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BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com Sumter School District Superintendent Frank Baker said Thursday he will implement a board member’s recommendation to change the district’s financial reporting system immediately, but he said he still can’t even estimate the year-to-date general fund balance.

The change comes after Certified Public Accountant Robin Poston presented her official audit report Monday night at the board’s scheduled meeting, detailing the school district went more than $6.2 million over budget last fiscal year and ended the fiscal year with a fund balance of $106,449 — a “critically low level” in her opinion.

Baker said Thursday, per a recommendation from board member Johnny Hilton

CHARLESTON — Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday in the chilling slaughter of nine black church members who had welcomed him to their Bible study, a

devastating crime in a country that was already deeply embroiled in racial tension.

The same federal jury that found Roof guilty of all 33 counts will reconvene next month to hear more testimony and weigh whether to sentence him to death. As the verdict was read, Roof just

stared ahead, much as he did the entire trial. Family members of victims held hands and squeezed one another’s arms. One woman nodded her head every time the clerk said “guilty.”

Roof, 22, told FBI agents he

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March honors fallen friend Friends and family of Waltki Williams march down Bultman Drive on Thursday evening to remember his life. The group marched from the Sumter Mall to CCTC.

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About 50 take to street after man killed in police shooting

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The Sumter Item officially opened its doors Thursday with a Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting. Members of the Osteen family were present at the ribbon cutting along with community leaders and politicians. The oldest family business in Sumter has been operating continually since 1894. The new office is located at 36 W. Liberty St., site of the former Osteen-Davis building and Santee Lynches Council of Governments.

Police shootings of young black males have led to protest marches across the country, and some of the marches have provoked violent, even tragic, incidents.

When word of a march planned in Sumter in memory of Waltki Cermoun Williams spread on Facebook, thoughts of

outside agitators and perceived threats of violence may have been understandable.

Williams was killed Dec. 10 after he reportedly made threats against a former girlfriend at Sumter Mall. A police chase ensued, ending with Williams dead after what police described as an “exchange of gunfire” near the Central Carolina Technical College campus.

Instead of a protest march, however, about 50 family and friends of Williams huddled together in a biting-cold wind to march in Williams’ memory.

Few of the marchers wished to talk.

“I am here to honor memories of my friend and brother Waltki,” one said.

“This is for my cousin,” said another.

Most answered inqui-

ries with “no comment” or “not right now.”

As the sun set, marchers signed posters in memory of Williams and waited to march from Sumter Mall to the corner of Miller Road and S. Guignard Drive, tracing Williams’ route in his final moments.

The Rev. James Blassingame of Mount Zion

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TOMMY R. MIMS — 1940 - 2016

Sumter loses former sheriff, dedicated public servant Tommy R. Mims, former Sumter County sheriff, known for his dedication to the community and his faith, passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 76.

Mims first joined the sheriff’s office in September 1965 when he was 25 years old and spent more than 40 years in the law-enforcement field.

He was sworn in as a deputy during a time when there were fewer than 20 officers, 40-hour work weeks did not exist and officers had to purchase many of their own supplies.

Mims, the 103rd deputy hired at the sheriff’s office, was then elected sher-

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He retired a second time in September during his battle with pancreatic cancer.

Mims was a father of two, Jennifer McMahon MIMS and Tom Mims, and a grandfather of seven.

He was a wonderful father and husband, and he loved his community, said Diane Mims, Tommy Mims’ wife.

He was the same at home as he was anywhere else, she said. He didn’t argue and he didn’t fuss, she said.

And whether he was known as a husband, father, sheriff, good friend or acquaintance, Mims was always a Christian man who put God into every aspect of his life, she said.

Diane Mims said her husband loved the Lord and lived by his word.

She said his favorite scripture was James 1:1-6. It was a very important part of his life, she said. The passage urges readers to be patient and asks God for wisdom during difficult times.

Diane Mims encourages others to read the passage as it may also bring them comfort.

Mims’ son, Tom, said his father’s love for his family and community was exemplified in his years of dedicated service to the people of Sumter County. “He loved everybody,” he said.

Tom Mims said he learned the characteristics of a good husband and father while fishing, hunting and doing work around the house when he was growing up.

Sumter Mayor Joe McElveen, Mims’

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New industry to bring 70 jobs to Clarendon County

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com ProBrass Inc., a startup firm specializing in the manufacturing and remanufacturing of rifle brass cartridge cases, announced its intention on Thursday to establish a facility in Clarendon County. The company plans to create 70 new jobs, according to a news release from South Carolina Department of Commerce.

The facility will be located at 9104 Alex Harvin Highway in Summerton, across the road from Scott’s Branch Middle-High School.

Clarendon County Development Board Executive Director George Kosinski said he expects the plant to be fully operational within a year.

The company recently acquired the 144,000-square-foot facility, located on 47 acres, and is investing $40 million in the facility in machinery and equipment, Kosinski said.

Hiring for the new positions will begin in late February or early March, he said.

The company was co-founded a few years ago by two military veterans from Rhode Island and Illinois, Christopher Moe, chief executive officer, and Tim Baxter, chief operating officer.

Moe said he prefers filling the positions with veterans, including disabled veterans.

The company plans to sell its products through distributors specializing in consumer ammunition, he said.

The current goal is to produce about 200 million cases per year, he said.

Moe said there are a number of reasons why South Carolina and specifically Clarendon County were chosen for the plant site. The company also looked at potential locations in Idaho, Texas and South Carolina.

South Carolina was the most responsive and ready “to provide advice and

assistance,” he said.

“We made the decision to locate in South Carolina because in this state pro-business is not a bland statement but a hard core reality,” Moe said.

“We’ve benefited enormously from the rapid response to our needs, roundthe-clock assistance in our location search and continuous support from various governmental agencies. We are truly grateful for all the support and feel most welcome.”

Moe said Clarendon County is an ideal location because of the facility itself, the availability of the workforce and its proximity to Interstate 95.

Kosinski said he is ecstatic that the company chose Clarendon County.

“This is a project we’ve been working on for a few years,” he said. “We’re happy everything fell into place and we’re fired up for 2017.”

Clarendon County Council Chairman Dwight Stewart said the county looks forward to working side by side

with the company and wished them much success.

“It is with open arms that we welcome a new corporate citizen to our growing industrial base,” Stewart said. “The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Clarendon County.”

Gov. Nikki Haley said anytime a company decides to invest in one of the state’s rural counties, it shows a commitment to the state that she couldn’t be more grateful for.

“ProBrass Inc.’s decision to choose South Carolina as the place to begin its business is a testament to our competitive business environment and our world-class workforce,” Haley said.

“Our workforce has made a name for itself as one of the best in the world.”

Clarendon County Administrator David Epperson said the company will receive a standard set of incentives that the state provides to new industries, but the specific amount was not available.

Sumter SPCA Giving Tree Sumter Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals employees Shannon Dault (left) and Crystal Prescott are shown with Onyx, a three-month old Pitbull mix, and Sebastian, 3, a Siamese mix cat. Sumter SPCA is looking for donations for its annual Giving Tree project.

The Giving Tree includes ornaments with items listed that are needed for pets at the SPCA. The items can be purchased and brought back and placed under the Christmas tree, said Dault, who coordinated the event with Prescott. The most “in need” items include cat and dog food, kitty litter, pet supplies and more. The shelter is currently home to about 47 cats, 37 dogs, one bunny and one guinea pig, she said. For more information, call the Sumter SPCA at (803) 773-9292, visit the website at www.sumterscspca.com or stop by 1140 S. Guignard Drive.

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Service club names Sertoman of the Year

BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com When the Sumter Sertoma Club named Walter “Chuck” Wilson as the Sertoman of the Year on Wednesday night, Brant Bahnmuller said a day doesn’t go by that Wilson doesn’t try to pressure someone into joining the service club.

Wilson joked that he approaches people about the club so frequently, they often try to ignore him or won’t make eye contact when they see him coming.

That doesn’t deter the unabashed enthusiasm he expresses when telling people about the organization.

“We are the fastest-growing

service club in Sumter,” Wilson said.

Wilson, who works in human relations and public relations for the family business, UBI Inc., serves as president of Sumter Sertoma Club while also serving as a member of other service organizations, including Rotary and Kiwanis. He also teaches music at St. Anne and St. Jude Catholic schools and is the principal organist at First Baptist Church in Sumter.

The Sertoma organization started in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1912 under the name Stand Together Club. Eventually, the name changed to Sertoma, which stands for an abbreviated form of its motto “SERvice TO MAn.”

Wilson said the club’s members organize volunteers to meet the needs of the community. Sertoma’s mission includes improving the quality of life for at-risk residents and those affected by hearing loss.

The Sumter Sertoma Club supports Camp Sertoma for hearingimpaired children. The local club provides scholarships to local students to attend summer camps and volunteers for various charities. The club also sponsors the annual Sumter Football Jamboree in the fall.

The club meets at noon on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at Sunset Country Club. For more information, contact Wilson at (803) 972-9060.

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Brant Bahnmuller, right, announces that Walter “Chuck” Wilson of UBI Inc. was named Sertoman of the Year during a holiday party at The O’Donnell House on Wednesday.

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Lafayette Bridge lighting moves forward; pedestrian bridge on bypass questionable

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Two questions that are often asked during public participation at Sumter City Council meetings concern lighting over the recently constructed Lafayette Bridge and the possibility of a pedestrian bridge across the U.S. 378 bypass.

According to Sumter City Manager Devon McCormick, the city has contracted to pay for electricity used for the lighting, but responsibility for installing lights on Lafayette Bridge is out of the city’s hands. South Carolina Department of Transportation and Duke Energy are in charge of the installation, he said.

Jeffrey Wilkes, resident construction engineer for South Carolina Department of Transportation in Sumter County, said he has been in contact with representatives of Duke Energy trying to nail down exactly what SCDOT has to do before Duke Energy can install the lights.

He characterized DOT’s remaining preparation work as “tightening bolts.”

He said Duke Energy may have been delayed by its response to Hurricane

ROOF FROM PAGE A1 wanted to bring back segregation or perhaps start a race war with the slayings.

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“We collaborated to make sure they have the opportunity to memorialize their loss,” he said.

Roark told the marchers his top concern was their safety.

Several Sumter police officers wearing reflective vests were set to accompany the marchers, he said, and a bus would be waiting to bring them back to Sumter Mall after the march.

Blassingame led a prayer asking for forgiveness and healing before the marchers began their journey.

“We come together in solidarity for the family,” he said.

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a match.

“We are planners,” he said. “We can plan anything we want but we don’t have any money,” he said.

Yu said a “pedestrian skyway” over the bypass was included in SUATS’ long-term plan since 2013, which would make it eligible for federal funding.

“I think it would be a worthy project,” he said.

Yu said matching funds may be able to come from Sumter County Transportation Committee, chaired by Curtis Spencer.

Spencer, however, said the CTC is mostly interested in paving projects, and any proposal to make the pedestrian bridge a priority would have to come from outside the committee.

“Nobody has presented a proposal,” he said.

McElveen said he was disappointed DOT’s response to his letter did not include more details and concrete proposals for the project, and said he thinks that the DOT should be more involved in finding a solution.

He said when he meets with Transportation Secretary Christy Hall later this month the pedestrian bridge will be among the topics he discusses.

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MARCH FROM PAGE A1 Missionary Baptist Church stood among the group. He said the marchers did not want to talk because they are mourning.

“It is tough times for the family and the community,” he said.

He said they were there to support the family.

“I think this is the time to be here and let them know we care,” Blessingame said.

Sumter Police Department Chief Russell Roark III was also on hand, along with a contingent of police officers.

He said he had been in close touch with the organizers.

destrian bridge would be $4 million, not including fencing, drainage and right-of-way acquisition.

Jones suggested funding for the project could be obtained through a grant from the SCDOT Transportation Alternative Program. The program funds “community based projects that expand travel choices and improve the transportation experience by improving the cultural, historic and environmental aspects of our transportation infrastructure.”

A 20 percent match is required for the competitive grant program.

He also said DOT’s safety program may be able to provide as much as $1 million for a pedestrian barrier.

Other possible funding sources include the Sumter Urban Area Transportation Study committee and Sumter County Transportation Committee.

Finding funds to match the TAP grant seems to be the biggest hurdle advocates of a pedestrian bridge must overcome.

Meanwhile, Jones said enforcement of existing traffic laws is the most critical component of increasing the bypass’ safety.

SUATS Manager Allen Yu said the committee does not have funding for

Matthew and a transfer of responsibility for the project within the company.

Wilkes said he spoke with Duke concerning the project this week and said he will be meeting with them early next week. After that meeting, he said he hopes to be able to announce a schedule for completing the project.

In September 2015, Terrica Monae Butler was killed trying to cross the U.S. 378 bypass near Miller Road. According to the SCDOT, she was the third pedestrian fatality on the highway during a five-year period.

In response to public outcry over the death of the 17-year-old Sumter High School student, state Sen. Thomas McElveen sent a letter to the SCDOT asking them to study and propose solutions to the dangerous situation.

In April, DOT District Engineer Bryan Jones responded to McElveen’s letter, suggesting several strategies for mitigation for the dangerous situation, including a pedestrian overpass, illuminating the roadway, installing a controlled-access barrier and increased public transportation.

In the letter, Jones said a preliminary estimate for the cost of the pe-

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The other night — just for fun — I looked online at rings and showed my mom a few I really loved. She quickly dismissed all of them, and started telling me how I need a big stone. Then she went online and looked herself and was telling me which ones I should be interested in. Mom offered to take me to a jeweler's to find the "per-

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She has always been a helicopter parent, but now, as my boyfriend and I are becoming more serious, she's going into warp drive. How can I tell her gently to butt out?

Daughter of a helicopter mom DEAR DAUGHTER — You and your mother are both jumping the gun. "Talking often of marriage, family, etc." is not an engagement. If you allow your mother to involve herself in this, I predict you will never get engaged because your boyfriend — if he's smart — will run for the hills. When and if you do decide to tie the knot, the two of you should go to a jeweler together and select something he can afford and you will enjoy wearing. Period.

DEAR ABBY — Years ago, it was considered improper to send a holiday card to a friend or family member who experienced the loss of a child or spouse during the year.

What is correct today? And what about an invitation to a party?

Careful in California DEAR CAREFUL — If there was a "rule" that people who have suffered a loss should not receive a holiday card, I have never heard of it. As to inviting the person to a party — not everyone grieves in the same way or for the same length of time. Unless religious custom prevents it, if you think the friend or relative might enjoy the event, by all means extend an invitation. The invitee can always refuse if it's too soon.

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Ancient footprints suggest human ancestor was tall

BY MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK — He stood a majestic 5 feet 5 inches, weighed about 100 pounds and maybe had a harem. That’s what scientists figure from the footprints he left behind some 3.7 million years ago.

He’s evidently the tallest known member of the prehuman species best known for the fossil skeleton nicknamed “Lucy,” reaching a stature no other member of our family tree matched for an additional 1.5 million years, the researchers say.

The 13 footprints are impressions left in volcanic ash that later hardened into rock, excavated last year in northern Tanzania in Africa. Their comparatively large size, averaging a bit more than 10 inches long, suggest they were made by a male member of the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.

The prints were found at a site called Laetoli, which is famous for another set of smaller footprints left by other A. afarensis individuals. Those made headlines in the 1970s as the earliest clear evidence of upright walking by our ancestors. The newly discovered prints are only about 160 yards away.

Researchers named the new creature S1, for the first discovery made at the “S’’ site.

From the footprints, they calculated that he stood about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds.

They figured that he loomed at least 8 inches above the individuals who made the other tracks and stood maybe 3 inches taller than a large A. afarensis specimen previously found in Ethiopia. “Lucy,” also from Ethiopia, was much shorter at about 3½ feet.

The findings are described in a report released Wednesday by the journal eLife. Authors include Giorgio Manzi of Sapienza University in Rome, Marco Cherin of the University of Perugia in Italy and others.

