November 8, 2016

Johnson, Winn vie for Senate District 36 seat

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A lifelong resident of Manning, he retired in 2011 as Florence/Myrtle Beach regional manager for South Carolina Department of Revenue.

“What works well for District 36 is the groundwork that has been laid

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Chrissy Montoya uses a bench to hunt for Pokémon during the Pokémon Go Lure-a-thon 2.0 event on Main Street on Saturday afternoon. The event featured vendors, a comic book sale and screenings of the three Pokémon movies.

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Before that, he served for 11 years as mayor of Manning, six years as a WINN member of Manning City Council and 12 years as a school board member for Clarendon District 2 schools. Johnson also served for two years as president of the Mu-

Comic con, Pokémon event attracts 700

While the national media coverage will focus on the presidential race and the balance of Republicans and Democrats in Congress, The Sumter Item will focus on local races tonight.

The Sumter Item will set up a breaking news story on its website and provide constant updates on local races. The races we will highlight include: • Ballot questions in Lee and Clarendon counties on Sunday alcohol sales; • State Se Senate District 36 with incumbent Democrat Kevin De Johnson facing a J challenge from Republican Leon Winn; • The Sumter mayoral race in m which wh William “Dutch” Holland Hollan and Charlie Jones are challenging c incumbent Joe McElveen; • Sumter City Council Ward 4 with Randy Black, Steve Corley, Melissa Evans and Jim McKinney vying for a seat left open by Colleen Yates, who decided not to seek re-election; • Clarendon County Council District 2 with A.C. English representing the Democratic party and challenger Joe Witt, the Republican party; • Clarendon County School Board District 1 where Erica Adams-Caldwell, John David Bonaparte, Lindsey Coulliette, Joe Dingle, Leah Mivens Gardenhire, Kevin James Gist Sr. and Bernard Richburg are competing for two seats on Summerton area school board; and • Bishopville City Council with John Boyce, Grady A. “Chip” Brown Jr., Ennis Bryant Sr., Kenneth Currie, Wayne Hancock, John Latimer, Gloria S. Lewis, Willie Mae Muldrow, Craig Nesbit, Deanna Rollins and Retta Tindal competing for six seats.

By going to the website, www.theitem.com, and clicking on the election update under breaking news, you will be able to find the latest election results for those races. The Sumter Item will continually update those numbers through the night.

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State Sen. Kevin L. Johnson, D-Manning, will face challenger the Rev. Leon Winn, R-Sumter, in the race for the state Senate District 36 seat.

The seat encompasses a majority of Clarendon and parts of Darlington, Florence and Sumter

counties.

Johnson has served as state senator for four years and was elected JOHNSON in 2012 after Sen. John C. Land III, D-Manning, retired after 38 years. Johnson also served for two years in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

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City, local hobby business host combined afternoon for fans of game, comics

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com About 700 people attended the Pokémon Go Lure-a-thon 2.0 and Sumter Toy and Comic Convention on Main Street on Saturday.

The two events, merged into one, were hosted by the City of Sumter in conjunction with Ray’s Hobbies and More, a local business.

About 10 vendors set up shop at the event and featured comic books, board games, anime toys and novelty items, said Ray Mulholland, owner of Ray’s Hobbies and More.

Many attendees stopped by to visit the vendors while playing Pokémon Go. Pokémon Go is an app that can be downloaded on most smartphones, a game that blends the real and virtual worlds. In the game, players use a mobile device’s GPS capability to locate, capture, battle and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon. The creatures appear on the screen as if they were in the same real-world location as the player. On Saturday, about 100 vir-

Charlie Morris, aka Master Chief from the Halo video game franchise, hunts for a bargain during the Pokémon Go Lure-a-thon 2.0 event on Main Street on Saturday afternoon. tual lures were placed in the downtown area.

Tripp Herlong, 17, said what he enjoyed about the game was how it blended augmented reality with virtual reality.

“It lets you meet other people who enjoy the game, spend time

with friends, and have fun,” Herlong said.

Chelsea Nations, City of Sumter community improvement specialist, said the city wanted to capitalize on the success of the August lure-a-thon, which brought about 2,000 people to downtown. Partnering with Ray’s Hobbies and More was a major benefit for the event, she said.

“We are excited to have an event that brings people downtown, which means more customers to our local businesses and more tourists in the city,” Nations said.

Mulholland has been a fan of comic books and board games all of his life, he said. That passion led him to open a store a few years ago where he sells toys, collectibles, games, models, comics and supplies. The store also hosts board game tournaments.

“I wanted to host a toy and comic book convention to share that passion with others,” he said.

Duston Bart and his wife, Aishah Alian, traveled from North Carolina to set up a vendor booth at the event. The couple sold anime collectibles, Lego comic book figures and comic books and other items.

“It’s a great event to meet others

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Sumter County Council 7 candidates running for District 3 candidates focus Clarendon 1 school board on roads, communication

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Today is the final day to cast votes for one of two candidates for Sumter County Council District 3, incumbent Jimmy Byrd and contender Patty Wilson, in the only contested race for county council.

Byrd, a Republican

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who has served two terms as councilman for District 3, said he wants as a councilman to see more focus on roads and infrastruc-

ture in his district.

That’s what the residents of the district would like to see, he said.

Byrd said county council has already been very successful in improving roads in the district. Byrd said several miles in the district have already

SEE DISTRICT 3, PAGE A6

Seven Summerton residents are running for the Clarendon School District 1 Board of Trustees to fill two seats. The seven candidates are Chairman Bernard Richburg (incumbent); John David Bonaparte; Joe Dingle; Kevin James Gist Sr.; Lindsey Coulliette; Leah Mivens Gardenhire; and Erica AdamsCaldwell.

Clarendon 1 board members are at-large members, meaning all seven candidates are running for the same two seats.

Richburg, who’s resided in Summerton for 15 years and is a native of Clarendon County, has served three four-year terms on the Clarendon 1 board. For 21 years, he’s served as an ordained minister.

He’s also a former New York City police officer, retired New York State Law Enforcement officer and a United States Marine Corps veteran.

Bonaparte has lived in the Summerton area for 34 years. He served on the Clarendon 1 school board for 12 years before deciding to take a

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English, Witt face off for Clarendon County Council

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com A.C. English, D-Manning, will face Joe Witt, R-Manning, in the race for Clarendon County Council District 2.

District 2 encompasses precincts of Manning 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; parts of Paxville; Home Branch; parts of Davis Station; Jordan; Bloomville; Wilson-Foreston; and parts of Alcolu.

English has lived in Manning for 61 years. He is a retired president of The Bank of Clarendon.

English has served on county council for eight years. He has also served on Clarendon School District 2’s school board and as a commissioner at Central Carolina Technical College.

“I simply want to continue my years of service and try to make Clarendon

County a better place to live and work and help the county move forward,” he said.

English said the main issue that is important to him is bringing jobs to ENGLISH Clarendon County.

“We are making progress, and it needs to continue,” he said. “Education to provide the workforce that industry needs is another major issue.”

English also said that WITT he would like to see more and better job opportunities for young people in the county so that they can live and work here.

He said county council has made major strides in improving county fa-

cilities, are in good financial condition and are actively pursuing industries to provide jobs for residents.

Witt has lived in Clarendon County for 32 years.

Witt is owner of Mid Eastern Truck Wash, Graphix and Chrome Stores, Palmetto Air Plantation and Raccoon Road Storage.

He previously served on the Santee Lynches Workforce Development Board for seven years.

Witt said he’s worked with Clarendon County government in various capacities while operating several businesses in the area.

“I offer this experience to help Clarendon County become more business friendly, provide growth and more opportunities for our citizens,” he said.

Witt said he will work for transpar-

ency, fiscal accountability, equality enforcement, new thinking, creating new businesses and no new fees or taxes.

“Clarendon County has tremendous resources. We have wonderful people. We need to further utilize these assets to advance our opportunities,” he said.

Witt said he will work with the council and county government to make sure that the county government is working “effectively and efficiently.”

“I want to make sure that the people’s business is transparent,” he said.

“I want to challenge our council and our government to critically think about how the people’s business is being conducted — to make sure that we are serving our citizens to the best of our ability.”

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City, county honor workers who served their country

Bring ID with you when voting today

Veterans given turkey lunch Friday

Polls are open in South Carolina for the General Election from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today.

When voting in person, voters must show one of the following photo IDs at your local polling place: • S.C. driver’s license; • S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles ID card; • S.C. voter registration card with photo; • Federal military ID; or • U.S. passport.

If you don’t know your precinct, you can find it online at www.scvotes.org under the voter tab.

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com

LOCAL BRIEFS

Summerton council will meet tonight Town of Summerton will hold its regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. today at Summerton Town Hall, 10 Main St. New business agenda items include: • Presentation on Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement Resolution. The resolution is an update of the 2002 agreement, which provides an agreement between towns for assistance from other towns with additional law-enforcement officers, firefighters or public works personnel; • Request for town ordinance to prohibit the discharge of firearms within the town limits; and • Presentation on upcoming “Barbershop Quartet Concert” on Nov. 19 at 5 p.m. at St. Matthias Anglican Church, 9 N. Duke St. Unfinished business includes: • Request for part-time intern position for clerk of court office.

CORRECTION In Wednesday’s police blotter, it was incorrectly reported that Freddie H. Truesdale, 25, charged with assault and battery, third degree, resides at 517 Coachman Drive, unit B. A current resident at the address stated Truesdale has not lived there for more than a year.

Sumter city and county employees who are veterans were treated to lunch Friday courtesy of WoodmanLife, a nonprofit insurance and financial services company.

About 100 veterans gathered at Sumter Recreation Department to enjoy the traditional turkey luncheon.

Veterans Service Officer Valerie Brunson said the luncheon is part of an effort to honor veterans all during November.

Brunson said she was pleasantly surprised when WoodmanLife stepped forward to cover expenses for the event.

Timothy Houlahan, a recruiting sales manager for WoodmanLife, said the company has been in business since 1890 and

has had a presence in Sumter for more than 120 years.

He said part of the company’s mission is to do community service projects.

“Last year, during the flood, we were here cooking for first responders,” Houlahan said.

The company, formerly known as Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Co., also offers scholarships and support for a summer camp in Patrick, he said.

Also at the luncheon, County Councilwoman Naomi Sanders was given a special honor in memory of her late husband, Roosevelt Sanders, who was a Korean War veteran. Sanders is a forJIM HILLEY / THE SUMTER ITEM mer chairwoman of the Veterans who work for the city and county load their plates with turcouncil who is giving up key and fixings at Sumter Recreation Department on Friday at a lunher District 1 seat after cheon honoring their service. the election.

SUATS adopts road revitalization project

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com During its meeting on Monday, Sumter Urban Area Transportation Study Policy Committee voted to adopt a project to upgrade the streetscape and roadway along portions of North Main Street and Manning Avenue into its transportation improvement and long-range transportation plans.

The $16 million North Main Street/ Manning Avenue Revitalization Plan project will add features to encourage walking and bike riding along the two main roadways that lead to downtown Sumter.

Sumter City-County Planning Department Director George McGregor said improvements include adding medians with plants, sidewalks, bus shelters, bike lanes, decorative street lights and crosswalks.

Utilities will be moved underground where it is necessary for sidewalk accessibility and safety, he said.

McGregor said the goal is to make the roadways safe and attractive for all modes of transportation.

The Manning Avenue portion of the project extends from the base of the Manning Avenue bridge to the intersection of Manning Avenue and South Lafayette Drive, and the North Main Street portion extends from the U.S. 378 bypass to Calhoun Street.

He said SUATS will receive $11.4 million through a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant, a federal grant, and $5 million from Capital Penny Sales Tax money collected for 2016 projects.

According to the 2016 penny project list, $4 million has been appropriated for the Manning Avenue portion of the project and $1 million has been appropriated for the North Main Street portion.

McGregor said SUATS will request a design engineer for the project in early 2017, and construction is antic-

ipated to start in 2018 or 2019.

The planning department director also provided an update on other SUATS projects throughout Sumter.

He said the Orange Street Sidewalk project, to improve sidewalks along Orange Street from Manning Avenue to Harvin Street, is complete.

McGregor said South Carolina Department of Transportation has approved the Lafayette Diamond project, a 2008 penny project to improve the intersection of North Main Street and the U.S. 378 bypass, and encroachment permits have been acquired but right-of-way acquisition is still underway.

And, he said two 2016 penny projects to improve the intersections at Wilson Hall Road and Wise Drive, and Wilson Hall Road and Wesmark Boulevard are in the beginning stages.

McGregor said those projects were chosen to begin first in order to have them finished before the next school year starts.

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Man injures 1 deputy, fatally shoots another BYRON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man fatally shot a sheriff's deputy and wounded a second before he was shot and injured by a police officer, authorities said Monday.

The suspect started shooting at the deputies Sunday when they responded to a call that he was using a rifle to threaten two young men visiting his neighbors just outside the city of Byron, about 16 miles southwest of Macon, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent J.T. Ricketson said.

