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Man opens fire on deputies on I-95 after 3-county chase

Man found not guilty in 2013 killing

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Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett talks about the pursuit and gun battle with Daniel Brooks Ward on Thursday morning near the 97-mile marker on Interstate 95. Clarendon officers became involved when Ward entered the county from Orangeburg County.

On Thursday, a jury returned a not-guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of 20-year-old James Brock, who was charged in the shooting death of his landlord’s 37-year-old son in 2013.

Fifth Circuit Court Judge L. Casey Manning presided over the BROCK three-day trial, which Brock’s defense attorney described as one of the first “true” Stand Your Ground cases under South Carolina’s 2007 law, at Sumter County Judicial Center.

Brock faced charges of manslaughter and possession of a weapon during a violent crime after he shot and killed Jeffrey Allen Scott during a heated argument on March 10, 2013, in Dalzell. Scott was struck once in the abdomen and died of internal bleeding at the scene.

Shaun Kent, Brock’s defense attorney, said an argument about a lease between the Scotts, the landlords, and the Brocks, the tenants, led to the shooting incident.

During the exchange, Jeffrey Scott said some nasty things about Brock’s mother, and Brock wanted Scott to apologize, he said.

Brock was a 17-year-old with no father in the home, and he wanted to be the man of the house and defend his mother, Kent said.

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Suspect shot; kidnapping victim unharmed after pursuit, shootout

BY JIM HILLEY AND KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY jim@theitem.com, konstantin@theitem.com SANTEE — A Berkeley County man opened fire on deputies from Clarendon and Berkeley county sheriff’s offices after a three-county chase Thursday morning that began in Berkeley County.

No deputies were injured in the gunfire. The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office reported the chase began

when a woman dropped her children off at Cane Bay Elementary School in Moncks Corner at 8:49 a.m. Thursday.

Shortly afterward, she called the Ninth District Solicitor’s Office regarding an upcoming revocation hearing for later in WARD the morning, according to the report.

While the victim was on the phone with the solicitor’s office, the woman

reported that her estranged husband, for whom she reportedly had an active order of protection, jumped into her vehicle and pulled a pistol on her, the sheriff’s office said.

At 9:12 a.m., a sheriff’s office deputy on patrol reportedly observed the vehicle on Highway 176 in Lebanon.

After following the vehicle and waiting for backup units, deputies attempted a traffic stop. The suspect, Daniel

Manchester Trail Riders invite horse lovers and owners to join them at Dillon Park on Saturday for some “Horsing Around for Horse Lovers.” From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., there will be demonstrations and opportunities for people to challenge their horses with some obstacles.

And it’s all free to the public, said event chairwoman Cindy Keisling.

The nonprofit club comprises “people who have and love horses,” said Janice Poplin of the club’s event committee, and that’s just about everybody.

Club members encourage people to bring their horses and a lawn chair. When they get in the ring with their horses, Keisling said, “They

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can find out if their horses are scared of certain things, for example. We might have something like a stuffed animal on top of a 55-gallon barrel so the horse owner can lead their horse up to it and see if they can pick it up and put it on the horse’s saddle. Usually the horses are either fine with it, or they think it’s a horse-eating monster.”

Large balls, noodles and other objects will also be used in the ring to challenge the horses.

Poplin said she’s not surprised that one of the special performances scheduled for the day features Jim Ridenhour’s “Horse of a Different Spirit,” Steel, demonstrating his knowledge of the Bible.

“I know there are horses in heaven,” Poplin said.

“The horse is mentioned

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Jim Ridenhour talks to a group of young men about Steel, his “Horse of a Different Spirit.” Steel can do math and always scores well on his Bible quiz. See them and demonstrations by an equine dentist and trained dogs at Saturday’s horse show sponsored by Manchester Trail Riders. The free show will be presented at Dillon Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. about 327 times in the Bible, and Jesus comes back on a white horse.”

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S.C. real estate sales follow job market

istered name is Hebrew for “Arabian horse.”

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Despite a major jump in new listings, lack of inventory is still a major restraint on the residential real estate market in the state, said South Carolina Association of Realtors CEO Nick Kremyads on Thursday.

The association’s monthly report shows most major indicators have been trending up since about 2009, with pending sales, closed sales and sales prices all reaching levels comparable to those before the Great Recession of late 2006 and early 2007.

“We are returning to a regular sales cycle,” Kremyads said.

Real estate is entering its busiest portion of the year, and expectations for the next few months are high.

“The spring sales period is well underway,” Kremyads said. “The numbers are bumping up as expected this time of year.

“There is some good activity in the marketplace,” he said.

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Crestwood choir sings for trip to Carnegie Hall

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com The Singing Knights of Crestwood High School, directed by Deborah Horton, have been invited to sing at Carnegie Hall in May, and they will present a concert preview for Sumter this month. The 7 p.m. April 28 performance at First Presbyterian Church will feature several selections.

Horton said the choir’s performance in the Festival of Choirs sponsored by the Woman’s Afternoon Music Club was the catalyst for this latest invitation.

“Dr. Sonja Sepulveda invited our choir after hearing us sing for the festival of choirs in December of 2014,” she said.

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At Carnegie Hall, Sepulveda will be directing Gabriel Faure’s Requiem with orchestra and a choir comprising Crestwood chorus members along with members from White Knoll High School and Laurens District 55 High School.

Horton said the Singing Knights also qualified to sing at Carnegie Hall after a competition in Washington, D.C.; however, she thinks the performance with orchestra and Sepulveda directing “will have a more lifechanging impact” on her students.

They will also sing at Saint James the Divine Cathedral while in New York City.

Of the advanced concert choir, 28 members have committed to the per-

formance, Horton said. “They are very excited for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Among the songs The Singing Knights will perform are “Salmo 15” (Psalm 50); “My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord,” a spiritual by Moses Hogan; “If Music be the Food of Love”; the German madrigal “Tanzen und Springen”; “Sicut Cervus”; the Scottish traditional tune “Loch Lomond” and several other selections. Hamilton Stoddard will accompany the choir on piano.

Horton, director of choral activities and a finalist for Sumter School District Teacher of the Year, said the Carnegie Hall performance will be an invaluable experience for the Crestwood singers, but “a trip of this magnitude is

very costly but worth every penny.”

Anthonese Gamble, principal at Crestwood, and Sumter School District Superintendent Frank Baker have financially supported the choir, but more help is needed. So while there is no charge to attend the April 28 concert, donations will be accepted.

“Please come out, show support, and hear why Crestwood High School has been invited several times to sing on the most popular and prestigious stage in America,” Horton said.

Hear the Crestwood High School Singing Knights in concert at First Presbyterian Church, corner of Calhoun and Main streets, at 7 p.m.

Thursday. Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.

A closer look Kenneth Anderson and his father, William Anderson, check out Jon Fogarty’s Hyundai race car on display at Gamecock Insurance on April 14.

Association presents Teacher of the Year awards The local chapter of the Air Force Association annually recognizes a kindergarten through eighth-grade Teacher of the Year and a ninth- through 12th-grade Teacher of the Year. The awards include a certificate, a plaque and $500.

This week, Swamp Fox Chapter President Bush KENNEDY Hanson presented the awards to Eugenia Kennedy, a fifth-grade teacher at Cherryvale Elementary School, and Master Sgt. Duane Kyles, an Air Force Jr. ROTC instructor at Lakewood High KYLES School.

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Why will Harriet Tubman be on the new $20 bill?

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is abridged and edited from one originally published in The Sumter Item in February 2006, following a visit to the home and grave of Harriet Tubman. Tubman will be the face on the newly designed $20, effective in about 2020.

AUBURN, N.Y. — On the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 16, 2006, in Auburn, New York, the sun was shining on 6 inches of pristine snow. It was just short of halfway through Black History Month, and Christine Carter was leading a mother and her three young daughters through the Harriet Tubman Home museum, located on the outskirts of town. The girls, their mother said proudly, had themselves decided that was how they wanted to spend the afternoon.

“The Moses of Her People,” as Tubman is known, spent her last years in Auburn, a small Central New York city, on the property where the museum stands. She began life as a slave about 1820 and after her escape in 1849 spent the years until Emancipation rescuing more than 300 others who were enslaved in her native Maryland.

When some of the escapees were exhausted or on the verge of giving up their flight to freedom, it’s said Tubman admonished them: “Chil-

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dren, if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

Upon her death in 1913, Tubman bequeathed her property to AME Zion Church Connection, and the congregation is working to keep her spirit and lessons alive in the town where she lived after the end of the Civil War. Tubman bought the site, 26 acres, with the help of her friend, William H. Seward, U.S. secretary of state, purchaser of Alaska and adamant abolitionist. Also among her friends were John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury and Frederick Douglass.

Carter noted that most of these men were included in her U.S. history books when she was in high school in her native Virginia. Like Sojourner Truth, Tubman was scarcely mentioned, if at all, in the textbooks of the 1960s and 1970s. She’s learned a lot about Tubman since taking over the tours at the Tubman house, Carter said; her admiration for Tubman is contagious.

“I can’t imagine the courage it took for a woman — a slave — in 1849 to do

what she did,” Carter said, as she unlocked the door to the two-story clapboard house Tubman built as a home for the elderly. She gave us a brief biography of Tubman as we walked through the first floor. The second floor was not open to visitors in 2006.

HARRIET TUBMAN Born into slavery near Cambridge, Maryland, in 1820, Tubman escaped on foot in 1849, traveling at night through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York, finally achieving freedom in Canada.

“Just think,” Carter said. “She was free. She could have stayed there safely for the rest of her life.” But Tubman, she said, could not forget the family and friends she’d left behind.

“What did freedom mean to her, when every wind from the South was charged with the plaintive cries of her oppressed brethren for deliverance?” Carter quoted from the tour brochure. “It was mockery so long as she could hear the crack of the overseer’s whip, the clanking of slave chains and the heart-rending cries of mothers, bereft of their dear ones on the auction block.”

Tubman’s 19 trips south, with no protection except her own wits, are another source of amazement for Carter. “She planned every rescue in great detail and used the Underground Railroad to lead the slaves to freedom in Canada,” Carter said. “She had a lot of close calls.”

In Tubman’s brick home, most of the furnishings are period pieces.

Only a wooden bed in a tiny downstairs bedroom was actually used by Tubman. Covered with a slave-made quilt, perhaps one used to provide helpful signals to those traveling on the Underground Railroad, the bed looks too small to have held the largerthan-life American hero.

In addition to rescuing more than 300 slaves, Tubman was a nurse, a spy and a scout for the Union Army.

Maryland slave-holders were in such fear that she’d rescue their slaves, they offered a $40,000 reward for her capture, a huge amount in those days.

Tubman is buried in historic Fort Hill Cemetery near the center of Auburn. She lies near Seward and women’s rights leaders Eliza Wright Osborne and Martha Coffin.

“You’ll know her grave when you see a huge evergreen tree,” Carter said. “If you look closely, you can see it’s actually two trees. Her family planted them on either side of her grave, and they grew together.”

The snow-muffled cemetery was white, the only tracks in the snow those of the mother and her daughters who’d come and gone earlier. Two large evergreens do, indeed, intertwine above the gravestone, erected in 1957 by the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Tubman’s epitaph includes the phrase, “Servant of God, Well Done.”

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CHASE FROM PAGE A1 Brooks Ward, 34, of Berkeley County, who has allegedly made threats to harm deputies in the past, fled.

Knowing the victim was in the vehicle, deputies continued to chase and attempted to stop the vehicle into Holly Hill, where Holly Hill Police Department began to assist with the pursuit.

The pursuit reached Interstate 95 and continued approximately 20 miles north into Clarendon County. Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office joined the chase about the 110-mile marker heading north. At the 113-mile marker, the suspect crossed the median, turned around and went southbound on I-95 toward Orangeburg County, Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett said.

After crossing the bridge over Lake Marion, Ward was halted because of traffic near a construction zone at the southbound 98mile marker.

“The suspect got as far as he could, stopped his vehicle and opened fire on the deputies,” Garrett said.

Three deputies from the Berkeley sheriff ’s office and one deputy from Clarendon County Sheriff ’s Office returned fire. The suspect was struck and apprehended, Berkeley sheriff ’s office reported, while no deputies were injured and the victim was rescued unharmed.

The extent of Ward’s injuries was not reported by Berkeley sheriff ’s office.

The suspect was flown by helicopter to a Columbia hospital, and his condition at press time was unknown, Garrett said.

Berkeley sheriff ’s office reported Ward will be charged with four counts of attempted murder by South Carolina Law Enforcement Division as well as one count of kidnapping, one count of violation of a protection order, one count of possession of

TRIAL FROM PAGE A1 The defense attorney said Scott later approached the Brock family at their home with a shotgun in his possession after learning that James Brock was not happy about what he said and wanted an apology.

According to 2013 statements from then-Capt. Allen Dailey with Sumter County Sheriff ’s Office, witnesses said Scott had the shotgun with him when he first exited his truck but later put the gun inside the vehicle.

grow all their life,” Poplin said, “and it can be very uncomfortable, particularly if they get very sharp. It’s recommended that they should be floated at least once a year.”

Wilson will also answer questions from horse owners.

His part of the program begins at 10 a.m.

Cearley has been a dog trainer and instructor in obedience for more than 30 years, working with all breeds of dogs. Between 2010 and 2014, she received eight titles, including two perfect scores, from the Greater Columbia Obedience Club, with which she has been an instructor for

inventory, Kremyads said only a small portion of the new listings are new homes.

“It is still difficult to get new homes permitted and out on the market,” he said. “A lot of the small mom-and-pop construction companies are still struggling.”

A lot of the growth in sales has been in the major metropolitan areas, Kremyads said.

“The real estate market follows the jobs,” he said. “You look at Greenville, Charleston and Columbia, that’s where the new jobs are.”

In the Sumter/Clarendon County market, sales were up a healthy 20.8 percent in March 2016 compared to March 2015 and up 7.3 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to 2015, according to S.C. Association of Realtors numbers.

Locally, prices are up 7 percent over a year ago, rising from a median price of $117,500 in March 2015 to $123,500 in March 2016, the association reported.

Days on the market have lagged somewhat locally, how-

manslaughter instead of murder because the shooting took place in the heat of the moment and without forethought.

Finney said Brock was tried for the shooting in October 2015, but a hung jury led to a mistrial.

Kent said this is one of the first Stand Your Ground cases that is true to the definition of the law because Brock was defending himself and his mother against someone who threatened them.

“A man’s home is still his castle,” Kent said.

Kent said he hates that Scott died,

Scott presented the firearm a second time after one of Brock’s family members picked up a stick and possibly went after Scott with it, he said.

Kent said Scott pointed the shotgun at Brock’s mother when he presented the firearm that second time, and that was when Brock retrieved a .380-caliber handgun from inside the house.

Brock fired a single shot when he returned outside, shooting Scott.

After conferring with Third Judicial Circuit Court Solicitor Ernest “Chip” Finney III, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office charged Brock with

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a firearm during the commission of a violent crime and one count of failure to stop for blue lights and a siren by the Berkeley sheriff ’s office.

The deputies involved from the Berkeley sheriff ’s office are on paid administrative leave, as is standard procedure with incidents of this nature, according to the report, and SLED is investigating the incident.

Garrett said Ward has an extensive criminal record. According to the Associated Press, Ward was supposed to be in court Thursday for violating a restraining order against his wife.

“This is not the first time that he’s assaulted her,” he said.

According to available public information, Ward has pending charges from previous incidents including domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature; domestic violence, second degree; kidnapping; and arson, third degree.

HORSE FROM PAGE A1 “He’s a flea-bitten gray,” Ridenhour said, adding that the term is not an insult to Steel. “It’s what gray Arabians with little dark specks in their coats are called.”

Steel can do about 20 tricks, he said, among them math problems and answering questions such as, “How many disciples did Jesus have?” and, “How many days was Jesus in the tomb?”

Among his many tricks, the Arabian can also shake hands, give Ridenhour a kiss and lower his head between his front feet to pray.

“He also smiles real big,” Ridenhour said. Steel and Ridenhour will start their show at noon.

Other demonstrators for Saturday’s event are Dr. Scott Wilson, who is a veterinarian and an equine dentist, and dog trainer Paula Cearley.

Wilson has four horses lined up to demonstrate how to “float teeth,” Poplin said.

Floating teeth, she explained, is filing the horse’s teeth with a hand file or a tool like that used by dentists for humans.

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but a person cannot go to someone else’s home and point a shotgun around.

Although the defendant was found not guilty on Thursday, Brock will not be out in public any time soon.

Last year, Brock plead guilty to burglary charges for a string of home break-ins between February and March of 2013 and is serving a six-year sentence, according to Finney.

Kent said his client acknowledged his wrongdoing and plead guilty to those burglary charges that are unrelated to the most recent trial.