Nobody knows the ages or sexes of any of the track-makers, although the size of the latest footprints suggest they were made by a male. It’s quite possible that the new discovery means A. afarensis males were a lot bigger than females, with more of a difference than what is seen in modern humans, the researchers say.

That’s not a new idea, but it’s

still under debate.

The large male-female disparity suggests A. afarensis may have had a gorilla-like social arrangement of one dominant male with a group of females and their offspring, the researchers said.

But not everybody agrees with their analysis of S1’s height.

Their estimate is suspect,

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Fossilized footprints of a human ancestor, thought to be Australopithecus afarensis, are seen at the Laetoli site in northern Tanzania. says anthropologist William Jungers, a research associate at the Association Vahatra in Madagascar who wrote a commentary on the study.

That’s because scientists haven’t recovered enough of an A. afarensis foot to reliably calculate height from footprints, he said in an email.

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Amazon Prime’s ‘Man in the High Castle’ returns

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH The Amazon Prime series “The Man in the High Castle” (TV-MA) begins streaming its second season today. And we finally get to see “The Man” himself.

As followers of this murky alternative history already know, “The Man in the High Castle” is based on a 1962 novel by Philip K. Dick that depicts a defeated America occupied by Nazis on the East Coast and Japanese on the West, with a dangerous unoccupied zone between them.

The Man is a shadowy figure who collects film footage that presents a version of history that differs from the official party line of the occupying forces. An alternative history within an alternative history, so to speak.

The Man is played by prolific character actor and voice performer Stephen Root. He’s no stranger to creepy, enigmatic figures, like his role as a shadowy go-between in Washington’s Teapot Dome Scandal-ridden demimonde in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.”

He’s been in dark, historical dramas including “Trumbo,” “Selma” and “J. Edgar,” as well as satires “Idiocracy” and “Office Space,” both directed by Mike Judge.

My favorite Root character was his voice of Bill Dauterive, the sad good ol’ boy from the animated comedy “King of the Hill” (also created by Judge), a seemingly “regular” guy, often seen in his undershirt, consistently depressed about his divorce and never far from tears.

• Streaming beginning today on Netflix, the 2016 feature “Barry” (TV-MA) recalls Barack Obama (Devon Terrell) as a 20-year-old Columbia University student in 1981.

Shown at the Toronto Film Festival and in limited release

Tank” (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG).

• A football star cannot escape childhood trauma in the 2016 documentary “Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story” (9 p.m., Showtime).

• A rehabilitated ex-con with links to Danny and Frank becomes a suspect in a murder case on “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

SERIES NOTES Jack explains his past with Riley’s mother on “MacGyver” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Eve brings a boyfriend to Christmas dinner on “Last Man Standing” (8 p.m., ABC) * Ken’s gesture is overshadowed on “Dr. Ken” (8:30 p.m., ABC) * Chin risks all for his kidnapped niece on “Hawaii Five-0” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC) * “20/20” (10 p.m., ABC).

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Eve (Kaitlyn Dever), right, invites her new boyfriend, Rob (Travis Tope), to Christmas dinner to meet the family on tonight’s “Last Man Standing,” airing at 8 p.m. on ABC. to generally positive reviews, “Barry” depicts Obama as a young man who is often the only non-white student in any of his classes and as someone who has to explain himself to people and colleagues of both races. As several critics mentioned, “Barry” would be an interesting film about being biracial, even if its subject weren’t the current president of the United States.

• “The Exorcist” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) airs the 10th and final episode of its first season. A genuinely creepy psychological thriller, “The Exorcist” has never found a large audience. The ratings site tvbythenumbers.com has deemed it likely to be canceled.

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• A miser’s (Lionel Barrymore) cruelty drives a smalltown banker (James Stewart) to despair in the 1946 holiday fable “It’s a Wonderful Life” (8 p.m., USA).

CULT CHOICE TNT anticipates “Rogue

One” box-office success by unspooling three “Star Wars” installments, “The Phantom Menace” (8 p.m.), “Attack of the Clones” (10:45) and “Revenge of the Sith” (1:39 a.m.), from 1999, 2002 and 2005, respectively.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Highway incidents are “Caught on Camera With Nick Cannon” (8 p.m., NBC).

• Thinning ranks force teams to readjust on “Hell’s Kitchen” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• An entrepreneur introduces a culinary device with a touch of poetry on “Shark

LATE NIGHT Chelsea Handler hosts Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Hardwick on “Chelsea” (streaming on Netflix) * Liam Neeson, Shepard Smith and Jon Batiste are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Reese Witherspoon, Andrew Rannells and Warpaint on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Ryan Gosling, T.J. Miller and Pentatonix appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC, r) * Kate McKinnon, Benjamin Bratt and The Hold Steady visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r).

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH CBS devotes Saturday night to the 2014 thriller “Big Game” (8 p.m.). While not exactly a huge hit in the United States, “Big Game” was the most expensive movie ever made in Finland!

It stars Samuel L. Jackson as the president of the United States, who finds himself stranded in the wilds of Finland after terrorists blow up Air Force One. There he survives, thanks to a 13-year-old boy (Onni Tommila) who happens to be out deer hunting.

Hence the title.

This appears to be a Finnish take on the thrillers “White House Down” and “Olympus Has Fallen,” over-the-top paranoid films released months apart in 2013. None of these has anything on the current ABC drama “Designated Survivor,” which envisions Kiefer Sutherland as the one guy to survive the complete destruction of the federal government and become acting president.

Compared to all that, the action on “Madam Secretary” (9:30 p.m. Sunday, CBS, TV-14) seems positively restrained.

All she has to do in Sunday’s episode is broker peace between Israel and Iran to avoid a war that could consume the Middle East, if not the entire globe. And she has to do this while a colleague suffers a major health emergency. But at least she’s not being hunted down in the forests of Finland!

• Based on the “Peanuts” characters created by Charles M. Schulz, the 2003 holiday special “I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown” (8 p.m. Saturday, ABC, TV-G) first aired three years after the cartoonist’s death.

The action focuses on some of the secondary characters from the “Peanuts” pantheon, including Lucy and Linus’ brother, Rerun, Snoopy’s brother Spike as well as his other beagle brothers, Marbles, Olaf and Andy.

• NBC spends its Saturday night in re-gifting mode, repeating Wednesday night’s holiday offerings “A Pentatonix Christmas Special” (8 p.m.) and “A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special” (9 p.m., TV-14).

• ABC repeats its Christmas season tradition, airing the

1965 musical blockbuster “The Sound of Music” (7 p.m. Sunday) as a four-hour experience.

This marks the first broadcast since the death of Charmian Carr, who played Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp. She sings “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” as a duet with Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte), the boyfriend who (spoiler alert!) later betrays her and her family when he becomes infatuated with the Third Reich.

According to the late Carr’s Wikipedia page, she was chosen for the part over a number of notable young actresses, including Geraldine Chaplin, Kim Darby, Patty Duke, Shelley Fabares, Teri Garr, Mia Farrow and Lesley Ann Warren. Carr suffered from dementia and died on Sept. 17.

• Dickens buffs can compare and contrast the 1984 version of “A Christmas Carol” (8 p.m., AMC), starring George C. Scott, with the 1970 adaptation “Scrooge” (8 p.m. Sunday, TCM), starring Albert Finney.

• Viewers who’ve had their fill of ho-ho-ho can turn to a weekend of guitar gods and heavy metal madness on AXS, the cable network dedicated to music and concerts. Saturday is devoted to Eric Clapton.

Highlights include the 1968 classic “Cream: Farewell Concert” (4:30 p.m.), featuring Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. “Eric Clapton: Live in

San Diego” (9 p.m.) presents selections from a 2007 show featuring performances of “Anyway the Wind Blows,” “After Midnight” and “Cocaine” with J.J. Cale.

On Sunday, AXS honors the late bassist and heavy metal role model Lemmy Kilmister.

“Motorhead — Clean Your Clock” (9:30 p.m.) captures two concerts that took place in Munich just a month before Kilmister’s death on Dec. 28, 2015.

• Morgan Freeman hosts the fifth annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony (7 p.m. Sunday, Fox) honoring achievements in the fields of physics, life sciences and mathematics. It was held Dec. 4 (airing live on National Geographic) and featured a performance by Alicia Keys and an appearance by Jeremy Irons. A rare recognition of science and math on network television, the ceremony may be truncated or bumped on the East Coast if the afternoon NFL game runs long.

SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher star in “Star Wars: A New Hope” (8 p.m., TNT), the 1977 space adventure that kicked off the film franchise.

• Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter star in the 2015 romantic comedy “Becoming Santa” (10 p.m., Lifetime),

about a man who discovers that his prospective in-laws are Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.

• Casey Affleck hosts “Saturday Night Live” (11:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14), featuring musical guest Chance the Rapper.

SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • A practical and platonic marriage of convenience between two professionals (Vivica A. Fox and Ricco Ross) may not survive the magic of the mistletoe in the 2016 romance “A Husband for Christmas” (7 p.m., ION).

• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7:30 p.m., CBS): the Syrian Civil Defense charged with rescuing victims from Aleppo’s rubble; the Sistine Chapel Choir, a Vatican tradition dating back to the Renaissance; Denzel Washington discusses his new movie, “Fences.”

• The Dallas Cowboys host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in “Sunday Night Football” (8 p.m., NBC).

• “Great Performances” continues the War of the Roses in “The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Part II” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings).

• The third season premiere of “The Wonder List With Bill Weir” (10 p.m., CNN) visits Amsterdam, where the city’s reputation for tolerance is being put to the test.

• The DEA wants to talk to

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CULT CHOICE After her younger sister (Brooke Shields) is slain on her way to receive first communion, a New Jersey 12-year-old (Paula E. Sheppard) becomes a suspect in the 1976 shocker “Alice, Sweet Alice” (4:15 a.m. Sunday, TCM).

SUNDAY SERIES Burns hosts a variety hour on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-PG) * An officer vanishes on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (8:30 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Playing hooky on “Son of Zorn” (8:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * A passage to India on “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Todd’s remorse on “The Last Man on Earth” (9:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

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MIMS FROM PAGE A1 cousin, said he remembers looking up to Tommy Mims when they were growing up.

His father died when he was young so Mims had to help take care of the family, he said.

McElveen said he thought of Tommy Mims as a “good boy” because he went to school, helped on the family farm and helped his mother in the house.

Being called a “good boy” went a long way back then, he said.

As a deputy and sheriff, Mims was personable but tough and always stood for justice, McElveen said.

Mims was everything a law enforcement officer should be, he said.

Former Sumter Police Chief Harold Johnson spoke highly of Mims who served as sheriff for the 11 years he was head of city police.

Mims was a good friend, and he was an absolute wonder to work with, Johnson said. He was always willing to find a solution, he said.

Johnson described Mims as a great Christian man who was fair and equal to all of his employees.

He always did his best to keep his faith in his work and that helped him and other officers through tough times, he said.

He’s one of the best men I’ve met in my life, Johnson said.

“I don’t think you can find a bet-

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ter dedicated public servant in the community,” he said. “And I will miss him.”

“This is a sad day for all of Sumter County,” said Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis on Wednesday.

Mims gave so much during his nearly 40 years of service with Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, he said. He was a visionary for the office and is responsible for bringing the agency into the 21st century, he said.

Dennis said he will also miss Mims, a mentor and adviser, on a more personal level.

“We were close and even after he retired I knew I could call on him — and I did,” he said.

“This hurts because he was like family,” Dennis said. “He will surely be missed.”

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Dan Barber and the Rev. Charles Clanton officiating.

The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday in the fellowship hall of First Baptist Church and other times at the home, 1380 Florence Highway.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 107 E. Liberty St., Sumter, SC 29150, Amedisys Hospice of S.C., 198 Wesmark Blvd. #2, Sumter, SC 29150, or the American Cancer Society, 950 48th Avenue North, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577.

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at Monday’s meeting, district staff will begin providing more detailed financial reports to include every line item of expenditures. But knowing the amount in the general fund will still be a challenge for the district because of being understaffed, according to Baker.

Poston said Monday night during her audit briefing to the board that having one person dedicated to the general fund and looking at the big overall budget picture is the link the district staff is missing in her professional opinion. She said the district formerly had this advantage when Steve Mann was executive director of finance. Mann left in April 2015 for a position with South Carolina School Boards Association. He is also a CPA. “You don’t have a person whose designated role is coordinating with all the individuals that are responsible for the different areas,” Poston said. “It’s a serious job managing a $120 million budget.”

Baker said Thursday if the district did have that dedicated person over the general fund, it could get a close estimate of the general fund at any time.

“Even without a dedicated person, that’s something that has been discussed and something that I would want to see how we could do that with our existing staff because that would have additional information, and we would know pretty much right where we stand,” Baker said.

Baker admits that having $106,000 in the fund balance isn’t adequate.

“In light of this situation, I am going to have to make some very, very hard decisions,” Baker said Thursday. “But the

priority is to build that fund balance back up.”

Baker said he would like to keep it in the $4 million to $5 million range. That range represents the total the two former Sumter school districts — Sumter School District 17 and Sumter School District 2 — generally had on hand combined before the districts consolidated in 2011.

During her audit briefing Monday night, Poston referenced that the district finance department has a smaller staff than it previously had. Baker confirmed Thursday the finance staff was down in size.

When contacted Thursday, Poston said the larger the school district, the more likely you will find a CPA on the finance staff. Many other times, a district has a Government Finance Officers Association-certified staff member. That credential is used often in government accounting, such as for school districts.

According to Baker, the district has neither at this time. The district’s enrollment was 12th highest of the 80-plus public school districts in the state, according to 2015-16 active enrollment totals from the state department of education.

Baker said he will have discussions with the board to decide on any changes within the finance staff. He said previously — because of budget cuts — he’s not filled one position in finance.

In related matters, it was announced Wednesday the school board has scheduled a specially called meeting for Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the district office to meet in executive session for a legal briefing and personnel matters to address the budget findings in the audit.

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The Trump cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies

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ASHINGTON — Democrats spent the first two decades of the postCold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting that Russia was our principal geopolitical adversary. Yet today the Dems are in high dudgeon over the closeness of secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson, to Vladimir Putin.

Hypocrisy aside, it is true that, as head of Exxon Mobil, Tillerson made major deals with Russia, received Russia’s Order of Friendship and opposed U.S. sanctions. That’s troubling but not necessarily disqualifying. At the time, after all, Tillerson was acting as an agent of Exxon Mobil, whose interest it is to extract oil and make money.

These interests do not necessarily overlap with those of the United States. The relevant question is whether and how Tillerson distinguishes between the two and whether as agent of the United States he would adopt a tougher Russia policy than he did as agent of Exxon Mobil.

We don’t know. We shall soon find out. That’s what confirmation hearings are for.

The left has been in equally high dudgeon that other Cabinet picks appear not to share the mission of the agency which they have been nominated to head. The horror! As if these agency missions are somehow divinely ordained.

Why, they aren’t even constitutionally ordained. The Department of Education, for example, was created by President Carter in 1979 as a payoff to the teachers’ unions for their political support.

Now, teachers are wonderful. But teachers’ unions are there to protect benefits and privileges, not necessarily to improve schooling. Which is why they zealously defend tenure, protect their publicschool monopoly and reflexively oppose school choice.

Conservatives have the odd view that the purpose of schooling — and therefore of the Department of Education — is to provide students with the best possible education.

Hence Trump’s nominee, Betsy DeVos, a longtime and passionate proponent of school choice, under whom the department will no longer be an arm of the teachers’ unions.

She is also less likely to allow the department’s Office for Civil Rights to continue appropriating to itself the role of arbiter of social justice, micromanaging everything from campus sexual mores to the proper bathroom assignment for transgender students. If the mission of this department has been to dictate policy best left to the states and localities, it’s about time the mission was changed.

