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FIXING S.C. ROADS

Measure reorganizes S.C. DOT Committee adopts McElveen’s plan for redistricting

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com A bill reorganizing South Carolina Commission of the Department of Transportation has been passed out of the Senate Transportation Committee that includes a redistricting measure championed

by Sen. Thomas McElveen, DSumter.

In the bill, the number of commissioners would be increased to nine, from the present seven members representing districts and an atlarge member appointed by the governor, and MCELVEEN each Regional Council of Governments district would constitute a Department of Transportation district, instead of the existing boundaries based on congressional districts.

Each regional COG would select three nominees who must be residents of the district, one of which would be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each of the governor’s appointees would be screened for qualifications by the Joint Transportation Review Committee. Commissioners would serve a term of six years and could not serve more than one term except for an additional four months until a successor is appointed.

McElveen said he was excited his proposal was adopted by the committee.

“It’s a huge win,” he said.

He pointed out the proposal would not split any counties into more than one district.

“That would be really difficult for a county like Sumter,” he said.

While a lot of attention is focused on funding for roads, McElveen said the restructuring component is also important.

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Last of suspects arrested Police still investigating Frazier Street shooting FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter Police Department arrested the last of seven suspects wanted in connection to shots fired on Frazier Street in December 2015.

William Jacquzes Spann, 18, of 28 Carolina Ave., was arrested at 5:45 a.m. Thursday by police officers and members of U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, according to a news release from the police department.

Spann is charged with attempted murder for his alleged involvement in the shooting.

The release states police officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly before 4 p.m. on Dec. 29 and discovered two vehicles involved in a collision when they arrived.

No individuals were found at the scene.

Officers said the crash appeared to have been deliber-

ate, and no injuries were reported.

According to the release, William Spann was located at the home of his sister, Nakeya Keyuntae Spann, at 102 Carolina Ave. Nakeya Spann, 21, was also arrested and is charged with harboring a fugitive.

Both William and Nakeya Spann are being held at Sumter-Lee Regional

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Cold temperatures follow rain

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Crossing Guard Betty Brown, right, stops traffic for Millwood Elementary School students to cross Pinewood Road during Thursday afternoon’s rain.

Thursday’s storms dumped more than 2.5 inches of rain on Sumter

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Doug Anderson of the National Weather Service in Columbia said a reliable observer in the Sumter area reported a funnel cloud Wednesday as a front rolled through the region, but the report could not be confirmed.

“We did see some circulation on radar, but we didn’t have any reports

of damage,” he said.

Anderson said he participated in a survey in West Columbia that confirmed touchdown of a small tornado while another report in Steadman near the Aiken-Lexington county line was likely only straight-blowing winds.

He said the front should be pushed offshore Friday.

Rain totals in the Sumter area Thursday showed amounts from 2.5 to 2.8

inches, with another quarter- to halfinch possible Thursday night, mostly in the eastern portion of the county.

“My gauge in Sunway Knolls had 2.49 inches Thursday morning,” Anderson said.

“Friday shouldn’t be too bad, but we will have a lot of wind,” he said. “The drier air will be coming in with winds

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And then there were 2: Thoughts on Sanders vs. Clinton MANCHESTER, N.H. — After the results of the Iowa Caucus on Monday night, where Democratic front-runners Sec. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, ended with only a 0.4 percent disparity, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley pulled out of the presidential race.

The Clinton campaign now recognizes Sanders as a formidable foe, especially after he proved his prowess by nearly tying the votes in Iowa.

Polls have been predicting that Sanders will take the lead in his neighboring state of New Hampshire, but the Granite State has held a longstand-

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COMMENTARY FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE ing allegiance to the Clinton legacy. Just eight years ago, Clinton beat out thenSen. Obama in New Hampshire Amanda after Obama Finney won in Iowa.

On Wednesday, during a CNN Town Hall moderated by Anderson Cooper, the biggest issue was whether Clinton was a “moderate” or a “progressive.”

In a society where labels

such as race and sexual orientation are becoming less apparent and more blurred, Sanders’ intent to try to box her into a category seemed trivial when there are actual issues to discuss.

As the old saying goes, actions speak louder than words, and I couldn’t agree more. Regardless of who you are voting for or whether you remain undecided, look at each candidate’s history: what have they done, what have they fought for and who have they fought with?

Sanders challenges this

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ideal notion of who is the real Hillary Clinton. As a Rabbi asked her in the Town Hall, what is she carrying in both of her pockets? Ego in one pocket, humility in the other.

But how can Clinton balance the two to become a great president?

Clinton casually shrugged off the attack and finished strong, acknowledging her low support among millennials, saying “I don’t care if they aren’t for me; I am for them.”

Amanda Finney was born and raised in Sumter until the age of 7 when she moved to Columbia. She is a graduate of Heath-

wood Hall Episcopal School.

She graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in communication and English and a minor in women and gender studies. She took off her senior year to work as a field organizer in Virginia for President Obama’s 2012 re-election.

Finney, a daughter of Third Judicial Circuit Solicitor Ernest “Chip” Finney III and his wife Tammy, is pursuing her master’s degree at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. She is reporting on the 2016 campaign for The Sumter Item this week in New Hampshire. Tweet Amanda at @FinneyAmanda2.

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Your GED scores may have improved Adjustments to the test may mean those once denied a degree can now get one diplomas. The GED diplomas will be dated Dec. 31, 2015, according to the S.C. Department of Education.

In Sumter County, 18 students who did not score a 150 in previous tests will qualify to receive their GED as a result of the required score changes, said Sharon Teague, director of Sumter County Adult Education.

GED tests are a group of four subject tests which, when passed, provide certification that the test taker has American or Canadian high school-level academic skills.

“We know that this will have a positive effect on all of our students,” Teague said.

Sumter County Adult Education enrolls about 3,000 students, with about

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com On Jan. 26, the General Educational Development Testing Service announced a recalibration of the GED test passing score and the addition of two new performance levels.

In South Carolina, as in most states, the passing score for high school equivalency will be lowered from 150 to 145.

Diplomas will be awarded retroactively to students who have taken the test since Jan. 1, 2014.

In January 2014, a more rigorous GED test was introduced.

In South Carolina, 571 GED testers who scored between 145 and 149 will be awarded their high school equivalency

LOCAL BRIEFS FROM STAFF REPORTS

Major says reports of animal abuse unfounded Reports of a large number of animal abuse cases associated with a recent marijuana arrest are not credible, according to Maj. Allen Dailey of Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

He said the department investigated the allegations and found no evidence of abused animals.

“People are getting photos of animals that aren’t even there and posting them on Facebook,” he said.

Anyone who wishes to report animal abuse may call Sumter County Animal Control at (803) 436-2066.

Library presents ‘Let the Record Speak’ program George E. Frierson, local historian, will present a black history program entitled “Let the Record Speak” at Harvin Clarendon County Library, 215 N. Brooks St., Manning on Monday, Feb. 8 at 6 p.m.

The program is free and open to the public.

For more information, call 803-435-8633.

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500 students who are in the GED program annually, she said.

Teague said the test score change will also help students who may have scored a 150 or above overall but had scores lower than 150 in individual sections.

About 15 students will benefit from the changes in Clarendon County, said Lisa Justice, director of Clarendon County Adult Education.

“It will make the process more simple and quicker for our currently enrolled students and would affect previous students who made a score between 145 and 149 in any of the four tested areas,” Justice said.

The GED program will also add on two optional levels to signify college readiness, and for some test-takers, an opportunity to earn college credits.The two additional performance levels added are called GED College Ready and GED College Ready + Credit.

GED College Ready will be used to signify readiness to enter college credit courses.

GED College Ready + Credit may qualify students for as many as 10 hours of college credit.

The additional performance levels will apply to any student who has taken a GED test since Jan. 1, 2014.

It may take several weeks to perform the required technology updates in order for the new scores to be incorporated into the South Carolina Department of Education’s GED database, according to a news release from the department.

For more information on the Sumter County Adult Education program, contact Sharon Teigue at (803) 778-6432.

For more information on the Clarendon CountyAdult Education Program, contact Lisa Justice at (803) 473-2531.

More information can be obtained on both of the programs’ Facebook pages.

Caterpillar Foundation provides $25K grant to CCTC for freshman program

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Caterpillar Foundation, the charitable branch of Caterpillar Inc., recently provided Central Carolina Technical College a $25,000 grant to fund the first year of the college’s SMART Choices for Success program for firsttime freshmen.

According to a news release from the college, the SMART program was developed to support first-time freshmen upon their entry into college.

Central Carolina Data and Grant Coordinator Jasmine Todd said the college conducted research and received suggestions from students and faculty about what could be done to further enhance students’ experiences at the school and decided to focus on incoming freshmen.

She said a pilot of the SMART program began in the summer of 2015, and the full program will be available to all first-time freshmen on all of the college’s campuses during the fall 2016 semester.

“Central Carolina Technical College is fortunate to have corporate partnerships

that is specifically designed to assist students in their transition from high school to college life.

Students will also have access to faculty advisers who will serve as a first-line of communication for freshmen seeking information about the college experience at Central Carolina, Todd said.

She said SMART will work well with Central Carolina Scholars, a two-year, tuitionfree scholarship opportunity for qualifying students graduating from public and private high schools in Sumter, PHOTO PROVIDED Clarendon, Lee and Kershaw Central Carolina Technical College student Aubrey Rickard receives counties in 2016-19. assistance from instructor and tutor Sharome Henry and SMART For more information Choices Coordinator Elizabeth Bastedo, while Data and Grants Co- about SMART Choices for ordinator Jasmine Todd observes.

Success, contact Elizabeth Bastedo at (803) 778-6626, and for more information about and college personnel. such as the Caterpillar Central Carolina Scholars Also in the release, Foundation to help provide contact Vicki Singleton at SMART Choices Project Cosupport to new students in (803) 774-3371. ordinator Elizabeth Bastedo their pursuit of higher eduAccording to Sumter Ecosaid the needs of new stucation and to provide gradunomic Development’s webdents are unique, and the ates for our local worksite, Caterpillar Inc. has two greater the support mechaforce,” President Tim Hardof the top 20 employers in nisms available to them, the ee said in the release.

Sumter County, with its two more likely they are to conThe release states that the manufacturing facilities, tinue on to graduation. goals of the program are to Caterpillar Hydraulics and Through the SMART proincrease student retention Caterpillar Precision Pins, gram, freshmen will have from the first semester to ranking 11 and 12 on the list the opportunity to attend a the second and to facilitate with 210 and 168 employees, newly-created, freshmenconnections and communirespectively. specific course, College 105, cation between the student

Several Sumter intersections closed after reported hit and run

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Multiple blocks off of North Main Street and North Lafayette Drive were without power for several hours Thursday after a driver struck a utility pole about 2:30 a.m.

Sumter Police Department Public Information Officer Tonyia McGirt

said the incident was a hit-and-run.

She said officers may have located the suspect’s vehicle on Purdy Street later that day but had not identified the driver as of Thursday evening.

The police department sent out a traffic alert shortly after 6 a.m. listing all of the intersections on North Main Street and North Lafayette Drive that were without power.

The message also stated that the intersections would be closed for several hours while Duke Energy employees worked to restore power.

The closed intersections included: • North Main at Copeland Street; • North Lafayette at Copeland Street; • East Moore Street and North Lafayette Drive;

• West Moore Street and North Main; • Poulos Street and North Main Street; and • North Main Street and South Pike.

By early afternoon, most of the intersections had re-opened, but police officers continued to direct traffic at South and North Pike and North Main Street until about 4 p.m. when power was restored.

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POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Nicole Rogers, 25, of 78 Nash St., was arrested Wednesday and charged with accessory before the fact to a felony for allegedly providing transportation for two men involved in an assault. According to a news release from Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Rogers reportedly knew that the assault was planned and drove the men to and from the 4300 block of Starks Ferry Road where they allegedly assaulted a 33-year-old male victim.

Clinton Williams, 70, of 139 Brentwood Drive, was arrested Thursday and charged with second degree assault and battery for reportedly cutting a 54-year-old man with a knife while in the 1800 block of River Birch Drive on Wednesday. The victim was treated at Palmetto Health Tuomey Hospital and released.

Derick Cooper, 20, of 125 Highland Ave., was arrested Wednesday for reportedly slapping his live-in girlfriend in the face during an altercation at their residence. Approximately 1 gram of marijuana was allegedly found in Cooper’s pants pocket during a search. He is charged with third degree domestic violence and simple possession of marijuana, second offense.

Yolanda Duncan, 26, of 48 W. Red Bay Road, was arrested Wednesday for reportedly stabbing a man in the hand with a kitchen knife while at her residence. The victim was transported to Palmetto Health Tuomey for treatment.

The man told law enforcement that for unknown reasons, Duncan became “very angry” and stabbed him through his left hand. According to the incident report, Duncan was allegedly intoxicated when officers arrived. She is charged with second degree assault and battery.

DAMAGED PROPERTY The doors of buildings at 19 and 25 W. Liberty Street sustained damage with a combined value of $1,000 during attempted burglaries that reportedly took place between noon Tuesday and 8:15 a.m.

Wednesday.

STOLEN PROPERTY Approximately $1,500 worth of copper wiring was reportedly torn out of the walls at a residence in the 200 block of West Fulton Street between 1 p.m.

Tuesday and 1 p.m. Wednesday. About $1,000 worth of damage was caused to four walls inside the structure.

MOX facility vital to nuke agreement wants to sue the U.S. Department of Energy for the agency’s failure to meet completion deadlines.

Because MOX isn’t operating, by law the federal government was supposed to remove 1 metric ton of plutonium from South Carolina by Jan. 1 or pay $1 million a day for “economic and impact assistance” — up to $100 million yearly — until either the facility meets production goals or the plutonium is taken elsewhere for storage or disposal.

Haley warned Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in December that the state would be forced to sue if his agency didn’t start making payments. A clause in the law, however, makes the fine “subject to the availability of appropriations.”

South Carolina did sue the Obama administration in 2014 after officials said they wanted to shutter MOX, citing cost overruns and delays. In that lawsuit, the state said the federal government had made a commitment to South Carolina and legally couldn’t use money intended to build the plant to shut it down.

The state ultimately dropped the suit when the administration committed to funding the project through that fiscal year.

But the administration has since said it’s searching for an alternate, less expensive way to dispose of the plutonium, like immobilizing it in glass or processing it in different kinds of reactors.

COLUMBIA (AP) — Finishing a South Carolina plutonium reprocessing project is critical to keeping up the U.S. end of a critical nonproliferation deal with Russia, one of the federal lawmakers instrumental in the agreement said Thursday after touring the facility that’s still under construction.

“This facility here in South Carolina is about 70 percent completed, and it’s absolutely vital to the safety of the United States of America, as well as the rest of the world, that we complete it,” former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, told The Associated Press.

Not finishing it, Lugar warned, “gives the Russians an opportunity really to back out of the project.”

Lugar spoke with AP after touring the mixed-oxide facility at the Savannah River Site. The program known as MOX is intended to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel to fulfill a deal with Russia on which Lugar’s work was instrumental.

Under the agreement, Russia and the U.S. agreed to dispose of at least 34 metric tons apiece of weapons-grade plutonium, enough material for about 17,000 nuclear warheads.

MOX would turn it into commercial nuclear reactor fuel.

But the project is years behind schedule and billions over its original budget. Last week, Gov. Nikki Haley told South Carolina’s attorney general that she

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Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, hopes to test a technique that will use the DNA of three people, one man and two women, to create embryos in the quest to prevent mothers from passing debilitating genetic diseases to their babies.

Setting parameters on creating embryos with 3 people’s DNA

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON — It’s ethical to test a provocative new fertility technique that would prevent mothers from passing on rare but devastating diseases by creating embryos from the DNA of three people — dad, mom and an egg donor — advisers to the government said Wednesday.

But don’t expect studies to begin anytime soon. It’s not clear that such research can overcome political hurdles.

At issue is a kind of DNA that children can inherit only from their mother: genes that are inside the mitochondria, the energy factories in cells.

Britain last year became the first country to approve creation of embryos that swap a mother’s defective mitochondrial DNA with healthy genetic material from a donor egg.

The Food and Drug Administration has been considering whether to allow that replacement technique to be tested in the U.S. But it’s controversial, in part because such alterations could be passed to future generations.

In a report requested by the FDA, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday that it is ethi-

cal to do such research if initial experiments follow certain strict safety steps.

They must target women at high risk of passing on a severe disease, and in the first attempts at pregnancy researchers should implant only male embryos. That’s because when they grow up, those men couldn’t pass on mitochondrial alterations to their own children.

Such research won’t happen this year.

While the FDA said it would be “carefully reviewing the report and recommendations,” it noted that when Congress passed the agency’s 2016 budget, it prohibited using any of the money to review applications involving inheritable genetic modification of embryos.

