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Thieves hit gun shop 2 men make off with $20K in handguns in less than 90 seconds FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter County authorities are searching for two men who broke into Tony’s Gun Shop, 4308 Broad St., in Cherryvale, about 2 a.m. Friday and made off with a large number of firearms.

At about that time, an alarm sounded at the shop, according to Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Public Relations Officer Ken Bell, and deputies were on the scene within four minutes.

By the time law enforcement arrived, however, the two thieves had already left the scene.

The two men gained entry by taking the lock off the front door, Bell said.

A video shows the men smashing display cases and filling bags with numerous weapons and fleeing out the front door on foot with the bags, which were by then heavily loaded with the stolen weapons.

Bell said it appeared to be well planned.

“The first guy started smashing glass cases with a hammer, and the second guy came behind grabbing weapons,” he said.

Bell said all of the weapons taken by the thieves were handguns.

The value of the stolen weapons known to have been taken at this time is estimated at nearly $20,000, he said.

K-9 units were brought in to track the suspects but were unsuccessful at following their trail, Bell reported.

The suspects are described as black males wearing dark clothing and baseball caps. One wore a red bandanna to cover his face while the other wore a blue bandanna, also as a face mask. Both were wearing gloves.

Investigators are still processing the scene, Bell said Friday just after 2 p.m.

Friday. Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting in the investigation, he said.

The same gun store was the victim of a similar robbery in July 2012, when at least two men backed a pickup truck to the door and made off with numer-

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Still frames from security camera video shows two men smashing display cabinets at Tony’s Gun Shop, 4308 Broad St., and making off with some $20K in handguns in a little more than a minute shortly after 2 a.m. on Friday. Watch the video at theitem.com. ous weapons.

Bell said more information will be released when it is available.

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call Sumter County Sheriff’s Office at (803) 436-2000 or Crime Stoppers at (803) 436-2718. Callers can remain anonymous and may get a reward.

Fish fry brings community together

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com The Rev. Leon Winn, pastor of Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Clarendon County, hosted a fish fry to bring together the community, law enforcement officers and first responders called "WE ARE ONE" at South Sumter Farmers Market on Friday.

Winn said the goal of the event was to show support for law enforcement and first responders and to start a conversation with the community and officers. However, spokespersons for local law enforcement agencies said they were unaware of the event.

Two police officers attended the event.

"We cannot allow the mindset of a few to destroy our communities," Winn said. "We cannot let things divide us. We have to bring people together and support our law enforcement."

Winn, a Republican candidate for state Senate District 36, said the event was

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Chad Temples, a patrolman with Sumter Police Department who was working in the South Sumter area on Friday, stopped by the event.

"It's nice to have the community showing their support and to know citizens have our backs," Temples said. "I feel that good community and police relationships prevent crime. What we're trying to do is build that trust."

Hampton McMillian, a South Sumter native, was frying fish in a deep fryer at Friday's event.

"If you're more familiar with the officers who are patrolling your neighborhoods, it makes you feel a lot safer," McMillian said.

Jackie Hughes, a Sumter resident, came to the event

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Patrolman Charles Conyers receives some fried fish from Chris Winn of the United People Pushing for Progress fish fry at the South Sumter Farmers Market on Friday. The event honored police, sheriff’s deputies, Emergency Medical Service, Department of Natural Resources, Highway Patrol and firefighters but was open to the public as well.

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The last Saturday print edition of The Sumter Item will appear on newsstands on Oct. 29, Item Editor and Publisher Jack Osteen announced this week.

While the print edition will appear five days per week, Osteen emphasized that The Sumter Item remains a sevenday media company and will utilize its website to fill the gap between print editions.

Pre-paid subscribers to the print edition will have their subscriptions extended to compensate for the move from six to five daily editions a week, and the newspaper will lower its monthly rate to reflect the loss of the Saturday edition.

The move aligns The Sumter Item with changes within the newspaper industry, which has been dropping Monday and Saturday editions to reflect readership and advertising patterns.

At the same time, The Sumter Item will add news and features from USA Today and provide a Sunday TV and entertainment booklet.

"By adding more content and news coverage on the five remaining print days, readers and advertisers will get even more bang for their buck," Osteen said.

The Osteen family has owned The Sumter Item since 1894, and it is the oldest business in Sumter. Illustrating its commitment to the newspaper industry, Osteen Publishing Co. recently purchased newspapers in Alabama, Florida and New Mexico and moved their graphic design to the company's headquarters in Sumter, maintaining current — and creating new — jobs in the community.

Osteen emphasized the newspaper and publishing company always try to hire local graphic artists and reporters. Local employees know the community well and are more likely to stay on their jobs here, he said.

"We understand change is difficult when it comes to reading Sumter's daily newspaper, and not everyone will agree with dropping another day of the print edition," Osteen said.

"However, our staff is more committed than ever to putting out the best news product for the Sumter community."

Since the advent of the World Wide Web, many readers have shifted to consuming news via the internet on the company's website, www.theitem.com.

While The Sumter Item will continue to have all of its local content online, the newspaper looks toward other online and social media opportunities to meet the demand of those consumers. That move requires shifting employee resources to meet those online needs.

"We have been putting out a daily news product since 1894, and we have no intentions of changing that," Osteen said.

"The only difference is that our website is part of the equation when it comes to getting your daily news."

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Back-to-school shopping for the teachers Rialuca Vesa, a math teacher in Manning, and Diana Vladislav, foreground, a special education teacher at Lakewood, look for decorations for their classrooms at Office Church School Supply on Friday afternoon. The store will be hosting a sale today with discounts and giveaways from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter County Democrats will present “Progressively Speaking: United We Stand,” a campaign fundraiser, from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at Serendipity Café & Catering, 108 S. Main St. Tickets are $30 per person and $50 for couples.

The keynote speaker will be CNN Analyst Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina state representative. Other guest speakers include state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell of Lancaster, Young Democrats of S.C. President Bryanta BookerMaxwell, Future Business Leaders of America State President and Palmetto Boys State candidate Quadri Bell of Manning High School and the Rev. James Blassingame, pastor of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church and current president of the Baptist Education and Ministry Convention of South Carolina. Emcee for the event will be state Rep. David Weeks.

Democratic candidates on hand will include state Sen. Kevin Johnson; candidate for Sumter County Council Patty Wilson; candidate for U.S. Senate Thomas Dixon; and candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Fran Person.

Sumter comedian Shuler King and other special guests will also be at the event.

Tickets can be purchased at CA Harler Trophy Shop, 703 Bultman Drive.

For more information, call Allen Bailey at (803) 316-1976.

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Police Back-to-School Bash set for Tuesday Sumter Police Department’s Annual Back-to-School Bash will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday at Crosswell Park.

There will be food, balloon artists, face painting, free haircuts and music, as well as access to the water park. All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult 18 years of age or older.

The event is being held in partnership with City of Sumter, Blue Choice Health Plan Medicaid, Department of Natural Resources, Community Broadcasters, SAFE Federal Credit Union, Safe Kids Sumter County, Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter County EMS, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Sumter YMCA, Sumter Fire Department, Sumter School District, S.C. Highway Patrol, Sumter Family Health Center, Sumter Behavioral Health Services, Sport Clips and St. Leo University.

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Zika funding not for mosquitoes Money meant to help track microcephaly, help families FROM STAFF REPORTS South Carolina recently received approximately $400,000 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it can’t be used for mosquito control, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

According to information released by DHEC, the main purpose of the grant is to conduct surveillance of microcephaly, a condition which causes infants to be born with small heads, and other central nervous system abnormalities that can occur as a result of Zika virus exposure. A secondary purpose is to help families and infants affected by the Zika virus disease.

“Specifically, the money will be used to hire a nurse data abstractor to collect data, hire an epidemiologist to analyze the data and help families exposed to Zika virus who are at high risk of a baby born with a birth defect,” an email from DHEC said.

The email said counties will not specifically get money, but the real-time surveillance of birth defects related to Zika virus is part of a statewide program.

DHEC said in the email it will also contract with community partners to support children with developmental delays related to Zika virus in all South Carolina counties where they reside, as well as women who are at high risk for Zika virus.

According to the CDC, the agency has awarded more than $16 million to 40 states and territories to establish,

enhance and maintain informationgathering systems to rapidly detect microcephaly and other adverse outcomes caused by Zika virus infection.

In a news release, the CDC said the awards have been diverted from other public health resources as a stopgap measure until Zika funds are provided

by Congress.

“It is critical to identify infants with birth defects related to Zika virus so we can support them and their families,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden.

“This CDC funding provides real-time data about the Zika epidemic as it unfolds in the United States and territories and will help those most devastated by this virus.”

The CDC release said the money was provided to states and territories based on their risk of Zika virus transmission, population need and availability of money.

The Zika virus spreads to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus), although Aedes aegypti are more likely to spread Zika, according to the CDC. Both species are found in South Carolina, according to DHEC. Zika infection can also be spread by infected men and women to their sex partners, the CDC said.

There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika.

CDC encourages everyone, especially pregnant women and women planning to become pregnant, to protect themselves from mosquito bites to avoid possible Zika virus infection.

According to DHEC, South Carolina has had 27 cases of Zika virus as of Aug. 4, all related to travel to Zika-affected areas.

U.S. approves GMO mosquito test, but no release imminent

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is giving final approval for a field trial releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys.

The FDA said Friday in a statement that after considering thousands of public comments, its Center for Veterinary Medicine concluded the proposal from biotech firm Oxitec would not significantly affect the environment.

No mosquitoes will be released immediately. Keys officials will hold a nonbinding vote on the proposal for residents in November.