The most incendiary nomination by far, however, is Scott

Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. As attorney general of Oklahoma, he has joined or led a series Charles lawsuits to Krauthammer of curtail EPA power. And has been upheld more than once by the courts.

Pruitt has been deemed unfit to serve because he fails liberalism’s modern-day religious test: belief in anthropogenic climate change. They would love to turn his confirmation hearing into a Scopes monkey trial. Republicans should decline the invitation. It doesn’t matter whether the man believes the moon is made of green cheese. The challenges to EPA actions are based not on meteorology or theology, but on the Constitution. The issue is that the EPA has egregiously exceeded its authority and acted as a rogue agency unilaterally creating rules unmoored from legislation.

Pruitt’s is the most important nomination because it is a direct attack on the insidious growth of the administrative state. We have reached the point where EPA bureaucrats interpret the Waters of the United States rule — meant to protect American waterways — to mean that when a hard rain leaves behind a pond on your property, the feds may take over and tell you what you can and cannot do with it.

(The final rule excluded puddles — magnanimity from the Leviathan.)

On a larger scale, Obama’s Clean Power Plan essentially federalizes power generation and regulation, not coincidentally killing coal along the way. This is the administration’s end run around Congress’ rejection of Obama’s proposed 2009-2010 cap-andtrade legislation. And that was a Democratic Congress, mind you.

Pruitt’s nomination is a dramatic test of the proposition that agencies administer the law, they don’t create it. That the legislative power resides exclusively with Congress and not with a metastasizing administrative bureaucracy.

For some, this reassertion of basic constitutionalism seems extreme. If so, the Obama administration has only itself to blame. Such are the wages of eight years of liberal overreach. Some legislation, like Obamacare, will be repealed. Some executive orders will be canceled. But most important will be the bonfire of the agencies. We may soon be secure not just in our puddles but our ponds.

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

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Commentary elicits more fond memories of The Sumter Item

BY WILLIAM Q. BRUNSON Special to The Sumter Item

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r. Hubert Osteen’s recent piece where he shares some of his early memories of The Sumter Item juggled a few of my own fond memories associated with your fine paper.

Some early memories include accompanying my mother on her many treks from our farm into town tending to the usual errands along with picking up small items needed on the farm.

There were stops at the old National Bank of South Carolina, the Old Post office on south Main with it’s scary most wanted posters, Lawson’s drug store where I was often treated to a Baby Club sandwich and a novel fountain coke, the dusty FCX and Boyle’s sprawling Feed and Seed among others.

Usually the last stop involved pulling up to what was then called The Sumter Daily Item’s new modern location to purchase a copy of that day’s paper, which came out in the afternoons. Mother would hand me a dime which I then placed into one of three holes in a brick sitting atop a small stack of papers. The routine involved my holding the brick with one hand while carefully sliding a paper out with the other and then getting back into the car. Barely able to read did not deter me from eagerly “look reading” each

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Illegal immigrants get free education and medical care in the United States, but that is not free for you and me. If these people were in their home country, these costs would be paid by their country. We should be charging their country of origin

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Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 773-0815 (home) SUMTER CITY COUNCIL MAYOR Joseph T. McElveen Jr. 20 Buford St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-0382 jmcelveen@sumter-sc.com WARD 1 Thomas J. Lowery 829 Legare St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-9298 tlowery@sumter-sc.com WARD 2 Ione Dwyer P.O. Box 1492 Sumter, SC 29151

page of the paper during the 10 mile ride back to our lovely Sumter Brick home .

That other larger paper out of Columbia was delivered through the mail around noon time. Dad read both from cover to cover in the evening while smoking his L&M’s; some of which probably contained tobacco he had lovingly grown.

Dad finally caved in to my sister’s and brother’s nagging and purchased a modest black and white TV only after the poorest of the poor had one or more sets. He never watched until he retired and to him the TV represented racket distracting from his newspaper reading.

So before finally getting a TV that picked up two channels, newspapers were virtually our only source of news outside of nearby Prescott’s country store.

I always knew there was a well preserved copy of The Sumter Daily Item carefully stored away in a steamer trunk In our house which I was not to handle. It featured a large front page black and white photo of my smiling and handsome uncle Ashley Billie Brunson wearing his dress marine uniform. Along with the photograph was a short article void of detail stating he had made the ultimate sacrifice for our great country on the South Pacific island of Saipan during World War II. This copy, which is still in fine shape, is a family

(803) 481-4284 idwyer@sumter-sc.com WARD 3 Calvin K. Hastie Sr. 810 S. Main St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 774-7776 chastie@sumter-sc.com WARD 4 Colleen Yates 437 W. Hampton Ave. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-3259 cyates@sumter-sc.com WARD 5 Robert Galiano 608 Antlers Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 469-0005 bgaliano@sumter-sc.com

WARD 6 David Merchant 26 Paisley Park Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-1086 dmerchant@sumter-sc.com STATE LAWMAKERS Rep. Will Wheeler, D-Bishopville District 50 (803) 229-2407 (cell) Rep. Joe Neal, D-Hopkins District 70 P.O. Box 5 Hopkins, SC 29061 (803) 776-0353 (home) (803) 734-9142 (fax) (803) 734-2804 (Columbia) jn@schouse.org Rep. Dr. Robert L. Ridgeway III, D-Clarendon District 64 117 N. Brooks St.

treasure. Other preserved editions feature banner headline stories of Pearl Harbor, Eisenhower sending troops into Little Rock, the shocking local bank embezzlement, the Kennedy assassination and the big blizzard among others.

The Sumter Item seemed to have always been an important part of my family’s life along with a way of preserving history. And it helped inform me from a very early age.

Although I spend much of my time now some 700 miles north, I continue to open up The Sumter Item on my i phone just after 6 a.m. each morning while The New York Times sits at my door awaiting retrieval.

Thanks to all who have worked on and continue to work on producing such an outstanding well crafted hometown paper which I’m still very fond of. And I look forward to visiting your new location soon. Do you still have that brick?

William Q. “Billy” Brunson is a Sumter native whose family’s brick home is 10 miles south of Sumter in the Concord community. Since 1971, he has lived in New York’s East Village where he makes, exhibits and sells colorful abstract art. He recently retired as assistant building manager at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He can be reached at brunson81948@gmail.com.

for all education and medical costs.

If we had lots of extra monies, instead of being in debt at the federal level or raising taxes at the local level, one could feel good about helping out the illegal immigrants.

But that is not the case. In fact, if we charged their country of origin for these education and medical costs, our taxes would go down.

Our politicians should immediately pass legislation that would help you and me first, not to help non-citizens first.

DON DAMM Sumter

Manning, SC 29102 (803) 938-3087(home) (803) 212-6929 (Columbia) Rep. Murrell Smith Jr., R-Sumter District 67 P.O. Box 580 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 778-2471 (business) (803) 778-1643 (fax) (803) 734-3042 (Columbia) murrellsmith@schouse.gov Rep. J. David Weeks, D-Sumter District 51 2 Marlborough Court Sumter, SC 29154 (803) 775-5856 (business) (803) 734-3102 (Columbia) Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Darlington District 29 1216 Salem Road Hartsville, SC 29550 (843) 339-3000 (803) 212-6148 (Columbia)

Sen. Kevin L. Johnson, D-Manning District 36 P.O. Box 156, Manning, 29102 (803) 435-8117 (home) (803) 212-6108 (Columbia) Sen. J. Thomas McElveen III, D-Sumter District 35 P. O. Box 57, Sumter, 29151 (803) 775-1263 (business (803) 212-6132 (Columbia) NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Rep. Mick Mulvaney — 5th District 1207 Longworth HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-5501 531-A Oxford Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 327-1114 Rep. Jim Clyburn — 6th District 319 Cannon House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-3315 1703 Gervais St. Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 799-1100 jclyburn@hr.house.gov Sen. Lindsey Graham 290 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-5972 Midlands Regional Office 508 Hampton Street, Suite 202 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 933-0112 (main) Sen. Tim Scott 167 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-6121 (202) 228-5143 (fax) 1301 Gervais St., Suite 825 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 771-6112 (803) 771-6455 (fax)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Taking better care of your EUGENIA LAST emotional and physical well-being is encouraged.

Participate in community events, helping others and networking with people who can help you get ahead. Romance is featured.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Emotional encounters will not be in your best interest. If you feel the least bit uncertain, back away and wait until you have clarification from someone you trust. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A wellrounded view will encourage you to make wise choices. Look at what’s trending and how you can update your look without going over budget. Share your feelings with someone you love and it will be easier to make a decision about your future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep your personal information private even if you feel compelled to share with someone who is trying to find out more about you. Work out all the kinks before you present what you have to offer. Protect your reputation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Emotions will flare up, leaving you in an awkward position. Sum up what’s transpired and consider what you really want. Choose peace over discord and affection over aggression. Personal improvements will turn out well.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Someone you work with will make you look bad if you don’t speak up on your own behalf. Don’t leave anything to chance and protect your assets, possessions and your

health. Refuse to let criticism and unwarranted demands get you down.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t expect to get the go-ahead from someone who is indecisive. You are best to set everything up beforehand and present what you have only when you know it is failproof. Set aside time to rejuvenate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A day trip, checking out vacation spots or gathering information will encourage you to take on a new endeavor. Monitor any changes you make carefully. Avoid joint ventures and keep your activities within your budget.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take each situation and analyze what’s at stake. What you discover could spark a groundbreaking idea that will encourage you to take on more responsibility. Expand your goals and don’t give up until you are satisfied.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t tell someone else’s secrets.

Indulging in something that isn’t any of your business will be costly.

Keep your distance and stay focused on what’s important to you. Problems will develop if you are too vocal.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll have an interesting point of view when it comes to business plans or work schedules. Share your thoughts, but don’t exaggerate or you will be expected to live up to the promises you made.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pay more attention to the way you present who you are and what you represent. Keeping current will help you set the pace instead of trying to keep up with others.

Don’t limit what you can do.

Embrace change.

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Gaffney 37/30 Spartanburg 37/31

Greenville 38/32

Columbia 44/37

Sumter 43/33

IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 41/36

ON THE COAST

Charleston 50/45

Today: Mostly sunny; cooler. High 43 to 59.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy and warmer. High 69 to 75.

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54° 38° 57° 34° 79° in 1971 16° in 1962 trace 2.20" 1.52" 47.45" 57.77" 45.25"

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Myrtle Beach 45/43

Manning 43/38

Today: Sun followed by some clouds and colder. Winds east 4-8 mph.

Saturday: Breezy with a shower. Winds west-southwest 10-20 mph.

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Florence 42/35

Bishopville 41/33

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12 8.84 19 3.24 14 7.40 14 2.90 80 75.18 24 4.41

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Florence 42/35/s Gainesville 76/57/pc Gastonia 38/31/pc Goldsboro 36/28/s Goose Creek 49/44/s Greensboro 35/27/s Greenville 38/32/pc Hickory 35/28/s Hilton Head 53/50/s Jacksonville, FL 69/57/pc La Grange 51/42/pc Macon 50/41/pc Marietta 44/36/pc

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 35/27/pc Mt. Pleasant 51/48/s Myrtle Beach 45/43/s Orangeburg 43/38/pc Port Royal 53/50/s Raleigh 38/28/s Rock Hill 38/31/pc Rockingham 39/30/pc Savannah 55/49/s Spartanburg 37/31/pc Summerville 48/42/s Wilmington 40/35/s Winston-Salem 36/28/s

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SUMTER SPCA PETS OF THE WEEK Roosevelt, left, is a 9-week-old male American short hair. He is an adorable, sweet, Roosevelt is affectionate adorand active boy. Hecuddling loves to play able, enjoys with cat toys. Roosevelt gets along great with other kittens and enjoys lots of cuddling and attention.

O.B., right, is a 1-year-old female an affectionsheltieO.B. / blueisheeler mix. She is an ate, friendly girlgirl who affectionate, friendly loves to play with other dogs. O.B. is also great with children and would make the perfect new buddy for any family.

The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit the website at www.sumterscspca. com.

The SPCA relies heavily on community support and donations. Currently, the biggest needs are for dry puppy and kitten food; wet cat food; cat litter; and cleaning supplies. The following are also appreciated: Newspapers; stuffed animals; heavy duty trash bags (30 gallon or larger); dishwashing liquid; laundry detergent; bleach; paper towels; sheets and comforters; baby blankets; canned dog and cat food; dry dog food; treats; leashes and collars; disinfectant spray; allpurpose cleaner; air freshener; no scratch scrubbers; two-sided sponges for dishes; litter freshener; and, of course, monetary donations are also gratefully accepted.

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BOYS PREP BASKETBALL

PREP FOOTBALL

Next level

Coming off best season in team history, experienced Lakewood boys team eyes an even deeper playoff run

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com The Lakewood High School boys basketball team had a season for the history books in 2015-16.

The Gators were at one point ranked higher (No. 4) than they ever had been; they won 20 games (20-7) for the first time in school history and also made their first trip to the third round of the 3A state playoffs.

With many of those same key pieces back, head coach Bryan Brown and LHS are looking to take an even bigger step this year.

“Expectations are high,” Brown said. “We’re coming off the most successful season in school history. We’ve got several key starters returning and we started the year ranked No. 5 in the preseason in 4A. “So we’re looking to do big things this year.”

The Gators bring back a lot from last year’s squad, with the lone exception being top scorer Jarvis Johnson. Johnson averaged 15.2 points, six assists and 4.1 rebounds for LHS. Still, the other top scorers are all back, led by junior guard Grant Singleton. He’s joined in the starting lineup

by Davonte Pack, who should be back from an injury today when the team travels to Camden. Seniors Malik Wilson, Dontrea Osborne and Tyrell Still have provided a

Sandlappers include Sumter’s Harvin, McDaniel and Gators’ Johnson

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com

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Kareem Lawson (12) is one of the players providing depth for Lakewood High School this year as the SEE BOYS, PAGE B3 Gators return an experienced roster that was ranked fifth in the preseason 4A coaches’ poll.

GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL

Young Lady Gators squad making strides

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com Everything was pretty much new to first-year head coach Demetress Adams-Ludd when she took over at Lakewood High School last season.

Now things are a little more familiar, with the exception of her second-year roster.

The Lady Gators went 12-10 last season and earned a berth in the 3A state playoffs. Now in 4A, Adams-Ludd began the year with just a single returnee — Ki’Ari Cain.

“I really enjoy the girls that I’m coaching,” Adams-Ludd said. “We’re younger, but we’ve been together all summer and gotten a chance to strengthen our coach-player bond. It’s been great watching them develop and helping them learn the game of bas-

Locals ready for Shrine Bowl

ketball.”

The Lady Gators lost most of their scoring and rebounding from a season ago. Tatyana Weldon led the team with a 12.3 points per-game average followed closely by Taja Randolph’s 11.9 points per contest.

Randolph also averaged 9.7 rebounds, which was just above Shanekia Jackson’s 9.6 average. Jackson also averaged 8.8 points.

Cain was in that mix as well, scoring 7.7 points and dishing out 3.2 assists. She’s averaging around 12.9 points a game so far this year in leading a group of mostly junior varsity players from last season.

“They’re mostly (sophomores) with a few (juniors),” Adams-Ludd said. “But they work very hard and they’re

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Ki’Ari Cain, center, is the lone returning player on a young and inexperienced Lady Gators squad that has seemingly turned a corner recently after going 3-1 in its last four games.

Sumter High School punter Pressley Harvin, Sumter offensive tackle Daviyon McDaniel and Lakewood defensive end Tyreek Johnson will all be playing for the Sandlapper squad in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas on Saturday.

The 80th edition of the game will be played at 2 p.m. at Wofford College’s Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg.

Harvin, who is rated by some as the No. 1 punter in the country, was named to the team when the list was originally released. McDaniel and Johnson were added to the roster later because of changes that had to be made due to the state championship games being played this DAVIYON weekend as well. The sea- MCDANIEL son was extended two weeks because of weather issues during the year.