The men, visiting their aunt and uncle's house for a cookout, were riding a motorcycle and a four-wheeler on their relatives' property, which backs up to the suspect's property. The suspect threatened them with a rifle as they rode down a nearby road, prompting the men to return to the house and call 911.

Two Peach County sheriff's deputies came to the home and took statements

from the family and then drove over to the neighbor's house about 5:30 p.m., Ricketson said. The deputies drove up the long driveway and got out of their vehicle. They'd taken only a couple of steps when a man came out of his house and began shooting at them with a handgun, killing one and critically injuring the other, Ricketson said. As far as investigators can tell, neither of the two deputies had withdrawn his gun.

Peach County coroner Kerry Rooks said 41-year-old Patrick Sondron was killed. The other deputy's name was not immediately released.

The owners of the home where the young men were attending the cookout had walked to where their property abuts the suspect's after the deputies left their house. They heard the gunshots, saw the deputies fall, and rushed back to their house to call 911 again, Ricketson said.

One of the three police officers who responded used a ballistic shield to protect himself as he approached the house, while at least one of the others positioned himself behind his patrol car. The suspect, whose name hasn't been released, walked out of his garage with a rifle and began shooting at the police officers, Ricketson said. One of the officers returned fire, hitting the suspect in the abdomen, after which the officers were able to subdue him and take him into custody, he said.

Ricketson identified the suspect as a 57-year-old white male whose name he said he would release later Monday after he is arrested. Ricketson said the man will be charged with murder and three charges of aggravated assault.

The slain deputy was white, but the races of the other deputy and the three officers from Byron were not immediately available.

Officers: Slager’s shooting story contradicted by video

BY BRUCE SMITH The Associated Press CHARLESTON — Two police officers testified Monday that the account Michael Slager gave them about shooting Walter Scott in the minutes after the slaying contradicted a dramatic cellphone video of the unarmed black motorist's death.

The trial of Slager, the white former North Charleston police officer who is charged with murder in the 50-year-old man's death, entered its second week as the prosecution continued calling witnesses before a jury of 11 whites and one black.

North Charleston police Sgt. James Gann and Lt. Daniel Bowman both raced to the scene in their cruisers after Slager radioed he was pursuing Scott on foot following an April 4, 2015, traffic

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Former North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager, right, sits at the defense table during testimony in his murder trial on Monday in Charleston. stop. The pursuit began when Scott ran after being pulled over for a broken taillight.

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"I thought it was from close range," Bowman said The account is contradicted by a cellphone video taken by a bystander that a jury saw last week.

The video, which stunned the nation, shows Slager shooting eight times at Scott's back from yards away as the motorist fled from the traffic stop.

On cross-examination, Bowman testified that Slager appeared disheveled and had dust and dirt on his uniform after the shooting.

"There's no question" he had been in a fight, Bowman said, adding Slager also had lacerations on his arms and knees.

on the ground. He said he performed CPR on Scott until emergency medical personnel arrived. He said Scott was unresponsive throughout.

Both officers testified that when they got to the scene, Slager told them he and Scott had wrestled and that Scott got control of Slager's Taser.

Gann testified Slager told him Scott "stood up, pointed the Taser at him and that's when he deployed his department-issued firearm." He added "my understanding was Mr. Scott had the Taser, and they were fairly close together — 3 or 4 feet."

Bowman also testified that Slager told him Scott was facing him with the Taser.

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Certain places may offer clues on presdidential outcome

BY BILL BARROW The Associated Press ATLANTA — Did Donald Trump succeed in at last winning over college-educated whites uneasy with the billionaire reality TV star? Did he drive a wave of workingclass white voters? Did Hillary Clinton rebuild President Obama's winning coalition — young voters, urban liberals and minorities — while picking off moderate Republicans?

Those questions are central to who will win today's presidential election, and a handful of locales could provide some early answers on election night.

The Associated Press has identified 10 counties seen as bellwethers for the Trump and Clinton strategies. All come from battleground states in the eastern time zone, where polls close the earliest.

Their importance was determined from conversations with Republicans and Democrats, as well as AP's own analysis.

A look at the 10 counties: FLORIDA: In 2012, Obama won by about 74,000 votes (0.9 percentage points): DUVAL This Republican-leaning county, home to Jacksonville, has a solid white majority and sizable black minority, making it look more like the Deep South than south Florida. So a movement in Trump's favor would mean returns closer to 2004, when George W. Bush won by 60,000 votes, than 2012, when Mitt Romney finished

just 16,000 ahead of Obama.

HILLSBOROUGH Bush and Obama each won Hillsborough (Tampa) twice, and both are twoterm presidents.

What makes Hillsborough stand out in 2016 is a growing Mexican-American population. There TRUMP are already signs that Trump's hard-line immigration stance is driving up the Hispanic vote: A quarter of the Hispanics who cast ballots in the opening days of early voting hadn't voted at all in 2012. An expanded electorate (543,000 voted here in 2012) that is less white would benefit Clinton.

MIAMI-DADE In Florida's most populous county, older Cuban-Americans fuel Republicans (333,000 votes in 2012), while younger Cuban-Americans, other Hispanics and black voters drive Democratic totals (541,000 in 2012).

If Clinton lags Obama's vote totals with black voters, it could show up here. Trump, meanwhile, could struggle to match the usual Republican performance among CubanAmericans. Watch for whether Trump's Miami-Dade vote totals lag far behind those of Sen. Marco Rubio, a favorite among his fellow CubanAmericans.

evenly in Wilmington and surrounding New Hanover County, while independents have risen by 10,000 voters since 2012 to outnumber both parties. Obama lost here by 1.5 percentage points in 2008 and slipped to a 4.5 percentage point deficit in 2012. The margin today could signal how independents are breaking statewide and beyond North Carolina.

WAKE In the state's most populous county, the ranks of voters with no party affiliation have grown by almost 50,000 or 24 percent since 2012, while Republican and Democratic registrations have remained roughly level. How those new voters break in a county Obama won by 56,000 votes (11 points) will help determine the statewide outcome and could portend the leanings of urban independents elsewhere.

WATAUGA This is one of the few nearly all-white counties in the country that split on Obama's two elections. He won by 4 percentage points in 2008, but his vote totals slipped 13 percent in 2012, resulting in a 3-point loss.

Appalachian State University in Boone anchors the population, which is more educated than the broader North Carolina electorate and includes thousands of students — key

Clinton targets. Beyond campus, Watauga has lower income averages and a higher poverty rate, offering Trump an opening.

OHIO: In 2012, Obama won by 166,000 votes (3 percentage points).

CLINTON BELMONT This is one of three Ohio River counties Obama won in 2008 but lost in 2012. The county is more than 90 percent white.

Fewer voters are college educated than in the general population, and median incomes are lower than the national marks — all factors that play to Trump's strengths. He won here easily in the Republican primary, trouncing home-state Gov. John Kasich.

Obama's vote slipped 13 percent to about 14,000 here in his re-election campaign, while the Republican total climbed 8 percent to almost 17,000.

Those totals alone won't flip Ohio to the Republican column, but an uptick for Trump in Belmont could herald gains in similar-profile counties across the state, which has a higher proportion of workingclass whites than other battlegrounds.

HAMILTON This diverse county, home to Cincinnati, has pockets of everything both candidates

are looking for. The city has a large black population. The surrounding areas have college-educated independent and Republican whites Clinton wants, along with working-class whites likely to back Trump. Obama got 225,000 and 220,000 votes here, winning each time by about 6 percentage points. A tighter margin would bode well for Trump.

PENNSYLVANIA: Obama won in 2012 by 310,000 votes (5.4 percentage points): CHESTER Obama lost by 0.2 percentage points in 2012, the only metro Philadelphia county he lost after sweeping the metro area in 2008. The Chester population is overwhelmingly white, almost half have college degrees, and median income exceeds the national mark. All that makes this county a prime indicator of how Trump is faring among suburban voters who typically back Republicans but are skeptical about Trump.

PHILADELPHIA In Obama's re-election, his margin in Philadelphia County was much wider than his statewide margin. As rural and small-town counties trend more Republican, the pressure will be on Clinton to replicate that roughly 6-to-1 cushion approaching a 500,000-vote advantage.

NORTH CAROLINA: In 2012, Obama lost by 92,000 votes (2 percentage points): NEW HANOVER Registered Republicans and Democrats are split almost

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Saudi mother reinterprets Islamic law 42-year-old liberal feminist fights for women’s rights

and be a hero,” she said, making an expressionless face and clasping her hands.

She had five children from her second marriage, but it wasn’t long before she was divorced again. disowned her in public.

BY AYA BATRAWY When Yara’s father fell ill None of it was enough to The Associated Press and the grandmother passed keep her quiet. away, he finally allowed her, “I have rights that I don’t JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — then 16, to live with her mother view as against my religion,” When Souad al-Shammary again. Al-Shammary relocated posted a series of tweets about said al-Shammary. “I want to to the more liberal city of Jidthe thick beards worn by Saudi ask for these rights, and I want dah with all her children finalclerics, she never imagined she those who make decisions to ly under one roof. hear me and act.” would land in jail.

She used her knowledge of Across the Arab world, feShe put up images of several Shariah as a legal adviser for men with beards: An Orthodox male Islamic scholars and acwomen in need. Sometimes her Jew, a hipster, a communist, an tivists have long been pushing advice was more Machiavellian for interpretations of Shariah Ottoman Caliph, a Sikh and a than pious. Once she told a Muslim. She wrote that having law that consider men and friend to wear some make-up, women as equals before God. a beard was not what made a find out which judge was slated man holy or a Muslim. And she Al-Shammary is one of the to oversee her case, and then pointed out that one of Islam’s most vocal and high-profile reAP FILE PHOTO cry in front of him and plead ligious and women’s rights acstaunchest critics during the for her court date to be moved tivists within Saudi Arabia. time of Prophet Muhammad Saudi women’s rights activist Souad al-Shammary puts on a head “She’s very sure of what had an even longer beard than scarf on May 7 in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Once a devout girl who tended up. It worked.

She shared her thoughts onshe’s saying — she doesn’t hes- sheep, al-Shammary is a twice-divorced mother of six and Islamic law him.

The frank comments are typ- itate,” said Sahar Nassief, a graduate who is taking on Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious establish- line on how Islam sees people, including women, as born free friend and fellow Saudi activist. ment. She is a liberal feminist who roots her arguments in Islam and ical of this twice-divorced and equal, ideas she found in “She literally comes from a mother of six and graduate of has been jailed for her views. line with liberalism. So began a Bedouin environment, a desert Islamic law. Raised a devout war of words — and of images. internal rebellion was environment. She’s very proud age from the same tribe. She girl in a large tribe where she She was released from detensparked,” said al-Shammary. had a girl, Yara, was divorced of her background, but this tended sheep, al-Shammary is “There is no way that there is a tion on Jan. 29, 2015. She had to at 20 and then re-married, this makes her a bit blunt with evnow a 42-year-old liberal femiGod in this universe that would sign a pledge to reduce her actime to the chief judge in Ha’il eryone and very blunt in what nist who roots her arguments tivism. And a male relative, accept this injustice and this who’d overseen her divorce she says.” in Islam, taking on Saudi AraFayez, had to sign for her repain on the basis that I am a proceedings.

Al-Shammary grew up the bia’s powerful religious establease. She continues to tweet to woman.”

Al-Shammary’s journey to daughter of a peasant farmer lishment. her more than 207,000 followFor eight years, she fought in Ha’il, a landlocked province. activism began on the day her She has paid a price for her ers, though she says she weighs her parents, her community As the eldest of 12 children, she daughter was taken from her. opinions. She spent three and anyone who stood between her words more carefully than Almost as soon as Yara was in charge of the sheep. She months in prison without her and Yara, whom she wasn’t before. turned seven, her ex-husband was not just religious, but also charge for “agitating public Yara supports her mother’s gained custody. Since al-Sham- able to see. a practicing Salafi, a Muslim opinion.” She has been barred “I became crazy, but in front activism, although she still mary had remarried, the court by the government from travel- who adheres to a literalist inof my parents and my husband wishes al-Shammary would not ruled that the girl should live terpretation of Islamic law. ing abroad. Her co-founder of argue against the hijab or with the judge and the tribal comShe graduated from the Uni- with her father rather than in the online forum Free Saudi influential religious figures. munity around him, and bea house with another man.

Liberals Network, blogger Raif versity of Ha’il with a degree “She is so encouraging to cause of my position in the “When they took her and in Islamic studies and became Badawi, is serving a 10-year me,” Yara said. “She survived community and my name, I said, ‘this is Allah’s will’ and a public school teacher. At 17, prison sentence and was pubwas expected to just sit like this stuff that you can’t survive.” ‘this is Islam’, this is when my licly lashed 50 times. Her father she married a man twice her

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DISTRICT 36 FROM PAGE A1 over the last few years that has us in a better position to recruit industries that will provide jobs that pay good wages and offer good employee benefits,” Johnson said. “The major

change that I would like to see is the passage of a plan that would fund the needed repair/replacement of our highways, roads and bridges.

This is a public safety issue, and this is an economic development issue.”

Winn, a resident of Sumter County for 14 years, is pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church and CEO of United

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People Pushing Progress. He also serves as second vice chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party.

