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Another teen dodges murder charge Lee County man, 18, pleads to lesser charge in September shooting death BY MATT BRUCE matthew@theitem.com Three more suspects charged in connection with a Lee County teen’s shooting death last year pleaded guilty Monday afternoon during a hearing inside Sumter County Judicial Center. Sunallah Sadat Liles, 18, was the principle defendant among
the trio, which stood before Circuit Court Judge Knox McMahon. McMahon issued Liles a five-year prison sentence, LILES suspended to four years probation, for his role in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Dontrell Fortune in September. Liles was original-
ly one of seven teens charged with murder in connection with the killings of Fortune and Shakez Bracey, who were both killed within a 15-hour span. During Monday’s hearing, he pleaded to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact to murder, becoming the fifth defendant in the connected shootings to do so. His murder charge was dismissed.
McMahon accepted Liles guilty plea on the felony count, which carried a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. As part of the negotiated deal, prosecutors beckoned the judge to issue Liles an 18month prison term, suspended to two years of probation. McMahon opted to tack on more time to the probationary sentence, citing Liles’ involvement
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in the shooting. Fortune was shot dead in his SUV in the Green Acres community on Bishopville’s outskirts. Kalvon Goodman, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting March 26 in Lee County, was identified as the triggerman in the deadly
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FESTIVAL ON THE AVENUE
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Ashley Meier takes pictures as David Moses performs acrobatics with his plane, left, during the Larks RC Club’s fly-in Saturday afternoon in Dalzell. The event was a fundraiser to help SCOA Cares (South Carolina Oncology Associates), which uses the money for cancer research, and Rembert Area Community Coalition. Check out more photos from the fly-in on page A3.
Nearly a decade has passed since the first Festival on the Avenue, and it’s grown in performances and number of attendees every year, according to Patty Wilson, a founder and committee chairwoman. “This year will be our best ever,” Wilson said. The festival began with a mission to change the image of the South Main Street (Britton) bridge from that of barrier to connector, literally “bridging the gap” between South Sumter and the rest of the city. So popular has the festival become through the years that performers and organizations from the area and even out of state are clamoring to participate. “We’ve got people coming from as far away as Texas and Washington (D.C.),” Wilson said. Most of the performers are local, she said, and while most of the associated events happen on Saturday, the Festival on the Avenue actually starts at 7 p.m. this Thursday with the Living History Museum. The event at the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church Life Enrichment Center on Fulton Street features young adult and senior actors as significant figures from history, several of them local icons. Friday brings the highly anticipated Taste of Soul on the Avenue; from 6 to 9 p.m. at South Sumter Farmers Market, attendees can enjoy soul food cooked by local home cooks and food truck operators. “Look for everything from fish to fried chicken, ribs, chicken pot pie, jelly cake and sticky pot,” Wilson said. “One vendor is coming down from North Carolina with a wide variety. Our Youth Build students will prepare the desserts. “We’ve also got a surprise band that will play during the Taste,” Wilson said. “They’re very good, and they play everything from oldies to jazz and hip-hop.” Saturday brings six hours of festival events and entertainment, beginning at 10 a.m. with the parade. When it ends on Manning Avenue, the opening ceremony will be held across from Marion H. Newton Family Life Center. Several dignitaries will offer greetings, and Rep. David Weeks, D-Sumter, will introduce the grand marshal, Leola Whitaker.
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Sailor: I survived by staying inside, rationing CHARLOTTE (AP) — The man rescued from a disabled sailboat off the North Carolina coast responded to critics of his story Monday, explaining that he avoided sunburn and blisters by staying in the vessel’s cabin and that he survived by rationing food and water. Louis Jordan’s three-para-
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and often there was no way of hanging up my clothes to dry. Keeping dry was vital to my survival.” Jordan also says he set up a makeshift mast with a small sail to get the boat headed in a westward direction. He says he rationed food and water and kept his calorie
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expenditure low. “That meant I had to stay inside the boat as much as possible, therefore I didn’t have a sunburn, or blisters, as if I were found clinging to an upsidedown boat,” Jordan said. Jordan was spotted by a German-flagged boat Thursday, more than two months after
sailing out of a South Carolina marina. Coast Guard crew members who retrieved him said they were surprised by his fit appearance and health. Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard say it wasn’t clear how long after he left the marina in Conway, South Carolina, that his boat first capsized.
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Sumter County court officials said Monday a scam is circulating the area that is targeted toward residents scheduled to serve jury duty. According to Sumter County Clerk of Court Jamie Campbell, jury coordinators have received four complaints about the scheme during the past few weeks. Officials said a fraudster calls potential jurors posing as a Sumter County deputy, and falsely tells them that they have failed to report for their mandated jury-duty assignment. The scammer then demands the victim transfer money, using a pre-paid debit or credit card such as Green Dot, to pay for fines tied to the missed jury duty. Demands have reportedly ranged from $100 to $500. Court officials said there is no fine associated with missing jury duty and indicated law enforcement would never contact a resident directly to demand money in such a way. Sumter County is in the midst of general sessions for the next two weeks, and Campbell said jury trials may commence next week.
Recent instances of racial intolerance on college and university campuses have hit closer to home with the discovery of a racially themed Christmas party thrown by Clemson University students and a photo showing a University of South Carolina student who allegedly wrote a racial slur on a study room whiteboard. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter at Clemson has been placed on probation after school officials discovered that some members hosted a racially themed “Clemson Cripmas” party in December. And most recently,
a student at USC Columbia was suspended after she was identified in a photo showing her listing a racial slur directed toward black Americans as one of the reasons why the school’s Wi-Fi “blows.” In both cases, photos were posted and shared over multiple social media platforms. Michael Sonntag, dean of USC Sumter, said he stands behind USC President Harry Pastides’ reference to the university’s Carolinian Creed in a statement about the student’s actions. The creed, which lists personal policies for students, is just as important as the school’s student code of conduct on the USC Sumter campus. Misty Hatfield, director
of marketing and public relations at USC Sumter, said freshman students who take the University 101 course at USC Sumter are given a copy of the Carolinian Creed to read and understand its values. Sonntag said most things that happen on campus are all-inclusive because the student body is made of people from different races, ages and backgrounds. “We make sure all events are accessible for everyone,” he said. Central Carolina Technical College President Tim Hardee said the college goes beyond teaching students technical skills by also teaching students how to handle themselves during a job search. He
Donation every year since 1984 Charles Wortham Boyle, 2, donated a copy of his favorite book, “Little Blue Truck,” to the Sumter County Library in honor of his father, Wortham Wyatt Dibble Boyle, and in memory of his father’s identical twin, Charles Lemmon Dibble Boyle, on the occasion of their 33rd birthday, April 9. Charlie was visiting his grandmother, Grace Dibble Boyle, who has donated a book to the children’s library at the Sumter County Library every year since her son’s death in 1984.
Woman dies in vehicle rollover A 27-year old Guatemalan woman living in Sumter died Friday from injuries she sustained in a one-vehicle wreck at 8 a.m. Friday on Narrow Paved Road in Sumter County. South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. David Jones said Cristina Lorenzo apparently veered off the right side of the roadway before overcorrecting and running off the left side of the road. The 2000 Honda Lorenzo was driving overturned several times. The victim was not wearing a seatbelt, Jones said, and she was ejected from the vehicle. Lorenzo was transported to McLeod Medical Center in Florence where she later died from her injuries.
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said students should be sure not to post anything online that could be a detriment to future employment. Hatfield and Hardee said both schools monitor social media for any posts where the school is mentioned to make sure those posts are appropriate. They both said any inappropriate posts would be removed and the students would be addressed accordingly. Hardee said part of receiving an education is learning to how to be a good citizen, and part of being a good citizen is being aware of important issues. “Students need to realize that what they do will affect them in and outside of the classroom,” he said.
CHARLESTON — As state lawmakers ponder firing the South Carolina State University trustees, South Carolina’s only black congressman and a federal lawsuit contend the state can be blamed in part CLYBURN for the school’s financial woes. Present and former university students are suing the state and the Commission on Higher Education saying duplicating South Carolina State’s programs at other universities hurts enrollment, and the bottom line, at the historically black school. And Sumter native U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., says lawmakers haven’t given the school money to match federal grants and funds available for land grant institutions. But he says Clemson, the state’s other land-grant school, always gets such money. The state and its Commission on High-
er Education have until April 16 to respond to the lawsuit alleging the state has “a constitutional duty to protect the plaintiffs from the policies and conditions indicative of the former dual system of segregation in higher education.” It said separate programs date to the time when separate but equal was the law of the land. South Carolina State is the only historically black university among the state’s 33 public colleges and technical schools. The state Budget and Control Board was told last month the university’s escalating debt could reach almost $24 million this year. A bill in the General Assembly calls for replacing the existing university board because of the financial problems. The lawsuit filed in February says the defendants “knew or should have known duplication of academic programs would impact the enrollment at South Carolina State” because research shows white students will not choose a black college if its programs are offered at other schools. The suit asks a federal judge to appoint a special mediator to recommend a
remedy for what it calls a segregated system of higher education. Clyburn told reporters in Columbia on Friday the state doesn’t treat its land grant institutions equally and shortchanges South Carolina State while giving Clemson the matching money it needs for federal grants. “That’s deliberate. How can you look at that and say it’s fair?” asked Clyburn, the state’s first black congressman since Reconstruction after the Civil War. “Why are you giving Clemson the money it needs? They didn’t just start that. They’ve been doing that for years.” South Carolina State officials have complained for years that the state withholding funding means the school can’t attract as many students. Some state lawmakers have said the school’s problems could finally lead to creation of a statewide Board of Regents with stronger authority to prevent duplication of programs at colleges and universities. It is an idea that has been discussed, but which has died repeatedly, in Columbia in recent years.
