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Sumterites win fishing tourney

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When Terry and Cory Barr of Sumter won the Striped Bass Festival’s fishing tournament’s competition for the most weight with their top five fish, it was nothing new to Terry Barr. He’s been there, done that.

Last year, Terry Barr won the monthlong contest for catching the biggest bass in the Big Fish, Big Bucks competition with an 11-pound, 16ounce bass. That competition, which carried a $10,000 prize, was on Marion and Santee lakes.

And not only was he a part of the winning team in the Striped Bass Festival and the $5,000 prize on Saturday, but he also finished second in the big

A Sumter man arrested Friday and charged with arson, third degree, now faces two additional counts of criminal domestic violence after further investigation into the incident, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said Monday in a news release.

Brandon Cory Dowless, 24, DOWLESS whose address is listed as 3240 Walking Horse Lane, allegedly threatened to kill a 24-year-old woman during a phone conversation while law enforcement officers were with the victim, the release said. The threat reportedly took place Thursday, shortly after the victim’s home on Livingwood Drive was destroyed by a fire, allegedly set by Dowless.

On the same day, the suspect allegedly chased the victim by car to a relative’s residence and threatened to harm the victim at the home, according to the sheriff’s office release.

Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Braden Bunch said Monday it is probable the domestic violence charges will be upgraded to felony counts of criminal domestic violence, second offense.

Dowless remains at SumterLee Regional Detention Center

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Jamie Ridgeway holds a live striped bass as Miss Clarendon Teen Addison Hicks kisses it at the 2015 Striped Bass Festival opening ceremonies. The event, called “Kiss My Striped Bass,” is a fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals.

The 36th Annual Clarendon County Striped Bass Festival attracted more than 10,000 people who came out to the event Friday evening and Saturday, according to organizers.

From the parade, truck and car show, boat show, various music and dancing groups, children’s art show, and, of course, amusement rides and food and craft vendors, there was plenty of fun for everyone,

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Parah Anderson, 8, eats a snow cone while attending the Striped Bass Festival on Saturday in Manning.

Executive finance director leaves school district

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Steven Mann, executive director of finance for Sumter School District, is leaving the district to join the S.C. School Boards Association in Columbia as director of insurance

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MANN To prepare for his new role, Mann will be working in transition with Frank Vail, who is officially

retiring on June 30 after seven years of leading the organization’s insurance services and programs.

Superintendent Frank Baker said the executive director of finance vacancy will be advertised in the next few weeks; however, a new director will not be hired until this summer.

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“Mr. Mann has done an outstanding job for us,” Baker said. “He understands the intricacies of school business and the economic world. He is leaving the district in great financial shape and has graciously offered to continue being available if we need his assistance until the end of the school year.”

Mann joined the district in July 2011, when Sumter school districts 2 and 17 had just completed consolidation.

He saw the vacant position at the time as an opportunity to serve, he said.

“This was one of the largest school district consolidations

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Sumter Democratic chairman proud of county award

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Community programs such as Coats and Cans for Christmas, Adopt a Highway and a school supply drive helped Sumter Democratic Party earn “County Party of the Year” at the Democratic Party annual state convention Saturday in Columbia, said party Chairman Allen Bailey.

“We were a close second last year, and I got Chairman of the Year. I wanted way more to get the County Party of the Year,” Bailey said Monday.

Bailey said the Sumter party organization has been proactive in getting involved in community-oriented activities, something the statewide party has noticed.

“We’ve taken the initiative on a lot of issues, and a lot of county parties are coming to us to see how we do things, and I think that is what put us over the edge,” he said.

“We’re excited; we’ve worked hard,” Bailey said.

“I really wasn’t surprised,” said state Sen. Kevin Johnson, D-Manning. “I know how hard the party works, and they are well organized. I was glad to see Sumter County won.

Everybody works so well together, and the award was well deserved.”

State Sen. Thomas McElveen, D-Sumter, agreed the award was well deserved.

“Our party has thrived BAILEY under the leadership of Bailey and his executive council,” McElveen said. “I am proud of the job the local party has done of registering voters and getting them to the polls.”

A lot of people were involved in earning the party award, Bailey said.

“There are so many people,” he said. “Gretchen Munroe, Diana Cook, Margaret Held, Caleb Kershaw

— I could name hundreds of names.

Harrison Brown and Norman Carter also need to be on the list.

“Munroe is the name that sticks out; she has been with us for so many years. Her name needs to be up there, but there are so many people,” he said.

He also credited the party’s Sumter delegation in the General Assembly.

“We have had great support from our elected officials, David Weeks, Kevin Johnson and Thomas McElveen, and that makes us stick out,” Bailey said.

He said South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison, who was re-elected to a second term at the convention, is promoting the kind of outreach the Sumter party has been doing.

“When Harrison came in, he talked about getting more involved in the community and doing things that are community oriented, but we were already involved in getting those

things started,” Bailey said. “We have been a model for other counties, so to speak.”

The Sumter party is also effective where it counts, turning out voters, he said.

“We are one of the few counties in South Carolina that voted Democratic, and we did so overwhelmingly,” he said.

He said that of counties that have 100,000 or more population, Sumter County was No. 1 in South Carolina in terms of voter turnout.

“That is pretty significant in a deeply red state,” he said.

“Our demographics don’t necessarily look one way or another, but we are right in the middle,” Bailey said.

“In some counties, it is kind of a foregone conclusion that they are going to be one way or the other.

Sumter County doesn’t look like the rest of the counties.

“We have a strong Democratic party in Sumter,” he said.

Volunteers gather for Operation Inasmuch Rained-out projects could be completed in May by churches

BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Even though early morning rains washed out as many as half of the events Saturday, Operation Inasmuch organizers said more than 250 people volunteered to spruce up homes of those who were unable to do so, collect food for area pantries and even paint indoors at cottages at Crosswell Children’s Home.

Operation Inasmuch is a Christian faith-based project event during which church congregations volunteer their time to minister to people in their community by coming together to help people with everything from projects in their homes to asking people at grocery stories for food items for local food pantries.

Events are usually orgaRICK CARPENTER / THE SUMTER ITEM nized within a community on Kerri Oxendine, Marlene Burgess and Todd Oxendine, all of Alice Drive Baptist Church, unload food and one day a year. toiletries at Sumter United Ministries’ warehouse as part of Operation Inasmuch, an annual event in which Alice Drive Baptist Church Sumter churches unite to help those less fortunate. While some of the outdoor projects were delayed Sat- first started the local prourday because of heavy rain, volunteers collected numerous items from donors at local supermarkets. gram in 2009, and by 2012 as

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Hydrant flow tests on Wednesday, Thursday The City of Sumter will perform fire hydrant flow tests on East Red Bay Road, Habitat

Drive, Boulevard Road, Acres Avenue, Mooneyham Road, Curtis Drive, California Boulevard and Craig Road.

Water customers in the surrounding areas may experience temporary discolored water. Work will be performed between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.

Call City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558 for more information.

Officers who Tased woman get prison FLORENCE — Two former small-town police officers in South Carolina were sentenced to prison time Monday for unnecessarily shocking a mentally disabled woman with a Taser at least eight times.

Franklin Brown, 35, was sentenced to 18 months in

prison, and his fellow Marion police officer Eric Walters, 39, was sentenced to a year and a day. Brown’s sentence was longer because he shocked 40-year-old Melissa Davis while she was already handcuffed in April 2013.

When fellow officers asked Brown why he shocked the handcuffed woman, he replied he “did not want to touch that nasty (obscenity),” according

many as 12 area churches joined in.

Nancy Lee Zimpleman of Alice Drive Baptist Church said about half of her teams’ projects were delayed because of rainy weather.

The projects that were rained out are expected to be completed by mid-May, weather permitting.

Overall, about 100 Alice Drive parishioners participated, while an additional 150 came from about 10 other churches.

About 25 volunteers from First Presbyterian Church of Sumter went to one home to clean it, repair broken windows, repair a hole in the owner’s front door and replace a light switch.

Mark Champagne, executive director of Sumter United Ministries, estimated the amount of food donated on Saturday will feed about 250 people for a week.

While the food and toiletries were collected by churches and delivered to United Ministries, he said the food would be distributed to Christian Charities, The Salvation Army and Emanuel Soup Kitchen.

For more information about the nonprofit, go to www.operationinasmuch.org.

to the plea agreement Brown signed in October.

CORRECTION An article titled “Trees infested” in the April 24 issue of The Sumter Item incorrectly identified City of Sumter horticulturalist Brock McDaniel as Brock McKenzie.

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1 year, 1 day in prison for former Lexington sheriff

BY MEG KINNARD The Associated Press COLUMBIA — The man who had been South Carolina’s longest-serving sheriff was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison after pleading guilty in a corruption scheme.

U.S. District Judge Terry Wooten also fined former Lexington County METTS Sheriff James Metts $10,000.

Metts had been the county’s top lawman for more than four decades when he was indicted last year.

Prosecutors said he took money from a restaurant owner in exchange for keep-

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Izzard leaving USC Sumter Marilyn Izzard receives a bouquet of flowers from Mary Rachel Hudson during Izzard’s goingaway party on Wednesday at University of South Carolina Sumter. Izzard is leaving the position of director of USC Upstate Teacher Education at the Sumter campus and will be taking on the role of associate dean at USC Upstate. She worked for USC Sumter for 15 years.

ing employees from being arrested for being in the country illegally.

He agreed late last year to plead guilty to harboring people who were in the country illegally. Metts originally was indicted on 10 charges.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys said they did not think Metts needed to go to prison. He previously reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to one count — conspiracy to harbor certain aliens. The charge carried up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, but it would have given Metts three years of probation instead.

Prosecutors said the agreement was fair because Metts stepped in only for two people charged with traffic offenses who had no criminal record.

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Sanford says he opposes offshore testing, drilling

BY BRUCE SMITH The Associated Press CHARLESTON — U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford went on record Monday against seismic testing and drilling for oil and natural gas off the South Carolina coast.

Sanford, a staunch conservationist, issued a statement saying he opposes SANFORD testing because the results won’t be shared with state and local residents to make informed decisions about the benefits and disad-

vantages of drilling.

Sanford released a letter he wrote to the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management asking the agency not to allow offshore testing.

Federal officials are considering what topics to study in an environmental impact statement on offshore drilling, and the agency last month wrapped up a public comment period on the question.

At the time, Sanford told The Associated Press he saw no problem with exploring to at least see how much oil and natural gas might be offshore. But he said Monday that under the current

system, state officials would not have access to the results of seismic tests, which will be conducted for oil companies, before the federal government approves drilling leases.

“In my view, it makes little sense to even conduct tests when the states and regions affected will have no say in the process,” Sanford said.

“I had initially been intrigued by a new round of seismic testing,” Sanford wrote in his letter to Geoffrey

Wikel of Ocean and Energy Management’s Office of Environmental Programs.

“My feeling was that with these results South Carolina would be able to do a cost-benefit analysis of whether drilling was worthwhile,” he wrote. But without access to the seismic data, he wrote, “South Carolina would be on the outside looking in.”

Sanford, one of South Carolina’s two coastal congressmen, represents the state’s south coast. Tom Rice, whose

district on the north coast includes Myrtle Beach, favors oil exploration.

“I don’t know how you can make an intelligent decision about what you’re going to do if you don’t know what’s there,” Rice told the AP last month. But he says states must have a say in where drilling is allowed.

A total of 21 communities in the Carolinas, including Charleston, are on record opposing offshore seismic testing or drilling.

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FESTIVAL FROM PAGE A1 said Ryan Way, chairman of the 2015 festival. The festival is the largest fundraiser for Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce.

“We’re very pleased with this year’s event,” Way said. “Our number of attendees was smaller than usual due to the rain Saturday morning, but we still had a great turnout.”

Twenty food and about 50 craft and information vendors came out Saturday for the festivities. Vendors included local businesses, churches, schools and organizations.

The Santee Cooper Open Team Fishing Tournament was held on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie on Saturday, with 86 teams participating.

The winners of the top $5,000 prize was the team of Terry and Cory Barr of Sumter. The Barrs caught five fish, totaling 26.49 pounds.

“We’re really excited to have won,” Cory said. “We didn’t think we had caught enough to win when we came in, but it turned out great.”

Cash prizes went to the top teams, as well as cash prizes for the biggest fish caught. The total payout was about $16,800, according to Jake Buddin, co-organizer of the event.

“This event allows our local fishermen an opportunity to fish in a big local tournament,” Buddin said. “We were pleased with the turnout, despite a bit of rain Saturday morning.”

Mari Elizabeth Richburg was named Miss Striped Bass Festival 2015, with first runner-up going to Madison Laine Coker, second runnerup going to Hailey Marie Anderson and third runner-up going to Hannah Henshaw.

The Goat Island Boat Club presented its annual $2,000 scholarship at the opening ceremonies Friday night.

Hannah Patenaude, a graduating senior from Hanahan High School in Berkeley County, was the recipient of this year’s scholarship. The scholarship is awarded every year to either a graduating high school senior from the five counties surrounding Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie or a South

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Mary Lynn Richardson, 6, Brandon Hoots, 8, and Natalie Hammon, 8, create a bubble pile using their new bubble guns they got during the Striped Bass Festival on Saturday in Manning.

FISHING TOURNEY FROM PAGE A1 fish competition with a striped bass that weighed in at 8.53 pounds.

If that wasn’t enough, after winning Saturday’s event, Terry and another teammate

Mike Roberson, left, of Sumter Cruzers Car Club dries the rain off his 1957 Chevrolet during the club’s show at the festival.

Carolina college student majoring in forestry, fisheries, wildlife management or other related studies directed toward protecting the environment.

Way said that he would like to thank everyone involved with the festival including the Chamber staff, the Junior Chamber, Junior Ambassadors, the City of Manning Public Works Department, police and fire departments and all the volunteers and sponsors.

“The festival’s success is a direct culmination of everyone working together to make it a great event for the community,” he said.

won the Strikers Bass Anglers’ club competition on Lake Murray.

In the team competition, Terry said the duo gets to keep the five biggest fish it

catches. After they catch their first five fish, each time they catch a larger fish than they previously caught, they release a smaller one.

“It’s called ‘culling the fish,’” he said.

Because there were 86 teams competing on Satur-

day, boats were sent out in flights. The first one was at “safelight” (roughly 30 minutes before sunrise). He and Cory left 30 minutes after the first flight.

Terry said he has his favorite spots on the lake and he usually hits those differ-

ent fishing holes. In fact, he said he used 20 gallons of gasoline getting to those spots that paid high dividends.

Terry is retired from the city of Sumter and estimates he fishes about three times a week.

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POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Kevin Wells, 28, 1397 Wells Road, Camden, was arrested Monday and charged with burglary/burglary (non-violent), second degree. According to Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Wells allegedly entered a residence without consent in the 6000 block of Dinkins

Mill Road on Sept. 26, 2014, by kicking in the door with the intent to commit a crime. Once inside, the defendant allegedly struggled with the victim and grabbed her phone.

Frank Williamson, 30, 114 Harris St., was arrested Friday and charged with assault/assault and battery, third degree. The warrant alleges that on Thursday, in the 1200 block of Winkles Road, the defen-

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dant intentionally committed battery upon the victim.