Winn was self-employed for 25 years. Winn also is a former Air Force jet mechanic and a Columbia police officer.

“I am a great organizer; I care about people and have great people

skills,” he said.

Winn said the main issues that are important to him are education and jobs.

Some of the changes Winn said he would like to see are a consolidated school board in Clarendon County, job training for displaced workers, extended programs for youth and bringing jobs back to the community.

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SCHOOL BOARD FROM PAGE A1 two-year break for professional reasons. He’s worked for International Paper for 33 years.

Dingle is a lifetime resident of the Summerton area. He’s a retired Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office deputy. He’s also served as a substitute teacher and as an adult education teacher at Scott’s Branch High School and drove school buses for several years for the district. Dingle is an Army, Vietnam War-era veteran.

Gist has lived in the Summerton area his entire life.

He’s worked as a truck driver and lead man for Food Lion for the last 17 years. He’s coached recreational basketball in the area for about 26 years.

Coulliette has lived in Summerton for the last two-and-a half years and is employed by The Bruner Agency Inc. Her previous work experience includes early childhood development, sales at Nucor and Summerton Drugs and political fundraising. She’s also

worked as a substitute teacher at Lexington High School, worked in a child development center and volunteered in a reading program.

Gardenhire, a Summerton native, has worked for Kohl’s as a manager for more than 10 years and managed as many as 80 employees. She and her family moved back to Summerton in February.

Caldwell, a Summerton native, has been a Clarendon County resident for more than 20 years. She has been employed as a corrections officer with the South Carolina Department of Corrections and as a case manager with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.

She’s also worked for the South Carolina Department of Social Services, where she worked in foster care licensing and child protective services. Currently, she is employed as as a case manager with Community Long Term Care.

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There should be more efforts to educate the community on local issues as well as increase communication between elected officials and residents, she said.

Wilson said she is active with more than 40 community groups in Sumter and has assisted Sumter County Sheriff ’s Office in creating neighborhood watch groups throughout the county.

She said her experience of working across county district lines adds to her qualifications.

For District 3, Wilson said

FROM PAGE A1 been scheduled to be resurfaced or paved this year.

During his time on council, Byrd said he has learned a lot about how to build good relationships between city and state officials. That takes time, he said.

District 3 candidate Patty Wilson, a Democrat, said she would like to see more communication among the communities of Sumter.

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EVENT FROM PAGE A1 who have a similar passion,” Bart said.

Aaron M. Lopez, a Sumter resident, set up a booth that displayed various board and role-playing games. A roleplaying game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out the roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision making

she would like to see more things done for seniors and young people and more attention given to the stateand county-owned parks in the area. There are also some dirt roads that need attention, she said.

Wilson said her decision to run for county council is not in response to Byrd’s time as councilman.

“This is something I would like to do,” she said.

And no matter the outcome, she said she is glad to have put in the effort to make it this far.

Anderson received sixth place in the costume play competition.

“I think it was a great atmosphere,” she said. “I enjoyed playing Pokémon Go and meeting new people.”

Charlie Morris, a Sumter resident, was dressed up in a full suit of “Master Chief,” a fictional character and the protagonist of the fictional universe video game “Halo.”

“I’ve always had a passion for video games and costume play acting,” Morris said. “This is a great event to bring people who have the same passion together.”

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“Role-playing games are becoming more popular these days as people seek interaction with others, instead of just a computer,” he said.

Chelsea Penny, of Columbia, was selling handmade chain mail jewelry. Chain mail is typically armor or jewelry made by connecting metal rings to one another and was considered a Medieval-era craft.

Kalista Anderson, of Sumter, was dressed as “Kankri Vantas” from the web comic “Homestuck.”

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Reno remembered for bluntness, Branch Davidian raid

BY CURT ANDERSON The Associated Press MIAMI — Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt spoken prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and was also the epicenter of a relentless series of political storms, from the deadly raid on the RENO Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, to the seizure of 5-year-old Cuban immigrant Elian Gonzalez.

Reno, 78, died early Monday of complications from Parkinson's disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D'Alemberte told The Associated Press. D'Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded by family and friends.

Reno, a former Miami prosecutor who famously told reporters "I don't do spin," served nearly eight years as attorney general under President Bill Clinton, the longest stint in a century.

One of the administration's most recognizable and polarizing figures, Reno faced criticism early in her tenure for the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, where sect leader David Koresh and some 80 followers perished.

She was known for deliberating slowly, publicly and in a typically blunt manner. Reno frequently told the public "the buck stops with me," borrowing the mantra from President Harry S. Truman.

After Waco, Reno figured into some of the controversies and scandals that marked the Clinton administration, including Whitewater, Filegate, bungling at the FBI laboratory, Monica Lewinsky, alleged Chinese nuclear spying and questionable campaign financing in the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election.

In the spring of 2000, Reno enraged her hometown's Cuban-American community when she authorized the armed seizure of young Elian.

The boy was taken from the Little Havana home of his Miami relatives so he could be returned to his father in Cuba.

During her tenure, the Justice Department prosecuted the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing case, captured the "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski that same year and investigated the 1993 terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center. The department also filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. and Reno was a strong advocate for protecting abortion clinics from violence.

After leaving Washington, Reno returned to Florida and made an unsuccessful run for Florida governor in 2002 but lost in a Democratic primary marred by voting problems.

The campaign ended a public career that started amid humble beginnings. Born July 21, 1938, Janet Wood Reno was the daughter of two newspaper reporters and the eldest of four siblings. She grew up on the edge of the Everglades in a cypress and brick homestead built by her mother and returned there after leaving Washington. Her late brother Robert Reno was a longtime columnist for Newsday on Long Island.

After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in chemistry, Reno became one of 16 women in Harvard Law School's Class of 1963. Reno, who stood more than 6 feet tall, later said she wanted to become a lawyer "because I didn't want people to tell me what to do."

In 1993, Clinton tapped her to become the first woman to lead the Justice Department after his first two choices — also women — were withdrawn because both had hired illegal immigrants as nannies. Reno was 54.

"It's an extraordinary experience, and I hope I do the women of America proud," Reno said after she won confirmation.

Clinton said the vote might be "the only vote I carry 98-0 this year."

A little more than a month from taking office, however,

Reno became embroiled in controversy with the raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco.

The standoff had started even before Reno was confirmed as attorney general. On Feb. 28, 1993, agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms made a surprise raid on the compound, trying to execute a search warrant. But during the raid gunfire erupted, killing four agents and six members of the religious sect.

That led to a 51-day standoff, ending April 19, 1993, when the complex caught fire and burned to the ground. The government claimed the Davidians committed suicide, shooting themselves and setting the fire. Survivors said the blaze was started by tear gas rounds

fired into the compound by government tanks, and that agents shot at some who tried to flee. Reno had authorized the use of the tear gas to end the standoff and later called the day the worst of her life.

"It was a dangerous situation," Reno said of the incident during a 2005 lecture at Duke University. "The tragedy is that we will never know what was the right thing to do."

Things got no easier after Waco. In 1995 Reno was diagnosed with Parkinson's after noticing a trembling in her left hand. She said from the beginning that the diagnosis, which she announced during a weekly news conference, would not impair her job performance.

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In early 2000, Reno tried to negotiate the return to Cuba of young Elian, who had been rescued after his mother and others had drowned trying to boat from Cuba to Florida. He had been placed in the care of a Miami uncle, but his father, who lived in Cuba, wanted him returned to the island.

When Reno decided talks had broken down that April, she ordered a raid by federal agents who seized the boy, provoking the ire of Miami's Cuban-American community.

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Reno said later that federal officials tried up until the last minute to negotiate a voluntary handover and avoid the raid — where Elian was found hiding in a closet and confronted by an agent with a gun.

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oday is D-Day for the American people when they go to the polls to decide whether they want a third term for Barack Obama or join together to move the country toward growth and opportunity again. The two presidential candidates are no prizes, with each heartily disliked by voters on both sides of the political spectrum. This has been one of the most divisive campaigns in American history that is moving toward a final outcome unlikely to unify the nation. To hear our most narcissistic president — ever — attempt to frame the debate, the election is about his legacy.

What legacy? What he is leaving us with is a nation awash in record debt

EDITORIAL and a style of governance that disregards our constitution. The voters fell for his pretense that he would be a unifier and an agent of change. He has been neither.

The question voters should be asking themselves is the one posed by Ronald Reagan when he was en route to making Jimmy Carter a one-term president: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

The only growth Obama has delivered is that of Big Government at the expense of the private sector, where real jobs are created. Such growth has been sadly missing in the Obama game plan. From the beginning, he

was always a creature of government, and in his eyes, the bigger the better.

He has given his blessing to Hillary Clinton as a worthy successor when she is just more of the same. Her vision for the country is simple: Obama on steroids. Open up your wallets; Madame President expects you to fill up the federal purse, especially if you belong to the middle class. “Fair Share” by her definition doesn’t just apply to “The Rich;” it covers average, hard-working men and women who want to earn membership in the American Dream rather than becoming federal dependents in dead-end jobs.

It’s easy enough to identify Donald Trump as the lesser of two evils, but

that is hardly comforting to the undecided voter. The election is also about what candidate can keep America safe and protected from the onslaught of radical Islam that is bent on destroying our way of life.

That means our military and law enforcement must be kept strong and vigilant. We are not seeing such a commitment to public safety from the Democrat candidate, who has joined the chorus of anti-police and anti-military bellyachers.

Safety first and safety strong should be the deciding factor in which candidate can keep our nation and its people free from harm. Voters should keep that in mind when they go to the polls today.

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hen it comes to her daily routine, Ana’s regimen is just like many teens her age. She wakes up about 6 a.m., heads to school and spends her day learning about a host of topics. It’s when she goes home, however, that the reality of her circumstances sets in. At a moment’s notice, her parents could be deported to Mexico, and her family can be separated.

Ana — whose name has been changed because of the delicate nature of her family’s immigration status — is able to live and legally attend public school here Christian under DeCompton ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. The immigration policy allows children brought into the country illegally by their parents to be immune to deportation and receive two-year work permits, assuming they were brought into the country before their 16th birthday and before June 2007. President Obama signed an executive order creating DACA in 2012 as part of his broader plan to address illegal immigration.

While the executive order is a step in the right direction, it only just begins to bring the equality of opportunity these students — who had no control over their entry into the nation — deserve.

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Ana since my freshman year. We’ve become good friends, and my time knowing her has allowed me to become familiar with some of the struggles she’s endured for her education.

Ana says it is not unusual for DACA students to live in constant fear that their parents might be deported. She doesn’t like thinking about being separated from her younger sister. She can’t help but think about the sacrifices her parents have made and the dangers they faced to get on American soil.

“I sometimes sit and worry

COMMENTARY about someone ripping me away from the American Dream,” she said.

These are real fears for DACA students, but Ana points out that her fears aren’t limited to losing her family. Education is considered an essential path to unlimited opportunities in our global society. For Ana and other DACA students, that road is littered with countless obstacles.

When she was first enrolled in a Head Start program, she could not speak English. It was because of her bilingual teacher that she was able to learn the language and has become as fluent as her classmates.

A solid education is why her parents brought her to the United States, she said.

She admits there is tremendous pressure to succeed and to vie for acceptance into college. Despite doing her part, getting there isn’t as straightforward as it is for other students, though.

She’s been a straight-“A” student since elementary school and has maintained an unblemished discipline record. She’s been in honors classes since middle school and takes college classes in high school through a local dual-enrollment program.

Outside of school, she works a part-time job and holds leadership positions in her many extracurricular clubs and activities.

Still, her academic success does not pave a direct path to college. Students whose high school transcripts are not as impressive could find it easier to get funding for their education.

The College Board reports that a large portion of scholarships — public and private — stipulate that applicants must be U.S. citizens. DACA students must apply to many colleges as international students, which oftentimes means higher application fees and a greater restriction on available academic opportunities. The University of South Carolina Columbia campus, for example, charges $65 for an undergraduate degree ap-

plication. International applicants, however, have to pay $100 and receive little opportunity to have their fee waived. DACA students are also ineligible for any form of federal or state financial aid, which in the case of many students accounts for the majority of aid received. In many so-called “lock out” states, DACA students have to pay out-of-state tuition rates.

South Carolina is one of these states.

Ana’s story isn’t uncommon. In Texas, two valedictorians made national headlines when they announced during their respective speeches that they were, in fact, undocumented immigrants. Those students represent the heights DACA students strive to reach, Ana said.

It was painful, even discouraging at times, to watch as other students applied for and received scholarships she could not. “I felt very disappointed — like my hard work wasn’t paying off,” she said.

Skepticism to the adage “hard work pays off” might still be the response of some scholarly DACA students, but something has recently renewed Ana’s faith.

She recently learned that she is one of 50 high school seniors in the country to receive a full-tuition scholarship. The award exists for DACA students. “This has changed my life forever,” she said.

Ana has something to celebrate. At the same time, she can’t help but think about the many other students who share her immigration status.

What will be the outcome of their struggle to get an education and find money for college?