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Documentaries on 5 of film’s greatest stars to be telecast BY NICK THOMAS Tinseltown Talks On April 7, Turner Classic Movies will present a biography feast for classic film lovers. The five documentaries to be broadcast – on Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart – were all produced and directed by the Emmy Award-winning duo of Joan Kramer and David Heeley. “We’re co-hosting the evening with TCM’s Robert Osborne, and it coincides with the release of our book, ‘In the Company of Legends’ in April,” Kramer said from her apartment in New York City. Between 1980 and 2005, Kramer and Heeley produced 17 major documentaries for Public Television, ABC News, Turner Entertainment Co. and film studios that featured legends of Hollywood’s Golden Age. “We strived to make the shows look smooth and flawless, but they were never easy to produce,” explained Kramer. “Each had hurdles to overcome and some were almost never made as a result.” It began with a pair of 1980 documentaries on Fred Astaire, notorious for torpedoing most attempts to produce tributes about his life. “As a public figure, we originally thought we could have gone ahead without his approval, but then discovered that Fred had control over the use of many of the clips from his films,” said Kramer. So Kramer and Heeley gently, but resolutely, prodded Astaire who not only relented but wholly supported the production. Their next subject had the potential to be even more daunting – four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn. “She didn’t trust a lot of people and rarely gave interviews. But David called her and by the end of their conversation, she gave him her permission to proceed with the program, although she wouldn’t appear on it,” Kramer said. “It was the beginning of an 18-year relationship with her.” The 1987 documentary “James Stewart: It’s a Wonderful Life” also had a rocky start. “Jimmy agreed to do it, then backed out, but eventually did it,” recalled Kramer. “Johnny Carson also agreed to host the program but we were a little worried because he had a reputation for being cold and aloof. Then Johnny also wanted out and suggested Cary Grant should host.” Carson called Grant to ask if he would host the program, but he was unavailable, so Carson eventually accepted the role. Just weeks later, while touring with his one-man biographical stage show, Grant died suddenly. “Johnny called and said he was tempted to break the news to me by saying ‘I asked Cary Grant to host your show, and he dropped dead!’ I told Johnny that wasn’t funny,” recalled Kramer. “But I think Johnny was just using black humor to cover his hurt because he and Cary were such good friends. Johnny turned out to be wonderful, and we found him extremely generous and helpful.” Kramer and Heeley also pro-
STOLEN PROPERTY A 2010 GMC Equinox valued at $25,000 was reportedly stolen from a home in the 5400 block of Oakland Drive after 10:15 p.m. Saturday. A 40-inch flat-screen TV, Playstation3 and wooden jewelry box containing several pieces of jewelry — all of undetermined value — were reportedly stolen from a Dalzell residence in the 3600 block of Eula Lane about 6:15 p.m. Sunday. A Yard Machine riding lawnmower of undetermined value was reportedly stolen from a home in the 1300 block of Morris Way Drive about 4 p.m. Friday. A Taylor acoustic electric guitar valued at $1,163 was reportedly stolen from the bed of a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck between 5 and 6 p.m. last Wednesday. A .32-caliber double-barrel Derringer handgun valued at $100, and a plastic jar containing 150 computer chips valued at $2,250 as well as 150 nitrous jets valued at $2,250 were reportedly stolen from inside a pair of cars parked at a yard in the 3600 block of Susan Street after 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
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said Kramer, who unearthed rare footage seen in many of the documentaries. In their upcoming book due for release on April 16, with a Foreword written by Richard Dreyfuss, Kramer and Heeley relive vivid behind-the-scenes memories of their more than 25 years’ partnership in the documentary making business and include many photographs from their personal collections. “Most of the photos have never been published before,” noted Kramer. “We got to work with the cream of the crop and won’t see the likes of these actors again.” Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns and interviews for more than 550 magazines and newspapers. Follow on Twitter @TinseltownTalks.
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Clemson research could help convert saltwater David Ladner, left, and Scott Husson explain the research being conducted at Clemson University they call “water-energy nexus” in March. Scientists are taking advantage of the saltwater-freshwater relationship to try to produce electricity.
BY RON BARNETT The Greenville News CLEMSON — There’s a thing about fresh water. If it had its way, it would become salty, just like the ocean. You could relate to it by your occasional craving for salty potato chips, but that would be understating it. Whenever unsalty water meets up with its saline cousin, the fresh water tries with all its might to suck in the salt. And it packs a punch when it does. At Clemson University, scientists are working to harness this innate property of water to make electricity. Here’s the ironic part: Their idea is to use the electricity to turn saltwater into fresh water. That could be a life-saver for parts of the world where water is scarce and even in relatively water-wealthy places such as Upstate South Carolina, as its thirsty neighbors downstream such as Atlanta guzzle from reservoirs that already dwindle during periods of drought. This is all part of a larger vision that about 40 Clemson researchers have signed onto called the Clemson University Water-Energy Consortium. Team Orange is working to make Blue Energy. Coordinating the effort is Gary Amy, who came here after working as director of the Water Desalination and Reuse Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.
ergy just the same way we recover energy from a hydroelectric dam, except it all happens inside a dam. But it happens due to this natural force of osmotic pressure.” There’s one problem. It takes a very thin, very strong membrane to handle the amount of pressure and yield the amount of energy that would make it cost effective to generate electricity. That’s what Husson and Ladner have been focusing on for the past year. Using advanced materials developed at Clemson and elsewhere such as microscopic carbon nanotubes, they have whittled the membrane down to about 50 microns. That’s 5 hundredths of a millimeter. They expect that after another year’s work they can shrink it down to about onequarter of that thickness, which would do the job. “Some of the materials are pretty exotic and expensive, so figuring out how to scale it up to make it economically feasible is part of the challenge,” Husson said. South Carolina could be well positioned to benefit economically from this work, even if it doesn’t need to start desalinating seawater in the foreseeable future, he said. The state’s textile industry infrastructure could be adapted to the manufacture of these special membranes, he said.
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“We’re in a very waterscarce world today, and we’re in a very energy-scarce world today as well,” the Distinguished Professor in Clemson’s College of Engineering and Science said. And, particularly in parts of the world that rely on desalination of sea water for drinking water, it takes a lot of energy to produce fresh water. Likewise, many types of energy production — from cooling water used in nuclear power plants to hydroelectric dams to fracking — require a lot of water. Hence, the nexus of the two is a fertile area for making the world more energy efficient and at the same time more secure in its water resources, Amy said.
That’s where Clemson researchers such as Scott Husson and David Ladner come in. The two have spent the past year working to develop an efficient way to use the energy from the saltwaterfreshwater relationship to produce electricity, which could be used to power desalination plants — or for any other purpose. To understand how their process works, it’s helpful to contrast it with the process by which ocean water is desalinated. In desalination, saltwater is forced through pipes that contain membranes that fil-
ter out the salt and push fresh water out the other side, Husson explained. The process he and Ladner are working on is similar in that it uses tubes containing wrapped layers of membranes through their length. The difference is that no pumps are used to try to push one type of water through. Saltwater comes in from one side, and fresh water — either from a river or from a wastewater plant — flows in by osmosis from the other, Husson said. “So if you have really salty ocean water on one side and fresh or wastewater on the other side, the fresh water will pass through to try to dilute the salt,” he said. “And when that happens there’s a pressure that builds up.” Here’s the way Ladner describes what happens next: “That force is so strong that it will actually cause the salty water side to become pressurized as if it were stacking up and filling a lake that is high above us. And then we can recover that en-
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Whitaker will serve as grand marshal FROM STAFF REPORTS Grand marshal for the 2015 Festival on the Avenue Parade is Leola K. Whitaker. The fifth of 11 children born in Wedgefield to Robert and Janie Kelly, she was married to the late Joseph Mitchell and is the mother of six children. Her determination, even as a single parent, only fired her determination to succeed. Whitaker, now 81, said she started out in tough times, picking cotton and doing domestic work for $10 a week to support her children. Although her opportunities for formal education were extremely limited, she never gave up, saying to herself, “If I have to work all my life, then I must have something to show for my work.”
Factory jobs at Pioneer Dress Co. and Model Dye Southern Inc. supported the Mitchell family for a time. Later, when she married Allen B. Whitaker, the couple opened and ran the Maney Street Grocery, but Whitaker continued to work to supplement the family’s income. She retired from BD in the ’90s, but started purchasing real estate to convert and rent. This enterprise resulted in her becoming the first black woman in Sumter to build and own a strip mall, Jo-Mel-Lee Plaza, which contained a restaurant, florist, barber shop and a dress boutique. She later purchased the corner adjacent to the plaza, where her sons built a grocery store. Whitaker remains a “pillar of the community.”
