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School board meeting tonight

BY BRADEN BUNCH bbunch@theitem.com The Sumter School District Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting at 6 tonight at the district’s administrative offices to discuss personnel.

As has been the case with several of their previous specially called meetings, the only item on the agenda for the trustees is an executive session. During the closed-door session, the trustees are expected to discuss various employment matters, which

could include any resignations, terminations, transfers and/or reassignments. If the trustees need to make any changes to the personnel makeup of the school district, any action would be taken in public after the trustees’ executive session.

The meeting will be the first

3 face charges of murder in deadly assault

Couple perishes in blaze Summerton house fire kills 2; flames ‘visible from nearby highway’

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since the trustees named Dr. Frank Baker the interim superintendent of the district, following the resignation of Randolph Bynum.

Last week, the trustees, by a 5-2 vote, offered Baker the interim position, effective immediately.

A husband and wife are dead following an early Monday morning fire off Willie Richburg Road in Summerton.

The names of the 66-year-old man and the 56-year-old woman have not been released as the Clarendon County Coroner’s Office is still trying to notify family, said Clarendon County Coroner Hayes Samuels Monday evening.

“Apparently someone saw the flames from the highway, and it SAMUELS was well off the highway,” said

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I-20 wreck near Bishopville claims 1

Manning man endures 2 months on life support, dies from several injuries

BY ROB COTTINGHAM rcottingham@theitem.com MANNING — Manning Police Department has charged 3 suspects in an attack that left a Manning man with injuries that eventually resulted in his death.

Jonathan Cody Newman, 20, of 6051 S. Brewington Road in Manning; Montag Lamall Webb, 21, of 217 Packard Lane in Manning; and ‘This man was Letroy Samuels, 32, of 720 W. brutally beaten Huggins St. in Manning, have by three men been charged with several with first-dewitnesses present. gree murder and first-degree Those people burglary this week in conremained there nection to the afterward and did death of Anthony Ronald nothing to help.

Wimberly.

“This man They let that man was brutally bleed and suffer beaten by three men with severon his floor for al witnesses three hours. present,” Manning Police They will be Chief Blair Shafheld accountable.’ fer said. “Those people rethere Chief Blair Shaffer, mained afterward and Manning Police Dept. did nothing to help. They let that man bleed and suffer on his floor for three hours. They will be held accountable.”

According to reports, Newman approached Wimberly at his residence about midnight on May 26 and punched him, rendering him unconscious. Wimberly then was allegedly moved into his apartment, where his attacker, along with two others, continued to beat him. The three men then reportedly stole a small handgun while rummaging through Wimberly’s room before leaving.

Law enforcement responded at 3 that

Semi, car collide, killing 82-year-old Florence woman

BY BRADEN BUNCH bbunch@theitem.com BISHOPVILLE — A fatal crash along Interstate 20 in Lee County involving a tractor-trailer and a sedan claimed the life of a Florence woman and blocked the highway for several hours Monday afternoon.

Occurring around 1:15 p.m. on the westbound side of the interstate at the exit for S.C. 341/Wisacky Highway, the wreck blocked

both lanes of the interstate as well as the exit leading to Lee Central High School. Shortly after the accident, the South Carolina Department of Transportation issued

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SEE FATAL, PAGE A8 TOP: Law enforcement and others stare in amazement at the remnants of the car driven by Florence resident Johnny L. Rodrigue that was involved in a fatal collision with a tractor-trailor on Monday.

ABOVE: A tow truck lifts the front half of Rodrigue’s vehicle after the wreck.

LEFT: Crews begin to sweep debris left along Interstate 20 near Bishopville on Saturday following the fatal collision.

The 2003 Honda sedan was torn in half by the wreck.

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a traffic advisory suggesting motorists look for alternative routes to avoid the wreckage.

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Man, 53, found dead in lake

BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com MANNING — A 53-year-old man was found dead Sunday in the White Oak Two section of Lake Marion.

Ricky Lynch of Lake City was spotted by a state Department of Natural Resources helicopter pilot about 11 a.m. on Sunday. The cause of death is pending as the Clarendon County Coroner’s office is awaiting toxicology results, said Clarendon County Coroner Hayes Samuels, who said he was not at liberty to discuss further details late Monday evening.

“We got a call late Saturday about an hour before sunset of a boat doing circles,” said Capt.

Robert McCullough. “The witness never saw anyone go into the water, but the boat was acting weird.”

It eventually went to shore, and though DNR personnel searched the area, no one was found Saturday, he said.

When the body was found Sunday, the individual was not wearing a life jacket, McCullough added.

“I haven’t seen the coroner’s report, so I don’t know if the life jacket would have helped, but you never know,” the captain said.

“We still want everybody to wear one.”

Reach Jade Anderson at (803) 774-1250.

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Hydrant flow tests Wednesday, Thursday The City of Sumter will perform fire hydrant flow tests on Springdale Way, Breezybay Lane, Hidden Bay Drive, Joyce Street, Hathaway Drive, Sequoia Drive, Keels Road, Kilpatrick Drive and Wedgefield Road between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.

Water customers in these areas may experience temporary discolored water.

LHS hosts freshman camp Thursday Lakewood High School will host a freshman camp from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday.

All freshmen, upperclassmen new to Lakewood and guardians are invited to attend. New students and their parents will be escorted on a tour of the school and given information that will make the first days of school easier.

No registration is required.

21-year-old gets 3 years in shooting

BY ROBERT J. BAKER bbaker@theitem.com A 21-year-old Sumter man received three years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to first-degree assault and battery for shooting a 15-year-old in March 2012.

Shaquille Morique Leneau, formerly of 9 Harrison St., also pleaded guilty to criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature regarding an unrelated LENEAU incident. At-large Circuit Court Judge D. Craig Brown ordered Leneau to attend anger management treatment as part of his sentence.

“It sounds to me like you have a problem with anger,” Brown said. “You progressed from carrying a weapon to shoot-

ing a weapon to shooting somebody. I don’t want to send you to jail. I want you to be out and working and supporting your family ... But I can’t make you (make the right decision).”

Leneau was arrested March 6, 2012, after the Sumter Police Department connected him to a shooting from three days earlier in which a 15-year-old Sumter resident, whose name was not released, was injured.

According to reports, police were dispatched about 6:20 p.m. March 3, 2012, to the Red and White and Shannon streets area, where they found the teen shot in the leg. He was treated at Tuomey Regional Medical Center and released.

Leneau had been charged roughly two months earlier with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.

Third Circuit Assistant Solicitor R. Kirk

Griffin told Brown on Monday at the Sumter County Judicial Center that the victim from that case had signed a statement with his office in April 2012 to drop the charges.

Leneau was again arrested in March of this year after police said they found drugs in his car. He was charged with possession of marijuana and Ecstasy after a traffic checkpoint. Police reports stated that a search of his vehicle uncovered a digital scale with traces of marijuana residue on it. Reports indicate marijuana was found in his pants, and police reported seizing a total of 12 grams of marijuana and six grams of Ecstasy, along with $808 in cash.

The drug-related charges remain pending, according to court records.

Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 7741211.

Man pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter

BY ROBERT J. BAKER bbaker@theitem.com One of three men charged last year with the killing of a 16-year-old boy in June 2011 pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Monday at the Sumter County Judicial Center.

At-large Circuit Court Judge D. Craig Brown told Diontrae Epps, 20, formerly of 930 Barwick Road, that his attorney had done him a great service in negotiating with the 3rd Circuit Solicitor’s Office. Brown sentenced Epps to five years in the state prison. He was given credit for 782 days served in SumterLee Regional Detention Center since his arrest.

“I believe it’s great if you’re taking this situation as a stepping stone to a better way of life,” Brown said. “But it’s tragic that it’s being done at the expense of a 16-year-old’s life.”

Epps was arrested in June 2011, along with Christopher L. Davis, 25, of Lot 42 Oaklawn Mobile Home Park, and Travis J. Dunham, 26, of 1039 Belmont Drive. The three men were initially charged with armed robbery, unlawful carrying of a pistol and criminal conspiracy after a June 10 armed robbery at Shoun L. Wright Jr.’s home at 114 Woodlawn Ave. Denzel Archie, 16, was killed during the incident, which Sumter Police Department authorities said happened when the three suspects and Archie went to Wright’s home to buy marijuana.

“This entire event is a result of an attempted armed robbery for drugs,” Sumter Deputy Police Chief Alvin Holston said then. “The reckless ac-

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Diontrae Epps, 20, walks into the courtroom at the Sumter County Judicial Center on Monday, shortly before pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Third Circuit Assistant Solicitor Bronwyn K. McElveen said Monday that Epps was shooting at a home on Woodlawn Avenue after a fumbled burglary attempt and that he inadvertently shot 16-year-old Denzel Archie in the back. Archie was declared dead at Tuomey Regional Medical Center not long after being shot.

tions of all parties involved resulted in the unfortunate death of the 16-year-old.”

The 3rd Circuit Solicitor’s Office added a murder charge

for each defendant in November 2012 during general sessions court. The charges against Dunham and Davis remain pending, according to

court records. Third Circuit Assistant Solicitor Bronwyn K. McElveen told Brown that the men had cooperated with her office and police in fingering Epps as the shooter.

She also said the victims of the attempted armed robbery, who faced various drug charges after the incident, “had no interest in pursuing those (attempted armed robbery) charges.”

“They made it clear that they wouldn’t cooperate with us,” McElveen said.

McElveen said after the botched robbery, all suspects fled, with Archie riding in a gray Mazda pickup truck.

Epps was shooting back at the home, according to police, and ultimately hit Archie in the back.

Archie’s father, Dennis Scarborough, was not present at Monday’s plea hearing. He told The Item in 2011 that his son had never been in any serious trouble. On one occasion, Archie got into a fight at a skating rink, but he was an otherwise good kid, his father said.

“He would get in trouble for teenager things,” Scarborough said. “But never anything serious or where a gun was involved.”

Scarborough told The Item he did not personally know Davis, Dunham or Epps, and he wasn’t sure why his son was with them that day. Epps told Brown that Archie was his friend.

“I know I made a mistake that night,” Epps said Monday. “It has opened my eyes.

He was a friend of mine. I’m ready to put this situation behind me so I can get on with my life.”

Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 774-1211.

Blaze destroys 2 Lee ambulances

BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com Two Lee County Emergency Medical Services vehicles were burned Sunday in what is a suspected accidental fire.

“They were some of our back-up ambulances,” said Dwayne Huggins, public safety director and risk manager. “They were working on it. One had a dead battery, and they were running

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No injuries were reported.

While the incident remains under investigation, the thought is it was an accident and there was no sign of tampering, he said. The vehicles were parked at the EMS base at 119 Hospital Square, Bishopville.

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The Lee County Fire Department was dispatched to the scene at 12:57 p.m. and had the fire under control within about 10 minutes, according to Monday’s news release.

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Republicans want NBC, CNN to yank Clinton programs

BY KEN THOMAS The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee charged Monday that NBC and CNN are promoting a potential presidential candidacy

by Hillary Rodham Clinton, threatening to blackball them from future GOP primary debates if they air planned programs on the former secretary of state.

RNC chairman Reince Priebus called a planned NBC miniseries on Clinton and a CNN documentary on the former first lady an “extended commercial” for a future Clinton presidential campaign.

In separate letters to the networks, he urged them to cancel “this political ad masquerading as an unbiased production.”

