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Mr. Trump comes to Washington WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidentelect Donald Trump took a triumphant tour of the nation’s capital Thursday, holding a cordial White House meeting with President Obama, sketching out priorities with Republican congressional leaders and taking in the majestic view

from where he’ll be sworn into office.

Trump’s meeting with Obama spanned 90 minutes, longer than originally scheduled. Obama said he was “encouraged” by Trump’s willingness to work with his team during the transition of power, and

the Republican called the president a “very good man.”

“I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including his counsel,” Trump said from the Oval Office. He’ll

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Sumter salutes vets Vietnam vet finds home in Sumter Vietnam veteran Jim Brown says Veterans Day is not a day to celebrate.

“It’s more of a day to honor rather than celebrate because there are a lot of orphans and widows who probably don’t view it as too much of something to celebrate,” Brown said. “We often forget the sacrifices people have made and continue to make.”

He said that while standing and watching a parade he is grateful he is able to do so, and he thinks of those who can’t.

“I don’t need a wheelchair, I am not on crutches, I have both of my legs and all my appendages,” he said. “In the handful of times when the shooting was going on, it was both sides of the river bank and was for an extended time.”

He said most of his memories of Vietnam are good ones, but for others that is not the case.

“What they saw and what they heard will never go away,” Brown said.

Brown said he lived most of his life on Long Island, New York, and in New Jersey.

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VETERANS DAY ACTIVITIES

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Wilder Elementary students Donte McCall and Irelyn Summers join their teacher, Teresa Riddle, in saying the Pledge of Allegiance during the school’s Veterans Day Celebration on Thursday. More than 25 veterans attended the event, which featured patriotic songs and readings.

Quest to remember war dead lives on at museum

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com In the late 1940s, students at Edmunds Sumter High School wanted to do something to remember the Edmunds High alumni who were killed during World

War II. The students pledged their money for a bronze plaque listing the 37 names of those who died in the service of their nation.

Once the memorial was fashioned, it was hung above the Senior Study Hall in the Edmunds Building at

the school.

When the Edmunds Building was renovated in the mid-1980s to become Patriot Hall, the plaque could have easily been discarded or melted down as scrap.

New housing construction has economic benefits and eventually pays for itself in healthy metropolitan areas across the U.S., according to a study presented Thursday in Sumter by the National Association of Home Builders.

NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz presented the findings to a group of about

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40 real estate agents and local government officials in attendance at USC Sumter’s Nettles Auditorium.

Home building generates local direct and indirect ecoDIETZ nomic impacts over time, such as income and jobs for local residents and revenue for local governments from

property taxes. However, there are expenses imposed with home building on jurisdictions — such as education, police and fire protection, roads, and water and sewer service. When is the “break even” point reached when residential development begins to pay for itself and cumulative revenue begins to surpass cumulative cost for local governments?

The home builders’ association is answering that ques-

tion in a series of studies it has released for various metropolitan areas across the U.S. Dietz presented the NAHB’s findings for Sumter County, which is its own Metropolitan Statistical Area, on Thursday. Sumter’s “break even” point is 9½ years based on its tax system and other factors, according to the report. That’s

DEATHS, B4 and B5 John Witherspoon Roosevelt Linton Gertrude P. Lyons Felix McFadden III David L. Brooks Melanie K. Rivera Melburn J. Jones

Hanahan Police Department arrested and charged a man with murder after the body of his girlfriend, formerly of Sumter, was found inside a closet of their Hanahan apartment on Tuesday.

Officers arrested Michael Patrick Strait Jr., 35, during a traffic stop on Tuesday night and charged him with murder for the death of 39-year-old Melanie Rivera, whose body was found that afternoon.

Hanahan Police Capt. Michael Fowler said Rivera’s friends said Strait had been abusive and controlling toward STRAIT the victim on occasions prior to her death. “We keyed in on him early on,” he said.

Strait was booked at HillFranklea Detention Center in Berkeley County on Wednesday morning, where he still remained as of Thursday afternoon. Bond had not been set as of Thursday.

According to Fowler, the victim’s body was found during a welfare check on Tuesday. He said officers responded to Rivera’s residence to check on her after friends said they had not seen or heard from her for a couple of days.

Officers knocked on the door but there was no answer so they contacted apartment management to gain entry, he said.

Once inside, officers found the victim deceased inside a closet, Fowler said.

Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury said Rivera died of asphyxiation by manual strangulation.

He said the victim’s body had been in the closet for more than 24 hours, and she could have been deceased since Saturday.

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Body of former Sumter resident found in closet

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Veterans Day Parade Bartlette, Main and Calhoun streets Veterans Day Ceremony Front lawn of old Sumter County Courthouse — 141 N. Main St. Keynote speaker: Col. Daniel Lasica Meet and Greet Following the Veterans Day Ceremony.

Back lawn of old Sumter County Courthouse Combat Veterans Group barbecue and vendors tables 7:30 p.m.

Langley Winds Concert by the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St. Attendees may preregister at www. sumteroperahouse.com.

Man charged with murder

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Army soldier from Shaw dies in Kuwait crash A U.S. Army soldier assigned to U.S. Army Central at Shaw Air Force Base died from noncombat-related injuries during a vehicle crash in Kuwait, according to a news release from U.S. Army Central.

The soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

The incident is under investigation.

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Reeling in the years USC Sumter ends 50th anniversary with time capsule

Sumter man arrested for tax evasion Robert Morrell of Sumter County was arrested Thursday

by South Carolina Department of Revenue investigators for three counts of the willful attempt to evade or defeat a tax.

For tax years 2012 through 2014, Morrell reported a total of $57,082 in fraudulent deductions on his South Carolina individual income tax returns.

The defendant also submitted fraudulent W-4 forms to his employer claiming to be exempt from South Carolina income tax and had little to no income tax withheld from his paycheck by his employer.

Morrell is being held at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Facility in North Charleston pending a bond hearing. If convicted, Morrell faces fines up to $10,000 and/or up to five years in prison.

The SCDOR is committed to the fair administration of tax laws. By taking enforcement action against noncompliant taxpayers, the Department seeks to prevent unfairly increasing the tax burden on those who do comply.

Gov. Haley to hold public hearing Nov. 30 COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley says she wants to remove all seven members of the Richland County Recreation Commission board because they allowed the commission’s indicted former leader to abuse his power.

In Thursday’s executive order, Haley said she will hold a public hearing with a threeperson panel Nov. 30 to let the commissioners make their case they shouldn’t be fired before she makes her final decision.

The board supported ex-director James Brown III, who resigned after he was indicted on a misconduct in office charge. The governor says the board did not properly review complaints of harassment and that Brown was hiring family members. She says the board also gave Brown raises he didn’t earn.

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BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com University of South Carolina Sumter completed its 50th anniversary celebration with a time capsule ceremony held in the Anderson Library Garden on Thursday at noon.

The ceremony started with a greeting from the college’s Student Government Association President Steven Prebish who read a letter addressed to the 2066 SGA president.

In the letter, Prebish encourages the future SGA president to be an attentive servant and leader as he or she guides the student body.

He said the time capsule is a cool opportunity for future students and staff to know how things used to be.

Next, USC Sumter Dean Michael Sonntag addressed the crowd of students, faculty, staff and community leaders including state Rep. David Weeks, D-Sumter.

“Today, we are taking the time to take a bit of the history we have spent the year honoring — capturing it in time — and saving it for future generations to enjoy,” he said.

He said the items saved inside the capsule will represent the school as it exists in 2016, as well as when it was a local branch of Clemson University, and the Sumter community.

Also, Sonntag wrote a letter that will be saved inside the capsule, addressed to the future college dean.

“I hope you have found the campus in great shape, thriving, growing and continuing to serve the needs of Sumter and surrounding communities,” he said.

Sonntag wrote that serving as dean can be worrisome but also rewarding.

“People complain because they care; money is important but the rewards to our students are what it’s all about,” he read to the crowd.

“Turn to those around you, trust in and draw strength from the wonderful faculty and staff that we have at Sumter and keep your shoulder to the wheel — it is worth it!”

Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members also had an opportunity to write well-wishes to the future USC Sumter family.

Other items included in the capsule are local media content from Cock’s Quill

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Dr. Michael Sonnitag reads his time capsule letter to USC Sumter’s President in 50 years during the school’s ceremony on Thursday at Anderson Library. The capsule, foreground, will be filled with letters from students and alumni, newspapers, and programs from events in the school’s history. A close up of the capsule is to the left.

Magazine and The Sumter Item, commencement programs, a 2016 campus map, a tobacco-free campus card, a 1985 athletic bulletin, a USC Sumter lapel pin, a fire ant koozie and much more.

After waiting for the capsule sealant to cure, the time capsule will be buried in the Anderson Library Garden today.

Dry weather allows for early harvest

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com In the tri-county area, damage to area crops from Hurricane Matthew was not as extensive as originally believed, according to Clemson University Extension Associate Agent David Dewitt.

“Things are going pretty good since the storm,” Dewitt said Wednesday. “We have actually enjoyed perfect harvest weather. The brisk, sunny days have been ideal for harvest.”

He said cotton took the worst hit from the early October storm.

“Cotton had some blown out,” he said,” but for the most part, we’ve come to find out it is field by field, maybe a couple hundred pounds here or there.”

Jeremy Cannon, who has been farming cotton near Turbeville for six years, said his cotton crop was down at

least 10-to-20 percent.

“It’s hard to guess what it would have been,” he said.

“This is the shortest crop we’ve had since I have been growing it.”

Dewitt said that while the hurricane will affect some farmers’ bottom lines, overall it has been a good growing year.

“The yields have been good: peanut yields were good, cotton yields continue to be good as we wrap up, soybeans are good,” he said.

The recovery from the hurricane has been helped by the dry weather that has followed, Dewitt said.

“The difference between Matthew and (the 2015 flood) is last year it never really dried out until December and it just ruined everything,” he said. “Believe it or not, we could kind of use a shower for the people who are planting wheat.”

The dry weather has al-

lowed farmers to get a lot done.

“It usually takes till Thanksgiving or first of December to get the cotton in, but we are going to be a little ahead of schedule,” Dewitt said.

Dewitt said even the soybean crop may be harvested earlier than usual.

“A lot of times we don’t even get started cutting soybeans until we get a good killing freeze,” he said. However, because of a shortage of late crop soybean seeds after the flood, Dewitt said, a lot of early-crop soybeans were planted.

“A lot of the beans have been cut as well,” he said.

Cannon said he hoped to have all of his cotton in this week and his soybeans harvested next week.

Dewitt said farmers should get a chance to finish up before the holidays.

“Hopefully, we are going

to get everything harvested and everybody’s going to be able to enjoy Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays,” he said.

Dewitt said the availability of soybean varieties should be close to normal for next season.

He said he expects fewer acres of winter wheat this year, because prices for wheat are still low.

“It is a good crop to have to create a little cash flow in the spring, but if you are planting cotton and peanuts and stuff it’s not a great thing to be harvesting in June,” he said.

There has been some good news in the market prices, the extension agent said.

‘We still have a lot of room to grow on prices, but they have gone up 15 to 20 cents a bushel, so that’s a positive,” Dewitt said. “Cotton, soybeans have all gone up.”

Witness says officer’s DNA not on fingernails of black motorist CHARLESTON (AP) — A fired white police officer’s defense lawyer told jurors at the start of his murder trial that he was provoked to shoot an unarmed fleeing black motorist, when the man “physically and forcefully resisted” being subdued by a stun gun “to the extent that they were both

fighting on the ground.”

A DNA expert’s testimony Thursday cast some doubt on that argument, revealing that none of the North Charleston officer’s genetic material was found under the dead man’s fingernails, and that a DNA analysis of his Taser was inconclusive.

Samuel Stewart of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division testified at the trial of Michael Slager, whose shooting of 50-year-old Walter Scott in April 2015 was captured on a bystander’s cellphone and shared worldwide.

DNA from the Taser “is a mixture of two individuals, and Walter Scott

and Michael Slager can’t be excluded as contributors to the mix,” Stewart testified. He also said DNA from three other places on the stun gun did not belong to either Scott or Slager.

Court adjourned for the week on Thursday. There is no court today because of Veterans Day.

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Parade of Shops set for Sunday FROM STAFF REPORTS If you’re wanting to get a head start on Christmas and holiday gifts, you may want to check out Sunday’s annual Parade of Shops in Sumter.

About a dozen local businesses clustered in an area along Bultman Drive, as well as on Main Street, Broad Street and Wesmark Boulevard, host the Parade of Shops on Sunday afternoon to introduce customers to some of the hidden treasures available in specialty shops in the area.

The shops celebrate this year’s opening from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. Most of the stores offer special items

including drawings, beverages and pastries.

For instance, Gary’s Florist hosts drawings for $25, $50 and $75 gift certificates while serving cheese and crackers, spinach dip, meatballs, chicken salad and co-owner Ann Duby’s family recipe for “special punch.” And at Silver Paper, besides offering 20 percent off in-store merchandise, the store will also draw for a $50 gift certificate and provide free gift wrapping.

Shoppers can park and walk to many of the shops on Bultman Drive, while some participants such as Simpson Ace Hardware and Doolallies’s on Wesmark, Gift Gar-

den on Broad Street and Naomi & Warner on North Main Street, require driving from the Bultman Drive area.

Participating stores and their addresses are: • Susie’s Boutique, 540 Bultman Drive; • Let’s Party, 584 Bultman Drive, Unit 1; • Kurvie Little Lines Boutique, 584 Bultman Drive, Unit 5; • Silver Paper, 662 Bultman Drive; • Elephant Ear, 672 Bultman Drive; • Gary’s Florist, 674 Bultman Drive; • One Accord, 721 Bultman Drive;

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Judy Atkinson, left, and Lori Aamold, mother and daughter, check out clothing lines at Susie’s Boutique during the Parade of Shops last year.

• Doolallies, 105 E. Wesmark, No. 9; • Simpsons Ace Hardware, 40 W. Wesmark; • Naomi & Warner, 13 N.

Main St.; and • Gift Garden, 1121 Broad St. Each shop has its own hours, drawings and refreshments.