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Manchester Trail Riders sponsor benefit trail rides in the spring and fall at Mill Creek, a Sumter County park near Pinewood. Proceeds from those events benefit local charities, including Camp Happy Days, the Turbeville and Crosswell children’s homes, Camp Burnt

many years. With her own dogs, she’ll demonstrate how she is able to teach canines good manners, to come when called, and obey commands such as sit, stay, come, down and more. Her demonstration will begin at 11 a.m.

Keisling said the rest of the show “is just to have fun.”

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ever, with the average in March 2016 at 193 days compared to 166 days a year ago.

Statewide, days on the market fell by 7.8 percent from March 2015 to March 2016.

The local market faces some different challenges than the statewide market, Sumter Board of Realtors Executive Director Darlene Hebert said.

“Inventory is not a problem in Sumter,” she said. “What we need are qualified buyers.”

So far in 2016, the Charleston Trident area has seen sales of more than 3,500 homes, condos and villas, the state association said, up 5.8 percent from the first quarter of last year. The Columbia and Greenville areas both posted 7.8 percent increases for the first quarter of the year compared to last year.

The biggest price increases have been in the Greenwood market, with the median sales price increasing from $97,000 in the first quarter of 2015 to $120,500 during the first quarter of 2016, a yearly increase of 24.2 percent.

Gin and others. Club members also teach children how to ride.

Admission to the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Horsing Around for Horse Lovers at Dillon Park, sponsored by Manchester Trail Riders, is free, and the public (and their horses) are invited to attend. For more information, call Keisling at (803) 968-2590.

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Volkswagen reaches deal to pay more than $1B in compensation DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen, the U.S. government and private lawyers have reached a deal for the automaker to spend more than $1 billion to compensate owners of about 600,000 dieselpowered cars that cheat on emissions tests, according to a person briefed on the matter.

The “deal in principle” includes a maximum amount of spending, but the final details, such as how much each owner would get, are still being worked out, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the deal hasn’t been made public.

Some owners would get a choice of having the company repair their cars or buy them back, but that would vary by model year and engine type, the person said. The deal does not yet include plans on how to repair the cars, which can spew our harmful nitrogen oxide at 40 times the allowable limit, the person said.

The agreement is likely to be announced Thursday morning during a federal court hearing in San Francis-

co. The person says it will not include plans to fix the cars. Those plans, and the cost of the fixes, apparently are still under negotiation.

“They’ve agreed on a maximum amount of money, over $1 billion” for compensation, said the person. “How it’s allocated and distributed, that remains to be seen.”

At Thursday’s hearing, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer also will decide on a schedule for depositions and information exchange between all sides in the case. He could even set a trial date if he’s dissatisfied with the agreement.

Volkswagen has said some of the newer cars could be repaired with minor software updates, while older cars with 2-liter diesel engines would require more extensive and costly repairs. So presumably the compensation would vary with the severity of the repairs.

Representatives for Volkswagen, the lawyers, and the government all declined comment.

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John Swanton, spokesman with the California Air Resources Board, explains how a 2013 Volkswagen Passat with a diesel engine is evaluated at the emissions test lab in El Monte, California, in September 2015.

Wyn Hornbuckle, spokesman for the Justice Department, which has sued Volkswagen, said federal officials would wait until Thursday’s hearing before speaking.

John Gersten, a spokesman for a law firm representing hundreds of Volkswagen owners, said a confidentiality order barred the firm from making any comment.

The owners filed dozens of lawsuits against the company after it acknowledged in September that it intentionally defeated emissions tests and put

U.S. Senate OKs bill to promote wide variety of energy sources WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate overwhelmingly approved a far-reaching energy bill Wednesday that reflects significant changes in U.S. oil and natural gas production during the past decade and boosts alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power.

The bill also would speed federal approval of projects to export liquefied natural gas to Europe and Asia, where prices are higher than in the U.S. after a yearlong boom in domestic gas production.

With its 85-12 vote, the Senate backed its first ambitious energy bill in nearly a decade.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican and chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the bill represented “energy modernization” on a broad scale, reflecting almost a decade’s worth of changes in technologies and markets in the energy sector.

“Moving forward with this act will help America produce more energy, help Americans save more money and bring us one step closer to becoming a global energy superpower,” Murkowski said.

The bill would boost renewables such as solar and wind power, as well as hydropower, geothermal energy and even critical minerals such as cobalt, beryllium and lithium that are used in cellphones, computers and other electronics.

The bill also would encourage so-called clean-coal technology, including projects to capture carbon dioxide generated by coal-fired power plants, and increase publicprivate partnerships to develop advanced nuclear technologies.

The measure now must be reconciled with a Housepassed version that boosts fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas.

President Obama has threatened to veto the House measure.

Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, the senior Democrat on the energy panel, called energy “the lifeblood of our economy” and said the Senate bill would push the nation toward

“cleaner, more efficient, more cost-effective and renewable energy sources.”

Congress last approved broad energy measures in 2005 and 2007, during the George W. Bush administration.

The two laws aimed to boost U.S. energy independence by cutting reliance on imported oil, boosting fuel economy standards for cars and imposing a mandate for ethanol in gasoline.

dirty vehicles on the road. The cheating allowed cars to pass laboratory emissions tests while polluting on real roads.

Volkswagen told its shareholders last year it had set aside $7.3 billion to help defray the potential costs of a recall or regulatory penalties. Most outside observers have said that figure is likely far too low. The company faces as much as $20 billion in fines for Clean Air Act violations alone, before paying to fix the cars or compensate their owners.

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Study: Warming giving us nice weather ... for now WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming has mostly made the weather more pleasant for Americans over the last 40 years, which may explain why much of the public doesn’t rank climate change as big a threat as do scientists and the rest of the world, a new study suggests.

But that perceived benefit of global warming — mostly milder winters — will soon be outweighed by more oppressive summer heat, according to a study in the journal Nature that’s dividing the scientific community.

“Americans are getting the wrong signal from yearround weather about whether they should be concerned about climate change,” said study lead author Patrick Egan, a public policy professor at New York University.

“They’re getting the good parts and haven’t had to pay the price of the bad part.”

At least, not yet.

If heat-trapping gases aren’t controlled, nearly nine out of 10 Americans will have noticeably worse weather — not better — by the end of the century, especially in the summer, the study found.

To try to understand America’s reluctance to tackle climate change, Egan and Megan Mullin, an environmental policy professor at Duke University, created a weather preference index for Americans based on past studies that look at where people move, taking employment and other factors into account. It is essentially calculated on where people choose to live.

And all things being equal, the average American prefers the weather to be warmer in the winter and less hot and humid in the summer. In other words, Miami, San Diego and Phoenix, which topped the chart of the new index. At the bottom are Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit.

During the past 40 years, America’s weather has trended closer toward Miami than Pittsburgh.

“For the average American, the daily weather has gotten better,” Mullin said. They like going coatless in December, as many did this past year.

For 99 percent of Americans, winters have warmed by 1 degree Fahrenheit a decade in the winter and only a seventh of a degree a decade in the summer, the study found.

America “may have been lulled into complacency when it comes to the impacts of climate change,” said Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann, who wasn’t part of the study but called it a solid analysis. He and other scientists said the study raises interesting points, but climate change has other major impacts on people. It can trigger droughts, floods and heavy rainfalls; increase sea levels; make food and water scarce; and spread insectborne diseases.

Other scientists dismissed the study. Matthew Nisbet, who studies climate communications at Northeastern University, said it was seriously flawed. He said looking at where people live is a not a good indicator of the weather people prefer.

Nisbet and University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Renee McPherson said politics, more than weather, colors people’s perception of climate change, according to studies and surveys.

Critics also noted that the study doesn’t deal with extreme weather like this week’s downpours in Houston, California’s four-year drought or Superstorm Sandy. George Mason University professor Ed Maibach said surveys show that nearly 40 percent of Americans say extreme weather hit their community in the past year.

A cyclist wearing shorts rides a bike through a downtown Manhattan, New York, street on Christmas Eve, when temperatures were rising into the 70s.

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“People moved from New Orleans because of Katrina, not because they thought

Houston, Dallas or Oklahoma City had better evening temperatures,” McPherson said.

Mullin and Egan said their study could not incorporate the effect of extreme weather

on people’s preferences, adding that a key message is that scientists should talk more about extreme weather than average temperatures.

According to Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, hot summers are more of a problem than the study suggests.

The fires, droughts and heat waves of a record hot 2012 cost $75 billion. In an email, he added: “It is unconscionable to say the climate has improved when the only reason is because one can use air conditioning.”

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3 officials charged in Flint water crisis FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Flint water crisis became a criminal case Wednesday when two state regulators and a city employee were charged with official misconduct, evidence tampering and other offenses over the lead contamination that alarmed the country and brought cries of racism.

“This is a road back to restoring faith and confidence in all Michigan families in their government,” Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in announcing the charges, months after officials conceded a series of bad decisions caused the disaster.

He warned there will be more charges — “That I can guarantee” — and added: “No one is off the table.”

For nearly 18 months, the poor, mostly black city of 100,000 used the Flint River for tap water as a way to save money — a decision made by a state-appointed emergency manager — while a new pipeline was under construction.

But the water wasn’t treated to control corrosion. The result: Lead was released from aging pipes and fixtures as water flowed into homes and businesses.

Gov. Rick Snyder didn’t acknowledge the problem until last fall, when tests revealed high levels of lead in children, in whom the heavy metal can cause low IQs and behavioral problems.

Michael Prysby, a former district engineer with the state Department of Environmental Quality, and Stephen Busch, a supervisor in the department’s drinking water office, were charged with misconduct, conspiracy, tampering with test results and misdemeanor violations of cleanwater law. The felonies carry maximum penalties of four to five years in prison.

Among other things, they were accused of failing to order anticorrosion chemicals added to the water to coat the pipes and prevent them from releasing lead.

Flint utilities administrator Michael Glasgow, who oversaw day-to-day operations at the city’s water plant at the time, also was charged Wednesday with tampering with evidence for allegedly falsifying test results and with willful neglect of duty.

Essentially, all three were accused of failing to provide safe drinking water.

Neil Rockind, a Detroit-area defense attorney and former prosecutor, said outrage about the Flint water mess has created a mood “where someone has to pay.”

“This is rare,” he said of the charges.

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A woman holds a sign supporting Harriet Tubman for the $20 bill during a town hall meeting at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, in August last year.

Tubman goes on $20 bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Harriet Tubman, an AfricanAmerican abolitionist who was born a slave, will stand with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin as the iconic faces of U.S. currency.

The $20 bill will be redesigned with Tubman’s portrait on the front, marking two historic milestones, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced Wednesday.

She will be the first black person on U.S. paper money and the first woman depicted in 100 years.

The leader of the Underground Railroad will replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president and a slave owner, who will be pushed to the back of the bill.

Lew also settled the backlash that had erupted after he announced an initial plan to remove Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first Treasury

secretary, from the $10 bill in order to honor a woman.

Hamilton will remain on the $10 note.

Instead, the Treasury building on the back of the bill will be replaced with leaders of the suffrage movement to give women the right to vote, including Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul.

The $5 bill will also undergo change. The illustration of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the will be redesigned to honor “events at the Lincoln Memorial that helped to shape our history and our democracy.”

The new image will include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson.

An online group, Women on 20s, said it was encouraged that Lew was responding to its campaign to replace Jackson with a woman.

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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette discusses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday. The crisis became a criminal case Wednesday when charges were filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality employees and a local water treatment supervisor.

“It’s very hard to find a similar case where people are charged for just being personally bad or neglectful at their job. Usually there’s some personal corrupt intent involved.”

Busch and Prysby were immediately suspended without pay. Glasgow was also placed on leave.

Prysby did not return a message seeking comment. Telephone numbers for the others could not be found. It wasn’t known if they have lawyers.

“They failed Michigan families. Indeed, they failed us all,” Schuette said. “I don’t care where you live.”

The crisis — and state officials’ slow and dismissive response to complaints about the water from experts and Flint residents — led to allegations of environmental racism, became an issue in the presidential race during Michigan’s Democratic primary in March, and sent other cities around the U.S. rushing to test their water, particularly in older neighborhoods that still use lead pipes.

For months, people in Flint have been relying on filters and bottled water. Some still do not trust what comes out of their taps, even though the city rejoined the Detroitarea water system last fall and anticorrosive phosphates are being added.

The governor filled a few jugs of filtered Flint tap water this week and pledged to drink it for 30 days to show it’s safe.

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Is it a case of life imitating art? Or of a sitcom taking a solid season to arrive at its beginning? Ken acts on his dream of doing stand-up comedy on the season finale of “Dr. Ken” (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

Fans of the series know that “Dr. Ken” is based on the real life of its star, writer and coexecutive producer, Ken Jeong, who trained and worked as a doctor before embarking on his career as a stand-up comedian.

Not unlike “Last Man Standing,” another ABC series ending its season tonight, “Dr. Ken” is a bit of a throwback. Like sitcoms dating back decades, it’s a multi-camera effort that doesn’t follow the movie or documentary style of single-camera comedies.

It also hearkens back to the 1990s, when stand-up artists and their “characters” dominated series from “Roseanne” to “Seinfeld” and “Mad About You.” Not to mention “Home Improvement,” featuring “Last Man Standing” star Tim Allen.

“Dr. Ken” is also a little similar in attitude to the U.K. import favorite “Doc Martin.”

Both feature physicians who have to endure the rambling self-diagnoses of clueless patients. But since Jeong is a comedian, he deals in punch lines, while Martin Clunes of “Doc Martin” fame tends to dismiss the annoyances with single syllable utterances or a withering glance.

• Speaking of stand-up comedians, the 2016 concert documentary “Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping” begins streaming on Netflix today.

• Nat Geo Wild celebrates Earth Day with “Mission Critical: Orangutan on the Edge” (9 p.m., TV-PG) a look at the secret lives of tree-dwelling primates whose lives and habitats have been threatened by poaching and deforestation.

Other Earth Day-related programming includes the 2016 documentary “Dear President Obama” (8 p.m., Viceland), featuring arguments from clean energy activists questioning the use of hydraulic fracturing.

Netflix commemorates the day with the debut of the 2015 documentary “Catching the Sun,” a look at efforts in the

• The three-part comedy “Time Traveling Bong” (10:30 p.m., Comedy Central, TV-14) concludes. The uninitiated can catch up with repeats of part one (9:30 p.m., TV-14) and two (10 p.m., TV-14).

spill is linked to a prison break on “Hawaii Five-0” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Atlanta faces plague and quarantine on the pilot episode of “Containment” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV14).

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The voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman and Jack McBrayer animate the 2012 comedy “Wreck-it Ralph” (8 p.m., Disney) about a pixelated character’s transformation from villain to hero.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Sam Morril are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Bryan Cranston, Demi Lovato, the Weeknd and Lauryn Hill on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC, r) * Chris Evans, Paul Rudd, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie and White Denim are on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC, r) * Jenni Konner, Lena Dunham, Ashley Greene, Birdy and Brann Dailor visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r).

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A visit from Ken’s college friend, a touring stand-up comedian, spurs Ken to pursue his own lifelong dream of stand-up comedy on the season finale of “Dr. Ken,” airing at 8:30 p.m. on ABC. United States and China to harness solar energy.

On a humorous note, the El Rey network honors the day with a marathon of “The Toxic Avenger” (8 p.m.) and its sequels, which will run all weekend.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Ed plans a testimonial dinner for Mike on the season finale of “Last Man Standing” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

• A murder victim is reduced to invertebrate status on “Grimm” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• A terror strike in the Mideast puts New York on edge on

“Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• Retired baseball star Johnny Damon commissions a new aquarium for his expectant wife on “Tanked” (10 p.m., Animal Planet).

SERIES NOTES Rescues and baby animals abound on “Caught on Camera With Nick Cannon” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG) * On two episodes of “Hell’s Kitchen” (Fox, TV-14): high school madness (8 p.m., r), down to three (9 p.m.) * Only Rayna can save Bonnie on “The Vampire Diaries” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) * A chemical

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In-laws demand too much time from son DEAR ABBY — My husband, “Ed,” and I are in our 40s. We both work, and Ed often puts in more than 60 Dear Abby hours a ABIGAIL week. My in-laws, in VAN BUREN their 60s, are both in good health, retired and well-off financially. They expect weekly gatherings unless THEY have other plans.

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dition to dinner.

My in-laws also insist on yearly family vacations. Because of this we have little time alone with our teens or each other. I don’t think all these gatherings should be mandatory. Please help.

This is hurting our marriage.

Highly stressed in Pennsylvania DEAR HIGHLY STRESSED — During one of those mandatory family visits, you and your husband should tell his parents what you have told me. Unless you explain to them that they have you on a schedule that doesn’t permit you to spend alone time with your children or each other, they won’t get it.