Clinton has not yet said whether she’ll run for president again in 2016, but her future remains the subject of wide speculation in political circles and beyond. The primary debates typically provide a ratings boost for the networks and are highly coveted as the presidential campaign unfolds.

In making the charge, the RNC was raising a common com-

plaint among Republican activists that news and entertainment industries favor Democratic candidates. Republicans have also used a potential Clinton campaign as a fundraising tool in recent months as both parties begin to assess the crop of candidates to succeed President Obama.

CNN Films is planning a feature-length documentary film on Clinton, looking at her professional and personal life. It will be led

by Oscar-winning director and producer Charles Ferguson and is expected to air in 2014.

NBC has announced a miniseries called “Hillary,” starring actress Diane Lane. No air date has been announced, but it is timed to be released before the 2016 presidential election. NBC has said the four-hour miniseries will follow Clinton’s life and career from 1998 to the present.

Richard Licata, an NBC Entertainment spokesman, declined comment on the request and referred calls to NBC News, which did not immediately comment. CNN also did not immediately comment.

In the letters, Priebus said the RNC

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Just eight weeks remain before uninsured Americans can start shopping online for subsidized health insurance under the president’s overhaul.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday consumers can now go online to healthcare.gov and create personal accounts by establishing a username and password.

Serious shopping will have to wait until sometime in September, when details on insurance plans and premiums offered in local areas become available.

The new online insurance marketplaces will be geared to people who don’t have coverage through their jobs. Open enrollment starts Oct. 1, and insurance benefits take effect Jan. 1.

Sebelius also said she doesn’t mind if people call it “Obamacare” — if that helps getting the uninsured signed up.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the 51st Delta Sigma Theta National Convention in Washington on July 16.

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Attorneys wrangle over Charleston cruise terminal permit CHARLESTON (AP) — Attorneys in the ongoing dispute about a federal permit for a $35 million South Carolina cruise terminal are wrangling over just what that permit allows.

Environmental and neighborhood groups have sued in federal court, saying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should have, under the law,

more extensively studied the project before issuing a permit allowing the South Carolina State Ports Authority to put additional pilings beneath a waterfront wharf.

The pilings are needed to transform an old warehouse into a new cruise terminal for the city’s expanded cruise industry. Both sides earlier asked U.S. District Judge Rich-

ard Gergel to rule in their favor without a trial. And both sides last week responded in writing to the arguments the other made to the judge.

In arguing more studies are required, plaintiffs’ attorney Blan Holman of the Southern Environmental Law Center argued the permits allow a different and more extensive use of the wharf.

“A home base terminal for cruise ships loaded with thousands of passengers and their waste, and serviced by thousands of vehicles every single visit, presents a significantly different environmental profile than a wharf that services cargo ships crewed by dozens and loaded by two trains a day,� he wrote. “The Corps’ failure to ac-

knowledge this obvious reality led it to improperly find that the South Carolina State Ports Authority’s $35 million cruise ship terminal project would not change the existing shed’s use and that the project lacked even the potential to have effects on the human environment or the federally-protected historic structures� in the city’s Historic District, he wrote.

POLICE BLOTTER POINTING AND PRESENTING:

At noon Wednesday, a man in his late 20s reportedly pulled up to a home in the 100 block of Anderson Street in a pickup truck and pointed a shotgun at three people on the porch. He reportedly accused them of stealing from his property on Milton Road and threatened to kill them before leaving the scene.

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At 1:27 a.m. Friday, police responded to a reported civil disturbance in a hotel room in the 2300 block of Broad Street. A 32-year-old man reportedly accused a 42-year-old man of taking his cellphone, and when the older man

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Wednesday, a juvenile female reportedly struck her grandmother with a wrench during an argument in the 1400 block of Airport Road.

At 4:07 a.m. Saturday, a man in the 3200 block of Broad Street was reportedly struck by an unknown assailant in the back of the head and forehead with a bottle, leaving a gash on the left side of his forehead. The victim was

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STOLEN PROPERTY:

A large amount of copper was reported stolen from an air-conditioning unit and the inside of a home in the first block of West Side Court in Dalzell at noon Thursday. The copper is valued at $13,000.

Two five-ton heat pump units were reportedly stolen from the 100 block of South Main Street between 5 p.m.

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Thursday. The units are valued at $12,000.

A Chevrolet truck was taken for a test drive

from a business in the 900 block of Manning Avenue about 1:13 p.m.

Thursday. It was reported stolen when the driver did not return. The truck is valued at $5,000.

A 55-inch flat-screen TV and $1,700 in cash was reported stolen from the 900 block of South Hampton Street in Pinewood at 2:41 a.m.

Friday.

Car rims, a deep freezer and $100 in cash were reportedly stolen from the 1000 block of Welsboro Court between July 1 and 2:17 p.m. Thursday. The items are valued at a total of $2,100.

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A 1979 Ford Fairmont was reported stolen from the 400 block of Pack Road at 6:57 a.m.

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A blue Dell laptop and a black Polaroid tablet were reportedly stolen from the 5200 block of Ross Farm

Road in Rembert between July 22 and 2:09 a.m. Saturday. The items are valued at $600.

Three sets of pills were reportedly stolen from the 1800 Currituck Drive between noon July 24 and 1:15 p.m.

Thursday. The pills are valued at $560.

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A blue Toyota Camry was discovered parked in the median of Broad Street near Cherryvale Drive at 10:29 p.m.

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Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of “old media�: the newspaper.

Bezos is buying The Washington Post and other newspapers for $250 million, The Washington Post Co., announced Monday. Bezos is buying the paper as an individual. Amazon.com Inc. is not involved.

Washington Post chairman and CEO Donald Graham called Bezos a “uniquely good new owner.� He said the decision was made after years of newspaper industry challenges. The company, which owns the Kaplan education business and several TV stations, will change its name but didn’t say what the new name will be.

Bezos said in a statement that he understands the Post’s “critical role� in Washington and said its values won’t change.

“The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners,� Bezos said to Post employees in a letter distributed to the media. “We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads, and we’ll work hard not to make mistakes.

When we do, we will own up to them quickly and completely.�

Katharine Weymouth, the paper’s publisher and CEO and a member of the Graham family that has owned the paper since 1933, will remain in her post. She has asked other senior managers to stay in their posts as well. “Mr. Bezos knows as well as anyone the opportunities that come with revolutionary technology when we understand how to make the most of it,� she said in a letter to readers. “Under his AP FILE PHOTO ownership and with his management savvy, we will be able to accelerate the Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sept. 6. Bezos plans to buy The Washington Post for $250 million. pace and quality of innovation.�

Al-Qaida chief ’s message led to embassy closures WASHINGTON (AP) — An intercepted secret message between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger that set off the current shutdown of many U.S. embassies, two officials told The Associated Press on Monday.

A U.S. intelligence official and a Mideast diplomat said al-Zawahri’s message was picked up several weeks ago and appeared to initially target Yemeni interests. The threat was expanded to include American or other Western sites abroad, officials said, indicating the target could be a single embassy, a number of posts or some other site. Lawmakers have said it was a massive plot in the final stages, but they have offered no specifics.

The intelligence official said the message was sent to Nasser al-Wahishi, the head of the terror network’s organization, based in Yemen, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

Both officials spoke on

condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive issue publicly.

American spies and intelligence analysts on Monday scoured email, phone calls and radio communications between al-Qaida operatives in Yemen and the organization’s senior leaders to determine the timing and targets of the planned attack.

The call from al-Zawahri, who took over for Osama bin Laden after U.S. Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida leader in May 2011, led the Obama administration to close diplomatic posts from Mauritania on Africa’s west coast through the Middle East to Bangladesh, east of India, and as far south as Madagascar.

The U.S. did decide to reopen some posts on Monday, including welldefended embassies in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Baghdad.

Authorities in Yemen, meanwhile, released the names of 25 wanted alQaida suspects and said those people had been planning terrorist attacks

targeting “foreign offices and organizations and Yemeni installations� in the capital Sanaa and other cities across the country.

The Yemeni government also went on high alert Monday, stepping up security at government facilities and checkpoints.

Officials in the U.S. wouldn’t say who intercepted the initial suspect communications — the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency or one of the other intelligence agencies — that kicked off the sweeping pre-emptive closure of U.S. facilities.

But an intelligence official

said the controversial NSA programs that gather data on American phone calls or track Internet communications with suspected terrorists played no part in detecting the initial tip. That official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the spying publicly.

A U.S. official familiar with the threat information said the decision to close the embassies was based on a broad swath of information, not just the intercept. The official said the U.S. has made clear in the past that AQAP makes its own operational decisions — that

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Gullah Geechee Corridor seeks executive director commission finding the right candidate for this position.â&#x20AC;?

The qualifications for the executive director include, among other things, knowledge of the Gullah Geechee culture, experience in fundraising and experience in strategic planning.

A 272-page management plan for the corridor including parts of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida was more than a dozen years in the making and received final approval from the U.S. Department of the Interior in May. The culture is known as Gullah in the Carolinas and Geechee in Georgia and Florida. The corridor reaches along the coast from Jacksonville, N.C., to just south of Jacksonville, Fla. The culture survived for decades because of the relative isolation of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sea islands but now is threaten by rapid coastal development.

The management plan focuses on educating peo-

BY BRUCE SMITH The Associated Press CHARLESTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The commission working to preserve the culture of slave descendants on the sea islands in four southeastern states is looking for its first executive director.

The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission announced in May that it would be seeking an executive director and this week formally opened a national search, working with Millbrooke Human Resource Consulting to fill the position. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thrilled to be at this point. A great deal of work was accomplished, and we are ready to find the right person to run the day-to-day operation,â&#x20AC;?

Althea Sumpter, the vice chairwoman of the commission who is heading the search committee, said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The success of the Gullah Geechee Corridor will be partly dependent on the

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Haleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman steps down to take new role COLUMBIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief spokesman stepped down Monday to take a role in Haleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expected re-election campaign.

Rob Godfrey told The Associated Press his new title is political adviser to the Republican governor.

Haley has yet to announce whether sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll seek a second term, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s widely expected. Godfrey is the second top staffer in the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office to return to campaign mode.

Her former chief of staff, Tim Pearson, left her office last fall to run her potential 2014 campaign. Now her senior political adviser, Pearson also ran her 2010 campaign.

Godfrey has been Haleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman since she took office in January 2011. He was also chief spokesman for her transition team following her November 2010 election. Godfrey joined Haleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign that summer after his former boss, former Attorney General Henry McMaster, lost his gubernatorial bid to the then-House member in a four-way primary.

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A Gullah sweetgrass basket stand is seen next to a construction zone along busy U.S. 17 in Mount Pleasant on Feb. 29, 2012. The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission is looking for an executive director to help implement a management plan to preserve the culture known as Gullah in the Carolinas and Geechee in Georgia and Florida.

ple about the culture, documenting sites important to it and developing economic opportunities for those who live there. In developing the plan, public meetings were held in all four states, and more than 1,000 sites significant to the culture were identified.

The executive director will be required to help

oversee the implementation of the management plan. The last day to apply is Aug. 29.

The effort to preserve the corridor began in 2000 when Sumter native and U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the first black congressman from South Carolina since Reconstruction, asked for a study of Gullah resources.

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North Sumter Community National Night Out will be held 7-10 p.m. today at North HOPE Center.

Call (803) 773-7995.

The Sumter Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) will meet at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 8, in the Bultman Conference Room of USC Sumter. Administrative professionals are encouraged to attend.