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As our country remembers and celebrates the men and women who have served in uniform on Veterans Day, the American Red Cross supports the U.S. armed forces and their families through its Hero Care mobile application.

The free app is designed to help members of the military, veterans and their families identify and access emergency and non-emergency Red Cross services from anywhere in the world.

Among the important features in the app are those that can: • Request Red Cross emergency services, including an emergency message or assistance with emergency travel or emergency financial aid; • Securely and easily access infor-

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The Services to the Armed Forces mission of the Red Cross is to provide care and comfort to the members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families, according to a news release from the American Red Cross.

In South Carolina, the Red Cross serves more than 126,000 active duty members and their families, as well as more than 520,000 veterans.

POLICE BLOTTER STOLEN PROPERTY A black 65-inch RCA Smart LED TV valued at $3,000 was reportedly stolen from a residence in the 700 block of WenLe Drive between 7:30 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. on Friday.

Fifteen fishing rods valued at $1,000; a car battery valued at $60; a jar containing $150 in change; a pair of glasses valued at $135; and the vehicle registration were reportedly stolen from a 2005 Ford Explorer while it was parked in the 400 block of Silver Street between 4:30 p.m. on Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.

DAMAGED PROPERTY Approximately $1,000 in dam-

age was caused to a double chain-link fence at a residence in the first block of Brogdon Street when suspects attempted to pull the fence open sometime between 3 and 6 p.m. Friday.

A hotel in the first block of Broad Street reported approximately $1,000 in damage after a 32-inch Panasonic television, curtain and telephone were vandalized in a room between 1:40 a.m. on Saturday and 12:40 p.m. on Sunday.

Approximately $1,500 in damage was caused to a building in the first block of South Artillery Drive when 10 windows were broken between Friday and Monday.

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Trump’s victory a reversal of fortune for Obama

BY JOSH LEDERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — He warned that Donald Trump was dangerous, a nuclear hair-trigger, proud to get away with sexual assault. And now it falls to President Obama to reassure America that it can survive four years of President Trump.

The impulsive billionaire’s improbable victory sets in motion a remarkable reversal of fortune for Obama. He had planned to coast through his final months while ushering in a simpatico Hillary Clinton, but will instead spend his time presiding over a country that is divided, anxious and has little idea what’s coming next.

Riding approval ratings higher than at any time since he was first elected, Obama was poised to become one of the country’s most consequential leaders — a modern-day Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with a wealth of domestic and foreign accomplishments that most presidents would envy.

He still may — but not if Trump succeeds in carrying out what he’s said he plans to do.

Trump rooted his campaign in a pledge to systematically roll back Obama’s achievements, on health care, immigration, climate change, trade, international relations and more, and soon will have the tools to do it: the first single-party control of both Congress and the White House since Obama’s first two years in office.

Mindful that his legacy could be pulled out from under him, Obama said last week that a Trump victory would mean “it all goes out the window.”

It was unsurprising, then, that the mood at the White House was despondent the day after Trump’s triumph.

White House aides who had gathered with friends Tuesday to witness the

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President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, smiles before speaking about the election on Wednesday in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. election of the first female president instead found themselves asking the next morning whether the last eight years would end up a fool’s errand.

There were tears — lots of them — on the faces of a few hundred Obama staffers who gathered in the Rose Garden as Obama delivered his post-election statement to reporters. Looking dazed and queasy, they stood on the grass and listened as Obama assured them their efforts hadn’t been for naught.

“That remarkable work has left the next president with a stronger, better country than the one that existed eight years ago,” Obama said, standing with Vice President Joe Biden.

“Sometimes you lose an argument.

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Sometimes you lose an election. The path that this country has taken has never been a straight line.”

If Obama was as depressed about the election’s outcome as most suspected, he didn’t show it. White House officials said he felt a responsibility to calm the nation after a bruising, divisive campaign in which the victorious candidate offended wide swaths of the country.

Obama’s aides said the president took a measure of solace that many of Trump’s policy prescriptions have been vague and open-ended, perhaps allowing him more wiggle-room to preserve some of Obama’s achievements than other Republicans like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz might have had.

To the brave men and women whose courage, determination and dedication to freedom make us so proud to be Americans.

And they held out hope that the socially moderate Trump, who once supported abortion rights and has proposed paid family leave programs, might end up having more in common with Obama than is immediately apparent.

Yet by reducing Clinton’s loss to a version of “you win some, you lose some,” Obama glossed over the dark vision of Trump’s America he’d painted for voters as the campaign neared the finish. Casting Trump as an existential threat in ways other GOP nominees were not, Obama told rally-goers that the world was “teetering” and that “the fate of the Republic rests on your shoulders.”

Less than 12 hours after the race was called for Trump, the White House had softened its tone. The administration noted that as presidentelect, Trump is entitled to the same daily intelligence briefing as Obama receives — one that includes information on U.S. covert operations, information gleaned about world leaders and other data gathered by America’s 17 intelligence agencies.

Where Obama had once deemed Trump unfit to get anywhere near the nuclear codes, the White House instead referred to policy differences not wholly unlike the ones that previous consecutive presidents have had, with no disastrous consequences for the nation.

“By relying on our institutions and democratic traditions, demonstrating a faithful commitment to the will of the American people, our democracy hasn’t just survived, it has thrived,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

EDITOR’S NOTE — Josh Lederman has covered the White House and national politics for The Associated Press since 2012.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a toast during a ceremony on Wednesday in the Kremlin in Moscow.

MOSCOW (AP) — In careful phrasing befitting the spy he once was, Vladimir Putin has made it clear he expects a great deal from Presidentelect Donald Trump. And, the billionaire businessman may expect a transactional relationship with Putin.

Although the Kremlin clearly detested Hillary Clinton, Putin’s public statements on Trump’s victory steered clear of gloating. Other Russians were less fastidious, suggesting that Putin in private could be delighted — and perhaps harboring unreasonable expectations.

Trump’s rise to the White House puts two men into seats of global power who are paradoxically both remarkably similar and wildly different.

Trump’s praise of the Russian president as a strong leader, his suggestion that the U.S. could abandon its NATO commitments and his vehement complaints about allegedly biased news media all appear to parallel Putin’s

intelligence community has concluded that Russia was responsible for hacking into the emails of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and gave them to WikiLeaks, which released them. Some embarrassed and damaged the Clinton campaign.

Russia, it appears, wants Trump to play the overture, and only then decide whether to applaud.

Trump made no specific mention of Russia in his first post-election comments, but made clear that he wants good relations with all nations.

“We will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us,” Trump said. “I want to tell the world community that while we will always put America’s interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone, with everyone — all people and all other nations.

We will seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict.”

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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as telling the Interfax news agency Thursday that “there were contacts” with influential people in Trump’s circle. “I don’t say that all of them, but a whole array of them supported contacts with Russian representatives.”

Trump has repeatedly called for better relations with Russia, frequently musing about a rosy world in which Russia and the U.S. get along. On Wednesday, Putin did the same, hoping that the “degraded” relations between the two powers would improve once Trump takes over. Putin noted, however, that the tension “is not our fault.”

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Mothers-to-be struggle in ruins of storm-hit Haiti COTEAUX, Haiti (AP) — Nathanaelle Bernard was two months short of the due date for her first child when Hurricane Matthew crashed through her town overlooking the Caribbean Sea along Haiti’s southwestern coast.

The storm, with its 145 mph winds, destroyed her small home of cinder blocks.

Powerful waves carried away most of her belongings, including the clothing and blankets she had managed to collect for her baby. She’s now anxiously awaiting the birth amid the ruins of her town, with even food and fresh water scarce.

“I always had this dream my child wouldn’t want for anything,” the 19-year-old said on a recent morning, her face glowing with sweat as she cradled her swollen belly. After a pause, she added: “It was a nice dream.”

She shares a makeshift hut with five members of her extended family and her precarious situation is emblematic of an alarming situation across Haiti’s south-

western peninsula in the wake of the storm. The U.N. Population Fund says nearly 14,000 women are due to give birth in the next three months amid widespread shortages of meat, clean water and housing in an area where poor sanitation has created ideal conditions for cholera and other diseases.

Even in the best of times, pregnancy and childbirth is risky in Haiti, which has the highest maternal mortality ratio in the Western Hemisphere.

Many rural women give birth at home, often with untrained midwives who administer care using leaves made into tea, smoke or steam.

The Haitian government, with international assistance, has implemented programs that have helped reduce the maternal death rate by nearly half during the past decade. But, with 359 women dying for every 100,000 births because of complications, Haiti is on par with countries such as Ethiopia

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Nathanaelle Bernard, who is 7 months pregnant, rests on a bed on October 31 in the shack her uncle built from scavenged materials after the family’s home in Haiti was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew. and Madagascar, according to the U.N. Many experts fear the advances have been rolled back by Hurricane Matthew, which made landfall on the peninsula Oct. 4. The government says the storm killed 546 people and destroyed the crops and livestock that

people depend on for survival.

“It is tragic that a single storm can tear up so much of this progress, and that in a single day we can be set back by years,” said Marielle Sander, representative for U.N. Population Fund in Haiti.

Throughout the disaster zone, health clinics and hospitals have been badly damaged and medicine is in short supply, adding what Sander calls a “lethal combination” of factors that threaten pregnant women and newborns, especially those born with complications.

Expecting women in Haiti are disproportionately threatened by disorders such as eclampsia and pre-eclampsia, which bring high blood pressure and can cause seizures, heart failure and hemorrhaging.

“Before the hurricane we didn’t have enough antibiotics and other medication.

But now the situation’s harder. We need more of a lot of things,” said Lucie Naomie Lafortune, a hospital head nurse.

Kurdish-led fighters marching against IS BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group north of the country is on the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa, according to a spokeswoman for group.

Cihan Ehmed of the U.S.backed Syria Democratic Forces told The Associated Press on Thursday that its fighters are advancing on two fronts north of Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS’ self-declared caliphate.

The push from Ein Issa and Suluk north of Raqqa has been ongoing for days under the cover of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.

The U.S.-backed SDF, which includes Kurdish, Arab, Syriac and Turkmen fighters, say they have committed 30,000 fighters to the offensive aiming to eventual recapture the city of Raqqa, which was announced on Sunday. Iraq is meanwhile waging a major offensive to drive IS from the northern city of Mosul.

Ehmed said once the forces coming from the two directions meet north of Raqqa, they will surround 212 square miles of territory controlled by the extremists.

“The operations are ongoing according to the plan,” she said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said many people are fleeing areas of fighting north of Raqqa. It added that SDF fighters have advanced north of Raqqa, capturing new areas and raising to 17 the number of villages and farms taken from IS since the offensive began.

The operation to recapture Raqqa has been dubbed “Euphrates Rage” and a joint operations command has been set up to coordinate various factions taking part in the battles.

Elsewhere in Syria, a rocket fired by rebels struck a school in the capital Damascus’ central al-Mohajireen neighborhood wounding three children, state media said without providing further details. In the rebel-held Damascus suburbs of Douma and Saqba, government airstrikes killed at least 11 civilians, including four children and three women, according to the Syrian Civil Defense in Damascus suburbs.

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Vietnam veterans seeking help for rare cancer DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — They were the lucky ones who managed to make it home from Vietnam. Now, a halfcentury later, some veterans are finding out they, too, are victims of the war.

The enemy is a known killer in parts of Asia: Parasites ingested in raw or poorly cooked river fish. These liver flukes attach to the lining of the bile duct and, over time, cause inflammation and scarring. Decades after infection, a rare cancer called cholangiocarcinoma can develop.

Symptoms typically do not occur until advanced stages.

Ralph Erickson, who heads post-deployment health services at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said about 700 cholangiocarcinoma patients have passed through the agency’s medical system in the past 15 years. In some instances, the government has acknowledged that the illness is “as likely as not” connected to veterans’ time in service.

By VA standards, that’s enough to make them eligible for benefits.

Less than half of those 700 submitted claims, however, in part because they were unaware of any possible link to service. Of the claims submitted, three out of four have been rejected, according to data obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act. As a result, some veterans are spending their final days fighting the VA. They say they were never told they could be at risk, even though they were deployed to a region where the worms are endemic.

“Hard to believe,” said veteran Michael Baughman, 64, as he sat in his living room in Danville, California, flipping through a photo album from his war days. “I dodged all those bullets then get killed by a fish.”

Baughman was drafted in late 1970 and sent to central Vietnam to do reconnaissance missions near Hue. Thanks partly to growing up hunting in the mountains of West Virginia, he proved gifted at noticing the smallest twig or leaf out of place by the enemy.

Walking point and clearing thick jungle with a machete, he was tasked with spotting booby traps and potential ambushes.

Often on long patrols, he said his unit would run out of rations and go fishing for dinner near the border with Laos.

“We would throw a grenade

in the water and then scoop them off the river floor,” Baughman said. “We called it ‘fish on a stick.’”

The men cooked the makeshift meal as best they could over a tiny, blue smokeless flame, but it never really got done.

He didn’t think much of it, until he went for a long-overdue physical three years ago.

His blood work indicated there might be a problem with his liver. Further testing revealed he had bile duct cancer.

Baughman’s private physician wrote a letter highlighting the connection between liver flukes and bile duct cancer. A VA doctor also acknowledged the parasites are a primary risk factor but was not entirely convinced Baughman’s illness was related to his time in Vietnam.

The veteran’s claims for benefits were denied twice in 2015. He’s awaiting word on his latest appeal.

Liver flukes infect an estimated 25 million people globally. The parasites are found mainly in parts of Southeast Asia, China and South Korea, where residents and tourists

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This 1970s photo provided by Mike Baughman shows him, center, with colleagues while serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. At 64, Baughman is among hundreds of veterans who have been diagnosed with a rare form of bile duct cancer. alike risk infection from specific types of freshwater fish such as tilapia and carp.

In the United States, cholangiocarcinoma is extremely rare, with roughly 5,000 people diagnosed each year, including some Asian immigrants who ate infected fish in their native countries. Liver flukes aren’t the only risk factor for the disease; others include hepatitis B and C, cirrhosis and bile duct stones.