STOLEN PROPERTY A white Labrador valued at $3,000 was reportedly stolen from the backyard of a residence in the 100 block of Conyers Street between 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

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FRAUD Approximately $350 in a Capital One account and approximately $900 in a Verizon Wireless account was spent using a Social Security number that was reported stolen at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday.

Riot erupts after funeral for man hurt in police custody BALTIMORE (AP) — Rioters looted stores and hurled rocks and bricks at Baltimore police Monday, injuring several officers just hours after thousands mourned the man who died after suffering a severe spinal injury in police custody.

Several hours later, the city remained in chaos: The National Guard was put on alert by the governor, ready to move in rapidly if needed, the Baltimore Orioles postponed their game and seven police officers were hurt.

Some of the officers had broken bones, and one was unresponsive, said Capt. Eric Kowalczyk. TV footage showed a police cruiser in flames and stores being overrun by small groups of people. A CVS store was set ablaze. Officers using shields and wearing helmets used pepper-spray in an effort to keep the rioters back.

A helicopter circled overhead as groups of rioters moved through the city. One group piled onto and rode a car as it drove down the street.

Officers, for the most part, formed lines to keep protesters at bay.

Monday’s riot was the latest flare-up about the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, whose fatal encounter with officers came amid the national debate concerning police use of force, especially when black suspects are involved. Gray was black.

The smell of burned rubber wafted in the air in one neighborhood where youths were

A man carries items from a store as police vehicles burn Monday after the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van.

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looting a liquor store. Glass and trash littered the streets, and small fires were scattered about. One person from a church tried to shout something from a megaphone as two cars burned.

Gray’s family was shocked by the violence and was lying low; instead, they hoped to organize a peace march later in the week, said family attorney Billy Murphy. He said they did not know the riot was going to happen and urged calmness.

“They don’t want this movement nationally to be marred by violence,” he said. “It makes no sense.”

Police urged parents to locate their children and bring them home. Many of those on the streets appeared to be black youths, wearing backpacks and khaki pants that are a part of many public school uniforms.

The riot broke out just as high school let out and at a key

city bus depot for student commuters.

Many who had never met Gray gathered earlier in the day in a Baltimore church to bid him farewell and press for more accountability among law enforcement.

The 2,500-capacity New Shiloh Baptist church was filled with mourners. But even the funeral could not ease mounting tensions.

Police said in a news release sent while the funeral was un-

derway that the department had received a “credible threat” that three notoriously violent gangs are now working together to “take out” law enforcement officers.

A small group of mourners started lining up about two hours ahead of Monday’s funeral. Placed atop Gray’s body was a white pillow with a

screened picture of him. A projector aimed at two screens on the walls showed the words “Black Lives Matter & All Lives Matter.”

Erica Garner, 24, the daughter of Eric Garner, attended Gray’s funeral. She said she came after seeing video of Gray’s arrest, which she said reminded her of her father’s shouts that he could not breathe when he was being arrested on a New York City street. Garner died during the confrontation.

“It’s like there is no accountability, no justice,” she said.

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People enter Arapahoe County Justice Center on the first day of the trial of Aurora movie theater shooting defendant James Holmes in Centennial, Colorado, on Monday. As the trial begins, the key won’t be whether he caused the carnage but whether Holmes was sane at the time of the killings.

Theater shooting suspect tethered to floor Trial expected to last months begins to determine his fate

BY SADIE GURMAN The Associated Press CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Colorado theater shooter James Holmes appeared clean shaven and with a neat haircut as lawyers made their final motions before Monday’s opening of the trial that will determine if he’ll be executed, spend his life in prison or be committed to a mental institution as criminally insane.

His clown-like red hair grew out long ago, and the bushy beard he wore before the trial was gone, too. Discreetly, so that others can’t see, Holmes was restrained by a harness under his blue shirt and khaki pants, tethered to the floor of the courtroom where his trial is expected to take months.

His fate depends on what the jury learns about his mental state three years ago, when he slipped into a mid-

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Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes is seated in court in Centennial, Colorado, in June 2013. Opening statements in his trial began Monday. night Batman premiere, unleashed tear gas and marched up and down the aisles, firing at people who tried to flee.

Holmes acknowledges killing 12 people and wounding 70 more inside the packed theater but has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Robert and Arlene Holmes, who waited with parents of his victims Monday in a drizzly rain before entering the courthouse, have pleaded for his life, calling their son a “human being gripped by a severe mental illness.”

Unlike most other states, Colorado puts the burden on prosecutors, who must convince jurors beyond a reasonable doubt that Holmes was sane.

Colorado has already spent millions seeking that verdict, managing an outsized number of victims, witnesses and more than 85,000 pages of evidence.

Experts say Holmes faces long odds.

Insanity defenses are successful in only 25 percent of felony trials nationally, even less so in homicides.

“Lay people tend to think of people with mental illness as extremely dangerous, and that also influences jurors, especially if someone has killed someone,” said Christopher Slobogin,

who teaches law and psychiatry at Vanderbilt Law School. “Usually there’s evidence of intent and planning that seems to be counterintuitive to the lay view of mental illness.”

Winning a trial on mental-health grounds is rare, but then again, so are jury trials for mass shooters. Most are killed by police, kill themselves or plead guilty.

A review of 160 mass shootings found killers went to trial 74 times, and just three were found insane, according to Grant Duwe, a Minnesota corrections official who wrote the book “Mass Murder in the United States: A History.”

Just one won a mental-health case in the last two decades, Duwe said: Michael Hayes, who shot nine people, killing four, in North Carolina in 1988.

Based on that, Holmes “faces some pretty long odds,” he said.

Holmes was arrested almost immediately, while stripping off his body armor in the parking lot outside the Century 16 movie theater where he replaced Hollywood violence with real human carnage.

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U.S. lowers fluoride in water; too much causes splotchy teeth

BY MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK — The government is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride added to drinking water for the first time in more than 50 years.

Some people are getting too much fluoride because it is also now put in toothpaste, mouthwash and other products, health officials said Monday in announcing the change.

Too much fluoride has become a common cause of white splotches on teeth in children. One study found about 2 out of 5 adolescents had tooth streaking or spottiness.

Fluoride is a mineral in water and soil. About 70 years ago, scientists discovered that people whose drinking water naturally had more fluoride also had fewer cavities.

Since 1962, the government has been advising

water systems to add fluoride to a level of 0.7 parts per million for warmer climates, where people drink more water, to 1.2 parts per million in cooler areas. The new standard is 0.7 everywhere.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the world’s first city to add fluoride to its drinking water in 1945. Six years later, a study found a dramatic decline in tooth decay among children there, and the U.S. surgeon general endorsed water fluoridation.

But adding fluoride was — and has remained — controversial. Some people have vehemently fought adding fluoride to local water supplies.

Today, about 75 percent of Americans get fluoridated water.

The change announced Monday finalizes a proposal first made four years ago. The government spent years sorting through and responding to 19,000 public comments.

Chipotle removes all GMO ingredients from its food NEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle says it has completed phasing out genetically modified ingredients from its food, making it the first national fast-food chain to do so.

The Denver-based chain had already been using mostly non-GMO ingredients but was working on making final changes to its tortillas.

The Food and Drug Administration maintains that GMOs are safe, and most of the country’s corn and soybean crops are genetically modified to have certain traits such as resistance to herbicides and plant diseases.

In recent years, however, activists have been calling for regulations that require labeling for foods that contain genetically modified ingredients.

Many companies have responded to such concerns; Whole Foods has said all products in its stores that contain genetically modified ingredients will

be labeled as such by 2018.

Chipotle Co-CEO Steve Ells has said in the past that the company felt it was best not to use GMOs given the “lack of consensus” about their effects.

On its website Monday, Chipotle said it was “G-M-Over It.” Chipotle Mexican Grill, which has about 1,800 locations, has enjoyed strong sales growth in recent years in part by defining itself as a more wholesome alternative to traditional fast-food chains. On a page explaining the completion of its transition away from genetically modified ingredients, for instance, the company cited “fast food” under an image of a burger as an example of where people might encounter GMOs. In January, Chipotle also said it would stop serving pork in about a third of its restaurants after finding one of its suppliers violated its animal welfare standards.

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Death toll in quake passes 4K Aid need is acute in Nepal capital, more so in nearby villages KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — As the death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake climbed past 4,000, aid workers and officials in remote, shattered villages near the epicenter pleaded Monday for food, shelter and medicine.

Help poured in after Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 quake, with countries large and small sending medical and rescue teams, aircraft and basic supplies. The small airport in the capital of Kathmandu was congested and chaotic, with some flights forced to turn back early in the day.

Buildings in parts of the city were reduced to rubble, and there were shortages of food, fuel, electricity and shelter. As bodies were recovered, relatives cremated the dead along the Bagmati River, and at least a dozen pyres burned late into the night.

Conditions were far worse in the countryside, with rescue workers still struggling to reach mountain villages two days after the earthquake.

Some roads and trails to the Gorkha district, where the quake was centered, were blocked by landslides — but also by traffic jams that regularly clog the route north of Kathmandu.

“There are people who are not getting food and shelter.

I’ve had reports of villages where 70 percent of the houses have been destroyed,” said Udav Prashad Timalsina, the top official for the Gorkha region.

World Vision aid worker Matt Darvas arrived in the district in the afternoon and said almost no assistance had reached there ahead of him.

Newer concrete buildings were intact, Darvas said, but some villages were reported to be devastated. He cited a “disturbing” report from the village of Singla, where up to 75 percent of the buildings may have collapsed and there has been no contact since Saturday night.

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A Hindu priest lights the funeral pyre of a victim of Saturday’s earthquake at the Pashupatinath temple on the banks of Bagmati river, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday. A strong earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday.

Nepalese soldiers, left, carry a wounded man on a makeshift stretcher to a waiting Indian air force helicopter as they evacuate victims of Saturday’s earthquake from Trishuli Bazar to Kathmandu airport in Nepal on Monday. The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake is expected to rise depending largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.

said the greatest needs were for search-and-rescue teams, food, blankets, tarps and medical treatment.

Timalsina said 223 people had been confirmed dead in Gorkha district but he presumed “the number would go up because there are thousands who are injured.”

He said his district had not received enough help from the central government, but Jagdish Pokhrel, a clearly ex-

hausted army spokesman, said nearly the entire 100,000-soldier army was involved in rescue operations.

“We have 90 percent of the army out there working on search and rescue,” he said.

“We are focusing our efforts on that, on saving lives.”

Nepal’s Home Ministry said the country’s death toll had risen to 4,010. An additional 61 were killed in neighboring India, and China’s official Xi-

nhua News Agency reported 25 dead in Tibet. At least 18 of the dead were killed at Mount Everest as the quake unleashed an avalanche that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts.

At least 7,180 people were injured in the quake, police said. Tens of thousands are estimated to be left homeless.

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Coast Guard suspends search for 4 missing off Alabama

BY MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL The Associated Press DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — As torrential rain and heavy winds continued to batter Alabama’s coast Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for four people missing after a deadly weekend storm killed two people and played havoc with a yearly sailboat race in Mobile Bay. The agency said the search would resume as soon as the weather allows.

Crews have been searching for four boaters still missing after the powerful storm capsized several sailboats, killing at least two mariners, in a Saturday regatta.

The weather was worse Monday than during Sunday’s search efforts, and the Coast Guard asked volunteers to stay on the shore and look for possible survivors there.

Earlier, crews used boats to search white-capped waters and asked volunteers to walk the shore in case anything washed up.

The Coast Guard said one person initially thought missing had been found safe at home following a check of people who had registered for the race.

One skipper said her crew had 15 minutes’ warning of the storm Saturday afternoon, but the wind nevertheless hit so suddenly and with such force that her 34-foot racing cruiser nearly capsized.

Within seconds, Susan Kangal, 52, said, “it went from probably 15 to 20 miles per hour to 73 miles per hour. It just shot off the charts. And that’s when you couldn’t see anything. Ev-

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Lt. Jason Downey, of Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, calls in a capsized catamaran as search and rescue operations continue off Dauphin Island, Alabama, on Sunday. A powerful storm capsized several sailboats participating in a regatta near Mobile Bay, Alabama, on Saturday, and four people were still missing Monday. erything went white; (the) boat slammed to its side.”

She added, “It was frightening because at that point ... I was laying on the back of the boat, between the wheel and the aft of the boat, and was standing up straight looking down at

the water — watching the water starting to ease over the side.”

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Study blames global warming for 75 percent of very hot days WASHINGTON (AP) — If you find yourself sweating out a day that is monstrously hot, chances are you can blame humanity. A new report links three out of four such days to man’s effects on climate.

And as climate change worsens in mid-century, that percentage of extremely hot days being caused by man-made greenhouse gases will push past 95 percent, according to the new study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Humans have not had as great an effect on heavy downpours, though. The Swiss scientists who did the study calculated that 18 percent of extreme rain events are caused by global warming. But if the world warms an additional two degrees Fahrenheit — expected to happen about mid-century — about 39 percent of the downpours would be attributed to humanity’s influence, according to the study. That influence comes from greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

gency response agencies and asking for prayer for their loved ones.

The National Weather Service said heavy rains were possible through Monday night, and authorities asked volunteer searchers to remain on land to avoid any more casualties.

On shore, about 20 relatives of the missing gathered at the state-run Dauphin Sea Lab to await word of loved ones.

“This is very difficult, very difficult for all of them,” said Michael Brown of American Red Cross. “There is still hope. The Coast Guard has told them they are doing an active search and rescue.”

The annual race, sponsored by Mobile-area yacht clubs on a rotating basis, begins in the middle of Mobile Bay. Sailboats ranging in size from small catamarans to single-hull craft capable of carrying a half-dozen people or more race southward through the shallow waters toward Dauphin Island, a barrier island on Alabama’s coast.

More than 100 sailboats and as many as 200 people were participating in the 57th running of the race when the storm hit Saturday afternoon.

Some skippers were able to lower sails and return safely to shore, but other boats capsized in fierce winds.

Gary Garner, commodore of the Fairhope Yacht Club, which organized the race, said members were “heartbroken” about the tragedy.

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Supreme Court tackles gay marriage arguments today WASHINGTON (AP) — Today is a potential watershed moment for America’s gay and lesbian couples.

After rapid changes that have made same-sex marriage legal in all but 14 states, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether it should be the law of the land.

All eyes will be on the justices for any signals that they are prepared to rule that the Constitution forbids states from defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. On the sidewalk outside, people have been waiting in line since Friday for prized seats for the historic arguments.

The cases before the court come from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, all of which had their marriage bans upheld by the federal appeals court in Cincinnati in November. That is the only federal appeals court that has ruled in favor of the states since the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law.

The first state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry was Massachusetts, in 2004. Even as recently as October, barely a third of the states permitted it. Now, same-sex couples can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia, a dramatic change in the law that has been accompanied by an equally fast shift in public opinion.

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“There were obviously many financial complexities involved in bringing those two districts together.”

Before coming to Sumter, Mann served as controller at Richland School District 2, where he was the district’s No. 2 financial person.

“I knew that the position would be challenging at Sumter,” he said. “I knew that it would require a lot of hard work. Everyone I’ve worked with here has been great, and we’ve been able to bring the school district in the right direction.”

The position is no small task. At the school board meeting earlier this month, the board approved first reading of a $116 million budget for the 2015-16 school year.