FESTIVAL FROM PAGE A1 Entertainment will take place on three stages along Manning Avenue, and each will feature a variety of performers — solo vocalists, dancers, gospel rappers, praise teams, choirs, mimes, puppeteers, spoken word artists and more, including the magician Houdini, back for his fourth appearance, mostly likely with a new trick or two. Special attractions will include a Kidz Korner at the farmers market and an art exhibition at South Sumter Resource Center. “It’s going to be a great festival again this year,” Wilson
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SHOOTING FROM PAGE A1 encounter. Investigators say Goodman shot Fortune in the back of the head from the back seat of the vehicle. Liles was driving the SUV at the time of the shooting. Goodman’s mother and girlfriend also pleaded guilty to the felony accessory charges Monday. The judge sentenced Sarah Wright Goodman, 49, and 20-year-old Gewanna Loretta Burton both to one year of probation. According to testimony, Goodman tried to convince Liles and his fellow defendants to keep quiet about the shooting when she learned her son was being sought by authorities. Investigators said she even attempted to conspire with them to drive them out of town to evade law enforcement. Burton rented a motel room in her name to give Kalvon Goodman a place to hideout while deputies were hunting him down. Monday’s plea hearing came less than two weeks after five other suspects charged in connection with the two homicide cases had their murder indictments
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he great pretense, the false suspense, the grand charade, the whole production number is about over. After months, after years of pretending that negotiations to keep Tehran’s mullahs from getting their own nuclear weapon, the cover has been lifted and Ta-da! — the grand finale begins with an all too familiar chorus: Peace in Our Time! Uncork the champaign, serve the caviar and get ready to applaud what should be a real hit. Call it “Munich: The Sequel.” Back in 1938, the original production got a big reception from the waiting world, too, maybe bigger, because the audience could take it seriously back then. Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who directed the show, may Paul have been Greenberg naïve, just putty in the Fuehrer’s hands. For he had finally agreed to sell out his Czechoslovak allies in exchange for what was going to be peace everlasting. But lest we forget, no one doubted the Englishman’s sincerity, or that of the crowds that greeted him when he proudly waved a worthless piece of paper in the air that was supposed to be a solemn agreement. Yes, here and there a few observers understood it was all a swindle. Like a lonely member of Parliament named Winston Churchill, and he was charitable, understanding that Mr. Chamberlain and his country were the victims of a great swindle, not its perpetrators. The prime minister had negotiated in good faith, but his sincerity would be rewarded with treachery. And so it was. Those who negotiated the Munich Agreement in 1938 could not have known how tragically it would turn out. Those who so proudly announced the deal consummated in Lausanne just a couple of days ago had Munich to learn from — but didn’t. Instead, they plunged ahead, forsaking this president’s repeated promises to stand fast against the mullahs’ developing their own nuclear weapon. To cite just some of this president’s oh-so-solemn assurances: • “I will continue to be clear on the fact that an Iranian nuclear weapon would be profoundly destabilizing for the entire region. It is strongly in America’s interest to prevent such a scenario.” — Barack Obama, June 5, 2008 in Cairo. • “We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. And so it’s unacceptable. And I will do everything that’s required to prevent it. And we will never take military options off the table.” — Barack Obama, June 5, 2008. • “Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon, I believe, is unacceptable. And we have to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening.” — Barack Obama, Nov. 7, 2008.
• “There should be no doubt — the United States and the international community are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.” —Barack Obama, July 1, 2010. • “Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.” — Barack Obama, January 24, 2012. And on and on, year after year, promise after promise. Today it should be clear just how worthless such promises were. But perhaps I’m mistaken. (It’s been known to happen.) And perhaps all the paper precautions announced this week along with the deal may yet suffice to keep Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. Wouldn’t that be nice? Not only nice — it would be miraculous. But today this president’s rosy-hued promises sound like little more than cynical ploys. Does anyone who’s followed this process really believe that such assurances are worth any more than Herr Hitler’s when he got his agreement at Munich? Maybe, just maybe, they are. And maybe pigs will develop wings. As the West is played for a fool again, a glib equation has been made between Neville Chamberlain in 1938 and Barack Obama in 2015, but that comparison doesn’t hold up on closer inspection. Neville Chamberlain was sincere. Not since our last messianic president, Woodrow Wilson, has the country had a leader who believed he could conduct American diplomacy so unilaterally — without the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate no matter what the Constitution says. The result in Wilson’s case was tragedy. His great dream of a League of Nations ensuring the peace of the world was doomed without American participation when the Senate failed to approve the Treaty of Versailles he had engineered. Not that the League could have survived anyway as the aggressors of the world — German Nazis, Italian fascisti, Japanese imperialists — proved more than a match for its naivete. The outlook for Barack Obama’s unilateral diplomacy appears just as bleak. He and his legal eagles may succeed in following the letter of the Constitution by dubbing this deal with Tehran’s mullahs and the usual European collaborators an executive agreement instead a treaty, but not its spirit. The rest of his “strategy,” which amounts to appeasing Iran, is just as crafty and likely to prove just as futile. Or maybe you’re one of those who believe that it’s a great victory getting Tehran to delay its bomb by a matter of months — or maybe just days — rather than dismantling it altogether. Some of us find that idea laughable. Israel’s irrepressible prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, whose interest in this deal is not just a matter of constitutional niceties but his country’s very survival, may have said it best: “Such a deal would not block Iran’s path to the bomb. It would pave it.” Paul Greenberg is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
NOTABLE & QUOTABLE In a story last week by Sumter Item reporter Adrienne Sarvis, we were proud to report, “Carrier alerts couple to fire.” Read it online at www.theitem.com: A Sumter Item news carrier could be considered a hero after alerting a sleeping couple to a yard fire early Tuesday morning. Donna Moore and her husband were asleep in bed when they were awakened by the sounds of someone banging on the front door of their home on Whitehall Drive. Moore said if it were not for Rita Holliday, she and her husband probably would not have woken up at all. “She saved our lives,” she said. Holliday, a news carrier with The Sumter Item for more than eight years, said she had just put the paper in the mailbox when she looked up and saw the fire in the Moores’ backyard. Worried that the flames would reach the vehicles under the carport in the yard, Holliday ran to the front door to alert the Moores. “I ran to the door and started banging on it and ringing the doorbell,” she said. When the couple asked who was at the door, Holliday replied, “It’s Rita, your carrier lady.” The fire spread from a shed in a neighboring yard behind the Moores’ house on Pelham Drive. The cause of the fire was not stated in the incident report. Moore’s husband tried to control the fire to his shed with the garden hose, but the flames were not fully extinguished until Sumter Fire Department arrived. Moore said her first thought after calling the fire department was to move her car away from the blaze and evacuate the area. In doing so, Moore said she fell and broke her collarbone. When fire services arrived at 3:16 a.m., one of the neighbor’s sheds was fully involved while the second shed along with the Moores’ shed was partially involved. ••• What follows are excerpts from a story titled, “Why skeptics think a South Carolina sailor lied about being lost at sea for 66 days.” Read it online at www.washingtonpost.com: In an interview with the U.K. Daily Mail, survival expert Erik Kulik of the True North Wilderness Survival School appeared to echo those remarks. “I would have expected him to be severely dehydrated,” Kulik said. “After that amount of time at sea, he would have been wobbly on his feet, and yet he seemed to walk perfectly. He says he broke his right shoulder, and yet he didn’t even seem to be guarding that shoulder in the pictures I saw after the rescue. There is a lot that doesn’t add up.” McCollum told the AP that he examined Jordan’s shoulder during the rescue and noticed “slight bruising” on his right clavicle but that Jordan was moving the arm “fluidly” and without “any sign of pain in his face.” Jordan told the Daily Mail that he has a simple answer about what happened to his shoulder: It healed. “I have a bump, but it’s fine,” he said. “I feel no pain right now. After two months at sea, it healed.” Jordan’s two-month ordeal was made stranger by his enthusiastic tales of getting iodine poisoning, sailing through swarms of glowing phosphorescent jellyfish at night and encountering two killer whales “with
such beautiful faces, they looked so friendly.” He told the newspaper that he survived by eating fish he caught by trailing dirty clothes in the ocean and by catching rainwater in a bucket, which he ultimately used for bathing. He said the water he drank tasted pretty good — like “coconut milk,” according to Yahoo News. Authorities checked Jordan’s bank accounts to confirm that he didn’t withdraw money during his time offshore, according to the Daily Mail. Investigators also plan to review Jordan’s credit card and bank statements, the newspaper reported. “We don’t have any reason to doubt him but nor can we confirm he spent all this time out there,” an unnamed U.S. Coast Guard spokesman told the Daily Mail. “We are looking forward to learning more about what exactly happened. We are as keen as anyone to find out the truth.” Jordan told the Daily Mail that he attributes his survival to prayer, reading the Bible cover to cover and reviewing the End Time prophecies. ••• Rolling Stone magazine’s story about the University of Virginia has been met with harsh criticism. What follows is an excerpt from a report by the Columbia Journalism Review. Read it online at www.cjr.com: Rolling Stone’s repudiation of the main narrative in “A Rape on Campus” is a story of journalistic failure that was avoidable. The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking. The magazine set aside or rationalized as unnecessary essential practices of reporting that, if pursued, would likely have led the magazine’s editors to reconsider publishing Jackie’s narrative so prominently, if at all. The published story glossed over the gaps in the magazine’s reporting by using pseudonyms and by failing to state where important information had come from. In late March, after a four-month investigation, the Charlottesville, Virginia, police department said that it had “exhausted all investigative leads” and had concluded, “There is no substantive basis to support the account alleged in the Rolling Stone article.” The story’s blowup comes as another shock to journalism’s credibility amid head-swiveling change in the media industry. The particulars of Rolling Stone’s failure make clear the need for a revitalized consensus in newsrooms old and new about what best journalistic practices entail, at an operating-manual-level of detail. As at other once-robust print magazines and newspapers, Rolling Stone’s editorial staff has shrunk in recent years as print advertising revenue has fallen and shifted online. The magazine’s full-time editorial ranks, not including art or photo staff, have contracted by about 25 percent since 2008. Yet Rolling Stone continues to invest in professional fact-checkers and to fund time-consuming investigations like Erdely’s. The magazine’s records and interviews with participants show that the failure of “A Rape on Campus” was not due to a lack of resources. The problem was methodology, compounded by an environment where several journalists with decades of collective experience failed to surface and debate problems about their reporting or to heed the questions they did receive from a fact-checking colleague. Notable & Quotable is compiled by Graham Osteen. Contact him at graham@theitem.com.