Family get-togethers are supposed to be pleasant for

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all, not mandatory. And if your in-laws can afford the expense, they should hire a handyman to help them and not impose upon their son.

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COMMENTARY

America needs better than Trump or Clinton

P

eter Hart, the Democratic pollster who helps conduct the Wall Street Journal’s running surveys, offered a stark assessment this week: “America is on the path to electing the most unpopular president since 1948.”

He’s not wrong. 56 percent of registered voters see Democratic front-runner Hillary ClinJIM ton negatively. That Geraghty makes her the second least popular candidate left running for the highest office in the land. Luckily for Democrats, the least popular candidate is the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, viewed negatively by 65 percent of respondents.

Americans’ animus to the remaining options doesn’t stem from a fear of change; they are unhappy with the status quo, too. Yes, this spring Obama’s job-approval rating has ticked up a bit, to around 50 percent. But since mid-2009 — right as the glow was fading from Obama’s honeymoon — voters have been consistently pessimistic about the country’s direction, with 60 to 70 percent of Americans saying the country is on the wrong track.

How did we end up here?

The 2016 cycle began with many Americans feeling like the promise of the Obama era was never kept. There has been no grand era of racial healing; crime is on the rise in many cities. The future of the next generation seems ever shakier; will they ever find real jobs, pay off debt, and start independent lives? The world beyond our borders feels more dangerous than before, with European cities bombed while our president dances the tango. A politically correct thought police on campus, broken families, an explosion of addiction and suicide — it’s as if the social fabric unravels the harder we try to cling to it.

Democrats may reflexively defend Obama, but their primary votes betray them; you can’t simultaneously believe that the Obama presidency was a boon to Americans and that Bernie Sanders is right to complain of a runaway oligarchy.

Bad leaders and bad times probably create a vicious cycle. If you feel like America’s in worse shape than it

was four years ago — or eight, or twelve, or sixteen — you’re probably skeptical of the next president’s ability to make it much better. And a choice between Clinton and Trump isn’t likely to ease your worried mind.

Is there any reason to think a Clinton presidency would represent a big change from the Obama years? Maybe she’s a bit more hawkish than Obama, but she would still be the head of a fundamentally isolationist, anti-war party.

Perhaps she’s instinctively inclined toward the center — too far right for an increasingly liberal party, though still much too far left for conservatives — but she is also a Clinton, acutely attuned to the political winds and willing to do anything to keep them at her back. When it comes down to it, she’ll maintain Obama’s policies if it means keeping her base happy.

Ordinarily, in a country that voters overwhelmingly believe is on the wrong track, the prospect of electing Hillary Clinton to maintain the status quo would be enough to throw the White House to Republicans. But the prospect of electing Donald Trump to burn the status quo to the ground may ultimately prove even less appealing.

If we basically know what we’re getting with Clinton, ugly as it is, we have no idea what to expect from Trump, a man who is all too eager to tell you what he thinks, even though he’ll likely think the opposite ten minutes from now.

True, in this he’s much like Clinton, willing to say or do whatever he must to win. But Clinton has a basic policy knowledge, which Trump doesn’t even pretend to have. Clinton fights dirty, more or less, within the established norms of American politics. Trump has risen, in no small part, by destroying those norms with the utmost glee.

The Democrats appear hellbent on nominating Clinton, and at this point, FBI Director James Comey has a better chance of derailing her nomination than Bernie Sanders.

The good news for Republicans is that they still have a shot at beating her. They just need to pick someone even a little bit more popular. It’s not exactly an impossible task.

‘If we basically know what we’re getting with Clinton, ugly as it is, we have no idea what to expect from Trump …’

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent for National Review.

COMMENTARY

Our own Mickey Mantle

W

ASHINGTON — We all have our ways of marking the seasons. I know it’s spring when in early April I start my morning by skipping The Washington Post front page and going right to the sports section. It’s not until I’ve fully savored the baseball box scores that I resignedly turn to politics.

My non-baseball friends are forever puzzled by my devotion to the game. I agree entirely with them about the irrationality of fandom. Why should a grown man with a house, a family, two jobs and a cat named Will Feral (brought in from the cold and now largely domesticated, like the Danish King Canute by the English) care about a bunch of millionaire 20-something strangers playing a boys’ game in baggy uniforms?

It’s ridiculous. Yet when the hometown Washington Nationals win, my mood brightens. Can’t help it.

When they first came here a decade ago, they didn’t win much. In 2008-09, the Nats lost 205 games. I went to the park anyway.

When your team is good, you go to see them win.

When they’re bad, you go for the moments — the beautiful moments, like the perfectly executed outfield assist, that grace every difficult athletic endeavor from the balance beam to the giant slalom.

The Nationals, being a very good team now, practically guarantee such moments every game. Their newly acquired second baseman, the one with the impossibly level swing and no leg kick, leads the league in hitting. Their star pitcher tossed two no-hitters last season, something done ex-

actly five times in the previous 115 years.

And then there’s Bryce Harper.

He’s the CHARLES best baseKrauthammer ball player on the planet, probably in the entire Milky Way. (Those box scores are slow in coming in.) And for the next three years, he’ll be playing at Nats Park. After that, he becomes a free agent and will command the largest contract in the history of professional sports. He might very well end up with the money-bag Dodgers or Yankees and $500 million.

Give or take.

So be it. By 2019, we could all be underwater or living under Sharia law, depending on whether your doomsday is of the Democratic or Republican flavor. In the interim, I’m going to eat, drink and watch Harper.

At 16, he graced the cover of Sports Illustrated as the “Chosen One.” At 19, when most elite players are starting college ball, he was the National League rookie of the year. At 22, he was unanimously voted the NL Most Valuable Player, the youngest to score such a sweep. That was last year.

This year, he’s even better.

He came in as a brash, hyperenergetic, often reckless rookie who in his eighth major league game stole home off a former World Series MVP pitcher who had deliberately plunked him minutes earlier just to teach him a lesson. It obviously didn’t take.

These days, Harper plays with more controlled fury.

No longer crashes into outfield walls. And has tamed

Noonan a major factor in making Sumter what it is

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had the privilege of working with Bill Noonan over the years in several capacities — as a volunteer in civic work, as a state representative, as county attorney, and as Mayor. Even before he became Sumter County Administrator, I knew him as a successful high school football coach who positively influenced many of my friends.

Bill was a relentless advocate for our County. During his years, Sumter City and County Councils worked together to bring economic development and resulting in jobs to Sumter. He had to lead the County through many changes that made the core responsibilities of a county more complicated and expensive, all while seeing expect-

COMMENTARY ed help from the state and federal level evaporate. To maximize our limited resources, Sumter City and County have more consolidated functions than any place in our State.

Joseph Bill was one of the McElveen toughest men I have known. I saw him fight heart problems and come back stronger. He fought cancer more than once and continued to be productive in the face of health problems that would floor most of us.

Yet Bill’s greatest achievement, together with his wife Sandy, is his children. They are successful, compassionate about service and continue the traditions set by their parents.

His son-in-law, David P. Merchant, is one of our City Councilmen.

We talk a lot about conflicts between cities and counties, but the secret is that we work together much more than we argue. In fact, this is our secret weapon in Sumter: unprecedented cooperation at all levels, public and private. Bill Noonan was a major factor in bringing us to where we are today. He will be missed by those of us in the City family.

Joseph McElveen is Mayor of Sumter.

his violently explosive swing with such pitch recognition and plate discipline that in the age of the strikeout — up 24 percent in the last decade — he has (as of this writing) fewer strikeouts than home runs.

And it’s those home runs that turn every Harper atbat into an event. Like Thursday last week. Harper comes to the plate with 99 career home runs. Bases loaded, two outs, Nats trailing 1-0, crowd rocking.

It was a movie moment and he did his Roy Hobbs — a rocket to right field that seemed to be still rising when it hit the scoreboard on the upper-deck façade.

And broke it. Knocked out the “r” in the Good Humor ad running at the moment of impact. Place went nuts.

Harper’s first-ever grand slam. What does he do the very next time he comes up with the bases loaded, just five days later? Need you ask?

In spring training, Harper hit two home runs in a game off Cy Young winner Justin Verlander. The second cleared a 35-foot wall at the 420-foot mark in dead center. Said the Nats’ new pitching coach, incredulous, to the manager: “We get to watch this every day?”

If you live in Washington, you get to watch this — our own young Mickey Mantle — 81 times a season. How then can you get too despondent about our presidential choices, the kowtow to Cuba or the decline of the California smelt? It’s spring. It’s warm. There’s baseball.

There’s Harper. Why, even the Cubs are good this year.

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

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SUPPORT GROUPS month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas AA, AL-ANON, ALATEEN: Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 AA — Monday-Friday, noon E. Cedar St., Florence. Call and 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 Support Groups: April 22, 2016 (843) 661-3746. p.m.; Sundays, 10:30 a.m.

Amputee Support Group — and 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. Fourth Tuesday each month, (803) 775-1852.

5:30 p.m., Carolinas RehabilAA Women’s Meeting — itation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar Wednesday, 7 p.m., 1 Warren St., Florence. Call (843) 661St. (803) 775-1852.

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AA Spanish Speaking — SunEFMP Parent Exchange Group day, 4:30 p.m., 1 Warren St. — Last Tuesday each month, (803) 775-1852.

11 a.m.-noon, Airman and AA “How it Works” Group — Family Readiness Center.

Monday and Friday, 8 p.m., Support to service members 1154 Ronda St. Call (803) who have a dependent with 494-5180. a disability or illness. Call 441 AA Support Group — Mon- Dorcus Haney at (803) 8951252/1253 or Sue Zimmerday, Tuesday and Friday, man at (803) 847-2377.

8:30 p.m., Hair Force, 2090-D S.C. 441.

AA Summerton Group — WEDNESDAY MEETINGS: Wednesday, 8 p.m., town hall.

Sickle Cell Support Group — Manning Al-Anon Family Group last Wednesday each month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., South — Thursday, 7:30 p.m., BeSumter Resource Center, havioral Health Building, 14 337 Manning Ave. Call BerChurch St., Manning. Call tha Willis at (803) 774-6181.

Angie Johnson at (803) 4358085.

Divorce Care — Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m., Bethel Baptist C/A “Drop the Rock” Group — Church, 2401 Bethel Church Thursday, 9:30 p.m., 1154 Road. Call (803) 481-2160.

Ronda St. Call Elizabeth Owens at (803) 607-4543.

Grief Share — Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Bethel Baptist Church, 2401 Bethel Church Road. Call (803) 481-2160.

MONDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Vitiligo Support Group — second Monday of each month, 5:45-6:45 p.m., North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Call Tiffany at (803) 3166763. Find the group on Facebook at Sumter Vitiligo Support.

TUESDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Connective Tissue Support Group — 1st Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September and November, 7 p.m., 180 Tiller Circle. Call (803) 773-0869.

Mothers of Angels (for mothers who have lost a child) — First Tuesday of each month at noon and third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m., Wise Drive Baptist Church. Call Carol at (803) 469-9426, Betty at (803) 469-2616, Carolyn at (803) 469-6059 or Margaret at (803) 469-6887.

Sumter Combat Veterans Group Peer to Peer — Every Tuesday, 11 a.m., South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive. Veterans helping veterans with PTSD, coping skills, claims and benefits.

Parkinson’s Support Group — Second Tuesday each month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 661-3746.

Sumter Amputee Support Group — Second Tuesday each month, 6:30 p.m., Sumter Prosthetics & Orthotics, 259 Broad St. Call (803) 8834356.

Sumter Chapter Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) — Third Tuesday, 5:30-7 p.m., Birnie HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St. For anyone who has lost a loved one to murder in a violent way.

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group — Third Tuesday each

THURSDAY MEETINGS: TOPS S.C. No. 236 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) — Thursdays, 9 a.m., Spectrum Senior Center, 1989 Durant Lane. Call Diane at (803) 775-3926 or Nancy at (803) 469-4789.

Alzheimer’s Support Group through S.C. Alzheimer’s Association — Every 1st Thursday, 6-8 p.m., National Health Care, 1018 N. Guignard Drive. Call Cheryl Fluharty at (803) 905-7720 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 636-3346.

Journey of Hope (for family members of the mentally ill), Journey to Recovery (for the mentally ill) and Survivors of Suicide Support Group — Each group meets every 1st Thursday, 7 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, 136 Poinsett Drive. Call Fred Harmon at (803) 905-5620.

FRIDAY MEETINGS: Celebrate Recovery — Every Friday, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program, Salt & Light Church, Miller Road (across from Food Lion). For help with struggles of alcohol, drugs, family problems, smoking, etc.

Wateree AIDS Task Force Support Group — Every third Friday, 11:30 a.m., 508 W. Liberty St. Call Kevin Johnson at (803) 778-0303.

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Prep baseball

Reversal of fortunes This time around, McMillan & Barons take advantage of Laurence Manning’s miscues in 8-1 victory

Auto racing

Stewart cleared to race again Missed first 8 races after ATV accident

By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

“He (McMillan) threw against them the first time and they hit him and we didn’t make the plays behind him,” said Jarecki. “It just wasn’t a good outing.

“If we make the routine plays and hold people down with our pitching, I think we’re going to hit it a little bit and score some runs,” he added. “We’re doing that part right.”

The Barons jumped on LMA starter Buddy Bleasdale with an RBI single from Sam Watford in the first and a

CHARLOTTE — Tony Stewart has been cleared to return to racing and will be back in his car Friday at Richmond International Raceway.

The three-time NASCAR champion missed the first eight races of the season with a Stewart fractured vertebra suffered in a January all-terrain vehicle accident. The injury occurred one week before Stewart was scheduled to start his final season in NASCAR. He’s retiring at the end of this year.

“As soon as the doctors said they were happy with my scans, I wasn’t going to wait any longer to get back in my race car,” Stewart said, announcing his return Thursday on Twitter. “I want to make the most of my last season in Sprint Cup, and I’ve been on the sidelines long enough.”

After Sunday’s race at Richmond, Stewart will participate in a Goodyear tire test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He plans to qualify and start his car at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, but he will give his seat up after the race begins to Ty Dillon. Stewart says the style of racing at Talladega could lead to an accident that could hurt his comeback.

“We’re taking a strategic approach to my return,” Stewart said. “Richmond is a track where I feel very comfortable and because it’s a short track, the speeds are substantially less. The Goodyear test in Indy is sort of a controlled environment, allowing me to get more acclimated with my car at

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Wilson Hall’s Edward McMillan throws during the Barons’ 8-1 victory over Laurence Manning Academy on Thursday at Barons field.

BY PATRICK ENZOR Special To The Sumter Item The Wilson Hall varsity baseball team put up a run in each of the first two innings versus Laurence Manning Academy on Thursday. With the way that Ed McMillan was pitching, that might have been enough.

But the Barons added six unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth just to be safe in an 8-1 win at Barons field.

“We want to try to score every inning,” said Wilson Hall head coach

Adam Jarecki, whose team improved to 14-5 overall and 6-1 in SCISA Region II3A. “Of course, you get ahead and set the tone and get things going your way to get them on their heels a little bit.

“That’s kind of what they did to us at their place,” he added. “They’ve been successful all year and we knew we had to put them away.”

LMA fell to 16-4 overall and 5-2 in the region.

McMillan went the distance, giving up one run on seven hits with a walk and a hit batter.

Prep basketball

Prep track & field

LMA’s Robinson off to Olney

Thomas Sumter’s Litsey signs with Coker College

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com MANNING — Rashaad Robinson has never been to Olney, Ill,, but come the fall it’s where he will be spending the next two years of his life. And he’s sure it’s exactly where he needs to be.

“It’s about the size of Manning,” said Robinson, the Laurence Manning Academy boys basketball standout who has signed with Olney Central College. “It’s a good place for me.

I’ll be able to focus on my academics and basketball.”

Even though he’ll be less than an hour from Chicago, Robinson doesn’t see that as a major selling point for him.

“I’m going to be spending most of my time in the gym,” he said.

Robinson’s obvious goal is to do his due diligence at Olney and then move on to a 4-year school, preferably at the NCAA Division I level.

LMA head coach Will Epps SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO thinks Olney is the right fit to Laurence Manning Academy’s Rashaad Robinson (21) signed provide Robinson that oppor-

with Olney Central College (Ill.) to play basketball on WednesSee Robinson, Page B3 day at the school.

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com

coaches. They helped me a lot.”

Litsey also DALZELL — When Dre Litstopped particisey came to Thomas Sumter pating in running Academy from Germany in events last year the eighth grade, he was a runand concentrated LITSEY ner. solely on jumping The Generals track and field -- something he team, however, was more in said was instrumental in helpneed of athletes who could do ing him sign with the Cobras. field events.