Jeffrey Kahn, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University who led the Institute of Medicine panel, said, “It is ethically acceptable to go forward, but go slowly and with great caution.”

“Mitochondrial DNA disease can be extremely devastating, and for the women who are at risk of passing it on to their children, they have no other option by which to pursue having a child that’s genetically related to them,” he said.

GREIFSWALD, Germany — Scientists in Germany flipped the switch Wednesday on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power.

After nine years of construction and testing, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald injected a tiny amount of hydrogen into a doughnutshaped device — then zapped it with the equivalent of 6,000 microwave ovens.

The resulting super-hot gas, known as plasma, lasted just a fraction of a second before cooling down again, long enough for scientists to confidently declare the start of their experiment a success.

“Everything went well today,” said Robert Wolf, a senior scientist involved with the project. “With a system as complex as this, you have, to make sure everything works perfectly and there’s always a risk.”

Among the difficulties is how to cool the complex arrangement of magnets required to keep the plasma floating inside the device, Wolf said.

Scientists looked closely at the hiccups experienced during the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland more than five years ago to avoid similar mistakes, he said.

The experiment in Greifswald is part of a world-wide effort to harness nuclear fusion, a process in which atoms join at extremely high temperatures and release large amounts of energy that’s similar to what

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Advocates acknowledge that the technology is probably many decades away, but argue that — once achieved — it could replace fossil fuels and conventional nuclear fission reactors.

Construction has already begun in southern France on ITER, a huge international research reactor that uses a strong electric current to trap plasma inside a doughnutshaped device long enough for fusion to take place. The device, known as a tokamak, was conceived by Soviet physicists in the 1950s and is considered fairly easy to build but extremely difficult to operate.

The team in Greifswald, a port city on Germany’s Baltic coast, is focused on a rival technology invented by the American physicist Lyman Spitzer in 1950. Called a stellarator, the device has the same doughnut shape as a tokamak but uses a complicated system of magnetic coils instead of a current to achieve the same result.

The Greifswald device should be able to keep plasma in place for much longer than a tokamak, said Thomas Klinger, who heads the project.

“The stellarator is much calmer,” he said in a telephone interview ahead of the start.

“It’s far harder to build but easier to operate.”

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Officials say ‘no credible threat’ to Super Bowl 50

BY JANIE McCAULEY and PAUL ELIAS The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — NFL security leaders and top law enforcement officials say there is “no credible threat” to Super Bowl 50.

Jeffrey Miller, NFL senior vice president of security, planned to walk the perimeter of Levi’s Stadium again Wednesday, and he estimates it’s approximately three to four miles around the facility in Santa Clara where Sunday’s Super Bowl will be played between Carolina and Denver.

Miller said he is satisfied with the collaborative effort between local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to handle any possible issues, including terrorism of any kind.

“It gives the NFL a great deal of confidence in the safety of our premiere event, our teams and our fans,” Miller said at a news conference Wednesday. “I can speak for Commissioner (Roger) Goodell in saying that we are deeply appreciative of the leadership, resources and attention to detail put forth by our public safety partners.”

Officials have learned from recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.

“Every year is different.

The world situation, the threat picture is different every February,” said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. “We are, with the NFL, with our fed-

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San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, left, talks with FBI Special Agent in Charge David Johnson before a news conference on security for Super Bowl activities Wednesday in San Francisco. The Denver Broncos will play the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. eral partners and state and local law enforcement, focused on layered security, seen and unseen. We learned from events of the past, but we have to protect against events of the future.

So, we try to anticipate things that can happen from multiple different directions. But we’re always informed by recent events and what we see in the world situation.”

Johnson said intelligence has picked up no troubling signals so far.

Miller said drones are banned in the vicinity of the $1.3 billion, 2-year-old

“At this time, we know of no credible threat directed at Super Bowl 50,” Johnson said.

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There will be no largescale public viewing spot in downtown San Francisco, unlike the way the city offered such opportunities for the baseball San Francisco Giants’ World Series championship runs in 2010, ’12 and ’14.

The FBI opened a multiagency command post last week about six miles from Levi’s Stadium that will be continuously staffed through Sunday. Still, authorities are calling on the public to notify officials if they see anything out of the ordinary or suspicious.

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Bill requires police to get judge’s OK to withhold video COLUMBIA (AP) — Law enforcement agencies in South Carolina would need a judge’s permission to withhold dashcam video under legislation intended to prevent police from indefinitely blocking the public’s ability to scrutinize an officer’s action.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Larry Martin said Thursday his bill could inject confidence in a police decision.

At present, if a public records request is denied, the only recourse for a family or news organization is to sue. But that’s too expensive to be a real option in many cases, said Martin, R-Pickens.

“I just want to add a step” to existing

DOT FROM PAGE A1 Restructuring the commission has been a major priority for many members of the General Assembly in both houses who have complained about unequal apportionment of transportation dollars. Many, including McElveen, have said they would not support increased

RAIN FROM PAGE A1 from 11 to 16 mph out of the north and maybe some gusts up to 20.”

He said it will become mostly sunny by Friday afternoon with temperatures dropping to about 29 degrees Friday night.

Saturday will be mostly sunny, he said, with another trough tracking out of the deep southeast pulling the

son requesting the video could still sue for its release.

While dashcam video is often released upon request, Martin said, when it isn’t, the rationale is questionable.

“I’ve seen these things denied, and they don’t even cite” a legal reason, he said.

Without naming the case, he pointed to one public records request that is more than a year old.

Last year, The Aiken Standard newspaper and The Associated Press sued S.C. State Law Enforcement Division for its refusal to release dashcam video in the case of a North Augusta officer

law, he said. “The idea is to give another set of eyes, an impartial third party to decide whether a request to get the information out should be denied.”

Law enforcement agencies can avoid taking disciplinary actions against officers by refusing to release dashcam video, said Bill Rogers, executive director of the South Carolina Press Association, which is backing the bill.

Under the proposal, law enforcement agencies wanting to deny a Freedom of Information Act request would need a circuit court judge to agree that releasing the video would be harmful. If the judge agrees, the per-

funding for roads without a restructuring of the commission.

In the legislation, the Santee-Lynches Regional Council of Governments, which includes Sumter, Clarendon, Lee and Kershaw counties, would become a transportation district.

Also included in the bill is a requirement that at least two commissioners reside in

awaiting trial on a charge of firing into a vehicle after a police chase.

Officer Justin Craven tried to pull 68-year-old Ernest Satterwhite over for drunken driving, then followed him with blue lights to his home after Satterwhite refused to stop in February 2014, authorities said. When Satterwhite stopped in his driveway, Craven ran up to his car and fired several shots through the closed door, telling deputies later that Satterwhite tried to grab his gun, according to a report from Edgefield County deputies who joined the chase after it crossed the county line.

disappointed with the pace roads legislation is moving through the Senate.

“It’s being slow-walked,” he said.

He said the legislation “still

counties with a population of 100,000 or less and at least two commissioners reside in counties with a population greater than 100,000.

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has a ways to go,” and he is eager for roads legislation to get to the Senate floor.

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Jackson’s best years on ‘From Motown to Off the Wall’

BY KEVIN M C DONOUGH Music takes center stage in Spike Lee’s biography “Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall” (9 p.m., Showtime, TV-14).

Too much has been made of Jackson as a celebrity, an oddity, a victim and a tragedy. As the title implies, “Journey” focuses on Jackson’s remarkable growth from the age of 9 to roughly 19, as well as his outsized talent, thirst for inspiration and awe-inspiring work ethic.

Motown founder Berry Gordy remembers hours in the sound studio mixing and producing records with 9-year-old Jackson beside him, soaking up knowledge and experience. In an archival clip, Sammy Davis Jr. recalls watching the young performer imitating one of his dance moves, making it his own and making it better after seeing it only once.

Elsewhere, Jackson is seen chatting with dancers Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, acting like a fan but also like a student on the verge of becoming a peer.

Contemporary figures including Lee Daniels, The Weeknd, Pharrell Williams, Kobe Bryant, Misty Copeland, Mark Ronson, John Legend, Questlove and L.A. Reid explain how they were simply staggered by Jackson and how his 1979 album “Off the Wall” influences pop music to this day.

The last third of the film takes a track-by-track approach to “Off the Wall,” a recording where Jackson presented himself as an adult artist breaking out of his child star persona and transcending the music industry’s racial pigeonholing. A dance record from the tail end of the disco era that also features slow ballads, “Off the Wall” was produced by Quincy Jones, best known for his work in jazz. It has gone on to sell more than 30 million copies and ranks among the great pop albums of all time.

This film is rather wise and affectionate to stop before “Thriller” and the tabloid excesses that followed.

It includes a wealth of clips and performances from 1969 to 1979, from “American

Bandstand” and “Soul Train” to a great clip of “Omega Man”-era Charlton Heston introducing Jackson at the 1973 Academy Awards, wondering if the 14-year-old was up “after his bedtime.” Jackson was there to sing the theme song to “Ben.” • Fans of precious, if neurotic, New Yorkers might check out “Animals” (11:30 p.m., HBO, TV-MA), a cartoon about rats, horses and pigeons making mumblecore-style small talk that runs the emotional gamut from self-doubt to selfloathing. Since the animation takes a backseat to all the nervous chatter, “Animals” might be better appreciated as an audio podcast by those inclined to enjoy it at all.

• Chris O’Donnell narrates “Super Bowl’s Greatest Halftime Shows” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG). In addition to clips from performances past, the special presents new interviews with halftime performers Beyonce (2013), Bono (2002), Bruno Mars (2014), Paul McCartney (2005) and Katy Perry (2015).

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A CEO seeks off-road traction on “Undercover Boss” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG).

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

By Alex S. Vratsanos

ACROSS 1 San Francisco section 6 Hailing place?

10 One growing up fast?

14 Laura Petrie catchphrase 15 Will's role in "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches on "SNL" 16 Cultural opening?

17 Slip 'N Slide maker 18 Singer Halliwell 19 __ time 20 National alternative 22 Playground threat 24 Word with guilt or debt 27 Symbol of strength 28 Those, in Tijuana 29 Tennessee team, briefly 31 Unveiling 35 It's doublehyphenated: Abbr.

36 South Asian garment 37 Helical pasta 38 Border area, which contains a hint to solving this puzzle's 12 border answers 41 Get back

42 Foot on a farm 43 Fleur-de-__ 44 Search casually, as for a bar pickup 45 Marathon prep run 46 Found (on) 47 Toon with an odd laugh 49 Author Allende 51 Big wind 54 "Doggone it!"

55 General Bradley 56 Rao's competitor 58 Richard __, Pulitzer-winning author of "Empire Falls" 62 Ranch neckwear 63 Old players, briefly 64 Root of the Progressive Era 65 Hightail it 66 Site of Cornwallis' surrender 67 City on New York's Black River DOWN 1 Cattle-raising district 2 He lost to RMN 3 Nest egg letters 4 Migrants 5 Like stars 6 Witches 7 Miss modifier?

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36 Tricks of the trade 37 Annual award recipient 39 Pitcher?

40 Simba, to Sarabi 45 Company founded in Beaumont 46 Scott of "NCIS: New Orleans" 48 "Neato!"

50 Common fastener 51 Historic Omaha suburb 52 Crazily 53 Munro pen name 54 Corn cover 57 Canine warning 59 Canine command 60 Seagoing pronoun 61 Drama set in Grover's Corner

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COMMENTARY

Abusing the term ‘establishment’

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he reigning idiocy of the political season is the incessant tossing around of “establishment,” an epithet now descending into meaninglessness. Its most recent abuse is

by Donald Trump supporters rationalizing his Iowa defeat with the following consolation: If you tally up Charles Trump and Krauthammer Ted Cruz (and throw in Ben Carson), a whopping 60 percent of the vote is anti-establishment.

So what? The threat to the GOP posed by the Trump insurgency is not that he’s antiestablishment. It’s that he’s not conservative. Trump winning the nomination would convulse the Republican Party, fracture the conservative movement and undermine the GOP’s identity and role as the country’s conservative party.

There’s nothing wrong with challenging the so-called establishment. Parties, like other institutions, can grow fat and soft and corrupt. If by establishment you mean the careerists, the lobbyists and the sold-out cynics, a good poke, even a major purge, is well-deserved.

That’s not the problem with Trump. The problem is his, shall we say, eclectic populism. Cruz may be anti-establishment, but he’s a principled conservative, while Trump has no coherent political philosophy, no core beliefs, at all. Trump offers barstool eruptions and whatever contradictory “idea” pops into his head at the time, such as “humane” mass deportation, followed by mass amnesty when the immigrants are returned to the United States.

That’s the reason his harebrained ideas — barring all Muslims from entering the country, a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods, governmentprovided universal health care through “a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people” (why didn’t I think of that?) — have received such relatively little scrutiny.

No one takes them seriously.

His actual platform is all persona — the wonders that will emanate from his own selfproclaimed strength, toughness, brilliance, money, his very hugeness.

Trump’s is faith-based politics of the Latin American caudillo variety. “At the Palin rally,” reports John McCormack of The Weekly Standard, “Trump promised he would localize education.

‘How?’ shouted one man in the crowd. ‘Just you watch,’ Trump replied.” Meaning: I have no idea. Just trust me.

Cruz does not lack for selfconfidence. And he constantly wraps himself in anti-establishment rhetoric. He reasonably calculates that his hardedged conservatism sells best when presented not as pristine ideology but as a revolt against entrenched interests.

To imagine, however, that his railing against “the Washington cartel” makes him a Trumpian brother-in-arms is

‘The Iowa results clarified the dynamic of the Republican race. There are only three candidates in the race ...’ to mistake tactics for strategy, style for substance. To be sure, it’s a misperception Cruz himself encouraged throughout 2015 as he drafted in Trump’s wake. But that’s yesterday’s story. It’s been over for weeks.

The story since January is of a bromance blown up, clearing away the anti-establishment veneer and allowing their fundamental political differences to finally emerge: • Over Trump’s “New York values.”

• Over government power.

Cruz’s most biting commercial showed Trump enlisting government to tear down the home of a little old lady standing in the way of a casino parking lot.

• Over ethanol, which Cruz opposed on classic small-government grounds that the state should not be picking winners and losers, and which Trump supported because “it happens to be a lot of jobs for Iowa.”

The Iowa results clarified the dynamic of the Republican race. There are only three candidates in the race, and, as I argued last week, each represents a different set of politics. The result is a three-way fight between Trump’s personalized strongman populism and two flavors of conservatism — Marco Rubio’s more mainstream version and Cruz’s more uncompromising take-no-prisoners version.

We can now read the Iowa results as they affect the Republican future. Trumpian populism got 24 percent, conservatism (Rubio plus Cruz) got 51 percent. There will be a spirited contest between the two conservatives about who has the better chance of winning the general election and of governing effectively.

But whatever the piques and preferences of various “establishment” party leaders, there’s no denying that either Rubio or Cruz would retain the GOP’s fundamental ideological identity. Trump would not.

Getting thumped in Iowa does not mean that Trump is done. He’s on favorable ground in New Hampshire and leads in practically every other state. But he’s in for a long fight.

What Iowa confirms is that whatever beating the “establishment” takes during this campaign, Republicans are choosing conservatism over Trumpian populism by 2 to 1.

Which means their chances of survival as the party of Reagan are very good.

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

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Iowa reminds us to have faith in voters

BY DEBRA J. SAUNDERS

COMMENTARY

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tarnish the GOP brand.

Having come in at sixth place — behind Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who bowed out Wednesday — Bush seems out of gas.

It’s inexcusable for a candidate and the super PAC that supports him to have spent some $60 million without making Iowa’s top tier.

It’s time for him to start planning his exit strategy.

Kasich and Christie both put their money in New Hampshire. Only one governor can make it out alive, but neither has been able to break through.

One factor, I think, is that Kasich and Christie keep talking about themselves and their political pasts, while Rubio looks forward and spoke of his political future. As he told his supporters Monday night, “We can either be greater than we’ve ever been, or we can be a great nation in decline.”

Cable news channels have been obsessed with Trump’s ability to draw crowds and ratings. Trump showed style in his concession speech, but he must know now that he has to offer more substance to come in first. Letting voters fill in the blanks on your position can take you only so far.

Cruz understood the Iowa base, where voters weren’t looking for a candidate with whom they could kick back a brew.

The lone ideologue act won’t work in the national league. The GOP senator who has failed to win the endorsement of a single fel-

owa was like a rainstorm that cleared away some of the nasty pollution clogging the air. Those last 10 polls that predicted Donald Trump would finish in first place?

Wrong.

The conventional wisdom about a high turnout sealing the deal for Trump proved — repeat — wrong. I am not a fan of the winner, Ted Cruz, but I appreciate how he used Trump’s decision to skip the last debate to puncture the billionaire’s balloon.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years of column writing, it’s to have faith in voters. Sometimes they see something in a candidate I don’t see.

Sometimes there is a gulf between what they tell pollsters and what they do in the voting booth. The closer the election, the more sober the assessment.

