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BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Re-enactors and volunteers demonstrated how local settlers celebrated Christmas in the 1800s at Sumter County Museum’s Carolina Backcountry Christmas on Saturday.

The event was an opportunity for attendees to experience how farm families spent their holidays more than 200 years ago, said Deborah Watts, backcountry manager.

Individuals had the opportunity to tour numerous buildings that resembled a farm setting in the 1750s to 1800s, including a barn, blacksmith shop, loom house, smokehouse, settler’s house and a log cabin.

Attendees also had the opportunity to taste chestnuts roasted over a fire and observe activiVISIT THE ties of that BACKCOUNTRY time, such as fabric The Carolina weaving.

Backcountry is located Volunbehind the Sumter teers and County Museum, 122 staff wore N. Washington St. The outfits typimuseum’s hours are cal of the Thursday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 pm. The early 19th admission fee is $3 for century. adults and $1 for Brooke children, ages 6-17.

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“A loom house is where weavers turned fiber into thread to make cloth,” Crytser said.

“Many families made their own fabric because it was easier and cheaper than buying cloth. They created their own unique patterns and designs.”

Cryster said she enjoyed showing the process to those in attendance.

Frank Holloway, a local re-enactor, was dressed as a militia man of the 1770s, who would have served in the Revolutionary War. Wearing a winter coat of the period, he carried weapons such as a trade musket, an English pistol and several blades. He also carried a

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Eddie Headden practices his skill at walking on stilts during the Carolina Backcountry Christmas at Sumter County Museum on Saturday.

Tara Schumacher learns about weaving cloth with a loom from Mel Welch during the Backcountry Christmas at the Sumter County Museum on Saturday. “possibles” bag, which could include ammunition, materials to start a fire and other necessary items.

“I really enjoy telling people about the history of the Revolutionary War, what life was like for a militia man and the battles that were fought in this region,” Holloway said.

Frank Brown, president of the Col. Matthew Singleton South Carolina Society Sons of the American Revolution Chapter of Sumter, said the event allowed people to learn about history in person.

“It’s a good event for the community to learn about the history of the American Revolution era,” he said.

Sumter residents Perry Moses and Bonnie Moses said they attend the event each year.

“I’m interested in all of it,” Perry Moses said. “It’s really nice to see what life was like 200 years ago.”

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State Law Enforcement Division provided little new information on the investigation of a police-involved shooting that resulted in the death of 35-year-old Waltki Cermoun Williams of Sumter on Saturday.

SLED spokesman Thom Berry said the agency could not provide details about the case because the investigation is ongoing.

Berry said agents are still collecting forensic evidence and conducting interviews and will submit that information to the prosecutors with Third Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Sumter.

According to a news release from SLED, there is dash-cam footage of the incident.

Williams was killed during a shooting incident with officers after a domestic violence call from his former girlfriend at Sumter Mall on Broad Street.

According to a news release from Sumter Police Department, the woman was afraid to leave the mall because she said Williams, who was in the parking lot, allegedly threatened to kill her.

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People have left memorial items at the corner of Guignard Drive and Miller Road where Waltki Williams was allegedly shot and killed by Sumter Police Department officers late Saturday.

Fireside Fund a ‘blessing’ to those on fixed incomes

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Fireside Fund, which this year is dedicated to the memory of Sumter philanthropist Phil Edwards, is intended as a way for local residents to help their less-fortunate neighbors make it through the sometimes unpredictable South Carolina winter.

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serve others, according to Osteen. His philanthropy ranged from scholarships to the enlargement of Carolina Stadium of University of South Carolina. Countless people who never knew Edwards were beneficiaries of his generosity, Osteen added.

Before he died in July, Edwards was a generous contributor to Fireside Fund, Osteen said.

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Players from Slick Six battle with members of the Grass Fairies during the annual Kickin’ for a Cure on Saturday at Patriot Park. The event is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society and was organized by members of the IB program at Sumter High School.

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Kickin’ for a Cure raises funds for cancer research

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com About 80 soccer players and first-time participants of the game took part in Kickin' for a Cure, a charity soccer tournament that raised money for the American Cancer Society, on Saturday at Patriot Park.

The local fifth-annual event was a fundraiser hosted by Sumter School District's International Baccalaureate program's Creativity, Activity, Service.

The function of CAS is to allow schools that have the IB program the opportunity to "give students the means to learn through experience and how to take actions in the service of others," according to the program's website.

"The event brings many different people together to help raise money for

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cancer research," said Tyerra Clayborne, a former senior co-chair of the event and graduate of Sumter High School's IB program. "People from all skill levels come to play."

Clayborne, now a freshman at Converse College, served as one of the referees during the matches.

Evan Moxley, this year's senior cochair of the event, said teams from Sumter and surrounding regions were invited to participate.

"We tried to get as many people as we could to participate to help raise money for an important cause," Moxley said.

Each player paid $5 to take part in the tournament, and local businesses donated food and drinks that students sold as a fundraiser.

David Tolbert, a junior co-chair, said the students of the IB program orga-

LLC following a public hearing.

Also, Sumter County Administrator Gary Mixon will give a report regarding solar farms.

Prior to council's regular meeting, Sumter County Fiscal, Tax and Property Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. in County Council Conference Room to hold an executive session concerning an economic development and/or contractualproperty matter.

Sumter County Council will meet at 6 p.m. today in County Council Chambers, Sumter County Administration Building, 13 E. Canal St., to consider: • Final reading of a request to amend portions of the county zoning and development standards ordiCity council to receive nance to allow off-premise real estate signs, model audit Wednesday homes signs, pennants and fluttering signs in all disSumter City Council will tricts of the county; have a special called meet• Final reading of a reing at 11 a.m. Wednesday to quest to rezone 3.35 acres at receive an audit report for 2785 U.S. 15 South from agthe fiscal year ending June ricultural conservation to 30, 2016. general commercial for a The meeting will be in the future commercial project; City Council Chambers on • Final reading of an ordi- the fourth floor of the Sumnance to extend the induster Opera House, 21 N. Main trial/business park jointly St. owned and operated by For more information, Sumter and Kershaw councall Linda Hammett at (803) ties to include Bethune 436-2578.

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nized different fundraisers throughout the year, including selling colored ribbons, to represent the various forms of cancer.

Suzanne Koty, 2016 State Teacher of the Year and former Sumter High School teacher, was the first adviser of the program in 2012. Koty said the program was started by one of her former students, Lance Foxworth.

"Lance was a soccer player in high school who during his time at the school proposed the idea, as he had a desire to raise money for cancer research," she said.

The first year, money from the event went to The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and the last few years' fundraising has benefited the American Cancer Society, Koty said.

Clayton Barnes, a junior in the IB

program, played on one of the soccer teams Saturday. He said it was a fun event that brought together experienced soccer players with those who have not played for a long time.

"We had fun while raising money for a good cause," he said.

The goal was to raise about $1,000 at the event, said Ann-Frances Brown, English teacher and CAS coordinator at the school.

Brown said the event was one of several conducted through IB's CAS program.

The others include an Annual Walk Against Domestic Violence and a Toys for Tots event.

Brown said the mission is to think and act globally.

"The students do what they can to achieve that goal," he said.

Police urge residents to lock vehicles 3 charged in break-ins FROM STAFF REPORTS Local police are continuing to urge residents, whether at home or away, to always lock their vehicles before they leave them and to remove valuables and firearms.

Since Nov. 1, Sumter Police Department officers have responded to numerous reported vehicle break-ins mostly in residential parts of the city, said Tonyia McGirt, spokeswoman for the department.

All, except four of the break-ins, involved unlocked vehicles, McGirt said.

Most of the break-ins occurred in the Burns, Bland and Baldwin street areas and the adjacent Alice Drive and Deerfield area, she said.

On Thursday morning, multiple vehicle break-ins were reported at homes in that region, and all of the vehicles appear to have been unlocked, McGirt said.

Officers arrested three teenagers on Thursday and Saturday for those break-ins.

Senque Robinson, 18, of 157 Carolina Ave., and Marquell Stevens, 17, of 730 Wen Le Drive, are both charged with 13 counts of breaking and entering autos as well as one count each of financial transaction card theft, financial transaction card fraud and criminal conspiracy. Robert Preston Lilz, 18, of 129 Garrett St., faces 12 charges of breaking and entering autos.

The three suspects were booked at SumterLee Regional Detention Center.

Patrols around neighborhoods and businesses have been increased for the holiday season, McGirt said. However, the public's

help is needed to prevent crimes of opportunity, she said. Here are some tips from the department: • Be aware of strange vehicles and individuals in your neighborhood, and make note of people's description, clothing type and color, height and weight, distinguishing features (facial hair, tattoos, birthmarks, moles, piercings), vehicle type and ROBINSON color, license number, stickers or special features; • Park near outdoor lighting where your vehicle can be seen by passersby; • If shopping, be aware of your surroundings, and leave packages out of sight in the trunk. Better yet, make frequent STEVENS trips home to remove those packages; • Never leave electronic devices, power cords and accessories in your vehicle; • Never leave other valuables such as expensive coolers, jewelry, purses, wallets, debit, credit or gift cards and cash in your LILZ vehicle; • Never leave firearms, handguns and long arms and hunting equipment such as compound bows in your vehicle for long periods of time, especially overnight; and • If you think someone has been in your vehicle, leave it as you found it, and call police immediately.

For more information or to report a breakin in the city, call the department at (803) 4362700.

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Accused shooter had list of other black churches in car

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BY MEG KINNARD The Associated Press CHARLESTON — When he was arrested, the man accused of killing nine people during a Bible study in a Charleston church had a list of other area black churches in his car, law enforcement officials testified on Monday.

During roughly two hours on the stand, former State Law Enforcement Division agent Brittany Burke testified that names of a handful of other churches and their addresses were found on a handwritten list in a backpack in Dylann Roof's car.

Also on papers found in Roof's car were phone numbers for the Statehouse complex in Columbia, as well as the name of Denmark Vesey, one of the founders of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.

Vesey led a failed 1822 slave rebellion that drove the church underground. After the plot was reported, Vesey was hanged, and the church was burned. The church was rebuilt, but in 1834, all black churches were banned and members worshipped "underground" until 1865, when Emanuel AME Church was formally reorganized.

Burke is one of the state agents who processed evidence found in Roof's car when he was arrested after the June 2015 shootings at the church known as Mother Emanuel. A jury began last week hearing testimony against Roof, 22, who is on trial on 33 federal charges, including hate crimes and obstruction of the practice of religion.

Roof has formally entered a not guilty plea to all the charges in federal court. But his attorneys have said he's willing to change that to guilty if prosecutors agree not to seek the death penalty against him.

In his videotaped, twohour confession played for jurors last week, Roof told FBI agents he left bullets in a magazine so that he could kill himself after the slayings but changed his mind when he didn't see any police immediately after the shooting.

"Oh no. I was worn out," Roof said, when an agent asked if he thought about killing more black people.

Evidence shown in photographs introduced Monday showed Roof was essentially living in his car. Recovered from his black sedan were multiple items of clothing, food, beverages and an empty liquor bottle. There were also multiple travel brochures, a cellphone, laptop computer and a burned American flag.

Prosecutors also questioned a witness who detailed the process of Roof's gun purchase. Ronnie Thrailkill, manager of Shooter's Choice in West Columbia, testified that a typical background check was done on Roof when he came in to buy a Glock .45-caliber handgun in April 2015, two months before the shootings.

At that time, Thrailkill testified, Roof filled out the standard paperwork re-

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Homeland Security patrols the streets outside the Federal Courthouse in Charleston during Dylann Roof’s trial. Roof, a white man, is accused of killing nine black people at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. quired by federal law and left to wait out a three-day waiting period to allow time for background checks.

States can add more time onto that window, but no such efforts have passed the state Legislature.

Roof had been arrested for drugs two months earlier, but Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon told The Associated Press after the shootings that a jail clerk had entered incorrect information that wasn't ever fixed in a state database.

When Roof sought to buy the gun, an FBI examiner spotted the arrest but because of the error called the wrong agency to get his record. Without the necessary documents, the purchase had to go through after three days, and Roof came back for his gun.

Victims' families are suing the FBI for negligence in allowing the sale. FBI Director James Comey has said Roof should have never been allowed to buy the gun and promised a full review.

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Police expect Trump to lift executive order on surplus military gear HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — If president-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to state and local U.S. police departments.

National police organizations say they'll hold Trump to that promise.

President Obama issued an executive order restricting that access in 2015 amid an outcry about police use of armored vehicles and other warfighting gear to confront protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Since then, federal officials have recalled more than 1,800 items, which have been destroyed through target practice or otherwise disposed of, officials say.

But state and local police organizations have protested, insisting that military-style vehicles and gear help protect officers' lives and public safety — for example, a privately manufactured, tracked armored vehicle played a key role in the police response to the mass shooting at a county government building in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015.

During his campaign, Trump sided with the police.

In September, he promised to rescind the executive order in a written response to a Fraternal Order of Police questionnaire that helped him win an endorsement from the organization of rank-and-file officers.

"The 1033 program is an excellent program that enhances community safety. I will rescind the current executive order," reads the response posted on the group's website.

"We take him at his word," Executive Director James Pasco said in a recent tele-

phone interview.