Oxitec releases nonbiting male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes modified with synthetic DNA to produce offspring that die outside a lab. The method aims to reduce mosquito populations that spread Zika and other viruses.

Brazil and the Cayman Islands are releasing Oxitec’s insects. The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District wants to test them on an island north of Key West.

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Steady hiring now helping broader range of Americans

BY CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — Years of steady job gains have finally begun to benefit a wider range of Americans, including those with less education and in lower-paying jobs.

A second straight month of robust hiring — 255,000 jobs added in July — pointed to employer confidence that suggested that the economy is powering through a slump that struck early this year. The unemployment rate remained a low 4.9 percent, the Labor Department said Friday.

Hiring has been solid for six years, but for most of that time there were caveats: Average hourly pay was stagnant.

And millions were no longer either working or looking for work, leaving a smaller proportion of adults in the labor force.

Evidence is emerging that those long-running weak spots are finally improving. Many businesses are offering higher pay to attract workers as competition to fill jobs heats up.

Average pay is up 2.6 percent from a year ago — matching

the best 12-month gain since the Great Recession ended in 2009 and comfortably above inflation of just 1 percent.

The resilient job market is encouraging more Americans to begin looking for a job — a key trend that helps offset a drag from the growing retirements of aging baby boomers.

Taken together, the two trends suggest that the economic recovery, now seven years old, is finally benefiting a broad spectrum of the population.

Economists at Goldman Sachs have found that pay for workers earning less than $12.50 an hour has risen 4 percent in the past year, more than for any other income group. Those earning from $12.50 to $20 an hour have received the next-biggest increase, at just above 3 percent. Higher minimum wages may be bumping up pay for workers further above the federal minimum of $7.25.

“Wage growth figures indicate that the tide is turning,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and president of the conservative American Action Forum.

Stock investors seemed pleased by Friday’s job figures, which raised hopes for the economy without seeming to compel the Federal Reserve to resume raising interest rates soon. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 1 percent, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index and the Nasdaq composite both set record highs. Many Fed watchers think the central bank will raise rates later this year but probably not before December.

The jobs report also suggested that employers were unfazed by either Britain’s late-June vote to quit the European Union or the U.S. economy’s tepid growth in the first half of the year: Just 1 percent at an annual rate. Most analysts expect the solid hiring to help fuel an economic rebound in the second half of this year.

Consumers, who have driven the economy’s post-recession expansion, ramped up spending in the April-June quarter at the second-fastest pace since the recession.

Their spending, though, has been offset by a slowdown in business spending on machinery and equipment.

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Matt Moore, left, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, with the Rev. Leon Winn, pastor of Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church, and Chad Temples, a patrolman with Sumter Police Department, are seen at the “WE ARE ONE” community fish fry at South Sumter Farmers Market on Manning Avenue on Friday.

FISH FRY FROM PAGE A1 event will have a domino effect in bringing the community and law enforcement together. He wants to conduct similar events in Orangeburg, Darlington, Florence, Columbia and Charleston.

Anyone wishing to make a donation for such an event should make checks out to United People Pushing for Progress and mail to 775 Lakewood Drive, Sumter, SC 29150.

with copies of a thank you letter she had typed up for officers.

“I feel that in today’s society there seems to be a lack of respect for law enforcement,” Hughes said.

“I feel that it boils back down to educating our children to respect and support law enforcement.

I feel that this was a great event to bring the community together.”

Winn said he hopes the

Father charged after 15-month-old twins die in hot car CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — A father was charged with manslaughter Friday in the deaths of his 15-month-old twin girls, who were left in a hot car in their west Georgia town, police said.

Witnesses heard screams and saw Asa North running from the parking lot in front of his home, carrying the toddlers to an inflatable kiddie pool out back. He and his neighbors tried to revive them with water and ice packs, but they were too far gone.

Outside temperatures were in the 90s shortly before police were called at about 6:30 p.m.

Thursday.

North, 24, is charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless conduct, Carroll County jail records show.

“I think possibly alcohol was a factor in some of his decisions that day and maybe played a factor in this,” said Carrollton police Capt. Chris Dobbs, who identified the girls as Ariel North and Alaynah North.

A man with North had been drinking heavily, and “we believe the father had been drinking that day also,” Dobbs said. Police tested North’s blood-alcohol level and were awaiting results from a lab, he said.

The girl’s mother was at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta at the time, visiting her sister, who had been in a serious car crash Wednesday, Dobbs said.

“I guess he forgot about the kids and left them in the car,” said Donnie Holland, the twins’ uncle. “He should have took care of them kids better than that, what he did. He should have never been in the house asleep. He should have got the kids out of the car the time he got out of the car, you

know.”

It wasn’t immediately clear who discovered that the twins were unresponsive in their child seats in the back of the SUV. “The neighbors heard some screaming — I guess coming from the father — and saw him running around back with the two children,” Dobbs said.

Arriving officers performed CPR after finding people trying to cool the girls off in the baby pool.

“One of the neighbors got

some ice packs out of the freezer and carried it out there,” Dobbs said.

The twins were pronounced dead at a hospital. Autopsies were being done at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab, GBI spokesman Scott Dutton said Friday morning.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether North has an attorney who could be contacted for comment.

The girls are the 25th and 26th children to die this year in hot vehicles, more than double

the number by this point last summer, said Janette Fennell, president and founder of KidsAndCars.org, a group that tracks such deaths each year.

By this date in 2015, 12 children had died in hot cars, Fennell said in an email Thursday night.

Temperatures inside a car can reach a deadly 125 degrees very quickly, with 80 percent of the increase happening in the first 10 minutes, her group warns on its website.

Neighbors said it’s normally

quiet in the twins’ six-unit brick building on a dead-end street in a modest middle-class area 45 miles west of Atlanta.

On Friday morning, however, police tape was still up, with satellite TV trucks parked out front.

The twins died as prosecutors in another metro Atlanta county prepare for the murder trial of Justin Ross Harris, 35, who is accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son to die in a hot SUV for about seven hours in 2014.

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Guttenberg. Lavalantulas wreak havoc on Florida.

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NBC offers viewers a return to live Olympic coverage

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Does anybody know what time it is? Sunday’s scheduled events from the Rio Olympics (7 p.m., NBC) include diving, gymnastics and swimming.

Because Rio is only one hour ahead of Eastern Daylight Time, this marks the first Olympics since the 1996 Atlanta Games where vast time zone differences have not had a big effect on the live U.S. broadcast. Over those 20 years, many fans grew impatient having to pretend that they had not, or could not, look up the results on the internet.

So it’s a little curious that we finally return to a live Olympics at a time when such broadcasts have lost their meaning for many viewers.

Netflix and other streaming services have revolutionized what used to be called “television.” And on Netflix, nothing is live and the all-you-canbinge buffet is always open.

As I have been saying — or rather, writing — for years, there is no now, now. Unless you count sports. Nobody wants to watch an NFL game a day later. And for bettors, even five minutes later.

So with the Olympics, NBC has the corner on the biggest live broadcast in the world. At the same time, it is streaming 4,500 hours of competition, and no one expects anybody to watch all of that as it happens.

It’s interesting to note that NBC is not airing Olympics coverage the next day via Hulu, as it does with regular programming. Is that because the network thinks nobody would watch it 24 hours later, like with “The Blacklist”? Or is it to protect its investment in exclusivity?

Speaking of the difference between live TV and streaming, Hulu just announced that starting next year, it would offer live broadcasts of select networks, including TNT, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, truTV, Boomerang and Turner Classic Movies. This is clearly aimed at cord cutters who don’t have cable subscriptions. It adds yet another choice for those weighing their viewing options.

• Medical dramas like “Grey’s Anatomy” grew more popular as McSteamy and

India and Pakistan on “Madam Secretary” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• Hathaway reconnects with his dad on “Inspector Lewis” on “Masterpiece Mystery!” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings).

• Box tries to make sense of Naz’s actions on “The Night Of” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).

• Laurel falls under suspicion on “BrainDead” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• The new nonfiction series “It Takes a Killer” (10 p.m., Oxygen) profiles a perpetrator who used Craigslist to find his victims.

• Christopher’s stolen tablet inspires a search party on “Roadies” (10 p.m., Showtime, TV-MA).

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Laurel (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) comes under investigation about her potential involvement with the bug infestation on “BrainDead,” airing at 10 p.m. Sunday on CBS. McDreamy romances bloomed between major characters. Now in its second season, the documentary “Boston EMS” (10 p.m. Saturday, ABC) features married couple Rob and Kim Stearns, who happen to share a home as well as an ambulance. In tonight’s episode, they must cooperate to pull a drowning man from a frozen river. How would Dr. Ross and Nurse Hathaway manage that on “ER”?

• NFL greats Marvin Harrison, Brett Favre, Tony Dungy, Kevin Greene, Orlando Pace, Eddie DeBartolo Jr., Kenny Stabler and Dick Stanfel are inducted into the football pantheon on the 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony (7 p.m. Saturday, ESPN), live from Canton, Ohio.

• This month brings a grim anniversary. Fifty years ago, on Aug. 1, 1966, a lone gunman killed 16 students at the University of Texas in Austin.

A wounded victim would die years later, bringing the total to 17.

The UT shootings were so powerful, horrible and seemingly rare that it was recalled in such films as “Full Metal Jacket” and immortalized in a savagely satirical song by

Kinky Friedman.

But in the ensuing decades, campus shootings have gone from rarities to morbid facts of life. “Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates” (10 p.m.