While I am in the Anybody-but-Trump-or-Cruz camp, I have to believe that if either Trump or Cruz wins the GOP nod, it will be because he became a more viable candidate.

If neither wins the nomination (as I anticipate), it will be because GOP voters saw a brighter light — probably in Marco Rubio. The Florida senator’s third-place showing — which also beat the polls — has sent a signal to supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Here is your chance to nominate someone who won’t

low Republican senator will have to learn to make friends, or fall behind.

Since Trump threw his hat into the ring, the election has been about Trump and Not Trump — which meant less scrutiny of the Democratic primary, which is now down to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Clinton has years of experience, which in her case means years of sowing distrust. She voted for the Iraq war, before she ran against it.

Taylor Gipple, a young questioner at a CNN town hall, summed up Clinton’s challenge when he told her, “I’ve heard from quite a few people my age that think you’re dishonest.” Really, kid, it’s not just people your age who think that.

As for Sanders, he is the Cruz of the left. A democratic socialist with no Democratic senator’s endorsement, and no history of passing legislation with his own personal stamp.

People say Cruz is extreme; Sanders actually thinks it would help low-skilled workers and the U.S. economy to more than double the national minimum wage.

Republicans know they’ve got a healthy chance of getting rid of both of their general election nightmares.

Democrats have no such luck.

Debra J. Saunders is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Email her at dsaunders@sfchronicle.com. © 2016, The Washington Post Writers Group

WHO REPRESENTS YOU SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 Naomi D. Sanders 5605 Borden Road Rembert, SC 29128 (803) 499-3947 (home) DISTRICT 2 Artie Baker 3680 Bakersfield Lane Dalzell, SC 29040 803-469-3638 (home) DISTRICT 3 James Byrd Jr. 13 E. Canal St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 468-1719 (mobile) (803) 778-0796 (office) (803) 436-2108 (Fax) jbyrd@sumtercountysc.org DISTRICT 4 Charles T. Edens 760 Henderson St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 775-0044 (home) (803) 236-5759 (mobile) DISTRICT 5 Vivian Fleming-McGhaney 9770 Lynches River Road Lynchburg, SC 29080 (803) 437-2797 (home) (803) 495-3247 (office) DISTRICT 6 James T. McCain Jr. 317 W. Bartlette St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-2353 (home) (803) 607-2777 (mobile)

WARD 5 Robert Galiano 608 Antlers Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 469-0005 bgaliano@sumter-sc.com SUMTER CITY COUNCIL WARD 6 David Merchant MAYOR 26 Paisley Park Joseph T. McElveen Jr. Sumter, SC 29150 20 Buford St. (803) 773-1086 Sumter, SC 29150 dmerchant@sumter-sc.com (803) 773-0382 jmcelveen@sumter-sc.com STATE LAWMAKERS WARD 1 Thomas J. Lowery Rep. Grady Brown, 829 Legare St. D-Bishopville Sumter, SC 29150 District 50 (803) 773-9298 420 S. Main St. tlowery@sumter-sc.com Bishopville, SC 29010 (803) 484-6832 (home) WARD 2 (803) 734-2934 (Columbia) Ione Dwyer P.O. Box 1492 Rep. Joe Neal, D-Hopkins Sumter, SC 29151 District 70 (803) 481-4284 P.O. Box 5 idwyer@sumter-sc.com Hopkins, SC 29061 WARD 3 (803) 776-0353 (home) Calvin K. Hastie Sr. (803) 734-9142 (fax) 810 S. Main St. (803) 734-2804 (Columbia) Sumter, SC 29150 jn@schouse.org (803) 774-7776 chastie@sumter-sc.com Rep. Dr. Robert L. Ridgeway III, D-Clarendon WARD 4 District 64 Colleen Yates 117 N. Brooks St. 437 W. Hampton Ave. Manning, SC 29102 Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 938-3087(home) (803) 773-3259 (803) 212-6929 (Columbia) cyates@sumter-sc.com DISTRICT 7 Eugene Baten P.O. Box 3193 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 773-0815 (home)

Rep. Murrell Smith Jr., R-Sumter District 67 P.O. Box 580 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 778-2471 (business) (803) 778-1643 (fax) (803) 734-3042 (Columbia) murrellsmith@schouse.gov Rep. J. David Weeks, D-Sumter District 51 2 Marlborough Court Sumter, SC 29154 (803) 775-5856 (business) (803) 734-3102 (Columbia) Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Darlington District 29 1216 Salem Road Hartsville, SC 29550 (843) 339-3000 (803) 212-6148 (Columbia) Sen. Kevin L. Johnson, D-Manning District 36 P.O. Box 156, Manning, 29102 (803) 435-8117 (home) (803) 212-6108 (Columbia) Sen. J. Thomas McElveen III, D-Sumter District 35 P. O. Box 57, Sumter, 29151 (803) 775-1263 (business (803) 212-6132 (Columbia)

NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Rep. Mick Mulvaney — 5th District 1207 Longworth HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-5501 531-A Oxford Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 327-1114 Rep. Jim Clyburn — 6th District 319 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-3315 1703 Gervais St. Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 799-1100 jclyburn@hr.house.gov Sen. Lindsey Graham 290 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-5972 Midlands Regional Office 508 Hampton Street, Suite 202 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 933-0112 (main) Sen. Tim Scott 167 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-6121 (202) 228-5143 (fax) 1301 Gervais St., Suite 825 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 771-6112 (803) 771-6455 (fax)

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AROUND TOWN updates, listen to the 24/7 The National Alliance on Menmessage line at (206) 376tal Illness of Sumter (NAMI) 5992. Transportation is prowill sponsor the Family to NAMI ofcourse Sumter sponsors familythe educavided within mileage Family education tion for course area. specifically families of individuals who have been The Sumter Stroke Support diagnosed with severe brain Group will meet at 6 p.m. on disorders (mental illness).

Thursday, Feb. 11, at the The free 12-week course will Alice Drive Baptist Church libegin on Sunday, Feb. 21, brary, corner of Loring Mill and will meet each Sunday Road and Wise Drive. There afternoon. Pre-registration will be Valentine treats. is required by Feb. 10. Call The Mary McLeod Bethune Fred Harmon at (803) 905Sumter Branch will meet at 5 5620 or (803) 491-4756. p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12, at The Shepherd’s Center, 24 the South Sumter Resource Council St., will offer public inCenter, Manning Avenue. formation sessions from 11 to Call Miranda Choice at (803) 11:50 a.m. on Thursdays as 469-0863. follows: Feb. 18, creating a “A Night to Remember” Valenliving will / hospice; and tine gala will be held at 5 March 3, COPD. Christina p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, at Blakley, registered nurse with Palmetto Health Tuom- Taw Caw Community Outreach Center, 1126 Granby ey, will speak.

Lane, Summerton.

Clarendon School District One The Sumter SPCA Valentine will conduct free vision, hearing, speech and developmental Dance will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, screenings as part of a child at the Elaine D. Korn Memofind effort to identify sturial Center, 1100 S. Guignard dents with special needs.

Screenings will be held from Drive. Music will be provided by The Recollections 9 a.m. to noon at the SumBand. Cost is $20 per person merton Early Childhood Center, 8 South St., Summer- (must be 21 years or older) and all proceeds benefit the ton, on the following ThursSPCA. Heavy hors d’oeuvres days: Feb. 11; March 10; will be served. Call (803) April 14; and May 12. Call 773-9292.

Sadie Williams at (803) 485The Annual Black History 2325, extension 116.

Month Parade, hosted by the AARP will offer free tax prepaMLK Riders of South Caroliration from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 na, will be held on Sunday, p.m. on Mondays and Feb. 14. The parade will Wednesdays through April begin at 1:30 p.m. at Riley 13 at the Shepherd’s Center of Sumter, 24 Council St. Ap- Ball Park and will end at plicants are advised to bring Barlette and Main Street.

There is no registration fee with them government-issued photo IDs, Social Secu- but a donation of $10 is rerity cards and / or Medicare quested. Churches, groups, clubs, schools, individuals cards for anyone in the are all welcome. Call Jacob household, last year’s tax Dennis Sr. at (803) 840-4784 forms, W-2 and / or 1099 or Harry Lesane at (803) 983forms, and power of attor5389. ney certification forms if The Sumter Combat Veterans they are filing for someone Group will meet at 10 a.m. on else. For more information, Friday, Feb. 19, at the South call Henry Dinkins at (803) HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafay499-4990 or Lula King at ette Drive. All area veterans (803) 316-0772. and active military are invitLincoln High School Class of 1964 will hold an informative ed. meeting regarding the class The Lincoln High School Preservation Alumni Association will reunion at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6, at Shoney’s. Call hold a dinner fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Frances Woods at (803) 773Feb. 19, at the Lincoln High 3804, Lillie Wilson at (803) School gymnasium, 26 Coun775-9088 or Bertha Willis at cil St. Cost is $8 per plate (803) 775-9660. and dinner will consist of The Campbell Soup friends grilled barbecue chicken or lunch group will celebrate fried fish, seasoned rice, their 24th anniversary at sweet pea, roll, dessert and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. a drink. Dine in or take out.

6, at Golden Corral.

Call James L. Green at (803) The Sumter Chapter of the Na968-4173. tional Federation of the Blind “Piano Music with a Feminine of South Carolina will meet Touch: Celebrating Women at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9, Composers in History” will be at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, held at noon on Friday, Feb. 125 W. Bartlette St. Lee and 19, at the USC Sumter NetLaura Colclough-James will tles Auditorium. Jane Luther speak. The 2016 king or Smith will lecture on and queen will be crowned for the Sumter Chapter. Contact perform pieces by eight 19th and 20th century female the chapter president, composers. Event is free and Debra Canty, at (803) 775open to the public. Refresh5792 or at debra.canty@ ments will be served. frontier.com. For all chapter

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Slow down EUGENIA LAST and doublecheck everything you do. Mistakes will be made if you are careless. Learn from past experiences and keep personal information a secret.

Impulsiveness will lead to injury or insult. Avoid arguments at all costs.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can make things happen if you take charge. Voice your opinion and make suggestions. Ask for favors and be willing to match what anyone else is willing to do. Show how competitive and determined you can be. Romance is encouraged.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t trust someone who is trying to sell you something. Put a halt on spending and place a greater emphasis on getting your personal and financial documents in order.

Check out your options and ways to lower your overhead.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Partnerships will make a difference to the way you move forward.

Travel plans or a program that will help you make personal improvements should be put into play. Live your life and do your best to share with someone you love.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Keep doing what you do until you reach your destination. Adapt to changes and show a willingness to get along with others. Arguments won’t solve problems, but cooperation will.

Rely on your ability to adapt and you will overcome any hurdle you face.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll win any challenge that comes your way. Use your intuition to maneuver your way through complex situations. Set your sights on having fun with family, friends or the ones you love. Update your image and you’ll receive

compliments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Carefully consider the situations you face.

Consider your options, but avoid conflict until you are in a position to fight back. Spend your time making personal changes that involve something you enjoy doing. Strive to be your best.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A past connection will help you get ahead. Call in favors or join forces with someone you know who can contribute to your goal. An organization you believe in will welcome your help and offer you something unexpected in return.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Proceed with caution. Too much of anything will end up setting you back emotionally, financially or physically. Slow down and consider the ups and downs of any situation before you take a leap of faith.

Stick close to home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You can handle anything and anyone.

Strive for perfection and put your skills and knowledge to the test.

Make personal changes that will give you a trendy new image. Love is on the rise, and a romantic promise is in your best interest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Check out your options and rely on past experiences and you will be able to make a move that will help you maintain what you have and avoid a run-in with someone who is looking for trouble. Don’t divulge private information.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Reestablish a relationship with someone you worked with in the past. Together you can turn an old idea into a new project. An emotional partnership will flourish if you make special plans to spend quality time with one another.

DAILY PLANNER

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Retirees busted for playing bridge BANGKOK (AP) — Add aging Western bridge players to the list of desperadoes in Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya, a sin city rife with prostitution, corruption and foreign and home-grown gangsters.

The bridge players, mostly British but also from Scandinavia, the Netherlands and elsewhere, were busted by a task force of soldiers, police and local officials as they played cards at eight tables in an apartment above a restaurant, police Col. Sukathat Pumpanmuang, superintendent of the Pattaya Police Station,

said Thursday. He said the law enforcement agents were acting on a tip that illegal gambling was taking place there.

Those arrested Wednesday afternoon — including an 84-year-old Dutch woman, according to the Pattaya One news website — were released on bail of 5,000 baht ($140) each in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Sukathat said they would not be charged with gambling but might be charged under a law limiting individuals to possession of 120 unregistered playing cards.

The officer said police didn’t

see money changing hands but seized as evidence computers, decks of cards and a book with results of the bridge games. He said most of the players were in their 60s or older.

The card players’ plight was eased after the president of the Contract Bridge League of Thailand, Chodchoy Sophonpanich — a civic activist who is a member of Thailand’s most prominent banking family — went to Pattaya on Thursday morning to advise police that bridge was treated under the law as a sport rather than gambling.

SPCA DOG OF THE WEEK Tinky Winky, a 3-month-old tan and white female Australian shepherd / lab mix, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. She loves to play with her siblings and enjoys being held and cuddled. Tinky Winky is a playful pup who would be a great new buddy for a family with children.

The SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit www.sumterscspca. com.

The Sumter SPCA Valentine Dance will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Elaine D. Korn Memorial Center, 1100 S. Guignard Drive. Music will be provided by The Recollections Band. Cost is $20 per person (must be 21 years or older) and all proceeds benefit the SPCA. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served. Call (803) 773-9292.

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All-Star pairing Crestwood’s Miller-McCray and Sumter’s Harris named to S.C. squad for Carolinas Classic

college softball

USCS aims for healthier season Lady Fire Ants coming off year plagued by injuries by justin driggers justin@theitem.com

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Crestwood High’s Shaquanda Miller- McCray (30) and Sumter High’s Jessica Harris (20) were chosen for the Carolinas All-Star Basketball Classic game that will be held on March 19 at Socastee High School. The event pits the top seniors from South Carolina against the top ones from North Carolina.

By Justin Driggers justin@theitem.com Even when she had just entered Crestwood High School, Shaquanda Miller-McCray had an early personal goal in mind.

“One of my friends told me she made the (Carolinas All-Star Basketball Classic) team,” Miller-McCray said. “After that, I wanted to make the team so badly -- that and the All-American team. I made it a goal of mine to at least get on one of those.”

Sumter High’s Jessica Harris had a similar moment last year.

“I didn’t really know much about it until last year when one of my very best friends was selected,” Harris said.

“After that, I wanted to be in it because it says you’re one of the best players in the state.”

Mission accomplished as both MillerMcCray and Harris were named to the South Carolina girls squad of the Carolinas Classic on Thursday.

The Classic will take place on March 19 at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach and feature two games -- girls and boys -- of all-star seniors from North Carolina and South Carolina competing against one another.

“I’m really excited for the opportunity,” Miller-McCray said. “I’m looking forward to going out there and competing against the best players in North Carolina and really just trying to (match up) with them.”

The 6-foot-3-inch center/forward has nearly averaged a triple-double this season -- 10 points, nine blocks and seven rebounds per game in helping guide the Lady Knights to a 16-3 overall mark and a 7-0 record in Region VI-3A. Even so, Miller-McCray admits she could have done more.

“I feel like it’s been an up-and-down season for me,” she said. “I don’t feel like I’ve improved from last year. I don’t want to nearly average a tripledouble; I want to average a triple-double. And that’s something I’m really going to work at the rest of the year.

“But to be chosen from all the good players in the state lets me know I’m

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usc women’s basketball

Coates’ big night lifts Gamecocks past UK

By PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — Alaina Coates had 27 points and 13 rebounds as No. 2 South Carolina overcame an injury to star Tiffany Mitchell to defeat No. 18 Kentucky 78-68 Thursday night and head to its showdown with top-ranked Connecticut at 22-0.

Coates had her fourth double-double in the past five games for the Gamecocks (10-0 Southeastern Conference), who needed every bit of it to hold off the Wildcats (15-6, 4-6) after Mitchell, the two-time defending SEC player of the year, crashed hardtop the floor in the second quarter.

Mitchell spent several minutes face down in obvious pain before being helped off the

Sean Rayford/The Associated Press

South Carolina center Alaina Coates, right, drives to the hoop against Kentucky forward Evelyn See usc, Page B2 Akhator during the Gamecocks’ 78-68 victory on Thursday in Columbia.

Adrienne Cataldo is entering her ninth season as the University of South Carolina Sumter softball head coach.

She’s likely hoping its nothing like her eighth.

Plagued by injuries and a few ineligibility problems, the 2015 Lady Fire Ants lost six players for a majority of the season, including a number of starters. cataldo The result was a 4-23 campaign that including a 0-14 mark in Region X of the National Junior College Athletic Association.