Call Mary Sutton at (803) 938-3760.

Lee County Branch of the NAACP will hold a back-toschool bash at 6 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 8, at Dennis Development Community Center, 410 Cedar Lane, Bishopville.

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Fort Hood survivors to face gunman at trial HOUSE FIRE from Page A1 LILLINGTON, N.C. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alonzo Lunsford has trouble getting out of chairs and warns his family to wake him gently. Kathy Platoni canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shake the image of the man who died in a pool of blood at her knees.

Shawn Manning still has two bullets in his body and gets easily unnerved by crowds.

Survivors of the 2009 shooting rampage that claimed the lives of 13 people at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas fight these demons daily.

Now after years of delay, they will come face to face with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who goes on trial in the attack starting Tuesday.

After dismissing his attorneys, Hasan got permission to represent himself, putting him in the unusual position of asking questions of the very people he admits targeting.

Hasan, a Muslim who argues he was protecting the Taliban from American aggression, was shot by a civilian police officer and is now in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the abdomen down.

Manning dreads the courtroom confrontation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to keep my composure and not go after the guy,â&#x20AC;? said Manning, a mental health specialist who was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan with Hasan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not afraid of him, obviously. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a paralyzed guy in a wheelchair, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sickening that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still living and breathing.â&#x20AC;?

Clarendon County Fire Chief Frances Richbourg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a single-wide mobile home that was threequarters involved when the first engine arrived, which means smoke and heat throughout the entire structure. We were able to get water out of the pond right beside another home, so we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to shuttle water too far. We were able to knock the fire down very quickly.â&#x20AC;?

Once the fire was out and the scene had cooled down some, firefighters were able to go locate the occupants. A number of animals died in the fire as well, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a right tragic morning,â&#x20AC;? Richbourg said.

The incident remains under investigation.

Reach Jade Anderson at (803) 774-1250.

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Ret. Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford describes one of his wounds from the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage at his home in Lillington, N.C. Nearly three dozen soldiers wounded in the deadly attack on the Texas Army post are facing the prospect of being approached and questioned in court by the man many witnesses have identified as the gunman: Maj. Nidal Hasan.

Lunsford â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a now-retired staff sergeant who was shot seven times â&#x20AC;&#x201D; relishes the thought of staring at Hasan and telling him that he did not win. Like Manning, he carries two bullets with him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one in a small wooden box, the other in his back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That man strikes no fear in my heart. He strikes no fear in my family. What he did to me was bad. But the biggest mistake that he made was I survived. So he will see me again,â&#x20AC;? he said as he sat on his porch in Lillington, rubbing the shiny slug between his fingers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will never show any fear in the face of my enemy,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never.â&#x20AC;?

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she can keep her composure enough to support the family of Capt.

John Gaffaney, the friend and soldier who died next to her.

The families of people who were killed struggle with a roller coaster of emotions, too.

Eduardo Caraveo, whose father, Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, died, took a few weeks of leave from his job as a prison supervisor to deal with his emotions ahead of the trial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to hear stuff ... that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to take,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Joleen Cahill, whose husband, Mike Cahill, was shot six times after he lifted a chair to try to stop Hasan, has struggled with the loneliness

of an empty house. Now she wants to ensure that her anger doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take over during the trial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be the one in control here, not him,â&#x20AC;? she said.

In the large hall where troops were preparing for upcoming deployments, everyone was unarmed. Everyone except Hasan.

Manning, who had gotten married just a few weeks before the shooting, was almost done for the day. Platoni had left the hall and was in a nearby domeshaped building. Left behind were her friends â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Caraveo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sitting in a row of chairs.

Then in an instant, lives were changed forever.

It was immediately clear from the scene of the accident that the wreck had been a traumatic one.

According to Trooper Billy Elder with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, an 82-year-old woman driving a 2003 Honda was headed eastbound on I-20 when her vehicle crossed the median and collided with a tractor-trailer heading in the opposite direction.

The Honda was sheared in half between the front and back seats by the collision, with the two largest sections of the destroyed car coming to rest on the interstate some 20 yards from one another. The rear axles of the tractor-trailer were separated from the trailer, which came to rest in the grassy area between the exit and the interstate.

Despite wearing a seatbelt, the woman was ejected from the car.

Lee County Coroner Larry Logan identified the driver of the Honda as Johnny L. Rodrigue of Florence. Logan pronounced the driver dead at the scene of the accident, and has scheduled an autopsy for this morning. Logan said there were no other people riding in the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car at the time of the crash. The driver of the tractor-trailer was believed to be uninjured.

The accident remains under investigation of the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

Lee County fire and law enforcement officers assisted the South Carolina Highway Patrol in responding to the accident. Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accident was the third vehicle fatality in Lee County reported

by Highway Patrol this year, and the 18th in the tri-county area. This is the lowest total of year-todate traffic fatalities reported by Highway Patrol for the tri-county area since 2010.

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ETROIT — Gazing from the 14th floor toward the city center and the fragile sprouts of urban development along the river, Detroit’s Caesar says laconically: “One hundred and thirty-one to go.” Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder, means that housing in this vibrant enclave is 97 percent leased. The enclave is, however, only eight square miles of this city’s 139 square miles.

Here in Greece on the Great Lakes, Orr, George a WashWILL ington bankruptcy lawyer, is Detroit’s real government. He recently spoke in the governor’s office in Cadillac Place, an enormous 90-year-old building with brass door frames and a lobby as cavernous as a cathedral. The building, an architectural echo of vanished grandeur, was General Motors’ headquarters until the company moved into the magnificently misnamed Renaissance Center, a gleaming anomaly that towers over Detroit’s decrepitude. It opened in 1977, when Henry Ford II proclaimed: “Detroit has reached the bottom and is on its way back up.”

Orr became “emergency manager” in March after city council, having accepted a 21-item consent decree stipulating reforms, ignored it. How many items did the council fulfill? “Not one,” Orr says.

He is black, so some race-mongers of the sort who helped reduce Detroit to prostration, now, with tedious predictability, call him an Uncle Tom. Orr calls himself a “yellow dog Democrat,” a Southern expression (although he has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan, he is a native Floridian) for someone who would vote for a yellow dog if it were a Democratic candidate.

He is empowered to alter budgets and labor contracts, and to sell city assets. City council retains the power to complain.

In his five-month immersion in Detroit’s dysfunction, Orr has been startled by “the fact that people had gotten used to the city like this — people were tolerating the abnormal.” But Detroit’s decline began in the 1960s, well before the auto industry’s downward spiral (the United Auto Workers’ membership peaked in 1979). A half-century of the abnormal made it the norm.

Orr has found “bureaucracy on steroids” — for example, “more than two dozen layers of approval for planning and zoning.”

Each layer was an opportunity for cronyism and corruption. And there was what he delicately calls

“dissonance” in the political class’s thinking, which he compares to the Tulip Mania that gripped Holland in 1637. His explanation for the heedless, unsustainable pension and other promises made to unionized city employees is: “IBG, YBG” — I’ll be gone and you’ll be gone when the reckoning arrives.

Orr’s negotiations with unions and others having been unfruitful, a bankruptcy judge will allocate pain. Especially deserving of it are Detroit’s enablers — the creditors who bought the city’s bonds, assuming they would be paid first. But paid with what?

Because the city is broke, they will be paid pennies on their dollars. Other cities will probably suffer the malfeasance Wall Street encouraged in Detroit: The cost of municipal borrowing should increase when lenders add a new risk premium to the cost of credit.

Also facing a rendezvous with reality are former city employees, some of whom retired at 50 on pensions exempt from some taxes. Government retirees have assumed that their benefits would be protected by Michigan’s Constitution, which says pensions “shall not be diminished or impaired” by any Michigan government’s actions. But Chapter 9 of federal bankruptcy law says insolvent cities may restructure their obligations, and the U.S. Constitution makes any U.S. statute “the supreme law of the land.”

Until now, the long shriveling of private-sector unions has been somewhat offset by the unionization of government employees.

But when these workers realize that their union dues (which help to elect compliant officials who dispense the wealth of third parties — taxpayers) do not buy inviolable protection from arithmetic, will they still pay them?

Orr is determined to find $1.25 billion to spend over a decade on restoring some semblance of public services. But $125 million a year will not go far in a city in which 40 percent of street lights are out and the police department is so strapped its officers have no business cards to give citizens who might call for help — if the average time it takes the police to respond to 911 calls ever declines from the current 58 minutes.

Someday Orr will return to Washington, and Detroit’s political class will return to power. Then that class may discover that democracy is not as fun as it was before money, like the largess of lenders, disappeared.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. © 2013, Washington Post Writers Group

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thanks for calling us out as racists In The Item on July 28, Mrs. F.D. Schmidt referred to Eugene Baten and Ferdinand Burns as racist for speaking out on behalf of African-Americans. We thank you for calling us out because we remember when folks called out Dr. Martin Luther King and other black leaders as racist and recently President Barack Obama as racist. We are delighted to be among men of this stature.

You forget, Mrs. Schmidt, that it was your ancestors who enslaved my ancestors and passed the hatred down to you to implement. We will stand our grounds to make sure that you, your children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren are not able to enslave us mentally or physically.

We shall not be moved.

EUGENE BATEN FERDINAND BURNS Sumter

District ‘repairs’ should start with trustees In reference to Mr. Ingle’s letter of Aug. 4, and as I had stated in a previous letter concerning the Sumter School District matter, it was just a short period of time before race was brought up.

Mr. Ingle, there was no problem with the dis-

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trict until the “symptom” (your words) was introduced into the system. Sure, there were going to be some adjustments to be made, which is expected when consolidating any types of organizations. Mr. Baker or Ms. Jefferson were both quite capable of running Sumter School District, but no, the decision was made to bring in an “outsider” to run it. That was the start of the “problem.”

You asked if private schools were the answer, and you suggested people drive by Wilson Hall School at recess and look to see what they “don’t see?” Now I could sit right here and rattle off literally thousands of things you don’t see, but everyone who reads this newspaper knows exactly what you were referring to. But to answer your question, yes, I have driven past Wilson Hall School, and yes, I have seen what you claim you “don’t see.” Sir, it’s a private school, and really doesn’t have anything to do with public education.

You know the old saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Well, it “got broke.” And now it’s in the “fix” stage. And I would guess that most would agree the”’repairs” should start with Sumter School District Board of Trustees.

DENNIS E. VICKERS Wedgefield

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othing is free in politics, but there is some question when you pay the price.

That’s been a saying of mine for many years, though I may have unconsciously plagiarized it from someone else. I think it applies to Obamacare.

My American Enterprise Institute colleague Norman Ornstein has been shellacking Republicans for trying to undercut the implementation of the Obama health care legislation.

He points out that Republicans in the past haven’t tried to undercut or derail major legislation of this sort.

That’s correct, as a matter of history. You won’t find any concerted drive to repeal and replace Social Security after it was enacted in 1935 or Medicare after it was passed in 1965. In contrast, Republicans proclaim they want to repeal and replace Obamacare.

They don’t agree on tactics.

Some Republicans want to vote to defund Obamacare spending while continuing to fund the government otherwise.

Others argue that would be a futile gesture and politically damaging.

The two sides have taken to calling each other names — the suicide caucus and the surrender caucus. But both want to get rid of Obamacare because they think it’s bad for the country.

The so-called surrender caucus is surely correct in predicting that Barack Obama and the Democratic-majority Senate will never allow the defunding of Obamacare. The so-called suicide caucus is right to point out that government shutdowns are not fatal to congressional Re-

publicans, who maintained their congressional majorities after the shutdowns in the Clinton years.