The Trump transition team did not respond to questions from The Associated Press about the executive order.

National Sheriffs' Association Executive Director Jonathan F. Thompson said his group has pressed the topic in discussions with Trump's transition team. William J. Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said he was encouraged by his conversations with Trump representatives before the Nov. 8 election.

"The feeling that we got is they absolutely hear us, and they share our concerns," he said.

Obama's order was triggered partly by police use of military-style gear and vehicles in response to the 2014 unrest in Ferguson. The order prohibited the federal government from providing grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles, weaponized aircraft and vehicles, and firearms and ammunition of .50-caliber or greater to state and local police agencies.

Since then, the Defense Logistics Agency has recalled 138 grenade launchers, more than 1,600 bayonets and 126 tracked vehicles — those that run on continuous, tank-like tracks instead of wheels — that were provided through the military's 1033 program, agency spokeswoman Michelle McCaskill said.

Peter Kraska, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University's School of Justice Studies who has studied the militarization of police, said Obama's executive order has had little effect because there was relatively little demand for the prohibited items to begin with.

"It was more symbolic politics than anything substantive," he said.

The order also added re-

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Nevertheless, Kraska said, there's nothing to justify most police departments having such equipment.

"It just ramps up the probability that this kind of highend military hardware is going to be misapplied," he said.

But Cass County, North Dakota, Sheriff Paul Laney said the executive order is aimed at urban areas and ignores the usefulness of tracked vehicles in rugged terrain.

"They fail to realize the dilemma it puts sheriffs in who live in the rural areas, the desert areas, the mountain areas," he said.

Oakland County, Michigan, Sheriff Michael Bouchard, whose tracked vehicle was recalled, said rescinding the order would restore police access to equipment they've been denied for what he called "purely optic" reasons.

Groups on both ends of the political spectrum have expressed concern about police militarization, from civilrights organizations such as the NAACP and ACLU to the libertarian Cato Institute.

Raed Jarrar, government relations manager for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group committed to peace and social justice, said the executive order wasn't effective, but rescinding it would send a message that

"rather than attempting to curb militarism, the presidentelect is planning to continue on that path."

The Charles Koch Institute considers the restrictions under Obama's executive order "a decent start," said William Ruger, vice president of policy and research.

"We don't want local police departments to be incentivized to get the types of equipment that in most cases are a better fit for the war zone," he said.

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After health-care repeal vote, some in GOP fear a cliff

BY ALAN FRAM The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans are eagerly planning initial votes next month on dismantling President Obama's health care law, a cherished GOP goal. But many worry that while Congress tries to replace it, the party will face ever-angrier voters, spooked health insurers and the possibility of tumbling off a political cliff.

Republicans have said they first want to vote to unwind as much of the health care law as they can, though it wouldn't take effect for perhaps three years.

That's to give them and new President Donald Trump time to write legislation constructing a new health care system — a technically and politically daunting task that has frustrated GOP attempts

for unity for years.

Underscoring the GOP's many decisions ahead, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Monday that the phase-in period "is yet to be determined." He said Republicans "will work expeditiously to come up with a better proposal than current law."

Many congressional Republicans worry they'd be vulnerable during the transition period between a repeal vote and actually replacing Obama's law with a new system. Twenty million people now covered would face uncertainty about their future benefits, while unsettled health insurers might quickly start boosting premiums or stop selling policies in some areas to protect themselves.

In both cases, public wrath could be

aimed at the party controlling the White House and Capitol — the GOP. "It's going to be a difficult challenge to pass a replacement" for Obama's law and make sure some people don't lose coverage, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said. Health insurers will need time to adjust to a new system, and if Congress waits until the last minute to enact a new law, "It's not going to work," she said.

A related fear: Congress and Trump enact legislation dismantling Obama's law, but as the clock ticks down to its expiration, the GOP remains divided about replacing it. The political imperative for Republicans to pass something would be overwhelming but with Congress being Congress, there are no guarantees.

"When you set up a cliff, you can go

over it," Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., said.

Many Republicans insist that won't happen. They view setting an end date on Obama's law as a way to force congressional action on replacing it without hurting consumers.

"There needs to be a reasonable transition period so people don't have the rug pulled out from under them," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters last week.

But in one of many questions dividing Republicans, they differ about what a reasonable transition period means.

No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn of Texas, said there will likely be a three-year gap between Congress' votes to repeal Obama's law and when that would actually kick in.

"We're not going to let anybody fall through the cracks," Cornyn said.

China: Trump’s Taiwan comments cause ‘serious concern’ With President-elect Trump’s latest tweets touching on sensitive issues, China must decide how to handle an incoming American president who relishes confrontation and whose online statements appear to foreshadow shifts in foreign policy.

BY NOMAAN MERCHANT The Associated Press BEIJING — China said Monday that it had "serious concern" about President-elect Donald Trump's most recent comments about Taiwan and warned that any changes to how America deals with the self-governing island could damage diplomatic ties between Washington and Beijing.

China's comments came a day after Trump said in a TV interview that he didn't feel "bound by a one-China policy."

Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry, said that established policy is the "political foundation" of any diplomatic relationship between China and the U.S. and that any damage to it could render coop-

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"We urge the new U.S. leader and government to fully understand the seriousness of the Taiwan issue and to continue to stick to the one-China policy," Geng said.

Since recognizing the People's Republic of China in 1979, the

U.S. has adhered to the one-China policy, recognizing Beijing as the capital of China and maintaining only unofficial relations with Taiwan. American law, however, requires the U.S. to ensure that Taiwan has the means to defend itself and to treat all threats to the island as matters

of serious concern.

China split from Taiwan amid civil war in 1949 and continues to regard the island as a breakaway province to be reunified with the mainland, by force if necessary.

Geng's comments are the strongest public condemnation China has made of Trump's criticisms of current American policy toward Taiwan.

Beijing was already angered

by Trump's Dec. 2 phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, the first time an American president or president-elect has publicly spoken to a Taiwanese leader in nearly four decades. China considers any reference to a separate Taiwanese head of state to be a grave insult.

Trump followed the call

with two tweets accusing China of manipulating its currency, unfairly taxing American imports and provoking tensions in the South China Sea. During the weekend, he told "Fox News Sunday" that he wouldn't feel "bound by a oneChina policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade."

Trump said his call with Tsai was "very nice" and strictly meant to congratulate him on his winning the presidential election.

"Why should some other nation be able to say I can't take a call?" he said. "I think it actually would've been very disrespectful, to be honest with you, not taking it."

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He said the ministry recently financially assisted 19 families The chase ended when Williams crashed into with utilities and heating costs had a case with a 76-year-old two vehicles at the intersection of Miller Road for a total of $2,807.08. gentleman who worked hard and North Guignard Drive, where he exited his Donations ending the week all his life as a painter. vehicle and fled from officers on foot. on Monday, Dec. 12: The ministry tries to do The release said there was a “brief struggle The Glenmore and May Sharp more than provide just tempoand then an exchange of gunfire,” at which time Trust, $10,000; Sumter Co. Masrary assistance.

Williams was fatally wounded.

“When people come to us for ter Gardeners Association, $500; No other injuries were reported.

Aldersgate United Methodist help, we ask, ‘What is the The two Sumter Police Department officers inChurch, $500; cause for the volved in the shooting incident have been placed Immanuel need?’ beon administrative leave pending the outcome of Lutheran cause we the investigation.

Church of want to try to Daniel Wine Thomas, Williams’ uncle, said he Sumter, help people was close to his nephew, the son of his youngest $390.63; in with a plan to sister. memory of help avoid fuEverybody in the neighborhood loved him, he Margaret ture financial said.

Kohli by crisis,” Cham“He died young, and he died quick,” he said in Stanley A. pagne said. reference to his nephew’s age.

Kohli, $200; “Sometimes, Thomas said Williams and his ex-girlfriend had Glen Ogle Life as in the case experienced ups and downs in their relationship Group from with this genfor a long time.

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Thomas said the officers did not have to shoot MARK CHAMPAGNE $186.55; in The man’s his nephew. honor of Roy income is lim- Executive director, Sumter “People are getting tired of that kind of stuff,” Holland by ited to his Sohe said. “You don’t do people like that.”

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Sumter Police Department Public Information A surgical glove lies on the road near where Officer Tonyia McGirt did not disclose the race of Zion MBC, $150; Scott and “He would probably try to a makeshift memorial was placed at the cor- the officers involved. She said that and the names Tammy Mickey, $121; in memowork, but his age and having ner of Miller Road and Guignard Drive on ry of Phil Edwards by Mary E. been diagnosed with cancer in of the officers will be released at a time when it Monday after the alleged shooting of Waltki will not conflict with SLED’s investigation.

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Migrants arrested in Italy for smuggling may also be victims

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ecutor for Catania. "(We are) making the arrests at what I would define as the lowest level, the so-called PACHINO, Sicily — All mismugglers, the ones who drive grant Marc Samie has of his the boats and who are often fiancee is a picture in his mind. Louise, seven-and-a-half migrants," he said. "They risk their lives together with the months pregnant, is standing others." silently on a beach in Libya, There are no numbers on tears rolling down her face as glers, migrants who are someconvictions. But smugglers traffickers force him at guncan get five to 15 years in pris- times given a free ride, and point into a rubber dinghy make them drive the boat. Beon, Bonomo added. with a compass. hind it all is a "huge moveIn early November, police The armed men had ordered ment of money," he noted, Samie to hold the compass and stood in the port of Augusta with professional traffickers a satellite phone for navigation watching hundreds of migrants disembark from a navy earning 100,000 euros on the journey to Italy. He rerescue ship. Interpreters inter- ($105,000) from a dinghy that fused. So they fired a Kalashviewed them to try to figure costs just 2,000 ($2,100). nikov (assault rifle) at the out who was driving the boats "Our problem is that we ground between his legs and and holding the compasses. know how they are operating told him to take the compass Trafficking organizations in in Libya, but since there is no or they would kill the couple. government we can't take the They said she would be on the Libya now make cheap dinghies that can only last for final step, that of arresting the next boat. eight to nine hours in the organizers," he said.

That was last July, and he water before they sink, MarNot all boat drivers and navhasn't laid eyes on her since. igators are treated as smugBut instead of being treated as shal Tonio Panzanaro said. a victim in Italy, Samie was ar- The traffickers then take what glers. On Sept. 7, Gigi Modica, he calls "last-minute" smuga judge in Palermo, threw out rested by police and charged with facilitating illegal immigration.

Samie, a 21-year-old from Togo, is one of hundreds of migrants who are caught up in the Italian legal system as police, prosecutors and judges struggle to combat human trafficking. They are the victims of a new tactic where professional smugglers avoid being caught by forcing migrants, many of them minors, to take the helm of the boats.

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In another port, Augusta, more than 190 smugglers have been arrested so far this year, according to police. And in Catania district, trafficking arrests have risen dramatically from 13 in 2013 to 79 as of August.

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Modica concluded that the two presumed smugglers were actually migrants forced by armed Libyans to drive the boat. Neither seemed to have

any experience, they spoke different languages, and they couldn't communicate with one another. In his statement, he wrote that they had been threatened with death, and he ordered them to be freed immediately.

Modica said Libyan traffickers are choosing sub-Saharan Africans to drive the boats and take the compasses. He said defendants had told of friends being killed by traffickers because they refused to lead the boats.

He added that it is clear when those directing the boat aren't the real smugglers.

"They are weak. They are fragile. They are scared. They can only talk with lots of difficulty," he said. "It's evident that they aren't part of the problem. They are a victim of the problem."

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THE SUMTER ITEM H.D. Osteen 1904-1987 The Item

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A look back on Sumter Item history F

riday was a bittersweet day for us at The Sumter Item as we moved from our longtime address at 20 N. Magnolia St. to the former Osteen-Davis/Santee-Lynches building at the corner of Liberty and Sumter streets: 36 W. Liberty St. We’ve logged more than 50 years in that building, dating back to 1953 when my father bought a partially constructed building from a man who planned to use it for a car dealership. He went bankrupt before he could finish construction. My father remodeled the partial building into a newspaper office. Before the new building came together, The Item was located on West Liberty Street, where it was

established by its founder, H.G. Osteen, my grandfather, in 1894.

I began working summers at Hubert D. the West LibOsteen Jr. erty Item in 1950 at the age of 14 when my father decreed that my childhood was over and I needed to do something productive with my time instead of wasting it with my pals in the Hasell Street-Mood Avenue-Saratoga Street gang. I was assigned to duties in the composing room under the baleful eyes of Mr. John C.

Adams, the foreman of the “back shop” or mechanical department, where linotype machines spit out type that was used in creating pages that came together into plates to be placed on a press, which made the most beautiful sound my young ears had ever heard.

Sure, I remember the fascinating process of putting type on paper that helped create a newspaper for distribution throughout Sumter and Sumter County. It was fun working in the hot metal environment back in the old days, but what I remember the most were the people, such as the people who worked in the back shop and ran linotypes and the noisy, often fractious

press under the command of Roy Turner and James “Nucklehead” Boseman.

It was a hot environment during the summer and cold during the winter. There were many others who come to mind, both living and deceased: N.G. “Pete” Way, Joe Dickson, Gene Funderburke, Charlie Jones, Bill Browder, Tom Ward, just to name a few (more to come in a later column; I’m on deadline today.)