“It was just a combination of things,” Cataldo said. “We suffered some injuries, had a few players who entered the season injured that we didn’t know about and had a couple who were academically ineligible.

“We wound up having just 11 players on the team and trying to compete.”

The numbers are a little better this year with 15 on the roster heading into Saturday’s season-opening doubleheader in Florence. USCS will face Gordon College at 1 p.m. and Florence-Darlington Tech at 3 p.m. Today’s scheduled doubleheader against the same two squads was cancelled.

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pro football

Cam, Kuechly aside, Panthers full of veterans

By ROB MAADDI The Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Carolina Panthers are older than you think.

Cam Newton and Luke Kuechly, the team’s cornerstone players, are young and still on the rise.

But the surrounding cast is a bit older and the roster is filled with veterans. The Panthers had the NFL’s secondoldest team to start the season with an average age of 26.9.

Six of Carolina’s starters are at least 30 years old. That doesn’t count injured 34-yearold cornerback Charles Tillman and 31-year-old nickelback Cortland Finnegan.

The wise, old vets are making sure younger guys don’t take this Super Bowl appearance for granted because there’s no guarantee they’ll be here again.

“I look at this like it’s my only opportunity,” defensive end Charles Johnson said.

“You see guys retiring like crazy. You get one chance and one chance only.”

Johnson, who turns 30 in July, has spent his entire nineyear career in Carolina. He’s

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WH’s Cunningham hits game-winning 3 to sink Cyclones Betsy Cunningham hit a game-winning 3-pointer as time expired to give Wilson Hall a 54-53 victory over Porter-Gaud on Wednesday at Nash Student Center.

Cunningham finished with 16 points to lead the Lady Barons followed by Catherine Kelley with 13 points.

Wilson Hall is now 13-8 on the season and travels to Orangeburg Prep on Tuesday.

PORTER-GAUD Kemp 14, Allen 3, Cochralle 21, Faith 9, Grant 4.

WILSON HALL Cunningham 16, Kelley 13, Fisher 7, Clark 6, Stokes 5, Goodson 4, Hutson 3.

MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL Scott’s Branch 34 Spaulding 4 SUMMERTON -- Jazlynn Bowman and Teja Madison each scored 13 points to help lead Scott’s Branch Middle School to a 34-4 victory over Spaulding in a first-round playoff game at the SBMS gymnasium on Thursday.

Cambria Parker added eight points for Scott’s Branch, who will travel to Lee Central Middle School on Saturday for a 12:30 p.m. game.

BOYS MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL Manning 45 Mayewood 33 MANNING -- Xavier Hicks finished with 19 points to help power Manning Junior High School past Mayewood 45-33 on Thursday and into the Sumter Middle School Conference championship game on Feb. 11 at Sumter High.

Zephan Richardson added 15 points for the Monarchs.

Lee Central 50 East Clarendon 8

TURBEVILLE -- Lee Central Middle improved to 13-0 with a 50-8 Upper Pee Dee Conference playoff win over East Clarendon on Thursday at the EC gymnasium.

Daveon Thomas scored 19 points to lead the Stallions.

Nykelius Johnson and Javontae Price each grabbed 10 rebounds.

LCHS will face C.E. Murray in the semifinals.

VARSITY BASKETBALL Porter-Gaud 69 Wilson Hall 45 Wilson Hall fell to 12-8 with a 69-45 loss to PorterGaud on Wednesday at Nash Student Center.

Drew Talley led the Barons with 21 points.

Aaron Nesmith and Eric Jackson both had 15 points to lead P-G. Josiah James added 13.

PORTER-GAUD Nesmith 15, Jackson 15, James 13, Nicklas 2, McCravy 4, Barry 2, Nutley 6, Shannon 5, Lanford 6.

WILSON HALL Talley 21, Watford 7, Epps 2, Carraway 9, Bruce 1, Schwartz 5.

JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL Sumter JV/B Team tourney Saturday The final day of the Sumter JV/B Team Invitational boys tournament will be held on Saturday at the Sumter High School gymnasiums.

JV Consolation Bracket 10:30 a.m. Main Gym (5) Manning vs. (8) Crestwood 10:30 a.m. Auxiliary Gym (6) Lower Richland vs. (7) Lakewood 2:15 p.m. Auxiliary Gym Consolation Championship Gamet

JV Championship Bracket 1 p.m. Main Big Gym (1) Sumter vs. (4) Lee Central 1 p.m. Auxiliaryl Gym (2) Richland Northeast vs. (3) Westwood 3:30 p.m. Main Gym Championship Game

B Team Bracket 11:45 a.m. Auxiliary Gym (2) Sumter vs. (3) Westwood 11:45 a.m. Main Gym (1) Ridge View vs. (4) Lower Richland 2:15 Main Gym Championship Game

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Vanderbilt upsets No. 8 Texas A&M NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jeff Roberson scored a career-high 20 points to help Vanderbilt upset No. 8 Texas A&M 77-60 on Thursday night for the Commodores’ first win over a ranked team in four years.

Vanderbilt (13-9, 5-4 SEC) had lost its previous 13 games against ranked opponents, including six this season. The Commodores last win over a ranked opponent was in 2012 when it upset No. 1 Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference tournament final.

Pistons 111 Knicks 105

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Anthony Tolliver and Reggie Jackson made a trio of big 3-pointers late in the fourth quarter, and the Detroit Pistons avoided a colossal collapse, beating the New York Knicks 111-105 on Thursday night.

The Knicks rallied from a

27-point second-quarter deficit, finally taking a 97-95 lead on a layup by Robin Lopez. Tolliver’s 3-pointer put the Pistons back ahead, and Jackson added another to make it 101-97.

Three share lead at Phoenix Open SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Rickie Fowler, Shane Lowry and Hideki Matsuyama shared the lead at 6-under 65 on Thursday in the suspended first round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

After an hour-long frost delay at chilly TPC Scottsdale, Fowler played the first six holes in 5 under.

Lowry birdied seven of his first 13 holes, then bogeyed the next two. Matsuyama was in one of the last groups to finish before play was stopped because of darkness.

Anirban Lahiri was a stroke back at 66, and Bryce

Molder also was 5 under with two holes left when play was suspended.

Ko catches up to lead before rain hits LPGA OCALA, Fla. — Lydia Ko played enough golf Thursday to catch up to the lead, but not enough to finish the rain-delayed second round of the Coates Golf Championship.

Ko was 4-under par for the round and had a 15-foot birdie putt on the ninth hole at Golden Ocala when the horn sounded to stop play because of thunderstorms in the area. Ko, the No. 1 player in women’s golf making her 2016 debut, was 7 under for the tournament. She was tied with Ha Na Jang, who opened with a 65 and was not scheduled to tee off until Thursday afternoon.

The forecast was for rain the rest of the day.

From wire reports

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Wednesday’s Games

TODAY 5:30 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Dubai Desert Classic Second Round from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (GOLF).

11 a.m. – Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour Allianz Championship First Round from Boca Raton, Fla. (GOLF).

2:20 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Werder Bremen vs. Borussia Monchengladbach (FOX SPORTS 2).

3 p.m. – PGA Golf: Phoenix Open Second Round from Scottsdale, Ariz.

(GOLF).

3:25 p.m. – International Soccer: Portuguese League Match – Benfica vs.

Belenenses (UNIVISION).

5 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Quinnipiac at Siena (ESPNU).

5 p.m. – College Basketball: Columbia at Yale (FOX SPORTS 1).

5:45 p.m. – Girls and Boys High School Basketball: Blythewood at Lugoff-Elgin (WPUB-FM 102.7).

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

7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Indiana at Atlanta (ESPN).

7 p.m. – College Basketball: Harvard at Princeton (ESPNU).

7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Miami at Charlotte (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

7 p.m. – Women’s College Gymnastics: Florida at Georgia (SEC NETWORK).

8 p.m. – College Basketball: Central Michigan at Akron (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Providence at Xavier (FOX SPORTS 1).

8 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Carolina at Winnipeg (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

8 p.m. – LPGA Golf: Coates Golf Championship Second Round from Ocala, Fla. (GOLF).

8 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Veracruz vs. Queretaro (UNIVISION).

8:30 p.m. – Women’s College Gymnastics: Arkansas at Louisiana State (SEC NETWORK).

9 p.m. – College Volleyball: CaliforniaSanta Barbara at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

9 p.m. – College Basketball: St. Peter’s at Siena (ESPNU).

9:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Dallas at San Antonio (ESPN).

10:30 p.m. – International Soccer: United States vs. Canada from Carson, Calif. (FOX SPORTS 1, UNIVISION).

11 p.m. – High School Basketball: St. Joseph at Lone Peak (ESPNU).

3 a.m. – Professional Baseball: Australian Baseball League Championship Series Game Two (MLB NETWORK).

4 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Dubai Desert Classic Third Round from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (GOLF).

prep schedule TODAY Varsity Basketball Carolina Forest at Sumter, 6 p.m.

Crestwood at Lakewood, 6 p.m.

Manning at Marlboro County, 6 p.m.

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

Scott’s Branch at C.E. Murray, 6:30 p.m.

Varsity and JV Basketball Laurence Manning at Orangeburg Prep, 4 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Calhoun Academy, 4 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Patrick Henry, 4 p.m.

Sumter Christian at Emmanuel Christian (No JV Girls), 4 p.m.

SATURDAY Varsity and JV Basketball Thomas Sumter at Northwood, 2 p.m.

B Team Basketball Thomas Sumter at Calhoun Academy, 10 a.m.

NFL Playoffs

By The Associated Press

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9

Kansas City 30, Houston 0 Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16

Sunday, Jan. 10

Seattle 10, Minnesota 9 Green Bay 35, Washington 18

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16

New England 27, Kansas City 20 Arizona 26, Green Bay 20, OT

Sunday, Jan. 17

Carolina 31, Seattle 24 Denver 23, Pittsburgh 16

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC

Denver 20, New England 18

NFC

Carolina 49, Arizona 15

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Irvin 49, Team Rice 27

Super Bowl At Santa Clara, Calif.

Denver vs. Carolina, 6:30 p.m. (CBS)

NBA Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE

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From Page B1 court. She returned to the bench in the third quarter with what the team said was a lower back bruise.

Makayla Epps scored 17 points, all in the second half, for Kentucky, which had lost four of five games.

A’ja Wilson had 18 points for South Carolina.

As time ran out, fans began to chant “We want UConn.” Be careful, what you wish for. The three-time defending NCAA champions ended South Carolina’s 22-0 start and reign at No. 1 a year ago in blowout fashion, 87-62. The Huskies, behind Breanna Stewart, look even stronger this season — and the job will get even tougher with an injured Mitchell.

The Gamecocks won their 45th straight home game.

Kentucky cut an 11-point

deficit to 68-66 on Taylor Murray’s 3-pointer with 2:36 left. But Coates finished off a three-point play on the next series to push the Gamecocks forward once more. Coates had her 12th double-double this season and the 34th of her career.

South Carolina entered trying to stay perfect for a second straight year heading to its showdown against three-time defending NCAA champion No. 1 Connecticut here Monday night.

Instead, the Gamecocks may have lost the engine that drives them in Mitchell, the two-time defending SEC player of the year who had to be helped off the court in the second quarter after crashing to the floor on a driving layup against two Kentucky defenders.

Mitchell spent several minutes face down on the court, appearing to be in significant pain before getting

help to head to the locker room.

Taking down the powerhouse Huskies would become much more difficult minus Mitchell.

The Gamecocks were already without senior starter Asia Dozier, who injured her right hand in beating Texas A&M last Sunday night.

Still, South Carolina pushed past Kentucky with a 15-9 burst to close the second quarter and take a 35-30 lead into the break.

Epps, the SEC’s second leading scorer, was held without a point in the opening two quarters. But she turned that around after halftime, making eight straight baskets in the Wildcats comeback.

UP NEXT South Carolina plays host to No. 1 Connecticut on Monday night.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

San Antonio Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans Northwest Division

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota Pacific Division

Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

Thursday’s Games

New York at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Houston at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 9:30 p.m.

Toronto at Portland, 10 p.m.

NHL Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 50 30 15 5 65 140 110 Tampa Bay 50 28 18 4 60 133 118 Detroit 50 25 17 8 58 123 127 Boston 50 26 18 6 58 150 135 Ottawa 51 23 22 6 52 144 161 Montreal 52 24 24 4 52 140 142 Buffalo 51 21 26 4 46 118 138 Toronto 49 18 22 9 45 118 137 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 48 35 9 4 74 160 109 N.Y. Rangers 50 27 18 5 59 144 132 N.Y. Islanders 48 26 16 6 58 135 121 Pittsburgh 49 25 17 7 57 127 125 New Jersey 51 26 20 5 57 117 120 Carolina 52 23 21 8 54 124 139 Philadelphia 48 22 18 8 52 113 129 Columbus 52 19 28 5 43 134 168

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 54 34 16 4 72 149 123 Dallas 51 32 14 5 69 167 136 St. Louis 53 29 16 8 66 130 128 Colorado 53 27 23 3 57 144 144 Nashville 51 24 19 8 56 129 132 Minnesota 50 23 18 9 55 124 120 Winnipeg 50 22 25 3 47 129 145 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 50 31 16 3 65 135 115 San Jose 49 26 19 4 56 144 132 Anaheim 48 23 18 7 53 104 113 Arizona 50 24 21 5 53 133 152 Vancouver 50 20 19 11 51 122 139 Calgary 49 22 24 3 47 130 147 Edmonton 51 20 26 5 45 127 150 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games

Buffalo 4, Montreal 2 Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 1 Calgary 4, Carolina 1

Thursday’s Games

Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Chicago at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Columbus at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

Men’s College Scores

wednesday

By The Associated Press

EAST

Albany (NY) 79, UMBC 73 American U. 69, Bucknell 55 Army 84, Lafayette 81, OT Boston U. 83, Navy 72 Caldwell 67, Nyack 64 Chestnut Hill 65, Georgian Court 64 George Washington 79, Davidson 69 Illinois 110, Rutgers 101, 3OT Lehigh 71, Loyola (Md.) 66 Mass.-Lowell 85, Hartford 83 Montclair St. 76, William Paterson 74 Post (Conn.) 70, Felician 59 Seton Hall 79, Marquette 62 St. Bonaventure 83, Saint Joseph’s 73 St. Joseph’s (LI) 75, Old Westbury 51 St. Rose 79, LeMoyne 66 Stockton 71, Rutgers-Camden 50 Stony Brook 76, Binghamton 51 Susquehanna 74, Juniata 71 VCU 88, La Salle 70 Vermont 85, Maine 68 Villanova 83, Creighton 58

SOUTH

Barton 96, Mount Olive 92, OT Bethany (WV) 95, Thomas More 89, 2OT Charlotte 92, NC A&T 72 Coastal Carolina 69, Presbyterian 66 Columbus St. 88, Clayton St. 86 E. Mennonite 74, Shenandoah 73 Erskine 68, Emmanuel (Ga.) 67 Florida 87, Arkansas 83 Gardner-Webb 79, High Point 74 George Mason 78, Richmond 74 King (Tenn.) 87, Lees-McRae 62 Limestone 64, North Greenville 52 Lincoln Memorial 88, Brevard 55 Livingstone 108, Virginia Union 103, OT Longwood 80, Campbell 79 Lynchburg 79, Hampden-Sydney 72 Miami 79, Notre Dame 70 Milligan 63, Bluefield 57 Roanoke 64, Guilford 62 Tenn. Wesleyan 90, Point (Ga.) 79 UNC Asheville 63, Charleston So. 55 Virginia 61, Boston College 47

MIDWEST

Sunday, Feb. 7

Atlantic Division

Toronto Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Southeast Division

Atlanta Miami Charlotte Washington Orlando Central Division

Cleveland Chicago Indiana Detroit Milwaukee

Atlanta 124, Philadelphia 86 Charlotte 106, Cleveland 97 Indiana 114, Brooklyn 100 Boston 102, Detroit 95 Oklahoma City 117, Orlando 114 Golden State 134, Washington 121 San Antonio 110, New Orleans 97 Miami 93, Dallas 90 Utah 85, Denver 81 Chicago 107, Sacramento 102 Minnesota 108, L.A. Clippers 102

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Albion 67, Calvin 66 Alma 68, Adrian 63 Aquinas 72, Lawrence Tech 71 Augsburg 83, Hamline 73 Baker 94, Evangel 73 Beloit 86, Illinois College 71 Cornerstone 94, Siena Heights 53 Davenport 97, Michigan-Dearborn 55 Hope 94, Olivet 58 Illinois St. 78, Loyola of Chicago 70 Iowa 73, Penn St. 49 Kansas 77, Kansas St. 59 Lakeland 87, Edgewood 83 Madonna 78, Northwestern Ohio 68 Maryland 70, Nebraska 65 Mississippi 76, Missouri 73 St. Norbert 62, Lawrence 59 St. Olaf 71, Bethel (Minn.) 65 St. Thomas (Minn.) 87, Gustavus 72 Trine 78, Kalamazoo 66 Viterbo 77, Silver Lake 55 W. Illinois 83, Nebraska-Omaha 76 Xavier 90, St. John’s 83

SOUTHWEST

Texas Tech 63, Oklahoma St. 61, OT

FAR WEST

Arizona 79, Washington St. 64 CS Northridge 73, UC Riverside 71 San Jose St. 65, Fresno St. 53 UC Irvine 78, Cal Poly 72, OT Washington 95, Arizona St. 83, OT

Golf

By The Associated Press Coates Championship Par Scores Thursday At Golden Ocala Golf Club Ocala, Fla. Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,541; Par: 72 Partial Second Round Play was suspended by bad weather Haru Nomura Austin Ernst Julie Yang Amy Yang Brianna Do Charley Hull Caroline Masson Tiffany Joh Daniela Iacobelli Min Lee

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‘Keep pounding’ has become a way of life

By STEVE REED The Associated Press

keep pounding.