McDaniel is happy for the opportunity.

“It’s definitely an honor to play in this game,” said McDaniel who moved to tackle this season after playing tight end last year. “You get here and realize how big this is.

You have the best players in the state playing here.”

All three of the players go into the game committed to college programs. McDaniel is committed to Charleston Southern University and plans to graduate after this semester. Harvin is committed to Georgia Tech, while Johnson is committed to South Carolina.

Harvin said he has enjoyed his week in Spartanburg.

“It’s been a really good time,” said Harvin, who averaged 42.3 yards a punt on 33 attempts with a long of 72 yards. “It’s a great experience, not only playing in the game, but meeting the kids (at the Shriners Hospital). It reminds you of what the game is all

“It’s definitely an honor to play in this game.

You get here and realize how big this is.”

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WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Wilson, Coates power No. 6 Gamecocks over rival Clemson 83-61

BY PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA — Alaina Coates can’t imagine a better post duo in the country than she has with South Carolina teammate A’ja Wilson.

She’ll get no argument from Clemson after the two combined for 39 points, 20 rebounds, seven asissts — mostly to each other — and six blocks in the sixth-ranked Gamecocks’ 83-61 victory

Thursday night.

“The high-low is great,” Coates said. “I mean, we’ve got the best high-low duo in the nation. The WILSON fact is we’re doing better getting each other the ball.”

And the overmatched Tigers (8-2) had little chance of preventing it as South Carolina (8-1) won its seventh straight in the rivalry series.

“They have a ton of weapons and they’re really tough,” Clemson coach Audra Smith said. “The inside game is impossible” to stop.

Wilson finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds.

Coates had 19 points and 10 rebounds for her sixth doubledouble in nine games this season.

Wilson and Coates combined for six points when South Carolina came out of the break with a 17-6 run. The

Tigers (8-2) could not respond.

South Carolina’s rivalry win streak ties the longest in series history, matching the run Clemson had from 1996 through 2001. Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley also improved to 4-0 over her former college teammates at Virginia, Clemson’s Smith.

Wilson added four assists and two blocks while Coates added three assists, two steals and four of South Carolina’s season-high 11 blocked shots.

Kaela Davis had 17 points for South Carolina.

Nelly Perry had 20 points to lead the Tigers. They lost their second in a row after opening 8-0.

Clemson was shorted-handed before things started with its two leading rebounders in forward Kobi Thornton and Aliyah Collier limited by injuries. Thornton was out after hitting her head Monday

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PRO BOXING

Hopkins ready for final fight

BY DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA — Bernard Hopkins hobbled into the gym before a sparring session using a cane to aid his small steps. He scrapped his usual stylish Prada glasses for a cheap pair old fogeys might wear and a fake gray beard that sprouted several inches past his chin.

Hopkins chuckled as he wagged his cane toward amused onlookers. Long a contender in the jumbled alHOPKINS phabet concoctions of boxing organizations, Hopkins seemed more fit in disguise to apply for an AARP membership. Hopkins is in on the joke and has the sober realization that not even he can KO Father Time.

At 51, Hopkins may have enough Executioner left in him to make it seem like old times again inside the ring.

Hopkins has forged his life by hook — like the left one he threw to knock out Oscar De La Hoya — or by crook, the time served at Graterford Prison that steeled his resolve for a boxing career. Just about a month before he turns 52, Hopkins will fight on both his word and contractual obligation for the final time in a 28-year career when he faces 27-year-old Joe Smith Jr. in a light heavyweight bout Saturday in Los Angeles.

No one savvy enough around boxing will count out Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs) for a final victory. Even as the years ticked from his late 30s to his late 40s, the days of thinking of Hopkins as a washed-up fighter

sure to see his career end in a thunderous embarrassment have long ended.

“Nobody’s laughing at me anymore,” Hopkins said. “That laughing made me motivated. How do I know it’s time? I can’t find no one to laugh no more.”

Hopkins once promised his mother he’d retire at 40. He vowed to quit at 41 after he defeated Antonio Tarver in one of his greatest fights in 2006. The Associated Press wrote of the fight that Hopkins had a “storybook finish” and noted Tarver starred in the “final installment of the ‘Rocky’ series.”

Yet much like the fictional Rocky Balboa, Hopkins had many more rounds left in his story.

At 48, Hopkins scored a 12-round unanimous decision over Tavoris Cloud to become the oldest boxer to win a major title.

Hopkins packs a punch on the short list of great geezers that include Nolan Ryan throwing a no-hitter at 43 or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar still sinking hook shots at 43. Chris Chelios hung up the hockey stick at 48.

But fighting at 50?

George Foreman, another geriatric great, had already traded gloves for grills by the time he hit the Big 5-0.

Once Hopkins shed the old man getup, he hit the ring and physically looked like he was in prime, save for the salt-and-pepper beard. Hopkins dismisses the wisecracks about his age. He is about as serious and dedicated as any athlete in his training. He’s carved a straightedge lifestyle that bans drinking alcohol, keeps a healthy diet and a curfew of about 9 p.m. The two-weight world champion is known to splurge on a slice of cheesecake after a victory.

PRO FOOTBALL

Cowboys’ Prescott unfazed by Romo talk

BY SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FRISCO, Texas — If Dak Prescott hears the chatter about Tony Romo after his worst game as a pro, Dallas’ rookie quarterback isn’t letting on.

And if Jerry Jones is irritating franchise icon Troy Aikman by giving the Romo talk more life with comments on his radio show, the Dallas owner doesn’t really care.

“He might have had sensitivity but Dak doesn’t,” Jones said Thursday , referring to the quarterback who won him three Super Bowls in the 1990s.

“I’m serious. I don’t mean that negatively. I appreciate him saying it. I respect him. But Dak Prescott’s No. 1 quality is that he doesn’t get distracted.”

The 23-year-old who assumed Romo’s job and kept it with an 11-game winning streak after the 36-year-old hurt his back again in the preseason was right on cue a day earlier.

“Everybody has the option to listen to it, so I just don’t listen,” Prescott said.

And it doesn’t matter if those close to him are listening.

“My family definitely knows not to come to me with he said, she said,” Prescott said. “And the teammates know, not just me, but throughout this locker room, we don’t pay attention to that. Ya’ll get paid to do that. We don’t.”

After Prescott had a sea-

son-low 45.4 passer rating in a 10-7 loss to the New York Giants that ended the 11-game run, Jones was asked what it would take for the Cowboys to consider replacing his new starter with Romo.

Dallas’ 10-year starter was relegated to the backup role when he returned from his fourth back injury in less than four years.

“I don’t have a definition for it, but you’ll know it when you see it,” Jones said on his radio show.

“It’s kind of like a definition I heard one time of another issue trying to define a negative topic, and they said, ‘I don’t know how to say it, but it’s just something that when you see it, you’ll know it’s there.’

We’ll see it.”

Two days later, Aikman strongly criticized his former boss in his weekly radio appearance.

“I’m just really dumbfounded by the comments, and not only the first time, but why they continue,” Aikman said. “I don’t understand why you would talk.”

Coach Jason Garrett follows the Aikman model, repeatedly declining to address the Romo issue other than reiterating that Prescott is the starter.

“We talk about the importance of focus with our team, right from the start,” Garrett said. “It’s an important word for everybody — coaches and players alike. That’s not new this year, that’s not new this week.”

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9:30 a.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Hertha Berlin vs. Leipzig (FOX SPORTS 1).

9:30 a.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Hamburg vs. Mainz (FOX SPORTS 2).

9:55 a.m. – International Soccer: English Premier League Match – Hull vs.

West Ham (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

10 a.m. – International Soccer: English Premier League Match – Leicester City vs. Stoke City (CNBC).

Noon – College Football: Celebration Bowl from Atlanta – North Carolina Central vs. Grambling State (WOLO 25).

Noon – High School Football: 4A State Championship Game from Columbia – South Pointe vs. Hartsville (WACH 57).

Noon – College Basketball: Georgetown at Syracuse (ESPN).

Noon – College Basketball: Texas A&M vs. Arizona from Houston (ESPN2).

Noon – College Basketball: Wagner at Providence (FOX SPORTS 1).

Noon – College Basketball: Eastern Kentucky at Louisville (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

12:30 p.m. – International Soccer: English Premier League Match – Manchester United vs. West Brom (WIS 10).

12:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Memphis at Oklahoma (WLTX 19).

12:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Texas Tech at Richmond (ESPNU).

1 p.m. – College Basketball: South Carolina at South Florida (CBS SPORTS NETWORK, WDXY-FM 105.9, WNKT-FM 107.5, WDXY-AM 1240).

1 p.m. – College Basketball: Charleston Southern at Georgia (SEC NETWORK).

2 p.m. – College Football: New Mexico Bowl from Albuquerque – Texas (San Antonio) vs. New Mexico (ESPN).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Notre Dame vs. Purdue from Indianapolis (ESPN2).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Chicago State at DePaul (FOX SPORTS 1).

2 p.m. – College Basketball: Manhattan vs. Florida State (FOX SPORTS 2).

2:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Arkansas vs. Texas from Houston (ESPNU).

3 p.m. – College Basketball: Kansas State at Colorado State (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

3 p.m. – College Basketball: Ohio State vs. UCLA from Las Vegas (WLTX 19).

3 p.m. – High School Football: 3A State Championship Game from Columbia – Dillon vs. Chapman (WACH 57).

3:25 p.m. – International Soccer: Portuguese League Match – Benfica vs.

Estoril (UNIVISION).

3:30 p.m. – College Football: Las Vegas Bow from Las Vegas – Houston vs. San Diego State (WOLO 25).

3:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Eastern Illinois at Missouri (SEC NETWORK).

4 p.m. – College Football: NCAA Division II Playoffs Championship Game from Kansas City, Kan. – North Alabama vs. Northwest Missouri State (ESPN2).

4 p.m. – College Basketball: Charlotte at Florida (FOX SPORTS 2).

4:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Robert Morris at Virginia (ESPNU).

4:30 p.m. – Women’s International Hockey: USOC Winter Festival – Canada vs. United States (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

5:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Kentucky vs. North Carolina from Las Vegas (WLTX 19).

5:30 p.m. – College Football: Cure Bowl from Orlando, Fla. – Central Florida vs. Arkansas State (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

5:30 p.m. – College Football: Camellia Bowl from Montgomery, Ala. – Appalachian State vs. Toledo (ESPN).

6 p.m. – College Basketball: Delaware at Seton Hall (FOX SPORTS 2).

6 p.m. – College Basketball: Texas Southern at Louisiana State (SEC NETWORK) 6:30 p.m. – College Football: Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs Semifinal Game – Youngstown State at Eastern Washington (ESPN2).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Davidson vs. Kansas from Kansas City, Mo. (ESPN2).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Middle Tennessee State at Virginia Commonwealth (TIME WARNER 1250).

7:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Charlotte at Atlanta (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Wake Forest at Xavier (FOX SPORTS 1).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Oral Roberts at Creighton (FOX SPORTS 2).

8:25 p.m. – NFL Football: Miami at New York Jets (NFL NETWORK, WWFN-FM 100.1, WNKT-FM 107.5).

8:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Chattanooga at Vanderbilt (SEC NETWORK).

9 p.m. – College Football: New Orleans Bowl from New Orleans – Southern Mississippi vs. LouisianaLafayette (ESPN).

9 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: NCAA Division I Tournament Championship Game from Columbus, Ohio (ESPN2).

10 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Smith Jr. in a Light Heavyweight Bout from Inglewood, Calif. (HBO).

10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Portland at Golden State (NBA TV).

11 p.m. – College Basketball: UNLV vs.

Oregon from Portland, Ore. (ESPN2).

1:50 a.m. – International Soccer: FIFA Club World Cup Third-Place Match from Yokohama, Japan (FOX SPORTS 1).

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST

New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets SOUTH

Houston Tennessee Indianapolis Jacksonville NORTH

Pittsburgh Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland WEST

Kansas City Oakland Denver San Diego

W 11 8 6 4

L T Pct PF PA 2 0 .846 349 230 5 0 .615 281 301 7 0 .462 325 301 9 0 .308 229 324

W L T Pct PF PA 7 6 0 .538 229 274 7 6 0 .538 321 306 6 7 0 .462 328 333 2 11 0 .154 240 338 W L T Pct PF PA 8 5 0 .615 317 256 7 6 0 .538 279 237 5 7 1 .423 268 269 0 13 0 .000 207 375 W L T Pct PF PA 10 3 0 .769 302 255 10 3 0 .769 358 320 8 5 0 .615 296 242 5 8 0 .385 350 347

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST

W L T Pct PF PA x-Dallas 11 2 0 .846 340 238 N.Y. Giants 9 4 0 .692 255 244 Washington 7 5 1 .577 330 317 Philadelphia 5 8 0 .385 290 272 SOUTH

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

THURSDAY’S GAME

Los Angeles at Seattle, 8:25 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAME

Miami at N.Y. Jets, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Detroit at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Atlanta, 4:05 p.m.

New England at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAME

Carolina at Washington, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, DEC. 22

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:25 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 24

Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 25

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

MONDAY, DEC. 26

Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

NBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

Toronto New York Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia SOUTHEAST DIVISION

Charlotte Atlanta Washington Orlando Miami CENTRAL DIVISION

Cleveland Chicago Detroit Indiana Milwaukee

W L Pct GB 18 7 .720 — 14 11 .560 4 13 12 .520 5 7 17 .292 10½ 6 19 .240 12 W L Pct GB 14 12 .538 — 12 13 .480 1½ 10 14 .417 3 11 16 .407 3½ 9 17 .346 5 W L Pct GB 18 6 .750 — 13 11 .542 5 14 13 .519 5½ 13 13 .500 6 11 12 .478 6½

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION

San Antonio Houston Memphis New Orleans Dallas NORTHWEST DIVISION

Utah Oklahoma City Portland Denver Minnesota PACIFIC DIVISION

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

W L Pct GB 20 5 .800 — 19 7 .731 1½ 18 9 .667 3 8 18 .308 12½ 6 19 .240 14 W L Pct GB 16 10 .615 — 15 11 .577 1 13 14 .481 3½ 9 16 .360 6½ 7 18 .280 8½ W L Pct GB 22 4 .846 — 19 7 .731 3 9 16 .360 12½ 10 18 .357 13 8 17 .320 13½

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

L.A. Clippers 113, Orlando 108 Miami 95, Indiana 89 Toronto 123, Philadelphia 114 Washington 109, Charlotte 106 Brooklyn 107, L.A. Lakers 97 Houston 132, Sacramento 98 Memphis 93, Cleveland 85 Detroit 95, Dallas 85 Utah 109, Oklahoma City 89 San Antonio 108, Boston 101

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Indiana at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Portland at Denver, 9 p.m.

San Antonio at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

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

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Brooklyn at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

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

L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Utah, 10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

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

Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

New York at Denver, 9 p.m.

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

SUNDAY’S GAMES

L.A. Clippers at Washington, 3:30 p.m.

Boston at Miami, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Utah at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Dallas, 7 p.m.