Going even further back in the “old days,” I would be remiss if I didn’t mention my grandfather, H.G. Osteen, who founded The Item. He resided in a cramped office near the composing room where he smoked cigars and spat tobacco juice off the

walls of his office. Another mainstay of those early days was Mood Dollard, who ran the circulation department along with Iantha Reese. He was with The Item for more than 40 years and smoked cigarettes incessantly until the ashes burned his lips.

Before that he ran the pressroom.

That’s just a sampling of my look back as we set up shop again on West Liberty Street. I’ll continue writing about the Old Guard at The Item until exhaustion sets in.

There were many more memorable characters who made a big difference in building The Sumter Item as we know it today. Stay tuned.

(TO BE CONTINUED).

NOTABLE & QUOTABLE The Guardian reports that 2016 was the year “Facebook became the bad guy,” proving “how difficult it is for the social network to make the world more open and connected when the decisions it makes are so divisive.”

Mark Zuckerberg started 2016 with a cookie cutter message of hope. “As the world faces new challenges and opportunities, may we all find the courage to keep making progress and making all our days count,” he wrote on his Facebook wall on 1 January.

He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had just had their daughter, Max, and had been sharing warm and fuzzy photos of gingerbread houses and their dreadlocked dog Beast over the holiday season.

Then 2016 happened. As the year unfurled, Facebook had to deal with a string of controversies and blunders, not limited to: being accused of imperialism in India, censorship of historical photos and livestreaming footage of human rights violations. Not to mention misreported advertising metrics and the increasingly desperate cloning of rival Snapchat’s core features.

Things came to a head in November, when the social network was accused of influencing the U.S. presidential election through politically polarized filter bubbles and a failure to tackle the spread of misinformation. The icing on the already unpalatable cake was Pope Francis last week declaring that fake news is a mortal sin.

This was Facebook’s annus horribilis. Mark Zuckerberg must long for the day when his biggest dilemma was deciding which gray T-shirt to wear on his first day back at work.

••• Banquet speech by Bob Dylan given by the United States Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji, at the Nobel Banquet on Dec. 10, 2016.

I’m sorry I can’t be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming. From an early age, I’ve been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway.

These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep im-

pression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.

I don’t know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves, but I suppose that anyone writing a book, or a poem, or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside.

It’s probably buried so deep that they don’t even know it’s there.

If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I’d have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact, during the year I was born and for a few years after, there wasn’t anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So, I recognize that I am in very rare company, to say the least.

••• In “What 1980 and 2016 Have in Common,” author Michael Solon writes, “Like the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions, Trump and Brexit are reactions to stagnation.” Read it online at www.wsj.com: Just as Margaret Thatcher’s ascendance in 1979 foreshadowed Ronald Reagan’s in 1980, so the British vote to exit from the European Union earlier this year presaged Donald Trump’s triumph.

The two nations with the longest traditions of liberty — the United Kingdom and the United States — both have a renewed chance to reclaim their freedom from overzealous regulators and international institutions, which have served government interests but let down average citizens.

Since 2008, the largest developed economies, in an effort to build financial stability and economic prosperity, have engaged in unprecedented coordination of financial regulation, monetary policy and business taxation.

What the G-7 nations got instead was the weakest economic growth, the largest surge in government debt, the riskiest monetary expansion and the gravest deflationary pressures of the postwar era.

Yet Brexit and the Trump administration could help cast off these international entanglements and reverse the Europeanization of the two economies. If they do, the U.K. and U.S. may demonstrate how greater freedom and limited government can restore domestic prosperity and stability — as Thatcher and Reagan did a generation ago.

Notable & Quotable is compiled by Graham Osteen. Contact him at graham@theitem. com.

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Nobel laureate of 2016 revisited

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ASHINGTON — There has been ferment among the literati since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Many say that however well Dylan does what he does, it is not literature. Dylan did not go to Stockholm on Saturday to collect his prize, which the Swedish Academy George says was Will awarded “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Well, then: “God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son’ Abe says, ‘Man, you must be puttin’ me on’” or: “Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet Now you would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row” The New York Times primly notes that the academy is famous for “its at times almost willful perversity in picking winners.”

Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh (“Trainspotting”) professes himself “a Dylan fan” but tweeted that the Nobel is “an ill-conceived

nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.” Strong letter to follow.

Now 75, Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, and lived in Hibbing, Minnesota, 150 miles from Sauk Centre, Minnesota, home of Sinclair Lewis, who won the 1930 Nobel for literature (“Babbitt,” “Elmer Gantry”). This was evidence of abruptly defining literature down: Thomas Mann won in 1929.

If you recognize even onethird of the 113 literature prize winners since 1901, you need to get out of the house more. Philip Roth has not won, a fact that would cost the Swedish Academy its reputation for seriousness, if it had one.

The Weekly Standard’s Andrew Ferguson would win the Nobel Prize for Common Sense, if there were one. He notes that by not taking himself too seriously or encouraging others to do so, Dylan has “proved two propositions that seemed increasingly unlikely in the age of media saturation: You can shun publicity and still be hugely famous, and you can be hugely famous and not be obnoxious about it.”

For this, Dylan deserves some sort of prize. Ferguson laments that it is evidently impossible to take Dylan “for what he is, an impressive man worthy of admiration, affection and respect, and leave it at that.”

Impossible. In an age of ever-more-extravagant attention-getting yelps about everything, people have tumbled over one another reaching for encomia, such as this from a Harvard professor: “Dylan has surpassed Walt Whitman as the defining American artist.”

(Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Wharton,

Fitzgerald, Faulkner?)

If song lyrics are literature, why did the academy discover this with Dylan and not Stephen Sondheim (from “West Side Story” on)? Last year, the literature prize was won by Belarusia’s Svetlana Alexievich, whose specialty is interviews woven into skillfully wrought books (e.g., “Secondhand Time”). They are highly informative, even moving, but are they literature?

Sean Wilentz, Princeton professor of American history, grew up in New York City near the end of its red-tinged folk revival and was 13 when he attended Dylan’s 1964 concert at Manhattan’s Philharmonic Hall. Wilentz’s book “Bob Dylan in America,” which would better have been titled “America in Bob Dylan,” interestingly locates him in the stream of American culture and celebrates him for expanding his range as relentlessly as he has toured — more than 1,400 shows in this century. Wilentz recalls how Dylan “going electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival scandalized “the fetishists of authenticity,” but Dylan did not look back. “He sees,” Wilentz says, “a kind of literature in performance.” If that is so, then is Mike Trout, baseball’s best performer, doing literature for the Los Angeles Angels? Literature is becoming a classification that no longer classifies.

Never mind. Just enjoy the music of the surprising man who in 1961 arrived in Greenwich Village and who once said “my favorite politician was Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater.”

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group

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Mosul doctors struggle to save civilians on Iraq front line

BY SUSANNAH GEORGE The Associated Press MOSUL, Iraq — A crowd of men rushed through the narrow hallway of Mosul's alZahra clinic carrying a slight 10-year-old boy. Yousef Oday's face was covered in blood.

A team of doctors quickly gathered around his cot.

"What happened to you?" one of the men asked.

"I have no idea. I was bleeding on one side," the boy said.

He didn't make another sound, lying motionless as a doctor put an IV into his arm.

His eyes were wide and pupils dilated.

Oday was hit in the side of his head with a stray bullet as he was waiting in line to gather water from a well in eastern Mosul. Two other young men waiting with him were also shot. Dr. Ahmed Hussam methodically tended to Oday's wounds. "He's in shock," he explained.

While Iraqi forces announce daily advances, the city's civilians continue to be killed and maimed by indirect fire, clashes and counterattacks.

The Mosul front line in the city's east is being pushed forward in two columns: one led by the Iraqi army's 9th Division and the other by the special forces. In some places, Iraqi forces are just more than 1.2 miles from the Tigris River that splits the city. But along the main highway that cuts through the center of Mosul's eastern half, Iraqi forces have made hardly any advances at all.

The jagged edge leaves troops vulnerable to counterattacks but also thousands of civilians exposed to ongoing clashes as the operation slowly grinds forward.

Oday was shot in al-Zahra, a neighborhood declared liberated nearly a month ago.

Since then, Iraqi forces have captured nearly half a dozen other neighborhoods and districts but have not managed to completely secure al-Zahra so that aid groups and supply trucks can access the hundreds of civilians still living there.

"This is nothing," whispered one of the nurses in the emergency room where Oday was being treated. "We have people who come in here without any arms or legs," she said, asking to only be identified by her first name, Malkiya, out of concern for her safety.

Doctors in the small clinic in eastern Mosul say that since the operation to retake the city began nearly two months ago, they've only received intermittent deliveries of supplies. Nurses say they're running out of basic items such as clean bandages.

In a hallway that's been converted into an emergency room, doctors say all they have are bottles of saline solution, gauze and iodine. Like nearly all of Mosul, the clinic also lacks running water.

Hundreds of other patients also filled the dim hallways waiting for antibiotics, cough syrup, allergy medicine or insulin. A woman and her three daughters said they walked 1.8 miles across a front line to reach the clinic to obtain antibiotics. Since the operation to retake Mosul began, temperatures have dropped and, without electricity or fuel,

Yousef Oday, 10, who was wounded in the eye by Islamic State militants, is treated by doctors at a clinic in Zahra district in Mosul, Iraq. With little electricity and no running water, Mosul doctors struggle to save civilians on the front line.

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her children have all gotten sick.

The women spoke on condition of anonymity as they were still living in a Mosul neighborhood controlled by IS. "We have no protection," the mother said, walking inside the examination room and lifting the black veil she

wore to travel to the clinic.

Her youngest daughter screamed as the nurse gave her an immunization shot.

During the first few battles of the Mosul operation, IS fighters largely fled the villages around the city, giving Iraqi and coalition commanders hope they would do the

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Unlike in past fights where civilians were moved out of the way of front-line clashes, in Mosul, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has asked civilians to stay in their homes. The move prevents massive displacement — Mosul is still home to an estimated one million people — but it also leaves thousands in harm's way and thousands more out of reach of aid organizations wary of operating close to the front.

The clinic inside Mosul estimates it has treated at least 800 severely wounded civilians since Iraqi forces first

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"All we can do is work as a stabilization unit," said Dr. Muhammad Hassan Ali, explaining that without the ability to perform surgery, most of the emergency cases he receives need to be transferred to a hospital in Irbil more than an hour's drive away across bad roads and through half a dozen checkpoints.

Oday, the young boy, lost his left eye, but the doctors at the clinic were able to bandage his wound and slow the bleeding. As quickly as he was rushed into the building, he was carried out into an ambulance bound for Irbil.

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"He's very lucky."

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AROUND TOWN The Ebenezer Alumni AssociaThe Sumter County Education tion will hold its annual scholAssociation for Retired EduSCEA-R to hold Christmas party arship banquet at 7 p.m. on cators (SCEA-R) will hold Friday, Dec. 23, at Ebenezer their Christmas party at Middle School, 3440 Ebenenoon on Wednesday, Dec. zer Road. Call (803) 49414, at Willie Sue’s restau2900 for more information. rant. Call Brenda Bethune at (803) 469-6588 for more The Sumter Chapter of the information.

National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina will The Civil Air Patrol’s annual meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Wreaths Across America cerJan. 10, 2017, at Shilohemony will be held at noon Randolph Manor, 125 W. on Saturday, Dec. 17, at Bartlette St. All members Sumter Cemetery, 700 W. are required to join before Oakland Ave., to remember, honor and teach about or at this meeting for 2017.

The spotlight will shine on our fallen heroes, those Sarah Bracey and the ascurrently serving and our sociate member is Judy L. U.S. military veterans. WilSimon, membership chairbur Jeffcoat, who is a Vietperson. Transportation nam veteran, Liberty Uniprovided within the mileversity student of theology and biblical studies as well age area. If you know a blind person, contact as character development Debra Canty, chapter presofficer in the Sumter CAP ident, at (803) 775-5792 or squadron, will speak. For debra.canty@frontier.com. more information, contact Donations and memberLt. Denise Owen at owenships are welcome. Donamom@aol.com. tions should be mailed to American Legion Post 202 NFB Sumter Chapter, P.O. will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Box 641, Sumter, SC 29151.

Sunday, Dec. 18, at 310 Pal“Chemo with Style” Support metto St. Dinner will be Group will hold its first served. Meeting will begin meeting from 5:30 to 7 p.m. immediately after dinner. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, All members invited. at Hospice Care of TriAmerican Legion Post 202 County, 2560 Tahoe Drive, is a veteran organization serving the community. For and will continue to meet every other third Tuesday more information, call of every other month (803) 773-4811 or Lamon thereafter.