Mills talked about how he could have given up on fightSAN JOSE, Calif. — “Keep ing in the face of terminal pounding.” cancer, but refused.

The words have become Ricky Proehl, a Panthers synonymous with the NFC wide receiver at the time, said champion Carolina Panthers. the speech was so powerful They’re on the walls of the that men were weeping. stadium’s weight room, on the “Just keep pounding — tunnel leading to the field and that’s where it all started,” even stitched into the collar Proehl said. “Keep pounding, of every Panthers jersey. don’t quit. No matter what “It’s a way of life around the situation or the odds are here,” said Panthers assistant just keep pounding.” defensive line coach Sam Said former Panthers quarMills III. terback Jake Delhomme: “EvMills’ father Sam, a Panerybody had goose bumps. It thers linebacker from 1995-97 gave you chills. The speech, it and then an assistant coach, was much bigger than footuttered the phrase “keep ball — it was about life. It was pounding” at a downtown like something out of a HollyCharlotte hotel on Jan. 2, 2004, wood movie.” the night before the Panthers Added Proehl: “Unbelievstarted a run to their first able. The hair on the back of Super Bowl. It has been beyour neck stood up.” come the team’s rallying call.

Mills was one of Carolina’s Mills, the team’s linebacker toughest players. coach at the time, was dying When Mills revealed he had of intestinal cancer when he intestinal cancer in the sumgathered players together in a mer of 2003, it sent shockmeeting room before they waves throughout the organiwould beat the Dallas Cowzation. Mills continued to boys in a wild-card playoff coach the Panthers and far exgame. ceeded the three months docThere, Mills delivered an tors had given him to live. He emotional message akin to died on April 18, 2005, at 45.

Jim Valvano’s “Don’t Give The speech, his son said, Up” speech, say those in atwas years in the making. tendance. There were no miHis father never gave up. crophones on hand to record An undrafted rookie out of the words, no TV cameras to Montclair State, Mills tried capture the moment. But the time and time again to make message was clear: No matter a career out of football but how hard things get, no matnobody would sign him. He ter how bleak things look — went to work as a high school

teacher, but kept working out in his free time chasing a dream.

Eventually he got a tryout with the USFL’s Baltimore/ Philadelphia Stars and quickly became one of the team’s best players under coach Jim Mora. When Mora joined the New Orleans Saints in 1986, he took Mills with him. Mills became the team’s rock at middle linebacker and would become a four-time All-Pro. The Panthers continue to keep Mills’ legacy alive.

There is a statue of him outside of the team’s downtown Charlotte stadium.

Before every home game, someone is selected to bang a giant black drum on the field with the words “keep pounding” on it.

Stephen Curry has hit it. So has 8-year-old cancer survivor Braylon Beam.

Nobody on the current roster played with or was coached by Mills. Yet, rookies and new free agents all know his story. They’re told of his legacy by longtime employees like equipment manager Jackie Miles, head athletic trainer Ryan Vermillion or Proehl, now the team’s wide receivers coach.

Ask anyone, they know the story.

“Regardless of the things that are going on in your life on the football field or off, you never give up — you just keep pounding,” fullback Mike Tolbert said.

“Staying healthy is the main thing, but I feel like if we do that, we’ll be able to have a much better year overall and in the conference,” Cataldo said.

It will mainly be a new group that takes the field for USC Sumter this season with five sophomores and eight freshmen suiting up. The Lady Fire Ants will be without three of their top four run producers and their top starting pitcher from last year.

Rebecca Prosser led USCS with four homers, 13 runs batted in and a .359 batting average. Former East Clarendon High standout Kaitlin Alexander was third on the team with 12 RBI to go along with a .292 average.

Alexander also pitched 822/3 innings for USC Sumter, including seven complete games.

She finished with a 5.00 earned run average while striking out 55 and walking 27.

Cataldo hopes to replace Alexander with not one, but three pitchers. Charley Prince tossed 33 innings last season for USCS and she will join a 3-pitcher rotation that includes freshman Alex Walker and Emily Hendrix.

Hendrix played catcher for Sumter last season because of all the injuries the team suffered.

“She’s working on getting back into pitching form,” Cataldo said of Hendrix. “But we really have the utmost confidence in all three of our pitchers and we think it’s going to be a good rotation for us. Who starts and who relieves will depend on matchups, who needs rest and who’s throwing better.”

Remembering the issues surrounding the team last year with injuries, USC Sumter’s lineup will be much more versatile. Kristen Lowery, Emily Nevels, Brittany Evans and Marisol Ayelén Ríos Lecaros will all likely see time behind the plate and contribute in the lineup or off the

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been through the tough times such as the 2-14 season in 2010.

“You don’t know what you go through until you get to a point like this,” he said. “This is what all the hard work is for. Those guys like Star Lotulelei and Kuechly are used to winning division championships, but it makes you humble going through a season winning only two games and it makes you focus on the task at hand.”

Safety Roman Harper already won a Super Bowl with the 2009 New Orleans Saints, who beat Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts.

The 33-year-old Harper, who has the grayest hair on the team, has stressed to teammates that simply getting here isn’t good enough.

“Being on top of that mountain, it’s tough to get there,” Harper said. “We just have to put it together and finish. It doesn’t do us any good to come this far and cut it short.

We have to complete it.”

The Panthers surprised everyone going from 7-8-1 to 15-1. Newton and Kuechly are star players, but many fans are just getting to know the rest of the team.

“We’ve kind of crashed the party,” coach Ron Rivera said.

“We’re kind of new to the scene.”

Newton, Kuechly, Lotulelei, Kawann Short and Shaq Thompson are core players who were drafted in the first or second round. Each player is 26 years old or younger.

Josh Norman (28) had a breakout year in his fifth season. Of the six, only Newton plays offense.

The Panthers added several older players who were castoffs from other teams. Defensive end Jared Allen was acquired from Chicago in October.

Safety Kurt Coleman bounced around the league before coming to Carolina and having his best season.

Left tackle Michael Oher was signed after Tennessee released him. Wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. returned for his second stint with the team after Arizona cut him.

“You don’t get here every year,” Coleman said. “This is something that you have to enjoy. Enjoy this process, but while you’re here, understand that it is a business trip, and it’s only good if you win.”

Then there’s linebacker Thomas Davis, who turns 33 next month. Davis already has overcome three torn ACLs. Last week, he had sur-

gery after breaking his arm in the NFC championship game win over Arizona.

Nothing will keep Davis from playing against Denver on Sunday. He knows it could be his last chance to win a Super Bowl.

“Without a doubt, I will be there playing,” Davis said. “I know I’m getting up there in age and years, but I’m really enjoying the moment right now.”

Feb. 6 vs. Gordon College at Florence, 1 p.m. vs. Florence Darlington Tech College at Florence, 3 p.m.

Feb. 12 at Columbia College (DH), 2 p.m.

Feb. 13 at Surry Community College (DH), 3 p.m.

Feb. 14 at Surry Community College (DH), Noon Feb. 20 vs. Humber College (DH), 11 a.m.

March 5 vs. Queensborough CC at Myrtle Beach (DH), Noon March 9 at Santa Fe Community College (DH), 2 p.m.

March 10 at FSC – Jacksonville, TBA March 25 vs. Spartanburg Methodist College (DH), 1 p.m.

March 26 at Spartanburg Methodist College (DH), Noon March 31 vs. USC Salkehatchie (DH), 3 p.m.

April 2 at Louisburg College (DH), 4 p.m.

April 3 at Louisburg College (DH), 11 a.m.

April 6 at USC Salkehatchie (DH), 3 p.m.

April 16 vs. Pitt Community College, TBA April 17 vs. Pitt Community College, TBA April 22-24 Region X Tournament at Spartanburg, TBA

bench, Cataldo said.

They’ll be joined by newcomers Heidi Matthews and Bailee Watts at second and shortstop, respectively, Both can also play the outfield.

Kara McKnight is another freshmen who will play in the outfield along with returnees Kendal Winge and Taylor Carter. Winge was injured last season while Carter batted .213 in 61 at-bats.

USCS also get back third baseman Taylor Benson, who batted .243 with 10 runs driven in.

“We’re not a power-hitting team, but we are going to be able to use our speed a little more,” Cataldo said. “We have some left-handed hitters, so we’ll look to steal some bases and get some base hits, some hit-and-runs, and really try to manufacture runs that way this year.”

ALL-STAR ROSTERS S.C. GIRLS ROSTER

Name School Position Lauren Harley Blythewood Guard Shayla Bennett Christ Church Guard Shaquanda Miller-McCray Crestwood Center/Forward Jhieleya Dunlap Dreher Center/Forward Brooke Jordan-Brown Riverside Forward/Center Kionna Jeter Spartanburg Point Guard/Guard Christian Hithe Spring Valley Guard/Forward Jessica Harris Sumter Point Guard/Shooting Guard Justice Gee Timmonsville Guard Asiah Jones Woodmont Forward/Center

S.C. BOYS ROSTER

Name School Position Eli Lake Blythewood Shooting Guard Frankie Johnson Darlington Point Guard Chris Ross Goose Creek Guard Ian Kinard Gray Collegiate Ac. Forward Ladarius Williams Laurens Center/Forward Daniel Carr Midland Valley Point Guard Brevin Galloway Seneca Shooting Guard Jordan Bruner Spring Valley Forward/Center Preston Parks Wade Hampton Guard Cartier Diarra West Florence Point Guard/Shooting Guard

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Carolina linebackers coach Sam Mills leaves the field after a 2003 Panthers game against Washington in Charlotte. The Panthers motto is everywhere, on stadium walls, plaques and even the team jerseys: “Keep Pounding.” The advice comes from Mills, a Panthers linebacker who died of intestinal cancer and is honored with a statue outside the team’s stadium.

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still doing something right.”

Harris has been an equally big force for the Lady Gamecocks, who are 18-4 and 7-0 in Region VI-4A play. The 5-foot5-inch guard has averaged a little over 16 points, 4.2 steals and 5.9 assists per game this season.

Since region play began, those numbers have increased to 21 points, seven assists and six steals per contest.

“Knowing this is my last year, I really wanted to go into region and the playoffs and try to finish as strong as I can,” Harris said.

She also wanted to finish strong at the basket this year and worked on her shot in the offseason, she said.

“Being a smaller guard, I can get to the paint, but I needed a better shot than last year,” Harris said. “So I worked on that and my range and just trying to get the defense focused on me so I can pass it and help my teammates get an easy bucket.”

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Feb. 7 • 6:30 p.m. EST • CBS OFFENSE Total yards (avg.)

Total yards (avg.)

Regular season: 355.5 Regular season: 366.9 224.3 142.6 248.1 107.4 Passing Rushing Passing Rushing Postseason: 385.5 237.5

Postseason: 284.0 180.0 104.0 First downs Regular season: 314 85 Rushing

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201 Passing Penalty

DEFENSE Yards allowed (avg.)

Regular season: 322.9 88.4 234.5 Passing Rushing

Yards allowed (avg.)

Regular season: 283.1 199.6 83.6 Passing Rushing Postseason: 366.0 301.5

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Denver linebacker Brandon Marshall smiles during practice for Super Bowl 50 on Wednesday.

Points for 19.2 Points allowed

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Denver has talented group of LBs as well

By ARNIE STAPLETON The Associated Press

SOURCE: National Football League

AP

Broncos’ Smith preparing to play with heavy heart

By ARNIE STAPLETON The Associated Press

the news. But once inside, he relaxed.

“Right before I got out to SANTA CLARA, Calif. — At stretch I had a pretty hard first, Antonio Smith thought time, but football comes secabout running out of the team ond nature,” Smith said. hotel and catching the first “Sometimes I don’t even think flight home after his mother I need to practice football. But awakened him with news of I think it’s all part of the rehis father’s death following sponsibility, part of the role of heart surgery. being a leader and trying to “But I know I got a greater make your life mean somepurpose and a greater respon- thing more than just for you.” sibility here on this stage,” Smith, 34, is a 12-year NFL Smith said Thursday, a day veteran who joined the Bronafter that phone call shattered cos this season after his rethe joy of Super Bowl week for lease from the Oakland Raidhim. ers. He was a key member of Denver’s defensive end will the league’s top defense and play Sunday when the Broncos posted 2 1/2 sacks in the regutake on the Carolina Panthers. lar season and another in the It’s not so much to honor playoffs.

Marty Christopher Williams, “Man, ‘Tone, that was an 58, but to salute the way his fa- awesome pickup for us, just to ther lived his life even after add another veteran and his being sentenced to life in pris- leadership,” cornerback Chris on.

Harris Jr. said. “Guys love Williams had been incarcer- him and this is just something ated in Oklahoma since 1991 else to add motivation for this for a murder his family conteam, just go play for him, tends he didn’t commit. too.”

“I would definitely say he A leader in the locker room, was one of my biggest fans his cut-up personality is a key and he would have loved for component of the chemistry me to play as best as I could that helped Denver’s defense for the glory of the Lord in the rise to the top of the NFL this same way he lived his life,” season.

Smith said. “So, I would say Smith said he’ll play Super more of that.”

Bowl 50 with his usual infecHis heart heavy, Smith said tious enthusiasm, too. it “was kind of hard to focus “I definitely cannot hide on football” as the team buses that. It’s in my DNA. That’s followed police on motorcycles the way God made me,” Smith and a helicopter into Stanford said. “That’s just how I play.

Stadium for practice WednesI’m going to play with the day, a few hours after he heard same smile on my face.”

NFL now the way the offenses are. I mean, these two cats might be the fastest SANTA CLARA, Calif. — linebackers in the league. I The Super Bowl linebackers don’t know if the Panthers getting all the attention this have seen anyone faster week are Luke Kuechly and from sideline to sideline Thomas Davis. than Danny and Brandon.

This talented and tenaThose guys are moving.” cious twosome is the heart They’re tough, too. and soul of the Carolina Marshall played all season Panthers’ stingy defense. with a broken screw in his Kuechly is the first player at right foot which will have to his position with pick-6s in be removed after the Super back-to-back playoff games Bowl. He’ll also go for an and Davis is playing with a MRI to see if he needs surfractured forearm. gery on his right index finMuch respect, say the ger, which he used to poke Denver Broncos. the football from Kansas But, also, pshaw!

City’s Jamaal Charles’ grasp In their view, the best in Week 2, forcing the fumlinebackers in Super Bowl ble that Bradley Roby 50 are theirs. turned into a scoop-andVon Miller and DeMarcus score in the waning seconds.

Ware on the outside, Danny Trevathan has an appointTrevathan and Brandon ment with an oral surgeon Marshall on the inside. after the Super Bowl beBetween the edge rushers cause he’s been missing two pounding the passer and the molars for two months. He “No Fly Zone” secondary swallowed one and spat out locking down receivers, the other in a game at San Marshall and Trevathan col- Diego on Dec. 6 when an Olected a combined 234 tacklineman drove him into the les, three interceptions and ground in a pileup.

13 pass breakups while help“Didn’t have my mouthing Denver lead the league piece, didn’t have my chinin defense for the first time strap strapped and it came in franchise history. loose,” Trevathan said.

When starting safeties T.J. “Don’t do that anymore.”

Ward and Darian Stewart These are bumps and got hurt in the AFC champi- bruises compared to what onship game, Marshall and Marshall and Trevathan Trevathan found themselves went through last offseason. covering Patriots wide reTrevathan played in just ceivers on go routes. three games in 2014 because Successfully converting of a trio of injuries to his all that sideline-to-sideline left knee, which he fracspeed into vertical velocity tured in August and again kept Tom Brady from burn- in October before dislocating them deep — and gave ing it in December, requirthem an appreciation for ing surgery. their star-studded secondMarshall suffered a dreadary. ed Lisfranc ligament injury “I told Chris, ‘Now I know in his right foot late in the how it feels to be a corner,”’ season and underwent surMarshall said. “Because I gery in mid-March, too late was tired as hell after that for him to have the hardgame.” ware removed before the “They did a great job,” 2015 season. The titanium Harris said. “Having two in- screw broke during training side linebackers who can camp, however, causing excover, that’s crucial in the cruciating pain that he

feared would send him to injured reserve in August before it suddenly subsided.