The American Dream has historically been something that the rest of the world strives to obtain. It’s unacceptable for our nation to impose arbitrary limits on studious individuals like Ana merely because of their citizenship status.

Christian Compton is a senior at Lakewood High School. He is editor-in-chief of the school yearbook as well as the student body president.

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Election coverage eclipses all other programming as networks pre-empt their schedules for “ABC News Your Voice Your Vote — Election Night 2016” (7 p.m., ABC); “Campaign 2016: CBS News Coverage of Election Night” (7 p.m., CBS); “Decision Night in America” (7 p.m., NBC); “You Decide 2016: Election Special” (8 p.m., Fox) and “PBS NewsHour Election Night 2016: A Special Report” (8 p.m., PBS).

And of course, election coverage will also unfold, as it has for the last 18 months or so, on cable “news” with “Election Day in America” (7 p.m., CNN); “America’s Election Headquarters” (6 p.m., Fox News) and “Election Night 2016” (7 p.m., MSNBC).

There have been several cable crossovers as well. You can watch “The View Election Special” (9 p.m., Lifetime) as well as “Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale” (11 p.m., Showtime, TV-14).

For the second presidential election in a row, the coverage on Fox News may be the most interesting, not just for the voting tabulations, but because of the internal tensions within the network itself.

Back in 2012, the election seemed to be decided when networks, including Fox News, called the state of Ohio for President Obama. After political adviser and Fox News contributor Karl Rove contradict-

ed those numbers, host Megyn Kelly strode across the set with the network’s own pollsters to set him straight. It was a startling sight, and a reminder that even a cable network with a particular partisan ax to grind had to admit to certain basic facts. Like election results.

Kelly continued to play a prominent role in the current campaign, taking candidate Trump to task for his comments toward women and all but waging war with him, even as he grew increasingly popular with Fox News viewers.

On Oct. 26, scant days ago, Kelly had another celebrated dust up with Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich. And once again it involved poll interpretations that seemed based on partisan wishful thinking. In an exchange shared widely on social media, Kelly rather coolly ticked off a series of facts while Gingrich blew up, reduced to screaming about

her “sex obsession.” This was an extraordinary moment.

Kelly maintained the professional poise of a lawyer while Gingrich’s composure and credibility melted down faster than the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man at the end of “Ghostbusters.”

Gender image has always loomed large at Fox News.

While correspondents on every newscast are typically far more glamorous than the average human being, women on Fox News tended to be particularly dolled up, presumably for the benefit of the network’s older male viewers.

Kelly’s role as the bearer of facts and her willingness to challenge male authority figures was once seen as a strategy for Fox News to evolve and attract a younger demographic.

It’s not that Kelly has dressed in a sack or appeared as a 1970s feminist. In her contretemps with Gingrich, she looked like a postmodern spin

on one of Hitchcock’s “iceblondes” (think Tippi Hedren in “The Birds”). A generation ago, Hitchcock would treat those characters (not to mention the actresses themselves) as victims. Kelly is anything but.

So tonight’s broadcast may point toward the future of Fox News. Will it embrace Kelly’s professionalism or stick with Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly? Their loud, mad, hysterical, screaming-man approach seems deeply rooted in talk radio, not exactly a healthy medium.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Matthew McConaughey stars in the 2011 adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel “The Lincoln Lawyer” (8 p.m., TNT).

• “Married With Secrets” (10 p.m., ID) examines the case of a missing kindergarten teacher.

• Punk vampires terrorize a seaside resort in the 1987 hor-

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CULT CHOICE Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star as a feisty former first lady and her Secret Service agent in the 1994 comedy “Guarding Tess” (9 p.m., Starz Encore).

SERIES NOTES Reverse Flash taunts on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, r, TVPG) * Evie worries about Xavier’s sanity on “No Tomorrow” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-14).

LATE NIGHT Jeff Bridges, Jeff Ross and Brent Sullivan are on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS, r) * Julia Stiles, Zoe Saldana, Paul Feig and Lewis Del Mar on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r).

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CLEMSON FOOTBALL

Watson watch Banged-up Clemson quarterback expected to play vs. Pitt

AUTO RACING

Edwards wins Chase finale spot in Texas BYSTEPHEN HAWKINS The Associated Press

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After injuring his shoulder against Syracuse on Saturday, the watch is on to see if Clemson’s quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) will be healthy enough to play against Pittsburgh.

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press CLEMSON — The Deshaun Watson watch is on at No. 3 Clemson.

The Tigers’ Heisman Trophy contender fell hard on his right, throwing shoulder Saturday just before halftime in a 54-0 win over Syracuse and did not return. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney and Watson both said he could’ve returned, but with the Tigers (9-0, 6-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) already up by four touchdowns at the break, it was not necessary.

Watson appeared with an ice pack on his shoulder in postgame interviews. He was not available for his regular Monday media session because he was taking treatment on the sore shoulder. A Clemson spokesman said he might be available on Tuesday.

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) avoids the tackle attempt by Syracuse’s Zaire Franklin during the Tigers’ 54-0 victory on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Clemson. ordinator Tony Elliott was confident Watson would be behind center when the Tigers try and wrap up the ACC Atlantic Division against Pitt (5-4, 2-3) on Saturday.

Watson’s roommate, re-

ceiver Artavis Scott, was also confident he’d catch passes from his longtime teammate.

“It’s football,” Scott said Monday. “Everybody’s banged up. He’ll be fine.”

Watson, the 6-foot-3, 215-

pound junior, has been extremely durable the past two seasons in leading Clemson to a 23-1 record — the lone loss coming to Alabama 45-40 in last January’s national championship game.

Watson has been the main cog of a fast-paced offense where he’s expected to move the chains with his legs along with his accurate arm.

He became the first player in the Football Bowl Subdivision to throw for more than 4,000 yards and run for more than 1,000 last year.

Watson finished 2015 with 491 passes and 207 carries, without suffering any major injuries. That’s why most orange-clad fans in Death Valley held their breath when Watson jogged to the sidelines with Clemson in the midst of a TD drive right before the half.

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CAROLINA FOOTBALL

Memories galore as USC, Muschamp head to ‘The Swamp’

BY JOSH KENDALL The State COLUMBIA — Will Muschamp will coach South Carolina on Saturday at Steve Spurrier-Florida Field. In other words, it’s been a hectic 24 months.

The last time the Gamecocks played in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Muschamp coached the Gators and Spurrier was South Carolina’s head coach.

The Gamecocks won that game 23-20 on Nov. 15, 2014, and Muschamp was fired the next day.

Spurrier lasted nine more games as South Carolina’s coach before resigning, and Muschamp was hired as his replacement in December of last year.

And that brings us to Saturday.

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USC head coach Will Muschamp, right, and the rest of the Gamecocks are headed to Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday to play on the field named after former Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier and facing the team Muschamp used to coach.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Carl Edwards got some vindication with a rain-shortened victory to earn a championship-contending spot in the NASCAR Sprint Cup finale.

A year after his shot at the title came up five points short because of a rain-shortened race, Edwards got the victory he desperately needed this season by winning at Texas in a race cut by 41 laps because of rain after the start was deEDWARDS layed nearly six hours Sunday.

“This is huge. I don’t think it’s sunk in yet. That’s all we said was needed, just a shot,” Edwards said. “Now we’re going to go to Homestead, we’re going to do what we need to do. This was a great test. We came here and did what we needed to do, we performed, and I really believe we can do that at Homestead.”

Edwards entered the secondto-last race before the Nov. 20 season finale eighth in points among the drivers still eligible for the championship.

SEE EDWARDS, PAGE B4

PRO FOOTBALL

Improving pass rush puts Panthers in right direction

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — The Carolina Panthers’ pass rush has suddenly come alive — and so too have the defending NFC champions.

The Panthers have 12 sacks in their last two games leading to a pair of victories over the Arizona Cardinals and the Los Angeles Rams to improve to 3-5 on the season.

It remains to be seen whether the Panthers have changed the course of their season. They’ll find out soon enough. Carolina hosts Kansas City (6-2) on Sunday, the start of an eight-game stretch that includes six games against teams with a winning record and three division leaders.

“We definitely feel like we still DAVIS control our own destiny,” said linebacker Thomas Davis, who had 10 tackles, a sack, an interception and a forced fumble in Carolina’s 13-10 win over the Rams . “It’s a really good feeling. You don’t want to be at the mercy of anyone else. As long as we continue to string wins together and come away with the victory, that’s all that matters.”

The Panthers have the league’s third-best run defense, allowing just 77.5 yards per game and a league-low 3.3 yards per carry. But their pass defense was a huge issue the first six weeks of the season, contributing to a 1-5 start.

Carolina managed just 12 sacks in its first six games combined, but had eight against the Cardinals two weeks ago and four on Sunday.

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Murray, Raiders roll past Broncos 30-20

Cubs’ Bryant, Lester, Hendricks, Maddon up for major awards The Associated Press NEW YORK — Fresh off leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series title in more than a century, slugger Kris Bryant and several teammates could soon be hoisting more hardware.

Bryant is among the top three vote-getters for the NL MVP award, with manager Joe Maddon and pitchers Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks in contention for other honors.

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced the finalists Monday. Voting was completed before the postseason, and the awards will be presented next week on MLB Network.

A season after he was the NL Rookie of the Year, Bryant hit 39 home runs with 102 RBIs while batting .292. The third baseman also scored a league-high 121 runs.

Washington second baseman Daniel Murphy, who batted .347 for the NL East champions, and Dodgers rookie shortstop Corey Seager also are up for NL MVP. AL batting champion Jose Altuve of Houston, 2014 winner Mike Trout of the Angels and Boston outfielder Mookie Betts are the AL finalists. The MVPs will be announced Nov. 17.

The AL Cy Young Award is between Cleveland ace

earned a 14-12 victory over Bates Middle School on Saturday to earn a spot in Thursday’s Sumter County Middle School Conference championship game.

For Bates, Chris Ramirez had 30 yards rushing and a touchdown while Ahshad Smith caught a 25-yard TD pass from Keion Brown.

Keandre Tindal had five tackles and a forced fumble on defense for the Bantams while Jaymar Ludd returned a fumble 50 yards.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Latavius Murray ran for 114 yards and three touchdowns and the Oakland Raiders showed they were ready for prime time, beating the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos 30-20 on Sunday night.

Derek Carr threw for 184 yards and did not turn the ball over, Khalil Mack had two sacks, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery and the Raiders (7-2) outrushed Denver (6-3) 218-33 behind a dominant performance in the trenches.

PAMPLING WINS SHRINERS HOSPITALS OPEN LAS VEGAS — Rod Pampling won for the first time in 10 years on the PGA Tour when he closed with a 6-under 65 for a two-shot victory Sunday in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Brooks Koepka closed with a 67 to finish second.

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Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon, right, celebrates with Kris Bryant after Game 5 of the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Both Maddon and Bryant are up for major postseason awards, as are Kyle Hendricks and Jon Lester.

Corey Kluber, Boston’s Rick Porcello and Detroit’s Justin Verlander. In the NL, it’s Lester, Hendricks or Washington’s Max Scherzer on Nov. 16.

Detroit’s Michael Fulmer, the Yankees’ Gary Sanchez and Cleveland’s Tyler Naquin are finalists for AL Rookie of the Year.

Seager, Dodgers teammate Kenta Maeda and Washington’s Trea Turner are the NL contenders, with the top rookies announced next Monday.

Maddon, Washington’s Dusty Baker and Dave Roberts of the Dodgers are up for NL Manager of the

Year. Cleveland’s Terry Francona, who guided his team into the World Series, Texas’ Jeff Banister and Baltimore’s Buck Showalter are the AL candidates. Those honors will be awarded Nov. 15.

The Cubs led the majors with 103 wins during the regular season.

Last year, Chicago won three major awards after reaching the NL Championship Series. In addition to Bryant earning rookie honors, Maddon was the NL Manager of the Year and pitcher Jake Arrieta took home the NL Cy Young Award.

VARSITY FOOTBALL RICHARD WINN 34 CLARENDON HALL 6 WINNSBORO -Clarendon Hall’s football season came to an end on Friday as the Saints fell 34-6 to Richard Winn Academy during the first round of the SCISA 8-man Division II playoffs.

Dylan Way led CH with 30 carries for 243 yards rushing.

Way also scored the only touchdown on an 85-yard kickoff return. On defense, he totaled 12 tackles and had an interception.

Carson Cumbee and Michael Bolyston had six tackles each for the Saints.

Jordan Self finished with two sacks, five tackles and an INT.

FENG TOPS JANG BY 1 STROKE FOR LPGA VICTORY IBARAKI, Japan — Shanshan Feng needed every bit of the three-stroke lead she took to final hole at chilly Taiheiyo Club to finish off her second straight LPGA Tour victory.

The 27-year-old Chinese star closed with a double-bogey 6 to beat Ha Na Jang by a stroke in the TOTO Japan Classic.