NHL STANDINGS

The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 29 19 6 4 42 92 64 Ottawa 30 16 11 3 35 73 82 Boston 31 16 12 3 35 74 75 Tampa Bay 30 15 13 2 32 87 84 Florida 30 13 13 4 30 71 82 Detroit 30 13 13 4 30 71 81 Buffalo 28 11 11 6 28 62 75 Toronto 28 11 11 6 28 81 87 METROPOLITAN DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 30 20 7 3 43 108 87 N.Y. Rangers 31 20 10 1 41 106 72 Philadelphia 32 19 10 3 41 105 97 Columbus 27 18 5 4 40 90 57 Washington 28 18 7 3 39 76 61 New Jersey 28 12 10 6 30 69 82 Carolina 29 12 11 6 30 77 82 N.Y. Islanders 28 11 12 5 27 73 85

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 31 19 8 4 42 83 71 Minnesota 28 16 8 4 36 80 57 St. Louis 30 16 10 4 36 82 85 Nashville 28 13 11 4 30 84 81 Dallas 31 12 13 6 30 81 98 Winnipeg 32 13 16 3 29 82 96 Colorado 28 11 16 1 23 63 90 PACIFIC DIVISION

GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 30 18 11 1 37 75 66 Anaheim 30 15 10 5 35 83 81 Edmonton 32 15 12 5 35 94 88 Calgary 32 16 14 2 34 84 92 Los Angeles 28 14 12 2 30 74 76 Vancouver 30 12 16 2 26 73 94 Arizona 29 10 14 5 25 66 91 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

San Jose 4, Ottawa 3, SO Pittsburgh 4, Boston 3, OT Tampa Bay 6, Calgary 3 Philadelphia 4, Colorado 3

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Anaheim at Boston, 7 p.m.

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

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.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

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

Los Angeles at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

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

Columbus at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Florida at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at Minnesota, 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Washington, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Carolina, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 10 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Los Angeles at Boston, 1 p.m.

Colorado at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.

Columbus at Vancouver, 4 p.m.

San Jose at Chicago, 7 p.m.

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

New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30 p.m.

NCAA FCS PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press

QUARTERFINALS FRIDAY, DEC. 9 James Madison 65, Sam Houston State 7 SATURDAY, DEC. 10 North Dakota State 36, South Dakota State 10 Youngstown St. 30, Wofford 23, 2OT Eastern Washington 38, Richmond 0

SEMIFINALS FRIDAY’S GAMES James Madison (12-1) vs. North Dakota State (12-1), 7 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES Youngstown State (11-3) vs. Eastern Washington (12-1), 6:30 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY, JAN. 7 At Toyota Stadium Frisco, Texas Semifinal winners, Noon

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

By The Associated Press

WEDNESDAY’S SCORES EAST Iona 94, NJIT 80 Rider 81, Kennesaw St. 79 Rutgers 82, Fairleigh Dickinson 69 Saint Joseph’s 76, Princeton 68 SOUTH Arkansas St. 87, UT Martin 68 Chattanooga 107, Tennessee Wesleyan 65 ETSU 67, Mississippi St. 65 Georgia 73, Louisiana-Lafayette 60 Georgia St. 94, Alabama A&M 79 Jacksonville St. 72, Howard 59 Longwood 86, Averett 67 Middle Tennessee 79, Belmont 66 Tennessee St. 68, Alabama St. 46 Troy 114, Point University 52 UNC Greensboro 96, Southern Wesleyan 61 UNC-Wilmington 96, Campbell 75 MIDWEST Evansville 85, Norfolk St. 66 Ill.-Chicago 80, DePaul 75 Minnesota 76, LIU Brooklyn 66 Missouri St. 86, Oral Roberts 76 N. Dakota St. 74, UC Davis 70 N. Illinois 95, Olivet Nazarene 69 Northwestern 68, Chicago St. 64 Ohio 71, Milwaukee 69 S. Illinois 70, Saint Louis 55 Wisconsin 73, Green Bay 59 Youngstown St. 101, Niagara 97 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 78, Randall 74 Baylor 89, Southern U. 59 Oklahoma St. 102, Ark.-Pine Bluff 66 SMU 92, McNeese St. 56 Texas Tech 89, Nicholls 46 FAR WEST Arizona 64, Grand Canyon 54 Fresno St. 88, Holy Names 54 Nevada 76, UC Irvine 69 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 73, W. Kentucky 51 UALR 72, N. Arizona 67 UCLA 102, UC Santa Barbara 62 UNLV 92, Incarnate Word 64

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C.E. Murray’s Furse wins Asst. Coach of the Year

FROM PAGE B1

On Wednesday at the Sumter Touchdown Club’s First Awards Banquet at Alice Drive Baptist Church, C.E. Murray defensive coordinator Will Furse was chosen as the Assistant Coach of the Year.

Under Furse the last two seasons, the War Eagles have given up an average of less than 15 points per game while going 19-5 and making the playoffs each year, including a berth in the Class A Division II state championship game in 2015.

Furse’s name was inadvertently omitted in the story in Thursday’s edition of The Sumter Item.

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CAREW TO HAVE HEART, KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew is preparing to receive a new heart and undergo a kidney transplant.

His wife Rhonda confirmed the procedures on Thursday through the American Heart Association News.

The 71-year-old former hitting star has struggled with heart issues since September 2015 when he had a heart attack and went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a procedure to open clogged arteries.

BIGGEST D-1 WOMEN’S ROUT: BAYLOR 140, WINTHROP 32 No matter how many substitutions Baylor coach Kim Mulkey made, the lead kept growing. When the game was over, the only thing left to do was count the records.

In the biggest Division I women’s basketball rout ever, No. 3 Baylor overwhelmed Winthrop 140-32 Thursday.

“I tried and played tons of people, in and out of the lineup, called timeouts, trying to get people off the floor,” Mulkey said.

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Serena Choice, left, is one of the new players on a young Lakewood High girls basketball team that is 4-4 overall and looks to continue its recent turnaround.

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TODAY 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.

SATURDAY VARSITY BASKETBALL

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

VARSITY AND JV BASKETBALL

East Clarendon Lake City, 4 p.m.

The entire Minnesota football team says it is boycotting all football activities until it gets satisfactory answers from the university about the suspension of 10 players this week.

The school suspended the players after an internal investigation into a sexual assault case. Police declined to charge any of the players, but the school suspended them based on internal regulations involving sexual assault allegations.

The team’s players said Wednesday that have not ruled out skipping the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 27 against Washington State in San Diego.

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lot of depth along with returning sophomore Juwan Perdue and 6-foot-6-inch junior transfer Ahkeem Lawson. Jaron Richardson, Kareem Lawson and Malik Richardson round out the bench.

“We definitely have a lot more options this year,” Brown said. “Last year, people tried to isolate Grant a lot. This year, we have a lot of different guys who can score, so I don’t think we’ll be hurt as much if they try to do that again.

“Grant’s a tremendous player, obviously, and we want to get him free as much as possible, but we have a lot of guys that can shoot.”

Lakewood is 4-2 on the young season, and Brown is counting on his squad to round into shape by the time Region VI play hits in January.

“We’re still learning, but I think we’re picking up the defensive rotation and how we want to play on both ends of the court,” he said. “Right now we just want to keep moving forward.”

In order to do that, the Gators’ non-region schedule has plenty of top competition lined up. LHS has already played Sumter and Lee Central twice, and it has scheduled for a big Christmas break with a pair of tournaments. The Gators will play in Carolina Forest’s Panther Classic on Dec. 20-23 before heading to Marietta, Ga., and Wheeler High School to participate in the Tournament of Champions Holiday Classic on Dec. 27-30.

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Malik Wilson (4) and the rest of the Lakewood High boys basketball team are coming off the best season in school history. The Gators return several pieces and are looking to make an even deeper playoff run this year.

of the top high school programs from across Georgia, Florida and a number of states in the Southeast, along with a few top teams from as far away as New York.

“We’re really looking forward to it and excited about it,” Brown said. “It’s the first national tournament the school has ever participated in, and you’ll see a lot of top 100 players and a lot of coaches.

“We want to try to take all of these things as learning experiences. We just want to get used to a playoff atmosphere. I wanted to expose these guys to different levels of basketball and prepare them for what lies ahead in the playoffs.”

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hungry to learn the game.

We’ve had our ups and downs, but that hasn’t stopped their hustle and intensity, which are two of the big things we’re stressing this year.”

Sophomores Rahteisha Burgess, Lashala Harvin, Myla Wilson and Valencia Croom have all been providing big minutes along with Cain. Juniors Amber Hadden, Serena Choice and Ayanna Green round out the entire roster as Lakewood has a bench of just three girls per game.

“It is a challenge sometimes, but it only takes five on the court,” Adams-Ludd said. “If we bring our best five, that’s what counts. We don’t make a huge deal out of it and they don’t really worry about it. I think in the future, those numbers will grow, but right now the girls are just focused on getter better on both ends of the court.”

The young squad has shown signs of progress heading into tonight’s matchup at Camden.

The Lady Gators are 4-4, but have gone 3-1 since starting the season 1-3. One of the wins was against rival Sumter High — the same team that had beaten LHS by 45 points earlier in the year.

“That was a huge turning point for us and gave us a lot of confidence and momentum going forward,” Adams-Ludd said. “I think this is only the third time Lakewood has beaten Sumter, so I think that showed everyone that they have the talent and the will to win.”

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Mike MacIntyre has the reputation as a turnaround artist.

Give him a program, any program, and he will transform it.

After three years that resulted in a grand total of 10 victories, MacIntyre led the 11th-ranked Buffaloes to a 10-win season, a spot in the Pac-12 Championship game and even onto the fringes of the national-title conversation for a week or two. Colorado also will make its first bowl appearance since 2007.

For that, MacIntyre is The Associated Press college football Coach of the Year. Penn State’s James Franklin was second with 98 and 16. Alabama’s Nick Saban was third with 57 and 13.

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Craig Sager never once thought about giving up as he battled cancer for more than two years.

The end for the beloved TNT broadcaster came Thursday when the man known as much for his outrageous wardrobe as his relationships with the NBA’s elite succumbed to the disease he fought so hard to overcome.

Turner Sports announced his death without disclosing details.

He was 65 and had worked basketball games for TNT for nearly a quarter-century.

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night in loss to No. 25 Oregon.

Collier, who averaged 7.9 rebounds this season, played just three minutes because of continuing knee problems.

Smith said she expected Collier back for her next game.

Thornton, who had returned from a concussion when she hit her head again, could take a bit longer.

THE BIG PICTURE Clemson: The Tigers started the season 8-0 against nonPower Five opponents. The Tigers, though, have lost their past two to No. 25 Oregon (8759) on Monday night and the rival, sixth-ranked Gamecocks. While Clemson has improved — it’s already doubled its four-win season STALEY from 2015-16, it is not yet ready to consistently play toe-to-toe with its better opponents. And there are plenty of those coming up once Atlantic Coast Conference play starts next month.

South Carolina: The Gamecocks certainly don’t look like the team yet that’s rolled to the past three Southeastern Conference titles. Their post duo of 6-foot-5 Wilson and 6-4 Coates are strong and engaged. On the perimeter, though, there are questions.

Kaela Davis and Allisha Gray have looked like All-Americans sometimes and been non factors at others. Point guard Bianca Cuevas-Moore has also struggled at taking over the on-court leadership role that Khadijah Sessions handled so well the previous few years.

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about.”

Harvin is having to work with long snapper Ben Reeder of J.L. Mann High in Greenville. Just as Harvin’s only job is punting, Reeder is on the squad as a long MCDANIEL snapper.

“It’s been a normal week of practice, like at Sumter,” Harvin said. “We’ve been workJOHNSON ing on getting everything together.”

Johnson has also en-

joyed the week even though it has been a hectic one.

“It’s been a lot of fun, HARVIN but it has been kind of tiring,” Johnson said.

“We’ve been practicing twice a day. It’s been nice to meet new people.”

Going against them in practice is also fun.

“It lets you know how hard you have to work to be the best,” he said.

“You’ve got to work hard and go hard every play.”

Johnson had 91 total tackles for Lakewood, including 43 solo stops.

He had 23 tackles for loss and six quarterback sacks while blocking six kicks.

Hokies AD: Ex-Wake assistant shared game plan in 2014

BY JOEDY MCCREARY AP Sports Writer WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock has confirmed that a former assistant coach-turned-broadcaster at Wake Forest provided a former Hokies assistant with “some game plan information” in 2014.

Babcock said in a statement Thursday that he has no indication that the information was shared with staff members or used during the game. Retired coach Frank Beamer also said he “had no knowledge of what is being alleged.”

Babcock did not identify the assistant coach.

Wake Forest won that game 6-3 in double over-

time and finished the season 3-9.

Virginia Tech joins Louisville and Army in acknowledging their involvement in the scandal in which former Wake Forest assistant Tommy Elrod was fired as the analyst on Demon Deacons’ radio game broadcasts after the school determined he leaked or attempted to leak game plans.

“We are disappointed and embarrassed that this type of information was distributed to, and apparently received by one of our former assistant coaches,” Babcock said.

The unidentified assistant did not remain on the staff when Beamer retired and was replaced by Justin Fuente, Babcock said.

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Trio powers Alice Drive past Hillcrest 71-22 Deonte Porter had a gamehigh 18 points and five steals as Alice Drive Middle School’s boys basketball team earned a 71-22 victory over Hillcrest on Thursday at the Hawks gymnasium.

Marcus Lane added 10 points and three assists while Trevonte Brunson added 10 points and four rebounds for ADMS. Devin Boston added six points and six rebounds while Jaden McCants had six points and four rebounds.

Christion Bowser and Nazhan Jackson each had six points for Hillcrest, who fell to 1-5. Leslie Owens also added five points for the Wildcats.

The Hawks will return to action on Jan. 2 at Mayewood Middle School.

BATES 45 CHESTNUT OAKS 38 Justus Boone scored 13 points as Bates Middle School earned a 45-38 victory over Chestnut Oaks on Thursday at the BMS gymnasium.

Justice Singletary and Cameron Jenkins each added nine points for the Bantams followed by Lamar Lawson with seven.

LEE CENTRAL 55 SPAULDING 27 LAMAR — Daveon Thomas had 13 points and 10 rebounds as Lee Central earned a 55-27 victory over Spaulding on Thursday in Lamar.

Lebron Thomas and Rylik Slater each added eight points for LCMS, which improved to 6-0.

MANNING 37 MAYEWOOD 32 Charles Ellerby and Corey Graham each had 11 points as Manning’s Junior High team

defeated Mayewood Middle School 37-32 on Thursday at the Vikings gymnasium.

Pherneco Myers led Mayewood with 16 points and five rebounds while Ja’Quan Wilson added eight points.

The Monarchs improved to 5-1.

GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL ALICE DRIVE 51 HILLCREST 22 Stevye Sinkler had 19 points as Alice Drive rolled past Hillcrest 51-22 on Thursday at the ADMS gymnasium.

Tajanique Johnson had 14 points for the Lady Hawks followed by Jada Sawyer with eight and Inga Colclough with six.

SPAULDING 27 LEE CENTRAL 20 LAMAR — Reginae Reddick had eight points and 10 rebounds for Lee Central, but it was Spaulding who came away with the 27-20 victory on Thursday at the SMS gymnasium.

Jahkia Watters added six points for the Lady Stallions.

MAYEWOOD 39 MANNING 11 Trelaija Dennis had 15 points to help power Mayewood past Manning 39-11 on Thursday at the Mayewood gymnasium.

April Goodman added 10 points for the Lady Vikings while Kordaisha Brunson led the team in rebounds with 10.

Sabrina Victoriano added four steals.

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ALL CHANGING Talk about differing ways to win. The Gamecocks used 16 3-pointers (second best in program history) to blow past Minnesota last Sunday. This time, South Carolina made just four of 14 long-range baskets while relying on its inside advantage to defeat Clemson.

“We’ve got a lot of ways to win,” Staley said. “We’ve got to take advantage of them.”

HEY, ROOMIE Staley and Smith were roommates for a short stretch at Virginia in the late 1980s until Staley’s night-owl tendencies did not mesh with Smith’s early-to-bed style.

Each sought more suitable people to live with. But they’ve remained good friends since college and Staley was impressed with Smith’s building program. “I’m happy for her and the program,” Staley said.

“Even though they’re our rivals, we want to see all South Carolina teams do well.”

UP NEXT Clemson returns home to face South Carolina State on Sunday.

South Carolina closes a three-game home stand against No. 9 UCLA on Sunday.