Sunday, ID) looks at today’s campus climate, particularly in Texas, where powerful gun rights lobbyists have pushed through laws allowing students to carry concealed weapons on campus and even in classrooms.

Hall promises to talk to “all sides” of this debate, including a woman who thinks that carrying a gun can protect her from potential rapists.

What’s it like to teach a class knowing that your students may be packing loaded weapons? How will the proliferation of firearms influence the free exchange of ideas and the kinds of bull sessions and debates that college campuses are supposed to foster?

At what point does the protection (or projection) of the Second Amendment have a chilling effect on the First?

SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • A concert turns into a hostage crisis on “Rush Hour” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

• Scheduled on the Rio Olym-

pics (8 p.m., NBC): swimming, beach volleyball and gymnastics.

• A tentative couple takes small steps toward commitment by building a diminutive domicile on the premiere episode of “Tiny House Nation: Unpacked” (8 p.m., FYI, TVPG).

• After the death of her sister, a grieving college freshman seeks out a new set of friends, who turn out to be manipulative psychopaths in the 2016 shocker “Sorority Nightmare” (8 p.m., Lifetime).

• A tragedy in Tornado Alley on “20/20: In an Instant” (9 p.m., ABC, r).

• An early labor brings complications on “The Vet Life: Texas-Sized” (10 p.m., Animal Planet).

SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS • Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7 p.m., CBS, r): Ohio’s heroin crisis; a profile of Christopher Wheeldon; the bonobo, arguably man’s closest simian relative.

• The Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers meet in the annual Hall of Fame Game (8 p.m., ESPN), the kickoff to preseason NFL football.

• Elizabeth negotiates with

Steve Guttenberg returns to star in “2 Lava 2 Lantula” (9 p.m. Saturday, Syfy), a sequel to the 2015 shocker “Lavalantula” (7 p.m.), about giant spiders that spew volcanic lava.

SATURDAY SERIES Flashbacks reveal Jason’s ascent on “Wayward Pines” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Reba McEntire guest-stars on “Last Man Standing” (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) * Ken tries to save a comic on “Dr. Ken” (8:30 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) * A honeymoon horror on “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * “48 Hours” (10 p.m., CBS).

SUNDAY SERIES Julie Chen hosts “Big Brother” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) * Lost in space on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-PG) * Professional athletes play “Celebrity Family Feud” (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) * Childhood diseases on “Brooklyn NineNine” (8:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * A passage to India on “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * “SNL” alumni play “The $100,000 Pyramid” (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-14) * Closing the book on tragedy on “The Last Man on Earth” (9:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14) * Alec Baldwin hosts “Match Game” (10 p.m., ABC, r, TV-14).

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Anti-heroes prove no antidote for ‘Suicide Squad’

BY JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The superhero movie is at a strange crossroads. It generally either takes itself too seriously (“Man of Steel,” ‘’Batman v Superman”) or delights in not caring a bit (“Deadpool”). The choice, dear moviegoer, is yours. Do you prefer your costumed heroes to brood or to break bad?

Right now, good is out; selfproclaimed “edginess” is in; and a cape might get you turned away from the nightclub.

Riding the trend is David Ayer’s day-glo superhero circus “Suicide Squad,” a gleefully nihilistic, abysmally messy romp that delights in upending the genre’s conventions and tries desperately to, like, totally blow your mind with its outre freak show.

It’s less of a movie than a long trailer that doesn’t provoke as much as it thinks it does. It’s stitched together by an endless jukebox of everything from “House of the Rising Sun” to K7’s “Come Baby Come,” a soundtrack gimmick taken straight from “Guardians of the Galaxy” (which more successfully gave the superhero movie new moves). It’s employed three times before the opening credits have even finished rolling, an early cue to the filmmaking talent at work.

Despite the train wreck of “Batman v Superman” (the last DC Comics challenge to Marvel’s dominance), excitement is high for “Suicide Squad” thanks to a marketing

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows, from left, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Deadshot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc and Jay Hernandez as Diablo in a scene from “Suicide Squad.” campaign that rivals the presidential ones and the promise of some punk in the poppy, PG-13 realm of the superhero movie.

But the nastiness of “Suicide Squad” is superficial, merely fetishized gestures of ultra-violence that will impress few beyond 13-year-old boys. (Sorry, that’s unkind to 13-year-old boys.) Based on the comic created by John Ostrander, the film is a cartoonish yet grim “Magnificent Seven” in which a desperate government — for

the moment without the services of Superman or Batman — turns to a handful of villains, locked away in prison cells, to combat a yet greater supervillain running amok.

There’s Will Smith’s sniperfor-hire father Deadshot, Margot Robbie’s psycho-in-pigtails Harley Quinn, Jay Hernandez’s fire-breathing gang member El Diablo, and others.

They’re a gruesome bunch, reluctant to fight anyone else’s battle, but forced to when the program’s leader (the impos-

ing Viola Davis, the film’s steely backbone) implants an explosive device inside them.

They bond in conversation over whether they’ve killed kids or not. Lovely stuff, really.

The standout is Robbie’s Harley Quinn, the most dynamic presence of the bunch: a clown cocktail of mental disorder and cheerleader pep.

Robbie pulls it off, but Ayer spoils the movie’s breakout character by continually reducing her to mere eye candy, ogling her as she bends over.

Quinn is the demented girlfriend of the on-the-loose Joker (Jared Leto), who turns out to be a curiously small part of the film. That, however, proves to be a relief. Leto, working in the sizable wake of Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger, proves a massive disappointment in the role, lacking in both menace and wit despite the tall-tales of his Method extremes during shooting.

The film, as a whole, is missing the humor and spryness that was promised. Its best laughs are unintentional (all I’ll say is that there are souls trapped in swords) and the charisma of Smith and Robbie are drowned out in Ayer’s turgid tale.

Ayer’s previous film was the World War II tank drama “Fury,” an overbearingly bleak movie that similarly followed a harsh band of warriors and flipped the good-vsbad dichotomy of Americans against Nazis into a less heroic story.

In “Suicide Squad,” Ayer questions whether a killer can be a hero and vice versa, even equating psychopaths with elite soldiers. He would like to vanquish the triumphant superhero and reorder the comic universe for more complicated times. But the only thing he may have killed is the comicbook adaption.

Watching “Suicide Squad” (which will nevertheless make hundreds of millions) is to see the superhero movie reaching rock bottom, sunk by moral rot and hollow bombast.

Down, down and away!

The Dead Daisies will impress rock fans with 3rd CD

BY MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer For those who want their rock ‘n’ rollers in long, teased hair, leather pants and strip clubs, The Dead Daisies are back with an album of squealing guitars, pounding drums and as many big hooks as a Home Depot.

The ever-evolving Australia-based collective that has included former minor members of such bands as Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy Osbourne and Thin Lizzy has been looking for the sweet spot between hair metal of the

1980s and ‘70s classic rock. On their third CD, they’ve found it.

The Daisies offer a sonic wave of arena-ready songs on the 12-song “Make Some Noise” that are strangely familiar even on the first listen.

That’s because the members have gleefully riffed on sounds from their musical pasts and left them like clues, like an auditory version of “Pokemon Go” for metal-heads.

Lead vocalist John Corabi (who temporarily led Motley Crue when Vince Neill left in 1992) has a nice growl and guitarists David Lowy (Red Phoenix) and Doug Aldrich

(Whitesnake, Dio) are constantly revving their instruments, threatening to screech off on their own solos like little kids with a mouthful of Pop Rocks.

Bassist Marco Mendoza (Whitesnake) and Brian Tichy (Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner) do not do subtle — they love a big, ripe, bombastic approach. All five get song and lyric writing credits, a true collective.

The album, dealing mostly with love, touring and making noise, includes the standouts “Long Way to Go” and “Song and a Prayer” as well as credible covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic “Fortu-

nate Son” and The Who’s “Join Together.”

Producer Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Def Leppard) lends an assured hand, allowing individual band members to shine without swamping the album with pointless meanderings. It slightly sags toward the end but shows impressive range even within the tight framework.

It’s a tight, sharp-sounding CD that will remind you what it’s like to bang your head. The only possible side effect may be the impulse purchase of some motorcycle boots and an alarming amount of scarfs.

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Poll: Police harassment familiar to some groups Two-thirds of young blacks, 40 percent of young Hispanics say they know of such incidents DETROIT (AP) — Crystal Webb cringes whenever a patrol car appears in her rearview mirror. She also never wants to see the inside of a police station again.

Her personal experience with police, plus recent fatal shootings of unarmed black men by white officers, has led the Apple Valley, California, mother of two to ask: Who are the good guys, and who are bad?

“You are the people I’m supposed to go to when I’m in trouble,” Webb says of police.

Two-thirds of young blacks and 4 in 10 Hispanics say that they or someone they know has experienced violence or harassment at the hands of the police, according to a new GenForward poll. That includes about 2 in 10 in each group who say that was a personal experience, including about 3 in 10 black men who say the same.

But the poll also shows that young people still want a police presence in their communities.

GenForward is a survey of adults age 18 to 30 by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The first-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new generation.

Those poll results come after the killing of several young black men by police across the country. Two of the more recent killings were the July 5 shooting death of Alton Sterling during a struggle with officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the fatal shooting of Philando Castile the following day by an officer in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Those shootings were followed by the July 7 killing of five officers in Dallas by a black gunman during a protest against police shootings of black suspects. Two police officers and one sheriff’s deputy were shot and killed by a black gunman during a July 17 ambush in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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President Obama speaks during a Young African Leaders Initiative event at Omni Shoreham Hotel on Wednesday in Washington.