He had offers and interest “I said I would try it,” Litsey from Clark University (Iowa), said. “I didn’t really know Newberry, Chowan (N.C.) and what I was doing to begin a school in Chicago, but Coker with. I just started to pick provided what Litsey really things up. I started with the wanted, he said. long jump and then did the tri“I had offers for other sports ple jump and the high jump. but track is what I wanted to “I love it now.” do,” he said. “Coker is close to He’ll get to continue to work home and they have a great elon his craft at the next level. ementary education program Litsey signed with Coker Colwhich is what I eventually lege on Thursday at the school want to major in. So it just had -- the culmination of five years everything I wanted.” of hard work adapting to a Litsey had a high jump new sport. mark of just over 16 feet when “It just took practice -- a lot he began his freshman year of practice and a lot of repetiwith the Generals. By the end, tion,” Litsey said. “I had to it was over 18 feet. stay after practices a little lonSee Litsey, Page B3 ger and worked with the

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Steele tops Texas Open field SAN ANTONIO — Brendan Steele topped the Texas Open leaderboard at 8 under through 13 holes Thursday when the first round was suspended at dark.

Steele, whose only PGA Tour victory came in the tournament five years ago, was unable to finish the opening round after play was delayed for 31/2 hours because of morning rain.

Among those who did finish, Charley Hoffman had a 6-under 66, a stroke ahead of Stuart Appleby and Peter Malnati.

Defending champion Jimmy Walker opened with a 75. Walker had four rounds under par last year in his hometown event to hold off Jordan Spieth in what was his last PGA win.

South Carolina 14 Furman 4 GREENVILLE — Fourthranked South Carolina belted out 18 hits with TJ Hopkins 4-for-5 and Dom Thompson-Williams 4-for-4 with three doubles and a triple as the Gamecocks defeated Furman 14-4 on Wednesday at Fluor Field.

South Carolina is now 30-8 on the year with Furman dropping to 15-22 for the season.

Carolina’s 18-hit total was one short of the team’s single-game high for the year.

Along with Hopkins and Thompson-Williams, Marcus Mooney went 3-for-3 with three RBI and three runs scored. John Jones added two hits, two RBI and two runs scored. Carolina

had six doubles and two triples in the contest.

Youth Day on Saturday Youth Day 2016 Extravaganza, sponsored by Leading America’s Youth Upward Program (LAYUP), will be held this Saturday at the Bates Middle School gymnasium at 715 Estate Street.

The event will include basketball, music, double dutch, puppets and step teams. It will begin at 10 a.m. and run until 7 p.m.

Admission is $3 for students and $5 for adults.

For more information, visit www.layupofsumter.org or markshaw@layupofsumter.org or call (803) 236-2313.

From staff, wire reports

boys area roundup

WH golf wins 8th straight region title ORANGEBURG -- Wilson Hall’s varsity golf team won its eight consecutive SCISA Region II-3A crown on Thursday with a 16-stroke victory at the Orangeburg Country Club.

The Barons finished with a scored of 152 followed by Laurence Manning Academy (168), Calhoun Academy (175), Orangeburg Prep (176) and Thomas Sumter Academy (188).

TSA’s Tyler Gray won medalist honors after shooting a 32. Grier Schwartz shot a 34 to lead the Barons followed by Walker Jones and Coker Lower with 39s and Easton Ward with a 40.

Gray was the named the region Player of the Year and made the All-Region team along with Jones, Schwartz, Ward and Christian Salzer from Wilson Hall.

The Barons will compete in the SCISA 3A state tournament beginning on Monday at Coastal Carolina’s Hackler Course in Myrtle Beach.

VARSITY BASEBALL Thomas Sumter 3

JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL

Trinity-Byrnes 2

Laurence Manning 11

DALZELL – Ron York made the most of being Thomas Sumter Academy’s only senior on Senior Night, leading the Generals to a 3-2 victory over Trinity-Byrnes at General Field.

York went 2-for-3 with two stolen bases and a run scored and got the final two outs in the seventh, one with a strikeout, to get the save in relief of Chris Parrish. He also threw out a runner at home from centerfield to end the fourth inning.

Parrish worked 61/3 innings, allowing just four hits and no earned runs. He struck out one and walked two.

Garrett Davis scored the winning run in the fourth on a suicide squeeze bunt by Jackson Cook. Dayton Ingram had a hit and drove in two runs.

Davis, Josh Barnett and Chandler Hunter each had hits.

Wilson Hall 0 Andrew Boyd struck out 10 to help lead Laurence Manning Academy past Wilson Hall 11-0 on Thursday at the Barons field.

Brewer Brunson had three hits and scored three runs for the JV Swampcats.

Tripp Prosser and Garrett Black had two hits each.

John Thomas Parker had the lone hit for Wilson Hall, who fell to 2-8 and will host Providence Athletic Club on Monday.

JUNIOR VARSITY SOCCER Wilson Hall 2 Pee Dee Academy 1 Blake Richardson scored both goals as Wilson Hall earned a 2-1 victory over Pee Dee Academy on Thursday at Patriot Park SportsPlex.

Luke Reuwer got the win in goal for the JV Barons, who improved to 2-8-1 overall on the season.

WH hosts Ben Lippen on Monday at 4 p.m.

girls area roundup

Olsen, Beard lead LMA softball to rout of OP ORANGEBURG – Lundee Olsen tossed a 1-hit shutout and Abbie Beard hit two home runs to lead Laurence Manning Academy to a 16-0 victory over Orangeburg Prep on Tuesday at the OP field.

Olsen struck out 10 and didn’t walk a batter. She also had two hits and an RBI. Beard also scored three runs and drove in three.

Brooke Ward had three hits, scored twice and stole two bases, while Bailee Elms had three hits with a double, and two RBI. Tolley Horton had two hits and two runs, Ashton Rogers had a double, two runs and three RBI, Cora Lee Downer had a double, Sara Knight Nalley had two hits and Courtney Beatson had a hit, two runs and two RBI. Thomas Sumter 15

as Heyward Academy and lost 10-5. Haley Hawkins had a home run while Jordan Morris finished with two hits, two RBI and a run scored.

Daniel had two hits including a double and Diamond Gibson had a pair of base-knocks as well, including a triple, and scored a run.

JUNIOR VARSITY SOFTBALL Lakewood 20 Crestwood 5

Baylee Strickland had an inside-the-park grand slam to drive in four runs as Lakewood’s JV squad defeated Crestwood 20-5 on Thursday at the CHS field.

Layla Kelly reached base twice and scored a run for the Lady Gators while Avriel Clark was 1-for-2 with a Calhoun Academy 0 run scored.

DALZELL -- Logan Morris Clark also got the win on went 4-for-4 with two homthe mound after tossing ers and a triple and drove in three innings and allowing five runs as Thomas Sumter one earned run with five Academy routed Calhoun strikeouts.

Academy 15-0 in four inLaurence Manning 20 nings on Thursday at the Orangeburg Prep 0 TSA softball field.

ORANGEBURG – Cakhi Carmen Silvester had a Fowler pitched a 4-inning double and drove in two runs while Ellie Hunter sin- no-hitter in Laurence Manning Academy’s 20-0 victory gled and drove in three. over Orangeburg Prep on Hunter got the win after tossing the first two innings Tuesday at the OP field.

Fowler struck out seven while Silvester came on in and walked just two. She relief and pitched the last also had two hits. two, striking out three.

RandiLynn Holcombe had Sydney Daniel had two three hits, three runs and hits while Josie Reed and two RBI to lead the LMA ofRiley DeLavan each had a hit and an RBI. Jordan Mor- fense. Olivia Coker had two ris recorded a single and La- hits, three runs and two RBI and Madisyn Hudson had trice Lyons doubled. two hits, including a double, On Monday, the Lady and three runs.

Generals traveled to Thom-

Madison Truett had a hit, three runs and two RBI, McKenzie Truett had a hit, two runs and three RBI, Kate Johnson had a double, two runs and two RBI and Kaylee Mixon had a hit two runs and two RBI. Wilson Hall 19 Orangeburg Prep 2

ORANGEBURG -- Andi Grae Wingate (5-2) allowed one hits, struck out three and walked two to pick up the win on the mound and also had three hits, including two doubles, scored twice and drove in five in Wilson Hall’s 19-2 victory over Orangeburg Prep on Thursday at the OP field.

Anne Land Welch went 3-for-3, scored three runs and drove in two more for WH. Taylor Ward had two hits, scored three runs and had an RBI. Camryn Bateman also had two hits, drove in three runs and scored three times.

Carly Allred had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run. Becca Cromer also had a hit, scored a run and drove in three. Sydney Jarecki had an RBI and scored a run as did Mary Ellis Waynick. Kinsley Waynick had a hit and scored twice while Kyndal Waynick scored once.

VARSITY SOCCER Conway 4 Sumter 2 Sumter fell to 5-10 on the season with a 4-2 loss to Conway on Tuesday at the SHS field.

Catherine Flemming and Isabel Sneider scored goals for the Lady Gamecocks, who are 2-7 in Region VI-4A.

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TODAY 6 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Shenzhen International Second Round from Shenzhen, China (GOLF).

11 a.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Toyota Owners 400 Practice from Richmond, Va. (FOX SPORTS 1).

Noon – Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf at Big Cedar Lodge First Round from Ridgedale, Mo. (GOLF).

Noon – IRL Racing: IndyCar Series Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Practice from Birmingham, Ala. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

12:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series ToyotaCare 250 Practice from Richmond, Va. (FOX SPORTS 1).

2:20 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Hamburg SV vs. SV Werber Bremen (FOX SPORTS 2).

3 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series ToyotaCare 250 Practice from Richmond, Va. (FOX SPORTS 1).

3 p.m. – PGA Golf: Texas Open Second Round from San Antonio (GOLF).

4 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Toyota Owners 400 Pole Qualifying from Richmond, Va. (FOX SPORTS 1).

6 p.m. – LPGA Golf: Swinging Skirt Classic Second Round from San Francisco (GOLF).

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

6:15 p.m. – High School Baseball: Chapin at Camden (WPUB-FM 102.7).

7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Three – Cleveland at Detroit (ESPN).

7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Five – Philadelphia at Washington (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Baseball: Georgia at Florida (SEC NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Baseball: Missouri at South Carolina (WNKT-FM 107.5).

7:30 p.m. – College Baseball: Arkansas at Kentucky (ESPNU).

7:30 p.m. – Major League Baseball: New York Mets at Atlanta (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

8 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Five – New York islanders at Florida (CNBC).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Three – Atlanta at Boston (ESPN2).

8 p.m. – College Baseball: Rice at Southern Mississippi (FOX SPORTS 2).

8 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Boston at Houston or Baltimore at Kansas City (MLB NETWORK).

9:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Three – San Antonio at Memphis (ESPN).

9:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Five – Minnesota at Dallas (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

10:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference Playoffs First-Round Series Game Five – San Jose at Los Angeles (CNBC).

Prep schedule TODAY Varsity Baseball Sumter at South Florence, 6:30 p.m.

Crestwood at Hartsville, 6:30 p.m.

Darlington at Lakewood, 6:30 p.m.

Marlboro County at Manning, 6:30 p.m.

Lee Central at Kingstree, 6:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Scott’s Branch, 5 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Orangeburg Prep, 7 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Colleton Prep, 6:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Baseball Clarendon Hall at Colleton Prep, 4 p.m.

B Team Baseball Robert E. Lee at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Varsity Boys Soccer South Florence at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

Crestwood at Marlboro County, 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood at Darlington, 7:30 p.m.

Manning at Hartsville, 6:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Boys Soccer South Florence at Sumter, 6 p.m.

Varsity Girls Soccer Sumter at South Florence, 7:30 p.m.

Crestwood at Marlboro County, 6 p.m.

Lakewood at Darlington, 6 p.m.

Junior Varsity Girls Soccer Sumter at South Florence, 6 p.m.

Varsity Softball Lakewood at Crestwood, 7:30 p.m.

Marlboro County at Manning, 7:30 p.m.

Lee Central at Kingstree, 6:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Scott’s Branch, 5 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Pee Dee, 4 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Colleton Prep, 5:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Softball Marlboro County at Manning, 5:30 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Colleton Prep, 4 p.m.

MLB Standings national League

L Pct GB 4 .733 — 7 .533 3 7 .533 3 8 .467 4 9 .438 4½

W L Pct GB 10 6 .625 — 8 7 .533 1½ 9 8 .529 1½ 7 10 .412 3½ 6 9 .400 3½

Thursday’s Games

L.A. Dodgers 2, Atlanta 1, 10 inn.

Miami 5, Washington 1 Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 1 Arizona 6, San Francisco 2 Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games

Minnesota (Gibson 0-2) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lester 1-1) at Cincinnati (Moscot 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-3) at Atlanta (B.Norris 1-2), 7:35 p.m.

Philadelphia (Nola 0-2) at Milwaukee (Davies 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-1) at Colorado (J.Gray 0-0), 8:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Niese 2-0) at Arizona (Corbin 1-1), 9:40 p.m.

Miami (Cosart 0-0) at San Francisco (Samardzija 1-1), 10:15 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 0-2) at San Diego (Cashner 0-1), 10:40 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Minnesota at Washington, 1:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

St. Louis at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 9:05 p.m.

American League East Division

Baltimore Toronto Boston

W 9 8 7

8 .429 3½ 8 .385 4

W L Pct GB 9 5 .643 — 10 6 .625 — 8 5 .615 ½ 6 7 .462 2½ 5 11 .313 5 W L Pct GB 9 6 .600 — 8 7 .533 1 7 8 .467 2 7 9 .438 2½ 5 10 .333 4

Thursday’s Games

Seattle 10, Cleveland 7, 10 inn.

Tampa Bay at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 1 L.A. Angels 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Detroit at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games

Minnesota (Gibson 0-2) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Moore 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 2-1) at Toronto (Aa.Sanchez 1-0), 7:07 p.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 1-0) at Detroit (Verlander 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Boston (S.Wright 0-2) at Houston (McHugh 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 0-1) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Gallardo 1-0) at Kansas City (C.Young 0-3), 8:15 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Tropeano 1-0), 10:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Minnesota at Washington, 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 1:10 p.m.

Texas at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Nba Playoff Schedule

By The Associated Press FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Cleveland 2, Detroit 0 April 17: Cleveland 106, Detroit 101 April 20: Cleveland 107, Detroit 90 April 22: at Detroit, 7 p.m.

April 24: at Detroit, 8:30 p.m. x-April 26: at Cleveland, TBA x-April 28: at Detroit, TBA x-April 30: at Cleveland, TBA Toronto 2 , Indiana 1 April 16: Indiana 100, Toronto 90 April 18: Toronto 98, Indiana 87 April 21: Toronto 101, Pacers 85 April 23: at Indiana, 3 p.

April 26: at Toronto, TBA x-April 29: at Indiana, TBA x-May 1: at Toronto, TBA Miami 2, Charlotte 0 April 17: Miami 123, Charlotte 91 April 20: Miami 115, Charlotte 103 April 23: at Charlotte, 5:30 p.m.

April 25: at Charlotte, 7 p.m. x-April 27: at Miami, TBA x-April 29: at Charlotte, TBA x-May 1: at Miami, TBA Atlanta 2, Boston 0 April 16: Atlanta 102, Boston 101 April 19: Atlanta 89, Boston 72 April 22: at Boston, 8 p.m.

April 24: at Boston, 6 p.m. x-April 26: at Atlanta, TBA x-April 28: at Boston, TBA x-April 30: at Atlanta, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Golden State 2, Houston 0 April 16: Golden State 104, Houston 78 April 18: Golden State 115, Houston 106 April 21: at Houston, 9:30 p.m.

April 24: at Houston, 3:30 p.m. x-April 27: at Golden State, TBA x-April 29: at Houston, TBA x-May 1: at Golden State, TBA San Antonio 2, Memphis 0 April 17: San Antonio 106, Memphis 74 April 19: San Antonio 94, Memphis 68 April 22: at Memphis, 9:30 p.m.

April 24: at Memphis, 1 p.m. x-April 26: at San Antonio, TBA x-April 28: at Memphis, TBA x-April 30: at San Antonio, TBA Oklahoma City 2, Dallas 1 April 16: Oklahoma City 108, Dallas 70 April 18: Dallas 85, Oklahoma City 84 April 21: Oklahoma City 131, Dallas 102 April 23: at Dallas, 8 p.m.