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‘Your Family or Mine’ ups the ick factor BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH I can handle vulgarity; it’s the stupidity I can’t stand. Last week, when I wondered how much a pornographic sensibility had informed the new comedy “Younger” (10 p.m., TV Land, TV-14), I had no idea I was embarking upon a theme. In the pilot of tonight’s new series “Your Family or Mine” (10 p.m., TBS, TV-14), a young couple, Oliver and Kelli (Kyle Howard and Kat Foster), set out upon a date. Having hired a baby-sitter, they have to make a quick pit stop at his parents’ house. Kelli knows that her motherin-law, Lois (JoBeth Williams), doesn’t like her and that Lois will think she’s a terrible mother if she tells her she’s gone back to work. Oliver’s dad, Ricky (Richard Dreyfuss), is a crusty old soul. So far, so good. It seems like typical family stuff. In-law jokes and all that. But mere seconds into the show, Oliver and Kelli begin to discuss a porn movie they watched together during a recent hotel stay. OK, perhaps the writers are trying to give the show “edge.” Maybe they don’t want the “Family” in the show’s title to give people any ideas. But it gets hideous real fast. Once ensconced in his parents’ place, Oliver shows how he has set up an Internet surveillance camera in his home to keep track of the baby-sitter. All of a sudden, Ricky begins to get excited. Did I mention he was played by Richard Dreyfuss? And when they see the baby-sitter’s best female friend come over, Dad gets even more aroused and begins to discuss a porn movie that he had seen. Oliver and Kelli are suddenly deeply embarrassed. Not that porn movies have become the subject of a family gathering, but that they have the same taste in porn as Oliver’s dad. Oh, the horror. Suddenly the whole family, including Oliver’s detached yuppie doctor brother and his put-upon wife (Angela Kinsey, “The Office”), are watching the video feed with great anticipation and rooting for a porn movie to break out. Did I mention these were two teenagers? Maybe the daugh-
of “Parks and Recreation.”
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• On two helpings of “Fresh Off the Boat” (ABC, TV-14), very superstitious (8 p.m.), a culture clash (8:30 p.m., r). • A hacker drives his target haywire on “Person of Interest” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14). • Murder wears toe shoes on “Forever” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14). • Raylan and Boyd search for Ava in their own separate ways on “Justified” (10 p.m., FX, TVMA).
TBS’s new comedy, “Your Family Or Mine,” premieres at 10 p.m. today. ters of their friends or neighbors? Minors? To see Richard Dreyfuss in a role this thoughtlessly written and casually depraved is to mourn for the very future of comedy, if not civilization itself. JoBeth Williams stands out here, making the most of her snooty, condescending character. Lois is too busy judging
Kelli to get into all of the porn talk. Somebody’s got to maintain her standards. • The docu-series “Funny Girls” (9 p.m., Oxygen) follows six aspiring female comedians in Los Angeles. • TV talents discuss their series on “Behind the Story With the Paley Center” (8 p.m., Sundance). First up: Amy Poehler
SERIES NOTES A working date on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * A fresh breeze on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-PG) * Trapped in the morgue on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * A charity event on “New Girl” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) * A fight for the future on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * Clive’s
old contact is killed on “iZombie” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Caryn explains all to her grandmother on “Weird Loners” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14).
LATE NIGHT Peter Dinklage is scheduled on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Ricky Gervais, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Awolnation appear on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS) * Jimmy Fallon sits down with Louis C.K., Sophia Bush and Who Is Fancy on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Jon Cryer, Kat Dennings, Michael Chernow and Daniel Holzman visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Rob Corddry, Megan Mullally and Tig Notaro appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS). Copyright 2015, United Feature Syndicate
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Aiken 82/62
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Today: A couple of showers and a thunderstorm. High 77 to 81. Wednesday: Partly sunny; a stray thunderstorm. High 80 to 84.
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South Carolina’s Alaina Coates (41) and the Gamecocks got their first taste of the NCAA Women’s Final Four on Sunday in Tampa, Fla., but head coach Dawn Staley doesn’t expect it to be the last one for this group.
Staley sees more Final Four appearances in Carolina’s near future BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — Dawn Staley doesn’t think South Carolina’s first trip to the Final Four will be its last. She’s already planning on how to get back next season. South Carolina’s landmark season ended Sunday night with a 66-65 loss to Notre Dame in the national semifinals in Tampa, Florida. Staley had set an NCAA
Tournament title as her team’s goal since last April. She’s not shying away STALEY from that in 2016. “The future is bright. I’m encouraged,’’ Staley said. “The loss is disappointing and it hurts. But when you look at some of our young players, they’ve grown up. They’ve got a year under
their belts and I think they understand what it takes to get there.’’ The Gamecocks returned home Monday, cheered at the airport by about 200 fans. South Carolina (34-3) won regular-season and tournament titles in the Southeastern Conference. The 34 wins were a program record. It looked as if the Gamecocks had dug themselves all the way out of a 12-point
second-half deficit when Aleighsa Welch’s basket gave them their first and only lead, 65-64, with 1:12 to go. But unlike late NCAA victories over North Carolina and Florida State last weekend, the Gamecocks could not hold on. To think about the missed chances drove Staley nuts. She eased her mood a bit by looking toward next season’s
he University of South Carolina had the more talented team in their matchup against Notre Dame in the women’s NCAA basketball tournament national semifinal game. No ifs, ands or buts about it. It doesn’t matter that the Fighting Irish were in their fifth straight Final Four and USC in its first. The Gamecocks were a deeper, Dennis more talented Brunson squad. Carolina didn’t play anywhere close to its best basketball and still only lost by one point, 66-65. That knowledge is what will make for a long, long 11 months until South Carolina gets another shot at working its way back to the Final Four. That’s right, 11 months; the Gamecocks will start practice in just a few months with most of its squad returning, but the NCAA tournament doesn’t kick off until March of 2016. It didn’t come down to Tiffany Mitchell taking one of the worst final shots — well, sort of a shot — at the end of the game. Notre Dame did a tremendous job defending Mitchell, double-teaming her along the perimeter. It’s too bad Mitchell had tunnel vision on taking the last shot and didn’t try to get it to one of her teammates. Again though, this isn’t to dump on Mitchell; she’s an All-American who has made big shot after big shot, and she thought she could do it again. USC didn’t necessarily lose the game because it struggled with the skills part of the game with the possible exception of one area. No, Carolina lost the game due to four reasons, three of which were totally due to effort. The one reason for the loss that had to do with skill was
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Revamped Atlanta bullpen shines in 2-1 win over Miami BY STEVEN WINE The Associated Press
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Miami’s Dee Gordon (9) is tagged out trying to steal second base by Atlanta shortstop Andrelton Simmons during the Braves’ 2-1 victory on Monday in Miami.
MIAMI — Even without Craig Kimbrel, the Atlanta Braves’ bullpen was terrific on opening day. Two relievers combined to escape a basesloaded, none-out jam in the seventh, and new closer Jason Grilli pitched a perfect ninth to help the Braves beat Miami 2-1 on Monday. The rebuilding Braves sent All-Star closer Kimbel to San Diego in their latest deal Sunday.
MEN’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
INDIANAPOLIS — Twenty minutes were left to decide a champion — at least. There were 13 lead changes in the first half as Wisconsin and Duke battled to a 31-31 tie at halftime of the men’s NCAA basketball national title game. The final result was not available at press time. For a complete recap, visit us at www. theitem.com.