Obama denies January $400M payment to Iran was ransom

BY JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Obama vigorously denies that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the transaction as evidence that the nuclear accord with Iran has allowed for progress on other matters.

“This wasn’t some nefarious deal,” Obama said during a news conference Thursday at the Pentagon.

The money was delivered to the Iranian government in January, at the same time the nuclear deal was settled and the Americans were released. The payment was part of a decades-old dispute about a failed military equipment deal dating to the 1970s, before the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Obama also answered political questions at the news conference, pushing back at Republican presi-

dential nominee Donald Trump’s suggestions that the November election might be rigged, calling the assertion “ridiculous.” He said his advice to Trump, a candidate he has declared “unfit” for the presidency, was to “go out there and try to win the election.”

The president’s appearance before reporters followed an hourslong meeting with military leaders at the Pentagon on the fight against the Islamic State group.

Obama said there have been gains in weakening IS in Iraq and Syria, but he conceded the extremist group still poses a threat to the United States as it shifts its tactics to carrying out attacks elsewhere around the world. While those attacks may result in less carnage, Obama said IS knows it still creates “the kinds of fear and concern that elevates their profile.”

Asked whether he feels any personal disappointment about not being able to do more to stop the Islamic State, Obama said: “I haven’t gotten numb to it. It bugs me.”

On Syria, the president criticized Russia’s support of government attacks against opposition forces and its sieges of cities such as Aleppo.

He accused Russia of failing to take steps to reduce violence in Syria — where a civil war has raged for much of Obama’s presidency — but said the U.S. would continue trying to push Moscow to focus on the fight against IS and other extremists.

On Iran, Obama expressed surprise at criticism of his administration’s cash payment to settle a longstanding legal claim, adamantly rejecting claims that it was a ransom paid for the release of the four Americans.

He pointed out that the payment, along with an additional $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later, was announced by the administration when it was concluded in January, a day after the implementation of a landmark nuclear agreement with Iran.

“It wasn’t a secret. We were completely open about it,” he said.

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Visitors to Rio Olympics will find all senses triggered RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Right after getting off the plane, sweat beads will start to gather on your forehead.

That’s just Rio de Janeiro’s ever-present humidity saying “hello.”

You will be enveloped by shades of green — lush tropical forests jammed between buildings of all sizes — and tones of blue along miles of inviting coastlines.

Towering over the 2016 Summer Olympics host city is the Christ the Redeemer statue. After a few days, you might chuckle when a hotel brochure or tour guide tries to sell you something by saying it “includes” a view of the statue.

Jesus is everywhere here, as is plenty of temptation and sin.

In Brazil, prostitution is legal, though that doesn’t mean that you will see women and men hawking their bodies all over the city. Walking around, you are more likely to come upon churches, especially of growing evangelical denominations like Pentecostals.

Up in the hills, you can see small dwellings that look like stone huts jammed one after the other, in red and green and pink and orange. The slums of Rio, known as favelas, are the most colorful places in the city, culturally vibrant and filled with interesting people. They are also the city’s poorest areas, often controlled by drug traffickers and plagued by violence.

Across Rio, you might hear gunfire.

It could be drug dealers battling it out

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The Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugar Loaf mountain stand at dusk before the opening ceremony at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday. for turf or military police conducting an operation. Firefights mostly happen in favelas but sometimes spill out into the “zona sul,” or southern part of the city, home to more well-heeled Brazilians and where tourists flock.

You will be tempted to capture all the vibrancy on your smartphone. But take a good look around before pulling it out. The “Cidade Maravilhosa” has long been plagued by violent muggings and robberies that can happen at any time of day and in any neighborhood.

OBITUARIES TRACY L. WITHERSPOON Tracy L. Witherspoon was born on Aug. 6, 1967, in Sumter County, to Reatha M. Witherspoon and Charles B. Smith. On Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 3, 2016, God called Tracy to eternal rest at Palmetto Health Richland hospital.

Tracy was brought up in a Christian home with his grandparents, the late Deacon John I. Witherspoon and Sister Dorothy Mae Smith Witherspoon, who he fondly called "Daddy" and "Momma." Tracy joined St. John Baptist Church at an early age. He was a 1985 graduate of Sumter High School. He was a Mason affiliated with Prince Hall Masons. He worked many years side-by-side with his grandfather, John Witherspoon, as a carpenter and master cabinet maker. He was joined in holy matrimony to the love of his life, Mildred Witherspoon, and these two soulmates were joined together in such joy and love that if you saw one, you would always see the other nearby.

They both enjoyed traveling together and experiencing new places. Tracy was wellknown for his sense of humor and his great ability as a grill master, which matched Mildred’s love for cooking and entertaining friends and family members in their home.

He leaves to cherish his memories: a loving, devoted wife, Mildred; a son, Arterrell M. Witherspoon of Columbia; two stepsons, Andre Clemmons and Marcus Clemmons of Columbia; one stepdaughter, Kyana Flakes (William) of Augusta, Georgia; five grandchildren, Ante’ Lanae Witherspoon, Akaylin Lavea Witherspoon, Artavien Nytrel Witherspoon, Karae Witherspoon and Arionna Maleysia Witherspoon, all of Sumter; his mother, Reatha M. Witherspoon of Sumter; his father, Charles B. Smith of Sumter; two brothers, Terry Witherspoon of Chesapeake, Virginia, and Travis Witherspoon (Alexandra) of Blythewood; one sister, Tereasa Herriott of Sumter; his grandmother, Dorothy S. Witherspoon of Sumter; two nieces; three nephews; three uncles; two aunts; one-brother-in-law; two sisters-in-law; grand-uncles, grand-aunts; and a host of cousins, other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by a son, Ante’ Witherspoon.

There will be no public viewing.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday at Salem Chapel & Heritage Center (Westend Community Church), 101 S. Salem Ave., Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Nate Brock officiating. Interment will follow in Hillside Memorial Park.

The family will be receiving friends at 23 Monroe St., Sumter.

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

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

DONALD GENE SWEENEY PINEWOOD — Donald Gene "Don" Sweeney, 72, husband of 49 years and 10 months to Nell Marie Jenkinson Sweeney, died on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, at McLeod Hospital.

Services will be announced

by Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

JOHN P. BRITTON John Palmer Britton, 75, passed away peacefully on Aug. 3, 2016, following a long and courageous battle with cancer.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth McLeod Britton; daughter, Elizabeth Griffith McLeod Britton of Charleston; sister, Nancye "Cissie" Britton Dibble (Bob) of Prosperity; and nieces and nephews.

He was a son of the late Macy Louise Commander Britton and the late John Bossard Britton Jr. Born on July 27, 1941, in Sumter, John attended local public schools and was a 1964 graduate of Clemson University. At Clemson, he was active in the Tiger Brotherhood, the Numeral Society (president), student government (class senator), Central Dance Association and ROTC. Upon graduation, he entered the United States Army as an infantry lieutenant. He graduated from the Army's jump school at Fort Benning and the jungle warfare school in Panama. He served at Fort Lewis, Washington.

After his stint in the Army, John attended law school at the University of South Carolina, graduating in 1969 with a juris doctorate degree, whereupon he began a long and distinguished legal career, first in Greenville (1969-1998).

While in Greenville, John was active in his church, Christ Church Episcopal, and civic organizations, including the

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A walk along the famed beach in Copacabana reveals both luxury and seediness: Rio’s iconic area of yesteryear still shines but also has its share of hobos, panhandlers and hard-luck cases.

Keep walking west to get to the Ipanema beaches. And if you are in the mood to see and be seen and spend more money, go a little farther to get to Leblon, Rio’s most expensive neighborhood.

It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere, the equivalent of February

Greenville Cancer Society Board, the Board for Legal Aid, The Chamber of Commerce, and Leadership Greenville Board of Regents.

In 1998, he moved his practice to Sumter as a sole practitioner and public defender, where he became active in community affairs and in his church, the Church of the Holy Comforter. At Holy Comforter, he organized an adult Bible study class, breakfast ministry, and served on the Vestry. He participated in a local jail ministry and several community Bible studies.

Ministering to others was a passion he pursued later in life.

Other social and civic memberships in which he had been active included Cain’s Mill Club, The Assembly, The Cotillion, The Sumter Ball, Les Trente, The Caroliniana Ball, Sumter County Museum Board and the Sumter Rotary Club.

Throughout his life, John loved the outdoors. He was an avid hunter, fisherman, sailor, downhill skier and wildlife photographer. He had a special affinity for Edisto Island, where he spent most of his summers in his youth at his grandparents' beach house; and for his farm in Sumter County, where he engaged in wildlife management.

Those who knew John remember him best as a devoted husband and father, a gentleman with a generous heart, a great sense of humor, and a deep abiding Christian faith.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions be made to the MUSC Foundation/Hollings Cancer Center — Sarcoma Research, 18 Bee St., MSC450, Charleston, SC 29425; Congaree Land Trust, 2231 Devine St., Suite 100, Columbia, SC 29205; or Church of the Holy Comforter, 213 N. Main St., Sumter, SC 29150.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com A celebration of the resur-

up north. But the beaches still have plenty of people, both local and foreign, taking dips. And with good reason: Temperatures are frequently in the mid-80s and sometimes even low 90s.

Here you will see some of Rio’s stereotypes: dental-floss bikinis for women, tight speedos for men and bodies that ooze fitness and sensuality. But the beaches have so much more than that. There are pickup soccer and volleyball games and capoeira martial arts. The beats of the drum circles will make you feel like you’re in a movie.