April 25: at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. x-April 28: at Dallas, TBA x-April 30: at Oklahoma City, TBA L.A. Clippers 2, Portland 0 April 17: L.A. Clippers 115, Portland 95 April 20: L.A. Clippers 102, Portland 81 April 23: at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

April 25: at Portland, 10:30 p.m. x-April 27: at L.A. Clippers, TBA x-April 29: at Portland, TBA x-May 1: at L.A. Clippers, TBA

NHL Playoff Schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB 11 4 .733 — 7 7 .500 3½ 7 9 .438 4½ 5 9 .357 5½ 4 11 .267 7 W 11 8 8 7 7

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By The Associated Press FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

By The Associated Press East Division

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta Central Division

Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee West Division

Los Angeles Colorado Arizona San Francisco San Diego

Tampa Bay New York Central Division

Kansas City Chicago Detroit Cleveland Minnesota West Division

Texas Oakland Seattle Los Angeles Houston

L Pct GB 4 .692 — 8 .500 2½ 7 .500 2½

N.Y. Islanders 2, Florida 2 April 14: N.Y. Islanders 5, Florida 4 April 15: Florida 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 April 17: N.Y. Islanders 4, Florida 3, OT April 20: Florida 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 April 22: at Florida, TBA x-April 24: at N.Y. Islanders, TBA x-April 26: at Florida, TBA Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 1 April 13: Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2 April 15: Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2 April 17: Detroit 2, Tampa Bay 0 April 19: Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2 April 21: at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. x-April 24: at Detroit, TBA x-April 26: at Tampa Bay, TBA Washington 3, Philadelphia 1 April 14: Washington 2, Philadelphia 0 April 16: Washington 4, Philadelphia 1 April 18: Washington 6, Philadelphia 1 April 20: Philadelphia 2, Washington 1 x-April 22: at Washington, 7 p.m. x-April 24: at Philadelphia, TBA x-April 27: at Washington, TBA: Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 April 13: Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 April 16: N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 2 April 19: Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 April 21: at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. x-April 23: at Pittsburgh, TBA x-April 25: at N.Y. Rangers, TBA x-April 27: at Pittsburgh, TBA

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Dallas 3, Minnesota 1 April 14: Dallas 4, Minnesota 0 April 16: Dallas 2, Minnesota 1 April 18: Minnesota 5, Dallas 3 April 20: Dallas 3, Minnesota 2 April 22: at Dallas, TBA x-April 24: at Minnesota, TBA x-April 26: at Dallas, TBA St. Louis 3, Chicago 1 April 13: St. Louis 1, Chicago 0, OT April 15: Chicago 3, St. Louis 2 April 17: St. Louis 3, Chicago 2 April 19: St. Louis 4, Chicago 3 April 21: at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m. x-April 23: at Chicago, TBA x-April 25: at St. Louis, TBA Nashville 2, Anaheim 1 April 15: Nashville 3, Anaheim 2 April 17: Nashville 3, Anaheim 2 April 19: Anaheim 3, Nashville 0 April 21: at Nashville, 8 p.m.

April 23: at Anaheim, TBA x-April 25: at Nashville, TBA x-April 27: at Anaheim, TBA San Jose 3, Los Angeles 1 April 14: San Jose 4, Los Angeles 3 April 16: San Jose 2, Los Angeles 1 April 18: Los Angeles 2, San Jose 1, OT April 20: San Jose 3, Los Angeles 2 April 22: at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. x-April 24: at San Jose, TBA x-April 26: at Los Angeles, TBA

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SHS sweeps Sumter School District meet by dennis brunson dennis@theitem.com

and Amber Jones in the discus.

The Sumter 4x100 and Both of the Sumter High 4x800 relay teams also won.

School varsity track and Winning for the Lady field teams won the Sumter Knights were Alexus Young School District meet on in the 200, Teauna Thomas in Tuesday at Sumter Memori- the 400, Shamoa Jefferson in al Stadium. the 400 hurdles and the 4x400 The SHS girls won with a relay team. total of 91 points. Crestwood Brandon Poston and Presswas second with 57 and Lake- ley Harvin both won a pair of wood had 11. events for the Sumter boys.

In the boys meet, Sumter Poston won the 1,600 and the won with 100 points. CHS had 3,200 while Harvin took the 55 and LHS had 22. shot and the discus.

Ars’Breana Tyler led the Other winners for the way for the Lady Gamecocks, Gamecocks were Stacey winning both the long jump Shaw in the 800, Rodney Pitts and the triple. Other individ- in the long jump and the 4x4 ual winners for Sumter were and 4x8 relay teams.

Ashley Clark in the 100Winners for Crestwood meter dash, Trinity Brown were Julius Pearson in the in the 800 run, Lorien Clark 100 and 200, Nakeem Ingram in the 1,600, Anya Bethea in in the 400 and the 4x1 relay the 3,200, Tiarra Abram in team. the 100 hurdles, Kaeana Winning for Lakewood was Jones in the pole vault, AnAsante English in the 110 nissa Brayboy in the shot put hurdles and 400 hurdles.

SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT MEET RESULTS GIRLS 100-Meter Dash: (1) Ashley Clark, Sumter 12.64 seconds (2) Alexus Young, Crestwood (3) Victoria Webster, Sumter (4) Taylor Abrams, Crestwood.

200-Meter Dash: (1) Alexus Young, Crestwood 27.30 (2) Taylor Abrams, Crestwood (3) Victoria Webster, Sumter (4) Ziyan Gipson, Lakewood.

400-Meter Dash: (1) Teauna Thomas, Crestwood 1 minute, 6.95 seconds (2) Shamoah Mack-Cook, Crestwood (3) Tatyana Brogdon, Sumter (4) Shaquania Lipscomb, Lakewood.

800-Meter Run: (1) Trinity Brown, Sumter 2:40.82 (2) Lorien Clark, Sumter (3) Kevionna Sanders, Crestwood (4) Dejah Sanders, Crestwood.

1,600-Meter Run: (1) Lorien Clark, Sumter 5:47.74; (2) Kevionna Sanders, Crestwood (3) Anya Bethea, Sumter.

3,200-Meter Run: (1) Anya Bethea, Sumter 15:54.03.

100 Hurdles: (1) Tiarra Abram, Sumter 16.04 (2) Brinee Scott, Sumter.

400 Hurdles: (1) Shamoa Jefferson, Crestwood 1:26.16 (2) Anastazia Bradley, Crestwood 1:29.14.

4x100-Meter Relay: (1) Sumter 49.43 (2) Crestwood (3) Lakewood.

4x400-Meter Relay: (1) Crestwood 4:27.38 (2) Sumter (3) Lakewood.

4x800-Meter Relay: (1) Sumter 11:28.32 (2) Crestwood.

High Jump: (1) Tiarra Abram, Sumter 4 feet, 10 inches (2) Sedajah Rembert, Crestwood (3) Tashiba Lampkin, Crestwood (4) Shaquanda Miller-McCray, Crestwood.

Pole Vault: (1) Kaeana Jones, Sumter

5-06.

Long Jump: (1) Ars’Breana Tyler, Sumter 17-05 (2) Tiarra Abram, Sumter (3) Sedajah Rembert, Crestwood (4) Keonna McElveen, Crestwood.

Triple Jump: (1) Ars’Breana Tyler, Sumter 36-10.50 (2) Tiarra Abram, Sumter (3) Sedajah Rembert, Crestwood (4) Naijia McFadden, Crestwood.

Shot Put: Annissa Brayboy, Sumter 33-08 (2) Serena Choice, Lakewood (3) Amiyah Pinckney, Lakewood (4) Tatyanna Weldon, Lakewood.

Discus: Amber Jones, Sumter 121-06 (2) Annissa Brayboy, Sumter (3) Serena Choice, Lakewood (4) Tatyana Welcdon, Lakewood.

BOYS 100-Meter Dash: (1) Julius Pearson, Crestwood 11.11 (2) Tre’Von Cowell, Lakewood (3) Shannon Isaac, Sumter (4) Nijil Rogers, Sumter.

200-Meter Dash: (1) Julius Pearson, Crestwood 22.43 (2) Colin Washington, Sumter (3) Nijil Rogers, Sumter (4) Datrick Neal, Crestwood.

400-Meter Dash: (1) Nakeem Ingram, Crestwood 54.34 (2) Shakeel Bradford, Crestwood (3) Milik Spann, Sumter (4) Tyheem Wilson, Sumter.

800-Meter Run: (1) Stacey Shaw, Sumter 2:11.14 (2) Tobias Favor, Sumter (3) Eric Caldwell, Crestwood (4) Trenton Luttrell, Crestwood.

1,600-Meter Run: (1) Brandon Poston, Sumter 4:48.77 (2) Michael Toney, Crestwood (3) Trenton Luttrell, Crestwood (4) Jalen Jackson.

3,200-Meter Run: (1) Brandon Poston,

Sumter 10:48.09 (2) Michael Toney, Crestwood (3) Trenton Luttrell, Crestwood (4) Robert Lewis, Sumter.

110 Hurdles: (1) Asante English, Lakewood 16.87 (2) Tyren Horace, Sumter (3) Lamar Bennett, Crestwood (4) Jahzir Morales, Crestwood.

400 Hurdles: (1) Asante English, Lakewood 58.36 (2) Carl Benjamin, Crestwood (3) Javontre Graham, Sumter (4) Tyren Horace, Sumter.

4x100-Meter Relay: (1) Crestwood 43.04 (2) Sumter (3) Lakewood.

4x400-Meter Relay: (1) Sumter 3:32.43 (2) Crestwood (3) Lakewood.

4x800-Meter Relay: (1) Sumter 11:28.32 (2) Crestwood.

High Jump: (1) Javontre Graham, Sumter 5-04 (2) Tre’Von Cowell, Lakewood (3) Tyren Horace, Sumter (4) Calvin Brown, Crestwood.

Pole Vault: (1) Zachary Delaney, Sumter 9-06 (2) Everett Dinkins, Sumter (3) Jordan Bauckman, Sumter.

Long Jump: (1) Rodney Pitts, Sumter 21-03,50 (2) Anthony Dinkins-McCall, Sumter, Ja’Kheem Heyward, Sumter (4) Shakeel Bradford, Crestwood.

Triple Jump: (1) Tyren Horace, Sumter 39-00 (2) Andrew Bennett, Crestwood (3) Milik Spann, Sumter (4) Javontre Graham, Sumter.

Shot Put: (1) Pressley Harvin, Sumter 46-05 (2) Gary Sanders, Lakewood (3) Ny’Quan Spann, Sumter (4) Terrance McClain, Crestwood.

Discus: (1) Pressley Harvin, Sumter 144-06 (2) Gary Sanders, Lakewood (3) Troy Brayboy, Sumter (4) Chase Nelson, Sumter.

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tunity.

Olney is a member of the 10-team Great Rivers Athletic Conference. And with DI conferences such as the Big 10, Mid-American, Missouri Valley Conference USA and Horizon based on schools in the Midwest, the chance to be seen is very good.

“Olney’s conference had three teams that were in the top 25 last year,” Epps said.

“There will be coaches from between 175 to 200 Division I schools that will watch them play this year. Rashaad will have every opportunity to showcase what he can do and move on to a bigger and better school after a couple of years.”

The left-handed shooting Robinson was a 3-year starter for the Swampcats. He averaged 15.2 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Swampcats, who reached the quarterfinals of the SCISA 3A state tournament.

Epps said that Robinson has always had the athletic ability to be successful, but it’s been a process of building KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Wilson Hall’s Daniel Reynolds, bottom, slides into second base as Laurence Manning Academy shortstop Taylor Lee waits for the ball during the Barons’ 8-1 victory on Thursday at Barons field.

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Touchberry struck out Charlton Commander for the From Page B1 first out of the inning, but walked Daulton Dabbs to load home run in the first at-bat of the bases and hit Daniel Reynthe second inning from Drew olds to plate Carraway and Talley, his first of the season. make it 3-1. Robert James That chased Bleasdale in favor made it 4-1 with a single and of Ryan Touchberry. after McLendon Sears struck Touchberry put up zeroes on out for the second out, McMilthe scoreboard for the next lan unloaded the bases with a four innings. He should have double to the right-center fence given up zero for a fifth, but to give the Barons a 7-1 lead. two errors allowed the Barons McMillan scored the game’s to plate six runs in the bottom final run on a throwing error of the sixth.

by LMA shortstop Taylor Lee. Up just 2-1, Brent Carraway “It’s almost a reverse of started the inning by reaching what happened at our place -on an error when LMA third you can’t give good teams baseman Taylor Frye couldn’t added outs,” said LMA head backhand a grounder. Talley coach Barry Hatfield. “That was safe after a sacrifice bunt particular inning, we commitand a throwing error from ted three errors.” catcher Tripp Mason to put LMA clawed its way back runners at first and second into the game over the fifth with no outs. and sixth innings. Failing to

score in the fifth on a firstand-third situation with no outs, but plating its lone run in the sixth on another firstand-third.

Bleasdale scored after Touchberry struck out on a pitch in the dirt and Mason sprinted for second base.

Dabbs, the Wilson Hall catcher, threw to second allowing Bleasdale to come home.

“First time, hey, they handled it correctly,” said Hatfield. “We were fixing to run one more when it was 2-1, and I said we’ll do it on the next pitch but as it turns out, we grounded out.”

Reynolds led the Barons with a 2-for-2 effort with two runs scored, an RBI, a pair of doubles and reached base all four times.

Bleasdale was 2-for-3 for LMA with a run scored.

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“We sort of came up together because his first year was also my first year coaching,” TSA head coach Rob Coursey said. “We kind of learned together. I think he started really paying attention to what the other top athletes in SCISA were doing.

He started improving his form, improving his technique and really dedicating himself to the sport.”

It was a very exciting day this past season when Litsey was competing in the Sumter Optimist Relays and finished third in the long jump event by surpassing the 20-foot mark for the first time in his career.

“You could just see the difference from that first year in terms of technique and leg strength,” Coursey said. “I think when he gets to college and grows a little more and matures a little more, he’ll be able to jump 22, 23 feet.

“I think we’ll see him do some great things.”

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“When Rashaad came to us his dad said he needed discipline and he needed me to stay on him,” Epps said.

“That’s one of the most honest statements I’ve ever heard.

“He’s grown and developed as a player over that time, even though he has fought us at times along the way. When he first started, he worried about how many points, how many rebounds he had and not so much about whether we won or loss. This year there were two or three games where he had tears in his eyes because we lost.”

Olney saw Robinson play in an AAU showcase event in Augusta, Ga., along with some other local players.

Olney head coach Mike Burris then came to Manning and worked Robinson out. He liked what he saw, Robinson liked what he saw and he made the decision to attend Olney.

“I’ve just been blessed to make it this far,” Robinson said. “I’m looking forward to see how far I can take it. I hope I can show them the talent I have.”

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Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta, left, celebrates with catcher David Ross after the final out of his no-hitter against Cincinnati on Thursday in Cincinnati. The Cubs won 16-0.

Arrieta throws no-no as Cubs pound Reds

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Oklahoma City guard Russell Westbrook (0) shoots against Dallas guard Raymond Felton during the Thunder’s 131-102 victory on Thursday. OKC took a 2-1 series lead with the victory.

Durant responds with 34 as Thunder top Mavs 131-102 DALLAS — Kevin Durant bounced back from the worst shooting game of his playoff career with 34 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder retook control of their firstround series with a 131-102 victory over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 3 on Thursday night.

Durant had seven field goals midway through the second quarter on nine shots after he needed 33 to get there in a Game 2 loss that followed a 38point win in the opener.

The 2014 MVP scored 20 points in the first half, when the Thunder led by as many as 19 points on their way to a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Game 4 is Saturday night in Dallas.

Dirk Nowitzki played despite a right knee bruise and scored 16 points but the Mavericks let Oklahoma City dictate the pace and couldn’t keep up, never leading while missing 10 of their first 12 shots from 3-point range.

Russell Westbrook scored 20 of his 26 points in the second half, answering a couple of Dallas runs in the third quarter with two 3-pointers and some of his 15 assists, one off

Stewart

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higher speeds. We’ll start the Talladega race to get the points, but understanding the style of racing and the higher potential of getting involved in an incident, we thought it was best to minimize the amount of time I’m in the car.”

He plans to return to fulltime racing at Kansas the following week.

Stewart thanked fans for their support and said “the best medicine will come this weekend at Richmond when I finally get to go racing.”

Stewart has attended nearly every race during his absence as a leader of Stewart-Haas Racing, the four-car team he is part owner of with Gene Haas.

He’s been on the spotter stand during most races.

Richmond will be Stewart’s 591st career Sprint Cup start.

He has three wins and 19 top10s at the Virginia track, where he earned first career Cup victory in 1999 by leading 333 of 400 laps.

A win there this weekend would get him in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

his playoff career high.

The NBA leader in tripledoubles during the regular season had an oddity with no rebounds.

Dion Waiters scored 19 points and was 4 of 8 from long range as the Thunder made 15 of 27 from beyond the arc. Enes Kanter had a playoff career-high 21 points and a game-high eight rebounds.

Wesley Matthews broke out of a shooting slump to lead Dallas with 22 points, hitting 3 of 7 from 3-point range.