VA data, collected following an AP inquiry, show the num-

ber of benefit claims for bile duct cancer has increased sixfold since 2003. The requests hit a high of 60 last year, with nearly 80 percent denied. Decisions appear to be haphazard. Some are approved automatically. Others, presented with the same evidence, are denied. Some rejections are based on the fact that parasites were not found in stool samples, but those tests were conducted years after the worms would have died.

VA officials said that while

they’re sympathetic, it’s up to the men to prove the connection to their time in service.

They say because the cancer remains rare, it would be unrealistic and onerous to carry out regular screenings.

How much veterans, or their families, are compensated depends on many factors, including to what degree the illness is affecting their ability to have productive lives. An unmarried veteran can get nearly $3,000 a month, but some spouses said they get about half that amount. For many, it’s not about the money. It’s about raising awareness, both among veterans and the VA. If American doctors better understood cholangiocarcinoma and the potential risks to those who served in Vietnam, they could use ultrasound to check veterans for inflammation, and then surgery might be possible for some of them, said Jeff Bethony, a liver fluke expert at George Washington University.

“Early is key,” he said, adding he regularly receives desperate letters from veterans’ family members. “The VA should be testing for this.”

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Southern fires rage with millions living in drought ATLANTA (AP) — Unseasonably warm dry weather has deepened a drought that’s igniting forest fires across the southeastern U.S., forcing people to flee homes in the Appalachian Mountains and blanketing Atlanta in a smoky haze.

Thursday’s national drought report shows 41.6 million people in parts of 15 southern states living in drought conditions. The worst drought is in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, but extreme drought also is spreading into the western Carolinas, and Kentucky and Tennessee had the most fires.

All but two of the 61 active large wildfires nationwide Thursday were in the Southeast, according to the U.S. For-

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In mountainous western North Carolina, people living on five roads near one roaring blaze were advised to leave their homes, and residents of 38 more homes in another part of the state were told to evacuate ahead of a separate wildfire.

A large wildfire burning through a rugged and thinly populated part of the north Georgia mountains this week created a smoky haze over Atlanta as winds blew the smoke into the city. Haze also settled over Chattanooga this week.

Drought conditions also are persisting in parts of the Florida panhandle and portions of

est Service. Nearly a dozen large fires were uncontained, with 14 more breaking out Thursday alone.

“Right now we’re kind of holding our own,” said Jennifer Turner, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky’s state Division of Forestry. “We’ve been able to get control over some of the smaller fires.”

Nearly 390 firefighters and support crews and half a dozen water-dumping helicopters were battling 20 fires in Kentucky on Thursday that together have burned nearly 20,000 acres, Turner said.

Humidity is so low in the normally lush Appalachians that forestry officials are bracing for more.

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Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, was in Sumter on Thursday to reveal statistics on the economic impact of building homes in Sumter County.

HOUSING FROM PAGE A1 when the cumulative local benefits — to include revenue generated for local governments, ripple impacts of spending and taxes paid by construction workers and new residents — begin to offset the cumulative costs.

In fast-growth metropolitan areas with solid population growth, such as the Columbia MSA, the “break even” point is reached much quicker, such as one year, according to NAHB’s housing economic impact model. In some states in the Midwest that are consistently losing population, a “break even” point is never reached for residential development, according to Dietz.

“Sumter’s break-even point is longer than average, but it’s still good,” Dietz said. “To have a payoff period of less than 10 years is good.”

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Population growth and jobs really affect underlying demand for new housing.”

Nationally, the construction industry has under built in recent years because of various factors, such as a lack of a trained workforce in the trades’ fields and increasing regulatory costs, making it more expensive to build.

Dietz said he believes the U.S. will see a rollback on regulatory rules with Republican Donald Trump winning the presidential election. But other impacts a Trump presidency will have on the housing industry are still unknown at this time.

“Who will fill the secretary positions; who the personnel are — that’s up in the air right now,” Dietz said.

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TRUMP FROM PAGE A1 begin occupying the office on Jan. 20.

While Trump noted that he and Obama had never met before, their political histories will forever be linked. Trump spent years perpetrating the lie that Obama was born outside the United States. The president campaigned aggressively against Trump during the 2016 campaign, warning that his election would put the republic at risk.

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BROWN FROM PAGE A1 As a young Navy recruit and a high school graduate, he qualified for a program that would allow him to choose his training school.

“I always think of my Scoutmaster saying, ‘It’s not what you need, it’s what the Navy needs,’ so I asked them what they needed,” Brown recalled. “They said they needed engine men.”

Brown said he served two tours in Vietnam.

The first was in a river assault squadron on the Mekong River.

“I was what they call a plank owner; that’s the original crew of River Assault Squadron Nine; it was the first river assault squadron commissioned since the Civil War,” he said.

When people think of river boats in Vietnam, he said, most people think of river patrol boats made of fiberglass or Swift boats made of aluminum, both of which were very fast.

“We were river assault, and our job was to ferry the Ninth Infantry into landing zones,” he said. “We had a large base up in Dong Tam, and that’s up on the Mekong River in the Mekong Delta.”

Brown said it was a unique outfit.

“The entire force was known as the Mobile Riverine Force,” he said. “The uniqueness there was that we didn’t go very fast; we only went about five knots (per hour).”

The boats were slow because they carried one-inch plate armor and were heavily armed, he said.

The boats were used to ferry in troops, usually about 40, then set up a blockade on the river.

“The troops flush out the Vietcong or the Vietnamese, and we would take care of them,” Brown said.

He said they were accompanied by barges that had 105mm Howitzers and 81mm mortars operated by the Army.

“We didn’t have to worry about having a fire-control base,” he said. “We had our own fire-control base with us.”

Brown said that it was crucial to know where the other friendly boats were located because the jungle was too dense to see around a bend.

“You have to be really attuned to where your other boats are at,” he said. “If you look at the areas we operated, the rivers are meandering rivers.”

He said it was possible for the enemy to pop up on a peninsula between boats and

attempt to draw fire.

“If you’re not aware your companion boat is on the other side of that peninsula, you could have a fight going on back and forth between you and a friendly boat,” he said.

Brown said the few shots from the sympathizer wouldn’t even chip the boat, so they would be ignored.

“When we actually got caught in an ambush, there was a massive amount of firepower coming from both sides or one side, but we would never start firing ourselves,” he said. “We would wait for the command boat to give us the command to start firing.”

Brown said they would go out a couple of times a week, sometimes for half a day, and during major operations for four or five days.

When not out on the river, the crew was busy with maintenance.

“You have to maintain the boat and the guns,” he said.

“These were old 671 GM Detroit diesels, and my job was to maintain those. I was engineer and gunner, so I would take care of the engines and several guns.”

During his second tour, he was stationed on an oceangoing tugboat at a place called “Yankee Station” in the Gulf of Tonkin.

“Shadowing the fleet was a Russian trawler trying to intercept the radio transmissions to tell the North Vietnamese where the planes were going,” he said. “With the radio equipment that was installed on the afterdeck, technicians would try to jam the radio transmissions from the trawler going to Vietnam.”

Brown said he spent four years on active duty and 25 years in the Naval Reserve.

His experience with diesel engines led him to a career that included jobs in trucking, lawn mowers and distributing.

He and his wife, Geni, moved to Sumter about 10 years ago. They have two grown sons who also served in the Navy, he said.

When he received his Naval Reserve retirement benefits at age 60, he said he and his wife searched for a place where they could retire.

“After a 10-year search. We settled on Sumter,” he said.

“We really like Sumter we like all the different things that are here in Sumter — particularly all the volunteer organizations, it has a ninemonth growing season, and it’s affordable.”

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meeting concluded and journalists scrambled out of the Oval Office, Obama smiled at his successor and explained the unfolding scene.

“We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed the country succeeds,” Obama said.

From the White House, Trump headed to Capitol Hill for meetings with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to discuss the GOP legislative agenda. Ryan, who holds the most powerful post in Congress, was a sometime critic of Trump and never campaigned with the nominee.

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I know I'm depressed since Dad died. I'm also disabled and on disability. I pretty much kept everything in check until 2001 when I lost the job I'd held for 17 years. I have drifted from job to job ever since.

So there it is. I have developed COPD. I'm on oxygen full time and can't work. I ask myself why I'm suddenly doing three and four times more than I've ever done. Do you think I'm that depressed? That I'm trying to speed my own death? I'm at a loss and need some guidance. I contemplate suicide daily, but I guess I'm too much of a coward. Can you help me?

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THE SUMTER ITEM Children of Edmunds High School alumni who were killed in World War II help dedicate a bronze plaque listing the names of their parents and others at a ceremony at the school in 1948.

MUSEUM FROM PAGE A1 Those student’s desire to remember their fallen classmates could have faded into the past.

Instead, the story was only beginning.

The plaque was retrieved from the Edmunds Building and presented to Rutledge Dingle, who was principal at the new Sumter High School on McCrays Mill Road.

Dingle recognized that the plaque could be a great teaching tool, and asked history teacher Sammy Way to have his students research the names cast in the bronze memorial.

Way and his students went to work, and soon they had pictures of 36 of the 37 men, and they put them up for display.

Many of the names on the plaque seemed familiar, and the students learned there was a city ordinance requiring that streets be named for Sumter residents who have fallen during military service.

At Way’s request, then City Manager Talmadge Tobias reinstated the practice.

The plaque was later rededicated at Sumter High School, with several of the surviving children who had helped at the original dedication in at-

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A group of veterans views the displays at the Sumter Military Museum in the Clyburn Transportation Center, 129 S. Harvin St. tendance, Way said.

Way said they had several exhibits of the men’s photos and biographies at places such as Patriot Hall and Central Carolina Technical College.

“People asked if they could bring pictures of their loved ones — fathers, uncles, brothers — to add to the display,” Way said.

Soon veterans and surviving family members began giving Way memorabilia from the war, he said.

The collection began to grow, so Way began to look for a place to put the artifacts on permanent display.

one of his favorite places.

“There isn’t a single photo or artifact that Sammy Way can’t tell you a story about,” he said.

The Sumter Military Museum is located at 129 S. Harvin St. Hours are 8 a.m. to noon today and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. There is no charge for admission and tours are available on request.

Way said anyone who wishes to donate military photographs or memorabilia to the museum is welcome.

wife, Rita, and a place of pride for many. The collection has blossomed over the years, as more and more veterans and their families donate to the museum. Visitors are often astounded at the extent of the display when they enter for the first time.

“It brings a lot of joy and satisfaction,” Way said. “Veterans have been very proud to have a place to remember their fellow veterans.”

Vietnam veteran Jim Brown says the museum is

“We were very fortunate that Santee Wateree Rural Transit Authority allowed us to use empty space at the Clyburn Transportation Center,” Way said.

The Sumter Military History Museum came into existence, in part, because students at Edmunds High School, nearly 70 years ago, wanted the ultimate sacrifice of some of Sumter’s finest to be remembered.

Through the work of a group of Edmunds High School students and especially Way, their quest lives on.

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How the new GOP majority can succeed WASHINGTON — Donald Trump won fair and square and, as Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind and a chance to lead. It is therefore incumbent upon conservatives (like me) who have been highly critical of Trump to think through how to make a success of the coming years of Republican rule.

It begins by recognizing Trump’s remarkable political instincts. As Paul Ryan noted in his morning-after olivebranch news conference, Trump heard “a voice out in this country that no one else heard.” Trump spoke to and for a working class squeezed and ruined by rapid technological and economic transformation.

One of the principal tasks for the now-dominant GOP is to craft a governing agenda that actually alters their lives and prospects. In the end, it was this constituency of those left behind by the new globalized digital economy that delivered the presidency to Trump.

Nonetheless, this election was not just about the social/ economic divide. It was also about the ideological divide between left and right. The most overlooked factor in the election is the continuing deep and widespread dissatisfaction with Obamaism.

It tends to be overlooked because President Obama remains personally popular (56 percent in the latest Gallup).

As a charismatic campaigner, whenever his name is on the ballot, he wins. But when it’s not — 2010, 2014, now 2016 — the Democrats get shellacked.

The reason is no mystery.

The problem was never with Obama himself, but with his policies. Before each of those losing elections Obama would campaign saying that his name wasn’t on the ballot but his policies — and now his legacy — were. The voters made clear what they thought of his policies and legacy.

Simply put, from the beginning of his presidency, Obama overreached ideologically, most spectacularly with his signature legislative achievement — Obamacare. The spike in Obamacare premiums and deductibles just two weeks before Tuesday’s election proved a particularly damaging reminder of what Obamaism had wrought.

Hence the other principal task for the now dominant GOP: Undo Obamaism. Begin with canceling Obama’s executive orders on everything from immigration to climate change.

Then overturn his more elaborate legislative adventures into overweening liberalism, starting, of course, with Obamacare.

The promise of a Trump presidency is that, if it can successfully work with a Republican Congress, it could turn Obamaism into a historical parenthesis. Republicans would then have a chance to enact the Reaganite agenda

that has been incubating while in exile from the White House.

For years Washington gridlock has been attributCharles ed to GOP obKrauthammer structionism.

On the contrary, serious legislation, such as Medicare reform passed by the GOP House, was either strangled in the Senate by Democratic leader Harry Reid or died by veto on President Obama’s desk.

Beyond the undoing, there’s now the prospect of doing. Serious border enforcement, including a wall, for example.

That’s not only a good in itself, it would offer leverage in a grand bargain that would include eventual legalization of resident illegal immigrants, an idea supported (according to the exit polls) by more than seven in 10 voters.

Another given is a reshaping of the currently rudderless Supreme Court with the nomination of a conservative justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.

During the campaign, Trump’s populism often clashed with traditional Reaganism. The key to GOP success is to try to achieve an accommodation, if not a fusion.

Two agendas: one ideological, one socioeconomic. They both need to be addressed. Onto the Reaganite core of smaller government and strict constitutionalism must be added a serious concern for the grievances of the constituency that animated the Trump insurgency, the long-suffering, long-neglected working class.