Speaking of rhythms, in cafes, food stands and bars, it’s common to hear the soothing sounds of Caetano Veloso or Gilberto Gil, just two of the country’s talented musicians known worldwide. The classics are embraced, but there is so much more for the ears: pop, funk and everything in between, especially in any of the thousands of yellow cabs circulating in the city.

At the beach or anywhere close to a waterway, you could smell something rank. Your sniffer is not off. That’s sewage. How strong it smells depends on where you are, how recently it rained and many other factors. Currently Rio only treats about 60 percent of its sewage, which means the waste from millions of residents finds its way into the water. Olympic athletes competing on that water are taking a host of preventative measures to avoid getting sick.

rection of Jesus Christ and the life of John Palmer Britton will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Church of the Holy Comforter, 213 N. Main St., Sumter, followed by a private internment. Family and friends are invited to a reception immediately following the service at the Brittons’ home.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

LEILA W. PRINGLE Funeral services for Leila Wilson Pringle will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church with Pastor Larry W. Barnes.

Burial will follow in Walker Cemetery.

She entered eternal rest on Sunday, July 31, 2016, at her home.

Born on Sept. 23, 1950, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Johnny and Charlotte Croskey Wilson. She attended public school in Sumter County. She was a member of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church.

She was employed by Charm House Manufacturing.

Survivors: her husband, Chico Pringle; two children, Valerie Wilson and Ernest Wilson; eight sisters, Viola Wilson, Bessie McKnight, Willie Mae Cockley, Barbara Harrison, Johnnie Cobia, Della Ann Wilson, Patricia (Amos) Gibson and Diane (Sammie) Spann; one brother, Robert Nesbitt; a host of grandchildren, other relatives and friends.

Viewing will take place from 8 a.m. to noon today at the funeral home.

The family is receiving rela-

tives and friends at the home, 1 Harris St., Sumter.

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

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

DORIS TRIMNAL REMBERT — A funeral service to celebrate the life of Doris Baker Trimnal, 88, of Rembert, will be held at 5 p.m. on Sunday at McLeod’s Chapel. The Rev. Marcus Johnston will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends at 4 p.m., 1 hour prior to the service.

Memorials may be made to McLeod’s Chapel, P.O. Box 365, Rembert, SC 29128.

Doris, widow of Marion Francis Trimnal, died on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016.

She was born on Sept. 13, 1927, in Cassett, and lived 50 years in the Rembert community. Doris was a daughter of the late Meredith Otha Baker and Blanche Bowers Baker.

For four years, her home was with Sandy and Eddie in Leesville. Doris worked at Rose's in Camden and was a homemaker. She attended McLeod’s Chapel. Doris was meticulous, quick-witted, and devoted to her family.

Doris is survived by her daughters, Sandy (Eddie), Sabrina (Billy) and Lora (Jamie); granddaughter, Tiffany Standley (James); grandsons, John Paul Smith (Gayle) and Dalton A. Solomon; greatgrandchildren, Wyatt, Sawyer and Virginia Smith; and her sisters, Frances Robinson of Camden and Edna Williams of Virginia.

Besides her husband and parents, Doris was predeceased by her grandson, Christopher Lee Gardner.

Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel, is in charge of the arrangements.

Online condolences may be sent to the Trimnal family by visiting www.kornegayfuneral.com.

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SUPPORT GROUPS Cedar St., Florence. Call AA, AL-ANON, ALATEEN: (843) 661-3746.

AA — Monday-Friday, noonAug. 6, 2016 Support Groups: Amputee Support Group — and 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 Fourth Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., p.m.; Sundays, 10:30 a.m.

Carolinas Rehabilitation and 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., (803) 775-1852.

Florence. Call (843) 661AA Women’s Meeting — 3746.

Wednesdays, 7 p.m., 1 WarEFMP Parent Exchange Group ren St. (803) 775-1852.

— Last Tuesday, 11 a.m.AA Spanish Speaking — Sunnoon, Airman and Family days, 4:30 p.m., 1 Warren Readiness Center. Support St. (803) 775-1852. to service members who AA “How it Works” Group — have a dependent with a Mondays and Fridays, 8 disability or illness. Call p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call Dorcus Haney at (803) 895(803) 494-5180.

1252/1253 or Sue Zimmerman at (803) 847-2377.

441 AA Support Group — Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, 8:30 p.m., Hair Force, 2090-D S.C. 441.

WEDNESDAY MEETINGS: AA Summerton Group — Sickle Cell Support Group — Wednesday, 8 p.m., town Last Wednesday, 11 a.m.-1 hall. p.m., South Sumter Resource Center, 337 ManManning Al-Anon Family ning Ave. Call Bertha Willis Group — Thursdays, 7:30 at (803) 774-6181. p.m., Behavioral Health Building, 14 Church St., Divorce Care — WednesManning. Call Angie Johndays, 6:30 p.m., Bethel Bapson at (803) 435-8085. tist Church, 2401 Bethel C/A “Drop the Rock” Group — Church Road. Call (803) 481-2160.

Thursdays, 9:30 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call Elizabeth Grief Share — Wednesdays, Owens at (803) 607-4543.

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

MONDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Vitiligo Support Group — Second Monday, 5:456:45 p.m., North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Call Tiffany at (803) 316-6763. Find the group on Facebook at Sumter Vitiligo Support.

TUESDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Connective Tissue Support Group — First Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September and November, 7 p.m., 180 Tiller Circle. Call (803) 7730869.

Mothers of Angels (for mothers who have lost a child) — First Tuesday at noon and third Tuesday at 6 p.m., Wise Drive Baptist Church.

Call (803) 469-6059, (803) 979-4498, (803) 469-4506 or (803) 938-8544.

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

Parkinson’s Support Group — Second Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 6613746.

Sumter Amputee Support Group — Second Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Sumter Prosthetics & Orthotics, 259 Broad St. Call (803) 883-4356.

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

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group — Third Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital, 121 E.

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

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

Journey of Hope (for family members of the mentally ill), Journey to Recovery (for the mentally ill) and Survivors of Suicide Support Group — Each group meets every first Thursday, 7 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, 136 Poinsett Drive.

Call Fred Harmon at (803) 905-5620.

FRIDAY MEETINGS: Celebrate Recovery — Fridays, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program, Salt & Light Church, Miller Road (across from Food Lion).

For help with struggles of alcohol, drugs, family problems, smoking, etc.

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

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Get out and contribute to the events and activities that make a difference to you. Love and romance should be a priority and will help you improve your personal life and future plans.

Be vocal about the way you feel.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Tread carefully. You will face a roadblock no matter where you go. Gather information and go over in detail what you find out. Being informed will help you avoid making a mistake. Be willing to listen to facts and act accordingly.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Make an effort to meet new people and attend events you’ve never been to before. Embracing something unique will spark your imagination and encourage you to bring about positive personal changes. Love is in the stars.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take a look at your options and consider what the current job market is offering.

You can make changes to your financial situation if you are creative about how you earn money as well as conservative with how you spend it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Organize your schedule carefully. Make sure you allow ample time to take care of your responsibilities to your friends and family members. A problem at home will surface if you neglect an important matter.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Listen carefully before you decide to take part in someone else’s plan. The help you offer will require you to make personal changes to your schedule. Look at all the pros and cons before you agree to help.

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Romance is highlighted and rewards will be yours.

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Problems will surface if someone has a different agenda than you.

Make changes that suit you, but don’t expect any help. Working alone will bring better results.

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Work on improving your relationships with colleagues.

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OLYMPICS

Starting with a bang Summer Olympics kick off with opening cermony in Rio de Janeiro

Fireworks explode over Maracana Stadium during the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebration: Let’s take care of our planet.

After one of the roughest-ever rides from vote to games by an Olympic host, the city of beaches, carnival, grinding poverty and sun-kissed wealth opened the two-week games of the 31st Olympiad with a highenergy gala celebration of Brazil’s can-do spirit, biodiversity and melting pot history.

The low-tech, cut-price opening ceremony, a moment of levity for a nation beset by economic and political woes, featured performers as slaves, laboring with backs bent,

gravity-defying climbers hanging from the ledges of buildings in Brazil’s teeming megacities and — of course — dancers, all hips and wobble, grooving to thumping funk and sultry samba.

But Brazil also packaged its party with solemnity, lacing the fun and frivolous show with sobering messages about global warming. Images of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, swirling in the Earth’s atmosphere were followed by projections of world cities and

regions — Amsterdam, Florida, Shanghai, Dubai — being swamped by rising seas. The peace symbol, tweaked into the shape of a tree, was projected onto the floor of the Maracana Stadium that filed with thousands of athletes from the 207 teams.

“The heat is melting the icecap,” a voice intoned. “It’s disappearing very quickly.”

The crowd roared when Bundchen sashayed from one side of the 78,000-seat arena to the other, as Tom Jobim’s

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grandson, Daniel, played his grandfather’s famous song about the Ipanema girl “tall and tan and young and lovely.”

In a video preceding the show, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the games “celebrate the best of humanity” and appealed for an Olympic truce, calling on “all warring parties to lay down their weapons” during the two weeks of sporting achievement.

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PRO FOOTBALL

Favre wonders if he really belongs in Hall

By BARRY WILNER The Associated Press CANTON, Ohio — Brett Favre seemed a bit surprised by the question.

Asked if he ever imagined himself wearing a gold jacket in Canton, Favre quickly responded: “Absolutely not.”

He’s still not sure he belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which he will enter on Saturday FAVRE night.

“Pretty amazing,” the record-setting quarterback said Friday. “Incredible. I have a tremendous amount of respect for the game. I hold these guys in the highest regard. I just find it hard to believe I am in with those guys.”