Marshall and Trevathan were rehab partners when Wade Phillips arrived and changed Denver’s 4-3 defensive system to a 3-4 scheme that would put them on the field together when they got healthy.

“We worked hard together and it just made our bond stronger,” Trevathan said.

“We were pushing each other and both fighting to get back.”

And envisioning greatness.

“I just felt we had good chemistry,” Marshall said.

“I saw how hungry he was, how hungry I was and I just know from that, OK, we’re going to be great.”

Now, they’re preparing for the game of their lives — and maybe their last one together, too.

Trevathan is an unrestricted free agent in March and Marshall is a restricted free agent.

“Keeping us together would be gold,” Marshall said.

“This is the Gold Bowl,” Trevathan said. “I’m trying to make a name here. I know what it means for all of us. You got to cash in to cash out. It’s way in the back of my mind, but this is the biggest game of my life, so it’s all focused on this game. I know what I need to do to get to the next level, and playing my best in this (game) can help me get to the next level.

“I believe I could fit into any scheme. This game could make or break my contract. But, man, this is the Super Bowl. That’s all this is about, winning the game.”

So, Kuechly and Thomas can keep getting all the love; Marshall and Trevathan will take the Lombardi Trophy.

Broncos take a chance on hiring coach, and it pays off with Kubiak

By EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. — It’s hard to know who took the bigger risk.

Was it the team, the Denver Broncos, who were hiring a coach with recent health problems and a penchant for not maxing out talent?

Or was it the coach, Gary Kubiak, who signed on with a team that had just fired a coach with a winning record because he came short of the only goal that mattered — capturing the Super Bowl?

Turns out, it wasn’t such a risk.

The coach, hired by his loyal friend John Elway, changed his ways, in part kubiak because he couldn’t keep up the pace that caused him to have a mini-stroke while he was coaching the Houston Texans.

The team, now built on defense and nowhere near as dependent on Peyton Manning, is a win away from its first title in 17 years.

“The hot seat Gary stepped into was hotter than any seat in the league,” Elway said.

Elway said he recognized the coach Kubiak might be someday from the time they both joined the Broncos, after the 1983 draft. The two quarterbacks were roommates, who talked a lot of football in between the endless loop of “Andy Griffith” and “Gilligan’s Island” reruns on their TV. “Very bright, a very hard worker, a great offensive mind,” Elway said.

All that said, this was a hir-

ing that only made sense in Denver.

The Broncos had parted ways with John Fox, who went 49-22 and took the team to four straight playoff appearances, only to flop bigtime in season finales. Denver was outscored 150-66 in those four games.

Kubiak, meanwhile, could’ve been easily perceived as damaged goods. Not so much because of the health scare that marred the last of his eight seasons with the Texans — or even the 11-game losing streak in 2013 that led

to his dismissal.

There were just as many questions about 2011 and 2012, when Houston was loaded and started the season with Super Bowl expectations, but struggled at the end, losing three straight to close out 2011 and three of four in 2012, en route to early playoff exits.

“Did I think I would get another opportunity? I don’t know,” Kubiak said. “But I knew I loved the work.”

“I kind of ran myself into the ground a little bit,” Kubiak said.

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SEC Signing Day capsules ALABAMA Top 25 Class: Yes. Best in class: Ben Davis of Gordo, Alabama. The 10th-rated player nationally and top inside linebacker, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.

Best of the rest: Lyndell “Mack� Williams (enrolled), Jonah Wilson, Charles Baldwin; RB B.J. Emmons, DB Nigel Knott.

Late additions: Davis, Wilson, DB Shyheim Carter, Knott, DE Terrell Hall, Jamar King.

One that got away: OL Landon Dickerson (to Florida State).

How they’ll fit in: Davis, whose father Wayne is Alabama’s all-time leading tackler, and Wilson could help fill the void left by All-America middle linebacker Reggie Ragland.

ARKANSAS Top 25 Class: Yes Best in class: McTelvin Agim, DE, Hope (Ark.) Best of the rest: Devwah Whaley, RB, Beaumont, Texas; Austin Capps, DT, Star City, Ark.; Briston Guidry, DT, Metairie, La. One that got away: Running back Kyle Porter, who chose Texas.

How they’ll fit in: Agim was an early enrollee with the Razorbacks, and he hopes to play as a freshman. However, Whaley carries with him more than hope and is expected by himself and Arkansas’ coaches to take the field in place of Collins and Williams in 2016.

Best of the rest: Michail Carter, DL, Jackson, Ga.; Ben Cleveland, OL, Toccoa, Ga.; Chauncey Manac, OLB, Fargo, Ga.; Julian Rochester, DL, Powder Springs, Ga.; Javon Wims, WR, Miami.

Late addition: Hardman was a huge coup for the Bulldogs, giving them one of the nation’s top-25 prospects to go along with early enrollees Eason and Nauta. Hardman, who has been compared to Southern Cal cornerback Adoree Jackson, picked his home-state school over SEC rivals Tennessee and Alabama.

One that got away: DT Derrick Brown, the state’s top prospect, went with Auburn over Georgia and several other SEC schools. While Smart was pleased with the players he got on the defensive line, Brown would’ve made Georgia’s class truly special.

How they’ll fit in: Eason will compete for the starting quarterback job right away. The Bulldogs struggled mightily on offense last season, largely because of their struggles at the most visible position on the field.

sons. With three starters returning, players like Smith and Fulton will be able to contribute immediately in the nickel and dime packages.

under the gun to produce after replacing Gary Pinkel in early December. It’s not a wow class but it should help the school regain its footing in the SEC.

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SOUTH CAROLINA

Top 25 Class: Yes Best in class: Shea Patterson, QB, Shreveport, Louisiana.

Freeze said his opinion of Patterson continues to grow now that he’s on campus: “I love everything about that kid.�

Best of the rest: Greg Little, OL, Allen, Texas. The 326pound Little could be an immediate replacement for Tunsil at left tackle.

Late addition: A.J. Brown, WR, Starkville, Mississippi.

Ole Miss managed to coax Brown away from Starkville, which is the hometown of rival Mississippi State.

One that got away: Jeffery Simmons, DL, Macon, Mississippi. Ole Miss had hoped to bolster its defensive line with one of the Magnolia State’s top prospects, but Simmons chose Mississippi State over the Rebels and Alabama.

How they’ll fit in: Patterson will probably get a year of seasoning behind rising senior Chad Kelly, who threw for more than 4,000 yards last season. Others like Little, Brown and Jones could play right away.

Top 25 Class: No. Best in class: Brandon McIlwain, QB, Newton, Pennsylvania. He turned down firstround MLB money to go to college and is already scrimmaging with the Gamecocks baseball team.

Best of the rest: Bryan Edwards, WR, Conway, South Carolina; Jamarcus King, DB, Mobile, Alabama Late addition: WR Kiel Pollard of Moultrie, Georgia, was pledged to Arkansas before turning to the Gamecocks last week.

One that got away: DT Karamo Dioubate of Philadelphia.

Was considered a strong lean to South Carolina. No word yet on where he signed.

How they’ll fit in: McIlwain should get a chance to show if he can start. Edwards and Pollard will see early playing with receiver Pharoh Cooper off to the NFL. King is expected to bulk up the secondary.

could contribute as a passrushing complement to Derek Barnett, who has recorded 10 sacks each of the last two seasons. Tennessee replaces its two starting safeties from last season, so Warrior will have a chance to contribute right away.

TEXAS A&M Top 25 Class: Yes. Best in class: Kellen Diesch, OL, Trophy Club, Texas.

Best of the rest: Clyde Leflore-Chriss, WR, New Orleans.

Late addition: Clifford Chattman, S, New Orleans.

One that got away: Brandon Jones, S, Nacogdoches, Texas, who chose Texas.

How they’ll fit in: Coach Kevin Sumlin has long said that he doesn’t recruit players to sit on the sidelines, so expect to see many of these players fill big roles this season like freshmen WR Christian Kirk and DL Daylon Mack did in 2015.

VANDERBILT

Top 25 Class: No Best in class: JoeJuan Williams, a 6-foot-3 cornerback from Nashville, Tennessee, is a KENTUCKY consensus four-star recruit.

TENNESSEE Top 25 Class: No Williams was rated as the No. Top 25 Class: Yes Best in class: Landon Young, 2 prospect in the state of TenBest in class: Nigel Warrior OL, Lexington, Kentucky. nessee according to composite is rated as a five-star prospect Rated as a five-star prospect rankings of recruiting webby Scout, which had him as the sites by 247Sports. Williams alby at least two recruiting sernation’s No. 20 overall recruit. vices, the 6-foot-7, 305-pounder MISSISSIPPI STATE ready has enrolled at VanderTop 25 Class: No 247Sports and ESPN also had is considered the state’s top bilt.

Best in class: Jeffery Simhim in their top 100. He’s the player.

Best of the rest: QuarterBest of the rest: Jordan Grif- mons, DL, Macon, Mississippi. son of former Tennessee and back Deuce Wallace, a consenBest of the rest: Kobe Jones, NFL defensive back Dale Cart- sus three-star recruit, passed fin, DB, Jonesboro, Georgia. er. Jonathan Kongbo, who red- for 3,505 yards and 37 touchConsidering the Wildcats’ sec- DL, Starkville, Mississippi. shirted one year at Wyoming ondary started three freshmen Said Mullen: “We are looking downs last season while leadfor work ethic and high-charbefore transferring to Arizona ing Sevier County to the Tenlast season, the 6-foot, 175AUBURN acter young men and he fits Western College, is rated as the nessee Class 5A state champipound, four-star prospect Top 25 Class: Yes. that for us.� nation’s No. 1 overall juniorcould quickly become part of onship game.

Best in class: DT Derrick Late addition: Simmons. college prospect by 247Sports. the mix as well.

Late addition: Josiah Sa’o, a Brown, Sugar Hill, Georgia is One that got away: A.J. Kongbo has three years of eliLate addition: LB Jordan defensive tackle from San rated as the nation’s ninthBrown, WR, Starkville, Missis- gibility remaining.

Bonner. The JUCO transfer Diego, announced Wednesday best prospect overall in the sippi. The Bulldogs couldn’t Best of the rest: Tyler Byrd committed in December but he was signing with Vander247Sports composite rankings. made it official this week. He’ll grab an elite prospect at a high is rated as a top-100 recruit by bilt.

Best of the rest: DE Marlon school just a few miles from most recruiting services. Jarhave three years of eligibility One that got away: Bradlee Davidson, WR Nate Craig-My- remaining. their campus. Instead, he went rett Guarantano of Lodi, New Anae, a defensive end from ers, OL Prince Michael SamJersey, is rated among the na- Hawaii, selected Utah over One that got away: Kentucky to rival Ole Miss. mons.

How they’ll fit in: Simmons tion’s top five dual-threat had pursued DT Kobe Smith Vanderbilt. Anae was rated as Late addition: Derrick quarterbacks in his class. before the Lawrence, Georgia, and Jones are two guys who a three-star prospect by Rivals Brown, Nate Craig-Myers. could contribute immediately, Late additions: Warrior’s native chose South Carolina. and Scout.

One that got away: Auburn but Mullen has a reputation of morning announcement gave How they’ll fit in: Though it How they’ll fit in: Wallace recruited LB Ben Davis, who is takes time for linemen to debringing young players along Tennessee a good start to sign- adds immediate depth to a heading to Alabama. slowly. ing day. The addition of Byrd velop, Kentucky’s offensive quarterback position following How they’ll fit in: The Tigers line issues last season create a and Latrell Williams shows the transfer of Jonathan McMISSOURI will have a defensive line rota- chance for Young and 6-6, 310that Tennessee’s hire of forCrary, who lost his starting job Top 25 Class: No tion featuring five five-star re- pound Tate Leavitt to become mer Miami interim head coach to backup Kyle Shurmur last Best in class: Tre Williams, cruits. JUCO quarterback Larry Scott already may be part of the rotation. season.

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John Franklin III, an early enLSU Bridge. Four recruits are rollee listed as an athlete, will How they’ll fit in: Kongbo The Associated Press Top 25 Class: Yes among the St. Louis Post-Dislikely compete with Jeremy Best in class: Saivion Smith, patch top 30 list — TE BrenJohnson and Sean White for DB, St. Petersburg, Florida. dan Scales, P-K Tucker Mcthe starting spot during the Best of the rest: Rashard Cann, OL Tre’Vour Simms and spring.

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One that got away: Erick Late addition: QB Micah WilThe Gators needed to add Fowler, LB, Manor, Texas. son, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lincoln depth on the defensive front How they’ll fit in: The secChristian High One that got away: None. after losing talented linemen ondary has been an area of How they’ll fit in: Odom was Jonathan Bullard and Alex strength for LSU in recent seaMcAlister to the NFL draft.

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Best of the rest: Feleipe Franks, QB, Crawfordville.

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day morning to go with the Orange. The 6-foot, 185-pound Butler also plans to join the Syracuse track and field team.

One that got away: Threestar OG Stewart Reese of Fort Pierce Central High School in Florida. The 6-foot-6, 333pound Reese, rated the No. 19 offensive guard in the Class of 2016 by 247Sports.com’s composite rankings, opted for Mississippi State of the Southeast Conference on Monday. Syracuse, Reese’s other finalist, had visited him twice in the past three weeks in addition to hosting him on an official visit in mid-January.

How they’ll fit in: The big story for the Orange is how quickly Babers can install his offense and who he picks to lead it. Sophomore Eric Dungey, despite at least one concussion and several other hard hits to the head last fall, sucThe Associated Press ceeded Terrel Hunt after the Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher discusses the incoming class during a National Signing Day news senior starter’s college career conference on Wednesday in Tallahassee, Fla. ended with a torn Achilles in the season opener.

Fox, DE, Lawrenceville, GeorLate addition: Shevar Manu- the Cardinals’ defense. “He’s VIRGINIA gia. el, DT, Bradenton, Florida. very, very mature and he’s Top 25 Class: No. Late addition: DB Patrice Manuel had originally comgoing to give us a lot of leaderBest in class: Tre Harbison, Rene (Alexandria, Virginia) mitted to Florida but was waship,” Petrino said of Iakopo.

RB, Shelby, North Carolina. originally committed to Rutvering. Florida State remained One that got away: Rodjay CLEMSON gers but flipped to UNC in Jan- Ran for 5,770 yards and 100 in contact with Manuel and Burns, Louisville, Kentucky.

Top 25 Class: Yes. touchdowns in a high school convinced him to flip at the Ohio State lured Burns, a two- uary.

Best in class: Dexter LawOne that got away: WR Nate career that ended with backlast minute. way standout, away from his rence, DE, Wake Forest, North One that got away: Safety hometown in the final week. A Craig-Myers (Tampa, Florida) to-back state championships Carolina. Lawrence picked and a 32-0 record his last two chose Auburn over UNC on Jamel Cook was leaning tofinalist for Kentucky’s Mr. Clemson over Florida State, seasons.

Wednesday. ward Florida State but the Football, Burns had 14 touchFlorida, Georgia and Notre Best of the rest: Hasise DuHow they’ll fit in: After a deMiami native ended up going downs as a receiver and four Dame. bois, WR, Irvington, New Jerfensive turnaround last year to Southern California. interceptions on defense as a Best of the rest: Tavien sey. A 6-3 receiver who caught under coordinator Gene How they’ll fit in: With the high school senior.

Feaster, RB, Spartanburg, 97 passes for 1,976 yards and 26 signings, Florida State will How they’ll fit in: The Cardi- Chizik, the Tar Heels loaded South Carolina; Tre Lamar, touchdowns during his high up on defense with 16 signees have 18 offensive linemen on nals have seamlessly worked LB, Roswell, Georgia; Zerrick school career and had nine inscholarship when preseason in youngsters and transfers on — including seven defensive Cooper, QB, Jonesboro, Georterceptions as a defensive backs and four linebackers — practices begin August. Fisher defense without missing a gia; John Simpson, OL, North back. after losing seniors in the said that not only benefits the beat, so it wouldn’t be shockCharleston, South Carolina Late addition: Trysten Hill, offensive line in terms of ing if their newcomers became unit’s back seven.

Late addition: CB Isaiah Sim- building a rotation but should contributors right away. Pass DL, Lee, Florida.

NORTH CAROLINA STATE mons of Olanthe, Kansas, also help guys develop faster.

One that got away: Laderrimight be Louisville’s quarterTop 25 Class: No. was considering Michigan, Nean Wilson, RB, Kissimmee, back of the future, the same GEORGIA TECH Best in class: Thaddeus braska, Missouri and LouisFlorida (went to Maryland). thing that was said about Top 25 Class: No ville.