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DAILY PLANNER

WEATHER TODAY

TONIGHT

Cooler with periods of rain

Some rain and a t-storm late

54°

48°

54° / 35°

Chance of rain: 65%

Chance of rain: 55%

E 4-8 mph

NNW 3-6 mph

TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

PUBLIC AGENDA LEE COUNTY COUNCIL Today, 9 a.m., council chambers

PINEWOOD TOWN COUNCIL Today, 6:30 p.m., town hall

SUMTER HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION Today, noon, Sunset Country Club

TURBEVILLE TOWN COUNCIL Today, 6:30 p.m., town hall

SUMTER COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Today, 5 p.m., library LYNCHBURG TOWN COUNCIL Today, 6 p.m., Teen Center on Magnolia Street, Lynchburg

SUMMERTON TOWN COUNCIL Today, 6 p.m., town hall MAYESVILLE TOWN COUNCIL Today, 7 p.m., town hall CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT 3 Thursday, 7:30 p.m., district office, Turbeville

SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL Today, 6 p.m., Sumter County Council Chambers

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Professional EUGENIA LAST meetings, interviews and trips will help you bring about a positive response from those you do business with. The information you receive will encourage you to expand your interests and take on more responsibilities. Romance is highlighted.

what you want. Accept the inevitable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Travel, meetings, educational pursuits and mingling with the people who inspire or motivate you are all favored. A day trip will result in a plan that can change your life.

Romance is on the radar and should be pursued.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Money matters will create some TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Physical controversy. Don’t allow an ailments or injuries will slow you emotional situation to turn into a down. Strive to take better care of your health. Gather the knowledge costly affair. Dig deep and get the facts before you get involved in a that will help you make good joint venture that will leave you in decisions. Don’t mix business with pleasure. Refuse to commit without a compromising position. a contract in place.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Express your heartfelt desire to the GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll people you feel you can count on, have the energy, fortitude and optimism to see your plan through and you will be given the to completion. Your passionate opportunity to pursue new approach to bring about positive beginnings. Broaden your horizons changes will give you the boost and you’ll realize that you have you need to go the distance. options you didn’t know existed.

Romance is encouraged.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): CANCER (June 21-July 22): Refuse Learn from past emotional to let emotional matters influence experiences. Before you say “yes,” your ability to take care of your consider the desired outcome to responsibilities. It’s important to ensure that the important details concentrate on making sure you are baked into the final results. don’t take on more than you can Don’t let your ego interfere with handle. Finish what you start and what you know is the right move. honor your promises.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Initiate can gain ground at home. Real change and do the work necessary estate investments, renovations, to make things happen your way. moves or anything that pertains to Personal gains are within reach if upgrading your domestic you take action to update your environment will pay off. Romance investments and negotiate outdated contracts. Romance is on is in the stars and will help secure your place in someone special’s the rise and will improve your heart. personal life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Problems at home will surface if you aren’t forthright about the way you feel or what you want to pursue next. Don’t hide your feelings when bringing them out into the open will help you get

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Draw on your intuition and knowledge to help get you through any controversy. Problems with bosses, older friends or relatives will surface if you fall behind on your obligations.

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Partly sunny and colder

Partly sunny and warmer

51° / 24°

40° / 30°

62° / 56°

Chance of rain: 55%

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 0%

Chance of rain: 15%

NE 6-12 mph

NNW 6-12 mph

ENE 7-14 mph

SSW 6-12 mph

A morning shower; Times of clouds and cloudy sun

Gaffney 48/38 Spartanburg 48/40

Greenville 49/40

Columbia 55/47

Sumter 54/48

Aiken 55/47

ON THE COAST

Charleston 67/57

Today: Cloudy; rain, except dry in southern parts. High 59 to 69.

Wednesday: Showers around. High 54 to 64.

68° 39° 57° 35° 81° in 2007 9° in 1958

LAKE LEVELS Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest.

354.10 73.85 73.80 98.38

24-hr chg -0.03 -0.01 +0.15 +0.02

Sunrise 7:19 a.m.

Moonrise 5:22 p.m.

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Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest.

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date

0.01" 1.32" 1.21" 46.57" 57.76" 44.94"

River Black River Congaree River Lynches River Saluda River Up. Santee River Wateree River

NATIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL CITIES

Today City Hi/Lo/W Atlanta 60/45/r Chicago 19/2/pc Dallas 59/38/pc Detroit 30/10/c Houston 73/55/c Los Angeles 67/52/pc New Orleans 74/58/t New York 43/34/pc Orlando 84/60/pc Philadelphia 42/33/pc Phoenix 74/51/pc San Francisco 59/53/c Wash., DC 46/35/pc

City Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 57/31/pc 16/-3/pc 54/38/c 21/6/sf 68/46/pc 68/55/pc 63/44/pc 41/23/pc 82/62/pc 42/26/pc 77/53/pc 63/56/r 45/27/pc

Myrtle Beach 61/50

Manning 57/50

Today: Cooler with rain tapering off. Winds east-northeast 4-8 mph.

Wednesday: Increasing amounts of sunshine. Winds southeast 4-8 mph.

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

Florence 54/45

Bishopville 52/46

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Wed. Hi/Lo/W 51/23/pc 58/32/pc 58/35/c 61/41/c 52/41/c 58/39/c 53/32/pc 57/34/pc 55/35/pc 56/37/c 51/31/pc 53/34/pc 53/35/pc

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Wed. Hi/Lo/W 54/35/c 78/53/sh 54/31/pc 54/34/pc 57/39/c 51/30/pc 55/33/pc 52/30/pc 60/42/sh 74/47/sh 60/32/pc 62/36/c 56/29/pc

High 8:01 a.m.

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City Marion Mt. Pleasant Myrtle Beach Orangeburg Port Royal Raleigh Rock Hill Rockingham Savannah Spartanburg Summerville Wilmington Winston-Salem

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Ht. -1.0 -0.6 -1.1 -0.7

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ning Ave. The South Sumter Resource Center is accepting applicaThe Single Parent Institute Applications being accepted for Job Readtions for the Job Readiness meets from 5:45 to 6:45 iness Training Training (JRT) Program. This p.m. on the second Monprogram is for youth ages day of each month at the 14-17 who are in high Birnie HOPE Center. Meetschool. Selected particiings are open to teenage pants will complete a 10single parents, custodial week program which will and non-custodial single teach employability skills. parents. You are welcome This is a paid training proto bring your children as gram and there are only 20 the Single Parent Institute slots available. Contact Mr. is for the entire family.

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PRO FOOTBALL

Touchdown shortage

Panthers QB Newton increasingly frustrated with offense’s lack of production

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Alabama, winner of Heisman lead All-Americans

BY RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press No. 1 Alabama placed four players on The Associated Press All-America team, most of any school, and Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson and fellow Heisman Trophy finalists Jabrill Peppers of Michigan and Dede Westbrook of Oklahoma were also first-team selections.

The Crimson Tide and No. 2 Ohio State tied for the most JACKSON players on the three All-America teams released Monday with six. No. 3 Clemson had five players on the three teams, but none on the first team. Washington, which has a spot in PEPPERS the College Football Playoff team along with Alabama, Ohio State and Clemson, had two players on the second team.

Jackson won the Heisman Saturday , finishing well ahead of Clemson’s Deshaun Watson and Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield. The three quarterbacks lined up similarly on the All-America teams with Watson second-team and Mayfield third-team.

SEE TEAM, PAGE B4

COLLEGE BASEBALL

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton (1) celebrates a touchdown against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C. The Panthers won 28-16.

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quarterback Cam Newton said the Carolina Panthers’ offense is lacking a killer instinct.

While Newton wasn’t about to trade anything for emotional high that comes with a win, he wasn’t pleased with the offense’s production after a 28-16 victory over the

San Diego Chargers on Sunday.

“The defense played lights out for us, gave us unbelievable field position. Offensively, not to rain on the win, we have to put up points — points as in getting touchdowns,” Newton said after the Panthers snapped a two-game losing streak.

It has been a common theme for the Panthers (5-8) all season.

The defense has repeatedly set up New-

ton and company with good field position, only for a drive to end in a Graham Gano field goal attempt, a punt or turnover. The Panthers settled for four field goals on Sunday and the managed two touchdowns. But another Carolina drive inside the Chargers 10-yard line ended in a Newton interception.

SEE PANTHERS, PAGE B4

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Who will be AP’s college football Player of the Year?

BY RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press

The Associated Press has been handing out a college football player of the year award since 1998. Five times the AP’s award has gone to a player other than the Heisman Trophy winner, including last year when Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey beat out Alabama’s Derrick Henry.

In the past the AP has asked its college football poll voters to cast a vote for one player it determines to be the best in college football. This season the AP used a Heisman-style system, asking voters to cast a ballot with a top three in order. First-place votes receive three points, two points for second and one for third. The winner is the player who receives the most points.

The AP player of the year will be announced Tuesday. Here are the top three vote-getters in alphabetical order:

JONATHAN ALLEN, DL, ALABAMA Allen has 56 tackles, 8.5 sacks, 15 quarterback hurries and returned two fumbles for touchdowns. He won the Bronco Nagurski Award given to the nation’s top defensive player. The 293pound junior has been a dominant player on the nation’s best defense for the No. 1 team in the country. Alabama leads the country in total defense, scoring defense and rush defense. The defending national champions will play No. 4 Washington in Col-

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The AP college football Player of the Year will be announced today, and Deshaun Watson of Clemson, Jonathan Allen of Alabama, and Lamar Jackson of Louisville, are the top three vote getters. lege Football Playoff semifinal at the Peach Bowl.

LAMAR JACKSON, QB, LOUISVILLE The Heisman Trophy winner has run for 21 touchdowns, thrown 30 TD passes and is averaging 410 total yards per game. He threw for 3,390 yards, and ran for 1,538 yards and 6.6 per carry.

Jackson led the 15th-ranked Cardinals to a 9-3 season and an invitation to the Citrus Bowl to play No. 19 LSU.

DESHAUN WATSON, QB, CLEMSON The Heisman runner-up and Davey O’Brien Award winner as the nation’s top quarterback led the Tigers to the College Football Playoff for the second straight season. The junior passed for 3,914 yards and 37 touchdowns and run for 529 and six touchdowns. No. 3 Clemson will face No. 2 Ohio State in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl.

Sumter’s Moore signs with FDTC

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com Ryan Moore makes no bones about it. He has no interest in stopping playing the game of baseball. Florence-Darlington Technical College has given him the chance to play baseball two more seasons.

The Sumter High School middle infielder recently signed with the Stingers, who are coached by former Lakewood High School and Sumter American Legion Post 15 standout Preston McDonald.

“I want to play baseball as long as I can,” said Moore, who will play shortstop for the GameMOORE cocks when his senior season starts in a couple of months.

“I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to play at the junior college level.”

This will be Moore’s second season at shortstop for SHS after playing at second base as a sophomore. Sumter head coach Brooks Shumake said Moore is an outstanding defender on either side of the second base bag.

“Ryan’s an outstanding athlete who can hold down either spot in the middle of the infield,” Shumake said. “He’s been a pretty solid defender up the middle for us.”

As a junior for the Gamecocks, Moore batted .278, going 22-for-79 with four runs batted in. He had no extra-base hits, but he drew 11 walks and had eight sacrifice bunts. Moore also stole six bases.

He played second base for the P-15’s this past season. He batted .239, going 28-for-117. He drove in nine runs and had 11 stolen bases.

Moore hopes he’ll be able to take advantage of his time at FDTC and extend his playing career.

“I didn’t really have any other offers,” Moore said. “My plan is to take advantage of this as a chance to be seen.”

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George, Turner score 22 to lead Pacers over Hornets

BY JIM JOHNSON The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George and Myles Turner scored 22 points each to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 11094 win over the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night.

Jeff Teague had 16 points, 11 assists and five rebounds, and Rodney Stuckey added 14 points for the Pacers, who have won two straight since returning home from a fivegame road trip.

Marco Belinelli scored 14 points for the Hornets, Marvin Williams and Nicolas Batum each had 13 and Kemba Walker added 12.

PROSECUTOR WANTS 60-YEAR SENTENCE FOR EX-SAINT’S KILLER NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans’ district attorney said he’ll seek 60 years in

prison for the man who killed New Orleans Saints star Will Smith — the maximum 40 years for manslaughter, plus another 20 years for attempted manslaughter in the wounding of Smith’s wife.

“We will do our gut-level best to get the judge to impose the maximum sentence of 60 years,” Leon Cannizzaro told reporters Monday.

TV, RADIO TODAY

1 p.m. – College Football: NCAA Division II Playoffs Semifinal Game – Ferris State at Northwest Missouri State (ESPNU).

2:40 p.m. – International Soccer: English Premier League Match – Arsenal vs. Everton (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

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

7 p.m. – College Basketball: South Carolina State at Clemson (ESPNU, WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Temple at Villanova (FOX SPORTS 1).

7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Vancouver at Carolina (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Chicago at New York Rangers (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Tennessee Tech at Tennessee (SEC NETWORK).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Minnesota at Chicago (ESPN).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: North Carolina Central at Louisiana State (SEC NETWORK).

10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Oklahoma City at Portland (ESPN).

2:20 a.m. – International Soccer: FIFA Club World Cup Fifth-Place Match from Osaka, Japan – Jeonbuk, South Korea, vs. Mamelodia, South Africa (FOX SPORTS 1).

been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s or dementia could begin receiving payments in 90 to 120 days.

TANNEHILL’S KNEE INJURY LESS SERIOUS THAN FEARED DAVIE, Fla. — Ryan Tannehill was back at the Miami Dolphins’ complex Monday, his left knee injury less serious than first feared.

