, which fetes the worst films in Hollywood. “Winners” will be announced Feb. 25, the day before the Oscars honor Hollywood’s finest.
Matthew McConaughey conjures shape-shifting ‘Gold’ He gains pounds, loses his hair for prospector role Andrea Mandell @andreamandell USA TODAY
A decade ago, few would have predicted that Matthew McConaughey would become one of the most fascinating actors to watch in Hollywood. But the man had a plan, and McConaughey methodically transformed his career, not only rehabbing his image but literally reshaping his body along the way. Three years after winning an Oscar for playing an entrepreneurial HIV patient in Dallas Buyers Club, McConaughey heads to the opposite extreme, packing on the pounds to play a balding precious-metal prospector in Gold (in theaters Friday).We look back at the actor’s most impressive shape-shifting.
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Matthew McConaughey stars as Kenny Wells, a Reno prospector, in Gold, in theaters Friday.
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (2013)
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STYLE STAR He’s Dior Homme’s latest campaign star and, on Monday, Rami Malek lit up the Dior Spring/Summer presentation in Paris. The ‘Mr. Robot’ actor sat front-row at the show, stealing the spotlight in a red-and-black Dior Homme bomber jacket and cropped black pants.
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How far has McConaughey been willing to morph from his genetically blessed looks? It’s important to remember how far he has come. Less than a decade ago, the actor was at peak beefcake in Fool’s Gold, one of many critically panned rom-coms (just 11% of reviewers liked it, according to Rotten Tomatoes), in which he sported his signature blond locks, eightpack abs and a deep California tan. It made money, but his street cred was tanking. Roughly two years later, McConaughey would take a cinematic timeout to rejigger his career.
When photos surfaced of a gaunt McConaughey in 2012, fans were shocked by his shrunken appearance. He ultimately lost almost 50 pounds for the role of Ron Woodroof, a brash, homophobic Texas cowboy who contracted HIV in 1985 and was told he had 30 days to live. Woodroof became an unlikely hero for the gay community, sourcing antiviral drugs and life-extending experimental treatments for HIV-positive patients. McConaughey’s commitment to the role won him a best actor Oscar in 2014.
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McConaughey started saying “no” to film offers. “If anything, I wanted to un-brand a little bit,” he told USA TODAY. “Become a little more of an ambiguous brand. I didn’t know what it was going to be.” Magic Mike was among the first films McConaughey said “yes” to, determined to take more risks. In this transition period, he played the charismatic, dark-intentioned club owner Dallas in Channing Tatum’s semi-autobiographical male stripper film with Steven
Vanity, begone! The actor let out his belt for Gold, packing on more than 40 pounds, adding prosthetic crooked teeth and shaving his head to wear a balding toupee as Kenny Wells, a Reno prospector who finds a gold mine in the Indonesian jungle in the late ’80s. The film is based on a true story. “I was an all-star in my family, nicknamed Captain Fun,” McConaughey told CNN. “Because I was “yes” to pizza night, every night.”
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Soderbergh and also starred in arthouse movies such as Killer Joe, Bernie and Mud. Critics began to take notice of the socalled “McConaissance.”
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Comedy has entered a different realm with Donald Trump’s presidency, as top comedians process the possibilities of a leader who provides a daily stream of potential material. Liberal-leaning comics, such as Bill Maher, a fierce Trump critic, also feel disappointment. Maher says he was ready to get back to HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher (Fridays, 10 ET/PT), which returned after a two-month break on inauguration night, as both a citizen and comedian. “I was in a very dark place, I’ll admit, right after the election. ... I thought, ‘I’ve had a good run. Vancouver is looking awfully nice,’ ” he says. “But I started to get all the emails” — from fans who wanted to hear his biting take on the new president. “It’s nice to feel needed.” Maher, who was sued by Trump in 2013 after offering to donate $5 million to charity if the businessman could prove he wasn’t the child of an orangutan (the suit was withdrawn),
Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee aims to bridge nation’s divide.
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HBO Real Time host Bill Maher, left, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel have conflicting feelings on finding the funny regarding Trump. is concerned about Trump’s hostility toward critics, but “I can’t be me and do my job and satisfy my audience without speaking openly and freely. … But we don’t know what this man is capable of, because he seems to only live for vengeance and adulation.” Samantha Bee, another hardcharging Trump critic, says his surprise victory altered the focus of TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (Wednesdays, 10:30 ET/ PT), which aimed to do more stories that weren’t related to the election after what she thought would be a Hillary Clinton win.