Other points are more problematic. The defunders argue that once Obamacare subsidies go out, people will get hooked on them and support for repeal will tank. Their critics argue that there may be so many glitches (Obama’s word) in the rollout of the health insurance exchanges that support will fall below the present low levels.

Michael The fact is BARONE that no one knows for sure. But whatever happens, there are good reasons for Republicans to regard Obamacare as a legitimate target.

One is that, unlike Social Security and Medicare, the law was passed by Democrats only, with no bipartisan consultation.

That’s a contrast with the 2003 Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which as Ornstein points out Democrats didn’t try to undercut after it was passed.

But Democrats were widely consulted during the legislative process, and a non-trivial number of them voted for the final version.

A second point is that Obamacare — unlike Social Security, Medicare and Part D — wasn’t consistently supported in public opinion polls. Quite the contrary.

Please don’t pass this bill, the public pleaded, speaking in January 2010 through the unlikely medium of the voters of the commonwealth of Massachu-

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setts when they elected Republican Scott Brown to the Senate as the 41st vote against Obamacare.

Democrats went ahead anyway, at the urging of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and with the approval of President Barack Obama. They made that decision knowing that, without a 60th vote in the Senate, the only legislative path forward was for the House to pass a bill identical to the one the Senate passed in December 2009.

No one had intended that to be the final version. Democrats expected to hold a conference committee to comb the glitches out of the Senate bill and the version the House passed in November.

Voters had done all they could do to signal that they wanted not a Democratic version of Obamacare but a bipartisan compromise or no legislation at all. Obama and Pelosi ignored that demand.

Under those circumstances, it’s not surprising that Republicans — politicians and voters — regard the passage of the law as illegitimate. And that they think they are morally justified in seeking repeal and replacement of legislation they consider gravely harmful to the nation.

Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com), is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. © 2013 The Washington Examiner distributed by creators. com

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TRUSTEES from Page A1 Baker, a former superintendent of the now defunct Sumter School District 2, said last week his first plan of action as the consolidated district’s head official was to evaluate the personnel organizational chart and make any changes he felt were necessary.

On the same day the trustees offered the interim post to Baker, the district’s Chief Operations Officer Robert Hutchens announced he is retiring, while Chief of Schools Dr. Cassandra Dixon said she is resigning from her position. Hutchens’ retirement will be effective Aug. 15, while Dixon’s

resignation becomes effective Aug. 16.

As has been the board’s policy with previously called special meetings, there will no time for public comment during the meeting.

Any potential changes to personnel, especially on the school level, need to be made soon, as students return for the 201314 school year in less than two weeks.

The Sumter School District administrative offices are located on Wilson Hall Road and the meeting is open to the public.

Contact Braden Bunch at (803) 774-1201.

ASSAULT from Page A1 morning to reports of an assault that occurred at an apartment on Church Street in Manning.

When officers arrived, they found Wimberly lying in a large pool of blood on his floor with several head injuries. He was barely breathing when Emergency Medical Services arrived and transported him to Palmetto Health Richland hospital in Columbia.

Wimberly was placed on life support at Palmetto Health and remained in critical condition for two months.

The 50-year-old man would never regain consciousness.

On July 29, Manning Police Department officials received word from Wimberly’s doctors that he had succumbed to his injuries. An autopsy confirmed Wimberly died of injuries suffered during the beating. That news changed the department’s approach to the matter, according to Shaffer.

“We were originally charging Newman and his two accomplices with first-degree burglary, giving false information to law enforcement and assault and battery with the intent to kill,” Shaffer said. “Wimberly’s death and the conclusions from the autopsy drastically change the situation, making this a murder case.”

As far as a motive for the beating, Shaffer said there was only one investigators could discern.

“Robbery,” he said.

“They took a handgun from the scene, but we’re unsure if anything else was taken. All this for a gun. We’ll never even know any details about the weapon because it belonged to the victim.”

All three suspects are being held in the Clarendon County jail.

“We’re not stopping there,” Shaffer said.

“There were other people present during the assault and after who knew what happened.”

According to the police chief, Newman, Webb and Samuels were arrested shortly after the incident and brought in for questioning. All three men reportedly gave misleading information to law enforcement.

“We kept following up on it during the next few days, mainly with Newman,” Shaffer said. “One of the witnesses was helpful throughout the case and gave us crucial information about the assault.”

Newman, who disappeared following questioning, was arrested June 5 in Darlington County and then turned over to the Manning Police Department.

Three others were also interviewed about the assault and face charges of giving false information to police.

Barbara Kennedy Burgess, 45, and Kevin Lamont Slater, 32, both of 202 S. Church St., Apt. B, in Manning, and Lester Lemon, 59, of 106 E. Huggins St. in Manning were all arrested and charged with giving false information about the assault in the week that followed the incident.

Their charges, he said, could be upgraded.

“We’re getting together with the solicitor on this one, and you can bet on us pursuing much harsher charges,” Shaffer said, noting the three have posted bond.

“We’re aiming to charge them with accessory to a felony,” he said.

“With that charge, the sentence, if they’re found guilty, depends on the felony to which they were found to be an accessory. In this case, it’s murder, and we’re set on that.”

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Sumter X-Play Angels stay alive with 9-2 victory FROM STAFF REPORTS ALEXANDRIA, La. — The Sumter Angels X-Play allstar softball team stayed alive in the Dixie Softball World Series on Monday with a 9-2 victory over Indianola, Miss., in an elimination game at Johnny Downs

Sports Complex.

Sumter will face West Pasco, Fla., today at 7:30 p.m. in another elimination game.

West Pasco defeated host Alexandria National 1-0 on Monday in an elimination game.

Sumter jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning,

but ran itself out of a big inning when a shoestring catch in the outfield by Indianola turned into a double play.

“We should W. ELMORE have probably had five or six runs in the first

inning,” said Sumter head coach Wayne Elmore.

The Mississippi state champion tied the game with two runs in the second, but Sumter broke the game open with a 5-run third to go up 7-2. It added two more runs in the fourth.

Elmore was happy to see

his team bounce back offensively after it was shut out in a 5-0 loss to East Quachita South, La., on Sunday.

“We hit the ball better today,” Elmore said. “ We did a good job of putting the ball in play and making things SEE ANGELS, PAGE B2

Dixie Boys bow out of World Series FROM STAFF REPORTS

that distinction to the one he earned at Florida during his 12 seasons there.

“If it was going south on us, no, I wouldn’t want to be around a team that needs rebuilding,’’ he said.

He already did that, struggling through much of his first five years at the school with a 35-28 mark

SENECA — The Sumter Dixie Boys 14-year-old all-star baseball team saw its run in the Dixie Boys World Series come to an unexpected end on Monday as it lost to Columbia County, Ga., 5-0 at Shaver Complex.

Sumter, which had nine players on its roster having been a part of the Dixie Junior Boys 13-year-old World Series championship team last year, went 1-2. After winning its first game over McNairy County, Tenn., 16-3 TALLEY on Saturday, Sumter lost to Fairhope, Ala., 15-7 on Sunday.

“Our bats just went cold at the wrong time,” said Sumter head coach Danny Price, whose team scored 91 runs in six games in winning the state tournament. “I think we’re all kind of shocked that we got shut out. If you had told me that would happen going in to his, I wouldn’t have believed you because we were swinging the bats so well.”

Sumter was limited to three hits — one each from McLendon Sears, Drew Talley an Caleb Larrimore.

“The kid from Georgia just pitched a heck of a game,” Price said. “He had all three pitches working, throwing them all for strikes. We didn’t really start hitting the ball until late in the game.

SEE SPURRIER, PAGE B3

SEE DIXIE BOYS, PAGE B2

THE STATE

South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier is still going strong despite nearing age 70. The Gamecocks are coming off back-to-back 11win seasons for the first time in school history and have a Heisman Trophy hopeful in defensive end Jadeveon Clowney.

Spurrier still going strong No signs of slowing down as 68-year-old enters 9th season with USC

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — For a guy who didn’t plan on coaching through his 60s, Steve Spurrier’s still going strong at South Carolina as he nears 70.

He is starting his ninth season with the Gamecocks and expectations haven’t been so high around his

team since his “Fun-nGun’’ championship days at Florida from 1990-2001.

“You go like four, five years at a time,’’ the 68-year-old coach said Sunday. “I don’t feel much different than I did eight years ago, I don’ think. Although my back’s a little stiffer.

Other than that, I feel my mind’s still OK.’’ Spurrier’s been excep-

tional the past few seasons.

He led South Carolina to its first Southeastern Conference divisional title in 2010, defeating Georgia and Florida on the way to the Georgia Dome. Spurrier’s Gamecocks enjoyed consecutive 11-win seasons — a first in school history — and he became the school’s career leader in coaching victories, adding

A-Rod gets 211-game ban, will appeal

BY RONALD BLUM The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MLB suspended New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez for 211 games on Monday and suspended 12 other players 50 games for their involvement with the Biogenesis clinic in Miami. Rodriguez plans to appeal and was in the lineup against the Chicago White Sox.

NEW YORK — Defiant till the end, Alex Rodriguez is intent on evading baseball’s most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal.

Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 CRUZ and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece Monday when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 play-

O’Zones score 14 in elimination win FROM STAFF REPORTS LAUREL, Miss. — The Sumter O’Zone all-star baseball team kept its offense in high gear on Monday with a 14-7 victory over South Boston American, Va., in an elimination game in the Dixie Youth O’Zone World Series at the Laurel-Jones County SportPlex.

“We did a good job CHAPMAN of hitting the ball better,” said Sumter head coach John Holladay, whose team pounded out 13 hits. “It seems like we’re seeing the ball better.”

The game was tied 1-1 after three innings before Sumter scored four runs in the top of the fourth. After South Boston American scored a run in the bottom of the inning, Sumter blew the game open with a 6-run fifth.

“It’s funny that in the two games we’ve won, we didn’t hit a home run,” Holladay said. “We’re not trying to hit a home run; we’re just going for the extra-base hits and trying to hit line drives.”

Tucker Chapman was 3-for-4 with two runs scored to lead the offense.

Burgess Jordan was 2-for-3 with two SEE OZONES, PAGE B2

ers for their relationship to Biogenesis of America, a Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs.

The harshest penalty was reserved for Rodriguez, the New York Yankees slugger, a threetime Most Valuable Player and baseball’s highPERALTA est-paid star. He said he will appeal his suspension, which covers 211 games, by Thursday’s deadline. And since arbitrator Fredric Horowitz isn’t expect-

ed to rule until November or December at the earliest, Rodriguez was free to make his season debut Monday night and play the rest of this year.

Sidelined since hip surgery in January, Rodriguez rejoined the Yankees five hours after the suspension in a series opener at the Chicago CABRERA White Sox, scheduled to play third base and bat fourth.

“The last seven months has SEE A-ROD, PAGE B4

Ponytails’ WS run ends FROM STAFF REPORTS ALEXANDRIA, La. — The Sumter Ponytails X-Play all-star softball team saw its run in the Dixie Softball World Series come to an end on Monday with an 11-1 loss to Bonham, Texas, at Johnny Downs Sports Complex.

Sumter finished 1-2 DINKINS in the tournament.

Sumter head coach Rob Dinkins said defense was the difference in Monday’s game.