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AP FCS All-America team features 7 state players

BY RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press The Associated Press’ Football Championship Subdivision All-America team features seven players from South Carolina -including three who made the first-team defense.

Coastal Carolina senior linebacker Darius Leonard earned the nod along with South Carolina State junior LB Darius Leonard. Citadel junior defensive back Dee Delaney also made first team.

Charleston Southern had a pair of players make second team in senior offensive lineman Erik Austell and junior defensive lineman Anthony Ellis.

Wofford also had a pair of players selected as both senior running back Lorenzo Long and senior offensive lineman Anton Wahrby were named to the third team.

Eastern Washington receiver Cooper Kupp was selected for the fourth straight season, making the first team with fellow Walter Payton Award final-

ist Jeremiah Briscoe of Sam Houston State.

Kupp is believed to be the first player to be a fourtime first-team selection in FCS, which was previously known as Division I-AA. The AP began naming a I-AA All-America team in 1982 and its records go back to 1988.

Kupp is the most prolific receiver in the history of Division I football. He holds career records for receptions (418), receiving yards (6,284) and touchdown catches (71). This season he has 107 catches for 1,520 yards and 15 touchdowns for Eastern Washington, which hosts Youngstown State in an FCS playoff semifinal Saturday.

Kupp won the Walter Payton Award last season as the top player in FCS and he could become the second two-time winner when it is handed out Jan. 6.

Five-time defending national champion North Dakota State placed offensive linemen Zach Johnson and Landon Lechler on the first team. The Bison face James Madison on Friday night.

FCS ALL-AMERICA TEAM FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — Jeremiah Briscoe, junior, 6-foot-3, 209 pounds, Sam Houston State.

Running backs — Chase Edmonds, junior, 5-9, 205, Fordham; Tarik Cohen, senior, 5-6, 170, North Carolina A&T State.

Linemen — Julie’n Davenport, senior, 6-7, 315, Bucknell; Jessamen Dunker, senior, 6-5, 290, Tennessee State; Zach Johnson, senior, 6-4, 331, North Dakota State; Landon Lechler, senior, 6-7, 298, North Dakota State; Mitchell Kirsch, 6-6, 300, senior, James Madison.

Tight end — Dallas Goedert, junior, 6-4, 250, South Dakota State.

Wide receivers — Cooper Kupp, senior, 6-2, 215, Eastern Washington; Karel Hamilton, senior, 6-1, 205, Samford.

All-purpose player — Detrez Newsome, junior, 5-10, 210, Western Carolina.

Kicker — Griffin Trau, sophomore, 5-8, 180, Richmond.

DEFENSE Linemen — P.J. Hall, junior, 6-1, 280, Sam Houston State; Karter Schult, senior, 6-4, 269, Northern Iowa; Tanoh Kpassagnon, senior, 6-7, 290, Villanova; Darius Jackson, junior, 6-3, 237, Jacksonville State Linebackers — Dylan Cole, senior, 6-1, 240, Missouri State; Alex Scearce, senior, 6-3, 220, Coastal Carolina; Darius Leonard, junior, 6-3, 220, South Carolina State.

Defensive backs — Donald Payne, senior, 6-0, 223, Stetson; Cole Reyes, junior, 6-2, 215, North Dakota; Lorenzo Jerome, senior, 6-0, 195, Saint Francis (Pa.); Dee Delaney, junior, 6-1, 193, The Citadel.

Punter — Miles Bergner, senior, 6-0, 225, South Dakota.

SECOND TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — Gage Gubrud, sophomore, Eastern Washington.

Running backs — Khalid Abdullah, senior, James Madison; Jonah Hodges, senior, San Diego.

Linemen — Corey Levin, senior, Chattanooga; Erik Austell, senior, Charleston Southern; Brandon Parker, junior, North Carolina A&T State; Casey Dunn, senior, Jacksonville State; Nick Demes, senior, Penn.

Tight end — Eric Saubert, senior, Drake.

Wide receivers — Brian Brown, senior, Richmond; Kamron Lewis, sophomore, St. Francis (Pa.).

All-purpose player — Rashard Davis, senior, James Madison.

Kicker — Lane Clark, sophomore, Tennessee State.

DEFENSE Linemen — Donovan McCray, senior, Grambling State; Keionta Davis, senior, Chattanooga; Anthony Ellis, junior, Charleston Southern; Derek Rivers, senior, Youngstown State.

Linebackers — Christian Kuntz, senior, Duquesne; Folarin Orimolade , senior, Dartmouth; Brett Taylor, junior, Western Illinois Defensive backs — Mike Basile, junior, Monmouth; Casey DeAndrade, senior, New Hampshire; Deion Harris, junior, North Dakota; LeRoy Alexander, senior, Youngstown State.

Punter — Jake Ryder, senior, Towson.

THIRD TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — Devlin Hodges, sophomore, Samford.

Running backs — Lenard Tillery, senior, Southern; Lorenzo Long, senior, Wofford.

Linemen — Taylor Gadbois, senior, Southeastern Louisiana; Anton Wahrby, senior, Wofford; Mark Spelman, senior, Illinois State; Jerry Ugokwe, senior, William & Mary; Max Rich, senior, Harvard.

Tight end — Andrew Vollert, junior, Weber State.

Wide receivers — Jake Wieneke, junior, South Dakota State; Troy Pelletier, junior, Lehigh.

All-purpose player — Jody Webb, senior, Youngstown State.

Kicker — Erik Medina, senior, Texas Southern.

DEFENSE Linemen — Pat Afriyie, junior, Colgate; Samson Ebukam, senior, Eastern Washington; Greg Menard, junior, North Dakota State; Winston Craig, senior, Richmond.

Linebackers — Garrett Dolan, junior, Houston Baptist; Darien Anderson, senior, Alcorn State; Chad Geter, senior, Gardner-Webb.

Defensive backs — Nick Gesualdi, junior, Cornell; Danny Johnson, junior, Southern; Xavier Coleman, senior, Portland State; Jaylen Hill, senior, Jacksonville State.

Punter — Tate Lewis, senior, Southern Utah.

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp is looking at more than just preparing for the Birmingham Bowl during his postseason practices.

Muschamp believes what the Gamecocks (6-6) do the next two weeks in prepping to play South Florida (10-2) on Dec. 29 will carry over with his team into spring workouts and next season.

“You can feel the buzz in the building,” Muschamp said Thursday.

There was far less buzz at the midseason point of the year when South Carolina was 2-4 and couldn’t get anything done on offense or defense. The Gamecocks, though, turned things around going 4-2 the second half of the season, including a 24-21 upset of then-No. 18 Tennessee to qualify for a bowl.

The resurgence means two more weeks of improving freshmen starters like quarterback Jake Bentley, tailback Rico Dowdle and receiver Bryan Edwards who otherwise would’ve been left to get better on their own before the next team workouts come spring.

Muschamp said he’ll con-

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centrate on fundamentals the first four practices — “Seniors aren’t practicing the first two practices,” he said — before turning his attention to South Florida on Monday.

“It’s all about us and how we can get better,” Muschamp said. “Hand placement, pad level, strike and play.”

Muschamp also does not think his players will be held back by how the regular season ended with an embarrassing, 56-7 loss to rival, No. 3 Clemson, where the Gamecocks came apart after a couple of early scores by the Tigers.

“I’ll look at the totality of the season and not one game,” Muschamp said. “There was a glaring issue that we had a bunch at the end of the day, our ability to run the football consistently against good people and our ability to stop the run on defense. We’ve got to get better.”

South Carolina finished last in the Southeastern Conference rushing at 138 yards per game, even with Dowdle gaining 100 or more yards in three of the last five games.

The Gamecocks did a bit better at stopping the run, ending ninth in the 14-team SEC in allowing an average of 202 yards on the ground.

Muschamp said it was more than any one thing that led to

South Carolina’s issues, including playing two freshmen quarterbacks this season, and all areas will receive attention during bowl practices.

One, the offensive line, will practice with a new, temporary face in charge. Retired longtime assistant John Latina will replace offensive line coach Shawn Elliott, who was hired by Georgia State as its head coach last week. The Gamecocks brought in Latina, who worked with offensive coordinator Kurt Roper at Duke.

Muschamp said he won’t hire a permanent replacement until after the new year.

Muschamp is eager to see the extra practice time help young players like Bentley, who saw his first college action after South Carolina’ struggling first half.

Bentley, at 6-foot-3 and 223 pounds, jazzed up South Carolina’s offense with his strong and accurate arm. He completed better than 66 percent of his passes for six touchdowns and just one interception his first five starts.

However, he and the rest of the Gamecocks crashed with a loud thud at Clemson three weeks back. Bentley threw for only 41 yards against the Tigers and the offense was outgained 622-218 in the blowout.

Strong envisions South Florida becoming among nation’s elite

BY FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer

TAMPA, Fla. — Charlie Strong is confident he can lead South Florida to new heights.

The former Texas and Louisville coach was formally introduced Thursday as a proven winner capable of transforming a program that’s never won a conference championship into one that competes for national titles.

Strong was fired last month after three losing seasons at Texas. No. 25 USF signed him to a five-year, heavily backloaded $9.8 million contract that also will enable the 56-year-old to collect much of the more than $10 million the Longhorns owe him over the next two seasons.

“It really wasn’t a hard decision on coming here,” Strong said during a news conference held in the midst of what essentially was a pep rally for cheering students and fans assembled to welcome the fourth coach in school history to campus.

“We all have a vision of where we’d like to take ourselves,” the coach added. “We all have a vision of where we’d like to take this program.”

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“Coach Taggart built an unbelievable program, a program that has a solid foundation. Now it’s up to me to build on this foundation, continue to keep the program in the spotlight,” Strong said.

“There’s no reason why we can’t compete for championships year in and year out.”

Texas went 16-21 under Strong’s watch. He takes over a program at USF that was

launched from scratch in the mid-1990s and rose as high as No. 2 in the nation in 2007 before declining steadily over the next five seasons.

“Though I’m disappointed in the record, I’m very grateful for the opportunity I had at the University of Texas. We built a program and put a foundation in place that will allow them to have great success in the future, similar to what coach Taggart has done here,” Strong said.

“It was a great experience for me, it was a great experience for my family. It was a great experience for our staff, and it’s one I will never regret,” the coach added.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016

ROBERT LEE WELCH Robert Lee Welch, 63, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born in Sumter, a son of the late Malcom George Welch and Mary Frances Mixon, Robert was a professional carpenter, until he had to retire.

One of his favorite pastimes was playing the guitar. If he wasn’t playing his guitar, he was on WELCH his lawnmower cutting the grass, relaxing in the pool, or out on the lake fishing. One of his fondest memories was the train ride he took to Florida to visit his best friend, Trish.

He was loved by all who knew him and will be missed dearly.

He is survived by three sons, Brandon McConnell (Khira), Josh McConnell and Robert Lee Welch Jr.; five daughters, Michelle Welch, Deborah Welch, Lori Welch, Danielle Brown (A.J.) and Lisa Welch; two sisters, Frances Jean Hallman and Cindy Rosser (Roger); 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by a daughter, Angela Welch; a brother; and two sisters.

Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Promise Land Ministries with the Rev. James McElveen officiating.

The family will receive friends from 2 until 3 p.m. on Saturday prior to the service at Promise Land Ministries and other times at the home, 319 Myrtle Beach Highway.

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.

EARLIEST JACKSON SUMMERTON — Earliest Jackson, 54, died on Wednes-

day, Dec. 14, 2016, at McLeod Hospice, Florence.

He was born on Dec. 19, 1961, in Manning, a son of the late Deacon Ray Jackson and Ohilian Davis Jackson.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his sister, Jennie White, 1121 Starks Drive, Summerton.

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

MOISE WILLIS Captain (Ret.) Moise Willis, husband of Olivia Counts Willis, departed this earthly life on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, after an extended illness.

Born on Aug. 12, 1959, in Sumter, he was a son of the late Mary Lee Willis. In addition to his mother, he was raised by his maternal grandmother, the late Hattie Albert Willis. He attended Sumter County schools and graduated from Sumter High School in 1978; however, he enlisted into the United States Navy in December 1977. Upon completing recruit training in Orlando, Florida, he graduated from Hampton University in Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in nursing in May 1991 and was commissioned as an ensign in the Nurse Corps. In 1999, he attained his master’s degree in sociology from Howard University in Washington, D.C. Through his endeavors, he earned the highest respect from those he led by raising from a junior enlisted sailor to the prestigious officer rank of senior captain. He served his country for 38 years. During his tenure in the military, Capt. Willis earned many awards and personal accolades, including having an article published in Healthcare Analytics in Navy Medicine; a member of the Journal Founders Advisory Board for the Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities (2015); and three Meritorious Service Medal ... a true patriot.

Upon his retirement on Sept. 11, 2015, Capt. Willis returned to his home in Green Cove Springs, Florida, where his favorite pastimes included watching his television shows; assisting fellow servicemen — active and retired — or their spouses with their affairs; and enjoying several daily and

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weekly rounds of golf. He attended Greater New Zion Grove Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. Through he was not physically in Sumter, he continued his financial support to his home church, St. James United Methodist Church. He was a kind man with a giving spirit and an infectious smile. His family came second only to God. He was greatly loved. One of Capt. Willis’ most monumental quotes may perhaps be the following: “This is one thing I would tell any person: take advantage of the opportunities given to them, never burn your bridges, and always leave knowing you can reach back.”

“There is no place you can go that you don’t know somebody, and your reputation will follow you, regardless of wherever you go.”

Capt. Willis leaves to cherish his memories: his wife; a son, Stavien Counts of Jacksonville; a sister, Geraldine Butler of Sumter; a brother, Dr. Emanuel (Janice) Willis of Sumter; sisters-in-law, Susan Willis of Sumter, Joyce King of Ocala, Florida, and Sundance Bonnie of New York; brothers-in-law, Randy Counts of Ocala and James Curley of Ocala; a host of grandchildren, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

In addition to his mother and grandmother, Capt. Willis was preceded in death by his mother-in-law, Eliza Clark; eldest brother, retired Tech Sgt. Stephen Willis; brother-inlaw, Allen Butler Sr.; and nephew, Allen Butler Jr. Public viewing will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary.

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

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at St. James United Methodist Church, Sumter, with the pastor, the Rev. Cheryl G. Johnson, officiating. Interment will follow in Hillside Memorial Park.

The family will be receiving friends at the home of his sister, 831 Willis St., Sumter, SC 29150.

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

Online memorials may be

sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary. net.

brothers-in-law, Jack W. Richardson Sr. of Apex, North Carolina, and Reedy P. Herring of Sumter; and a sisterin-law, Sarah Bush Walker of Evans, Georgia.

He was preceded in death by an infant son; a brother, John Thomas Walker Jr.; a sister, Lily Walker Richardson; and a nephew, John Thomas Walker III. A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Bethel United Methodist Church cemetery with the Rev. Allen Vaught officiating.

The family will receive friends at Little Bethel following the graveside service.

Memorials may be made to St. Marks United Methodist Church, 27 Broad St., Sumter, SC 29150 or Bethel United Methodist Church, 5575 Lodebar Road, Sumter, SC 29153.

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

VARECK H. BROWN ORANGEBURG — Vareck Hiram Brown, 46, husband of Dinita Bradshaw Brown, died on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, at his residence, 489 Sandfill Road, Orangeburg.

He was born on Feb. 15, 1970, in Manning, a son of Ruby Witherspoon Brown and the late Harry L. Brown Sr. The family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, 607 Dupree St., Manning.

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

RAYMOND A. WALKER Raymond Allen Walker, 87, husband of the late Thelma Proctor Walker, died on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, at Lexington Medical Center.

Born on Sept. 26, 1929, in Clarendon County, he was a son of the late John Thomas Walker Sr. and Mamie Ward Walker. He was a graduate of Manning High School and Coyne Electrical School in Chicago. Mr. Walker was a member of St. Marks United Methodist Church. He was a U.S. Army combat veteran of the Korean War. He retired from the electrical field at DuPont after 41 years of service.