Durant clearly was intent on answering his dreadful shooting performance three nights earlier, showing aggression from the start. That included a rim-rattling reverse dunk on rookie Justin Anderson.

The Oklahoma City star, who played one season for the Texas Longhorns about 200 miles from the Dallas area, weathered a rough end to the first half.

He missed his last five shots in the second quarter and was called for his third foul in the final seconds, almost getting a technical for yelling at lead referee Mike Callahan while walking off the court.

NASCAR granted Stewart a waiver to make him eligible to compete despite missing the early-season races.

“NASCAR received the appropriate medical clearance documentation allowing Tony Stewart to resume normal racing activities,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer. “We also have granted the request from Stewart-Haas Racing for a waiver for Tony to be eligible to qualify for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. As he begins his final season, we wish Tony the best of luck.”

NASCAR typically requires drivers to compete in every event, but it gave Kyle Busch a waiver last year after he missed 11 races with injuries suffered in the season-opening Xfinity Series race at Daytona.

Busch still had to qualify for the Chase, which required him to win a race and crack the top 30 in points before the regularseason finale in September.

At an appearance Wednesday, Stewart said: “If we win a race, then I think there will be a lot of attention with it. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.”

Stewart didn’t discuss his

Raptors 101 Pacers 85

INDIANAPOLIS — DeMar DeRozan rebounded from his postseason shooting slump Thursday night, scoring 21 points, and Kyle Lowry also added 21 to help Toronto roll past Indiana 101-85.

The Raptors lead the best-ofseven first-round series 2-1 and have reclaimed the homecourt advantage they squandered by losing the series opener last weekend.

Indiana was led by Paul George, who had 25 points, 10 rebounds and six assists.

Rookie Myles Turner scored 11 of 17 points in the second half.

But after the opening minutes, the game was never close.

DeRozan’s early scoring flurry spurred a 13-4 firstquarter run, which gave Toronto a 21-13 lead. The Raptors never trailed again.

Toronto opened the quarter on an 18-7 spurt, extending the lead to 42-24 and Indiana never got closer than 12 points again.

CINCINNATI — Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs pitched his second no-hitter in a span of 11 regular-season starts, shutting down the Cincinnati Reds in a 16-0 rout Thursday night.

The reigning NL Cy Young winner threw the first no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season.

Arrieta (4-0) struck out six, walked four and allowed only six balls hit out of the infield.

He threw 119 pitches, retiring Eugenio Suarez on a routine flyball to right field to end it.

Arrieta also no-hit the Dodgers 2-0 last Aug. 30, part of one of the best pitching stretches in club history.

Dodgers 2 Braves 1

ATLANTA — Yasmani Grandal doubled in the goahead run in the 10th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Thursday.

Enrique Hernandez singled with one out against Alexi Ogando (1-1) and came around to score on Grandal’s shot off the center-field wall.

Diamondbacks 6 Giants 2

SAN FRANCISCO — Yasmani Tomas hit a go-ahead home run in the fourth, Paul Goldschmidt drove in two, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Francisco Giants 6-2 on Thursday for a four-game sweep.

Tyler Wagner (1-0) allowed two hits in five relief innings of Shelby Miller as Arizona wrapped up a 7-3 road trip with a fifth straight win.

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home run for Washington, boosting his majors-leading RBIs total to 22.

Twins 8 Brewers 1

MILWAUKEE — Ricky Nolasco struck out seven and allowed five hits over six-plus innings, and the Minnesota Twins snapped a seven-game road losing streak by beating the Milwaukee Brewers 8-1 on Thursday.

Miguel Sano hit his second homer of the year and an added an RBI for the Twins.

Rays 12 Red Sox 8

BOSTON — Evan Longoria and Curt Casali homered off David Price, and the Tampa Bay Rays chased their exteammate in the fourth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox 12-8 on Thursday.

It was tied at 8 in the eighth when Steven Souza Jr. doubled home the goahead run.

Angels 3 White Sox 2

CHICAGO — Mike Trout hit a two-run homer and reached base four times, helping back Jered Weaver as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 Thursday.

Melky Cabrera’s solo homer in the seventh was the lone run off Weaver (1-1).

Mariners 10 Indians 7

CLEVELAND — Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning off Cody Allen, lifting the Seattle Mariners over the Cleveland IndiNationals 1 ans 10-7 on Thursday.

MIAMI — Ichiro Suzuki Cano had an early single had two hits, scored twice and and then an RBI double in made two sliding catches in the sixth before connecting right field Thursday for the with two outs for his sixth Miami Marlins, who beat the home run this season.

Washington Nationals 5-1.

Bryce Harper hit his eighth From wire reports

From wire reports health much during the appearance on behalf of sponsor Mobil 1, but he took aim at NASCAR’s lack of policing pit stops for missing lug nuts. He said a driver will get hurt if NASCAR does not step in.

“I’m beyond mad, I’m P.O.’d at NASCAR about it,” he said.

“For all the work and everything all the bulletins and all the new stuff we have to do to superspeedway cars and all these other things they want us to do for safety, we can’t even make sure we put five lug nuts on the wheel.”

NASCAR stopped officiating missing lug nuts last year, and teams increasingly have been pushing the envelope by skipping lug nuts. Not applying the maximum five lug nuts can lead to a faster pit stop and better track position.

“It’s however many you think you can get away with,” Stewart said. “So we’re putting the drivers in jeopardy to get track position. It’s not bit anybody yet, but I guarantee you that envelope is going to keep getting pushed until somebody gets hurt.”

There have been several incidents of loose wheels in the last two races.

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Hill picks up first Stock V8 win of season at Sumter Speedway by cody truett Special To The Sumter Item

up the field for a restart with Hill still showing the way. Anderson and Hill battled side by Adam Hill picked up his first side for the top spot through win of the season in the Stock turns 1 and 2 and down the V8 division to highlight racing back stretch before Hill gained action at Sumter Speedway on the advantage. Hill cruised on Saturday. to pick up the win with AnderHill started the feature from son second, Kimsey third, the front row after picking up Cody Truett fourth, Jerry the win in his heat race and Knight fifth, Joseph Cook shot out front as the green flag sixth, Marty Horne seventh, flew. Walter Anderson settled Jody Truett eighth and Randy into second with Timmy KimCreech ninth. sey third. As the race stayed Brett Carter picked up his green, Hill maintained the lead second consecutive win in the with Anderson a close second.

Extreme-4 division. Chelsea A late caution flag bunched L’Huillier lead the early part

OBITUARIES JAMES AUSTIN COMPTON James Austin Compton, 15, died on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at his home.

Born on May 27, 2000, in Sumter, he was a son of James “Jamie” and Jennifer McKnight Compton. He was a sophomore at Lakewood High School, where he was the sophomore advisor for the Student Government Association and a member of the National Honor Society.

Survivors include his parents of Sumter; a brother, Christian L. Compton of Sumter; a sister, Kara McKnight of Sumter; grandparents, Eddie Farmer Sr. of Sumter, Suzanne Brooks of Sumter and Ed and Carolyn McKnight of Charlotte,

North Carolina; great-grandmother, Joyce Compton of Hartsville; uncles, Eddie Farmer Jr. and Kevin Farmer, both of Sumter; and four cousins.

A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. today at the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Bryan Rogers officiating.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

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

of the feature before mechanical problems ended her night.

Carter took the lead and cruised on to the victory. John Ledwell come home second with Garrett Williams third, Rusty Harrelson fourth and Jeremy Carter fifth.

Banjo Duke picked up his second consecutive win in the Crate Late Model division.

David Rourk was second and Larry Morse third.

Shannon Munn picked up a dominant win in the Super Street division, leading flag to flag. Justin Timmons came home second and Robbie Dish-

New York.

He was born on June 2, 1945, in Sumter, a son of Frances McCain Mitchell and the late Johnny B. Mitchell.

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

BRONWYN RASSBACH Bronwyn Janes Eves Rassbach, 83, beloved wife of the late Richard C. Rassbach, died on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at Covenant Place.

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

er was third.

The Stock-4 division saw a huge 15-car feature in preparation for this week’s Monster Mini Stock 4-Cylinder Series event. Austin Mintz powered his way to the win after battling it out with multiple contenders throughout the feature.

Pete Brew battled his was to a strong second-place finish with Bubba Kolb third, Jason Hodge fourth and Ashley McHenry fifth. Russell Lamberth was sixth with Daniel Creamer seventh, Aaron Weed eighth, Greg Brew ninth and Allen Ridgeway tenth.

Disher picked up another win the in the Street Stock feature. Matthew Hodge came home second and Britt Williams was third.

The season continues on Saturday with the Lucas Oil Midget Series and the Monster Mini Stock Series added to the card along with all of the regular divisions of racing.

Gates open at 5 p.m. and racing starts at 7. Grandstand tickets are $15 for adults while pit passes are $25. Active duty military will be admitted to the grandstands free of charge with military identification.

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Mary Frances Harriott, 81, wife of Luther Harriott, died on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at McLeod Regional Medical Center Hospice House, Florence.

Born on Dec. 6, 1934, in Lee County, she was a daughter of James Scott and Mary Martha Pressley.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 101 Casual Branch Road, Elliott.

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

PEARLEN D. RUFUS Pearlen Daniels Rufus, 86, widow of Freddie Rufus Sr., entered eternal rest on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at Sumter Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Born on Sept. 21, 1929, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Joe and Annie Bell Kendrick Daniels.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of her niece, Jeannie (Deacon Alfred) Washington, 1830 Britton Road.

Funeral plans will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

JEREMY G. JOHNSON Jeremy Gerald Johnson, 37, died on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, in Deltona, Florida.

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ROBERT L. MITCHELL Robert L. Mitchell, 69, departed this life on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at White Plains Hospital, White Plains,

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CARRIE LEE N. HILTON MANNING — Carrie Lee Nelson Hilton, 67, wife of Noisby Val Hilton Jr., died on Thursday, April 14, 2016.

She was born on Sept. 4, 1948, in Manning, a daughter of the late Wilson Dee and Annie Mae Wilson Nelson.

HILTON Funeral services for Mrs. Hilton will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at First Baptist Missionary Baptist Church, 219 S. Washington St., Sumter, with the Rev. George P. Windley Jr., pastor. Burial will follow in Goodwill Baptist Church Cemetery, 1329 Goodwill Church Road, Manning.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 2393 Oak Grove Church Road, Manning.

Online memorials may be sent to samuelsfuneralhome. com.

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

JOHN BRAND JR. John “J.W.” Brand Jr. was born on Nov. 10, 1949, in Sumter, to Mary Edith Gee Brand and the late John Brand Sr. On Sunday, April 17, 2016, at 5:49 a.m., surrounded by his family and in the comfort of his home, he peacefully completed his earthly journey and entered into eternal rest after a courageous battle with multiple myeloma.

John was educated in the public schools of Sumter County and was a proud graduate of Lincoln High Class of 1969. At an early age, he accepted Christ as his personal Lord and Savior and was a member of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church during his youth and early adulthood, where he discovered the world of audio ministry. He continued his walk with the Lord as a member of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church for several years, where he realized that audio ministry was not only his passion but his calling. He was spiritually led to Westend Community Church in Christ, where he became an integral force in the development of audio ministry. He was a faithful member of the Bible Study Class and continued his service for the Lord in whatever capacity he was needed, until his health declined. John was a very kindhearted, humble, and genuine soul who never met a stranger. He had an infectious laugh and the knack for teasing that made you smile. He will truly be missed by his family, friends, church and the entire community.

Left to cherish his precious memories in addition to his devoted mother are one sister, Betty Cooper (Brookdale Harbison Assisted Living) of Columbia; two brothers, Chester (Johnnie Mae) Brand of Washville, Georgia, and Terry (DelResia) Brand of Irmo; five nieces, Cheryl McKellar and Chesta Bigham, both of Sumter, Michelle (Finas) Goodwin of Augusta, Georgia, Tiffany Brand of Irmo and Chandra Johnson of Brooklyn, New York; two nephews, Byron Brand of Augusta and Naeem Davis of Sumter; and a special friend, Florence Vaughn of Sumter.

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

Mr. Brand 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 Westend Community Church in Christ, 101 S. Salem St., Sumter, with Dr. Ralph W. Canty Sr. officiating. Interment will follow in Hillside Memorial Park.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 16 Charles St., Sumter.

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.

IRENE J. JOHNSON Irene Junious Johnson, 79, widow of Richard Johnson, entered eternal rest on Sunday, April 17, 2016.

Born on June 17, 1936, in Clarendon County, she was a daughter of the late Madison and Mary Jane McConico Junious. She was educated in the public schools of Clarendon County and received a culinary art degree in 2001 at Sumter Area Technical College (Central Carolina Technical College). She was employed at Hopewell Nursing Home and retired after 34 years. In 1999, she established her own catering company.

Survivors are her children, Daisy (Ivory Jr.) Witherspoon, Barbara (John) Adams, Frances (Carl) Pringle and Randy (Antoinette) Nelson; seven stepchildren, Alethia (Ernest) Brown, Carol (Richard) Clark, Elaine (James) Snead, Albert Johnson, Marvin Johnson, Richard (Laura) Johnson Jr. and Bernard Johnson; five sisters, Ernestine (the Rev. Joseph) Stukes, Bishop Dorothy Williams, Evangelist Inez Junious, Lucille (David) McConico and Evangelist Mary Junious; two daughters-in-law, Anita Nelson and the Rev. Lena Nelson; a special friend, Ida Golden; a host of grandchildren, other relatives and friends.

She will be viewed from 2:30 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at Antioch AME Church, Rimini, with Pastor Corinthea Stack. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family is receiving visitors at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Francis (Carl) Pringle, 1145 Pepper Corn Lane, Sumter.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

JANIE MAE SWINTON Janie Mae Swinton, 65, entered eternal rest on Sunday, April 17, 2016.

Born on Feb. 28, 1951, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Richard Allen and Julia Mae James Swinton. She received her education in the public schools of Sumter County and was employed with Sumter School District 17 as a cook.

Survivors are three children, Tommie Swinton, Tyrone Swinton and Dale Swinton; one brother, Richard “Pete” Swinton; one sister, Thomasine Swinton; seven grandchildren; four uncles, Roosevelt Swinton, Ben Swinton, Harry Swinton and Robert Lee Swinton; four aunts, Naomi Swinton, Daisy Swinton, Dollie Swinton and Genevie Swinton; a host of other relatives and friends.

She will be viewed from 2 to

7 p.m. today with meet and greet from 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Olden Chapel UME Church in Sumter with Elder James O. Robinson, pastor. Burial will follow in Walker Cemetery.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

ALBERT SHARPE Albert Sharpe, 98, entered eternal rest on Monday, April 18, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on Oct. 1, 1917, in Sumter County, he was a son of the late Edgar and Annie Pringle Sharpe. He received his education in Sumter public schools and was a member of St. Paul AME Church.

Survivors are five children, Carolyn S. (James) Gardner, Tyrone Lewis, Mary Sharpe, Alvin Sharpe and Danny (Elaine) Sharpe; special friend, Cassie Bones and her children, Patrick Bones and Erica Rhodes; a sister, Julia Brunson; eight grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.

He can be viewed from 4 to 7 p.m. today.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at St. Paul AME Church with Pastor Robert E. Galloway.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family is receiving visitors at the home of Cassie Bones, 748 Worley St., and the home of the Rev. Randy and Loretta Black, 60 Highland Ave., Sumter.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

CHARLES D. DURANT JR. Charles D. Durant Jr. entered eternal rest on April 9, 2016, in San Francisco, California.

The family is receiving friends at 70 Sugar Hill Road, Bishopville.

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

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Elliott, with the pastor, the Rev. Lee Johnson, officiating. Interment will follow in the St. Paul Wisacky Cemetery, S.C. 341, Lynchburg.

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

BROADUS FULKS JR. Broadus Fulks Jr., 82, widower of Claritta Fulks, died on Thursday, April 21, 2016, at his home.

Born on May 24, 1933, in Columbia, he was a son of Hickman and Thomasina Fulks Burke.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1152 Hezekiah Road, Eastover.

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

ROBERT L. BROWN Robert Little Brown, 78, died on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on Feb. 5, 1938, in Sumter, he was a son of the late William Hall and H. Linnette Lindler Brown. He was a grandson of the late Robert T. Sr. and Mildred Hall Brown and Little Shepherd and Eva

THE SUMTER ITEM Tallon Lindler.

Robert “Bob” Brown is survived by his wife of 55 years, Catherine Mary Valentine Brown of Dalzell; a daughter, Sharolynn Brown Kucera (Edward) of Bellevue, Nebraska; a son, Robert L. Brown Jr. (Donna) of Savannah, Georgia; a sister, Billie Brown Chappell (Ron) of Fort Walton Beach, Florida; grandchildren, Kimberly Brown Clark (Peadar), Shannon M. Kucera, Caitlyn A. Kucera, Nathan E. Kucera, Roy David Monroe and Brandon Monroe; great-grandson, Riley John Clark; niece, Sunnie G. Chappell; and godgranddaughters, Nadeja and Natalia Hernandez.