The Blue Devils’ Quinn Cook rimmed out a 3-point try and the Badgers’ Sam Dekker was off on his fall-away 3 as time expired, leaving the two teams tied at the break. Dekker and Nigel Hayes had eight points apiece to lead the Badgers while Frank Kaminsky had seven points and seven rebounds while outplaying Duke counterpart Jahlil Okafor. Justise Winslow had seven points to lead the Blue Devils, while Okafor had six, despite
was unbelievable to get out of that jam,’’ Gonzalez said. Grilli struck out Giancarlo Stanton to start the ninth, struck out Michael Morse and retired Martin Prado on a soft liner to earn his 51st career save. “I’ve always loved closing,’’ Grilli said. “When you’re a reliever, you strive to be that last guy in the end.’’ Braves newcomer Nick Markakis drove in both of their runs. Julio Teheran
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Badgers, Blue Devils tied 31-31 at halftime BY EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press
“You’re sitting there after Craig gets traded, and you’re thinking the first save chance is going to be a one-run game,’’ manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “And sure enough, it didn’t take 12 hours for this thing to materialize.’’ Trailing 2-1, the Marlins bunched three consecutive singles to load the bases starting the seventh. But Luis Avilan retired Jarrod Saltamacchia on a 5-2-3 double play, and Jim Johnson got Adeiny Hechavarria to foul out. “That seventh inning
sitting the final few minutes of the first half with two fouls. Monday night marked the final chapter of a very imperfect season for college basketball. It was filled with the usual thrills of March and April but just as many rough patches in the months before. A season closing with Duke playing Wisconsin for a title the smart money said would land in the Bluegrass State included a
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Duke’s Grayson Allen, right drives to the basket ahead of Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky during the first half of Monday’s NCAA men’s national championship game in Indianapolis. The Blue Devils and Badgers were tied 31-31 at the half.
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Tiger Woods, left, is watched by his coach Chris Como, center, on the driving range during Monday’s practice round for the Masters in Augusta, Ga.
Tiger arrives, guessing game begins at Masters BY DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods arrived later than usual Monday for a Masters that is different from all the others he has played. No one was sure what to expect from him. Woods offered a quick glimpse that it could be just about anything. He hooked his tee shot so far left that it nearly went into the ninth fairway. And then he hit a shot to about 6 feet and rolled in the putt for birdie. More relevant than any of his shots — including his chipping, which looked fine — was the atmosphere. The first official day of practice at Augusta National was filled with warmth and optimism for the first major of the year. Rory McIlroy, No. 1 in the world and going for a career Grand Slam, played 18 holes with British Amateur champion Bradley Neil. Steve Stricker is playing for the first time all year. Jason Day took four hours on the back nine alone, letting groups through so he could chip and putt, the key to winning a green jacket. And then Woods arrived. Fans ran to the side of the practice area when his cart pulled up, with one man holding a digital camera high above his head for a picture. Fittingly, Woods headed
straight for the chipping area and went through two bags of balls before heading to the first tee with Mark O’Meara. Woods is playing for the first time since Feb. 5. He was off nearly five months when he returned at the Masters in 2010 following the scandal in his personal life, but he was No. 1 in the world back then. His last competition was a victory in the Australian Masters. Now he is No. 111. In his last tournament this year, he walked off the course at Torrey Pines after 11 holes. Before that, he shot 82 and missed the cut in the Phoenix Open. In both events, he played 47 holes and hit chips that either didn’t reach the green from 5 yards away or went some 25 yards over the green. That’s when he stepped away, saying his game was not acceptable and he would not return until it was. The real test comes Thursday, when the shots count. What he showed Monday certainly looked acceptable, and it was a treat for the fans who normally would be headed home after a long day at Augusta. The first hole was packed when Woods and O’Meara teed off at 4:20 p.m., and more than 2,000 kept following him. Dozens of fans raced over from the second fairway to the fourth tee to get a good spot.
2:40 p.m. – International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match – QPR vs. Aston Villa (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 6:15 p.m. – High School Baseball: Ridge View at LugoffElgin (WPUB-FM 102.7). 7 p.m. – Professional Basketball: NBA Development League Eastern Conference First-Round Playoffs Series Game One – Maine at Fort Wayne (ESPNU). 7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Atlanta at Miami (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Baltimore at Tampa Bay or Atlanta at Miami (MLB NETWORK). 7 p.m. – College Softball: South Carolina Upstate at South Carolina (SEC NETWORK). 7 p.m. – College Baseball: Appalachian State at South Carolina (WNKT-FM 107.5). 7:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Charlotte at Miami (SPORTSOUTH). 8 p.m. – College Baseball: Utah Valley at Brigham Young (BYUTV). 8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: San Antonio at Oklahoma City (TNT). 8:30 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: NCAA Tournament Championship Game from Tampa, Fla. – Connecticut vs. Notre Dame (ESPN). 8:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Minnesota at Chicago (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 9:30 p.m. – Professional Basketball: NBA Development League Western Conference First-Round Playoffs Series Game One – Austin at Bakersfield (ESPNU). 10 p.m. – International Soccer: CONCACAF Champions League Semifinal Second Leg Match – Montreal vs. Alajuelense (FOX SPORTS 2, UNIVISION). 10 p.m. – Major League Baseball: San Diego at Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB NETWORK). 10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Los Angeles Lakers at Los Angeles Clippers (TNT) 1 a.m. – NHL Hockey: Nashville at Colorado (SPORTSOUTH).
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Varsity Baseball Sumter vs. Midland Valley (in Gilbert Spring Break Tournament), 6 p.m. Crestwood at West Florence (in Spring Break Wood Bat Tournament at West Florence High), 5 p.m. Lakewood in Spring Break Wood Bat Tournament at West Florence High), TBA East Clarendon at Scott’s Branch, 5 p.m. Calhoun Academy at Laurence Manning, 7 p.m. Pee Dee at Robert E. Lee, 6:30 p.m. Junior Varsity Baseball Manning at Sumter (in Sumter JV Classic), 7:30 p.m. Crestwood vs. Lakewood (in Sumter JV Classic), 5 p.m. Pee Dee at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m. B Team Baseball Sumter vs. River Bluff (in Gilbert Spring Break Tournament), 1:30 p.m. Varsity Boys Golf Sumter in Hurricane Invitational (in Greenville), TBA East Clarendon at Manning, 4:30 p.m. Varsity Softball East Clarendon at Scott’s Branch, 5:30 p.m. Laurence Manning at Orangeburg Prep, 4 p.m. Pee Dee at Robert E. Lee, 6 p.m. Junior Varsity Softball Laurence Manning at Orangeburg Prep, 5:30 p.m. Pee Dee at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m. Varsity Boys Tennis Berkeley at Manning, 5 p.m.
MLB STANDINGS By The Associated Press EAST DIVISION
Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota WEST DIVISION Seattle Houston Oakland Texas Los Angeles
W 1 1 1 0 0
L 0 0 0 1 1
Pct 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000 .000
GB – – – 1 1
W 1 1 0 0 0
L 0 0 0 1 1
Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000
GB – – 1/2 1 1
W 1 0 0 0 0
L 0 0 0 0 1
Pct 1.000 .000 .000 .000 .000
GB – 1/2 1/2 1/2 1
MONDAY’S GAMES
Calipari, Haywood among 11 new inductees for basketball Hall of Fame INDIANAPOLIS — Kentucky coach John Calipari and Spencer Haywood are among 11 new inductees going into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year. The rest of the class consists of former WNBA star Lisa Leslie, longtime referee Dick Bavetta, Celtics star Jo Jo White and Boston coach Tom Heinsohn, four-time NBA defensive player of the year Dikembe Mutombo, former coach George Raveling, ex-Kentucky and ABA star Louis Dampier, Australian player and coach Lindsay Gaze and ex-player John Isaacs. The induction ceremony is Sept. 10-12 in Springfield, Mass.
HOLMES WINS HOUSTON OPEN HOUSTON — J.B. Holmes used a strong start Sunday for a Houston Open victory in a 3-way playoff against Jordan Spieth and Johnson Wagner. Holmes birdied the first five holes and nine of the first 12 after starting the day six shots back of Jordan Spieth. LAKEWOOD 8 CRESTWOOD 2
FLORENCE — Lakewood High School’s varsity baseball team defeated Crestwood 8-2 on Monday in the West Florence Wood Bat Spring Break Invitational at the WF field. Tavien Butler picked up the victory for the Gators, who improved to 5-10 on the season, striking out nine batters.