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Tammy Boyd, left, and Kimberly Franklin take a photograph together in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the constitutionality of state bans on same-sex marriage today. Boyd and Franklin are among the six Kentucky couples that will have their cases argued.

Now that everyone else has weighed in through mountains of legal briefs, the justices get to say, or at least hint, what they will decide. On Tuesday, five lawyers will present arguments during 2½ hours to help the court conclude

Mann said that the community has been very supportive of the district.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about the students,” he said. “The more positive energy and public support we receive from the community, the more we are able to provide the best education possible for our students.”

Mann said that he has enjoyed his time in Sumter and the relationships that he has been able to build throughout the district and community.

“I’ve met and worked with a lot of great people here and have been really impressed with the community and the support the district has received,” he said.

Mann said that he is looking forward to his new position as SCSBA’s director of insurance services. SCSBA serves about 80 percent of the districts across the state.

whether, on this question, the 14 remaining states must join the rest of the country.

The main thrust of the states’ case is to reframe the debate.

“This case is not about the best marriage definition. It is about the

“I’m excited about the opportunity to serve so many districts in South Carolina and am humbled to have been chosen for the position,” he said. “Leaving the district, however, is a bittersweet moment.”

Mann is past president of the South Carolina Association of School Business Officials and has more than 30 years of experience in school finance, business and operations for various school districts including Richland 2, Lexington 4 and Aiken County and with the State Department of Education. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Presbyterian College in 1982 and became a certified public accountant in 1989. In 2015, he received the SCASBO Outstanding School Business Official award.

“Steve Mann is the right person to maintain the high

fundamental question regarding how our democracy resolves such debates about social policy: Who decides, the people of each state or the federal judiciary?” John Bursch, representing Michigan, wrote in his main brief to the court.

Other arguments by the states and more than five dozen briefs by their defenders warn the justices of harms that could result “if you remove the man-woman definition and replace it with the genderless any-two-persons definition,” said Gene Schaerr, a Washington lawyer.

The push for same-sex marriage comes down to fairness, said Mary Bonauto, who will argue on behalf of the plaintiffs. The people who have brought their cases to the Supreme Court are “real people who are deeply committed to each other. Yet they are foreclosed from making that commitment simply because of who they are,” she told reporters last week.

Arguments made by Bonauto, other lawyers for same-sex couples and more than six dozen supporting briefs have strong echoes of the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case, in which the Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage. In that case, the justices were unanimous that those bans violated the constitutional rights of interracial couples.

standard of personal service that our member school districts have come to expect from the insurance trust,” said Scott Price, SCSBA executive director-elect. “The breadth of relationships that Steve has with the districts, coupled with a deep knowledge of district operations, is a real asset to the association and SCSBIT.”

The insurance trust was established in 1984 through a partnership between SCSBA and local school districts.

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o you think anyone would ever throw a party to celebrate the North? Dressed in dreary black, sipping cups of hot tea and discussing the latest blizzard, it would certainly be an ... “interesting” sort of evening. While we hold our breath and wait for the arrival of such an invitation, we can revel in the sweet memory of the first ever “Puttin’ on the Gritz — A Celebration of All Things Southern,” which was held at the Fairhope Civic Center on April 11.

A fundraiser for the Eastern Shore Art Center, (ESAC) and the Committee on Public Art, (COPA) this inaugural event had party-goers swimming in a sea of seersucker, pastels, a few Leslie Anne touches of Harrison camouflage and of course, college football logos.

It was a night of elegance combined with a hint of hootenanny.

“Southerners are known for their unique blend of charm, quirkiness and style, and we knew this would be the perfect theme for a fun evening,” said Adrienne Falls, the Belle of Marketing for ESAC. Greeted by top-hat wearing gentlemen and hooped skirted ladies, guests were in awe of the more-is-more Southern mantra, carried out by party planner extraordinaire Pat Herndon, along with Espalier Landscape Architecture who transformed the weary Civic Center into a magical garden, with magnolias, azaleas, a canopy of trees and twinkling lights to remind us of those sparkling stars which are always falling on our dear Alabama.

A cut-out (oh, if only he were real) of Elvis stood watch over the party while bow-tied gentlemen and ladies in flouncy hats and gloves feasted on the HunkaHunka-Burnin’ Love’s favorite grilled peanut butter and banana sandwiches along with shrimp and grits provided by Wind Creek Casino and Hotel. A long line formed around the pulled pork, pimento cheese and Alabama Caviar which were all whipped up by Berglin’s Catering. Dessert, so chocolatey good, it made you want to slap your mama, was found at the table piled high with Mississippi Mud Pies from Chive Talkin’ Catering.

COMMENTARY “Have you tasted this food?”

Asked one woman in a flowerdy dress. “Yes I have,” whispered her friend in a flouncy pink hat. “Thank goodness I wore my Spanx or else I’d look like I had two pigs awrestlin’ inside this dress! Be a love and pass me another one of those mud pies.”

Of course, in true Southern style, the beverages were flowing and the pearls were bouncing as the crowd went wild over the band Fuego, who played all the favorite hits. “Put that pork plate down and come dance with me, honey,” she said. “Don’t worry, I can dance and eat at the same time,” he replied.

An auction for lovely, oneof-a-kind artwork, fabulous destination trips and more were available for bids throughout the evening.

“A trip to Panama?” asked one grey headed gentleman, who raised his eyebrows with a slight smile and continued, “Isn’t that where all the college girls are goin’ wild?”

“Simmer down,” said his wife. “This trip is to the country Panama, not the God-forsaken Florida town.”

With a sigh, he was heard to mumble, “Then frankly my dear, I don’t give a …”

Now celebrating its 60th anniversary, the ESAC offers instructional classes, free rotating gallery exhibits, a gift shop, two yearly outdoor art shows and exciting parties open to the public every first Friday of the month. Outreach to special populations ensure the beauty and fun of art are available to everyone in our area.

COPA has installed several pieces of outdoor art along the Eastern Shore, with the latest project being the gorgeous flower clock at the corner of Section Street and Scenic Highway 98.

OK, I guess the “all things North” party could claim Motown, but didn’t that start with a little Southern soul?

Loving where we live and celebrating our lives in the sunny South while giving a wink to our uniqueness, “Puttin’ on the Gritz” was indeed the perfect way to celebrate all things Southern … y’all.

‘Thank goodness I wore my Spanx or else I’d look like I had two pigs a-wrestlin’ inside this dress.’

Leslie Anne Harrison is a contributing writer for The Sumter Item and Gulf Coast Newspapers — www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com. She also has a popular website — Fairhope Supply Co. — which can be found at www.fairhopesupply.com.

She can be reached at la@ fairhopesupply.com.

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With a song in prisoners’ hearts

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ISHOPVILLE — Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina’s largest maximum-security prison, gets plenty of bad press — from a riot and a lockdown in February to drone-delivered contraband a few days ago.

But within the walls of this all-male complex, something rare and beautiful is also happening.

On a recent serendipitous visit to the prison with a friend, renowned cellist Claire Bryant, and a group of her fellow New York musicians, I was privileged to witness the transformative power of music scored with human kindness.

Claire, whom I’ve known since she was a kid, is the poster child for giving back.

Each year, she brings her enormous talent, her gargantuan heart and several artists — the Carnegie Hall affiliate ensemble “Decoda” — to forgotten places and Kathleen people.

Parker Few are more forgotten than the men at Lee, many of whom have committed violent crimes, many of them sentenced to life imprisonment. But a life behind bars needn’t mean the end of one’s humanity.

For four half-days and one full day of rehearsal, the musicians worked with inmates writing original music that was then performed in a concert for fellow inmates, prison staff and a half-dozen invited civilians, including me.

If I knew then what I know now/I’d never stop believing/That I can do anything/I can change/I can be transformed.

So goes the chorus to one of the songs written by Keith, Don and DX in collaboration with Decoda. The theme of the five-day project was, you may have guessed, transformation, which is an equally apt word to describe this particular group of 30, all part of a special group of 256 within the prison (total population 1,700).

They call themselves BLIC, for Better Living Incentive Community. Created after a riot in 2012, BLIC members are selected based on good behavior and housed in a separate dorm. As an inmate described it to me: “He wanted us to think as free men rather than as incarcerated men without hope.” (“He” refers to BLIC creator Michael McCall, deputy director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections.)

Each member agrees contractually to the rules of engagement. My favorite: Anyone standing eight feet away shouldn’t be able to hear your conversation. Talk about music to mine ears.

The program is peer-driven, faith-based — and ought to be replicated in every prison. It works. In the past two years, there have been no infractions among BLIC members. This means, among other things, that inmates leave their cell doors open, their lockers unlocked and, significantly, they don’t have to worry about being stabbed — a near-daily occurrence elsewhere in the prison, inmates told me.

Such comity also means that the musicians — and I during rehearsals — felt comfortable among inmates with only a single guard in sight. Indeed, there was great camaraderie and affection between the two groups.

If you doubt that within every person resides a divine spark, listening to prisoners express their joys and sorrows — ever-luminous even in this dark place — may cause you to reconsider.

The 19 songs created and performed came from deep places many had never explored before. With a few notable exceptions, many had no prior musical experience. Don, a quiet, self-contained 24-year-old serving his sixth year, began learning to play guitar three years ago. He learned from Rob — BLIC’s maestro — whose father taught him to play at 10. Rob now runs a music program for 70 inmates.

“With music,” says Rob, “I can travel all over the world without leaving my cell.”

The concert brought jubilation and left few dry eyes. A young man in his 20s rapped his heart out in homage to his grandmother, who suffered Alzheimer’s while he was away chasing dreams. She didn’t remember him upon his return 10 years later -- until, tending a boyhood vow, he fed and tucked her in bed the way she used to do him.

Another performed a heartbreaking memoriam to his little girl who had died, a song he tearfully testified had finally brought him peace.

Unlike inmates who claim they’re innocent, each man I spoke to accepted full responsibility for the actions that put him behind bars.

All insisted that they had changed.

From the outside, it’s easy to snicker at that sentence — and perhaps there was a con artist or two in the bunch — but there was something transcendently good at Lee Correctional on that Sunday afternoon.

The final chorus that brought all to their feet tells the rest of the story: Look at me now/I’m not who I once was/The trials in my life/Have come to make me strong/ So look at me now.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com. © 2015, Washington Post Writers Group

LETTER TO THE EDITOR SUMTER POSTMASTER ALLOWS POOR PERFORMANCE This letter is to address the performance of the Sumter Postmaster as revealed by recent Registered Priority Mail (RE179607027US) from Sumter to Newnan, Georgia.

Registered mail is signed for by everyone that handles it, is the USPS’s premium product, and is the safest way to ship anything of value. Or, it used to be.

My package was mailed Monday, April 13, with an expected delivered date of Wednesday, April 15.

My package went missing Wednesday night when it left Atlanta at 10:56 p.m. and failed to arrive at Newnan, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta.

By noon Friday, it was still missing, so I called the Sumter Post Office for help and spoke with Supervisor 1, who basically said there was nothing they could do. I insisted there was, so this supervisor asked Supervisor 2, and I overheard that I should call the District Office at 1-803-926-6354.

I did so and was required to leave a message with callback number for the “next available representative to return my call.” No response was received by

Saturday morning, so I called again and went through the same routine.

Then, I called the national USPS Customer Service number (1-800-2758777) and received help in investigating this (confirmation No. CA122715771).

Late Saturday afternoon the package was still missing, but about 9 p.m., the tracking indicated arrival at the Newnan Post Office at 8:54 a.m., out for delivery at 11:04 a.m., and delivery attempted at 7:14 p.m. It was destined for a Post Office Box at the Post Office, but that is not pertinent to this letter.

Supervisor 1 should have contacted

the last facility having possession of the package and asked them to find it.

They would have, the problem would have been solved and the USPS would have saved at least 6 hours of additional work. Supervisor 2 should have done the same. Neither did.

Poor performance, such as this, can only exist when top management, at the very least, condones such. The Sumter Postmaster is charged with carrying out USPS policy in this area.

This was a failure in leadership, training and/or supervision.

JOE RATTZ Sumter

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Film recalls grim, harrowing evacuation of Saigon

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Ten years on television is nothing to sneeze at. The “Dancing With the Stars 10th Anniversary Special” (8 p.m., ABC) presents clips from the series first 20 seasons as well as the return of 15 celebrity alums and seven professionals.

“Stars” has worked well for so long because it has the immediacy of sport and the familiarity of soap opera or game shows. It’s the perfect comfort food or time-waster, depending on your tastes, mood or appetite. I’m not certain that this kind of series lends itself well to nostalgia. It’s a spectacle that thrives in the present tense. Do people watch “Best of the Price is Right”? If they do, I’d have to wonder why.

“Stars” judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli also appear on the U.K. series “Strictly Come Dancing,” which debuted in 2004. It was inspired by “Come Dancing,” a BBC favorite that ran roughly half a century — from 1949 to 1998. These shows have legs, so to speak.

• “American Experience” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings) invites viewers to revisit a nightmare with the twohour documentary “Last Days in Vietnam.” The film recalls the evacuation of Saigon by American embassy personnel, CIA agents and other aid workers as North Vietnamese forces besieged the city and overran South Vietnam.

The grim, harrowing and logistically daunting task of extricating Americans was complicated by the presence of thousands of Vietnamese friends, colleagues, wives, lovers, mistresses, children and subordinates who would be subject to gruesome treatment by the new regime.

Things were made worse by a U.S. ambassador who refused to recognize the reality of South Vietnam’s military collapse. “Days” recalls a concerted effort by military officers and embassy staff to secretly improvise in the face of catastrophe, breaking every rule in the book to make the best of an admittedly horrible situation.

The film has too many scenes of heartbreak to catalog here. But one stands out that captures the moment’s chaos with bizarre poignance. Civilian American disc jockeys had orders to signal their compatriots that the moment of imme-

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U.S. Marines usher Vietnamese refugees into a helicopter at the U.S. Embassy. The documentary “Last Days in Vietnam” airs at 9 p.m. today on “American Experience” on PBS. diate evacuation had arrived by means of a special code. They were to report that the temperature was “105 ... and rising” and to then play a recording of Bing Crosby’s version of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.”

On the morning of April 29, 1975, the radio waves were filled with “sleigh bells in the snow” and everybody knew that a nightmare had reached its final, agonizing chapter.

CULT CHOICE A washed-up boxer (Anthony Quinn) tries to escape the clutches of exploitative managers in the 1962 drama “Requiem for a Heavyweight” (10 p.m., TCM).

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • “One Big Happy” (9:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14) concludes its brief, six-episode season.

• Liv eats the brains of a woman who had been eating for two on “iZombie” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14).

• Rival crime bosses bicker on “Person of Interest” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• Kidnapping victims tell all on “20/20” (10 p.m., ABC, TV14).

SERIES NOTES Murder in the military on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) * Cisco sets a trap on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) * Lasalle’s brother becomes a suspect on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Seat warming on “Undateable” (9 p.m., NBC, TV14) * Schmidt takes one for Fawn on “New Girl” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * Strange bedfellows on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * A father and son reunion on “Weird Loners” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * One apartment becomes multiple crime scenes on “Chicago Fire” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

LATE NIGHT George Stephanopoulos is scheduled on “The Daily Show

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Desperate South Vietnamese scramble aboard barges in the port of Saigon in an attempt to escape from advancing North Vietnamese troops on the day of the fall of Saigon.