Those guys are the 295 members of the hall that Favre will join, along with Tony Dungy, Marvin Harrison, Orlando Pace,

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Panthers’ popularity soars after recent run of success

By STEVE REED The Associated Press

even half over. Through their first seven practices the Panthers attracted nearly 80,000 CHARLOTTE — Ron Rivera fans to their practice facility stressed a few years ago that in Spartanburg, South Carolihe wanted the Carolina Panna, about a 90-minute drive thers to become “relevant” in from their home base in Charthe NFL. lotte.

Put a big checkmark in that “When you have sustained box. success it creates more and Behind NFL MVP Cam New- more momentum,” Panthers ton, the Panthers have become President Danny Morrison a hot ticket in the Carolinas told The Associated Press. and neighboring states — “People around the country more so than ever. Following a and certainly in the Carolinas third straight NFC South have seen a very unselfish championship and a trip to the team — a team that loves playSuper Bowl, fans are abuzz ing football. And we have a lot about the Panthers heading of unique individuals.” into 2016 season hoping the Few are unique as Newton, franchise’s first Vince Lomone of the more excitable, conbardi Trophy is close. fident and entertaining quarThe Panthers “sold out” all terbacks ever to play in the 60,000 tickets — they were NFL. available for free online — in a The sixth-year quarterback matter of hours for their anhas become a polarizing figure nual Fan Fest practice, which to some who don’t particularly was held Friday night at their enjoy his elaborate touchdown downtown stadium. celebrations or the way he Yes, we’re talking about bolted off the podium after practice.

Carolina’s 24-10 loss to the The Associated Press This week the team shatDenver Broncos in the Super Carolina quarterback Cam Newton points to the crowd at the tered its yearly training camp Bowl. But he’s become the Panthers’ annual Fan Fest practice during NFL training camp attendance record at Wofford in Charlotte on Friday.

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Michael Phelps carries the flag as he leads the U.S. team into the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics on Friday in Rio de Janeiro.

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from getting close to the stadium ahead of the ceremoFrom Page B1 ny.

But with more than a dash There were times after the of “gambiarra,” the BrazilInternational Olympic Com- ian art of quick-fixes and mittee selected Rio ahead of making do, Rio is ready.

Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid Just. in 2009 when it seemed that Greece, the historical and the city of 6.5 million people spiritual home of the games, might not get its act together led the march by athletes for the world’s greatest into the stadium. They were sporting mega-event. The being joined by a first-ever spreading health crisis of Refugee Olympic Team of 10 the mosquito-born Zika athletes, displaced from virus kept some athletes Syria, South Sudan, Congo away. Promises to clean up and Ethiopia. Their flagRio’s filthy waters remained bearer, Rose Nathike Lokunfulfilled. The heavy bill onyen, fled war in South for the games, at least $12 Sudan and ran her first race billion, made them unpopuin a refugee camp in northlar with many. Heavily ern Kenya. armed security stopped a The athletes were given small group of protesters tree seeds, plus cartridges of

soil. When they sprout, they will be planted in a Rio park.

With “USA” emblazoned on the back of his jacket, Michael Phelps carried the flag for the U.S. team, the largest with 549 competitors. At his fifth and last Olympics, it was the first time the record holder of 22 medals had marched in an opening ceremony, having skipped previous ones to save energy for competition.

While it escaped a blanket ban, Russia is paying the price in the shape of a smaller team, whittled down from a 389 athletes to around 270.

Iran picked a woman, archer Zahra Nemati, as flagbearer for its team made up overwhelmingly of men.

SPORTS ITEMS

Four share lead in Travelers CROMWELL, Conn. — Marc Leishman birdied his final hole for a 2-under 68 and a share of the secondround lead Friday in the Travelers Championship.

Leishman, the 2012 winner at TPC River Highlands for his lone PGA Tour title, matched 2015 rookie of the year Daniel Berger, Russell Henley and Tyrone Van Aswegen at 7-under 133. Berger had a 67, Henley shot 65, and Van Aswegen 66.

Four players, including 49-year-old University of Hartford graduate Jerry Kelly, were a shot behind.

Blayne Barber had the best round of the day at 64 to top the seven players two strokes back.

U.S. Olympians Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed and Matt Kuchar remained in contention. Kuchar shot a 67 to move to reach 4 under.

Reed, who turned 26 on Fri-

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most popular athlete the Charlotte area has ever known.

Newton much owns all eyes in crowd when he steps on the field at Bank of America Stadium.

Near the end of practice, he made like a orchestra conductor to the crowd as he led “the wave.” He got fans to do the wave, slow, fast and backward. He even had it going in two different direc-

FAVRE

From Page B1 Kevin Greene, Ken Stabler, Dick Stanfel and Ed DeBartolo Jr. That Favre even remotely doubted he belonged after one of the greatest careers in NFL history — 20 seasons, tons of records, including a stunning 299 consecutive games, an NFL title in 1996 — is folly to most.

The first three-time league MVP (1995-97), Favre has put up numbers that can be overwhelming. Add in his spirit, competitive fire and fun-loving attitude, and he was such a slam dunk in his

end of the season, announcing his decision during a tear-filled news conference Friday at Yankee Stadium.

Slowed by injuries, the Qualifier Day leads 3M 36-year-old switch-hitting Championship first baseman is batting .198 BLAINE, Minn. — Monwith 10 homers and 27 RBIs. day qualifier Glen Day shot A three-time All-Star and a 7-under 65 in perfect condi- five-time Gold Glove winner, tions Friday to take the first- he is in the final season of a round lead in the PGA Tour $180 million, eight-year conChampions’ 3M Championtract. ship.

Nationals 5 Jeff Maggert and Rod Spittle shot 66, and two-time Giants 1 WASHINGTON — Gio champion Bernhard Langer Gonzalez pitched seven inwas at 67 along with Colin Montgomerie, Miguel Angel nings of two-hit ball, Trea Turner and Wilson Ramos Jimenez, Woody Austin, homered and the WashingKevin Sutherland, Carlos ton Nationals beat the San Franco, Scott Dunlap, Bart Francisco Giants 5-1 on FriBryant and Monday qualifiday night in a matchup of er Jean-Francois Remesy. first-place teams.

Yankees’ Teixeira to It was the fourth straight retire at season’s end win for the Nationals.

NEW YORK — Mark Teixeira plans to retire at the From wire reports

day, also shot a 67 and was tied with Watson at 3 under.

Watson, the defending champion, had a 70.

tions, all the while smiling from ear to ear.

Fans responded to energy with a chant of “MVP.” “Nothing Cam does surprise me anymore,” said fullback Mike Tolbert with a smile.

Luke Kuechly is much more reserved than Newton, but no less loved in the Carolinas. When No. 59 makes was shown on the stadium’s videoboards, the crowd roared “Luuuuuuke!”

“When you have individual stars like we have that only adds to the excitement

around training camp,” Morrison said.

Rivera said the players have been overwhelmed by the amount of fan support this summer. The team drew more than 22,000 fans for its first night of practice at Wofford College as optimistic fans anticipate a return to the Super Bowl — albeit with a different outcome.

“We love the support because it brings a lot of energy and the players feed off that energy,” Rivera said.

“The tempo goes up and guys get really competitive.”

first year of eligibility that his candidacy wasn’t even discussed by the selection committee in February.

When he began getting text messages from his heroes, particularly Roger Staubach, Favre said he had to “pick his jaw off the floor.”

“It wasn’t a goal of mine,” Favre said. “I have the utmost respect for the players who go in, but I just wanted to play, and people who saw me identified with that. If they paid me $50, I would have felt the same way. What they pay is a lot of money.

When I’d drive home, I would say to myself, ‘This is stealing!”’

Favre recalled the first time he visited the Hall of Fame, in 1993, before his third pro season. The Packers were playing the Raiders.

His lasting memory wasn’t exactly a sporting one.

“I just remember the Raiders players standing outside the locker room smoking,” he said, drawing laughs from reporters. “There’s something wrong with this.”

When Favre dons the gold jacket Saturday night, it might stay on for a while.

Asked what he would be doing Monday back in Mississippi, he said “mowing the grass — in my gold jacket.”

6 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Paul Lawrie Match Play Round-of-16 Matches from East Lothian, Scotland (GOLF).

10 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Paul Lawrie Match Play Quarterfinal Matches from East Lothian, Scotland (GOLF).

11 a.m. – Youth Baseball: USSSA National Amateur Baseball Championship Game from Orlando, Fla. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

Noon – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355 at The Glen Pole Qualifying from Watkins Glen, N.Y. (CNBC).

Noon – International Soccer: International Champions Cup Match from London – Liverpool vs. Barcelona (ESPN).

1 p.m. – Women’s Amateur Golf: U.S. Women’s Amateur Semifinal Matches from Springfield, Pa. (FOX SPORTS 1).

1 p.m. – PGA Golf: Travelers Championship Third Round from Cromwell, Conn. (GOLF).

1 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Cleveland at New York Yankees (MLB NETWORK).

1:30 p.m. – Youth Baseball: USSSA National Amateur Baseball Championship Game from Orlando, Fla. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

1:30 p.m. – International Soccer: Dutch League Match – PSV vs. Utrecht (UNIVISION).

2 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Zippo 200 from Watkins Glen, N.Y. (CNBC).

2 p.m. – Youth Baseball: Senior League World Series Championship Game from Bangor, Maine (ESPN).

3 p.m. – PGA Golf: Travelers Championship Third Round from Cromwell, Conn. (WLTX 19).

3 p.m. – Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour 3M Championship Second Round from Blaine, Minn. (GOLF).