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST

W L T Pct PF PA New England 7 1 0 .875 217 132 Miami 4 4 0 .500 173 182 Buffalo 4 4 0 .500 212 172 N.Y. Jets 3 6 0 .333 173 235 SOUTH

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 5 3 0 .625 137 167 Tennessee 4 5 0 .444 217 226 Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 239 256 Jacksonville 2 6 0 .250 153 215 NORTH

W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 4 4 0 .500 154 153 Pittsburgh 4 4 0 .500 184 171 Cincinnati 3 4 1 .438 167 189 Cleveland 0 9 0 .000 168 273 WEST

W L T Pct PF PA Oakland 7 2 0 .778 245 223 Kansas City 6 2 0 .750 185 151 Denver 6 3 0 .667 214 166 San Diego 4 5 0 .444 268 247

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST

W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 7 1 0 .875 223 140 N.Y. Giants 5 3 0 .625 161 164 Washington 4 3 1 .563 186 189 Philadelphia 4 4 0 .500 202 145 SOUTH

W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 6 3 0 .667 305 259 New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 242 238 Tampa Bay 3 5 0 .375 180 232 Carolina 3 5 0 .375 204 206 NORTH

W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 5 3 0 .625 155 126 Detroit 5 4 0 .556 205 206 Green Bay 4 4 0 .500 198 187 Chicago 2 6 0 .250 131 179 West

W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 4 2 1 .643 131 109 Arizona 3 4 1 .438 179 140 Los Angeles 3 5 0 .375 130 167 San Francisco 1 7 0 .125 167 260

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta 43, Tampa Bay 28

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Dallas 35, Cleveland 10 Detroit 22, Minnesota 16, OT N.Y. Giants 28, Philadelphia 23 Baltimore 21, Pittsburgh 14 Miami 27, N.Y. Jets 23 Kansas City 19, Jacksonville 14 Carolina 13, Los Angeles 10 New Orleans 41, San Francisco 23 Indianapolis 31, Green Bay 26 San Diego 43, Tennessee 35 Oakland 30, Denver 20 Open: Washington, Arizona, Chicago, New England, Houston, Cincinnati

MONDAY’S GAMES

Buffalo at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOV. 10

Cleveland at Baltimore, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY, NOV. 13

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Miami at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

Dallas at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m.

Seattle at New England, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Detroit, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Oakland

MONDAY, NOV. 14

Cincinnati at N.Y. Giants, 8:30 p.m.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

W L Pct GB Toronto 4 2 .667 — Boston 3 3 .500 1 New York 2 4 .333 2 Brooklyn 2 4 .333 2 Philadelphia 0 5 .000 3½ SOUTHEAST DIVISION

W L Pct GB Charlotte 4 1 .800 — Atlanta 4 2 .667 ½ Orlando 3 3 .500 1½ Miami 2 3 .400 2 Washington 1 4 .200 3 CENTRAL DIVISION

W L Pct GB Cleveland 6 0 1.000 — Detroit 4 2 .667 2 Milwaukee 4 3 .571 2½ Chicago 3 3 .500 3 Indiana 3 3 .500 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION

W L San Antonio 5 2 Houston 3 3 Memphis 3 4 Dallas 1 5 New Orleans 0 6 NORTHWEST DIVISION

W L Oklahoma City 5 1 Portland 4 3 Utah 4 3 Denver 3 3 Minnesota 1 4 PACIFIC DIVISION

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SUNDAY’S GAMES

Utah 114, New York 109 Portland 100, Memphis 94 Sacramento 96, Toronto 91 Dallas 86, Milwaukee 75, OT Denver 123, Boston 107 L.A. Lakers 119, Phoenix 108

WESTERN CONFERENCE

MONDAY’S GAMES

Houston at Washington, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Utah at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Miami at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 10 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Sacramento, 10:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Boston at Washington, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at New York, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Utah at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.

Dallas at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

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MONDAY’S GAMES

THURSDAY’S GAMES

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EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 12 10 1 1 21 39 28 Tampa Bay 12 7 4 1 15 40 35 Ottawa 11 7 4 0 14 29 28 Toronto 12 5 4 3 13 37 41 Detroit 13 6 6 1 13 35 35 Boston 11 6 5 0 12 26 32 Buffalo 11 5 4 2 12 25 25 Florida 12 5 6 1 11 32 32 METROPOLITAN DIVISION

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Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Vancouver at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Washington, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Carolina at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Boston at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

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Ottawa at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

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Watson cracked a collarbone during his first spring practice in 2014, then injured a finger in a start against Louisville that same season. Watson returned four games later at Georgia Tech, but left that game early with a knee bruise.

Watson missed the next game before playing with a braced-up, torn ACL — Swinney said he tore it in practice that week and not

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Los Angeles quarterback Case Keenum, right, is sacked by Carolina defensive end Mario Addison during the Panthers’ 13-10 win over the Rams on Sunday in Los Angeles.

PANTHERS

FROM PAGE B1

The Panthers’ 24 sacks are now third-most in the NFL. Carolina’s defensive ends, which have struggled to get to the quarterback all season, accounted for three of those sacks on Sunday, two by pass rush specialist Mario Addison.

Since the bye week, the Panthers have been rotating defensive ends more frequently trying to keep players fresh.

The strategy seems to be working.

“We do a ton of rotation,” coach Ron Rivera said. “We liked what we did. We thought the guys up front gave us the perfect push and surge we needed.”

Rivera also said it helps that the Panthers have gotten a lead in both games, allowing their defense to establish the pass rush.

Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly called it a group effort on defense, saying the defensive linemen are getting a better push and the team’s secondary — which includes three rookie cornerbacks — are improving in coverage.

Rookie cornerback James Bradberry was able to play after missing the last three games with a turf toe injury.

And veteran nickel cornerback Leonard Johnson, who is 2-0 since being activated from injury list, has provided a boost on passing downs.

“Our guys up front have done an excellent job these last few weeks, and a lot of credit goes to those guys,” Kuechly said after Sunday’s win. “A lot of the credit goes to the coaches for putting us in positions to be successful.

Everybody tackles. It’s fun to see those (rookie cornerbacks) really growing.”

Rams quarterback Case Keenum said the Panthers were good, but he made some mistakes that didn’t help his team.

“There were a couple of times where I didn’t move well enough in the pocket and it wasn’t even pressure, I didn’t have the pocket presence and didn’t have a clear view on a few third-downs to pull the trigger,” Rams quarterback Case Keenum said after the game.

While Carolina’s defense has improved, big games remain on the schedule including one more trip through the NFC South.

Carolina was victimized early in the season by Atlanta’s Matt Ryan and New Orleans’ Drew Brees, who threw

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against Georgia Tech — as the Tigers ended a humiliating, unprecedented five-game losing streak to rival South Carolina.

A short time later, Watson underwent knee surgery and was out for Clemson’s bowl game to close the season. He has not missed a start since.

In Elliott’s mind, that streak won’t end this week.

“He’s got a bruised shoulder, but was able to come out and throw the football” in second-half warmups, he said. “So no doubt” about Watson starting.

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Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (62) 9-0 1598 1 2. Clemson (2) 9-0 1497 3 3. Michigan 9-0 1493 2 4. Washington 9-0 1422 4 5. Ohio State 8-1 1316 6 6. Louisville 8-1 1307 5 7. Wisconsin 7-2 1191 8 8. Auburn 7-2 1075 12 9. Oklahoma 7-2 1068 11 10. W. Virginia 7-1 877 15 11. Texas A&M 7-2 801 7 12. Utah 7-2 788 16 13. N. Carolina 7-2 695 17 14. Penn State 7-2 667 23 15. Colorado 7-2 627 20 16. Florida 6-2 486 9 17. Okla. State 7-2 483 22 18. Fla. State 6-3 482 19 19. LSU 5-3 479 14 20. Nebraska 7-2 476 10 21. W. Michigan 9-0 467 18 22. Va. Tech 7-2 466 21 23. Wash. State 7-2 331 25 24. Boise State 8-1 211 24 25. Baylor 6-2 161 13

Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (60) 9-0 1524 1 2. Michigan (1) 9-0 1432 2 3. Clemson 9-0 1408 3 4. Washington 9-0 1364 4 5. Louisville 8-1 1255 5 6. Ohio St. 8-1 1245 6 7. Wisconsin 7-2 1159 8 8. Auburn 7-2 1081 11 9. Oklahoma 7-2 996 12 10. Texas A&M 7-2 820 7 11. W. Virginia 7-1 805 14 12. Penn St. 7-2 752 20 13. Utah 7-2 686 16 14. W. Michigan 9-0 583 17 15. N. Carolina 7-2 559 18 16. Colorado 7-2 550 21 17. Okla. St. 7-2 516 22 18. VA. Tech 7-2 479 23 19. LSU 5-3 454 15 20. Florida St. 6-3 450 19 21. Nebraska 7-2 434 9 22. Florida 6-2 390 10 23. Wash. St. 7-2 305 25 24. Boise St. 8-1 226 24 25. Baylor 6-2 90 13 Others receiving votes: Southern Cal 76, Arkansas 74, San Diego St. 38, Troy 28, Houston 25, Tennessee 9, Tulsa 3, South Florida 3, Minnesota 2, Navy 2, Wyoming 2.

Others receiving votes: Southern California 79; San Diego State 58; Arkansas 53; Houston 49; South Florida 28; Wyoming 20; Navy 12; Tennessee 12; Tulsa 9; Troy 6; Appalachian State 5; Minnesota 2; Stanford 2; Louisiana Tech 1.

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South Carolina, which is 5-4 overall and 3-4 in the SEC after beating Missouri 31-21, plays at No. 22 Florida (6-2, 4-2 SEC) at noon in Gainesville, Fla. The field there was renamed in honor of Spurrier in September.

“If anybody knows me, they know this game is really important to me because of our players and the University of South Carolina,” Muschamp said Sunday night. “That’s No. 1. That’s just the way it’s going to be for me. I know that’s boring and you don’t want to hear that, but that’s the way I feel.”

Muschamp was 28-21 in four years at Florida after the Gators hired him away from Texas, where he was head coach-in-waiting behind Mack Brown.

“I’m sure there will be a lot of questions about us going back to Florida,” he said. “We had four great years at the University of Florida. I have tremendous respect for the university, for the program. I grew up in Gainesville. I grew up a Gator. I have tremendous respect for (former athletics

director) Jeremy Foley and Dr. (Bernie) Machen and the wonderful opportunity they gave us. We have great memories. We have great friends who are still friends to this day. In this profession, if you don’t win enough games, you get fired. That’s part of it.

There’s no hard feelings.

There’s no animosity.

There’s no grudge. It’s part of our profession.”

Saturday will be Senior Day for the Gators, whose seniors all were recruited

by Muschamp. As of Sunday night, he hadn’t heard from any of his former Florida players, and didn’t know how he would handle pregame Saturday.

“We will cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said. “I haven’t heard from anybody, but seeing those guys on the field and having been in their living room and recruited them… I didn’t realize it was going to be Senior Day until today.”

Muschamp’s familiarity with Florida’s personnel will help the Gamecocks some, but not much this week, he believes.

“In some areas it can help you, but at the end of the day your players play the game and they have to go execute,” he said.

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With his fourth career win at Texas, Edwards joined points leader Jimmie Johnson as drivers locked into the championship-contending spots in Homestead. Edwards is seventh in points, but like Johnson advanced by winning.

Joey Logano finished second at Texas and is second in season points, with Kyle Busch third. Matt Kenseth is fourth, ahead of Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick, with Kurt Busch eighth. If one of those six drivers doesn’t win at Phoenix, the final two championship spots would be determined by points.

Last year’s race at Phoenix was delayed nearly seven hours as a series of storms passed through the area, and then once it started under the lights was called after 218 laps. Edwards finished fifth, leaving him five points out of the final spot for the Chase finale.

“This rain was a lot more welcome than that rain,” Edwards said. “That was frustrating.”

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— are among the six other drivers still in contention this season, and clearly not all of them can advance.

Light rain had already been falling at Texas, and plenty more was on the radar around the track, when the caution came out with 45 laps remaining of the originally scheduled 334-lap race.

All the cars were brought to pit road four laps later, and it was only a few more minutes before NASCAR declared the race over and official after 293 laps. It could have taken two hours or more to dry to track.

Edwards had taken the lead on lap 258 after beating Martin Truex Jr. off pit road, and led the rest of the way.

“The last pit stop, we had a little bit of an issue,” Truex said, without elaborating. “I guess all in all, happy with third.”

It was Edwards’ first win at Texas in eight years. He swept the two Cup races at the track in 2008, the season he had nine wins overall and finished second in season points. Three years later, Edwards was the season runnerup again even though he matched Tony Stewart for the most points. Stewart won the championship on a tiebreaker (his five wins to Edwards’ one).