How they’ll fit in: MendenJackson and Reggie Bonnafon Moss, TE, Charlotte.

Best in class: Jordan Woods, before both emerged as startBest of the rest: Kelvin HarOne that got away: Defensive hall takes a unique approach mon, WR, Palmyra, New Jerend Rashan Gary of Paramus, DE, Citra, Florida. Woods to redshirting and want ing signal-callers. sey.

New Jersey. Gary, the nation’s picked Georgia Tech over FlorMIAMI ida, Tennessee and Miami.

Late addition: Harmon, origi- VIRGINIA TECH top prospect, had the Tigers Top 25 Class: No. Top 25 Class: No. Best of the rest: Parker nally a South Carolina recruit has one of his two finalists beBest in class: Sam Bruce, Best in class: Evans. He Braun, OL, Hallsview, Texas; who decommitted amid the fore choosing Michigan.

WR, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gamecocks’ coaching change threw for 395 yards per game Jay Jones, QB, McCalla, AlaHow they’ll fit in: Lawrence The 5-foot-8 star from longtime to Will Muschamp. with 38 touchdown passes and will bid for immediate playing bama; Xavier Gantt, RB, Bupowerhouse St. Thomas Aquijust three interceptions last ford, Georgia; Dedrick Mills, One that got away: Dexter time with linemen Shaq Lawnas High is considered to be a season, and has already enRB, Waycross, Georgia.

Lawrence, DT, Wake Forest, son and Kevin Dodd off to the rolled at Virginia Tech. A dualLate addition: CB Ajani Kerr slot receiver, but the Hurrisigned with Clemson.

NFL. Feaster has speed like canes see him getting to the threat, he also ran for more How they’ll fit in: Doeren former Tiger great C.J. Spiller, of Powder Springs, Georgia, outside as well. Bruce seemed says he’d like to redshirt all than 400 yards. also was considering Central Swinney says, and could be Best of the rest: Khalil Michigan and Kennesaw State, to be wavering on his commit- but about six players. Moss the home run hitter Clemson ment in recent weeks, but he Ladler, CB, Stone Mountain, among other schools. and Harmon seem to be exhas missed in recent years. was the one that Miami fans One that got away: Safety treme talents who should have Georgia. A four-star recruit DUKE did not want to see get away. who spent the past season reRomeo Finley of Niceville, a chance to play soon. Frazier Top 25 Class: On the bubble. Florida, listed Georgia Tech as “Very explosive player,” Richt should be strong enough to covering from a torn ACL. Best in class: Scott Bracey, Late addition: Eron Carter, his leader before making a late said. make a quick impact.

WR, Richmond, Virginia.

Best of the rest: Jack AlliLB, Palatka, Florida was being switch to Miami.

PITTSBURGH Best of the rest: Dylan Sinson, QB, Parrish, Florida and recruited heavily by the serHow they’ll fit in: Johnson Top 25 Class: On the bubble gleton, S, Lawrenceville, Geor- recruited for immediate help Shaquille Quarterman, LB, vice academies, Foster said, deBest in class: Damar Hamlin, scribing the 6-2, 230-pounder as gia; Mark Birmingham, TE, Orange Park, Florida. Allison at wide receiver. Stephen DolDB, Pittsburgh. Blazing fast Ashburn, Virginia; Brandon is the heir apparent to Brad “more of a thumper-type guy.” phus (6-5, 200) of Westside with what Narduzzi called Hill, LB, Orangeburg, South Kaaya as Miami’s starting One that got away: None.

High in Macon, Georgia, was “the best feet, hips and most Carolina. quarterback and jumped at How they’ll fit in: With compared to former Georgia Late addition: Chidi Okonya, Tech receiver Stephen Hill. the chance to enroll at what he athletic corners you can reFuente bringing what Hokies cruit.”

DL, Riverdale, Georgia. long considered his dream fans hope will be the highThe other receivers in the Best of the rest: DL Keyshon powered offense they have One that got away: Quarter- class are Jalen Camp of Cumschool. And Quarterman — Camp (Lakeland, Florida.), back Chazz Surratt, the AP of- ming, Georgia and Jair along with fellow mid-year long craved, the quarterback fensive player of the year in linebacker enrollees Zach Mc- chose Pitt after originally com- battle will be crucial to how Hawkins-Anderson of Sumitting to USC. RB George North Carolina, signed with Cloud and Michael Pinckney quickly they are able to meet wanee, Georgia.

Hill (Youngstown, Ohio). the rival North Carolina. He — gives Miami immediate those expectations. Evans and Late addition: Rashad Weav- Joshua Jackson join three had committed to Duke before LOUISVILLE depth at that position and Top 25 Class: No er, DL, Cooper City (Fla.) switching to UNC over the should be in contention for holdovers — Brenden Motley, Best in class: Jawon Pass, One that got away: RB Miles Dwayne Lawson and Chris summer. playing time in the fall.

QB, Columbus, Georgia. The Sanders (Woodland Hills) How they’ll fit in: Duke Late addition: Ahmmon Durkin, and so the winter, Cardinals bolstered one of signed with Penn State. brought in seven linemen — Richards, WR, Wellington, spring and summer will be How they’ll fit in: The beauty critical times. four offensive, three defensive their strengths with the 6-foot- Florida. He was a Miami comfor Narduzzi is he’s not quite — because Cutcliffe said those 4 U.S. Army-All America quar- mit before the Hurricanes sure. Though Whitehead made WAKE FOREST are the positions “you can’t get terback, who ranked as the na- fired Al Golden, and then reTop 25 Class: No. short in.” This class is marked tion’s 191st overall prospect by opened his process to the point an immediate impact at safety Best in class: Sulaiman KaScout. Pass may not supplant by its versatility — most playwhere some thought he would last year — he was named the mara, DT, Richmond, Virginia.

ACC Rookie of the Year after ers play multiple positions and sophomore Lamar Jackson, get away.

Best of the rest: Byrd; Taleni who became Louisville’s startleading Pitt with 99 tackles — on both offense and defense.

One that got away: Tyler Suhren, OT, Charlotte; Emer last season, but he joins his Byrd, CB, Naples, Florida. The but he also saw snaps on ofFLORIDA STATE brother Khane, a safety who fense, averaging 10 yards every manuel Walker, DE, Holly Hill, consensus four-star prospect Top 25 class: Yes South Carolina. signed last year. time he touched the ball. flipped his commitment to Best in class: Levonta Taylor, Late addition: None. All but Best of the rest: Dez Fitzpat- Tennessee — where former There are plenty of prospects CB, Virginia Beach, Virginia. rick, WR, Farmington Hills, who could get a shot at similar a few players have been comMiami interim coach Larry He was the consensus topmitted since last September.

Michigan. Fitzpatrick commit- Scott is now on staff — on double duty going forward. ranked cornerback prospect in ted to Louisville more than a One that got away: LB Riley Tuesday night. Byrd was conSYRACUSE the country and committed Cole, who decommitted late year ago, reconsidered this sidered someone who would Top 25 Class: No. early enough that he helped from Alabama and signed late winter before sticking with his have been a key performer in Best in class: Moe Neal, attract others to Florida State. original choice after an official 2016 for the Hurricanes. in the afternoon with South ATH, Gastonia, North CaroliHe also could end up as a kick visit last weekend. “He sure Alabama.

How they’ll fit in: There’s na. The 5-foot-10, 165-pound or punt returner. At 5-foot-10, How they’ll fit in: For Wake made us work hard,” Petrino clearly spots to fill, and Richt 175 pounds, Tyler lacks in size said of the recruitment. The Forest, the better question is didn’t get all of Miami’s needs Neal was the nation’s 43rdbut Fisher said he has a WHEN they’ll fit in. The Cardinals beat out Nebraska taken care of in his first class. ranked athlete in 247Sports. unique skill set, including Demon Deacons are at their and Indiana for the 6-2 receivBut there’s a slew of talent re- com’s composite rankings. He great ball skills. best when they’re patiently er ranked in the top 220 naturning, particularly on the of- scored 103 scores in high fensive side of the ball. school.

Best of the rest: Malik redshirting players and allowtionally by Rivals and Scout.

Best of the rest: DE Jaquwan ing them to develop. But durHenry, QB, Long Beach, CaliFitzpatrick is one of four reNORTH CAROLINA Nelson. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound ing the past few years, they fornia. Fisher usually has true ceivers signed.

Top 25 Class: Yes. Nelson is rated three stars and simply didn’t have enough freshmen run the scout team Late addition: London IakoBest in class: Kyree Campthe No. 54 weak-side defensive bodies to do that, a big reason but the 6-foot-3, 184-pound po, S, Long Beach (California) bell, DT, Woodbridge, Virginia. end in the Class of 2016 by Henry has enough athleticism City College. Iakopo is one of why they were one of the naBest of the rest: Chazz Sur247Sports. and is an early enrollee, mean- two four-star safeties in the tion’s most inexperienced ratt, QB, Denver, North CaroliLate addition: Devin Butler, ing he could challenge for the teams in 2015. class along with incoming na; Jay-Jay McCargo, OL, Alwho had previously committed starting spot during spring freshman P.J. Blue, and could exandria, Virginia; Tomon to Maryland, decided Wednes- The Associated Press practice. see early action at the back of Top 25 Class: No Best in class: QB Anthony Brown, from Holmdel, New Jersey, will need to come through for the Eagles if they are going to turn things around long-term. BC turned to fourth-string walk-on John Fadule after Darius Wade broke his ankle in Week 3; Jeff Smith picked up a concussion and missed a month.

Best of the rest: WR Kobay White of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was a three-time allstate selection.

Late addition: TE Korab Idrizi From Fort Lee, New Jersey, changed his mind after initially deciding on Rutgers.

Two that got away: After defensive coordinator Don Brown left BC for Michigan, DB/QB Da’vante Cross decommitted from the Eagles. Cross will play quarterback at Virginia instead.

How they’ll fit in: The five offensive linemen in the recruiting class — including Eastern Illinois transfer Jimmy Lowery — could help return BC to its roots as an incubator of NFL blockers.

OBITUARIES

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CLEVELAND P. MCBRIDE SR. Elder Cleveland P. McBride Sr., 91, entered into eternal rest on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016.

He was born on Sept. 13, 1924, in Clarendon County, to the late Charlie and Alice Amos McBride. He was married twice, first to the late Gertrude P. McBride and presently to Dorothy C. McBride.

A man of peace and comMCBRIDE passion was converted, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost in 1949. He served in the Church of God

by Faith Inc. in the South Carolina District as a deacon until 1962. He was ordained in 1968 as an elder. Later, he served as pastor at Churches of God by Faith in Summerton (1963-1969), Davis Station (1969-1983), associate elder at Sumter No. 1, and pastor of Church of God by Faith in Lynchburg (1983-2004). At the 2004 National Convention, he retired from the pastorate and served as pastor emeritus and associate pastor to his son, Elder Andre G. McBride, at the Church of God by Faith, Lynchburg.

He leaves to carry out his legacy: a loving and devoted wife, Evangelist Dorothy C. McBride; five sons, Charlie (Thelma), Eugene, Stephon (Barbara), Andre’ (Michelle) and Phares (Benita) McBride; a foster son, Clarence DuBose; three daughters, Normie Walcott, Patricia (Herman) Stukes and Katrinia (Levern) McFadden; daughter-in-law, Thelma B. McBride; two stepsons, the Rev. Johnnie (Joanna) Coe and Otis Coe Jr.; two stepdaughters, Mazone Everett and Alzone (Albert) Ratliff; 31 grandchildren; 23 greatgrandchildren; one greatgreat-grandchild; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Public viewing for Elder McBride will be held from 2:30 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

At the family’s request in lieu of flowers, please make donations to Church of God

by Faith Community Development Center.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Church God by Faith, 199 Clavon St., Lynchburg, with Elder Andre’ McBride, pastor, Pastor Gloria Bracey, Bishop C.L. Curry, Bishop James E. McKnight Jr., Elder Mack S. Wilson, Elder Horace N. Turner and Elder James Williams. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the home, 1060 Morris Way Drive, Sumter.

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

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

ARCHIE ANDERSON JR. Archie Anderson Jr., 73, husband of Mary James Anderson, died on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, at his home.

Born on May 8, 1942, in Lee County, he was a son of the late Archie Sr. and Maybell Butler Anderson.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 2660 Yank Haven Drive.

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

SAM LEWIS JR. Sam Lewis Jr., widower of Alice China Lewis, departed this earthly life on Feb. 1, 2016, in Sumter.

Born in Sumter County, he was a son of the late Sam Sr. and Rosa Pringle Lewis.

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Beulah AME Church, 3175 Florence Highway, Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Dwayne Bruce, eulogist, and Presiding Elder Robert L. McCants officiating. Interment will follow in Beulah AME Church cemetery.

Public viewing will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. today at Palmer Memorial Chapel, 304 S. Main St., Sumter.

Mr. Lewis will be placed in the church for further viewing at 10 a.m. until the hour

of service.

Mr. Lewis attended St. Luke AME Church as a young man and later became a member of Beulah AME Church, where he served faithfully for the remainder of his life. While at Beulah, he served in numerous roles and was bestowed the title of Holy Steward. He also served the Sumter community through his agricultural work, a passion he pursued and mastered.

Mr. Lewis was preceded in death by his beloved wife and parents; two children, Vermelle Lewis Britton and Sammy Lewis; two sons-inlaw, Vernell Britton and Aignathser Simon; three brothers, Andrew, John and Charles Lewis; and three sisters, Katie Stuckey, Helen Lewis and Blanche Burgess.

Those left to cherish precious memories are his children: two sons, John P. (Mary) Lewis of Sumter and Alonza C. (Dorothy) Lewis of Columbia; four daughters, Amelia D. Simon and Mary L. (Johnny) Cooke, both of Sumter, and Lois L. (Norman) Jenkins and Jean L. (Kenneth) Tisdale, both of Columbia; and two adopted daughters, Patricia M. (Tommy) Tate of Mascoutah, Illinois, and Bettie L. Samuel of Alexandria, Virginia. Also surviving are two brothers, James Lewis of Sumter and Woodrow T. (Effie) Lewis of Spartanburg; two sisters, Marie Wilson of Sumter and Rosa L. (George) Manigo of Bamberg; three sisters-inlaw, Eunice Lewis of Garner, North Carolina, Loretta Lewis and Margaret Wright of Sumter; 21 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; numerous nephews, nieces, cousins, and a host of friends.

Memorial donations may be made to Beulah AME Church Capital Improvement Fund and Alzheimer’s Association S.C. Chapter, 3223 Sunset Blvd., West Columbia, SC 29169.

Condolences may be made on their tribute page found at www.PalmerMemorialChapel.com Palmer Memorial Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.

DAVID A. CLEA David A. Clea, 39, departed this life on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey, surrounded by his family.

Born on June 9, 1976, in Sumter County, he was a son of Mattie Clea and the late David Wright. He was educated in the public schools of Sumter County. He attended Salem Baptist Church in his early years, where he served as an usher on the youth usher board. Later in life, he joined Bethany Baptist Church.

Precious memories of his life will be cherished by his mother, Mattie Clea; his companion of 15 years, Jessica Weary; three daughters, Ty’Asia Clea of Sumter, An’iya and Lailia Clea; a

stepson, Herbert Wells, all of the home; maternal grandfather, Frank Clea Sr. of Sumter; two maternal aunts, Theresa Ann McCray-Gathers (Robert) and Althea Mae Durant; two maternal uncles, David Thomas Clea and John Fitzgerald Clea of Sumter; one paternal uncle, Eric (Sonya) Conyers of Sumter; a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Bethany Missionary Baptist Church, 350 E. Red Bay Road, Sumter, with the Rev. Daryl F. McGhaney, pastor, eulogist.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1655 N. St. Paul Church Road, Sumter.

The remains will be placed in the church at 10 a.m.

The funeral procession will leave the home at 10:20 a.m.

Floral bearers will be family and friends.

Pallbearers will be friends.

Burial will be in High Hills AME Churchyard cemetery, Dalzell.

These services have been entrusted to the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com.

Visit us on the web at www.williamsfuneralhomeinc.com.

MARY LEE COKER Mary Lee Coker, widow of Sherrill Clyde Coker, died on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, at her home.

Services will be announced

by Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 775-9386.

OLA LEE WHACK On Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, Evangelist Ola Lee Brown Graham Whack, widow of Hoyt Graham and the Rev. Sam Willie Whack Sr., exchanged her rugged cross for her precious crown at McLeod Hospice House, Florence.

Born on June 9, 1933, in Florence, she was a daughter of the late Clayton and Letha Wilson Brown.