Courtland Howard was 1-for-2 with three walks and two runs scored for LHS. Lenny Gonzalez was 2-for-3 with two runs batted in and a run and Josh Whitley had a hit, a run and an RBI. Brendan Miller had a hit, a run and an RBI for the Knights, who fell to 2-12. Lance Reagan had a double. Colllin Kremer took the loss, allowing one earned run in four innings. From staff, wire reports
NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION
Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Pittsburgh WEST DIVISION Colorado Los Angeles Arizona San Francisco San Diego
W 1 1 0 0 0
L 0 0 1 1 1
Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000
GB – – 1 1 1
W 1 1 0 0 0
L 0 0 1 1 1
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GB – – 1 1 1
W 1 1 0 0 0
L 0 0 0 0 1
Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000
GB – – 1/2 1/2 1
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St. Louis 3, Chicago Cubs 0
MONDAY’S GAMES
Colorado 10, Milwaukee 0 Boston 8, Philadelphia 0 N.Y. Mets 3, Washington 1
L 32 41 42 60 62
Pct .584 .461 .455 .231 .195
GB – 9 1/2 10 27 1/2 30
L 19 33 43 43 53
Pct .750 .571 .442 .434 .312
GB – 13 1/2 23 1/2 24 33 1/2
L 27 31 39 43 47
Pct .649 .597 .494 .442 .390
GB – 4 12 16 20
W 53 52 51 46 41
L 24 25 26 31 35
Pct .688 .675 .662 .597 .539
GB – 1 2 7 11 1/2
W 50 42 35 28 16
L 26 35 42 49 60
Pct .658 .545 .455 .364 .211
GB – 8 1/2 15 1/2 22 1/2 34
W z-Golden State 63 x-L.A. Clippers 52 Phoenix 39 Sacramento 26 L.A. Lakers 20 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference
L 14 26 38 50 56
Pct .818 .667 .506 .342 .263
GB – 11 1/2 24 36 1/2 42 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION x-Houston x-Memphis x-San Antonio Dallas New Orleans NORTHWEST DIVISION y-Portland Oklahoma City Utah Denver Minnesota PACIFIC DIVISION
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Houston 115, Oklahoma City 112 Cleveland 99, Chicago 94 Indiana 112, Miami 89 San Antonio 107, Golden State 92 New York 101, Philadelphia 91 Utah 101, Sacramento 95 L.A. Clippers 106, L.A. Lakers 78
MONDAY’S GAMES
Portland at Brooklyn, 7 p.m.
TODAY’S GAMES
Phoenix at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at New Orleans, 8 p.m. San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Sacramento, 10 p.m. L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP x-Montreal 80 x-Tampa Bay 80 Boston 79 Detroit 79 Ottawa 79 Florida 80 Toronto 80 Buffalo 79 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP y-N.Y. Rangers 78 x-Washington 80 N.Y. Islanders 79 Pittsburgh 79 Columbus 78 Philadelphia 79 New Jersey 79 Carolina 78
W 48 48 41 41 40 36 30 22
L 22 24 25 25 26 29 43 49
OT 10 8 13 13 13 15 7 8
Pts 106 104 95 95 93 87 67 52
GF 213 255 209 227 228 199 208 155
GA 183 206 201 215 211 219 253 265
W 50 44 46 42 39 32 32 29
L 21 25 27 26 35 29 34 38
OT 7 11 6 11 4 18 13 11
Pts 107 99 98 95 82 82 77 69
GF 240 237 241 215 219 208 174 180
GA 182 199 219 203 240 224 205 216
L 23 22 25 26 26 31 31
OT 7 10 6 8 12 10 12
Pts 105 104 102 96 92 86 84
GF 242 227 225 223 222 248 212
GA 197 197 182 192 208 258 223
CENTRAL DIVISION
Baltimore (Chen 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Karns 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Texas (Lewis 0-0) at Oakland (Hahn 0-0), 10:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Wilson 0-0) at Seattle (Paxton 0-0), 10:10 p.m.
Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia Washington CENTRAL DIVISION
EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION W y-Toronto 45 Brooklyn 35 Boston 35 Philadelphia 18 New York 15 SOUTHEAST DIVISION W z-Atlanta 57 x-Washington 44 Miami 34 Charlotte 33 Orlando 24 CENTRAL DIVISION W x-Cleveland 50 x-Chicago 46 Milwaukee 38 Indiana 34 Detroit 30
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Toronto 6, N.Y. Yankees 1 Detroit 4, Minnesota 0 Boston 8, Philadelphia 0 Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 2 Kansas City 10, Chicago White Sox 1 Seattle 4, L.A. Angels 1 Cleveland at Houston, 7:10 p.m. Texas at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.
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NBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press
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AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore Boston Toronto New York Tampa Bay CENTRAL DIVISION
Atlanta (Wood 0-0) at Miami (Latos 0-0), 7:10 p.m. St. Louis (Lynn 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 0-0), 8:05 p.m. Colorado (Lyles 0-0) at Milwaukee (Garza 0-0), 8:10 p.m. San Francisco (Peavy 0-0) at Arizona (De La Rosa 0-0), 9:40 p.m. San Diego (T.Ross 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 0-0), 10:10 p.m.
x-St. Louis x-Nashville x-Chicago Minnesota Winnipeg Dallas Colorado Pacific Division
GP 79 79 79 78 78 79 79
W 49 47 48 44 40 38 36
GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Anaheim 80 50 23 7 107 234 221 Vancouver 79 45 29 5 95 229 216 Calgary 79 43 29 7 93 234 208 Los Angeles 78 39 25 14 92 212 195 San Jose 79 39 31 9 87 223 222 Edmonton 79 23 43 13 59 188 272 Arizona 79 24 47 8 56 167 262 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Toronto 3, Ottawa 2, SO Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 2, Detroit 1 Montreal 4, Florida 1 St. Louis 2, Chicago 1
MONDAY’S GAMES
Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Dallas at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
TODAY’S GAMES
N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Carolina at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Nashville at Colorado, 9 p.m. Arizona at Calgary, 9 p.m. Los Angeles at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.
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Mets spoil Scherzer’s Nats debut with 3-1 win WASHINGTON — Max Scherzer took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of his Washington debut but was unable to overcome two costly errors by shortstop Ian Desmond, and the New York Mets beat the Nationals 3-1 in their season opener Monday. Bartolo Colon pitched six clean innings for the Mets, giving up only Bryce Harper’s third opening-day homer. Lucas Duda hit a 2-run single with two outs in the sixth, putting New York ahead with its first hit of the year. At 41, Colon (1-0) was the oldest opening-day starter in Mets history. He struck out eight and allowed only three hits. Scherzer (0-1), making the first start of his $210 million contract, was in total control until the sixth. But that’s when Desmond dropped David Wright’s popup, and Duda lined a 98 mph fastball for the first of his two hits, making it 2-1. DODGERS 6 PADRES 3
LOS ANGELES — New addition Jimmy Rollins hit a tiebreaking 3-run homer in the eighth inning, rallying the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-3 victory over the re-tooled San Diego Padres Howie Kendrick’s RBI double with two outs in the seventh tied it at 3. Rollins went 2 for 4. REDS 5 PIRATES 2
CINCINNATI — Todd Frazier hit a 3-run homer in the eighth inning, overcoming
seventh inning, and the Baltimore Orioles hit three homers to top Tampa Bay 6-2. Alejandro De Aza, Steve Pearce and Ryan Flaherty connected for the defending AL East champions, and Travis Snider had three hits in his Baltimore debut. TIGERS 4 TWINS 0
DETROIT — David Price retired the first 13 batters he faced and came within one out of a shutout in the Detroit Tigers’ 4-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins. J.D. Martinez and Alex Avila homered off Phil Hughes, and Yoenis Cespedes tripled and scored in his Detroit debut. Cespedes also reached above the wall in left to catch Kurt Suzuki’s drive in the third. BLUE JAYS 6 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Met Lucas Duda hits a single during the eighth inning of the Mets’ 3-1 victory over Washington on Monday at Nationals Park in Washington. drove in four runs. Troy Tulowitzki doubled twice, singled and scored three times.
another stumble by the bullpen and rallying the Cincinnati Reds to an opening 5-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Andrew McCutchen tied it for the Pirates with a 2-run shot off Kevin Gregg.
AMERICAN LEAGUE MARINERS 4
ROCKIES 10 BREWERS 0
MILWAUKEE — Kyle Kendrick pitched seven sharp innings and also got two hits Monday as the Colorado Rockies trounced the Milwaukee Brewers 10-0. Corey Dickerson and Nolan Arenado each homered and
ATLANTA FROM PAGE B1 (1-0) allowed eight hits but only one run in sixplus innings. Teheran was helped by his defense. Shortstop Andrelton Simmons was alert to cover third on a single to left and tagged out Stanton trying to advance from first. Second baseman Jace Peterson made a bare-handed grab as the middleman on a double play in the fifth. Catcher Christian Bethancourt threw out Dee Gordon trying to steal second in the third. Gordon led the majors in steals last year. “The moment he reached base, the whole stadium knew he was going to steal,’’ Bethancourt said. “I just tried to remain calm and used my best tool, which is my arm.’’ The Marlins have hopes of ending an 11-year playoff drought following an uncharacteristic offseason spending spree, but little went right for the home team. The sellout crowd’s mood briefly turned sour in the second inning when the game was halted for 16 minutes because of
rain — a first at 3-year-old Marlins Park, which has a retractable roof. The showers were unexpected, and fans booed when play was halted while the roof closed. The opener was a flop for Miami in more ways than one. Speedy newcomer Gordon appeared to have a chance at a bunt single in the eighth inning, but he stumbled leaving the batter’s box, went face down in the wet dirt and became an easy out. The wet track was also a factor when he was caught stealing. The Marlins’ Henderson Alvarez (0-1) gave up two runs in seven innings and scored their only run. Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton went 1 for 4 and made a baserunning mistake in the fourth, when he was thrown out trying to go from first to third on a two-out single. The game was Stanton’s first since his beaning Sept. 11 — and since he signed a record $325 million, 13-year contract.