The injury was diagnosed as a sprained ACL and MCL, coach Adam Gase said, meaning Tannehill will avoid surgery.

It remains unlikely he’ll play again this season, and Matt Moore will make his first start since 2011 on Saturday against the New York Jets.

SUPREME COURT LEAVES $1B NFL CONCUSSION SETTLEMENT IN PLACE The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the final two challenges to the estimated $1 billion settlement between the NFL and thousands of its former players who have been diagnosed with brain injuries linked to repeated concussions.

Players who already have

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Sumter varsity boys beat A.C. Flora Sumter’s varsity basketball teams split with A.C. Flora on Monday at the SHS gymnasium with the boys edging the Falcons 66-64 while the girls lost 4633.

In the boys game, the Gamecocks outscored Flora 22-10 in the first quarter en route to the victory -- one that avenged a loss to the Falcons, the defending 3A state champions, from earlier in the year.

Tylik Sibblies-Simon and Isaih Moore each led SHS with 15 points. The duo also combined to hit eight of 10 free throws in the fourth quarter.

Calvin Felder added 12 points for Sumter, which improved to 3-2 on the season.

The girls were outscored in both the second and fourth quarters as the Lady Gamecocks fell to 1-4.

Both teams will host Hartsville today before traveling to county rival Crestwood on Friday.

LOCAL PREP SCHEDULE TODAY VARSITY BASKETBALL Hartsville at Sumter, 6 p.m.

Crestwood at OrangeburgWilkinson, 6 p.m.

Manning at Lakewood, 6 p.m.

Buford at Lee Central, 6 p.m.

VARSITY AND JV BASKETBALL East Clarendon at Scott’s Branch, 4 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Ben Lippen, 4 p.m.

Maranatha Christian at Florence Christian (No JV Girls), 4 p.m.

B TEAM BASKETBALL Eau Claire at Sumter (Boys Only), 5 p.m.

THURSDAY JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL Sumter at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Lakewood at Camden, 6 p.m.

Chesterfield at Lee Central, 6 p.m.

B TEAM BASKETBALL Orangeburg-Wilkinson at Sumter (Boys Only), 5 p.m.

MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL Hillcrest at Alice Drive, 5 p.m.

VARSITY BASKETBALL Wilson Hall in Heathwood Hall Tournament (Girls Only), 7:15 p.m.

VARSITY AND JV BASKETBALL East Clarendon at Lake City, 4 p.m.

VARSITY WRESTLING

WEDNESDAY VARSITY BASKETBALL Manning at Berkeley, 6 p.m.

MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL Ronald E. McNair at Lee Central, 5:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Timmonsville, 5:30 p.m.

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WH PLACES 5TH, QUALIFIES FOR STATE

Marcus Lane had 22 points to help lead Alice Drive Middle School to a 54-38 victory over Ebenezer on Monday at the Hawks gymnasium.

Trevonte Brunson added 11 points, Jaiven LoweryIsaac had six and Deanta Porter finished with five for ADMS. The Hawks, who improved to 5-0, will host Hillcrest on Thursday.

MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL HILLCREST 35 FURMAN 21 DALZELL -- Christion Bowser scored 19 points to help lead Hillcrest Middle School to its first victory of the season, 35-21 over Furman on Monday at the HMS gymnasium.

The Wildcats improved to 1-4 overall.

PEE DEE 28 DALZELL -- Bree Stoddard had a double-double to lead Thomas Sumter

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CHESTNUT OAKS 38 Corey Graham scored 21 points as Manning Junior High defeated Chestnut Oaks 57-38 on Monday at the Falcons gymnasium.

Gerkedz Sharp added 14 points for the Monarchs followed by Jayquan House with 11.

Mack led the Falcons with 17 points.

MJH, which improved to 4-1, returns to action on Thursday against Mayewood.

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Charlotte at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Houston, 8 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

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

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

Memphis at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Golden State at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 8 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Charlotte at Washington, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Miami, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Houston, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Utah, 9 p.m.

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

NCAA FCS PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press

QUARTERFINALS FRIDAY’S GAMES Sam Houston State (12-0) at James Madison (11-1), 7 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES South Dakota State (9-3) at North Dakota State (11-1), Noon Wofford (10-3) at Youngstown State (10-3), 2 p.m.

Richmond (10-3) at Eastern Washington (11-1), 4 p.m.

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GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 28 19 6 3 41 91 62 Ottawa 29 16 11 2 34 70 78 Boston 29 15 12 2 32 69 70 Tampa Bay 29 14 13 2 30 81 81 Detroit 29 13 12 4 30 70 77 Florida 29 13 12 4 30 70 77 Toronto 27 11 11 5 27 79 84 Buffalo 27 10 11 6 26 56 72 METROPOLITAN DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 30 20 9 1 41 105 70 Pittsburgh 28 18 7 3 39 97 84 Philadelphia 31 18 10 3 39 101 94 Columbus 26 17 5 4 38 87 56 Washington 27 17 7 3 37 72 59 New Jersey 28 12 10 6 30 69 82 Carolina 28 11 11 6 28 69 76 N.Y. Islanders 27 11 11 5 27 71 81

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

Arizona at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

New Jersey at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Florida at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

SUNDAY’S GAMES

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Adriana Roach scored 15 points to lead Chestnut Oaks Middle School to a 31-15 victory over Manning Junior High on Monday at the CO gymnasium.

Ayana Roach added 10 for the Lady Falcons.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Los Angeles at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Carolina, 7 p.m.

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

Arizona at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Florida at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Anaheim at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Columbus at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Philadelphia 97, Detroit 79 Golden State 116, Minnesota 108 Oklahoma City 99, Boston 96 New Orleans 120, Phoenix 119, OT New York 118, L.A. Lakers 112

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

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SUNDAY’S GAMES

Cincinnati 23, Cleveland 10 Detroit 20, Chicago 17 Tennessee 13, Denver 10 Pittsburgh 27, Buffalo 20 Washington 27, Philadelphia 22 Minnesota 25, Jacksonville 16 Houston 22, Indianapolis 17 Carolina 28, San Diego 16 Miami 26, Arizona 23 Tampa Bay 16, New Orleans 11 N.Y. Jets 23, San Francisco 17, OT Green Bay 38, Seattle 10 Atlanta 42, Los Angeles 14 N.Y. Giants 10, Dallas 7

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Kansas City 21, Oakland 13

Academy to a 40-28 victory over Pee Dee Academy on Monday at Edens Gymnasium.

Stoddard had 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Lady Generals.

Aubrey Stoddard had 10 points and Caetlyn Martin had six points.

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Arizona at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Boston at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

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W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 8 5 0 .615 428 345 Tampa Bay 8 5 0 .615 293 296 New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 358 351 Carolina 5 8 0 .385 311 337 NORTH

W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 9 4 0 .692 295 268 Green Bay 7 6 0 .538 333 312 Minnesota 7 6 0 .538 258 225 Chicago 3 10 0 .231 221 290 WEST

W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 8 4 1 .654 274 232 Arizona 5 7 1 .423 299 277 Los Angeles 4 9 0 .308 194 304 San Francisco 1 12 0 .077 251 393 x-clinched playoff spot

FRIDAY VARSITY BASKETBALL Sumter at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Lakewood at Camden, 6 p.m.

Lee Central at Chesterfield, 6 p.m.

Aynor at East Clarendon, 6 p.m.

Wilson Hall in Heathwood Hall Tournament (Girls Only), 7:15 p.m.

VARSITY AND JV BASKETBALL Scott’s Branch at Manning, 4 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Florence Christian, 4 p.m.

Carolina Academy at Clarendon Hall, 4 p.m.

VARSITY WRESTLING Sumter in Demon Slam (at Lugoff-Elgin High), 6 p.m.

VARSITY SPORTING CLAYS EDGEFIELD -- The Wilson Hall varsity sporting clays team placed fifth in the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Youth 50 Shot Skeet Open on Saturday and qualified for the state meet.

The finals will be held on Feb. 11, 2017, in Edgefield.

The team is comprised of Mason Payeur, Matthew Blankenship and Sam Louis Tisdale.

Chestnut Oaks at Bates, 5 p.m.

Furman at Ebenezer, 5 p.m.

Manning at Mayewood, 5 p.m.

Lee Central at Spaulding, 5:30 p.m.

Kingstree at Scott’s Branch, 5:30 p.m.

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Anaheim 5, Ottawa 1 Philadelphia 1, Detroit 0, OT Washington 3, Vancouver 0 Minnesota 3, St. Louis 1 Colorado 3, Toronto 1 N.Y. Rangers 5, New Jersey 0 Chicago 3, Dallas 1 Edmonton 3, Winnipeg 2

San Jose at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Boston at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 10 p.m.

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Houston Tennessee Indianapolis Jacksonville NORTH

Pittsburgh Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland WEST

Kansas City Oakland Denver San Diego

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Davis, No. 6 Gamecocks women beat Minnesota

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press

WOMEN’S TOP 25 POLL

The Associated Press

COLUMBIA — Kaela Davis stepped up to the challenge, as did No. 6 South Carolina in putting away any lingering concerns about its loss last time out.

Davis, who started the previous seven games, had six 3-pointers coming off the bench and scored 22 points as the Gamecocks routed Minnesota 98-58 Sunday.

DAVIS South Carolina coach Dawn Staley was concerned about her team’s lack of defense in a 74-63 loss at Duke last week and spent practices stressing technique, so much so that she swapped out starters Davis and Bianca Cuevas-Moore for Doniyah Cliney and Tyasha Harris.

So when Davis finally got in, she made it count with her second-best scoring performance this season.

“Obviously, Coach made a decision and whenever that decision is made, it’s our job to respond,” Davis said.

“That’s what I had to do and that was my purpose.”

Overall, the Gamecocks (7-1) tightened things up by holding Minnesota (7-4) to under 30 percent shooting.

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 11, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (33) 9-0 825 1 2. Notre Dame 9-1 764 2 3. Baylor 10-1 761 3 4. Maryland 10-0 742 4 5. Mississippi St. 9-0 676 5 6. South Carolina 7-1 657 6 7. Florida St. 10-1 625 7 8. Louisville 8-2 574 8 9. UCLA 7-1 565 9 10. Stanford 8-1 520 10 11. Washington 10-1 490 11 12. Ohio St. 8-3 424 12 13. Miami 8-1 415 14 14. West Virginia 10-0 406 13 15. Colorado 9-0 286 18 16. Texas 3-4 268 17 17. DePaul 6-3 225 16 18. Duke 10-1 217 21 19. Kentucky 7-3 189 15 20. Oklahoma 7-2 187 19 21. Syracuse 8-3 162 20 22. South Florida 7-0 153 22 23. Arizona St. 6-2 137 — 24. Virginia Tech 10-0 112 25 25. Oregon 7-1 75 — Others receiving votes: Oregon St. 68, Green Bay 49, Kansas St 44, California 29, Florida 23, Oklahoma St. 15, Northwestern 10, Texas A&M 9, Southern Cal 9, Auburn 7, Gonzaga 4, Vanderbilt 1, UNLV 1, Michigan St. 1.

Leading scorer Carlie Wagner, averaging 20 points a game coming in, was just 1-of-12 shooting for a season-low six points.

“They did a good job of crowding her and not giving her a lot of open looks,” Golden Gophers coach Marlene Stollings said.

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By Amanda McNulty, County Extension Agent

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Notre Dame’s Steve Vasturia (32) blocks a shot by Villanova’s Josh Hart (3) on Saturday in Newark, N.J. Villanova won 74-66 and maintained the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press Top 25 poll.

Villanova, top 11 remain the same in AP men’s poll

BY JIM O’CONNELL The Associated Press Villanova remained on top of The Associated Press college basketball poll on Monday while Southern Cal made its first appearance this season and Florida State returned to the rankings.

The Wildcats (10-0) received 56 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel to stay No. 1 for a second straight week.

The top 11 teams remained the same from last week, with UCLA (10-0) second with three first-place votes.

Florida dropped out from 21st after losing to Duke and Florida State. Iowa State, which was 25th, lost to Iowa last week and also dropped out of the rankings. The Cyclones had been ranked for 61 consecutive polls, the third-

MEN’S TOP 25 POLL

The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 11, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. Villanova (56) 10-0 1613 1 2. UCLA (3) 10-0 1505 2 3. Kansas 9-1 1455 3 4. Baylor (6) 8-0 1439 4 5. Duke 10-1 1391 5 6. Kentucky 9-1 1277 6 7. North Carolina 10-1 1222 7 8. Gonzaga 10-0 1195 8 9. Indiana 8-1 1124 9 10. Creighton 10-0 1043 10 11. Louisville 9-1 981 11 12. West Virginia 8-1 864 15 13. Virginia 8-1 848 14 14. Wisconsin 9-2 779 17 15. Purdue 8-2 652 18 16. South Carolina 8-0 598 19 17. Xavier 8-2 526 13 18. Butler 9-1 492 16 19. Arizona 8-2 436 20 20. Saint Mary’s (Cal) 7-1 391 12 21. Notre Dame 9-1 310 23 22. Oregon 8-2 251 24 23. Florida St. 10-1 227 — 24. Southern Cal 9-0 158 — 25. Cincinnati 7-2 155 22 Others receiving votes: Florida 44, Wichita St. 33, Virginia Tech 32, Maryland 31, Valparaiso 9, TCU 8, Middle Tennessee 7, Minnesota 6, Miami 6, Kansas St 4, UCF 2, Michigan St. 2, Syracuse 2, Ohio St. 2, Pittsburgh 2, Clemson 1, Loyola of Chicago 1, Iowa St. 1.

longest active streak behind Kansas (148) and Arizona (84).