With Jon Stewart” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Zach Woods and the Lone Bellow appear on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS) * Michael Keaton and Future Islands appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m., CBS) *Jimmy Fallon welcomes Jeremy Renner, Edie Falco and Tori Kelly on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * John

Cleese, Linda Cardellini, Barney Frank and Jack Antonoff visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Tituss Burgess and Anna Faris appears on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

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Santee-Lynches Council of Governments in coordination The Clarendon County Demowith SC Works and its business cratic Party will meet at 7 Jobhost Faira being Sumter Civic Cenpartners will job fairheld atp.m. on Thursday, May 7, at ter a.m. to 1:30 p.m. from 10:30 Bassard’s Pond House, 4162 today at the Sumter Civic Rev. JW Carter Road, SumCenter, 700 W. Liberty St. merton.

Event is free and open to The Paxville School Reunion the public. Doors will open will be held at noon on Satto veterans 30 minutes earurday, May 9, at Paxville lier than the general public.

Baptist Church. Bring a dish Many area employers into share. cluding Becton Dickinson, The Sumter Chapter of the NaSAFE Federal Credit Union, tional Federation of the Blind Thompson Industrial and approximately 60 additional will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, at Shiloh-Ranemployers are expected to dolph Manor. Susie Blandparticipate. ing will speak on fire and The Shepherd’s Center will safety. The spotlight will offer a public information sesshine on Marcia Harton and sion on lawn care for spring the associate member is and summer from 11 to 11:50 Diana Singleton. Transportaa.m. on Thursday, April 30, at 24 Council St. A represen- tion provided within the mileage radius. If you know tative with Clemson Extena blind or visually impaired sion will speak. person, contact the presiThe Sumter County Veterans dent, Debra Canty, at DebraAssociation will meet at 6 CanC2@frontier.com or at p.m. on Thursday, April 30, (803) 775-5792. at VFW Post 1034. The MeThe Sumter Stroke Support morial Day program will be Group (Overcomers) will meet discussed as well as the placing of flags on veterans’ at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, in the library of Alice graves the Saturday before Drive Baptist Church. Call Memorial Day. Joyce or Wayne Hunter at St. Anne Catholic School’s sixth (803) 464-7865. annual benefit auction will be The Morris College Alumni held from 6 to 10 p.m. on Chapter of Lee County will Friday, May 1, at the O’Donnell House. This event present its annual tots to teens pageant at 4 p.m. on Sunday, will include heavy hors d’oeuvres, music, a cash bar May 17, at New Zion AME Church, Wisacky. and silent auction. Rafe, Sumter’s Marine Corps League master of ceremonies from J.R. Dixon Auctions, will also Detachment 1202 will celebrate conduct a live auction. Tick- its 10th anniversary at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 18, at the ets are $25 per person. All VFW, Gion Street. The deproceeds will benefit St. tachment was chartered on Anne Catholic School and assist in continuing its vari- May 5, 2005, with 49 former Marines signing the charter. ous programs and funding scholarships. Call (803) 775- All members, spouses, associate members, and 3632 for tickets or details. spouses of those Marines The Lincoln High School Preswho have passed on are inervation Alumni Association vited to attend. Call Bill will sponsor a community day Hartley at (803) 469-8723 or / membership day / indoor Jackie Hughes at (803) 775sale from 7 a.m. to noon on 4555.

Saturday, May 2, on Council Manning High School Class of Street. Vendors are invited 1995 will hold its 20-year and may set up a table in class reunion Friday-Saturthe gymnasium at $20 per day, June 12-13 as follows: table. Refreshments will be 7-11 p.m. Friday, White Masserved. Call Vernessa Harquerade Party, The Breedin vin Baker at (803) 883-9251.

Room, 312 Pine St., ManThe Campbell Soup friends ning; noon-3 p.m. Saturday, lunch group will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May reunion cookout, Swan Lake-Iris Gardens, 822 W. 2, at Golden Corral.

Liberty St.; and 8-11 p.m.

The Shepherd’s Center will Saturday, fine dining affair hold “Spring Bazaar: Make it, at Saluda’s Restaurant, 751 Bake It, Sew It, Grow It” from Saluda Ave., Columbia 10 a.m. to noon on Thurs(www.saludas.com). For inday, May 7, at Trinity Methformation, email 95mhodist Church fellowship hall, s20th@gmail.com.

DAILY PLANNER

WEATHER

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

Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015

AccuWeather® five-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

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Sun giving way to clouds

Some rain and a t-storm late

Cooler with rain and a t-storm

Mostly cloudy, a shower possible

Sunny, breezy and pleasant

Pleasant with plenty of sunshine

72°

51°

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70° / 48°

71° / 49°

77° / 53°

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 55%

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NE 6-12 mph

E 3-6 mph

ENE 7-14 mph

NW 8-16 mph

NW 10-20 mph

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Gaffney 70/49 Spartanburg 71/51

Greenville 70/50

Columbia 72/54

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 72/51

Aiken 71/54

ON THE COAST

Charleston 73/56

Today: Sun, then clouds, except mostly cloudy in the south. High 69 to 73.

Wednesday: Periods of rain and a thunderstorm. High 65 to 76.

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SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

71° 51° 77° 52° 91° in 1990 39° in 1972

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Myrtle Beach 70/56

Manning 72/52

Today: Sun, then clouds. Winds east-southeast 4-8 mph.

Wednesday: Rain and a thunderstorm.

Winds northeast 7-14 mph.

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Florence 71/52

Bishopville 71/51

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SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest.

358.01 76.53 75.00 98.61

24-hr chg -0.05 +0.14 +0.15 -0.95

RIVER STAGES Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 9.20 -0.16 19 7.52 +0.51 14 10.27 +1.04 14 4.67 -1.82 80 81.26 -0.22 24 20.30 -0.05

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

0.05" 2.60" 2.76" 17.33" 12.50" 14.05"

NATIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL CITIES

Today Wed. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Atlanta 70/53/t 62/49/r Chicago 58/37/s 60/37/pc Dallas 58/46/c 72/48/s Detroit 63/41/s 64/46/pc Houston 72/50/c 74/53/s Los Angeles 88/62/s 88/64/s New Orleans 80/57/t 68/56/pc New York 66/53/pc 71/52/s Orlando 80/70/t 83/66/t Philadelphia 69/50/s 74/53/s Phoenix 91/69/s 94/69/s San Francisco 67/51/pc 67/50/pc Wash., DC 69/51/s 74/55/pc

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

Today Hi/Lo/W 68/47/s 72/51/pc 72/52/pc 72/60/pc 61/52/s 73/56/pc 68/49/s 72/52/s 72/54/s 71/51/s 67/48/s 70/51/s 69/49/s

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Florence 71/52/s Gainesville 74/64/t Gastonia 69/49/s Goldsboro 68/49/s Goose Creek 73/56/pc Greensboro 67/48/s Greenville 70/50/s Hickory 67/47/s Hilton Head 70/60/c Jacksonville, FL 72/64/t La Grange 71/56/t Macon 70/54/t Marietta 70/51/pc

Sunrise 6:36 a.m.

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12:37 p.m.

1:01 a.m.

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 72/46/s Mt. Pleasant 72/58/pc Myrtle Beach 70/56/s Orangeburg 71/53/pc Port Royal 71/61/pc Raleigh 68/49/s Rock Hill 68/48/s Rockingham 70/47/s Savannah 73/60/c Spartanburg 71/51/s Summerville 73/55/pc Wilmington 70/52/s Winston-Salem 67/48/s

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what you want.

The last word ARIES (March 21-April 19): in astrology Say whatever EUGENIA LAST is on your mind, but remember to be diplomatic to avoid regret. A change in position will take a bit of getting used to, but once you master what needs to be done, you’ll advance quickly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): View any changes going on around you as a new adventure. Be inspired by what you see and those you admire. Update your personal papers and secure your financial position. A partnership will open your eyes to a different way of living.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Revisit an idea that still interests you. The timing is right to start something new. An emotional issue that has concerned you can be amended if you set new ground rules. Say no to anyone trying to take advantage of you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Focus on forward motion. Don’t let anyone sidetrack you. A change in the way you present your talents or services will influence the outcome of a venture you want to pursue. If you need help, call in a favor. A partnership looks promising.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t believe everything you hear.

Someone will try to coax you by offering an empty promise. Your colleagues will talk behind your back if you mix business with pleasure. Honesty will be of utmost importance, so don’t exaggerate.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Go about your business and put the changes in place that will help improve your personal life and your standard of living. An emotional matter will lead to a setback if you don’t address the situation quickly and truthfully.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Try something new or make an unusual change and you will create a better future. Let go of the past and make an effort to follow your heart and your dreams. If something isn’t turning out well, replace it with what makes you happy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Follow your heart and do something that excites you. An interesting investment will grab your attention. Rework a proposal and change some of the trouble spots and you will discover a successful enterprise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Stop thinking about what you want to do and make it happen. A new business or hobby that involves something or someone you find entertaining will bring you satisfaction. Romance will improve your personal life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Turn your surroundings in to a place of comfort and entertainment.

Thinking about what you intend to do with the rest of your life will lead to an emotional discussion.

Good things will develop if you start something new.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stay on top of any problems that are festering today. Difficulty seeing the truth or being fed false information can be expected. Dig deep and find out what you need to know to force issues and get

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t fight the inevitable. Hone your skills and find a way to use your talents to serve your needs. You can get ahead if you refuse to let others put demands on your time.

Don’t let criticism slow you down.

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Nancy Byer comments on her photo submission, “This is a photo of the Gervais Street bridge over the Congaree River in downtown Columbia, taken from the Three Rivers Greenway park.”

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PREP TENNIS

Opportunity knocks for WH Veteran Barons enter playoffs as a top seed with eye on state title

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER michaelc@theitem.com There’s no time like the present for the Wilson Hall varsity boys tennis team to take advantage of the opportunity put in front of it.

Coming off consecutive semifinal losses in the SCISA 3A state playoffs the previous two years, the 11-1 Barons will host the No. 2 seed Hammond, a winner over No. 3 seed Pinewood Prep, at 4 p.m. on

Wednesday at Palmetto Tennis Center for a chance to advance to the state finals.

Wilson Hall earned a top seed in the 6-team bracket, giving it a first-round bye. PorterGaud is the other No. 1 seed and will face the winner of Monday’s quarterfinal winner between No. 2 seed Ben Lippen and No. 3 seed Cardinal Newman.

The state championship will be played on Friday at PTC. “If we’re going to win a state championship I think this is the year,” Wilson Hall senior Trey Davis said. “Everyone else is younger; I mean we’ve got two seniors in our starting lineup, but other

Wilson Hall No. 1 singles player Thomas Brown and the rest of the Barons appear poised for a run at a SCISA 3A state title this season with a veteran group.

The Barons play a semifinal match on Wednesday at Palmetto Tennis Center.

than that everyone else is younger. Once we’re gone I think the team will take a pretty good hit because we make up a pretty good part of the team. I think if we play right we’ll be fine, and I think this is the year that we can maybe pull it out.”

“We have a really good six (players),” Wilson Hall head coach Chuck McCord said.

“And I don’t want to make a grandiose statement and there are people that can beat us as we already know, but nobody can beat us when we’re playing well, if we do what we’re supposed to do.

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PREP BASEBALL

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Quick and painless

Plenty of SEC East teams still unsettled at quarterback

BY STEVE MEGARGEE The Associated Press

wins of 15-0 in four innings and 17-7 in five innings to set up a second-round series against Pee Dee. That series opens with a Friday doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m. at

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Missouri has a head start in at least one respect as the Tigers aim for their third consecutive Southeastern Conference Eastern Division title.

With Maty Mauk returning for his junior season, Missouri is one of only two SEC East teams that exits spring practice with a settled quarterback situation. The only other program with a clear-cut starter at quarterback is Tennessee, which believes it can take a step forward this year thanks to the late-season emergence of Joshua Dobbs last fall.

“You can’t put a price tag on experience,’’ Tennessee head coach Butch Jones said. “Experience is everything, especially in this conference - understanding the day-to-day, week-to-week rigors of playing in the SEC.’’ Even a couple of programs with experienced quarterbacks have ongoing competitions.

Kentucky’s Patrick Towles, who started 12 games last season, must hold off a challenge from Drew Barker. Florida’s Will Grier closed spring practice with a slight lead in the Gators’ quarterback competition over Treon Harris, who started six games last season.

Vanderbilt lost its most experienced quarterback last month when Patton Robinette announced he was giving up football to concentrate on

SEE QUICK, PAGE B3

SEE SEC EAST, PAGE B5

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Robert E. Lee’s Tee Outlaw rounds third base on the way to score a run in the Cavaliers’ 15-0 victory in the first game of the SCISA 2A state playoffs doubleheader against Dillon Christian on Monday at the REL field. Robert E. Lee won the second game 17-7 to sweep the first-round series.

Cavs grab pair of lopsided wins over Dillon Christian to open state playoffs

BY EDDIE LITAKER Special To The Sumter Item BISHOPVILLE — Robert E. Lee Academy’s baseball team went through the path of least resistance in its first-round series in the

SCISA 2A state playoffs against Dillon Christian on Monday.

The Cavaliers had good pitching and hit the ball well in both games, but the Warriors provided plenty of assistance in the form of 10

base on balls, 10 errors, six hit batters, four passed balls and two balks in the two games.

The end result was a relatively easy day for head coach David Rankin’s squad, who claimed mercy-rule

NASCAR COMMENTARY

Busch’s victory at least shows attempt to change as a person

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — Kurt Busch’s win at Richmond International Raceway would only be considered redemption if anyone had ever questioned his driving ability.

But for all the speed bumps and setbacks in his career, Busch’s talent has never suffered. And not a single competitor has ever suggested that he’s not the ultimate wheelman.

So it was easy Sunday to get caught up in the personal satisfaction Busch showed in winning at Richmond. NASCAR’s 2004 champion has been fighting for four years to rebuild his career, and the Richmond win was proof once again that Busch always seems to find a way to rebound from all those self-inflicted wounds.

This time it was an allegation of assault by an exgirlfriend, who accused Busch of being suicidal

when she rushed to his side last September in his motorhome at Dover International Speedway in Delaware.

Patricia Driscoll claimed Busch assaulted her that night, and she ultimately asked that he be charged with a crime.

What followed was two months of headline-grabbing drama as Busch fought Driscoll’s request for a no-contact order.

SEE BUSCH, PAGE B7

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Kurt Busch, right, stands with the trophy after winning the Toyota Owners 400 on Sunday at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va.

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SPORTS

TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY

11 a.m. – Professional Golf: Asian Tour Indonesian Masters Third Round from Jakarta, Indonesia (GOLF).

1 p.m. – College Football: Texas Orange & White Spring Game from Austin, Texas (ESPNU).

2:40 p.m. – International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match – Liverpool vs. Hull (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

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

7 p.m. – College Baseball: Nebraska at Creighton (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Chicago White Sox at Baltimore or Tampa Bay at New York Yankees (MLB NETWORK).

7 p.m. – College Baseball: Louisville at Kentucky (SEC NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Washington at Atlanta (SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7).

7:30 p.m. – College Softball: Weber State at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

8 p.m. – College Baseball: Oklahoma at Wichita State (ESPNU).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Five – Dallas at Houston (TNT).

10 p.m. – Major League Baseball: San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers or Houston at San Diego (MLB NETWORK).