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FROM PAGE B1 steady parade of complaints and concerns, both about the quality of the product on the court and the viability of the game off it. When the Wildcats, with four NBA-quality freshmen on the roster, lost to a senior-laden team from Wisconsin in the semifinals Saturday, it struck a blow for traditionalists who say you can still have it all — a full college career, a chance to play for a title, and a wealthy future in the NBA. Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky and two of his teammates, Sam Dekker and Nigel Hayes, forged opportunities to do all that with the Badgers. Some think that’s an all-toorare occurrence anymore. Curtailed by changes in the way refs called the games, coaches’ unending focus on defense and a 35-second shot clock that just seems too long, teams averaged 67.6 points per game. That was a drop of more than three points from last season. Other problems include too many media timeouts that take too long, and the turtle’s pace of the last 2 minutes of games, which are subject to even more timeouts, along with a steady flow of official video reviews that suck the life out of the arena. The not-so-coincidental toll: Attendance at Division I games has fallen for seven straight seasons; as of late this season, ESPN saw about a 6 percent ratings decrease on its telecasts.
ANGELS 1 SEATTLE — Felix Hernandez struck out 10 and allowed only two hits over seven innings, Seth Smith had three extra-base hits and two RBI in his Seattle debut and the Mariners beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-1. Mike Trout’s solo homer and Erick Aybar’s single was all the Angels could do against Hernandez.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Yordano Ventura pitched six solid innings before leaving with a thumb cramp, and Alex Rios had a 3-run homer among his three hits as the AL champion Kansas City Royals defeated the Chicago White Sox 10-1. Rios homered in a 5-run seventh with Kendrys Morales and Alex Gordon aboard.
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NEW YORK — Edwin Encarnacion hit a 2-run homer off Masahiro Tanaka, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 6-1 in Alex Rodriguez’s return to the major leagues. Batting seventh A-Rod singled, walked, and lined out. LATE SUNDAY CARDINALS 3
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CUBS 0 CHICAGO — Adam Wainwright pitched six innings of five-hit ball and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Sunday night in the major leagues opener.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Chris Tillman pitched into the
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Keeping Sumter Beautiful By Breann Liebermann, Clemson Extension - Water Resources Agent Spring Cleaning
Manchester staff. We would like to thank everyone who came out to Has this great weather put you in both of our cleanups and the staff the mood for some spring cleanat Manchester for their support. ing? Well, it sure has put us in the These cleanups are so important mood, but for a different kind of because they keep the waters we cleaning. Sumter Stormwater use for drinking, fishing, and Solutions hosted a stream cleanup swimming clean, they keep our at Turkey Creek on March 14. local wildlife safe, and they beautiDespite the rain, 14 people attend- fy our community. But these ed. Mr. Higginbotham, a science cleanups are only a short-term teacher at Crestwood High, solution. I believe that one day, brought a group of seven enthusi- Sumter will be a community that astic students out. A group of will not host cleanups because three from Shaw Air Force Base people will not litter. With your came out, led by Michelle Pankey. help, we can make this happen. Two Master Gardeners-in training Wait until you get home to throw also came. Everyone worked hard fast food bags in the trash. Bring scaling steep banks, hauling heavy your tires to one of nine recycling bags, and staying as dry as possicenters in Sumter County. When ble. We collected an entire truckyou ask your children to take your load of waste! trash to the landfill, make sure Clemson Extension’s Keep they actually take it to the landfill. Sumter Beautiful hosted a cleanup Everyone is busy, but disposing of at Manchester State Forest on trash and recyclables properly is March 28. Over 30 volunteered on one routine to make time for. a gorgeous morning. Over 10 peo- Because in this case, trash that is ple from Shaw Air Force Base out of site is not out of mind. attended, led again by Michelle For more information on what Pankey. 10 students in the you can do to help, contact Breann International Baccalaureate proLiebermann or Amanda McNulty gram at Sumter High came out, at Clemson Extension, 803-773and four Master Gardeners-in 5561. training participated. The staff at Manchester led the cleanup efforts Clemson University Cooperative Extension through the 28,000 acre forest. Service offers its programs to people of all Several truckloads and trailer ages, regardless of race, color, sex, religion, loads of waste were collected. national origin, disability, political beliefs, Afterwards, everyone was reward- sexual orientation, marital or family status ed for their hard work with a deli- and is an equal opportunity employer. p cious picnic lunch cooked byy XEROX SOLID INK PRINTER
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UConn, Notre Dame set for championship rematch BY DOUG FEINBERG The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — The women’s basketball championship game will have a familiar feel to it with UConn and Notre Dame playing for a title for the second straight year. Unlike last season’s game when much of the conversation building up to the matchup of undefeated teams was about the frosty relationship between Geno Auriemma and Muffet McGraw. This year there is much friendlier attitude between the coaches and their teams, despite the rivals once again meeting on the game’s biggest stage. A win for the Huskies on Tuesday night would be a third straight title for UConn and 10th overall for Auriemma. That would tie him with UCLA men’s coach John Wooden for the most all-time in college basketball. Auriemma has a perfect record with the title on the line, winning all nine of UConn’s trips to the national championship. “This isn’t something that’s going to last forever,’’ he said. “Not going to win every single championship game that we’re in. If we’re in some more, but up to this point, it’s something that’s really hard to explain. And I’m just incredibly grateful.’’ UConn junior Breanna Stewart
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At Tampa, Fla. National Semifinals Sunday Notre Dame 66, South Carolina 65 UConn 81, Maryland 58 National Championship Today Notre Dame (36-2) vs. UConn (37-1), 8:30 p.m.
has been the key two the last two titles. The two-time AP Player of the Year saves her best games for the brightest lights. She has won outstanding player of the Final Four as a freshman and sophomore and had another great game in the semifinal win over Maryland. She stated when she came to UConn that her goal was to win four championships. She’s one victory away from being three-quarters of the way there. Only the Huskies from 2002-04 and Tennessee from 1996-98 have won three straight titles. UConn beat Tennessee in 2003 and 2004 which was the only other time in the history of the NCAA Tournament that there was a repeat title game.
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NOT LAST FROM PAGE B1 lineup. The Gamecocks lose two senior starters in 6-foot-4 Elem Ibiam and 6-foot Welch, the team’s unquestioned leader. That’s two frontcourt spots that most likely will go to South Carolina’s super subs — 6-4 Alaina Coates and 6-5 A’ja Wilson. Coates and Wilson were the backbone of a bench that tied or outscored the starters in 22 of 37 games this season. Coates led the team with 12 games with double-figure points and rebounds. Wilson, the SEC’s freshman of the year, had 20 points and nine rebounds in the Notre Dame loss. “We did talk about some of the things we need to do to get better,’’ Staley said. The Gamecocks got off to slow starts in each of their past three NCAA Tournament games, including falling behind Notre Dame 17-5. Part of that
BRUNSON FROM PAGE B1 South Carolina’s inability to hit free throws. The Gamecocks went just 7 of 16 from the free throw line, while the Irish were 12 of 14. Enough said about that. The other three reasons for the loss were a failure to recognize when a pick and roll was coming, getting back on defense and boxing out underneath the defensive boards. It wasn’t a game-long problem, but there were enough lapses in each area to add up to a 1-point loss. Notre Dame got way too many easy baskets off of simple picks, getting out on the fast break and grabbing offensive rebounds. It was more than apropos that the Irish’s game-winning basket came with Madison Cable beating her USC defender to a rebound and
comes from having Wilson and Coates — the second- and third leading scorers this season — on the bench waiting to come in. “Certainly, we’ve got to have people on the floor who can score so we don’t play at a disadvantage,’’ Staley said. That includes Tiffany Mitchell, the two-time defending SEC player of the year who will be a senior next fall. Staley thinks Mitchell has to become the kind of vocal leader Welch was the past few seasons. Next year’s bench will probably feature 6-4 Jatarie White, the team’s third McDonald’s All-American out of last year’s recruiting class whose development was slowed by injuries. Welch, for one, has no doubt the team she’s leaving will be a top contender for next year’s Final Four. “I think the sky’s the limit,’’ she said. “I think it’s about still progressing and still going up.’’
putting up a short shot to put them back on top for the final score after Carolina had taken its only lead of the game. South Carolina spent the vast majority of the game playing with great effort. It had to do so because it was having to dig itself out of holes caused by the lapses they had. While the Gamecocks were the more talented team, Notre Dame was too good for USC to have the number of moments where the effort waned. It was a tremendous season for Carolina, going 34-3, sharing the Southeastern Conference regular-season title, winning the SEC tournament and advancing to its first ever Final Four. Losing in the national semifinal doesn’t take away from any of that. Losing the way it did though can’t help but hurt.