If Reaganite conservatives want to head off wrongheaded solutions — such as massive tariffs, mercantilist economics and trade wars — they must be prepared to accept such measures as federal wage subsidies and targeted restraints on trade. This involves giving up a measure of economic efficiency. But the purpose is to achieve a measure of social peace and restore dignity and security to a stressed and sliding working class. Some might even call it compassionate conservatism.

The key to success for a Trump presidency is for the Reaganite and populist elements in the party to be willing to advance each other’s goals even at the cost of ideological purity. This will require far-reaching negotiations between a Trump White House and a GOP Congress.

The Republicans have gained control of all the political branches. They have the means to deliver. They now have to show that they can.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com. © 2016, The Washington Post Writers Group.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Revisiting ACA will be painful, necessary As a result of recent elections there will be extended debate regarding the Affordable Care Act. Let me remind the readers that prior to the ACA, there were at least 40 million of our fellow citizens without health insurance. That number was cut substantially by the ACA. You could not buy health insurance if you had a preexisting condition such as diabe-

tes, cancer, or heart disease.

Young people are now allowed to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26 which gives them more time to obtain a good paying job.

Most of the people without insurance are poor with low wage paying jobs, but a lot of the uninsured are people with small retail businesses. Self- employed carpenters, brick masons, plumbers, IT technicians, etc. These hard-working people often earn good salaries. They want to have

The mourning after W

ASHINGTON — When I opened my front door Wednesday morning after little sleep and numb from a bad dream that wasn’t a dream, a dreary rainfall glazed the sidewalk as two neighbors gazed blankly in my direction.

As I leaned down to pick up my newspaper, a Carole King song filtered through my pre-coffee brain fog: Something inside has died, and I can’t hide, and I just can’t fake it. Oh, no, no.

Good ol’ Carole King.

From there, my morning proceeded mechanically: Find remote control, turn on “Morning Joe,” fix coffee, open refrigerator door, close refrigerator door, turn off sound on ringing cellphone, turn off TV, lie on floor. I’m guessing this routine sounds familiar to fellow election-dazed denizens.

As regular readers of this column know, I rejected Donald Trump on Day One and have spent the past year — in columns, on TV and in speeches across the country — highlighting the many reasons I found him unacceptable for the job of president.

My opinion hasn’t changed, but as Hillary Clinton said in her acceptance speech, “Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.” And Trump, in his victory speech, said without irony that now it’s time to heal the wounds of division.

Head hurting, but OK. To begin, there needs to be an honest assessment of what just happened. It isn’t really that complicated or mysterious, if you’ve spent any time in the America where Trump voters live. As one who ventured inside the Beltway only 12 or so years ago — as a “spy for Bubba,” I introduced myself — I’ve spent most of

health insurance and help their employees have it also but the costs are too great.

We experienced this in our more than 30 years in private practice. Finally, I was told that because of my diabetes mellitus, I could not be covered at all. The ACA allowed us to obtain a good policy at a reasonable cost during our last year in private practice. We were also able to provide our employees with some financial assistance with their policies.

The primary purpose of insurance is to prevent major medical illness that

COMMENTARY my life among the indigenous peoples.

Two weeks ago, I began saying that Trump Kathleen would win, Parker whether I liked it or not. Today, I offer a clarification: He didn’t win the election.

Clinton lost it.

For voters who couldn’t stand Trump, she was a terrible alternative. Never a great candidate, she was also, tragically, a Clinton when people were ready to move on. She received several million fewer votes than Obama did in 2012.

And speaking of Obama, he also lost this election to Trump, despite exit polling that showed the president’s approval rating at 50 percent-plus.

The 2016 election was as much a referendum on his legacy as it was on the candidates themselves. When people want the country to change course, they don’t typically vote for a third term of the current president.

Thus, a vote for Trump was really a vote against Obamacare and the rising costs of health insurance.

It was a vote against the doubling of the national debt to nearly $20 trillion under Obama. It was a vote against a foreign policy that saw the Islamic State’s expansion rather than its defeat.

Clinton’s promise to continue Obama’s policies was a suicide agenda to a majority of Americans, especially those whose lives haven’t improved during the economic recovery of the past eight years. Clinton also embraced much of Bernie Sanders’ socialist platform, which no conservative-leaning voter

can lead to catastrophic financial loss. You all know that sickness in people can happen suddenly without warning and can leave you with a significant debt putting a strain on your finances for years. The ACA mandates certain preventative services that might allow treatment of an illness as an outpatient and possibly avoid treatment in the emergency department and hospital.

We cannot just repeal ACA without replacing it with something better, i.e. reduced costs, better benefits, more incentives for staying

could support.

And, yes, too, some Trump voters probably resented the exacerbation of racial discord under Obama’s watch when Americans had hoped for the opposite result. Race as a factor in Republican opposition to Obama can’t be ignored or minimized. Nor can Trump’s role in nurturing hostility toward Muslims and Mexicans — or his antipathy toward women, the disabled and even a war hero’s parents — be dismissed in victory.

Minorities have reason to feel threatened in a Trump-inspired environment of hostility toward “the other.”

But leaning primarily on racism, bigotry or sexism to explain what happened Tuesday is too facile by half. Missing from the audiences that television cameras focused on were millions of others — Republicans, independents, libertarians and maybe even some Democrats — who would rather be horse-whipped than attend a Trump rally but were compelled to vote “R” against the likelihood of a liberal Supreme Court, lax immigration laws and an increasingly costly health care system, among other concerns.

The giant X-factor about which I have written — the however many who would never admit to voting for Trump but did — was enormous, indeed.

Trump captured a moment and promised to make America great again.

He also said that he’ll be the president of everybody.

Let’s hope he wasn’t just reading from a teleprompter — and that the word trickles down.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group.

healthy, and a further reduction in the number of uninsured Americans. Yes, it is expensive and will cost more tax dollars. There are no alternatives. All hospitals are required to provide protocol management of all patients who present to the ER, regardless of insurance status.

It is incumbent on the hospitals to make up this unreimbursed cost. All of us pay for this. Doesn’t it make sense to provide some basic insurance to all our citizens?

JOSEPH C WILLIAMS, MD FACP, CMD Sumter

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BANKS — All area banks and credit unions are closed today. Veterans Day Schedule: Nov. 11, 2016 GOVERNMENT — The following are closed today: federal and state government offices; U.S. Postal Service; City of Sumter offices; Clarendon County offices; City of Manning offices; Lee County offices; and City of Bishopville offices.

SCHOOLS — The following are closed today: Sumter School District; Wilson Hall; St. Anne and St. Jude Catholic School; and St. Francis Xavier High School.

Central Carolina Technical College will hold a faculty / staff work day with no classes.

OTHER — The Harvin Clarendon County Library is closed today.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Emotions will EUGENIA LAST surface, and concerns you feel passionate about will motivate you to do your part. Before you jump in and take on too much, consider your obligations and try to figure out the most realistic plan of attack.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An unexpected situation will leave you dumbfounded. Do what you can to prepare for whatever comes your way.

Money matters must be dealt with smartly, and moderation will be necessary to avoid a loss.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Getting involved in something you believe in will bring you hope. Romance is on the rise, and serious discussions will give you a clear picture of the possibilities that lie ahead.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Walk away from an unpredictable situation.

Emotional problems will surface if you won’t compromise. A partnership will face a stalemate, and situations are likely to get blown out of proportion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Embrace change. Business meetings and trips that mix work with pleasure will bring stellar results. Let your actions speak for you and you will get what you want. Romance is highlighted.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep the peace at home or make changes to the way you live that will ease your stress. Confusion will lead to uncertainty and deter you from reaching your goals.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your emotions will be hard to control.

Don’t be ashamed of the way you feel.

Speak up and find out where you stand and what chance you have to bring about the changes required to improve your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Caution will be required if you take on someone who is looking for a fight.

Show compassion and try to understand what has contributed to someone’s anger.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Enjoy your home. Make it a place of convenience, comfort and entertainment. Host an event or plan something romantic for you and someone you love. Personal improvements will make you feel good. Live in the moment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Emotions will lead to erratic behavior.

Size up the situation and consider whether it is worth your while. If something isn’t panning out, cut your losses and move on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Someone will exaggerate in order to grab your attention. Your time is better spent on making personal and physical changes that make you feel good. Pampering and playtime are encouraged.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Look at logistics before you jump into something that harbors possible risk.

Do research when it comes to anything that will require you to spend money first. A joint venture will spark an emotional setback.

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Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 6.15 -0.10 19 2.50 none 14 4.09 -0.03 14 1.68 none 80 74.85 -0.09 24 4.27 +0.19

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Call: (803) 774-1241 | E-mail: sports@theitem.com

MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

TSA’s Stoddard finds home with NGU

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com DALZELL — By her nearest count, Bree Stoddard has lived in 12 different locales during her life, and not all of them were within the United States.

The daughter of a military family, Stoddard has resided everywhere from Texas to Germany to Missouri — her last stop prior to Dalzell and Thomas Sumter Academy.

The one constant STODDARD throughout all that time?

Basketball.

No matter where she was, Stoddard found a home on the court and developed a passion for the sport from a young age. That passion culminated on Wednesday in the TSA auditorium as she decided where she will spend the next four years of her career by inking with Division II North Greenville

SEE STODDARD, PAGE B3

PREP FOOTBALL

Second to none Lane’s late punt return TD helps Alice Drive top Manning 20-12 for back-to-back Sumter Middle School Conference football titles

Cavs step away from return to title game

BY EDDIE LITAKER Special To The Sumter Item

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com

KEITH GEDAMKE/THE SUMTER ITEM

Alice Drive Middle School’s Devin Boston (24) makes an over-the-shoulder grab during the Hawks’ 20-12 Sumter Middle School Conference championship game victory over Manning on Thursday at Donald L. Crolley Memorial Stadium in Dalzell.

DALZELL — Yellow seemed to be the color of the day at Thursday’s Sumter Middle School Conference football championship game, but in the end it was the blue and white of Alice Drive Middle School that ruled for a second consecutive year with a 20-12 victory over Manning Junior High School at Donald L. Crolley Memorial Stadium.

The game, played in four 8-minute quarters, seemed to come to a standstill on a number of occasions due to the sheer volume of flags being thrown by officials. Two hours after the 6 p.m. start, the contest concluded with 25 penalties accessed for an unofficial total of 239 yards.

The teams reached the end zone on four of the game’s first five pos-

sessions, but neither team could convert on its 2-point attempts, leaving the score tied, 12-12, at the break. The score stayed the same until Marcus Lane got loose down the right sidelines for a 50-yard punt return touchdown with 7:35 left in the game. Deshawn McKnight added the all-important 2-point conversion to give the Hawks the 20-12 lead that their defense upheld for the repeat championship.

“We’ve had a special season this year,” said ADMS head coach Steven Dew, who also repeated as SCSC coach of the year after leading his team to a perfect 7-0 season. “All of these guys bought in from day one.

Ever since the summer these guys have been working hard. Our eighth-grade group, we don’t have a lot of eighth-graders but the ones we do have they work very hard and

they provide great leadership.”

Along with his punt return for the game-winning score, Lane rushed seven times for 71 yards and another score while catching two passes for 35 yards and coming up with an interception near the goal line that ended with a 74-yard return. Lane also had two more potential scores, on a 72-yard kickoff return and a 17yard run, nullified by penalties.

“If I had an MVP for the season, it would probably have to be number 1 (Lane), absolutely, and number 3 (Anteon China),” Dew said. “They have been the lifeblood of our team, no doubt.”

China ran the ball six times for 56 yards and had a late 24-yard run that ended in the end zone brought back by yet another penalty.

SEE MIDDLE SCHOOL, PAGE B3

Other than a perfect record, the Robert E. Lee Academy Cavaliers have checked off every box so far this season that they did last year.

One more check today at McCutchen Field and they’ll find themselves back in familiar championship territory.

After capturing the SCISA 1A state crown a RANKIN year ago, Robert E. Lee faces off against St. Andrew’s at 7:30 p.m. in Bishopville for the right to play for the 2A state championship next week.

The game will take place at Benedict College’s Charlie W. Johnson Stadium

SEE CAVALIERS, PAGE B3

PREP FOOTBALL

Gamecocks go for outright region title against Carolina Forest

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com With its 41-10 football victory over West Florence High School and Carolina Forest’s 41-38 loss to South Florence, Sumter clinched the No. 1 seed from Region VI-5A in the state playoffs. The Gamecocks even know they will be playing host to Lexington next week in the first round.

So there’s really nothing for SHS to really be playing for today when it travels to Myrtle Beach to take on Carolina Forest in its regular-season finale, right? Au contraire mon frere. There is something on the line for Sumter and it’s because the Gamecocks don’t want to share.

“We want to win the region outright and not have Conway

“We want to win the region outright and not have Conway being able to say it won a share of the title.”

SHS COACH MARK BARNES being able to say it won a share of the title,” said SHS head coach Mark Barnes.

“We’re going out there just like it’s every other Friday night with the intention of winning the game. If we didn’t do that, it would go against what we say of every week, every day, every play to get better.”

The Gamecocks have been getting better as the season

has progressed. After losing the season opener to Ridge View, they’ve reeled off eight straight victories and are 4-0 in region play. Conway is 3-1 and could tie SHS for the region title with a win over South Florence and a Sumter loss to Carolina Forest. The Gamecocks got the No. 1 seed from the region should that happen because they defeated Conway 38-31 in triple overtime.

Again though, Sumter wants to stay on the roll it has been on since returning to the field after Hurricane Matthew. The Gamecocks have allowed just 27 points in regulation in those three games.

“Defensively we’ve really started playing better every

SEE SUMTER, PAGE B4

KEITH GEDAMKE/THE SUMTER ITEM

Sumter defensive back Jordan Gregg (17) holds on to West Florence’s Carter Woodberry while two other Gamecocks help bring him down in SHS’ 41-10 victory last week. Sumter travels to Myrtle Beach today to face Carolina Forest with a chance to win the Region VI-5A title outright.

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016

CAROLINA FOOTBALL

COLUMBIA -- The season that Chris Moody didn’t want at one point is now the best season of Moody’s career.

Moody, a senior safety at South Carolina, participated in the Gamecocks Senior Day ceremonies last year with the intention of transferring and using his final year of eligibility at another school.