10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Five – San Antonio at Los Angeles Clippers (TNT).

GOLF The Associated Press ZURICH CLASSIC PAR SCORES

Sunday At TPC Louisiana Avondale, La. Purse: $6.9 million Yardage: 7,425; Par: 72 Final Justin Rose (500), $1,242,000 69-66-65-66—266 -22 Cameron Tringale (300), $745,200 69-65-68-65—267 -21 Boo Weekley (190), $469,200 64-70-69-65—268 -20 Jason Day (123), $303,600 67-65-68-69—269 -19 Jim Herman (123), $303,600 69-68-67-65—269 -19 Daniel Berger (95), $239,775 66-67-68-69—270 -18 David Hearn (95), $239,775 65-70-67-68—270 -18 ALSO Tommy Gainey (20), $16,991 73-66-68-71—278 -10

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION New York Tampa Bay Boston Baltimore Toronto CENTRAL DIVISION Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota Cleveland WEST DIVISION Houston Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Texas

W 11 11 10 9 9

L 8 8 9 10 10

Pct .579 .579 .526 .474 .474

GB – – 1 2 2

W 13 12 8 8 6

L 6 6 9 10 11

Pct .684 .667 .471 .444 .353

GB – 1/2 4 4 1/2 6

W 11 9 8 7 7

L 7 10 12 11 11

Pct .611 .474 .400 .389 .389

GB – 2 1/2 4 4 4

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Detroit 8, Cleveland 6 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 1 Baltimore 18, Boston 7 Chicago White Sox 3, Kansas City 2, comp. of susp. game Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 Texas 5, L.A. Angels 4, 11 innings Houston 7, Oakland 6 Minnesota 4, Seattle 2, 11 innings N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 4

MONDAY’S GAMES

Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Houston at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Kansas City (Guthrie 1-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Hutchison 2-0) at Boston (Buchholz 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 1-1) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Happ 1-1) at Texas (Detwiler 0-2), 8:05 p.m.

Detroit (An.Sanchez 1-2) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-2) at Oakland (Gray 2-0), 10:05 p.m.

Houston (R.Hernandez 0-2) at San Diego (T.Ross 1-1), 10:10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

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

Detroit at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Houston at San Diego, 3:40 p.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W 14 9 8 7 7

L 5 9 11 12 12

Pct .737 .500 .421 .368 .368

GB – 4 1/2 6 7 7

W 12 10 11 8 4

L 5 7 8 10 15

Pct .706 .588 .579 .444 .211

GB – 2 2 4 1/2 9

W Los Angeles 11 Colorado 10 San Diego 11 Arizona 8 San Francisco 8

L 7 8 9 10 11

Pct .611 .556 .550 .444 .421

GB – 1 1 3 3 1/2

New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia Washington CENTRAL DIVISION St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee WEST DIVISION

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 2 Miami 6, Washington 2 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 4 Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 3 San Diego 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Pittsburgh 8, Arizona 0 San Francisco at Colorado, ppd., rain N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 4

MONDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

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

Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Houston at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee (Lohse 1-3) at Cincinnati (Cueto 1-2), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (R.Montero 0-1) at Miami (Phelps 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 0-2) at Atlanta (Teheran 2-1), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 2-0) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 1-1), 8:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (S.Gonzalez 0-0) at St. Louis (Wacha 3-0), 8:15 p.m.

Colorado (K.Kendrick 1-2) at Arizona (Bradley 2-0), 9:40 p.m.

Houston (R.Hernandez 0-2) at San Diego (T.Ross 1-1), 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-1), 10:10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.

Houston at San Diego, 3:40 p.m.

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

Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

NBA PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press

FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlanta 2, Brooklyn 1 April 19: Atlanta 99, Brooklyn 92 April 22: Atlanta 96, Brooklyn 91 April 25: Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 83 Monday: Atlanta at Brooklyn (late) Wednesday: Brooklyn at Atlanta, TBA x-Friday: Atlanta at Brooklyn, TBA x-Sunday: Brooklyn at Atlanta, TBA Cleveland 4, Boston 0 April 19: Cleveland 113, Boston 100 April 21: Cleveland 99, Boston 91 April 23: Cleveland 103, Boston 95 Sunday: Cleveland 101, Boston 93 Chicago 3, Milwaukee 1 April 18: Chicago 103, Milwaukee 91 April 20: Chicago 91, Milwaukee 82 April 23: Chicago 113, Milwaukee 106, 2OT April 25: Milwaukee 92, Chicago 90 Monday, April 27: Milwaukee at Chicago (late) x-Thursday: Chicago at Milwaukee, TBA x-Saturday: Milwaukee at Chicago, TBA Washington 4, Toronto 0 April 18: Washington 93, Toronto 86, OT April 21: Washington 117, Toronto 106 April 24: Washington 106, Toronto 99 Sunday: Washington 125, Toronto 94

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Golden State 4, New Orleans 0 April 18: Golden State 106, New Orleans 99 April 20: Golden State 97, New Orleans 87 April 23: Golden State 123, New Orleans 119, OT April 25: Golden State 109, New Orleans 98 Houston 3, Dallas 1 April 18: Houston 118, Dallas 108 April 21: Houston 111, Dallas 99 April 24: Houston 130, Dallas 128 April 26: Dallas 121, Houston 109 Today: Dallas at Houston, 8 p.m. x-Thursday: Houston at Dallas, TBA x-Saturday: Dallas at Houston, TBA San Antonio 2, L.A. Clippers 2 April 19: L.A. Clippers 107, San Antonio 92 April 22: San Antonio 111, L.A. Clippers 107, OT April 24: San Antonio 100, L.A. Clippers 73 April 26: L.A. Clippers 114, San Antonio 105 Today: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, TBA x-Saturday: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, TBA Memphis 3, Portland 0 April 19: Memphis 100, Portland 86 April 22: Memphis 97, Portland 82 April 25: Memphis 115, Portland 109 Monday: Memphis at Portland (late) x-Wednesday: Portland at Memphis, TBA x-Friday: Memphis at Portland, TBA x-Sunday: Portland at Memphis, TBA

NHL PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press

FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

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BOYS AREA ROUNDUP

Barons grab 11-shot lead in SCISA 3A state golf tourney CONWAY — The Wilson Hall varsity boys golf team has an 11-stroke lead after the first round of the SCISA 3A state tournament on Monday at The Hackler Course on the campus of Coastal Carolina University.

The Barons shot a 307 with Hammond in second at 318.

Thomas Sumter Academy is in third at 319 followed by Porter-Gaud at 331.

Grier Schwartz led Wilson Hall with a 76. Walker Jones, Christian Salzer and

Coker Lowder each shot a 77.

The final round is today.

VARSITY SOCCER

overall. Nick Thurman scored two goals and Ben Busques had a goal and an assist. Greg McLeod also had an assist.

CRESTWOOD 6

PINEWOOD PREP 2

LAKEWOOD 5 Lakewood High School fell to 5-3 in Region VI-3A with a 6-5 loss to Crestwood on Friday at J. Frank Baker Stadium.

Christian McDonald had two goals and an assist for the Gators, who are 12-5

LAURENCE MANNING 1

MANNING — Laurence Manning Academy lost to Pinewood Prep 2-1 on Friday at the LMA field.

Luke Decosta scored the lone goal for the Swampcats on an assist from Tony Cruz.

GIRLS AREA ROUNDUP

Parker, Lady Knights top rival LHS 9-4 Johnia Parker hit a 3-run home run to lift Crestwood High School to a 9-4 varsity softball victory over Lakewood on Friday at the CHS field.

Parker finished four runs batted in. Raven Bennett went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and Katelynn Barwick had two doubles. Tori Raymond and Samantha Stone both went 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI. Barwick was also the winning pitcher.

CLARENDON HALL 14 ANDREW JACKSON 0

SUMMERTON — Clarendon Hall improved to 13-3 on the season with a 14-0 victory over Andrew Jackson Academy on Friday at the CH field.

Jordan Carter was 3-for-3 with a triple and four RBI for the Lady Saints, 11-1 in SCISA Region III-1A. Aubrey Johnson was 3-for-3 with a triple and Gracyn Royce was also 3-for-3. Delaney Peeler and Holly Carlisle each had two hits.

Gracyn Royce was the

winning pitcher, allowing just three hits.

JUNIOR VARSITY SOFTBALL LAKEWOOD 17 CRESTWOOD 1

Lakewood High School defeated Crestwood 17-1 on Friday at the CHS field.

Kayleigh Geddings led the Lady Gators on offense, going 3-for-3 with three runs. Avriel Clark had two hits and two runs, while Taylor McPhail and Lauren Bean both had two hits.

Also last week, Lakewood lost to Marlboro County 15-5. Bailey Strickland had two hits and two runs and Emily McDonald had a hit and two runs.

CLARENDON HALL 18 ANDREW JACKSON 8

SUMMERTON – Clarendon Hall improved to 6-7 with an 18-8 victory over Andrew Jackson Academy on Friday at the CH field.

Hannah Corbett was 4-for4 with two RBI while Syd-

ney Wells had two hits and four RBI. Glenda Kay Broadway had three hits.

Madison Kidd had three hits and an RBI and also picked up the win in the circle with five strikeouts.

VARSITY SOCCER LAKEWOOD 4 CRESTWOOD 1 Lakewood High School improved to 2-5 in Region VI-3A with a 4-1 victory over Crestwood on Friday at J. Frank Baker Stadium.

Vannia Moreno Gil scored two goals and had an assist for the Lady Gators, 5-8 overall. Karli Fletcher and Idalia Munoz Lopez both scored goals.

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FLORENCE — Sumter High School fell to 3-5 in Region VI-4A with a 3-1 loss to West Florence on Friday at the WF field.

Mary Koty scored the lone goal for the Lady Gamecocks, who dropped to 9-5 on the season.

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Montreal 4, Ottawa 2 April 15: Montreal 4, Ottawa 3 April 17: Montreal 3, Ottawa 2, OT April 19: Montreal 2, Ottawa 1, OT April 22: Ottawa 1, Montreal 0 April 24: Ottawa 5, Montreal 1 Sunday: Montreal 2, Ottawa 0 Detroit 3, Tampa Bay 2 April 16: Detroit 3, Tampa Bay 2 April 18: Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 1 April 21: Detroit 3, Tampa Bay 0 April 23: Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2, OT April 25: Detroit 4, Tampa Bay 0 Monday: Tampa Bay at Detroit (late) x-Wednesday: Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBA N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 1 April 16: N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1 April 18: Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 April 20: N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1 April 22: N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT April 24 : N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT Washington 3, N.Y. Islanders 3 April 15: N.Y. Islanders 4, Washington 1 April 17: Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 April 19: N.Y. Islanders 2, Washington 1, OT April 21 : Washington 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, OT April 23: Washington 5, N.Y. Islanders 1 April 25: N.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1 Monday: N.Y. Islanders at Washington (late)

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Minnesota 4, St. Louis 2 April 16: Minnesota 4, St. Louis 2 April 18: St. Louis 4, Minnesota 1 April 20: Minnesota 3, St. Louis 0 April 22: St. Louis 6, Minnesota 1 April 24: Minnesota 4, St. Louis 1 Sunday: Minnesota 4, St. Louis 1 Chicago 4, Nashville 2 April 15: Chicago 4, Nashville 3, 2OT April 17: Nashville 6, Chicago 2 April 19: Chicago 4, Nashville 2 April 21: Chicago 3, Nashville 2, 3OT April 23: Nashville 5, Chicago 2 April 25: Chicago 4, Nashville 3 Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 0 April 16: Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 2 April 18: Anaheim 2, Winnipeg 1 April 20: Anaheim 5, Winnipeg 4, OT April 22: Anaheim 5, Winnipeg 2 Calgary 4, Vancouver 2 April 15: Calgary 2, Vancouver 1 April 17: Vancouver 4, Calgary 1 April 19: Calgary 4, Vancouver 2 April 21 : Calgary 3, Vancouver 1 April 23: Vanvouer 2, Calgary 1 April 25: Calgary 7, Vancouver 4

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Lightning force Game 7; Caps nip Isles 2-1 DETROIT — Tyler Johnson scored two goals in his latest stellar performance and the Tampa Bay Lightning held on for a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Monday night, forcing a Game 7 in their first-round playoff series.

Johnson and Jason Garrison scored in the first period, and Johnson added another goal in the second to give the Lightning a 3-0 lead. Tomas Tatar scored twice for Detroit, but Alex Killorn answered with an unassisted goal with 5:09 remaining, and Cedric Paquette added an empty-netter.

Ben Bishop made 22 saves for the Lightning, who led the NHL in goals during the season but had been struggling to score on the Red Wings and goalie Petr Mrazek in this series. Mrazek made a sensational save on Brian Boyle in the second period, but Tampa Bay had al-

ready taken a 2-0 lead by that point.

Tampa Bay found enough space on its first goal to go the length of the ice in only a few seconds. Defenseman Victor Hedman, standing near his own net, hit Nikita Kucherov at the opposite blue line with a perfect stretch pass.

Kucherov immediately flipped the puck to Johnson, who came into the zone with a head of steam and calmly beat Mrazek.

Steven Stamkos set up the second goal by waiting patiently with the puck around the top of the right circle and then passing to Garrison in the slot.

The Red Wings had a two-man advantage for 18 seconds later in the second, and although they didn’t score during the 5-on-3, the Lightning couldn’t kill off all the power-play time. Tatar beat Bishop high with a wrist shot to make it 3-1.

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WASHINGTON — Rookie Evgeny Kuznetsov scored the go-ahead goal with less than 7 1/2 minutes left in Game 7, and Braden Holtby only needed to make 10 saves Monday night, lifting the Washington Capitals past the New York Islanders 2-1 in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Kuznetsov scored the sort of athletic, breathtaking goal his better-known Russian teammate, Alex Ovechkin, often does, taking the puck from the right boards and heading across the ice before sending a rising shot over sprawling goalie Jaroslav Halak.

Joel Ward gave Washington a 1-0 lead late in the second period, and Frans Nielsen pulled New York even early in the third.

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Robert E. Lee’s Wesley Alexander delivers a pitch in the Cavaliers’ 15-0 victory over Dillon Christian in the first game of its doubleheader sweep in the SCISA 2A state playoffs on Monday at the REL field.

QUICK FROM PAGE B1 the REL field.

The Cavaliers, one of four No. 1 seeds in the 16-team 2A playoffs, closed out Game 1 in rapid fashion. The gameclinching run came home, fittingly, on a walk-off balk as REL sent 11 batters to the plate in an 8-run fourth.

Cavalier starting pitcher Weston Green struck out seven of the first eight batters he faced. The one exception was Jake Boykin, who doubled with two out in the first, but was cut down attempting to stretch the hit to a triple.

Garrett Collins drew a 2-out walk in the third before Green induced a grounder to third from the final batter he would face, Connor Hamilton.

REL punched across single runs in the first and third innings, along with five runs in the second and the eight in the fourth.

Much like Green in the opener, Game 2 starter Nick Smith was also stingy in his time on the mound. Boykin once again registered the Warriors’ only hit over the first three innings, this time singling with one out in the first.

Smith’s final tally over that span included four strikeouts, a fielder’s choice grounder, two ground ball outs and two fly ball outs.