Kansas was third followed

by Baylor (8-0), which got the other six first-place votes, Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Gonzaga, Indiana, Creighton and Louisville.

West Virginia moved up three places to 12th and was followed by Virginia, Wisconsin, Purdue, South Carolina, Xavier, Butler, Arizona and Saint Mary’s, which dropped eight spots to 20th after losing to Texas-Arlington.

The last five ranked teams were Notre Dame, Oregon, Florida State, Southern Cal

and Cincinnati.

Florida State was tied for No. 25 in the Week 3 poll after a 4-0 start, then fell out the next week after a Thanksgiving Day loss to Temple. The Seminoles returned to this week’s poll after beating then-No. 21 Florida on Sunday.

Southern Cal was ranked for two weeks last season.

There are three doubleranked games on Saturday.

Kentucky and North Carolina play in Las Vegas while a doubleheader in Indianapolis features Indiana against Butler and Purdue facing Notre Dame.

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Saban: Kiffin leaving Bama for FAU TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Lane Kiffin has a chance to help Alabama get to 15 wins this season. And then he’s going to take over the reins of a program that has won 15 games in the last four years.

Florida Atlantic and Kiffin have agreed in principle on a deal that will make him the school’s next head coach. Alabama coach Nick Saban — Kiffin’s soon-tobe-former boss — lauded the Owls’ move, and said Kiffin will remain with the undefeated and top-ranked Crimson Tide as their offensive coordinator through the College Football Playoff.

“FAU has selected someone that’s going to do a great job for them,” Saban

said in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at a news conference to promote the upcoming Peach Bowl.

Saban was the first person to publicly announce the move; FAU and Kiffin remained silent Monday, even after the news broke.

A person with direct knowledge of the talks between Kiffin and the Owls told The Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alabama head coach Nick Saban announced Monday that Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to become the next coach at Florida Atlantic.

TEAM

FROM PAGE B1 ALL-AMERICA POINTS

— The Crimson Tide’s topranked defense placed three players on the first team, one at each level: Defensive lineman Jonathan Allen; linebacker Reuben Foster; defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick. Offensive tackle Cam Robinson was the fourth Tide All-American.

Outside linebacker Tim Williams was a second-team selection and tight end O.J. Howard made the third team.

— Ohio State put center Pat Elflein on the first team

that he agreed to a fiveyear contract, and that the school was in the process of making things official.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because neither side had with safety Malik Hooker and H-back Curtis Samuel, who was selected as an allpurpose player. Guard Billy Price and linebacker Raekwon McMillan made the second team.

— Clemson defensive tackle Carlos Watkins joined Watson on the second team and the Tigers had defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, cornerback Cordrea Tankersley and linebacker Ben Boulware on the third team.

— Washington’s two second-teamers were safety Budda Baker and receivers John Ross.

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discussed the hiring.

“I’m ready to start next season already,” FAU offensive lineman Matt Murphy tweeted after word of Kiffin’s hiring.

A message left for Kiffin was not immediately returned.

Kiffin has been the offensive coordinator at Alabama for the last three seasons, helping the Crimson Tide win last season’s national championship and get back to the CFP field with a 13-0 record so far this year. FAU will be his third collegiate head coaching job, and the first since USC fired him five games into the 2013 season.

“Lane’s done a phenomenal job for us for the last three years,” Saban said.

“We appreciate the impact that he’s made on this program. We think this is a

wonderful opportunity for him to be a head coach again.”

Saban said in recent days that he wanted to help Kiffin get another opportunity to be a head coach. It wasn’t clear if Kiffin would have been back at Alabama next season otherwise.

“They’ve made a great hire,” Saban said of FAU. So begins the next chapter for Kiffin, who has been an annual fixture on lists of potential candidates for high-profile coaching jobs.

Earlier this fall, he interviewed for the Houston job and was also believed to be a candidate at places such as Oregon and South Florida.

Kiffin interviewed with Houston twice, the school’s board of regents chairman told KILT-AM radio in Houston.

Ed Oliver is the first freshman to be selected to the first-team since 2011 when Clemson’s Sammy Watkins made it as an all-purpose player and LSU punter Brad Wing also was picked.

Oliver had 19 tackles for loss to help lead a defense that ranks second in the nation in rushing defense at 2.83 yards per carry.

There were no players who repeated as first-team All-Americans.

PROMOTIONS Elflein was one of three players who made the second team last season to make the first team this season. Florida State running back Dalvin Cook and Michigan cornerback Jourdan Lewis also earned promotions.

DEMOTIONS Watson went from firstteam All-America last season as a sophomore to second this year and Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey did the same.

McCaffrey was first-team as an all-purpose player last year and a second-team pick at running back this season.

FIRST-TIMER Western Michigan receiver Corey Davis is the first player in school history to be an AP first-team AllAmerican.

2016 ALL-AMERICA TEAMS FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback: Lamar Jackson, sophomore, 6-foot-3, 205 pounds, Louisville Running backs: D’Onta Foreman, junior, 6-2, 249, Texas; Dalvin Cook, junior, 5-11, 213, Florida State Tackles: Cam Robinson, junior, 6-6, 310, Alabama; Ryan Ramczyk, junior, 6-6, 314, Wisconsin Guards: Cody O’Connell, junior, 6-8, 354, Washington State; Dan Feeney, senior, 6-4, 305, Indiana.

Center: Pat Elflein, senior, 6-3, 300, Ohio State Tight end: Evan Engram, senior, 6-3, 235, Mississippi Wide receivers: Dede Westbrook, senior, 6-0, 176, Oklahoma; Corey Davis, senior, 6-3, 213, Western Michigan All-purpose player: Curtis Samuel, junior, 5-11 197, Ohio State Kicker: Zane Gonzalez, senior, 6-1, 195, Arizona State DEFENSE Ends: Myles Garrett, junior, 6-5, 270, Texas A&M; Derek Barnett, junior, 6-3, 265, Tennessee Tackles: Jonathan Allen, junior, 6-3, 291, Alabama; Ed Oliver, freshman, 6-2, 290, Houston Linebackers: Reuben Foster, senior, 6-1, 228, Alabama; Zach Cunningham, junior, 6-2, 230, Vanderbilt; Jabrill Peppers, junior, 6-1, 205, Michigan Cornerbacks: Jourdan Lewis, senior, 5-11, 186, Michigan; Adoree’ Jackson, junior, 5-11, 185,

Southern California Safeties: Malik Hooker, sophomore, 6-2, 205, Ohio State; Minkah Fitzpatrick, sophomore, 6-1, 200, Alabama Punter: Mitch Wishnowsky, sophomore, 6-2, 220, Utah SECOND TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback: Deshaun Watson, junior, Clemson Running backs: Donnel Pumphrey, senior, San Diego State; Christian McCaffrey, junior, Stanford Tackles: Connor Williams, sophomore, Texas; Orlando Brown, sophomore, Oklahoma Guards: Billy Price, junior, Ohio State; Will Hernandez, junior, UTEP Center: Tyler Orlosky, senior, West Virginia Tight end: Jake Butt, senior, Michigan Wide receivers: Zay Jones, senior, East Carolina; John Ross, junior, Washington All-purpose player: Quadree Henderson, sophomore, Pitt Kicker: Daniel Carlson, junior, Auburn DEFENSE Ends: DeMarcus Walker, senior, Florida State; Harold Landry, junior, Boston College Tackles: Carlos Watkins, senior, Clemson; Montravius Adams, senior, Auburn Linebackers: Raekwon McMillan, junior, Ohio State; T.J. Watt, junior, Wisconsin; Tim Williams, senior, Alabama Cornerbacks: Rasul Douglas, senior, West Virginia; Desmond King, senior, Iowa Safeties: Budda Baker, junior, Washington;

Jamal Adams, junior, LSU Punter: Cameron Johnston, senior, Ohio State THIRD TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback: Baker Mayfield, junior, Oklahoma Running backs: Saquon Barkley, sophomore, Penn State; Aaron Jones, junior, UTEP Tackles: Mike McGlinchey, senior, Notre Dame; Forrest Lamp, senior, Western Kentucky Guards: Nico Siragusa, senior, San Diego State; Quenton Nelson, junior, Notre Dame Center: Ethan Pocic, senior, LSU Tight end: O.J. Howard, senior, Alabama Wide receivers: Amba Etta-Tawo, senior, Syracuse; Austin Carr, senior, Northwestern All-purpose player: Christian Kirk, sophomore, Texas A&M Kicker: Gary Wunderlich, junior, Mississippi DEFENSE Ends: Hunter Dimick, senior, Utah; Jordan Willis, senior, Kansas State Tackles: Christian Wilkins, sophomore, Clemson; Solomon Thomas, junior, Stanford Linebackers: Kendell Beckwith, senior, LSU; Jimmie Gilbert, senior, Colorado; Ben Boulware, senior, Clemson Cornerbacks: Teez Tabor, junior, Florida; Cordrea Tankersley, senior, Clemson Safeties: Nathan Gerry, senior, Nebraska; Weston Steelhammer, senior, Air Force Punter: Michael Dickson, sophomore, Texas

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“Part of it we press,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said.

“We get down in the red zone and we want to try to make something happen. And whether it’s a negative play that crops up and puts you in a negative position or you’re trying to force it or just the missed opportunities.”

Rivera pointed to the Newton’s pass to Kelvin Benjamin in the end zone that was intercepted by Trovon Reed as a perfect example of the Panthers being just a little off.

“If he puts that ball a little wider to the outside where only Kelvin can get it that could have been a touchdown,” Rivera said. “If he throws a high fade, that could have been a touchdown. Or maybe he runs the ball. He had options out there. He read what he was supposed to read and went with what the play that he did. And that’s unfortunate.”

Said tight end Greg Olsen: “A couple of times, we settled for field goals which fortunately didn’t come back to hurt us. We understand we have to be better in those situations. When we have short field like that, especially early, we have to be able to convert those into touchdowns.”

Carolina’s red zone numbers are good, but their overall production is way down from a year ago.

The Panthers led the league in scoring last season and finished second in overall in offense, but things have fallen off this year despite the return of Benjamin — the team’s No. 1 receiver as a rookie in 2014.

Carolina has dropped to 13th in the league scoring and 19th in offense in 2016.

“I didn’t feel as good as I normally feel after a win, but when I watched the tape I felt better about what we did,” Panthers offensive coordinator Mike Shula said. “Sometimes those one or two plays make you feel real bad and you forget about the good things that we did. But yes, we need to get the ball into the end zone — and we have that type of offense to do it.”

Carolina’s next chance to improve those numbers will be Monday night at the Redskins.

Newton said the Panthers offense has struggled to impose its will.

“We have to have that type of mentality, that killer instinct and we didn’t have it,” said Newton, before managing to find the bright side.

“But we found ways to win and that’s positive.”

OBITUARIES WILLIAM E. SMITH William Edward “Smitty” Smith, age 82, beloved husband of Grace Smith, died on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at his residence.

Born in Vidor, Texas, he was a son of the late Milton M. and SMITH Mattie Wall Smith. William retired from the United States Air Force as a master sergeant. While in the Air Force, he played the steel guitar in his band named “Dapper Dan.” He continued playing the guitar after retirement and taught anyone willing to learn. He was very active in the music industry and his very best friends were others that shared his passion. After his career with the Air Force, he taught electronics for more than 18 years at Central Carolina Tech.

Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Robert E. Smith of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Thomas L. Smith of Myrtle Beach and James D. Smith of North Myrtle Beach; one daughter, Laura J. Lambert of Seattle, Washington; three stepdaughters, Jerri Truett of Lamar, Michalyn Gardner of Hartsville and Dawn Stanley of Camden; one brother, Al Smith and his wife, Beverly, of Placenta, Cal-

ifornia; along with numerous grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Beverly Ann Smith; and his first wife, Effie Mae Smith.

Services will be held at a later date.

The family will receive friends at the family home.

Memorials may be made to Central Carolina Technical College, 506 N. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

LEYNOYETTE J. DIXON Leynoyette Joner Dixon, 86, widow of Broughton “Billy” Dixon, died on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born in Arab, Alabama, she was a daughter of the late Harvey and Lexie Joner. Mrs. Dixon was a member of Northside Memorial Baptist Church and was retired from Tuomey hospital.

Surviving are two sons, Tim

Dixon (Rebecca) of Sumter and Bill Dixon (Fe) of Pensacola, Florida; two daughters, Jane Hayes (Paul) and Shelia Gill, both of Bradenton, Florida; one brother, Harold Joner (Jean Ann) of Decatur, Alabama; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by a son, Tony Dixon.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday in the chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with the Rev. Jimmy Holley officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Northside Memorial Baptist Church, 1004 N. Main St., Sumter, SC 29153.

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

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

LOUTELIA ROCK Loutelia Rock, 92, widow of Maxie Rock, died on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at her home.