“I have been here a long time, since I was 17 really,” Moody, 22, said this week. “My last year, I was going to have a scholarMOODY ship, so why not just try my luck somewhere else?”

That’s when D.J. Smith and a few other South Carolina teammates started working on Moody.

“We just kept bugging him and bugging him and, eventually, he gave in and came back,” Smith said. “I, obviously, talked to him a good amount along with the other players. I feel like it wasn’t that hard. He loved football.”

The Gamecocks (5-4 overall, 3-4 SEC) are glad he did as they prepare to face No. 22 Florida (6-2, 4-2). Moody has started seven games and had a career-high 11 tackles and an interception last week against Missouri. He now has a career-high 40 tackles this year.

“Chris is extremely bright, and he’s very adaptable to different coverages and how we switch and do things,” USC coach Will Muschamp said.

“He’s a good communicator. He has a very good work ethic.”

Moody, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound native

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Decision to stay pays off big for USC’s Moody

BY JOSH KENDALL The State

THE SUMTER ITEM

Tigers’ Mitchell to miss opener against Georgia

STATE Saturday

of McDonough, Ga., is a great fit in Muschamp’s defensive system because of his understanding of the concepts used in the secondary, but he didn’t know any of that when he decided to return.

He was accepted back in the program in the middle of spring practice, after he had missed the team’s grueling new winter workout program, a fact his new old teammates didn’t let him forget.

“I was way behind (on conditioning),” Moody said. “Physically, I felt like a 65-year-old man, to be honest with you. I felt all stiff and stuff. But once you start playing consistently I feel like it comes back. It’s like riding a bike.”

Muschamp wanted to make sure Moody was truly committed to the team upon his return, Moody said.

“We tested him early, and he responded very well. He had a very good summer,” Muschamp said. “He has really blended in with what we want to do and how we want to do things.”

Moody played safety each of his first three seasons at South Carolina but was moved to linebacker briefly upon his return. When an injury to starting safety Chaz Elder led to a return to the secondary, Moody felt much more comfortable, he said.

“It has been a lot more than I expected,” he said.

Moody’s size has been helpful in the secondary, Smith said.

“He’s real smart. He’s versatile. He can get down in the box and tackle, and he also can cover for his size,” Smith said. “He’s a smart all-around player. He can do anything.”

Pittsburgh at (3) Clemson, 3:30 p.m. (WOLO 25, WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7) South Carolina at (22) Florida, noon (WLTX 19, WIBZ-FM 95.5, WNKT-FM 107.5) Citadel at Virginia Military Institute, 1:30 p.m.

(WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240) Presbyterian at Kennesaw State, noon Wofford at Chattanooga, 2 p.m.

Bryant at Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m. (WWFN-FM 100.1) Norfolk State at South Carolina State, 2 p.m.

(WSSB-FM 90.7) Charleston Southern at Liberty, 3:30 p.m.

Western Carolina at Furman, 4 p.m.

Wingate at Newberry, 3:30 p.m. (AMERICAN SPORTS NETWORK) North Greenville at Limestone, 1 p.m.

Point University at Benedict, 2 p.m. (WXLC-FM 103.1)

CLEMSON — Clemson starting point guard Shelton Mitchell is expected to miss 2-4 weeks with a knee injury, head coach Brad Brownell said Thursday.

Mitchell injured his meniscus during practice on Tuesday and had surgery earlier this week. His loss is a big one for Clemson, which opens the season today against Georgia.

The sophomore will be replaced by Avry Holmes.

Holmes was expected to start at shooting guard with Mitchell at the point before Mitchell was injured. Junior Gabe DeVoe or sophomore Marcquise Reed will start at guard alongside Holmes.

Clemson will also be without another member of its backcourt as sophomore Ty Hudson remains suspended.

Clemson will find out a lot about its team early as it faces a Georgia squad that finished last season 24-10 and defeated the Tigers 71-48 in Athens.

ACC Thursday (15) North Carolina at Duke (late) Today Boston College vs. (20) Florida State, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday Wake Forest at (5) Louisville, 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Georgia Tech at (18) Virginia Tech, 3:30 p.m.

(ESPNU) North Carolina State at Syracuse, 12:30 p.m.

(WACH 57) Miami at Virginia, 2 p.m. (FOX SPORTSOUTH)

SEC Saturday Mississippi State at (1) Alabama, noon (ESPN) (8) Auburn at Georgia, 3:30 p.m. (WLTX 19) Mississippi at (10) Texas A&M, 7:30 p.m. (SEC NETWORK) (19) LSU at Arkansas, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Kentucky at Tennessee, noon (SEC NETWORK) Vanderbilt at Missouri, 3:30 p.m.(SEC NETWORK).

TOP 25 Thursday (13) Utah at Arizona State (late) Saturday (2) Michigan at Iowa, 8 p.m. (WOLO 25) Southern California vs. (4) Washington, 7:30 p.m. (WACH 57) (6) Ohio State at Maryland, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Illinois at (7) Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2) (25) Baylor at (9) Oklahoma, noon (ESPN2) (11) West Virginia at Texas, noon (FOX SPORTS 1) (12) Penn State at Indiana, noon (WOLO 25) (16) Colorado at Arizona, 10 p.m. (FOX SPORTS 1) Texas Tech at (17) Oklahoma State, 3:30 p.m.

(FOX SPORTS 1) Minnesota at (21) Nebraska, 7:30 p.m.

California at (23) Washington State, 10:30 p.m.

(ESPN) (24) Boise State at Hawaii, 7 p.m. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK)

GOLF FORMER GEORGIA GOLFER LEADS PGA TOURNAMENT PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Chris Kirk shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba.

Kirk had four birdies on each nine in his bogey-free round on Mayakoba’s Greg Norman-designed El Camaleon course.

From wire and staff reports

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY

11 a.m. – Formula One Racing: Brazilian Grand Prix Practice (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

11:30 a.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Practice from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 2).

12:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Practice from Avondale, Ariz.

(NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

1 p.m. – PGA Golf: OHL Classic at Mayakoba Second Round from Playa del Carmen, Mexico (GOLF).

1:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Practice from Avondale, Ariz. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match – France vs. Sweden (ESPN2).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match – England vs. Scotland (FOX SPORTS 1).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match – Alemania vs. San Marino (UNIVISION).

3 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 Practice from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 2).

4 p.m. – Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour Charles Schwab Cup Championship First Round from Scottsdale, Ariz. (GOLF).

4:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Practice from Avondale, Ariz.

(NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

6 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award (MLB NETWORK).

6:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Veterans Classic from Annapolis, Md. – Vanderbilt vs. Marquette (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

6:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Lafayette at Villanova (FOX SPORTS 2).

6:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Pole Qualifying from Avondale, Ariz. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Toronto at Charlotte (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Armed Forces Classic from Honolulu -- Arizona vs. Michigan State (ESPN).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: La Salle at Temple (ESPNEWS).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Oral Roberts at Baylor (ESPNU).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Georgia at Clemson (FOX SPORTSOUTH, WWBD-FM 94.7).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Stephen F. Austin at Kentucky (SEC NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – College Football: Boston College at Florida State (ESPN2).

8 p.m. – International Soccer: CONCACAF 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match – United States vs. Mexico from Columbus, Ohio (FOX SPORTS 1, UNIVISION).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Los Angeles Clippers at Oklahoma City (NBA TV).

8 p.m. – College Football: Harvard at Princeton (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 Pole Qualifying from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 2).

9 p.m. – Women’s College Soccer: Nevada-Las Vegas at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Veterans Classic from Annapolis, Md. – Ohio State vs. Navy (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Armed Forces Classic from Honolulu – Indiana vs. Kansas (ESPN).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: North Carolina at Tulane (ESPNU).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: BethuneCookman at St. John’s (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: Northwestern State at Texas A&M (SEC NETWORK).

10 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 from Avondale, Ariz. (FOX SPORTS 1).

11 p.m. – College Basketball: Pac-12 China Game from Shanghai – Harvard vs. Stanford (ESPN2).

11 p.m. – College Basketball: San Diego at San Diego State (ESPNU).

3 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Nedbank Challenge Third Round from Sun City, South Africa (GOLF).

SATURDAY

8 a.m. – International Tennis: Fed Cup Matches from Strasbourg, France – Czech Republic vs. France (TENNIS).

11:45 a.m. – International Soccer: UEFA 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match – Croatia vs. Iceland (FOX SPORTS 2).

Noon – College Football: South Carolina at Florida (WLTX 19, WIBZ-FM 95.5, WNKT-FM 107.5).

Noon – College Football: Penn State at Indiana (WOLO 25).

Noon – College Football: North Carolina State at Syracuse (WACH 57).

Noon – College Football: Tulsa at Navy (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

Noon – College Football: Mississippi State at Alabama (ESPN).

Noon – College Football: Southern Methodist at East Carolina (ESPNEWS).

Noon – College Football: Baylor at Oklahoma (ESPN2).

Noon – College Football: West Virginia at Texas (FOX SPORTS 1).

Noon – College Football: Iowa State at Kansas (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

Noon – College Basketball: South Carolina Upstate at Georgetown (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

Noon – Formula One Racing: Brazilian Grand Prix Pole Qualifying (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

Noon – College Football: Cincinnati at Central Florida (ESPNU).

Noon – College Football: Kentucky at Tennessee (SEC NETWORK).

Noon – College Football: William & Mary at Towson (TIME WARNER 1250).

1 p.m. – PGA Golf: OHL Classic at Mayakoba Third Round from Playa del Carmen, Mexico (GOLF).

1:30 p.m. – College Football: The Citadel at Virginia Military Institute (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

2 p.m. – College Football: Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Championship Game from Salem, Va. – Bowie State vs. Winston-Salem State (ASPIRE).

2 p.m. – College Football: Miami at Virginia (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

2 p.m. – College Football: Norfolk State at South Carolina State (WSSBFM 90.7).

2 p.m. – College Football: Bryant at Coastal Carolina (WWFN-FM 100.1).

2 p.m. – College Football: Point University at Benedict (WXLC-FM 103.1).

2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match – Italy vs. Liechtenstein (FOX SPORTS 2, UNIVISION).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Notre Dame vs. Army from San Antonio (WIS 10).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Auburn at Georgia (WLTX 19).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Pittsburgh at Clemson (WOLO 25, WWBDFM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Tulane at Houston (CBS SPORTS NETWOR).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Ohio State at Maryland (ESPN).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Illinois at Wisconsin (ESPN2).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech (ESPNU).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Texas Tech at Oklahoma State (FOX SPORTS 1).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Vanderbilt at Missouri (SEC NETWORK).

4 p.m. – College Basketball: Farleigh Dickinson at Seton Hall (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Southern Mississippi at Old Dominion (TIME WARNER 1250).

4 p.m. – Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour Charles Schwab Cup Championship Second Round from Scottsdale, Ariz. (GOLF).

4 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Ticket Galaxy 200 Pole Qualifying from Avondale, Ariz. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

5 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA 2018 World Cup Qualifying Match – Germany vs. San Marino (FOX SPORTS 2).

5:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Grand Canyon at Duke (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

6 p.m. – College Football: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship Game from Montgomery, Ala. – Kentucky State vs. Fort Valley Statte (ASPIRE).

6 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup

Series Practice from Avondale, Ariz.

(NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. – College Football: Boise State at Hawaii (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Football: Louisiana State at Arkansas (ESPN).

7 p.m. – College Football: Wake Forest at Louisville (ESPN2).

7 p.m. – College Football: South Florida at Memphis (ESPNU).

7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Washington at Carolina (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

7 p.m. – College Football: Wingate at Newberry (TIME WARNER 1250).

7 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Malik Scott vs. Luis Ortiz in a Heavyweight Bout from Monte Carlo (HBO).

7 p.m. – High School Football: Sumter at Carolina Forest (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

7:30 p.m. – College Football: Southern California at Washington (WACH 57).

7:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Northern Colorado at Butler (FOX SPORTS 2).

7:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Ticket Galaxy 200 from Avondale, Ariz. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – College Football: Mississippi at Texas A&M (SEC NETWORK).

8 p.m. – College Football: Michigan at Iowa (WOLO 25).

8 p.m. – Professional Baseball: Arizona Fall League Military Appreciation Game from Scottsdale, Ariz. (MLB NETWORK).

9 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Danny Garcia vs. Samuel Vargas in a Welterweight Bout from Philadelphia (SPIKE).

10 p.m. – College Football: Colorado at Arizona (FOX SPORTS 1).

10 p.m. – High School Football: Friday Night Prep Zone Scoreboard Show (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

10:15 p.m. – College Football: New Mexico at Utah State (ESPN2).

10:15 p.m. – College Football: Colorado State at Air Force (ESPNU).

10:30 p.m. – College Football: California at Washington State (ESPN).

12:55 a.m. – Women’s International Soccer: FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Match – Spain vs. Canada (FOX SPORTS 2).

3 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Nedbank Challenge Final Round from Sun City, South Africa (GOLF).

3:55 a.m. – Women’s International Soccer: FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Match – Brazil vs. Papua New Guinea (FOX SPORTS 1).

3:55 a.m. – Women’s International Soccer: FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Match – Nigeria vs. Japan (FOX SPORTS 2).