“Both starting pitchers pitched real well,” Rankin said, “and we came in with a lot of young guys after that because this time of year, we’ve got to play Friday and you want to save arms as much as you can. We kind of let this (second game) get away from us a little bit, but I didn’t think we were ever in any kind of trouble.”

There were contributions up and down the lineup in both games for the Cavaliers.

Game 1 saw REL batters connect for 12 hits, including six for extra bases. Leadoff batter Tee Outlaw, Nick Stokes and Bryce Barrett were all on base

in each of their plate appearances. Outlaw finished 3-for-3 with two doubles, a single and a hit by pitch, scoring three runs and driving in another.

Stokes smacked three singles in as many at-bats, also scoring three and driving in one, while Barrett walked, doubled and singled, scoring two and plating two.

REL’s other opening game extra-base hits included a Green triple that accounted for one of his two runs batted in and RBI doubles from Harry Cook and Wesley Alexander.

Outlaw also set the table well from his leadoff spot in the second game, reaching on an error, hit by pitch, error and single in five plate appearances, scoring two and driving in one. The No. 2 spot was also productive for the Cavaliers, with Barrett reaching twice on errors and singling while scoring three runs and Gavin Melton adding a 2-RBI single in a fifthinning at-bat.

Cook contributed another extra-base hit, this time driving in two with a first-inning double, while Travis Christmas struck for a double in the second.

“We hit it good in the first game, and we hit it decent in the second game,” said Rankin, whose team takes a 19-7 record into its upcoming series with Pee Dee. “We’ve hit the ball good all year, and hopefully that will continue.

We played a little shaky defense there for a little bit and didn’t throw strikes there in the one big inning where they scored four runs. Everybody contributed, and we feel like we’re going to be okay going forward.”

Dillon Christian plated three runs, on a walk, error, double, single, walk and sacrifice fly, in the fourth and four in the fifth. The fifth-inning rally was aided by two errors and three walks as the Warriors did not register a hit in the frame.

NEW YORK — Deron Williams rebounded from two dismal games with 35 points, and the Brooklyn Nets pulled out a 120-115 overtime victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night, tying the series at two games apiece.

The Nets, just 38-44 in the regular season, won the second straight in the series and moved two victories from becoming the sixth No. 8 seed to beat a No. 1 — only the fourth since the first round became best-of-seven.

Bojan Bogdanovic made the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:25 left in overtime but the Nets never would have gotten there without Williams, whose 16 points in the fourth quarter were two fewer than he had total in the first three games of the series.

Brook Lopez had 26 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets.

Jeff Teague had 20 points and 11 assists, and DeMarre Carroll added 20 points and nine rebounds for the Hawks, who host Game 5 on Wednesday.

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BOSTON — LeBron James scored 27 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers overcame a shoulder injury to Kevin Love to complete a first-round sweep of the Boston Celtics with a 101-93 victory Sunday.

Love left the court in the first quarter with a dislocated left shoulder, and J.R. Smith was ejected for swinging his arm at Jae Crowder.

The Cavaliers led 57-36 at halftime even though James missed eight of 12 shots and Love left the game for good after becoming entangled with Boston’s Kelly Olynyk while chasing a loose ball.

Love immediately headed for the locker room.

Love has already been ruled out for Cleveland’s next series, and could be out longer. Smith has been suspended two games without pay.

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SAN ANTONIO — Chris Paul had 34 points and seven assists, Blake Griffin

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Brooklyn guard Deron Williams (8) drives around Atlanta forward DeMarre Carroll (5) in the first quarter of the Nets’ 120-115 overtime victory on Monday in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference playoff quarterfinal series in New York. added 20 points and 19 rebounds, and Los Angeles beat San Antonio to even their first-round series at two games apiece.

J.J. Redick scored 17 points for the Clippers and Austin Rivers provided an unexpected boost off the bench with a postseason career-high 16 points.

Kawhi Leonard scored 26 points, Tim Duncan had 22 points and 10 rebounds and Tony Parker added 18 points, but Paul proved too much.

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WASHINGTON — Washington emphatically completed the first sweep of a seven-game series in club history, getting 23 points from Bradley Beal and 21 points and 11 rebounds from Marcin Gortat to beat To-

ronto.

Paul Pierce added 14 points, including a pair of 3-pointers in the third quarter as Washington’s lead reached 32 entering the fourth.

MAVERICKS 121 ROCKETS 109

DALLAS — Monta Ellis scored 31 points, J.J. Barea had 17 points and 13 assists in his first playoff start since boosting Dallas’ run to the 2011 championship and the Mavericks avoided elimination with a victory over Houston.

James Harden scored 24 points, and Dwight Howard had 13. But the big man was kept under control after scoring 10 points with two more alley-oop dunks in the first quarter.

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Angels trade Hamilton back to Texas ARLINGTON, Texas — Josh Hamilton is back with the Texas Rangers.

After two troublesome years with the Los Angeles Angels and less than halfway through a $125 million, five-year contract, Hamilton was traded to AL West rival Texas with cash on Monday for a player to be named or cash.

“I had a lot of good memories here,’’ Hamilton said during a news conference. “I’m back here. I’m back home. I’m going to give everything I’ve got.’’

On the 15-day disabled list while recovering from offseason right shoulder surgery, Hamilton took a physical and will report Tuesday to the Rangers’ spring training complex in Surprise, Arizona.

Daniels said the Rangers expect he will be activated during the second half of May. Hamilton returns to the team he helped make consecutive World Series appearances in 2010 and ‘11. Hamilton was the 2010 AL MVP and an AllStar each of his five seasons with Texas (2008-12).

Los Angeles is expected to pay most of the remaining $80.2 million Hamilton was owed: $20,234,973 this year and $30 million in each of the final two seasons. As part of the trade, Hamilton agreed to give up some of the money he was due under the contract, a person familiar with the trade said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because that was not announced.

CARDS ACE WAINWRIGHT OUT FOR SEASON ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals say injured ace Adam Wainwright is out for the season because of a torn left Achilles.

General manager John Mozeliak made the announcement Monday at Busch Stadium. Wainwright will have surgery later this week.

Wainwright was hurt while batting Saturday in Milwaukee.

PACKERS TO RETIRE FAVRE’S JERSEY ON THANKSGIVING GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers will give thanks to Brett Favre during their Thanksgiving night game.

The Packers announced Monday what had been long expected: Favre’s dark green No. 4 jersey will be unveiled on the north facade of Lambeau Field at halftime of the Nov. 26 game against the rival

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The Los Angeles Angels traded outfielder Josh Hamilton back to the Texas Rangers on Monday after two troubling seasons. Hamilton won the 2012 MVP award with the Rangers.

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ACC LEADING REBOUNDER TRANSFERS TO GAMECOCKS COLUMBIA — Atlantic Coast Conference rebounding leader Sarah Imovbioh of Virginia has signed to play her final season with South Carolina.

Imovbioh, a 6-foot-2 forward from Nigeria, spent the past three seasons with the Cavaliers. She’s graduating next month and can play next season with the Gamecocks.

Imovbioh led the ACC at 10.8 rebounds a game last year. She was 19th nationally.

ROSE WINS IN NEW ORLEANS FOR 7TH PGA TOUR TITLE AVONDALE, La. — Justin Rose birdied the final two holes Sunday to win the Zurich Classic at a tournamentrecord 22 under.

Rose, who entered the week ranked ninth in the world, completed a 7-under 65 in the raindelayed third round and closed with a 66 at TPC Louisiana for his seventh PGA Tour title.

Rose’s final two putts from 10 and 13 1/2 feet allowed him to hold off Cameron Tringale by a stroke. Tringale birdied the 18th for a 65.

Bishopville native Tommy Gainey earned $16,991 and finished at 10-under for the tournament.

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MIAMI — Daniel Murphy hit a three-run homer with one out in the ninth inning, and the New York Mets snapped the Miami Marlins’ 5-game winning streak with a 3-1 comeback victory Monday night.

The Marlins had taken the lead in the eighth with three consecutive 2-out singles, breaking up Dillon Gee’s shutout bid.

Jarred Cosart matched Gee by allowing only two hits in eight scoreless innings. But the Mets rallied against closer Steve Cishek (0-1), who blew a save for the second time in three chances this year.

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BOSTON — Mookie Betts hit a game-ending RBI single to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 6-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Pablo Sandoval homered for the second straight day for Boston, hitting a solo shot before leaving the game with a sore neck. He also had a 2-run single.

Russell Martin had a 2-run double and rookie Devon Travis belted his sixth homer for the Blue Jays.

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BARONS FROM PAGE B1 “I don’t think there is anything wrong with saying that,” he added. “But then again, we have to play well also to beat good teams.”

Thomas Brown is Wilson Hall’s No. 1 singles player, Davis No. 2, Hunter Hendrix No. 3, Tradd Stover No. 4, Pierce Thompson and Chandler Stone No. 6.

Brown and Davis make up the No. 1 doubles team with Hendrix and Stover at No. 2 and Thompson and Stone at No. 3.

Davis agreed, but said this time around things would be different.

Thompson, a senior, said the Barons are a lot more mature and focused this year. He think it’s been their preparation that has held them back in their semifinal losses the past two years.

“We haven’t been used to playing these big teams in these big games, but it’s been two years now we’ve reached the semifinals, and I think we’re just ready to take the next step and go to state,” Thompson said.

“I think in past years the semifinals we’ve kind of taken it for granted, thinking we were going to make it to the finals a couple of times thinking we had it, and really got-

ten beaten badly,” the No. 2 singles player said. “I think this year we recognize that Hammond is just as good as we are, but I think also we’re ready for that and prepared whereas in the past we just expected the other team to lay over and let us beat them. And this year we’re ready to fight to get to the final.

“I think the key to us winning on Wednesday and Friday is going to be showing up and expecting it to be a battle, but still visualizing yourself winning in the end,” he said. “I think that’s what has to happen and you have to be OK with knowing that it’s going to be really tough and they’re going to want to win just as badly as you do, but you’ve got to show up ready to fight it out.”

“We can’t look forward to Porter-Gaud; Hammond is a very good team and has the same record that we do,” McCord said. “We did not play in the regular season so the match Wednesday is obviously critical and it’s obviously going to be a good matchup. Somebody, either Wilson Hall or Hammond, is going to have to play well to even think about playing Porter-Gaud on Friday.”

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By Breann Liebermann, Clemson Extension - Water Resources Agent Rain Barrel Art Contest 2015 Results Sumter Stormwater Solutions hosted their third annual Rain Barrel Art Contest at Earth Day on Saturday, April 18. The contest was open to all public and private schools in Sumter. The aim of the contest was to teach students about the practice of rainwater harvesting in an engaging and creative way.

Using rainwater to water gardens can save money and can decrease stormwater runoff. School classes received pre-assembled rain barrels and turned them into wonderful works of art! Nine barrels were submitted in the contest and a total of 298 votes were cast by those that attended Earth Day. Dr. Davis’s art class from Lakewood High School won the overall prize with eightyfive votes and will receive a pizza and ice-cream party. This is the third year in a row Dr. Davis has won- kudos to her! Mr. Harding’s visual art class at Crestwood won the high school category and Ms. Keys’s FBLA chapter at Ebenezer won the middle school category.

Their classes will both receive pizza parties. Thank you to Ms. Bowman from Crestwood High School, Ms. Hoffman from Alice Drive Middle School, and Ms. Knight from St. Anne Middle

School for their participation. The barrels all came out beautifully! To see pictures of the decorated rain barrels, please go to the Sumter Stormwater Solutions Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ SumterStormwaterSolutions. Be on the lookout for pictures of more decorated rain barrels by Ms. Bach’s and Ms. Hughes’s classes from Cherryvale Elementary School.

Three barrels were auctioned off, raising a total of $115! Three Master-Gardeners in training assisted at the event. Kendall Bubar helped with set up; Tami Wagner and Brenda Kosanko were instrumental in making sure the contest and auction ran smoothly.

If you are a teacher that is interested in participating in the contest next year, please contact Breann Liebermann at 803-773-5561 or blieber@clemson.edu. You will be added to a contact list for the 2016 Rain Barrel Art Contest.

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Manny Pacquiao, above, and trainer Freddie Roach are working on a way to break down the defensive tactics of Floyd Mayweather Jr. when Pacquiao and Mayweather fight on Saturday in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao, Roach scheme on plan for Mayweather’s defense

BY GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Manny Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach have spent the past two months trying to solve the biggest puzzle in modern boxing.

How does anybody hit Floyd Mayweather Jr., a fighter whose perfect career is built on being nearly impossible to touch?

Pacquiao and Roach will reveal their answer in detail Saturday night in Las Vegas, when the fighters meet in the richest bout in boxing history. But clues to a strategy for breaking Mayweather’s impenetrable defense were evident in Pacquiao’s final workout at Roach’s Wild Card gym in Hollywood on Monday.

Pacquiao was a whirlwind of motion from the moment he stepped in the ring, throwing dozens of punches in combinations against Roach’s mitts and chest pro-

tector. While Roach took a much-deserved break, Pacquiao shadowboxed across the canvas, peppering the air with hundreds of rapidfire punches long after his workout could have been over.

“You can beat Floyd Mayweather if you outwork him and never give him a chance to do the things he does best,’’ Roach said. “Manny is punching real hard, but I want him to outscore (Mayweather) in every round.’’

Pacquiao is betting on aggression, activity and punch volume to defeat Mayweather, according to the fighter and his longtime trainer.

The eight-division world champion has trained fiercely to fight 12 rounds of nonstop offense against the pre-eminent defensive fighter of his generation.

“I’m not really looking for a knockout,’’ Pacquiao said.

“We’re not looking only for a knockout, but for throwing a lot of punches, and

also making sure that every round, we’re ahead on points.’’

Pacquiao has built his remarkable career on otherworldly quickness and oldfashioned volume punching, both outmaneuvering and outworking nearly all of his opponents over the past 10 years. He has never faced a fighter with Mayweather’s skills in defense and counterpunching, but Roach believes Mayweather has never dealt with an opponent as relentless as the southpaw Filipino congressman.

“Our volume of combinations is much higher than Mayweather’s,’’ Roach said. “Mayweather waits for you to finish your combination and throws back with the big right hand or the check hook, and we’re not going to be there for that. We’re going to be in and out, and I plan on Manny outscoring him that way.’’

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medical school. His departure leaves Wade Freebeck, Johnny McCrary, Shawn Stankavage and Kyle Shurmur competing for the job.

At Georgia, Brice Ramsey and Faton Bauta shared time working with the first-team offense in the spring game while Jacob Park worked mostly with the second- and third-team units. Connor Mitch got the most work for South Carolina in the spring but is still competing with Perry Orth and Michael Scarnecchia.

“We’re always trying to find out who the best player is,’’ South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier said. “And if they’re pretty close in ability, then you play more than one, simple as that. We’ve still got a lot of time to decide who’s our quarterback.’’

Quarterback competitions aren’t the only issues facing

The Gators had major worries on the offensive line even before projected starting tackle Rod Johnson had to give up football this month due to a spine problem. Johnson’s absence leaves Florida with just six healthy returning scholarship offensive linemen - experienced center Trip Thurman is out indefinitely with a chronic shoulder injury . Six freshman linemen will be joining them in training camp.

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GEORGIA The Bulldogs spent the spring learning new terminology brought over by first-year offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, who came over from the NFL’s St. Louis Rams. The adjustment process to a new coordinator could take time since Schottenheimer replaces Mike Bobo, who held the position

for eight seasons before taking over Colorado State’s program.