Born on July 20, 1924, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Napoleon and Charlotte Gilyard Dwyer.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at her home, 956 Oswego Highway, Sumter.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

WALKTI C. WILLIAMS Walkti Cermoun Williams, 35, departed this life on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, in Sumter.

He was a son of Jan. 30, 1981, in Detroit, Michigan, a son of Walter Williams and the late Patricia Thomas Williams.

The family will be receiving friends at the home of his sister, 915 Miller Arms Apartment 24 D, Sumter.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.

JAMES KENDRICK James Kendrick, 83, husband of Darnella Kendrick, died on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at Cottonwood Villa Assisted Living Facility in Bishopville.

Born in Sumter County, he was a son of the late Henry and Janie Osborne Kendrick.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc.

ROBERT LEE MULDROW BISHOPVILLE — Robert Lee Muldrow entered eternal rest on Dec. 8, 2016, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 601 Fountain Hill Drive, Bishopville.

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

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at Wilson Funeral Home. Interment will follow at St. John Cemetery, Bishopville.

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

EDDIE HARRISON SR. NEW ZION — Eddie Harrison Sr., 65, died on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey, Sumter.

He was born on May 30, 1951, in Alcolu, a son of the late Clifton Sr. and Geneva Belton Harrison.

The family is receiving friends at his residence, 1272 Newman Branch Road, New Zion.

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

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH The Christmas season reminds many that troops serving overseas in harm’s way won’t be home for the holiday.

Entertaining Armed Service personnel has a long tradition, dating back to Bob Hope’s Christmas shows and beyond.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson hosts “Rock the Troops” (9 p.m., Spike, Comedy Central, Vh1, MTV Classic, MTV2).

Taped before an audience of fighting men and women at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, “Rock the Troops” features an eclectic lineup of presenters, actors and comedians, including Kevin Hart, George Clooney, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Rob Riggle, Scott Eastwood and surfer Laird Hamilton. Look for musical performances by Nick Jonas, Flo Rida, Tenacious D, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Aaron Lewis.

• Brooke Shields guest stars on “Scream Queens” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) as Dr. Scarlett Lovin, a television doctor (not unlike Dr. Oz) who serves as a role model for the Chanels.

Shields has a long history of playing odd and memorable roles. For some time now she’s been the trashy nextdoor neighbor Rita on “The Middle.” Over the years she has played Mila Kunis’ mother on “That ‘70s Show” and also appeared on FX’s “Nip/ Tuck,” “Two and a Half Men” and “Lipstick Jungle.”

She’s always managed to mix mainstream projects with stranger stuff. In 1996, the same year she appeared on her own NBC sitcom “Suddenly Susan,” Shields appeared in the indie movie “Freeway,” a lurid take on the Little Red Riding Hood fable starring Keifer Sutherland as a very Big Bad Wolf and a young Reese Witherspoon playing Red Riding Hood as

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Shot in Paterson, New Jersey!

• Produced by Peter Berg and Matthew Goldberg, the sports series “State of Play” (8 p.m., HBO) returns with three film essays over three nights.

Tonight’s documentary, “Inherent Violence,” reflects on whether brutality belongs in athletics. While it is easy to think today’s sports feature more mayhem than ever, lethality has always been part of human nature on and off the playing field.

We meet two athletes grooming their young sons to follow in their footsteps. One is an American MMA fighter and the other competes in Calcio Storico, a form of Italian soccer dating back to the 16th century that features head butting, punching, elbowing

and choking. Imagine how NFL refs would deal with that?

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A recap of the final performances from “The Voice” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG) gives way to the season finale (9 p.m., TV-PG) and the selection of a winner.

• Bull returns to a hometown controversy on “Bull” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• Death behind the wheel on “NCIS: New Orleans” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• A repeat “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14) salutes “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”

p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * Reagan (Megan Fox) returns on “New Girl” (8:30 p.m., Fox, TV-PG) * Katie lacks holiday spirit on “American Housewife” (8:30 p.m., ABC) * Home alone on “Fresh Off the Boat” (9 p.m., ABC) * A new threat emerges on “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * Choir practice on “The Real O’Neals” (9:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

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Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate:/Willie L. Johnson #2016ES4300667

Family Court of Sumter, South Carolina Third Judicial Circuit

Personal Representative Leontyne Johnson 90 Cardington Ct. Wedgefield, SC 29168

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SUMTER, COUNTY (Plaintiff) Vs. Andres Blanding (Defendant) IN THE INTEREST OF Ny' Ajah Elmore (12/30/2003)

Personal Representative Loretta Sanders 5220 Florist Lane Rembert, SC 29128

TO DEFENDANT: Andre Blanding 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, on September 28, 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

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Linwood Davison Jr #2016ES430565

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Republicans join outcry over Russia Leaders vow to probe hacking charges; Ryan says Trump’s election victory is not in doubt

Erin Kelly and Nicole Gaudiano USA TODAY WASHINGTON Republican congressional leaders said Monday that key committees will investigate CIA allegations that Russia deployed hackers to disrupt the American presidential election to help President-elect Donald Trump and hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee will conduct bipartisan re-

views. “Obviously, any foreign breach of our cybersecurity measures is disturbing, and I strongly condemn any such efforts,” McConnell said in a statement at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol.

He said he agrees with incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Armed Services Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., that possible Russian interference in the U.S. election “cannot be a partisan issue.”

On the House side, Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the House Intelligence Committee will con-

tinue to look into cyberthreats posed by foreign governments.

He did not announce any new investigations and cautioned that recent reports from the CIA should not be used to “cast doubt” on the legitimacy of Trump’s “clear and decisive” victory.

“We must condemn and push back forcefully against any statesponsored cyberattacks on our democratic process,” Ryan said in a statement. “Throughout this Congress, Chairman (Devin) Nunes and the Intelligence Committee have been working diligently on the cyberthreats posed by foreign governments and ter-

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rorist organizations to the security and institutions of the United States. This important work will continue and has my support.”

Ryan said, “Any intervention

by Russia is especially problematic because, under President (Vladimir) Putin, Russia has been an aggressor that consistently undermines American interests.”

Nunes said Monday that he does not see the need for his committee to open any new investigation.

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@richardjwolf USA TODAY WASHINGTON Death came knocking at the Supreme Court’s door twice last week, as it has done most weeks since the justices took the bench in early October.

When William Sallie asked for a stay of execution Tuesday because of alleged juror bias, the justices refused, apparently without dissent. Sallie, 50, became the ninth man put to death in Georgia this year, a 40-year high.

When Ronald Smith asked that his execution be blocked Thursday because a judge overrode a jury’s recommendation of life

without parole, the court deadlocked, 4-4. Smith, 45, later heaved and coughed during his 34-minute lethal injection.

And when Florida’s Henry Sireci, Ohio’s Romell Broom and South Carolina’s Sammie Stokes asked for their death sentences to be reconsidered — because of new evidence, a previously botched lethal injection and a lawyer’s conflict of interest, respectively — the justices delayed action for six weeks or more.

Monday, the plaintiffs were all turned down, though there was a biting dissent from Justice Stephen Breyer.

“Individuals who are executed are not the ‘worst of the worst’ but, rather, are individuals chosen at random on the basis, per-

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Ronald Smith coughed and heaved during his execution Thursday in Alabama.

haps of geography, perhaps of the views of individual prosecutors, or still worse on the basis of race,” Breyer said. “The time has come for this court to reconsider the constitutionality of the death penalty.”

The five cases illustrate the continuing battle inside the Supreme Court over the nation’s ultimate penalty — one imposed and carried out less often each year, but which voters in three states, including California, decided to retain last month.

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Gas prices head back up after deals to blot oil glut 2017 could see climb to nearly $3 a gallon Nathan Bomey @NathanBomey USA TODAY

Gas prices are traipsing up from 2016 lows and are poised to approach $3 per gallon in parts of the country in early 2017 after multiple deals to cut oil production, analysts said.

Oil prices have jumped well above $50 per barrel after the Organization of the Petroleum Ex-

porting Countries and several non-member states agreed to slash oil output, pointing to higher costs for U.S. motorists.

Fuel typically slumps during the low-demand winter months, but the opposite has occurred since OPEC’s output-cutting deal Nov. 30 assured investors that oil’s global glut would soon ease.

After non-OPEC countries, including Russia, struck a deal Saturday to slash nearly 600,000 barrels per day, gas prices continued their upward trajectory.

Gas averaged $2.21 per gallon nationwide Monday morning, according to GasBuddy. That was

Gas averaged $2.21 per gallon nationwide Monday morning. up 3.8 cents from November’s average and up 19.8 cents from a year ago.

“Something we have not seen very often is that gas prices have been rising during the month of December,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com. “I think we’ll continue to see prices picking up.”

The “normal seasonal rally” in the spring — when prices often tick upward as motorists increase

mileage and refineries conduct maintenance — could lead to prices in the high $2 range, DeHaan said.

“There’s no question that 2017 is gonna be more expensive than 2016,” said Tom Kloza, analyst at the Oil Price Information Service.

“But it’s impossible to make a case for it to be anywhere near as expensive as, let’s say, 2011, ’12, ’13 and ’14, when we regularly saw prices go above $3.”

Any sustained increase in gas prices could prove costly for the horde of Americans who abandoned fuel-efficient cars for sport-utility vehicles and pickups as gas prices languished.

Gas prices are still affordable by historical standards.

DeHaan projected the national average for gasoline would be about $2.40 by the end of 2016.

About 20% of gas stations nationwide sell fuel for less than $2, Kloza said. Kloza predicted prices could average in the range of $2.40 to $2.50 for 2017.

“We are not talking about a fuel apocalypse,” he said.

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priorities for many years, we’ve held extensive briefings and hearings on the topic,” Nunes, RCalif., said in a statement. “As the FBI, CIA and other elements of the intelligence community continue their investigations into these attacks, the House Intelligence Committee will remain a vigilant monitor of their efforts. ...

At this time, I do not see any benefit in opening further investigations, which would duplicate current committee oversight efforts and intelligence community inquiries.”

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Monday for a joint investigation by the House and Senate intelligence committees.

“The seriousness of the Russian meddling ... during our presidential election merits a bicameral and bipartisan congressional investigation,” Schiff said. “This investigation would serve the purpose of informing the public, developing a concerted response, deterring the Russians from further malignant cyberaction and inoculating the public against such manipulation in the future.”

McConnell said the investigation should remain in existing committees. “Let me remind all of you that the Senate Intelligence Committee — on which I and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee sit as ex officio members — is more than capable of conducting a complete review of this matter,” McConnell said. “And Sen. Schumer will soon join us on that committee, and he can review this matter through the regular order.”

Trump spokesman Jason Miller continued to reject the CIA’s analysis of Russian interference in the election.

“Going back to this overall narrative that’s in the news right now, I think really clearly what this is is an attempt to try to delegitimize President-elect Trump’s win,” Miller said. “That really seems to be ... what’s going on here.”

Sunday, Trump dismissed the CIA’s conclusion that Russia tried

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“Obviously, any foreign breach of our cybersecurity measures is disturbing, and I strongly condemn any such efforts.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

to help his campaign as “ridiculous.”

McConnell emphasized that he has faith in the CIA and the entire U.S. intelligence community.

“The CIA is filled with selfless patriots, many of whom anonymously risk their lives for the American people,” McConnell said.

McConnell’s emphasis on having the Senate Intelligence Committee handle the probe could limit public access to the investigation.

A group of high-ranking Senate Democrats said Monday they hope to complement congressional investigations with an independent, non-partisan commission to publicly investigate Russian interference with the election and recommend a response. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Monday that she supports calls for such a panel by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

“The American people deserve a non-partisan, transparent pub-

lic investigation into this insidious attack on our democratic institutions,” said Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the top-ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. “As a nation, it’s time to get to the bottom of it and learn what we can do to prevent it from ever happening again.”

Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, who will be the top-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee in the next Congress, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who will be the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, want a commission to conduct hearings and report their findings to Congress within 18 months.

No members of Congress would serve on the panel, which would be appointed by a bipartisan group of congressional leaders.

McConnell said he has “every confidence” in the Senate Intelligence Committee to “review this matter in a responsible manner.”

“The Obama administration is also now launching a review, and when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence completes its review, there will be additional information released to the public in a responsible manner,” he said.

McCain said on CBS This Morning that he can’t yet say whether the Russians intended to help elect Trump. That’s why the Armed Services Committee he leads will work with the Intelligence Committee to “uncover this whole situation,” McCain said.

“There’s no doubt that Russians and others have hacked,” McCain said. “Now the question is the intention. But the larger issue that the Armed Services Committee and others are looking into is the whole issue of cyber. ... That’s the only form of possible conflict where our adversaries have an advantage over us.”

Schumer said on Twitter that he welcomes McConnell’s support for a “thorough bipartisan investigation.” Schumer said Congress “must find out how (the hacks) happened and stop future attacks.”

CIA and FBI differ on Russian hacking Kevin Johnson and Erin Kelly USA TODAY WASHINGTON New questions about the ultimate goal and the extent of Russia’s intrusions into U.S. political institutions continued to emerge Monday after intelligence officials briefed lawmakers last week with the dramatic assessment that Russian hackers sought to tilt last month’s general election to President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump has dismissed the conclusions outright, and the FBI has suggested that the assessment — while possibly accurate — so far lacks definitive evidence necessary, said two U.S. officials who are not authorized to comment publicly.