AAA TEXAS 500 RESULTS The Associated Press

Sunday At Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas Lap length: 1.5 miles DRIVER PTS 1. Carl Edwards 4 2. Joey Logano 41 3. Martin Truex Jr 3 4. Chase Elliott 38 5. Kyle Busch 37 6. Kevin Harvick 35 7. Matt Kenseth 34 8. Kasey Kahne 33 9. Denny Hamlin 33 10. Ryan Newman 31 11. Jimmie Johnson 30 12. Ryan Blaney 29 13. Alex Bowman 0 14. Brad Keselowski 27 15. Kyle Larson 26 16. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 25 17. AJ Allmendinger 24 18. Greg Biffle 23 19. Jamie McMurray 22 20. Kurt Busch 21 21. Chris Buescher 20 22. Aric Almirola 19 23. Michael McDowell 18 24. Danica Patrick 17 25. Clint Bowyer 16 26. Regan Smith 15 27. Brian Scott 14 28. Paul Menard 13 29. Landon Cassill 12 30. Trevor Bayne 11 31. Tony Stewart 10 32. Michael Annett 9 33. David Ragan 9 34. Jeffrey Earnhardt 7 35. Reed Sorenson 6 36. Joey Gase 0 37. Austin Dillon 5 38. Ryan Ellis 0 39. Casey Mears 2 40. Josh Wise 1.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 137.274 mph.

Time of Race: 3 hours, 16 minutes, 0 seconds.

Top 16 in Points: 1. J.Johnson, 4074; 2. J.Logano, 4074; 3. Ky. Busch, 4074; 4. M.Kenseth, 4073; 5.

D.Hamlin, 4072; 6. K.Harvick, 4056; 7. C.Edwards, 4049; 8. Ku.Busch, 4040; 9. M.Truex, 2265; 10. B.Keselowski, 2234; 11. C.Elliott, 2223; 12.

K.Larson, 2209; 13. A.Dillon, 2192; 14. T.Stewart, 2166; 15. J.McMurray, 2165; 16. C.Buescher, 2143

OBITUARIES THOMAS W. GOLDMAN

Thomas “Tommy” Westbrook Goldman, son of Earleene Jordan (Ace) and David Goldman (Emilie), all of Sumter, died on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at the Medical University of South Carolina, after a sudGOLDMAN den illness.

Born on June 26, 1968, in Long Beach, New York, Tommy moved to Sumter during his first year, where he attended the Sumter public school system. He was a certified heat and air conditioning technician and worked on oil rigs in the Gulf before moving back to Sumter, where he continued working in the field. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and Clemson fan.

Tommy is survived by his parents; two daughters, Allison and Megan Goldman of Washington state; his three sisters, Cindy Newman (Brad), Amy Mader (Jordan) and Sarah Holt; a nephew and two nieces, Buddy, Claudia and Amanda Newman; and his longtime girlfriend, Shone Lopez.

An informal memorial / visitation will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Bullock Funeral Home, 1190 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter SC 29150.

At a later date, his family will spread his ashes at those outdoor locations he loved most.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Sumter SPCA, 1140 S. Guignard Drive, Sumter SC 29150.

You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

SAMUEL DAIRYKO Samuel Dairyko, 74, departed on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at his home with his loved ones.

Born in South Bend, Indiana, he was a son of Elizabeth Stone and the late William Dairyko. A 1961 graduate of DAIRYKO Adams High School in South Bend, he later earned a masters degree in education / counseling. He was a United States Air Force veteran and a member of Harvest Reaper Church, Cregg Chandler, pastor.

He leaves to cherish his memory and legacy: his wife of 50 years, Jean; his children, Eugene Dairyko (Denise Cleven), April (Robert) English of Sumter and Tracee Stewart of Orlando, Florida; his mother,

Elizabeth Stone of South Bend; one brother, Gregory Dairyko of Chicago; grandchildren, Eugene Dairyko Jr., fondly referred to as “Tyko” by his grandfather, Miracle Watson, Mia Dairyko, Tamara, Tiffanee, Travis Stewart and Tiera Geer; nine great-grandchildren; two aunts, Georgia Bradshaw of Gary, Indiana, and Malla Townsend of South Bend; a special cousin, Nathaniel Strickland of Atlanta; best friend of more more than 30 years, Victor Sharpe of Sumter; a host of relatives and many friends.

Samuel was preceded in death by his father, William Dairyko.

Mr. Dairyko will be placed in the church at 11 a.m. on Wednesday for viewing until the hour of service.

Funeral service will be held at noon on Wednesday at Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 805 S. Harvin St., Sumter, with Pastor Cregg Chandler officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park.

The family will be receiving friends at 2217 Rolling Hill Lane, Sumter, SC 29150.

Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.

CHARLES L. BAGWELL Charles Langley Bagwell, 72, husband of Stacy L. Bagwell, died on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016.

Born on July 1, 1944, in Laurens, he was a son of the late Ivy S. and Macey Bell South Bagwell. He was employed by Pilgrim’s Pride for 20 years.

He was a U.S. Army veteran.

Survivors include his wife of 36 years; two children, Dale L. Bagwell and Faith L. Bagwell, both of Sumter; a grandson, Gabriel L. Bagwell; and two sisters, Julia Hill of Anderson and Ellen Neal of Walhalla.

Services will be private.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

RICHARD F. RIDGEWAY JR. Richard Franklin Ridgeway Jr., 72, husband of Joyce Floyd Ridgeway, died on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on Aug. 7, 1944, in Sumter, he was a son of the late Richard Franklin Sr. and Marguerite Newman Ridgeway. He was a member of Eastside Baptist Church and was a self-employed electrician.

Survivors include his wife of 52 years; two children, Leisa Ridgeway Frye and Anthony Franklin Ridgeway (Tammy), all of Sumter; seven grandchildren, Brittany Frye Smith (Brandon), Joseph Andrew Frye (Nicole), Heather Frye Lee (Kenny), John Russell Ridgeway (Allison), Melissa Eileen Ridge-

way, Lindsay Grace Ridgeway and Taylor Morgan Ridgeway; 13 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Steve Ridgeway (Patty) of Hendersonville, North Carolina, and Eric Ridgeway (Gayle) of Simpsonville; and a number of nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Richard Brian Ridgeway; and his stepmother, Mildred Ridgeway.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at Eastside Baptist Church with the Rev. George Smith and the Rev. Pete Mixon officiating.

Burial will be in Zoar Community Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Kenny Newman, Frankie Newman, George Ferguson, Justin Brown, Bobby Hingst and Jeffrey Newman.

Honorary pallbearers will be Kenny Floyd, Phillip Graham, Mike Love and Wilbert Perry.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Zoar Community Cemetery, c/o Beverly Newman, 1900 Gaymon Road, Sumter, SC 29153.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

THELMA B. ROGERS Thelma “Lois” Baker Rogers, 73, widow of William Eugene “Bill” Rogers, died on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence.

Services will be announced

by Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter.

RICHARD M. SIPES Richard M. Sipes, age 92, beloved husband of the late Eddie Gaynelle Sipes, died on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.

CHRISTOPHER W. GAINEY Christopher Wayne Gainey, age 41, beloved husband of Kimberly Dawn Compton, died on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, at his residence.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.

ELIZABETH WILDER

Elizabeth Wilder, 92, widow of John Furman Wilder, departed this life on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia.

She was born on Feb. 6, 1924, in Wedgefield, a daughter of the late Jim and Emma Reese Robinson.

The family will receive friends at the home, 306 Pinson St., Sumter, SC 29150.

Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.

JAMES M. LYLES James M. “Moose” Lyles, 70, husband of Tina Chatfield Lyles, died on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, at Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia.

Born on July 19, 1946, in Sumter, he was a son of the late Morgan Irick and Orie McCall Lyles. He was a former police officer with the city of Sumter. He was later employed at Heilig-Meyers Furniture store and Furniture Warehouse. He was currently employed as the manager of High Point Furniture. He was a member of Wedgefield Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife of 31 years; five children, Alyssa Spencer of West Columbia, Sara McGrady (Jeremy Scott) of West Columbia, Matthew P. Lyles of Hanahan, Jonathan T. Lyles of Sumter and Benjamin W. Lyles of Sumter; three grandchildren, Audra Spencer, Patrick McGrady and Shannon McGrady; two brothers, Stanley Lyles (Belvia) of Alabama and Milton Lyles (Mary Anne) of Sumter; and three sisters, Sylvia Butler, Mavis Lynch and Peggy Grooms (Furman), all of Sumter.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Harvey Lyles Jr.; and two sisters, Nellie Mae Hatchell and Sally Campbell.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at Wedgefield Baptist Church with the Rev. Paul Goff and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Mosier officiating.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 3 p.m. on Wednesday at Wedgefield Baptist Church and other times at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Furman Grooms, 95 Olin Goode Drive.

Memorials may be made to Wedgefield University for Kids, 6220 Wedgefield Road, Wedgefield, SC 29168.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

CALVIN BRISBON SR. Calvin Brisbon Sr., husband of Annie B.W. Brisbon, entered eternal rest on Nov. 4, 2016, at McLeod Hospice House, Florence.

The family is receiving friends at 662 Lower Lee

School Road, Mayesville.

Visitation will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at the Springhill United Methodist Church, Rembert, with Pastor Fedetra Harrington officiating. Interment will follow in the churchyard cemetery.

Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville, is in charge of arrangements.

ROBERT L. WILLIAMS Robert L. Williams, husband of Rose Williams, entered eternal rest on Nov. 6, 2016, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 190 Piedmont Road, Bishopville.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

CELESTE T. RIVERS Celeste Turbeville Rivers, 85, wife of Porter Rivers Jr., died on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, at the home of her son in Columbia.

Services will be announced

by Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 7759386.

SHINETHIA H. FELDER MANNING — On Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, Shinethia Darlene Houston Felder, wife of Eugene Felder, departed our midst at her residence.

Born on March 6, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York, she was a daughter of the Rev. Geraldine Hodge Houston and the late James Allen Houston.

Service of remembrance will take place at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Trinity AME Church, 39 W. Rigby St., Manning, where the Rev. Courtney D. Colleton serves as pastor. Words of hope will be brought by the Rev. Patricia Montgomery, pastor of Sliloh AME Church Foreston. The service of committal will follow in the family plot, located in Junky Yard Cemetery of Foreston.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the residence, 3420 S. Brewington Road, Foreston community of Manning.

Fleming & DeLaine Funeral Home & Chapel of Manning is in charge of these services.

Online condolences for the family may be sent to www. flemingdelaine.com or flemingdelaine@aol.com.

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Terry would have celebrated his birthday Nov 7th. Rest In Peace Terry. We love and miss you!!

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Questions keep coming for Comey Effects of email inquiries could linger for FBI long after election

Kevin Johnson USA TODAY WASHINGTON FBI Director James Comey’s brief notice to Congress on Sunday, effectively ending the bureau’s revived examination of Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, may have provided major relief for the Democratic presi-

dential nominee.

But the unusual nine-day episode is likely to have lasting consequences for the FBI and the director whose 10-year tenure runs until 2023.

Comey’s decision Oct. 28 to open a review into newly discovered emails, recovered in a separate investigation into the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide, generated fresh rebukes

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— mostly from Democratic lawmakers — whose previous strong support gave Comey, a Republican, made-man status on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, DCalif., a prominent member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversees the FBI, said the director’s decision Sunday raised “troubling” concerns about his move to notify Congress of the

new review nine days before.

“There’s no doubt that it created a false impression about the nature of the agency’s inquiry,” Feinstein said. “I believe the Justice Department needs to take a look at its procedures to prevent similar actions that could influence future elections.’’

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Gregory Korte @gregorykorte USA TODAY WASHINGTON In the race for president of the United States, everyone’s vote counts. But some count more than others.

By the end of the night, more than 100 million individual voting decisions will be distilled into the only votes that count: the 538 votes in the Electoral College. The first candidate to hit 270 wins.

Beyond the red states and blue states, voters will be segmented into bellwether counties, in-person voters and absentee ballots, and dozens of demographic groups.

The Associated Press and the television networks have traditionally used exit polling to help quickly “call” states for one side or another. But as more states allow greater access to early voting, it’s possible for significant numbers of votes — more than half in some states — to be counted and reported immediately after the polls close.

With the results in most states seemingly predetermined, the race comes down to a handful of

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“swing states” — places like Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Nevada. Most analysts agree that Donald Trump needs more of those states than Hillary Clinton does.

But the president isn’t the only federal office on the ballot. The 2010 Tea Party surge swept in a class of Republican senators now defending their seats. Twentyfour of the 34 Senate seats are being defended by Republicans, and Democrats need to win only five of them to regain control of the Senate — or just four, if Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine ends up presiding.

Here’s a guide to watching the returns:

On the eve of the elections, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump got in some last-minute presidential campaigning at stops in Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania.

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Reno’s dedication to justice leaves inspirational legacy First female attorney general dies at 78 Jane Onyanga-Omara and Kevin Johnson USA TODAY

Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, whose tenure spanned some of the most tumultuous periods in American life, died early Monday.

She was 78. Her goddaughter, Gabrielle D’Alemberte, told the Associated Press that she died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease.

Reno arrived in Washington in 1993 as a relatively unknown prosecutor from Miami — newly elected President Bill Clinton’s third choice to lead the sprawling Justice Department. Her apolitical ways and hulking physical stature both endeared her to supporters and made her a perennial target of administration critics.

The second-longest-serving attorney general in history, Reno led a Justice Department that was thrust into a nearly unending series of tests, from the government’s deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, and the first World Trade Center attack investigation to the

bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building and the international custody battle for a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez.