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST

New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets SOUTH

Houston Tennessee Indianapolis Jacksonville NORTH

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland West

Oakland Kansas City Denver San Diego

W 7 4 4 3

L T Pct PF PA 1 0 .875 217 132 4 0 .500 173 182 5 0 .444 237 203 6 0 .333 173 235

W 5 4 4 2

L T Pct PF PA 3 0 .625 137 167 5 0 .444 217 226 5 0 .444 239 256 6 0 .250 153 215

W 4 4 3 0

L T Pct PF PA 4 0 .500 154 153 4 0 .500 184 171 4 1 .438 167 189 9 0 .000 168 273

W 7 6 6 4

L T Pct PF PA 2 0 .778 245 223 2 0 .750 185 151 3 0 .667 214 166 5 0 .444 268 247

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST

Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia SOUTH

W 7 5 4 4

L T Pct PF PA 1 0 .875 223 140 3 0 .625 161 164 3 1 .563 186 189 4 0 .500 202 145

W L T Pct PF PA

Atlanta 6 New Orleans 4 Tampa Bay 3 Carolina 3 NORTH

W Minnesota 5 Detroit 5 Green Bay 4 Chicago 2 WEST

W Seattle 5 Arizona 3 Los Angeles 3 San Francisco 1

3 4 5 5

0 .667 305 259 0 .500 242 238 0 .375 180 232 0 .375 204 206

L T Pct PF PA 3 0 .625 155 126 4 0 .556 205 206 4 0 .500 198 187 6 0 .250 131 179 L T Pct PF PA 2 1 .688 162 134 4 1 .438 179 140 5 0 .375 130 167 7 0 .125 167 260

THURSDAY’S GAME

Cleveland at Baltimore, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

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’S GAME

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

NBA STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

Toronto New York Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia SOUTHEAST DIVISION

Charlotte Atlanta Orlando Miami Washington CENTRAL DIVISION

Cleveland Milwaukee Detroit Chicago Indiana

W L Pct GB 5 2 .714 — 3 4 .429 2 3 4 .429 2 3 5 .375 2½ 0 7 .000 5 W L Pct GB 6 1 .857 — 6 2 .750 ½ 3 5 .375 3½ 2 4 .333 3½ 2 5 .286 4 W L Pct GB 6 1 .857 — 4 3 .571 2 4 4 .500 2½ 4 4 .500 2½ 4 4 .500 2½

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION

Houston San Antonio Memphis Dallas New Orleans NORTHWEST DIVISION

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota PACIFIC DIVISION

L.A. Clippers Golden State L.A. Lakers Sacramento Phoenix

W L Pct GB 5 3 .625 — 5 3 .625 — 4 4 .500 1 2 6 .250 3 0 8 .000 5 W 6 5 5 3 2

L 2 4 4 4 5

Pct GB .750 — .556 1½ .556 1½ .429 2½ .286 3½

W 7 6 4 4 3

L 1 2 4 5 6

Pct GB .875 — .750 1 .500 3 .444 3½ .333 4½

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Charlotte 104, Utah 98 Indiana 122, Philadelphia 115, OT Minnesota 123, Orlando 107 New York 110, Brooklyn 96 Washington 118, Boston 93 Atlanta 115, Chicago 107 Toronto 112, Oklahoma City 102 Phoenix 107, Detroit 100 Houston 101, San Antonio 99 Golden State 116, Dallas 95 L.A. Clippers 111, Portland 80

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Miami, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 9 p.m.

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

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland at Washington, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Utah at Orlando, 7 p.m.

New York at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Detroit at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Houston, 8 p.m.

Utah at Miami, 8 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 9 p.m.

NHL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 13 11 1 1 23 42 30 Ottawa 13 8 5 0 16 32 32 Tampa Bay 13 7 5 1 15 41 38 Detroit 14 7 6 1 15 38 37 Boston 13 7 6 0 14 32 35 Florida 13 6 6 1 13 35 33 Buffalo 13 5 5 3 13 26 31 Toronto 13 5 5 3 13 37 48 METROPOLITAN DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 13 9 2 2 20 41 34 N.Y. Rangers 14 10 4 0 20 58 34 Washington 12 8 3 1 17 33 27 New Jersey 12 6 3 3 15 29 27 Columbus 11 6 3 2 14 35 23 Philadelphia 14 6 6 2 14 49 51 N.Y. Islanders 13 5 6 2 12 37 40 Carolina 12 3 5 4 10 31 41

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 14 10 3 1 21 49 34 St. Louis 14 7 4 3 17 32 36 Minnesota 11 6 4 1 13 33 22 Winnipeg 14 6 7 1 13 42 43 Nashville 12 4 5 3 11 31 36 Dallas 13 4 6 3 11 33 46 Colorado 12 5 7 0 10 24 37 PACIFIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 14 9 4 1 19 43 35 Anaheim 14 6 5 3 15 37 33 San Jose 13 7 6 0 14 30 32 Los Angeles 13 7 6 0 14 35 32 Vancouver 14 5 8 1 11 27 41 Calgary 14 5 8 1 11 36 51 Arizona 12 5 7 0 10 35 44 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Columbus 3, Anaheim 2, OT Ottawa 2, Buffalo 1, SO Chicago 2, St. Louis 1, OT

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Columbus at Boston, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

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

N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Dallas at Calgary, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 7 p.m.

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

Washington at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Dallas at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

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

Washington at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Boston at Arizona, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Calgary, 10 p.m.

SPORTS

THE SUMTER ITEM

MIDDLE SCHOOL

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2016

STODDARD

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The Hawks drove 56 yards in eight plays after taking the opening kickoff, with McKnight taking it in from two yards out. The drive included a 30-yard run by China and an 11-yard pass from Hayden Vasquez to Devin Boston on the play preceding McKnight’s scoring run.

The Monarchs answered quickly with 9-play, 73-yard drive that closed with a 38-yard pass from Corey Graham to Marlik Davis.

After a defensive stop, MJHS caught a big break as the snap sailed high over Davis Chapman’s head on a punt attempt. The play resulted in a 15-yard loss back to the Hawks’ 33, where the Monarchs needed just four rushes to take their only lead. Graham ran for 12 yards, followed by runs of 13 and seven yards by Davis to set up a 1-yard Graham run for a 12-6 MJHS lead with 5:51 left in the opening half.

On its next possession, ADMS went 62 yards in 14 plays on a drive that included five Hawk penalties for a total of 40 yards. The Hawks benefited from a penalty to open the drive as Vasquez’s 8-yard completion to Lane was stretched 15 more yards with a personal foul call. Lane’s nullified scoring run came midway through this drive, with a hold bringing the score back and an unsportsmanlike conduct call on the next play pushing the ball all the way back to the 40.

University.

“It means so much to me. It’s always been a dream of mine since I was little to play college basketball,” Stoddard said. “Just the fact that it’s all coming together, all my friends and family are here, it means so much to me.

“I’m pursuing my dream and I’m really excited about going to North Greenville.”

Stoddard was also excited about having a semi-permanent residence for the near future as well.

“My entire life has been, ‘Ok you may be here, you may not be, you may move across the country, you may move to a different country.’” she said. “So it’s really nice to know I’m going to be in the same area with the same coaches for the next four years. I think I’m really going to enjoy the stability of it.”

Always planning to go to a Christian school, Stoddard had interest from Campbell University and Anderson University among others, but she became enamored with NGU on her first unofficial visit.

“I loved the atmosphere,” Stoddard said. “I loved the location of it — in a smaller town with the mountains, it’s just beautiful up there. I met the coach and that sold it to me. I loved the coach and the players.

“They saw me play in a couple tournaments and asked me to come back on an official visit. They

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David Rankin said. “We’ve got 12 seniors and eight or nine of them started a lot and played a lot last year. We have our junior quarterback back who was a sophomore last year, so we had some pieces to the puzzle in place. “...We’ve played hard. We were 1-2 at one time and stopped turning the ball over and won nine in a row. So we’re playing well lately.”

REL (10-2) looks to continue that trend and take care of business against the Lions (7-

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Manning’s Corey Graham (5) eludes the tackle of Alice Drive’s Deshawn McKnight during the Monarchs’ 2012 loss on Thursday in Dalzell.

Facing third-and-29 at the 45 after a procedure penalty, Vasquez got it all back on two passes, going 13 yards to Jaiven Lowery and 32 to Lane. On the next play, Lane took it in from five yards out to tie the score with 49 seconds left in the half.

The Monarchs closed their season with a 5-2 record after suffering their second loss to ADMS. “They got us pretty good in the first game,” MJHS head coach Brian Joyner said. “It was a good learning experience for my team and we bounced back and went on through the regular season and learned from our mistakes. Tonight we stalled a little bit in the second half and they made some plays and we didn’t. Hats off to Alice Drive. They’re wellcoached, they play hard and they are a very good team. I’m proud of my team. They played hard, and we had a ball this year.”

1), who defeated Thomas Sumter Academy 21-14 to earn a semifinal berth. St. Andrew’s has run the Wing-T offense very successfully and is averaging 28.9 points a game.

“They’re very physical and big,” Rankin said. “It’s something we haven’t seen a lot of this year. Most teams have come out in the spread, but they like to run it downhill.

They only throw it about six or eight times. It’s a little different animal.”

The Cavs will adapt their 3-4 defense, Rankin said, and make sure they read specific keys to stop the run.

“We’re going to try to line up more than they can block,

make sure we tackle well and see what happens,” he added.

An encouraging sign defensively for the Cavs has been their play in recent weeks.

Robert E. Lee is allowing an average of 18.3 points a game, but has only allowed a combined 14 points during the last two games in contrast to midseason when it gave up at least 21 points in four straight contests.

“We were banged up, but in some of those games the firstteam defense still didn’t give up but seven or 14 points,” Rankin said. “The last two weeks, we’ve left them in there the whole game to get them accustomed to it.

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offered me then and I knew that’s where I wanted to go.”

The 5-foot-10-inch small forward/ shooting guard made an immediate impact for TSA in her junior season. Stoddard was named the SCISA II-3A AllRegion Player of the Year and won the region tournament MVP as the Lady Generals went 22-4, won the region title and earned a berth in the state tournament quarterfinals.

Stoddard led the team with 18.6 points, nine rebounds and 2.1 assists per game and was third on the team with 1.9 steals per contest. She was a 74 percent free throw shooter and hit 41 percent from 3-point range -something she worked on heading into last season, she said.

“My freshman and sophomore years, I couldn’t really shoot past the 3-point line,” Stoddard said. “That’s where I was struggling. So during the summer before my junior year, I just kept shooting and kept shooting and kept shooting. I worked really far behind the 3-point line so that it would become easier.”

Stoddard also shot 50 percent from the 2-point range, which helped make her a matchup nightmare against a lot of teams, Thomas Sumter head coach BJ Reed said.

“She’s got the mid-range jumper and great finishing moves at the basket,” Reed said. “She’s a taller girl, but she poses a problem because she can take post players outside and dribble around them and she can also post people up.

“She just has a wealth of basketball talent and a lot of different weapons she can use.”

“Defense is something we do as a team and we’ve just worked on staying fundamentally sound.”

The St. Andrew’s defense has also been stingy and is giving up 15.5 points a game.

SA has allowed more than 14 points just twice all season -once in a 49-13 loss to fellow 2A semifinalist First Baptist and once to Northwood Academy in a 33-31 victory.

The Chargers were the team that Robert E. Lee defeated last week to advance to the semis and the Cavs defeated them soundly, 52-7. REL’s offense is averaging 37.6 points per game for the year, and the team has scored at

least 34 points in its last nine.

“We can run and throw, which helps us a little bit, even though we’ve been running a lot more lately than we’ve been throwing,” Rankin said. “We want to be balanced, but our offensive line has really taken over games. We’ve run four running plays and nothing else sometimes.”

The Cavs are also at near full-strength health-wise.

William Corbett returned to the field last week with a cast on after missing several games with a broken hand.

Right tackle Billy Jackson should be back as well after missing last week with an ankle injury.

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RECRUITING

Chilean Haase commits to USC basketball

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niversity of South Carolina men’s basketball head coach Frank Martin added another big piece to his program on Thursday with a commitment from 6-foot-10inch stretch forward Felipe Haase of Chile.

Haase joins 7-1 Jason Cudd and 6-7 Ibrahim Doumbia as early signees for the Gamecocks.

“It’s been a longtime dream of mine to play NCAA college basketball,” Haase said in a statement released by his school, Miami Christian. “I’m very fortunate to be in this poPhil sition.”

Haase took ofKornblut ficial visits to RECRUITING USC, Purdue, Missouri and Pittsburgh. USC got the final official visit last weekend and he left highly impressed with Martin, the school and the program, according to his AAU coach Art Alvarez.

“This is one of the toughest decisions I have ever been around,” Alvarez said. “Our program has sent over 150 kids to Division I programs for over a decade plus. It came down to a pro and con analysis on each program. While Felipe had great visits at the other schools, he felt a special bond with Frank Martin. He also felt he can come in and play right away as a freshman for the Gamecocks.”

Haase is considered a skilled power forward with small forward skills,.according to Alvarez.

“He has great footwork, he can throw his back towards the basket, he can face up,” Alvarez said. “The two things

that set him apart, that I have people telling me he’s a pro, are his great passing ability and is intelligence for the game. He’s just a very skilled, intelligent basketball player.

Frank has told me that’s what he needs. He doesn’t have a player like that.”

Martin is still on hold for two other targets, 6-10 Nic Claxton of Greenville and 6-3 David Beatty of Philadelphia.

Both are announcing decisions on Monday.

CLEMSON Clemson head coach Brad Brownell put the finishing touch on his early signing class on Wednesday by landing 6-4 Clyde Trapp Jr. of Lower Richland High School in Hopkins. Trapp is the fourth member of the class, joining 6-6 Malik William of Orlando, Fla., 6-7 Aamir Simms of Dyke, Va., and 6-3 AJ Oliver of Daniel High in Central.

Trapp chose the Tigers over USC, Charlotte, Rice and Georgia Tech. He said the Tigers had been recruiting him hard for several months and his official visit last weekend sealed in his mind that Clemson was the right place.

“It felt like a family,” Trapp said. “I talked it over with my parents. My coaches and everybody thought it was a perfect fit for me. I really liked Clemson from the jump.

They’ve been recruiting me for a while. We always had a great relationship. My dad could pick up the phone any time and call coach. The players, we just bonded really well.”

Trapp is viewed as a versatile player who can play in the backcourt or the wing. He averaged 13 points, six rebounds and two assists per game last season. He thinks his game

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week since we came back,” said Barnes, who will be shooting for his second outright region title in as many years at Sumter. “We’ve gotten better every week and we want to continue that.

“Offensively, we’ve been more 2-dimensional, and that’s a plus for us,” he added. “We’re not having to rely on just one person.”

Against West Florence, quarterback Zykiem Jackson completed 10 of 11 passes for 172 yards. Running back Rodney Pitts caught five of those passes for 76 yards, including a 52-yarder.