KENTUCKY After giving up 40-plus points five times in a six-game losing streak to end the 2014 season, Kentucky now must try to upgrade that defense while replacing Alvin “Bud’’ Dupree and Za’Darius Smith, who combined for 12 sacks and 20 tackles for loss in 2014.

Dupree is a projected firstround draft pick.

MISSOURI The Tigers may have a stable quarterback situation, but there’s plenty of uncertainty in their receiving corps. Missouri’s returning wideouts combined for just 114 yards receiving last season. Nate Brown is one of Missouri’s top returning wideouts, but he missed most of spring practice with a knee injury.

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KNOXVILLE, TENN. — South Carolina raced out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first, but Tennessee rallied with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the frame and a 6-run sixth inning on the way to a 10-4 victory over the Gamecocks in the rubber game of a 3-game series at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The Gamecocks fell to 26-19 and 9-12 in the SEC with Tennessee now 18-21 and 7-14 in league play.

Carolina left-hander Josh Reagan (1-2) suffered the loss.

He allowed five runs on seven hits in 5-plus innings with a walk and three strikeouts.

Tennessee reliever Kyle Serrano (3-4) earned the win with five innings of work allowing one run on three hits with a walk and five strikeouts.

For the third straight game, the Gamecocks scored in the first inning breaking out to a 3-run advantage against the Volunteers. DC Arendas reached base on a 1-out single and Kyle Martin drew a walk that set the stage for Elliott Caldwell, who crushed the first pitch he saw for a triple to left-center scoring both runners. The triple for Caldwell was his seventh of the year setting a school record. Alex Destino would drive in Caldwell with a RBI double to left field.

With the Gamecocks ahead 3-2 in the sixth inning, Tennessee sent 12 batters to the plate and scored six runs to take an 8-3 lead. Senzel led off with a walk and Simcox singled to open the frame. Christin Stewart then knocked a double to right field scoring Senzel. The Gamecocks made a pitching change as Reagan departed for right-handed reliever Brandon Murray. Andrew Lee stepped to the plate for Tennessee and doubled to center field to score both runners. Chris Hall would follow with a RBI base hit. With two outs, Parker Wormsley added a RBI single and consecutive

ing on the arrival of new cocoordinator Jon Hoke to help upgrade a defense that produced a league-low 14 sacks last season. South Carolina ranked 12th in the SEC in scoring defense and 13th in total defense.

walks to Senzel and Simcox scored the sixth run of the inning for the Volunteers.

Caldwell drove in three runs with Martin 1-for-2 with two runs scored and Arendas finished 2-for-4 with a run scored to lead Carolina at the plate.

Tennessee had 13 hits including three from Simcox, two from Lee, two from Hall and two from Wormsley.

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ATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia Tech had three 2-out singles in the 10th inning to score two runs, capped off by Ryan Peurifoy’s walkoff single, in its 5-4 win over Clemson at Russ Chandler Stadium on Sunday.

The Yellow Jackets, who won the series 2-1, improved to 26-17 overall and 11-13 in the ACC. The Tigers fell to 23-21 overall and 10-14 in ACC play. Clemson is 8-4 in its last 12 ACC games and the four losses have been by a combined five runs.

After Matt Gonzalez’s 2-run homer in the first inning, Clemson scored the next three runs, the last two coming on solo homers by Weston Wilson and Steven Duggar in the top of the fifth inning. Wade Bailey tied the score 3-3 when he scored on Thomas Smith’s 2-out, infield single in the bottom of the fifth inning. Reed Rohlman’s run-scoring single in the top of the 10th inning gave Clemson a 4-3 lead. But Georgia Tech rallied with two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning.

Zac Ryan (7-1) earned the win despite allowing a run in the 10th inning. Clate Schmidt (1-2) suffered the loss.

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CHARLESTON — Virginia Military Institute completed a 3-game sweep of The Citadel with a 3-2 victory on Sunday at Riley Park.

The Bulldogs fell to 18-24 overall and 3-12 in the Southern Conference. VMI improved to 15-22 and 8-7.

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BIZARRO

SOUP TO NUTZ

ANDY CAPP

GARFIELD

BEETLE BAILEY

BORN LOSER

BLONDIE

ZITS

MOTHER GOOSE

DOG EAT DOUG

DILBERT

JEFF MACNELLY’S SHOE

Husband wants to break cycle of cheating DEAR ABBY — I have been married twice. My first marriage lasted 20 years, the second one about four Dear Abby years.

During my ABIGAIL first marVAN BUREN riage, I started cheating seven months after our wedding. My wife knew about some of the affairs and stuck with me anyway. I finally felt so guilty for hurting her emotionally, I called it quits and married the last woman I cheated on her with.

My second marriage was in many ways better. I was able to remain faithful for more

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than three years before cheating again. I feel terrible that I have hurt another woman I loved, but I have now fallen in love with the woman I’m cheating with.

It’s like I’m in a perpetual cycle and don’t know how to stop. I want this relationship to be my last one. I want to remain faithful and committed, but I’m scared to death I’ll end up cheating on her and let us both down.

I’m not proud of how I treated my exes, but I can’t change the past. How do I change this pattern of behavior so I can be a faithful and devoted partner?

Cheater in Michigan DEAR CHEATER — I respect you for recognizing you have established a pattern and ad-

THE DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

mitting it. The most effective way to break a “perpetual cycle” would be to understand exactly what has driven it. I don’t think this is something you can or should do on your own. That’s why I recommend you schedule some sessions with a licensed mental health professional before making another trip to the altar.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.

DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

What teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

JUMBLE

SUDOKU

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

HOW TO PLAY: Each row, column and set of 3-by-3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 through 9 without repetition.

ACROSS 1 Tennessee senator Alexander 6 Disgusting 11 Summary on a timecard: Abbr.

14 Olds model 15 Emotionally expressive, as poetry 16 OPEC commodity 17 Airport security indignity 19 Charlottesville sch.

20 “Mazel __!”

21 Flair 22 NFL Network talk show host Rich 24 Father of Cain and Abel 25 “The Maltese Falcon” novelist 27 “That’s enough!”

30 Get started, as a grill 31 One-eighty 32 Flour packaging 35 Bon __: witticism 36 Animal skins 37 __ v. Wade 38 Diva’s big moment 41 “Another card, dealer” 43 Citizens under Caesar 44 Gorge 45 Pure joy 47 Quaint dagger

48 Controversial Nixon records 49 Blue jay or oriole 50 Down in the dumps 53 Actress Thurman 54 Pocketful of coins, and what literally occurs in the circled letters in five puzzle answers 58 Mo. with the shortest day of the year 59 Elaborate display 60 The “A” in “CAT scan” 61 Fair-hiring abbr.

62 Thick-furred dog 63 Colorful tank fish DOWN 1 “The __ of the Mohicans” 2 Choir voice 3 “Jeopardy!” creator Griffin 4 The D-backs, on scoreboards 5 Tricked by a scam 6 Sparkle 7 Meg of “You’ve Got Mail” 8 Bruin legend Bobby 9 Attack, to Rover 10 One with a

devious plan 11 Social gathering at a home 12 Metal fastener 13 Bias 18 Bed support 23 Don of morning radio 24 Auto financing abbr.

25 Aware of 26 Greek god of war 27 Japanese wrestling 28 ‘Vette roof option 29 Region beyond our atmosphere 30 Niagara __ 32 Showy flower 33 Crooner Perry 34 Sharp 36 “The more you know” TV ads, e.g.

39 Repetitive learning

40 Builds up 41 Construction site headgear 42 Bic filler 44 Newspaper sales no.

45 Techniquemastering piano piece 46 Short film role 47 “Legion of the Damned” series writer William 49 Naughty kid 50 Cranky state 51 Biology lab gel 52 Fashion’s Oscar __ Renta 55 Narc’s find, briefly 56 Boxing immortal 57 Firefighter’s tool

SPORTS

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AREA SCOREBOARD BASEBALL P-15’S MEETING

An organizational meeting for both the Sumter American Legion Post 15 Senior and Junior American Legion baseball teams will be held on Thursday.

The meeting will be held at the American Legion Hut located at 34 South Artillery Drive beginning at 7 p.m.

Players between the ages of 14 and 18 who plan to try out for the P-15’s teams should attend the meeting with at least one parent or legal guardian. Players are to bring their original birth certificates to the meeting.

will be run by SCS coaches Bobby Baker and Tom Cope at a cost of $45 per student.

The clinic for grades 1-3 will be held from June 8-12 with grades 3-6 on June 22-26, grades 6-9 on July 6-10 and grades 9-12 on July 27-31.

For more information, contact the school at (803) 773-1902.

GOLF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CLASSIC

The St. Francis Xavier High School 20th Annual Golf Classic will be held on Friday, May 8, at Sunset Country Club.

The format will be a 4-person Captain’s Choice. The entry fee is $70 per person.

For more information, call Chan Floyd at (803) 774-8555, Rick Lavergne at (803) 481-3048 or the St. Francis office at (803) 773-0210.

DALZELL-SHAW MEETING

FRIEND OF YOUTH TOURNAMENT

The Dalzell-Shaw Post 175 American Legion baseball team will hold an organizational meeting today at the Post 17 American Legion hut in Dalzell on old U.S. Highway 521 beginning at 7 p.m.

Players between the ages of 15-19 who want to try out must attend the meeting with parents or legal guardians and are required to bring their birth certificates.

The Friend Of Youth Golf Tournament sponsored by the Evening Optimist Club of Sumter will be held on May 9 at Crystal Lakes Golf Course.

The format will be 4-man Captain’s Choice at a cost of $40 per player. The minimum team handicap is 50 with only one player allowed to have a handicap of eight or less.

Seniors and women are encouraged to sign up for the tournament.

There are sponsorship opportunities available at the costs of $100, $200 and $300.

The money that is raised will go Optimist Club charities.

For more information, call Les Perkins at (803) 468-1619.

MANNING-SANTEE MEETING

An organizational meeting for the both senior and junior American Legion baseball teams for Manning-Santee Post 68 will be held on Sunday at 5 p.m.

It will be held at the American Legion hut on Sunset Drive in Manning.

For more information, call G.G. Cutter at (803) 225-2929.

BASKETBALL TEAM PERSEVERANCE REGISTRATION

Team Perseverance Basketball is now registering boys and girls ages 8-18 for its offseason travel program.

For more information, contact coach Junko Allen at (803) 7955513, or by email at coachj_perseverance@yahoo.com.

SUMTER CHRISTIAN CLINICS

Sumter Christian School will host four separate basketball clinics over two months beginning on June 8 at the school’s gymnasium.

The clinics, which will run from 10 a.m. to noon each day,

HOLE-IN-ONE

Christina Green of Ontario, Canada, had a hole-in-one on April 16 at The Links at Lakewood golf course.

Green aced the 95-yard No. 3 hole, using a 9 iron. It was her first career hole-in-one.

Witnesses were Bob Thom, Char Thom and Blair Green.

9-HOLE CAPTAIN’S CHOICE

The Links at Lakewood golf course is hosting a 9-hole Captain’s Choice event every Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

The cost is $25 per player and includes a steak dinner, a cart and prizes.

To sign up, call the pro shop at (803) 481-5700 up to 5 p.m. the day of the event.

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TOYOTA OWNERS 400 RESULTS

FROM PAGE B1 Many of his flaws were exposed over four days of tawdry testimony during NASCAR’s offseason.

When it was finally time for Busch to go back to work and seek solace in his race car, a Delaware judge granted Driscoll’s request and ruled Busch likely had assaulted her.

NASCAR moved swiftly in suspending Busch two days before the seasonopening Daytona 500, and his time on the sidelines covered the first three races of the year. Busch was reinstated only after the Delaware attorney general declined to press charges and NASCAR said he’d sufficiently completed a program that cleared his return to competition.

Busch has certainly presented himself as a humbled man in the six weeks since his return.

He has not been argumentative in public, he has maintained his composure when faced with adversity on the race track and he seems to be putting forth an effort not to do anything that could call his character into question.

In the meantime, he’s been spectacular on the race track.

Since his fifth-place finish at Phoenix in his return, Busch has led laps in every race and contended for the win each week. He won two poles, probably would have won at California until late debris cautions interfered and finally got the win Sunday that will qualify him to race in the championship playoffs.

The last six weeks have shown nothing short of the driver Gene Haas hand-picked to drive a new fourth car he funds out of his own pocket.

Haas knew he was bringing in a volatile driver with a history of making enemies, but he also knew Stewart-Haas Racing was

By The Associated Press Sunday At Richmond International Raceway Richmond, Va. Lap length: .75 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (3) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 400 laps, 148.1 rating, 48 points, $221,240.

2. (5) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 400, 122.8, 43, $211,050.

3. (36) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 400, 103.5, 41, $176,961.

4. (9) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 400, 108.8, 41, $154,491.

5. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, 114.7, 40, $163,233.

6. (40) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 400, 95.3, 38, $115,840.

7. (8) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 400, 107.7, 37, $132,501.

8. (11) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 400, 101.7, 36, $135,026.

9. (17) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 400, 96.3, 35, $123,923.

10. (6) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 107.1, 34, $114,710.

11. (23) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 400, 84.3, 33, $125,490.

12. (12) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400, 89.2, 32, $114,433.

13. (4) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 400, 84.3, 31, $122,908.

14. (26) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 400, 86.4, 30, $99,525.

15. (15) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 400, 75.2, 29, $91,750.

16. (16) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, 76.9, 0, $78,800.

17. (7) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 400, 105, 28, $127,166.

18. (22) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 400, 72.3, 26, $106,608.

19. (18) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 400, 63.9, 25, $77,825.

20. (27) Aric Almirola, Ford, 399, 67.5, 24, $118,936.

21. (32) Greg Biffle, Ford, 398, 56.1, 23, $112,258.

22. (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 398, 71.6, 22, $95,350.

23. (10) David Ragan, Toyota, 398, 67.5, 21, $122,141.

24. (34) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 398, 57.6, 20, $121,575.

25. (21) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 398, 56.5, 19, $88,450.

26. (19) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 398, 62.6, 0, $80,225.

27. (20) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 398, 56.4, 17, $116,886.

28. (24) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 398, 51.2, 16, $87,725.

29. (14) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, 396, 64.2, 15, $108,214.

30. (25) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 396, 53, 14, $102,883.

31. (30) David Gilliland, Ford, 396, 42, 13, $98,658.

32. (41) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 396, 38.5, 12, $88,397.

33. (38) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 395, 42.4, 11, $75,725.

34. (43) Reed Sorenson, Ford, 395, 37.9, 10, $75,600.

35. (29) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 394, 42.5, 9, $104,245.

36. (31) Cole Whitt, Ford, 394, 42.5, 8, $75,215.

37. (37) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 394, 32.7, 7, $75,074.

38. (39) Jeb Burton, Toyota, 393, 28.5, 6, $70,112.

39. (42) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet, 392, 26.3, 5, $66,040.

40. (33) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, 386, 25.9, 0, $62,040.

41. (13) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, accident, 359, 70, 3, $85,254.

42. (28) Josh Wise, Ford, engine, 137, 35.7, 2, $54,040.