A review of how the issue escalated, with Russia now suspected of attempting to sway the election in Trump’s favor and what happens next: Q: How did last week’s intelligence assessment differ from previous reports about Russia’s hacking of U.S. political institutions?

A: In October, U.S. officials formally identified the Russian government as the source of intrusions into Democratic Party systems.

Those hacks — which produced a trove of embarrassing internal communications for public distribution on the websites DCLeaks and WikiLeaks — led to the resignation of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on the eve of the national convention.

The leaks also led supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders to loudly protest that the Democratic primaries were rigged against him.

The October finding, announced by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson,

concluded that the disclosures were “intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.”

The new assessment takes it a major step further, indicating that Russia aimed to sway the election in Trump’s favor. The conclusion is that Republican Party computer systems also may have been breached, but that internal information was not distributed publicly. The Republican Party denies that its computers were hacked.

Q: On what points of the new Russian assessment do the CIA and other intelligence authorities differ with the FBI? A: The FBI does not dispute that the CIA’s assessment could be accurate, said a U.S. official with knowledge of the matter. The difference lies in the institutional standards the agencies require in reaching such conclusions. While the CIA develops assessments based on a broad interpretation of available data, the FBI, as a law enforcement agency, requires a standard of proof that could sustain a possible criminal prosecution.

Of the assessment that the Republican Party systems likely were breached, the official said the picture is not entirely clear. While not dismissing the intelligence community’s conclusion, the official said a more definitive determination has not yet been reached.

Q: Is there suspicion that Russian hackers may have tampered with votes?

A: No. Federal officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and FBI Director James Comey, have said that the decentralized nature of voting systems across the U.S. poses a difficult target for hackers.

“In our judgment, it would be very difficult to alter a ballot count in any one place and have a significant consequence,” Johnson said in an interview last month with USA TODAY.

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year, Breyer and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it was time to decide whether capital punishment itself should be abolished.

Time is not on their side. President-elect Donald Trump soon will nominate the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s successor, someone who is virtually certain to support the death penalty. Before his term is over, Trump could get the chance to replace one or more of the five justices who have limited the penalty’s scope. Three of them — Ginsburg, Breyer and Anthony Kennedy — are long past traditional retirement age.

“The window is narrowing,” says Robert Smith of Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment MANDEL NGAN, AFP/GETTY IMAGES Project, which opposes the death Activists protest the death penalty June 29, a year after the penalty. If Trump names several strong capital punishment propo- Supreme Court upheld the use of a lethal injection method. nents, “there’s a chance the window closes for a generation.” gradual decline of capital punish- degger, general counsel at the Until then, it appears the jus- ment has been relatively minor. conservative Criminal Justice Letices will have to wrestle with a Far more important have been gal Foundation. “The other side is series of legal challenges. Already historic reductions in new death not making progress. They are this term, they’ve overturned a sentences — from about 300 an- slipping.” death sentence in Oklahoma be- nually in the 1990s to fewer than That’s not the case in state sucause of improper testimony 50 a year today — and executions, preme courts, where the death from victims’ family members down from 98 in 1999 to 20 this penalty has been struck down reand blocked an Alabama execu- year. cently in Florida, Delaware and tion that a jury did not agree Forty-one states have not exe- Connecticut. upon. That state’s system, which cuted anyone in the past four The Florida ruling, if made retempowers judges over juries, years. The number of states that roactive, could affect nearly 400 could go the way of Florida’s and carried out executions dropped inmates on death row. get struck down. from nine in 2013 to seven, six At the Supreme Court, issues Two other cases apand five this year. Only involving overzealous prosecupear likely to result in 16 of the nation’s more tors, inadequate defense lawyers further restrictions. than 3,000 counties dole and the race or mental capacity of During oral arguments out capital sentences defendants have kept the justices this fall on two Texas regularly. busy this fall. death sentences, a ma“The death penalty is “The Supreme Court seems jority of justices apdriving itself to extinc- more sensitive to the injustices peared sympathetic to tion,” says Brandon Gar- perpetrated in the name of the challenges from defenrett, a professor at the death penalty and more inclined dants involving racial University of Virginia to regulate its use,” says Kathryn AP discrimination and inSchool of Law. In an up- Kase, executive director of Texas tellectual disability. Stephen coming research paper Defender Service, which repreMore challenges are on Breyer that looks at every U.S. sents death row inmates. the way, including some death sentence from The next step for the court, bethat simply question whether the 1990 to 2015, he says, “What re- yond juveniles and the intellecturange of problems renders capital mains of the American death al disabled, may be to set a punishment unconstitutional. penalty is quite fragile and re- national standard for defendants “You’re playing whack-a-mole flects a legacy of racial bias and with severe mental illness. The with the death penalty,” says Rob- idiosyncratic local preferences.”

American Bar Association, Amerert Dunham, executive director of Last month, voters staged a ican Psychological Association, the Death Penalty Information capital punishment comeback of National Alliance on Mental IllCenter, which opposes capital sorts, defeating an abolition effort ness and others are mounting a punishment. “The pattern that in California, restoring it to the national campaign to take capital we’re seeing is not just the court books in Nebraska after legisla- punishment off the table for that reaching out to correct errors but tive repeal and adding it to the population. the court looking at renegade, state constitution in Oklahoma.

“We ... have a duty to fit the outlier practices.”

“It means we’re going in the punishment to the offender,” says The high court’s role in the other direction,” says Kent Schei- Hilarie Bass, the ABA’s president-

elect. Studies have estimated that 20% of the nearly 3,000 inmates on death row have a severe mental illness, she says.

Some opponents say the court may go further and declare the death penalty unconstitutional.

They argue that it no longer serves as a deterrent to crime because of the years or decades those convicted will spend languishing in prison during myriad state and federal court appeals.

They contend the nation’s standards of decency have changed since capital punishment’s heyday.

“I think it is very plausible that if there are five votes to end the death penalty, it could be with the people who are on the court right now,” Smith says.

In addition to Breyer and Ginsburg, that would require support from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Anthony Kennedy — the perennial swing vote on the court. Kennedy has written many of its decisions on juveniles and the intellectually disabled and has been a vocal critic of decades-long solitary confinement. Kagan joined Breyer on Monday in dissenting from the court’s decision not to hear the Ohio case on lethal injections.

Ending the death penalty would require the court hearing a case that presents the central question: Does the penalty constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and 14th Amendments?

One such case is that of Marcus Reed, convicted in 2010 of killing three people who broke into his home in Caddo Parish, La. — for many years, the nation’s leader in death sentences per capita.

“Capital punishment is now constrained to a dwindling handful of locations, reserved not for the most culpable offenders but for those unlucky few prosecuted under anachronistic circumstances,” Reed’s lawyer, Ben Cohen, wrote in his Supreme Court filing last month. “The time has come to assess whether the evolving standards of decency that mark the maturation of a civilized society now establish that a life sentence without parole is a sufficiently severe punishment.”

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On Monday, Mariah Carey and Lionel Richie announced they are teaming up for the All The Hits Tour.

Headlined by Richie and featuring Carey as a special guest, the 35-date tour will kick off in Baltimore on March 15, 2017, and wrap in Fort Lauderdale on May 27. Tickets go on sale Saturday at livenation.com.

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Damien Chazelle’s musical comedy La La Land continues to dance ahead of the awards season pack, taking a leading seven Golden Globe nominations Monday.

Chazelle earned nominations for best screenplay and director.

La La Land received nominations for best motion picture (musical or comedy), original score, song (City of Stars), actress (Emma Stone) and actor (Ryan Gosling).

The top tally continues La La Land’s giddy momentum before Wednesday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations. The film, which opened strong in limited release Sunday, took a leading eight Critics’ Choice Awards Sunday night, including best picture.

Just behind it was Moonlight, which received six nominations, including best movie (drama), supporting actress (Naomie Harris), actor (Mahershala Ali) and original score. Barry Jenkins scored nominations for best screenplay and director.

Manchester by the Sea took five nominations, including best drama and actor for Casey Affleck and supporting actress for Michelle Williams. Kenneth Lonergan received nominations for screenplay and directing.

The drama Lion earned four nominations, for its stars Nicole Kidman (supporting actress) and Dev Patel (supporting actor), best drama and original score.

The film slate featured a diverse field, including Moonlight and two nominations for August Wilson’s drama Fences (Denzel Washington and Viola Davis for actor and actress; Washington missed out in directing). Both Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton received nominations for their roles as a married couple in the civil rights drama Loving. Octavia Spencer earned a supporting-actress nomination for Hidden Figures, about African-American women working for NASA. Florence Foster Jenkins surprised with vigor, grabbing four nominations, including best pic-

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HBO’s Westworld is nominated for three awards.

Moana was nominated for best song, animated feature.

ture (comedy or musical) and Meryl Streep for actress. Hugh Grant brought home an acting nomination and Simon Helberg a supporting nomination.

Other film surprises included Mel Gibson for best director in Hacksaw Ridge, one of three for the controversial director’s World War II film, including best drama and actor for Andrew Garfield.

The R-rated superhero comedy hit Deadpool overperformed with

two nominations, including best movie (comedy) and Ryan Reynolds for actor. The Clint Eastwood-directed drama Sully starring Tom Hanks was shut out completely.

The drama Hell or High Water performed well with three nominations, including best drama, supporting actor for Jeff Bridges and screenplay.

Tom Ford’s second feature film, Nocturnal Animals, scored

best screenplay and director nominations for Ford and a supporting actor nomination for Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Disney’s musical Moana received good news after winning the box office for the third week in a row, receiving nominations for best animated feature and song (How Far I’ll Go, with music and lyrics by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda).

The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story took five nominations to lead the television field: best miniseries, actor (Courtney B. Vance), actress (Sarah Paulson) and supporting actors (John Travolta and Sterling K. Brown).

Spy drama The Night Manager came in second with four nominations, including best series (drama), Tom Hiddleston for actor, Olivia Colman for actress and Hugh Laurie for supporting actor.

HBO led all networks with 14 nominations, including three for the just-completed first season of Westworld, three for The Night Of and two for Game of Thrones.

Jimmy Fallon will host the 74th Golden Globe Awards Jan. 8.

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When the romantic comedy Jerry Maguire hit theaters Dec. 13, 1996, it featured a career-altering performance by superstar Tom Cruise and the breakthroughs of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renée Zellweger.

The stars owe big-time gratitude to writer/director Cameron Crowe, who penned the screenplay that continues to pay significant pop-culture dividends two decades later with lines such as Gooding’s famed “Show me the money!”

“The notion that the phrases and utterances from this movie still resonate after entering the popular vernacular 20 years ago is rather astonishing. It just shows the very smart writing,” film historian Leonard Maltin says. “Jerry Maguire captured something in the zeitgeist that has lasted.”

Crowe says things got interesting when both George W. Bush and Barack Obama quoted the film.

“The second time a U.S. president quoted Jerry Maguire, my mom finally gave up on me being a lawyer,” Crowe says.

A closer look at the movie’s three best lines:

“SHOW ME THE MONEY!” Out of a job and desperate to hold on to his clients, once-cocky sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) reaches out to Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Gooding), who colorfully expresses his unhappiness with his contract. Not only does the shirtless Gooding gyrate and repeat, “Show me the money!” on the phone, but he insists Maguire scream it back at him.

The celebrated scene made Gooding an instant success and propelled the actor to a best supporting actor Oscar win.

“There are starmaking roles or starmaking performances,” says Dave Karger, special correspondent for IMDb.com, “but in this case, it was a starmaking four words. That is rare.”

Kevin Hart and Josh Gad recreated the scene to promote 2015’s The Wedding Ringer.

Gooding’s utterance remains No.

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Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise endure in Jerry Maguire.

25 on the American Film Institute’s top 100 movie quotes list.

“YOU HAD ME AT HELLO” Zellweger appeared in 1994’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation before starring as idealistic single mom Dorothy Boyd, who quits her job in solidarity with Maguire and eventually falls for him. The film shot Zellweger to stardom, with ammunition provided by the climactic scene in which Maguire tries to woo Boyd back after ending their relationship. She stops his ardent speech with “You had me at hello.”

“Renée Zellweger was a fresh face, and the poignancy with which she delivered that line really made it stand out,” Maltin says.

It ranks No. 52 among AFI’s top 100 lines.

“YOU COMPLETE ME” Cruise was a star known for brash roles such as Maverick in Top Gun and Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man when he signed to Crowe’s film. His humbled sports agent was able to open his heart to Dorothy with the romantic line.

“With a line like that in that role, I would say Jerry Maguire cemented Tom Cruise, already a massive star, as a multi-decade acting powerhouse,” Karger says.

“This was a very important movie for him, and that was a key line.”

“You complete me” spawned everything from T-shirts to movie tributes — including Heath Ledger’s Joker repeating it to Batman in 2008’s The Dark Knight and Mike Myers’ Dr. Evil uttering it to Mini-Me in 1999’s Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

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I miss being able to turn to her for support, but do not want the world to know my business. I understand that her friends are like family to her, but they are not MY family, and I think she has chosen gossip over our relationship. Is keeping her at arm's length my only choice here, or is there another path that I can't see?

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