John Witherspoon, 83, affectionately known as “Spoon,” transitioned on Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, at his residence in Sumter.

Born and raised in Clarendon County, he was a son of the late Laurel Wells and Dan Witherspoon. After relocating to Stamford, Connecticut, he was employed WITHERSPOON

by Pitney Bowes Co. for 30 years until retirement.

He returned to the Sumter community and joined membership with St. Mark Baptist Church in Manning, where he served as a dea-

FOOTBALL USC

Wide receiver Chad Terrell of Dallas, Ga., who announced a commitment to USC before his last regularseason home game last Friday, said he made up his mind about two weeks ago between USC and Oregon.

It’s no coincidence that about two weeks ago freshman Jake Bentley emerged as USC’s starting quarterback for now and the future. Terrell said that development played no small part in his decision.

“Jake Bentley was honestly a huge factor for me, too,” said Terrell, who actually met Bentley on a junior day visit last year before Bentley decided to graduate early and enroll with the 2016 recruiting class. “I saw the last two games and saw how he’s definitely going to develop more and more. I just feel comfortable having him as the quar-

The other five completions went to five different receivers.

“Zykiem has been really efficient and we need him to be because it’s been hard for us to run the football with teams loading the box,” Barnes said. “We’ve been telling the guys we don’t have to throw it 50 times to get 50 yards; we can throw it 10 and have him run it for 40. We have thrown it deep, taking our shots down the field.”

Pitts rushed for 77 yards and two touchdowns on nine carries, while running back Da’Jon Butts had 74 yards and four scores on 12 carries and Jackson had 36 yards on 12 carries..

Carolina Forest is 6-3 overall and 2-2 in region play. CF is playing for a

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will mesh nicely with what Brownell runs at Clemson, and he likes the way Brownell runs his team.

“I like his intensity, it’s unreal,” he said. “He puts so much confidence in a player; they just go out there and hoop. It’s good to hear from a coach that he’ll actually be throwing me in the fire.”

Trapp’s AAU coach is former Clemson point guard Ed Scott, and he said Scott was a valuable advisor throughout the process.

“I talked to him a lot,” Trapp said. “He’s a guy that’s been through it so he knows. He didn’t sway me one way or the other, he just always had good things to stay. He just kept uplifting me because it got hard.

He kept me strong and helped me along the way.”

con for many years.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three sisters, Helen Robinson, Betty Wells Witherspoon and Isabell Wells; and one brother, Preston Witherspoon.

Survivors include his loving wife of 66 years, Ruth R. Witherspoon of the home; six daughters, Ola J. (Eden) Grandison, Diane (Nat) Booker, Valerie Smith and Lynette (Greg) Brayboy, all of Connecticut, Runette (James) Adams of Florida and Ruth Nichols of Sumter; two sons, Jonathan J. (Mona) Witherspoon of Connecticut and Carl Witherspoon of North Carolina; siblings, Ethelmae Corbin of Maryland, Sara Wells of New

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home game in the first round of the playoffs. With a win over Sumter and Conway beating SF, the Panthers would take third in the region and se-

York, Jenny L. Wells of Florida and Dorothy Witherspoon of North Carolina; one brother, Timothy (Elaine) Wells of New York; 22 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services for Mr. Witherspoon will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at New Birth Church of God in Christ, 307 W. Oakland Ave., Sumter, with Pastor Julius Ragin officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park, Sumter.

The public may view from 1 to 7 p.m. today at Palmer Memorial Chapel, Sumter.

Mr. Witherspoon will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. on Saturday until the hour of service.

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terback there for the future.”

The decision for Terrell came down to USC and Oregon, where he took an official visit in September.

“They both have similar attributes that I really like,” he said. “South Carolina, I feel like they are bringing in a really good recruiting class this year, and I feel like in the next few years the future is really bright. I like the academics because what I want to major in is going to be along the lines of marketing and business and the business program at South Carolina is among the tops in the country. Academically and on the field it suits me in both areas really good, plus it’s somewhat close to home.” Terrell said he is looking to take his official visit with USC on Nov. 19. He currently is second in the state of Georgia in receiving yards this season. He’s USC’s 22nd commitment for the ’17 class and the third WR. USC has moved to the pole position with defensive back Keisean Nixon of Arizona Western Junior College, and he has set his official visit for Nov. 19.

“South Carolina is the favorite for sure,” Nixon said.

“I’m just liking the program and (head coach) Will Muschamp is a big plus because he develops a lot of firstrounders (in the National Football League draft).

“The South Carolina visit is going to be big for me. I’m excited. My boys are (current Gamecocks) Jamarcus King and Steven Montac, and we’re going to take over the SEC (Southeastern Conference) with our secondary.”

Nixon has set Dec. 17 for his decision, but he did not discount the idea of committing to USC on his visit.

Nixon also is scheduled for

an official visit to Missouri on Nov. 26 and he continues to talk with Mississippi State.

The season is over for USC WR commitment Ortre Smith of Wando High in Mt. Pleasant. He suffered an ankle injury a couple of weeks back and had season ending surgery.

This season Smith had 33 catches for 398 yards and two touchdowns, according to statistics compiled by the High School Sports Report. He is a finalist for Mr. Football and was chosen for the Shrine Bowl and the U.S. Army AllAmerican Game. Smith has said he plans to enroll in January at USC.

CLEMSON TigerIllustrated and Clemson247 both reported Clemson no longer is recruiting safety Markquese Bell of Bridgeton, N.J., who was scheduled for an official visit this weekend.

The Tigers appear to have more interest in Xavier McKinney from Roswell, Ga. McKinney will take his official visit with Clemson this weekend. He’s also considering Florida, Georgia, Ohio State and Alabama.

Defensive end Malik Herring of Forsyth, Ga., visited Clemson on Saturday unofficially. The Tigers are fighting UGA and Alabama for his services.

BASEBALL TheBigSpur reported Spartanburg Methodist College right-handed pitchers Ridge Chapman, Gage Hinson and Hunter Lomas committed to USC. Chapman is a starting pitcher and had a 7-3 win-loss record with a 4.41 earned run average last season. Hinson was 1-1 with one save and a

cure a home game.

“We’re expecting a very tough game from Carolina Forest,” Barnes said.

“They’ve lost three games – Myrtle Beach (24-21), Conway (51-48) and South Florence (41-38) – and they were leading each of them in the last 2 ½ minutes. All of those teams are good teams, so we know they’re a good team.”

Carolina Forest is coached by Marc Morris, who worked as a defensive line coach for Barnes when he was in charge at Scotland County in North Carolina.

“We know each other quite well,” Barnes said. “They know what we’re going to do and we know what they’re going to do.”

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GERTRUDE P. LYONS Gertrude Phillips Lyons, 95, widow of L. Clarence Lyons Sr., died on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, at NHC Healthcare.

Born in Lee County, she was a daughter of the late Orville Monroe Phillips and Ada Belle Smith Martin. She was a graduate of Sumter High School and Montreat College.

After graduation from Montreat, she taught first grade at Providence Elementary School in LYONS Sumter County and later served as a secretary at Shaw Air Force Base during World War II. Gertrude was a member of First Baptist Church for 73 years, where she taught Sunday school, sang in the choir and served as organist for 32 years. She was also the organist for Alice Drive Baptist Church in Sumter for 12 years and taught piano lessons in her home. She served as organist for funeral homes in Sumter for many years and played for many weddings in the Sumter area. Music was the love of her life, and Gertrude enjoyed serving the Lord through music whenever she was needed. She will also be remembered as one with a gift of hospitality and her caramel cakes were legendary!

She was an active member of the Order of the Eastern Star — Beuclare Chapter No. 20, where she served as worthy grand matron and organist.

She also served as grand organist for the South Carolina Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star.

She is survived by a daughter, Nancy Lyons Smith of Greenville; son, Larry Clarence Lyons Jr. and his wife, Lisa Burnett Lyons, of Simpsonville; daughter, Mary Lyons Burress of Sumter; a sister, Mary C. Batson of Marion; granddaughter, Kimberly Smith Gill and husband, Dr. Brian Patrick Gill, of Bloomington, Indiana; grandson, the Rev. Clayton Thomas Smith and wife, Terrica Radford Smith, of Matthews, North Carolina; granddaughter, Jennifer Lyons McKinney and husband, Matthew McKinney, of Lexington; granddaughter, Megan Lyons Haddan and husband, Zachary Haddan, of Easley; grandson, Benjamin Kyle Burress of Charlotte, North Carolina; and granddaughter, Emily Caroline Burress of Sumter. She also had seven great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

The family would like to give special thanks to the staff of NHC Healthcare of Sumter, where Gertrude received loving care during the latter part of her life.

A worship service celebrating the life of Gertrude Lyons will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dan Barber, the Rev. Charles Clanton and her grandson, the Rev. Clay Smith, officiating. Burial will be in Sumter Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home of her daughter, 5 Fern Court, Sumter.

It is requested by the family that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to First Baptist Church, 107 E. Liberty St., Sumter, SC 29150.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematori-

um of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

FELIX MCFADDEN III Funeral services for Felix McFadden lll, who died on Nov. 4, 2016, will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Supernatural Miracle Deliverance Church, 515 N. Main St., with Bishop Shedrick T. White of Southland Pentecostal Church of Pinewood, eulogist.

Apostle Dr. P.O. Coleman is the pastor of the church.

Public visitation will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. today in the Robert Scriven Jr. Memorial Chapel.

Professional service arrangements are entrusted to Ephriam D. Stephens Funeral Home of Sumter, 230 S. Lafayette Drive. “Where Dignity is the Watch word.”

DAVID L. BROOKS David “Choc-Cee” Leroy Brooks was born on Sept. 18, 1952, in Sumter, a son of the late Loman Sr. and Rosa Lee Brooks.

On Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, David slipped away peacefully into eternal rest.

He attended the public schools of Sumter County.

After moving from the Sumter area for a number of years, he joined Calvary Baptist Church in Pinewood, where he was a member of the deacon board, usher board and the male chorus. When David moved back home where he was reared, he joined his home church, Rafting Creek Baptist Church.

David joined the male chorus, where he served faithfully until his health began to decline. David worked in many capacities, to include: Madison Inc., Exide Battery, Sumter School District 2, Walmart, City of Sumter and Brooks Lawn Care and Cleaning Service. David liked to fish, hunt and watch baseball. He was the “D” star pitcher of the C.S. Braves baseball team, a first baseman, and a catcher. David was a member of the Brooks Family Singers. His favorite song was “Doctor Jesus.”

David’s loving memories will be cherished by his two sons, Brent L. (Pamela Kellogg) Brooks of Rembert and Brain L. (Denitra) Brooks of Sumter; three daughters, Tammie T. Brooks and Shikina T. Brooks, both of Sumter, and Nina (Edward) Anderson of Greenville; four brothers, Loman (Annette) Brooks Jr. of Wedgefield, Arthur (Darlene) Brooks of Clinton, Maryland, Derrick F. (Jennifer) Brooks and William “Bun” (Daisy) Whittleton, both of Sumter; eight sisters, Clarissa (Jessie) Person of Washington, D.C., Alta Mae (Henry) Prioleau Sr. of Wedgefield, Ella Mae (Willie) Conyers of Washington, D.C., Betty Jean Blanding of Wedgefield, Dorothy Mae James, Patresse B. Grant and Deloris Ann Muldrow, all of Sumter, and Cheryl Eleanor (Henry Jr.) Champion of Dalzell; two special nephews, Jimmie and Kenneth Brooks of Wedgefield; one uncle, James (Elouise) Brooks Sr.;

one great-aunt, Bernice Dinkins of Rembert; three sistersin-law; two brothers-in-law; 11 grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, and four brothers-in-law.

Public viewing will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary.

Mr. Brooks will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. on Saturday for viewing until the hour of service.

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Rafting Creek Baptist Church, Rembert, with the pastor, the Rev. Melvin Mack, officiating.

Interment will follow in Rafting Creek Church cemetery.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 185 Heartbeat Lane, Wedgefield.

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

MELANIE K. RIVERA CHARLESTON — The life of Melanie Paige Kalish Rivera, age 39, was traded for eternity in paradise on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016.

She was a daughter of Judy Frank Kalish and the late Michael E. Kalish. Melanie had a truly kind and loving heart.

This was especially expressed through her profound love for animals. She was also an incredibly hard worker, which was proven by the tremendous amount of work and dedication that she gave during her 18 years at Michael’s.

She was raised in Sumter and then spent most of her adult life in the North Charleston area. She was taken from us far too soon and although she is now safe in the arms of the Lord, she is loved and missed by many.

She is survived by a sister, Allison Michelle Kalish Berry and her husband, Robert, of Sumter; and three nephews.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel.

The family will receive friends following the service.

Memorials may be made to Pets Inc., 3901 Martha Truman Road, Kansas City, MO 64137.

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

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.

SUE ANNIE O. BRUNSON Sue Annie Odom Brunson, 91, widow of David Brunson, died on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at a local nursing center.

Services will be announced

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

FREDERICK D. RAY Frederick Deor Ray, 23, died on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Joshua Baptist Church, Dazell, with the Rev. Johnnie Lawson, eulogist. Burial will follow in New Light Baptist Church cemetery, Summerton.

The family is receiving friends at his residence.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

JAMES E. WILLIAMS James E. Williams, 79, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

Funeral services for Mr. Williams will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the chapel of Summerton Funeral Home LLC with Dr. Lewis Walker officiating.

Online condolences may be sent to www.summertonfuneralhome.com.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Summerton Funeral Home LLC, 23 S. Duke St., Summerton, phone (803) 485-3755.

WARREN WHITE Warren White, husband of Laura Kingwood White, died on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday at Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, 10331 Plowden Mill Road, Alcolu, with the Rev. Hazel Charles, pastor. Burial will follow in Harmony Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Alcolu.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his daughter, Martha Murray, 41 West End St., Manning.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

LOUISE B. GLASSCHO Louise Burgess Glasscho, 89, slipped away to her eternal rest on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

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Born on Oct. 3, 1927, in Williamsburg County, she was a daughter of the late Robert Abraham and Luevina Burgess. She married Wilbur Glasscho on March 24, 1945.