43. (35) Joey Gase, Ford, accident, 124, 27.9, 0, $50,540.

getting one of the top talents in NASCAR. The question that never went away was: When was Busch going to selfdestruct?

The wheels began to fall off long before that night with Driscoll at his motorhome. Busch’s performance tailed off late last summer and, as the reality set in that he was not a legitimate title contender, his fuse grew shorter and shorter.

He was ultimately eliminated from the Chase on the same weekend Driscoll alleges the assault occurred.

That time out of the car at the start of the season had to make him think: What was it that he was doing to constantly find himself in all these ugly incidents?

He has clearly been on a mission to prove something since his reinstatement, but that can only be done off the track. Busch

himself noted after Sunday’s win that it was never difficult during this latest controversy for him to separate his personal life from his professional life, and that he was “standing on the truth the whole time.

“That gave me the feeling of when I do get back to the car, it’s going to be easy to focus, and I think I’ve shown that,’’ he said.

Yes, he certainly has.

The win showed he is the driver everyone knew he was, and in that post-race celebration, it might have also shown the person he’s trying to become.

“Victory Lane is Victory Lane — I was standing there, the confetti is flying, they gave us the Champagne bottles ... it doesn’t change,’’ he said. “As I’m older, I can appreciate it more because of the time and effort that it takes to assemble a good group of guys. That’s where I recognize what now I might have took for granted.’’

OBITUARIES BETTY JANE M. YARBOROUGH PINEWOOD — Betty Jane McElveen Yarborough, 76, wife of Edward L. Yarborough, died on Sunday, April 26, 2015, at Providence Hospital, with her children by her side.

Born on Oct. 2, 1938, in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Russell Edward and Bell Kirby YARBOROUGH McElveen. She was a member of Home Branch Church of God of Prophecy.

She is survived by three sons, Ralph Edward Petroff of Pageland, Billy Davis and Lewis Yarborough (Gayle), both of Sumter; two daughters, Betty Ann Bochette (Mike Varner) of Sumter and Dotti Booker (Toney) of Pinewood; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two brothers; seven sisters; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a son, Jimmy Calvert.

A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home with the Revs.

William M. Griggs and Toney D. Booker officiating. Burial will follow in Paxville Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Danny Conyers, Lance Holliday, Allen Hatchell, Allen Parker, John Ammons and Steve Brown.

Honorary pallbearers will be David McElveen and Calvert Conyers.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the residence, 4309 Furse Road, Pinewood.

The family would like to thank Dr. Mitch Grunsky and the ICU staff at Providence Hospital for all of their care and attention.

Memorials may be made to Home Branch Church of God of Prophecy, 2211 Connor Road, Manning, SC 29102.

Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

MARTHA BOCHETTE VALLEY, Alabama — Martha Bochette, age 78, of Beulah, passed away on Monday, April 27, 2015, at her residence.

She was born on July 19, 1936, in Gastonia, North Carolina to the late Alonzo Parks Lankford and Ruby Joe Chapman Lankford. She was a member of Shawmut Church of the Nazarene in Valley.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Shawmut Church of the Nazarene with interment following in Johnson Memorial Gardens. The Revs. Tim and Bonnye Campbell will officiate.

The family will be receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home in Valley.

She is survived by her sons, Jim (Cheire) Bochette of Brownville, New York, and Randy Bochette of Beulah; sister, Doris (Jimmy) Wade of Chester; brother, Lon (Valette) Lankford of Longmont, Colorado; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her brother, Donald P. Lankford; sister, Mertis Lankford LeCroy; and granddaughter, Brook Bochette.

Please visit our website at www.johnsonbrownservicefh. com to sign the online guest book.

Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home in Valley is directing.

WILLIE KENLEY JR. Willie Kenley Jr. departed this life on Friday, April 24, 2015, in Decatur, Georgia.

He was born on Feb. 25, 1948, in Sumter, a son of the late Willie Sr. and Susie Reed Kenley.

Funeral plans are incom-

plete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.

LELIA MAE T. CANTEY Lelia Mae Thomas Cantey, 71, wife of Douglas Cantey, departed this life on Monday, April 27, 2015, at McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence.

She was born on March 27, 1944, in Bamberg County, a daughter of the late Joe and Annie Mae Abney Thomas.

The family will be receiving friends at 1873 Boyd Road, Manning, SC 29102.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

RUBY BUTLER BISHOPVILLE — Ruby Butler entered eternal rest on April 27, 2015, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 3429 Sumter Highway, Bishopville.

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

JAMES PRINCE MANNING — James “Sonny” Prince, 62, husband of Sarah McBride Prince, died on Sunday evening, April 26, 2015, at his residence.

He was born on June 14, 1952, in the Bloomville section of Manning, he was a son of the late Charlie and Clara Camelia Dow Prince.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 1031 Ernest Lane, Manning.

Services are entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

SHARON RICHARDSON BISHOPVILLE — Sharon Richardson passed away on April 23, 2015, in Florence.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Refreshing Spring Worship Cen-

ter in Timmonsville.

The body will lie in repose one hour prior to the service.

A public viewing will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at Mt. Ephraim Ambassador Outreach Ministries in Florence.

Internment will follow in Rauch Memorial Gardens in Florence.

Services directed by the management and staff of New Life Funeral Services of Bishopville.

STELLA P. PRITCHARD Stella Polson Pritchard, 96, widow of Charles Everette Pritchard, died on Monday, April 27, 2015, at a local nursing facility.

Born in Camden, she was a daughter of the late Charles Loman and Nora Burns Tidwell Polson. Mrs. Pritchard was a member of Crosswell Baptist Church. She retired from the Capital Department Store and B-D. Survivors include three children, Kenneth Wythe Pritchard (Candy) of Plano, Texas, Karen P. Schmalhorst of Sumter and James Everette “Ebb” Pritchard (Jenni) of Charleston; two brothers, Buster Polson of Camden and Alvo Polson of Saginaw, Michigan; four sisters, Barbara Horton and Frances Griswold, both of Camden, Martha Maddox of Lexington and Jacqueline Lee of Columbia; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Ronald Charles Lyons; three brothers, John L. Polson, C.L. Polson and Woodrow Polson; a sister, Bernice Polson; and a son-in-law, Dick Schmalhorst.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Charles Owens officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on

Wednesday at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to Crosswell Baptist Church, 604 Mathis St., Sumter, SC 29150.

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

DELORES F. VAUGHN Delores Furman Vaughn, wife of Walter L. Vaughn, entered eternal rest on Monday, April 27, 2015, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia.

Born on May 30, 1960, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Henry and Viola Choice Furman.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 5180 Queen Chapel Road, Dalzell.

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

MARIE E. JENKINS Marie E. Jenkins, 86, widow of Ankcrom Jenkins, died on Monday, April 27, 2015, at her home.

Born on March 24, 1929, in Lancaster, she was a daughter of the late John Wesley and Moxie Funerburke Erving.

The family is receiving friends and relatives at her home, 21 James St., Sumter.

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

ESTELLE B. CHANEY Estelle B. Chaney, widow of Francis Chaney, died on Monday, April 27, 2015, at her residence in Sumter.

Born in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Elder Salters Ballard Sr. and Beatrice Rembert Chaney.

The family will receive friends at the home of her son, Melvin Chaney, 880 Illery Road.

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

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PUBLIC AUCTION Auction notice is hereby given that the contents of the rental cube list herein will be offered for sale online website per SC Storage Act. The property list contained herein will be sold to satisfy liens imposed by CubeSmart on 5/6/2015 at 2:00PM. The sale will occur on the website http://www.storagetreasures.com.

THIRTEEN (13) MONTH LEASE REQUIRED

(803) 773-3600 POWERS PROPERTIES

803-773-3600

395 Coachman Drive Office Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9-5 Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette.

775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

Unfurnished Homes 2245 Dartmouth Dr. 2BR/2BA, 2 car garage, appl, nice neighborhood, behind Wal-Mart, $850/mo + sec. Call 803-934-0434 before 5, After 5 803-600-1284 Nice Area 2BR 1.5BA C/H/A, Appliances. New carpet, paint. No Pets/Smoking $625mo. & dep.

803-983-8463.

3 & 4 Br MH & houses, located in Manning & Sumter. No Sect. 8. Rent + dep. req. Call 803-460-6216.

For rent-Newly Renovated 3BR 1BA C/H/A, carport, $650 Mo. Call 803-563-7202

#130 Samantha Gamble - Household items.

CubeSmart reserves the right to reject all bids. All contents are sold "as is". Contents of the cube must be removed immediately or the storage cube containing the items must be rented by the purchaser. Sale is subject to cancellation at any time.

the object and prayer of which is an action to cancel the mortgage and other related relief as set forth in the Complaint.

417 - Rush, Eric 441 - Fulwood, Malcolm 560 - Calvetti, Aaron 713 - Ford, Desean 716 - Lemon, Brad 718 - Smith-OWENS, Tracy 729 - McCray, Ada 1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153 A036 - Medina, Laracha B033 - Smith, Judie B046 - Burns, Latoya B052 - Pringle, Brenda B095 - Tingle, Leslie C050 - Bradley, Stacey C059 - Starnes, Lateka C065 - Parker, Andrew D024 - Ragin, Shawn F019 - Williams, Sandra F023 - Lockes, Carlton F040 - Holmes, Johnny Mae G005 - Austin, Latonya G024 - Kennedy, Dwight G028 - Joyner, Serita G031 - Rubin, Gary H005 - Stewart, Sandra 3785 Broad St, Sumter, SC 29154 0152 - Kershaw, Lillie 0229 - White, Brenda 0232 - Johnson, Christopher 0253 - Hawkins-Sweetenburg, Jennifer 0318 - Holliday, Eddie 0321 - Burns, Monteak 0326 - Gregory, Theresa 0430 - Singleton, Aundria 0516 - Miles, April 0543 - Stuckey, Sheila B 0834 - McCombs, Clayton Purchase must be made with cash only and paid for at the time of sale.

All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to adjournment.

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Fire

and

Casualty

Plaintiff, v.

Joan Felder, Lisa Boggs, Diesha Jefferson, Ruth Green, Briana Burns, Samuel Dinkins, and Sarah Harvin, Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANTS HEEIN: JOAN FELDER, LISA BOGGS, DIESHA JEFFERSON, RUTH GREEN, BRIANA BURNS, SAMUEAL DINKINS AND SARAH HARVIN: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the undersigned attorneys at their offices, 2725 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE that the Complaint, Declaratory Judgment, Non-Jury in the above captioned matter was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on the 4th day of February, 2015.

DuBOSE-ROBINSON, PC J. Kennedy DuBose, Jr. Jonathan M. Robinson John K. DuBose, III H. Thomas Morgan, Jr. L. Shawn Sullivan ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF P. O. Drawer 39 Camden, South Carolina 29021 (803) 432-1992 (telephone) (803) 432-0784 (facsimile) johnd@duboselaw.com

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2014-CP-43-1312 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER

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

Estate:

Allison McCoy Thames C/O Wade S Kolb Jr. 107 N Main Street Sumter, SC 29150 Eugene L. Geddings #2015ES4300212

Estate:

Mary Ann C Nance 28 Lindley Avenue Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

Mildred Miller C/O Lionel S Lofton Attorney At Law 225 Seven Farms Road Suite 109 Charleston, SC 29492 Estate: James Thomas Burgess #2015ES4300206 Personal Representative

Vela Burgess 4805 Narrow Paved Road Lynchburg, SC 29080 Estate:

Jerry Singleton #2015ES4300217

Raynald Muldrow C/O Garryl Deas Attorney at Law PO Box 1211 Sumter, SC 29151 Estate:

Estate:

Robert Edward Baird #2015ES4300227

Personal Representative

Troy Baird 5 Marshcreek Lane Savannah, GA 31411 Estate:

John Marion Olden #2015ES4300235

Moises A Sein #2015ES4300245

Personal Representative

Nilva E Sein C/O Richard L Booth Attorney At Law PO Box 2756 Sumter, SC 29151

Personal Representative

Christine Singleton C/O Ruben Gray Attorney at Law PO Box 2636 Sumter, SC 29151

Kanicqwa R. Muldrow #2015ES4300230

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Estate:

sally Jane Brunson #2015ES4300253

Personal Representative

Carlos Henry Skelton, Sr. #2015ES4300209

Carols Henry Skelton, Jr. 2640 Indigo Drive Sumter, SC 29154

Robert Fleming Nance #2015ES4300249

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Cynthia Hacquard 510 Canvasback Cove Sumter, SC 29150

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-0327

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

Estate: Julie McDaniel Wright #2015ES4300087

SUMMONS

Estate:

Barbara Ann Taylor #2015ES4300219

Personal Representative

Marian Virginia Brame C/O Catherine H. Kennedy PO Box 1473 Columbia, SC 29202 Estate:

William a King #2015ES4300252

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Mary M King C/O J Cabot Seth Attorney At Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151

Jonathan Odell Olden C/O Sharon Clark 22 E. Liberty Street Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:James Dow Harrelson Jr #2015ES4300250

Estate:

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Estate:

Theresa M. Temples 2975 Ashlynn Way Sumter, SC 29154

Dabney L Sharp C/O Jack W Erter Jr Attorney At Law 126 N Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

Estate:

Roger Dean Blakley #2015ES4300210

Personal Representative

Personal Representative

Elizabeth N. Hilton #2015ES4300208

Personal Representative

John B. Hilton Jr. 2691 Wedgefield Rd. Sumter, SC 29154 Estate:

Earlene McLeod #2015ES4300232

Personal Representative

Fred G. McLeod C/O Dwight C. Moore Attorney at Law 26 N. Main Street Sumter, SC 29150

Michael Lee Edwards, Jr. #2015ES4300216 Angela C. Edwards 715 Orlando Circle Sumter, SC 29154

Edna Blakley 603 Colonial Drive Sumter, SC 29150 Estate:

Theola M. Temples #2015ES4300238

Estate:

David Jones McCall #2015ES4300244

Personal Representative

Judy McCall 108 South Wise Drive Sumter, SC 29150 Estate: Muldrow James Burgess #2015ES4300218 Personal Representative

Emily Burgess C/O Ruben Gray Attorney at Law PO Box 2636 Sumter, SC 29151

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Sarla Harshad Desai, Plaintiff vs.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell to satisfy the lien of owner at public sale by competitive bidding on May 7, 2015 personal and/or business property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools and other household/business items located at the properties listed.

You are hereby summoned and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff, or her attorney, Kenneth R. Young, Jr., within thirty (30) days after the service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer to the said Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for a default judgment granting the relief demanded in the said Complaint

1143 N.Guignard Dr, Sumter, SC 29150 101 - Carter, Joeann 125 - Green, Brenda 201 - Rush, Eric 206 - Jones, Tabbith 215 - Gadson, James 342 - Reynolds, Jaret 404 - Gripper, Adrian

Estate Notice Sumter County

Personal Representative

Varshaben Patel,

The personal goods stored therein by below named occupant(s);

Kenneth R. Young, Jr. Attorney for Plaintiff 23 West Calhoun Street Sumter, SC 29150 803-773-4371

Estate:

Summons & Notice

State Farm Company,

Estate Notice Sumter County

Summons & Notice

Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY

The sale will begin at 2:00 pm at 1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153.

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Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT, VARSHABEN PATEL:

TO THE DEFENDANT, VARSHABEN PATEL: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above captioned matter were filed in the Court Of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina,

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