Robert “Bob” Brown graduated from the old Hillcrest High School, Dalzell, in 1956 and from The Citadel in 1960 with a bachelor of arts in English. While an Air Force officer, Robert earned his master of arts graduate degree in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. During his military career, he served as a crew member in B-52 Bombers, RC-135 Reconnaissance Spy Planes, and in AC-130 Gunships in Vietnam.

His military decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, Meritorious Service Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, AF Commendation Medal, AF Outstanding Unit Award with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Combat Readiness Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with 1 BS, AF Overseas Short Tour Ribbon, AF Long Tour Ribbon, AF Longevity Service Award Ribbon with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters, and Small Arms.

Robert was a senior adjunct faculty member of the University of South Carolina at Sumter with the title of senior lecturer in English. He taught classes in English composition and literature, short fiction, poetry and American literature. Prior to teaching at USC-Sumter, he taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1973 to 1977, where he held the academic rank of assistant professor and was the director of the technical writing program and was the English Department executive officer. He also taught composition and literature classes for the University of Maryland in Thailand, Emery-Riddle University in Nebraska, St. Leo College at Shaw Air Force Base, Troy State University at Sumter, and Camden Military Academy at Camden. In 1993, he was asked to teach the USC English 101 and 102 full credit classes at Thomas Sumter Academy in Dalzell. Robert loved teaching at TSA and had many fond memories of his wonderful students there.

He kept in touch with many of them and their accomplishments over the years after he retired from teaching.

Robert’s publications include articles for the Air Force Magazine, the South Carolina Historical Society Carologue magazine, the Smithsonian Air & Space

magazine and the Friends Journal-The Magazine of the A.F. Museum Foundation. He was the author of “The Last Days,” a historical brochure on the Civil War in Sumter County, published and distributed by the Sumter County Historical Commission, and was editor and contributor for the “Ear and the Earring,” a collection of poems for the Sumter Poetry Society. He was also the creator, editor, and publisher of two newsletters, The Gaslight, for the A.F. Team-2 crew he served on at Eielson A.F.B. in Alaska, and The Hound’s Howl, for a local Sherlock Holmes Club. The largest work to date is the book “A Boot Full of Memories,” on the letters and history of Captain Leonard Williams, 2nd Calvary, which he both edited and coauthored.

He also wrote two family history books on the Brown’s and the Lindler’s, which are historical gifts for his grandparent’s descendants.

Mr. Brown served on several local and national organizations devoted to the preservation of Southern history and heritage. He was a member of the Sumter County Historical Commission for 18 years, holding the positions of chairman of historical markers, chairman of the Civil War committee, and vice-chairman of the commission. He was a life member of the SCV and a charter member of the General PGT Beauregard Camp of Sumter and was camp commander from 1988 to 1990 and also the South Carolina division commander from 1990 to 1994. His other SCV positions include first lieutenant commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Aid De Camp to the SCV commander in chief, member of the SCV medal of honor committee and was the founder of the SCV guardian program for the S.C. Division of the SCV. His awards received for the SCV include the SCV Meritorious and Distinguished Service Medals, The War Service Medal and the United Daughters of the Confederacy Cross of Military Service.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at The Church of the Holy Comforter, 213 N. Main St., Sumter. Private family burial with full military honors will be in the Sumter Cemetery.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the S.C. Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Memorials may be made to The Church of the Holy Comforter, P. O. Box 338, Sumter, SC 29151.

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.

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Legal Notice Destruction of Special Education Records (300.573) Sumter School District will be destroying special education records for students exiting during or prior to the 2010-2011 school year. Records being destroyed include all special education referral records, evaluation reports, testing protocols, notifications of meetings, Individual Education Plans (IEP), reviews of existing data summaries, and all other personally identifiable information therein. Under state and federal law, special education records must be maintained for a period of five years after special education services have ended.

Former students over the age of 18, or parents of students over the age of 18, who have retained parental rights through the court's determination, may obtain special education records by contacting and making an appointment with Mrs. Lillarweise Seymore at (803) 774-5500 (ext. 210).

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Notice of Sale MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-48

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Eric Gann a/k/a Eric B. Gann et al., Inc., I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016, 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, together with any improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and being shown and designated as Lot 187 Hunters Crossing Subdivision, Phase 2, Section 2 as more fully shown on a plat thereof prepared by Louis W. Tisdale, RLS, dated October 16, 2007 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 2007 at Page 495; which plat is incorporated herein by this reference and having such metes, bounds, courses and distances, being a little more or less, as by this reference to said plat will more fully appear. This is the same property known as 1636 Ruger Drive, Sumter, SC. Represented by Sumter County

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Sale Parcel No. 187-13-04-045.

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187-13-04-045

Property Address: 1636 Ruger Drive Sumter, S. C. 29150 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 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 4.875% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

Richard Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC 1703 Laurel Street

Notice of Sale P. O Box 11682 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 233-1177 Benjamin E. Grimsley S.C. Bar No. 70335 Attorney for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, S.C. 29211 (803) 233-1177 bgrimsley@grimsleylaw.com

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-00647 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Bank of America, N.A. vs. Francis J. Myers II; James Brabham; Carl Frank Brabham; John M. Brabham Jr.; Phronsie B. Gardner; Mary Brabham a/k/a Mary Brabham Sheridan; Matthew Moye Brabham, Sr. a/k/a Moye M. Brabham, Sr.; Robert Brabham a/k/a Bobby Brabham; Mell B. Thames; Lorand R. Batten III; The Estate of Robert Lemarks Brabham, if any be deceased, and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also, all other persons or corporations unknown claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate described herein, any unknown adults, whose true names are unknown, being as a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants, persons under disability, or persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, whose true names are unknown, being as a class designated as Richard Roe, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN PROVIDENCE TOWNSHIP, COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 118 OF DALZELL ACRES, PHASE II, SECTION NO. 4, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT BY CROFT ENGINEERING COMPANY, DATED AUGUST 13, 1997, AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 97, AT PAGE 1359, RECORDS OF SUMTER COUNTY. 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

Invita on to Bid Buckeye Community Sixty Five LLC. is solici ng sealed bids for a general contracting firm to build a 30 apartment senior property in Sumter, SC. The successful GC will be responsible for properly bidding, awarding, and managing all sub-contractors in compliance with all HUD and state of South Carolina procurement rules. The chosen GC must have verifiable experience construc ng mul -family proper es using Low Income Housing Tax Credits and HOME funds. Plans and bid sheets are available by contac ng Steve Boone at 843-437-9530.

All bids are due no later than and will be publically opened at 2:00PM Eastern Verizon me on May 23rd, 2016, at 12 W. Liberty Street, Sumter, South Carolina.

A endance is not required but strongly encouraged.

This project is funded in part with HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development) funds and requires that all contractors bidding or awarded contracts over $100,000 must comply with Sec on 3 of the HUD Act of 1968, ensuring, to the greatest extent feasible, all qualified low and very-low income persons and contractors receive preference in any employment, training, and contract awards. The HOME Program is an Equal Housing Opportunity Program and is subject to the requirements of the Fair Housing Act of 1988, as amended. Minority, women, and Sec on 3 businesses (as defined by 24 CFR 135) are encouraged to par cipate. All contractors shall be properly licensed under the State Laws governing their trade and debarred from any State and/or Federal granted programs (State of South Carolina).

PUBLIC NOTICE SC Department of Health and Environmental Control Bureau of Water 2600 Bull Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Public Notice No. 16-065-R

Date: April 22, 2016

NOTICE OF PROPOSED REISSUANCE OF A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT The following applicant has reapplied for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit to discharge treated wastewater into waters of the State of South Carolina. The NPDES permit contains effluent limitations on the amounts of pollutants allowed to be discharged, based upon preliminary staff review and application of the Federal Clean Water Act, the SC Pollution Control Act, and other lawful standards and appropriate regulations. The pollutant limitations and other permit conditions are tentative and open to comment from the public.

APPLICANT: PILGRIMS PRIDE CORPORATION, FACILITY NAME: PILGRIMS PRIDE CORP/SUMTER SC PROC PLT (SUMTER COUNTY/SUMTER EQC OFFICE), NPDES permit #SC0000795, 2050 HWY 15 S, SUMTER, SC 29150-8790. The facility is located at 859 Victory Trail Road, Sumter, South Carolina, Sumter County. The facility has 2 discharge points: 001-process wastewater drainage from the West Spray Field, recovered groundwater and stormwater, discharging to: Pocalla Creek to Pocataligo River; 002-process wastewater drainage from the North Spray Field, recovered groundwater and stormwater, discharging to: Cane Savannah Creek to Pocataligo River; The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for the facility is 2077. The receiving streams are classified Class FW: freshwaters suitable for primary and secondary contact recreation and as a source for drinking water supply after conventional treatment in accordance with the requirements of the Department. Suitable for fishing and the survival and propagation of a balanced indigenous aquatic community of fauna and flora. Suitable also for industrial and agricultural uses. Wastewater sludge shall be land applied by Belger Farms (ND0088889). A fact sheet is available.

Groundwater will be monitored at 18 monitoring wells. This Permit when issued will supersede an existing permit which will expire on May 31, 2016. The permittee disposes of wastewater by spray irrigation on 2 onsite(s) fields totaling 207 acres. This permit contains the following internal outfall(s): 01A. There is no potential to affect an existing or proposed drinking water source and no state-approved source water protection area. Hence MCLs or W/O criteria shall not apply.

Persons wishing to comment on or object to permit issuance or to the proposed permit limitations and conditions are invited to submit same in writing within thirty (30) days of the date of this notice to the attention of: Ms. Melanie Townley; SC DHEC; Water Facilities Permitting Division; 2600 Bull Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201; Telephone: 803-898-4223. The permit number should be placed at the top of the first page of comments. When there is a significant degree of public interest in a permit or group of permits, the Department may hold a public hearing. SC DHEC is not involved in zoning, land use, or property value issues.

Please contact your local County or Municipal officials for questions or concerns on these issues.

All comments received within the 30-day period will be considered in the formulation of final determinations regarding the permit. All persons submitting written comments will be notified of the final determinations. Requests for adjudicatory hearings may be filed after the above described determinations have been made. Additional information regarding adjudicatory hearings is available from the Legal Office at the above Department address or by calling 803-898-3350.

Additional information on proposed permit determinations and on hearing procedures is available by writing or calling the Department at the above address or telephone number. Copies of a specific application or draft permit of interest to an individual, organization, or company must be requested in writing. A fee schedule has been established for processing these requests: Reproduction of documents - $0.25 per page.

Requests must be mailed to the Freedom of Information Office at 2600 Bull Street, Columbia, SC 29201, phone number: 803-898-3882; or requests may be faxed to the Freedom of Information Office at 803-8983816. Arrangements can be made to review all the permit information at the Freedom of Information Office on the third floor of the Sims Building across from Peeples Auditorium.

Please bring the foregoing to the attention of persons you know will be interested in this matter.

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THE ITEM Notice of Sale

CAROLINA, 1976. THIS IS THE SAME PROPERTY KNOWN AS 3210 LEE ALTMAN ROAD, DALZELL, SC. REPRESENTED BY TAX MAP NO. 189-04-03-001. THIS IS THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO FRANCIS J. MYERS, II BY DEED OF ROBERT E. BATTEN DATED 8/31/2006 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN BOOK 1043, AT PAGE 853 ON 09/01/2006.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 3210 Lee Altman Road, Dalzell, SC 29040 TMS: 189-04-03-001 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). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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 6.5% 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 15-03129

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2015-CP-43-02579

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association vs.

Demetra Taylor, I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 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, represented as Lot No. 6 on a Plat prepared by D.D. Edmunds dated February 27, 1997 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 97, page 1206. 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 generally known as 505 Pioneer Drive, Sumter, SC. Represented by Sumter County Parcel No. 221-06-01-006.

The Mobile Home located on the subject property has been permanently de titled according to the laws of the State of South Carolina by virtue of that certain Manufactured Home Affidavit for Retirement of Title Certificate, dated March 27, 2007 and recorded May 21, 2007 in Book 1078 at Page 1119.

This being the same property conveyed to Demetra Taylor by deed of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., dated February 13, 2008 and recorded February 21, 2008 in Book 1100 at Page 2966 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County.

TMS No. 221-06-01-006 and 400-00-36-309 (Mobile Home) Property address: 505 Pioneer Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 The Court in its Decree has further made its finding that this mortgage was intended to and specifically secures and collateralizes that certain Mobile Home permanently affixed to the above described real estate in the mortgage being foreclosed and is further provided under the laws of the State of South Carolina, the same being more particularly described as follows: 1997 BELM MBH Manufactured Home, Serial No. B1596AB, with any fixtures.

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 said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, 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 non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 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).

Notice of Sale The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

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

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016-CP-43-00007 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust vs.

Ozier Edwards Jr.; SC Housing Corp.; Republic Finance a/k/a Republic Finance, LLC, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 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 WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 11, IN BLOCK B AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF JOSEPH PALMER, DATED MARCH 28, 1935 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK G-5 AT PAGE 96, AND HAVING SUCH BOUNDARIES, METES, COURSES AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN ยง 30-50-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. ALSO: ALL THAT LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DELINEATED ON A SKETCH APPEARING ON DEED RECORDED IN DEED BOOK N-6 AT PAGE 508, THE SAME BEING IN THE SHAPE OF A REVERSED "L", AND BEING BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS: ON THE NORTH BY LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF LORING, MEASURING ON THAT LINE 56 FEET AND LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF KOLB, MEASURING 140 FEET; EAST BY LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OF KOLB, MEASURING ON THAT LINE 55 FEET, AND BY CHEROKEE ROAD, A DISTANCE OF 10 FEET; SOUTH BY PORTIONS OF LOTS 10, 9, AND 8, BLOCK B, AS SHOWN ON PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK G-5, PAGE 96, A DISTANCE OF 196'; AND WEST BY LAND NOW OR FORMERLY OF RUMPH, A DISTANCE OF 65 FEET, THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO OZIER EDWARDS, JR. BY DEED FROM ALFRED J. FLOYD AND DOROTHY T. FLOYD DATED APRIL 1, 2002 AND RECORDED APRIL 1, 2002 IN VOLUME 837 AT PAGE 956 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 104 Cherokee Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 TMS: 229-13-03-004 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). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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 7.625% 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 15-25445

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 OF MASTER-IN-EQUITY SALE CASE NO: 2015-CP-43-1681

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.875% per annum.

PURSUANT to an Order of Foreclosure entered of record by the Honorable Richard L. Booth in case number 2015-CP-43-1681 on March 16th, 2016 in the matter of William A. Towne Individually and D/B/A W. Towne Properties Limited

Notice of Sale Partnership -vs- Douglas Harley and Cecelia Harley.

The Master-In-Equity for Sumter County or his duly authorized and appointed agent will sell to the highest bidder the property hereafter described.

The sale shall take place on May 4, 2016 at 12:00 noon. The sale shall take place at the Sumter County Judicial Center Courtroom 1-A. The property to be sold is described as follows: The real estate situate at 515 and 517 North Main Street, Sumter, South Carolina.

Tax map # 228-04-03-007 ALL that piece, parcel, or lot of land, with the building and improvements thereon, situate in the City of Sumter, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown on plat of Palmer & Malone, C. E.'s, dated March 17, 1947 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-7 at Page 13. According to said plat, the subject property is bounded and measures as follows: On the NORTH by lands now or formerly of Brown on which it measures 205.00 feet; on the EAST by lands of Jones and lands of Martin, on which it measures an aggregate of 227.9 feet; on the SOUTH by lands of Wilson, lands of Kelly and lands of Martin, on which it measures an aggregate of 205.0 feet; and on the WEST by North Main Street, on which it fronts 225.0 feet. This property is known as 515-517 North Main Street.

TERMS OF SALE: For cash, the Master-In-Equity will require a deposit of five (5) percent of the amount bid in cash or certified funds which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid, in case of noncompliance within thirty (30) days after the sale. The deposit of five (5) percent is to be forfeited and applied to the Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

The successful Purchaser shall pay for deed recording fees.

Deficiency judgment not being demanded by the Plaintiff(s), 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 bid at the legal rate.

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

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

Richard L. Booth Master-In-Equity Sumter County

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs. Martha H. Ferrazano a/k/a Martha H. Ferrazzano; The United States of America acting by and through its agency The Department of Housing and Urban Development; Betsy Windham a/k/a Betsy Lynn R. Ridgill; James R Ridgill; , C/A No. 15-CP-43-1587, The following property will be sold on May 2, 2016, 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, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot 1 on a plat prepared by D.D. Edmunds, RLS dated November 28, 1995 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book PB 95 at Page 1279. 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.