This union was blessed with 12 children. She worked for many years as a short order cook at several restaurants so her children would have the opportunity to get a good education.

She is survived by six daughters, Gloria (John Jr.) Carter, Anna (Robert) Witherspoon, Carolyn Smith, Linda Gaines and Sylvia Glasscho, all of Sumter, and Mary Scriven of Whiteville, North Carolina; five sons, Wilbert, Charles, Joe Louis and Michael of Sumter, and Alphonza of Orlando, Florida; four sisters, Geneva Franklin, Betty Burgess, Barbara (George) Hargrove and Martha Burgess; two brothers, Chapple Lee Burgess and Robert Burgess; 27 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Homegoing celebration will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Beulah AME Church, 2272 Sumter Highway — U.S. 527, Kingstree, with the Rev. Ralph Singletary, pastor, eulogist.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of her son, Charles Glasscho, 530 Mallard Drive, Sumter.

The remains will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. for viewing until time of services.

The procession will leave at 10 a.m. from Williams Funeral Home, 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

Burial will be in Beulah AME Churchyard cemetery.

These services have been entrusted to the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr.com.

Visit us on the web at www. williamsfuneralhomeinc.com.

DORCAS RIDGILL SUMMERTON — Dorcas Setsure Dubose Ridgill, 86, wife of Nelson Ridgill Sr., died on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at Lake Marion Nursing Home, Summerton.

She was born on March 1, 1930, in Pinewood, a daughter of the late Gilbert and Eliza Lynch Pleasant Dubose.

The family is receiving friends beginning Saturday at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Adrian and Gloria Ridgill, 1371 Larrimore Drive, Manning.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

MELBURN J. JONES Melburn J. Jones, 65, departed this life on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, at Onslow Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

He was born on March 5, 1951, in New York, a son of the late Melburn Nunez and Bernell Jones Singleton.

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What’s in a title? History presents ‘Warfighters’

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH In honor of Veterans Day, the History Channel debuts “The Warfighters” (8 p.m., TV-14). The series offers four consecutive hours of first-person accounts of recent U.S. special operations forces missions, including those of Army Rangers, Green Berets, Marines and Navy SEALs in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The series not only recounts stories of veterans, but is largely a veteran-made production, with more than 90 vets participating in the series.

The series’ peculiar hybridword title is worth noting.

Rather than call the series “Soldiers at War” or “Special Forces,” the title “Warfighters” sounds like something out of a comic book or a video game. It reminds us of how the names of soldiers have evolved over time.

In World War I, America sent “doughboys” to the front to join British soldiers called “Tommies.” Both names accentuated the youth of the fighting forces and reminded civilians that a nation’s most precious resource was at risk when it waged war. America’s massive mobilization for World War II put more than 12 million in uniform and inspired the name “GI” for “Government Issue.”

During Vietnam, the word “grunt” was used by infantrymen to describe themselves.

The end of the draft and the advent of an all-volunteer Army coincided with a cult of bodybuilding, fitness and hyper-masculinity. Audie Murphy, the most decorated combat soldier of World War II, stood only 5 feet 5 inches tall, but by the mid-1980s, the popular image of a fighting man was that of a “ripped” Sylvester Stallone in “Rambo.” While soldiers still came in all shapes and sizes, our popular imagination seemed to be on steroids.

The terminology for fighting soldiers also changed. Gone were affectionate terms like “the boys.” Soldiers had to be venerated as “heroes,” or even “warriors.” And now we have “The Warfighters.”

This shift in nomenclature says a lot more about civilians than soldiers. The vast majority of people have little or no contact with those serving in the military. Do these Wagnerian titles honor our fighting forces? Or relegate them to a separate caste?

• Imelda Staunton stars as Rose in a filmed version of the hit London stage revival of “Gypsy” on “Great Performances” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings). Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the beloved 1959 musical was written by Arthur Laurents, with music

by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Classic songs include “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Some People,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Together, Wherever We Go” and “Rose’s Turn.”

• Kevin James stars as a writer of espionage thrillers taken for a real spy in the original action comedy “True Memoirs of an International Assassin,” streaming today on Netflix.

Also streaming today: the second season of “Red Oaks” on Amazon Prime.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Shaquille O’Neal appears on “Caught on Camera With Nick Cannon” (8 p.m., NBC).

• Contestants put a spin on Southern staples on “Hell’s Kitchen” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• The Rance family spins out of control on “The Exorcist” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• Lemonade stands on “Shark Tank” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

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Maurice Compte, left, and Kevin James star in the action comedy film “True Memoirs of an International Assassin,” now streaming on Netflix.

• After reporting an abusive boyfriend, a woman is accused of his murder on “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

CULT CHOICE Natalie Wood stars in classics including “Rebel Without a Cause” (8 p.m., TCM) and “The Searchers” (10 p.m., TCM), as well as more obscure fare like “The Girl He Left Behind” (4:15 a.m., TCM) with Tab Hunter and Jim Backus, who also appears in “Rebel.”

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH So-called e-commerce has opened a world of possibilities. For murder. That’s the gist of a gripping and disturbing new eight-part documentary series, “The Killing Season” (9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday, A&E, TV-14). Produced by Alex Gibney (“Going Clear”), “Season” follows two filmmakers, Joshua Zeman (“Cropsey”) and Rachel Mills, as they set out to investigate one horrific crime only to open doors to a nationwide nightmare.

“Season” began as a look at the 2010 discovery of the bodies of 10 women on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach. Local authorities were convinced that the nature of their burials indicated that a serial killer was at work, someone who was intimately familiar with the terrain and steeped in the world of his prey, women who worked as escorts and prostitutes. As years passed without an arrest, a cottage industry of amateur investigators from all over the world joined the families of the victims to speculate on the strange case.

What emerges from this collaborative “crowd-sleuthing” is a furtive world of cybersex.

Aided by Craigslist and smartphone apps, some women found the easy money hard to pass up. As one observes, a single assignation could bring as much income as a month of working a retail job.

At the same time, the technology has created a virtual hunting ground for serial killers. And as the filmmakers discover at the end of the first episode, the horror has spread far beyond Long Island, pointing to clusters of “missing women” all over America, victims whose underground existence and social status make investigating their murders low priorities for authorities.

Zeman and Mills present themselves as far more than mere observers in this stylishly edited series. They have joined forces with the “crowdsleuths,” hoping to use the predator’s technology against them. Like many series of this nature, “The Killing Season” is both difficult to watch and hard to forget.

• A teenager struggles to save her messed-up stepsister from a toxic relationship with a young girl’s ghost in the 2016

supernatural thriller “Little Girl’s Secret” (8 p.m. Saturday, Lifetime). Maria Bello stars.

• After parting with her publisher, a novelist creates a new pulp crime series. The plot thickens when real-life slayings seem to leap from the page in the 2016 thriller “BestSelling Murder” (8 p.m. Saturday, LMN), starring Vanessa Ray, Meghan Heffern and Tara Spencer-Nairn.

• When Veterans Affairs won’t treat Grandpa’s ailment, “The Simpsons” (8 p.m. Sunday, Fox, TV-PG) take a health vacation to Havana. Now in its 28th season, the animated sitcom continues to combine topical humor, obscure and at times even academic references with silly slapstick. It remains one of the few series that can reach both an intellectual and a child, and it’s a comedy written by people who still assume that its audience is both literate and curious.

As a critic once observed, “‘The Simpsons’ is for people who read.”

Fox recently announced that Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie would return for a 29th and 30th season, making “The Simpsons” the longestrunning sitcom and series in television history. A 30th season guarantees that “The Simpsons” will finally produce more episodes than “Gunsmoke,” the CBS Western that ran from 1955 to 1975.

It also means that “The Simpsons” will have endured at least five presidential administrations and span a television era from VHS tapes to online streaming.

• The multipart series “The Traffickers” (10 p.m. Sunday, Fusion) examines international black markets trading in gold, guns, endangered species, pharmaceuticals, human organs and even young children. Fusion is available on

both Dish and DirecTV and many cable systems.

SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • Syfy unspools the first season of “The Magicians” (9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.).

• College football action includes Michigan at Iowa (8 p.m., ABC) and USC at Washington (8 p.m., Fox).

• “Reagan: From Movie Star to President” (9 p.m., Reelz, TVPG) profiles the 40th president.

• Chevalier is coerced to remain silent on “Versailles” (10 p.m., Ovation, TV-MA).

• A bear expert tries to teach his 700-pound “pupils” the skills needed to return to the wild in the premiere of the new series “Project Grizzly” (10 p.m., Animal Planet, TV-PG).

• Dave Chappelle hosts “Saturday Night Live” (11:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14), featuring musical guest A Tribe Called Quest.

tions on “Westworld” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).

• A killer puts snake venom on the tasting menu on “Elementary” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• Enhanced interrogation on “Quantico” (10 p.m., ABC).

• Lawrence’s devotion stokes Issa’s guilt on “Insecure” (10:30 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).

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• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7 p.m., CBS): Tuesday’s election results.

• The New England Patriots host the Seattle Seahawks in “Sunday Night Football” (8 p.m., NBC).

• Bad luck may end the family’s island idyll on “The Durrells in Corfu” on “Masterpiece” (8 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings).

• Elizabeth explores Saudi terror links on “Madam Secretary” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• Patrick stuns the Wagners on “Secrets and Lies” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

• “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” (9 p.m., CNN) visits Japan.

• A disturbing visit to Alexandria on “The Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).

• Bernard weighs his op-

Detectives (Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson) in a dystopian future discover the secret ingredient to a processed meal in the 1973 shocker “Soylent Green” (10:30 p.m., TCM).

A&E NETWORKS

Filmmakers Rachel Mills, left, and Joshua Zeman investigate the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case on “The Killing Season,” premiering at 9 p.m. Saturday on A&E.

SATURDAY SERIES Deeks faces murder charges on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * A drug ring is linked to Sonja’s friend on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

SUNDAY SERIES A student contractor becomes a target on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Emma and Regina set a trap on “Once Upon a Time” (8 p.m., ABC) * A clash at the Thanks-

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LEGAL NOTICES Summons & Notice Summons and Notice Publication Family Court of Sumter, South Carolina Third Judicial Circuit STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SUMTER, COUNTY (Plaintiff) Vs. Enrique Quirino- Palmo (Defendant) IN THE INTEREST OF Yareni Gallard (07/16/2007) TO DEFENDANT: Enrique Quirinio- Palmo YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED And required to answer the complaint In the above referenced concerning the minor child above and that you have failed to contact the agency in regards to your whereabouts in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for James C. Campbell, Sumter County, South Carolina on September 22, 2016 a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at Steven B. Suchomski, 105 N. Magnolia Street, Sumter, SC 29150 within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the statutory time allotted, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint. A hearing has been scheduled for January 5, 2017 at at 9:00 a.m.

S. C. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES Steven B. Suchomski, Esquire P.O. Box 68 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 773-5531

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Summons & Notice

SUMMONS (Jury Trial Requested)

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscribers at their office, 4000 Faber Place, Suite 450, P.O. Box 71727, North Charleston, South Carolina, 29415, or to otherwise appear and defend the action pursuant to applicable court rules, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 2016-CP-43-02005 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Larry N. Hill, Plaintiff, vs.

Vicky Derickson and Brubaker,

Stacy

L.

Defendants.

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Summons & Notice

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, 5 Law Range, Post Office Box 1268, Sumter, South Carolina, 29151-1268, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above named Defendants concerning injuries received by Plaintiff in a motor vehicle accident in Sumter County, South Carolina.

JONES, SETH, SHULER & JONES, L.L.P. Richard C. Jones Attorney for Plaintiff 5 Law Range, P.O. Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 773-8676 richardcjones@jssjlaw.com

Summons & Notice

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S) AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) SCRCP, as amended effective September 1, 2002, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Sumter County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action. If there are counterclaims requiring a jury trial, any party may file a demand under rule 38, SCRCP and

SUMMONS AND NOTICES IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 2016CP4301597 (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)

the case will be returned to the Circuit Court.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action, together with the Summons, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on August 30, 2016 at 12:34 P.M. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Supreme Court of South Carolina Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may be eligible for foreclosure intervention programs for the purpose of resolving the above-referenced foreclosure action.

If you wish to be considered for a foreclosure intervention program, you must contact Finkel Law Firm LLC, 4000 Faber Place Drive, Suite 450 (29405), P.O. Box 71727 (29415), North Charleston, SC 29405, or call (843) 577-5460 within thirty (30) days from the date of this notice. Finkel Law Firm LLC represents the Plaintiff in this action. Our law firm does not represent you and is not authorized to provide you any legal advice.

IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PROCESS, THE FORECLOSURE MAY PROCEED. NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT (15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq.): This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information you provide will be used for that purpose. However, if you have previously received a discharge from bankruptcy, this message is not and should be construed as an attempt to collect a debt, but only as a requirement pursuant to the administrative order.

FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC THOMAS A. SHOOK Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, South Carolina 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorney for Plaintiff

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Nationstar Mortgage LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Shaw Air Force Base Restoration Advisory Board Meeting 6:30 p.m., Nov. 14, 2016, New Beginning Banquet Facility 1335 SC Highway 441, Sumter

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(.3 miles north of US Highway 378) SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. – Shaw is hosting a public meeting at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 14, 2016, at the New Beginnings Banquet Facility, 1335 SC Highway 441, and invites the public to attend and participate. Shaw is conducting an ongoing series of environmental activities under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, a federal law enacted in 1980 to require the investigation and cleanup of old, contaminated sites throughout the country. These initiatives are within the guidelines of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976.

The meeting is of Shaw’s Restoration Advisory Board. The board provides a forum through which the base, our neighbors and regulatory agencies can work together in an atmosphere that encourages transparency, discussion, and exchange of information on current and future environmental cleanup programs here.

The purpose of this meeting is to allow the community the opportunity to view detailed information about ongoing Shaw’s environmental cleanup activities and to discuss specific questions and answers with the Shaw Environmental Restoration Team on a face-to-face basis.

Your United States Air Force is totally committed to a clean and safe environment. For further information, please contact the 20th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office, (803) 895-2019.

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