Following retirement, he enjoyed farming.

Survivors include two sons, Daryle A. Walker of Sumter and Raymond A. “Tony” Walker (Carole) of Lancaster; a grandson, Bryan A. Walker of Charlotte, North Carolina; a granddaughter, Shana Dry (Eric) of Lancaster; a greatgranddaughter, Addison Dry;

JOHN ASKEW IRVINGTON, New Jersey — On Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, John Askew, husband of Bessie Richburg Askew, departed this life in Irvington.

Service of remembrance will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Lumpkin, Georgia.

Service of committal will follow in the Askew family plot, located in St. Phillip Baptist Church Cemetery, Lumpkin.

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Proposal Deadline/Time: 1/10/17 2:00 P.M. Number of Copies: 1 original and 3 copies Agency/Owner: Santee Wateree RTA Name & Title of Agency Coordinator: Patricia Drakeford, Compliance Officer Address: 129 South Harvin Street, P.O. Box 2462, Sumter, SC 29151 Telephone: (803) 934-0396 Fax: (803) 938-9867 E-mail: pdrakeford@swrta.com Towercom IV, LLC is proposing to construct a 189-foot overall height monopole telecommunications structure at 930 North Lafayette Drive, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina.

The tower is not anticipated to have any lighting.

Towercom IV, LLC invites comments from any interested party on the impact the proposed undertaking may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

Comments pertaining specifically to historic resources may be sent to Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Dina Bazzill, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004. Ms. Bazzill can be reached at (770)

667-2040 ext. 111. Comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this notice.

In addition, any interested party may also request further environmental review of the proposed action under the FCC's National Environmental Policy Act rules, 47 CFR §1.1307, by notifying the FCC of the specific reasons that the action may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.

This request must only raise environmental concerns and can be filed online using the FCC pleadings system at www.fcc.gov or mailed to FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554 within 30 days of the date that notice of this proposed action is published on the FCC's website.

Refer to File No. A1054927 when submitting the request and to view the specific information about the proposed action. S2723

Bid Notices FOR: Year Round Commercial Lawn Care Services - SWRTA 16/17-03 Santee Wateree Regional Transportation Authority (SWRTA) is soliciting bids for commercial year round lawn care services for their grounds located at 129 S. Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150. More detailed information and specifications are found in the solicitation which can be obtained by contacting, Patricia Drakeford, Compliance officer at 803-934-0396 ext. 103, or via email at pdrakeford @swrta.com or via website at www.s wrta.com.

All Disadvantaged Business Enterprises are encouraged to submit bids for this procurement.

Questions concerning this IFB will be accepted in writing via mail or email to the office through January 3, 2017 at 4:00pm. Deadline for bids is 1/17/2017 at 12:00pm.

Summons & Notice SUMMONS AND NOTICES IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 2016CP4301274 (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, PLAINTIFF, vs.

Dan Smith; any other Heirs or Devisees of Shirley Smith, deceased; including any Personal Representatives, Successors, Assigns, Spouses, Creditors, and all others claiming any right, title or interest in the real estate known as 2230 Rush St., Lynchburg, SC 29080; any adults or persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any minors or persons under legal disability, being a class designated as Richard Roe; Midland Funding NCC-2 Corp, Assignee of Wells Fargo Bank; Springleaf Financial Services of South Carolina, Inc.; and South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, DEFENDANT(S).

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

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

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Sumter, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action, together with the Summons, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on July 1, 2016 at 3:08 P.M. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Supreme Court of South Carolina Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may be eligible for foreclosure intervention programs for the purpose of resolving the above-referenced foreclosure action.

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

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

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading and filing of the Petition of the Plaintiff for the appointment of Kelley Woody, attorney in Columbia, South Carolina, as Guardian ad Litem Nisi for all unknown minors, and for all persons who may be under a legal disability, it is ORDERED that Kelley Woody, Attorney at Law, be and she is hereby appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi on behalf of unknown minors or persons under a legal disability, all of whom may have an interest in or claim to have some interest in the real property known as 2230 Rush Street, Lynchburg, SC 29080; that she is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless the said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem for the said Defendants; AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendants by publication thereof in the The Item, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, once a week for three consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

James C. Campbell Clerk of Court for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Thomas A. Shook P.O. Box 71727 North Charleston, SC 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorney for Plaintiff

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NOTICE OF SALE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-01235 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC Plaintiff, -vsJason V. Scott aka Jason Vernon Scott, Defendant(s) BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. Jason V. Scott aka Jason Vernon Scott, I, Richard L. Booth, as Master In Equity for Sumter County, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 Noon, at the Sumter County Courthouse, 215 N. Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Stateburg, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot #115, containing 0.69 acre of Oakland North Subdivision, Section 3, as shown on that certain plat prepared for David J. Larche and Mary M. Larche, by Ben J. Makela, RLS, dated April 13, 1994, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 94 at Page 544, and having such metes and bounds as are shown on said plat, this description being in lieu of metes and bounds as permitted under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended.

This is the property known as 5625 Cold Stream Drive, Dalzell, South Carolina 29040 bearing tax map number: 135-16-01-013.

This is the property conveyed to Jason Vernon Scott by deed of Regis L. McClain and Ranisha J. McClain dated February 14, 2007 and recorded simultaneously herewith.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Theodore von Keller, Esquire B. Lindsay Crawford, III, Esquire Sara Hutchins Columbia, South Carolina Attorney for Plaintiff

Notice of Sale C/A No: 2016-CP-43-00621

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC vs. Lakeeta R. Ladson-Tucker; Wintergreen of Sumter Homeowners Association; Guardian Builders, Inc.; Wintergreen II of Sumter, LLC, I the undersigned as Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on 1/3/2017 at 12:00 PM, at the Sumter County Judicial Center, Sumter County, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: Legal Description Address:

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Property

ALL THAT CERTAIN piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina being designated as Lot 165 of Wintergreen Subdivision, Section No. 2, Phase I, as shown on plat prepared by Louis W. Tisdale, PLS, dated February 4, 2004 and recorded in Plat Book 2004 at Page 47 in the RMC Office for Sumter County and having such metes and bounds as are shown on said plat, this description being in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina.

THIS BEING the same property conveyed to Lakeeta R. Ladson-Tucker by virtue of a Deed from Guardian Builders, Inc. dated August 3, 2005 and recorded August 9, 2005 in Book 992 at Page 393 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina.

3870 Rhododendron St. Sumter, SC 29154 TMS# 154-13-01-003 TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest at the rate of Five and 875/1000 (5.875%) to be paid on balance of bid from date of sale to date of compliance. The purchaser to pay for papers and stamps, and that the successful bidder or bidders, other than the Plaintiff therein, do, upon the acceptance of his or her bid, deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County a certified check or cash in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of bid on said premises at the sale as evidence of good faith in bidding, and subject to any resale of said premises under Order of this Court; and in the event the said purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale within Twenty (20) days, the Master in Equity shall forthwith resell the said property, after the due notice and advertisement, and shall continue to sell the same each subsequent sales day until a purchaser, who shall comply with the terms of sale, shall be obtained, such sales to be made at the risk of the former purchaser. Since a personal or deficiency judgment is waived, the bidding will not remain open but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's representative does not appear at the above-described sale, then the sale of the property will be null, void, and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Sold subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity For Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 803-726-2700 NOTICE OF SALE 2014-CP-43-02352

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: CitiMortgage, Inc. against James E. Antill, Central Carolina Homes, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 p.m. at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: A parcel of land located in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and known as: Being Lot Number 428 in Eagle Nest, Phase 2 as shown in the

recorded Plat/Map thereof in Book 2000 Page 74 of Sumter County records. Being all of that certain property conveyed to James E. Antill

by Deed dated December 13, 2000 and recorded December 27, 2000 in Volume 790, Page 1231 in the land records of Sumter County, South Carolina. This being the same property conveyed to James E. Antill

by Deed of Longtown Investments, LLC, dated December 13, 2000 and recorded December 27, 2000 in Book 790 at Page 1231 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina making James E. Antill the sole owner of the property. TMS No. 153-08-02-010 Property Address: 2260 Equinox Avenue, Sumter, SC 29040 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.2500%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master in Equity Sumter County Riley Pope & Laney, LLC Post Office Box 11412 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF MASTER IN EQUITY SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016CP4301552

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, against Heather L. Reynolds, et al., the Master in Equity for Sumter County, or his/her agent, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 P.M., at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying, and being in the Township of Stateburg, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Tract C on plat of division of part of Lot 7, as shown on that certain plat prepared for Gregory A. Thompson,

by Joseph R. Edwards, RLS, dated February 4, 2002, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 2002 at page 88, and having such metes and bounds as are shown on said plat, this description being in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended.

ALSO: 1988 Fleetwood Mobile Home, Serial Number GAFLJ34AB10092SH

TMS Number: 135-00-02-066 (land and mobile home) PROPERTY ADDRESS: 3105 Kubota Rd, Dalzell, SC 29040 This being the same property conveyed to Heather L. Reynolds by deed of Gregory A. Thompson, dated February 13, 2002, and recorded in

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TMS #: 135-16-01-013 SUBJECT TO SUMTER COUNTY TAXES TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master In Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the

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the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County on February 14, 2002, in Deed Book 832 at Page 1157.

Notice of Sale C/A No: 2016-CP-43-00176

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master in Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 6.250% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within 20 days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of Gateway Mortgage Group, LLC vs. Lauren Olson aka Lauren M. Bailey, individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Chase Wayne Olson aka Chase W. Olson; L.O., a minor; B.O., a minor, I the undersigned as for Sumter County, will sell on 1/3/2017 at 12:00 PM, at the Sumter County Judicial Center, Sumter County, South Carolina, to the highest bidder:

the East by Lot No. 7 and measuring thereon 41 feet; on the South by Lot No.2 and measuring thereon 150 feet; and on the West by a narrow street separating property from Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and measuring thereon 61 feet.

herein. This description is in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted by law under Section 30-5-2250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, As Amended. Be all measurements a little more or a little less and according to said plat.

This being the same property conveyed to Grantors by deed of Wright Family Limited Partnership dated 9/24/02 and recorded on 9/27/02 in deed book 858 at page 99, records of Sumter County.

Deficiency judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

ALL THAT CERTAIN piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina identified as Lot No. 23 of Warwick Estates Section No.4, being more particularly shown on that certain plat of Michael C. Turbeville III, RLS, dated July 19, 1993 that is recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book PB93, at page 1303. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976.

ALSO: All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, designated as Lot No. 2 on a plat of 27 lots approximately one mile South of The City of Sumter on a plat of Joseph Palmer, CE dated December 29, 1943 and of record in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-7 at page 53.

Said lot being more fully described as delineated as follows: on the North by Lot No. 1 as shown on said plat and measuring thereon 150 feet; on the East by Lot No. 7 as shown on said plat and measuring thereon 50 feet; on the South by Lot No. 3 as shown on said plat and measuring thereon 150 feet; and on the West by an unnamed street as shown on said plat and measuring thereon 50 feet.

Be all of said measurements a little more or a little less.

stamps on the deed, and recording of the deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 3.5% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent, is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, S.C. 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs. Laquan Lowery;, C/A No. 14-CP-43-1381, The following property will be sold on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, represented as Lot No. 1C on a plat of Joseph R. Edwards, RLS dated November 5, 2007 and recorded March 28, 2008 in Plat Book 2008 at Page 110 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and referenced is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is in lieu of the metes and bounds, as permitted by law under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended.

Be all of said measurements a little more or less and according to said plat. This being the property known as 504 S. Main Street.

Derivation: Book 1112 at Page 1023.

504 South Main Street, Sumter, SC 29150 227-05-01-100 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at his risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.75% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #14-CP-43-1381.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County John J. Hearn Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013225-03564 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

Legal Description Address:

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Property

THIS BEING the same property conveyed to Chase W. Olson by virtue of a Deed from Bonnie Kennedy and William Thomas Kennedy and Herbert Anthony Kennedy dated September 18, 2012 and recorded September 20, 2012 in Book 1176 at Page 3463 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina.

2104 Avalon Drive Sumter, SC 29154 TMS# 207-13-03-013 TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest at the rate of Three and 75/100 (3.75%) to be paid on balance of bid from date of sale to date of compliance. The purchaser to pay for papers and stamps, and that the successful bidder or bidders, other than the Plaintiff therein, do, upon the acceptance of his or her bid, deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County a certified check or cash in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of bid on said premises at the sale as evidence of good faith in bidding, and subject to any resale of said premises under Order of this Court; and in the event the said purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale within Twenty (20) days, the shall forthwith resell the said property, after the due notice and advertisement, and shall continue to sell the same each subsequent sales day until a purchaser, who shall comply with the terms of sale, shall be obtained, such sales to be made at the risk of the former purchaser.

Since a personal or deficiency judgment is waived, the bidding will not remain open but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's representative does not appear at the above-described sale, then the sale of the property will be null, void, and of no force and effect.

In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Sold subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity For Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 803-726-2700

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BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. vs. Emma Lou Thomas, as Trustee for Raymond Leon Jackson under the Will of Leon Jackson ; Ora Mae Spann, as Substitute Trustee for Raymond Leon Jackson under the Will of Leon Jackson; Raymond Leon Jackson; Brenda Young; Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Leon Jackson, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, C/A No. 2015CP4302451, The following property will be sold on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder All and singular that certain tract of land in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, designated as Lot No. 1 on a plat made by Joseph Palmer, C.E. dated December 29, 1943 and bounded as follows: on the North by lands now or formerly owned by Eloise Webster and measuring thereon 151.25 feet; on

Derivation: Book N9 at Page 389

971 Industrial Blvd, Sumter, SC 29150-6703 250-14-01-001 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at his risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 7.78% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #2015CP4302451.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County John J. Hearn Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013263-07573 FN Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

NOTICE OF MASTER'S SALE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 2016-CP-43-01359 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER NOA Bank Plaintiff, vs.

JP Hospitality Group, Inc., James Pyon, Jung OK Pyon, BB&T of South Carolina aka Branch Banking and Trust Company, Defendants.

By virtue of a Decree of Foreclosure entered in an action entitled, NOA Bank vs. James Pyon and Jung OK Pyon, and JP Hospitality Group, Inc., Civil Action Case No. 2016-CP-43-01359, the undersigned Master In Equity will sell at public auction to be conducted at the Sumter County Judicial Center in Sumter, South Carolina, on January 3, 2017 at Noon, the following property will be sold to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel and lot of land, together with any improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina identified as Lot No. 222 of Timberline Meadows Subdivision Phase 4 and being more fully shown on a plat prepared by Louis W. Tisdale, R.L.S. dated April 24, 2001 and recorded in plat book 2001 at page 359, records of Sumter county.

This property is known as 740 Windrow Drive and is further identified as Sumter County Tax Map Parcel No. 184-06-02-010.

Aforesaid Plat is specifically incorporated herein and reference is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned

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At the conclusion of the bidding, the successful purchaser, other than the plaintiff, must deposit with the Master five (5%) per cent of the bid in cash or equivalent. Credit will be allowed for this against the purchase price.

Personal/deficiency judgment having been waived, the bidding will not remain open, and compliance with the bid must be made within twenty (20) days thereafter.

Interest will accrue on the amount of the bid until date of compliance at the rate of WSJ Pime +2.5% per annum.

If the successful bidder fails to comply, his deposit will be forfeited and applied in the manner prescribed by law; and the property will be re-advertised and sold on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent sales day at his risk.

The sale will be subject to all accrued and/or delinquent Sumter County ad valorem property taxes and all visible and recorded easements, covenants and rights of way and any senior liens.

The purchaser is to pay for preparation of deed, documentary stamps and recording.