“Our defense didn’t show up and theirs did,” Dinkins said. “We had

several errors and I’m not sure if they had one. I thought we hit the ball hard, but we just hit a lot of balls hard right at someone.

“There’s not whole lot you can say. I thought we hit with them, but they made the plays and we didn’t.”

Ellen Dinkins went the distance for Sumter in the circle. Coach Dinkins estimated Dinkins had no more than three earned runs.

“I thought she pitched pretty well,” he said. “We just didn’t make enough plays, and they made every one.”

Sumter had just two hits, one SEE PONYTAILS, PAGE B2

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SPORTS

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SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY 5 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series Southwest Regional Semifinal Game from Waco, Texas (ESPN2).

6 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: NBA Schedule Release Special (NBA TV).

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

6:30 p.m. -- International Soccer: International Champions Cup Seventh-Place Match from Miami Gardens, Fla. (FOX SOCCER).

7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Oakland at Cincinnati or Atlanta at Washington (MLB NETWORK).

7 p.m. -- WNBA Basketball: Los Angeles at Connecticut (NBA TV).

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

8 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series Southwest Regional Semifinal Game from Waco, Texas (ESPN2).

8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox (WGN).

9 p.m. -- International Soccer: International Champions Cup Fifth-Place Match from Miami Gardens, Fla. (FOX SOCCER).

10 p.m. -- WNBA Basketball: Seattle at Phoenix (ESPN2).

MLB STANDINGS American League

By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Boston 68 45 .602 – Tampa Bay 66 45 .595 1 Baltimore 61 51 .545 61/2 New York 57 53 .518 91/2 Toronto 51 60 .459 16 Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 64 45 .587 – Cleveland 62 49 .559 3 Kansas City 56 52 .519 71/2 Minnesota 48 60 .444 151/2 Chicago 40 69 .367 24 West Division W L Pct GB Oakland 64 47 .577 – Texas 62 50 .554 21/2 Seattle 52 59 .468 12 Los Angeles 51 59 .464 121/2 Houston 36 74 .327 271/2 Sunday’s Games Detroit 3, Chicago White Sox 2, 12 innings Cleveland 2, Miami 0 Kansas City 6, N.Y. Mets 2 Boston 4, Arizona 0 Seattle 3, Baltimore 2 Tampa Bay 4, San Francisco 3 Minnesota 3, Houston 2 Toronto 6, L.A. Angels 5 Texas 4, Oakland 0 San Diego 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 Monday’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

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

Toronto at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Detroit (Verlander 11-8) at Cleveland (Masterson 13-7), 7:05 p.m.

Oakland (Straily 6-5) at Cincinnati (Latos 103), 7:10 p.m.

Boston (S.Wright 2-0) at Houston (Lyles 4-5), 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Albers 0-0) at Kansas City (Shields 6-7), 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 10-6) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 6-11), 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Hellickson 10-4) at Arizona (Miley 8-8), 9:40 p.m.

Texas (Darvish 10-5) at L.A. Angels (Richards 3-4), 10:05 p.m.

Baltimore (B.Norris 7-9) at San Diego (Volquez 8-8), 10:10 p.m.

Toronto (Jo.Johnson 1-8) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 11-4), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Oakland at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.

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

Toronto at Seattle, 3:40 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

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

National League

By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 67 45 .598 – Washington 54 57 .486 121/2 Philadelphia 50 61 .450 161/2 New York 49 60 .450 161/2 Miami 43 67 .391 23 Central Division W L Pct GB Pittsburgh 67 44 .604 – St. Louis 65 45 .591 11/2 Cincinnati 61 51 .545 61/2 Chicago 49 62 .441 18 Milwaukee 47 64 .423 20 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 61 49 .555 – Arizona 56 55 .505 51/2 San Diego 52 60 .464 10 Colorado 52 61 .460 101/2 San Francisco 49 61 .445 12 Sunday’s Games Cleveland 2, Miami 0 Kansas City 6, N.Y. Mets 2 St. Louis 15, Cincinnati 2 Boston 4, Arizona 0 Pittsburgh 5, Colorado 1 Tampa Bay 4, San Francisco 3 Milwaukee 8, Washington 5 L.A. Dodgers 1, Chicago Cubs 0 San Diego 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 Atlanta 4, Philadelphia 1 Monday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Today’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 8-5) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 7-4), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 7-11) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 9-8), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (H.Alvarez 2-1) at Pittsburgh (Locke 9-3), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Chatwood 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Mejia 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Straily 6-5) at Cincinnati (Latos 103), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 10-6) at St. Louis (J.Kelly 2-3), 8:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Hellickson 10-4) at Arizona (Miley 8-8), 9:40 p.m.

Baltimore (B.Norris 7-9) at San Diego (Volquez 8-8), 10:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 7-11) at San Francisco (M.Cain 7-6), 10:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Oakland at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.

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

Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Miami at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

NFL PRESEASON Sunday’s Game Dallas 24, Miami 20 Thursday’s Games Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Tennessee, 8 p.m.

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Denver at San Francisco, 9 p.m.

Seattle at San Diego, 10 p.m.

Friday’s Games

| N.Y. Jets at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.

New England at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Kansas City at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Carolina, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Oakland, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Giants at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Aug. 11 Buffalo at Indianapolis, 1:30 p.m.

GOLF Bridgestone Invitational Par Scores The Associated Press Sunday At Firestone Country Club (South Course) Akron, Ohio Purse: $8.75 million Yardage: 7,400; Par: 70 Final Tiger Woods (550), $1,500,000 66-61-68-70—265 -15 Keegan Bradley (258), $692,500 66-68-71-67—272 -8 Henrik Stenson (258), $692,500 65-70-67-70—272 -8 Miguel A. Jimenez, $321,667 71-69-65-69—274 -6 Zach Johnson (120), $321,667 69-70-68-67—274 -6 Jason Dufner (120), $321,667 67-69-67-71—274 -6 Bill Haas (92), $205,000 67-68-69-71—275 -5 Chris Wood, $205,000 66-68-70-71—275 -5 Luke Donald (76), $145,750 67-69-68-72—276 -4 Jim Furyk (76), $145,750 67-69-72-68—276 -4 Martin Kaymer (76), $145,750 74-67-69-66—276 -4 Richard Sterne, $145,750 70-68-70-68—276 -4 Steve Stricker (65), $114,000 71-67-70-69—277 -3 Women’s British Open Par Scores The Associated Press Sunday At The Old Course St. Andrews, Scotland Purse: $2.75 million Yardage: 6,672; Par: 72 Final a-amateur Stacy Lewis, $402,584 67-72-69-72—280 -8 Na Yeon Choi, $198,296 67-67-75-73—282 -6 Hee Young Park, $198,296 70-69-70-73—282 -6 Suzann Pettersen, $116,089 70-67-72-74—283 -5 Morgan Pressel, $116,089 66-70-71-76—283 -5 Lizette Salas, $91,094 68-72-72-73—285 -3 a-Mamiko Higa, $0 70-69-72-75—286 -2 a-Miki Saiki, $0 69-66-74-77—286 -2 Natalie Gulbis, $64,432 71-72-74-70—287 -1 Nicole Castrale, $64,432 67-70-76-74—287 -1 Anna Nordqvist, $46,991 70-74-72-72—288 E Pernilla Lindberg, $46,991 68-73-73-74—288 E Paula Creamer, $46,991 68-72-72-76—288 E Meena Lee, $46,991 71-69-70-78—288 E Catriona Matthew,$46,991 68-74-68-78—288 E 3M Championship Par Scores The Associated Press Sunday At TPC Twin Cities Blaine, Minn.

Purse: $1.75 million Yardage: 7,114; Par: 72 Final Tom Pernice Jr. (263), $262,500 66-65-68—199 -17 Corey Pavin (140), $140,000 65-69-66—200 -16 Jeff Sluman (140), $140,000 69-69-62—200 -16 Bart Bryant (86), $85,750 66-69-67—202 -14 Jay Haas (86), $85,750 69-68-65—202 -14 Rod Spittle (86), $85,750 68-66-68—202 -14 Colin Montgomerie (53), $53,375 67-69-67—203 -13 Kenny Perry (53), $53,375 65-71-67—203 -13 Craig Stadler (53), $53,375 72-66-65—203 -13 Kirk Triplett (53), $53,375 71-64-68—203 -13 John Cook (0), $38,500 68-69-67—204 -12 Gene Sauers (0), $38,500 70-66-68—204 -12 Peter Senior (0), $38,500 66-72-66—204 -12

WNBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct Chicago 13 6 .684 Atlanta 11 6 .647 Indiana 9 10 .474 Washington 9 12 .429 New York 8 12 .400 Connecticut 6 12 .333 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct Minnesota 16 3 .842 Los Angeles 13 7 .650 Phoenix 10 10 .500 Seattle 8 11 .421 San Antonio 7 13 .350 Tulsa 7 15 .318 Sunday’s Games Los Angeles 75, Washington 57 San Antonio 69, Tulsa 65 Minnesota 90, Seattle 72 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Today’s Games Washington at New York, 11 a.m.

Los Angeles at Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

GB – 1 4 5 51/2 61/2 GB – 31/2 61/2 8 91/2 101/2

TRANSACTIONS

By The Associated Press BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB _ Suspended New York Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez for 211 games from Aug. 8 through the remainder of the 2013 season and the 2014 seasons for violations of the major league Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program and the Basic Agreement. Suspended Philadelphia LHP Antonio Bastardo, San Diego SS Everth Cabrera, New York Yankees C Francisco Cervelli, Texas OF Nelson Cruz, San Diego RHP Fautino De Los Santos (San Antonio-Texas), Houston LHP Sergio Escalona (Corpus Christi-Texas), New York Yankees OF Fernando Martinez (Scranton/Wilkes-IL), Seattle C Jesus Montero, free agent LHP Jordan Norberto, Detroit SS Jhonny Peralta, New York Mets OF Cesar Puello (Binghamton-Eastern) and New York Mets INF Jordany Valdespin (on option to Las Vegas-PCL), 50 games each for violations of the major league Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013

Yankees place SS Jeter on DL again

DIXIE X-PLAY PONYTAILS WORLD SERIES Saturday Game 1 -- Wesley Chapel, Fla., 3, Decatur County, Tenn., 2 Game 2 -- Crewe-Burkeville, Va., 20, Magee, Miss., 13 Game 3 -- West Robeson, N.C., 5, Troy, Ala., 2 Game 4 -- Jefferson Parish Westbank West, La., 14, Bonham,Texas 10 Game 5 -- Alexandria National, La., 9, Sumter 3 Game 6 -- Broken Bow, Okla., 10, Taylor County, Ga., 2 Sunday Game 7 -- Magee, Miss., 12, Decatur County, Tenn., 6, Decatur County eliminated Game 8 -- Bonham, Texas, 4, Troy, Ala., 1, Troy eliminated Game 9 -- Sumter 17, Taylor County, Ga., 9, Taylor County eliminated.

Game 10 -- Alexandria National, La., 10, Broken Bow, Okla., 0 Game 11 -- Jefferson Parish Westbank West, La., 6, West Robeson, N.C., 2 Game 12 -- Wesley Chapel, Fla., 9, Crewe-Burkeville, Va., 8 Monday Game 13 -- Bonham, Texas, 11, Sumter 1, Sumter eliminated Game 14 -- West Robeson, N.C., 10, Magee, Miss., 6, Magee eliminated Game 15 -- Crewe-Burkeville, Va., vs. Broken Bow, Okla., 8:30 p.m.