And all that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Privateer, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, consisting of 5.11 acres, more or less, shown as "The Lake" on that certain plat prepared by Croft Engineering Company, Carl J. Croft, dated April 22, 1988 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County on August 31, 2000 in Plat Book PB 2000, at Page 613.

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.

Derivation: Book 1138 at Page 2826

40 Lake Shore Drive, Sumter, SC 29150-8854 224-06-02-005, 224-06-02-004 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 on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder's 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 balance of the bid after the deposit is applied from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.25% 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-43-1587.

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, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013263-06496 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2016

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MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2014-CP-43-02457

make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

WAS CONVEYED TO WALTER ARDIS AND BETTY ARDIS AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIP BY DEED OF BETTY ARDIS F/K/A BETTY LYNN BOCHETTE DATED JUNE 8, 2009 AND RECORDED JUNE 9, 2009 IN BOOK 1123, PAGE 961 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. Barbara Feilen, individually, and as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Ronald Feilen, Deceased; and Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Ronald Feilen, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, 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; Tia R. Smith n/k/a Tia Johnson f/k/a Tia Ridgeway Smith and Ronnie D. Smith, Jr., I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 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 of Privateer, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as LOT NO. 61 OF QUAIL HOLLOW SUBDIVISION, SECTION NO. 1, on that plat prepared by Ben J. Makela, RLS, dated April 22, 1999 and recorded in PLAT BOOK 99 AT PAGE 486 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 the 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 2156 Bob White Drive, Sumter, SC. The real property described in this mortgage includes as an improvement to the land set forth herein a 1998 Destiny 28` x 60` manufactured home, Serial No. 057727AB, permanently affixed to such land.

The Mobile Home located on the subject property has been permanently de titled according to the laws of the State of South Carolina by virtue of that certain Manufactured Home Affidavit for Retirement of Title Certificate, dated May 17, 2005 and recorded May 20, 2005 in Book 981 at Page 890; and re-recorded September 12, 2005 in Book 996 at Page 1972.

This being the same property conveyed unto Ronald Feilen and Barbara Feilen, as joint tenants with right of survivorship, and not as tenants in common, by virtue of a Deed from Tia Johnson, f/k/a Tia Ridgeway Smith, dated May 17, 2005 and recorded May 20, 2005 in Book 981 at Page 898 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Sumter County, South Carolina.

Subsequently, Robert Feilen, died on August 30, 2013, and by operation of law her interest in the subject property went to Barbara Feilen.

TMS No. 210-06-04-010 Property address: 2156 Bob White Drive, Sumter, SC 29154 The Court in its Decree has further made its finding that this mortgage was intended to and specifically secures and collateralizes that certain Mobile Home permanently affixed to the above described real estate in the mortgage being foreclosed and is further provided under the laws of the State of South Carolina, the same being more particularly described as follows: 1998 Destiny Omni Manufactured Home, Serial No. 057727AB, with any fixtures.

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 said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, 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 non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 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).

Personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days after the sale date. The Plaintiff may waive its right to a deficiency judgment prior to sale, in which case the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.500% per annum.

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

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

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016-CP-43-00155 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank N.A., as Trustee for the registered holders of MASTR Asset Backed Securities Trust 2006-AM3, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-AM3 vs. Richard L. Warren, Sr.; Sue N. Warren; Jeffery S. Crisp a/k/a Jeffery D. Crisp, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND WITH IMPROVEMENTS, THEREON, IF ANY, SITUATE. LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IDENTIFIED AS LT NO 1 AS SHOWN ON A PLAT PREPARED BY JOSEPH R. EDWARDS, R.L.S. DATED 3/28/91 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 91 AT PAGE 866, RECORDS OF SUMTER COUNTY. THIS PROPERTY IS KNOWN AS 1635 POOLE ROAD AND IS FURTHER IDENTIFIED AS SUMTER COUNTY TAX MAP PARCEL NO. 214-00-01-033.

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 RICHARD L. WARREN, SR. AND SUE N. WARREN BY DEED OF JEFFREY D. CRISP DATED FEBRUARY 27, 2006 AND RECORDED FEBRUARY 28, 2006 IN BOOK 1018 AT PAGE 1019 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1635 Poole Road, Sumter, SC 29154 TMS: 214-00-01-033 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 2% 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 15-11304

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-01461 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Bank of America, N.A. vs. Walter Ardis; Betty Ardis a/k/a Betty Lynn Bochette; Safe Federal Credit Union, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 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 WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 61, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF JULIAN B. ALLEN, R.L.S., DATED FEBRUARY 25, 1987 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK 87 AT PAGE 302 AND REVISED NOVEMBER 4, 1988 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK 89 AT PAGE 726, AND HAVING SUCH BOUNDARIES, METES, COURSES AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN ยง30-50-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS KNOWN AS 3146 BUSH LANE, SUMTER, SC. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO BETTY LYNN BOCHETTE BY DEED OF SHANNON NEISWONGER DATED SEPTEMBER 26, 1999 AND RECORDED OCTOBER 6, 1999 IN BOOK 754, PAGE 900 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, C O U T H C A R O L I N A .

THEREAFTER, SAID PROPERTY

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 3146 Bush Lane, Dalzell, SC 29040 TMS: 190-10-01-016 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). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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 5% 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 14-26961

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2013-CP-43-01992

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association vs.

Pete R. Sims, and Stella Sims, I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: Being shown and designated as Lot No. II, Block "B", of a Subdivision of Lots on that certain Plat by Joseph Palmer, C.E., dated July 9, 1941 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book S-5 at Page 109.

This being the same property conveyed to Pete R. Sims and Joanne S. Coward by Deed of Hannie Watson Richbourg a/k/a Hannie W. Richbourg, dated May 19, 1999 and recorded June 15, 1999 in Book 743 at Page 1599 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina.

Thereafter, Pete R. Sims and Joanne S. Coward conveyed said property unto Pete R. Sims, by Deed dated July 27, 2006 and recorded October 2, 2006 in Book 1047 at Page 1232 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina.

Thereafter, Pete R. Sims conveyed said property unto Pete R. Sims and Stella Sims, as Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship, by Deed dated January 6, 2010 and recorded February 24, 2010 in Book 1135 at Page 3959 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 248-09-04-034 Property address: 17 Gerald Street, Sumter, SC 29150 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 said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, 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 non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 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).

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.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 7.375% per annum.

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

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

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's

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bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

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 5.375% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

RECORDED DECEMBER 13, 1990 IN THE OFFICE OF THE ROD FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA IN DEED BOOK 517 PAGE 1726.

integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

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 6.250% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs. Lee R. Cahill a/k/a Lee Cahill; Jessica L. Cahill a/k/a Jessica Cahill; SC Housing Corp.; JH Portfolio Debt Equities, LLC; , C/A No. 15-CP-43-02465, The following property will be sold on May 2, 2016, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse 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 City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot No. 27 of Pepperidge Acres Subdivision on that plat prepared by Joseph R. Edwards, PLS, dated May 11, 1999 and recorded in Plat Book 99 at page 448 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 the 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 ยง 30-5ยฌ250 of The Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as amended.

Derivation: Book 1196 at Page 1431

1385 Pepperidge Drive, Sumter, SC 29154-8530 226-15-01-047 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 on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder's 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 balance of the bid after the deposit is applied from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.5% 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-43-02465.

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, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013263-07722 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-46

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Justin C. Bowers, I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016, 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 the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, identified as Lot No. 199 of Wintergreen Subdivision Section No. 2 Phase 2 and being more fully shown on a plat prepared by Louis W. Tisdale, RLS, dated July 27, 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book PB 2005 at Page 492.

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 1850 Escallonia Drive, Sumter, SC. Represented by Auditor's map of Sumter County as tax parcel 154-12-01-006.

This being the same property conveyed to Justin C. Bowers by deed of Charles A. Wilkes dated November 4, 2009 and recorded November 16, 2009 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1132 at Page 514.

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154-12-01-006

Property Address: 1850 Escallonia Drive Sumter, S.C. 29154 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 stamps on the deed, and recording of

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 SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2010-CP-43-02569 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Regions Bank d/b/a Regions Mortgage, successor by merger to Union Planters Bank, N.A. vs.

Nathaniel C. Marshall; Kristy L. Marshall n/k/a Kristy Lee Prichard; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 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 WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE. LYING AND BEING IN THE PROVIDENCE TOWNSHIP. COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 2, CONTAINING ONE (1) ACRE, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT OF LEWIS E. LEAVELL, JR., RLS, DATED NOVEMBER 3, 1964 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ROD FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK Z-21 AT PAGE 21, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS CRAVED FOR THE EXACT METES, BOUNDARIES AND DISTANCES PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN SECTION 30-5-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS IS THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 2980 PEACH ORCHARD ROAD, TAX MAP #135-00-01-039. ALSO: A 2003 FLEETWOOD/HERITAGE POINT MOBILE HOME, SERIAL #VAFL219AB58494-HE13.

THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO NATHANIEL C. MARSHALL AND KRISTY L. MARSHALL BY DEED OF RO1Y, LLC DATED NOVEMBER 18, 2002 AND RECORDED NOVEMBER 22, 2002 IN BOOK 865 AT PAGE 1161 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 2980 Peach Orchard Rd. Dalzell, SC 29040 TMS: 135-00-01-039// 4000030299 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). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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 4% 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 15-12130

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2014-CP-43-01883 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF8 Master Participation Trust vs.

Michael Thomas Kelly Sr.; Belinda Kay Kelly; LVNV Funding LLC; South Carolina Department of Revenue, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, WITH THE DWELLING AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN PRIVATEER TOWNSHIP, COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 47 OF ANBURN, SECTION NO. 2, AS SHOWN IN PLAT BOOK Z-40 AT PAGE 353, AND MORE RECENTLY AND PARTICULARLY SHOWN ON A PLAT BY JOSEPH R. EDWARDS, R.L.S., DATED AUGUST 13, 1987, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 87 AT PAGE 1303, RECORDS OF SUMTER COUNTY. SAID LOT NO. 47 BEING BOUNDED AND MEASURING AS FOLLOWS: ON THE NORTH BY LOT NO. 46, SAID PLAT, AND MEASURING THEREON 235.97 FEET; ON THE EAST BY LOT NO. 9 OF SECTION 1 OF ANBURN, SAID PLAT, AND MEASURING THEREON 99.93 FEET; ON THE SOUTH BY LOT NO. 48, SAID PLAT, AND MEASURING THEREON 236.06 FEET; AND ON THE WEST BY ANBURN DRIVE, SAID PLAT, AND FRONTING THEREON 100.05 FEET. BE ALL DIMENSIONS A LITTLE MORE OR A LITTLE LESS AND ACCORDING TO SAID MOST RECENT PLAT. THIS BEING THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 1775 ANBURN DRIVE. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO MICHAEL T. KELLY AND BELINDA K. KELLY

BY DEED FROM JEFFREY A. SWANN AND NANCY C. SWANN, DATED NOVEMBER 30, 1990 AND

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1775 Anburn Drive, Sumter, SC 29154 TMS: 2080903009 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). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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 9.64% 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 13-27730

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2015-CP-43-00436

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association vs.

Rick S. Rogers, I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the dwelling and any and all improvements thereon, lying and being and situate in Sumter Township, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot No. 19 of the Hill Dale Subdivision on that certain subdivision plat by Samuel M. Hunter, Jr., RLS, recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-17 at Page 15, and shown on a resurvey by HS Wilson, RLS, dated May 28, 1968, said lot together with improvements thereon being more particularly shown and delineated on more recent plat by Black River Land Surveying, dated June 14, 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 2005 at Page 302.

This being the same property conveyed to Rick S. Rogers by Deed of Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation dated September 25, 2007 and recorded October 5, 2007 in Book 1093 at Page 1468 in the Sumter County.

TMS No. 207-08-05-020 Property address: 876 Griffin Street, Sumter, SC 29154 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 said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, 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 non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 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).

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.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.875% per annum.

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

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

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016-CP-43-00061 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York, as Successor Trustee to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., successor by merger to Chase Bank of Texas, National Association for Saxon Asset Securities Trust 1999-3, Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Certificates, Series 1999-3 vs. Steven J. Johnson; Iris A. DuBose; Community Resource Mortgage, Inc. f/k/a Resource Mortgage, Inc.; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 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 TOWNSHIP OF STATEBURG AND COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA BEING SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT # 14-A, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT PREPARED BY JOSEPH R. EDWARDS, RLS, DATED MARCH 22, 1999, AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK 99 AT PAGE 287, 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 INCLUDED HEREWITH IS THAT CERTAIN 1990 FLEETWOOD MANUFACTURED HOME BEARING SERIAL NUMBER NCFLK41A&B16361HH. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO STEVEN J. JOHNSON BY DEED OF ROBERT C. DUBOSE AND IRIS A. DUBOSE DATED MARCH 31, 1999 AND RECORDED APRIL 1, 1999 IN BOOK 736 AT PAGE 1131 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 5770 Oak Hill Road, Sumter, SC 29154 TMS: 132-00-01-017 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). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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 9.375% 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 15-15896

MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2015-CP-43-2695

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Shawna M. Drish and Samuel T. Drish, I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016, at 12:00 o'clock a.m., at the Sumter County Courthouse, Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Providence, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, designated as Lot No. 15 of Rolling Hills Subdivision, Section 2, Phase III and as shown on that certain plat prepared by Lindler Land Surveying dated March 20, 2003 and recorded in Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat book 2004, Page 314. 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 identical property generally known as 3455 Drayton Drive, Dalzell, SC. Represented by Sumter County Parcel No. 151-11-04-005.

This being the same property conveyed to Shawna M. Drish and Samuel T. Drish by deed of Scott R. McKeithen and Cheryl McKeithen dated April 30, 2008 and recorded May 1, 2008 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1104 at Page 3995.

TMS#:

151-11-04-005

Property Address: 3455 Drayton Drive Dalzell, S. C. 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

Richard Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC 1703 Laurel Street P. O Box 11682 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 233-1177 Benjamin E. Grimsley S.C. Bar No. 70335 Attorney for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, S.C. 29211 (803) 233-1177 bgrimsley@grimsleylaw.com

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-00785 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Bank of America, N.A. vs. Amanda T. Berry; Steven W. Berry Jr.; Beneficial Financial I Inc. s/b/m to Beneficial Mortgage Co. of South Carolina, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on May 2, 2016 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, WITH THE RESIDENCE AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING, AND BEING IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT 14, BLOCK A OF PARKWOOD ESTATES ON A PLAT THEREOF DATED APRIL 18, 1939 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK G-5, PAGE 195 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND HAVING SUCH METES AND BOUNDS, COURSES AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS MADE PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN SECTION 30-5-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO STEVEN W. BERRY, JR. AND AMANDA T. BERRY BY DEED OF JERRY K. MILES AND LINDA C. BARNETTE DATED NOVEMBER 16, 2001 AND RECORDED NOVEMBER 16, 2001 IN BOOK 822, PAGE 1957 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 28 Parker Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 TMS: 205-12-04-024 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). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

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 4.5% 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 15-04892

MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2015-CP-43-2413

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Julie A. Laird, Gregory R. Laird et al., I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, May 2, 2016, 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, 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 containing 4.73 acres of Historic Hills Subdivision, as shown on that certain plat prepared by Joseph R. Edwards, RLS, dated October 30, 1990, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 90 at Page 1399, 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.

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This property known as: 6630 Francis Marion Avenue, Dalzell, SC 29040.

This being the same property conveyed to Gregory R. Laird and Julie A. Laird by deed of Julius R. Kirven and Vivian M. Kirven dated October 1, 2002 and recorded on October 2, 2002 in the office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Book 858 at Page 1878.

TMS#:

093-00-01-112

Property Address: 6630 Francis Marion Ave Dalzell, S.C. 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 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 5.50% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

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 SALE

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. vs. Debra Arbuckle Peebles; Donald Arbuckle, II; Drew Arbuckle; Any Heir-at-law or Devisees of Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle, 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 including 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. 15-CP-43-01692, The following property will be sold on May 2, 2016, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with all improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and being shown and designated as Lot 117 in Palmetto Park Subdivision on a plat of said subdivision recorded in the Office of the Sumter County Register of Deeds Office in Plat Book Z-19, at page 29. Reference being made to said plat pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, (1976, as Amended) for the metes, bounds, courses, and/or distances of the property delineated thereon.

Derivation: Book 890 at Page 292

312 Lesesne Court, Sumter, SC 29150-4048 228-01-01-040 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 on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder's 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 balance of the bid after the deposit is applied from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.25% 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-43-01692.

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, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013263-07145 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

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