Richard L. Booth Master-In-Equity Sumter, South Carolina

MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-01499

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Scott A. Pulliam and Stacia Pulliam, I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Tuesday, January 3, 2017, at 12:00 o'clock p.m., at the Sumter County Courthouse, Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina identified as Lot No. 256 of Autumn Place Subdivision and being more fully shown on a plat prepared by Michael C. Turbeville, III, P.L.S. dated September 25, 2001 and recorded in Plat Book 2005 at Page 30, records of Sumter County. This property is known as 60 Doctors Court and is further identified as Sumter County Tax Map Parcel No. 134-00-02-036.

Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and reference is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted by law under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended. Be all measurements a little more or a little less and according to said plat.

This being the same property conveyed to Scott A. Pulliam and Stacia Pulliam by deed of Jennifer L. Hyman dated March 31, 2014 and recorded March 31, 2014 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1200 at Page 1228.

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Property Address: 60 Doctors Court, Dalzell, SC 29040 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. If the Plaintiff's representative is not in attendance at the scheduled time of the sale, the sale shall be canceled and the property sold on some subsequent sales day after due advertisement.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Master in Equity for Sumter County may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). As a deficiency judgment is being Waived, the bidding will not remain open thirty days after the date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for preparation of deed, documentary

GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC 1703 Laurel Street P. O Box 11682 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 233-1177 Edward L. Grimsley Benjamin E. Grimsley Attorneys for the Plaintiff

NOTICE OF MASTER IN EQUITY SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016CP4301655

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of The Huntington National Bank, against Terry A. Brown, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, or his/her agent, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 P.M., at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Sumter, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot #329 of Millwood Gardens Subdivision, Fourth Addition, as shown on that certain plat prepared for Kenneth N. Brown and Terry A. Brown by Louis W. Tisdale, RLS, dated August 29, 1995 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Mesne Conveyances for Sumter County in Plat Book 95 at Page 893 and having such metes and bounds as are shown on said plat.

TMS Number: 227-01-03-030 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 23 Briarwood Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 This being the same property conveyed to Kenneth N. Brown and Terry A. Brown as joint tenants with the right of survivorship by deed of Clarence W. Crockett, dated August 29, 1995, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County on September 8, 1995, in Deed Book 630 at Page 644. Kenneth Neil Brown died September 7, 2016.

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master in Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 5.000% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within 20 days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

Deficiency judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent, is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, S.C. 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Ditech Financial LLC vs. Jonathon R. Harris; Superior Performance Investments, LLC, as Trustee for 2540 Lorentz Drive Trust, C/A No. 15-CP-43-02276, The following property will be sold on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder All that certain piece, parcel, and lot of land with improvements thereon situate, lying and being in the County

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of Sumter, State of South Carolina identified as Lot No. 44 of Amherst Subdivision and being more fully shown on a plat prepared by D.D. Edmunds, R.L.S., dated December 16, 1996 and recorded in Plat Book 96 at Page 1663, records of Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and reference is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted by law under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended. Be all measurements a little more or less and according to said plat.

Derivation: Book 1049 at Page 369.

2540 Lorentz Dr, Sumter, SC 29154 207-16-09-025 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at his risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 2.125% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #15-CP-43-02276.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County John J. Hearn Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 014293-01094 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

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NOTICE OF SALE 2016-CP-43-00367

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-SC1 against Sharon Wells aka Sharon G. Wells, Beneficial Financial I Inc., LVNV Funding LLC, Asset Acquisition Group, LLC and Sun Finance, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 p.m. at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All that piece, parcel, or lot of land lying, being and situate in Concord Township, Sumter County, South Carolina said lot being designated as Lot #134 on plat hereinafter referred to and bounding and measuring as follows: On the North

by Lot #135 and measuring thereon 111.1 feet; on the East by the right-of-way of Memorial Avenue and measuring thereon 140 feet; on the South by Lot #133 and measuring thereon 111.1 feet; on the West by Lots #126 and #127 and measuring thereon 140 feet. For a more particular description of said lot, reference may be had to a Plat made

by Hugh F. Longshore, Jr., R.L.S., dated December 7, 1970, of Section 2, Concord Estates Subdivision, recorded in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-29 at Page 112, whereon said lot is designated as Lot #134. Said lot being designated as Sumter County Tax Map Parcel No. 252-03-03-013-000. Being the same property conveyed unto Charles Wells and Sharon G. Wells by deed of Coker Builders, Inc. dated March 17, 1998 and recorded March 17, 1988 in Deed Book 466 at Page 1080 in the RMC/ROD Office for Sumter County, South Carolina. Thereafter, Charles Wells died on October 2, 2014, leaving his interest in the subject property unto Sharon G. Wells by right of survivorship deed. TMS No. 252-03-03-013 Property Address: 215 Memorial Avenue, Sumter, SC 29153 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 9.9500%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master in Equity Sumter County Riley Pope & Laney, LLC Post Office Box 11412 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff

amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.50%% per annum.

bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. If the Plaintiff's representative is not in attendance at the scheduled time of the sale, the sale shall be canceled and the property sold on some subsequent sales day after due advertisement.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Master in Equity for Sumter County may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). As a deficiency judgment is being waived, the bidding will not remain open thirty days after the date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for preparation of deed, documentary stamps on the deed, and recording of the deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.375% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

NOTICE OF SALE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-01377 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Ditech Financial LLC fka Green Tree Servicing LLC Plaintiff, -vsCedric Rembert, Defendant(s) BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of Ditech Financial LLC fka Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. Cedric Rembert, I, Richard L. Booth, as Master In Equity for Sumter County, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 Noon, at the Sumter County Courthouse, 215 N. Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Township of Stateburg, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot No. 13, Block B, of Oakland Plantation Subdivision as shown on that certain plat prepared by Julian B. Allen, dated February 6, 1987 and recorded in Plat Book 87 at Page 166 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and referenced in craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is in lieu of the metes and bounds, as permitted by law under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended. This being the property known as 5424 Plantation Drive. TMS No: 134-15-02-022 This being the same property conveyed to the mortgagor herein by deed of Darlene Staton, recorded December 21, 2006 in Vol. 1058 at Page 114 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County.

TMS #: 134-15-02-022 SUBJECT TO SUMTER COUNTY TAXES TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master In Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Theodore von Keller, Esquire B. Lindsay Crawford, III, Esquire Sara Hutchins Columbia, South Carolina Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016-CP-43-00234 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association, as Trustee, successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-3 vs. Jose Osorio; People's Choice Home Loan, Inc. ; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on January 3, 2017 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, Sumter Township, State of South Carolina, being more particularly shown and delineated as Lot #99 of "Rolling Creek" Subdivision as shown on that certain plat of D.D. Edmunds, RLS, dated February 7, 1991, revised June 10, 1991 and further revised November 30, 1991, and recorded in the Office of the ROD for Sumter County in plat book PB91 at Page 1569. This said lot has such boundaries, metes, courses and distances as are shown on said plat of which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provision of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of S.C., 1976. This Property is more generally known as 215 Rolling Creek Drive. This conveyance is made subject to any and all existing reservations, easements, right-of-way, zoning ordinances, and restrictive or protective covenants that may appear of record or on the premises.

Also included herewith is that certain 2000 Fleetwood Manufactured Home bearing serial number NCFLX56AB16260AV13.

This being the same property conveyed to Jose Osorio and Katie Osorio, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship by Deed of Perry Moses & Son Real Estate, Inc. dated September 16, 2003 and recorded September 18, 2003 in Book 908 at Page 1603 in the records for Sumter County, South Carolina.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 215 Rolling Creek Drive, Sumter, SC 29153 TMS: 250-11-04-004 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). Deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not be closed on the day of sale but will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days as provided by law.

Plaintiff is demanding a deficiency, the Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 9.45% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff

MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-01477

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Marcos S. Ly, I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Tuesday, January 3, 2017, at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Sumter County Courthouse, Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina being more particularly shown and delineated as Lot 24, of Heathley Wood Subdivision, on that certain plat of Julian B. Allen, RLS, dated July 26, 1985 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book PB85 at Page 729. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976. This being the same property known as 2 Snowden Street, Sumter, SC. Represented by Auditor's map of Sumter County as tax parcel no. 205-04-01-001.

This being the same property conveyed to Marcos S. Ly by deed of James E. Field and Shirley J. Field dated September 16, 2013 and recorded September 19, 2013 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1193 at Page 3942 and re-recorded November 5, 2013 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1195 at Page 3465.

Property Address: 2 Snowden Street Sumter, S.C. 29150 TMS # 2050401001 TERMS OF SALE: The successful

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC 1703 Laurel Street P. O Box 11682 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 233-1177 Edward L. Grimsley Benjamin E. Grimsley Attorneys for the Plaintiff

NOTICE OF MASTER IN EQUITY SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016CP4301154

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of MidFirst Bank, against Allie B. Atkinson, III a/k/a Bryan Atkinson, et al., the Master in Equity for Sumter County, or his/her agent, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 P.M., at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, having the following measurements and being bounded, now or formerly, as follows: on the North by property of Marshall, and measuring thereon 150 feet; on the East by property of Marshall, and measuring thereon 175 feet; on the South by State Road S-43-374 (Holiday Drive), and measuring thereon 150 feet; and on the West by property of Baker, and measuring thereon 126.7 feet and also by property of Kennedy, and measuring thereon 48.3 feet. Be all of said measurements a little more or a little less. This property is known as 831 Holiday Drive, Sumter, SC.

TMS Number: 247-05-01-008 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 831 Holiday Drive, Sumter, SC 29153 This being the same property conveyed to Bryan Atkinson and Brandie Atkinson by deed of Sara Ellen M. Strafford, dated January 4, 2000, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County on January 6, 2000, in Deed Book 761 at Page 1712.

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master in Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 6.500% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within 20 days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

Deficiency judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent, is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, South Carolina 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. vs. Phyllis Carmon a/k/a Phyllis Smith Carmon a/k/a Phyllis Gayle Smith, Individually; Phyllis Gayle Smith, as Personal Representative of The Estate of Robert W. Carmon a/k/a Robert Wayne Carmon; , C/A No. 15-CP-43-02596, The following property will be sold on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with improvements thereon, situate lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina and being more particularly shown as Lot 65 on a plat of Hunting Hills Subdivision by Edmunds Land Surveyors, Inc., dated February 3, 1993 and recorded in the Recorder's Office for the above named county in Plat Book 93, Page 196.

Derivation: Book 667 at Page 1138.

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thereon. The interest(s), if any, of said defendant(s) in the mobile home will be transferred to the successful purchaser "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE or otherwise by a non-warranty deed (AND NOT BY A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE).

179-05-03-003 (land), 400-00-20-686 (mobile home) SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at his risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 9.35% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #15-CP-43-02596.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County John J. Hearn Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013263-07728 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

Notice of Sale C/A No: 2015-CP-43-00307

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of U.S. Bank National Association vs. Jessie Thomas Tucker;, I the undersigned as Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on 1/3/2017 at 12:00 PM, at the Sumter County Judicial Center, Sumter County, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: Legal Description Address:

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All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon; if any, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina being shown and designated as Lot No. 14 as shown on a Plat by John M. Mahon, RLS dated July 9, 1973 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-34, page 54. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976.

ALSO INCLUDED 1999 Clayton Mobile Home with Serial No. HHC011672NCA&B. Sumter County Parcel No. 400-00-33-331 This being the same property conveyed to Jessie Thomas Tucker by deed of Linda LoBiondo and Gerald LoBiondo, dated 7/7/2008 and recorded 7/9/2008 in Book 1109 at Page 335 in the Office of the Register of Deed for Sumter County.

1877 Bishop Drive Sumter, SC 29153 TMS# 269-81-01-003 (ld) 400-00-33-331 (moho) TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest at the rate of Seven and 25/1000 (7.25%) to be paid on balance of bid from date of sale to date of compliance. The purchaser to pay for papers and stamps, and that the successful bidder or bidders, other than the Plaintiff therein, do, upon the acceptance of his or her bid, deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County a certified check or cash in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of bid on said premises at the sale as evidence of good faith in bidding, and subject to any resale of said premises under Order of this Court; and in the event the said purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale within Twenty (20) days, the Master in Equity shall forthwith resell the said property, after the due notice and advertisement, and shall continue to sell the same each subsequent sales day until a purchaser, who shall comply with the terms of sale, shall be obtained, such sales to be made at the risk of the former purchaser. Since a personal or deficiency judgment is waived, the bidding will not remain open but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's representative does not appear at the above-described sale, then the sale of the property will be null, void, and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Sold subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity For Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 803-726-2700

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Notice of Sale

NOTICE OF SALE 2016-CP-43-1322

207-09-02-007 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2800 Ridgehill Dr., Sumter, SC

By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, heretofore granted in the case of SAFE Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, -vs- Richard G. Klosowski and Goldie L. Klosowski, 2016-CP-43-1322, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on January 3, 2017 at 12:00 Noon, at the Sumter County Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 2, to the highest bidder, the following-described property, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel, or tract of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying, and being in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot No. 307 of Sunway Knolls Subdivision, Section "J", as shown on that certain plat prepared

by Joseph R. Edwards, RLS, dated February 18, 1992, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 92, page 289, and having such metes and bounds as are shown on said plat, this description being in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY IS: 1124 Oriole Circle Sumter, SC 29150 TMS# 204-06-02-018 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest at the rate of 6.875% to be paid on balance of bid from date of sale to date of compliance. The purchaser to pay for preparation of deed and stamps, and that the successful bidder or bidders, other than the Plaintiff therein, do, upon the acceptance of his or her bid, deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County a certified check or cash in the amount equal to five per cent (5%) of the amount of bid on said premises at the sale as evidence of good faith in bidding, and subject to any resale of said premises under Order of this Court; and in the event the said purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale within thirty (30) days, the undersigned shall forthwith re-sell the said property, after the due notice and advertisement, and shall continue to sell the same each subsequent Sales Day until a purchaser, who shall comply with the terms of sale, shall be obtained, such sales to be made at the risk of the former purchaser. Personal or deficiency judgment having been waived, the bidding will not remain open for a period of thirty (30) days pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 15-39-720, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

This being the same property conveyed to Casey A. and Charlene V. Smith by deed of TAS Properties, LLC, dated November 21, 2005, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County on November 30, 2005, in Deed Book 1007 at Page 1077.

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master in Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 3.125% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within 20 days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

Deficiency judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent, is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, S.C. 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's representative does not appear at the above-described sale, then the sale of the property will be null, void, and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be re-scheduled for the next available sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Sold subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the sales date.

RICHARD L. BOOTH Master in Equity for Sumter County Kenneth Hamilton Attorney for Plaintiff 1203 Peach Orchard Road Post Office Box 52359 Sumter, South Carolina 29152 Telephone: (803) 494-3353 Telecopier: (803) 494-3388

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In Memory

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of MTGLQ Investors, LP, against Casey A. Smith, et al., the Master in Equity for Sumter County, or his/her agent, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 12:00 P.M., at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, together with the dwelling and improvements thereon, lying and being situate in the Township and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, containing 0.35 acre, more or less, and being shown and delineated as Lot No. 208 of Twin Lakes Subdivision, Section 9, on that plat prepared by D.D. Edmunds, RLS, dated August 11, 1993 and recorded in plat Book 93 at Page 1406 in the records of the Register of Deeds Office for Sumter County.

Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and reference is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is made in lieu of metes and bounds as permitted by law under Section 30-5-250 of The Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as amended. This is the property known as 2800 Ridgehill Drive, Sumter, SC.

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In Loving Memory of Ruby Mae Jefferson Temoney 11/26/37-12/17/13 Time moves slow, when your heart is in pain. Three years ago, another angel for heaven did gain.

Memories last forever, love no one can replace. Our dear mother and grandmother, I can still see your face.

Continue to rest, away from this world of sin. With God above, untill we see you again.

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