Game 16 -- Jefferson Parish Westbank West, La., vs. Wesley Chapel, Fla., 11, 8:30 p.m.

Today Game 17 -- West Robeson, N.C., vs Bonham, Texas, 7 p.m.

Game 18 -- Loser Game 16 vs. Winner Game 15, 8:30 p.m.

Game 19 -- Winner Game 16 vs. Alexandria National, La., 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday Game 20 -- Winner Game 18 vs. Winner Game 19, 7 p.m.

Game 21 -- Winner Game 19 vs. Winner Game 17, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday Game 22 -- Championship Round, 7 p.m.

Game 23 -- If Necessary

CHICAGO (AP) — The New York Yankees put shortstop Derek Jeter back on the disabled list Monday in the latest setback in an injury-filled season for the captain.

Jeter is out with a strained right calf. .

With Jeter going on the DL, the Yankees recalled infielder Dave Adams from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. They also designated infielder Brent Lillibridge for assignment, and Rodriguez was activated from the disabled list. Outfielder Thomas Neal was claimed off waivers by the Cubs.

Rodriguez is appealing the penalty

by Major League Baseball and is eligible to play while the case is being resolved.

The 39-year-old Jeter did not play Saturday or Sunday at San Diego. He appeared to take an awkward step while making a play in Friday night’s 7-2 loss. He also had an awkward slide into third base.

PONYTAILS from Page B1 each by Riley DeLavan and Rebecca Dinkins.

Rebecca Dinkins scored Sumter’s lone run.

DIXIE O’ZONE WORLD SERIES Saturday Game 1 -- Smiths Station, Ala., 7, Kilgore, Texas 2 Game 2 -- Dallas, N.C., 10, Summertown, Tenn., 0 Game 3 -- West Seminole American, Fla., 10, Indianola, Miss., 4 Game 4 -- Haughton, La., 7, Sumter 4 Game 5 -- Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., 12, South Boston American, Va., 2 Game 6 -- Laurel, Miss., 13, Dierks, Ark., 3 Sunday Game 7 -- South Boston American, Va., 14, Dierks, Ark., 2, Dierks eliminated Game 8 -- Sumter 15, Indianola, Miss., 9, Indianola eliminated Game 9 -- Kilgore, Texas 15, Summertown, Tenn., 2, Summertown eliminated Game 10 -- Laurel, Miss., 12, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., 1 Game 11 -- West Seminole American, Fla., 19, Haughton, La. 11 Game 12 -- Smiths Station, Ala., 6, Dallas, N.C., 5 Monday

DIXIE BOYS from Page B1 “He was just better than us today,” Price added. “This is just one of those games where you have to tip your hat and congratulate him on the way he pitched.”

Sears took the loss on the mound, pitching five innings. Talley and Dawson Price each pitched an inning as well.

“McLendon pitched good enough to give us a chance to win the game,” Coach Price said.

“If we had just hit the ball a little bit, we could have had a chance to

ANGELS from Page B1

win it with his performance.”

While his team didn’t come close to meeting the expectations it had set for itself, Coach Price had nothing but praise for his players.

“The boys played hard today; it just wasn’t meant to be,” he said. “I thought they did a good job of regrouping from yesterday (from the loss to Fairhope), but we just ran into a hot pitcher.

“I think our guys are just disappointed because we thought we’d go farther than 1-2. But they’ve won a World Series before, and they know how hard it is, so they knew this wouldn’t be easy.”

Saturday Game 1 – Alexandria National, La., 5, Burgaw, N.C., 2 Game 2 – Montgomery American Ala., 13, Madison County, Tenn., 0 Game 3 – West Pasco, Fla., 8, Indianola, Miss., 7 Game 4 – East Ouachita South, La., 6, Broken Bow, Okla., 0 Game 5 – Sumter 10, Halifax National Va., 0 Sunday Game 6 – Hopkins County American, Texas, 5, Alexandria National, La., 4 2:30 p.m.

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“Cory was wild, but he did what he needed to do for us to win the game,” Coach Holladay said.

Sumter faces Haughton, La., today at 6:30 p.m. in an elimination game. Haughton, which beat Sumter 7-4 on Saturday in its opening game, defeated Kilgore, Texas, 6-2 on Monday.

DIXIE BOYS WORLD SERIES Saturday Game 1-- Sumter 16 vs. McNairy County, Tenn., 3 Game 2 -- Fairhope, Ala., 10, Springhill, Fla., 8 Game 3 -- Columbia County, Ga., 13, Goochland County, Va. 0 Game 4 -- Hattiesburg, Miss., 24, Huntington, Texas Game 5 -- Dallas, N.C., 11, Texarkana, Ark., 10 Game 6 -- Seneca 5, Bossier City, La., 3 Sunday Game 7 -- Springhill, Fla., 10, McNairy County, Tenn., 5, McNairy County eliminated Game 8 -- Goochland County, Va., 7, Huntington, Texas, 4, Huntington eliminated Game 9 -- Bossier City, La., 15, Texarkana, Ark., 12, Texarkana eliminated Game 10 -- Dallas, N.C., 12, Seneca, 8 Game 11 -- Hattiesburg, Miss., Columbia County, Ga., 2 Game 12 -- Sumter 15, Fairhope, Ala., 7

Monday Game 13 -- Columbia County, Ga., 5, Sumter 0, Sumter eliminated Game 14 -- Bossier City, La., 1 Goochland County, Va., 0, Goochland County eliminated Game 15 -- Springhill, Fla., 5, Seneca 3, Seneca eliminated Game 16 -- Hattiesburg, Miss., 15, Fairhope, Ala., 13 Game 17 -- Columbia County, Ga., 16, Bossier City, La., 6, Bossier City eliminated Game 18 -- Fairhope, Ala., vs. Springhill, Fla. Game 19 -- Hattiesburg, Miss., vs. Dallas, N.C., 8 p.m.

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Madison Sliwonik worked the first two innings for Sumter followed by Morgan Berry with two more innings.

Madison Elmore closed the game out by pitching the final inning.

Elmore also scored three runs to led the offense.

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Kahne holds off Gordon at Pocono

BY DAN GELSTON The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel (2) is under investigation by the NCAA concerning whether he received payment for signing hundreds of autographs on photos and sports memorabilia in January.

Manziel issues cloud Texas A&M camp

BY KRISTIE RIEKEN The Associated Press COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Johnny Football is practicing with Texas A&M. Whether he starts the season opener is another question.

Coach Kevin Sumlin on Monday said he would not speculate when asked if Johnny Manziel will be his starter on Aug. 31 against Rice following an ESPN report that the NCAA is investigating whether the Heisman Trophy winner was paid for signing hundreds of autographs last January.

“There’s a lot of people involved in that decision,’’ Sumlin said without being specific.

If Manziel was paid for

his autograph on memorabilia, it could potentially violate NCAA amateurism rules and put his eligibility in question a year after his jaw-dropping performance on the field made him the first freshman to win the Heisman as college football’s top player.

Speaking to the media as the team SUMLIN began preseason practices, Sumlin said he learned of the ESPN report Sunday.

For now, Manziel will lead the Aggies. But his coach is clearly thinking of backups, too.

“He’ll get as many reps as he was going to get yester-

day,’’ Sumlin said of Manziel, before adding: “We’ve got to develop a backup quarterback no matter what.’’

The report is just the latest in a string of off-thefield distractions caused

by Manziel.

He’s made headlines for tweeting that he “can’t wait to leave College Station,’’ despite having three years of eligibility remaining, he allegedly overslept at a football camp run by the Manning family and was supposedly kicked out of a University of Texas fraternity party in the past couple of months.

The 20-year-old sophomore calmly answered question after question at SEC media days last month, acknowledging his eventful

offseason and indicating he needed to make better decisions because he’s such a public figure.

“I don’t feel like I’ve done anything that’s catastrophic,’’ Manziel said then. “Of course, I’ve made my mistakes. It’s time to grow up.’’

Last week, Manziel tweeted: “I ain’t perfect, I ain’t insane but I AM worth it...if there’s one thing I am worth it.’’

The antics have overshadowed what is expected to be a banner year for Texas A&M. The Aggies are coming off an 11-2 record in their first season in the SEC, a year highlighted by Manziel leading Texas A&M to an upset win at No. 1 Alabama. The rematch in College Station is Sept. 14.

Woods cruises to 8th Bridgestone win

BY RUSTY MILLER The Associated Press AKRON, Ohio — Tiger Woods can’t wait to get to the PGA Championship.

Woods grabbed a big lead with a second-round 61 and then closed out the field with safe and smart even-par 70 on Sunday to roll to a seven-shot victory at the Bridgestone Invitational.

Next up? The year’s final major championship at Oak Hill.

“Do I want it any more? No, it’s the same,’’ said Woods, winless in his past 17 major championships. “Each and every major, I always want them.

I’ve been successful 14 times, and hopefully next week it’ll be 15.’’

That confidence is a product of his eighth win at the Bridgestone — matching the PGA Tour record he already shared for victories in a single tournament.

He grabbed a seven-shot lead with a stunning, career best-tying 61 on Friday and maintained it through a 68 on Saturday to arrive at 15under 265.

On Sunday, he avoided any major mistakes and waited for a challenge that never came from an elite field.

“As blustery as it was, it was going

SPURRIER from Page B1 before stepping it up the past three seasons.

Now, Spurrier’s team is again the talk of college football because of AllAmerican defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, last year’s SEC defensive player of the year with 13 sacks.

Spurrier’s still got an ornery side. Right now, he’s ready to end the hype surrounding Clowney, the 6-foot-6, 274-pounder considered the top prospect for

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Tiger Woods holds the trophy after winning the Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.

to be really hard for someone to shoot 62 or 63,’’ Woods said.

“If I didn’t give any shots away and played my game and shot even par or better, I’d force these guys to go and shoot something super low on a golf course that wasn’t going to give it up under these conditions.’’

next spring’s NFL draft.

He’s closing practice because of autograph seekers stopping Clowney and others to sign anything they can.

Spurrier’s also miffed at those who use cellphones to take photos or videos of the workouts.

“Poor Jadeveon can’t hardly get out on the field with getting somebody mad at him,’’ Spurrier said.

Spurrier wants the focus on the team, which he holds is the only approach that will bring SEC success.

Spurrier wasn’t sure how long he’d stay after 2009 when the Gamecocks went 7-6, losing four of their final

The victory was Woods’ 79th on the PGA Tour, drawing him within three of Sam Snead’s record 82 triumphs.

“The total body of work is pretty good,’’ Woods said. “One of the things I’m proud of, obviously, is how many times I’ve won, plus won World Golf Championships and how many years I’ve won five or more tournaments in a season. What is it, like eight or nine times? Ten? That’s not bad, either.’’

Lest anyone think he’ll have difficulty surpassing Snead’s total, consider that Woods is more than 10 years younger (he’s 37{) than Snead was when he won his 82nd and final event, the 1965 Greater Greensboro.

Defending champion Keegan Bradley, who tied for second with Henrik Stenson, was a huge fan of Woods when he was a kid. He was asked if he liked seeing Woods dominate as he did a decade or so ago.

“When I was younger, I did,’’ Bradley said. “You know, I hate to sit here and go on and on about how good he is, but he is. It’s difficult because I really want to get up there and contend with him. But he’s just ... this week he’s playing really well.’’

five games. He wondered if South Carolina needed new blood.

Then began unprecedented run of recruiting success that started with Stephon Gilmore, now a second-year Buffalo Bills cornerback, and continued with tailback Marcus Lattimore and Clowney.