Her improbable political survival during a grueling eight years in office, while battling Parkinson’s disease, may be the most striking aspect of her tenure. Her loss brought condolences from the highest levels of government, past and present.

“Janet Reno was an American original, a public servant whose intellect, integrity and fierce commitment to justice helped shape our nation’s legal landscape,” President Obama said in a statement Monday. “Her legacy

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President Bill Clinton named Janet Reno to be attorney general in February 1993. She died Monday at age 78.

lives on in a generation of lawyers she inspired, the ordinary lives she touched and a nation that is more just.”

Clinton called her “an extraordinary public servant who dedicated her life to advancing justice, equality and innovation in criminal justice.”

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman to serve as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, said Reno served as “an inspiration and a trailblazer for so many women serving in law enforcement and government, including me.” A portrait of Reno hangs in Lynch’s conference room.

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mings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, and Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, seek an internal Justice Department inquiry into whether the FBI leaked information to the Trump campaign regarding the politically charged email inquiry.

“In the days that come,” Conyers said, “we will have many questions about the FBI’s handling of this investigation.”

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and long one of the most vocal critics of bureau operations, described Comey’s letter Sunday as just “another vague announcement.”

“For months now, I’ve been urging the FBI to provide details regarding the scope of its investigation,” Grassley said.

Although Congress could tie up the bureau for months in protracted hearings and requests for investigations by the Justice Department’s inspector general, analysts said Comey and the FBI face a much more consequential test from the candidate who wins the White House. “I don’t know how you work with a Clinton White House after this,” said Jim Davis, a former FBI official who served as a spokesperson for the bureau. “But then again, I don’t know how you work with a Donald Trump White House.”

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Justice Dept. cuts number of staff it sends to enforce voting rights Group of 500 is down from 800 in 2012 Kevin Johnson @bykevinj USA TODAY WASHINGTON The Justice Department dispatched more than 500 staffers to monitor voting in 28 states Tuesday, as the country prepared for one of the most contentious elections in its history.

Although federal authorities will be deployed from Bethel, Alaska, to Napa County, Calif., the number represents a substantial decline from 2012 when nearly 800 people were assigned to determine whether voters were subject to racial discrimination or other improper barriers related to language differences or disabilities.

The reduction is a result of limitations outlined in a 2013 Supreme Court decision that struck down portions of the Voting Rights Act. Among the group assigned to polling places for this election are linguists who are fluent in Spanish and a variety of Asian and Native American languages.

“The bedrock of our democracy is the right to vote,’’ Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday.

“The department is deeply committed to the fair and unbiased application of our voting

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Voters make their way into the Municipal Building during early voting Thursday in Augusta, Ga. rights laws,’’ she said.

Attorneys assigned to the department’s Civil Rights Division will staff a hotline expected to open early Tuesday to field complaints and assist monitors in the field.

“As always, our personnel will perform these duties impartially, with one goal in mind: to see to it that every eligible voter can participate in our elections to the full extent that federal law provides,” Lynch said.

The staffing provisions are additions to previously announced

preparations in each of the nation’s 94 U.S. attorney’s offices where prosecutors have been assigned to handle allegations of voter fraud and voting rights violations.

The FBI also has established a command center at its headquarters in Washington to help coordinate the enforcement effort.

The preparations come against a backdrop of a deeply hostile general-election season in which Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump already has suggested, without offering specific

evidence, that voting irregularities could cost him the election.

Some of his supporters have indicated that they would accept the outcome of the election only if Trump wins.

On Election Day, complaints of possible voting violations can be reported to the Civil Rights Division by calling: 1-800-253-3931; 202-307-2767 or 202-305-0082.

Reports also can be made by fax to 202-307-3961, by email to voting.section@usdoj.gov and on the department’s website: www .justice.gov/crt/votercomplaint.

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Polls close in most of Indiana and Kentucky.

Senate race to watch: Democratic hopes of winning the Senate could depend on a comeback

by Democratic former senator Evan Bayh, scion of an Indiana political family. Bayh has been in a tight race with GOP Rep. Todd Young for the seat now occupied by retiring Sen. Dan Coats.

close, and — if recent elections are any guide — will be one of the last states to be called. That means election watchers could have one eye on the Sunshine State for much of the night.

But early voting could give some early indications: As of Sunday, 6.2 million voters had already cast ballots. That’s nearly half the number of registered voters, and three-quarters of the number voting in 2012. Registered Democrats had cast 32,528 more votes than registered Republicans, but that gap is narrower than it was in 2012.

By all rights, Georgia shouldn’t be in play; it hasn’t gone Democratic since Bill Clinton in 1992. Trump has a healthy lead in recent polls, so a Clinton win — or even a close race — could signal trouble for Trump later on. One reason: It would likely signal a motivated AfricanAmerican turnout, which is going overwhelmingly for Clinton.

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Battlegrounds: Florida is one of the first states with polls to

Polls close in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia.

Battlegrounds: Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. No Republican has won the White House without it. And on paper, it should be fertile ground for Trump’s message: It has a high proportion of white voters without a college degree, and it’s been buffeted by job losses caused by globalization.

North Carolina is enjoying — if that’s the right word — its newfound status as a swing state. In 2008, President Obama was the first Democrat to win it since 1976, but he lost it to Republican Mitt Romney four years later. It has gotten plenty of attention from both campaigns — and from Obama, who made three stops there in the last week of the campaign.

At the same time, the state has been roiled by debates on transgender bathrooms and voting rights.

The African-American turnout was key to Obama’s 2008 victory and is crucial for Clinton as well.

“If she doesn’t have a decent showing by black voters, then it makes it that much harder to make the state flip to blue,” said Mike Bitzer, a political scientist at Catawba College. Early voting is a good sign of whether the Clinton campaign has been successful in getting those voters to the polls; the first returns reported after the polls close could be revealing.

5 A.M. ET States have different poll opening and closing times, but in Vermont the polls can open as early as 5 a.m. Almost as soon as poll workers show up, there will almost certainly be problems reported.

And given the acrimony of 2016 — and Trump’s charges that the election will be “rigged” — both sides will be carefully watching to make sure elections are conducted peacefully and fairly.

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Battlegrounds: Pennsylvania is so important to Democrats that Clinton decided to end her campaign there with a Philadelphia rally that brought her heaviest hitters — the president and first lady — back to the city where she was nominated. A big turnout in Pennsylvania is essential, but much of the attention will be on the suburban “collar counties”: Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery. The moderate Republican voters there are usually a counterbalance to the urban Democrats, but this year could be different.

“In Donald Trump, you have a perfect storm of a candidate in terms of pressing buttons to sending white, college-educated voters, particularly women, in the other direction,” said Ruy Teixeira, a fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress.

Part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is on Central Time, so polls there close an hour later.

But networks could call the state earlier based on exit polls in the Eastern Time zone. Turnout in Detroit’s Wayne County will be a key indicator of Clinton’s support among African Americans, but a better bellwether might be Macomb County, just north of 8 Mile Road. It historically has been ground zero for Reagan Democrats and could indicate whether Trump’s anti-trade, anti-immigration message swings enough union members to close the gap.

Maine is a curiosity, because it’s one of two states (Nebraska is the other) that splits its electoral votes by congressional district — giving Trump a chance to pick up a spare vote in Maine’s 2nd District.

New Hampshire voters have seen these candidates up-close more than anyone else, and Trump has surged in the polls there in recent weeks. A Trump win may not be decisive — it has just four electoral votes — but it could signal whether Trump’s re-

bound is for real.

8:30 P.M. ET Polls close in Arkansas.

9 P.M. ET Polls close in Arizona, Colorado, western Kansas, Louisiana, the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, western South Dakota the western panhandle of Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Battlegrounds: In a normal election year, Arizona would be safely in the Republican column.

The state has gone Democratic just once since 1948, and that was in the three-way race in 1996 when Reform Party candidate Ross Perot siphoned off Republican votes. While an Arizona Republic poll three weeks ago showed Clinton up by 5 percentage points, more recent polls have favored Trump.

But those poll results are based largely on models showing Hispanic voters are historically underrepresented in voter turnout.

And Democrats are hoping that Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric will drive Latinos to the polls.

Obama carried Colorado twice, moving it from purple to blue on most electoral maps, and Clinton leads in most recent polls. And its demographics work against Trump: It’s younger, more educated and more Hispanic than the country at large.

GOP officials say they’ve pulled ahead on mail-in votes submitted

by Republican voters.

In New Mexico, Clinton has had a consistent lead in the polls, with the latest Albuquerque Journal poll showing her leading, 45% to 40%. So the most interesting thing to watch may be how well former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson does. The Libertarian candidate once hoped to play spoiler here, but his support has been cut to 11% from his high-water mark of 24% in September.

Polls close in southern Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, eastern North Dakota, far eastern Oregon and Utah.

Battlegrounds: Once considered competitive, Iowa seems to be trending in Trump’s direction.

A Des Moines Register poll published Sunday showed him up by 7 percentage points.

“The bigger surprise on election night would be if he lost Iowa, not that he won it,” said Amy Walter, national editor at the non-partisan Cook Political Report. “Donald Trump can’t afford to lose Iowa, and Hillary Clinton can.”

Like Colorado, Nevada is another state where the two main sources of predictive data — polls and early votes — are trending in opposite directions. Trump seems to have a slight lead in recent polls, but a surge of early ballots cast by registered Democrats would seem to favor Clinton.

Trump needs crossover and independent votes — and big turnout by Republicans — to overcome a 40,000-ballot earlyvote advantage by registered Democrats.

But Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., told a Trump rally in Reno on Saturday that the early-voting numbers fail to take into account independent voters, who he said will break toward Trump on Tuesday. “Guess what, the history in Nevada is Election Day is elephant day. Election Day is independent day,” he said.

Also closely watched will be the fate of Utah’s six electoral votes, with recent polls showing insurgent conservative Evan McMullin within striking distance of Donald Trump. McMullin would be the first minor-party candidate to win electoral votes since George Wallace in 1968 — and those are electoral votes Trump needs.

Senate race to watch: The retirement of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid leaves an open seat in Nevada. Hoping to fill it are Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democratic former state attorney general, and GOP Rep. Joe Heck.

11 P.M. ET Polls close in California, Hawaii, northern Idaho, western North Dakota, most of Oregon and Washington.

12 MIDNIGHT ET Polls close in most of Alaska.

1 A.M. ET Polls close in half the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

Contributing: Joel Burgess, Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times; Susan Page, USA TODAY; Alexandra Glorioso, Naples (Fla.) Daily News; Amy Bennett Williams, Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press; Jason Noble, Des Moines Register; Seth Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal

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S.C. murder suspect may be behind chilling Amazon reviews User posted reviews of knives, shovels, locks, tactical gear Nathaniel Cary The Greenville (S.C.) News

The same month that Todd Kohlhepp acquired 95 secluded acres near Woodruff in May 2014, an Amazon user named “me” with a wish list linked to “Todd Kohlhepp” began to leave chilling reviews for products the user said he had purchased.

The reviews have caught the attention of Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office investigators who are looking into Kohlhepp’s online interactions as part of their investigation into the man Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright has said is likely a serial killer and has been linked to as many as seven deaths.

The Amazon user posted reviews for padlocks, tactical gear, targets, knives and gun accessories, often writing batches of reviews at various time in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The user posted a number of reviews just days before Anderson residents Kala Brown and Charles David Carver went missing in August.

Kohlhepp has been charged with kidnapping Brown, 30, of Anderson and keeping her chained by the neck and ankles for two months inside a metal storage shed on his property.

Carver’s body was exhumed last week from the property and the coroner said he was shot multiple times. Sunday, Kohlhepp was

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Todd Kohlhepp leaves the courtroom on Sunday after a bond hearing at the Spartanburg Detention Facility, in Spartanburg, S.C. charged with four counts of murder in connection with a quadruple homicide that took place 13 years ago.

In one review about a padlock, the Amazon user wrote, “solid locks.. have 5 on a shipping container.. wont stop them.. but sure will slow them down til they are too old to care. (sic)” On a review of a knife posted on Sept. 13, 2014, he said, “havnet (sic) stabbed anyone yet...... yet.... but I am keeping the dream alive and when I do, it will be with a quality tool like this...”

For a shovel with a folding handle, the user posted a review suggesting, “keep in car for when you have to hide the bodies and you left the full size shovel at home.... does not come with a midget, which would have been nice.”

Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Bobo said investigators were aware of the Amazon reviews. With the current focus of

“havnet (sic) stabbed anyone yet...... yet.... but ... when I do, it will be with a quality tool like this...”

Amazon review of a knife

investigators on the ongoing search of Kohlhepp’s property, Bobo called the posts secondary to the investigation at this point.

Bobo said he didn’t know whether investigators had linked the reviews as coming from Kohlhepp.

Asked whether Anderson Police are reviewing the Amazon reviews, Anderson Police Lt. Tony Tilley said, “I don’t have that information at this time, but it would be safe to say that our investigations division is following

up on every lead possible.”