4 p.m. – Horse Racing: The Hambletonian from East Rutherford, N.J. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

4 p.m. – Youth Softball: Junior League World Series Championship Game from Kirkland, Wash. (ESPN2).

4 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Boston at Los Angeles Dodgers (FOX SPORTS 1).

5 p.m. – Horse Racing: Whitney Stakes from Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (FOX SPORTS 2).

5:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Tijuana vs. Cruz Azul (UNIVISION).

7 p.m. – Arena Football: Playoffs Quarterfinal Game – Jacksonville at Orlando (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – NFL Football: Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony from Canton, Ohio (ESPN, NFL NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Professional Tennis: Atlanta Open Semifinal Matches from Atlanta (ESPN2).

7 p.m. – MLL Lacrosse: Ohio at New York (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

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

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: San Francisco at Washington or New York Mets at Detroit (MLB NETWORK).

8 p.m. – Youth Baseball: Cal Ripken World Series Championship Game from Aberdeen, Md. (FOX SPORTS 2).

8 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Monterrey vs.

Leon (UNIVISION).

10 p.m. – Arena Football: Playoffs Quarterfinal Game – Portland at Arizona (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

10 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Los Angeles Angels at Seattle or Philadelphia at San Diego (MLB NETWORK).

10 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Queretaro vs.

Guadalajara (UNIVISION).

10:35 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Andre Ward vs. Alexander Brand in a Light Heavyweight Bout and Maurice Hooker vs. Tyrone Barnett in a Junior Welterweight Bout from Oakland, Calif. (HBO).

MLB standings

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN League East Division

Baltimore Toronto Boston New York Tampa Bay Central Division

Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City Minnesota West Division

Texas Houston Seattle Los Angeles Oakland

W 61 62 59 54 44

L Pct GB 46 .570 — 47 .569 — 48 .551 2 54 .500 7½ 63 .411 17

W 61 59 52 51 43

L Pct GB 45 .575 — 49 .546 3 56 .481 10 57 .472 11 65 .398 19

W 63 56 54 49 48

L Pct GB 46 .578 — 52 .519 6½ 53 .505 8 59 .454 13½ 60 .444 14½

Thursday’s Games

Cleveland 9, Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay 3, Kansas City 2 Chicago White Sox 6, Detroit 3 N.Y. Mets 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Oakland 8, L.A. Angels 6, 10 innings Texas 5, Baltimore 3 Toronto 4, Houston 1 Boston 3, Seattle 2, 11 innings

Friday’s Games

Cleveland at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

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

Baltimore at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Texas at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Cleveland (Kluber 10-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 6-8), 1:05 p.m.

Boston (Rodriguez 2-4) at L.A. Dodgers, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 12-5) at Oakland (Gray 5-10), 4:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Berrios 2-1) at Tampa Bay (Archer 5-15), 6:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 14-3) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 2-8), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Verrett 3-6) at Detroit (Boyd 2-2), 7:10 p.m.

Texas (Harrell 3-2) at Houston (Fister 10-7), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Sanchez 11-1) at Kansas City (Duffy 7-1), 7:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-0) at Seattle (Walker 4-7), 9:10 p.m.

National League East Division

Washington Miami New York Philadelphia Atlanta Central Division

Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati West Division

San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

W 64 57 56 50 39

L Pct GB 44 .593 — 51 .528 7 52 .519 8 60 .455 15 69 .361 25

W 66 57 53 48 44

L Pct GB 41 .617 — 51 .528 9½ 53 .500 12½ 58 .453 17½ 63 .411 22

W 62 60 54 47 43

L Pct GB 46 .574 — 48 .556 2 54 .500 8 61 .435 15 65 .398 19

Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 0 San Francisco 3, Philadelphia 2, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Atlanta 5, Pittsburgh 2 L.A. Dodgers 4, Colorado 2

Friday’s Games

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

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

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

Miami at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Diego, 10:40 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Boston (Rodriguez 2-4) at L.A. Dodgers, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 12-5) at Oakland (Gray 5-10), 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Bailey 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Nova 7-6), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Cain 3-6) at Washington (Strasburg 15-1), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Verrett 3-6) at Detroit (Boyd 2-2), 7:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Foltynewicz 4-5) at St. Louis (Martinez 10-6), 7:15 p.m.

Miami (Cashner 4-7) at Colorado (Bettis 9-6), 8:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 2-4) at Arizona (Corbin 4-10), 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Thompson 0-0) at San Diego (Clemens 1-2), 8:40 p.m.

WNBA standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE

New York Atlanta Indiana Chicago Washington Connecticut

W 18 13 12 11 9 8

L Pct GB 8 .692 — 12 .520 4½ 12 .500 5 13 .458 6 15 .375 8 16 .333 9

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB x-Los Angeles 21 3 .875 — x-Minnesota 21 4 .840 ½ Phoenix 10 14 .417 11 Seattle 9 15 .375 12 Dallas 9 16 .360 12½ San Antonio 5 18 .217 15½ x-clinched a playoff spot Olympic break: Play resumes Aug. 26

Golf

By The Associated Press

PGA Tour Travelers Championship Par Scores Friday At TPC River Highlands Cromwell, Conn.

Purse: $6.6 million Yardage: 6,841; Par: 70 Second Round Tyrone Van Aswegen Daniel Berger Russell Henley Marc Leishman Jerry Kelly Robert Garrigus Russell Knox Patrick Rodgers Blayne Barber Paul Casey Scott Pinckney Brian Stuard Vaughn Taylor Vijay Singh Jon Rahm Cameron Smith Jason Kokrak Ryan Moore Matt Kuchar Spencer Levin Abraham Ancer Tyrrell Hatton Stuart Appleby Charley Hoffman Gary Woodland John Senden Tony Finau Alex Cejka Justin Thomas Webb Simpson Bubba Watson Patrick Reed Lucas Lee Derek Ernst Rod Pampling Chez Reavie Daniel Summerhays Sung Kang Brooks Koepka Martin Laird Carlos Ortiz Soren Kjeldsen Scott Brown Hudson Swafford Cameron Percy Andres Gonzales Aaron Baddeley Retief Goosen Zach Johnson Francesco Molinari Zac Blair Matt Jones David Toms Greg Chalmers Bryson DeChambeau Shawn Stefani Brendan Steele Seung-Yul Noh Padraig Harrington Hunter Mahan Jim Furyk Chris Stroud Miguel Angel Carballo Henrik Norlander Rory Sabbatini Nick Taylor Keegan Bradley Ernie Els Louis Oosthuizen Bud Cauley Ricky Barnes Bryce Molder Si Woo Kim

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Champions Tour 3M Championship Par Scores

By The Associated Press Friday At TPC Twin Cities Blaine, Minn.

Purse: $1.75 million Yardage: 7,114; Par 72 First Round Glen Day Rod Spittle Jeff Maggert Colin Montgomerie Carlos Franco Kevin Sutherland Woody Austin Scott Dunlap Bart Bryant Bernhard Langer Miguel Angel Jimenez Jean-Francois Remesy Mark Brooks Stephen Ames Larry Mize Scott Hoch Larry Nelson Mark O’Meara Steve Schneiter Mike Goodes Steve Pate Michael Bradley Todd Hamilton Wayne Levi Jesper Parnevik Lee Janzen Paul Goydos Billy Andrade Rocco Mediate Brandt Jobe Mike Grob Jose Coceres Craig Parry Steve Lowery Joe Durant David Frost Jay Haas John Inman

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By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press This is the second part of a story ranking the 44 schools that have been ranked No. 1 in the country at the end of the college football season at least once in the 80 years of The Associated Press poll.

No. 24 (tie) Clemson (7)

Championships: 1981.

Most recent No. 1 ranking: Dec. 6, 2015.

Longest run at No. 1: Five straight polls, Nov. 8, 2015-Dec. 6, 2015.

Best decade: 2010s, five times.

Best No. 1 team: 1981.

Russo’s reasoning: Clemson’s first and only championship team ranks among one of the more surprising titles in the poll era. The Tigers were unranked to start the season, made some big jumps to get into the top five and then took the No. 1 ranking and unbeaten record into the Orange Bowl against Nebraska.

Quarterback Homer Jordan led coach Danny Ford’s team to a 22-15 victory that still stands as the greatest in program history.

No. 24 (tie) Colorado (7)

Championships: One (1990).

Most recent No. 1 ranking: 1990 final.

Longest run at No. 1: Four straight polls, Nov. 20, 1990-1990 final Best decade: 1990s, four times.

Best No. 1 team: 1990.

Russo’s reasoning: The championship was controversial. The 1990 team benefited from the infamous “fifth down” game, during which the Buffaloes scored the winning touchdown on a mistakenly given fifth down against Missouri. And a clipping penalty against Notre Dame on Raghib Ismail’s fourth-quarter punt return for a touchdown helped them win the Orange Bowl. The coaches’ poll crowned Georgia Tech its champion. There was no File/The Associated Press doubting, though, that coach Bill Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson helped lead the Tigers to five straight weeks at No. 1 last season, the longest stretch in school history McCartney’s team was loaded with players including running back Eric atop The Associated Press Top 25.

Bienemy and linebacker Chad Brown and Most recent No. 1 ranking: Oct. 30, were No. 1 for the first time to start the Oklahoma twice and finished No. 4. can comfortably be called the best No. 1 preseason. in school history.

Longest run at No. 1: Two straight polls, 1968 season and stayed there for the first 1990.