“I told Stephon that if he and I went to South Carolina, we were going to make big things happen,’’ Clowney said.

The Gamecocks have gone 31-9 the past three years.

They’ve beaten SEC East rival Georgia three straight seasons and hold a 4-game win streak over state rival Clem-

LONG POND, Pa. — Jeff Gordon had the inside line, a lead and his first win of the season in sight, usually a sure thing for Pocono’s top winner.

Kasey Kahne was about out of time to pass his Hendrick Motorsports teammate.

“It was either to go for it and make it work,’’ Kahne said. “Or not.’’

Cruising from the outside, Kahne got the jump he needed, zipped past Gordon and pulled away with KAHNE two laps left Sunday to win at Pocono Raceway.

“I about gave it away when Jeff got by me,’’ Kahne said.

Kahne recovered in the No. 5 Chevrolet for his second victory of the season, all but securing his spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. He had the car to beat for the final half of the 400mile race until a late caution bunched up the field.

Gordon nudged past Kahne after some thrilling two-wide racing and seemed poised to win at Pocono for the seventh time. After the final caution, Kahne was simply too fast, too strong to be denied his first win at Pocono since 2008.

So close to the checkered, this loss stung Gordon. Even worse, his runner-up finish came on his 42nd birthday in his 42nd career Pocono start.

“I thought all I needed to do was get in here and got to the bottom and I’d be good,’’ Gordon said. “He got a killer run and blasted by on the outside of me. Caught me by surprise. It just kills your momentum.’’

Kurt Busch, who also celebrated a birthday, Ryan Newman and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five. The top five cars were Chevrolets.

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By The Associated Press Sunday At Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pa. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (18) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 160 laps, 146.7 rating, 48 points, $208,500.

2. (22) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 160, 120.4, 43, $199,221.

3. (5) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 160, 119.5, 42, $153,930.

4. (4) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 160, 112.6, 41, $161,343.

5. (25) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevy, 160, 107.3, 40, $125,385.

6. (11) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 160, 113.5, 39, $152,351.

7. (6) Joey Logano, Ford, 160, 102.5, 37, $121,593.

8. (2) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 160, 102.7, 36, $132,568.

9. (20) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 160, 94.4, 36, $129,910.

10. (7) Greg Biffle, Ford, 160, 94, 34, $101,535.

11. (3) Carl Edwards, Ford, 160, 89.6, 33, $120,685.

12. (8) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 160, 81.3, 32, $111,674.

13. (1) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 160, 97.3, 32, $141,596.

14. (16) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 160, 91.2, 30, $120,143.

15. (26) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 160, 74.2, 30, $113,985.

16. (12) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 160, 77.4, 29, $106,530.

17. (14) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 160, 79.7, 27, $123,171.

18. (28) Mark Martin, Toyota, 160, 73.7, 26, $92,685.

19. (33) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 160, 62.5, 25, $105,393.

20. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 160, 79.6, 25, $117,046.

21. (30) David Ragan, Ford, 160, 57.2, 24, $102,718.

22. (24) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 160, 69.8, 23, $113,201.

23. (32) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 160, 56.7, 22, $92,018.

24. (29) Casey Mears, Ford, 160, 67.4, 20, $97,293.

25. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 160, 50.5, 19, $77,860.

26. (23) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 160, 57.4, 18, $94,607.

27. (41) Timmy Hill, Ford, 158, 40.6, 17, $78,285.

28. (19) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevy, 157, 35.5, 16, $103,849.

29. (38) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 157, 37.1, 0, $73,485.

30. (31) David Stremme, Toyota, 151, 48.5, 14, $77,335.

31. (35) David Reutimann, Toyota, 141, 44.5, 13, $73,185.

32. (21) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 127, 70.1, 12, $103,001.

33. (15) AJ Allmendinger, Chevy, brakes, 122, 56.3, 11, $80,810.

34. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 113, 39.4, 10, $120,946.

35. (34) Danica Patrick, Chevy, accident, 110, 52.2, 9, $72,460.

36. (13) Jeff Burton, Chevy, accident, 109, 61.4, 8, $80,210.

37. (39) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, accident, 55, 31, 0, $72,028.

38. (43) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, brakes, 53, 31.9, 0, $67,050.

39. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, accident, 51, 39.4, 5, $63,050.

40. (27) Michael McDowell, Ford, brakes, 44, 40.5, 4, $59,050.

41. (40) Josh Wise, Ford, brakes, 44, 29.4, 0, $55,050.

42. (42) Alex Kennedy, Toyota, vibration, 22, 28.3, 2, $51,050.

43. (9) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, accident, 14, 38.3, 1, $67,350.

son.

Spurrier insisted his team runs deeper than one Heisman Trophy hopeful.

“Maybe they think Clowney is the star player and everybody else is not up to his level,’’ Spurrier said.

“But they are.’’

Spurrier has been as enthused as ever leading to the season, says Gamecocks quarterback coach G.A. Mangus.

Mangus was a quarterback at Florida from 1988-91, including two years under Spurrier, and remained on staff for three seasons after that. He says Spurrier has always kept a balance between

his life on and off the field.

“That’s probably why he’s been as successful as he is,’’ Mangus said.

Spurrier has rarely let his leisure time overtake his career. While some coaches grind things out 20 hours a day in April or May, Spurrier would be found on the golf course or the beach.

He was asked recently if having two healthy, talented quarterbacks in Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson made him sleep easier during the offseason?

“You mean when I was in Ireland playing golf or when I was in the Bahamas,’’ Spurrier said with a laugh.

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Walker, Luttrell win Super Event at Cabelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s King Kat tournament DAVIS STATION â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The team of Jerry Walker of Omaha, Neb., and Kenneth Luttrell of Laplace, Ill., won the Marion/ Moultrie Lakes $10,000 Super Event on the Cabelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s King Kat Tournament Trail held on Friday and Saturday with a total weight of 130 pounds.

Walker and Luttrell caught 57.55 pounds of catfish on Friday before adding 72.45 on Saturday to win the event and $4,300.

The duo was fishing the lower lake around markers 12 and 13 on the southeast side on a 36-foot hump and caught all their fish between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. each day with Omaha Blood Bait. The team caught a total of 15 fish in the two days. Each team is allowed to weigh in their top five fish each day.

In second place was the team of Clay Henderson of Charlotte and Jason Knight of Ridgeway with a total of 108 pounds They earned $2,000.

Third place went to the 3-person team of Joey Hawkins and Austin Harris of Prosperity and Jim Glenn of Little Mountain. Their weight was 97.3 pounds and they earned $1,000.

Jason Burgus of Winfield, Iowa, and Dennis Warrick of Keosauqua, Iowa, took fourth with a weight of 91.3 pounds, while fifth place went to Tim Ferris of Lake Wylie. He had a weight of 79.7 pounds.

The prize for big fish went to Mike Faucette and C. Lee Neil of Manning with a 32.95 pound catfish.

For complete results on the tournament, go to www.kingkatusa.com.

LEWIS CLAIMS WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRITISH OPEN

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stacy Lewis had another big week at St. Andrews and left with an even bigger prize _ a major championship at the home of golf.

Lewis finished a marathon Sunday with exquisite birdies on the last two

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holes of the Old Course to close with an even-par 72 and win the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British Open by two shots. It was her second major on the LPGA Tour, ending a record streak of 10 straight majors won by Asian players. The last time the 28-year-old Lewis was at St. Andrews was in 2008 for the Curtis Cup, and she went 5-0 to lead the Americans to victory.

Inbee Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bid to become the first pro golfer to win four straight majors in one season ended early â&#x20AC;&#x201D; very early. Park closed with rounds of 74-78 to finish 14 shots behind.

PERNICE JR. VICTORIOUS AT 3M CHAMPIONSHIP

BLAINE, Minn. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tom Pernice Jr. birdied the final two holes for a onestroke victory over Jeff Sluman and Corey Pavin in the 3M Championship.

Pernice finished with a 4-under 68 and had a 17-under 199 total at the TPC Twin Cities for his second career Champions Tour victory. He also has two PGA Tour victories.

Sluman closed with a 62, and Pavin had a 66.

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CANTON, Ohio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rookie Devonte Hollomanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 75-yard interception return with a tipped pass keyed the Dallas Cowboysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 24-20 victory over the Miami Dolphins in the Hall of Fame game Sunday night that opened the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preseason.

The sixth-round pick from South Carolina was perfectly situated when rookie Chad Bumphis had Matt Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pass go off his hands in the second quarter. It was the biggest play for a Dallas defense switching to a 4-3 alignment under new coordinator Monte Kiffin.

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MLB ROUNDUP

Braves, Dodgers extend streaks WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Justin Upton led off the eighth inning with a tiebreaking homer, and the NL Eastleading Atlanta Braves extended their winning streak to a seasonhigh 11 games by beating the fading Washington Nationals 3-2 Monday night.

Freddie Freeman drove in Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first two runs with a pair of singles in the third J. UPTON and fifth. Reliever David Carpenter (3-0) earned the win by retiring all five batters he faced.

Uptonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20th homer came on a 3-2 pitch from Tyler Clippard (6-2), who replaced Stephen Strasburg to begin the eighth.

The Nationals again failed to provide much run support for Strasburg, who struck out nine in seven innings, allowing two runs and five hits. The last five times heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allowed two earned runs or fewer, Washington lost.

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ST. LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zack Greinke pitched into the seventh inning and raised his batting average to .405 with an RBI single, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers win their 15th straight on the road with a 3-2 victory over St.. Louis.

Nick Punto was productive subbing for injured shortstop Hanley

been a nightmare, has been probably the worst time of my life for sure,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rodriguez said.

The other 12 players agreed to their 50-game penalties before they were announced, giving them a chance to return for the playoffs.

Ryan Braunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 65game suspension last month and previous penalties bring to 18 the total number of players sanctioned for their connection with Biogenesis.

At the center of it all was Rodriguez, once the greatest player of his time, reduced Monday night to saying that he was humbled, at 38, just to â&#x20AC;&#x153;have the opportunity to put on this uniform againâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and adding if he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fight for his career, no one else would.

A-Rodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drug penalty was for â&#x20AC;&#x153;his use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including testosterone and human growth hormone over the course of multiple years,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; MLB said.

His punishment under the labor contract was â&#x20AC;&#x153;for attempting to cover up his violations of the program by engaging in a course of conduct intended to obstruct and frustrate the office of the commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investigation.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; In Chicago, Rodriguez wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deny using PEDs, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;when the time is right, there will be an opportunity to do all of that. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that time is right now.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the toughest fight of my life. By any means, am I out of the woods? This is probably just phase two just starting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going

to get easier. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably going to get harder.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rodriguez admitted four years ago that he used PEDs while with Texas from 2001-03 but has repeatedly denied using them since. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am disappointed with the penalty and intend to appeal and fight this through the process. I am eager to get back on the field and be with my teammates in Chicago tonight,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rodriguez said in a statement.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi, minutes after losing captain Derek Jeter for the third time this year, was ready to welcome A-Rod back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not here to judge people.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not my job,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Girardi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a player as long as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in our clubhouse.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Girardi called the suspensions â&#x20AC;&#x153;another black eye for us, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to clean this game up.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Ramirez and the Dodgers got an RBI apiece from Andre Ethier and A.J. Ellis while matching the Cincinnati Redsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 15-game run in 1957. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re two wins shy of the NL record set by the 1916 New York Giants.