OBITUARIES IRENE H. EARLES Irene Hodge Earles, 87, passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2015, at her home surrounded by her family. She was born on July 5, 1927, to Walter Edwards and Elsie Edwards Dunlap. She was a long-time member of New Calvary Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School, served as the secretary of her Sunday School Class EARLES and on the Benevolence Committee. She retired from Sumter School District 2. Surviving include her children Francis (Frank) Earles, Delores Ardis and her husband, Tommy, Glenda Joye and her husband, Ronnie, Richard Earles and his wife, Lori, Alma Burgess and her husband, Scott, Renee’ Brown and her husband, Louie, and Ida Lewis; 12 grandchildren; 29 greatgrandchildren; and a sister, Velma Gier, and her husband, Russ. Irene was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, Herman Hodge and Francis Earles; brothers, Norman Edwards and Leslie Dunlap; and a grandson Brandon Earles. A funeral service will be held today at 3 p.m. in Bullock Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Sammy Thompson, Pastor David Richardson and Wayne McElveen officiating. Burial will follow in the Sumter Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her sons, Frank and Richard Earles; and her grandsons, Lathan Earles, Wesley Ardis, Ron Joye and Louie Brown. The family will received friends on Monday at Bullock Funeral Home and will at other times at her home. The family wishes to thank her loving neighbors Shirley and Randall and acknowledge Debbie Frazier, Carolyn Thompson, Amber Linkous and Linda Windley of Tuomey Hospice for their support in her final days. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to New Calvary Baptist Church, 38 Center St., Sumter; American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, 29210; or Tuomey Hospice, 500 Pinewood Road, Suite 2, Sumter. You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of
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WILLIAM DUKES JR. Mr. William Dukes Jr., entered eternal rest on Sunday, April 5, 2015, at his home, 429 Robney Drive, Sumter. Born in Sumter County on March 29, 1956, he was the son of the late Williams Dukes Sr. and Maggie Dickerson Stevens. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of his daughter, 2170 Boulevard Road, Sumter. Funeral plans will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.
SUDIE J. NICHOLS Sudie Jeanette Nichols, 80, died Sunday, April 5, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Archie C. Pierson Sr. and Louise Marshall Pierson. Mrs. Nichols was retired from Campbell Soup Co. Surviving are three daughters, Deborah Newman (Chris) of Sumter, Karen Goff of Springfield, Missouri, and Brenda Ennis (Barry) of North Carolina; four sisters; one brother; seven grandchildren, Robert Mooneyham, Chris Goff, Lance Goff, Jennifer Mooneyham, Jessica Blevins, Josh Speas and Jake Speas; and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with Pastor John Patrick officiating. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home of her grandson, 40 Kettlewood Court. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 107 Westpark Blvd., No. 220, Columbia, 29210. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements (803) 7759386.
Sallie McQuillia Baldwin was born April 21, 1981, in Sumter. He departed this life on Monday, April 6, 2015, at Carilion Roanoke Memorial in Roanoke, Virginia. Family will be receiving friends at the home 19 Albert Spears Drive, Sumter. Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.
EUGENE WILSON SR. Mr. Eugene Wilson Sr., the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson Sr., entered eternal rest on April 5, 2015, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville. The family is receiving friends at the home of his parents, 1121 Herndon Road, Bishopville. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.
ROBERT E. BAIRD Robert Edward Baird, 87, husband of Peggy Lee Bradley Baird, died Monday, April 6, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born in Conway, he was a son of the late Robert Clarence Baird and Loraine Fleming Britt. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He retired from Campbell Soup Co. and was a member of the American Legion and the Elks Lodge. He coached baseball for PARD and enjoyed racing at Sumter Speedway. Survivors include his wife of 67 years; two sons, Robert Lee “Robby” Baird (Cheryl) of Sumter and Troy Douglas Baird (Josephine) of Savannah, Georgia; two daughters, Linda Purvis McIntosh (Larry) and Vicky Lane Edwards (Frank), both of Sumter; 14 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Sumter Cemetery with the Rev. Dan Barber and the Rev. Charles Clanton officiating. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 107 E. Liberty St., Sumter. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements. www.ecsfuneralhome.com
THOMAS D. WATT SR. CEDRICK D. BALDWIN Cedrick Dywayne Baldwin, 33, son of Victor Baldwin and
Thomas Davis Watt Sr., 90, husband of Jeanine Bagnal Watt, died Sunday, April 5,
2015, at his home. Born in Summerton, he was a son of the late Elwyn M. Watt Sr. and Olivia Gertrude Ridgill Watt. Mr. Watt was a member of Sumter Bible Church and was a retired farmer. Survivors include his wife; four children, Thomas Davis Watt Jr. and Dena Farmer, both of Sumter, Zada Taylor of Mt. City, Tennessee, and Donnakay Cale of Scott Depot, West Virgina, and their spouses; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Vera Stokes Bradham, Margarhete Huggins, Roberta Singleton and Tona Chandler; and three brothers, E.M. Watt Jr., Bob Singleton and Frank Singleton. He was preceded in death by his stepmother, Pauline K. Watt, six sisters and two brothers. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Sumter Bible Church with the Rev. Ron Davis officiating. The family will receive friends following the service at the church and other times at the home. Memorials may be made to Sumter Bible Church, 420 S. Pike W., Sumter. Online condolences may be sent to denafarm@gmail.com. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements. www.ecsfuneralhome.com
INEZ W. JONES Inez White Jones, 75, widow of James E. Jones daughter of the late George White and Rosa Pack White Horn was born Aug. 14, 1939, in Sumter. She departed this life Saturday, April 4, 2015, at Trident Health Center, Charleston. Family will be receiving friends at the home, 613 Blair Lane, Sumter. Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.
JOHN W. CREEL John Wayne Creel, 48, died Sunday, April 5, 2015, at his residence surrounded by his loving family and friends. Born Oct. 11, 1966, in Berkeley County, he was a son of the late Richard Venroe Creel and Mary Lee Joyner Creel. He was of the Pentecostal Holiness Faith. He is survived by his five sisters, Sheryl E. Cutter of Manning, Christel Phillips (Dwayne) of Orangeburg,
Carla Cogley of Summerville, Tammy Estep of Columbia and Janet Clark of Bonneau; five nephews, Shaun Eric Murray of Harleyville, Shawn Patrick Hilton of Ladson, Kaleb Clark of Bonneau, Robert Clark and Michael Cogley, both of Summerville; four nieces, Kara Phillips of Orangeburg, Kisi Clark of Bonneau, and Chrystal Corley and Stephanie Cogley, both of Summerville; a great niece, Alexis Murray of Harleyville; two very special friends, Wayne S. Cutter and Susie Cutter, both of Manning; and his cat, “Possum Cat.” He was preceded in death by his parents; his stepmother, Ruth Creel; grandparents, Leroy and Lillian Creel and Amos and Fannie Joyner; a brother, Jessie Willis Creel; and a great-nephew, Clayton Eric Murray. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 9, 2015, in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home with the Rev. Otis Burke officiating. The family will receive friends at the home of Sheryl Cutter, 4819 Kenwood Road, Manning. The family would like to give special thanks to the staff of Embrace Hospice for the special love and care they gave to John. Memorials may be made to Embrace Hospice, 1831 W. Evans St., Suite 315, Florence, or to a charity of one’s choice. Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome. org
HENRY KIND Henry Kind, 77, husband of Pauline Kind, died Friday, April 3, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. Born June 29, 1937, in Sumter, he was the son of the late Henry Kind Sr. and Sarah Choice Kind. The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 4150 Farmers Road, Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Williams Funeral Home Inc.
ELIZABETH DURANT It is with sorrow to announce the passing of Ms. Elizabeth Durant who passed away on April 5, 2015. The family is receiving friends at the home. Services are incomplete and will be announced later by New Life Funeral Services of Bishopville.
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Open every weekend. 905-4242 or 494-5500
Martin's Used Appliance Washers, Dryers, Refrig., Stoves. Guarantee 464-5439 or 469-7311
Water front house & lot. 4bd/ 2 bath, front deck, boat house w/ track, c/h/a, most furniture can go w/ house .26 acres 1050 sq/ft. 1159 Lakeview Dr Manning SC, White Oak Creek in Wyboo Call 843-659-4332
Vans / Trucks / Buses 2006 Ford Ranger Super Cab, 2 door, V6, cold AC, AT, CC, AM/FM, new front tires & brakes. 173,525 miles. Well maintained. Runs & drives great! $3,500. Call 774-1263.
Autos For Sale Spring Van Sale $1500 & Up Price is Right Auto Sales 3210 Broad St 803-494-4275
STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 975 Oswego Hwy 401. 2BR 2BA, Private lot, No pets. $400/mo +$400 dep. Conv. to downtown Sumter & Shaw 803-506-2370 3bd/2ba mobile home, no pets, call 499-1500 or 469-6978 before 6pm.
Resort Rentals Ocean Lakes 2BR/2BA C/H/A Sleeps 8, near ocean. Call 803-773-2438
Vacation Rentals 3Bd 2 Ba Florida room. $100 dep. $100 refurb. $105 day, $735 week. Call 803-406-6159 9AM-8 PM. No pets. Serious calls only. leave msg.
Atlas transmission-Service Writer/Sales Person needed. Must possess out going personality. No automotive experience necessary but helpful. Apply in person at 301 W. liberty st.
Clinical Counselor for outpatient treatment facility. Required Master's Degree in one of the behavioral/social sciences and prefered certification through SCAADAC. Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume to P.O. Box 430, Manning, S.C. 29102 by April 20. EEO Employer. Need OTR Truck Drivers. 1-1/2 yrs exp. Good driving records. Dependable & willing to work. Paid weekly. Paid Vacations. Call 888-991-1005 Shaw AFB Golf Course looking for a full time mechanic. Call Thad at 803-968-0047.
Help Wanted Part-Time Wrecker driver needed. good driving record. class A license, dependable and willing to work. Call Sumter Wrecker 803-773-4955, 8a-5p, Mon-Fri.
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