In memoriam services in commemoration will be held at noon on Saturday at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, 2571 Joseph LemonDingle Road, Jordan community of Manning, where the Rev. Sam Livingston Sr. serves as pastor. The eulogy will be delivered by Dr. Marion Newton. Interment will follow in McKenzie / Brown Cemetery in Lake City.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the residence of her daughter, Janie

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church 325 Fulton Street • Sumter

773-3658 • www.mtzionmissionarybc.com “The Little Church with the Big and Friendly Heart”

Join Us This Sunday - Feb. 7th at 10:45 AM Morning Worship/Lord’s Supper Message by Pastor Blassingame

6:00 PM Evening Worship Message by Evang. Savitrus McFadden

Ash Wednesday Observance Feb. 10 at 7:00 PM Message by Pastor Sam McMahand, II New Prospect Baptist Church - Townville, SC

Opportunities for Life Enrichment 9:45 AM Church School (Sundays) 10:45 AM Morning Worship (Sundays) 6:00 PM Evening Worship (1st Sundays) 10:00 AM Golden Age Fellowship (3rd Wed.) 12:00 Noon Hour of Power (Prayer Service - Wed.)

5:30 PM Prayer Service (Wed.) 6:00 PM Bible Study (Wed.) 6:00 PM Youth Ministry (Wed.) Rev. James Blassingame, Pastor

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2016 Lee Graham Fleming, 1709 Partridge Drive, Florence.

Fleming and DeLaine Funeral Home and Chapel of Manning is in charge of services.

Online condolences may be sent to www.flemingdelaine. com or flemingdelaine@aol. com.

IDA MAE B. CEASAR MANNING — Ida Mae Benjamin Ceasar died on Monday, Feb. 1, 2015, at her residence, 1213 Fleming Circle, Manning.

She was a daughter of the late Johnson Oliver and Mary Lucille Benjamin McFadden and was reared by her stepfather, James McFadden.

Funeral services for Mrs. Ceasar will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Green Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 1260 Green Hill Church Road, Alcolu, with the Rev. Delbert H. Singleton Jr., pastor, presiding, the Rev. William J. Frierson Sr., eulogist, the Rev. Fred Glencamp and Co-Pastor Tracy Ceasar assisting. Burial will follow in the churchyard cemetery.

The family is receiving friends at her residence.

The services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

MARY MCDONALD ATLANTA — Mary McDonald died on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, at Grady Hospital in Atlanta.

She was a daughter of Rose McDonald Hardy and the late Rudolph Hardy.

Funeral services for Mrs. McDonald will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Hayes F. & LaNelle J. Samuels Sr. Memorial Chapel, 114 N. Church St., Manning, with Elder Willie Starks presiding and the Rev. Bobby McDonald, eulogist. Burial will follow in Briggs Chapel Church cemetery, The family is receiving friends at the home of her mother, 1087 Aston Trace Drive, Manning.

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

MARY JONES Mary Jones, 83, died on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, at NHC Healthcare Sumter.

Born on May 14, 1932, in Lee County, she was a daughter of the late Joseph Fortune and Elizabeth Lonon.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 25 Wright St. Funeral arrangements are

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MINERVA B. SERUYA Minerva Beyda Seruya, 91, the matriarch of the Seruya family and the beloved wife of the late Lt. Col. Mitchel Mike Seruya, died on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey with her family and friends by her side.

Born on Sept. 6, 1924, in Chicago, Illinois, she was a daughter of the late Irving and Sara Rebecca Newman Beyda. She loved to play Bingo, she believed there was no better game. She also enjoyed teaching her children and grandchildren how to play cards, most notably penny-ante poker. The matriarch of this large family will be deeply missed and forever loved.

Surviving are eight sons, Aaron Seruya and his wife, Angel, of Myrtle Beach, Issac Seruya and his wife, Jeanette, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, Sheldon Seruya and his wife, Sharyan, of Sumter, Dennis Seruya and his wife, Deborah, of Rembert, Ronald Seruya and his wife, Barbara, of Oakhurst, New Jersey, Ernest D. Seruya of Sumter, Jeffrey Seruya of Staten Island, New York, and Steven B. Seruya of New York, New York; four daughters, Anita SeruyaRizkalla of Sumter, Sara R. Newman and her husband, William Thomas, of Sumter, Doreen Gosski and her husband, Thomas, of Lynchburg and Leona B. Scarano and her husband, Stephen, of Dalzell; one sister, Evelyn Beyda; 46 grandchildren; and 55 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by one daughter, Sarah; and two sons, Maurice and Lawrence.

A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. today at Temple Sinai Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210 or to the Birthright Israel Foundation, P.O. Box 5892, Hicksville, NY 11802.

You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS February 5, 2016 Sumter County 13 E. Canal Street Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 436-2102 These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by Sumter County.

REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS On or about February 22, 2016, Sumter County will submit a request to the SC Department of Commerce/Grants Administration Division for the release of CDBG funds under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, to undertake a project known as Pearce Neighborhood Community Infrastructure for the purpose of constructing a stormwater drainage system and paving roads in the Pearce Neighborhood.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT Sumter County has determined that the project will have no significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is not required. Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR) on file at Sumter County Administration Building (13 E. Canal Street, Sumter, SC) and the Santee-Lynches Regional Council of Governments (2525 Corporate Way, Suite 200, Sumter, SC 29154) and may be examined or copied weekdays 9 A.M to 5 P.M. PUBLIC COMMENTS Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the ERR to the SanteeLynches Regional Council of Governments (2525 Corporate Way, Suite 200, Sumter, SC 29154). All comments received by February 20, 2016 will be considered by Sumter County prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds. Comments should specify which Notice they are addressing.

ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATION Sumter County certifies to SC Department of Commerce/Grants Administration Division that Gary Mixon in his capacity as County Administrator consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The SC Department of Commerce/Grants Administration Division approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities and allows Sumter County to use Program funds.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS The SC Department of Commerce/Grants Administration Division will accept objections to its release of funds and Sumter County’s certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Sumter County; (b) Sumter County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 58; (c) the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by the Department of Commerce/Grants Administration Division; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to SC Department of Commerce/Grants Administration Division at 1201 Main Street, Suite 1600, Columbia, SC, 29201. Potential objectors should contact SC Department of Commerce/Grants Administration Division to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Gary Mixon, Sumter County Administrator

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Roofing Robert's Metal Roofing 35 Yrs exp. 45 yr warranty. Financing avail. Expert installation. Long list of satisfied customers. 803-837-1549.

All Types of Roofing & Repairs All work guaranteed. 30 yrs exp. SC lic.

Virgil Bickley 803-316-4734.

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EMPLOYMENT Help Wanted Full-Time Warehouse Position Must be reliable, some knowledge of hardware. Apply at Wally's Hardware 1291 Broad St.

Will buy furniture by piece or bulk, tools, trailers, lawn mowers, 4 wheelers, or almost anything of value. Call 803-983-5364

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We will be happy to change your ad if an error is made; however we are not responsible for errors after the first run day. We shall not be liable for any loss or expense that results from the printing or omission of an advertisement. We reserve the right to edit, refuse or cancel any ad at any time.

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales

Sumter United Ministries.

We need clean used furniture & household items. Donations to be sold at our Yard Sale in March or made available to flood victims.

Call Ed for info. 803-464-7643

Prior and retired military CWP Class Tuesday, February 23rd 6-10 pm. $35.00 Call 803-840-4523.

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1944 Pinewood Rd Fri & Sat 7-4 Bedrm Suite, washer & more misc items.

Yard sale!! Furniture and more. 70 Hallmark Ln. Sumter. Sun. 7th 8 - ?

2080 N. Main St. (Hwy 15 N) Sat 8-1 Lots of Stuff! towels, pots, pans, pyrex dishes 1001 Holiday Dr. 1st road after Chestnut School on 401 N. Sat. 7 am - 3 pm. Toys, bicycles, furn., appliances, lots of clothes.

For Sale or Trade Brand new Samsung Gas Range- 5 burner with convection $650 Please call 803-607-8595

Meter Reader/ Maintenance Worker Small Rural water company seeks full time individual to perform meter reading and maintenance duties. CDL and certification in water distribution is a plus.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to reading of water meters, maintenance to water mains and services. company provides paid employees benefits, holidays. Experience preferred but not necessary, will consider all applicants. Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume and past salary history to Meter Reader Box P- 174 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151 EXPERIENCED Cook. No less than 2 yrs Exp cooking in a Restaurant kitchen. Apply at Simply Southern Bistro 65 W Wesmark Blvd. 469-8502 Emmanuel UMC is currently accepting applications for Director of Music. Duties include playing each Sunday worship service, weekly rehearsals, and leadership to the overall music program, interested candidates should call 803 775-5990

Experienced Server & host.

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803-773-3333 Help wanted F/T seamstress for alterations, sewing exp. necessary, apply in person Mon-Fri. 12-5 at 577 Bultman Dr. at The Added Touch.

Experienced Hand Finisher Needed. Must be good with your hands working with air tools and hand files.

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10 temporary sod farmworkers needed in Manning, South Carolina and in Soperton, Georgia, for Manning Sod, LLC, with work beginning on or about 03/10/2016 and ending on or about 12/21/2016. The job offered is for an experienced farmworker and requires minimum 1 month verifiable work experience sod farming. The minimum offered wage rate that workers will be paid is $10.59 per hour. Workers must commit to the entire contract period. Workers are guaranteed work for 3/4 of the contract period, beginning with the first day the worker arrives at the place of employment. All work tools, supplies and equipment are provided at no cost to the worker. Housing will be provided to those workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of each working day.

Transportation and subsistence will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, to workers who are recruited outside the area of intended employment. Applicants must provide documentation that they are eligible legally to work in the United States. Applicants should report or send resumes to Sumter OneStop Center, 31 E. Calhoun St., Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 774-1300 or the nearest local office of their State Workforce Agency, and reference job order #SC645290. EOE. H-300-16008-572629.

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Help Wanted Full-Time Cashier/Receptionist Small working office seeks full time cashier/receptionist. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to taking walk in customer payments, processing mail payments, preparing daily bank deposits, answering telephones.

Company provides paid employee benefits, holidays. Minimum 1 year experience. Selected candidate subject to background check and drug testing. Send resume and past salary history to P-Box 256 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

Help Wanted Part-Time Book keeper wanted approx. 15 hrs a week, experienced only. Apply in person at Polar Bear Cleaners 1087 B Alice Dr.

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Mobile Home Rentals

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Work Wanted Housekeeping Low rates, Houses, Offices & Churches. Good Ref. Avail.

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STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 WINTER SPECIAL (Dalzell) MHP 2BR 1BA, washer, dryer, sewer & garbage P/U. No Pets. $345/mo + $345/dep. Sec. 8 okay. Mark 803-565-7947.

Clean 3BR 1BA 50 Spider Ct. near Red Bay Rd. $375 mo + $600 dep.

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Commercial Rentals Rooms for Rent Room for rent $450 mo. Will have access to rest of house. Women only 45 - 50. Call 803-236-4568 ROOMS FOR RENT, $100- $125 /wkly. All utilities & cable included.

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Furnished Apartments Furnished 1 br apt. incl. elec, water, cable, internet, plus trash P/U, flat screen TV. Nice private cabin apt. on 20 ac. No pets, no smoking. $625 mo. $500 dep. 803-464-5439.

Unfurnished Apartments Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette.

775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

REAL ESTATE Manufactured Housing Turn your Tax Refund into your dream home! We have quality used refurbished mobile homes. We specialize in on the lot financing. Low credit score is OK. Call 843-389-4215 AND also visit our Face Book page (M & M Mobile Homes).

Mobile Home Lots 2 Lots For Mobile homes. Rent $165/mo. Incl's water & Sewage.

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Unfurnished Homes Houses for rent 2,3,4 BD Rms Central Heat & AC Call 773-7789

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LEGAL NOTICES Legal Notice Public Notification Public notice is hereby given that Georgetown Hospital Home Health, L.L.C. d/b/a Amedisys Home Health Care, 127 E. Mill Street, Kingstree, S.C. 29556, intends to submit a Certificate of Need Application within the next twenty (20) days to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to add Clarendon County to its existing authority to serve residents of Georgetown and Williamsburg Counties, South Carolina. The estimated total project cost is approximately $18,138.

Bid Notices INVITATION TO BID The County of Sumter is soliciting separate sealed bids from qualified vendors to furnish Four (4) 2016 2WD Chevrolet CC15543 1500 Silverado Crew Cab Pick-ups (4-Door) for Sumter County Fleet Management, 13 East Canal Street, Sumter, South Carolina 29150. Specifications may be obtained from the County of Sumter, Office of the Purchasing Agent, 13 East Canal Street, Sumter, South Carolina 29150 or via email: Purchasing@sumtercountysc.org.

The County of Sumter reserves the right to reject any or all bids. The County of Sumter reserves the right to waive any or all technicalities.

Summons & Notice

Summons & Notice

Summons & Notice

Summons & Notice

within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

OTHER HEIRS-AT-LAW OR DISTRIBUTEES OR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND THEIR SPOUSES, IF ANY THEY HAVE, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS UNKNOWN WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN; ALSO ANY UNKNOWN ADULTS AND THOSE PERSONS WHO MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ALL OF THEM BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE; AND ANY UNKNOWN MINORS OR PERSONS UNDER A DISABILITY BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE; KATHY NIGRO; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHASE BANK OF TEXAS, N.A., AS CUSTODIAN; ASCENSIONPOINT RECOVERY SERVICES, LLC ON BEHALF OF GE CAPITAL RETAIL BANK; BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST CO.; and NBSC A DIVISION OF SYNOVUS BANK, Defendants.

Office for Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and reference is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is made in lieu of metes and bounds as permitted by law under Section 30-5-250 of The Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as amended. Be all measurements a little more or a little less and according to aforesaid plat.

NAMES AND ADDRESSES UNKNOWN, INCLUDING ANY THEREOF WHO MAY BE MINORS, IMPRISONED PERSONS, INCOMPETENT PERSONS, UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY OR IN THE MILITARY SERVICE, IF ANY, WHETHER RESIDENTS OR NON-RESIDENTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO THE NATURAL, GENERAL, TESTAMENTARY GUARDIAN OR COMMITTEE, OR OTHERWISE, AND TO THE PERSON WITH WHOM THEY MAY RESIDE, IF ANY THERE BE:

Liquor License Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Reya, LLC DBA The Country Package Store intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale OFF premises consumption of Liquor at 3966-B Clarence Coker Hwy. Turbeville, SC 29162 To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 7, 2016. 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 county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

Notice Of Application Notice is hereby given that Dylan, LLC DBA The Country Store intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license permit that will allow the sale ON premises consumption of Beer & Wine at 3966 Clarence Coker Hwy. Turbeville, SC 29162 To object to the issuance of this permit / license, written protest must be postmarked no later than February 7, 2016. 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 county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110.

Summons & Notice

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action will be commenced in this Court upon the Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants for the foreclosure of that certain Mortgage of Real Estate given by Lawrence R. Hodge a/k/a Lawrence Rivers Hodge (now deceased) to the Plaintiff, its successors and assigns, dated March 27, 2009, and recorded on April 8, 2009, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1121 at Page 1152 (the "Mortgage").

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the dwelling and improvements thereon, lying and being situate in the Township and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot No. 11 on that plat of Lazy Acres Estates Subdivision, Section I, prepared by John M. Mahon, R.L.S., dated June 13, 1973, and recorded in Plat Book Z-34 at Page 54 in the records of the R.M.C.

TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on October 7, 2015.

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury)

At the time of the filing of this notice, the premises affected by the said action were situated in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and are described as follows:

This being the identical property conveyed unto Lawrence R. Hodge by that deed of the United States of America, Department of Agriculture, Farmers Home Administration, dated September 20, 1979, and recorded October 26, 1979, in Deed Book M-10 at Page 28, records of the Clerk of Court in Sumter County, South Carolina.

TMS#: 269-81-01-005 For a complete description of the property encumbered by the Mortgage, the undersigned craves reference to the Mortgage, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint upon the subscribers, at their office, 1703 Laurel Street, Post Office Box 11682, Columbia, South Carolina 29211, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint in the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Motion for an order appointing Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire, as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Richard Roe or John Doe, defendants herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, imprisoned persons, incompetent persons, or under other legal disability, and as Attorney for said parties who may be in the military service, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County.

YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or either of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi and Attorney shall be made absolute.

Grimsley Law Firm, LLC PO Box 11682 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 Edward L. Grimsley Benjamin E. Grimsley Attorneys for the Plaintiff

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on December 1, 2015.

NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI AND ATTORNEY TO: THE DEFENDANTS HEREIN,

Kristen E. Washburn, SC Bar No. 101415 Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone 844-856-6646 Fax 866-676-7658 Attorneys for Plaintiff

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2015-CP-43-02269

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TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

LIS PENDENS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

Abram Perez, Defendant(s).

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210,

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT C/A #: 2015-CP-43-2669 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs.

MIRIAM B. HODGE, AS HEIR AT LAW OF LAWRENCE R. HODGE A/K/A LAWRENCE RIVERS HODGE, DECEASED, AND ANY

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