Greinke (9-3) allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings for his 100th career victory, allowing two hits in the third, fourth and fifth but no runs. Paco Rodriguez earned his second career save with a perfect ninth.

Adam Wainwright (13-7) gave up three runs in seven innings and failed in his third straight attempt at winning his 14th.

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WILLIE D. FOWLER Willie Delgar “Nick” Fowler, 84, husband of Shirley Stone Fowler, died Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Sumter, he was a son of the late Raymond Savage Fowler and Lillian Fowler. Mr. Fowler was a member of Grace Baptist Church. He FOWLER was an active member of the Sumter County Gamecock Club and served on the board for many years. In addition to being an avid Gamecock fan, he also enjoyed following the UNC Tarheels basketball team.

He retired from The University Shop. He was a past member of the Sumter Elks Lodge, VFW, and American Legion. He was an avid fisherman.

Survivors include his wife of nearly 58 years; two children, Susan Fowler Turner and Willie Delgar Fowler Jr. (Leila), both of Sumter; two grandchildren, William Fowler and Joseph Fowler; one sister, Sarah Parker of Sumter; a special niece, Ashley Hodge (Blake) of Hampton; his faithful companion, Abigail; and special friends, Sid and Elaine McGhee.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Raymond Fowler and Harry Fowler.

Graveside services with military honors will be held at 11 a.m.

Wednesday with Dr. Steve Williams officiating.

Memorials may be made to Grace Baptist Church, 219 W. Calhoun St., Sumter, SC 29150 or to the Sumter SPCA, 1140 S. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

DAWN F. MORRIS NEW ZION — Dawn Floyd Morris, 45, wife of Hendley “Bubba” O’Donnell Morris, died Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital in Manning.

Born Feb. 11, 1968, in Manning, she was a daughter of James “J.C.” Charlie Floyd and Sandra Jacqueline Ardis Floyd. She was a teacher with Clarendon County School District 2 and a member of Manning First Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband of New Zion; her parents of Manning; two sons, James Hendley Morris and Austin Tanner Morris of the home; a daughter, Sa-

matha Caroline Morris; a sister, Michele Floyd Moore (Jay) of Olanta; several nieces and nephews; and a special friend, Jenny Hancock.

A funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. today in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home with the Rev. Bobby Morris officiating. Burial will follow in Clarendon Memorial Gardens in Manning.

Visitation will be from 3 to 4 p.m. today prior to the service.

Memorials may be made to Free Will Baptist Home for Children, P.O. Box 229, Turbeville, SC 29162.

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

SOLOMON BENTON Solomon Benton, 57, departed his earthly life on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a son of Lou Ella Benton and the late Willie Benton.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, 10 Hynes St., Sumter, SC 29150.

Services will be announced later by Sumter Funeral Service Inc. PATRICIA ANN CAESAR Patricia Ann Caesar, 56, departed this life on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, in Sumter.

She was born Aug. 15, 1956, in Sumter, a daughter of the late Bennie and Corine Carter Caesar.

The family will receive friends at 110 Laurel St., Sumter.

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

SAUL E. PRICE Saul Edward Price, widower of Josephine H. Price, died Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Barnwell, he was a son of the late Solomon and Amelia Glover Price.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Palmer Memorial Chapel of Sumter.

HENRIETTA GRANT Henrietta Grant entered eternal rest on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013.

Born Aug. 9, 1940, in Richland County, she was a daughter of the late Gladys Grant.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 730 WenLe Drive, Sumter.

Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

PATRICIA KORNEGAY Patricia Ann Hodge Kornegay entered eternal rest on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013.

Born Oct. 11, 1947, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Otis and Thelma Bracey Hodge.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 915 Miller Road, Apartment 8-A, Miller Arms Apartments, Sumter.

Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

JEAN B. MAHONEY MANNING — Jean Baker Mahoney, 78, wife of Henry Beatson “H.B.” Mahoney Jr., died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, at McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence.

Born March 26, 1935, in New Zion, she was a daughter of the late James Roy and Mildred Johnson Baker. In 1953, she graduated from Berkley High School and married “H.B.” In 1972, Jean and “H.B.” opened and operated the Family Bootery for the next 21 years. She was a member of Manning First Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Ruth Sunday School Class, the Praying Hands WMU, served as secretary of the teenager youth department, and for many years she was the coordinator and hostess of the senior luncheons. She was a past president of the Virginia’s Pride Garden Club and a charter member of the Domino Dollies. She loved birds, butterflies, flowers, plants and working in her yard.

She is survived by her husband of Manning; three sons, Michael P. Mahoney (Marge) of Greeleyville, Thomas O. Mahoney of Sumter and Billy Mahoney (Angela) of Manning; one daughter, Pat Mahoney DuBose of Manning; two brothers, John Baker (Mary) of Florence and Ronnie Baker of Spartanburg; seven grandchildren, Craig DuBose of Charleston, Steven DuBose (Hallie) of Alcolu, Erin Mahoney Johnson (James) of Florence, Will Mahoney (Lindsey) of Greeleyville, Jennifer Mahoney Jackson (Scott) of Manning, Eileen Mahoney of Sumter and Mattie Mahoney of Manning; and three great-grandchildren, Henry Johnson,

Eliza Johnson and Scott Jackson IV. She was preceded in death by a brother, James Pressley Baker; a sister, Barbara Baker Wayne; and a son-inlaw, Carlisle DuBose.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m.

Wednesday at Manning First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Dale Roach and the Rev. Nick Erickson officiating.

Burial will follow in Clarendon Memorial Gardens.

Pallbearers will be Craig DuBose, Steven DuBose, Will Mahoney, Scott Jackson III, James Johnson and Robbie Mahoney.

Honorary pallbearers will the members of the Ruth Sunday School Class, the Domino Dollies and the Virginia’s Pride Garden Club.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the residence.

Memorials may be made to Manning First Baptist Church, 49 W. Boyce St., Manning, SC 29102 or to a charity of one’s choice.

The family would like to express their appreciation to Dr. Ken Johnson and the staff of Santee Urgent Care and Dr. Jamie Smith and McLeod Oncology for their love and care of Mrs. Mahoney during her time of illness.

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

JOLENE R. BAKER MANNING — Jolene Renee Baker, 35, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born Oct. 20, 1977, she was a daughter of Arthur Joseph Smiddy Jr. and the late Nancy Ann Smiddy.

She is survived by one son, Kamron Smith; one sister, Laura Dawn Smiddy; one nephew, Colton Nelson; and her caregiver, Margaret Woodward.

You may sign the family’s guest book at www.brunsonfuneralhome.com.

Brunson Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 15 E. Hospital St., Manning, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 433-2273.

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She was born Jan. 25, 1931, in Manning, a daughter of the late Campie and Rosa Burgess Greene.

The family is receiving friends at her residence, 4849 Greeleyville Highway, Manning.

These services are entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

QUEEN A. SMITH MANNING — Queen Esther “Thomasina” Anderson Smith, 46, wife of Robert Lee Smith, died Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

She was born March 2, 1967, in Summerton, a daughter of the late Roy Sr. and Queen Esther Gibson Anderson.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 1600 Moses Dingle Road, Summerton.

These services are entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

MARY ANN RICHERD Mary Ann Richerd, age 39, beloved wife of Michael Richerd, died on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, at her residence.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced

by Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter.

MINNIE M. BRADLEY BISHOPVILLE — It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of Minnie Mack Bradley, who passed away Aug. 3, 2013, at her home.

Services are incomplete and will be announced later by New Life Funeral Services LLC of Bishopville.

The family is receiving friends at the home, 48 Trailer Lane, Elliott community of Bishopville.

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FREDERICK C. NACOVITCH Frederick Charles Nacovitch, 55, husband of Laura Smith Nacovitch, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, in Clarendon County.

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He was a member of the Sportsman Bass Anglers Club and he enjoyed playing the bass guitar and harmonica.

Survivors include his wife and best friend of 32 years; two sons, Jason Nacovitch and Ryan Nacovitch, both of Sumter; three sisters, Jeanmarie Falcone Montabana (Gary) of Trumbull, Conn., Tammy Kohalmi (Dave) of Milford, Conn., and Christine Orrico (Ron) of Newtown, Conn.; and a number of nieces and nephews.

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Wednesday in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home Chapel.

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Memorials may be made to the American Red Cross, 1155 N. Guignard Drive, Suite 2, Sumter, SC 29150 or the Sumter SPCA, 140 S. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

STANLEY P. WILAMOWSKI Stanley Phillip Wilamowski, 77, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, at a Taylorsville, N.C., nursing center.

Born in Swickley, Penn., he was a son of the late Frank and Mary Manko Wilamowski. Mr. Wilamowski was a member of St. Jude Catholic Church. He was a retired physical education teacher and coach. He was a member of the VFW, ALS Association, and the Polish Falcons of America.

Survivors include three daughters, April Wilamowski Davis (Christopher) of Mooresville, Julie Wilamowski Kennedy (Mark) of Lancaster, Ohio, and Diane Wilamowski Raabe (Darren) of Sumter; eight grandchildren, Andy Davis, Nicole Davis, Cameron Kennedy, Megan Kennedy Iser, Rory Kennedy, Eryk Kennedy, Logan Raabe and Hayden Raabe; one great-grandson, Ryan Kennedy; and one sister, Kay Miller of Aliquippa, Penn.

Memorials may be made to the ALS Association, S.C. Chapter, 1023 Wappoo Road, Suite A19, Charleston, SC 29407.

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Beer & Wine License Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Daniel F. McCabe INC. of Sumter intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of Beer, Wine & Liquor at 3201 Broad St., Sumter, SC 29154. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 22, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same

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Medical Assistant Needed for busy Orthopaedic Office. Experience preferred, computer & typing skills required. Please visit our website at www.DrWoodbury.com Apply by mail or fax: Lakeside Orthopaedic Center 50 E. Hospital St., Manning, SC 29102 Fax, (803)433-5637

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503 Church St. 2BR/1BA $375 /mo. + $375/dep. Ref. req. Call 803-783-4683 Nice 3BR/2BA Brick home with garage. Lg fenced yard. $750/mo + $750/dep. Call 803-968-5816

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310 Enter St. off Hwy 521 S. & Mooneyham Rd. 3 Br, 2 Ba, with great room & brick underpinning.

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RECREATION 2000 Sq. ft. brick home. 2 car garage. 3bdr/2bath. Detached shop & pole barn. 1 ac lot. fenced back yard. 2195 Nettles Rd. $153,000. 803-983-8956.

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2007 3BR/2BA DW. Asking $22,000. You must move. Call 803-351-0637

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Abandoned Doublewide Call 803-796-5356 3 - 2 Br MH's rented out in Windsor MHP. $18,000 OBO. Profit $600 mo. Call 469-6978.

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Unfurnished Apartments Apartments for Rent: 3 bd/ 1.5 bths, and 3 bd/1bth $500. + sec. dep. Call 983-3401 or 775-6228 107 N. Salem Ave. 1Br, pvt. patio, full kitch, new carpet, C/H/A, $435/mo. Prudential 774-7368.

2BR 2.5BA Townhouse with bonus room, garage washer/dryer hook up, kit appliances incl. on Dartmouth Dr $850 Mo/Dep. Call 803 934-0434 Sumter: Houses for rent $550/$575 Call 239-293-5124 Whitaker Trust August Special $200 off 1st months rent at Dillon Trace and Broad Trace Apts. Call 607-7222 or 469-6063.

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