The reviewer’s “wish list” page is listed as Todd Kohlhepp and he discusses dogs, his girlfriend, guns and “agents” with whom he works. Kohlhepp was a broker in charge of a real estate company in Spartanburg, S.C. The reviews left by the Amazon user show similarity to the language and style Kohlhepp used on his Facebook profile, which was taken down this week after he was linked to the deaths of as many as seven people.

The most recent postings were on Aug. 24 when the user posted five reviews for a tactical pouch, heater power adapter, voltmeter, tactical bag and magazine pouch.

The Amazon user posted 140 reviews in all with the bulk coming between May and September 2014 in the months after Kohlhepp purchased the 95 acres of wooded property where Brown was found alive. The reviews spoke about products he had pur-

chased, including tactical vests, carabiners, gun magazine pouches, weapon mounts and emergency medical kits as well as books about rappelling, snipers and emergency war surgery. Other reviews were for electronics, dog toys, music and DVDs of The Walking Dead.

On one review posted on Jan. 14, 2015, for another set of padlocks, the user said “now my locks have locks... place is hotel california now..”

The last line of The Eagles’ hit song says, “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.’”

The reference to Hotel California is similar to a post made on Carver’s Facebook profile on Oct. 1, more than a month after the couple went missing. That Facebook post, which the family believed at the time was not made

by Carver, included the lyrics from the final lines of The Eagles’ song.

IN BRIEF UP, UP AND AWAY...

NUNO VEIGA, EUROPEAN PHOTOPRESS AGENCY

Hot-air balloons hover in the first flight of the 20th International Hot-Air Balloons Festival in Fronteira, Portugal, on Monday. The event runs until Saturday.

CHINA BARS 2 NEW HONG KONG LAWMAKERS

China took the unprecedented action Monday of barring two of Hong Kong’s newly elected, proindependence lawmakers from taking office.

The move by China’s top legislative panel shows how the communist government wants to maintain control over Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous city, and could prompt more protests.

About 2,000 police officers will be deployed this week to quell any violence, with at least two protests already planned, the South China Morning Post reported. Thousands of protesters took to the streets Sunday ahead of the ruling, carrying signs in Chinese and English saying, “Stop annexation of HK democratic rights” and “Defend rule of law.”

Monday’s ruling by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee in Beijing blocks the two lawmakers — Sixtus Leung, 30, and Yau Wai-ching, 25 — from a second chance to take the oath.

— Jane Onyanga-Omara IRAQI MILITARY: MASS GRAVE WITH 100 BODIES FOUND

A mass grave containing about 100 decapitated bodies has been found south of Mosul, Iraq’s military said in a statement Monday.

The mass grave was discovered

by Iraqi forces in the School of

Agriculture on the outskirts of Hammam al-Alil, a town recaptured from the Islamic State on Monday, Iraq’s Joint Military Command said, CNN reported.

“Gangs of ISIS militants continue to commit crimes against our people,” the statement said, CNN reported.

A forensics team from Baghdad will investigate the site Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.

Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Military Command, said the state of the remains made it hard to tell by their clothes if they were soldiers or civilians. — Jessica Durando JURY SELECTION POSTPONED IN DYLANN ROOF TRIAL

A federal judge Monday postponed the first day of jury selection in the trial of a South Carolina man accused of killing nine black people at a black church last year.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel said he needed to privately hear a motion filed by Dylann Roof’s attorneys earlier that morning.

The move came moments after Roof entered the courtroom. He is accused of killing the parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015.

— Tonya Maxwell, The (Asheville, N.C.) Citizen-Times

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A commuter waits on the platform at Temple University station during the first day of the SEPTA strike in Philadelphia last week. The two sides reached a tentative agreement Monday.

An early win for voters: Transit strike ends in Philly John Bacon @jmbacon USA TODAY

A strike that paralyzed public transportation in Philadelphia for a week ended Monday in a deal announced on the eve of Election Day. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and a union representing almost 5,000 employees struck the deal hours after the transit agency said it was seeking a court injunction to force its employees back to work. SEPTA said any disruption of public transit would inhibit city residents from voting in Tuesday’s elections.

“Tentative agreement reached.

We are off strike,” TWU Local 234 announced on its website.

SEPTA workers walked out after midnight Nov. 1 over issues including pension benefits and the amount of time off given to drivers between shifts. The strike idled subways, buses and trolleys that provide almost 1 million rides each weekday.

Service was phased in throughout the day Monday, and many

routes were in place by the evening commute. Full service was expected by Tuesday morning.

Philadelphia is the nation’s fifth-largest city, and many of its 1.5 million residents don’t own cars.

Any issue that would disrupt voter turnout Tuesday would be problematic for Mayor Jim Kenney and other Democratic leaders of this overwhelmingly Democratic city that is expected to provide big numbers for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. Pennsylvania is considered a swing state, and Republican hopeful Donald Trump has worked hard to claim its 20 electoral votes.

The U.S. Senate race is also close, and the city’s turnout could determine the fate of Democrat Katie McGinty’s challenge to GOP Sen. Pat Toomey.

“The City has a legal responsibility to ensure that Philadelphians can exercise their constitutional right to vote,” SEPTA said in a statement announcing the injunction request.

“Though there are extensive efforts to minimize the effect of any transit strike on Election Day, unquestionably, such an Election-

Day strike will make it practically impossible for many Philadelphians to participate in this election.”

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf spoke out Sunday in favor of the injunction, citing “grave economic consequences for both the city and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” On Monday, Wolf issued a statement to “commend both sides for bringing this crippling work stoppage to an end.”

The deal ends the court battle, but it must be ratified by union members and approved by the SEPTA board. The agreement brings relief to hundreds of thousands of commuters who suffered through extended commutes and massive highway gridlock as workers scrambled to find alternative transportation.

“We believe this agreement is fair to our employees, and to the fare-paying customers and taxpayers who fund SEPTA,” agency Chairman Pat Deon said. “It provides for wage increases, pension improvements, and maintains health care coverage levels while addressing rising costs.”

Contributing: Jane Onyanga-Omara

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LIFE LIFELINE CAUGHT IN THE ACT Tom Cruise had fans ‘Losin’ It’ when he hit the premiere of ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’ Monday in Seoul. The dapper actor/producer arrived in style in a crisp, navy three-piece suit, and naturally, fans couldn’t get enough — of selfies, that is.

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THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “My marital status has been shamed. My divorce status was shamed; my lack of a mate had been shamed; my INVISION/AP nipples have been shamed.

It’s like, ‘Why are we only looking at women through this particular lens of picking us apart? Why are we listening to it?’ ” — Jennifer Aniston to ‘Marie Claire’ on the media’s treatment of women HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY LORDE FANS On the eve of her 20th birthday, the pop idol offered a small gift to fans: The promise of new music. “I want you to see the album cover, pore over the lyrics (the best I’ve written in my life), touch the merch, experience the live show,” Lorde wrote in an open letter published late Sunday. But “you’ll have to hold on,” she continued. “I know you understand.”

MUSIC

CELEBS AND YOUTUBERS ARE JUMPING ON

‘JUJU ON THAT BEAT’ Teen duo’s viral dance hit shimmies from the streets of Detroit to the Web to the charts

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STYLE STAR Florals for fall can be groundbreaking — just look at Kate Hudson. The actress won the red carpet at the 20th annual Hollywood Film Awards Sunday night with a black metallic Marchesa gown. The backless design featured a plunging neckline, thigh-high split and floral detailing that wove across Hudson’s torso. The style maven accessorized with stud STEVE GRANITZ, earrings and WIREIMAGE beige heels.

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Reach across the shopping aisle Voters in “blue” counties are

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more likely than their “red”county counterparts to wear pleather.

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ZAY HILFIGERRR AND ZAYION MCCALL BY JIMMY FONTAINE

Patrick Ryan USA TODAY

It’s the contagious dance craze your favorite celebrities can’t get enough of.

In just over a month, Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion McCall’s Juju on That Beat (TZ Anthem) has twostepped from the streets of Detroit to the Instagram pages of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Gwen Stefani, Shaquille O’Neal and Ciara. And with a boost from performances on Live With Kelly and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the viral hit is making its way up the charts, peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and selling 152,900 downloads to date, according to Nielsen Music.

But where Juju has really exploded is on YouTube. Popular homemade videos by a Detroitbased dance troupe (17 million views) and high school volleyball player (6 million views) kicked the trend into overdrive late this summer, spawning thousands of other users to re-create the hipswinging, arm-flapping routine in their own clips. Of 88 million total streams across platforms, 69 million are for videos and 19 million for audio, says David Bakula, Nielsen Entertainment’s senior vice president of analytics.

“People want to do the dance, they want to see the dance, and they want to post themselves doing the dance,” Bakula says. “But it isn’t just about the visual: People are actually into the beat. It shows that the audio is an important aspect of the song as well.”

Juju’s hook and dance were

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“People want to do the dance, they want to see the dance”: Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion McCall are making all the right moves, including a taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. created by Detroit native Hilfigerrr, 15, who has cultivated a small social-media following with his freestyle and dance videos. In early June, he invited his friend McCall, 17 — an aspiring rapper with a slew of independent mixtapes — to come over one afternoon and lay down a verse.

“It didn’t take long at all,” Hilfigerrr says. After putting the song on iTunes, they started to see it gain traction on social media in early August, eventually catching the attention of LeBron James, Waka Flocka Flame and the Portland Trailblazers. “Then we started to be like, ‘OK, this is crazy.’ ” The friends have signed to

Atlantic Records and are now working on new music, which they say incorporates elements of dubstep and techno. “We try to stay as hip-hop as possible, but at the same time hit on different genres,” McCall says.

In the meantime, expect Juju to continue its upward trajectory.

Like last year’s crossover dance smash Watch Me (Whip / Nae Nae) by Silento, Billboard senior editor Jem Aswad predicts the song will hit the top 5 of the Hot 100 — possibly unseating The Chainsmokers’ Closer at No. 1 in weeks to come.

“It’s rising so fast, they’ve managed to catch momentum in a way that a (record) label often can’t with a viral song,” Aswad says. “They’re still working it hard, and it seems like it’s got a lot of potential.”

‘BEAT’ BAND Some famous faces who have posted their own ‘Juju’ videos: uDwayne “The Rock” Johnson uFifth Harmony’s Camila Cabello and Dinah Jane uBlac Chyna uCiara and Kelly Ripa uPhiladelphia 76ers

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Stephenie Meyer brews an elemental thriller in ‘Chemist’ ‘Twilight’ author experiments with impressive results Charles Finch Special for USA TODAY

Stephenie Meyer — world-conquering begetter of Twilight, creator of vampires who glitter in the sunlight — has written an engrossBOOK ing new novel called REVIEW The Chemist, which would seem at first glance to be a radical departure for her.

It’s a thriller for adults (Little, Brown, 518 pp., eeeg out of four) in the vein of David Baldacci or Lee Child, pitting a scientist against the shadowy government figures who once employed her, then tried to eliminate her. There are no werewolves around.

But there are exchanges like this: “I am intrinsically incompatible with being an object of romantic interest,” says the lovely, ingenious, kindhearted title character, who seems to us eminently compatible with being an object of romantic interest.

she’s on the run as the book begins, sleeping in a gas mask every night, surrounded by elaborate booby traps designed to kill anyone who gets near her. This lifestyle is a major problem socially.

She spends a lot of time buying peaches — with some effort, a deadly toxin can be extracted from their pits — but not much dating or hanging out.

Then she gets a message, offering her a chance to come in from the cold. Is it real, or only a more subtle attempt on her life?

The uncertain answer lands her on the run with a pair of dreamy brothers, and one of them, a doe-eyed schoolteacher named Daniel, falls in love with her on sight, be“I understand you” is coming her guide back the heartfelt reply of the into the realm of human JAKE ABEL man she has recently fincontact.

Author ished torturing. (Literally There are a hundred obtorturing.) “I just don’t Stephenie jections you could make to Meyer agree.”

The Chemist. Its biggest As this moony, sweet extwist is visible from space. change shows, Meyer’s heart is It’s full of the same daffy blithestill in Forks, Wash., despite the ness toward blood and pain that change of genre. Her millions of always made the Twilight books readers will be happy. unsettling, at least to me.

The chemist’s name is Alex, or Alex’s foes within the governat least that’s what she goes by — ment never quite come into focus

in the third act, one lesson she didn’t take from Baldacci or Child.

But Meyer is also just a really good storyteller. The Chemist is consistently fast-paced fun, especially the way that Alex’s scientific genius gives her an array of potions — she’s small, but you don’t want to get within swiping distance of the rings on her fingers — that verge on the magical.

Meyer knows how to stick close to the arc of Alex’s redemption, tracking her emotions as she tentatively learns to trust again.

It’s a terrific ride.

The immense power of the Twilight saga was the way it captured the adolescent conviction of one’s own unlovability, and confronted it with a handsome boy’s implacable insistence to the contrary. It was far from being a thriller, but then the thriller itself is a kind of teenage daydream — of specialness, toughness, power.

The Chemist, absorbing, romantic, and goofy, recycles Meyer’s formula into a genre whose fantasies appeal to a whole different set of readers. Is there any doubt it will sell a trillion copies?

Charles Finch is the author of The Inheritance.