No. 41 (tie) Boston College five weeks. Purdue won a 1 vs. 2 matchup Longest run at No. 1: Three straight Sept. 19, 1960-Sept. 24, 1960. against Notre Dame in September and No. 24 (tie) Syracuse (7) (1) polls, Oct. 16, 1990-Oct. 30, 1990.

Best decade: 1960s, five times. running back Leroy Keyes went on to Championships: One (1959).

Championships: None.

No. 1 team: 1990.

Best No. 1 team: 1960. finish second to O.J. Simpson in the Most recent No. 1 ranking: Oct. 3, No. 1 ranking: Nov. 23, 1942.

The Moores (quarterback Shawn and Heisman voting, but the Boilermakers Russo’s reasoning: Coach John Vaught 1960.

No. 1 team: 1942. receiver Herman) had the Cavaliers No. 1 lost at Ohio State and Minnesota to finish Longest run at No. 1: Five straight polls, reigned over the most successful era of in the country when they lost a thriller The Eagles started 8-0 and had allowed 8-2.

Ole Miss football and the 1960 team Nov. 9, 1959-1959 final.

41-38 to Georgia Tech, which went on to only 19 points when they reached No. 1, stands as the best of the bunch. an unbeaten season. The Cavaliers’ season but the most memorable thing about Best decade: 1950s, five times.

No. 34 (tie) California (4) Quarterback Jake Gibbs and the Rebels came apart as they lost their final three Championships: None. their stay was probably how it ended. BC had three weeks at No. 1 and only a 6-6 Best No. 1 team: 1959. games to finish 8-4 and ranked No. 23. was upset 55-12 by a Holy Cross team tie against LSU kept Ole Miss from going Most recent No. 1 ranking: Oct. 15, Russo’s reasoning: Led by Ernie Davis, that was 4-4-1. Boston College also lost unbeaten.

The Rebels finished No. 2 in 1951. who went on to win the 1961 Heisman No. 38 (tie) TCU (2) to Alabama in the Sugar Bowl and the the country.

Trophy, the then-Orangemen went Longest run at No. 1: Three straight Championships: One (1938). closest the Eagles have been to No. 1 undefeated behind coach Ben polls, Oct. 18, 1937-Nov. 1, 1937. again was No. 2 in 2007 with Matt Ryan Most recent No. 1 ranking: 1938 final.

No. 30 (tie) Mississippi Schwartzwalder. Syracuse plowed Best decade: 1930s, three times.

Longest run at No. 1: Never ranked No. at quarterback. through most of its competition. The only State (5) Best No. 1 team: 1937.

1 in consecutive weeks. regular season game decided by a single- Championships: None.

No. 41 (tie) N. Carolina (1) digit margin was a 20-18 victory at Penn Most recent No. 1 ranking: Nov. 9, Russo’s reasoning: The Golden Bears No. 1 team: 1938.

Championships: None.

State. under coach Stub Allison were either No. 2014.

Led by quarterback Davey O’Brien, the No. 1 ranking: Oct. 11, 1948.

1 or No. 2 all season, with only a scoreless Longest run at No. 1: Five straight polls, guy who now has a trophy named after No. 24 (tie) UCLA (7) tie against Washington blemishing their Oct. 12, 2014-Nov. 9, 2014. him, the Horned Frogs went undefeated, No. 1 team: 1948.

Championships: None. record. Cal finished off the season The Tar Heels opened the season with including a 15-7 victory in the Sugar Best decade: 2010s, five times. beating Alabama 13-0 in the Rose Bowl.

Most recent No. 1 ranking: Oct. 25, wins against Texas and Georgia and Bowl against Carnegie Mellon.

No. 1 team: 2014.

1988. quickly rose to No. 1, led by halfback No. 34 (tie) Cornell (4) Charlie Justice, who was the Heisman No. 38 (tie) SMU (2) Longest run at No. 1: Two straight polls, Mississippi State had never been ranked Championships: None. higher than No. 7 before the Bulldogs Championships: None.

Trophy runner-up. Coach Carl Snavely’s three times (1954, 1955, 1988).

Most recent No. 1 ranking: Nov. 4, surged to the top of the AP poll in 2014 team kept winning but still slipped to No. Most recent No. 1 ranking: Oct. 23, Best decade: 1950s, four times.

1940. and stayed there for five weeks.

3 after wins by Notre Dame and 1950-Oct. 30, 1950.

Best No. 1 team: 1954.

Quarterback Dak Prescott and the Michigan. A 6-6 tie with William & Mary Longest run at No. 1: Four straight No. 1 team: 1950.

Bulldogs stumbled some down the Russo’s reasoning: Coach Red Sanders dropped UNC to sixth before finishing polls, Oct. 14, 1940-Nov. 4, 1940. stretch and finished 10-3 and No. 11.

A 5-0 start to the season that included had a string of top-notch teams in the No. 4. The Heels ended up losing the No. 1 team: 1940. victories against Georgia Tech, No. 11 1950s, but we’ll take the 1954 team that Sugar Bowl to Oklahoma 14-6.

No. 30 (tie) Northwestern The only Ivy League team to hold the top Ohio State and No. 15 Rice put the went 9-0, beat rival USC 34-0 and spot in the AP poll, though it should be Mustangs coached by H.N. Russell on top No. 41 (tie) Wisconsin (1) finished No. 2 in the country. Because the (5) noted that the Ivy League didn’t become of the polls in late October. They finished Championships: None.

Bruins played in the Rose Bowl the Championships: None. an official NCAA conference until 1954. the season losing four of five to previous season, the Trojans got to go Most recent No. 1 ranking: Nov. 5, No. 1 ranking: Oct. 6, 1952.

Big Red beat Army, Syracuse and Ohio after the 1954 season, which helps Southwest Conference rivals and ended 1962.

No. 1 team: 1952.

State by a combined 99-13 during a explain why the AP wasn’t doing a poll up 6-4 and unranked.

Longest run at No. 1: Three straight three-week stretch but lost its final two after the postseason in those days The Badgers beat No. 2 Illinois 20-6 for polls, Nov. 2, 1936-Nov. 16, 1936. games to Dartmouth (3-0) and Penn (22- No. 38 (tie) Missouri (2) their second win of the season and 20).

No. 28 Texas A&M (6½) Championships: None.

Best decade: 1930s, three times. jumped from No. 8 to No. 1 for the only Championships: One (1939). time in school history. The very next Most recent No. 1 ranking: Nov. 25, Best No. 1 team: 1936.

No. 34 (tie) BYU (4) week they lost 23-14 at Ohio State. With Most recent No. 1 ranking: Nov. 11, 2007.

Russo’s reasoning: The first year of the Championships: One (1984). sophomore running back Alan Ameche, 1957.

Longest run at No. 1: Never ranked No. AP poll, the Wildcats spent three weeks at who would go on to win the Heisman in Most recent No. 1 ranking: 1984 final.

Longest run at No. 1: Four straight 1 in consecutive weeks.

No. 1 and beat eventual national 1954, Wisconsin finished the regular Longest run at No. 1: Four straight polls, Best No. 1 team: 1960. polls, Nov. 11, 1939-1939 final. champion Minnesota 6-0. A 26-6 loss to season 6-2-1 and played in the school’s Notre Dame in the season finale dumped Nov. 20, 1984-1984 final.

Best decade: 1950s, 3½ times. first Rose Bowl. The Badgers lost 7-0 to Russo’s reasoning: Both the 1960 and coach Pappy Waldorf’s team to 7-1 and a No. 1 team: 1984.

Best No. 1 team: 1939.

2007 teams were No. 1 for one week late Southern California. final ranking of No. 7.

The Cougars were the only undefeated in the season, With a chance to win a Russo’s reasoning: Coach Homer major college team in a strange season No. 41 (tie) Arkansas (1) national championship: or at least play Norton’s Aggies rolled through the No. 30 (tie) Purdue (5) that gave coach LaVell Edwards his only for it: both Tigers teams lost. The 1960 Championships: None.

Southwest Conference, allowing only Championships: None. national championship. The only ranked team, which lost 23-7 in its season finale No. 1 ranking: Oct. 18, 1965. eight points in six games. The final No. 1 Most recent No. 1 ranking: Oct. 7, team BYU beat was in its opener against against rival Kansas, gets the close call as ranking came before they beat No. 5 No. 1 team: 1965.

1968.

No. 3 Pitt, but the Panthers finished 3-7-1. the best Missouri No. 1 team over Tulane 14-13 in the Sugar Bowl to finish The Razorbacks reached No. 1 by beating A hobbled quarterback Robbie Bosco led quarterback Chase Daniel’s 2007 squad.

Longest run at No. 1: Five straight polls, 11-0. top-ranked Texas 27-24, but they didn’t the Cougars to a 24-17 victory in the Coach Dan Devine’s ‘60 team won five 1968 preseason-Oct. 7, 1968. stay long even though they kept winning Holiday Bowl against Michigan (6-6) to road games, including at No. 20 Penn No. 29 Maryland (6) Best decade: 1960s, five times. until facing LSU in the Cotton Bowl. cap a 13-0 season.

State and No. 18 Colorado, and Championships: One (1953).

No. 1 team: 1968. dominated its competition until losing to Arkansas lost 14-7 to finish 10-1 and No. Most recent No. 1 ranking: Oct. 31, No. 37 Virginia (3) After finishing ninth and being a top-10 the Jayhawks at home and finished No. 5 2 in the country under coach Frank 1955.

Broyles. team most of the 1967, the Boilermakers Championships: None. in the nation. The ‘07 team lost to Longest run at No. 1: Two straight polls twice (1953, 1955).

Best decade: 1950s, six times.

Best No. 1 team: 1953.

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