Bee rejects the idea that comedians automatically love having a president who provides more joke material. “There’s my job, and there’s Citizen Sam Bee, who cares deeply about the future of this nation” She says she wants to connect with viewers who don’t agree with her. “I personally get satisfaction talking to people who imagine us pitted against each other and (finding) unexpected community. I’m not being Pollyanna here, but going forward that’s where we need to go.” Keegan-Michael Key, who performed as Luther, the presiden-
tial “anger translator” with President Obama at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner, says Trump would have a different kind of interpreter. “He certainly doesn’t need an anger translator. … He has Twitter for that,” Key says. “It would probably be Captain Reticent.” The potential for Trump jokes “definitely makes the show easier to do,” says Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (weeknights, 11:35 ET/PT). “When you have to explain a story before you make a joke about it, it slows you down. There’s very little detail to explain when it comes to Donald Trump.” It can be difficult for comedians to top Trump, though, adds Kimmel, who expects some Trump commentary during acceptance speeches at the Oscars in February, which he’ll host. “He seems to be parodying himself, for the most part.” Contributing: Gary Levin
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Mother-in-law’s pop-ins make angry wife pop off DEAR ABBY: My mother-inlaw has begun doing the “pop-in.” My husband passive-aggressively Dear Abby hinted that ABIGAIL he wished he had VAN BUREN known she was coming over. Her response was, “I’m your mother; I don’t need to let you know when I’m coming over.” I regard this as total disrespect. She has done this plenty of times — including popping in when I was having a dinner with my parents and children, which made her mad because she and my fa-
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ther-in-law hadn’t been invited. She did the pop-in again last week. My husband, four children and I were about to sit down to a family dinner when she rang the doorbell. I didn’t have enough food for her and my father-in-law, which made us all uncomfortable. She made a sarcastic comment, “Gee, I guess I shouldn’t have come over,” then she sat in the living room staring at us as we ate. I have begged my husband to say something, but he says it would be disrespectful. I said it is disrespectful that she comes over without checking with us first. What’s your take on this? No pop-ins, please DEAR NO POP-INS: You have
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my sympathy. Your motherin-law is a handful. Your husband may be so cowed by his mother that he’s afraid to assert himself. You are under no obligation to entertain anyone who pops in, including her. The next time she shows up unannounced, remind her to call first and suggest that she come back some other time. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. For everything you need to know about wedding planning, order “How to Have a Lovely Wedding.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)
SUDOKU HOW TO PLAY: Each row, column and set of 3-by-3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 through 9 without repetition.
By Agnes Davidson and C.C. Burnikel
ACROSS 1 Foot-in-mouth incident 6 Blue ox of folklore 10 Pork or lamb cut 14 Indian or Iranian 15 Tag sale condition 16 Helen of Troy’s mother 17 Golf stroke played from sand 19 Wrinkle remover 20 Remarkable times 21 Homes of blue-plate specials 23 “The Simpsons” creator Groening 26 Apple mobile platform 28 __ fit: tantrum 29 Readily available 31 Jerry of “Law & Order” 34 Act division 35 Irritated incessantly 36 Canadian Thanksgiving mo. 39 Hesitant sounds 40 Tire-inflating aid 42 Part of rpm 43 John of England 44 Softens, with “down” 45 In an unfriendly way 47 Bitterness
49 Skippers on ponds 50 Torah teacher 52 Napoleon or Nero: Abbr. 54 Rainbow flag letters 55 Digital library contents 57 Bone-dry 59 Hit the runway 60 Lakota chief at Little Bighorn, and what’s literally found in this puzzle’s circles 66 Skin breakout 67 Poker pot starter 68 Longtime NBC newsman Roger 69 Classic Jaguars 70 Recent returnees to Los Angeles 71 Oft-poached fruit DOWN 1 Chatter away 2 Sun Devils sch. 3 First sign of a shark 4 Faux glow 5 Part of DOE: Abbr. 6 Low voice 7 Blond shade 8 Short life story? 9 Abbr. on a cornerstone 10 Treatment facility
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11 “Wish me luck!” 12 Smells 13 Cultivated violet 18 Roach spray brand 22 Critic’s harsh words 23 City in northern Iraq 24 Dried chili pepper 25 Historic educational center of Paris’ Latin Quarter 27 “Neener neener!” 30 Clutter-averse type 32 Vintage cars named with the initials of their company’s founder 33 Music majors’ degs.
35 River of Florence 37 Fanzine figure 38 Romantic rendezvous 41 Org. with a five-ring logo 46 Brewski 48 Dwellings 49 Agile 50 “Just chill!” 51 Taken __: shocked 53 Puzzles with dead-end paths 56 Lasting mark 58 Chain famous for breakfasts 61 Genetic letters 62 All-hrs. cash source 63 Belfast-born actor Stephen 64 McCartney’s title 65 Golf Hall of Famer Ernie
Monday’s Puzzle Solved
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